Mario and his team were strolling through the jungle, keeping an eye out for any intruders they can find. So far, they have managed to rescue a few Spirits from their selected puppet fighters with no sweat, and they were all simply easy to defeat. However, that did not mean they can simply ace through the fight against Galeem like it was no trouble at all.

"So… where's the next fight?" Joker asked, twirling his unloaded pistol with his red-gloved hand.

"I'm sure it'll be around here somewhere," Marth answered. "Just you wait." Joker then looked back on Faker, noticing something was on her mind. While the other four fighters were still walking through the forest, Joker approached the brown-skinned warrior, seeing those downcast golden eyes of hers.

"Something wrong?" Joker asked. Faker merely sighed, looking at the ground below her.

"I just simply woke up here, with no memory about myself or even what I originally looked like," Faker answered. "I was hoping if I joined you guys, I would get more answers about myself, but… ever since I have discovered these fire powers of mine, I was left with more questions… Plus, I don't even know much about conflict and the other Spirits assume I can use a sword…" Joker held up her chin, looking at her with those gray eyes of his hidden underneath his mask, making Faker's cheeks tinted red a little.

"We'll fix you up," Joker answered. "Just you wait." Faker rubbed her cheek, pushing Joker's hand aside a bit.

"Joker! Faker!" Marth called. "There's something you need to see!" Joker suddenly heard his friends, who went down south. The Phantom Thief of Hearts then grabbed ahold of Faker's hand, taking her along with him. Once Joker and Faker met up with Mario, Marth, Olimar, and PAC-MAN, they both saw that they were standing in front of a large base, with the steel doors slammed shut.

"First the village of Morrowsville was blocked to us, and now this highly suspicious base is barricaded," Marth sighed, tired that they were going through dead ends every single turn. Just then, Joker noticed a futuristic-looking computer next to the gate. The Phantom Thief of Hearts walked up, and the computer quickly unfolded itself, creating holographic screens and textboxes. The group of fighters then walked up behind Joker, befuddled by the technology presented to them. In order for the group to access the base's gate, they needed to enter a seven-digit passcode.

"Got any ideas?" Joker asked.

"Not that I know of," Mario answered, confused just as much as the Phantom Thief of Hearts, "unless you were to know of this advanced technology mumbo-jumbo…"

"I'm a part-time college student as well as part-time Phantom Thief," Joker replied. "I don't really have much time understanding the complexities of computers."

"What a bummer," Marth replied. "Well, if we were to find a Spirit that can help us like Kammy Koopa back there at the mushroom gorge, that would be great." The Hero-King then took a different path back to the forest up north, followed by Mario, Olimar, PAC-MAN, and Joker. Faker was standing around for quite a while, looking back on the futuristic computer monitor. On the holographic screen, the hint for the seven-digit passcode read: Who was Galeem's brother?

…Brother? Faker thought to herself, wanting to understand if the Seraph of Order had a family of his own relation.

"Faker!" Joker called out. "We're waiting for you!" The brown-skinned warrior then remembered who she was traveling with, and she ran down the path the fighters took.

Time had passed, and the fighters looked through the forest to see what they could find. Just then, the group noticed a glowing-green crystal just across a bridge over a fast-current river. Inside the crystal was another fairy, trapped inside and dormant.

"You see that?" Marth asked.

"Yep," Mario answered, stepping onto the bridge. "Whoever's in there definitely needs our rescuing." The red plumber then ran off, followed by his friends and Faker. However, as they were halfway across, a Master Hand suddenly teleported right in front of them, scaring them so much that they almost fell off the flimsy bridge into the freezing water.

"And just where do you think you're going?" the Master Hand asked, floating above them as its fingers slowly curled into its palm.

"We're here to save the person sealed inside that crystal," Mario answered. "You better get out of our way or we'll wail in on you." However, the Master Hand simply laughed.

