Hello, everyone! And welcome to Smash Bros.+Rabbids: Kingdom Battle! Now I know the first thing that comes to your mind. Isn't there a Smash Bros. + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle story on here already? Well, there was. Originally, SB+R:KB was created by my old account, InkyBlues, which I moved from. The story was under the Mario + Smash Bros. crossover section, so many people never got to see it since crossover sections for video games isn't really searched a lot ( well, not that I know of at least). But since Smash Bros. is already a huge crossover game, and the Rabbids did end up getting Mii Costumes, I might as well just add it to the Super Smash Bros. section. Now, here's how the story is gonna work. Every chapter will have at least one or two characters added to the team, except for boss battle chapters. And characters will be found based on their aesthetic or the game they originated from. And the battles that take place within every chapter in Mario+Rabbids will only be the main important ones; no pointless ones included. Which is why I'm gonna be sticking every couple chapters into one single chapter (except for boss chapters). But just before we begin, I want to give a huge shout-out to FairyTalePrincess16. They've created a Mario+Rabbids story before, but with Hyrule Warriors included, and I love that fanfiction to death. It's the main thing that's inspired me to remaster this fanfic. And one last thing. No, the Donkey Kong Adventure won't be included in this story. However, I do have plans with it once I'm finally finished with this story. Now, enough bantering. Without further ado, I present to you: Smash Bros.+Rabbids: Kingdom Battle! Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to Super Smash Bros., that belongs to Masahiro Sakurai and Nintendo. I do not own the right to the Rabbids, that belongs to Micheal Ancel and Ubisoft. And I do not own Mario+Rabbids, that belongs to Nintendo and Ubisoft
Down in the workshop of one's establishment sat a young-looking woman working in a small stationary area, humming to herself as she appeared to be working on some form of headset, which sat under the light of a dimly lit lamp. However, her humming sounded strangely familiar... Almost as if it came straight from a certain video game that is known by many.
In fact, she was actually humming the main theme, "Lifelight," from the famous video game, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate—a glorious crossover fighting game created by Masahiro Sakurai. Many come to know the franchise from its zany and competitive gameplay style, the large amount of extras to unlock and discover, or the absurd amount of Fire Emblem representation. Quite an achievement in gaming history, if I do say so myself.
Actually, the girl's entire room was filled to the brim with Super Smash Bros. merchandising—from Amiibos to dozens of posters. Heck! She even had a GameCube Controller rug. Now that's what I call dedication. Even a few Smash-themed T-shirts laid across the carpeted floor in a few messy piles. This was absolutely the definition of a massive fangirl.
Merchandise aside, she was actually beginning to finish up on the headset she had been working on for a while now. As she completed adding the last few chips and tweaks to the modernistic piece of machinery, she decided to set it onto her face as it powered itself on within a few mere seconds. "Alright, Beep-0—that oughta fix the overheating problem." she said with a proud tone as she took a sip from her drink.
Within a couple of seconds, a small, robotic, puck-shaped figure flashed right in front of the scientist's point of view. Which, in fact, was her assistant—Beep-0. "Can you believe it's been THREE months since Tech magazine put me-" she was cut off from her sentence as Beep-0 radiated an angry shade of red before facing the other direction, avoiding all kinds of eye contact. "Okay—"us" on the cover?" she corrected herself quickly to not seem like she was taking all the fame from her assistant. Though it seemed to work on him in an instant.
"The SupaMerge takes item A and item B and combines them to create item C," she blurted out with a pure ecstatic mood, though it didn't seem to last long, as her once bubbly attitude was soon overtaken by a more somber nature. "If only it were that easy..."
She flipped through the pages of her booklet before tossing it on the desk, knocking over a nearby Pichu Amiibo in a fit of slight rage. "The article says nothing about dark matter, space-time manipulation, practical applications—NOTHING!" she briefly grieved. "I mean—the SupaMerge could solve the ENERGY CRISIS, Beep-0! Watch!" With an broadly grin, she cracked her knuckles before glancing over to a nearby flower pot and one of her many lamps. She thoughtfully inputted the instructions into the SupaMerge as it took aim for the two inanimate objects. Not before long, the visor began to charge its power before it blasted all of its energy towards the two objects, merging them into one entity: a lamp pot! However, the advanced piece of technology couldn't handle the amount of pressure it contained within a single shot, as it began to flash tints of red and orange all around the girl's viewpoint. "Not again!" she lamented in a sign of utter defeat. "Sorry, Beep-0. Let's take a break and come back at this overheating thing fresh, okay?" she asked her robotic companion, who's response was a slight nod.
