About half way up the side of the mountain, Mario, Dk and Link were making short work of the enemies. Mario took care of the Koopa and Goombas, Link was handling the shadow hands and Dk was blowing up any robot that came with a foot of him. All in all, the heroes were winning. That is until a multi-coloured M appeared on the ground. From the M, Two Shadow Mario's emerged and leapt at the three of them.

Donkey and link began to fend of the shadow Mario's while Mario tried to help. But then a third figure, wearing a bandana around his mouth with a picture of a fanged face on it, pounced at Mario and hit him around the face with a paintbrush. It was bowser Junior!

"Let's do this" Smiled Junior and he pointed the brush at Mario, threateningly.

The small Koopa prince wasted no time and leapt at Mario once again, swinging the brush wildly. He cackled and slapped the brush across Mario's face again, putting paint in his eyes and blinding him temporarily. Mario began rubbing at his eyes to get the paint out and instinctively took a jump backwards in case Bowser JNR came in for another attack.

The twin Shadow Marios focused on the other brawlers. One jumped towards Donkey Kong and the other dived at link. DK raised his arms in defence and gave a strong back hand to the evil Mario clone.

Link, on the other hand, quickly rolled out of the way and fired off his hookshot, gripping Shadow Mario. He pulled him in and unleashed a flurry on sword slashes. He then pulled a bomb from his inventory and dropped it to his feet. As the fuse shortened, he gave the Shadow Mario a strong Up Smash launching him upwards and then quickly ran back. The Mario clone fell back down not long after and landed directly on a ready to detonate bomb which promptly exploded, firing this Shadow Mario of the edge of the cliff. He smirked and moved the hair from his eyes before turning his attention to the other Shadow Mario.

The real Mario was staying on the defensive however. Bowser Junior may have been light and easy to knock away, but he wasn't giving Mario the opportunity as he was rushing in and dishing out a lot of damage as quickly as possible. Mario had gotten the paint out of his eyes by now and was doing his best to avoid any attack that came his way to try and throw off Junior's aggressive strategy.

"Stay still, Plumber!" Shouted Bowser JNR and he leapt backwards, retreating into his shell. The shell sat on the ground and began to rotate clockwise and it sped up quite quickly. Within seconds, Junior's shell was spinning ridiculously fast and seemed to be charging but before Mario had a chance to react to this, the shell suddenly fired like a bullet in Mario's direction.

"Mama Mia!" Exclaimed Mario as he had barely anytime to react. He quick performed a Mario tornado and collided with the spinning shell and grinded against it, cancelling it out. If Mario had been a split second later, there is no way he would still be on the mountain.

Meanwhile, DK and link were making sport of Shadow Mario. Dk was dealing easy damage and Link was using him for bow target practice. It didn't take very long for them to get bored though and Dk grabbed the Shadow Mario and hurled him off the cliff before giving Link a fist bump.

The two of them quickly turned their attention to Junior and Mario. Mario seemed to have gotten used to Junior's fighting style now and was putting up much more of a fight. Bowser JNR leapt up into the air and slammed his paint brush down onto Mario's head. Mario was stunned for a second but quickly recovered and delivered a super jump punch to Junior's chin in return.

"Grr… Stop fighting back, Plumber! Give it up, I'm just a better fighter than you!" Junior seemed to be getting pretty aggravated that he wasn't able to just slap the hero around anymore. He began charging up for another spinning shell attack and fired toward Mario again. This time though, Mario knew what was coming and pulled out his cape. A split second before Junior collided with him, Mario gave a quick flick of the cape and reversed Junior's direction.

Bowser Junior was surprised he hadn't made contact and came out of his shell to check for danger, but at the worst possible time as Mario's counter attack had sent him, head first, right into the solid rock wall of the mountain. With a skull-shattering collision, Bowser Junior dropped to the floor with a pained groan. He pulled a walkie-talkie from inside his shell.

"K-king dad… This is Junior. Thing's haven't gone to well… send in the doc to fight, over." He spoke into it. A huge roar of anger came from the walkie-talkie and Junior shouted right back. "It's not my fault! Mario is just used to fighting me! He hasn't met the doc before, He's out best bet! …over." A low growl came from the walkie-talkie and then junior put it away.

"The doc?" Asked Link to Dk. Dk simply shrugged his shoulders in reply. That was when they heard a very strange noise. It sounded strangely robotic and it came from up above. Mario, Link and DK all looked upwards and saw a short, stout silhouette up above jumping down to their level and then it landed. And Junior was right. None of them had ever seen anything like it before.

