Chapter 1: Opening Day Disaster

(Giegue Cluster: World Sanctuary, Fiver, six months later)

A boy with short blond hair and sapphire blue eyes awoke in the upstairs bedroom of his small, quaint house in Fiver. He quietly rolled to his side, next to him, was a girl with long golden hair and sapphire blue eyes as well. He smiled to himself, six months had gone by since he and his friends had defeated Giygas in their homeworld. Sadly, his world had been destroyed during the war, leaving him and his friends unable to live there.

That was, until Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo came along and brought them to their world to live. It was lucky, perhaps he should count himself lucky. His life had been pretty pathetic up until his adventure, not that it was much better now, but overall, he enjoyed it. He got up and changed out of his pajamas into a blue and purple striped shirt, before covering it with a blue hoodie, then slipping on a blue baseball hat over his head.

He walked downstairs and began cooking a small breakfast. Just warming up some microwavable bacon and putting a bagel in the toaster.

"Zoom! Hello father Moon!"

He smiled as he turned to face a creature with a horseshoe round body, it had a big nose with blue eyes and a green bow tied into its one strand of hair. Sure, he and Sarah were only fifteen years old, but they were happily married and had their adopted Mr. Saturn to function as their son. Fate put them together, there was nothing weird about it, even if he was kind of a villain.

Sarah walked into the living room a moment later. She was wearing her usual purple dress with a blue ribbon tied into her hair. She picked up the Mr. Saturn and nuzzled it. "Hello Astro." she said.

"Zoom! Hello Momma Sarah!" Astro responded.

Moon glanced up at a calendar. The date shone high and clear.

December 5th, 200X

He turned to face Sarah. "Well, today's the day." he said. "Astro...We have to leave for a while, we're on important business, you'll be staying with Petra and Dyson in Dalaam. Is that okay?"

"Zoom! Uncle Dyson take care of me! Aunt Petra very nice." Astro responded.

"I'll go take him now." Moon said. "Sarah you might as well start packing up, there's no telling how long this tournament is going to last." Sarah nodded and walked upstairs.

Moon teleported to Dalaam and handed Astro over to Dyson and Poo, who were in the middle of a meeting. Then, he teleported back to his house in Fiver. Sarah was already waiting at the door.

"You're finished already?" he asked in shock.

"Well, it's not like we're going to need much." Sarah responded. "Just a few bottles of cleanser incase you know who shows up a bit of food and stuff. You know, basic things."

Moon nodded. He walked back into the house and picked up his own red backpack. He unzipped it, and placed a black and red striped book inside, along with the three tickets he had been given to the tournament, he also put in some traveling food and snacks. He was about to turn back to Sarah when something caught his eye. A sword with a sapphire blade and emerald hilt hung above the couch. He got up on the couch and took it down, placing it in the carry attached to his backpack.

"You're really bringing Saphria with you?" Sarah asked. "Seems a bit unnecessary, don't you think? I mean, we're just going to watch the tournament."

"I'm on business with the Demonrift Sarah. Plus, it's not like I'm going to be watching the whole tournament, I've got other things I need to attend to. You never know when we may run into danger."

"I know, I know." Sarah responded, she tied the star pendant she usually wore around her neck and took off the ring Moon had given to propose to her. "I think I'll leave the ring here, just so I don't lose it."

Moon nodded. "Makes sense, we ready? Ness leaves in about an hour." Sarah nodded and the two set off towards Onett, walking through the woods.

(Onett)

Paula arrived at the doorstep of Ness' house. Today was the day that came just about every year. Ness was off to compete in the sixth annual Super Smash Brothers tournament. Ever since he received a letter of invitation for the first, he had been excited every year to attend. He spent his time training, and was a member of the government council that ran the Multiverse, the council rarely called meetings, so it didn't take time away from their relationship.

She had been asking Ness for years if she could join the tournament, however, she never received an invitation. Ness said that the council only chose the best of the best, and while he and Lucas had been pushing for her to join, the council just didn't see it through, she assumed that those who were fighting were all very skilled and very special.

She knocked on the door, Ness' mother answered it a moment later.

"Ah Paula." She said in delight. "So nice to see you, Ness leaves soon, but I assume you came to see him off?"

"Yes, thank you." Paula responded.

