World Crossing Chapter 10: It can't get worse, a super smash brothers fanfic

Chapter 10: It can't get worse

A cloaked figure just landed on Valak Mountain. Immediately the cloak changed colors from a dark black, to white, to allow for better camouflage in the snow. "This is Zero, I've landed on Valak Mountain safely." He said into an earpiece.

"Very good, your mission hasn't changed. Achi hasn't come out of the Bottle Ship, however she is still alive. Go and retrieve her."

"Understood."

"Any questions?" The voice asked.

"Why has the Bottle Ship fused with this place?" Zero asked.

"Our benefactor had given us a chaos seed, that Achi delivered to the Bottle Ship. This is the result."

"I see." Zero replied. He just looked over a cliff at Sword Valley and the Bottle Ship in the distance. "This beautiful world tainted by something that ugly and mechanical."

"Agent Zero, did you say something?"

"No." Zero replied. He just ended the communication and looked at the Bottle ship. His cloak just blowing in the wind. "I know you've been watching me."

"Yeah." A voice said. Walking towards Zero was Nugai. He didn't look defensive at all. "But to be honest, I wasn't trying to hide."

"You should be hiding from me, Andrew!" Zero said.

Nugai just blinked a bit confused. "So you know me, but I don't know you... Are you just someone from Zenith who can't think for themselves?"

Zero just glared at Nugai."What?" He snapped.

"I'm just wondering if you're just parroting Zenith." Nugai replied. "Or if you're someone who can't actually fight back because their family has been taken hostage, or you've been threatened for that in case you step out of line."

Zero just laughed. "You're mistaken. I'm with Zenith of my own free will, and all because of you!" He pointed his finger at Nugai. "I'm here for revenge! They have nothing to take hostage, or threaten because you ruined my life, and stole everything from me. And to top it all off you don't even remember who I am?"

Nugai just let off a sigh. "In my battle against Zenith, with the amount of people I've crossed, or had to deal with I unfortunately can't remember all of their names or faces. You're going to have to be a bit more specific. Or you could remove your mask."

"Well, how about this. Because of you, my father and brother are dead."

Nugai pondered it for a few seconds. "Nope, sorry, that's not ringing any bells."

Zero was just furious. Energy around him began to spark. "Then how about this, March 9th 2008! Does that remind you of anything."

"Oh, Super Smash Brothers Brawl's release date!" Nugai said.

A ball of energy narrowly missed Nugai's head. "Stop screwing around!" Zero said.

Nugai's expression changed, he ditched his rather playful demeanor and just became serious. "I see... so that's who you are. That's why you call yourself Zero."

"Because I have nothing thanks to you, Andrew!" Zero replied.

"First of all, if you're going to keep using my real name, why don't you tell me yours?" Nugai said. Zero however just glared at him. "But, I guess that means you want me to either remember it, or read your source code... Secondly, your brother was dead long before I met him."

"Shut up! What you did that day..." Zero snapped.

Nugai just summoned his sword and held it in front of him. "I stopped Zenith from starting this world crossing and fusing on that day." Nugai said. "Tell me, is the only reason you're with Zenith to oppose me, and get revenge?"

"Yes. I hate you with every fiber of my being. And I will do everything in my power to make sure your plans don't come to fruition." Zero said.

Nugai just laughed. "Well for that to happen, there would have to be a plan."

"What?!" Zero said, rather frustrated. "There's no plan?"

"Why are you so shocked? It's true." Nugai replied. "After how many times I tried to fight Zenith, and how many times plans were foiled or beaten in previous timelines, I kind of figured the best plan is that there is no plan, and I just make it up as I go along."

"So my father and brother were just casualties of you making it up as you go along?!"

"Perhaps. That's an unfortunate side effect of improvising." Nugai said. "You don't know if it's good or bad until it's over."

"I'll kill you!" Zero shouted. In his hands appeared a gigantic battleaxe. He just ran towards Nugai and swung it. Nugai however blocked it with his sword.

"An akashic point weapon?" Nugai said rather surprised. "Meaning you're one of the 11 others..."

"I would delete you out of existence if I could. I'd undo all the changes that you did..." Zero said. "You self proclaimed hero!"

"I'm not a hero." Nugai replied. "I'm just someone who's willing to do whatever is necessary to stop Zenith. If I have to go through hell itself, and be hated by the very people I'm trying to save, then so be it!"

"Oh really?!" Zero said. "Well then how about if I tell Alex the truth?"

"You think he'll believe anything you say? Especially when you don't even know what the whole truth is?" Nugai wondered.

"Even so, I just need to say enough to make him begin to doubt you and your plan." Zero replied. "It doesn't need to be the truth, it could be a complete lie. But I think that will be enough for him to start pulling the strings and unraveling the truth for himself..."

Nugai just jumped back and put some distance between them.

"Zero. This conversation is over. You have bonded with one of the 11 remaining Akashic Points." Nugai said. "If I had to wager a guess it would be one of the 7 in our world. As long as you are a member of Zenith, you are my enemy. And I will treat you as such."

Energy surged around Nugai. The snow of Valak mountain was just pushed away from him.

He just stepped forwards. The next thing that Zero knew was that Nugai was right in front of him. Nugai placed his hand right on his forehead. He was frozen in place unable to move. "Now then Zero, let me tell you something. This is a war. And casualties on both sides are inevitable. I won't deny that I slayed your father, but when he stood in front of me, he believed in what he was doing, and was willing to die for it. I can't say you hold that same conviction."

Nugai just stepped away, and zero regained his senses. "What did you do?!" He asked rather frustrated.

"Nothing." Nugai replied. "I just read your source code."

"Aren't you going to kill me? I thought I was your enemy!" Zero shouted.

"You are, but, to kill you would be pointless. You are still a kid, and you understand nothing."

"I understand everything! You killed my family!" Zero shouted, swinging his axe right at Nugai. Nugai drew his sword and countered the attack. When they clashed, Zero felt the full extent of Nugai's power, and just staggered backwards in fear.

"I understand if you want to kill me." Nugai said. "If I was in your position, I would want to kill me as well. But, if you wish for that, either fully devote yourself to Zenith and their goals, or cast them aside and come to me with only the intention for revenge. You can't continue to have both of them weighing you down. Devote yourself fully to one thing."

Zero just collapsed on the ground. "Just kill me right now." He said.

"If I killed you right now, it would be gigantic a waste. I think you have a much bigger part to play in this." Nugai said. "Besides having someone else after my head makes things even more interesting."

"What?! You're crazy!"

"Yes, yes I am. Listen, Zero, if you ever doubt what Zenith is doing there will always be a place for you over here. If you cast aside Zenith, and they try to eliminate you, I will protect you, and tell you the full truth of what happened that day. Even if you come to me having fully devoted yourself to Zenith, I will tell you what happened. But until you have fully chosen your side, don't appear in front of me again" With that Nugai just vanished.

Zero just screamed out in frustration. His call was enough to bring attention to himself. The large dragon, Avalanche Abaasy landed right in front of Zero. He just looked up at it and it just froze, and began to cower in fear. "Your targets lie elsewhere." He said. Just jumping onto the back of it. "Take me to our destination."

They had progressed into Sector 2, the Cryosphere. Like the name suggested, everything had gotten much colder, it was like they were back on Valak mountain again. Saki was shivering.

"Why do they need a cold area on this stupid ship!" Saki shouted out.

"It doesn't take a genius to figure it out." Ness said. "There are creatures that could probably only thrive in this environment."

"And, if what the documents saying that they were trying to make freeze proof Metroids were true, I think they would need a cold environment to test that out... And perhaps see how well their freeze proof Metroids worked." Isaac pointed out.

"Still, isn't there other ways to do this?" Saki wondered. "I mean, the whole place is freakin' cold. Can't you just have a room or two. Like a walk in freezer!"

"That might be a bit too small for there uses..." Zoroark said.

They had made it to what looked like a giant building in the snow. They opened the doors and walked in.

"Finally." Saki said. "Someplace warmer."

"This is where I believe I had seen activity of a survivor." Adam announced, since James had been defeated and whatever he had been using to jam their communications had either been destroyed or hacked open, their communications were restored. "Be careful, you don't know what's coming up ahead." The 07th Platoon just nodded and began to search the building for the survivor.

"We should also start searching." Alex said.

The Smashers nodded in agreement and began to walk forwards. Roy however was just looking at the door that led back outside. "Something wrong?" Ness wondered.

"Yeah," Roy replied. "We didn't encounter any monsters on our way here."

Everyone just froze and looked at each other. "Could it have been the large group we were traveling in?" Hayden questioned.

"No, they were still attacking us back in the Biosphere." Samus replied. "I doubt it was that..."

"Hey, Alex, what was an enemy that you encountered here, and did we pass them and they were just hiding?" Isaac asked.

Alex just stopped and thought about it. "There was that four legged tree one..." He said, "We should have passed one, but I don't remember anything like that..."

"Master, why don't you use Aura to see if monsters are hiding outside?" Zoroark suggested.

Alex just nodded, and closed his eyes. He opened them and just looked around. "There's nothing..." He replied. "It's like there is suddenly nothing..."

"What do you mean?" Lucas asked.

"I can't find any signs of life, only us. There's no monsters... It's just like they all of a sudden vanished." Alex replied. They all just looked around.

"Did you perhaps find the survivor that Adam found?" Samus wondered.

"I wouldn't be able to with Aura." Alex replied.

"What do you mean?" Saki questioned.

However before Alex could reply, a voice shouted from the other end of the room. "We found the survivor!" Maurice shouted. Everyone began to make their way to them, however Isaac, and Saki just held Alex back.

"What did you mean?" Isaac asked. "Everything should be able to give off Aura."

