A/N: Hey guys, and welcome back to the story! I'm not dead! This will definitely be the last chapter of this little arc (not the whole story, don't worry!) so let's get right into it! I don't know how to begin or what to do from then, but that's when I feel like I work best! To the chapter!

Chapter 12: The Garden-3

As far as bad days Snake had had, this had to be in the top 10. At least. First of all, he had lost favorite grenade pin this morning. Then, those little freaks of nature actually started attacking them. And now, he was crawling underneath the sewers with Fox and Samus to try to breach the collisium without being detected. The sewers were nothing to joke about; the stench could give Wario a run for his money. And Wario loves money.

"Guys! I think we're here." Fox said. He pointed to a vent on the roof of the sewers.

"Finally! Now I can finally get out of this stench!" Snake said. He took out his explosives.

"Are you mad?" Samus yelled. She grabbed the explosions. "We don't wanna make any loud noises."

"You mean like the yell you just made?" Snake said, raising his eyebrow. He decided an evil look from Samus.

"Whatever. Let me just cut it open with my laser thingy." She said. She started cutting one if the five bars of the vent.

Twenty minutes later, she finally finished the first bar. "Only four more to go!" Samus said. Fox and Snake groaned. This was going to take a while...

I think I saw that one move!

Are you sure? He looks kinda flimsy to me. I put my bet on the other one waking up first.

Yeah, he looks like a girl! Hahahaha!

Well, the other one is a girl, so...

Yeah, but at least she looks like she can carry her own weight!

Oh, look, now she's starting to move as well!

Quick! Pretend we weren't spying of them!

Link and Lucina groaned, and slowly started coming to. Lucina opened her eyes, and saw Link's face, uncomfortably close to hers. Quickly, she yelped and flinched back, accidentally pushing Link off the bed that they were on.

"...ow..." Links voice said. Soon after, the Hyrulian say up, rubbing his head. "What? Where am I?" They looked around. They were in a sizable white tent. There was a table with medical supplies on it. Y'know, scalpels, gauze, cotton balls, alcohol... The while set. They were the only two people in the tent. The ground was grass, and there was hole in the tent across the bed, which led to even more grass.

"Um... The floor." Lucina looked at herself. She was wearing a white gown that almost reached her feet. So was Link. She felt something underneath her gown, and saw that there was gauze, covering wounds of hers. It was stained red.

Link caught her staring at it. "That's strange. Usually we can't bleed here..." Then, simultaneously, they remembered all that had happened.

"W-where is everyone?" Link trembled. "Had they all-?"

"Do not fear, young one. They are all alive... For now." They looked at the entrance to the tent, and saw that Toadsworth had been standing there.

"Toadsworth? Is that you?" Link said, rubbing his forehead.

"Yes it is." He entered the room. "You two gave us quite a scare! We thought you had both seen your last days for a while!" He had a tray of little pink cups and a teapot. "At least, that's what the others thought. But not I! I know fighters when I see them. Like this one time... Oh, I completely forgot! Would you like some tea?" He handed the two of them a cup.

"Thanks." Lucina said. "So... Uh, what's happening?"

"Well, right now, the smashers are fighting the swarm, in hopes of destroying their nest." Toadsworth said, refilling Link's cup for the umpteenth time. Every citizen is safely outside the walls of Smash-City. We set up a little colony of tents and everything! That's where you are right now. The medical tent! Although, we haven't really had much patients... Besides you two. But we only had one bed, so it worked out. Would you like some biscuits? I can get you some." They shook their heads. Link saw that he was on the floor.

"Wait, so why did she get the bed?" Link asked. He slowly got up, and sat down on the bed.

"Well, actually, you were both-" Lucina gave Toadsworth a look. He doesn't need to know. She thought. Toadsworth raised his eyebrows, then winked.

"It was a heads or tails. You lost." Toadsworth said.

"So, the rest of the smashers are out there right now?" Lucina asked.

"Yes"

"Then we have to help them! We can't just sit here and do nothing!" She got up. Surprisingly, it only hurt a lot.

"Where's my clothes?" Lucina asked.

