Chapter 14: Darkened Ways.
Dark Moon and Dark Sarah appeared inside of the Great Maze, in the room dedicated to Ridley and the rest of the Rogue Alliance, all members in the room immediately turned to face their appearance before Ridley flew over to them.
"Well, that didn't take nearly as long as I would've thought." the dragon hissed. "You two certainly dealt with problems very quickly. Seems Pokey was right in putting my little faith in you."
Dark Moon and Dark Sarah glared across the room at Pokey, who gave a nervous shuffle.
"Well, either way." Dark Moon said, "Palutena and Marth are both dead, the Byleth and most of the Pokemon have retreated, Pit and the rest of the Fire Emblem gang are severely injured."
"Impressive." Blood Falcon said. "Now...what's the plan boss?"
Ridley gave a smirk. "All of us will attack Tabuuto at once, I will wait and see what we do, for now though, you two should make yourself comfortable."
Dark Moon and Dark Sarah moved away from the rest of the Rogue Alliance and leaned against the wall. Both of them leered as they looked around the room.
Pokey approached the two of them with a cunning little grin. "So, you took care of your hosts like I predicted?"
"We didn't take care of them you freaking idiot." Dark Sarah hissed. "They just got angry enough to burst at them. They won't be back for a long time, if not ever."
Pokey frowned. "Are you going to help Ridley or are you going to double cross him? You know that I'll have your back, Master Giygas."
Both Dark Sides glared at him with a disgusted look in their eyes. "We are not your Master," Dark Moon hissed at him. "In fact, we have a deep developed hatred for you because of our hosts, you should be thankful that my host made a deal to let you go free with Ridley, otherwise, I'd kill you right where you're standing."
"And why do you have the intent on us double crossing them?" Dark Sarah asked with suspicion. "Sure, we have the capability of doing so and succeeding? But we still need an army to conquer the Multiverse you idiot!"
Pokey frowned and walked off and away from them, Dark Moon and Dark Sarah both watched him go before facing each other.
"Perhaps it is in our better interest to overthrow Ridley at some point." Dark Sarah whispered. "The genocidal dragon is probably just going to use us as a heel."
"Overthrowing Ridley would be a horrible idea." Dark Moon replied. "We need some sort of guards from the rest of the Super Smash Brothers, kind of like our knights in bloody armor."
"Yeah, but, Kraid, Phantoon, Wolf, Dark Samus, Blood Falcon, Ridley, and Pokey aren't going to be too fond of becoming knights."
"Knowing the rest of the villains, it's the best we're gonna have." Dark Moon replied. "With Dracula, Marx, and Nightmare all sealed or dead, Necrozma fleeing, and the rest of them having some form of showing gratitude to try and get out of trouble whenever things go way to far, and then whatever the hell that damn dog and duck do, they're all we're gonna get."
"Hey! Where'd this sword come from?" Both dark sides looked over to where Blood Falcon and Dark Samus were standing, Saphria was laying on the ground.
"Uh, that's mine." Dark Moon hissed. "You uh...you probably shouldn't-"
Ridley stepped over and took the sword in one of his claws, instantly, the blade changed from obsidian black to an amethyst purple color. The hilt also changed to a yellow color like Ridley's eyes. The dragon looked over the sword carefully as it started glowing.
"Impressive craftsmanship." the Dragon snarled. "I can feel a great power surging through it. But alas, I have no use for a sword, it's much too small for my liking." He tossed the sword back over to Dark Moon, the blade landed stuck into the ground.
"Dark Moon, Dark Sarah, I require that you two pass the initiation test to join me, could you go deal with Tabuuto in front of the villains. You know...show them your power!"
Dark Moon shooking head, temporarily forgetting how to speak. "Uh, yeah, we'll go take care of that fraud and reveal his true identity to the villains." he took the sword back from the ground, the sword immediately changed back to the black blade and green hilt.
"Perfect, I shall gather the villains." The dragon and the rest of the members, except Kraid, left the room.
