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BGM: World 4 Map (Super Mario 3D Land)
"Pan… daia?" Pyrrha asked as they were walking through.
"Yeah, it was so weird… it felt like I've seen that person before." Ruby said. "It could've been deja vu in a dream, but I could be wrong."
"Hmm…" Nora rubbed her chin. "That's highly suspicious."
"Exactly what Ibuki's thing." Ibuki nodded.
"Daia… Daia… Dora?" Chiaki tilted her head. "Wait, no, Pandora's not one for snakes." She folded her arms. "Unless she gained a fascination for 'em."
"Maybe it's a hybrid. Someone fused with Pandora Dragon Ball Z style." Tucker pointed out.
"Kamehameha!" Caboose suddenly blurted out. "Over nine thousand!"
"She was a bimbo." Yang said. "Seriously, she was showing off her breasts like it was no big deal, it's like the middle was only covered!"
"Oooh, were they spaghetti straps?" Tucker asked, earning a smack upside the head from Simmons. "Ooof!"
"I doubt it."
"The blade she had was highly venomous. It was enough for Weiss to beg us to kill her just so she could get away from the pain." Pit said.
"You want to know what it felt like? Imagine getting hit by Pikachu's Thunderbolt, only it felt like ten times stronger, and it burned."
"Oh my word…" Rosalina whispered.
"Goodness, that sounds awful." Dorothea said.
"It was, and trust me, the only thing I could think of was either "cut my whole arm off" or just put me out of my misery." Weiss shuddered.
"Glad Lady Palutena fixed you up." Pit smiled.
"Regardless, I have a feeling we need to stay vigilant the next time she arrives." Isa said.
"Yeah, definitely for the best." Lea nodded as they found themselves walking out of the forest as they would then see a mountain in front of them.
End BGM
BGM: World 5 Map (Super Mario 3D Land)
"Are we seriously going to have to climb that?" Grif asked.
"Get your hikin' boots on, Grif. We're gonna hike our way to the top!" Sarge exclaimed. "And we're gonna put our flags on top where it will most likely be snowing and extremely cold. Some of you might die."
"That's Mount Everest…" Chiaki sweatdropped. "Thankfully, this is a lower elevation, like really lower."
"Ooooh, sure, but where's your imagination!" Sarge chuckled as he walked off while Grif let out a groan.
"This is nothing for us." Luigi said with Mario nodded.
"Gee, I wonder why?" Blake teased as they walked ahead.
End BGM
World 5-1: Mountaineering
BGM: Mount Lineland (Super Paper Mario)
As soon as they got to the base of the mountain, they would see a ? Block up ahead as Mario hit it and a few Boomerang Flowers popped out. Ruby's eyes sparkled and took one for herself as the Bros and Ibuki grabbed it.
A few Grimm Pokeys popped out of the ground as Ruby smirked and threw her own scythe while Ibuki threw her guitar, knocking them all out as they returned to their owners. "Woo! That was awesome!" Ibuki grinned.
"…I don't know what's more terrifying. A scythe boomerang or a guitar boomerang." Chiaki said.
"Could be worse. It could be a doubled sided scythe boomerang." Laxus said with a shrug while Gloria decided to go into her Alolan Marowak form. "Or whatever the Scot is going to do."
"Or, ya know, a Masamune Boomerang." Tifa chimed in.
Cloud sweatdropped. "Let's not give Sephiroth ideas…"
"Yeeeeah, I don't want to get bisected, thank you very much." Aerith grimaced at the thought as they started to climb, where a Grimm Pokey popped out and shot out its thorns, but Rosalina put a force field as Ruby cut off their heads.
Grif, meanwhile, spotted a Warp Pipe in a small cave. "Oh good!" He eagerly walked toward the Warp Pipe and hopped in, finding himself a 1-Up that he took for himself, then he walked through, picking up a few coins as he walked to the other Warp Pipe. "Please be at the peak of the mountain, please be at the peak of the mountain…" He hoped as he walked inside.
He would then pop out of the Warp Pipe and looked below. "Aha! I can see the bottom from here. I'm at the peak!"
"If this is what you call the peak, then how do you explain the rest of the mountain?" Sarge asked as Grif turned his head to see everyone else, and then looked up to see the rest of the mountain.
"I ONLY WENT UP A FEW FEET?!"
"So much for that shortcut, eh?" Simmons teased.
