Team Shicadow

Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Brothers Brawl or any of the characters. I only own Sun-Wong, Isaak, Himeno, Roger, Aqua, Mcenche, Pepper, Li, Abbigale, Queen Neptune, Prince Pluto, Emperor Apollo, Queen Hinata, Queen Zoe, Prince Henry, Queen Crystal, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and the little bat Hoshi-Tsuki but not who he is. Zelina and Sao belong to Zelina56. I also own Nina, Serenade, Ian, Wright, the arch-angels and the Angel Assembly.

Summary: Yuna successfully protects the remaining Smashers from becoming petrified but she doesn't have enough power to give the stona ability to all of them, so she entrusts three Smashers with her powers...

Me: Enjoy the chapter. OH! The theme song for chapter 31-36 is Holding Out For a Hero and it refers to everyone (mainly Pit) who is waiting for their hero to save them. The four Heroes and the ones that Yuna chose are not the heroes if you people are wondering. Those heroes won't be revealed until...well...until Merlon appears. This is a short chapter, so enjoy.

Chapter 31: Team Shicadow

It seemed like forever for the Smashers who waited patiently for Yuna's return if she could ever return. Master maintained a cool posture in front of Crazy so he wouldn't freak out so much. Lucario paste around the room restlessly waiting for the time to get out of the hidden room. Kirby comforted the older Pichu brother and Jigglypuff while trying not to think of what might have happened to Meta Knight. Lucas sat in a corner of the room bringing his knees to his chest shivering uncontrollably. He was obviously scared of what was going to happen to them. Shadow held Stafy close to him and didn't bother letting go despite the little star's protest. As for Pikachu, the little yellow rat patted Gary's back but despite his efforts to cheer the Kanto Researcher up, he continued to sulk.

"Pika..."

Gary looked into the Pokémon's eyes but couldn't smile.

"Sorry, I'm just..."

Gary didn't have to finish his sentence. His Pokémon interrupted him as they came out of their Pokéballs on their own. They never came out unless it was an absolute emergency.

"Umbreon, Blastoise, Nidoking, Electivire, Arcanine...Roserade...I..."

The Pokémon already knew how their trainer felt and gave him reassuring smiles or reassuring Poke cries.

The other Pokémon glanced at Gary as well.

"Believe," Mewtwo said.

All turned to the psychic Pokémon.

"Let your emotions take over you and it will destroy you. Losing faith will also be the demise of you and everyone around. If you believe that the High Summoner will save us all, then so be it. If you don't believe then she might as well fail us all."

What Mewtwo said was so deep. Master was impressed by how professional the clone Pokemon was. The speech was moving. Lucas was encouraged greatly and stopped being emo.

"Your right Mr. Mewtwo. I have to believe in Lady Yuna," Lucas said.

The Pokemon and Kirby nodded their heads.

"Believe!" Stafy announced.

Shadow just smirked. As for Gary it got him thinking.

Maybe everything will be okay after all. He thought to himself. He turned to his Pokémon and apologized to them for losing hope. The Pokémon forgave him.

Suddenly, there was this huge earthquake outside of the room. Lucas was the first to fall over. Pichu, Jigglypuff and Kirby seemed unaffected by the earthquake because of how short they were. Master prevented his brother from falling forward. Mewtwo and Lucario stood their ground. Shadow glanced at the ceiling to see some rocks falling from the ceiling. They weren't big though. Gary called back all of his Pokémon and held Pikachu in his arms.

"What's going on now Master?" Gary questioned.

"I don't know!" he shouted over the earthquake.

The earthquake eventually came to a stop. No one moved an inch. They were waiting for the results.

And the results were positive. Yuna slowly opened the door and made her way downstairs gracefully. She seemed to be devoid of life. On the last step, she tripped. Shadow threw Stafy in he air as he caught her or rather Sonic.

"Easy..." he mumbled.

She didn't reply. Shadow noted that her body was very cold and turned to Master worried.

"Her body is cold as ice," he told him.

"Put her in the capsule," Master Hand ordered.

Shadow obeyed as he rushed her to the capsule. The capsule didn't close because she was still conscious and refused to go inside.

"I'm sorry..." Yuna mumbled.

"For what?" Gary questioned worried.

