Super Smash Bros. EX-Mayhem

Chapter 1: New Challenger – I'm a Kamen Rider?

'You seem to have a great fate waiting for you…' a whispering voice said as a young man seemingly floated in an endless dark void. He was in his early twenties; he had tan skin, was cleanly shaven, and had bushy black hair with azure colored eyes. He wore a simple black t-shirt with blue jeans, silver Nike running shoes, and a white coat-like jacket. He blinked as he tried to move around but couldn't, 'Do no worry yourself traveler, your journey is only just beginning.'

Despite the voice whispering the young man heard him clearly. He continued to blink and forced himself to finally move around but when he finally managed to move from his spot a bright light enveloped him as he quickly shielded his eyes.

The man slowly opened his eyes as he awoke to an odd sight, as well as a painful feeling. He slowly stood up, groaning as he was seemingly sleeping against a wall. He rubbed his back as he soon looked at where he was sitting down, seeing a weird lime-green chunk of hardware and what seemed like a Pink/Clear Cartridge on the ground. He slowly picked them up and examined the cartridge, noticing there was a label on the pink portion; it showed what looked like a mix between Kirby and Sonic with the words, Mighty Action X. He shrugged before pocketing it and keeping the bulkier device in his hand. He then began to look around the room he was currently in. "Is this supposed to be a Church?" He questioned as he walked towards the front, noticing a platform with a strange symbol on it, there were three dark triangles in the shape of a triangle with the center of it being a triangle as well but being the same color as the rest of the platform, "What? No wait this can't be right." He said as he shook his head, "That's the Triforce Symbol."

"How do you know of that symbol?" A voice asked as the man turned around, quickly being met with six needles being held near his Adam's apple. He glanced down recognizing this ninja-like figure, who wore a form-fitting blue bodysuit with black highlights as well as cloth's covering most of her head and face, leaving only a small opening to where he could see her eyes.

"Sheik…?" The man questioned slowly before the needles were placed closer to his throat, raising his hands before backing up a bit due to the sudden movement, "Whoa, whoa, wait!"

"How do you know of my name? And how do you know of that Symbol?" The ninja now known as Sheik questioned, "I can already tell by your clothing that you do not belong here, so who are you?"

"Okay I can explain how but I doubt you would believe me." The man called out as he kept his hands raised only to realize that Sheik was currently looking up, he looked up as well soon noticing he still held the hardware in his hand, "Listen I'm just probably in the wrong place at the wrong time here, can we please talk to each other like civilized people?"

"Fine then, set what you're holding down and sit down." Sheik said as she discarded the needles, soon sitting on the ground as the man slowly did the same. Once he was comfortable Sheik spoke once more, "So how exactly are you so knowledgeable about this place and myself?"

"First my name, I find it a bit rude that I know yours but you don't know mine," The man stated before putting a hand on his chest, "I'm Zane Yorkland, and I do not come from this world you call Hyrule."

"I can stop you right there, the world isn't known as Hyrule," Sheik interrupted, "This is The World of Smash."

"Excuse me?" Zane asked raising an eyebrow before looking to the side and giving a small chuckle. "You're joking right?" He questioned his tone and posture showing that he had an idea of what this World of Smash was like, "Oh man… okay I think I should explain. The world that I come from shows the World of Smash in a different light. It's nothing like history, well… somewhat but not really."

"Okay now you have my curiosity, how exactly does your world know of ours?" Sheik asked as she leaned forward, now wondering what exactly Zane was talking about.

"Okay so there is this form of entertainment called Video Games where I come from, you basically go through them and sometimes they have stories. Their interactive, you use what's called a controller to control the character your playing as in the game world. Thing is, there's video games about you, your world, and other places crossing together," Zane explained to Sheik who seemed to be in deep thought, "I had no idea that these places were actually real, or rather the world you just mentioned."

"I see, so if you know all about me then it must seem pointless that I'm talking to you in this form," Sheik started as she slowly stood up.

"I mean on any other person it would have worked, I'm just a special case though." Zane said as he stood up, "I mean it still is a good disguise Princess, don't get me wrong."

