Hey all, it's been a while. My laptop finally died around February and writing the next chapter had been hard. I even had an idea of what this chapter would had been, but lost the files forever. What you have as far as content is different and I hope it is satisfactory as it progresses the story enough. With this new laptop, I am hoping to write the story more frequently as we are close to the end game. As far as updating weekly, I can not make any promises, but semi weekly seems satisfactory enough. But that is all for the update. Here's the conclusion of the Lost Hex Arc and the beginning of a new one.
The end result would be a massive explosion that clouds a large portion of Windy Hill with massive billows of dust and scrap metal. The sound of the explosion even echoes throughout the skies for countless unsuspecting fliers to hear. From the tiny seagulls to the even the few functioning airplanes that were high jacked by Legion forces. The pilot of one of them, a fancy looking Egg Pawn, would be shocked at the high energy readings he could sense from the explosion. He could sense the wavelengths as something being familiar, as if this were the destruction of a fellow machine created by his notorious egg shaped creator. His first thought would be instantly tapping at the messaging controls on the plane to instantly contact his only emergency contact. There would be no mistake as he he could tell the energy is beyond that of a lower level robot grunt. But something of higher importance, a high calibur machine that would to deal with a menace like the blue hedgehog or his allies. The telecommunication signals buzzed in its familiar droning static as the pilot patiently waits to communicate with his creator. His blue swirly eyes still focused on the dusty mushroom cloud that rose many kilometers away from him as investigating what the issue would be is top priority as member of the Eggman Empire. That wouldn't be all as he could see smoke rising from different locations as a sign that his allies failed their mission to secure new Subspace Diffusion Bomb factories on the Lost Hex.
This isn't good at all. Master Robotnik will be very displeased with these results. As if the thoughts of seeing my fellow brothers scrapped apart or recycled for their failure isn't frightening enough. I just hope I don't get the blame when I've followed my tasks of carrying troops through parts of this soon-to-be conquered planet.
The orange spherical robot is still quaking with fear during the imminent call as he barely holds on to the pilot's wheel for this plane. It's only an example that these robots respect their maniac leader as much as they fear him as he's known for his frightening temper and often cruel treatment to his own creations that he deems "disposable". Even he couldn't keep his own head still as it rattles like a cowbell during a calling festival. Another Egg Pawn would burst from behind him suddenly, causing him to let out a mechanical yell and nearly dropping his phone.
"What is the status of our next location, captain? I've been needing to get a new energy source with my battery getting too rusty lately," the cheery robot called.
Angry and humiliated, the pilot snatched his phone back from the ground and glared at his unwanted intruder.
"Eggpawn Model 06-23-1994, can't you see that I'm doing the best I can? That strange singing already distracted my flight from earlier. My first thought is that you are the one doing that as some prank. But upon further inspection with the radar, it appears to be an outside force. As if someone created a device to project it!" he beamed.
The robot then scratched his orange chrome head in confusion at his ally's words.
"I thought that was you blasting that cool song on the plane's radio? It was very soothing and I'm disappointed that it ended after a good ten minutes," he replied.
The pilot wanted to facepalm so badly at this level of absentmindedness, but then realized he had to keep steering the plane and report to his creator the news of Mecha Sonic's death at the same time. Instead, he lets out a mechanical sigh as he had no time to deal with his foolhardy behavior during a serious moment.
"You lughead, that was not me either. It must be the work of our enemy. As you can see, our superior Mecha Sonic who was sent to eradicate those Zeti into our factory producting slaves somehow gotten destroyed. My first bet would be the Sega Super Star menace that snatched Sonic from under the master's mustache and humiliated his Legion allies a while ago. But even I haven't heard from them within the last year. As if they disappeared without a trace without any desire to snatch our two Chaos Emeralds. One of them being entrusted to Mecha Sonic," the robotic pilot explained.
The dumbfounded Egg Pawn still had no idea what to process as he is unfamiliar with their targets and only focused more on colonizing the planet under Eggman's orders.
"Who are the Sega Super Stars again?" he asks.
The pilot grew red from above average annoyance at his ally's incompetence to gather information. But instead he chose to tap his chest to shoot a projected screen out of his eyes in front of him. The screen would show various identified bios and mugshots of the very enemies they had to be weary of. The first column would start off simple by depicting Team Sonic, Team Rose, Team Dark, Team Chaotix, and several other affiliated allies of Sonic and former allies of Eggman that were used by him (Babylon Rogues) or betrayed him (Chaos). Then it would go along to show familiar first Gen members of this group like NiGHTS, AiAi, Beat, Gilius, Alex Kidd, and Amigo. Then Second Gen members that taken part in the first All Stars Tournament like Ryo Hazuki, Banjo Kazooie, Akira Yuki, Zobio & Zobio, the ChuChu captains, and others were shown next. Third Gen members from the Transformed races like Vyse, Joe Musashi, AGES, Ristar, and others were depicted. The rookie Eggpawn made sure to record everything he's seeing on the holographic screen to further understand his object and the information given to him by the pilot. He's currently scanning the Fourth Gen and newest members of their enemy like Tembo, Jack Frost, Kyrie, Welkin Gunther, Bayonetta, Kirby, Sega's Sanshiro, and many more.
"Some members revealed like Mario, Banjo Kazooie, Kirby, and Bayonetta are also associated with a possible threat to the Legion that he should be aware of: The Super Smash Brothers. They are bad news for their partner resources and bigger numbers alone. So we aren't best crossing paths with them. But the ones you should really look out for are these particular individuals. And you better pay attention and record, this is all important for that pint sized CPU of yours," the Eggpawn pilot warned.
His screen now changes to reveal a select set of individuals with Wanted Dead on them. They include Shiva, Ash, Electra, Azel, Selvaria Bles, Ramirez, Zazz, Zik, Zomom, Zeena, Zor, Zavok, RinRin, Ai Rin, Fei Rin, Isaac, King Dedede, Satan, and the KapuKapu Leader.
The overwhelmed robot rookie made sure to study these mugshots very carefully with the his superior's stern blue eyes on him.
"Why them in particular? Are they more dangerous that those Smash guys that we seem afraid of?" he nervously asked.
"No, you bucket of rusty bolts! Because they are traitors. They spent enough time with the Legion to know our true goal, spread it with other interferences like the Sega Super Stars, or even know our own weaknesses to topple us over. This is why Eggman and the others want them eliminated tor good. Not just for double crossing the ones who will rule this world, but actively helping our own enemies stop our plans. Why else do you think I'm giving you such vital information!" the pilot angrily beams.
"What is this about knowing our weaknesses to topple us over? Don't tell me that my own brilliant machines are faltering with their faith in my genius," a sinister voice replied from the phone.
Both robots instantly froze in far upon hearing this voice. There is only one man with this voice as both knew very well who is speaking to them. The pilot then remembers that he is the one who specifically made the call to report something urgent.
"Hello Doctor, it's nice to hear that voice of scientific genius out of you. I was only explaining our objective to one of your lesser machines since he's too busy not taking our mission serious," he replied with minimal fear.
His ally slowly tiptoes for the door at the risk of not being called at all.
"Great job on being the smartest one in the plane. It won't be long until I give you a promotion for your accomplishment. But I can't help but to realize my own dear machine gave me an emergency call for a bigger reason. Anything you want to share with your master?" the scientist said in a slightly mocking yet threatening tone.
"No sir, I'm having not doubts at all. Just that I'm a robot that loves excellency and heading any failure gets me down. Losing a fellow robot like Mecha Sonic is tragic on top of losing the second Chaos Emerald we've ever owned. You under..."
"You realize that you are taking to one of the biggest geniuses in this universe. A man with an IQ of three hundred and created more machines than even the the most brilliant of scientists beneath my intellect. That emerald is in good hands. Behold!" he said.
A screen within the plane would lower itself in plain sight of the two robots, eventually revealing itself as the one and only Dr. Eggman with a familiar red gem in his hand. The look on his face would be only proof of the his Ian giddiness at somehow taking the emerald from his defeat robot.
"How did you do that? You didn't leave the mothership and you somehow took it back from Mecha Son..."
"A new invention of mines. For a prototype, it worked flawlessly. Taking that emerald from those bumbling Bonanza Bros gave me an idea of a new project. I've worked countless hours with little sleep, harnessing the power of the Chaos Emerald into the device you see on my hand. Shadow thinks he is the one capable of Chaos Control when I managed to find a way to that I can do it easily. Unlike the imitation Chaos Control that Mecha Sonic can copy, this is a near perfect replica that allowed me to warp one object much further than my very location. Always one step ahead before those foolish heroes think they can outsmart me unlike our last encounter," Eggman describes as if he were pitching his own best device.
The Egg Pawn pilot would notice the blue gem that is embedded in the center of the wrist-like device, which intrigued him.
"And if you were wondering, I made a deal with Reala. In order for the invention to be created, I had to give him my best dream technology as a bargain since the Nightmaren grew rather attached to having that unlimited power. What I gave him should help him traverse the dreams of all living things globally with ease or even act as an adapter to Purge's Ballistic Groove Gun for his nightmare spreading affairs. Both emeralds will be in my hands from now on. Whatever new emeralds any allies steal, they can give them to me. Or I can use this Chaos Control Ring to bring it to me easily. Ohohohohohoho!" Eggman brags before going into his trademark laughter.
The unaware Egg Pawn would laugh along with him as he felt it would be fun to emulate his creator's behavior. The robot pilot then shakes his own head at this embarrassing moment. His laugher would soon echo into the other parts of the plane as the robots and other Legion minions would hear very clearly. A Monkey scientist that works for Dr Bad Boon would shiver as he never expected him to sound eerier than his own boss. A Nefarious drone would only grow annoyed as he would rather not be annoyed by a squishie, even if this is one of his leader's new allies. A Koopa instantly hides in his own shell as a curious Goomba wonder what gotten his turtle ally so worked up. The lone Sniper Joe would brandish his green arm cannon as if he's ready to raid another city. Several Alpha Gang members would be chatting amongst themselves about a possible trade between dinosaurs to switch up their tactics for the next mission. The pilot eventually felt the need to interject on the conversation, but mostly to stop his foolhardy robot ally from embarassing himself even further.
"Are there any other aspects of Chaos Control that you can emulate with this Chaos Control Ring? As a prototype, I would speculate that there would be some flaws with the current model. No way that such a brilliant prototype would be 100% complete as it is," he asks.
"Well I'm happy you've asked, Eggpawn Number 12-28-1991. I have yet to figure out ways to teleport myself, the user of the device, in any location. Altering time is yet to be fully figured out. One experiment I did involved trying to slow down a beam fired from Cubot's laser only for it to burn my best coat in real time. Any terraforming is yet to be enacted, not that I want to do any severe damage to a planet that we are close to ruling in due time. Time traveling, I have no interest in figuring out. The last time I used time and space to achieve my goals it failed. So that's one Chaos ability that is best left untouched. I will spend most of my days working with this device to truly perfect it. It would be the key to making our jobs easier. Speaking of easier, I have to find a way to shake these Smash nuisances off of our ship," Eggman explains before growing more annoyed in the end.
The entire ship shook once again violently from his screen with Orbot and Cubot flying past him from behind. The Egg Pawn pilot cringe from the sight as he could tell things were very rough on his master's end.
"All systems, activate the defense system! Fire at will to destroy those pests!" Dr. Wily shouts.
"It's the best thing we can do. We have to shake these squishies off of our prized floating base. Activating our shields are not going to work as long as these fleshy parasites are clinging onto us like we are the ones who should fall," Dr. Nefarious called.
"Master, perhaps I should suggest that we should talk about our issues peacefully. Coming to a peace treaty with rock music involved?" Lawrence suggests.
