Author's Note:
Super Smash Flash 2 is based on the popular fighting franchise by Nintendo and is currently going through its beta stages. This story, which is based on version 0.9b, takes the characters, unlockable and otherwise, and the stages as they are to form the map of the imaginary world of Smash Flash. Each update twists the story drastically.
I, am dying. Mortally wounded. My consciousness will go on to live in the body of my killer. My voice shall become one with his. Therefore, my voice will live on to tell the story. My story. The story. History needn't fear. For my voice, nor my identity, shall go unknown for long. My killer shall surely revel in taking my life. My voice, this one, shall continue. It will continue to be the voice of reason. A violent shift once again shakes the world the fighters live in. It is more intense than ever before.
"Oh, dammit, not this crap again!" Lloyd exclaimed. He had just escorted the princess to the Tower of Salvation. The princess fell against Lloyd. "Geez, can I at least buy you dinner first?" Lloyd teased and grabbed her by the arm to hold her up. He drove a sword in the ground to hold himself up.
"How did you find me?" Peach asked amid the shaking.
"It was easier than it looked." Lloyd answered. "We all went to war and when the dust settled, I went looking for more!"
"You, you came to save me?"
"Bitch, please. Don't flatter yourself. I went to Chaos Shrine to fight for us, the good guys. You just happened to be there."
"Then why did you save me?" The ground beneath them did one last grand jerk that took them off of their feet. The ground settled at their landing. Hitting the ground hard did not stop the princess from sitting up and flipping her hair out of her face to ask. "And why did you take me here instead of my Kingdom?"
"I said don't flatter yourself. If you must know, I only saved you because I knew that that's what Mario would have wanted." Lloyd sat upright "And whether anyone around here wants to admit it or not, we owe that guy, even in death. Hell, especially since his death. Maybe he wasn't the super nice guy you would expect to see. But when everyone else failed, he got the job done. And now that he's gone, everyone's just losing their shits, and we're even more blood thirsty for each other. Ya know why?"
"Because" the princess sighed "there is no hero."
"Wrong." Lloyd stood up. "It's because there's no apex predator. And without that, there is no order. We owe more to that guy than anyone likes to acknowledge. And me saving you is me paying my debt. Or something close to it. And by the way, you followed me here. And don't get any ideas. You've already been with Mario, I've seen you with Wario, and I don't do sloppy thirds." At this, the princess stood up next to Lloyd. She looks up at him, before scowling and sighing.
"Lloyd, listen. Mario was not always . . . that way. It was fairly recent before coming here that he was made into the anti-hero you all knew. And . . . it was probably my fault."
"What did he get tired of rescuing you? Or did he find out about you and Wario? Probably both." Lloyd snickered.
"You" Peach smacked him across the cheek. "KNOW NOTHING OF MARIO BEFORE THIS PLACE AND EVEN LESS ABOUT ME!" Lloyd smirked at the princess.
"You're free to leave whenever you want, your highness."
"With pleasure."
Sector Z is not left untouched by this Third Quake. But in the space-like atmosphere, The Great Fox space vessel is not as heavily effected. The ship is still in ruins. But as time passes with Fox McCloud tirelessly working to fix it, it is a lot like me-fighting to stay alive. For how long, I cannot say.
"Come on, come on, come on!" Fox paced around the ship. "I welded all the big parts back together. Why won't all these systems WORK?!" Fox angrily walked into the cockpit. "And you!" Fox said to the silent body of ROB 64. "You were working hours ago! Remember?" The robot was unresponsive. "Remember, I put a gun to your head and you worked?!" Fox began raising his voice to the point that an echo began to resonate about Sector Z. "Is that what I have to do, again?! IS THAT WHAT I HAVE TO DO, TO GET YOU TO WAKE THE FUCK UP!" Fox pulled out his blaster and pressed it against the robot's head. He waited for an automatic defensive response. . . . . . Nothing. "DAMN IT!" Fox smacked the robot with the butt of his gun with as much anger as he could muster, knocking the damaged robot's head clean off. It bounced and rolled, coming to a stop and facing Fox. "Oh no. I'm sorry ROB. Here let me help you."
