"YES, DELTARUNE CHAPTER 2 ON SWITCH!" Ness and Lucas cheered.

"Nice outfit you had there." Dark Pit complimented Bayonetta. "Looks a bit childish though."

"Well, it's been quite a long time since development started, I'm just glad we even got a trailer to begin with." Bayo said, placing a hand on her hip. "Maybe in the next tournament I'll wear it and kick your ass even harder."

"Oh please, I'd totally kick YOUR ass." Dark Pit complained. "You're just gonna get nerfed again, like in the Fourth Tournament."

Bayo scoffed, "Oh really, wanna bet?"

"I honestly thought it was Xenoblade X2 at first." Shulk noted motioning towards Bayo. "Those demons looked a lot like Telethia."

"Reminded me of SMT FE# at first." Marth added with an odd look on his face. "Thankfully it wasn't."

"FINALLY, I'M IN 3D- I mean POYO!" Kirby exclaimed, bouncing up and down. "Meta Knight, did you see it?" Kirby asked, looking towards Meta Knight who seemed half asleep.

Meta Knight nodded, "Uh huh, can't help but notice I didn't see myself, though."

"Just be happy we got a bunch of cool stuff!" Sonic excused, wagging his finger. "I mean, we have Banjo-Kazooie on Switch soon, and a bunch of Sega Genisis stuff!" he cheered, turning towards Mario. "Am I right, Chris Pratt?"

"Heh, ask Jack Black." Mario chuckled, pointing towards Bowser.

"Ask Seth Rogan over there." Bowser suggested, pointing towards Donkey Kong who was looking at a list of the N64 games in the NSO update.

"One day." Donkey Kong said rubbing the list with sad eyes, and for a moment he sounded exactly like Seth Rogan. "I mean, monkey noises!"

Villager then walked up to Mario, "By the way, are you all actually those guys from the direct, or-"

"Yeah, it's been a secret, but..." Mario grabbed on the front of his skin and yanked it off like a mask, revealing the wonderfully idiotic face befitting of a Star Lord or maybe a Dwyer. "I've been Chris Pratt the whole time."

The entire room collectively gasped, except like half of everyone there, because there has never been a real situation where 80+ people and animals collectively gasped.

"I actually just got finished filming uh... I believe it was Infinity War before I was teleported here for Smash, though that can't really have too many repercussions I figure." Mario shrugged.

Leaf then suddenly spoke, and rather loudly at that, "Guys, I don't feel so good-"

…

Her voice stopped, and nobody could seem to find where she had gone.

Mario shook his head, "Eh, at least nobody of value was lost."

"Well, well, well!" a voice suddenly rang out, and from a comically oversized Disco ball on the ceiling, King Dedede lowered down, looking triumphant. "October 5th, eh?"

"Well, well, well." Daisy said, clasping her hands together. "Where's our money?"

Dedede smirked, "Well, well, well." Dedede began, also clasping his hands together. "The contract had a clause that, if the character wasn't revealed, we would have to wait till the reveal date in order to..." Dedede glanced over at Mario.

"Hm." Mario said, holding his hands behind his back.

"Is that Chris Pratt?" Dedede wondered before shaking the thought away. "ANYWAYS, as you all can clearly make out with logic, technically there wasn't NOT a reveal trailer, nor was there one, so you can't say that any one of us really won."

"Since when did you know so much about semantics?" R.O.B asked, rotating his head at a 45-degree angle.

"I... called in a friend." Dedede responded, putting a hand to the side of his head.

Meta Knight spoke up, "Susie?"

"Susie." Dedede confirmed, hopping down from the disco ball. "Anyways, the point is, until October 5th, all of y'all's money is MINE, and you can't do a thing about it!"

"I mean, we could just take it back." Bowser noted. "Not like you can stop us all."

"Oh really?" Dedede asked, a cocky smile on his face. "Then tell me, genius, where'd I hide the money?"

"Don't worry guys, I got this!" Sonic said, clapping his hands together, then without a word sped out of the room, and was back a split second later holding a bucket of chicken in his hands. "It's not at the KFC, I asked the cashier, and cash is in fact not one of their herbs and spices."

