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An Ursa crawled through a forest, sniffing for berries. It then poked its head up and ate some of the berries from a bush. The Grimm would then turn around after foraging for food as it walked back into its den.
…However, as the Ursa walked into its den, it spotted an intruder in its cave. It snarled and roared at the intruder, then lunged for it. Five seconds later, it was blown out of its den as it tried to crawl away, but a hand reached for it and with a clench of the fist, the Ursa had floated up in the air.
"How dare you intrude upon my home…"
The Ursa's limbs were telekinetically ripped off as it roared in agony… before the head popped clean off as well.
The Ursa's assailiant… was none other than Paper Ruby, or in this case, Chaos Ruby. "Hmph… another Grimm failing to realize who I am…" The blue haired huntress mumbled to herself as she turned around and walked back into the cave, but she stopped.
"Nnngh!" She grunted, holding on to her head.
"What… what have you done to me…"
"Why, I've turned your papery self into who she truly wanted to be. A Princess of Chaos!"
"Agh!" She grunted, clenching her head while closing her eyes, covering her ears. "No… no no no… get the hell out of my head!" She yelled before she uncovered her ears. "That son of a bitch…" She mumbled as she turned her head. "What the hell was that? I don't recall this conversation…"
She walked outside and looked up into a sky. "Another me…? Dimentio…? No… don't be ridiculous. Dimentio's dead… and there's only one me…" A tear escaped her eye.
"Ruby? Ruby!"
Chaos Ruby turned to the source of the voice before she disappeared into the darkness of the cave, and once she did, Paper Yang peeked inside. "Ruby?" She wondered as she walked through the cave before stopping, letting out a sigh.
"Yang, have you found her?"
BGM: Sad Girl (Super Mario Galaxy)
Yang put her hand over her ear piece. "No, unfortunately. I thought I heard her in a cave but I must've been imagining things. How's things on your end, Weiss?"
"Not good. Blake is doing another search around Rogueport. I already checked Goomba Village but they haven't seen her around."
"And what about Reflet?"
"She's looking in her world, but so far she's come up with nothing."
Yang sighed. "Well… we'll keep looking. Finding Ruby is Team RWBY's top priority after all."
"I know she's still out there somewhere. There's no way she could just disappear off of the face of the world."
"Right, well… I'll give Vale another search."
"Right. Hopefully when we go on our next mission, we'll have the odd luck of finding her."
"Hopefully…" Yang hung up and turned around, walking out of the cave before stopping, tears swelling in her eyes. "Why did you leave Patch… why?!" She sniffed as she ran off, unaware of Ruby emerging from the shadows, her eyes filled with tears.
"I can never go back… I'm not who I am anymore… I'm not… Ruby." She softly sobbed before disappearing into the cave.
Back in the main universe…
"For some reason… I can feel her…" Ruby said, sitting on the couch. "I don't know why, but I can… feel her pain somehow. My papery self… I don't know why I can, but, it's… hard to explain."
"Maybe it's because she's you? I dunno." Yang rubbed her head.
"I felt this pain before." Ruby said. "I felt incredibly sad one day when I was having an ice cream date with Pit."
"Oh yeah, I remember you feeling sad for some reason." Pit mused.
"For some reason, I just couldn't… get away from this feeling and I remember talking with Byleth about it. She said it probably had to do with a sad memory or a dream and my heart just remembered it. Then of course I had a dream one day, something about… Chaos Ruby."
"When was this?" Summer asked.
"Oh, when we were inside Bowser." Ruby responded. "Right after I got knocked out trying to save Peach from that giant hand thing." She let out a sigh. "I didn't realize I suffered for so long…"
"Okay, time out!" Dark Pit spoke up. "Yes, it's sad that you and your paper self suffered… but recall what he said. He said something about a Sammer Kingdom being destroyed."
"Yeah… we were in the Sammer King-… or at least, our paper selves were, we were trying to save the worlds from this dark void and then it gets destroyed by the void, we go back and it's nothing but an empty shell. I can feel myself giving up when we were in… in… the Underwhere…?" Ruby tilted her head. "Odd place to call that, but whatever. I remember snapping in the Overthere…"
"What did you do before this?" Dark Pit asked.
