Mario and Luigi manage to avoid the magic beams.

...Well, now... It-a seems we have some more help...
(Not that I'm-a complaining or anything, but where do these-a guys come from...?
Anyways, bro, mind lending me another-a power up?
Sure thing. Which one do-a you want?
Hm... Surprise-a me.

Luigi takes out the Power-Up bag and pulls out a Cape Feather, handing it over to Mario.

Thanks-a, bro!

Mario proceeds to reflect a few Magic Beams back at Morton and King Bob-omb with the cape while Luigi turns to Wario and Waluigi (and stays on-gaurd in case the two enemies attempt to take the bag from them).

You-a two want any? I'd-a offer a Mega Mushroom earlier (though we only have-a one of those in-a here), but the situation with-a "Joe" seemed to have resolved itself without the need for it.

We-a might... At this point, who knows what's-a in store for us...

Mario and Luigi follows Wario and Waluigi back into the castle... However, a pair of shadows watches them from a hiding spot...

...I don't care what "Master" Coda has told me to do... My moment to shine as a hero has come at last!
I don't get it... Why am I being dragged into this?
Because! Once we have proven ourselves as heroes, we could possibly convince the people to lock that menace Donkey Kong Sr. away!
(Disregarding the fact that your thoughts on Cranky are completely wrong,) What's in it for me, though?
Come on, don't you want to be a hero, like you were 33 years ago? Or, better yet... Don't you want to honor your fallen universe?
...
...Ok, I'm in.

The two figures then follows our heroes from the shadows.

Mushroom Field

The uppercut from earlier appears to have knocked Mario out of his Builder form.

...Hold on. I-a don't think he's actually the bad-a guy here...
...I think he's-a simply being manipulated... And I've-a got a bad feeling we're about to find out by-a who soon enough.

Dueling Peaks/Dueler's Peak - Cave of Bravery

Kirby also steps back from the rumbling, readying himself for anything.

Dueling Peaks/Dueler's Peak - Cave of Bravery

Kirby simply puffs up with air and floats over the bullets. He then spits the air into Grey Monkey's face.*

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Unknown Ruins

Suddenly, Fang is grabbed before he fully enters the temple... And, somehow, doesn't really care that he just touched fire with his bare hand.

...Look. I get it. You want to stop the bad guys as much as we do, and you want to take a direct approach. I can understand that. But if it's not their time, then it is not their time.
Besides... Don't you think there's someone else on your team who deserves to confront Other Dark Prince more than you?

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*Seriously. This can actually be used as an attack.

Dueling Peaks/Dueler's Peak - Cave of Bravery

Suddenly, Grey Monkey is hit by a star-shaped energy blast! The small, round figure, wielding the Star Rod, steps out from hiding...

...Puy puyo puyo! (Leave my friend alone!)

Mario is knocked back by the attack. Luigi, on the other hand, completely dodges it, seemingly without too much thought. Mario proceeds to counter by smashing Viewtiful Joe with his Builder Hammer.

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Builder Hammer - (Earth/Impact) A strong hammer used by those with the Super Hammer powerup. The hammer, though not that big, is strong enough to smash through just about anything, including Thwomps.

Gensokyo - Unknown Location

Suddenly, Pi Android appears before the two... More specifically, before Utsuho.

SUBJECT "Kirby" CANNOT ASSIST YOU. WHILE WHETHER OR NOT HE WOULD IS ANOTHER DISCUSSION OF ITS OWN...
...HIS BUSINESS LIES ELSEWHERE.

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Dueling Peaks/Dueler's Peak - Cave of Bravery

A small, round figure cautiously watches the situation in a hidden spot, unseen by anyone else...

Suddenly, a swarm of small hammers hit Viewtiful Joe!

Not-a so fast! If you're-a gonna be fighting them, then you'll-a be fighting us, too!
...(Psst, Mario? Why are-a we helping Wario and Waluigi? It's-a not like they'll be-a so eager to accept it.)
(Honestly? At-a this point, with 5 people in-a there, and-a only two out here, we either make-a ourselves useful, or-a stand around and make ourselves seem-a useless.)

