Chapter 3: Evil Encounters.
The group of eight woke up the next day and met in the central hall of Palutena's temple. Food was provided to them from the numerous contraptions that Skyworld's technology had produced. Once everyone had finished eating, Moon cleared his throat.
"Now, um, a couple of things," he said. "Since the current Council has been captured, we have no form of government running things at the moment. According to Skyworld laws, if the current council is out of commission, another council composed of at least 10 members can be formed to provide this temporary arrangement until they see the situation as being over. .
"We are in no way, shape, or form, capable of creating a council." Meta Knight responded. "The Council must be comprised of competitors, currently, there are only five of us, including King Dedede. We still need five more people in order to make a temporary council."
"Listen, when we do have enough to form a council. You guys can just place Moon in charge of the operation, we want to make sure we keep things legal, understand?" Sarah asked.
"Of course, that would be easy, and it would keep us from getting into more trouble." Mewtwo continued. "Anyway, who are you going to rescue today?"
"Moon said we are heading to Shadow Moses island where Samus and Captain Falcon are." Paula said. "He said that we need some brawn that are capable of giving us insight on Ridley."
"A wise move." Dark Pit said. "Ridley is a force to be reckoned with. Tabuuto doesn't seem to like using him though...seems to prefer using the other villains. But I'd recommend you three to be careful. Last I heard, Ridley was going to Shadow Moses island to 'check' on Samus."
Moon's eyes narrowed. "Interesting...we'll have to be alert at all times...Sarah...Paula...are you two ready to go?" both girls nodded. "Alright then, let's get going." the two girls grabbed onto Moon and they vanished in a flash of pink light.
The remaining members looked at each other after they left. After a moment of silence, Viridi spoke up.
"So, I know I'm usually the one to call out the humans." she said. "But, we can all agree that the boy is a little strange...right?"
"I will admit, for him and Sarah to just...show up...out of nowhere from the Giegue cluster is quite...strange." Meta Knight said. "I do not remember anything of the sorts being brought to our attention. Ness has never mentioned them once."
"I've been getting Dark Energy senses ever since they've been here." Mewtwo said. "I find it weird that they show up and Dark Energy follows them...it's very unusual."
Zelda had been very quiet as she listened to the other heroes talk amongst each other. Moon and Sarah had rescued her...but...could they be trusted? Moon seemed to know way too much about the competitors and she too could sense Dark Energy surrounding him and Sarah. It was weird, they just...appeared...out of nowhere.
She placed her hand over the Triforce of Wisdom piece. The piece began to glow and shine on her necklace as she concentrated on her thoughts.
She was suddenly thrown into a void, the Triforce piece shone in front of her, before a calm voice began to speak to her.
"Ah, Princess Zelda," the voice said, "You seek my wisdom once again? What is it that you wish to know about?"
"I...I want to know about these two kids...their names are Moon and Sarah Wolfe, two married fifteen year olds from the Giegue cluster...who are they? Where did they come from? I don't trust them...but they say they can help rescue Link and the others. Is that true?"
There was a moment of silence as the piece began to shine. Then, the piece floated next to her, a large picture appeared in front of her and the piece. It showed Moon and Sarah, alongside four other kids, one was a boy with raven black hair and hazel brown eyes and glasses holding the hand of a girl with long light brown hair and green eyes in a dress that looked similar to the boy's suit were the kids to their left.
On their right, was a boy who was completely bald save for a black braided ponytail wearing a Diadem, Cloak, and Bracers and a karate outfit with emerald green eyes, holding the hand of a girl with chocolate brown eyes and hair wearing a ruby crested tiara and bright yellow dress gown. In Sarah's arms, there was a Mr. Saturn with a green bow and blue eyes.
"Moon Wolfe and Sarah Jones Wolfe, the Children of Giygas."
Zelda felt her heart freeze...these two children were the kids of the most evil entity in the entire multiverse? And now they were here? While the villains had the heroes captured? What were their intentions? Did they accidentally bump into Mewtwo and Paula and were now just playing nice?
"Princess Zelda, stop jumping to conclusions with these two...it's not right...Plus, you don't want to be on these two's bad sides. Moon and Sarah are far from villains, yes they have problems, but these two have things that heroes like you couldn't begin to comprehend."
