Xiahou Yuan, Zhang Fei, Charlie Nash and Link had all arrived on Mushroom world, just in front of Princess Peach's Castle, at the bridge that leads over the small little moat, to the castle front door.

Xiahou Yuan got his Battering Rod out, and looked at the door. "Alright people, are we ready to do some bashing?"

Charlie looked at Xiahou Yuan. "Is Sima Yi actually inside the castle? Because if he is, we might be in for a looonnnngg chase. This place is filled with magic portraits that lead to small worlds. He could be hiding in any of them."

Link looked behind them, at the castle grounds, then turned back at the group. "Hey guys…"

Xiahou Yuan moved his helmet a little, and scratched his head. "Well…he could be. Knowing that guy, his gone for the world that we would least expect him to be….what kind of worlds are there Charlie?"

Zhang Fei then raises his hand quickly, to draw their attention. "Oh! I know! Lets just burn these portraits! That way, the job's done quicker, and we can get back to the base and get pissed!…how's that sound?"

Charlie sighed. "No Zhang Fei…just…no. If we spilt up-"

Link taps on Charlie's shoulder. "Hey Charlie?"

"-and go into a portrait each, we can have a quick look around, and then go to another. If we could leave a mark or something showing that the portrait has already been checked-"

"Charlie?…guys?"

"-Then within no time at all, one of us will find Sima Yi, use the com-links to contact the others, and bob's your uncle, his ours for the taking."

Link used his fist to hit Charlie in the shoulder in annoyance. Charlie winced, then looked at Link, as did Xiahou Yuan and Zhang Fei. "You best have a good reason for whacking my shoulder like that Link."

Link pointed to the Castle grounds.

There, was Bowser, swinging his claws around, trying to get a hit at Sima Yi, who was easily dodging the attacks thanks to Bowsers slow speed. Bowser gave an almighty roar, and glared at Sima Yi, who had jumped back, and smirked at the dragon turtle.

"Grr! Stand still you little punk! Anyone who even THINKS to try and attack the Mushroom kingdom that rightfully is my property to steal, is gonna get flattened, mauled and cooked!"

Sima Yi just laughed a little, then ran at Bowser, continuing their little fight.

Charlie looked shocked that he didn't even hear the commotion. "Uhh…yes….uh, well done Link for…spotting that.."

Sima Yi had avoided Bowser's flame breath, before firing an purple energy beam from his fan, hitting Bowser square in the stomach, and making him grumble in pain, holding his stomach, and letting down his guard… Sima Yi would've taken this moment to attack him, if it wasn't for the Sonic Boom flying his way, and him jumping over it, seeing the newcomers running towards him. "Well well, some more petty annoyances like Bowser have come to join in the fray…suppose I should call in some support!"

Sima Yi had raised his fan, and Charlie, Link, Xiahou Yuan and Zhang Fei got close, they came to a halt, as Heartless had begun to appear in front of them…and around them as well. Bowser was also having some heartless appear before him, as he finally recovered.

Sima Yi smiled evilly. "Well, lets see if you can live long enough to kill all these.."

The heartless slowly moved in towards them all, with Sima Yi just standing there, waving his fan on himself, chuckling a little.

Bowser wasn't going to stand down though, and gave an almighty roar at the heartless, before beginning a rampage of crawling and swiping any unlucky heartless that were in range of him.

Xiahou Yuan and Link pulled out their bows, and unleashed arrows upon arrows at the heartless, taking them down two by two, especially any heartless that got close to them. Charlie moved one of his arms back, and in a swinging motion, bringing it forward, he shouted "sonic boom!", and energy, in the shape of a wheel, shot out of his arm, and ripped through the heartless standing in front of him.

As for Zhang Fei, he looked at Sima Yi, standing there, watching it all, making more and more heartless appear. "That girly bastard thinks these small fry are enough to slow ME down from kicking his sorry ass!? Does he know who I am?!"

Charlie kicked two heartless up into the air, and they dissolved away. He then looked at Zhang Fei, as he swiped a dozen of the small black creatures aside with his serpent spear. "You're the juggernaut, bitch?"

Zhang Fei glared at him. "Oh ha ha. Shut up Charlie! No, because I'm Zhang Fei of Yan! Pests aren't gonna hold me down!". He triggered his musou aura, which was the same as Zhao Yun's, and charged. The heartless were just being rammed aside by him, stop even being able to slow him down, as he aimed for Sima Yi.

Sima Yi saw him, and triggered his own musou, flying high in the air. His aura was a deep blue one. He looked down at Zhang Fei, raised his hands up…and dozens and dozens of purple beams rained down towards Zhang Fei, just as he leapt up into the air, towards Sima Yi.

The beams rapidly hit him, sending him right back down to the floor, slamming into the ground, his aura fading out. Sima Yi's attacks were a lot more powerful now then Zhang Fei recalled. Sima Yi couldn't relax though, as he had to dodge an arrow, which just flew by his face. He looked down, and saw Link preparing another arrow, and fired it.

Sima Yi was able to dodge again, and fired a few of the purple beams at link, who just raised his shield, and blocked them. Zhang Fei was back up now, and taking out some of the heartless, whilst trying to build up his strength to trigger another musou, although that wasn't needed, as Sima Yi's musou had ran out, and he had to float back down to the ground…and before he could act, Zhang Fei rushed at him, and socked him right across the face, sending him flying through the heartless.

As soon as Sima Yi got up, the fight between them all continued…it was all part of a larger scheme….

In the labs of the Hero base, they got reported sightings of Megatron now, as Charlie, Link, Xiahou Yuan and Zhang Fei were busy. Dr Wily, Dr Light and Zhuge Liang were inside the labs at the time. Dr wily was the one at the main computer. " Damn. We got another one now, near Station Square on Mobius."

Zhuge Liang looked at the computer, as it pin pointed where Megatron is on the planet. "It is nothing to worry about, this is in our capability."

Dr Light nodded. "I'll call up a few of the others to deal with him."

That's when they heard another beep come off the computer, as Sun Ce was now reported near Hyrule castle, on Hyrule. Dr Light shrugged. "I'll send some on him as well. Their all apart from one another on different planets."

