"Now I shall give Smash despair... or so I hoped"

Hero, Samus and Richter were overthrown by Galeem. The Lord of Light had already knocked out King K. Rool, Bowser Jr. and Pikachu, but the rest remained to be finished: Mario, Rosalina, Zelda, Mewtwo, Shulk, Inkling, Cloud, Sonic, Banjo and Kazooie. He started to charge energy to shoot his pulverizing light beams, but the sound of a blade was heard and the charge stopped, leaving the Smashers surprised.

Suddenly, Galeem got dark, split in half and started turning to dust along with his army of Master Hands. The fighters spotted a dark figure behind the defeated enemy, in the sky.

—Sephirot?—said Cloud, incredulous. Galeem totally evaporated and the group could see better. Sephirot, Cloud's archenemy, had descended for battle.

—I've been waiting for this moment—spoke him, raising his right hand and making the sky become dark. —Now I shall give Smash despair.

Other competitors, like Snake, Corrin, Chrom, Terry, Sheik, Captain Falcon, Marth, Incineroar, Dark Pit, Ike, Megaman, Greninja and Bayonetta, arrived to see the strength of the newcomer. They all tried to hit Sephirot, but were retaliated by the immense Masamune he brandished with impressive dexterity.

—No, wait!—Cloud requested.

—Pathetic—Sephirot mocked, after taking a minor damage caused by Terry and Chrom, the only ones who could hit him. A black angel wing appeared on his back and he threw a Mega Flare on his opponents, hitting whoever had been caught by the explosion. Greninja and Bayonetta emerged from the smoke to try an attack, but failed.

Sephirot flew very fast to hit Mario, but someone was faster: a pink figure stood between the plumber and the angel and grabbed, with bare hands, the Masamune.

—Don't you dare!—said the figure, looking fiercely to Sephirot.

—Princess!—Mario could exclaim.

—Look out, Peach!—warned Zelda.

Link, Young Link, Toon Link, Zero and Alucard, Peach's brothers of consideration, arrived, with weapons in hand, to help her, while she still held the blade and struggled to not be stabbed by it. A long and dark arm came out of the regent's body and punched Sephirot's belly, which was thrown away. The enemy regained his balance still in the air and fell on his feet.

—Is he your relative?—asked Link to Alucard, pointing to Sephirot.

—Never even saw—answered, bored.

—Are you sure?—Link insisted, chuckling.

—I am—stated the vampire, slightly irritated.

—Now it's getting interesting—said the One-Winged Angel. —You look a little stronger than them—pointed to the knocked out and weakened Smashers. —Princess Peach, right?

—Yes—confirmed her, unfriendly, unraveling Exor. —And who are you?

—Interesting blade—commented. —My name is Sephirot. Come, face me!

Cloud joined the Links, Zero and Alucard to pay attention. Like them, he couldn't move to interfere in the fight, despite being his archenemy. He felt that Sephirot had messed with someone he shouldn't have.

—Who is he, Cloud?—asked Zero.

—Sephirot. An old enemy, very powerful—replied.

—Very powerful how much?—inquired Alucard.

—Much more than Galeem, it seems.

—More than the Shadow Queen?—Link asked.

—... Perhaps as much as.

Sparks flew from Exor and Masamune's blades as Peach and Sephirot duelled, alternating, very fast, between attack, defense and counter attack. At a certain moment, the swordsman was faster and punctured her belly.

—NOOO!—Cloud and Mario shouted together. Realizing the first one wanted to advance in Sephirot, Link held him by the shoulder and said:

—Calm down, this is no tragedy. Wait and see.

Peach gave a little mocking smile. Again, a long and dark arm came out of the princess' body to punch the angel, but this time he dodged, leaving the sword pierced through her body. The arm removed the sword and threw it on the owner, who caught it without difficult. A pink barrier wrapped Peach, restored the internal organs and closed the wound. There was no scar.

—Hmm... a regenerator—concluded Sephirot.

—Amazing!—Cloud said, astonished.

—Our little sister is a regenerator—told Alucard to Cloud. —Believe me, we already tried to destroy her body by every possible method and we couldn't. She regenerates herself even from dust or ashes if she wants to.

—Shadow Queen got furious with us!—remembered Toon Link, laughing, making Young Link laugh too. —She threatened to kill us because she didn't want us to spoil her vessel.

—What is this inside of you?—Sephirot asked to Peach. "Is that why I can't read her mind?", he thought. "There is something very powerful inside this woman. I can't read the minds of those five either", he looked to the Links, Zero and Alucard. "In that case...".

—What are you looking at, you big vulture?—joked Young Link. Sephirot covered himself with his wing and started to shine. Instants later, he changed his shape to Safer Sephirot and conjured:

—Supernova.

—Oh no!—Cloud regretted.

"Use the Dark Prognosticus", advised Shadow Queen to Peach. She agreed and conjured up a black book, which opened and turned the pages until it reached the center. A black hole came out of it, fixed itself in the sky and begun to expand non-stop. An earthquake began and alarmed all the spectators.

—We are going to die!—Banjo panicked. Kazooie hid in her backpack, fearful.

—How… how did you get this book?—Mario questioned, recognizing the object.

—It's hers, she wrote it—replied Peach, referring to the Shadow Queen, making the plumber's chin fall off. —By the way—continued, now in the queen's spectral voice—those two Pits in Flipside and Flopside are mine too. Later I'll tell you about all the legacy I left before being arrested in the Palace of Shadow.

In an instant, the black hole generated by the book covered the whole sky and the horizon, until it was immeasurably larger than the Earth. Sephirot's Supernova was approaching the planet and threatened to disintegrate it. However, the vacuum swallowed the explosion and the two disappeared. Everything was calm and silent again.

The One-Winged Angel started to get angry with the princess. He hoped to terrorize everyone, especially Cloud, his archenemy, but he didn't expected to find someone with so much strength. He returned to his human form, calmed down and gave a debauched smile.

—You know what? Culex was harder than you—Peach stated to Sephirot, but he didn't sketched out a reaction. He knew she was trying to provoke him for trying to kill Mario.

—Are your "brothers" as strong as you are?—he asked, curious.

—Wanna try?—asked Zero, provocative, drawing the Lotus Saber and walking to where Peach was. The others also started to walk next to the princess. Link carrying the Royal Claymore, Young Link taking the Fierce Deity's Mask, Toon Link with the Phantom Hourglass in hand and Alucard carrying his mother's sword and another one he didn't even needed to draw to cut someone. They forgot Cloud. The other Smashers got expectative with the new round that was about to come. Now the snake was going to smoke.