Super Smash Bros Battle of the Universe

by Brightglow

Since the beginning of creation, the universe is teeming with life and many worlds have born as a result but these worlds are separated from one another with the inhabitants of each worlds living their everyday life blissfully unaware of the existence of worlds other than their own... Until now.

109. Melancholy of the Fell Dragon

Smash Mansion - Conference Room

Earlier...

With Robin's wish Twink was able to stop time, allowing the heroes to formulate a plan to outsmart Validar.

"Okay, so to recap, Grima wanted the Chaos Emerald to stabilize his possession of Morgan, but naturally he will not stop there, once he regains his full power no doubt he wanted to bring destruction to the world." Robin started the conversation.

"And all of us agree with Sonic's plan, we pretend to give Grima the emerald, and destroy it at the right moment, which is the second Grima touched the emerald." Continued Aversa.

"That will leave Grima with just the emerald shards, that should be enough to stabilize his possession with parallel me, but with just a shard in his hand it will deprive him of the emerald full power." Added Morgan.

"But is that the outcome we want ? We may be able to hold Grima back, but it's just a temporary solution." Said Tiki.

"I'd say that's a smart plan, look i'll give you all a spoiler, nobody at Neo Subspace Army trusts Grima, but they still eed his help for the time being, so if Grima is in serious danger, Neo Subspace Army will come to his aid." Slogra revealed something shocking to the heroes.

"Wait ? Really !? They don't trust Grima !?" Exclaimed Robin.

"No, in Neo Subspace Army we first learn about each other, our pasts, our goals, our enemies, once everyone learn about Grima, they all know they want to stay away from Grima." Added Gaibon.

"So that tells us what ? Grima a black sheep of Neo Subspace Army ?" Asked Samus.

"Technically yes, any help given to him is rather minimal, while everyone else making alliances left and right, very few wanted to work with Grima." Said Slogra.

"Shadow Queen willing to work with Grima only because he's no threat to her, and also only for her own amusement." Continued Gaibon.

"Even with all this knowledge Neo Subspace Army still needs Grima, we don't know what kind of help Grima will get from them, but we can't take that chance, especialy with Shadow Queen on Ylisse." Explained Robin. "Unfortunately our best bet is to let Grima possess Morgan a little bit longer."

"You know Robin, there might be another way." Suggested Green. "If we're dealing with dragons like Red said, an Ice or fairy type pokemons are usually the solution." Green grabbed Jigglypuff and puts it on the table.

"You have a point, Jigglypuff is a fairy type right ? and not to mention it's singing can put people to sleep ! We can finish Grima that way while the others keep his followers busy ! Unlike the Warriors of Fallen Stars Grima isn't an undead so he can be put to sleep." Realized Morgan.

"That is an interesting suggestion, but our goal right now isn't to slay Grima, not yet at least, the goal right now is to stabilize his possession while keeping himself from returning to full power, that way with no serious danger comes to Grima, Neo Subspace Army doesn't need to send any backup to him." Explained Robin.

"Even I agree that is to most logical choice." Remarked Slogra.

"My father and I in the meantime return to Ylisse and confront the Shadow Queen." Said Lucina.

"This should keep the Shadow Queen busy, so she can't send reinforcement to Grima." Continued Chrom.

"We also need to keep her minions busy as well, so far we have to deal with the three dragons Hooktail, Doomtail, Bonetail, and the Shadow Sirens Vivian, Beldam, and Marilyn, and my Mario and Luigi." Said Paper Peach.

"Since we're dealing with dragons, having an Ice type Pokémon would give us better advantage which is why this time I'm coming, Green I think it's time we return each other's Pokemon." Blue give Green the pokeball with Venusaur inside.

"Okay." Green agreed as the two trainers return each other pokemon.

"Wait so, you two switched pokemon the whole time ?" Mac is surprised.

"Yeah, it's a part of our training, being comfortable in each other's pokemon." Answered Blue.

("I'm coming along as well.") Mewtwo offered to come. ("We're dealing with a large dragon and a demon, my power should suffice.")

"It's always reassuring to have the ultimate life form on our side." Blue grinning confidently as Mewtwo remained silent.

"Obviously I'm going as well !" Severa raised her hand.

"Severa ? Yeah, we will rescue Frederick and Cordelia." Promised Chrom.

"Not just her, all the Shepherds are coming with ! Declared Lissa as everyone's face makes it clear they're all behind Chrom.

"That said, how are we going to confront or even defeat the Shadow Queen ?" Asked Sumia.

"Last time Mario did it, he uses the Crystal Stars to defeat her, but we don't have any with us right now." Said Paper Peach.

"We don't see anything resembling stars either back when we're at the castle, do we really need those Crystal Stars to defeat her ?" Chrom started to hesitate.

"We have a Chaos Emerald, it's best if we try using it to confront the Shadow Queen." Zeekeeper teleported above the room.

"Zeekeeper ? Will you be willing to help us ?" Asked Lucina.

"I do, Shadow Queen is a threat that cannot be taken lightly." Zeekeeper also agreed to lend his help.

"Hmm maybe we can use the Chaos Emerald to expel Shadow Queen from Emmeryn's body without harming her." Suggested Palutena.

"Then I will take that chance !" Exclaimed Chrom, as he saw a hope.

"The problem remaining is the Crystal Stars." Continued Palutena

"After Mario defeat the Shadow Queen, he return the Crystal Stars back to the location where he found it." Said Paper Peach. "Although it's quite possible Shadow Queen retrieved the Crystal Stars to prevent it from being used against her."

"If that's the case she would have all Crystal Stars inside the castle, worst case scenario she doesn't have all the Crystal Stars yet she's able to harness their powers even from afar, and should that happen, I'll get you out." Said Zeekeeper.

"Here Chrom youre going to need this." Isabelle give Chrom a Chaos Emerald.

"Thanks Isabelle, I hope with this can save my country." Chrom puts the emerald in his pocket.

"Hey uhh...so this Shadow Queen, is she a being of darkness ?" Sora raised his hand.

"Well she is made of darkness, but maybe Shadow Queen isn't the same kind of darkness you fought against." Answered Paper Peach.

"Well different or not I want to take part as well, as a keyblade wielder it is my duty to protect the world from darkness !" Sora summoned his keyblade and strike a pose.

"Very well Sora, I'd like to see what you're capable of, and that keyblade, I'm very curious about it." Chrom look interested in the keyblade.

"Trust me you won't regret letting me come with, especially after you see me in action." Boasted Sora.

"I've seen the kid in action, and i im impressed, although I'm sure I haven't seen everything yet." Bayonetta vouching for Sora.

"Then I'm coming too, I know a thing or two about the Shadow Queen, I can help." Paper Peach offered to help.

"Okay, we're happy to have you on board Princess Peach." Chrom agreed on Paper Peach participation.

"So in conclusion, the ideal outcome is we're able to liberate Ylisse from the Shadow Queen and save Emmeryn while we at it, if not at the very least we're able to determine what kind of power we're dealing with." Stated Robin. "Which brings us to our mission to Plegia."

"Best case scenario were able to liberate Plegia, and expel Grima from parallel Morgan's body, should that not happen Grima still inhabit Morgan's body but we won't let him return to full power." Continued Robin. "But if we succeed in the former scenario Neo Subspace Army is going to get involved in Plegia.

"Curse it ! It's like being stuck between a rock and a hard place !" Complains Gangrel.

"Robin, do you think we can save my brother ?" Asked Say'ri.

"I am thinking of that, but what if Grima replacing Yen'fay with someone we don't know, are we going to take that risk ?" Asked Robin. "By resurrecting Warriors of Fallen Stars we obviously going to cripple their army, but if we do that there's no doubt the enemy will not make it easy next time we tried to revive someone."

"Unfortunately as those people bound by Thanatos's power, the moment someone is resurrected, Thanatos can feel his severed connection." Explained Palutena. "There's no doubt the moment he realize Warriors of Fallen Stars have been resurrected, he will going to make things difficult for us to save them."

"Robin there's something I'd like to ask." Gangrel raised his hand.

"What is it Gangrel ?" Asked Robin.

"About Grima, should the latter scenario happened what will become of Plegian citizens ? Won't the people still be sacrificed to Grima ? We pretty much reneged on the deal." Asked Gangrel.

"Right, that needs to be considered, having them migrated to Ylisse isn't possible at the moment." Robin looked at Chrom.

"Not only Shadow Queen is currently ruling Ylisse, there's also the fact that it hasn't been that long since Ylisse and Plegia cease fighting." Added Chrom. "So the animosity from previous war has not yet completely gone."

"What about Regna Ferox ?" Asked Sumia.

"We're from a desert country, going to a cold region like Regna Ferox would be impossible, our bodies wont be able to quickly adapt to the cold there !" Gangrel shot the idea down.

"Cherche what about Rosanne ?" Asked Lon'qu.

"Rosanne huh ? Depending on how many people migrate it could happen, I may have to talk to Virion about it." Said Cherche.

"So we're going to get Plegia citizens to leave the country then ?" Asked Tharja.

"We don't have a choice, we can't let Grima return to full power, no doubt should we do this Grima will demanding the Plegians be sacrificed to him, the only option is to get them leave the country, at least until Grima's dealt with." Said Robin.

"Excuse me everyone, but Death have something to say." Said Palutena.

A holographic projection of Death apppeared on the conference room. "I've heard of your plan."

"Good timing too, as a former member of Neo Subspace Army how do you think we're going about our plan ?" Asked Robin.

"No doubt you have heard from Slogra and Gaibon, Plegia is an important location, Neo Subspace Army will not let it go just like that, even if you defeat Grima Plegia will be targeted again, even if you managed to repel their invasion attempt, they have the manpower needed to continue their attacks, naturally considering the members of Neo Subspace Army, Plegian soldiers alone isn't enough to deal with them, they may need your help to fight." Explained Death.

"If they call for us for help, it would cut our forces." Said Morgan.

"Exactly, until then the attack on Plegia only serves as distraction to distract your forces, while Neo Subspace Army continue working on their goal." Continued Death.

"They have the manpower to split their forces but it won't impede them to continue their main plan." Pondered Robin.

"Neo Subspace Army have numbers as their advantage, underlings aside, most of them are forces to be reckoned with." Said Slogra.

"What else can you tell us ? Wait what about the black plates ?" Rosalina presented the black plate to Slogra and Gaibon.

"This is our answer against your golden plates, it was created by us, deities who side with Neo Subspace Army." Explained Death. "As you can see these things already distributed shortly before my defection."

"We're really sorry, but now that we're not with Neo Subspace Army anymore, we don't know the full details of their plans, well I'm talking about the individual members personal agendas as they dint know about the true purpose of Neo Subspace Army." Said Gaibon.

"We'll continue this talk later, we need to focus on the mission at hand." Robin steering the conversation back on track. "If we did evacuate the Plegian citizens, we already have an idea of sending them to Rosanne, but it's best to find another alternative just in case it's too much for just Rosanne to handle."

"If you'd like I don't have issues with them migrating to Chon'sin." Say'ri raised her hand.

"Thank you Say'ri, while I appreciate your help, isn't the last time Excellus attacking Chon'sin ? And isn't it too obvious for them to go there ?" Asked Aversa.

"This isn't good, Excellus is familiar with Valm geography, Grima can send him to Valm punish the escaped Plegians." Said Tiki.

"Isn't there any other place we can send them !? Is bringing them here out of the question ?" Asked Gangrel.

"Where in World of Trophy are going to send them ?" Asked Robin.

"Umm...there are vacant buildings in this world, i can show you where." Lucas raised his hand.

"The one where we met during my travel to recapture Ivysaur and Charizard ? I don't know Lucas, those buildings look abandoned and worn down." Replied Red.

"Well there is a castle that I use as a base when Subspace Army attacked, why don't we use that ?" Suggested Marth.

"Those were the days isn't it Marth, if anything that's the only time we managed to stop the Subspace Bomb from detonating." Reminisce Meta Knight.

"Sure is, so what do you say ?" Asked Marth.

"Sure Marth, let's a-use that castle instead." Agreed Mario.

"Hey, what about the Garden of Giants, sure it's an island close to Valm, but do you think that's a place Excellus even considered looking ?" Asked Chrom.

"The island where we met Priam right ? Yeah that would be an ideal location, there are Plegians among them right, hopefully they have a family member from Plegia as well." Said Sumia.

("Did Sumia say Priam ? If it's the same person then he's from their world.") Ike thinking to himself.

"Okay, so we have two options now, the Garden of Giants or here." Said Robin.

"If here, we have to a-help those people adjust to live here for a while." Said Mario.

"Okay, so we finished briefing with our mission to Ylisse and Plegia, this means the Shepherds will take part on the mission, and also Blue, Sora, Mewtwo, Paper Peach, Jigglypuff, Zeekeeper offered to join us."

"Here Robin, here's the emerald for your mission." Isabelle give Robin the green Chaos Emerald.

"Thank you Isabelle, we sadly have to make a sacrifice for a greater good." Robin put the emerald in his pocket.

"Now that the problem in Robin's world is figured out, what about the second transmission ?" Asked Ken.

"Ribbon Girl is a famous singer, but I didn't think she would be in league with Shadaloo." Said Mac.

"I think there's more to it than that." Meta Knight raised his hand.

"Did you all see the necklace that girl wear ?" Asked Dedede.

"What ? You think the necklace have anything to do with it ?" Questions Samus.

"We believe so, it seems the jewel on the necklace is made by using a Jamba Heart." Stated Meta Knight.

"What's a Jamba Heart ?" Asked Mac.

"It's an object sealed in Another Dimension that contains the evil deity called Void, the Jamba Heart is an amalgamation of negative energy able to corrupt anyone coming in contact with it, the Jambastion Cult once use it as a vessel to bring their deity to destroy the world." Explained Meta Knight.