"Arcadia's Master Hand had described how gullible you all can be," the Master Hand replied. "If he's around right now, he might say the exact same thing I had just described. Now suffer as you fight against one of your friends." Slamming with a powerful fist, the Master Hand shook the bridge, even though the fighters were trying to steady their balance. Once the Hand opened its palm, inside it was the Donkey Kong Primary, surrounded by a white aura and eyes gleaming red. An image flashed on the captured fighter's bare chest, revealing a Master Legendary Spirit in the form of a large, darkened elderly gorilla with ghost-like eyes, and its name was the Ghastly King.

The Donkey Kong Primary roared so ferociously that the warriors themselves were feeling a little frightened. Before the Master Hand vanished, it left behind a cluster of Shadow Bugs, and they each formed into Primids, Triggergoplas, and Halicarptus.

"I'll take care of this bitch," Joker growled, taking off his mask. Blue flames surrounded his gray eyes, and Arsene appeared right behind him.

"King Kong's mine," Joker continued, placing the mask on his waist. The Phantom Thief of Hearts then pulled out his pistol and knife. The Donkey Kong Primary then lunged forward and unleashed a powerful punch, but Joker himself jumped on top of the gorilla's back, clinging onto the brown fur as a vortex surrounded the two fighters, transporting them to another dimension. In the meantime, Mario, Marth, Olimar, PAC-MAN, and Faker were forced to fight the minor Subspace Army members once more.


For Joker, he and DK had appeared in a retro-themed version of the Kongo Jungle: Final Destination version. As the Phantom Thief of Hearts walked closer, the Master Legendary Spirit within Donkey Kong's body started transforming, growing larger in size and exposing a gray, ghastly mane on his head, with wispy arm cuffs and breath so putrid anyone within a mile of its radius was sure to drop dead. Thankfully, that was not the case for Joker as he was lucky enough to at least smell how bad it is and not fall unconscious.

"Talk about not even using a toothbrush!" Joker teased, fanning the bad breath away as he admired the towering height of the Ghastly King Spirit. With a mighty roar, the Donkey Kong Primary began using powerful, darkened projectiles from his large fists, throwing them to curve in at Joker. However, as the projectiles were curving in to attack the fighter, Joker jumped into the air, taking off his mask to unleash one of his many Personas: Succubus. With a powerful fiery breath, the Persona coated the giant Donkey Kong Primary's furry coat in flames. Joker then jumped down onto the captured fighter's head, slashing rapidly with his knives. With a powerful slash, the Phantom Thief then jumped off, firing a barrage of pistols at Donkey Kong's face. Joker quickly placed the mask back on his face, watching as the Ghastly King inside Donkey Kong's body run towards him, attempting to unleash slow but powerful punches that would surely knock the Phantom Thief out in just a few hits.

Unleashing Arsene, Joker commanded him to shoot the signature Light Arrow. As soon as the sleeping spell hit, the Donkey Kong Primary quickly fell asleep because of the damage inflicted on him.

"Persona!" Joker yelled, taking off his mask to send out Genbu. Once the Persona cast its icy magic on the Donkey Kong Primary, the captured fighter was frozen in place, allowing Joker to unleash Arsene again. After the Donkey Kong Primary broke free from his cold imprisonment, Joker was seen with blue flames surrounded his face and Arsene was ready to unleash a powerful clap with his wing-like appendages. Before the captured warrior was about to unleash his signature punch, Joker clapped with Arsene following after him, and both the Phantom Thief and his main Persona knocked out the Donkey Kong Primary, only completing the first half in freeing him from Lord Galeem's control.


As Mario and Marth stood back-to-back, bashing Primids on the head with their fists and slashes, PAC-MAN began throwing fire hydrants down on the approaching Halicarptus and crushing them while Olimar threw his Pikmin at the Triggergoplas, avoiding their rapid-firing bullets as the Pikmin themselves took the fire and disintegrated into little ghosts. Faker herself began swinging her sword around herself, trying to get rid of the minor Subspace Army members, but they all somehow managed to avoid her blows. Eventually, the dragon-armored warrior created a fiery blast from her hands, but the sheer knockback caused her to trip onto the ground, landing on her behind. Just then, a Primid walked up to her, simply staring at her.

