Shadow Mewtwo was warping in the deep woods, running away from the Subspace Army. He was trying to get rid of the Shadow Bugs scarring his body, filling his mind with mixed memories. It was a constant battle between the Pokémon he once was and the monster he became for the Subspace Army. The Phantom Ruby that paired with him made the situation even worse. It drove him even crazier, forcing him to scratch the Shadow Synergy Stone off his left shoulder. His psychic and physical attacks did no good since the crystal only healed itself. The Shadow Bugs started tormenting him, making him go insane. Eventually, he saw himself in a pitch-black room with a red light above him. In front of Shadow Mewtwo was Infinite, the wielder of the Phantom Ruby.

"Get out of my head," Shadow Mewtwo telepathized.

"Oh, but I can't leave," Infinite objected. "I'm already a part of you. I already know where you're hiding, and the Subspace Army will track you down no matter what the cost…" The masked jackal warped closer, face-to-face with the tortured legendary Pokémon.

"Let me do this on my own," Shadow Mewtwo telepathized in agony. "I don't need any of your help. All you do is make things even worse."

"Thanks to your little accident," Infinite said, "one of our biggest bosses ran away from the Subspace Army. All we've been doing is making you grow stronger, so powerful that even our little toys have no effect on you anymore."

"Please… leave…" Shadow Mewtwo telepathized. The room that the Pokémon was trapped in with Infinite vanished, leaving him back in the woods. Shadow Mewtwo's purple eyes contracted, crying over the sudden truth that he can't get rid of the horrible memories that scarred him for life. Just then, he heard a motor running from a distance. He saw Cloud with Link, Mario, Zelda, and Zero Suit Samus driving the Fenrir to one of the hidden Subspace areas for answers of the incoming monsters. Then, without warning, Shadow Mewtwo used one of his Shadow Balls at the motorcycle. Cloud saw the incoming projectile in time and knocked all of the other fighters off. The 1st-class SOLDIER jumped off just in time as the Shadow Ball hit the Fenrir, causing the motorcycle to blow up. The other fighters got up and saw the catastrophe, looking at the direction the projectile came from. Shadow Mewtwo was simply standing there, afraid for the first time.

"Alright, Subspace boss," Cloud said, walking towards Shadow Mewtwo with Mario, Link, Zero Suit Samus, and Zelda. "We were on a little vacation for answers and looks like we'll be getting a few today."

"Listen, listen," Shadow Mewtwo telepathized in fear. "There's a huge threat. You don't know it's coming. Just leave me alone!" Shadow Mewtwo shot violet electricity from the palm of his weirdly-shaped hand. The other fighters, alarmed, dodged just in time. Threatened, Cloud Strife grabbed Shadow Mewtwo's hands, squeezing them tighter as seconds went on.

"Last chance, bitch," Cloud ordered. "What kind of monsters are they brewing up in Subspace?"

"I'm warning you," Shadow Mewtwo telepathized, squirming out of Cloud's grasp. "Stay- stay away from me-!" Before Shadow Mewtwo cloud finish, he accidently blasted a huge Shadow Bug pillar at Cloud, piercing his stomach.

"Cloud!" Link yelled. As the fighters watched, Cloud Strife was being engulfed by the Shadow Bugs, many of them leaking into his mouth and ears. After a short period of time passed, Cloud's body fell down, slowly getting up. The 1st-class SOLDIER's body was a darker color, producing a black-violet mist.

"…Cloud-a?" Mario asked. Before Mario could lay a hand on him, Cloud quickly jerked his neck, looking at the other fighters with glowing yellow eyes. The Shadow Bug fighter got up, popping his spine and shoulder. Link, Mario, Zero Suit Samus, and Zelda looked at Shadow Mewtwo, the Pokémon looking terrified.

"I swear it's not my fault," Shadow Mewtwo telepathized in fear. Zelda launched a blast of magic at the Pokémon, but he simply vanished into thin air, leaving the other fighters to face Shadow Cloud alone.

