Chapter 7: Mushroomia's Very Worst
Moon and Pit reappeared inside of the main hall of Palutena's temple. Everyone was still there waiting. Samus, Falcon, and Snake all made movements to separate the two of them.
"Alright kid," Samus growled. "We get that you've got an issue with the Angel, but you can't just go out and do who knows what to him."
"We reached an understanding." Moon muttered. "Right Angelboy?" All heads turned towards Pit, who looked at Moon with a mixture of anger and worry. The Angel eventually gave a rather reluctant nod.
Moon let out an irritated sigh. "Good, no reason to continue anything, you all can go rest for the night, I'm not sure who to go after tomorrow. Maybe I'll flip a coin or something."
Most of them left the room, the only ones who didn't were Sarah and Zelda, Zelda cautiously approached the two of them. Up close, she noted that they both looked incredibly pale, they almost looked like ghosts.
"Um...Moon?" she asked nervously. "Could I uh...talk to you about…"
"Princess, with all do respect." Moon replied before she could finish. "You should understand that you shouldn't object to me." The boy started coughing for a bit before throwing up what looked like blood. "Sorry about that...a lot of corruption coming back in, it's taking a bit longer to settle down."
"Moon...you shot Pit...and then you teleported the two of you out of here...sure he didn't come back in greater damage...I know you didn't do anything wrong...but you have healing powers, others may not be as thoughtful as I am...and Palutena already doesn't like you...when Pit inevitably tells her what you did...there's going to be backlash from her when she's back in power."
"The way Palutena ran things here was incredibly messy. We aren't worried about any backlash." Sarah replied to Zelda. "Currently, as it stands, Moon has complete control over everything, there is no council to vote on decisions. That is what you, your husband, Mewtwo, and everyone else that was a part of the secondary council agreed to."
"Yes I understand that." Zelda replied. "I know that you two are good people...I can see it in the two of you...it's just that...you two could try to be a bit...kinder to others."
Sarah glanced over at Moon, who had yet another dazed expression in his eyes. He quickly blinked back into existence before saying.
"Princess, do you want to know why stuff like what Palutena runs doesn't work as well as it should?" he asked.
Zelda blinked in confusion before nodding her head curiously.
"A place where people make decisions with someone who heads power just doesn't work. It gets messy as stuff like blackmail, favors, bribes and other things start to come into play. I'm not saying that its bad, in fact, the way Palutena ran this Multiverse does work well for the benefit of others. The issue, is that someone with the power to carry out council decisions looms the surface in control, if said person doesn't like what the council agrees to, they'll just do it regardless of what the council thinks."
Zelda's eyes widened.
"That...that can't be true." she stammered. "We're all heroes, no one would do something like that! That's just...just wrong! What sort of hero sits by and let's systems of power that are supposed to be good for residents fall into chaos?"
"I'm guessing she's never been to the Basidiomycota Cluster." Sarah whispered to Moon.
Moon looked Zelda in the eyes, he could see that she was terrified. Not much of a surprise to him though, considering that the majority of the original council was blind to stuff like this, Link would've never had a reason to tell her something like that.
"C-Could you...tell me why someone would do something like that?"
"Princess, if it's all the same to you, some things are better left unsaid." he said slowly. "Sarah and I will put things back together, you can trust that the Multiverse is safe in my hands. We're not like most heroes."
"But you aren't monsters." Zelda replied, "Neither of you are."
Sarah glanced nervously at Moon, who nodded. She turned to face Zelda with a nervous look on her face. "Um Zelda...what you saw Moon do to Pit...that was his temper near its peak...if he hadn't teleported Pit out of their to release the rest of his anger out by...I'm hoping just shouting at him, he would've reverted into his...evil side...we call them Dark Moon and Dark Sarah respectively. If that had happened...well." her voice trailed off.
"What could've happened?" Zelda asked.
Both kids shifted uncomfortably. After an awkward moment of silence, Moon spoke up.
"We...usually don't wish to share that information." he said hesitantly. "So...bear in mind that you'll have to keep this a secret. But...basically put it, we have no idea how bad things could've gotten. Our dark sides are pure entities of evil, they do things for the benefit of themselves. Generally, Dark Sarah is more wild and crazy...however, since Sarah was raised...let's just say, in a good way. Her dark side has had a hard time maturing."
