Author's Note: Ah yes, here we are, for the final installment of the first part of the series. What better time to release it, considering that Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon released yesterday? If you have the game, good for you!


Chapter 8: With All Our Powers Combined


Inside the now floating mansion, Fox, Meta Knight, and Pikachu were on the ground in a daze. King Boo is not only dangerous, but is also winning for once, which is terrible and surprising. However, their hopes were raised (albeit slightly) by the appearance of Mario, Samus. Link, and Kirby, who had all come out from seemingly nowhere.

There were much more important matters, but Meta Knight found it necessary to ask, "How did you all get here?"

"We-a hopped in through the backyard." Mario answered, matter-of-factly.

"There was some guy shooting at us, but we're fine." Link said. He shivered and caressed his mid-section, where his tunic is stained red. "Except me. Bullets really hurt, man..."

"Get over it, you crybaby." Samus said. She looked down at the trio of unlikely heroes. "Look, we're going to stop this King Boo or Lucas guy from whatever the hell he's doing. We did not come here for nothing."

"But... what are we supposed to do?" Fox whimpered with a cringe. "He's as strong as everybody else and throws like an elephant!"

Pikachu coughed weakly. "I'm pretty sure elephants don't throw things."

"Well.. it's still painful!"

"I'm sure we can think of something!" Kirby said optimistically. He took Fox's hand and tried to pull him up. "Let's go, we've got a ghost Lucas to fight!"

"Owww, it hurts to stand up..." the pilot moaned. When he caught Samus glaring at him, he chose to stop whining about it. Meta Knight and Pikachu got up on their own, but it was very clear that they were also in pain.

"Seriously though, how are we supposed to fight this dork...?" groaned Pikachu. "He practically creamed us just by throwing us... we don't stand a chance..."

"T-there's still a chance." a voice from below them all said. All eyes were turned at the hole as somebody floated out: RanBoo. He was a little worse for wear, but otherwise, still okay. The calvary Smashers stumbled back; Link and Samus had weapons drawn and they pointed them at the Boo. He was rather unamused by this. "H-hey! Calm down, I'm on your side!"

"I don't believe you!" Link shouted.

"Put your weapons down.." Meta Knight said with authority. The two belligerents put their weapons away (although Samus was muttering curses). With that, the knight turned to RanBoo. "I thought you would go back to King Boo's side. He's winning, so there's no need for you to end the conflict early anymore."

RanBoo looked at him, with a completely serious and deadpan expression on his face. "My king is admittedly an incompetent idiot most of the time. Just imagine what would happen if he took over."

The Smashers took a moment to think about this. After a brief imaginary scene in their heads, they realized that this was indeed a horrible thing; Mario in particular was vehement to this, considering that this was his home universe and all. "No! We-a cannot let-a him burn our-a crops and spoil our-a water supply!"

"He'll really do that?" questioned Fox.

The plumber shrugged. "Probably - not on-a purpose though."

"What are we going to do though?" Pikachu asked.

"We're going to fight fire with fire." RanBoo said vaguely before shooting back down the hole. The Smashers looked at each other before throwing themselves down the hole after him. RanBoo was fiddling around with the energy transfer machine. He glanced over to the controls that launched the mansion into the sky and said, "Don't bother with the controls anymore, by the way."

Fox, being the curious idiot he is, walked over to the console that Meta Knight and Pikachu tried to shut down earlier; he was suddenly stopped by an invisible force. He put his hands on it, getting a good feel of how invisible and force-y it is. "It's a transparent pushy force!"

Pikachu investigated. He ran an electric shock over whatever blocked them, and a blue tinge appeared in the air surrounding the machine. "Crap. He put a superpowered shield over this." He sighed. "Come on, let's just ignore this."

The Smashers were gathering around their ghost ally, who was busy pressing some buttons on the energy transfer machine controls. While he pressed buttons, he explained what he was doing. "...there's some energy left inside of the trophies. I want a few of you to get inside the main pod while the rest of you go into the collection pod. Then, I'll transfer all of your energy to the ones in the main pod - it'll be up to them to fight the king before he destroys the land with his incompetence... hold on, I'm almost done..."

