Disclaimer: The following characters belong to their respective creators: Nintendo and Capcom.

The following settings are all actual real-life places.

The following original characters are creativities of the readers reading this story, and therefore, belong to them and them alone. These readers are also writers. These original characters will not to be used at any rate unless by their written approval.

Here's the list of the original characters sent by writers who are reading this story (sorted alphabetically):

The creature of unknowingly evilness Azul -- Nicodareus
The Mobian polar bear Icecap -- Nobuo Aaron
The focused psychic fighter Ichiju Zero -- Shadow Minamoto
The cool, calm, emotionless fighter Kane -- Shinigami's Shadow and SilverPantsSven
The passionate, yet rebellious teenage future seeker Keliatia (Keli) -- x Flames of Ice x
The polar arm man Lenji -- Enigmais
The neutral darkness wielder of Hyrule Midnight and his bodiless son Morphio-- Midnari
The traveling swordsman Slith -- El Xian

In addition to original characters, one original character is my only creativity for the story, therefore, the character belong to me. I may be able to add some more of my original characters as the story progresses.

The demon side of Drew Devin, Nived Werd.

Now onto the story.

Smash Bros. Capcom - Expedition

The Smash Orb, aka The Orb of the Once-Almighty. With that antique stone, one could move the stars, create land and water, harness power from within, and can even control time and galaxy itself, making wish and dream come true. A dark mage once possessed this antique and used it to overthrow the entire universe. During that tragic day, he took over the world by destroying all planets, even Earth, to the Sun. That time was known as "End of the Universe" A millennium has passed since that day and the Smash Orb has returned to its altar. But who has their eyes set on this destructive stone this time?

:: Chapter 8:

-Cairo Hospital-

"Speak, Zelda! What has happened to Lady Peach?" Lenji pressures the princess. The princess keeps quiet. Dr. Mario goes to stand in the middle of the room, "All of you, will you chill? The princess is in a lot of pain. Let's not pressure her."

"It's okay, Dr. Mario." Zelda begins, "I will speak."

"Are you sure?" Dr. Mario asks. Zelda nods. "Positive. I believe they want the truth."

-Giza Altar-

Peach stares uncomfortably at the dark coffin inside the Great Pyramid. She slowly walks toward it.

"Hurry it up, Evil's Daughter." Bison pressures her, "You're wasting precious time here!"

Peach looks at Bison then looks back at the dark coffin. She arrives at the dark coffin and lays her hand on it. She closes her eyes. Her hand starts to glow.

"LADY PEACH! STOP!" Ryu and Ken let out a warning shout.

Peach turns to face Ken and Ryu. Bison also turns to face the duo.

-Avenue of the Dead-

The entire land in the Avenue tremors like mad. The smashers and the Capcom couldn't stand still. They attempt to run for refuge but the earthquake makes them woozy as if everything was spinning to their eyes out-of-controllably.

"What is happening?" Pit exclaims.

"This is no regular earthquake!" Link says.

Kirby looks up and points, "Gaah!" he gasps.

Everyone looks up to watch a large black hole stretching the sky. A wind begins to pull the smashers from the hole like a giant vacuum whilst the quake was still crackling.

"This is really no regular earthquake!" Charlie exclaims.

"WATCH OUT!!" ZS Samus let out a warning cry. The entire gang looks up and everything flashes out before their eyes.

-Pyramid of the Moon-

"What do you mean we're going to die?!" Mario exclaims through the growling of the quake.

"It means it's the end of us all. This earthquake was meant to wipe the world out." Mewtwo says.

"We're doomed!" Fox exclaims.

"PIKA!" Pikachu let out a warning cry. The entire gang looks up and everything flashes out before their eyes.

-Pyramid of the Sun-

"What do you mean Drew is dead?" Chun-Li yells through the roaring of the earthquake, "What are you?"

"Let just say that I'm your worst nightmare." Nived smiles evilly.

A crack from above catches Chun-Li and Nived's attentions; they look up and watches the ceiling plunging on them.

-Cairo Hospital-

"I believe you want the truth, so there it is." Zelda takes a deep breath and as she's about to let it all out, the earthquake tremors.

"What's happening?!" Roy exclaimed.

"Where does this earthquake come from?" Morphio says.

An alarmed nurse rushes to Dr. Mario, "Doctor! We must evacuate the hospital!"

"How are the patients?" Dr. Mario asks.

"They're leaving the hospital as we speak. So are the staffs. Doctor," she shook her head, "There's a slim chance that we might make it out alive. The earthquake came as a surprise and the foundation is crumbling as we speak."

"Then let's stop speaking and let's vamoose out of here!" Dr. Mario exclaims. The moment they were about to step out of the room, the quake ripped part of the ceiling off like a stick and collapsed on Zelda.

"No! Zelda!" Roy exclaims.

"She won't make it. Let's get out of here!" Ichiju proposes. They turn to leave but the rest of the ceiling rips and crashes on them in addition to blocking the road.

-Giza Altar-

"LADY PEACH! STOP!" Ryu and Ken let out a warning shout.