Zelda bit down on herself. The Triforce of Wisdom was always correct, no matter what the situation was, it gave her the honest truth 100% of the time. But...the Children of Giygas? Heroes who were the children of the embodiment of evil?
"You doubt me princess?" the voice asked. "Listen, there's a lot you need to know about these two. Moon and Sarah are Ness and Paula doppelgangers that hail from Dark Sanctuary, they both had an adventure similar to Ness and Paula, however, they were in love the entire time. They are extremely powerful and I would argue that they surpass Kirby in power. However, they are heroes who battle an oncoming spread of darkness that I could never explain properly to you. These two are heroes who wish to seek reform in others, as well as hunt down a very vile person who took everything from them."
"What happened to them? Who are they hunting?"
"Unfortunately princess, I can't tell you who it is they are looking for. But, this person hired the Pokey Minch of World Sanctuary to destroy the entirety of Dark Sanctuary. The seven entities that you see in this photograph are the only survivors from Dark Sanctuary. You have Moon and Sarah, as well as Astro, their adopted Mr. Saturn who functions as their son. Alongside their friends Erick Andonuts, Giovanna Cox, Dyson Locke, and Petra Locke. Their friends, families, and every other living entity from their world are all dead and their world is left uninhabitable by Pokey's rampage. They only survived because Ness moved them to his own world."
So these were the kids Link said that Ness had been working head over heels to protect from the council. Zelda remembered Link coming home one day, he was really frustrated, Palutena had called the sixth meeting in less than two weeks. Link mentioned that it was to, once again, complain to Ness about a group of kids that had illegally entered his own world. Link had voted alongside Samus, Captain Falcon, Kirby, Fox, and Ness in favor of letting them stay multiple times, but for some unearthly reason, someone kept filing a complaint.
"The six friends of Dark Sanctuary are quite bitter towards the Multiverse princess, there are many reasons for this, but their home is one of the main. I humbly advise that you be nice to the two of them, especially Moon, he can be difficult and a bit more than what you are used to. However, like King Dedede, he does mean well. He wishes to make the Multiverse a better place and will stop at nothing to reach that goal. Trust him Zelda, do whatever he asks of you, he means well, and he could use a kind-hearted individual like yourself."
Be nice to the children of Giygas? That would be like asking her to forgive Ganondorf for terrorizing Hyrule every single time he was reborn.
"Princess, I sadly cannot tell you what the future holds, but Moon and Sarah are the only chance you have of saving the Multiverse from the villains. You and Link must be nice them, because sadly, only a handful of people will respect Moon's way of getting things done, if you wish to have a better life for yourself and Link, please, be nice to him, he's had it rough and, like Mewtwo, is very bitter towards other people, he shows remorse to his friends, Ness and his friends, and Lucas and his friends, but to others...he's not as nice."
Zelda was snapped back to reality. Everyone inside of the temple was looking at her.
"Zelda, you were asking the Triforce of Wisdom something, what was it?" Mewtwo asked.
"I...I'll tell you guys when Moon gets back...The Triforce didn't explain it to me fully...I hope he can explain it better to us."
(Shadow Moses Island)
Moon, Sarah, and Paula all appeared outside of a large military facility on an island
"In the Bellum Arca-Arca Cluster, this place is an archipelago of islands that Solid Snake has to infiltrate." Moon said. "It's home to several deadly weapons in that cluster. However, quite thankfully, they are all phony replicas here. So we don't have to worry about using our PK Fire attacks and blowing the whole place to smithereens."
They approached the entrance to the facility. There was a heavily shut door with a hand print id recognition software installed.
"How are we supposed to get through this?" Paula asked. "The door is sealed and we would probably need a villain's handprint to get in."
"Well, assuming Pokey hasn't tampered around with this technology, we should be able to corrupt the recognition software to make it accept our hands." Sarah said.
Moon placed his hand on the recognition software and concentrated on the device. A few black sparks erupted from the device before settling down and stopping. The door slid open with a heavy thud once it closed in. The three of them entered the facility, it was rather dark and their only source of light was from ceiling lamps that would occasionally flicker on and off.
The three cautiously walked through the facility, for the most part, the walls were made of metal and they were cold to the touch. You occasionally saw a staircase and some rather questionable posters of women.
