An SSBM Fan Fic, by Smoke_Rulz
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The smashers all appear back in the portal room. Mario seems anxious about something. Mario runs up the stairs out of the undergrounds to peer outside the castle. The city is just as he and the others left it. Mario breathes a sigh of relief. The others soon come behind him. "What's wrong, Mario?" Ness asks.
"I wasa hoping they didn't attack the Kingdom.. and they didn't." Mario replies.
"I know what you mean, Mario." Zelda says. "Let's go meet with Peach."
The group heads up to the throne room. Peach and Toad aren't there. It seems quite strange. An uneasy feeling lifts among the fighters. They decide to head out to the Kingdom outside. They scout a long street. No people are outside. Usually, the Kingdom is booming. But this time.. nothing. The uneasy feeling amongst the smashers is quite big now. The group disbands partly to investigate some buildings. Captain Falcon looks through the windows of a small shop. No lights are on, and everything is dead. Link investigates a bar. The bar, normally packed, didn't even have drinking mugs on the tables. Pikachu walks into a restaurant. What's very eerie about the restaurant.. is that nothing is on the tables. Not even tablecloths. Mario walks into the inn. It's empty of course. It looks as if it has been deserted for sometime, yet it doesn't show. Mario walks around the lobby a bit. Nothing is out of the ordinary. Ness comes into the inn. He sees Mario on the other side of the room. He walks toward Mario but then suddenly stops. The pauses, and concentrates. Mario notices the strange behavior. "What isa matter, Ness?" He asks.
"I.. I sense.. I sense some strange energy. It's somewhere in this building." Ness says.
"Are you sure?" Mario asks.
"I'm quite sure. We have to look for it.. I sense evil." Ness replies.
The two head upstairs and begin scanning several rooms. On the 4th and top floor of the inn, they find the room they're looking for. Inside it seems to be darker than anywhere else in the inn. Ness feels quite uneasy, but Mario shows no fear. They enter the room. As their eyes adjust to the darkness, they see just a normal room. Like any other. But something stands out. On the bed on the far wall, a strange symbol. Mario and Ness look at it. Mario stands confused, as he can barely make it out. It seems to be an animal within a circle. Ness seems to know exactly what it is. Mario goes to ask, but before he can speak, a large purple light appears above the symbol. Mario and Ness jump back. A bowling ball size purple orb of energy levitates above the bed. Mario and Ness decide to break for it, but large tentacle-type things shoot from the orb and stretch around the room. The door becomes blocked. Mario and Ness look around, but there is no way out. Then, the purple orb appears to be charging what seems to be a blast of some sort. Mario and Ness prepare for the hit, when suddenly the orb ceases and makes a weird sound. Mario and Ness turn to the room entrance. Link is slashing at the tentacle things blocking the doorway. Pikachu follows behind him. As the purple orb appears to weaken, Pikachu charges a thunderbolt and fires at hit, making a direct hit. Then, all the tentacles it shot out return to it, and the orb appears to expand. The four fighters blitz out of the room and just out a window out onto the street where the others are. After they land, they look up to the inn as the roof blows off, and large purple energy fires out in all directions like fireworks. A few moments later, it ceases. Suddenly, the whole Kingdom appears to change. All the buildings appear corroded and old, and the darkness from Onett blankets everything. Everyone is stunned. "NO! They got to this place!" Zelda yells.
"I thought it was magically protected after the first attack!" Yoshi ponders.
"It's Mewtwo. He broke through the barrier." Mario says.
"I guess that strange orb was the center of the illusion we've been seeing." Link says.
"Well what now?" Luigi asks.
"Corneria." Ness says.
The others look at him. "Huh?" Falcon asks.
"The symbol on the bed, Mario. It's a fox running! That's the symbol of the Great Fox!" Ness says.
"It's the only clue we have! If we're to go, we go now!" Mario says.
The group runs to the castle's portal room. Mario enters the necessary commands into the keypad. Corneria appears in the giant picture frame. The warriors waste no time in entering it.