Zhuge Liang looked at the screen again, waving his fan slightly on himself. "Interesting…they allow themselves to be divided and conquered…unless the real threat will strike soon, I Suggest, Thomas and Albert, that you keep an eye on reports going to the GF now. As you've noticed, we've found all 8 people that we lost. If anything else happens, it will only go to the federation."

Dr Light was soon using the com-link to contact people in the base. He sent Mr T, Optimas Prime, Soundwave, Tails and Megaman to handle Megatron, while Ryu, Ken, Samus and Xiahou Dun deal with Sun Ce.

When each party was sent though, they had the same problem has the party dealing with Sima Yi…almost endless heartless coming at them, even large ones to handle the likes of Optimas Prime and Soundwave.

They contacted Dr Light, and in response, he sent Zhang Liao and Xu Huang of Earth V to aid those fighting Sima Yi, Serious Sam and Zhao Yun to aid those fighting Sun Ce, and Starscream and Forte to aid those fighting Megatron….but it wasn't enough, soon they were asking for more help, as the heartless had increased in numbers…and in response, more and more people were sent…

Soon the base was almost empty from the constant teleporting of people and the constant call for help, leaving behind in the base, Anna, Zhang He, Pang Tong, Roll, Medi, Cao Cao, Yan Liang of Earth V, Dr Light, Dr Wily, Dr Regal, Dr Yuichiro, Lan and a knocked out/tired out batch of people, who were Chad, Sonic, Mario, Jak and Laserman.

Soon Cao Cao and Yan Liang were seen teleporting away in the labs, to assist those against Sima Yi. Dr Light, Dr Wily, Zhuge Liang and Yuichiro were all in the labs now, the fighting in the areas had gone on for a few hours.

Dr Light smiled in relief. "That's the last of them, all evened out and divided between the three groups. That should be far more than enough to finally deal with the problem. Those three possibly can't challenge all those people at once."

Zhuge Liang had been looking at the computer screen, looking at all three places were battles were being fought, then looked at Dr Light, and shook his head. "We have sent many away from here Thomas, if anything, we are now at risk of being attacked ourselves."

Yuichiro nodded. "His right father. If Darkmega himself came, then we would be in serious trouble, especially if he has an army like the groups have been reporting."

Dr Light looked at them, and gave them a reassuring smile. "I doubt Darkmega would have the brains to do something like that."

Oh, how wrong he was…

In the Black Fortress in the void, Darkmega, Richard and Chaos were in the hall once again.

"Everything's going to your suggestion, they sent most of the morons out to fight the heartless and the last three." Darkmega said, before looking at Chaos, to see what he would say next.

Chaos turned away from them both. "Now we can begin the next phase…I bought an ally to assist us with this. Chad needs to be lured out and away from that base before we can push him aside…I have the perfect person to lead him away my, other allies, have little need of him now."

Then, slowly floating into the hall, laughing evilly, was Master Hand from the Smash Bros series. A wanted criminal, known for being from the Farside, and attempting several times to attack a world that housed a being called Kirby, and the Mushroom world. He lived within this void, and had known Chaos for quite a while now, and knew he had plans.

Master hand was in the black void when the castle first appeared many, many years ago, and at times would be sent out by those who owned the castle to do their bidding...often failing, and is now falling out of favor with nearly everyone here. Chaos has offered him this one last chance to redeem himself.

The hand certainly didn't refuse this offer.

Master Hand floated near the others. "Shall I depart right away, Chaos?"

Chaos nodded. "Right away, no need to stay put, this is our chance."

Master Hand quickly flew off, knowing his part of the fun was just starting.

Richard frowned. "Master Hand? C'mon Chaos! Mario's beaten Master Hand! KIRBY has beaten Master hand! What chance does a floating white hand have?"

"None, but he is disposable. I have no other use for him other then fodder for my plan."

In the hospital of the hero base, about ten minutes ago, Chad had opened his eyes and sat himself up. Right now, he was sitting in one of the chairs with Anna next to him, and Medi going around, checking on the other four.

He had told Anna about Phantom, after he and the others had freed Sonic, Mario and Jak from control.

Anna looked a little worried. "I've never heard of him before…and you couldn't even stop him?"

"I couldn't even make him back off, let alone stop him. It was like fighting Lu Bu all over again, a one-sided fight."

"Well, at least he didn't hurt you too much…" Anna gave him a sweet smile.

He smiled at her back. "Yeah… so what's going on right now? Has Sima Yi been sorted out?"

Anna shook her head, the smile gone. "No. things have got worse now. Sun Ce and Megatron showed up in different areas, and all three of them keep summoning waves and waves of heartless. Dr Light has nearly sent everyone to sort them out."

"Jeez, that isn't too good…any idea who's been left here 'cept you, me, Medi and the four people down and out?"

"Nope, no clue…" Anna then looked over at Medi. "Medi? Any ideas on whose been left behind?"

Medi looked at them both. "Well, I think it's just the docs and Zhuge Liang, there the only ones I know about."

Then, Chad got a feeling…a tingle down the spine…something was happening…or something was ABOUT to. He looked over to the hospital door…and he saw a heartless, one of the small ones, just appearing inside the hospital.

Before it even had a chance to move, Chad had sliced it in half with the Blade of Darkness, as he stood near where it was. "Heartless…Damnit, Darkmega's sent a few friends to attack here while most of the guys are out! Medi, Anna! Stay put and contact the docs of what's going on!"

Chad left the hospitall, and the main room was filled with the little critters, as they all looked at Chad, and begun to advance.

He didn't waste any time. The Blade of Darkness had it's fun, as each time it went through the air, at least 4 or so heartless were taken down, no matter which way it went, it got it's kills, the heartless were stupid, all they find was run at him, right into the blade, not turning to try and avoid or anything, dissolving away without even getting close enough for an attack.

Chad, as the heartless continued this aimless suicide plan, realized that…well, they should be a least a little bit brighter then what they are right now.

Then, the heartless just turned and fled down one of the corridors. Chad knew then, that they were trying to lure him into some kind of trap, which then they would attack him properly, along with whatever allies they get.

