I promise, there'll be battles in this series.

"...and in other news, the Lunar Dance will be tomorrow!"

While Master Hand's announcement was met with confusion from the new Smashers, most of the veterans began talking among themselves, no doubt asking for dance dates. Master Hand snapped his fingers, and the room went silent. Pressing on, Master Hand continued, "While you may ask other Smashers out to this dance, if you have a significant other in your homeworld, I shall allow them to come for this one night. And if you're NOT interested in participating, then don't worry, you may sit out."

With that, the Smashers filed out of the auditorium, but those who had significant others in other worlds stayed behind to request permanent residence for their loved ones.

Fox entered the Assistant Apartment, and ducked the Black Knight's sword, who, along with Takamaru, served as the Apartment's bodyguards. His tone becoming slightly more irritated, he inquired, "Is Krystal around?"

The Black Knight nodded, and without saying a word, he directed Fox to her room. Once the armored man was out of sight, Fox knocked on the door, and Krystal, in an unusually casual outfit, answered with, "What is it?"

Though he was initially having trouble with his words because he hadn't seen her in months, Fox asked his longtime love interest, "Would you like to go to the Lunar Dance with me?"

Krystal giggled, before pecking him on the cheek and replying with, "Yes, I would love to dance with you, Fox!" Closing her door, the leader of the Star Fox team walked out out the Assistant Apartment, bumping into various objects on accident with the goofiest grin possible plastered on his face.

"So, you're never going to let him live this one down, are you, Lombardi?"

"Not a chance. Did you see the look on his face when she kissed him?!"

Falco replayed the footage, and he and Wolf burst into laughter once more upon seeing Fox walk into the big Assist Trophy stand in the foyer of the Assistant Apartment.

Sauntering into the lobby of the Smash Mansion with an air of swagger, Fox walked up to the Lunar Dance sign-up sheet, and below 'Mario/Peach,' 'Isaac/Jenna,' and 'Luigi/Daisy,' he scrawled down 'Fox/Krystal.'

"So Fox, when's the wedding?"

"Planning on having pups anytime soon, McCloud?"

Fox rolled his eyes, and instead walked to the shop to find a nice dress suit, but Falco and Wolf tailed behind him for the sole purpose of cracking jokes at his expense.

Matthew, after having requested a residence for his friends, began walking to the residence that Master Hand had told him to go to. Remembering the small residence his father had taken him to on the night of the Newcomer Ceremony, he was surprised to see the Warriors of Vale, his father among them, staring in confusion at a particularly large house that had suddenly appeared in the center of the small plaza. Walking past the eight of them, Matthew knocked on the door, and he was incredibly surprised when Tyrell and Karis both answered the door. The three of them hugged, with Tyrell exclaiming, "It's so good to see you again, Matt!"

Karis, though she said nothing, nodded in agreement. Once they had broken off, Tyrell grabbed the two of them by the hand, and said, "We got some surprises for you, Matt, so come on in!"

Once the door closed, Isaac looked at Garet and chuckled, "You sure he's not your future kid?"

That had gotten a laugh out of everyone, Felix and Garet included.

"Wait, so... how did you guys get here?"

"I don't know! One moment, Karis slapped me for accidentally burning one of her possessions, and the next moment, we're in this big house with Rief, Amiti, Nowell, and Sveta!"

"What about Eoleo and Himi?"

Karis interjected with, "We don't know where they are, Matthew."

"Speaking of Sveta, where is she?"

Tyrell answered with, "I think she's in the room over there..."

Before he could continue, Matthew had already run off to where Tyrell had pointed, and the latter blinked before he and Karis fell into a small fit of laughter.

Matthew, upon entering the room, called out, "Sveta?"

"I'm here, Matthew! It's so good to see you again!"

Turning around, Matthew was glomped by Sveta, and he gave her a light pat on the back before hugging her back, signaling her to loosen her grip. After a good minute, they gently extricated themselves from each other's grasp, and Sveta asked, "Matthew, do you know what happened? Without me at the throne, Belinsk is without a ruler, and I don't want my people to fall into anarchy..."

Nervously rubbing the back of his head, Matthew replied, "Ah... that might've been my doing. Do you want to come with me and try to resolve this?"

Sveta nodded, and the two of them walked towards the Smash Mansion together. Outside, the Warriors of Vale stared at Isaac's son walk by with a girl that looked like one of the beastmen that were starting to appear all across Weyard, and Isaac whispered to his girlfriend/future wife, "He'll be dating a beastwoman?"

