The Good Old Memories

By: Lovely girl 10

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the story.

A/N: This chapter is dedicated as a retelling of Super Smash Brothers 64 1st Player Mode.

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Chapter 11- Getting out of their prison

(In the present)

Ganondorf, Wolf, Bowser and Wario were running along a race track in pursuit of getting out of the way before the cars caught up to them. This was the most exercise they have gotten. As if they thought the Wii Fit Trainer's physical activity was bad enough to whip them up into shape. They managed to find the door to escape back into before the cars could smother them and Bowser closes the door, slumping to the floor as the rest of the villains were panting in relief on the ground.

Ganondorf coughed as he was trying to get his breath back. "Okay, I think its safe to say that the secret hideout is NOT in Captain Falcon's door."

"It could have helped if we thought about that before we went in there!" Wario complains as he tried to stand up but due to his exhaustion from the running slams to the ground to try to get his breathing under control.

"Maybe we should try out another door and see if we can catch a break." Wolf says as he walks over to one of the doors he and the others have yet to go through. There was still Kirby's door, Samus' door, and Jiggleypuff's door. "I think there won't be a problem with the pink puffballs so if I were you I'd check out one of their rooms."

"We will try Kirby's first, then if he doesn't have the secret hideout we will try Jiggleypuff's." Bowser nods his head in agreement, moving toward Kirby's door to open it. Bowser raises his hand up to keep the others from walking in as he checks to see what's inside. Kirby's door seems to hold a way to outer space, although opposite from Fox's door this version holds nothing but stars. No nearby planets, or anything is inside of Kirby's door. Bowser closes Kirby's door, feeling relieved that he and his crew didn't fall for another trick from the heroes. "Okay, let's see what Jiggleypuff has."

Wolf sighs in relief. "Good thing we are being more cautious this time. One of these heroes better hold the secret hideout they are keeping from us." When Bowser opens Jiggleypuff's door, they could see another part of the forest, although they don't know where exactly this door leads to in the forest exactly. On one of the stumps the villains found a tape recorder.

"Someone must have accidently left this behind." Wario said as he examines it, trying to find any strings attached to it. "It doesn't look like the tape recorder is a trap or anything."

"Let's take a seat next to the stump so that we can take a break for a while." Ganondorf said as the villains found some spots to sit in. "Make yourself useful Wario and play something with that tape recorder. I think Jiggleypuff wouldn't have anything to do with it other than collect it for something."

Wario nods curtly and looks over it to find the play button. Once he found it he clicks on it to see what kind of music will play inside. All of the villains' eyes perk up in shock when they heard Jiggleypuff's singing inside of the recorder. In all of their years of being in Smash Brothers, they knew that one close encounter with Jiggleypuff while it is singing will cause the fighter to go to sleep. Unfortunately for the villains, they weren't quick enough to get rid of the tape recorder for after when Wario threw the item away from them, they each fell asleep next to the tree stump. Bowser was snoring loudly in his sleep. Ganondorf was fumbling in his sleep to find something to cuddle with and he found Bowser's sleeping form instead. Wario was lying face up toward the sky snoring as if he were trying to chomp on some garlic. Wolf snuggled up in a little circle like a lone wolf sleeping in his cave.

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(In the past)

Darkness was all that Captain Falcon could see as he was locked in this strange new prison he was in. He wondered how long it was since he was last outside of the mansion. How long was it since he last battled in the smash tournament? Where are the other fighters in this horrid bleak place? Never before has Captain Falcon ever been afraid of anything. Not even Blood Falcon could dream about torturing him in this nightmare.

For a moment he was surrounded by nothing but the dark, until his body was taken out from the toy chest and dropped onto a table. It was then that the jump-starter on his suit began to beep as if on a countdown from five to one and it exploded on contact, sending an electrical current coursing through the racers body and it made him jump up. He landed on his feet and opened his eyes to his new surroundings. He raised his right hand up to his helmet and rubs it. "Uh! My head!" He winces in pain.

He took a moment to see that he was on the table where as if by magic changed into a dark hallway. He realized at the moment he was small enough to be the size of a plush doll. "I got shrunk. That... TWO HANDED SON OF A DOUBLE CROSSER DID THIS TO ME!" He rages at the situation he was in, shaking his fist in the air and gritting his teeth. He couldn't wait to get his hands on Master Hand for doing this to him! And to the others who were trapped here as much as him! He frowned sadly as he wondered whether he was too late or not. "Wherever that hand is, he is probably long gone by now. What am I thinking? I can't give up hope in saving the other fighters! If any one of them were in my shoes at the moment, they would risk anything to come help save each one of their teammates! I have to go find them!"

He sprints forth into the darkness of the hallway, bypassing everything in his path as he searches for any sign of the heroes he had come to befriend. He passed over some of the weapons that were lying to the side and he wondered how long it would take to catch up to where Master Hand was hiding. Finally he found what looked to be in the distance a door. He stopped right next to it and opened it up.

The landscape he saw took his breath away. He was at the top of Hyrule Castle once again. Captain Falcon took a small breath to stay calm in his new surroundings. If he was in a battlefield that looks like Hyrule, then Link would be here. He spotted a blue light forming a circle on the white platform in front of him, seeing a figure flying down from the light and land on his feet. He expected as much from the Hero of Time, but as Captain Falcon took a closer look at his friend, he realized that something about the hero's gaze feels... uncomfortable. Link looks like he got hypnotized, his blue eyes held a vacant look as if he were sleep walking and is not aware of his surroundings. A dark aura is swirling around him, a form of corruption has taken hold of him.

Captain Falcon, aware of the uncomfortable change in his friend, crouches his knees in a battle stance and waves his hand in front of him, gesturing for Link to come at him and yells. "Show me your moves!"

The battle went on like the one when Link and Captain Falcon first got introduced into the tournament, only for this one Captain Falcon was sure that he needs to outmaneuver Link in all of his tricks. He can only hope to get close enough to snap Link out of it. The racer knew to dodge Link's sword attacks from his stabbing combo moves to his finishing blows. He even manages to dodge the boomerang and the bombs here and there, but he wasn't prepared for when Link decided to use his shield attack, mainly to push Captain Falcon away for a moment before stabbing his sword into the racers side.

It then got intense as Link did a sideways somersault to get to Captain Falcons backside and slash him from behind, but Captain Falcon kicks him in the gut with his Falcon Kick move. Link then tried to use his shield attack on the racer again, only to try to jump on top of him to slice his head with the sword before landing back down. Thankfully Captain Falcon dodged that attack as he tries to convince Link to stop fighting, fresh blood was flowing from the wound on his side. "Link! Its me, Captain Falcon. I'm not here to fight you!"

Link didn't say anything as he holds his sword up like he was holding onto a bat or something and Captain Falcon knew that he was going to try to do a big attack that will cause damage to his opponent. Captain Falcon backed away a couple of feet before Link could attack him, making him miss as he went in to punch and kick the Hero of Time. "Link! Snap out of it!" Captain Falcon cries out in authority, preparing his hand to slap the Hylian back to his senses.

But before he could, Link kicks him in his groin and makes Captain Falcon wince in pain from it all. With his opponent vulnerable, Link then grabs him and kicks him to the side, making him slam into one of the building towers. Captain Falcon coughs in annoyance as he mutters. "Why isn't this battle a stamina challenge instead of a regular one?" Something blinks on the building behind him and he turns to see what it was. Two pictures, one with Captain Falcon's and the other Links had different percent numbers on the bottom of the scoreboard. Link's was at 75% and Captain Falcon's was 50%, and at the side of the percent numbers was the word stamina, confirming what the racer wanted to know.

Captain Falcon grunts as he quickly dodges another attack from Link. In his thoughts he wondered if he could use this fight as revenge for when Link defeated him, but he will have to suffice in trying to save Link first. Revenge can wait in the next tournament, if there is ever going to be a new one after this battle for their lives. A couple of dodges and sneak attacks here and there allowed Captain Falcon to knock down Link's stamina to 50% and it is getting as low as 35% before Link decides that is enough and knocks Captain Falcon back by using his shield to push him away. Captain Falcon was kind of impressed by how strong Link's arm power was behind that shield as he staggers a bit to stand up straight.

Captain Falcon tries again to snap Link out of the trance he was in. "Link! Snap out of it! You are the Hero of Time for blue falcon's sake! You need to wake up!" He dodges another slash from Link's sword and grabs Link by his collar, slapping him in the face a few times before Link pushes away from him. Link's stamina now read 15%, but in his distraction Captain Falcon didn't notice Link igniting a bomb and threw it toward him, causing him to lose some of his own stamina and knocking it down to 10%.

Captain Falcon was getting a little tired from this fight, but he kept going until the end, knocking Link off his feet with a Falcon Kick and Link returned the attack by trying to slash his sword into Captain Falcon's face. Captain Falcon briefly dodged that attack by stopping Link's sword a few inches away from his face and holds his hands in between the sword to keep it from moving. However, by keeping the sword between his palms, his gloves were drawing blood.

