Author's Note:

Updates will be take longer since I'm using my playthrough of World of Light as reference for this story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Nintendo, Smash Bros. and/or any franchises or characters in this story. I only own Nathaniel and this story. If I did own Nintendo, we would actually be getting Geno for Smash.

Chapter 5: Anything Pink is Evil

That was how Crazy Hand and I began our adventure. We were off to a great start too. I was fighting another killer pink puffball.

"Oof!" All the air in my lungs was knocked out as I was sent flying. After following the path down from the cliff, Crazy and I were promptly ambushed. But by what you may ask? What kind of horrendous monster could ambush the two great heroes, destined to save all of the worlds?

I mentioned it above, another killer pink puffball. It had a similar body to Kirby. A round shape, nubs for arms and bigger nubs for feet. Unlike Kirby, it had a swirl of hair(?), two ears atop its head, round blue eyes and the same shade of a light pink on its entire body. The name of this terrible creature? Jigglypuff.

I swung my Beam Sword at it, but it swiftly rolled out of reach. Then it began to run at Crazy, who would rather look through her bag than actually pay attention.

Before I could let out a warning, Jigglypuff wound an arm back, preparing to do a Pound. Jigglypuff was promptly sent flying before connecting the arm to Crazy. In her hands, Crazy held what looked to be a submarine mounted onto a gun handle.

"Knew I put the Steel Diver somewhere in my bag," Crazy walked up to where I was, focusing on Jigglypuff and gesturing at it. "Well, aren't you gonna get up close and personal?"

"Alright, alright," I grumbled, dashing at the puffball again. Seeing my charge, Jigglypuff began to start spinning in place, like a tire.

"Charging up another Rollout," I thought, moments before Jigglypuff shot at me, releasing all that stored energy. I sidestepped the attack and turned to begin chasing after it before I saw Jigglypuff's true target: Crazy Hand.

She kept dodging out of the way but Jigglypuff kept turning to keep chasing her. I swung my sword again at it, this time successfully, and Jigglypuff was knocked back.

"Yes!" I began to rush at Jigglypuff but when I swung again, it ducked under the blade. I prepared to stab at it but it fell asleep. Why would it fall asleep? Did Jigglypuff stay awake for three days? These thoughts flashed through my mind right before the moment where I felt an impact throughout my entire body. I was sent flying for several seconds until I crashed in the rock wall. Thankfully, it doesn't seem like I could be permanently injured when fighting an imprisoned Smasher. Unfortunately, this Jigglypuff wasn't one so it hurt. A lot.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!" I screamed, feeling something inside my body literally break before falling about 10 feet to the ground, adding more to my injuries. I almost lost consciousness, but I managed to focus a little when I heard Crazy's voice.

"Here, eat this. You just need a little bite," I managed to focus my eyes on what she placed in front of me as my vision began to fade. A tomato? It had a big M on it but I managed to grab it and take a bite out of it. As soon as I swallowed, the rest of the tomato disappeared and I felt my wounds heal. My vision cleared and I got on my feet. Crazy was doing a good job of dealing with Jigglypuff, up until the point where Jigglypuff began singing which put Crazy to sleep, leaving me to deal with the murderball.

Jigglypuff began charging up another Rollout and I decided to start charging up my own attack. I got into a pose where I'm holding the sword across my body, preparing to slash. Breathe in and breathe out.

Jigglypuff let loose the Rollout and I swung my sword. Mid-swing, the blade doubled in length, extending long enough for the attack to hit Jigglypuff at a safe distance. Instead of being sent flying, Jigglypuff collapsed and began to turn into smoke before fading. What was left, instead of an amiibo, was a rainbow, floating ball of light.

"Uh, Crazy?" I ran over to where she was still sleeping and frantically shook her awake. After a few moments, I frantically began pointing at the ball. "What in the name of churros is that?"

"Churros?" Crazy questioned.

"Answer the question already."

"I think it's a spirit," Crazy got up and began to walk over to the ball. I trailed behind her, still feeling a bit nervous.

"Like a dead person?"

