Chapter 3: A New World Order

[The King Of Darkness]

Zero Geno and Ness continued to search for Smashbro but he was nowhere to be found. The Trio was at a loss for what to do.

Ness: Smashbro isn't in HQ. What should we do now?

Zero thought for a second and then spoke.

Zero: Hmmm..... how bout the three of us do a little sparing for a bit? Im sure if those SSS people need us they can come get us.

Geno: A fight you say? Fine... but we should move away from HQ.

Zero: Not a problem. Take my hand.

They grabbed hold of Zero and he warped them to a deserted rocky like terrain.

Zero: This Should do nicely. Now Lets do this. ARGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

The ground began to shake as Zero's aura turned golden along with his spiky black hair. Zero transformed into his Super form as Ness and Geno stood on guard.

Zero: AH HA HA HA!!! You weaklings impressed with my power? What do you think i've been doing for all these years? I train... ENDLESSLY.... DAY AND NIGHT! And now you clowns will have the honors of being my punching bags.

Meanwhile in a area of complete waste and destruction Nightmare stood over looking the death and destruction he had caused. Nightmare immediately sensed something. It was a extremely powerful energy signal. One of which he had never sensed before.

Nightmare: Finally, an actual challenge to test out my ultimate power on. I'll try to make THIS death as slow and agonizing as possible. MWAH HA HA HA!!!!

Nightmare took to the skies and flew off towards the direction of were Zero Geno And Ness were about to fight.

[ManOfSteele]

[Steele, Ekin]

Steele was walking back to his room. Crehavos wasn't very active with missions latley, and whenever he did hand them out they were relativley simple. While he was walking back he remembered Ekin from before. He was going to do something; Steele could tell from when he was walking. He had something to do. That's my ticket he thought

Steele went up to Ekin's room and knocked on the door. "Enter" said Ekin. Steele entered the door and saw that Ekin was packing up and putting on gear.

"Going somewhere?" Steele asked.

"Yes, why?"

"I want in. Crehavos has been dull latley on these assignments."

"Pssh, I know what you mean." He sighed. "Very well, meet me outside the castle entrence in an hour. Pack your stuff."

"Will do"

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An hour later Steele and Ekin met up outside the castle gates. They were both geared up and ready to go. "Well" Steele asked. "What first?"

[Ghost]

The area was silent except for the wind whistling through the deceased branches of nearby trees. From the horizon appeared a small dot. As it approached a mechanical sound began to ring through the air. Louder and louder it became, until the figure was recognizable. The sound was from a motorcycle being rode as fast as it could go. Dirt from the grass-barren path was flying behind the speed demon. The driver rode low as if hugging the upper part of the cycle. Suddenly, he looked up and slammed on the breaks. Sliding to the side, he pulled his mechanical arm out from the cylindrical hole on the right hand side of the bike. Immediately the engine quit as the large wolf-man looked around the area.

"What sort of God forsaken place is this?" he said to himself as he looked around at the decaying trees. Cyberbite lifted his right arm, which was mechanical, towards his face, and with his blue-gray hair covered left arm began to push buttons. Suddenly, a small satellite receiver shot out of his arm and positioned itself towards the sky. Cyberbite continued to click buttons before huffing loudly and lowering his arm. Not only was this place barren, but it was out of satellite reach. He began to walk around his bike to stretch out his remaining leg, for the other was mechanical as his arm. His stomach began to growl as me made a second lap around his bike.

Despite the hopelessness of finding anything wild to eat around, he turned switched his bionic right eye into a heat scanning mode. He looked around while the eye kept scanning the surrounding area. Suddenly, his scanner began to beep madly as it found a moving source of heat towards the left. He zoomed in on the thermal scan to see several small bi-pedal creatures running at a small distance away.

He licked his lips, mounted his bike, thrust his bionic arm in the hole once more and rode off toward the heat source. He didn't know what it was, but he hoped it was something to eat. Little did he know of what awaited him ahead and he rode on through the trees.