"Great, it's a shame that Tracey and I can't see him off this year. But we did schedule this playdate for quite some time now, so, oh well. He's upstairs waiting."

Paula nodded and moved inside. She walked upstairs, after stopping to pet his dog King on the head, she approached the door, only to hear Ness in kind of a panic.

"Damn it, where the hell did I put my Yo-yo!"

She opened the door and was greeted with a messy room. Drawers were open, clothes were scattered amongst the floor, and other stuff. Ness finally rose up from a corner, clutching onto a bright green Yo-yo that she gave him for his birthday a few years ago.

"Phew, good thing I found it." Ness said, he noticed Paula standing in the doorway, he walked up to her, smiling and placed a kiss on her cheek.

"Hey Paula. You came to see me off too next tournament?" he asked. Paula nodded in response. "Thanks again...Sorry I couldn't get you this year. Lucas and I put down everyone every year, but we still get no bites, Ninten still refuses to accept his invite and I keep trying to switch it, but they still don't take it."

"It's alright Ness...just kick some butt and do well...I'm behind you every step of the way." Ness nodded.

"I'll do my best, no guarantees though."

There was a sudden knock at the door as the two walked downstairs. Ness glanced at the clock, it was only eleven thirty. "Odd." he said. "The smash limo isn't supposed to arrive for another hour." he opened the door and was greeted with an exact copy of him and Paula. With the exception of their clothes and in Ness' case eyes and hair, they looked exactly the same.

"Oh! Moon! Sarah!" Ness said. "What's up? What are you doing here?"

The two just kind of looked at him like he was dumb. Moon cleared his throat after a moment. "Um...we're coming with you to the tournament."

"Wait...you two got invitations to come and compete?" Ness asked. "I thought we were just keeping it between all previous competitors!"

"No...we're coming to watch...we discussed this with you...didn't we?"

"How did you even get tickets? They've been sold out for sixth months!" Paula asked.

"That's...personal." Sarah said. "But...we have three of them...so we were going to take you with us, Paula...if you want to...that is."

"Are you kidding? Of course I want to come!" Paula said, she gave both of them a hug. "Thank you so much!"

"So...uh...quick question...why do you have Saphria with you Moon?" Ness asked. "You aren't competing...so I'm pretty sure that you'll be taken down at the entrance if you bring her."

Moon shrugged, "You never know when something can go horribly wrong." he said. "Anyway, this competition takes place in the Imperium cluster...correct?"

"Yes, they've manipulated the world so we can have battlegrounds based on our home clusters to fight on if we want."

"Interesting, so...do we...go to the tournament with you...or do we just...have our own way of getting there?" Paula asked.

As if to answer her question, an orange portal opened near the woods and a limousine shot out. It was all white with gold markings of angels on the sides. It came to a halt in front of Ness' house, and out stepped a man in a butler outfit.

"Ah, Mister Ness." the man said. "Sorry to keep you waiting...I ran into a bit of traffic in between the clusters, this time of year is always so busy. We must make haste if we wish to pick up Mister Lucas and arrive on time for the tournament. According to my list here, no one else is down to come from your world so…"

"We have three tickets." Moon said, handing the man the three slips of paper with a logo of a multi-colored ball with a black horizontal and vertical line running through it.

The man's eyes narrowed. "According the guest list I received from Palutena, I am not supposed to have any pick ups from this cluster other than Mister Ness and Lucas. Could I please see your tickets and have your names?"

"Moon Wolfe," Moon responded. "Sarah Wolfe," he pointed at Sarah. "Paula Polestar." he finished by pointing at Paula. Then, he handed the man the tickets.

The man's eyes became a bit stunned for a second before returning to the narrow gaze. He carefully observed the tickets Moon handed them. Going as far as to point them towards the sun. Then, he took out a large notepad, and flipped through it.

"Basidiomycota...five hundred sixty guests...Tribus one hundred fifty...Locus fifteen...A.O.N. none...Animalium...ten...ah, here we go, Cluster of Giegue." He flipped the notebook towards them...the page was empty. "I don't see your names on the guest list."

Moon frowned. "These ARE legitimate tickets though...right?"

"Of course Mister Wolfe, these tickets are legitimate, they have Palutena's mark on them. Perhaps there's been some sort of mix up with the guest list...we have moments like this almost every year. I'll allow you three to ride with us...but only because I don't have time to keep arguing. Traffic between clusters causes SO much delay in time and space...so let's get going."

