Warning this chapter contains Mother 3 Spoilers... Not that it really matters since Brawl spoiled this spoiler all ready... if you read Lucas' trophy description... Or listened to Snake's CODEC... but now I'm spoiling this chapter... but I'm not because something else all ready spoiled it... but those spoilers were optional and... and my head hurts...

But these spoilers don't matter since the Mother 3 patch has been released and you should have played it by now…


Chapter 28: The final confrontation? He who calls himself The Dark Lord.

The Smashers, Lucian, and Aaron stood in front of the door leading to Dumas' room.

"This is it." Samus said. "Its almost too easy."

Lucian faced the Smashers. "If you are going to back down, please do it now, I don't want to see you killed because of me."

"No we are here to bring down the Dark Lord." Mr. Game and Watch said, the Smashers all nodded in agreement.

"And what about you kid?" Lucian asked.

"I'm... also going." Aaron stuttered. "I'm afraid but I can't let the Duke do whatever he pleases with our planet."

"Is this because he killed your father?" Lucian asked.

"No," Aaron replied. "I want to protect this planet!"

Lucian smiled and he walked towards the door opening it. The Smashers and Aaron followed behind him. They were walking through a dark room paved with stones. Soon however that walk broke into a run and everyone else followed at the end of the long hallway there was a single door that they walked through. In the new room there was a large staircase. Each of their hearts was beating fast. They began to run up the stairs. They ran and ran up the stairs, hoping that they would reach the top. With each step they took they felt an immense pressure on their shoulders. Eventually they reached the top of the staircase. They didn't know how long it had taken them to climb the stairs. They estimated about fifteen minutes.

At the top was a narrow platform that connected to a large circular platform. Waiting for them, sitting on a throne was none other than Dumas. At his side was Perrault.

"So, you've finally made it." Dumas snarled. He had a smile on his face as though he was excited.

"Dumas!" Lucian shouted keeping his composer this time.

"Sartana, your abilities seem to have improved. Or should I call you Lucian now?" Dumas laughed. "And you Aaron, the son of Trinity. Your father was quite foolish. He tried to rescue Sartana. Even though he was on the brink of death from the wounds that he received from our ruler. You should have witnessed his final moments. It was pathetic! Maybe you will give me a bit of entertainment... along with you Smashers. Do you know why you have made it this far?" There was silence. Aaron stood there with his hands squeezed together as fists. "Of course you don't. I allowed you to get this far! If I wanted I could have killed you all. But I didn't. I wanted you to taste despair! Aaron, you look like you have something to say."

"Doesn't it mean anything to you?" Aaron asked. "My father's death. The death of a living being!"

Dumas looked at Aaron seriously. "Mean anything?" He scoffed. "Let me ask you this, boy. All of the vampires and monsters you've killed. What did their deaths mean to you? Or, for that matter, the lives of the plants and animals that you've eaten up until now?"

"But that's..." Aaron stuttered.

"That's enough." Samus shouted. "People need to eat to live. It's the natural balance. However you weren't meant to be here!"

"In all honesty I don't want to hear that coming from you." Dumas laughed. "You are also outsiders to this world."

"We are only here because you are the Dark Lord." Marth replied.

"And we are going to take you down!" Pikachu shouted.

"For all of the suffering that you have caused." Peach said.

"And once you are out of the way we will get Mewtwo back." Dr. Mario shouted.

"And the universe will be safe." Mr. Game and Watch finished.

Dumas just smiled. "I'm glad you have so much vigor. I hope I don't disappoint. Don't expect me to hold back."

Dumas jumped off of his chair and gracefully landed in front of everyone. Lucian walked forwards. "I want to fight him alone." Lucian said. "If I need help I'll signal for you to join in."

"This will be fun." Dumas laughed. "Now I will get to tear you apart, starting with your ego."

Lucian just rushed towards Dumas swinging his sword, Dumas countered by moving his arm and creating a red blade. "Blood cutter!" Dumas called out the attack. The blood cutter instantly disappeared when it was hit with the blade. Dumas appeared behind Lucian. "You're careless!" Lucian however turned around and delivered a roundhouse kick to Dumas' head. Lucian's boots were also steel toe boots, so as you could imagine the kick hurt. "Blood cutter!" Lucian quickly jumped to the side to dodge the attack; he then parried behind Dumas and slashed him across the back.

Dumas however just laughed. "What's so funny?" Lucian asked.

"You were hardly able to beat my Chimeras. What makes you think you stand a chance against me?"

"I'll show you!" Lucian said grabbing the dark scythe Hel. He began to repeatedly slash at Dumas cutting him up a bit. Eventually Lucian brought down the scythe in to Dumas' shoulder. Dumas could only just stand there not even crying out in pain. Lucain pulled out the dark lance Jormungandr and shoved it through Dumas' abdomen. Finally Lucian finished by shoving the dark sword Vanargand through Dumas' heart. "Why didn't you dodge?"

"To show you, and the Smashers, how pointless it was." Dumas replied.

"I'll show you pointless!" Lucian shouted grabbing onto the dark sword. Dark energy surged through Lucian and eventually through Dumas. Dumas however just laughed and pulled out all three of the weapons. Everyone was rather surprised to see that there were no wounds on him. It was almost as if the weapons just passed through him. Lucian rushed towards Dumas and began to rapidly slash at him with his dark sword. Eventually Dumas got fed up and rushed towards Lucian, grabbing him by the neck.