He COULD just let them flee, get some help, and get the heartless with their own game by running after them, let them set off the trap, then run back in, and get his friends to ambush them… but this was Chad. One little trap, no matter how obvious, was not gonna effect him, in his view…

Chad followed after them, with the blade of darkness still ready. They were quite fast for little weak creatures, he could easily catch up to them in a flash and dice them all down, but that would just spoil the fun, as the trap might have even Richard or Darkmega waiting for him, a real fight.

He soon found himself outside, running away from the base as the sun was setting in the sky. He looked at the heartless still running on, and thought to himself. 'Hmm, this is perfect for a large group of them to suddenly attack me and try to beat the shit out of me…'

Then the heartless he was chasing…vanished.

Chad slowed down and stopped, looking around the area of green grass before him, annoyed with the fact they just disappeared, and nothing's happened yet.

Chad sighed in annoyance. He couldn't see them or anything that would be dangerous, and lowered his sword, thinking to himself. "Sneaky little shits…still…this is odd, where's the trap or ambush?"…he waited.

…still nothing. "Well, this is bloody disappointing. Maybe Darkmega expected those heartless to be enough to take over the base or something."

Whilst he was thinking, he failed to notice the slowly growing large hand shaped shadow looming over where he was, he only realized it was there when he looked at the ground, at the shadow. "Huh…don't recall my shadow being so large and misshaped…maybe I've put on weight or…oh…" He quickly rolled out of the shadow, just, as Master Hand slammed into the ground, at where Chad was a moment ago.

Chad quickly stood up, weapon at the ready, looking at the white glove, as it floated off the ground, and turned towards Chad. It didn't take Chad long to recognize the hand. "You! Your Master Hand!"

Master Hand made the first move, not waiting, and tried to punch Chad, who easily moved out of the way. Chad then fired a chaos beam at the Hand, which hit it as it turned around, ready to try to punch Chad again, and it yelled out in pain, before changing tactics, and trying to grab Chad instead, and Chad jumped back to avoid the hand.

"No wonder Mario beat your ass! Your moves are too predictable!" Chad said whilst dodging a few swings and grabs from the hand, then stabbing his Blade of Darkness into the top of the thumb, making it bleed, and Master Hand flying back a little, making the blade come back out.

"Futile pest! I'll crush you!" Master Hand bellowed, then, from his finger tips, four small blue energy beams fired out, all heading at Chad. Shame it's easily dodged, as Chad showed by jumping to the side at the last moment, and firing a chaos beam at the hand, knocking it back a little.

Chad just smirked as the hand tried again with the beams, and he dodged once again, firing the chaos beam again. "You're the surprise? I would've enjoyed an army of heartless instead of having to kick your ass!"

In the distance, away from them and their fight…Chaos watched, looking at Master Hand trying to attack Chad again and again, and failing which time, getting hit over and over…soon Master Hand will be gone, and his trap will be finally sprung on Chad. "That's it Chad…keep playing with the fool…once you got rid of him for me, you can say goodbye to your friends.."

The battle just stayed in Chad's favour all the time, no matter what the hand tried to pull, soon, it found itself covered in cuts, burnt marks from the beams, and on the floor, twitching, trying to recover. "H-how could I fail again?"

Chad walked over towards the hand, with his blade of darkness at the ready. "Well, I think that's you done and dusted, now, what's with this little surprise attack? Did you know it would just be me coming out?"

Master Hand just groaned, giving up trying to recover. But he didn't say a word to Chad. instead mumbling something faintly. "Mistress Ingrid…you were…right to deem me, unworthy…"

Chad just sighed. "Look, tell me, and I'll let you go instead of doing the finishing blow, okay? You can always come back and try again later…although I doubt you want to face me again after today. Who is Ingrid?"

Master Hand had to take this into consideration…he could live to try again…

Chad had to quickly move back, as a massive version of his chaos beam had shot by, just missing him, and engulfing Master Hand, as he yelled in pain…and got completely obliterated. All of Chad's curiosity on the woman Master Hand mentioned died off, as he heard an all too familiar voice.

"Sorry Chad, but he didn't need to live any longer. As for you, I need you away for a little while…your friends will have to go on without you."

Chad then turned to try and see where the voice came from…only to be staring right into a white vortex, swirling in front of him, large enough to let a man walk through…and before he could even question what the hell was going on, it sucked him in so suddenly…to Chad, everything went silent, and he couldn't see, or even move his body. The vortex closed, and behind it, was Chaos, smirking, before he vanished.

"That's the pest out of the way now."

Chad was floating there…in this white, empty place. Slowly, he could hear faint, very faint voices…he looked around. Nothing, no one there…just endless white.

He soon felt his body work again, and was able to stand up now, instead of just floating there, in a sitting position. He looked around again, still nothing. The whispers were strange, they sounded like people he knew, but he couldn't understand them.

"Where….where am I…am I… dead?".

He heard the voice that he heard in the grassland. "Not likely".

it had come from behind him, but when he looked…no one was there.

Chad looked around carefully again. "Alright, who's there!"

No reply. Just silence.

"Alright whoever brought me here, have you killed me or something? Because I had a lot of things I wanted to do before I died!"

The voice was again behind him. "Behind you, Chad, and no, you're not dead…yet."

Chad once again looked behind him…nothing there. He turned himself to the direction the figure was suppose to be and then looked around once more, getting annoyed. "You disappeared again asshole. Show yourself and stop jerking me around!"

Then, the voices became a little clearer, still nothing more then whispers…

"So Chad is out of the way, and the last of the eight have been defeated…"

"It seems so, but now we can attack our main target. Finally get all those idiots 'evicted'."

Chad was getting really pissed off now. This isn't what he needed, strange voices going around him and this main one which, it's owner seems to like playing. "ARGH! Lemme out of this goddamn place!"

Then, more whispers are flowing around Chad…some again, he can hear fine.

"This is stupid! They just keep coming! We have to plan a retreat!"

"Damnit, this isn't what we need after kicking so much ass against Sima Yi! We need a break!"

Chad looked around again. "…Okay, what's going on?"

That main voice was heard again. "Obviously your going insane, Chad Oswald."

Chad got his Blade of Darkness out, and looked around quickly. "Shut up and show yourself bastard!"