Alex just nodded. "If they're alive. The survivor they just found isn't alive. She's a robot."

The two of them just looked at Alex a bit shocked. "A robot?" Saki repeated. "They found a robot?"

"Yes, it looks human, but it's a robot. An android." Alex said. "To make matters worse, she's one of the reasons why the ship is currently like this. She can control every single creature in this ship. She probably even knows that we know this."

"So, we should stay on guard." Isaac said. "Okay, I can do that."

"We might be able to reason with her though." Alex said. "The Galactic Federation tried to destroy her, so... if we can prove that we're not here to hurt her, and will go away quickly once everything is back to normal, she may be willing to help us."

"That sounds like a plan to me." Saki said.

They began to follow the Smashers and the group from Bionis. However, everyone had froze in front of a giant warehouse door. When Alex, Saki and Isaac had caught up, they saw why.

Inside this warehouse was a giant face mechon. Currently it was inoperative. The chest compartment was open, with no one inside it. All the parts were just gray, and in a rather humanoid shape. "What's going on here?" Shulk said rather surprised.

"Did a Face Mechon come in here?" Reyn said.

"Maybe this is why there was no monsters..." Roy pointed out.

"But it seems too big to fit through the doors..." Hayden pointed out.

"So it was built in here?" Shulk questioned.

"Perhaps this survivor will have the answers we seek." Dunban said.

Everyone just nodded and continued to make their way to the survivor. They eventually got into a room, and sitting on a chair was a young blonde haired woman. She wore a white lab coat, in her hair was a single hair clip. Currently she seemed a bit afraid. Behind her was a giant monitor that was currently off. "Is this all of you?" She asked.

"Yes." Anthony replied.

"I'm Dr. Madeline Bergman." She introduced herself.

"The director of this space station?" Shulk asked.

"Yes." She replied. "And you're not from the Galactic Federation."

"Right." Shulk replied. "We're from the Bionis. Where this space station had merged with."

"I see." She said. "Unfortunately, if you came to me, expecting answers I don't have any. I don't know why this place fused with your planet. Or why, or how it was only part of it, while the other part exists where it does originally. I don't understand what's going on."

"You don't understand?" Dunban said. "But you're the director here, shouldn't you know?"

She shook her head. "Things went out of my control. It's no longer the ship that I run, and... I can't answer that."

"But, I can." A voice suddenly said. On the monitor appeared the video feed of a woman wearing a sea green dress appeared. She had brown hair and was just sitting in a chair. She had a rather childish smile across her face.

"Achi!" Saki said. "Where are you?!"

"I'm aboard this ship, I'll tell you that much." Achi replied. "But, you're going to have to find me on your own, if you can."

"I'll find you..." Saki muttered.

"Now, let's see... How to explain this? Where do I begin? Right! I know!" Achi just laughed. "You've been reading their research logs, so you know this place is a bioweapons research facility for Zenith."

"And you were the one who supplied them with the shard of Phazon." Samus asked.

"Yes." Achi replied. "Well, as for the reason why these two places merged. They were connected by Chaos Seeds. I handed a Chaos Seed to the researchers here, and someone else handed a Chaos Seed to the leader of the Mechonis. They were connected, and the spots began to merge. Almost just as planned. Just a minor setback on having the idiot scientists nearly kill the seed. But nothing a little chaos couldn't fix."

"So we were used?" Madeline asked.

"For someone with a big robotic brain, you sure are slow..." Achi laughed.

"What?" Samus said rather shocked.

"Was that supposed to be a big secret and I spoiled it?" Achi wondered. "Well yeah, the person in front of you Smashers and Galactic Federation dogs is actually Melissa Bergman. Or MB for short. Which also stands for, Mother Brain."

"What?!" Samus said rather shocked.

"Yep, those Galactic Federation dummies decided to build another one. After the first Mother Brain worked out so well for the Chozo, don't you think? And then what happened with Aurora Unit 313 again?" Achi laughed. "It's like they're doomed to be complete idiots and keep on repeating the same mistakes."

"Stop it." MB said.

"Oh, you should of seen it, when the Galactic Federation came here to try and take her away. How she went on a killing spree and controlled all of the monsters to kill them and the scientists." Achi laughed. "And now you're all probably her next targets."

They all instinctively just backed away from MB.

"Achi." Saki just raised his Cannon Sword and aimed it right at the monitor.

"Oh what good will that do Saki?" Achi laughed. "You should be aiming lower, at least try to take out her robotic body."

"That's enough." A voice said. Appearing behind Achi was a person in a cloak. "Zenith has called you back."

"Zero!?" Alex shouted.

"We meet again." Zero said. "Although it's only through this monitor. I wish to talk but, I have things to do. If you wish to meet me again, live."

Achi's rather playful smile just disappeared. She got up from her chair, and looked completely serious. "I see. You're right enough time has been wasted here. If you live, we'll meet again, Saki."

The video feed just ended, and they were all left with staring at MB. She just sat in the chair, shaking.

"MB." Alex said, walking towards her.

"She was probably the one who called the Galactic Federation here, and informed them of my presence." MB said. "She was responsible..."

"So, what should we do now?" Lyle asked.

"Our mission was to find survivors and proof of a conspiracy in the Galactic Federation." Anthony said. "If you come with us, we can protect you."

"I'm sorry." MB replied. "But that is impossible. This android body was only made to house me in the Bottle Ship. Once you're out of range, it will be useless. It will shut down, and you'll just be left with a husk."

"There is still another survivor, the real Madeline Bergman." Alex said.

"And where is she?" Samus asked.

"She's safe..." MB said. "She locked herself in Room MW, to protect herself from the monsters."

Alex was just a bit confused. The MB in the game was terrified of Samus, and the other Galactic Federation soldiers, although that was because she had seen James kill Maurice, and the Galactic Federation coming to get her to terminate her earlier.

"On that note, do you know what happened to the monsters?" Roy asked.

MB just nodded. "After your fight with the one you called James, and his body began to separate and form those bug creatures. They began to go through all of the bottle ship, infecting the monsters... They're all in one spot. This place is no longer under my control, and soon, they will infect me... No, they all ready have, and I'm losing the last of my independence."

"Where did they go?" Anthony asked.

"Sector Zero..." MB replied. "They're all there..."

"Sector Zero?" Hayden asked.

"It's where they were cloning Metroids." Alex explained. "And MB's main core is located."

Everyone just nodded.

"So we should then go find Madeline Bergman." Anthony said.

"But before we go, what was that face Mechon for?" Shulk asked.

MB just looked at them. "I was building it as a weapon. To take this world's technology back to our own. This was still primarily a weapon's research facility. I did not betray my programming."

"Then we best destroy it." Alex said as he began to walk away. However the door suddenly sealed shut trapping them in the room with MB.

"I can not allow you to do that." She said, her voice was suddenly different. It was rather sinister and commanding. "We meet once again, Smashers. You can continue calling this vessel MB, since I doubt James would be a fitting name for it."

"What did you do?"

"I deleted what was left of MB." The voice replied. "This will be a suitable vessel, at least for communications. We don't have to worry about it rotting like James. I have now assumed full control of this space station."

Everyone just stared at MB. "I control every still living creature, and every system in this ship. I could kill you where you all stand before you even have a chance to react."

"And why don't you?" Alex asked.

"Because I want to see you squirm and suffer." MB replied. "And didn't I tell you, back when I was in James' body, that I wanted to evolve further and achieve perfection?"

"And this stops you from killing us all right now, because?" Alex said.

"Are you stupid?" MB wondered.

"I'm willing to ask the same thing to you." Alex said. "Why would you willingly keep us alive, when all it takes is a press of a button?"

"True evolution, can only be gauged by how well one survives in the environment, and adversity." MB replied. "There is only so much lab tests can do. How something on pen and paper and during testing is sound, but when put out into the real world, new and unforeseen actions take place."

"So your letting us live, to fight you, and further your evolution." Shulk said.

"In deed." MB said. "If I'm beaten here, I need to evolve further. It's as simple as that. There is also the fact that your anguish, anger and hate gives me sustenance. Now, let's begin."

The door just opened, and she motioned for everyone to leave. "Your role is to go rescue Madeline. The current ultimate form that I have created from what is on this ship will soon be there. So, you better get to her before it does. Now, goodbye."

A portal appeared behind MB, and she stepped into it. A moment later it disappeared.

Everyone exchanged glances before quickly rushing out of the room.

"So, what just happened?" Anthony asked.

"If I had to guess, I'd say the Swarm used the Ing's abilities to take over electronics and then take over MB." Samus replied. "This is not good."

They passed the room that had the empty Face Mechon. However when they opened the door they saw that the room was empty, the Face Mechon had disappeared.

"I'm not liking this." Sharla said.

"How could something that large just vanish?" Reyn said.

"If I had to guess, I'd say it was the Ing." Alex replied. "They took it over and moved it."

"They probably did the same portal thing that MB just did." Shulk said.

"That would have to be my guess as well." Samus added on. "I have a feeling we'll be seeing it once again later."

They continued down the hallways, until they eventually exited the building and were once again greeted with the bitter cold artificial winds of the Cryosphere.

"Adam how are things on your end?" Samus asked.

"Not good." Adam sighed. "I'm locked in this room."

"What?" Samus said a bit surprised.

"Even breaking the windows and going down to the lower level didn't work." Adam replied. "MB, or whoever, or whatever we're facing now has me completely locked in this room."

"Then we should go and rescue Adam." Maurice said.

"No, don't bother." Adam replied. "If they wanted me dead, they would have done it already. My current gear also wouldn't be of any use to you. I've just got a rifle and a freeze gun. I would not add anything to our weapons. And if I went back to the ship to get other weapons, we would be wasting valuable time. You need to go rescue Madeline, before whatever it is goes and attacks her. I'll have to stay in here for the time being. I'll try and support you all in any way that I can, whether through continued surveillance or moral support."

