Thanks for the reviews! Due to the Smash Bros. and Zombie Land Saga categories being pretty dormant, I wasn't expecting a whole lot of reviews, but nevertheless, I'm glad that I still got four, and they're all positive ones!

Because this story has just started, I feel the need to post a few more chapters at a fast speed before going back to work on Justice of Two Worlds. For those who want to see that story updated again, please be patient with me and allow me to make some progress with this story first.

Chapter 2
They Meet

Having board the tour bus, the Smashers took their time to look out the window at the scenery out there and ignoring everything Toor was telling them for the most part, but the latter didn't seem to mind, however. This was also the case when he guided the Smashers around in Lycia: they would ignore him for the most part but in the end still thank him for his services. While they talked about what they saw out there, Toor rambled on about their current location and gave brief historical facts about it, even though nobody appeared to be listening to him.

"I can't wait to see what kinds of delicacies they have here!" Yoshi told no one in particular. "Too bad Kirby didn't come along! I'm sure he would love it!"

Overhearing him, Luigi looked at him from behind, as the former was sitting behind him, and said, "This is the reason you tagged along, right?"

Turning back his head to look at Luigi, the green dinosaur asked, "Why did you think I came in the first place?"

"I don't know... Maybe like escaping the IRS because of tax fraud?" replied Luigi.

The two stared at each in other silence for a while, and then Yoshi said, "That's actually what I told Kirby, which is why he didn't tag along!" Luigi gave him a "you kidding me?" kind of stare in response.

"So... is that true? About committing tax fraud?" Luigi asked him.

Yoshi kept on looking at him, and the plumber noticed that he was beginning to sweat profusely while looking away. "Nah... I just made that up..." said the green dinosaur nervously, but the plumber narrowed his eyes in suspicion.

As Toor continued rambling on about information of the current location, Pit raised his hand to get his permission to ask something. "Mister Gyde, is it true that Transylvania is home to several kinds of monsters?"

"You're not wrong about that," replied Toor. "There are indeed reports of monsters and ghosts roaming around every once in a while, especially at night, no surprise. However, compared to the olden days, such sightings are no longer common, and so are attacks on citizens. Monsters can actually be very civilized! Plus, there are law enforcers and specialized demon hunters who make sure that monsters don't cause any harm to citizens. Where we are going, you can be sure that we won't run into monsters or at least get harmed by them! But then, I'm sure you folks are too strong to be scared by them! After all, you guy saved Lycia from a giant monster!"

"Yep! We did!" said Mario with a nod, remembering the time they battled the Cruncher Darkling in Lycia and stopping Fawful's evil plans from coming to fruition with the help of some special students from a school called Mahora Academy.

"So anyway, we'll be checking into your hotel first, and then we'll spend the rest of the day touring the nearby town," said Toor. "Dinner will be served at the hotel tonight. It's an all-you-can-eat buffet, plus a performance from a some kind of dance group, if I remember correctly."

"Oh boy! All-you-can-eat buffet!" said Yoshi excitedly as he licked his lips.

"Oh no..." said Luigi, dreading the hardship the chefs and even the hotel staffs might go through if a big eater like Yoshi is treated with this sort of buffet.

After arriving at the airport, Kotaro wasted no time in renting a van for the purpose of traveling around and bringing his idol group from place to place. This was the best option for them, since they are celebrities and can therefore attract too much attention if they traveled with other tour groups. Furthermore, they aren't even in any tour group. This also allows them to hide their identities as zombies more easily.

It so happened that the hotel they were staying in throughout the duration of the stay was Hunter Prince Castle and Dracula Hotel. Parking the van in the parking area outside the main building, everyone inside stepped out and stretched their limbs, not to mention unloading their luggage. Kotaro told them, "After we've checked into our rooms, I'll take you to the stage where the Golden Stag Festival will take place to let you know what that place is like, and then feel free to have some fun there until we come back. You'll be having a performance tonight during dinner, so get ready by then."

"What?! You didn't tell us that at all!" Saki said to him, sounding surprised and even annoyed. "You're always coming up with things at a whim!"