"Hey Moon...I just realized something...if there's people here fighting with swords...then why can't they penetrate and amputate limbs of other competitors?" Paula asked. Her voice echoed a little down the hall.
"There are all sorts of holy charms and divine magic that this cluster uses to balance out the tournaments." Moon responded quietly. "Anyone registered into the tournament will have a special magic regeneration charm, that weakens the pain of magic attacks, and another one weakens the true power of their melee weapons. A competitor like Meta Knight is unable to penetrate deep into other competitors skin, armor, or scales, the most Galaxia will do is nothing more than large paper cut.
"But you aren't registered in the tournament...so couldn't you kill someone with Saphria?" Paula asked.
"Saphria wasn't created to kill Paula." Sarah replied. "She was created to cause suffering, she's technically a magic sword as well, Moon could only kill someone if he used an elemental slash. But since all the competitors have the magic regeneration, it's impossible for him to kill someone. Sure, she can penetrate deeper than other weapons, but that's it.
"Though, with the villains in charge of their minds, it's likely that the corrupt versions of the heroes have that melee weapons charm dormant so their hosts are at full power." Moon added.
The three of them walked into a large central room.
"This is the battle arena that competitors use for Shadow Moses Island." Moon said, looking around. "The battle area is big enough to house all competitors, actually, all of these phony makeshift areas are."
"No sign of Samus, or Captain Falcon though." Paula added, as she looked around the arena. There was a large amount of Dark Energy, but considering she was next to Moon and Sarah, it was normal.
"We aren't alone." Moon said suddenly. "I sense four other entities in this room...what's worse, none of them are the Samus or Captain Falcon we came looking for."
A blue laser whip suddenly wrapped itself around Sarah and Paula, who were standing behind Moon. They were yanked across the room and greeted by a black replica of Samus' power suit with blue light emitting from its cracks. Next to the armor was a man who looked like Captain Falcon, only his racing outfit was red, helmet was purple, and a skull and crossbones was imprinted instead of a falcon. The man had a gun in his hand pointed at them.
"Don't bother trying to break yourselves out of there." Blood Falcon growled at them. "You make an attempt, and I'll shoot both of you."
A loud demonic screech echoed through the area as a streak of purple shot down in front of Moon. Leaving the nine foot tall dragon with piercing yellow eyes. Up close, the three of them could see that the dragon's tail was actually a very sharp hunting knife. The dragon let off another screech in front of Moon, who didn't even flinch.
"You can talk you stupid ass dragon." he muttered. "I know you can."
Ridley's eyes narrowed as he looked at him. After the two of them had their own little stare down between each other, Ridley formed an evil grin.
"Dark Samus, Blood Falcon, hold the two girls here...don't kill them...I want to talk to this boy in private."
"Father, we have orders to-"
"What Tabuuto doesn't know won't fucking kill him." Ridley hissed at Dark Samus.
"Boss, you know what these kids are doing we need them-"
"I gave both of you orders." Ridley hissed at Blood Falcon. "If EITHER of you two kill one of those girls without my direct order...I will FUCKING EXECUTE you with my own skewer DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!"
"Yes Ridley." the two mumbled.
"Good." Ridley turned back to Moon. "Follow me." The dragon hissed at him before flying out of the room.
"Moon…"
"I'll be fine Sarah." Moon said calmly. "You two just better not do anything stupid." he followed the direction path that Ridley had flown. Once both of them had gotten out of earshot of the four of them Ridley turned back to him and extended out one of his claws.
"Give me your hand boy." he snarled.
Moon gave him a taunting grin. "Now why would I do that?" he asked smugly. "You're Ridley, The Cunning God of Death, a genocidal dragon with a thirst for blood. Why would I place my hand in your claws when you could just as easily rip it off?"
Ridley gave him a smug look that reminded him of Dark Moon. "Listen kid, my daughter and Blood Falcon would be happy to kill your girlfriends, I can give them the order faster than you can teleport over there and save them. So just humor me and give me your hand."
Moon shrugged and placed his hand in the giant claw of the dragon. Ridley clamped down on his hand, he felt his knife sharp claw nails sink deep into his own skin as blood started to leak out of it. He still didn't flinch, compared to Dark Moon, this was nothing. Ridley's eyes looked stunned for a moment.
"This...is hurting you." he hissed. "I can see it in your eyes...and yet...you act like this is normal."