Then while holding the sword with his left hand, Captain Falcon charges up the flames in his right hand, shouting on the top of his lungs. "FALCON PUNCH!" Link wasn't quick enough to dodge the attack and he fell down to the ground, panting from exhaustion and Captain Falcon took his chance to put the jump-starter on Link's hat as he quickly ran toward the boy and grabs him to keep him from fading away along with the background of the battlefield. He was afraid that if he wasn't quick enough to rescue Link from being possessed again by Master Hand he would have to search for his friends again. He could tell that the possession from Link was gone the moment the jump-starter did its magic and gave him a good jolt of electrical energy as he saw the Triforce on Link's left hand glow amid the darkness.

While the dark background gave very little light, Captain Falcon watches Link on the ground, preparing himself in case Link ends up attacking him again while under possession. But as Link groans and opens his eyes, wincing in pain from the headache he got, the vacant gaze was gone. His eyes were back to normal. "Uh! What happened?" Link mutters as he felt a sharp of pain in his arms and legs.

"Welcome back Link. I almost thought I lost you to Master Hand's corruption." Captain Falcon said as he helps Link to stand up on his feet, taking the jump-starter off of his hat.

"Corruption? What do you mean by that?" Link asks, puzzled.

"You were not yourself after when you were defeated in the tournament. Master Hand must have planned for all of us to fall in line as his slaves to fight in his arenas like gladiators. He planned this all along and all of us twelve fighters fell for it! I almost barely couldn't get you out of that hypnosis you were under." Captain Falcon explains, seeing that the Hero of Time's eyes grew wide in shock.

"Then that means... Fox was right when he tried to warn me, D.K. and Mario!" Link mentions. "He said that you felt something bad was going to happen at the tournament." Link broke off from looking at Captain Falcon.

Captain Falcon could barely contain his smile knowing that Fox would try to help him out in whatever way he could. "Yes, I told him that if something bad happened to me that he should at least warn you of my suspicions. I don't know where he or the other fighters are, but I will continue my search for them in this hallway. You can find a way out of here if you wish and flee from this place Link."

Upon mentioning that he is free to flee, Link shakes his head while putting away his sword and shield. "It's too dangerous to go alone! I shall help you out in finding the other fighters as well. Besides, with two of us fighting together it should be a breeze in fighting our opponents." Captain Falcon nods in agreement, kind of happy that he doesn't have to go by himself. No wonder this young man is a hero! He is showing his courage and humble attitude in the face of danger.

They walked together in the hallway until they found another door. Link spotted an egg design on the door and he points it out. "Yoshi must be held hostage here!" Captain Falcon opened the door and jumps onto the island with Link following after him.

"Get your sword out Link. We might have some uninvited company." Captain Falcon warns gently. Link nods and takes out his Master Sword and shield, putting his back toward the racer as they watch for any sign of Yoshi.

They can briefly see in the clouds some pictures of them and their symbols hiding behind them. Then there was Yoshi's picture, with eighteen smaller pictures of the dinosaurs face in different colors. Both of the heroes cocked their eyebrows in confusion. In the eighteen Yoshi's three of them have different colors each; Green, red, yellow, dark blue and light blue, and pink. Link notes the difference and says to Captain Falcon. "I think it would be safe to say we can get rid of the other colored Yoshi's first and then see which of the green Yoshi's is the real one." Captain Falcon nods, understanding what needs to be done as they brace for the next fight.

Throughout five minutes of the fight, Link and Captain Falcon made it pretty easy in taking out the fifteen colored Yoshi's. The pink ones weren't really all that tough which made them the easiest to take out. Out of the light blue ones, two of them accidentally jumped off the stage, which confused the heroes for a bit until they decided to just go with the flow. The last light blue one tried to hide in the egg for a long time before Captain Falcon and Link broke the shell apart and sent the Yoshi clone flying out of the arena. The yellow ones were a little bit of trouble but Link and Captain Falcon teamed up in giving them some combo hits to send them off the stage. The dark blue Yoshi's and the red Yoshi's gave the heroes some problems as they refused to be sent out of the arena and kept on causing them trouble in the fight, but after a minute of dealing with them the heroes were left with the green Yoshi's. Immediately Link spotted the difference between the real Yoshi from the clones. "There he is!" He shouts with relief. The real Yoshi was bright green while the other two were like a ghostly shade of light green.

"Don't get too excited yet Link, I can see that Yoshi is not himself. Look in the eyes!" Captain Falcon studies the vacant and hypnotic look in Yoshi's eyes showing that he is being controlled by Master Hand. "We need to get close enough so that we can snap him out of the trance and once we are finished with the arena we are in, make sure to keep him put where he is with us."

Link nods. "Understood. We better get rid of the other clones surrounding him." He noticed that the two other green Yoshi's were trying to walk in front of the real Yoshi as if to shield him from the heroes.

The two heroes went to work on slashing and punching the two lighter green Yoshi's and managed to knock them out of the arena. The real Yoshi was left alone and Captain Falcon and Link ganged up on him to snap him out of the possession Master Hand had on him. Since that the battle was not a stamina fight, Captain Falcon wondered how on earth they were going to get Yoshi out of the fight they were in without sending off an alarm to Master Hand that something was up. Link thought up an idea to trick the system, making the arena think that Link took out Yoshi by making him fall off the stage, but Link will use his long-shot to get himself and Yoshi back up on the stage in secret. But Captain Falcon informs Link to put the jump-starter on Yoshi's head while he is doing it and watches in silence as Link accomplishes that goal on his own. He almost thought Link's plan wasn't going to work but he succeeded to save Yoshi before the timer ran out.

As Yoshi's Island reverted back to the dark hallway soon as the battle was over, Captain Falcon went to help Link and Yoshi get back up to ground level and examine the dinosaur. Taking the jump-starter off Yoshi's head as the dinosaur was breathing heavily from all of the fighting that went on and he had a sleepy look in his eyes, showing the two heroes that the cute little dinosaur was back to his old self.

"Well Yoshi is back on our side." Link said, sighing in relief from the fight that went on to find Mario's steed and friend. Yoshi blinks his eyes in confusion at first before his eyes widen in surprise, speaking in his language about something that neither Captain Falcon or Link could understand. "I'm sorry Yoshi, we can't understand what you are saying. If Fox, Mario, Luigi or Samus was around they would know what you are trying to say." Yoshi looked pretty bummed that Link and Captain Falcon couldn't understand him but he stands up and gestures for the boys to ride on his back. "Are you sure you are alright to do that? You did get banged up pretty well when we were trying to snap you out of your trance." Yoshi nods, reassuring them that he can handle it.

Captain Falcon jumps on Yoshi's back first before Link gently gets on the dinosaur like he would climb up on a horse. "This feels really weird in my experience. I have always rode in cars, never have I taken a ride on a dinosaur before." Captain Falcon said sheepishly as he tries to make sure he doesn't slip off. "How does Mario and Luigi know how to stay on all the time?"

"If you thought riding a dinosaur was tough, try riding Epona! I heard from my friend Malon that my horse could be hard to wrangle if the right trainer doesn't calm her down with her favorite song." Link said, lightening up the mood.

They resumed their walk down the dark hallway as soon as Yoshi's Island faded from view. The heroes kept their eyes peeled for any new door that would lead them to rescue another one of their friends. The question would be who will they encounter next; Captain Falcon was hoping to bump into Mario and Luigi soon, along with Samus. He wanted to have Samus on the team for she is a very deadly asset when she wants to be. On the other hand he wanted to find Mario so that he can strangle that plumber for dismissing his earlier warning. Yoshi most likely would want to find Mario, Luigi and D.K. as much as possible since that they are his friends. Link hopes to find either Ness, Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Kirby, or Fox.

They found another door in the dark hallway with the symbol of a flying dog, or a flying fox as the heroes probably figured, and they open it to see a spaceship flying in outer space. "This is Sector Z." Link notes as he reads on the door before jumping onto the stage. Yoshi spotted some jets, perhaps arwings, flying in the distance.

One of the arwings flew close to the spaceship but misses in a graceful sweep. Link, Captain Falcon and Yoshi tense up in their battle positions as they noticed the fighter coming out of the arwing and standing up straight for them to see who it was. Captain Falcon mutters under his breath. "Fox." He could feel a dark aura resonating around Fox McCloud as he saw the eyes narrow in a glare that said Fox was ready to hunt them down one by one. Unlike Yoshi and Link who had vacant trancelike eyes, Captain Falcon sees that Fox's held a more sinister look in his stare.

"Be ready guys," Link warns. "You need to be fast on your feet against him. Fox is fast enough to knock you down if you are not careful." Yoshi nods as he raises his arms up as if ready to punch some sense into Fox. Captain Falcon quickly looks around to see if he can find the roster pictures anywhere in Fox's stage, sure enough he found Links, Yoshi's and his hiding on the side of the huge airship with Fox's. There was no sign of this battle being focused on stamina. Either the name of that battle wasn't there or Master Hand was trying to trick them into thinking it was something else. The cold jolt of realization ran up and down Captain Falcon's spine as he wonders if Master Hand was planning on making the smash fighters fight to the death and then reuse them like puppets on strings. He almost wanted to puke at the thought.

Captain Falcon quickly whispers to Link. "Do you think you can trick the arena again by holding onto Fox and grabbing on the edge of the stage with your hook-shot?" Before Link could answer, Yoshi shook his head as if to tell the fighters that it is a very long way down in outer space. They had better things to worry about at the moment because Fox was taking out his blaster gun and aiming it for the heroes, a determined look was written on his face.

