Author's Notes: I usually save this for after the Chapter but this chapter is a bit different. If you do intend to Read PhoenixClaw's Bound By Our Desires, a Spoiler waring is in issue, I communicated with Phoenix to fit Joker as close to his BBOD incarnation as I possibly could alongside maybe including some other stuff that may or may not show up then. Just so you all know...Spoiler is again in warning.

Chapter 6: Worlds Collide

"So...what are we going to do with...well...this?" Sarah asked.

"Well...since he is from our cluster...he has a natural resistance to corruption...being...please excuse my absurdity and awareness to the multiverse theory...technically our son. He'll have an even stronger resistance to corruption...or maybe not...Willow didn't have a dark side...and Nightmare Sapphire was just...a creation...not the corrupt soul that we had."

"Wait a second...I thought we were supposed to know nothing about them."

"We're also the same people who destroyed our own story's fourth wall, rewrote our entire canon AND got it tangled up in whatever the fuck this is supposed to be...at this point, I think we qualify as a blatant rip off of Deadpool."

"You aren't helping our case when you do that."

Joker suddenly started coughing as he his eyes shot open. He stood up, a little shaky and rubbed his head slowly.

"Great," the boy muttered. "That was a total bust...I've never seen so much negativity traveling to one place...well I guess it's back to…" he noticed Moon and Sarah looking at him. His eyes widened in shock before he pulled his gun out and pointed it at the two of them.

"It's...you two…" he said. "You're Moon and Sarah...the children of Giygas...correct?"

"You'd be correct Akira." Moon responded. "Now...do us all a favor and put your gun down."

The boy gave a reluctant nod before lowering the pistol. "I see what my father meant." Joker continued, looking at the two of them. "You two look just like him and my mother when they were younger."

"How...do you know who we are?" Sarah asked curiously.

"My father and mother told me a story during my last adventure...about an awkward moment near the end of their adventure to defeat Giygas. They told me that you two just appeared, told me all about the encounter."

"Out of curiosity, how'd things work out for your father?" Moon asked.

"Oh, my father became a professional baseball player, mother started running a preschool, Aunt Tracey became head of police after…" he noticed Moon defeated look.

"You know...my father remembered what you told him though." he said with sympathy, "About how not all heroes get a happy ending. That was something he told me all the time. He always said that I shouldn't expect the universe to bend over backwards to make things work out for me in the end...honestly, it never made much sense to me...now that I'm meeting you after everything that happened...I think I understand why."

"I don't think you could ever understand what happened and why I say what I say." Moon said.

"Both of your hearts beat slowly, almost like they're barely hanging onto your own life, yet, you both remain almost perfectly healthy. Against your will, Darkness and Evil energy attracts to you, slowly you both deteriorate into a state many would consider insanity. Corruption plagues the two of you, yet, your pure hearts counteract that. You two are in an ever going battle against darkness...I saw that when I tried to purify your heart...nothing would stop darkness and negativity from flowing to you...I went through a similar thing when father died."

"Wait...Sapphire...is dead?"

Akira frowned. "Yeah...I'm...still not willing to talk about it."

Moon shifted uncomfortably. So much for visiting Sapphire after this was all over...sure, he had one interaction with the boy in Sapphire's homeworld twenty three years ago according to Joker. But, then again, he had prayed to save him and his friends.

"How's uh...How's Willow been taking it?"

"She's...been alright." Joker said. "It was not easy for us to take that in."

"I'm sure Sapphire did a good job raising you."

"Yeah, Father was certainly much wiser...him and the rest of his chosen four actually took the liberty to learn about your vaguely mentioned corruption...Turns out Anthony got his hands on some corrupt DNA throughout their adventure...he made a whole secret study on it. I found that out when I visited him one day."

"You need to tell him to destroy anything he has that's corrupt." Sarah said quickly. "Toying with corruption is dangerous...even if it is for scientific purposes...you've seen what happened to the rest of the Smash competitors."

"Don't worry about that...Noct forced him to destroy all of it." Joker responded. "He was the one most furious with your appearance...all your talk about how you mastered the dark forces of PSI was very concerning for him. In his older age, he's come to be more fascinated by you, doesn't mean he doesn't worry though, he nearly went ballistic when he found out that Anthony had been toying with your corruption."