"Looks like we're going to have to do this like it was ten years ago," Mario said. "We simply attack the faker and rescue the real companion." Mario's hands clasped over the blade of Shadow Cloud's Buster Sword the second the Shadow Bug warrior swung his weapon. Mario jumped out of the way, and Shadow Cloud glared at the prepped warriors. Zero Suit Samus went in first, using her Jet Boots to fire blasts at Shadow Cloud's face. However, the Shadow Bug fighter was blocking the blasts, but felt himself grabbed by Link's clawshot. The weapon that Link was using was starting to rust after ten years, so it didn't grab on as long. Shadow Cloud then pushed Link to the ground, delivering quick jabs with his foot. Link pulled up his Hylian Shield, avoiding the hits. He tried hitting Shadow Cloud with his left hand, but noticed he was growing weaker with that hand somehow. Just then, Shadow Cloud knocked the Master Sword out of the Hylian's hands, leaving Link to run and grab it. Shadow Cloud was about to use his Limit Break's Blade Beam, but Zelda used her Nayru's Love to reflect it back at the Shadow Bug warrior, protecting Link.

Mario jumped in, launching flaming punches at the Shadow Bug fighter. Shadow Cloud counterattacked with a Climhazard, slashing vertically into the air and landing with a powerful blast that sent Mario flying into a nearby tree. Zelda started kicking Shadow Cloud in the face with her heel, zapping some of the Shadow Bugs off. The possessed 1st-class SOLDIER grabbed Zero Suit Samus's plasma whip, kicking the bounty hunter between her legs. Before he could kick again, the blond-haired woman grabbed her gun and stunned him, leaving Link to deal the final blow. With a quick stab, Link shoved the Master Sword, now in his right hand, through Shadow Cloud's chest, leaving the possessed 1st-class SOLDIER to die.

"L-link…" Shadow Cloud panted as dark purple juices trailed out of his wound and mouth. Link unsheathed his sword, terrified of the terrible action he had to do to save his friend. Once the Shadow Bugs left Shadow Cloud's dead body, all that remained was a trophy of the 1st-class SOLDIER. The golden trophy base showed Cloud Strife in combat on both feet, holding the Buster Sword in front of him with his two hands. Zelda and Link backed away while Zero Suit Samus and Mario walked closer. Then, the Hero of Hyrule ran to the 1st-class SOLDIER's trophy lying on the ground, ready to touch the base like it was supposed to work before.


Where… where am I? Cloud Strife slowly woke up, noticing his body was transparent with a rainbow aura. The strangest thing was he had all the memories of his homeland, but not in his trophy form. Little did he know this is what happen to fighters when they transform – their spirits and real memories split from their bodies, helpless in the world, forever cursed to walk the earth if anything happened to their vessels.

Am I still in the Lifestream? Cloud looked around, unaware of the new environment around him. The Cloud that was hidden in the transformation was only here when he turned into a trophy, so he couldn't remember anything that happened in Arcadia.

Tifa? Barret? Anyone? He saw peculiar-looking strangers surrounding what appeared to be him. Cloud Strife started peeking in to see himself, only to look at it in shock. There, the spirit of the warrior found himself frozen in a still form, and those eyes did not describe him at all.

IS THAT… ME!? He saw Link reaching over to the trophy's base, trying to save him with a simple touch. The spirit of Cloud tried to call for help, not even remembering that the Hylian was his friend.

Someone… anyone… help me… Bring me back! After Link touched the base of the trophy, Cloud quickly jerked up as if he woke up from a nightmare. Panting heavily, he saw his friends gathered around him, almost as if he remembered something from a dream.


"What the hell just happened?" Cloud Strife asked, getting up from his rest position.

"You were possessed by Shadow Bugs," Link answered. "We had to do something. I had to do something…"

"What matters is that you're okay, Cloud-a," Mario said. "Is… is there anything that's troubling you?" Cloud Strife sat up, wiping his forehead from the sweat.

"I… thought I had a dream…" Cloud answered. "When I was in my trophy form, I think… I mean, this world is already confusing enough as it is… Anyway, I saw myself, separated from my body, thinking I was still in some sort of Lifestream, looking for a girl named Tifa… these memories are all returning to me slowly but surely..."

