Nothing much to say

Nothing much to say...'cept that reviews are downhill...Guess a bunch of people are just on vacation...or just not reviewing...or something...

Sigh.

(Shoulda said this way before, a few chapters ago. Thank you for the reviews you HAVE given me! I really appreciate them.) They just give me enough of that writer's fuel to keep going, and fast sometimes too.

My brother just pressed me with this question recently. He asked me if I was planning on having the other newcomers from Brawl in this story (More specifically, Diddy Kong, Olimar, R.O.B, Pokemon Trainer, Lucario, Toon Link, and Lucas)

Yeah, they're gonna be in all right. Whenever they update the roster, I'm gonna add in the new guys. One thing I must say, though, and I'm probably gonna get shot for it. The Pokemon Trainer will be Ash from the...I guess it is the anime or something. That way he actually has a specific identity. (Even though the PKMN Trainer is just a generic one, he rocks!)

So...Yeah. Let me know what ya think if you feel like reviewing.

-Chapter XXXXIV-

-Where's my Daddy!?-

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"We messed up!" Luigi shouted in shock, holding his face like it was going to fall off.

"What do we do?!" Ness panicked.

"Where's my daddy!?" Roy demanded, looking dour for the first time in days.

Matt quickly pulled out a phone-like device and activated it. When it was up by his mouth, he yelled, "CRAZY HAND! WE MIFFED IT! ELIWOOD AND LYNDIS ARE IN OSTIA, AND WE'RE IN PHERAAAAAAAAEEEE! PICK US UP AND TAKE US OVER THERE NOWWWWWW!!"

"ZOWIES!" Crazy Hand yelled back. "I can hear fine, yeh doofus! I'm comin', I'm comin'!!"

"I can't believe GUN moved our friends to Ostia THREE days ago!" Dr. Mario said. "We messed up bad...And by the timing of thing's they'll be killed this afternoon!"

"That's why we're gonna do this quick." Link said calmly. "We'll hit them so hard we'll knock GUN cross-eyed."

"And how do you propose we do that?" Yoshi asked curiously.

"We haven't been using the full extent of our powers." Link said. "Our legendary weapons could use some exercise."

"Some of us haven't." Bowser corrected. "A few of us have been usin' them since this whole stupid war started in the first place!"

"He heh..." Link laughed sheepishly. "Then it's time for me to pull out MY stuff, then!"

"I'll use my stuff, and Mario's, too!" Luigi said.

"Time to turn my sword into its Excalibur form, then." Paul said.

"Pichu!" Pichu squealed.

Bowser just rubbed his tummy, and belched out white flames.

"WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!!" Roy yelled, sounding uncannily like Crazy Hand. His sword burst into furious flames, and once again became the Unsealed Sword.

"...Poyo." Kirby calmly took out his star rod, and tapped it a few times on his stubby arm until it started sparkling again. Matt merely unsheathed his Emerald Blade, and Fox took a few seconds to shine his staff on his shirt.

"Since we're not hiding anymore, feel free to change clothes on the ship." Matt said. "I'm going to. I never did like this rough clothing anyways..."

"IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...HERE!" Crazy shouted from the sky. The smashers looked up to see the Gummi ship hovering above them, then Crazy dropped the ship.

Everybody ran out of the way, screaming. The Gummi ship smashed into the ground with a dull thud, and the shockwave knocked everybody over on their face.

"Quit laying around, and get in!" Crazy said, speaking like he was some airline attendant. "All aboard for Ostia!"

Kirby was the first to scramble into the ship, followed by Yoshi and Bowser. In their hurry, the rest of the team got jammed in the doorway as they tried getting in.

"Activating Door Unjammer!" Crazy called out. A hatch opened on the side of the ship, and a giant generic boot on a mechanical arm appeared. It swung around once, and then slammed into the heroes stuck in the doorway.

Yoshi and Kirby were walking down one of the narrow hallways inside the ship when there was a giant whoosh noise, and they turned to see everybody flying past them at top speed. They slammed into the wall in front of the door, and lay there dazed as the door shut and sealed up.