"It looks like there's some remaining." Said Kirby.

"If we want to bring that girl back to her senses we have to destroy the necklace she's wearing." Said Dedede.

"If that's all then, I'm going." Ken offered to join this mission.

"So am I, Shadaloo may be a shell of its former self, but we can't let the organization reborn." Ryu also taking part.

"That man said he need a pure voice right ? To activate the Beanstar ? Then does that mean I should take part myself ?" Asked Peach.

"I have an idea, while Ken and Ryu distract the enemy by pretend to offer the Beanstar and Peach's voice, someone should destroy the necklace from a distance, preferably someone with great aiming skill." Suggested Hal.

"Count me in, I'm confident with my aims, my arrow should be enough to destroy the necklace, or at least remove it from her." (TP)Link offered to come as well.

"I will be coming along as well, my powers are suited for these type of things." (TP)Zelda also offered to take part.

"Okay, but next is how to deal with F.A.N.G, he has power over poison, so it would be difficult to just touch him." Explained Ken.

"If it's poison then..here." Green give two pokeballs to Ken. "Venusaur and Gengar are part poison type, so they're outright immune to poison itself."

"And here, take Espeon with you, poison type are weak against psychic type, although I'm not sure if pokemon strength and weaknesses applied to humans." Red hand over Espeon pokeball.

"Thanks, they'll be sure to help us out a lot." Ken and Ryu take the pokeballs and tucked it under their gi.

"So I guess we got everything figured out, should we head out ?" Asked Robin.

"Not yet, Robin I decided to go to Rosanne for a bit, I need to inform Virion of what's going on, and once I'm done I'll be sure to join you afterward." Said Cherche.

"Okay Cherche, do what you need to do first, then join us when you're done." Robin agreed to Cherche's request.

"Many of you just got back and have to take part in another mission already, you must be exhausted." Said Isabelle.

"No doubt the enemy banking on it, with us too tired to fight back, they can secure an easy win." Said Robin.

"Lucky for you, you found me just in time, how about another wish ?" Asked Twink. "Try a healing wish."

"Okay, Twink I wish all of us are fully healed." Robin makes his wish and Twink grants it, eliminating the heroes fatigue and tiredness.

"Wow I feel great ! It's like the exhaustion just went away !" Exclaimed Sully.

"We will be able to caught the enemy by surprise like this." Smirked Gaius.

"In order to conserve energy we should head to the castle immediately instead of storming the city." Suggested Chrom.

"Great idea, we should avoid unnecessary conflict." Agreed Robin.

"For some of us, let's summon our Wyverns and Pegasus first." Cherche summoned her Wyvern Minerva while Sumia and Cynthia, summoned their Pegasus with their golden plates.

"Alright, were all ready, now then let's move out !" Robin used his golden plate to teleport to Ylisse.

"We will also move out, let's go Ryu, Peach, Link and Zelda !" Ken picked up his golden plate to teleport himself, Ryu, Peach, (TP)Link and (TP)Zelda to confront F.A.N.G.

After both teams teleport away Twink's magic finally wore off and time is moving again.

Ylisstol Outskirts

Robin decided to teleport everyone to the city outskirts instead.

"That's the city, it doesn't seem to look any different since we left." Commented Chrom.

"We still need to be careful, who knows what the inside looks like." Warned Sumia.

"This is where we part ways for now, me, Aversa, Morgan, Tharja, Henry, Noire, Gangrel, Say'ri, and Jigglypuff will confront Grima." Said Robin.

"Okay, The rest of us will confront Shadow Queen and her minions." Said Chrom.

"Best of luck for the both of us, may Naga watches over us." Robin used his golden plate to teleport him and his team to Plegia.

"I'm also going, I'll come back here as soon as I can, and Minerva, you stay here, Gerome will need you more than i do." Cherche also used the golden plate to teleport to Rosanne.

"Just like we planned we will make our way to the castle immediately, by doing that we can mimize the number of people coming after us." Said Chrom.

The heroes nodded as Chrom used his golden plate to teleport to the castle.

Castle Gates

The heroes arrived, but directly at the outside of the castle gates.

"Strange, I intend for us to be inside immediately ?" Chrom seemed confused by the mislocation.

"I can sense a dark energy from the entrance, Shadow Queen must've cast a barrier around the castle !" Exclaimed Zeekeeper.

"It's...pretty strong." Miriel touched the barrier. "Not just any magic can remove the barrier."

"If only Henry and Tharja with us, dark magic is their specialty." Said Sumia.

"Hmm...have you ever considered using light to combat the darkness ?" Zeekeeper pointing out the obvious.

"Let me, I've been training in the mansion to improve my magic." As Libra emits a bright light from his hand, the soldiers noticed the heroes at the castle entrance.

"The enemy has arrive ! We must defend the queen !" The soldier rallied his comrades as they all charged the castle stairs.

"Up there !" Vaike pointed upward as a group of Pegasus knights also headed towards the heroes.

"I'll keep them busy, Libra keep going." Sumia fly upward to intercept the Pegasus knights.

"Wait mother I'm coming with you !" Cynthia followed Sumia to help her.

"There's too much soldiers for us to hold back !" Exclaimed Vaike as he keeps beating the incoming guards.

"And we can't kill them either." Sully also fighting several of the soldiers as well.

"I got this, Vaike ! Sully ! Move out of the way." Blue sent out Blastoise. "Blastoise use Surf, but hold back a bit."

As Vaike and Sully get out of the way, Blastoise obeyed as it summon a not so large wave and washed away the incoming soldiers.

Despite the water washed them away, the soldiers refuse to back down and keep coming back for more as they force themselves to fight the water current, the soldiers using their shield to push forward.

"Apparently not even a small sized tidal wave will force them to back down." Remarked Gaius.

"Chrom let me borrow the Chaos Emerald for a bit." Asked Blue.

Chrom obliged and give Blue the Chaos Emerald. Blue then sent out Exeguttor and touched the pokemon with the Chaos Emerald.

"Do you feel a surge of power within ? Then let's finish this." Blue is going to end this battle.

"Wait Blue ! Those soldiers are just brainwashed ! You will not kill them !" Stahl grabbed Blue on the shoulder.

"I'm not killing them ! I'm just putting them to sleep, Exeggutor use Hypnosis !" With Exeggutor empowered by the Chaos Emerald it's able to execute a mass hypnosis spanning the entire city, putting all civilians and soldiers alike to fall to sleep, regardless of eye contact.

Of course the hypnosis only for the ground soldiers, not the Pegasus knights as they're out of range .

Seeing Sumia and Cynthia still fighting, Blue sent out Pidgeot to assist them.

Pidgeot use Featherdance at the Pegasus knights as Sumia and Cynthia able to get out of the way.

The Pegasus knights that got touched by the feathers felt weak all of a sudden as if their strength dropping at a fast rate, the same goes for their Pegasus as well as the pegasus is feeling weak, realizing continue fighting is pointless by now, they're forced to retreat.

With the Pegasus knights fly away Pidgeot returns to Blue.

"Great job you three." Blue then put his pokemons back inside the pokeball.

"Blue ! That was amazing ! You're able to fend off our enemies without needing to kill them !" Ricken amazed by Blue's action.

"Pokemon have many non lethal moves, if you want to subdue your enemies non lethally, feel free to talk to me, i'll use the appropriate move depending on the situation." Said Blue.

"Okay Blue, we'll hold you up on that !" Ricken responded with excitement.

"Everyone, I managed to dispel the barrier." Said Libra as the heroes entered the castle.

Once inside Miriel decided to put a barrier at the entrance. "Having the soldiers follow us when they wake up will be bad for us."

Plegia Outskirts

Robin and his at the city outskirts like what happened in Ylisse.

"There don't seem to be any different about Plegia from here." Robin looking at Plegia. "Anyway let's go over the plan."

"I will open the portal to Purgatorio, which myself and some will enter." Said Bayonetta.

"Yeah, however Bayonetta, Sonic, Say'ri, and Jigglypuff will join me to enter Plegia Castle. Gangrel, Aversa, Morgan, Mewtwo, Henry and Tharja will evacuate the civilians away from here." Said Robin.

"Well Gangrel, it's time to show your charisma as a king and rally your people." Continued Robin.

"Seeing Gangrel actually leading actually looks funny." Aversa mocking Gangrel.

"Can it witch ! Ive been working my butts of trying to regain my people's trust, leave this part to me !" Gangrel confidently say he's able to pull this mission off.

"I'll use my magic to conceal ourselves, we'll make sure to get the people to safety." Said Aversa.

("I will do something about the guards, there's no way they will let the people leave the city en masse.") Added Mewtwo.

"Okay, it seems everything is settled, now lets move." Robin's and his team walked towards the city, with Bayonetta and several others in Purgatorio and Aversa using illusion magic to conceal themselves and to sneak in and entered the city normally as Validar pretty much tied their hands, if the heroes tried to act suspiciously a citizen will be sacrificed to Grima.

Waiting at the city entrance is general Mustafa. "I've been waiting for you, I'll take you to the castle." Mustafa then escorted the heroes to the castle.

"So Mustafa, it's been a while since we saw you at Askr...anything you can tell us about Grima ?" Asked Robin.

"Other than his condition, nothing I'm allowed to tell." Answered Mustafa. "So I see you came alone."

"Grima doesn't give any time to prepare so I grabbed the emerald and rushed on here, also i won't let any innocent civilians sacrificed to Grima." Explained Robin.

"You truly are a kind man Robin, you're willing to put yourself at risk to protect the people." Said Mustafa.

"Yeah, and it's this quality of mine that gave me an advantage over Grima." Boasted Robin.

As Robin walked alongside Mustafa, Robin looked around Plegia, but he's not just merely looking around, he's giving a glance to signal his teammates that it's time to separate from him and perform their missions. Mustafa doesn't suspect a thing.

"You know Mustafa, Plegia seems to be peaceful, i thought with Grima in charge this place would be a hellhole." Gangrel looked at his surroundings.

"Grima is at a weak state right now, his constant battle with Morgan will make him vulnerable to attack, that's why he avoids unnecessary conflicts, not to mention only Yen'fay, Validar, and myself are currently Grima's inner circle members in Plegia right now, we mind controlled several guards, but if the citizens were to rebel we will be overwhelmed, and truthfully nobody wants to live under Grima's rule, the Grimleals are the exception though." Explained Mustafa.

After a few more steps, they finally reached the castle entrance.

"Well here we are, I'm going to take you to the throne room immediately." Mustafa led Robin to the throne room and unknown to Mustafa, several of Robin's teammates who are in Purgatorio thanks to Bayonetta.

Plegia Castle - Throne Room

The heroes have arrived to the throne room where Grima sits, left to him is Yen'fay, while right to him is Validar.

Validar walked towards the heroes and greeted them. "Welcome to Plegia Castle, I hope you brought what we need."

Rosanne -Virion's Manor

Cherche return to Virion's mansion hoping to inform her lord of what's been going on.

She knocks on Virion's office door and a voice told her to come in, Cherche went inside. "I'm coming in."

"Cherche it's been a while." Inside the room is a man with long hair with elegant disposition befitting a noble.

"Yes, I'm back Virion, unfortunately I didn't come back here on a happy note." Sighed Cherche.

"What's the matter ? Dont tell me !? You and Lon'qu didn't have a...falling out do you ? To think after you two bring Gerome to this world he would've gotten used to be with a woman by now." Virion is disappointed in Lon'qu.

"That's not it, Lon'qu and I are just fine, I'm talking about Grima, he's back and he has shadowy organization backing him up." Clarified Cherche.

"Grima ? Hmm...perhaps that's why the Grimleals have been active as of late." Virion point out how active the Grimleal has been.

"Grimleal ? Virion, what happened here while I was gone !?" Cherche demanding to know as she rushed to Virion's office desk.

"I didn't want to worry you since you're going to spend time with your family, but it seems you deserve to know." Virion spill everything what's going on in Rosanne to Cherche, and not just Rosanne, but Valm continent as a whole.

"So you're saying there are Grimleal priests proselytizing in the continent ?" Asked Cherche.

"Yes, we managed to expose and capture some of them, but they always use their magic to teleport to escape." Explained Virion. "They are magic users, I wonder if I should send mages to deal with them."

"Although there is something in the reports that confuse me, its said that one of the Grimleal leaders resemble Excellus, but that's impossible, we saw him dead." Continued Virion.

"No Virion, Excellus might be the ringleader of the Grimleal activities in this continent and let me tell you why." Cherche explains what she has learned to Virion.

"T-that is...if what you're saying is true then.." Virion is at a loss for words.

"That's why I'm here, I need to tell you what's been happening." Said Cherche. "I will help to investigate, I guess I should tell Chrom I won't be able to make it after all."

Cherche grab her golden plate and contacted Chrom. "Chrom, Cherche here, I'm sorry but I'm unable to join you, apparently Excellus is causing problems here."

"It's okay Cherche, we got this, you go deal with Excellus." Said the voice coming from the golden plate.

"Thank you, and sorry." Cherche ended communication.

"Cherche what was that you do ?" Virion pointed at Cherche golden plate.

"This is a communication device, I'll tell you about it later." Said Cherche. "I'm going to look for the Grimleals, any report of their latest sightings ?"

"Yes, according to Intel they've been seen a lot around Fort Steiger." Answered Virion.

"Fort Steiger ? Isn't that where we fought Pheros, one of Walhart's generals ?" Asked Cherche.

"The very same, well that place has been abandoned, it makes sense for anyone especially shady people to use it as a hideout." Said Virion.

"Then there's where I should start looking." Cherche about to head out to investigate.

"Hold on, Cherche you're not thinking of going there alone do you ?" Virion grabbed Cherche's arm.

"Right, it's not smart to storm the enemy base all by myself, and i don't even have Minerva with me right now." Agreed Cherche.