"Which means it could probably work for the most of us too," Mario answered. "All this time, I've been away from the place I call home…"

"Red described once having a legendary Pokémon called Mewtwo," Zelda objected. "Did you see what appeared to be his counterpart a few minutes ago? It looked like he was being tortured mentally… almost as if he didn't mean to attack us and have us deal with the Shadow Bugs possessing Cloud alone…"

"Wherever this creature is, we need info on the new monsters," Cloud replied. "We're almost at the Subspace base, and Link and Zelda could suit up in the meantime. Looks like they could use a change…" The two Hylians nodded, walking off into the bushes to change.

As time had passed, Mario, Zero Suit Samus, and Cloud were waiting for Link and Zelda to be done. Once they heard the rustling, they saw the new and improved warriors they once knew. For Link, his blond hair was tied up into a ponytail with two locks in front of his ears, he was equipped with a bow and arrows, his Master Sword was now exposing its handle on Link's right shoulder (which he could wield the sword with his right hand and the Hylian Shield in the other), and his tunic was now a sky blue with white markings very different from the traditional green color of legends. As for Zelda, her hair was now a light blond with two bangs in front of her jeweled headpiece, and she was wearing a short-sleeved dress colored white with a dark shade of pink decorated with golden jewelry.

"Damn, guys!" Zero Suit Samus said as a compliment. "These new looks are really good on you! By the way, what do you think Link has?" The bounty hunter noticed Link was carrying some sort of tablet device with a Sheikah symbol on his waistband.

"Oh, this?" Link pulled it out, noticing the tablet. "This thingy is called a Sheikah Slate, or so I've been told. Basically, the Sheikah had some long-lost technology more advanced than anything in all of Hyrule. With this contraption, I could be able to make remote-detonated bombs, research enemy devices, and more."

"Looks like we got a science expert on our side," Cloud said. "Nice decision."

"So, looks like we're ready to head into the Subspace base then?" Zelda asked, flipping her new hairdo with her hand.

"Just about-a," Mario answered. "And with that nifty Sheikah Slate Link has with him to replace his old clawshot, it might be of some good use in the future." Afterwards, Cloud Strife, Zero Suit Samus, and Mario went with the new and improved Link and Zelda to the nearby Subspace base.


Deep in the forest, where more desolated trees burned to the ground and monsters dwelled, the Falcon Flyer Group walked in the direction they thought would help them find Sonic.

"Guys! Over here!" Peach exclaimed. There, in the distance, the Big Blue Group saw a person trapped underneath a burning tree trunk. Captain Falcon and Bowser started to lift up the heavy rubbish as Marth and Duck Hunt pulled out the person who was trapped. R.O.B. lifted the unconscious man in his robotic arms, laying him down. The stranger was revealed to have white hair, a black coat with golden traces, and in his partially gloved hands were a sword shaped like lightning and a tome with four symbols: a lightning bolt, a flame, a wind slash, and a dark eye, each one signifying thunder, fire, wind, and death. The man slowly stirred up, looking at Jigglypuff now cuddling to his side for comfort.

"Where… where am I?" the man asked, getting up. "The last thing I remember was waking up here with no memory of what happened, dragons that I've never seen before showed up and started burning the forest… The last thing I saw was the sky growing dark and strange, purple entities raining…"

"What matters is that you're alright," Ike replied. "Tell us, stranger. What brings you here in our aid of need?"

"Where are my manners?" the man answered in the form of a question. "I forgot to introduce myself. My name's Robin, and I'm a very skilled tactician in both planning and magic."

"You were with someone, weren't you?" Pit asked.

"Oh, I was," Robin answered. "I was with a princess warrior named Lucina, but when those monsters attacked, I was alone when I woke up and I couldn't find her anywhere…" The fighters then started hearing laughing from the distance, bringing up the fighters' guards. Appeared right in front of them was a tall, shadowy man. He was cloaked in dark purple and black, and he carried a book with the cover signifying death. His face showed signs of elderly age, and he was stroking his small black beard with long fingernails.