"It figures...if he wanted to, I wouldn't mind showing him how I control the dark forces of PSI without being so...you know...evil."

"Well...I wanted to ask you a question. In more recent years, Noct told my father that he was lucky that you took your sword from my father's hand. If you hadn't they were going to attack you two...Noct reasons that the four of them would've never beat the two of you in a fight. Even if all of them weren't so exhausted from the horrors of Onett. He said something about how if the two of you truly mastered the dark forces of PSI, in the right hands, or as he said, your hands, you'd be unstoppable. My question is, when you were talking about killing my father, mother, Anthony, and Noct...you were joking...right?"

"I'd be lying if I said that I didn't consider fighting them. But the talk about killing them, while it was just a threat, it was definitely true."

"So...anyway." Sarah butted in. "Can you use PSI? Did you inherit any of it from your Sapphire and Willow."

"Yes, but I can't use it here." Joker said. "They asked that I utilize Arsene more than my PSI powers my PK Rebellion is nothing more than my father's Hope...why'd you ask?"

"No reason..." Sarah said with a hint of disappointment.

"Anyway, back on topic, my father and mother also both told me that if I ran into trouble at this tournament...and by some chance I ever ran into you guys...to just follow the leader...given all I've heard about you...I'm assuming you're the leader here or at bare minimum, you intend to be?"

"Um...so has your father told you about Nightmare?" Moon asked.

"A few times yes."

"Well...we have sort of the same problem...see, we're called the children of Giygas because we share a soul with him...the soul functions essentially the same as Nightmare did for your father, only Nightmare wasn't nearly as dangerous as they are. Unlike Nightmare, our souls try to spread, our bodies are the only thing keeping them from doing so, anything we touch leaves corruption on it. You're basically immune to it, coming from the Giegue Cluster and all...and because you're technically our son by the laws of the Multiverse...I'm assuming our dark sides can't hurt you. Other than that, I'll advise you to stay out of mine and Sarah's way...and...if it's all the same...don't question us."

"That's fine...so...what are we going to do now?"

"I'd take us back to Skyworld...but I have a feeling that Angelboy isn't too happy with us at the moment...So...we might as well go look for some other fighters...Akira...you good staying with us, or would you rather go back to Skyworld?"

"I'll stay with you and Sarah...I doubt you've been letting anyone other than Paula come with you out of fear of the villains discovering what is going on...so I'll remain with you."

"Alright...now that that's settled...who do we rescue now?" Moon asked. He pulled out the Demonrift and started flipping through it.

"What is that?" Joker asked curiously.

"It's just a little guide book written by Tabuu about all of the Super Smash Brothers, it gave us a good understanding of everyone's powers and accomplishments."

"It's quite...large." Joker replied. "There's only 85 of us here competing in tournaments...give or take."

"Well, it also has information on your homeworlds, it mentions other people of importance as well. It's kind of like a...encyclopedia almost."

"Let's see...I'll take a hard pass on anyone else from Basidiomycota." Moon muttered. "Except Luigi, he's alright I guess. I'm not really interested in the Gladio Cluster either. Palutena is out of the question. Sonic will just piss me off and lord knows Cloud Strife will just be another pain in the ass."

"You seem to refer to everyone else here as if they are nothing more than...your underlings." Joker muttered. "You appear to have very little respect for any of us...My father was right to refer to you as a bit of a bitchass."

"I have respect for some of you...like you for instance, alongside Samus, Douglas, Mewtwo, Bayonetta, Meta Knight, King Dedede, Snake, and Dark Pit...I am curious, do you know why I have respect for these individuals, because it's all the same reason for each of them...can you find a connection between all of you."

"If my inference is correct, would it be because we're the only ones here who's heroism is more of a...how do I put it...questionable?...I mean, I'm a vigilante, Samus, Falcon, Snake, and to some extent Bayonetta are all technically bounty hunters or mercenaries. Dark Pit, Meta Knight, and King Dedede are all Anti-heroes...and Mewtwo's past bears an odd similarity to the two of you...I'd assume that you see us as more...role models?"

"Sure...role models." Sarah said.

"Alright...back on topic...competitors." Moon said. "What's the closest Stadium to here Akira?"

"I think it's one of the Pokemon Stadiums." Joker replied.

"Alright...we're off to that one I guess...let's just pick up another Pokemon."