Peach turns to face Ken and Ryu. Bison also turns to face the duo. Bison smiles, "You've come too late my friends. Soon, pretty soon, the Smash Orb will come to my hands thanks to your precious daughter of all evils."

Peach smiles, "You can call me precious but you can call yourself sucker."

Bison turns to face Peach, "What does that suppose to mean?" he looks at her with bitterness. Peach steps away from the opened dark casket. Bison approaches the casket and looks. He saw bones and a skull draped in spider webs. Bison frantically digs through all of the bones out of the casket, "What's going on here? What's the meaning of this?" Bison turns to face Peach in horror, "Where is the Smash Orb?"

"What Smash Orb?" Peach asks with a puzzled expression. Ryu and Ken smile. It seems the deadly treasure was nowhere near or in the coffin. Bison turns red. He picks up the dark coffin and flings it to a wall, "MINDLESS PIECE OF TRASH!" He growls.

The earthquake suddenly starts to trigger and everything starts to shake. Peach, Ryu and Ken look around frantically.

"What's going on?" Ryu said through the roaring of the quake.

"Earthquake!" Ken exclaims.

"Help me!" Peach runs to Ryu and Ken, but a huge rock flew from the ceiling and drops hard between the boys and the princess, blocking their roads.

"HELP!" Peach yells.

"Lady Peach!" Ryu and Ken shouts.

"This earthquake is going to take us all out at any second." Bison examines the pyramid's foundation being unsteady to survive the quake. He yells, "BUT IF I GO DOWN, I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME!"

The ceiling starts to crack and everyone in the room scream at the top of their lungs until the big cave-in.

Here's a recap of what has happened to everyone involved in this story as we've entered a new year.

The story started with Ryu and Ken, with aid of the United Air Force members Guile, Charlie, Chun-Li and Drew Devin, being sent to Cairo, Egypt on a dangerous search to retrieve an important artifact known as the Smash Orb. Ryu and Ken soon disappeared from the radar and were branded missing. And so the Air Force gang joins force with Solid Snake and his comrade Kane to further the search for the Smash Orb. Formally, their plan was to trace back the whereabouts of Ryu and Ken, but Snake believed that both fighters can do this on their own. Elsewhere, the following smashers—Mario, Fox, Pikachu, Kirby, Link, Samus, ZS Samus, Pit, and Meta-Knight were called from the Smash Base by Azul and were given the exact same mission as Ryu and Ken to retrieve the Smash Orb and to bring it to him as soon as possible. Azul, being a wise demonic creature pinpointed the location of the magic artifact in Mexico instead of Egypt, sending the Smashers to the country's capital, their first stop being the Mexican National Palace, where the Smashers recruited Mewtwo and his bodyguard Icecap and it being exactly the desired location for the Air Force members to search the Orb.

Mario and Fox found clues from a dark coffin painting relating to the Smash Orb's location. Ecstatic of the finding, Mario dragged Fox with him to the Teotihuacán Civilization: the alleged location of the artifact. Following them were Drew and Chun-Li.

At that moment, Kane was strolling around the President's Garden until Mewtwo and Icecap entered the garden as well. Mewtwo and Icecap talked for a bit, until Icecap mentioned the Smash Orb, which caused Kane to get into the conversation. Mewtwo spoke a bit about the Smash Orb but does mention Icecap that he had plans in mind once he got hold the orb. Mewtwo then saw the smashers leaving the National Palace in search of Mario and Fox and quickly decide to follow. Kane ran back inside the National Palace to warn Guile and Charlie that he has found something but realized that they were gone too and so he warned Snake.

Mario and Fox entered the Pyramid of the Moon. After traveling around the pyramid a bit, they came across a dead end. There, they began to hear noises, fearing that someone was following them. That someone was only their smasher fellow: Pikachu. Mewtwo came into view as well, this time without Icecap. Mewtwo volunteered to lead them deep into the Pyramid and there they came across a moon-shaped crest which they accidentally activate.

Chun-Li and Drew have separated while the duo were chasing after Fox and Mario. Drew was ahead Chun-Li and assuming that Mario and Fox entered one of the pyramids, decided to enter one of these pyramids. Chun-Li followed and this is when they separated. They found themselves inside the Pyramid of the Sun. Chun-Li traveled around the pyramid, searching for his friend. She came across the exit and saw Guile, Charlie, and the Smashers, but made no comment and continued on. She continued to travel until she met something or someone. It was a huge spider. She fought the spider and sent it outside with a kick. She continued further on her search to find Drew. Drew, at that time, came across a strange area with a platform surrounded by a gap of bottomless pit between the walls and that platform. He took a step in the room and a rain of skulls fell from the ceiling. He examined a faceless skull and suddenly the skull began to float. Through the skull came a wave of crying, seeking help, including that of Ingrid confronting Mewtwo like in her vision. The frightened Drew almost fell deep into the bottomless pit. He managed to come back to the platform but before he got the chance to set foot on it, he came face-to-face with Akuma. Akuma and Drew fought until Drew lost most of his energy and transformed into his alter ego of darkness: Nived Werd. Nived, with a single blow, sent Akuma to oblivion and continued on deep into the Pyramid of the Sun and unlocked the sun-shaped crest in front of Chun-Li who believed to have found her friend at last.

