When Luigi woke up he saw the scariest castle he had ever seen ahead. Much creepier than Bowser's Castle. Luigi gathered all the strength he had and got up, deciding to venture inside. Castles don't always represent the people who live in them, perhaps the owner of this one could help, Luigi thought with all the courage he could muster. Once inside he realized his head was much colder than normal. "My hat is missing!" he yelled.

With the loud yell came the attention of something that looked like a person up ahead. It limped toward Luigi and when it came to the light it was clearly a mummy. Luigi screamed at the top of his lungs and ran back toward the door. Luigi got lost in the hallways and found himself in a much darker corridor with a statue of a head inside. Feeling scared, Luigi looked back at the statue to find that it was looking at him. Screaming, Luigi found himself at a higher floor in the castle. Tired, Luigi looked up to find a ghostly skeleton, who had a large scythe in his hands. He took one swoop and Luigi found himself suspended in the air.

Just then a whip of some sort smacked the skeleton in the face, and a very masculine figure ripped off his cloak and began to fight back. It was Simon Belmont.

"I see all you monsters are back," said Simon, confidently.

"We were brought back very suddenly," said the Grim Reaper, "I don't know why, but I lust for your soul."

"Not if I have anything to say about it!"

Simon and the Grim Reaper engaged in intense combat. After a few blows to the same area as before, the Grim Reaper looked defeated. "You haven't seen the last of me," said the Grim Reaper before vanishing from thin air. Behind him was Dracula himself. "What do you think your doing, Simon," taunted Dracula.

"I'm here to stop you, again, Dracula," Simon prepared to attack but Dracula launched a large fireball. Simon had no way to counter, but out of nowhere, another figure blocked the attack.

"Begone, you don't belong in this world, monster!" yelled Richter, very confidently.

"Fine, but I'll get you two late, you have no idea what's coming," taunted Dracula, before vanishing.

Simon and Richter looked at each other, curious about what Dracula meant. Never before had the bosses at Dracula's Castle left before, this must not be a trick, they thought.

"How is that little green man?" asked Simon.

"I hate to say it, but he seems dead, he isn't breathing, and nothing will wake him up," said Richter, sorrowfully.

"What happened to me?" Luigi thought, nobody could see him, and he was floating in the air. "Am I… a ghost?"

When King Dedede woke up, he was floating in a dark area. In the distance, he saw popstar in the far distance. "Where am I, is this space?" he thought. Below he saw another, rounder planet. He was caught in the gravitational pull, and as he started gaining speed, he fell unconscious again.

With the help of Link's magnesis and several Toads' cooperation, the job got done fast. The Halberd was mostly repaired.

"Is this really fit to fly?" asked Zelda.

"It will work for now, it may not be as smooth as it used to, but it should hold all the same in battle," theorized Meta Knight. Of course, Meta Knight wasn't sure, but with SCA running amok, he had no choice but to act fast.

"Let's try to get this airborne," said Meta Knight, confidently.

In a secret location, Peach is thrown into a cell by a few Paratroopas and a Moblin. The old man came into Peaches view, followed by Bowser.

"You're demand is met," said the old man, "now you will work with me, correct?"

"Yes, thank you Yg. Let's get this invasion started, Peach and I will rule the lands!"

Bowser sounded all too ecstatic. They walked away into a very large control room filled with monitors and buttons, with a glass wall overlooking a hanger filled with airships.

"Now for the final attack before we can release our troops into the lands," said Yg, "Let's get some of our troops in there."

Red mist started to form around the hanger. They started creating red misty creatures of all sorts, arachnids, humanoid warriors, batlike demons, and even a few large dragons.

"These are some strange looking troops," stated Bowser.

"Yes, will you accompany them for the battle?" asked Yg.

"Doesn't the General position fall under Junior?" wondered Bowser.

"Normally, yes, but Junior disappeared when Peach was being delivered, so for this last one we need you to do it."

"Fine, but just this once."

The hanger opened, and all the troops got ready for another battle.

Marth and Roy made it to a kingdom, filled with people just living their lives. It was the Kingdom of Altea. Some soldiers came to greet him.

"How did it go?" asked a soldier.

"Where is Lucina and Chrom, they are visiting are they not?" asked Marth, trying to hurry."

