A/N: Into a New Year 2017! If you have made it this far, thank you! Please, I take comments as well! I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Chapter 58: Survivors

6:00 A.M.

Two strangers that were new to the Smash Mansion arrived at an early morning. The only thing left of the Smash Mansion were only left overs of the house itself and numerous memories. They tramp around the area, investigating this apprehended incident.

Flora walked up to her brother, still watching her steps from the pieces of stone and wood. Haru stared at the large clump of wood and other materials that somehow looked like a piece of abstract art. Haru observed the area around him as he spoke. "So, there was another war here. Thank God I wasn't in this kind of situation. . ." He muttered at the end.

Flora sighed and closed her eyes, smelling only the burnt air around her. "I can only hope for our dear sister to be alive. . . If she were to die at such a young age. . . I wouldn't know what to do. . ."

"Suicide will call my name." Haru cracked a dark smile while chuckling out a bitter laugh.

"That's going too extreme!"

They continued to trail around the area. "So this was left of this called Smash Mansion. . . it's all in ruin." Haru picked up a piece of the mansion. "Just looking at the stone, some type of bomb caused this."

"I see a corpse, Brother." Flora told him. Haru walked up to her to see the corpse. It wore a black cape with the initials of 'DK'.

"The same uniform from Niho." Haru noticed its black cape with the same designing textures, "So there were Dark Knights here as well. . ."

Flora angrily shook her head. "Mikoru even left his own soldiers to die. The fools were deceived. This guy looks hella burnt."

"Let's look for survivors." Haru suggested. And they both continued to walk around. So far, there wasn't a single person in site. Haru admired the huge space that was the mansion, grinning to himself. He found some portraits of Smashers and some broken tea cups. Just so many things all gone to waste. Flora spotted another corpse and called out to her brother. Haru answered by jogging up to her and asked a question which triggered Flora so badly.

"Is it Makato?" He asked, staring at the unknown body.

Flora made a knee shot to Haru's cheek bone, sending him flying across the rebel. Flora made sure her attack was powerful enough to make her older brother cry. "How could you say that?!" Flora pointed to the corpse, "It's a Dark Knight, he just died in a weird position." Haru came back with a random ice pack to his cheek, checking the body once more. And the body was in a weird position. It looked like a humping position.

"Um. . .Let's look for survivors, Flora. . . at least the people who lived her."

"Okay, okay." Flora said.

June 1st

8:00 A.M.

The Smash Mansion's location was basically private land so barely anyone would take walks around the area. No progress was made so far. The two siblings kept on searching and looking for 2 hours so far.

Haru stretched his arms up to the bright, blue sky as he laid his back on the ground. "Flora, I'm hungry. Want to take a break? I could go for a Mountain Dew and Cheetos break."

"There's something there. . ." Flora wasn't sure what it was as she muttered.

"What did you say?" Haru got up from his back lazily.

She repeated herself with a pissed off tone. "I said there's something there." Flora pointed to the unknown moving object that was wandering foolishly around the destroyed area. Haru came up to her and saw the strange. . . pink object moving with its red rubber-like feet and its stubby pink hands. The two siblings both hid and spied the strange alien thing behind some big blocks of rebel.

Haru find the thing very cute as his eyes sparkled. "Aw~! It's sooo cute!"

Flora rolled her eyes, "Don't be deceived brother, it's probably a demon in disguise."

"It's a ball of cuteness!" Haru squealed. "I wanna touch it!"

"It's your funeral if it kills you! Just look at its eyes! Sparkling with evil. . ."

"That thing is an angel!"

"A Devil!"

"Angel!"

"Devil!"

"Angel!"

"Devil!"

"Angel!"

Flora and Haru continued to argue about the pink ball. The pink ball creature began to feel uneasy. His mouth looked so packed so suddenly, and his cheeks began to fill up rapidly. They both observed its strange actions.

"It looks like it's about to vomit." Flora said.

"Take a deep breath, Cute-chan!" Haru loudly whispered.

"Don't say weird stuff!" Flora snapped.

"His mouth is getting bigger!" Just like Haru's grin kept on getting wider and wider. Finally the alien thing vomited in just a loud and noisy way. It was disgusting for Flora but cool for Haru. And then they both realized, it wasn't just vomit that left from his mouth, but other people. Lots of people. They were both shocked.

"Cute-chan spat out people!"

"This is weird. . . I don't really get it." Flora didn't understand the creature and why he had people in his mouth. The group of people looked like they were waking up from a bad dream, slowly getting up to stretch their aching muscles.

