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Cracker Chronicle #6: Voltage (Unofficial Part 1)

Okay, so there were some technical difficulties, but this Chronicle is finally ready! Yay! Unfortunately, the whole thing doesn't fit on one post, so I'll get that link up at the bottom.

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Prologue

Though it might not be known too widely, there exists an alternate universe in certain video games. Although this cannot be comprehended by a player (they do, after all, control everything that matters, they can kill the main character as many times as they want, nothing exists outside of the range of vision, etc.) think about it this way: most people believe in a God that controls all things, like a puppet master. The same exact thing lies in a video game, except the player is the puppet master of that universe. One such video game universe is the World of Trophies depicted in the game Super Smash Brothers Brawl…
This is where our story begins. In the past, humans have found out what I have just told you, about a realm outside our own in the world of video games. It is unknown how, but they were able to conquer the barrier that lies from people entering and exiting the many universes found in various universes. The result should have been revolutionary. Instead, this group, which called themselves DVG, used the power for evil. Since they discovered the power, they change ordinary video games into a portal to the video game universe. The only problem is that they make it so that the portal only reopens when the game is completed 100%. Naturally, not one human that has been trapped in a video game has ever come back out alive. Interestingly, the effects of universe cause the game to be unable to be turned off in our world. Research is developing on what happens when the game is forced out of its slot and/or broken.
However, one thing that has never been figured out is what happens in the video game universe when the game is over, or before it begins…

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Meta Knight stood at the helm of the Halberd. The sky was growing dark, and it was the middle of the day.
A Blade Knight standing behind him cleared his throat and bowed, “Sir, King Dedede wishes to see you.”
Meta Knight sighed, “Very well. Take the wheel.”
He walked through his ship until he came to the deck, where the King was awaiting him.
“Meta Knight. We need to talk. It is urgent.”
“Walk with me, then.”
“Master Hand is acting very strangely lately, have you not noticed?”
Meta Knight nodded, “Indeed I have.”
“I think he is being controlled by a malevolent force.”
“Master Hand? Malevolent?” Meta Knight laughed, “We live in a world where we are forced to fight, in order to live another day. No matter what happens, Master Hand cannot make things any worse.” He shuddered, “I remember when he had me kill my own brother.”
King Dedede rubbed the back of his head, “I feel for you. But what I mean is that we will no longer possess any individuality; we will one by one be slain, our life as we know it brought to an end.”
“Do you have any proof to back up your insane prediction?”
King Dedede sighed slowly, “I have found plans written by Tabuu.”
Meta Knight turned and held his sword so that it was pointing at King Dedede’s throat, “The ruler of the Subspace Realm? Impossible.”
“As I too, thought. But I read the plans, and Tabuu has gained control over Master Hand through chains of light. He is planning an all-out assault, starting at the Midair Stadium and the Island of the Ancients, working inward.”
Meta Knight lowered his sword, “Even with Master Hand under his control, he would need a massive vehicle to gain control of all of the World of Trophies.”
King Dedede lowered his head, afraid of what Meta Knight would say when he proposed what Tabuu would use as his transport. “I need your help. I plan on venturing to the Subspace to defeat Tabuu, but I cannot do it alone. Tabuu is able to produce Off Waves with his four wings. These Off Waves will instantly turn anyone that comes in contact with them into a trophy.”
“I propose a solution. Don’t fight Tabuu.”
“I have, however, developed a special brooch that can revive someone from their trophy state without the need of another person. Once the timer goes off, instant revival. We use these, Tabuu can’t defeat us, but we can defeat him. What do you say? Are you in?”
Meta Knight sighed. He turned to two Blade Knights that were standing nearby, “Take this madman away at once. Forcefully make him abandon ship.”
As King Dedede was being taken away, he shouted at Meta Knight and struggled to free himself, “You’re making a big mistake! You will regret this!”
Meta Knight turned to the ominous sky, noticing it for the first time, “What in the world is causing that?”
The clouds began to rain down upon the Halberd. Only, it wasn’t rain. It was Subspace Bugs, the building blocks of life in the Subspace Realm. The Subspace Bugs formed together into Primids, the soldiers of Subspace, and attacked the crew of the Halberd.
Meta Knight single-handedly fought five Primids at once, all the while encouraging his troops, “Stand together, men! Hold them back as long as you can!”
Meta Knight was suddenly lifted off of the ground. He struggled in the grasp of Master Hand himself.
“Meta Knight,” the hand said, in a voice that was not at all his own, “We required your services. Join us or die.”
“Never!”
“You have sealed your fate.”
Meta Knight found himself flung off of the Halberd, his arms locked at his side, unable to free himself or open his wings. His last sight was of five marks on the back of Master Hand.
On them shone tiny pricks of light.

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Voltage
2007.
“Scott! It came!”
Scott leaped to his feet, “What is it?”
Nick held out his hand, showing him a game case, “Super Smash Bros. Brawl! I was able to get one pre-release!”
Scott furrowed his brow, “Let me guess. You-”
“I did not steal it. The shipping truck was wide open.”
Scott sighed, “Let me set up my Wii.”
A few hours later, Nick and Scott were at the Wii menu, the game inserted, and both of them were holding a controller and were set to play.
“Now all we have to do,” Nick said, his controller’s icon hovering over the start button, “Is press Start.”
He pressed the button.
Suddenly, both of them felt an odd tingling sensation throughout their entire body and found they were unable to let go of the controller.
“What’s happening?” Scott screamed.
Nick shook his head, “It’s a DVG! We’re getting sucked in!”
Scott’s angry shouting was the last thing either of them heard before they were sucked into the screen, “This is why you should never steal video games just lying around!”

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Onboard the Halberd, now taken over by the Subspace Army, a group of Mr. Game & Watch controlled the entire ship. Each had no sense of what was right and what was wrong, and merely followed anything that was asked of them. Little did they know that their employer, Tabuu, used their carcasses as sustenance for his Army.
Only one was an exception. Ironically, he was the one that held the honor of piloting the ship. He knew every last detail of Tabuu’s plot, even the exact minute when he would rule the universe. Even Tabuu hadn’t planned that.
This Mr. Game & Watch, who wasn’t actually a Mr. Game and Watch at all, suddenly felt a chill go up his spine.
“Is it possible?” he thought, “Has someone come at last to break me from my prison? No matter; time will tell.” He turned the wheel, steering towards the Midair Stadium.

