The fighters gazed upon the horror that was the burning Gerudo Town, the red flames spiraling into violet as they ascended into the sky blackened with ashes. Among the rising fires were the screams of the Gerudo Spirits and several female species.
"Oh… my… goodness…" Zelda gasped.
"We need to get going! Come on!" Mario said to his friends as he dashed towards the burning town. The other fighters followed him to the main entrance, where the two guards cowered and trembled with all of the other security that was kicked out by some unknown force that works for Dharkon.
"We just… let him walk through," one of the guards whispered.
"What happened?" Cloud Strife asked.
"Unbeknownst to us, an intruder just entered our gates invisibly," another guard responded. "He just burned down our city once he got to the palace, and he used the body of Ganondorf to cause mayhem to our city walls while kicking us protectors out!"
"Who was this intruder?" Sonic asked.
"We don't know," a third guard spoke up. "He introduced himself as… Mephos? Mecha? Something starting with 'M'?"
"Mephiles," Sonic corrected, remembering the name that murdered him.
"That's the one!" a fourth guard replied. "Anyone can enter the gates now. Just get rid of that monster! First the genie stole our gold, now this enigma of an enemy is laying waste to our hideout!" The fighters went through the gate without penalties, wanting to stop the Primary that destroyed the town.
There were many Gerudo and other Spirits panicking, some hiding in houses while other were being taken hostage by Supporters, Dark Puppets, many different types of Primids, Shadyas, Yiga Clan forces, and two new enemies: Spikes from the Mushroom Kingdom and the Garo, and ancient race believed to have been extinct in Termina, a world completely different from Hyrule. All of these different kinds of species looked upon the fighters, getting ready to attack.
"Mamma mia," Mario sighed. "The fight never ends, does it?"
"No it doesn't," Sonic replied, the Rainbolements streaming through his fingers. "As I always tell myself, live and learn." A Garo was ready to strike the blue hedgehog from behind while being invisible, but Sonic quickly grabbed the mysterious warrior and threw it at a small group of Boom Primids. The Smashers then traveled through the burning town, attacking the various enemies and looting from broken vases.
Simon Belmont began throwing axes at the Spikes, who were coughing up spiky pillars and throwing them from platforms, and Fox and Sonic was jabbing and kicking by Sonic's side, but it was the blue hedgehog doing most of the work with his ice and fire pillars combined with his karate-like combos. Incineroar began throwing many of the Yiga troops out of the way and tossing them into the fire, and the Pokémon Trainer called out Squirtle to put out the fires and get some of the Spirits trapped inside the clay buildings.
The Smashers began climbing over the buildings when they saw the roads Lea to the palace were blocked off by the flames, and they began attacking the Shadyas waiting for them at the top. Captain Falcon and the Mii Brawler were doing flips in the air before landing in a group of Garo and Spikes, and they both managed to knock them off the rooftops. The fighters continued jumping over the clay buildings and attacking Dharkon's puppets until they managed to land safely in front of the palace where Chieftess Riju was supposedly being held against her will.
"I suppose that's where we can find the Ganondorf Primary?" Link asked.
"If that Mephiles Spirit is the one possessing him, then yes," Sheik answered.
"Then let's kick his butt and leave the Sacred Land!" Bowser Jr. replied. The Smashers nodded in agreement and went into the palace where the chieftess was.
"No! Please! Have mercy!" Riju screamed, her cries becoming louder the deeper into the palace the fighters traveled through.
"Listen, you don't know what you're getting yourself into," NiGHTS replied. "We will never submit to Dharkon, no matter how much you threaten us!" The group managed to find themselves in the throne room, where they saw Riju and NiGHTS trapped in a cage formed out of obsidian, and the Master Legendary Spirit that was keeping them hostage was Mephiles.
"Your tears of terror will be all the more sweeter one I'm through with you," the Mephiles Spirit responded, black flames flowing out from his crystalline hands.
"Stop this right now!" Joker snapped, pointing his gun at the hostile Spirit. Mephiles simply looked back at the Smashers cornering him, not really taking his chance to attack.
