Hello again, guys...I didn't think I'd be putting up another chapter, let along a chapter THIS big.

And I know that I'm 3 Chapters into this, but I'll warn folks again that: If OCs and characters outside of Smash are something you don't like in Smash fanfics, then please turn back now!

(Of course, the only OC that's been introduced at this point was Flare, but yeah...there will be more OCs)

So with that, we're onto the next chapter~!

The mansion's front lawn was full Smashers, some of them were still trying to break the barrier while others started to mope, convinced that it was hopeless.

Shulk ran up towards the barrier. He swung the Monado at it, only for the impact to knock the Homs down.

"MOVE!" Yelled a voice. Donkey's nephew, Diddy tried to charge at the barrier with only his head. Like Shulk, the monkey was knocked down by the force of the impact.

"You know that's not gonna work!" One of the villagers yelled. Diddy sat up as he started rubbing his head. "Hey, if I can knock the moon out of orbit, then I should be able to break the barrier!"

"You did WHAT to the moon!?" Young Link yelled in shock.

"Guys, let's just stop!" Fox said in despair. "Let's face it...Tabuu won and there's nothing we can do about it."

The Smashers began to lower their heads. The thought of even fighting Tabuu was ridiculous, and they all knew this. In addition to that, Tabuu's new assistant didn't seem like he would go easy on everyone, either.

"And to think we were planning for Ollie's birthday party, earlier," Luigi said in a low voice. Everyone gave Luigi a cold stare, they knew now wasn't a time to be thinking about that. Regardless, the man in green babbled nervously. "I-uh-well...T-today was s-supposed to be a fun day, right?"

Alph's eyes widened in realization. "Wait...has anyone seen Captain Olimar, around?"

"Hey, yeah," said Shulk, "Now that you mention it, where is he, anyway?"

"He can't be at the mansion," Donkey said with a shrug, "Last time I saw him, he was at the cafe."

"S-So there might be chance that he'll save us!" Alph said enthusiastically. He began to frown as most of the Smashers either laughed, groaned or gave Alph a dirty look. The Koppaite's ears twitched as he talked meekly. "Was it something I said?"

"Listen, runt...you know NOTHING about Tabuu," Wolf said in a snarky tone.

"Yeah," Mario began to speak, "the only reason we were able to beat him is that there was just barely enough of us to take him down!"

"Not to mention that at the time I broke one of his wings," Sonic blurted.

"And besides," Wolf continued, "Even if Flea Bite wanted to, there's no way he'd be able to save us all. He's useless without those Pikmin helpin' him out."

Alph looked down at his boots, feeling ashamed of himself for even mentioning this stupid idea. If he were in Olimar's boots, he probably wouldn't do too well, either.

Shulk placed a hand on Alph's helmet, the Koppaite looked up at the Homs in confusion.

"While I may not the most optimistic person, I'm sure Ollie might have a chance to save us."

Alph looked a little peeved. "Yeah, if you say so..."

Donkey looked around. "So now what do we do?"

"I'm not even sure," Mario said shrugging. "Take a nap, play a game, at least do something before we're finished."

The Smashers all nodded as some of them headed back into the mansion.

"C'mon, Kirby, let's go bake some more sweets." Peach said as she followed Kirby inside the mansion. Shulk looked down at Alph. "C'mon, Alph. Let's see if we can find any other ways to get outta here."

Alph frowned. "But we can't get out."

"Well, then we can still communicate with Ollie in some way, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, if Ollie has any sort of communication device, he should be able to answer it, right?"

Alph's ears perked upwards, "You think it could work?" He asked in a more hopeful tone.

"Well, not entirely," Shulk said scratching the back of his head. "But it's worth a shot."

Alph nodded slowly. Even if he couldn't do much, there has to be a way to contact Olimar somehow. The Koppaite's optimism felt like it was starting to build up, again.

Flare slowly opened her eyes, she looked at her surroundings. She was in some sort of bed, covered in a thick blanket. She tried to move, but she couldn't. It was like something was holding her down.

The Pikmin heard faint snoring, she turned her head and noticed Olimar was sleeping next to her, holding onto the Pikmin like some sort of teddy bear.

"Dadada!" Flare yelled as she struggled free from the Hocotation's grasp. She sat on one of the pillows as Olimar rolled onto his stomach. He started yawning.

"W-what time is it?" The Hocotation mumbled as he sat up and rubbed his eyes. He looked around the room, his ears drooped downwards. "And where are we?"

