Readying a final stab, Jeralt rammed his lance through Kronya's throat. At least, he tried to. A stay ball of dark magic came flying at him, causing him to jump back to dodge. Kronya used this time to leap back and equip her dagger. The exact same dagger she used to try and kill Jeralt earlier.

"Solon!" she almost seemed pleased to see her comrade. "Don't just stand there! Help!"

"Yes...you certainly do need my help," Solon grinned in a very menacing way.

He slowly walked over to Kronya, his palm out. What happened next surprised and disgusted everyone that saw it. Solon reached through Kronya's lightly armoured body, causing her a great deal of pain. This somehow resulted in the four pillars surrounding the stone platform they were on to become enveloped in darkness. Some of the students retreated off the platform upon seeing this. Jeralt, Byleth and Isaac stood their ground.

While this was happening, Solon continued to reach through Kronya's body. The darkness intensified. Aware of the obvious danger, Isaac immediately used his Lift Psynergy to launch Jeralt away from the platform, leaving only himself and Byleth. Although he intended to do the same to Byleth as well as himself, some dark tendrils lashed out and grabbed onto his limbs, restricting his movements. Same with Byleth.

"Solon…! Stop this!" Kronya pleaded, her life ebbing away.

Her 'comrade' ignored this plea for help. Solon's hand found its target. It suddenly pulled back, revealing Kronya's heart in its grasp. The girl in question dropped to the floor and asked for help, but it was too late. She was dead.

"It is time to unleash the Forbidden Spell of Zahras!" Solon declared.

A massive torrent of darkness enveloped Byleth and Isaac. After all the darkness dissipated, nothing was left. Byleth and Isaac were gone. Kronya's lifeless body and Solon's very much lifeful one remained.

Darkness. Complete and total blackness. Not a single living lifeform resided in this realm of absolute nothingness. Light was a foreign concept. Only one thing was the truth - the dark. However, the sudden arrival of a pair of beings from an entirely different world proved to be the direct antithesis to everything this dark universe was.

Byleth Eisner and Isaac the Venus Adept were suddenly transported to this realm. It took them some time to open their eyes. At least, they thought they did. The only thing they could see was the never-ending darkness. They soon found each other. Mysteriously enough, neither of them were blanketed in the blackness. Each of them could see the other perfectly.

A conversation directed at finding their truth soon came to be.

"That Solon guy must have sent us here," Isaac realised. "Whatever that weird spell was, it's trapped us here. With no way out, it seems."

"...I refuse to believe this is the end," Byleth soon replied. "My students and your friends. They're still in the forest. We cannot die here, we musn't. For their sake."

"Right. But how do we even go about getting out of here?" Isaac proposed the eternal question.

Neither of them could think for long, because a worn out stone throne complete with a strangely long flight of stairs appeared out of nowhere, some ways behind the duo. A certain green haired being quickly emerged upon the throne. She did not seem pleased.

"You fool!" Sothis scolded. "What were you thinking, charging right into an enemy's trap? Are you just...a boulder…?" She'd begun to notice Isaac's presence.

"Uh, who are you?" Isaac returned Sothis' gaze with a confused one of his own.

"Not you too! Honestly, you two are quite simply, the most moronic individuals I've ever come into contact with! I would continue with my boulder metaphor but perhaps that would be too fitting for you, Adept," Sothis continued to scold. "In either case, it would take the power of a god to leave this place. Our bodies will fade away as time passes. Are you two prepared to die?"

Both Byleth and Isaac shook their heads.

"That is what I thought. I also do not wish to die. Yet," Sothis' expression changed to one of sadness. "There is no other choice."

"What choice?" Byleth asked.

"You must join Smash," Sothis revealed, staring solely at the fifth character of the Fighters Pass.

Isaac leered. "What?!"

"Smash Brothers! Honestly Adept, you are a dolt. Shouldn't you know what Smash Brothers is already? You've participated in it before!" Sothis stated.

"But not as a fighter! Why does Byleth get to be in before me? I've been waiting longer!" Isaac complained.

"How successful have you been, may I ask? How many people have been touched by your story and your world?" Sothis asked with a smug expression.

"..." was the Venus Adept's response.

"I thought so. I will say, those that clamor for your inclusion as a fighter are certainly admirable. Perhaps later," Sothis responded. She pulled a certain letter out of nowhere and turned her attention back to the professor. "Join Smash Brothers already, Byleth! What in the world are you waiting for?"

The Smash Brothers Invitation Letter shined with a divine glow. It ruptured the darkness, transforming it into an infinite light. Back out in the Sealed Forest, a white cross shape formed within the air. Everyone stared at it with their immensely surprised gazes. Byleth flew out of the shape's midpoint and posed while flying.

Byleth Joins Smash House!

Meanwhile, Isaac also appeared from the shape's midpoint, but his fate was to slam facedown onto the stone platform as opposed to Byleth's randomly gained ability of flight. The Adept refused to move from his position.

"Perhaps I'll get my chance...another day…" he meekly said.

And then folks on the internet collectively crapped their pants. Some were mad, others cried, but a few remained optimistic. Nonetheless, a new challenger approached.

Author Notes: I just had to do this. Maybe someday I can re-enact this fanfic with Isaac's potential inclusion as a fighter in Smash...I can only hope.

Also, I can confirm that this story will be getting an actual continuation at some point. I'll wanna finish my new DDLC x Yugioh fanfic first, which won't take too long. And then there's that other idea I had...well, a continuation to this will happen eventually.

See y'all next time.