AN: I'm back with another chapter; the lack of updates is because of exams in school. This chapter is pretty big and will include more characters.

Enjoy the story!


The Prisoners

Snake, Samus, and ROB were currently in Rex's lair, trying to plan their next move. Snake was setting some MSRDs, in order to listen in on some enemy chatter, when Samus came up to him.

"So are we just going to sit here, or are we going to continue this mission?"

"We can't leave here and continue just yet," Snake replied, "Simply because Rex is destroyed, and because of that Liquid probably wants revenge more than anything and has probably increased security in order to get his revenge".

"Wow I can't believe I didn't think of that," Samus said a bit surprised at Snake's deduction, "What do you think we should do then?"

"I set up some MSRDs in order to listen in on enemy chatter, maybe we could find something we could use to our advantage".

Samus nodded and sat down next to Snake. Feeling a bit awkward Samus asked Snake, "What do you plan on doing once this is all over?"

"I'll probably just return to my normal life," the mercenary answered, ""And when I mean normal life I mean life on the battlefield, the battlefield, after all is the only place in the world where I feel truly alive".

Samus sighed, "That's just one more thing we have in common, we both thrive on the battlefield. I really do only feel alive when I'm bounty hunting".

Snake grunted, "Like you said before, we are both just two sad, lonely people with nothing to lose, we also only truly thrive when risking our lives on the battlefield, so maybe a life on the battlefield is our form of normal".

As soon as Snake finished talking one of the MSRDs began flashing red. The mercenary flicked a switch on the device and a recording was played.

"Did you hear about the prisoners brought to the castle?" the voice asked.

"Yeah, I heard they are pretty important ones too".

"One of them is a pilot, the other is a princess, and the last one is a pokemon, nothing really special about that last one".

"Hey wanna go pay a "visit" to that princess, to "welcome" her to our base?"

"As much as I'd like to, we can't leave our posts or else the boss'll have our asses".

"Yeah whatever, we'll just go on break".

"Agreed".

When the recording ended, Samus turned to Snake with a disgusted look on her face.

"What pigs," Samus stated disgusted. Snake just grunted and took out his PDA and searched for a prison or a prison type area, he found one a floor below.

"There is a prison barracks a floor below us," Snake informed, "Go get ROB; we're going to rescue those prisoners".

Samus searched the room for ROB, she found him sleeping against a wall. "ROB we're moving out, wake up," the robot didn't reply, "Come on ROB, wake up". When ROB didn't reply again, Samus felt her frustration rise, "ROB GET YOUR LAZY ASS UP NOW!" ROB immediately awoke and looked around the room frantically, when he realized it was just Samus, he calmed down, "Good you're awake, now come on we're going on a rescue mission".

When ROB and Samus were ready, Snake made a hand signal for them to follow him. He slowly opened the door and made his way over to the elevator across the hall with Samus and ROB behind him. While the team was waiting for the elevator Samus heard two guards down the hall talking, the same two guards who were talking about the prisoners.

"Hold on one minute guys," the bounty hunter told her friends.

"Why?" Snake questioned but got his answer when he saw Samus running down the hall towards two guards.

Samus leaped at the guards from behind and extended her whip which wrapped around one of the guards' necks, the other guard turned around to see Samus.

"What the-"he didn't get to finish because Samus kicked him in the face so hard it knocked him out. She then released her stranglehold around the other guard's neck. The guard immediately fell to the ground unconscious due to lack of oxygen.

Samus walked back down the hall to Snake and ROB as if nothing happened at all.

"What the hell were you thinking?" Snake scolded, "You could've blown our cover".

Samus shrugged her shoulders, "Did I blow our cover? NO I didn't and besides I can't stand people like that who see women just as toys for their own amusement".

Snake growled frustrated, "You know hat never mind, I'll just forget what just happened".

Samus smirked and boarded the elevator, "I'm glad you see things my way".

Snake just sighed and boarded the elevator with ROB. "Women".


"Our current plan as of now is to keep up pressure on the enemy," Master Hand informed his allies, "We'll also, if possible kidnap key figures of the enemy's leadership to demoralize their populations, we currently have two key enemy figures in our possession, isn't that right Ganondorf?"

"Yes I personally captured Princess Zelda along with a pokemon who gave resistance to us on our march on Hyrule," Ganon told the hand, "We also have Fox McCloud in our possession, courtesy of Wolf O'Donnell".