"Validar!" Robin exclaimed. Just then, the shadowy mage dropped down onto the ground, almost as if he was wounded. He then slowly absorbed the Shadow Bugs, forming into a demonic dragon with six purple eyes, two long, golden horns, and thin, spidery legs, towering over the fighters. Before the warriors could advance, the dragon shrunk back, revealing Validar once again.

"So sorry about transforming into the Fell Dragon Grima," Validar hissed in glee. "Hard to keep him inside your body when you're the one possessed through series of precise rituals…"

"Possessed?" Robin asked.

"Yes," Validar answered. "With the time of reckoning upon us, it's worth it to be the vessel of your master when Tabuu calls upon all of us to rebuild the Great Maze. Soon, there will be a time when everyone will finally get what they want…"

"Excuse me… get what they want?" Ike objected. "If they really want us to feel happy once more, why don't they give us presents? Why do they have to go out in a full-blown war against us?" Silence lingered in the air as the trembling Validar slowly shifted away from the fighters.

"I… have to go…" With a puff of smoke, Validar vanished into the black-red cloud.

"That's odd," Robin asked himself. "I clearly thought Validar would be more menacing than that… almost as if some otherworldly force doing something to make him so... cowardly…" Suddenly, with a flash of lightning, a terrifying monster landed right in front of the fighters. Its body started glowing an eerie red marbled with black, and pieces of its body looked like they were made out of ancient stone. Its four eyes laid horizontally on its rocky face were glowing in an order of white, red, blue, and yellow. Its four arms were carrying an arm cannon of the wind element, a glowing ball of the fire element, a long, plasmatic sword of the water element, and a huge spear with metal at the tip of the thunder element. The creature sprouted two dragon wings on its back and was standing in a form similar to Grima. Fused to itself was a crystal cage which appeared to be its control center. With a mighty roar, the creature took off into the air.

"What is that thing!?" Pit asked, terrified.

"Loos like some sort of Blight Ganon," Captain Falcon answered. "Heard it from Ganondorf's gossips when he was reigning as captain of the Subspace Army. Strange how it looks like all four of them combined somehow to create what Validar called his master…"

"Looks like we're going to have to call it a Blight Grima since it behaves awfully a lot like Grima…" Robin answered, bringing out his tome and Levin Sword. The Blight Grima rushed towards the warriors like a dragon. Marth and Ike jumped out of the way just in time, but Pit was pinned to the ground by its weight. Jigglypuff floated in and started attacking with soft-looking by nasty punches as the Blight Grima breathed a mixed elemental storm on Pit's body, scarring him a touch. As Jigglypuff kept landing hits with Donkey Kong, Robin pulled out his Thunder Tome and started charging his Thoron. The Wind Elemental arm cannon and the Fire Elemental ball fired blasts of magic at the incoming fighters. Wario rode in on his bike with Mr. Game & Watch before jumping off and farting at the Blight Grima's face. With the monster angry, it got off Pit, following Wario as Mr. Game & Watch jumped onto its back, trying to whack the crystal cage on its back.

Olimar stood from a distance as he commanded his Pikmin to latch onto the monster as gashes started forming on its arms and legs. With a huge whip of its tail, the Blight Grima forced the fighters to either jump or duck. After they got up, Robin was just about ready to fire his Thoron, but the monster started slashing with its Water Elemental sword. With another tome ready for use, Robin started using Arcfire at the creature, burning its face. R.O.B. jumped onto the Blight Grima's back, attacking the crystal cage with Mr. Game & Watch. Peach and Bowser pelted the incoming monster with fireballs and turnips but were quickly knocked onto the ground with its Thunder Element spear, which launched deadly bolts in all directions. After dodging the fast arms, Robin noticed R.O.B. and Mr. Game & Watch attacking the crystal cage, which was weakening the monster.