"I'm surprised for haven't figured out who I am yet, Chad. Have you really forgotten me already?"

"COME OUT!" Chad yelled….it was silent after…then…he heard a footstep, and quickly turned around to look behind himself. Standing nearby, looking right at Chad, or so Chad thinks, thanks to those damn shades, was Chaos.

Chad was stunned. He thought Chaos would never show his face again.. "C…Chaos!?"

The whispers returned, going around him and Chaos.

"The labs and the hospital have been overrun by the little critters!"

"Why the hell have they suddenly got more intelligent with their fighting?"

"I, Yuan Shao, shall lead everyone to retake the base! Charge!"

"Don't be stupid Yuan! That place is crammed full of the things! Sorry Thomas, Albert, but I suggest we leave it alone!"

Chad glared at Chaos, knowing he had something to do with this. "Alright Chaos, what have you done!"

Chad wasn't impressed with Chaos staying quiet. "What's going on in the real world Chaos? What sick idea have you come up with THIS time?!"

Chaos smiled. "Simple. I'm working with Darkmega in his idea of creating an empire, to destroy the GF, and take over the universe, crushing any and all in our path, of course. I bet you wish you could go back…but I'm afraid you WON'T be leaving…back to that time, at least."

"What is that suppose to mean Chaos?"

Chaos shrugged. "You'll find out."

Before Chad could even do anything, he felt himself weaken, and become very tired, falling to his hands and knees, dropping his sword, and soon found himself laying on the floor, his eyes closing, the last voice he heard was from one of the whispers.

"We need to contact the Galactic Federation. We've been overrun, and Darkmega is quickly sending the heartless all over the place…"

Chad's mind was all fuzzy…He opened one eye, and found himself looking up at the night sky, stars, thousands, littering across it, and one large bluish moon…

He closed his eye…he felt a cool breeze flow by, and felt the ground a little with his hands…dirt, hard. Not like the strange void.

He opened his eyes, and turned his head to look around…it was a vast, open plain, with several small hills in the distance…the ground seemed to be a faint blue colour, though that could be just the moonlight causing that.

Chad thought to himself. "Okay…not what I was expecting when I first wake up from a void of some sort which had my enemy in it, after beating Master Hand…"

He noticed a faint rush of a green glow go across the ground and past him. He quickly looked up, and saw what it was.

An aurora. The night was flowing with several strands of the light, which seemed to be constantly moving, but in a slow, wavy manner, like a dance in the sky, some of them blue, others, green…

He stood himself up, and quickly noticed something…his body. He noticed he was a little taller, and slightly slimmer…he felt older…well, it could've been worse, he could've been horribly mutated. He felt thankful he was pretty much normal.

"Well, this is quite strange." Was all he could say right now.

He felt he was being watched, eyes were looking at him from behind, he could feel it. He turned, and there, was an old man, who was actually looking up at the night sky, in his hand, were five odd looking…cards…

"…Who are you?" Chad said, staying back from the old man, and holding the hilt of his Blade of Darkness, incase he needed to pull it out for a fight. For all he knew, this old geezer could be chaos's ally.

The man slowly looked from the sky, to the boy. Chad could see this, slight grey aura around the old guy, as the aurora flowed overhead…and he felt…calm, in his presence.

The old guy finally spoke. "Chad Oswald, I had wondered when we would finally meet. I am Zuo Ci. I had brought you here after you had been asleep for so long…"

"Asleep?"

"Yes Chad, for almost 2 years."

Chad looked at Zuo Ci like he was insane…two years? Two years!? No way in hell could he have been asleep for that long! "Sorry what?"

Zuo Ci sighed, and walked towards Chad, who backed off slowly. "You have been asleep, thanks to Chaos, for almost two years. You were put aside, while Darkmega took this chance to take over Earth X, and begin his dark empire."

Chad still didn't believe it, until he remembered what Chaos said…you won't be leaving, back to that time at least. "Chaos…that asshole…what's happened to everyone uhh…whatever your name is! The people at the hero base! What's happened to them, do you know?"

"As I said, it's Zuo Ci Chad. And yes, I do know what's happened to them…they have left their home, and moved to somewhere else, while the chaos grew."

"Where to?"

"Another base. On the planet Zebes. It took them awhile to make, but that is where they are right now, if you wish to find them."

Chad smiled, a little relaxed now. "That's good then…So….where is this?"

"Earth V Chad. The world of Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Jian and Yuan Shao. As to where this exact location is…This is Wu Zhang Plains."

Chad looked around once more. "It's quite peaceful here…and beautiful in its own way."

"You might see it again sometime again Chad…For now you should focus on going home." Zuo Ci suggested.

"Good idea. I best go there now and check on them."

The deity looked a little worried. "That will not be easy. Your Com-link is out of date. Contacting your friends will be impossible."

"Well, can you teleport me there or something?"

"Yes, I suppose I could, it is within my power…but what makes you trust me with this? For all you know, I might be a servant of Chaos, planning to send you into the fires of hell. You haven't asked me what I am, what my purpose is here, or even if I'm another evil planning to take over everything."

Chad thought about this for a moment…then answered "I just do. There's something about you, this place, that makes me think you're a good guy, I HOPE I'm not wrong though. My real concern right now is my friends, so asking about you can come later if we meet again."

Zuo Ci chuckled slightly. "You're quite right. I was just checking. Very well, I shall send you to your friends. We shall meet again soon, Chad Oswald. Your destiny, has only just begun."

Before Chad could even ask, he vanished.

Chad opened his eyes, finding them suddenly closed, and saw that he was out of Wu Zhang Plains…and in a wasteland of some sort, with rain pouring down upon him….great…he looked around, and saw a huge cave nearby, with some kind of massive metal door at its entrance.

"Well, that's gotta be it then, I suppose. Fucking Zebes and its bloody weather…"

Planet Zebes was famous for its weather, and it's constant blowing up problems, back in days of Samus fighting Mother Brain. The weather was known to be constant rain, followed by a few days of sunshine…before it rains all over again, floods were VERY common on this planet.

It was always known for its areas. It had four different ones. You had Brinstar, which was the tropical parts of the planet, with some underground caverns. Maridia, which was mostly the sea. Norfair, which was lava filled caves, the main underground network of this planet, and finally Crateria, which was what Chad was at now, the normal areas of the planet.