"Phew, that was way too close." Dark Moon hissed. "Seems that I underestimated Ridley...he could've wielded Saphria if he attempted...if he knew how much power she wields, there's no telling what would've happened."
Dark Sarah nodded in response. "Yeah, we will have to see."
(Skyworld)
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WON'T HEAL HER?" Pit shouted at Ness.
"For the last time!" Ness said firmly. "We have no interest in reviving the person who tried to wipe us clean off the map! Nor do we have any interest in taking orders from you!"
"You must ah heal Palutena!" Mario snapped. "She is essential to ah defeating those ah two evil brats!"
"They aren't evil brats!" Paula scowled at him. "It's her fault that our friends have gone rogue! They warned her and you and everyone else here about what would happen if this were to happen! She chose to ignore it! It's her fault that she's encased in diamond!"
"He killed Marth!" Ike shot back at them. "He just straight up KILLED him and you aren't doing a damn thing about it?"
"No, we aren't." Lucas said. "You all caused this with your corrupt methods. We made a promise to Moon and Sarah that we would turn our heads the other way if something like this were to happen."
"So you three are just going to stand by and watch the Multiverse Collapse?" Meta Knight asked with a hit of anger. "You must know how foolish and childish you all are acting!"
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL OF YOU?" Paula cried, "We have watched Moon and Sarah suffer and suffer, do you have ANY idea how much this has killed us? We've spent almost a year feeling guilty about failing to save their world from the likes of its destruction. The blow that we failed to do so, and were left to only pick up them and their friends, the little life that survived because faith just wouldn't allow them to die!" She didn't even continue as she started crying.
"I don't get it, frankly." Mewtwo said.
Ness looked up at them with an angry expression, something that was rarely visible to the rest of them during, well, ever.
"What Paula is trying to say," he said. "Is that, for the past year, her, myself, Jeff, and Poo have all felt guilty towards our friendship with Moon, Sarah and their friends back home. For one year, we believed that we were the only ones who could've saved their world from destruction, for ONE YEAR, we've watched our friends suffer and adjust to life in a world where they can't be loved the same way by those who did love them in their own world. FOR ONE WHOLE YEAR, My girlfriend, someone who I love and cherish dearly, has been tortured by the thoughts that she was responsible for their miserable existence!"
Nobody's expression changed, well, except for Zelda, Link, and Akira, who looked at the three of them in pity.
"What do you ah take us ah for?" Mario snapped. "Do we ah look like a bunch of idiots?"
"What was that?" Ness gritted, his face getting progressively colder.
"Do you think we're stupid?" Pit asked. "Moon and Sarah come straight from the likes of Giygas! They don't feel sadness, loss, grief, or guilt! All they feel is anger and hatred! They've been using your guilt to continue their survival in your world, plotting this whole scheme out!"
A few sparks cracked from the three children's hands as they looked at the competitors with blazing anger.
"They...do have a point." Lucina said. "From what we've been told about Giygas, his only weakness is basically gone at this point within Moon and Sarah's bodies. Giygas's cynical thinking brain would prove to work well within human bodies, especially those of your age. It'd be easy to make people feel guilty for those who seem to suffer when they really do not."
"Why should we listen to someone who violated a smash law and was never prosecuted?" Lucas fired back. "If anything, the only one of you swordies we should listen to would be Byleth, because he at least had the decency to be nice to Moon for whatever reason he and Edelgard had."
"That coward betrayed the likes of his own cluster. Even worse, he did it when he had Moon at death's door. He could've killed him and ended this whole mess!" Ike scoffed.
"Byleth did the right thing!" Ness snapped. "He was aware of the possible danger that could've been caused and knew he had to withdraw to not bring harm to his own friends and…"
"Why are ah you still defending them?" Mario snapped back. "They have ah killed Marth and Palutena, and they ah have been scheming behind our ah back this entire ah time!"
"They're our friends!" Paula cried. "They wouldn't do something like this on their own account!"