"Oh shut the fuck up, Simmons!" Grif yelled, where Summer had covered the Faunus's ears juuuust in case if Grif predictably shot back at Simmons with a curse word.
"Don't think he needs to hear that." Summer said as the boy curiously tilted his head before shrugging it off, then they proceeded to climb some more where they found a girder that tilted when someone stepped on it.
Some people cautiously walked around it while maintaining their balance, Ruby simply used her semblance to get across, Summer, Rosalina and Xena simply floated across while everyone else walked across, with only Grif and Ibuki falling off, the latter doing it on purpose just to hit the P Switch and collected the musical notes to give herself a free 1-Up.
"Worth it~!" Ibuki smiled as she walked across while Grif made it around the second time, then they would round the corner and would see Tailed Grimm Thwomps jumping around and shooting out large spikes the moment they touched the ground.
"Oh great, just when I thought the other Grimm Thwomps were bad enough, they got Tanooki Tails!" Yang groaned, then with a flash of Silver Eyes from both Roses, they turned to stone in mid air and fell to the grounnd, shattering upon hitting the ground.
"Not anymore~!" Ruby smiled, high fiving her mother as they walked across a small clearing as two Sandmaarghs ambushed them from the ground, only to get knocked out when Shovel Knight dug his shovel into their heads, then they walked through a door where they found a sandy elevator and once they all stood on it, it rose to the top.
"Oh good, I can take a breather… give these barking dogs a rest!" Grif said.
"Wait… considering there's a lot of us here…" Chiaki looked up to see holes on the sides of the walls. "Oh, that's right, spike balls are gonna be shooting at us." She grimaced, but Rosalina simply used force fields to block them.
"Not anymore." Rosalina smiled.
"Well, that beats getting bowled over like pins." Donut said as Sandmaarghs popped in uninvited but were quickly disposed of as they reached the peak.
"Huzzah! We're at the peak!" Grif exclaimed.
"Almost. Just a few more steps." Mario said as they hopped up while also taking care of some Grimm Pokeys, and then they would see a cannon that shot straight toward the flagpole.
"We're not seriously shooting toward the flag, are we?" Grif asked.
"We are~!" Ibuki smiled as one by one, they blasted off as Mario snagged the top of the flagpole as everyone else grabbed it and hopped down, while Grif missed it by a few inches and smacked right into a wall.
"OOOOF!" Grif yelped as he fell on his back.
"Grif! You were supposed to shoot at the tip of the flagpole, not over it, ya numnut!" Sarge scolded.
"Oh shut up…" Grif groaned.
End BGM
"Alright, where to next?" Weiss asked as they would see a cavern up ahead.
"Guess we're going in there." Blake said as they walked into the cavern.
World 5-2: Did Someone Say "Dungeon"?
BGM: Temple (Super Smash Bros Melee)
As soon as they walked in, they were met with Keese dive bombing them, but they were quickly disposed of. Mario hit a ? Block as a few Fire Flowers popped out as Yang snagged one for herself while Daisy and Nora snagged the others.
"Alright, fiery crystals~!" Daisy smiled as they walked into the next room where a few Stalfos awaited them as they would slash at them with their swords, only for Laxus to obliterate them.
"This is interesting… usually you see dungeons in Hyrule." Luigi said.
"Perhaps we have a few of our own?" Mario guessed as they climbed up and walked around a spike trap as most of them hopped down toward the center, yet Shovel and Shield Knight got curious about the door on the right as they walked through, where they found a cell door and four torches.
Shovel Knight brought out his Flare Wand and shot at the four pillars with a few fireballs, igniting them as the cell door opened up.
*Legend of Zelda Puzzle Solved jingle*
"…What was that?" Shield Knight wondered.
"You heard that too? I thought it was in my head." Shovel Knight said as they walked inside where they would find a room filled with Red and Purple Rupees. Both of their eyes lit up as they happily collected them and stored them in a bag, then they would see two boxes. The two of them destroyed the boxes as oe box held a few silver and gold rupees… while the other box held a few Rupoors, which was enough to make Shield Knight disgusted.
"Hmhmhmhm…" Shovel Knight hummed as he stored the bigger Rupees in the bag. "You going to collect those?"
"I don't know…" Shield Knight picked one up. "I feel a massive amount of negativity just holding this."