The planet was deemed unsafe, as Chad last recalled, but after two years, it seems like that's been changed.

He walked towards the metal door, and looked at it…before knocking.

….Nothing happened.

He knocked again.

Nothing happened still.

Chad looked at it carefully this time. "Hmm." Then he moved back, and fired a Chaos beam at it…which bounced off, and flew back at him, smacking him right in the chest, and he fell to the floor with a thud, the rain now dripping all over his face, as he was looking up at the grey clouds.

"Ow…okay, that doesn't work."

Chad got up, and went towards the door, with the blade of darkness at the ready, and swung it…only for it to smack into the metal, not cut through it, and shaken him up a little.

"Uhh…okay, that failed too. hmm."

He moved back, formed a few mini bombs from his battle chips, and flung them at the door…they hit and exploded…but the door was fine afterwards.

Now Chad was getting frustrated.

He tried Cannon chips, Vulcan chips, swords, the Zeta Cannon program advance, the Giga Cannon program advance, more mini bombs, the life sword program advance, which was an almighty energy sword that could create a shockwave of energy on the ground…and nothing made a difference to that bloody door. Chad was just cursing and swearing.

Within an hour or so of trying, he soon found himself just banging on the door. "OPEN UP! OPEN UP I SAID! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!"…nope, shouting failed…he leaned on the door, getting tired, and soaked through to the bone thanks to the rain. "Alright…door 1, me 0.…I'll get you for this, door…"

Then, he noticed a small, little computer screen nearby the door, and went over to it. It had a little red button…he pressed it, and a female voice said. "Password please. Please complete the following: The darkness is hated by all…"

Chad took a moment for this. "Uhh….But the darkness can easily be killed?"

The computer screen showed, in red. "INCORRECT!"

Chad pressed the red button, and it asked him again. "But it's not as bad as the GF?"

Nope.

"But it's like a bar of chocolate? Evil, but slightly sweet and addictive?"

Wrong.

"But darkness means evil, and women are evil?"

Not it either.

"But darkness is only useful to wussies?"

Wrong again.

"Let me in damnit!"

Wrong once again.

"The moment I find out who made this, I'll murder them!"

The screen showed incorrect again.

"ARGH! But the light is what we love?! Is it something fucking silly like that?!"

There was new writing on the screen, in green. It showed "CORRECT." The metal door slowly opened.

Chad looked at the door, then at the computer, then at the door…and shrugged. "Well damn, so it was something silly like that…ah well it's effective enough to keep people out and piss them off to no end."

He walked inside and found the inside of the cave, was actually a huge metal corridor, leading downhill, underground. He very slowly walked down it. There were plenty of lights to show the way, as the metal door at the entrance closed up.

He soon heard voices, people chatting, the humming of computers…he reached the end of the long corridor, and…he stood there, surprised…

There was a massive hall before him, with its ceiling a huge dome shape, projected on it, was the star charts, and a universe map, from a few of the many, MANY computers he could see all around the walls. There was corridors connecting to this hall, and two doors, leading to a brand new labs, and a brand new hospital, which were double the size of the base one…

This, was the new main room, of the new hero base.

He noticed and recognized everyone who was in the room at the time, and it only took one person to notice, Ryu, before everyone else was looking over at what he was looking at, as he stood there, stunned.

It felt very awkward now, almost as if Chad just come into a party uninvited, everyone had gone silent, staring at Chad. He saw Dr Regal, who was in the main room, quickly walk off into the labs, after seeing Chad.

Chad very slowly made his way into the group of people, going towards the centre of the place, everyone moving aside for him, he could see the faces of Quickman, forte, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Xiahou Dun, Laserman, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Charlie, Ken, Medi…then, he heard someone say. "Get out of the way, move it move it! I need to see for myself!"

Then, pushing his way past Cao Cao and Laserman…was Dr Wily, using his walking stick as a way to make them know he was there, and to move aside, he was looking shocked at Chad. "…Chad? Is that really you?"

Chad weakly smiled at him. "Hey Wily. It's been awhile, huh?"

It had been three hours….

In Corridor 4, room 12, which was now Chad's, Chad was seen in the bathroom, in the bath itself, with his eyes shut, bubbles everywhere, the water, hot and refreshing….his room was pretty much the same as before, bar from the lack of windows, and just lights.

He needed a bath after all that talk, he needed to recover. Two years of not washing was gonna be bad, hygiene wise. Despite the fact he didn't actually smell, he perhaps thought he ended up like Pang Tong, who sometimes didn't seem the notice the stench coming off him.

He remembered the talk between him and Wily in the labs.

They had to leave Earth X after Darkmega invaded…the planet didn't last long after that. Within four weeks, the Galactic Federation declared an evacuation of the planet to avoid too many casualties, and the world was quickly overrun. But it didn't end there, Darkmega was able to use a spaceport on the planet, and use its ships to invade other planets with waves and waves of heartless, for these two years.

It's been nothing more than fights. Darkmega hasn't gained a foothold on any other planet, but keeps trying, and with his endless supply of heartless, he doesn't show no signs of giving up…

The GF had continued to try and invade Earth X to reclaim it, but there hasn't been much luck. The heroes had been giving them a hand as much as possible, like right now, Anna, Samus, Link and Liu Bei had all gone to Earth X to try and help the GF take over the very spaceport that was causing all these problems.

Wily said that they were lucky no one has been fatally wounded so far. There has been a ton of close calls, but they've made it out okay. And as for the old hero base…that's been fully taken by Darkmega, used as his main fort.

Chad asked about Chaos…but Wily said there hasn't been no sign of a man called Chaos in Darkmega's ranks during these two years. Richard is still faithfully working with Darkmega, with everyone in the base now agreeing that he must be working for Darkmega without any type of mind control.

Chad didn't believe it. He still thinks Richard would never go this low, his family is here, his life is here. He must be being made to work, under some kind of dark mind control ability Darkmega has.

Chad just sighed, not wanting to think about it anymore, and kept his eyes shut, laying there in the water. He was here now, and things can go back to a more normal level. Maybe the GF will defeat Darkmega, and they'll get their old base back, in time.