Ness blubbered and shook his head back and forth to get his sense back, then stood up. "Hey, are we there already?"

"No, we just got on the ship." Yoshi said.

"...Oh. DANG! That boot hit us hard!" Ness complained, rubbing his big head.

"...Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...Maaaaaaaaan." Matt moaned from the floor. "At least...we're in the ship." He got up, and held his head. He waited for his eyes to stop rolling before he started moving anymore. "I think I might have a plan that will work this time."

"It better!" Dr. Mario barked from the floor.

"Wheeeeeeeeeee..." Roy said from the floor. His butt was up against the wall, and his legs were way up in the air. He seemed to have lost touch with reality, and unknown words drifted across his lips as his eyes spun around like wheels.

"Get up." Dr. Mario said. He pulled the swordsman up off the ground, and slapped his face a few times until Roy could see normally.

"Just meet me in the cockpit!" Matt groaned. Everybody else was just starting to get their act back together.

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"We're here!" Crazy shouted from the windshield/screen.

"OW!" Fox yelped, yanking off his headphones. "We can hear you fine, idiot!"

"That's not nice..." Crazy sighed.

"Ok, everybody knows what to do as their part of the plan?" Matt asked.

"Affirmative." Luigi replied.

"Oh, sure." Paul snarled. "I still can't believe I offered to be the decoy!"

"Poyo?" Kirby asked.

"Nooooooooooooooooooo...Decoys are not for eating." Bowser said.

"Poyo!"

"What!?" Matt asked. "You want to be a decoy too? I thought you wanted to be a part of the strike force!"

"Po HOYO!" Kirby said.

"Let the puffball do it." Bowser suggested. "It's his hide, after all."

"That's not nice!" Crazy said.

"Fine..." Matt said. "Any OTHER last minute decisions I need to know about?" He waited a full minute for a response, and got nothing but cricket chirps. "Ok, then, let's go!"

Crazy opened the outer hatch, and Kirby and Paul scrambled to the lower area of the ship. When they reached the door, it opened up out into the middle of the sky.

They were way above Castle Ostia.

"So, ya sure you want to do this?" Paul asked as he looked at his companion.

"Poyo!" Kirby affirmed.

"Right, then." Paul said. He stepped out to the middle of the door, which stuck out from the ship like a plank. He looked down, gulped, then looked back at Kirby.

"Ya know, it would be a whole lot more comforting if you could speak normally." Paul said. "...Of all the last wishes, it had to be something stupid. Here goes!"

He stepped back into the doorway, then ran out to the end of the 'plank' and jumped.

Kirby waited a few seconds, and then looked at his star rod, then looked back at the plank. He then waved the wand over his body once, and jumped off.

"Geronimo!"

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"Ok, grab your cloaking devices." Matt said. "While GUN's distracted with our two brave and noble team members, we're going to sneak in and break our pals out."

"Just as a refresher, there's two teams, right?" Link asked. "And, we'll be communicating with these walkie-talkies?"

"Yeah, but for the sake of secrecy, we'll be texting each other." Matt explained. "And no, nobody's going to see the walkie-talkies. If we touch anything while the cloaking device is activated, it'll vanish too. That's how we'll hide Eliwood, Lyn, and Lilina when we break them out."

"...Right." Ness said. "Well, are we ready? I am."

"Me too." Bowser said. "Let's get this show on the road!"

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Paul and Kirby landed safely on the ground.

Castle Ostia loomed over their heads. It looked more like a fortress than a castle, and an impregnable one at that. At least, for normal people with metal weapons.

GUN, and the Smashers were NOT normal, of course.

There was a GUN camp located on the west side of the fortress city, and it expanded nearly as much as the city did. There was a huge camp of soldiers there...and distracting them, let alone angering them, would be suicide.

"Any last words, Kirby?" Paul asked. "I already said mine."

"Naw, I don't think we'll die so easily." Kirby replied.

Paul's eyes shot wide open, then he relaxed and cracked a grin. "Finally, you start talking! It's a relief not having to interpret everything you say."

"I only did it because you wanted me to." Kirby said. "Also, it makes it easier on the readers!"