"Oh, nonsense. It's probably nothing." Shovel Knight took it off of her hands and stared at it. He then threw it to the ground and pulled out his anchor, slamming it on the Rupoor until it was nothing but shards as he did it on the other Rupoors as well where Shield Knight used her shield to destroy one that was next to her foot. "These things held a great evil… now they can hurt no one anymore."
"Indeed. …So! Shall we head off?"
"We shall!" Shovel Knight nodded as the two of them walked off to catch up with the others where they were fending off Grimm Lizalfos as Chiaki slashed one into the lava pit below.
"Good riddance." Chiaki said as she turned her head to see the Knights approaching. "Oh hey, treasure hunting?"
"Yup. Found a room filled with precious jewels." Shield Knight said.
"Cool!" She smiled as they walked along where they would see a rolling spike bar going across the ground, or at least, it was until Rosalina stopped it in its tracks as they walked ahead safely before going into the doorway, where a few Grimm Lizalfos and Moblins proceeded to charge at them, but Mario kicked a boulder into a Moblin, smacking it into the chest as it backed up and nearly fell into a lava pit, stumbling and flailing its arms to try and steady itself… and a lava plume came shooting up and incinerated it where its remains fell into the lava.
As for the rest of the Grimm, they were obliterated after Byleth, Cloud and Nora took care of them. They would then move around the lava pit while taking care of some Fire Keese that dive bombed them, only for Dorothea and Ven to destroy them.
"Interesting how the Keese aren't Grimm…" Chiaki said.
"Perhaps they didn't feel like it." Ibuki chuckled as they kept walking until they walked into a large room.
End BGM
As soon as they walked in, a hand burst out of the ground and then another until a Grimm Hinox rose from the ground and roared at them. The Grimm Hinox in particular had a helmet for its eye, protecting it just in case… however there were slits in the helmet where one could probably make the shot, but the probability was low.
BGM: Intense Battle Against the Hinox (Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity)
One Eyed Behemoth - Grimm Hinox
The Hinox picked up a chunk of the ground and threw it at team RWBY, but they dodged as Ruby rushed at the Grimm and slashed it while Pyrrha launched fireballs at it. The Hinox raised its foot and slammed it into the ground as bone spikes rose out of it and nearly impaled Ruby hadn't she gotten out of the way in time.
Sarge aimed his shotgun and fired at the Hinox as did the rest of the Reds and Blues, while Summer conjured up a ball and chain and threw it, slamming it into the gigantic Grimm's gut while Weiss fired ice lasers from her Orbitars.
Carmen clapped her hands, doing a few handsigns before unleashing Death Blossom on the giant beast where Yuffie unleashed a Blizzaga spell with Aerith and Red joining in. The Hinox pulled out a massive bone to act like a club as it swung down and produced miniature shockwaves that knocked Aerith off of her feet, but she quickly recovered and rolled out of the way to avoid getting crushed by it.
Cloud rushed in and slashed at the Hinox, but it parried him… however Barret shot out a barrage of bullets to make the Hinox flinch as Cloud recovered and cross slashed it, then Ibuki strummed her guitar as Chiaki, STRQ, Maia and Blake felt themselves get powered up as Chiaki, decked out in Doom Armor, shot at the beast with the Plasma Rifle as Tai unleashed Draconic Fire where Summer shoved the ball and chain into his gut as both Qrow and Raven launched over and slashed at the giant Grimm while Maia clapped her hands and unleashed a powerful tornado that ripped through the Grimm and knocked it on its butt.
Nora zipped over to the shoulder blade of the Hinox and readied her hammer, swinging it down on the helmet while Dorothea used an Elfire attack on it and Jaune water slashed it where Ren ran around and shot at it, all the while Nora readied herself and swung the hammer down on the helmet, cracking it. The Hinox let out a roar as it tried to shake Nora off of it but Nora gave it another swing to fully shatter the helmet.
"Alright, lay into it!" Nora smiled as she jumped off right as Xion zipped her way over and slashed the eyeball where Lea threw his chakrams at it as the sharp edges impaled the Grimm and Isa threw his weapon at it, then Ven unleashed Fission Firaga, the Mario Bros jumped in to hammer it, Daisy threw a fiery crystal javelin that exploded and embedded sharp tiny crystals in it, Nyx fired Bomb Arrows, Umber shot out electric balls, Shield Knight threw her shield, Rosalina dropped a comet at it, Gloria used Bonemerang, Yang used a Hadoken, Blake shot it with Plasma Beams, Pit fired an arrow, Dark Pit used his Dark Pit Staff and Byleth fired an arrow from Failnaught.