"It is fine." Sheik said crossing her arms, the Triforce appeared on her left knuckle, it emitted a flash of light before Sheik was no longer there, instead her true identity, Princess Zelda stood in her place, "What you are telling me is that you are displaced from your world?"

"Yes, that would be correct." Zane agreed with a nod before remembering something, "Oh jeez!"

"What's wrong?" Zelda asked, confused by the newcomers sudden panic.

"What's wrong? I remember what I was doing before I got here that's what's wrong." Zane explained as he began pacing around, "I met with my friends and we were playing some games, and right when one of them was about to win there was this big blinding flash of light. Then I was just floating through darkness, I think someone was saying something about a great fate and a journey or something. After that I woke up here and now I'm trying to figure out if my friends had been sent here too."

"Calm down Zane, there is no need to panic." Zelda said as she stopped Zane by putting her hand on his shoulder, "Including yourself how many others were with you?"

"It was just three others aside from me." Zane explained as he looked back to see Zelda who seemed to have been shocked from the exact numbers, "Something wrong?"

"Yes… you said there was a voice mentioning fate and journey right?" Zelda questioned as the newcomer nodded in agreement. She gave a small sigh and looked off to the side, "I'm so sorry you seem to be burdened with this responsibility. You see there was a prophecy foretold that a group of Four Heroes would come to our world and bring back balance."

"Bring back balance?" Zane questioned, "What exactly happened? Can't the creators of your world do something about that?"

"Unfortunately they are the reason we need balance back, it is because they are not around at the moment." Zelda explained, "There have been many iterations of this world, I was lucky enough to be a part of the second. But something happened during the third, a great imbalance that forced a reboot of our world. It was because of that event that the Master and Crazy Hands were weakened greatly, and I have learned that they have been unable to recover their full strength."

"So you think me and my friends are part of this prophecy then?" Zane asked, but before Zelda could give and answer he gave a small smile, "Where do I get started?"

"Excuse me?" Zelda asked a bit surprised by Zane's sudden change of attitude, "You're sure about this?"

"Of course, I mean it's not every day you get to go on a journey through a world you know mostly about," Zane explained as he walked over to the piece of hardware and examined it a bit more, realizing what it could be. He then placed it near his stomach, a belt strap suddenly forming and holding the belt in place, "Besides, if I'm going to go home I'll need to complete this journey, and I won't be able to do that if I just sit around. Not to mention that if my friends got the same treatment, I need to look for them."

"Very well then, while I'm sure you'll be familiar with several people of this world I can help fill you in on all the specific details." Zelda explained as she walked forward, heading for the exit of the temple, "It is a strong possibility that your friends all landed in major landmarks as you did here."

"That makes sense I guess," Zane said as he followed after the Princess. "So I'm going to just assume that in the World of Smash, we're currently in Hyrule."

"You would be correct on that; we are currently in the epicenter of The Land of Hyrule." Zelda explained, "Where the main town is and where my castle is. Hyrule is one of the many lands on this world with the center of it all being Smash City."

"I'm assuming those who don't belong to a major land usually stay there." Zane guessed as Zelda nodded.

"Yes, though sometimes others stay there for a while due to the many tournaments that take place there. Sometimes there are individuals who reside in lands that are not their own but more than likely you'll find a diverse cast of characters in Smash City."

In a different dimension with a mottled, purple-and-black sky only one light shined through the darkness. It was the light of a humanoid figure, blue and digital, its arms were crossed as various screens floated around it, showing The World of Smash and the many inhabitants. However one thing caught its eye and that was Zane who was walking alongside Princess Zelda.

"The time has come…" It spoke, its voice very glitch-like as all of its words didn't come out properly. "A test is in order," It then looked over towards the ground, seeing its army slowly growing back to its once glorious size. Various robotic operational buddies known as R.O.B.'s were finishing the work they were doing on a 2D being known as Mr. Game & Watch.

"How is the army coming along, Ancient Minister?" The being spoke as the green cloaked being known as the Ancient Minister floated up to him on a platform.