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Nick and Scott materialized in the crowd of a vast arena. In the arena, two famous characters that they both recognized were fighting: Mario and Kirby.
“Boo!” Scott immediately shouted, “Kirby doesn’t deserve to be in this game!”
“That’s odd,” Nick remarked, gazing at his surroundings rather than watch the fight, “Usually we go to the title screen, but we were sent straight to the action.”
“They did say there was going to be a story mode in Brawl.”
Nick frowned, “I didn’t think they’d make the entire game into the story mode. Though, I must admit, that would be creative.”
Scott sniffed and turned around. He stared at the crowd before turning back to Nick, “Ha! Nintendo’s never been able to make graphics for a suitable crowd. Only two people here aren’t fuzzy pixels.”
Nick turned and smiled at Zelda and Peach, the only two that Scott had mentioned. He leaned over and whispered in Scott’s ear: “Ten bucks says both of them get kidnapped at least once.”
Scott laughed, “I’m not accepting that. Kidnapping is Nintendo’s thing. And if it happens to anyone, it’s the princess…es.”
Nick and Scott watched as Mario punched Kirby in the face and Kirby collapsed, now in the form of a statue with a stand at his feet. Mario looked at the trophy in mild interest, and then touched the stand at the bottom. There was a bright flash and Kirby stood up and shook himself off, almost unfazed that he had just died, and then been brought back from the dead.
Mario and Kirby shook hands and turned to wave at the crowd of pixels, who were somehow able to cheer.
However, the ground began to shake, and red clouds appeared in the sky, followed by a flying ship adorned with a giant copy of Meta Knight’s mask.
Nick chuckled, “I’m guessing by the pixel’s reactions that this wasn’t supposed to happen.”
The crowd was gasping in panic and fear, but there was no knowing if the Halberd was somehow made malevolent. After all, Meta Knight wasn’t evil. There shouldn’t be any cause for concern. But there were those clouds to think about…
The Halberd flew overhead, and a hatch opened on the underside of the ship, dropping hoards of Subspace Bugs onto the stage. The bugs formed into small groups and formed into Primids.
Zelda and Peach ran and leaped onto the stage at Mario and Kirby’s side. Nick sighed and stretched his back, “I guess that’s our cue.”
Scott groaned, “But I just want to watch this whole game play out.”
“That’s not how it works. We have to at least fight to-”
“Fine, fine, fine, I get it. No need to get into specifics.”
Nick and Scott leaped into the fray.
Nick unsheathed his sword and flames coated the blade. He slashed straight through the metallic bodies of the Primids, but they just kept coming, oozing Subspace Bugs from every wound.
Scott, who had four Primids on one arm and five on the other, cried out, “This is impossible! They’re invincible! Like zombies!”
Nick looked at the Subspace Bugs littered at his feet and suddenly realized how to defeat them. “Even zombies have a weak point.”
He dashed along the arena, stabbing his flaming sword into the hole in the Primids’ backs that were seeping the purple particles. Every time he did so, the Primids instantly disintegrated.
Nick’s allies quickly caught on and soon they were left with nothing but the leftover Subspace Bugs at their feet.
An ominous whirring sound caught their attention. Above their heads, a robot wearing a cloak held a machine marked with a red X, attached to its underside. It glared at them for a moment, and then dropped its machine.
“The Ancient Minister,” Zelda said hesitantly, “What is he doing here?”
Two Robot Operating Buddies (ROBs, for short) appeared behind the sphere and attached their arms into holes on the right and left sides. They split the sphere in half, right down the center of the X. Inside there was a glowing blue ball of electric energy, surrounded by a glass case. A timer set for three minutes below the case began to count down.
“A time bomb,” Nick realized, his eyes growing wide.
The Ancient Minister nodded to the ROBs and flew to the Halberd.
Nick and Mario ran towards the Subspace Bomb, but stopped short when they heard a cannon fire behind them. Mario turned around, but it was too late. The cannonball struck Mario and Nick in sequence, and then they shot off into the sky.
Kirby stared after the diminishing figures in the sky and Scott laughed.
Scott and Kirby heard Peach scream out in terror. They both turned and saw the princesses were trapped in cages, held by a giant piranha plant with drill-like teeth named Peety Piranha.
Scott turned to Kirby, “This is your entire fault,” he shouted, and after a moment of thought, added, “And I was right!”
Scott loaded a shotgun, but Kirby tugged on his arm. Scott shot him an irritated look, but quickly realized what he was trying to tell him, “Oh, right, I might hit the princesses.” He groaned and unsheathed two knives the size of his forearms, “I hate hostages.”
Scott lunged at the plant and sliced off the leaf-arm holding Zelda’s cage. He turned, but was swallowed by the plant.
He grunted as the saliva attempted to burn off his flesh. He scowled and pulled a hand grenade from his belt. Not bothering to take the pin out, he simply tossed it into the plant’s gullet and sprang out of the jaws of the plant, which had opened in an attempt to bite Kirby.
Scott turned and gave Peety a thumbs-up and clicked his tongue before the monstrous plant blew up in a magnificent flash of fire.
Kirby helped Zelda out of the cage and Scott cracked his knuckles, “That wasn’t so bad, now was it?”
Zelda looked at him incredulously, “I would object, but you were the one that was in that thing’s mouth, not me.”
A great clanking sound rose up behind them. They turned and saw a pudgy, fat man with a lightning moustache and biker clothes holding an ominous machine with mysterious markings on it.
“Wario!” Scott shouted, immediately recognizing one of his many nemeses.
Wario laughed and pointed the machine at the surprised Zelda. However, something caught his eye and he turned to see Peach, who Scott had forgotten about entirely, emerging from her cage.
Wario shrugged and hefted the machine over his head, slamming it down so that it was aimed at Peach. The barrel of the machine glowed with yellow light, gathering in energy, and then fired at the helpless Peach. The bolt of energy was in the shape of an arrow.
The black arrow surged straight through Peach’s chest, instantly turning her into a trophy. Wario leapt over to his victim and hefted the Peach statue over his shoulder. He laughed menacingly and then fled.
Scott, Zelda, and Kirby immediately took off after him, but as they were running, they went past the still ticking Subspace Bomb. Kirby stopped and gazed at it as the numbers changed, not fully knowing that there was only five seconds left on the clock.
Five seconds later, the bomb went off, engulfing the entire stadium and stands. An unnatural blue-violet color absorbed the stadium, dragging everything into its depths.
A point of light appeared near the very last portions of the stadium, zooming away. The point of light was that of Kirby’s Warpstar, a device that could travel at the speed of a shooting star.
Kirby, Zelda, and Scott, who were all on the Warpstar, let out a sigh of relief. Scott scratched the back of his head guiltily, “I guess the pink puffball isn’t so useless after all.”

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Nick saw a flash of light, and suddenly he was back in reality. He shook his head and looked around at his surroundings.
Two things bothered him. One, he was on a cloud. Two, there was a boy of about ten with angel wings growing out of his back staring at him.
Nick frowned, “Did you save me?”
The boy nodded and touched a statue of Mario that was lying nearby.
Mario shook his head and got to his feet.
Nick frowned and remembered something very large knocking him off his feet and out of consciousness.
“My name is Pit,” the boy said suddenly, “I saw what happened at the Midair Stadium.”
“I’m Nick, and you probably know this is Mario. Obviously, you knew that.”
Pit nodded, “You don’t know, then, what happened after your…ejection?”
Nick frowned, “No. What happened?”
“The bomb went off. Nothing is left of the stadium.”
Mario straightened his hat. Nick knew exactly what that meant. He smiled, “Not all is lost. I expect Scott, Kirby, and the princesses survived. And we’ve just begun, haven’t we?” He laughed and flipped off of the cloud, plummeting to the ground below.
“What was he talking about, ‘we’ve just begun’?” Pit asked, dumbfounded.
Mario shrugged and leapt off the cliff, followed closely by a flying Pit.

