Look who's BACK, baby! ;D At last, I'm finally allowed to write again! So, here it is, my own remake of Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle! That game is really fun to play; I beat the main story two times and I spent about 240 hours playing it! Though Hyrule Warriors: Definitive Edition ended up taking first place afterwards, but that's because I just love that game.

Because of that, in my remake, I'm including the entire cast of Hyrule Warriors along with the original game's main cast (and no, I won't include the Donkey Kong Adventure DLC in here, sorry). Also, there won't be a Rabbid counterpart to any of the Hyrule Warriors characters, since I thought it was too complicated for me.

Well, that's all the main information I can give you all at this moment. But most importantly, I'm just so happy to be back!

Enjoy! ;)

Chapter 1: Grand Opening

It has been a day since the 12 Smash Bros Originals and their new friends saved not two, but three universes with the help of their paper selves and four individuals from an alternate universe. At the end of that adventure, Princess Jewel and her Pi'illo staff were building a brand new statue in front of Peach's Castle, and Jewel thought it was a great chance for her to invite more of her friends to see its inauguration.

Today was finally the reveal day: the statue was finished and was now covered with a large white cloth. Jewel and all of her friends were standing on a platform around the one where the statue was, and below the platform were many Toads cheering and clapping. Confetti rained all over the place and Jewel picked up a microphone to begin her speech:

"People of the Mushroom Kingdom, thank you for coming to see this special inauguration. I, Jewel, Princess of the Pi'illo Kingdom, and my staff, would like to thank you, Peach, Princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, and all her friends for coming to my island and taking a vacation. So, as a thank you gift, we, people of the Pi'illo Kingdom, decided to build a brand new statue so everyone could see it from far away."

Everyone clapped for her, especially Peach; she couldn't wait to see how the statue looks like. Jewel then walks close to the cloth and grabs it with her free hand before continuing:

"With that, we present to you… this brand new Princess Peach statue!" she pulls the cloth, unveiling the new statue. This statue depicted Peach holding a Power Star with both hands onto her chest and a red ribbon was wrapped around her right shoulder. Everyone went wild and clapped for Peach.

"Oh! It's lovely!" Peach squealed. "Thank you so much!"

But then, a rather strange breeze began to blow, and Mario was the first one to notice:

"Wait… What's that in the sky?!" he looked at the sky, where all of a sudden, a strange blue vortex opened up as the whole scenery was tinted in blue and the red ribbon from the statue flew off.

As soon as everyone heard Mario, they all turned their attention to the sky and gasped in shock.

"What the heck is that?!" Luigi asked. That summed up everyone's reaction to that vortex.

"T-That isn't supposed to happen!" Jewel trailed, and everyone watched in shock as they all saw all of the Toads getting pulled to the vortex while screaming.

"Oh no! The Toads!" Peach gasped.

"W-Whoa!" Mario yelped as the floor below his feet suddenly crumbled in half.

At the same time, everyone felt that they were starting to get pulled towards the vortex as well, so they quickly held on to the platform for dear life. All we could see was chaos. And in the midst of chaos…

"HEEEEEELP!" Luigi had lost his grip and was being pulled towards the vortex, flying past Mario in the process, which was enough for the red hero to notice:

"LUIGI!" Mario quickly rushed to his brother and managed to grab both his hands. "HANG ON!"

"M-MARIO! I…CAN'T… HOLD ON… MUCH LONGERRRRR!" unfortunately, Luigi's grip was already tired and his hands slipped off, resulting in him being sucked inside the vortex.

"NO! LUIGI!"

Then, group by group, they started to feel their grips getting tired: Jewel was next to lose her grip and was sucked into the vortex along with Toad, Agitha, Fi, Tetra, Medli and Toon Zelda, followed up by Peach and the rest of the girls, and finally Yoshi along with the rest of the boys except for Mario.

"OH NO!" he yelled, jumping onto the pieces of landscape that were being uprooted by the vortex, trying to reach for his friends.

"MARIO! HELP!" he could see Luigi calling out for him at the distance.