"Which is why I'm coming along, I can't have my archery skills getting rusty now can't I ? And not to mention Lon'qu may cut me to pieces if something happen to you." Virion decided to join Cherche as he let go of her arm and grab his bow and arrow in his office.

"Are you sure you should be coming with me ? What about your duties here ?" Asked Cherche.

"I've done what needs to be done, being cooped up here with nothing to do won't do me any good anyway." Replied Virion.

"Fine, but even 2 people aren't exactly enough to attack an enemy base, so I'm calling for reinforcements." Cherche grabbed her golden plate and contacted Isabelle.

"Reinforcements ?" Virion look confused.

"Hello Isabelle, Cherche here, i would like to request reinforcements." The golden plate shows a hologram of Isabelle which shocks Virion.

"Sure, who do you need ?" Asked Isabelle.

"We might be dealing with mages, so is there anyone who has experience dealing with magic users ? And also I need psychic users as well, maybe someone with advanced technology too." Cherche specified her condition.

"Got it, I'll see who I can gather." Isabelle then cut off communication.

"Cherche what did I just saw ?" Asked Virion.

"I'm communicating with a friend from another world, turns out there are talking animals that is not a shapeshifter." Answered Cherche.

"And to think we've seen everything in Askr, turns out there's more to be seen." Remarked Virion.

"That's what all of us thought too." Agreed Cherche, clearly we havent seen everything.

Cherche golden plate makes a ringing sound as she picked it up.

"I gather the people you need, they'll be teleported to where you are now." Isabelle then teleported the heroes to Cherche location, there's Simon, Richter, Ness, Lucas, Krystal, Fox, and Falco.

"Need our help Cherche ?" Smiled Richter.

"We're dealing with cultists, most of them are mages, so I need an experts help." Said Cherche.

"Yeah, we don't really have experience dealing with magic using enemy." Fox raised his hand. "I guess Andross could count, but even then I use my ship to kill him."

"But they're likely to be unfamiliar with futuristic technology either that's why I call for you." Cherche explained why she call for Fox.

"I don't know, I'm sure those cultists already seen advanced tech through their association with Neo Subspace Army." Falco still skeptical.

"We still have to try, and Krystal, Ness and Lucas I need your psychic abilities to read their minds to figure out the rest of their plans." Said Cherche.

"Okay." The three agreed.

"Uuuhh...Cherche who are these people ?" Virion is still reeling from the shock.

"Virion these are my comrades from other worlds, and everyone this is Virion, the lord whom I serve." Cherche introduced Virion and the heroes to each other.

"This is quite much for me to handle, but if you have fought alongside Cherche and Chrom then I can trust you." Said Virion.

"Well we expect you to get used to us, I've heard there aren't any talking animals in your world right? At least ones that can't shapeshift." Snarked Falco.

"Yes, well I've been summoned to Askr where I've encountered many different races as well, I'm sure I can get used to ghis in no time." Virion regained his composure.

"So when do we move out ?" Asked Simon.

"Oh wait, I need to tell my aide I will be going out for a bit, be right back." Virion left the room to find his aide.

"Your master, he looks like a benevolent noble who cares about his people." Simon comment about Virion.

"Yeah, i agree with that, but he can be such a flirt whenever there's beautiful women involved, honestly I even wonder if he ever going to find someone to settle with at this rate." Sighed Cherche.

"Sounds like Falco alright." Joked Fox.

"And since when I've been a flirt." Falco smacked Fox's arm.

"Not a flirt, but more like the never seetle down type, well either way you better do something or someone might steal Katt from you." Fox messed with Falco even more.

"For the last time Katt and I are not like that !" Falco denying Fox claims she's face turns red in embarrassment.

"Lucky for me I found Annette, and we live a happily ever after I save her from Dracula." Richter reminisce the old days.

"Congrats man, of course Krystal and I aim for the same thing right." Fox smiled at Krystal.

"No need to ask the obvious Fox." Krystal hugged Fox, pretty much confirming her answer.

"Alright I'm back, we can leave anytime." Virion return to his office.

"Our destination is Fort Steiger, it was once used as a stronghold for Walhart the conqueror, the building hasn't been used since we defeated one of Walhart generals, so be careful, the enemy are most likely mages, they may have weird traps already in place." Cherche then teleport everyone to Fort Steiger.

Ylisse Castle

As the heroes storm the castle they were besieged by the castle guards, but they were all defeated by the Shepherds.

"We managed to knock them out cold, but once they wake up they will be coming for us." Chrom point out the gravity of the situation.

"Then it's my time to shine !" Zeekeeper unleash a wave of light that makes the soldiers fallen asleep. "They'll wake up in a very long time."

"Thank you Zeekeeper, this should buy us enough time." Chrom thanked the bird deity.

"Hey does anyone find it strange that we haven't encounter even one of the Shadow Queen minions ?" Asked Olivia.

"Come to think of it yeah, the enemy we encounter so far are just the brainwashed soldiers." Said Gaius.

"We haven't seen my parents yet anywhere." Complained Severa.

"I've detected familiar scents, no doubt about it it's Frederick and Cordelia's." Panne able to detect Frederick by her sharp nose.

"Really !? Are you sure Ms. Panne !" Exclaimed Severa.

"Calm down Severa, I know you want to save your parents, but it's true, I also sensed Mr. Frederick and Ms. Cordelia as well." Added Yarne.

"I didn't sense them before maybe because they're at the higher floor of the castle." Stated Panne.

"Then what are we waiting for !" Severa is eager to take action.

"Wait Severa ! They're not the only ones here, there are still numerous people at the castle !" Yarne grabbed Severa's arm.

"Fine...just how far are we from them ?" Severa calmed down a bit.

"They're still on the higher floor, it's hard to discern from here." Answered Panne.

"Then we just have to keep going, no one will stop us !" Rallied Vaike.

"Wait ! There's someone coming this way moving at full speed !" Panne stopped the others.

Turns out that someone is Phila accompanied by several Pegasus knights.

"Phila...everyone let me deal with her !" Volunteered Sumia.

"I'm also staying to help mom." Cynthia choose to fight as well.

"If this is an aerial battle then I'm joining in as well." Nowi also decide to fight Phila.

"If we're dealing with Pegasus knights wind magic should be the perfect weapon so I'm staying here." Ricken decide to stay.

"Not by yourself, I'm staying with you." Offered Maribelle.

"Okay we leave Phila to you !" Agreed Chrom.

"Stay safe okay Nowi." Said Donnel.

"I will, and you too okay." Nowi give Donnel a kiss. "Make sure Nah don't get into trouble."

"I think I'm more mature than you mother." Sighed Nah.

And as the heroes charging ahead, Phila tried to intercept them, however Sumia managed to stop Phila. "Sorry Phila, but you're dealing with me."

"I'm glad you're trying to stop me, but Sumia I may not need to tell you this, but don't go easy on me, because of my order I can't go easy on you either." Said Phila.

"I know." Sumia resolved herself as the fighting begins.

---

The heroes kept on going, ascending several floors and taking out many guards in the way.

"Sorry about this, we'll free you all from the brainwashing one day." Sully apologized to the guard she just beat up.

"Let's keep going !" Rallied Chrom as the others follow.

"Wait ! This scent ! It's Frederick !" Exclaimed Panne. "He's coming this way !"

The heroes can feel a strong wind in the hallway.

"Yeah...this is him alright !" Chrom covering his face with his arm.

As the wind stop and the heroes uncovered their face they saw Frederick riding an armored horse, he's holding an axe and a shield. However he is alone.

"Is he really gonna face us alone ?" Asked Vaike.

"Where's Cordelia ? You said she's with Frederick ?" Asked Libra.

"Well that's..." Before Panne can answer a gust of wind begin to form in the castle, forcing the heroes to cover their face.

"With that gust of wind earlier, I think he don't need anyone supporting him." Said Miriel.

"If it's wind power, I got one myself." Said Olivia. "I'll stop Frederick."

"Count me in I suppose, I'll use my stealth against him." Gaius also joining Olivia.

"If there's someone equal in strength to Frederick is me." Claimed Vaike.

"Gregor also confident he can beat Frederick back to his senses." Said Gregor.

"Okay well, well be going now." Said Chrom.

"This is... Chrom wait !" Shouted Panne. "Cordelia is coming this way !"

"What !?" Chrom turn to see Panne in response to his surprise.

A javelin of light is flying toward the heroes, fortunately Lucina able to parry it with her sword, saving Chrom.

Cordelia now finally appear and join Frederick.

"Severa." Lucina looked at Severa. "We will save them."

"Yeah, however you go on ahead Luci, I'll make sure I save them." Severa encourage Lucina to keep going as she hold her ground. "You have someone else to stop right ? leave them to me."

As the heroes decided to press onward, Frederick and Cordelia combined their powers to create a tornado made of light to stop them.

Blue then sent out Alakazam and teleport Chrom's remaining team, bypassing their attack.

The heroes reappear behind Frederick and Cordelia, as the two notice and about to chase them, a wall of fire is formed in front of them, preventing Frederick and Cordelia to chase them.

Miriel were the ones responsible for the wall of fire. This forces Frederick and Cordelia to confront the heroes that stays instead.

---

After escaping Frederick and Cordelia, Chrom and his team keep pressing onward, his team now only consists of himself, Lucina, the other children except Severa, Cynthia and Morgan, Sora, Blue, Libra, and Zeekeeper.

"We have to keep going, the throne room isn't too far now !" Chrom led the remaining heroes to the throne room.

"Hey Chrom, Alakazam can just take us to the throne room if you'd like." Suggested Blue.

"That's...actually a better idea, Alakazam, can you take us to my throne room ?" Asked Chrom.

Alakazam read Chrom's mind and about to perform teleportation, however...

"I think not." A dark energy engulf the heroes for a short time. "Can't let you take a shortcut."

"Who's that ! Show yourself !" Demanded Chrom.

The figure then materialize in front of Chrom and co. He has the appearance of a jester. "Greetings, my name is Dimentio."

"Dimentio ? Are you one of Shadow Queen's minions ?" Asked Chrom.

"Me ? Oh no I don't work for the queen, my friend and i just came here just to check up on her, I didn't expect to even meet guests here." Dimentio feigning ignorance.

"It's you." Paper Peach walked closer to confront Dimentio. "So you're back too."

"Why if it isn't Princess Peach, how surprising it is to see such familiar face." Dimentio said in a mocking tone.

"There's a floro sprout on Mario's head, that was your doing was it ?" Asked Paper Peach.

"There's a floro sprout on his head ? Oh my how awful ! Who would've done such a thing to poor Mario, not to worry princess, I'll be sure to get to the bottom of this." Dimentio doing a blatantly obvious bad acting. "Think of it as a favor after all we've been through together."

"What we've been through together ?" Asked Lucina. "Were you two worked together in the past ?"

"Hmm..? Oh yes, Princess Peach and I go way back, after joining forces to defeat the evil Count Bleck, a strong bond of friendship has born from our time adventuring together." Answered Dimentio.

"What ! That was a lie ! You're our enemy !" Paper Peach is incensed by Dimentio lies.

"Princess, does our time together meant nothing to you ? How I'm hurt with such accusation, I know come with me and I will fix your mind." Dimentio offered his hand.

"There's nothing wrong with me, if there's anyone not right in the head it's you !" Paper Peach pointed at Dimentio with her parasol.

"Princess Peach, you wound me, here I am threatened by the queen, and yet even the princess hated me, where is the sense of camaraderie we once had after we destroy Count Bleck." Dimentio acting like a drama queen.

"You know nothing about camaraderie ! You see everyone as your pawn to achieve your goal ! Everyone don't pay attention to him, Dimentio almost destroy my world !" Exclaimed Paper Peach.

"And I've heard just enough from you, Dimentio was it ? I can sense thick darkness coming from you." Said Sora as he saw darkness emanates from Dimentio.

"I see you can see the darkness within this jester, as expected to those chosen by the keyblade." Zeekeeper also see the darkness within Dimentio.

With no more need to talk, All the heroes are ready to fight Dimentio.

"*sigh* here I was hoping to manipulate you guys, and yet there had to be someone who knows me." Dimentio decided to drop his act...even though he isn't even trying to be convincing before.

"One last time Dimentio, did you plant the floro sprout on Mario's head ?" Asked Paper Peach.

"Well...the queen does ask nicely, how can I refuse when she plead with that face..." Dimentio back to his condescending self.

"Everyone be careful ! he's a complete monster through and through !" Warned Paper Peach.

"I can see that, and just like another monster he will be slain." Chrom unsheath his sword.

"Oh no, I'm not a fighter, you would've trounced me in mere seconds." Dimentio feigning being scared.

"Don't listen to him, Dimentio is a powerful sorcerer, he possess many magical powers under his command." Paper Peach debunking Dimentio's lies.

"Don't worry we have no intent on believing him." Chrom ready for a fight.

"If only there's no familiar face, I could've played you all like a fiddle." Dimentio disappointed as his lies got exposed. "Oh well, I still won't be the one fighting you, but I know someone who will."

And at that moment someone came down from the stairs.

"Oh he's here already ? my do I have a great timing." Dimentio praised himself.

And that someone is none other than Paper Mario.

"I'm sure he's enough to be an opponent for all of you, now if you'll excuse me, my job here is finished, ciao." Dimentio is about to teleport away, however..."Hold on, You on the other hand will be a huge nuisance." Dimentio teleport Zeekeeper away.

"Zeekeeper !" Exclaimed Lucina.

"Lucina stop ! Don't worry Zeekeeper is a deity, there's no way he could lose to Dimentio." Paper Peach grabbed Lucina's arm.

"Ouch that stings, but a deity, hmm it does makes me curious, there's a new toy I wished to try anyway." Muttered Dimentio.

"What toy ?" Asked Paper Peach.

