in Yami's Lair:

in Yami's Lair:

"Master Yami!"
Yami: Please...call me Lord Yami..
Justis: Very well, my lord...here you go.gives Master Aether
Yami: What is this?
Justis: The VB's are planning to defeat you with the master sword. This blade has the master sword, along with another powerful blade in it! You can defeat them easier!
Yami:...Interesting...for this sword, I will enhance your dark powers...
Justis: B-But!
Yami: I'm not finished! I will give you a boost in your dark powers...and a dark blade.
Justis knows that his sword is better than a dark blade, but he knows not to anger Yami...
Justis: Very well, my lord.starts to walk off
Yami: Oh! and Justis...
Justis: Yes, my Lord?
Yami: If this works...you may rule the western part of the Smash Sea.
Justis: Thank you, m lord.turns into wolf and runs off
As wolf-justis ran... he saw a bullet bill headed hs way. Oh great, he thought. Without even realizing what was going on, darkness came into him, and he let it out in a giant blast that sent the BB flying back. 1 mile away, a metal goomba nearly dodged a strange BB. Fireballs started raining down on WJ, and he realized it was from a giant Piranha Plant. WJ started running faster than before, and started teleporting as he ran. Before he knew it he was transporting from tree to tree at the speed of sound. How was this happening? He jumped up, and dark energy formed in his paw. A fiant claw in the form of his surrounded his arm, and with a SLASH! he cut the Pirnha Plant's neck to pieces. To finish it off, he turned around and he found power that wasn't there before inside him and let it out with a SUPER...SONIC...ROOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRR! The trees in front of him went flying, along with the metal goomba, and the piranha plant pieces vibrated, and then exploded. he power of his blast wiped him out completely, and WJ turned back into plain Justis. How was this happening? How did he have this much power. An instant tought just shot into Justis' head. It was time to steal rhyno's sword. he needed to hide, he thought to himself. Instantly, he was swallowed with darkness, and found hmself pitch-black.
Justis: Sweet. Justis runs behnd the VB's and blows rhyno away with a point-focused Supersonic Wave( for plain justis) and then transports to rhyno. before rhyno's even standing, justis kicks the MS out of rhyno's hands, and jumps up and grabs it. The VB arrive however, and Justis is trapped.
"now what?"
and then he saw it.

Meanwhile, oelqaz is going rampant trying to find Minby.
"Wh-who are you?"
??"Oh, shouldn't YOU know?"
"Wh-what are you doing?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..."
And he was dragged off by a dark figure.
When he awoke, he found himself in a dark cave.
??"So, you have returned Genoni."

with a focused charged hit, justis got the Smashball in one hit. He felt power and darkness in him, and let it loose. He was lifted off the ground and Giant darkness in the form of a wolf surrounded him. It let out a giant wave and sent the VB's flying. Wiped out from the power, Jusis fell down, unconcsious. Yami called the Master Sword to him, however, and now Yami was invincible, or so it seemed. Justis' work was done.

The VB'S and KoS bound Justis and hog-tied him, and knocked him out. They left him there, and then the rain started pouring. So, as luck would have it, they ran into a cave with Oelqaz...

"g-guys.
I heard a voice.
An evil voice.
I couldn't help myself.
Genoni almost got away.
I can't contain him much longer.
I-I need Minby." Said oelqaz
And he fainted.

Issun: Watch it, guys! He's probably tricking us!

Rhyno pokes Minby with the Master Sword, but he doesn't move at all.

Shira: Yep... He's out cold, alright... It seems like whatever humanity's let in him's manifested itself in the side we all know and love...

"if oelqaz isn't the only one who can find minby, I could run around the whole island and hopefully find him." Said Smac

Basically, find "him" and bring him to me.
And tell him "zaqleo s'ti ,emoc"

"okay then. where should I meet you guys?" said Smac

Higuy cautiously puts away cutter

"I came here to fight zhao, and everything else will take a long time to explain. Hey where is zhao and his army?"

Me and Olimar look around to find zhao and what pikmin he had left had retreated.
"Well no time to waste here. lets try to find someone. I'll tell you what I know on the way."

"Meet us back here." Rhyno said to SMACchamp, and he ran off to find minby.

Rhyno thought for a moment. He knew what he needed to do. He was the one chosen to wield the Master Sword. He had to get to the cave across the canyon and stop the Great Evil so that justis could be free of his enslavement to the darkness.

"I'm going to find the Great Evil." he said. "I'll need a team of skilled warriors to help protect me. Who's in?"

As I'm explaining all that's happened that I know of, I hear rhyno. I tell Olimar to be quiet and to listen in. After I'm convinced he's on our side, I come out.

"I'm in. So what are we doing?"+

breathes lightly"this is easy."
smac runs into snake, who has a normal look in his eyes

"uhh... hi?" said smac

"shhh... quiet. I'm tracking the shadow brawlers." replied snake

"you need help?" asked smac

"nope. I'm good." answered snake

"okay, I'll leave you to your tracking." said smac as he continued his search for minby.

