A/N: Well, I was going to only do one Smasher Bio for this chapter after how Smasher Bio heavy the last act was, but I got on a roll and cranked out the second one in time for this chapter, so we got a little extra this time!

Prince Corrin of Hoshido

Threat Level: 4

Prince Corrin of Hoshido is a noble warrior with a sterling reputation and a tongue of silver. The twin brother of Princess Corrinne of Nohr, and media darling, he's had quite the storied career as both a warrior and diplomat and is a celebrated hero of Hoshido and Nohr. While it's arguable that his success is in no small part due to the efforts of his twin sister and his siblings, he's the one who become the face of the recent conflict as a hero.

Corrin's background is identical to that of his sister, raised in a Nohrian castle, and through a poorly documented series of events, ended up in Hoshido. After the death of Queen Mikoto, Corrin sided with Hoshido. According to the man himself, he and his sister are Hoshidan royalty by birth, but were kidnapped as young children and raised Nohrian. Neither had any memory of being kidnapped. It would seem that Corrin chose his birth family while his sister chose her adopted family.

In the aftermath of Queen Mikoto's death, Corrin helped his siblings stabilize the country, and put down several coup attempts by various nobles around the country. In this time of turmoil, Corrin led a diplomatic force to garner allies and friends in favor of Ryoma, his eldest sibling and heir to the throne. Some missions were successful, while others ended in Corrin having to cut his way out of danger. It was on one of these missions that Princess Elise of Nohr was discovered to have been held captive by a rouge Hoshidan noble and was rescued by Corrin. Returning Princess Elise to her family allowed Ryoma to open communication with Xander, prince of Nohr, and eventually resulted in an alliance between the two. With the time for diplomacy over and all-out war on the horizon, Corrin rejoined forces with Corrinne to lead an elite strike force that won several notable battles for the alliance. After the war, Corrin returned to his diplomatic work, helping resolve tensions between Nohrians and Hoshidans, as well as opening channels of communication with various holdouts. This work caused Prince Corrin to become beloved by the people of both his homeland and adopted homeland as he was the most visible of all of the Hoshidan and Nohrian nobles.

In terms of combat, Corrin is a master of the blade, and wields two swords in battle. His dual blade fencing style has been refined with years of practice and is utilized in a speed focused style. Corrin's defense is his offense and can quickly cut down even skilled opponents quickly if they are unprepared for him. His hallmark ability is his hydrokinesis, capable of manipulating water in all of its forms, but seemingly liquids with high solute content seem to be beyond his ability. To ensure that he has at least some water to use at all times, Corrin is known to carry several bottles of water on his belt. I lastly want to mention Corrin's diplomatic skill, he's a powerful warrior, but is the type to attempt opening a dialogue first if he has the opportunity to. I recommend not listening to him as best you can, he's quite convincing by all accounts.

Against Corrin, I'd recommend electric attacks first, he's known for wielding metal swords and carrying lots of water on him and using it in battle. Bringing a polearm to fight Corrin may be of use as he's quite lethal once in range and keeping him at arm's length could prolong the fight long enough for a weakness to present itself. Projectiles could be a mixed bag against Corrin, his hydrokinetic attacks are known to be quite effective at standard range, but it requires enough concentration that he won't be able to duel and use hydrokinetic attacks at the same time. I want to mention here though that while Corrin usually wields two blades, he seems to be just as comfortable with single blade fencing as he is with dual blade fencing, so disarming him of one of his blades is not going to slow him down, you'll need to get both of his swords out of his hands. It may be worth attempting to stall Corrin out as his aggressive sword play will exhaust him more quickly than more deliberate swordsmen, though this will require a heavily armored or equally fast opponent to survive his aggressive onslaught. Lastly, I want to mention that Corrin's hydrokinetic powers seem to be limited by the fact that he can't generate his own water and is dependent on some source of water to manipulate for powerful attacks. This means that the upper limit of Corrin's raw power is not well defined but seems to be capped by how much fresh water he has at his disposal. As such, fighting Corrin in an area in which he can't draw on water in his environment will limit what he can do. Prince Corrin is decidedly a very dangerous warrior, but he has his limits and can be defeated.

Princess Peach of the Mushroom Kingdom

Threat Level: 2

Princess Peach is the beloved ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom and has successfully retained her kingdom's independence against the forces of the Dark Lands. While this is in no small part due to the Mario Bros, the fact that the Mushroom Kingdom has recovered time and time again can't be completely chalked up to two plumbers.