"...Uh, who?" Paul asked confusedly.

"Ooops!" Kirby said, smacking his stubby arms over his mouth. "Uh, I really dunno.."

"I sure don't know.." Paul said, looking at Kirby with an odd expression. "Let's just do our job. I'm sure the others have started by now, and if they have, we need to too!"

"Aye aye!" Kirby said.

The two ran out from their cover, and strolled towards the camp.

"I know I have one thing down, at least." Paul said. "...I know how to be annoying!"

"Me too." Kirby replied. "Me too."

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THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMPTHUMPTHUMP THUMP!

Dust flew up in little clouds and settled down...Then little footprints appeared in the dirt.

"Shh!" Somebody hissed. "Now, just...holy crap, I didn't think of this." Matt moaned.

"Genius..." Link and Ness scoffed at the same time.

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"No! You idiot! You can't do that in this game!" A soldier yelled. He angrily threw down his Gamecube controller, and sat back down in his seat, breathing heavily.

"Why not?" The other soldier complained.

"Why not? WHY NOT!?" Soldier A yelled. "Hacking isn't fair! Fight like a man!"

"No, I prefer fighting with unlimited aerial jumps, thank you." Soldier B said.

"I don't even know why I bought this Action Replay, anyways." Soldier A moaned.

"It's fun playing SSBM using the Debug menu, that's why!" Soldier B said.

"...Huh?" Soldier A asked suddenly. He felt a chill run down his spine. Somebody was behind him...He whipped around, and saw an oddly dressed young man with a black suit and green vest, and a pink puffball strolling right in front of their tent.

He jumped up and ran outside to see the two pass by, and noticed that many of his comrades in the nearby tents were doing the same.

"Hey...is that...?" Soldier B asked from behind him.

"I can't believe my eyes..." Soldier A said. He bolted back into the tent and pulled out a wanted poster, took a REEEEEAL good look at it, and then ran back outside.

"It's them!" he shouted. "It's the smashers!"

"Uh oh!" Kirby said.

"Busted!" Paul shouted in a mock-horrified voice.

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"I still can't believe this!" Link hissed quietly. "Matt, I just don't get you sometimes..."

"Sorry if I never thought about the fact we can't see each other!" Matt hissed back. He was at the front of a chain of people...INVISIBLE people, to be more specific. Everybody grabbed onto the shirt of the person in front of them, which was not accomplished without the greatest degree of difficulty. In Pichu's case, she rode on Bowser's back.

"He he, I'm a ghoooooooooost..." Roy moaned.

"Would you cut that out!?" Dr. Mario whispered.

"He he, I'm sowwe...Hey, I wanna see daddy!"

"Shh...We'll see him soon, I promise." Yoshi said.

"Okie dokie!"

They quietly shuffled towards the main gate of the city, which happened to be open. They walked in, still linked as a chain of people.

The town itself was quiet. Everybody that lived there seemed to be inside their houses, and even though there were a few people walking the streets, few of them stayed there for long. The team sneaked their way to the front of the castle, which took a few minutes, and when they reached the gates, they sneaked past the two guards standing there.

"...Hey, I think I just felt a breeze." One of the soldiers said, after the smashers passed.

"I didn't. The air's been still all day." The other replied.

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"What the hey was that!?" The first soldier shouted in shock.

"That must be the tanks!" Soldier B said. "Somebody's attacking!"

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"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" Paul screamed, pretending to be scared as he ran around with his arms in the air.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!" Kirby screamed right after him.

They both ran to the side just as a cannon shell hit the ground and exploded.

"EEEEEEEK!" They then bolted into the forest, and at least five tanks chased them in.

It was quiet back at the camp. A few soldiers stood about, and looked around in shock. It took only a few seconds for the tanks to tear a path of devastation down the middle of the camp.

The soldiers in the tank had tried shooting the two smashers, who just ran around screaming like idiots. They didn't even fight back! Now, the camp was starting to catch fire, and the tanks chased them into the forest...

