Oh! I forgot to mention, since its New Years' Eve, I thought I'd double post! Sounds good?

Roy: Sa-weet! In the words of Peach, anyways.

Marth: Now onto the ninth chapter! I'm sure you'll all enjoy.

Fox: The authoress doesn't own any of us except Katan, Luan, the plot and... uh... Captain Falcon's space ship thing that has all the numbers in it. Alright?

Mario: Let's-a go!

Chapter 9: Reunion: Old and New Gather in an Alliance!

"Captain Falcon, Reporting for duty!"

"Falcon!" Falco gasped. The other smashers were silent with disbelief.

Suddenly, a crashing star landed beside the shocked group, causing them to jump, only for a familiar pink puffball to dust itself off. "Kirby here, puyo!"

To the smashers amazement, more of their old friends began piling off Captain Falcon's ship to surround the lost group; Mario and Peach, Pikachu and Jigglypuff, DK, Yoshi, all of the smashers, minus the long gone Mr. Game and Watch, Ganondorf, Bowser, and Mewtwo. Cries of joy floated through the air as the shocked citizens of Home watched from the safety of the fence or their homes and rooftops. No one noticed one man detach himself from his comrades.

"Well, I guess this is where we depart then." Nix's familiar voice spoke. The smashers who had fought on Desert turned to the man. He grinned. "Well, go get the enemy. I expect great things from you guys, especially you, White Squad."

A cheer went up from people as the people of Desert cheered on the Smashers and the former White Riders.

"Wow, we haven't even saved the universe yet." Marth joked. Roy's heart swelled with joy.

Samus nodded to Nix one last time, then turned to the ship where they were welcomed warmly by their comrades of old. Kirby joined them, his warp star having expired. With a wave and shouts of thank-you and good-bye, the hull closed and the Smashers were almost totally reunited.

Samus turned to Falcon. "Falcon, there's one more thing I need to do before we leave his planet." Falcon gave her a curious look, but didn't deny her. "I'll give you the coordinates. I'll take care of the rest."

The Soldiers of the Empire were celebrating a battle won. Tomorrow, they would head out and take over the rebel city once and for all. King Empire stood, his fingers covered with golden rings, a great golden crown upon his head, ready to speak. His eyes swept over his men, who silenced almost immediately.

Raising his golden chalice into the air, he roared. "VICTORY TO THE EMPIRE!"

The crowd of soldiers went wild. Their noise was so great; they didn't notice a foreign ship fly over head, dropping bombs. Most of the soldiers never knew what hit them as the blast sent large regiments of the men flying through the air, breathing their last breath in fear and confusion. The King gave a wail of fear as he watched his death land in front of him, exploding upon contact with the ground. T

"That it Samus?" Captain Falcon's voice spoke over the intercom as Samus closed the bomb hatch. His voice carried the sound of shock, but he didn't question her motives.

"Yes Captain."

"Then get to the cockpit and take your seat. The gravity is too strong for no one to be seated."

Samus did as she was told and hurried to join her fellow smashers. Upon opening the door, she was greeted with cries of joy from many of the smashers.

"Samus! Welcome-a back!" Mario and Luigi chorused.

"Sammy!" Peach almost screeched from where she was seat belted between Mario and Zelda.

Samus smirked, taking her seat between Marth and Ness, who was chatting excitedly with Popo beside him as he told the Ice Climber about his adventures as a member of the White Riders.

"Alright, this is your captain speaking. Please fasten all seat belts, this is going to be a bumpy ride." Captain Falcon spoke from the pilot's seat. Seatbelts were fastened and checked. The last of the checking was done as the ship began to wobble as it started its fight with the gravity. The smashers went silent, as though the silence and concentration would push the ship through.

The ship began to toss and throw through the gravity pull and the atmosphere, frightening some of the less brave smashers, though obviously, the ship wasn't having much of a problem. Within fifteen minutes, the ship cleared the last of the gravity pull, and was soon shooting smoothly through the stars towards another familiar ship.

"The Great Fox! Fox, look!" Falcon was pointing through the window, excitement setting in quickly in his voice.

"Master Hand is-a waiting for us-a there." Mario stated. "At-a least that's-a what he-a said."

Another familiar voice came through the sound system. "Great Fox to ship CF08891, please report."

"CF08891 to Great Fox, mission successful, we'll be seeing you soon Krystal." Captain Falcon replied.

"Krystal!" Fox hummed with joy, having already recognized the vulpine's voice. "She's alright!"

The Great Fox's shuttle hatch opened, admitting Falcon's ship into the Ship Bay. As soon as the bay was re-oxygenized, the Smashers filed out of the ship, chattering their heads off in excitement. Fox and Falco rushed towards the door, only for Krystal and Katt to burst from the door, Slippy and Peppy behind them.

