The Falcon Flyer was soaring through the sky, burning as bright as a comet. The ship crash-landed in the plains, a deep crater where there was once soft ground now filled with uprooted flowers and sprouting trees. Peach, Bowser, Wario, Donkey Kong, Mr. Game & Watch, Pit, Marth, Ike, Meta Knight, Lucario, Jigglypuff, R.O.B., Captain Falcon, and Olimar climbed out of the rubble caused by the demolishment, shaking off whatever dirt they had on them.

"Phew," Captain Falcon said. "That was a close one. Good thing we all survived the crash, right?"

"Sure," Peach replied. "I'm just worried about everyone else, especially Mario and Luigi… where are they?"

"The only thing I'm curious about is where we are," Pit objected. "We're on the run from the Subspace Army and… they've taken over most of the land."

"Pit's right," Ike said. "We're running like cowards when we should be fighting back against what they have in store."

"But where do we go from here?" Lucario asked.

"We came in from that direction, right?" Pit answered, pointing northwest. "The rest of the group in the Wolfen Assault probably landed there, and we're bound to meet up with them if we hurry."

"What about Mario and HIS group?" Peach objected.

"That I don't know," Pit replied. "The blast scrambled up my circuits that I can't figure out where they landed."

"Pit," Meta Knight said. "You don't have circuits. R.O.B. does."

"Oh, right," Pit giggled in dumbfoundedness. "I kinda forgot. Heh-heh…"

"So," Captain Falcon spoke, "you're trying to tell us that we should head northwest like Pit said to meet up with those at the Wolfen Assault, all while looking for a thought translator to see where our friends at the Prime Ship are?"

"I guess…" Marth answered.

"Well, let's do it!" Captain Falcon exclaimed. "We're gonna go there, beat up a buncha enemies and rescue Samus!"

"You do realize Samus is strong enough to defend herself, and haven't you stopped flirting with her already?" Pit asked.

"Of course I know she's too shy to admit she has feelings for me!" Captain Falcon spoke in a boastful tone. "Now come on! Let's get going already!"

"Hold on just a minute!" Meta Knight cried out.

"What is it?" Pit asked.

"We are in very dangerous territory, and the Shadow Bugs might capture us for answers," Meta Knight replied. "It would be best if I go alone and lead them away, lest risk the lives of all of you. I'll be heading to where the large Wolfen Assault landed; the rest of you go your separate ways."

"Good luck, Meta Knight," Marth replied.

Meta Knight unfurled his cape into a pair of bat-like wings, unsheathing his Galaxia Sword and flying off into the distance. After hoping for the best from Meta Knight, the rest of the Falcon Flyer Group saw Shadow Bugs raining on the desolated plains, not forming but more of just fading the moment they touched the ground, and the fighters felt nervous being alone after ten years of peace. Little did they know in the distance, a figure that resembled some sort of peculiar ghost was watching them from a cliff, hidden by the naked eye.

So the day of reckoning is upon them, the figure spoke in a heavenly voice. Perfect...


Far northwest, on the only plateau in the land, the Wolfen Assault had been in a state of demolishment for quite some time. From the wreckage climbed out Luigi, Yoshi, Diddy Kong, Ganondorf, Kirby, King Dedede, Fox, Falco, Pikachu, Ness, and Sonic, brushing the dust off their wounded bodies.

"Is everyone-a okay?" Luigi cried.

"Seems like everyone's doin' fine," King Dedede answered in a stereotypical Southern accent. "Goshdang, my head..."

"Wonder where we landed," Falco spoke, looking at the strange terrain. Fox pulled out a GPS from his side pockets, the static ringing out through the small speakers.

"I can't get a good location as to where we are in Arcadia," Fox answered. "However, it looks we're stranded somewhere in the southeast. We can meet up with the rest of our pals in the meantime."


Sonic had a look of determination as he walked up to a nearby rock and rested his feet, one leg in front of the other. The blue hedgehog looked out into the black-red darkness, watching the Winged Firestorms and Shadow Bugs soar through the sky.

We have to end this, Sonic thought, hearing the commotion from the rest of the Wolfen Assault Group as they were asking who else is okay. All I want to do is see Mario again. I really care about his safety… the safety of all of us. It looks like I'm the only one who hasn't been turned into a trophy, but it looks like my memories of my homeworld will disappear from this world soon. I've got to do something to reunite with everyone else, but… where are those in Samus's Ship?