"Oh thats not important, anyway I really should call my friend here." Dimentio pull out his black plate and send a text to his friend. "You sure are unlucky meeting me, well I do hope my friend won't let me down, that's all for now ciao." Dimentio teleport away.

"He's gone." Said Lucina as Dimentio teleported.

"We can worry about him laters, Chrom let me deal with Mario." Offered Paper Peach.

"Of course, I'll leave him to you." Chrom and the others are about to go on ahead, but Paper Mario won't make that easy.

Paper Mario used the power of the Crystal Star to create a Shockwave, this caused the heroes to fall and stopped them in their tracks.

As the heroes tries to get up Paper Mario folded himself into a paper airplane, he fly towards Chrom, changed back to his human form and punched Chrom in the face, knocking him out.

"Father !" Lucina enraged as she swings her sword at Paper Mario, but he's able to dodge the attacks and shifted dimension to avoid Lucina, Paper Mario reappear behind Lucina, grabbed her cape and threw her to a wall.

Seeing this, the rest of the heroes decide to attack Paper Mario at the same time.

Plegia Castle

As the heroes arrived in the throne room Validar waste no time in demanding the emerald. "Let's get to the point, hand over the emerald, no questions, no suspicious movements unless you wished for Plegians to be sacrificed to Lord Grima."

Robin walked forward, pulling out the yellow emerald from his pocket. "Here, I got what you're looking for." Robin then continue walking.

"You were destined for greatness my son, I still had no idea why you refuse such grand fate." Remarked Validar.

"Even if you ended up getting destroyed yourself ?" Robin ask Validar.

"Lord Grima's awakening is what matters most, what happened to me is inconsequential." Validar answer solidified his fanaticism.

"You know, I'm starting to feel sorry for you." Robin continue walking as he finally reached the throne.

"Here just like I said I would." Robin showed Grima the emerald. "I keep my word, i hope you keep your word."

"So this is the Chaos Emerald ! Yes I can feel the great power from this thing, if what that human Eggman said is true I won't need a vessel anymore !" Exclaimed Grima. "And this world will end up like what is intended to be !"

"So you're still planning to destroy the world again ?" Asked Robin.

"This is my chance to make things right, oh and the Plegians you wished to spare ? Alright I'll let them have a brief moment of respite as everything will burn to the ground soon after." Answered Grima.

"I was expecting you to say that." Robin then teleported away as the emerald shattered.

"What the !" Grima and just minions are shocked to see the emerald suddenly shattered.

An umbran portal appeared and Sonic came out from the portal and quickly run and gathered all the emerald shards except for one, and Bayonetta come out holding her gun, she's the one who destroyed the emerald by shooting it with her gun while in Purgatorio.

"You ! What have you done !" Yelled Grima.

"Robin ! You dare ! I warned you what happened should you pull anything like this !" Validar also incensed.

"I know, but I already develop countermeasure to that as well." Robin Smirked confidently.

And soon a grimleal cultists run to the throne room. "Bad news ! The people are revolting !"

Plegia - Castle Town

After Gangrel and several others separate from Robin, Aversa dispel her illusion magic and Gangrel did his part of his mission to lead the people to revolt against Grima, the fact that many of the people listen to him have proved that he's a changed man from the man who was called the 'Mad King'.

"Everyone ! I'm sorry for leaving when i was needed the most ! But I have return and vowed to one day liberate Plegia from the Fell Dragon ! Grima isn't an easy enemy to beat, so for now your safety is my utmost priority !" Gangrel made his speech.

"We must leave Plegia for the time being ! We will make sure none of the Grimleals and Grimas underlings unable to touch you ! We will escape alive !" Added Aversa.

"Hey hold on ! Weren't you a part of Grimleal ?" A man pointed at Aversa.

Aversa hesitates a bit, but she push herself to answer. "That's correct, and I have done many things I'm not proud of during my time as a Grimleal, some of you may have a grudge against me, and guess what, if it makes you happy I will accept any punishment you have in mind, but for now we have to leave Plegia !"

As the man is still mad and refused to listen Noire stepped in and yell at the man. "HEY YOU JERK ! NOW'S NOT THE TIME FOR PETTY GRUDGES ! IF YOU DON'T WANT AN ARROW PIERCING YOUR SORRY BUTT OR DYING STOP YOUR WHINING AND HET OUT OF OUR WAY !"

The man terrified at Noire sudden outburst quickly fall in line, and after seeing this all the citizens quickly fall in line as not to bring Noire's wrath upon them.

"Mother...are you..." Morgan hugged Aversa.

"I'm sorry you have to hear that, but your mother have done many terrible things, I have to make it up for the people." Aversa avert her eyes from Morgan.

"I know, but please don't give your life away, I don't want to lose you !" Morgan pleaded.

"Okay, i won't." Agreed Aversa.

Morgan, Aversa, and Gangrel then led the people into leaving Plegia.

The people formed a line, Aversa and Morgan monitor the scene from the skies, using her pegasus and Morgan able to fly respectively.

"Mother look ! the guards !" Morgan pointed at the guards at the end of the line.

("Not to worry, they're on our side, we have finished freeing the guards from the mind control.") Mewtwo teleport to where Morgan and Aversa is.

"Mewtwo, you're back, then that means..."

("Like that man Mustafa said, most of the guards have been under mind control rather than servjng willingly, fortunately we have freed them.") Said Mewtwo.

"The spell wasn't too strong, so we can dispel it fast." Said Tharja.

"I know right ? I was hoping we fight to remove the curse." Henry feeling bored.

"B-but father, we don't have time for that." Noire chastising Henry.

"You should've seen Noire before, her sudden temper have scared the rowdy people into fall in line." Teased Aversa.

"M-ms Aversa, please don't remind me !" Noire embarrassed from her previous action.

"Thank you everyone, now with this we can save everyone." Morgan looked hopeful.

("Unfortunately that won't be the case, many of the Grimleals and some of their family members are fanatically devoted to Grima they refuse to leave.") Revealed Mewtwo.

"There's no need to waste our time on them, we have to prioritize these people first." Stated Aversa.

"Look Grimleal mages !" Morgan pointed at the mages ready to attack the people.

("Let's stop them.") Mewtwo, Morgan, Noire, Henry, Tharja, and Aversa fend off the Grimleals trying to attack the people.

Plegia Castle

"What !" Grima and Validar are both in shock.

"Let me say it again, if my destiny is to be Grima's vessel and destroying the world then I will do everything it takes to defy such fate !" Declared Robin.

"How are you able to do all this in short amount of time ! I make sure you don't have time to prepare any kind of plans !" Exclaimed Validar.

"Heh, maybe I'm just that much of a talented tactician." Boasted Robin, although the real reason he can't tell them about Twink. "I won't let you come to full power, and I will deprive you of sacrifices, i destroyed you once Grima, and i will do it again !"

"If only your mother didn't whisk you away from me, you would not be poisoned with such mindset !" Validar is enraged as dark energy is coming out from his hands.

"If anyone mind is poisoned is you ! You were indoctrinated about Grima since birth, he's all you ever known, he's everything to you, to the point of thinking and doing something that had nothing to do with Grima is a foreign concept to you, and maybe...if someone whisked you away like mother did to me, you wouldn't turned out like this." As Robin looking at Validar he feel sorry for him, realizing this could be him if he's never whisked away.

"Shut up ! Shut up ! What do you know ! I'm doing all this from my own free will ! I'm not manipulated or indoctrinated !" Validar shoot dark magic at Robin, but he shoot fireball to intercept the projectile.

Grima who is also furious unleash a trail of dark spikes at the heroes only for Jigglypuff to stand in front of Robin and the spikes trail split to move left and right.

"What !" Grima is at disbelief seeing his attack deliberately avoids Jigglypuff.

Grima create an Astral projection of his dragon form and spews Expiration Breath only for Jigglypuff to be unharmed by it either, further baffling Grima.

Jigglypuff inhale lots of air to expand itself and use Hyper Voice, sending Grima and his minions flying away and crashed to a wall as Jigglypuff return to its normal size.

("So it's true, Jigglypuff is immune to Grima's attack, I must study this for next encounter.") Robin is impressed by Jigglypuff's immunity.

"Everyone ! Attack !" Grima Commanded his minions to attack, Yen'fay about to attack Robin, but Say'ri intercept his sword strike.

Mustafa is gunning for Bayonetta, however Sonic decided to fight Mustafa, he curled into a ball and rammed at Mustafa's stomach, causing the general to be tossed away and crashed to a nearby pillar.

With Validar left, he decided to fight Robin, he shoot a large thunderbolt at him only for Robin to counter with his own thunderbolt, Validar teleport near Robin and cast Nosferatu spell to drain his life force only for Bayonetta to punch him using Wicked Weave.

Grima fly to attack Robin as he about to summon lightning, Jigglypuff used Dazzling Gleam on the Fell Dragon, Grima forced to cover his eyes as Robin and Bayonetta combined their magic and fire a large orb of magical energy, a mix of darkness and lightning, as Grima open his eyes he got blasted by the projectile.

Say'ri is clashing with Yen'fay, Say'ri is able to fend off every attack he throw at her. "Your swordsmanship improves sister, so far my attacks unable to reach you."

"Thank you brother, but I know even with all this still doesn't make you an easy opponent either." Say'ri going on the offense now as she begin to strike back.

As Say'ri about to deal with the next strike a strong gust of wind converge around Yen'fay. "Unfortunately I'm not allowed to lose, Say'ri i'm sorry, but i don't have a choice but to use the powers Grima awaken inside of me."

"What power is this ?" Say'ri felt the gust of wind around her.

Yen'fay quickly close his distant with Say'ri and strike her, however Say'ri still able to block the attack with her sword, unfortunately that wasn't enough as the impact send her flying as she hit a pillar.

Yen'fay about to finish Say'ri off, seeing this Robin and Bayonetta cooperate to save her, a magic circle formed under Yen'fay, thorny vines coming out from it and restrain him.

"Robin ! Give this to Say'ri !" Bayonetta toss a yellow lollipop to Robin. "This will make her invulnerable temporarily."

"Oh okay," Robin teleported to where Say'ri is. "Say'ri can you get up ?" Asked Robin.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Answered Say'ri.

"Here this is from Bayonetta." Robin give Say'ri the yellow lollipop. "She said it makes you impervious to harm."

"Okay." Say'ri licked the lollipop and she can feel magical effect on her body.

Validar got up and fire a magic bolt to destroy the thorny vines, releasing Yen'fay. "Yen'fay sent out the pokemon !"

Yen'fay throw away his pokeball and sent out Sneasel.

Mustafa swing his axe in overhead strike, but Sonic able to dodge them all. Sonic then run around Mustafa, the running has formed a whirlwind, lifting Mustafa up to the air, Sonic then stopped running, causing the wind to dissipate and Mustafa fall to the ground.

Mustafa got up and stand again, showing the fall doesntt harm him. "You're quite strong despite your size, sadly I have to stop you." Mustafa ripping out chunks of rocks from the ground telekinetically and hurl it towards Sonic. However Sonic able to dodge the incoming rocks. "Grima have awakened these powers within me, sadly i have to use it against you."

"Earth power ? Sorry pal, looks like you and I are bad match-up, i mean youre to slow for me." Sonic continues running around as Mustafa hurling rocks at him.

With Say'ri now impervious to harm Yen'fay attacks and new powers even with Sneasel assistance are seemingly useless against her, as this allows Say'ri to keep up with Yen'fay.

Robin and Validar keep hurling magical attacks at each other, Validar shoot Robin with electric attacks, as Robin fell on his knee Validar about to continue his attack, Bayonetta shot Validar with her gun, with the sorcerer flinched, she used Wicked Weave to grab him.

Sonic, seeing this purposely stop in front of Validar and taunting Mustafa, and as Mustafa throw another rock, Sonic runs again and the rock hits Validar instead.

As Say'ri fighting both Yen'fay and Sneasel, Sneasel managed to land a hit on Say'ri and this time she felt pain, Say'ri realized the lollipop effect has worn off, Yen'fay then create a ball of wind energy and shot it at Say'ri, knocking her down.

Jigglypuff keep chasing after Grima as the Fell Dragon runs away from it. "How is my power doesn't work on this thing !" Grima tried his spikes or breath, but none affect Jigglypuff, he is so baffled he didn't think of using his other abilities, and as Grima about to attack again, his body begins to act up again.

"Aaarghh ! No ! Not now !" Grima once again struggling against Morgan.

"Lord Grima !" Validar teleported away from Bayonetta Wicked Weave as he tend to Grima's side, as a result the fighting has stopped.

"So this is your current condition ? Then don't bother Grima, your hands are tied, there's no way we're giving you the emerald." Robin taking advantage ofd Grima's condition.

"If you don't give me what I want, I will reduce Plegia to ashes !" Threatened Grima.

"Did you really think that would work ? We can get rid of you right here and now, the only reason we didn't, because of the possibility of Neo Subspace Army will replace you with someone else, and weakened Grima is someone more preferable to us." Explained Robin.

"If you know Neo Subspace Army supported me you would know better than to threaten me !" Continue Grima.

"And I also know they don't trust you, Why do you want our emerald instead of the ones Neo Subspace Army have ? Because they won't lend or give you the emerald, is it ? You're not someone to be trusted !" Robin shot back.

Grima cannot rebuke Robin as he know Robin is telling the truth.

"What would you do if you return to full power ? Lay waste to this world and fill it with Risen as you originally planned ? Will it stop just at Ylisse ? Or do you want to subject other worlds to the same fate of this world ?" Asked Robin.

Grima once again cannot answer as that is his intended goal, he want to spread destruction to many other worlds and it's clear Neo Subspace Army object to that goal.

Knowing he can't hide it anymore Grima admit everything to Robin. "So what if that's my goal ! All you insignificant worms are all the same ! Neo Subspace Army, the universe ! It's always conflict to you ! This world...no universe is beyond saving, but when I regain my full power I will be the one who will bring peace to the universe my way."

