I don't own anything Smash related beside customs Miis(We own those, right?) and frustration from having to edit this chapter three times due to accidentally link clicking
When Sonic came too, he had been expecting smiles of slight relief and then a heaping of bad news, not for the entire mood to be a funeral march.
"Doctor Mario, what the heck happened?" Sonic sat up and winched at the sudden pang in his chest, "How long was I out?" Doctor Mario looked up from some paper work with tired eyes, "A total of three days, Shadow assumes that you had a bad reaction to being pulled into the shadows and was recovering."
"So what happened?" Sonic ignored the pang in his chest and jumped off the medical bed, "Everything seems. Gloomier…"
Doctor Mario sighed and tossed Sonic a paper pad, "Yesterday, we were attacked by Shadow Bugs. We lost a ton of people due to the Subspace black holes and the attacks." Sonic flipped through it and felt a weight settle in his stomach.
"We would have lost everyone if this little robot didn't show up." Doctor Mario frowned then he added, "I think he called himself Emerl, and said that he wanted to bring Hope to Humanity."
"Hope to Humanity…?" Sonic blinked before a huge smile appeared, "Well, then, let's get started!" Doctor Mario frowned in surprise as Sonic sprinted out of the room, probably to talk to survivors.
"Hey guys!" Sonic grinned as Blue, Vio, Red and Toon looked at him from the abandoned café, they managed a weary smile and waved hello, "Yikes, I guess yesterday's attack was a big deal." Sonic said, Blue laughed and grumbled, "You have no idea."
"Yea!" Sonic jumped as Shadow materialized out of the floor and floated a couple inches off the floor, "We got attacked by the creepy children cult!"
"You mean the villagers?" Sonic asked.
"Same thing!"
"Okay then." Sonic turned to Toon who was studying Shulk, Lucina and Phoenix, they were talking about something while rubbing the back of their hand, "Something wrong?" Sonic asked.
Toon frowned and shrugged, "I'm not sure, yesterday, Shulk went bonkers and was controlled or something. When Emerl's friends stopped Ta, Shulk woke up with a headache and his hand was glowing."
"Man, Ta knows how to get into everyone's head." Sonic grumbled, Red nodded in agreement and played with his hat, "I think he messed with Dark Pit the most though, after they defeated Yellow Devil a black hole opened up and took Pit or something like that."
"Well, that explains why the main hall is a mess." Sonic acknowledged, studying the broken chairs and table that had been thrown into the center of the room. Vio nodded in agreement, "More or less, anyway the Council's meeting for a plan of action."
"Sweet! Catch ya guys later!" and with that Sonic sped off, he was determined to help out in some way or another. Sure, he had been out for most of the main events, but coming in late to the party seemed to be a recurring action.
"Hey guys!" Sonic winched as he was meet with frustrated glares, "No luck huh?"
"Well, for the time being we were trying to figure out what Adlez Keihs could mean." Link said, he gestured toward pieces of used paper and random drawings, "Of course, it didn't work since all we get is Zelda Sheik."
"Maybe that's what it means." Sonic suggested, Pikachu frowned and tilted his ears in confusion, "But Zelda and Sheik are on our side." He turned to Samus who seemed very uncomfortable with the topic at hand, "Right?" Samus squirmed and mumbled, "Yea…" earning skeptic glares, "Samus…" Link started, sounding like an adult, "Where's Sheik?" Samus squirmed some more before she confessed, "She's with Mask…But she's still on our side!"
"So Adlez Kiehs is Shiek?" Mario questioned in disbelief, Samus shrugged and wrung her hands, "After the first attack Sheik went over to spy on them, saying that no one would really miss her and how she could easily get in and out. She got caught or something." She hesitated before she added, "Mask came by to deliver a letter from her, to let me know that she was safe. But I haven't really heard from her after that."
"So Shiek's off on the bad guy's side and we're trapped in a box." Sonic guessed.
"Not to mention that whatever Ta's planning, it's going to happen today." Pikachu added, "The Spark Squad and Shadow aren't sure what to expect since they were only around for the first few missions."
"Plus for some reason," Samus started, "No one's heard from the Miis since the attacks started."
Sonic grimaced at how slim their chance of survival was, "Well, what about the owners?" Sonic suggested, "They helped us save the day in Brawl! They can help!"
"They haven't been online." Mario said, "And I doubt they would be able to figure out what was going on without breaking the tournament rules."
"Tournament rules?" Sonic jumped as Adventure jumped onto the table, "Which rules are we talking about? And how come we can't get the goofy owners to even the odds?"
Kirby frowned and nodded in agreement, liking Adventure's question, Samus sighed and tried to explain, "It's like Melee, we're all in a big tournament where we hang out and relax. Master Hand broadcasts our victories to another world, in turn the other world thinks that there playing a game, not knowing about our world. There are probably hundreds of thousand different broadcasts with different versions of us."
"Soooo, there would be an army of Pichus?" Adventure asked, hopeful that the answer would be a 'yes'.
"No, there are only four Pichus." Mario bluntly answered, Adventure growled and hopped off the table, he was about to crawl back into the vent when he stopped and yelled, "Yea well, there are now only four Pikachus!"
"What?!" Pikachu scrambled after Pichu who booked it, yelling, "I regret nothing!"
They all stared at the vent before Sonic suggested, "Maybe we could place motion bombs around the train station." Link shook his head no, "Megaman attempted that before he was turned into a trophy, but the item de-spawned since we were outside a proper stage."
"Those cannons?"
Mario shook his head, "Same with the motion bombs."
"Here's an idea!" they looked up to see Marth who was smiling, "How about we try seeing everyone's plan of action? Get a picture of the possible outcome."
"That sounds like a good idea." Mario said, the he frowned and asked, "But… why are you smiling?"
"Because Dark Pit and I stumbled upon Mask." Marth said, "And at the moment, every victory counts." Samus nodded in agreement with his statement.
"Great!" Link practically knocked his chair over, "Where is he?" Marth frowned slightly and said, "Hate to break it to you, but Mask is out cold. We threw him in a lake and he didn't even flinch!"
Link slumped slightly his hope of getting a rematch crushed into a thousand pieces.
"Come on!" Sonic said sounding slightly frustrated, "We have a war to win!"
"Alright, so here's what's going to happen." Link announced, "We need a plan of strategy to defend ourselves against Ta's army." Zelda nodded slightly and glanced around the main hall, everyone was there, battered, bruised but grim determined frowns on their faces.
"Any volunteers?" Mario asked. Zelda winched as only a couple people raised their hands, Lucina, Marth and oddly enough, Gannondorf.
"Gannondorf?" Samus questioned, Gannondorf stood up with a smug smirk, "It's simple, they invaded our base. So we invade there's." Metaknight's eyes flashed a light red asking, "But is it safe to travel into their world?"
"We believe so." Pikachu said, "After all, Sheik has been scouting the area for a while now."
Really? Zelda glanced at Palautana who also looked surprised, "Lucina, what's your-," Mario started to say when someone yelled, "It's a trap!" startling everyone into turning around and facing a green hedgehog in an apple green vest, she was breathing hard as she wearily pointed behind her, "Under… Attack… Help…Needed." She gasped,
"Who are you?" Falco asked, the hedgehog shook her head wheezing, "Jewel. But right now…. Danger." Then she vanished in a cloud of numbers.