[Angel]

She had been walking along this barren wasteland for too long way way too long. She just didn't know where she was going. Judging by the spot she had washed up in, she was sure she probably came from this direction, but wasn't really certain.

"What.. what if I'm going in the complete wrong direction?" she sobbed softly to herself. She wasn't one to raise her voice.. even in drastic situations.

She was tired, but more tired of the same sights over and over. Her body was still moving strong and, being a doll, wasn't sweating or tiring in normal ways. She missed the gardens and pools of her Master's place, even if she was mostly in charge of cleaning them.

All of a sudden, strange beings came into sight. She looked left and right.. she hoped they were friendly.. but she didn't want to take a chance.. who knew.. what they could be.. she started to panic inside. Her fear was enough to use her darkness to help.

Creating a dark void, she jumped into it.. once inside, the darkness slowly lost it's solid looking shape and became more of a mist. Enough to see it, but inside, she was safe from harm.

But all around was darkness. She felt so alone. So hopeless. She heard whispers come from all around. She swore someone was speaking horrible things about her. She felt a slight tingle on her neck and pain on her wrist. She began to breathe deeply and cling to her hair. She only had to stall for enough time for whatever was approaching to vanish.

A couple minutes later, she finally pulled herself out of it. She slowly looked up. to see the figures had surrounded her.. they must have been waiting..

She began to shiver.. she fired a random beam of darkness out of eye, trying to defend herself. "Please.. go away!"

[Ghost]

Cyberbite rode on and on with the grouping of heat closing in. He was startled however to suddenly find himself riding in darkness. He loved the thrill of the night, so he rode on harder into the darkness keeping his bionic scanner on the heat signal. Within a matter of seconds his scanner picked up a strange reading and instantly went to a different view. There was a strange wavelength of energy as he hadn't seen in a long time. What was stranger was that it was in a circular pattern. He switched back over to thermal readings to see the beings surrounding the area of the orb. Something wasn't right here.

He lowered himself on his bike and increased his speed. The red figured in his eye grew closer and closer, he was practically on top of them. Suddenly a burst of dark energy shot through a nearby tree as he heard a small frightened voice say "Please...go away!" Kicking his bike into neutral, He jettison his arm from his bike and flew into the air. He landed not far from the dark misty orb which issued the blast. His sudden land and slide nearby caused all of the creatures to turn towards him. Cyberbite looked at them for the first time with his real eye. The group were of small, green clad beings. Their skin was a deep purple with glowing red eyes. Each one began to run at him swinging their arms and swords.

Cyberbite smiled with his beastly toothy grin. He howled into the air before rushing at them himself. As he ran he grasped ahold of the closest one with is bionic hand, and with it's strength crushed the being's skull. It vanished into tiny purple specks on the ground. Cyberbite leaped into the air and landed on top of others. He clawed and bit his way through the horde of enemies as they attacked. As a few more of these enemies began to form, the wolf jumped away from them opening up the tip of his bionic hand. He began to shoot a barrage of bullets from the tip of his finger. One by one they went down in the same purple specks. He turned around to see the last remaining primid attempting to break into the dark mist. He rushed over, picked up the small enemy and held it in front of his face. Cyberbite readied his wrist to perform an energy cannon attack as he roared ferociously in the primid's face. Tossing the lone primid to the ground, Cyberbite send a small blast from his energy cannon, completely obliterating the enemy.

Brushing off his mechanics, he turned around toward the misty orb in the corner. "Who or what exactly are you?"

[Angel]

She was frightened.. but her spell was wearing off. She had no choice but to fully emerge. With a pop, the orb suddenly dissipated, leaving the girl sitting there. Trying to be brave, she stood up and give him a weak smile. Despite the fact that he seemed vicious, she got a good feeling..

"Umm.." she started. Looking down at her feet, trying to respectable and not looking at him directly in her eyes. She clutched her own arm slightly and said.. "I am Ayumi, and I apologize for any trouble I've caused you. Thank you for your assistance."

[Mariomasher]

[DMM, Crehavos]

DMM walked up to Crehavos's throne. He knelt before the great leader.

