The moment that Uzume saw Neptune actually working, she knew that something must be terribly wrong. She saw the fellow CPU of Planeptune rushing to and fro, helping Mario and Donkey Kong in gathering different materials to decorate the square with welcoming banners or celebratory balloons! She seemed incredibly enthusiastic to be working, and that is what made Uzume nervous.

The redheaded CPU dropped to the ground, yelling and pointing out of fear at the scene unfolding in front of her! "W-what is Nepsy doing!?" she said. "Did something go wrong with her!? Can it hurt Uzume!?"

"Relax," Sonic said, patting Uzume on the head. "She's just really excited. The next Fighter due to arrive are Banjo and Kazooie, old friends of Mario and Donkey Kong. Neptune just really wants to help welcome them with a bang."

"O-oh..." Uzume said, before coughing and clearing her throat in a vain attempt to regain her cool. "R-right! Of course!" she said, standing back up. "I-I totally knew that."

"Sure you did," Sonic said.

Blanc couldn't hide the smile on her face as she watched Neptune helping with the decorations, almost bulldozing the patiently working Miis as she went, trying to do everything herself before anybody could stop her! Enthusiasm that Noire said she wished the purple CPU could display more often. Even still, Blanc mostly found it touching that Neptune was willing to help out as much as she was to make sure that Banjo and Kazooie were welcomed with a ceremony to show just how happy everyone was to see them.

They had been taken away a long time ago, and had been missing for generations. It was only now that they had been given admittance to come back and to compete in the Super Smash Bros. Tournament. And naturally, for those that knew him back in the day, this was an event that they were ecstatic for.

"Kinda wish that we got as big a welcoming," Joker said, the Hero quartet nodding in agreeance beside him.

"Well it's not like you're particularly dead in the water right now," Noire said. "Get back to work, the lot of you!"

The Fighters complied, Noire flicking her pigtail on the side. A nearby Palutena sent her a smile. "You sure have them in a bind," she said.

"Considering they're more my responsibility than anyone else's," Noire replied, "it's only fair I keep them in line."

"She's the dom, and she's got them whipped," Bayonetta said smugly.

"Come here and say that to my face!" Noire cursed.

"Lady Noire!" Mario said, running over to her side. "Please relax! They're-a due to arrive fairly soon!"

Noire gave a sigh. "Fine," she said. "You're right Mario. All the same, something I'm intrigued about is the fact that you two aren't at each other's throats," she said, looking to Vert and Blanc.

"I mean," she added, "weren't Banjo and Kazooie taken away because of you, Vert?"

"Hey," Vert said, holding up her hands, "I didn't have anything to do with that. I may be the CPU of Leanbox, but some finer dealings in relation to such things are out of my area of control."

"Namely because she's glued to MMO games or yaoi manga for 85% of her life," Blanc added.

"You flatter me," Vert said, laying a hand on her chest.

"How is that flattering?" Palutena asked, laying a finger to the side of her chin.

"Because I could've said 100%," Blanc replied.

"Ah," everyone else said.

"Shut up! Shut up! Everybody shut up! They're coming!" Neptune said, proceeding to kick each CPU for a second or two! Before they could reprimand her, the beam of light indicating a new Fighter's arrival shot down, everyone staying still as it settled down.

In a moment, the bear and bird duo appeared front and center, eyes adjusting to the new area. They jumped in surprise, as everyone shouted to them with a great, "Welcome back!"

The two smiled brightly, heart-warmed over the warm welcome.

For the next several minutes, everyone began to mingle casually with one another, as Banjo and Kazooie went from one Fighter to the next to greet them, never moving far away from Mario and Donkey Kong.

"Gawrsh," Banjo said. "I didn't expect pretty much everyone here to be so welcoming."

"Yeah," Kazooie agreed. "It's really exciting!"

"Well I can-a understand," Mario said. "You two have been-a missed for so long. Even those-a who don't-a remember meeting you can at least respect you for your past."

"Well," Banjo said, "it's not like we really did anything that special."

"Oh, don't be like that," Sonic said, speeding over and giving them a pat on the back. "Everyone knows you two were a bit ahead of your time."

"Thanks anyway," Banjo said, shaking hands with the blue hedgehog.

