Chapter 7: Bring in Tha Champ

Just for the sake of time and words, I shall refer to R.O.B. as masculine even if it's a robot/controller for the NES. And i've come up with a name to call Knightscourge's race of evil cyber knights.

Super Smash Brothers ( Kid Icarus, Palutena's Temple; Earthbound, Fourside City)

Our heroes return to Palutena's Temple, accompanied by new additions; from found Veterans Jigglypuff, and Wario; to new helpers like the Wii Fit Trainers, Megaman, Kat and Ana, and Ashley. All were welcome to stay as long as they were sure they wanted to help save their world from the likes of Knightscourge. Wario and his guests made themselves comfy, or at least tried to. It wasn't easy having to leave their homes to live as refugees from Knightscourge's threat. Fortunately Ashley happened to have snuck one of her books from her place, preferring to keep her attention inside it rather than socialize with the others. Kat and Ana, however, stayed close to Wario due to being more familiar with being in his employment and also being in a new place (much to his annoyance). Palutena was sure to have her heavenly staff (as in personnel) try to accommodate for all the refugees and the combatants. She's been sending out her armies to scout out locations recently scoured by Knightscourge in order to find any nearby survivors. As for Toon Link, he was in the Holy infirmary, being nursed back to health by some healers accelerating the healing process of his arm, supervised by R.O.B. himself.

R.O.B. came to Palutena's aid during Knightscourge's first attacks, witnessing the raze on Yoshi's island when he was visiting. The Yoshi representative of Smash invited him to celebrate a Yoshi new year since he was not busy. A week passed when an ominous ship hovered above the clouds. The inhabitants assumed it was Bowser once again trying his hand at conquering them, and prepared for the worst. But it wasn't Bowser, it was something much worse. When the transports glided down, dropping off knights and war machines that tore apart the earth and burning away the environment, their precious home was in danger. The fiends targeted the poor creatures, driven to eradicate the species to extinction. Some numerous Yoshis managed to flee, but the remainder of the island's flora and fauna were lost by the claws of the Dusk Templar, the faction that Knightscourge currently leads. Now R.O.B. utilizes his knowledge on defence, to help stop the invaders any way he can.

Charles was in the room as well, still sulking on his friends injury. What Palutena said to him really hit him deep. All of them were not all that special, even mentioning Mario was no exception. Some can jump really good, some were great with an array of weapons. But none of that mattered without the will and courage to use those traits to side with good. Maybe Charles really needed to put his priorities straight, especially if he wanted to save his friends from Knighscourge. And after everything he said to his team before the last mission, they probably think of him as a hypocrite. Palutena entered the infirmary looking away from Charles when her gaze accidentally fell to him. She was followed by Pit, and then Megaman."How goes the patient?" The goddess asked the robotic buddy. "Are his vitals stable?"

"Indeed they are. He's recovering quite well. Yet if he hadn't gotten back sooner, he would have bled out (I want you guys to imagine R.O.B. with a sort of Baymax kinda voice. I really like that bot!)." With his confirmation, Palutena looked over the blonde boy, seeing him breathe as if he were healthily asleep, which also relieved her.

"Let's look at the positives R.O.B., at least we know he's okay."

"How goes the search, Lady Palutena?" R.O.B. asked. (Palutena loved how his voice sounded) "Any new members of the 'Super Smash Brothers'?"

"So far, just Jiggly and Wario, but I have a good feeling we'll find the others sooner."

R.O.B. turned to face Charles. "I apologize, but I have not been formally introduced to this person yet."

"This is Charles, mayor of Smashville. At least he used to be, before Knightscourge." She answered his question while avoiding looking at Charles. He still felt hurt by her behavior. "And the Blue Bomber himself stands behind me. Megaman." She moved out of the way to show R.O.B. the blue humanoid robot, who waved hello to him.

"Well if it isn't Megaman. You must've travelled far to reach here."

"I was in pursuit of a certain megalomaniac." Megaman explained "But fate must have brought me before this new predicament."

"Hm, yeah sure. Well Miss Palutena, the patient should be fine after a well deserved rest." It was a delight to know Toon Link would be just fine after a while.

