I suddenly stood up and rushed over to Lucina. I covered her mouth with my left hand and whispered, "I don't wanna here about any of yo s***, Princess."

Lucina immediately pulled away from me. A look of disgust soon covered her face. "What?" she spat out, irritated that I was daring to ruin her rant.

"Oh, it's nothing personal." I insured her as walked on over to Peach and put my arm around her. "I just really, really, really don't want to write about you being ticked at Happy Mask and your daddy issues." I made eye contact with Peach and tilted my head. "You guys understand, right?"

"Uhh," Peach muttered while stared at me in utter confusion. She had no idea what I was up to now, all she knew was she didn't feel good about it. "Uhhh,"

"OH, THANK A-GOODNESS!" Mario, letting go of Lucina's cape and collapsing onto the ground, did a sigh of relief. "Now we don't have to worry about HMS taking one of us today! Oh a-boy!"

Peach's head practically spun around like a owl in order to face Mario. "MARIO!" she screamed, throwing her hands onto her face.

Hearing this, Dark Pit fell out of his hiding tree and landed in a dead bush, breaking a few of his barrel's boards during the landing. "Damn you, plumber man!" he screamed while trying to roll off the bush.

Lucina dropped to her knees. "No!" she exclaimed as she threw her hands up towards the sky. "I wanted to be the one to spill the beans about HMS! I should of been the one!" she turned to look at Mario and pointed a accusing finger at him. "Darn you, plumber man!" she yelled, then pulled out her spear and threw it onto the ground in rage.

"Yaaaay. Now this is what I feel like writing about." I said to myself as I watched Pittoo roll around.

Mario sat up at the sound of all the yelling. He took off his hat and scratched his head. Why were they yelling at him?

I let go of Peach and pushed pass Lucina. I walked over to Mario and bent down to face him. I tapped his nose and said, "You spilled about HMS, you silly plumber man."

His threw his hands to his face as he jumped to his feet. "Oh, a-no!" he exclaimed, facing me. "I'mma a so a-sorry! I didn't mean to say whatever I just a-said! I'm really bad at keeping secrets! Almost as bad as I am at telling a-jokes!"

"Pfffft! You don't need to apologize to me." I replied, resting an elbow on one of his shoulders and leaning in a way I hoped was cool. "At least you didn't let that other Happy Mask secret slip. That would of been a disaster!"

Mario looked at me with a confused look plastered on his face. "The HMS forced us all to live out here in order to be closer to Termina, making it easier for us to steal stuff for him secret; or the If we don't doing everything he says he takes one of us away as punishment to never be seen again, and so far he has used Ben Drowned has taken" Mario did a quick gasp for air. "Ryu, Marth, Young Link, Little Mac, and Link secret?"

In order to keep myself from laughing at the look on Lucina's dumbfounded face in the background, I gave Mario a very deadpan look. "Yeeeeees." I answered in a mischievous tone as a smile spread over my face.

Mario caught on to the tone of my voice and took it as a hint that he once again blew it. "Mama mia." He whispered to himself as he lied down.

But before he could even rethink his mere existence, Lucina -still on her knees- shuffles on over to him, grabbed the collar of his shirt, and pulled him up to her eye level. "I wanted to be the one to tell all and ruin everything, but of course you found a way to ruin THAT too, hu?" she snarled at him through her teeth.

I stepped back so Dark Pit could roll over to Lucina and try to pull her away from poor old Mario, who looked like her aged five years just by looking directly into Lucina's enraged filled eyes. "Now now, my dear. Let the fella go." he said as he took hold of both of her arms and tried to pull her away. "He ain't worth getting angry over, and you know it."

As Peach ran over to Mario's aid, Lucina slowly turned to face Dark Pit. "Yeah. I do know." she answered rather slowly. "But what he has put to motion is worth anyone's anger."