"I guess so, Isaac. But ancients above, look at them! They look so happy in each other's company, and they're adorable together!"

Chuckling at her enthusiasm at their son's romantic life, Isaac watched Matthew walk with Sveta, a small smile having worked its way onto his face.

Matthew walked through the lobby of the Smash Mansion, catching glimpses of Diddy Kong running, hand-in-hand with a monkey in a pink beret, and Red nervously asking Leaf if she wanted to dance, before entering the auditorium, where he presumed Master Hand would be. Sure enough, the hand's booming voice asked, "Who requests an audience with me?"

Matthew and Sveta stepped forth, and Master Hand dropped the imposing facade, cheerfully responding with, "Oh, hello Matthew! What brings you here?"

Sveta began with, "Hello... I am Matthew's date for the Lunar Dance he told me about on the way here, but there is a small snag with bringing me into this realm."

"Go on..."

"See, I am the Queen of Belinsk, and since I do not have any surviving relatives, I am afraid that Belinsk will devolve into chaos and anarchy while I am away. At the same time, however, I do not enjoy the life of a monarch, and I wish to stay here with Matthew. Is there any way this can be resolved?"

"Surviving relatives... did you have another before this?"

Sveta nodded, but before she could continue, Matthew interjected with, "See, her older brother died trying to save Weyard on our first quest, and he was the king of Belinsk at that time. Is there a possible way to... bring him back, perhaps?"

Cupping a nonexistent chin in thought, Master Hand snapped his fingers in realization, and warped out of sight for about thirty seconds, before coming back with yet another large gloved hand, who moved erratically.

"Why did you summon me, brother? You know I'm incredibly hands-off here! Haha, get it?"

Matthew and Sveta forced a few chuckles, and Master Hand, ignoring the awful pun, asked, "Do you have those books on raising the dead?"

"Oh, yeah, thooosee... hang on a sec, I'll be back in a snap!"

Crazy Hand snapped his fingers, and returned in an instant holding a massive stack of black and purple books. Muttering a small incantation, both hands began glowing with a golden light not unlike the one fired at the Apollo Lens, and after a bright flash (which Matt and Sveta shielded their eyes from), Master Hand said, "It is done. Your brother has been resurrected, and he will return as the ruler of the nation you said you were ruling."

Sveta bowed and shook the hands' pinkie fingers before leaving with Matthew in high spirits.

"Grr... why are the Poké Balls and Master Balls kept in a dustbin, of all places?"

At the backyard of the Mansion, Mewtwo had managed to pilfer a Master Ball from the Item Vault (along with nine Cracker Launchers), passing out a Launcher to each Pokémon before saying, "This is the Lunar Dance, right?"

All the Pokémon nodded.

"And none of us are going to actually be dancing?"

Again, all the Pokémon nodded.

"Then we're in charge of entertainment tomorrow night. This... is what I assume to be Cresselia's Master Ball."

Greninja piped up with, "Are you sure that's Cresselia and not Giratina?"

Incineroar agreed, saying, "Yeah! Just check and make sure that we're not going to put everyone to sleep like Jigglypuff does on a daily basis by summoning Darkrai or some crap like that..."

The Balloon Pokémon pouted and puffed up her cheeks before saying, "Well, listen here, you son of a Sandslash-"

"My dad was an Alolan Sandslash! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!"

"SILENCE!"

Mewtwo, despite not being able to learn Scary Face, glared at everyone else with the same intimidation factor of the move. Facepalming to the best of his ability, he continued, "Incineroar is right, since they apparently have no idea what proper organization is, we're just going to have to trial and error until we can get Cresselia."

Pushing the button on the Master Ball, the first Pokémon to come out was... Goldeen. Everyone simply stared at the Goldfish Pokémon helplessly splash around before vanishing.

Young Link walked around with Zelda, and she asked, "Link... what will become of Hyrule while I'm here?"

The Hero of Time casually replied with, "I think Master Hand said that the realm will be in permanent stasis while you, myself, and Ganondorf are here, because he said that the timeline must continue with the three of us." When that didn't appear to put Zelda at ease, he offered to take her out for another picnic later on, considering that their last one had been interrupted by Master Hand and a swarm of angry Cuccos. Zelda nodded, and the two of them set off hand-in-hand to sign their names on the couples list.