"That is not true peace ! You're causing mass extinction !" Exclaimed Sonic.

"And only from that peace is attained." Replied Grima.

Hearing this Robin started to thought to himself. ("I see, he's no different than all the Grimas summoned to Askr.")

"It seems further talks no longer necessary, Robin ?" Bayonetta looked at Robin.

"This is enough, we already completed our goal." Robin teleported everyone out from Plegia Castle.

"Lord Grima look !" Validar noticed and pickup an emerald shard. "They forgot this one."

"After that speech, they must have done this on purpose !" Grima, angered as he realized the heroes deliberately left one shard for him, he had no choice but to picked it up and begin harnessing the shard energy, for now he's stabilized.

"How are you feeling Master ?" Asked Validar.

"I'm fine, I managed to suppress Morgan from interfering with me...but leave me be for now." Feeling angry Grima return to Gangrel's chamber.

Fort Steiger

Cherche and co. arrive outside Fort Steiger. "That's the place, time to find out if the Intel is correct." Cherche observing the fort.

"Let me do it." Ness used his PSI power to see inside the Fort, and what he see surprises him.

"What happen Ness ?" Lucas noticed Ness facial expression. "What did you see ?"

"Well I did see people wearing robes, but also there's already fighting inside." Answered Ness.

"A fighting inside ? Are they having internal conflict ?" Questioned Virion.

"That shouldn't be possible, knowing their condition they cannot rebel or anything that defies order." Stated Cherche. "Assuming this Grimleals are a part of Warriors of Fallen Stars."

"Well whatever is happen inside the Fort we won't be able to find out just by guessing, we need to go in there." Said Fox.

The heroes then move closer to the fort and the sounds of fighting is getting more audible.

"Well i didn't expect the Grimleals to be fighting, how do you think we should approach this ?" Asked Cherche.

"Okay, so here's the plan, Falco, Krystal and me stay outside to intercept any escaping cultists." Fox summon his Arwing using his golden plate, Falco and Krystal do the same afterward.

"Or if you need us to destroy the fort make sure you got out first." Joked Falco.

"Let's...just hope it never comes to that." Cherche answered nervously.

As the heroes went inside they saw to people fighting side by side, against the Grimleals, one is an imposing dark skinned, white haired man wearing a menacing red armor and the other is a man with shoulder length blue hair, but what's more surprising is he's carrying a weapon resembling Ragnell albeit more worn down.

"That's ! Priam and Walhart !" Virion surprised to see them here.

"What are they doing here ?" Cherche is also surprised. "Wait i just noticed, where did Walhart go after we defeated Grima ?"

"Not sure, he's just disappeared after that, either way they may look like they have things under control, but I'm sure they don't mind an assistance especially from old friends." Virion readied his bow.

"The way you fight is incredible Priam, yet you still won't accept my offer ?" Walhart praises Priam fighting abilities.

"Sorry, but conquest still not my thing." Priam then looked at a mage about to attack Walhart. "Walhart look out !"

As Walhart notice the mage casting a spell to attack him there's nothing he can do as the mage is far away and they're still surrounded by Grimleals, but then an arrow pierce the mages head and he died.

Seeing this Walhart and Priam looked behind to see Virion and Cherche and many unfamiliar face.

"Virion ? Cherche ?" Priam surprised to see them here.

"Now Richter !" Simon and Richter activate their stopwatches, stopping the Grimleals from moving. "This is our chance !"

Seizing the chance the heroes begin to massacre all the Grimleal cultists, leaving no survivors.

"That's all of them." Said Ness.

"It has been a while, Cherche and Virion, and it seems there are unfamiliar faces with you as well." Walhart looked at Simon, Richter, Ness, Lucas.

"While i appreciate the help, you seriously brought children here ? They look much younger than Donnel or Ricken." Priam pointing at Ness and Lucas.

"Honestly i'm a bit of conflicted myself, yes they are children, but on the other hand these two have been through a lot and no stranger to conflict either." Said Cherche.

"There's no need to worry about us, we can handle this much." Ness tried to assure Priam.

"I find it impressive, for someone so young to be able to handle the sight of blood." Walhart impressed by Ness and Lucas.

"I think and introduction is in order, everyone, this is Priam and Walhart, they fought together alongside us against Grima, although Walhart used to be our enemy." Explained Cherche.

"Walhart, Priam, this is our new comrades, Ness, Lucas, Simon, and Richter." Continued Cherche. "Also Priam, Walhart, these four came from another world, they're not from either Ylisse or Valm."

"Another world you say ? That would explain the unfamiliar fighting style, and also from the way you fight earlier I can tell all of you seen your fair share of battles." Observed Walhart. "I can tell at first glance."

"Aren't you sharp ?" Replied Richter.

"I didn't become the conqueror of this continent by being stupid." Replied Walhart

"So what are you doing here ?" Asked Priam.

"We got intel that Grimleal using this place as their hideout, so we're here to investigate, what about you two ?" Asked Cherche.

"Same reason, we heard Grimleals gathered around here, and so we came to investigate, Walhart turns out also wanted to investigate the rumor as well, wee met here by chance." Answered Priam.

"Where did you all go After we defeated Grima ? Meeting in Askr doesn't count." Said Cherche.

"I decide to travel the world, and if I'm lucky I found Robin along the way." Answered Priam.

"After being defeated and joining forces with you, it makes me think which path I should take, and im also doing some travelling, and maybe if I'm lucky I found Robin before Chrom or Priam does." Walhart give a smirk.

"Too late for that then, Robin is back." Revealed Virion. "And of course he's working with Chrom now."

"Well that's a letdown guess Chrom beat us to it then." Priam is disappointed but still civil about it.

"So what brings you two back to Valm ?" Asked Cherche.

"We heard rumors that Grimleals becoming active again, so we decided to nip them in the bud." Answered Priam.

"Same for me, but Grima is dead what are they doing this for ?" Asked Walhart.

"Unfortunately Grima is back, he may be at a weakened state right now, but naturally his goal right now is regaining his full power." Answered Cherche.

"Wait if Grima is back then would that mean...?" Priam imagining the worst.

"No, he's not using Robin as a vessel, unfortunately Morgan is the one being used as the vessel, but because of the incompatibility, Grima can't completely suppress Morgan and they both fighting for control of Morgan's body, and Grima unable to unleash his full power inhabiting Morgan's body." Answered Cherche.

"If Grima is at a weakened state shouldn't this means the perfect chance to slay the fell dragon again ?" Asked Walhart.

"Grima himself is not much of a threat, however the real problem is...the people behind him." Answered Cherche.

"Neo Subspace Army, that's the name of the organization backing Grima." Said Ness.

"And they're much more powerful and capable of reaching anywhere in the universe, I believe this is much more than when we're summoned to Askr." Explained Cherche.

"And among their members are..." As Cherche about to continue talking someone interrupt her.

"Spoiling the surprise ? I thought why this place is quiet, but didn't think they're being slaughtered en masse like this."

"You ! Excellus !" Walhart surprised to see his former tactician.

"Hello again Walhart, did you think you get rid of me ? This time it's you who will bow to me !" Excellus reanimated the fallen Grimleals, infused them with fell magic and turned them into Risen.

"I don't how you came back Excellus, but I see you're still up to your tricks again." Said Walhart.

"Hmph...I may not be physically strong as you, but my brilliant mind will be the cause of your downfall." Excellus create a magic circle and teleported two people one is a bald, fat looking man with thick and bushy beard and mustache, the other one is a beautiful blond haired woman.

"Pheros !? Cervantes !?" Walhart surprised to see his fallen generals in the flesh again.

"Excellus are you really going to force us to fight Walhart !" Exclaimed Pheros.

"Don't you dare you think you can get away with this !" Yelled Cervantes.

"But I did, now my minions attack Walhart and the others as well !" Ordered Excellus.

Pheros noticed Ness and Lucas among the heroes and tried to resist. "Excellus ! There's children among them !"

"Hmm...oh so there are, so what ! Slaughter them along with Walhart !" Excellus insist on his order even if Ness and Lucas will be a casualty.

"Should I ever be free you will pay for this !" Pheros had no choice but to obey her command as she lashed out at Excellus.

"I will have your head on the tip of my spear for this Excellus !" Cervantes also cursed Excellus as he forcibly run toward the heroes.

"Oh this is so funny, despite their protest they ended up doing everything I say." Excellus mocking Pheros and Cervantes's predicament.

Pheros casting Bolganone at the heroes, Ness counter it using PK Freeze, Lucas teleported Cherche towards Pheros.

Cherche then appear out of thin air and about to strike down Pheros with her axe, Pheros noticed and managed to dodge as Cherche hits the floor.

Risen mages teleported to where Cherche is standing and surrounds her, as all of them along with Pheros about to shoot magic energy at her, Simon and Richter tear them apart with the Vampire Killer and Virion shot an arrow at Pheros, forcing her to cancel her offensive magic and turn to create a barrier instead.

Cervantes about to stab Walhart, but the conqueror intercept it as he pin his spear down with the Wolf Berg. "What happened to you Cervantes ?"

"I-I'm sorry ! But I really have no control over my body, I cannot disobey Excellus no matter what." Explained Cervantes.

"He's just a corpse now, he's bound to his summoner, not much different from the Risens." Explained Ness.

"Yes, Like the kid said I'm magically bound." Clarified Cervantes.

"I see, you were a great general to me Cervantes, a shame things ended up like this." Walhart lamented Cervantes turning against him.

"It's been an honor serving you my lord, now please, don't hold back, just think of me as another enemy that needs to be put down, that's my request." Said Cervantes.

Walhart reluctantly comply, he swings his Wolf Berg at Cervantes, almost shattering his armor as he got sent flying back from the impact.

Meanwhile Pheros is forced to be on the defensive as she stuck in a barrier while Cherche, Simon, Richter attacking the barrier.

Excellus looking at disdain on how the situation turns out, Cervantes defeated, Pheros forced to be on the defensive, Priam, Ness, and Richter eliminating the Risens.

"Useless all of them ! If you want to do something right you have to do it yourself it seems." Excellus descends down and cast Dark Spikes at the heroes.

Because the Dark Spikes aren't as powerful as Grima's all Excellus able to do is just moderately hurt the heroes.

"I don't have time for this ! Risens obey my command ! Leave this place and lay waste to every settlements you find !" Ordered Excellus.

The Risens stop fighting the heroes and proceed to leave the fort.

"Excellus ! What do you think you're doing !" Yelled Virion.

"With my Risen army I will force the continent of Valm to convert to Grimleals, and since they only obey my words I'm already technically the ruler of this continent !" Claimed Excellus.

"You know Grima's goal is to lay waste on the world, he's going to destroy everything !" Exclaimed Cherche.

"Oh I know that." Replied Excellus.

"If you do then why ?" Asked Virion.

"Let's just say I have my reasons, and I won't divulge more than that." Excellus Smirked arrogantly. "Now if you'll excuse me I got some proselytizing to do."

"You think so do you ?" Said Cherche.

"Huh ? What's with that smug face !?" Excellus caught by Cherche strange confidence.

"We already have some of our friends stationed outside in case there's a Grimleal outbreak from this fort."

And at that moment a sound of explosions can be heard outside, the Risens were shot from above by the Star Fox team.

"what ! Where that coming from !" Excellus quickly run to exit the fort only for him to get cuaght in blast.

"If those three going to shoot anyone that came out, it's best if we tell them to stop shooting first." Suggested Lucas.

Excellus return inside, his robe are torn and disheveled, and his face got covered in dirt.

"No matter where, all of you are always getting in my way ! I will have my revenge and I will make sure all of you suffer for it ! And where is that spy we planted ! I didn't hear anything back ! Cervantes ! Pheros we'll withdraw for now !" Excellus decided to end the fighting.

"Wait ! what do you mean by spy !?" Cherche demand Excellus to elaborate.

"Huh...oh hahahaha ! You want to know what I'm talking about ? Maybe there's a traitor on your side feeding information to us." Excellus taunting the heroes with this information.

"What do you mean by that ! Explain yourself !" Richter run towards Excellus as he teleported away, also taking Cervantes and Pheros with him.

Ylisse Castle

Phila and Sumia have clashed several times and they're both evenly matched.

"Well done Sumia for being able to keep up with me, I'm happy to know the pegasus knights of Ylisse continue getting stronger after my passing." Phila praising Sumia.

"Thank you, I promise you we will liberate the halidom from the Shadow Queen." Declared Sumia.

"I believe you will, unfortunately, I'm not allowed to make things easier for you." Phila formed a javelin made of light and shot it at Sumia, Sumia got caught off guard as she fell from the impact.

Cynthia then join to rescue Sumia as Phila now have to contend with 2 Pegasus knights.

Maribelle and Ricken fending the other Pegasus knights using their wind magic, the two casting tornadoes which they control the tornado movements, preventing them from interfering with Sumia's fight with Phila.

Phila about to throw another javelin, but Nowi managed to stop her as she rammed into Phila in dragon form.

Phila got knocked back a little, but she still managed to retain balance, Nowi then spun around and smacked Phila Pegasus with her tail, causing Phila to lose balance and fall down.

Nowi about to unleash her breath attack, but Phila used her light powers to blind Nowi, she's forced to close her eyes, but her breath attack cannot be stopped anymore as she finally use her breath attack, but she missed the attack as she cannot see anything.

Sumia and Cynthia got off from their Pegasus as they decided to attack Phila on foot, both Cynthia and Sumia pull off incredible display of spearmanship as they work in tandem, Phila managed to fend off some attack, however the teamwork between Sumia and Cynthia is too much to handle for Phila as Sumia feint an attack and Cynthia managed to smack Phila with her spear.

Phila then infused her spear with light and stab the ground, creating an explosion of light and blast Cynthia and Sumia away.

