Hey everyone, welcome back. Note: Just to clear this up, this story is happening roughly 4 years after the events of the Subspace Emissary in Brawl. Any reviews or comments or tips on what to improve would be awesome! All characters, places, items, etc. are owned by Nintendo and not by me.

Chapter 8: Duelers from Dream Land

The Mario Brothers and Yoshi dash their way through the wide expanses of fields, tunnels, lakes and towers that fill the Mushroom Kingdom's landscape. Along the way, they're attacked by several of Bowser's typical minions, from Goombas to Koopa Troopas to Dry Bones. The trio comes across a large Warp Pipe.

"Hey, Bro. Do we take this pipe?" asked Luigi.

"Yeah. Come on, Yoshi" responded Mario. Yoshi nodded as Mario jumped down the pipe. Luigi prepared to follow when he saw a duo of Hammer Bros. surround a small mouse. The mouse was crying.

"Hey! You two! Get away!" shouted Luigi. The man in green, not expecting an answer, dashes forward and stomps down on the back of one of the turtles. It retreated into it's shell, which Luigi kicked away.

"Hey! You killed my friend, mustache! You'll pay for that!" the other Hammer Bro. yelled, launching his hammers at Luigi.

"Hey, where's Luigi?" Mario asked, noticing that his brother didn't follow him. "Oh well. He'll catch up, right Yoshi?"

"Uh huh!" responded the nodding green dino, so happy, like usual.

Luigi had taken down the other Hammer Bro., and had approached the mouse.

"Hi there little guy! I'm your friend. What's your name?" asked Luigi, comforting the little guy.

"P...Pichu Pi" quietly murmured the mouse, Pichu. It slowly waddles up to Luigi. The man in green picks up Pichu.

"Are you lost?" To that, the Pichu nodded. "Well, how about you come with me. I'll take you along."

"Pichu Pi!" The little mouse Pokémon pipes up. The two then go down the Pipe, and find Mario and Yoshi standing there.

"There you are, Luigi. Where were you?" Mario asks. He looks down at his brother's hands and sees the Pichu. "What's that, Luigi?"

"Its name is Pichu. It's lost. So I thought we could take it with us."

"No, Luigi. Come on. We don't need extra baggage. We need to quickly get to Peach. We can't get dragged down by that little mouse."

"We take him with us, Mario. Okay?"

"…fine. But we need to get it lost by the time we get to Bowser's Castle."

"That's heartless, Mario."

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Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong near the vault that Wolf and his goons are in. They rush in and find Wolf staring at the trophy.

"You two? What are you doing here?" asks a shocked Leon.

"Wolf, we have visitors." Coolly said Panther.

"Donkey Kong. Diddy Kong. Funny meeting you here. Looks like we've hit the master vault, huh?" said Wolf. He reached behind him, grabbing onto his Claw Blaster. "You gonna tell Dedede? Well, can't let you do that, Donkey." Wolf snidely retorts, shooting his Blaster at DK. Diddy Kong rushes forward with his on Peanut Popgun and shoots at Leon. Leon got knocked backward a bit.

"Ow! How does a peanut hurt me?"

Panther opens fire on the Kongs, who swiftly dodged the shots. The enraged Donkey Kong pushes past Leon and Panther and grabs Wolf by the collar. The gorilla growled fiercely and threw him to the ground. DK turned around and beat his chest, threatening the two goons.

"Wolf! You okay?" asked a frantic Leon. As DK dueled with Leon, Diddy jumped on Panther's back, trying to knock him down. Diddy was successful. Panther landed on his front on the ground. As he tried to stand back up, he accidentally grabbed onto the trophy. It flashed. Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong looked horrified. Wolf looked up.

"No! Panther, get away!" Wolf shouted. "You've revived Tabuu!" The Tabuu trophy became reanimated as Tabuu regains consciousness. Donkey Kong and Diddy back up as Leon tries to flee the vault.

"AAAAALLLLIVVVEEEEEE" Tabuu shouted. He began breaking his chains when suddenly a blue gas fills the room. Tabuu returned to his trophy state due to the gas. The Star Wolf trio and the Kongs soon followed Tabuu and became trophies. The room became quiet.

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Daybreak rises over the town of Onett as a boy wearing a baseball cap steps out of his house.

"Ness! Be careful! I love you!" shouts out the mother of the boy, Ness, as he walked down the path to the main part of Onett.

"Love you too, Mom!" Ness was heading south to go visit his best friend, Paula. As he walks down the dirt road, he hears a loud crash. What was that? The Starmen aren't back somehow, are they? Ness thought, as he slowly approached the area where he heard the crash. He looked past the brush at a smoky clearing. What he saw made him gasp.

"A spaceship?"

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King Dedede's squad has entered the meeting room where Knuckle Joe's squad were sitting in.

"Hey, everyone." Said a glum Dedede. "Any signs of Wario?"

"No, nothing." Muttered Saki.

"Ha! I bet I could find him!" called out Gary Oak.

"You, kid. I don't like you…" said an irritated Roy.

"Heh. Who do you think you are, redhead?"

"I am Roy, child. How dare you challenge me?"

"At least I wasn't replaced by Ike."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"Hey, stop. Okay?" intervened King Dedede. "It sounds like Wario left the building already. We need to locate him."

"Any word from Waddle Doo?" asked Knuckle Joe.

"No.."

All of a sudden, Meta Knight crashes through the window, and charges at Dedede. The penguin quickly shielded with his hammer.

"Meta Knight? You're here?"
"Dedede. You are breaking into the headquarters of our Creators. You are my enemy now. I must defeat you."

"Not if I defeat you first, masky!"
The two began to duel. The others gaze on as King Dedede fought with Meta Knight, Rocket Hammer colliding with the Galaxia. Eventually, after a grueling battle, King Dedede shoves Meta Knight off of the edge of the building.

"Hm…" Dedede murmured, turning to his followers. "Come on. We have a mission to take care of."

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Samus Aran pilots her Gunship up to the recently attacked mother ship. She lands the Gunship in the still remaining landing bay and steps outside to view the wreckage of the Galactic Federation mother ship. I was too late… Ridley got here and attacked before I could respond. He's probably gone by now… Samus moves on in. She will take down Ridley. It's time.

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Meta Knight, just knocked out the window quickly opens his glider wings and floats down on the top of a nearby office building. He jumps down from there, and finds that Dedede really did hurt him a lot. He was much stronger than what I remembered… Meta Knight limped back into the building and headed down into the storage area and saw the trophies of Wolf, Leon, Panther, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong and Tabuu. Meta Knight nodded. My security plan worked. Good.