Ultimate Smash Adventure
By now I bet everyone has forgotten about project Imago, well it's time to reveal project Imago at last!
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story except for the story itself and Ron Host.
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Project Imago revealed and the ancient catastrophe
At first all Mario could see was complete darkness, slowly, he opened his eyes and slowly got up. "Huh… where-a am I?" Mario asked groggily. He looked around and saw that he was lying in a bed that was fluffy like a cloud, he saw white marble walls and cool blue tile. Silk curtains surrounded the bed he was in. "Did I-a die?" Mario asked.
"I think-a I died-a too." Came Luigi's voice. Mario pulled back his curtains and saw Luigi's silhouette behind another bed just like Mario's.
"Luigi!" Mario shouted.
"Sheesh… can't you guys keep it down… I'm dreaming about money…" Wario said sleepily.
"This place feels a lot like my home in Angel Land." Pit said.
"Uuuuhh… Popo is this heaven?" Nana asked.
"If that was the case, I don't think Ganondorf would be here." Popo said.
"Hey!" Ganondorf shouted. Pretty soon, everyone was stepping out of similar beds. Surveying the room further, they counted fourteen beds on each side and giant double doors at one end of the room.
"Where are we?" Y. Link asked.
"To heck if I know." Bowser said.
"It sure is beautiful." Peach said.
"Pikachu…" He said with stars in his eyes.
"Pyo?"
"Yes… it is a mystery, we're all clearly alive. But that raises the question of where are we?" Meta-Knight said.
"We're not in smash world anymore." Samus said. "My data records don't show any record of this place at all." Samus said.
"Hey… where'd Kefka go?" Roy asked.
"… I… Kn… quence… but… check on…" They all thought they heard Master Hand's voice from behind the door.
"I'll check." Bowser said as he went over to the door. He was about to go for the handle when the door flew open and flattened him against the wall.
"Ah… smashers, you're awake. Where's Bowser?" Master Hand asked. Everyone just silently pointed to the door. "Oops…" Master Hand opened the door away from the wall and Bowser slowly peeled off the wall.
"Oooo oo oo oo?" DK asked.
"Kefka… defeated you all and Crazy Hand and I almost didn't get you out of there in time." Master Hand said sadly.
"And what became of Smash world?" Zelda asked.
"…" Master Hand just floated there silently.
"Oh…" Luigi said.
"More importantly now, where are we?" Snake asked.
"This is the pocket dimension." Master Hand said.
"Like limbo?" Marth asked.
"No, it's called the pocket dimension. You see, this is where the rest of my family went to when I attempted to prove them wrong about all of you being able to live together." Master Hand said. "They… aren't too thrilled about me bringing you here." Master Hand said.
"Master Hand!" Came an unknown voice.
"What is it Judge Hand?" Master Hand asked. A right hand that was fiddling with a giant gavel came floating in.
"Good, now that they are all awake, we can begin the trial." Judge Hand said.
"Yoshi?"
"Yes, trial." Judge Hand said.
"I thought I told you the situation, in order to save them I had no choice but to bring them here!" Master Hand argued.
"Whether you are the son of King Hand or not, that does not excuse you from your actions." Judge Hand said pointing the gavel at Master Hand.
"Pichu?"
"Come along smashers." Master Hand said.
Meanwhile…
"Those blasted hands." Kefka said. "I would have been rid of those pests by now if it weren't for those blasted hands!" Kefka complained. "Oh well, now I finally have the final piece to the Black Rune… and once I put together the last piece, I will have my full power back and so much more!" Kefka yelled.
"We are all assembled my lord." Ridley said.
"Good, now then, Dr. Eggman tells me that he has a little surprise for us." Kefka said.
"Indeed I do." Eggman's hologram said. "And I've sent it right over to you… I hereby present, the fruits of my ultimate experiment… The complete project Imago!" Eggman's hologram said pointing toward the door. The fates all turned toward the door and it opened. 28 figures were visible in the shadows of varying shapes and sizes. "Behold! The cloning project is complete!" The figures stepped out of the shadows.
"Excellent! Step forward my Dark Smashers!" Kefka commanded. The figures revealed themselves to be the smashers, except for a few differences.
"It's-a me… Dark Mario." Said a Mario that had purple eyes, dark blue hat and shirt, and black overalls.
"And I'm-a Dark Lu-that green guy." Said a Dark Luigi with the same purple eyes, purple hat and shirt, and black overalls.
"What is the real ones' name anyway?" Ridley asked.
"Hmm… it seems to escape my memory." The Black Knight said.
"Yes uh… well I couldn't remember the name, so I just programmed his memory to recall Lu-that green guy as his name." Eggman said.
"Wah ha ha ha! I am Dark Wario!" Said a purple eyed Wario with purple pants, black shirt and vest, and blood red gloves and biker's hat and goggles.
"Dark Peach." Said a dark version of Peach with black dress, and lots of mascara, purple eyes.
"I am Dark Bowser!" Purple eyes, black shell and face, and brown skin.