"I'm in" said Maram.
"As am I" said Zetsu, "As these are our Islands, we must protect them. Sure Justis will always be around as a nussiance, but this Yami character has made even JUSTIS a real threat, he is obviously very powerful."

Shiranui: Count me in. You'll need knowledge of Yami's power from the one who's beaten him before.

Zhao runs to the top of the fort. The rain is still falling heavily. He braces his spear, and, with his Pikman, charges.

However. many of the pikmin died in the puddles, and soon, Zhao was left with two dozen blue pikmin

Zhao: "Grrr... Damn."

A blue pikmin ran up

Blue Pikmin: "Look! A cave!"

Zhao nodded, and they charged into the cave.

All of a sudden bhbk walked out with a cloaked figure. "I'm in..."
"I'm in too." Said the cloaked figure.

breathes heavily "finally found the crash site" said Smac

flashback

"ummm... GUYS!! WAKE UP!! grrr... they are sound asleep. maybe the pilots can stop us from crashing."
smacchamp07 goes into the pilot's room.
"dang!! they're dead, but how?? no time to wonder, 'cause this plane is going down, and there is nothing I can do to save anyone. sighs oh well... I can only hope they make it through the crash..."
'07 quickly grabs a parachute and jumps out of the plane

end flashback

"I hope everyone made it okay..."
"what's that noise??" thought '07

Olimar: I'm will fight too. And Rhyno, you should know, Magna's dark. He is your fan after all. And also, every dark being on the island besides Yami is taking energy from Subspace. Yami is using this to his advantage, since Subspace is an alternate world of this one when it runs out of power it will merge with this one. The dark beings will detonate like Subspace bombs and the Subspace will spill into ours using them as gates. Then, when the Subspace is fully merged Yami will be all powerful. He will be the new worlds god.

Shiranui: But the world will be half-shadow and half-light. It will hinge on who wins. If Yami wins, he's pretty much the new god. If Rhyno wins, HE will be the new god, or nominate someone else as the god. Such is the way merging dimensions work.

"Wait, you're right! We need a bigger army so we'l win. Then after that Rhyno will use his powers in the new world to unmerge them so that we don't have to deal with Subspace monsters. But wait, even if the battle is won by us, Magna and the other smashers will be dead. We have to get Magna back first, he saved me from darkness so now I have to return the favor. But I don't know how powerful Yami has made him, or if he absorbed him to get fire powers yet." Said Olimar

"I've tracked shadow sonic here... I hope he didn't grab anyone from the plane..." said ??.

"shoot!! who is that??" thought '07. "I better hide."

"this would be a good place to review known shadow brawlers and the items I have to turn them back." said ??

"who the heck is this." '07 thought.

"let's see... I have sonic's gloves, luigi's hat, a vegetable for the ice climbers, and a picture of mario for peach. huh?? what's that??" said ??

"uh-oh" thought '07.

"there are recent footprints in the sand leading to the plane. they go to under the plane. better check it out."

"crap. he found me."

"hey!! its you again. I thought you ran off deeper into the jungle?" said snake.

"uhhh... you've seen me before?"

"yeah. I saw you in the jungle."

"ohhh!!"

"what??"

"you probably met my twin brother. you said he went deeper into the jungle?"

"yes..."

"okay thanks!" said '07 as he ran off into the jungle, looking for his twin brother.

"that was weird... he wasn't in the plane when I first saw it."

flashback

"where did this plane come from?" wondered snake
he went into the plane checking everyone's pulses.
"hmmmm... only the pilots are dead. everyone else is alive."

end flashback

"hey! kid!"

"what?" replied '07

"were you on the plane?"

"yes. tells snake what happened"

"oh... that makes sense. good luck finding your brother!"

"thanks!" said '07 as he ran off into the jungle.

Shiranui: Yami had flaming meteor powers to begin with... The Shadow Brawlers are just to keep us busy while Yami grows ever stronger... Did I mention it's a week before the winter solstice??

Yep, we've got 168 hours left. Maram, we'd better find Minby. I think we should sneak into Yami's mountain... That's probably where Minby is, knowing Yami.

"Well, let's go then. Oh, my time with the darkness has given me more power to make these plucks a pikmin give it a second to bloom.
When the Pikmin bloomed there was a flash of brilliant light. And the pikmin appeared to be made of light." Said Olimar
"I'm giving three to everyone, they can temporarily seperate the darkness from the evil ones except for Yami of course."

breathes deeply"hey! could that be '93?"
'07 starts sprinting towards '93
"'07??"
"yes its me."
"yay!! a companion to help me find minby!"
"wha??"
'93 fills '07 in, '07 fills '93 in.
"hey, '93 see those weapons over there?"
"yeah..."
they go investigate the weapons. they find kirby's hammer, MK's sword, and ddd's hammer.
"why are these here?" asked '07
"maybe because petey pirahna has them in a cage over there... WITH MINBY!! I FOUND HIM!!"