"The next tent to the left." Toadsworth said.

"Wait!" Link said. "I don't think it's a good idea to go out. We won't last long in the state we're in."

"I'll have to agree with Link on this one." Toadsworth said. "You should rest for now."

"Besides, it would be nice to rest after all the fighting we've been through." Link said, laying down.

Lucina was furious. "What? Do I seriously hear this from the Hero of Time? From the man... From the boy, who taught me and trained me in the ways of the sword? Our friends are out there right now, fighting for our lives! They could be dead or dying right now for all we know. By the time you're finally ready and 'rested' they could already be dead! So I'm going out there now. And if you won't join me, I'm going alone!" She got up and stormed out of the tent, leaving Link alone with Toadsworth.

She walked to the next tent over, and got in her armor. She grabbed her sword, and started heading out. She still had a limp.

Just as she was about to enter the city, she heard a voice. "Wait!" She turned around to see Link, dressed up, running toward her.

"You're right. I can't let anybody gave death br themselves, as long as I can do something about it. I'm coming with you." Lucina smiled.

"Thank you." She said. She reached in for a hug. Link accepted it, albeit awkwardly.

"No problem." Link said. "So, how do you wanna tackle the enemy?"

"Well... Usually I'd ask you to just go all Hyrule Warrior status on them, but we're kinda not in a position to do that..." She pondered for a minute. "Why don't we sneak around a bit and weigh our options?"

"Sounds good to me." Link said. With that, they swung to the top of the wall surrounding the city with Link's hookshots, and looked at the other side. It was terrifying. They could see explosions and hear fighting all the way to the other end of town. The buildings were in shambles. They could make out some battles in the distance. They saw King Dedede swinging in circles with his hammer like a madman, destroying tons of the swarm, and Lucaio using his aura powers to keep the swarm from swarming him. But even in the short time they watched the two often fight, they could tell that they would be overwhelmed eventually.

"Well... It looks like we have a lot of work to do."

Snake was dreaming about eating fruits while eatching smash battles, and enjoying his nice life as a retired smasher, when he was woken up by Fox.

"Hey, she finally finished." Fox said.

"Thank goodness!" He said, getting up. Together, the three of them entered the vent, and crawled through it until they reached another vent entrance. Looking inside, they saw that it led to a hallway. At the end of the hallway stood two swarm humanoid grunts. They were standing on either sides of a giant tunnel.

"If I remember correctly, that tunnel leads to the stadium's battleground." Samus said. "If the leader in anywhere, than it'll be there."

"What even is the leader?" Fox said. He kinda wanted to know what they were fighting against. So he could, you know, see if they would even survive the fight.

"Maybe it's just a giant turd." Snake said. He was getting impatient. All he wanted to do was to get this whole thing over with so he could go back to polishing his rocket launcher.

"Haha. Very funny" Samus said, silencing a chuckling Fox. "It's probably the result of tons of the swarm bugs joining together. Even morso than the swarm grunts and the swarm brutes."

"That doesn't seem that bad." Snake said. "So," he took out the explosives, "can we just go in already?"

"No. We have to do this stealthily. I think I have a plan. Just give me an hour or so to observe the swarm and perfect it." Samus said. She took out a notebook, and started watching the grunts through the vent. Fox and Snake groaned once again, and proceeded to play sticks with one another.

"So... What are we going to do?" Lucina asked, following Link across the rooftops of the city. Most of the fighting had been happening on the ground, so they weren't too worried about getting seen.

"You'll see." Link said, jumping to another rooftop. Lucina jumped after him. He put down his bag of supplies that he brought (food, bandages, blah blah blah), and kneeled near the edge of the building. "We're gonna set up camp here." He said.

"Camp? You mean we're gonna stay here?" She said. "Why? Shouldn't we be helping the others, and not admiring the sunset or something?"

Link looked at the setting sun. "It is beautiful..." He started drifting off. Lucina snapped her fingers in front of his face, bringing him back to reality. He shook his head. "Oh, yeah. Well, we will be helping from here." He took out a bow and arrow.