"Idols stuff always happen at a whim! Plus, you've been with me for a while now, so you should expect something like this! Get used to it!" the producer said to her loudly as he brought his face up close to hers, to which she stared back in frustration.

Saki growled angrily. While she was thankful that he brought them all together and made them famous, she still couldn't get over his crazy habit of coming up with random things out of nowhere and giving them little to no time to prepare. Sakura placed her hand on her shoulder and said, "It's all right, Saki. I'm sure we can come up with something! Maybe we'll just pull out an old song and do some old dance moves. It's not like the people here saw us perform before."

"Sounds like a good idea to me!" agreed Ai with a nod.

Turning to her with a smile, Sakura said, "All right! Then tonight's performance should be a piece of cake!"

When the creature introducing himself as Ridley told Blue that it was fine if she entered his spaceship, she was skeptical. After all, it was never a good idea to enter the ride or house of a complete straner, lest they kidnap you. Ridley did give her a choice, however, and said that he was going to spend some time inside his ship in order to gather info on this world before deciding on his next course of action.

After he returned into the ship, Blue stared at the hatch for several seconds and wondered what she should do. She couldn't help but be curious about who exactly this person was, and thinking that as long as she had her Pokemon at her side, there shouldn't be fear of getting harmed by him, so she shrugged before entering the spaceship.

The interior was relatively dark, but still bright enough to for her to find way around. Shortly after going inside, she was greeted with the sight of the potted plant with a mouth staring back at her, even though it doesn't have eyes. "Is... Is this a Piranha Plant?" she asked no one in particular. Though Piranha Plants can't be found in Kanto, their existence is still known to the people there through TVs and books on wildlife, or plant life.

"Yeah, and his name is Piranha," replied Ridley's voice from deeper inside the ship. "I know, not very creative... But he seems fine with it. Don't worry; he doesn't bite unless you provoke him."

Blue and Piranha stared at each other in silence for several seconds, and then the former decided that she didn't want to get to touch it yet in fear that it wouldn't like her, so she walked around the plant and deeper into the spaceship, all the while keeping her eyes on it, and the plant turned its head after her the whole time.

Arriving at the cockpit, she saw Ridley seated in front of a computer, which was booting up, and noticed the person clad in black armor next to him, and that person was looking at her. "It's all right, Samus," Ridley told the armored person without taking his face off the computer screen. "She's with me."

"Samus?" said Blue curiously. She felt as if she heard that name before. In fact, she found this Samus person to be rather familiar-Looking. Placing a finger on her face, she processed her brain to think if she could remember why this person was so familiar to her. Then it came to her. "I know! That's the name of one of the Smashers!"

Ridley and Samus looked at her in surprise, and the former said, "Oh, so someone named Samus exists in this world as well? I guess that is to be expected... After all, this is supposed to be the same world but having gone through different courses in history. You familiar with the Samus of this world?"

"Can't say I'm too familiar with her, though I have a friend who knows her better," Blue told him, referring to Red. "She's quite famous, belonging to a group of people known as the Smashers. They saved the world quite a few times."

Ridley was interested to hear this. "Interesting... Let's see if I can find anything about them on the internet. Gotta get myself familiar with things if I want to blend in and not look like a fool. My ship has already linked itself with the servers of this world, so my internet shoud be displaying things from your world rather than mine, which should no longer be accessible due to being in different worlds."

"I'm no tech genius, so I wouldn't know all this..." said Blue.

Haivng properly booted up the computer and connected onto the internet, Ridley turned on a web browser. "Let's begin with... seeing if a version of me exists in this world."

Franchouchou was done checking into their rooms, and as Kotaro said, he was going to take them to the Golden Stag Festival's stage to make preparations for their performance four days from now. The idols left the hotel and went up to their van to wait for their producer, who was doing who-knows-what back inside. Almost as soon as they got in front of their van, a tour bus pulled up a few meters away. They eyed the bus in curiosity as its door opened, and then one by one, anthropomorphic animals stepped down. "Looks like a tourist group," pointed out Ai.