"Yoshi…" Purple eyes, and black instead of green and purple instead of white.
"Dark Donkey Kong…" Black fur, with purple skin and purple eyes.
"Blood Falcon." It was just the same Blood Falcon from earlier.
"Yes I didn't have enough energy for 28 clones, so I just used C. Falcon's existing clone and Meta-Knight's existing clone." Dr. Eggman said.
"Indeed." Said Dark Meta-Knight.
"I am Dark Ganondorf." Purple eyes, purple gem on forehead, purple cape and darker armor.
"Dark Link." Purple eyes, black tunic and purple breeches.
"Dark Y. Link." Purple eyes, black tunic.
"Dark Sheik." Purple eyes, with a black and purple outfit with a black crying eye emblem.
"Dark Samus." Black and gray like the Phazon suit from Metroid Prime.
"Dark Ness." Purple eyes, black and purple shirt, purple shorts, and black hat.
"Pyo…" Purple eyes and skin, black shoes.
"Dark Ice Climbers." Said the two Ice Climber clones simultaneously. The Popo had a black parka, and the Nana had a purple parka, both had purple eyes.
"Dark Fox." Purple eyes, and the outfit was pretty much completely black.
"Dark Falco." Same deal, purple eyes, completely black outfit.
"Pikachu…" Purple eyes, and black fur with purple cheeks.
"Pichu…" Same as the dark Pikachu.
"Jigglypuff." Purple eyes and purple fur and skin.
"Dark Mewtwo." Even creepier purple eyes than Mewtwo has and the skin was a deeper shade of purple.
"Dark Pit." Pit with purple eyes, purple toga, and bat wings instead of angel wings.
"Dark Marth." It was Marth with Purple eyes, and a completely black outfit.
"Dark Roy." Roy with purple eyes, and black armor.
"Dark Snake." Snake with purple eyes and an even darker outfit than the original Snake.
"With the power of the Master Emerald, I basically had just enough energy to make twenty-six of them, and with the data I gathered from everyone in the alliance, I programmed the smasher's fighting techniques in to them, and with blood hair or spit that was collected from the spoils of all of their battles the clones were made in to exact copies, and all that was left was some dark power from you Lord Kefka. And now we have clones of the smashers, only with none of their good sides and imbued with dark power."
"Perfect." Kefka said.
Back in the pocket dimension…
"Master Hand, you are charged with bringing outsiders in to the pocket dimension, and with giving Kefka the Black Rune." Judge Hand said.
"Objection!" Mewtwo said. "Master Hand didn't give it to him."
"Were you conscious to see it?" Judge Hand said.
"I can read minds and I also have clairvoyance. Kefka used his existing power to steal it from Master Hand unnoticeably." Mewtwo argued.
"Tell me then psychic, do you know about the ancient crises?" Judge Hand asked.
"Well… no…" Mewtwo said.
"Then you do not know the damage that has been done!" Judge Hand said. "King Hand and I and a few in this room right now have seen this crises."
"Well if we don't know it, you might as well educate us…" Ganondorf said through clenched teeth.
"Very well… Teller Hand, show them." Judge Hand ordered. A thin left hand floated down and snapped his fingers, the room suddenly changed. It was like they were floating through space.
"I remember as if it were yesterday…" The hand said. "The Black Rune had existed longer than any dimension has ever existed, when the dimensions began to form, someone from a magical dimension found it." A shadow appeared and picked up from seemingly nowhere the completed Black Rune.
"Pichu…" He said absolutely terrified.
"This is just an illusion Pichu." Master Hand reassured him.
"He used it to give him such foul black magic…" Teller Hand continued as a dark aura surrounded the figure, "… that eventually the dark power drove him mad." Flames started to erupt. "The hands immediately took action to try and stop him." The image of several hands flew in to try and attack the shadow. "However the darkness has risen him to a level of almost god-like powers, thousands upon thousands of hands gave their lives trying to fight him." The flames grew more intense and the images of worlds crumbling and falling apart appeared before them. "Finally, the great and powerful King Hand stepped forward." The image of a golden right hand with a ruby imbedded in the back of the hand appeared. "Using his divine light…" King Hand suddenly gave off a bright light "… he and the man's darkness battled for days upon days." The darkness and light of the man and King Hand pushed each other back and forth. "…finally, King Hand had won, but at the ultimate price." The light and darkness faded, both King Hand and the shadow were dead. "We hands then took the black rune and split it in to pieces and hid each piece in some dimension or another, it was this fight that convinced us that outsiders, could never interact. And the years after that helped convince us further not to allow you to interact." Teller Hand said.
"But look what Master Hand has done for us." Peach said.
"I wouldn't have met the friends I have now if it weren't for him." Link said.
"Pyo…" He said with a determined look on his face.
"But look what this interaction has ultimately done, it has caused someone who was already a god to obtain that cursed item." Judge Hand said. "And what has this interaction done for you? Your last few attempts to help have ended in failure, and causing pain for others." Judge Hand said.
"This-a fight isn't-a over yet-a." Mario said.