"All right, that's great Adam!" Anthony said.

"Why don't you start by tracking MB?" Samus suggested.

"All right, I can do that."

Everyone nodded in agreement and continued through the Cryosphere.

"All right, I've managed to Find MB" Adam announced. "She's in this place called Sector Zero. And that is where these freeze proof Metroids are supposed to exist."

Samus just froze. She looked around at everyone else. "I have to destroy that place." She said. "If they do exist, I can't let them. They have to be destroyed."

"And if they can't be frozen, do you realize how much danger you would be in?" Adam asked.

"Yes." Samus replied. "But I might still be able to vaporize them with the power bombs..."

"There might be another way." Adam said. "Sector Zero has a defense protocol."

"And that is?" Samus asked.

"If enough damage is done to it, it will disconnect from the Bottle Ship and explode. It will destroy MB. I'd go do it myself, but I'm stuck here. It's most likely going to be a suicide mission, and there is very little chance that one or any of you will make it out."

"Then I'll do it." Samus said.

Everyone just looked at her rather shocked. "What?"

"Well, escaping from places before they explode is my specialty." She said. "I can do it."

Everyone was just standing there a bit shocked. "Well, if Samus says she can do it, I'll trust her." Anthony said.

"Same." Alex said. "She can go destroy Sector Zero, we'll rescue Madeline meet up, figure out how to defuse these places, and then get back to the Smash Mansion, and have a nice dinner or something."

"All right. Sounds like a plan to me." Samus replied.

However Alex just froze. In the game, Sector Zero was a place that Samus never got in. Adam stopped her, by shooting her in the back, and he walked in there to die. Essentially stealing the last level of the game.

"Something wrong?" Samus asked.

Alex just shook his head. "No. Just don't die."

"Don't worry, I won't." Samus said, walking away.

"All right everyone I've got the location of where I believe Melissa is." Adam said. "Follow my instructions."

They began to run away. Alex just took one final look over at Samus, before he began to follow the rest of the group.

Samus just let off a sigh as she began to run through the hallways of the Cryosphere, making her way to Sector Zero. "I'm alone again." She said. "The way it should be."

"I'm still here." Adam said. "Listen, Samus, are you sure about this? This is dangerous. And, it's very likely that you could actually die."

Samus just nodded. "Yeah, sorry Adam. But both you and I know that freeze proof Metroids can't exist. They have to be destroyed no matter what."

"Very well." Adam sighed. "I would gladly take your place, but I'm trapped here..."

"I understand. Besides, I'm getting a feeling I have something to settle with who's there... and waiting for me..."

"Something there?" Adam questioned.

"Yeah. If Phazon is there, I'm sure it's there as well." Samus replied.

"You mean Dark Samus?" Adam replied.

"Yes." Samus replied.

"I've read about her in your reports." Adam replied.

"After I left the Galactic Federation you still read my reports?" Samus asked.

"I did." Adam replied. "I was a bit curious where your independent life was taking you, and what tasks and adventures you went on."

Samus just nodded. "I see."

"I can't help but feel responsible for this though." Adam admitted. "I wrote a report using your information on Metroids, stating why the Galactic Federation shouldn't look into Metroids, and why they were better extinct. But it seems that my report was stolen and one of the many things that were here."

"Adam, I have a question." Samus said.

"And that is?"

"What are your thoughts on what I did with the Last Metroid?" Samus replied.

Adam sighed. "None of us knew it would turn out this way. You just delivered it at the request of the Galactic Federation, they wanted it to research it's energy producing abilities."

"I can't help but wonder, even back then, was that the invisible hand of the Galactic Federation and Zenith, moving us all like the pawns we were." Samus said.

"Perhaps." Adam replied.

Samus had reached a door. She opened it and began to walk down the long dark hallway, that was only lit by blue florescent lights.

"Be careful, Samus." Adam said. "I can only assume that this is where they would have freeze proof Metroids, if they exist."

"You don't have to tell me." Samus replied, walking forwards.

From behind a pillar, a small Metroid emerged. It just floated there. Samus just raised up her arm cannon and aimed at it, firing an ice beam. It hit and froze the Metroid, causing it to fall on the ground and partly shatter. Samus just followed up with a missile causing it to completely explode.

"So what was that about freeze proof Metroids?" Samus asked.

"My guess is that it was one of their main goals." Adam said. "They may of not been able to achieve it yet, or that Metroid was too young and hadn't achieved this fabled immunity to ice."

Samus nodded and then turned to face the front the doors of Sector Zero. She went over to the doors. They were locked. She had expected this, their enemy couldn't be stupid enough to leave their core exposed, and with the front doors wide open. "Well, it's my job to destroy this place." Samus sighed. She just aimed her arm cannon right at the door and unloaded several super missiles at it. The explosion destroyed part of the door and she walked right in to see another door. However this one opened.

"You didn't have to destroy the door. You could have just knocked." MB's voice rang out through out the room.

"If I did, I wasn't expecting you to open it." Samus replied. She held her arm cannon in front of her and began to traverse through Sector Zero. There were many different computers that were hooked up to tubes and containment chambers. Inside the chambers were Metroids. Soon she saw a giant containment chamber, and sitting in the middle, surrounded by Metroids, was MB.

"Hello, Samus." MB laughed. "Welcome, to sector Zero. MB's birthplace, and the place where the Metroid Militarization Plan began. I truly have to thank you for this. If it wasn't for you who brought the Last Metroid to the Galactic Federation, none of this would have been possible."

Samus just stood there with her arm cannon aimed right at MB.

"Is something wrong?" MB asked.

"I was expecting someone else." Samus said.

"Ah, yes, your previous encounters with Phazon..." MB replied. "You were expecting your doppelganger, the one you called Dark Samus."

Several Ing began to jump onto MB. And soon they transformed into a replica of Samus' powersuit. The major differences being that it was black, glowed with blue energy, and currently there was no helmet.

"Is this to your liking?" MB asked.

"But how?" Samus asked.

"The Ing had memorized the composition of your suit, and have been able to replicate the technology involved." MB replied. "It also helps that the Galactic Federation had been trying to replicate your suit as well, to mass produce and use as a weapon, so there was a prototype available. There is also the fact that, Dark Samus' power was one with the phazon, and it remembers her. It saw her as a valuable asset. It was our harbinger."

Samus just stood there, not bothering to show any emotions.

"I think you understand." MB replied. "I told you that I wished to be perfection and have constantly evolved. At the current moment, this form is what I find the most suitable and powerful... While this vessel really is good. It's been the longest I've ever been able to maintain a body. By now, even if they did nothing, their body would have completely been destroyed. But this android's shell hasn't decomposed a bit... the only downside is that it only has above average strength."

"You know, I liked it better when Dark Samus was silent." Samus replied.

MB just sighed. "You do realize what will happen if we start fighting here." She said. "We will cause enough damage that will result in Sector Zero detaching, and exploding."

"And that's what I came here to do." Samus replied.

"With you in it?" MB laughed. "Well, very well then."

"If I can destroy you, and the shard of phazon, that's good enough for me." Samus replied.

"Even if you have to sacrifice yourself?" MB asked.

"If that's the only way." Samus replied. She just began to fire her arm cannon at MB who jumped out of the way and shot back. Samus dodged the attacks, and began to run through the lab.

"Metroids restrain her, and suck out her life force!" MB said. Several Metroids just rushed towards Samus, with so many approaching her she quickly transformed into a Morphball and dropped a power bomb. The resulting explosion vaporized each and every Metroid, and damaged a good part of the lab.

"You..." MB just glared at her.

"What's wrong?" Samus asked. "Afraid that all of your progress will be lost?"

Long scythe like claws came out of MB's back. It just began to destroy the place. "No, the Ing have all ready saved all the information that was thought to be necessary, now If you wish to die, then so be it." MB said.

"Large amounts of damage to sector Zero have been detected. Initiating emergency protocol. Three minutes until Sector Zero is ejected. Evacuate immediately."

Samus just laughed. "Three minutes. That will be more than enough time to make you extinct."

MB raised up her arm cannon and just fired it towards Samus, who was able to dodge, it hit something behind her and created an explosion. "Smashers, I have decided that you are a threat to my existence." MB said. "I will now use everything in my power to eliminate you. A piece with the data that these strains had, had all ready met with the main Swarm. If I lose, there will be no loss. Phazon will continue to exist. We will continue to exist. And you, you will all die here!"

MB let out a surge of Phazon. Canisters that seemed to be holding the substance suddenly exploded, creating tentacles of phazon. They just seemed to rush for MB and charge her up. She began to shoot phazon blasts all over sector zero, causing even more damage.

Samus just raised her arm cannon and began to fire at MB, aiming at her still exposed head. A helmet however appeared on it, making her the spitting image of Dark Samus.

She just raised her arm cannon and began to send out a rapid volley of tiny energy bullets. Samus just dodged out of the way, and watched as it hit more and more equipment, causing it to explode and be destroyed.

Dark Samus just began to float up into the air and was covered by a shield of phazon. She followed it up by rushing towards Samus, who quickly jumped out of the way. However as soon as she landed, Dark Samus quickly zipped away. She seemed like she was teleporting around the room.

"I've forgotten how much of a pain you are to fight." Samus thought.

Quickly Samus rushed towards her and managed to catch her, with her grapple beam, quickly tossing her against a wall and firing a super missile at her. It hit and exploded, however it seemed to do no damage.

Samus just rushed forwards punching Dark Samus, and then following through with several missiles at point blank. Even Dark Samus wasn't able to withstand such an attack. A chunk of the suit had been blown off, along with some of the robotic parts that were underneath.