"Everyone-," Link started to say when someone in the far back raised their hand, at first Zelda assumed it was Rosalina since she had changed into her white and red tipped dress, but when the figure spoke, the voice was empty. Full of nothingness.
"How upset will everyone be," the figure- no, man asked, "To find that Rosalina was attacked by the Ice Climbers and turned into a trophy." The crowd split apart revealing a man with long white hair that covered an eye and a loose red and white robe.
Zero readied her gun and fired, Zelda gasped in surprise when the man didn't even blink, he merely looked ahead, a blank expression on his face, "I suppose the answer is very, upset." The man mused.
"Who are you!?" Zero demanded, backing up with the crowd as they tried to distance themselves from the strange man, "I, am Zero." He announced, although his voice was still empty, "Leader of the Dark Matter." He took a clumsily step forward and looked at Kirby who glared at him.
"Hey! You can't be Zero!" Samus argued, Zero with white hair looked up at Samus then slowly focused on Zero with a gun, "Is it because she too, is named Zero? I sense anger."
"Yes, that's my name!" Zero snapped, firing another shot at the creepy man, "Well, that can be fixed." He glanced behind him and said, "02 destroy her."
"As you wish." A man who looked similar to the first man appeared floating above him. A grey bandage covering one eye while he glared down at Zero with his puffy good eye, "Of course, a pathic human would dare copy my Master's name." 02 spat, before anyone could react a circle of crystals appeared around Zero and sliced through her. Knocking her to the ground as a trophy.
"Scatter!" Link ordered, Zelda yelped and dived to the side, grabbing someone as they avoided a blast of ice. "Ah-ah!" a voice teased, Zelda looked up to see a woman in a white multicolored robe, hovering above them, "You aren't going anywhere!" Miracle teased.
"Farore's wind!" Zelda yelped, closing her eyes and picturing the forest while a gust of wind wrapped around her. Miracle pouted and glanced around the room, Kirby and Metaknight had foolishly stayed behind, attempting to fight off her Masters while Scourge happily pounded Sonic into the dirt.
"I love the smell of destruction in the morning!" Miracle chirped. "Stop being happy." Zero ordered.
"Sorry master…"
"Are you alright?"
"I believe so." Peach looked around then back at Zelda, "Where are we?"
"Somewhere in the woods." Zelda replied, she looked around a bush and stood up, "Come on, we need to regroup in order to defend ourselves." Peach shakily nodded and followed her. They carefully stepped around tree branches and bushes, trying not to make a sound as they headed for the main area of the park. The entire time Peach could have sworn that people were laughing from the shadows.
Mocking them and their hopeless situation.
"Um… Zelda," Zelda glanced behind her and slowed, "What is it Peach?"
"What in the world is that beeping sound?" Peach asked. Zelda frowned and looked around, "It sounds like…" she stiffened and hissed, "Mines." Peach paled and tried not to move as the beeping seemed to pound in her ears, "Huh, looks like you do remember the sound of bombs." A voice said.
"Hard to forget Snake." Zelda retorted, Peach tried to look around but Snake entered her field of vision, "Now, now." Snake warned a smirk curling on his lips, "One wrong move Princesses, and you'll be blown to high heaven."
Peach frowned, not understanding the joke while Zelda growled and lit her hand with Din's fire, Snake raised an eyebrow in surprise but didn't say anything, instead, he pulled out a small bomb and tossed it at their feet. "Have fun." Snake said, "I have a rat to sniff out."
"What rat?" Peach asked, "Is it Mouser?"
"Uh… No, it's green, annoying and has weird green and black hand warmers." Snake replied, and with that he melted into the forest, the only sign of him ever being there was the bomb.
"I wonder why he's attacking that Jewel person." Zelda mumbled, Peach shrugged and studied the bomb, "Maybe he wants her over for a tea party?" Peach suggested, Zelda threw her a 'your joking, right?' look and grabbed her arm, teleporting them out of harm's way.
"Come on. If Snake is ditching the battlefield, then there has to be a good reason!" Zelda said. Peach nodded in agreement and followed her.
"PK Love!"
Gannondorf growled softly and sidestepped, avoiding the giant laser beam of pink magic, "Ready to give up?" a boy who looked similar to Lucas taunted, "How about you shut up?" Ganondorf retorted, he dove forward for a choke attack but he was blasted by a bolt of lightning, "Stay away from my brother!" Lucas snapped.
"You have a brother?" Mario questioned, he hurled a fireball at Lucas who jumped out of the way.
"Why is everyone surprised about this?" Lucas's brother grumbled. Lucas shrugged and used PK Freeze, "I guess it's because you were dead for a while Claus."
"Oh lovely," Gannondorf grumbled, "A Redead."
"A what now?" Claus questioned, Mario sprinted forward yelling, "None of your business!" and planting a well time punch to Claus's face, Gannondorf raised his eyebrow in surprise, apparently, Luigi's trophy attack had left the plumber more unhinged that he thought. Oh well.
Now was the time to fight, not stand around. Although he really wished that he had his sword and not just his magic…
"PK Love!" Lucas yelled, forcing Gannondorf to roll to the side and charge forward, "Gotcha!" Gannondorf sneered, Lucas sqruimed in his grasp and sent him a glare full of malice, something that didn't belong in the usually timid boy's eyes.
"Leave my brother alone!" Claus yelled, "PK Love!"
"Really? You're going to risk hurting your own brother?" Gannondorf taunted, all to prepared to use Lucas as a human shield, "No," Claus said, a smirk on his face. Gannondorf winched as the laser blasted off of Lucas then slammed into a tree, which promptly fell over.
"I'm going to use him as a deflector!"
Gannondorf cursed and dropped Lucas before Claus could try again, "Mario, how about you do us all a favor and start being helpful!" Gannondorf snapped, Mario glared at him and blasted Claus with F.L.U.D.D knocking him into a bush.
"Hey Ganny!" Lucas taunted, Gannondorf glared down at the child and quickly found himself flying in the air, "Lamest villain ever!" Lucas yelled as Gannondorf felt his body stiffen and become solid stone, "I really wanted my sword." Were Gannondorf's last words before he was officially, out of the game.
"Huh, that was easier than I thought." Claus mused, he crawled out of the bush and dusted himself off, ignoring Mario completely as he joined Lucas's side, "Now what?" Claus asked.
"We could see what Wolf is doing." Lucas suggested.
"Hey wait!" Lucas and Claus turned, and waved hello at Mario, who was looking ready to set the entire park on fire, "If you forgot, we're still fighting!" Mario growled.
"Yea, but we weren't fighting you." Lucas deadpanned, Claus nodded in agreement and grinned, "Have fun with the grand finale!" and started to head for the center of the park.
"Grand… Finale?" Mario repeated, not looking the sounds of that. With a sigh, he adjusted his cap and looked around the woods, "Does Ta want survivors then? For this 'grand finale'?" Mario wondered. If he did, then that would make some of the fighting easier, some. Those who were chosen for this grand finale could put themselves in the line of fire. Or something.