Right before Lucina even finished saying that, the land around them began to grow dark. Rain clouds quickly rolled in and hid the sun, making everything look gloomy and depressing. The wind picked up and began ruining everyone's hair. Even a bunch of birds stared circling over us, sing The Song of Healing backwards once again.

"Oh, crap." Peach declared under her breath.

As everyone began to panic like they were at a disco, I just stood at the sidelines, stoking my chin as I thought out loud. "So let me see if I got all of the facts right: HMS forced all of you -you four and the other five Smashers I've sent out- to live out here" I motioned to the wilderness around us. "so you could be closer to Termina and can easily steal stuff from there for the bastard. And the only reason you agree to such ridiculousness is because if you don't do his bidding, he has Bed Drowned come and take a Smasher to never be seen again. Am I right?"

"Who cares?" Dark Pit screamed as he jumped to his feet. "One of us might di-"

"Answer me, Flappy!" I interrupted the anti-hero.

Before he look up at the sky and scream his head off, Peach pushed him aside. "Yes," she answered me. "you got everything right."

I placed my hands on my hips and stared at the now-bad*** princess. "Really?" I asked. "Why the heck would you guys let an old creep like HMS boss you around?"

"Oh, because he was going to kill all of us if we didn't go along with him." Dark Pit answered, while Lucina was handing him the spear she threw earlier and pushing him towards me. "The guy is crazy good at causing people to suddenly light on fire."

"Or, right." I said as the birds over head sang even louder. I shoved my hands into my front pockets. "That is quite the persuasion."

Suddenly, over the thick of the woods, appeared Bed Drowned, surrounded by mysterious fog. Mario gasped at the sight of the statue, then passed out; luckily he was already on the ground so he didn't really fall. Lucina yelled curses at the sky as she swung her sword up and down, hitting the dirt like it was trying to attack her. Peach made some kind of whimpering sound as she picked up Mario and held him close. Dark Pit just face planted himself to the earth - his belly over Lucina's lap, his face on the dirt- and hoped if he just ignore that thing, this time it'll just go away.

As the wind grew stronger, I stood next to them and watched their reactions. I saw the fear in their eyes as they broke down and tried to handle their emotions. I could feel the dread in the air; them knowing that, once again, one of them were going to be taken away and might never be seen again, but not knowing who. I could tell that each one feared that it could be them that could be taken; or worst, the one they cared about.

Lucina looked up at me. I could tell she was on the edge of crying, but she didn't want to. She knew if she did, she might not stop. She placed a hand on Pittoo's back and rubbed back and forth, comforting him. She had already lost her distant relative and hero, Marth, to that thing known as Ben Drowned, she didn't want to lose her boyfriend to it too. For one brief moment, I saw what was hidden under her angry expressions.

I saw a face constructed out of utter brokenness.

But then the moment ended, and her face was once again masked with anger and coldness. "WHAT? ARE JUST GOING TO STAND THERE?" she once again was yelling at me. "YOU CAUSED THIS, WRITER! DO SOMETHING, DAMN IT!"

I...

Okay.

I looked away from the small group, not wanting to face them. I pulled out my New 3DS and my stylus. Slowly but surely, I typed out what I wanted.

FLASH! Out of thin air came a quick bolt of light and a loud ripping. "AURGH! BY 'SOMETHING', I DIDN'T MEAN BLIND ALL OF US!" screamed Lucina as she made sure Dark Pit wouldn't pull his face out of the ground.

"Oh, my!" was all Peach could say as the light engulfed the area.

After a few seconds, the light dimmed, revealing what I like to call a rip in time. A somewhat huge blue oval with a blue-ish green swirl going around and around inside it, floating in thin air, practically beckoning someone -anyone- to jump on in.

Ben Drowned, with his ever-infamous blank glare, somehow saw what I just typed up and imminently knew what it was. He disappeared; just so he could get closer to it.

I noticed his absence. Crap. I better hurry up.