"Something about a… Shadow Queen and the X-Nauts?"
Peach shuddered. "Why was I a dark shadowy queen…? Eugh!"
"I'm not gonna let that happen, princess." Mario told her.
Dark Pit folded his arms. "So the Shadow Queen, the X-Nauts and this Dimentio guy… sounds to me like you were stressed the hell out in this paper world."
"Yeah."
"However, we experienced none of that in this dimension. The only things we experienced was the galaxy imploding and a blorb pandemic right after." Dark Pit said. "And a few of us experienced X-Parasites… while you are still dealing with the bitch that is Dark Ruby."
"Hey, not in front of the Lumas!" Rosalina scolded.
"Tch, I don't care."
"What are you getting at…?"
"I'm saying… Dimentio's plan is extremely flawed." Dark Pit pointed out. "Think about it. While there was a lot on Paper Ruby's plate, you only had to deal with a cockroach that refuses to die. In fact, you ran away because she proved too much for you, but here you are, you came back swinging, you have your silver eyes that can damage the hell out of the Grimm, and now we are in the middle of a war with the Space Pirates… which I can honestly say, it hasn't been that bad yet, right?"
"Of course not…" Ruby nodded.
"There it is." Dark Pit smirked. "Paper Ruby has suffered like hell and you… had suffered less. What I'm getting at is the fact that you're not going to be turned into this… what did he call it, Chaos Ruby 2.0? He's not going to turn you into his puppet quite as easily. In fact, you're a lot more resilient than you think you are. Think about it. You got a boomerang, you got a Rose Palm, you even have Pokemon, Wolf Magic that… hell, comes out of a tome and I am of the belief tomes count as magic otherwise what the hell would you call Robin's abilities?"
"He's right." Riku walked up. "I mean, you don't have as much to deal with unlike your paper counterpart. So I honestly wouldn't stress about it."
"But what about my paper self then?!" Ruby shot up. "She's suffering out there and I can somehow feel it! I don't know why but-"
"Hey hey, easy! Easy…" Yang wrapped her arms around Ruby. "We'll figure that out eventually. Just take a deep breath, Rubes…"
Ruby closed her eyes, taking a deep breath. "Right… sorry… you're definitely right about that. Unlike my paper self, I haven't been as stressed… and I have a feeling one day, I'm going to have to go into that dimension and try to knock her out of her funk."
Yang grinned. "That's the spirit, Rubes!"
Summer smiled. "That's my girl." She said, hugging her and kissing her on the cheek.
"You might want to take it easy." Tai pointed out. "I mean, it's lot of information to take in after what you went through."
"Right… of course." Ruby nodded as she looked at Dark Pit. "Thank you for… pointing that out."
"Eh, it's nothin'." He said as Ruby would hug him tightly. "Mmmph! Ruby, I do not do hugs!"
"I know, but I appreciate it, Pittoo."
"My name isn't-… aw, forget it." Dark Pit mumbled as Ruby sat down, Pit quickly accompanying her.
End BGM
"We'll be right here with you, Rubes." Blake said, sitting next to her and was joined by Weiss, Yang and her family.
"You're part of the family too… move it!" Akechi whispered, nudging Raven.
"Mmm… I'm not… sure yet…"
"Sooo, I guess this would be a good time for an introduction then?" Hat Kid spoke up.
"Yeah, so uh… who are you?" Reimu asked.
BGM: Hat Kid's Spaceship (A Hat in Time)
"Name's Hat Kid, galactic explorer extraordinaire and the cutest kid you'll ever peckin' see!" Hat Kid grinned. "I wound up in your universe in a strange portal and I gotta say, I dig it here. Me and a few of my friends came along and… oh! I think these two belong to you." She said, as Pyrrha and Jaune walked out.
"PYRRHA!" Nora exclaimed.
