Dante walked out of the door, and into the sherbert desert. It was starting to look like both sherbert, and desert again. Good. He continued his walk in the snowy half of the terrain, it was gonna be a long plane ride back New Donk to plan his next move. Suddenly, he was stopped by a "Hey!! Wait Up!!!" He saw a round, mechanical looking being float up to him, and the group from before following behind. "My friends told me what you did for them, and I wanted to thank you." Dante nodded and continued. "Wait!!" The black haired Rabbid shouted. "Dante right?" "Yeah?" "My name is Edge, and I have a feeling that we have the same goal here." "...And what makes you think that?" "The way you fought Tidas, it was like a man on a mission, and there's only one reason I know that someone would come here, to this exact fortress. You're after Cursa too aren't you!!??" "...Who the heck's Cursa?" The group was taken aback by this revelation. "You don't even know Cursa?!!" Rabbid Luigi shouted in surprised. "No idea who you're talking about..." The group gave a collective sigh. "But, Edge, was it? I can tell you this. I'm here because some crazy lady a creepily cute voice "invited" me here with a note." Edge's brows furrowed. "Midnite." Dante's brow raised. "You know her?" "Yeah. I used to work with her, until I wised up and got out of there." "Interesting... Tell me, do you know a "Mundus"?" "Not a clue." "Figures. You don't know yet." The group was confused. "Know what?" The blonde haired Rabbid inquired. "Well, I hate to tell ya this, but hell is real, and so are demons. And Mundus is their king, and the one responsible for all of my life's misery." "What???" The group exclaimed, shocked. Dante continued. "Yep. And I hunt the bastards for a living. But this? This is one extermination I'd like to do for free."


Dive into the Heart

"And the Devil Arm?" The statue asked Cursa. "Lost, my liege." "HOW?!!!?" Cursa, terrified, continued. "W-We lost it to Dante, great one." "...I see." "Then I am forgiven my lord?" "...For now. I cannot punish your insolence... Yet." Cursa sighed in relief. "But fail me when I can Cursa, and you will wish that I'd left you floating in the blackness of space." "Yes, great one." "Has Midnite sent the next "invitation"?" "She is doing it as we speak great one." "Good. There may yet be salvation for this plot."


Dante learned alot when he agreed to board the WM ARC (which luckily had 2 extra rooms, one for him, and one for Edge). The blonde phone obsessed Rabbid was Rabbid Peach, the Breakdancer was Rabbid Luigi, the Hobo was Rabbid Mario, The moody teen was Rabbid Rosalina, And the humans were Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach. He resolved to join the group on their journey, as he thought that they might lead him right to Mundus. What he didn't know was that he was in for the ride of his life. But over time, he got used to their personalities. And they got used to him. Although Beep-O did find it kind of strange that he would walk around with his coat off most of the time. Dante was currently polishing his guns, Ebony (the black and white one) and Ivory (the white and black one) as he heard a knock on the door of his room. "Come in." The door opened to reveal Beep-O. "Hello Dante! I just wanted to know how you were enjoying your stay!" "Relax. This Isn't a hotel. It ain't my shop, but I'll manage." "Well, that's nice to hear." Beep-O then noticed Dante's guns. "Oh, I see you're performing maintenance on your weapons, can be of-" "NO." Beep-O was taken aback by Dante's sudden outburst. "They were given to me by someone... important to me. "I understand... just let me know if you need anything, ok?" "I'll be sure to holler at ya." and with that, Beep-O left the room.


Edge was in her room polishing her Flying Blade, as always. She felt... angry. They hadn't found Cursa in that fortress, or any clue to were she really was. It thoroughly pissed her off. "Oopsy! I guess I gave you the wrong address." "...Enough games Midnite. Why, and How are you here?" "For the second question, refuse to tell! And the first, I simply came to rectify a mistake!" "Your existence?" "...What?" "Nevermind, just give me the note and go." "Here it is!" Midnite hands the note to Edge, and fades away. Edge sighs. "JEANIE." A blue hologram of a Octahedron with Rabbid ears flickers into existence. "Yes Edge?" JEANIE, the ship's AI responds. "I'd like to call a meeting."


Dante walked out of the bathroom, wearing only his Crimson pants and black boots (as well as a towel on his head drying his luscious silver locks, as well as his ears). He soon walked into a large room, literally everyone else was surrounding a large table with a screen on it. Soon they noticed him. "Ah, Dante, nice of you to join us!" Beep-O stated. "What'd I miss?" "New note." Edge states simply. "Her?" "Her." "What's it say?" "Coordinates again." "Nice, Where to?" JEANIE scans the note. "A place unknown in my databanks." Beep-O floats over. "Let me try." He scans the note. "Huh, not showing up in mine either. JEANIE, pull it up on the table." JEANIE does as told, and an Island made of gold, and money and other valuables pops up.

