Super Smash Bros adventures chapter 23
"Who are we waiting for again?" asks Palutena, looking around the massive Mushroom Kingdom Library.
"His name is Prince Dreambert. He's a mystical creature that can take us to the Dream World." Mario explains.
"He turns into a pillow and I sleep on it, then a cloud will appear, which takes you to the Dream World." says Luigi.
"That sounds amazing!" Palutena exclaims. "Can we see what you're dreaming of?"
"Not exactly." Luigi answers.
Since the encounter with Rayquaza, Mario has been pretty stressed about the idea that another one of his enemies has been revived. Because the other Smashers had things to do, he had only been able to find two people to go with him to investigate the source of Rayquaza's nightmares.
At that moment, Toadsworth enters the library with a little pillow fairy fluttering behind him. "Master Mario, Master Luigi, Lady Palutena, Prince Dreambert has arrived," he announces.
"Cute." Palutena thinks to herself, staring at the little creature.
The pillow fairy flies up to the two plumbers and smiles. "Hello Mario, Luigi, it's been a while."
"Hello, Prince Dreambert. How's the Pillow Kingdom?" asks Mario.
"It's very well!" Prince Dreambert answers pleasantly. "The Kingdom is now in peace thanks to you two."
"We're always here to help anyone who's in trouble." Luigi responds.
Dreambert smiles at Palutena. "Who's this beautiful lady?" he asks.
"Her name is Palutena, a Goddess from another world." replied Luigi.
"Nice to meet you." greets Palutena.
"Nice to meet you too, Goddess Palutena." Prince Dreambert responds, and gently kisses her hand in greeting.
Palutena giggles with delight. Mario frowns and finds that he is jealous, and it only gets worse when Luigi whispers, "You really need to get your game on."
The four of them gather around a table and get down to business "So about Antasama, I don't know if he's alive actually. I haven't sensed him for a long time." Prince Dreambert informs.
"Really?" Mario wonders. "I went to another world, a monster told us he had a nightmare where he saw a giant bat."
The prince thinks for a moment. "A giant bat? That might be Antasama."
"We have to find him." Palutena declares with concern.
"If Antasama is alive, I'll need your help." Prince Dreambert says. "I want to make sure that that monster is gone for good."
"Master Mario, Master Luigi, Lady Palutena, please be careful." says Toadsworth, who is quite worried.
"Oh, we will." promises Mario, and nods to the pillow fairy.
Prince Dreambert turns into a pillow, Luigi sleeps on it, and a dream cloud appears, which surprises Palutena.
"Now we have to jump in." Mario instructs, pointing to the large cloud. The goddess nods and braces herself, and Mario and Palutena both leap into the cloud together. For a moment, a wave of sleep washes over both of them, and when they were alert again, they had arrived in the dream world.
Mario and Palutena arrived at the Dream World, which surprises Palutena. "Welcome to the Dream World." says Mario.
Palutena looks around and notices a really colorful rainbow like place that she has never been before.
"Wow, I haven't experienced a world like this." Palutena says in awe. Palutena then realizes something. "How is Luigi going to come here?"
"Oh he'll be here." Mario says mysteriously. "When Luigi is sleeping on Prince Dreambert, there'll be an endless number of Luigis."
Suddenly, Luigi appeared behind them, surprising Palutena. "Oh, wow! Is he the real Luigi?"
"No, he's a Dream Luigi. Like I said there'll be a lot of them in some obstacles." replies Mario.
"I now sense Antsama's energy." says Prince Dreambert, who had appeared in a flash of light. "Follow me!"
Mario, Luigi, and Palutena follow the pillow fairy through the dream realm. Eventually, they experienced a road they can't make by jumping. "Okay, Luigi you know what to do." says Prince Dreambert.
Luigi nods his head, and then a lot of Luigi are spawned. Palutena gapes as the green clad dream plumbers leap into action, bridging the wide gap.
"That's amazing!" cries Palutena as they cross the Luigi Bridge.
"Dream Luigi can do a lot in the Dream World." Mario explains.
After a while they happen upon a big group of Dreamcaps. Palutena attacks the monsters with her Auto Reticle, firing blue bursts of light from her staff, but it doesn't seem to have any affect, as the monsters keep coming. "Ugh! There's no end to them." Palutena says through gritted teeth.