Olimar pulled out a communication device, resembling a handheld gaming device. He waited a bit to see if anyone would respond...but nothing happened.

Confused, Olimar stored the communication device in his pocket and climbed out of the bed. He examined the room he was in. He saw an old toy chest, though it didn't have any dust on it. He also saw a few bookshelves with some aged books, a desk with a few pens and some paper on it, and what appeared to be an old radio.

Olimar was tempted to look through the various books, some of which were notebooks. Olimar knew that if someone read through his journals, he would be mortified...so it would make sense not to look through them.

...Although the Hocotation was slightly curious, maybe one quick peak wouldn't hurt.

The door opened on the other side of the room, Olimar jumped in fear, looking away from the bookshelf like a child getting caught stealing by their teacher.

"Oh hey, you're awake!"

What stood in at the door was what looked like a human. He had short grey hair, glasses on his face, and a fancy-looking suit. One thing Olimar noticed was that his left hand was covered in bandages.

"What happened?" Olimar asked as he pointed at the bandage-covered hand. The man chuckled nervously, "Don't worry about it, it's just a burn."

"Waaaah!"

Flare scowled at the man as she ran over to Olimar's side. The Hocotation began petting her head. "Sorry, she can be a bit clingy at times."

"YAH!" Flare chirped angrily.

"I can see that," The man said, chuckling. His eyes widened in realization. "Oh, but this isn't really the place to be talking. Let's just go into the kitchen."

The man turned around, but he stopped himself and remembered something. "Oh yeah, Your helmet should be in the living room."

"Hm?" Olimar placed his hands on his face, his eyes popped out as he realized he wasn't wearing a helmet, anymore. He was actually able to touch his cheeks. Although it was weird, it was at least good to know that he couldn't suffocate in this place. This man sure is an odd one, Olimar thought as he picked up Flare and made his way out of the room. The area to the right was the bathroom, so it was practically a dead end. The Hocotation turned left, instead.

When Olimar entered the kitchen, the man had already began pouring in some tea in two cups. After he was done, he placed both cups onto a large table (at least large in comparison to Olimar's height).

The man pulled out a chair and began to sit down. He raised his arm and gestured to the other chair. "Why not take a seat, Olimar?"

"W-wait, you know my name!?" Olimar asked in astonishment. The man nodded. "Sure I do, I know the name of every Smasher." the man began to zone out, it almost looked like he was daydreaming. "Let's see, there's Mario, Link, Pit, Sheik, Ganondorf, Bowser-"

"Eh...I'm sure you've made your point," Olimar said as he pulled out one of the chairs and started climbing onto it. He placed Flare onto the table, the Pikmin's stem swayed back and forth, though the table's height seemed to reach Olimar's nose.

"So who are you, exactly?" Olimar asked.

"My name is Lunato," The man said in an upbeat tone.

Olimar nodded, "Right...well, could you at least tell me where I am?"

"What do you mean? You've been here, before!"

Olimar cocked his head, not sure about what Lunato meant.

Lunato took a sip of his tea before placing it onto the table. "Well, if you haven't figured it out yet, you're in Final Destination."

Olimar shook his head, "That's not possible, only the hands live in Final Destination."

Lunato took another sip of his tea, "You may think so, but I've actually been living here for a very long time."

Olimar felt skeptical. He jumped out of the chair and looked out of the window. Sure enough, he saw that half of the sky was still bright as daytime while the other half of the sky was pitch black and covered in stars. The house Olimar was staying in was sitting on what seemed like a group of floating islands.

"So if this is Final Destination, then where are the hands?"

"Don't you remember?" Lunato asked, "Tabuu has turned Master Hand into Master Core...though I think Crazy's still hiding somewhere."

Olimar's ears perked upwards. "Now I remember, Tabuu and some clown appeared out of nowhere and stopped time. Not only that, but they paralyzed almost everyone in Smashville."

Lunato nodded. "Yeah, well...everyone except the Smashers."

"Th-that's right," Olimar frowned, felt a little uneasy, "Sadly, I don't think there's anybody out there who can save them!"

"Well, there's you," Lunato said with certainty. Olimar shook his head in disagreement. "Not me, All I do outside of Smash is deliver cargo and hunt for treasure!"

Lunato nodded. "True, but you've also saved a whole species from going extinct."

Olimar looked away nervously, his face was turning red. "I-I wouldn't say that-"

"And you did save your company from debt, didn't you?"