Dark Pit finally lifted his head out of the dirt. The first thing he saw was the oval thingy. "What... Is that a portal?" he asked as he sat up. "I freaking magi-"

"NOPE!" I exclaimed, cutting him off as I lifted him and Mario up and over to the oval. "It's a SCIENCE portal! Yup! Science! I want nothing to do with magic, so I'm putting it on record as a science-y portal! Yay science! Science science science science..." I chanted the word "science" over and over again until I threw the two into said SCIENCE portal.

"MARIO!" exclaimed Peach, imminently getting up and jumping into the portal after the plumber.

I watch the three plummet into the swirl. Mario still out cold, Pittoo flailing his arms about, and Peach lunging towards Mario like a football player. I sighed, then turned around to find myself face-to-face with Lucina's sword.

Her expression was sheer anger; the most anger anyone could emote. "Where. The HELL THAT PORTAL GO!" she yelled at me, sweat flying every time she pronounced a word.

I stared at the sharp tip of her sword for a second, taking in the fact that I just might be facing death here. But then I was able to look pass said sword and look the wrath-stricken princess in the eyes. "A dump." I answered, right before ducking down, throwing myself towards Lucina's knee, colliding with said knees, causing her to fall forward, into the portal.

"SCREW YOOOOOOOU!" she screamed as the portal closed behind her.

"I'm miss you already," I snapped my fingers as the oval disappeared.

The moment that portal was completely gone was the moment Ben Drowned reappeared. He stood where the portal once was, his signature grin seeming a bit off, like he was disappointed or something. The wind picked up as more fog came in, making it so if you wanted to land a plane in this area, you couldn't.

"Hey." I said to the creepy statue as I walked over to it. I motioned to Ben's hands. "Put your arms out." I told him.

The statue disappeared at my request; only to reappear in the exact same place, now with his hands out and his arms wide open. I jumped up and landed in his arms. "Okay, Benny!" I exclaimed as I made myself comfortable. "I'm the one you're taking today! Carry me to Happy Mask's land of doom for Smashers!"

I'm so glad Bed Drowned can't talk, because I could tell just from his grin that he had so many questions.

POOF! He disappeared with me in his arms.

Meanwhile, at Smash Mansion...

"Pika pik! Pika pika piiiiiik!" Pikachu sang in the tune of Jingle Bells as he danced into the Mansion's pub. He held onto the Santa hat he was wearing as he spun around and around. "Pika pika, pika pika! Pika pika piiiiiiiik!"

From his seat at the bar, Cloud lifted his cup towards the electric type as a toast to Pikachu's Christmas spirit. "Ho ho ho to you, Pokémon... Thingy." he said before downing the drink.

Pikachu turned to Cloud and did a bow. "Pik pika!" he said, adjusting his hat. He did a little jump and proceeded to dance about and sing.

Jack Sparrow stood behind the bar, leaning against a liquor cabinet. "Bloody hell, is someone singing again?" he asked, holding onto the cabinet like it was the only thing keeping him upright. "What did I say about singing in the pub?"

In the booth closest to the exit, Snake and Bayonette raised their drinks into the air and sang out, "Not to sing in the puuuuuub! Do not sing in the puuuuuuuuub!"

Jack's migraine worsened at the very sound of the pub's love birds singing again. "Oh, damn it all..." he said to himself as he let go of the cabinet and lied down on the floor. "Damn it aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall..." he sung out drunkenly as he slowly slipped into unconsciousness.

Pikachu jumped over Jack's unconscious body and continued to be a healthy kind of merry. Suddenly, he stopped dancing, posed in front of the main entrance of the pub, and exclaimed, "PIKACHU PIKA PIKA!"

The doors flew open as Ness and Larry burst onto the scene, decked out in Christmas attire, and holding Christmas décor. "CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAAS!" the two yelled out as the began running around, throwing decorations everywhere, turning the place into a drunk-people-smelling Christmas wonderland.