"How about I put you out of your misery. And this time you will stay dead!"

A missile flew and hit Dumas in the back causing him to drop Lucian. "I told you to stay out of this!" Lucian barked.

"You were going to die!" Aaron shouted back at his comrade. "I won't let that happen!"

"I said if I wanted your help I would give you a signal!"

"Well we are intervening. The signal is now you nearly dieing." Samus said she aimed her arm blaster at Dumas and began to fire several shots. He just simply dodged each attack. Behind him Pikachu appeared and slashed him with the electric lance. Dumas flew up into the air however Pikachu appeared behind him once again. This time he sent Dumas down towards the ground where Dr. Mario was waiting. Dr. Mario began to rapidly hit various pressure points on Dumas causing him to scream out in pain. He jumped away however his legs gave out. Dumas quickly transformed into several bats and flew away to someplace safe. However Princess Peach was waiting for him and began to throw several vegetables at him.

The bats combined back into Dumas. Marth jumped into the air and slashed Dumas with his sword. Dumas came crashing down into the ground where Mr. Game and Watch was waiting. He unleashed a Judgment and knocked him back. Samus stood above Dumas and shot him backwards.

Dumas gasped for air. "Come Perrault!" Perrault quickly flew above Dumas and began to glow. Suddenly lighting came down and struck Dumas, and blinded the Smashers. Dumas began to become bulkier. Bat like wings came from his back and his hands became claws.

"Don't think that a transformation will defeat us." Dr. Mario said.

Dumas just smiled. He let out a burst of energy that sent everyone, except Dr. Mario, flying backwards. "You're different from the others. I guess you will be the first to go."

An aura surrounded Dr. Mario's hands. Dumas fired several blood cutters at Dr. Mario who blocked using his hands. Whenever they hit his hands the aura seemed to cut right through it. Dumas rushed behind Dr. Mario, however Dr. Mario was able to see this coming and flipped around. With the aura around his hands he was able to cut several tendons on Dumas' limbs.

"You're good..." Dumas said quickly flying away. A moment later the damage that Dr. Mario had dealt was quickly healed because of both Dumas' faster healing and Perrault. During this time the other Smashers along with Aaron and Lucian had regained their footing.

"DUMAS!" Lucian shouted letting out all of his dark energy into the sword and swinging it towards Dumas. Dumas however just lifted his hand and grabbed onto the sword stopping it even though the pressure was enough to shatter the wall beside him.

"He's good." Peach said.

"I'd expect nothing less from the Dark Lord." Samus replied. "Lets take him down!"

"Weapon of Heart!" Pikachu shouted summoning his Electric Lance. He charged towards Dumas however Dumas was able to dodge. "Stage two!" Pikachu shouted. Suddenly the lance became bigger. This time however it followed Dumas and pierced him.

Aaron seeing that Dumas was trapped in mid air drew his two ninja guns and began to open rapid fire at Dumas.

"Trance mode!" Lucian shouted turning into the monster. He jumped at Dumas who was able to block every one of his attacks.

"No way!" Aaron shouted shocked.

"Is this all you've got?" Dumas questioned. "I won't even break a sweat..."

"The Dark Lord." Pikachu muttered. "You are going to make us go all out aren't you? Then again it wouldn't be much of a final battle that way if you didn't!"

"Of course, it wouldn't be fun any other way!" With that Dumas sent several blood cutters towards Pikachu who dodged them.

Peach rushed towards Dumas swinging her frying pan however Dumas just transformed into a bunch of bats and surrounded Peach. Peach began to scream out in fear but a quick thunderbolt caused the bats to fly away.

"Bats use a form of sonar to see..." Dr. Mario said. He then brought out two scalpels and began to scratch them together causing the bats to fly around frantically. Dumas quickly reformed from the bats. Samus began to fire several missiles that rushed towards him. Dumas acting quickly used blood cutters to cut them out causing them to explode in the air.

Lucian jumped towards Dumas swinging his sword. Dumas was unable to dodge the attack and it cut off his arm. Dumas quickly caught his arm and put it back in place; somehow, with the accelerated healing he was able to heal his arm.

"Its just like new..." Dumas laughed.

Dr. Mario rushed towards Dumas. "You're unnatural!"

"I'm no more unnatural than you..." Dumas replied. Dr. Mario rushed towards Dumas revealing two concealed scalpels. When Dumas was about to move away, Mr. Game and Watch had sneaked up behind him and grabbed him holding him perfectly still. "Lunar Flare!" Dumas shouted. Suddenly a white barrier like energy pulsed around him causing Mr. Game and Watch to let go of him and hit Dr. Mario. Dumas then used blood cutter once again, this time he used it as a close range attack sending Dr. Mario and Mr. Game and Watch flying backwards.

Both of them were cut pretty badly from the consecutive attacks. Dr. Mario quickly healed himself. Mr. Game and Watch on the other hand was shocked to see purple objects come out of the wound. Quickly Dr. Mario rushed over and began to heal Mr. Game and Watch. "What were those?" He asked.

"I don't know..." Mr. Game and Watch replied. "Does this have something to do with my past? My amnesia?"

"We will worry about that later." Dr. Mario said.

Dumas was now in the air gathering in a bunch of energy. Realizing that this was a strong and powerful attack Lucian jumped into the air and cut Dumas down to stop the attack. Dumas plummeted to the platform and landed on it with a thud.

