This may sound really sudden, but I'm actually in the planning stages of another crossover story: a Zombie Land Saga and Dead Rising crossover! It's going to be a one-shot, however, meaning there's only one chapter. Because of this, that story won't take up too much time in me working on this story and Justice of Two Earths. I don't know when it will be posted yet, but do know that a crossover between those two zombie franchises will come soon from me! Hope you look forward to it!

And here comes one of the biggest chapters in this story! I had a lot of fun typing this out, so I hope it's all worth it! If you need to be reminded of the adventures the Smashers had been through, then this chapter is right up your alley!

Also, in case you haven't realized it yet, Blue's Blastoise is supposed to be a stand-in for Pokemon Trainer's Squirtle.

One last thing: I've finally updated Justice of Two Worlds!

Chapter 7
A Smash to the Past

That night at the hotel, Franchouchou resolved to know more about what they were missing out ever since their deaths. It so happened that the hotel had four public computers for use, though hourly payment was required. This was a small issue for them, so they rented themselves one of the computers. While six of the zombies gathered around one computer, Tae was reclining on a nearby couch, staring into blank space like she usually did.

Pit was also using one of the computers, and he had headphones on as he watched videos on it with a smile on his face. These computers came with speakers but no headphones, though the angel brought one himself.

"Um... Shouldn't we be practicing for the contest?" asked a worried Sakura.

"Nah, Tatsumi says it's fine if we don't do it today, because he couldn't get the permission to use the conference room, as someone else is using it," Saki told her, and then she began chuckling. "You should've been there when he got turned down!"

FLASHBACK

Saki was watching from a distance at Kotaro, who was standing in front of the conference room's entrance. The door was open, and Wario was standing there. The producer asked him if it was possible that he let his idols make use of this room, but Wario responded in a rude way. "Screw you! First come, first serve! We're not lending it to anyone competing against us in the contest!" He then slammed the door right in Kotaro's face.

The producer remained standing in place and staring at the door. The door suddenly opened up, and Wario stepped back out, this time wearing a pair of shades with golden frames decorated with sparkling crystals. "And your shades stink! Mines better! Get a better one, doofus!" he told the producer before slamming the door shut again.

The producer stood in place for a few seconds before lowering his head, looking depressed, as evident of a gloomy, purple aura appearing around him. This isn't literal, however.

Meanwhile, Saki was trying her best not to laugh out loud at what she saw and heard.

END OF FLASHBACK

Ai was in front of her computer, looking up info that she and the others wanted to know. The first topic they looked up were the Smashers. From the little of what they heard from Kotaro, these people appeared to be famous heroes and celebrities known worldwide. Unfortunately for the girls, they died before this group made a name of themselves, but now it was time to find out the truth.

From what they found out, the Smashers were a relatively large group of people consisting of people who were either nobodies or relatively well-known to begin with, royalties, and even reformed criminals, all of them gathered together by someone called Master Hand. The reason for this gathering was unknown. They currently live in Onett, Eagleland.

"Looks like they are indeed famous people and have been established for quite a while already," said Ai, scrolling through a website that talked about them.

"What makes them so popular anyway?" asked Saki.

"Well, it says here that they saved the world on countless accounts and did several incredible feats that impressed people," said Ai. "It doesn't really go into much details, but I think I can find more on that by looking threw news archives." Heading to the news section of Google, she looked up as much articles as she could on the Smashers and tried to track down the earliest known news article about them.

"Wow... I still can't believe how useful this internet thing is..." commented Junko. Having born, lived and died at an age where the internet didn't exist, something like this was unheard of to her. This wasn't her first contact with the internet, as she had witnessed Ai using Kotaru's internet back in Saga and even played around with it herself, but even so, it was still something that impressed her every time she saw it.

"People nowadays sure like to come up with strange but admittedly useful things," said Yuugiri. Having died back in the 1800s, even the concept of a computer was completely alien to her.

After a bit of searching, Ai finally found what might be the earliest known news article about the Smashers, and it wasn't exactly what she expected. "Smash Mansion explodes...?"

THE DAY SMASH MANSION EXPLODED

"No! This is not Caesar's Pizza Palace!" Bowser angrily screamed into the phone before slamming it back in its place. Constantly getting wrong phone calls from whoever this was had driven him insane.

As if him throwing a fit over this wasn't enough, Kirby was currently angrily demanding something to eat. "I want food! I'm hungry!"

Yoshi was doing the same thing as well, slamming the table with his fists, which were holding a fork and a knife. "Me too!"

"We're out of gas, so I need to send for more first," Peach told her, and she looked rather impatient concerning those two's attitudes.

"I can't wait any longer!" cried Kirby while slapping the table nonstop.

"Food! I need food!" cried Yoshi, doing a similar action.

Frustrated, Peach shouted at them, "Enough already and have patience! You're not the only ones hungry! We all are, but we can't cook without fire!"

"You want fire? I'll give you fire!" replied Kirby angrily. Turning to Bowser, who had just returned to his seat, he sucked the surprised turtle into his mouth and then swallowed him. A star popped out from behind the pink puffball somehow, and said star changed into Bowser in the blink of an eye, and the turtle still had a look of shock on his face. Kirby now sported Bowser's horns, hair, and eyebrows.

He then rushed into the kitchen and opened his mouth in the direction of the cooking stove. Peach rushed to see what he was going to do and was horrified. "STOP! DON'T!"

Too late; the pink puffball breathed a stream of fire at the stove. It came in contact with the gas tank, and even though it was empty, there was still a bit of gas leftover, and that was more than enough to react to the fire negatively and result in a massive explosion that tore through the entire mansion, completely annihilating it.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

All those who happened to be passing by the mansion were shocked by this sudden occurrence, but to say that they were the only ones was a huge understatement, as the loudness and size f the explosion was heard and seen respectively almost throughout Onett, and people soon flocked over to this place to see what happened. Needless to say, they were surprise to find the burned down remains of the mansion and various charred figures standing in the midst of them.