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"Incoming!" Paul shouted. He leapt high into the air, and Kirby sprang up right after him. The ground beneath them exploded and sent dirt and plants flying everywhere, and the two shielded their faces while still flying. "I should have done this earlier." Paul said. "Protect!"

A bubble of energy formed around both of their bodies, then solidified into a solid barrier and then faded from sight. "Shell!" A green bubble appeared around them and flashed, then it too vanished. "Reflect!"

Kirby watched as a mirror-like bubble made of blue hexagons formed around his and Paul's bodies, and vanished as well. "Wow, you sure do know a lot of protective magic, Don'tcha?" He asked.

"Yeah, you could say that." Paul said. He leaned to the side quickly, and a missile shot past him and blew a giant crater in the ground in front of him. "I probably wouldn't be alive right now if I didn't know all this magic, seriously!"

Kirby jumped and dodged another missile, and landed back on the ground and kept running. "I just figured this out. Even if we dodged all of these missiles, the debris could still kill us!"

"That's why I cast all those spells, silly!" Paul said. "Not much can hurt us now, seriously."

"...Is it time to attack, then?" Kirby inquired.

"...He he. Just turn around, and watch the fireworks, then!" Paul said.

"Whatcha gonna do?"

"Nothing!"

"...If you say so." Kirby replied. The duo stopped in their tracks and turned around, and watched as a bunch of missiles flew right at them.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!"

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"Uh...Matt said to go this way...you guys still with me?" Link's voice asked nervously.

"Yeah." Luigi said.

"Chill out, I'm still with you." Ness said.

"Don't worry." Fox said. "We're all here."

"Whew." Link said, sounding relieved. "Ok, from what Matt said, the armory was down here somewhere...There it is."

There was a door at the end of the long, dark hallway, and in front of this specific door, a soldier lay asleep.

"...Perhaps we should knock him out." Fox suggested.

"No, we'll have to sneak past him." Ness said. "We can't afford to attack...yet!"

"Matt said to contact him when we got the weapons." Link said. "I'll go ahead and do it. You guys go in and get the stuff, and I'll let Matt know how we're doing."

"Ok, then." Luigi said. "We'll be back quick!"

Link waited until he could see the door behind the soldier opening and closing, then he deactivated his Cloaking device and pulled out his walkie-talkie

"Matt, you idiot." Link muttered. "Why didn't you think about the buttons being invisible too!?"

Link got busy hammering out his message, which was badly typed and full of errors because Link wasn't used to such technology yet. He was so busy typing, he didn't notice the soldier wake up and walk over to him.

"...Hey, what's that there, buddy?" He asked from behind his shoulder. Link whirled around, and gasped in surprise. The soldier backed up and pointed his machine gun at Link, and cocked his head as if to say, "I know you wanna get me, but you'll be dead before you take a step!"

Link was wearing a red tunic and black pants, with golden armor and boots on. He took one step forward, and POW!

The soldier flew across the room, and skidded down the wall with a stupid look on his face.

"...EVEN if you hit me, you wouldn't have done anything." Link said to the unconscious soldier. He happened to be wearing his Magic Armor.

The door opened up, and Fox, Luigi, and Ness came out carrying a giant sword, a long thin katana, a wicked powerful looking compact bow, and a pile of books., one of which was ocean blue.

"Well, we managed to find Durandal, Sol Katti, Reinfleche, and Tidal Wave." Fox said.

"Good." Link said. "We should get going. Matt's expecting us!"

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Beep beep beep!

"Incoming message." Bowser growled towards Matt.

"I know I know." Matt said. He deactivated his cloaking device and grabbed the walkie-talkie, then looked at the text message Link just sent him.

"Dood, we got da weapons and nkocked out hte juard. We be coning.

Simceraly yurs, Link

PS: Thnk through you plams more carfully."

"...They got the weapons." Matt said, turning the device off.

"Well, this is just way too easy." Bowser said, looking around at all of the KO'd guards.

"And we still haven't found Eliwood or the others!" Yoshi said.

"I want my DADDY!" Roy bellowed, making everybody flinch.

"Shut up!" Dr. Mario said, waving his arms about to emphasize his point.

"Pichu!" Pichu said.

