Before we move on to the finale, let's see what the other original smashers were up to while they had their bodies switched!

Chapter 57: Nintendo Switch Extra

Samus and Kirby

"Help! We've got a serial eater on the loose!" Dark Pit yelled sarcastically as Kirby (in Samus's body) scarfed down a third whole ham. He washed it down with a couple turkey legs.

Dark Pit got the whole thing on video. "Perfect blackmail." He said, running out of the room before Samus (in Kirby's body) could catch him.

Samus (in Kirby's body) looked on in dismay as Kirby destroyed her physique. She would have to train for weeks to get back into tip top shape. Donkey Kong (in yoshi's body) walked up to her and patted her head.

"Sorry about that. Kirby eats so much that I don't think he even noticed he switched bodies."

"Yeah, you're right." Samus (in Kirby's body) said. "...wait. You can understand what I'm saying? Everyone I've talked to has been reacting as if I'd just been saying 'poyo' to them over and over again."

"That's because that's what they hear."

"What are you talking about?"

"Yknow how when you're in your regular body all you hear me say is 'Ook ook' over and over again?"

"No… you're not Donkey Kong, you're Yoshi."

"You're not the only ones who switched bodies, remember?"

"Oh yeah. Anyways, what were you saying again?"

"Well, y'see, in this universe…"

"THIS universe? You mean there are others?"

"Oh, you don't have to worry about those. Yet. Anyways, the smashers are basically divided into two languages. Any smasher you can't talk to, like me, Kirby, all of the Pokémon, etc., can actually understand and talk to each other."

"Wow, that's cool! I'm surprised our scientists haven't figured that out yet!"

"Well, that's because you could never talk to us. But now you can!"

"Yknow, you're a lot better spoken than I thought you were." Samus (in Kirby's body) said, smiling.

"Thanks. I think?" Donkey Kong (in Yoshi's body) said, scratching his chin. "Anyways, I know the way to get Kirby to stop destroying your body."

"...how?"

"Simple, really. We just get him to inhale something that is sleeping. He'll be out like a light. Haven't you ever played his games?"

"I'm not a gamer."

"Oh. Well, I guess we're done here. See you then." Donkey Kong said, trotting away.

"...weirdo." Samus said, turning her attention back to Kirby, who had just finished another chicken. Looking around, she saw a sleeping cat. Her brain hatched an idea.

Samus (in Kirby's body) decided to try one more time to get Kirby's attention. "Hey! Kirby! Look at this delicious sleeping cat! Don't you want to eat it?"

Kirby looked up from his (or her? I dunno at this point) feast and looked over at Samus (in Kirby's body).

"Samus samus samus samus!" Kirby (in Samus's body) said.

"Oh yeah. That whole language barrier thing." Samus thought. "Well, I guess I'll just have to force this cat down my throat! Uh, his throat, I mean. Bleh."

Samus (in Kirby's body) slowly picked the cat up, her deadly precision allowing her to do so without waking up the cat. Then, with even more precision, she threw the cat into the fact of Kirby's inhaling vortex. Kirby (in Samus's body) instantly fell asleep and fell to the ground.

"Phew… thank goodness that's over." Samus said. "Now I can relax…" she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. Today was exhausting.

Suddenly, from around the corner, Lucina popped out her head. "Hmm… I wonder where Cookie went… I could've sworn I heard meowing from here…"

Donkey Kong and Yoshi

Today had been a weird day for Donkey Kong. After talking to Samus (in Kirby's body), he was suddenly in the mood to play some Kirby games. He booted up the old Wii and inserted some random Kirby game (to be honest I don't remember which Kirby games were on the Wii and at this point I'm too ashamed to look it up).

"Alright, let's get down to business!" Donkey Kong (in Yoshi's body) said happily. He grabbed his controller screamed. His yoshi hand only had four fingers! How would Donkey Kong use his ultra-secret method of holding the controller without all five fingers?

Donkey Kong (in Yoshi's body) stormed over to Yoshi's house and barged inside, where Yoshi (in Donkey Kong's body) happened to be playing a Kirby game on his Wii.

"Where are your fingers?!" Donkey Kong yelled at him.

Yoshi (in Donkey Kong's body) blinked and looked at his hands. "I think these are them."

"That's not what I meant! Why does your body only have four fingers?"

"Is there a problem with the amount of fingers I have?"

"Yeah!" Donkey Kong (in Yoshi's body) said. "How am I gonna hold the wiimote now?"

"Um… like this?" Yoshi said, holding the wiimote like a regular person.

Donkey Kong's eyes jumped out of his (aka Yoshi's) body. "HOLY DANG THAT'S REVOLUTIONARY I GOTTA GET HOME TO TRY IT!" He ran out of the house, leaving a yoshi-shaped hole in the side of Yoshi's house.

Yoshi shook his head and kept playing Kirby. "...weirdo."

Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff

To be honest, there's not much to write about here. All that Jigglypuff (in Captain Falcon's body) did was sleep the whole time, and all that Captain Falcon (in Jigglypuff's body) did was flex the whole time.

Next!

Fox and Pikachu

Fox was absolutely hating being stuck in Pikachu's body. He had no idea how to control Pikachu's electricity powers, meaning that he would shock anybody he came in contact with. Falco was forced to lock him in his room so that his feathers wouldn't be ruffled. He couldn't hold anything with his tiny pokemon hands, including his telecommunicator, meaning that he couldn't talk with his friends. It was the worst!

To help ease his boredom, he decided to watch TV. He couldn't quite hold the remote, meaning that he had to manually change the channel himself. Right as he was about to break his TV from frustration, there was a big earthquake. Before he knew it, he was surrounded by darkness.

"An earthquake? That's strange." After his eyes adjusted to the darkness, he could see that he was still in his room. The only difference was that the power was gone. "Oh, great… I'm stuck in here and now I can't even use my TV. Curse my life!" Fox (in Pikachu's body) growled, banging the TV. A few sparks flew off of him when he hit the TV, and suddenly the TV whirred back to life. The lights in his room eventually turned back on, too.

"Woah... " Fox looked at his small yellow hands. "Of course! Pikachu's body is basically a walking battery!"

While he was busy celebrating getting power back, he heard a knock on the door. Falco poked his head in, holding his dead laptop. "Hey, quite an earthqu...huh?"

Falco looked at the lit up room in awe. "How do you still have power? The rest of the building is in the dark!"

"I used my electricity powers. Pretty cool, huh?"

"Yeah… Hey, do you mind if I hang in here for a while? I really need power right now."

Fox smirked maliciously. "Sorry, buddy, but no."

Falco frowned. "And why not?"

"You said it yourself, right? I can't be near you or else I'll frazzle your hairdo." Fox sat back in his bean bag, looking as smug as ever. "Make sure to close the door on your way out."

Falco glared at him. "Why you little… AH!"

Falco's whole body suddenly puffed up from all the electricity. "...fine"

Falco eventually managed to fix his feathers, but not before Fox managed to snag a picture with his phone. Falco quickly left into the darkness of his own room, cursing quietly to himself, while Fox went back to watching Star Trek. "Maybe this isn't so bad after all…"

Meanwhile, Pikachu (in Fox's body) was very confused. None of his electronics were working. The TV wouldn't turn on, his bed heater would star cold, and his toaster didn't toast his bread! When Lucario walked downstairs to get an Oran Berry, Pikachu was angrily scratching the wall., ruining Fox's nails.

"What's wrong, not-so-yellow one?" Lucario asked.

"Nothing in my room is working and I don't know why!" Pikachu (in Fox's body) screeched.

Lucario and Pikachu headed upstairs to Pikachu's room, which was in total darkness. "Hmm… let's take a look at this… aha! Your stuff isn't broken, you just need to plug them in!"

"Plug them in?" Pikachu asked.

"Wait, you've never plugged anything in before?" Lucario said, gesturing to the TV's plug. "Of course! It's because you never had to because of your electricity power! But since you're in a different body, you don't have electricity!"

He took the plug and plugged it into the outlet. It whirred to life playing Pikachu's favorite soap opera, Pokelovers in Paris.

"Oh, so when something isn't working, you take its tale and put it into the hole in the wall?" Pikachu asked.

"...yyyes." Lucario said.

"Cool, thanks!" Pikachu said. Lucario left the room, leaving Pikachu alone to watch TV.

Ness and Luigi

"You want me to WHAT?" Ness (in Luigi's body) did a spit take.

"Well… Princess Daisy is-a opening a new-a shopping center in Sarasaland, and as her-a boyfriend, and a big figure in Sarasaland, I have to-a make a grand opening speech."

"So you're saying that I have to do it now that I'm in your body?"

"Yeah." Luigi grinned sheepishly. "Don't-a worry, I have a script and everything."

"Why don't you just tell them we switched bodies and do it yourself?"

Luigi (in Ness's body) grimaced. "Appearances are-a everything in Sarasaland. If they see a small-a kid doing the speech, they won't be-a happy. Everyone there is as-a pretentious as a rose."

"And what if they aren't happy with how I deliver the speech?"

"They won't be! You'll be-a fine! Now off you go, the plane is-a here!"

Ness hadn't even noticed the private jet that landed behind him. The door opened, and Daisy walked out to greet them.

"Hi sweetie!" Luigi (in Ness's body) said as Daisy walked up. He gestured to Ness. "This is Ness. He'll be-a making the speech today."

"Hello Ness!" Daisy said, beaming widely.

"Nice to meet you! Don't mess this up or you'll regret it!" She said, without changing her creepily wide smile.