"I suppose they'll be the dinner guests for tonight and that we'll be performing for them?" wondered Junko.

All the people who stepped down were animals, except for two humans, a young boy and a girl. The boy had brown hair, while the girl had pink hair. Eventually, an elderly turtle walking with the help of a cane stepped out of the bus, though he had a bit of hard time doing so due to having to descend the stairs, a feat somewhat difficult for someone his age. Fortunately for him, a female dog dressed like an office lady was at his side, helping him. "Please be careful, mayor," she told the turtle. "Just one more step and you're done!"

After stepping down from the bus entirely, the turtle said to her, "Thank you very much, Isabelle! Phew... Old age sure is tough... Even stairs become your biggest burden in life..."

"I can always give you a push from behind if you want to," the brown-haired boy told him with an oddly creepy smile. "It's much faster that way!"

"Villager!" the dog named Isabelle angrily said to him. "That is no way to speak to Mayor Tortimer! You should respect the mayor of your town and elders in general!"

"It's all right, Isabelle," Tortimer told her. "Villager is always like that, but he doesn't actually do the things he says. He's just trying to make an old man like me laugh!"

Then another person stepped down from the bus. It was a white dog, and the first thing he did was going to the luggage trunk to take out a guitar. When Lily saw the dog, he said in surprise, "I know him! It's K.K. Slider!"

"K.K. who?" Yuugiri asked him.

"When I was still alive, I actually performed on TV with him once!" said Lily, much to the surprise of others.

"You performed with him before?" Saki asked him.

Lily nodded with a smile. "He was a growing star at that time, coming from a place called Smashville. He came to Japan during a tour, I think, and held a television performance, and that studio contacted me, asking me if I wanted to perform with him. He had composed a piece of music, and while he can sing, he was looking for another singer, and I was asked to sing his song!"

"Wow! That's great, Lily!" Sakura happily said to her. "You got to perform with a celebrity!"

Not being able to contain his excitement, Lily rushed towards K.K. Slider as he was getting ready to move out with the other animal tourists, even though his friends told him not to be so hasty. "Mister K.K. Slider!" Lily cheerfully called out to him, grabbing his attention. The white dog curiously turned to him, as well as a few others close to him. "Mister K.K. Slider! What an honor to meet you in person! I'm a really big fan of your music!" He then pulled out a notebook out of seemingly nowhere. "Can you please give me your autograph?"

The white dog smiled gently. "It's always nice to meet a fan! I'm glad that my music managed to bring happiness to you!" K.K. Slider then took his notebook to sign his name on it, and then he gave it back to him. "Here you go!"

"Thank you very much!" Lily happily said.

"You are from Franchouchou, are you not?" K.K. Slider asked him just as the rest of the members approached them. Looking at them, he said, "I've seen your performances, and I'm impressed! It's not easy achieving a large amount of fame in just a few months. You girls clearly are dedicated to your line of work and have great passion in bringing happiness to your fans with your singing and dancing!"

"Yes! We really do enjoy being idols and bringing people happiness!" Sakura cheerfully told him.

"I heard that you came to participate in the Golden Stag Festival, right?" K.K. Slider asked them, and they gave him a yes as an answer. "I, too, am participating in it. In fact, the people of my town accompanied here to support me! I'm looking forward to this event, and I look forward to what you will bring to it as well!"

"You can be sure we'll going to bring you the most exciting performance!" Saki told him while pumping his fist.

"I look forward to it, then! Remember that it doesn't matter whether or not you win a prize," K.K. Slider told them. "What matters to us musicians and performers is that we gave it our all and mnaged to impress the audiences. The judges can judge us however they see fit, but as long as the audiences like what they saw and hear, it's all that matters!"

The girls smiled hearing him say that. As much as they would love to win first prize, they agreed that he had a point in performing their best and amazing their audiences being more important than anything else.

"It's good to be young, eh?" the turtle named Tortimer happily said. "If I am still in my youth, I'm sure I would go on stage and sing and break out some groovy dance moves for all to see!"

