Author's Note

Speciel thanks to Azure for editing.

Four New Brawlers

“So, my fine crazy brother, since we are hosting this tournament, we’ll need more villains and obstacles.” I said to my twin, who was still petting the poor changeling.

“C-could you p-please let me go.” the changeling stuttered so quietly we barely heard it.

“...Oh for the love of.. Brother, I told you that you can’t have one, They are living beings!” I said with a sigh at my double’s ignorance.

“But they're so cute!” Crazy said, picking the changeling up and causing her to eep. Crazy then forced her to pose cutely in trophy form, which in return angered me.

“Crazy!” I said as I slapped him upside his wrist. “Turn it back to normal.”

“No, she is my cute little Trophy and you will not get her! Not unless you don't want any more villains!” Crazy said as a form of blackmail against me.

“And you won’t get to keep your changeling.” I said, using a blackmail of my own against him. I hovered to to the changeling, gently picked and placed her away from my brother. With a tap of my finger, she was back to normal, looking around in confusion, she looked up at me and let out a loud eep, quickly backing away from me. I had to hover behind her to prevent her from falling off our floating stage. “Don’t stay near the edge unless you want to have quite the drop down to Equestria. “ I warned her.

“No, my adorable bug pony! Give her back brother!” Crazy said coming up behind me.

“Not unless you treat her like a normal pony, she isn’t some decoration. The only ones that need to be that are the real fighters who will fight for our amusement.” I said, turning to face the jittery pony. “And I don’t think she qualifies as one.”

“But she'll need to be transformed into a trophy when we leave so she doesn't get into trouble or starve to death.” What Crazy just said actually made sense, that is until I remembered something.

“Did you forget that we can summon food here?” I said as a reminder. In truth, it was just one of the forced bits of knowledge this body has. “Not only will it keep her from starving, but it will heal her wounds.”

“We don't actually eat food, we eat love.” the changeling said quietly before trying to make herself as small as possible when we both turned towards her.

“Oh, right, I forgot you changelings need that to stay alive. The main question is, will you love her, Crazy Hand? And I meant treating her like a living thing, not a trophy.” I said with reasoning.

“I will love her just like an old lady loves her cats!” Crazy said with pride.

“..Minus there being a million changelings running around.” I said under my mental breath. “I’m deeply sorry for this, Mrs…?” I gestured for the female to tell us her name.

“U-um, Shifter. My name is Shifter..” The changeling said, still scared but not as much.

“Shifter, simple and to the point.” I commented.

“I'm going to try and open a portal to the King Sombra timeline you coming with bro?” crazy said as he turned shifter to a trophy again.

“Damnit, brother. At Least warn her, she’ll get confused when we get back.” I said with a sigh. “Alright, any information before we head there? I don’t want any surprises incase he attacks.” I said, hovering over to my brother.

“Not really, Sombras started a war with Equestria and we're about to be smack dab in the middle!” Crazy said before ripping a portal open and dragging both of us in.

We arrived high above the battlefield, I saw all sorts of creatures fighting for life against what appeared to be an army of shadow ponies. “Wait. You said timeline, right? We’re not about to fuck up something, are we?”

“No, not really.” Crazy said before floating down to the battlefield, causing everyone to look up at us.

“Hello, is there a King Sombrero here!” crazy said purposely mispronouncing King Sombra’s name.

The fight between princess Celestia and King Sombra paused at the giant hand calling for King sombrero.

“If this is the past then we shouldn't even try anything. I thought this guy was in the present.” I said in quiet whispering hiss.

“No-no, brother this is an alternate timeline where Twilight and her friends never got their cutie marks, same as the one we got Chrysalis from!” Crazy said dismissively.

“Ah, so the main timeline we’re from won’t be affected, excellent.” I said. On instinct, both of us drummed against each other, like an evil villain drumming their fingers together.

Eventually, the king manages to snap himself out of his stupor. “Are these more of your allies, Celestia?!” he yelled.

