Return of the Subspace Emissary: Multiverse
The Mushroom Kingdom
Location: Smash Mansion, Smash Dimension. Time: Morning
"One more time." Master Hand said to himself as he was about to open the door to R.O.B.'s room. He had already checked the other rooms in the mansion for him and found no sign of him. He was at his room again just to make sure.
As Master Hand went inside, he saw no sign of R.O.B. It was completely empty. He couldn't have been hiding. Considering the robot's size and lack of flexibility, there was no place for him to hide.
"Where is he? He couldn't have just disappeared." He said. He then shuddered as a discomforting feeling came across him. A feeling that was particularly familiar to him. He was sensing a dark energy coming from somewhere in the room. As he approached a wall, the energy he was sensing, though faint, was strong enough for the entity to determine exactly what it was.
"It can't be." He said.
Seeing that the energy came from behind an overturned pile of machinery, he moved it and saw something that confirmed his suspicions. It was the remains of a portal. It was small and progressively getting smaller, but the purple color and dark energy being emitted from it was unmistakable. This was a Subspace portal.
"This is not good." Master Hand said as thought began to run through his head. Was Tabuu back? How did he survive his last encounter from the Smash Brothers? And is he intending on continuing the plan he started the first time?
------------------------------
Location: Subspace Dimension. Time: Unknown
It had been a reasonably short time since Tabuu captured Mr. Game & Watch and R.O.B. The scene he was now looking upon were the results of his strategic move. Using the Mr. Game & Watch trophy, he was able to produce more Shadow Bugs to increase the size of his army. While, the Shadow R.O.B.s that he created with R.O.B.'s trophy were able to produce several Subspace bombs, which were a key point in his plan. There was even one that was standing on a floating platform that was carrying one of the pieces of weaponry.
"This plan is going smoothly so far." Tabuu said. He then raised his hands as they glowed with a strange light. Some distance from him, a swirling purple vortex opened up.
"You know what needs to be done." Tabuu said. Without another word being said, Primids, Shadow Bugs, and R.O.B.s, including the one carrying the Subspace Bomb, all went inside the vortex and disappeared.
"Last time those accursed Super Smash Brothers defeated me, they were all able to fight together against me." Tabuu said. "But if I am correct, and they are all in their own worlds and separated, they will be much easier to do away with. And their trophies will provide me with more fighters for my army."
------------------------
Location: Mario's House, Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario Bros. Dimension. Time: Midday
"Of all the places that a pipe could-a burst, I would never think it would be right here!" A man said as he was trying to fix a pipe that burst a large leak. This man was had blue eyes, and a bushy black moustache. He was wearing blue overalls with yellow buttons on them, a red shirt, white gloves, brown boots, and a red cap with an "M" printed on it.
MARIO
"Luigi shut off that water!" Mario said as he got sprayed in the face.
"I'm trying!" Another man said, as he was trying to turn a handle to shut off the water. This one was taller than Mario and had a different styled moustache. He was wearing almost the same outfit as Mario but had a green shirt instead of Mario's red and a green cap with an "L" on it.
LUIGI
After pulling on the handle hard enough, Luigi managed to shut off the water, which stopped flowing through the pipe that Mario was trying to fix. Without the flowing water, Mario was quickly and easily able to replace the broken pipe.
"Phew! Glad that's over." Mario said. He and Luigi grabbed towels lying on a table nearby and started to dry themselves off. "I never expected a pipe to burst at our own house."
"I know." Luigi said. He then heard the phone ringing. "I'll get it."
Luigi finished drying off and ran up the stairs. When he got to the living room, he saw the telephone ringing and reached it. He picked up the receiver and spoke into it.
"Hello?" Luigi said as he answered the phone.
"Hello, Luigi." A female voice said over the phone.
"Oh. Hi Peach." Luigi said, recognizing the voice as Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom. "How are you?"
"I'm fine." Peach replied. "Are you and Mario busy right now?"
"Not anymore." Luigi said as he heard Mario walk up the stairs. "What is it?"
"Not much. I was just asking if you wanted to come over to the castle for a game of tennis. Things are kind of dull over here."
"What is it?" Mario asked.
"Peach wants to know if we want to play tennis with her." Luigi said.
"All right. I'd like to relax a little after fixing the basement." Mario answered.
"Sure. We'll be there." Luigi told Peach.
"Okay, see you there." Peach said. "Bye." She then hung up the phone as Luigi did the same.