"Oh, I'm sure you can spin a neat groove if you get on your back and have someone spin you!" said Villager, which earned him a glare from Isabelle.

K.K. Slider then looked at Lily closely for a second, which made the latter a bit nervous for some reason. "Seeing you reminds me of a child actress who performed with me on television once," he said. "I believe her name was Lily Hoshigawa." Hearing this made Lily even more nervous than before, not to mention the other zombies. This was what she was afraid of. "You really do look a lot like her! If it weren't for the fact that she passed away, I would've mistaken you for her!"

"Yeah... It's not the first time someone said that..." said Lily, trying his best not to look nervous.

"I was greatly shocked to hear that," said K.K. Slider, sounding sad as he said this. "She's actually the first person I performed alongside with, and for someone so young, she has great talents! I don't know how she died, but it's such a tragedy that a young star would leave this world so soon..."

Hearing this made Lily sad as well. He could still remember the day he performed alongside K.K. Slider, and to his memory, the latter was a kind and lovable person who would definitely make a great friend and partner in performance. Seeing the sadness on the dog's face almost made him want to tell him the truth, but he knew he couldn't risk exposing his current identity as well as his group's to anyone else.

"I'm sure she's currently living a happy life in heaven and even performing for the angels and deities!" Lily said to him, trying to cheer him up.

"Let's hope afterlife is indeed like that!" said K.K. Slider as he started to cheer up some more. "By the way, I'd like to tell you a secret." The two then closed in on each other, and the dog whispered something into his ear, which made him surprised. After that, K.K. Slider said, "Well, I have to check into my room now. You're staying in this hotel, right? We'll definitely meet again, then!"

"Yep! We'll meet again!" Lily happily said to him. They waved their temporary farewell to each other, and then K.K. Slider left with the other animals into the hotel.

Sakura then asked Lily, "What did he say to you just now?"

"He says he knows Lily is actually a boy," Lily told him. "And I don't mean the current Lily, but the Lily before he died. Actually, Lily knows this already, because he told Lily about it that time. Lily simply pretended to be surprised just now."

Suddenly, a strong gust of wind happened out of nowhere, to which some of the girls reacted by holding their hands over their faces or holding down their skirts. Because it was so sudden, Lily's notebook flew out of his hand and into the air, and he cried out at it while attempting to go after it.

She didn't have to anymore, as out of nowhere, a person performed an amazing leap at the notebook and caught it. Landing onto the floor, the person was revealed to be a bespectacled and well-endowed woman with short, black hair wearing a rather form-fitting white dress and a sun hat. Tilting up her hat and looking at the overjoyed Lily, who ran up to her, she said to him while handing him the notebook, "Here's your book, little one. Be careful next time!"

"Thanks a lot, lady!" Lily happily said to her as she accepted the notebook. "And that was an incredible jump just now!"

"Oh, that was nothing at all. I can do more impressive things than that!" said the woman while giving a wink.

Lily thanked her again, and then the woman said good-bye to her before heading towards the hotel, dragging along her wheeled luggage. The other zombies walked up to Lily and watched with her the woman entering the hotel. "Wow... She's beautiful!" commented Junko, taking note of her assets.

"And judging from the jump earlier, I would say she's a athletic kind as well," added Yuugiri.

"I'm sure we'll be seeing her again, since it seems she's going to be staying at this hotel," pointed out Ai.

Entering the hotel, the woman walked up to the counter to sign into the room she had previously reserved. When given a book containing a list of rooms, the woman signed her name next to her assigned room number, writing Bayonetta.

Behind her, Kotaru was seen leaving the hotel. He headed towards the girl and told them that he had done asking the hotel manager for permission to perform for the guests at the dining area tonight. He then got them to go into the rental van before taking off for the Golden Stag Festival's performance area.

After their van took off, one could see Blue, Ridley, Samus, and Piranha behind it, walking towards the hotel. "So... what do you plan to do now?" Blue asked Ridley.