"I've felt worse honestly." Moon said dully. Seeing Ridley's pissed off expression made him crack a grin. "What's wrong?" he asked. "Don't think I haven't studied you Ridley, you rely on your massive size, your deadly reputation, and your intellect to intimidate others, that may work on the other smash competitors...but it is far from working on me."
The Dragon withdrew his sharp claws from his skin. Moon could see a mixture of black ooze and red blood dripping off the dragon's claw. Ridley took one of his dripping claws and placed it in his mouth. Licking all of the blood off like it was a lollipop. The dragon appeared to swirl it around to try and find something before a confirmed swallow. Ridley grinned evilly.
"An odd mixture indeed." he hissed. "It's weird, it has that ever loving sweet syrup taste, however, it feels kind of thin. Then again, the strange after taste leaves a bit of spice. Certainly a unique mixture of blood...You and your girlfriends hail from Giegue I presume?"
Moon raised an eyebrow at that. "You were able to figure out what cluster I'm from...just by sampling my blood?" he asked.
"Blood is a major identification factor kid. Cluster's weird atmospheres and living conditions give their residents a unique tasting blood type. I wouldn't be the feared monster I am if I couldn't identify a person based on their blood. My personal favorite type would have to be your own cluster, my own cluster packs a bit too much of a meaty flavor." He noticed Moon's rather disgusted look, in response, he gave another smirk.
"Don't get the wrong idea kid." he hissed. "I'm only a genocidal monster in my own cluster. All samples of blood from other clusters come from the less harmful damage I deal to competitors in the tournaments.
"Yeah, I figured...so...what do you want to talk to me about?"
Ridley looked even more pissed at that comment. "Alright kid, cut the crap with me." the dragon hissed. "You could've saved your two friends back their without them getting hurt...yet...you didn't attack my daughter and Blood Falcon despite your ability to overpower them...I should be asking YOU what the hell you want?"
Moon cracked a grin. "Seems that I underestimated your intelligence." he said coolly. "But it appears that my handbook was right, despite looking like a mindless killer, you have a supreme intelligence."
"Alright...but you want something." Ridley snarled. "Make this quick, I've got an archenemy that needs to be killed right about now."
Moon shrugged, he couldn't stall and test Ridley any longer. "Listen, Ridley." he said. "I know that you and your little alliance aren't working for Tabuuto, it's not your style.
Ridley's eyes formed their little death gaze. "Alright...and what does this have to do with me and my alliance."
"Listen, I personally couldn't care less about whatever it is you guys are doing." Moon said. "I've got enough on my plate at the moment...I know that you know that Me, Sarah, and Paula are trying to rescue the competitors that you guys captured."
"So let me guess." Ridley snarled. "You want me and alliance to look the other way while you all do this? Let you guys rescue our greatest enemies and the one thing stopping us from reaching the goals we so desire? I'm not a fool kid, it'd take a damn miracle to convince me to do that."
"Listen, I frankly don't give a damn about whatever stupid ass plan you and your Rogue Alliance have." Moon snapped. "I know that you know what opportunity I'm offering you Ridley, name your price, and I'll make sure it happens."
Ridley took a moment to ponder on what he said. After an uncomfortable moment of silence he formed his evil smirk.
"In the event that my plan backfires horribly...which it will not...but just incase it does." the dragon snarled. "I want myself and ALL members of my Rogue Alliance cleared of every charge that's brought against them AND see it fit that we are still allowed to join the tournaments and are still down for considerable participation...I also request that you yourself, agree to look the other way to all members of my Rogue Alliance should you guys bump into each other. If you can agree to that, then I shall tell my henchmen and daughter to do the same...I'd also like another sample of your blood if possible."
"And just who exactly are we batting an eye to?" Moon asked.
"Myself, Dark Samus, Blood Falcon, Kraid, Phantoon, Wolf O'Donnell, and...Pokey Minch."
Moon twitched at that. Pokey was in on the Rouge Alliance's plan? That was something he would've never guessed. Now, he would have to let Pokey walk free?
Ridley gave him a smug look. "Is there a problem?" he growled.
Moon let out a sigh. "No." he said. "I'll agree to that...except my blood...you've still got enough for seconds on your claw."
The two of them shook on it, then they walked back into the central area were Blood Falcon and Dark Samus were waiting with Sarah and Paula, who were still tied together.