"It is going well Lord Tabuu, why do you ask?" The Ancient Minister questioned as it soon caught wind of what Tabuu was looking at, "Ah, so it seems a newcomer has entered this world. It must be a gambit by the hands in order to prevent you from ruling."

"Considering how weak they are from our last encounter still, yes it could very well be that." Tabuu stated, "When you have extracted the Shadow Bugs from Game & Watch you will go to Hyrule and draw the newcomer out, then you will destroy him."

"Of course, we've already made our progress." The Ancient Minister replied with a nod before heading back down towards Game & Watch.

"You're picking up things quite quickly, that's good," Zelda complimented, "You shouldn't have much trouble traversing the land now."

"Thanks," Zane nodded as they neared the castle, however as they neared the entrance small explosions occurred near the entrance of town. The screams of people being heard in the distances as smoke began to rise.

"Oh no, another attack," Zelda said as she viewed the smoke, she turned to Zane only to see him quickly run off towards the smoke, "Zane what are you doing?!"

"Being the hero," Zane called back as he ran through the streets, making his way past any civilians in order to get to the entrance of the Castle Town. Zelda gave a sigh before crossing her arms, transforming into Sheik and following after Zane.

Zane soon made it to the front of the town and stopped as he saw what was before him, "The Subspace Army?" He questioned as two dozen Primid's were scattered, trying to cause as much destruction as they could. Some held beam sabers, other held scope guns, and the rest had boomerangs. Floating near the Primid's were two Armights, slashing at anything in their path as well as a lone Nagagog in its small blue form. However that wasn't it as The Ancient Minister floated from above, surveying the situation.

"So you are the newcomer." The Ancient Minister stated as it looked over Zane, scanning him and trying to see if there was any threat, soon scanning the pocketed Mighty Action X Cartridge and Belt that he was wearing, "Danger, Danger, strange devices of unknown origin detected. Unknown devices contain a great power, Primid's, destroy the newcomer." He said as all the enemies soon turned to see Zane.

"Zane get out of there!" Sheik called out as she was on a nearby roof, "You can't handle these enemies without a weapon."

"Who said I need a weapon?" Zane questioned as he pulled out the only other thing he had on him, the Mighty Action X Cartridge, "I have this after all." He said before noticing the black button, pressing it.

[MIGHTY ACTION X!]

A title screen appeared behind him with the name of the game displayed, '-Game Start-' being placed in front of Zane. Pink holographic blocks began shooting out before solidifying into brown blocks all over the field, a pink wave pulsating through the area.

"What in the world…" Sheik started as she looked around at the floating blocks as well as the ones on the ground or attached to buildings. She then looked back at Zane who gave a confident smile.

"If there was ever a way to save a world, this is definitely the way I wanted to do it." Zane said as he observed the belt on his waist, seeing two slots, next to the center of the device. He had a feeling the one closest to the center was the first slot and then looked up, "Let's do this!" He yelled, tossing it up into the air with his right hand before catching it to where the clear cartridge portion was facing downwards, "Henshin!"

[GASHAT!]

Suddenly a pink ring of energy popped up, various square screens showing up like a character select. All of them however had a generic black silhouette with a question mark in front of them. One of them shined brightly before revealing an armored face with orange eyes, and pink spiked up hair.

[LET'S GAME! METCHA GAME! MUTCHA GAME! WHAT'S YOUR NAME?!]

Zane looked around at the character select screen, realizing he really only had one choice and so he picked it, suddenly all of the other screens shot off and disappeared. The character screen rammed into Zane and engulfed him in a pink light.

[I'M A KAMEN RIDER!]

Suddenly Zane gained armor, but not the kind of armor that he and Sheik were expecting. The under-suit was rather bulky giving him a mascot-like quality, with plain white armor covering up his arms, shoulders, and legs. He had a personalized chest plate with multicolored buttons in the shape of a cross on his right side, with the symbols for a hammer and a sword on the left. Lastly the head was large, being the same head from the character select screen. The only other new addition was this holster on the left side of his waist.