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The Warpstar, along with its occupants, flew through a sea of clouds, unknowingly being followed by the Halberd.
Scott frowned and turned around. He was frightened to find that the Halberd was mere meters from his face. The Warpstar, which was not able to outrun the gigantesque Halberd, crashed onto the deck of the Halberd.
Suddenly, all of the guns on the port side of the Halberd roared to life. They shot multiple rounds at a small craft above the Halberd, all missing.
An extendable claw shot at the ship and knocked off one of the wings. The smoking ship fell towards the Halberd at full speed, missing the former Warpstar occupants too close for comfort. Zelda and Kirby flew off the port side of the ship, while Scott flew off the starboard side, along with the damaged-beyond-repair ship.

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The Ancient Minister flew steadily, another Subspace Bomb in hand. Mario ran only like he knew how and leapt…but fell short. Pit came up behind him and stepped on Mario’s head, propelling himself towards the Minister, but he, too, fell short.
Nick ran past, thinking quietly to himself, “We just chase this guy until something happens, right? I sure hope something happens soon; these guys are taking longer and longer to get back up. Amateurs.”

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Scott stumbled slightly. He had landed on a tree, shattering it to splinters, but he was unshaken.
“Good,” was his first thought, “Now I don’t have to work with Kirby or Nick. If only I had someone awesome on my side, now.”
He rubbed his sore forehead as he exited the forest, and saw a monkey dragging a fox by the fox’s collar.
“Hey!” the fox called when he saw Scott, “Might as well have you come along. Someone that can speak will be worthwhile.”
Scott frowned, unable to place where he had seen the fox before, “Who are you?”
“Name’s Fox.”
“Right. Real original, Nintendo. Oh, hey, it’s Diddy Kong. I remember him.” Scott grinned, “Good times. Good times. Okay, then, let’s go!”
Scott ran ahead. Fox turned to Diddy Kong, “Who’s Nintendo?”
Diddy Kong shrugged and ran after the strange man.

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Fox rubbed his hands together and Diddy Kong clapped his in triumph. A Bowser statue lay at their feet.
Scott walked out of the forest behind them, sheepishly rubbing his neck, “Oh, hey, guys. Sorry we sorta got split up in there.” He noticed the statue for the first time and gasped in surprise, “Oh, you defeated Bowser. Heh, heh, sorry I wasn’t here to help. Honest mistake.”
Diddy Kong ignored him and hopped over to the statue. He tapped it to make sure it wouldn’t bite him, and then he pushed the statue as an act of revenge. The statue disintegrated into purple Subspace Bugs.
Fox and Diddy gasped. Scott yawned, “I’m guessing that wasn’t supposed to happen, now was it?”
A blast sounded to their left. They dodged out of the way as a black arrow shot through their midst. They turned and saw the true Bowser aiming a Dark Cannon at them, the same device Wario had used on Peach.
Another blast was fired and caused an explosion. Diddy Kong, infuriated, beat his chest and started towards him, but Fox grabbed his tail and slung him over his shoulder. Fox ran and jumped off a cliff.
Scott scowled, unused to this constant fleeing. He gave Bowser a rude gesture and followed Fox off the cliff.

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Far away, there was an abandoned zoo in the World of Trophies. It was here that Wario planned to find more heroes.
There were two in the Ruined Zoo: Lucas and Ness.
On the top of a miniature mountain, Wario aimed his Dark Cannon at the unsuspecting travelers below.
“Easy pickings,” he said to himself as he fired at Ness.
Ness dodged out of the way easily.
Wario scowled. He fired off four more shots, also failing to hit Ness.
He groaned and turned to Lucas. He fired a single shot.
Lucas didn’t try to dodge. So far so good.
Ness ran and pushed Lucas out of the way, sacrificing himself.
Wario leapt down and collected his second prize. He laughed evilly as Lucas ran away, and lightning flashed behind him

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To the east of the zoo, there was a castle, the site of many historic battles. The fields were still studded with arrows, almost like grass. And this is where the Ancient Minister struck next.
The ROBs holding the Subspace Bomb held their heads and closed their eyes, enjoying their last moments of life.
On the top of the castle, Marth, the only one left of the castle’s remnants, saw the army of Primids coming forth to take the castle. She drew her sword and leapt out into the field, hopelessly outnumbered, hopelessly outmatched.
She slashed valiantly through every last Primid, not caring if she died in the effort.
At last she stood, gazing at the dome-shaped blast of the bomb, vowing revenge on the Ancient Minister.
She heard an explosion and a flash; she slashed and her sword met metal. Meta Knight, whose ship had piloted the Minister, had come to fight her.
They exchanged sword blows, each equally matched.
This would have gone on all day, if it were not for the two Primids that sprang up around them. Meta Knight and Marth both slashed at the Primids, instantly killing them. They turned to each other, astounded.
Meta Knight was the first to speak, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Marth nodded in agreement and they ran towards the Ancient Minister, who miraculously already had a new Subspace Bomb.
Marth jumped up and slashed, the blade coated with blue energy. The Ancient Minister flew a little higher, and the blue blade missed by an inch.
Meta Knight flapped his wings and soared directly behind the Minister and raised his sword.
The Minister turned and shot a laser from his eyes, singing Meta Knight’s wing.
The Ancient Minister turned away now that the two were dealt with, and did not see the spinning golden sword appear behind him.
“Great…”
The Ancient Minister turned to see Ike, Marth’s counterpart, holding the golden sword over his head, about to slash. The Minister panicked and erratically tried to evade. Due to this maneuver, Ike was only able to slash the bomb, sending the Minister tumbling through the air.

