Author's Note: Some characters appearing in this story weren't in SSBM although I wish that they were.

            Hyrule: Large explosions rocked Princess Zelda's castle.  Link ran atop the castle trying to increase the moral of the archers behind the battlements.  However, support was grim after three months of constant defeat.  The enemy used unspeakable weapons and showed no mercy to anyone.  The Hyrulians who had been captured were escorted to slave labor camps driven by metal beings (the droids from the first Star Wars film).  The beating let up and a large reptilian creature who had called himself 'Bowser' emerged from an A.P.C. (the tank in Aliens) that had driven to the front line.  Bowser walked in front of the rows of M1-A1 Abrams and AAT's.  On Bowser's head was a baseball cap that read 'Go ahead, make my day', one day Link taunted him by reading it and asking what it meant only to have Bowser respond 'Many have tried, all have failed!'  Bowser grabbed a megaphone and spoke into it causing it to screech, which caused the Hyrulian archers to laugh at him.  Bowser scowled and turned down the sound before activating it again.

            "This is your last chance!  Surrender!" yelled Bowser.  Link was about to respond when Zelda appeared.  Zelda was extremely weak and feeble after using her powers to repulse a wave of bomber aircraft that had attacked the inner square three days ago.

            "We will never surrender!" said Zelda defiantly.

            "I warned you," said Bowser shrugging.  Not really caring he said to a nearby robot.

"Sergeant, resume fire!"

            "Roger.  Roger.  Open fire," said the droid.  The tanks resumed firing on the castle.  Zelda closed here eyes and started chanting to herself.  Bowser, on the ground, was watching Zelda through a pair of binoculars with the price tag still on them.

            "What's she up to?" asked Bowser to himself.

            "She's muttering," said a nearby droid unaware of Bowser's rhetorical question.

            "I didn't ask for your opinion tinhead," said Bowser.

            "Sorry..," began the droid, but Bowser smashed his hand through it and short circuited it.  Bowser didn't get the chance to enjoy his work because the ground opened up and swallowed the tanks, droids, and Bowser.

            The castle: The archers cheered as the enemy force was swallowed up.  Zelda stumbled and Link helped her stand up.

            "Help me to my chambers," said Zelda.

            "Captain, take over until I get back, let me know the instant you see anything," said Link to a nearby person who nodded and headed off.  Link helped Zelda to her chambers and she sat down in front of a large black book.

            "I've been reading through this old magic book, and I believe that I can use the triforce to help us," she said.  Link stood behind her.

            "You shouldn't have been reading, you should have been resting.  We don't need to worry about help, we've held them off this long, soon they'll give up," said Link.  Zelda faced him.

            "We've both know that's not true.  We're losing out there.  You and I both know it.  Link, I can't keep holding them off.  Soon they'll take over the castle just like they took over Malon Ranch and then we won't have anywhere to go after that," said Zelda.

            "We can head for the mountains and use guerilla tactics to defeat them," said Link.

            "What would that accomplish?  That would take years and by then our home will have completely been destroyed.  No Link, such ideas are foolish.  We need help, we need reinforcements and the triforce is the only way to get them," said Zelda.

            "Don't use magic, we can go find them," said Link.

            "These reinforcements I seek are not of this world, not of this universe," she responded.

            "What do you mean?" asked Link.

            "Those forces out there, don't come from our world, they have never existed before, and they shouldn't exist at all.  When you went to retrieve Epona, you traveled to a world none of us had been to or heard of.  You traveled to a parallel dimension. Somehow, someone has managed to discover a way to bring things into our universe for the sake of conquering our planet.  Bowser and those machines that were just outside are examples of this.  I intend to use the triforce to bring reinforcements to help us fight these outside invaders," said Zelda.  Link backed off.

            "Fine, do what you must, I've got to return to my post and organize our defenses.  I wish you luck Zelda, but I don't have much faith in this plan of yours," said Link leaving.  Zelda returned to her book and held up the triforce and started channeling here energy into it to bring forth help.

Hyperspace: The Outrider flew through the blue tunnel towards it inevitable destination.

            "It feels good to have finally done some damage to the Empire and Xizor," said Dash Rendar.

            "What good is it if no-one can honor you for it?" asked his droid companion Leebo.

            "I believe that the negative effects would have outweighed the positive effects if I'd openly survived.  I'd be in league with the rebels and I'd have Xizor's agents after me trying to kill me, it's much better this way," said Dash.  Leebo was about to respond when the whole ship rocked.

            "What the…," said Dash.  The blue of hyperspace had turned into a strange yellow color.