"Why, if it isn't the legendary hedgehog and his friends that are going around saving others from a major threat," Mephiles chuckled. "Let me guess: you're here to stop me?"
"Your reign of terror ends, Mephiles!" Sonic snapped, fire and lightning crackling up between his fingers. "I don't know how or why you're doing this, but it needs to stop now!" The crystalline hedgehog Spirit turned around, shaking his head and chuckling.
"You have me idea who you're up against, aren't you?" Mephiles asked, black flames igniting from his fingers. Appearing in a cloud of smoke was Ganondorf's body, which was chained up by the tendrils of the Dharkon Lock. The Mephiles Spirit entered inside the Gerudo King, igniting a red aura from the now-invisible Lock. The Ganondorf Primary opened up his violet eyes, glaring at the fighters ready to attack.
"We can take him down," Link said to his friends. "There's a lot of us and only one of him."
"Quality over quantity," the Ganondorf Primary growled, lifting up his hand and showing the symbol of the Triforce of Power. A red beacon flashed where the Demon King stood, beaming up to the blackened sky. Once the beacon vanished, the Ganondorf Primary jumped into the air, about to slam his fist at the fighters standing their ground.
Shulk and Marth jumped out of the way, colliding swords with the captured fighter's humongous chopper. It seemed as though the Primary would beat the two fighters with that huge sword of his, but Cloud and Chrom came in from behind and slashed the Ganondorf Primary's back. Olimar then tossed his Pikmin on the captured fighter's face, but the Primary simply swatted the Pikmin off his face. As he shook off the ghosts of the Pikmin, he approached a trembling Olimar until Red's Ivysaur jumped in front of the Hocotate captain and began using Bullet Seed. The Ganondorf Primary, after getting hit, jumped to the side where he found himself surrounded by Link, Young Link, and Toon Link.
"This body is so slow and heavy!" the Mephiles Spirit snarled, charging up his shadow powers in his extended foot. A fiery explosion occurred right in front of Link as he shielded and his other two clones were knocked back, and he became dazed once it broke. The Ganondorf Primary charged up a forward smash, and he would've killed the Champion of Hyrule if Joker and Ireburn didn't come to his rescue. The Phantom Thief began shooting the captured fighter's face, and the Hero pulled up his Command Selection and used Hocus Pocus. The random effect that spawned gave Eleven a Superspicy Curry ability, and he began burning the Ganondorf Primary's cape before he and Joker were knocked back by Warlock Punch.
"I see you've gotten stronger," the captured fighter spoke. "This could be a bit harder…" Mega Man and PAC-MAN were tossing their projectiles at the Ganondorf Primary, which he simply whacked away by spinning his sword rapidly. Duck Hunt and Banjo & Kazooie began shooting out their explosives, and the Inkling and Wii Fit Trainer began piling up on the Ganondorf Primary. Mario and Captain Falcon started punching once Ness trapped the captured fighter in a renewable pillar of PK Fire. Once the fighters started getting the Ganondorf Primary at a decent percentage, Sonic grabbed ahold of Kirby by the end of the alien's wooden mallet, igniting the weapon with his powers. The pink demon then jumped forward and whacked the Ganondorf Primary, knocking out the captured fighter.
The possessed body of the Demon King flew right into the obsidian cage where Riju and NiGHTS were held, with black shards flying everywhere and freeing the two Ace Spirits. The fighters then cornered the Ganondorf Primary, whose Lock has already been shattered. The Mephiles Spirit flew out, groaning at the fact that he lost in the body of the reincarnated king of monsters.
"You know what? Fine," the Master Legendary Spirit spoke calmly. "I really didn't want this fighter anymore. You want him? He's yours. I have better things to do right now…" The Mephiles Spirit then vanished with the fires in Gerudo Town, with a red beacon shining on top of Ganondorf's body as he was slowly waking up. The red mist of the Dharkon Lock flew right into Kirby's body, triggering a vision once again.