"That's perfect R.O.B.. That'll make everything go more smoothly. Come now Megaman, Pit, let's go and give them some time." The angel and the robot left the room, leaving R.O.B. to finish up on his work. Charles, ever full of melancholy, followed the others, looking back at his recovering ally before he left. Entering the the preparation room from before, the new members co-mingled amongst their compatriots while also attempting to comfort some refugees. Their were some that were missing from the picture, but he couldn't remember who they were. He did notice that despite the whole ordeal of actually losing their lives to one of Knightscourge's warriors, the Smashers and Task force showed no past trauma from the incident, choosing to move on from the terrifying memory. It takes a lot of strength in order to move on from such an incident.

"Alright people! Rest up, you deserve it." Palutena called out to her fellow fighters. " I would like to apologize for the severity of the mission from before. I had no idea such a tough foe would appear, but we have to get used to the unexpected, especially when it comes to these Dusk Templar guys." She felt her get touched by someone, so she looked down to her right to see Charles the Villager looking back. "Do you mind? I'm trying to speak with the others."

"I wish to speak with you." The man said.

"Not now, I'm busy. We can discuss..." Her arm was tugged again. "Tch, fine." She looked out to her audience who she was talking to. "I'll be right back. Just chill for the time being." Not everyone was really paying attention to the goddess, besides Pit and Rosalina. The others (fighters and refugees) were waiting for something to happen, whatever it was. Some fighters were too busy socializing with the refugees to notice anyway. Charles dragged Palutena to secluded area. "What? I was in middle of something."

"Look, I can understand your frustration with me." Charles said with all his emotion. "I only want to make up for my past mistakes any way I can. But before I do that, I have to apologize to everyone for not being there when they needed me most."

Palutena looked down on him. "Well, I can read the sincerity in your realization. But I thought better of you, than to have your comrades rush in alone without you by their side. I was really upset by your cowardice. However, I can't put too much pressure on you for that."

"That's a relief, but how am I going to help out my allies in combat? I have no experience, no weapons of sorts. What can I do?" Palutena took a moment to think over the question.

"What did you do in your previous life before Knightscourge ravaged it?"

Charles had no idea what this had to do with anything. "If you must know I plucked weeds, planted and chopped down trees, fished, caught bugs with a net," These traits sounded all too innocent, Palutena had ideas. ", launched fireworks, lead building projects and various events across town, dug up fossils, and bartered for furniture and home appliances. What good is that?"

"You must use those to your advantage." Charles didn't get the goddesses suggestion. These innocent activities, to be used as defense? "I know where you come from doesn't have the slightest hint of combat violence, but anything can be used in time of defense. Despite the quality and usefullness, that's what the Smash Bros. have used. Anything in their power, they used it in times when the world and all in it were in danger. That shouldn't mean that you can't follow their example. And judging on your franchise, I here that pocket of yours is quite versatile." Palutena looked to Charles' clothes. It's true that villagers from his world have been known to hold a questionable array of items of different sizes in their pockets. She was probably implying on using the Hammerspace of this storage. "Alright I think our 'seven minutes in heaven' has worn it's course." Charles felt flustered from the woman's statement. It could be interpreted that he did drag the beautiful goddess to some alone time. Maybe for some suggestive minds for a tasty rumour to spread.

"Um, uh wait! It's not what it looks like! I don't want anyone to think..."

"What's the matter? Don't think of me in such a way?" She was certainly relishing on the embarassment of this little villagers face, eyes widening and skin turning a bright red. "Heehee, it's all good, settle down you." Before she left out the area she turned back look at Charles. "Oh, and I forgive you." Charles, after gaining his composure once again grew surprised and relieved to know Palutena wasn't upset with him anymore, interpreting his change to amend his past mistake as an apology to her as well for putting her Task Force in danger and all the like. The two went back in the preparation room where Pit rallied the fighters for debriefing on their next mission. It took him a while to bring together the others (most notably Wario) but the meeting was too important to pass up. Besides, it's not like their was anything better for them to do in the meantime.

"So. What up with coming out of a room together?" Wario growled. "In case you haven't noticed, noone has time to get lucky while chaos is afoot."

"It's nothing like that!" Charles had a perturb look on the reference for mature nature. Palutena giggled on the reaction.

