[Coolshaymin]

The tower Vanish mentioned does seem hard to break into, there are no windows at all and the tower seemed to be made of Nintendium to prevent literal break-ins. At the front entrance stood what appears to be an anthro pig in a cape that seems to be talking to himself while teleporting around. "Curse that Vanish T!" After this sentence he teleports to the right, "He thinks the great Ganon can not protect himself?!" Teleports back to center. "I should have him sent to the soul pot for his arrogance towards me!" Teleports to the left. "But without my minions it would be too distracting from my goals so I may as well wait for my escort," Ganon says reluctantly as he teleports back to center and a throne appears underneath him to sit on with a bored look while he waited so he could say the password to get in the tower.

Meanwhile, at the top floor of said tower. "Good evening, Poker Face," Sword says to his ally.

"Oh, Sword. Have you decided to loan me your mask now?" Poker Face asked.

"I told you, giving up the mask is like giving up my knighthood. How does Project M go?"

"Project M is nearly complete, Sword. It will be the ultimate weapon."

"Of course you would say that... Just hurry, I predict the Smash Brothers are about to storm the tower any minute now, so make sure it is completed."

"Don't worry, I already have some 'friends' to greet our guests."

[Cielmira]

The one thing Cynder enjoyed about this dish scooped out of Li was that it was fairly easy to spot anything and at a decent distance away. Made the flights somewhat... peaceful, in a way. The only thing that spoiled it was the stank of the virus. Today though there was a faint breeze over the dipped terrain which made for a nice relief.

Soon the dragoness was upon the tower. After a single circle of the perimeter from above she began her descent to the seated individual at its base. An odd looking creature, though in this world she was beginning to get used to seeing things she'd never encountered before. During her approach she made silent guesses to herself as to where they could possibly be from based on visual cues.

"Hope you're not bored," she called out to the swine whilst folding in her wings, her pace diminishing into a casual walk once landed. So far her only solid guess was that this guy was their mysterious escort from the signups. That or this was the one called Kirby. But with the stories told of the famous puffball she had incredible doubts. One stemmed from this pig-like being not being pink.

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Blue Toad was excited to say the least. This was his first official mission after getting acclimated to life in the sphere, and it was with two people he didn't even know! Well, three actually, he was escorting another person with "insider info" too. He stood on a hill, and looked over the area A dragon and a pig. He dearly hoped that the dragon would be the one helping in combat. Pigs weren't exactly combat ready. Toad ran down to the castle, and attempted to acquaint himself with the two animals.

Blue Toad skidded to a halt near the two and shouted  "Hi guys! I'm Blue Toad, who're you?" He waved at the two and smiled, before looking over and investigating the tower. He tapped on the bricks of the castle. Fairly thick, they couldn't get in that way without serious help. No windows either. A upfront assault seemed like the only way in, unless Pig or Dragon lady had any ideas

[PolarStarQuote]

Up in the skies, around the clouds, down through the air, here comes the puff ball we all love, kirby! Riding on his specially crafted warp star, the Warp jet kirby looked for what was gonna be where kirby would go for his first mission. Kirby was somewhat happy for his first mission be be based around helping someone like this. Though, escort missions weren't particularly that good... Like that one time on the dream stalk, where there was a skiing monkey with a key and you had to hold a electric bar to hit stuff  that was gonna hit him before he got to the door he was gonna unloc- Oh hello wall. Kirby's loss of focus in thoughts caused him to hit the wall of the tower he was supposedly gonna raid. Poor Kirby!

The hero of pop star fell to the ground with the Warp Jet in hand, hitting the ground somewhat lightly.  Every impact kirby made, also left a small star in its place, for some odd reason. Kirby shook his head, taking a while to get up. Kirby of course has a unnamed, slant eye face to his clumsiness in his vehicle."Poyoo.." Kirby said sadly, falling over as the Warp jet flew off on its own to li. Kirby shook his body, looking around for who he was supposed to find.