"Hey Jaune." Ren greeted. "Where did you guys go?"
"Apparently the Power Stars made a wrong turn." Jaune rubbed his head as Conductor, Grooves, Snatcher and a Mafia Goon walked out.
"Mafia likes this place. Seems nice."
"Eh, could use a little tune up. Also, what's with the head ship thing? Looks odd!" Snatcher said.
"Everyone! Meet Conductor, DJ Grooves, Snatcher and… Mafia!"
"Greetings." Mafia waved.
"Sup!" Snatcher greeted.
"Pleased to make your acquaintances!" DJ Grooves said.
"Aye, it is great to meet ya lads and lasses." Conductor said.
"…WAIT, WHAT DID THE LAD JUST SAY?!" Gloria yelled in surprise as everyone else froze up.
"Did he just say…" - Hop
"Yup." - Hau
"And did Gloria get…" - Bede
"Mhm." Lillie nodded.
"Ah hell, there's two of 'em now!" Guzma groaned.
"Sweet!" Umber grinned.
Conductor let out a gasp. "A fellow Scot?!" He exclaimed as he rushed over to her. "I have to say, lassie! I wasn't expectin' ya to be here!"
"I thought I was ta' only one here! Oh, this is excitin'!"
"Aaaand they're hitting it off already." Hop sweatdropped.
"Welp, she just made a new best friend." Bede said.
"I wonder if she'll introduce him to us?" Hau wondered.
"There's two of 'em now?" Hat Kid sweatdropped. "Oh well!" She shrugged.
"Oh! Pyrrha! Jaune! Guess what!" Nora grinned as she pointed to Sora. "This lovable doofus just got a Smash invitation!"
"What?!" Jaune exclaimed.
Pyrrha let out a gasp. "You mean-"
"Yup!" Sora grinned. "Already had my first fight with Zelda and-" Pyrrha suddenly glomped him. "WAH! OOOOF!"
"Sorry, I'm not sure what came over me!" Pyrrha giggled. "But that's great!" She smiled as she pulled him up.
"Oh! That reminds me." Sora pulled out a present. "Luminary made these for you. I'm not sure what it is, but he said he finally got it done!"
"Oooh!" Pyrrha smiled as she took the present and read the card on the bow.
"Pyrrha, I made sure these new weapons were more durable than your old ones. I even made a few modifications on these. Hope you enjoy these! - Luminary"
Pyrrha opened up the present and took off the cover. She let out a gasp, staring inside of it. "Oh my…" She whispered as Sora peeked inside.
"Whoa!" Sora said. "Those look pretty fancy."
"Tell him I said thank you." Pyrrha smiled, staring at them as Nora took a peek.
"Hooooo boy, those look like they can strike terror in the hearts of your enemies!" Nora grinned. "…Or for those who you spar with."
"It's beautiful…"
"Hey, heads up, we got a Grand Star on the radar!" Polari exclaimed.
"And it's a pretty big one too!" Lubba said.
Pyrrha put the present away. "I see a golden opportunity."
Jaune smiled. "Right!" He nodded. "Alright, JPR! Let's go kick some-"
"…Hey! Aren't you forgetting something?" Nora had her arms folded. "I'm part of this team too."
"Uh, Nora…? You have a cast on your wrist." Ren pointed out.
"Honey, let me introduce you to something called… ANOTHER HAND." Nora said.
"It's a double gripped weapon, not to mention you can't shoot a grenade launcher with one hand."
"Are you challenging me, babe?" Nora smirked as Pyrrha and Jaune looked at her with worry as even Ren had a worried look. "Pffft! Hahaha! You should see the looks on your faces!" She giggled. "Relax, I may be crazy hyper but I'm not stupid. Besides…" Her left hand crackled with electricity. "I can improvise~!"
Ren sighed with relief. "Oh thank goodness, I thought you were serious after the last time you tried doing it."
