Meanwhile, in the new unknown world, Sora and Geno had been wandering through the no man's land for months with no sign of knowing where they were going. The two were running out of food supply and were crawling on the road from exhaustion. Geno was still using the airhorn after all this time, until it ran out and he had to toss it on the side.

"Going on…" Geno breathed.

"Yes… Let's go… Keep going…" Sora agreed, running out of energy.

"Indeed…"

"We gotta get that glove…"

"Uh huh…"

"Victory… will… be ours…"

Geno paused a bit before his expression slowly became an irritated one.

"Are we there yet?!" he muttered in sheer frustration.

"I'm sure we are close to the Maze", Sora assured his friend, despite being tired.

He saw a billboard in front of them. Suddenly, a glimmer of hope was growing inside him.

"Geno, look! We are close to the Great Maze! It's said that we're only five months away!" Sora pointed the billboard to Geno.

A gust of wind pushed out the leaf that blocked part of the sign, revealing two more words.

"By flight", Geno added, reading the additional words.

"Ugh, I wish we still had our Gummi ship!" Sora groaned in annoyance, laying his head down on the ground in defeat.

Geno looked around despite his tired gaze. His eyes widened when he saw something in front of him. He gathered all his energy left to rush toward it.

"Sora, look! It's the Gummi Ship!" he exclaimed joyfully.

Sora stood back to his feet and tried to gain on Geno.

The Gummi ship was parked all alone in front of some very small, abandoned, dirty mansion that looked like it was on the brink of collapsing. Sora and Geno hugged each other in celebration before they ran inside the cockpit and tried to pilot it. But something made Sora realized it was off.

"Geno", Sora gasped in realization. "The Gummi Block is gone! We can't start the ship without it!"

"Well, where do you think it went?" he asked out of curiosity.

Suddenly, an orange bandicoot (Crash Bandicoot) was kicked out through one of the already cracked window of the mansion. He landed near Sora and Geno, unconscious and covered in bandage. The two looked through the broken window. Inside of the mansion, the blue, foggy and dimmed room looked like it went through an earthquake and later went through abandonment. The destroyed yet strangely barren lobby was full of fighters, who were beating up each other, eating some food they had never seen before, while a few were lining up to order a match. Through this crowd, they recognized the big clown who stole the ship. He was on his own looking at his ice cream, his pocket containing a certain star shaped object.

"There it is! The Gummi block! How are we gonna get it back?" Sora noticed.

"Why don't you act polite and ask him to relinquish the block? Geno suggested.

"What do you think you're mumbling, skull?"

A low yet threatening voice could be heard from the inside, before sounds of knife slashing and gunshot followed. A muffled voice tried to scream in pain, despite being unable to pronounce a single coherent word.

"Geno, this is a bad idea", Sora disagreed, with a stern look on his face.

"Darn it", Geno understood, disappointed.

Sora paused and tried to think of an idea.

"How about we could use some distraction?" Sora suggested. "I'll distract them and you get the block."

"Oh, great idea! But I want to distract while you take the block", Geno requested.

"Uh, fine? Doesn't matter who distract, anyway."

Geno entered through the main creaking and somewhat defective entrance of the mansion, and paraded into the lobby with a determined expression. Sora crawled inside the room, going the opposite direction. When Geno arrived in the middle of the blue and black lobby, he cleared up his throat, as if he was trying to say something.

"Everyone? Can I have your attention, please?" he asked loudly so that everyone could hear.

All the patrons turned their attention toward the lone puppet in the middle of the room. Sly Cooper and Nathan Drake turned their attention toward the voice. Heihachi and Zeus were arm wrestling, but stopped when they also heard it. Nariko immediately woke up from the death. They walked toward him, either menacingly or just confused. Geno was standing there surrounded, scared and wordless, not knowing what to do.

"I have to use the bathroom", he quickly explained while still looking terrified at this scary crowd circling around him.

"Huh, the bathroom is that way", Sweet Tooth answered while pointing the direction of said bathroom, confused.

The clown then caught Sora on the ground, reaching for the Gummi block inside his pocket. The brown-haired boy flinched a bit when he saw him caught in the act. Sora quickly looked down on the ground, searching for something.

"Darn contact! I lost them again! Oh, there it goes! I better go wash it", he lied to the fat scary clown, trying to hide his awkward smile.

Sora held his "contact" before running to the bathroom. In that area, Geno was doing his business (Despite being a wooden puppet). Sora opened abruptly the door with an angry look on his face.

"Geno! How is that a distraction?!" he snapped at the doll.

"Sorry, I couldn't hold it anymore", Geno jolted while trying to defend himself.

"Well, I got my hands dirty for nothing, thanks to you!"

Sora washed his hand, frustrated. His head down, his vision suddenly noticed a pile of dirty used comic book on the dusty floor. Sora gasped in amazement.

"Geno, look! Comic books!"

"Wow!" Geno gasped in amazement.

"COMIC PARTY TIME!"