[Coolshaymin]

Ganon stared at Cynder for a few seconds. Hyrule had some dragons and fire-breathing lizards but he's never quite seen a dragon that quite looked like her. There was also the fact she seemed a little on the small side for a dragon. Oh well, no point to annoy the escort Gannon supposes... Well, with trivial things like size anyway. "You could say that," Ganon stated, he hated waiting for people, it slowed down his plans. Thankfully it wasn't long til another one came and.. He's also short... and has a mushroom for a head? Or is it on his head? Before Ganon could respond to Blue Toad's introduction ceremony he heard a crash higher up as he saw what looked like a pink marshmellow fall from the sky.

Wait a second... The whole team he is with is short! Figures that his help would be a team of midgets. Its almost like the Goddesses of Hylia were just insulting him at this point. Whatever, its not like he can convince Vanish for a different team, he hopes these shorties fight bigger than their size. "I am the Great Wizard Ganon! Since we are all here, I'm going to go ahead and open the door," Ganon said. Even though he was literally half a foot from the door, he still teleports to it. "Power is ultimate," As the Pig man said this the front doors opened up. "Now if you all will follow me," Ganon said as he walked in as if he knew for sure this was the only way.

As soon as everyone entered the first room, the door shuts behind them and all other doors do the same, "I don't remember having a trap in this room," Ganon muttered to himself as he looks around. The room appears to be empty except for a single Mannquin that stands in the middle of the room, holding a mask that appears to be just a blank face.

[Cielmira]

Cynder's eyes narrowed ever so slightly with Ganon's reply, her tail ebbing back and forth in a light sway. One could say her expression was rather judging before the awkward silence was broken by the next addition to the party. Her spiky head turning to the side she eyed the mushroom man and a glimmer of a smile grew.
"You're rather chipper," began the dark dragon. Her continuation disrupted by the ruckus above. Cynder flinched at the witnessed landing. "You alright there?" she questioned while moving a few steps toward the circular being. It didn't take long for her to put together that this was Kirby. Didn't even have a scratch on him. That bode well for the group.

Her attention snapped to the booming voice of the one they were to escort. His declared name sounded somewhat familiar but she couldn't place it; mustn't be that important despite his proclamation of greatness.
"He's not wasting any time..." Cynder partially mumbled before following after the large pig man. As they moved she turned her eyes to the Toad, "To finish our introduction, call me Cynder." During her vocalization she cycled her head around to glance Kirby at the end.

As the group progressed into the first official room of the tower she couldn't help but note Ganon's words after the echo of slamming doors. She only heard pieces of course but her visage flashed to one of suspicion, head cocked lightly to the side and a contemplative stare at the larger guy. It took a few moments for her to begin inspecting the room they were now trapped in.

"Do you think they know we're here?" came her rhetoric question accompanied by a roll of her eyes. Cynder broke slightly from the group and began an arching approach to the only notable object in the room all the while inspecting the surrounding area cautiously. The dragon partially unfurled her wings as she edged around, waiting for someone else to trigger whatever was in this room.

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Blue jumped a bit as the pink puffball slammed into the ground. Kirby, he assumed. Since he was slightly familiar with the pink puffball and knew he couldn't speak that well, he decided not to ask Kirby's name. Dragon Lady introduced herself as Cynder, and Pig introduced himself as Ganon. Blue was pretty sure he had heard that name before, but it didn't really matter since he was on there side AND needed an escort or three. He probably wasn't gonna be betraying anyone any time soon.

Ganon opened the doors and stepped inside. Blue followed quickly, and as soon as the others were in the room, the door's shut behind him. Ganon had said he didn't put any traps in this room, or at least didn't remember doing so. That meant that the person who had taken up residence in the tower had already made some edits. Blue looked at the odd mannequin in the middle of the room. A trap? maybe, couldn't hurt to wreck it. Blue responded to Cynder's question. "Probably, but the villain knowing I'm here has been the only way I've ever assaulted a castle!" Blue bolted at the mannequin as fast as he could and rolled into it, screaming "Yahoo!"

[PolarStarQuote]

Kirby looked at the group. A large pig man, a dragon and a blue toad. Perfect group to raid a castle with! Kirby smiled, hopping up and giving a happy expression and raising his right hand in the air. Kirby gave a heartwarming "Hi~!" and then returned to normal, shifting his weight on his feet back and forth to give a swinging motion to himself. Pretty darn happy puffball for just getting in a small wreck.