"I stopped the wave from getting to you...but I don't have the power to give all of you the power to save your friends..."

Disappointed with the summoner, Lucario went up the stairs. He stopped at the top stair when Yuna continued.

"Zombies," she continued, "Have infested the entire planet when the petrification covered all but here. You can't fight them with your normal skills."

"Then what was the point of that then?" Lucario questioned angrily.

"I'm sorry."

Shadow glared at the aura Pokémon causing the aura Pokémon glared back. Lucas begged them to stop and Master forced them to.

"I only have enough energy to give three people my powers..." she said sadly, "If I give anymore than that...this body won't survive the pressure."

"It's okay," Shadow told her. It was okay for him. As long as Sonic wasn't killed, then he would be fine...

"I don't know who should have the power though..." Yuna muttered.

Everyone turned to Master Hand who was deep in thought. Finally, he opened his eyes and said, "Blue, Lucas and Shadow will be the ones to have your power."

"WHAT?"

Out of all of them, Lucas was the most surprised one. Why would a little boy like him be given a power and responsibility so important? What if he failed? Would everyone remaining die?

Master turned to Lucario, "And before you say anything Lucario, let me tell you this. You are too angry at the moment. If I let you out there to save everyone now, you might as well say hello to Hades for us."

Lucario grunted. Mewtwo agreed with Master Hand so the aura Pokémon couldn't argue.

"But why are you sending me?" Lucas questioned, "What can I do?"

"You need to believe in yourself Lucas," Master told him, "That's what Ness would have told you. Am I right?"

Lucas nodded his head slowly. Still, he thought he couldn't do it.

"But I'm not even a Smasher..." Gary said.

Master grinned, "Really? The minute Red mentioned you, I knew that you had potential. You hung around the mansion for far too long. I consider you one of us, which is why I'm putting my faith in you."

"Yes but..."

Master Hand finally turned to Shadow, "I trust you Shadow."

Shadow just did a simple, "Hmph."

"Show us the power of the Ultimate Lifeform!" Stafy cheered as he was able to get out of Shadow's grasp and fly around.

Shadow nodded his head.

Yuna turned to the three Smashers weakly. She closed her eyes and started chanting a spell. The spell lifted the trio above the ground. A white light circled all three of them and entered their bodies. Shadow thought this power similar to the Chaos Emeralds. It was close but not quite.

When the light disappeared, the trio landed safety on the ground. Gary and Lucas looked at their hands to see something sparkly. Shadow however glanced at Yuna who finally collapsed into the capsule.

"I think it is best to let her rest," Crazy finally said, "She did so much for us."

"Yeah...she did..."

Master looked at the three Smashers and declared, "I now declare you as our last hope! Don't fail us!"

That didn't make Lucas or Gary feel any better. Shadow just nodded his head realizing he would have to save the world again.

"Wait!" Kirby announced as he took the Dr. Mario trophy from Master and held it above his head in front of Shadow, "Can you really turn him back?"

Shadow didn't know. There was only one way to find out. He closed his eyes and reached out to the trophy. A light surrounded his arm that eventually swirled around the Dr. Mario trophy. In a matter of seconds, the trophy disappeared and was replaced with a human body on the floor. The Smasher's eyes widened. Dr. Mario was back.

"Mama mia...what happened?" the good old doctor questioned as he rubbed his temples still dazed.

The older Pichu brother was the first one to jump on the doctor's head and nudge it. Dr. Mario snapped back to reality and smiled.

"How's it been little one?" he questioned.

The other Smashers were relieved. Now they knew the power worked and that they could save their friends.

"GO TEAM SHICADOW!" Stafy cheered.

There was a long pause.

"What?"

"Shi from the alternative of Blue's real name. Ca from Lucas and Dow from the amazing Shadow!" the little star explained.

Shadow did not like that name. He would just called the group Team Dark if he had the choice.

"We should leave now," Shadow said in a low tone.

Both Gary and Lucas nodded their head slowly. They looked rather nervous.

"Be careful out there..." Master Hand whispered but they didn't hear him because they were already up the stairs and out the door.

Getting out of the mansion was somewhat difficult. The doors were rusted that Shadow had to use Chaos Spear to break it down. When Mr. Game and Watch came back, he wouldn't hear the end of it.