"Rest assured, nothing like that happened. Besides, I wouldn't have come out so composed or neat now would I? But back to business. I am glad to see you are all okay from the last battle." The Wii Fits poked a thumbs up. "However Charles here would like to say something." Diverting the attention to the Villager, Charles took a step forward to say what needed to be said.

"Well. To put it in simple terms, I want to apologize for my cowardice before." He stated, bowing to his comrades. "If not for my fearfulness, we wouldn't have had such a thrashing from that brute, and Toon Link would be without injury with us now. I hope I can can gain your trust in the future."

After a moment of silence, someone answered. "It's all good." Charles looked up in bafflement. He was expecting them to show some resentment at him, but most of them were literal good guys, so it was status quo for them to forgive. " We've talked about what happened at Diamond City, and despite some negative feedback, we couldn't find it in us to put so much blame on you.'

"But what I said before the mission." Charles said in great shame. "Does it not strike any of you as hypocritical of me to inspire you to not be discouraged by the enemy, yet feel powerless when faced by it?" Wario was told to keep silent with all the comments. All of them promised him that if he came out at Charles, they would agree to throw him off the edge of Skyworld to fall down the grand chasm. Palutena would bring him back up, but by the time she does, the eternal descent would instil madness of unimaginable damage. Wario, despite not being impressed by their 'mob mentality', didn't want to risk the all too real threat. Mrs. Wii Fit stepped off the table she was sitting upon next to her husband.

"We know that where you come from, a place not adept to the combat in any way. A place many of content hearts would love to reside in. But with someone like Knightscourge intent on ending our very world, their has to be a compromise, even for me and my husband." Mr. Wii Fit nodded to agree with her. "I know we have." That's technically true. Why the Wii Fit Trainer was introduced (even though I have no actual problem with the inclusion, just a question) in Smash 4 out of anyone we'll never know. Just a surprise contestant I guess. The others didn't show a sense of contempt, letting Charles know that they forgave him. And that realization overjoyed the villager.

"Thank you. Thank you all. I'm just glad I could be welcomed back in open arms." Wario spat on the floor, being revolted by the mushiness.

"Your cleaning that up y'know?" Palutena said to Wario, giving him a stern look. The fat plumber grunted while looking away, gaining an eye roll from Ashley when she ignored her book for the moment. Of course something came off as Charles looked amongst his comrades in the room. "Wait? Weren't there more fighters here? At least two missing?" He asked.

R.O.B. came out of the hallway leading to the infirmary, just in time to answer Charles' question. "They were sent off on another mission, after Palutena had found another concentration of power in Eagleland." He informed. "The two were sent on a quick rescue to bring in the entity, fast and simple."

"After that first mission of yours," Wario interjected. ",I doubt anything small could be achieved in the aftermath of these 'missions'." If this mission turned out like the last one, Knightscourge could send another emissary to cause mass destruction in a public area. Maybe or maybe not, but to have that coincidence is not an option.

"Have a little faith Wario." Palutena said, bending over slightly. "The two operatives will do their best, short and sweet."

"Who exactly did you send, Lady Palutena?" Asked Charles.

The scene changes to a stadium, at Fourside City, Eagleland. Inside, a majestic event has assembled an excited crowd with the possibility of meeting a celebrity. [play the Title(Punch out!)] Little Mac, the champion of the WVBA tourney, made an special appearance at an exhibition match taking place there. The attention definitely was taken away by Little Mac's attendance, who was glad to have an autograph booth after the game installed for him. His coach, Doc Louis, stood by his side looking proudly at the champ he coached signing autographs to his fans. "Wow Mr. Mac! You must be the most powerful fighter in the whole world!" A little fan said after receiving his signed item.

"Thanks kid. But I don't want to get too much of that going through my head or I might be off my game." Mac said, but still trying to be encouraging to his young fans. "Always remember that too much pride can be anyone's downfall. Never let that be in your way and you'll be successful in all your goals." Doc Louis watched from a distance as his trainee turned champ gives out autographs and being heartening to his fans.

