(Part 2)

*RING*

*RING*

Sora opened his eyes. He just woke up from his dream. His Mickey Mouse-shaped alarm clock was ringing on his night table. He pushed on the snooze button immediately before jumping out of bed. "Oh wow! Meow Wow, I just had that dream again."

The cat-like Dream Eater was looking at his owner, puzzled. The teenager walked toward the calendar showing the month of November.

"Sorry, wrong date", he said before tearing the page out of it. It showed the month of December instead with the number 10 marked in red and a familiar Smash logo printed on it. "December 10 2020! The day where my dream is finally gonna come true! Because today it's the ceremony for the reveal of the new Smasher, where Sakurae is gonna announce the name of the newcomer who's joining!"

Sora's blue eyes shone, as he put his hands on his cheeks while jumping around, not able to contain his excitement. The blue cat creature walked to him, squeaking.

"Guess who's gonna be the next Smasher, Meow Wow", Sora chuckled smugly to his cat. "Well, why don't you ask my millions of supports AND STILL COUNTING on the wall?"

He pointed at his giant wall which was completely covered of #Sora4Smash ballot papers, pictures of him and some documents that showed his high rank on popularity polls everywhere.

"SORA FROM DESTINY ISLAND!"

Sora pranced around to the bathroom while chanting "I'm ready, Smash reveal!"

He took a bubble bath and squeezed some more gel soap, but he accidentally put too much, causing the entire bathroom to be covered in foam. He walked out of the now ruined bathroom and ran toward his closet. He took out his usual outfit composed of a white and black vest, red jumpsuits and big yellow clown shoes and wore them. He looked at himself on the mirror proudly, looking good and ready to go. Until his pants from the jumpsuit was too loose and fell out to his knee, revealing a pair of boxers. Sora quickly noticed this and pulled them back, his face red from embarrassment. He then picked his toothbrush and waxed his keyblade clean with it.

"Nothing's better than a presentable newcomer", he quipped while looking at his keyblade.

Sora rushed outside singing, "I'm ready, Smash reveal! I'm ready, Smash reveal!" while he passed by his neighbor's house.

Inside said house, someone was singing his song in the shower. A man with long silver hair was emptying an entire bottle of shampoo before he threw it away and started rubbing the gel all over the hair. But then he felt another pair of hands rubbing the tip of his hair while singing with him. He turned around and to his shock, standing in the same bathtub, was Sora.

"Sora! What are you doing in my bathroom!?" the man asked in anger while trying to cover his lower part.

"I have to tell you something, Sephiroth", he answered with a smile.

"I couldn't care less about your childish remarks. Couldn't you just wait before we get to the ceremony?"

"We can't shower there."

"Then what do you want, keyblade boy?"

"Just wanna say that it's great that you're gonna come see me become the next Smasher."

"OUTSIDE!"

Sephiroth blew Sora out of his house thanks to his dark powerful magic. Despite this, Sora was still trying to act friendly toward him.

"Sure, Sephiroth. I'll see you at the Reveal."

"That sounded like the next fighter in Smash!"

Sora turned at the voice. He smiled when he saw a sentient puppet in front of him. However, he couldn't help but noticed something was missing and gave him an uncomfortable look. The puppet looked at himself and realized it too. He was still bare. "Whoops! Sorry. Please wait here" The doll rushed at his house before coming back to the boy, wearing his blue cap and cape. "Congratulation, Sora!"

"Oh thanks, Geno", he said sheepishly while rubbing his finger on his cheek." You know, after I got confirmed for Smash, we're gonna party until we all turn blue."

"I love being all blue!"

"I know where we gonna go", Sora smirked at his friend.

"Where? Wait. You don't mean-", Geno gasped in realization.

"Oh yes, I mean it."

The teenage boy unrolled a poster and displayed it to the puppet. It depicted a fancy restaurant with the words "Le Grand Bistrot" in big marked on it

"Le Grand Bistrot!" the two friends screamed together, enthusiastic about the restaurant.

Geno put a disk on the CD player next to him. A goofy song started as the two sang and danced to it.