"Good, that mongrel is showing his use to us after all," Master Hand said commenting on Wolf's failure to eliminate Snake and Samus.

Liquid spoke up, "There is also one more issue we have to address".

"And what might that be?" Bowser questioned.

"The issue of the intruders in this castle".

"The intruders are still here?" Mewtwo asked.

"These intruders are very potent people," Master Hand told the villains, "These are the same people who killed Ridley, and they have also defeated Wolf, freed the Ancient Minister, and they have also destroyed Metal Gear to top it all off".

"Who exactly are these people?" Ganon asked.

"Solid Snake, Samus Aran, and like I said before, the Ancient Minister, do not underestimate them, they've defeated Ridley, Wolf, and Metal Gear," Master Hand warned, "This meeting is over, you are all dismissed". The villains all left the room and followed Liquid back to the hangar.

"Now on to our own plans," the blond told his fellow conspirators.

"What do you propose we do?" Mewtwo asked.

"We'll show our loyalty by dealing with my brother and his friends," Liquid proposed, "They probably found out about the prisoners by now and are on their way to rescue them," he speculated.

"Wow, you could read your brother as if he was an open book," Bowser commented.

Liquid chuckled at the comment, "Yes, once you get an idea of what he's doing, he's fairly easy to read, but back to business, one of us will have to go to the prison barracks and confront them, so who will it be?"

"I'll do it," Wario volunteered, "I've been waiting for some real action".

"Fine," Liquid said reluctantly, doubting Wario's abilities, "Just don't screw anything up".

"Wario growled, "You just wait, I'll show you, I'll show you all".

While the conspirators were planning their next move, a Genome soldier came up to Liquid with information for Liquid, "Sir, we've located the intruders, they are in elevator 294 to the prison barracks".

Liquid turned to his allies, "See just like I predicted," he then turned back to the soldier, "You, deploy the Primids to the barracks".

"Right away sir!" the soldier saluted.

"I suggest you hurry up and prove your worth," Liquid said to Wario with his back turned to him. Wario didn't reply he just waddled off to join the primids.

"Don't expect too much from the fat man, Liquid," Mewtwo warned.

"I don't that is why I sent those primids to assist him and if they fail and if he gets killed that'll just eliminate the weak link in our alliance," Liquid told the pokemon, "Now come, I will introduce you to our benefactor". With that Liquid, Ganondorf, Bowser, and Mewtwo headed off to the control room to come into contact with Tabuu.


When the elevator reached its intended destination, Snake and Samus exited the elevator to search the perimeter with ROB not too far behind.

"There doesn't seem to be any guards here," Samus commented on the enemy's lack of security.

"That could quickly change though," Snake countered, "Best to keep your guard up".

Samus nodded, she then made a hand signal telling them to split up, Samus took to the left corridor and Snake took to the right, with ROB watching his back. Samus walked down the corridor checking each cell for any signs of life, she continued walking down the corridor when she heard a voice.

"Who's there?"

Samus followed the sound of the voice to a cell near the end of the corridor. Inside the cell was a young woman wearing a regal dress and a crown on her forehead. She stood there wondering who this girl could be when a thought struck her.

"She's the princess those guards were talking about!"

"What do you want?" the girl asked in a frightened tone.

"I'm here to free you," Samus replied calmly, she noticed the girl relax a little; "My name is Samus Aran".

Samus took out her paralyzer and switched it to the whip function; she then put it up to the side of the door and let it seethe through. After a few minutes the door fell forward freeing the princess.

The princess exited the cell and put her arms around her liberator, "Thank you, thank you, thank you Samus!"

Samus chuckled at the girl's gratitude, "Alright, alright, please remove your self from me," the princess let go with a small smile on her face, "May I ask your name?"

"I'm Princess Zelda of Hyrule".

Samus nodded and moved to the end of the corridor, "Hey Snake! I found one".

Zelda looked at the bounty hunter puzzled, "Snake? Do you mean Solid Snake?"

Samus looked at Zelda surprised, "You know Snake?"

The princess nodded, "He rescued me from the Halberd during the Subspace invasion".

Snake walked down the corridor to see Samus talking to Zelda, "You, you're Princess Zelda, the girl from the Halberd," Snake said remembering his mission on the Halberd.

"Yes, yes its me," Zelda replied, "Its good to see you again Snake".

"How did you get here?" the Mercenary questioned.

A hardened look crossed Zelda's face, "That scum Ganondorf kidnapped me with the help of a man in strange attire".

