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 4-Separate Paths! Defeat Master Hand
Sonic, Ike, King Dedede, Ness, Yoshi, DK, Diddy, and Olimar all entered the portal single-file, that would take to the plantation where Ganondorf harvested dark matter. Once they had all gone, Crazy, in his human form, turned to the others.
"I request that Mario, Link, Snake, and the Ice Climbers come with me, as they will be needed for the mission. Anyone else is welcome to come may," Crazy said.
Kirby, Lucario, Captain Falcon, and Red stepped up.
"Ah good. What about you others?" Crazy asked.
Fox and Falco wanted to guard the castle, so did Marth, as it was his castle. Peach chuckled a bit at Marth's answer, because she had a feeling it was for another reason. Metaknight had a gut feeling he should stay. And Lucas and Luigi were just too scared.
Crazy Hand opened up a second portal, which his team entered. Soon they were gone. Peach approached Marth.
"Sit down Marth, I need to have a talk with you," Peach said.
Metaknight strolled over to the large window on the side of the room and stared out into the sky. He had a bad feeling about what was out there, there was probably more danger in staying than going. He regretted his choice.
Sonic's team arrived in the plains of the harvest. There were tall, 8-foot grasses around them that grew up in stalks. This seemed like a simple farm, how did they harvest dark matter here?
"Well this is….boring," Ike stated.
"Don't underestimate anything. I learned that the hard way," Sonic said.
A giant hovering machine was approaching them quickly. It was huge and red and had two giant pinchers. Behind it, there appeared to be a storage cart for the pinchers to dump their load in.
"Lets hitch a ride on that," Ness said.
"Good idea. Ness, Dedede, Yoshi, and Olimar hitch a ride, we'll go elsewhere," Sonic commanded.
Sonic threw Ness a walkie-talkie. Ness nodded as his team hid in the tall grasses as the machine passed by. One by one they hopped onto the storage crate, and hid themselves under the harvested plants.
Sonic, Ike, DK and Diddy however, walked through the grasses, looking for another way to possibly find the plantation. All of a sudden, a man, clad in armor from neck to toe lunged at Diddy. In a split second, DK grabbed his arm and threw him aside.
The man stood up and drew his sword again. He had shining silver armor from neck to toe and he had flowing blond hair that was somewhat sustained in the red headband that was the same color as his eyes.
"Get him!" Sonic yelled.
Ike threw Ragnell into the air, before grabbing it in mid and raining down upon the enemy who put up his sword above his head just in time to block it. Ike jumped backwards as Diddy used his peanut poppers to send the man flying backwards. He was met in the air by Sonic who punched him to the ground.
"Warrior?" Sonic said to the man who he had pinned.
"Sonic? That's you, oh thank god," The man said as Sonic helped him up.
Ike, DK, and Diddy all looked at each other, very confused. Why was Sonic helping this guy?
"You guys, this is Warrior, he is a part of the Shrouded One's army," Sonic explained.
"Well how do you know him?" Diddy asked.
"Sonic is a part of the Shrouded One's army," Warrior said.
Sonic looked at Warrior, angry. Ike, DK, and Diddy all looked at one another, not sure with what to make of it.
"Some leader you are, not telling us something that might just possibly be useful," Ike said, "You know maybe, just maybe we'd want to know that. Maybe that would be important."
Warrior stared at Ike, ready to attack him at anytime, but Sonic told him off.
"Let's just keep moving," Sonic said as he walked past them, and led the group in the direction of the factory.
Ness used his psychic powers to read the driver of the machine's mind. His shipment, and the shipment his team was on, was not heading towards the factory. That called for a hostile takeover.
"Olimar, use your Pikmin to spy on the driver," Ness said.
Olimar nodded and plucked out 3 Pikmin, and gave them orders. He then proceeded to throw them over his head, on to the harvesting machine. They soon came back to Olimar and told him something in Pikmin language.
"He says, he's just sitting there, eating a taco, oh, and it's a koopa," Olimar explained.
"Dedede, float around to the driver's seat and pull him back here, Yoshi, you man the wheel," Ness commanded.
Ness telepathically broke the window of the driver's side. King Dedede grabbed Yoshi and started floating towards the window. The driver stood there, trying to figure out what happened to the window when he saw Dedede. He pressed a button but Yoshi punched him in the face before he got to do anything else.
Dedede grabbed the man and dropped Yoshi in the driver's seat before floating back to the cart. Ness grabbed the man and froze him with his PK.
"He pressed a button before Yoshi got him, he might have signaled an alarm," said Dedede.
"Alright, change of plans then, we're charging the factory, straight ahead," Ness yelled, "You got that Yoshi?"
Yoshi nodded and then turned the wheel at a 90 degree angle as the machine began heading up the hill towards the factory. Guards on the hill started firing lasers at them.
"They know we're here Ness," Olimar proclaimed.
"Then it's no use hiding, kick their asses!" Ness yelled.
All three of them jumped onto the top of the machine as it kept rolling up the hill. King Dedede chucked three Waddle Dees all hitting their mark and striking down a koopa. On the other side, Olimar threw Pikmin, electrocuting anyone it touched. And the ones that missed just got back up and went after its enemies. And the weapons were useless as Ness had put up a PK shield.
"Um, Ness, here a wall up ahead," Yoshi screamed.
"Is that the entrance?" Ness yelled back.
"Yes, but, I don't know how to stop this thing!" Yoshi screamed in terror.
"Just ram it!" Ness yelled with a fire in his eye.
Spike landed in the courtyard of Marth's castle's mansion and everyone knew that it had instantly. Fox and Falco sprinted to the courtyard to see the massive red dragon, with Pit, Zelda, and three people, they have never seen, one appeared to be knocked out, and bleeding.