Link went to the front of the line to shield his friends from the on-slot of shots coming from Fox. An idea came to Captain Falcon's head as he whispers. "Good thinking Link! How about you keep your shield up and walk straight toward him while he is still firing?" Link nods as they figured out a plan of action. Yoshi takes out one of his eggs, gesturing to the pair that he can aim the eggs for an aerial attack to catch Fox by surprise.

With this in mind Link slowly makes his way toward Fox while holding his shield up. Yoshi takes a swing and lands his egg right on top of Fox's head making an explosion that made the pilot stop in his tracks on shooting at the heroes. Captain Falcon races out from under Link's shield and rushes toward Fox, intending on slamming him to the ground and snapping him out of the trance he was in, but as soon as he slammed his opponent on the ground Fox did a backward somersault and threw Captain Falcon off of his feet. 'No wonder Link said Fox was fast. He is very perceptive even while under possession.' Captain Falcon thought to himself and lands on his feet from the throw.

Fox proved to be quite difficult to reach as he gave the three heroes a problem. He was fast enough to outrun Captain Falcon's punches and kicks, even fast enough to dodge Link's sword slashes and the bombs. It didn't help either that when Link tried to use his boomerang on him, Fox used his reflector shield to turn it against its user. Yoshi had no idea of what to do to help the heroes at first but then he decides to use his tongue as the mechanism that might save the boys some trouble. Captain Falcon barely deflected Fox's Firefox move with his Falcon Punch, making the fire cancel each other out. Yoshi used that moment of distraction to stick his tongue out to grab Fox, but somehow either by hearing what's behind him or his instincts were telling him something was up, Fox jumps out of Yoshi's way and the dinosaur accidentally grabs Captain Falcon by mistake, holding the racer in his mouth before swallowing and turning him into an egg in the process.

Link used his hook-shot to grab Fox while he was focusing on aiming his gun toward Yoshi, catching Fox off guard and pulling him toward the Hero of Time. While holding on with one hand, Link uses his other hand to try to slap Fox back into reality. "Fox! Its us, you need to snap out of it!" Fox didn't listen as he grabs onto Link and throws him forwards, almost making Link slip off the stage as he was getting dangerously close to the edge.

Yoshi manages to help Captain Falcon break out of the egg he was caught in with the racer sighing in relief. "Note to self, do not make any egg shaped race cars for it is tight and uncomfortable!" He briefly jots that down on his notes before continuing to fight with Fox. He was quick enough to pull Fox away from Link as the brainwashed fox was intent on pushing Link off the stage. Fox wasn't pleased by this and he wrestled in Captain Falcons grasp, sending a sharp kick toward his left leg. The racer winces in pain, wondering if Fox's boots were made of metal.

Yoshi makes a second attempt to catch Fox with his tongue, this time succeeding as he takes Fox away from the racers grip and into his mouth. Yoshi swallows and turns Fox into an egg. The egg was swishing around back and forth in a effort to break out from the inside. Captain Falcon was a bit grossed out from the trick Yoshi did and made a little face. "Uh! Never thought I would see Yoshi's appetite work out for us." It didn't take long for Captain Falcon to eat his words as Fox breaks out from the egg and swiftly kicks him in the gut, making the pilot fly in a backward somersault.

"Enough Fox!" Link shouts in rage as he grabs onto Fox tightly by the shoulder blades from behind, wrapping his arms over Fox's as he was struggling to get free. Despite the numerous attempts to kick Link's legs and his gut or his attempts to bite Link's arms to make him let go, Fox was trapped in Link's tight grip, each one wrestling for control of the fight. Meanwhile Link reaches toward Fox's forehead with his left hand while keeping his grip tight on Fox and the Triforce glows so brightly that it blinded Captain Falcon and Yoshi's line of sight as they hear Fox's scream of pain. But was it pain from the battle scars he got, or was it the pain of the possession being taken away? It seemed to Captain Falcon that Link held some purifying magic in his Triforce piece that was able to banish the evil from within Fox's being. Something that Master Hand can't stand perhaps?

Fox wasn't fighting Link off anymore and he slumped in Link's grip, fainting from the magic taking away his energy. The battle arena faded into the dark hallway once more as Captain Falcon sighs in relief that the battle was indeed a stamina one. For a few minutes Link, Captain Falcon and Yoshi didn't make an attempt to move for fear that they would make Fox fight against them again, even if he was knocked out cold. Link puts Fox down on the ground and waits in silence in case the possession didn't leave.

A few minutes later Fox moves to try standing up but struggled to steady his hands on the ground as he groans in pain, shaking his head in a effort to snap out of it. The sinister look in his eyes was gone. Fox looks around in confusion with a tired look in his eyes. "Captain Falcon? Link? Yoshi? Where are we?"

"I can't really say for sure where we are Fox. But its good that you are back on our side." Captain Falcon said as he knelt down to give Fox a hand in standing back up. Link tries to stretch out his arms in the air a bit as Captain Falcon pats Link on the shoulder, giving him a thumbs up. "Nice job in using your Triforce magic to get Fox back on our side Link!"

Link cocks his eyebrows in confusion as he lifts up his left hand to see what the racer was talking about. "I didn't think that I would have magic as strong as Princess Zelda's. I don't know how that happened."

Yoshi looked like he wanted to say something to Link and spoke in his language, making Captain Falcon and Link shake their heads to tell the dinosaur they don't understand what he said. Fox appeared intrigued by what Yoshi was saying as he presses a device he took out from his pocket to figure out a translation. "What Yoshi is trying to say is that perhaps we can use Link's magic along with the jump-starter Captain Falcon has to steal back the other fighters from Master Hands control. And judging by how all four of us are now free, Master Hand will be tightening his grip on the other fighters to make sure he doesn't lose his toys."

Captain Falcon looked amazed that he looked frantically from Fox to Yoshi and back again. "How can you possibly know what Yoshi is saying Fox?"

Fox gestures to the small remote device in his hand. "Slippy gave me a translating device to communicate with animals. We are hoping to communicate with dinosaurs pretty soon."

Link goes over to Yoshi and pats him on the head. "Well, at least we now know what he is talking about. We better get going through this hallway and see who we can rescue next." Yoshi leads the way with Link riding on his back. He offered for Fox to join him for the ride for he didn't want Fox to get himself hurt after sustaining damage from the last fight he was in.

Fox turned it down politely. "Thanks for the offer Link, but I can walk on my own."

While walking alongside Fox, Captain Falcon wondered out loud. "Don't you feel tired at all from the fight Fox? We beat you up pretty good and we almost got exhausted from trying to snap you out of it."

Fox considered what his friend was saying as he thinks it over carefully. "I honestly don't feel tired at all. I don't even remember being possessed, like the whole fight was nothing more but a dream. Once I start moving I can get myself back into shape."

"I wonder if the others will feel that way since we are now all shrunk to doll size. How will we ever get out of this mess we got ourselves into?" Captain Falcon mentions as he hopes that the rest of his friends will hang in there for them to be rescued.

"For now, lets focus on freeing the other fighters and then we will deal with Master Hand when the time comes." Fox said with authority like a leader keeping his team calm in the midst of a storm.

"By the way," Captain Falcon pats Fox on the shoulder. "Have you warned Mario or D.K. about what was going on?"

"Link listened to me since he told me he can see into the future with his dreams, but Mario was more harder to knock some sense into. I didn't get a chance to speak to D.K. about it." Fox answers. Captain Falcon smiles gratefully as he thanks Fox for trying to help.

They spotted a new door in the hallway and they opened it to see a castle in the distance, quite possibly meaning that Mario and Luigi will be there. "Okay, um, who should go up against the Mario Brothers?" Captain Falcon questions.

Fox almost raised his hand up, but Yoshi beats him to it, jumping into the ring while the three fighters watched from the distance. For a brief moment, Captain Falcon thought he could see someone was coming up to join Yoshi in a team battle against the Mario Brothers. A puff of smoke came up next to Yoshi and a black figure rubs off the dust from his body. It was Ness.

Fox checks on his scanner to see what was going on with Ness while Mario and Luigi sprang up from their pipes on the opposite side of the arena. "It looks like Ness is chosen as an alley in the fight against the Mario Brothers."

"I'll get my hook-shot ready in case we have to rescue Ness when he is sent flying out the arena." Link states as he positions the hook-shot in his left hand. "The only problem we have left is who is going to catch Mario and Luigi."

They watch the ongoing fight that Yoshi, Ness and the Mario Brothers were in. It took quite a while for Yoshi to figure out how to get around Mario and Luigi's defenses but luckily he recognizes when they would either shoot a fireball at him or when they were going to do their power jump attacks. Yoshi did have to keep an eye on Ness and make sure he doesn't fly out of the arena, even though Fox and Link calls from the door to reassure the dinosaur that they will be there to catch him if anything happens. Yoshi made a little mistake in catching Mario with his tongue and shoots him out of the arena while he was busy fighting against Luigi. The dinosaur manages to kick Luigi over to Captain Falcon and Link who were waiting by the door out to the hallway. Meanwhile Link used his hook-shot to rescue Ness when he accidentally got blown away by a wandering bob-omb that collided against him. Yoshi tried to fix his mistake in getting Mario back in the arena but the timer went out. It was too late to rescue Mario from the possession he was under as he vanished in the sky as the arena faded to black. Back in the dark hallway once more, Yoshi joined with the rest of the fighters to see how far they have gotten with freeing Ness and Luigi. With the light coming from the Triforce, Link purifies Ness just by touching him on his cap. Captain Falcon slaps the jump-starter on Luigi's nose to knock him back to his senses, making him jolt from the shock it gave.