"I'm coming, bro! Hup!" Mario leaps from the landscape that was the closest one to Luigi and tries to reach for his hand, but he fails and eventually, he was pulled into the vortex as well before it began to suck the entire Mushroom Kingdom into it.

Soon…

The vortex began to spawn out many oversized objects in midair, which includes toy blocks, popsicles, a milkshake, a rubber ducky… you named it. But what was interesting was that the vortex also spawned out many white odd rabbits, known as the Rabbids; famous for their slapstick comedy, especially involving pop culture.

There was also a small white and blue robot shaped like a puck that came out of the vortex, and during the fall, it suddenly gained rabbit ears and an outline of two rabbit teeth on the front.

"Why do I have… EARS!?" it spoke while lowering its new ears to take a look.

"…AAAAAAHHH! *SMACK!*" just then, a Rabbid wearing some sort of blue headset smacked right into the robot. "Bwah bah!" he sung… before the headset suddenly began to emit out strange pixelated sparks, causing said Rabbid to feel pain.

"Well, I hope you're HAPPY!" the robot retorted to the Rabbid.

Eventually, blue swirls surrounded the Rabbid, and once it completely enveloped him, a bright flash came, and the Rabbid now looked… smaller and cuter than previously, with the headset apparently merged onto him making it look like goggles that were now his eyes, white muzzle, blue belly and ears instead of the usual peach-colored, plus a power-button on his bottom. The Rabbid looked at himself, making sounds that sounded cute and innocent like a child, before trying to take off the goggles, but it seemed to be stuck to his face.

Then, a Rabbid riding a giant purple paintbrush came in and rammed onto the Rabbid with the headset, and two other ones flew past the robot at high speed. The robot watched the Rabbid with the headset eventually fuse the Rabbids with the paintbrushes they were riding on, resulting in them gaining yellow mohawks, stripes on their bodies matching the color of the paintbrush they were merged with… and they somehow pulled out a gun and began shooting around while giving mean looks.

The Rabbid with the headset was still trying to desperately take off the goggles, but no use.

"Stop that!" the robot demanded angrily, but the Rabbid's stress caused it to activate the goggles' power, resulting in the goggles shooting beams all over the place along with the Rabbid. The robot had a look of concern, seeing that this Rabbid wasn't able to control his powers, before looking up to see a huge washing machine coming down towards it… and there was also a Rabbid screaming from inside of it. "Oh no!" it yelled, looking away and closing its eyes, ready for its worst, when suddenly…

"I got you!" a female voice came in along with a blue and white blur snatching the robot before the washing machine hit it.

The one who saved the robot happened to be Lana.

On the ground, we could see many huge toy blocks crashing down all over the place, before Lana landed safely while holding the robot on her arms.

"You okay?" she asked as she set the robot down.

"Thanks!" it thanked her. Then, Mario landed on his feet next to them.

"Nice save, Lana!" he exclaimed while giving thumbs up.

"No problem!" Lana winked.

"Oh… You must be Mario, right?" the robot guessed.

"Y-Yes! How did you know my name?" Mario asked.

"My inventor is a huge fan of you and your franchise."

"Okay… And who are you?"

"I'm Beep-0." the robot named Beep-0 answered. "And you are?" he turned to Lana.

"I'm Lana. I'm Mario's friend." Lana replied. She then looked around, "Say, where are we, Mario?"

"No idea." Mario shrugged. "In fact, where is everybody?" he scratched his head.

"Hold on… do you hear something?"

"…aaaAAAA-! *RUSTLE!*" suddenly, something screamed before landing face-first into the bushes behind the trio. They looked back and saw a pair of white wiggling legs as they also heard muffling into the bush.

Then, when the something stood up, much to the trio's surprise, it revealed to be a Rabbid wearing Princess Peach's wig, complete with the crown and earrings, and only the top part of Peach's dress, with the brooch and puffy sleeves. Yep: that was Rabbid Peach.

"Uh… Did Peach get turned into a rabbit?!" Lana blinked.

"I… don't know…" Mario breathed, sounding confused and worried at the same time.