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Meanwhile, somewhere in the middle of the World of Trophies, a lone Waddle Dee walked down a path.
“This is it, Luigi! Time to live up to your little brother’s reputation! Soon those crowds will be shouting my name!”
Mario’s leaner and taller younger brother struck a fighting pose, preparing to attack this tiny Waddle Dee.
As the Waddle Dee came closer, Luigi backed off of the main path, but kept his fists up, despite the temptation to hide his face.
The Waddle Dee turned to look at him, and Luigi released a cry of fear. The Waddle Dee ignored him and kept walking. Luigi sighed and wiped a bead of sweat from his brow. A second Waddle Dee came up behind him and also looked at him in mild interest. Luigi turned and jumped a few feet backwards, right in front of a large shadow.
The shadow stepped forward and smacked its hammer against Luigi’s back. Luigi screamed in terror as he flew helplessly into the sky.
The shadow flipped the hammer around so Luigi, in statue form, landed easily on top of it. The shadow swung the hammer over his shoulder and Luigi landed a couple of meters away.
The shadow, King Dedede, brushed some dirt off of Luigi’s face with a gloved hand, “Not a bad looking guy. Looks kinda familiar…”
A swarm of Waddle Dees gathered around him. He chuckled, “The bait is set.” He hid in a bush and the Waddle Dees did likewise in other bushes.
Wario, driving a hovering Cargo with Ness and Peach in the back, sang a little song, “Oh, I’m-a hunting for some trophies, I’m-a…”
He stopped and his jaw dropped when he saw the Luigi statue on the side of the road. Not suspecting anything, he stopped the Cargo, and jumped out. He yelled in the statue’s face, and then laughed. He hefted the statue over his head. That was the signal.
Dozens of Waddle Dees surged forth, surrounding him.
Wario abruptly stopped laughing and struggled to keep the Waddle Dees back. He fell over, and the Luigi Statue bounced into the Cargo upside-down, next to Peach and Ness. King Dedede loaded the Cargo up and turned it around, leaving his Waddle Dees and Wario behind.
The Waddle Dees hurried after him. Wario shook himself off and then realized that his Cargo had been stolen. He yelled after them, but did not give chase. He couldn’t catch up to the Cargo, so why bother?
The ironic thing about Wario’s laziness was that he was wearing his denim jacket that read, “Hurry up!”

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Kirby and Zelda landed near one of the World of Trophies’ only lakes. As they gathered themselves, Kirby was distracted by something and ran off, leaving Zelda far behind. Zelda sighed, “Now I have to go get him. Kirby!”
There was a loud thud behind her. She turned and saw Bowser with a Dark Cannon. The cannon fired, turning the helpless Zelda into a trophy.
Subspace Bugs, gathered at Bowser’s feet, covered the trophy, eager to take a new form.
Nick watched silently from a nearby cliff, taking it all in.
Bowser took the Zelda trophy away and the fake Zelda flew to the same cliff Nick was on, one hand on the Dark Cannon.
Nick was not worried. A simple Dark Cannon could be countered. But he gripped the hilt of his sword, just in case.
It turned out that Zelda was not going for him. Link and Yoshi ran on the path below, unaware of the dangers above. The fake Zelda charged the Cannon.
Slash!
The Cannon sliced in half, cut by Pit’s blade. Mario and Pit, waiting nearby, had completely ambushed.
The fake Zelda frowned, and then lunged.

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Below, Link stopped and saw Mario and Pit standing in front of the fake Zelda’s statue. He growled in anger and ran for them, leaping, and stabbing the ground where Mario had previously been standing. Yoshi and Link, Mario and Pit, all of them, struck fighting poses and attacked.

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Link and Yoshi’s defeated statue forms collapsed to the ground. Mario and Pit gasped from exhaustion.
Nick angrily leapt from his hiding place, “Oh, now you’ve done it! Two of gaming’s greatest icons…defeated by fellow icons! And they’re on our side!”
Mario and Pit were once again puzzled by Nick’s speech.
King Dedede, driving the stolen Cargo, just happened to come right at that moment. He passed them, and Mario was stricken to see Peach in the hold. The King turned the craft around and headed back, collecting the Link and Yoshi statues with the Cargo’s auto-claw.
King Dedede did a fist pump.
And then Kirby revealed himself, hidden on the claw.
King Dedede’s eyes widened in disbelief.
Kirby slashed the claw holding Link and Yoshi in half and touched the base of their trophies, turning them back to normal. King Dedede scowled, “Three is enough.”
He turned the Cargo back towards his castle, which unfortunately took him right past the heroes. Link loaded his bow with an arrow, aimed, and fired. The arrow struck right in the engine of the machine, right where it counts.
Nick, Mario, Pit, Link, Yoshi, and Kirby ran after the Cargo, which was managing to hold together.
For now.

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Safe in his castle, King Dedede dusted off his statues; Peach, Luigi, and Ness. He reached into his sleeve and pulled out two brooches with his face on them. He stuck one on Ness’ shirt and one on the tip of Luigi’s nose. He held up his empty hand in front of Peach, and then looked around, unable to find another brooch except for the one on his chest.
He sighed, “Fine, I’ll use mine for you, and I’ll make myself another one later.” He took off his brooch and stuck it on Peach’s chest.
He looked at his statue army of three, “You’ll make an excellent bunch to save the world.”
Suddenly, his palace collapsed around him, and the roof’s heavy bricks fell. One struck the King on his head and split right in half. More bricks fell, burying the four trophies. After it was all over, Bowser and his Koopas searched the rubble. Bowser laughed as he pulled the Peach statue from under a large rock.

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Bowser ran as fast as he could towards the edge of a cliff. Near the end, he turned and saw Mario in the air, fist raised, prepared to punch him. Bowser held the Peach statue up, shielding himself.
Mario couldn’t bear to hurt Peach. He purposely made his punch miss and he fell to the ground. He rolled backwards to Pit’s side.
Pit aimed his bow, loaded and ready. Bowser growled, “Just try it, boy.”
Pit released the arrow and it flew directly at the hand that held Peach. Bowser lunged to the side, dodging, but now he tumbled over the edge of the cliff.
There was a moment of silence, and then Bowser rose up in his hover vehicle, laughing at them as he flew towards the Halberd in the distance.
Kirby was the only one of the group not to stare at the Halberd as Bowser flew off, instead looking at the brooch that had fallen off of Peach.

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Nick ran through the desolate desert, sullenly irritated. He wiped a bead of sweat from his brow, “This scouting ahead is harder than I…damn.”
He looked back the way he had come. His allies had trusted him to scout out the area ahead. He had told them that if he wasn’t back in one hour, they could go on without him. That was an hour and a half ago.
Nick scowled, “I might as well keep going the way I am. There are five of them, plus they were only slowing me down anyway.”
Out of the corner of his eye he saw a stroke of blue. He turned and saw an armored tank speeding through the desert, being chased after by Marth, Ike, and Meta Knight.
Nick grinned inwardly.
“Hey! Meta Knight!”
The two-foot tall swordsman stopped and turned, gasping slightly when Nick teleported right in front of him.
“Wha-Who are you?”
“Name’s Nick. What be you doing out here?”
Meta Knight turned and pointed his sword at the tank, “That thing works for the Subspace Army. We need to destroy it before it is of use to them.”
Nick unsheathed his sword and took off in a full sprint, “Then I guess we can’t let it get away, am I right?”

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The tank, as it happened, had stopped. Meta Knight, Nick, Marth, and Ike caught up to the tank and watched, in sullen astonishment, as the tank transformed into a humanoid robot.
“Galleom,” Meta Knight said bitterly, recognizing the android.
Nick gripped his sword tighter, “Great. A tank-bot. Where have we seen that before?”
He lunged at Galleom, the Fli Sword igniting in flame. He slashed at the legs, crippling the robot.
Galleom launched the missiles located on his back. Heat-seeking.
Nick switched off the fire setting and jumped onto one of the missiles. He leapt from his perch there and stabbed the Fli Sword into the launcher on Galleom’s back.
Galleom screeched a loud metallic scream and swiped at Nick, who was now attached to his back. Nick struggled, gritting his teeth. He wrenched the sword from the android’s back and did a backflip as the robot’s abdomen exploded.
Galleom looked at them for a long time, and then jumped off the cliff behind it.
Nick ran to the edge of the cliff and gasped in surprise as Galleom collapsed the ground below the cliff, falling into the secret ruins below that.