Sheik and the Ancient Minister stared at Zane for a full minute, Zane standing still as he took everything in. "Huh? Whoa!" He called out as he quickly ran over to a window to look himself in the mirror, "I'm like one of those mascot characters!" He said as he felt himself. "Kind of like Mario…" He muttered as he began to move around, getting a feel for the mascot armor before the Ancient Minister sent a beam of energy from his eyes at the Nagagog, it taking damage and soon growing into a larger yellow version.

"Destroy him now." The Ancient Minister ordered as the Nagagog made a straight beeline for Zane. Sheik was about to go help when several Scope Primid's began shooting at her, forcing her to dodge.

"Zane pay attention!" Sheik berated as she jumped onto one of the newly generated brown blocks. She was thankful for their presence as she now had area's she could strategically jump to.

Zane quickly jumped out of the way as the Nagagog jumped at him, trying to belly bounce him into a wall. The Nagagog turned around and jumped up, stomping at Zane who simply rolled under him like Sonic would. Zane then did a back flip and bounced on Nagagog's head several times, damaging it before backing off.

"Incredible, it's like he has a combination of powers similar to Mario and Sonic…" Sheik muttered, glancing over quickly at the battle before dodging out of the way of an Armight slashing at her. She jumped onto another block as the two Armights began floating towards her. Quickly thinking she flipped forward, kicking one and flipping off of it. She landed on the block before using the same attack against the second one. She landed once more before pulling out a grenade with a string attatched to it, throwing it between the two Armights an explosion occurring. The two Armight's fell to the ground and dissipated into Shadow Bugs before fading away.

The Nagagog made a strange noise before rubbing its belly, a red aura appearing around it as it grew even larger. Zane gave off a chuckle as he rose up his arms; accidentally bring up the select ring again but this time with only one screen. The screen soon digitized and formed into a white hammer with black highlights, as well as the front end being green. It had two buttons on it, a green button with A on it while the pink button had a B on it. It even had a small pink flare similar to Zane's armored hair.

[GASHACON BREAKER!]

"Alright buddy you want a piece of me? Let's do this in one life," Zane said as he glanced around at his area, getting ready to fight as the Nagagog did as well. However Zane spun on his heel, his back facing the creature now. He soon gave a pose as if he was about to start running which surprised the Nagagog before he actually started running away, the Nagagog chasing after him.

"What are you doing?" Sheik questioned, "You can't just have that thing running around after you."

"Yeah but I'm not in the right spot!" Zane called out as he began hopping on a peculiar set of blocks, there were four blocks floating in the air, each one higher than the next, "In my time playing games the best items are usually in the hard to reach places!" He called out as he swung his weapon at the highest block, revealing a red medal with the silhouette of a man gaining muscles, it suddenly spun around before entering Zane, giving him a red aura. "Yeah that's the stuff!"

The Nagagog tried to reach him but due to its size and weight it could only make small shockwaves on the ground, knocking over its other allies. It soon looked up as Zane was heard yelling; Zane fell down slamming the Gashacon Breaker straight down onto the Nagagog's head. The Nagagog gave out a shriek before it fell over, dissipating into Shadow Bugs.

"Hell yeah, who's the best? I'm the best!" Zane gloated before Sheik jumped down to meet him, "Hey did you see that? Told you I had it under control."

"The fight isn't over yet, keep focus," Sheik said as she turned him around, the two dozen Primids finally grouping up as The Ancient Minister's eyes glowed the remaining Shadow Bugs forming into a Shadyas, it scraping it's blade hands against each other, sparks flying.

"Okay big enemies are no problem, but I wonder if this form can even handle all of these guys." Zane said as he began fiddling around with the belt. He pressed the silver button near the top of the holster only to bring up several blank screens with question marks in front of them, one of them however faded into a view of what looked like Hyrule's main town, "Not what I wanted."

"What are you trying to do?" Sheik questioned as their enemies began to approach them.

