"So that's why the reploids didn't finish us off! They sensed that the CD was coming." Link said.

"Hey, you got the key! All right, let's get the Nintendo 64 now! So, just how do we dot that?" D.K. asked.

"Um, good question."

"You mean you don't know? Now what are we going to do?"

"Well, we should..." Link stopped and closed his eyes; he was apparently receiving instructions from Zelda.

Mario, Link, Ash and Sonic stood in a square, quite far apart. They all held a key by the center handle, pointing the tips at each other at the center. They weren't sure how long this would take, and the CD was past half way from firing its charged laser.

Under the handle was a button, and when they pressed it, it emitted a light from the tip. Once the light touched each other at the center of their formation, there was a bright flash of light, and the CD was getting closer to fire.

Something fuzzy began to appear, and then become more refined. Right before their eyes, the Nintendo 64 was appearing. It was fuzzy at first, and then transparent. It continued to become clearer, and then, a solid ship stood right before them. It seemed as if the ship was phasing into their dimension.

The black ship was massively huge. The main part was square-shaped with round circles at the corners, and a thin, gray, arc-shaped part that stuck out in the center. At the front, four rods stuck out, and at the end of them were larger versions of the keys. After their quest to gather the keys, they were finally able to see the ultimate power that they needed to win this war.

Everyone gathered to the side of it, trying to see how to get in.

"Hurry, the CD is about to fire!"

"Come on, there's gotta be some way to get in here!" As Mario walked around it, part of the ship's side opened up and lowered a platform for them to walk up.

Everyone ran to get inside, but when they looked at the CD, it looked like it was too late. The ship stopped charging up its main weapon, and was now going to fire right at them.

"Oh no! There's no where to run!" Just then, they saw a green laser blade strike through the ship from the inside at different places, and the CD then exploded as it tried to fire.

As they looked at the blazing fire in the sky, they saw a red figure fall down towards them. When he landed, they saw that it was Zero who saved them, who then shouted at them.

"What are you waiting for? Go on, get out of here! There's more on the way!" Without hesitating, they all ran up the ramp, Zero included.

They ran down the halls of the ship, not really sure where they were going. The lights turned on as they ran, and once they came to a door, it automatically slid open; the ship seemed to be coming to life.

As they stepped in, the lights turned on, and they saw that it was a large room, with many controls. There were seats next to computer consoles, and a large screen at the front of the room.

Mario ran up the to the console at the front and took a seat. Once he did, the screen in front of them turned on, and they could see that two more CDs were coming towards them, and one more ship was with them. As Mario took a look at the other ship, it looked familiar. Mario then remembered that that was the same ship that came out of the portal last, back at the Mushroom Kingdom when the Zox first invaded.

"Oh no, that's the Zox mother ship!" Sonic shouted.

"Mother ship?"

"Yes. It's the lead ship where the commanding officer is. It's more powerful than the CDs, but if we take it down, we take down their leader." Mario then started pressing buttons on the console in front of him at random, trying to get the ship to move. Anything that had words on them were in a different language that no one had seen before, so they didn't have a clue what anything did.

"Hey, do you know what you're doing?" Link asked.

"No."

"What? Then why are you messing with that?"

"Do you know what to do?" Realizing the truth, Link backed off.

"I see your point." Everyone then took a seat at the consoles, and tried to get the Nintendo 64 to do something. After a few tries, they could hear a small hum getting louder, and the ship was starting to float off the ground.

"Hey, I think I'm getting the hang of this! It looks like these are the flight controls." Mario said. Mario then had the ship vertically lifting, and they were then at the same height as the enemy ships.

The screen in front of them showed that the ships were now in close range, and the two CDs in front of the mother ship began firing multiple lasers at the 64.

"Man, we're getting shot at from everywhere!" D.K. said.

"Just how many shots can we take?" Sonic wondered. As Zero observed the controls that he sat in front of, he pressed a button, and a screen of the enemy ships came up on his monitor with a crosshair on the screen. As Zero moved his hands over a pad on the panel, the crosshairs moved along with them. As he clenched his right hand, large, white lasers came out of the tips on the right side of the ship's controllers. The lasers hit the CD on the right head on, and just the six lasers that hit it was enough to blast it to bits.

"Ha, I think I like this." Zero said. As Mario was getting better with the controls, he was able to fly around to avoid some of the enemy's fire. As they moved to the left while keeping the front of the ship pointed at the other CD, Zero sent another round of lasers at it, and sent another fiery wreckage to the ground.