"And yours?" Zelda asked.
"Dark Moon...could uh...end all of you."
Zelda looked at him with a hint of distrust. "As a royal, I understand that there are reasons to keep power. You need order. To get order...it's not uncommon to insert fear through lies." She noted that Moon clenched his hands into more of fists as they started shaking.
"Princess...I swear to you...this is far from a fear tactic." he said with a hint of irritation. "This isn't just something I made up...it's a serious problem."
Zelda continued to look at him with doubt. Moon's face fell into an awkward sort of sad expression. Almost like he was considering telling her something. After a tense moment of silence he sighed.
"Princess...give me your hand."
"But the corruption…"
"I can hold it off for a decent period of time...just give me your hand and clear your thoughts."
The princess of Hyrule nodded nervously and outstretched her hand. When he placed his hand in hers she found herself in a completely different place.
The landscape of the area was relatively flat, she was in a forest near a cherry blossom tree in the center of a small island in the middle of a lake, curiously, she looked around. After a couple moments she heard voices coming from across the lake.
"Moon? MOON!" A voice of a female who certainly was not Sarah shouted. "MOON STOP!"
She finally saw Moon, alongside a girl with curly, flaming red hair. The girl wore an olive green sweater and a white skirt. Zelda walked over to the two of them, when she finally reached them her eyes widened in horror. Moon looked completely different, his skin was a shadowy color, his eyes were blood red, and his clothing was all black. That wasn't the worst part though, dead animals laid on the ground around him. There were rabbits with their heads severed, guts hanging out, eyes bleeding out, and some alive ones with either their ears or legs cut off. The red haired color was looking at who she could now assume was Dark Moon in horror.
"Moon! STOP IT!" the girl shouted. "What the hell are you doing?"
"You were the one who asked what I liked doing." Dark Moon hissed at her. A black and white spotted bunny was lifted into the air telekinetically. "Why spend so much time lollygagging around the fucking world without showing what you can truly do. His stare intensified as the rabbit suddenly was squeezed together before it was basically crushed by a force, bones fell to the ground and blood splattered everywhere.
The girl looked at him in fear. "M-M-Moon...st-stop!" she cried. "You need to stop! This isn't right! STOP MOON!"
Dark Moon turned to face the girl. "What if I did it to you?" he hissed. "I already hold power. As Moon slowly grows older and starts to face more of his special task...I'll grow even stronger! I'll be so strong that no one could take me down!" He then turned and looked at Zelda with a devilish smile on his face. "No one can stop me." he snarled.
Zelda blinked back into the temple she was standing in. Her first instinct was to just back away from them. She did, and she ended up tripping over her feet. Moon walked over to her and gave her a hand up. She stood up, her face was a little pale and she had her eyes wide in horror.
"W-Was what I just saw...was that real?" she asked.
"It was a memory." Moon responded with a hint of worry. "What you just saw did actually happen." He looked down at his feet. "Princess...I'm sorry...but what I've said is true."
Zelda placed a hand on his shoulder, she felt a burning stinging pain on her body, but it was small, almost not even noticeable. "Hey." she said kindly. "Ness says you're a good hearted person. You yourself say you're looking for ways to improve the Multiverse...I may not understand what's wrong with it...but it's clearly something that I'm better off not knowing...I don't think you're a monster...or a danger to anyone."
Moon gave off his dazed expression again before saying. "Thank you, princess." Zelda said goodnight to him and left the room. The moment she left Dark Pit landed on the ground from in front of him and Sarah.
"Hey," he said. "I know that we've got the whole...alliance thing...going on." he said. "But, rescuing Pit wasn't the greatest idea. He may be frozen by your actions currently. But it won't take him long to recover...then he's going to start demanding you go rescue Palutena. If you don't rescue her soon, he'll go try and do it himself, which would, you know, reveal our plans to villains. But if you rescue her well...your whole operation shuts down...do you have ANY damn evidence that we can use?"
"The best we've got is that she lied about the reasons Mewtwo and the Ice Climbers couldn't compete." Sarah replied.
Dark Pit frowned. "That's far from enough." he said. "Are you sure there's nothing else?"
"Not yet, but that's all we've got so far."
"Alright then, I'll tell Viridi, and we'll try to keep Pit under control so that another incident like that doesn't happen again.."