Miraculously, all the Smashers survived the explosion.

"Our... Our house..." said Fox in disbelief while looking at the sky.

"It's nothing but a pile of ashes now..." added Falco, looking stunned.

Ness had a blank look on his face, still trying to comprehend what happened. Suddenly, something dropped down in front of him, and he looked to see that it was his Gamecube. Picking it up and observing it all over, he was relieved to see that it was somehow still looking good, at least physically. "At least my Gamecube is still functioning! I think..."

"Telephone too," said Jigglypuff, looking at said phone lying nearby that seemed untouched for some reason, and its cable was still attached to the socket. Surprisingly, the phone rang.

Bowser picked up the phone and spoke into it in an eerily calm voice, "If you are here to ask for Caesar's Pizza Palace, then please let kindly remind you that you are doing nothing but mocking us currently regarding our tragic situation. Now please kindly hang up this call within five seconds, or else I will personally track you down and burn down your house. Thank you." He waited five seconds before placing the phone back down.

Everyone then shifted his or her eyes to Kirby, who had a blank expression. "So... Sorry..." he said with a voice full of guilt.

"Wow... And they all survived that?!" said Saki in disbelief. They had just read through a news article detailing the destruction of the Smash Mansion, and somehow, every single one of them survived. As if that wasn't enough, none of them were badly injured or hospitalized.

"I can't believe it!" commented Sakura in equal awe. "Any normal person would've died from an explosion like that, and they were in the center of it!"

Ai continued to look for more news, searching for the first time where they were hailed as heroes. It didn't take long for her to come across what might be the answer to what she was looking for. "Smasher saves world from Darkling..."

DARKLING

"Quick! Launch the missile!" Master Hand shouted at Crazy Hand

"YES!" Crazy Hand replied as he slammed his palm onto a button on the control panel. This activated the missile, and a large amount of fire shot out from its rear end, gradually causing the whole thing to shoot through the air.

It was at this moment the massive door situated up in the sky swung upon, pouring out a large amount of purple miasma when it did so. Naraku watched with a face full of glee as he said, "At last! The Diablo Darkling is freed!"

A pair of menacing purple eyes appeared on the other side of the door, followed by a massive black hand reaching out from it, as if grasping empty air. "Finally! I shall walk the world again and fill it with darkness!" However, before he could do anything else, the giant missile collided into the palm of his hand and began pushing it back. "What?! What is this?!"

Cracks appeared all over the missile, and all of a sudden, it exploded in a massive burst of bright light, so much that the dark sky was made white and gold. All those who witnessed the light couldn't open their eyes and had to close them due to the pain it was causing them.

Not only that, the bright light was also causing tremendous burning pain to the Diablo Darkling, and the massive Darkling cried in pain as the heat forced his hand back through the door.

Knowing what they have to do, Master Hand and Crazy Hand rushed towards the door just as the explosion died down, but the light still filling the place. Each of them pressed against the set of doors, and they let out a loud cry as they tried to push the whole thing close.

The Diablo Darkling attempted to force his way out, however, and struggled against the Hands. "You fools! What do you think you're doing?! I will not let you stop me from reaching freedom!"

"You're not having your way!" Master Hand shouted back at the Diablo Darkling while pushing with all his might, and he told Crazy Hand to push as hard as he could.

Due to exposure to the explosion of light, the Diablo Darkling was weakened quite a bit, so the Hands were able to prevail against him in the end and completely close the door. Acting quick, Master Hand whipped out an x-shaped bandage out of nowhere and slapped it onto the door, taping it shut. Both Hands then chanted some sort of incomprehensible incantation, and when they were done, the seal glowed brightly.

"AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGGGH! MY FREEDOM!" screamed the Diablo Darkling from behind the sealed door. "YOU MORTALS! HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO ME! YOU WILL PAY! YOU WILL PAY!"

The seal let out a bright flash as if it exploded, and when the light disappeared, the door was gone as well.

Down below, the Smashers were looking up in awe at what had just happened. "They did it! The Hands did it!" exclaimed Captain Falcon.

"All right! We stopped the Diablo Darkling from entering this world!" said Roy in joy. All the other Smashers then jumped up and down in excitement and celebrated.

However, it was still too soon for celebration, as there was still one person left to deal with. Having seen everything from the giant airship known as the Black Wing and witnessing his efforts coming to a naught like this, Naraku burned with intense rage. "How dare you...? How dare you... SEAL AWAY THE DIABLO DARKLING?!" said the demon in rage as he slowly built up his speaking volume.

Meanwhile, Mario was rushing towards the demon on a warp star, gripping the Fire Rod in his hand tightly. "NARAKU!" the plumber shouted loudly at him. "I WILL KNOCK-A YOU DOWN!"

Even though the potential global-scaled crisis was averted before it actually reached that level, the zombie idols were still at a loss of words to learn that something of this scale happened to the world. "Dang! I can't believe something like this happened after we all died!" said Saki in awe.

"What's a Darkling?" asked Junko.

Ai took a couple of seconds to look up that term and found the answer. "It says here that the Darkling are the physical embodiment of evil, having existed since the beginning of time when the first spark of life came into being. They currently exist in a separate dimension called the Forbidden Realm. Apparently, there are guard duties all over the world ensuring that the various entrances to the Forbidden Realm do not get breached so that the Darkling do not escape from there."

"Scary..." said Lily, looking nervous.