"See? We can take them out from here, where they can't get us." He smiled. "I'm smart, aren't I?"

"Well... I wouldn't say that. What am I supposed to do?" Lucina crossed her arms.

"Don't worry." Link said. He reached into his endless pouch (literally, it can hold infinite stuff. Like, one time Kirby threw up... But I'll save that story for another time) and took out another bow and quiver of arrows. "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this!"

"But I don't know how to use a bow..." Lucina said.

"Don't worry, I-" Link was cut off by some kind of roaring. It was from right beneath them.

"RUUUUNNN!" Lucina yelled. She grabbed Link, and they ran as fast as they could, with their injuries, as the building started collapsing beneath them. They reached the end of the building, and stopped. Beneath them was a twenty foot fall into the lake (what a coincidence!). On the other was the collapsing building as the swarm chased after them.

They looked at each other. Link nodded at her, and she nodded back. Then, the two of them jumped off the building, toward the hopefully deep lake beneath them.

Well, the lake was deep. Too deep. When they landed in the water, Lucina knew they weren't gonna make it. She couldn't see anything, or anybody, near her under the darkness of the lake. She started swimming up as fast as she could. She could feel her chest start to tighten, and her vison start to fade. She started blacking out, when she felt someone grab her arm. She made out the face of Link, wearing a blue tunic. Lucina thought she saw him take a deep gulp of water before putting his lips to hers. She breathlessly gasped as Link exhaled air into her. He did it three more times, and Lucina felt her chest loosen up. He grabbed her arm and swam up. Lucina was too tired to wonder what the heck was happening. After another minute, they could see the light, and they burst out at the surface of the lake. Lucina took her first non-Linkified breath of air in five minutes, and coughed out a bunch of water. Link was next to her, patting her back.

"You okay?" He said.

"Yeah..." Lucina said between coughs. After a few seconds she had stopped coughing. "What. The. Heck."

Link smiled. "This tunic I'm wearing makes me able to breath under water." He pointed to his clothes. They looked completely dry above the water. "Don't ask how. It's a kind of magic," he snapped twice. "It's a kind of magic!"

"Link, please don't sing Queen. Maybe later." Lucina said. "But, how did you breath oxygen into me? I thought we breathed out other stuff." She scratched her head.

"Well, the suit allows me to get the oxygen out of water, and it puts it into my mouth. I usually just inhale that, but I exhaled it into you." Link said. "I figured this out while on a swimming trip with a... friend."

"That's pretty cool!" Lucina said.

"Yeah, it is. The only thing is that the only way to transfer the oxygen to someone else is to... you know." Link awkwardly looked at her.

Lucina blushed. "Anyways, I owe you my life for saving me!" Lucina said. Link opened his mouth to say something when a voice came from behind them.

"Hey, what the heck are you two doing?" Link and Lucina looked over. They looked across the lake to see Pit and Palutena looking at them. Put was trying not to laugh, and Palutena looked at the two of them unhappily. Weird.

"Um... I am explain." Lucina said, holding her hands up.

"Oh don't worry, you don't need to say anything." Pit said.

"It's not like that!" Link said, crossing his arms.

"Don't worry, Link! Zelda will never know!" Pit yelled.

Link grumbled. Lucina laughed. Pit flew over and carried each of them to the shore, one by one. There was surprisingly no swarm things to attack them on the shore.

"Thanks, man." Link said. "Now, if you'll excuse me, if Gonna go change back into my green tunic." Link took a step into the bushes, but cried out in pain and fell to the ground.

"Link!" Palutena kneeled next to him and flipped him on his back. Only then they noticed the deep gashes on his side. His blue tunic was ripped; these were fresh injuries.

"Oh my gosh, what happened?" Palutena took out some bandages from who-knows-where, and lifted his tunic. "Ew. Gross."

"Well, under the sea..." Link started to say. Then he smirked. "Under the sea! Darling it's better, down where it's better, take it form me!" He was promptly sacked of the head by Palutena.

"Seriously?" Palutena shook her head, chuckling. Pit was still singing along, and Lucina was giving a golf clap while face-palming. How she did both at the same time, I don't even know. "Wow. What really happened?"