"What the heck!" exclaimed Cloud as Pikachu pulled a can of fake snow out of his Santa hat and began spraying it all over him.

"Oh, they do this every year." Snake said while he and his girlfriend tried to dodge the candy canes Larry was throwing at them. "Every December, on a random day before Christmas, these three suddenly start decorating the mansion with red and green. Last year they almost burned down this damn place."

"-And it was fun!" Ness added, standing on the bar. "Happy Birthday, Jesus! Yeeeeah!" he jumped down and threw red streamers everywhere.

It was a good thing he got off the bar when he did. Because suddenly, out of thin air, Lucina, Dark Pit, Peach, and Mario fell onto it.

"WHAT THE F***!" screamed Cloud, shocked by the sudden fact his drink came with a side of Smashers. He leaned back on impulse and fell off his chair and onto the floor.

Dark Pit, who was underneath Lucina, looked over and saw Cloud's overly-confused face. "Hey," he waved at his fellow Smasher. "Are you new?"

Cloud stared at the anti-hero for a moment, trying to make sense of what just happened. But he decided screw that, ignored Dark Pit, and rolled on over to the Snake and Bayonetta's booth. "What the heck was that?" he asked, lying on his belly, pointing at the pile of Smashers on the bar counter.

"No idea." answered Snake, finishing off his beer. "I'm guessing portal travel. But those four are Smashers like us, and they've been gone for a awfully long time."

"Like a year," Larry chipped in as he rode pass, with Ness on his back, chucking Christmas tree ordainments everywhere.

Pikachu stopped spraying the place and looked up at the counter. He saw Dark Pit just lying there on his side, with Lucina's head resting on him. She muttering something like, "Screw her, screw her, screw her," over and over again to herself with her eyes closed, seeming not aware that the portal traveling was over. Peach was lying on her back, relieved that she and Mario were safe, with Mario in her arms, finally conscious again, relieved that they were finally home.

"PIKA!" Pikachu exclaimed as he jumped from a bar stool to the counter, rushing up to Mario, his fellow Original Seven, and gave him a big hug. Mario hugged back without having to let go of Peach. The three looked very happy.

"Why, hello there! Welcome back!" Bayonetta wiggled her fingers at the pile of Smashers.

"Long time no see, you guys." Snake said, standing up to walk over to the pile of Smashers. "Some of us have missed you; and some of us haven't. Heh heh." The spy rubbed the back of his neck in uncomfortable-ness.

"Heeeeey," Ness said as he ran up and climbed onto a stool. "Where's Link? And Little Mac? Where's everyone?"

Snake looked over the pile of Smashers. "Yeah... And where's our writer, Ants? She went out to find all of you. Where is she? Did you see her?"

Lucina slowly raised her head at the sound of the last question. She locked eyes with Snake and sneered, "Oh you have no f***ing idea,"

This chapter is literally the size of three chapters. MERRY CHRISTMAS! YEEEEEAH!

So, I hope you all like this one. I realize that it got really dark halfway through, and it's got me questioning myself. Has my writing gotten darker lately? *Rereads again and snorts at the very thought of Jack Sparrow being at freaking Smash Mansion* Then again, maybe I'm fine...

Hey, if you want, please let me know through a review and/or PM a name of a video games you looove. I'd like to know what games you guys are into for a chapter I'm writing later -besides Super Smash Bros, of course. From Mega Man to Hello Neighbor, please let me know!

Shout out to DjBennyD! Thank you soooo much for being such a huge fan of the fanfic! Oh, and to answer your question about where I get my inspiration and such, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I've been wondering that myself! I kinda just come up with a idea, and just wing it. If something works, I got with it. If that something leads me to a writers block, I just come up with something else that works and I want to write and then go with that.

As for the fate of the rest of the Smashers... You're just going to have to wait and see... *Tries to do evil laugh, but instead coughs like a car horn.*

Thanks you all again for reading! I hope you have a merry Christmas! God bless you all!