"Don't actually." Moon said. "Let Angelboy figure out how things work now that I'm in control on his own. He's been carried pretty much all throughout his existence, so it'll be a new experience for him."
"Kid, the more you continue to explode at Pit, or any other smash competitor is going to raise red flags. I know that all your actions are for the better of everyone. You don't strike me as the type of person who'd do a lot of good and then throw what we know about you out with an anger outburst. Every action you're making is for the better...right?"
"Of course." Moon replied.
"Well, alright then." Dark Pit replied. "You two better think of something though, no telling how long Pit's patience will last." The Angel flew out of the hall, leaving them both alone in the hall.
"Alright, back to looking for crap." Moon hissed. "Tomorrow, I guess we'll go look for someone else...I guess we might as well humor ourselves and rescue Robin."
"Moon." Sarah asked. "It uh...It just occurred to me...we still don't have anyone who's really...well...corrupt...I mean, Pit is most likely oblivious to Palutena's actions. But we don't have heroes that could help support our case."
Moon let out an irritated sigh. "Fine, Mario it is." he muttered.
"Mario? The Mario? Corrupt?" The two turned to see Akira behind them as he approached them.
Sarah shrugged. "Mario's world isn't exactly the greatest in the world. It's probably one of the most corrupt places of peace that we've ever seen."
"Where's your evidence to back that up?"
"Glad you asked." Moon said. He pulled out the Demonrift and flipped through it. "Fighter number 01, Mr. Video Game himself, Mario Mario. Mario is a 5' 4'' sightly obose plumber who was the once-humble savior of the Mushroom Kingdom. While he still is its savior, he is now an incredibly arrogant man who would do anything for…pasta. Fame as well, but mostly pasta. What makes him so strong is his ability to use "power-ups", rare items that can only be used by a select few people to do magical acts like pyrokinesis. The only exception is the super mushroom, which Mario himself has publicly claimed (and lied) that it can only be used by a few people. At this point, he has arguably become as arrogant, if not more than, his morbidly obese cousin. He grows richer as the Mushroom Kingdom he once saved and loved is now slipping into total poverty. He also apparently is a Doctor...but he doesn't have a Doctorate...in fact all he does is shove pills down his patients' throats."
Akira lifted a finger before silently closing his mouth. He pondered on a thought for a moment before saying. "That's not...correct."
"I'll let you be the judge of that tomorrow." Moon replied.
"What is it with the two of you?" he asked. "I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. You have put yourselves into a position where both of you may as well just kiss your existence goodbye. You are poking at things that may not be true. Messing with things that you don't even understand! What the actual hell do you hope to accomplish with what you're doing?"
"Would you believe us if we told you that we've already essentially done what we hoped to accomplish?" Sarah asked.
"Not really."
"Well we have." Moon replied. "What we're doing now is just making sure we protect our home."
"Your home?" Akira asked.
"Our home, your home, Ness, Lucas, and Paula's home...our entire Cluster." Moon replied.
A sudden look of realization crossed Akira's face. "What exactly does our specific cluster need protection from?"
"Remember how I told your father that not all heroes get a happy ending?" Moon asked.
"Yeah but they never really pieced together what you meant by that."
Moon and Sarah looked at each other uncomfortably. "Well...let's show you." Sarah said. The three of them then vanished in a flash of orange light.
(Giegue Cluster; Dark Sanctuary)
The three reappeared in a ruined landscape. Akira quickly let out a horrified gasp as he looked around. The air reaked a smokey smell, the sky was dark orange, and there was no sign of nature anywhere. Buildings were on fire, destroyed, collapsed or just about looking like anything other than actual buildings. There were skeltal corpses everywhere. Some were still human corpses with pale rotting skin.
"We can't stay here too long." Moon said. "The absurd levels of destruction and fires caused by Pokey have completely ruined the atmosphere here."
"My father said that the Pokey of our world fled." Akira replied. "I'm guessing yours did not?"
"Moon killed our Pokey." Sarah said. "The problem is, someone with high authority manipulated reality to help Ness' world's Pokey to destroy our world. On top of that, reality was manipulated three times in our world, which is illegal by the Multiverse's rules. In our original timeline, Moon and I were supposed to go to Giygas, our PSI powers would become unstable and he'd be killed...I would've died in the process and that would've led Moon to commit suicide in front of our friends, Erick and Dyson."
