SBS Time!
Kerokuu Kazami: Did you hear about the new character revealed in the trial?
Game2002:
What do you think?


Sonicblue92: Will Lucas and Roy appear in the future?
Game2002:
Unsure.


A short scene involving Frogadier has been added to chapter 8.

Chapter 9
Secret Hideout


By data mining the CPU of one of the fallen Overlord armors, R.O.B. was able to find out where these drones originally came from using Shulk's computer located in the latter's lab.

"According to the data in its CPU, these drones came from this uncharted island," said R.O.B., pointing to a small island on the map.

"It's quite close to Wuhu Island," pointed out Samus.

"Makes sense for Manith to be making his base of operations on an uncharted island," said Snake. "It's probably even hidden underground so nobody would notice anything if they go anywhere near there."

"You are correct in saying that," R.O.B told him. "The data shows that it came from a secret location hidden underneath the island."

"Not so secret anymore, it seems," said Captain Falcon. "Now that we know where they come from, let's go and stop Manith at once!"

"I'm going as well!" said Shulk. The others turned to him and saw him picking up a red sword from a table. "He laid waste to my city and kidnapped someone from here, so I'm going to make sure that he learns his lesson!"

"We won't stop you, but are you sure you can handle things?" Marth asked him.

"Trust me; you'll appreciate having my help!" Shulk told them. "With the Monado, I'll be able to warn you of incoming danger!"

"Can your sword really let you see the future?" asked a skeptical Snake.

"I've used it several times before to confirm that it indeed can and is perfectly accurate with it," Shulk told him. "It is said to be created by the god of the Bionis, Zanza, which is why it's capable of doing something like this!"

"If that's the case, then you are more than welcome to join us!" Captain Falcon told him.


Manith was called over to the security room of his hideout when he was told that something appeared to be heading towards the island he was currently on. "It's a military helicopter, sir," his henchman told him.

"Are you sure it's really headed towards this place?" Manith asked him.

"While it is heading in this direction, we cannot be sure if it really is going to land here," the latter told him. "I suggest that we still be careful."

"Indeed, extra precaution should be taken," said Manith. "Get the guards ready in case they really arrive on this island, though let's hope they don't suspect anything when they come here."


What Manith feared came true when the military helicopter landed on the shore of the island, and out came Chrom, Lucina, some soldiers, Shulk, and the Smashers. The Smashers who arrived were Captain Falcon, Snake, Samus, Link, Ganondorf, R.O.B., Mewtwo, and Dark Pit.

"So this is the place?" asked Captain Falcon.

"We followed the map your robotic buddy showed us," Chrom told him.

"If Manith went through the trouble of building a hideout here and put it underground, I think we won't be finding it so easily," said Snake.

"You do not have to worry, for I have the map stored in my CPU, so I am able to pinpoint the entrance," R.O.B. told him.

"That's a good thing about being a robot, eh?" asked Shulk.

Everyone followed R.O.B.'s lead, and unknown to them, they were being spied on by security cameras disguised as trees and rocks.

"I believe they really are looking for our hideout!" the henchman from before told Manith. "What do we do, sir?"

"If what I read and heard about the Smashers are true, then they are not people to be trifled with," said Manith. "While we have a large army of Overlords to deal with them, it is still a risk to let all one-hundred of them face off against them. Perhaps I should carry things out earlier than intended?"


"What sort of power is making things lag...?" Alina asked Smellee.

"The Overlord armors made by us have the ability to release a special kind of EMP that will cause anything that runs on electricity or have computers in them to lag when exposed to it," Smellee explained to her. "Don't you find lags very annoying whenever you're using the computer or going online? I hate it so much that I thought it would be fun to use it to screw over other people, so I had my dad install the armors with this kind of ability! When I went after Rosalina in the hospital, I made the switch to the lights in her room lag so that they won't come on immediately when you turn on the switch! That way, I was able to escape during the extended darkness!"

"I still think it's a ridiculous ability..." said Alina with an unimpressed look.