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A few minutes later, Galleom flew back out, holding Lucas and a boy named the Pokemon Trainer in one hand. Previously, Galleom had a spiky hat, but that was just to disguise the Subspace Bomb hidden underneath. This bomb was now activated, and had less than fifteen seconds until it went off.
As the last seconds ticked away, a lightning bolt flew from Lucas’ hand and destroyed the hand holding them. As he and the Pokemon Trainer, who was unconscious, fell, Lucas hugged his new friend tightly, savoring his last moments before the bomb went off, or the ground met his face.
And the latter would have been his fate, had Meta Knight not flown in and saved them both.

+===+

A safe distance away, Ike, Marth, and Nick anxiously awaited their companion’s return. Meta Knight at last flew in, depositing the two boys gently at their feet.
The Pokemon Trainer slowly came to, and was helped up by the friendly hand of Lucas.
The sincerity of the situation caused Nick to smile, but he turned away so the others would not see.

+===+

Elsewhere in the same desert, the Ancient Minster was being chased by Mario and Link. This time, they would dodge every laser fired at them, and they were catching up fast.
As they seemed close to jumping, six ROBs appeared and blocked their paths.
“Excellent,” the Ancient Minister thought, though he had not ordered the ROBs to do anything. As he was turning to leave, he felt an extra weight from the Subspace Bomb it was carrying. The Minister looked down and saw another ROB hanging from the bomb’s underside.
The bomb detached, and fell to the ground. The ROB that had detached it crashed to the ground, its head snapping off and spurting sparks. Two of the ROBs holding back Mario and Link left and gathered next to the bomb.
“It will not hurt anyone to detonate it here,” one said.
The other nodded, “Yes. We must not let anyone else get hurt.”
They activated the bomb.
Mario and Link attacked the ROBs, trying to separate them and stop the bomb. Two other ROBs dragged them away, so they would not get caught in the blast.
The Ancient Minster watched this go through without a single malicious thought. He simply asked a single question: “Why would you do this?”
One ROB answered, “It has to stop, Minister. We would rather die here than serve Tabuu any longer.”
The Ancient Minster did not answer. The Minister had also thought this very same thing, but it had not done anything in order to protect its people.
Now things had to change.

+===+

In the Northeast of the World of Trophies, near the sea, Scott, Fox, and Diddy Kong were walking by a river’s edge, talking about the goings-on of everyday life, when a black arrow struck Diddy straight through the stomach.
The Diddy statue clattered back along the way they had come, finally resting on its side.
Scott and Fox turned and saw Bowser, Dark Cannon in hand, turning it towards Fox.
A shot was fired and Fox dodged out of the way, sliding off the path. Bowser turned to the Diddy statue, pointing at it with a clawed finger.
Subspace Bugs, the same ones from before that had taken the form of Zelda and Bowser himself, enveloped the statue and formed into a dark version of Diddy Kong with piercing yellow eyes.
Bowser turned the Dark Cannon once more on Fox, but two laser shots shot into the ground next to Bowser. An Arwing flew overhead, and did a barrel roll. When the Arwing was upside down, the glass flew off, and Fox’s friend Falco landed in front of Bowser. He sped forward, kicking the cannon out of his hands. Falco flipped in midair and pulled two guns from their holsters, shooting up the Dark Cannon until it exploded.
Weaponless, Bowser jumped backwards into the bushes and flew away in his hover vehicle.
Falco, Fox, and Scott turned to the dark Diddy, and more Subspace Bugs enveloped him. Dark Diddy tripled in size, stomping the ground with his enormous feet.
Fox tapped the stand of the Diddy trophy and the real Diddy Kong rubbed his head once before screeching in surprise of himself, only a lot bigger.
“You know,” Scott said, “This is awesome, in a way. Two guys with guns, my old pal Diddy, and I, are fighting Diddy. An evil, much larger, Diddy.”
The giant Subspace version of Diddy Kong bellowed, but it was quickly cut off. The creature collapsed, the Subspace Bugs fleeing, under the weight of the meteor that had landed on top of them.
Fox, Falco, and Diddy gasped in surprise. Scott’s eyes widened slightly, “Okay, even I wasn’t expecting that.”
The top of the meteor exploded, exposing the hollow inside. Subspace bugs, slightly more violet than the normal purple kind, leaked out and formed a violet silhouette with red eyes. The silhouette clenched its fist, “My name is 9HEAT. I suggest you provide a reason not to kill you.”
Scott raised both hands, “I have no idea who you are, or what video game you’re from, but I must tell you that it would be a bad idea for you to engage me in combat, for I,” he extravagantly gestured to himself, “am the legendary Scott. And it would behoove me to fight you at this time.”
9HEAT thought about this for a moment, “You say your name is Scott, but could it really be?” He turned back to Scott and co., “Very well; I will let you live another day. But beware the day our paths cross again, for I will not be so kind, and people are not who they say they are.” The silhouette disappeared, and Scott sighed.
“That guy was a freak.”
Falco shrugged and started to walk away, but Diddy Kong grabbed his collar and spun him around. And then he spoke his first words of English to them: “Stop! You can’t leave now! We still have to save my dad!”
Scott’s ears perked up, “We’re saving Donkey Kong? Oh, the sweet irony.”
Falco shrugged, “Not my problem.” He again turned to leave, but Diddy grabbed his collar and dragged him the same way as he had Fox when Scott had met them.
Falco glared at Fox. Fox, in answer, said, “Hey, he did the same thing to me. The exact same thing.”

+===+

Farther on down the river, a Smash Skiff was transporting the Donkey Kong statue to the Island of the Ancients. The Skiff flew off the waterfall and headed straight for the Island.
Scott, Fox, Falco, and a disappointed Diddy stared after it.
“Aw,” Scott whined, “We were so close!”
“Don’t worry,” Falco said, pulling a remote control from his pocket, “I brought backup.” He pressed a button on the remote and Star Fox’s ship, the Great Fox, rose up, a powerful and formidable weapon.
Scott whispered quietly to himself, “I’d like to see the Subspace Army face up to this thing.”