The four of them climbed into the limo. The inside had a few seats, a mini fridge, and it was decked out in all sorts of Rock and Roll 90s stuff, as well as golden sunflowers.

"Yeah...they sort of...decked out the transportation for me and Lucas. It's really nice of us to put so much effort into this tournament every year." Ness said as the four of them sat down.

"I'm so excited to get to see you compete this year Ness." Paula said. "I've been wanting to see you compete and how you use the powers I taught you, and maybe I'll finally learn what it takes to qualify for these tournaments...then I can come with you."

Ness gave a nervous laugh at that. "Yeah...sure Paula." he said. "But in my opinion, if anyone from our cluster has a one way ticket into the next tournament, it's definitely Moon."

Moon chuckled. "Not like I'd even be able to compete." he said, pulling out the black and red striped book and opening it. "Boundation...remember? Plus, even if Sarah and I did get an invite, I'd probably turn it down."

"Really?" Paula asked. "You wouldn't go to a tournament for the sole purpose of showing your strength to the multiverse? You are arguably stronger than Ness, no offense Ness, plus, the Demonrift you've got tells you about all the competitors! You could pinpoint their weaknesses and destroy them."

"True." Sarah said. "But Moon and I think it's best that the Children of Giygas stay out of Multiversal affairs."

"Speaking of which." Ness said suddenly. "Try not to mention that you are Giygas' children to anyone when you get there. Your world's mere existence sent the council up in flames, I've been working nonstop to convince everyone there that letting you guys live here isn't a threat to Multiverse's safety. We know that you two are far from evil, but the rest of the competitors probably won't take to kindly to having the children of Giygas just walking around."

"Completely understand that." Moon muttered from behind the Demonrift. "Though, it's not like you all competing in the tournaments are much better."

Ness frowned. "What makes you say that?"

Moon gave him a deadpan stare. "I know that you guys go through applications from numerous competitors to figure out whether or not they are worthy for Smash Brothers. The Demonrift has the votes on the applications for each competitors application."

Ness' face fell. "Oh...so...you know who we've approved?" he asked.

"You've got some rather...Interesting...competitors." Sarah said. "I mean...sure, you've got the heroes of the Multiverse, which makes sense...But seriously...Bowser and the Koopalings...King K. Rool...Ganondorf...Ridley? What's the deal with all these villains getting into the tournaments?"

"Well, Bowser and Ganon came during Melee, which was before the council started accepting applications, with Master Hand gone, and Palutena and Pit having not revealed themselves to us, we had to come up with SOME way of inviting other people. Plus, during Smash Brawl and Smash Duel, we had the guests in the stadium vote on who they thought would make good competitors...Ridley was the top request BOTH times...and he had already applied to Brawl...so we didn't really have much of a choice."

"Well...suffice to say...you do an okay job with competitors...I've seen your votes on people's applications...mostly yes...but you have said no to a handful...mainly villains...but a few other competitors as well." Sarah replied.

Paula's eyes widened. "You've...actually said no to other people coming into tournaments?" she asked. "Ness...why would you do that?"

Ness blushed. "Well...to be fair Paula...I've only said no to villains and others who don't appear to be as qualified as you...we've had Pokey put on the debate as many times as you."

The limo came to a halt and after a couple minutes of faint murmurs and muffled goodbyes, Lucas entered the limo alongside them. His eyes temporarily widened at the sight of Moon, Sarah, and Paula.

"Oh...I didn't realize that you managed to get tickets this time around." he said slowly. "I thought we gave up trying to even order them at this point."

"Moon had an extra one for Paula." Ness said quickly. "If he had one more, he would've invited someone from your world."

"Oh...okay then...so...what've you been talking about?" Lucas asked, sitting down next to Ness.

"Just...thinking about other competitors." Ness said. "Everyone has probably been training really hard...and with no new competitors entering the ring this year...I'm sure everyone is going to bring their A-game this time around."

Lucas nodded and turned his attention to Moon. "So uh Moon...seeing as how your world had our little tournaments in the form of those weird video games, and that you have the Demonrift, you wouldn't mind giving us your professional insight...who'd you say is the biggest threat this time around."

