Chapter 8

It wasn't long after leaving that they were already intercepted, as the bushes began rustling. "Chrom, hold me," MaRobin whimpered. Lucina, Shulk, and Garon quickly assumed battle stances, becoming surrounded by the Red Team outline, as a horde of Nyaruko-slam posters surrounded in the Green Team outline floated out, carried by the wind.

"Come on and slam, and welcome to the jam!" they chanted in unison. Garon swung with his axe and Lucina shot her bow (she had inexplicably class changed to Bride when nobody was looking), but Shulk hesitated. He had a vision, and saw figures in the Blue Team outline jump from the bushes-they were Sailor Scouts! Shulk tried to warn his allies, but he was too slow-Sailor Uranus burst out of a bush, and grabbed Lucina in a choke hold. At the same time, Sailor Jupiter shot a Nyaruko-slam poster, who merely cried out, "Here's your chance, do your dance, at the Space Jam, alright!"

Meanwhile, more Nyaruko-slam posters were somehow advancing toward the Robins, who had for some reason decided they didn't want to fight, and Chrom. But before they could possibly give a hero a papercut or something, they all spontaneously combusted. Confused, Chrom and the Robins looked around. Then, they saw a figure-a super red girl jumped out of a nearby tree, and swung an equally red sword at more of the posters, unleashing a stream of fire-it was Pyra! However, Rex wasn't here-he was busy salvaging, too busy to somehow enter the world of Smash Bros. Chrom guessed Pyra got a pass since she wasn't in UMvC3, or something. Maybe Rex just didn't exist in this canon.

Anyway, needing some level of powercreep in this story, Chrom suddenly resonated with Pyra. Guess he's a Driver now, or something. Except actually not, because Chrom actually isn't allowed powercreep unless he was wearing a Christmas outfit, but the Christmas arc is over. Pyra pointed her sword at more posters and shouted, "think you can take me?" Unable to freely speak, the posters continued their chant. Pyra swung her sword again as she shouted "yer done!" The rest of the posters burned up, and only the Sailor Scouts remained.

While Pyra was mimicking the Ardanian soldiers, Lucina had escaped Uranus' grab and thrusted with her lance. Uranus yelped, and was launched beyond the stage's blast zone. Only Jupiter remained, but Shulk BACK SLASHed her, launching her beyond the blast zone as well. The announcer shouted, "GAME!" and the Red Team all struck victory poses, as Shulk's victory fanfare played. Shulk commented, "This is a good result!"

The group continued on their way to find Pac-Man, and crossed many stages-2, in fact. And while that doesn't sound like much, the two stages in question were Melee's Big Blue, and that one moving Mario stage from Brawl. So, fairly big stages. But near the end of that Mario stage, another figure stood before them-Dr. Robotnik! "SnooPINGAS usual, I see!" Obviously, a Stand battle was impending. Crouching and jumping up over and over, Dr. Robotnik shouted, "Behold! 「 N」!"

Chrom suddenly flashed back to the beginning of his strange, Sma5hless journey. He remembered. Pointing finger guns at Robotnik, he shouted out, "Holy crap! Is that a motherfricking Garon's Royal Harem reference!?" Garon gasped, as Chrom's question had triggered his own memory too, back when he choked on some Diet Coke.

"Chrom, I…." but Garon hesitated. He knew he couldn't love a non-Smasher-it's still against his morals. With that, he stifled his questionable feelings, and he and Chrom summoned their own Stands. Because the Author was unable to create an actual power for Robotnik's Stand, the three began having a non-detailed Stand battle. But the battle did not rage long, as everyone quickly got bored and agreed to stop fighting. Lucina, not understanding what happened, whipped out her gun and sent Robotnik to the Shadow Realm, but also she stole his Stand disc. "Lol get rekt scrub" Not really caring about Lucina's actions, they proceeded on their journey.