"You talked with Celice?" Pia screeched as Marth and Ike revealed to her, Pit, Link, and Lyn the conversation that had gone on between them, Roy, and Celice.

"Um, yeah..." Ike said cautiously, moving a little bit farther away from Pia.

"I know. He's a hottie, isn't he?" Lyn said to Pia.

Pia nodded energetically. "Totally. Anyway, so now we know the specific things that're going on in the Worlds. Now what?"

Link thought for a second. "Well, it's helpful, but it's really just side information."

Pit nodded. "Yeah. It helps to know what's going on exactly, but it doesn't bring us any closer to who the perpetrator is."

"Yeah, but now we know what their goal could be," Marth pointed out. "It looks like they're trying to sway those Worlds into bad habits, and possibly get them to join forces."

"You know, it probably all comes down to world domination," Pia said. "I mean, once you've got those Worlds under your control, you pretty much control the Smash universe, which is a big step. Which would mean not only world domination-it would mean universe domination."

"It's like the Subspace Emissary all over again," Link murmured.

"All right. Let's make a list," Lyn suggested. "The enemies' goals, in step order."

"Step 1: collect money." Ike said.

"WHAT?" Everyone else yelled.

"You can't achieve world domination without money," Ike said in a "duh" tone of voice.

Marth rolled his eyes. "Step 1: instigate trouble in Hyrule, Angel Land, Smash World, and Fire Emblem World."

"Step 2: convince those now-corrupted Worlds to join forces with the enemies," Link said.

"Step 3: use the power from those Worlds to conquer the rest of the video game universe and achieve world domination," Pia finished glumly.

"Universe domination," Pit corrected.

"Whatever."

"Wow. So how can we stop that?" Lyn asked.

"We need to somehow stop the corruption in the Worlds from spreading, and we also need to find out who's behind all this," Link said.

Pia cleared her throat. "I have an idea."

"The floor is yours," Pit declared.

"We have some suspects as to who the girl directing the enemies here was, but she could not be the main mastermind. We need to make a list of suspects as to who the mastermind him or herself could be."

"And that person is probably from any of the three Worlds," Pit chimed in. "That's going to be harder than a blonde girl from Angel Land."

"We need more time to think about that. Let's sleep on it," Ike suggested.

What happened to all my reviewers? :-( Anyway, hoping this chapter was short but significant. PLEASE REVIEW! Thank you XD