"That's exactly what they did though!" Pit shouted back. "They used you! This was all a part of their elaborate plan to take us down! We should've destroyed them a long time ago but they used you enough to keep themselves safe! You defended monsters of the very thing you all swore you destroyed! And now look at what you've done!"
"PK ROCKIN!"
"PK FIRE!"
"PK LOVE!"
Two giant blasts of multi-colored beams of light and big wave of fire blasted most of the smash competitors. Akira, Zelda, Mewtwo, Kirby, Isabelle, Dark Pit, and Link were the only few not harmed by the blasts from the tree kids.
Most of the smash competitors stood up, shaking from such a powerful blow from all three of them at once.
"I see you've chosen your path then." Pit said, bracing his two sword blades. "I never would've thought that the Giegue Cluster would go down the path of darkness."
Through their psychic connection. Paula felt something shatter within Ness, it was almost like a snap, something she hadn't felt all the way since he had his own Dark side that he defeated. She knew that if he kept up to his old self and held it in any longer, it would get far worse.
"You all…" Ness said with a shaky voice clearly sounding like he was about to burst. "You all...you all actually freaking disgust me!" Paula saw the clenching of his fist, the sparks burst from his hand, and the overload of PSI Energy around him, even Lucas seemed stunned by Ness from her own perspective of him.
"Ness…" she said, with a worried tone.
Ness turned his head towards her, he saw her pale face, wide, tearful eyes, and her weak shake of her own self esteem, something he hadn't seen in a very long time.
"Ness...please...let it out." she said weakly. "Just do it...before it happens to you as well."
He nodded in understanding before turning back to the Smash Brothers.
"It...sickens me," he said. "I've spent countless Multiversal years as a part of a governmental council, thinking that I was doing good for people all throughout the Multiverse. I spent years having my own opinions and beliefs shot down, time and time again, in favor of ways that I most certainly did not approve of, do you know how hard it is to be a part of something where it feels like you don't have a say? But, I never said a word, because I thought that my own kindness and generosity just didn't apply to other heroes who I thought had seen much worse shit than I have. I was too scared to leave my position out of my own frustration."
None of the competitors dared move, sparks still cracked from Ness's fingertips as he glared at all of them.
"When that catastrophe came up with Dark Sanctuary, it was the first time I was ever worried about my home," Ness continued, his voice becoming darker and his skin becoming paler. "Because now, someone who I cared deeply about, could've been shafted from my life all together over a mistake that I wasn't aware of at the time because I hadn't received the Smash Invitation yet. There were times when I felt like hurting Paula, just because I was angry and scared for her well being! Angry at my own stupidity and ignorance and feeling helpless as I watched my whole life start to crumble and get yanked away at the hands of something that, at the time, I thought was being done for the better of the Multiverse."
"Is that true?" Lucas asked Paula quietly. Paula could only give a sad nod in response.
"It sickens me." Ness continued, "I went to Dark Sanctuary with the full intent of killing Moon, Sarah, Erick, and Dyson, just because I was told that this would be the only illegal way of saving the Multiverse. I went looking for blood, just because of Palutena threatening my girlfriend's existence. When Lucas told me that the Triforce of Wisdom said there'd be no damage, I kept strong for Paula, not even she knows what happened after that...at least...not until now."
Lucas looked at Paula. "I...I didn't know at the time that was Ness's intention," she said, looking down at her feet. "He told me later and…" she shuddered. "I had never seen him breakdown so badly."
"I told Moon and Sarah everything about this disaster and Paula and I both watched them suffer." Ness continued. "I even told them I was going to withdraw from the Council, but they begged me to stay on, I understood why they wanted me to stay, but I never understood why Palutena just couldn't move on from them. I would visit them sometimes and they'd visit Paula and me on occasions with Astro. Time and time again, I constantly watched them, and it pained me. They can do a good job at hiding themselves unless you get to know them. All the smiles they gave to my sister and family, Paula's family and the preschoolers, Erick and Giovanna with their boarding mates, and Dyson and Petra to the rest of Dalaam. All six of them can hide it well. But Paula, Jeff, Poo, and I, we all knew, that deep down, they were dying with agony on the inside."