"Fine, fine." Link closed his eyes, and rested his head on Palutena's lap with a big sigh. "You see, I was attacked by some creatures under water. Y'know, like bloopers, Barracudas and stuff like that. That's all you need to know."

"Ouch. That must've sucked pretty hard." Lucina said.

"That's what-" Pit began to say, but was quickly hushed.

"Stop! This story is rated E+! Don't go making it T-rated!" Palutena said. She was almost finished with Link's bandages.

"This feels nice." Link said as Palutena put ointment on his wounds, eyes still closed. "But could you be a bit gentler please?"

"I swear, I'm gonna knock the Hylian out you!" Palutena said. "There. All better now."

"Man! I was just getting comfortable!" He said, getting up. Pit and Lucina had just finished a poker game.

"C'mon guys! Let's get down to business!" Palutena said. Link tried not to burst into song as Lucina and Pit cleaned up and put everything away.

"So what's the plan?" Asked Pit.

"Well, I think we should fight our way over to the entrance of the stadium. All of us are currently there trying to push in." Palutena said. "We were actually heading back to see how you two were doing."

"So... Are we winning?" Lucina asked.

"There's no way to know at this point. We're gonna have to defeat their leader before they defeat us." Pit said. "We already had to send a few Smashers back to the camp outside."

"So... How long do you think we have before the swarm overruns us?" Link asked.

"I don't know." Palutena shook her head. "But standing around here isn't going to help. We have to go now!" With that, they ran off towards the stadium, where a certain trio of heroes were executing a brilliant foolproof plan...

Not really. Samus had finally finished her plan, which involved them painting themselves and sneaking in, but they were found immediately, and knocked out. Goo team!

"Let me go!" Snake yelled.

"Brilliant strategy, but I don't think that'll work." Fox said. The three of them were currently back-to-back in chairs, with paper masks on their heads. Their arms were tied behind the chair. It was basically like a sterorypical spy kidnapped scene.

"I'll make sure your face doesn't work when I'm through with you!" Snake grumbled. Today really wasn't his day.

"Would you two SHUT UP!" Samus yelled. She was mad. Like, soo mad, you don't even understand. This always happens when something doesn't go according to plan. And that happens a lot.

"Sorry..." They said. Nothing was as scary as a mad Samus. It's a fact. Look it up on the Internet. It's true. Maybe.

Suddenly, they heard a voice that was not any of theirs. "Why hello there, Snake, Fox, and... Samus..." The voice sounded like how a mix between a fly and a snake would sound like. But there was something about it that seemed familiar to them...

Suddenly, their paper masks flew off, and Samus and Fox saw... (Dun dun dunnnn!) Little Mac! Only, he wasn't so little... He stood almost to the roof of the stadium, and he had a purplish greenish aura about him. His skin was tinted purple, and his eyes were pure black. Samus and Fox screamed.

"What are we screaming about? All I see is a wall." Snake said. Little Mac shuckled and picked Snake up, chair and all.

"Hey, who's doing- OHHHHHHHH myyyyy!" Snake said as Little Mac held him in his palm. "...hey there." Snake grinned.

"This one is an idiot." Little Mac said, in his demonic snake voice. He threw him through the roof.

"Team Rocket's launching off agaaaiiiiinnn..." Snake yelled as he flew away.

"Weirdo." Little Mac said.

"Little Mac? What happened to you?" Fox said. The boxer looked at him with hate in his eyes.

"I no longer go by Little Mac. He is gone now." He picked up Fox. "Remember the name: SLIGHTLY BIGGER MAC!" He yelled, chucking Fox out of the stadium.

"Not agaiiinnnnn..." Was heard as he flew away.

Slightly Bigger Mac turned his head towards Samus, who flinched.

"W-who are you?" Samus asked.

"Well..." Little Mac began. "When you zapped that pile of crops with your Mutagen Ray, guess who was in the middle of it?"

Samus gasped. "You mean... All of this is my fault?"

