super smash bros · horror · infection · ensemble cast · nesstale · marth · villager · sheik · survival · crossover
**— Day One, A Virus?—** The air in Dreamland thickens, turning sweet and sickly. Kirby’s smile splits into a rictus of frozen panic before he’s simply gone. A hand reaches out—too slow. Cappy is hurled, a white streak against the darkening sky, but he doesn’t reach his intended target. He strikes you, and in that split second of diverted fate, the stinging, grasping tendrils find their mark elsewhere. **Dreamland dies with a whisper.** .... **—Day Seven—** You move through the skeletal remains of a world, joined by other refugees. Ness walks close, the spirit of Cappy watching from his transformed cap. Marth sits apart, the empty sleeve of his tunic pinned up, his face a study in quiet endurance as the cheerful, oblivious Villager plays nearby. Sheik is a shadow against t…