Metaknight, Marth, and Peach slowly walked over to the scene, while, Luigi, Lucas, and Game and Watch hid behind a couch. Metaknight had a bad feeling about the one in the red. He had a bad aura about him.
"Who're your friends Pit? That one's pretty funny looking, short too," Falco cracked, directing his eyes at Ninja.
In an instant Falco was un against the wall, and Ninja had broken his arm.
"Funny joke, why don't you tell it again?" Ninja said.
Fox raised his pistol to Ninja but soon found it in his mouth.
"Whafdtdg?" Fox mumbled.
Then, Ninja flew back and slammed into a wall behind him. Metaknight sped towards him and swung his sword at the Ninja, who had raised his wristblade in time to meet his opponent's sword.
"Woah, Metaknight, calm down, he's with us," Pit said.
Metaknight dropped his sword and walked back into the castle, flipping his cape behind him. Pit picked up Red Mage and entered the castle. Zelda and Eirika followed behind.
Fox and Falco went to the infirmary with Peach while the others sat down in the kitchen.
Marth got the three of them some food while Ninja took Red Mage to the infirmary as well.
"So, that's how it happened," Pit said as he finished his story.
"Wow, that's incredible, so those weird, I mean, different guys in the infirmary are Shrouded Numbers?" Marth said.
"Yep, the injured one is 6, but I don't about Ninja," Pit explained.
"That Ninja creeps me out, I don't like the way he handled Falco," Marth said, "Anyway, so Eirika, where do you come from?"
"Renais, it is a wonderful land," Eirika said.
"Is every girl there as beautiful as you?" Marth asked.
"Yes, they are actually," Eirika laughed, "Because I am the princess."
"Really, I'm a prince," Marth said.
The two then walked off talking about who knows what, leaving Pit and Zelda in the room alone. Pit turned to Zelda and kissed her softly, and then left the room swiftly, leaving Zelda struck with confusion.
"Well, that was….interesting," Peach laughed as she walked in the room.
"Peach, I swear, he…I don't even know why he did that."
"I know, but it was still hilarious."
"If you tell Link, Peach I promise I will…"
"I won't, calm down Zel-Zel."
Link looked around; they were inside of the laboratory where Master Hand was supposed to be creating a way to enter the world beyond Subspace. Link was lucky Crazy Hand had the power to heal, otherwise he'd still be on crutches, hopping around, useless to everyone. Zelda, he hoped she was okay.
"Link, it's time to move," Red said, snapping Link back to reality.
"Yea, oh, right," Link said.
It was almost time to put their plan in action.
"There's a good number of guards that are armed. Ganondorf and Vaati are there too, this is going to be tough," Snake explained as he dropped from the ceiling.
The team had sent him on a mission to spy on the surroundings, next the Ice Climbers just had to bust down the special door and they would be in. Lucario walked up to the others.
"I've disposed of the bodies," Lucario told everyone telepathically.
"Good, just in time," Captain Falcon said, "We're about to launch the attack, once the Ice Climbers are done."
Popo stuck his hammer into the door, throwing Nana above his head, whom froze the giant lock and then smashed it, breaking it.
"Nice job, now Lucario, open it," Crazy said.
Lucario focused all of his psychic energy on the door and pushed in open.
"Show time," Falcon said as everyone rushed in.
The koopa were shocked, and began firing their weapons in a mass hysteria.
"Lucario, give me cover!" Falcon screamed.
Lucario nodded and moved in front of him, putting up a shield, blocking all of the enemy shots. Falcon charged up his Falcon Punch and then jumped over Lucario, unleashing his fists of fire upon the unsuspecting koopa.
On the other side of the battlefield, Mario and Link fought side by side, destroying any koopa that stood in their way. Mario fireballed, and Link hacked, as they blew away their adversaries. The duo however was soon interrupted by a large earthquake that floored them both. Ganondorf and Vaati landed next to them and cackled.
"Foolish Link, back for more?" Vaati teased.
Link got up and lunged at Vaati, sword in hand and swung at Vaati, who easily countered. Link dropped a bomb below him and jumped away. Vaati dodged the attack easily only to find another bomb directly in his face. The bomb exploded, and Vaati's headless, lifeless corpse fell to the ground.
The sight was disgusting, but Link felt accomplished. Then, Vaati's body disintegrated into dark matter and slithered away. Link was shocked, Vaati wasn't real? Or was he, that the Vaati he had just killed was a clone? Crazy Hand had just defeated Ganondorf, who had also turned into dark matter.
In fact, every koopa that was defeated turned into dark matter., then, the entire scene around them turned into Subspace.
"What's going on?" Mario asked.
"Yeah, this definitely not the lab," Captain Falcon said.
"No shit," Snake remarked.
As Captain Falcon looked at Snake angrily but the impeding fight was interrupted by Crazy Hand being grabbed by a giant shadow and dragged away. The smashers ran after it, and Mario threw fireballs at it, trying to light the dark Subspace they were in.
Crazy Hand turned into his hand form, becoming too big for the shadow creature to hold anymore. He then created a massive explosion of energy, destroying the Subspace, and sending them all plummeting onto an island below them.
They were falling….falling.
Author's Note: So yea, I just created a weird PitZeldaLink triangle there wile possible sparking something between Marth and Eirika. But besides the romances, the action is slowly building up to a bunch of climaxes everywhere. Lots of developments next chap, and one character dies!
Next chapter: Island Gaiden!
The folks on the island battle the mysterious shadow creature while trouble occurs at the castle! One character dies!