Just then, Manith came over to them and said, "We have a problem." Then he explained to them the situation and what he plans to do.


"You'd think they come up with a better way of hiding the entrance than putting it behind a waterfall?" asked Snake when they all went through one and were soaking wet. "This kind of hidden entrance is rather cliched..."

"People nowadays lack creativity," said Dark Pit. "Just look at some of the stories on Fanfiction Net!"

"Isn't it troublesome that you get wet every time you go in and out of the hideout?" asked Lucina while drying her cape. "Who thought this was a good idea?"

"We are close," said R.O.B. while looking at the passage up ahead, and then he led the way until they came to a metal door.

"How are we going to get inside?" asked Link.

"We can bust through it with force," suggested Ganondorf.

"A non-violent method is preferable at first," said R.O.B. as he went over to a number pad at the right side of the door. He scanned the number pad and was able to find out what the password was a few seconds later. "Fingers" came out from the front end of his hand so that he could input the four-digit password and then press the "Enter" button. Despite a sound that implied the correct password being heard, the door did not open.

Everyone stared at the door for a few seconds, and then Samus asked the robot, "Are you sure..." Before she could finish asking him if he really got the password right, the door suddely slid open upwards.

"That took a few seconds..." commented Chrom.

When the door was open, they were greeted by the sight of several armed guards and Overlords. The Overlord in front of them all said, "You have come at last, Smashers! We knew you were coming, so I made the door lag for a few seconds just to mess with you folks! Hope you enjoyed the few seconds wait! Hyuck hyuck hyuck!"

"Look who's back..." said Ganondorf with an unimpressed look.

The good guys stepped into the base, and Captain Falcon loudly asked the bad guys, "Where is Rosalina? We are here for her!"

"My dad is going to siphon her cosmic power from her, so you better not interfere!" the Overlord, who was obviously Smellee, told him. "Once we have taken her powers for ourselves, we will become unstoppable! In the meantime, we're going to make sure that you don't ruin the fun! Get ready to receive the worst beating of..." Before he could finish speaking, Captain Falcon ran up to him at a fast speed and sent him flying backwards with a fiery punch.

"Then we're going to force our way through, not to mention beating the living daylights out of all of you!" said the racer.

Seeing that Captain Falcon had taken action first, the others charged forward to fight Manith's men and the Overlord armors. The battle was an easy one for the good guys, because they were simply too powerful for the villains. The Overlord armors had better A.I. this time, but that wasn't saying much.

Smellee got back up from getting punched away by Captain Falcon and saw the chaos going on. Growling in anger, he got back up to rejoin the fight. He noticed R.O.B. amidst the chaos, firing laser beams from his eyes at the Overlord armors, and then an idea came to him. He threw a punch against the air in his direction and caused a blast of EMP that was invisible to the naked eye, and all of a sudden, R.O.B. stopped moving completely.

Smellee used this opportunity to use his armor's wrist guns to shoot him, but Lucina, seeing what was happening, quickly threw herself at R.O.B. and pushed him out of harm's way. She ended up getting shot in both her feet as a result.

R.O.B. was able to move again right after that, and he was confused about why he was lying on the floor when he was standing upright just now. "Watch out!" Lucina shouted at the robot.

R.O.B. turned to Smellee and saw him firing from his wrist guns at him, so he quickly released a blast of fire from underneath his base to propel himself out of the bullets' way before getting back up and firing a pair of eye beams at him to knock him back.

Lucina, despite having injured feet, was able to get back up and run towards Smellee, slashing him in the chest multiple times, though none of the hits really did anything, as the exterior of the suit was tough.

She moved out of the way when Smellee tried to punch her and then struck his arm with a force strong enough to make him bend over a bit, and then she slashed him in the back to push him forward a few steps. When Smellee turned around to her, she swung her sword against him multiple times, each hit making him take steps back.

"Argh! You're annoying! Take this!" Smellee angrily said before opening the shoulders of his armor to reveal missile launchers. When missiles were fired at Lucina, she dashed forward fearlessly and stepped to the side when they were close to hitting her, all the while still approaching him. She dashed past him while slashing him in the waist with a force strong enough to leave behind a gash on the exterior.

