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Note: Yes, Ash is Pokemon Trainer. Come on, we all know that's who it's supposed to be.

Chapter 3

40 Smashers remaining…

Yoshi falling sick was much more frightening than Roy and Ness combined. For one, Yoshi was a dinosaur, revealing that the disease, whatever it was, wasn't limited to just humans. So all the animals and Pokemon that had thought they were safe were now just as worried as the others.

But that wasn't all. Yoshi's allergies had been acting up lately and he hadn't left his room in five days because they were so insufferable he preferred to just wait inside until they were over. He had had absolutely no contact with anybody except Mario, who'd told him through the door about Ness and Roy. The fact that Yoshi hadn't been anywhere near Ness or Roy said that the virus didn't spread through direct contact. There were rumors that it was airborne, that nobody was safe. The only thing that was keeping everyone sane was the fact that Ness's condition hadn't changed at all.

"Okay, everybody, okay!" Dr. Mario shouted, trying to calm them down. "I called this meeting to tell everyone what's going on, officially, and to propose an idea to help fix things. But everybody needs to calm down!"

"Why the hell should we calm down?" Captain Falcon demanded. "You've got three people sick and dying up there and all you've done is send one bounty hunter out to search for the cause! I don't want a cause, I want a cure!"

There was a chorus of shout of agreement with Captain Falcon, only to be silenced when Link climbed atop the table and stunned everyone with a Skyward Strike. "Hey!" he shouted. "Everybody, be quiet! Arguing isn't going to help anything."

They all around at each other before looking expectantly towards Dr. Mario- he may be a convenient target for their anger; a punching bag, if you will- but he was the only one here who was a doctor, after all.

"All right. Since we don't know how this is spreading, if Samus hasn't found out anything or more people or sick by this time tomorrow, I say we should send out the Star Fox team- with Wolf, of course- to look for any causes of this, like Samus is. Pit and Meta-Knight, I'll send you out as a last result, because you don't have a ship to communicate back with us if they find something."

Charizard let a throaty roar, and Ash translated, "He wants to know if he can go looking, to, since he can fly."

Dr. Mario nodded uncertainly. "Well, I don't know much about Pokemon- if he can fly out while leaving you back here, that's fine. But I'm hesitant to send him, Pit, or Meta-Knight out because they won't be protected if they run into the source of the virus."

"Look," Mario cut in, "As of now, we don't have to do anything, right? Until someone else gets sick, that is."

Samus was flying over the ground at a low altitude, searching for something, she wasn't sure what. Her suit and ship would tell her if it found anything very unusual, but since she had no idea what exactly she was supposed to be looking for…

"Unusual energy-patterns detected thirty miles to the northwest. Shows patterns similar to life-forms, but energy spikes are above normal readings." Her ship announced in a cool, female voice, prompting Samus to smile.

"Well, I'm in luck," Samus said to herself, typing in the coordinates to send her ship in the right direction before flying higher- if people ended up being behind this disease and they were, in fact, down there, no need to attract their attention.

On her way there, she ordered her ship to analyze the energy spikes for pattern before turning to the map, watching as she got closer and closer to the possible source of disease and resigned to wait for a couple minutes- but, surprisingly, her ship didn't take more than twenty seconds to report back.

"There are periodic spikes in a strange form of energy that is not in our databank. Seems most comparable to the elemental energy of light and dark encountered in Aether's two dimensions, but is not the same elements. Signs suggest seismic activity, unusually high temperatures, unnatural wind patterns, and strong precipitation. Strong caution when approaching these strange energy patterns is advised."

Samus groaned inwardly. In all likelihood, she was just nearing an erupting volcano or something similar and was overreacting.

Mass hysteria was the word of the day at the Smash Mansion. If anybody so much as coughed, he'd be dragged against his well to be examined by Dr. Mario. Olimar, the only one of the Smashers who had an air tight suit, checked on Marth and reported that he was showing no symptoms of the disease, so Dr. Mario had released him. Now that everyone was paranoid, though, no one would so much as touch Marth without a Hazmat suit on.

The pokemon had all retreated to their poke balls, knowing they'd be safe there. Fox and his team were staying inside their arwings in case they needed to leave in search for the disease- everyone who didn't have a containment-free place to hide was just sticking as far away from the others as possible.

Ness, Roy, and Yoshi were now all unconscious with high fevers. Their noses still bled periodically, and by now, everybody was certain that it could no longer be 'just' the flu.

Battles were all postponed indefinitely, tempers were high, and all it took was one wrong word to start a fight- as was happening between Link and Lucas. Lucas had just happened to say, "I used to be a normal hero, but then I took an arrow to the knee and ended up stuck inside here," within the earshot of Link.

"Hey, why do you call care what goes on within the Skyrim universe! I have my most epic adventure around the same time as all that Skyrim stuff is going on, but NO, you don't hear people saying that they got knocked in mid-air by some redheaded maniac! You don't see them mimicking my amazing 'Skyward strike' move! No, all they do is reference the Skyrim universe by talking about an 'arrow to the god damn knee!'"

"If you're so mad about it, why don't you do something? Maybe it's just because your adventure was less interesting than Skyrim's world."

Zelda and Ganondorf ran to Link's defense, and a fight would of broken out had Ike not shown up, gotten annoyed very quickly, and forced them all to the ground with two powerful blows of his thick blade. Many scuffles like Link and Lucas's erupted in such a short time that some were saying that they would of all beaten each other to death before this disease could kill them.

Unfortunately, the disease was progressing much faster than they knew. Samus had been gone for five hours when Mewtwo and Lucario ran into each other after emerging from their poke balls. They began fighting within five minutes. All the other pokemon joined, Lucas came to help his friend Ash, and soon half the house was dominated by sword fights, bursts of fire, and shouts of violence.

Marth and Meta-Knight had teamed up to take down Toon Link, who was wreaking havoc among the Skyrim supporters. The three had just engaged in a whirlwind of silver swords when a fat lump fell in the middle of their fight, disrupting the battle.

It was Wario. He was sweating and clearly had a high fever.

His nose was bleeding.

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