"I think these are the Smashers! Cute-chan must have saved them!" Haru exclaimed. Flora wanted to be excited about that part, but she had to shush up her brother before the unknown people find out their hiding spots.

Zelda woke up and lifted her upper body. "Am. . . I alive? What just happened?"

"Why do I feel so slimy?" Pit was grossed out. Fox agreed. "You tell me."

"Don't worry! Squirtle will clean us all!" Red said. And Squirtle did. Every Smasher was cleaned.

"Could they really be the Smashers?" Flora murmured.

Haru was forced to whisper because of her threats. "To survive such madness. . . This is the power of Cute-chan!"

"I think you mean the power of the Smashers." She corrected him. She turned to the crowd. "It looks like they're settling down, let's observe."

"I believe Kirby just saved our lives. . ." Zelda came up with a conclusion. Everyone stared at the puff ball, thinking how was that possible.

"He's so considerate." Peach smiled.

"Thanks, Kirby!" Roy grinned.

Kirby still smiling said, "It you guys died, I'm not paying for the damages."

No one said anything, right after someone said, "Wow" in a sarcastic way.

Kirby's cheeks puffed up once more and he looked very uncomfortable.

"Kirby is about to have another barf attack!"

"BLEH!" He spat out some other junk and something that was indestructible for him to disgust. Flora and Haru recognized one person out from the Smashers. Miru. Such time had passed since they last saw Miru. . . and Mikoru.

"Is that, Miru?" Flora said.

"I see him!" Haru said. They had hope. If he was alive, then probably their sister was alive as well!

"Wait, he looks. . . sad. . . confused. What happened?" Flora wanted to know. Miru took slow steps after he had just finally gotten up. During the fight with Mikoru and Michelle, he was still in a shock right after.

'Michelle is my MOM?! No! That can't be! Wait, Makato is gone and how did I left that happened? What do I do?!' He got on his knees. He just wanted to die now. Ike walked up to him patting his shoulder for his attention. Miru turned his head to see the mercenary with a blank face.

"Ike. . ."

Ike smirked. "You're not alone, Miru. We'll save her together."

Miru wanted to cry. "Ike. . ."

"Also, I want revenge." Ike made his hands into a fist. Clearly, Ike wasn't ready to take a bomb for an answer of him losing to Mikoru. Marth was happy that Ike wasn't bawling his eyes out or anything that would seem very out of character. He turned to Roy who was talking with Pit and Lucario. Then, he turned his head to Zelda. The prince noticed her staring into the distance. Marth walked up to her. "Zelda, what are you staring at? Or where?"

"This." She answered.

"What's 'this'?"

"This!" She turned her body toward Marth, showing a small, brown chest.

"What's that? Some kind of treasure chest?"

Many Smashers gathered around Zelda, for they too were curious.

"This is. . . Makato's secret weapon!" She spoke in a loud voice.

Flora and Haru took glances of each other. "Makato's-"

"Secret weapon?" Haru finished. "I don't see her, where is she?!"

Zelda began her explaining. "She told me to keep it if anything were to happen. She planned to use this on Mikoru in case of an emergency. . . Just like this."

"Makato thought ahead of time." Marth frowned.

Ike turned to Kirby and placed his foot on his head. "And here, Kirby almost digested the thing."

"Poyo." Kirby's pink skin looked even more pale than ever. Ike arched an eyebrow. It wasn't like Kirby to be acting so strangely.

"What's up with you?"

"BLEH!" Ike was able to dodge the vomit that was projected far away. A slimy body crashed landed right in front of Flora and Haru, both surprised and terrified at the same time.

"Another soldier. . ." Flora sweat dropped, staring at the covered body.

"Cute-chan, that's so rude!" Haru cried out.

"Maybe Kirby just needs some rest. Not to mention, I'm tired myself." Pit said, shrugging.

"It's already morning, though." Ness said. "Sleeping is for the night time."

"Aren't you tired too?" Pit said to the kid. Ness yawned and rubbed his eyes. "I'm wide awake as usual."

"Bish, please!" Toon Link shook his head.

"But sooner the better we will be able to rescue Makato." Ness said. He did had a good point there.

Marth then said, "Mikoru's probably tired too. Even the enemy needs some resting. Referring to Bowser. . ." Marth turned his head to Bowser who nodded. "True." He growled.

Zelda smiled. "Yes, we must gather our energy. Let's be ready for tomorrow."

Everyone agreed to get some rest for the day, leaving their rescue plan for tomorrow.