(Kalos League Stadium)

The three heroes slowly walked around a stadium. A glass pane ceiling hung above them showing a mural of what looked like a giant blue reindeer. Some chains hung down holding platforms above the stage as well several other rooms indicated by large doors with an emblem above each one.

"This place is based on The Kalos Region's Pokemon league." Moon said. "This is the home region of the Master of Stealth, the Pokemon Greninja. The Pokemon leagues in each of the currently known eight regions of the Animalium Cluster consists of Five very talented trainers. Four of them make up what's known as the elite four. These trainers are given their position by the Champion, who is the head of the region...sort of like a powerful president. Elite four members hold their positions until they retire or until a new champion takes over and decides to replace a few members. There's a catch however, elite four members will generally specialize in one type of Pokemon species."

"That sounds like quite a lot of work." Sarah said.

"I agree...but...I've always wondered." Joker added. "In the Animalium Cluster, as you're calling it, Pokemon and People exist as partners...According to various studies I've heard from Red, Pokemon wouldn't know what to do without trainers...they will generally act on a fight or flight, instead of developing actual fighting strategies...Legendary Pokemon like Mewtwo are the only exceptions, as they wish to keep their powers out of the hands of humans. So what are the Pokemon not owned by Red doing here?"

"According to Tabuu, some trainers can become very close to their Pokemon, allowing them to develop a connection so deep that the Pokemon can understand how to fight without its trainer to give it orders, it's likely that this is the case for all the other Pokemon that aren't owned by Red."

"Moon?" A voice suddenly called out his name. It sounded kind of low pitched almost like Mewtwo's, it wasn't a voice that he recognized off the top of his head.

"Did you guys hear something?" he asked. Joker and Sarah looked at him blankly.

"No...why?"

"Moon...get out...it's dangerous here...run!" the voice was genuine, almost like whoever was calling was basically begging for him to listen.

"Okay...I heard something...but it didn't sound like a voice calling your name." Sarah said.

"I'm telling you Genji, you too Scar! Moon and Sarah are here! I can sense it!"

"Seems like there are things here that know who we are, and can sense that we're here." Moon said. "The person speaking is addressing his buddies by Genji and Scar."

"I don't give a shit what you think Scar! I know their auras! It's them! We need to find them and get them to safety before Necrozma does!"

There was a sudden large smash from the glass pane ceiling above their heads. A streak of black shot past the three of them making a large whoosh before coming to a halt. In front of them, a creature that looked like it was made of shining black prisms levitated. The creature had two blood shot eyes, absolutely massive arms and small legs. There were several parts just sticking out with sharp pointed spikes at the end.

"What...what is that?" Sarah asked.

The creature glared the three of them down with its blood red eyes. It's facial expression seemed to be pretty pissed off at the sight of them.

"Moon and Sarah." a colder voice suddenly hissed. "You took everything from me!"

Akira's eyes darted towards the two of them. "We don't even know who the fuck you are!" Sarah said.

The creature's expression didn't take to kindly to this. The tips of its fingers started flashing brightly and multi-colored sparks erupted off them. After a moment of looking at them, it launched off several beams of light, similar to Moon's own PSI Rollin.

"PK Love!" Sarah shouted. Her own beams of light countered Necrozma's attack. Through the dust of light that followed after, a bunch of diamonds launched through, Moon quickly put up a shield, however, the constant striking of diamonds quickly broke through the shield. The diamonds cut his and Sarah's skin, Joker, however, sustained no injuries.

"Can you tap into your persona now?" Moon asked.

A bit of blue light surrounded Joker as his silver mask disappeared.

"Arsene!"

A tall creature with a tall red body and giant black wings as well as what looked like a shining top hat with red eyes appeared behind Joker.

"Petition to change the name to Satan?" Sarah asked.

"Arsene is supposedly based off the name of some character who's master thief and master of disguise written by some French novelist. He represents Akira's rebellious side...but I will admit that the similarities to Satan are quite uncanny. With Arsene around, Joker's attacks get a buff, and he can like...fly...or something."

Joker fired his gun at Necrozma. Blue flames surrounded the bullets fired from the weapon. The bullets more or less dinged into Necrozma and bounced off. Necrozma fired a blast of blue flames as well that Akira jumped over, using Arsene's wings to unleash a blast of wind to keep him above longer. Moon quickly grabbed onto Sarah and teleported her out of the way.