            "What's going on!  If an interdictor was pulling us out of hyperspace, it wouldn't appear like this," said Dash.  Leebo was reading over some instrument panels.

            "Sir, we've been flung out of hyperspace," said Leebo.

            "How?  We're still flying forward and I don't see any stars," said Dash.  The ship continued to rock and large bolts of light started hitting the ship.

            "I don't know sir," said Leebo.  Suddenly a large brightness overcame them.

            "Hang on!" said Dash and the Outrider was gone.

Hyrule: If the forces of evil had not captured anyone, they would have heard a large explosion and a beam of energy strike the sky and spew out a strange flying object.  The object activated some type of brake and large legs appeared out of the bottom of it and the object settled down on the edge of a small patch of trees in a large field.

Outrider: "What the hell happened?" demanded Dash.  He looked out the front of the cockpit and saw a large field.

"Unknown sir.  You passed out and immediately afterwards, land appeared out of nowhere.  I landed the ship and you woke up.  Very strange," admitted Leebo.

"You're telling me.  Looks like the air's breathable, let's take a look outside," said Dash.

"Activating landing ramp," said Leebo.  The two of them ventured outside to take a look around.

12,000 ft. above the Outrider, another stream of light was seen and a smaller explosion occurred and spewed out a pink object, which plummeted towards the planets surface.

"Aaaaah!" yelled Kirby.  A moment earlier Kirby had been looking for some grub and now he was free falling.  He glanced around at his situation and stopped yelling.

'Well I guess this is it.  Somehow I expected something more complicated, but at least this makes my obituary that much shorter.  Oh well, there's one thing left to do," said Kirby.  Kirby burped up a typewriter and a piece of paper and started typing his memoirs and will.

"I leave everything to me and my life's story is about sucking things into my mouth and absorbing their powers.  Well that was easy," said Kirby.  He swallowed the typewriter and tucked the single sheet under his arm as he continued to fall.

"At least I'll leave a handsome corpse behind.  Of course, that's assuming some one doesn't confuse my body for a piece of gum and tries to eat me," said Kirby.  He looked around and saw the ground in the distance.  He waited for a couple of minutes and then burped up some rocks.

"I hope someone's out there.  The least I want to do is die alone," said Kirby.  He chucked the rocks and then went to work emptying out the rest of his endless stomach.

"I knew I shouldn't have skipped my stomach's spring cleaning last year," he said.  Kirby burped up everything from a baseball to a grand piano and booted them off into the distance.  He finally looked down and saw a metal object below.

"That's odd," said Kirby and then the ground caught up with him and there was darkness.

Outrider: Dash and Leebo were checking part of the rear landing gear for damage so they didn't notice the object fall from the sky and hit the ground in front of the ship.  They did notice the quaking that was caused as a result of the object's impact.

"A quake?" asked Dash to Leebo.

"Unlikely.  I think it may have been a tremor," said Leebo.

"If this place is geologically unstable, we're not safe here.  We'd better go check the sensors for quakes," said Dash.  As they went around the ship, they noticed an impact crater and smoke coming out of it.

"Then again, maybe not," said Dash.  Dash and Leebo ran over to the crater and saw a slightly singed large white puffball with feet.

"What is it?" asked Dash.

"Some type of life-form," responded Leebo.  The two of them pulled it out of the crater and laid it on the ground.  Dash noticed a piece of paper tucked under its arm and pulled it out.

"The will of Kirby, I guess that's its name," he said.  Leebo loomed over the body.

"I think it's dead," said Leebo.  Suddenly one of Kirby's arms moved and slapped the droid across the face.

"I'm not dead you nincompoop!" yelled Kirby.  Kirby sat up and tried to shake the cobwebs out of his head.

"That's gonna leave a mark, or at least a hangover," said Kirby.  He stood up, but only managed to wobble around.

"How did you get here?" asked Dash.

"I don't know, one minute I'm looking for food, the next I'm up in the sky in free fall," said Kirby.  Dash was considering this when a grand piano slammed down next to him.  Dash jumped and Leebo ran for the ship.

"Odd weather we're having.  Whoops!  Heh, heh.  That would be mine," laughed Kirby.  Dozens of other things started falling from the sky also.  Kirby pulled out a pair of professor glasses.

"This seems to violate the law of gravity, we'd better vacate the area," said Kirby.  Dash had already bolted for the Outrider and Leebo was starting it up.  Kirby dashed up the ramp and the ship took off leaving the odd rainstorm behind.  Kirby waddled up to the cockpit and sat down in one of the chairs.

"So what brings you here?" asked Kirby.