Meta Knight looked at the others. "While he's finishing up, we should decide who should go on to fight King Boo."

"You can do that." Link huffed.

"I agree, actually. How about you, Pikachu, and Fox deal with the problem?" Samus suggested. "You guys were here first, so you deserve to have a crack at that idiot's crown."

Pikachu struggled with himself on whether it was a good idea to mention that they got trapped in the mansion because they were a bunch of curious idiots and that they originally wanted nothing to do with all this. He then thought that acting heroic would be a better idea. "Sure, I'm game."

"Yeah! Let's go kick Lucas' face in!" Fox cheered.

"We're technically fighting King Boo here, Fox. Anyway, yes, I agree with these terms." Meta Knight said.

"I'm okay with this! You guys can do it!" Kirby said cheerfully.

"Keep-a the Mushroom Kingdom safe for-a me, okay?" Mario questioned.

"Don't worry, it'll be easy!" the anthro canine said.

Beeping came from the machine of pods. "Okay, it's ready now. Get in your respective pods." RanBoo announced. Mario, Samus, Link, and Kirby went into the pod full of trophies, struggling to fit inside; Meta Knight, Fox, and Pikachu went into the pod that King Boo/Lucas went in. The pods closed. The trio was suddenly blinded by a light as the noises started up...


Meanwhile, on the top of the mansion, King Boo was prancing around in Lucas' body, checking on the cannons that were propped on the sides of the roof. Ghosts floated in and got behind the cannons, arming them with the slave crowns that King Boo definitely didn't take from a Final Fantasy game.

The king could barely contain his glee. "Wow, this is the best day ever! You there, what's our status?"

"The cannons are all loaded, and we're 10 minutes away from Toad Town." an Orange Ghost reported.

"Yes! Nothing can stop us now!"

"Oh, really?" a deep voice said.

"...Which one of you said that?" the king looked at his subjects, who all merely offered shrugs.

"It was... us!" Suddenly, a piece of the roof broke apart, sending tiles and wood flying up. As it turns out, it was uppercutted by Fox. He was glowing with a faint pink color, and his shirt had turned into a tunic. Then, Pikachu clambered out, with Kirby's cheeks dotted on his face (which bothered him) and an orange-ish aura. Then, Meta Knight flew up, surrounded by a reddish glow, with a visor on his mask and a yellow cape. The three Smashers stood like statues, filled with the energies of the other Smashers, ready to take King Boo on. The ghostly Lucas hit himself in the face, groaning.

"Oh come on! I say 'nothing can stop us now' and then you reporter guys show up! What are the chances of that?"

"Uh, dude, saying that 'nothing can go wrong' or something stupid like that leads to you getting screwed over. Seriously, it's a fact of life." Pikachu answered. "And we're not reporters, that was a lie."

King Boo gasped, biting his fingers. "You mean 'King Boo Magazine' isn't real?"

"...No. No it isn't."

"...well, that's not much of a problem. It doesn't matter that you guys changed your clothes for some reason, or that you're glowing! You can't stop me! Behold!" King Boo said with a booming confidence. He raised his hand up, trying to use his telepathic throw attack. Meta Knight drew his sword and hilted it in the roof, Fox's feet suddenly turned to stone and kept him grounded, and Pikachu merely grabbed on, his strength alone keeping him on the floor. King Boo repeatedly raised his hand, trying to lift them off the floor before shooting an annoyed look. "Seriously, how are you guys doing that?"

"We got powers from your energy transfer thing too!" Fox shouted. He took out his laser gun and fired at King Boo, hitting him in the hand.

"Ouch! Wow, rude!"

"I'm sorry!"

"You're not supposed to be sorry." Pikachu hissed.

"Oops! I mean, I'm not sorry!"

"Argh! The least you could do is apologize to the new king of this joint! Take this! PK Fire!" a fireball formed in the king's hands and he threw it toward Fox; the guy quickly tried to turn his feet back to normal, but the psychic fire was much more faster...

"Oh no you don't!" Meta Knight flew from his post, got between Fox and the attack, then used his cape to deflect the fire back. King Boo could only blink before Lucas' body set ablaze.

"AAAAAAHHHH!"