"Wow, thanks, that was totally the first place we planned on checking..." Isabelle sighed.

"HEY!" Sonic said, waggling his finger. "I asked Shadow to check too, so he should be back any second now."

Shadow then peaked into the room. "The money isn't at Hot Topic." he informed before heading out.

Sonic shrugged, "Well all my resources are exhausted, guess we gotta wait til October."

"No, I want my money back." Little Mac interjected. "I put five dollars in, I want it back."

"Can anyone do a quick scan of where he could've hidden it?" Villager asked, and all eyes went to R.O.B.

"Analyzing..." R.O.B began. "Estimated date of finishing is... October 5th, 10:45 AM Eastern Standard Time."

"OH, screw that, I'm just going to go look for it." Wario yelled, pulling out his motorcycle from... somewhere.

Luigi put in his own two cents (or maybe one cent in this case), "But you donated like... a penny."

"Well, finders' keepers, if I find the money it's mine, so..." Wario began to rev up his motorcycle, then sped out of the room, pooping a wheelie and tearing off the top of the door. "SEE YOU LATER, SUCKERSSSSSSSS-"

"Morgana quick, turn into a car!" Joker commanded, and Morgana just looked at him funny.

"I can't fit in the doorframe as the car" Morgana excused, and he was certainly correct.

Joker the pointed to the sky with an overdramatic flair, "Then turn into a helicopter!"

"But we're not in the canon of Persona 5 R, I think..." Morgana noted. "Can't we just walk out the door?"

"That's boring, but if we must-" Joker sighed, placing a hand to his forehead, then running out the door, Morgana following suit.

"Yeah, I'm finding my money as well." Robin said, putting down a book he was reading. "You want to come, Lucina?"

"I'll come." Chrom proposed.

"You could come with me." Female Robin proposed, standing up and beginning to walk towards Chrom.

Chrom took a step back, "Ah... sorry, I just said I'll go with the other Robin, so..."

Male Robin turned towards Chrom, "But I didn't say-"

"Come on Robin, let's go, sorry, catch you later, yep, BYE!" Chrom said, pushing Male Robin out of the room.

"I guess it's just you and me, right Lucina?" Female Robin asked, but unfortunately Lucina had replaced herself with a carboard cutout of Marth with a wig over the top. Truthfully was hard to tell at first glance, as they were both rather flat.

Soon after, everyone else began to leave the room, soured by Dedede's hiding of their money, once again leaving the self-proclaimed King and Mario in the room... alone.

"So." Mario began. "You got lucky."

"Not luck, my friend, my source told me this would happen." Dedede laughed. "Everything is going according to plan."

"Source?" Mario wondered, raising an eyebrow. "Who's your source?"

Dedede looked to the side, "A very well-known Nintendo leaker." he responded. "You don't need to know."

"Is it Vergeben?"

"..."

"Oh brother." Mario just shook his head and walked up to Dedede. "Call it off, you are not going to like the outcome of this, especially if you're believe Vergeben."

Dedede just looked away, "We'll see, we'll see." he responded. "I know more than you think Mario, and I'm not the type to needlessly bet on things like this... well, not this time anyways."

Mario kept eye contact as Dedede walked away, "What's that supposed to mean?"

Dedede chuckled, "Well, even if it's not Bandana Waddle Dee-"

Mario interrupted, "You still have the contract?"

"NO." Dedede corrected, turning towards Mario. "Even if it's not Bandana Waddle Dee, if something were to happen to the newest fighter, I mean, maybe... someone would have to take their place..."

Mario held his hands behind his back, "I think that would be... rather difficult."

"Well, so do I, but I've been researching..." Dedede pulled a picture out of his coat pocket and showed it to Mario. Mario just looked at it, his mouth was half open in shock.

Mario was speechless for a moment, "How did..."

"I know many things, Mario..." Dedede said, putting the picture back into his coat. He hopped back over to the comically oversized disco ball, which began to raise itself up slowly after he went on top of it. "See you on the fifth."

{===}
The plot thickens.

The final character, on the fifth.

I wonder who it'll be?