-----------------------
Location: Princess Peach's Castle, Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario Bros. Dimension Time: Midday
It was a calm day at the red and white castle that was known as a landmark of the Mushroom Kingdom. The wind blew through the grounds in the front of the castle and could be heard lightly rustling the trees. Behind the castle, the sound of a ball bouncing could be heard behind the castle. In the back, there was a large garden filled with flowers and hedges. Some of them were arranged into artistic patterns. In this garden was also a tennis court. This was where the sound was coming from as four people were currently playing tennis.
On one side of the court were two of the tennis players, Mario and Luigi. On the other side were the other two players. One of them was a woman with blonde hair and blue eyes and was wearing a pink sports top with matching shorts, pink tennis shoes, a blue broach oh her top, blue earrings and a gold crown on her head.
PEACH
The other one was also a woman but had brown hair and blue eyes. She was wearing an orange sports top and shorts, orange tennis shoes, a white and blue flower broach on her top, white and blue flower earrings, and a gold crown with a flower emblem.
DAISY
As Mario hit the ball toward Daisy, she held her racket into the sky and flower petals were seen on it. As she hit it, flower petals were seen flying off the ball as it went past Mario and bounced out of the line.
"Forty- thirty." Daisy said with a smile on her face. On the side of the court, the score keeper flipped the cards on the scoreboard until it was changed so it stated that Daisy and Peach led against Mario and Luigi. The scorekeeper was what appeared to be a green dinosaur with a large nose, red spines going down its back, a white belly and wearing a red saddle and red shoes.
YOSHI
As Mario got the ball back, he threw it up into the air and hit it, serving the ball to Peach. She hit it back as the game continued. After more time of hitting the ball back and forth, Peach hit the ball over Mario's head, and it would land far from where Mario and Luigi would, giving them the point to win. Before it could hit the ground, Luigi threw his tennis racket past the where the ball would land then turned on the machine that was strapped to his back. Luigi brought his special ghost-capturing vacuum cleaner, the Poltergust 3000 for use in the match. He managed to capture the racket in the whirlwind of air the vacuum was sucking in, allowing him to swing the racket in the air to hit the ball back before the racket traveled back to him.
"Nice shot." Peach commented as she managed to hit the ball again after it came back to her. The ball came fast at Mario as he swung at the ball, only to miss and allow the ball to hit out of the court.
"Yoshi-yoshi-yoshi!" Yoshi said. The others couldn't normally understand what he said but they could usually get a general idea of what he was trying to tell them.
"Looks like we win. Good game, guys." Daisy said.
"Thanks. You were pretty good." Mario said.
Later, the five of them were walking through the courtyard. After the match, Peach and Daisy changed out of their sports outfits and were currently wearing long dresses. Peach's was pink in color while Daisy's was orange. Peach was currently holding her parasol, Daisy had a bag with her sports gear, Luigi still had his Poltergust 3000, and Mario had his water cannon F.L.U.D.D., which he thought of using in the tennis match, but decided not to at the last minute.
"It should be this way." Peach said. "Toadsworth set it up around here."
They turned a corner and found a picnic table set up with sandwiches, snacks, fruit juice, and a blanket with a pile of fruit, presumably for Yoshi. Yoshi immediately ran for the fruit and began gulping it down while Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Daisy sat down at the table and began eating.
"It was nice of Toadsworth to set up lunch for us." Luigi said. "I don't think we had that much to eat back at our house."
"And if it weren't for all that fruit, we probably wouldn't have much to eat here." Mario said watching Yoshi continue to eat.
"I still remember the last picnic we had here." Peach said.
"What happened?" Daisy asked.
"The last time we were going on a picnic, Mario brought this large basket of food." Peach said to Daisy. "When he got there, Yoshi ended up eating everything, including the basket itself."
-------------------------
Location: Monitor Room, Smash Mansion, Smash Dimension
After finding what remained of the Subspace portal and coming to the possible conclusion that the Subspace Army might be making a comeback, Master Hand decided to check on the other dimensions for any signs of Subspace activity. He was currently looking at the Mario universe and was watching the heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom having a peaceful lunch.
"Okay, nothing seems amiss here." Master Hand said, looking at the monitor. He then scrolled over to the rest of the garden when something caught his attention.
"Hm. What's this?" He said, looking at the screen.
----------------------------
Location: Peach Gardens- behind Princess Peach's Castle, Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario Bros. Dimension
In a part of the gardens, a person with what seemed to be a mushroom top on his head and wearing a blue vest, white pants, and brown shoes was watering a flowerbed with the garden hose he was carrying when he heard a strange noise not that far from where he was.