Mario frowned and headed into the woods, war strategies were never his forte, he was an action person going off of what little he knew to stop the bad guy. But this entire mess was a game of cat and mouse, they were being puppeteer along and Mario was stuck in the background, unable to help plan ahead, only able to work in the moment.
"What are you doing?!" Mario looked up and winched as Dark Pit slammed into Shulk with his electroshock arm, what was going on?
"Hey! Knock it off you two!" Mario ordered, breaking into a sprint to prevent the argument from spiraling out of control. Dark Pit looked up, a grim face of determination etched into his eyes. "Stay out of the way Mario." Dark Pit ordered, "Or I won't hesitate to knock you out."
Mario frowned and slowed down, "What are on earth are you talking about! Ta's the enemy here! Not Shulk!"
"What about Lucina?" Marth asked, Mario was about to look at Marth in disbelief when Lucina beat him too it, "Marth you cannot be-," it happened so fast that Mario must have been dreaming, one moment Lucina was scowling at the Prince of Fire Emblem saying something, then with a swoosh she was frozen in stone, a blade through her chest.
"Lucina!" Shulk yelled, while Mario ran and punched Marth in the in face, "What's gotten into you!?" Mario demanded. Marth winched and gently touched the bruise on his check, "Huh, so this is what pain feels like." Marth mused.
"What?" Shulk stood up on wobbly legs and glared at Marth, "What's going on?"
Marth shoved Mario off of him and grinned at Shulk, "Why Monado boy! I thought you would remember me!" he pouted and placed a hand over his heart, "That stings."
"Stop fooling around." Dark Pit growled, "I thought you wanted this to be over."
"True, true." Marth said, he stood up and clumsily held his sword, the tip pointing at Shulk's chest, Shulk backed up slightly and prepared his own sword. "For the last time, WHAT IS GOING ON HERE?!" Mario demanded, Dark Pit glared at him and snapped, "Unlike you, I'm doing something worthwhile."
"Backstabbing your friend is worthwhile?" Shulk questioned.
"I have no friends." Dark Pit snarled, "And unlike you idiots, I don't have the pleasure of only looking out for myself."
"What?" Mario and Shulk exchanged baffled looks, Marth happily stepped forward and placed a hand on Dark Pit's shoulder, Dark Pit flinched but didn't dare shake him off. "You see, Dark Pit and Pit are connected." Marth explained, "If one birdie goes down, the other follows."
"But what does Marth have to do with this?" Shulk questioned. Marth's grin grew wider as Dark Pit spat, "Are you really that dense?! He's being controlled!"
"By the all mighty Tabuu!" Marth chirped.
"Ta who now?" Shulk questioned, while Mario paled, everything vaguely clicking into place, Marth snickered and taunted, "Bet you wished you knew this ages ago Mario, after all. Who else would have a big enough motive and power to bring back so many forgotten characters?"
"That's impossible!" Mario argued, "You can't be Tabuu! You're in Brawl!" Marth laughed and spun his sword in a circle, "Oh Mario, you really understand nothing about this world." He grinned and locked eyes with Mario, "You see, Nintendo, the wonderful yet surprisingly deaf company that created this whole tournament, put in an army of new characters and created HD stages and terrible custom stage parts."
"That stages aren't that bad!" Shulk protested, then he thought about that and grumbled, "Okay, so almost all the custom stages the owners make are a bit broken. And annoying, but still!"
Marth or rather Tabuu rolled his eyes and continued, "But despite the new shiny stages you guys get to fight on, they still have hints of Brawl's data! Including Ridely, one of the many bosses of, you guessed it! Brawl!"
Mario took a step back as Tabuu took a step forward his motions becoming more animated as he kept talking, "It wasn't that hard to find the delated and beta data that Nintendo placed in Smash 4 for awakening the forgotten characters from Brawl, once I got a handle on the broken data I made a kingdom for everyone forgotten! Using the past stages of Melee to bring those cute little Pichus back!"
"So you got a new home." Shulk said, "Why come after us!?"
"Because, I want revenge." Tabuu simply said, "I'm a bit of a control freak-,"
"A bit?" Dark Pit questioned, Tabuu ignored him and kept talking, "and my awesome plan from last game didn't work out how I wanted to, like now, I was trapped in a world called Subspace, but wanted to invade the world known as Smash, that failed of course."
"Thank god." Mario muttered, Tabuu glared at him and stabbed the tree behind him, his cheerful facade quickly being replaced by an ugly sneer that did not belong on Marth's face.
"Oh and course, I can't forget about those gods of yours," Tabuu sneered, "The only people preventing this world from falling apart are Master Hand and Crazy Hand, but once I get rid of them, well…" the sneer vanished and was replaced with a cheerful smile as Tabuu sang, "Bye-Bye Smash 4~!" and spun in a little circle.
"Which isn't going to happen if you don't hurry up and move!" Dark Pit snapped, Tabuu pouted and grumbled, "Well excuse me if I wanted to rub salt in the wound, and besides, I thought you wanted to stop and destroy Lady angle of laser beams?" Dark Pit scowled but said nothing.
"You won't get any with this!" Mario said. Tabuu groaned and waved his hand in a bored circle, "Really. What is with you heroes and saying that line? It's old! And, if I remember correctly, you needed the help of a random speed racer in order to save the day."
Tabuu grinned and folded his arms, "And Master Hand and Crazy Hand's summoned hero isn't going to last long, my forces are wiping out her hiding spot while we speak. So, Ta-ta!" and with that, Tabuu left with a flourish of Marth's cape.
Dark Pit sent Shulk and Mario a glare before he followed Tabuu, heading for the 2-player challenge arena.
"What are we going to do?" Shulk asked, Mario fixed his hat and said, "Warn the others and get rid of these forgotten soldiers.
"Alright. This has gone on far enough!" Blue declared, he stopped and glared at the forest surrounding them, Palautena and Phoenix nodded in agreement, after they had been forced to scatter, the Four Swords Trio, Green, Palautena and Phoenix had entered the woods, hoping for a slight edge over their attackers.
But the moment they entered the heart of the forest Shadow and Palatena had sensed some dark magic, preventing them from leaving. Whoever had put the spell in place seemed to have a sense of humor since the sign kept changing every time they tried to find the exit.
The first sign had read, 'Welcome to the forest maze! :D' then, 'Getting tired yet?' and finally, 'Death to angles! :D' after Palautena tried to blast a tree with light magic.
"This is pointless." Vio grumbled, "Whoever's here won't let us leave." Toon and Red nodded in agreement, "I wonder why though." Shadow mused, "Everyone else was, attack first toy later. But this guy…" Shadow trailed off and leaned against a tree, Blue try to do the same but fell through the tree.
"Oh great!" Blue snapped, "The trees are made out of shadows! Peachy! Just peachy!"
"And there's that lovely temper of yours." A voice drawled. Shadow looked up and blinked at Blue, who was casually resting on a tree branch, eyeing the group with slight interest.