Some time ago…
Nora aimed her grenade launcher at a practice target, and had a bottle of Chuckola Cola in the other. She would immediately start drinking while pulling the trigger. "MMMPH!" She grunted, accidentally spitting out some of the cola. "Oooh, there goes my shoulder…" She winced, and then saw her grenade hitting the target. "Sweet, a bullseye!"
In the present…
"Well, hey, on the bright side, at least there's a new saying! "Hold my Chuckola Cola!"." Nora grinned. "Relax, I won't dislocate my shoulder this time."
"If you guys want…" Jade walked up to them with her team. "We can provide backup just in case Nora fractures her other wrist." She teased.
"Oh ha ha, very funny!" Nora rolled her eyes. "I'm not gonna bite it this time, thank you very much."
"You sure about that, lightning rod?" Nyx winked.
"Yes, I'm sure. Come on, let's go get that Grand Star." Nora said as they walked off, all of them launching away from the Launch Star.
"Hey wait up!" Umber exclaimed and took off after them.
"Hope they have a safe travel…" Ruby said.
"Oh, I'm sure they'll be fine." Weiss said.
"GALACTA KNIGHT?!" Ibuki suddenly yelled.
"Mmph!" Penny stiffened, flashing back to what happened to her at the Jambastion Base. "Wh-where?!"
"Sis, what's wrong?" SAPR asked, immediately concerned.
"We had a run in with Galacta Knight at one point and she got skewered." Coco explained.
"Oooh, I was wondering why she had longer hair." Hop rubbed the back of his head.
Hau tilted his head. "Robots get PTSD?"
"Apparently!" Gloria said as SAPR was hugging Penny.
"Deep breaths, sis… deep breaths!" She said as Penny closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Easy… easy now."
"Wait, so, does that mean Lopez could potentially…?" Grif wondered.
"I doubt it." Church and Simmons said at the same time. "…Jinx! Double jinx! Triple jinx! Quadruple jinx! SHUT UP! QUINTUPLE JINX!"
"So uh… anyone want to see any pictures I took? …Well, Mythra and Pyra took a few of these as well." Sora offered.
End BGM
Bowser Jr's Fiery Flotilla - Gobblegut's Aching Belly - JINX, JNPR, Umber
BGM: Bowser Jr's Fiery Flotilla (Super Mario Galaxy 2)
The teams landed on the ground, seeing the fortress in front of them. "Alright, looks like we're taking on a fortress!" Jade said.
"Alright, let's do this thing!" Nora smirked as they started walking… and then Umber landed behind them, causing the eight of them to turn around.
"Babe? You wanted to tag along?" Xena asked in surprise.
"Well duh! Exploring space is awesome!" Umber grinned.
"Heh, I can't argue with that." Iris chuckled. "More the merrier then."
"Yeah!" Nyx nodded.
Umber readied his staff. "Shall we then?" He smiled as they walked ahead, taking out a Dry Bones as they went to the left and walked ahead, with Jaune hitting a ? Block as Star Bits burst out where they happily took them and then a Thwomp slammed in front of them, but then Xena would lift it up as everyone went underneath.
"Sorry big guy, maybe next time." Xena said as they walked toward the gate, Nora would quickly flip a switch with her Thunder Hand to open it up, and once the gates opened, they would see a few Zebesians wandering around, and then they would turn to the heroes.
"Merry Christmas, here's your presents!" Nora said, firing lightning bolts at them to stun them and then Pyrrha shot them down with fireballs, then the Xenas lifted them off the ground and threw them into the lava.
"Talk about the gift from hell." Iris chuckled as they headed off and hopped into a Sling Star to go into the planet above them, where they would start climbing the planet while dodging the Phazon Firebars as they would soon get to the Launch Star, but they would also see a planet up ahead.
"I think that's where our fight is at." Jaune said.
"Yeah." Nyx nodded. "And no doubt in my mind… it's gonna get ugly fast." She then smirked. "I have an idea." She turned her head. "Hey, Xenas. Think you can hide me while I work my magic?"
"Hey, we did it with the Shake King. Why not." Xena grinned.
"Good." Nyx cocked her crossbows. "It's time to see what Ruby put in these bad girls." She said as they launched away to the planet.