"No, Lawrence! You just want an excuse to perform your electric guitar lessons than taking this serious. Not to mention these Smash parasites are anything but peaceful if they are bent on sinking this ship!" his lanky robot leader bellowed.
"I already informed my men to send some pterosaurs on the outside to fend those infernal heroes off this ship. And if that don't work, some of my best men with the toughest dinosaurs are on their way to crush them!" Dr. Z shouts.
"Rrrrrrrrr heauh raaaah haaa!" Dr. Bad Boon chatters.
This left his Assistant shaking his head at how more of his men will be sacrificed after the huge loss from Crabuchin's space pirates in Monkey Island. The curious pilot is wondering what seems to be going on that's giving them from trouble, squinting his eyes to further examine the shaking background from his master's end.
"Hey Doctor, are you under attack or something? Because we can be of help!" the dim witted Egg Pawn shouts.
"You bucket of rust, you're not supposed to point it out so soon!" the pilot yells.
Eggman instead chuckles at their concern as the fearless leader that isn't the bit annoyed by this attack. Both Cubot and Orbot slowly crawled up the desk he's sitting in front of with dazed expressions and parts of their steel body losing their tightness. Cubot has the worst of it, getting his chip malfunctioned once more into a voice no one would expect.
"Eggman-Sama, I reckon that we have a keikaku to defeat these gaijin from destroying our honor?" he asks in a wise yet sophisticated Japanese dialect.
Orbot once again chuckles at his robot ally's new persona. Even the Egg Pawn in the pilot room laughs along with him, leading the robot pilot to glare at him for his inability to take anything serious.
"I think it's time for me to test the other features of my latest invention. These Smash pests will know what's coming for ever getting in my way. Observe," he said calmly with his sinister grin.
The first thing he do is stand up completely and begin walking outside the door with a calm expression. Nefarious, Bad Boon, Z, Bowser, Lawrence, Orbot, Cubot, and Wily wonders what's gotten their leader confident all of a sudden. But more importantly wondering where is he going all of a sudden.
"Eggman-Sama! It's too risky to throw your life in the heat of this war!" Cubot shouts dramatically.
The few Smash members that were attacking the ship on the outside were getting some progress down with the severe damage on the ship. The damage is more than what anyone ever did in the last confrontation to save Sonic. This is all thanks to their teamwork and experience facing huge threats like Tabuu and Galeem in the past. Meta Knight already feels their mission is close to complete with the enemy's own weapon systems failing on them to shake his forces off.
"Let's keep it up, these villains will know what happens when you dare threaten the universe the Smash Brothers are sworn to protect. Never stop your attacks!" the masked warrior commands.
Female Corrin ferociously tears at the steel shell of the ship with all the rage she has as Female Byleth violently lashes her extended sword everywhere. Bomberman never stops setting various normal and Power Bombs all over his part of the ship to really cause damage. Countless Pikmin are still attacking at the ship with their leaves, buds, and flowers under the orders of Olimar and Alph. The Purple Pikmin are only left sumo stomping or jump smashing because they are too heavy to cling to a surface unlike their other colorful counterparts. Zero uses Rekkouka to ravage parts of the ship with powerful lasers that he causes his power, still determined to make this an accomplished mission. Diddy Kong still flies around rapidly with his Rocket Barrel as he continues his Peanut Popgun onslaught with explosive peanuts. The transformed Mr. Game & Watch still ravages parts of the massive ship in his Octopus form in quick bit-by-bit movement. Starfy rips through various parts of the ship with his high speed flying as the Squid Sisters coat enough parts of the ship with their best ink weapons that not even rookie Inklings are allowed to use. Greninja is already in his Ash Greninja form tearing up parts of the ship with his water swords and nimbly jumping across massive gaps with his powerful legs. Mega Charizard X always joins in using Blast Burn with intensely hot blue flames from his already blazing mouth. This left Squirtle to use Hydro Pump and Ivysaur to blast away at parts of the ship with Solar Beam under Pokémon Trainer's orders. Leaf's own trio of Pokémon would be using Triple Finish towards the tallest part of the Mother Ship to aim higher than before. Shulk would be getting ready to find the right Artes to use, but eventually saw something completely terrifying that froze him in his tracks. A vision is occurring to show what would become in the next minute that needs to be warned to his allies.
The first thing he would see is Mr. Game & Watch somehow being reverted back to his primordial Shadow Bug mass due to his own attack. A massive Pikmin genocide would happen that would result in the two captains grieving the loss of them with colorful souls floating skywards. He also saw Diddy Kong violently plummeting toward the clouds below as if someone damaged his Rocket Barrel. The Halberd is inexplicably sinking below the clouds due to severe damage from some unknown attack. But the next thing he would see is Eggman laughing maniacally over the fallen bodies of everyone as if he were the one that someone did this to everyone.
Or will do if something isn't done to prevent this future, causing the Homs to feel less confident and more frightened for the safety of his own allies. Zero would be the first to notice their ally's pause along with Guile, who was already wondering what to do next.
"Everyone, we need to go now! I saw the future and our mission will end up costing our lives and fail. Forgive me," Shulk said in a startled fashion.
"What makes you say that? We are having the upper hand. There's no way we will lose," Zero beamed.
"Our Reploid ally is right. Your future sight can be accurate but sometimes there are points when you may not be right. Let's put an end to their plans," Guile said.
The Homs warrior had no time to argue with his own allies and didn't want to abandon them either since he wants everyone to make it out alive for safety.
"But you don't understand. Eggman has some secret weapon and will test it on us with catastrophic effects. If we don't get the bloody hell out of here, then we will have to explain to HQ the losses of our own comrades. Trust me!" Shulk argued.
"My Pokémon! They are all gone!" a voice yells.
Several of the Smash allies would stop to see what happened. Bomberman couldn't believe his eyes and Corrin growls in a defensive stance from what she seen. Kapp'n cautiously brakes his flying bus just to stop getting too close to the culprit. The Squid Sisters gasps with their hands over their mouths as if they seen something hard to explain.
"Damn it! We already lost some of our allies. Now you see what bad future that's about to unfold," Shulk shouts.
Pokemon Trainer and Leaf are already on their knees in disbelief that their beloved Pokémon disappeared from their sights without a hint of where they went. The former is especially angry when he worked hard to catch these Pokémon and raise them into the team they are today. Leaf is already tearing up at the thought her beloved Ivysaur and other Pokémon are gone forever. Pichu is not only cowering at the thought that he could be next but already struggling to stand when using too much electrical power backfires enough to damage his own body. This was already a fatal flaw of most Pichu in general and it only goes away completely when they evolve into a Pikachu. Greninja is too angry at what he seen and only charge at the only responsible for this in his furious state. Olimar caught this and called for the ninja frog to stop his pursuit.
"Stay back, Greninja! We don't know if what happened to them will happen to you next!" he called.
Zero then knew this is urgent enough to try stopping his ally's recklessness from getting the best of him.
"Chaos Control!" the voice shouts.
Eventually, Greninja is gone in a flash of blue as if he were never a part of the battlefield. Zero teleported to his exact location too late, slamming his fist in frustration from failing to stop his disappearance. Not even Pichu was safe as he is soon affected before he had the chance to run away.
"This is bad. We already lost a few of our members. But more importantly, how can you use Chaos Control?" he shouts in anger.
The scientist chuckles menacingly now that his attackers are feeling cautious of what he's capable of, hiding his hand behind his back as to not reveal the real reason he can achieve these feats.
"You attacked us, so it is only fair that I strike back harder than before. You Smash Brothers are only so strong because of teamwork and cooperation. But like a salp, you will only get weaker as more of you colony get ripped apart slowly and slowly. The best way to defeat you is by stripping you of your own allies. Crushing any hopes you have of defeating us. This is your last chance. Away from here or I will be forced to destroy all of you," Eggman warned with a sly smile.
The Smash team that seen what he is capable of faltered immediately as they knew so little of Chaos Control that the fates of the missing Pokémon isn't something they wanted to experience themselves. Shulk already gestures his allies to do the right thing and leave without any casualties. Meta Knight however didn't feel like giving up, raising a familiar attack stance to prepare one of his famous techniques. Eggman chuckles as he do admire the tenacity of the Halberd's owner, but knew he made the wrong move to keep fighting. Meta Knight continues charging the energy within his blade Galaxia to prepare a quick but powerful move to dispatch Eggman.
"What are you doing? You saw what happened to the trainers' Pokémon. We need to get out of here and abort the mission!" Guile called.
"This is Meta Knight, he is stronger than most of us. Give him some time to put this egg in his nesting place," Bomberman said in confidence.
Pokémon Trainer quickly leads his crying partner away from the scene to attempt a swift retreat while things get hairy. Shulk is already still frozen in fear of trying to stop his superior from making a mistake he would soon regret. Eggman still laughing madly gave the entire group a bad feeling about what's to happen. The intense glowing eyes still illuminate with burning desire to defeat the laughing mad scientist and avenge his fallen allies.
"Feel my power, mad man. Nothing survives this attack unless they are a true warrior that surpass me and Kirby. Sword Beam!" The caped figure shouts.
He finally swings his blade down to shoot a massive yellow energy slash from Galaxia's electrical blade with his might.
"You take him down, Meta Knight! Nothing can be stand up to your technique," Krystal called.
"Let's see this villain in a half eggshell get so cocky after he's split in two," Falco smugly commented.
The massive beam still travels along the damaged steel shell of the ship, tearing a deem crevice in the process to expose layers of the darker exoskeleton of the the sinister Mothership. Still silently standing, the maniacal scientist had a trick up his sleeve now that he figured out more of the Chaos Emerald Ring's features. Female Byleth studies this suddenly confident aura of the scientist as she wonders just what is he going to do to the incoming sword beam.
I have a bad feeling about this. Shulk just may be right about the future he seen.
The beam is already several feet away from the smiling scientist as Meta Knight awaits seeing his enemy fall. But things will begin to fall apart in less than a nanosecond. He points his right hand forward with both Chaos Emeralds glowing in his special ring. Now it appears that the attack is not effective and beginning to be absorbed by the power of the powerful gems in his possession. Meta Knight backs away with his hand pointed forward in caution, everyone behind him being just as shocked as he is. Eggman could feel so much power flowing within his ring, even more so thanks to absorbing Meta Knight's strongest attack in less than a second. His sinister blue glasses would only reflect his thoughts finally taking form now that he is using these gems very easily with his technology. Shulk had just about enough now that he seen things in his vision slowly taking shape in real time.
"We need to abort the mission now! Meta Knight, get the Smash transporter ready and set it for the Halberd!" He called.
"I will not let my honor be diminished like this. We will not fail a promise made to the other Smash Members. Everyone can fall back, but I will take Dr. Robotnik's head in a flash," the furious knight said as his cape shifts into a pair of wings.
Usually, this is Meta Knight's battle ready mode when he takes for the skies or attack faster than usual without his cape in the way. He instantly flew at the laughing madman before his fellow allies could stop his light speed flight.
"There he goes again. We have to do something," Vince said in sadness.
Once the doctor opens his hand, things would turn for the worst.
"How about we have some fresh mincemeat out of your attack times tenfold?" The sinister scientist shouts.
He finally launched the attack as a storm of various sword beams flying in all directions at his enemies. Meta Knight tries his best to dodge each attack with his flight, but one stray sword beam instantly hits his face. This attack would be strong enough send the knight flying into the skies while also splitting his mask into halves to reveal his blue face. Everyone else would be instantly running for the hills once they saw the incoming attack and what it did to their squad leader.
"Blast it, let's just escape right now!" Guile shouts.