"BLEH!" Kirby happened to spit out Master Hand and Crazy Hand. Everyone was disgusted, including the siblings who watched.

"Looks like they're good." Haru said, watching the Smashers mingle amongst each other. Flora sighed sadly. "So Makato was taken from Mikoru. . . that boy."

"I knew training him was a regretful decision!" Haru clenched his fist and pounded on the body that was puked not to long ago. "Whoops. . ."

"So, about the Smash Mansion. . ." Link spoke to Mario.

"Don't worry, Kirby can fix it. . . I think. . ." Mario answered, scratching his hair. He turned to Kirby who passed out. "Mama mia. . ."

"I'm thinking of a cafe, want to join me?" Marth asked Ike.

"Sure." Ike answered, thinking of nothing else to do.

Roy wrapped his arm around Marth. "I"ll come too!" He cheered.

"No one invited you, Roy." Ike eyed him.

"Huh?! Marth can I come?" The redhead pouted.

"If you behave yourself." Marth said with a condition. Roy rolled his eyes and removed his arm from Marth's shoulders. "I'm not a kid anymore!"

"Should we invite Miru?" Marth thought outloud.

Ike shook his head. "I think he needs some time for himself."

Some decided to get food, others just slept on a nearby gravel. Haru was getting bored watching the Smashers.

"We should rest, just like they are." Haru suggested, stretching his arm.

". . ."

"Flora?" Haru noticed her sister staring at the puked body.

"This Dark Knight is still breathing." She spoke darkly. "Should we kill him?" Urging to pull out her spear. During their escape out of Niho, they also brought their custom made weapons that was able to infuse magic power in.

"No." Haru said, adjusting his twin blades. "I say we torture him."

Miru couldn't help but to hear many rustling and noises from a distance as he was talking to Lucas. He turned his head to the direction of where the noises were coming from. From such a far distance, Miru was able to see two figures. Humans to be exact. One had blonde hair in a ponytail, the other had black, spiky hair with one of its bangs covering its eye. He recognized those two hair colors and styles before. He walked up to them slowly, his heart was racing. Lucas watched Miru from a far.

Miru spoke in a feeble voice. "Is it really you guys. . .?"

Haru and Flora watched him walk slowly up to the them, surprised. "Is that?!" Flora was out of words.

"Who's that boy? He looks so familiar. . ." Haru said.

"That's Miru, dumbass!" Flora exclaimed.

"OH!" Haru's face brightened up. "Miru! How's it going! We're not eavesdropping or anything!"

The two siblings noticed Miru's tears and they both began to panic.

"Oi! Hey! Why the tears?!" Haru frowned.

Flora nodded. "Y-yea!"

"Do you really miss me that much?!"

Miru tried wiping the current tears away from his face, but new tears would be appearing right after. Miru gave up and fell onto his knees. "I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. . . I'm such a horrible friend! Makato! Makato. . . she's gone because of me. Mikoru took her and I didn't do anything! Forgive me. . . I'm sorry. . ."

Haru was very confused and he couldn't take the apologizing just straight out of nowhere, so he ran up to him to make sure he wasn't acting strange.

"Hey, hey! Calm down! Explain to us what happened here!" Haru wanted answers more than ever. Just seeing him cry, it wasn't like him. Even though he only seen Miru as a child.

"Ah, I see. . ." Haru nodded, understanding the situation that happened in the Smash Mansion. "You tried your best, don't worry."

Miru sighed, at least her siblings weren't angry at him. Miru looked at the two faces once more, eying them directly. "Were you guys eavesdropping?" Miru just wanted to know how long they have been hiding. Flora then simply answered, "Collecting information."

". . .Okay."

"It's been a long time has it?" Haru laughed off the awkward silence.

Miru sighed, "The Smashers won't bite, you can fill us in on what happened at Niho. Also Flora, what were you guys doing with that. . . person earlier?"

"Torturing." She answered with an angry expression.

Miru sweat dropped. "There's no need for that. . . yet."

The three of them kept on talking and talking, and soon one by one, the Smashers would come back to the rekted Smash Mansion after they took their quick breaks. When most of the Smashers gathered up once more, the two strangers introduced themselves as Prince and Princess of Niho and their powers. Prince of Fire and Princess of Lightning. They also explain the war back at Niho.

Zelda made her explaining to everyone in general. "The only way to save Makato and Niho is to defeat Mikoru. I believe Makato herself, has found a solution that would only be used as an emergency. The Golden Flower Goddess."

"What in the world is the Golden Flower Goddess?" Pit asked.