Princess Peach ascended to the throne after the passing of her father, King Cherrywise VIII. It's unknown why Peach never took the title of queen, but her leadership would quickly be tested during her first kidnapping by Bowser and subsequent rescue by Mario. The Mushroom Kingdom would slowly recover from this unprecedented attack over the course of three years. This is the last time it would take the Mushroom Kingdom so long to recover from one of Bowser's invasions. While the next three kidnappings would take about a year and a half of recovery time, subsequent kidnappings and attacks from Bowser and other villains would take mere months to recover from due to reforms to the Mushroom Kingdom military, emergency response system and other emergency supply stockpiling efforts. The Mushroom Kingdom is unusually resilient, and in the advent of peace being made with the Dark Lands, has been able to use this capacity to help many surrounding nations in need. Additionally, the Mushroom Kingdom has built alliances with most of the nations and powers on Mushroomia. Their three strongest and most long-standing allies have been the Yoshis of Yoshi Island, the Kongs of Kong Island and the Kingdom of Sarassaland, but their list of allies now includes the Dark Lands as well as even the Kremlings. All of this speaks to a truly wise and forward-thinking leader who understands how to protect her people, even when she cannot be present to lead them. If only all lands were so fortunate to have such a leader ruling their people.

While Princess Peach is unquestionably a legendary leader and a skilled diplomat, the same cannot be said about her combat prowess. This is not to say that she's incapable as a combatant, this is only to say that combat is not her forte. Princess Peach is known for going everywhere in her signature pink dress, and while it seems to have some layer of light armor woven into it, it's not appropriate combat gear, despite the fact that Peach is surprisingly mobile while wearing it. It also greatly increases her visibility, which kneecaps any attempts at stealth. In terms of armament, Peach brings a parasol to battle. While most would scoff at a pink parasol, it seems to have more in common with a spy umbrella than an average parasol, and can bear Peach's weight in the air, allowing her to glide or float down from substantial drops. It also appears to be made of bullet and laser proof material and is a lot sturdier than one would assume by just looking at it. It's also been said that there is a blaster hidden in the tip of the parasol.

While there's evidently much more up Peach's puffy sleeves than meets the eye, she's not a powerful combatant by any stretch, and should not be difficult to defeat with any reasonably powerful fighter. Don't take her on in regular combat, just blitz her with as much power as you can muster and prevent her from pulling any tricks on you. All this being said, Peach is one of the Smashers that should be captured if at all possible. If she can be turned to our side, she'll be a truly useful ally to have to apply political pressure on our enemies. Just remember that Peach's strength lies more in her plans and allies than in her own individual power. Where Peach is, there are likely powerful warriors willing to defend her that will pop out of the woodwork to do so. Those are the fighters you should be more worried about.

Act 11: Chrom

Chapter 2: Commanding Force

At Four Hills…..

Chrom strode into the defenses on Four Hills, followed by Peach, Ike, the Shepherds and the Greil Mercenaries. He took a deep breath and looked to the sky. Clear weather, slight breeze. That was good, the weather wouldn't be affecting the archers too much. They'd be relying on them heavily in the battle to come.

Chrom quickly surveyed his surroundings. Four Hills was a strong defensive position. The Sienne River, which ran past its namesake city provided a natural barrier to those coming from the northeast. Nestled on the northwestern side of the river was the Four Hills, aptly named for the four closely clustered hills that overlooked the river as well as the road that led up to the ford across it. The landmark was surrounded by flat plains and forests that ran up to the bridge. Located about 10 miles from Sienne's walls, Four Hills was a notable landmark in terms of defensive strategy.

Which made it strange that Robin had chosen this road as her choice of approach. Robin knew where Four Hills was, and what she'd have to push through. What was her purpose in coming here?

Chrom surveyed the defenses with a critical eye. He was on the second hill to the left, a central position where he could survey the battlefield. The soldiers had set up several large wooden barricades on the hills themselves, linked to preexisting walls that sat in the low points between the hills, allowing for only the tops of the hills to be accessible from a frontal assault. These walls had been built centuries ago and had been built up to be nearly 30 meters thick. They had seen many battles in their time and had won many battles against attackers who had focused their efforts against the walls instead of the hills themselves. Squinting, Chrom could just barely see several Miis manning the walls. It was unlikely that the attack would be launched there, but it wasn't like they were leaving the walls undefended.