King-a Bob-omb...? Well, if this is who we're up against, then I'll-a just have to sneak behind him, and-
Uh, Mario? Something tells-a me that the same trick of lifting him up from-a behind and throwing him won't-a work this time.
Hm, you're-a right... Get-a the Power-Ups bag. Let's-a see what we got in there.

Luigi pulls up a small bag with seemingly limitless space, and begins searching through it...

Let's-a see... A few spare-a Mushrooms... A couple Fire Flowers... Some Ice Flowers and-a Penguin Suits... A Super Hammer... Some-a Super Bells-
Wait, go back a second. Did you-a say a Super Hammer?

Luigi takes out the Super Hammer.

Well, yeah... This is-a the only one we-a have in-a here, though.

Mario appears to have taken a bit of inspiration from his off-scene encounter.

Let-a me use that one.
...Oh. Ok... I mean, I kinda wanted to use it, but... Guess I'll-a just settle for one of the three Hammer Suits in here.

Luigi hands Mario the Super Hammer and then takes out a Hammer Suit. The two plumbers then instantly changes form!

Alright-a, King Bob-omb! Let's-a go!
Yeah! What he-a said!

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Penguin Suit - A power-up item that allows people to undergo a Penguin form. The form allows them to throw Ice Balls (akin to Ice forms), as well as lets them slide down icy slopes and surfaces on their belly, penguin-style.
Super Hammer - A power-up item that allows people to undergo a Builder form. The form allows them to wield a hammer that is able to break through even Hard Blocks and Thwomps, as well as spawn Builder Boxes to use as platforms.
Super Bell - A power-up item that allows people to undergo a Cat form. The form allows for scratching and climbing, and totally isn't a fursuit.
Hammer Suit - A power-up item that allows for people to undergo a Hammer form. The form grants users the power to throw hammers like Hammer Bros., and grants the user a fireball-proof shell.

Thus far, Mario Power-Ups have only ever been used by Mario characters (sans the Raccoon Leaf and the Fire Flower, though the latter has not been used for its intended use). Thusly, it is not entirely known if Mario Power-Ups can be used the same way with other characters... Though, it's not been entirely ruled out, either.

Oh! You must-a be that Somari guy Sonic was-a talking to me about!
One-a sec.

Mario shakes off the smoke that smothered him.

Anyways, I'm-a Mario, and this is my-a brother, Luigi.
Hello! So, we-a already established who you-a are, Somari, but who are-a your friends?

Peach's Castle

As Mario has suddenly disappeared, Mario is suddenly back again... Albeit a bit charred.

Oh, hey-a, bro! Where did-a you-
Don't ask. Just... Don't-a ask. Seriously, Master Hand could've at-a least warned me before he-a dragged me into another one of-a these...
...Ok...? *Turns to Shadwari* Anyways, you were-a introducing us to some people?

Ah. I see you two are also men of culture.

That being said, I am probably never going to get over this. For years, it was just a joke. Maybe to some, less than, if at all.

But we have him. Steve Minecraft is in Smash.

Clockwork Cathedral

...Excuse me, Mr. Delta, sir? I believe someone has slept in your bed.
Someone has been sleeping in my bed!?
...Wait. Someone has been sleeping in my bed... In THIS part of the Cathedral? But my bed is all the way in the-

Suddenly, the two hears the sound of flowing water. They then head off to investigate...

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...Eventually, they reach a testing room... And sees Epsilon Snow brushing his teeth at a sink?

Oh! Hello, neighbor!
Epsilon? Wait... What are you doing in my Cathedral?
Living here, duh! What, did you really thought you could just buy a home all for yourself while the rest of us (aside from Beta Shadow and Omega Element) stayed homeless?
Yeah, bro. You should, like, be more open and stuff, you know?
Kappa!? ...Also, Epsilon, why are you brushing your teeth at one of my test rooms? I DO have a sink in the bathroom, you know.
Well, I would've used that, buuuuut Eta Cosmic has it at the moment. He is currently busy "making sure his hair is perfect."
But he is always wearing a helmet, why in Beta Shadow's Hell is he even bothering with that!? And on that note, is EVERY member of Beta Team living in my Cathedral!?