"Haha, karma." Fox giggled.

King Boo rolled around to make the flames go away before floating off the ground. "So, this is how it's going to be? How dare you guys ruin the best day of my life yet!" he spread out his arms and a blue, glass-like surface appeared, capturing the four fighters in a dome, separating them from the ghosts behind the cannons (some of them were actually focusing on their jobs, while the rest were passing around popcorn and watching things go down). "I'll teach you guys a lesson you'll never forge-"

Pikachu put his paw up and fired a Samus arm canon-styled projectile at him. "Oh shut up already."

King Boo quickly reeled back from the strike. "Hey, I was in the middle of my villainous monolog-" the Pokémon shot him indifferently for a second time. "AAARGH! Stop..." He ran toward Pikachu, Lucas' twig in hand. "...that!" He struck Pikachu with it, as if the rat Pokémon was a baseball. Pikachu screamed as he was sent flying to the top of the PSI Shield barrier, which rebounded him to the other end of the barrier, which sent him flying down to the floor.

"Don't do that to my friend!" Fox yelled upon seeing Pikachu on the floor. He took a sharp intake of breath to yell at his enemy some more, but, unexpectedly, he sucked King Boo toward him and he was magically sent through his mouth and into his stomach. Fox made a queasy look before turning toward the barrier and spitting King Boo out, who hit the barrier rather painfully. "Ew, I actually ate somebody! How does Kirby stand thi-"

Fox was silenced when he suddenly froze over, absorbed into a giant ice-cube. King Boo briefly smiled at his successful use of PK Ice before gagging. "Ew, you ate me! Seriously, what is wrong with you?"

"Revenge!" Pikachu shouted, hitting King Boo in the face with a hammer he drew out of nowhere. He looked over to the pile of ice, thinking how to help Fox when he saw that Fox was already freeing himself, using a souped up version of his fire fox move. "You okay?"

Fox shivered. "It was so cold in there..."

"How about we get some hot chocolate after we deal with this asshole?"

"That sounds good, thanks Pikac-"

They were swept away by a Volt Tackle like PK Thunder. King Boo used Lucas' eyes to glare at them. "How dare you guys ignore me? Oh, and..." he looked away from the fight to talk to one of the ghosts. "Can one of you guys get me a cup of hot chocolate?"

"Oh, um, yes sir." a Garbage Ghost answered, dropping the bag of popcorn he was eating to get his boss the beverage.

With that done, King Boo launched himself back toward Fox and Pikachu, who were ready to receive him. As they fought, Meta Knight sat on the side, using Samus' visor to scan things. The knight looked over the horizon and saw Toad Town, with Peach's Castle (which was presumably ruled by Toadsworth in Peach's absence); he then looked at the slave crowns that were in the cannons and felt concerned for the Toads, who probably wouldn't like their free will being taken away. Then, he scanned King Boo: according to Samus' visor, damage was definitely being dealt to him, which was a good thing. However, he could see that there was a sudden jump in energy. "Fox, Pikachu, get away from him!"

"Huh?" Fox answered, holding a bomb that he got from hammerspace, thanks to Link's powers.

"PK LOVE!" King Boo shouted. Fox and Pikachu widened their eyes at the mention of Lucas' powerful smash attack. Pikachu managed to get away from the large and damaging psychic light, but Fox didn't get out in time. The hero got launched up into the air, screaming all the way. Despite being in pain, Fox willed himself to throw the bomb down at his attacker. "Gah! Where did you even get that from?"

"It doesn't matter - you're going down." Meta Knight said. He sprinted toward King Boo and drew his sword, slashing at Lucas' body. Before he could strike a second time, King Boo blocked it with the twig. They had a small duel, the legendary sword and twig smacking against each other (unbelievable, right?). Meta Knight quickly got tired of this and jumped - he stuck out his sword as he screw attacked in mid-air, slicing King Boo multiple times.

"Ack... I'm going to lose at this rate..." King Boo said. He looked around. Meta Knight was running at him to attack again, Fox was drawing another bomb, and Pikachu was dashing to tackle him. Then, he looked up.

There was a very confused flock of Paratroopas watching the fight. "What the...?" one of them said.

