Chapter 3: Invader in Pac-Man's world:
"We seem to have another disturbance in time." Shulk said to Mario and Kirby as he showed them the scroll.
"This is from Pac-Man's world. Here, he was supposed to stop Erwin from collapsing the ghost world with Pac-World. But someone's trying to mess that one up." The blond then told them.
"Well I hope it's not that Cortex guy again," Luigi said as Mario nodded in reply.
"No, but someone is trying to interrupt Pac-Man's battle. Can you two do something about this?" Shulk asked.
"No problem." Mario said in reply as he and Kirby held on the scroll and disappeared in a flash of light.
-Pac Man World 3 timeline-
Pac-Man was facing Erwin in a huge machine with two of his ghosts enemies trapped in two glass cages, while Mario and Kirby are seen hidden within rocks.
"That's enough Erwin ya big bozo! You're gonna destroy us all!" Pac Man called out.
"Technically no. My machine will keep me safe when the Spectral Realm crashes in the real world. It will be dark and cold for a few years but hey, do I look like I enjoy out in the sun?" Erwin replied.
{Erwin's right you guys.} Future Rosalina said to Mario as they checked it out {The world will survive but it will be placed in darkness forever and no one will be safe from Erwin's monsters. We've gotta make sure Pac-Man is not interfered with Erwin.}
"And my robot legions that will be powered up by all that Spectral Energy will be there to take over the whole world!" Erwin announced, but then added. "That and build huge statues of me. I kinda like huge statues, they make me look tall."
"Well that's a pretty clever plan but... YOU'RE A LOONY! And I am not gonna let you get away with it!" Pac-Man stated.
"So far, nothing bad is happening." Mario said before Kirby gasped and called out in his own language and pointed upwards as both heroes saw Ripto looking down on them.
"Mamma-mia! Where'd he come from?" Mario gasped as he and Kirby quickly got out to confront him.
"So you're with the Smash Patrol?" Ripto asked, raising his sceptre as he smirked.
"You will still die from meddling in my affairs!" He then stated.
{Who in the universe is that?} Shulk asked.
{That's the evil wizard: Ripto. He's just like Cortex. Ganondorf and the others must have brought him here from his world.} Future Rosalina explained in reply, knowing that despite his size, Ripto was quite powerful and not to be taken lightly, evident as Ripto then fired a massive fireball from his staff, which Mario blocked out with his own fireball.
Continuing to dodge his fireballs and fire his own, Mario asked Rosalina from his earpiece. "So what's the history with him?"
{He's the arch enemy of Spyro the Dragon.} Future Rosalina said, but quickly told him in warning. {But you must stop him from interfering with Pac-Man and Erwin.}
Mario and Kirby nodded as Ripto then laughed.
"Time to you lot to taste a small fraction of my power!" He exclaimed, using his sceptre to open a void where a huge robot shaped monster emerged.
And quickly climbing abaord the machine's head, Ripto then ordered. "Mecha Gulp! Do away with them!"
Mecha Gulp did as Ripto had commanded and fired a long laser stream from his eyes, which Mario and Kirby dodged, but had to keep on their toes as Mecha Gulp continued unleashing his laser attack, trying to destroy the two heroes.
But seeing that Mecha Gulp's laser range was limited, Mario and Kirby each ran in the direction opposite each other, to which Mecha Gulp pursued Mario, but stopped when Kirby shot at him, pulled out his hammer and whacked the machine in the head, causing it to yelp in surprise and pain, while Ripto wobbled, but remained standing atop his mechanical behemoth.
Recovering from the attack, Mecha Gulp decided to change its tactics, to which its eyes glowed blue before it began to fire a massive barrage of electric balls from it horns into the sky that rained downs on the battlefield.
But thanks to their speed, Mario and Kirby dodged and leapt from each attack, even avoiding the shockwaves that followed as the balls blasted upon the ground.
{Can you hear me? I am on my way to your location. Just keep Ripto occupied till then.} Samus called from the link, making Future Rosalina add. {Please hurry, Samus! All of this seemed wrong!}
"Kirby, we gotta buy some time!" Mario called out as Kirby nodded, but saw they had big problems as Mecha Gulp's maw began to release small wicks of flame, which when he opened, a trail of fire that looked like a worm-like monster emerged and charged at the heroes.
But as the flames closed in on them, Mario used his cape to spin it around and sent it back to the machine, making Mecha Gulp jump and yelp once again.
And unable to take anymore damage or sustain itself, the robot exploded, causing Ripto to fall down.
Snarling as he got to his feet, Ripto aimed his staff at mario and Kirby again, planning to unleash more of his magic upon the duo, but stopped when he saw Samus charging towards him.
"Hold it!" She called, ready to fight Ripto, who snarled upon seeing another heroic icon crash his party.
"Hmph. Lucky you, for now." Ripto said as he disappeared before Samus could reach him.
"Grr... Mario, Kirby, you go help Pac-Man!" Samus called as she disappeared afterwards.
"Poyo?" Kirby asked before they saw that Erwin was now screaming in pain and clutching his head, before he was engulfed with white evil aura and his eyes turned pink.
