Aftershock

Disclaimer: I don't own Smash Bros, if I did I wouldn't waste any time writing fanfictions about my creation. I'd just make it happen.

Chapter 2-Eirika, the Restoration Queen

Samus awoke slowly, but surely. Her eyes slowly fluttering open. The blurred picture of the person next to her became clear. It was Marth. Marth had saved her when she fell off the cliff, but wait? Where was she? She was in a room, with desks and chairs, and she herself was lying on a bed of some sorts but….it was a hospital room. She figured that out. But where? And how?

"What's going on? Where am I?" She barely got out.

"Oh you're up," Marth said, "You're in my castle, we're hiding out here until we really know what's going on."

"Oh. I see, I guess. What about my injuries?" Samus asked.

"Peach did everything, I don't know. But I can tell you, somehow she's a professional. You'll have to ask her how she did it," Marth said.

He power suit was gone, she remembered, she had lost it defeating Giga Bowser, she was in her blue zero suit. Then Samus noticed it. Something was on her head, not a helmet, but a crown of some sort. She removed it and looked at it. She was close, but it was a tiara, not a crown.

"What's this?" She asked.

"That's my tiara. It was passed down from generation to generation in my family and has always brought good luck. I wanted you to pull through, also I wouldn't mind if you held onto it for now, Ike thinks it's really girly," Marth explained.

Samus chuckled at the last part.

"That was sweet of you. Thanks, I will," Samus said gently.

She somehow found the strength to lean up and give Marth a hug. Marth hugged her back, finding it funny how she was holding tighter then him. Peach entered the room looking at a couple of papers.

"Well, Marth, I'm back from Link's room, so far he's good, he'll make it but….." She was cut off as she looked up and saw the scene before her. She smiled before commenting.

"Well, what do we have here?" Peach sneered, "Looks like someone finally got up."

The two instantly split apart, both of them completely red in the face.

"What was that, Ike? You got a new sword handle? Cool, I'll be right there!" Marth yelled as he bolted from the room.

"Peach, it's not like you saw, we're just friends," Samus explained.

"Ok, sure Sam," Peach laughed.

"Peach!" Samus exclaimed.

"Alright, alright. But he is cute," Peach added.

Samus gave the 'shut the f-up' now look and Peach stopped talking. She wrote some things on her notepad before Samus spoke again.

"How did you become an advanced doctor?" Samus asked.

"Dr. Mario taught me, but that's a different story," Peach replied.

"I've got time," Samus retorted.

Meanwhile, far away, Pit flew over the jungle, searching for Zelda. But he couldn't for the life of him find her. Then, he noticed the colony of koopas dragging barrels towards the mountains close to where he was flying. Zelda had to be with them, he could sense it. He just had to follow them to the mountains. And that's what he did, and after about an hour he was at the mountain where all the koopa had gathered. Lucky for Pit, the koopas were all too stupid to notice him in the sky.

Up ahead, there was a passage way, that led into the mountain. Pit shot one of the koopa with his bow while the others loaded their carts. He hopped into one of the barrels unnoticed. Man, the koopa were really stupid.

"Hey, one of these carts is left unattended!" One koopa said.

"I got it," Said another.

The koopa pushed the cart up the top of the mountain until they reached the top, where the cart was put on a conveyor belt. After a couple of minutes the cart stopped. Pit peered out to see what was going on. He was now in some kind of storage room with many other carts and crates of the kind. What were they even harvesting anyway? Pit had no time to find out, he had to focus on Zelda.

He climbed out of the barrel and looked for an exit. There was a door about three stories up. Pit flew up and opened the door. There was a hall and two guards posted at the end. He shot the guards with his arrows and ran down the hall. Pit peered over the edge of the wall to the next hall. Pit could see koopas carrying a stretcher of some sort. But it was golden, possible a royal stretcher. They were coming his way so he decided to fly up to the roof of the hallway and grab a pipe with his hands and rest his legs on another, Bond style.

The koopa stretcher passed and it became clear to Pit that it was Bowser on the stretcher. Somehow, the other smashers had defeated him. And pretty badly too, he was bleeding everywhere and was burned severely in many places. Pit looked away and waited until they passed.

When they did, Pit turned and sprinted the other way when….

"Red alert, red alert, intruder!" The ominous koopa voice shouted over the intercom.

But, he had not been seen, how? Then two goombas went flying into a wall behind him. Pit turned around to see a woman, clad in golden chest armor and wielding a sword taking down mountains of koopa and goomba. They had not found him, but they had found her. But who was she?

Link walked to the table for dinner at the castle. Well, not really walked, he hobbled on his crutches. He was useless to the smashers now and he hated in. His leg was broken from his battle with Vaati and he had a large wound in his chest, which had narrowly missed his heart. And worst of all, he was his kid form again. Toon Link. He couldn't possibly do anything. Not like Samus, who defeated Bowser, or Falcon, who's ship the Big Blue had taken them back to Marth's castle in the first place.

"Thanks again for saving my life, Peach," Link sighed.

"It was nothing little guy, oops," Peach said, unable to catch herself in time.

"It's alright," Link replied, knowing that it really wasn't.

The smashers all ate there feast chatting amongst themselves peacefully until it happened. In the room next to them, the ceiling exploded and Master Hand fell in. Evryone of them dropped what they were doing and ran into the room. They drew their weapons, unaware of what was going on.

"Who-a-are you, and a-what do ya what?" Mario exclaimed, "Because you can't be a-Master Hand."

"You are certainly right Mario, I'm not Master Hand, I'm Crazy Hand, and I've come to ask for your help," The giant hand said.

The woman looked at Pit and lunged at him, Pit split his bow in half and blocked her attack with one blade and slashed at her with another. She jumped back and avoided the attack.

