Kamen Rider Smash

Episode 10 – Alpha and Omega


Data File #13: Sister

"We were caught off guard by Palutena, turns out she had various spies in CORE working for her. Using them she cut us off from Kenshin after Dark Pit lead him to Kamen Rider Echo. After an intense fight that ended in a draw, the shocking revelation that Kenshin had a sister had been revealed. Kenshin's buried memories reacted and caused too much strain. Junmei left shortly after; though I'm sure we'll see her sometime in the near future. But I doubt she'll work for Palutena anymore."


Hajime walked alone through Subspace, unaware of the plans in store for him by Meijin and Sayomi. The two had also made sure to not let Tabuu know in order to keep Hajime from finding out. Hajime eventually reached the usual ledge and gave a bow. "Lord Tabuu I wish to have a private audience with you."

"What is it that you wish?" Tabuu asked as he appeared in front of Hajime.

"You let us know that young Kenshin was your previous host, and that he would likely awaken your dormant powers within him," Hajime said as he stood up straight. "But you failed to mention that he had a sister."

Tabuu could only stare at the man in silence before speaking. "…His sister is alive?"

"She is and she is the second Kamen Rider to appear," Hajime explained. "Kamen Rider Echo, it appears as though she uses Echo Fighters to transform."

"Hmm, how peculiar as I did not gift her with any power…" Tabuu mused, wondering if there was something else to Junmei that he had missed.

"But you confirm it then yes, Kenshin has a sister named Junmei?" Hajime asked as he stared straight at Tabuu.

"Yes, Kenshin and Junmei Yukimura, they were my original choices for a host." Tabuu explained as he recalled a few memories. "However they were hesitant to accept my offer. The girl had offered herself only for young Kenshin to get in the way. After that however despite taking over his body, he still had some control and was able to access my powers. Thus he sent her away to protect her… I had assumed she had gone back to Earth and that he had simply hidden her away from me…"

"But instead she was sent to the World of Smash," Hajime replied.

"Yes… due to her absence I could not use her as a backup when I was defeated," Tabuu explained. "I had to regain my power normally before calling on you all to inherit my power further."

"And I am honored that you have chosen us," Hajime replied. "That is all I need to know, thank you for your time."

"Just what will you do with this information?" Tabuu asked.

"I plan on cashing in our bank," Hajime explained, choosing to take credit for the idea himself. He turned and began to walk away. "The kid himself has at least nine tokens on him. Six of which are of the Original 12, it would be too dangerous to keep him growing further. He's already so powerful."

"Very well then," Tabuu replied but said nothing more, fading back into the void that was Subspace.

"Kamen Rider Smash… you're time is at an end," Hajime gave a wicked grin as he opened up a Subspace Portal before heading through it. He needed time to prepare so he hoped the revelation for Kenshin was enough to keep him inactive for at least a day.


Exceeding Hajime's predictions, Kenshin had been resting for the rest of the day after the fight. But even after fully resting he had refused to come out of his room aside from getting food to eat in the base. Any kind of attempt at conversation or banter was shot down when Kenshin gave no response. A day had passed since the incident and there seemed to be no sign of progress on the second day.

Samus gave a sigh as she stood outside of Kenshin's room tapping her foot, "Kenshin, I won't force you to work but at least go outside."

"Any luck?" Fox asked as he walked over.

"No luck," Samus sighed as she went to lean against the wall. "He's not responding to anything."

"Maybe it just needs to pass?" Fox asked. "Let's leave him alone for a bit longer, see if he decides to open up after a while."

"Fine…" Samus sighed as she took off, planning on heading for the training room to get some practice in. The stress of dealing with traitors alongside attempting to improve Kenshin's mental state was getting to her.

Fox looked down the opposite end of the hall after she had left, "She's gone."

"Good," Cloud said as he walked over before leaning against Kenshin's door and sitting down. "Kenshin, it's me Cloud. I was wondering if we could continue our conversation from a while back."

Despite this there was no response from the door; Fox gave a sigh before giving a wave to Cloud and heading off. However Cloud wasn't one to give up to easily and he had no urgent business so he just kept sitting against Kenshin's door.

"I'm the only one here now by the way," Cloud replied. "Just start talking whenever you feel like it."

It seemed as though minutes upon minutes had passed before finally some rustling was heard. After a bit longer Cloud was able to feel the door budge slightly as Kenshin seemed to lean on it from the other side.