Falco and Krystal respectively taps the coordinates to call their Arwings from afar. Alph and Olimar whistles desperately to try calling their respective Pikmin armies to retreat. Unfortunately several beams managed to gruesomely cleave through certain Pikmin before their colorful spirits float toward the skies. The ones who narrowly escape would still keep running to the S.S. Drake and Hocatate Ship before either one can call their Onions here for landing. Starfy stumbles around in a frenzied panic to dodge each beam as he needs more momentum for his shooting star flight to happen. Swarms of flies would escape the onslaught as the persistent flyswatter wielding Hand follows them. Callie and Marie already made themselves their own trails of ink before converting to Squid Mode for surfing away safely. Kapp'n already loads the non-flying members of the Smash team like Magnus, Vince, Prince Sable, Lyn, Pokemon Trainer, Leaf, and Guile onto his flying bus to begin their escape.
"Hold on yerr bags, ya scallywags! This will be the bumpiest bus ride ever," the serious kappa driver said.
Zero already teleported along with Luminary using Zoom to escape the scene. Female Corrin allows Female Byleth to personally ride her draconic back as the two finally taken off for safety. Toon Link comically runs away with a yell as he follows the western winds he created with his Wind Waker. It will not be long until he jumps and spreads his Deku Leaf to ride the powerful winds away from the flying slashes. Kat and Ana narrowly dodge the beams as they glide their way toward the others in a leaping frenzy. Pac-Man already hopped on his space skateboard to fly away for dear life beside his ally Diddy Kong that few at hypersonic speeds. Bomberman already mounts his nearby Revenge Cart and began taking off as quickly as possible in a panic. Zero Suit Samus already called her own Starship before jumping inside from below with grace.
"Damn, this is too much. We have to get out of here immediately," she said in frustration.
Mr. Game & Watch would be one of the last people to be following Shulk, Riki, and Alucard to escape. The son of Dracula is already conserving his magic energy before he could make any move.
"Heropon no scared. Let's stay and fight round man while we still can," the belligerent Nopon mage said.
"Riki, there are times where we have to get out of dangerous situations that could cost a life. I seen that future and we have to prevent it," the Monado boy said to his ally.
"You have the right mindset, Shulk. I would rather live long enough to put an end to my father's chaos than losing my own soul too early," the dhampir swordsman said.
Eggman had another trick up his sleeve, which he raise his hand in the air with the Chaos Emeralds shining again. The clouds would instantly part to reveal exactly where the Halberd is hiding thanks to the power of both gems. Meta Knight is also seen fallen and wounded on top of the mask of the ship itself from his own reflected attack. He slowly opens one eye just to see that their hiding spot for the ambush part of the mission is somehow revealed. He really wanted to raise his blade to fight once more, but the damage is too severe for him to keep going.
"No, don't think about hurting this ship…" said before passing out.
"Cap'n, come in Cap'n! I need yerr next order or we're not gonna make it to cloud sea," Kapp'n called on his bus intercom.
"Hey turtle, why don't you slow down before we forget everyone else?" Magnus called.
Eggman eventually raised his hands to stop the movement of the sword beams briefly on a whim. This surprised certain Smash members, although many already had their eyes set on escaping when their getaway ship's location is already revealed for an unknown reason. Alucard already transforms into his Bat Form to take for the skies with Shulk using Monado Speed to boost his running. The latter made sure to grab Riki by one of his head appendages and Game & Watch to drag the two along with him. All four would be gaining on the flying bus from behind to catch up as Kapp'n could see them clearly through his rear-view mirror.
"Yargh, time to open yee emergency exit to let these remaining scallywags hop aboard," the determined kappa driver said.
All Pikmin were finally loaded into their respective Onions before Olimar and Alph got inside of their own ships for take off as no alive Pikmin was best left behind. Krystal and Falco already boarded their Arwings before taking off for the Halberd slowly to stay with everyone.
"Everybody, we are right here if you need backup!" the blue falcon announced.
Toon Link turns around and screams at the sight of the sword beams frozen in place as if they were waiting for the right moment to strike. Alucard paid no mind and flaps as fast as he could to catch up to the bus's open back door. Shulk's knee his speedy Monado Art is running out which he is thinking of a good time to jump knowing his usual Monado cool-downs. Callie and Marie already stopped to look at the distance between them and the now exposed Halberd, which the singing cousins knew they were officially running out of time to escape.
"You have to be squiddin' me, we are found out. This is worst than the time Octavio kidnapped me to be his brainwashed DJ slave," Marie complained.
"No time to bring up the past, we need to Super Jump over to the ship and fast. Not sure why Meta Knight is sleeping with the fishes when we have an emergency on our tentacles," Callie said nervously.
Kat and Ana jumped high enough to start using their parachute cloaks to ride the strong winds already made by Toon Link, the three of them starting to take for higher in the sky. Bomberman already flew next to Shulk and the others as his assistance would be greatly appreciated to help out. The white bombing robot reached out his hand to try grabbing Game & Watch if possible to lessen the load on Shulk as the 2D being did the same.
"As much as I hate to say it, but your times are all up. This is the true power of the future Eggman Empire, farewell fools!" Eggman shouts triumphantly before clenching his outstretched fist tightly.
The shining of the emeralds would only mean that he is serious about putting an end to his enemies. The sword beams all fired en masse immediately from their spots, this time heat seeking for the very targets they desire to kill. Bomberman's Revenge Cart would be struck from behind violently, which knocks him past the ones he wanted to save. The White Bomber desperately tries to check his damaged controls as he continues spinning out of control.
"Bomberman!" Shulk shouts.
Next, a sword beam sliced right through Mr. Game & Watch suddenly. The black 2D man couldn't respond until he slowly saw his vision splitting apart. Shulk and Riki yelled as he saw their own ally splitting apart slowly and shedding an unknown cloudy purple subspace. During the Subspace incident, the Ancient Minister and his allies once used this material to mass produce the entire Subspace Army for Tabbu while using it to make mindlessly loyal Game & Watch clones to steal the Halberd in the past. To experience an old ally dying once again would only anger the Homs warrior even further.
"Heropon sees what you mean now, we need to get out of here!" The frightened Nopon warrior cried.
The flying tools of Kat, Ana, and Toon Link would be sliced apart by the flying slashes that spared their lives. The young Hylian would be the first to notice that he is away from something to land on with an endless sea of clouds below. The ninja twins would soon notice that they were no longer flying with the wind and rapidly descending at high speeds. Ana would be the first to look to either see and see that the sky is sinking from her own view.
"Kat, we are about to fall! Is there any ninjutsu we know that can prevent this?" she asked her sister.
"A substitution will not help when it will only take us to another nearby point. We can't summon a sakura blossom bush to break our fall from this high. Becoming turtles would only make it possible for our shells to crack and… you know. And making clones will likely exhaust our chakra when used too long. We are sitting ducks," the normally mature sister said.
Toon Link already falls while screaming and flapping his torn Deku Leaf segments from the earlier attack. The two kindergarten ninjas shrug then fall with him when knowing how hopeless their situation was. The Squid Sisters already super jumped only to be splat into an explosion of fuchsia and white ink from the sword beams hitting them.
"Calle! Marie! I'll get you in a second!" Krystal called.
But soon after, her Arwing's right wing would be damaged from one of the sword beams with smoke rising next to her visor. Falco knew that it was his turn to support a fellow Team Star Fox member while he could.
"Hang in there, because Fox would be mad at me if I let his girl kick the bucket!" the falcon called.
Then his own wing would be damaged with a second slash to damage the backside of his own Arwing. His screen rapidly flash red as part of the ship's alert system to severe damage.
"Arwing damage critical! All systems critical! Commence ejection mode soon or entire ship will be destroyed!" the ship's system announced.
Despite the warnings, Falco still risked maneuvering his own prized ship to get closer to Krystal being the daring pilot of the group. Alucard knew the one sword beam following him wouldn't leave him alone as he flapped his wings harder. Then he turns into his Mist Form at the last moment to let the beam phase through the thick cloud of precipitation. He remains in that form to test a theory if these blades would keep moving until it attacks a target, which he figures out once it curves around to try attacking his misty body from the front.
Knew it, but I shall remain in this form if it means avoiding severe damage. Unfortunately, this means I will be helpless in saving my allies if it means taking the hit.
Soon, both S.S. Drake and Hocatate Ship took the hits before the two ships started to sink below. The Pikmin Onions were even more unlucky, already plummeting due to being more frail than that of Hocatatian and Kopaitation tech. Byleth noticed the beams flying for her and Corrin as she tries looking for the right tome to choose for a defensive spell. The determined dragon still flew with grace through the sky with acrobatics to try tricking the sword beams.
"Just hold on for a bit longer. I should find something that should protect the two of us," she said.
Corrin could see some Sword Beams getting ready to ambush her from ahead of her, rearing up her elongated neck and roars fiercely. Byleth finally gets out a familiar red tome that just could be what she need to save the two of them.
"Hang on, because this will be a big spell!" she called.
Corrin nods as the few sword beams drew closer to her from afar. The silver beast finally unleashed a powerful water vortex from her fangs at them and Byleth finally casts the Ragnarok spell at the flying slashes behind them both. As powerful as the latter spell is, it did little to destroy Meta Knight's out of control technique as they only cut through the flames to keep pursuing her. Even the water typhoon blasted by Corrin is dissipated as if were a water balloon by these slashes. Byleth dropped her formerly confident expression to one that lost all of their hope. The two would finally suffer from multiple cuts as a result with blood spraying in the blue sky. Pac-Man is already sweating as he tries desperately to trick the incoming slashes that follow his space skateboard. The yellow Pac person is out of ideas that wouldn't result in damage. He though a mixture of the Power and Super Pellet would work, but then questioned if he can eat the beams and not "lose a life". Another idea was creating a special dot chain to reach the ship, then remembered that making a chain as slow start up and some beams could hit the Power Pellet at the end to stop his escape. He chose to take out a wild card, the Chrome Pellet as his only means of escape. He chomps on it and felt his body growing heavier and heavier. He is now invincible as well as steel as a way to avoid any harm. It was he was willing to take if it means him not being able to get aboard the Halberd and living to fight another day. Diddy Kong desperately shoots at the flying slashes that follow him, but the peanuts would only be sliced apart as if they were ingredients for a special peanut dish. The small Kong had to think fast if it meant making it alive and not worrying his uncle DK.
"Let's see how you flying cuts deal with a Red Card penalty!" the jolly monkey said.
A large pillar of light appears behind him that engulfs his pursuing enemies easily as they rise towards the sky. This is something he normally use in your average Strikers game, but felt it was a necessary way of keeping himself safe.
"Haha, let's see you try that again!" he gloats.
A stray slash sliced apart his Rocket Barrel from behind as he is looking away. It wouldn't be long until he notice himself slowly descending and his body feeling heavier. Seeing the flaming barrels rocket away before him instead of staying on his back let's him know that he is not going so well anymore. The Kong faces forward hopelessly as he continue his plummet below the clouds. Kapp'n would only fear that this is the end of the line when seeing many of his allies fall left and right. And Shulk still have yet to jump in the bus with Riki yet. To make matters worse, his Monado Speed finally wears off as the Homs knew he lost his chance to catch top with everyone.
"Can someone grab them before it's too late?" Lyn called.
"Maybe Zero Suit Samus can do it," Leaf suggests.
Then she turns to see the Starship already sinking to the north of them after sustaining heavy damage. Not even the stubborn Chozo bounty hunter want to leave her prized ship as she accepts her own diminished fate. The female trainer is left speechless that such a powerful ship went down this easily.
"Well, we are running out of options. My paintings aren't metaphysical unlike Adeleine's. Therefore my artistry will be of no use," the elderly painter said sadly.
Prince Sable however did not give up as the young prince had a plan. He first looks at the size of Magnus's Magnus Club and how he could play a role in saving their allies.
"Hey big guy, you think you can walk to the emergency exit and hold out your club?" he asks.
The gruff Greek warrior wonders just what this English prince is thinking at a time like this.