"Yeah son. You know where it's at." Doc thought to himself. "Modesty is the key to a long championship." [end BGM]

[play Unfounded Rage/Smashing Song of Praise]Outside in the city, Greninja and Dark Pit stand out among the crowd of humans. Unlike Diamond city where it's used to seeing oddballs from the World of Pipes which it is in, the world of Earthbound is far too similar to reality's Earth with all it's dark undertone toward everything and disgusting practices and the humans have an intolerance to anything that isn't them and abnormal. The young children however are all too familiar with the characters walking in their midst, looking in awe at the Sixth generation pokemon and the accusations of Pit going emo. Dark Pit finds the strange looks from the older ones and the honest mistakes from the children despicable where Greninja solemnly ignores them altogether. "Gosh, I forgot how freakishly irritating this world can be." Complained Dark Pit. "They are just as incorrigible and stupid as the legends of the other side have said."

"Gre." Greninja said in a corrective tone.

"Look I don't understand your pokemon babble. So it's best you shut up and find these sources of power here." Dark Pit irritatedly said. To that Greninja turned away from Dark Pit and walked to the right. "Where are you going, you baby!? Fine! I'll find the knuckleheads without you, and don't think I'll wait to warp us both back, y'hear!" Done putting up with Dark Pit's shit, Greninja decided to take matters in it's own hands. Jumping up to a top of a building, it meditated in order to focus in on the chakra of exceedingly powerful individuals who may be the target. Dark Pit however, just thought his sense of direction would lead him to the ones needed to be recruited.

"Dark Pit?" Palutena spoke to him through telepathy. "Where's Greninja? I don't feel his presence with you?"

"I don't know. I'm not his keeper am I?" He snapped back at her. "Besides, aren't you an almighty goddess who can see all?"

"Don't start with me. I need you both to locate anyone strong enough to join our forces, along with any past Smashers."

"Probably Ness would be in this area." Viridi chimed in.

"Oh, Viridi." Palutena said. "I forgot you were still here."

"Of course I am still here! I still need help getting my Forces of Nature from falling into Separatist hands!"

"Whatever." Dark Pit said. "We already have to deal with the Dusk Templar. We don't need any killer vegetables causing more war for some hippy-dippy movement."

"Excuse me! Who do You think You're talking to Squirt!" Viridi shouted in Dark Pit's head, giving him a minor headache.

"No time for quarrelling you two," Palutena assured. "we need to get back to the mission at hand. I feel a strong presence at the stadium here."

"Maybe Ness is watching a baseball game. Who knows?" Viridi said.

"Fine. I'll pick this brat up and be on my way." [end BGM] Just then, Dark Pit noticed that some people were looking at him with a strange look. He realized that the peeps had only seen him responding to the goddesses who were not physically in front of him. Their judgement surely pissed him off. "What?! You never seen an angel talk to himself before!" That outburst scared and irked some people who were still perplexed of a boy wearing black angels garb.

After all the time he had with his fans and watching the exhibition, Little Mac walked out and to an alleyway to have some privacy. He never thought being a celebrity could be hard work. Just then three large bodies came at the opening of the alley way, their identities hidden by their silhouettes in the dark. "What's up? Sorry guys, autographs were done an hour ago. But I can still shake hands." Mac said apologetically.

"Just as I thought, all that fame went straight to your little head, didn't it shorty?" Little Mac recognised that gruffish voice, belonging to his old foe and former champion, Mr. Sandman. He and Doc found this aggressive boxer as a cruel, overconfident scrapper who turned vengeful when he lost his title and the preceding Title defences.

"What are you doing here?" Mac asked.

"We're here to settle the score Mac!" When Mr. Sandman said that, Bald Bull and Great Tiger appeared next to him. Little Mac, feeling uneasy, decided to back out of this uneven brawl. However, Soda Popinski, Don Flamenco, Piston Hondo, and Super Machoman came out of the doorway Mac came out of to get into the alley way. Now Mac was starting to panic. Most of his former opponents had joined forces against him.

"Take a seat kid." Super Machoman said shoving Little Mac into some garbage. Mac was able to defeat every one of them because it was a one-on-one match with the regular boxing rules. But now it looks like these guys are out to jump him altogether with no rules or regulations in the way.

"What's going on here? Why are you doing this?" Little Mac asked.