"Jesus Christ, it's-a the Island of-a fake money." Rabbid Mario says.

Record Scratch Sound Effect

The rest of the team look at him in confusion. "What? I'm not as dumb as you-a think. Legend tells of an Island just off-a the coast of-a the Mushroom Kingdom. An Island made of-a Money. But! The Island is cursed, whenever someone takes-a the money off-a the Island, it turns fake!!! And when-a you check to see if it's still real? You die!!" The faces of the group express both shock, and confusion. "How do you know that?" Dante inquires. "You have-a your-a methods, I have-a mine." "Ok... Well, I guess we're off to the Island of Fake Money. That is not something I ever thought I'd have to say." Beep-O stated.


The Island of fake money was as big and fake-ly beautiful as the group thought. The WM ARC touched onto the land, and the group walked out. "So... Any ideas where we're going from here?" Rabbid Luigi asked. "We look for a fortress. Like last time." Edge suggested. The group walked around the large Island, and it was quite Mystifying. Buildings made of "gold", streets lined with "coins", those with the weakest of wills would stop here, and be absorbed into the fake. Luckily for Team Mario ( Dante), their current opponent will have quite the weak will.


The group didn't talk the entire walk around the, seemingly uninhabited, Island, but they all knew what they were thinking. "Where the heck are the people?" Rabbid Peach suddenly said. "Don't ask something you know no one has the answer to." Dante suggested. "Jeez it was rhetorical." The group continued until the eventually wandered to the top of a hill. From there, they could see a large city, and in the middle, was a large "golden" fortress. "Well, there's our Fortress." Edge says. "Right, now let's get in there!" Beep-O says enthusiastically. "Hold it. Rabbid Mario, was there anything else about the Island?" Dante asks. "Yes I do remember-a something about an abundance of-a dangers within the "fortress of yellow"." "Then we need to be ready. For anything." The group nodded, and started their trek into the yellow city. Inside they saw a few... perplexing things to say the least. These few things being statues. Golden Statues, and no, not even fake gold. Real gold statues of Rabbids all around the city in the most random poses. "Ok, so this place definitely had people in it at one point." Rabbid Luigi concluded. "Question is, where are they?" Edge asked. "We'll most likely find our answers in the fortress." Beep-O suggested. "Right, let's-a-go." Mario led the final part of the walk.

The group finally made it to the entrance of the fortress. Edge walked up to the door and pulled out her sword, but before she could do anything, Dante thrusts his arm out in front of her, blocking her path. "What?" Dante points to the door, and to the group's shock, a blue field fades into existence, blocking it off. "I've dealt with this before. There's obviously something we gotta do here." The group look around the area, but don't find anything.

Rabbid Peach grunts in frustration. "This isn't getting us anywhere!!" She throws her Shuriken onto the floor in frustration, at which point it rolls up a wall, right beside a large lever. It then rolls back down to Rabbid Peach, who, along with the rest of the group has now seen the lever. "Do, that again. But this time, aim for the lever." Rabbid Peach rolls the shuriken up the wall, and this time, the lever it hit, and the field blocking the door shatters from existence. "Right, lets go." Dante said before kicking the door open. On the way in, he back tracks a little as he sees a double barreled Shotgun on the floor. He picks it up, and squeezes it in his hand as he grunts. The shotgun glows, and he tosses it to Edge. "Thought you could use a ranged weapon."

"...Thanks."

The group walk through the through the long hallway, and eventually reach a large, shimmering foyer. Dante points to half the group, and then points to the left half of the room, then the other half of the group for the right. The group nod, and split up, with Dante going with the right half. Dante's group stops at a large yellow door. Dante kicks it and the group continue.

The group left behind, Rabbid Mario, Rabbid Peach, Luigi, and Princess Peach, were led by Beep-O to a door on the other side. Rabbid Peach cracks her knuckles and throws her Shuriken at the door, allowing the group to continue.

Dante, Edge, Mario, Rabbid Luigi, and Rabbid Rosalina made their way through a large hallway, eventually getting into a large room filled with a horrific sight. Statues. Statues everywhere. Stone Statues of Rabbids screaming horror and agony, some stacked ontop of eachother making a tower of suffering. Edge lifted a leg, turned around and tried to walk out, with the others following behind, but a field appeared around the dooring again, sealing them in. "Ugh! What do we have to find now?" Rabbid Rosalina groaned. "No. Not this time. Blue fields are puzzles." "...Then what are red fields?" Rabbid Luigi inquired. "They mean..." Suddenly, the statues started to twist and contort until they where upright, and then, started to move towards the group. "We're being ambushed."