"Looks like there is a lot to this world we truly don't know about," commented Yuugiri with interest.

"Man! I love these Smashers already!" said Saki, sounding excited as she leaned towards the computer. "Anything else interesting on them?"

Ai searched again and found on a rather interesting one. "Smashers destroy Alias Lobby..."

ARMAGEDDON: THE CORRUPTION

After almost falling to their deaths from a bridge situated high above the sea and in between two towering mesas, Mario, Pikachu, an unconscious Yoshi, Marth, Wario, and Pit were rescued by Master Hand, who carried them to the top and set them onto solid ground, and they were reunited with Samus and Snake.

Learning that Captain Falcon was still fighting CP9 member Lucci, Wario suggested that they help the former, but Master Hand insisted otherwise. "No, it's too dangerous. Rob Lucci is the most powerful CP9 in history. It is said that when he was thirteen years old, he was sent to a country taken over by criminals, and he was to rescue the 500 hostages held there. However, because the captors threatened to kill the hostages if he did anything, Lucci killed all the hostages himself instead, thinking that it will ruin the the criminals' plans. That man is basically a bloodthirsty psycho who would not stop at anything to do what he deems justice!"

"Mamamia... That-a guy's crazy!" said Mario in shock.

"I'm afraid that we will only be a burden to Captain Falcon if we try to help him," said Master Hand. "All we can do now is to trust in his strength and hope that he will win this fight! I'm sure he would want to handle things himself as well!"

Up in the air, Captain Falcon and Lucci was engaged in a heated battle that had been going on for quite a while. Their battle took place atop one of the airships belonging to the Annihilation Call, a fleet of airships designed to destroy entire islands. Their intense battle caused great damage to said airship, and the soldiers on board were in great panic, fearing that they would be caught in the fight.

"Falcon Double Punch!" Captain Falcon shouted as he punched with both fists at once, both of them covered in falcon-shaped fire. The attack struck Lucci hard in the body, creating dual explosions that propelled him backwards.

"I'M NOT DONE YET!" yelled Lucci as he used Geppou, a technique involving kicking the air to perform air jumps, to propel himself back towards the F-Zero racer, and as he did so, he transformed into his complete leopard form. His speed caught Captain Falcon off guard and, pouncing onto his body, bit him hard in the left shoulder.

The momentum of Lucci flying into Captain Falcon caused the both of them to fly off the edge of the airship and plummet towards the helicopter pad below. Captain Falcon cried in pain as Lucci dug his fangs deep into his shoulder, but the former was eventually able to pry him off and smacked him across the face hard.

Captain Falcon then grabbed Lucci, and they both began spinning as they plummet towards the helicopter pad below. As they spun, they not only built up speed, but also began catching fire that spun around them, thus basically becoming a fire tornado.

The Smashers down below noticed them falling down, but they didn't realize what it was. "What is that?" asked Pichu.

"It must be a shooting star!" said Pit.

Thinking that Pit was right about this, Wario clasped his hands together while looking at the supposed star. "I'm making a wish! My wish is to be able to beat Mario in a fight for once!"

"Um... Isn't it odd to see a shooting star under bright sunlight...?" asked a skeptical Snake.

"That's not a shooting star! It's Captain Falcon!" pointed out Master Hand. "And he's falling towards the helicopter! Run!" Everyone did as he said.

CF and Lucci spun even faster than before as they dropped closer to the ground below. "What are you doing?!" cried Lucci.

"To end this once and for all!" replied Captain Falcon. "FALCON PILEDRIVER!"

He then forcefully slammed Lucci headfirst onto the top of the helicopter's propeller, sinking him into the body of the helicopter as a result and even going all the way through it and hitting the ground below. The impact was so strong that a huge crack was created, spreading across the entire area.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The other Smashers were in shock and awe at what they just witnessed. As they continued to stare at the fire left behind by the explosion, Captain Falcon suddenly jumped out of the fire and landed in front of them, charred and injured from head to toe. Landing in a typical superhero manner, if you know what I mean. He looked up at the surprised Smashers and said with a smirk, "Hope I wasn't late for anything!"

The Smashers were blamed for the destruction of Alias Lobby and the other casualties caused. As a result, the ones involved in this incident were branded criminals by the World Government, and bounties were placed on their heads.

"But they were simply trying to rescue a friend! It's not fair to call them criminals just because of that!" said Lily, not happy with what he read.

"Well, they did destroy an important government location... That's considered a crime, I'm sure..." said Sakura.

"Did it say why the government captured this Samus woman in the first place?" Saki asked Ai, but the latter shook her head.

"It didn't say anything other than that she was an convict who has been on the run ever since she was a child," replied the latter.

Junko was shocked to hear this. "A convict ever since she was a child...?! What did she do to warrant something like this?!"

"Somehow I have the feeling that this is something the public isn't allowed to know..." said Ai.

"If they became criminals, then how is it they are still traveling around so freely today and even not causing panic among the public with their presence?" asked Yuugiri.

"Let's see if I can find anything about this..." said Ai. While looking for whether or not the Smashers were pardoned for their crimes, she ended up stumbling upon a different article that grabbed her attention. "Smashers take down criminal organization, the Negativities..."

RISE OF THE NEGATIVITIES

Destruction was all over the place as the Smashers battled King N, otherwise known as Porky Minch, the mastermind of the Negativities. The hopelessly evil child piloting the Devil Transformer, a massive vaguely cone-shaped robot with spider legs and large arms, launched all sort of attacks at the Smashers, who dodged everything he tossed at them and fought back with great effort.

Mewtwo, Lucas, Samus, and Blasty, whom Red borrowed from Blue, used their ice-based attacks against the legs of the giant robot, freezing it in place. "You think a little ice can make me catch a cold? Stop dreaming!" said Porky angrily. He tried moving the legs, it was too buried in thick ice to move. "Argh! Move, would ya?!"

