The reunited fighters made their way to a pathway of two hills on their left, which were spiraled like soft-served ice cream. By the time they approached closer, six Supporters arrived on the sides of each hill. The Supporters on the left path were of PAC-MAN, Mario, and Luigi. On the right was an Isabelle clone, and in the middle of the two hills were a tiny Jigglypuff and normal-sized Daisy. Marx appeared in front of the group, resting his spherical body on one of the hills.

"Next question is gonna be about harder: which of these Spirits is a Nopon?" Marx asked, pulling out a stopwatch with hands spinning left and right rapidly, with nonsensical words like "eleventeen" and "fifty-twen" replacing the numbers. "You've got 30 seconds to solve this one, or you're going out ACME-style!" The Smashers looked up in the sky, spotting a giant anvil hanging over them by a weak thread. Isabelle trembled in place at how humongous that thing was, holding her paws in front of her face.

"Hope you end up like those Saturday-morning cartoons with stars dancing around your faces!" Marx laughed, vanishing via teleportation. Rosalina approached the Supporters, scratching her head in confusion.

"What even is a Nopon?" Rosalina asked, her Luma shrugging its stubby arms as a response.

"Well, do we at least have a fighter that knows anything about Nopons?" Bowser replied.

"From what I could recall, Shulk had been talking about how Nopons and Homs have been living in peace in Bionis, helping each other out," Samus answered. "First, you need to know which one of these Spirits is a Nopon?" Rosalina looked back at the Supporters before she looked up at the anvil, its thread near the verge of breaking. The team with the PAC-MAN clone revealed a Spirit known as Starlow, the Jigglypuff and Daisy Supporters showed Tora, and the Isabelle Supporter had Nago as its puppeteer.

"Watcha waiting for?" Marx's voice echoed. "The clock's ticking…" Rosalina carefully and quickly analyzed the different Spirits, remembering the fact that Marx had eyes everywhere. After careful consideration, she and her Luma approached the team with Jigglypuff and Daisy, unaware that the anvil's thread broke and was now falling on the team of fighters. The Smashers looked up in fear of being crushed before Marx appeared below them. Despite being tiny, the jester demon was carrying the weight of the giant anvil quite easily.

"She picked her prey," Marx spoke. "Pray that it's the right choice or there's gonna be bloody fruitcake on the road."

"You do know what dem Nopon critters look like, right?" King Dedede asked.

"I am aware," Rosalina answered, setting her eyes on the Jigglypuff and Daisy Supporters in the middle of the two hills. "I just hope I'm correct." The blue maiden felt the ground underneath her rumble, and a barrier of white blinded her and her Luma. It seemed as though the Supporters were growing farther from her because the stage shifted into the Gaur Plains stage.


As soon as things seemed to calm down, Rosalina & Luma looked at the other side of the peculiar cliff to see the two puppets constantly shielding, walking around without attacking the maiden in order to recharge their shields. The Luma began speaking in its chirpy language by which its mother could understand.

"So you're telling me that their shields can absorb more damage and not shrink upon impact, and the best solution is throwing them into the blast zone?" Rosalina asked. The Luma nodded its nonexistent head, and the blue maiden took that into consideration before she daintily jumped to the other cliff. The Supporters didn't instantly start attacking her but instead continued shielding. This left them open to Rosalina grabbing the Daisy Supporter and tossing it into the blast zone. The blue maiden turned around to see the Jigglypuff Supporter wasn't attacking her, but was still shielding. Rosalina used the wand in her hand to let the Luma charge up a forward smash and break the shield in one hit. Due to Jigglypuff's shield instantly KO-ing upon breaking, the Supporter shot straight up to the blast zone, letting Rosalina & Luma win the battle.


Before she could think straight, the ground underneath her rumbled, and the landscape around her faded, transforming back into the strange atmosphere of the Mysterious Dimension. Upon spotting this, Marx tossed the giant anvil he was carrying up into the air, shooting a giant laser from his mouth and dissolving the anvil into dust which snowed upon the fighters.