"well then. let's grab the weapons and rescue the prisoners. I got the hammers." says '07
"I guess I get the sword. let's go!"
the brothers charge at petey, who is looking the other way.
'07 whacks him on the head with both hammers while '93 frees the prisoners. petey is quickly defeated and the group heads back for the cave.

Smacs: WE FOUND 'EM!!

Issun: THAT ING FAST?! HOW IN THE HELL??

Shira: Are you SURE they're actually Meta Knight, DeDeDe, Kirby and Minby?? We might be being played...

"we're pretty sure. why else would petey have them in a cage?" said '07
"and it was so fast because I'm a fast runner and the others can fly (MK, kirby, and ddd)"

Shiranui: Right... You do track...

But Petey could have them in a cage because he knows we'd fall for it.

"how would he know we were looking for minby?"

"we better try this minby anyway..."
they go back to the cave to revive oelqaz/genoni with minby.
"I hope it worked..." said '93

transports to Yami's Cave
Justis: They'rer planning to bring you down, my lord...
Yami: Then I guess I'll have to launch a new plan. using master aether, Yami creats a subspace portal in the sky, and 1000's of Subspace Monters come out
That should keep them busy for now.
Justis: and when they're gone?
Yami: Then it's time to fight...for the fate of the world.
Justis: Fine by me.takes out darkness sword Let's go play with the VB's, Blackchain.

"Huh?
Wha?
Is this Min...
AUGHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
"I'm ba-a-a-ack!"
Genoni teleported away.
"Now, to find Yami's lair."

"Arggh!!" Rhyno cried. "It was a shadow minby."

"That tears it. We have to act NOW! We need to slay the Great Evil to free magna, oelqaz, and justis."

Rhyno looked to his friends.

"Shira, Maram, Zetsu, come with me and the Captain to the Great Evil's lair. SMACchamps, you two take everyone else, and go keep looking for the real minby.

MOVE OUT!"

And they were off.

"This is it.
I feel it."
Genoni entered the Lair.
Y"Ah! Genoni. You have returned!"
"Yes, my lord.
I must ask, whom is this other person in your lair?"
Y"It is Justis.
One of my more loyal and powerful 'workers'"

As the brave band of warriors look over a hill, they see the Subspace Army.

Issun: Son of a bitch! That Tabuu WAS working for Yami!!

Zetsu: Wait... I hear something...

And then Marth, followed by the Mario Bros, Kirby, DeDeDe, Meta Knight and Snake, stepped forward.

Snake: Heh... Those Subspace guys sure think they're something...

Snake (through his Codec) : Otacon! It's time we called in an airstrike!

Otacon: You got it, Snake!

Snake: The F-22s'll be here in a few minutes. Let's cut to the chase and get to Yami.

Magna: flies in on fire HELLO DID YOU MISS ME, I KNOW I'VE BEEN MISSING YOU! I'LL NEVER LET YOU BEAT THE GREAT LORD YAM-help-I. RHYNO AND OLIMAR YOU DIE FIRST. YOU TWO HAVE BEEN THE MOS-helpmeplease-T ANNOYING DURING THIS ALL. THEN THE REST OF YOU ARE TURNED INTO DARK SLA-pleaseletmeoutimstillfightinginside-VES FOR THE GREAT LORD. COUGH COUGHgoes into a fit of coughing Guys I'll fight on the inside, you fight on the outside. Kill me if you have to, you don't know what has happened to me. WELL THAT WAS ANNOYING, TIME TO DIE!!

Shiranui roared, and drove his Thunder Edge at one of Magna's flames. Shiranui's Glaive temporarily put out the flame, making Magna light for a split second. But, he just as quickly turned dark again.

Shiranui tried Deluge, which put the flames out for longer. A Galestorm, followed by a Blizzard, then a hit with Solar Flare, sent the darkness in Magna's body scurrying, towards Yami's lair. Magna lay unconcious, but still breathing.

Issun: Just like before... The fallen demons make Yami stronger... Then if the Subspa-- SHIT!! SNAKE, CALL OF THE AIRSTRIKE!! NOW!!

Snake: Damn, it's too late! They're already here! Christ, they've started bombing!!

And as the bombs fell, the dark energy went into the atmosphere. But instead of returning to Yami, it started getting into Shiranui's body, trying to get a hold...

Y"Go. Make sure Magnaflame does not die."
"Yes, master"
Genoni appearers in front of Magna
"Miss me much?"

As the darkness invaded Shiranui, weakening him, his fur started to darken from pure white to a dark and evil black, his crimson markings darkening to the color of cursed blood, his rays of light corrupting into tendrils of darkness...