"Don't worry, Palutena. Let me and Luigi handle this." says Mario. Mario goes to the very back of the area with a massive ball made of dream Luigis. With a mighty shove, he rolls the ball of Luigis and collects more Luigis that are in its path.
Palutena and Prince Dreambert hurried out of the way, and Mario, mustering all his strength, kicks the Luigi ball. All of the Dreamcaps scatter away.
"That was amazing." Palutena exclaims when everything was quiet once more.
"Dream Luigi can be helpful in battles also." says Mario.
Prince Dreambert flutters up to them. "Antasama is close, let's keep going." he suggests, and leads them on through the dream realm.
After a while of traveling, Antasma's energy gets closer. "He's around here." warns Prince Dreambert. "Stay on your toes."
Mario, Dream Luigi, and Palutena stay alert with their surroundings. Suddenly a blast of Ultrasonic Waves sends Prince Dreambert flying. "Prince Dreambert!" cries Mario. Mario jumps where the pillow fairy is and caught him.
"Are you ok, Prince Dreambert?" worryingly asks Palutena.
"I'm ok. Thanks, Mario." the prince thanks the red plumber.
"It's been a while since I've seen you guys." says an evil voice.
The three heroes spot a giant looking bat appeared in front of them. "Antasma." angrily says, Mario.
"How are you alive?" wondering Prince Dreambert.
"A special someone revived me. I don't know who he was, but he was handy." says Antasma.
Mario starts having a little flashback. When he first fought Princess Shroob. She told him that someone revived her. "This was like the time when I fought Princess Shroob. Someone revived her. Who revived you?" asks Mario.
"Why would I tell you? All I want to do is to get my revenge on you guys for defeating me from last time." Antasma ignores Mario's question.
"Mario, Dream Luigi, Goddess Palutena, you three have to defeat Antasma, or the Dream World will be taken over." says Prince Dreambert.
"Don't worry we'll take him down." says Palutena.
Mario, Dream Luigi, and Palutena got into their fighting stance. Antasma realize that he never seen Palutena before. "I've never seen you before. Are you Mario's new Princess?" asks Antasma.
"Nope. I'm just a Goddess who's here to kick your butt." teases Palutena.
Antasma gets angry and summons a ring Antasmunchies. "What are those things?" asks Palutena.
"Those are Antasmunchies. They help Antasma get stronger and can trap Dream Luigi who's inside of Me." says Mario, warning Palutena.
Antasma eats two of his Antasmunchies and gains more power. "Prepare yourself for a nightmare you never had." says Antasma, getting fired up.
Antasma gathers up his energy to his hands and fires two ball of his energy at Mario and Palutena. Mario jumps over one of Antasmas's attacks and Palutena reflects his other attack hitting the giant bat.
Mario runs to Antasma and attacks him with a Punch. Antasma moves back, dodging Mario's attack, and made clones of himself. "Not this again." Mario whines.
Antasma and his clones spread out and move in circles and preparing for an attack. "Be careful, Palutena. The real Antasma will be the only one who will launch an attack." Mario warns Palutena.
The first three Antasmas threw fluke and the fourth Antasma threw his energy at Mario and Palutena. Palutena made a Barrier, reflects the attack, and hits Antasma. Mario goes up to Antasma, landed strong blows of his Punches and Kicks, and Palutena shoots a lot of blue light balls at Antasma.
Antasma flies up and eats more of his Antasmunchies, gaining more power. Antasma made more Antasmunchies and surrounded them around Palutena. "How about this?" says Antasma.
"Palutena, jump!" warns Mario.
Palutena jumps up and the Antasmunchies hit each other, missing Palutena. "That was close." says Palutena.
Mario runs back, summons a lot of Dream Luigis, and made a giant hammer. "Palutena, stand back!" yells Mario.
Palutena looks back and sees Mario holding a giant hammer made of Dream Luigis. Palutena Warps somewhere where she won't get hit and Mario charges at Antasma. When Mario got close, Mairo jumps up really high, and swings the Luigi Hammer with all his might at Antasma. Antasma flies back, dodging Mario and Dream Luigi's team attack, and sucks up Dream Luigi, trapping him in his Antasmunchies. "That takes care of that." says Antasma.