"You had this coming runt! Mr. Sandman exclaimed. "Their was no way you could've beaten us all fair and square!"

"Their was no possibility that you had a chance, but you triumphed anyway." Don flamenco said next. Mac picked himself up to speak.

"Look I understand losing must be pretty bad, but is it worth crying over spilt milk?"

"Shut it!" Super Machoman jabbed Little Mac in the gut making him kneel down in pain. "Betcha didn't see that coming, let alone this."

"I never expected you all to be sore losers." The little champ responded. "Where are the others? Huh?"

"Glass Joe didn't agree with our proposition and decided to stay out, as did Von kaiser." Soda Popinski explained through his thick accent. "As for the others, they were too freindly with you to join in, after what you did with them, King Hippo, Aran Ryan, Disco Kid, and Bear Hugger all of them."

"The only way you could've won was through cheating!" Bald Bull snarled. Little Mac felt offended by that accusation.

"How dare you accuse me of cheating! I wouldn't dare cheat..." Sandman gave a left hook to Little Mac silencing him from finishing his sentence.

"What, now you think your some sort of role model for all those suckas? You ain't better than us you little spit." Mr. Sandman pummeled Mac a little more, encouraged by the laughter of the other boxers.

"Hey, save some for the rest of us." Great Tiger said. Sandman finished giving Little Mac a small beatdown looking back and giving a vile grin.

"Now it is time to retrieve the honor you took from us and show you what happens when you mess with the bull's horns, as they say." Piston Hondo said.

"Yeah! I'm gonna rip you apart!" Bald Bull enthusiastically said. Little Mac could handle punches and bruises, but to fight all these strong opponents at the same time, it just wasn't fair. Super Macho man walked up to Mac trying to recover himself fully.

"Y'know it took some time to ready ourselves for this bout, with Sandman over their planning the whole thing." He said. "You took everything from us, so now were going to return the favor."

"By the end of this," Mr. Sandman said, "your gonna think twice about walking again." Little Mac looked up at his opponents, despite knowing that going up against all of them at the same time would be suicide, he thought maybe he could go out swinging. Like a champ would.

"Just you try it." Little Mac urged. "Give me your best shot for once." Angering Sandman especially, the boxers approached to cripple the young champion before another person came out of the stadium.

"Why not pick on someone your own size, punks" The angry boxers looked back to see strong dark skinned male come out in Mac's defence.

"What do you want, old man? If you want a turn at us breaking your hip, get in line!" Bald Bull threatened.

"Hold on a minute? It can't be, it's..." Don Flamenco said with a slight bit of fear. "Mike Tyson." Piston Hondo said, witnessing a true match. [play Jogging/Countdown]

"Yeah it's me alright." Iron Mike Tyson. Kid Dynamite. The Baddest Man on the Planet is here, to face off against seven elite boxers of the WVBA in a good old classic street fight (minus Ryu and and Guile who would've whooped these guys asses). "Yo Mac you alright?" Little was amazed to see the legend across from him, hell, to even see him in this world which will not be elaborated just accept it.

"Yeah, I've been better." Little mac answered. "You look a bit bruised." Kid Dynamite stated. "Why don't you leave these bozos to me, you go and recover." As much as Mac would like to stay and help out Mike, he didn't want to reject Iron Mike's aid even if he was well enough to fight. The boxers were too preoccupied with facing down Mike Tyson to realize Little Mac get up and flee without giving Mike Tyson a nod of thanks for coming at the right time.

"You really want to start something old man?!" Mr. Sandman threatened. "Stay out of our business!"

"Call me old man one more time and I'll rearrange your chromosomes with my two friends, 'Nothin', and "Lefty'." Mike motioned to his two fists coming up for a fighting stance. Great Tiger charged first, only to be put out by Mike Tyson's infamous uppercut, dealing a one-hit blow. "Okay, who's next?" [end BGM] Leaving the scene of the great battle, Little Mac fled to go to the entrance of the stadium. Unfortunately, Mac was cut off from his path when alien bugs and flying acorns got in the way. A double decker bus drove in back of Mac and a big gator guy grabbed him and forced him into the vehicle leaving as soon as they can. In the bus were a Kritter, some Hammer bros. and Koopa Troopas, a Bonkers, some Skuttlers and Flages. On the top of the open deck was equipped with a Bullet Bill Blaster for safe measure with a lone human driving the bus. The swarm of Nutskis and Kihunters flew nearby the top.