The left team walked up a long set of "silver" stairs up to another very large room. This one had a large cage in the middle covering a passage. As well as another set of stairs. Rabbid Peach smirked and threw her Shuriken which flew swiftly toward the cage and, like a buzzsaw, cut through each bar. The team ran up the stars and through the passage, which led to a dark corridor. Beep-O turned his screen-face's brightness up, and led the group through the hall. They managed to make it through the corridor and into a big, dark room. Suddenly, something grabbed Luigi by the neck!!! He screamed running around the room until he hit a wall. Rabbid Peach laughed at her joke, while Beep-O, Rabbid Mario, and Princess Peach glared. "What?".


Taste The Blood

Edge slashed at multiple statues with her sword, decapitating them. Dante pulled out his guns, shooting and exploding the heads of multiple statues, with Mario helping with his Blazing Blast. "Rosa, you ready?" Rabbid Rosalina nodded. Rabbid Luigi crouched down, boosting Rabbid Rosalina into the air, raising her wand above her head sending a rain of laser projectiles onto the ground, while Rabbid Luigi Placed his Jukebox onto the ground, turning it on, sending shockwaves through the ground, causing all of the statues to fall into Rabbid Rosalina's line of fire. The statues fall, one by one, and the group is safe. "What was that?" Edge asks Rabbid Luigi. "Don't know, we just came up with it." The rest of the group (Excluding Rabbid Rosalina) widened their eyes in shock. How did they make that up on the fly? "Well, whatever that was, it was nice." Dante said giving a slight smile. They group turned to see the red field still surrounding the door. However, something wasn't right. Suddenly, a hand started to reach out from the field!! The team readied their weapons again (excluding Dante) but the hand shattered, along with the field. Dante opened the door, and the group walked back into the hallway to continue their search.

Stop


Beep-O's group continued to look through the large, dark room. Luigi was still recovering his breath from Rabbid Peach's practical joke though. Rabbid Mario was on the wall feeling it wben suddenly... "Aye!! I think I found a light!!!" He shouted. He flipped the "switch" And, just as thought, the lights turned on. The group gathered in the middle of the room. Suddenly, they felt a rumble in the floor. They a tripped as fell as the platform near the back if the room rose slowly. When it finished, it revealed a large, humanoid figure made of stone. It opened it's red eyes, and roared. "MIIIIIIINNNNEEEE!!!!!"

Death and Honor

Dante's group heard the scream, and made their way through the same way that Beep-O's group did, eventually happening upon the same room, and their friends, weapons at the ready. The ran to their side and readied their own weapons. "Is that a demon?!" Edge asked. "Don't know, Don't care! It's going down!" Rabbid Peach shouted. "Agreed, lets try flanking it first, my group, lets go!" Dante's group followed him as the Golem slowly stepped from its platform, and finally roared once again. "YOOOOUUUU!!!! YOU WON'T HAVE WHAT'S MIIINNNNEEE!!!!" "I don't see anything but fake around here, so what do you really have??!!" Dante shouted, smirking. "LIIIIIEEESSS!!!!" And with that, the battle began as Dante started firing at the Golem's face. Edge ran up and readied an attack, but the robot swung at her first!! Luckily, she simply jumped onto its hand, and shot herself toward its face, slashing at it fiercely. And when she was done, she kicked off its face and back onto the ground, allowing Dante to take a clean shot to Its right eye. A large wave of wind shot from the socket, sending the whole team back.

They quickly recovered though, and Edge took out her shotgun, but hesitated. Dante fired some more, and noticed Edge's hesitation. "What's up?" "I don't know, I sense... something." "You gonna be ok?" "...Yeah, Yeah." Edge responded before firing the shotgun at the other eye of the Golem, with Dante jumping off a wall and Stabs the socket with the Tidas Gunlance. He then kicked off, and watched the robot explode. When he landed, he stuck his hand out, and caught his free flying gunlance, and dissipating it.

Stop

He stood up, and raised an eyebrow as he heard a cough. The group turned to see a peice of the golem, alive. "No... Don't... It's mine..."

It said. "What? What's yours?" Dante asks. "All of it!!!! It's all mine!!!! You won't take what's mine!!!!" The shard shouts angrily, writhing in pure rage. "Hate to say it, but you have nothing buddy." Edge states bluntly. "What?!" The shard says, shocked at such a prospect. "Impossible! It's all here! everything I had once before!" "Has been replaced with fakes, on an Island of fakes." Princess Peach manages to add. "What?!?! No!!! I don't believe you!!!!" "Sorry, but it's true. Whatever you had before was taken by-" "MUNDUUUUUUSSSS!!!" "Oh. So you already know." "Yesssss. That sadist has alway been a thorn in my side even before becoming the ruler of hell!!! And now he takes what's MINE????!!!!!!! DEVIL HUNTER!!!! YOUR ENEMY IS MINE!!!! DECTAN THE GREEDY SHALL ASSIST YOU. For now" And Dectan's shard dissipates into a grey light, floating into Dante's free hand, and transforming into a LARGE grenade launcher, before dissipating again. "Sweet." Dante said smirking. And the group leaves the building.