Antasma eats the Antasmunchie with the Dream Luigi in it and gain a lot of power. Antasma spits out Dreamy Luigi far enough to not bother him. Antasma turns into a horde of tiny bats and charge at Mario and Palutena. Mario and Palutena tries defending themselves, but got hit from by a few of the bats, causing them to fall asleep. "Not this again." says Prince Dreambert.
Palutena looks around and notices she's in another Dream World, darker than the one she was in. "Where am I?" wonders Palutena.
Palutena looks behind her and found Mario running. "Mario?" wonders Palutena.
"Palutena, we have to get out of here." says Mario, grabbing Palutena's arm.
Palutena looks behind her again and found Antasma chasing them. Antasma throws energy balls at Mario and Palutena. Mario and Palutena jump over them and fell into a small portal on the floor. Mario and Palutena are falling down while razor blades are below them. Mario dodges the razor blades with his air mobility, Palutena dodges them by teleporting below them and they appeared back at the Dream World. After going into many different portals, they found the portal where they appeared back at the first Dream World. "Darn it. I thought I can finish off you two there." says Antasma.
Palutena charges at Antasma and attacks him with her Staff. Antasma stops Palutena with a cage made of his energy. Palutena tries breaking his cage with her Staff but starts getting shocked from Antasmas's energy. "Aahhhh!" Palutena cries in pain.
"Palutena!" worryingly called Mario.
"What are you going to do now? If you let me go, I'll let her go if you let me go back to the real world." says Antasma.
"That's a cheap trick." angrily says Prince Dreambert.
Mario made a Fireball out of his hand, Antasma shocks Palutena inside his cage, causing her to feel more pain. "Aaargh!" Palutena cries.
"Please stop." begging Mario.
"Just let me go and I'll stop." says Antasma.
Mario grits his teeth, thinking what he should do. Suddenly, Dream Luigi appears behind Antasma and hits him with his Hammer, freeing Palutena from the cage. Mario runs and caught Palutena, who's out cold.
"That Dream Luigi." angrily says Antasma.
Mario places down Palutena where Prince Dreambert is. "Prince Dreambert, we're going to stop Antasma with one powerful attack." says Mario.
Mario summons groups of Dream Luigi in his Fire Flower forms. The Dream Luigi combine their fire power and made a giant Fireball. The first group of Fire Dream Luigis throws their giant Fireball to Mario and Mario serves it up like a volleyball. The Fireball goes to the next group of Fire Dream Luigis, then to the next few groups, and Mario hits the giant Fireball with his Hammer, flying towards Antasma. Antasma surrounds the giant Fireball with his Antasmunchies to destroy it, but it didn't work. The giant Fireball hits Antasma, causing him to slowly vanish away. "Not again!" cries Antasma, slowing disappearing.
The battle with Antasma is finally over. Mario goes to Palutena to see if she's ok. Palutena wakes up and sees Mario and Prince Dreambert. "Palutena, you're all right." happily says Mario.
"Did you beat Antasma?" asks Palutena.
"Yeah. He's gone for good now." replies Mario.
Mario helps Palutena to stand up and Dream Luigi and Prince Dreambert smile at Mario and Palutena. "Let's go back to the real world." says Prince Dreambert.
Mario and Palutena travel back to the real world. Luigi wakes up and Prince Dreambert turns back into his normal self. "Master Mario, Master Luigi, Lady Palutena, Prince Dreambert, is the battle over?" worryingly asks Toadsworth.
"Yep. Antasma is no more." replies Mario.
"That's great new. As a celebration I should get some cake and punch." says Toadsworth, going to the kitchen.
Toadswroth arrives back with a chocolate cake and punch. After celebrating eating cake and drinking punch, Prince Dreambert have to go back to the Pillow Kingdom. "It's nice to see everyone again and meeting you, Goddess Palutena." says Prince Dreambert.
"Please come back and celebrate with us again, Prince Dreambert." says Toadsworth.
"Or come to the Smash mansion and watch us fight." suggested Luigi.
"Oh I will." says Prince Dreambert. "Thank you for saving the Dream World again, Mario, Luigi, and Goddess Palutena."
"Not a problem. Now you don't have to worry about the Dream World from being taken over." says Mario.
"I should be going now. I'll see you again." says Prince Dreambert as he holds Palutena and kisses her hand, causing Mario to get jealous again.