As Rabbid Peach came to her senses, she looked up and desperately ran out of the bushes while extending her arms as if she's trying to catch something falling, as another faint scream from another Rabbid came in:

"…aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAHHH! *SPLAT!*" however, this Rabbid fell nowhere near Rabbid Peach and instead faceplanted into the ground right in front of Mario and Lana, who went to inspect the Rabbid while Rabbid Peach rushed to her fallen friend.

This Rabbid was wearing Luigi's cap and shirt, instead that they were a bit too big for him: the cap was slightly dangling to the left as if he was wearing the cap sideways, and the shirt's length reached all the way to his feet and even the sleeves didn't fit his arms entirely, making this Rabbid, named Rabbid Luigi, look like a child trying to wear adult clothes.

Rabbid Luigi manages to get his head out of the ground before shaking it off, and now Mario and Lana were looking even more confused than ever.

"If they're really Peach and Luigi, then why weren't we affected too?" Lana wondered.

"I'm not sure… what the hell is going on." Mario groaned, shaking his head, unable to think anymore. "I may need a moment…"

"Huh? What's going on over there?" Lana pointed at the distance, where there were the same three obnoxious Rabbids we saw at the beginning… sticking Goombas all over the place with honey from a large tube next to them. Two of those Rabbids even stuck two Goombas together by their feet and rolled them towards the group.

"I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but I kind of feel bad for those Goombas…" Lana said.

"Same here." Mario nodded before proceeding to glare at the evil Rabbids: "Hey, you! What do you think you're doing?" alongside him, Lana and Rabbid Peach also glared at them, while Rabbid Luigi… yelped in fear, which is something that the original Luigi would do.

The three Rabbids noticed them, and proceeded to mock them in their language before taking off.

Ziggy – Dashing Ne'er-do-wells!

The Goombas stuck together then rolled out of the scene as Rabbid Peach and Rabbid Luigi playfully wave goodbye at them, while Mario and Lana turned their attention to Beep-0, who began to speak:

"Those Rabbids, they seem driven to cause chaos and mayhem – more so than usual, even."

"Oh, so they're called Rabbids?" Mario said. "I've seen a lot of rabbits in my life, but I've never heard of these ones."

"I don't think they're from this world, Mario." Lana stated. "Also, that sounds like a mixture of the words 'rabbit' and 'rabid', now that I think of it."

"Hm, so that explains their behavior from early." Mario concluded before turning to Beep-0, "But why didn't these two with us cause any sort of mischief?" he asked.

"Well, unlike our two friends here, they seem to have been… corrupted by that Rabbid wearing the SupaMerge headset." Beep-0 replied. Even though Mario and Lana had no idea what that SupaMerge headset was, they still let Beep-0 continue since they knew it would be too complicated for him to explain it to them and that they didn't want to interrupt him: "Could it be the SupaMerge headset was CORRUPTED on its way to this world? If so… we're all in terrible danger! Mario! Lana! We MUST find that poor Rabbid fused to the headset! He is the key! Save him – we might just save this world."

World 1-1: Unlikely Heroes

"So… I guess we'll just go on ahead?" Mario said in an awkward tone. "And what are we going to do with them?" he directed to the two Rabbids. "At least we know they're not Peach and Luigi. Thank god…"

"I'll keep watch on them, since it looks like they want to go with us as well." Lana assured. "You lead the way, Mario."

"Okay."

As they walked on, they saw many Goombas stuck to the walls with honey, and not to mention that the entire landscape somewhat felt like it was still the Mushroom Kingdom, although it suffered a dramatic change: large Warp Pipes everywhere, cubic trees, horn-shaped flowers, gigantic leaves… heck, even the small flowers and the grass' texture were different. In the air, there were many dandelion seeds flying all over.

"You know, I wonder if we're still in the Mushroom Kingdom…" Mario pondered.

"What makes you say that?" Lana asked.

"Before I was pulled into that vortex, I saw that some of the landscape was also pulled in. Could the vortex not only have sucked us, but also sucked the entire Kingdom?" unknown to Mario, he was slowly entering the first battlefield as he was saying that.

"If it was that powerful, then it might be the case."

It was at this moment where a shot suddenly came and it was heading towards Mario.

"MARIO! LOOK OUT!" Lana yelled as soon as she noticed the shot.