Oh, I'm a Dippy Goofdawg, yeah!

You're a Dippy Goofdawg, yeah.

We're all Dippy Goofdawgs, yeah.

Dippy, Dippy, goofdawg, goofdawg, yeah!

Sora stopped dancing after he looked at his watch and realized something.

"Oh, sorry for cutting our dance short, but I have to go."

Sora sprinted out of the neighbourhood, leaving his best friend behind. While Geno was still dancing to the song, he could still catch the teenage boy leaving.

"Goodbye Sora. I'll see you at the Reveal. I have a surprise for you", Geno waved at him before going back to his house.

Somewhere near the entrance of the Smash mansion, a woman in pink hair and futuristic pop-idol like outfit was speaking on the camera with Sakurae next to her.

"Hey there everyone. Ulala's here in front of the Smash Mansion, the only place for characters everywhere to meet different people from other worlds and fight for around two decades. Well, not for long. That's right. The landlord and owner of the Smash tournament club himself, Mr. Sakurae is opening another mansion called Smash Mansion Ultimate."

Ulala pointed at the newly constructed mansion to the crowd outside next to the one they were standing in front. Compared to the old one, it was much bigger, cleaner and more fun looking. She started to interview the Japanese man.

"Way to go, Mr. Sakurae!"

"Konnichiwa, I rove money."

"What inspired you to build a second mansion not too far from the original?"

"Werr, each tournament was getting more crowded than the rast, so I have to make more space for the new fighters. That one incrudes a buirt-in tournament crub too. But arso, money."

Everyone laughed at his answer. Meanwhile, a giant dark one-eyed entity was spying on the man from a much smaller dilapidated mansion.

"That's not fair, Galeem! Sakurae is being interviewed by the space reporter herself, and I never had a single fighter coming here", he whined.

He looked back the inside of the place. Inside the building, it was much bigger and looked like they went through a portal that transported them into another world. A world that was dark, creepy, deserted and lifeless. And the atmosphere looked like it came out of a fantastic horror movie.

"Well Dharkon, if your place wasn't too dark, scary and gloomy, maybe they would come", Galeem pointed out.

"If only I was able to steal his secret formula for a successful battle tournament, then everyone will come live here and fight. I went through my single digit plans from 1 to 9. Each fails more than the last."

"What about 0?"

"Huh?" Dharkon asked, confused.

"0 is a single digit number before 1, did you forget about that?"

He floated toward some leftover temple ruins and rummaged through his manuscript rolls.

"Let's see. 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1… 0! I found it, I actually found it!"

Dharkon took out a very old moldy manuscript that looked like it went through centuries without being discovered. Galeem rolled his invisible eye. He unrolled it with his black and red tentacles to examine it.

"I can't believe I missed this one. It's so ancient" he took a closer look. "It's evil-looking. This plan can't possibly fail!"

Dharkon floated out of the mansion entrance, much smaller than usual.

"Enjoy while you can Sakurae, Dharkon is here to destroy your life and everyone will come live in my mansion and this world will be all mine! ALL HAIL DHARKON!"

Suddenly, he got stomped by a giant yellow shoe. Sora was too busy rushing to the Smash Mansion out of eagerness.

"I'm right here! I'm right here! I'm right here!"

He stopped a bit, looking at the sole of his shoe.

"Uh oh, I stepped on an ant-sized heartless."

Sora scraped his foot on the ground, which caused the entity to yelp in pain.

"You didn't step on a heartless, you imbecile. You stepped on a powerful entity!"

Said entity came off the shoe and morphed back into his original form, albeit he was still small.

"Oh sorry, mister. Say, are you going to the Reveal?"

"I have no time for that. I am planning to rule this world and no one will stop me!"

Sora paused a bit while staring at him, confused.

"Well, good luck with the plan!" he naively encouraged.

He then left the dark entity behind, resuming his road to the Reveal.

"I'm right here! I'm right here! I'm right here!"

"What an idiot!" Dharkon muttered before going back to the ruined mansion.

He needed to go on with his plan and he had no time to waste.