"Let the girls go." Ridley snarled. "We have no business being here with these children."
"Boss what about-"
"Let the girls go, I'll explain everything when we get out of here." Dark Samus nodded and retracted her laser whip from around Sarah and Paula.
Ridley then turned back to Moon. "Don't forget our deal kid." he snarled in a low voice. Then, he, Blood Falcon, and Dark Samus vanished in a flash of pink light. Moon rubbed his arm where Ridley's claws and penetrated his skin, he used Lifeup to heal the injury as Sarah and Paula ran over to him.
"Are you okay?" Paula asked nervously. "What did Ridley want?"
"Not much." Moon muttered. "But I was able to get him to agree to ignore our work."
"Well that's a relief." Sarah sighed. "Let's get back to looking for Captain Falcon and Samus."
Suddenly, a yellow laser whip similar to Dark Samus' wrapped itself around Paula's waist. This time however, when it retracted her to another black suit of armor with red light for the mask, she was instead flung past that and into the metal wall.
Moon withdrew Saphria as Samus and Captain Falcon came into view. Like with Zelda, their clothing (or in Samus' case armor), was all black. They could see that Falcon's skin was shadowy, and his falcon symbol was blood red.
"Be alert." he said to Sarah. "Falcon is very fast and his attacks, while being close range, are very power, his knees are also made of titanium, so try not to let him hit you with them."
"PK Freeze!" Sarah shouted. A beam of ice shot out of her hand towards the two corrupt heroes who dodged the attack with ease. Samus fired a few missiles towards the two of them. Moon teleported out the missiles range leaving them to redirect themselves towards Sarah, who used PK Fire to detonate.
Moon appeared next to Paula and used Lifeup to heal her. Paula stood up, a bit wobbly at first.
"You okay?" he asked.
"Y-Yeah...I'm good." Paula said. "Let's save them." She launched off a PK Thunder sending lightning bolts down upon the two of them. Falcon rolled out of the way while Samus took the attack head on. Samus then launched off a charge shot at Sarah. While Sarah was distracted, Captain Falcon made a running movement towards her.
"PK Hydro!"
A jet stream of water forming a large hand at the end grabbed Captain Falcon and flung him towards a different edge of the wall. Meanwhile, Paula and Sarah unleashed a combined PK Fire at Samus, both flames merged creating a giant fire blast that encased Samus' armor whole. Once again, it didn't look like it did anything to her suit of armor. Samus then jumped over the two of them, rolling her suit up into a little ball. She landed behind them and readied another charge shot. However, before any of them could do anything, an explosion went off behind Sarah and Paula launching them across the room.
"PK Earth!"
Several statues of knights made out of what looked like emeralds formed out of thin air before charging at Samus. The swords made several slashes in her armor, however, the best they made were a couple of dents. Samus launched her charge shot at Moon, who used Saphria to slice the large projectile in half. The ball of light shot split and shot past him into an opposite wall. Moon felt his hand sparking and decided there was no better time.
"PK Rollin!"
Several multi-colored beams of light shot from his hand knocking Samus into the wall near Sarah and Paula. However, she didn't get back up, it looked like she had been knocked unconscious. Moon let out a sigh of relief before he heard something that made him flinch.
"FALCO!"
"Shit." he said to himself. In his desperate attempt to get rid of Samus, he had left himself open to Captain Falcon's attack.
"Now!" A third shouted, this one was a deep manly voice that Moon recognized. He heard a small click and an explosion went off near him and Captain Falcon. Knocking them towards Sarah and Paula.
Moon heaved himself up and used Lifeup to heal himself, then Sarah and Paula. They turned to face a man with brown hair and growing a mustache and beard. He wore a gray tight suit with a black harness equipped with what looked like a rocket launcher and several other guns. He wore a belt with grenades and C4's attached to it.
"Fighter number 30." he said to Sarah and Paula. "The Legendary Mercenary himself, David Snake. Or as he prefers to go by, Solid Snake.
"Wait...why isn't he under corruption?" Sarah asked.
"Meta Knight said that some of the heroes attempted to resist the corruption beam, leaving the corruption unable to affect them." Moon said. "Snake doesn't have purity, but he had the guts to overpower the corruption that the villains were using."