"What am I supposed to do?" Kenshin asked as he leaned his head back against the door. "Even after all that pain… I still barely remember her. It all feels so familiar and I feel like I can trust what she says. But just the way she looked after I barely recalled her…"

"She did seem pretty upset," Cloud admitted.

"So I did screw up…" Kenshin whined out as he held his head.

"You're not the one in charge of getting your memories back, but it looked like she helped jog some of it," Cloud mentioned. "You shouldn't feel bad, but you shouldn't just shut yourself off either. Is her reaction the real reason you're doing this?"

"I just don't want to go out and hurt her again by not remembering her," Kenshin admitted with a sigh. "I've been thinking hard, so hard, I want to remember! I want to remember so I don't have to see her in pain like that again!"

"Sounds like you really care for her despite just meeting," Cloud gave a light chuckle. "Those feelings of yours are genuine, which means you may not remember her. But that doesn't mean you don't care about her. Go off your feelings, and maybe, just maybe you'll remember in due time."

"Do you think I should go look for her?" Kenshin asked.

"Well what does your heart say?" Cloud asked.

"My heart…" Kenshin said as he put a hand to his chest and closed his eyes. "I… I want to look for her. I want to explain what's going on, so I can try and give her some kind of relief." It was then that an audible growl was heard, Kenshin giving a light chuckle. "After I get some food in my stomach…"

"Come on then, I can whip up something really quick for you," Cloud suggested as he stood up.

"Let me get presentable first, and I'll take you up on that offer," Kenshin said from the other side before going to get dressed.


Junmei gave a light groan as she picked her head up, having spent most of the rest of the day after the fight wandering around town before crashing at her hotel and staying in her room for a day straight. To her surprise, Palutena had yet to show up to her so she could only assume that the Goddess was trying to come up with an excuse.

"I need some breakfast or something," Junmei groaned out before going to take a shower and change, once she was ready she checked her money and luckily she still had enough. She then headed down to the lobby but gave an annoyed look when she saw Dark Pit waiting for her.

"Finally you come out, we thought you died," Dark Pit remarked, though he gave an annoyed look due to the stunt that she had pulled.

"I told you I'm not working for her anymore, so buzz off brat," Junmei hissed out as she walked past Dark Pit. She didn't get far though as Dark Pit had grabbed her wrist to keep her from going further. "Let go of my wrist."

"You owe use for saving your ass; do you really think you can call it quits because you want to?" Dark Pit asked.

Junmei however managed flick her arm and force Dark Pit to let go, she gave a glare. "I'm calling it quits because you lied to me, about my own family. I don't care what Palutena tries to say, if I had gone further I could have killed him."

"Why do you think she asked you to just retrieve his Tokens?" Dark Pit countered. "All you had to do was knock him out and you failed at that."

"And I'm glad I failed at that. He's no villain; his heart is in the right place. Oh by the way that part about his powers being out of control was also a damn lie," Junmei hissed out as she began to walk away. She looked down as she made her way outside and onto the streets. "He was in complete control, and there was nothing malicious about him either. Our fight was just a misunderstanding… but…" She trailed, remembering how much it hurt to see her brother in that amnesiac state. She shook her head, figuring that some food and a walk would help her get her thoughts together.


"He hasn't been out at all has he?" Hajime laughed as he walked through the back halls of a small stadium. He had searched tirelessly for Kenshin but with no luck in finding him. He then flicked the Piranha Plant Token up and down as he made his way to one of the entrances that lead to the balcony seats. Just like he had guessed there was only the floor workers making sure the arena was ready for the next tournament that would be held.

"Make sure those tiles are polished," One worker Mii called out to another.

"Yes sir," The other called out as he began rubbing each tile with a cloth to make sure they were dust free first.

"You will do," Hajime said as he gripped the Piranha Plant Token, corrupting it before launching out of the balcony section. With one leap he had managed to land on the tournament stage, slowly standing as both Mii's stared at him.

"Hey you're not supposed to be here!" The lead worker called out before gasping out, Hajime had immediately gone after him and inserted the corrupted Smash Token into his body. "What did you…?" He slowed down before yelling out.

"Let's make this more interesting!" Hajime called out as he gathered the corruptive aura in his hand before sending a blast at the Mii mid-transformation.

