The party's almost there! Let's find out!

The gang finally arrived at the deepest part of the Palace. The squad was definitely put to the test as they solved several puzzles, took down hordes of enemies. Mario and Japan leveled up and upgraded their HP from thirty-five to forty; the SP was now ninety.

They arrived at a throne room to rest bit when they heard a voice. "We finally meet, team" Grodus said. "I am Grodus, leader of the X-Nauts and future lord of this world. I must thank you all of you for gathering all of the Crystal Stars" he explained.

The team came to a realization, "So the Crystal Star we found on the moon... oh no, we've been tricked!" Germany declared. "Sharp as ever Ludwig, I mean, Germany. Instead of trying to take your Crystal Stars, it was easier for to let you grab the remaining one so you can open the Thousand-Year Door. All I needed to do was to entrust the last star to Crump, he never knew of this plan though. In either case, all of the Crystal Stars will be mine at the end! I have to recognize the Shadow Sirens could slow down your progress, but they turned out to be as useless as Crump. It doesn't matter really... Now I get the pleasure to send you to oblivion and once I've done that... I'll go to your dimension and conquer your world as well!" Grodus bloated to the nations.

Everyone got ready to fight.

"We will end your plans, now!" Mario sternly said, "We shall bring you down this instant!" Japan added. "As if we're gonna let you do that!" Goombella hissed, "You have to get through all of us!" America glared. "You're beyond evil!" Koops spat, "You need to learn a painful lesson!" Italy shouted. "Don't expect any mercy!" Flurrie said, "I want to poison you so badly!" France held his toxic rose. "You're going down! Fated Heroes style!" Yoshi pounded his fists, "I won't be afraid to shoot you if necessary!" Germany commented. "Grodus, you're deranged!" Vivian shouted, "I hope everyone is ok if I strangle him" Russia smiled. "Scum like you must spend the rest of their lives locked up!" Bobbery said, "You are a pain in our arses!" England took out his wand. "My, you are ahead of yourself" Ms. Mowz sighed, "There's no way you can defeat all of us aru!" China yelled. "Now's the time to protect both worlds" Canada said, "Entrale! We don't fear you!" Mexico stated, "You are worse than Bowser!" Luigi shouted.

"You sick bastard!" Romano roared, "Dios mio! You are going down!" Spain yelled, "You unawesome idiot, prepared to be humiliated!" Prussia grinned. "I don't like what you've done!" Denmark exclaimed, "I refuse to believe such childish desires!" Iceland blunted, "Santa won't give you any presents at all!" Finland cried, "Y' s'ckn me! Sweden shook his head, "And I thought I saw everything" Norway sighed. "This is beyond crazy" Greece said, "If you want a fight, you picked the wrong squad to start one! Turkey cracked his knuckles. "Your action are rather tasteless" Austria rolled his eyes, "Bring it on! My pan is ready!" Hungary glared. "Beating you will be more satisfying than getting a lot of cash" Netherlands commented, "I always try to see good in people, but you are a lost cause!" Belgium added. "If I beat you, Japan and China will finally address me as the older brother daze!" South Korea concluded.

The leader of the X-Nauts made a "come on" sign to the heroes, who approached him, making the curtain fall.

Mario, Goombella, Russia and Japan entered the battle.

Grodus summoned four little green creatures, which formed a force field around him.

Goombella took the lead turn and used her Tattle, finding out Grodus' stats: 50 HP, 7 Attack and 1 Defense. Those creatures also nullify all damage until all four have been defeated.

Mario took care of the creatures with his Multibounce. Japan charged himself. Russia use his Magic Pipe Strike, dealing 8 of damage. FP: 47.

Grodus casted a spell with his scepter and froze everyone, Russia wasn't affected though. Hungary tried to enter the battle, but only slammed to an invisible barrier, a one created by Grodus. All the nations and Luigi glared at Grodus.

With everyone still frozen, Grodus casted a fire spell to on Russia, shockingly dealing 14 of damage. Russia's HP: 16.

With everyone yet to be freed, Russia used his Magic Pipe Strike again, dealing 8 of damage.

Grodus, casted a move that increased his moves. He struck everyone with fire, 7 of damage to everyone while Russia took 14. Russia's HP: 2. Goombella's HP: 23. Mario and Japan's HP: 33.