The two bubbly fools started to dance around the bathroom, playing with comic books. They laughed heartily while reading them, and they also ripped the pages out, bits of paper flying everywhere. However, they failed to notice one piece of paper from the destroyed comic book flying toward the main lobby. It landed near a giant grey bald Greek man (Kratos) foot. He took notice of this and grabbed it. He recognized this somewhere.

"Hey! Who picked up a comic book?!" he bellowed furiously, causing the entire room to tremble. He just reached everyone's attention. "You know the rules here, right?"

"All comic book reading invalids will be beaten senselessly by every Playstation All-Stars fighters in the mansion", they repeated in unison.

"That's right! So, who picked it?" Kratos asked menacingly while crushing the piece of paper under his fist.

Back in the bathroom, Sora and Geno frantically grabbed all the ripped piece of comic book paper still flying in the air before putting them in the trash.

"So, nobody knows, huh?" Kratos continued, growing impatient.

"Maybe it was…" Clank tried to answer.

"Shut up!"

Clank yelped as he received a lash from Kratos.

"Somebody here is an imposter."

He spotted Sora and Geno, who were trying to leave.

"YOU! We're on an invalid hunt! And you think we don't know how to weed them out! Everybody line up!"

Everyone in the mansion, including Sora and Geno, lined up in front of Kratos.

"Parappa! Turn the music on!"

A flat two-dimensional rapping dog who was placed on the DJ booth obeyed his command and put a vinyl disk on it. He smiled at his boss when the music started, giving him a thumbs-up.

"No invalids can resist this song."

Sora and Geno sweated. They recognize this song somewhere, and not just any songs.

"Sora, it's Goofy's song!" Geno pointed out, shaking.

"I know!" he acknowledged, sharing the same feeling as his trembling friend.

Oh, I'm a Dippy Goofdawg, yeah!

You're a Dippy Goofdawg, yeah.

As the song played, Kratos walked down the line to see the reaction of each patron. He glared at Dante, who flinched in return. He continued to walk. A cough caught his attention. He quickly turned to a short obese princess and yelled at her.

"It was YOU! You're the imposter!"

"N-NO, no sir! I only coughed, I swear!" Fat Princess defended, horrified.

Kratos gave her an "I have my eyes on you" gesture before he resumed his searching.

"Parappa! Turn it up louder!" he ordered.

The princess sighed in relief. At least she wouldn't get kicked out this time.

The young dog raised the volume of the song, to the point that the song can be heard from outside.

We're all Dippy Goofdawgs, yeah.

Dippy, Dippy, goofdawg, goofdawg, yeah!

Back to the two out of place duo, they were trying so hard to resist this song while clenching their fists and their eyes were shut. They were sweating with tears coming out. Their rising pressured bodies were a ticking bomb waiting to explode.

"Don't try to sing, Geno!" Sora warned him, biting his lower lip.

"I'm trying, trying so hard!" Geno responded, clenching his eyes while feeling the pressure.

Kratos finally arrived at the two. He noticed them about to crack. He stopped and provoked them.

"I'm a Dippy Goofdawg, yeah!" Kratos started to sing.

Sora was losing his mind while foam came out of his mouth.

"You're a Dippy Goofdawg, yeah!"

Geno was literally melting like fondue, while crying.

"We're all Dippy Goofdawgs, yeah!"

Sora and Geno breathed in, finally giving up. They were about to sing along, when…

"Dippy, Dippy, goofdawg, goofdawg, yeah!"

They all stopped what they were doing. They heard someone singing alone and they all turned their attention to the culprit. It turned out to be two suspected culprits instead. One of them was a tall blonde swordsman wearing a red armor (Dart Feld) and the other was a strange purple green-ish creature who had a ponytail and his mouth stitched up (Abe from Oddworld). They were standing at the end of the line, looking very nervous.

"Well, what have we here", Kratos grinned mischievously.

He walked toward them.

"Which one of you two imposters was it?!" Kratos asked irately the two, who shook and sweated in fear.

"It was him!" They pointed at each other in unison. "Huh. He did it! I never even went at the showing of Dippy, Dippy, goofdawg, goofdawg, yeah!"

Abe and Dart covered each other's mouths in shock and realization.

"Well, it looks like we have double invalids!" Kratos smirked as he prepared his swords.

Everyone else in the room prepared their weapons, powers or fists, ready to attack the two so-called invalids. They soon lunged themselves at them, beating them up big time. While this all happened, Sora and Geno took this opportunity to leave without being seen. They reached the outside of the mansion, relieved.

"Phew, we almost died there", Sora sighed in relief.

"Guess what I just stole during the commotion", Geno took out a familiar star-shaped block.

"The gummi block!" Sora gasped in astonishment. "Let's be quiet and take back the Gummi ship."

The two started the ship, which flew into the night sky.

Meanwhile, back in Smash World, Sephiroth wasn't having the best of time. Ever since Sakurae got frozen by Master Hand, he was forced to run the mansion without him despite being too new for the place. Even if his closest Square Enix "pals" (If you can call them that), Cloud, Luminary, Erdrick, Solo and Eight, were trying to help him, it didn't make the situation any better. As result, everyone was leaving both mansions. Even both tournament clubs were emptying. The One-winged Angel was currently in his dorm listening to someone's review on the radio, with his Square Enix dorm mates nowhere to be seen.