"So can-a we expect any more-a guests from your world?" Mario asked.

"Well we got Bottles and Mumbo coming for sure," Kazooie replied. "And even Gruntilda insisted she come over."

"Well so long as she behaves," Blanc replied, walking over to the small group, "all are welcome."

"Oh, Lady Blanc," Banjo greeted, offering a bow, with Kazooie bowing her head from the backpack. "It's been so long since we last met!"

"That's right," Blanc replied. "Not since Banjo-Tooie if I recall. I'm very happy to see you again."

"How have things been with the babies?" Kazooie asked.

"Well they're not quite babies now," Blanc replied, gesturing to where Rom and Ram were swinging from Princess Corrin's dragon wings. "But not by much."

"Well gawrsh," Banjo said. "Didn't know we'd been gone that long."

"You kidding?" Sonic asked. "It's been ages!"

"And," Vert aded, "we couldn't be happier to see you again. I must apologize as well, you two. If I had known what a void you would leave, I would have intervened and kept you both from being taken away from your old Lowee friends and family."

"It's not your fault Lady Vert," Banjo said. "We don't have any hard feelings."

"Most of us don't at least," Blanc said. "But there is one thing that I am going to need from your top heavy ass if I'm gonna forgive you."

"Lady Blanc!" Banjo, Mario, Sonic, and Kazooie all said.

"Didn't we just say," Vert said, "that I wasn't to blame?"

"Nuts and Bolts," Blanc said.

"You make a firm argument," Vert replied. "What would you want?"

"Let me brag," Blanc said.

"Is that it?" Vert asked. "Okay."

"Thank you," Blanc said, before clearing her throat. "I called it!" she said. "I freaking called it! Nobody told me that I could get Banjo and Kazooie back home to compete in Smash, but guess what!? I fucking called it, goddammit! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

"Your welcome for making the deal by the way," Vert said, removing a glove so she could look at her nails.

"Isn't she going a little overboard?" Kazooie asked.

"If you've seen-a what she's-a been through," Mario said, "you would-a let her have this."

Next thing anyone knew, a cardboard box bounced its way over to everyone else, before, surprisingly not Solid Snake, but Lid from Lastation popped out and gasped for breath! "Air~" she gasped.

"Uh..." everyone said, rather flummoxed by her arrival.

"Oh, hey Lid," Noire said. "What's going on with you?"

"Isn't she non-canon?" Neptune asked, scratching her head.

"Lady Noire!" Lid said, saluting while still sitting in the box. "We have a situation! A number of unidentified third-party characters have been spotted coming into Lowee's airspace!"

"Third party characters?" Noire asked.

"Wait, what!?" Blanc asked.

"Uh, excuse me?" a nearby voice asked. Everyone turned to see a fairly unimpressive looking man with a dark, baggy coat, with dark hair and a rugged looking face. He was unknown by some, but those who recognized him knew him as Alan Wake from his titular series of games.

"I'm not interrupting anything am I?" he asked.

"What the fubbernuck is this!?" Blanc demanded.

"Oh," Alan replied. "I was called here to see off Banjo and Kazooie and wish them luck in the Tournament."

"Really?" Banjo asked. "Gawrsh, that's nice of ya!"

"He's not the only one," a deeper voice said. Everyone turned to see a man wearing an impressive suit of armor with a massive gun strapped to his back, by the name of Marcus Fenix from the Gears of War series!

"Oh no!" Neptune gasped dramatically. "It's the protagonist from Gears of Duty: Battlefield Fallout!"

"I feel somewhat offended," Marcus said.

"Not my fault all your games are the same," Neptune said, smirking smugly.

"What are you doing here!?" Blanc yelled.

"What?" Marcus said. "You weren't expecting us?"

"Not this side of-!" Blanc began, before she was cut off by another rude interruption.

"Run away!" another voice yelled.

"Oh sweet merciful Miyamoto," Blanc said. "Now what!?"

She looked to see the crowd dispersing to reveal Dark Samus caught in a fight with the agent from Crackdown! Bullets and Phazon flew around as the two were caught in a fight for no discernible reason!

