Up near the peak of mount battle, brawnbots, shadow hands and members of Bowser's koopa troop were busy fighting. An intruder had been climbing the mountain for a while now and was a little behind DK when the Ape was climbing alone before. This intruder stomped up the mountain side and swung his sword wildly; smashing goombas and koopas of the cliff and slicing clean through the brawn bots.

Nameplate: Ike

He was moments away from reaching the summit and the hammurs base at the top, too. He knew for a fact that Bowser was at the top and that he had Princess Zelda held captive. He wasn't going to just stand by and let Bowser keep her trapped up there.

With an Eruption and an Aether, Ike managed to beat down the last of the forces on the pathway and sprinted up the trail to the base. He had made it to hammurs base 6! The base was clearly the smallest of the entire collection of hammurs base. It was probably just one room. Albeit a rather big room. Ike prepared to storm the building when in a puff of black smoke, Bowser Junior appeared. He seemed extremely weak.

He slowly got to his feet and noticed Ike standing before him. "ACK! All troops! Attack!" Junior screamed as his ran inside the base. It was then that a huge amount of Brawnbots, Shadow hands, Koopas and Goombas burst from the base and various other hiding spots to surprise Ike.

Ike wasn't some weakling though; he was prepared for a huge fight and wasted no time beating them back. But for every foe he beat, another two seemed to show up. He had no real way to take them all down, even with all his strength.

"Ike! Duck!" Shouted a voice from down the mountain path. Ike didn't question it and duck in time for a boomerang to fly over and smash directly between the eyes of a Paratroopa. Link and Donkey Kong charged up the path and dived right into the action, beating their foes down with all the force they could. Donkey Kong delivered punch after punch to the brawnbots, smashing them to bits. Link fired multiple arrows with precision aim to take down the shadow hands.

They were working well together, but it still wasn't enough. They just weren't fast enough to take down this many foes. They couldn't waste time either. For all they know; the villains were planning an escape right this moment. (Which, for the record, they were.)

"Need a hand, Guys?" With a sudden blast of wind and a blue blur, Sonic blasted up the side of the mountain and delivered a swift tornado kick, to take out a large portion or the foes. He revved into a spin dash and began homing attacking the foes closest to him and with his help; the heroes were able to dispatch the enemies relatively quickly.

As link pulled his sword from the last robot, he turned to Sonic. "You really know when to show up at just the right times don't you. First Tabuu, now this!"

"Heh, Thanks. I try my best!" Sonic replied with a cocky smirk.

"I hate to interrupt, but Zelda is still in danger" Said Ike, heading towards the base. Link suddenly perked up.

"Zelda? They have Princess Zelda?!" Link suddenly charged at the door and with a precision sword strike, threw it off its hinges. The base was totally dark except for the light that was being let in via the broken doorway. Right at the end of the beam of light was a single pillar, holding the base up and tied to that pillar was the princess of Hyrule. Link ran in and sliced the ropes open freeing her while Ike, Sonic and Donkey Kong stood in the doorway.

"Link! I'm so glad to see you!" exclaimed the freed princess. She pulled Link into a hug and Link couldn't help but blush a little.

"Well… I wasn't about to leave you with the forces of evil, was I?" Link replied.

Sonic looked around the dark room. "Where is Bowser? That note I found said he'd be here. Is he hiding in the darkness?"

"I doubt it," answered Ike. "He probably escaped while the troops were fighting us off. Besides, Bowser is huge. We surely would have heard him by now"

From the back of the room came a strange voice. A voice that none of the rescuers recognised. "Bowser is huge? No… I'M huge. That reptilian fool is nothing compared to me…"

Link quickly pulled Zelda back and they stood beside Sonic and the others.

"If I had any other choice, Bowser would be dead already. I hate having to work with old foes" Said the voice again. It came from the darkness of the base and a large slam could be heard as the speaker got closer. "I'd do this to him!" It shouted and from the darkness, a huge steel hammer smashed right through the pillar Zelda was tied to. The pillar crumbled quickly and parts of the base began falling apart too. The heroes rushed out as the base collapsed and revealed a large robotic… thing! Or at least it looked like a robot.

It was around twice the size of Bowser and had a small square chest in comparison the rest of his body. Connected to the bottom of his chest were two large feet and to the sides were long chains that were connected to large red and yellow hands. The right hand held a massive hammer. His head was about twice the size of his own chest and spherical. It featured an empty mouth with only 4 or 5 teeth inside it and ominous red and white eyes. Perched atop his head was a large golden crown.

Nameplate: Lord Smithy

Smithy raised his hammer and began pounding it against his own head. With each pound, the shape of his head began changing and after three strikes, his head was now shaped like a tank. As soon as it was done, he promptly used the tank to fire upon the heroes. Sonic dashed out of the way and Link used the hookshot to get himself and Zelda to safety. Ike managed to just barely avoid it and Dk took a bit of burn damage, however.