In order for Gary and Lucas to keep up with the black hedgehog, Gary called out Arcanine and both of them rode on its back. It managed to keep up with Shadow somehow.

Once the trio were out of the mansion, Shadow knew that finding everybody wouldn't be easy.

"Have any idea where they might be Lucas?" Shadow questioned.

"I don't know. I have a hunch that they're all scattered thanks to the attack."

"Hmph. That means we have to split up to find them all."

Lucas didn't like that word obviously.

Shadow stopped running. Arcanine stopped as well and growled.

"It seems we have company," Shadow said in a dark tone.

Sure enough, there were zombies approaching them. All Gary noticed were from the dark part of the mansion. He shivered.

"Do we have to fight them all?" Gary question.

"No." Shadow answered, "Just kill the ones that get in your way."

Lucas trembled, "Does that mean I have to get off of your Pokémon Blue?"

Gary nodded his head. He couldn't take Lucas along with him because they had to do this as soon as possible. None of his Pokémon would obey someone as inexperienced as Lucas. It was too risky for him to have a Pokémon, but it would be just as risky for the blonde to go on his own. Which is why he would be clearing all the zombies in the city.

"Man..."

Lucas jumped off Arcanine as Shadow pointed where Lucas had to go.

"Chaos..." Shadow began, "Rift!"

Using what little power he had left since he still had some powers of the Chaos Emeralds, Shadow opened a rift in time and space. Any zombie in its range was sucked into the infinite darkness.

"GO NOW!" Shadow shouted, "I'll hold them off here! Lucas, go into the city! Blue, you know where to go."

Both nodded their head.

"Let's go, Arcanine!"

Arcanine howled as it raced off toward the peninsula. Lucas took off but more slowly as he looked back to see Shadow fighting by himself. He had people to save so he kept looking forward and didn't look back.

Shadow grinned when the rift disappeared. There were still many zombies but most were distracted. Perfect.

"I couldn't use this around Stafy or even in the mansion but..."

Shadow took out a sub-machine gun. A devilish grinned appeared on his face.

"I hope you zombies like drinking your own blood!"

And Shadow went trigger happy.

Aqua stopped fighting the demons when she felt this jolt in her heart. She remembered this feeling. She felt it when Isaak was turned to stone during Medusa's War.

"Why'd you stop?" Pepper questioned as she stab another demon with her dagger.

They got all the women and children to safety. Most of the men decided to fight for their families and got out of their hiding place to fight. They were doing well because the most dangerous forces were being dealt with Sun-Wong, Roger, Isaak and the Centurions.

"...I cannot feel Isaak's presence anymore..." Aqua said simply showing sorrow in her eyes.

Pepper was confused. She couldn't understand the water angel. Did that mean Isaak had fallen in battle or did something terrible happen to him that he wasn't able to shoot out his aura?

"...he's gone..."

The fire angel really didn't get her, so she just ordered her Chocobo to continue attacking the demons with fire. Zelina however saw how upset the blue angel was.

"Aqua, I don't think this is the time to think about things like that," she said calmly, "I'm sure he's okay."

Aqua could only hope.

Aqua wasn't the only one who felt it though. Sun-Wong and Roger felt it as well. Roger wanted to figure out what this meant. The vice captain however wouldn't leave his post. Annoyed by the earth angel, he went to where Isaak went and see what was up. He didn't get far though because a dark angel who looked similar to his captain appeared in front of him.

"Lived?" Sun-Wong questioned. He was beyond stunned.

Roger couldn't believe it either. The one he replaced was still alive...and on the enemy side?

"I see you show your true colors," Roger announced sarcastically.

Li glared at the black angel. He did not need to hear things from him, so he might as well get rid of him like he did with Isaak.

"Prepare yourself you weakling," Li said in a dark tone, "You are about to meet your maker."

Li stepped back and began chanting. Roger recognized the chant. He was going to summon his Aeon. Sun-Wong was shocked. He didn't remember Li ever having an Aeon.

"If that's the way then..."

Roger started chanting as well. It was going to be Aeon vs. Aeon. Dark angel vs. Dark angel. The prize seem to be the rightful claim of 5th seat. The loser would meet death.

"Please stop!" Sun-Wong shouted, "I know him! He isn't evil!"

Neither dark angel were listening to the vice captain. No one would stop their battle to the death.