Alarmed, Issun leaped off his friend. "Ammy, ya gotta hold on! Keep a grip on yourself! If you lose, then you're not the sun god anymore! You'll end up like Genoni! Do you want that?! Please, for the life of you, HOLD ON!!"

Shiranui managed to raise his head to look at his friend, his guide. He looked at Issun with a look of despair and sorrow. The darkness gave one final assault, and Shiranui was corrupted completely.

Rhyno leapt forward, striking Shira with his sword, just enough to extract the darkness.

All the Subspace enemies were defeated now, and their shadow bugs all converged into one ball in the air. The ball hovered for a moment, then flew straight toward Rhyno.

"NOOOO!" the Captain yelled, but it was too late. Every last piece of darkness entered Rhyno's body. He collapsed.

Inside his mind, Rhyno was running. He was running from...something. He tripped, and fell forward. He was done for now. The chase was over. He braced himself, waiting for the thing to overtake him. Then, there was a light...

Rhyno staggered to his feet, still filled with the darkness. He slowly floated up into the air...

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!" he screamed.

He froze, in midair. The Master Sword began to glow. Then Rhyno did as well. Light shot out into all directions. A beam shot genoni and knocked him to the ground. Another hit magna straight in the heart and was absorbed within him.

Then, silence. Rhyno fell with a thud, no darkness in sight.

Blackchain! I order you to stop these men!

"Not so fast, justis." Rhyno said.

He pulled out his Gale Boomerang and threw it at justis. It picked up the Master Sword and carried it back to him.

"You'll have to do better than that!" he said.

Suddenly, the darkness that had possessed Shiranui was joined by the spirits of the Spider Queen, Orochi, Crimson Helm, Ninetails and Blight, possessing Shiranui, this time, with a far stronger grip. Shiranui, as his last action, ran away. From Rhyno, Yami, the Shadow Brawlers, all of it, into a hidden grove, where none would find him...

Shadow Shiranui had come to grips with his dark powers, and, after intense training and effort, found out how to change between Shiranui and his shadow form at will, but then he can't change for the next half hour. Remaining as Shadow Shiranui, he raged through the forest, rebounding with the physical prowess of Shadow Shiranui, though he could not use his weapons. Arriving back in the clearing, he found his allies unable to see. He gave them all a bit of his darkness, but only enough to make them able to see.

He saw Yami laugh and retreat, as the shrunken ring continued to descend slowly...

"Blehhhhhhhhh" Magna sat up sputtering "I am done with this, the things they did to me, and the things I saw them do to Genoni. we were experiments, and now we can use the powers Yami gave us when we were dark to defeat him."

"Traitor!? You shall be punished!!" said Genoni

NONE WILL BE PUNISHED said Magna, he was dark form again, but had it under control." I WILL USE THESE DARK POWERS GIVEN TO ME TO DEFEAT YOU"

"MAGNA!!"
He suddenly faints for some reason

"THE VALIANCE WEAKENS YOU, YOU CAN'T TAKE US ON DIRECTLY CAN YOU" Magna challenged "EAT THIS!!' he shoots the light beam Rhyno gave him from his heart and into his foe's 'TIME FOR THE TRUE TEST!!"

While the others were making heads-and-tails of what happened, Shiranui was in immense pain, writhing in the secluded grove as he tried to fight his darkness.

Darkness: Why are you hurting yourself, Amaterasu? Why not give up, and spare yourself the pain? You NEED darkness to enhance your powers. You want to defeat Yami, and become the god of the world, do you not?

Shiranui: No... I can't... Abandon... Rhyno, and... the others... Maram and I... We're... partners...

Darkness: Don't be a fool! Look at yourself! You look just as dark as Yami! That blacker-than-night fur, those shadow tendrils, now-dark-grey markings, bloodred eyes... Maram would think you a freak and try to kill you on the spot!

Shiranui: N-no... Not... Not Maram...

I go into the cave to find Zhao and some blue pikmin. I go over.

"Zhao! You cannot win this time."

Zhao tries to use two dozen or so pikmin, but my army of waddles quickly ccaptures them.

"These pikmin will help for my army. Thank you zhao."

Off I go again.This time hoping to find Olimar(and some lava. these dark pikmin are getting annoying). I was pretty sure Zhao wouldn't nuisance anyone anymore.

"Valiants, I need help. The evil in this heart is to great for me alone. I think Yami must be helping him fight back." Said Magna.

"Magna!" Rhyno yelled. "Leave Genoni be, he's out cold for now. Here, take the other Smash Bros. and find Shira. We mustn't let the darkness overtake him. The Captain and I are headed across the canyon to slay the Great Evil. Maram, Zetsu, go with him. Make sure the darkness doesn't win.

Go, NOW!!"

As I walk across this islan, I finally find Olimar.

"Olimar! I've been looking for you"

Olimar:"Higuy. What do you need."