"Fox!" Krystal set upon her fellow vulpine. "I was so worried when you guys fell onto that wandering planet and we lost contact with you guys…"

"Everything's alright now." Falco was telling Katt, who looked like she wouldn't let go of the avian for anything in the universe. "The rest of the smashers are here… Well, most of them."

Silence reigned as the group thought of their missing friends, the ex-villains and the small 2D figure of Mr. Game and Watch. But then, another, much loved familiar figure appeared in the doorway.

"Master Hand!" cheers went up as the Smashers bound over to their leader, the giant hand. Behind him twitched Crazy Hand.

"DON'T FORGET TO EAT YOUR BOOK!" Crazy shouted with glee before going back to twitching.

"Smashers! Let us retire to the meeting room promptly." Master Hand floated away, followed by the Smashers and the crew of the Great Fox.

"I can't believe we're almost all together again…" Katan laid her head against Roy's shoulder. He'd grown taller in the time they were apart.

"Its great!" Marth grinned as Samus pushed him into the meeting room.

As the smashers filed in and lounged at the long table placed there, food was brought by several humanoid figures, the cooks of the Great Fox. They filed out with words of welcome to Fox and Falco and many thanks from the Smashers.

Master Hand looked over his smashers. "Attention Smashers!" he called. They quieted while munching on the snacks.

"I'm very glad that so many of you were still around. As you know, the wire frames are gathering against us. They've taken over all of our lands, give or take a few others." At this, there were a few gasps and unhappy grumbles from those Smashers who didn't know their worlds were taken over. Master Hand continued as soon as the noise died down. "Due to this trouble, we've gone through great pains to regroup and attack the source. But alone, we can not do this."

"What?" Captain Falcon banged on the table. "We left our homes behind, had them captured, and now we learn that we can't do this battle?! What is our mission, a suicide mission?!"

Link, Roy, Marth, and Fox looked at Zelda, who acted like nothing happened.

"Fear not, my smashers, for after a long search, I've found another group to aid us." Master Hand must have been smirking. He was certainly bursting with pride for himself and his achievements as the Smashers looked at him in confusion and wonder. "Enter!"

From another door, a small group of six entered. The first brought about gasps, especially from Marth and Samus. For the leader of this small group was none other than Samus. The new Samus stopped, staring at herself in alarm.

"What…?" This Samus did not have the heavy red and orange suit, but a thin blue one that showed off every curve of her body. Another difference was the old Samus's eyes were a brilliant green; this new Samus had blue eyes. Marth looked nervously between this new Samus and the Samus he'd fallen in love with three long years ago.

Behind the new Samus came a boy who was about Roy's height. Like Roy, he had messy hair and bright blue eyes, but that's where the similarities stopped. The boy had brown hair and brilliant white angelic wings. A strange bow was strapped across his back. His attire consisted of Greek-like clothing, as well as golden laurels peeking out from his hair.

Next came another boy, who looked young. He wore a pink baseball hat with half a white circle on the front. His attire was simple; a t-shirt, red vest, and jeans. On his belt were three pokeballs.

After this boy came a tall man with blue hair. He had armor similar to Roy and Marth's, as well as a huge golden sword that bulged before finally tapering at the end of the blade. Roy grinned. "Well met, Ike."

"Well met, Roy." The man nodded back, his face serious, hiding the shock of seeing a fellow fire emblemer, let alone three of them. "And Lady Katan and Prince Marth. What a surprise." Katan smiled shyly

After Ike came a boy who was about Ness's age. He was blonde and dressed similarly to Ness. "Ness!" the boy glared

"Lucas!" Ness greeted him stiffly, returning the glare.

Finally, another ape came through. He was tiny compared to DK, and wore a red shirt and baseball cap. DK roared in greeting, frightening the other smashers. "DIDDY!"

"Hiya Donkey Kong!" Diddy bounced in.

"Smashers, please meet Zero-Suit Samus," Samus nodded warily, "Pit," the boy with the wings smiled brightly, perking his wings delicately, "Poke'mon Trainer," the boy with the pink hat nodded stoically, "Ike," Ike nodded to the rest of the smashers, "Lucas," Lucas gave the crowd a peace sign with his fingers, "And Diddy Kong." Diddy waved coolly.

"Please sit down now."

The six sat to themselves at the end of the long table. "Now, I will be splitting you into five teams of six. One team will have five. Team One will be led by Mario, and will consist of Captain Falcon, Jigglypuff, Ness, Peach, and Lucas. Team Two, led by Fox, shall consist of Roy, Samus, Luigi, Yoshi, and Ike. Team Three, led by Link, shall consist of Pikachu, Marth, Pichu, Zero-Suit Samus, and Poke'mon Trainer."