Marth rushed towards Dumas. Dumas however just flew out of reach from the platform. Dr. Mario quickly threw several scalpels causing his wings to be pierced and he lost control of being able to fly. He plummeted down the platform and Marth jumped off to follow him. "You're stupid Smasher."

"Weapon of Heart!" Marth shouted summoning his sword in his left hand and holding on to his Falchion in his right. Marth began to rapidly cut the air around him as they plummeted towards the ground.

"This is suicide Smasher."

"Well thankfully suicide is painless." Marth replied in a cocky manor. A rope made completely out of energy grabbed Marth and stopped him from falling to his demise. Back up on the platform Samus was hanging over the edge while Pikachu powered up her suit in order to get a stronger grapple beam. Marth delivered a final strike from his Weapon of Heart sending out a perfectly circular blade of wind. The attack narrowly missed Dumas and went on to damage the rest of the castle.

Marth was quickly pulled back up to the platform. Dumas' wings had recovered and he flew back up looking severely pissed off. Marth's Weapon of Heart began to let off a green aura.

"Alexander, power up Marth's sword!" Aaron shouted. The aura became even stronger. With one swing of Marth's sword a blade of wind rushed towards Dumas. Dumas however dodged and the blade destroyed the wall of the castle.

Dumas landed in the center of the platform. Quickly the eight warriors surrounded him. "Blood cutter!" Dumas shouted sending out at least twenty blades of the crimson energy. Everyone quickly dodged the attacks but they soon realized where Dumas was really aiming at. All of the support wires that was suspending the platform in midair. He cut all of the wires and they began to fall.

Peach, Pikachu, Mr. Game and Watch, and Aaron all grabbed onto each other and floated down slowly due to Peach's Parasol.

Marth began to slash wildly towards the ground with his Weapon of Heart to slow his descent. Somehow this worked.

Lucian had jumped off of the edge after figuring out what Dumas' attack was really supposed to do. When he approached the wall he grabbed his dark sword and stabbed it into the wall, this slowed his decent.

Dr. Mario was holding onto Samus who fired a Zero Laser down towards the ground slowing their descent. Samus' suit had previously been overloaded with energy due to having to absorb a lot from Pikachu to save Marth. With the Zero Laser fired Samus' suit returned to normal levels of power.

When all of them landed they were positive that they could feel the whole castle shaking. "Smashers!" Dumas shouted so that they could hear him from the bottom of the room. "I hope you have a painful death buried in the ruins of my castle. You were hardly worthy adversaries."

The damage to the castle was now too severe. They could hear the two towers Narcissus and Artur collapsing. "Its not over yet!" Dr. Mario shouted. He motioned for everyone to come as close as they could to him. They did so. Taking in a deep breath Dr. Mario began to create a barrier around them. A moment later the rest of the castle collapsed.

Dumas just flied in the air. He looked down at the mess that was once his castle. "Its finally over..." Dumas laughed. Suddenly a beam of light shot out from the rubble. Rushing towards Dumas looked like a human that was on fire. Aaron had entered his trance mode and became Sol Aaron. He delivered all of his strength into one attack knocking Dumas out of the air and down to the ruins of the castle. The barrier that Dr. Mario was keeping up exploded with such force that it knocked some of the rubble into the air. The rubble then hit Dumas.

They all stepped out of the ruined castle and looked up at the falling Dumas. He fell with such force that he created a crater. Slowly, Dumas got up out of the crater. "Have you given up yet Dumas?" Samus said with her canon right next to his head.

"No!"

"Too bad!" Samus replied unleashing a full Zero Laser upon him causing him to fly back and hit the ground violently. This time with no extra power her suit fell off, but with a quick press of a button on her watch she regained her suit.

The castle collapsing had naturally attracted a bunch of humans and monsters. Several monsters had immediately rushed to Dumas' aid. Dumas quickly bit them, each one he drained their life force until they turned into dust. It wasn't long until he had regained his power and exceeded it. But he just continued to feast on the life force of the monsters.

"This is bad." Dr. Mario said. "Dumas has exceeded his normal energy levels. Unlike humans he can only get stronger!"

"What do you mean?" Pikachu asked.

"There was an EON experiment. We tried to forcefully increase the amount of energy the body could hold. However after what your body was used to was exceeded it began to do more damage than good." Dr. Mario explained. He was incredibly uneasy about this. "But he is an undead monster... His body could theoretically hold an unlimited amount of energy!"

"We'll see about that." Lucian said grabbing his dark sword. "Ursula!" With a swing of his sword fire rushed towards Dumas. The fire was so hot that it melted a lot of the ruined bricks. However, when it reached Dumas, the dark aura around Dumas repelled it. Dumas continued to absorb more and more energy and his dark aura began to grow bigger and bigger.

"We have to destroy that aura!" Pikachu shouted. He got down on all fours and began to run forwards letting off electricity as he went. Eventually the electricity consumed him and he became a ball of electricity. When the ball of electricity hit against the dark aura Pikachu stopped and could no longer move. The aura was acting much like a barrier. Samus threw an energy beam at Dumas; it wrapped around his neck and began to drain his energy. However due to the sheer amount of energy that Dumas had absorbed Samus had to quickly discharge it with a constant Zero Laser from her suit. Even with those two attacks, the volt tackle and Zero Laser, the aura didn't falter. Dumas quickly cut the energy beam by using blood cutter. Soon the constant attack of the Zero Laser and the volt tackle ended.