"Kid, what game you plan to play when our lives are act stake here?" He said.
"I just need you to do what I say. I can become a snake and strike far enough. That way they can grab my neck and we can pull them aboard. This is our only chance to take any survivors and escape," Sable said.
Lyn liked the sound of this plan but had doubts due to the normally abysmal size of his snake form.
"But will this plan work? You are normally a small fry no matter what animal form you take. If only Florina were here to assist us with her Pegasus," she said in worry.
"You just have to believe me. When I strike, I can go very far. You want to save our allies or what?" he beamed.
Guile then noticed a last few sword beams following them from behind and not too far from potentially slicing Shulk and Riki apart.
"We have to hurry! Or else more of our own allies will fall and this will be the Smash Brothers' biggest failure since the World of Light incident," the American soldier said.
Riki already turns around to see the deadly blades getting closer to him and yells in fright. He still feels Shulk pulling on his head appendage as he depends on his own speed with the Monado cooling down.
"Shulk, we must hurry. I get bad feeling that we both will perish," the Nopon begged.
"I am trying my best, Riki. Sadly, we are not going to make it when they should just abandon us," the Homs said.
"Shulk, get ready! We are going to pull you aboard!" a voice shouts.
The two looked up to see Prince Sable in his Snake Form having the tip of his tail coiled around the end of Magnus's club. Magnus himself already have Guile and Lyn act as support to pull him when needed.
"You heard the snake, grab on when he stretches his body. This is his crazy idea," the Greek warrior shouts.
"You only have one shot at this, Shulk and Riki. Grab on and wee can make it together!" the Myrmiddon called.
The blonde Homs nods as he knew exactly what to do as did Riki wink in confidence of their plan.
"What are you waiting for, Heropon and Monado warrior have one shot at plan to escape," the cheery Nopon said.
"I will, Riki. I'm ready when Prince Sable is read," he said with a smile.
The green caped snake then rears his head back with a hiss before aiming for a good spot. Kapp'n is still sweating profusely about the idea of flying off the ship once these two were fully saved. Alucard is still tricking the persistent slashes that continue attacking his Mist Form from above. Everything seems well and done until Eggman had another trick up his sleeve.
"What did I say? This is not even close to what I am capable of with two emeralds. Now face the wrath of the Chaos Control!" the scientist shouts.
Soon the entire area would become monochromatic and stop where they were completely. All except the remaining slashes that still attacked everyone in real time. The two slashes attacked both Riki and Shulk. Several would attack the rocket attachments of the flying bus Kapp'n rode. The slashes still futilely attack the untouchable mist that they still can't harm. The remaining slashes would keep flying on to attack the Halberd while it is defenseless. Eggman would only walk along the pale ship while time is still stopped around him with the biggest grin.
"For my first time, I say this is good enough. You see, anyone that thinks that they can escape this place alive had another thing coming. You strike us, we strike back harder. For the few of you that try to escape, we will stop you. I've learned from my failure of letting the Sega Super Stars humiliate the Legion the first time. But those days are over. We will shroud this planet in darkness, rule this universe, and do away with all that oppose us. Think of this as a reminder of what happens to any fool that think attacking us without our forces is a good idea," he coldly said in the most sadistic detail.
The doctor then snaps his fingers to put everything back in real time. Shulk and Riki violently gets tossed off the ship while suffering from their severe wounds while Sable failed to grab in time. The rockets on the bus violently explodes, which forced Magnus, Lyn, Guile, and Sable back into the bus from the impact. Kapp'n struggles to maneuver his prized bus with its means of flying being fully damaged. This caused the yellow large vehicle to violently bounce and swerve out of control. Magnus thankfully slammed the door closed in time to avoid keeping anyone from falling out. But that did not stop him along with others from being thrashed around as if they were loose toys in a capsule. Alucard witnessed everything and couldn't bear watching anymore.
"I am coming everyone. Just let me go save you all!" he shouts.
He then shifts into his Bat Form to swoop down as fast as he could despite the slashes still following him from behind. Watching the bus swerve and roll violently is enough of a sign that he feels very responsible for not saving everyone in time. He then became his silver wolf form to run as fast as he could on land. The lupine warrior then saw the Halberd violently flaming from the damage it suffers as it slowly sinks below. There was no sign of Meta Knight, Luminary, or Zero as if they couldn't survive the incident at all. He lets out one last mournful howl at just how horribly this ambush mission went from the moment Eggman approached them outside his station.
"Hold on to yerr britches, laddies and lasses! We will be taking a serious fall into the sea!" the kappa river warned his passengers.
Magnus and the others were still holding on to what they could after the earlier tossing already damaged their bodies. Vince is the least lucky one, being out cold as he is an elderly man with less muscle than his own allies. Sable is barely lucky to be damaged less as he hopped around in his Frog Form the entire time. The bus finally falls off the ship completely as Alucard jumps after them in his lupine form still. The persistent slashes still followed him as if they were hellbent on vivisecting the half vampire warrior to death. He is out of options and wanted to make up for not saving everyone else by changing back into his familiar form. He finally pulls out his famed sword and begins chanting as several balls of souls appear around him.
"By day and night, with these souls of might. Cleanse the evil that pursue my life, as this Soul Summon should smite with real strife!" Alucard shouts.
The powerful soul balls finally seeked at the incoming sword beams at high speeds. Once they collided, it set off a powerful explosion that instead pushed Alucard back against the back door of the bus. This side effect would soon send him and his allies plummeting faster into the cloud sea to never be seen again. The plan to ambush the Legion's ringleaders all resulted in a failure along with a humiliating defeat that could leave the fates of these heroes unknown. Dr. Nefarious, Bad Boon, Wily, Z, and Bowser seen everything unfold from the main room of the ship with awe. Lawrence, Cubot, and Orbot were less thrilled as it means they would have to be the ones to repair the ship once they land somewhere.
"This is one big mess I do not want to clean. But I have to if it means my master keeping this alliance. You two get what I'm saying?" the robot butler said.
"Easy for you to say. The doctor wants us to be in charge of commanding the robot repair squadron to do their job. I miss the days of being just a sidekick resting in his Egg Pod's orb slot," the red robot complains.
"Yare yare, Eggman-Sama is worth respect as he is worthy of fear. But nonetheless, yata! He crushed our enemies with the best military tactics. Soon, the hoshi will be conquered along with more in this tsunami of stars and cosmos," Cubot poetically said while acting like a kabuki actor.
Both Lawrence and Orbot were still speechless at the cubical robot's antics as if he were a bit too dramatic.
"Did you see that? Those squishes all ran away like worthless organisms with their tails between their legs. Same for the traitorous robot that escaped with his own life. If only I can reprogram him to believe that these worthless organic beings are not worth being saved," the green domed robot supervillain said.
"Just seeing that failed creation disappoints me. Now I can regret ever planning to make a superior robot to Bass and Mega Man when my special Maverick Virus would soon be transferred to another machine. If only there is a way to change the future," a disappointed Dr. Wily said.
"After what we saw Eggman do, changing the future is possible. We would not even need to travel forward nor back in time as long as we keep this win streak going. Have faith in the Legion," Dr. Z said before doing a sinister chuckle.
Dr. Bad Boon however would be off having his own fantasies of wishing he traveled to the past and made MeeMee marry him instead of AiAi. The more he thought about this, the more the sinister baboon chuckled in an almost satisfied creepy manner. Even his assistant rolls his eyes at the thought his boss still won't take a hint that she's already married to his own nemesis.
"I never thought I would say this, but Eggface is proven to be tougher than I've thought. And here I was tempted to send Kamek or the kids to handle those Smash pests. At least I can rest easy knowing those punks shouldn't think they can punish me for plotting against them. The days of Bowser Koopa being a pawn to their dumb universal hero campaign is over! There will be a new era of rule that will give my Koopa Troop enough land to conquer," the jolly Koopa King said in evil delight.
Wily then gotten a message from his least favorite rebellious robot minion Bass on his communication device. The balding scientist raised his arm just to see his smirking face, something he rarely ever saw out of him.
"Well if it isn't Bass. What made you so happy?" he asks.
"Pipe it, old man! I just thought I surprise you with a gift. You know that robot that you were foolish enough think could replace me? I just happened to find him wounded on that ship and kidnapped him. He sacrificed himself to protect that floating piece of junk, which made it all easier to bring him to you. So much for a superior cold blooded Maverick," he brags.
He would lift the damaged and dazed body of Zero. From the look of it, he took the damage from Eggman's reflected attack and somehow gotten hit the most compared to his allies. Bass just happened to be an opportunist and do something that would impress the creator he barely respects. This gave the scientist the widest grin ever as he shrugs his famous eyebrows various times. He held back all laughter at the risk of not wanting to sound too impressed with his moody rebellious robot minion.
"Speak of the Yellow Devil, you really brought Zero back to me without me asking. What can I ever do to reward you?" he said in excitement.
Bass chuckles as he thinks deeply about what he truly wants to be rewarded with. He didn't care what it was as long as it is something Mega Man would never have.
"Give me some of that Subspace stuff that you had been hoarding on this ship. I want to become the strongest robot on this planet. If I can't borrow an emerald like that egg loser's metal rodent, then I need something as valuable in return. That way I can reduce that blue pacifist joke into what he is, scrap. Any objections, Master Wily?" he said.
Not only the semi-bald mad scientist admired his creation's unique plan to get strong enough to crush Mega Man, but really liked that he is called a respectful term by him for once. He gave the biggest smile ever and chuckles as much as his ally Eggman ever did outside. Bass didn't know whether to frown or feel disturbed by his master's sudden laughter at his rare moment of obedience. Even Orbot had a feeling that Wily is in a "deeper end" than Eggman in highly intelligent insanity. Lawrence twirls his pointer finger beside his head in a mocking manner to poke fun at Wily's clear insanity at the moment. But Nefarious would catch wind of a special message that's transmitted to his green chromium cranium to the supervillain's clear annoyance. He grinds his lower robotic jaw in annoyance as he tries his best not to lose his temper.
"Sir, perhaps it is an important call worth answering?" the robot butler said.
"Lawrence! Don't you think I know that? But who in the Z'Grute could it be?" his lanky master beamed.
Nefarious tapped a button on his skull just to see a message project from it, revealing a green holographic screen before his eyes. The person communicating with him finally revealed himself as a sinister colonel of high status wearing the familiar Helghast armor holding a sniper rifle in his hand.
"Oh great, it's you Radec. What do you want?" he asks.
"I been growing tired of being that polygonal fool's pawn for any longer. So I've decided to gather the strongest villains on my fleet to join the Legion. My desire to have the Helghast Clan rise to great heights inspired this move, along with hearing of your accomplishments with taking over the world. What do you say, leader?" the stern colonel said.
Nefarious is speechless at how formal the ruthless space commander is towards him of all machines and his willingness to gather more Legion recruits unknowingly.
"Don't mind the dark and brooding soldier here, but he was nice enough to gather me and some truly evil minds to execute the plan. Like how I'm gathering more primates by the days to serve me with my special helmets," Specter says with a smug grin.
An armored creature with the face of a spider-esque parasite then barges in with a vicious growl that sprayed saliva everywhere. This is a hybrid of an alien creature known as a Chimera, one of the "spokespeople" of their bestial and parasitic race that ravaged planets for millennia. Specter looks unimpressed at the creature's rude interruption as Radec sighs in his comrade's primitive ways.
"Do not mind this unsightly fellow here. He reminds me of my own monster minions when they're feeling lost," Zarok said in his sinister tone.
"What matters more as they we all want the same thing, taking over this feeble world as ours. Ruling it like the gods these foolish mortals really deserve. We should be swift to destroy anyone that oppose us," Zeus said with his sinister blue eyes glowing bright as the hottest lightning.