Phila run towards Sumia, attempting to impale her, however Sumia's Pegasus fly towards Phila and kicked her away from Sumia, Sumia got up and help lift Cynthia.

Cynthia call her Pegasus and ride on it again.

Sumia then thrust her spear as Phila dodges it, however Cynthia rammed her Pegasus against Phila.

As Phila tried to regain balance Sumia swings her spear and smacked Phila on the head, causing her to fall to the ground.

The other Pegasus knights tried to save Phila, ignoring the tornadoes cast by Ricken and Maribelle, this forces Ricken and Maribelle to attack the Pegasus knights as the two combined the tornadoes and trapped the knights.

With the Pegasus unable to retain their balance inside the tornado, many of the knights losing grip of the reins and got spun around inside, and as they're about to be thrown off, Ricken and Maribelle used their wind magic to cushion the knights fall and crash.

"Well done Sumia, you and your daughter, seeing the way Cynthia fights already prove Ylissean Pegasus knights still going strong even without me." Phila praising Sumia and Cynthia for defeating her.

"Maybe...you dont have to return to the afterlife just yet..." Said Sumia.

Phila is confused as what to Sumia means.

Sumia then grab her golden plate and was thinking of teleporting Phila to World of Trophy, however a portal soon opened in front of the heroes and Phila, a robot look a lot like Luigi's head appear, it opened its mouth sucking Phila and her pegasus inside like a vacuum cleaner.

"Hey ! Let her go !" Exclaimed Cynthia.

"Whoops, can't let you do that, we still need her." Said the man controlling the robot, his face can be seen through the glass that supposed to be the robots eyes, he's a man wearing a black shirt, black mask and green hat. "The names Mr. L, and this is brobot, hope to meet you all again one day !"

Nowi now able to see again use her breath attack on the robot, causing the robot to shook from the impact.

"I have to escape now !" Mr. L open a portal and teleport away.

"Hey wait !" Sumia, Cynthia, and Nowi about to give chase as the portal closes and with this victory the enemy Pegasus Kniggts forced to retreat.

---

The heroes having difficulty fending off Frederick and Cordelia.

Frederick's horse is infused with wind energy, allowing it to move faster and able to blow anyone that came near away from Frederick.

Vaike, Gregor, Lon'qu, Stahl, Olivia, Gaius, Panne, and Sully go after Frederick, however with one swing of his axe he create a gust of wind so strong the heroes got blown away even if they're wearing metal armors.

Olivia throwing razor winds at Frederick, but he countered it by swing his axe and shoot razor winds of his own, canceling Olivia's attack.

Miriel, Lissa, and Severa are fighting Cordelia, Miriel shoots fire, Lissa blasting electricity, and Severa using bows and arrows, unfortunately for them Cordelia using her light powers to create a barrier made of light to protect herself.

From inside the barrier Cordelia placed her hand forward and the barrier shoots barrage of light bullets at the heroes.

Miriel and Lissa used their magic to form barriers as well to protect then from Cordelia's attacks.

"This isn't good, we can't even get near them ! Is this the difference to those who got their powers awakened !?" Complained Vaike.

"We need to formulate a plan, attacking Frederick and Cordelia head on like this proved to be unsuccessful." Suggested Miriel.

"If we attack Frederick, Cordelia will be sure to back him up." Said Olivia.

"Gregor didn't think those two would be this formidable." Gregor felt powerless against Frederick and Cordelia.

"Frederick and Cordelia already a force to be reckoned with, but now that they got wind and light powers, they're even more dangerous than before." Said Lissa.

"What we need is to remove that plant on their head." Point out Severa. "That way the fighting would stop."

"If there's a weakness to Pegasus Knights it's either arrows or wind magic, and for Frederick, does anyone have a Beastslayer ?" Asked Miriel.

"Let me deal with Cordelia, Frederick's power and mine are similar so we ended up canceling each other." Suggested Olivia.

"But Cordelia made a barrier with her light power, will your winds affect her ?" Asked Gaius.

"The trick is to attack Cordelia before she can create the barrier." Said Miriel.

"Leave Frédérick to me, I should've used my electric powers on him." Volunteered Lissa.

"That's right ! With Frederick's armor made of metal it should conduct electricity, the problem is his wind power." Remarked Miriel.

"What if we have them against each other ?" Asked Donnel. "You said it yerself, Frederick have wind power and Cordelia is weak to wind right ?"

"Yes I know, whether it's Olivia or Frederick's wind i think we have better chance of rescuing Cordelia first." Miriel is calculating the possibilities.

"Here's the plan, the physical fighters distract Frederick while Lissa is summoning lightnings, this would made Frederick decide to attack Lissa first, next I will teleport Lissa from harm's way, and Olivia will begin the attack on Cordelia, once she fell from Olivia's wind we pull that sprout from her head." Miriel instructing the Shepherds of her plan.

Cordelia gathered and charged a lot of light energy, she unleash a powerful blast of light that destroy Miriel's barrier.

"What about Frederick !? We haven't plan how to stop him yet !" Exclaimed Vaike.

"No time you have to think on the spot !" Replied Miriel.

Everyone then begin executing Miriel's plan, Gaius run to Frederick's side, Vaike attacking on the front, Frederick saw this and swing his axe, Vaike managed to shield himself with his own axe, but he got pushed back.

Lissa then summoned lightning and the lightning appear above Frederick and struck him.

Cordelia fly to Frederick side, however Olivia conjure a tornado and Cordelia got caught in Olivia's tornado, Cordelia's Pegasus can't keep it's balance as it moves frantically and got tossed against a wall.

Frederick, recovering from the lightning attack tried to help Cordelia, however he got intercepted by Panne in her taguel form, stopping him in his tracks.

Donnel jumped to Frederick's horse and sit behind Frederick, he cover Frederick's eyes with his hands.

Frederick losing control of his horse as he can't see with Donnel's hands covering his eyes, Stahl, Lon'qu, Vaike, Gregor, and Gaius jumped at Frederick, pushing him down from his horse.

Severa pull out the sprout from Cordelia's head, and Sully pull the one on Frederick's head, finally freeing Frederick and Cordelia from Shadow Queen control.

"Ouch, what happened ?" Cordelia rubbing her head.

"Cordelia are you back ?" Asked Olivia

"Olivia ? What was I ?" Cordelia saw Severa with tears in her eyes. "Severa ? What's wrong ? And are you growing up already ? Are you Severa from the future ?"

Severa jumped to hug Cordelia. "I'll tell you later, right now I'm just glad you're back."

"Everyone get off me !" Exclaimed Frederick.

"Frederick, you're back to your true self ?" Vaike and the others get off from Frederick.

"I guess ? What happened ?" Last I remember I was in a battlefield with Cordelia and...wait Cordelia !" Frederick shouted Cordelia's name.

"Frederick ! I'm right here." Cordelia wave her hand, Frederick stand up and walked towards Cordelia.

"I'm so glad you're okay." Frederick caressing Cordelia's face.

Severa then proceed to hug Frederick.

"I'm happy to see you too Severa...Severa !" Frederick grabbed Severa's arm and let go of her as he saw her face. "How are you growing up already !?"

"Eheheheh...Frédérick, it's a long story." Olivia laughed sheepishly.

Things have gone well for the heroes as they managed to save Frederick and Cordelia, however a portal appeared and Brobot coming out from it.

"Frederick ? Cordelia ? I see the sprouts have been removed, no matter, once I sucked you in I will fix that problem." Mr. L pressed a button and the Brobot mouth opened and tried to suck the heroes inside.

"No ! You will not separate us again !" Severa furiously grabbed Frederick's axe and swing it full force at Brobot's mouth, damaging the vacuum function.

The heroes now surround the Brobot ready to turn it into a scrap heap.

"Guess there's nothing more for me to do here, bye." Mr. L decided to retreat as he press a button, opened a portal and entered it.

"He escaped." Said Gregor.

"Let him, we'll got him next time, for now let's just appreciate our success." The Shepherds saw Severa reunited with Cordelia and Frederick.

---

"He's too strong." The heroes still unable to defeat Paper Mario.

"There's more of us and yet we're the ones getting creamed." Said Inigo.

"If Mario is our opponent he's going to be really hard to beat." Said Lucina.

"Uncle Chrom, use the emerald to move further, we will handle him." Suggested Owain.

"What are you saying Owain ?" Asked Chrom.

"I'm saying we will deal with Paper Mario, take someone you need to face the Shadow Queen, the rest of us will stay here to fend him off." Suggested Owain.

"Father we have to do this, we don't have time to waste." Said Lucina.

"Owain is right, let us deal with Mario." Paper Peach agreed to Owain's suggestion.

"Alright, let's go." Chrom used the Chaos Emerald to teleport himself, Lucina, Libra, Blue to confront the Shadow Queen.

"You're dealing with us now." Owain said to Paper Mario.

Paper Mario shoot a stream of fire from his hands as Laurent used wind magic to blow it away, this give a chance for Yarne to attack as he transform and landed a kick to Paper Mario.

Inigo readied his sword and Gerome to continue the attack, however Paper Mario lay down on the floor, both boys missed their attacks and collided to each other.

Paper Mario got up again and smacked them with his hammer.

"He's too strong, we need a plan if we want to stop him, Princess Peach, you know him for a long time, is there anything we can use to get the upper hand ?" Asked Laurent. "If there's a time to make a plan is now."

"I have an idea, Laurent, Brady, listen up." Paper Peach tell them her plan and both of them ready to execute it.

"Got it, Kjelle come here I have a plan." Brady call out to Kjelle as Peach flipped dimension.

Brady teleported Kjelle behind Paper Mario, as she about to pierce him with her spear Paper Mario noticed the shadow beneath him, he turned around and grabbed the spear, Nah used her breath attack on Paper Mario, however Paper Mario flip dimension to avoid the attack, Kjelle able to jumped backwards before the projectile hits her.

"If he keeps doing this we won't be able to do anything !" Complained Kjelle.

A sound of fighting can be heard as Paper Mario is forcibly returned to 3D world as Paper Peach ambushed him.

Brady and Laurent cast a spell that bind Mario using magic, preventing him from moving.

"We finally got him, should've do it like this from the start." Remarked Inigo.

"With his relentless attacks earlier we don't have time to come up with a plan." Said Brady.

"The problem earlier is he keeps flipping dimensions often, I need Mario to be distracted so I can ambush him, and hit him with my parasol." Said Paper Peach.

"Well we got him now, it's time we bring him back to his senses." Kjelle about to pluck the Floro Sprout, but now a portal opened and Brobot is coming out from it.

"Oh no you're not ! He's coming with me !" Mr. L pressed a button and the robot shoots missile, the heroes forced to run away to avoid being hit, Brobot opened its mouth and 'eat' Paper Mario.

"Mr. L ? Luigi you got brainwashed again !" Exclaimed Paper Peach. "Wait are you that friend Dimentio mentioned !?"

"Of course Dimentio is my best friend ! And also Mr. L doesn't get brainwashed ! Mr. L does not bow to anyone ! Dimentio and i are best friends and equal !" Mr. L pressed a button and opened a portal, he entered it and the portal closes.

"Curse it ! He escaped !" Yelled Owain.

"We will meet again, and once we do, we will bring him back, both of them." Promised Paper Peach.

Dimension D

Dimentio has trapped Zeekeeper in his pocket dimension in order to stop him from helping the heroes.

"Welcome to my pocket dimension, in this realm my power is amplified by 256 times more." Explained Dimentio. "This is my first time inviting a deity to my dimension, oh how I'm so honored."

"Invite ! You forcefully trapped me here !" Yelled Zeekeeper.

"Details, shmetails, you know I would rather not fight, instead since it's my first time inviting a deity let's have a chat, I sure would like to know more about you, can you please tell more about yourself ?" Dimentio conjure a chair and sit on it.

"Are you trying to get me to divulge secrets ?" Zeekeeper look suspicious.

"No, just I wanted to know what kind of deity you are, what kind of powers you have, and what miraculous acts you can do that's all." Answered Dimentio.

"Well I am the Zeekeeper, God of the Pi'illos, and that's all you got from me ! Don't think I dont know what you're up to jester, trying to distract me and waste my time here, I'm leaving this dimension !" Zeekeeper about to open a portal to escape Dimension D, however Dimentio able to close the portal.

"What the !" Zeekeeper is shocked as how the portal is closed, he turned around to see Dimentio putting a red colored crown sticker in his body.

"Do you like it ? The red color matches the red color of my mouth, oh Dimentio you're smart, strong, stylish, is there anything you're not good at." Dimentio praising himself.

"That's ! That's the Royal Sticker ! You can't use that ! If you use just one piece it will grant your wish at the cost of your sanity !" Zeekeeper recognize what Dimentio wore and warned him about it. "The Royal Sticker possess powers too much too handle for mortals !"

"Well there's nothing I can do, the fairy guarding this thing shatter the Sticker Comet to pieces, sadly I can't wish to find the remaining Royal Stickers, but I didn't seem negatively affected, maybe I'm just that good !" Again Dimentio bragged about himself.

"Or maybe you're already insane, that's why the sticker doesn't affect you, anyway Dimentio hand over the sticker, that's not meant to be at the hands of mortals." Zeekeeper asking for Dimentio to give him the sticker.

"Hmm...you made some tempting offer, maybe I should...NOT give this to you !" Dimentio fired a powerful beam against Zeekeeper as the deity fall to the ground.

"Wow this power, strong enough to fell the gods, now I never want to part with it." Dimentio is dancing for joy at his newfound power.

"Don't get cocky mortal, don't think you're equal to a deity just because you got yourself an upgrade." Zeekeeper is getting serious.

Dimentio duplicate himself and all of the clones fire a shuriken like projectiles at Zeekeeper, however Zeekeeper teleported to dodge the attack, he reappear above Dimentio and his clones and fly down by spinning, he ended up resembling a drill as he struck down Dimentio and his clones.