"And what were you talking about when we confronted the Ultimates?" Fox asked the blue hedgehog. The Star Fox mercenary knew this was a question that had bugged him back when the Miis attacked the Midair Stadium. "You said they don't remember you anymore. Care to explain what happened?" Sonic got up from his place and turned towards Fox, looking at him straight with emerald-green eyes. Out of all the fighters, Fox seemed to be the most caring. To Sonic, Fox acted more like his best friend Tails if he was a father figure rather than a sidekick.

"I've been explaining secrets to what you know and could not know, and out of all the friends I spilled gossip to you are pretty much my favorite," Sonic answered. "However, even I have secrets I don't want to bring up. Let's just say that... the Mii Fighters and I... had kinda been in a relationship. Somehow, they forgot about what I did to save their clan, and I didn't want to let them fall into despair after... what happened back at my homeworld..."

Fox held Sonic's cheek, aware of what the blue hedgehog was talking about. Even when Sonic didn't want to tell in front of the other fighters, Fox knew of the hardships he went through.

"People grow out of their guilt eventually," Fox spoke. "I think it would be better if I didn't know about what happened to your planet, or what you did on other worlds to obtain such knowledge." Sonic pulled away, his blue quills swaying behind him as he stretched in place.

"I'll be going off to find Mario and the others," Sonic told the group. "The rest of you go do your thing and try to take down the Subspace Army."

"Stay strong, rodent," Ganondorf responded. In the blink of an eye, Sonic dashed down the plateau into the woods. Fox McCloud looked back at the other fighters before he climbed his way down, already knowing a planned course.

Once the fighters all got down to the bottom of the plateau, they didn't notice another strange figure watching over them unseen. All that was revealed about this figure were two claws clinging over the edge.

"Little do they know they'll all be attacked by the serpent's fangs," the figure chuckled. "This is going to be so much fun…"


Mario slowly opened his eyes. He saw three figures he couldn't make out all because of his blurred vision. The audio coming from their speeches was almost muted, just voices he could barely hear. When he opened his eyes again, his pupils adjusted their size, and the imagery became sharper. He could at least make out the colors, mainly green, white-and-brown, and neon blue.

"…Mario?" the voice coming from the green figure called out, barely audible and fuzzy. Mario opened his eyes, this time wide open, and he regained full conscious. He saw Link, Zelda, and Zero Suit Samus above his body.

"Mario, are you okay?" Link asked.

When Mario groaned as he got up, he looked around: the black-red sky drenched in eternal twilight, the wreckage of the crash-landed ship in a now-destroyed flower bed, and the replicates from the Dark Cannon still unconscious.

"What happened-a?" Mario asked.

"We're stranded far away from our friends," Zero Suit Samus answered, "no thanks to you, fatty."

"Samus!" Zelda snapped.

"It's Zero Suit Samus now, and you know it. The one inside my Power Suit has forever taken that name from me," the bounty hunter replied.

"But you shouldn't put all the blame on Mario," Zelda objected. "After all, it isn't his fault we were stranded far away from our friends!"

"But he was clearly the culprit behind keeping the secret of our friends disappearing!" Zero Suit Samus lamented.

"Just because he got involved doesn't mean it's all his doing!" Zelda objected.

The two girls started quarreling and bickering among each other over who is to blame behind all this. Link tried to break up the fight, attempting to speak up.

"YOU TWO! SHUT IT!" Link yelled, pushing the princess and the bounty hunter away. "Our replicates are waking up!"

Mario, Zelda, Link, and Zero Suit Samus were watching as Dr. Mario, Sheik, Toon Link, and Samus stirred up from their knockouts, rubbing their heads from the big impact. Once the clones stood upright, the original fighters saw that what the Ultimates said was right: they were made to kill their copies and take their places as the true originals. Toon Link started yelling and flailing his small sword around, rushing quickly towards Link.

"Lemme at him! Lemme at him!" the kid swordfighter cried, Link holding him up and away from his face. Sheik grabbed her daggers and started flailing madly like a ninja, but Zelda was using her magic to protect herself. Samus was charging up fireballs and missiles, but her attacks were all rather slow as Zero Suit Samus used her Plasma Gun and Jet Boots as she kicked the Power Suit to the ground. Mario was clasping Dr. Mario's lab coat, all while avoiding the doctor's shocking punches.