Necrozma unleashed a burst of energy knocking them all over, before launching another beam of light, blasting Moon across the stadium. Moon quickly jumped back up and launched his own PK Fire, blue flames attacked the creature, who was then struck by lightning by Sarah.

Necrozma dropped to the ground with a loud clunk. All of a sudden, bright white light surrounded the Pokemon on the ground. The Pokemon grew in size, growing another set of arms that were now shifting into more of a wing span. It's eyes were replaced by a multi-colored crystals. After another blast of light, the transformation of the Pokemon was complete.

"He just went Super Saiyan!"

A giant blast of light erupted from Necrozma's mouth blasting the three of them across the stadium and into a wall. The three of them fell to the ground and struggled to get themselves back up.

Moon felt himself growing weaker, slowly being drained from his existence. Dark Moon inched closer to taking control.

"Come on you fucking fool...Let me out!"

"Not...Not when Akira's around." Moon grunted at him. "Willow already lost Sapphire, I'm not going to be the one who says I killed her son."

"Why do you feel the need to prioritize yourself with these fucking fools? None of them will like you after they learn what you did! Yet you still find ways to piss me off...I think when I start picking my crops...I'll start with Zel-"

"YOU BITCH!" Moon roared.

"Max Aura!" The voice from earlier suddenly shouted.

A bipedal creature that was mostly a cobalt blue color with a bit of tan for its body with black tips for its paws and a black color for its ears and legs suddenly shot past the three of them. The creature also had red eyes and it had some weird dreadlock like hair pieces out of its head. The Pokemon shot above Ultra Necrozma and placed its paws together, A giant blue blast of light shot down, engulfing the creature entirely. After a couple of seconds, the light vanished.

"Now Genji!"

A blue bipedal frog jumped in front of them, it had black and red spiky stuff at the top of its head, behind it's back, there was a giant shuriken made of what looked like water. The ninja frog grabbed the shuriken and flung it at Ultra Necrozma. The attack caused a smoked effect to appear, the frog then charged at Necrozma with an incredible performance of speed, whipping out two blade looking objects made out of water, the creature jumped and made numerous quick slashes around Necrozma's body. The light around Necrozma started flashing as it reverted back to its original form.

"Scar, finish him!"

A bipedal tiger with red and black fur and yellow tinted eyes suddenly dashed from behind them, the creature grabbed onto Necrozma (despite a clear Bullshit difference in size!) and flung him across the stadium, a rope like wall suddenly appeared, bouncing Necrozma back at the tiger, who punched Necrozma upwards, before following it up with several pushed and pummels with its claws, before crossing its arms and slamming Necrozma into the ground.

The three now exhausted creatures turned back to Moon, Sarah, and Joker. The cobalt blue creature's dreadlock hair pieces had vanished, leaving two pointed ears at the top, it also had two spikes on the back of its paws and one in the center of its chest. Its paws were also surrounded by some sort of weird blue flame. The Frog's spiky hair had turned back into a tongue, which now surrounded the ninja frog's neck. In addition, the giant shuriken that was on its back had vanished and it was now crouched in a passive ninja stance.

"That's Lucario...Greninja...and Incineroar." Joker said to Sarah's confused facial expression.

The Lucario approached Moon and looked at him curiously.

"Moon? Can...Can you hear me...are you and Sarah okay?" the creature asked.

Moon blinked in shock, another Pokemon was talking to him.

"I wish I could understand what they're saying." Sarah said.

"Inciner...cineroar!"

"Grenin...ninja."

"It's Moon and Sarah...see...just like I told you." Lucario said.

Greninja had a sort of deadpan expression on its face. "Ninja...greninja."

"How the hell should I know? But it's Moon and Sarah...all auras are unique, this is Moon and Sarah...maybe the cluster has blocked our communication...I'll try again...Moon...it's us...Sapphire, Genji, and Scar, you know, your Pokemon."

"Hello Sapphire." Moon said, shocking Sarah and Joker. "But...I think you've got us confused with someone else...we aren't your trainers."

"Cineroar, Incin."

A sudden look of realization crossed the Lucario's, Sapphire's, face.