"Chill out Mr. God of Thunder, or shall I say God of Unquenched Thirst. We would have to go about things tactfully, like a contest that everyone will partake in if it means their wildest dreams becoming true from yours truly," Calypso said with his trademark grin.
"Heh, racing used to be one of my biggest passions. That is until that Jak bastard took everything away from me. My cybernetics are itching to be used to grab that head of his' and crush it into oblivion!" Erol shouts.
"Big deal, can we just park somewhere and cause some destruction? It is getting boring just sitting around and not being able to stop our true enemies. I care less about the weak humans getting in my way," Evil Cole declares with his arms crossed in disappointment.
This Cole is one from an alternative future that is reckless with taking on his enemies and cares little about the innocents that are near him. He even at one point becomes The Beast that Kessler wanted to prevent from being born. Him and the Good Cole never really gotten along as partners despite being members of the PlayStation All Stars due to their opposing views.
"Ignore these blathering fools. The point is that we are all working together for the first time. If the runaway Smash Brothers villains can do it, so can we. Together, we can be superior to everyone and kill if necessary," Clockwerk bellows in his robotic frightening voice.
"I suppose you all raise a good point. My last defeat at the hand of those Sega Super Stars fools really took me to a dark place. But if all of you are willing to join forces, then I can get even with them for good. Those squishies and apologist robots better look out. Their moment could be the last one," Dr. Nefarious said with a sinister grin and gleeful red eyes.
"You've chosen well, Nefarious. Get your best men ready as we will need them if it mean colonizing this planet from head to toe. You won't be displeased with our results," Radec responds.
"As long as you have power, anything is possible. Especially with great strength," Heihachi announced before laughing.
"Some of us been through hell and back. We will use our new lives to take back what we are owed. Like me keeping that damn brat Raiden out of my business," Senator Armstrong said with his trademark grin.
"Death is the only salvation for these heroes. We should rightfully take this world as our own. Anyone that shows mercy are only ones who deserve to be eliminated," Zoran says as he examines his beloved shotgun.
"Conquest is the key to winning. You only fall if you let yourself get conquered," a Raven King infused King Bohan wisely said.
"Those that dare oppose us will stay down in the bowels of Hell itself. Killing them would be easier, but I'd say bringing them down there would be better. I would even make them my slaves since they don't deserve to hear me sing or watch the performances of my best clients in the flaming pit," Yoko Teriyaki said.
"I'm in if it means turning anyone into the very Outcasts that need to serve my path of ruling the galaxy," The Outlaw said.
"For the glory of the All Stars of Evil! We are at your command, Nefarious," Mundus said.
Nefarious would begin breaking into his famous evil laughter with all this excitement over his own personal villain team up coming their way to join the Legion. Lawrence once again twirls his finger lover his head to mock his master's mechanical insanity. Evil Cole joins in on the laughter as he's starting to like this crazy evil machine. Then Specter laughs with him in his floating chair, as does Zarok and Calypso soon join with their own laughter. Heihaci and Armstrong chuckles before laughing out loud with the rest of their peers in this bask of evil. Serious villains like Zeus, Radec, and Clockwerk did not laugh at all but instead nod as they wholehearted agree that this is a good start of their own Sony villain team. Eventually, Eggman warps himself back into the control room in a flash of blue to everyone's surprise, and scaring Dr. Bad Boon into jumping into his assistant's arms.
"Egad, you came here faster than expected. That new device of yours is already figured out for a prototype. You managed to master the Chaos Control quite well from what I see," Dr. Wily said in surprise.
"Well not quite. There are still some things to be worked out. This model was only made to fit two emeralds since that is the number we had from the beginning," the egg shaped scientist relies.
Dr. Z raises one brow upon hearing that and had another question in mind.
"Are you sure? I am sure you mastered enough with using someone's power against them, stopping time, warping other objects, and now warping yourself. What else is there to be done?" the maniacal paleontologist asks.
"Perhaps the Doctor wants to make one that can take all seven Chaos Emeralds or a few more as his research goes on?" Orbot said.
"That is actually what I was thinking. For once, you proven your own competence, unlike others that can't keep his own voice chip in check!" Eggman said in response to the red robot's statement.
All before he glares at Cubot doing Buddhist prayer to calm himself instead of taking anything serious. Even Lawrence got a chuckle out of what the cubical yellow robot is doing, before Nefarious shuts off his signal.
"Chances are that you will make a spicier version that can take more of those gems. You will be stronger than a Grand Star in no time if you keep this up," Bowser said in congratulations.
"Au contraire, my spiky reptilian king. I plan to make one that can handle four Chaos Emeralds as we plot the next move to have the other Legion members bring me more of them by force. It's been over a week, the repairs on their warships have no excuses to take this long for completion. Unless there is something going on one of you should tell me," he said.
"Well I should tell you that my buddies that were once Smash members or villain refugees I've told to pay a visit to the gang in Speed Highway for an alliance. Nothing would had possibly gone wrong," Bowser answered.
"On top of them being told to send their forces to assist your creation and his robot soldiers to speed up the destruction of the Lost Hex," Wily continued.
"I hate to burst your bubble, but these new forces that your allies sent were of little help whatsoever. Some are choosing to rebel you and the idea of being allies because of Mecha Sonic's reckless transformation and the Phazon minions mass corrupting their own allies," the Egg Pawn pilot chimed in from the main screen.
Eggman's joy eventually evolved into a sudden shock that froze his face and demeanor. Orbot and Cubot quickly retracted into their compact forms as they fear something will happen. Wily couldn't help but groan that even the Robot Master army he sent was of little help.
"Hopefully I can be able to upgrade those machines to be stronger the next t…"
"They are among the rebels. The reasons being that Mecha Sonic absorbing them seemed barbaric which alone made them dislike you despite their programmed loyalty to you," the pilot continued.
Wily then dropped his own hopes that nothing went wrong only to be lost in a boiling rage building up within him. Luckily he shut his transmission off several minutes ago or else Bass would had gotten a kick out of his master's tantrum.
"Those rotten shells of incompetence! They should rue the day they even thought of about turning on me. I don't care if they get upset over something trivial as a noble sacrifice to get rid of those Zeti, but I will be ready to destroy all of them for dare rebelling me a second time!" he shouts while pulling his gray hairs with both hands.
Bowser would only feel worried as he had a feeling Ridley and Dark Samus's Phazon men would be too unstable with their special blue virus when unchecked. What he fears the most is the fact his own Koopa Troop were probably victims and slowly losing themselves to such a deadly space virus.
"Show me the proof, I want to see these traitors' faces so I can inform the others of their new enemies," Eggman demands in a darker tone.
The Egg Pawn pilot salutes and turned around to slowly enter the keys on his own screen for everyone to see. Nefarious is the least worried since he never sent his men out there, but grew curious of what these possible rebels could be. This is the same for Bad Boon, but he still wanted to pay attention as he has a feeling his nemesis AiAi is at it again. The screen fully zooms on what appears to be the heroes all looking around the rubbish to look for the very emerald Eggman already snatched. Rouge and Shadow being the main suspects expressing the most disappointment over how it could had left.
"Of course those two fools and their pals at G.U.N. are in our business again. We tried our best to destroy their worthless soldiers during the Sonic breakout incident. But wait a minute, I think I see what is going on here," Eggman said in curiosity.
Wily soon caught wind of what appears to be Morte and Kyrie reuniting with a tearful Taupy that hugged the two, with the latter scratching his blonde hair nervously.
"That infernal World Destruction Committee is associating themselves with the Smash Brothers too. They seem to be all more than prepared if a big organization is assisting them. There is no doubt they were responsible for this ambush that happened just earlier," the curious scientist said.
"No, this was not their idea. It was all ours. We wanted to take matters into our own hands with Bowser causing too much damage to this world…" a weak voice said.
The battered and barely functional Zero is already behind him with his younger less advanced brother holding him. Bass is just too cocky about how he managed to pull this off and not get himself destroyed by a superior model created by his own master.
"What do you think, Master Wily? He is telling the truth or only lying out of his ass to hide the fact that they are teaming up with those fools from last month?" He said.
"He is lying. Reploids are capable of more free will and complex thought than the robots of this time. I know because I've created him and for him to be free of the Marverick Virus proves both his own disloyalty and dishonesty to his own creator. Isn't that right, Zero?" Wily sneered at the struggling red android.
"Save the family reunion for later. We have bigger fish to fry. Why are Wolf's buddies being so friendly with our enemy?" Bowser asks.
What they could see is Leon Powalski shaking hands with Alberto, Centurion giving Pigma various Greek riches that he saved from Neff's defeat, Panther trying to flirt with Rouge as Vector pushes him away from the scene, and a sad Andrew being reconciled with Ristar over his family issues. This left the Koopa king puzzled as he is furious that allies that were told to assassinate the heroes are doing the opposite of what they were told.
"Hey, it's that bean freak with the bad English and backstabbing jester that tried taking over the multiverse? Did I not hire them to kill the heroes than being friendly with them?" he snarled with rage.
Dimentio and Fawful appear to be telling something to Azel and Selvaria before laughing with them. Bowser had the bad feeling that the jokes were at his expense.
"Hey, Eggbot! Turn up the volume on your camera. I need to hear what those two traitors are talking about!" Bowser ordered the pilot showing them his screen.
"Good idea. I need to hear everything these traitors are saying. All of them, very clearly," Eggman ordered sternly.
The Eggpawn then nervously turns up the volume on his control panel to activate the super hearing needed for recorded evidence. Now all villains in the room listen closely as they heard their evidence being spoken.
"So what do you two plan to do after you two suddenly decided to join us in wrecking that blue metal freak?" Selvaria asks.
"I decided that working with turtle breath is worth less than one BeanBean coin. Consider me at your service since I have doubts he would bring Cackletta back from dead as promised," Fawful said with his never ending grin.
"That little….I was totally going to do that if he proved his usefulness. Just for that I am never doing it for that legume!" Bowser angrily shouts at the screen.
"The idea of serving anyone always seems like a bore to me. Besides, I want to personally rule this world all by myself and sharing it with a bunch of shifty characters doesn't suit a fun villain like me. Perhaps it will be more fun to stop their plans with all of you. Not that I promise that I won't take my opportunity to rule when they all fall down," the playful dimensional jester suggests.
"I will say this, we will not hold back on stopping you if you dare try it. We outnumber you easily and Mario told us just how we can stop you if you try any tricks," Azel threatened.
"At least it is a relief that colorful clown isn't fully their friend. But I would like to see him dare try stopping our plans and jobbing us of our own universal take over! He still makes me sick just like the last time! I still don't forgive him for sending me to the Underwhere!" an angry Bowser barked.
"Scroll the camera towards Team Star Wolf, I would like to know what they all plan to do," Eggman ordered.
The pilot then changed the focus towards Leon first because he is the temporary leader when Wolf isn't around.
"And to think we trusted the Legion to begin with. We all could had been killed if we had let ourselves be absorbed in Mecha Sonic. The first thing I will do is contact Wolf this instant and see if we can call off this alliance for good. I would rather not serve Andross again if this is what happens to us for pursuing the task," the dissatisfied chameleon said.
Eggman instantly slams his fist down in anger upon hearing this. He would had never thought that Mecha Sonic simply following what he is told would be the reason anyone would turn their back on the Legion. He also fears the idea of losing more allies if Leon were given the chance to call Wolf first.
"Bowser, call him now! Come up with something. A lie or maybe we can tell them that they plan to rebel Andross. That should convince him to stay on our side and punish his former allies," Eggman called.
Bowser pulls out his device instantly with a grin as he knows Wolf too well to convince him.
"You got it. There is no way he will want anything to do with them if he know the partial truth," the devious king said.
They soon scroll over to what appears to be the major members of Team Rocket negotiating with Ramirez and Zavok. This part here interests Eggman as he least expected an organization like them to rebel.