"I don't understand half of the shit that just came out of your mouth kid." Snake growled. "But, I'm assuming that you're the good guys huh?" the three of them nodded. "Good, No need for introductions, you're Paula Polestar, Moon Wolfe, and Sarah Wolfe." All of them raised an eyebrow at his knowledge.
"Yeah I know who you kids are." Snake growled. "I took the liberty to scout you all out before determining you were good, it's what I do best."
"Where did you even come from?" Paula asked.
Snake pointed across the room, the three of them could see an overturned cardboard box on the ground.
"How did none of us see that?" Sarah asked.
"Who cares." Moon muttered. "Let's just fix Samus and Captain Falcon and get the hell out of here...good thing we ran into you Snake, would've left you here otherwise."
Moon and Sarah moved to either side of Samus and placed their hands on her power suit. They shivered as the cold corruption entered their bodies and spread throughout them. Suddenly, they were both thrown into a voided landscape.
"Ah shit, here we go again." Sarah groaned.
In a flash of black light, two figures similar to the two of them appeared in front of them. Moon's wore a black hoodie and hat while Sarah's wore a black dress and ribbon. Both of their skin and hair was a shadow color and their eyes were blood red. Both also had evil grins on their faces.
"Been a while, hasn't it?" Dark Moon hissed at them. "Now look at what you're doing! This is just pure heaven!"
"What the fuck do you two want?" Moon asked. Dark Sarah approached him and grabbed his hand.
"Just wanting to pay our sweeties a little visit...that's all." She said innocently. Sarah shoved her off of him.
"No...you want something." Sarah snapped at them. "Spit it out."
"Well, we're back, obviously." Dark Moon hissed. "Though, you did know that from the beginning, you did an amazing job at halting us from growing stronger for those sixth months, all cooped up in that little house with Astro, paying visits to Ness and Paula to make false memories of happiness. Admit it though, those are lies, you two envy the two of them, because you know that you shouldn't have this seeing your family makes you hurt...but it allows the two of you to grow closer."
"Honestly, what were the two of you even thinking?" Dark Sarah giggled as she flipped herself upside down and circled the two of them. "You two know that the hidden truth will only make you mad, which will put us in more power. You two could've stayed back home, you didn't have to use the tickets, but you did, and why did you do it?"
"Because we don't have any other choice." Moon snapped. "Someone did something, we aren't going to let them get away with this!"
"But yet, at the same time, you're making the situation more dangerous." Dark Moon hissed. "I mean, you both are going to walk right into a disaster. You both know that only a select few will agree with you...and what are you going to do with them? You're going to use them to just get away with all that you do! You're no better than us!"
Dark Sarah stopped in front of the both of them, but didn't flip herself right back up. "Seriously, do you two HONESTLY think you'll be able to call yourselves heroes after pulling this stunt? You two are going to violate so much, and for what, exactly?"
Moon quickly looked at Sarah, he could see the look of fear and doubt in her eyes.
"We're doing the right thing." he snapped at them. "Stop trying to pry into Sarah's mind, it doesn't matter what anyone thinks, Erick, Giovanna, Dyson, and Petra all agreed that this was for the better. Pretty soon, Ness, Paula, and Lucas will feel the same. These stupid ass heroes kicked us to the curb and tried to rid themselves of us. What's worse, one of them is hiding something...actually...a lot of them are hiding something. If stooping to your level is what it takes to stop them...then that's exactly what we're going to do!"
"Oh believe me." Dark Moon hissed. "You're going to stoop to levels so low, you'd have to start counting in negatives. The destined ten that you're going to use to further your actions may still be on your side, along with Ness, Paula, and Lucas...but to everyone else? You'll still be monsters...and...as you slowly learn more about yourselves, you'll grow angrier, and as you continue to free competitors from the absurd levels of corruption that they've allowed to spread through themselves, you'll get weaker and sicker, pretty soon, you'll both snap like twigs."
"I believe we've overstayed our visit." Dark Sarah giggled. "Now, BEGONE THOTS!" Moon and Sarah felt themselves get flung upwards.
They blinked back into existence, their hands on Captain Falcon instead of Samus. They both withdrew their hands and back off a little.
"You two okay?" Paula asked, they both nodded in response.
Samus' mask had been removed and they could see her face and head. Captain Falcon rose a moment later holding his own head.