Sonic turned around and boosted towards Smithy but colliding with his tank shaped head simply causing him to bounce of like it was nothing. He curled into a ball shape and safely bounced on the ground before standing upright again.

"Ok… So he took, like, no damage from that attack!" Sonic said. Smithy raised his mallet again and tried to crush Sonic but he quickly dashed out of the way.

Zelda put two and two together quickly. If he was so defensive against physical attacks, maybe a projectile attack would work better. She began to charge up a spell and with a flick of her wrist she released a small fire ball toward Smithy. The ball floated right next to him and then she smiled.

"Hyah!" She exclaimed and with another flick of her wrist, her Din's fire exploded. Smithy seemed to take a little more damage from this and he growled at the princess.

"Oh? You think you're so smart? How about this then?!" Smithy roared. He raised his mallet and began beating his own skull once again, reforming the metal back to normal. Then, from there, he began beating his head into a large metal block. "Ha! Just TRY attacking my mask mode!"

Zelda shot off another Din's fire but it brushed off of Smithy's new form. Ike thought that maybe this meant he would be vulnerable to physical attacks but when he slammed his sword into Smithy's head, it did just as little damage as the fire ball.

Smithy swung his mallet and shot Ike backward but he didn't seem too hurt. Dk then ran in to try and deliver a giant punch the robot, but he didn't even dent Smithy, who chuckled. He raised his hammer and swung it down on top of Dk. He didn't have enough time to dodge… but luckily, this form of Smithy seemed to have next to no physical strength.

From beneath the hammer, Dk used his brute force to keep the hammer from crushing him and then used all his might to throw Smithy.

Smithy got back to his feet and began to change the shape of his head again. This time, to the shape of a mage. The mage's arms sparked with electricity and suddenly, a rain of spear shaped bolts of energy fell down from the sky. The move was hard to evade and all of the heroes were hit by at least one of the spears. Once the attack was over, Smithy raised his real left hand and fired bullets from it at Zelda. Link ran in front as fast as he could and deflected the bullets with his unbreakable shield.

Sonic began charging up a spindash and once he was done, he blasted towards Smithy's head and delivered massive damage. It seemed this form of smithy wasn't very defensive at all. Link took note of this and began hurling bombs at Smithy. Zelda began shooting Din's fire, Sonic spammed his homing attack, Ike kept on aether-ing and Dk just kept pounding away at the robotic thing.

Smithy was on the ropes already. These fighters were a lot smarter than he thought they would be. He had no more tricks up his sleeve. Even his last form wouldn't be able to do any real damage to the heroes.

"Y-you'll pay for this!" screamed Smithy and his body began to hiss and bang. The fighters all backed away quickly as with a huge "NOOOOO!" Smithy exploded!

"Well… Zelda is safe… the enemy base has been destroyed. I think it's safe to say, Mission accomplished!" cheered Sonic. Ike lifted his sword onto his shoulder and Dk gave Sonic a thumbs-up.

Link and Zelda smiled too. But as they began to relax, so they could wait for Mario, an ominous shadow covered them all. They looked up and with seemed to be a pirate ship… but it was flying. It was Bowser's airship!

"Bowser?" asked Zelda. "Why would he come back after escaping?"

"Maybe because I didn't escape!" growled Bowser. From the rubble, Bowser and his Son leapt from their hiding place and performed a team sneak attack. Within seconds, both Donkey Kong and Ike were trophies! Junior splatted the remaining heroes eyes with paint and then teamed up with his father once again, to beat up and trophify Zelda, Link and Sonic.

"Bwahaha! Great work, son! Remind me to raise your allowance!" laughed Bowser as he lifted Sonic's, Link's and Ike's trophies.

Junior began dragging the other two trophies onto the ship. "Wait… I get an allowance..?"

OOC NOTES TIME:

Oh my god! Quickest Update EVER!

This is how I quickly I expected to update before my laptop went and broke.

Anyway, I have some quick notes about some stuff.

I went back and change a section in chapter 4 about Pit. I wrote that chapter back before KI: Uprising came out. So in that chapter, pit flew of his own accord, rather than having his wings powered by Palutena. When playing Uprising, I found that pit can't use his wings to fly without the help of a god so I changed the chapter a little.

This story was planned out in full BEFORE SSB4 was announced. As such; Villager, Wii Fit Trainer and Megaman are NOT going to be in this story. Sorry about that. :/

The ending of this chapter was made up on the spot. In the original draft of this story, there was no meat boy or dr fetus for Mario to run off after. So originally, Mario was with the group and they simply boarded the airship to see where they were going. I didn't think about how the changes would affect this though so I had to make an ending up on the spot. I feel proud!