Once things seemed to have calmed down, the team members of Group A traveled down a path made out of sticks and twigs, keeping a cautious eye out for any enemies. Sonic stepped close to Fox, his discolored eyes looking down on his stained white gloves. The stench that he spilled over them was lasting so long he wanted to throw up again.

"You okay?" Fox asked, placing his hand on the back of Sonic's head. The glitching hedgehog looked at the newcomers and veterans the team brought along – Chrom, Zelda, the Mii Brawler now identified as Sieg, Joker, the Hero, and now Banjo & Kazooie.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Sonic sighed, feeling terrified of this strange, vast prison known as Hyrule 2.0. Mario, who was watching Sonic this whole time, turned towards Chrom.

"Anything on your mind, Mario?" Chrom asked.

"I wonder if there's a way to get Sonic back," Mario sighed. "I'm talking about the 'cool dude with the bad attitude' hedgehog we had known for ten years, not the lost warrior of an extinct species of dragons we had no idea existed…"

"I just woke up free from Dharkon, but I understand how you feel," Chrom responded. "Besides, we're finding the right paths to find your young Hero of Hyrule. I'm sure Sonic can find the answers on his own with our help and guidance." Just then, Zelda, Sheik, Link, and Toon Link all stopped in front of the group, making their friends come to a grinding halt. They had stumbled across a giant log blocking the path, its branches and roots entangling with the sides of the road.

"Why don't we just go around?" Sonic asked when he saw the roadblock, looking at a brown-coated rabbit hopping off the road next to the giant log. Suddenly, the rabbit found itself sinking into the wet ground, with jagged teeth laying rows upon rows of circles surrounding the tiny rodent. A Like Like emerged from the ground, swallowing the rabbit whole.

"That's why," Banjo answered. "Kazooie and I have taken a tour around the Lost Woods for quite a while and know the place's strengths and weaknesses."

"Then I guess we'll have to-a burn it," Mario noted, the palms of his hands coated in flames. The red plumber pressed his hands against the giant log, burning it into ashes with a simple touch. All the Smashers saw in the area they found was a small sword wedged into a pile of grassy dirt, covered in vines.

"It's the Kokiri Sword," Link told his friends. "Young Link shouldn't be far off…" The silence grew over the part of the Lost Woods, with the fighters getting ready to fight for whoever is here, including the Young Link Primary. Within a minute, Joker was ready for another ambush.

"I'm betting 500 Spirit Points that someone's gonna attack us out of nowhere and get the jump on us…" Joker chuckled, approaching a strange noise he somehow heard. The Phantom Thief then slashed at the bushes with his knife, and a strange figure with the violet eyes jumped out, surprising the other fighters and grabbing the Kokiri Sword midair. A green beacon similar to when Zelda was discovered flashed bright into the dark sky. Tons of possessed Mii Brawlers emerged from the bushes, surrounding the whole group with the captured fighter. From the image flashing on the Young Link Primary's chest, the team of fighters saw the Master Legendary Spirit of the Skull Kid with Majora's Mask on his face.

"I'll get that clone of mine!" Toon Link exclaimed as he rolled his shoulders. "You guys take care of the Mii Fighters!" The cartoon Hero of the Winds dashed right at the Young Link Primary, their swords clanging against each other. Fox and Sonic stood back-to-back, with the Star Fox mercenary firing his blaster at the approaching Mii Brawlers while the glitching speedster sent out powerful lightning clouds that electrocuted more of the possessed warriors. Zelda and Sheik assisted Link with their spells and needles, and Banjo pulled out Kazooie and swung her around to hit more Mii Brawlers.

While the intense battle was going on between the fighters and the corrupted Mii Brawlers, the ex-Brawler Ultimate Reborn felt a strange kind of power surging through him. It was the same as when Gilbert and Sherry went up against their own classes when the Mii Fighters fell under Galeem's tyrannical rule. It was the Smash Ball awakened within the Mii Brawler.