"All in favor of killing Sammy when we get home, raise your hand." His paw, Greninja's flipper, and Incineroar's paw flew up.

"What's going on here?" Sarah asked.

"Lucario and its pre-evolution Riolu, are gifted with a strange power called Aura." Moon said. "In the Animalium Cluster, Aura is a Lucario's way of judging a trainer's worth and potential, Lucarios are thought to only appear to trainers who have a matching aura to them. Aura also allows Lucario to communicate with humans who share an Aura to it. However, here in Smash, it turns Lucario into a fighting machine. The more damage he takes, the stronger he gets."

"Okay, but...how are you able to understand Sapphire?" Sarah asked.

"My best inference, in the Animalium Cluster, there's a version of you and I on an adventure. I must own this Lucario...which I apparently gave the nickname Sapphire. We also apparently own the Greninja and Incineroar, who we've named Genji and Scar. Perhaps Auras stay consistent between clusters and alterations throughout the Multiverse."

"Wait hold the phone." Akira said. "You mean to tell me that there exists another version of the two of you inside of another cluster, who just so happen to own these three Pokemon, who now have mistaken you for their actual trainers, and this Lucario ALSO just so happens to have been given the exact same name of my father...how the actual fuck does that happen?"

"You realize that your father also happens to exist in the Animalium cluster and he too has a Lucario nicknamed Cobalt and an Incineroar named Claws, there also happens to be another version of Willow, Anthony, and Noct who are doing who knows what elsewhere...so we could've just as easily ran into that Lucario and Incineroar instead."

Akira blinked in confusion as Arsene disappeared from behind him.

"Oh great!" Sapphire muttered. "This version of our trainer is Sammy in disguise!"

"I can still hear you you know?"

"Grenin...ninja!" Greninja croaked, pointing its flipper at Necrozma.

"So...Necrozma must be working with the villains." Moon said. "Why exactly would a Pokemon be working to destroy the Multiverse?"

"Necrozma's motives are quite clear cut." Sapphire barked. "It joined in the hopes of gaining strength to rid our Cluster of light...thankfully, we put a stop to it."

"Red once told me that there was no such thing as an evil Pokemon." Akira said. "He said that Pokemon will do bad things because their trainer was bad. I think Necrozma's previous owner must've been the head of one of the numerous evil organizations around the Animalium Cluster, it's likely that Villains are using him as a sort of...powerhouse enforcer...you know...someone who will get things done if its requested of them."

The prism Pokemon got up, shaking a bit. Sarah stepped up to the creature, who backed away in fear and placed her hand on its head.

"Hey...Necrozma." she said calmly. "We don't want to fight you...I can sense that deep inside of you...there's a part of you that knows that what you're doing is wrong...that bad person who had control over you before...they aren't here anymore...you're a free Pokemon once again...how about we send you home?"

The prism Pokemon looked into her eyes for a moment. She gave the creature a sweet smile.

"Necroz...crozma!" The creature got up and vanished through an orange wormhole that opened behind it."

"Wait...did we just let him go back to the villains?" Akira asked.

"No." Sapphire said. "Ultra Wormholes created by Pokemon like Necrozma allows them to cross clusters...Necrozma thanked Sarah for showing him the light...he apologized for his actions. Now, he's off in his own dimension, probably back in that Ultra Metropolis, waiting for another challenger to come and claim his strength."

"Alright...so...that's one less villain we have to worry about." Moon said. "My next question, how the hell are you guys not under corruption?"

"I think the Aura may have something to do with Sapphire being immune...since he'd be used to you...kind of in the similar way that you theorize that I can't be harmed by your dark sides." Akira whispered to him. "Aura is also by definition used for cleansing things in the Pokemon world...perhaps Sapphire used it to cleanse Genji and Scar."

"Alright...well...we might as well return to Skyworld now." Sarah said. "Everyone grab onto Moon and let's get the heck out of here."

(Skyworld)

The six appeared inside of the grand temple. Everyone's heads turned towards them, but Paula was the first to move over to them.

"You uh...You may want to…"

"YOU!" Pit flew out from behind everyone and landed in front of them. "What are you two doing here?" the angel demanded. "Lady Palutena gave you two clear orders to not come anywhere near this tournament."

"We recognized that Palutena had made a decision." Moon said coldly. "But given that it was a stupid ass decision, we elected to ignore it, Angelboy."