Link, Kirby, Meta-Knight, Pit and ZS Samus ended up at the Avenue of the Dead. Night fell at the famous Teotihuacán square and the smashers began to worry about Mario and Fox. They immediately saw Guile and Charlie and upon introduction, they claimed to be officers of the law. But after listening to their story that they were missing important numbers to the team, they introduced themselves as Guile and Charlie. The team decided to join force to find their missing ones. Snake and Kane later joined the gang and took notice of uneasy findings: two dead bodies had fallen from the Pyramid of the Sun. In the end, a moon-shaped crest and a sun-shaped crest took their appearance and triggered a shattering earthquake that altered time.

The second part of the story focused on a group of unusual travelers in Egypt, the place Ryu and Ken are allegedly missing. Exactly at that moment, Peach, Ichiju Zero, and Roy traveled in the desert to find Midnight and Lenji. But in failure of reaching in time, they fell in a quicksand and found themselves inside a chamber with various scribbling and paintings, including the painting of a woman who looked like Peach. Peach's contact with the painting caused ripples, but did not affect Ichiju and Roy. Sheik revealed to the trio that that painting, Peach, and the Great Pyramid of Giza she showed them, are all connected to the Smash Orb and the alleged daughter of the Great Magician responsible for the end of the universe (hence, the woman in the painting). He warned Peach to flee Egypt (the place they were located at) and never to show her face again, unless it meant the end of the universe again. The reluctant Peach agreed but made a deal to Sheik that she would want to find Midnight and Lenji firsthand. Sheik was about to escort Peach, Ichiju Zero, and Roy to the desert to find the duo when Roy accidentally stepped on an uneven floor plaque, causing the ruins to be completely destroyed, separating the gang.

Meanwhile, the story switched to Midnight and Lenji, two rivals who hate each other's skills. They are willing to do anything to see who's stronger, including killing each other. During their brawl, they heard Peach's scream before encountering Akuma before chancing it. Akuma's presence triggered an all-out bloody battle between the trios as Akuma demanded the location of the Smash Orb. The brawl lasted thirty minutes until a mysterious monk interrupted, practically begging Akuma to stop this fight. Akuma listened to the monk, warned the duo and left. The monk revealed himself as Morphio, Midnight's son. Morphio told them that he only came into view to save their lives. He also came to prove that he found Ichiju Zero, Roy and an unknown princess (Zelda) unconscious and were taken care of at a Cairo hospital and Peach was missing. The gang went to Cairo to see if they are all right. They reached the hospital and discovered a princess at the hospital. The princess is Zelda, and Dr. Mario, the doctor in charge of treating Roy and Ichiju, revealed that Zelda was Sheik. Morphio, Midnight, Lenji, Ichiju, Morphio and Roy pressures Zelda into revealing the whereabouts of Peach. Zelda was reluctant at first but the moment she was about to reveal the truth, the earthquake caused by the forbidden magic Mewtwo and Nived unleashed in Mexico interrupted in a great way and killed many, including Zelda.

Elsewhere, Ryu and Ken woke up in a dungeon, enchained on a wall, with Wario as their guard. Wario called up the Dolls and have them torture the two heroes. Wario, in an attempt to push a button on a remote he got himself, noticed the whole wall was crumbling. The ceiling broke and fell on him. On top of the broken ceiling was the unconscious body of Peach. Ryu and Ken were shocked to see Peach in front of them. The Dolls proposed they will take Peach to M. Bison, but not without Ryu and Ken's objections. The duo escaped from their prison and fled with Peach. They go up one floor and found themselves inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. The pyramid Sheik mentioned to Peach earlier. Ryu and Ken were still shocked to see they were actually in the same area they first began their adventure. Peach woke up and thanks Ryu and Ken for saving them, but insist she would leave the place. Ryu and Ken said otherwise and were willing to protect Peach. Meanwhile, Bison came to the prison and lashed out at Wario for his errors. As he was about to give him the penalty, a psycho ball into his face, Cammy, one of the Dolls told Bison that they have found Peach and that she was with Ryu and Ken. The Dolls and Bison both considered Peach as Evil's daughter. Bison decided to go look for her in person and required no attention. He found Peach by cornering Ryu and Ken and used her to open the dark casket located deep in the Pyramid. To his surprise, the Smash Orb was not in the coffin, only the remaining of a dead corpse. At that moment, the earthquake from Mexico triggered and took the lives of everyone in the pyramid.

Other side stories includes the high speed chase to save a young visionary Keliatia; another visionary seeing into the future her encounter with Mewtwo; and Azul's prediction of the forbidden magic.

About three people died before and during the big earthquake. Now that it has come to an end, what has happened to the rest of our gang: our fellow Smashers, Capcom, and OCs? Find out…

Next…Chapter 9