"Yes, they is in the town square, but-"

"Great, thank you!" said Marth, rushing off to the square.

Lucina and Chrom were talking to some distraught people.

"So you are saying that some fat man riding a mechanical horse ran over your fruit stand?" asked Chrom, clearly confused.

"Chrom, please come with me, we have to-" Marth was caught off guard by a large explosion behind him, as he feared, it was the airships. Soldiers ran past equipped with all types of weapons, some even pushing along catapults.

"What is this?" wondered Lucina.

"This is why we are here," said Roy.

Marth and Roy quickly explained what happened at Bowser's castle while they went to the battle scene.

"So what happened to Ike?" asked Lucina.

"We have no idea," explained Roy.

As they made it to the scene of the battle, things were looking bad. Soldiers all around were getting clobbered by Red Bat-Demons and underworld Syrens everywhere. Out from one of the ships jumped the King of Koopas, Bowser. He looked toward the four heroes.

"Bowser, I presume?" wondered Chrom.

Bowser looked angry, and without even answering Chrom, Bowser leaped into the air and slammed into the area where the four were standing, causing them to scatter.

"Let me just get this over with so I can go back to bossing people around," Bowser announced.

Bowser spat flames around in all directions, hoping to hit one of them, Chrom was the only one who got out of the way, as he threw his sword into the air, jumped up and grabbed it, and slammed back down, only hitting Bowser's shell. Bowser then grabbed Chrom, and pinned him under his foot, right then Lucina and Marth slashed at Bowser from opposite side, to retaliate, he threw Chrom at Lucina, causing Lucina's sword to accidentally impale him.

"CHROM!" yelled out Lucina, she immediately dashed toward Bowser, attacking him with all her might. "Bring out the Red Dragon!" Bowser yelled out to the Airships above, while trying his best to defend himself, and as he did, a big red, misty dragon came out of the ship.

Back at Peach's castle the Halberd is getting ready to take off.

"Everybody ready?" asked Meta Knight

"Lets get this bird in the air!" answered Link, enthusiastically.

Lucina stopped and looked back at Marth and Roy for help, then remembered what happened to Chrom, she ran over to him to see that there were no stab wounds whatsoever.

"What is this?" Lucina wondered. Bowser was busy fending off Marth and Roy, but it was no use, it was clear that they were fighting a losing battle, Marth's army was no use against the numbers of SCA's army. The Red Dragon looked at Lucina, and began dashing toward her.

"See the airships anywhere, Zelda?" asked Meta Knight.

"Southeast, there's a huge battle going on, head there," she answered.

Lucina touched her hand on Chrom's head, "Father? Are you okay?" she wondered. Chrom opened his eyes to see the Red Dragon dashing toward them, "LUCINA, LOOK OUT!" yelled Chrom. Just then, the Red Dragon was hit with a blast. The Halberd had arrived. Bowser looked at it angrily, "All flying forces, attack that ship!" he ordered. The Red Dragon went for it immediately, but a second blast caused it to disappear in a red mist.

"Bah, who cares," pouted Bowser, "we're out of here, retreat!" Bowser jumped onto the ship and the rest of the troops followed, the ships left as the Halberd tried there best to attack. Link, Meta Knight, and Zelda landed the Halberd just outside city gates and came inside to great the four.

They all exchanged stories.

"So Daisy, Kirby, and Ike came to find us?" asked Marth.

"Yes, but they clearly won't find you at Bowser's castle," thought Meta Knight.

"You should take me there, I can explain to them what happened and then we can take them back to the city," said Roy.

"At times like this, we shouldn't separate like this and expect to all find each other again, we can have some of us travel to Bowser's Castle, and the rest of us track the ships," suggested Zelda. The airships were still visible in the distance. They all looked to realize that troops were being released all across the land.

"No where will be safe, Roy, go with Meta Knight, the rest of us should track the ships, larger groups on the ground for safety," ordered Link.

The group executed the plan, they needed to stop this, and inform as many about the impending threat as possible, it wouldn't be easy, but this is their best shot.

Groups

Meta Knight, Roy

Link, Zelda, Marth, Lucina, Chrom

Kirby, Ike, Daisy

Mario

King Dedede

Simon, Richter

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