Chapter 2: Meeting and Bon Voyage!
In the sky watching the fight was a camera. Suddenly it self-destructed leaving no trace that it was ever there.
The Dark Lord was said to be a man of immeasurable power. Capable of controlling powerful beasts, and unparallel in strength. Rumors about him had been floating around for months, perhaps even years, but no one paid any attention to them. They were either too apathetic, or too worried about their own world's problems rather than some bigger power bringing together a bunch of evil people. Rumors continued to spread despite the aforementioned apathy. Most of the rumors were just that; rumors. They detailed nothing more than lies about how the Dark Lord fought off five Government battalions with his bare hands, in reality it was actually two Government Battalions and he had a stick.
But despite all of the rumors one was true. He was gathering together several other evil people. Currently, with out the Dark Lord's guidance, they were having a meeting.
Several figures were in a dark room; a screen was displaying the Smashers victory over the large robotic monster. These were the people who sent it. Surprisingly, the room began to fill up with laughter. Most of them were disappointed with the Smashers, the one whom The Dark Lord, the being who they served, feared the most. Perhaps they didn't know what made the Smashers frightening yet. They had yet to experience fighting against the Smashers themselves.
But not all were laughing. "Why are we laughing!?" An annoyed voice shouted. "They just defeated it!"
"Surely you must know that it was pathetically weak." A sinister laugh replied. "We have nothing to worry about from these Smashers. They can't even compare to us."
"You wouldn't be laughing, if it was your minion or creation that they defeated!" The first voice snarled back.
"Dr. Eggman you are among the weakest of us. You just rely on machines instead of your own body. Please learn your spot and shut up." Sora's voice laughed. "We should be grateful that the Dark Lord has blessed us with his presence and brought us together."
"Its a shame only a few of us were able to make it." A slimy effeminate voice laughed. "Not even the Dark Lord is here."
"You acted on your own," A voice in the darkness, said. "He will be severely displeased."
Everyone in the room suddenly froze. They faced the shadows of the room but couldn't see anyone. "Is it one of the 10 supreme generals?"
"No it isn't" The voice laughed.
"Don't worry Dark Link," Vaati said. From the shadows stepped Dark Link, he was covered in a black tunic and had jet-black hair. His crimson eyes shot out through the darkness. His skin was slightly tanned. "I had gotten the okay from the Dark Lord to test the Smashers' strength. He will be pleased with the results"
"Results?" Dark Link laughed. "Just what results did we get?"
"They struggled with that useless tin can." Sora replied.
"The one that everyone told Eggman was just a waste of resources?" He questioned.
"Yes that's the one." Sora answered. "It actually proved useful. We now know the Smashers' limitations."
"I could have told you that a long time ago." Dark Link sneered remembering his battles with them.
"They don't appear to be strong enough to take us on yet." Vaati laughed.
"You're underestimating them." Dark Link growled. "They will grow stronger, faster than you can imagine. If you fight them based upon the strength they've shown today, you will be defeated."
"The only one who seems to be a threat to us is your light counterpart." Sora said. "Once we remove him from the equation what will happen?"
"I don't know." Dark Link replied. "Maybe they will be more determined to fight."
"Wrong! They will lose their will to fight!" Sora replied. "With out their strongest to lead them, they will give up and be easy to destroy. They are hardly a threat."
Dark Link could only gnash his teeth. He wanted to take his sword and attack Sora for being such a naive fool. That would hardly stop the Smashers. There was now something that wouldn't stop them from fighting no matter what. Not until one of the two groups were completely destroyed. "Fine, rush to your deaths like idiots. I don't care what happens to you."
"So why did you come here all of a sudden Dark Link?"
Dark Link actually looked a bit nervous. "I just came from Hyrule's Shadow Temple. The seal that I placed on it was broken. Link knows about me now. So tell me Sora... about your prisoner. Why him?"
For the first time they all looked up. Suspended above them was Mewtwo's body. It was rather limp. Slowly Heartless were going into him. "Dark Link, you're trying to change the subject. No matter, I'll explain. I brought him for the Dark Lord. He said it was time to begin." Sora replied.
"You do realize that he is a Smasher."