DMM:Master, I request something from you. I request to be assigned a specailty position. It will help keep things running smooth, and it'll help my boredom.

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[Most SSS members]
SSS Meeting Room

Haylee thought about E. Gadd's statement. We would be kind of walking into our death but...

Haylee:How do you know if we die? The only thing we can't beat is fear. We are letting Crehavos spread fear though all of us. If we aren't affraid of him, we can take him down... Any other problems with this?

[Ghost]

Cyberbite looked down at the girl before him. Her timid and shy behavior reminded him of his beloved Angeleyez back when she first discovered her power. He couldn't help but be drawn towards helping her now. It's what he should do, it's what she would have made him do anyway. He smiled without bearing any teeth and knelt down to her.

"Well, i suppose i can't eat you now can i?" said the large wolf. "Oh well. I see you have some interesting abilities for a girl your size. Takes me back...... What are you doing out here and around those bizarre creatures anyway? Sorry, how rude of me. The names Conner, but i've gone by Cyberbite for about ten years now. Due to a series of....events, I have lost both my best friend and my love. I'm on a quest to bring them back to life. I've searched high and low and still nothing, but i won't give up hope. Ok, now that introductions are over i believe i asked you a question. What are you doing out here all by yourself?"

He looked down at the girl who was still staring at her feet.

"Look me in the eye and answer before i bite you in half!" Cyberbite
exclaimed. Ayumi, who was not expecting that sudden outburst, jumped slightly and began to shake a little bit. Realizing that he had overdone it. Cyberbite lifted both hands waving them back and forth. "No no no, it was a joke. No need to have a heart attack or anything!"

[The Solid War Doctor]

Zel: Will people shut up and listen!!!

Everyone quieted down and looked towards Zel.

Zel: Now as I was about to say before I was interupted. I have formulated a plan to find our missing forumers and get a foot hold in this war. Now as we know the teleporter isnt working we'll have to open the hangar and and use what few ships we have.

Link: Are you crazy theres like 85 men keeping us IN.

Zel: GEE thanks captian obvious. I have about 20 sniper rifles on my ship. We can easily take 50 of them down. Then we can just go out and kill the remains. Then we load our ships and I will be taking a squad to make a GRAND ARMY of the SSS. My home planet of Tantheon is full of Cruisers and fighters let alone 5 trillion MEN in the 9 trillion population. Another squad lead by none other than Link will travel planet to planet removing ANY of the Crehavos army as well as recruiting men to help in the effort. That is our plan.

Ian: Thats not the worst or the craziest plan you've ever made

[Big Boss]

{Veronica, Snicket Snake, Mr Game and watch}

"AGH!" Screamed Veronica When did I get these!?...Obviously she was Oblivious to her new appearance till now..."oh ahem" she said clearing her voice as she directed her attention back at snicket. "im going to be honest, I really dont like this whole thing thats going on, and I really cant take Kin being in this Super smash whatever its called, but He loves what he dose and I cant see myself making him unhappy." Veronica stood up and grabbed snickets arm and picked him up also. "I dont see why you would feel left behind, Dont let it all slip away, your friends dont ignore you... I think, mabey you should start getting into more social activites than rather than being secluded into your book that I see you fiddling in."

Veronica gave snicket a Hug and took his book he had in his hands....

"come on and catch me Snicket!" veronica said as she giggled....

Snake: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
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An hour later Steele and Ekin met up outside the castle gates. They were both geared up and ready to go. "Well" Steele asked. "What first?" "well" said Evil Kin with a smirk..."It has been a while since I had been on a mission, and well, I could use some company I guess...I hope you dont mind watching a master at work" our first stop is The SSS HQ...are you ready?