"Sort of," Crazy reached into her bag before pulling out rectangular screen. The right end was red with buttons on the upper part and a knob on the lower part while the left end had a knob on the upper part and buttons on the lower part. Crazy didn't bother with those, instead tapping on the screen a couple of times before the screen lit up and the spirit entered it.

Crazy gestured for me to walk with her as we traveled along the path. "When Galeem fused all the worlds together, what do you think happened to all the people living on those worlds?"

I thought for a bit before replying, "I suppose they all died from the fusion."

"In a way, they did die. Those people lost their bodies and now only exist as spirits. It looks like Galeem created copies of the Smashers he captured and is using spirits to control those copies. I guess you could call them Puppet fighters."

"So," I voiced my thoughts, "this means that we'll be fighting more than just the smashers. But, how many smashers even are there?"

Crazy stopped, putting a gloved finger on her chin, "I'm not sure. Kinda depends if you count the Echo fighters as separate or Pokemon Trainer as three. Counting Echo fighters as separate entries and Pokemon trainer as a single fighter, I think there is 74 fighters."

"74?" I exclaimed. Truthfully, I thought that I would be fighting about 40 at most. 74 different fighters and the puppet smashers, this was going to take a very long time.

"I might be missing, like 5 fighters though. We sent their invitations out very last-minute so I'm not sure where they are."

Before, I was able to complain any further, I saw something coming at us from further up the path. A dust cloud that was growing bigger by the second. As the source of the dust cloud got closer, I saw that it wasn't a single source but rather three. They looked like a trio of dinosaurs, pink, yellow, and red. Riding on the yellow one in the middle, was a mustached, stocky guy in gray overalls and hat on his head with an M on it.

"Crazy, who're those guys?"

Looking up from her device, Crazy swore before explaining, "The guy is Mario. The dinosaurs are Yoshi. Get ready for another fight."

She pulled out the gun she used against Jigglypuff and began shooting at the incoming dinosaurs. The red one got hit a few times but the others managed to dodge without a scratch.

I ran forward to intercept them but the yellow Yoshi just jumped over me. Pink Yoshi jumped and threw an egg at me. Ducking under it, I moved to swing at it but I felt something tug at my back. I flew off my feet and into a cramped and wet space.

"What the heck is this!" I thought. The space I was in was covered in some liquid and way too small. Did I mention dark, because there wasn't any light in there either. I felt my body shift back some more and the walls of where I was become harder. I tried to break the walls but the wall stayed firm.

"I don't like this. This is too small." I managed to think before my mind began screaming panic, over and over again. My breathing began to come out in shorter and shorter bursts. I began screaming, thrashing my body about in the tiny prison I was forced into. I was on the verge of tears, as the term for this came to mind despite my amnesia, claustrophobia.

Before I completely broke down, the walls around me began to crack and fall apart. Freedom! Fresh air! I stuck my arm out and used to help pull my body out of whatever it was that I was stuck in. Which turned out to be a red egg.

Egg=Yoshi came to my mind as I locked my eyes onto the cause of my imprisonment, "That's it. You die first."

Apparently, the Red Yoshi doesn't have much common sense as it stick its rather long tongue out at me, trying to grab onto me. Grabbing onto the tongue, I gave it a hard yank, pulling the Yoshi towards me as I readied my sword. Bringing the blade up, I shoved it into the Yoshi's throat and I moved my left hand to the lower jaw for better leverage before pulling my arms apart, cutting it in half. Thankfully, the body dissipated into smoke before leaving a corpse.

I turned, preparing to fight my next target, before being pushed back by a fireball. Quickly patting out the flames before they could spread, I saw Yellow Yoshi charging at me with Mario riding it as if the Yoshi was some medieval horse.

I dashed forward and jumped over them, trying to hit get into position to hit them from behind but Mario jumped into the air as well. He intercepted me, hitting me straight down and into the Yoshi he was riding who knocked me away with a headbutt. Before I was able to get back on my feet,I got hit again by another egg and fireball.

I hurried back onto my feet, hitting away yet another egg. I glanced over to where Crazy was who was currently dueling against Pink Yoshi. That ruins my chances of getting reinforcements.