Akira seemed to bite down on his lip as he looked around. "Why...why would someone change that?" he asked. "Just to preserve your lives?"
"Not exactly." Moon said. "You see, according to Tabuu, Giygas' absurd corruption and power have led him to go further beyond, allowing him to gain the power to manipulate timelines without time travel. His corruption and instability in this timeline led him to give Sarah and I dark sides, which changed the timeline to an inevitable victory for him."
"Well then, it makes sense that someone would want to change it." Akira said.
"That's the thing." Moon responded,"You see, our world was illegally created with the knowledge that a timeline like this was unstable."
"Paula created your world." Akira replied. "You're telling me that she knew something like this, that Ness has been lying to the council."
"Nope," Sarah replied. "Paula made a wish to know what would've happened if she confessed her feelings to Ness early. Paula doesn't have the power to create worlds, only divine entities can create worlds...which means that someone found Paula's wish, and created our world, whether that person knew that was illegal is one thing, but when created, a world will show how stable it's timeline will be to said creator, meaning that they knew how unstable this world would be, and they paid no attention to it. Not only that, but they then tipped off the council to try and frame Paula for our world's creation." if it was at all possible for Akira's eyes to get bigger, they did.
"Well...Tabuu must've created you then." Akira said quickly. "Palutena said that he was working with Giygas, after Giygas' downfall in both my world, and Ness' world, it's only natural that he would create an illegal world to help Giygas win."
Moon raised an eyebrow at that. "Really?" he asked. "You think that Tabuu created us?"
"Possibly." Akira said, shrugging slightly. The seventeen year old suddenly began coughing and hacking unnaturally. Moon and Sarah quickly grabbed onto him and they cluster warped back to Palutena's temple.
Akira shook himself back to reality and took heavy deep breaths. Moon then motioned for him to follow him and Sarah. They led him into a room with a large circular table with a large holographic screen on the wall.
"This is Skyworld Central Control." Sarah said. "It's the information hub the Multiverse, it rivals the Triforce of Wisdom in knowledge."
Akira frowned. "Why are you showing me this?" he asked curiously.
"Let's just say that it's because we trust you." Moon said. "Eventually Akira, Sarah and I will come to a head with everyone. Our cluster has been knocked around one too many times. Someone in the council had to know about this and let it skate by. There are going to be two sides to this small outbreak, those that will support me and Sarah...and those that will support the old way. You will see things that will shock you. Hear things that may horrify you. But, throughout it Akira, I advise that you support me and Sarah. No matter how insane we may take things, you should understand better than anyone that the end justifies the means."
"Realpolitik." Akira replied. "That's a phrase I haven't heard in a long time."
"Let's get some rest." Sarah said. "I think we've done enough today."
(New Donk City)
Moon, Sarah, and Paula all walked around a massive city area. After waking up and stating the plan, they had warped here in the hopes of finding Mario. This was easier said than done however, as the city proved to be very large.
"This area is based on a location in the Basidiomycota cluster called New Donk City." Moon said. "This is a city Mario visited on his last adventure to rescue Princess Peach. He was collecting these very rare items called power moons to power a spaceship. It's a bit wacky and complicated, but you know, most stuff is."
"Hey is it just me...or did it get really dark all of a sudden?" Paula asked.
Sarah looked down, the three shadow overlays that they created had suddenly become one large circle of darkness that seemed to be expanding in size. She turned her attention back to Moon, who quickly drew Saphria out and held it up in the air. A large yellow body that would've slammed all of them suddenly fell onto the swords blade earning a large roar Moon then swung the sword down, slamming the massive turtle into the ground. The turtle had some flaming red hair and a green shell with massive white spikes. It had massive claws and sharp toe claws.
"Fighter number 14, the Koopa King, Bowser." Moon muttered as the turtle continued to growl in pain. "Like most villains, he's all muscle and no brain." The turtle got up, clutching onto his chest, huffing and puffing heavily.
"Who...who are you? Why are you here?" he asked.
"We're here to rescue Mario and whoever else you have here...unfortunately." Moon muttered. "Where are they?"
"You'll never find out from me," Bowser growled. "And you all are going down! KOOPALINGS!"
Eight smaller turtles of varying colors of pink, green, blue, and gray all swooped down next to him. The one that mirrored Bowser the closest carried a paintbrush while the rest carried wands. All of them were in some little machine with a stupid clown face on it.