Smellee was shocked at what happened, and when he turned around to face Lucina, she slashed him in the chest multiple times very hard, leaving behind various gashes as she did so. Lucina then kicked him in the chest to knock him over on his back. Because of the slashes causing the armor to malfunction, he was unable to get back up.

Lucina fell on one knee while panting heavily afterwards, and her feet were bleeding profusely due to the bullet wounds. R.O.B. went up to her and told her, "I recommend that you do not do anything reckless, as you are losing too many blood."

"This is nothing," she said, trying to shrug off the pain. "A soldier won't let injuries drag him down in the heat of battle!"

By this point, the good guys had more or less won the battle. When Dark Pit smashed the head of the last Overlord from above with his Electroshock Arm, it was really over. "That was easy and boring…" he commented as his mechanical arm disappeared into thin air.

Ganondorf went up to Smellee, lifted up his face armor, and said, "Well, look who is underneath this suit! It's that rude guy from the hotel!"

"All the more reason to beat him up now," said Dark Pit as he came over.

"Where is Rosalina? Tell us what exactly Manith is up to while you're at it!" Ganondorf asked Smellee.

"Screw you, big nose!" Smellee said to him, which resulted in a punch to his own nose from the Gerudo. "OW!"

"Say that again and I'll make you wish you'd rather have a big nose!" Ganondorf angrily said to him.

"Don't bother trying to force the answer out of him," Mewtwo told the Gerudo. "I can get the answer from him myself."

"Things can sometimes be boring when you interfere, you know…" grumbled Ganondorf as Mewtwo read Smellee's mind.

When the Pokemon was done, he said, "Manith and Rosalina are no longer here…"

"Where did they go?" asked Link as he came over.

"Manith has taken a large amount of these exosuits to Wuhu Island," replied Mewtwo.

They suddenly hear Chrom crying out Lucina's name, so they turned to see the former running over to the latter, who appeared to be on the verge of passing out. "Lucina! You're bleeding badly! We need to get you patched up at once!" he told her.

Looking at the amount of blood on her feet, Captain Falcon said, "She looks like she lost a large amount of blood! Is a blood transfusion necessary?"

Ganondorf turned to Smellee and asked him, "Do you have any blood transfusion equipment here?"

"They have it in the sick room," said Mewtwo.

"You read his mind again, didn't you?" Ganondorf asked the Pokemon while glaring at him in frustration.

"Her blood type is O negative," said Chrom.

"That would mean she can only receive type O blood…" said Captain Falcon. "Anyone here got the exact same blood type as her?"

"Me," said Marth, raising his arm slightly.

"Perfect! Please help her!" Chrom told Marth. In his head, he was saying, "Of course you would have the same blood type as her! It's a good thing you're here!"


A dog and a duck were chasing a Frisbee thrown in the direction of the sea. The latter was able to fly past the Frisbee and catch it with his webbed feet, and the dog looked at him while panting happily. Suddenly, the dog noticed something happening out at sea.

Something was coming out from the water, thus resulting in a large "bulge" that grabbed the attention of everyone at the shore. The thing that emerged was a large submarine, and people were amazed at the sight of it, as they were definitely not expecting something like this to show up at this place.

Shortly after the submarine appeared, a second one showed up next to it, amazing everyone again.

The hatches of both submarines opened outwards at around the same time, and inside them were Overlord armors arranged in an orderly fashion and facing outwards.

Everyone was amazed and also curious as to what was happening, and those who remembered the presentation Atrocitin showed the previous day pointed out that they were Super Exos.

Inside the first submarine that surfaced, Alina, sitting in front of a computer, pressed a certain key on the keyboard. This caused the eyes of the armors to glow.


TO BE CONTINUED

Trivia:
1. The Overlord's ability to make things lag is inspired by my frustration over lags when using my computer.