[ness11]

[Karocka]
[Summary of Seven Years of Lust]

Karocka's emotions towards the whole sacrifice was a mixed bag; he did savor the fact that he was once again in control, but wasn't quite fond of some of the people he had to "share" it with. Nevertheless, the day of Ucria's Last he rose out of the ground with an army of Granite Golems and Soldiers of Shist (those are rocks if you don't know) and other minions and raided the Smash Universe. Not a single city escaped his iron fist, all but the SSS HQ that he would spend hours staring at, trying to figure out a weak point. Karocka spent his days mostly on the surface, reporting the same old - same old status quo every once in a while --all except for one day.

As Karocka hunted down anyone who stood in his way he gained new abilities. After stalking through many woods quietly and trying to blend into his surrondings, Karocka gained the ability to change color to fit into his enviorment, practically unseen to the human eye. In many occurances where he took on thousands of fleeing citizens, he could shape shift into ten other forms of himself.

While some commanders of the army he would rather eliminate quietly, after assisting his comrade Steele and Epic, he grew a bond, evil, but a bond with them. Now, he wouldn't exactly go dancing with them so to speak, but if they ever needed a hand he may give them pity and pitch in.
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[Karocka, Epic]
[Cliff-tops in Hell, present Day]

Karocka and Epic stood on the cliffside staring down at the millions of labor workers being whipped and beaten below them. Off in the distance you could see a hint of Crehavos' castle, looking dark and dreadful.

Karocka takes in a wiff of ash and soot and exaled through his mouth with a grin, "Ah you smell that Epic?" he asked.

"Smells like misery," he commented.

"My thoughts exactly," Karocka agreed. "Misery is what has kept our place in the war in check. The slaves are too miserable to think of an escape plan, let alone muster any hope of trying. We stand here as the officers watching our lower Kapos (Jewish guards forced to be spiteful too their Jewish brothers during Holocaust) and slaves do their work. The slaves are too dig ditches and make weapons, the Kapos keep them in order, if they fail, well then we come in. We're on top and they are on the bottom." Karocka finished.

"I see, but what are you trying to explain here?" Epic pondered.

"It doesn't apply there, Epic, we are high up on the totuem pole of power. The problem, that others are standing in our way," Karocka told.

"Ah yes, Ekin and Crehavos; the cocky and the careless," Doom said. "Not that we can do anything about Crehavos anyways."

"I wouldn't bank on that Epic," Karocka countered, "every great ruler eventually falls: Alexander the Great died of sickness: Abraham Lincoln was murdered, Cesar got turned on by his own people, and somday a similar scenario will tell of Crehavos' end." Karocka concluded.

"You have a point there, and we could always take Ekin down a few notches," Epic said grinning. "Ever since he got those reaper powers he's gotten full of himself--"

"Which we shall use against him," Karocka finished for Epic.

"I hear him and Steele are going off to the refugee's last home, the SSS HQ," Epic said.

"Then you and I are on the same page," Karocka followed, "and if you are on the same page then I'll met you sooner then they will expect."

Within seconds Karocka and Epic disappeared. Karocka slinked on by down the mountain camoflauged with it's black rock. He spotted Steele and Ekin getting ready to leave. Without making a sound Karocka sneaked on up too Ekin so quietly that you would hear a pin drop over his movement.

"Dummies say what," Karocka said somewhat startling the reaper.

"What?" Ekin said falling of Karocka's joke. Steele laughed as Epic slid on over.

"Oh I'm just pulling your leg there Ekin," Karocka smirked, "but where are you going? It's not like you are traveling to the SSS HQ right about now."

"Yeah," Epic said, "You're probably going to clip Crehavos' toe nails."

Ekin rolled his eyes, "Nope definitly not going there," he said knowing Karocka and Epic was screwing around.

"C'mon Ekin, you wouldn't leave out the guy who saved your @$$ a few years back now would you? Nor would you let out Epic, if he comes that would this trip to clip nails even more 'epic'," Karocka asked with slight sarcasm.

"Hmph, a few years is a stretch," Ekin said, "but if you really must come because you are nothing without me you may join, as can you Epic," Ekin allowed. "On one condition, I'm in charge of this party and I don't want anyone telling me otherwise, got it?"