"Everyone, don't attack its body!" Robin yelled. "If you want a quick kill, aim for the cage! It's the exposed weakness!" Robin then jumped into the air, using Elwind and Nosferatu on the Blight Grima's crystal cage. Pit flew towards the creature, avoiding its four deadly arms and started firing arrows of light with Palutena's Bow at the cage. As the fighters kept avoiding the monster's attacks and attacking the crystal cage, the monster eventually was on the brink of collapsing as its cage was starting to show cracks on its surface.

"Final blow!" Robin yelled as everyone jumped out of the way to watch out for the final blast from the Blight Grima's four arms. "Thoron!" With a stream of lightning hitting the monster's cage, R.O.B. and Mr. Game & Watch jumped out of the way, watching as the Blight Grima fell to the ground. As everyone cheered for their victory, the crystal cage broke, revealing a warrior made entirely out of Shadow Bugs. Unsheathing a flaming chainsaw sword, the possessed fighter glared at the others with a look of rage and flew right towards them.

Duck Hunt started running in, pulling out a rusty can and started kicking it, an 8-bit reticle aiming and firing at the metal gunpowder-filled can. As soon as the reticle and the can hit each other at the Shadow Bug fighter, it caused a fiery explosion which knocked him back. Once he got back up, he grabbed ahold of Robin. The Shadow Bug fighter's hands turned into vicious, man-eating claws, slashing and jabbing at the tactician. Pit flew into his rescue using Palutena's Power of Flight. Grabbing his Upperdash Arm, the white-garmented angel whacked the Shadow Bug fighter in the head, releasing Robin of his grabbed state. The stranger got up, releasing a long spear-like weapon from his hand that stabbed the ground, causing him to fly with a nasty kick towards Olimar and Mr. Game & Watch. The two fighters jumped out of the way just in time, leaving the Shadow Bug fighter open for a flurry of attacks from Donkey Kong. Once the gorilla landed the last hit, the Shadow Bug fighter felt himself Falcon Punched right in the chest by Captain Falcon, giving him a nasty burn by the deadly final blow. As the stranger's body fell down stone-cold, the Shadow Bugs that surrounded him retreated away with the wind, leaving only their victim's trophy behind.

Duck Hunt started sniffing the trophy's base, wondering what to do with the kinky prize from the warrior's former self. Once the duck started poking the dog in confusion of what to do, the bird flew on top of the side of the base, not even knowing the help of another fighter can reanimate the said fighter. Once the duck felt the base was starting to disappear, he flew back onto the dog's back as the other fighters saw who they just saved. As they observed, the fighter they rescued had silver hair with brown-red eyes and slightly vertical pupils. He was wearing silver-white armor mixed with velvety black, and his blue cape flowed behind him. He showed he had only bare feet, and his golden chainsaw sword, the Yato Blade, was glowing a crimson-pink mist.

"…What the… What happened to me?" the stranger asked.

"It's okay, stranger," Robin answered. "You safe with us now."

"We've been noticing we've dealt a few heavy blows on you when you were possessed," Pit said, rubbing his aching neck.

"Possessed?" the stranger asked.

"Oh, yeah… right…" Pit stammered. "You've been taken over by Shadow Bugs and… It's a long story, basically. Anyway, what's your name? I'm Pit, captain of Lady Palutena's guard."

"My name's Corrin, Prince of Hoshido and Nohr," the stranger answered.

"How come you're the prince of TWO kingdoms?" Peach asked.

"Well, all I remember is my birth started the war between two nations, forcing me to go into hiding when I was forced to make a life-changing decision," Corrin answered.

"Well, we'll all have to make a choice, someday," Marth answered.

"Yeah, like we're forced to find our friends in an event that'll destroy not only this world but ours as well," Ike butted in. "And if we don't rescue them now and prepare for the final battle, we'll be stuck here enslaved, never knowing of the worlds that were destroyed in the making and rebuilding of the Great Maze."

"So, you're participating in a life-changing crisis that'll end both worlds as you know it?" Corrin asked. "Do you mind if I join you? These… Subspace monsters are spawning everywhere, making their numbers more powerful."

"I guess you could come along," Peach answered. "But… how'll we get to Sonic and his buddies in time before the monsters do?"