All eyes fell on Moon, who was still busy scanning through the Demonrift.

"Little Mac." Moon responded.

The limo suddenly roared with laughter from Ness and Lucas. "Yeah, sure...the biggest threat is DEFINITELY Little Mac." Ness said, wiping a tear from his eye. "Come on Moon, be more serious than that."

Before Moon could answer, the limo screeched to a halt. The door was opened a moment later by the butler man opened the door, motioning to Moon, Paula, and Sarah.

"Guests get off here." the Butler said. "This is the sector area for the Giegue Cluster guests, you'll have the area mostly to yourselves, the opening ceremony starts in thirty minutes, I need to get Misters Ness and Lucas to the stadium, there's a TV screen in your room to view from here, or you can take the portal to your seats in the stadium. Either way, you three must get out now."

Paula hugged Ness and gave him a quick kiss. "Good luck Ness." she said. "You too Lucas, we'll be cheering for you the whole time." Both boys nodded and waved goodbye as her, Moon, and Sarah got out of the limo.

"Holy smokes!" Paula said, looking around. The three of them were in a relatively large room, it was decorated once again, with Rock and Roll stuff and golden sunflowers, alongside pictures of Ness with Paula, Jeff, and Poo and Lucas, with Kumatora, Duster, Boney, and Salsa. There were also a bunch of other things, like a stick, a model of a pink snake, and Ness' signature baseball bat and yo-yo.

"The sector guest areas are shaped to feel more akin to each cluster's members participating in the tournament." Moon explained. "For bigger clusters, like Basidiomycota, Imperium, and Locus, all of which are clusters composed of multiple video games in my world, the areas a split into fan service rooms for said competitors franchise. These areas actually exist outside of the borders of the Imperium Cluster, much like Skyworld, the technical center point of Imperium. They are impossible to reach on any given day unless you are a guest at this tournament. Not even the Demonrift could take me here. Skyworld is, however, the exception."

"Wow." Sarah said. "This place is amazing."

"Yes, but we aren't here to stay." Moon said. "The portal room is just behind that door." he pointed to a wooden door next to a massive television screen. "Let's go to the stadium."

The three of them now sat side by side in a massive stadium. Paula looked around, she couldn't see anyone else inside of the stadium, she sat on Moon's left, while Sarah sat on his right. Technically speaking, it felt like they were in more of a booth.

"I guess since our guest list is so small, with the guest list for other clusters being so massive, they must've just decided to move us to a booth." Sarah said after a moment.

"I can work with that." Moon responded. "That means no one will talk to us and we can concentrate on the match fully."

"So...how many people are competing in this tournament again?" Paula asked.

"About 90ish, people." Sarah replied.

"I'd be happy to go over anyone of interest as they come out." Moon said to Paula.

"Thanks I'll keep that in mind."

After a few minutes of waiting in silence. A voice suddenly began to speak from somewhere.

"Hello to everyone in the audience." the voice said. "Welcome to the sixth annual Super Smash Brothers Tournament. I am Masahiro Sakurai! The official announcer voice of the opening ceremony, over the next few weeks, you will be watching the greatest fighters in the Multiverse compete for the Smash Brothers Championship. For now though, let me go ahead and give a warm welcome to the clusters and representatives competing in this year's tournament.

"Don't worry about the voice." Moon said. "It's only used for the opening ceremony, there is no record of a Masahiro Sakurai found anywhere in the Multiverse, it's most likely just a voice bot."

"First up! The representatives from the Basidiomycota Cluster!"

Down on the stage, a ton of people and human-like animals walked out, waving to the crowd. There were three men and three women, one of which was being accompanied by a cute looking star creature. Two dragon like turtles with spikes on their shells and a tuft of flaming red hair, the smaller one in some sort of clown face machine. Followed by A friendly looking green dinosaur wearing brown shoes, brown monkeys, one wearing a red hat and t-shirt, the other in just a necktie, a fat looking crocodile with a crown and red eyes, and what looked like some sort of bronze belly armor, a brown bear wearing yellow shorts with a red bird in his backpack, and lastly-"

"Is that a damn potted plant!" Paula shouted as a red and white polka dotted venus fly trap with sharp teeth hopped out alongside them.