Next, Link, Young Link, and Pit fired from their arrows, the former two using their Holy Weapons, the Silver Arrow and the Light Arrow respectively, at the right shoulder of the Devil Transformer. The powerful explosions of light created by the arrows tore off the right arm from its socket completely, much to Porky's horror.

Enraged, Porky unleashed a pincer that came out from the lower front part of the Devil Transformer, and it picked up a random pole erected nearby and hurled it at some of the Smashers. Donkey Kong easily caught the pole and then flung it back at the robot, only for the pincer to break it in half.

A hatch underneath the pincer then opened up, and robotic Porky clones came pouring out, flailing their arms as they ran towards Donkey Kong, ready to self-destruct when they get close to him. However, Donkey Kong punched them back into the hatch, where they exploded and destroyed that area.

Despite the damages done to the Devil Transformer, Porky remained persistent in fighting the Smashers. The Smashers fought back with all they've got, dealing massive damage to the giant robot and slowly wearing it down. Eventually, both Master Hand and Crazy Hand performed a combo attack of punching the giant robot rapidly nonstop together. They then grabbed hold of each other and shot forward at a fast speed. "DRAGON PUNCH!"

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

Together, they punched the Devil Transformer with such force that its legs were torn off from the ice encasing them, and the entire thing fell backwards, crashing onto an amusement park haunted house and a roller coaster track. Porky and his secretary were both tossed around in the cockpit when the robot was constantly getting punched.

Dust filled the air as the giant robot made its powerful and violent landing. When it was clear, the Smashers got a good view of the Devil Transformer leaning on the wreckage of the roller coaster track and the haunted mansion, badly damaged and short-circuiting. Porky and his secretary were seen unconscious inside the cockpit.

"Phew… I'm hurting all over…" said Master Hand while shaking himself, "but at least it wasn't without worth!"

The Smashers continued to watch in silence at the fallen robot, but then Mario smiled and said out loud, "We did-a eet! We did-a eet! We won!"

The others followed suit and cheered equally loudly. "ALL RIGHT! WE DID IT! WE WON! WE DEFEATED PORKY! HOORAY! THE NEGATIVITIES HAS FALLEN!"

The Gamfax, which was still embedded onto the chest of the Devil Transformer, glowed brightly and looked around, and then it said, "We are disappointed. We are furious. We hate everything. We are Gamfax."

"After the death of his parents in an elevator accident, Porky inherited their properties and became the chairman of New Pork City," said Ai, reading about Porky's background. "However, it was discovered that he intentionally rigged the elevator to cause their demise. He killed his own parents...!"

Needless to say, such a horrifying act of killing one's own parents shocked the other idols to no end. "How... How could he?!" said Junko in disbelief as she covered her mouth with her hands.

"That monster! Even delinquents wouldn't do this sort of terrible thing!" said Saki, shaking her fist angrily.

"At least he got what he deserved in the end," said Yuugiri, also not liking what she heard.

"So... did the Smashers become heroes again after this?" Lily asked Ai.

Ai looked through the article but didn't see anything on the Smashers being pardoned for their crimes against Alias Lobby after taking down the Negativities. However, after a bit more searching, she eventually found what she was looking for. "Smashers crime pardoned after taking down Rebel Army..."

GAMFAX II: SOLID SNAKE

Forming a ball of fire in between his hands, Mario shouted at Wario, "Wario! Use your gas!"

"That's a first coming from you!" Wario said in surprise.

"Aim it at da fireball!" Mario told him. "Here I go!" Pointing forth both his hands, he unleashed a relatively large fireball into the air.

"Ha! Fire and fart! What a great mixture!" Wario ran towards the fireball a bit before turning around and aiming his derriere at it, and then he cut the cheese loudly.

A large amount of brown gas shot out from his rear end and into the the fireball. This caused the fireball to be pushed towards the partially frozen Metal Gear D, not to mention receiving an increase in size and speed. The large fireball collided with the Metal Gear and resulted in a fiery explosion, but the bipedal machine was seen still standing in one piece after the explosion cleared away.

The ice it was partially frozen in had melted, obviously, and there was now water visible on its surface. Pikachu and Pichu saw that it was their turn to attack, so together, they used Zap Cannon, a move in which they fired large electric balls. The projectiles struck D and electrocuted it badly both from the outside and the inside. General Morden, leader of the Rebel Army, screamed in pain from the electrocution, as he was piloting the mech from the inside.

The Smashers continued to assault Metal Gear D, and eventually, Captain Falcon ended the fight by attacking with Falcon Double Punch. His dual fiery fists came in contact with the large machine hard, sending it flying across the room and hitting a wall hard.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

Metal Gear D collapsed onto the floor with its front part more or less completely destroyed, thus revealing its interior. The cockpit was destroyed as well, so Morden was seen reclining unconsciously on his seat.

While the Smashers battled General Morden, Snake was having his own battle against Big Boss, a famous soldier who defected to the Rebel Army's side in order to overthrow the World Government. Snake had also learned that he was in fact a clone created from Big Boss's DNA. Despite Snake basically being his son, Big Boss had no feelings for him and was currently trying to kill him.

Overpowered by Big Boss, Snake ran into a room and hid behind some crates. He also had no weapons with him, with made the situation even worse. "Perhaps I can find myself a weapon here?" he thought, and he began searching through some of the crates. In the end, all he found was a spray can. "What can I do with this…?" Then he saw the lighter he had with him, and something came to his mind.

Outside, Big Boss was in front of the door and slowly approaching it. "Come out of there, Snake! Showtime is over for you!"