Celestia glared at him with an angry expression and shook her head.

“Greetings King Sombrero, we have come to invite you to a tournament spanning multiple timelines and if someone defeats everyone including us, they will be granted one wish that is within our power to grant!” Crazy said before he started cracking up.

“A wish, huh?” The king said, teeth widening to rival the grinch.

“What!?” Celestia exclaimed.

Suddenly, Sombra turns into a black mist and suddenly rockets toward us.

“Get ready to grab him, brother.” I whispered to my twin as I brought my body of a hand wide, as if it was about to grab a fly.

As King Sombra draws near Crazy Hand grabs into his shadow and holds him still.

“What!?” He screams, wiggling and struggling to get free, he didn’t understand why we managed to grab him in his dark form. I made my move and grabbed Somba. With both of us covering his whole form, a bright light erupts from our palms and when I open up, I’m holding a Sombra Trophy, with him rearing up in a pose, he looked like he was laughing as if he had earned a victory.

Everyone down below couldn’t believe their eyes of what they saw, I bet they thought we defeated Sombra, but this was only temporary. Or better yet, we could just keep them all forever sealed as a trophy.

“We thank you all for giving us our new brawler, we will bring him back later unless any of you want to come with us and participate in the tournament, we only do this to the villains who become unruly!” Crazy said lying through his… I would say teeth but he doesn't have any.

Suddenly everyone shook their heads like mad, except for alternative timeline Celestia who was glaring at us with distrust. Suddenly, her horn beams to gather solar energy.

“Oh! We gotta go!” I said quickly, not liking what she was going to do and I’d rather not be around if she attacks, we’ve got a tournament to make.

“I guess we only get one brawler from this universe.” Crazy said before casually opening another Rift in the universe, we quickly entered with our new prize, closing the portal behind us.

We soon exited the portal above what appeared to be an old Castle, it was suddenly dark in this alternative universe. I take a look around the area, finding the peaceful night to my liking.

“So brother, I think you should go talk to Celestia on the moon and tell her about the tournament the wish and about being the hand of creation but also mention. that your brother is going to offer the same deal to Nightmare Moon!” Crazy said happily before floating down to the castle.

I twitch my finger as a form of nodding because of me having no head. I turn toward the moon and took off like a rocket with fire coming out of my wrist. Eventually, I arrived on the moon when I heard heavy crying.

I glided along the moon’s surface until I found who was crying. There sitting on the moon’s ground, was who I assumed was the alternative timeline Celestia. “Your highness.” I said to draw her attention.

“W-wha-” She turned around quickly, most likely startled by my strange appearance. “W-who are you? Stay away!”

“I’m not here to hurt you, I’m here to offer you something. I am Master Hand, the hand of creation. I’m offering you a tournament to join and if you win it, you will be granted one wish within our power. My brother, Crazy will be making the same offer to your sister.” I explained to her.

“W-what?! No. How can you offer such a thing to a monster like her!?” She yelled in the famous Canterlot voice.

“Because we’re offering a chance for… redemption you could call it. The winner will decide their world’s fate.” I said, it sent her into a moment of silence. “Either you remain here on the moon.. Or you can fight for your cause.

“Their world? Yy-you mean.. There are others?” She asked.

“Yes, I guess you could call it our little game. Crazy gets the villains, and I get the heroes.” I explained and she seemed to understand, “So, will you join?” I asked.

It took her a moment but she eventually agreed. “Alright, you might feel a little off..” I said before suddenly grabbing her, transforming her into a trophy. She was posing the same way I had found her, a princess who had been defeated with regrets in her heart.

With the same twisted method as before, I flew back down to Equestrian earth.

“Brother I got snooty mcmoon butt!” Crazy said flying up and showing off a trophy of Nightmare Moon, she looked like she was laughing evilly and in mockery of lesser beings.

I was growing more and more excited with every challenger we obtained. We now have four trophies thus far.