"Those are the Koopalings." Sarah whispered to Paula. "They're somehow Bowser's children. They help invade the Mushroom Kingdom every other day. Bowser Jr, is the oldest and the heir to the Koopa throne, the rest are in order, Larry, Roy, Wendy, Lemmy, Iggy, Morton, and Ludwig Von Koopa. Each of them will are entitled to inherit smaller Kingdoms in the Koopa empire that Bowser has built."
"Get them for daddy!" Bowser roared.
The clown cars suddenly turned all sorts of gadgets around, drills, iron balls, a cannon, forks, and other sorts of weapons.
"PK Fire!" Paula and Sarah shouted.
A blast of Fire erupted off their hands blasting Morton and Ludwig into a building. The other Koopalings then charged at the three of them. It didn't take long for the three of them to realize that this fight was simply a cover fire. Everytime one of them dodge one of the Koopalings attacks, another would just hit them with a different one.
Wendy fired a wave of light from her wand which sent Sarah into a bit of a drowsy state before Ludwig hit her with clown car iron balls. Moon responded with a quick initiated dancing blade style he had picked up from the numerous fire emblem characters. The blade sliced through the clown car and caused Ludwig to eject from it. Remembering what the Demonrift had said, he put up a shield, the blast of the following explosion burst backwards knocking Iggy and Lemmy off of their pursuit on Paula.
Moon then felt a very powerful kick on his back, the kick felt like he had been hit by a speeding truck as it slammed him against a tall city buildings. He motioned to use Lifeup after a terrible blow into the concrete. As he looked from his position he saw Sarah get blasted by a burst of magic from Morton after being hit by a Cannonball from Roy and a Drill smash from Larry. He saw the shadow of Bowser over take him.
"Foolish boy." Bowser snarled. "You thought you could save the heroes? Bah! You all could never stop us. You're little girlfriends are going down. What makes you think you could beat us." Moon had enough at this point. His eyes flashed red. His clothing turned black. His skin and hair became more of a shadowy color.
Bowser readied himself for a body slam onto him. Dark Moon quickly teleported out of the way he landed on top of Bowser's spiky shell and jabbed Saphria through it. Bowser let our another roar and made a motion to stand up. Dark Moon jumped off him and telekinetically lifted him into the air with ease.
"Fool!" Dark Moon snarled at the Koopa Monarch, he moved his attention towards another building. Bowser was slammed into the building, sending it crumbling to the ground on top of him. The Koopa King threw some rubble off of him before breathing a large amount of fire from his mouth.
"PK Hydro!" A blast of water extinguished his fire breath and blasted him back into the rubble. He was then lifted back up into the air. "You think you're so tough?" Dark Moon snarled. He slashed Saphria through the turtle's tail, a giant gash went through it and blood started pouring out. Instead of letting out a roar of rage, the dragon turtle let out a painful cry.
"Daddy!" Bowser Jr. shouted.
"Junior, stay back!" Bowser shouted. "All of you stay back!" Dark Moon slammed the giant turtle into the ground creating a large hole in the center of the park. A giant blast of black and red light then blasted Bowser across the park and into a statue of Mario.
Paula looked at Sarah in worry. She just watched the whole thing without saying a word. Though, she wasn't afraid.
"Are...are you not going to say something?" she asked nervously.
Sarah looked at her sympathacily. "Paula...you need to understand...there are going to be times here with the Super Smash Brothers when Dark Moon being out is for the better. You can't expect us to hold in our frustration with all of them. Sometimes, it may just be better to let it all out on the villains. That way, the heroes don't have to worry about it."
"But...he's hurting him!" Paula cried. "I know that Bowser isn't exactly the nicest person out there...but...he has eight children? Who will care for them without their father?"
"I'm sure Petey Piranha will do a good job...speaking of which...where is that damn plant? She's usually with Bowser and the Koopalings? Plus...Bowser may be a muscle brain jock like most villains, however, if he truly cares about his children...he'll give up the location of everyone else."
Dark Moon telekinetically slammed Bowser back into the ground. Several bleeding areas leaked out of the dragon turtles body, his shell and spikes were dented and cracked, and it looked like he had lost a fang or two.