"You think I'm that stupid, to not know a Smasher?" Sora glared at Dark Link. "Aren't you technically a Smasher since you are Link's evil side."
A smug smile just left Dark Link's face. The next moment he was right behind Sora, his hands had transformed into claws and were at Sora's neck. One of Sora's subordinates was rather shocked about this and when he tried to react Dark Link just drew his sword. "Don't you dare ever put me in the same pile of filth as Link!"
"You know fighting is forbidden among members!" Vaati reminded Dark Link.
Dark Link sheathed his sword and removed his claws from Sora's neck. "Xenmas stand down." Sora said to the subordinate that had reacted.
"Yes sir…" Xenmas said, not particularly impressed that he was taking orders from Sora.
"Besides, this was all The Dark Lord's plans." Sora replied. "Trapping Mewtwo in a coma, turning him into an obedient servent."
Dark Link looked up at Mewtwo. "You know that they will go to the ends of the universe to try and reclaim him. You may have jeopardized the whole plan by doing this."
"Those idiots should know that I saved his life twice and that they are in debt to me."
"They will only be able to see it as kidnapping." Dark Link replied. He noticed that everyone was either rather silent or nodding their head in agreement. "Remember the Dark Lord's plan revolves around all of us cooperating. If we can't do that then the Smashers will win."
Sora laughed. "Lets put this topic behind us. What were you doing at the Shadow Temple?"
"I met Link there." Dark Link admitted. Everyone looked at him in shock. Dark Link knew that he had to choose his words carefully otherwise he would be dead within a few minutes.
"Did you talk with him directly?" Sora asked.
"Yes." Dark Link replied.
"What did you talk about?"
"Life, death, philosophy, good and evil, that sort of stuff." Everyone was staring at Dark Link not exactly expecting him to just come straight out and say anything like that. Yet he didn't seem to budge. "He asked me about our personal seal, if it had been severed. I naturally told him it had been a few months ago."
"What else did you talk about?"
"The kidnapped Smasher." Dark Link replied. "Apparently you didn't make it as smooth and clean as you planned Sora." Pretty much everyone in the room began to laugh. Once the laughing had stopped Dark Link continued to talk. "Sora unfortunately left a trail, including a piece of a robot from that old factory, a replica of my sword, and a strange gem that emitted psychic energy."
"And he said all these things himself?" Xenmas asked in disbelief.
"No of course not," Dark Link replied. "I had to temporarily reestablish the link between us. We both saw each other's mind for a few seconds. Now then Sora, care to tell me why you had a replica of my sword?"
Everyone was silent. Dark Link however noticed that Sora was in shock. Quickly he began to search his pockets as if for something. "I can't find them!" He said. "Those… Damn it, how did they drop out?"
"So you didn't leave them intentionally." Dark Link chuckled. "That's good. But that still doesn't answer my question. Why do you have a replica of my sword?"
"I asked the Dark Lord to make me one incase my Keyblade decides to leave me." Sora replied. "I would be defenseless with out a weapon."
"And you seemed rather shocked at your losing of the items. I won't ask why you have them, but how do you think that they fell out?"
Sora was trying to think of an explanation. The hands didn't hit him hard enough for him to knock them out of his pockets. His eyes glanced up at Mewtwo. A smile seemed to have crossed the unconscious and limp Mewtwo's face. "It was Mewtwo. I told him to enjoy his last few seconds of freedom and it looks like he did." Sora replied gritting his teeth in anger. "But so what? Those pieces of crap mean absolutely nothing. It won't lead them here."
"Now then, does anybody else have any questions about when my mind merged with Link's?" Dark Link asked.
"Your lucky." Dr. Eggman laughed. "You haven't been to the meetings so other then the initial invitation and your accepting he wouldn't have gotten much information."
"That doesn't matter anyways. I'm sure Link won't tell the other Smashers what he has seen." Dark Link responded. "He is sort of aloof."
"Still, some of us know more than we should." Vaati replied. "The Dark Lord has made it known that someone has been snooping around. He suspects us. All of us."
"Its funny, we are the people that he requires for his plans success, however he doesn't even trust us." Xenmas laughed. "I think he is right not to trust us."