"It's a potion-spell." Zelda said. "I think. . . It wipes out magic. . . according to what Makato said. Something like that. . ." Zelda presented the indestructible box to everyone. "Her notes and the ingredients to make the goddess are in here. We just need two more ingredients. . . The Holy Water and a Fire Dragon Scale."

Haru was hiped. "Just those two and to hell with Mikoru, huh?!"

Flora was kinda embarrassed of her annoying brother and sighed. "Once we get those two ingredients, we can head to Niho." Zelda smiled proudly.

"Alright!" Pit cheered.

"Count me in!" Roy cheered as well.

"We should get them as soon as possible." Haru suggested, feeling very pumped up.

Flora acknowledge her brother's plan. "Who knows Mikoru's plan. And what he wants with Makato."

Miru asked Flora, "Are my brother and father alright?"

Flora stared at his blue concerned eyes and replied back with her up most honest answer. "All I can say is it's up to your imagination."

Marth was standing right next to Ike and he noticed the mercenary quiet silent so far. "Hey, Ike, you've been awfully silent. Too nervous to talk to your brother and sister-in-law?" Marth smiled cheekily.

"Marth, sometimes you may say the dumbest things. . ." Ike responded, irritated.

"Hey," Haru called out to Marth. Marth was able to mark to person who called out to him.

"You're a pretty handsome man." Haru grinned, complimenting his flawless looks.

"He's a guy."

"I'm a guy!" Ike and Marth corrected the young adult. Marth then realized for himself that Haru didn't call him a girl.

"Someone actually knows I'm a guy!" Marth cried tears of joy.

"That's the first. . ." Ike muttered.

"Hey," Haru called out to Ike. Immediately, Ike made eye contact with him. This time, Haru walked up to Ike while giving him a compliment. "You look like someone who can kill even a goddess!"

Ike didn't know how to respond to that, instead, he just nodded his head.

"I'm Haruhi. . . or Haru. Most people call me Haru for short. It's not like the author forgot that my name was actually Haruhi and not Haru. It's like Shakespeare. . . you'll study that shit after a few hundred years of his secrets and stuff. Oh! And by the way, I'm Makato's older brother." He told the two swordsmen. After they both had greeted themselves, Haru then asked another question. "Do guys happen to know my sister? I'm sure you guys are good friends with her!"

Marth gave a long look to Haru. "Y-yes! We're very good friends! She's so nice and sweet and-"

"Ah! Wonderful! Glad to hear!" Haru shook Marth's hand very excitedly. Marth was just worried on Ike's behalf. How would he answer that question from Haru. Or Haruhi. . .

Marth had to elbow Ike since he wasn't responding to Marth's answer with him. "Ike, aren't you going to say something?"

"I can't say that I'm her friend, Haru-hi-sir." Ike spoke to her brother.

"What do you mean?" Haru got his attention real fast.

"Well. . . Let's say Makato and I are more than just friends. . ." Ike said.

"Best friends?" Haru arched an eyebrow.

Ike grinned. "I'll give you a hint, scramble the word, SLOWER and replace the letter W with V and put the S at the end of R."

"SLOWER. . . replace the letter W with V. . . put S in front of R. . ." Haru muttered, trying to crack the puzzle. It took him about five minutes to figure out what Ike was trying to say.

'Oh, God, Ike. Don't make this worst. . .' Marth mentally face palmed. Haru was back to the real world and grinned, surprisingly. "Oh!" That was Haru's response when he stretched his hand for Ike's. Ike shook his hand in a respectful way. Just when Ike wanted to release his hand, Haru wouldn't let go. Something was getting warmer and warmer till it became a hot and burning sensation. Ike glanced down at his hand with Haru's and noticed he was trying to catch Ike's hand on fire.

"Oh! Ike, was it?" Haru's smile seemed very fake. "Who in the hell gave you the blessings of becoming her boyfriend?"

'He snapped! Oh God! He snapped! I knew he wouldn't like to here her sister having a boyfriend!' Marth panicked mentally.

Ike stood calm, in fact, he only showed a mischievous smirk to the guy. "'I'm a free spirit. I do free spirit shit. So please, don't look at me confusingly just gaze at me and wonder and maybe you too will draw inspiration from MY ECCENTRICITIES.'"

"Ike, don't encourage him! Just stop it!" Marth yelled at the mercenary. While at that, Flora's temperature began to increase every time her brother did something insulting or stupid. That was when she exploded. "BROTHER! STOP IT!" A flash of lightning zapped Haru, and while Haru was clenching onto Ike's hand, he too go electrocuted. Some of the Smashers enjoyed the light show for a few seconds before it stopped.