As Kirby walked with the group, he kept his overall cute and cheery demeanor as he followed Ganon.  Ganon..that was the huge thing. He knew a little about his alter ego, ganondorf and from that much he knew he didn't like the guy. He probably performed the worst crime ever imaginable on popstar! Stealing food! Kirby hid behind cynder, giving a sad "Poyo...." In obvious fear of ganon's status. Kirby followed the group into the building, and jumped up in fear of the door shutting behind them. As brave, and the heroics Kirby has faced Kirby was still a little on the scaredy cat side. Kirby turned and looked at the masked mannequin, putting his hand over his mouth in curiosity.

Kirby was about to ask ganon a confused poyo until hearing a loud "Yahoo!" from his partner. Kirby looked at toad as he rolled to the mannequin, to which kirby looked at Cynder and Ganon and sighed ad he followed his toad partner into battle. Kirby prepared the Bio-kunai if the mannequin reacted to toad's attack or not, so kirby could start throwing kunai at it.

[Coolshaymin]

Toad's brave leap into the mannequin was pretty fruitless. It didn't seem to react at all. Ganon shook his head, did they not know the basic concept of inanimate enemies being invincible before they moved? Ganon knew this mannequin was not normal somehow, though he never saw a creature like that. Suddenly the mannequin's mask glew as the mannequin split into three. The mannequin's masks changed into 3 different masks. One based off Spyro's face, one based on Knuckle Joe's face, and one based on Mario's face, which the mannequins move to put them on.

The three mannequins then transform into the 3 smash brothers' old allies. Ganon never saw a spectacle like this. Mask transformation was not completely out of the realm of reality in his world though. If this thing was anything like an Armos though... "There! They are vulnerable in their current forms!" Ganon shouted to his three escorts.

Spyro Replica

Damage:0%

Powers: Fire Breath, Earth, Ice, Lightning, Charge and flight

Knuckle Joe Replica

Damage: 0%

Powers: All Fighter copy moves

Mario Replica

Damage: 0%

Powers: Fireball, Jump, Punch Kick Combo, Super Cape, FLUDD, Spin, Hammer, and Boomerang

Meanwhile at the top, "Hm, what are those mannequins exactly, Poker Face?" Sword asked

"They are a being of my creation. They copy memories of the people in the room and use it to copy a form of someone in their memory through the mask. I call them Maskequin's."

"...Only you would find a way to insert masks into this."

"Why thank you."

[Cielmira]

The battle charge of the brave little blue mushroom caught Cynder off-guard. She momentarily considered calling out the ridiculous idea but Blue Toad moved pretty fast, so instead the dark dragon responded to the scene with a roll of her eyes. At least he did what she wanted them to do for her. The dragoness readied herself for battle but what came next was another surprise.

Cynder peered through the fading light and continued a few more steps around her arching approach, the copy landing to face her. Confused she stared at the purple dragon, "Spyro..?" she voiced hesitantly, observing the reactions of the dragon before her. Oh how she wished to bound up to him and believe it was him, just trapped in this strange tower. Maybe he was brainwashed or being controlled... her thoughts rapidly fled through each excuse, all ignoring what she had just witnessed.

The shout from Ganon fell on deafened ears, Cynder attempting to get the Spyro copy to confirm her wishes. At least she managed to keep her defenses up. It wouldn't be the first time something like this had happened. It was almost a drill at this point.

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As Blue slammed ineffectively at the mannequin he felt slightly stupid.  Maybe he should have checked to see if it was vulnerable by throwing an ice ball at it or something. Ah well, live and learn, I guess. Toad fell down and looked up at the mannequin. As he was getting up, the mannequin split into three, and turned into a fighter, a dragon and... Mario?. He heard Ganon shout that they were vulnerable, but at that moment all he could do was hurriedly back away and ask, "What are these things?" to no one in particular.

He saw Cynder get dangerously close to the other dragon clone mask mannequin thing. He quickly tried to advise her otherwise. "Didn't you just see that your dragon friend used to be a mannequin?" Before preparing an ice ball, and suspiciously eyeing the Mario clone. 