There were three of each of the barricades on the slope of each hill, save for the hill farthest to Chrom's left, which was covered in defensive sentry gun formations. Packrat would be guarding their vulnerable southern flank on Hill A and the open fields in front of the hills would make for an excellent kill zone in front of the guns. On the subject of stationary defenses, Chrom had hoped to move some of Sienne's many ballistae to support them, but unfortunately time had run out. Speaking of time running out, they also hadn't had time to muster the full might of the Begnion army and had been only able to field two contingents from nearby dukedoms, as well as about half of Sienne's garrison. With such low manpower, they'd only been able to properly man about one and a half of the hills. Marth would be commanding Hill C, on which the most soldiers were stationed on. Unfortunately, while a sizable chunk of them were military regulars, most were little more than local militia who were more used to fighting bandits than full scale battles, meaning that they were the most likely to be overrun. Which was why they had been positioned in between Chrom and Peach's forces on Hill B and Corrin's forces on Hill D. With Ike and the Greil Mercenaries as well as the Shepherds on Hill B to the left and the Miis and a decent contingent of Smashers stationed with Corrin on Hill D, it wouldn't be too difficult to reinforce them if necessary. Not that Chrom planned on letting Hill 3 get overrun, but he'd stationed Pit and Palutena there to help level out the power differential. Unfortunately, Hill D was also going to play a dual support role, being ready to support Hill C and Robert at the bridge if necessary, which was why the Miis were stationed there. Chrom was just glad to have the elite android soldiers, their defensive plan wouldn't have a chance of working in their absence, and they'd need lesser numbers then the soldiers to effectively hold their hill if most of the Smashers were moved to reinforce other parts of the battlefield.

Robin hadn't left him a lot of time, but it would suffice. Chrom looked to the two hills to his right, where similar barricades had been installed the night before.

Chrom activated his radio.

"Hill commanders, what's your status?"

"This is Packrat at Hill A," came Packrat's immediate response. "I'm set up."

"This is Marth on Hill C," said another voice. "Our defenses are set up and ready to go. Pit got back from scouting about 10 minutes ago."

"Robert here. I'm set up with my team and the Miis at the bridge guardhouse. Wolf and the others are in the air around Sienne as requested. We're as ready as we'll ever be."

"This is Corrin on Hill D. We're prepared for the enemy."

"If that's the case, I'll send Richter, Game and Watch and Pac Man over to you guys," said Packrat. "It's just going to be Skylark and I over here, right?"

"That's correct," said Chrom. "If you get overrun, don't hesitate to fall back to me at Hill 2."

"Copy that," said Packrat. "My Vulture drone is in the sky. I'll keep you posted when the enemy gets within my drone's range."

"Many thanks," said Chrom, before turning off his radio.

Turning to his fellow Smashers and the Shepherds, he said "I'm going to have you guys up in the front. Cover anybody who is wounded and make sure they are able to pull out as best you can."

"What about you?" asked Sully. "Us paladins gotta be without our horses up here because of the hill, don't tell us you're not gonna be out there with us!"

"I've gotta be up here on the vantage point. I'm in charge of this whole thing, remember?" said Chrom with a wry smile.

"Try not to spill your tea on your shirt while we're risking our necks out there," said Ike good naturedly.

"I'll try not to. Don't get killed out there," said Chrom.

As Peach, Ike and the Greil Mercenaries marched down the hill, the Shepherds stopped for a moment around Chrom.

Chrom cleared his throat. "Listen. I realize that it must be disheartening to have Robin out there amongst the enemies. If you encounter her…."

"We will capture, not kill her, milord," said Fredrick.

Chrom looked over his soldiers with surprise. The same resolute look was on all of their faces.

"I…thank you," said Chrom. "I'm sorry I can't be out there with you. Good luck."

"For Begnion!" shouted Fredrick, raising his axe.

"For Begnion!" shouted the rest of the Shepherds.

Chrom grinned, and drew his sword, holding it high into the air. It was time to raise morale.

"For Begnion!"

Suddenly, the radio crackled to life.

"Contact! Half a mile out! It's the Subspace Army all right! And there's a lot of them! Y'all better get ready!" said Packrat.

Glancing to Hill A, Chrom saw the sentry guns remotely activate one by one, whirring to life.

"Copy that, Packrat, we are manning our battle stations," said Corrin grimly.

"As are we," said Marth.

Chrom nodded. "Solid copy Packrat. We hear you. Peach and Ike are moving into position right now. Hang on to your helmets everybody!"

On Hill A….