"Right again, fellas!" Marx chuckled, snapping his talons like fingers. The remaining Supporters vanished once again, and a path of light spawned between the two hills, advancing to the next path.

"You're a lot more clever than you look, especially Chicken Balls," Marx continued. Samus got rather irritated by this as she raised her arm cannon at the demonic jester, considering how she was raised by Chozos and she often rolls around in her suit.

"Easy, Samus," Lucario reassured, helping her lower her weapon. Marx vanished once again, and the group began gliding to the end of the path of light. Where they landed next was a dystopian city with broken buildings floating around. Cherry trees grew next to the concrete road they were on, which split up into four paths of levitating rubble. Marx appeared in front of them again, rubbing his talons together.

"Let's get this over with," Marx sighed. "Which of these Spirits has ruled the Twilight Realm before Midna returned to power?" Supporters appeared on all but one of the paths, with the fourth route in the middle on the group's right obviously being the advancement to the next road. On the rightmost path was a Robin Supporter clothed in dark violet with black hair controlled by Zant, the leftmost path had two Robins with red clothing as Agahnim, and next to the puppet team on their left was a black King K. Rool Supporter possessed by The Imprisoned.

"This has to be a simple answer, right?" Lucas asked. "Link, Zelda, Ganondorf: they all had designs from the era when the Twilight Realm merged with Hyrule as they explained it twenty years ago. Ganondorf mainly talked about how he convinced a being named Zant to control the Twilight Realm and overthrow his mistress, who was Midna at that time. It obviously can't be Agahnim since he has no knowledge of the Twilight Realm, and The Imprisoned was obviously reincarnated into the Ganondorf we're familiar with."

"I appreciate someone that's timid but has encyclopedic knowledge," Marx chuckled, watching the Piranha Plant walk up to the black-clothed Robin Supporter.

"Please choose the right one…" Isabelle told the carnivorous flower.

"Pichu Pichu…" Pichu squeaked. The Piranha Plant walked up to the route that the Zant Spirit was on, licking his white lips. The carnivorous flower wasted no time biting deep into the black Robin Supporter's leg, holding its squirming arms as the ground rumbled underneath the plant. The path broke off, shifting into the Battlefield version of the Bridge of Eldin. The Robin Supporter tossed a Pokéball in the center of the stage, and Abra was released from it. The Piranha Plant also knew that the battle was timed, so he had to be fast.

The carnivorous flower moved around the stage, watching out for the floating and teleporting Abra which was gonna get him offstage as well as avoiding moves like Thunder and Arcfire. He moved left and right until the Pokémon vanished naturally, leaving the Piranha Plant to keep on spamming his poisonous spits and spiked balls at the Robin Supporter. The puppet fighter then suddenly grew big, but it wasn't enough to save itself as the Piranha Plant simply thrusted his flower pot downward, spiking the puppet before it could use Elwind to recover.

Once Piranha Plant reappeared in front of the group, the other three Supporters disintegrated into Shadow Bugs and retreated before they could rescue the captured Spirits. A path of light stemmed from the empty route, spiraling down to a giant steel roof merged with a construction site.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Marx sighed as he levitated a bit higher, starting to get rather annoyed by the fact that his prey was answering correctly. "You know the drill. You go down there and get ready to answer the next question." The demon then vanished, and the group advanced to the next location. By the time they landed, there were two paths for them to choose, one of them was the path on their left which led to a spring near a tourist plane at the end, covered in vines and attached to a tree. The main route to the vortex was on their right.

"Alright, people," Samus spoke, going first in front of the group. "Marx's quizzes may be easy for us, but he might pull another trick on us…" The armored bounty hunter was unaware of her surroundings until she was ambushed by a Water Shuriken. Samus' visors quickly alerted her, and she quickly rolled up into a ball and dodged the attack. Jumping out from the shadows was the Greninja Primary, which landed on top of one of the rusting cranes. The Master Legendary Spirit possessing Greninja's body was the Nightmare Pokémon Darkrai.