"Wait...you can smell the others?" Bowser asked the mouse.

"Pi!"

"Ok then, the show's all yours!" Bowser said. He set her down on the ground, and she scampered away towards the end of the long hallways. There were empty jail cells that lined the whole hallway, and at the end was a turn, obviously.

"Hey, wait!" Link yelled from behind the group. They turned around to see Link, Fox, Luigi, and Ness running to catch up with them. "We're going to see them. Together."

"Let's go!" Yoshi said, running after Pichu.

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Kirby's eyes nearly popped out of his head in shock, and he screamed.

At least fifty missiles flew towards them, but Paul stood his ground anyways. He watched the missiles come closer, then when the timing was right, jumped right into the most dangerous part possible, and did the in-your eye taunt.

Instead of exploding, there was a sharp pinging noise, and the missiles bounced right off his body and flew back towards the tanks. A missile bumped into Kirby, but it collided against an invisible shield and bounced right back without even touching him.

The missiles that were reflected all exploded at the same time, and sent the tanks to Tank Heaven.

The debris from all of the explosions shook the ground like there was an earthquake, and even though tons of stuff flew around, none of it harmed the two smashers. It all bounced off their shields, making tons of pinging noises and little ripples in the air around them, but nothing touched them.

"So, that was fun, wasn't it?" Paul asked Kirby, who still looked confused, shocked, and impressed, all at the same time.

"Fun? Fun...? Fun!?" Kirby exclaimed. "That was freaking crazy! I loved it!"

"Good." Paul said. "You probably need an ability for what we're going to do next, so swallow this." As he said that, Paul formed a ball of magic energy in his hand and pushed it towards Kirby.

The Star warrior looked at it for a few seconds, then swallowed it to become Magic Kirby! He pulled a top hat out of nowhere and put it on his head, then said, "Let's go!"

"Yeah! Now we're talking!" Paul cheered.

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"Pi!" Pichu squealed. She hopped up and down on the ground, and pointed at the jail cell at the end of the hallway. Link approached it carefully, then softly walked into the view of the people trapped inside.

Eliwood lay in the corner of the cell, knees tucked in and his head resting on his knees. He looked up when he saw Link, and it took a tiny bit for it to register in his blank mind.

"...My goodness, it's Link!" He exclaimed. His voice was hoarse, and his once grand attire was dull with the filth of the cell. Lilina, and Lyn, who were in the other corner in roughly the same position as Eliwood, lifted their heads, and smiled.

"Don't worry." Link said. "We're going to get you three outta this heck hole."

"That, would be appreciated." Lyn said. "I still can't believe GUN did all of this. Just who do they think they are?"

"That's what WE want to know." Link said, scratching his head with a confused look. "We've been fighting them for at least one or two months, and we haven't figured anything out yet."

"Have any of you seen my father, by any chance?" Lilina asked. "Last time I knew where he was, he was at the mansion..."

"No, we haven't seen Hector anywhere." Yoshi said. "Out of all of us smashers, he's probably one of the least likely to die."

"C'mon, let's get you outta here." Link said. He drew his sword and held it high above his head, then brought it down on the rusty lock...

BAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

The lock exploded from the force of the blow, and Matt, Yoshi, and Bowser rushed in to help the prisoners up.

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"HA HA HA!" Kirby yelled. "Watch this!"

He pulled his hat off his head and turned it upside down, and a bunch of doves flew out and started pecking the soldiers near him.

"GAH! Get 'em off me!" One of the guys shouted.

"Gale Cutter!" Paul shouted. He went through the same motions of launching one of his Sonic Cutters, but instead a gigantic wave of wind emanated from the sword, and spread out to bowl over scores of soldiers.

"HYYAA!" Kirby ran at the leftover soldiers still standing, and threw out a deck of cards. The cards shot straight forward like shuriken, and the soldiers still standing up were cut down by the projectiles.

"That's the last time I play poker!" One soldier swore, before Paul knocked him out with his sword.

