Hack: Just another transitioning chapter, with a bit of filler in it that might solve a few questions. The smashers will be visiting another world from a very popular game…

It's also a bit short, which explains how I got this chapter finished so darn fast.

And I totally bsed the words "Ren Kiu," it doesn't mean anything. Maybe it does, but I don't know japanese.

Chapter 11: The Ren Kiu Form

Mario opened the door to his house, slowly followed by Luigi. It was dark outside, clearly night, and everyone else was asleep. "Man, it's been a long time since I've been here," he said.

Luigi nodded. "Yeah…"

Mario stretched his back as he walked into another room, one that looked like it could start up another SSBM battle. "How about a battle? Just for fun."

"Eh… I'm a bit exhausted…"

"I haven't tried any battle for years… And don't worry, you'll feel perfectly fine the moment we start. Remember the refresher of the system, you know..."

"All right," Luigi smiled. "But only smash moves."

"This is a one-stock one on one battle with no items on Final Destination! Ready? GO!"

Luigi quickly initiated the battle with a couple fireballs at Mario, who deflected all of them with his cape. As Luigi wavedashed to dodge his own fireballs, Mario jumped towards Luigi and smashed his fist into his head. Before Luigi could retaliate, Mario short hopped and used a flip kick to knock Luigi a bit towards the edge. Mario quickly fell on the floor, wavedashed towards the falling Luigi, and used a short-hopped flip kick again.

Now off the stage, Luigi jumped, directly above Mario, and used his own drill kick that knocked Mario to the ground. He crouched and stuck out his leg to trip up Mario and quickly smashed his head upwards to knock Mario skyward. Luigi jumped up towards Mario, prepared to use a deadly karate-chop attack.

Mario swiftly used a sex kick and struck Luigi on the head, catching him off guard. Immediately, Mario smashed his fist into Luigi, spiking him back onto the stage. After landing next to Luigi, Mario used a trip kick like Luigi did to him and charged his hand. The moment Luigi was next to him, Mario released his explosion smash attack.

But Luigi quickly air dodged to the side to avoid it. Before Mario could react, Luigi sent out his karate chop attack to knock Mario to the other side of the stage.

"Wow, you've gotten a lot better than the last time we fought," said Mario.

"Yeah, I've had a lot of practice. I'm still near the bottom chain of my smash group, though… Only person I could consistently beat is Captain Falcon." Luigi said, taking a step back. "Sometimes I feel like I have to go back to fighting him to get better and beat Fox and Jigglypuff…"

"Don't."

"What?"

"Don't ever take a step back," said Mario. He pulled back his right foot and tapped it on the ground. "If you take a step back, you will lose sight of your true goal. It will become impossible to succeed. Always, ALWAYS keep moving forward. Who's next in line, Samus? Always keep fighting her until you can consistently beat her. But NEVER take a step back."

"…"

"You can't take a step back, or else your true goal will be lost. That's my advice for you today."

"…Thanks, brother. I'll keep that in mind. Let's continue, shall we?" Both brothers smiled.

Luigi wavedashed towards Mario and swerved his legs around in a break dance. Mario quickly wavedashed backwards to avoid the attack. He quickly wavedashed back towards Luigi and used a short-hopped sex kick. Luigi was sent flying off the stage as he used a green missile in an attempt to grab the edge.

Oops, Mario jumped off and threw his giant fist towards Luigi, spiking him down. Luigi quickly recovered with a mid-air jump followed by a super jump punch to grab the edge. Mario quickly flung his cape to turn Luigi's body in the opposite direction so Luigi couldn't grab the edge. As Mario recovered with his own jump punch, Luigi fell into the abyss, unable to do anything.

"GAME!"

"What the hell just happened here?"

Fox approached the fresh carcass of King K. Rool. He simply looked like an overweight, tall Kremling with a red cape and a crown to top it off. Rather than seeing pools of blood, Fox saw pools of… water? Shards of ice were also laying around the carcass.