"Fighter number 70." Moon said. "The Bloom of Your Doom, Piranha Plant...or...Petey Piranha, depending on who you ask. She's a high ranked general of Bowser's army. However, she isn't without her faults...I personally despise of her inclusion since she is quite...random and out there, Ness agrees with that. Petey does have pretty high intellect however, she joined the fight for the fifth tournament where she placed 74th."

"Okay, but still A freaking POTTED PLANT is fighting and I'm not allowed to?"

"Oh believe me, you haven't seen anything yet." Sarah responded with a dead tone as the voice of Mr. Sakurai continued.

"Next up, the Tribus cluster."

Only six people walked into the stadium this time around. Three of them looked eerily similar to each other with the notable difference in style, one looked to be about 17, the other looked like a child no older than eight, and the last one looked like he had been ripped out of a child's cartoon show. Then, there was a very pretty princess with a pink and white dress and long blonde hair, next to her was someone dressed like a weird ninja, it took Paula a moment to realize that, looking a bit closer, the ninja was actually the same princess.

"The Tribus cluster is a bit weird." Moon explained. "I'm sure you've noticed that those three boys are exactly the same."

"So is the ninja lady and the princess." Paula said.

"Correct. Technically speaking, they are all the same person, those three boys are all named Link. However, the young one goes by the nickname Lonk, given to him by his adoptive mother, the ninja Sheik, and the cartoon one goes by the nickname Faroe."

"Okay, what about the last guy?" Paula asked nervously, she pointed to a man with a dark green skin tone with orange hair and beard with a pointed nose and blood red eyes. "He looks scary."

"Fighter number 23, The King of Evil, Ganondorf." Moon said. "This specific incarnation of Ganon comes from World Patience with Lonk and Sheik, he's a native gerudo general who became a corrupt and evil dictator, this is however, how fate wanted it to be. Every 100 years after their deaths, Link, Zelda, and Ganon are reborn, the basic same stuff goes down, Link gets amnesia, loses all his weapons, has to go and save Hyrule and Zelda from Ganon by going through a bunch of ludicrous dungeons, yada yada." Paula looked at him.

"Anyway, Ganon, despite his massive amount of power in his home universe, isn't exactly the greatest at this game, he was invited to Melee where he placed 26th, he placed 37th in Brawl, which was actually last place, 38th in Duel, and 19th in Ultimate. Though, I'd argue that his significant jump in placement was due to the council finally giving him permission to use a sword."

"Ganon is a foe to be reckoned with however." Sarah added. Gerudo armor is very powerful so damage dealt to him is very minor...and he hits like a damn truck."

"Now, for the Locus cluster."

A woman with a blonde ponytail in a robotic metal armor stepped onto the stage. Followed by what looked like a floating robot in the same armor, only it was black and had blue light emitting from it's several cracks. They were accompanied by a man in a blue racing outfit, with a red helmet with a golden falcon emblem on the top. They couldn't see much of his face, since his eyes were covered by sharp, pointed glasses. They were also joined by three animals in humanoid space outfits. A brown fox with green eyes and a blue bird that looked like a pheasant it had yellow eyes and a yellow beak. Lastly was a Wolf with shining silver fur, he wore an eye patch over his left eye. All three of them carried a blaster and some weird gadget.

"Hold up...one's missing." Sarah said.

A loud demonic screech suddenly swept through the area as a streak of purple shot above them. A giant purple dragon landed on the stage, it had large wings, piercing yellow eyes, and looked like it was ready to kill someone.

"Figures, he's the only competitor who can't fit into most of the prebuilt stuff." Moon muttered. "Anyway, I'm sure Ness has told you about most of them...and...Paula, you're looking at one of the five winners of Smash."

"Really? Which one?" Paula asked.

"Fighter number seven, The Leader of Star Fox, Fox McCloud, a special ops bounty hunter for Corneria, a politically influential government in one half of the Locus universe. Unlike most bounty hunters in the Locus Cluster, he and his team actually have standards. He's arguably one of the best pilots in the cluster, rivaling that of his deceased father James McCloud, Douglas Jay Falcon, and Wolf O'Donnell. His speed was at one point, unmatchable, without his fancy vehicles that Corneria provides to his team, he's left to rely on his blaster, claws, and special reflector. Same goes for Falco Lombardi and Wolf O'Donnell. He's been a part of these tournaments since the first one, placing 6th, 1st, 18th, 25th and 34th in that order."