"An army, a big one. And for you to revert these little rascals"points to dark blue pikmin. "I'll leave Dedede with you so you can keep our army together. I will be taking some pikmin and waddles, though."

Darkness: Yes, that's it... Realize you will be shunned by your so-called "friends..."

Shiranui: No... You don't know them...

Darkness: Ahh, let's start with Rhyno. He's sent out a hunting party to make a corpse of you. As for the Smashers, why should THEY care? And Zetsu got Lucario killed, didn't he? Who's to say he won't kill you? As for Maram, he's an angel. He's no use for a corupt god like y--

Shiranui: ENOUGH!! You shut the hell up! I'M in control of you!! I AM OKAMI AMATERASU, GOD OF THE SUN, WITH SHADOW OR NO!!

And with that, the darkness submitted to Shiranui. He now had control of his darkness, just as Issun stumbled into his grove...

Maram assembeld with Magna and Zetsu.
"Are you sure you can take him alone?" asked Zetsu.
"Well, really, I'm count8ing on you guys to get Oelqaz back...Otherwise, it'll be preeeety hard to take on Yami, while I must defeat him, I will need you guys to help weaken him" replied Rhyno.
" Wait, but won't you be able to get there first and fight him alone with Cpt. Falcon?" asked Maram.
"Well, I guess that the Cap and I will just have to fight him alone for a bit…Anyway try to be quick about it." said Cpt. Falcon.
"Ok, we'll try to get back quickly!" said Zetsu, "Well we're off!"

"Oh, I need to tell the vb that I have an army coming and that they shouldn't be stupid and go off by themselves to fight anyone. Seeya." Said Higuy.

And I run off, hoping I'm not too late.

Ohh.. fun! PunchBAM!!comics rock.

I arrive just in time to stop Rhyno leaving.

"Rhyno!(pants) Don't go alone or with a few of us. I have an army being prepared. I personnally think we should bring them with us so we don't have to worry about any nuisances and we have...well... and army i guess."

Rhyno looked at higuy.

"No." he said. "The Captain and I are the only ones going. An army is useless against him...
Use your army to find Shira and search for the real minby. But hurry, I fear genoni might wake up soon..."

"Ok but I wouldn't be surprised if he had other people to defeat you(or weaken you at the least) before you got to him. But I guess I should help the others. See ya then."

Zhao left the cave, and rode to the top of the mountain with his Pikmin unit. Looking across the mountains, he sighed

Zhao: "Everyone is in grave danger, and I don't know what to do..."

A red pikmin walked up

Red Pikmin: "Zhao, there's no need to follow Zetsu anymore. I've noticed that the plane that crashed is fixable. Why not fix the plane why they are fighting, prepare a massive time bomb and leave this island?"

Zhao: "...I suppose. Let's go."

Zhao and the Pikmin force headed for the beach. They were being closely followed by the skeleton, ShadowKnux

Justis sat down on the rock. He was sick of it all. He couldn't beat minby, Yami was out to get him, there was nothing he could do. Then he thought of something. A few days ago when he had attacked the link guy, his allies said he was... rhyno.

But it couldn't have possibly been rhyno, the VB he hated the most?
The one he had made sure he killed before he left the VB's?
Thinking about it, he had never actually seen rhyno dead. But could he have possibly lived after being stabbed in the chest? Could that man have been rhyno45? If it was, then he had two reasons to kill him. For rhyno and for link.
There was only one way to find ot for sure. Rage boiled up iside as he set out to look for the man...

Then a thought formed in his head. If he could stop rhyno...Yami would trust him again, and he would be back in Yami's good book along with Genoni. Make that three reasons to kill him.

running through Yami's base "Where is it, where is it! I've got to press the self destruct button in here while Rhyno beats Yami in his cave out there." Then he saw a great hall with the portal Yami used to manifest himself, and chained up... Knuckles. "Oh, what happened? Knuckles will you help me find the self destruct button." he said, the Echidna nodded. It only made since that he wanted revenge for his imprisonment. Magna found a wire frame heart as they ran down the hall toward the button that he needed to destroy Yami's base. "well, it might come in handy"

Meanwhile, Dark Justis stood in the Subspace world. When Blackchain had reopened the gate, half of him came out and he rest of him was here. He needed a way out, and that's when he saw Ganon's Battleship.
He rode it out of a portal and met Tabuu in a hallway.
They stared at each other for a while. Tabuu then mentally ordered him to help Magna otherwise Tabuu would put him through pain unimaginable to anyone, mortal or immortal.
DarkJustis: Ah well. If Tabuu's doing it I don't want to get in his way.
Dark Justis joined your team! Temporarily!