Suddenly, the door swung opened, and Snake came out and held up both the lighter and the spray can. After lighting the lighter, he pressed the spray can to shoot out some sort of gas that touched the fire from behind. This combination resulted in a makeshift flamethrower.

Big Boss was taken by surprise and had no time to dodge it. The fire first reached his face and soon burned him all over the body. Big Boss screamed in agony and thrashed around as the fire burned up his skin. "GAAAAAAAAAH! SNAKE! YAAAAAAAAA!"

Snake continued watching the "dancing flame" as it moved backwards and towards some oil drums.

"SNAKE! IT'S NOT OVER YET! NOT OVER YET!" Big Boss screamed. "GAAAAAAA!"

When he got near the oil drums, the heat and ember released from the fire touched them and resulted in an explosion.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Snake hid back into the room to shield himself from the explosion, which set off the fire alarm, so the ceiling's sprinkler activated and slowly put out the fire before it spread out too much.

Snake could see a burned mass at where the oil drums originally were, but he didn't bother to go over to check to see if Big Boss was still alive. After all, who can survive an accident like that? Snake thought to himself silently in his head about all that happened. He killed his own father…

"After taking down the Rebel Army and exposing the super soldier Big Boss as a traitor, the Smashers are deemed worthy of having their bounties removed from them," said Ai, reading from the news article she found. "And so, they were pardoned for their crimes and are once again free people, no longer having to live in fear of persecution."

"Wow! That's great for them!" said Sakura, feeling glad for the Smashers.

"Woohoo! Great job for them! I really like these guys now!" said Saki, looking excited. "Got anymore awesome stuff about them? I really want to see more!"

"Shouldn't this be enough? We already have a clear view on them already!" Ai told her, looking a bit frustrated. However, when she saw that Saki was looking at her with sparkling eyes and a large smile that made her look adorable, the former felt like she couldn't turn her down. "Fine... I'll see if there's anything else interesting..."

She eventually found one, and it was considered rather recent. "Smashers put a stop to True Fans..."

TRUE FANS

After entering the plane, Fox, Falco, and Snake engaged the three corrupted soldiers in there, and because the latter had military training, they managed to put up a bit of a fight against the Smashers. However, the Smashers eventually overcame their foes and knocked them out, and then Falco ran towards the cockpit to gain control of the plane.

The Green King took out a gun to shoot Falco, but the latter pushed him out of the way before he had the chance to fire and then went for the pilot. Snake grabbed the Green King by the collar and angrily said to him, "Stop this madness at once! What you're planning to do is nothing short of mass genocide! You're going to end up killing more than just the person you're after!"

"Seriously? All this over a video game?" Fox asked in disbelief. "Are you seriously going to lay waste to an entire city and kill millions of people just because someone didn't make video games the way you like?!"

"I will tell the citizens to flee the city first, or else I will kill them all, because by not agreeing with what I said about what the creator did, they are all evil and thus deserve to die!" replied the Green King.

"You're out of your mind! What has gotten into you?! I can understand why you want to kill someone if he did things like killing your loved ones! All he did was make games that don't suit your taste, and you're killing him with a nuke for this?!" Snake said to him angrily.

"People like you will never understand! You will never understand the pain of not getting characters we want playable, characters we love getting cut in new installments, adding characters nobody asked for, certain series not getting enough representation, and addition of contents from games we despise!" the Green King angrily shouted at him. "THAT MAN DARE DO ALL THOSE THINGS! HE IS THE DEVIL! ANYONE WITH THE RIGHT MIND WOULD NEVER MAKE THOSE ABOMINABLE DECISIONS AND INSTEAD GIVE HIS CUSTOMERS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING THEY WANT! SOMEONE LIKE HIM IS NOT FIT TO LIVE! WITH HIS DEATH, THE SMASH BROTHERS SERIES WILL THEN BE MADE BY SOMEONE ELSE, SOMEONE WHO WILL GIVE FANS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT!"

Snake had heard enough. This was absolutely everything he had to hear to prove that the Green King was a hopeless case of a spoiled child who throws tantrums over everything not going his way. In rage, he flung the Green King into the air in the direction of the missile, and he landed on top of it.

At the same time, Falco was struggling with the pilot. The former slammed the latter's head against a certain button on the control panel with enough force to knock him out. When the button was pressed by his head, the floor underneath the nuclear bomb opened, dropping it off the plane along with the Green King, a sight that shocked Fox and Snake.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed the Green King as he fell along with the bomb while reaching out his hand in vain towards the plane.

The nuclear bomb fell onto a barren islet made entirely out of rock and exploded, completely annihilating it. The resulting explosion, needless to say, incinerated the Green King to nothingness in a matter of seconds.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

At the while, the remaining Smashers were battling the other members of True Fans back on shore, in front of a department store. Mario, Sonic, Pac-Man, and Mega Man were teaming up against Pompus Rath, also known as the Fiery Hate, who was fighting them while wearing a robotic suit that left his head exposed.

After receiving several blows from the good guys, the Fiery Hate's suit was damaged badly and short-circuiting. He looked up and angrily glared at his attackers, and Mario said, "Give up! The explosion just-a now implies that da nuclear bomb did not go off in da right-a place, so your plan haz failed! Surrenda at-a once!"

"The world will never become a better place if heroes like us surrender! What makes you think you can make us give up so easily?!" the Fiery Hate angrily asked him.

"For starters, what you're doing is not heroism!" Sonic told him.

"You people are doing all this out of childish selfishness!" added Mega Man.

"And you get innocent people involved in your so-called acts of heroism!" said Pac-Man.