Quickly Dark Samus tried to warp away, and created a dark echo to keep Samus occupied. However Samus just dropped a power bomb, causing the Dark Echo to be destroyed, and the Ing that were acting as MB's suit, and limbs to mostly be destroyed. MB fell onto the ground. What remained of the scraps of her armor was sparking with phazon energy, leaving MB unable to move.

Samus raised her arm cannon, ready to send a few more super missiles at her. However across her speaker system Adam suddenly talked.

"Samus." Adam said. "I've got some bad news!"

"What?" Samus asked.

"I don't know how or why, but whatever was supposed to detach to get rid of Sector Zero has jammed." Adam said. "Sector Zero is staying attached to the Bottle Ship! I don't know how much damage it's going to do!"

"So I just have to outrun the explosion." Samus said.

"No, I wasn't done yet." Adam replied. "It seems like MB had jammed Sector Zero's doors shut too. Your trapped."

Samus just turned over to look at MB, who was slowly repairing herself. Dark Tendrils from the Ing were shooting out for the small robotic parts and any scrap metal that was left, to reconstruct. "What's wrong?" MB laughed.

"You're in the same situation as me." Samus replied.

MB just continued laughing. "You'd like to think that."

Beneath her a portal appeared. Samus however fired a missile right into the portal causing an explosion and causing the portal to be dispelled.

"You're not going anywhere." Samus said. "I'm going to make sure you die! I can not allow another Dark Samus to run across the universe."

More and more Ing just began to appear and surround MB, creating a gigantic black sphere. Samus tried shooting at it, however it did next to nothing. Whatever the sphere was, it had taken on the properties of some of the hardest materials in the universe. Samus assumed that MB was in the center of the sphere, and her attacks wouldn't destroy enough of it.

"Well, if you want to stop another Dark Samus, you best start by surviving." MB's voice crackled. "The Swarm will create another if they think it will be valuable. They have all of my data now. It matters not what happens here!"

She glanced down at the timer that she had placed on her visor, to keep track of how much time was left during the battle. Much to her shock there wasn't any time left.

"Just 15 seconds." She thought. "I guess I only have one chance at this. Hopefully it works."

The explosion shook the rest of the ship. Everyone just braced themselves, and after the shaking stopped they continued on."

"I guess that means Samus succeeded." Saki said.

Anthony just laughed. "Of course she did. Samus is a person who can make the impossible possible."

"Yeah. Looks like she hasn't lost her touch from when we trained with her." Lyle said.

"She always liked going above and beyond." KG added on.

Several nearby doors suddenly activated. Their progress through the Bottleship to where Madeline Bergman apparently was had been rather streamlined. All the doors previously had been closed. Adam had said that it wasn't his doing and was most likely MB's.

"It certainly seems like Samus has succeeded." Ness said. "Hey, if Adam was still in contact with her, he should know."

"All right, I'll ask him." Anthony said. "Commander Malkovich, do you read me?"

"Loud and clear Anthony." Adam replied. "What is it."

"Did Samus manage to beat MB?" Anthony asked.

"I don't know." Adam replied.

"What do you mean you don't know?" Saki asked.

"I, I can't get through to Samus!" Adam said. His calm composure had completely disappeared. "She hasn't contacted me... she may of died in that explosion."

The words suddenly hit everyone like a rock.

"Damn it! It should have been me." Adam said.

"No, she's alive, I know she is!" Anthony shouted. "She wouldn't be taken out like that!"

"Most likely she was." Adam replied. "MB had jammed the doors of sector zero shut. Even if I had full control of it, I couldn't have opened the doors. She was trapped in there."

"No way." Anthony muttered finally accepting it.

"I'm sorry, take a minute to compose yourselves, and then proceed with your mission. We can't let Samus' sacrifice be in vain." Adam said.

They just continued walking through the Bottle Ship. But they had become much slower. The news was weighing quite heavily on them.

"Damn it." Isaac said rather frustrated, pounding his fist against the wall.

"What about the trophy state?" Noah asked. "She could have been transformed into that nearly indestructible trophy."

"Key words being: nearly indestructible." Isaac said. "It's not completely invincible, and has it's own weaknesses. It can still be destroyed."

Noah just looked rather afraid. "Then that would mean..."

"Yes, we Smashers can in fact die." Lucas said.

There was just silence. "Then, in that case, I don't think Samus would want us to mope around." Alex eventually said. "She'd want us to complete the mission, and then mourn."

Everyone nodded.

"Besides, I believe in Samus." Alex said. "Time and time again she has always escaped from inescapable situations. Planets that were blowing up. Space stations. This is nothing new for her."

"You're right, kid." Anthony said, slapping Alex on the back. Alex staggered forwards a bit and just glared at Anthony for the 'kid' remark. "Samus would have done it. If anyone could escape from an inescapable room it's her."

"All we can do right now is just believe in her." Saki said. "That she escaped, and will join us!"

"Yeah!" Everyone agreed.

They continued onward through the Bottle Ship, until they made it to a large room. In the direct center was a machine.

There was also a woman with short red hair. She turned to face the Smashers. "Welcome, Smashers, and members of the Galactic Federation." The 07th Platoon had their guns ready, and aimed at her. "I am Dr. Madeline Bergman, the director of the Bottle Ship." She just hit something on her lab coat around her left breast, and a holographic ID card appeared. "I will come peacefully, and answer any questions you may have."

She just stepped forwards and held her hands up high to show that she wasn't concealing any weapons.

"Why did you surrender?" Anthony asked.

"I watched you all from the monitors." Madeline explained. "This isn't what I wanted. Everything is out of my control now, and I believe somehow it's this machine that has merged our planets together. But it's completely out of my Ing had taken over MB and I couldn't do anything."

Alex just walked forwards to the machine. It was connected to two tubes further back into the room. In one was a dark spore, it was about the size of a car. In the other was a giant chunk of phazon. Alex was just captivated by the blue glow of phazon and began to approach it.

But as he got closer, he began to feel something inside of him. A sharp pain suddenly shot through his chest. He grabbed his chest and collapsed, and began to scream in pain as pain coursed through his body.

"Master!" Zoroark was quick to rush to Alex's side and pulled him away from the phazon. The others were quick to come to his aid as well. "You're burning up!"

Alex was just gasping for air. His body had suddenly been drenched in sweat.

"What just happened?" Zoroark asked.

"I don't know." Madeline replied. "No one has every reacted like that to the phazon."

They just made their way to the wall that was the furthest away from the phazon. "Sorry, Z." Alex weakly said. "I just suddenly felt a sharp pain..."

"Let's shut down this machine and retreat." Saki said.

The others nodded in agreement.

"Like I said, we can't." Madeline replied. "I tried. But the passwords are constantly changing. I couldn't do anything. MB and the Ing probably don't want it shut off."

"Listen, this may be a strange question but why did the Ing keep you alive?" Saki asked.

"I don't know." Madeline replied. "However, if I had to guess, at the time MB still had control over them. To her, I was still her mother, and she still wanted to protect me."

"So this is the chaos seed and the phazon that was mentioned in the logs?" Isaac asked.

"The same ones." Madeline replied.

"Master Hand, what are your thoughts?" Hayden asked. From his wrist came a hologram, of Master Hand, everyone just gathered around.

"What's this?" Reyn said confused. "A picture of a glove?"

"It's Master Hand." Roy replied. "The leader of the Smashers."

"Well," Master Hand sighed. "It seems that the chaos seed is responsible for the worlds being fused. It's warping time and space, however, I don't know how you can destroy it. If you pierce it, it might explode, and you really can't have that... And in it's current form you can't transport it anywhere. It's far too large."

"And it's ingrained in this room." Alex said.

Everyone just looked at Alex a bit shocked. "What?" Shulk said.

"Using Aura, I can see it. It looks like it's floating in that tube, but... there are roots that go all around this room..." Alex replied weakly. "It's also absorbing some of the phazon..."

"Master, please don't stress yourself!" Zoroark said.

Alex just weakly nodded.

"And do you have any information about Alex's current sick spell?" Saki asked.

"I have no idea." Master Hand replied. "The readings I'm getting from the suit aren't showing anything out of the ordinary. Currently it's just registering as a cold."

"You think that was a cold?" Zoroark snarled.

"I don't know." Master Hand replied. "Maybe it was an allergic reaction to the phazon? Anyways, you have to find out someway to destroy the Chaos Seed. My best guess is there should be a monster or something that is linked to the chaos seed around there. You'd have to face it, and kill it."

"A monster?" Ness asked.

"A guardian." Master Hand replied. "The Chaos Seed is defenseless by itself. Yet as a sentient thing, it would bond to something nearby and make it protect it."

"The queen Metroid." Alex weakly said.

Everyone looked at him. "What?"

"The Queen Metroid, it was in this room originally..." Alex explained. "Or rather in the next room over there." He just pointed to some giant metal doors.

"So we just have to kill the queen Metroid..." Ness said. "All right, that sounds easy enough."

"It sounds like you know what to do, I'll leave everything to you." Master Hand said. The hologram then disappeared.

Madeline just looked at the Smashers, the 07th Platoon, and the group from Bionis. "If your going to fight. I think I better stand back." They nodded. "I can look after him as well."

"I'm fine." Alex said, struggling to get back up.

However Isaac just swiftly punched him in the stomach, causing him to fall onto the ground. "Sorry." Isaac said. "But you promised us that you weren't going to fight if you were sick. Zoroark, take him away along with Madaline, and watch over her to make sure she doesn't do anything funny. Everyone else, we've got to defeat whatever the Chaos Seed has bonded with."

Zoroark and Madeline carried Alex away into the previous rooms. Once they were gone and those doors were closed, they focused their attention on the other room. The room where the queen Metroid was being kept. They just approached the doors and it slowly opened, revealing, absolutely nothing.