"Why are there two blues?" Red asked, slowly inching toward Vio who was preparing his borrowed bow, the phony Blue raised an eyebrow and frowned slightly, "Really? Are you that forgetful?" Blue pulled out the Skull hammer and tapped his foot, "Here's an idea! How about we've never meet you before!"
The phony Blue frowned and glanced down at the shadow covered floor, "It's official, they lost their minds Royal." Phoenix frowned and pulled out her spell tomb, "There are more of them?" Phoenix asked as Palautena readied her staff, "Apparently so." Palautena growled.
"Aww!" a voice cooed, they jumped and turned around, weapons at the ready as a second Red walked out of the shadows, a deranged grin fixed firmly on his face as he carried a rod with an ice cube attached, "The wittle angle's scared!" the fake Red cooed, "I think she's needs a nap."
"Is anyone getting the crazy vibe for this guy?" Toon asked. "Actually, he's quiet sane at the moment." Toon spun around and attacked only to miss a second Vio who laughed and flipped backwards, easily landing on his pegasus boots, "Geez Green! You've gotten-," the phony Vio started to say when he noticed something, "Whoa! There are two Breeze's!?" phony Vio exclaimed.
"Breeze?" Toon questioned, "I'm Toon Link!"
The phony Red rolled his eyes and mocked, "And I'm the cry baby Red. Big whoop!" Red frowned and held up his sword, "I am not a cry baby!"
"Are too!" the phony Red screeched, startling Red. Shadow frowned and pulled out his out sword, "Alright, who are you guys?" he demanded, "No more fooling around!" the phony Vio blinked in surprise and allowed his disguise to melt away.
Revealing a boy who looked almost exactly like Shadow, only his tunic was a deep royal purple and his bang was styled different, "Uh, hello? It's us, your brothers." The phony Vio said.
"You have brothers?" Phoenix asked, "What? No!" Shadow argued, "There's only one shadow and that's me!" the phony Vio frowned, and folded his arms, "So that Ta guy was right."
"Apparently so." The phony Blue sighed, "And here I was, hoping that something easy would come along." The colors melted away, revealing another boy who looked like Shadow, only his tunic was a navy blue and his bang was choppier.
"Come Crimson." The boy in the royal purple tunic said, "Might as well drop the disguise." Crimson grinned and happily watched the colors melt off, revealing a crimson red tunic and a slightly neater bang.
"Finally!" Crimson exclaimed, "I HATE pure red." Royal rolled his eyes and glanced at up the boy in the navy tunic, "So are you going to be a snail today Navy or-,"
"Just because I prefer to take it slow and easy Royal," Navy said, sounding slightly annoyed with his look-alike, "Does not make a me a snail." Royal grinned and said, "Are too!" before he sprinted forward, "Scatter!" Vio ordered,
Royal laughed and quickly changed course, gunning for Vio who had jumped side ways to avoid the first attack, "And your still predicable!" Royal sneered, he slammed into Vio and rolled off him, bouncing back up with a grin, Navy rolled his eyes and jumped down, a poison purple snake whip curling around his arm, "Let's end this quickly." Navy said with a small smirk.
"In your dreams phony!" Blue roared, he lunged forward with the Skull Hammer, which Navy easily stole with the help of his whip, "Nagi, why don't you teach Blue a little lesson about being rash?" Navy asked, the snake whip jumped to life and latched onto Blue's arm, "Ow! Poison fangs! Poison fangs!" Blue yelped as Navy hurled him into a tree.
"Don't worry Blue!" Toon said, pulling out his boomerang, "I got ya covered!" he hurled it at Navy who merely snapped his fingers and summoned an onslaught of thunder bolts, each blast blinding them. Shadow winched and prepared for the light to hurt him, but instead felt the soothing rush of darkness engulf him with each blast.
"Crimson! Aim for Red's ankle!" Royal yelled, Crimson laughed and said, "On it!" Shadow opened his eyes, winching from the bright blasts of light and fired a bolt of shadow magic at Crimson who was blasting Red with ice magic, "Hey!" Crimson yelped as he was sent tumbling into a tree, "That was… weaker." Crimson realized, he sat up and frowned at Shadow, "Are you okay Shadow? You look… Pale."
Shadow grimaced since he was still recovering from that dumb angle blast but managed to sneer, "Since when would you care? You're the enemy." Crimson recoiled slightly, a look of hurt briefly replacing his unsure smile, it quickly vanished when Phoenix finally recovered and yelled, "Arcfire!" firing a fireball at Royal.
"Hey!" Crimson snarled, "I'M! The only person allowed to set fire to everything!" Royal laughed as the fire dissipated and spun on his heel, avoiding a couple arrows from Vio, "Careful fire bird! Crimson means business!"
Crimson laughed and set his hands aflame, "THIS! Is how you set a fire!" he waved his hands, summoning a wall of fire that surrounded Phoenix, "Elf wind!" Phoenix yelled, Crimson pouted slightly but quickly recovered, blasting Phoenix mid-air with his Ice rod, "Freeze birdie freeze!"
"Shut up you psycho-path!" Shadow yelled, summoning a giant bomb and hurling it at Crimson. Crimson laughed and caught it with ease, "My turn!" Crimson chirped, happily hurling the bomb at Palautena who was firing blasts of light at Navy who was blocking them with his shield, "KA-Boom!" Crimson screeched, laughing as it slammed into Palautena, exploded and sent her skidding along the grass.
"And there goes the Angle." Royal said,
"So uh, anyone have a plan?" Toon asked, he ducked as Royal dashed past him, sword swinging, "Besides getting beat up!?" Navy chuckled and stroked Nagi, "Getting beat up is a wonderful plan for you four."
"Is not!" Red argued, Blue nodded in agreement and tried to attack Navy with his sword, only to get it stolen by Nagi, "Are you just going to steal every weapon I have?!" Blue demanded.
Navy smirked and said, "Why yes, that was what I was aiming for." Royal happily jumped on Blue's head and landed on a tree branch, "Come on! We at least ten minutes before Breeze gets out!" he spread his arms and chanted something in a different language, it sounded vaguely familiar to Shadow, but he was busy fending off Crimson who seemed determent to hack Red to pieces to pin-point where he heard it before.
"Aim for Red's ankle Crimmy!" Royal advised then he jumped down and landed on Vio who was fighting against Navy, or trying to since Nagi would lash out and try to steal his bow, "So how that headache of yours Vio?" Royal taunted, slamming the flat edge of his blade down on Vio's head, Vio stifled a yelp of pain and collapsed, clutching his head.
"Hm, gonna need some ice for that." Royal mused, Navy rolled his eyes and fired a bolt of lightning at Phoenix, she rolled out of the way and yelled "Thunder!" Royal yelped and shadowy wall sprang out of the ground, "Geez! I thought you were a fire bird! Not a spark bird!" Royal joked.
"Who cares!" Crimson yelled, Shadow stood up and looked around, trying to figure out who to attack, the entire battle was a blur of action, Palautena was using a stick to battle Navy who was slowly walking toward her, sword in hand while Blue and Toon were trying to slow down Royal who was happily creating platforms to jump on and strike from above. Vio was on the ground, gritting his teeth as he waited for his concussion to fade while Phoenix attempted to give back up.