End BGM
As they landed on the ground, an airship came flying by right when the Xenas had Nyx go invisible. "Hahahaha! So you boneheads have made it!" Junior exclaimed. "Tremble before-"
"Hey "Lord" Junior, how's it hanging?" Umber asked.
"Oh! Umber! Nice to see ya, man!" Junior happily greeted.
"Hey little guy, what's up?" Jade smiled.
"Oh, I'm doing alright! …Kinda… my papa's infected with phazon… most of the Koopa Troop is too… I'm hanging in there, but… I'm worried sick!"
"Sounds like you need a hug." Xena said.
"I could use one, to be honest…" Junior agreed and then glanced over at Nora. "Hmm? What happened to the knucklehead?"
"Yeah, I bit it on the first galaxy." Nora shrugged. "Sprained my wrist, taking it easy… I'm not pulling a Weiss. That said, I'll be providing support!"
"Well, that's good." Junior nodded.
"Junior, I can tell you don't want to do this." Pyrrha said.
"Of course not!" Junior sighed. "If I wanted to clobber you guys, I'd be doing it on my terms with my dad! I didn't sign up to colab with space pirates! They're scary, especially Ridley and Dark Samus! Those two give me the creeps!"
"Yeah, this doesn't feel right." Jaune said. "Fighting you is one thing, but fighting you while roped into the Space Pirates is… not a good idea."
"Thank you!" Junior sat down. "Goodness, I don't know if I want-"
"Having trouble, Junior?" A voice asked as Ridley landed next to him. "It seems you require motivation! You fight these losers or your father is getting another healthy dose of phazon! I might even do it on the mute girl or the punk ass brat."
Junior's eyes widened. "You wouldn't!"
Ridley smirked. "I will."
"Oooh… fine!" Junior groaned and turned to the others with a "I'm so sorry" look. "Gobblegut, come forth and snack on 'em!" He exclaimed as suddenly a large dragon came flying down, roaring at them with steam coming out of its nostrils, with Iris noticing several scars throughout its body with a few spikes poking out.
"Huh?"
It was then that Nyx popped back up. "Oh goody, a test subject!" She said as she pressed a button as suddenly arrow traps sprung and shot up at Gobblegut's bulges and a net sprung up and electrocuted him, sending Gobblegut to the ground, and then a bear trap snapped on his tail, and then an arrow hit him on the head, which exploded… leaving Gobblegut in a dazed mess.
"Hot DAMN, is that effective!" Nyx grinned.
"…Whoa." Junior whispered.
"What. I… what?" Ridley tried to figure out what just happened.
Iris looked at Gobblegut, narrowing her eyes as she could detect an aura within him. A gold aura. "He has a Grand Star in his gut."
"Allow me!" Jade smiled, calling upon her Jade Wisp where it came flying over and going inside of her.
"GHOST!"
Jade phazed through Gobblegut, snagging the Grand Star and pulling it out. "Ta-dah~!"
"That was easy!" Xena smiled.
"No… NO NO NO!" Ridley yelled. "That's not how it was supposed to go!" He growled.
"Well, as you can see… it was a speed running tactic." Nyx said, pointing up as Ridley looked up and saw a red comet in the galaxy's orbit. "I believe that's called a Speedy Comet."
"Ha! Good one." Junior chuckled.
"Oh yeah? Let's see if you can speed run THIS!" Ridley snarled. "You and me, Junior! We're going to kill them right here and now!" He exclaimed, and then Nora and Umber snapped their fingers as a massive lightning bolt hit him as he fell to the ground while Xena quickly teleported to Junior and gave him a hug.
"Get out of here. We'll take care of the idiot." Xena whispered.
"Right!" Junior nodded, hugging her back as Xena backflipped off and then Junior quickly hightailed it out of there. "KICK HIS BUTT FOR ME!"
Jaune turned to Pyrrha. "You wanna do the honors?"
"Gladly." Pyrrha nodded, approaching him and then brought out her present, quickly uncovering them.