The pink demon woke up inside the Sky Temple, watching as Galeem was gliding to the treasure vault without the floor, where Dharkon was hanging from the ceiling in a prison of light. The Seraph of Order chuckled as he telepathically slipped the Diamond of Universes on his neck, groaning as the gold necklace simply burned his scales. Galeem quickly took it off with his powers and moved it to his side.
"That gemstone will not help you kill me because you are weak of heart, just like you had always been," Dharkon growled, trying not to hurt himself in his cage.
"I will find a way to utilize its powers and use it to purge the darkness from this world," Galeem answered, his sunrise-colored eyes looking back at the imprisoned Seraph of Chaos.
"You may try, but I am getting stronger by the minute," Dharkon responded, standing up. From what the Lord of Light could tell, his brother was no longer flinching from touching the bars of highly-concentrated light, and he began gnawing through the cage. The Seraph of Chaos broke out from his prison, flying straight for Galeem's neck. The two seraphic dragons began attacking with equal strength, slashing with their claws and ramming with their horns. The Lord of Darkness was about to reach for the floating Diamond of Universes, but Galeem started stabbing Dharkon with his angelic partisan. The Seraph of Chaos, angry about this, began whacking the Lord of Light with his demonic sledgehammer. Soon, the powerful dragons began clashing their modified wings against each other, hoping to destroy the opposite side and get what they want. While the two were attacking, Tabuu and Ragnarokk arrived.
"There!" Tabuu told Ragnarokk. "We grab the Diamond of Universes and merge us back into one!" The Master Hands then started flying towards the Crazy Hands that had broken free, getting into a battle that resulted in a shower of gold and violet glitter. Sozo and Hakai, who had become Hands themselves, spotted the Diamond of Universes and began attacking each other for one of them to grab it. Ragnarokk noticed who were once her teachers fight each other because of the two corrupted sides, and she began to cast forward pyro and cyro spells at the Hands of Creation and Destruction, trying to break up the fight.
This struggle of Tabuu and Ragnarokk did not go unnoticed by Galeem and Dharkon as they stopped fighting each other and charged straight for the God of Construction. Tabuu quickly teleported behind the seraphim, and began rapidly slashing them with golden blades. Galeem pushed Dharkon and Tabuu away and reformed his weapon back into his wings, splurging Tabuu with blue lightning and golden flames.
Dharkon began attacking Ragnarokk, keeping his blue-and-yellow eyes open for Galeem. The Goddess of Oblivion then shot a powerful laser back at the Seraph of Chaos, knocking him into the Lord of Light. Tabuu then saw Ragnarokk become an easy target for Galeem's piercing wings and Dharkon's tendrils, realizing it was too late once he stopped the seraphic dragons.
"Ragnarokk…" Tabuu gasped as the Goddess of Oblivion was slowly disintegrating into dust, fading away into a cloud that surrounded and was absorbed by the Diamond of Universes. The mind and will of Ultima was no more. The God of Construction clenched his chest, driven mad by grief despite unable to show emotion. He turned towards the two dragons, pissed off by what they did. Before Galeem and Dharkon could even touch him as they charged towards him, trying to push each other away with brute force, Tabuu could do the only thing that would also imprison his own life: banish the seraphim.
The God of Construction used his magic to create Chains of Light and Darkness: the darkness on his right and the light on his left. He bound Galeem in Chains of Darkness, and Dharkon in Chains of Light, and the two dragons struggled to fly away before vortexes to different dimensions spawned behind them and started sucking them in.
"For as long as you two keep your faces out of Arcus, I will be tethered to the spiritual world and remain there until the warriors of the past reunite me with the Ragnarokk. Both the goddess and the Diamond of Universes will remain in the shadows until the second reawakening of this world, and you will trapped here until I fall. Your own servants will call forth the legends that will end your doom and destroy the one that gave you these powers. That is a promise." As the holes to the different worlds grew wider, Galeem was sucked into the Light Dimension with all of his Master Hands, and Dharkon was drawn into the Dark Dimension with his Crazy Hands. Tabuu pulled the different chains back to himself and grabbed Sozo and Hakai with them. Soon, the closing of the portals resulted in a bright blast that destroyed all in its path. The Diamond of Universes transformed itself and the ashes of Ragnarokk into the neon-violet Shadow Bug that was first discovered by Sonic the Hedgehog, illuminating bring and calling the other creatures from the pit of Ginnungagap to surround Tabuu and protect him from the explosion that wiped out the entire planet.