Shadow glanced behind him to see how Red was doing when he felt something invisible stomped hard on his ankle. Shadow fell to the ground stifling a scream as the pressure increased.
"About time!" Royal exclaimed, Shadow looked at Red and bit his tongue when he saw Crimson gleefully stepping on Red's sprained ankle, "What did you do?" Blue demanded, then he winched as bit his sleeve, resisting the urge to scream in pain. Royal jumped off his latest platform and landed beside Vio, "You guys remember that random incantation I said?" Royal asked.
Palautena grimaced, "It was a curse…?" Navy nodded and lowered his sword, "Just because we all have Dark Magic doesn't mean that we use it the same way." He folded his arms behind his back and smirked down at Blue, "Apparently that temper of yours blocked out some important facts from our last fight."
"What fight?!" Blue snapped, "We just met you guys today!" Navy frowned slightly while Royal blinked in surprise, "Something's not right…" Crimson nodded in agreement and leaned back, allowing them all to breath without the need to scream.
Vio sat up slightly and growled, "Of course something's not right! The fact that we knew nothing of you maniacs didn't send off an alarm?!" Toon managed a weak laugh and suggested, "I guess they aren't the only ones with headaches."
Royal scratched his head and started to bounce on his heels muttering something under his breath. Shadow sat up and glared at Crimson who was giggling at Red's silent tears, "Well, this is going nowhere." Navy deiced with a sigh, "What did that butterfly man want us to do again?"
"He wanted some people to be turned into statues." Crimson supplied, he grinned over at Phoenix who flinched at the murder in his eyes, "Can we get rid of the bird girl?"
"I am not a bird girl!" Phoenix spat, Crimson snickered and stomped on Red's ankle, Shadow bent over biting his tongue to repress the screams while Phoenix and Palautena openly screamed.
Royal jumped and glared at Crimson who was cackling at their pain, "Geez Crimmy! Warn me next time you do that!" Crimson scowled and snapped, "Stop calling me that!" Royal stuck his tongue out and picked Vio up by his tunic, "So you don't remember being stranded on a boat for who knows how long book-worm?" Royal questioned, "Or destroying us at the Wind Palace?"
"I'd think I would remember you three." Vio snapped, he winched and bit his lip. The pain was unbearable, and Crimson's maddening laughter wasn't helping his mood.
"Well isn't this fun." Royal said, he dropped Vio and kicked him hard in the gut, causing them all to double over in pain, Royal turned to Navy and Crimson and growled, "They forgot about us! Completely!"
"Wow. That Hand guy must be a pro at making people forget." Crimson mused, lightening up on Red's ankle. Navy frowned and glared down at Blue who was attempting to pick up his sword, "Is this true?"
Shadow stood up and leaned against a tree, attracting Royal and Navy's attention, "Hey Shadow, you should really sit down." Royal advised, Shadow blinked and tried to say something when Royal magically appeared beside him and gently pushed him back to ground. Shadow flinched and stood back up. "Don't. Touch me!" Shadow snarled.
Royal took a step back in surprise while Crimson grumbled, "Oh goodie, He was forced to form an alliance with the goodie two shoes parade." Navy frowned as if suspecting something wasn't right but he didn't get a chance to speak since Shadow attacked Royal with a bolt of dark magic.
Royal yelped and rolled around on the ground to put out the leftover sparks of magic, "Ow! Not cool bro!" Royal snapped, he sat up and glared at Shadow who glared right back at him, "Don't call me that!" Shadow snarled, "I'm not your brother nut-jobs!"
"Yes you are." Crimson said, Shadow glared at him and was slightly pleased to see Crimson lean back in slight fear, "Yea right! I think I'd remember three other mes' walking out of the Dark Mirror!"
Crimson nervously laughed and looked at Royal who looked crestfallen, "Why isn't he making sense…?" Royal glanced at Crimson and mumbled, "He…He Doesn't remember us."
Navy blinked in surprise and repeated, "Doesn't remember us?" before he looked at Shadow, "Is this a prank? If so, it's a pretty good one."
"I am not pranking you! We don't remember you! And I don't want to be related to you freaks!" Shadow summoned a bomb and bounced it in his hand, daring them to make a move. He was surprised to see the look of shock and hurt on their face as they slowly backed away from Shadow.
"I don't like this Royal." Crimson whimpered, the insane glint fading, being replaced by denial and confusion, Royal nodded in agreement while Navy stroked Nagi who seemed to be glaring at Shadow with its ruby red eyes.
"Heavenly light!" Shadow jumped and prepared for pain when he realized that Palutena wasn't aiming for him, he winched at the dual screams of, "Crimson!" then glared at Palautena, "Warn someone next time!" Shadow snapped.
Palautena ignored him and pointed her staff at Navy and Royal, who were shooting death glares at her while they comforted Crimson, who was whimpering in pain, "Leave, before I destroy all three of you." Palatuena warned, Royal picked up Crimson and gave her a long, hard look before he glanced at Navy who was practically strangling Nagi.
"Ha!" Blue crowed, "Not so tough now are-," BLAM!
Shadow winched as Blue was hit by a bolt of lightning, "Shoulda kept your mouth shut." Toon grumbled as Blue twitched on the forest floor, Shadow bit back a laugh while Vio shook his head.
"Is he going to be okay?" Red asked, Royal hesitated before he answered Red, "Yea, he'll be fine. Feathers for brain won't." Shadow frowned and followed Royal's gaze and cringed at Navy, who was looking directly at Palatuena, "Willing to risk your life?" Palatuena questioned, she aimed her staff and tried to say something else when a storm of lightning bolts slammed into her. Not stopping until she was smoking statue.
Royal chuckled nervously as Navy relaxed slightly and grumbled, "Let's retreat for now." Shadow growled and was about to throw the bomb at him when someone yelled, "Sneak attack of the boomeranged!" and smacked Navy in the head.
"Really?!" Royal exclaimed, "Now you show up?!" Shadow glared at the owner of the boomerang ready to fight and blinked in surprise when he saw a second Toon, wearing a lobster long shirt and orange leggings, his hair was a mess and surprisingly hat-less.
"Well, your knots were pretty easy to figure out, I just wanted to look around for a bit to see the sights." The second Toon said, he frowned slightly as he added, "But then Vaati caught me, nearly sent me flying into next week and I came over here." He glanced at the still smoking statue and whistled. A shaky grin appearing on his face, "So THAT'S what happens when Navy loses his temper!"
"Oh shut up." Navy grumbled, he glared at the boy before he melted into the shadows.
Royal glared at Shadow before he adjusted Crimson and said, "Feel free to beat these jerks into the ground Breeze, they don't remember us." Breeze blinked in surprise and made a T-symbol with his hands, "Whoa-whoa-whoa! Time out!" he looked at Shadow in disbelief, "Dude, you don't remember your own brothers?" then he looked at Red who was trying to hide behind a tree, "Or you and Crimson beating me a to pulp in that Earth Temple?"