"I don't know.  One second we're in hyperspace the next we're here," responded Dash.  A nearby console started beeping and Leebo looked at it.

"Sir, we're picking up a life-form," said Leebo.  Through the cockpit they could see a lone dinosaur like creature wandering aimlessly.

"Set us down, maybe it knows what's going on," said Dash.  The creature watched the Outrider land with mild interest and scampered up to the lowering boarding ramp.

"What are you doing?" asked Dash.

"Dunno.  Lost," responded the creature.

"Do you have a name?" asked Leebo.

"Yoshi!" responded the creature happily.

"I see.  Yoshi, how did you get here?" asked Dash.

"One minute home, next here.  Strange," said Yoshi.

"You worthless beast, you brought us here!  I demand you return me to my home!" demanded Yoshi.  The three looked at him incredulously.

"What!" demanded Kirby.  The other three just shrugged their shoulders.

"Well Yoshi, it appears we're in the same boat.  We also got here through unknown means and we're stuck here," said Dash.  The dinosaur contemplated this.

"Oh.  Names?" asked the creature hopefully.  Dash couldn't help but chuckle, there was something likeable about this creature.

"I'm Dash, this is Leebo, and that rude puff ball is Kirby," said Dash.

"Kirby," repeated Yoshi.

"Yeah that's my name, don't wear it out," said Kirby.  Leebo looked around and saw nothing of note.

"I don't see any reason why we should stay here," he said.  The four unlikely companions boarded the ship and it blasted off.

Zelda's Castle: "The reinforcements are here," said Zelda to Link at the edge of the main drawbridge.  In the distance, a loud noise was heard and a strange object came rocketing out of the forest towards the drawbridge being accompanied by two strange fighter craft and a large black creature with a shield on its back.  The ground vehicle skidded to halt and hovered a few feet off the ground while the two fighters flew overhead and landed in the main square.  The two occupants rushed out and joined the two occupants of the hovering vehicle and the large creature that stood next to it.

"What's going on here?  I demand a full explanation," said Captain Falcon.

"Yeah," responded Falco Lombardi.  Zelda held up her hand.

"Please, come inside.  I'll tell you everything," she said.  The five creatures walked into courtyard while some soldiers pushed the large hovering vehicle inside.  Zelda looked out onto the plains and saw nothing.

"Something wrong?" asked Link.

"There should have been more," said Zelda.  Link grinned at her.

"Hey, not everything works perfectly.  At least we've got some help," said Link.

"True, but still I could've sworn there were more," said Zelda hesitantly.

"Whatever, we've got to get this drawbridge up before more enemy forces show up," said Link.  Link and Zelda entered the castle and the drawbridge rose up, sealing the in.

Kokiri Forest: The Outrider was weaving from side to side as dozens of explosions occurred around them.

"What the hell is going on!" demanded Dash in the cockpit.

"We're under attack by ground forces.  I think they're using concussion mortar shells," said Leebo.

"How is that possible, we've seen no examples of advanced technology here, not the least of which came from where we come from," said Dash.

"Unknown," responded Leebo.

"We're all gonna die!" yelled Kirby hysterically.

"Shut up!" yelled Dash.  Yoshi merely sat patiently and watched the ensuing scene unfold before him.  Outside, the barrage started to lessen.

"We're alive," said Kirby.  Suddenly a large explosion hit the back of the ship and smoke started pouring out.

"Well, we're screwed!" yelled Kirby.  Dash was reading the damage display panel.

"The armor and shields protected us from the brunt of the attack, but we're still going to go down," said Dash.

"Just my luck to die on an alien world," said Kirby.

"At least you don't have to write another obituary," laughed Dash grinning.

"Shut up!" responded Kirby.

"What are we going to do Leebo?" asked Dash.

"I don't know," responded the droid.  Yoshi stood up.

"Lake, safe," said the saurian.  Dash looked at him.

"Leebo, are you picking up a lake nearby?" asked Dash.  Leebo glanced at a couple of panels.

"Yes, there's one directly to the left of us," said Leebo.  Dash did his best to turn the ship in that direction.  Kirby glanced at the panels.

"How can you read this stuff?  All I see are gizmos and doo-dads," said Kirby.

"Doo-dad?  Is that a technical term you use," said Leebo.  Kirby merely growled in anger.

"There's the lake," said Dash.  The Outrider cleared a row of tall trees and the lake appeared before them.

"We can't hit that lake in the ship, we'd die instantly!" said Leebo trying to imitate yelling.  Dash hit the cruise control and the landing ramp button.

"Then I guess we've got to bail out," said Dash.  The four of them headed for the ramp, which was fully descended.