She set the SupaMerge down on her desk and began to walk off upstairs, angrily kicking her vacuum on the way up. As she headed up, Beep-0 took one last glance at the small visor on the desk before teleporting upstairs himself.
Silence. That was that could be heard. Not even the mere sounds of the monitors could make out to one's ear. It was all but pure tranquility... However, that silence didn't last too long.
Sparks surged from the thin air above the GameCube Controller rug. Lights flickered uncontrollably as the ground shook as if the room was hit by an earthquake. Then, all of a sudden, a strange mechanism emerged in the center of the room, creating a loud thunk as it dropped down. This strange mechanism actually appeared to be...a washing machine? That's...odd.
As if this predicament wasn't slightly unusual enough, the door to the machine flipped straight open, and out came a rabbit-like specimen. Its eyes lit up as it gazed all around the workshop, looking as if it were awaiting to eagerly mess around with anything it could get its hands on. Though not even a second later, it popped out of the washing machine, as dozens of its kind were stored inside; each and every single one of them falling out as well, scattering themselves all around the room. However, one of these hyperactive creatures unsurprisingly got their hands on the SupaMerge laying on the desk. This won't end well...
As the creature set the modernistic visor onto its face without any signs of hesitation, Beep-0 teleported into the room to see what's all the ruckus about. However, what he witnessed was an extremely nerve-racking ordeal. All of the rabbit-like creatures caused nothing but havoc around the room, touching anything their little paws could carry. One of them violently shook the vacuum cleaner in an attempt to open the dirt tank, a couple of them decided to put on a few accessories laying on the floor: a blonde wig and a red cap, and another one of them stood in the toilet of the bathroom, brushing its couple of teeth with a toilet bowl brush, and a rubber duck he retrieved from its rear-end... Something tells me these creatures aren't very intellectual. Beep-0 tried his best to at least talk his way through to these specimens, but definitely, they wouldn't play him any attention at all—hardly anyone of them even noticed the puck-shaped mechanism. The creature wearing the SupaMerge took enjoyment from its comrades messing around with anything they found, especially when one of them happened to slap the buttocks of the one wearing the blonde wig. However, it didn't seem to notice that the headset set its aim for the wig-wearing specimen, but in just a few minor seconds, it shot out a beam of energy towards them, merging the two together. Though the end result seemed way off than you'd expect. Instead of the creature being covered in nothing but hair, it instead gave them a hairstyle similar to a certain royalty figure, even down to the crown, earrings, and the clothing. Weird... The specimen with the SupaMerge had no clue on the action it had just committed, but it didn't seem to care, as it purposely shot more of it comrades, merging them with the objects they possessed in their hands.
Through the mist of the merge-filled chaos, the specimen with the SupaMerge shot a heavy beam of energy towards the washing machine. Though at first glance, nothing will happen right? I mean, it's a washing machine—what's it gonna do? Create a pile of wet clothes? Well, no. The complete opposite actually. Pixelated energy surrounded the washing machine as it began to judder intensely, its light flickering at the speed of sound. Yet, not before long, it began to spin in reverse; its powerful energy sucking in all the uncontrollable creatures inside—Beep-0 included. The specimen with the visor fell victim to this incident as well—trying its best to grip onto the desk as dozens of Amiibos and posters flew past its point of view. But the force of the washing machine was too strong for it to handle, as its hands slipped away and was forcefully pulled into the machine. It tried to escape, but the simple slap of a Super Smash Bros. poster hitting its face was more than enough for it to fall back into the mechanism and jam the door completely shut. In just a mere few seconds, the washing machine vanished into nothing but air, leaving the workshop a complete and utter mess, as well as a large scorch mark on the GameCube Controller rug. Just where could they have gone too...?
Meanwhile, in the World of Trophies...
While Smash Bros. is pretty iconic for featuring an enormous roaster of characters from a wide range of universes, it's not very often you get to see someone have a whole day dedicated just to themselves... On some occasions. However, today was a very special day, for a very special princess.