"Please, call me Red." The poke'mon trainer said softly.

"Alright, Link, Pikachu, Marth, Pichu, Zero-Suit Samus, and Red. Team Four, our team of five, shall consist of Katan, Zelda, Falco, Kirby, and Pit, and, oh, um… Falco will lead. Team Five shall be led by Doctor Mario, and consists of the Ice Climbers, Young Link, DK, and Diddy Kong."

Marth and Roy frowned. They'd been split up from Samus and Katan. Marth looked over to Roy. "Watch her for me, would you?"

Roy nodded. Katan smiled. "I'll be okay, Roy, you don't need to worry about me."

Samus leaned over to Marth. "Watch out for Samus, I don't trust her." Marth grinned, knowing just what things that were going through Samus's head.

"Samus, I can only get lost in your eyes. And obviously, hers are the wrong ones." He winked, and she smiled. "There's only one Samus for me, and you can count on that."

Peppy stood up. "I have set up a meeting room for each group. Please go there so we can assign you your missions!"

The group broke up, with promises to meet up later.

Team One's room was filled with tension as Ness and Lucas glared at one another. Jigglypuff and Peach watched the two with worry dotting their faces. Mario and Captain Falcon meanwhile, were excited about the mission at hand.

In the room of Team Two, two swordsmen were reunited. "Ike! Long time no spar, my friend!"

"You too, Roy." The tall Ike clapped Roy on his back, nearly knocking Roy over. "You still got your cool sword?"

"Yep! I see you got a cool sword too." Roy chuckled.

Ike drew his large golden sword. "Indeed."

"If you two don't mind…" Fox chuckled.

"You might want to sit down soon." Samus pointed out coolly while Luigi and Yoshi chuckled from the background.

In the room of Team Three, things weren't looking so good.

Marth stared flatly at Zero-Suit Samus, who glared at him. "What do you want?"

"Why're you here?" Marth asked monotonously.

"Master Hand asked me to be here." Samus replied flatly.

"Now now Marth, settle down." Link flicked Marth's tiara, earning himself an aching finger. Pikachu and Pichu were busy chatting with Red.

"Hi Mr. Red!" Pichu squeaked.

"A talking Poke'mon! Wow!" Red knelt down to Pichu's height. "What else can you say?"

"Anything." Pikachu lazily yawned. "So can Jigglypuff, in Team One."

"So can Mewtwo!" Pichu squeaked back to Pikachu.

"Mewtwo's psychic, of course he can, Pichu." Red watched the conversation in amazement.

"How can I teach my poke'mon to do this?" Red asked.

"Well… Master Hand gave us the ability to speak… But I'm sure if you worked hard enough at it…?" Pikachu looked at Red. "Who are your poke'mon?"

"Charizard, Ivysaur, and Squirtle." Red proudly spoke.

And so it went.

In the room of Team Four, Pit was the star of attention. "What pretty wings!" Katan exclaimed. "I'm Katan."

"Nice to meet you Katan. I'm Pit. And thanks, I do try to take good care of them."

"Why do you have wings, Pit?" Zelda asked curiously. "Aren't you human? I'm Zelda by the way."

"Actually, I don't know why I have wings. I just… do. Nice to meet you Zelda."

"PUYO! I'm Kirby!" Kirby inhaled the poor winged boy, sprouting wings of his own as he spat Pit back out.

"Dear god! What the he-" Pit looked bewildered.

"Sorry, Kirby… does that." Katan watched Kirby attempt to flap the tiny wings to no avail.

"Oh, yeah… I can't actually fly without a certain item." Pit sighed, then chuckled as Kirby puffed himself up and floated towards the ceiling.

"A winged creature that can't fly. How do you live with yourself?" Falco asked, not bothering to introduce himself. "Not that I blame you, I can't fly either. Not with these." He shook a wing.

"Well, its just that my wings are too small to support me." Pit started telling them about his wings, "So there's a bracelet I need in order to strengthen them. I can glide just fine though." He started going on about the mystical bracelet when Master Hand's voice came over the intercom.

"Alright smashers, these are your missions…"

Hmmmm, I seem to love cliffhangers, don't I?

Link: A little too much, I think.

Pichu: How exciting!

Marth: Ah, the wonders of inspiration. Say, where the heck did all the inspiration come from?

Well, I seem to be losing my mind in boredom! Alas, my woes shall end when school starts.

Roy: That's right folks, someone's actually excited for school to start.

Hey, when you're bored, live ten miles from the rest of the human race, what else can you do? Sure is cold though.

Marth: Yeah yeah, get on with it, I want to go party!

Everyone: New Years' Party! Wooo!

Link: Read and Review and join us in making our New Year's Resolutions!

Pfft, as if. Later!