"Well, well, well," Marx chuckled as he watched from the sky, sporting his enlarged smile and demonic eyes. "Looks like you fellas found a new pal to rescue, and he's controlled by a Pokémon that creates nightmares! T̵̵͟͠͠ḩ͟į̷͟͡s̢͢ ̕͘͟i̵̕͜͡s̵̷̨ ̕͝g̴̛̛͘ó̴̀͠n̴̛͜n̡͢͝͡a͏͝ ̧b͜ȩ̵̧ ̨́̀f̀͠u̶̷͢͝͝n̶͘͝!̶͘" The jester simply levitated in midair, clapping his talons together and spawning a striped recliner, creating a container of popcorn for him to snack on.

"Dark… Let me get a good look at the party," Darkrai's voice spoke from the Greninja Primary as he crept his way around the group. "You seem to be the perfect targets Dharkon has instructed me to hunt down. Allow me to help you though with this mission." The Greninja Primary cast the move Dark Void, trapping all but the Piranha Plant into a sleep that damaged them in the process. The carnivorous flower use the multi-hitboxes to move out of the void, keeping in mind of the captured fighter's Shadow Sneak move.

"I see you're rather special, considering you are nothing more than a generic enemy," the Greninja Primary chuckled, surprised that the Piranha Plant ducked into his flower pot and was ready to use Long-Stem Strike on the captured fighter. As soon as the Piranha Plant bit into the moist skin of the Greninja Primary, a vortex not from the Dark Void move transported them both to the Final Destination version of Spear Pillar while all the other fighters were asleep.

"Hm… not nearly as exciting when the audience hits the hay," Marx sighed, retaining his original appearance outside of the wings as he loomed over the sleeping fighters, his empty popcorn bucket leaving crumbs on their faces. "Let's see what's happening on the other side…" Marx then shut his eyes as he closed his wings in front of his face, giving him a window into the stage where Piranha Plant was attacking the Greninja Primary.


The carnivorous flower kept his distance from the captured fighter by spamming his spiked balls and poisonous spits, blocking the Greninja Primary's attacks. The captured fighter cast Dark Void again, creating a vortex strong enough to pull the Piranha Plant in. Again, the plant simply used the hurtboxes and moved his way out using Piranhacopter, spinning his leaves around his stem like a chopper.

"Wish I can interfere with the Final Destination, but I clearly don't wanna spoil the fun yet…" Marx chuckled to himself, controlling his voice so that the Piranha Plant could not hear the jester demon. The Greninja Primary heard Marx's voice, distracting it from another one of Piranha Plant's smash attacks by his swinging flower pot. This was enough to send the captured fighter flying off-stage and let the Piranha Plant gimp it with projectiles.

"Impossible!" the Greninja Primary exclaimed, attempting to use Hydro Pump to recover but was constantly gimped until it was too far to grab onto the ledge.

"Don't blame me, Darkrai," Marx's voice resounded as the Greninja Primary fell into the blast zone. "You and all other Primaries before you did this to yourself." The blast zone echoed with the Greninja Primary's defeat, nabbing victory for the plant. The vortex flashed a bright white, bringing the carnivorous flower back to the construction site when the other fighters woke up from the Dark Void move.


"Oh my…!" Isabelle gasped, her face red from embarrassment as she adjusted her skirt. "How humiliating for us to fall asleep in the middle of a fight! What happened anyway?"

"Grenin…" Greninja groaned, rubbing his webbed hand across his face as he was slowly waking up. The Pokémon opened his eyes, with his violet eyes and red mist completely gone while the Darkrai Spirit floated away with the red mist.

"It's alright, Greninja," Rosalina eased. "You're free now…" R.O.B. beeped a couple times when he alerted the other fighters of Marx appearing right in front of them.

"So I suppose some of you are wondering: When's the next quiz?" Marx asked. "Very soon, as long as you hurry along. If you like, you can take the scenic route and have your pals wait until you're done with your little side quest. See ya on the other side!" The demon then vanished, and the other fighters journeyed down the path.

"Rosalina, R.O.B., Greninja, and I will head to the plane for any secrets," Sherry told everyone on the team. "The rest of you wait until we get back." The four fighters ran off to the spring, leaving the other Smashers to wait on the other route on their right.