Ness rubs his eyes as if he just woke up from a deep sleep. "Uh! What are you guys doing here? Where are we?"

"Ouch! My nose!" Luigi cries in pain as Captain Falcon takes the jump starter off the green plumbers nose. "Mama mia that hurt!"

"I apologize for that Luigi," Captain Falcon said as he pats Luigi's shoulder. "Welcome back to the team boys."

Luigi shakes his head to see if he was dreaming for a moment but then he cries into Captain Falcon's shoulder. "Ah! I am just so glad to finally be free from that horrible prison! When Master Hand said that he had something special for me, Ness, Yoshi, Kirby and Samus I thought that we would get some sort of prize for doing our best in the tournament...But it was all a lie! He imprisoned us as dolls to be used again and again in a fight!"

"I don't know about you Luigi but if I was given a choice between Master Hand or Gigyas I would rather pick Gigyas since I know what to expect from him!" Ness said as he was shivering from the cold hallway. He summons some fire on his fingertips to try to warm himself up.

"No way that guy is tough! Try Ganondorf! He is literally the King of Evil and he has quite a lot of power at his disposal." Link comments to Ness.

Yoshi said something in the conversation while Fox translates for him, "Yoshi says the toughest bad guy for him was baby Bowser. But as for me if you guys expect a tough bad guy in space, try Andross. I have never forgiven that deranged ape ever since he killed my father!"

"Alright boys, lets get going and find the rest of our friends." Captain Falcon said as he breaks off their topic of conversation and starts leading them through the dark hallway, preferring to keep going. "Mario has got to be around here somewhere so we need to keep looking!"

Upon the mention of his brother, Luigi joins up with Captain Falcon in the front of the group as he calls down the hallway. "M-M-Mario!" Ness and Link joins in on calling Samus, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Kirby and D.K. before they got to a new door with the image of a ball in the center.

Captain Falcon and Fox opens up the door to see a city on the other side. Captain Falcon almost thought that they made it out early than intended in getting out of the mansion, but Fox searches with his scanner device on his left eye. "This is Saffron City alright, but I have a feeling that this is another arena that Master Hand expects us to fight in." He clarifies.

They jumped down from the door and land on the rooftops of Saffron City. No people were at the bottom of the stage as far as the heroes could tell but there was a revolving door that showed different kinds of creatures who would come out at random. A pink egg-like creature called out "Chansey!", making Ness and Yoshi jump in surprise as the Chansey drops some eggs at the door and then leaves the heroes at peace. "Why did that creature say Chansey?" Ness asks curiously as he and the rest of the heroes see a sign at the door with different animals.

Fox scans the area first before responding. "Chansey is one of the 150 pokemon. And according to the sign here, there is also a Charmander, Electrode, Porygon, and a Venusaur."

"What about some of those birds flying around the arena?" Link points out what appears to be a butterfly, a pigeon, a vulture or hawk like pokemon and a bird with flames on its wings.

Fox replies as he scans them in the distance. "Butterfree, Pidgey, Fearow and Moltres. Moltres is one of the rare legendary pokemon according to some sources."

Captain Falcon just stares in awe at the pokemon he and the gang are seeing. He even took off his helmet shades on his eyes to get a better look for a moment and then puts the shades back down. "How ingenious! I wouldn't know where to start on catching some of them! This makes me want to just venture in Pikachu and Jigglypuff's world and see more of their friends!"

Ness points out to Captain Falcon. "You usually start with choosing either a grass type, water type or fire type, at least that is what I hear you have to do in collecting pokemon. I would choose Charmander for my first pokemon if I lived in Saffron City."

Link curiously asks, "Is the Charmander like a dodongo? Who are the other two you need to choose?" Ness cocks an eyebrow in confusion over the dodongo comment but lists the other pokemon as Bulbasaur and Squirtle. Link's eyes grew wide when Ness explains that the grass type is a dinosaur with a plant bulb on its back and the water type is a cute blue turtle.

But speaking of pokemon, the heroes heard the sound of two pokeballs slamming on the ground. As soon as they locked their eyes on the balls the ball breaks apart and a light shines through, showing the shadow figures of Pikachu and Jigglypuff. The heroes could see that the two pokemon were not acting like themselves. A dark aura is swimming around them and their eyes held a dark gaze as Pikachu charges up the lightning in its cheeks and Jigglypuff puffs up to intimidate the gang.

Ness turns to Captain Falcon, Link, Yoshi and Fox. "Let me and Luigi take care of Pikachu and Jigglypuff. You guys can go on ahead and try to find the rest of our friends."

Captain Falcon was not sure about leaving the kid and the green plumber alone to fend for themselves yet. "Are you sure?" Ness nods his head as he reassures his friend. With this in mind Captain Falcon, Fox, Link and Yoshi made a head start back up to the dark hallway as they left Ness and Luigi to rescue Pikachu and Jigglypuff.

It didn't take long for the rest of the heroes to find another door in the hallway leading straight to Donkey Kong. It may not be Mario but with D.K.'s brawn on the battlefield that could be used to the heroes' advantage in fighting against Master Hand later on. They opened the door to go inside of the Kongo Jungle and upon spotting a giant D.K. barrel on top of one of the platforms, the heroes thought that maybe just sending one of them in the arena won't be good enough to fight against a brainwashed D.K. Link decided he will go to face D.K., with Captain Falcon and Fox helping out as they jumped down from the door and land on the floor with Yoshi watching from the distance.

As soon as the three heroes landed on the floor, the giant D.K. barrel exploded, revealing D.K., but while the heroes thought that the gorilla was untouched by any sort of magic it appeared that Master Hand gave D.K. a whole new gigantic look to him. D.K. was almost as big as the stage itself. "Here we go guys..." Link says as he, Fox and Captain Falcon charge at the giant D.K., ready to start the fight.

At first it appeared that no matter how many attacks Link, Fox and Captain Falcon come up with, the giant D.K. wasn't fazed from the punches and kicks. They did have to watch out for the incoming punches and ground pounds. At one point Link trips on his feet and fell to the ground as Fox and Captain Falcon gave the gorilla a good punch and kick in the guts respectively. But D.K. used that as an advantage to grab Captain Falcon in a attempt to throw him out of the arena. Link acts quickly as he rolls around the giant gorilla and lifts up D.K., using his golden gauntlets once more to keep D.K. from giving a finishing blow to one of his friends. D.K. lets go of Captain Falcon as Link throws him to the opposite side of the arena. Captain Falcon cheers, "Nice Link! Now see if you can keep D.K. still with Fox's help so that I can get the jump starter on him and snap him out of it."

Link sprints toward D.K. and holds him in a tight grip while Fox used this moment to knock D.K. in the head to try to knock down his stamina and make him too tired to fight back. While Link was holding the gorilla, Captain Falcon sprints toward D.K.'s face and places the jump-starter on the forehead. It instantly works as the jump-starter gives off a huge shock, almost about electrocuting the gorilla in the process before he was knocked unconscious from the fight. His growth spurt when he was a giant went in reverse to his actual size. As soon as D.K. was back to his normal size, Link lets go of the gorilla, letting him lay down on his side. The jungle stage faded from the heroes line of sight as they reappeared in the dark hallway with Yoshi, Ness and Luigi waiting for them. With the gang was the newly rescued Pikachu and Jigglypuff, who looked a bit tired but trying to shake it off.

"Hey Ness, did everything go okay in your battle?" Link questions as he goes over to see if Pikachu and Jigglypuff were alright.

Ness nods his head and shrugs his shoulders. "Yeah! Funny thing is... Luigi and I used some of the pokeballs that were lying around the battlefield and we used those to help get Pikachu and Jigglypuff to snap out of it."

Luigi explains how it all went down. " There was a total of twelve pokeballs so Ness and I gathered up six for each of us. Ness threw one of them on the floor next to Jigglypuff and out came this creature that looks like Bowser only blue and has water guns on his shell instead of spikes and it began to pound both Jigglypuff and Pikachu with the water. I threw my first pokeball and the creature that came out was a cat that was shooting out coins around itself. Pikachu was going to try to attack me but I took cover underneath the coin throwing cat and it took care of Pikachu for me. Ness threw his second pokeball and he got a dragon that looked a lot like that Charmander but bigger and he was shooting fire at Pikachu and Jigglypuff. My second pokeball had a weird looking pokemon with springy legs and it swung itself at Jigglypuff with one big kick. Ness' third pokeball had a fish flapping around the battlefield saying 'goldeen', but that one didn't help us out very much in the fight. My third pokeball had a grey star pokemon that was flying in the air and shooting out star beams. Our fourth pokeballs had two creatures that was saying coughing and shooting out smoke around us and a flying pokemon that said mew. The fifth pokeballs had a creature that looks like Jigglypuff but looked more like a fairy type and it was copying what the blue bowser was doing before and there was a HUGE pokemon that was snoring and soaring high in the air for a moment before it came down crushing Pikachu and Jigglypuff on the ground. Our last pokeballs had a huge snake made out of rocks flying in the air and causing an avalanche of rocks around the battlefield and a bee creature that flew off for one moment and then coming back with some of its friends and attacked Pikachu and Jigglypuff like a swarm." He had to take a breath to calm down from the excitement of the fight. "I don't know what kind of pokemon they were but they helped us out in getting Pikachu and Jigglypuff back to their senses."