"A fall at this rate would kill you," said Leebo.  Kirby faced them.

"Parting is such a sweet, sweet sorrow," he said "I bid thee farewell.  It's everyone for themselves.  Catch you on the flip side.  Geronimooo!"  Kirby leaped out of the landing ramp, sucked in a lot of air, puffed himself up, and floated away.

"Jerk!  Now what are we going to do?" asked Dash.  Yoshi swallowed up Leebo and spit out an egg towards the water.

"Where's Leebo!" demanded Dash.

"In egg," said Yoshi.  Dash watched the egg hit the water and stay intact.

"Egg, safe," said Yoshi turning towards Dash.

"Okay," said Dash hesitantly.  Dash closed his eyes and a second later he was in an egg hurtling towards the surface of the water.  In the ship, Yoshi hit the retract boarding ramp button, turned himself into an egg, and rolled out before the ramp closed.

The Lake: Three identical eggs slammed into the waters surface, briefly went under, and surfaced again.  Dash shot out the top of his egg with his blaster and watched the Outrider, trailing smoke, slam into a nearby section of forest.  Leebo popped the top of his egg as well and looked out at the lake.

"Interesting," he said.  Yoshi's egg drifted towards them with Yoshi watching them.

"I gotta hand it to you Yoshi, these eggs were an idea of pure genius.  Now where's Kirby," asked Dash.  Dash looked around and saw Kirby gliding to the shore.

"Come on," said Dash.  He moved his hands in the water and pushed his egg towards shore.  A few minutes later they landed on shore with Kirby watching them.

"You're alive, that's good," said Kirby.

"No thanks to you.  If it wasn't for Yoshi, we might be dead," said Dash.

"Yeah.  Yeah.  I would've helped, but a weight burden of any of you would have sent me plummeting to the surface of the water as well.  Talk about a belly flop to the nth degree," said Kirby.  Dash and Leebo both pulled out their blasters.

"Hey, violence isn't a mean to stop anything.  Don't shoot me!" yelled Kirby cowering.  Dash gave him a weird look.

"We're not going to shoot you.  We're going to find the Outrider.  Leebo, is your link to its homing beacon secure?" asked Dash.

"Yes.  The ship is that way," said Leebo trudging off into the forest followed by the rest of them.

The Forest: The crunching and grinding of metal from the Outrider's crash landing had wrenched Mewtwo from his slumber.  Mewtwo was about to lash out in anger when he noticed that these were not the same woods that he had fallen asleep in.  Mewtwo's cloned Pokemon were nowhere to be seen, even Mew wasn't there.  Mewtwo could tell that he had somehow gone somewhere else that wasn't part of Kanto or Johto, maybe not even of his world.  Mewtwo contemplated this when he noticed the strange object lodged in the ground near him.  Mewtwo was about to investigate it, when he saw several creatures approach.  Mewtwo hid behind a tree and listened in on their conversation.

"At least the reactor didn't blow," said Dash looking over the ship.  Leebo hit a button on a control pad, and a loud groaning was heard.  The ship rose up on its landing gear and stood there.  Leebo went inside for a few minutes and came out.

"This ship won't be taking off anytime soon," he said.  Leebo leaned over and whispered something to Dash who nodded his head.  Kirby kicked one of the landing legs.

"This rust bucket is a piece of crap.  I've seen ants move faster than this thing," said Kirby.  Dash started creeping over to a large tree.

"What are you doing?  Stalking trees?" asked Kirby.  Mewtwo leaped out from behind the tree when he heard this and held a ball of charge up energy in his paw.

"Don't move.  We mean you know harm," said Dash pointing his blaster at the creature.

"How do I know that?" asked Mewtwo.  Dash lowered his blaster.

"We won't give you trouble unless you bring it yourself," he said.  Mewtwo thought about this.

"You're crazy," said Kirby.  The energy ball above Mewtwo's hand dissipated and he let the arm fall.

"I'm Mewtwo," said the creature.

"Dash Rendar.  Are you a native of this planet?" he asked.

"I don't think so.  Are you?" asked Mewtwo.

"Nope.  It seems we've all been dragged here to this world by some unforeseen force and we're stuck here," said Dash.  Kirby raised up his hand.

"What?" asked Dash.

"When I was floating up above, I noticed what appeared to be a building/castle of some sort in that direction," said Kirby pointing his hand out.

"You serious?" asked Leebo.

"He serious," said Yoshi.

"Who are these creatures?" asked Mewtwo.