"Very impressive." Paula said, looking down at the fox. "I bet Ness is super jealous of his adversaries."

Moon ignored the voice of Sakurai as he welcomed representatives from the Anomaly of Nightmares to turn and face Paula.

"What do you mean by jealous?" he asked curiously. "Ness has spoken about his placement in these tournaments to you...right?"

"No...he doesn't really like to talk about the tournaments...I assume it's because he does really poor in them."

"Paula...Ness is the only founding member of these tournaments to never place in double digits." Paula's eyes widened in shock, Moon frowned in response. "That's really odd." he said. "Ness has the best performance out of everyone...and he's never once said anything about this?" Paula shook her head. Sarah had also turned to listen to their conversation.

"Moon...what has Ness' placement been throughout the tournaments?" she asked.

"He placed runner up in the first tournament, 3rd in Melee, 5th in Brawl, 4th in Duel, and 7th in Ultimate."

"Oh...wow." Paula said.

"Though, I can't say I blame Ness for not talking about his work with everyone else in the clusters for this tournament." Sarah said bitterly. Moon nodded in agreement.

"You two have been acting really weird about this tournament." Paula said. "I get that you came because you had tickets...but even then...you haven't spoken to positively about them...even before this tournament."

Moon and Sarah shifted uncomfortably. "It's uh...It's nothing Paula." Sarah said. "Just uh...the Demonrift has had some rather...questionable portrayals of them. Ness is one of the few exceptions."

"Oh...well...seeing as how you all know the winners of each tournament...would you mind sharing the top 3 with me?" Paula asked.

"Not a problem." Moon responded. "In Smash Foundations, better known in my world as Smash 64, Pikachu placed first, Ness placed second, and Kirby placed third.

"You mean that cute little gumball creature." Paula asked, pointing at a gumball creature with dark pink pointed feet.

"Yeah, Kirby may look cute Paula." Sarah said. "But without the rules set in place to balance power, Kirby would destroy everyone here without breaking a sweat. Thanks to the limitations though, he's not as powerful."

"Oh...so...what about Melee?"

"Fox placed first, as mentioned earlier. Then, do you see those two eskimo kids." Moon asked pointing at two kids who looked to be around the age of 12 that had just walked out on stage. One wore a blue heavy jacket, the other wore a pink. Both carried hammers.

"Yeah I see them." Paula responded.

"That's fighter..or rather...fighters number 15, The Bone Chilling Duo, Popo and Nana, the Ice Climbers. They are a group that hails from the R.D.U which is basically where all the old, irrelevant games from my world are grouped. Things like Pac-Man, Punch Out, and Wii Fit. Next to Ness, they've also had an incredible performance record here in smash. They placed second in Melee, beating Ness for third."

"But that's because there's two of them! That's got to be cheating!" Paula said.

"Well, they were denied from participating in Smash Duel for that reason. But they were brought back when they filed a complaint about Rosalina and Luma, Duck Hunt, and Olimar, who all are technically more than one fighter."

"Anyway, moving on to Brawl, seeing as how there were a lot of characters, I might as well say the Top five. Meta Knight placed first, Snake as runner up, Popo and Nana again, then Olimar, then Ness. In Duel, you had Bayonetta take first, Cloud Strife as Runner up, then Ryu, then Ness, then Diddy Kong."

"What about Ultimate?" Paula asked

"Ultimate had a lot of competitors to go over, but it was by far the most balanced these tournaments have ever been. For the winner, you had Erdrick, or has he's known, The Hero. Pichu placed runner up, Joker placed third, Ridley fourth, and Terry Bogard fifth."

"Who was sixth place?" Paula asked.

Moon and Sarah's eyes narrowed as the last group of people were called on to the stage. Two identical angels one with brown hair and white robes, the other with black hair and black robes flew onto the stage. Followed by a tall female with long green hair, wearing white royal robes, she carried a tall staff and basically floated the whole way there. When Paula turned to face Moon and Sarah again, she saw that both of their faces looked quite disgusted.

"Fighter number 54, The Goddess of Light, Palutena Icarus." Moon said coldly. "She's the leader of Skyworld and head of the Imperium Cluster, she's also the "president." of the Smash council. Since the council is only twelve members, in the event of a tie, she will be the deciding vote on a decision."