"That aura is too strong!" Samus shouted.

"We have to end this battle in one strike." Lucian replied. "Aaron use Toasty and see if you can break through the aura."

Aaron grabbed his knight solar gun and fired a shot. To everyone's surprise it actually went through the aura. "Okay? Now what?" Aaron asked.

"I want you to put in all of your energy into a giant blast. It should be strong enough to dispel the aura. Everyone else will use their strongest attacks and combine it for one super attack. With the aura gone Dumas will be exposed and with any luck we should finish this battle in one strike." Lucian replied.

The four elemental Terrennials appeared around Lucian causing his sword to glow red, green, yellow, and blue. Meanwhile in front Aaron was charging up a super powered solar attack. Due to him having been Sol Aaron earlier, he had drained some of Dumas' energy and transferred it to himself. Pikachu was charging up Samus' suit for another Zero Laser while Dr. Mario transferred some of his energy to Pikachu.

Mr. Game and Watch had previously caught three of the blood cutters and was ready to use oil panic. Peach stood back restoring everyone's energy. It was a wonder that Dumas didn't attack them. Most likely he thought that the attack would do nothing, and with them all drained of energy none of them would be able to fight back.

"Fire kid!" Lucian shouted. Aaron fired the gigantic blast from his solar gun. It rushed towards Dumas and completely obliterated his aura. Marth followed through with sending a blade of wind towards Dumas. Samus then released her zero laser, along with Mr. Game and Watch firing his oil panic and Lucian bringing down his sword. The three attacks fused together and became one super attack. Dumas could only look on in horror as it approached him and resulted in an explosion.

But all it resulted in doing was defusing Dumas and Perrault. Dumas was pretty beat up. "This battle isn't over yet!" Perrault said floating up into the air. Suddenly a giant mecha appeared out of thin air. This was the Schrödinger. Perrault quickly grabbed Dumas and rushed inside before any of the Smashers could react. "We will fight again some other day!" With that the Schrödinger took off into space.

Samus stared at Schrödinger flying into space. "No, it's not over yet!" She shouted.

"Dumas is getting away, and we're too tired from fighting to move." Lucian replied lying on the ground. "I'd say its over."

"We can still win though! We just have to follow him!"

"We can't catch up though!" Lucian said in distress. "We just can't catch him now. He'll escape!"

Pikachu crawled over to Lucian and bit him. "What did you do with the real Lucian?" Pikachu asked. "What ever happened to your vengeance? What ever happened to you talking big, how you would kill anybody who stood in your way?"

"I just can't beat him... and now he's escaped!"

Samus picked up Lucian off of the ground. "Not quite its time for everything to come together."

"And what might this be?"

"Well since he called himself The Dark Lord, I called in a little back up." Samus smiled. "Its time to end this battle!" She reached and pressed a button on her suit. "Fox here's the signal, try to keep it alive until we get up there."


Samus was piloting her battle ship; beside the Smashers was Aaron and Lucian in their battle ship the Laplace. They were trailing the Schrödinger.

"The Schrödinger." Lucian's voice said over an intercom. "Its been upgraded heavily since the last time I fought it. Perrault must have planed for such an occasion as this to happen."

"You fought that thing?" Everyone shouted out in shock.

"Well in the Laplace..."

"Oh..." Everyone replied.

"I won't go down easily!" Dumas laughed. "What will two ships be able to do?"

"Who said there were two ships!" A new voice shouted over the intercom. "We got your signal Samus."

Approaching them was the Great Fox, the Pleiades, and the Rainbow Cruise. Dumas wasn't too happy.

"How?"

"You're never going to find out!" Samus laughed. Pressing a button, several missiles flew out of the ship and attacked the Schrödinger. As each missile hit they exploded revealing small scratches. Fox and Falco had all ready gotten out into their Arwings with the Great Fox occasionally firing bullets at the Schrödinger. The Rainbow Cruise fired a few cannons at the Schrödinger, which just shrugged off the attack.

The original model of the Pleiades was just a tour ship. However Master Hand and Crazy Hand had upgraded it with tons of firepower. With a single push of a button it launched hundreds of missiles that were some how automatically restocked every single attack. The missiles rushed towards the Schrödinger, however this time Dumas was prepared for the attack. Several lasers came from the Schrödinger and rushed towards each of the missiles causing them to explode in space. Not a single one was able to hit the Schrödinger.

Laplace fired several armor piercing missiles brought forth by the Terrennial of ice. In a futile attempt to defend that Schrödinger held out a large shield. However the missile went right through the armor. Dumas and Perrault were clearly shocked about this since they didn't react for several seconds. The Pleiades took full advantage of this and fired several missiles. Unable to react fast enough the missiles destroyed the shield and greatly damaged several parts of the Schrödinger including the lasers that had destroyed the first missile barrage.

The Schrödinger began to fire tons of bullets, however the Laplace flew in front and protected everyone. An aura surrounded the Laplace protecting it from the bullets. The arwings sent several bombs at the Schrödinger causing massive damage. The Schrödinger tried to dodge several more attacks however it soon became noticeable that it was too big and bulky to move around quickly.

"The Schrödinger is too slow!" Dumas shouted outraged. "It must become faster!"

"We can't modify it mid flight!" Perrault shouted back. "The only way would be if we fused with the Schrödinger! But that would be so reckless right now we can't do it!"