"You do not-a have what-a eet takes to be a real hero!" Mario said to him. "Like what-a we said-a before: a real hero…"

"SILENCE!" interrupted the Fiery Hate at the top of his voice. "YOU ARE ALL SPAWNS OF EVIL WHO ARE DEFENDING EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE WORLD AND MAKING SURE THAT ALL THOSE SUFFERING OUT THERE WILL NEVER RECEIVE JUSTICE AND HAPPINESS! YOU TEAM UP WITH EVIL CORPORATIONS TO STEP ALL OVER PEOPLE AND STEAL OUR MONEY! YOU SEE TO IT THAT WE ARE LEECHED OF ALL OUR HARD-EARNED MONEY AND RECEIVE USELESS AND TERRIBLE PRODUCTS IN RETURN! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU IS THE DEVIL!"

He then fired energy blasts at them, but they all avoided it by running aside, except for Mega Man, who slid underneath the projectiles and towards him. When the robot got in front of him, he quickly got back up and delivered an uppercut to his abdomen.

"You may not be able to get everything you want in the world," said the Pac-Man as he jumped at the Fiery Hate to kick him in the side of the head.

Sonic curled up into a ball and hit him in the back while continuing what the round being said. "But that doesn't give you the right to use violence to resolve things!"

Mario then jumped at him with his fist on fire. "Sometimes you just have to accept-a reality! Not-a everything will go exactly the way you want-a!"

After the Fiery Hate was knocked back some steps by the plumber, Mario, Sonic, Mega Man, and Pac-Man stood on four sides of him and then ran and jumped together towards him with their fists pulled up.

"SO YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT!" they shouted out loud simultaneously right before punching him in the head from all four sides.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

With a badly swollen face, a broken nose, and lots of broken teeth, the Fiery Hate finally fell back and passed out, while the suit continued to short-circuit. At the same time, the rest of the Smashers came out of the department store and saw the Fiery Hate lying on the ground, and they were glad to see that things appeared to have been settled.

Mario, Sonic, Mega Man, and Pac-Man then gave each other a high five while saying, "We did it!"

"No, seriously... Committing crime over something as mundane as video games..." said Lily, looking unimpressed. "What is this I don't..."

"The world has never been the same since then," said Ai, reading an article about the aftermath of the True Fans incident. "Pompus Rath has since then been hailed as the man who made consumers see the light and fight for their right to obtain what they want. Crime rate has increased ever since, most of them being committed by so-called disciples of Pompus Rath and the Green King in an act that they claim are carrying out those two's wills and saving their world from corporal corruption. To them, true happiness and justice is to be able to do whatever you want and makes you happy..."

Curious about this, Ai looked up more news articles about this sort of crime. What she and the other idols saw disturbed them greatly. There were several news articles talking about crimes in the form of office buildings, stores, and various other kinds of service buildings being torn down, not to mention business owners being killed. All these were committed by people who claimed those people and locations deserve it for not satisfying customers properly.

As for Pompus Rath, the idols learned that he escaped prison with the help of an anthropomorphic warthog named Nerdo, who also agrees with his beliefs. However, Nerdro ended up killing Pompus Rath, thus making himself look like a hero in the process, all this as a part of his plan to gain fame and political power so that he can change the world to his liking.

In the end, however, the Smashers exposed Nerdro as a fraud, and the latter was supposedly killed by one of his enemies, according to the Smashers.

AGE OF MONSTERS

All of Star Wolf lunged at Nerdro and started beating him up mercilessly, despite some of the Smashers telling them to stop. Nerdro tried to fight back, but he was too tired and injured from the fight with the Smashers that he wasn't able to do so properly. He found himself being thrashed around by Star Wolf, who all had sadistic looks on their faces.

He was eventually knocked onto the floor, and then Wolf got onto his body and pointed his blaster at his face. Smiling evilly, the wolf asked him, "Any last words?"

Instead of showing a look of fear on his face, Nerdro smiled and said, "Go ahead. Do what you want. It makes you feel good, doesn't it? It feels good to be a monster, right? If my death will satisfy you, then so be it. Be my guest! After all, customers are always right!"

"With pleasure!" Wolf happily replied.

"Wolf! Don't!" Captain Falcon cried out to him while reaching out his hand, but he was too late to do anything, as Wolf had pulled the trigger.

BANG!

After reading all these, the zombie idols took several seconds to absorb everything they've read. They couldn't believe how so many things had happened ever since their deaths. It also scared them to see that the world was now considered more dangerous as before, as people who follow the beliefs of the True Fans continued to exist throughout the world, committing crimes and insisting that their actions are justice.

"Lily doesn't know about you all, but Lily feel as if Lily would be fine if Lily was still dead in the grave, knowing how the state of things are out there currently..." said Lily.

"I... I had no idea how much the world has changed since my time...!" said Junko in disbelief. "What if... What if a True Fan comes to our concert and cause a ruckus because he doesn't like it...?"

"Then I'll just beat him up!" said Saki with confident while clenching her fist. "Anyone who has an issue with us and express it in a rude way won't be getting away with this!"

As they were saying this, Samus entered the room and floated a few inches above the floor over to an unoccupied computer directly behind the one the idols were using. The idols noticed her, so they decided to talk a bit more quietly in fear of her finding out something about them. All the while, Pit was still watching videos on his computer with a large smile on his face, seemingly oblivious to everything happening around him. He didn't hear anything the idols were talking about earlier either.

Sakura could see that her fellow idols were in a somewhat depressed mood from what they've read earlier, except for Tae, who was still on the couch, though this time, she was lying on it horizontally, stretched out across the seat and the arms and looking at the ceiling with a blank stare. Wanting to lighten up the atmosphere, Sakura said, "How about we look up something else? Like... TV shows, movies, brand names, or famous people that we followed before and see what's been changed since?"