Fox researches what Luigi was talking about with his little device next to his eye and then responds. "What you guys actually saw was as listed: Snorlax, Charizard, Blastoise, Onix, Goldeen, Beedrill, Meowth, Clefairy, Hitmonlee, Koffing with a "K" not a "C", Starmie and one of the legendary pokemon named Mew." Link was holding his head in his hands as he looks at Fox with a concerned look on his face. Probably wondering how Fox even knows all about those pokemon. "Slippy likes watching the pokemon tournaments so if you are wondering where I got that knowledge from, its from him." Fox explains simply.

Captain Falcon could see that D.K. is twitching his hands, signifying that he is waking up. D.K. stands up and covers his head as if he got dizzy. "Hey D.K. Are you feeling okay?" Captain Falcon asks softly.

D.K. snaps out of his dizzy trance as he looks around in confusion at the heroes in front of him. The gorilla gives the heroes a thumbs up and shows off his smile. "Okay!" After getting himself situated with the rest of the heroes, D.K. narrows his eyes and tries to sniff the air and scratch his head. "Where the bananas Donkey was promised by hand? Donkey so confused."

Ness had to tell D.K. the bad news as gently as he can. "Sorry to rain on your parade Donkey Kong, but Master Hand tricked us by promising us some prizes for the tournament."

D.K. cocks his eyes in confusion, but then he beats his chest five times in anger. "Did K. Rool put the hand up to do this?! Donkey will make him suffer for messing with bananas!"

"I don't know who K. Rool is, but I think the hand did this on his own." Captain Falcon clarifies. "As for the bananas D.K. how about I treat you to some banana splits as soon as this whole battle is over?" D.K. pats him on the back, though the force of the pat made him stumble a few steps before he regained control to stand.

"Donkey not familiar with banana splits, but Donkey will try some with friends." D.K. smiles gratefully as he howls and beats his chest in happiness.

"Come on everyone!" Fox tells everyone as he starts walking in the hall once more with Link close beside him. "Let's keep going. We still have to find Kirby, Mario and Samus." As they resume their walking, Luigi offers Ness, Pikachu and Jigglypuff to ride on Yoshi while he walks beside them. D.K. followed behind the rest of the heroes to act as a bodyguard for anything that might come up from behind.

They came upon another door which has a star on the center. Link was confused by what symbol the star could mean for either one of the team members who needs rescuing. "That door could have either Samus or Kirby behind there." He mentions out loud. "But I am not sure of who among them has the star for their symbol."

"I don't see Samus having anything to do with stars besides riding through space in the galaxies." Luigi guesses, scratching his mustache. "My gut says that the star symbol goes with Kirby." The other heroes nod their heads in agreement with Luigi.

"Okay, but who should we send into the door to rescue Kirby?" Ness asks as he looks at each of the heroes with him. "Luigi and I can go if any of you don't want to. We didn't use up any energy in getting Pikachu and Jigglypuff back on our side."

D.K. raises his hand up and said. "Donkey go and get pink puffball to wake up." He goes eagerly to the door and starts to open it, showing Dreamland where Fox and Kirby first had their fight in the tournament. D.K. jumps to the center stage and watches for any sign of Kirby. He heard a small thump on top of the log platform above him. The gorilla didn't know what that would be but he hoped it was Kirby coming out from hiding. The rest of the heroes who are waiting by the door could see that Kirby did indeed appear on the platform, but he was not himself. Kirby had a dark aura surrounding him and his eyes held a vacant stare. But the main thing the heroes noticed was that Kirby had Mario's hat on his head. Then another small thump lands on the left log platform on the stage, showing another Kirby, this one had brown fur with a curl on top its head. Only the small pink arms and the face were shown amidst the fur.

Captain Falcon scratches his head in confusion. "What happened with Kirby? Why is there two of them?"

"I think the Kirby in the fur is supposed to represent Donkey Kong." Ness notes in observation. "I might have a feeling that Donkey Kong is going to fight a team full of Kirby's much like how Yoshi did in my fight with him at the start of the tournament."

"I hope Donkey knows what he needs to do." Fox scans the area quickly as he responds. "He is going to have to fight about twelve Kirby's and make sure that we rescue the original."

"Maybe this can help him get rid of the imposters quickly." Luigi suggests an idea as he leans down on his knees, cups his hands around his mouth and calls down to D.K. "Hey Donkey Kong! Those Kirby's stole your bananas!" The rest of the heroes didn't know what to make of Luigi's attempt to get the battle with Kirby finished before it even started, but thankfully it perked up D.K.'s interest and he smiles threateningly at the brainwashed Kirby's. What came out after that was a bloodbath that the heroes had to watch.

First, Donkey gave a vicious slap on the Kirby with the Mario hat and sent him flying out of the arena as fast as lightning. The Kirby with D.K.'s fur charged up his version of the charged up punch, D.K. countered it with his own and overpowered the imposter and slaps him into the air, sending him far away from the arena much like the Mario Kirby's unfortunate fate. Two more Kirby's appeared after the first two were finished off; these two had Link's hat and Samus' helmet. Even though they had the boomerang and the charged up laser to their advantage, they were no match for D.K. and his huge powerhouse of attacks as he slams them to the ground and bounces them up to the air before he delivers a kick in the air to make them fly down the cliffs until they vanish from sight. D.K. manages to get himself back up to the stage by swinging his arms in a circular motion to fly back to his starting position. Meanwhile at the door as they were watching on the sidelines, Link, Ness, Yoshi and the pokemon were watching with wide eyes and watching D.K.'s every move. Fox covered his mouth in shock and twitches his ears nervously, even his tail froze in fright. Captain Falcon was whooping and cheering for D.K. while trying to sing a rap song about him. "DK! Donkey Kong! DK! He's bigger! He's faster! And stronger too!"

The next two Kirby's that came were equipped with a Yoshi hat and a hat that Fox recognizes as a piece of his headwear. However, despite their advantage of having Yoshi's tongue and Fox's blaster, they were no match for an angry gorilla in a bowtie who wants his bananas. The next two Kirby's had different headwear to symbolize Pikachu and Jigglypuff; one with a Pikachu hat and the other having the curl in the front and the pointed ears. Donkey Kong made really good work with them without any hesitation.

The last four Kirby's came down as soon as the other fake Kirby's were taken care of; one had Ness' hat, one had Luigi's hat, one had Captain Falcon's helmet and the last one was the original Kirby but he had a dark aura around him and his eyes glowed a deep silver. D.K. made quick work of him by delivering ten rounds of slaps from left to right before he punches Kirby away from the battlefield. Victory was D.K'.s and Captain Falcon caught Kirby through the doorway while Link uses his hook-shot to fetch their friend and bring him back in the hallway. Captain Falcon uses the jump-starter to snap Kirby out of his trance and it gives him a shock.

Kirby screams in pain from the blast as Captain Falcon takes the jump-starter away to save it for either Samus or Mario when they are found later on. After the pain went away, Kirby blinks his eyes in confusion before he speaks softly. "Poyo?"

"Kirby has returned to normal." Fox clarifies as he scanned Kirby to see if he has any sign of the dark aura that was on him a while ago. "Welcome back little guy." He gives Kirby a gentle pat on the head. Kirby surprisingly copied his little pat in return.

"...Fox." Kirby speaks, recognizing the pilot and the other heroes. He frowns when he realizes that there was two people missing among the heroes. "Samus? Mario?"

Link answers Kirby's questions as he helps the pink puffball back up on his feet with Captain Falcon's help. "Samus and Mario are missing in action and we are going to find them Kirby. Master Hand took them and we need your help to get them out of here." Kirby nods in understanding while holding onto Link's hands.

They continue going through the dark hallway, feeling that they are getting close to the finish. All they had to do now was get Samus and Mario and then they will go and deal with Master Hand together. The heroes come to a door with a strange symbol on it, whether it was a meteor or a fireball they couldn't tell. They open the door to see Planet Zebes underneath them.

Before any of the heroes could ask if someone wants to go down to the stage and find Samus or Mario, Pikachu walks near the door and gestures with his hands that he will go and fight against the remaining brainwashed fighters. Captain Falcon takes out the jump-starter and offers it to Pikachu for him to take. "Here. You should take this with you and give it to either Samus or Mario if you find them Pikachu. Can you make sure to keep this thing safe for them?"

Pikachu nods his head and carries the jump-starter in his mouth. Captain Falcon rubs Pikachu's head and wishes him good luck as the mouse jumps down to the ground on the stage.