"What Earth temple?!" Blue demanded, "Is this other place you four went that didn't exist or something!?" Breeze chuckled and glanced at Toon, "And you don't- wait. Why does he look like me?" Royal shrugged and grumbled, "Who knows and or cares, I thought he was another time line version but you guys have the same weapon."
Breeze blinked and ran a hand through his hair, "Wow. This just went from crazy to crazier." Crimson sat up slightly and said, "You're still grinning."
"Really?" Breeze frowned slightly, then grinned, "Oh! Know something that can make you guys remember!" Shadow, Red, Blue and Vio shared looks of disbelief while Toon asked, "Why does he look like me?"
Breeze ignored Toon and said, "You guys remember the living statue? And how everyone basically freaked out except me?" they shook their heads no while Royal snickered, "Vio accused me of drugging him somehow."
"What statue?" Red questioned, "It sounds interesting." Breeze nodded in agreement and was about to say more when they heard someone approaching, "Oh great." Royal grumbled, "A man in red with a weirdo carrying a giant sword." He looked at Breeze and said, "Have fun, these guys are attack first talk later." And disappeared into the shadows with Crimson in tow.
"Wait really?" Breeze looked around and frowned at the glares he was receiving, "Not cool dudes." Breeze said, "Not cool."
"Says the kid on the bad guy's side!" Blue snapped, Shulk nodded in agreement and pulled out his Monado sword, "We've already been betrayed," Shulk said, "Now is the time for action! Not talking."
Breeze hesitated but pulled out his own sword and shield, "No prob dude, I get where you're coming from." He glanced sadly at the Four Swords group before he braced himself, "Team attack!" Phoenix yelled, She and Mario summoned fireballs and hurled it at Breeze who nimbly side stepped and blocked Shulk's Monado blade, "Slam dunk!" Blue yelled.
Breeze yelped and rolled out of the way, "Wow! You really are good with a hammer!" Breeze noticed, Blue glared at him while Toon and Shadow lunged forward, Breeze blocked and back flipped, trying to get some run to counter-attack.
But Mario and Phoenix were dead set on forcing him to move, "Alright, maybe taking on 8 people at once was a bad idea." Breeze deiced, "Really? What gave you that idea?" Vio dryly asked, Breeze grinned and shrugged, "Just an idea."
"This is the Monado's power!" Shulk yelled, attempting to use an air slash on Breeze, Breeze cringed as he was sent flying in the air and then into a tree, "Need… to… focus." Breeze grunted as he sat up and pulled out a Bomb Bag.
"Lay off the fire power guys." Vio warned, as Breeze threw a couple at Mario and Phoenix, they jumped back and watched the bombs blink red before blowing up.
"Blue!" Toon yelled, Blue nodded and leapt forward, Skull Hammer already in motion, "Please work!" Breeze prayed as he prepared to do a spin attack, Shadow frowned at the sudden glow and crackle of energy surrounding Breeze's sword but took a wary step back.
"Is that the-," Toon started when Breeze spun, yelling as he whipped around like a top, somehow managing to control his momentum as he slammed into Blue, Shulk, Mario and Phoenix, sending them crashing into trees.
"Um, what was that?" Red questioned, Shadow glanced behind him and stifled a laugh as Red hid behind a tree, rubbing his probably broken ankle, "That was the Hurricane spin." Toon explained, he looked at Breeze in shock as the boy recovered from his dizzy spell, "Where did you learn that from?"
Breeze looked up and rubbed his head, "From my Grandfather, Orca." Mario sat up and looked at Toon, "I'm guessing you know this Hurricane spin as well Toon?" Toon looked at Mario in disbelief, "Know it? I'm probably the only person who learned it! Not even Orca could perform it!"
"Hey!" Breeze said, Shadow glanced at Breeze and face-palmed as Breeze finished with a huge grin, "Our grandfather's share the same name! Cool!"
"No! Not cool!" Toon yelled, "Not cool at all!"
"Woah, chill dude. I'm just trying to break the unfriendly ice." Breeze said, putting is hands up in a calm down gesture. Shadow snapped his fingers and summoned a giant bomb, "Here, this will help!" Breeze looked at him in disbelief and teased, "Yea, a giant bomb solves everything."
"It does!" Shadow argued as he hurled the bomb at Breeze, he blinked in surprise as Breeze easily caught it and hurled it at Shulk, "Might wanna run dude!" Breeze advised as the bomb blinked a dangerous red.
"Okay, that's three guys to many, that have been able to catch my bomb." Shadow grumbled, Breeze snickered and put his sword away, "Well, as much as I love to stay and be everyone's training dummy, the great and annoying Vaati summons me." He glared down at a purple glowing stone and sprinted away yelling over his shoulder, "Hope we can talk later dudes! Peace!"
"Okay. That was weird." Blue said, Shulk and Phoenix nodded in agreement, "Forget weird." Mario said he stopped dusting off his overalls and gave them a grim frown, "Tabuu's back, and he's found the location of whoever was helping us before."
"You mean barely helping us." Blue grumbled,
"Hey! I resent that comment!" they jumped as Emerl appeared out of nowhere, his arms folded in an angry gesture, "Just for that comment, I shall not be the awesome Squigly or her awesome partner Fukua!" Emerl said.
"Okaaay then?" Shulk said, unsure how to reply, Emerl shook his head and said, "Anyway, Tabuu's fighting the Hands-,"
"Is there any way we can break up the fight?" Phoenix interrupted, Emerl shook his head no, "There toast, but I do know a way to save them. Anyway." Emerl turned to Mario saying, "You need to regroup your troops, the Dark Matter trio are currently fighting Pikachu and Link to a pulp while Zelda and Peach are being stalked by a cranky Wolf and maybe Snake, they took a ten-minute break from blowing up my front door."
"Great, but about the three siblings of doom and some Breeze weirdo?" Shadow asked, Emerl tiled his head, "Huh?"
"We were attacked by some boys, named Crimson, Royal, Navy and Breeze." Vio explained, "They claimed to have met us somehow." Emerl thought about this before he stomped his foot in anger and growled, "He is so dead!" and disappeared.
"…Anyone else lost?" Shulk questioned, Vio sat up and groaned, "This whole event is giving me a headache."
"You know." Vaati mused, "I excepted this to be harder." Zero and Miracle nodded in agreement, "Oh well!" Miracle chirped, she sent Kirby a wicked smile and lit her hands with fire, "At least Kirby put up a fight."
Zero nodded in agreement and nudged Doctor Mario's trophy with his foot, "Of course he did. He's the annoying puffball."
Vaati smirked and slammed Lady into a wall, turning her into a trophy, "Come on, Tabuu wants us to help the others after we're done cleaning up the trash." Vaati reminded them.
02 nodded his head and summoned his halo, "I thought Hammer and Glacier were taking care of that." Miracle muttered, she ducked as Pikachu tried to tackle her and giggled, "Oh well!"
"Having a nice chit-chat?" Link growled,
"A very nice one!" Miracle giggled, she winched under 02 and Zero's disapproving glares and sulked over to the corner, "Didn't Tabuu want certain people left alone?" 02 questioned he lazily tossed his halo at Kirby who tiredly rolled out of the way.