"Glad that wasn't me," Samus said, sliding to a halt beside Simon and Lucario!

"This makes no sense," Blanc said, looking to be having a panic attack.

"Cut it out!" Fox yelled, throwing a bomb at the two, splitting the Crackdown Agent away from Dark Samus!

"Nice shot," a voice said.

"Oh thanks-" Fox began, before looking to the left and revealing Commander Shepard from Mass Effect.

"Ah-ha!" Neptune said, snapping her fingers. "Mass Effect! That's the other FPS I left out of that joke. Then again, your game is somewhat unique. You can stay."

"Thanks?" Shepard replied. "I think?"

Their eyes fell upon Blanc, whose face was as red as a Metamato, her fist clenched so tight her veins were popping out of her skin! "I swear..." she said. "If I see another unwanted guest... I'm gonna lose it!"

"Finally!" a voice from nearby said. "Told you it was left."

Her eyes slowly turned to the direction of the voice, giving a defeated sigh. Sure enough, she saw not only one, but two more unwanted guests. As she saw it was Master Chief from Halo talking to Joanna from Perfect Dark.

"Okay," Joanna admitted. "You were right. Sorry I got us misdirected."

"It's no trouble," Master Chief said.

Blanc was breathing slowly, her body still as a statue with her eyes closed tight.

"Uh... Lady Blanc?" Mario said. "Please-a try to keep-a your temper in check."

"Y-yeah Lady Blanc," Pit said. "W-we can figure this out."

"Sis is gonna snap," Ram told Rom.

Finally, Blanc pulled the pin on the grenade. "What! In the name of ass! Is going on around here?!"

"Oh boy," Neptune said.

"Where did all of you come from!?" Blanc said. "I get why you're here but how-?" She stopped herself as she came to a startling realization.

"Wait a second," she said, her eyes falling onto Vert, who'd been remarkably quiet this entire time. "You!" she said, pointing at the CPU of Leanbox angrily.

"What? Me?" Vert asked, sounding rather offended.

"Don't play dumb with me!" Blanc said. "I know you had something to do with this! Taking what little notoriety you have and shoving them down our throats now that you had one character joining Smash! A character that started on my home consoles, might I add!"

"Hey!" Vert said. "That's really offensive! I have notoriety!"

"But you did it," Blanc said. "Didn't you? You brought your characters here, right?"

"Okay, yes," Vert replied. "They're not going to stay, so you can keep your little flat butt from getting in a twist."

"Fuck you!" Blanc yelled. "How did you even do this!?"

"Crazy Hand," Vert shrugged.

"Of course," Blanc said, hanging her head in shame.

"Hold on," Master Chief said. "You didn't know about this, Lady Blanc?"

"Do I look like I knew?" Blanc asked.

"Okay, look," Corrin said. "Like Lady Vert said, they're not going to stay. They're just here to welcome Banjo and Kazooie to Smash Bros. and then they'll leave."

"Now we feel bad," Kazooie said. "This was all because of us, right?"

"No, of course not!" Joanna said. "Lady Vert asked us to come."

"She's right," Alan said. "We came to see you off and wish you luck. And Lady Vert welcomed the idea."

"Oh, throw me under the bus!" Vert said.

"Okay. Okay," Blanc said. "Let me take a breath." She took a deep breath, before letting it out. "You've all got a point. This will be settled quickly."

As if she had gotten an instant jinx, a loud 'Boom!' caught their attention, causing Blanc to twitch her eye. "I should've known," she said.

Ness looked awkwardly over at Samus and Fox. "I... don't suppose that ship belongs to either of you?"

"Nope," they both said.

"I was afraid of that," Ness said.

She looked over to the side, where a ship had crashed down in a nearby field! From the ship, out stumbled Nathan Drake from Uncharted, who nearly fell off his feet! "Where did you learn to fly!?" he demanded.

"Hey!" Ratchet said, as he and Clank came out as well. "We didn't build this ship!" He pulled out Sackboy from Little Big Planet next, who gave a nervous smile, shrugging it off.

"What the-!?" Blanc said. "How the-!? Where-!?"

She looked to Vert, who was just as stunned. "Hey! I didn't invite them!" she said. "I only invited people from my home!"