Knowing Erwin had now been powered up by dark magic, Mario and Kirby leapt and stood side by side with Pac-Man, who was taken by surprise at their appearance.
"Mario? Kirby? What are you two doing here?" He asked.
"I'm surprised you remember us." Mario had to admit, before saying. "We're here to help."
"More interfering pests? You dare get in the way of the great Erwin!?" Erwin snarled as he fired a huge laser from his mech, but the three heroes acted quickly and dodged the laser.
"So what's the deal with this guy?" Mario asked.
"He's an idiot who wants to squash my world with the Spectral Realm. Hates kittens and chocolates." Pac-Man replied.
"I know the type." Mario scoffed as Kirby was a bit cross that someone hated kittens and chocolate.
"Yeah I know. Keep them distracted while I power up those pillars to shut down his barrier." Pac-Man instructed, causing Kirby to nod in response, before he and Mario kept Erwin distracted, pummeling his machine with long range attacks, dodging the attacks Erwin sent at them, which included double lasers and missiles, while Pac-Man headed off to rev up the pillars.
Mario then noticed the four pillars were up and short-circuited the barrier making the death machine crash to the ground.
"Now! We can attack!" Pac-Man called out as he and the others dashed in and all attacked the machine.
They attacked it with such power that the machine couldn't take it and exploded, to which Erwin, in panic, tried to flee on his space pod, but was stopped as Mario shot a fireball on it, causing him to crash near the huge machine sucking up the energy.
Erwin snarled as Mario, Pac-Man and Kirby ran up to him, only to screech to a halt in front of them.
"My Teratron is dead! You killed it! Why must you destroy my huge death machines? What did they ever do to you?" Erwin whined.
"You're finished Erwin. You should have used your death machines, world conquest plans, and rampaging insanity for good instead of evil." Pac-Man stated.
"It's finished alright, Pac-Man. But only for one of us!" Erwin snapped back, which just made Pac-Man chuckle and say. "For you."
"Well, yes. It's entirely possible, when one considers things have not gone so well... wait, what am I saying? Even now, my magnificent machine is poised to bring about the collapse of the Spectral Realm and bring all the power my legions could..." Erwin began to say, only to see Pac-Man, Mario and Kirby grinning, making him ask nervously. "Why are you three looking at me like that?"
"Always keep your feet on the ground, Erwin." Pac-Man said as Kirby giggled and Mario added. "Because-a you're going for a flight."
Erwin looked down to see he was slowly begin sucked into the machine as he snarl and then said. "I always hated the colours, yellow, red and pink."
"Moooottthhhheeerrr!" He then screamed as he was sucked into his huge machine, making it explode on impact.
With Erwin defeated, Pac-Man grinned as he teleported back to his home, while Mario and Kirby disappeared back to their timeline afterwards.
However, Pac-Man looked up and smiled, knowing he'd see the two, as well as the other heroes and heroines he had befriended one day in the future.
-Time Nest-
Mario and Kirby returned to see Shulk, Future Rosalina, Link, Pikachu and the others waiting for them.
"Great job out there. Time has returned to its original flow." Shulk informed, before telling Mario and Kirby. "We did some research on the pair that was manipulating history are some pretty serious evil masterminds."
Curious, Peach asked. "What did you guys find out?"
"Well, Dr. Neo Cortex is an evil scientist who plots to conquer the world by using mutated animals and evil plans in his devilry." Link said as he crossed his arms.
"And Ripto is the leader of a legion of creatures called Riptocs, who're poised to conquer the Dragon Realms." Ike added.
"Those two have been thwarted time after time by two heroes named Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon. My guess is they teamed up with Bowser and the others for revenge." Future Rosalina said.
"Samus and the Miis have been after them for some time now, but have not caught them yet." Ness said, causing Lucas to say. "There must be someway to stop them."
"Right. But mind if I leave the thinking to you guys?" Future Rosalina asked, before informing everyone. "I have other things to do."
"Hey! What's the big idea? Aren't we all in this together?" Shulk asked, to which Future Rosalina said. "Yeah I know, but I am really busy. My Luma is about to have a egg soon so I have to be ready for when it arrives."
"Oh? How about that? Congratulations then." Shulk smiled, but the others looked confused, making Marth ask. "What this about an egg?"
"That Luma who was with Rosalina can manipulate time. That egg they are about to hatch hold the time to a new timeline. To put simple, the egg has the power to create time itself." Shulk said in reply, amazing everyone.
"That is why making sure the Luma's eggs are healthy is so important." Future Rosalina said. "It's one of my duties as the Goddess of Time."
"Wow. To see a new history starting. That is very powerful." Lucario commented, making Pikachu agree with a nod.
"And the next time Cortex and Ripto show up, how about we give them a great pounding?" Roy asked.
"Yeah but the question is where and when?" Donkey Kong questioned in reply, leaving the heroes and heroines silent as the gang began to think hard on where their enemies would strike next.
But wherever it was, they were all determined to make sure that the forces of good would prevail.
A/N: I hope you all enjoying this so far.