Packrat flicked the safety of his LMG and poked his head above the rock he was taking cover behind as the enemy marched out in front of them. He glanced over the Skylark, who had deployed her own LMG, clearly anticipating the numerical disadvantage they'd be at.

"Just like old times, eh?"

"Which one, New Toronto or Mount Misery?"

"Both," said Packrat. "Backs to the wall, tons of sentry guns out, and a whole lotta bad guys. Sucks that we don't have Scrap or Cordie. Scrap probably would have started thinning them out by now."

Skylark chuckled. "Yeah, he would be. And Cordie would be chomping at the bit for them to get in her range."

Packrat just laughed. "Yup. That's Cordie all right."

"We've got a lot more people backing us up this time, we'll be fine," said Skylark.

"I sure hope so," said Packrat.

On Hill B….

Peach and Ike unsheathed their weapons as the rest of the Greil Mercenaries and the Shepherds readied for battle. Soldiers milled around them, busy with last-minute preparations. Just behind them, a battalion of archers lined up, bows gleaming in the sunlight.

Peach stared out at the enemy. The Primids were lined up in four main columns, marching towards the hills.

"You think this line is going to hold?" asked Ike.

"Against the sheer numbers? I think we can. Robin's strategy is going to be the issue," said Peach.

"Yeah, that could be a problem. Not much of a tactician myself, I just do the fighting and the talking. Soren does the strategy," said Ike. "You got anything, Soren?"

Next to him Soren, muttered something under his breath.

"He says I'm a meathead," clarified Ike. Peach just chuckled.

On Hill C….

Pit squinted over the barricade.

"Looks like it's a lot of Primids up front!" he said, pointing. "It's hard to see that far though. Maybe they have other stuff hidden behind all the Primids?

Marth stood up and stared at them. "Maybe. But regardless, here they come. Everybody at the ready! Archers! Prepare to fire!"

As the archers began to line up, Marth turned to Palutena. "You sure that you're ok after all that flying yesterday?"

"I got a good night's sleep. I should be ok," said Palutena. "And anyway, I have Pit here with me! There's nothing to worry about!"

"That's right!" said Pit cheerily.

"All right, if you say so," said Marth. "I have a feeling that this isn't going to be easy."

On Hill D….

Corrin took a deep breath as he stood with the archers, a half dozen paces behind the first barricade. Below him, Richter and Simon, Pac Man and Mr. Game and Watch stood shoulder to shoulder with the other soldiers at the first barricade as the columns of Primids began to march in a direct line towards them. He took a deep breath.

Corrin didn't like that they were quite as far from the river as they were. It would be better for him to be closer to the water in case he was needed to wash the enemy back down the hill. Corrin uncorked one of his water bottles and shaped some of the water into an arrow of ice. He'd never been much of an archer, but his water manipulation did allow him to shoot something alongside the gunners.

"The enemy gathers, but we will not be defeated!" shouted Corrin. "This ends today!"

"Well said!" said Simon. "Let us make sure these knaves fail to cross the first barricade!"

"Indeed!" said Richter. "On this field they shall be rekt!"

"Richter, my lad," said Simon disapprovingly. "Thou should not use such informal speech!"

Corrin cracked a small smile as the two began to bicker.

Game and Watch raised his hammer. "They came all the way from the desert to fight us! Which means that they're coming all this way for a beating they won't forget!"

A general cheer went down the line.

"And we're gonna send these dumb Subspace fellows packing just like we did two hundred years ago!"

Another cheer, this one louder went down the line.

"Huh, you're pretty good at this," remarked Simon.

"No kidding!" said Richter.

"Of course I'm good at this!" said Game and Watch with a grin.

"Yeah, it's about time that you've improved some. I've had to put up with this blockhead's crummy battle speeches for the last four decades, it's about time he got better," joked Pac Man.

"Now listen here….." grumbled Game and Watch.

"Don't spend too long joking around, battle will be upon us quickly," said Corrin, cutting him off.

Corrin's hand flicked, and the ice arrow responded immediately as the columns in front continued to get closer and closer. This was going to be a battle for the ages.

"GUNNERS! PRESENT ARMS! PREPARE TO FIRE!"

At the bridge…..