The Mii Fighters and aliens gathered around the bodies of the First Ultimates, mourning for their loss. The remaining Shadow Bugs grabbed ahold of the Raifujin technology and carried them all to the God of Construction.
"But what about us?" one of the Mii Gunners asked.
"Our time has already been fulfilled," one of the Mii Brawlers answered, looking at the bright explosion in the sky. "Our Ultimates will make our species live on, even if their voices are already gone…" As the blast of gold and violet stretched across the planet, the Mii Fighters and aliens accepted their deaths in the fiery inferno, which spread out through all the corners of the universe. All that remained was nothing but the darkness of space. As soon as things went silent, Kirby's vision was over.
The pink puffball woke up to the Smashers gathering around Link, Young Link, Toon Link, Zelda, Sheik, and Ganondorf to see the marks on their hands were now glowing, showing that the Triforce was now completed. A huge, golden beacon flashed from the Temple of the Master Sword, letting the Smashers know where to go next.
"Let's get going," Pit said to his friends. "Who knows when Dharkon's forces grab the Triforce before we do?" The fighters then dashed off from the palace, leaving Riju, NiGHTS, and the other Gerudo and female Spirits look around the desolated town.
The Smashers went higher up to the temple, dashing down the Gerudo Desert to spot the Mephiles Spirit gliding in the air towards the golden beacon. The power of the completed Triforce spawned a castle from the temple grounds, shining brightly in all its glory.
"Mephiles?" Sonic asked, running so fast the others could barely keep up. "What's he gonna do with that Triforce?"
"The same reason why I searched for the other two pieces," Ganondorf responded. "Total control." Once the fighters made it to the empty castle, they caught Mephiles in time about to steal all three pieces of the Triforce. The crystalline hedgehog Spirit turned around to face the large group of Smashers, simply chuckling.
"Do you really think you can take me on in these kinds of outfits?" Mephiles asked, noticing how all the male fighters on the team (excluding Bowser Jr. and Ganondorf) were still in their Gerudo vai clothing. "A shame I have to do this to you…" Mephiles then snapped his fingers, a puff of smoke surrounding most of the fighters.
"That's better," Mephiles calmly responded. Once the smoke cleared, all the male fighters were back in their original clothes, with Sonic having noticed his makeup, hairstyle, and the rest of his dolled-up appearance was missing. "Don't really want to go down in history as the overlord beaten up by a bunch of feminine boys."
"Enough fun and games," Link snapped, pointing his Master Sword at the Master Legendary Spirit. "We've never seen a kind of Spirit like you physically interact with the material world. Who are you anyway?"
"Someone cunning and mischievous," Sonic answered, clenching his gloved fists.
"Thank you for clearing that up, Sonic," Mephiles responded, the pieces of the Triforce spinning around him. "There is so much more that you don't know about me…" The crystalline hedgehog then turned back at the Triforce and raised his hands triumphantly. Beams of blue, green, and red directed themselves into Mephiles' chest, causing him to bend over. The crystalline hedgehog began laughing maniacally, the large room of the castle crumbling into a vast battlefield. Flames ignited on the sides, complete with crumbling walls and broken pillars.
The Mephiles Spirit then dissolved into ashes, which expanded and reformed into a monstrous beast powered by the whole Triforce. Two mud-covered hooves slammed into the stone floor, and two humongous, golden swords were held by beefy, green arms. This monster was clothed with torn tapestries of ancient Gerudo culture, and the face was the most terrifying. A mop of red hair flowed behind two piercing horns, and eyes of malice shined on the face of a wild boar. As the demise of a swine roared, he exposed large tusks complete with carnivorous rows of fangs.
"What the heck is that!?" Kazooie asked, she and Banjo trembling under the terrifying beast.