"His whole plan relies heavily on all of us not stabbing each other in the back." Dark Link replied. "I can see it quite clearly, everything will go perfectly smoothly until one of us betrays him, or paranoia and fear of the Smashers will take us over. Then everything will slowly fall apart right to the point where we fight over who will be the one to take over and command us."
"Then we will have to wait for that one opportunity." Vaati laughed. "Who will be the first to defect, and what will be the results."
"Chaos naturally." Dr. Eggman laughed. "The Dark Lord will be paranoid about others leaving, and the ones on the bottom will be paranoid about him killing them. We all share our resources so he gains comfort from our numbers while we can do what we please with our shared resources."
"So far no one has been able to benefit from this partnership except the Dark Lord himself." Vaati replied disgusted.
"Do not doubt the Dark Lord. We are bound to eventually gain what we originally signed up to gain." A new voice laughed.
"Holding onto those fake promises of potential." Xenmas sighed. "Sounds incredibly stupid if you ask me." He faced the origin of the new voice. "Why did you say that Van?"
"And yet everyone does it. They just use such potential to back up their own naive decision."
"Are you suggesting that we joined this too quickly?" Vaati asked.
"Perhaps." Van replied. "It is the nature of the heart to doubt, that which does not satisfy it. We have all received power for following the Dark Lord, have we not? Even if it was just a small amount."
"In any case," Vaati said. "No matter how we look at it his most recent action seems the weirdest. The Dark Lord is truly wise, but I think he is getting cocky for thinking that he has evaded The Government this long, and there is of course something more recent that has caused me to question him."
"Sending King K Rool, and the Jungle Kings to Kongo Bongo, but no one else anywhere else." Dr. Eggman inquired. "Yes this has been worrying me as well. But that was a week ago. They should be back from destroying that place and finding what they were supposed to be looking for."
"Ah well we will soon find out what the Dark Lord is scheming." Vaati said. "In the mean time I guess this means that we have declared war upon the Smashers."
A devilish smile crossed Dark Link's face. "So we decided to declare war against the Smashers. And what made us do this? Surely there are stronger forces in the universe that we have to be aware of!"
"That may be true." A young boy's voice laughed. From the darkness stepped a young boy with long golden hair and he was wearing all white clothing.
"Mithos…" Dark Link said not at all amused as to him being here.
"But they will come, eventually. By then we will be invincible! And capable of taking them over and bringing them to work under us. I think that the Dark Lord just wants to use the Smashers as an example, that's why he has shown so much interest in them…"
Everyone was silent. "I suggest that we break up now!" Dark Link said. "With the amount of people in this room, it is getting a bit stuffed."
"Agreed." Van said. "We will meet again later…"
And with that they left the room.
When the Dark Lord did hear of the results, he was furious. He wished to shout at every subordinate who was there, and couldn't see the forest for the trees. It wasn't the Smashers' numbers that they should have been afraid of: it was their potential. By the time that some would have realized this, it would have been too late.
The Smashers returned to the Smash Mansion. Each of them was hurting badly, ether physically or mentally. Master Hand decided for the best that they should at least spend one more night at the Smash Mansion. They would then head out first thing in the morning.
Several of the Smashers however were now uneasy. Because of the previous battle, they felt that their opponents would outclass them.
The Smashers began to do what ever they wanted from resting or training. Eventually they all fell asleep. While they were sleeping Master Hand and Crazy Hand were discussing their plans.
Master Hand sighed. "We still don't know where to send the last group."
At that second, if almost on cue, they received a distress signal from Kongo Bongo. On the viewer screen a distressed Diddy Kong appeared. "We need help DK," He shouted. The viewer screen began to record the message so that it could be played back at a moments notice. "The Jungle Kings have returned and are destroying the island." Suddenly the transmission ended and the screen was covered in static.
"Problem solved!" Crazy Hand shouted gleefully. Master Hand just moaned in a bit of pain at his brother's apathy. However this did give them a spot to go to.
The Smashers had woken up early and began to eat a meal that Princess Peach and Princess Zelda had prepared for them. The table was normally active and filled with life, as the Smashers would talk about their daily events and what they planned to do. However today everyone was silent. The uneasy air surrounded each of them. Each of them could feel the importance of the grave task that rested on their shoulders. They could feel what was coming up, and each of them feared that they might not be eating with their friends at this table ever again. This was the grave atmosphere that surrounded them.