"Look, I don't know who you are or why you're here, but I'm not your enemy. We are both fighting the koopa, so there's really no need for violence," Pit said calmly.

The woman dropped her sword and Pit let out a sigh of relief. He was probably going to get an ass whooping.

"What's your name?" Pit asked.

"Eirika, the restoration queen, I have come to find Mario and Link," The woman stated.

"I'm Pit, I can take you to them, if you help me with something first," Pit said, "But first I'd have to ask you why?"

"I cannot tell you now why I seek Mario and Link," Eirika spoke.

Pit thought about it but then realized he couldn't deny her, otherwise she'd kill him.

"Now, what is it that we have to do?" Eirika questioned.

"We need to find a friend of mine, Princess Zelda, I'm sure she's here somewhere," Pit explained.

"She is three halls down on the third door to the left," Eirika stated.

"How did you?" Pit wondered.

"I have….abilities," Eirika said.

Pit didn't ask questions. He followed her down to the door, as she slaughtered any koopa or goomba dumb enough to stand in her way. She opened the door she had claimed Zelda was in and she was correct. It was dark, but there was a small walkway that led to a giant stone tablet. Zelda was chained to the tablet, by her hands and ankles.

They approached her and Eirika sliced the chains off as Zelda fell to the floor. Zelda slowly regained consciousness and looked up.

"What's going on?" Zelda asked, completely out of everything that was going on.

"Zelda, it's Pit, I'm gonna get you out of here okay." Pit said gently.

"I think we should go, I have a bad feeling about this place," Eirika said.

For the first time in the short time he had known her, Pit saw Eirika become scared. And most of her 'predictions' were right so far. Pit looked over the edge of the platform they were on and saw it was a long way down. Really long. Like Bespin City long.

"Yea, I think we should g.." Pit started.

He was cut of by a large purple dragon careening into the platform from below. Pit was falling, falling. He had to get Zelda, and Eirika. Pit saw Zelda below him, and flew straight down towards her as fast as he could. He caught her, and looked around for Eirika. Where was she?

The dragon.

He looked up, and saw Eirika in the clutches of the monster. Pit recognized as Ridley, one of Ganondorf's henchmen, but that was impossible. Samus, Falcon, Olimar, Pikachu, DK, and Diddy defeated him at the Bomb Factory. It wasn't possible.

Eirika, unable to draw her sword, shot a fire spell at the beast's chest. Ridley released her and this time she attacked him with a thunder spell, the blast striking the dragon in the wing. As Ridley fell below her, she drew her sword and hacked off Ridley's left arm.

Never before had Pit seen something so badass.

But Ridley retaliated, by shooting multiple fire balls at her. Eirika dodged most, but was hit by one around chest level as she fell even further down. As all this unfolded, Zelda had fully regained consciousness. Zelda saw the action happen and quickly formulated a plan.

"Pit, catch her," Zelda commanded.

Pit nodded and caught Eirika with his open hand.

"Now, shift so she's holding me from your leg," Zelda said.

"What?" Pit and Eirika both exclaimed.

"Just do it," Zelda repeated.

"Okay," Pit agreed.

They shifted so that now Eirika was now holding Pit's leg with one hand, and Zelda's leg with the other, so that Zelda was now facing downwards. All this time Ridley was still plummeting towards what seemed to be an endless shaft.

"Boy if you dare look at those panties you die!" Zelda shouted.

"Alright, alright," Pit said.

"Good," Zelda said, 'Now Ridley, eat Final Smash!"

Zelda suddenly glowed with white light, and a golden bow appeared in her hand. The white light then formed in arrow, which rocketed down towards Ridley at high speeds, piercing him in the chest, killing him. Ridley then split into many different pieces of purple and black particles and exploded.

"Well that's done," Pit sighed.

Meanwhile, in an unknown location, a small man descended into what appeared to be a throne room. The man was about Sonic's height, wearing a red ninja's gi. He donned red chest and lower arm armor that was trimmed with white. A white sash flowed from the back of his red helmet, which had a little open part where he could see from. But looking in all you could see was darkness, and what appeared to be yellow-glowing eyes.

He approached the throne on the opposite side of the room, which was shrouded in darkness.

"Ah, you are back," An ominous voice spoke, "I trust you completed your mission in freeing the Smashers from Wolf's freeze waves."

"Yes, my lord," The red clad man replied.

"Good, none of them saw you correct?" The ominous voice spoke again.

"No, none of them."

"Very good, very good, now I need you to find Red Mage, he has gone missing again."

"I shall do so master."

"Thank you, Ninja."

Ninja jumped from wall to wall out the exit and out a window in the next room. Now, to find Red Mage.

Pit, Zelda, and Eirika now found themselves back in the jungle, where Pit had started. They had escaped from the mountain fortress.

"Now we've escaped, take me to Mario and Link," Eirika reminded.

"Yeah, I will, come on," Pit said.

But before he could do anything, he was suddenly struck from behind by a wave of fire. Eirika and Zelda turned around to see a man, clad in red clothes, a red cape. He wore a red hat that had a silver feather in it, which matched his silver hair.

Zelda transformed into Sheik, and Eirika drew her sword. Great, another enemy, they both thought.

Afterthought: I introduced Eirika, from Fire Emblem, the Sacred Stones, and Ninja, and Red Mage from Final Fantasy. I don't know why but I thought they'd go good with the story. By the way, Ninja is in his Mario Hoops Form, and he is the mysterious assailant. I also opened up like four more mysteries to be solved, some of which will be solved next chapter.

Next Chapter: The Substitute

The Smashers learn an incredible secret from Crazy Hand, and the action with Red Mage, and Ninja goes down.

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