Chad wasn't a macho man, but he certainly wasn't fat either, he had slight muscles on his chest, stomach, legs and arms, and had little to no armpit hair. The bubbles floated everywhere on top of the water…the main thing he was really waiting for, was for Anna to come back…

He wondered what her reaction would be. Maybe she'll show some affection towards him, giving him the all clear to ask her out. To finally date Anna…That would be great…

He heard a little splash, and felt ripples in the water.

He opened one eye, and had a look at where it came from. In the bathtub with him now, was a little yellow rubber duck…now that wasn't there a moment ago. "Huh…Strange."

What he failed to notice, was the pink and black Navi clothing standing right next to the bathtub, with the owner of them looking down at him, smiling.

Roll just kept smiling, and said "I just thought you would want something to cover up where the bubbles missed."

"GAH!" Chad quickly looked at her, surprised that she was even there, and quickly going red with embarrassment, lowering himself in the water slightly, as if trying to hide his whole body bar his head. "Roll!? When did you come in!?"

"Just a few minutes ago, I did knock, but you never answered, so I decided to come in and see if you were really back, and it wasn't Medi making a prank on me…didn't expect to see more of you at the same time."

Chad knew what she meant, when he looked at where the duck was positioned…and blushed, knowing what she saw.

Roll looked at where the duck was as well, before looking back at Chad, remembering what she saw…he certainly didn't lack anything.

Chad looked at her again. "How did you even get in! I locked the door with my key card!"

Key cards are the now thing. You insert them into the lock of the door, and it opens, simple. Turning the card left or right while it's in the lock, then taking it out, locks the door tight. This works on a computer program that is connected to every door in the base.

Roll giggled, the pointed at her slightly see-through, light yellow antennas, which were sticking out of her helmet from the sides. "Have a guess Chad."

Chad sighed, and remembered…Roll was a natural for hacking, literally designed to, those antennas can be inserted anywhere which is connected to a computer program, and with her mind and programming, she can hack the code to make things lock or unlock. She can try over a thousand codes and passwords within a second. This is also possible with locked, pass worded data in the net, firewalls, barriers, you name it, Roll can probably hack it.

Roll then bent down near Chad, leaning on the bath side. "It's nice to know you're back Chad, most of us missed you. I really can't believe I'm even looking at you."

Chad gave her an awkward smile, his face wouldn't stop glowing red. "Thanks Roll, but…uhh… could you get me a couple of towels off the side, so I can get out? Talking to a girl while having a bath is something I'm not too used to….at all."

"Oh right! Sorry!" Roll quickly got Chad the towels and put them right close to the bath, so Chad could reach them…then smiled and waited.

Chad sighed. She didn't get the hint. "Thanks…could you, ya know…wait in my bedroom and close the bathroom door behind you while I get out and dry myself a little?"

Roll blushed a little, and quickly left to Chad's bedroom, making sure the bathroom door was closed after. She sat on the bed, and heard him get out of the bath…she wouldn't of minded being there, but it was obvious why she couldn't be. They were just friends…but now his back…perhaps, with a lot of effort, she could make it more than that. Once Chad had re-settled in, and Darkmega is somehow defeated, perhaps she could ask him out on a date or something.

She has been worried sick about him for the entire two years. A lot of people simply said he was dead after a month, and after one year, even Anna seemed to be in the same mind. But Roll couldn't believe he was dead, and when Medi said he was back when she went to see her friend in the hospital, Roll was over the moon.

Then…her mind wandered a little, as she knew Chad was busy drying himself…she thought back to what she saw in the bath, before covering it with the rubber duck...then thought about herself.

She was beautiful, no doubt. She was kind, sweet, and caring, and treasured people close to her…but she does lack, in her view, in certain areas, especially one that Medi forever points out, her breasts.

She pretty much doesn't have any.

In bra size, she would be classed as AA. Underneath her Navi clothing, she still wears a bra, if only to make herself look a little bigger. It's this that put her down from finding another guy for these last two years, and made her stay with Megaman for so long back then, before she just had enough with the way he treated her at times, and it's this that is making her unsure about doing anything with Chad, beyond friendship.

As Navi's get older, their bodies do not change, unless they decide to use upgrades to make themselves more mature… Thinking of upgrades, Roll looked down at herself. She has kept this look since the day of creation, which was 7 years ago now. Her look…she would have to put a lot of effort in to attract Chad.

Medi just never stops saying about them at times. she always points out at Roll's got a great ass that's firm and curvy, that attracts most of the male's attention, a sweet smile, gorgeous eyes, soft skin, but, as Medi believes and reminds Roll over and over, it's the middle area, that will decide if your truly hot or not.

Medi would then boast on about hers, which were about at least DD, in Roll's view, and how a lot of guys do take notice of them while she treats them in hospital…she's been with several guys before, but all of them got dumped, the last one just before she came to the base. She just felt they can't fulfill her needs.

"What's up Roll? You look a little disappointed about something."

Roll looked. Chad had just came in from the bathroom, wearing a grey, cotton dressing gown, which was one of the basics items your given for free here, and with a small towel on his hair. He sat down near her.

"Oh it's nothing, honest. So Chad, how much do you know about everything around here?"

"Well, not really too much. Wily only gave me the basics of what's been going on."

Roll began to fill him in on anything he wanted to know. The first thing he asked about was how did the heroes end up so far away from Earth? She said that after Chad had vanished, and the last three controlled people were defeated and brought back to the base, the surprise attack of thousands upon thousands of heartless occurred.

They held out for a while, but once Richard and Darkmega appeared and joined the fray, the base was lost. Dr Light and Dr Wily had called the GF to send transports right away to collect them all, telling Keaton it was an invasion. Keaton had sent the transports, which brought them all to Gaia VII first. Dr Light, Dr Wily, Dr Regal and Dr Yuichiro all had to explain to Keaton that it was Darkmega, and he was controlling an actual army.

Keaton wasn't impressed in the slightest, knowing that the docs allowed such a creature to be created, and wanted to just get rid of them. But Yuan Shao intervened, and suggested that another hero base be built for them, on another planet, so the people could recover and wait until this entire thing had blown over, with Keaton handling the situation, sending plenty of engineers and supplies to build the base to the standards of the Earth one, and to allow the heroes to assist if need be.