"But Dyson and Petra seemed-" Zelda began before Nes cut her off.
"Dyson, Petra, Giovanna, and Erick moved on from their own horrors of what they thought was failure." he gritted. "But Moon and Sarah can't, they are tortured and haunted and they only had each other for true comfort. I watched them obsess on trying to move on, but they just can't. There's a reason why they chose to remain isolated in a quiet village with Astro then stay with me or Paula despite our offers." At this point, his knuckles had turned white as he kept shaking in rage.
"Moon told me that he wished everyone in the Multiverse could be as kind as I was, he even wishes he could be like me, but he's held back, fighting a darkness within him and Sarah." Ness continued, his voice cracked slightly as he shook in anger. "He always told me, that when he found out who was responsible for his and Sarah's creation that he'd give them hell. Even though he insisted it wasn't Paula, I used to think that the reason he stayed alive for as miserable as it was, was to make her feel guilty. He always insisted that Paula wasn't responsible...and...I didn't even believe him then."
"Then why do you believe him now?" Pit asked furiously. "Has your grudge against Palutena for trying to do the right thing come to overtake you."
Ness's eyes flashed their own reddish color, however, nothing awoke, no transformation, it was just for a second. "I saw the proof with my own eyes, Moon explained it to me. And even when he had proof, I still refused to believe his assumption that we were framed. I still believed that his hatred towards all of you was simply because of the fact that you tried to rid them of their existence and couldn't fix his world." Tears had started flowing out his eyes as he slammed his baseball bat against the ground.
"The whole time, he told me not to feel guilty!" Ness cried. "He told me it wasn't mine or Paula's fault! And because of the way you...you...you ASSHOLES!" Everyone flinched. "The way you all have treated me and the rest of the Multiverse, I've felt nothing but guilt and grief for the past year! Now...Now I understand why he hated you all! Because he knew that you all really were just a bunch of IDIOTS calling yourselves heroes! You all SUCK at your jobs!"
"You might want to stop him." Akira whispered to Paula, if he's anything like my father and Moon, once they start, they aren't going to stop."
"No…" Paula replied. "He needs to let it all out. He's...been holding this in too long."
"Hold up just ah second-"
"LET'S START WITH YOU THEN!" Ness shouted at Mario. "You have saved Peach from the clutches of Bowser like EIGHTY times you piece of shit! Why the hell haven't you taught those stupid toads how to fight? Why haven't you gotten more security? Or...as Moon would probably ask you. WHY HAVEN'T YOU FREAKING KILLED HIM? Hasn't he commited enough war crimes to get the death penalty? AND WHY DOES HE get invited to your freaking Go-kart races, parties, sporting events, AND the OLYMPICS with Sonic?!"
"Hey, watch it kid." Sonic snapped. "Don't drag me into this-"
"ACTUALLY!" Ness shouted. "How about I talk about you next!"
"I'd prefer you not to-"
"SHUT UP!" Ness roared. "Moon would argue that you're EVEN WORSE than Mario!"
"I'm most certainly not-"
"YOU ARE THE FASTEST THING ALIVE!" Ness shouted. "How the actual goddamn hell HAVE YOU NOT PUT DR. EGGMAN IN PRISON?"
"Well he has been helpful in some-"
"HE BLEW UP HALF OF THE GODDAMN MOON!" Ness shouted. "He nearly annihilated all living life on Earth, released Shadow from his prison and tried to use him to destroy you! Teamed up with his past self which, might I add, is ILLEGAL in the Multiverse, and has destroyed countless cities with specific set off rampages. AND DO NOT EVEN GET ME STARTED on the Tragedy of 06!"
"So what, I'm Sonic, the fastest thing alive!" Sonic smirked. "I bet I could beat Dark Moon if it was presented."
"KNOCK KNOCK HEDGEHOG SHIT!"