Suddenly, an axe was swung toward him. Sun-Wong barely dodged it.

"You should be worrying more about yourself than that dark angel that was once your comrade."

Sun-Wong frowned. In front of him was Alex Kidd. He remembered reading an article about him on how he was jealous of the blue wonder Sonic in everything and tried to kill him after the Sega Superstar Tennis Tournament. He only managed to kill the purple jester instead.

"I won't go easy on you," Sun-Wong said calmly as he got his Nyoi-Boi ready to battle.

Alex grinned. Hopefully he would have fun with killing this angel slowly.

When the two started clashing weapons, the summoning was done. Roger summoned a purple demon that had a huge mouth. It was named Atomos. Li summoned a winged beat with rainbow wings on the tip of its feathers. Its entire body was black and it stood on two feet looking down on Atomos. It was named Bahamut.

"We shall see which one is stronger," Li said in a dark tone.

With that said, the two Aeons clashed as well as their owner who got their sword ready and started clashing swords.

Mcenche could only sigh as he watched the battles outside of the room they were guarding. He never really got to fight because Sun-Wong claimed that he had too many openings in his sword play compared to Pit, Li and Roger. He would have to train harder if he wanted to be on the battlefield. Then again, he was already strong enough so staying indoors was an insult to his family.

"Mcenche, you shouldn't be worrying about the battle," Himeno said calmly.

The ice angel turned to the wind angel annoyed, "Aren't you annoyed that whenever there is a war, we always have to stay out of it like we're kids? I mean come on! Even Pepper is going out there!"

"You would be dead if you went out there," Himeno continued, "Pepper has Chobi to protect her. She won't die that easily."

Mcenche groaned, "How troublesome."

"Troublesome indeed."

The two angels heard the new voice and got their weapons ready. Appearing from the darkness was a man in green and a man with a mask on his face. They went by Mr. L and Gray Fox.

"We shall take over this room now," Mr. L said simply.

Himeno got her fan ready to defend the room with her life, "Not if I can help it!"

The wind angel instantly jumped in the air and twirled her fan around once. A huge tornado was brought up from the force of the swing. Mr. L dodged it with ease.

"You won't get me with slow attacks little girl," he taunted.

Mcenche proceeded to help out the wind angel but got his sword in front of his face to block Gray Fox's sword.

"Entertain me little boy," he said in a dark tone.

Mcenche growled. He wouldn't be able to help Himeno unless this guy is taken care of. There wasn't enough room to fight in the room so...

"Kōri no ā honshitsu wa, watashi ni yūga ni chikara o kasu! Watashi ni sukēto o ataeru!"

It sounded childish but the room started to get colder slightly. Mcenche's sandals were replaced with ice skates. With this he was able to move faster surprising Gray Fox.

"Come on ugly! Let's leave the ladies alone!" Mcenche taunted as he skated out of the door.

Gray Fox's eyes glowed as he chased after the ice angel. Himeno couldn't help but giggle though. Mr. L however was irritated.

"There is nothing feminine about me," he murmured before the two got back to the battle.

Me: TBC with 3404 words.

Winter:...

Me: I pray that none of my friends die...

Winter: Isaak is technically gone...

Me: NOTES!

1. Chaos Rift is one of Shadow's new moves from Sonic Chronicles the Dark Brotherhood. It kills an opponent instantly but if it doesn't, it leaves them confused.

2. Atomos is from Final Fantasy 9! He is the demon that sucks in Lindum in Disk 2 meaning Atomos is a gravity user.

3. Bahamut is in many Final Fantasy games but this one is from Final Fantasy 10. He is known as the The Dragon King because of his Overlimit Mega Flare. Bahamut is also one of the most popular summons in the game.

Now that Gary, Lucas and Shadow are off to save the other Smashers, the question is, will they survive? You'll have to find out in the next chapter. Please review. There is no rant this time, but I will tell you, when I get Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, be prepared for a REALLY long rant. Ja ne!

I just realized I fucked myself over when I used the Japanese names. I can't switch the chapter title because Shicadow sounds 20 percent cooler than Gacadow. DX So I needed a different reason to call it that.

And Mcenche is Japanese so his chant is in that language. The original is, "Oh essence of ice, lend me the power to be graceful! Give me Skates!"