"We can and we will!" Dumas replied calmly. Within the next few seconds everything was absorbed in light. When the light cleared the Dumas was floating in space. The Schrödinger had taken on his appearance. "This much power." Dumas laughed. "Prepare to die!"

"His power has increased, and all damage that we have done so far he has recovered!" Fox said rather shocked.

"This is to troublesome..." Falco replied.

"It doesn't change anything." Lucian replied. "If anyone gets in my way I will kill them!"

"We still may have a chance." Link's voice said over the intercom. "Creatures that are fused have this brief period where they are actually weaker than either of the two who fused to create them. We can use this brief period of time to our advantage in order to win!"

Samus however replied quickly back. "No there wasn't this period of time the last time he fused."

"No it might have been there!" Lucian replied. "He just masked it so well by constantly attacking and keeping us away from him!"

"We should continue to attack..." Samus ordered.

Missiles began to fire towards Dumas who just cut them out of the air. "Not this time Smashers!" Dumas laughed. "Now I have all of the speed I need! Now you will never be able to defeat me!"

Fox and Falco began to fire lasers at Dumas. The Great Fox and the Pleiades began to shoot off several more lasers. As fast as Dumas was several shots grazed him. Each shot that hit him seemed to slow his movements.

"Everyone, lets trap him in a web of lasers!" Fox suggested.

"We don't have much choice." Samus replied.

"In this position we don't have a chance to strategize... but there is also the chance that we might hit each other..." Falco replied.

"Against the Dark Lord we don't have much of a choice but to resort to desperate measures..." Pikachu replied.

"Even if it means hitting our comrades?" Mario replied a bit shocked.

"Don't worry about that." Fox reassured Mario. "I've all ready preprogrammed the shields so that they aren't effected by our lasers. In fact if they hit us it just recharges us."

"Can Dumas do that?" Lucian asked.

"I doubt in his current from." Fox replied. "And he would need to know the exact frequency... Something I doubt he will be able to do!"

The six ships surrounded Dumas and began to rotate around him and began to shoot. Dumas did his best to dodge. But just as planned Dumas was unable to move with out being caught in the web of lasers. Suddenly Dumas began to spin around leaving behind a crimson trail of energy much like the blood cutter. The ships had to move away otherwise they would be destroyed.

Dumas was beginning to wise up to their strategies of restricting his movement. With that he began to use wide attacks stopping them from actually closing in on him.

"Damn!" Pikachu shouted.

"This isn't working..." Marth shouted.

"We can't go on much longer like this" Dr. Mario said.

"We must do whatever it takes to defeat the Dark Lord!" Peach replied.

Samus however was uneasy. She pressed a button on her ship and a barrage of missiles rushed towards Dumas. Dumas tried his best to destroy the missiles but some managed to get through and scratch him. "We can't continue... our ships will eventually run out of missiles, fuel and power. We need to get him back into the atmosphere and defuse him!" Samus replied. "Link is there a way?"

"I think he is also under a time constraint also." Link replied. "This battle must require a large amount of energy for him to be capable of doing the things that he is doing. I don't know his personal limits but he must have used almost all of his energy. I think we can also get rid of the fusion by delivering a shock to his system..."

Even with the assault continuing against Dumas, with so few attacks getting through it seemed like the fight would drag on longer.

"Hey need some help?" A voice asked over the intercom. Everyone was rather shocked by the sudden voice.

"Edge what are you doing here?" Roy asked confused.

"We're here to help you guys, with GUNVALD!" Loki replied.

Everyone looked outside to see a giant blue Mecha. "Someone had helped us repair GUNVALD." Edge replied. "At one point he was damaged beyond repair but now he is fully operational again! Not to mention upgraded and modified so that one person can fly it."

"Especially if that one person is completely illiterate with computers..." Loki snickered.

"If this is the strength of the Smashers then let it come to me at full power!" Dumas laughed. "I won't back down to you!"

GUNVALD began to shoot several hundred missiles towards Dumas who just began to effortlessly dodge them. Fox and Falco however fired several bombs at Dumas hitting him. GUNVALD then came up close range and aimed its massive cannon directly at Dumas. "GUNVALD Laser!" Edge shouted. A sudden beam of energy shot to Dumas who was unable to dodge. The blast only knocked him backwards.

"You aren't going to win like that Smashers!" Dumas laughed.

"We'll see." Fox replied. The ongoing assault against Dumas was showing no signs of stopping any time soon. With all of the missiles flying everywhere they managed to hit the ParSOL, destroying it, which was a good thing because it was actually a device that could be used to destroy the planet.

It quickly became apparent that the attacks that were getting through were badly damaging Dumas. He began to attack quicker and quicker so that there was no period of time where he paused between attacks.

GUNVALD being the ship with the least amount of damage continued the assault against Dumas. Eventually GUNVALD fired a laser ripping off one of Dumas' wings.

Dumas screamed out in pain. Suddenly he got a lot more violent sending his strongest attacks towards everyone. Practically everyone backed off except Fox.

"I won't give up!" Fox shouted pulling out the card that Master Hand had given him. "Seal of Smash!" He shouted throwing the card on the Arwing. The Seal of Smash activated and spread across the Arwing. He fired several more shots and they were a lot stronger this time destroying the attacks that Dumas had fired.

Panicking Dumas began to go back down into the atmosphere of the planet.

"Just what is this coward doing now?" Samus asked.