"And how do you know all this?" Olimar asked, feeling more insecure. Lunato replied with a simple shrug. "Let's just say that I'm an all-knowing man."

"R-right," Olimar said, rubbing the back of his head. "I think I need to lie back down."

"Aw, but you just woke up," Lunato said playfully. Meanwhile, Flare grabbed the teacup that was meant for Olimar and started drinking the tea, the leaf on her stem bloomed into a pink flower.

"I-I know," Olimar said, "I'm just a little overwhelmed, nothing too serious."

"Fair enough," Lunato said, nodding. "Let me know when you're ready to talk."

Olimar raised a hand, not looking at Lunato. "All right, I've heard you."

"And please don't look through my brother's things, " Lunato yelled, "He will not like it!"

Olimar raised an eyebrow. Lunato has a brother? Either way, Olimar didn't seem to care too much. He walked back into the room and closed the door behind him without a word.

Lunato looked at Flare with an apologetic look. "I guess I said too much, huh?"

Flare walked over to Lunato and patted him on the head. The man placed a hand on his chin, he began to talk to himself. "Maybe I should take things more slowly..."

Earlier outside of Smashville, a train was moving through a dense forest, past a few wild creatures roaming freely among rain and the fruit trees.

Inside the train, the radio was playing a song called "K. K. Bossa". There was a small amount of passengers on the train. Occasionally someone would roam freely...but other then that, there wasn't too much that was happening on the train.

One of the passengers was a Hocotation woman. She sat quietly, holding onto a small box with a bow on it. Like Olimar, she was also wearing a space suit (which was necessary, since oxygen is poisonous to Hocotations).

Another Hocotation was walking down the hall, carrying a bag full of turnips. Unlike the woman, this Hocotation was much younger. A blond tuft of hair stood out of his head. He sat down next to the woman, not saying a word.

"Er...Where did you get those?" asked the woman. The blond pulled out a turnip and tried to eat it...though his helmet got in the way.

"They're for Olimar," the blond awkwardly replied, known as Louie. The woman, known as Clementine, gave him a stern look. "And what about the cake you were going to give him?"

Louie looked away, nervously. "W-well, I th-think it...s-s-sort of...uh...

"Louie?"

Louie looked down at his boots, his face turned red as he began to feel shameful. "I-I ate it..."

Clementine continued to glare at him, Louie began to panic. "B-but, it isn't all bad, I could probably make some turnip soup or something!" Louie began to look away from the Hocotation woman, he began to talk more quietly. "Th-that is, if I don't get hungry, again."

Clementine sighed as she began to rub her helmet in annoyance. "Please, Louie...you've been here more times then I have, so the least that you could get us over there in one piece."

"W-well, yeah," Louie said, "That I can- WHAAHH!"

The train suddenly stopped, throwing everyone off of their seats. Various complaints and insults began to fill the room.

Clementine stood up and looked out of the window, she saw a shock wave was speeding above the purple sky. Something didn't seem to feel right.

"Th-that was a close one," Louie said as he sat up and picked up his bag of turnips. "Are you all right, Clementine?"

Clementine didn't answer, she opened the window next to her seat. Louie looked over at the woman, his eyes started popping out. "C-Clementine?"

Without a second thought, Clementine jumped out of the window and landed on her feet. Ignoring the pain in her ankles, she began to run into the forest.

Louie yelped as he climbed out of the window. He fell on his back, but he tried running after the Hocotation woman. "Wait, Clementine!"

Louie felt a minor pain in his back, but it wasn't enough to slow him down. The blond could barely see a yellow light in the distance, which came from the beacon on Clementine's antenna.

Louie started to followed the yellow light as he went through the forest. He thought it would be easy bringing someone with him to Smashville, especially someone who Olimar trusted the most, but it didn't really seem to be that way. He began to wonder what was happening. Was Smashville all right, was Olimar OK? He didn't exactly know what was going on.

Louie snapped out of his own thoughts, he saw Clementine had stopped running. It looked like she was staring at something.

"A-are you OK?" Louie asked. Clementine turned her head, she began to look worried. "I feel fine, actually. But what about you?"

"I-I'm all right," Louie said, "At least I think I am."

Clementine nodded. "Well, I'm glad you're OK." She looked off into the distance, again. "Anyway, have you seen that pink dome, before?"

Louie began to look into the distance, himself. Sure enough, he saw what looked like a giant pink dome across the sky. Surrounding it looked like a large amount of insects. The Hocotation began to frown. "That's where Smashville's supposed to be."