BGM: God of War (God of War 2018)
Pyrrha's new weapons consisted of a mixture between the Blades of Chaos and Exile with the color scheme being red and gold. However, there were no chains attached to the two blades in her hands. She even got in a battle stance as her new shield formed on her wrist, looking similar to Kratos' Arms of Sparta shield, but had her colors and had the Goron crest in the middle.
"You dare challenge me alone, girl?" Ridley smirked. "I will make sure you die a most painful death!"
"We will see about that, Ridley."
Cunning God of Death - Ridley
Ridley roared at Pyrrha and then breathed fire at her, but she would block with her shield and then Ridley lunged for her, but Pyrrha would roll out of the way and swiftly and gracefully slashed at him with the blades. Pyrrha would jump back as Ridley would try to grab her by the throat, then she threw her blades at Ridley, hitting him in the chest as he roared in pain, then she brought the blades back with her semblance.
"You'll die for that!" Ridley lunged at her, attempting to bite down but Pyrrha swung her blades up to knock him back where Pyrrha would throw her blades around, and then she would use her Fire Brand to send fire to the hilts of the blades, then the fire formed into fiery chains as she would dance around with them, swiftly cutting him up as she jumped up into the air and flip kicked him, pulling the fiery chains back and tearing through his skin as Pyrrha dismissed the fiery chains and recalled her blades.
Pyrrha combined the two blades together and pulled them apart to form a polearm as Ridley would try to claw at her, but Pyrrha swiftly blocked with the polearm and pushed him away, then she twirled the polearm around, having fire dance around her as she slashed at him with a fiery inferno around her. Ridley would attempt to bite down on her but she moved her arm as he bit down on the shield instead as she shield bashed him right after.
Ridley snarled as he flew up into the air and breathed plasma at her, but she would block with her shield and then threw her polearm into his mouth, making him grunt. Pyrrha would then push a button on the back of her shield as it formed into a bow as she aimed at Ridley, conjuring up three fire arrows and then shot them at RIdley, hitting him in the chest as the fire exploded where Ridley let out a pained roar as he flew down and tried to impale her with his tail but Pyrrha would swiftly deflect it with her polearm and then fired a point blank fire arrow into his mouth, and then Pyrrha's fist burst into flame, the bow forming back into a shield as she unleashed a fiery uppercut to his lower jaw, knocking him on his back.
"That was for Yoshi." Pyrrha glared.
End BGM
"Rrrgh!" Ridley growled, slowly getting up. "This isn't over!" He said as he flew off.
"Whoa…" Umber whispered.
"Daaaaamn girl!" Nora exclaimed as Pyrrha detached the pole arm back into their blades as a simple Power Star appeared.
"So what are you gonna call those blades?" Jaune asked.
"The Blades of Milo." Pyrrha responded, putting them away. "As for the shield… Shell of Akouo."
Jaune smiled. "I like it."
"So do I!" Nora grinned.
"A worthy name for those two." Ren agreed.
"Yeah, we like it." Xena nodded.
"Sounds good." Jade said.
"Love it." Nyx smiled.
"Yeah, sounds fitting." Iris agreed.
"Yup, I like it." Umber nodded.
"Come on, let's head back." Pyrrha said as they flew off with the two Stars, but not before Iris pulling out the spikes from Gobblegut's scales and then she flew off.
Back at the Observatory…
Ruby looked through her spell book, Zwei on her lap and her Zinogre curled up next to her. "Hey, Ruby." A voice spoke up, snapping her out of her thoughts as she looked up to see Raven approaching her.
"Oh, Raven!" Ruby said in surprise. "This is… uh… wow, I didn't think you'd want to talk with me."
"I thought I'd start small." Raven explained. "Work with you, then your ghostly mother, then your father, and then… your sister. Qrow's in there somewhere."
Ruby sweatdropped. "I'm small? Aw… I didn't think I was a low priority…"
Raven's eyes widened. "Wait! Wait… that's not what I meant." She said as she sat down next to her. "I meant to say that Yang's gonna be a hell of a high bar to clear so I thought I'd do something a bit easy."