"Great idea!" said Lily, sounding excited all of a sudden. "Lily wants to know about Barney the Dinosaur!"

Ai stared at him and said, "You mean that purple dinosaur who hosts a children's TV show...?" Lily nodded in response. "That guy creeps me out."

"Hey! Don't say bad things about Barney! He's a great and loving guy!" Lily said to her, looking a bit mad.

"Everyone has his or her preferences, you know, Ai..." Sakura said to the black-haired girl. Ai grumbled a bit before looking up Barney the Dinosaur.

Oh egads, my roast is ruined! But what if... I were to purchase fast food and disguise it as my own cooking? Oh ho ho ho ho... delightfully devilish, Seymour!

The zombie idols looked up with curiosity upon hearing that rather peculiar phrase. They then realized that it was coming from Samus's computer. Whatever that black, armored person who they find somewhat creepy was looking at had her computer's speaker turned on a bit loud, though the idols decided to shrug it off.

"Okay, here's Barney's Wikipedia page," said Ai, and Lily leaned over to get a better look. "Looks like..."

Skinner with his crazy explanations,
The superintendent's gonna need his medication,
When he hears Skinner's lame exaggerations,
There'll be trouble in town tonight!

The song that played just now made the idols look up again. "What's that person watching...?" Junko wondered while looking at Samus, whose visor was glued to the monitor.

Ignoring what they just heard, the idols continued to look up Barney's Wikipedia page. Lily looked through the article and made a shocking discovery. "His show got cancelled a year after my death?!"

"Allegedly due to accusations of child molestation...?" said Ai with a "what the" face.

"Whoa man... That's serious business..." commented Saki.

Lily kept on reading the page. "Currently lives in Onett, Eagleland, where he is considered by its locales to be a nuisance due to his loud singing and the tendency to hug people without permission..." By the time he was done, he almost felt like crying, "How... How did one of my favorite TV show hosts turned out like this...?" Seeing him on the verge of tears, Yuugiri placed her hand on his shoulder to comfort him.

There was a also a particular photo of Barney on that Wikipedia page, showing him posing for the camera, and in the background, one could see a purple Cadillac Eldorado driven by Wario, heading towards him. The caption underneath the picture said Barney was posing for a photo moments before disaster struck, but it also mentioned that he was fine afterwards.

"Somehow, I'm not too surprised this happened..." said Ai under her breath. She then remembered something. "Oh yeah! I wonder if Sanrio has created..."

Good Lord, what is happening in there!?

Aurora borealis?

Uh- aurora borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?

Yes!

Hearing this, Yuugiri asked, "What's aurora borealis?"

"It's a special kind of rainbow found in northern parts of the world," Sakura told her.

Junko looked at Samus again and wondered, "Really... What is he watching?" She thought of walking around to that computer to see things for herself, but for some reason feels embarrassed to do so.

Seymour, the house is on fire!

No, mother—it's just the northern lights!

Well, Seymour, you are an odd fellow, but I must say... you steam a good ham.

Help! Help!

"Whoever that person is, has he no concern for his own mother?" said Yuugiri with a look of disapproval on her face after hearing all those.

"Yuugiri, that's just a movie or something... No need to be so serious..." Sakura told her, trying to calm her down.

F*** you, Baltimore!

Hearing a profanity so suddenly caused all the idols, especially Saki to look up in surprise.

If you're dumb enough to buy a car this weekend, you're a big enough schmut to come to Big Bill Hell's Cars!

Bad deals! Cars that break down! Thieves!

If you think you're gonna find a bargain at Big Bill's, you can kiss my a**!

"What in the world...?!" said Ai with a disturbed face as she looked at Samus from her computer.

It's our belief that you're such a stupid motherf***er, you'll fall for this bullshit! Guaranteed!

If you find a better deal, shove it up your ugly a**! You heard us right, shove it up your ugly a**!

Hearing all those made Saki began to chuckle. "I don't know about you guys, but I find this hilarious!"

Bring your trade! Bring your title! Bring your wife! We'll f*** her! That's right, we'll f*** your wife!

Upon hearing this, Junko's face turned red as she placed her hands on her face. "Who would say and even do such a disgraceful thing?!" she said in shock.

Because at Big Bill Hell's, you're f***ed 6 ways from Sunday!

Seriously wanting to know what on earth Samus was watching, Saki walked over to her computer, and Lily followed her.

Take a hike, to Big Bill Hell's!

Home of Challenge Pissing! That's right, Challenge Pissing!

How does it work? If you can piss 6 feet in the air straight up, and not get wet, you get no down payment!

"Is this something people nowadays actually do?" Yuugiri asked Sakura, who had a freaked out expression as she shook her head in response.

Don't wait! Don't delay! Don't f*** with us! Or we'll rip your nuts off!

Only at Big Bill Hell's, the only dealer that tells you to f*** off!

Hurry up, a**hole! This event ends the minute after you write us a check, and it better not bounce or you're a dead motherf***er!

Big Bill Hell's Cars, Baltimore's filthiest, and exclusive home of the meanest sons-of-b****es in the state of Maryland!

Guaranteed!

With that, it was over, and Saki and Lily returned to the others, the former still trying laughing loudly but the latter having an unimpressed look on his face. "What... What were you watching just now...?" Sakura asked them.

"Just a normal-looking car commercial with a crazy narrator..." replied Lily

"Oh boy! That was hilarious! That's the funniest thing I've heard all day!" said Saki, still laughing loudly but also trying to stop. In fact, she was laughing so much she had a hard time standing upright. "Oh man! People nowadays sure can come up with hilarious stuff!"