The Mii yelled out further as a pillar of darkness shot out of his body, slowly but surely vines wrapped in darkness began to sprout out of the pillar as the Mii's body shape began to grow larger and larger.

"Hey what did you do to him?!" The other worker called out as he rushed Hajime, only to cough out. The Subspace General had slammed his foot into the Mii. The worker gasped out as he was sent backwards.

"I don't need you to question what I'm doing I just want this to be known by the authorities… I want him to arrive." Hajime called out. "Tell them I want Kamen Rider Smash to show up."

"Kamen Rider…?" The worker coughed out as he slowly got up.

"Yes, I'll spare you, just let the city know that Kamen Rider Smash is needed here at this stadium," Hajime replied in a more sinister tone. "For today will be the day when he falls… my precious Vicious Flora will make sure of it."


"There, feeling better?" Cloud asked as he was eating a quick but filling brunch with Kenshin, having made bacon and sausage omelets for the two of them.

"I'm surprised, I never knew you cooked," Kenshin mentioned as he dug into his omelet.

"I only do it on occasion," Cloud admitted as he took a bite. "I figured it'd be better for you than cereal or ramen."

"You're right," Kenshin agreed quickly as he continued to scarf down the omelet clearly hungry from only surviving on instant food or snacks the past day. "I love myself some easy stuff but actual food always beats it out."

"You really need to learn how to cook," Cloud mentioned. "Maybe I can give some pointers."

"Honestly I feel like Junmei is a better cook than me," Kenshin said a bit absentmindedly before catching what he said. "Wait…"

"That sounded pretty natural," Cloud remarked. "Sounds like you were reminiscing a bit."

"Guess I was," Kenshin gave a bit of a chuckle as he realized that he said those words without much thought. "Granted I'm not sure she is but you've seen me cook right?"

"You nearly burned down the kitchen when you tried to make dinner to celebrate yourself joining CORE," Cloud pointed out causing Kenshin to slump slightly.

"Yeah she's definitely leagues better than me," Kenshin realized, remembering how Samus would only let him cook toast at most afterwards, since that didn't require much effort in the slightest. A few minutes had passed after that and he had managed to finish up the omelet. "Okay yeah, I am stuffed!" He let out a sigh of satisfaction.

"Glad to see my cooking managed to get a good reaction," Cloud smiled before he finished up as well. He then took both plates before standing and heading to the sink to wash them. "So what's your next move?"

"Easy, figure out where the heck Junmei is," Kenshin replied as he stood. "If she's in the city she had to be staying somewhere right?"

"I doubt she's at any of our bases now that all the traitors were dealt with, even if Palutena was using some of our resources." Cloud mentioned. "I can only bet that Palutena gave Junmei enough money to stay at a hotel."

"Hotels, got it, just check around those and see if she's there," Kenshin said, figuring out his plan of attack already before pausing a bit. "Hey, so the whole Palutena situation, why pit my own sister against me? Why target me to begin with?"

"Honestly that's something I don't get either," Cloud admitted. "Something about this whole situation seems off."

"It's because she doesn't trust you," Samus said as she walked in causing Kenshin to jump a bit. "Please don't run to your room…" She sighed as she quickly blocked the door out of the kitchen with her body.

"No, I'm done hiding…" Kenshin trailed as he relaxed. "But why doesn't Palutena trust me? Haven't I done enough good to prove I'm alright? How does anything I've done warrant tricking my own sister into trying to attack and take away my Tokens?"

"I think she's desperate… why I'm not sure," Samus admitted. "Your best bet though is to find your sister, but I can't let you leave for that. We've got an issue that's just come up."

"Let me guess, we've got a Malice situation on our hands don't we?" Kenshin asked before suddenly perking up. "Wait, we've got a Malice attack don't we?!"

"You seem really excited for some reason…" Samus trailed, a bit surprised by Kenshin's sudden outburst.

"Of course I am! If this Malice is causing enough a fuss and Junmei is in the area then I can find her easily!" Kenshin explained as he rushed out. "I'm grabbing my equipment and heading for the hanger bay!"

"Kenshin wait I haven't even explained the mission yet!" Samus called out as she ran after him.

"What a kid," Cloud gave a laugh. "Here's hoping he finds what he's looking for. It's been a while since I've seen him this fired up."