GAME2002 EXTRA SHOW

Have you ever wondered how strong you really are?

How good of a fighter you are?

You may be strong in where you live, but what about when compared to those who live somewhere else?

Do you think you have what it takes to face opponents you have never met or heard of before?

Opponents you cannot even begin to imagine would exist?

What if said opponents... are not friendly and serious about putting you down?

Do you think you can fight to preserve your life?

BGM: Final Destination Ver. 2 (Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Wii U)

Aya was flying straight ahead at a fast speed when all of a sudden, a blue blur went past her really fast. The blue blue, Sonic, came to a stop and turned to face her before jumping into the air, curling into a ball, and then launching himself at her, but she dodged it by moving back. She swung her fan at him after that and fired a wind blade that he easily dodged by ducking, and then he charged into her with a blue aura around himself, ramming into her and knocking her back, but she came to a skidding stop on both feet.

Sonic then ran in circles around her, but she countered whatever trick he was going to pull by forming a tornado around herself that caught and carried him into the air. When the tornado disappeared, Aya flew towards him at a fast speed, and Sonic quickly countered her by curling into a ball and dropping straight down onto her.

They both fell back onto the ground and then got back up to continue fighting, and as hey were doing so, Kirby was seen performing various somersault flips in the background, while Kokoro chased him in an attempt to hit him with her spear.

The pink puffball suddenly pulled out a hammer and swung it at the blade of the spear to knock it off her hands. She quickly ducked underneath another hammer swing aimed at her and then moved away from him before summoning four Noh masks to send at him. Kirby managed to knock away three of the masks that were covered in blue fire-like energy, but the fourth one hit him in the face and sent him tumbling backwards. When the mask went after him again, he quickly opened his mouth to catch it inside, and then he spit it back out in the form of a star that knocked back Kokoro.

Kirby then ran at her as fast as he could and jumped above her before transforming into a large rock. Kokoro rolled out of the way in time to avoid getting crushed, and then she quickly put on a lion mask to breathe a large stream of fire at him. Kirby endured the fire until he could no longer tolerate it and thus changed back to normal with his body on fire.

Bowser suddenly fell from the sky and landed with a powerful force next to the burning puffball to send him flying, and then he ran towards Yuuka, who commanded large thorny vines to grow out of the ground and towards him. The former responded by breathing a large stream of fire that quickly incinerated those vines, and then he closed in on her and attacked with a punch that she managed to stop with her bare hand. She flung him to the side, but the latter quickly got back up and jumped at her. She quickly stepped back to avoid a "bomb" attack from him, but the trermor caused by his landing made her lose her balance somewhat. Bowser used this opportunity to breathe fire at her.

Yuuka quickly withered and was then burned to nothing, much to the surprise of Bowser. He was suddenly blasted from behind by a flower-shaped energy blast fired by another Yuuka. He got back up and glared at the real Yuuka, as the one he burned down was a clone, and then he ran and jumped at her.

Nearby, Link and Yorihime clashed blades with each other violently. Link eventually performed back flips to move back from her after blocking a sword strike with his shield and fired arrows several times at her. Yorihime easily deflected the arrows before charging at him, and Link quickly jumped to the side, leaving a bomb at where he originally was when he did so. Yorihime managed to escape from the bomb before it exploded, not to mention another arrow fired at her after doing so.

Fire suddenly appeared around the blade of her sword as she ran towards Link to clash blades with him again.

Reimu dodged a swing of a fist from Mario by jumping back, and then she threw some amulets at him that he incinerated with a swing of his fiery hand. The plumber then performed a long jump towards her in an attempt to stomp her, but she jumped out of the way again. When she tried to hit him with her wand, he performed a somersault jump to get out of the way. She closed in on him to hit him again and again, but he kept on dodging them with the same maneuvers.

After he dodged a certain number of wand swings, the shrine maiden stopped going after him. Mario then ran at her and thrust a palm full of fire at her, while she swung her spiritually-enhanced wand at him. An explosion of fire and spiritual energy was created when their attacks came in contact with each other.

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