"Oh, so I'm not a challenge?" Ruby smirked. "I can be quite the challenge, Raven."
"I didn't say that… I meant-"
Ruby snickered. "I'm kidding! I'm kidding… I'm way more laid back over this than Yang."
Raven sighed in relief. "That's good… I thought for sure you'd be as stubborn as Yang."
"Naaaah, I got my own stubbornness but it's not that horrible." Ruby waved it off. "Not a big deal, really."
"That's good to know." Raven nodded, awkwardly rubbing her arm. "It was… honestly kind of a shock to learn that Tai had another kid. I mean, I'm not surprised… Summer mended his heart after I left. I just… didn't expect them to have another kid so soon."
"Broken hearts tend to make you do crazy things."
"Yeah…" Raven nodded. "Your friend, uh… the angel, the dark emo one-"
"I'm not an emo!" Dark Pit called out.
"-As I was saying, he has a point. This Dimentio guy had one version of you wrapped under his thumb and yet, with you, it's different. Sure, he made you share her pain but I can tell that you're not as stressed as her."
"Yeah, if anything it just… had me kind of out of it for a while." Ruby admitted.
"I don't blame you…" She would suddenly wrap her arm around Ruby. "But honestly, that Dimentio guy is going to have a hell of a time trying to break you."
"Yeah, of course." Ruby smiled as she subconsciously rested her shoulder on Raven's shoulder, catching her off guard. "I think I understand why you left… and I think it has to do with Salem. You got caught up in something and you didn't want to put dad and Yang in danger so you left them for a good reason, right?"
"Yeah that's… kinda it."
Ruby nodded. "Yeah… that'd probably do it." She said and smiled. "I know that deep down, you're a good person…"
"Ruby…"
Ruby smiled. "So don't worry about it. I don't hold anything against you! If anything… Yang just needs to get her head out of her butt." She would then hug her, causing Raven to blush. "I love you… mom! …Or… Aunt Raven… I'm still not sure what to call ya."
"Um… I don't mind either or…" Raven responded, awkwardly hugging Ruby. "So… do you have a name for this Zinogre?"
"Cerberus." Ruby smiled.
Raven chuckled. "Definitely feisty for this little guy." She said, unaware of Rosalina watching the two of them.
"Hmm!" She mused.
"Thinking about chattin' with her?" Ibuki asked.
"Yeah, pretty mu-"
The alarm sounded, catching everyone's attention. "What on earth…?" Polari wondered as he took a look. "We have a ship coming in hot!"
"I'll take care of it!" Samus said, readying her AR-15.
"No wait!" Ibuki exclaimed, stopping her. "Ibuki believes it's a friendly."
"Huh?" Samus wondered as the "ship" came into view, which was just MAJC flying by on the Hydra.
"Hey guuuuuys~!" Mona waved them over as they drove past them.
"What the peck was that?" Hat Kid wondered.
"Was that… was that MAJC?" Weiss asked.
"Hell yeah, it was!" Ibuki grinned, happily waving at them as they disappeared.
"What was that ship they were on?" Rosalina wondered.
"The Hydra. A Legendary machine that's more powerful than the Dragoon." Ibuki explained.
"More powerful than THAT?" Weiss asked in surprise.
"Mhm!"
"Huh… oookay then." She said as JINX, JNPR and Umber returned.
"Hey! How was the test run?" Sora waved Pyrrha over.
"It worked out pretty well!" Pyrrha beamed as the Grand Star had flown over to the corrupted Phazon Stars where it suddenly glowed brightly as it fired beams of light into the Phazon Stars, destroying the phazon on them and becoming Power Stars again.
"Whoa!" Daisy exclaimed as the Grand Star and the Power Stars turned to Samus and flew over to her and surrounded her.
"Uh… what are you…?" Samus wondered as the Grand Star and Power Stars fired beams of light into her. "Gah!" She yelped as she noticed her Paralyzer Gun suddenly glowing and felt her jet boots turn back on, and before she knew it… her Power Suit returned to her.