"I'll take some time to decide while staying at this hotel," he replied. "Now that I'm here, I obviously need a place to live in and a steady source of income. Can't always rely on my current savings."

While they were still on their way to the hotel, another tour bus pulled up at the parking area, and this time, the Smashers stepped down from it. "All right! We're here at the hotel!" said Toor as he got down the bus after everyone else did. "Please make sure to grab all your belongings, and then let's check into your rooms!"

Blue noticed the Smashers picking up their luggage from the bus's luggage trunk and said, "Hey, it's them! The Smashers! I didn't know they're here in Transylvania!"

"Oh, so they're the Smashers," said Ridley with interest. "Didn't expect to run into famous people like them so soon! Assuming they are as famous as the internet says..."

"I may not know them all that well, but I do know they've managed to make a name for themselves," said Blue while looking at him. "I'll try introducing you them. I don't even know if they remember who I am..."

The group of four headed towards the Smashers just as they were turning around from picking up the luggage. Noticing that the Smashers were looking in their direction, Blue waved at them with a large smile on her face and called out to them. "Hey guys! Remember me? I'm Red's friend, Blue!" However, the reaction she got wasn't an expected one at all.

Looks of shock appeared on some of the Smashers face, while some of them got into fighting stances. Link even unwrapped the paper around his sword to get ready to use it. "RIDLEY!" they all exclaimed.

Ridley was surprised by this response and took a step back, but Samus and Piranha got into fighting stances instead. The former pointed her arm cannon at the Smashers, while the latter bared his teeth and growled.

"How are you still alive?!" Mario asked the pterodactyl-like creature.

"Yeah! You're supposed to be dead!" said Luigi while hiding behind Yoshi, who was hiding behind Peach, who in turn was hiding behind Mario, who had his hand open and pointing at Ridley.

Not wanting things to escalate, Blue got in front of Ridley with her arms stretched out to the sides, and she said in panic to them, "No, wait! Whoever you think he is, he's not him!"

Recognizing the girl, Peach said, "Uh? Aren't you... Green?"

"Blue, actually..." the girl corrected her. "Yeah, I'm a friend of Red, like I said earlier. You remember him, right?"

"Yeah, we rememba him, but we want-a to know why eez Ridley with you, or eez he someone else who looks-a like him?" asked Mario.

"And why is someone who looks like Samus but I don't think is actually Samus with him?" asked Ganondorf. "And there's that Deku Baba as well..."

"Actually, that's a Piranha Plant..." Zelda corrected him.

Ridley told Samus and Piranha to calm down, and then he stepped up next to Blue with his arms raised. "Calm down, guys! Like she said, I'm not whoever you think I am! Though my name is indeed Ridley... I assume you got into the defensive because the version of me in this world got on your bad side?"

What he said confused the Smashers. "Version of you in this world? You're not making any sense..." said Link.

"I guess he means he comes from a parallel universe," pointed out Palutena, to which Ridley pointed at her and said she got it right.

"Yeah, exactly like that!" he said to the goddess. "I come from a different universe where history did not go exactly the same as this world, as I can testify to after browsing your world's internet. I even looked up the version of me in this world, only to find nothing, so I assume he either doesn't exist or is a nobody."

"Well, the Ridley we know doesn't really make himself known to the public... I think he operates in the dark all the time like a criminal, which he is," said Yoshi, and the others nodded.

"And I'm sure he's bigger than you as well," added Luigi.

"So a version of me do exist here..." said Ridley. "If I heard things correctly earlier, he's dead, right?"

"Yeah, we killed him," said Ganondorf straightforwardly.

Ridley had an unimpressed look on his face in response. "Okay... I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing... for me, that is..."

The Smashers dropped their fighting stances, and Link asked him, "So you come from another world?"

"Yeah, one where I do not believe has a group called the Smashers," replied Ridley. "In fact, I don't even think I've met any version of you people in my world."

"What are you doing here anyway? And how'd you get here?" Dr. Mario asked him.

"I came here in my spaceship," replied Ridley. "It has the ability to travel through space and time."