Ok, we can't set off the button too early" Magna said as the team entered the security room it was in. "It could destroy the cave Rhyno and Tabuu are in. So I say we wait for some sign the battle has started, like earthquakes, or a flash of light."

using his gauntlet arm he scanned the entire cave with X-ray Vision searching for everybody in the cave

DJ: Hey! I think I found something! runs at Super Speed, leaving his partners in the dust

While Issun stood there, not knowing what to do, Shadow Shiranui tried his arsenal. This is what he found:

-His weapons took on a shadow form (Lunar Strike, Moonlight Edge, Shadow Beads)
-that Sunrise became a solar eclipse (Eclipse)
-that Rejuvenation now destroyed things (Destruction)
-Power Slash became slightly more potent
-that Bloom gave whatever it encircled shadow powers, for a limited time (Darkness, Greensprout)
-Cherry Bomb exploded with needles instead of confetti (Needle Bomb)
Waterspout, Deluge and Fountain remained unchanged
-that Crescent empowered Shadow Shiranui for thirty seconds (Lunar Empowerment)
-that Galestorm and Cyclone had knives in the wind (Bladestorm, Tornado of Hell)
-Inferno and Fireburst remained unchanged
-Veil of Mist became a dark fog, making enemies unable to see (Shadow Fog)
-Catwalk remained unchanged, though you can actually WALK on walls instead of just sticking to them (Leopardwalk)
-Thunderstorm and Thunderbolt were unchanged
-Blizzard remained unchanged

Issun slowly crept up to Shadow Shiranui, unsure of whether he was still Shiranui or not.

Issun: A-Ammy?

Shadow Shiranui: Hmm?

Shadow Shiranui looked around, and saw Issun.

Shadow Shiranui: Ahh, Issun! Where are the others?

Issun: Well, Rhyno's headed for Yami's, Magna, I think, is with him, and Justis is on the prowl. Everyone else is looking for you and Minby.

Shadow Shiranui: WHAT?! RHYNO WITH MAGNA, TRYING TO TAKE OUT YAMI WITH JUSTIS ON THEIR TAILS?? ISSUN, GO AND TELL THE GUYS THAT I NEED TO GET TO YAMI'S AND SAVE RHYNO'S ASS!! SHIT, HE'LL BE KILLED, GOING WITH ONE PERSON!!

Meanwhile, Regular Justis had arrived at Yami's cave, when a face he could have recognized anywhere appeared-himself. Well, sort of. It was clearly him, the cloak, the triforce shirt and black pants, the gauntlet arm and his 2 swords, but something was...darker about him.
DJ: Oh, it's you.
J: Do I know you?
DJ: Of course you know yourself! But I can't let you pass.
J: what? This is madness!
DJ: No, this is-is hit with rock Oh, that's it. attacks Justis

And so a battle went on between the two for 10 minutes, but Justis realized they were the same, so he tricked DarkJustis into fusing with him.
They became the true DarkJustis.
DarkJustis: What was I thinking? It's time to get Rhyno, once and for all.

Shadow Shiranui ran as fast as he could. He found the entrance to Yami's lair, and jumped right over a Greap's head. He had to find Rhyno and Magna, before it was too late.

DarkJustis walked into the room where Magna and Knuckles fought Primids.
DarkJustis: Hey Guystraps them in Subspace Chains, and Magna cannot reach button Stay out of my way...evil laugh
DarkJustis: 2 down, one hero to go...

"Heh, he underestimate's my own dark powers" tries to break the chains using darkness "Nope, he put an ungodly amount of energy into these. we are screwed." sees a smashball "Knuckles, break it. I don't have a final smash because I'm not a character!" It floats back out of reach "wow, that's just unfortunate"

sees SB I might need this.gets it

hears shira approaching
runs into nearest room and goes shadow mode, and doesn't get seen until rhyno appears

"Shira!! Shira over here!!" Magna yells

Captain Falcon snapped his fingers. The Falcon Flyer came floating down.

"Let's get across that canyon!" he said.

They hopped on board and rode across.

Once they had reached the other side, they saw a cave. They slowly crept inside the cave, searching for any signs of life. Soon they reached a dead end in a large open room.

"Rhyno.." the Captain said. "I have a confession to make."

"What's that?" Rhyno said, puzzled.

"This...isn't Yami's lair." he replied.

"WHAAAT??" Rhyno said, stunned by what he had just heard.

"That's right. It's not his lair. This is Tabuu's lair." Captain Falcon said.

Rhyno stood, staring at the Captain.

"Why'd you bring me here!! I need to vanquish Yami!!" Rhyno cried.

"I know, I know." the Captain said. "Let me explain. But I must hurry, soon Tabuu will be here.

I knew that defeating Yami was the only way to rid this island of its evil. However, Yami is using Tabuu. He's using him to control Subspace. With his control over Subspace, Yami is nearly invincible. THAT'S why I brought you here, to defeat Tabuu. With Tabuu out of the way, Yami with lose his control over Subspace, greatly lowering his power. Then you will be able to defeat him.

I am sorry for lying to you all this time."