Both men had their hair and skin as coal. Frozen from its attack.

"Why me?" Ike coughed out. Marth crossed his arms. "You deserved it!"

"Dear Sister, it was just a warm greeting. . ." Haru mumbled out to Flora.

"Warm greeting my ass!"

"More like a SHOCKING greeting! Haha! Get it?!" Roy laughed from his own puns and Haru couldn't help but to let out a bitter laugh. He stopped and got all serious when Ike was watching him laugh. "Be warned, I'm not letting you near my sister! Nor will I hand her over to a punk like you!"

From killing a goddess compliment, Ike popped a vein when Haru called him a punk. "Haha, give it your best shot!" Ike said.

"Um. . . I can cool you guys down, if you want?" A new fresh voice rang through many of the Smasher's and the sibling's ear drums. Well, aside from Kirby. They all turned their heads to the young man covered in a cloak.

"Who is that?" Marth asked, staring at the figure. Flora recognized the cloak and gasped.

"That Dark Knight has awoken once more!"

"Ah-! Wait-!"

"Silence, fool!" Flora gave the same treatment as she did to her brother and he collapsed right after the fantastic light show.

"Cute-chan! Digest him!" Haru commanded the little puff ball, assuming he can eat humans just after seeing him vomiting out live people.

"Poyo! Another meal!" Kirby cheered, running toward the burnt Dark Knight.

"Wait!" Zelda stopped Kirby with her magic as he was being lifted up into the air. She slowly placed Kirby back to the bumpy ground. "We need him as a prisoner."

"For what?" Miru said, confused.

"To know Mikoru's weakness!"

"Wasn't it the Golden Flower Goddess?" Samus said.

Zelda blinked a couple times and her face brightened up. "Oh yea! Kirby, eat him!"

"Aye!"

"Don't. . ." The Dark Knight awoke from the shock of his life. As he lifted up his hand, he showed mercy. "Don't. . . kill me. . . Please, spare me. . ."

Everyone stared at him. They only heard bullshit from the Dark Knight.

"I just want to see my family. . ."

"Fuck that! You killed most of us!" Pit exclaimed.

"Pit, we're all alive." King Dedede said.

"You guys destroyed our home!"

"Forgive me." The Dark Knight said. "What must I do to get your forgiveness?"

"Get executed." Snake answered.

"Get my Cloud!" Peach said.

"Peach, not the time!"

"Pay the damages of this building!" Mario said.

The Dark Knight nodded to Mario's punishment. "I can do that! I'm rich, I swear!"

"Ah, rich, huh?" Mario smiled under his mustache. "Then I would like a coffee to go with that."

"How could we know if he wouldn't do anything fishy?" Miru said.

"Don't worry, there's Flora." Haru smiled, showing him a thumbs up.

"Ok, then deal!" Mario shook hands with the Dark Knight.

"Thank you so much!"

"Well, sooner the better, this mansion can be new again. . ."

"Okay! Let's get going!" Zelda smiled brightly, holding the small chest. "First off, the Fire Dragon Scale!"

Flora had a suggested as she walked up to Zelda. "It will be faster if we split up to look for the two items and then come back here."

"Good idea. I'll go for the Holy Water, since it will require a special bottle."

"I'll go with you."

Two groups were made. One for the search of the Fire Dragon Scale, the other was to gather some Holy Water.

"Everyone in a group? Okay! Don't die! Come back less then the next day!" Zelda ordered.

"What is this, a RPG?" Meta Knight said under his mask.

"Ah, wait!" The Dark Knight was about to get left behind in the ruins of the Smash Mansion. "What about me?!"

Get moving, Dark Knight SCUM!" Flora appeared right behind him and he screeched. "Ah! I have a name-!"

"I don't give a flying fuck!" She snapped, giving him little lightning shocks to encourage him to quicken his pace. Ike and Haru were in the same group to get the Fire Dragon Scale. "Why are you in this group?" Haru eyed Ike. Ike returned the glare. "Look who's talking?"

"I got here first!"

Marth made the right decision to follow into Zelda's group for the search of Holy Water. He watched Haru and Ike arguing with one another. Marth sighed, "Ike has yet made another enemy. . . Sorry Makato, you're gonna have to believe we're dead for a few more days. . . maybe a week. . ."

A/N: Sadly, I did forget about Haruhi's real name. . . I had to look back at the previous chapters. ;p Thanks for reading! Till next time!