"Who in the world are you guys?" Little Mac asked. "And What do you want with me?" The man didn't look back when he answered.

"We are the Separatists, and you are our hostage. So you better keep quiet if you know what's good for you." First the jumping in the alley, and now a kidnapping! Little Mac can't imagine how this day could get any better.

While Dark Pit flew above the city, with the help of Palutena giving him the power of flight, he headed to the the big dome in the city he assumed was the stadium. "Wait, the powersource is moving. Rather quickly." Palutena exclaimed.

"So it's not at the stadium anymore." Dark Pit said in annoyance.

"No, look! The power is coming from that bus. Swarming with Nutskis and Kihunters?"

"Great Scott!" Viridi said. They got my Nutskis! Those Separatists are at it again!" "They must have the one we're looking for!" Palutena said in shock. "After them Pit, I mean, Dark Pit."

"And give them a good knuckle sandwich for me, got it!" Viridi was furious.

"With pleasure." Dark Pit glided down to face off against the Separatists, grabbing the attention of the Nutskis and Kihunters first. "You want a piece of me you waste of space!" The dark angel summoned out his bow and fire purple bolts at the flying enemies. The human driver saw the aerial battle in his rear view mirror.

"Waste that flying brat!" A Hammer bros. went above to man the cannon, aiming it to fire Bullet Bills. Dark Pit saw the incoming rounds and swiftly avoided them.

"Dark Pit, be careful that you don't get hit by those Bills, you could be distracted by the oncoming Kihunters and Nutskis." Palutena informed.

"Ya think! Woah!" Dark Pit narrowly dodged a Bullet Bill. "Where is that stupid frog when you need him!"

Greninja was still looking for the strong spirit when it heard the chase using super focused hearing. It decided to ignore it and find some other source. Which it did, finding three more across Fourside. Two were rather stationary compared to the one zooming through the streets. Greninja chose to locate the nearest concentration of power jumping across buildings to reach a cafe, where a young boy was hanging out and buying a drink.

[play Escape From The City] Back at the bus chase, Dark Pit has disposed some of the flying enemies, but was too distracted by the Bullet Bills to take care of all them. "Damn. Stupid bullets, why don't they run out already!"

"Hm. Don't worry Pittoo. I'm sure some reinforcements will arrive 'quickly'." Palutena said knowingly. "What do you mean?" Asked Dark Pit.

"Yeah? Whats with that smug look huh?" Viridi demanded. "And what's with the lame background music?"

"You'll see." In the distance, a blue flash blasted past the cars and passerbys as it came closer to the chase. The blue blur zoomed past the bus and rolled back to jump off two Nutskis and a Kihunter onto the bus.

"Alright. Who put on one of my jams?" Asked none other than Sonic the Hedgehog, come to help out.

"Oh no. Not this guy. Aren't you supposed to be on your own world, wherever it is." The doppelgänger complained. "I would, but to be honest, I can't find my way back."

"Wait." Viridi asked, "You mean to tell me that this guy has been running around our planet ever since the end of the Subspace Emisarry?" "No. He had those other games leading up to Sonic: Lost World" Palutena said with a hint of not taking it all seriously. "But it's good to have another Smasher amongst us." In the midst of the hedgehog's embarassment, two Skuttlers and another Hammer Bro. came out to attack Sonic. "Woah, not today!" After dodging two attacks, he used his spin dash to hit the three enemies overboard. The Hammer Bros. manning the Bill Blaster wanted to attack the blue hedgehog, but he had to keep the dark angel off their tail. Some more Koopas and Flages went up to face their enemies. Back in the interior of the bus, Little Mac had had enough of this and needed to see what was the commotion.