They just walked inside to see hundreds and hundreds of eggs across the room. Green and black roots seemed to be embedded with the eggs. "What is this?" Shulk asked.

"Metroid eggs." Hayden replied.

They suddenly began to crack and open. The 07th Platoon wasted no time in firing their freeze guns and quickly trying to kill them. However, it quickly became clear that they weren't able to damage all of them. Ness and Lucas unleashed psychic attacks. However beyond PK Freeze, they did next to nothing. Roy tried to stab them with his sword, however he found that he had to stab them in the nuclei, and cause an explosion, or else they were quickly recover.

The group from Bionis were also finding their weapons ineffective. "Retreat!" Shulk ordered.

They quickly made it back into the other room, however the Metroids began to follow them.

They tried to deal with them, however they were severely outnumbered. A Metroid floated over to the chaos seed and began to absorb it. All other Metroids just quickly surrounded the Chaos Seed and the Phazon, absorbing it and acting like a shied.

Hayden and Noah just began to shoot. However, from the walls rushed the Swarm and Ing creating a solid wall to block the shots. Reforming in front of them was a facsimile of James.

"James?" Anthony said.

"Sorry, but I couldn't let you attempt to kill the Metroids." James said. "What's happening now behind that wall, is that all of the Metroids are absorbing the chaos energy and the phazon, merging together with everything else, and allowing for a new mutation."

"Oh yeah!" Shulk shouted. "Well you won't stand in our way!"

He ran towards James, however James just raised his hand, and suddenly everyone was unable to move. They were being pushed down by an invisible force. "When I left you, I went to all the creatures of the ship, to absorb their powers. The creature in control of the Gravity on the ship was one of them. Besides, I can't allow you to attack the Chaos Seed. There is no telling what could happen."

The 07th Platoon activated something in their armor, and were suddenly able to move. They rushed for James. Anthony just fired the plasma cannon at James. However before it even hit him, it suddenly vanished.

"What the?" Anthony said rather surprised.

"Don't be shocked." James laughed. "The Metroids are absorbing everything. Including all the energy in this room. The Chaos Seed's roots extend everywhere. I think it's time I gain what I came here for!"

The Swarm began to disperse, and then reform. In the middle of the room there was now a giant black egg that appeared to be made out of metal.

"What the?!" Reyn said rather shocked. "It's just like those Arachno eggs."

"The ones in Tephra Cave?" Shulk questioned.

"What were those like?" Riki asked.

"They had Mechon parts inside of it." Shulk replied.

"Well if it's just a Mechon shell, the Monado should be able to cut through it!" Dunban said.

Shulk just nodded and walked forwards. He swung the Monado, however the attack did nothing. "What's going on?!" Shulk said rather shocked. He tried to cut through it a few more times but nothing happened.

"Could that egg also be absorbing energy?" Hayden wondered. "As soon as you struck it, it may of absorbed the energy."

"So, we have to wait for it to hatch?" Dunban said. "Or do we..." he just ran forwards and cut through it with his Anti Mechon sword. It revealed a small crack where the Metroid Larva was vulnerable. The 07th Platoon just fired some shots from their freeze guns into the crack.

The ice inside expanded, causing more of the egg to crack. The shell began to fall off, and out floated a Metroid. It was much larger than the ones that had fought earlier.

"What the?!" Hayden said shocked. "It's just like the one at the end of Super Metroid."

Inside the Metroid they could see the Dark Spore, and the shard of phazon. Suddenly the Metroid began to let out a scream of pain, and it began to rapidly evolve. From the larva state to Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Zeta, and then Omega. The bipedal beast roared out at everyone. It was about twice their size and covered from head to toe in black mechon armor.

Shulk rushed forwards and tried to cut the armor, however much like the egg, the Monado wasn't doing any damage. Dunban quickly followed suit and cut part of the armor off on it's chest.

"It seems like the Monado is useless because of the energy absorbing properties of the Metroid." Hayden said.

"But if the Monado is useless..." Shulk said a bit shocked.

"Don't worry about it too much." Reyn said. "That's why we're here. To help cover you if you get in over your head. Besides, there's more than one way to beat a Mechon."

Shulk just nodded. "Right! All right! Engage the enemy!" He swung the Monado and an aura covered everyone. "This will allow you to cut through Mechon Armor!"

Roy was the first to run forwards towards the Omega Metroid. He quickly dodged a swing from the arm, and jumped up into the air, to slash at the Omega Metroid's chest. It left a rather noticeable mark on the armor. Ness followed up with rushing in there and swinging his baseball bat right at it's legs. Reyn supported Ness and together the two caused the Omega Metroid to fall on the ground.

Saki and Isaac just ran towards it. Saki's arm transformed into that of a monster and he slashed at it with his claws. While Isaac swung his sword. Together they were able to force off a piece of armor on the chest, leaving what looked like a sac exposed.

The Omega Metroid got back up, and roared.

Maurice, Lyle, and KG just began to fire at the chest of the Omega Metroid with their ice guns. However it swiped it's long claws knocking them away, and leaving rather noticeable gashes on the armor.

"PK Thunder!" Ness and Lucas shouted out, directing the electricity right to the creature. However it just seemed to immediately absorb it

Melia just looked around a bit shocked. "I don't know how, or why, but I'm feeling a lot more ether in here now."

"Same." Shulk said. "Well then, why don't we try what we did with the Telethia. Give it so much energy it explodes."

"Sounds like a good idea to me!" Dunban said.

"All right, count me in!" Noah said, holding his blaster.

"Same." Hayden added on.

"I'll do my best to cover you guys!" Reyn said.

They nodded. "All right." Anthony laughed. "Here we go!" He fired the plasma cannon, hitting the Omega Metroid right in the chest.

Melia let out a constant beam of ether. While Shulk was swinging the Monado, also causing a stream of ether to go right into the chest of the monster.

"PK Starstorm!" Both Ness and Lucas shouted, causing giant comets of energy to go and hit the chest of the beast. Saki was firing his Cannon Sword at it. While Isaac was sending a stream of Psynergy towards it.

The Omega Metroid had no choice but to absorb all of the energy. As it was absorbing the energy it was getting bigger and bigger. However the Mechon armor was trapping it, and crushing it. It just began to screech out in pain.

Roy just ran forwards and jumped into the air, cutting off one of the Omega Metroid's arms, before stabbing the Sword of Seals right through the Omega Metroid. The magic sword began to burn with an intense fire, frying the insides of the Omega Metroid.

Reyn, Dunban and Riki rushed forwards, knocking the creature's legs, toppling it to the ground once more where it just began to writhe in pain, and it eventually stopped moving. Roy just pulled out the Sword of Seals and walked away.

The Omega Metroid lay on the ground defeated. Just letting out some cries of pain. However it began to pulse with energy. It glowed that eerie blue light of phazon. From the walls of the bottle ship Ing appeared and began to approach the Omega Metroid.

"Try and take out the Ing!" Hayden ordered. He began to shoot at the Ing, and the others followed suit. Cutting through the various Ing. However they soon realized that they just became some dark gasous, liquid, and immediately went towards the downed Omega Metroid, and they went into it.

The end result was both healing it, and making it evolve into something different.

The arm that Roy had cut off had regenerated. The Mechon Armor that was around it, had gone inside it's body, and now surrounded it's vulnerable nuclei. It's body was now completely covered in a black exoskeleton, and a black aura was radiating off of it.

"It's absorbed the Ing..." Hayden said. "It's gotten much stronger."

Several tentacles shot out of the Omega Metroid.

Shulk just launched another wave of Ether at the Omega Metroid. "Monado Purge!" He shouted. The Ing were being forced out. Hayden, Noah, Sharla, Maurice, Lyle, and KG quickly shot at the Ing that were forced out of the body. Much to their surprise with a single hit, they were instantly destroyed.

Melia forced more ether into the Omega Metroid, causing it to get bigger. "I've forced all the water ether I can into it right now." Melia said.

"Okay, I understand!" Lucas replied. "PK Freeze!" the snowflake rushed for the Omega Metroid, and upon contact it immediately froze.

Sharla, Hayden, Noah, Maurice, Lyle, KG, and Anthony just fired explosive rounds at it. Upon contact, It caused the frozen Omega Metroid to shatter. They continued until next to nothing was left. Only a fine powdered snow, and the nuclei that was still protected by the Mechon armor.

Shulk just swung the Monado, covering Roy's Sword of Seals with an Aura. He just walked over to the mechon armor and stabbed through it, and followed up with an explosion. After he pulled out the sword of seals, a blue liquids began to flow out of the hole.

"It's over." Roy said, walking away.

"No, not yet." Isaac said. "Where's the chaos seed?"

Everyone paused and looked back at the mechon shell that had been around the nuclei. The blue liquid seemed to be corroding it. As it was melted away, it revealed the black seed inside. It was much smaller, about the size of a golf ball. It just began to float up into the air, and radiate a certain darkness.

The doors opened, and in walked Alex, Zoroark and Madaline. "You managed to beat it." Alex said.

"Yeah, it was no problem." Hayden laughed. "Are you fine now?"

"Yeah, I'm feeling much better." Alex replied. "I don't know what happened there. Maybe it was an allergic reaction to phazon..." Alex just paused and looked at the snow and the blue liquid. "I can sense you. You're still here..."

Everyone else quickly turned to face the remains of the Omega Metroid.

"I'm quite impressed Smashers." A voice said. Suddenly the bits of the blue liquid, and the ice all came together to from the facsimile of James once more. "You managed to beat it. Take your prize, the chaos seed! Until we meet again."

The facsimile of James just broke apart into the swarm and flew away.