"Sieg!" Mario called out, noticing the Mii Brawler appear with a rainbow aura and golden eyes. "Whatever happened to you, use it on the Mii Brawlers! Free the last classes still under control from their prison!" Sieg nodded and dashed faster than Sonic ever could. The Final Smash within him was activated, and managed to grab all the possessed Mii Brawlers. The other fighters stopped fighting as they watched the ex-Ultimate Reborn toss the corrupted Mii Fighters and went into the best part of his Final Smash: Omega Blitz. Sieg rapidly jabbed the Mii Brawlers in the air with flashing punches and kicks, damaging the entire clan of Miis to the point that the Spirits possessing each of them were almost launched out. With one final blow, the ex-Ultimate Reborn used a powerful spike from his hands and punched all the Mii Brawlers into the ground, knocking out all the Spirits that had possessed them in the first place.

Sieg's Final Smash was finished, and he landed on the ground softly. All of the Mii Brawlers in the area groaned as they looked around the part of the Lost Woods, curious about what happened.

"Thank Hylia that's over," Sheik sighed, taking a breather and sitting down on the soft moss. Soon, the Spirits they rescued all entered inside Kirby's body, and the fighters all sat down and rested. However, they were starting to remember something.

"Where's Toon Link?" Sonic asked.


While the other Smashers were busy with the fight against the Mii Brawlers, the Young Link Primary had just teleported Toon Link into a Final Destination version of the Great Bay via vortex. Now they had engaged in a fight of raining arrows, boomerangs, and ignited bombs. They seemed to show no signs of stopping with their projectile spamming, and they both got to their opponent at kill percent. Toon Link knew all he had to do was make the first move to break the loop of which alternate timeline Link was better at camping. The Hero of the Winds then crouched, holding his shield up and slowly approached the Young Link Primary. When the captured fighter became exhausted after shooting so many flaming arrows and throwing a ton of boomerangs and bombs, he suddenly noticed Toon Link's shield was invincible against those projectiles, and it was too late.

Toon Link pulled out his clawshot and grabbed ahold of the Young Link Primary. Since the captured fighter was at a kill percent, the Hero of the Winds tossed the Hylian boy into the blast zone and won the battle, freeing Young Link from Dharkon's grasp. Afterwards, there was no time for a roulette as Toon Link found himself carrying Young Link with a green barrier flashing where the boy raised by Kokiris was defeated. Toon Link was teleported back to his friends in the Lost Woods. Joining with the two Link boys was the Skull Kid Spirit and the red mist of the Dharkon Lock. The red mist surrounded Sonic's face, returning more of his memories. So far, Sonic started seeing glimpses of his past, mostly involving Snake who found him before he left and his encounter with Wolf and Jigglypuff. Together, the three fighters had discovered a hiding place of the Mii Fighters, filled with the mute warriors from before. They were led by the Ultimates that were killed before, who kept their faces hidden. They welcomed the anthropomorphic fighters into their hideout located in a giant cave, revealing they had interlocked stargates with the Isle of the Ancients, transferring supplies and minerals between each other. When the Isle was destroyed, the Ultimates were just having their children, which cried for the first time in millennia. Sonic, Wolf, and Jigglypuff had to make the mute Mii Fighters escape before they were rest like the Ancients, and the Ultimates told them they would never speak of this again for fear of their identity and secrets being exposed. The explosion that had entered into the hideout provided a gateway into Subspace for the three Smashers, and this is where Sonic met up with the fighters before they faced against Tabuu. The rest he could remember was over for now.

Once the red mist finished with Sonic's amnesia curing, it reunited with the Skull Kid Spirit, entering inside Kirby and giving him another glimpse of Faker's past.


The pink puffball was woken up by a violent thunderstorm. Kirby, terrified out of his little wits, looked around the dark night and saw the heavy rain falling around the shattered floor of Ceresor's treasure vault that had hit a barren field. Human artifacts and electronic machines have been demolished, with books ripped apart and soaked wet and motorcycles blown to bits. Kirby then headed to where Ultima was pinned down, for he knew what happened to her.

As the pink demon approached Ultima, he saw her royal armor cracked and rusted, the two heavy rocks crushing her wings on each of her sides. The sheer impact of the floor colliding with the earth below created a reaction that knocked the dragoness out. She gasped as soon as woke up, straining herself as she tried to push away the rocks holding her wings down. The Queen of Arcus used her fore legs and grinded her claws opposite of each other, creating some sort of explosive energy in her palms. She heated up the rocks from inside and made them combust, spreading dust and pebbles everywhere. The rain drenched her black scales as she winced in pain from her hurting wings, dragging on the ground as she limped towards all that remained of Ceresor's greatest gifts: the memorials of the legendary warriors of the past and Adstrumlestibus, the Core of the First Star. Her legs were shattered, her skull broken. She only walked a few feet before she succumbed and began to cry from the intense pain. Her tears mixed with the large raindrops rolling down on her royal armor, and she was overcome with guilt. She looked up into the dark of the night, noticing that the Sky Temple was completely gone.