Bowser heaved himself up. He let out a cough and smoke ejected from his mouth. "Listen kid." he growled in pain as Dark Moon stalked up to him. "I'll...I'll do whatever you want...just...just please have some mercy...I have eight children."
"You want Mercy?!" Dark Moon hissed, slamming the Koopa king into the ground again.
"You want the location of the heroes." Bowser grunted, huffing and puffing. "You can find Mario, Peach, Luigi, and Daisy in the city hall of this town...I removed that weird corruption affect. I swear...I...gerr!" The large dragon turtle clutched his side where he had been slashed by Saphria.
Dark Moon blinked, then he shook his head. His skin reverted back to a light tan, his hair was back to blond. His eyes were back to blue, so was his hoodie and hat. "See, that wasn't so hard now...was it Bowser?" he asked. Bowser stood in front of him, wobbling back and forth, before falling to the ground with a heavy slam.
Moon turned around, ignoring the cries and whimpers of the Koopalings, he approached Sarah and Paula both of whom were looking at him with worry.
"Moon...you okay?" Paula asked.
"Yeah...let's just go find Mario and the others."
The trio made their way towards city hall. They arrived at the doorstep and pushed through the door. The second they did, they were met with a man around the age of 25, he wore a green undershirt and hat with blue overalls. His hat had an L on it and he had a neatly trimmed mustache and wore white gloves. Upon their entrance, the man jumped back in fear.
"Who are ah you?" the man asked with a nervous Italian accent.
"We're here to rescue you, your brother, and the princesses." Sarah replied. "You must be Luigi correct?"
"Oh ah yeah!" the man said, going slightly red. "Well, thank ah you for rescuing us. I was ah worried that Bowser wouldn't ah let anyone know...how did you ah get past him? I ah heard a bunch of explosions."
"Well, that's kind of a long story. Where are the others."
"Mario!" Luigi called. "There's ah couple of kids here to ah rescue us!" he turned back to the three of them. "We ah managed to ah track down Daisy and Peach. But ah...just kind ah go along with my brother."
"Go along with what?" Paula asked curiously.
A man slightly shorter than Luigi, but basically the same features with the exception of him wearing red with an M on it. He was followed by a woman in a hot pink dress with golden hair. Another princess in an orange dress with dark brown hair.
"Ah good, the backup I called for arrived." The man said.
"Oh Mario!" the woman in pink said lovingly, "You're so smart and chivalrous!"
"Backup...we didn't get a distress signal or anything." Paula whispered with a rather irritated tone.
"You see what we mean by not liking everyone here." Sarah whispered back. They looked back at Moon, only to see his face was in even more disgust than anything else.
"Let's just get you all back to Skyworld." he muttered. They all then vanished in a flash of pink light.
They reappeared back in the Grand Temple. They gathered themselves as Akira and Sapphire approached Moon and Sarah while everyone else approached Mario and Peach. Except for Genji, who was just hanging upside down with his flippers crossed as he watched over the area.
"Just so we're clear." Akira said slowly. "Sapphire and I were doing some 'Talking,' sort of, we may have our own problems to deal with, but you're an old family acquaintance, and you've done a lot to help us, I'll have your backs as much as the original council."
"Moon, we're partners back where I'm from...I feel obligated to offer my service to you...you won't have much luck from Genji or Scar. But the three of us will have your back...after all, we would like to get home to...well...you guys, Candy, Angel, and Fabby."
Moon nodded. "Thanks Sapphire, I'll make sure that you do get home to your friends. Akira, I'll make sure you get home to Willow and everyone else."
"Don't look now," Sarah groaned. "But here comes Mr. Famous."
Mario approached the four of them outstretching his hand. "Thank ah you again for ah coming to rescue us Moon." he said. "Now, allow me to ah present to you the plan."
Moon snorted. "Who said you got to be charge?" he asked. "I'm in charge."
Mario blinked in shock, almost like he was questioning what he heard. "What did you just ah say to me kid?" he asked furiously.
"He said you aren't in charge." Sarah snapped.
"Perhaps you are not aware of how we ah do things around here." the plumber snapped back. "If Palutena is ah not around to fulfill the duties of the council, the control is ah shifted over to her second in command."
"Who exactly would that be?" Sarah asked.
"It's ah me, Mario!" Mario snapped at her.