"He's going back into the planet's atmosphere." Fox replied. "Either he is going to go to destroy everything down there or something else is going to happen…"

"This could be a trap." Falco muttered.

"Then lets spring it!" Aaron shouted excited.

"That's the idea kid." Lucian laughed.

The ships followed into the atmosphere. "I'm getting strange energy signals from Dumas!" Samus shouted. "He must have retreated because he can no longer sustain his fusion form..."

"Then I think this battle is over!" Lucian laughed.

Fox and Falco fired one final attack; this time it was enough to defuse the Schrödinger, Dumas and Perrault. Fox then impaled Dumas with one of his Arwing's wings. With that they landed on the ground.

"I'm not done yet." Dumas laughed pushing himself out of the Arwing. Everyone stared at him. Dumas' wounds quickly healed. "I'm immortal, I can't die..." he laughed. "I'll keep going until all of you have been worn out. I am superior!"

"How the hell can this guy still stand?" Dr. Mario questioned. "Even a vampire shouldn't last this long."

Link just observed Dumas. "He is pushing himself beyond his limits." Link explained. "Why?"

"I can't lose here... My ambitions..." Dumas said. "Failure isn't an option."

Link just smiled, he figured it out and it was most likely everyone else had too. "Its over just give it up, impostor!"

"Never!" Dumas said bringing out a small shard of a crystal from underneath his jacket. The Smashers recognized it as a Fake Smash Shard, one of millions that Giga Bowser had made before being sealed away. It radiated such a strange aura consisting of a strange fusion between darkness and a bloody mist. Dumas quickly shoved it into his body and he began to transform. He sprouted bat wings and gained a much bulkier appearance.

"What do we do?" Aaron shouted afraid rapidly firing his ninja solar guns at the new Dumas. They however didn't seem to damage him in the slightest.

Link slowly approached the gargantuan. Everyone just froze their attack and watched. "Bow down to me Smasher!" Dumas said. "My power is now so great that you won't be even able to scratch me!" Link placed the Master Sword into its sheath.

Link raised his left hand and the Triforce of Courage began to glow on it. "Giga Bowser, can you hear me?" There was however no response. Dumas attacked Link who just jumped backwards to avoid the attack effortlessly. In Link's hands were ten more Fake Smash Shards. He threw all ten of them into Dumas causing him to collapse on the ground and begin screaming out in pain. Energy surged around him ripping up the very ground underneath him.

"Link what did you do that for?" Samus shouted.

"I'm trying to get in contact with Giga Bowser." Link replied.

"By making Dumas stronger?"

"Hello Smashers..." An all to familiar voice seemed to speak. Each of them once again looked at Dumas who was still on the ground transforming into a new form. "You must be a lot stronger than I gave you credit for. Surgam hasn't killed you yet..."

"So it is true..." Samus muttered.

"Trapped in the seal its felt like an eternity..." Giga Bowser's voice said coming from Dumas' mouth.

"Tell us why you created these shards." Link sternly said. He was not backing down knowing that the connection time would most likely be limited.

"I spread them across the universe in order for people to use. It will of course corrupt the user in to doing evil things, but I also made them so that others would use them against you and I would technically defeat you. Three months have passed, and I've all ready found a new vessel. That was the fake shards other purpose. Maybe in ten years this new body that I have obtained will be strong enough to defeat you! Knowing that you are still alive...gives me another reason to continue on wards. Good bye... for now!"

"What was that?" Dumas yelled still in pain.

"The being who created the crystals that you are using." Link explained.

"Then I will do his will and kill you all!"

Dumas no longer looked like the vampire anymore. He had transformed into a grotesque creature. Something hideous and deformed. But everyone could sense his power. It was huge. "Weapon of Heart!" Each Smasher shouted. Each of them held onto their new Weapon of Heart. However they all began to glow. The Smash Shards in the Weapons of Heart were reacting to the Fake Smash Shards. Instantly twenty-five beams of light shot towards Dumas. In a matter of seconds all of the Fake Smash Shards were destroyed and the new Weapons of Heart had dissapeared. None of the Smashers had seen any of the Weapons of Heart that their comrades had.

Normal Dumas was just lying down on the ground in extreme pain. "How? Why?"

"Our Weapons of Heart each have a true Smash Shard in them. The Fake Smash Shards are unable to stand up to the light of the true Smash Crystal." Ness explained. "Of course the light of one Smash Crystal alone may have been unable to destroy those ten."

Dumas slowly began to stand up. "I'm not done yet..."

"I think you are." Lucian replied. "We just have to purify you using the Sunflower now." He raised his sword right to Dumas' neck. "You better start talking otherwise I may just cut off your head!"

"The Dark Lord put up quite the fight didn't he?" Pichu said.

"Pichu..." Mario muttered. "That isn't the Dark Lord."

"But he is strong and..." Pichu tried to plead.

Dumas just laughed. "You still don't get it do you?" Everyone stared at him. "I'm not the Dark Lord! It was all a plan from the real Dark Lord to lure you out using me as bait. He thought by having me claim to be the true Dark Lord I would get the Smashers away from his targets." Dumas slowly began to stand up his wounds were healing quickly. "Where his minions would go in and capture them. However it appears that you foiled the plans, or failed to stop them."

"So you were anticipating that we called the others." Samus replied. "I called Fox first, but..."

"I anticipated that would happen. I told Samus to tell the others to finish their job quickly and then meet up. We agreed that it would be best if we kept everyone else in the dark." Fox replied. "Naturally when everyone was approaching I filled in the blanks and told everyone what was going on."