Yuan Shao was a high minister, to refuse his idea was to lose all rank, so Keaton was pretty much fucked, and had to listen to him.

By the time Dr Light and Dr Wily suggested Zebes as a new home, Earth X was overrun by Darkmega. Keaton had increased all defenses on the nearby planets of it, in order to stop Darkmega from taking anymore over, and that's how the standoff has been since. There has been battles won, and battles lost. A lot of men had died during the fights, including one of the GF most finest officers, Colonel Barrel aka, as he was nicknamed once, "The immortal Barrel."…not so immortal if he was blown to bits in an explosion.

As for the heroes, they had left Gaia VII, and headed to Zebes. It didn't take them long to find the cave, and realize there was an underground network of caverns beneath it. The engineers, many of the GF's most effective ones, began work…it only took them a year and a 2 months to finish the work, thanks to constant day to day work, with few days off, and if it was a day off, Yuan Shao hired other engineers to take over the ones resting. Yuan Shao picked each and every engineer himself…there was a LARGE hole in Keaton's pocket afterwards, especially since it was all taken from the military funding. The engineers also got paid triple their normal amount…again, from the military funding.

Keaton wasn't a fan of Yuan Shao being a high minister after that, he tried to argue about this to the other high ministers, but since Yuan Shao invites them to parties a lot on his planet, which include booze, duels to the death, entertainment and plenty of food, they told Keaton to listen to him without question.

The base has been up and running for about four months now, with very little problems. Roll said that it was pretty much the same as the Earth one, but it was underground, and connected to Norfair and an underground part of Brinstar, giving them plenty of freedom to explore the planet without having to go above.

Chad asked about who invented the password and door at the entrance to the cave. Roll told him it was Dr Light who thought up the idea…Chad had to remember to have a word with the doc about it.

He then asked how most of the people were, especially Yuan Shao, Shademan, Roll herself, Anna and Quickman. Roll told him that everyone was okay, a little shook up about the sudden attack, but they're now pretty much normal. Anna has been helping out a lot lately when it comes to going to Earth X, and has been acting more of a leader then the docs now. She's taken it upon herself to handle the likes of Darkmega after Chad vanished. The docs don't mind really, the people seem fine with her, and if she's leading them around, they can lay back and just focus on maintaining the base.

Quickman had been alright. He often tried to find his OP on Earth X when he went on a mission, but, of course, he never found him.

Yuan Shao was still being a typical noble, going around the base and checking on everyone, making sure the people in HIS base now, since he made the GF pay to build it, are still okay, and still he gets picked on by Cao Cao.

Shademan was still alright, a little unhappy with the fact that Richard had betrayed them, but never the less, he was okay. He had been helping Roll with trying to find someone else, as he noticed she looked a little sad more often than not nowadays, although she said it was because of what's going on.

Then Roll told Chad about herself. She has been very concerned about Chad and Richard, and missed them both for the past two years. She hadn't been quite the same throughout the time, and just wanted to go back home. She admitted she was a lot happier now, seeing Chad here, knowing he was okay now.

Roll then asked Chad a question. How did he get here? He then explained about the small heartless attack in the base, the ambush by Master Hand and his demise, the white vortex, Chaos, Zuo Ci, Wu Zhang Plains and that bloody door that blocked his path here on Zebes, which made Roll laugh a little.

"Heh, well at least you figured it out in the end." She said.

"Heh yeah, I guess…" Chad then sat there, looking around the room, before his com-link went off, now fully updated by Dr Wily, and he answered it, just as Roll was about to ask him something. "Hello?"

It was Dr Wily. "Chad, Anna is about to come back, if you want to surprise her, I suggest you come to the main room and wait for her."

Roll was a little crestfallen. She forgot about Chad's liking to Anna for a moment.

Chad smiled. Finally, he can see her again. "Alright Doc, thanks. I'll be there in a moment."

He put the com-link away, and stood up, looking at Roll. "Hey, if you could wait outside for a moment, I'll just get dressed. I gotta go and see Anna in the main room. You can tag along if you want."

Roll shook her head, as she got up off the bed. "No Chad, it's alright. I should go and see Maylu anyway. You….just take care of yourself, alright?"

"Sure. See ya around Roll."

"See ya.." Roll left, and slowly walked off, feeling a little gutted, but she knew she was still in with a little chance, as Anna and Chad weren't going out yet.

Chad got dressed into his normal attire, which several sets of a larger, more fitting size was given to him by Wily before he went to his room for a bath, and left to the main room.

In the main room, was Dr Wily and Dr Light, both were waiting, and within minutes of Chad walking in, teleporting in, was Anna, who looked a little bit older, was still wearing her normal clothing, with a grey colored body armor attached now, slightly taller, with longer hair then before, and, as Chad noticed, a slimmer body, Link, Samus and Liu Bei, all looked a little bit bashed up, with Anna having a small cut on her right cheek, and her clothing damaged a little.

Dr Wily looked a little concerned. "The job to disable the spaceport didn't go to plan, I take it?"

Anna shook her head, as Liu Bei, Samus and Link all sat down to recover. She didn't seem to notice Chad at first. "The GF troopers screwed it up. They got panicky, and started to fire on any heartless that moved, setting the whole lot off on us without even getting a chance to surprise attack them. We were the lucky four that got out thanks to our own abilities. All the GF troopers are dead."

Dr Light was stunned. "All four hundred troopers?"

"Yep."

Samus Nodded. Her suit looked dented in a tad, and one shoulder of it was ripped open, exposing the wires and inner metal armor. "They couldn't shoot for shit. I think even fucking storm troopers could do better with the aim then them."

Chad then decided to get himself noticed, by saying. "Well at least you guys came back okay."

Anna and the others looked at him, with her nodding. "Yeah, that's true Chad. At least we…." She stopped.

She looked at Chad carefully.

Blinked.

Yep. He was still standing there.

Anna walked over to him, looking beyond the words of shocked at seeing him where.

Chad felt awkward. "Uhh….hi Anna."