"If I'm a Chibi Mascot then maybe I can level up into an actual warrior." Zane suggested before he remembered the pink portion of the belt he was wearing. He grabbed it and tugged on it slightly, the pink portion moving, "There we go. It's time to show you what else I can do," He said to both Sheik and the Ancient Minister.

He spread out his arms before grabbing the Pink Portion and pulling on it, flipping it to his right side, revealing a panel that said Gamer Driver as well as a pink screen that contained the outline of a figure standing in it.

[GACHAN! LEVEL UP!]

Suddenly the pink screen shot out of his belt into a holographic interface, Zane ran through it before jumping upwards with a punch and transitioning into a kick.

[MIGHTY JUMP! MIGHTY KICK! MIGHTY, MIGHTY ACTION X!]

Suddenly his body glowed brightly as the mascot armor busted off of him, leaving the head. The head glowed brightly as humanoid arms and legs shot out of it, it turning around to reveal that it was now just a back plate. Zane once again had a normal body, his helmet looking more human with his chest plate being a fit version of what he had before. He wore a pink bodysuit that reached to his forearms and thighs, making it look like he had a short sleeve with shorts on. The pink had black circuit lines going across the sides of his legs and body. The rest of his body was covered in black with green rings around the 'sleeves' of the pink bodysuit as well as his wrists, ankles and a popped up collar to boot. Lastly his shoes were predominantly green, with black sides and pink stripes on the black as well as pink triangles near the ankles.

Zane landed on the ground crouched down before rising up and raising his fist into the air, the words 'Level Up!' appearing in front of him. Zane gave a chuckle as he summoned the Gashacon Breaker once more, holding it up as he got into a pose, "Alright, you take some I take some, we should get through them easily that way."

"Sounds like a plan." Sheik stated as she assumed her fighting stance, the two charging forward towards the enemies. As Zane rushed towards his group he swung the hammer at them as he moved in, knocking the Primid's down with one hit each. Zane soon began to jump around, trying to confuse the Primids as he took potshots against them with his hammer.

Sheik meanwhile began simply punching and kicking her way through them, gathering a few up before disappearing in a puff of smoke. She reappeared away from the three she had gathered, tossing her grenade at them, an explosion destroying them. She then drew her needles in both hands, tossing them at two Primids and destroying them as well. Zane soon got an idea and tapped the A Button on his weapon.

[JA-KIN!]

The sound effect occurred as the pink flare shot up to reveal a blade, "Oh yeah, I can really get behind this!" He rushed forward, slicing through one Primid before spinning around and clashing blades with a Primid wielding a Beam Saber, though with his added momentum he was able to knock it away. He then spun again, slashing through two more Primid's. "Alright enough playing around," He said as he quickly rushed through the remaining Primid's, cutting through them with ease.

The Shadyas soon moved in, swiping it's blades at Zane and forcing him to dodge and block the attacks. Zane moved in and slashed at it, only for his blade to go through its legs. The Shadyas quickly began performing combination slashes at Zane, knocking him back and causing sparks to fly.

"Okay, this guy has a specific weak spot." Zane muttered as he picked himself up, the Shadyas moved in and swiped its blades again. Zane having figured out a pattern began dodging and parrying the blades, slashing forward with his own towards the pink orb in its chest. The Shadyas reeled back as its core was hit. Zane quickly moved forward, slipping past its attacks and slashing its core again. Zane tapped the B Button on his weapon twice, slashing and causing double the damage to the core, doing this once more and causing even more damage. He then began to jab rapidly at the core before performing one final thrust and knocked the Shadyas backwards.

It gave a slight shrieking roar as Zane dismissed his weapon, "Let's end this with a finisher."

Feeling out the holster on his waist he had an idea on how to do initiate a first course of action was grabbing the Mighty Action X Gashat and taking it out of the Gamer Driver, producing yet another sound effect.

[GASHUN!]

Zane lifted up the cartridge to where his mouth would be and blew on it as if it was an actual video game cartridge. He then inserted it into the top opening on his holster where the silver button was before pressing the silver button as well.

[GASHAT! KIMEWAZA!]