It was hard to tell, but the body seemed robotic and was square in shape. This "Doctor" wore black gloves and white trainers. Other than that, it seemed to be wearing a suit. Black pants, a white shirt, a plain black tie, an awesome top hat and a black overcoat. The face was clearly the most interesting part though. It wasn't a face, but a glass jar with a monocle on it! And inside the jar? A baby!

Nameplate: Doctor Fetus

"What in the world is THAT?!" Asked Link with clear shock on his face. From inside the jar, the infant cave a cute smile and waved at the heroes. Donkey Kong scratched his head while Mario and Link hesitantly waved back. Then the baby's expression changed from cute to a somewhat angry expression. And then, one of the robotic arms lifted up and flipped the middle finger at the heroes.

H then lifted his other hand and fired a rocket at the heroes who quickly dived low to dodge it. Doctor Fetus didn't make a sound but clearly mimed laughter and jumped backwards before lifting Bowser Junior over his shoulder. He then jumped into the air and piledrove the koopa, causing Junior to vanish in a puff of black smoke. He had transported him back to base.

Mario glared at the new enemy and without a second thought, charged. He raised his fist for a punch but then Doctor Fetus jumped back with skills that could easily rival the plumber in red. Then, in a matter of seconds, The baby in a jar performed an amazing display of wall jumps to get up onto a small plateau, before giving Mario the finger once again. He was taunting them!

Mario could easily perform the jumps that the doctor had just performed but at the speed that Dr Fetus did it at, there is no way Mario would be able to keep up and catch him. How would he do it?

That was when the heroes heard yet another strange noise…

This noise was a LOT different to the previous noise though. Rather than robotic, this noise sounded more like a splatting noise. And it was continuous too. As if someone were throwing food against a wall. That was when yet another unexpected thing happened. From behind the heroes, and from the below them too, leapt another figure that seemed to have the same dimensions of Doctor Fetus. Although this person couldn't look more different. This guy was totally red… no… it wasn't that he was red, but rather that he had no skin! He left a trail of blood wherever he stepped but didn't seem upset by this at all, since when he noticed the heroes, he gave them a big toothy grin and a thumbs up!

Nameplate: Super Meat Boy

Mario, Link and Donkey Kong looked REALLY confused. They had no idea how to react to any of what was happening. Meat boy turned his attention away from the heroes and up at Doctor Fetus, returning the angry loo that the doctor gave them. He lifted a photo of a girl shaped the same as meat boy but made of pink bandages. Fetus stuck up his middle finger for a third time and fired a missile at Meat boy.

Meat boy had no time to react and as soon as the missile made contact, he promptly exploded in a gooey mess of blood… but not much else. The three other heroes stared in horror at what they just witnessed and just stared at the small pool of blood where meat boy once stood. Before they could react any further, small bits of blood started to form in mid-air and began flying together and within seconds, meat boy had fully reformed.

The newly reborn meat boy shot Dr Fetus an annoyed look and charged at the cliff side. He then leapt up and began expertly wall jumping up to where Dr Fetus was. The doctor clearly noticed the danger and began jumping away himself. Meat boy didn't stop though and kept on Dr Fetus' tail.

Mario shook the events that had just happened from his mind and began wall jumping after meat boy and Dr Fetus himself. When he had reached the plateau that the doctor was on he turned back down to Link and Donkey Kong.

"You two! Keep-a heading up-a the mountain! I'mma gonna follow these-a guys and find out-a who they are. I'll-a meetcha at the summit!" Mario said down to them.

"No problem, Mario. Keep safe and keep an eye out for that Baby in the jar. He looks creepy… and he has a really powerful weapon from the looks of it." Link replied.

"Okie dokie!" replied Mario. And with a loud "Yahoo!", he leapt from the plateau up the mountain to follow Meat Boy and Doctor Fetus.

Link and DK nodded and carried on up the original pathway toward the summit. They would probably get their before Mario.

OOC NOTES TIME:

So yeah… soon… my bad… .

I was writing this chapter back in August, but the laptop I was using broke. I'm sorry it took so long for me to finish this chapter but this is another one I've been looking forward to writing.

Now you don't need to worry about me not making another chapter for a while since I will make sure to write the next chapter as soon as possible. ( INB4 half a year . )

So yeah… Meat boy characters! Anyway, before I write out the next chapter, I'll be releasing a mini-chapter. This one will feature all of the new characters that have been introduced into my story and will explain their moveset, final smash and their playstyle. I hope you enjoy it but it's just filler. It has nothing to do with the actual story. If you don't like it, tell me and I'll delete it.

Anyway, See you next time!