After the journey through space ends, the group finds themselves on top of a high building in Corneria. The fighters immediately see action going on all around the skies of Corneria. Strange figures on what seem to be hover boards are terrorizing civilians on the ground and in buildings. Several of them are higher in the skies fighting with government fighter planes. "Do you think Mewtwo, Ganondorf, and the Hands are responsible for this?" Nana asks.
"Most likely." Popo says.
Mario notices one of the hover board figures spot the group. The figure then seems to motion in another direction. Mario looks in that direction, where he sees a whole group of the figures. "We've got company!" Mario yells.
The smashers see the large group of figures coming toward them. They prepare for battle. The group of hover board figures comes right in front of the smashers. The figures are.. wireframes? "The wireframes?" Yoshi says, perplexed.
"I thought we sent those wretched things to oblivia!" Captain Falcon says.
"These wireframes are different. They aren't replicas of us." Luigi asks.
The wireframes are male and female. One of the Male wireframes looks at the smashers. Then, small laser blast fires straight at Pikachu, who promptly dodges. "Yikes!" Nana says.
The other wireframes start a laser-firing spree on the smashers. Everyone is able to dodge. Link then goes over the brink. "That's it!" He yells, then leaping toward the closest wireframe.
He slashes the wireframe, knocking it off the hover board a down to the grounds below. The hover board shuts down and lands in front of Link. The other wireframes stop firing and look at Link. One wireframe fires at Link, only hitting his shield. Link looks at the wireframe and attacks, impaling it on his sword. The wireframe then fizzles out and disappears. The hover board once again shuts down. The smashers look puzzled. "Ha! These things are weak!" DK says.
The wireframes then seem to panic. They begin flying straight through the group, firing while they do it. This forces everyone to duck as the hover boards give them a close shave. Soon though, the smashers decide to fight back, as they promptly nail the wireframes off the boards as they fly by. All the wireframes are soon de-boarded, and feel the full blunt of the smashers' power. All that's left after a few moments is many shutdown hover boards. Luigi and Mario look over toward the ongoing fight far off. "I say we help." Luigi says.
"And how?" Captain Falcon asks.
"Let's use the hover boards!" Ness says.
"It's nota hard." Mario says. "See these two panels? Just by having your feet there will activate it."
"How does it steer?" Link asks.
Mario stands on one. It activates and begins hovering. Then, the hover board moves around to a few places, and then fires a laser. "Ah, I see. It's controlled by your mind!" Mario says.
"Wicked.." DK says.
The rest of the group gets on one of the boards, and they all head out toward the fight. The governmental fighters out there don't seem to fair well against the wireframes. The smashers approach, taking out a few with the laser mechanisms. Link and Captain Falcon fly through a small group of wireframes and take out a few as they pass them. Within a matter of minutes, the wireframes are vanquished. The group celebrates the victory, until a sound is heard from not far away. The warriors look over. Suddenly, coming toward them are the Hands, Mewtwo, and Ganondorf. Mewtwo and Ganondorf are inside a psychic field. Ganondorf is clapping. "Bravo, warriors! Bravo!" He says.
"The wireframes should have leveled this city by now. Worthless excuses for warriors of darkness." Mewtwo says.
"Can't do your own jobs anymore, Mewtwo?" Mario says.
"Spare me. This pitiful city's attempt to destroy such weak warriors was amusing." Mewtwo says.
"I'm tired of talk! I feel like testing our new power." Master Hand says.
The smashers stand confused. "New power?" Ness asks.
"YeS. AnD i DoN't MuCh ThInK yOu'Ll LiKe It!" Crazy Hand says.
Crazy Hand then makes a strange motion with his fingers, as a strange red energy surrounds him. Then, he fires a strange red beam from his index and middle fingers toward the smashers. A few move out the way, but his read beam hits Jigglypuff. "Jiggly!" He yells, in surprise.
The other smashers watch on as the red beam lifts Jigglypuff off the hover board, which disables and falls. Jigglypuff can't move inside Crazy Hand's tractor beam-like maneuver. Suddenly, Jigglypuff falls motionless, and then fades away, as if a ghost. Pikachu is motionless with fright. The other smashers also are frightened. "What in the hell did you do, Crazy Hand?" Link yells.