"Ah that was good… that Chef Kawasaki really makes some good chili-mac," Junmei admitted with a small smile as she stretched, exiting the diner that Kawasaki worked at. "Now then…" She trailed as she looked around. "Good, no angel brat in sight… time to figure out what the hell is going on." She said as she chose to head for the nearest park. Once there she found a bench and slumped against it. "What to do…" She trailed as she covered her face with both her hands.

"Well now this is a surprise," A familiar voice called out causing Junmei to immediately turn her head towards it. To her surprise it was none other than Terry Bogard. "I knew you weren't going to stay in Altea but I didn't think you'd show up here so soon."

"I've been in town for a while," Junmei gave a smile glad to see a familiar face at a time like this. "We probably haven't seen each other since Smash City is so huge."

"So true, it's crazy how much land this city covers," Terry said as he walked over. "So what's got you down?"

"Huh, what do you mean?" Junmei asked.

"I saw the way you were right before I called out to you, you seem to be stumped on something," Terry mentioned.

"I'm that obvious with my mood, huh?" Junmei asked.

"Maybe, I just feel I'm a good judge of how someone is feeling at the moment," Terry flashed a grin. "So what's the matter, the hero business wearing at you again?"

"Ah, no it's not that but…" Junmei trailed, she wondered if she should even dump all of her personal emotions on Terry. But he seemed willing to listen and he did help and listen to her before. "It's about my brother."

"No luck on finding anything on him, huh?" Terry asked as he gestured to ask for a seat.

"No it just got a lot more complicated," Junmei admitted as she moved over so Terry could sit down. "I finally found him, but to my surprise he's actually the hero that's been running around Smash City. Kamen Rider Smash."

"Whoa so your brother is that other hero I've been hearing about," Terry said as he clasped his hands together. He then remembered that Junmei was alone and slightly distressed. "But wait, okay clearly something is wrong, wouldn't you be with him catching up?"

"Well that's the complicated part, when I found him he looked younger than I am. But he definitely is my brother, I wouldn't forget that face anywhere. I'm not sure how he got so young though," Junmei said as she tried to figure out a reason before shaking her head. "Even then, I think he has amnesia."

"Ah that explains what's got you so down," Terry realized. "You finally find him after all this time and he can't remember you."

"I think he does, just barely," Junmei admitted as she gripped her hands a bit. "The issue though is I think my presence was causing really bad headaches. So I left before they could get any worse. I can only assume whatever the case is with his amnesia; he's still recovering from it. So I decided to give him some peace, I don't want to see him in pain because of me."

"That's a good idea, it's not a good thing to try and force those memories to the surface if their buried like that," Terry said as he stood up, doing a few stretches. "That being said you shouldn't give up. You've come this far haven't you?"

"So what do you think I should do? Find him?" Junmei asked as she looked over.

"Exactly, find him and catch up if his head's not hurting anymore," Terry said. "Don't give up."

"Sounds good to me, you're really good at giving advice you know that?" Junmei gave a chuckle as she stood up.

"A lot of people honestly say that," Terry shrugged. "They say I'd make a great father one of these days given how good I am with all the younger fighters."

"You honestly would," Junmei let out a small smile before perking up at the sounds of screams. "Huh?"

"Someone help!" A Mii yelled out as he ran over to them. "The nearby stadium's been overtaken by a plant monster!"

"Plant monster?" Terry asked.

"Crap, it has to be a Malice," Junmei hissed out before taking out her Driver and readying it. "Sorry to bail so soon Terry but I'm needed." She said as she ran off without another word. She figured that she'd be able to get a read on where the stadium was by the fleeing Mii's. Not to mention that if a Malice was attacking then there was a high chance Kenshin would be there. "It's time to make up for lost time."


It wasn't long before Kenshin arrived at the stadium on the Machine Islander, already transformed into Lylat Outlaw. "Alright, this… this is bigger than usual." He said as he noticed that thorn filled vines that were slowly creeping out of the stadium. "Here's hoping she shows up…" He dismounted the motorcycle before running for the entrance.

"I'm detecting a very large corruption in the stadium, be careful since you can see what exactly is going on," Samus called on the other line, choosing to be Kenshin's navigator for the mission.

The vines had seemingly detected his presence and began inching their way towards him. Kenshin responded by drawing out Lupo and Volpe, shooting any vine that got near him. He quickly shot at the glass of one of the windows, creating holes and cracking it before smashing through it. Once he was in he saw the entire building was infested with various vines crawling along the walls and ceiling.