Balloons of varying colors filled the sky as dozens upon dozens of Toads were gathered outside of Princess Peach's Castle. Apparently, today was the princess' inauguration, and an important one at that. It was meant to admire the hard work and dedication she provided for her kingdom, and her people, as well as acknowledging her kindhearted spirit and lovingness attitude. Even everyone a part of the Smash roster attended the ceremony: Meta Knight, Zelda, Ryu, etc. Even ones such as Ganondorf, Ridley, and King K. Rool came as well, though they were merely forced by Daisy to attend. And trust me, you do not wanna hassle with her whenever an occasion like this goes down. However, there was one attendee that surprisingly, and unsurprisingly, didn't show up: the King of the Koopas himself, Bowser. Though this would be the case considering he was out on his own personal vacation—trying to get some alone time for himself, leaving Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings to watch over his castle. I bet nothing could go wrong from that.
Anywho, on stage stood Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Toad, and of course, Princess Peach. In front of them sat a large structure covered in a thick cloth, most likely bring the princess' surprise. Eventually, Toad came up to the front of the stage, microphone in hand, and began his ceremonial speech. "Welcome everyone! We thank you all for coming here today for this extremely special occasion!" he announced to the huge but varied crowd in his iconic chipper voice.
"Can we just get the food and leave already?!" yelled a clearly annoyed Wario, but was instantly hushed by everyone around him.
Even if that was quite the rude interruption, Toad continued anyway. "We've gathered you all here today to celebrate the joyous remarks of our lovely ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, and as a way to gift for all the wonderful things she does for her land," he quickly ran to the hidden structure. "We present to you... Your brand new statue!" he pulled the cloth off with a sharp yank, revealing the brand new statue to the public. The statue appeared to be the princess of honor holding a Power Star close to her chest and a red ribbon wrapped around her shoulder. Confetti rained from the sky as the crowd sent congratulate cheers and clapped for the princess of Toadstools.
"Oh my goodness! This is stupendous!" Peach beamed of utter bliss upon her newly revealed statue. "Thank you all so much!"
"Uh... Isn't this-a the 5th statue the princess-a has gotten?" Luigi asked his brother with a tiny nudge to his shoulder.
"Not really sure-a, but I wouldn't mind-a it at all, bro." Mario admitted softly.
Suddenly, a strong gust of wind began to brew in the air seemingly out of nowhere, viciously shivering both trees and plant life.
"Woah... What is-a that?" Mario squinted as he looked towards the once calm sky, as it was now shrouded in a sinister blue.
Then, it appeared.
A gargantuan vortex opened in the middle of the sky. Shrill and shocked gasps filled the crowd as their attention were grasped by the ongoing invader.
"What the heck is a vortex doing here of all places?!" King Dedede exclaimed, which was practically the same question everyone could think of at the moment.
Though not even a moment later, Toads began to cry for help as they were getting pulled into the vortex from its sheer, unstoppable force. Guess this is expected when you're extremely lightweight. Speaking of lightweight, majority of the lightweight Smashers began to get pulled by the vortex's mighty force as well. Everyone tried their best to save each other from the disastrous drag the vortex gave, some even gripping themselves to the ground; but, no one could succeed in doing so.
It was pure chaos.
"Huh?!" Mario emitted as the platform beneath him cracked in half. But his attention was soon quickened to the sight of something that made his heart instantly drop.
"Mario, help!" Luigi had lost his grasp from the platform, his body slowly being pulled in by the force of the trenching portal.
"Luigi!" Mario rapidly dashed to his brother, managing to grip both of his gloved hands. "Don't worry! Hang-a on!"
"Mario! I-I...can't...hold on-a...anymore!" Sadly, Luigi's grip weakened, and his hands slipped right through his brother's grip and fell victim to the vortex.
"Luigi! No!" Mario grieved.
Unfortunately, the remaining survivors had lost the battle with their remaining energy: Peach, Yoshi—everyone. Except for Mario.
"No no no no no!" he repeated to himself loudly, jumping onto platforms of the decaying landscape that were torn from the vortex. He could see his brother from a distance, his speed increasing with every second.
"Mario!" Luigi cried out as he brought forth his reaching hand.
"I'm-a coming, bro!" Mario leaped from the final landscape that was available and tried to reach for his brother's hand—but, it failed. It was all too late to save him now.
However, the vortex was able to pull in Mario; leaving it up to him to find out where his brother, his friends, and the entire kingdom had ended up in... Or if they survived.
Well, I hope you enjoyed the prologue to Smash Bros.+Rabbids! I'm gonna try my very best to make this story was enjoyable as possible compared to the disaster that was the original one (even if you haven't read it, since I deleted it way long ago). Anywho, stay tuned for next chapter to find out where this mysterious vortex took our heroes to. Until next time!