"Then where did-!" Blanc stopped again, recognizing all these guys from Playstation. "Wait a minute," she said, looking over at Noire, who was sipping on her drink, before her eyes settled on Lid, who was still hiding in her box.

"I thought you were gonna warn me when they got here!" she said.

"I did say unidentified third-party characters were approaching," Lid replied. "I was having a hard time recognizing where they were from; Playstation or Xbox."

Noire looked angered, as Lid threw her head back in the box.

"Noire..." Blanc growled.

"In my defense!" Noire said, before Blanc could do anything. "I only asked them to come after Vert told me she was going to have some of her characters show up!"

"Vert..." Blanc growled in turn.

"Well I didn't tell you," Vert said, "because I knew you were going to react like this."

Their attention was grabbed again, as Sir Daniel from Medievil walked over, saluting Noire and saying a number of incomprehensible things that were totally unable to be understood from his lack of a lower jaw.

"Uh... what?" Neptune asked.

"I think he was greeting me," Noire said.

"Where be the subtitles?" Neptune asked, attempting to check the settings. "Oh yeah, this is a fanfiction, not a video game. Darn it! Author, can't you translate for us?"

"What is she saying?" Shepard asked, not used to Neptune's behavior.

"According to what Lady Vert warned us about," Marcus said, "she's not exactly the most sane character."

"Lady Noire!" yelled Sly Cooper. "It's so good to see you again!"

"Hello Sly," Noire said. "Tell me, did you bring Crash?"

"Well we would have," Sly said, "but we agreed he might cause too much of a scene."

"Fair enough," Noire said, recalling the number of cries for people that were asking for the orange bandicoot to show up as a Fighter. If she could have, she would ask Sakurai to let him in. But by this point, for Fighter Pass 2, the Fighters were already selected and even the goddesses were left in the dark about who was going to show up next. (As was seen explicitly when Blanc discovered there would be a Fighter Pass 2 in the first place.)

"Noire..." Blanc said. "Be honest with me. Did you have a reason to bring over your characters at all? You already have Joker, Cloud, Snake, and Hero! You have plenty of representation as it is!"

"Well," Noire said, "I figured that my babies who didn't get a chance to arrive at the Tournament should have their time! There's nothing stopping any of our characters from arriving, no?"

"That's different!" Blanc said. "Even I don't have the authority to say who is and who is not allowed to even watch the Tournament in person! It is all a very fine-tuned process between myself, Sakurai, Master Hand, and the directors of Nintendo! I may be their goddess, but I'm not a business partner!"

"How did you even get them here!?"

"Crazy Hand," Noire said with a shrug.

"Oh my," Nathan said. "Looks like we caused a scene even without the bandicoot."

"Terribly sorry to be an inconvenience," Clank said. Sir Daniel made a few noises that indicated he agreed.

"It's fine!" Blanc said firmly. "It's fine! We just... need to get this all settled down without any neck breaking."

"Should I tell you something?" Neptune asked.

"What?" Blanc asked, that is, until she felt her hat taken off her head. Her eyes looked in the direction a shape was floating down beside her head. Her eyes focused on Nights from Nights into Dreams.

"I think she means me," the androgynous Nightmaren said.

"What. In. The. Ass," Blanc said.

"Well guys," another voice said. "Welcome to Lowee. A bit different from Planeptune, eh?"

Blanc spun around to see Vyse from Skies of Arcadia, apparently showing Arle Nadja from Puyo Puyo, Sakura from Sakura Wars, and Alex Kidd around the city. Blanc felt her face imploding as she looked to Neptune, who was nervously tapping the tips of her fingers together, as Nights was still floating beside her, spinning Blanc's hat on a finger.

"Vert did it!" Neptune said. "She made me do it!"

"I did no such thing!" Vert said.

Blanc was practically vibrating in anger! Her teeth were grinding hard enough for white dust to visibly fall from her mouth, her face had turned a bright red, and a number of disgruntled noises were slipping out of her! Most of her subjects noticed this, and were all visibly stressed as to try and keep her calm!

"L-L-Lady Blanc!" Robin said. "P-please try and relax."

"R-right!" Samus said. "W-we'll get this settled. Just don't-!"