"This is really scary…"

He observed the carcass for what seemed like several minutes and finally came to the conclusion that King K. Rool was dead. He was also killed very recently... probably a few minutes before Fox came in the room.

"That saves some work for me though… Two down! Might as well check out his stuff."

Fox looked at the computer that lay before him. He walked up to it and exited the screensaver. What appeared before him was an open document.

'Day XII Month III Year XXIV

These are the secret papers for our Ring of Darkness from number six, King K. Rool. It is imperative that you read this the moment you open it. It contains the secret research that Metaknight, Black Shadow, and Cackletta have looked upon on the Endowment of Exigency. Indeed, it has immense power, more power than anyone could imagine. However, one must master this power. It is dependent on the user's abilities. The most important part is one's Ren Kiu form.

Ren Kiu is the ability to transform one's self or a part of one self or a tool to gain immense power and speed. Once transformed, one's abilities will more than double. Granted, it is not easy to obtain, since it is dependent on the user's abilities. One can only obtain Ren Kiu if he or she is powerful enough and his or her will is strong. Also, the amount of power that one has of the Endowment of Exigency affects the Ren Kiu form.

As of now, only a little more than half of our Ring of Darkness has mastered it, everyone up to the sixth ranking. It makes sense that you will not be able to master it unless the others above you are more powerful. I have observed and researched everyone's capabilities in our Ring of Darkness, all eleven, and ranked everyone with a number between one and eleven. One being the strongest. Here is the complete list that I have come to a conclusion with.

1. The Master

2. Metaknight

3. Black Shadow

4. Wolf O'Donnell

5. Alex

6…'

Fox couldn't read anymore after he saw who was on the sixth ranking. He did find it amusing that King K. Rool was on the bottom, as he chuckled.

"Well he must've been a pushover then… But I can't believe it… that fucking traitor… Eh, I might as well e-mail this to myself so I can look over the rest of it later and show it to the others... once I meet up with them."

Fox signed on to the internet and e-mailed the papers to himself when suddenly he heard something fall from the open hole in the ceiling. He turned around to see a timed bomb.

"Shit…"

"So you're leaving now…"

Luigi, Samus, Jigglypuff, and Captain Falcon stood outside of the entrance to Peach's castle, the princess standing by the entrance, facing the smashers.

"I won't ask you all to stay as I know you're all busy. But I'm glad you're all refreshed for your next journey out…"

Luigi looked around. "Where's Mario?"

"Apparently his vacation wasn't complete yesterday, so he went back to enjoy it. He left no message, since he didn't want anyone to disturb him…"

"Typical Mario… Figures…" Luigi sighed.

"Are you sure you're going to be fine?" asked Jigglypuff.

"I'm used to it, so don't worry about it. What about Bowser, Mallow, and Geno?"

Falcon looked around as well. "Yeah I don't see any of them."

Peach sighed. "They're all busy… Bowser's back at his castle, training to become more powerful than Mario as usual. Mallow, being the prince, is back in Nimbus Land and Geno went back to Star Haven to return the star rod. Everything's going on as if nothing happened... It's so strange... But It's not a bad thing. Everyone's back to their normal schedule."

"Not surprising… Well, we're pretty busy too. We have to leave really soon," said Luigi

"Yup. Good luck on your journey!"

Falcon ran up to Peach and gave her a thumbs up. "Don't worry, gal, we'll definitely be fine with me around! Bummer we can't have a hot gal like you though..." he gave her a quick wink. Samus sighed.

"So it's not just me… Phew."

After a couple insance slaps and frying pans on Falcon, the smashers gave their good-byes and thanks to Princess Peach, heading back to Luigi's house to hitch another ride on Samus's ship. Peach watched the ship fly sky high into the air and disappear off the face of the Mushroom Kingdom.

"You're journey just started… Too bad I can't go with you guys to help… I'll pray to the stars for your safety and success," she said as she walked back to the castle to begin reconstructing it.

"Samus, babe, can you check the rank of us five smashers on the smash list?" Falcon asked Samus from behind.