The idols continued to look up what they want on the internet. "This Gudetama is so cute!" commented Sakura as she watched Ai scroll through a website showcasing merchandises based on one of Sanrio's more recent toy mascots, a sentient egg yolk named Gudetama.

"Yeah, I think it suits you perfectly, considering your egg-shaped head!" joked Saki. Sakura gave her an unimpressed look in response.

Meanwhile, Tae was once again in a different position the couch. Her body was on the floor with both arms sprawled out sideways, facing upwards, while her legs were on the seat.

Don't worry, Zelda. The Triforce of Wisdom promises that the king will safe...

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Hurt me, please!

Oh my!

Ho ho ho!

Father!

Whoa! That's not me!

Yes, I'm the King of Hyrule! I'm having gay sex with Duke Onkled!

Your dong hurts my a**!

Hearing the aforementioned obscene dialogue, the idols' faces shot up in surprise, and Junko's face turned bright red when she heard the part about having gay sex with someone named Duke Onkled. Looking at Samus, she asked, "What... What is he watching?!" Samus could be seen laughing, and her voice was creepy and even monstrous-sounding. One could say it didn't sound like anything that lives on Tooneria at all.

"You're not allowed to watch porn using public computers, right?!" said Ai, whose face was also deep red from what she heard just now.

Your father is a terrible butt f*****!

Yeah, that old the king is gay lord!

"Um... What's butt f*****?" asked Yuugiri.

"It can't be anything good, so you're better off not knowing..." Lily told her.

"All right! Just what are you watching?!" said Saki as she returned to Samus's computer. Yuugiri was curious as well, so she joined her.

"Saki! Yuugiri! You shouldn't be watching that kind of thing!" Junko cried out to them in embarrassment.

Those two zombies, after heading over to Samus's computer, leaned their head close to see what the black armored being was watching, and the latter didn't seem to mind this.

The king's gay!

F*** you! I'm not gay. I just like gay sex!

You're a traitor, your majesty!

The other zombies remained in the same spot, their faces burning brightly red as did nothing but listen to the entirety of the video. After it was finished, Saki and Yuugiri returned to them, and Ai asked, "What... were you watching...?"

"Nah, just some sort of badly drawn cartoon," replied Saki. "And those sex scenes are censored so that we couoldn't see anything."

"I'm surprised they would make things like these nowadays!" said Yuugiri.

ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE! ZOMBIE!

Hearing someone yelling zombie over and over made all the idols jump in shock. In fact, Tae even got up from her couch, looking around in shock. Lily was so shocked that his heart came bursting out of his chest, constantly beating nonstop. Pit then looked up from his computer and said to them, "Sorry for the shock! My headphone came off! The connection isn't too good... Sorry!" He then plugged the headphone back on properly.

The angel was watching the TV show Legends of the Day After Today, a show about a group of time travelers traveling through time to prevent villains from making changes to history. The particular episode he was watching involved the time travelers going back to the American Civil War to stop a zombie infestation, and the scene earlier was one where one of the protagonists got transformed into a zombie, so another protagonist screamed out loud that word over and over when he saw this.

The idols were still trying to recover from their shock. They thought for a second that someone somehow found out their true identities, which they were trying so hard to keep a secret from the public. Lily hurriedly squeezed his heart back inside his body before anyone else saw it, and he was successful in doing so.

"That... That was close... I thought someone found out about us..." said Sakura.

"You know what? I think I have enough usage of computer for now... I'm calling it a day..." said Ai, looking frustrated. The others agreed to call it a day for now.

SnooPING AS usual, I see?

Again, that came from Samus's computer.

TO BE CONTINUED

Man! This ended up being the longest chapter in the story so far! I actually had to shorten it quite a bit, because I was going to have the idols look up more Smasher-related articles, but because it's too much work recreating scenes from previous stories, I've decided to cut things short.

So anyway, I think I delivered when I said this chapter will be a nostalgic trip down the memory lane. In order to recreate the scenes from the older stories, I copy and pasted those lines from said stories into this one and then gave them an overhaul. The Day Smash Mansion Exploded underwent the biggest overhaul due to that story being made in script format. It amazes me to see how much my writing style has changed over the years...

The True Fans and Age of Monsters parts are the only one that didn't receive too much overhaul, as those stories already have grammars and writing styles on par with my recent stories.

In case you must know, the old story recreations aren't the actual articles the zombie idols were reading nor are they videos attached to the websites they found. I simply included them for you readers to read and enjoy, whereas what the idols were actually seeing are simply news articles told from the point-of-view of the people who reported this.

I originally wanted to recreate scenes from Magister Saga, Tournament of Wonderful and Great Inventions, and Nostalgia Goggles as well, but in the end, I felt like it was too much work and would drag this chapter for way too long. I still hope you enjoyed the ones you read and had a great time reminiscing some of the great scenes from my past stories!

I also had a lot of fun typing the part after Dark Samus showed up! Some of you might be able to tell that she was watching the infamous Simpsons meme, Steamed Hams, at first. The car commercial filled with profanity is from the video Big Bill Hell's Cars. It's actually a fake commercial made for a fake ad contest back in the early 90's. Lastly, the third video is from the YouTube Poop The King's Secret. It's one of the funniest YTPs I've ever seen! No, there are no explicit imageries there, so you don't have to worry about seeing what you don't wish to see.

The TV show Pit was watching is a parody of Legends of Tomorrow, a TV show about DC superheroes traveling through time to make sure villains do not mess with history. The particular episode he is watching is the second season's fourth episode. Since I've been giving all DC-related media in this series names that are parodic in nature, like Batman being Fatman and Justice League being Sense of Right Alliance, I've decided to do the same with Legends of Tomorrow as well.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this lengthy chapter and had a good laugh at the latter parts!