"Crap just what kind of Malice is this?" Kenshin questioned as he began shooting any vines that crept towards him. He gave a yelp as one vine grabbed onto and tugged his ankle, going to quickly shoot it off. He rushed through and made it to a spectator entrance. Shooting through more enemy vines he made it to one of the lower rows of seats as he stopped in surprise.

The Malice in question was a large monstrous triple headed Piranha Plant, its body rooted into the center stage with vines shooting out from the edges near the stands. This was the Vicious Flora that Hajime was betting on defeating Kenshin with.

"That is not a normal Malice, try to be careful about this," Samus warned.

"Right, need to be quick about this," Kenshin realized, the more ground it covered the worse it was going to get.

He jumped down onto the main floor of the arena and began running towards the Malice. Thorn filled vines slammed towards him and forced him back. He then jumped out of the way once the ground began to rumble, vines erupting to try and ensnare him.

"This isn't good I need more of me," Kenshin said as he realized Junmei wasn't around, while this put a damper on his plans he figured that she was likely on her way. He took out Pikachu and Greninja's Token's slotting both in. "I'll finish this in a flash!"

[KAMEN RIDER SMASH: THUNDER SHINOBI!]

In a burst of sparks Kenshin transformed into his ninja based form, performing a hand sign before disappearing into sparks right as the vines tried slamming into him. He appeared above the Malice and multiplied into a dozen clones. All of them then pressed down on their Driver, activating a dozen finishers at once.

[FOR GLORY! THUNDER SHINOBI K.O.!]

"Let's go!" Kenshin called out as vines began rushing towards him and his clones. Suddenly half of the clones turned into bolts of thunder that split apart before slamming against the vines to deflect them. The remaining five clones went to slam their katanas into the Vicious Flora's heads. Kenshin gave a yell as he slammed his foot against the lead head of the Malice.

Kenshin expected an ensuing explosion but to his surprise it simply jerked its heads all around, throwing him and his clones off. He was ready to get up and recover only to yell out as he was suddenly grabbed by his stomach by one of the vines, sparks flying as the thorns dug into his armor.

"Kenshin don't try to rush this!" Samus called out from the other line. "Think smart, numbers aren't the only way to win."

"Okay, numbers aren't going to win this? Come on there has to… wait that's it!" He called out as he barely just drew out Mario and Luigi's Tokens before slotting them in.

[KAMEN RIDER SMASH: PLATFORM BLAZER!]

Kenshin yelled out as he slammed Mario's button and Luigi's button one after each other, not going for his finisher but charging up and releasing their powers individually one after another. Doing this allowed his body to suddenly combust into red and green flames.

The vine holding him was quickly burned away as he was dropped to the ground. Despite this he used the Mario Brothers agility to land before jumping high up into the air. He then released the fire from his body, creating a wave of heat and flames causing the plant Malice to howl out in pain. The air began to grow drier in the stadium as the fires started to burn more easily.

Kenshin landed in front of the beast again, a few vines lashing out like whips as a result of his positioning. The Rider lit his hands and feet on fire, smacking, punching and kicking the vines away, causing them to burn up in the process.

"It's over!" Kenshin slammed both of his hands on both buttons before taking out the Smash Knuckle and slotting Mario's Token into it.

[FOR GLORY!]

[MARIO! RIDER SMASH!]

Kenshin's body erupted into a flurry of red and green flames as the Smash Knuckle was consumed by red flames. Kenshin then crouched forward before launching himself towards the Piranha Plant heads. The lead head perked up before launching out to swallow Kenshin. Surprisingly it managed to slam its mouth around Kenshin just as he closed in. Its face however suddenly began to brighten up as it grew uncomfortable. The head soon looked up before spewing out a tornado of flames as fire began bursting from inside of its body.

[PLATFORM BLAZER K.O.!]

Kenshin jumped out of the burning Malice, landing on one knee as he panted heavily. Using two fairly extensive finishers shortly after each other had worn him out. But luckily he was able to keep his transformation as he shakily stood up.

"That's all she wrote," Kenshin said as he held his hand out, the Malice's body burning and crumbling away as the Piranha Plant Smash Token moved towards him.