"Ness has told me about her." Paula said. "He's not mad at her about putting us on trial, about the creation of your world, he understands that it was because the Multiverse could've been at stake."

Moon and Sarah raised an eyebrow at that comment.

"Well...that's Ness for you." Sarah said. "Always seeing the good and right in others."

Moon didn't say anything. Instead, he just looked amongst the many competitors, varying from boxers, animals, princesses, swordsmen, and many more. He noticed then, that all the villains, Anti-heroes, and for some odd reason the Duck Hunt Dog, were standing at a pretty noticeable distance from the rest of the competitors. Then, he noticed Mewtwo, a purple alien creature that reminded him an awful lot of Giygas' alien form, the two of them locked eyes. Suddenly, a flash vision of an explosion ran through his mind. All the villains down on the stage then attacked the rest of the participants on the stage, joined by even more people and some holographic purple figure.

"Shit." he said suddenly, startling Paula and Sarah. "We need to get out of here." before either of them could say anything, he grabbed onto them and vanished in a flash of orange light.

Down below on the stage, Mewtwo was waiting next to Zelda.

"Hey...are you feeling okay Mewtwo?" the Princess asked.

"I'm getting some sort of Dark Energy senses Princess." he responded. "They are far more powerful than the group of villains to our left."

"Well...say something to everyone if you are worried." Zelda said.

"You know how I feel about talking to the other humans." Mewtwo responded. "You are very kind to me, so is Red, I'm not going to make small talk and look like a fool over something so silly."

The purple alien continued scanning through the crowd of people and animals. Using its powers to locate any trace of Dark Energy. The energy kept becoming more and more powerful as it moved throughout the crowd. Finally, it found a massive burst that made it stumble back a little. Up in a booth, he could see three children, all around the same age as Ness and Lucas. Two girls who looked identical to each other, and a boy who looked like Ness, with blond hair, blue eyes, wearing a blue hoodie and baseball hat, Mewtwo also caught a glimpse of a sword attached to his back.

The pokemon titled its head curiously. Darkness surrounded the boy and the girl on his right, but they didn't seem evil. Mewtwo concentrated on the boys thoughts. At first, he was met with a bunch of presented information of some fighters. Like Palutena, who the boy didn't seem to be fond of. The boy's head scanned each of the competitors before locking eyes with Mewtwo.

"So...that's Mewtwo huh?" he heard the boy's voice say. "Probably the competitor here that I could understand the most, to be all powerful and created for evil purposes, to be lied to, losing a lot in your time, just like us."

That was odd, the boy seemed to really know his stuff about him. Suddenly the boys thoughts started jumping. Mewtwo heard a mini explosion.

"Shit, that's not good, I need to get us out of here, the villains are going to bomb the stadium and capture everyone...do I...do I warn them?" a brief pause. "No, there's no time, we'll have to come back for Ness and Lucas...but first get Paula to safety."

The boy and the two girls suddenly vanished in a flash of orange light. Mewtwo frowned, talk about paranoia, but, something itched him in the back of his head. He turned to face the villains and concentrated his thoughts on Bowser. The dragon turtle's cold voice spoke to him a moment later.

"Alright, the attack will begin in five...four…"

Mewtwo shook itself back to existence. Much like the boy, the clone Pokemon knew that there was no chance at warning anyone and getting everyone to safety, but if what he heard was true, there would be no escapers, not even Kirby, who was unfortunately the closest to the Villain group. Which would mean, there would be no one to stop them. He also knew one thing, he HAD to get Zelda out of here, he turned to his left, but Zelda had already moved over to Link.

"Crap." Mewtwo said to himself. "There's no time, just get the hell out of here, rescue everyone later." The alien creature vanished in a flash of purple light.

Meta Knight looked to his left just in time to see Mewtwo teleport out of there. He clutched Galaxia in his hand before whispering. "Good...someone else managed to pick up on their motives...and thankfully no one noticed him escape...we will not be alone."

Zelda had, however, noticed Mewtwo teleport out of the stadium. Before she could say anything to Link, however, an explosion from an area in the stands cut her off. A holographic figure of purple emerged from the smoke. Alongside several more villains throughout the Multiverse. All the competitors readied themselves for an attack, but before anyone could do anything, a giant beam of purple light enveloped them.