"What was that?" He said. Dropping the hose, he went around to the other side of the hedge where he heard the sound.
"Hello?" He called out, peeking around the corner. What he saw made him gasp, and then the next thing that could be heard was a loud scream from him.
Back at the picnic, the five friends' lunch abruptly came to a halt upon hearing someone scream.
"What was that?" Peach asked.
"It sounded like someone may have gotten hurt. I'm going to go check it out." Mario said. He then got up and began to run to the source of the scream.
"I'll go too. He might need help." Luigi said, as he stood as well. "We'll be right back." Luigi assured as he walked off.
"I should see if he is all right as well." Peach said, as she stood up, picked up her parasol, and followed Mario.
"You guys aren't leaving me behind!" Daisy said as she quickly got up and ran after the three.
Yoshi then looked at Daisy as she ran off and followed her. He then came back a second later, grabbed another melon, and then continued his pursuit.
Peach and the Mario Brothers were the first to reach the part of the garden where the scream came from. There, they saw the person tending the garden lying on the ground, bruised and out of breath.
"Toad!" Peach called out as she ran over to him. "Are you alright?"
Toad groaned a little and opened his eyes slightly. They then snapped open when he caught sight of a figure sneaking behind Peach.
"Princess! Look out!" Toad said. Peach looked behind her to see someone throwing an object at her. She jumped out of the way and the object passed through a hedge. As Peach and the Mario Brothers got a better look at the attacker, they were surprised to see exactly what it was.
"Is that… a Primid?" Mario asked.
Before the question could be answered, a swarm of Shadow Bugs came up the pathways in the garden and began forming into more Primids as the object the earlier one threw came back to him, revealing it as a boomerang. The Primids then started running forward and attacking. Mario, Luigi, and Peach started fighting back while Toad hid behind a nearby bush. As a Primid came at Peach, she pulled her parasol back and swung it at the Primid, sending it falling to the ground.
"I thought we beat the Subspace Army." Luigi stated. He jumped into the air and spun around, hitting any Primids around him with his fists.
"Tabuu must've recovered." Mario replied. He struck an attacking Primid with a flaming punch.
Soon, Yoshi and Daisy arrived where the fight was taking place. Yoshi gasped upon seeing the Primids, then immediately jumped into the fight. Yoshi began swallowing Primids and trapping them in eggs as he threw those eggs at the other Primids that were coming at him.
Daisy, on the other hand, had absolutely no idea what was going on. She saw all of these weird things walking around that she had never seen before while Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, and even Peach, were fighting them with everything they had.
"Okay, what is going on here? Guys, what are these things?" Daisy asked her friends.
"Daisy, hide somewhere! These guys are dangerous!" Luigi shouted. However, this attracted the attention of some of the Primids, which immediately turned at Daisy and began approaching her. The Primids were unarmed, and as such were throwing punches at the princess, which she was managing to back away from easily enough.
"Hey! Whoa! Stop! What are you…? Oof!" Daisy said, when she finally got hit and fell to the ground. When Daisy got up, she had an angry look on her face.
"That's it! Now you're gonna get it!" Daisy shouted. She looked to the side and saw a rake lying by a flower garden. Daisy picked it up then held it with both hands.
"Bring it on!" She shouted. She then ran at the Primids and swung the rake at them, knocking a bunch of them down. As one of them went in to punch her again, she swung the rake and hit it in the head. Another Primid came forward and Daisy did the same move, knocking it out.
--------------------------
Location: Monitor Room, Smash Mansion
"This is what I was afraid happened. The Subspace Army really is back." Master Hand said as he looked at the monitor. He was currently watching as an army of Primids began attacking the Mushroom Kingdom, starting in Princess Peach's garden. He was watching as Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi were fighting against them. Even Princess Daisy, who was not even a Smasher, joined in on the fight.
He continued to watch as Mario just used a Super Jump Punch to defeat a couple of the Primids. However, Mario seemed to be getting tired and was caught not paying attention long enough to have a Primid hit him to the ground, though he did manage to get back up.
"They don't look like they're going to stop anytime soon." Master Hand said. "If this keeps up, they'll tire out and those Subspace creatures will defeat them."
After thinking for a moment, he continued. "This won't be the end of it either. Tabuu wouldn't settle for just taking over the Mario Brothers' dimension. Last time, he came after the Smash Dimension because it was like a bridge to other different dimensions. This time, it looks like the other way around. And he will probably go after the others soon enough. I need to do something."