"Leave that to me," Corrin answered. Before any of the fighters could ask him, the half-dragon prince transformed himself into a winged, reptilian beast, his face completely changed with small antlers.

"How could you do that?" Pit asked in wonder.

Corrin in his dragon form spat out a gush of water on the ground, spelling out, "I'm a half-dragon so I can transform into one at will. Come on. I'll take you to the direction you were heading to. Thanks for saving me, BTW." While Corrin was talking this whole time, Ike was away, fully dressed in the clothing he wore back when he was a teenager. No one questioned why the sudden change, but time was running low, so there was not enough to ask.

"Let's get going then," Ike answered in his younger self, pulling out the Ragnell and jumping on the half-dragon's back. The fighters who couldn't fly all got on Corrin's back, and both Pit and Duck Hunt were the only ones who passed, for even though the dog was the heavier one of the two in the Duck Hunt gang, the duck was still able to fly and carry the mutt fast enough to catch up to the others. Corrin then took off into the sky with the Big Blue Group, followed by Pit and Duck Hunt, flying off to the northwest.


As time went by, the Wolfen Assault Group with the Wii Fit Trainer got to the edge of the Subspace Army's base camp, hiding in plain sight. The fighters watched from the distance as they saw M. Bison demand the Fire Primids a way in as they opened the gate doors.

"Never really liked the guy anyway," Wii Fit Trainer sighed. "We're going to have to break our way in, no matter what it takes to get what we need."

"What are we looking for again," Falco asked, tired off his ass.

"We need to find where they're keeping your friends, remember?" Wii Fit Trainer answered in the form of a question.

"How do we break in?" Ness asked, Pikachu cuddling close to him.

"Simply attacking the monsters is what we don't do anymore," Wii Fit Trainer answered. "Right now, we'll have to break in through sneaking pastures."

"She's right," Fox said. "Simply attacking the monsters won't be enough. It's the cameras we have to worry about." When the fighters gazed out of the bushes, they saw two surveillance cameras pinned to the sides of the gate.

"These devices have 360-degree cameras, always on 24/7," Wii Fit Trainer answered. "No matter what we do, we'll always get caught by whatever powerful monster comes to our heads and be in serious trouble. The only way we could get in is if someone is powerful enough to bust in and break the security system, and not just through hacking. Not even the best of code-breakers could disable it. You'll have to literally destroy it with brutal force."

"I think that could be arranged," Ganondorf spoke from a short distance. When the other fighters turned their heads, they saw Ganondorf was hiding in the bushes this whole time, giving himself a new look. As the fighters observed, Ganondorf now has a pointier nose, longer red hair, and clothes that really styled a Gerudo chief. His long, red cape decorated with gold draped over his back, and he was wielding a thick, rusty sword.

"What do you think?" Ganondorf boasted. "With a few companions, we'll break in in no time! Fox! Ness! You're with me! Everyone else wait outside until we get us all in." The Gerudo chief put away his thick-ended sword, bringing Fox McCloud and Ness along with him.

"Shouldn't we think of a way to break in without being spotted?" Ness asked.

"That's the whole idea of this world," Ganondorf answered. "We never do." The three recruited warriors jumped out of the bushes, landing in front of the Fire Primids, who noticed them. Fox grabbed his blaster and fired at one of the Fire Primids before it could even launch a flame, and Ganondorf beheaded the other before it could contact the others with a special alarm it carried. The cameras picked up everything, but Ness used his baseball bat and whacked the devices, breaking their screens and causing them to malfunction and combust.

"That wasn't so bad, was it?" Ganondorf asked the other two fighters.

"Those cameras might have already picked up the footage while we were attacking the guards," Fox answered. "Any moment now, security is gonna come in and mess us up. We have to get in there and fast." The three fighters nodded, looking back at their hiding place before breaking the steel door down. As the recruited teammates were heading down the Subspace base that Wii Fit Trainer described, Ness thought he could try talking to Ganondorf.

"So, do you know anything about your past?" Ness asked. "Ten years have passed, and the only fighters we know that haven't been transformed are already having contact with this Smash Ball already in our time of need."