A dark cloud appeared suddenly in front of them. Tabuu emerged from the cloud.

"We must defeat Tabuu!" the Captain yelled, and he leapt forth into battle.

Rhyno joined him. The fight was intense. Tabuu pulled out all of his tricks. He shot beams, grappling hooks, swords, fireballs, everything. Rhyno and the Captain dodged and weaved, but they couldn't touch him. Then, the unthinkable happened.

Tabuu curled himself in a ball and started glowing.

"It's his Red Rings of Death!" the Captain cried. "Rhyno, do it now, before it's too late!!"

Rhyno jumped into the air as high as he could. With sword in hand, he dove straight for Tabuu, stabbing him in the forehead.

Rhyno jumped back down to the ground, sword still lodged in Tabuu's head.

Tabuu stopped glowing. All was silent. Then, a stream of light burst forth from where the sword was. Tabuu gave an ear-piercing scream, then there was an explosion of light, blinding Rhyno and the Captain.

When Rhyno opened his eyes, Tabuu was gone. The Master Sword came down and stuck in the ground right beside him.

"Tabuu is gone." the Captain said. "Now for the true evil..."

And they left, heading for Yami's real lair.

Shadow Shira heard Magna, and cast Shadow Fog, making everyone unable to see. Using his smell, he smelled the chains, and broke them with a Power Slash. Shadow Shira dragged Magna and some strange, mutant echidna out of Yami's lair, and they escaped into the forest...

"Wow Shira, am I glad to be out of there. I think we need to regroup woth the other Brawlers and Valiants, things are getting really dangerous now.

"well, that didn't last long. Knuckles I think we should fuse together." The echidna nodded. The two beings merged and became Magnafist the Echidna "Tight"

"Master, may I borrow your powers for this?" asked bhbk.
"Fine, but give them back." The figure threw of his hood and it was Ganondorf.
"I will fight on the side of good for now. As long as the Master Sword's on our side."
bhbk and Ganondorf fused to make BHBK.

the smacs split up in their quest to find minby.
'07 has run around almost the entire east side of the island.
panting"where is minby??"
he continues running through the jungle. he comes across MK's sword.
"how come I found his sword again??"
all of a sudden, shadow sonic appears knocking '07 over.
"what the... where is he going?"
sonic turns around and charges at '07.
"crap! huh? where are his gloves"
remembers
"oh yeah! snake has them. where is snake?"
just as sonic is about to nail '07, snake appears out of nowhere, pulling out sonic's gloves.
"wha?? where??" said sonic as he returned to normal.

DarkJustis felt a giant pain in his heart. He followed the pain back to the lair Tabuu was at and found a chain with flames as blue as Tabuu was
DJ: I'll use this to avenge lord Tabuu...picks it up
DarkJustis started swinging the chain around. An unlucky goomba was unfortunate enough to be hit with the chain, and broke out into shadow bugs. A moment later, the shadow bugs reformed in the shape of a Dark Goomba
DarkJustis: Woah. Looks like I got me a really powerful weapon.

Justis set out to the cave of Yami. He didn't need to hide anymore. With his weapon, he could defeat anybody and make them do his bidding. But he wasn't headed for Rhyno anymore. He was after Yami.

And, as Shiranui and Magna fell back to the hill where all this chaos and splitting up started, he saw a campfire in the fading sun. Huddled around it were Maram, Zetsu and the Smashers.

Maram: Tomorrow I say we look in the jungle basin. It's secluded, and away from Yami's place. Shiranui would have a lot of hiding places there. There are a lot of nooks, crannies, caves and tall, hollow tree--

Shadow Shiranui interrupted Maram's planning by reverting back to normal Shiranui. He howled, announcing his presence. Issun called out to them from Shiranui's head, no longer woozy from the aura of shadow.

Issun: What'd I tell ya? I ALWAYS know where to find Ammy!

At this, the others were thrilled to see their friend safe and sound. They invited Shiranui into their circle, and, now that they had that taken care of, they started to discuss plans.

Maram: Once we get the Captain and Rhyno back, we can pick our fastest runner to lure Justis and Yami out into the basin, where the ones with projectiles will shoot from nooks, hollow trees, and shallow caves. While that distracts Justis, the close-combat fighters will take out Justis, then everyone else distracts Yami, allowing for Rhyno to attack Yami.

Shiranui: Sound strategy. Now, who will be our ru--

And, at that moment, the two Smacs and Sonic, shortly followed by Snake, stepped forward.

Magna: I think the Smacs and Sonic would be good...

Sonic: Yep! Sonic's my name, and speed's my game! It's time I got revenge on Yami!

Snake: I'll take care of the other Shadow Brawlers. My stealth training and knowledge of the Brawlers isn't just for being cool, you know.

And at that, the alliance was enlarged substantially...

