"Sorry we're late!"

The pair of short parka-clad siblings burst into the conference room just as Link left.

"Nana and Popo?" Kirby mused, "Haven't seen you since 1985!"

The two Ice Climbers took a rest to catch their breath, and then said in unison, "Miyamato just debriefed us- he wants us to help out with the rifts too!"

Samus shrugged. "Sure," she said, "The more the merrier…"

"Hey, where's Link?" Both twins asked simultaneously.

"Gone to fight in a rift," Bowser grumbled.

"If you would all excuse me," Said Zelda as she rose from the table, "I've got a rift to seal."

-

Yoshi lay awake in his bed. Yoshi looked at the small digital alarm clock at his bedside counter. "Three o'clock?" Yoshi groaned to himself. "Dammit Yoshi, sleep!" he commanded himself. Yoshi hardly felt the least bit drowsy. "Sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep!" Yoshi mentally screamed at himself. He still lay awake in bed.

Yoshi sighed, and got out of bed. Walking outside of his bedroom in Yoshi Island's Yoshi Apartments, Yoshi walked outside of the house and leaned up against the brick wall of an alleyway. It was pitch-black outside. "Good," thought Yoshi as he picked up a nearby trash can lid. Raising it above his head, Yoshi violently smashed the lid on top of his skull. Yoshi fell to the ground unconscious.

When he awoke, he found he was lying on a pink-shingled roof of some house. When he got to his feet, he gasped when he saw he was hundreds of feet above ground level, atop of a floating roof of Peach's Castle. "Uh oh," Yoshi murmured.

A sudden boom made Yoshi nearly jump out of his skin. Yoshi looked behind him. Behind him was a short tower of Peach's roof. From over the tower leapt a green-clad man, looking somewhat like Link.

"Link!" Yoshi exclaimed.

"Kill y-y-y-y!" Link babbled.

"Shit," Yoshi sighed.

Just then, another tall figure leapt from behind the tower and landed beside the Link clone, a clone of Samus Aran. "Di-ie Yoshi!" she hollered.

"Oh, boy," Yoshi muttered.

The Link clone reached behind his back, beneath his shield, and pulled out a large round bomb. Yoshi began to back away slowly as the Link and Samus advanced on him.

Suddenly, a small round red and white object dropped from the sky and plopped right in front of Yoshi. Yoshi, his quick mind acting instantly, lifted his foot and kicked the round colored ball into the air. The ball hit the Link on the nose, knocking him backwards. The Samus paused, and looked at the tiny ball. The ball suddenly split open, and from a flash of light that shot from the ball emerged a larger red-white ball. It was a Pokemon, an Electrode, and it looked like it was about to use a move that Yoshi knew all to well. Using his high-flying jumping ability, Yoshi soared over the Link and Samus clones, leaving the two to gaze at the glowing Electrode. "Whazziz?" The Samus clone pondered aloud.

The Link clone got back to his feet and looked at the Electrode with his blank eyes. The Link tapped the Electrode with his sword.

Yoshi was on the other side of the tower when he heard the earth-shattering boom blasting from the other side. "Samus was right," Yoshi quietly chuckled to himself, "Those clones are none too smart!"

Suddenly, a charred body of Samus fell down from the sky in front of him. The Samus landed with a crash onto the roof floor, and lay motionless, charred and black and smoking heavily. Yoshi ambled towards the Samus and poked her with his foot. "Yup," he concluded, "She's gone."

Suddenly, the Samus sprung back to life, and grasped Yoshi by his ankle. Before Yoshi could react, the Samus clone sped to her feet and slammed Yoshi down onto the ground. Yoshi landed with a crash and bounced along the roof. When Yoshi sprung to his feet, he saw a screaming missile speeding to his face. Yoshi flung himself to the floor and let the missile sail over his head. When Yoshi looked up again, he saw he was now at the feet of the Samus Aran clone. Winding back her foot, Samus gave Yoshi a kick to his shoulder, blowing the small dinosaur backwards. After a rough landing, Yoshi staggered to his feet to see the Samus slowly walking towards him.

Just then, Yoshi saw something small walk by his feet. Yoshi picked the small thing up and saw it was one of the small wind-up walking bombs, the Bomb-ombs. Yoshi smiled. The fuse was lit.

"Hey Samus!" Yoshi yelled at the clone, "Catch!"

With that, Yoshi hurled the small Bomb-omb at the Samus clone. With her only usable hand, Samus caught the Bomb-omb and inspected it closely.

"Man, they [I]are[/I] stupid," Yoshi sighed as he crouched to the ground and squeezed his eyes shut.

The last thing Yoshi heard before he opened his eyes again was a loud boom. When he opened them again, he found he was still lying in the alley, with a bloody wound on the top of his head dribbling blood onto the ground. It was still the dead of night, Yoshi noted as he groaned and rubbed his bleeding head.

Yoshi weakly got back to his feet and picked up the bent trash can lid he used to bash himself with. "One down, twenty-something to go," he muttered.