"Owch that hurts, like a piano falling on an opera singer singing on stage." Dimentio teleported but not to run away as he still wanted to fight.

Dimentio trapped Zeekeeper in a glass box, however Zeekeeper tearing a dimensional rift on the glass box as he gets out.

Dimentio clone himself again, but that time he ordered his clones to be dispersed so they can all attack from any direction, Zeekeeper transformed his body into a gleam of light, he flew upwards and dropped exploding eggs downwards, the eggs exploded and destroying all the clones.

Zeekeeper then rammed at Dimentio with full speed, still in his light form, but not just once, he attack Dimentio from many different angles.

For the final strike, he fly above and rammed Dimentio downward, defeating the jester.

"I still haven't fully accustomed to this power just yet, I seems I need practice." Said the defeated Dimentio as his usual smile is now a frown.

"I won't give you a chance to practice !" As Zeekeeper about to remove the Royal Sticker from Dimentio, he quickly teleport away.

"You will not get this off me, I need to make good use of this power, and I can't do that with the sticker removed, so ciao for now." Dimentio now teleport away from his pocket dimension as Dimension D have vanished, Zeekeeper now have return to the real world.

Ylisse Castle

"Father this is it." Lucina looked at the door to the throne room.

"Yeah, hopefully we can depose the Shadow Queen from the throne."

"I'll dissipate the barrier." Libra tried to eliminate the barrier blocking the heroes, however the barrier dissipates on it's own.

"Great work Libra." Chrom praised Libra.

"I didn't do anything, the barrier disappear on it's own." Said Libra.

"This must means Shadow Queen is allowing us in, maybe she's confident she can take us." Theorized Blue.

"That, or arrogance, we will defeat her this time." Lucina opened the door as the heroes entered the throne room.

Throne Room

Chrom and his remaining allies have arrived at the throne room, sitting there is the Shadow Queen still using Emmeryn's body as her host.

"Well, look who return to the castle, does the rightful king want his throne back ?" Shadow Queen is mocking Chrom.

"It's not just my throne I want back, but you will leave my sister's body for good !" Chrom point his sword at Shadow Queen.

"Go right ahead, assuming you can." Shadow Queen got up from the throne and begin to challenge Chrom.

"Wait." Lucina stopped the fight. "Shadow Queen are you alone here ? Your minions not with you ?" Asked Lucina.

"And why would they concern you ? I sent them on a mission far away from here." Answered Shadow Queen. "I alone should be more than enough to deal with all of you."

Shadow Queen swing her arm horizontally and create 5 dark spheres, the spheres then flew towards Chrom, but he managed to destroy them with Falchion.

Chrom and Lucina charged at Shadow Queen, but Shadow Queen summons lightning from above as it strikes Chrom and Lucina, breaking their formation.

Blue sent out Arcanine and use Fire Blast, with Sora combined Arcanine's attack with his Firaga spell, creating a massive stream of fire.

Shadow Queen using wind magic to extinguish the flame. "This one's body is gifted with strong magic, fusing with me has amplified the power further."

Sora swap his keyblade from Kingdom Key to Crystal Snow, Sora fire Blizzaga magic at Shadow Queen, but she summoned a shadowy hands and take the hit for Shadow Queen, however Boue is now riding Arcanine and continue the attack by using another Fire Blast.

Shadow Queen used Dark Wave to extinguish the flames, and knocked Blue away, but Libra cast light magic to shield himself, unfortunately Shadow Queen darkness powers is too much for him to handle as Libra got knocked back too.

Sora run and leap to attack the Shadow Queen, however she summon another dark hand and grabbed Sora, she then slammed him to the ground.

Shadow Queen put her hands on front and summon many hands made out of darkness emerging from the floor and grabbed all the heroes arms and legs, the heroes struggle to break free to no avail.

"All of you show great promise, why don't you use your talents to serve me instead, join me and the world is yours." Shadow Queen make an offer to the heroes.

"No ! We will never side with you !" Chrom naturally rejects her offer.

"I will not accept a world ruled by darkness !" Sora also reject the offer.

"Hmm...I usually just destroy you, but doing that is a waste of talent." Shadow Queen grabbed Chrom's chin and looked at him in the eyes. "You will devote yourself to me and no one else."

"Father !" Screamed Lucina as the Shadow Queen attempt to brainwash Chrom into serving her. "Get away from him you monster !"

Shadow Queen looked at Lucina. "Patience girl, once I'm done with your father you're next." Shadow Queen continue her brainwashing attempt at Chrom.

Libra used a light magic to destroy the shadowy hands that restrain him, as the Shadow Queen is still focusing on brainwashing Chrom, Libra ambushed her by casting light magic on her.

Shadow Queen Screamed in pain as the Shadow hands she summons have dissipated, Shadow Queen have fallen to the floor.

Chrom picked up his sword again and harnessing the Chaos Emerald power. "This is the end Shadow Queen !" Chrom about to pull a finishing blow towards Shadow Queen, but...

"Chrom, are you going to struck me down ?" Shadow Queen exploiting Emmeryn's face and personality to make Chrom hesitate.

Her plan worked and as Chrom hesitates in attacking her, she blast him using a dark energy. The impact caused Chrom to fall down.

"Father !" Lucina grabbed the Falchion and the Chaos Emerald and charged at Shadow Queen.

Lucina swings the Falchion at her only for hands made from darkness grabbed the sword and stopping Lucina in the process.

"Annoying pest, I should eliminate you right here and now." Shadow Queen gather energy on her right hand, however Lucina now use the Chaos Emerald and managed to cut down the darkness construct.

Blue assists her by having Arcanine use Fire Blast again, and Sora use Formchange as he turn his keyblade into Blizzard Blade, the keyblade turn into blades attached to his wrist and ice skate on his feet, Sora used ice attacks as he create spiky ice pillar, this continuous attacks have cornered Shadow Queen.

Lucina now swings the Falchion again, Shadow Queen is now forced on the defensive as she quickly create a barrier.

Despite the obstacle Lucina keep pushing through, the Chaos Emerald empowers her as she managed to make a crack on the barrier.

Shadow Queen watched as the barrier she made begin to crack, she decided to teleport away.

Shadow Queen reappear the the middle corner of the room. "So that's the strength of the Chaos Emerald, to think it's able to almost match my power."

Chrom stand up again. "The emerald, we'll use it to free my sister."

"Is that so ? Well unfortunately for you that mission is doomed to fail." Shadow Queen boast confidently.

"What do you mean by that !" Exclaimed Chrom.

"Father, I'm sure she's just bluffing." Lucina doesn't believe Shadow Queen's words.

"Am I ?" Shadow Queen summoned a Crystal Star as it floats above her palm. "I was briefed that the Chaos Emeralds possess unrivaled power, but with now travel between worlds are made easy, and to show how vast the universe is, those people will soon learn there are things that can rival the Chaos Emeralds."

"Father let's do this." Said Lucina.

Chrom nodded as he and Lucina touched the emerald together, empowering them both, Chrom and Lucina hold the Falchion together and channeling their lightning powers, they swing the Falchion downward and unleashed a powerful lightning sword beam and hit the Shadow Queen.

Once the smoke clears from the impact, Shadow Queen is completely unharmed.

"No way." Lucina said in shock.

"Is the Crystal Stars truly as powerful as the Chaos Emeralds ?" Chrom also look at disbelief.

"I believe play time is now over, my loyal subjects, draw forth the Crystal powers and channel it to your queen !" Shadow Queen used her powers to contact her minions that are far away from Ylisse.

Hooktail Castle

"Brother ! The Queen needs our help !" Hooktail received the queen telepathic message.

"Yes I heard it too, Hooktail we can't let the Queen's enemies victorious, Shadow Queen may victory be yours !" Gloomtail begin to pray.

Hooktail and Gloomtail both have the Ruby Star and Sapphire Star, they both concentrate and channel their prayer towards Shadow Queen through their Crystal Stars.

Palace of Shadows

Beldam, Marilyn, and Vivian have the Gold, Emerald, and Garnet Stars.

"The Queen is calling out to us, we have to do this." Beldam rallied her sisters to pray to Shadow Queen.

"I can't, i dont want to do this." Vivian refusing to pray.

"Vivian, if the queen finds out there's no power coming from your Crystal Star, the queen will demand answer, and you can't save Mario if the queen decided to smite you for insubordination, you will have your chance, but let's play along for now." Beldam persuade Vivian into praying.

The three sisters begin to pray to empower the Shadow Queen, Vivian however are doing it because she has no choice.

Pit of 100 Trials

Bonetail who possess the Diamond Star also sending prayers to empower the Shadow Queen.

Ylisse Castle - Throne Room

Through her minions prayers Shadow Queen managed to draw power from all of the Crystal Stars. "Ah yes, I can hear my minions prayers and wishes, I can feel it empowering me."

Chrom and Lucina repeat the technique they did before and once again Shadow Queen is completely unharmed.

"It didn't work the first time, what makes you think doing it again would work now ? Especially since I now have the power of 7 Crystal Stars under my control." Shadow Queen now gathers dark energy on her hand.

"Playing time is over, it's time i get rid of you for good, your defiance can no longer be tolerated." But before Shadow Queen fully charged the energy, a beam of light destroys the energy she gathers.

"What the !" Shadow Queen is shocked by the sudden interruption.

Once the smokes clear Shadow Queen saw a large dragon and Zeekeeper in front of her, however this is not an ordinary dragon, it's body resembling outer space with stars scattered throughout.

"What an interesting sight, you must be a deity of this world." Said Shadow Queen.

"Well just her." Zeekeeper pointed at Naga, he then turn to the heroes. "Sorry I'm late, but I will explain later."

"My name is Naga, and it appears I can no longer overlook this." Naga introduce herself to Shadow Queen.

"Can you really win against me ? No matter how powerful you are I possess all the Crystal Stars which carries the essence of Heaven itself." Boasted Shadow Queen.

"Sorry Naga, I believe we must retreat for now." Zeekeeper admitting the futility to continue fighting.

"Even you think we should fall back ? Very well then." Naga and Zeekeeper decided to teleport the heroes away from the castle.

"Oh no you don't ! All of you will perish right here and now !" Shadow Queen attempt to block their teleportation but she's too late as Naga and Zeekeeper already teleported everyone.

"Curse it, I'm too late...no matter, now that all seven Crystal Stars in my possession nobody stand a chance against me...I will not make the mistake of scattering the Crystal Stars and have someone else take it and use it against me, i will use my powers to make sure Rogueport and it's surrounding locations difficult to get to, and Mario I have you to thank for that, entrusting the Crystal Stars to my minions is the right thing to do."

Gangrel's Room

Grima retreated to his chambers, now his body is stabilized thanks to the emerald shards overriding the host compatibility, inside Gangrel's Room there's a large mirror, Grima used his magic to enchant the mirror in order to communicate to his Neo Subspace Army allies.

"Hades !" Exclaimed Grima.

"Grima ? Now this is a rare occasion, you're doing the calling, what can I do for you ? Oh wait before that...there's something different about you, oh I know you don't look like you'll be dying anytime soon...how correct I am in my assessment ?" Hades answered flamboyantly as usual.

"Enough with the prattle ! You know this girl's body isn't a compatible vessel to me and yet where is the backup or the emerald you said that will help me !" Grima yelled at Hades.

"What about the ones the heroes have ?" Asked Hades.

"They destroy it ! I'm left with a mere shard !" Grima angrily showed Hades the emerald shard.

"Hahahahahah...that's all you have left ! I got to hand it to them, despite your demands they still somehow able to devise a plan to rob you of victory, make me almost impressed with their cunning." Hades is laughing at Grima's predicament and impressed with the heroes dirty tricks.

"This isn't funny Hades ! I was promised I will regain my full power ! So far even the smallest amount of help isn't coming !" Protested Grima.

Hades's face then turned serious. "Assuming we restore you to full power and then what will you do ? We know of your history Grima, do you truly believe we risk giving a wild card like you what you want ? We have a goal to fulfill, you destroying everything will getting in the way of that."

Hearing this Grima is enraged is as if he's been played for a fool. "YOU !"

"For your own good you better stop there, what can you do against us ?" Asked Hades. "Send your minions to steal the emerald that we have ? Let me remind you that we can easily take control of your minions away from you, and in your current condition you're not in the best position to start making enemies now do you ? So be a good boy and do what we say."

"Am I supposed to be intimidated !? The fact that I'm still here means you can't destroy me and you still need me !" Grima fight back.

"Yes, but not as much as you think, we only need you to be a puppet king for Plegia, and to operate the Dragon Table, or would you like to be replaced already ?" Hades makes it clear who got the upper hand.

With Hades answer Grima remained silent as he has no options.

"Well if you're done here I'm ending our conversation." Hades ended the conversation and the mirror return to regular mirror.

Grima let out a scream, seeing how his life has fallen apart. "How did I reduce to this !? How could I have fallen so far !?"

Flashback...

Not long after Grima possessed alternate Morgan, he found himself wandering until he reached a ravaged village. "This vessel isn't right for me, I must find Robin, only he is my suitable host."

And at that time Hades appears to Grima, using a human corpse as a medium to speak to the Fell Dragon. "Well now, this is unexpected, the Fell Dragon Grima, you were supposed to be killed permanently, but it seems the Ancient Minister machinations has bring forth an unexpected miracle."

"Who are you !? Identify yourself !" Grima demanding answer.

"My name is Hades, Lord of the Underworld, and unlike you I'm an actual deity." Taunted Hades.

"What ! I am...!" Grima about to object as Hades stopped him.

"Just because you think you're a god, that doesn't make you one." Replied Hades. "Anyway as a benevolent deity I'm here to offer you help."

"And why should I accept your help ?" Grima suspicious at Hades offer.