"I think not," Hajime suddenly stepped in the way and grabbed the Token before flicking it up and catching it. He then turned towards Kenshin. "Thanks for accepting my invitation."

"Hey wait a second." Kenshin noticed that Hajime matched the description that Cloud and the Mii's had given. "You're the bandaged man!"

"Please call me Hajime, after all I know who you are, Kenshin Yukimura." Hajime said, choosing to use Kenshin's full name since he knew it now.

"Wait how do-?" Kenshin cut himself off as he hissed in pain, holding his head slightly. The use of the last name Junmei had used had managed to affect him. "How do you know my name?"

"I've been around," Hajime admitted before pocketing the Smash Token he reclaimed. "That being said Kenshin, Kamen Rider Smash… I'll be taking your Smash Tokens from you today; your purpose has finally ended."

"Like hell you will," Kenshin called out as he got in a fighting stance. "I take you out then we can finally figure out what's going on."

"I'd like to see you try," Hajime held up a hand as the faint outline of stylized butterfly wings appeared behind him briefly.

"Kenshin wait!" Samus called from the other line, recognizing the wings design despite their brief appearance. "Wait for reinforcements! Do not engage! I repeat do not engage!"

"Sorry Samus but I don't think he's going to let me stand here," Kenshin mentioned as he raised his arms. "Let's rock."

"Today is the day that Kamen Rider Smash is destroyed." Hajime gave a laugh.


"Not good, not good!" Samus slammed her hand onto the keyboard, realizing that Kenshin was going to ignore her order. She then typing in a new set of codes before taking hold of the microphone, an alarm sounding as the facilities lights turned from white to flashing red.

"This is a Red Alert, I repeat Red Alert, I need every available agent to make their way to the hanger and group up. I will meet you all there and give you the coordinates. We have an Origin Level threat on our hands. I repeat we have an Origin Level threat on our hands! All available agents make your way to the hanger and group up."

"Is it really that bad?" Cloud asked as he was nearby the computer room when the alarm sounded.

"Kenshin's facing that bandaged man from earlier, but I saw something behind that man," Samus explained as she went to meet everyone at the hanger. "I saw butterfly wings."

"Butterfly wings?" Cloud asked as he followed after Samus. "Why does that constitute a Red Alert? Also why is it an Origin Level threat?"

"That's right you weren't around during the Subspace Emissary and he never did use his normal powers after becoming Origin…" Samus muttered as she shook her head. "Tabuu, Smash Origin, before his monstrous transformation his signature and most deadliest attack involved butterfly wings. We've got someone with Tabuu's power confronting Kenshin at this very second; he's going to need all the help he can get."

"Sounds good to me, let's hurry," Cloud said as he began to jog ahead, Samus picking up her pace to try and follow him.


Junmei continued to run towards the stadium before suddenly stopping in her tracks. To her surprise her path through the alleyway was blocked by a scientist Mii wearing a low grade green mecha suit.

"Hey you should probably be running, I heard whatever is at that stadium is supposed to be dangerous," Junmei called out.

"Do you not know who I am child?!" The scientist questioned with a glare.

"Someone who thinks they can bite off more than they can chew?" Junmei asked as she did not seem to recognize the Mii in the slightest. "Listen, you aren't going to win against whatever is at that stadium."

"I'm not here for that I'm here to get back our precious equipment!" The scientist called out as he got in a fighting stance. "I don't care if Palutena wants us to not bother you! Dark Pit told me you have no intention of working for her anymore, so I ask that you return the equipment as it does not belong to you!"

"I'm sorry, but this equipment is very much mine and I need it right now to help my brother," Junmei gave a bow. "Besides, given his was the first, this technically doesn't belong to you since I'm sure whoever made his didn't have a second one permitted."

"It doesn't matter who designed it originally we created your Token Driver thus we claim ownership! I shall not allow you to mistreat our hard work!" The scientist called out as he rushed for Junmei.

"Henshin!" Junmei called out as she slotted Marth and Lucina's Tokens in before pressing down on both buttons.

[KAMEN RIDER ECHO: LODESTAR PRINCESS!]

Junmei quickly raised her sword and blocked against the mechanized punch, managing to hold it at bay. She quickly moved back, spinning out of the way of another punch as she gathered energy in her swords blade. She then swung twice, creating horizontal and vertical energy slices that sped towards the Mii.