"This is all my fault!" Ultima cried to no one. "If I had just killed the black mist with the pink slime where he stood, none of this would have happened! I lost my own brothers to the Mother's dirty will! I wish I would know who she is and murder her in cold blood! Whatever happened to friends till the end!? Galeem… Phoenix… I couldn't save them… I'm sorry I failed you, Lord Ceresor. I'm not fit to be a ruler." Ultima grabbed her armor by her mouth and cast it aside by her feet, weeping as though she had no idea what to do.

"Almighty Father…" Ultima continued, still crying. "If You do exist, if You really are out there… if You do love us like with the humans, why did You allow this to happen!? Why would You let my own brothers, the Lords of Light and Darkness, the pinnacle of balance in many universes, to rest everything and turn on each other like this!? Give me a sign so I can stop them in Your Name!" The thunder rolled and crackled in the sky, with the rain pouring as heavy as before. Ultima curled herself up, wincing in sobs as she rested her numb wings by her sides.

"Please…" Ultima whispered as she looked up into the sky. "There has to be a way to end all this… To end this war. Not just with the darkness and light, but the final battle to end all final battles. I need a gleam of hope…" The dragoness hung her head low, weeping silently against the thundering rain.

As soon as things seemed dark, all three of the First Ultimates appeared right in front of her. The spectrum-winged Dragosmo stopped crying as she slowly looked up, she noticed the Mii Fighters in front of her. More of the steampunk Brawlers, Swordfighters, and Gunners were right behind them. Ultima, standing up, heard a familiar noise of the Shadow Bugs right behind her. The creatures from the pit of Ginnungagap formed into their solid appearances, ready to give up their lives. A Primid in front of the creatures was holding a familiar black stone: the Heart of Hycto.

"We heard your cries, and we answered, carrying with us the Heart of Helio," the First Mii Gunner Ultimate told the Queen of Arcus. The ruler of that class was carrying some sort of white gemstone in her left hand identical to the Heart of Hycto.

"We now see what the light and darkness mean: light represents peace and darkness represents freedom, not simply order and chaos," the First Mii Brawler Ultimate said. "The light and the darkness both make us whole, and we can balance the two waving forces. The fate of our universe and many other universes rests in our hands! Our blood! Our tears! If they want to burn us away, let them try!" The Mii Fighters and the creatures made from Shadow Bugs cheered, and Ultima was starting to calm down. The raining seemed to have gotten lighter as she looked back on Adstrumlestibus, which was resting in the remaining golden branches of the tree it rested in.

"Thank you… O Holy One…" Ultima whispered as she continued staring at the Core of the First Star. Once the war chanting from both sides of Ginnungagap overlapped each other, Kirby felt the Smash Ball on his forehead gleam again, and his mind was sent back to the Sacred Land found in Draxia.


Kirby had already woken up before his friends managed to help get him back up. It seems as though the pink puffball was getting used to these kinds of visions, and he managed to wake up in time to see the three Links look at their hands, with Link himself being the only one to look at his right hand instead of his left.

The completed Triforce of Courage shined green, its light shining throughout the Sacred Land. From a good perspective, the fighters saw the stone blocking the path to the Master Sword had vanished, meaning it was time to go up and grab the legendary weapon. The Mii Brawlers that were rescued by their respectful ex-Ultimate Reborn were starting to wake up, with the Spirits that had possessed them by each of their sides.

"We did it," Sieg sighed, panting after he used that powerful Final Smash to rescue his people. The Spirits that were freed soared into the air, some entering Kirby's body.

"Now I suppose that's left is to grab the sword, rescue Ganondorf, and complete the Triforce," Zero Suit Samus responded. "Shouldn't be too hard as before… right?" The fighters, both reawakened and previously captured, then headed back to the temple in the center of the Sacred Land, ready to find out more about the original of Galeem and Dharkon from the pink demon.