The frozen effect wore off but Grodus still had another move to make. He zapped the four, defeating Russia and dealing 7 to the rest. Mario and Japan's HP: 26. Goombella's HP: 16. "You're as cruel as that mean soldier from the past" the Russian whispered before collapsing.

"Ivan!" Mario yelled. "He's not a strong as he thinks" the leader of the X-Nauts said.

Japan, angered by his knocked out friend, quickly switched Russia for England and used his Bicycle Kick, dealing 8 of damage. England used his Scone Barrage, striking 5 of damage to Grodus as well poisoning him. Goombella used her Rally Wink and gave England another turn. Mario used his Power Smash dealing 7 of damage. England took his Starry Wand and drained 5 to Grodus. FP: 36.

Grodus casted a spell and put to sleep everyone but Mario. The poison kicked in and dealt 1 of damage to him.

Grodus casted a little creature to protect him.

Mario switched Goombella for Axel and used his Normal Jump on the creature around Grodus, taking it out. The Yoshi used his Mini-egg, dealing 4 of damage and dropping the villain's attack. FP: 33.

Grodus made a counter-attack pose.

Japan took the lead turn and used his Fan Throw, striking 5 of damage. England, having enough of this madness, used his Starry Wand, dealing 5 of damage and defeating Grodus.

"Impossible..." he muttered before collapsing and granting thirty-one SP to the team, making the count fall to twenty one.

Russia revived in the sidelines as he and the rest watched Mario and Japan level up. The leaders chose to upgrade their HP to 45.

All were taken back to the throne room.

Grodus collapsed and panted heavily as the heroes approached him.

"Freeze" he ordered as he made Princess Peach appear surrounded by a green force field.

"Peach!" everyone shouted. "Move one step and she'll breathe no more!" Grodus threatened, Mario and the rest glared but relented. Unknown to him, Hungary sneaked behind him and slammed him with her fry pan in the back of his head.

"I've been waiting to do that for long!" she grinned. Unfortunately, Grodus shook off the pain as it was nothing and managed to yank the pan from the Hungarian.

"So have I" the mad man muttered as he used his scepter to immobilize Hungary and then give her a brutal pan slam to the face. The force was too much that the nation was sent flying towards the rest of the squad. Grodus then quickly approached and slammed the rest of the squad with the pan with a monstrous amount of force.

All the heroes were hit either in the head or their backs.

Grodus then trapped the thirty-four in an energy ring. "I'm gonna enjoy this so much" he started electrocuting the heroes to dangerous level. "Now again!" the team was zapped again as the ring tightened the grasp. Everyone yelled in pain as they were helpless against Grodus.

"NO! Mario! Japan! Heroes!" Peach cried from inside the force field.

"Time to meet your end, stupid team!" as Grodus was about to cast the final blow, a tremble began in the ceiling.

"What?" was all Grodus could say before a beast fell on top of him with debris. The team was released from the grasp, still twitching from the electric assault.

"Ow, not the best move I made today" the beast muttered.

"Bowser!" Peach widened her eyes. "Your highness!" Kammy descended with her broom when she spotted Mario, the team and Peach.

"Your nastiness! Look! Princess Peach is here! As well Mario, Japan and the others!" she added. Bowser composed himself as he looked at all the people in the room.

"I don't know what's going on, but I'll put an end to this now! Mario! First, I'll pound you, your friend Japan and the rest of your stupid team, then, I'll take Peach!" he roared.

Before, anyone could say anything, Bowser let out an enormous roar and charged to them, making the curtain to fall and start another battle.

Mario, Axel, Japan and England entered the battle. Bowser's stats changed: 70 HP, 7 Attack and 2 Defense.

Axel switched with Goombella and she used her Tattle on Kammy to reveal her stats: 50 HP, 5 Attack and 0 Defense, she attacks with various magic as well as restoring HP. Mario charged himself. Japan charged as well. England used his Scone Barrage and dealt 4 of damage as well poison effect to Bowser. FP: 44.

Bowser bit Japan, draining 7 HP and poisoning him. Kammy healed 8 HP to Bowser. Japan's HP: 37 with the poison effect.

"We have to bring Kammy down first!" Goombella prioritized.

Everyone agreed as Mario took the lead turn and used his Power Bounce, dealing 12 of damage to Kammy. Japan followed with his Fan Throw dealing 8 of damage to the witch. Goombella charged herself. England switched with China, who charged himself. FP: 37.