Robert fiddled with his sword nervously as he sat in the guard post. It was being held by a battalion of Miis, which thankfully had set up a number of barricades along the bridge to assist them in the coming battle. Brynhilde, Solo and Eight were out in front with a squad of Miis, while he and Erdrick were positioned in the guardhouse. It had been a while since he'd had to fight in a grand scale battle like this. Thankfully, he had good soldiers and much better air support than the last time he'd fought a battle like this. Nothing against Cordelia, Sumia, and Cynthia, but he'd take Wolfens any day over Pegasus Knights when it came to firepower.

His radio crackled to life.

"Did the bad guys turn up yet?" asked Wolf bluntly.

"Chrom says they've just started getting into formation," said Robert. "You'll be in the fight soon enough."

"Good," said Panther. "Then they shall meet their ends today!"

"You sure 'bout that?" asked Eight. "Easy for you ta say up there in ya metal bird!"

"Do not underestimate the power of the Wolfen!" said Leon. "We might just win the whole thing up here!"

"Sure ya will," said Eight.

"Eight! Calm down! We don't need to fight with our own team right before a major battle!" said Erdrick.

"Edrick is right," said Brynhilde, her axe glinting in the sunlight. "Now is not the time to fight."

Solo groaned. "Quiet down will you? I'm trying to concentrate here!"

"On what?" demanded Wolf.

"Writing my will in case I die, WHAT DO YOU THINK I'M DOING!?" snapped Solo.

"Picking your nose?" guessed Leon.

"Taking a nap?" asked Panther.

"Reading a book," said Wolf.

"Eatin' a picnic," said Eight.

"Doing your nails," said Brynhilde.

"Oh, come on! I'm readying myself for, you know, the BATTLE WE'RE ABOUT TO FIGHT!"

"Settle down now," said Robert. "Erdrick is right. We don't need to fight right now. You can argue later, after we're done winning this thing."

Robert sighed. This was going to be a long battle.

On Hill A…..

Skylark glared down the scope of her LMG, waiting patiently. She could see the massed column of Primids marching towards them. The ground was shaking from the thousands of footsteps in chaotic disharmony, ever pressing forward. The front row of sentry guns hadn't even begun to fire so she doubted that she'd be able to hit anything from this distance. She paused for a moment, before slapping her LMG onto her back's magnetic plate, and deploying a carbine into her hands.

"What's with the carbine?" asked Packrat.

"Gonna try to take out a few from here," said Skylark.

"That's an awful long distance away," said Packrat dubiously.

Skylark shrugged. "Better than trying to use this when they're up close and personal."

"Touche."

Skylark peered down the sight. It wasn't the most powerful optic in the world, but it gave her some magnification to work with. And right now, it was all she needed. She lined up a shot and squeezed the trigger. The laser found its mark in one of the Primid's torso. She took a breath and fired again, dropping another Primid.

"Not bad," said Packrat, who was watching her efforts through a pair of binoculars. "You wanna take a shot at those cloud thingies and the floating knight squid things back there?"

"The what?" asked Skylark.

"The ones that are floating in above the columns," said Packrat. "They just floated up from behind the Primids."

Skylark turned her scope up to see a large mass of clouds with metal parts sticking out of them. They seemed to be crackling with electricity and seemed to be accompanied by a number of floating, armored squid-like creatures armed with two swords.

Without a word, she fired her rifle, striking one of the clouds square in the center of mass. It quickly crumbled into Subspace particles. She quickly emptied about half of the magazine, striking down several clouds and a few of the knight squids.

Suddenly, there was a massed noise of whirring and a massive roar of laser fire erupted from in front of her. Skylark jumped, before glancing down to see that Packrat's sentry guns had begun to open fire, laying complete and utter waste to the first several rows of Primids.

"Gah, I'm never getting used to that am !?" grumbled Skylark.

"Keep shooting the floaty ones!" said Packrat, raising his LMG. "The guns have the ground forces covered!"

Skylark nodded and quickly aimed down her scope again. It was time to get to work.

On Hill C….

"Present arms!" shouted Marth from behind Pit. "Fire!"

Another storm arrows sailed over the heads of Pit, Palutena, and the other soldiers from the archers behind them. Glancing to his left, Pit could see clouds of arrows being loosed from Hill B. Far to the left, he could see Packrat's sentry guns unleashing a light show of lasers that was completely obliterating the ranks of Primids in front of them. To the right, another withering storm of lasers from the Mii Gunners flashed through the air at the enemy.

"Keep shooting!" commanded Marth loudly as the archers continued to devastate the front lines of Primids. Pit suddenly felt Palutena elbow him.

"They're getting close. We'd better be ready," said Palutena.

"Of course, Lady Palutena!" said Pit.