“I have the perfect place to get two more it's just like this world except Moon butt and Sun butt switch places.” Crazy Hand said excitedly at the thought of getting Daybreaker, opening another tear in reality.

We went through it and instead of nighttime, it was day time. And it looks like we had arrived at a fierce battle between two armored alicorns.

“Hey Celestial butt sisters, we’re here to invite you two to a tournament where the winner of the tournament will be granted one wish.” Crazy yelled at them catching their attention.

Although it seems it was a bad idea as she sent out a searing bolt of heat in our direction, I move to lean back out of the sun beam. “Bad time?” I asked with a nervous chuckle.

“Stop being so damn nervous, I am the embodiment of Destruction and you're the embodiment of creation there is nothing that can do anything to us if we don't let it.” Crazy Hand yelled at me.

“...Need I remind you, brother, that we don’t know what our bodies can handle? We’re beings of those traits, not gods!” I argued back.

“It says in the description of our characters that we're near almighty.” Crazy said before turning back to look at the alicorns.

I stuttered over my words at first. “Never mind that!” I said, trying to hush my brother.

“Near Almighty?” alternative universe Luna said, glaring at us with distrust just like with the previous universe.

“Yes, we are near almighty, so we can grant any wish you want pretty much. We've already got several brawlers from different timelines such as King Sombra, Queen Chrysalis, Nightmare Moon and Celestia or where the roles are reversed here and we're hoping you two will join in.” Crazy said.

“But only if it's within our power..” I said, reminding Crazy that we can’t grant everything.

Suddenly, the solar alicorn burst out laughing. “Ha! What could you possibly offer me?” She said mockingly. Luna scowled at us in disbelief.

I started running a mental list of items from the Smash world in my mind, trying to find something she would like. As far as I can remember, Daybreaker wanted to rule Equestria, she also cared about beauty and power.

“Oh, I've got this brother!” Crazy said as he produced the Golden Hammer from the palm of his hand.

“And what, exactly can that do?” Daybreaker asked, she didn’t even sound impressed.

“Just watch, Sunburn!” Crazy said before he recklessly throws the golden hammer down to a random Pony in Luna's Army.

The army of the night backoff in fear of the hammer that suddenly fell from the sky, they stare at it for a moment. Eventually, a pegasus mare picked it up, finding it rather weightless in her hoof grip.

“I still don’t see its purpose.” Daybreaker said as she was starting to lose her patience.

“Wait for it…” I suggested, but Daybreaker wasn’t having any of that as she screamed for her solar ponies to attack. Her eyes go wide when she sees the night pegasus mare effortlessly swinging the hammer and unleashing a powerful impact to those unlucky to be hit by it.

The blazing alicorn was about to say something, but Luna screamed “I will join your tournament!” as if she was trying to prevent Daybreaker from joining.

“Sorry, invite only. We’re only bringing Daybreaker, not you.” I said with a wave of my giant form.

“What?!” She scowled loudly as her horn gathered moon energy.

“Hey, we're already getting one from the main timeline to enter the tournament, why would we need two?” Crazy said as if trying to placate her.

“I accept!” The alicorn of bright sun exclaimed. I quickly grabbed onto Daybreaker and transformed her into a trophy with her posing as if laughing loudly and releasing a breath of fire.

“Let’s scat before Luna fires her beam!” I quickly said to my brother.

“She's a firi’n’ her lazar!” Crazy said before ripping a hole back to Final Destination. We swiftly entered in an attempt to avoid alternative universe Luna’s wrath, but she did manage to singe us with her attack. We dropped off the trophies we had collected in a small dimension within Destination. Humorously, said-dimension was the room of Melee where the trophies are usually kept. Hmm, I wonder if those consoles on the shelf are functionable.

“Hey brother. I think you should go and invite the main timeline ponies!” Crazy said as he went and picked up the Nightmare Moon timeline Celestia. With a squeeze, she was returned back to normal.