"Shoot at those Paratroopas!" King Boo ordered, catching the Smashers off-guard. Some of the cannons on the roof turned and fired some slave crowns at the Paratroopas. The headgear forcibly attached themselves to their heads as their eyes glazed over.

"Our king! What can we do for you?" the Paratroopas all said simultaneously.

"Attack these three jerks!" he ordered. He briefly made an opening in the psychic shield at the top, allowing the flying turtles inside.

"Well crap." Pikachu muttered before he got tackled by a flying shell. The three Smashers ran around, avoiding the brainwashed distractions.

"5 more minutes until we get to Toad Town!" a Boo spectator announced.

"Yes! Nothing can sto... I mean, we're going to do this!" King Boo laughed.

Meta Knight nimbly dodged a Paratroopa then attacked it, sending it back into his shell. "I'm sorry about this." He picked up the shell then threw it at King Boo. It swished at his feet, knocking the king to the floor.

"Doof! Hey, that was-" he was then hit by the same shell, which had rebounded off the shield.

Pikachu rather liked Meta Knight's idea. "CHUU!" he shouted, creating several thunderbolts that struck most of the Paratroopas. He then proceeded to kick the shells back over to King Boo, further adding insult to injury.

"My turn!" Fox jumped up Mario style then hit one of the flying Koopas like a volleyball, which hit King Boo in the face. "Goal! Touchdown! Whatever!"

As the shells bounced around, repeatedly hitting him and knocking him off his feet, King Boo said, "Okay, maybe this wasn't such a good idea."

"3 more minutes until we get to Toad Town!" another ghost shouted.

King Boo growled then floated up as soon as he got on his feet - he refused to be defeated when he was so close to victory, especially by shells, of all things. He took the shield away and charged up another PK Love. "Go away, you stupid shells!" He unleashed another powerful PK Love, hitting all the Koopa shells and sending them tumbling off the mansion. Don't worry. They'll be fine. Probably.

While he did this attack, Meta Knight was scanning his health; King Boo only had a little health left, and he could be taken down in time if he, Pikachu, and Fox attacked him at the same time. "You two, let's finish him off!" He drew his sword and ran at the king as his attack finished.

The light from PK Love dispersed, and King Boo quickly realized how screwed he was.

Meta Knight was coming, sword drawn.

Pikachu ran, intending to headbutt him.

Fox sprinted, ready to kick his teeth in.

King Boo did not have the time to launch a counterattack.

"You lose again, King Boo!" Pikachu roared.

"At least you aren't losing to Luigi!" Fox shouted encouragingly.

"Your villainous scheme comes to an end!" Meta Knight yelled.

"...Mommy." King Boo said with a gulp.

He was struck with a sword, a head, and a foot from three sides. King Boo felt his energy slip away as he cried out in pain. Lucas' mouth opened wide and unexpectedly, he coughed up King Boo, who pitifully flew out from him. Lucas fell onto the floor, unconscious but still okay, while the Boo floated weakly, looking rather exhausted.

King Boo looked around. His ghosts were looking at him with concern. Then, he realized something: Luigi's Mansion was still mobile. "Hey, you guys get back on your cannons! It's not over yet!"

Pikachu's triumphant smile turned into a frown; this was also not in the original story. "Crap, what are we missing?"

"Wait... since King Boo lost all his energy... does that mean the shield surrounding that console is gone now?" Fox said.

"...You're right!" Meta Knight beamed. He looked at King Boo, who stared back at them apprehensively.

"...You're not smashing it!" the royal Boo then floated down the hole Fox had made to get them to the roof.

"After him!" Pikachu screeched.

King Boo floated down toward the cellar, trying to hurry to his controls as quick as possible. Before he could reach them, however, RanBoo grabbed him. "Oh no you don't, sir!"

"RanBoo? Why are you stopping me? This is treaty!"

"Treason!"

"Whatever! Let go of me!"

"No! If you take over the Mushroom Kingdom, you'd run everything in the ground! You'll lose no matter what, so it's better this way!"

"You're fired!"

"I don't care!" RanBoo answered. He turned his head as he heard three sets of feet land behind him. "You guys! Hurry and destroy this!"