More reinforcements flooded into the area of the camp where Paul and Kirby were, and started firing at the duo. Paul whirled in place and cast Reflect, which caused a dome of blue hexagons to materialize and repel the storm of bullets. Kirby quickly drew his scimitar and sent out a shockwave that blew a few soldiers down, and Paul followed up with Firaga. A gigantic explosion widened the crack in the blockade of soldiers, and the two dashed through and attacked them from the other side.

"Ha ha! Can't catch us!" Paul taunted from behind them.

"Neyh Neyh!" Kirby said. He grabbed his face and stretched it, and stuck his tongue out before dancing in place.

"Get them!" One of the commanders shouted.

"Haste!" Paul countered. He and Kirby were enveloped in a bubble of distorted time, and they zipped to the side so fast they were behind the soldiers again before the bullets even hit the dirt.

"Heyyoumissedyouidiots!" Paul jabbered at high speed.

"Hahaha!Yousuckers!" Kirby yelled.

The soldiers turned to face them and fired again, and the two ran right through the storm of bullets and blasted through the group, knocking them right over. They looped back and ran through the group again, blowing them aside with high-speed winds caused just by running. They continued running around the group until they formed a small twister, which sucked up the soldiers.

Paul and Kirby backed off, and the mage knight manipulated the tornado to form a ball of spinning high-speed winds, with the soldiers getting swirled about inside. Paul formed a rune with his fingers in midair, then focused his energy.

The wind ball shrank and started sucking in tons of air, and then it released all of it, along with the soldiers.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!"

"AUGH!!"

"MOMMY!!"

The soldiers were scattered all over the place, and when the wind calmed down a bit, Kirby said, "That was sweet!"

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The other team escaped the castle, and by now Eliwood and the other two captives recovered enough of their former stamina to fight.

Link strolled out of the main gate, where the two guards from earlier were still standing.

"Hey, you, st-"

Link swatted both of his arms to the side, and the two soldiers flew back from the force of the blows. They smacked up against the walls and fell to the ground, unconscious.

"C'mon!" Link shouted. "The Gummi Ship is this way!" He bolted down the center road of the city, and the rest of the team followed quickly. Lyn quickly caught up to him on foot, and ran alongside him.

"Thanks for the help back there, but I have a score to settle with GUN." Lyn said.

"Where are you going?" Link asked.

"I'm going over to their camp, and I'm going to thrash them so bad they'll be scared to even look at a picture of us!" Lyn replied. Then, she ran forwards so fast Link wondered if she didn't just warp...

"Once you make Lyn mad, you may as well kick the bucket." Eliwood said from behind him.

"Yeah...no kidding." Link grimaced. He almost felt sorry for the rest of the soldiers...ALMOST.

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Paul and Kirby just finished blasting aside a few soldiers with some more magic attacks, when, there was a whoosh of air behind them. They whirled around to face Lyn, who was looking at the soldiers with an insane amount of fury.

"Step aside." She said simply.

The duo didn't step aside. They fled. Lyn was in crazy mode!

"HY-YAAAAAAAAAA!!" Lyn yelled. She zipped over to the soldiers so fast, they didn't see her coming. She blasted right through them with her five-foot long katana, the Sol Katti, and after she skidded to a halt, the soldiers fell down dead. More soldiers appeared from who knows where, and fired at her with machine guns and missile launchers. Lyn deflected all of the bullets in a blur, then shot way into the air when the missiles blew up the ground she was on. She drew her bow, Reinfleche, and fired an arrow.

It pierced a soldier right in between the eyes, and she was still a hundred feet above them! Lyn drew another arrow, and started shooting them as fast as she could. The soldiers ran for their lives, but none of the arrows missed their mark. When Lyn landed, she already had her katana out, and she chased after the soldiers.

She ran between two tents, and a soldier jumped out of hiding to spear her on a sword-gun thingy.

"Rockseal." Lyn said. She touched the soldier's face, and he had precisely a second to scream before he turned to stone. Lyn ran past him and after the rest of the runaways, who started firing at her again.

She vanished the second the first bullet touched her, and the soldiers looked forwards only to see her running after them at top speed!

By the time they noticed where she was, she was already on the other side of their ground, crouched down on the ground, and sword held out to the side.