Little Mac nodded. "Yes! Mutagen adds life to the nonliving, gives strength to the weak... And strengthens the strong. It clears the mind, makes people see differently... And I've never seen anything more clearly than this day." Mac ordered the swarm to release Samus from the chair.

"Now... We will see who truly is the' Little' one!" He got in his boxing stance. The swarm flew to the spectator seats in a blitz, and the exits were blocked. Samus gulped.

The lights dimmed, and from the center of the stadium, a swarm grunt wearing a referee jacket and a whistle was standing. "Ladies and gentleman!" It said. "Welcome to the main event of the evening! In this corner, weighing in a 50,000 pounds, Your Glorious Leader, Slightly Bigger Mac!" The boxer waved at everyone, blowing kisses.

Leader? Does that mean... Samus gasped. "And in this corner, the Challenger! Weighing in at XXX (rude!) pounds, Samus!" The swarm booed and three tomatoes as Samus tried her best to not die of fear from the thought of dying. Let that sink in for a little.

"3...2...1... Let the match begin!" It yelled, Slightly Bigger Mac rushed forward, and Samus braced herself for the ensuing fight. Then, she ran forward as well, to meet her opponent that was more than 50 times her size.

The match was brutal. Samus kept rushing forward, only to be picked or kicked into a wall soon afterward. Her opponent wasn't even trying; he was just enjoying watching the little Space Warrior struggle.

"Little Mac, please..." Samus said, being kicked against the wall for the fifth time. "This isn't you! Your mind is being corrupted!" Samus yelled.

"I've never seen clearly until now!" He yelled, trying to stomp on her. Luckily, she rolled out of the way just in time.

"Please! You would never do anything like this! Hurt tons of innocent people... Just for the heck of it!" Samus yelled. She was quickly losing energy and vitality. She had resorted to just running away instead of attacking.

"No! You're wrong! I will obliterate everyone!" He kicked Samus, sending her flying across the whole stadium. She landed with a grueling thud.

"Oww..." She tried to get up, but couldn't. She turned to look at her oncoming demise. When she looked at his eyes, she saw something... Strange. That's weird... She said as she looked closer. She thought she was going insane when she saw Little Mac inside his right eye. She rubbed her eyes, and he was still there. He appeared to be... Looking for help. He was knocking on the eye from the inside, and looked really worried. Of course! The mutagen didn't change him! It just imprisoned him within himself! Samus thought. If I can distract him... I can knock Little Mac out of his own head! Samus tried her best to get up. But was picked up by Little Mac. He closed his fist tightly, causing a great deal of pain to her. He brought her up to his face.

"Who's the small one now, huh?" He said. Samus looked at his eye, and saw Little Mac, who eas now panicking, seeing Samus. Then, he gasped, smiled slightly, and put his finger to his lips. What? What is he planning? Samus thought.

"Are you even listening to me?!" Slightly Bigger Mac said, squeezing her a little harder.

"Ahhhhh!" Samus yelled.

"Oh, I'm gonna make sure your last few moments here are especially painful once I'm- OWWWWW!" He released his grip on Samus and, she fell down. She thought she was a goner, and closed her eyes, when she was caught mid-fall by something. She opened her eyes to see Pit, with his glowing blue wings, smiling at her.

"You okay?" He asked.

"Not really." She looked around. The exits were now opened, but swarm members were flossing into the stadium from all sides. She saw Link, who was in the stands. All of the swarm around him were disintegrated, and he was holding a bow. She looked back at Slightly Bigger Mac, and saw that an arrow was lodged right in the middle of his forehead. Lucina and Snake were on the ground, fighting off the Swarm from there. Fox was shooting all of the flying swarm next to Link, and Palutena was knocking the Searm back down as they climbed up to the spectator seats, causing them to disintegrate upon impact.

"What. The heck." Samus said, wide opened as she saw the large battle going on.

"I'll explain later." Pit said. He put her down in the stands. "Now let's win this war!" Pit said. He flew off, and landed in the middle of the swarm.

Samus looked at Slightly Bigger Mac, and saw that Link was atop his head, getting his sword ready to stab his the center of his forehead. No! Doing that will make us lose Little Mac!