With the two CDs down, the mother ship stepped up to the plate. As it approached them, the two poles with claws at the end in front of the ship moved to the sides. With the change in position, the ship had become a giant robot with long arms.

"It transformed?" Ash said in amazement.

"Great, just what we need. It's faster in its ship form, but in that form, it's much more formidable in battle." Sonic said.

Zero took a shot at the enemy, but the ship put its hands right in front of the lasers, and they bounced right off.

"Whoa! That thing can reflect lasers!" The ship then pointed it hands at them and started firing its own lasers. They were much more powerful than the CDs' lasers, as they caused the ship to shake a lot more.

The monitor that Link sat in front of showed a map of the 64 that showed its shielding, and all over it was going down as the Zox ship hit them. They were in a ship that no one knew how to control when they needed to know the most. They worked hard to find the four keys to obtain this great power, and now it looked like they were going to be shot down just after they got in it. Perhaps the power that was told in the legend of the Nintendo 64 was just a pipedream.

Link didn't have any idea what he was doing at his console, and in his frustration, he slammed his fist on the control board. As he did, his left fist hit four buttons next to each other at the same time.

No one knew it at the time, but Link had triggered a transformation of their own. A red light began flashing in the room along with an alarm. As the Zox mother ship noticed that something was going on, it stopped firing, and stood ready for what might happen.

The two controllers in front of the ship at the center folded downwards, and the controller on the left and the right folded to the sides. Other parts of the main body of the ship began folding around the poles of the controllers, and just after ten seconds, the transformation was completed.

From the map of the ship at Link's monitor, he could see their current shape. They now looked much like a giant robot, with two of the controllers as legs and two as arms, and them controlling it from the head.

Coming over from the amazement, Mario looked back at the mother ship. Using the controls in front of him, Mario ran towards the ship. As the Zox saw them charging right for them, they thrust the right arm right at the 64, but Mario used the rockets on the back to slide to the right, where he then swung their right arm into the Zox.

The 64 then clasped its hands together, and when releasing them created a ball of energy in between them. They then shot the ball right at the Zox ship. They were able to dodge it by flying upwards, but just barely. The shear heat of the ball melted part of the ship.

The Zox, with a dent in their ship the size of the 64's fist and a melted underside, realized that they had underestimated their enemy. They had already investigated planet Nintendo enough, so the commander relayed a message to all the other ships, initiating plan O.

As Mario stood ready to attack again, the screen turned from an outside view to a view of the entire planet. It showed that CDs had positioned their selves all over the planet, and they were charging their main weapons all at once. Sonic suddenly stood up, panicking.

"No! Not again! It's Mobius all over again!" Fear was clearly painted on his face. When the screen returned to the outside view, they saw that three CDs had just approached them, and they too were charging their cannons, preparing for the final attack on Nintendo.

As they looked at the mother ship, they saw that it was flying upwards, and transforming back into its ship form.

"That's the lead ship you said?" Mario asked grimly.

"Yes." Sonic replied.

"If we stop him, then we can stop the CDs." Mario then had the ship jump off the ground and fly after the mother ship.

They kept flying upwards until they noticed that they were now in outer space. The Zox were still in front of them, but it was too late. The ship activated its warp engine, and blasted off from sight. As they looked back at their home planet, all the CDs fired at once. From the distance, they could see explosions happening everywhere. When they realized that it was too late, they merely drifted in space, stunned, watching in horror. The planet they tried to save was now covered in craters.

Thoughts of loved ones, the state of their homes, and anger towards the Zox rushed through everyone's mind.

"Peach, Luigi, are you alive?"

"Blast, I failed! Hyrule is probably just a smoldering crater. I'm a failure."

"First Mobius, now Nintendo. How many planets will I watch be destroyed by the Zox?"

"Those Zox, I'm gonna pound their face in so hard!"

They stood like that, watching the planet for about ten minutes, thinking and complaining to their selves, when Ash, who was holding tight to Pikachu, spoke up.

"Wh...what do we do now?" He said through his tears.

"There's only one thing we can do now." Mario said as he looked to where the Zox went. Link turned the 64 back into its ship form, and they too activated their warp engine, and blasted off.

They didn't know how many people died, or how much of the planet was destroyed, but they knew that there was nothing they could do now, except to chase after the Zox mother ship, and end the cycle of destruction.

Note: So that some of you don't get the wrong idea, this is not the end.