One soldier gasped, and they all fell to the ground, dead, with a single slash wound.

Paul and Kirby watched the massacre from a nearby tree. The mage knight took a second to look at a watch on his wrist, and flinched.

"Twenty seconds." Paul whistled.

"What is she, a demon?" Kirby asked.

Lyn looked in their direction, and pulled out her bow and arrow so fast they didn't have time to warn one another. She shot an arrow right after them, and Paul moved his head to the side. The arrow thudded into the wood right next to his left ear, and he looked at it nervously from the side.

They lost their balance, and came tumbling out of the tree. Paul landed on his head, and then on his back, while Kirby safely bounced like a rubber ball.

"Oh, it's you." Lyn said. "...Uh...Sorry about all of that."

"No problem." Paul squeaked out.

Link and the rest of the party ran up, and gasped to refill their lungs with air.

"So, what's the record this time?" Matt asked, as if wanting the time of day.

"Twenty seconds." Kirby said.

"That's a new record." Lyn commented. "Just like old days, eh?"

"Lyn?" Fox said. "These aren't wire frames...they're people."

"You didn't know them like I did." Lyn snarled. "You wouldn't believe how evil they were. I just did them a favor."

"Whoa, take it easy!" Link said. "We didn't know."

"...I'm sorry." Lyn sighed. "I...Well, this was just a warm up, really."

"How so?" Luigi asked, his legs shaking violently. He could still sense Lyn's battle lust.

"The rest of the soldiers were off on break." Lyn replied. "By myself, I probably just took out, say, one percent of them on my own."

"What the hey do they need a whole army here for!?" Kirby protested from below. "I mean, come ON!"

"Forgive me for interrupting, but I believe this is the first time I've heard you speak, Kirby." Lilina said.

"...Eh, people got tired of me saying 'Poyo' all the time." Kirby said, shrugging. "But seriously, why all the soldiers?"

"They were GUN patriots, really." Lyn said. "All of them were Lycian men that agreed with what GUN was doing. Put simply, Traitors."

"What're people going to think of you for cutting down your own people?" Fox asked.

"They're not my people." Lyn said. "I abdicated the rule of Caelin and let Ostia rule. I was going to return and try finding the rest of you, when GUN captured me."

"Oh, I see...But then how the heck did they capture you!?" Paul yelled all of a sudden. "That fight back there was just genius! Who was powerful enough to catch you?"

Lyn frowned at the ground, and then looked back up at the rest of the group. "I was caught by one of their generals."

"Whoa, hold on a sec." Matt laughed. "You mean a GUN general caught you? That's the funniest joke I've ever heard!" And with that, Matt collapsed on the floor in a fit of giggles.

"It's not funny!" Lyn shouted angrily, color flooding into her face. "I know GUN's reputation too! But they must have hired somebody with ridiculous power, because I didn't stand a chance against him!"

"Ok, so some general pops up outta nowhere, and caught you?" Matt asked, still wiping tears of laughter out of his face.

"He...h-he could manipulate time or something." Lyn spoke haltingly. "I have no idea how he did it. He dodged every single one of my attacks, and then knocked me out with a single punch! It...was like he could see every single move I made."

"...That's interesting." Ness commented. "We better be careful if we fight him. By the sounds of things, we might not be able to defeat somebody with power like that."

"...What did he look like?" Matt asked suddenly, and seriously.

"...Well, he seemed to be about six feet tall..." Lyn said. "Um, he had on a blue suit with tons of badges all over it, he had a fair bit of muscle on him, and his grey hair was cut something like what one of you might call a military cut."

"Ok...Anything else?" Matt asked.

"The craziest thing was his eyes." Lyn said. "One was brown, and the other blue."

"The Commander!?" Matt screamed. "How the did he get so powerful like that?!"

"The GUN Commander was the one who beat you!?" Link asked, eyes wide. "Is he still here!?"

"No, he left right after catching me." Lyn said. "Of course, I only found that out after I woke up a week later in the same cell as Eliwood."