"Because I know what you're going through, this girl you inhabit, she's not a suitable host for you isn't she ?" Asked Hades.

Grima didn't say anything.

"Join us and we will make your wish came true." Hades offered Grima to join Neo Subspace Army.

"What ? You're going to give Robin to me ?" Asked Grima.

"I could, or I can give you something better, you can exist without a host." Answered Hades.

"Sounds too good to be true, which makes it all the more suspicious." Replied Grima.

"Well there's no need to accept my offer if you don't feel like it, however even you realize your situation do you ? This girl is an imperfect vessel, you may have dominate her mind for now, but she will regain her will and started to fight back and force you out, and without a host you will perish, in your current weakened state, what can you do ?" Asked Hades. "But with me, power, underlings, everything you desire will came true."

Realizing Grima don't have time until Morgan begin to fight back, he decided to accept Hades's offer. "Fine, I will cooperate."

"Excellent, welcome to Neo Subspace Army."

Back to the present.

"I wonder what would happened if i didn't take his offer ? I was so desperate at that time I didn't think of the consequences, I'm weak, no different from those humans I try to annihilate, is this the path fate laid out for me, bringing me back just so I would suffer ? Is this supposed to be my punishment ?" Grima is contemplating how his life have turned out like this.

"I can't rely on the Neo Subspace Army anymore, Robin and his ilk would rather have me dead, heh...he even going so far as to risk his own life for that..."

"I believe there's something I can do, if my minions can be whisked away from me then I need to find someone not affiliated with either side, Chaos Emerald hear my plea." The emerald shard respond to Grima's wish and teleport him away.

Outrealm Gate

"This place..." Grima looked the emerald shard in his hand. "They say the emerald respond with thoughts, and this is where the emerald brought me ?"

Grima clutch the emerald and made his wish, as he wish to find someone to serve him, the emerald shard respond to Grima's wish, the shard fire a beam at the Outrealm Gate.

Once the emerald beam is done firing, the ermald shard fly towards the Outrealm Gate, Grima followed the emerald and entered the Outrealm Gate, hoping to know where it leads to.

Old Hubba Domain

Grima arrived at an unknown location, the emerlad shard return to his hand, in this location Grima saw a small cottage, as Grima entered he saw a bald old man inside.

"Why hello there, I don't get visitors often, what can I do for you little girl ?" Asked the old man. "Hold on you look kinda familiar have we met before ?"

"No, I believe we haven't." Grima speak using Morgan's voice.

"Really ? My bad then, these eyes are getting old." Said Old Hubba.

("Is the emerald point me to a right direction ? How is this old man going to help me ?") Grima then looked at the table as he see cards scattered at the table.

"Oh you're curious about this ? Well since you're an adorable little girl, let's just keep this between us, this isn't just an ordinary cards, no these are Einherjars, this magical cards can summon a replica of heroes of the past, pretty impressive right ?"

("Is this what the emerald leads me too ? This...Einherjars ?") Grima sounded confused for a second, but he regained his composure. "Y-yes it is."

"Now just between you and me the Einherjar is bound to serve anyone who summon them whether they're good or evil, so this can't fall to the wrong hands." Old Hubba keep blabbing on about the Einherjar which makes Grima believe that this is the answer he's looking for.

"I see, they will obey their summoner regardless of morality." Grima now knows what to do. "You will surrender all of the Einherjars to me."

Grima used his powers to mind control the Old Hubba, as he fall under the Fell Dragon thrall Old Hubba hand over the Einherjars to Grima, and not only that, he find the rest of the cards he stored at his cottage and give them all to Grima. "This is all of the Einherjars, there's 123 in total."

Grima put all the cards in his pocket and then..."Hmph, he may no longer useful, but I shouldn't rush to killing someone just yet, I need to regain my power first." Grima left the cottage and return to his own world.

Outrealm Gate

"I think I can use this to take the emeralds to regain my powers, i know it won't be easy, I need to plan this thoroughly, most of the people in this cards are already at Neo Subspace Army beck and call, what I need is someone they don't have, someone beneath suspicion, is there anyone like that ?" Grima then looked at the emerald shard. "Chaos Emerald, is there someone like that ?"

Once again the emerald shard begin to glow and shot another beam at the Outrealm Gate.

After that a figure step out from the gate, that figure turns out to be Chrom, however unlike the usual Chrom this one have gray skin and red eyes. "Who summoned me here ?"

"I am Grima the Fell Dragon, so you're the one the emerald call to me."

"I am Chrom the Risen King, faithful servant of Lord Grima of my world, are you really Lord Grima of this world ? That body..." Chrom point out the difference of Grima's vessel from his own world.

"My host body isn't important right now, you may have come from another world, but I am still Grima, so I expect obedience from my servants." Demanded Grima.

"Of course my lord, forgive my rudeness, no matter where, or how you look like, I serve the will of the Fell Dragon." Risen King bowed his head and taking a kneeling gesture.

"Good, now my Risen King...I see you've been blessed with the power of the Fell Dragon of your world, this should be easy, I have a mission for you."

"Whatever you need I will obey." Replied Risen King.

"As you can see I'm in a very bad shape, I need you to find a way to restore my power, and whatever you do never reveal your connection to me." Instructed Grima.

"Of course, and this mission of yours that I must complete, where should I start looking ?" Asked Risen King.

"I will give you freedom on how to accomplish that task." Grima touches the Risen King's forehead and bestow him knowledge. "What I gave you the location of portals scattered across this world, find out what powerful objects reside in those worlds, but make sure no witnesses saw you."

"I will carry out my mission flawlessly." Answered Risen King.

"These should help you on your quest, do not disappoint me." Grima give the Risen King all the Einherjar cards, then Grima teleport back to Plegia Castle.

"Hmph, he's crazy if he thinks I'm going to obey him...I see Grima of this world have been reduced to a shell of his former self, but once I brought my Lord Grima to this world, this place will be the same as my world, and he will reign over two worlds." Turns out the Risen King has his own agenda as he begin to play along in carrying out Grima's order to avert suspicion.

Plegia Castle - Throne Room

"Lord Grima, I've been looking everywhere for you !" Exclaimed Validar.

"Something the matter Validar ?" Asked Grima.

"Nothing, but I am worried especially after that battle." Said Validar. "When I came to check on you in your room, you're nowhere to be found."

"I'm fine, I'm in full control of this body now, Morgan can never wrest control of this body with the emerald shard in my hand."

"That's good to hear." Validar is relieved.

("Validar's loyalty may be genuine, but that doesn't changed the fact he's one of Warriors of Fallen Stars, no matter how loyal he is to me, once Hades take control of him, he will be my enemy no matter what, so I'll play along for now Hades, and once I get my full power back, I will turn this world to the way it was fated to be, Neo Subspace Army, and Robin and his companions, I won't let them stop me.")

Fort Steiger

Cherche is contacting Robin, reporting on her mission and he she unexpectedly met Priam. Robin replied by saying both should meet directly at Garden of Giants which Cherche agreed, she used her golden plate to teleport everyone to Garden of Giants.

Garden of Giants

Further to the west of Valm continent lies a small island, where the Shepherds once heard a rumor about the descendant of Radiant Hero who live here. This place is very isolated that no one bother looking or even know such a place existed.

Robin and Cherche's group teleport here as they intend to settle the Plegian refugees here.

"Hey Robin, so I ended up unable to join Chrom, Excellus have been spreading Grimleal faith in this continent." Said Cherche.

"Well we just finish in our end as well, Gangrel is talking with the citizens about living here for a while." Robin pointed at Gangrel.

"Long time no see Robin." Priam greeted Robin. "I'm really glad to see you again."

"I always believe you will came back to us, there's no way someone who bested my army would keel over just like that." Walhart shows his respect towards Robin.

"Yeah, I was surprised to see them too at Fort Steiger." Said Cherche.

And so Robin and Priam discussing about letting plegian citizens living here until Grima is defeated, fortunately Priam agreed as there's enough space in the island to house the Plegian citizens, with Priam's Army also willing to lend a hand to help settle the refugees

Priam then begin coordinating with Gangrel about the placement of the people.

During the settling process a man approached Aversa, the same man who accuse her of being with Grimleal. "Hey look, I just want to say I'm sorry for my earlier attitude, you see my sister was chosen as a sacrifice, as Grimleal is our national religion, we were thought to accept whatever Grimleal priest says to us, but I...I deep down doesn't want for my sister to be sacrificed."

"I know, and while we can't change the past, now we vowed to end the Grimleal faith, all this barbaric practices must come to an end, no more families and loved ones be torn apart from each other for a dragon who wished to annihilate us." Said Aversa.

"Yeah, I know my sister won't like me holding grudges, we have to move on for the sake of Plegia." The man finally come to terms with his loss as he walked away from Aversa.

"This isn't the desert, but it seems the people like it here." Morgan have spoken to Plegian citizens.

"And..it seems several of Priam's soldiers from Plegia recognize some people here." Added Noire.

As the settling process is underway, Robin's golden playe is ringing. Robin tapped it and a hologram of Chrom appeared.

"Chrom !?" Robin is surprised. "How's your mission ?"

"Unfortunately it ended in failure, where are you now ?" Asked Chrom.

"I'm at Garden of Giants, we ended up decided this is where we settle the Plegian refugees for the time being." Answered Robin.

"Okay, I'm heading there." Chrom and his team teleported to Garden of Giants.

"Chrom you're here ! And sorry about your mission." Robin felt sorry towards Chrom.

"Well I did fail to depose Shadow Queen, but it's not a complete loss." Chrom point to Frederick and Cordelia.

"Frederick, Cordelia, it's good to have you two back." Robin is happy to see the two again.

"It's good to be back too Robin, now we can fight by your side." Said Cordelia.

"Milord are you sure you will forgive me so easily, after what i did I deserve a death penalty." Frederick taking things too far.

"For the last time, it's not your fault, and don't throw away your life like that or you will be inducted to be a Warrior of Fallen Stars, do you want that ? Being under enemy control again ?" Chrom chastising Frederick.

"No milord, but i still deserve to be ounished for what i did." Frederick bowed his head.

Chrom only groaned at Frederick overseriousness. "Fine, Frederick you'll be helping with the manual labor."

"Of course milord." Frederick begin to work.

"Where's Zeekeeper ?" Robin saw Zeekeeper nowhere to be seen.

"He decided to leave first, you won't believe this but even Naga also showed up." Said Chrom. "I could tell you more back at the mansion."

"Robin, Chrom I heard from Cherche you faced an enemy from other worlds am I correct ?" Asked Walhart.

"Yes, that's correct." Confirmed Robin.

"Then you need my help for that, I will offer to join you in your quest to defeat this otherworldly enemies." Walhart offered to join the heroes.

"The same goes for me, I would like to join you as well." Offered Priam.

"Thank you, but what about here ?" Asked Robin.

"Don't worry my second in command will be in charge of this place." Said Priam.

"Then I wish to accompany you as well on this serious mission." Offered Virion.

"No, you won't, how are you going to manage Rosanne by travelling far away ?" Cherche threatens Virion.

"Fine, I guess I'm going back to my manor." Virion feeling dejected.

"Wait, here Virion, should something weird or bad happen, call us with this." Robin give Virion his golden plate, Robin then taught Virion on how to use it.

"Can we go now ? Some kids tried to pluck my feathers." Complained Falco.

"Some people were shocked to see talking animals, so we lied and tell them we're men wearing animal suit." Said Fox.

"People keep touching me and asking if this fur is real." Krystal also not having it easy.

"You guys can go on ahead I'm still staying to oversee the settlement process." Said Robin. "We'll be going back later."

"Heey ! Jigglypuff is going to sing, someone stop her !" Shouted Richter.

"Come on, let's take Jigglypuff before she puts people to sleep." Fox and Falco run to where Richter is and forcibly drag Jigglypuff away from the crowd.

And with that Falco, Krystal, and Fox return back to the mansion, Robin and his companions and few others that Cherche call for help decided to stay for a while to help the refugees settled to their new home.

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I'm finally done, this chapter took longer than I thought, I have to do a lot of rewrite, honestly I already have an idea how this chapter going to be, but along the way, it ended up not satisfying enough so I have to do a lot of rewrite.

So I decided that the heroes can't defeat Grima just yet, Neo Subspace Army can retaliate and the heroes doesn't want the citizens of Plegia to become a casualty, whether by they're going to replace Grima with someone worse or sending reinforcements to assist Grima, so the heroes have to make Grima stay weak and not outright defeat him just yet.

So in this fic the Crystal Star is counted as object with great power similar to Chaos Emerald, let's face it, the heroes are now smart enough to use the Chaos Emerald, but solving every problem with it will make problem solving too much of a breeze.

In the last battle of Paper Mario, the Crystal Stars spread throughout Rogueport, sending wishes and prayers to Mario, that what allows him to defeat Shadow Queen, in here Shadow Queen use the same method to secure victory by entrusting her minions with the Crystal Stars.

Royal Sticker is an item from Paper Mario Sticker Star, which is the most not liked installment of the Paper Mario franchise, the item can grant wishes at the cost of a person sanity, Dimentio is already a psycho that's why the sticker doesn't make him insane as he's already insane, not because he's strong enough to resist the sticker influence.

So i once said i want to follow the Pokemon party member according to Pokemon Adventures Manga, yeah just forget that, i think i'm sticking to the games instead.

At first I wasn't planning on including Sora, but considering Shadow Queen won't be out of place in Kingdom Hearts and she's a being of darkness, it makes sense to include Sora in this chapter.

Character debut : Priam, Walhart, Virion, Pheros, Cervantes, Dimentio, Bonetail, Old Hubba, Risen King Chrom.

Boss Battle : Phila, Frederick, Cordelia, Paper Mario, Dimentio, Shadow Queen, Grima, Mustafa, Yen'fay, Validar, Excellus, Pheros, Cervantes.