"He's gone. Sent to void between realms." Mewtwo says.
"WHAT? No.." Mario says.
"As long as our dark magic has a firm grip on Nintendo World, you'll never see him again!" Ganondorf says.
Link is furious. He grabs one of his bombs and throws it at Ganondorf, but it explodes when it hits the psychic field. "Grr.." Link growls.
"Fool!" Ganondorf yells, as he launches a dark blast at Link, hitting him on target. Link is sent back a few feet, right off his hover board. He starts falling down what seems like an infinite drop. "LINK!" Zelda yells, as Ganondorf and Mewtwo laugh maniacally.
Mario and Captain Falcon zip downward in an attempt to save their falling friend. Link looks upward, seeing the two coming. Zelda can't help but cry and pray that the two can save him. She looks back at Ganondorf and Mewtwo, and notices they are about to launch attacks at the other smashers. They fire, but their attacks freeze in midair. Zelda is stopping them. Zelda emits a large yellow orb, blocking the evil spellcaster magic of the two fiends. Back down below, Mario and Captain Falcon just about reach Link, when a red beam hits Link, freezing him. Master Hand has hit him with the same move that got Jigglypuff! "Oh crap!" Captain Falcon yells.
Master Hand laughs. "Hahaha! Soon he'll be gone for good!"
Suddenly, two rather large lasers nail Master Hand. Master Hand instantly loses concentration on his beam. Link is released, and is grabbed by Mario and Captain Falcon. "Who the..?" Master Hand yells.
The smashers look to where the lasers came from. ARWINGs! The Star Fox team has arrived. The four ARWINGs begin firing upon the Hands and Mewtwo's psychic orb. The Hands fall back. Mewtwo begins losing concentration on the psychic orb. "Get this thing out of here, Mewtwo!" Ganondorf yells.
The Hands and the orb with Mewtwo and Ganondorf retreat. "You'll pay for this, you wretched smashers!" Mewtwo yells, as the 4 of them pass through a dark portal.
The smashers cheer for their victory. The ARWINGs go turn around and head back toward the Great Fox. The smashers decide to follow.
The Smashers wait inside a large room in the middle of the Great Fox. Then, the Starfox team comes walking in. "Hello, everyone!" Peppy says.
"Great to see you guys again." Mario says.
"Good thing we blew those guys away. They could have wiped you out." Falco says.
"Well.. Zelda seemed to be doing just fine." Fox says.
Zelda acknowledges, but says nothing, as she's worn out from blocking the dark magic. "Ita helped us greatly." Mario says.
"We had no clue that those meanies came back! But we came back just in time!" Slippy says.
"We were off in another planet system when we got drift of the attacks on Mushroom Kingdom and Icicle Mountain." Fox says.
"Any while longer and Corneria would be non-existent." Falco says.
"That's what Mushroom Kingdom seems be to like right now." Mario says.
"What?" Fox says.
"They got to Mushroom Kingdom. They froze it like Onett. And I have no idea where Peach is." Mario explains.
"It's alright Mario." Zelda says. "Peach is resourceful. She's somewhere safe. I know it."
The group decides to stay a night on the Great Fox for a little while to get their strengths back. The next day, Fox approaches Mario. "Feeling strong?" He asks.
"You know it." Mario replies.
"Where do you think those bastards went this time?"
"Who's to know? But you know.. I think a clue may come.."
"What makes you say that?"
"Before we came to Corneria, we had a close call at the Kingdom. But during thata time, we saw a symbol. It was your running fox symbol. That's whata made us come here."
"Strange."
"Very."
"Well.. how about I join you on your quest? It'll be just like old times. Hell, I'll even bring Falco along."
"Really? That'd be great."
"ARWING fighting can't take away my Smash skills."
The two of them laugh as they head out to meet the group. With everyone assembled, Mario prepares his warp to the Mushroom Kingdom portal room. Peppy and Slippy bid farewell to the group as the warp appears. The smashers head into it and begin the transport back to the Mushroom Kingdom.
THE END
Next: Chapter 6 - The Grass is Greener