"I tried to wake her up." Eliwood said. "But she was so thoroughly knocked out, she didn't wake up even when I poured my whole water ration in her face."

"A sacrifice I appreciate greatly." Lyn said sincerely. "Thankfully, the commander left and didn't come back. As you know, we were then moved a few days later to Ostia for our execution."

"And that's where they met me." Lilina added. "My father would explode if he knew GUN was mucking about in his castle."

"Hector always was protective of his belongings." Eliwood sighed.

"Daddy." Roy said, smiling stupidly. He ran and hugged his dad, who, because he was pulled from the past, was almost the same exact age as his son was, biologically.

"I noticed something wrong with my son." Eliwood sighed, peeling Roy off with his hands. "Did GUN do something to him?"

"They hit him on the head." Dr. Mario said, walking towards the two. "After Roy woke up from the hit, his mental faculties deteriorated with time, making him this."

Everybody watched Roy act like a moron, ranging from him break dancing to slobbering on random bugs on the grounds.

"Can he recover?" Eliwood asked sadly.

"Oh yes, this type of insanity is possible to recover from." Dr. Mario said. "However...I think some form of shock must wake up some of his old memories. He'll have to see somebody that is really special to him, or likewise."

At this, Lilina threw herself on Roy, and looked into his eyes. He only looked back at her, and held up a shiny beetle.

Lilina hesitated, then gently took the bug and walked away with tears leaking from her eyes.

"That's not working." Dr. Mario said, stating the obvious. "...He'll recover his memory someday, mark my words!"

"So, what do we do about the rest of the army?" Link said. "We can't just leave them to terrorize Lycia!"

"My point exactly." Lyn said. "I'm all for sending them packing. I'm not trying to be an inhumane killer, but this place will be better without this scum scurrying about."

"Lyn, even when people were my mortal foes, rarely have I killed them for being on the opposing side." Link said determinedly. "If you're going to continue killing instead of giving them a second chance, then I'm going to fight you, here and now, and knock you out."

"..."

"Lyn, listen to me. I don't care who they are, we don't have any right to decide whether they have the right to live or not."

Lyn stood still for a moment, then threw her weapons down on the ground and buried her face in her hands.

Link watched her for a moment, and started turning to walk off when Lyn started saying something.

"...I-I've never fought like you before, Link. I don't have your strength. I've never held back in my whole life. Never."

Link turned to face her again as she looked up.

"Long before I joined the super smash brothers, I've fought enemies with hearts blacker than the darkest night, people that would never give me a second chance. I don't know what to do."

"...If these men are really as evil as you say they are, Lyn, then I have no right to speak to you that way. Nor do I have the right to tell you how to fight. Kill, if you must, but I'm doing this my way. Where did GUN go?"

"They went east of here." Lyn choked. "They went back towards the middle of Lycia."

"Then I'm leaving." Link said. "Anybody that wants to help can come, I really don't care. When we first started this quest, we all made an agreement to each other to remain humane, even if our enemies did not. I'm going to stop GUN, and the only time I will kill is if I have absolutely no other choice."

"I'm in." Fox said.

"So am I." Matt said.

"Pichu!" Pichu said.

"You can't leave me out!" Paul said.

Everybody else agreed, and Link marched off towards the biggest battlefield they had ever come across before. Lyn finally got herself together, and ran off after them, eager to prove she was just as strong as either of them, and just as kind.

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...Ok, I really don't know what to say.

Next chapter's gonna be a huge fight as the Smashers fight to eradicate GUN from Lycia, then after that they'll move on to Renais to rescue the twins, Ephraim and Erika.

Why has the GUN commander started showing up outside his office? Usually, such people let everybody else do the fighting, so he must be up to something...

Thank you all for your reviews! (Even though they're dwindling...) I really appreciate them.

I'll see what I can do about updating. I'll probably update in a day or two, depending on how fast I type and whether inspiration hits me or not. Inspiration is mainly why this chapter is large, so yeah.

Ok, thanks for reading everybody, and thank you so much, those of you who reviewed! See you all next time, and take care!

With that said, Adieu, and PLEASE REVIEW!

-Shining Riku-