Pit's grip tightened around his bow, before generating a hardlight arrow and drawing his bow, holding it for just a moment before loosing it at the incoming enemy.

Next to him, Palutena fired off several beams of light from her hands as the enemy drew closer.

Pit began to pick up the pace of his shots, shooting as quickly as he could at the expense of pinpoint accuracy as the Primids began coming closer and closer.

As they did, some grey, tank like robots began to push their way to the front, and Pit stopped shooting in favor of splitting his bow and readying his blades for whatever these tank things were going to try and do.

The battle was now upon them.

On Hill D….

"Hey! What's that?" shouted Corrin, pointing at the line of enemies. Simon raised an eyebrow as scores of Primids melted back into Subspace particles from the Mii Gunner's fire to reveal several stout metal boxes that rolled forward towards them on tank treads. Dozens of lasers struck the armor of the tanks, but fizzled out harmlessly.

Simon cleared his throat before booming, "It is our turn now! For freedom and justice!"

"Fire Missiles!" bellowed Corrin, and the Miis shot off a storm of arm cannon rockets through the air. The combined explosions were quite impressive, but the damage was minimal.

Corrin grit his teeth, as the cloud of aerial enemies that had risen from behind the enemy now began to get close enough to start shooting balls of electricity at them. Something had to be done about that.

Corrin quickly raised his voice. "Miis! Aim for the aerial enemies! Fire! Smashers, we'll take on the tanks!"

And with that, Corrin strode up to the front line and quickly surveyed the situation. Simon and Richter were already reading their axes, while Pac Man prepared his throwing keys, and Game and Watch readied his bombs. With a mighty war cry, Simon began hurling axes at one of the metal tanks. Richter followed suit quickly, as Pac Man and Game and Watch began to focus fire on some of the other tanks. Their axes slammed into the side and embedded themselves into the hulls of the tanks.

Corrin's eyes widened as large claws deployed from roofs of the tanks that had rolled up nearly to the barricade. One of them attempted to snatch him, but he sidestepped the attempt while drawing his twin swords and sliced cleanly through the connector holding the claw, severing it from the vehicle. He glanced along the barricade to see a few unfortunate Miis flailing in the grasp of the claws. Quickly, Corrin uncorked one of the bottles of water at his belt and moved the water into the air with a quick flick of his hand. Shaping it into a large icicle and freezing it in place, he shot it at one of the connectors of a claw that had grabbed one of the Miis. The icicle impaled the connector, shorting out its circuit and causing it to drop the flailing Mii. He fell heavily to the ground, where one of his comrades helped him to his feet and away from the frontlines.

Corrin snapped his fingers and the icicle immediately melted back into water. Changing its shape into that of a spiked ball, Corrin slammed it as hard as he could into the exposed electrical parts of the tank he'd damaged earlier. It seemed to do some damage, but before he could do any more, Game and Watch hurled several bombs at the tank, causing it to explode. Corrin looked on in frustration as he saw Primids swarm the smoking remains of the tank as if it wasn't even there.

The Primids quickly made their way to the barricade past the tanks but were unable to climb over or through it. Corrin let out a breath of relief and turned his attention to one of the other tanks, which was trying to attack him with its extendable arm. He called the remaining amount of water back to him, formed it into a spiked ball again, before freezing it and shooting it at the pincer of the arm. It knocked the claw back a little from the impact, shattering into pieces as it did. Corrin quickly drew his sword and slashed the air in front of him, shooting off a wind blade that sliced through the connector of the arm to the pincer. Suddenly the tank split in half down the middle and popped open a little bit to reveal a greenish blob-like creature on the inside of the tank. Without a second's delay, Corrin shot off another wind blade, slashing the creature and seemingly killing it. After a moment, the tank suddenly collapsed back into Subspace particles.

Corrin inhaled but stopped suddenly. Something smelled strange. He sniffed the air.

"Fire! They're attempting to burn the barricade!" he shouted. He quickly uncorked another one of his water bottles and moved the water into the air, ready to assist. He quickly spotted one place where the flames were starting to grow. Immediately, Corrin doused it with his water, putting out most of the fire. Through one of the gaps in the barricade, Corrin could see a confused looking red Primid. After a second, the creature began breathing fire again. With no hesitation, Corrin gathered the remains of the water before it got absorbed into the soil, shaped it into an ice spear, and impaled the Fire Primid with it. He looked up to see other parts of the barricade on fire. Some distance away, Simon and Richter seemed to be doing their best to ignore the smoldering barricade in front of them, as they began striking at the Primids with precise whip strikes over the barricade.

