Chapter 2: Alliances:

In the Emperor's Castle, The Smash Villains were still trying to figure out what was going on as the former warriors of Spiritus were seen with them.

"The hell is going on? We just defeated Galleem and Dhakron and then this happened?" Bowser questioned, before adding with a continued irritance. "And how the hell did Smash Bros get disbanded?!"

"Ah, don't be grumpy. Here you can do whatever you like. Destroy all your like!" Kefka offered with a cackle.

"That's one sick clown." Wolf commented, not speaking to anybody particular, but more speaking his mind.

"You have travelled many years into the future, and thanks to a certain new entity, the past and future of this world have been combined." The Emperor informed, surprising many of the villains and leaving some with questions.

"The future you say?" Ganondorf asked, sounding most interested, before adding "So this world of Smash became a new world based on the conflict between gods did you say?"

"One of discord and harmony?" Mewtwo added, wondering if humanity and all those he despised had been extinguished from this future.

"Yes. Now, two opposing gods now governs this world. But we defeated Shinryu, the dragon who asbrobs life cycles which repeats for fourteen times." Garland said, before adding. "This new one is the fifteenth in line."

"Fifteenth cycle?" K. Rool asked with shock and confusion in his tone, before Adryn cut in and spoke his mind. "Some of us are still new here but we are adapting quite nicely"

"Smash Bros only lasted for five cycles." Ridley said, showing that despite his dragonic appearance, he could indeed speak English, shocking many Smash Villains, while Sephiroth remained stoic and then told him. "Consider this your sixth cycle now, and the last."

"And what's up with these dull ones?" Wario asked as he noticed the distant forms of Golbez, Kuja, Jecht and Snow, waving his hand and even pulling faces around the four, but found they didn't even flinch.

"I put them under my control to prevent any betrayal." A being informed, where all saw a humanoid figure that had bright coloured wings that spurt from their back, a suit made of dark tentacles wrapped around their being, while its eyes shone with a terrible purple.

"I am Galkron." The being said, allowing all to know its name. "Them and the previous warriors of darkness are under my protection, as much is yours."

Sensing something about this entity, Meta Knight had to ask. "You look familiar, but have met before?"

"You need not know whom I ask. However, I came to you, the Smash of Evil, to help me create this New Era." Galkron said in reply.

"A New Era?" Wolf questioned.

"Think of a world where there are no rules to follow, no gods. You can do all you desire, world domination, time compression, revenge, void, elimination of mortals, the lot." Ultimecia cut in.

"So we can do whatever we desire? No heroes to stop us?" Bowser asked hopefully, already imagining the wicked deeds he could do as he thought 'From writing my name in wet cement to blasting a whole town to bits with Bob-ombs, whole kingdom to conquer, the world will be mine.'

"There are a few 'heroes' to worry about here though." Dark Pit then pointed an obvious annoyance, causing Vayne to say nonchalantly. "Patience, my new friend. They will be dealt with, one way or another."

"Leave it all to myself, Venant and my allies." Vayne then said as he looked over his shoulder, some thinking he was speaking to himself, but others with more magical prowess could sense another being within the room.

"He has this giant hourglass which he could use to merge time and space, he could even control it." Cloud of Darkness then explained.

"So in other words, you can wipe that annoying Pikachu and his friends from this world forever?" Mewtwo asked, expressing the faintest shred of hope within his cold expression.

"Yes, but it requires patience." Galkron said in reply, facing the others and asking. "While I do the hourglass to permanently change the world. Can I trust all of you to back me up?"

Most of the Smash villains smirked darkly as Ganondorf turned and said with an evil smile "We shall."

At Materia's Tower

"I swear to god I am losing it!" Ace let out, feeling frustrated at the craziness that seemed to be happening, where he then questioned. "Can someone, anyone, please explain to me what the hell was going on?"

"Right?! Shulk has the Monado's foresight and we've been in the future for two hours, and we haven't seen one jetpack. Not one!" Luigi joked, only to cause Ace to groan in reply.

"Now is not the time to joke, Luigi. This is serious. I need to find a way of getting my foresight working again so I can figure out who's behind all of this" Shulk said, his tone serious as he continued to focus his power with the Monado, but got little to no results.