"Oh of course Ekin, after all, I know toe nail clipping is your favorite grooming activity, and me and Epic wouldn't want to get in your way," Karocka mocked.

Ekin raised his eye brows, noticing that Karocka was full of more jokes then normal. "Just don't slow me down or screw me up, and you'll get to wax Crehavos' lips as long as he wants." Ekin mimiced Karocka's joke and everyone (even Karocka) laughed along....for that was going to be their last laugh for the day.....

[bobsnicket]

[SSS HQ]

(OOC: Trillions, Mr. Bond? Really? Remember, the whole Smash Universe is controlled by Crehavos. Oh, well. I can only suggest describing their appearance and method of mass-traveling, if you're going to use such an army...)

Link clenched his fists. "Well, go ahead and get yourselves blown up, but those of us with brains are staying here so we can finish deciding about the Black Portal. You forget, Forumer, that after seven years, your kind still has not earned all of our respect and loyalty. Us Brawlers are not subject to your commands, nor should we be."

"It's nothing against the Forumers, lad," Gadd said to Zel, glancing at Haylee as well, "but after seven long years, I'd still rather wait just a bit longer. Madame Clairvoya, speaking through the spirits, told ROB and I that the SSS cannot hinder Crehavos the way we are. We need to...er...converse with the insane, and find the Lord's only equal in a dimension apart, as the spirits said. So I'm all for the gathering of a Grand Army of the SSS...Yoshi and I, at least, are just going to wait a bit longer before we join any final rebellion."

"Things are changing," Lucario said intuitively. "I feel that somewhere, in worlds we cannot comprehend, at least someone has awakened with the intent of returning to us. I disagree with the Hero of Time's views on the Forumers, but I also believe we must wait. So let us prepare ourselves for war, Zel; yes, let us do so. But the time to strike must be at the best opportunity, or else impatience and selfishness could cost the universe its freedom."

Some Smashers nodded in agreement to Link, looking openly hostile toward the forumers, while others, more impartial to the Forumers, seemed to show their assent when Lucario and Gadd spoke. Others still were on Haylee and Zel's side, ready to launch one final mission without delay after the years they had all suffered under Crehavos's reign.

[Treasure Trove Cove]

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Snicket was startled both by the companionable hug and the stealing of the book he had been reading. At that moment, when Veronica dashed away from him across the beach, her words floating around in the inner sanctum of his mind, his copy of The Lord of the Rings stolen from him playfully, Bob Snicket felt something he'd not felt before. It was a small sparkle of surprise at first, and almost irritation at the literary robbery, but then it grew into something more. An invisible glow of warmth, of compassion, of feeling like he could be more than a lonely shadow in the darkness, expanded in his chest, spreading like fresh honey into the rest of his body. He felt joy, the joy of realizing he was more than just an isolated figure indebted to those he had harmed. For the first time, he felt a strange unfamiliar whim to cast away his mask of seriousness for once, and let his feelings of happiness pour out. And so he did.

Grinning shamelessly, he hollered a "Hey!" and pursued Veronica and the 1008-page novel. "I was almost done with the chapter!"

Mr. Game & Watch observed the foolish chase impassively, neither tired nor weary, for he couldn't be. Oblivious to Snake's snoring, the Brawler witnessed the two humans chasing each other across the sand. Never one to hold back his resources, Bob used his Switch hook to latch onto the book in the end and pull it into his grasp. Strangely, he felt glad that Snicket was able to let go of his reclusive habits and let his emotional instincts direct his actions for once. It was good for him to have such an experience.

Yet, in a sudden rush of thought, the retro-character realized that they had to stop frolicking and find a way out of this place as soon as possible. The longer they stayed, the greater the chance of disaster. Rather reluctantly, after waking the soldier with his Judgement hammer, Game & Watch called out to the forumers. "Hey! Break-fast is read-y! Come on, we need to pro-ceed!"

Snicket looked toward the source of the voice, and saw his silhouetted friend with a black chef's had on, flipping black, alluring sausages on a sizzling black pan. He glanced at Veronica. "But...it's still the dead of night..."