+===+

An Arwing carrying Falco and Diddy Kong closed in on the Smash Skiff. The Arwing flew directly above the Skiff and flew upside-down, releasing the window and Diddy fell, rockets attached to his back and peanut guns in hand. He fired at the Skiff six times, each shot hitting and knocking off each of the six Primid guards.
Diddy landed on the Skiff and touched the bottom of his father’s trophy, returning him to normal. Donkey Kong busted out of his shackles and beat his chest triumphantly. Two people landed behind Diddy; Captain Falcon and Captain Olimar. Falcon grinned, “You, my monkey friend, have style. My buddy here and I will go on with you.”
Diddy and Donkey high-fived and danced in a circle, hopping on one foot and beating their chests.
Falco’s Arwing flew past, and Diddy waved good-bye.
A shadow fell over the Skiff and its occupants turned. The Skiff, set to autopilot, flew into an open hangar on the side of the Island of the Ancients.

+===+

Scott piloted the Great Fox and was now locked in epic combat with the Halberd. Scott grinned evilly and smashed his fist into a button. The Great Fox’s lasers fired, but bounced off of the mask.
The Halberd, which had hundreds of guns firing multiple rounds per second, fired two shots that hit the Great Fox’s shields, shaking the ship.
Scott scowled, “Stupid Halberd. Shield power is too low. Resort to reserve power!”
A computerized voice spoke, “Sir, we have no reserve power.”
Scott swore loudly.

+===+

Near the Great Fox vs. Halberd battle was an icy peak. Meta Knight, at the bottom of the mountain, flew towards the base, leaving Ike, Marth, Lucas, and the Pokemon Trainer behind. Nick, however, was right behind Meta Knight.
Meta Knight and Nick landed at the base of the mountain, and looked up. Two spots, one blue, one pink, were bouncing from side to side up the mountain.
Meta Knight turned to Nick, “I cannot fly straight up.”
Nick grinned, “Then we should follow the Ice Climber’s example.”
Nick and Meta Knight quickly began bouncing back and forth up the mountain, catching up to the Ice Climbers in a matter of seconds.
The Ice Climbers frowned, “We’re not going to lose to you!” They bounced after Meta Knight and Nick, even though Nick and Meta Knight had no idea they were being raced up the mountain.

+===+

The Ice Climbers jumped onto the highest ledge of the mountain. They hopped around in triumph as Meta Knight and Nick joined them.
Meta Knight drew his sword as he saw the very tip of the peak. Hovering above it, on one foot, was the Pokemon named Lucario.
Nick frowned, “I don’t remember if Lucario is bad or not. Well, I guess we’ll find out.”
Lucario opened its eyes and leaped from its perch, landing in front of Meta Knight. Lucario raised a fist and formed a ball of energy in its hand. Meta Knight leaped into combat. The Ice Climbers gulped, not wanting to engage in the fighting. Nick stared at each one of them in turn, “If it’s alright with you, I’m going to sit this one out. Maybe take a nap.”

+===+

Meta Knight hesitantly examined the Lucario trophy. The Ice Climbers roused Nick from his nap.
Nick blinked and leaped to his feet, joining Meta Knight, “Hey, if you look closely, the reflection in the stand is not that of Lucario, but of Pikachu! Weird…”
“Should we free him?”
Nick shrugged, “We could use the help. But keep your sword at the ready.” Nick tapped the bottom of the trophy and Lucario stood up, groaning and shaking his head. He raised his fists, but thought better of it and simply held out his hand. Meta Knight took it and shook.
Nick sighed, and smiled, “Another happy moment. This is starting to be a very touching fighting game.”
The ground shook, and they turned to see the Halberd, with a crippled Great Fox in tow, flying straight at them. The Halberd flew up at the last second, scrapping the Great Fox into the peak. Meta Knight, Lucario, and Nick jumped from the Great Fox and onto the Halberd.
“Finally,” Meta Knight said to himself, “I return to take back what is mine.”
None of them noticed that they had left behind the Ice Climbers, who were falling back down to the mountain’s base.

+===+

Scott struggled with the controls of the Great Fox. The Halberd had disabled all automatic functions, so he had to run the ship manually.
“Easier said than done,” he thought bitterly, “Stupid wheel is stuck.”
The Great Fox headed for the ocean, where it would crash, very fast, very hard.

+===+

Meanwhile, on the Halberd, Meta Knight flew down the hallways, followed by Nick and Lucario on foot. As they passed through, Lucario turned, aware of a cardboard box that was lying in a corner, somewhat suspiciously.
Lucario lifted the box up to find Solid Snake, war veteran and rebel from Master Hand’s control for thirty years. Snake was clutching his head between his knees.
When he noticed his cover was blown, Snake sprang to his feet, fists raised, prepared to fight them off. Meta Knight raised his sword, but Lucario stopped him. He raised his palm and closed his eyes.
After a time, he opened his eyes and turned to Meta Knight and Nick, “He is on our side. But they aren’t.” He pointed to a group of Primids marching towards them.
Nick, Lucario, and Meta Knight raised their respective weapons for battle. Snake looked around, trying to find his box.

+===+

When the Halberd was taken over, the cargo hold was emptied out, replaced with cages held from the ceiling with steel chains. It was in these cages that Bowser and Wario would put their victims once they were delivered to the Halberd.
Nick, Meta Knight, Lucario, and Snake stumbled into the cargo hold, almost by accident. Once there, they looked about for anything they might use as a weapon, at a command from Meta Knight. Nick was the first to notice the cages.
“Hey, look! It’s the princesses! Peach and Zelda!”
Snake snapped held up a grenade launcher, “This will work.”
He fired two shots and the cages broke open. Snake touched the stands of both trophies.
Nick, Meta Knight and Lucario left, trying to find the wheel of the ship. Snake had told them he would catch up.
“Stay here,” he told the princesses, “We’ll come back for you once the Halberd is under our control.”
Snake ran out of the cargo hold, the doors shutting behind him.

+===+

The alarms of the Battleship Halberd blared, to which the Game & Watches controlling the ship were immune to.
The intercom system screamed, “All Primids report to their stations. The Battleship Halberd has been infiltrated by these traitors; Meta Knight, Solid Snake, Lucario, and Nick. Also, the prisoners, Zelda and Peach, have escaped. All Primids report to their stations…”
The Game & Watch steering the ship gasped slightly, “Nick? ‘Audi Famam, Illius’…”
“What was that?”
The Game & Watch nervously turned to his counterpart, “Uh, nothing. Just singing a little ditty I learned a while back.”
The Game & Watch mentally hit his own head against a wall, “Ditty? I’m acting more and more like Mr. Game & Watch every day.”

+===+


On the deck of the Halberd, the guns were once again firing at an Arwing, again belonging to Fox. Fox furiously fired at the Halberd, unaware that he was firing at Peach, who was on the deck of the Halberd. One of the Halberd’s guns clipped a wing, but Fox flew out of it.
Fox turned the Arwing towards the Halberd, and his scanners detected something powerful on the deck, the Main Cannon #2. By taking out the Cannon, he could cripple the entire Halberd.
On the deck, Sheik, Zelda’s alter ego, watched as the Arwing fired its guns towards Peach, who was standing in front of the Main Cannon #2.
Sheik jumped up and disappeared in a flash of flash of smoke. She reappeared on top of Fox’s Arwing. Fox gasped as she raised a hand and punched straight through the glass, pulling Fox out of the Arwing, both of them falling to the Halberd.
Fox and Sheik landed on the deck, running straight at each other. When they were directly in front of each other, Fox kicked, Sheik blocking with her arm.
Peach raised her arm, shouting, “Hey!”
Sheik and Fox looked at her, and she offered them both a cup of tea. Fox shrugged and drank in newfound friendship.