"You have our word. It will not be easy, but the boss agreed that he will try convincing the other organizations from Team Aqua to Team Flare about our alliance. Some may not agree easily like Plasma's leader, but we can hope for the best. This initial alliance with the Legion was a mistake. We will not tolerate any cruel harm to our men by people who are supposed to our own allies. This is something Boss Giovanni will never tolerate. He even cares less about the blackmail a certain Pokemon forced on all of Team Rocket that lead us to this point," the red haired admin said.
While Bowser is still waiting on a call back, he shakes his head at the thought that even Ridley's own unstable Phazon creations are to blame for this whole disaster.
"Thank you so much for curing all of our agents when the ultimate cure for that blue disgusting disease. We are genuine when we promise not to do any funny business. Capturing Pokemon or enslaving these creatures are not even our priority anymore. It's more about payback on those Subspace fools, starting with that psychic freak of nature Mewtwo!" Jessie said in gratitude.
"I don't care if it takes all the Ultra Balls. But we will make sure that manipulative mistake our top scientists created gets put to rest. Luckily I have just the right Pokemon for the job," James brags before looking at a few of his Pokeballs.
"Just let me at 'em. I just need time to learn a good move like Night Slash. That ought to make him regret ever holding us at Confusion point to be in this mess," the feisty Meowth said.
"While I am one for scientists getting the respect they deserve, these fools are still making absolute mules of themselves for thinking that standing up to all of us is a good idea. It's foolish as an Alpha Gang member thinking they can fight their own dinosaur with their fists. I should send my top agents to take them out if any of you want that," Dr. Z said.
"Do as you please, I am sure they will not act so tough when thousands of sharp teeth from your mens' best prehistoric pets are ready to chow down on their big heads," Eggman said blankly.
Soon after, Dr. Z begins setting up his own transmission to contact his special agents in private.
"Let's listen to all we have. This will be an important report for all allies to follow. Rebellions will not be tolerated after too many happened over the course of this organization's work," the determined egg shaped roboticist said.
Things are back to the Legion's battered meeting room that taking every possible battle scar from the ongoing war between them and the Smash Villain Alliance. Many villains were out cold or too damaged to keep fighting any longer. The ship that was already fixed had the largest room for meetings in near ruins because of everyone not holding back their strength to see who is stronger. Few remain standing while also too out of breath to keep fighting any longer. On the Legion side would be Reala, Grunty, Fat Rabbit with Poison Cindy in hand, Marcus, Greedy, Galcian, Allie, Death Adder, Hel, Dark Champion, Janken the Great, Dark Demon, The Magician, Psycrow, Maximillian, Neff, Michizane, Turbo, Dark Raven, and Balder were the strongest fighters that still stood with some fight in them left. On the Smash Renegade side would be Ganondorf, Dracula, Ridley, King K Rool, Mewtwo, Black Shadow, Wolf, M. Bison, Albert Wesker, the black Devil, Dr. Coyle, Black Knight, Mumkhar within his Metal Face Mechon, Marx, Porky, Medeus in his Dark Dragon form, Captain Syrup in the arms of her Genie, Draguax, DJ Octavio, and Emperor Fynalle were the last ones standing compared to their defeated allies. The two leaders stared at each other intensely the most, the Gerudo wizard and Nightmaren respectively with their own personal beef. The former didn't expect him to last so long in a fight like this while the latter is surprised that his mobility in air is good enough to keep up with him. Kammy and Kamek eventually reappeared just to see if the fight finally ended.
"Oh my, this is not good! All the hard work that went to repairing this room is ruined. Lord Bowser will be displeased," the blue Magikoopa panicked.
"I bet he is mad already. These people fought for a few days without any breaks. Why part of alliances don't you all understand?" Kammy Koopa said.
Ganondorf glared at the broom riding duo as he hates nothing more than unwanted interruptions.
"Hold your tongues. I was only testing the strength of these Legion fools. They were more formidable than expected. If you want anyone to blame, it is them for not accepting our offer to join them," he said coldly.
Ridley is barely holding on when Dragon Disease is fully warping his formerly purple skin to an alarming pale white with red spots. Allie smirks as she is glad that someone offered to be her guinea pig to test if her disease is deadly as ever.
"Da…damn you. I need to eat. Now, just wait here while I feast on some of those officers outside to get back in shape. It would be a shame to die here and not get my chance to kill the last Aran," the Space Pirate commander uttered.
Mewtwo with the little energy he had warped out of the ship and back with the few victims he could find.
There, eat well while you can. You are too valuable to lose.
Without hesitation, Ridley begins mauling at the possessed cops before they could run away to enjoy every bit of his meal. Fat Rabbit tries his best not to regurgitate as the sight of seeing something so gruesome almost made him sick to his stomach. Poison Cindy is unphased as the sight of carnage, no matter how intense, almost makes her smile. The blood curdling screams from Ridley's victims alone would make even Kammy Koopa shudder at the alien pterosaur's problematic eating habits.
"While you all wasted our precious time, we have a meeting to attend. The last thing we need is to hear another one of his rants," Greedy said.
"Save it for later, we still need to get these uninvited guests off of our ship that they ruined with their fight," Neff said.
"Oh boohoo! Your pwecious ship is hurt. This is what happens when you do not let us join you. A simple yes would had suffice and nothing would had escalated," Porky said.
"Had my entire Cybug army be here, none of you would live long enough to hear me say "Turbo Tastic!" the Cyborg hybrid said as he slowly glitches his body.
"Enough talk, let's have at these miserable wastes of air while we still can," Dracula said in his wounded state.
The giant cracked screen beside them would finally illuminate to reveal a less than pleased Eggman that finally witnessed what everyone was up to after all this time. He is already angry about the betrayals on the Lost Hex, but to see both sides fighting in a ship they promised to fix instead of teaming up made him angrier than before. Reala did the first thing he could, kneel the same way he does before Wizeman as a way to apologize for his actions. Ganondorf scoffs as he is the slightest intimidated by this egg shaped scientist's rage at all.
"What on earth are you all doing? Fights? When we specifically told you all to meet and ally? This is just embarassing and it's no wonder we lost our prisoner Sonic the last time. Imbeciles, the bunch of you!" he angrily shouts from the broken screen.
Some of the villains presented were slightly embarrassed at their actions, others were just neutral on what happened, and some feel what they did were highly justified for this huge misunderstanding.
"You never told us there was going to be a new alliance. This came out of nowhere and we had our reasons to not trust them. One of our men fell because one of these fools attacked without warning. We simply wanted to avenge him," Psycrow argued.
"Hey! I only wanted to act cool and show off my strength. No one said anything about this being a no hitting zone!" King K Rool beamed.
"They are partially right, you knew better than to do that. We only fought out of self defense since it wouldn't be fair to put the blame all of us over one fool's action," Black Shadow said.
Reala however felt the guiltiest of all over an issue he really needed to discuss with Eggman. He could tell the Nightmaren isn't his usual self when he's acting more subservient than usual to someone that isn't his master Wizeman.
"There is something I need to say. Mishaela and I barely escaped with ours lives after Isaac betrayed us. We initially tried goading him into bringing the traitors back to us alive. He was all part of a plan that would had involved finishing both of us off. The Sega Super Stars formed an alliance with the Marines, another United States military group that's on our tail. So the heroes are slowly gaining their numbers in an attempt to stop us," he confessed.
An air of silence fills the damaged massive room after these words. A majority of the Smash Renegades have zero idea to respond as they've never heard of these Marines until now. However Ganondorf chooses to listen closely as any new threat to his plans is worth learning about if it means stopping them. Reala still awaits the words of the scientific genius as this is a failure and clear disobedience of his orders that never wanted to say to him at first.
"Good job. I still appreciate that you were willing to be honest about your mistakes. You and Mishaela know better than to try doing anything without my permission. If either of you died, there would be less leaders left worth commanding your peers. At least we have more to worry about than these Marines," he said.
"More, like who exactly?" Greedy demands.
"The Smash Brothers. The fools unsuccessfully ambushed our mothership. But I've dealt with them using a new invention. One that may play a bigger role later in our future. But most importantly, the Lost Hex mission was a failure thanks to those treacherous Deadly Six using GUN, the World Destruction Committee, and the Smash Brothers to defeat Mecha Sonic," the scientist explains.
Many of the villainous recruits and Smash renegades would be in a murmur of uproar over this. The wounded members like the Ghostly Gang and Mother Brain were slowly recovering as the gossips were loud enough. Even the many defeated Legion members like Rokkaku and Purge were slowly getting back to their own senses. Ridley snarls with a few human remains left to devour for his healing process. A majority of the Dragon Disease is subdued as a result which makes him content. Bowser decided to barge in on the message to talk to his fellow Smash runaways.
"Hey Cherbils for brains, stop with the fighting! You heard the egg master, an alliance need to be formed than starting war. Thanks to your scuffle, you will have to help them fix their ship's room again. No if's, ands, or buts! Got that?" the Koopa king demands.
Clyde was going to say one of the three words until Blinky slaps his spectral face to stop him. Dr. Coyle tries her best to hold back her usual tantrums as she'd rather not waste her scientific genius on something mundane as repairs.
"You got it. Besides, my muscles needed a little extra training to maintain this mountainous bod," Draguax brags.
"Easy for you to say. I'd rather have my crew do the building instead of myself," Gold Bone complains.
"Hmmph, big deal. This ship will be good as new when I've built bigger. Especially my beloved city and robotic minions," Porky said before doing as wheezy chuckle.
"This will not take too long. I'm known for both speed and strength, this will be easier than scoring a Top 10 position in an F-Zero Grand Prix," Black Shadow said with his usual grin.
"No argument there, as long as I won't need to abuse my Dragonstone any longer," the titular Shadow Dragon said.
The transformed Medeus eventually shifts back into the familiar elderly humanoid Manakete form that he prefers when negotiating.
"Also, I have some disheartening news relating to certain former recruits. Those Team Rocket punks are stabbing us in the back all because it was part of a ruse to get revenge on Mewtwo. So much for being our most trusted allies, huh?" Bowser said.
The Psychic Pokémon isn't surprised, but also disappointed that they would only comply with his "persuasion" just as a way to get closer and capture him.
Humans never change. Always need to be realized of their own flaws. For once I thought I can be the one to be in charge of those fools and send them out to do the fighting for the years they've treated my fellow Pokemon. And if they think their little rebellion will be enough to stop me, then they've thought wrong. Perhaps I should seek new followers that would be more loyal.
Mewtwo's telepathic speaking is loud and clear for everyone to hear, many realizing just how disappointed the creation is. Ganondorf and Ridley were curious on what he means by seeking more loyal followers.
"Furthermore, something Wolf will not like to hear. Your teammates are also betraying the Legion. I will not go into the details, but they were easily swayed by the heroes to work for them. It may be because they have the money to pay them or they said something bad about Wolf they never knew…"
"Fools! I know my team for many years and there is no way they would ever betray me or Andross. This better be the truth and not some lie to cover up something you are hiding, Bowser!" the lupine mercenary shouts.
Bowser tries to hold back any sweat as he did not want to make his plan too obvious. On one hand, he is glad that Leon have yet to contact him yet and he has the headstart to try leading him on. Wolf glared intensely at his superior with no fear as there is nothing he hates more than dishonesty. Eggman knew that things were too silent and decided to quickly change the subject for time constraints.
"As I was saying, there are more traitors to look for. Dimentio from Flipside and Fawful from the BeanBean Kingdom. Both were former enemies of Mario that Bowser hired at the promise of what they want. For them to turn on us and Dimentio changing to the winning side to usurp us only paints a picture that these two should be taken cared of," the scientist said.