"Oh..." Clementine said in disappointment, her ears began to droop. "Do you think something happened?"

"Well, maybe those Smashers are setting up a really big party." Louie said as he tried to keep things positive. Clementine shook her head. "I don't think that's what's going on."

Clementine turned to Louie, her eyes partially opened. "Still, we could take a look for ourselves."

"Are you sure?" Louie asked as he tilted his head. Clementine nodded. "Either way, it doesn't look like we have a choice."

"But that train-"

"I don't think the train will move anytime soon." Clementine said, her voice full of despair.

"What do you mean?" Louie asked.

"Well...look around you," Clementine replied, "It's not just the train that's stopped, even the rain's been sitting in midair. Doesn't that seem a little fishy to you?"

Louie looked around, Clementine was right. The rain had stopped falling, creatures have stopped moving, it was as though time had stopped. But Louie had to wonder: If that was the case, then why could he and Clementine still move?

The blond shook his head, he figured it wasn't worth worrying about. "Well, then I guess we really don't have a choice, now."

Clementine nodded. She and Louie began to head towards the pink dome. It would take a while to reach on foot, not to mention that the swarm of bugs in the distance wasn't making things look any better. But other then that, they felt that things would be just fine...just so long as neither Olimar nor the other Smashers were hurt.

But until then, Louie and Clementine were stuck having to get to the Smash Mansion on foot.

Back at Final Destination, Olimar was sitting on the bed he woke up from. His hands were on his face, his mind felt slightly torn. He had to be honest, he couldn't save the Smashers even if he tried. The only Pikmin he had was Flare, but even if he had every Pikmin by his side, that still wouldn't be enough to defeat Tabuu. Not to mention that Olimar didn't have any sort of special powers like most of the other Smashers.

There was also Lunato, who Olimar found to be kind of Creepy. No man should know this much about someone they've never met before, especially one who's always lived in Final Destination.

...Although, maybe there was something more to Lunato. And given the situation Olimar was in, his only choices was to either trust Lunato or to give up and let the world suffer. He knew some Smashers have faced similar situations, before, but Olimar has never really faced a situation quite like this.

Olimar's ear twitched, he placed his hands on his lap as he looked up at the white ceiling above him. Maybe Lunato has some sort of connection to Tabuu, as well as the hands. That would be the reason as to why he's so omniscient. Maybe Lunato really is an ally trying to help, he just has to be if he wants to save everyone.

Feeling a bit more motivated, the Hocotation stretched before climbing off of the bed. He walked out of the room and looked around in the kitchen, nobody was there. Olimar continued to walk until he entered what he assumed was the living room. Lunato was sitting on the couch with his legs crossed and his hands behind his back. On the other side of the couch, Flare was trying to eat what looked like a piece of hard candy, she looked rather annoyed at it. Olimar noticed that the Pikmin was now wearing a yellow scarf around her neck.

Olimar walked over to the couch and sat between Flare and Lunato. He looked at Flare with a concerned look. "You know you won't be able to eat those, right?."

"Hm!" Flare rolled her eyes as she gave up on trying to eat the candy. Though she seemed a bit more happy to see her Captain, again.

Lunato poked Olimar's head, causing the Hocotation to turn towards the man with ears perked upwards like a dog.

"So...have you made up your mind?" Lunato asked.

"Sort of," Olimar said, "But first I'd like you to explain a few things."

Lunato nodded as he crossed his arms. "All right, so what do you wanna ask?"

"Well, first I'd like to know if you have some sort of connection to Tabuu or the Hands," Olimar said in a demanding tone. Lunato couldn't help but chuckle. "You really wanna know, huh?"

"Yes."

Lunato began to smile widely. "Well, give me some of your birthday cake and I'll tell you!"

Olimar began to pout, looking a bit like a toddler. "You know, if I wanted to play with children, I would've gone home to play with my own!"

"Hey, don't act like that," Lunato grumbled. "Look, if you help me out, I'll reveal everything...eventually."

Olimar raised an eyebrow. "You're not lying, are you?"

"'Course not," Lunato said, "I admit to being a bit childish, but I promise I'll tell you everything eventually."

"Hm..." Olimar looked at Flare with a puzzled look. "What do you think we should do?"

Flare's stem playfully swayed back and forth until she finally nodded. Olimar patted her on the head. "All right, I'm sure you'll want to see everyone else back at the mansion."