+===+

Meta Knight, Lucario, Nick, and Snake rode an elevator to the control room of the Halberd, finding it to be controlled by a group of Mr. Game & Watch’s.
Snake frowned and ran at them, knocking them all through the windows and onto the deck.
The Game & Watches collapsed, the fake one silently speaking to himself, “Ouch, I forgot about that part. I should have changed beforehand. Oh, now look what’s happening.”
Each of the Game & Watches, including the fake one, disintegrated into purple Subspace Bugs, forming together into a metallic two-headed robot.
The fake felt his thoughts merging with the others, unable to fight so many minds, all thinking the same thoughts, that eventually, he gave up and let it become his; “Kill the intruders: Fox, Sheik, Peach.”
The robot of many minds, Duon, spun two of its four hands, these two blades, threateningly at the three gathered in front of it. Three figures jumped from the control room and landed at their side; Lucario, Snake, and Nick.
An Arwing flew overhead, dropping Falco into their midst, “I thought you might need some help with this, Fox.”
Nick grinned, “Aren’t we a great group? Now let’s cripple this thing. I’ve had enough of the Subspace Army’s robots.”
Nick unsheathed the Fli Sword, running and jumping over Duon. He stabbed his sword into the second, pink head. He set the sword to electricity and let go, causing Duon to get shocked with thousands of watts of lightning.
Snake cracked his knuckles and pulled two grenades from his pockets. He pulled off the pins with his teeth and flung them into the robot, exploding on contact.
Fox and Falco both pulled out their guns, firing at Duon, dodging every time the robot swiped its sharp hands at them.
Duon found itself overwhelmed quickly. It was being attacked on four sides, and it only had two heads and four arms to keep up with them. It fired a couple of missiles from its two non-blade hands, but they each missed.
Nick stood back, watching the robot’s erratic moves, “It’s almost as if it’s trying to stop itself from attacking.” He shrugged and leaped onto the robot, retrieving his sword.
Duon spun around, knocking back all of its attackers. It screamed, and then spoke, “You…fools! We…cannot…be defeated…we are…the Subspace Army! Without us…we would be…nothing!” Duon collapsed, a knife in the wheel holding it up.
Sheik, who had delivered the final blow, coughed lightly, “You’re welcome.”
Duon’s body dissipated, the Subspace Bugs flying off in the wind. All that was left was a single Mr. Game and Watch trophy.
Fox instinctively raised his gun, but Peach walked right up to it, umbrella in hand, and tapped the stand.
Mr. Game & Watch looked all around; looking for his companions, but Peach noted this and silenced him with a wagged finger and a strict, “No!”
Mr. Game & Watch hung his head, but Peach handed him her umbrella. He took it and walked around, apparently liking the pink coloring.
Back in the control room, Meta Knight approached the steering wheel, once again taking rightful control of the Halberd. He steered it away from the ominous clouds that had always seemed to follow it since it was taken over, heading to the east.
Nick squinted into the horizon, pointing something out, “Hey, what’s that?”
Fox looked at what he was pointing at, and then laughed, “That’s the Island of the Ancients. Its inhabitants, the ROBs, have lived there for centuries, undisturbed, but it’s said that they have superior technology to anyone.”
Nick frowned, “Then that’s where they must be making all of those Subspace Bombs. Fox, do you or Falco have another Arwing?”
Fox turned to Falco. Falco shrugged, “Yeah, we have another, but we can’t get to it from here, you know. And it’s just the one; after that, we need to make more. We can’t waste it.”
Nick scowled, “Then I must make this journey alone,”
He jumped off the side of the Halberd, flying off into the distance, heading directly for the Island of the Ancients.

+===+

On the Island of the Ancients, Samus and Pikachu exploded the locked door leading to the bomb storage room. They ran into the room, wisps of smoke clinging to them. The Ancient Minister stood impassively in front of the storage, in front of small group of ROBs. Though it was small in number, there were enough to activate as many bombs as it would take to blow up the entire island…
“Stop, Ancient Minister! You can’t blow up anywhere else in the World of Trophies!” Samus shouted, raising her gun.
“Nor will I,” the Minister said calmly.
Samus lowered her weapon, “What?”
“This World is my home. This Island, my home. The Subspace Realm is not. The Subspace Army forced us to do this, to let us live. And now we are fighting back.”
Nick smashed through the window, “Stand down…holy buttload of ice cream…” He looked, wide-eyed, at the plethora of bombs gathered. He chuckled lightly, “Hey, I was just kidding. No need to get upset…or blow anything up, just in case you were thinking of that.”
Samus turned to him, “The Minister’s stopping any more violence from the Islanders.”
Nick cleared his throat, “Well, if you say so.”
There was a loud banging on the wall above the ruined door. The wall caved in, and Captain Falcon, Olimar, Donkey, and Diddy Kong jumped into the room.
A red hologram appeared above the bombs. The hologram was that of Ganondorf, the final person that had agreed to work alongside Master Hand in the plot to take over the world. Ganondorf looked at the heroes gathered and counted seven. A good number.
He raised his hand and the ROBs turned to him. They began to move towards the bombs, to activate them.
The Ancient Minister, much to the surprise of the four that had not gotten an explanation, swerved between the ROBs, blocking their paths.
The ROBs looked at one another, unsure what to do next.
Ganondorf frowned, “Feeling traitorous, are we, Minister? We’ll see about that.” He held up a device with a single button and pressed it.
All of the ROBs faced forward, eyes turning red. They moved to the Subspace Bombs steadily. The Ancient Minister crashed purposefully into two ROBs, preventing them from activating a bomb. As the Minister turned to another pair, the Ganondorf hologram shook his head.
“Oh, no, Minister, we can’t have that.” He pressed the button again.
The ROBs faced their Minister, lasers flying from their eyes. The Minister took every shot, unable to stop them. After about twenty hits, the Minister’s cloak burst into flames, rendering the Minister useless, powerless, and defeated.
The ROBs’ arms were forced violently into the bombs, and the bombs were brought into the room, to allow more bombs to be activated.
The Ganondorf hologram laughed menacingly as their fate was sealed; none of them would survive the force of so many Subspace Bombs going off at one time.
“Ganondorf!” Nick shouted, eyes full of hate, “Why would you destroy this place? Don’t you need this for more Bombs? It seems a waste just to get rid of so few.”
Ganondorf laughed again, “That is where you are wrong. The Primids in the Subspace have created a device that can create portals to the Subspace much larger than any Subspace Bomb. The only problem is it cannot fit through any other portal we have created, so activating these bombs all at once kills two birds with one stone; you traitors are one stone, the rest of the World of Trophies is the other!”
The heroes ran forward, trying to detach the ROBs any way they could. Donkey Kong tried, without success, to pry a ROB off of its bomb. Captain Falcon lifted a ROB without a bomb off the ground, throwing it on its side, rendering it useless, as it couldn’t get up. Samus shot a beam at one of the bombs, trying to pull it free of its ROB’s grasp. Diddy tried to push the head of a ROB off, but to avail. The only one who did not do anything was Nick, who knew that it was hopeless; they could not pry off all of the ROBs in less than ten minutes. He stood alone, not letting Ganondorf have the pleasure of seeing him frantically trying to save himself.
Apparently this sight did get to Ganondorf; he frowned for a brief moment and then gestured, ending the hologram and replacing it with Primids that would finish them off.
The Ancient Minister stared at Ganondorf’s final punishment, unable to grasp the cruelty of his mind. “So many to die…it cannot happen. Not now.”
The Minister fired a blast of laser at a few Primids, instantly blowing them up. The Minister’s cloak burned away, revealing his true identity, the real and very first R.O.B.
“Now,” R.O.B. said, facing the remaining Primids, “We have nothing left to live for. We fight to the death!”
Nick smiled as the others joined the fight, “We will survive. I don’t know how, but we will survive. Time to figure that out later,” he leaped into the fray, unsheathing his sword.