"So you did suspect that I wasn't the real deal." Dumas laughed. "It looks like the Dark Lords plan was as transparent as his true motives." Dumas just began to laugh. "You Smashers are as strong as I predicted. You were able to defeat one of the dark lord's ten Supreme Generals! By coming together at the last moment... But you aren't strong enough to defeat the true Dark Lord, especially seeing if you failed to protect the targets."

"We failed to stop them from capturing Soma." Bowser admitted. "They are probably extracting his power as we speak."

"The Dark Lord's true intentions are his best kept secret. Only the one person he trusts the most knows his devious plan along with his 7 personal body guards that make me seem weak by comparison, the 7 Sages of Darkness. He is willing to even kill all of his servants at the first sign of defiance."

"Who is this monster?" Peach asked. "Have you ever met him face to face?"

"I was only asked to join the group by one of his minions. But I was able to find out who he was. The very reason why I was assigned on this suicidal mission was because I found out who he was and his true intentions. The true Dark Lord goes by the name of: -" But Dumas was unable to finish his sentence. In his throat was now a sword. Standing behind him was a young kid. His hair covered by a black helmet with a glass piece over his left eye. He had a black jacket on and orange pants. He held his sword in his left hand while his right was attached to an arm cannon. He pulled out the sword and Dumas fell down to the ground in shock.

"Dr. Mario, heal the wound and try to get him to talk." Link ordered grabbing his Master Sword. "We'll distract this guy."

Link, Marth, Roy, and a really pissed off Lucian rushed towards the boy dressed in black. All four of them swung their swords however he just blocked with his own sword. He didn't even flinch. Quickly everyone jumped back and looked at him. "Link!" Marth shouted surprised. "Did you sense anything behind his attack?"

"No." Link said.

He raised up his arm cannon and a plume of fire shot out. "PK fire!" Ness shouted intercepting the attack with his own.

"So..." He said. "One among you can use PK as well..."

"He can talk!" Everyone shouted out rather shocked.

"Who are you?" Link asked.

"I am the Masked Man." He calmly replied. "A servant to the Dark Lord, sent here to silence Dumas before he spoke his identity. Also the seventh Sage of Darkness. But enough talk."

The Masked Man rushed towards them swinging his sword. Link however countered the attack. The two of them stood perfectly still. Quickly they realized that they were equal in strength.

"Aren't you mad that a kid is stronger than you?" The Masked Man asked.

"No not really." Link replied not at all worried.

"Why do you have this confidence?" The Masked Man asked.

"Because I'm the same as you." Link replied. "I'm left handed." With that Link grabbed the Master Sword with his left hand and was able to over power The Masked Man and send him flying back. Quickly The Masked Man swung his sword sending a bolt of lightning towards Link, who just sent a blade of wind towards the lightning. The two attacks collided and canceled each other out.

Both Link and the Masked Man smiled. Both of them were the same, they lived for battle. Each day wondering when their next fight would be. Their swords continued to clash, and through this clashing they could see into each other's hearts. In Link's regret and fear. In the Masked Man's an unbearable amount of sadness. The two of them jumped back, away from each other.

Meanwhile, Dumas looked up at Dr. Mario. Energy was coming off of Dr. Mario's hands and slowly healing the wound in Dumas' neck. "Why are they healing me?" He thought.

Link and the Masked Man began to charge at each other once again. Both of them jumped up into the air and striked at each other. They then fell down onto the ground. Both of them got up slowly and charged at each other again. Once again they jumped up into the air. This time Link attacked the helmet knocking it off of his head.

The Masked Man began to scream. A dust cloud quickly obscured him. When it cleared The Masked Man was on his hands and knees looking down at the ground. His bright orange hair was now visible. Link just walked up to him and kicked the helmet away, which The Masked Man's hands were frantically trying to grab. Next Link placed his sword right by the Masked Man's neck.

"Don't move." Link sternly ordered.

The Masked Man just continued to stare at the ground not moving. Only his whimpering could be heard. He looked up towards the cloudless sky. "The rain just won't stop..." he said as tears went down his face. His eyes were still not visible; this time his hair was covering them.

"This fight is over..." Ness said cautiously approaching the boy. "Since Dumas can't talk yet why don't you tell us who the Dark Lord is!"

The Masked Man didn't respond. He just continued to stare up into the sky. Link sheathed his sword and began to walk away. "He was right about you..." He eventually said. "Mewtwo that is..."

"Mewtwo?"


Mario had just disappeared and Mewtwo looked towards a bookcase. "I know you're watching me." Mewtwo said.

The Masked Man walked out. "You have a lot of explaining to do. Letting a Smasher go... The Dark Lord won't be pleased..."

"They are an interesting bunch... The Smashers don't you think?" Mewtwo laughed. "I'm sure the Dark Lord would want to meet Mario face to face..."

"I'll keep this quiet from my father for now..." The Masked Man said. "But I might not be as forgiving next time... I can see you want to go back with them... Why?"

"The Smashers can heal wounds."

"The wounds I have can only be healed with vengeance..."

"They are strong. Perhaps they can help you with your vengeance..."

"I'll be the judge of that." The Masked Man laughed as he began to walk away. "We all know Dumas is going to speak... The question is who is the Dark Lord going to send to silence him..."