"Strange attire?" Samus wondered to herself.

"Ocelot," Snake growled, "He's probably the one who helped Ganon".

"Who exactly is Ocelot?" Zelda asked.

Before Snake could answer, ROB came over to the group and signaled for them to follow him. Samus turned to Snake, "I think he found the other prisoners". Snake, Samus and Zelda followed the robot down the corridor to a cell. Samus reached the cell first, inside the cell was an anthromorphic fox and a bipedal jackal.

"Who are you people!" the fox demanded as he got into a stance, the jackal though just stood against the wall with its arms crossed.

"I'm here to help you," Samus told the fox, "My name is Samus Aran".

"Samus Aran?" the fox said skeptically, "I heard of you, you're just a bounty hunter, how do I know you're not with these people? The things you low life bounty hunters do for money".

After that last comment Samus felt her temper rise, "I'd watch my tongue if I were you, you ignorant son of a bitch!" Samus threatened.

"What's going on here?" Snake demanded.

The fox began ranting again, "What he's one of your bounty hunter bud-" but he stopped short, "Wait a minute your Solid Snake, the man from the Halberd, the one who helped me and Lucario here, against Duon".

"Yeah, I remember you, you were the pilot who was drinking tea in the middle of the battlefield," Snake said poking fun at the pilot," And I remember Lucario, he's the one who gave my position away on the Halberd," the mercenary motioned to the jackal, "How ya doin back there Lucario?".

Lucario turned his head in Snake's direction and nodded in acknowledgement, Fox cut in the reunion, "I wasn't purposely drinking tea there, my ship was brought down, and a princess offered it to me for some reason".

Zelda walked over to the group shortly after, "Oh, Fox is that you?"

"See there's the one who brought my plane down," Fox pointed his finger accusingly at the princess.

Snake looked at the princess a bit skeptically, Zelda giggled, "I'm sorry Fox, I was just trying to protect Peach, you almost blew her up after all".

"Oh right," the pilot said sheepishly, "I forgot about that part".

"I take it you guys were captured too?" Snake asked Fox.

"Yeah I was captured by my rival, Wolf O'Donnell". Fox responded.

"Wolf," Samus growled.

"You know Wolf?" Fox asked the bounty hunter.

"We had a run in with him awhile back," Snake answered for Samus, "He almost killed me and Samus, he's also in league with my brother".

"Your brother?" Zelda asked, "Why's your brother working with him?"

Snake turned to Zelda with a cold enough expression that could've broken the strongest of all people, "Because my brother is a madman and a sadist, he takes extreme pleasure in watching people suffer, and wants two things more than anything in the world, to have the entire Earth under his thumb and too give me a slow, painful death by his hand," Snake stated grimly, "Besides the only reason he's working with these people is because only scum can work with scum".

"You come from a really screwed up family, you know that?" Lucario stated coldly.

Snake gave a dry laugh, "Yeah, sucks to be me".

"Alright, alright, reunion's over we still have a mission to accomplish," Samus reminded Snake.

"Right," Snake said remembering why they were here. Snake tried to locate a weak point in the cell, but couldn't find one, "I can't find a way to open the door without resorting to explosives which could kill them".

Samus checked the side of the door; she tried to open this door like how she freed Zelda, but for some reason it didn't work. Samus let out a frustrated sigh, "Damn the door must be heat resistant".

"Mind if I give it a shot?" Zelda volunteered.

"Knock yourself out".

Zelda looked over the door for a second and then nodded to herself. The princess then cracked her knuckles and held out her palms. Snake, Samus, Fox, and Lucario stared at the princess, perplexed at what she was doing.

"I suggest you two move to the wall," Zelda advised.

Fox and Lucario took Zelda's suggestion not wanting to take any chances. Then all of a sudden a blast of magical energy erupted from Zelda's palms, the blast hit the door so hard it knocked the door back into the wall. Snake, Fox, and Samus stared at Zelda; eyes widened and mouths a gap, Lucario and ROB stared at Zelda in amazement. Zelda giggled at the expressions on her friends' faces.

"Looks can be deceiving," she inquired.

Fox and Lucario slowly exited the cell and made their way over to their liberators.

"She's right you know, looks can be deceiving and because of that it'll be our enemy's downfall," Lucario spoke up.

Fox nodded in agreement, "Yeah imagine the looks on the enemy's face when she blows them to bits".

All of them, with the exception of ROB, had a good laugh at that last comment.