"Huh? WOAH!" Mario yelled in surprise as he saw the shot coming towards him. Luckily, he was able to duck to avoid the shot, getting his cap knocked out of his head in the process. "Boy, that was close!" he remarked as he skids back to put his cap back on before taking cover behind a small stone hill.

"Bwaaaaah!" Rabbid Luigi yelled as more shots came in.

"Uh oh! Quick, hide!" Lana directed the Rabbids to a small mount for them to take cover, where Rabbid Peach began to admire her nails… if she even HAD nails, while Rabbid Luigi cowers in fear, holding on to his cap. "Wow… that one is just like Luigi…" Lana thought before turning to Mario, "What is going on?!"

"Let me check…" Mario replied once the shots stopped. He slowly peeks from behind the hill he was hiding… "Whoa!" only for another shot, which came out from the blaster of one of the Ziggies they saw earlier, to barely miss his nose. The shots from the Ziggies' blasters resumed. "How are we even going to combat them?" Mario asked.

"Uh, Mario…" Lana directed to the ground, where they saw that Beep-0 was the only one who did not take cover, and the poor robot was now dodging every shot the Ziggies were throwing at him:

"Help-! Me-! I-! Can't-! Get clear-!"

However, the Rabbids, on the other hand, thought he was dancing, so Rabbid Luigi began to clap while Rabbid Peach was doing a Russian dance as they both laughed. Mario and Lana could only watch, both with dumbfounded expressions. Once the shots ended, Beep-0 floated towards the two still laughing Rabbids and yelled angrily at them, which seemed to shut them up:

"Thank you, SO much!"

"*sigh* oh dear…" Lana sighed, shaking her head with her eyes shut.

Just then, a message popped up from Beep-0 as he was rumbling.

"Oh, what is it NOW? Uh, I've just received a message!" Beep-0 exclaimed before reading the message: 'Dearest Beep-0, whose bravery, intelligence and compassion stand as a beacon of hope for us all. If my timing is correct, you are in dire need of help. Please open the attachments to this message – their receipt is most auspicious, I assure you. Signed, Your Biggest Fan'"

As Beep-0 hit the attachments, three weapons popped out from the letter and hovered towards Mario, Rabbid Peach and Rabbid Luigi. Mario's weapon was a blaster, the Lightning Shark, Rabbid Peach's was also a blaster, the Fuchsia Fury, and Rabbid Luigi's was a bworb, the Dwarf Star.

"Never thought I'd see the day where Mario would wield a gun…" Lana thought while playfully smiling as she saw the trio wielding their respective weapons.

"Huh. Since there's no power-ups around, I guess this will do!" Mario grinned, looking at his new blaster.

"Wow! When the email said 'attachments' I thought it was talking about cat videos or something!" Beep-0 exclaimed.

"Wait, cat videos are still a thing?" Lana thought, tilting her head, but decided to shake it off before Beep-0 continued:

"SO! Are you guys ready to fight back?"

"Absolutely!" Lana nodded, bringing out her Sorceress Tome. "I happen to have a weapon of my own, so I'll assist as well!"

"Great!" Mario exclaimed as they all entered the battlefield.

"Da da da dah!" one of the Ziggies spotted them and he and his two comrades shot at them, but they quickly moved into each half cover the battlefield had, and the shots hit the covers instead.

"So, how does this work?" Mario wondered as he aimed at a Ziggy. "Oh, wait, there's a trigger here!" he presses it, making the blaster fire a shot directly at the Ziggy, defeating him. "Neat!"

"Bwah!" Rabbid Peach fires a shot from her blaster at another Ziggy, only for him to edge away from it by moving into full cover, but not before sticking his tongue out… only to get a mouthful from a shot that came from Rabbid Luigi's bworb.

The last Ziggy then shoots at Lana, but she creates a wall in front of her, blocking the attack.

"Nice try!" she teased before shooting a blue magical orb at the Ziggy, being the last one to go down.

"Well, that takes care of them." Mario said, putting his blaster away.

"I'm having a feeling that we'll be facing a lot of battles." Lana stated. "But considering that I've fought in a war before, this shouldn't be a problem!"