"Yeah, as long as we're around, there's still hope of stopping him." Marth said.
"Maybe I'm new to this lot, but I always hated leaving a fight unfinished, and if working with these guys means finishing the fight with those alliance jerks, then I'm in with them all the way!" Wario said.
"Yoshi!"
"I'll never give up as long as my friends are there to help me." Samus said.
"Master Hand has-a done nothing wrong-a." Luigi told Judge Hand.
"Hmmm… maybe if there was some way for you to convince me that you can undo what damage you've caused." Judge Hand said.
"Wait…" Teller Hand spoke up. "… I see… havoc… dark figures are in your homes…" Teller Hand said.
"What!" The smashers shouted.
"I see it now… five in the mushroom kingdom… one at Yoshi's island… one at Kongo Bongo… Two in Mute City… four in Hyrule… one in Onett… two in Dreamland… two at Icicle Mountains… one in the land of Angels… three in Corneria… four in Kanto… and two in Elibe…"
"Hmmm… if my smashers can handle this… surely you'll consider…" Master Hand said.
"… fine, if they can ward off whatever this current crises is, I will consider them worthy of recognition by the hands." Judge Hand said. "Now go!"
"I say we-a go to our-a respective homes." Mario said.
"I agree with Mario." Mewtwo said.
"I suppose that sounds reasonable." Roy said.
"Alright, but some of us don't have our homes under attack." Samus said.
"I'll go with Fox and Falco." Snake said.
"I guess I'll go with C. Falcon." Samus said.
"Alright alright now go!" Judge Hand yelled. He snapped his fingers and warp stars appeared beneath all the smashers and sent them flying toward through dimensions.
Five warp stars made a crash course for the mushroom kingdom. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! My warp star will crash! I just know it!" Bowser yelled.
"Oh just-a relax Bowser." Mario said.
"Must you always yell?" Wario asked him. The five stars then crashed in to Peach's castle. The castle itself was already a wreck, it was ablaze and the roof was a wreck, so was the bridge and the moat.
"Mama-mia… what-a happened here?" Luigi asked.
"Toadsworth… my castle." Peach was stuttering.
"Aw why would you care? I don't." Said a sinister version of a familiar voice. The five smashers turned around and saw.
"It's us!" Wario said. "Only… not near as good looking." Wario said looking at the Imago clones.
"We are the result of project Imago…" Dark Mario said.
"Mama-mia! That-a was project Imago?" Mario asked.
Elsewhere…
"Grrrrrrr…" Yoshi growled. The Island huts were all torn down and a complete wreck.
"Grrrrrrr…" Growled Dark Yoshi.
Elsewhere…
"What is my retarded son doing?" Cranky Kong asked as he watched DK tear up trees. "And what did he do to his fur." It was Dark DK he was referring to really.
"OOOOOOOO!"
"Uh?" Dark DK turned around to see DK arriving at the scene. "Rrrrrr…"
"Huh? Now there's two of my retarded sons? Or son? What?" Cranky asked.
Elsewhere…
"I sense an evil presence…" Zelda said. The three of them turned to look at Ganondorf.
"What?" Ganondorf asked.
"Sorry, wrong presence." Zelda said.
"Is that it?" Y. Link asked pointing to four figures.
"It's… us?" Link asked.
"Heh heh heh heh…" The dark clones laughed.
Elsewhere…
"All of this destruction…" C. Falcon said through clenched teeth, while looking at burning buildings.
"Will be paid for…" Samus said scanning through the rubble. "You're not going to believe who's causing all of this." Samus said.
Elsewhere…
"AAAAAAAHHH! Ness has gone berserk!" Pokey Minch shouted. "But I haven't even visited the smash world to pick on you lately!" Pokey yelled while running away from Dark Ness.
"Hey! Fake! Leave him alone!" Ness shouted at the Imago Ness.
"Huh? Two Nesses? What the heck?" Pokey was now confused beyond belief.
Elsewhere…
"Get ready Kirby!" Meta-Knight said as they faced down their dark counterparts.
"Pyo." Kirby said.
Elsewhere…
"Stop destroying this mountain!" The Ice Climbers yelled at their counterparts.
"Grrr… it's our light twins." The Dark Climbers said.
Elsewhere…
"How dare you mimic me unholy being?" Pit asked holding his bow at the ready.
"Heh… don't even think about it." Dark Pit said holding a dark version of his bow.
Elsewhere…
"So this is project Imago…" Snake guessed while looking at his dark counterpart standing next to Dark Fox and Dark Falco.
"Well, I guess we have to show them whose boss." Falco said.
"Just try it losers." Dark Fox said.
Elsewhere…
"This may be difficult…" Mewtwo said while looking at the Dark counterparts.
Elsewhere…
"Son! Why?" Eliwood asked while bending on one knee.
"Simple! That's not me!" Roy shouted. Dark Roy turned around and saw Roy standing there.
"So… my counterpart has come… fine, I'll kill you as well." Dark Roy said.
"I'll help Roy." Marth said.
"Not so fast, I'm here too you know." Dark Marth said.
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