"Don't call me babe. And yes, Fox is ranked first, followed by Jigglypuff, me, Luigi, and you. Apparently you're at the bottom. Not living up to your standards, are you?"

"Shush, fool. Maybe I'll go face Luigi right now."

"No, he said that he wanted to face me in his next fight. Too bad."

"Damn him…" Falcon walked away, closing the door behind him. Samus was now completely alone in the pilot's compartment.

"…Adam…" she called. Below the window appeared another screen that showed a map and a textbox.

The textbox started to have letters quickly typed in it, as if it had its own mind. "What is it, my lady?" it asked.

"…Do you think he's right?"

"Who?"

"…You know who I'm talking about. Do you really think that… I don't deserve to… live?"

"I am… not sure."

"I feel that Ridley was right…"

The door behind her suddenly opened. Caught by surprise, Samus quickly turned off her assistant computer and whirled around. She turned in her chair so fast that she fell on the ground in pain, knocking her elbow on the corner of the desk.

"Ouch… Are you ok? I'm really sorry," said Luigi, crouching to check on Samus who just fell.

"No, I'm fine… You just surprised me… Just checking where we're off to next…"

"Yeah I was about to ask you about that, since Falcon's been bothering me and Jigglypuff about it all day."

Samus scanned her map. "But what are we going to do about Fox?"

Luigi shrugged. "Yeah, we're all worried about him… But I'm sure he'll be fine. He's on the top of the list, dude! You remember when all twenty six of us had tournaments all day?"

"Oh yeah, I remember…"

"Four time champion… out of nine tournaments. He was the top. The only person that came even close to winning so many tournaments was Mario, who won only two. The three other tournaments were won by different smashers each."

"Yeah…"

"So don't worry about him, I'm sure he'll be fine, Samus."

"Hm… This is interesting… We seem to have some problems…"

"What?"

"To answer your previous question, we're going to end up at Hyrule, the nearest world. It'll take us a couple days, four at maximum, to get there."

Luigi smiled. He and Link were good friends. The fact that they both liked green started their close friendship. "I wonder how Link's doing…"

Samus frowned. "That's the problem. We have no idea. According to my computer, when I looked up the universe news, there is a worldwide civil war in Hyrule."

It was a very peaceful town, very modern like our world today. Houses, computers, cars, school kids, banks, drug stores, trash, hippies, you name it. There are also sightings of UFOs and aliens in the skies, which makes it a bit different from a modern world.

Enter Onett. Home of the PSI kid, Ness. In the past three years, he has grown quite a bit, looking more like a teenager than a juvenile. He was almost twice as taller than before, and his body was much wider (though he's clearly not overweight), and his voice was slightly deeper and more mature, all the result of puberty. He was probably almost as tall as Fox and had pudginess like Luigi. However, some things stayed the same. He still has that innocent face and his red cap. He wore an identical shirt, it's just a bit bigger to fit his larger body. Scratch that, it's a lot bigger, fit for his new body. His baseball bat was also quite longer and heavier. If he was still a juvenile, he would not have been able to wield that bat.

"Mom!" he cried out from his bed. "I heard aliens dropping things around our house again!"

"Oh my god, Ness… They're not going to be of any harm. Don't worry about it!"

But Ness didn't listen to her as he was already rushing down the stairs, dressing up in his trademark clothing and wielding his heavy bat. "Sorry, but without dad around I have to keep watch around the house… Sorry mom!" He rushed out of the door, ignoring his pleading mother.

Another normal night outside in Onett. It was very quiet, yet eery. A normal person would normally feel like he or she would get jumped by a random robber or alien, but knows that he/she wouldn't because Onett is a peaceful town... Normally. After running out of his house, Ness walked towards his backyard to investigate what fell. He saw a group of crows surrounding something.

"Shoo! Shoo!" He waved at the crows but they did nothing. He quickly cried, "Flash Omega!" A green light surrounded the birds, causing them to disappear right on the spot. He approached what they surrounded and saw an extremely bloody body. The body looked alive, though barely.

"…Fox? Is that you?"