"Forget this!" The boxer got out of the Kritter's grip and pummeled it down with a combo of punches. The remaining Skuttlers, Flages and Koopas turned their attention to their escaped hostage and merged to capture. "Big mistake!" Little Mac punched away some Koopas and Skuttlers, but the Flages that struck at him were much harder to deal with. Little Mac was too busy to see the Bonkers sneak up on him and hit him out to the top with it's big hammer. "Urgh!" Little Mac landed near the battle Sonic was in, also having a hard time with the Flages.

"Hey, mind lending me hand here pal?" Sonic said to the arriving boxer. Before Mac could answer, the Bonkers followed them up there by crashing through the floor below them, ready to engage. It snuffed out in irritation. "Friend of yours?" Sonic joked, which certainly wasn't the best time. As the two fighters on the bus engaged in combat, Dark Pit was also in a tough situation, evading Bullet Bills and also trying not to be overwhelmed by the Nutski/Kihunter forces. But some streets away, a green clad man was walking across the street, unaware of the mad bus in it's roadrage, until it was too late.

"AIYAH!" The green plumber was slammed on the front of the marauding bus, holding onto dear life. The driver saw this person on the front and tried to run into obstacles to get him off. "Ooooh!" The man in the front moved to window of the drivers seat to avoid being crushed.

"Looks like I'm gonna need to call the big guns." The driver pressed a button that was his watch that summoned a Devil Car out of nearby alley, not paying attention to the pedestrians it could have ran over. The Devil Car zoomed to the corner of the bus near the plumber then rammed to the side. Thankfully the man evaded the crash that shook the bus by moving his body up, then going back to hanging on.

"Ohoho, what did I do to deserve this!" The guys cry had caught the attention of the hedgehog fighting off two Flages and a Bonkers alongside Little Mac.

"Huh? Luigi?" The Bonkers slammed down at Sonic, who safely jumped away from the strike. "Who?" Little Mac asked, still in a stand off against a Flage.

"That guys the brother of a friend of mine. How did he get here?" Sonic answered the boxers question, a little concerned that this guy hasn't heard of one of the legendary Mario Bros.. Of course, the Bonkers they were facing off was not in the mood to listen to idle chit-chat for gave both the fighters no slack. "Geez this guy does not let up does he? Especially with.." He avoided a Flage's swipe. "..these weirdos trying to skewer us." Sonic Spin charged at a Flage, but it vanished from the attack and appeared near the Bonkers.

"Damn. This fight's going nowhere." Little Mac exclaimed. He looked to the Hammer Bro. still commanding the Bill Blaster and left hooked it off the bus, finally letting Dark Pit land.

"It's about time." Dark Pit said with little to no appreciation for the help. "Your welcome." Little Mac said, a little upset without a thank you. The Bonkers saw all of these foes assembled and roared knowing that it's job just got a lot harder. "Yo fuck you gorilla glue!" Dark Pit yelled back. "You think you got me on the ropes?" He fired two arrows at the Flages, finally knocking them off the bus. "I think not!"

"Nice shootin' partner." Praised Sonic. Of course Dark Pit didn't acknowledge the praise and just prepared to fight the Bonkers. Out of nowhere, a shadow had jumped onto then off the Bonkers head, landing alongside the other three, striking a pose with it's hands in front of it's face.

"Where the hell have you been! I've been trying to stop these maniacs in their little 'police run' and all I've found is this poser." Sonic didn't take lightly of the insult.

"Wait, who's a poser?" Sonic asked. Not liking being ignored, the Bonkers smashed at Greninja, shocking the two fighters (except Dark Pit) but when he raised up the hammer, all that was left was a substitution doll. The confused troglodyte didn't see Greninja pop out of the air and perform a flying kick to disorient it. "That's the ticket! Let's bump ol' 'Mighty Joe Young' off this jalopy!" Following Greninja's lead, Dark Pit kicked at the Bonkers left shoulder, followed by Little Mac jabbing at it's gut to push it to the edge, finishing with Sonic using a Homing attack to finally launch it off the bus.

"Graaah!" The Kirby enemy fell onto a car, smashing it on the fall.

"Alright! Sonic speed!"

"Yeah! Teamwork!" Little Mac cheered. "I think it's a bit early to cheer." Dark Pit motioned to the remaining Nutskis and Kihunters still following the bus. The bus shook once more as the Devil Car continued to attempt to crush Luigi.