Master Hand paused as he took another look at the screen and saw Mario and his friends now being swarmed by the Subspace creatures. "And soon."
-------------------------
Location: Peach Gardens
Mario and his friends were now surrounded by the Primids. They put up a good fight against them but eventually the heroes became overwhelmed by their numbers. Mario and Luigi were still holding fighting stances as well as Yoshi, and Peach was holding her parasol as was Daisy with the rake she picked up. Toad was currently hiding behind Peach.
"How'd there get to be so many?" Luigi said as they began closing in on the six of them.
"We can still get through this. We just need to…" Mario said as Daisy cut him off.
"Wait, what's that?" Daisy asked as she pointed to the part of the garden where their picnic was going on.
"It looks kind of familiar." Peach said.
"Let's try to get over there." Mario said.
With the Primids still closing in, Yoshi encased himself in an egg, and then began rolling into the crowd, creating a path as he knocked away the Primids like a giant bowling ball. The others soon followed the newly opened path through the crowd and stayed together as they ran back to the picnic area. When they got there, they saw what looked like a swirling blue vortex right on the other side of the clearing.
"Smashers." A voice called from the vortex. Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi instantly remembered who that voice belonged to.
"Is that Master Hand?" Luigi asked.
"Huh?" Daisy said.
"I need you come enter this portal. Hurry before the Primids catch up with you." Master Hand said through the portal. As soon as he said that, the Primids came around the corner. The six friends then began running toward the portal. As they did, Mario grabbed F.L.U.D.D., which was lying near the table, and Luigi grabbed his Poltergust 3000. Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Yoshi then ran through the portal.
"Don't leave me here!" Daisy yelled as she kept running.
"Me neither!" Toad shouted.
While she was running, Daisy, who didn't see where she was going, ended up tripping when her ankle got caught around the strap of her sports bag. She ended up throwing the rake into the air as she fell into the portal, with the sports bag still around her ankle.
The rake fell to the ground in front of the portal as it started to close. Toad looked back for a moment to see that the Primids were catching up with him. Unfortunately, he did not notice the object in front of him and ended up stepping on the front of the rake. The end of the rake stood on the ground as the handle flew up, whacking Toad in the face and making him fall to the ground.
"Ow. I thought that only happened in cartoons." Toad said rubbing the sore part of his forehead. He then looked on as the portal shrunk and disappeared in front of his eyes.
The Primids now had him surrounded as one of them charged up a gun glowing with purple energy.
-----------------------------
Location: Subspace Dimension
Tabuu had just witnessed this chain of events, from Mario and the others fighting against the Primids to them entering the portal. He did not seem happy about this turn of events.
"So, it seems Master Hand is bringing his forces together to stop me." Tabuu said, thinking. "Perhaps I should recruit some outside help as well."
------------------------------
Location: Bowser's Castle, on borders of Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario Brothers Dimension
In an area on the outskirts of the Mushroom Kingdom was another castle. In contrast to the one belonging to Princess Peach, this castle was more sinister-looking and was surrounded by a moat of lava. A voice could be heard clearly from one of the rooms in the castle.
"No… No… No…" The voice said. The one speaking was a turtle-like creature with a large green spiked shell, yellow scaled skin with green around his face, clawed hands and feet, red hair, red eyes, and spiked bands on his arms and around his neck.
BOWSER
"No… Not this one… Or that one…" Bowser said as he threw several crumpled pieces of paper over his shoulder. At the moment, he was trying to come up with a new plan to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom, defeat Mario, and make Princess Peach his. He came up with a few ideas so far, but did not like any of them, as indicated by all of the paper behind him that was starting to pile up.
He then looked up as someone else entered the room. It was a smaller version of Bowser with beady black eyes, regular black wristbands, a small ponytail of red hair, and a bib with a crayon drawing of a fanged mouth on it.
BOWSER JR.
"Hey dad. Whatcha doin'?" Bowser Jr. said to his father.
"Hey Junior. I'm just trying to think of a new plan to take down Mario, but so far, all these ideas stink on ice." Bowser said throwing another ball of paper over his shoulder.
"I hope you come up with one soon. Kamek is really starting to get on my nerves." Junior said.
"Oh there you are." Someone said as they ran up to Junior, out of breath. The person was another turtle creature. He was wearing a pair of round, thick glasses over his eyes, a blue robe and blue wizard hat. "I… have been looking… for you for… quite sometime."
"Sheesh, Kamek. Get any exercise lately?" Bowser chuckled.
