(A/N: Whew, it's been a while, hasn't it? School sucks…but anyway, how will Mace and Spiderman fare against Crazy Clyne and the traitor Thyra? And what will happen to poor Mario and Peach? And by the way, Super Hurricane, Crazy Jigglypuff's powers are different than Jigglypuff's, as is the case with the rest of the crazy doubles. That's why the former is able to shoot beams of music.)

Chapter 8: Final Battles

Mace had no trouble blocking Thyra's laser darts with his light saber. However, she was too fast for him to actually hit, and far too dangerous for him to ignore. Their stalemate was tempered by Spiderman's complete inability to affect Crazy Clyne in any way. The devious doppelganger used all of his powers to ensure that nothing Spiderman could do would harm him. If Spiderman fired webbing, Crazy Clyne easily melted it with purple flames. If Spiderman flipped around to attack physically, Crazy Clyne would simply phase out of existence and reappear somewhere else. If not for Spiderman's spider sense, the battle would be long over.

"Spiderman, remember our fight!" Mace suggested, blocking a volley of darts.

Confused for a moment, Spiderman was struck by Crazy Clyne's staff, and stumbled backward.

Mario leapt into the air and meteor punched his double, enduring C. Peach's own meteor attack. As both Marios fell to the ground, the false Peach floated blissfully and fired a purple vegetable-shaped blast at Mario. Impacting squarely, Mario flew several feet away and landed near the gravely injured Peach. Her leg was completely black, and Mario shuddered to imagine what it would become next. He had to get her out of there, but how?

C. Peach's frying pan hit the distracted Mario squarely, and C. Mario's fiery smash added to Mario's pain. Mario's vision faded to black as he heard Peach whimper. His thought, Is she waking up?, was the last thing to go through his head before he hit the ground.

Link had just bombed his counterpart into inexistence, and was preparing to help his younger self, when the C. Ice Climbers hammered each elf. The Ice Climbers disciplined their doubles with ice blasts, and then a powerful double smash. C. Y. Link tossed a boomerang, and Link stepped up to block it with his shield. Popo grabbed the doppelganger, and Nana swung her hammer powerfully, causing the false Link to disappear. The C. Ice Climbers dissolved after enduring several of Link's slashing smashes.

Samus, who had just fired an energy ball to defeat her opponent, called, "Everyone who's done here, go help Spiderman and Mace!"

Several smashers started running across the room, but a huge wall fell from the ceiling, blocking the door. The smashers eagerly began to try to break it.

Spiderman recovered quickly, and more carefully pondered Mace's advice. Finally, he realized the Jedi's suggestion. Grinning, he nodded thanks to Windu, and backflipped over Crazy Clyne's head.

"Foolish bug! You're wasting my time!"

Spiderman pointed his finger angrily. "I'm an arachnid," he replied, and kicked powerfully.

Crazy Clyne had been too busy taunting, and didn't react quickly enough. The red webbed boot impacted C. Clyne's hand, and he dropped his staff. Spiderman fired a webline and gained possession of the weapon.

Hands no longer glowing, Crazy Clyne glared. "Give that back, you coward!"

With a laugh, Spiderman replied, "My pleasure."

Just as he had done during his fight with Mace, he used a webline to fire the staff back to Crazy Clyne. The adhesive web stuck to C. Clyne's hands, and before he could react, Spiderman stepped back with one foot, pivoted, and started spinning. Mace jumped and Crazy Clyne's body struck Thyra, who was then an easy target for the handle of Mace's light saber. Spiderman nodded approvingly to the Jedi's action.

"You'll…pay…for…this!" Crazy Clyne shouted, sounding very disoriented. Spiderman laughed and let go of the web. The false Clyne flew into a wall and fell unconscious.

"Nice work, Spidey," Mace grinned.

"Thanks for the tip," the hero replied. "Hey, we should find Clyne."

"Yeah, I'll go-"

"Not…so fast," Crazy Clyne's weak voice arose from under the wall. "If I…can't have him…no one will."

"What-" Spiderman began to ask, when red lights began flashing ominously.

"Self destruct in thirty seconds. Twenty-nine."

Spiderman and Mace Windu looked at each other. Shaking their heads, they raced for the door, only to find a large wall blocking the way out. Mace activated his light saber.

"Twenty."

Samus gave up her attempts to destroy the wall as the electronic voice began its countdown. "Let's go," she suggested.

"What about Spidey and Mace?" Falcon asked.

Samus shook her head. "They'll have to find their way out."

Suddenly, a glowing red dot appeared on the wall. Soon, a glowing purple dot emerged, and began moving up and down.

"Whoa," Yoshi gasped, beholding the power of the light saber.

"Ten. Nine. Eight."

Samus waved the smashers away, staying to help Mace and Spiderman if necessary.

"Six. Five."

Finally, the hole was large enough, and Mace and Spiderman jumped through and started running as fast as they could. Samus was right behind them.

The smashers saw Samus, Mace and Spiderman run out of the door just as the building exploded. Flying bits of debris narrowly missed the nimble heroes, while Samus disregarded them due to her armor.

"That was close," Samus remarked nonchalantly, a bit out of breath.

"Wait…where's Clyne?" Ness asked.

Mace shook his head. "After we defeated Crazy Clyne, we had no time to look…"

After a long, sad pause, Y. Link spoke up. "Well, at least Crazy Clyne's taken care of."

"Yeah," Falco agreed, "But now we have to get out of here and find Emerald and Aelali!"

"Wait a minute," DK gasped, looking around.

"What's wrong, DK?" Fox asked.

"Mario and Peach," the ape answered, looking around. "They're gone!"

(A/N: Well, this is quite a cliffhanger, isn't it? Now the smashers have to find Aelali and Mario and Peach. And just how will they get from dimension to dimension?

OK, well, I'm a little torn here, so I'll ask my faithful readers and reviewers. Should I continue this fic, or start a new one where this left off? Let me know your idea in a review, and don't forget to actually review the fic. Thanks!)