"What the hell happened." he grunted.
"Long story short, villains captured you and all the competitors and placed you under a special effect that turned you evil. You were rescued by us, we're helping rescue the competitors from the villains. My name is Sarah, this is Moon, and that's Paula, we also ran into Snake as well. Now, can you grab onto Moon so we can get you all back to Skyworld?"
"Uh...sure." Samus said. The five of them all grabbed onto Moon and they vanished from the building in a flash of pink light.
(Subspace, Great Maze)
Ridley, Blood Falcon, and Dark Samus all walked back into the conjoined room between the members of the Rogue Alliance. The other members all looked over at them, except for Pokey, who was still tinkering with some Alien tech.
"Alright you fools, listen up!" Ridley snarled, grabbing Pokey's attention. "We're in a technical alliance with three kids who are trying to rescue the Super Smash Brothers. They've agreed to pay no attention to our plans to overthrow Tabuuto and take over the Multiverse, so long as we stay out of our way."
"You spent a full hour talking to that stupid hoodie wearing boy? Just so could make us work with the heroes?" Blood Falcon snarled.
"Listen," Ridley snarled. "I only did it as a just in case. This plan backfiring is unlikely, but I'm not going to take any risks. That boy and the girl in purple, they're more powerful than all of us, so keeping them out of our hair and being safe from charges in the event this backfires is a big bargain. If you see either of them with a competitor or a girl in a pink dress and red ribbon. You are not to attack them. They're from the Giegue Cluster, so Pokey, can you identify them?"
Pokey felt himself freeze. Hoodie wearing boy? Two girls in pink and purple with red and blue? They wouldn't actually? He formed an evil grin as something came to him.
"Oh, I know them." he said evilly. "And I think you'll be quite interested in them Ridley."
(Skyworld)
Moon, Sarah, Paula, Snake, Samus, and Captain Falcon all appeared inside of the temple. They were immediately swarmed by the other rescued survivors. King Dedede was also there.
"Tabuuto requested that I come and make sure that Meta Knight came to Skyworld, I'm on duty here for now...hope that's okay." the penguin said.
"It is good to see that Samus and Captain Falcon are okay." Meta Knight said. "And you found Snake as well...the villains lost touch with him pretty early so we weren't expecting to find him for a while."
While everyone took the time to catch up and talk Moon quickly took notice to Zelda, who stood particularly far away from him and Sarah. He knew what was bothering her, he had expected her to use the Triforce of Wisdom at some point, so it was probably best to do it now. However, before he could even call her over she slowly approached them.
"Um...Moon." she said nervously. "There's uh...there's something I want to ask you."
He could've just answered her question. But if he answered like that, well, there would be a problem. So he decided to just play dumb.
"If it is about Link princess, don't worry, I think rescuing him tomorrow is a safe move."
"Um...No...that's not what I wanted to ask you."
All eyes were now on Zelda. Sarah, who was still standing next to Moon gave him a look of worry. He just turned his head to her and nodded slightly.
"Zelda, what has come over you? You've been relatively quiet today...I've never seen you like this...are you okay?"
"I'm fine Mewtwo." Zelda said shakily, she took a deep breath before saying. "Moon, Sarah...please be honest with me...Is it true that you two are the Children of Giygas?"
That's all for today's chapter, I hope you enjoyed it. We'll see one more chapter at the start of Winter break, but most likely no chapter the week after, plans for a family vacation are up in the air currently.
Ridley is an...interesting character for this fanfic, I had to rewrite the lore of some games to better fit the story, F-Zero is one example as you'll see in next chapter. I've built Ridley to be a major character, but for now, his relationship and character traits towards Moon are designed to be the way they are, more of a...mutual respect for each other. Ridley is canonically supremely intelligent, despite looking like a mindless killer. That's something that you don't see very often, and I wanted to put that to use here. If you've caught on to Moon's character so far, I think you can see why Ridley made that deal.
I'm interested to hear thoughts on how I've characterized him, as I did hype up Ridley in Bound By Earth and he's the character I'm most excited to write for. Also, it has been confirmed that people in the F-Zero franchise do have guns, and with Joker and Bayonetta being around, I didn't see any reason not to give Blood Falcon one. Anyway, that's all for now, I'll see you all next chapter.