"Whoa!" The Scientist yelled out as he managed to duck underneath the horizontal slice only to get hit by the vertical slice, an explosion of energy occurring. The scientist soon came out of the smoke coughing as his mecha suit sparked.

"Listen, no offense but I'm going to win this," Junmei mentioned. "So get out of the way so I can help my brother!"

"If you remember what happened with your brother then surely you know he's too dangerous to walk around," The scientist explained. "He needs to be studied, made sure he's alright to be walking these streets. Why do you think Palutena gathered us? We're here to make sure he doesn't get out of control."

"And he's been doing fine till now," Junmei said sternly as she raised her sword. "If anything happens, I'll help him. I'm not going to abandon him just because he was possessed and now has powers as a result."

"How touching to help someone who doesn't even remembers you," The scientist hissed out.

"Tch, okay, I was going to leave you alone but you just had to push those buttons," Junmei gave a low growl as she initiated her finisher.

[FOR GLORY!]

Junmei held her sword high into the air before moving it counter clockwise, reaching her feet before suddenly pointing it forward and pulling it back. She held it with both hands as she kicked forward, sliding as she gave a yell and slashed past the scientist.

[LODESTAR PRINCESS K.O.!]

"You all are really getting on my nerves, and are doing a wonderful job of getting me to never trust Palutena's assistants ever again," Junmei called out, she figured that Palutena couldn't be this dense, but she had the worst picks when it came to agents on her side.

"Truly… our genius is beyond limits!" The Mii called out as his armor sparked and broke apart, falling to the ground as he landed flat on his face.

"Like hell it is," Junmei mentioned, still figuring that the Mii Scientist had likely stolen the schematics from the ones used to make Kenshin's armor. She then rushed off, still in her armor as she hoped she wasn't too late getting to the stadium.


Hajime let out a laugh as he suddenly shot his arms forward, the bandages on his arms shooting out and wrapping around Kenshin in an instant. "Finally I can go all out against you, no more watching. No more planning. It ends today Rider!"

"You know what they say," Kenshin gave a light grunt as he tried to keep his body parts from being pulled in every which was. "You need to be careful in the kitchen, sometimes the heats too high!" He called out as he lit his body on fire, burning away the bandages and freeing himself.

"Not bad, however… despite you accessing the power of the Smash Tokens, you have yet to access your true power," Hajime said as his eyes glowed a bright blue. He held out his hand, suddenly a rain of energy bullets began launching forward.

Kenshin yelped as he braced against the energy bullets, dozens of sparks forming along his armor as he was forced back by the attacks. He managed to get back in a fighting stance though he was shaken up by what had just happened. "What was that?"

"My true power… the power of my master," Hajime gave a chuckle before holding his fingers close together, soon creating dual energy blades that formed from his hands. "Let's go." He rushed forward slashing at Kenshin.

Kenshin blocked one blade with his Smash Knuckle but hissed out when another was dug into his shoulder. The Rider grabbed the arm digging into his shoulder but to his surprise Hajime's strength was off the charts.

"You can't beat me you half-baked excuse for a vessel!" Hajime called out as he forced his arm away before kicking Kenshin back. He then held out his hands as the energy blades morphed into energy claws. He rushed forward and grabbed the Smash Knuckle, sparks flying from the weapon before he forced it out of Kenshin's hand and threw it away.

"Take this!" Kenshin had used Hajime throwing the weapon away to rush in, performing a shoulder tackle against the man and forcing him back. Kenshin then lit both of his fists on fire before punching forward.

Hajime laughed out as he grabbed the fists with both of his clawed hands. "Did you really think you could defeat me?! Maybe you would have given me a better fight had you not wasted most of your energy already!" With a yell he closed his grip on Kenshin's fists, sparks flying as the Rider cried out. "That's right, scream for me you stupid piggy bank!"

"Will you shut up already?" Kenshin called out as he suddenly jumped in place, using Hajime's iron grip against him. He then lit both his feet on fire before slamming them into Hajime's chest. Hajime gasped out but kept his grip allowing Kenshin to keep pressing his boots against the general's chest.

"Okay not bad!" Hajime admitted as he quickly let go and pulled back, forcing the Rider to drop to the ground. He dusted off his chest with a wince. "Yeah, I can see why they want you gone already." He said before raising his hand, suddenly a tri-blade energy shuriken began forming above his hand. Hajime let it grow in size before slamming it into the ground, it tearing through the ground as it was launched towards Kenshin.