"I agree. We have to find who is behind all of this and stop this" Kain then said, holding his spear in place.

"It's hard to believe many other worlds exist apart from our own." Tifa commented as she has a friendly talk with Zelda, where the princess of Hyrule nodded and said in reply. "I cannot believe you fought here for 14 cycles now. It must be so harsh."

"I still cannot believe Smash Bros is really gone." Samus confessed, disengaging her Varia Armour and leaving her in her Zero Suit as she turned her attention and spoke to Lightning, finding a respect for the pink haired warrior and saying. "Replaced by this unforgiving world where gods force you to fight each other, that is unforgivable."

"Yeah. But also to maintain harmony and discord in this world, so there are lots of good vs evil battles." Lightning said in reply. "First lot of cycles sacrifices our memories of our current worlds. But we still retain them in the last one."

"You mean you fought in last cycles without memories of your own world?" Pit questioned with obvious shock, where Vaan nodded and said in reply. "Yeah. But our memories are back to normal now, along with the memories of this world."

Sighing sadly, Vaan looked to the sky and said. "I just hope one day we'll be free and that I can go back to my world, back to Penello."

Feeling empathy for the potential Sky Pirate, Pit set their hand on Vaan's back, just before the door open and the Warrior of Light, Mario, Cloud and Link walked in the room, having just spoken to the goddess, Materia, and leaving them to talk to Rosalina alone, where Mario said in sadness. "So it's true... Smash Bros is disbanded..."

"After Galeem and Dhakron went down, you all returned to your respective worlds, leaving the dragon Shinryu to remodel the world into the one we are in now." Warrior of Light explained.

"Yeah, about that...?" Terry asked as he and Ryu walked up to them, wanting some further questions answered. "How come Cloud still stuck around huh? How come he keeps fighting here and we wound up getting send home?"

"You say that like it's a bad thing, Terry." Ryu said with an amused chuckle.

"I was first summoned here by Chaos to aid in discord but when Tifa came around, I ended up betraying him which almost cost me my life. Cosmos saved me and recruited me to her side afterwards. Due to my service to harmony, Materia summoned me back afterwards." Cloud said.

"And since Cloud's a verteran to both sides of Smash and Materia, I guess we should count on him for information and guidance." Mario suggested.

"I cannot believe how the world changed without us over the years." Link said, before he had to ask. "So you had just finally defeated this Shinryu dragon character huh?"

"Yes, and he was a pain too." Noctis said in reply. "And just when we are about to go home."

"Maybe so. But we get to meet new allies to aid us in this new conflict we're about to get ourselves into." Eight added, feeling he can trust his new allies for what to come.

Speaking what was on his mind as he looked at his love, Fox said. "Krystal, I can't believe you were sent here too. I know you only fought as an assist trophy, hey, you were even used to beat my butt a few times, but things are getting pretty dangerous now that you are a full fledged fighter here."

From Fox's concern and continued care for her, Krystal smiled and said with care and reassurance. "I'll be alright, Fox. No need to be overprotective of me."

"I'll try." Fox replied as he set his hands around Krystal's waist, looked into her eyes and told her. "But I cannot help but look out for you. You mean the world to me."

Focused more on their situation than Fox and Krystal's moment, Sonic said. "I cannot sense Snake, Bayonetta, Simon, Ritcher or Banjo in this world, but I do sense Megaman and Pac Man are hanging around."

"We'll find them in due time." Sora said, taking some command as he instructed. "Some of us will go on a search party and find them."

"Thanks. You lot are a nice people." Ness declared with a smile.

"We care for our allies." Ramza told him in reply.

Nearby, Pikachu, Isabelle, Kirby and Yoshi were having a chat of their own, drinking hot chocolate Isabelle had made to show her kindness and help comfort her allies in their troublesome time.

"Weird isn't it? Smash World change to this world?" Yoshi asked, causing Kirby to stare at Yoshi and let out. "That's what weird?"

"That, and having met a lot of warriors from Cloud's universe." Yoshi added.

"I know, but how could smash bros ever get disbanded?" Isabelle questioned, trying to be strong, but found doubt consuming her as she said. "I might never get to see the mayor again."