[PolarStarQuote]

Kirby watched the mannequins change into three different characters. One of which was a unfamiliar dragon, one of the chosen ones themselves and a Knuckle joe! Kirby thought a minute on which one to attack first. There's little that knuckle joe didn't teach Kirby in the arts of Puffball-itsu so copying him would be lacking. Before Kirby could go ahead an throw anything, he saw cynder moving very close to the dragon mannequin...Well, it would be better to help her come to grips with the battle rather than being attacked while she's overcome with emotion...or..uhm....uuhh...Know what, forget it. DRAGON IT IS! Kirby immediately started running, throwing a few bio-kunai's at the Spyro mannequin to distract it to kirby's direction. Once the mannequin looked kirby's way, kirby but the bio kunai away and took out his Star Mallet and attempted to bonk the dragon on the head.

[Coolshaymin]

The Mario Replica looked at Blue Toad, "Come on, Blue, there is no reason you should attack your friends. We are a team," it said as it put out Blue Toad's Ice Ball with a Fire Ball. The Spyro replica looked back at Cynder, "Cynder? Yes, its really me," it said before getting hit and dodging back from the hammer, "Could you call your friend off?" it asked before something would surely distract the pink puffball's assault as a kick is sent straight at Kirby, "We still have a score to settle, Kirby!" Knuckle Joe's replica said in anger at being ignored.

Ganon just watched as he thought about it. The mannequins seem to be able to copy the voices of their disguise and abilities rather well. The dragon ally seemed to be a problem at the moment... Maybe... "Dispell illusion!" the Pig Man said as absolutely nothing happened. Well, they are not illusions... Ganon needed to find out how these things were made, would save a fortune on hiring minions, not that he payed them, but they somehow seemed to be made of rupees. Either way, Ganon should really of learned a better spell, dispelling illusions were so useless.

[Cielmira]

Every factual point spouted out at her was somewhat irrationally countered in her mind. Sure it used to be a mask and mannequin, but has the blue mushroom never heard of containment objects? Beings bound to a cursed container and forced to do the owner's bidding. Though in this case he hadn't been hostile so perhaps, for once, a good thing had just happened. For the moment before Kirby attacked the Spyro copy the dark dragon could almost feel the cursed snake binding chain that had once been around her neck... and...

Her thoughts were interrupted when the pink ball jumped in and swung his hammer around, causing both of the dragons to jump back; Cynder in surprise. "Kirby stop!" came her angry shout, timed as if she was prompted by Spyro. Her wish was granted when the Knuckle Joe came charging into the trio. Beginning to get enraged at the interruptions to her reunion, the dragoness lashed out at the oncoming enemy.

As the Knuckle Joe replica entered her immediate proximity Cynder jumped into him. Wings flared, teeth and claws readily bared with the first mentioned wicked with venom. She used her tail and wings to ensure she would land on top of the fighter when they slid to the floor*.
"Both of you, get away! Go fight elsewhere," she seethed. Threatening fangs were inches from Knuckle Joe's face for a few moments before their owner turned her head to include Kirby in her statement. Her bladed tail whipped agitatedly behind her expanded form, wings fully spread at this point.

*Higher than jEnNZFxkp_1d20 dodges Cynder's attempt at intercepting the jump attack

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Blue was nervous. He had no idea if these guys were friendly or not. He certainly didn't see anything like them before, and one of them was mimicking Mario's voice to a tee, that is, if he wasn't Mario. Also, Mario got suspiciously close to Blue with a fireball, maybe he was trying to defuse the situation, but it just seemed to... Unrealistic? Maybe that wasn't the right term, everyone had different terms of unrealistic. Point was, Blue was kinda nervous.

Then Kirby started running at other dragon with throwing knives or something, and then Boxer guy tried to kick Kirby, then Cynder flared up and at that point, he knew everyone was on the verge of exploding. Maybe they could still salvage this? He needed everyone's attention though. "Hey! Everyone calm down for a second, alright?" Blue held up a Boomerang that he sincerely hoped Mario wouldn't destroy.