"Hey!" came a shout from behind him. Corrin looked up to see Pac Man and Game and Watch.

"Out of the way, I'm getting set up!" said Pac Man, hefting a fire hydrant, ready to douse the fires.

Suddenly a ball of electricity shot past him. Corrin, Pac Man and Game and Watch looked up to see that despite the Miis best efforts, some of the sentient clouds had managed to close the distance.

Corrin quickly sheathed his sword, and uncorked another water bottle.

"I've got the flyers, focus on the fires!"

Hill B…..

"Oh, COME ON!" bellowed Boyd in frustration. Peach winced slightly at his volume. "First they're burning the barricade, and now the flying things are here!"

"The clouds are called Spaaks and the squid things are Armights! The tank things are called Armanks!" shouted Peach over the din of battle.

"Shinon! Rolf! Can you deal with the flying stuff?" shouted Ike as he continued to shoot wind blades into the air.

"Too many!" yelled Shinon. "We can only shoot so fast!"

"We could use some help too!" shouted Virion.

"Gaius! Can you do something about the fire?" shouted Fredrick.

"Working on it!" shouted Gaius.

Fredrick nodded. "Vaike! Lon Qu! Help him out! Everybody else, cover them!"

"Mia! Boyd! You help too!" yelled Ike.

The Greil Mercenaries, Shepherds and Smashers took a few steps back from the smoking barricade, hurling javelins and hand axes, shooting arrows and slashing wind blades. Peach aimed her parasol and began firing the blaster hidden in the tip of her umbrella, striking down several of the Spaaks and Armights.

Peach caught a glint of steel out of the corner of her eye and blocked in the incoming strike from one of the Armights with her parasol. Quickly unfurling her parasol, she blocked the next two strikes with the open parasol before blasting the offending Armight through its center of mass with a laser.

Peach whirled on her heel, parasol at the ready. Inspired by spy umbrellas, it could stop bullets, fire lasers, act as an impromptu parachute, serve as a melee weapon, and do it all with style. She took a quick look around.

Gaius, Boyd, Mia, Lon Qu, and Vaike were busily trying to keep the fire from spreading by beating the flames with long cloths.

Some distance away, Gatrie and Kellam stood shoulder to shoulder, spearing primids through gaps in the barricade with their lances.

"Hey! They got fire guys breathing fire on the barricade from the other side! We need the archers!" shouted Gaius.

Shinon snorted with frustration as he, Rolf and Virion rushed up to the barricade. "Awful presumptuous of you, Cookie Monster. Consider yourself lucky that I hate these guys more then you."

"Hey! Who are you callin' Cookie Monster? 'Cause it's your sorry butt that's in trouble if these barricades get burned down," snapped Gaius.

Peach shook her head. There was no time for this. "Gentlemen. If you don't get this fire out, we're all in trouble. Can we get along to do that? The rest of us will handle the flyers, go and help at the barricade."

"Sorry about that! Shinon can get pretty crabby sometimes," apologized Rolf over his shoulder as he moved towards the barricade.

"Feh. Whatever," grumbled Shinon, before firing an arrow through one of the gaps in the barricade.

Peach shook her head, before returning her focus to the aerial enemies that were still circling around their heads. Hopefully they'd be able to work together long enough to not get all of them killed.

At the bridge….

Robert nearly jumped when his radio crackled to life.

"Robert! Can you get your people in the air?" said Chrom.

"Of course," said Robert. "What are they handling?"

"The giant cloud of aerial enemies above us!" said Chrom.

"Copy that," said Robert. "You hear that boys?"

"Loud and clear, Captain," said Wolf. "We'll show these Subspace freaks a thing or two about modern firepower. Ain't that right, Star Wolf?"

"They will be no match for us," said Leon confidently.

"Good," said Chrom. "Clear those skies, and stat!"

As he deactivated his radio, Robin heard a shout from Solo.

"Primids! They're here!"

"What!?" snapped Robert. He rushed outside the guard's house to see a sizable force of Primids massing out of the woods, and beginning to charge.

Drawing his pistols, Robert ran up to support Solo and the others on the frontlines.

"All right people, brace for impact!"

On Hill B….

"Fall back! Fall back to the second barricade!" shouted Peach. Ike just grunted and fired off a sword beam into the mass of primids in front of the now flaming barricade as the Shepherds and Greil Mercenaries made their way up the hill. Peach quickly followed suit as Ike swung his sword and fired another sword beam.