“W-what.. Where am I? How did I get here?... Am I still on the moon? Where is this place?” Celestia asked as she spit out question after question.

“No, you are in a small dimension that connects all of the alternative timelines as one. Welcome.. To Final Destination.” I explained to her. Slowly, she looked over the edge and saw Equestria in all of its glory untouched by Nightmare Moon.

“..Is that.. Oh by my name.. It looks as beautiful as I remember it..” Celestia said as happy tears begin to form in her eyes.

“Hi Sunbutt, can I pet you please?!” Crazy said as he floated next to her, causing her to jump.

“W-what? No, why would you do that?” She asked with a confused expression.

“Don’t mind him, he’s a little nutty in the finger. He just loves petting ponies.” I explained to Celestia.

“Well.. I for one, am not a pet..” Celestia said as she looked between me and Crazy.

“Ahhh but you're cute and I can't snuggle you because I'm just a hand.” Crazy said as he whined

“...Crazy, the word you’re looking for is either squeeze gently, or caress.” I said to Crazy.

“D-don’t encourage... him?” Celestia said with a big blush, although she sounded sure about our genders despite our low key voices.

“But you ponies are adorable, I just want to pet you all! why won't you all just let me pet you!?” Crazy said. completely ignoring me.

“And this is why I call you Crazy Hand, Crazy.” I said with a sigh.

“..He’s not going to harm me, is he?” Celestia said with a nervous tone of voice.

“No as far as I know, he hasn’t done anything dangerous, except when we fight or defend ourselves. All part of the tournament, we are the final test after all.”

“Where are the other contestants?” She asked.

“All in due time, princess. All in due time.” I said to her.

“Why not just tell her like we told the other half?” Crazy said to me before turning to Celestia “Just look behind you, princess, you'll see who we have so far.” Crazy told her, making her turn around in curiosity. She gasped when she saw three trophies, she recognized Sombra and Nightmare Moon.

“Wait.. how is he alive? We sealed him in ice!” Celestia exclaimed, her timid demeanor fading slightly.

“He’s not your Sombra, he’s a Sombra from a timeline where he managed to escape. But now, well, there is temporary peace in those timelines.” I explained before things got a chance to heat up, excuse the pun.

“And then there’s this queen bug pony who hasn’t even told me how she breeds.” Crazy said as he holds up the Queen Chrysalis trophy.

“Oh! O-oh.. You do NOT want to know..” She said with a shudder. “A-anyways, other than me seeing my sister and two villains we destroyed and... I’m guessing that’s me from another timeline?” She said while pointing a hoof at Daybreaker.

I moved my middle finger up and down to tell her yes.

“Good girl, have a cookie!” Crazy said Conjuring a cookie on top of Celestia's nose

She let out a loud eep and backed off in surprise, I quickly hovered over and caught it with my two fingers. She leaned forward and took a sniff of the cookie, then suddenly devoured it in one go. Jeez, how long has she been on that moon?

“Hey sun Pony, if you let me pet you I'll give you cake!” Crazy said conjuring a strawberry and pineapple upside down cake out of nowhere

“C-cake?” Celestia asked with a blush. “W-well.. Maybe just one pet... “

“YAY!” Crazy said, making the cake appear before her, she ate while Crazy petted her. I feel sorry for this version of Celestia, her spirits must of been crushed in that timeline. I should try to get the mane six to join the tournament. I reached up and opened a rift, going right through it in order to get to the main timeline. I saw that it was currently nighttime when I arrived on the other side.

“How am I going to get the six to join without them blasting me..” I mentally asked myself as I glided along the sky. I decided to try visiting the royal sisters first, they don’t have the elements of harmony nor are they connected anymore. Surely, they won’t be much trouble, right?

I floated onto the balcony, flipped over once and, quite literally, stood on two fingers. So me and crazy must've been in our home for a good while, either that or a few days. “Hello?” I said quietly as I slowly ‘walkeld’ into her room, although I had to bend my fingers in order to get through the door.