It was the last thing any of them saw, before they felt an eerie coldness enter their bodies, stinging, burning pain enveloped them whole. All of them sunk under pressure, as darkness enveloped each and every one of them.

(Imperium Cluster; Giegue Guest world)

Moon, Sarah, and Paula all reappeared back in the guest world they had been in earlier.

"Moon what the hell?" Sarah asked.

"The...The...The villains." Moon said, breathing heavily. "They were going to capture the competitors and kill all spectators...There wasn't enough time to stop it...I had to just get us out of there...we're safe here...the only people are able to access this subset world are the guests of this tournament, Ness, and Lucas. Unless they enter from Skyworld that is."

"But...Ness...Lucas...the rest of the non-villain competitors." Paula said. "We need to save them. We can't just flee back to our world."

Moon and Sarah looked pretty uncomfortable with that. "I'm...not sure that's a good idea." Moon said bitterly. "I mean...sure...we need to rescue Ness and Lucas...but...come on Paula...these are the same people who wanted to remove you from existence for creating us."

"But this is our chance to prove that me creating you was a good thing!" Paula snapped back. "Without you two we wouldn't have been here to know that the villains were doing this, Moon, without each cluster's respective heroes...who will rise up and stop the villains from conquering them?"

Sarah looked at Moon sympathetically. "Paula...give us a moment to talk about this...okay?"

Paula let out a sigh. "Fine, just...make it quick." she said before walking over to a couch and sitting down on it.

Sarah turned back to him. "Moon...I know that you don't want to go and help these "Heroes" she said. "I don't either...but...you know that Ness and Lucas would definitely take Paula's side here. Plus, some of them don't deserve to be abandoned by us, those that were on Ness' side for Paula's trial about our creation."

"A trial, that, may I remind you, was false accusations Paula didn't create us." Moon said quietly. "Someone else did, then, they tried to shift the blame onto her. When that didn't work, they messed with our already altered timeline, and when THAT didn't work, they hired Ness' Pokey to go to our world and destroy it. Why should we help the person that did all that?"

"That's one person!" Sarah said. "Sure, many of the other heroes are corrupt, but this was ONE person who did this to us...we shouldn't let people like Link and Zelda, clean slated heroes who were on Ness' side for this whole mess, suffer because of it!"

Moon groaned. "Fine, but even then, we have no base of operations, considering we can't bring the heroes here, we can't charge directly at the villains either, even you and I alone are powerful enough to bring them down, we run the risk of kicking "Them" back into action if that were to happen with all these villains around...the multiverse would be twice as dead."

Sarah frowned. "Then...that's just a risk that we'll have to take...we can't leave Paula here she'll get herself killed...and we already know that we can't convince her, Ness, and Lucas to retreat back Giegue, and even if we could, that wouldn't be a smart option. Moon...I know you don't want to do this...but we don't have any other choice."

Moon shook his head and just kind of stood there in silence for a bit. "Alright Sarah...we'll try...I'm going to send a message to Dyson...let him know the situation...then...I'll try and figure out a plan. You and Paula just get some rest...we'll figure out what to do tomorrow, because by then, the villains will have probably spread out to make sure there are no survivors. That purple thing would be a fucking idiot if he doesn't do that."

Sarah nodded and walked over to Paula. When they were gone, Moon pulled out the Demonrift and started flipping through it until he landed on the Imperium Cluster. He started reading through the very long, drawn out description of Skyworld.

"Alright, nice, it's big enough to house everyone and barriers can be placed on it. I suppose that whoever is behind this will have Dark Pit and Viridi in charge of it...that won't be much of a problem, they're Anti-heros...but...is there anyway I can?..." He found what he was looking for under the Multiversal Laws section, he formed an evil grin as he read through it.

"Alright then Goddess." He said. "I'll play by your stupid ass rules...this is the perfect opportunity to fix this corrupt bullshit you've allowed, and figure out what the real story behind my world was, and protect my cluster incase this backfires. Only question now is, which 10 amongst these 80+ competitors are smart enough to let me reach this goal?"

That's all for Chapter one, I hope you enjoyed it. This series is finally up and running and should see weekly uploads for the most part. I think this will shape up to be amazing and will enjoy making this for everyone. I'd love to hear your thoughts and predictions as the series goes on. I'll see you all next chapter.