"That's Yoshi, Kirby, and Leebo.  Look, let's obtain some heavy weaponry from the Outrider and head off towards this 'building'.  Leebo, set the auto defense system on," said Dash heading for the ship.  Fifteen minutes later the five of them headed off.

Zelda's Castle: Zelda had finished explaining the situation to the five creatures at the table, Captain Falcon, Mario, Fox, Falco, and BlackWargreymon, the situation and they were currently in the lowest part of the castle discussing it.

"How did they take it?" asked Link.

"Surprisingly well.  Still though, I've just got this feeling that there were supposed to be more," said Zelda.  A captain ran up to Link.

"Sir, we've sighted eight creatures who have just emerged from the woods of Kokiri Forest," said the Captain.  Link hurried up to the battlements and indeed saw eight creatures.

The ground: Along the way to the castle, the five members had discovered a gorilla named Donkey Kong, a dog named Lupus who could talk via a voice simulator (yes I know he couldn't do that in the game), and a little boy named Ness.  They saw the castle in the background.

"I told you it was here," said Kirby.

"Yeah, yeah," said Dash.  A bunch of them handed money over to Leebo.

"What's this?" asked Kirby.

"We held a secret betting pool as to whether or not this castle really existed.  Leebo took the risk and said that it would be here while the rest of us bet against you," said Dash.  Kirby groaned.  The eight of them were two thirds of the way to the castle when a large explosion occurred right next to them.

"What the…?" asked Kirby.  Laser blasts and cannon shells emerged as a dozen tanks came pouring out of nearby hole in the ground.  A nearby explosion revealed dozens of battle droids.  The droids and tanks began to open fire on the castle and the group.

Zelda's Castle: "So much for them," said Link as he saw the tanks emerge.

"Link, open the drawbridge.  Those are the other reinforcements," said Zelda.

"This isn't such a good idea, but if you insist," said Link running off to the drawbridge control.

The ground: "We're under heavy fire," said D.K. running with the group.

"I hadn't noticed," said Dash.

"Scatter.  We'll be harder targets," said Leebo.

"Don't forget to attack the enemy," said Dash.  The eight of them split off in different directions.  Dash grabbed his two blasters and started firing at the battle droids and vaporizing some of them.  D.K. slammed his hands down of the ground and managed to take out of the tanks with an earth tremor.  The AAT's however, floated above the ground and were impervious to his attack.  Kirby sucked up one of the large AAT's and spit it out onto the ground, blowing out its power relays causing it to die.  Yoshi slapped his tongue onto one of the AAT's and managed to twist into a tank and two battle droids causing them to blow up.  Lupus started firing out a shower of rockets at the enemy tanks.  However, there were just too many tanks to deal with since more had come pouring out of the ground.  Finally, Bowser emerged and calmly ordered the tanks into a type of formation.

"Bowser!" yelled Yoshi.  Bowser looked around for the voice and saw Yoshi.

"You!  How did you get here!" he yelled.  Bowser took out a blaster cannon and started firing at Yoshi.  Yoshi spit out eggs and managed to take out the shots until Bowser's cannon was dry.  Yoshi started laughing.  In the background, the drawbridge lowered to the ground and Link ran out with a few archers.

"Get in!" he yelled.  The eight of them ran across the drawbridge and into the castle while Link and his archers provided some cover.  Ness lit the ground on fire with his PK Fire and then scampered after them.  They barely managed to get the drawbridge up before the tanks began pounding on them again.  However, Bowser recalled them and the tanks drove away.  The eight members stood there, short of breath after that brief but intense battle.  Two people walked up to them.

"I'm Sheik and I would like to welcome you to Hyrule," said Sheik.

"Umm, hi.  I'm Dash Rendar and this is my ragtag group of characters.  That's Donkey Kong, Lupus, Yoshi, Leebo, Kirby, Mewtwo, and that little boy is Ness.  Are you indigenous to this world, because I'm not and neither are my friends and I was curious if you knew how we got here," said Dash.

"Come, let me explain everything to you," said Sheik.

Many miles away: "Bowser, why have you returned?" asked Ganondorf.

"We have a problem.  I recently met up with an old acquaintance and he had friends who managed to destroy some of our tanks," said Bowser.

"This is an unexpected event.  The Princess should never have brought them into this.  We must accelerate our plans.  I want our secret project operational by the end of this week," said a shadowed character.

"Is that wise?" asked Bowser.

"We've got no choice.  It's either or us or them, and I intend to make it be us.  Nothing can stop us now," said the shadow who started laughing out loud (and no, it isn't Darth Sidious/Emperor Palpatine/Senator Palpatine/any dark lord of the sith).