“Stay where you are, monster.” I heard a voice behind, quickly swirling around to see Princess Luna in uniform.

“I’m not here to harm anyone, i’m only here to give you an invitation.” I explained quickly, she tilted her head.

“An invitation?” She asked with a confused voice, not expecting an invite from a strange creature.

“It’s a tournament, winner gets a wish, within reason. We’ve gathered villians f-” Suddenly she darts at me with her horn, causing me to float backwards. she proceeded with the assault and pinned me against the wall.

“I knew you were up to no good!” Luna said, her horn glowing fiercely.
“Now wait just a damn minute!” I said in a harsh whispered. I snapped my ‘fingers’ and sent her into a daze. I quickly pinned her down, each of my finger limbs pressing down on her. With my middle finger, I applied pressure to her horn to ruin her focus.

“Now you listen here.. Princess.. We’ve been going around collecting villains of various timelines for a tournament for the sake of entertainment purposes, no one will die, but they will get hurt fighting for this wish. I’m going to bring you with me and you WILL fight.” I said, not taking No for an answer. She struggled and screamed, I had to silence her by turning her into a trophy, forcing into regal pose, perfect for royalty. I slowly floated down and picked her up.

“SISTER!” Celestia said with a scowl. Swiftly before she has a chance to fire a bolt, I tore open a portal in reality and plunged myself to Final Destination.

“Hello brother, did you get the main six!” Crazy said as he was still petting Celestia she appeared asleep and in content.

“No, I only got Normal Luna, I did not dare try to go for the mane six, I’ll need to form a plan before I try that.” I said, gently placing our newest trophy down.

“How about go back to Celestia and then tell her that if the Mane 6 do not compete in the tournament, she'll never see her sister again, I know I'm an ass for suggesting this but it could work.” Crazy said as he continued to pet Celestia.

“Right now, she’s out for blood for taking her sister.” I said as I opened up a door to our room, putting the trophy with the rest of our current collection of brawlers. “I have a better idea. Instead of threatening Celestia, I’ll threaten the mane six into joining or else they’ll never see Luna. By the way, it’s a good thing you put alternative Celestia to sleep, wouldn’t want her causing an episode here with this Luna.”

“But I didn't put her to sleep brother, she fell asleep after she ate her cake.” Crazy said in a confused tone.

“Hrrm.. I guess she never had a proper rest..” I said as I began to think deeply on how we could make her stay more comfortable. I snap my finger when an idea formed. “Crazy, I want you to make a room that will be suitable for pony needs. Can you do that without doing anything.. Well, crazy?” I said while closing two fingers as if they were my eyes narrowing.

“I'll just wait for sun pony here to get up and ask her what she wants!” Crazy said excitedly before going back to pet Celestia. With that out of the way, I returned back to main equestria.

“..Strange.. Time changed again?” I said confusingly, noticing that it's suddenly daytime. I noticed that I’m in front of Twilight’s castle, I let out a mental voice of a whistle. “Fancy.”

Before I had a chance to get close, the castle’s door opens to reveal seven ponies.

“You!” Twilight exclaimed, the seven ponies started closing in on me. “What did you do with Princess Luna!?”

“She was invited for a tournament and she refused, so I had to take her by force. Now, I’m extending this invitation to you mane six. Oh, and FYI, saying no is not an option.” I said with a formed fist.

“And why would we join?” Applejack said with a glare.

“Because all of the past villains you’ve faced have been gathered there, minus Discord and Tirek.” I said, earning confused expressions, I tapped my index finger to my thumb to symbolize what you would call a ‘face-palm’

“Does time travel ring a bell? Yes, my brother can do that. Depending on who wins will get a prize and a wish.” I explained to the mane six.

Upon hearing that, Rainbow Dash's ears perked up with interest. “And what does the loser get?” Rainbow dash asked.