"At least he's safe back in his world. And while our fight is just beginning, so long as we fight as a team, we'll all go home soon." Pikachu assured in reply, putting his hand on her back to comfort her, causing Isabelle to smile, trusting Pikachu's words and finding his cute smile endearing.

"Excuse me guys?" Bartz cut in as he, Terra and Zidane approached the group, before asking. "But did any other warriors apart from yourselves made it here also?"

"Well, Pikachu can tell that Lucario is here, thanks to the bond they share, so he'll find her in no time." Kirby said, before adding with some reluctance."And although Peach, Palutena, Ike, Roy, Young Link and Lucas seem to be around here as well, we don't know where they are right now."

"So we have to find your missing friends first?" Terra asked, thinking for a moment and suggesting. "Some of us should go to help you find your friends, while the rest of us try and stop the villains."

"Yes. I cannot believe I have to fight Mewtwo again. Still, it can't be helped. No matter what I can't let him destroy all the humans in this world or any." Pikachu said, his noble words causing Zidane to nod, respecting Pikachu, before saying. "Don't worry, Pikachu. We'll settle this together."

"So we're up against the villains? I fear Ganondorf might be up to something." Link commented, his words causing Cloud to nod, knowing they both shared a nemesis of great power and evil. "And if Ultimecia is aiding them, then Sephiroth and the others are not too far behind."

"And what's more, more of our friends appear too." Cecil said, to which Rinoa questioned. "So who are we trying to save this time?"

"Freya, Vincent, Quistis, Auron, Gladio and Hope." Onion Knight said in reply.

"Then we need to find them and save them before the manakins get to them first." Squall stated.

"Manakins?" Ness asked confusion.

"There are copies of crystal armies controlled by the evil forces." Firion explained in reply. "I saw one not too long ago but that was accompanied by someone who looked like Mario but he wore different colour clothing and has red eyes."

"Puppet Fighters? The same ones that Galeem and Dhakron made?" Pit questioned, causing Tidus to nod."Yeah, that's right."

"Puppet Fighters… then Galeem and Dhakron must be back." Mario said with some dread.

"But how?" Donkey Kong asked who then pointed out. "We saw them both meet their ends."

"The two might have survived or they could've been resurrected." Rosalina suggested, just as she and Materia entered the room, with Materia adding. "And I bet they are up to no good."

"I cannot contact Spiritus about this but if they are back, then they must be stopped." Materia then said sadly, turning to the heroes and heroines, where she pleaded. "Warriors of both Harmony and Smash, I ask of you all. Save your friends and find the cause of this evil threat. The fates of both worlds lies with you all."

"So we're teaming up?" Noctis asked, his question making Sora smile and say. "Of course. I always like making new friends and we get to learn more about our own different worlds."

"Sounds good to me too." Eight said in agreement, while Joker nodded.

"Then we'll spilt up and we do our part. Mario, Cloud, Link, Tifa, Zelda, Lightning, Samus, Noctis, Shulk and I will form one team and find out what the villains are up to." Warrior of Light said.

"And I'll take Terra, Bartz, Pikachu, Isabelle, Kirby, Yoshi and Vaan to find Freya and the others." Zidane said, taking command with no objections.

"Krystal, Yuna, Tidus, Firion, Donkey Kong and I will form a team also. We'll find clues on what happened here." Fox said, forming his own team.

"Squall, Ness, Onion Knight, Locke and I will set off on our own quest to find the summons." Rinoa then said, before Cecil added. "Leave the other half to me, Kain, Y'shtola, Ace, Pit, Luigi, Inkling and Marth to track down this Master Hand the Smashers told us about."

"And I guess that leaves me, Sora, Sion, Ryu, Joker, Eight, Terry and Sonic." Ramza said simply.

"Shantotto and I will watch over Materia and keep things occupied here." Rosalina said with a smile, where her Luma jumped around her, cooing happily to be with its mother figure, while also willing to lend its power should Rosalina need it.

"Alright, everyone. Warriors of Harmony and Smash now come together and let's put things right once and for all. Let's-a Go!" Mario called as all nodded and ready to set out into the merged worlds and set things right.