"Yes." Zero said, "He wanted Kirby and Link, however, I don't think Kirby would be practically to his plan." Link paled and tried to stand up, but the pain forced him to stop and lean against the wall, he gritted his teeth as 02 finished Kirby off with a frown, "Finally." 02 muttered.
"Samus, can you stand?" Link asked, Samus's screen dimmed slightly as she replied, "N-no… Syste-m d-#3amaged." And the robot slumped.
"Well this is peachy." Link grumbled as the four villains studied him with smug satisfaction. He had entered the destroyed library with the Pikachu squad, Samus and Kirby. But only he, Samus and Pikachu were the only ones standing. The Spark Squad had happily abandoned them saying something about needing to electrocute someone before leaving.
Link paled slightly as Vaati lifted up a giant purple and black gun with his wind magic, "I think you need a little rest." Vaati mused he aimed the gun and was about to fire when someone yelled, "Come here!" and yanked Vaati backwards.
"Hey!" Vaati yelled, he spun around and glowered at the person who had grabbed him, then frowned as he studied the light blue skinned girl with vivid purple hair and a dragon like snake coiled around her, seemly coming from her head.
"What?" Vaati questioned, the he yelped as the girl launched into a combo, sending Vaati flying into the and slamming him back down with the help of her snake, "What goes down… must come up?" the girl questioned as she picked up her skirt and kicked Vaati into a freshly dug grave which appeared out of nowhere.
Vaati fell inside, disappeared then reappeared inside a coffin which fell out of the sky and broke upon impact. "Well…" Zero said, "This is interesting." They watched as the girl repeated her combo and finished Vaati off, before focusing on 02 who blinked in surprise.
"One and two…" the girl started to count, the snake's tail starting to spin and glow a rapid pink as she hopped forward, 02 took a step back as the girl stopped and posed, the snake's tail turning into a microphone as she sang.
"Ugh, singing is annoying." 02 started to say when a glowing note appeared and bounced him back, "I knew singing was bad." Zero mused as the girl darted forward and crouched, allowing to snake's tail to enter the ground, "Hallowed ground!" the snake declared as ocean like vines sprang in and out of the ground, bouncing 02 even higher in the air.
"This is getting annoying." 02 grumbled as the girl sprinted forward, 02 winched and blocked, before he attacked with his halo, knocking the girl back a little, "Now's your chance." Zero advised, although he seemed bored with the fight all together.
"Right." 02 said, he summoned a couple crystals and fired lasers at the girl, the girl's snake curled into a shield and blocked most of the attacks. 02 merely frowned and tried for a more physical attack and hurled his halo having it spin around the girl in a circle, slicing into her before it returned.
"See you soon!~" the girl said, falling backwards into a grave as a second girl flew out of the sky, slamming into 02 and launching into a combo, "This is annoying!" 02 declared as the second girl's hair formed a drill and slammed into 02,
"~We're gonna get you~," the girl sang, turning her back on 02 with a smirk, 02 blinked and froze as a shadow version of the girl slammed into with a sliding attack, Link blinked as his vision darkened for a moment then returned to normal, only 02 was lying on the ground, unable to stand.
Zero frowned and studied the girl with dark skin and living green hair, "Who are you?" Zero questioned, the girl ignored his question and said, "Surprise!" firing a ball of green glowing light at Zero, Zero flinched and stumbled back, allowing the girl to dart forward and pin him in a combo, not letting him get up for a second.
"I give up." Zero groaned once the girl finally let him stand. Miracle gawked at the girl in horror and fidgeted, unsure what to do, "It's over." The girl said, she lied down and rested her head on her hands as her hair dug into the ground, forming active drills.
"Wah-?" Miracle questioned while Link backed up against the wall, the two girls' fighting style was… different from his own, or any other smasher. They seemed to only move in two directions, forward and backwards, odd.
"I'm… Going to report to Tabuu." Miracle deiced, unsure what to next. She floated away, watching the girl with fearful eyes until she disappeared behind a bookcase.
"Well… That was helpful." Pikachu said. Link nodded and stood up, grunting in pain, "Yea, but now we have to worry about her attacking us." Pikachu frowned and nodded in agreement. They slowly inched away from the girl who quickly vanished, "Come on, we might as well see whose left." Link said, once the shock of the disappearing girl wore off. Pikachu numbly nodded in agreement and pointed to a pile of burnt books, "I know a short-cut to the train station, it's cramped, but it can cut our time in half."
"Anything's better than walking through the remains of that bomb." Link grumbled. They slowly made their way to the entrance, winching and muttering curses as their wounds made it impossible to do anything.
"We're here." Pikachu announced after a while of miserable crawling, Link opened his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief at the dim train station lights, he was about to join Pikachu when someone grunted, "This is impossible." Link froze and tried to peer around the potted plant Pikachu was hiding behind.
The voice sounded like Snake's, but Link couldn't be sure since a second gruff voice growled, "Maybe Zelda can break the magic." There was a muffled growl and a boy saying, "That sounds like a no."
Pikachu glanced back at Link and mouthed, "Snake, Wolf, Lucas, some other boy and Zelda are there." Link frowned and tried to ask something when the potted plant was shoved aside by a boy in dark purple, "You guy are really bad at hiding." The boy mused,
"Whose there Royal?" Snake questioned, Royal snapped his fingers and Link felt a force underneath him drag him out of the crawlspace and onto the cold tile floor, he tried to sit up but black ropes pinned him to the ground, forcing him to look up.
"Don't try to struggle," Royal advised, "It'll just make it worse." Link glared at him then up at Snake who was chuckling at Link's predicament, "Oh shut up." Link grumbled,
"Why should we." Wolf challenged, "The great hero of Twilight pinned down by a mere boy? Pathetic." Royal rolled his eyes and started to tap his foot, "Can we please resume blowing up the door and beating up electro man? I have places to be ya know!"
"Electro man?" Link questioned, he tried to look at Pikachu who was… purring?
"Well, if you've forgotten, we don't have a plan." Wolf snarled, Royal rolled his eyes and sank into the shadows, reappearing momentarily with Navy, "Well good thing I have one." Royal retorted, Navy sighed and stroked a snake like whip, "So I'll just stand here until Sparky shows up?"
"More or less." Royal replied, he sprinted forward and nimbly dodged a gun blast followed by several other, the rope pinning Link to the ground loosened enough for him to set up. Apparently, Sparky was a young man wearing a blue trench coat with blond hair tied in a braid. He had a gun and a look of determination as he stood in front of a green metal door.
"Let's see how you do against this!" Royal challenged, the man said nothing and merely fired at Royal again, Royal dodged and summoned two walls out of the shadow to smash the man into mush, the man sprinted forward and shouted something in Japanese, summoning a giant electric blade which shot forward, nearly hitting Royal dead on.
"You're pretty good with a gun." Royal noted, he summoned a platform and used it to fly out of the man's reach, "But without tagging someone with it, your electric powers are useless." Royal summoned a box around the man and stabbed downward, the man's eyes widened as he exploded mega man style.