"Especially those two. Anyone who double crosses me deserves to be beaten to a point of looking like a stomped Goomba! I especially hate that dimensional clown for thinking he can steal our plans after helping our enemies beat us!" Bowser bellowed in anger.
Everyone could tell Bowser is taking this last one very personally even if they have no knowledge of what he done with him before.
"Whoever this jester is, I will make sure to carve him until he can't laugh or sing anymore. I may serve Lord Ganondorf, but I will do anything to make you happy," Ghirahim said.
"Leave the green bean nerd to me. Because there is so much fun I can have slicing him in various ways. Or even cooking him with my worst powers," Marx gleefully said before hopping on his ball.
"Let me slaughter all of the traitors. Because nothing is better than exercising these babies on some flesh," Mumkhar taunts while making Metal Face slice its claws together.
"On top of that, we have over forty three rebellious Robot Masters that you all should scrap. Wily would have gladly offer to do it himself, but he feels you all are fine enough for the job. Is that clear?" Eggman said.
"Please, they will grovel on the dirt after I crush them with my martial arts," Geese brags.
"Or beneath my feet. I've always wanted to crush more machines that can't properly train my perfect body," Bison said with a sinister grin.
"Let me be the one to use them as perfect training dummies for my current Hedlok model. The more my baby gets to use his deadly steel fists, the more satisfied he will be," Dr. Coyle said.
"But those are not the only robots you need to crush. Apparently, the treacherous Team Rocket managed to study my robots closely. Too close to the point that they've created a robot army all too similar to my own. Why is it that everyone copy my perfect machines?" The grumpy Eggman explains.
"Everyone is a copycat one way or another. Like our supposed "allies" standing right here," Rokkaku said.
"Look who's talking. I've worked for the Subspace Army once and almost everything you Legion fools are doing is anything but original," Ganondorf barked.
"Except we've succeeded where your little Subspace Army failed. The bombs don't need some silly sacrificial robots to activate them, we made it so the bombs are indestructible to everything, the material isn't made out of a 2D creature but a far stronger one that Eggman once used to affect time and space, our Shadow Beasts are nigh unstoppable and can properly posses the masses, and we aren't puppets to some hidden leader that would stab us in the back," Neff said.
"Silence! Do not fight again when you all need to cooperate with each other as a stronger force whether you like it or not. With the Smash Brothers and Marines allying with our enemies, we've got bigger fish to fry," Eggman sternly shouts.
Nefarious walks onto the screen between Bowser and Eggman with a rare smile neither of them ever seen.
"On the bright side, we have our own allies interested in teaming up with us. They are former members of the PlayStation All Stars and well known enemies of them. Colonel Radec was nice enough to send me a surprise message about their arrival, which I've told them the exact location everyone else are. Like our egg genius said earlier, all of you will have to just act like a team. Or else all of our efforts to colonize the universe would be for naught. Any objections?" the robot supergenius said.
Half of the Smash Renegades sighed at this reveal, mostly due to seeing their past attempts to collaborate with their former organization in the past.
"Disgusting, the same group with those small fries that dare compare themselves to us? I would rather be dead that team up with them. Even if they are the villains," a bloody fanged Ridley snarled.
"I am all for new allies. But what do you think we will achieve allowing lesser experienced hasbeens? I bet they would not last for seconds in a fight with us unlike the Legion," Wolf said in a displeased manner.
"Cute and cuddly, that I all I have to say about those chumps. What are we, chopped liver? I can name better things we can do than team up with them," K Rool interjects in a mocking tone.
Amongst the gossip, Nefarious is looking less than pleased with these responses. Bowser on the other hand felt he should apologize for the ignorance of his fellow Smash escapees as that pride remains the same. Eggman would only sigh as this day is stressful enough with a few more betrayals and his own allies not taking kindly with more alliances. Dr. Wily appears to step in to act as the voice of reason for these rowdy villains.
"May I have your attention! You all want to rule this world, right? Then you will have to agree with everything we say. You did not get this far without our leadership. Eggman has enough stress on his hands and the least you buffoons can do is be considerate. May I remind you of your last failure that lead to your ships needing repairs?" the semi bald man announced.
Now that is a memory the Legion members suppressed and did not ant to remember again. Reala in particular thinks back to how NiGHTS managed to humiliate him in battle only after Isaac's Non-Entity realm depowered his use of the Chaos Emerald. Raidou would rather not think about how he was knocked off the ship by inferior fighters other than his own foster daughter he wanted to kill that day. Guan Yu only had one thing in mind, making Tembo into ivory strings once he even fights him again and stabbing Joe Musashi on sight with his mighty spear. Psycrow is already growling from the thought that he let Amy smack him away with her hammer after she somehow couldn't be hit by his best ammunitions. He once again wonders if he may ever see Earthworm Jim at all for his strange absence. The Black Baron tightens his fist as he hungers to choke the life out of Larcen and Jack Cayman the next time they meet. Neff knew well that he wanted revenge on plenty of heroes, but most notably Britney for her harsh words against him as a prisoner. The sinister snarl when Turbo glitches between his King Candy and racer personas are clear signs he wants to see Knuckles suffer the next time they meet again. The Dark Demon still clutches at his nonexistent chest after remembering the significant damage that Opa Opa did to him. Balder have yet to change his fixation on correcting Bayonetta, just thinking of what more he can do with his beloved Lumen Sage spear. He is still upset over the loss of Heavenly Virtues Sapienta and Fortitudo while there are still two remaining at his disposal assuming the mass revival have yet to effect his fallen angels. Rokkaku is still in a mood to arrest some rudie tail, especially Beat for how he is his personally favorite to target. This time he feels with his CD, he is ready to go all out and not be easy on them like the last time. Marcus still wants a rematch with Segata Sanshiro the next time they meet on the battlefield. Grunty is still steaming mad at the day that Chaos knocked her into the sky, Greedy felt that same resentment as someone who hates the god of Chaos. Purge is still very very angry that Pai Chan and Sarah Bryant had the nerve to sneak attack him before he had any use for the Legion at the time. Death Adder especially wants to have a well deserved payback fight with Gilius for stealing the Golden Axe from him after his death. At the same time, he feels the new axe he forged himself should be more than enough to make him equal to Gilius unlike the last fight which he lost to his inferior axe. In fact, the new axe he created was forged from Gilius's old axe that he happened to leave on his corpse during his death.
Just you wait, foolish dwarf. Your years of protecting Yuria will come to an end.
All of the revived villains like Aoi Satan and The Magician did not know how their allies felt to lose their major fight against the heroes, but feel now is a time to do better than the last time they've died. Soon after, a loud voice would enter Reala's mind.
Reala! Reala! I want you to report to Nightmare immediately. There are matters I would like to discuss with you!
He could tell by the gravely frightening voice that it is none other than Wizeman finally calling for his favorite Nightmaren right hand. Eggman could tell that it is time for him to abruptly leave the meeting again.
"Your master is calling you again, isn't he?" he asks.
"Yes, Master Wizeman needs my presence in his nightmare realm. Feel free to have Gruntilda, Marcus, or Death Adder relay me everything you speak about. I'll promise to return," he announced.
"Go on, your master needs you. We can inform you all on everything later," Marcus said.
"You can count on us, because there is nothing that can stop this villain bus. Soon these heroes will become big fat zeroes," the rhyming witch said.
"As long as a certain purple pest don't think about ambushing you again, you better come back here alive and not beaten again," the demonic giant warned.
Ganondorf smirks at the level of concern his allies are showing for him before his departure.
"Good luck on your mission. I figured I would give you a hint, a fellow Assist is there waiting on you too. You can say he can create one hell of a Nightmare," the Gerudo wizard said.
Reala did not feel like playing games with his rival or paying mind to his foreshadowing, instead choosing to create a nightmare portal and fly right inside to see his impatient creator. Everyone focused back on the four leaders looking at them from the same large cracked screen.
"I hope we all made it clear that this alliance is needed more than ever. Get along like you all should and even come up with your own plans. We would all like to hear them later while you're at it. This is now or never with five Chaos Emeralds to grab from our enemies," Eggman announced.
"For Solana's sake, please fix this entire room and the screen. This fragmented view made it incredibly hard for me to see all of you," Nefarious yells.
"Never forget, we expect you all to have this ship fixed in a few days max. Don't be late when we will all be expecting to hear out of you soon. Think of the Legion and how close we are to ruling everything," Wily warned.
"Raugh hoohoo reeeeaaauuugggghh haaaa haaa!" Dr. Bad Boon angrily hoots.
"Yes, our primate friend is correct. Be on your best behavior. Don't dare contact us again unless you are finished with everything or have something valuable to share." Dr. Z adds.
"One last thing, no more backstabbing. Enough of it happened to the point that we will not hesitate to flatten you harder than Thwomps if any of you numbskulls dare think about quitting us. Our bounty list is growing every day the more we learn about who to target! Bowser shouts.
Everyone understood the message clearly with the little time they had to hurry with recovery before the screen finally shuts off. Then the entire screen falls to the ground to breaks into pieces of flying debris and glass as a sign that they all had more work to do. Death Adder lets out a disappointed groan at how much more work they have to do on top of the small time limit to fix everything. Ganondorf would be the first to approach him with his hand out in an honorable manner.
"How about a truce? To a future partnership and mutual agreement to help formulate the best plan for our alliance? Your strength during the fight won me over, all of you weren't a laughing matter with how much trouble you gave all of us. I respect someone as strong as me, whether it's you or Reala who left for an important moment," he politely said in gratitude.
Kamek and Kammy who were watching from above agree with the end result of their conflict finally being over. Gruntilda is once again confused on who to shake with since she's associated with both sides of the coin. Ridley shakes hands with Allie as she retains her humanoid form with Joe Fang and Wolf doing the same. Mr. X flies up to the tiny hands of the fully transformed Mother Brain to shake it with his golden hand. Captain Syrup already called her Genie back into his lamp if it meant shaking hands with her rival Psycrow. Mewtwo refused to shake hands with the Dark Champion, instead choosing to nod as if the powerful warrier earned his respect. Draguax shakes hands with Aoi Satan at his gentlest if it meant avoiding throwing him at the ceiling on accident. Coyle drops her ARMS and stretched her golden colored hand at the Baron to shake his hand from afar. She couldn't trust the jealous stare Mathilda was given as overprotective ho she is. Turbo is too afraid of shaking the wrong hand of Dark Samus in it meant avoiding corruption, which she instead shakes it with her normal hand that isn't plagued with Phazon unlike her arm cannon. Fat Rabbit gladly shakes hands with the tall black Devil, Poison Cindy would look at his other hand in case he's pulling a fingers crossed for "sucker". K Rool would be stuck wondering how he can shake the hand of Crabuchin when both of his hands are scissor blades that can easily cut his own off. Janken the Great instead chose to shake the Kremling King's hand twice to cover himself and his handless primate ally.
"There, now you won't feel left out at all," the space overlord said.