Everyone just looked a bit shocked. And they approached the Chaos Seed. It just floated there.

"Master Hand." Hayden said, reactivating the hologram. "What should we do now?"

"Don't touch it." Master Hand replied.

Everyone just looked a bit shocked at Master Hand. "But how are we supposed to take it away." Noah asked.

"Isaac, can you use Psynergy to move it." Master Hand asked.

"That shouldn't be a problem." Isaac replied. "But, can I ask why?"

"The Chaos seeds are dangerous." Master Hand replied. "Unless Order and Chaos are completely balanced within you, you can't touch the seeds. At least while it's active."

"It's dormant now." Alex said.

"Are you sure?" Master Hand wondered.

Alex just nodded. "It's not radiating any aura."

"Well in that case..." Noah just grabbed the seed, and suddenly everything began to shake.

"What on Bionis is happening?" Reyn asked.

"This is bad..." Master Hand suddenly announced. "The Bottle Ship is beginning to return back to it's dimension. If you weren't in the Bottle Ship when it got here, you need to get out now! Otherwise you're going to get stuck going back with it!"

"What?!"

"If my calculations are correct, you have 10 minutes to get out of there!" Master Hand said.

"All right, let's go!" Alex shouted.

However the door suddenly closed, and the ceiling of the room was torn open. Into the room descended a Mechon. The same one that MB had been making. "You're not going anywhere."

"Oh no." Alex gasped. "I forgot about that."

"Another thing?!" Reyn said surprised.

"I was hoping that the Metroid would have killed all of you." MB's voice said coming from the Mechon. "But it appears that you were capable of destroying it, without Samus. Perhaps you're actually threats after all. Very well then, I will eliminate you all."

However they heard more sounds of metal being torn open. Above them descended a giant purple dragon that just glared at the Mechon.

"No way!" Alex said rather surprised, staring at all of the spikes on it. "Avalanche Abaasy."

"You are in my way." MB said, just opening fire upon it. However, Avalanche Abaasy just swung it's tail and it tore through the mechon. It let off a loud roar and just glared down at the Smashers.

"What is that thing?" Anthony said.

"Is it something else from in the Bottle Ship?"

"No." Alex replied. "It's actually from the Bionis. This is bad."

"Why?" Saki asked.

"Because that's Avalance Abassy." Alex replied. "The strongest creature in Xenobalde."

Time remaining to escape the Bottle Ship: 9 Minutes

Deep in space, MB was floating around. She was unable to move her body. The protective shell that the Ing had made had been mostly destroyed in the blast.

What was left had been chipped away, and was slowly falling apart. She was just laughing to herself. "And in the end, you decided to Vaporize yourself, Samus... Smashers sure are weird... One down..."

In the Underworld, Magnus had just woken up. He looked around the cave that they had called their base and then glanced over at Dark Pit and Phosphora. Dark Pit was sitting in front of something and chanting something in a language he didn't understand. Phosphora was just sitting down and leaning against the cave's wall.

"You're up, human?" Phosphora said. "Being mortal must be such an inconvenience. You must waste half of your life sleeping."

Magnus however just ignored her comments. "What's he doing?"

"Preparations." Phosphora replied. "My guess is he's preparing spells."

"You understand anything he's saying?" Magnus wondered.

"Not a word." Phosphora replied. "He's speaking in angelic tongues."

"And aren't you an angel?"

"I'm more of a nature spirit." Phosphora replied. "We're different, but I guess you wouldn't understand."

"Not really." Magnus replied. "Don't really care either. Gods, angels, spirits, demons. They're just all the same to me. Any idea when he will be done?"

"A lot sooner if you both shut up and let me concentrate." Dark Pit snapped.

"Yeah fine." Magnus replied, leaning back and relaxing. They only sound in the cave beside Dark Pit's chanting was the odd drop of water, and the howling wind from outside.

"All right, finally done." Dark Pit laughed. He got up and just looked at Magnus and Phosphora. "Thanks for coming this far with me."

"Hey, you paid me." Magnus replied.

"I know. It's just, we're fighting one of the strongest Gods there is. And one where the worst thing he can do to you isn't killing you." Dark Pit said. "Against Hades, your death would just be the beginning of eternal torment. So, if you're getting cold feet now, I understand, and I won't hold it against you if you leave."

"At this point, why would we leave?" Magnus asked. "Besides, I seem to remember you're the one with the underworld key."

Dark Pit just pulled the chest out of his toga and placed it on the ground. "If you want it, I'd undo the seal right now and give it to you. Just on the condition that you destroy it as soon as you get out and lock the underworld again from the outside."

"But you'd be trapped in here." Magnus said.

"That's something I'm willing to accept." Dark Pit replied. "And to be honest, something I've been planning since the beginning. Even if I had to destroy the underworld key myself."

"Look, I accepted this job, and I'm going to see it through." Magnus said.

"And I'm staying too." Phosphora replied. "We've been through too much already, and you're not ditching me. Besides, I want to see the look on Hades' face when we beat him down."

Dark Pit looked rather grimly to the ground. "If."

"Hey, think positive." Magnus said, giving a rather big slap on the back.

"Unfortunately I'm not Pit." Dark Pit replied. "I'm not like him, I can't always think positive. And in my head, I've been replaying the worst case scenario. When Pit took him on he had the help of 4 different Gods, and only then did he win, and only barely. And as we now know, it only weakened Hades to the point where he didn't have a physical body."

"Listen, it's too late for us to back out now." Magnus said. "We knew going into this it would most likely be a suicide mission."

"Then why did you do this?" Dark Pit asked.

"Because, we have things we want to defend to." Phosphora replied. "I'm not here just because Viridi ordered me to watch over you."

Dark Pit just nodded. "I see, thanks. So no matter what happens we're in this together." He reached into his toga and pulled out a scroll. "I've prepared 13 angelic artes. The first 12 are safe... But if I am forced to use the 13th, I need you two to get out of there as fast as possible."

"Why?" Magnus asked.

"It's an absolute last resort, and one that I'm not fully sure what will happen towards the end of it." Dark Pit replied. "It's a forbidden angelic arte. It is said to give an angel the power of a God, but at a great cost. It will most likely cost me my life."

"Well then, it's our job to make sure it doesn't come down to that." Magnus replied.

Dark Pit just smiled. "Thanks." He said. "But this is Hades."

"Besides, your not the only one with a trick or two up their sleeves." Magnus laughed.

"I didn't come here empty handed either." Phosphora laughed. "We'll take on Hades together, and somehow we'll win."

Dark Pit just nodded. They got out of the cave, and began to walk towards Hades' castle. But much to their shock, there were no guards.

The three just rushed through the front gate. "This is just getting more and more suspicious." Phosphora said.

"It wasn't before?" Magnus muttered.

"You're right, let's retreat." Dark Pit said. However as soon as those words exited his mouth, the front gate closed. The three of them just let off a sigh. "Well, looks like we're going forwards."

They just began to walk through the castle, not once meeting an underworld army member or a guard. And then, they came across Hades, who was just sitting on a throne, and smiling. He just stood up and stretched out his arms.

"I'm sorry, but your Lord of the Underworld is in another castle." Hades taunted.

"Can it Hades!" Dark Pit said.

"As usual you're all so serious, you need to lighten up, and joke around once and a while." Hades said.

"We're not here to joke around." Dark Pit said.

Hades just let off a heavy sigh. "Fine, fine. Welcome, my three esteemed guests! What brings you here?"

Dark Pit just pulled out his silver bow and charged an arrow. "All right, let's just kill him, and get out of here!" Dark Pit said. He fired an arrow, however Hades just swatted it away. Phosphora sent several bolts of lightning towards Hades who just used his cape to block them. Magnus rushed right for him and swung his giant sword, however Hades just caught the sword with his bare hand.

"Fools, thinking that they could kill a God." Hades laughed. "It amused me far too much and I wanted to see it for myself..."

"So, you noticed that we entered the underworld." Phosphora said.

"Of course I noticed." Hades laughed. "I wanted the underworld key. But I didn't want to damage it, otherwise you wouldn't have made it here alive."

"Are you sure about that?" Magnus asked, swinging his sword once again. This time Hades just jumped back to avoid it. He looked at them rather bored.

"Look do we really have to fight, can we just skip to the part where I beat you all, and you all either die, or there is some divine intervention from Viridi, or Palutena to save you or you escape somehow." Hades sighed.

"Who said we were going to lose!" Dark Pit shouted, reaching for a weapon gem and summoning his Dark Pit Staff. He shot the attack towards Hades, and it hit, causing the lord of the underworld to stagger backwards.

"I just wanted to do this the easy way." Hades sighed. "No matter how you look at it, the three of you are just side characters, you're not main characters, and you would never be able to stand a chance against me, the big bad. I mean look at you, we have a clone, a weak and mortal human, and one of Viridi's guard dogs, and the worst she can do is give me a static shock."

They just glared at Hades.

"You know a simple static shock to the heart can kill someone." Phosphora retorted.

Hades just sighed. "A mortal maybe, but once again, I'm a God, and you guys can't even bore me to death."

"Why don't you try saying that after we kick your ass!" Dark Pit shouted. Several more arrows rushed towards Hades. Hades just stood there, and let them hit him. A few seconds later they just faded away.

"Oh come on, Pitty Pat was able to do at least a bit more than that." Hades said.

"He was?" Dark Pit laughed. "Well then, why don't you eat this!"

Dark Pit fired another arrow. This time, it hit and pierced right through Hades. Hades just brought his hand up to the wound and felt it. "Really?" He sighed. "Fine. I'll fight you seriously. But you're not going to like this."

"Good, that's just what we wanted!" Magnus laughed. He ran forwards and swung his sword, however Hades just caught it with his bare hand.