"True. Now let's keep going."

They went onward, and as they did, they stopped in their tracks since they saw a large blue wormhole in the sky at the distance. As they stopped, it was at that moment where Rabbid Peach decided to take a few selfies with the wormhole.

"There! In the sky – see that?" Beep-0 pointed.

"Mama mia! What is that?!" Mario flinched.

"That looks almost like the vortex that sucked us…" Lana remarked.

"It began the moment the Rabbids teleported into the Mushroom Kingdom." Beep-0 informed. "Hmm… the energy we've seen floating upwards after we defeat an enemy – I wonder… All the more reason to catch that Rabbid with the SupaMerge headset! He's the key to stopping this, I'm sure of it!"

They moved on, until they came upon a large sunflower wearing glasses on the path.

World 1-2: Flower 'Bud'

"Greetings, sweet golden perennial of the prairie! We are-…" Beep-0 was interrupted when the Sunflower rudely spits green goo at Rabbid Luigi, causing the rest of the gang to gross out. "WHY did you do THAT?"

"Hmpf! After that strange creature with the headset got here – those guys have been nothing but bad news!" the Sunflower scoffed as Rabbid Luigi shakes off the goop covering him.

"I assure you, THESE Rabbids are not like their colleagues!"

"Oh! Well, if you can stop him I'll happily reward you. He's zapping his brethren left and right – turns them real nasty."

"I don't suppose you would come with us to help?"

"Sorry folks, but it's time THIS flower took things…underground." with that, the Sunflower digs back into the ground.

"I'm not sure that's how flowers are supposed to work…" Lana raised an eyebrow.

"You tell me." Mario scratched the back of his head. "Anyways, let's keep going."

They eventually entered the new battlefield, ready to fight off more Rabbids.

Meanwhile…

"Dear, this is insane!" on the battlefield up ahead of where Mario and his crew were just now, there was a girl holding a lily-shaped bell taking full cover as a shot from a Ziggy hit it. That girl happened to be Marin, holding the Sea Lily Bell as her weapon.

"Bwah ha ha ha!" the Ziggy who had shot at Marin laughed before charging directly at her.

"No!" Marin yelled as she blasts the Ziggy with a wall of water in front of her (combo YYYYX), defeating him. "Got it!" she exclaimed,

"Da da da dah!" only for another Ziggy nearby to shoot at her.

"Ah!" luckily, Marin ducked from the attack just in time. However, the remaining Ziggies began to corner her. "Great, I'm completely surrounded! Someone, help me!"

Just then, a shot came from out of nowhere and it hit the Ziggy that had shot previously, knocking him down.

"Huh?" Marin looked behind her… and saw Mario and his crew! "Guys!" she beamed.

"Marin!" Lana beamed. "Are you okay?"

"Never better!"

"Bwah blah!" the gang then noticed the Ziggies aiming their weapons against them with angry looks before shooting at them, but they quickly got into cover.

"Let's leave the talking for later! First, let's take them out!" Mario demanded.

"Right!" Lana and Marin replied in unison.

After the fight was over, they all heard a noise and saw that the Sunflower had returned up ahead. They went to him and he spoke:

"Mario, the creature with the headset got away, but I suppose you DID clean up his mess…and being a plant of my word, it looks like I owe you a reward."

"Ahem! Our good friends Rabbid Luigi and Rabbid Peach helped as well!" Beep-0 added.

"Yeah, yeah – great."

The Sunflower then recoils and spits out… a single coin, which falls into Rabbid Peach's hands. Apparently, Rabbid Peach did not like the reward and tosses the coin back nigh immediately, hitting the Sunflower in the face, along with tossing a few rocks… and finished off by throwing Rabbid Luigi at him. Rabbid Luigi falls back on the ground face-first while Rabbid Peach grins mischievously as she continuously kept tossing a rock in her hand.

After the Sunflower got rid of his dizziness, he replies unenthusiastically:

"Okay, okay! Here!" he then spits out a chest instead. Inside of it was a figurine of the Sunflower, which disappeared after its reveal.

"Well, that was something." Mario remarked before moving on.