…But it wasn't just any old Power Suit.
It was Dread's.
BGM: The Theme of Samus Aran (Metroid Dread)
Power Suit back online!
Paralyzer Gun back online!
Jet Boots back online!
Arm Cannon back online!
Charge Beam back online!
Pulse Radar back online!
Morph Ball back online!
Spider Ball back online!
Bombs back online!
Missiles back online!
Dust Beam Online!
Dust Beam…? Samus thought.
"Holy crap, look at that suit!" Futaba exclaimed.
"Man, she looks good in blue and white." Blake said with Rosalina agreeing, while Pikachu, Pichu and Newt all cheered. Samus, meanwhile, was checking out the new Dust Beam.
Dust Beam: With Dust equipped into your Arm Cannon, you can fire bursts of fire, lightning, ice, and gravity! Make sure to stock up!
Fascinating… Samus smirked.
"Lady, your Power Suit is looking vastly different." Adam said as Blake took a picture and showed it to her.
"Well, a nice new look doesn't hurt anybody." Samus shrugged and then chuckled. "While I don't have all of my gadgets on hand, it's good to be back." She said as the Grand Star flew off into the vaccuum of space and opened up a wormhole.
"What's that?" Ruby wondered.
"Looks like a wormhole to our next destination!" Lubba said. "Captain Mario, you're at the helm! Let's fly!"
"Right!" Mario nodded as he jumped over as Starship Mario, the Observatory and Hat Kid's ship all flew inside the worm hole.
End BGM
Meanwhile, with Ridley…
"That was humiliating." He grumbled as he was within a few feet of the ship. "Tch, whatever… I'll get her back." He said as he heard the alarm sounding in his ship. "What's going on?"
"We have a small ship intruding us!"
Ridley turned around, seeing team MAJC flying over. "You dare trespass in our domain?!" He roared as he flew over, ready to breathe fire at them… only to get ran over as he was sent flying into his ship. Immediately after, Dark Samus emerged from the top of the ship.
"You dare interfere!" She yelled as she unleashed a Phazon Zero Laser at them, but MAJC was long gone before she could even hit them. She let out a low growl. "No matter… once Remnant is filled with Phazon, they will be long dead. Speaking of which… that meteor should have hit the Mansion by now."
At the Smash Mansion…
"Hmhmhmhm~" Crazy Hand dusted the roof when he noticed a Phazon Meteor coming down. "Oooh! Make a wish!" He snapped his fingers as a large slide popped into thin air as the Phazon Meteor hit it and slid off the slide, heading into a different direction. "Hooray, my wish came true!" He said and then paused a minute. "Wait… that meteor is headed right for… ah, it should be fine!"
At Smash Lake…
"Hmmhmhm~" Zinnia hummed as she was ice skating on the lake. "Oh cheer up, big guy. You'll be swimming in your lake again come spring." She said as Rayquaza was silently grumbling to himself about his frozen lake. "Come on, ice skate with me, Ray Ray! It'll be fun!"
Rayquaza turned to Zinnia before getting up… but something caught his attention as he turned to see the Phazon Meteor heading straight for them. He would duck, but realized Zinnia would've been hit. He let out a snarl and flew off, snagging Zinnia with his claw and flew away right as the Phazon Meteor slammed into the lake, shattering all the ice as the lake slowly turned into a large pool of phazon.
"Whoa! What the crap was that?!" Zinnia exclaimed.
Rayquaza snarled and let out a loud roar, glaring up into the sky. "Wait, I know that… that's the Phazon thing that I've heard's been infecting Toad Town and possibly all of Remnant!" Zinnia said as Rayquaza looked down at her. "You thinking what I'm thinking, Ray Ray?"
Rayquaza nodded, putting Zinnia on his back. "Alright, we're gonna kick some phazon ass! Let's go!" She exclaimed as Rayquaza took off into the sky.
Ibuki: Oooooh, those guys are in trouble~!
Oh yeah!