"W-What do you want?" Faker asked, nervous as she pointed her sword at the Shadow Bug creature. The Primid then gently lowered her sword by the blade, approaching closer and not even attacking her. Sweat was dripping down the brown-skinned woman's face as her golden eyes stared at the creature.

The Primid did not have any intention of attacking Faker, nor any other one of the Subspace creatures in general. It just simply stood there, curious about her. It was as if they had something in common.

"Faker, look out!" Marth cried, swinging his Exalted Falchion downward. The Primid quickly reacted, turning around and clasping the tip with its hands. However, the Falchion itself pierced through the Primid's skin, sliding down and slicing its body in half. Once the Primid died, Shadow Bug juices ran out of its wound. Faker merely looked at the killed creature, not afraid and moreover confused. The Hero-King held out his hand.

"You better be careful next time," Marth groaned, hoisting the brown-skinned warrior up. Faker nodded as her agreement, still wondering more about herself. Shortly after, the fighters managed to force the remaining Subspace Army members to retreat back into the forest, just in time for Joker to appear in the air from the vortex that sent him to his fight, with his Persona Arsene carrying Donkey Kong's unconscious body in his arm-like appendages. The Ghastly King Spirit floated off with the white mist, never to be seen by the group again. Once Joker touched the ground, he put his white-and-black mask back on his face, causing Arsene to drop Donkey Kong and vanish back into the Phantom Thief's body. The gorilla quickly woke up when he hit the dirt, and the first thing he saw was his old rival's face: Mario.

The red plumber grabbed ahold of Donkey Kong's huge hand, lifting the gorilla onto his hind legs. Donkey Kong then turned toward Joker.

"Don't look at Mario," Joker said. "I'm the one who rescued you, you know."

"Look back there!" Faker exclaimed, pointing toward the other side of the wooden bridge. As you can tell, the green crystal from before was broken, and the fairy trapped inside was freed. As the victorious fighters slowly approached the fairy, they noticed she only was three-quarters the height of Mario, featuring green-yellow hair tied up in a ponytail. The outfit she wore was green all over, including the wings, with her belly exposed. Her eyes were blue, and her face was enough to tell the group that she is, in fact, a Mii. As the fairy shook her head, she looked around, quickly standing up and placing her hands on her hips.

"Watcha boys doing here?" the fairy asked with a high-pitched voice.

"We were just… rescuing you…" Mario answered, rubbing his head. The fighters then noticed her being a Master Advanced Spirit, seeing her glowing-green body and rainbow aura.

"Where are my sisters?" the fairy asked. "I need to save them as fast as I can!"

"Uh… what?" Marth asked.

"Don't you guys know?" the fairy continued. "I'm a Fab Fairy, the youngest of three sisters! We just showed up here and only now have we been separated!"

"Hey, hey, hey," Joker said. "Calm down. I'm sure we can get you back to your sisters. Why do you need them, by the way?"

"Why, to open the entrance to the Sky Temple and unlock the path to help you guys defeat one of the monsters that are protecting the Galeem Void," the Youngest Fab Fairy answered. "Us Spirits have been trying hard to barge in to fight that Seraph of Order, but it wouldn't work. Do you think I can join you guys until I reunite with my sisters?" The group of warriors looked at each other, wondering what they should do.

"I guess she can come along," Joker remarked, "but only if she doesn't beg for sweets. That fairy acts tough and looks like she wants to consume anything not salad-related."

"I suppose," Marth noted. "After all, she does seem important to opening that temple… whatever it is…" Without objection, the gang alongside the dragon-armored warrior and the Spirit headed to a nearby ancient stone pyramid, laced with vines and covered with moss.