"Everyone, stop-a!" Mario yelled. Both the original fighters and their replicates calmed down with their battles. Despite being clones made from the last Dark Cannon, Dr. Mario, Sheik, Samus, and Toon Link all obeyed when Mario said stop with the fighting.

"We're stranded in one of the many uncharted territories of Arcadia," Mario said. "All of us are going to have to work together in order to survive the incoming Subspace Army and reunite with our teammates, regardless of who's at fault here. Is that understood-a!?"

The Prime Ship Group all looked at one another, deeply lost in anxiety. None of them knew what was about to happen to them, so they decided to stick for the best. The fighters all stared at each other, nervous about the long journey ahead.

"Yes, Mario," the fighters all answered politely.

"But where do we go from here?" Sheik asked. "Your friends are probably somewhere far off, and we don't know where we are…"

"We can start by following those metal dragons," Mario responded, pointing at a small cluster of them far off in the distance, burning everything as usual. The fighters all nodded, and Mario smiled.

"Let's a-go, then," Mario said. "There's no time to waste and there'll be monsters spawning soon. It's better if we look at where we are and find where our friends landed."


The group then started walking off into the thin end of the forest, where idle monsters with Mii faces were waiting for them, such as Ancient Robots and Faceberuses. There were also some signs of Subspace Army monsters too, blending in well with the Mii-faced monsters.

"We're going to have to be very careful around here…" Mario whispered. The deeper the woods got, the thicker the atmosphere became, making a single breath heavy with every take-in. Eventually, Toon Link got sleepy by the air, tugging at Link's tunic like a little kid, yawning.

"Sweet," Toon Link muttered. He ran off, his hand slipping from Link's, running over to a rather large nest. The young Hylian eventually fell asleep on some unusually large eggs, almost the size of his body.

"Toon Link!" Zelda yelled. "Get out of here!" The other fighters looked in the direction of the large nest, seeing Toon Link resting his head as a rather large creature the size of an ostrich creeped up towards him. Filled with hatred and thinking that Toon Link might do something with the eggs, the creature lunged itself at the young Hylian but was stopped dead in its tracks. Literally, when Link got in and stabbed it in the chest with his Master Sword.

When Link grabbed Toon Link and jumped out of the nest, the young Hylian woke up to find out the rest of the Prime Ship Group was surrounded by more of the bird-like creatures, each one resembling chicken-like birds colored yellow all over.

"I think they want us to leave their territory, whatever they are…" Samus said, her Power Suit readying a missile.

"Be careful, everybody," Dr. Mario replied. "I don't think we can beat these birds alone, and speaking of alone…"

The Mii-faced monsters with the Subspace Army members walked up to the bird-like creatures, their eyes glowing red with lust as the black-red darkness thundered across the sky. The monsters then rushed towards the fighters, cawing with anger. It seemed all was lost for the fighters, but just then, they heard a voice.

"Genkai wo koeru."

With the sound of that voice, a small tornado blasted inbetween the creatures, powerful enough to send all the bird-like creatures into a forced retreat. Once all the feathers caused by the tornado slowly unobstructed the view of Mario and the gang, they saw a stranger glowing an unearthly blue, facing in their direction. Once the color from his body disappeared, the stranger was revealed to have spiky blonde hair, dark purple clothing with a shoulder guard and belt, and glowing blue eyes the same color as the tornado effect he created. The fighters all looked surprised at the stranger, Link most of all.

"Thought you needed help," the stranger replied in a smooth tone. "Thanks the gods I heard your cries of help far off from the distance."

"What cries of help?" Link asked. "We didn't give any cries of help. We were just ambushed…"

"By Chocobos?" the stranger spoke. "These kinds are more aggressive than I remember..."

"No, wait," Zelda cried. "We do need your help. Just about any we come across- Wha…?"

As the black-red cloud streaked thunder from the sky, it was raining Shadow Bugs, more of which that joined to form more of the Primids, their multiple eyes glowing a bloodshed red. The stranger pulled out his unusually large and thick sword with just one hand and started to hold the blade. The Prime Ship Group watched closely as a bar somehow above the stranger's head was filling up, and he started glowing the unearthly blue once again, with the bar disappearing.

"Let's do this, babies," the stranger muttered.