Kenshin gave a groan as he stood up before seeing the attack. He perked up before reeling his right arm back, charging Mario's powers as he let loose a fiery punch. He yelled out as he managed to clash against the shuriken, trying to get it to where he could toss it away. To his horror his fist suddenly exploded in pain, just a few seconds of contact was enough for the shuriken to take a toll on his hand due to it not recovering from the grab earlier. Soon enough his arm faltered as the shuriken slammed into his body, creating a large explosion in the process.

The teen yelled out as he was thrown out of the explosion, rolling along the floor as his Smash Tokens were scattered as he rolled. The only one that had managed to stay in his pocket was Link.

"You only have seven, that's a disappointment. I figured you kept a lot of the ones you won on hand," Hajime said as he walked over to the Tokens and began picking them up.

"Give them back…" Kenshin coughed out weakly as he tried to stand but couldn't.

"Eight of them are plenty," A voice spoke from right behind Hajime.

"Huh?" Hajime turned only to get punched in the stomach. He coughed out when he saw Meijin as the culprit. "Why?"

"You're not needed anymore, at least your mind anyway," Meijin said as he snatched the Tokens out of Hajime's hand before corrupting them all. He then slammed his hand into Hajime, depositing all the Tokens inside of him. "Eight Corrupted Smash Tokens alongside Lord Tabuu's power. Let's see what happens."

"How dare you-!" Hajime was ready to strike at Meijin only to suddenly start coughing violently; he suddenly fell on his hands and knees as he began vomiting silver ooze. The silver ooze began to pour out of his mouth before it suddenly began wrapping around his body. Hajime reached out towards Meijin only to suddenly fall on his stomach. The ooze soon formed completely around him before enlarging, slowly but surely taking a more solidified shape. Suddenly a silver muscular humanoid figure was in Hajime's place.

It began to stand up as the Smash logo was engraved into its blank face, the logo acting as facial features of sorts. The logo itself glowed in a rainbow of colors as the metal humanoid began to walk away from Meijin and Kenshin.

"You've certainly created quite the Malice," Sayomi mused as she walked over to Meijin.

"This isn't a mere Malice," Meijin gave a chuckle. "This is The Vile Smash Omega."

"Such a fancy title," Sayomi said as she watched the creature continue forward. "Pretty simple minded though."

Omega began to approach a stadium wall before suddenly its face began glowing brightly as energy began to build up. Soon enough it launched a wide rainbow beam of energy out of its face. It let out a few unintelligible noises as the beam tore through the wall, creating a wide hallway sized hole that lead outside.

Kenshin coughed out as he tried to stand, taking out Link's Token as he managed to get into a sitting position. "Damn it…" He hissed as he realized he was still near two enemies. To his surprise the Token began shining a bright gold.

"Ah I can feel it from here," Meijin said as he turned towards Kenshin. "You have Links Token still don't you?"

"Looks like you have a shot after all, to stop Hajime," Sayomi mentioned as she turned towards the defeated Rider.

"What are you talking about? Why do you want me to stop him after what you did?" Kenshin asked. "Stop him yourself!"

"Oh please, we just wanted to destroy him, and we did just that," Hajime explained as he began to walk over to Kenshin. "Omega is only a mindless beast, the result of killing him by overloading his body with corrupted Smash Tokens. I could care less about a mindless beast, and… you are the hero." He then took out Ganondorf's Token which shined a bright purple.

"That's…" Kenshin's eyes widened as he realized both Tokens were now resonating with each other, and that could mean only one thing.

"In order to transform you need two Tokens right?" Meijin asked as he kept Ganondorf's Token out. "Well in that case…"

To Be Continued…


Samus: Only two things come from revenge and anger, destruction and tears. If you walk that path, all that remains in the end is regret and despair.

[Next Time – A Rising Calamity]


Kenshin – Link

Junmei – Marth/Lucina/Ryu/Ken/Terry/Lucario/Samus/Dark Samus

CORE – Incineroar

Meijin –Donkey Kong/Bowser/Ganondorf

Sayomi – Meta Knight

Hajime [Vile Smash Omega] – Piranha Plant/Mario/Luigi/Yoshi/Fox/Wolf/Pikachu/Greninja