"That's me as Ganon, the Demon King," Ganondorf answered, tightening his fists.
"Well how do we beat him?" Chrom asked.
"I have no idea," Ganondorf responded. "I've never sensed this kind of power before. Probably ask the three Links and two Zeldas for a few pointers…" The demonic pig jumped up into the air, slashing his two swords into the ground. Each of the fighters began attacking as the Demon King simply stood there. While they punched, kicked, and cast spells at his grimy swine feet, they suddenly realized that it had no effect on the large boar monster.
"Guys, back up!" Cloud Strife told his friends, who had all noticed Ganon about to use a spin attack. The strong tornado knocked back most of the Smashers.
"I've dealt with this thing before! We have to attack that thing at the tip of the tail on the ground! If you want to go after that gem on his head, which is powering him up to near-invincibility, be my guest if you wanna die!" Young Link said, dashing towards the back of Ganon. The Demon King then noticed the group charging for his yellow-tipped tail exposed out in the open, and he began charging lightning through his swords. Electrical blasts exploded in front of the Smashers, knocking them back hard onto the floor.
"You… bastard…" Joker groaned as he took off his mask, releasing Arsene by his side as he got up. Sonic the Hedgehog, noticing that the monstrous bipedal boar was invincible all over except for the tail and the jewel on his head, dashed away from the battlefield.
"Sonic, where are you going!? Come back here! We need you!" Fox called out, he and the other fighters looking up to see Ganon, the Demon King, forged by the Mephiles Spirit and powered by the Triforce, charge up a powerful laser of a strange substance known as malice, the same material left behind by his hooves. Those that fought with fists got up in front of the group, those with ranged weapons went in the back, and those with swords appeared in the middle. However, it didn't seem to make much of a difference as the powerful Demon King that was not part of Ganondorf in any way about to burn them with all the malice of Dharkon fueling his powers. Before Ganon fired his last of malice, a powerful slash slashed through the gem on his head, cracking it. Light beams scattered in all directions from the crack, significantly weakening Ganon. As the beast roared and clenched onto his forehead, the Smashers watched as the person who attacked the Demon King was Sonic, wielding the Master Sword of the Sacred Land. The blue hedgehog looked back on his companions, rubbing his fingers on the sharp blade.
"Come on, Chosen Heroes of Hyrule," Sonic said. "In times like these, you're gonna need another Master Sword." The Hylian clothed in blue nodded, tapping the edges of his Master Sword with Sonic's.
"Hedgehog! Your hand!" the Luminary called out. On the blue speedster's right hand, the entire symbol of the Triforce gleamed on his glove, shining golden and letting him know he's the chosen one.
"Let's skewer this bastard over a fire like the pig he is," Sonic growled, licking his draconic teeth as he sped towards Ganon, the Demon King, with the Master Sword in his hand. The blue hedgehog quickly climbed on top of the monster's body to a towering height, slashing at Ganon's face as he knew it was the weakest part in the air. The other fighters charged right for the tail, attacking the tip until it began to bleed yellow pus. Ganon managed to spot this and slashed with his sword again, breathing out balls of fire that followed the fighters around. The fastest of the team outran the fireballs, including Sonic, who just slid down Ganon's back by shoving his sword into Ganon's forehead and holding onto it from there, while the slowest were protected by Mario's cape and Ireburn's Bounce spell.
Villager began growing a tree and cutting it down in front of the tail, and that just made Ganon more mad. As the beast charged forward, Ganondorf and Incineroar grabbed ahold of his hooves and held the monster down, allowing Sonic to run up and continue attacking the head. Donkey Kong then helped Incineroar and Ganondorf grab ahold of the boar-like beast's and attempt to swing him around, but the Demon King slammed his tail upon the heavyweights, stunning them for quite a bit.