"Ike! We're retreating!" shouted Peach.

"And I'm covering your retreat! When you get up there, cover me on my way up!" shouted Ike.

"You're crazy!" snapped Peach as she dashed up the hill side, leaving Ike alone at the barricade. To his left, a part of the barricade was smashed in. Ike looked over to see Metal Primids smashing a breach through the barricade. Thankfully the swarm of aerial enemies had thinned significantly after Star Wolf had taken to the air, as most of them had moved to fight the pilots in a titanic dogfight. Shaking his head, Ike dashed over to the breach and rammed his sword through one of the Metal Primids as they managed to clear a breach large enough for them to pass through. Ike wound up a swing and unleashed a powerful slash, cutting down at least five, before hefting the sword over his head and firing off another wind blade at one of the few remaining Spaaks, taking it out of the sky.

"Ike, get up here now! You're about to get cut off!" shouted Peach over the radio as Metal Primids burst through another section of the barricade. Ike didn't have to be told twice, seeing other breaches in the first barricade being smashed through.

"On it," said Ike. And with that, he turned on his heel and sprinted up the hillside.

On Hill C…..

Pit fired arrows as fast as he could as Lady Palutena and Marth dashed up the hill, covering their retreat. He could only create hardlight arrows so fast after all. Despite this, the purplish hoardes of Primids were slowly advancing past the now smoldering first line of barricades, no matter how many arrows he shot. It felt endless. Palutena stopped next to him, before raising her hand, generating a sphere of light above her hand.

"Beam of Justice!" she shouted as the sphere fired off a powerful laser, devastating any Primid caught in its sweep.

Pit's eyes caught several glowing lights in the purplish masses ahead of him. Pit's hair stood on end.

"Lady Palutena! Scope Primids! Get back!" he shouted, stepping forward. Using his hardlight powers, he focused the light into a shield in front of him.

"Guardian Orbitars!"

The shots impacted the shield that he made, shaking it but not breaking it.

"Pit! Hold your orbitars up!" shouted Palutena as light began gathering in her outstretched hand.

"Daggers of Light!" she shouted, firing a storm of small but accurate daggers of light at the Scope Primids who were shooting at them.

Pit grit his teeth as more shots impacted his Guardian Orbitars.

"Lady Palutena, I don't know how much longer I'll be able to keep this up!" said Pit worriedly as more shots struck his shield.

"Switch with me!" said Palutena, stepping in front of him. "Aegis of Light!"

A powerful hardlight wall in the shape of a shield appeared in front of Palutena, blocking the hits with ease.

"Take them out, and quick!" she said.

Pit didn't have to be told twice and he quickly set to dispatching the gunners, firing arrow after arrow in rapid succession, striking down several Scope Primids before they could react. He glanced behind them to see Marth and the soldiers scrambling behind the second barricade.

"Pit! Don't lose focus! We need to buy them a little more time!"

"Sorry Lady Palutena!"

On Hill A….

Packrat slapped a new energy cell into his LMG before aiming carefully down the sights. The sentry guns were still ripping massive holes through the enemy forces. Sure, he and Skylark had to pick some Scope Primids, and a few of the sentry guns had gone down to them, but overall, it hadn't been too bad.

Packrat glanced to the other hills where he saw smoke and the others retreating up the hill. Turning his glance back to the battlefield, he spotted catapults being moved through the enemy forces in each column. They seemed to be holding test tubes with some spherical, colorful creatures inside.

He turned on his comms.

"Hey Chrom. Seems like you're getting pushed back. Dunno if you've seen those catapults? If you need us to come support you, Skylark and I can move."

"I see them, Packrat," said Chrom. "We'll hold our own hills, you're good where you are. Looks like they're going to spring the Bytans on us. They can replicate themselves, so if you see any, make sure to take out all of them."

"Got it. What about you?"

"We're ok for now. Though I'd imagine that they're going try and push us while we try and take out the Bytans. We're not out of options yet though, I think its time for us to spring our ambush. Standby in case we do need you, all right?"

"Copy that," said Packrat.

Packrat sighed and glanced over the battlefield again.

"He said no?" asked Skylark.

"Yeah."

"They're going to be all right. They didn't become Smashers because they couldn't fight," said Skylark.

"I know. I still don't like it. Chrom better know what he's doing," grumbled Packrat.

"I hope so too…."