“The loser has two choices: Remain as a trophy temporally, or become my brother’s pet for the end of the tournament.” I explained, earning confused but slightly fearful expressions, they know my brother is the hand of destruction.. Although, perhaps that title should be changed as he hasn’t done anything destructive yet. “I promise I’ll let Luna go afterwards, Pinkie Promise.” I said and extended my pinkie. Pinkie Pie suddenly bounced forward and shook it.

“Deal!” She said with a smile.

“PINKIE!” They all yelled at her at the same time.

“A tournament? I, the great and powerful Trixie shall enter!” Trixie boastfully said. Wait, where did she come from?

“Not you too!” Twilight said, then suddenly cringed when Starlight Glimmer raised her hoof. “What’s wrong with you mares? You heard what that…”

“Hand.” I finished her sentence.

“Hand said, he has all of the past villains, what if one of them wishes for something bad? We need to stop them.” Starlight said, making Twilight nod and sigh.

“Alright then, if there are no further interruptions, I need you all to gather around and.. Well hug, I can’t do a mass teleport with you separate.” I said with a lie, but I think Applejack caught onto it.

They gathered around regardless, allowing me to turn them all into trophies, each one poses according to their character. It took me a while but I managed to bring them all to Final Destination.

I rolled onto the floor, pretty much exhausted.

“Hello brother can I have Fluttershy?” Crazy said before suddenly grabbing Fluttershy and turning her back to normal.

“Oh for the love of.. Are you trying to scare every ‘cute’ pony we get?” I said with a loud groan. Fluttershy suddenly eeps and attempts to hide, only to scream when she notices her friends frozen.

“What did you do?!” Fluttershy asked as she was giving us her famous ‘The Stare’

“ahhh she's so adorable” Crazy said as he floated up behind her. “Can I pet you flutter Pony?” Crazy asked making her epp.

“No, you will not!” Fluttershy said as she continue with her glare.

“Stop that. They’re only in suspended animation, or a deep sleep to be more accurate. They’re not in pain or in danger, I only turned them into that so that time will pass quickly for them. But if it makes you feel better, I can put them in a room I asked Crazy to manifest according to their needs.” I explained to her then looked over at my brother expectantly.

“Oh yes!” Crazy said as he patted his fingers in excitement. “I made an entire mansion and made each room. All they gotta do is put their hoof, talon or whatever they use and it'll change to their desire!”

“Excellent, you did something right.” I said, snapping my fingers to summon the door to their current homes and with another snap my fingers, I turned all of the trophies back to normal, minus what was currently sitting in the trophy room.

“Everypony, I’m very sorry for the sudden pause in time, but if I can have your attention. Through this door you will be lead to the Smash Mansion that’ll change according to your needs, just step in and it will do the rest. And before you ask, no. You will not see the villains, I have kept safe where they will not harm others.” I explained. Each pony talking to themselves, some of them looked excited, some of them looked at me with distrust, while others look curious.

“You mean you currently have them all turned into trophies in our Trophy Room?!” Crazy said happily explaining what I did to them.

“Yes, brother. You can’t expect them to be allowed free, who knows what they would do.” I said with a groan at my brother’s suddenly outburst.

“ I can't wait for you cute adorable ponies to lose so I can pet you all!” crazy said excitedly floating around in circles.

“..He’s gentle and caring, honestly. Oh, and if you come across Celestia, remember it's not your Celestia, but she will be very happy to see you all, she needs all the love she can get from the timeline we got her.” I explained to them, they all had varias looks of concern, curiosity, and sympathy. Twilight, however, suddenly appeared in front of me.

“Wait, you said timelines, I thought Starswirl was the only one who can time travel. Wait, you didn’t change anything, did you?!” Twilight asked with worry.

“Not the timelines of your world, they’re not even connected to your world. Think of them as alternative dimension that exist near your world but do not have any influence with.

“Brother, I'm gonna go pet sun pony!” Crazy said before happily floating off up the stairs.