The next thing Chad knew, was that his left cheek was experiencing pain, and he was looking to the right now…Anna had slapped him, hard. Then the next moment, he found Anna in his arms, holding him tight, almost in tears. She had to hit him in order to make sure he was well and truly there, and it wasn't some kind of dream. "My god, it really is you! Chad! Your alive!"

Chad blushed, a little surprised with the way Anna reacted. "It's okay Anna, I'm back, and this time I'm not going away."

Meanwhile…Darkmega and Richard, along with an army of heartless, were aboard one of the GF warships. They had left Earth X almost a week ago, leaving Chaos in charge, and the GF haven't noticed them gone yet. They had travelled far out from GF territory, close to the Farside, the other half of the currently known Universe…there was a reason for this…

It was over 8 months ago now. When Darkmega and Richard had both attempted to invade one of the nearby planets of Earth X. They had a foothold on the planet for a few days, but that was enough… They had found an old, ancient temple, which was hidden in a forest. It was almost in complete ruin, and they just had a vague idea who it once belonged to, the Chozo race.

They had ventured into the temple, to see if there was anything worth taking, and there was…on an altar, shining thanks to the sunlight beaming down on it, through the broken stone sealing, was a dark, dark purple crystal, jagged, sharp, with a slight black aura around it, spinning slowly by itself, slightly floating off its platform, small enough to be carried with two hands… there was dozens of skeleton's around, showing that people had tried to take it before…there was no sign of whatever killed them.

They looked onto the walls of the temple, noticing writing on it, and pictures, engraved into the stone…the writing was in Chozo, and they couldn't make no head nor tail of it. But the pictures..

They showed a figure, looking up into the sky, holding the crystal, and above, him, into space, was…a planet, with two horns, and an eye at the centre, just opening. The next picture along showed the figure floating in space, next to this planet monster, heading to another planet. The final picture along showed the monster planet's eye gone, and replacing it, was several sharp teeth, the horns were dug into the planet, and had dragged it close to the monster…it was obvious what was gonna happen.

Darkmega added it all up, knowing the crystal must be the thing to summon such a monster, and they could use it to their service, he hopes, he told Richard to go and get the crystal. As Richard got close to it, he felt it was…similar, in many ways, it's power aura was matching to his and Darkmega in many ways. When he finally reached out and grabbed it with his hands…to him, for that moment, he suddenly found himself back within that temple in his dream, with purple mist all over the place still, and the marble throne ahead of him, with the man sitting upon it, while Richard was holding the crystal.

The man spoke. "Richard…you have found the key to the next step of your destiny…you know what you have within your hands, don't you? Look deep inside yourself, and realize it is the same."

Richard closed his eyes, listening to the man…yes, yes. It was the same…the crystal held evil, darkness, greed, rage…it was a dark soul, formed into an object other than a dark chip…no, It wasn't… it was something else, it had another name, a true name…he heard it echo in his mind….Sigil Soul…..Sigil Soul…that is what he was, what this thing was…they were both Sigil Souls, made from the same energy, same darkness.

Richard looked up towards the man. "…you really do know."

"Yes Richard. I know you. A dark creation formed of Chaotic energy, like Darkmega, like the very thing in your hands…combine with it Richard, let it's power feed into you, increase your own, and set out. To awaken the destroyer of worlds."

"Destroyer of worlds?"

"The Sigil Soul in your hands will guide you to him. Use its power to wake him, and tell him, it is time to begin, the end…you will be his assistant, his servant. With his help now, you will gain the next stage of power. Darkmega is still useful, but that usefulness will end shortly. Once you have woken the monster, return to Earth, and prepare yourself."

Richard had suddenly found himself back in the temple…with two cuts on his hands, and no crystal…the Sigil Soul had transformed into Chaotic energy, and flowed into him during that time…he felt it's power flow inside him through those cuts, which were made by the crystal. Darkmega demanded to know what had happened, and all Richard told him was that they could now wake up the ultimate weapon, which will be their key to bringing down empires across the universe, Darkmega didn't need to hear anymore, as he was smiling evilly at the idea.

Now, their warship had stopped. And on the main screen, on the bridge of the ship, Richard and Darkmega saw the very being they were going to wake up, with both of them smirking…

There, floating in deep space, in the empty void, was a being of at least twice the size of Saturn, silent, quiet, with two massive orange colored horns coming from the supposed front of it…and one massive hole between them, sealed shut right now…the entire thing was machine, with the colors of mainly grey, with certain parts being orange.

Darkmega looked at Richard. "So how do we wake him up?"

Richard stared at the screen…and felt like something inside had already done the job. "We don't need to."

And lo and behold, as they both look on, the centre piece begun to open up…showing that the seal was actually a ring of metal fangs, and in the centre now, was just a massive hole, leading inside, before it suddenly lit up, engulfing the warship in it's white light, blinding Darkmega and Richard for a moment. Then, they heard it's voice bellow, across the ship, and into space.

"Welcome, Sigil Souls…You carry the sign."

Richard couldn't see still, the light was just too much. "Who…who are you, mighty one?"

"I, am the Unicron, Heaven's Judgment upon the universe. For millions of years, I have slept…now, once my systems have reached full power again, it is time for me to start again, on what I planned to do long ago… Destroy the universe, and those who dare stand in my way!"

Darkmega still couldn't see, and when he could the heartless to make the ship back away from Unicron…the light had suddenly faded, and when they looked, Unicron had begun moving away himself, deeper into space slowly, heading towards a nearby sun. Richard suggested to Darkmega that they leave Unicron to his own devices for now, and head back to earth to inform Chaos about their new ally, if he is one…Demanding the planet to obey and assist them, or even attack it with one ship right now was suicide, even they knew that, and soon left this area of space, flying back to Earth X, not sure if they had done the wisest thing...

Richard knew he had though. He was gonna be fed with more power, from this beast…

Now, they had awoke a terror that caused many a battles to the great Primus, that should be never allowed to return, and now has….the planet destroyer, the supposed heaven's judgment to the universe…Unicron…

1. Unicron is based off his G1 Transformers movie look. Same for the voice. The heaven's judgement part is his own self proclaimed title.

2. Sigil Souls are just simply the true name to dark souls. They play many a vital role throughout this.

-Dragonridley