As soon as Pikachu jumped down from the door, a portal appears on the opposite side of the stage. Then Samus walks out of it, facing Pikachu as a dark aura is surrounding her bounty hunter suit. The timer counted down from three to one and then the alarm went off telling Pikachu and Samus that they can fight. It was bad enough that Pikachu had to maneuver himself around the missiles that Samus tries to blast him with, and he barely dodges the fully charged shot using his quick attack to get behind her, but the rising and sinking lava on the stage made the mouse and the rest of the heroes pretty nervous. Pikachu tried to swing the junp-starter right toward Samus' chest as soon as she got close, but unfortunately she destroys the item with her ball bomb attack.

Despite the mishap, Pikachu thought over what he should do in getting Samus back to her senses. He briefly remembers how her suit malfunctioned when Fox was fighting her a little too hard, so maybe he can give her an electric shock treatment? A mischievous spark came in the mouse's eyes as he tries to sent the electricity toward Samus' direction, however she kept jumping away from Pikachu's attacks, provoking the creature to chase her down while dodging the rising and falling lava.

Pikachu summons a thunderbolt from the sky and gets as close to Samus as he could, making a direct hit as the lightning slams into Samus' suit, making it jolt and spasm in shock from the hit. In order to get Samus to snap out of it, Pikachu decides to send another jolt of lightning from his cheeks for good measure, Samus jumps back from the shock and the mouse could hear her screaming in pain from inside of the suit.

Pikachu didn't have time to react as Samus unleashes her flame thrower, burning him for a bit before he rolls over to extinguish it. He jumps onto Samus' helmet, blocking her view as he yells out, "PIKACHU!" He sent the biggest thunderbolt he could muster and renders Samus immobile from the fight, making her collapse to the ground as her stamina was down to 10% according to the scoreboard that Pikachu could see from the corner of his eye.

Pikachu pants from exhaustion as he watches Samus, worrying that she will either not snap out of the trance she was in or wake up and be utterly confused by what's going on. Jigglypuff and Ness joins Pikachu's side and tries to find any signs of life with Samus' unconscious body. For extra precaution Ness uses his magic abilities to purify Samus from the possession.

Fox and Link comes down to help their friends get out of Samus' stage with Fox jumping back up to the door while Pikachu hangs onto his shoulder. Pikachu tried to explain to Fox how sorry he was for getting careless with the jump-starter, but Fox rubs the little guys head. "Hey, you don't need to worry about it." He brings out another little disc that looks exactly like the jump-starter. "I always bring some spares."

Captain Falcon can be heard sighing in relief. "For a second there I thought we would just have to rely on Link and Ness' magic to purify Samus and Mario." D.K. nods his head in agreement with the racer.

"Do you sense anything Ness?" Link asks curiously as he watches the unconscious body of Samus while Ness uses his magic to see whether Samus is still under possession or not.

Ness nods his head. "Yes, the magic Master Hand infused on her is trying to stick around her body, but I think my magic can purify her." Link puts his hands over Ness' and says he will help him in getting Samus back on their side. His Triforce mark glows brightly in the darkness over Samus' helmet. It took a few minutes for Ness and Link to finish purifying their patient before they could see her leg twitching to stand up.

"W-Where am I? What are you boys doing here?" Samus said, groaning in pain from the shock she got. "And can somebody explain to me why I feel like I got hit by an electric fence?" She struggled to stand up on her feet, but her left leg slips and she landed safely back down on the ground with D.K.'s help.

"I will tell you on the way to rescuing Mario..." Luigi volunteers to fill her in on what had happened. With this in mind all eleven of the heroes kept going through the dark hallway. As Luigi explains to Samus what she missed while under possession, the heroes could hear her voice go cold, trembling in anger.

"I am going to kill that hand for what he did to all of us!" Luigi could see inside of her helmet that her eyes are narrowed and bloodthirsty for something to kill. "Nobody gets to have the honor of turning me into a puppet!"

"Once we get Mario back, we will deal with him together." Fox reassures Samus as he puts his right hand on her shoulder.

It wasn't long until they found another door which led to a new stage. Hopefully this one will be where Mario is. The stage looked pretty new to the heroes as they gaze down on the one small platform and a base platform. The bottom platform was slightly raised to the right and lower to the left. There was a metal path in the middle of the larger platform. It appeared to be quite small.

Samus scans the stage as she states, "The whole room in the background is full of metal."

Luigi rubs his eyes and blinks in surprise. "I think I know what this stage is based off of! In the Hazy Maze Cave, Mario told me that he found a secret place in Princess Peaches castle where he found the metal cap and he said that he saw some metal crystals like the ones shown here. I just hope that Mario hasn't got his hands on any of that metal yet..."

"And why should we worry about the metal?" Ness questions curiously.

Luigi answers honestly. "There is a magical cap, a metal cap, that can grant whoever wears it invincibility against anything that gets in your way. Whether if an enemy tries to hurt you or bump into you, that enemy will be the one that gets hurt in the end while the wearer of the metal cap doesn't get a scratch. You could even fall down to the bottom of a lake and not drown with it on."

Captain Falcon clasps his chin in a thinking manner while asking Luigi. "Do you think its possible that we can use the metal caps for our next tournament? When we get a new one, I mean." Luigi said he will consider it and talk it over with Mario as soon as they get him back to normal.

The heroes decided to try to figure out a battle plan to rescue Mario. The first ones who will go on the stage would be Kirby, Jigglypuff and Samus. If by chance that they can't get through to Mario, then they are allowed to switch with one of the other heroes. For now Samus will act as the leader for the mission to retrieve Mario from Master Hand's possession. She chose Jigglypuff mainly for the pokemons singing ability, if by chance they can get close to Mario while he is brainwashed Jigglypuff can just sing her song and make him go to sleep. Kirby was her other choice for the use of his copying ability to be an equal match to Mario if possible.

It took no longer than a minute for a green pipe to come out from on top of the small platform up top of the trio. Mario could be seen jumping out of the pipe before it vanishes inside of the platform. However, something about Mario wasn't right... Samus could see that something is incasing Mario around his body like a suit of armor. No, not armor. He had metal around his body from the top of his hat to the tip of his toes. He already found the metal cap, and for a brief moment of silence amidst the clanking sounds of metal touching the platform, Samus was trying not to be afraid as her legs trembled at the sound.

How is she supposed to get around the metal cap?

Samus takes a breath before she, Kirby and Jigglypuff team up to take down Metal Mario, delivering some good kicks and punches to try to make him go down, but the scary part was that Metal Mario was still standing and didn't flinch from all the punches and kicks. Instead of going down, the 'kathunk' sounds of metal walk casually off the platform and stands there menacingly. Jigglypuff ran over to punch Mario, but she got pushed back by the force of Mario's punch. It almost got Jigglypuff to fly off of the stage, but Kirby rescued her and brought her back to the other heroes, trading the singing pokemon for Link to join in.

Kirby came back down the stage with Link and transforms into a block on top of Metal Mario, trying to make him flinch from the force of the slam, but it didn't phase his opponent. Samus charges up her blast attack and aims it for Metal Mario, giving him the full blast, even though she was scared to see if the attack wouldn't phase him, she got chills the moment he walked through that blast like it was nothing to him. It was as if he was immovable, no matter how many swings or strikes they bring onto him.

"Everyone get down here and help us! Give him everything you got" Samus commands as the rest of the heroes jump down to the stage and help out their friend. The rest of the fight was a bit intense and gave some of the heroes a bit of a fright with how powerful the metal cap was.

Ness tried to use his PK fire attack on Metal Mario, but found that his flames don't give him any damage, neither did the yoyo he swings around did anything to snap Mario out of it. Jigglypuff tried to sing her song close by, which made Metal Mario sleep for a bit but he didn't snap out of the hypnosis he was in after when she slaps him awake. Luigi tried begging for Mario to snap out of it and says that he wants his brother back, Metal Mario remained unmoved by Luigi's tears. Samus tried to use her grappling hook to throw Metal Mario off his feet, only making him fall back on the ground one inch away from her before he got back up. Pikachu tried to shock him awake with his thunderbolt attack, giving the heroes a sense of relief and hope amidst the panic in the attack as they see Metal Mario being thrown back more than five inches close to the cliff. Samus told the other heroes quickly, "If we pack enough force of power in our attacks, we can make a dent in Metal Mario's armor!"

Kirby was the next to attack Metal Mario by grabbing him by his shoulders and flies high into the air before turning upside down and fall back down to the ground, making a kamikaze sort of attack to greatly damage the opponent. The other heroes had to back away from the attack before Kirby could land safely right next to them. Link springs into action next as he rolls right behind Metal Mario before he could punch him and unleashes a flurry of stabs from his sword to create a combination attack, Fox joined in along with Captain Falcon to create their own flurry of combination attacks; Fox with his metal boots and Captain Falcon with his hand respectively. Metal Mario had enough as he does a spin kick attack with his feet to knock them off of him. Link was just about close to losing his footing on the stage, but the iron boots appeared on his feet the moment he got pushed back. Yoshi and Donkey Kong came with the next furry of attacks as D.K. slams his hands on the ground near Metal Mario and creates an earthquake under his feet, Yoshi did a ground pound by slamming into Metal Mario, creating a huge dent in the brainwashed Mario's metal armor. Donkey Kong and Captain Falcon did the finishing blow by combining D.K.'s huge slap attack on one side of Metal Mario and Captain Falcon's Falcon Punch on the other side.