"If I can't even the playing field with more people, then I'll just have to remove some people." I began to consider my options as I stared down Mario and Yellow Yoshi. I can't get close because Yoshi could move faster than me and with Mario riding on Yoshi, his speed doesn't matter. If I try jumping to surprise them, I'll get a repeat of what happened. They can keep me from being able to use my sword effectively by using projectiles. I could throw it but that wouldn't do much and I'll be defenseless. The only solution that would help right now would be getting rid of one but-.

Before my thoughts could continue further, I got interrupted by getting hit with more eggs and fireballs. "That's it! I am going to end you two!"

I ran at them, taking the fireballs and hitting away the eggs. The fireballs don't do a considerable amount of damage but the eggs would be able to stun me into getting more hits. I made my way to where the two were, swinging my sword at Mario, successfully knocking him off. Yellow Yoshi tried the tongue grab like the red one, but I grabbed the tongue again. Pulling the dinosaur close, I slashed it several times before throwing the dinosaur at Mario. Before the two could recover from the crash, I dashed forward again, hitting both with my sword. Before Yoshi was knocked away too far, I made another quick dash, grabbing it and slamming it against the ground. With Yoshi still reeling from my mad rush, I got an opportunity to charge up another slash which I decided to put to good use. This time, Yellow Yoshi turned into smoke and vanished.

I turned to face Mario, initiating another stare-off with him. Except he apparently didn't like that I killed his dinosaur because he charged at me.

I rolled to the side as Mario did a baseball slide at me and swung at him. My blade connected and a jolt ran up my arm. Mario had somehow turned into metal.

"What the-?"The shock of it mentally threw me off. Mario decided to take advantage with solid punch to my stomach. I flew back a bit and Mario followed dealing blow after blow to me. When I tried hitting back, my blade would just get blocked my Mario's metal skin and not do much damage.

After about a minute of this punishment, I managed to get some relief by rolling to avoid one of Mario's punches. When I got back on my feet, I felt it. The rainbow aura from when I had fought Kirby swarmed my body. All I had to do was hit Mario with my Final Smash and then the fight would be over. The problem was getting Mario into my range. It's clear that I don't shoot a laser or turn giant since my main weapon is the Beam Sword. That would mean Mario would stay out of my reach aaaaaaaaand he just walked into my range.

"Big Blade Buster Break!" I cried out, swinging the blade down onto Mario as it grew to enormous proportions. Mario was sent flying and landed face-first onto the ground. After a brief moment, he then got back up and into a fighting stance. "Seriously!?"

I was out of breath, my battered body was sore all over and I felt like something inside me broke again (maybe a bone, I don't remember anything about anatomy). My regular attacks don't even do make Mario stagger. That Final Smash was my last-ditch effort but it had gone to waste. I briefly considered throwing my sword at Mario but that would still leave me defenseless. My vision began to fade in and out while my legs slowly turned into jelly.

As Mario began to run towards me, I collapsed. Before I passed out, I heard an explosion.

Save File 2: Saved

Party: Nathaniel, Crazy Hand

Items: Beam Sword, Steel Diver (Crazy)

Smashers: Kirby

Author's Theater:

MG: Hello! How are all of you doing!

Nathaniel: Why the heck did I pass out at the end? What kind of boring cliffhanger is that!

MG: Well, you did just get beat up by a metal statue.

Nathaniel: I have a laser sword! It should have cut through metal like butter!

MG: Video game logic. On the topic of the ending though, I originally planned for this chapter to be a bit longer but this seemed to be like a good cutting off point. In, addition, this chapter made me realize how big of a project writing this will be. Five chapters in and we still only have one smasher. At this rate, it'll take over 150 chapters to awaken all the smashers, and that doesn't even take into account the likelihood that there will be way more Puppet Fighters.

Nathaniel: In other words, you're a moron.

MG: Yep! But I'm a moron who holds your life in my hands.

Nathaniel *sighs*: Please just end it here.

MG: Alright! See you guys next chapter!