"Yikes… I almost feel kinda bad for it." Chiaki said.
"Well, when your weak spot is exposed, might as well go full ham on it." Ibuki giggled as Laxus lunged at the Grimm and electric punched it in the eyeball hard enough to make the eye shoot out from behind the skull as it hit the wall and bounced off, where it fell into a lava pit.
As for the Grimm itself, it fell on its back and faded away into nothing.
End BGM
"That's how you do it." Laxus dusted his hands off as everyone cheered for the Hinox's defeat.
"…Okay, where's the treasure chest?" Chiaki wondered before it dawned on her. "Oh, right, I'm not actually playing Zelda." She giggled as Ibuki let out a laugh as they walked out of the dungeon where they would see a flagpole up ahead as Mario took it for himself.
"Alright, where to next!" Yuffie smiled as they headed off to the next area, where a Warp Box took them to an area just above the mountaintops.
World 5-3: Moving Platforms Over the Mountains
BGM: Athletic (Super Mario 3D Land)
"Ooooh, this is a pretty view!" Ruby smiled as Weiss looked down to see spike pits at the bottom, causing her to sweatdrop.
"Yeah… depends on your point of view." Weiss said as they walked on the platforms, however the moving platforms were too small for everyone. However, thanks to a ! Block, more popped up for everyone.
As they were carried along the path, spike bars rotated around to try and hit the group, but they would move or jump out of the way, as there were some donut blocks available in case they needed to get out of the way, especially considering there were spike walls in the way too.
To make matters worse, Bill Blasters were locked and loaded, shooting out Grimm Bills at them, forcing them to take them out while avoiding the shrapnel. They would then hop on to some stable platforms that had some Swaphoppers walking around with some Goombas looking at the heroes in confusion. They headed to a pendulum type of platform that swung them across the way as they jumped to some moving platforms that rose up to another stable platform.
Dorothea spotted a pole where at the top, she would see a rainbow note block. WIth a smile, she ran over and started to climb up before hopping off and launching up into the air, happily singing to herself as she skipped along the clouds. Some Biddy Buds were attracted to her song as they happily followed her.
"Hmm?" Dorothea turned around and saw the Biddy Buds hopping up and down in excitement. "Oh, I didn't realize I had some fans!" She said, snagging a 1-Up at the end as she waved at them, playfully blowing a kiss at them that made them blush as she hopped down. "Look out below!"
Byleth looked up and raised her hands up, catching her fiance. "Got ya!"
Dorothea giggled. "Nice catch~" She said, getting put down and kissed Byleth on the cheek as they hopped on a platform together, both of them casually avoiding spike bars and shooting down Grimm Bills as they made it to the other side while taking out some Grimm Fire Piranha Plants as they hopped over on the swinging platform and hopped over to the flagpole where Blake had already taken it.
End BGM
"Alright! Let's see what else this mountain has in store for us!" Sarge said as they all started to walk… but then the ground underneath Grif started to cave in.
"What the-" The ground caved in and Grif fell. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
"Huh? Grif! Look what your fat ass did! You broke the mountain!" Sarge said.
"FUUUUUUUCK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!" His voice faded into the dark.
"Welp! Grif is dead, let's keep going on without-"
THUD!
"Oooooow… I'm okaaaaaaaaaaaay…"
"Drat!"
"Huh… so that's how World 5-4 starts…" Chiaki mused. I guess Mario jumped into a pit in the game… She thought.
"Well, let's see what awaits us down there!" Ibuki smiled.
"You guys aren't seriously-" They all started to jump in, causing Weiss to sweatdrop. "Well… why not." She shrugged as she jumped down with them.
Meanwhile, back at World 5-1…
A Boomerang Flower sprouted from the ground as Sephiroth landed next to it and picked it up, he absorbed it and not only did he gain a silver helmet and armor, he noticed Masamune curving just a little bit. "Hmm…" He mused as he threw Masamune like a boomerang, harshly cutting through any Pokey that wandered around before it returned to him, catching the hilt.
"Hmhmhm. I like this."
Ibuki: Well, that's not terrifying at all. Boomerang Sephiroth?!
Yeah, pretty funny, eh?
Ibuki: A little bit. Good luck, Cloud-chan...