Hades just looked a bit surprised at Magnus and pushed him back. "Human, in your haste to rush towards your own death, you tried to strike me with the blunt side of your sword."

Magnus just had a smile across his face.

Phosphora just created several lightning bolts that rushed right for Hades. He just blocked the attack with his cape, and returned several energy attacks back towards her.

"Angelic Arte One!" Dark Pit said. "Hundred Arrows!" A hundred arrows suddenly rushed for Hades. He just quickly crossed his arms to block the attack. However, he was still brought down to his knee. He looked at them in shock. He tried to move, however soon found his whole body wasn't listening to him.

"This isn't the Angelic Artes..." Hades said rather surprised.

"Sorry, but I put my own little spin on it." Dark Pit replied. "I knew the normal ones wouldn't stand up to you, so I improved them a bit."

"A bit?"

"An Angelic Arte's power is drawn from two things." Dark Pit said. "The first, is the incantation."

"But you didn't have an incantation." Hades pointed out.

"I prepared for it before we fought you. I said all of the incantations as we were approaching you, and then writing it down on scrolls to use for later." Dark Pit replied.

"That still doesn't explain why I suddenly can't move." Hades said.

"The other thing that Angelic Artes can be affected by, or even all forms of magic, are the tools that are used when transcribing spells." Dark Pit said. "In this case, I used ink made by Viridi herself. It's infused with a venom from a plant that can paralyze a God! The scroll itself was made out of paper made from a holy plant, along with wood . This is your fault Hades for underestimating us side characters!"

Phosphora just laughed. She floated up into the air, and pulled off her scarf. "This is the end Hades!" she said, gathering electricity that was stored in it, and creating a spear made of lightning. She threw it, and it pierced his heart, causing him to fall down dead.

His body remained unmoving for a few minutes. They didn't let down their guard, half expecting him to revive.

"Only one Angelic Arte." Dark Pit said rather surprised. "I don't know if I should be happy or..."

He just turned to face Hades' corpse. He could feel a dark power coming from it, and it began to stand up. The hole where he was pierced by the lightning spear had healed. "Your alive?!" Phosphora said shocked.

"I survived having my body, including my heart, vaporized. Do you really think something like that is going to stop me for more than a few minutes?" Hades sighed. "I mean I even lived without my heart for a while too."

"To be honest, I'm surprised someone like you even has a heart." Phosphora laughed.

"Maybe you should ask Pit, he saw it once, and he thought it was very cute." Hades replied.

Dark Pit just shivered in disgust. "Let's just get this over with. Angelic Arte Two!"

A giant explosion suddenly engulfed Hades. However when the attack ended, he barely even had singe marks. "Was that supposed to hurt?" He questioned.

"No." Dark Pit replied. "The least it was supposed to do was distract you!"

Magnus had gotten behind Hades and swung his sword down hitting Hades in the back of the head with the club. Hades staggered forwards and just turned to face Magnus. "Should you really be doing that?" Magnus questioned.

The next thing Hades knew he was blasted with several lightning bolts from Phosphora. Hades quickly moved so that all thee of them were in his line of sight. Although that line was extremely blurry. The hit from Magnus had affected Hades a lot more than he wanted to show. He was losing his vision, and the ability to focus. "No, it couldn't just be from that hit..." Hades thought. "There must of been another poison or something in the arrows..."

Dark Pit quickly caught on that Hades was hiding his current condition. "Angelic Arte Three! Mega Laser!"

A beam of energy suddenly rushed towards Hades. He just blocked the attack, and deflected it, sending it through a few walls of his castle. Where the Mega Laser had hit, he was now numb. "With all of the remaining Angelic Artes that Dark Pit has prepared, I must assume that they will all have hidden effects." Hades thought.

"So, you've really come here to kill me." Hades said.

"I thought we made ourselves very clear." Dark Pit replied. "Or are you that thick even with omnipotence?"

Hades didn't appreciate that crack. He just raised his hand ready to send an attack at Dark Pit but suddenly found his powers sealed. "What!?"

"I didn't say it, but Angelic Arte Four." Dark Pit replied.

Hades just glared at him. Phosphora rushed up towards Hades, she had transformed into lightning and began to rapidly strike him, faster than he could react. He just staggered forwards, where Magnus was waiting and swung his sword once again, hitting Hades' in multiple spots. Just bringing the mighty god down to his knees. He looked absolutely furious.

"You three..." He muttered. "Have just made a giant mistake!" He shouted out in rage, and his power swelled, enough to break the seal that Dark Pit had placed on him.

Dark Pit looked rather surprised and just began rapidly firing at him with his silver bow. Each of the arrows hit, but didn't seem to actually do anything.

Hades just rushed towards Magnus and swung his arm down to punch at the human. Magnus however blocked with his sword. Hades just laughed, thinking that the human's tool was fragile and would break like a twig, however he was shocked when the sword remained in one piece. "Sorry, it's not breaking." Magnus replied, swinging the sword, with enough force to send Hades sliding across the ground.

His hand reached for where Magnus had hit, even though it was with the blunt end, Hades felt that it would bruise. "How could a mere mortal harm me?" Hades muttered.

"What's wrong?" Dark Pit taunted. "Are we not turning into the 'side characters' you thought we were? Could it be we are actually a legitimate threat?"

"To me, impossible." Hades laughed.

"How long will it take you to realize that we pose a threat to you?" Phosphora asked. "Or are you just going to stay in denial?"

"Maybe when you cause substantial damage to me." Hades replied.

"Pretty big talk from someone who hasn't even hurt us yet." Magnus replied.

"And yet, I've brushed off all of your so called attacks so far." Hades said.

"Someone seems to be forgetting who was out cold for several minutes after getting a hole blown in their chest." Phosphora said.

Hades just sighed. "Honestly, I was hoping if I played dead you'd just leave. You really aren't worth the time or effort."

"Want to say that again?" Phospohra said annoyed.

"You really aren't worth the time or effort." Hades said.

Phosphora's hand was covered with lightning and she just ran for Hades. She disappeared, becoming lightning itself and just began to rapidly strike at him, with great speed and ferocity. Cuts began to appear across Hades' body, and blood began to trickle out.

"Is that all?" Hades asked rather bored, as the wounds began to heal.

Phosphora just glared at him.

"Look, what can you possibly do against me?" Hades asked. "I told you I lived without my heart previously. You can't kill me."

Hades was hit with the blunt end of Magnus' sword once again. "Yeah, so what?" He asked. "Even if we can't kill you, we can still beat you. Sorry, but I didn't come all this way to just walk away because my opponent can't be killed. The only way we're leaving is if one of us dies."

"That can be arranged, human!" Hades rushed forwards, ready to strike Magnus, however Magnus countered by bashing him away with his sword.

Hades just staggered back. He felt like the wind had been knocked out of him. Phosphora just began to walk towards him. In her hands was a knife, it was just covered in electricity and she suddenly disappeared.

The next thing Hades knew was that a portion of his arm had been cut off. His left arm at the wrist, had been completely cut by the knife. However much to everyone's shock, Hades wasn't outraged. He simply reached down, grabbed his cut off hand and reattached it. After a few seconds he was able to move it again.

"See, don't you get it?" Hades said rather bored. "You can't beat me."

"Well, what about if I do this!" Phosphora said. The next second she disappeared, and had beheaded Hades.

His head rolled around across the ground. And much to their shock, his body acted independently and picked up the head and reattached it. "You can't win." Hades calmly said.

Magnus just looked a bit shocked at this. "Damn it, anytime I cut off something's head, it normally stays dead."

"Well, why don't you do it then, since you're apparently so much better than me." Phosphora said rather annoyed.

Magnus just focused his attention on Hades. "Maybe, but tell me did you notice something weird just now?"

"You mean bedsides reattaching lost limbs?" Phosphora said a bit annoyed.

"Yeah, something besides that." Magnus replied. "Gods don't bleed, right?"

"Honestly, I don't know." Dark Pit replied.

"Sorry, we have to keep it rated E10+ you know." Hades replied.

"What is he talking about?" Magnus asked.

"No idea." Dark Pit replied.

Magnus just stared at Hades. "But something just feels really off about this. And I don't like it."

Magnus rushed towards Hades, and swung his sword once again. This time the God managed to block the attack with his hands. Although, it looked like stopping the sword did some damage to Hades' arms.

There was a cracking sound. And Hades' arms fell to his side and just hung there limply. There were more disgusting cracking sounds, and he suddenly could move them again. He just looked at the three of them. "How troublesome..."

"Trust me, it's only going to get a lot worst!" Magnus said. He swung his sword once again, however Hades blocked the attack with his bare hands. This time, the attack didn't do anything.

"I grow bored of this battle..." Hades muttered. "And I wanted to go meet with my brother today..."

"Your brother?" Dark Pit said.

"Poseidon." Hades replied. "Ah well. I guess I just need to take out the trash before that happens."

Hades rushed towards Dark Pit, however Phosphora appeared in front of him and created a giant ball made out of electricity. She threw it towards him and he tried to swat it away, however as soon as it touched him, the electricity flowed through through him, stunning him.

"Angelic Arte Five!" Dark Pit shouted.

Meteors began to come through the wall of the castle, and flew right at Hades. He was unable to block as the attacks began to rapidly buffet against him.

Around Dark Pit, Phosphora, and Magnus there was a barrier. If a Meteor went towards them, it was immediately reflected.

After the attack ended, Hades just stood there and looked annoyed. He looked around at all of the damage that had been done to his castle.

"Do you have any idea how long it will take to clean this up?" Hades said rather annoyed. "Maybe I'll take your souls and make the three of you my maids for all eternity."

"I'd like to see you try." Dark Pit laughed.

Hades just laughed. "Very well then. Prepare to die!"