The last dent of the Metal Cap armor was no more as the metal faded away from Mario's body, making him normal once more in front of the heroes eyes. Fox quickly lays one of the spare jump-starter switches on Mario's forehead before he would wake up and attack them without the metal suit on, giving the red plumber a jolt of electricity coursing through his body. "Mama Mia! What was that for?" Mario yelps in pain from the shock before he opens his eyes to see the heroes staring at him. "Oh! Did I win the tournament already?"

Mario got punched by Captain Falcon in the cheek for that comment as the racer exclaims. "Nobody won the tournament you fool! Not you or me or anybody else! We all got tricked by Master Hand to be used like gladiators in a never-ending tournament! I TOLD YOU SOMETHING WAS GOING ON BUT DID YOU LISTEN MARIO!? NO YOU DID NOT!" Absolute shock was in Mario's eyes as he thought Captain Falcon was joking at first, but then seeing the dark hallway appearing in place of the stage they were on earlier, he knew that Captain Falcon was speaking the truth. How could he have been that foolish to think nothing bad was going to happen at the Smash Tournament? He let the thought of winning get into his head and he regretted his last conversation with the racer before they were brought into this mess.

"Captain Falcon calm down! He didn't know any better than we did until it was too late!" Ness tried to defend Mario and calm the racers temper. Mario was rubbing his cheek to soothe the pain before getting a hug from Luigi.

"We can save the rivalry for later, right now since all of us are together we need to go deal with Master Hand before he recruits any new heroes for his games." Samus instructs. "Let's go find where Master Hand is hiding!"

Captain Falcon later received a apology from Mario in the hallway. "I'm sorry I didn't believe you the first time Captain Falcon. I was wrong to not be on guard for my life." Mario looks at the racer sadly as he confessed. "Can you forgive me?" In answer, Captain Falcon pats Mario's head in consolation, nodding his head with a small smile.

"All is forgiven Mario. I just wanted to get that off my chest once I saw you again." Captain Falcon then picks Mario up and hugs him. Mario returns the hug as they put their past argument behind them.

As the 12 heroes walk through the dark hallway they encounter another door, only this time it was ginormous, making the heroes think that this door will lead them to Master Hand once and for all. However they were greeted by a huge main platform with three smaller floating platforms; one to the left, one to the right, and one on top. "Tell you what! Master Hand could have gone with a more fancier setting for the final battle!" Captain Falcon comments as he looks around, wondering if this place was a trap to recapture them again.

"Something tells me that this isn't the final location for the hand to hide in..." Samus said as she uses her scanner to find any clues around the stage. She thought she spotted something appearing and disappearing in the air, but she narrows her eyes under the helmet in confusion. Was that a person she saw jumping in front of her or is it some sort of unusual creature of unknown origin? And why were they purple? The next time she saw something she scanned it quickly to figure out what it was.

The scanner came back with only one answer. Fighting Polygons.

"Watch out guys! We have company!" Samus warns as the heroes turn to see what she is seeing. She counted to about thirty sets of the strange polygon creatures in the scanner, how many enemies to get rid of before continuing their pursuit. Could this be Master Hands last line of defense before the heroes get to the source of the problem?

When the heroes first saw the first five polygon lookalikes the heroes wondered if they should take these opponents seriously or if they are some kind of a joke Master Hand is playing with them. Two looked like Mario and Luigi's sizes, but they had elflike heads with pointed noses and ears. If Mario and Luigi didn't think any better they wouldn't have notice there was a difference between them besides their movements. Ness' polygon had an elfish appearance too except with a different head shape. D.K.'s polygon had a asymmetrical head and a clear gap where its elbows should be. Kirby's polygon had a large jewel shaped bulge on its head.

The next five polygons to greet the heroes climbed up from the platform, trying to surround the heroes into a corner before striking. Link and Samus noticed their polygons weapons were triangular spikes, but Link saw that his polygons shield is much smaller than the Hylian Shield he wields. Link made a comment to Samus about it, saying bluntly. "Dark Link is much more threatening than these guys." At least with Dark Link the Hero of Time could look at the evil clone in the eye and beat him in his own game, these polygon clones however don't have eyes to look into.

Jigglypuff puffs up in annoyance as she sees her polygon has a vertical spike instead of a hair tuff. She takes out a marker, planning on making a funny face on the polygon when she has the chance. Pikachu's polygon had a more thinner head and a short stubby tail, making Pikachu look at it in confusion wondering if he was suppose to be a Sandshrew or a real life mouse. Yoshi's polygon had a pointed face and visible teeth, making it look more terrifying than it appeared. Fox and Captain Falcon noticed their polygons coming to join the fight as well. Fox almost wanted to laugh at the irony that his polygon lacks ears and a thinner tail. Captain Falcon noted the lack of shoulder pads his polygon had, but other than that he wasn't too worried about going up against those creepy creatures.

The battle between the purple clones and the actual heroes was... eventful... Captain Falcon noticed that the polygons were pretty passive on the battlefield at first. They were just walking around the stage platforms minding their own business. When Ness tried to create a diversion and get their attention to lure them on one side of the platform but they didn't follow him. Even his own polygon was not following after its respective opponent.

Samus scans them, now that they are close in range, and calculates how best to beat the clones as fast as possible, relaying the message to Fox and Captain Falcon. "These polygons are fairly light and deal little knockback. So this means we need to give them all we got in knocking them out of the arena with our most powerful attacks. They don't appear to have any special moves and they will not be able to grab us..."

"Ah! That would explain why they don't have hands yet." Captain Falcon comments.

Samus nods and continues with her findings, "Despite their lack of hands for grabbing us, they can pick up items. Due to their low weight, they can be defeated in a single blow, but be warned that they can get heavier and stronger at higher difficulty levels, but they will still be easy to K.O. if we pack enough energy for our strikes."

"Lets split up into teams guys!" Fox tells the other heroes who are listening in on what Samus informed them. "Captain Falcon you team up with Luigi, Jigglypuff and Ness on the left side. Mario, D.K., Link and I will take the right. Samus, Kirby, Yoshi and Pikachu will take the center. Show these clones no mercy guys! Lets rock and roll!"

Out of the polygons, Mario, Luigi, Pikachu, Kirby and Jigglypuff's clones were pretty easy to deal with as Mario uses his upper punch special attack and Pikachu uses his thunderbolt attack from up top to paralyze the clones and knock them off the arena quick. Jigglypuff decided to switch things up for her attack as she rolls herself into a ball spinning around wildly before shooting herself at the polygons, making them fly away from the force of the collision. Link drinks some of his green potion to charge up his spin attack with his sword, making the polygons catch flames from the sword while he was swinging around in a circle. Fox used his reflector to make the polygons back off from his teammates and D.K. charged up his arm for a huge punch to send them flying away the arena. Samus thought that the Captain Falcon polygons were the toughest to get around but with good foresight on what attacks are coming and which ones to watch out for, she manages to elude capture and blast them out of the arena. Kirby and Ness simply used their projectiles from the PK fire and knocked the polygons out of the stage. Luigi, Captain Falcon and Yoshi got rid of the rest of the polygons so that they can get back to work on finding Master Hand's hiding place.

Everyone was just about exhausted at the end of the battle. Samus and Fox were getting low on ammo for their guns, Pikachu, Kirby and Jigglypuff were panting, trying to catch their breaths, Ness along with D.K. and Luigi sits down on the ground to rest, and Captain Falcon, Link, Mario and Yoshi were resting their hands on their knees trying to catch their breath as well. "I think that's the last of them..." Mario pants heavily with a tired expression on his face.

"I can guess that Master Hand threw the Fighting Polygon Team in as a last resort based on how hard we are trying to escape from this madness." Fox notes as he takes a breath to calm down.

"Speaking of escaping..." Ness questions curiously with a cock of his head. "Do any of you guys know where the exit might be from here?"

"Nothing at the moment Ness, but once it comes up I will let you know. I always had to find an evacuation shortcut through the Space Pirate's headquarters when I managed to destroy something of theirs." Samus informs the boy.

Captain Falcon can be seen pressing some buttons on his helmet and states, "If we ever need a quick ride to escape from this place, I have my Blue Falcon waiting for my signal." Kirby demonstrates how he can summon his star platform to make a quick getaway which impresses the captain.

"Why not just warp out of the thing altogether?" Link points out by gesturing to a small blue instrument in his hands. "With the Ocarina of Time I can just get us out of here in no time."

"Uh... Not to rain on your parade Link but do you think that can really work?" Luigi questions as he stares at Link's instrument.

Link takes it as a challenge and begins to play a song on the Ocarina, a few seconds later he notices that the Ocarina is not letting him exit from the area he is in. Link sighs in disappointment, "It seems my Prelude of Light song is unresponsive."

"Would there be other songs to help you get out Link?" Ness asks curiously. "If one song can't work in here, the others might have a better chance."

"Good point Ness, I'll see about doing a Minuet of Forest next." Link nods his head and resumes playing his instrument to see if the other warp songs can penetrate the dark hallway in the mansion. The Minuet of Forest wasn't responding either. He tried the same thing with Bolero of Fire, Serenade of Water, Nocturne of Shadow and Requiem of Spirit but they had the same result. "Sorry guys. It looks like we are stuck here until we find a way out." Link apologizes as he puts the Ocarina of Time away in his pocket.