In a flash of black light, Dark Moon appeared inside of the grand hall. The second everyone had turned to face him, he flung a tall man down onto the ground, he wore black overalls and a purple undershirt and hat with a upside down L on it. He had a weird looking mustache that flopped over.
"This!" Dark Moon hissed. "Is the same asshole claiming to be Tabuuto! If it wasn't for Pokey and the rest of the Rogue alliance. This bitch wouldn't have ever captured all of you."
Everyone stared at him, speechless and shocked. Dark Moon clapped his hands together and a blast of dark energy shot through the area making most of them stumble backwards.
"But revealing that Waluigi of all people was Tabuuto isn't why I came back here." he hissed. "With the exception of the Rogue Alliance, all of the villains have retreated, except Wolf, seems that bastard betrayed us and ran off. Anyway, I came because I heard that someone clearly didn't learn from Palutena and Marth and wants to get smacked!"
Ness gave a smug grin over at Sonic, who was probably the most startled out of everyone. "Well," he said. "Go on Sonic, show everyone how you do it! Save us all JUST like you supposedly did back in Subspace!"
Dark Moon formed an evil smirk. "I assume that you've broken Ness then," he said, looking at the rest of the Smash competitors. "I wouldn't bother under normal circumstances...but this...I think I'll show off a bit more by beating up- OW!"
Sonic had charged at Dark Moon and had punched him across the face. The streak of blue light followed around moving faster than most human eyes could handle, occasionally it came and struck Dark Moon a bit more, however, it didn't seem as if it was really doing anything.
Sonic eventually stopped and started doing a little breakdance, "You're too slow Dark Moon." he sneered. "Come on, step it up!"
Dark Moon simply wiped a bit of black leaking blood from one small cut across his face. He looked at it and smirked.
"About fifty strikes? Was it?" he asked. "All that for a drop of corrupt blood? Shame, and here I thought Smash's seventh strongest competitor would prove more of a challenge."
Sonic glared at him, then, several small gemstones of varying colors surrounded his body, they then clashed into Sonic's body, in a flash of yellow light, sonic's fur and spikes became golden and his eyes became red. A streak of golden light charged at Dark Moon, only to leave Sonic caught in the clutches of his hand in a choking position. Everyone's eyes widened in horror.
"I-Im-Impos-Impossible!" Sonic gasped from behind Dark Moon's choke.
"You see Sonic, you stupidass hedgehog." Dark Moon hissed. "The problem with being faster than light, is that you can only live in darkness, something that I am quite used to. NOW DIE!"
He placed his palm on Super Sonic's chest, instantly a blast of energy went off around the area, glass panes depicting murals of Pit and Palutena shattered at the blast of energy, Sonic was launched backwards and skidded to a smashing halt on the ground before gasping and standing up and then joining the rest of the smash competitors gasping in shock as the Chaos Emeralds now revolved around Dark Moon, who leered him down.
"Hmm?" Dark Moon hummed coldly. "I wonder what would happen if…" The chaos emeralds suddenly smashed into him just as they had done with Sonic. A blast of gold light shot off in every direction making most of the smash competitors cover their eyes. The light settled down revealing Dark Moon with a golden hoodie and hat. His skin remained its shadowy color and his eyes stayed red.
"Alright Sonic! Let's see how you do against this!" Dark Moon hissed. Then, he warped behind Sonic in the blink of an eye and blasted him with his PK Rollin, Sonic was launched across the temple where Dark Moon teleported over and punched him upwards. He grabbed Sonic telekinetically and started smashing him against invisible walls instead of the actual ceiling.
"PK Hydro," Dark Moon shouted. A blast of water pushed Sonic into the actual ceiling. The blue hedgehog fell to the ground as a bit of rubble smashed on top of him. Dark Moon then did Sonic's own move of dashing around in circles, only the golden light moved faster and didn't seem to have any sign of stopping, several times it moved to the center and stuck Sonic, pushing the hedgehog backwards, upwards, down, and every other which way. After a while, Dark Moon simply charged at Sonic again, large slash of blood appeared from the Hedgehog's chest as sonic fell to the ground.