As they entered the area with high platforms made out of bamboos above the waters, the gang decided to have a conversation:

"So, Marin, what happened back there?" Lana asked.

"Well, after the vortex sent me there, I explored a bit when I was attacked by these weird rabbit creatures." Marin explained. "You guys came just the right time!"

"At least you're safe. That's what it matters."

"Though I'm still worried about the others, especially Peach, Yoshi… and Luigi." Mario lamented.

"I'm sure they're fine, Mario." Marin smiled. "Who knows? Maybe we'll find someone else here!"

"HEEEEEY!" a familiar voice called out to them: it belonged to Toad!

"Toad!" Mario beamed as he and his crew ran over to him.

"Mario! Oh, and Lana and Marin too! Thank goodness you're here. Yours is the first friendly face I've seen since the Mushroom Kingdom turned into this… mess! Your timing couldn't be more perfect – I can't find Toadette!"

"All thanks to the changes caused by these odd pipes our Rabbid 'friends' brought with them into your world!" Beep-0 interfered.

"You guys seem to know what you're doing… sort of. Could you help me find her? Pleaaaaaaaaaaase?"

"OK, but you're gonna see firsthand how big of a pain these pipes are!" Beep-0 exclaimed before they walked off, with Toad saying:

"Maybe. But they look so cool!"

"Oh, be quiet!"

They navigated through many of these Rabbid Pipes, until they finally reached the platform where Toadette was. But what was surprising is that alongside Toadette was also…

"Agitha!" Lana exclaimed.

"Oh? Hey, Lana!" Agitha turned around and she and Lana shared a hug.

"Toadette! I'm so glad you're OK!" Toad beamed as he and Toadette shared a hug as well.

"See? I told you we would find someone here!" Marin smiled at Mario. "And we happened to bump into not one, but three!"

"You're such an optimistic girl, Marin." Mario smiled back.

"Thank you, dear!"

"Agitha, what were you doing before we came here?" Lana asked.

"I was just hanging around here when I happen to come upon some bugs I haven't seen in my life!" Agitha replied. "Look! I just caught two colorful butterflies and a bumblebee!" she showed the bottles of bugs in her basket.

"Wow, that's great! Good job, Agitha!"

"Oh, thanks!" Agitha then turns to Mario. "Mario, I never thought your world has so many different bugs! You sure must of have run into a lot of new bugs during your adventures!"

"Yeah, I guess I did." Mario chuckled sheepishly.

"Toadette, I was so worried about you!" Toad smiled after he and Toadette broke from the hug.

"Oh, I'm fine! Who I'm really worried about is Princess Peach." Toadette replied. At this point, everyone's eyes lit up, especially Mario's. "Everyone, can you go back to Peach's Castle and make sure everything's alright?"

"We'll do it, Toadette." Mario nodded. That is, when everyone thought that their course was set, Beep-0 interrupted:

"Certainly not! We NEED to find that Rabbid with the SupaMerge before-…" before he could finish that sentence, another message popped up. "Another message!"

"What does it say this time?" Lana asked.

"Ahem! It says: 'Congratulations on getting this far! A wise man once said, "If I have three hours to chop a tree, I will spend two of them sharpening my axe." I urge you now to return to Princess Peach's Castle and do just that – prepare yourselves for the fight to come!'"

"Interesting!" Marin exclaimed. "So I guess it's going to be just like that war you fought in that other universe, right?"

"I think so." Lana shrugged.

"Well, that's all well and good. But HOW?" Beep-0 wondered before reading more of the message: 'You may be wondering "how?". In the time it took you to read this email I have updated your operating system…It now includes a new GPS warp mechanism I call, Sploing! The name is a work in progress. Anyhow, simply activate it and you and your friends will return to Princess Peach's Castle immediately. Signed, Your Biggest Fan'"

"Sploing? That sounds like a name for a pill bug!" Agitha piped up.

"Well, that's amazing if true." Beep-0 said as if what Agitha said early didn't even happen. "I suppose I should give it a-…" all of them, except for Toad and Toadette, were instantly surrounded in blue lights and warped back to Peach's Castle.

To be continued…

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