"Erk…"Ness gulped.

"Isn't she a charmer? That's my-a Daisy!" Luigi (in Ness's body) said. "Let's get-a going, shall we?"

At Sarasaland…

The three had made it to Sarasaland fairly quickly and were now at the backstage of the Sarasaland theatre, which is a part of the new shopping center and the place where the opening speech was set to happen.

"I don't know if I could do this…" Ness said. He peeked through the curtain and into the audience. Everyone was dressed in fancy suits or dresses. About half of them had opera glasses for some reason. "I mean, I read the script dozens of times, but I don't think I can make it convincing. I'm not really one for talking publicly."

"Just make a lot of hand motions and you'll be-a fine!" Luigi said.

"Don't mess it up or I'll kill you!" Daisy said, smiling widely.

"Haha, what a jokester!" Luigi said, patting Ness on the back. "Isn't she-a funny?"

Before Ness could respond, a fanfare started playing. "Oh, that's my cue!" Daisy said.

"Good luck! Break a leg!" She waved at them before heading onto the main stage to be greeted by a round of applause. Ness had a feeling that she would mean that literally if he messed up.

"Yes, thank you! Thank you all!" Daisy said, waving to the crowd. "I am as ecstatic as you are about this new shopping center! Before we cut the ribbon, Luigi is going to give a speech."

"You'll do-a great!" Luigi (in Ness's body) said.

Ness (in Luigi's body) took a deep breath and walked onstage. He was met with blinding lights and deafening claps.

"Haha, yes. Thank you. Thank you." He said, taking his place at center stage. Clearing his throat, he took out the script and tapped the microphone a few times.

"Is this thing on? It is? Good…Um, hello, and welcome to the grand opening of the Srirachaland shopping center… wait…" he squinted his eyes and looked at the script again. "I mean the Sarasaland shopping center. Um…"

Luigi (in Ness's body) face palmed as Ness continued to stumble through the speech. "Ness is usually so outgoing when we're just hanging out…" Luigi thought. "Is Ness… scared of public speaking?"

"Um… uh…" Ness panicked. As if this wasn't going badly enough, he lost his place in the script! He could hear the audience murmuring in disapproval. He looked offstage to the right, where Luigi (in Ness's body) was waving his hands around. He could just barely make out Luigi mouthing "hand motions" to him.

"Alright, might as well give this a shot…" Ness said. In one swift motion, he threw the papers away. Then he started flailing his arms around wildly. Without saying a word.

This went on for about thirty seconds before Ness decided to add feet motions to his "speech." He paraded and jumped around the stage while still flailing his arms like a madman.

Two minutes later, he stopped abruptly, bowed to the audience, and ran offstage.

"What-a in the world was that?!" Luigi asked, completely aghast. Ness ignored him and kept running, exiting through the back and not stopping until he was back at the private jet.

Ness spent the next thirty minutes brooding about how awful that went. When Luigi (in Ness's body) found him, he was staring at a reflection of himself in the window.

"Hey, Ness…" Luigi said, sitting down next to him.

"Why are we here? Just to suffer?" Ness said, looking super emo. Well, as emo as he could look in Luigi's body.

"Ok, Miller, calm down." Luigi said, understanding the reference to MGSV.

Ness sighed. "I'm sorry I blew the speech so badly. I probably ruined your reputation… I'm sorry I let you down."

"But you didn't let me down!" Luigi said, smiling. "The opposite of it, in fact!"

Ness looked at him, hope blooming in his eyes. "What do you mean? Did I accidentally give the performance of a lifetime that left the audience speechless? Did the audience view my 'performance' as groundbreaking in the way grand opening speeches are made? Did I make you the first famous interpretive speech giver in the world?"

Luigi laughed. "No way! Your speech-a was a total flop."

"Oh… then why are you happy?"

"Well, because of how terribly it went, Daisy broke-a up with me for ruining the opening ceremony! She may seem-a nice and beautiful, but, between you-a and me, she's a little crazy. I've been wanting to-a break up with her for months, but I was too-a scared. Now I don't have to!"

"Yeah, I figured she was a little loco." Ness said, shuddering at the thought of her wide smile. "Well, I'm glad someone liked it, I guess."

Luigi (in Ness's body) patted Ness on the back. "Aw, don't be so-a sad! You're my hero!"

Ness smiled slightly. "Haha, I guess I am."

"Cmon, let's go-a home. Daisy's not letting us use-a the private jet, but if we leave-a right now we can leave before-a the pilot finds out."

Luigi and Ness rushed inside the private jet and told the pilot to book it, just as Daisy arrived on her convertible. She silently crushed the water bottle she was holding as she smiled widely and her face twitched.

A/N: The finale of this arc will be next chapter, and then we're going straight to another mini-arc! I'm not gonna give out too much information, but I am going to say this: Woomy!

Until next chapter!