Dark Moon stopped moving, still in his golden outfit from the chaos emeralds. He had the biggest evil smirk on his face.
"Another one bit the dust it seems." He hummed, as Saphria started to glow. "These Chaos Emeralds are certainly a fascinating piece of Celeritas technology. My power is nearly incomprehensible at this point...but alas, I have no use for such antics, I want a challenge." The seven emeralds came out of his chest as the golden color faded.
"I'm not going to make the mistake of 06 here though." he hummed. "If you idiots want to revive Sonic, you'll either have to ask Ness and Lucas or get these emeralds, which I am now going to send and scatter throughout the Celeritas cluster." an orange portal opened beside him and he telekinetically sent the Chaos Emeralds through the portal before it closed.
"Well, that was fun." Dark Moon hissed, "I hope I took care of your problem Ness."
"I can't say you didn't." Ness muttered. "At least now I don't have to listen to Sonic's ego."
Dark Sarah appeared next to him with her own evil grin and deathly stare. "Ridley has taken care of the rest of the villains, all of them have just retreated back to their own clusters, still no trace on Wolf though." she hissed.
"AETHER!" Ike suddenly slammed on top of Dark Moon with his sword. Dark Moon grunted and pushed the hero off him and took out Saphria. "I'll deal with Ike, you take the other one." he hissed at Dark Sarah.
"POWAH DUNK!" Dark Sarah teleported out of the way as Terry tried to punch spike her.
"Now now," Dark Sarah hissed. "You really shouldn't call out your moves as you use them Mr. Bogard. It's quite easy for us to read them."
Terry's hand flashed with a bit of fire before he went and punched the ground. "POWAH GEYSER!"
"PK Freeze!"
A blast of heat that sprung up from the ground was quickly extinguished from her beam of Ice as it shot through and encased Terry in an icy prison.
"Tsk Tsk." Dark Sarah hummed. "Good thing Sarah decided to pick up Freya." She took out a golden frying pan with a purple star on the back. She walked up to the statue and smacked it with the pan. The ice along with Terry shattered into thousands of pieces and fell to the ground.
"How many lives must suffer before you all see the truth?" Dark Moon hissed as he blocked a sword swing from Ike and stabbed the radiant hero through the throat."
"Witness the Monado's-"
Dark Moon telekinetically forced Shulk's Monado Sword, out of the Australian's hands and into his own. He rubbed the sword carefully.
"God tier sword on a god tier competitor." Dark Moon hissed. "I don't think so." a blast of dark energy shot through the area shattering the Monado into pieces. Leaving Shulk in a horrified state of shock. "Take away the Monado, and you're just as useless as Little Mac...no offense there buddy."
"None taken." Little Mac muttered.
"STOP THIS!" Pit shouted over them. He clenched a fist as he glared at both dark sides. "When this is all over, you better believe that we are removing you two from existence."
Both dark sides cackled at his words. "Even if by some stupidass miracle you all defeat us." Dark Moon hissed. "It won't make a difference. My host made a failsafe just in case something like this happened. Skyworld, and the entire Multiverse are now under Ness's control. In the event I were to take over my host's body, Skyworld's technology lists him as unavailable, which means that rule goes to Sarah until he's available again, but since Sarah isn't here, power falls to Ness."
"What if Ness just gave someone else-"
"Wouldn't work." Dark Moon sneered. "Ness is in control whether he likes it or not, the only way for him to lose his power, would be for him to die, or revert to his own dark side if he had one. He can't give it up, it's stuck to him." he turned to face Ness, who looked shocked at his words.
"Technically, you now have all the power Palutena has." he said calmly. "Everyone here has to take orders from you, whether they like it or not, you can use the technology to deliver any punishment, but you can't do much more, until my host dies, all deals he has with Byleth and Pokemon can't be messed with."
"So if I killed Ness then-"
"WHAT THE HELL?" Ness shouted in rage.