"I was the King of Evil back when I thought I was working for the Master Hand," Ganondorf answered. "Ten years ago, I was driven by greed for Hyrule's domain, but I didn't know why until today. Once we find out where are friends are, I can guarantee you I won't try to murder another important species again."

"That's why you're you clarified you're evil," Fox interrupted. "You don't care who you kill, as long as you get your way."

"When I killed the Ancients ten years ago," Ganondorf went on, "I didn't know WHY I did it. Maybe it's because Tabuu no longer saw a use for them and so wiped them out in the most gruesome way imaginable…"

"Guys, do you hear something?" Ness asked, lowering his voice. From what the three fighters heard in the walls, they heard heavy punches and kicks, and unholy screams from the monsters.

"Over here!" Fox cried. He was already running off in the hallway, with Ness and Ganondorf following him. When they came across a gallery of doors, they kicked down the one where the noise was the loudest. There, in the chaos, they saw a martial artist, barefoot, wearing a red headband on his forehead and keeping up his black hair. His sweating torso and six-pack were showing through his white, torn-up robe, all barefoot as shown by his ragged pants and black belt.

"Shinku Hadoken!" the stranger yelled as he clasped his hand and formed a massive fireball, launching it at certain monsters, such as the Giant UFOs and the Octoroks, and burning them. He then felt himself zapped by an incoming Glunder, but he used his Focus Punch and stopped the Subspace monster dead in its tracks. As all of the creatures in the room were cleared, the stranger looked at Ganondorf, Fox, and Ness at the door's frame.

"I didn't notice you were here this whole time," the stranger said, removing the headband just to wipe his head.

"So, let me get this straight," Ganondorf asked. "You're here the same way we got in? To disable the security to force the Subspace Army to lose connection with the other bases and find out who's captured so you can help them escape?"

"That what you guys are trying to do as well?" the stranger answered in the form of another question, tying his red headband onto his forehead again. "Guess we're looking for the same thing. The monks I was trained with called me Ryu, the tireless wanderer. And you must be?"

"I'm Fox McCloud," Fox answered. "This is Ganondorf, the ex-King of Darkness and chief of the Gerudo who reign in the Black Desert Valley. The boy we have here is Ness, and he's special with his psychic powers."

"Mind if I join you?" Ryu asked. "I've been looking for a way out ever since I got in. These monsters are planning something, and whatever it is can't be good."

"Never is," Ness replied. Then, as the recruited teammates were walking out of the room to look for a way into the security facility, the Subspace computer sounded out throughout the hallway.

"WARNING! WARNING! Intruders have breached the facility. Please report to suspects immediately… located within the main door gallery," the Subspace computer echoed. Shadow Bugs and Miitopian monsters leaked out of the vents, surrounding the four fighters.

"Looks like we'll have to fight our way into the security chamber," Ganondorf said. "Sure hope the others outside are okay…"

Waiting in the bushes outside the gate, Falco Lombardi was watching as he saw the area was completely empty.

"They've been gone for too long," Falco told the others. "Besides, nothing has happened ever since they busted in."

"But Ganondorf and his companions told us to wait here, no matter what happens," Wii Fit Trainer objected. "At least until the lights are off, we're not going to break in just yet."

"You know how much I love a good danger," Falco answered. "Even if we all have to face one of the worst monsters yet, I'll still be able to break in no problemo…" Before Falco could finish, a tiny earthquake that nobody noticed rumbled. A small rock landed on the dirt, but it was sharp enough to poke a creature that had lain dormant for a long time. The rustling of the bushes parted way for a massive Clubberskull, who just so happened to find their hiding spot outside the gateway as the other fighters looked up in fright.

"Spoke too soon," Falco mumbled. Pikachu, Diddy Kong, Kirby, King Dedede, Yoshi, and Luigi all cried in fear.