Flare nodded as she tackled Olimar and began to hug him. Olimar wrapped an arm around Flare and looked at Lunato.

"So do we have a deal?" Lunato asked, extending his left arm. Olimar frowned. "W-well..."

"What is it, now?"

"I hate to sound rude, but why do you need MY help?" Olimar asked. "I mean, if you can teleport me, then why can't you do anything on your own?"

"Ah..." Lunato smiled as he placed a hand on his chin. "You see, Tabuu is not only looking for Crazy, but he's also looking for me. So while I wouldn't mind being the one to save everyone, Tabuu would just kill me without any problem. You, on the other hand...since you're a Smasher, Tabuu might go easy on you."

Olimar gave Lunato a sympathetic look. "Ah...so now I understand why you'd want my help."

"Exactly," Lunato said as he extended his arm, again. "So come on, do we have a deal?"

Olimar nodded, shaking Lunato's hand. "It's a deal!"

"Good," Lunato stood up and walked over to a nearby bookshelf. He grabbed what looked like a marble, which was the size of a baseball.

"Now, this thing is just a replica, but please take a look at it."

Lunato handed the "marble" over to Olimar. The small alien examined it closely, he noticed the marble had an off-center cross-hair, similar to that of a Smash Ball.

Flare looked at the marble with big beady eyes. If it weren't a replica, Olimar would assume this thing was worth a fortune. And while Flare never saw much value in treasure like Hocotations typically do, they were always really nice to look at.

"What is this thing?" Olimar asked.

"It's called a Smash Orb," Lunato said, "There's at least seven of these scattered around the multiverse. Unlike the one you have in your hand, the real ones glow kind of like stars."

Olimar tilted his head. "Sounds interesting, but what does it do?"

"These things can grant a certain power strong enough to defeat Tabuu and seal him away in Subspace. Of course, knowing how powerful they are, my brother and I had to hide them somewhere to avoid them going to the wrong person."

Olimar began to smile, "So these orbs are about as powerful as fifty different Smashers?"

"You could say that, yes" Lunato said as he clasped his hands together, he had a serious look on his face. "But just to make something clear, you may not, and I repeat, you may NOT use them for something small and meaningless as they can take out a LOT of energy out of you."

"How much energy?" Olimar asked.

"Just enough to knock you out," Lunato said coldly, "but if you're not careful, you could get yourself killed by these things!"

"G-got it," Olimar said in an uneasy tone.

"Good," Lunato said, his expression suddenly turning more cheerful, "It's best to try holding off on using them until we reach Tabuu,though. So I hope you'll understand that."

Olimar handed the replica orb back to Lunato, who placed in back onto the shelf.

"Now then," Lunato began to think, "I believe this one is located in cavern beneath a dense forest, somewhere in Austrailia. I'm sure you'll remember where, right?"

"Hm..." Olimar began to think, what dense forest area was Lunato talking about.

"Oh, you know where it is," Lunato said, "Remember when you found the Yellow Pikmin? Or maybe it was the Rock Pikmin..." Lunato shook his head. "No, wait...that was Alph!"

Once again, Olimar's ears perked upwards. "You mean the Garden of Hope?"

"Exactly," Lunato yelled in excitement.

"All right," Olimar said, "That sounds easy."

Lunato frowned. "Well, you would think so, but-"

Olimar sighed in disbelief. "I knew there was a downside to this."

Lunato continued to speak. "You see, the Multiverse may be frozen in time, but there may be others who have survived the shock waves just fine. They're fine just so long as they were indoors or underground before the shock waves hit them."

Olimar lowered his head in defeat, he began to have second thoughts about this whole "Saving the world" deal.

Lunato walked over to a nearby chair, he grabbed Olimar's helmet and handed it over to the Hocotation. "Just remember, you keep your half of the deal, and I'll keep my half!"

Olimar placed the helmet over his head. "G-got it."

Lunato snapped his fingers as a bright light engulfed Olimar and Flare. He waved to the duo until they had finally left without a trace.

"Good luck, you two," Lunato said as he headed over to his brother's room, "You're gonna need it."

And thus ends the first Story Arc...

If you haven't figured it out by now, "Clementine" is just a name I decided to give Olimar's wife. And I also added Louie, 'cause...well...it'd seem weird for Clementine to be on her own in a situation like this. (I can't say anything else, though...sorry!)

But anyways, thanks for reading this (weird) fanfic and I'll see you guys later!