He rushed towards Dark Pit once again.

"Angelic Arte Six!" Dark Pit shouted. "Gungnir!"

Hades just froze. Above Dark Pit a normal looking spear appeared. It suddenly began to spin and it rushed right for Hades. He dodged, however much to his surprise the spear suddenly turned and followed his every move.

"Unfortunately for you, Gungnir never misses it's mark!" Dark Pit laughed.

Hades just stopped moving, and only dodged enough so that only his right arm was hit by the spear. Upon contact, it ripped through the arm. After it had gone through Hades it immediately disappeared. Hades just stood there a bit dumbfounded.

"You did good only letting one spot get hit." Dark Pit said.

Hades just scoffed. "Going by your previous changes to the Angelic Artes, there was probably a reason. More special plants and materials from Viridi?"

"You catch on quick." Dark Pit laughed. "For starters, the spear itself was made out of sacred and blessed objects. The most notable one that on the spear there was the engraving of a prayer that allows souls to pass on to the afterlife. Essentially just getting them away from you for the time being. The ink that I used to write this one was made with a combination of different things. But the main effects are, it melts away skin, and it slows down cell growth. The main thing is, you're not going to be able to regenerate that arm for a while."

Hades' calm demeanor had vanished. "You know, I was interested in your thirteen Angelic Artes." Hades said rather annoyed. "But it's getting to the point where my curiosity will kill me."

"If you know yourself, and know your enemy, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles." Dark Pit replied. "I know a whole lot about you from your previous battle with Pit! And you either just thought of me as a side character, or as some lesser copy of him. This is your loss Hades."

Hades just laughed. Not one of his jovial laughs, but this was a mocking laugh. "My loss? Boy, do you know who you're dealing with? I am a God!"

"Yeah, just keep saying that!" Dark Pit said. "Even Gods can fall!"

"But it will take much more to fell me!" Hades said. Suddenly a wave of energy was released from him, and it hit all of them head on.

Dark Pit, Phosphora, and Magnus were sent flying, and collided into a wall. All three of them just gasped for air. "I don't believe this, he was supposed to be weaker..." Dark Pit said, getting up and trying to aim his bow.

"I am weaker." Hades said, walking towards them. "But, I don't think Pitty Pat's rejected clone, a human, and one of Viridi's guard dogs are enough to beat me."

Magnus just held his sword. "So, you're underestimating me, eh?" Magnus laughed, standing up and walking forwards.

"A pitiful human such as yourself is no match for me." Hades replied. "You who chose to go and fight for this cause because of some cheap wine?"

Dark Pit just charged up an arrow. "So you've been watching us this whole time?" He asked.

"You should all ready know that I'm omnipotent."

Magnus just laughed. "Is that so? Well, I doubt that's the case. Otherwise you wouldn't have called me a normal human."

Magnus was just looking at the old man. He had a massive hammer, around the head of the hammer there was a fire that seemed to burn with a holy flame. He had a long white beard.

"We fought with Pit." Magnus said. "I did what you wanted me to do, why am I still here?"

"Is that any way to respond to a God?" The old man said. "Ah, well, I'll let it slide, since your fight with Palutena's chicken was good. I called you here because I wanted to see your sword." His name was Dyntos, the God of the Forge.

Magnus just held his sword out in front of him. Dyntos just took it. Despite looking like a frail old man, he just lifted it up with more ease than Magnus. "I wouldn't exactly call this a sword, more like a club... it's crude, but gets the job done. I guess it's just like it's master."

"You can cut the crap old man, I know you didn't just call me here because you wanted to see my sword." Magnus said.

Dyntos just looked at Magnus. "Despite your appearances, you're smarter than you let on. You're right, yes there was another reason I called you here. Your sword as you know it won't last much longer. It's damaged. In the fight against Pit, you really went all out. You can see the chips on it from all the battles you did. But I didn't call you here about that, either."

Magnus just looked at Dyntos rather confused. "Then why did you call me here?"

"Right now Pit is going to fight Hades, and finish this battle." Dyntos said. "I think though that this will only be the beginning."

"Are you saying that Pit is going to lose?" Magnus asked.

"No," Dyntos replied. "It's going to be the beginning of something else. Hades will be defeated here. You remember the Aurum invasion 3 years ago?"

Dyntos just looked at Magnus, waiting for a reply. "Yes."

"Maybe it's just my own bones, but they are sensing something, something bigger." Dyntos said. "You humans know about Gods, but there are creatures out there that even Gods fear. Eldritch beasts. They may be coming soon. And your sword..."

"You said it was damaged?" Magnus said.

Dyntos just nodded. "I'll reforge it. Make it even stronger than any other human weapon. And make it last."

"I see, so I get a new sword then." Magnus said.

"Indeed. Make yourself comfortable. This will take a while."

Dyntos soon began to get to work on remaking Magnus' sword. He melted the sword down, mixed in new metals. "It is as I feared." He said.

"What?" Magnus asked.

"You've killed many monsters from the underworld, their blood has seeped into the blade." Dyntos said. "Normally, such a weapon would be cursed, and you would fall under that power as well... But you resisted."

Magnus just looked at Dyntos a bit confused.

"Strange. And your union with Pit, no mater how short, has also blessed you. Interesting."

"What are you talking about?"

Dyntos just laughed. "I guess this is beyond a mere mortal such as yourself..."

"You're talking in riddles, just spell it out old man." Magnus grumbled.

"Your sword has become something very interesting." Dyntos laughed. "Something that could even slay a God."

"Before this, I was only using the blunt side of my sword." Magnus said. "Now, why don't I show you it's true power!"

Magnus just flipped the sword and ran towards Hades. He swung the sword, however Hades went to catch it just like he had previously. However upon contact, the sword immediately cut through Hades' hand.

"That dull looking thing can actually cut?!" Hades said surprised. He looked down at his remaining hand, however he was finding that it wasn't regenerating.

"Yeah, it can cut." Magnus replied. "It's been by my side and through so many battles that it's gotten some special abilities. At least according to Dyntos."

"The God of the Forge." Hades said. "Interesting..."

Magnus rushed towards Hades once again and swung the sword. This time Hades just jumped back to avoid it.

"Angelic Arte seven, eight, and nine!" Dark Pit said. Suddenly a three arrows hit Hades. The next few seconds Hades was frozen in place.

"My sight... I can't see?! What did you do?! Why can't I move my body?" Hades asked.

"Those three arrows were to paralyze you. In the event that the paralyzing didn't work, then there was one that made you blind. And Also the third one was made to completely screw up your perception of where you are, and was made with a fungus that had the properties of causing someone to be completely disoriented, and caused their body to not listen to them." Dark Pit explained. "Essentially, now the end result is you're a sitting duck for the three of us!"

"After the last ones, these are a little low key don't you think?" Hades wondered.

"Well, I figured if the flashy attacks didn't work, I'd fall back to KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid!" Dark Pit replied.

"Three more, I need to survive." Hades laughed.

"If you can survive us beating the crap out of you." Magnus said. He swung his sword and bashed Hades with it, causing him to stagger to the ground. Phosphora threw several metal rods down into the ground around Hades and sent electricity to them and through Hades.

"Angelic Arte Ten!" Dark Pit said.

A barrier appeared around Hades, trapping him inside. "You're not going to get out of this one easily." Dark Pit laughed. "The materials used for this one included a weed that was a pain even for Viridi. Once it ensnares another plant, it won't let go until that plant is dead! It squeezes and crushes trees. There's no way you're getting out of that so easily!"

Hades was clearly struggling, to get out of the barrier. "Angelic Arte 11!" Dark Pit said.

Suddenly the barrier began to shrink, crushing Hades within it. Arrows began to rush for the barrier and pierce it, also piercing the lord of the Underworld.

"And now, It's over Hades!" Dark Pit just laughed. "Angelic Arte 12!"

A circle just appeared around Hades, and a beam of constant energy came raining down upon Hades. He couldn't move his body, and could only watch as what was left began to disintegrate and be vaporized by the constant rain of energy. When it ended, the only parts of his body that remained were his chest and head.

"It's over." Dark Pit said. "You'll just be a disembodied spirit once again. Or at least that's what I'd say, if I didn't plan for that as well." Dark Pit pulled out a card. "Your soul will be trapped in here for all eternity! It's over!"

But from the darkness a voice said: "Damn it, Hades. This is just embarrassing, can you stop playing around?"

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Do you want to save?

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Party: Alex, Zoroark, Saki, Isaac, Noah, Lucas, Samus, Hayden, Ness, Roy, Shulk, Reyn, Sharla, Dunban, Melia, Riki, Adam, Anthony, Red Shirt 1, Red Shirt 2, Red Shirt 3

8 Chosen Champions Remain

Notes:

Well this is much shorter than nearly every other chapter...

Yes, I am fully aware that Kid Icarus is supposed to be a play on Greek Mythology, and Gungnir is from Norse Mythology.

I can't say I'm too happy about this chapter. The majority of my commentary and complaints about Other M were in the previous chapter, and I felt like I had nothing left. I mean I could have Samus parrot the whole thing about removing the ice weakness from metroids is pointless if you can control them in their later stages as well where they naturally gain the immunity to ice. And with the changes to the plot that I made, I really can't bring them up. So yeah "Colonel Douche who's name I don't actually know but is voiced by the same guy who did Ike's Father Commander Greil in Fire Emblem" won't appear...

Well I guess I could of done the whole thing of how it appeared that MB didn't have the three laws of robotics programmed into her...

Things seem way too rushed for me. But I just wanted to post something for November, and move on. I may edit this chapter again later.

With the announcement of Cloud, I was debating about going back into that section in chapter 8 and editing him in with the rest of the characters that Alex saw... I may or may not do that...

Until next time.