"Gre, greninj. Ninja gre gren."

"Okay." Sonic responded. Little Mac and Dark Pit had incredulous looks that the hedgehog understood the shinobi frog. "What? I dabble in a little Poke-nese." Sonic used another Homing attack to take out some of the following enemies.

"What'd he say?" Dark Pit demanded.

Sonic landed on the bus to evade some Nutski ammo. "He said he'd take care of rescuing Luigi while we hold off these ones." Greninja used his abilities to crawl on the side of the toward Luigi. "Aah! Help me please!"

"Gre, Gre-ninja." "No, I'm not okay!" Luigi dodged the ram from the Devil Car once more. "I'm in a real hard place!" Greninja crawled to the drivers window, breaking through it and grabbing at the guy, only to throw him out in front of the rampaging Devil Car.

"Gre." Greninja grabbed Luigi by the collar and lowered him in the drivers seat.

"Drive!? But..." before Luigi could object, Greninja saluted him and leaped to the Devil car to lead it away from them. The shy plumber was not experienced to drive a vehicle like this, but if he could drive a kart or numerous other racing vehicles, then he could possibly steer this bus from harms way.

Dark Pit and co stood their ground against the oncoming Nutski/Kihunter waves until they abnormally stopped following them as if ordered to.[end BGM] "Looks like they finally got smart and avoided a good clobbering." Little Mac reacted quite cartoonishly as he realized what the enemies stopped for. He tapped Dark Pit's arm. "What?" When he and Sonic looked back, they saw that the bus was speeding toward a building with citizens unaware of the rolling mass of metal. "Aw crap."

"We gotta stop this thing!" Sonic said. The three entered the bus to see Luigi trying to stop the collision.

"Their's something wrong with the brakes!" Luigi desperately tried flooring the brake pedal, but with no Pit was not amused "Of course the brakes are out." The fighters were panicking inside, not aware that their was someone around to aid them in stopping the vehicle.

"PK Freeze!" A blinking flash went to the front of the bus, bursting a freezing energy that froze the front of the bus, greatly slowing it down. Luckily it only hit the curb of the sidewalk in front of the building. A young boy with a blue/yellow striped shirt and blue shorts, donning his iconic red cap, came from across the street from the potential collision to witness the close shave. "Thank goodness it came out alright."

"Hey, it's Ness!" Sonic recognized the fellow Smasher from the Brawl days come to help them at the last moment

"Well that's a relief." Dark Pit said. "I should've known he was here as well, which makes this whole trip much easier."

"Alright what's going on here?! I'm confused as hell, who are you guys supposed to be, some heroic circus troup going around doing good deeds?" The boxer had been through a whole day of questionable events, which only brought even more questions.

Dark Pit looked back to Little Mac, with a slight hint of annoyance. Greninja hopped to their area to assemble with the group. "Original, but still cliche man. What is this Twenty questions, geez. I come to rescue you, and this is what I get?" Greninja stopped the conversation from continuing by pointing out to the direction where they came from. "Anyway we should warp back to HQ. Those Seperatist guys will be sure to come back." That still perplexed Little Mac, everything that was said to him still made no sense whatsoever. "We got everyone here?"

"Greninj." Greninja confirmed that they had all they needed here. They found Ness at least, and if the Separatists wanted Little Mac so badly he must be essential in their fight against Knightscourge (Even if neither of the two are associated). Unfortunately, when Ness froze the front of the bus, Luigi had received the short end of the stick as he was moderately immobilized in ice, being closest to the freezing properties.

"Ooh." Luigi mumbled in his frozen state.

At last! Sorry for the wait, I had so many others things to do that I cannot elaborate on. But I'll be sure to focus on getting to the next chapter, which will be more of a filler, with a little canon to the story. I hope the bus chase didn't go to fast at the end of this,but I also didn't want the story to linger. I'll be sure to update it later.

Smasher appearances: Little Mac, Sonic, Luigi, Ness

Woo! Special guest appearance of Mike Tyson! I invited him in to show some appreciation to Mike Tyson's Punch Out!. Everyone is bound to love the next chapter to this story, and I plan to complete it soon before it's done already. Until next chapter, see you l8tr appreciated readers.