"Run, everybody! RUN!" Luigi cried. The Clubberskull let out an unnatural roar, scaring the fighters out of their hiding spot. Since it was powered by Shadow Bugs, it almost felt impossible to beat the monster, as Falco tested with his blaster and reflector. The Wolfen Assault Group started running off, trying to lose the fast, diabolical beast. Its two heavy arms dug deep in the ground, causing massive shakes that attempted to stun the fighters, but they jumped just in time. Primids stood in their way, ready to attack, but the Wolfen Assault Group threw them right in the Clubberskull's only eye. Eventually, the fighters saw their only chance of escape was through the Subspace military jets and copters but realized the metal fence surrounding it was powered with volts so deadly even Pikachu couldn't handle them.

The Clubberskull jumped in front of the fighters, slamming its arms and not even realizing it ripped a way through. As the Clubberskull didn't even feel shockingly deadly bolts of lightning surge through its gruesome body, the Wolfen Assault Group ran towards a Subspace copter, kicking the Primids out. Once Falco got the copter running in the air, he steered it out of the area as the Clubberskull jumped again, slamming its fists onto almost all of the now-demolished aircrafts. Diddy Kong grabbed the machine gun at the side of the jump pad of the copter, firing away at the Clubberskull. Once the beast noticed the Wolfen Assault Group was getting away in a copter, the Clubberskull started smashing through half of the Subspace base, sounding off an alarm. All sorts of Primids tried to pin down the Clubberskull with grappling hooks with tasers attached to them, but the beast started swinging the creatures back and forth, scratching the walls.

"I'm gonna go get the others!" Falco cried.

"It's too late!" Luigi objected. "The base is gonna blow up in a few seconds, and we'll lose not only the friends we had before but the friends we have now!"

"Gonna try anyway!" Falco repeated. "Falco Lombardi to Fox McCloud! Do you read me? Over!"

Inside the base, Ganondorf, Ryu, Fox, and Ness were attacking the monsters with whatever equipment they had, trying to save their friends from the incoming Giant UFOs that will abduct them and take them far away. Fox noticed his communicator was receiving transmission, so he pressed the receiver button on his headset.

"Fox McCloud to Falco Lombardi! I hear you! Over!" Fox yelled.

"I'm gonna blast a way in! Over!" Falco said over his headset. The rest of the Wolfen Assault Group saw the surviving Primids got in fighter jets of their own ready to fire at the copter.

"No use, Falco!" Fox yelled as the monsters whaled in on the group. "We'll bust the security and you get outta here! Besides, these walls are impenetrable! You did your best. Hope we'll meet again another time… Over…"

"No time for giving up!" Ryu yelled as he used his Shoryuken on an Ancient Robot. "There's gotta be a way in to break us out!" In the copter, Kirby watched as the Subspace jets were about to fire at them. With his cuddly powers, the pink puffball created out of the pureness of his heart a Star Allies Sparkler. Wearing a heart-shaped visor, Kirby, with a squeal, helped everyone in the copter to get on the creation he made. Once the jets fired missiles at the copter, the Star Allies Sparkler flew out of the midair explosion with everyone on it. With a star-shaped blast, Kirby released out of his mouth a beam to melt a hole into the roof. Ganondorf, Ryu, Fox, and Ness all saw their way out, and so jumped out of the cooling-off hole and onto the Star Allies Sparkler. The Giant UFOs flew in to stop them, but Kirby launched another blast to blow the Miitopia monsters out of the sky, flying off into the distance.

"How did Kirby do that?" Fox asked Falco.

"I dunno," Falco answered. "Always best not to either underestimate or ask the little guy." Kirby turned towards the recruited Wolfen Assault Group, smiling at them as the Subspace base blew up right behind them.

"Where do we go from here?" Ryu asked everyone. "We don't have any info on where any prisoners might be, and I'm just stuck with you in the middle of nowhere."

"Poyo!" Kirby peeped.

"Pika!" Pikachu chimed.

"We'll be going somewhere, all right," Wii Fit Trainer said. "To the place where it all began… the main tower next to the Ruins of the Ancients: the Yggdrasil." When the fighters looked from a distance, they saw the tower they were heading to was big enough to spot from a very far journey, but the Star Allies Sparkler that Kirby mysteriously made would get them there in no time.