Samus puts a comforting hand on Link's shoulder. "At least you did your best to get us out of here the quickest way possible Link. And by the way, your musical skills were pretty awesome!" Link squeezes her hand in reassurance. Pikachu and Jigglypuff snuggle close to Link and climb up to rest on his shoulders for a bit. However it soon occurred to Pikachu that Jigglypuff was hogging Link to herself and so he decided to go climb on Samus' shoulder instead.

Samus turns her gaze to Pikachu and rubs his head. "I will admit one thing that I will miss you guys once everything is over here."

Yoshi shakes his head in dismay at the thought of leaving behind his new friends, trying to voice his protest along with Kirby who was riding on his back. Ness agrees with them as he states, "I don't want this to be our final goodbye. I like hanging out with you guys too much!" Jigglypuff and Pikachu nod their heads in agreement as well.

"Even though it was a short amount of time, I feel like I want to hang out with you guys more often." Luigi admits with a smile as D.K. pats him gently on the head in support.

"We should think about meeting up some time again after this whole thing is over!" Captain Falcon agrees, taking out a notepad and writing down his friends' names so that he can keep tabs on them in the near future. "Maybe once when we scare off Master Hand here, we should have another smash tournament with some new fighters as well to celebrate! Us veterans got to stick together!" Everyone nod their heads in agreement with Captain Falcon, but he could see that Link didn't look to thrilled at the thought. Upon noticing Link feeling down in the dumps, the captain asks, "Is something wrong Link?"

"I... don't know if I will be able to come back for the second tournament Captain." Link admits sadly as he looks over at the Ocarina in his pocket. "Its just that once I return to Hyrule, Princess Zelda wants me to go back home and regain my childhood from my lost time." A sudden chill enters the air around the twelve fighters as Link's friends look at him in concern.

"Lost time? What do you mean?" Fox asks as he clasps his left hand on Link's right hand. Link didn't mess around with the details as he explains to the gang that he was in a seven year sleep in the Temple of Time when he pulled out the Master Sword and he woke up to a different world from the one he knew in the past. He also explains that he fears that if he goes back in time to his childhood before he got the Master Sword that his new friends would forget about him and not include him in on the fun. Upon hearing this explanation, Fox shakes his head firmly. "We won't do that to you Link! Even if you are an adult or a kid, we would still include you in the smash tournaments!"

Samus taps on Link's shoulder and then asks, "Do you mind if I use a blood test sample on you Link? I will only use it to see if we can recognize you even if you are at a different age or different appearance."

"Will it hurt?" Link looked a little unsure but willing to raise his right hand to hold his fingers out to her.

Samus shakes her head as she switches her blaster gun to a little needle with a small tube attached to it. "It shouldn't. I find it helpful to keep chatting with people and not focus on the needle for the blood tests. Just keep your eyes on me and talk Link." He takes a shaky breath before Samus starts getting him to talk about simple things in his life like what place does he like going to see or who he has a crush on. For a split second the needle poked him a bit before it was done and Samus put her blood test tube and needle away to bring back her blaster gun in place.

"Say! Umm... About getting new members in the next tournament... Do any of you guys know who in your group back home might be interested in joining us?" Captain Falcon interrupts as he stops scribbling in his notes for a moment, looking at each of the fighters for an opinion.

Fox immediately answers. "Easy! My co-pliot Falco wants me to include him in on the next tournament."

Pikachu and Jigglypuff chime in with their responses, to which Fox translates, claiming that there are a couple of pokemon who might be interested, but they will have to find the right ones to recruit. Captain Falcon made it their mission to search out whoever is the best fighters in the pokemon world, writing it down on a note to do some homework after the battle. Samus, Ness, Yoshi, Kirby and Luigi didn't know who to invite but D.K. told the Captain that he will try to tell his nephew Diddy Kong to come join the tournament.

Samus lightly complains to Link and Mario, "Can any of you guys get any girls to join in the tournament?"

Mario thinks for a moment before responding, "I will see if Princess Peach would like to come. Though I am afraid that she is a pacifist more than a fighter. Would your princess be a pacifist as well Link?"

Link shakes his head firmly. "Don't underestimate Princess Zelda. Her hand to hand combat may look weak, but she has magic and the Triforce of Wisdom on her side. She even posed as a Sheikah ninja for seven years and she is the leader of the Sages!"

Captain Falcon snaps his fingers in happiness at Link's statement, smiling broadly. "I will definitely make sure that your princess gets in here Link! That sounds like she will broaden the battlefield!"

They came upon the last door which could lead to where Master Hand is hiding. The sign said: Master Hand's Residence. Mario and Luigi clenched their fists in anticipation as they are the first ones to go inside the door with the others following afterward. Link drags his sword on the ground just to make it extra sharp for when he stabs it into the hand for good measure before he runs through the door. Pikachu's cheeks spark with some electricity as he narrows his eyes in anger and chases after Link. D.K. cracks his knuckles and brings Ness up to his shoulders where the boy was focusing on his PK puss in concentration as they step through the door. Fox and Samus reloaded their blasters respectively, making sure that they have plenty of ammo to blast the hand with as they went together through the door to follow after their friends. Yoshi wasn't quite sure if he was brave enough to fight alongside with the rest of the fighters, but considering that one of his own protected Mario when he was a baby then he can for sure handle protecting Mario right in the final battle of the Smash tournament so he goes after the Mario Brothers. Captain Falcon cracks his knuckles and summons a fiery aura to surround his hands as he charges through the door. Jigglypuff and Kirby look around in utter curiosity, wondering what all they will face when the time comes for the final battle and head on inside to join the rest of the fighters.

The twelve came upon a long platform with a yellow temple-like structure for the central design of the platform. At first nothing seems to be pretty unique about the battle room they were in but Kirby and Pikachu spotted something strange going on with the background, making the others take a look. The background was changing, starting with outer space with stars visible in the night sky, then after a few seconds it got cloudy and then the clouds turned into a wormhole.

"So you have come to try to challenge me..." The twelve tense up when they heard Master Hand's voice in the room. "You should know from Captain Falcon's example that trying to defeat me will do you no good."

Samus replies sternly to the hand. "But that was when he was alone. Now you have to deal with twelve of us. If one of us goes down, the others can pick up where the fight left off. And besides, I have dealt with Mother Brain, I think I can take you on no problem."

"I may have underestimated how you were able to sneak a device to revive you from your doll forms but you won't be so lucky this time." Master Hand laughs as he comes into view from the darkness. "This time, you won't be able to break free from what I have planned for all of you. With all of you at my command as puppets, I will rule your worlds and play with you for eternity!"

"You are not touching the Mushroom Kingdom through me and my brother Master Hand!" Mario exclaims, trying to shield his brother from Master Hand's line of sight on the platform.

"Nor will I let you get your hands on Hyrule!" Link joins in with his exclamation. "Just ask Ganondorf how well he fought against me! I stabbed him right in the face with the Master Sword!" Captain Falcon bursts out laughing at the statement Link made, to which Yoshi had to nudge him on the arm for him to stop laughing and compose himself.

"Just what I need to see, an Andross copycat!" Fox sarcastically mocks the hand by rolling his eyes.

"Then how about one last round in the tournament Master Hand? Winner take all?" Ness persuades as the flames danced in his right hand. Pikachu, Jigglypuff and Kirby huddle close to Ness as if to try to protect him.

Master Hand clenches his fist for a moment before he replies. Very well... Ness, Kirby, Yoshi, Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Fox, Link, Donkey Kong, Luigi, Mario, Captain Falcon, and Samus versus Master Hand! If one of you even falls off the stage or gets a K.O., you will automatically fall in line as my little gladiators and fight against all you hold dear in your lands. Be prepared for the beating of your lives for I will show no mercy toward disobedient slaves. This will be your Final Destination for your freedom and that of your worlds."

You couldn't imagine how mad the fighters were when they found out what Master Hand was saying. Mario and Luigi's red and green flames spark in their hands as they clench them into fists to keep from shaking in rage. D.K. looked like he was shivering while grinding his teeth, staring at Master Hand dead in the eyes. Link's Triforce glowed bright amid the darkness, giving the rest of the fighters some light as he gave Master Hand a fierce glare in his direction, flipping the sword around in his hands. Kirby brought out his hammer, ready to destroy the hand, because after all he took down gods bigger than Master Hand himself so it shouldn't be a problem for him. Pikachu's cheeks had electricity flowing in the air around him. Jigglypuff puffs up in anger and unscrews the top of a marker as she was ready to humiliate the hand. Ness directs his right pointer finger away from the battlefield to demonstrate his PK thunder which unleashed a loud clap of thunder. Yoshi raises his fists up in the air and brought out one of his eggs, making sure they were hard enough to give a good beating. Captain Falcon summons a fire aura on his legs and arms, ready to give a good Falcon punch or kick to the hand. The rest of the fighters could hear a growl coming from Fox as he and Samus aim their guns toward the hand, ready to shoot him to oblivion.

Mario then calls out a command to the fighters, his voice seemed to echo in their Final Destination. "Let's-a- Go!"


A/N: The battle with Master Hand commences in the next chapter! I hope you enjoyed this chapter in the Good Old Memories! Whether you decide to review for this chapter or not remains up to you. I will see you in the next chapter!