"Where's your ship now?" Dark Pit asked him.

"Shrunk it and kept it in my possession," replied the winged creature, a response that made them raise eyebrows. "It has shrinking technology as well, and in case you're worried about it returning to normal size at the wrong place and the wrong time, it comes with a safety precaution where it will measure the size around it first before determining whether or not it can return to normal size. If there's not enough space, it won't. Impressive technology, I'm telling ya!"

The Smashers had unimpressed looks on their faces and didn't know whether or not they should believe him. Even though Blue was supporting and defending Ridley, they thought of the possibility that she was threatened by him to do so.

Knowing that they were skeptical, Ridley pointed at the hotel with his thumb and said, "Look, how about you let me check into a room first for me and my pals before they run out? I'll be happy to tell you everything afterwards. Don't you guys have rooms to check into as well?"

The Smashers looked at each other, wondering what they should do. "I think he has a point..." Toor said to them. "I'm still confused about what is happening here, but how about we check into your rooms first, and then we can talk over this quietly? No need to get violent, please..."

Rather than going to their hotel right away from the airport, Wario and Waluigi, after renting a car, headed straight to the performance area of the Golden Stag Festival.

Arriving at the plaza, they saw a large stage placed at the far end, and there were several people wandering around the place, some of them sightseeing and some of them working to get the place for use four days later.

The duo headed over to the stage and got onto it. Standing at the center front area of the stage, they looked at the sight before them and the people doing their things with looks of pride in their eyes. "This is where the world will be watching us, Waluigi!" Wario told his partner. "Four days from now, we will finally be able to put our hard work and musical practices to use!"

"We'll definitely win first prize, and the world will forever know our faces!" said Waluig with confidence. "I can see it now! Wario and Waluigi! Greatest musical stars of the century! Our faces will become the greatest merchandises in history! It will be found on everything! T-shirts, water bottles, pillows, posters! I can even imagine them putting a statue of us!"

"And we'll be filthy rich as well!" added Wario. "Imagine the endless amount of income we can get from people constantly hiring us to perform! Oh boy! Thinking of this is making me jumping for joy already!"

The duo imagined themselves bathing in their potential success, so much that they began laughing in triumph already, which grabbed the attention of everyone present. All looked at them and wondered what on earth they were laughing about, but nobody asked them.

After the duo were done laughing, they left the stage, and almost as soon as they were gone, Franchouchou came over and stood on where they once stood. Looking as far as she could with her hand over her eyes, Sakura said with delight, "Wow! This place is so big! I think this is bigger than Saga Rock!"

"Then we'll have to give it our best and even go beyond that!" said Saki with enthusiasm. "This is our first overseas performance, so let's make sure to leave behind a good impression!"

All the other zombies agreed. This was their first time traveling and performing overseas, and it felt like a great honor to be able to do something like this. They were sure their producer went through a lot of trouble to arrange all this for them, so for both his and their fans' sake, they told themselves that they were going to give the best performance they could four days from now.

"Oh boy! I can't wait!" Sakura said in her head while trembling with joy. She even hopped up and down slightly. "Let's hope nothing bad happens on that day!"

TO BE CONTINUED

Isabelle joins the battle! And Daisy too in the previous chapter. Villager and his female counterpart, named Murabito (Villager's Japanese name) and is actually his cousin in my series, return! I haven't really been using those two ever since their debut in The Strike of the Overlord. Let's see if I can give them a decent role and screen time this time around!

Admittedly, I've ended up giving the ZLS cast more screen time than intended, and I think it's probably a good thing. After all, I listed this as a crossover between Smash Bros. and ZSL, so I might as well go all out. I just hope giving more focus to the latter won't turn off anyone who came here solely for the Smash Bros. part... I can't help it now that I'm a huge fan of ZSL!

In case you don't know, Lily speaks in third person when with his group, so in case you find his way of speaking funny, know that it is true to source material and not grammatical mistakes I've made.

And Red is what I call the Pokemon Trainer in this series for those who forgot or never read my previous SSB stories.