Sure enough, all of Beta Team- Alpha Fire, Iota Forest, Epsilon Snow, Kappa Whirlpool, Eta Cosmic, and Digamma Bolt (but not Beta Shadow or Omega Element)- are living in the Clockwork Cathedral, as well.

...Great. No, that's just perfect. You know, if you're going to be living here, the least you could be doing is lending me some rent money every now and again... Speaking of which, at least I have found out why bills have been getting a bit higher recently.
I thought Kappa was supposed to be in charge of that.
Whoops. Totally slipped my mind. Sorry, dudes.
...*Sigh* You're all lucky I can't get mad at you guys.
D'aww! You really care about us, don't you?
Kinda, but it's mostly because technically speaking, we are all different instances of the same person.
Oh. That also makes sense.

Beta Serif writes Mao's order and hands it over to Papyrus.





...So if this is the first time Papyrus has ever heard of it, it also means this is his first time making one.

Oh no.

...Because apparently, Bowser has-a been provided some troops by-a this "Quartet Enterprises". And I'm-a not sure whether or not they can still- or will- continue to do their business here on Earth, in whatever world or dimension they happen to be in...
...But if Bowser has had some form of-a business connection with-a this company, we may be in-a serious trouble in the future.

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Little Papa Beta's

...Ok, Beta Shadow said that he'll be able to arrange for us a place to live here in...
...Huh. What city IS this, even?
You know, it's been such an unimportant factor, that I don't think it's even been considered.

Bt Ghost then proceeds to take out a city map...

...Allegrotopolis. (Of course it'd be based on a musical term...)

Epsilon looks over to Beta Man Z.

...You seem in thought. Something on your mind?
Just a curious thought... There are many different versions of Sonic and Mega Man, and we have at least 3 different Marios in the world, not counting Somari... Heck, we even have several different Quints and- of all people- Proto MKII.
Which makes me wonder... Are there alternate versions of us? I mean, you could argue that it's unlikely, seeing that you, me, and "vanilla" Beta Man are from similar universes... Heck, Beta X is from an alternate world where I remained to be reprogrammed.*
...But then there's Beta Serif.

Beta Man Z and Beta X looks over to Beta Serif at the cash register.



...Well... It's certainly not impossible.

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*Reference: Ajax Chatroom - Beta Man (Z) was reprogrammed by Bt Ghost and a mysterious entity (owned by Joey) named Exivos (iirc) into Beta X to serve them. Apparently, Ninja Ghost is also involved in this in Beta X's timeline, and instead of the reprogramming being reversed, he somehow ended up in Beta Shadow's Hell and began running the place.

First off, Me and Luigi were-a... Preoccupied. (Something that I-a don't think will be the last I hear of-a it...) And then, when we were-a done, some thief stole our-a Warp Whistle back to the-a Mushroom Kingdom.
To be honest, I'm-a surprised at how long the flight from-a Mega City to the Mushroom Kingdom is, even with-a Tails' Tornado...
Also, TWO-a Bowsers!?

...Hm... Two-a Bowsers...



(...If what I'm-a thinking is correct, then I-a wonder... Should we-a tell Somari about this?)
(...CAN we-a tell Somari about this? I don't think even-a Sonic has a way to contact him...)

...Actually, something tells me that's-a not even the worst part... I've-a been doing some scou- ...Er, I-a had someone ELSE* do some scouting for me...
...And, well... Have-a you ever heard of a Company called Quartet Enterprises? If-a not... I'm-a sure Wario can tell you all about it.

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*Mr. L. He's basically trying to act like he and Mr. L are two different people... And is not entirely succeeding.

Wario? What are-a you doing here? ...Wait... Has-a Waluigi run off somewhere?

Looking around, Mario spots P.M. Alucard.

...Also, who's-a that guy?

Suddenly, Pi Android appears.

APOLOGIES, SUBJECT "Proto Man Alucard". I APPEAR TO HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE BARRIER CREATED TO KEEP YOU HERE DUE TO THE COMMOTION AT LOCATION "Gemini TV Tournament".

Pi Android then deactivates the one-way barrier that surrounded the castle.

...THERE. YOU ARE NOW FREE TO DO AS YOU WISH... WITHIN REASON.

Pi Android then leaves.

...Seriously, what did I-a miss?