"Well, her second in command wasn't around for a decent portion of this nightmare for us." Moon snapped at him. "Which meant it was up to a brand new council to decide who was in charge. In a 10 to nothing vote, Zelda, Link, Mewtwo, Samus, Douglas, Bayonetta, Dark Pit, Meta Knight, King Dedede, and Snake all agreed that it should be me."
Mario's hand balled into a fist. "You are ah not capable of ah running the entirety of this operation. You are a child. You could not ah defeat me, let alone anyone else here in a fight."
Moon chuckled. "If that's what your arrogant ass wants to believe, then that's fine by me." he said rudely. "But, I'm in charge, and I sure as hell am not handing it over to your pathetic excuse of leadership."
By now, their little squabble had attracted the attention of everyone else. It didn't take a rocket scientist to see where this was going. Zelda cautiously approached Mario.
"Mario, as false as it may sound, it's true. Moon's more than capable of handling this."
"What ah makes you think we should ah put our trust in this child?" Mario snapped at her. "Zelda, you are supposed to be a wise and smart princess, even you should see that this ah complete stupidity!"
BANG!
Moon pulled out Akira's gun again and shot Mario in the chest. The Plumber stumbled back in surprise as everyone except Sarah, and Luigi, who looked genuinely thrilled considering that his brother had just been shot, stared at him with wide eyes again.
"Seriously?" Akira shouted at him. "Again with the gun?"
"Not my fault that this is the weakest attack here for some ungodly reason." Moon muttered, tossing the gun back over to him. "Anyway, you all turn in for the night, tomorrow, Sarah and I will go rescue Robin. Paula, you sit this one out." he turned around and began to walk away.
Mario charged at him with his fist lighting on fire. He jumped up and went to spike Moon with a punch in the ground. Moon quickly turned around and drove Saphria through the plumbers chest. Mario instantly started shouting in pain.
"Thought you said I couldn't beat you in a fight." he asked smugly. He swung the sword down smashing Mario into the ground. The plumber stood back up and fired a charged fireball from his hand. Moon fired off a PK Hydro, extinguishing the fireball into nothing and blasting Mario across the temple into a wall. Mario collided with a statue of Pit and hit with such force that the statue cracked and fell apart on top of him.
Everyone just stood their, petrified in shock and silence as they looked between the pile of rubble, and at Moon.
Moon's nose wrinkled a little as he looked at the damage. Then, he merely shrugged and turned away from the group. "So much for being the number one hero." he snorted.
That's all for today's chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it. Definitely would like to hear some thoughts on the New and Improved Dark Moon if possible.
So uh, a bit of background, As I'm sure you all know, Fire Emblem Three Houses' Byleth was recently confirmed for the roster of Smash Ultimate. Very Early on into development, I expected for this story to end with all of the characters from Fighters Pass Volume 1, However, during Terry's reveal, they announced more DLC fighters, I was expecting one or two, but now we've got SIX coming out by the end of 2021, I'm in no position to postpone a story that long. Especially one like this. So, here's what I'm going to do, by the time of this story's climax (Possibly in Spring), I'm expecting the first two fighters of Challenger Pack 2 to be revealed. If I like them, I'll add them to the story.
Anyway, back to Byleth. This is the reason that this chapter nearly got a delay. Initially I intended for Robin, Chrom, and Lucina to be rescued before Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Daisy. However, when Byleth was confirmed for the roster, I decided I wanted him to come alongside them, since I actually liked Three Houses (and was completely fine with him joining the roster) I dug up my old copy of FE Three houses and played through, since FE is a big heaping mess in terms of the story. Byleth will be taking the Black Eagle house role in this story. While Byleth will not be a major character, this will be what I use to describe him.
Definitely looking to hear thoughts on this whole thing, but I think their will be some great people. As for my take on Byleth in Smash, I get it, 8 Fire Emblem Characters is a bit much. But there's no reason for there to be so much negative feedback towards Sakurai for it. Especially since he's given us all of Ultimate AND Six additional fighters. In terms of Byleth, he's unique, uses all different types of weapons will be a new and fresh concept for a Fire Emblem Rep instead of just the usual sword. Personally, I think Sakurai has done an amazing job with Smash Ultimate and everyone else shouldn't be as toxic as we've been (Especially since I think we really don't deserve him taking time away from his break to give us SIX more fighters).
Anyway leave a review letting me know what you like, or just say nice chapter, both would make my day, I'll see you all next time.