Wario was in the elevator to the prison barracks grumbling to himself, "They think I'm useless, they think I'm incompetent," the fat man complained to himself, "I'll show them, just you wait".

Wario, although a capable fighter, was overshadowed by his allies in terms of strength, powers, and intelligence. Wario only joined Master Hand because he was promised his own kingdom, complete with treasure and cloves of garlic, other than that he would've just stayed in Diamond City with the WarioWare crew.

Wario heard the elevator come to a halt. The fat man took a deep breath, "Time to prove my worth," and with that he came face to face with his enemies.


Samus, Snake and the others were making their way to the elevator when they saw the doors opening. Standing inside the elevator was a short, ugly fat man with a crooked mustache.

"Hold it right there!" the fat man ordered.

"Yeah right," Samus said defiantly, "Move your fat ass!"

Wario growled, "You don't scare me".

"Remove yourself or face the consequences," Zelda threatened.

Wario snorted, stepped out of the elevator and whistled. On cue, dark spores began to fall out of the air vents, the spores began to mold together into creatures. The group tensed up at the sight of the familiar creatures.

"Primids!" Zelda shouted.

"They look different than from how I remember them," Lucario stated.

These Primids looked different than the ones faced in the Subspace Emissary. They were white instead of green, and the red subspace army symbol on their chests was now glowing blue.

"Does it matter?" Samus yelled at the pokemon, "Take 'em out!"

"But we don't have any weapons," Fox told the bounty hunter.

"Yeah what do you want me to do about it?"

"Hold them off, until we get our weapons," the pilot said.

Fox and Zelda headed over to a crate along the wall and opened it. Fox took out his reflector and his blaster, Zelda took out her sword and the Light Bow. After getting their weapons Fox and Zelda headed back into fray. Zelda took aim with her bow and fired several arrows at a Primid that tried to attack ROB from behind. ROB turned his head around and nodded his head in gratitude to the princess.


Lucario ducked under an attack from a Primid and countered by thrusting his paw into the creature and forming a hole that shadow bugs fell out of. Lucario then charged up an Aura sphere and fired it at Wario. Just when it was about to hit, a Primid jumped in the way and took the blow.

Wario jumped over to Lucario, "You're mine doggy". The fat man threw a punch at the jackal, but Lucario dodged it agilely. Lucario countered with a jab of his own hitting Wario square in the face. Lucario kicked Wario and then spun around and kicked him again, the pokemon then charged at Wario to strike him again but the fat man wound up his fist and punched Lucario in the chest. The jackal recoiled in pain, Wario then delivered a powerful shoulder charge attack that sent him into a wall. Several Primids saw a chance to attack and charged at Lucario. Lucario braced for the impact, when several "pop" like sounds were heard and the Primids fell to the ground dead. Lucario turned to see Snake, with his SOCOM aimed and smoke coming from the muzzle.

The mercenary held his hand out to the jackal," Just like old times, bud".

Lucario grasped Snake's hand, "Like old times".

Together Snake and Lucario charged at Wario. Several Primids jumped in front of Wario to defend Wario, but Snake threw a grenade which destroyed their line of defense. With the Primids out of the way, Lucario fired an aura sphere at Wario, which sent him to the ground. The fat man got up slowly; slow enough for Snake to deliver a kick to send him back down. He tried to get back up but he felt his energy leave him. The fat man then fell backwards, unconscious.

Lucario stared briefly at the unconscious fat man, and then turned to Snake, "Let's go help the others," Snake nodded in agreement.


Samus dodged an attack from a Primid, and kicked it in its head knocking it to the ground. The bounty hunter then took out her whip and spun it around her knocking back several primids that tried to surround her. She then turned to check on how her partners were doing.

ROB was fighting off the Primids pretty well by utilizing his lasers, gyros, and thrusters. Fox was using his blaster to fight the primids from a range and when they'd get close he'd switch hand to hand. Snake and Lucario were fighting off hordes of Primids at once, they read each other's moves and complimented each other perfectly. When she turned to Zelda though she noticed the princess was struggling a bit. Zelda tried to fight off many Primids with her thin sword, but one snuck up behind her and knocked her down.

Zelda fell to the ground, she saw her attacker wind up its fist for another attack. Zelda's eyes widened as she prepared for the blow. The hit never came though because three red lasers penetrated the creatures chest killing it. Zelda turned to see Fox spinning his blaster around on one finger. The pilot ran over to the princess and knelt down, "You all right?"