The stranger started rushing towards the Primids and Mii-faced monsters, gliding like there was no gravity below him at all. Despite carrying a huge sword, the stranger managed to do a triple front-to-backflip far behind the creatures and slashed them with a powerful beam from his blade. Mario started to generate fire from the palms of his hands, running towards the Puppits and Autolances. Dr. Mario paired up with Mario, and combined Mario's fire attacks with his electricity powers, and the two of them created a powerful blast that eliminated the enemies in their path. Zero Suit Samus got on top of Samus, the woman in the Power Suit firing missiles and bombs while the bounty hunter did backflips and used her Plasma Gun and Jet Boots to fry her enemies into barbecued obliteration. Link and Toon Link simply used their arrows, boomerangs, and bombs, slashing the enemies that were close with their Master Swords. Zelda created blasts of magic, while Sheik used her Deku Nuts to "warp" to random places and catch the monsters off-guard with her jabbing daggers. Teaming up with the stranger, the group managed to chase all the monsters in the area away, no survivors of the Subspace Army.

"Whew-a!" Mario sighed.

"Thanks, Mr. uuuhhh…" Link said.

"If you wanna know my name, it's Cloud Strife, 1st-class SOLDIER," the stranger answered. "But if you like, you can call me Cloud."

"Cloud?" Zero Suit Samus asked. "What a peculiar name from someone who just saved us."

"Yes, that's my name…" Cloud replied. "Just don't question it."

"So," Mario asked. "Where you from-a?"

Silence passed through the air, the fighters staring at Cloud. The 1st-class SOLDIER sighed, responding, "I… don't really know. I never even knew where I came from or who I really was. All I remember since I got here was my name, what I was capable of, and the enemies I came across."

"Hey, we don't blame you," Link said. "We all had that problem too when we got here. The only other person we knew who didn't lose his memories yet was Sonic the Hedgehog, and he talked on and on about his and our homelands for the past ten years, building up our memories as time went by."

"How does he do that?" Cloud questioned. "Visiting your homelands and learning about your past lives?"

"What would you expect from the world's fastest living being?" Sheik answered in the form of another question.

"Anyway," Dr. Mario said. "We're trying to navigate our way back to our friends, but we're trapped in uncharted territory. We're hoping you can help us, since we notice you were stuck here too."

"Not interested," Cloud answered.

"What?" Zelda exclaimed. "We need to get back to our friends as soon as we can! There's a new war going on in Arcadia, greater than what happened ten years ago! And all you're gonna do is reject our offer for help?"

"Fine…" Cloud answered. "I'll help you. But first, we're gonna learn a little bit of ourselves, why we were brought to this hellhole..."

Mario took the picture he stowed in his overalls pocket, glancing at it. The picture was slightly worn out from the fighting and crashlanding, the marker saying "Smash Bros. 2008" barely smeared. The round plumber in red folded the picture back into his pocket and said, "We're gonna need all the help we can get. So, from now on, you're an official member of the Super Smash Brothers Club."

"A member of a small club, called 'Super Smash Brothers'?" Cloud Strife asked, his eyes glowing blue in question. The other fighters looked as Mario, Toon Link rubbing his head in confusion.

"If you want help," Cloud answered, "you're talking to the right guy. Come on. I think I might have known where your pals were last sighted. Right next to a small village, untouched by this Subspace Army, though I doubt that black-red cloud had no effect on their nice clear skies. In the meantime, we can figure out where your little guys landed, and we can go from that point on."

"So, let's go then!" Toon Link yelled. "We don't have time to waste and we gotta get those friends of yours back soon!"

Cloud looked at Link in confusion, shaking his head. "Was he always like this, so bratty, naïve, and danger-loving?" the ex-soldier asked.

"Who knows?" Link answered. "He and the others were just born from a Dark Cannon, and I have no idea how he behaves, but it's a long story. Let's get going right away."

The group, with their new companion Cloud Strife, ran off deeper into the woods, on the lookout for any monsters in their path. Deep in the trees, hidden by the thick leaves, another strange figure was spying on them, observing them. The figure was kept within the darkness, the only lights shining were their reddened sclera and green eyes with slit pupils.

"So they think they can gather everyone up in time for the final battle?" the stranger asked themselves in a soft but cunning voice. In a crystalline hand that was the color of foggy ice, some sort of pink sludge was slithering through his fingertips as though it had a mind of its own.

"I guess I'll wait until SHE strikes..." they chuckled within the sound of silence.

Without another word, the figure warped out of the darkness, disappearing from the area and never seen again... for now.