Master Hand floated into the kitchen and saw that they were each almost done with their food. "So this is it." He sighed. "Remember what we have taught you in the past few months and you will be fine. Crazy Hand and I will begin to search for other areas that our foes are likely to attack and try to delve a little deeper into the mystery of who our foes are. I wish you all the best of luck."
After Master Hand spoke those words the atmosphere seemed a bit lighter. DK had been informed first thing in the morning about what had happened to his home. At first he was angry that they didn't wake him up, but after some rational thought he realized that it might have been for the best. The Jungle Kings were strong and if he wasn't in tip top form he would be unable to defeat them. Still he feared what may have happened to his friends, his family. But he knew that they would be able to protect themselves. That everything would be fine. That everyone would survive. They were strong much like himself. No matter what they would have found ways to persevere.
When they were done they made their way to the underground hanger. Waiting for them there were several ships that they could take to their destinations. Each one was equipped well with various weapons. They ranged from Samus' space ship, to a near perfect recreation of the Great Fox. Master Hand spared no expenses... or at least that's what he said since he was completely able to create anything he wished out of thin air. The Smashers doubted his claims and for good reasons.
Each of them got together in their groups. Mario, Luigi, Peach, Bowser, Yoshi, Kirby, Falco, and Pichu boarded a large ship called the Pleiades. While Link, Marth, Roy, Captain Falcon, DK, Game and Watch, Fox, and the Ice Climbers boarded the Rainbow Cruise. While finally Ness, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Ganondorf, Young Link, Zelda, Dr. Mario, and Samus boarded Samus' space ship, which was surprisingly more spacious than it appeared, but not spacious enough to actually fit all of them comfortably.
"Why do we have to go in the extremely cramped ship?" Ganondorf asked.
"Your mission will be a stealth mission, we haven't received very much news from the Pokemon world for a few months so we fear for the worse... since the news that we have gotten was mostly negative." Master Hand sighed. "You must find Sabrina and hopefully she will be able to tell us some more about this jewel and also find out what is happening."
Master Hand was suddenly quiet. Each of the Smashers could feel that he wanted to say something, yet he was hesitant for a good reason. "There is also one other thing that I can do." He said uneasy. "I can give you the Seal of Smash."
Every one of the original 12's eyes lit up in anger. The rest of the Smashers were also slightly enraged. "But the Seal of Smash is evil!" Zelda said.
"No, it doesn't know good from evil, it is only a tool. It is powerful and you can use it, but you can't let it control you." Master Hand replied. "Smashers know that in the future you must learn to accept help, even from those that you wish not to. We can all sense it, an adventure lies ahead of us, bigger than anything that you have ever encountered before. I understand why you are hesitant about using the Seal of Smash, and I don't blame you. If you ever feel the need to use the Seal of Smash, I have transferred its power onto 25 cards, one for each of you." With that the cards appeared in the Smashers hands. "If you feel like you need to use it just focus your energy into the card. The card will disappear and the Seal will appear on your body. You can then transfer it to various surfaces."
They all put the card in their pocket, or away to someplace convenient. "This is your choice if you want to use it or not." Master Hand sighed. "But beware Smashers. Those who don't know the danger of wielding power will be ruled by it." The ships took off and everyone was uneasy. "Never forget that!"
The two hands just floated there and stared off into they sky. "Do you think that their numbers will be enough?" Crazy Hand wondered.
"At the current time, yes. However I think we do need more."
To be continued…
Here is a rundown of which evil villain is from what:
Sonic - Dr. Eggman
Kingdom Hearts - Xenmas, Sora (Will explain why he is evil later... MUCH later no I don't need time to think up an explanation, I all ready have one... it just needs an actual spot in the story... which will be during the *UBER MAJOR SPOILERS* Ark, not to mention why Xenmas was taking orders from him... ya...)
Legend of Zelda - Vaati, Dark Link.
Tales of the Abyss- Van
Tales of Symphonia - Mithos
Clearly this isn't the full list... All though I feel that the list is overpopulated by characters that were all ready used in another Multi Crossover.