"Please don't!" King Boo pleaded, to nobody's sympathy.

Meta Knight glanced to Pikachu "Do you want the honor of destroying it? You deserve it, seeing as you suffered through this incident once before already."

"Oh, with pleasure." Pikachu said, grinning rather evilly. He charged up a ball of energy in his hands.

"You got this Pikachu!" Fox cheered on.

"Nooo!" King Boo screamed as Pikachu fired the ball of energy at the control console.


The citizens of Toad Town had spent the last few minutes milling around, staring at Luigi's Mansion curiously as it neared them. They were all sent to shock as the rockets that were making the mansion fly exploded, causing the structure to crash toward the ground. Panic started, and as soon as people were done freaking out, people will investigate the crash site.

Pikachu crawled out of the rubble, coughing. He looked up at the full moon in the sky, sighing. "Damn it, how come this place still had to explode..?"

Somebody else popped up from the ruins, but it wasn't Fox nor Meta Knight. It was Mario who rose from it. The plumber looked around before he jumped ecstatically. "You guys-a did it!"

More people started to rise. The defeated Smashers, having been revived when their energy was returned to them following King Boo's defeat, was confused by the situation; after a moment of confusion, they went about seizing the things that the ghosts had stolen from them. The Smashers who offered their energy to Fox, Meta Knight, and Pikachu gathered and started to cheer, glad that King Boo was defeated.

Speaking of those three, they sat down on a table that remained intact, looking at the night sky. Meta Knight looked at himself and saw that his powerful aura was gone. "So, everything has gone back to normal, huh?"

"Yep." Fox said with a nod. He swung his feet around, humming a song to himself before he asked. "What do you guys want to do later?"

"What?"

"Well, we're all friends, right?"

"...I suppose we are." the knight said with a small but unseen smile.

"Then we should all celebrate like all friends do when they accomplish something!"

"Yeah, you're right." Pikachu said. "Let's go find somewhere to eat - besides, I did promise you a hot chocolate."

"The bill is on me." Meta Knight offered.

"Really? Thanks, Meta!" Fox stood up and slid down the mansion's debris. "Let's go! We're going to party like it's 1999!" Meta Knight and Pikachu jumped down, following him toward Toad Town.

"Hmm, I wonder where King Boo and his minions have gone to..." Meta Knight murmured.

"Who cares?" Pikachu answered.

So the three walked toward Toad Town to have a victory feast. They have won against King Boo... for this part of the saga, anyway.

Pikachu stopped dead in his tracks. "Wait, wha-"


After the collapse of the mansion, the ghosts all retreated to a nice and dark forest to hide out in. Horrible cries could be heard in the night... from King Boo, who was sobbing over his loss. RanBoo floated in front of him, his things gathered in a briefcase.

"Well, I'll be off now. It was nice working for you, but I really can't take your incompetence and whining." RanBoo said.

King Boo shot him a look.

The traitor Boo proceeded to float out the forest, ignoring the glares his fellow ghosts gave him as he left to pursue a hopefully better life.

"I... It's not over yet..." King Boo choked through his tears. "I'm going to get my... revenge on those guys..."

"Cheer up, boss. It's not all bad." a Garbage Ghost said. He brought out a mug. "See, I got your hot chocolate."

The king gratefully took the mug of hot drink and poured it down his throat. After swallowing, he muttered, "Those three... sniff... jerks haven't seen the last of me..."


"My mansion..." Luigi sobbed, mourning over the ruins of his mansion.

"It'll be-a okay." Mario comforted him.

"Besides, it would have been used to take over the world. So get over it, you big crybaby." Samus said.

"I hope nothing like this happens again." Link commented.


END OF PART 1


Author's Note: So here we are, at the end of the first part of the story. Sorry, there are a lot of stories that need to be updated, so putting this on hiatus would be good for the time being.

I hope you all enjoyed the first part, which is definitely better than the original product (please don't ask for it). The next part of the story will begin in June/July 2013. Until then, check out my other Super Smash Brothers stories. Speaking of which, The Normals will also be ending soon; perhaps next week. Anyway, please leave reviews because I greatly appreciate them, and thank you for reading.