"Pit, knock it off." Zelda said. "We've told you enough...Moon and Sarah are helping us...it doesn't matter what Palutena's wishes were, we need their help."

"We don't need their help Zelda." Pit fired back. "We can handle this on our own."

"You've apparently been blinded by some sort of...what's the word...oh yeah...STUPIDITY!" Moon snapped at him. "It doesn't matter what your stupid ass Goddess mother figure told you, Sarah and I are going to help you."

"We don't need help from you monsters." Pit snapped at him. "We don-"

BANG!

Moon pulled out a gun and fired a bullet, shooting Pit in the middle of his chest. Everyone stared at him with wide eyes. After a moment of just utter silence. Moon took a deep breath.

"Thanks Akira." he said, tossing the gun back to Joker.

"When did you even steal my gun?"

"You all could learn a thing or two from darkness." Moon responded slyly.

"Kid you just SHOT him!" Captain Falcon said.

"I missed the part where I was supposed to care about that. He's fine, look." this was true, while there was a bullet hole in Pit's robes covering his chest, the Angel just stood there in silence.

"Moon...you can't just go around shooting people...that's not how we do things here." Meta Knight said calmly.

"Maybe it's not how you all are used to doing things." Sarah said bitterly.

Pit shook himself back to reality. "You jus-"

Moon teleported over to him, grabbed him, and vanished in a flash of orange light. He and the angel appeared in an empty voided area.

"Perhaps me shooting you blank in the chest didn't make myself very clear Angelboy." he gritted. "Your bitchy ass goddess isn't here to protect you."

"See, this is exactly what Lady Palutena warned me about." the angel fired back. "You aren't a hero, you're just a monster! Someone looking too-" Pit was lifted up off the ground and flung into a wall. When he made a struggling motion to get up, Moon put Saphria up to Pit's chest.

"That goddess of yours is a hypocritical bitch. I could tell you things that would horrify you Angelboy. I hold power that you couldn't even begin to comprehend. As it stands, I'm in charge, I've taken Palutena's place legally...and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. I hold all the power that your goddess entrusted in her meaningless biased rules of corruption. There's going to be a shit ton of changes now that I'm in charge...so how about you do the right thing...and shut the fuck up. Do not fuck around with me Angel, you won't like it when I'm mad."

Pit gave a terrified nod and the two vanished in a flash of orange light, completely unaware that Ridley had been watching them. When they had vanished, he formed an evil smirk.

"Well...Pokey was right." the Dragon snarled. "Those two kids may be exactly what I was looking for...best part is...the way they're going now...I don't even have to do shit to get their dark sides in control...the idiot heroes will do it for me."

So, this chapter may seem to break literally every rule of existence that usual writers follow. However, I included it to be a sort of a reference as to how Smash is comprised of several videogames. Going into this story, I wanted to use characters from different stories to be around in this one. It was this reason alone that I decided to throw in three Pokemon from my Pokemon fanfic, A Galactic Alolan Journey. I wrote the Pokemon fanfic initally as my first ever fanfic before switching it over to a very poor fanmade Earthbound Story that was followed up by reboot retelling to fix all the problems I created. Midway through Bound By Earth, I dug up AGAJ and edited it for publishing, Sapphire, the Lucario, was a name I had given to Riolu long before ever becoming friends with Phoenix, and I never bothered to change it. But I threw in a nice little referece to his own Pokemon story, A New Dawn and World's Apart.

Anyway, sorry for spoilers on BBOD, and I know Necrozma might've shown a bit of dissapointment for some of you, but given how AGAJ is currently going, I may need Necrozma for later. Regardless though, Samus, Captain Falcon, Blood Falcon, Dark Samus, and Ridley have all been hinted to have their own backstories going on, initally, I intended for an F-Zero/Metroid crossover fanfic that would've played up to this, however, the idea fell through the cracks and was scrapped, but I've included a basis of what it was supposed to be.

Oh, and Moon's interaction with Pit...well...expect a lot more of these for a few characters...after all, like Akira said, not everyone in this universe is going to bend over backwards for Moon and Sarah. Seems like Moon may have some other stuff going on with Zelda as well...hmm...I wonder where this is going?

Anyway, Leave a review letting me know what you think...I'll see you all next time.