+===+

As the bombs ticked away at three minutes remaining, all of the Primids were defeated. R.O.B. stood in front of the first two ROBs to get a Subspace Bomb, performing a manual override.
R.O.B.’s eyes flashed blue, turning to both of the ROBs. The ROBs, their eyes also turning blue, turned to their leader, unable to remove their arms.
R.O.B. closed its eyes, admitting defeat.
Diddy Kong urgently tried to get R.O.B.’s attention, but R.O.B. just shook its head, “It is no use; I cannot disable the bombs.”
“Hey!” Captain Falcon called, “I’ve located a trash chute we can escape from! I’ve got my ship right underneath it! Come on!”
The heroes followed Captain Falcon out of the room, Donkey Kong holding R.O.B. under one arm.

+===+

A few Subspace Bugs, leftover from Duon, floated into the bomb storage room seconds after the heroes had left. The Subspace Bugs formed together into a purple silhouette with piercing yellow eyes, similar to that of a dark version of a trophy. The silhouette took in its surroundings, and then sighed.
The ROBs did not heed the new arrival. They barely even noticed.
The silhouette thought for a moment, “It is dangerous, yes, but what if I were to stay here? That way, when the bombs go off…Yes, I will stay here.”

+===+

Seconds later, Captain Falcon’s galactic cruiser, the Falcon Flyer, flew away from the Island of the Ancients with everyone accounted for; Nick, Donkey and Diddy Kong, Samus, Pikachu, Olimar, and of course Captain Falcon. The Island exploded in a purple orb, which they all knew now that could be used as a portal to the Subspace Realm, thanks to Ganondorf.
Back on the mainland, Mario, Pit, Link, Yoshi, Kirby, Marth, Ike, the Pokemon Trainer, Lucas, and the Ice Climbers watched as the Falcon Flyer and the Halberd landed, and everyone was reunited, introduced, and generally got to know their allies.
Nick walked around, mentally making a list of everyone that was there.
“Let’s see…on the Halberd were Meta Knight, Zelda, Peach, Fox, Falco, Snake, and Lucario. I know everyone that was on the Falcon Flyer, and no one joined those on the mainland…it seems we are missing a few people.”
Nick felt a tap on his leg. He turned and saw Lucas, who had a worried look on his face, “Nick? I can’t find Ness.”
Nick frowned, “Don’t worry, Lucas. We’ll find Ness when we save the day. Now, can you tell everyone to get on the Halberd? I have a plan.”

+===+

The portal to the Subspace that was once the Island of the Ancients released a horrible grinding sound as a massive laser the size of a large city emerged, taking up half of its spherical surface.
This was the Subspace Gunship. The enormous Gunship’s barrel charged up its power, glowing a light purple. Three prongs at the tip shot purple electricity into a ball in the center of them.
There was a momentary flash and a gigantesque blast resonated from the barrel. The blast flew into the horizon, where it would engulf a portion of the mainland.
There; the resulting portal was almost as big as that of the one the Subspace Gunship had come from.
At the helm of the massive super weapon were Ganondorf and Bowser. Wario was not there, as he had been defeated by Lucas and the Pokemon Trainer back at the ruins, and his trophy had been caught in the explosion caused by Galleom.
Ganondorf heard a slight sound coming from the southwest. He turned, looked, and frowned.
Blaring towards the Gunship was the Halberd, going as fast as it could possibly go, nearly the speed of sound.
Ganondorf made a gesture and the relatively smaller guns on the ship rose up and shot several rounds at the advancing battleship.
Each shot was as wide around as the Halberd itself; only a single hit was needed to destroy it. There; a hit to the side. And another to a wing.
Finally, after mere seconds, a single shot smashed straight through the center of the Halberd’s mask, tearing straight through to the other side. Even though the Battleship Halberd was badly crippled, it kept flying. It flew forward another thousand meters, losing various parts of the ship, before the front half flew off, causing the entire ship to explode.
Ganondorf smiled. Now the heroes were finished, and no one could stand in the way of his eternal domination.
Suddenly, as if orchestrated, several smaller ships flew from the wreckage of the Halberd: the Falcon Flyer, an Arwing, Samus Aran’s Gunship, and even Olimar’s rocket, The S.S. Dolphin.
The heroes’ ships, with everyone aboard one of them, flew toward the Subspace Gunship, firing any weapons they had.
Bowser and Ganondorf clenched their fists. Ganondorf once again gestured, this time letting every last gun rise up to destroy their enemies.
The fact that these ships were much smaller than the Halberd was a significant advantage. The Gunship’s guns were not made for accuracy, just to put a big hole in whatever it was firing at. But these ships were only a distraction from the real threat.
High in the sky, Kirby dive-bombed with the Legendary Airship called the Dragoon. Speeding almost as fast as light, on the ocean, Nick was riding the Legendary Airship called the Hydra. The Dragoon slashed straight through the Subspace Gunship at the same moment Nick pulled up the Hydra, launching it into the air. The timing was so precise that at the heart of the gunship, Nick gave Kirby a high-five as they passed each other.
The Subspace Gunship exploded in mini-explosions, severing the massive trump card in a matter of moments.
Ganondorf bitterly turned back into the Subspace, cape whipping around. Bowser saw him out the corner of his eye, and glared at the heroes before turning and retreating. After they were both in the Subspace, an explosion shook the platform they had been standing on.
The heroes’ ships flew into the Subspace Realm, ready to face Master Hand and end his treacherous invasion at the throat.

+===+

Continued in Part 2: https://blogs.neoseeker.com/ShadowNc/5353-cracker-chronicle-6-voltage-unofficial-part-2/

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