"Yes I'm fine," Zelda reassured Fox as he helped her up. While he did this Zelda noticed a Primid try and sneak up on him, "Behind you!" Fox turned around to see the Primid raise its fist to attack.

Fox was about to counter when a orange whip wrapped around the creature's neck, the pilot turned to see Samus who pulled back with her whip smashing the Primid into the ground.

Fox nodded "thanks" to Samus. After a few more tiring minutes of fighting, all the Primids were defeated.

"Thanks for the save back there," Fox said to his savior.

"Saved by the low life bounty hunter?" Samus taunted.

Fox immediately felt embarrassed causing his face to redden a bit, "Oh, uh sorry for the comment back there, I was being stupid".

Samus smirked at Fox's current composure, "Oh don't worry, you were just being stupid like all mercenaries".

Zelda giggled at her comment, but Snake didn't seem to find it as amusing as Zelda though.

"What do you mean like all mercenaries?"

Samus rolled her eyes, "Fine, all mercenary pilots, are you happy now?"

Snake nodded, "I am content now".

Fox sighed, "Fine I deserve that last comment".

"Hey Snake," Zelda called over to the mercenary, "May I ask you a question?"

"Shoot".

"What were you, Samus and ROB doing here in the first place?"

"I was sent by my superiors to infiltrate this place, while I was here I confronted Samus, we originally tried to kill each other, but we later joined forces. After that we fought our way through the base, we met ROB, then we rescued you guys, and now we are heading off to rescue Mr. Game and Watch, to deny Master Hand anymore Subspace monsters," Snake summed up for Zelda and the others.

"Yeah, and if we want to do that we better hurry up," Samus said as she clicked the elevator button.

"Wait, what about us?" Zelda asked.

Samus and Snake turned to each other for a second, forgetting about the others.

"Well for one, I'm going with you guys," Lucario said adding himself to their group.

"Me too," said Zelda, "You guys wouldn't leave a poor little princess alone would you?"

"Well if they are going with you guys, then so am I," Fox said joining the group.

"Wait all of you are coming?" Snake asked the newcomers, to which they all nodded.

"Well I guess you guys could come," Samus told the new members, she then turned to Snake, "We could use all the help we can get, if we want to bring down Master Hand".

"Alright then all of you in the elevator, now, on the double!" Snake ordered. The team all obeyed Snake's orders.

"Real army sergeant, aren't you?" Samus joked.

Snake chuckled at her comment, "Well that's what you get for being in the military for most of your life".

"Let's move it along you two," Fox called over to Snake and Samus.

"He's right, let's go Samus told Snake, and they boarded the elevator.


Liquid and his fellow conspirators, Ganondorf, Mewtwo, and Bowser, entered the control room. Liquid clicked several switches causing a large screen to turn on. A holographic blue figure appeared on the screen.

"Liquid, I see you've brought some new allies to our cause, two of which I am familiar with," Tabuu said noting the presence of Ganondorf and Bowser.

"Yes, I have along with an extra," Liquid told his benefactor.

"Present yourselves to me," Tabuu ordered.

Ganon bowed before the screen first, "I know of your great powers Tabuu, I expect to be awarded well for my contributions to your cause".

"You will be awarded well".

Bowser bowed next, "I pledge my loyalty to your cause as long as you send my enemies to the darkest depths of Subspace".

"I assure you your enemies will suffer".

Mewtwo presented himself to Tabuu, "I am Mewtwo, I'll offer my great powers to you only if you only if you destroy the ones who have wronged me".

"They will regret whatever they've done to you".

The conspirators all stood before their new leader, "Does Master Hand suspect anything?" Tabuu asked Liquid.

"No he doesn't," Liquid responded, "We've feigned our loyalty to him, and have done whatever he's asked in order to draw suspicion away from anything we're doing".

"Good," Tabuu commented on the smoothness of his plans, "Soon the players will all be assembled and Master Hand will fall".

"We eagerly await when that happens my lord," Ganon said in a dark tone.

Tabuu smirked, "I'm glad to see you are all interested, you are all dismissed now, but remember the time is coming, when Master Hand'll fall and then the world'll be ours!"


AN: Well here it is the new chapter, it took a lot of time to make, so hopefully it is good. Remember the story is coming to an end soon, so for all of you who are interested in this story keep an eye out for any updates, also be sure, if you find any grammar or format problems just state the problem in a review and I will try and correct it.