Finally, Blanc took a deep, deep breath! But right where it looked like she was about to scream at the top of her lungs, all she let loose a small noise. Then, she promptly fell over and passed out!

The following day, all uninvited guests were gone from Gamindustri, the three other goddesses all giving a great number of apology to their fellow CPU over causing her such a great amount of stress. Master Hand and Mr. Sakurai were contacted thereafter to ensure greater security to not allow such an event to happen again, so as to save Blanc further anxiety. Crazy Hand was also ensured so as not to summon any unlisted character to the Tournament, even if requested by the CPUs, lest he get explicit approval from Master Hand or Sakurai himself.

While still getting a great number of apologies from the other CPUs, Blanc and the goddesses all went to the Spiral Mountain stage to give it a test run to see if it would be viable for battles. The rotation gimmick was operating as they had hoped, with numerous platforms coming down at specific intervals to continue keeping the fight interesting. It was only as the fight went on that things became a bit more... problematic. As Neptune unfortunately found out.

"Mumbo," Noire said, rubbing her eyes. "We thought that when we set up a stage on the Spiral Mountain that you weren't going to go hexing anybody in the middle of a fight!"

"Hey, I was startled!" the little voodoo wizard replied.

"That's why we were testing before an official fight started," Blanc said. "So from here on out, we would appreciate it if you didn't go interfering in a fight from here on out."

"Okay, okay," Mumbo said. "I get it. I understand."

"Come to think of it," Vert said, "what did you do with Neptune?"

"Uh..." Mumbo said.

Neptune had no idea what was going on. She was just in some kind of black void when she could've sworn she was on Spiral Mountain training with the others a second ago. "Hello?" she asked. "Hello~"

She got no response. It appeared that she was gonna be stuck here until the others could find her.

"Darkness, imprisoning me! All that I see! Absolute horror-ra-ra-ra! Ra-ra-ra-ra! Ra-ra-ra-ra! I don't know the words!"

A/N: And here we are everybody! Banjo and Kazooie have joined the battle! I'll admit, at first, I didn't really have a clear idea what I was going to do with this chapter, but then as I got some requests wondering if other characters from Xbox, Playstation, or Sega would show up, I finally had the perfect thought in mind!

So, there we go! Some shout outs to characters from the other consoles not featured in Smash to coincide with Banjo and Kazooie's arrival! And while I would have preferred Blanc to not be given so much stress recently, I couldn't very well have this occur without some stress heaped on our lovely CPU of Lowee.

I don't really have much else to say, as just the random introduction of other characters and Blanc's reaction speaks for itself. The ending bit actually made me smirk quite a bit as I wrote it, I don't know why. It's just one of those random thoughts that popped into my head, recalling how Mumbo shows up in Spiral Mountain, so I was like, "hey! Why not have something happen to Neptune?"

I suppose I should also mention my thoughts on Banjo and Kazooie. I'll admit, I was skeptical if they would end up in Smash at all, but now that they're present, I couldn't be happier. Something about them being in Super Smash Bros. just feels right, and I am very happy to see them return, and hope that it will lead to plenty of appearances to come later. (Preferably good ones!) They're gameplay is pretty good too!

Review Time!

To Neptunia56: Glad we could agree on people complaining to Mr. Sakurai. Also, the idea of having the characters babysit is something I could very well see happen in the future. Particularly the Candidates, as it's always fun having to watch them try to handle a situation on their own. If you guys have any requests of characters that could be babysat, just let me know!

To Zidakku Hirokai: We very might see a sequel to the last chapter if that does occur! XD And as for the request on people wanting Goku and some such, that does give me an idea for something else in the near future. So stay tuned. ;)

To Erik Soto: Yeah. These last two chapters certainly made it clear that I need to give Blanc a break! Hopefully she can get one soon.

And to the final guest user, glad you liked it! The whole "begone thot" thing made me laugh while I wrote it, so I'm glad you found it funny too. And I can certainly give little Gearsy a cute birthday chapter. Also, you can take it Waluigi certainly is traumatized.

With that all said and done, thank you as always for reading, I hope you did enjoy, let me know what else you'd like to see. Have a wonderful evening, and take care!