Kammy noticed how the other heroes haven't joined the battle and decided to fight them. But not before making Bowser huge, adding 2 to his Attack. She warped the support heroes to another scenario.

In the new stage, Luigi, Mexico, Spain and Romano entered the battle.

"She got hurt with my bro's attack, let's-a-do this!" Luigi rallied the support heroes

Luigi jumped on her and dealt 6 to Kammy. Spain tried to tackle her but failed. "Come on old man, that's the best you've got?!" Romano and Mexico taunted. Romano took the third turn and used his Rotten Tomato, bringing Kammy to the ground as well poisoning her. Mexico used his Wrestle Takedown and dealt 5 of damage to the witch.

The magikoopa casted a spell and blew away the four from the stage. They tried to enter again but only crashed to an invisible barrier. She restored 10 HP to herself. The barrier also nullified any focus spell from the non-fighting nations.

With the first group unable to enter, Denmark, Prussia, Turkey and Hungary entered the fight.

Denmark took the lead turn and used his Axe Sweep, striking 5 of damage to Kammy. Hungary followed with a Pan Slam dealing 8 of pain to the sorceress. Turkey used the third turn with his Crushing Shake, bringing down Kammy's HP to 9. Prussia wrapped the heroes' turns with his Double Shot, dealing 6 of damage.

Kammy yet again blew them away and restored 7 HP to her.

With the only him remaining as fighting support heroes, Netherlands entered the battle.

He used his Chokehold on the witch, dealing 10 of damage. Kammy collapsed in defeat and gave eleven SP.

The support heroes were taken back to the main battle.

When they arrived, things were not looking good. They couldn't support the heroes for a mysteriously casted barrier.

With his mega size, Bowser managed to defeat almost everyone since the monster targeted them with bites, ground pounds and claw strikes.

Mario and Japan got their HP down to 20, Bowser is really doing a number on them. China and Flurrie were now the allies in battle, and they're not holding well with only 15 HP left. Bowser's HP was 40 right now. The FP was 10.

"Mario, we need to use our supplies now!" Japan said. "You're right, Kiku. Let's use the Jammin' Shrooms!" the plumber took his turn and used one on Japan, restoring all of his HP and the FP. Japan used the second turn and used an Ultra Shroom on Mario, restoring his HP as well. China put his Head-butt to use, 6 of damage were dealt to Bowser. Flurrie took the last turn with her Lip Lock, dealing 4 of damage to Bowser and raising her HP to 19. FP: 47.

Bowser targeted China with his Bite, dealing 9 of damage and poisoning the Asian. The boss attacked him yet again with his Ground Pound, defeating China, "I wish I'd used my Wok Pan... aru..." he passed out.

The remaining 3 fighters sighed and decided to continue the battle. The support heroes only can pray for the heroes to win as Canada deduced it was Kammy who left them unable to join the battle against Bowser.

Japan switched China with for France and used his Power Slice, dealing 6 of damage to Bowser. Mario used his Power Smash, striking 6 of damage as well. France followed with his Toxic Rose and dealt 4 of damage to Bowser and poisoned him. Flurrie defended FP: 40.

Bowser directed his attacks to France, biting him and poisoning him, France lost 9 HP. The beast then ground-pounded him, striking another 9 to France. France's HP: 16 with the poison.

Flurrie started with her Body Slam, striking 4 of damage to Bowser. Japan defended. Mario took the third turn with his Power Smash yet again, dealing 6 of damage to Bowser. France incredibly won the battle with Pierre Dive, dealing 4 of damage and defeating Bowser.

Bowser fell to the ground where he groaned and gave twenty-one SP, making the total loot thirty-one and rose the count to fifty-two. Everyone who was knocked out revived but with only 1 HP. "Man, Bowser moped the floor with us!" the goomba complained.

Everyone high-fived and were taken back by the curtain.

As Bowser and Kammy collapsed, dazed, "Help me!" Peach voice was heard, alerting the squad.

Japan saw Grodus running with her to a secret corridor behind the throne.

Everyone dashed to the corridor, where they found stairs leading down.

The heroes first found a restoring block, using it and curing everyone.

Mario and Japan lead the rest of the team as they arrived to a door, all of the heroes looked at each other and knew they had to end this madness now!

The thirty-fourcrossed the door, bracing themselves for the battle for the world...

Bowser, Kammy and Grodus have been beaten, but the last one managed to take Peach down a corridor! Let's see what happens next week!