Genoni awoke.
"Hmm, A fire.
Must be the VBs and KoS.
I'll pay them a little visit"
Genoni teleported right outside their circle
"Hiya everybody!"

Shiranui whirled around to face Genoni. He shouted to eveeryone else, "Everyone!! You go find Minby. I'll handle him. Forget about me. Go!! NOW!!"

Zetsu: But, Shira--

Shiranui: GO!!

Looking back at him, the KoS and the VBs, joined with the other Brawlers, left Shiranui.

Genoni: Pah! What a fool. You think you can defeat me, the servant to the Great Ruler of Darkness, Yami?

Shiranui: I've defeated your master before. And I can defeat his apprentice, child.

"Oh, you think so?"
Shira and Genoni were completely alone
"Good, listen, you'll need someone to infiltrate the base that he trusts, and there's no way Justis will help. Don't tell the others. Use your fireburst on the door, and I'll open it. Yami's going down"

Shiranui: Hmm? Why are you helping me, Genoni? Only the small, innocent child, Oelqaz, would help me. What's your motive?

"Don't you remember?
I was weak, being almost controlled by Yami.
He would have killed me but...
sigh
oelqaz offered to help me.
He had the power of Minby fused with him, so he could hold back the evil.
I need to get back at Yami.
Even though...
Nevermind.
I just need to get back at him."

Shiranui: Hmm... Very well, my child. I suppose WE'LL bust open Yami's lair, then lure him into the basin. Then he'll be killed, along with Justis.

"OK, I'm going back to him."
Genoni teleported away
He teleported back
"Oh, and don't call me "child"
Genoni teleported away

Shiranui: What? I took you in after busting Yami's ass, and I've been alive for thousands of years, but you're not even a man! How can I NOT call you "child?"

He ran off, to tell the VB, KoS and Brawlers to let him and him alone lure Yami out...

"Yami, they are coming."
Y"Don't worry, the gates shall kill them once they touch it."
"Yes sir."
Genoni left the room, and turned off the gates defense.

Shiranui ran through the jungle, transforming into Shadow Shiranui for more speed. Even Issun had ran off. He finally caught up with his allies, in a canyon, with a lot of hollow trees, and nooks in the sides, just as Maram described.

Magna: Well, that was a lot faster than expected...

But Zetsu and the others weren't convinced that Shiranui was truly himself, as he was in Shadow form, with the dark look in his eyes. They started firing at him, but Shadow Shiranui easily parried their projectiles with a single Power Slash. As he power slashed the projectiles, they reflected into the others, stunning them.

Shadow Shiranui: Now that you all have calmed down... I will vouch to take the Smacs' and Sonic's place as the runner. I can keep going for longer, and I know how powerful Yami really is. I absorbed the darkness of Genoni, so he's out cold.

As he said this, the others recovered to their feet and reclaimed their weapons.

Maram: Shira... What happened to you?

Shadow Shiranui: The shadow bugs, Maram. It took a while, but I got thenm under my control. None of you need fear me. I'm perfectly sane.

Issun: Man, you guys need to get with the program... Well, I'll go with the goth furball. He'll need another pair of ears and eyes.

" Fine, would you rather me be a close combat fighter, or a ranger. With fire I could act as both." said Magna.

Rhyno and Captain Falcon ran through the jungle at breakneck speed. They had to get to Yami's lair quickly, before he could do anymore damage.

While Rhyno was running, a figure leapt out from behind a tree and grabbed him from behind, covering his mouth.

"Don't move!" it said.

Then, suddenly, it let him go. Rhyno turned around. It was Snake.

"Sorry, I thought you were a Shadow Brawler." Snake said.

"No big deal." Rhyno said. "Where are the others?"

"They're on the edge of the jungle, near a clearing, waiting to lure Yami and justis out." Snake replied. "They're gonna distract him, while you take him out."

"Thanks, Snake." Rhyno said. And they ran off, leaving him behind.

"Hmm..." Snake said. "I sure hope I find Shadow Zero Suit Samus..."

Rhyno knew he had to make it to the clearing before Yami and justis did. Who knows what they would do to his friends if he didn't make it in time.

These thoughts ran through Rhyno's mind as he ran even faster toward the edge of the jungle.

In the midterm, Shadow Shiranui loped swiftly but effortlessly through the jungle. When he saw Rhyno, he stopped.

Rhyno: S-Shira?

Issun: Yep, it's Furball. Ammy's in shadow form now, for more physical abilities. Regular Ammy's for more elemental stuff.

Captain Falcon: Uh-huh...

Rhyno: Where're the others?

Shadow Shiranui: In the basin. You'd best meet up with them, and be prepared to see me leading Yami and Justis into the basin. The others'll fill you in on the rest.

Rhyno and the Captain started to run past Shadow Shiranui and Issun, but Rhyno turned around and called back, "You SURE you're gonna be alright?"

Shadow Shiranui: Yeah... I'll be fine...