"I'll talk to him... maybe your father... I mean The Dark Lord will send you to meet the Smashers Claus..."

"Maybe..."


"Wait your father is the Dark Lord?" Everyone shouted surprised.

"Not... my biological father." Claus replied. "Mewtwo... he restored my memories... I was killed and then brought back to life to serve the Dark Lord. To him I was nothing more than a machine, a servant. But I'm confused... The one I want vengeance on is the Dark Lord..."

"Tell us who the Dark Lord is!" Ganondorf shouted.

"No!" Claus shouted jumping away from the Smashers. "If I tell you that I will be marked as a traitor and killed! He has sent his first Supreme General to watch over me... he doesn't trust me he knows of my desire for vengeance! I'm going to be captured and my mind is going to be erased once again!"

"We'll protect you!" Mario said.

"You can't..." Claus said. He snapped his fingers and his helmet floated towards him. He grabbed it and walked away. "Its better for me to return by my own will..." With that he disappeared.

"He is wise..." Dumas said having recovered and now able to talk again. "The first Supreme General is a psychopath. The Dark Lord and him are apparently equal in terms of strength. The Dark Lord, I guess its time for you to know his identity. After I tell you... He will probably come to attack me. You have no chance of winning he is easily three times stronger than me. And you must flee..."

"Just tell us who the Dark Lord is all ready!" Pichu impatiently said.

"Very well..." Dumas said. "He goes by the name of Smithy!" At those words Peach fell down onto her knees in shock, Bowser stepped backwards, and Mario began to visibly shake.

"No," she muttered. "He is dead! We killed him before!"

Dumas began to cough up blood. "He holds a secret. He really doesn't have a true body currently he is only a spirit. He wishes nothing more than to obtain an ideal body. One that he can call his own. In the end he wishes to obtain a body like none other, one that won't age or be defeated. So that is why he is seeking various power sources. Eventually for his body he even plans on sacrificing his most loyal minions. That is his real objective. Truth is he would use any means necessary to gain this body, even sacrificing his own followers. Your friend Mewtwo... Smithy wishes for him to be a vessel, however it seems his attachment to you is still strong."

"But what about the whole building a replica of the Revolution?" Mario asked.

"A cover up." Dumas replied. "A fake goal, although Smithy probably does want to recreate the ancient weapon for his new body to wield. He also wishes to destroy the Government."

With that his head was chopped off, not by Lucian but by someone else. The Smashers stared at the fighter with the long sword and long white hair.

"He talked too much don't you agree?" He replied emotionlessly.

"Sephiroth!" The head of Dumas said. This shocked nearly everyone, including Sephiroth.

"He is a vampire, only an intense burst of sunlight can kill him." Lucian explained not at all shocked by the talking head.

"So it would appear that you defeated the 8th Supreme General," Sephiroth smiled. "I doubt that you would be able to defeat me though! The first Supreme General!" Lucian smiled and then jumped up bringing his sword down upon Sephiroth. "You missed," Sephiroth said appearing behind Lucian. "One attack and I can kill you! But I have my orders not to taint my sword." Sephiroth then disappeared and reappeared at Dumas' body picking up both the body and the severed head. In an instant he was gone.

"He was too fast!" said Pikachu in shock.

"We must report to Master Hand and tell him who our opponents are," Peach said strongly. "Or at least who the Dark Lord is and what we can do."

"Master Hand was that what his name was?" Loki asked. Everyone looked at him. "Makes sense seeing as how he's a giant floating hand and all."

"Who is this kid anyways?" Samus wondered.

"His name is Loki..." Link replied. "Why are you here anyways?"

"Well these two giant hands came out of nowhere and said that you needed our help. They repaired GUNVALD and here we are. But as a commission we have to make 12 different weapons for them using a special material."

"Hmm... I wonder why they would do that..." Kirby said. "Ah well I guess that means that you have to come back with us, and the weapons that you make can help us defeat the Dark Lord! We can defeat him!"

"Can we really?" Link asked. Everyone looked at him confused.

"We have to get stronger in order to rescue Mewtwo..." Mario replied. "What Claus said... Mewtwo does want to return to us... Was all that he said to me a lie?" Mario faced Dr. Mario. "Doctor. Did Master Hand and Crazy Hand tell you to keep Mewtwo's condition a secret?"

Everyone looked at Dr. Mario. He could only just stand there shaking in his place. "Yes." he eventually whimpered. "They didn't foresee Sora kidnapping Mewtwo, and believed that the Doctors currently at the mansion would be able to heal him from his condition."

"I guess we are going to have to hear their reasoning for doing that." Peach calmly said. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"We've exhausted ourselves from this battle." Link said. "We should go back to the mansion and rest." With that the Smashers boarded the Great Fox. From inside the Great Fox they were able to send the other ships back via autopilot.


Meanwhile an old bandaged up man was standing in front of Sephiroth. He was the same one who had met face to face with Mario. "I trust that you finished the job."

"Of course Smithy."

"Get everyone ready its almost time for a meeting."

To be continued...


I wanted to do a fake ending, sort of like many RPGs. Then the real big bad appears. Also I couldn't really keep it hidden much longer with the direction I wanted to go. I never felt good at suspense.

Amusing typo:

"Let me ask you this, boy. All of the vampires and monsters you've killed. What did their deaths mean to you? Or, for that matter, the lives of the pants and animals that you've eaten up until now?"

And yes GUNVALD is spelt in all caps...