"With all due respect sir, your son has been very unruly for the past few days!" Kamek said.
"Can you blame me? I can't stay cooped up in this place for long. I need action." Junior said. "When's something interesting gonna happen?"
As soon as he said that, a blast was heard as a vortex of dark energy opened up in front of the three. Soon the energy started to engulf the three currently in the room then another blast sounded as the three disappeared.
---------------------------
Location: Interstate 63, Diamond City, Mushroom Kingdom, Super Mario Brothers Dimension- Wario Area
A helicopter was flying over the highway as a camera was being pointed outside filming the traffic on it. Inside the helicopter, a reporter for the Diamond City News was speaking into a microphone.
"Yes Ken. It seems there was another dispute at the offices of WarioWare Incorporated." The reporter said. "Reports have come in stating that Wario, the CEO of the local videogame company, is being chased through the city streets by a mob of his own employees, demanding monetary compensation for their hard work.
The camera keeps filming the highway as a large group of vehicles, some of them flying, went onto the highway.
"Now it seems that they are taking their chase to the highway." The reporter said, observing the chase. "Drivers are cautioned to drive carefully and avoid them. Police are also entering the highway in an attempt to settle the commotion."
At the front of the chase was a large yellow motorcycle with a bag of money strapped to it. The driver was a short overweight man with a large pink nose and a jagged moustache. He was wearing a blue denim jacket, a dark blue shirt, pink pants with a red belt, dark purple shoes, yellow fingerless gloves with a blue "W" on the backs, and a yellow and red biker helmet, with biker goggles and the same "W" on the front.
WARIO
"You ingrates aren't gonna take any of my money!" Wario yelled behind him. He was being chased by a girl on a moped, a bunch of people in a taxicab, a spaceship, two people riding on a hover board, and two people wearing jet packs. Not to mention the entire group was being followed by a bunch of police cars with wailing sirens and flashing lights.
The closest one to Wario, however, was a young girl riding on a flying broomstick. She had black hair in two large ponytails behind an orange hair band and was wearing a red and orange dress, an orange scarf with a skull button, black stockings, and red and orange shoes.
ASHLEY
"Ingrates? We're just taking our fair share, you cheapskate." Ashley said. She then took a magic scepter out of her sleeve and used it and cast a spell with it. A beam shot out from the scepter and engulfed the bag of money as it detached from Wario's motorcycle and began floating away.
"NO!" Wario yelled. He then took one of his hands off of the handlebars as he began digging through his pockets. "Come on! Gimme something to keep them from taking my money!"
He pulled out a broken Game Boy Advance, which he just threw over his shoulder. He then pulled a clove of garlic out of another pocket.
"I'll save this for later." Wario said as he put it back in his pocket. He then pulled out a round ball shaped creature with a fanged mouth and a bandanna covering the top part of its head.
"Yes! I'm finally free!" The creature yelled before Wario threw it over his shoulder.
"A-HA!" Wario shouted as he pulled the next item out of his pocket, a large gold painted horseshoe magnet with the magnetic poles painted red and blue. Wario held the magnet pointed behind him at the bag of money, while he kept his other hand on the handlebars. The magnet was very powerful, as it started to pull the bag of money back towards Wario.
"Oh no, you don't." Ashley said as she used more power to try to pull the money back towards her. It looked like a game of tug-of-war as Wario and Ashley kept pulling at the bag of money with neither of them letting up.
Neither of them noticed when dark energy began to circle around them. Then, in the next moment there was a large burst of energy as the two of them, and the bag of money, disappeared.
All of the other vehicles came to a stop, as did the police. They looked around for any signs of the two but found nothing.
"Where did they go?" One of the officers asked.
To Be Continued…
End of Chapter Notes
Location: Pizza restaurant in Daniel City
Lanette was sitting in a pizza restaurant as she received a personal sized pan pizza with ham and mushrooms and a lemon-lime soda. She then turned to the audience.
Lanette: "Yeah, I know this was a long chapter. It was actually supposed to be longer, but I thought I'd give you guys a break and save some of the other parts for later. It takes a while for us to update as is. By us, I mean me and the rest of the Daniel City Heroes."
She took a bite of her pizza before continuing.
Lanette: "This pizza is so good. Anyway, if you liked this chapter, let me know in a review. If you think it needs some work, I'm open to criticism. If you have any questions or comments about it, tell me in your review and if I decide to, I'll answer them in the next chapter. Okay, see ya later. I gotta eat before this pizza gets cold."