Ghirahim had no choice but to politely shake hands with Marcus for an end of their fight. Masa is still unsure on trusting him for what he did to Pirika and Saroid despite healing both of them. Zerig on the other hand scoffs and looked away the entire time since he still think the flamboyant demon lord is crazier than him. Mumkhar already climbs out of his mech if it meant a proper handshake, but then remembered that he'd rather not remove his claws at all. Neff instead ops to transform into Aggar, risking the chance to do a shake despite the claws slicing off one of his large rotten fingers. The sight of the fallen corpse-like finger would induce rather dark laughs from the twisted Colony 9 traitor. The Black Shogun already did an honorable sword cross with Emperor Fynalle, as both samurai warriors feel this is more appropriate between them than a mere handshake. Dracula hates nothing more than ever feeling friendly with humans, but swallows his pride enough to raise his large hand toward Galcian. The man admired the act on its own and shakes it back out of respect. Wesker instead chooses to shake hands with Dr. Curien over The Magician, causing the horned beast to snarl and choose to ignore his clear bias of genetic creations. M. Bison shakes hands with Dark Raven, admiring his resilience against his Psycho Power during their fight. Lan Di and Geese would instead choose to bow to each other in respect for their intense duel. Rokkaku would raise out his hand to Black Shadow, the racer then grips it with enough force to crunch his bones and shook it. Onishima and Hiyashi tried too hard not to cringe at the extreme pain their boss is experiencing from his strength. Blinky is shaking hands with Yonesai, while at the same time shivering in intense fear. The opposite is the case with the other Ghostly Gang members, but with the other yakuza allies shivering that they are actually touching ghosts. Seishiro shakes his head at the thought the most feared crime lords are this afraid of interacting with new allies. Maximillian shakes Black Knight's hand, the later who is silent yet very respectful of his tactical prowess in battle. Greedy is left floating speechlessly as his partner Marx is has no apparently arms to shake. But the jester surprised him by jumping and using his transformed wing to act as a hand. He is surprised, but went ahead to shake the way his ally wants it. Porky is aware that he can't shake anything at all while Trouble Bruin is still finding what's the right thing to do.
"Instead of a shake, do a salute. It's not like you will bow down to me like a Pigmask, but respect me," he said before gesturing one of his claws to do one.
"Oh yeah, I knew that one. No need to tell me," the toy bear bragged before doing his own salute.
Michizane and Medeus shook hands, the elderly Manakete admiring his tenacity at fighting him after avoiding Black Knight's fight. Purge wondered how he could shake hands with an Octarian two times his size, nervously looking for which tentacle to shake.
"Oh for flounder's sake, just take my favorite tentacle," DJ Octavio shouts.
He grips once slimy tentacle on the Rhythm Rogue leader's hand, causing the latter to shiver at how gross the experience is. The Blue Devil shakes hands with Max D Cap, after the latter chose to shrink to smaller size for it to work. Gold Bone decides to shake hands with Aoi Satan, mostly out of admiration for how well designed his special Koubu is. Balder proposes to shake hands with the Enderman, but he shrieks out of anxiety of touching his holy grace. A night dwelling species like them would rather not be anywhere near the light or brightness. This specific Enderman managed to gain a great tolerance in sunlight, but still show the same aversion to brightness like his Ender brethren.
Soon, a large portal would appear into the meeting room as big as it gets. This is the work of Mewtwo telling the missing in action renegades to get inside now that the alliance is final. Some of these new faces would be more familiar foes that were once fought so long ago by member's of the Smash team. The first that appears is a familiar purple extravagant god know for his sharp tongue and hunger for souls.
"Hey there, I hope I didn't miss any fun in this brawl," the arrogant Hades said.
Soon, a dark cloaked gorgon-like goddess makes her way out of the portal to meet her superior.
"Finally, I was hoping it wouldn't come to me just turning them all into stone for defying us. Our forces would be stronger with this alliance."
Seven unique floating Tikis soon would follow as they match a certain musical instrument around the world. Their team leader would be none other than the kalimba looking Tiki with red and blue colors to match his title.
"The Tiki Tak Tribe is at your service," the Tiki group leader said.
Then their true leader would appear above them, as an ominous bestial Tiki that is large enough to dwarf even Neff. He lets out a mighty roar just to showcase his sheer ferocity compared to his smaller colorful minions. He then glanced at what appears to be a large Viking walrus with the magic frost horn to match his blubbery physique. He chuckles in a sinister manner, prompting K Rool roll his eyes at all of them.
"Lord Fredrik of the Snowmads, here to freeze and crack your problems away," he said.
Then a certain insane masked Twilight King jumps into the scene, scimitars ready to slice away at any problems. Ghirahim face palms as he is not fond of his partner's "screw loose" personality.
"Relax Zant, the fight is over. We are all just properly forming our alliance," he said.
The strange king stood erect and looked around frantically to see if anyone is staring at him. Unsurprisingly, quite a lot of them were staring at his erratic behavior and mannerisms. Next thing he did would be stomping madly as if he were throwing a childish tantrum.
"Darn it! Darn it! Darn it! Darn it! I just wanted to join on the madness while it still happened!" he cried.
A large ghost with ghastly red eyes and massive blue hanging tongue flew beside him with the most haunting giggle.
"Anyone called for a haunting?" the king of Boos asked.
An undead Roman soldier walks into the scene next to him. He is without a doubt easily the most frightening member of the Smash Renegades, looking around with his dead stare that compliments his skeletal face.
"Pious Augustus, here to bring madness to the entire world," he says in an otherworldly voice.
A massive red demonic lion walks into the scene with the most demonic roar. Despite his appearance, it is actually the famed Murasame Castle statue brought to life by the lightning form of an alien leader. Speaking of alien, another of Samus's old foes would walk his way into the scene with his blue arm canon ready to shoot and six tiny green eyes looking around. This is Sylux, a creature with an intense hatred of the Galactic Federation that hates the bounty hunter and her organization a lot. Two large demonic beings would appear from the portal next. The notorious Dark Lord with his floating purple hands and Dark Emperor with his bird-esque appearance. Both were demonic creatures that kidnapped the King of Find Mii and had to be taken down by Streetpass Dog and Cat Warriors. Another familiar Kirby nemesis would make his grand entrance through a floating ball of dark matter, growing the gown and sword many are familiar with.
"Master Zero is still making preparations in the atmosphere of this planet. He's very displeased with the loss of my fellow Dark Matters on the Lost Hex," the Dark Matter leader said.
Next up would be a familiar doppelgänger from the Mirror World that spreads his black wings with his own Galaxia pointed in the air.
"Let's have a toast to the death of our enemies. The pink one and blue imposter are my prey," Dark Meta Knight said in his dark tone.
"This beauty is only one that can't be rivaled by anyone on this planet. If I can't rule Popstar, then this one is a good start to recreate the entire Sectonia Empire," a familiar wasp queen said as she exits the portal.
"Don Genie coming through! I'm here to make a bargain since this alliance isn't without any trades!" a fat sharply dressed mafioso shouts.
A lanky purple space villain soon follows him with the most crazed expression ever.
"Master Black Shadow! I'm here to raise some hell on your command!" the psychotic Zoda shouts.
Blood Falcon walks out from next to him, the evil clone of our F-Zero champion chuckling at Zoda's usual behavior. A loud belch can be heard, which is soon followed by a large green slimy creature crawling out as he is the main cause.
"Can we get with the program? Because I miss eating my Jar of Fly Honey. Braaaaaaaap!" Master Belch said.
"Good news, Master Medeus. I managed to gather some strong allies when using the Outrealms to jump through different timelines. Please take a look," a familiar decaying Dark Mage said.
Gharnef would step aside to have several long time villains to make an appearance. One of them would be the Gharnef of another universe, but he is the Mirage partner of a beautiful middle aged music director wearing a flashy outfit. These two were responsible for all Mirage related outbreaks if it meant gathering Performa to summon the Medeus of his world. Another would be the red haired mage Julius, son of Deidre and Arvis to serve as host to the Earth Dragon Loptous. Next would be Lyon, a good friend of Ephraim turned to the dark side thanks to corruption from Fomortiis the demon king. The mad king Ashnard makes his grant entrance atop a black wyvern, Ike's first true enemy before he encountered the Black Knight once again. Then came the crazy narcissist Gangrel, who loves nothing more than carnage and madness as an enemy of Chrom's. Other foes like Idunn, Anankos's human avatar, Thades, Validar, Excellus, Berkut, Nergal, Veld, Hardin, and Ursula all appeared front and center behind Gharnef. This really pleased the elderly Dark Dragon into smiling at the work of his trusted ally.
"Good," he said.
Ganondorf's own group turns out to be larger than expected with more members pouring inside of the ship. This included Sir Grodus, Princess Shroob, Madame Brood carrying her darling Broodals, Rudy the Clown, Black Jewel, Golden Diva, Count Cannoli, Shake King, Yuga, Lady Maud, Koume & Kotake, Master Kohga, Kanden, Spire, Trace, Weevil, Noxus, Solidus Snake, Revolver Ocelot, Liquid Snake, Emperor Bulblax, Smoky Progg, the Titan Dweevil with new weapons, Plasm Wraith, Sigma, Mega Man Juno, Dr. Weil, Sirius, Lord Wily, a rogue Giga Mac, Spooky, Malos, Amalthus, Zanza, Vega, Balrog, F.A.N.G., Seth, Commander Tartar, Death, Carmilla, Nemesis T-Type, Lady Dimicretsu, Saddler, the Virus Trio, Achi, AR Dragon, Disco Afro Face, Demon King Arzoidus, Sturm, Buggler, Avatar of Darkness, Ox King, Kyonosuke Kanda, Tatsuya Hibino, Dr. Walnuts, Lord Delarin, Farmer Jinbe, Alex, the Spydor Queen, Mashtooth, Evil, Malpercio, Bill Edward, Rahu, Fire Serpent, Masked Man, Giygas in his restricted younger form, Major Evans, Zeron, The Enchantress, Hannya Samurai, Starface, Mr. Dark, Risky Boots, Flowey, Goro Akechi, Lord Rhapthorne, Dragonlord, Mordegon, Psaro the Manslayer, Mars People, Orochi, Shiro Tokisada Amakusa, Project Noah, Yamada Taiki, Astaroth, Rathalos, and Magnamalo as recent recruits. The rest of the Legion would be surprised that their new allies were bigger than expected, almost drawing their current number of members easily. The remaining Legion members that have yet to shaken hands would have done so with some of their new allies that just appeared thanks to Hades. Kammy and Kamek cackled together as they fly around to observe the strength of numbers below them. Death Adder is more than impressed as he faced Ganondorf once more who still awaited his handshake. The giant slowly lowered his large hand, grasping the Gerudo's dark hand and shakes it. All while his demonic eyes glow brighter than ever in excitement of this new larger alliance.
"Yes, we gladly welcome this alliance of the Legion and Smash Renegades as one. Happy to have you aboard our humble fleet and journey to conquer this entire universe," Death Adder replies.
Ganondorf smirks before having his iconic laugh at his new partner's wise decision. A sinister air would fill the entire meeting room with many dangerous foes awaiting their chance to defeat the heroes in due time. Reala finally enters Nightmare with all of his confidence knowing this is his creator and a ruthless being that is worthy of fear. The familiar dark dimension along with several new chairs would fill the room for some familiarity. All second Level Nightmarens would be in their respective spots as the Level Three Nightmarens all hovered around in the lower levels. Obviously, Cerberus the Hellhound is absent as a dangerous Nightmaren like them are forever chained in their own realm due to their bloodlust and out of control behavior. This leaves the massive Wizeman floating at the top with Nightmare by his side as his new partner in crime. Another oddity would be a frog king sitting next them, who just happens to be an old enemy of Mario's from the Subcon dream realm. The red Nightmaren respectfully kneels before his master while awaiting the request he has in store for him.
"Master Wizeman, I have arrived. What is it you request of me?" he asked without fear.
"You know why I've called you. It involves NiGHTS," the nightmare being bellowed.
Mecha Sonic meets his end, which gotten the attention of the founding members of the Legion. Furthermore, it seems Eggman managed to make. a new invention that allows him to harness the power of any Chaos Emerald he equips. Which he tests it to stop the ambush the Smash Brothers had planned. After insulting the Smash Renegades and other Legion members for their two day scuffle, Eggman informs them of what they know of their enemies' alliance and the importance of their own. The Smash Renegades are also revealed to be larger than expected with many infamous and lesser known Nintendo and related "third party" villains (Note: Hannya Samurai is the final boss of Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword since him along with his cronies were originally nameless). We will see the real reason Wizeman called for Reala's presence next time. Until then, sayonara Shadow the Hedgehog.