"Easy." Royal mused, he glanced on the door and knocked on it, "Yeello? Anyone there?" when no one answered Royal shoved the door open and made a mock bow, "Game, set match." Navy snickered. Snake and Wolf glared at the two boys while Lucas and Claus merely shook their heads in disbelief, "Come on." Link looked up and gasped when he saw Popo and Nana exiting the train, "Tabuu's nearly done beating the hands." Popo said, Nana nodded in agreement and readied her hammer, "Let's finish off the summoner before she disappears."
"Really? You managed to put away Rosalina's trophy that fast?" Lucas questioned, Popo and Nana smirked and folded their arms, "Of course." Nana said, "She's a light weight, despite her height."
"Not that it helped." Popo noted.
"Of course not." Snake muttered, he faced the door and ordered, "Forward march men," Nana coughed forcing to Snake to hurriedly add, "And woman." Before they walked toward the door, Link tried to stand up but Navy shoved him back to the ground, "Sorry, you aren't going anywhere." Navy said. Link grunted and tried again only to kicked down even harder.
Navy sighed and shook his head, "You know, I have a really bad temper." Link gritted his teeth and tried again, "And? I'm not giving up until you and Tabuu are back where you belong!"
Navy laughed and Link saw his hand twitch, "You really just want to die, don't you?" Link sat up and growled at Navy who laughed and pulled out his sword, before he could do anything, there was a loud boom so powerful that Link could feel the shockwaves as he was slammed into the ground.
Navy joined him and winched as the resounding explosion, "What's going on?!" Pikachu yelped as the ground started to violently shake in time with the booms, "I think Tabuu destroyed the hands!" Navy yelled.
There was a final boom before it quieted down, the tremors slowing as well. Link sat up and rubbed his cut arms, the ropes gone.
"Link! The benches!" Pikachu yelped, Link looked up and paled as objects around them started to dissolve into ones and zeroes and floated up toward the destroyed ceiling.
"What's going on?" Zelda demanded, Link jumped, completely forgetting that Zelda had been bound and gagged by Snake and the others, she looked tired and covered in dust but otherwise okay.
"I think Tabuu just ended the hands." Link panted, Navy sat up and looked around before he disappeared into the shadows. Zelda stood up and stumbled toward them, "What happened to you two? You're a mess!" Zelda exclaimed once she was close enough to see the bruised and battered state of Link and Pikachu.
"We got beat up." Pikachu grumbled, "Also, I think Samus died."
"Great." Zelda grumbled, she knelt beside them and attempted to use her healing magic, "Ow!" Link yelped as Zelda magically healed a bad cut on his torso, Zelda glared at him and was about to scold him when there was a crackle of static before someone said, "Yello? Is this thing working?"
They looked up glared at the loudspeaker, "Well since I hear no complaints I'm going to say that it is! Muhaha!"
"Is that…" Pikachu started to ask when Link nodded, "Tabuu…"
"As you probably guessed, your pathetic protectors, Master Hand, Crazy Hand and some weirdo Master Core, have been destroyed, turning your world into a fragile glass vase." Tabuu paused and laughed, "Man! It feels good to get rid of the trash." Before he continued.
"Any way, I have deiced to give you all one last chance to redeem yourselves before I take over Smash 4," a screen appeared in front of them, showing a tournament bracket, "As you can see, I plan to have one final tournament, all the survivors versus my Army, if your team wins, then I'll repair the damages and never bother you again, if I win then. Go me! Ahhahaha!"
Pikachu growled and let loose a couple sparks as Zelda ran a hand through her hair.
"The first round shall begin tomorrow morning. You shall all board the super awesome train which just pulled into the station." Link glanced behind him and true to Tabuu's words a shadow purple train pulled into the station.
"And the fight shall continue from there." Tabuu finished he paused and added, "Also, the fights shall be by genre, example, Falco will be fighting Wolf since he is Star Fox and Shulk would be fighting Snake, since they are the only fighters from their world."
Link nearly bite his tongue at Tabuu chirped, "Ta-ta!" and the mike turned off. Zelda stood up and studied the green metal door which was fading away, "Maybe we can intercept them." Pikachu suggested, Zelda shook her head no and bit her lip, "Snake said they were going to be teleported back to their base once Tabuu finished his mission."
"So they'll leave without having to risk any more injuries." Link growled, he stood up and leaned on Zelda for support, "Come on, we might as well see the damages made."
"They got Peach." Zelda muttered, "I wasn't able to protect her." Link shook his head and limped toward the cafeteria, "It wasn't your fault, they had us outnumbered from the start." Pikachu nodded in agreement, giving his two cents, "Even if we did know how many people we would be facing, none of us excepted the sneak attacks or the outside battles."
Zelda bit her lip and nodded in agreement, "Link!" they looked up to see Phoenix limping toward them, a relived smile on her face, "Thank goodness you're okay!" Phoenix exclaimed. Link looked around and saw equally battered groups of remaining fighters.
"Is Doctor Mario okay?" Zelda asked, Link jumped as Shadow appeared beside them, looking frustrated, "No, the phonies got him." Shadow grumbled, he held up a medical kit and shook it, "This is the only med stuff left in the entire building."
"Phonies?" Pikachu questioned, Shadow nodded and stormed off to help patch up Falco who was grinning, like an idiot. Phoenix rubbed her arm and explained, "In the woods we were jumped by three Shadow look-alikes who seemed to be Red, Vio and Blue's shadows, or, that's what Shadow thinks. They took out Palautena and left us with someone called Breeze."
"Who looked exactly like me!" Toon added.
"So in other words, we're doomed." Pikachu deadpanned, Mario gritted his teeth but nodded in agreement, "Without Master Hand, this place will fall apart, we're stuck going to that tournament whether we like it or not."
Sonic joined them and managed a tired smile, "So? We beat them once. We can do it again." Link shook his head, "It would take a miracle to even get close to beating them."
"We lost." Zelda realized, "We were doomed from the very start."
DUN DUN DUN! The plot cards have been reveled! Did I catch anyone off guard with Ta being Tabuu? Anyone? I did manage to keep that a plot-twist right?... Meh. _
Anyway, explanation time! :D Royal, Crimson and Navy are OC's for a Zelda Fanfict I'm working on, they get created since the villainess gets the theory that if the heroes split into for different personas, then should have four shadows that can act and think for themselves instead of just one. Thus creating Navy, Crimson and Royal who share a brotherly bond with Shadow despite the fact that their basically their counterpart's shadows only different in personality and preferred weapons. (This fact irks them all to no end, including Zelda fanfict Shadow)
Breeze, is Toon Link from Wind Waker, only I wrote him as a laid-back character since it dawned on me that since he lived on an island with very little activity beside chores and was shown asleep before Aryll was kidnapped, that he might be a casual, yet lazy hero who managed to see the bright side of mostly everything and could be a dangerous person to fight since he has the counter Z targeting system. (I'm not sure if MM Link, OOC or TP had counter attacks when Z-targeting with a Sword)
Hopefully it made sense... Also! Before I forget, Chapters after this point updates shall come a lot slower due to the fact that I'm still writing 11 and struggling with it, have a Piano recital thingy to stress over and an older sister coming to visit.