Joker with Arsene began firing his boosted gun, with Banjo & Kazooie soaring into the air and grabbing onto Ganon's horns. The Demon King swung his swords blindly as the whole team was attacking his tail, with Sonic and Banjo-Kazooie keeping him occupied. The beast then shot out a laser of malice at the blue hedgehog, shaking his head hard enough to knock off the bear and bird. Sonic quickly got back on his feet, electricity zipping through his eyes all the way to the Master Sword he was holding. The Triforce symbol on his hand flashed as the speedy devil went way faster than Ganon's reaction time, dodging the giant flame-coated swords of the monster king. Sonic then started thrusting his Master Sword deep into Ganon's tail, the lightning bolts using the bleeding pus as a current to travel throughout the rest of the beast's body before he could strike the fighters where they stood. While Ganon was stunned, Sonic ran up the towering creature's back, thrusting the Master Sword deep into the Demon King's head before making circles with the blade that went down to the beast's neck.
Ganon squealed in pain, his boar-like snout dripping with black-colored mucus, the same mucus that made the malice in his laser. The Smashers watched as the blue hedgehog graphically decapitated the Demon King's head in one, clean slice with the Master Sword before he let go of the weapon, the Triforce on his hand disappearing. The head of the monster landed with a dull thud, the rest of his losing body dissolving into ashes. As Sonic landed with an awesome pose, the Master Sword he used to fight against Ganon landed inbetween the creature's horns. Once things seemed to have calmed down, the team of fighters noticed the Triforce floating up into the air, free from the darkness as the sky became brighter. The Spirits that have settled in Hyrule 2.0 all gathered around Group A, saved from the threat that is Dharkon. Chieftess Riju approached the brave warriors, surprised most of them were male to begin with.
"Before you ask, yes," Mario noted. "We were voe this whole time. Besides the point, we did our part in this mission."
"Thankfully we're one step closer to you guys no longer hearing about Dharkon," Sonic answered, wiping some of the brine of Ganon, the Demon King, off his back. "We will kick this guy's butt faster than you can call to us for help!"
"And for that, we're very grateful," NiGHTS spoke. "Until we leave from this chaotic world, your names will go down in history as the heroes who brought about the fall of the Demise reincarnation. Especially you, lab rat of the Lord of Darkness." By those words, the Smashers knew that the genie was referring to Sonic, mainly for his unpredictability.
"With that said, we all have to get going now," the ex-Brawler Ultimate Reborn said. "Those of us that were trapped in the Dark Realm have no idea where our friends were hiding and would like to know about it soon…"
The fighters then departed from the desolated castle, with all the Spirits in the Sacred Realm cheering and waving their goodbyes. When both the team and the Spirits turned their backs on the head of Ganon, the severed crown of the Demon King dissolved into a black mist, floating away into the shadowy parts of the broken palace. The mist then reformed back into Mephiles, who made his rainbow aura and transparent-red skin vanish, turning him back to normal. For whatever reason, Mephiles survived, but was not a real fighter.
"Thankfully they did not notice that this disguise of a Spirit was fake," Mephiles calmly chuckled. "They are all truly… remarkably gullible." Just then, the droplets of the pink slime reformed back into the grotesque cubic humanoid known as "Steve", genuflecting in front of the crystalline hedgehog.
"Well done, my precious Insaniton," Mephiles spoke. "It seems that you can only feast on what the past has given you as of now. Shame that you're still weak." The Stevepost, now referred to as an Insaniton, shifted back into its pink slime form, slithering into the palm of the crystalline hedgehog.
"They clearly don't know the past," Mephiles continued. "The Super Smash Brothers don't realize that I did all this. I had corrupted Galeem and Dharkon in the Mother's name. Our name." The slime then shifted into a small figurine of the goddess depicted in Ultima's nightmare, and Mephiles admired the detailed looks.
"Mother…" Mephiles went on, the bottom of his levitating legs fading into black mist. "We had been apart… for so long. I wanted us to relive these moments of death and destruction. Almighty Father, if You can hear me, You know that I'm coming for You. Your kindness and compassion for all living creatures will not save You this time. I will reunite with my true second half. I will find a way to bring you back, Mother. You and I… will be whole once more!" As Mephiles squeezed his hand, the Insaniton in his crystalline appendage spurted its pink sludge everywhere, with the green eyes and red sclera glowing as bright as before.