"Link, no!" She yelled. Somehow, with his Hylian ears, he picked it up, and looked over, confused. In that time, Slightly Bigger Mac had recovered from the assault by Link, and grabbed him from atop his head. He then threw him as hard as he could atop into the ground. Samus screamed. Sure, they were rivals, but that didn't mean that she didn't care what happened to him. The behemoth of a boxer then slammed his foot down as hard as he could on Link. Dust flew everywhere as the impact from his stomp caused everyone to fly back a few feet.

Now Samus felt really guilty. First of all, she caused this whole mess. And now Link is probably dead because of her. She fell to her knees, and put her hands on her face. I have to end this now. Before my mistake hurts anyone else.

She got up, readying her gun. "Hey, Little Mac!" She yelled. The giant quickly looked at her. "Yeah, you. Small fry."

"I AM NOT SMALL!" He yelled, slamming his fists down. Samus rolled out of the way as a whole section of the Spectator Chairs were destroyed. "YOU ARE A GIANT BUTT FACE!" He yelled, slamming it down again. This time, his fists got stuck.

Samus took the opening, and jumped on his fist. She started running up his arm. She jumped and latched her whip onto his eyelash, swinging herself into his eyelid.

"Hey! What're you doing?" He yelled.

"Fixing my mess." She said. She opened his eye, and saw Little Mac within. He started cheering. She charged up her gun, and was about to fire when she felt his glove wrap around her.

He chuckled as he put brought her away from his face. "Huh, I underestimated you. It seems you have found my weakness." He smirked. "No matter. You won't be able to hit it anyways."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that!" Yelled a voice from below. Samus looked and saw Snake, holding a button. There were explosives all on the giant's feet. "Kaboom." He said, pushing the button. All of the explosions exploded at once, causing Slightly Bigger Mac to click his foot in pain.

"Go Samus!" Palutena said, "I don't know how much longer I'll be able to hold them back!" Samus nodded, and swung onto his face again. "This is for Link!" She blasted his eye once, creating a crack. "This is for me!" She blasted again, bringing it close to the breaking point. "And this," she started charging up her gun, "is for everyone else." She released the trigger, and the eye cracked open.

"Noooooooo!" He yelled as a bright white light emanated from him. "Mark my words! I will return, in greater numbers..." Then, his body disappeared, leaving Samus and Little Mac on the ground.

"I-is it over?" She looked around. There was no more swarm to be found. She looked up. The dark black cloud that was looming over the stadium was gone now, and the sun was shining brightly in the middle of the sky.

She sighed, then looked over at Little Mac. He was walking over towards her.

"... I'm sorry." They were shocked to hear each other say it at the same time.

"Why are you sorry?" Little Mac asked. "I'm the one who destroyed the whole city and almost got all of you killed."

Samus shook her head. "It wasn't your fault. If I didn't shrink you in the first place, none of this would've happened. I'm sorry for calling you short."

Chuckling, Little Mad said, "the mutagen changed the way I thought. I actually enjoy being called small; it makes my opponents defeat that much more humiliating!" He smiled, and stuck out his hands.

"We good?"

"Yeah." Samus shook his hand. "We're good." Samus turned around and saw Pit, who was running up to her excitedly.

"Oh my gosh! We did it!" Pit screamed, putting his hands in the air.

"Yeah... I guess we did." Samus smiled. "Oh yeah, so how did you guys even get here?"

Pit smirked. "Well..." He said. "It all started like this... This is a flashback scene. You can tell because it's in italics.

"And then Snake fell through the hole in the roof, and we followed him in." Pit said.

"...right." Samus said. "Well, I'm glad you guys arrived when you did."

Palutena, Fox, and Snake walked up to them. "You're darn right you are. You would've been dead without us." Snake said. He then pulled down his box, lay down in it with his feet sticking out, and started relaxing.

But, his relaxation was short-lived when Olimar and Villager stormed into stadium, knocking Snake's box to the side. The rest of the Smashers started funneling into the stadium. They looked quite happy; even Ganondorf was cheering.