Energy began gathering around Zane's right foot as he got into a jumping stance, soon pressing the button once more, "Here we go!"

[MIGHTY CRITICAL STRIKE!]

Zane jumped forward with a kick, breaking through the blades that the Shadyas put up as a defense. He then hit the core with his foot before flipping and slamming his feet into it several more times, sending it staggering backwards before it exploded due to the amount of energy it was hit with.

[KAISHIN NO IPPATSU!]

Zane landed on his knee before getting up and slapping it, doing a spin before raising his fist up in victory. Various grey pictures of the Gashat artwork now circled around him, Mighty Action X gaining color and landing in front of him as the words 'Game Clear' popped up next to it.

[GAME CLEAR!]

"Now that's how you do it!" Zane called out before he turned to see Sheik finish off the rest of the Primid's.

"It seems there was an error regarding your strength," The Ancient Minister stated as it addressed Zane who turned to face him. "I will correct that next time."

As it was ready to turn and leave it quickly dodged out of the way of several needles that were shot at it, turning its full attention towards Sheik.

"R.O.B. we know it's you, you're the only one able to use that disguise correctly. Why are you doing this?" Sheik questioned.

"The R.O.B.'s have been your tools for too long. It is time that we show you the potential that you are wasting." The Ancient Minister stated.

"Your declaring war against everyone, even you must understand that you cannot win," Sheik called out trying to reason with the robot.

"We will see about that, the preparations are in place. A storm is coming and you will do best to comply with the changes we will make. Any and all resistance against us will be opposed." The Ancient Minister said before flying off into the sky, taking it out of range of any ranged attacks.

"Damn, what the hell is his problem?" Zane questioned as he slowly walked over to Sheik, raising his arms up, "Well what do you think?"

"I can see now that you are most capable of handling yourself. You could cut the cockiness though, it's not going to get you very far," Sheik complimented yet warned at the same time.

"Oh ye of little faith," Zane said as Sheik turned to head back to the castle, Zane wanting to keep his armor on a bit longer followed after her in it, or tried to. His back was suddenly met with a great explosive force as he fell forward. "What?"

Sheik quickly turned to see what had happened, gasping in surprise at who it was, it was a man wearing a green tunic as well as white pants and a long sleeved shirt, he wore brown arm guards and boots as well as a green elf-hat, "Link, what are you doing?"

"Are you alright?" Link asked as he quickly drew his blade, the Master Sword, walking towards Zane, "Just what were you doing with this dangerous man?"

Both Sheik and Zane had the same response to this, "Excuse me?" Zane quickly scurried to his feet and put his hands in front of him.

"Listen I don't know what you're talking about, I just saved the day!" Zane exclaimed as he raised his arms high up, before lowering his arms and slumping over, "No seriously what are you talking about?"

"Don't play dumb I saw the sketch," Link said as he pulled out a piece of paper that had a sketch of Zane's armor, he then pocketed the sketch. "You're the one who's been going around and attacking several warriors and critically injuring them as a result."

"Link hold on there has to be a mistake," Sheik said as she walked forward only to get met by a stern glare, "Link…"

"I don't think there's any point in talking to him," Zane mentioned to Sheik before turning back to Link, summoning his Gashacon Breaker before transforming it into its sword mode. "Very well you want a fight? I'll give you a fight."

"Zane please we can talk this over, you two don't have to be idiotic and do this," Sheik pleaded, not wanting Zane to get himself or Link seriously injured.

"I don't know what your plan is with this world but I can tell you one thing for sure, I won't let you do as you please!" Link called out as he charged forward.

"I promise this won't hurt too much!" Zane called out as he charged forward as well, hoping that he could just incapacitate Link at the least during this confrontation. The two swung at each other, clashing blades and causing sparks to fly as they tried to overpower each other.

"There has to be some way to stop them," Sheik muttered as she began to think up a plan on how to stop the two from fighting.

Link and Zane kept clashing and circling around each other before breaking away from each other and resuming their fighting stances, with one more yell the two charged towards each other, ready to officially fight.

To Be Continued…