"This is Kazuya Mishima and I'm reporting here to review my impression at the Smash Ultimate mansion. It pales so much compared to the original. It took everything from that without the good parts. It is also grossly understaffed and the guy currently in charge, as well as my mentor, was the worst: he ordered to me a slow and boring match with items, when I don't want them. It was nothing but despair."

"It's not my fault that I was forced to work on both mansions and tournament clubs at the same time", Sephiroth muttered in frustration.

"That mansion has made me complained for 25 hours a day."

Hearing those words, Sephiroth just realized something.

"Wait a minute!" he snapped before looking at the clock on the wall. Someone had scribbled "25" in red marker between 24 and 1. He erased it with his gloved hand.

"There can't be 25 hours in a day! Stupid fake review!"

He stormed off to another room. Unknown to him, he missed out on the rest of the review.

"Just avoid the Smash mansion and its battle clubs in general and just go to Dharkon's mansion instead."

Despite being unhappy of the whole mismanagement, he tried to cheer himself up when he remembered Sora and Geno weren't there anymore. He looked through the window of his room smiling.

"Too bad Sora isn't there to enjoy this Sora-less day", Sephiroth chuckled a bit.

He left his room and mansion to enjoy his morning stroll. As he flew over the road with his one wing, he passed by Fox, who was wearing the weird looking bandeau around his hairy forehead.

"Good morning", he greeted.

Sephiroth quickly took notice of the bandeau, and was disgusted by this.

"Even for my standards, they really have a bad taste in headgears", he commented scrunching his nose.

He brushed it off and kept flying. He passed by Pokemon Trainer Red and Leaf (Or Green), the latter was holding Pichu, while Samus was petting him. All of them were wearing the same bandeau as Fox. Sephiroth stopped, puzzled by this.

"Huh, even Pokemon too?" he was shocked. "Something isn't right."

He then saw Pyra, who was also wearing the bandeau, passing by him he tried to get her attention.

"Excuse me, lady. But why is everybody wearing the same disgusting looking bandeau?" he demanded to the Blade.

"Wait, who's talking?" Pyra wondered, not paying attention to the One-Winged Angel behind her.

"Behind you."

Pyra turned around and saw him in front of her.

"Ah, I got it from Dharkon's mansion", she answered with a sweet voice. "Dharkon gave them away for free with every match."

"Dharkon's mansion? Match?! Dharkon? Giving? WITH?!"

Sephiroth's eyes widened in shock and realization. He flew to the mansion of the entity, where he abruptly opened the door.

"So, Dharkon!" he snapped at the huge dark one-eyed entity. "You're the one in charge of matches, right?!"

"Indeed, Sephiroth" He responded while taking out a bandeau. "You can have this free bandeau if you want to participate in a match. Do you want it?"

"No thanks. You may have fool everyone in this world full of weaklings, but I will never be fooled. I listen to public radio."

"What do you mean?" he inquired with a bored tone.

"It means that I knew you were behind the whole scheme. You were the one who set up Sakurae, you stole the glove so Master Hand could freeze him and you can put your disgusting tentacles on the secret formula!"

Dharkon looked at his black, purple and red tentacles with his only eye.

"It was YOU all along!" Sephiroth concluded. "But you also made one fatal mistake, you know. You messed everyone from accepting this pear! And I'm gonna report you to the most powerful entity of this world, Master Hand. And if he doesn't come for you, then me and my sword will!"

"We will see about that, One-Winged freak" Dharkon cackled sinisterly. "Galeem, now!"

"Now activate my light beams", Galeem said.

The light entity summoned multiple light beams from his body, which hit all the Smashers inside the mansion.

"What the-" Sephiroth gasped.

The beam hit Byleth, who was eating some food, and even Roy, who was sparing for his next match. Eventually, everyone turned into inanimate statues before the bandeau they wore around their heads from before, started to wrap around them, reanimating the Smashers into red eyed lightless zombies.

"Oh hail Dharkon!" everyone was chanting for their new overlord.

"What's going on here?"

"Minions of darkness, seize him!" Dharkon ordered his puppets.

They mindlessly obeyed. Despite knowing he was surrounded and outnumbered, Sephiroth couldn't give up so easily. He prepared his Masamune while looking at the army.

"How dare you try taking over the world, that's my job!"

He tried to fly toward Dharkon and Galeem and slice them in half, but soon got disarmed and even had his power completely disabled. Now helpless, Sephiroth tried to reach the exit. But then, he soon saw the entrance was entirely blocked by some more puppets. Sephiroth soon recognized them as Cloud and the four Heroes, now possessed by Dharkon. The powerless One-Winged Angel rushed to the dead-end of the mansion, having no other place to hide. Everyone, including the other Square Enix guys, walked mindlessly toward him, chanting.

"Oh hail Dharkon!"

He shielded his face with his arms, trying to hide his terror running all over his face, while his now possessed Square Enix colleagues were grabbing him.

"Oh hail Dharkon!"

"Who can stop me now?!" he laughed while declaring evilly as the entire bright and beautiful world of Smash was turning dark and dreary.