As if on cue, the blackness in the sky suddenly faded away to be replaced with the same bright blue sky as before, the sun shining directly above them as if it were noontime.

"Speak of the devil..." Snake jumped out of his emergency blanket, looking frantically around him. "Why didn't anyone wake me for my watch?"

"Nev-er mind your night shift, sir," Game & Watch insisted. "You think you are old now. Do you want to re-turn a skel-e-ton?"

Mumbling, Snake consented, drawn by the scent of the sausages with new interest. "Excellent. I like my meat well done..."

[Angel]

She looked at Cyberbite in his eyes, like he said. His tone of voice, his.. commanding way of speaking. Even if he wasn't the same, she saw a little bit of.. her in him. But his talk of bringing back the dead made her shudder deep. She felt haunted by the dead whenever she entered that dark realm. She swore that maybe in that place, she was a bit closer to another dimension aside from her own. She felt all this danger.

Why would this man want to bring back the dead, surely they must be contaminated with that same evil!

"Well.. I would be happy to be of service to you, but I.. I worry that my skills are limited and I might not be of help." she said, obeying his order of looking straight in his eyes, her blue eyes that almost seemed a bit too big starting way up at him. Her small height was obvious next to this man.

[Ghost]

Cyberbite stood straight once more and stretched his arm before speaking to Ayumi once more. "Well, I'm still hungry, and if you are unsure about your abilities then the best thing for you would be to find you some sort of protection or at least a good hiding spot. I can protect you for now, but I'm not exactly the best at keeping things around, unfortunately"

He began to look around the area with his bionic eye. He scanned the horizon for any sign of life or energy. It took him close to four minutes before picking up a slight trace of energy a great distance away. He turned towards the girl once more pointing towards the source. "I'm picking up some energy in that direction. Given it's strength it's either something fluky with the atmosphere or it's a building a long distance away. If we hurry we should get there in about an hour.

Turning away from Ayumi he strode over to a nearby fallen tree, lifted it above his head and tossed it to the side. He then leaned over and lifted his motorcycle. Cyberbite jumped into the air and landed straddling the bike. Once more he thrust his bionic arm into the bike and it started immediately. The engine roared with life as he peeled the tire as he went in a large semicircle, stopping right beside the small girl. He reached out his large paw towards her beckoning her on. "We better get going. I'll try my hardest to not let anything to happen to you on this ride."

She looked at his gigantic paw and slowly reached for it. He caught her hand and pulled her up on the back. "Hold on tight. Here we go!" Cyberbite initiated the acceleration so fast that a large cloud of dust appeared behind them before they shot into the woods. Dodging tree branches left and right they made it out into a clearing and sped on into the horizon.

[starprincess]

[Enter Nuwa Ibris]

The portal in the desolate plain opened. Nuwa stepped out of the portal and looked at the area around her. "So this is the Mortal Realm". She walked up the nearest cliff and looked beyond the horizon. All she could see was destruction. From ruined cities to burned forest, the entire plain looked like the aftermath of a huge battle. Kai rubbed up against her. "How can someone bring so much destruction without any sympathy for the other people involved"

She sat down on the cliff and petted Kai's head. " Our mission here is simple Kai. We need to assist anyone that is in danger. We must seek an audience with lord Crahavos and convince him to end his conquest. Lastly we must rebuild this torn world" Kai cooed happily in agreement with Nuwa's plans. " I'm glad you agree with me Kai"

" Our first task is to locate the SSS HQ. They are an organization that opposes Crahavos's forces. Perhaps we can help them and get some information on the location of Crahavos himself."

"Kai let's close our eyes and focus on locating the SSS HQ" Their eyes closed and a few seconds later Nuwa began to have a vision. She saw a secret sanctuary protected by some sort of barrier. The building has huge. She couldn't even see the top of it. Her vision also showed her a hill on top of a mountain cliff. She opened her eyes and turned to Kai.

"The HQ seems to be southwest of here. Let's hurry and find this place Kai".