They all gathered around her.

"You did it Samus!" Mario patted her on the back. He had bruises all over his body, and his hat had a bite mark in it.

"Where's Link?" Samus said. She looked around, but he was nowhere to be found.

"Right here." Samus heard from behind her. She turned around to see Link, standing on his own, smiling at her.

"What? You're alive? How?" She asked.

"Well... When he stomped on me, one could say that I had a bit of help with the pain." He turned around, revealing his Hylian Shield, shining brighter than it's shone before.

"Wow, you got so lucky!" Samus said.

"Hey, it was completely skill!" Link said. "Skill for having luck!"

Samus laughed and walked up and grabbed the collar of his tunic "Next time..." She whispered. "Don't get in the way of my battles."

"I'll try not to next time." He said. "Unless I'm the opponent." At that point he escaped fromher grip, gave her a quick salute, and ran off towards Zelda.

"Three cheers for Samus!" Marth yelled.

"HIP HIP..."

"HORRAY!" They cheered.

"HIP HIP..."

"HORRAY!"

"HIP HIP..."

"STOP!" The Smashers looked in shock at Samus, who had made the loud noise.

"Why?" Luigi asked. "We-a did it! We won!"

"I know but... I think there's something you should know..." She looked at the smashers dead in the eye. Yes, every single one of them. With only two eyes. "I did this. This was all my fault... I know I should've told you guys earlier, but..."

"It's ok, Samus!" Ike said, patting her on the shoulder. "We already knew what happened."

Samus looked up. "How?"

"A little Spaceman told us." Samus looked at Olimar, who was now backing away slowly, hiding behind Pikachu.

"Don't worry, though. It wasn't your fault." Ike said.

"Yes it was." Samus said, putting her hands on her head.

"Well, you did shoot them with the laser, but that's not what caused this to happen." Even Little Mac looked confused.

"I thought the mutagen did that to me? If not that, then what?" He started scratching his head, searching for an answer.

"No... It's something much worse." Ike said, a grim expression on his face. "Master hand has gone rogue again."

Samus face palmed. "Again? So, let me guess... He's the one that stared this whole thing?"

Ike shook his head. "No... You see that black stuff in the air slowly disappearing?" They looked up, and there was a small wisp of pure black smoke flying away.

"Yeah... That's what was surrounding Little Mac and the rest of the infected things." Samus said, recalling today's events.

"Yeah... Well, whatever made that is what's caused all of this." Ike said. "And is powerful enough to take over the will of others, including Master Hand."

"So... Where is Master Hand?" Samus asked. He (it?) was nowhere to be found.

"He's gone. We don't know where he is. But hey, we shouldn't worry about that! Let's go celebrate!" Ike said. Samus didn't notice the party supplies that had been set up while they were talking. Ike pointed to the Karaoke station. "You up for a singing competition with the others?"

Samus smiled. "Sure, why not?" And Ike and Samus sang We are the Champions, beating Ganondorf and Luigi, who sang Don't Go Breaking My Heart. And everyone was happy. Except the mayor, who had just arrived back from his vacation with a certain swordsman from Bionis.

The end

A/N: Wow... I really focused a lot on a certain character this chapter... I guess you know who's my favorite! Don't worry if you're getting tired of him, I will write about other Smashers too! So, if you're reading this recently, and you've seen the Pic of The Day from a few days ago, you would know how I'm shock I am in right now. I can't believe that the Swarm is an actual thing in the game! Since it is, I decided to make it a little more important in this chapter than I was originally planning it to be. This chapter has been in the works for a loooonnnggg time. I was really busy with school and I had to work on it in bed on my phone, when I got the chance. I also kept changing the course for this chapter, which resulted in a lot of lost time, so sorry XD. Anyways, I have an idea for a new potential story idea or sub story to this one. I'll tell you guys next chapter, since this AN is already super long. I'll just give you what I'm planning to call it for now: A Smashing Time. Anyways, thanks for all the support! Suggestions welcome! Now, I'm off to do homework, and to play the Wii U that I got last weekend! Until next chapter!