Mewtwo returned Xerneas in an almost bored fashion, throwing the Master Ball into a pile of ones that were already used, before pulling out yet another Master Ball. Entei appeared with a massive roar, and prepared to use Eruption, but Mewtwo quickly returned the Volcano Pokémon before any damage could be done. Incineroar absently kicked a Master Ball, and out of it came Cresselia. Pikachu snatched the Master Ball off the ground, returned her, and handed the ball to Mewtwo, who gave a smile of approval to the duo of Pikachu and Incineroar, and the two of them exchanged a high five.

The day of the Lunar Dance had come, and Yoshi and Pikachu, the both of them wearing matching top hats and bowties, opened the doors to the ballroom that Master Hand had constructed in the middle of the fourth tournament. Mario and Peach, among one of the star couples of the Smash Mansion, were the first to walk in. Luigi and Daisy were next, soon followed by Link and Zelda, Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong, Fox and Krystal, Young Link and his Zelda, Meggy and Evan, Leaf and Red, Marth and Caeda, Roy and Lilina, Isaac and Jenna, Bayonetta forcefully dragged Pit in, who was voicelessly squirming and panicking in her grasp, Matthew and Sveta walked in hand-in-hand, and finally, Captain Falcon and Samus.

Mewtwo and the other Pokémon stood on the stage, with Greninja, Incineroar, and Lucario all firing a few shots from the Cracker Launchers which burst into minature fireworks, and Mewtwo sent out Cresselia. The Lunar Pokémon used her signature move, Lunar Dance, and the ceiling flickered, before taking on the image of a cloudless, moonlit sky that caused many of the Smashers to stare up in awe. Yoshi, lugging one of Diddy Kong's spare boomboxes onto the stage, put in a CD and pressed 'Play,' and a waltz theme that sounded all too familiar to Mario and Luigi began playing throughout the room.

Matthew, due to the Lunar Dance being his first dance he had ever attended, blushed as Sveta giggled at the fact that he was clumsily stepping over his own feet in an attempt to keep up with her. Sveta slowed down, and their waltz took on a slower pace. To their right, Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong were happily dancing without a care in the world, while Mario and Peach, gazing lovingly into each other's eyes, danced like there was no tomorrow.

Wolf cracked open a can of Soda Pop, and sat down next to Snake, who had a beer in hand, and he asked the stealth operative, "How come YOU'RE here?"

"I would ask you the same question, O'Donnell."

Scoffing, Wolf responded, "I wanted to look at McCloud over there trip up on his own feet dancing with that tramp. What about you?"

"It just feels nice to see everyone so happy after that mess of an adventure we had about four months ago. And besides, it's nice seeing something else other than battles or those sadistic showcases Mario and company call sports."

"I suppose..."

In front of them, Krystal tripped and fell on Fox, sending the two of them onto the floor. Fox blushed madly while Krystal seemed almost oblivious to the predicament at hand, and Wolf howled in laughter, before tugging at the collar of the suit that he had been forced to wear in order to attend the dance.

Outside, Young Link and Zelda, having gotten bored of the dance, both ran outside in the Mansion's courtyard, having decided to instead play a game of tag. Stopping by a large tree, Zelda and Young Link sat down, and the Princess of Hyrule asked, "Link... if the kingdom remains in stasis while I am here, does that mean I can stay... with you?"

Link nodded, and said, "I guess so, Zelda."

While inside, she was elated that he had addressed her by her first name, she kissed the Hero of Time on the lips before giving him a playful shove, teasingly saying, "You're it!"

It might have been Young Link's imagination, but as he ran up to chase after Zelda, he could've sworn he heard the Great Deku Tree chuckle in approval.

After dropping off Jenna at Felix's house (with the Mars Adept's older brother giving him a rare smile due to her being so happy), Isaac looked over his shoulder to see Matthew bringing his own partner back to her shared residence, after seeing the beastwoman kiss his son, he smiled at the sight, as it gave him brighter hopes about Weyard's future. Matthew saw his father, and ran up to him, asking, "So, had fun?"

Isaac nodded before asking, "I'd like to know, how did you and your girlfriend first meet?"

Matthew laughed, and said, "Well, it involved Slap Gloves, her tailing us from a distance, and Sveta using Slap Psynergy on Tyrell for calling her a kitty-dog..."

"Oh, man, that Tyrell kid really is Garet's son…"

Whew, we're closing out January with this!