"A nice thought Angelboy." Dark Moon shrugged. "But, my host made a list of successors to him. After Ness, power falls to Erick, Then Dyson, Then Petra, Then Giovanna, Byleth, Paula, Jeff, Poo, Lucas, Kumatora, so on and so forth. It's basically saying that if you want your power back, you're going to have to commit mass genocide."
"You're cynical." Snake growled. "Insane, cynical, and evil."
"That's simply part of the fun!" Dark Sarah giggled. "You all don't have much else to throw at us!"
"HA!" Kirby stepped forward with a determined expression on his face.
"We've got ah Kirby! Nothing ah beats Kirby!" Mario declared.
Meta Knight stepped in front of Kirby. "No," he said calmly. "I will not allow Kirby to fight them."
"WHAT!" Everyone shouted.
Dark Moon grinned evilly. "Has one of you idiots finally come to their senses?" he asked smugly.
"Let me ask you one question...do you fear Kirby?"
"Nope." Dark Sarah giggled.
"Then, I'm going to guess that the fact that you are soul corruption creators means that you'd outweigh the black hole that makes up his pocket dimension?"
"You'd be right." Dark Moon hissed.
"That is all I needed to know." Meta Knight turned to Kirby. "My adopted child, you will not fight these two, it is far too dangerous, this is a fight that Jesus can't help you win."
Dark Moon smirked. "You have some wisdom in your 50,000 years of existence Meta Knight...and I'll award your generosity. All of you, this is your last chance, either submit to our rule, or die like fools." Both dark sides vanished in a flash of black light.
Ness picked his baseball bat up from off the ground and rubbed a bit of dust off it. "Paula, Lucas, come on," he said calmly. "We're going to get our friends back, if we fail, we'll retreat." Paula and Lucas both nodded. Ness turned back to the rest of them there was still visible anger on his face. "I'd ask for backup." he muttered. "But clearly you all made your choice." He turned his back to them.
"Ness, wait!" he glanced over his shoulder to see Zelda, Link, Akira, and Mewtwo moved forward up to the three of them.
"We're coming with you." Zelda said.
"Well...the four of us at least."
"Wouldn't you all rather just go home?" Paula asked.
"We wouldn't be heroes if we just retreated immediately." Link replied. "Plus, three of us have the luxury of not being killable...so if we lose...we can all at least still retreat."
"Don't make me regret coming with you."
"Sorry, Sorry."
"Akira...what about you?"
Akira shrugged. "I just have that feeling that my mother wouldn't approve of me just ditching the rest of the Multiverse without trying...I know my father would've done the same as you Ness."
"WAIT!" The seven of them turned to see a Wolf with shining gray fur and an eyepatch with sharp claws and a blaster humanoid outfit. Wolf ran up to them and panted, trying to catch his breath.
"How did you even…"
"Long story." Wolf growled. "Anyway, if you want to get to Dark Moon and Dark Sarah, you're going to have to go through almost all of the Rogue Alliance. Apparently Phantoon got himself stuck in the Poltergust 5000, so you're only going to have to deal with Ridley, Dark Samus, Blood Falcon, and Kraid."
"And Pokey?" Ness asked.
"I don't know what that stupid kid did." Wolf grunted. "You'll probably find him too, just...ergh...be careful."
"What made you change your mind? Why'd you stop helping the Rogue Alliance."
"I've been serving as a spy for the majority of the time, mainly for Samus." Wolf grunted. "Just go and be careful!"
Ness nodded before turning back to the group. "Alright, let's go get our friends back!"
That's all for today's chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it. With only two chapters left in the series, I hope you all are ready for this series to come to a close. How have I done with it? Honestly, I feel as though I've accomplished something really good with this series, it has definitely been fun writing different stupid interactions between Moon and Sarah and the rest of the one-sided competitors. I'm honestly a bit skeptical about how you'd like this chapter as it is kind of out of character for Ness to do what he did. But, I tried to explain that the best I could.
Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the three houses interaction last chapter. As well as the mini-fights I had in this one. I didn't want to work overboard with them, which is why they are short and sweet.
Leave a review if you want, and I'll see you all next time.