The Third Quake sent Goku on a detour to find any stage he recognized. There were new ones he hadn't seen before. Confused and turned around, he eventually finds himself coming out of the Western Nexus leading to the Dream Land stage. There he sees Kirby. In my dying state, I am attempting to communicate with him while he is in his meditative state-one that he can only enter in the Dream Land stage. Kirby is sitting as I relay the information on Mario and Captain Falcon's fate. His face is expressionless until he sees Goku. He stands up as life returns to his face. The fighters approach each other.
"Kirby, you're alive." Goku said in relief.
"I was going to say the same to you, Goku." Kirby responded. "What happened to you at Hyrule?"
"I-I almost had Fox. I was about to kill him. But then, he, he pulled a trump card on me."
"Explain."
"He had this link with his ship. Sonic and Tails were on his ship and had I killed Fox, the ship would have blown up."
"So, so you let him get away." Kirby sighed and hung his face.
"I'm sorry, he, he got me into a corner. I should have killed him before he even had the chance to activate that stupid signal."
"You are not solely to blame, Goku."
"But I am. Because when I went to try and save em, to save both of them from the ship before it exploded, I was too late."
"What?"
"He'd done it already. Fox. He'd blown up the ship already. All I saw was debris, with some of Sonic and Tails' hair mixed in. I couldn't save them and I still left Fox alive. And I have no idea where Falcon is. I've failed you. I tried to lead us when Tails joined the other side and, I failed you all." At this, Kirby paused before pondering aloud.
"That doesn't quite add up."
"What doesn't?"
"I don't see Fox intentionally destroying his own ship. If anything, he knew you wouldn't chance it. It's likely something else caused his ship to explode."
"Still, that means-"
"And Falcon has been taken care of."
"He has?"
"Yes."
"How do you know?"
"Here. When I am here. It is hard to explain. But my perception grows. It's as if something communicates with me the significant events that occur in this world. I can never see any explicit details, but I am able to make out some pieces to the missing puzzles. All that I can tell you is that Mario defeated Falcon and he is no longer a problem."
"Wait wait, Mario? But he's dead."
"I know. But that is the information I received. I have not been wrong thus far. Any mistakes I've made have come from not buying in to what I see when I am . . . here."
"So Mario's alive now?"
"I cannot say for certain if he still lives. But in either case, Falcon does not."
"Well that's good news, I guess."
"Where were you on your way to, Goku?"
"The world shifted a bit with that earthquake. I was sort of wandering."
"Then let us continue. We need to know what's going on and it's not safe to travel alone." Kirby led Goku through to the Nexus East of Dream Land Stage. They walked through until they phased through to the Hyrule ruins.
"This wasn't here." Goku noted.
"Typical." Kirby said.
"Oh no!" Goku said, spotting the bodies on the lower level of the stage. He quickly jumps down.
"Goku, wait. Be careful." Kirby jumped down after him. Goku landed next to Ness' corpse.
"Ness! No!" Ness' body still had the keyblade lodged deep inside. On the handle side of the blade lie Sora. Kirby landed and turned away from Goku and the bodies only to find another.
"Yoshi."Kirby said in mourning. "No." Kirby attempted to get closer to Yoshi's corpse but stopped when he accidentally stepped on an ice shard of Yoshi's tongue.
"We let them down, Kirby." Goku said in a pained voice. "We're here but they've been dead here for who knows how long." Goku paused, turned away from the corpse and turned slowly to Kirby. "How did you survive Kirby? I haven't seen anyone else and everyone I have seen is dead. What happened to you?" Kirby took a long blink before turning to Goku and answering.
"I . . .I." Kirby struggled to come to peace with what he was about to say. "I RAN AWAY, OKAY? YOU GOT ME. I AM A COWARD! THE BATTLE GOT BLOODY AND I I RETREATED!" Kirby stared angrily up at Goku. Goku hung his head and sighed. "Gok-" Goku back-flip kicked Kirby into the air before teleporting above the apex of Kirby's path. He hovered in the air, clasped his hands together and bashed Kirby back to the ground. Kirby landed next to Ness' body. Goku landed feet first onto Kirby. He hopped off the pink fighter and lifted him off the ground by the foot. "G-Goku." Kirby spit up blood. The blood landed on Ness' shirt, angering Goku further. The saiyan spun Kirby around by his foot before releasing him into the dirt walls. Kirby's body stuck to the wall briefly before falling back to the ground. Goku rolled Kirby over to face him.
"I've never had to treat a friend like this and mean it." Goku said in a pissed off voice. "You're lucky I don't have the power and strength I had back in my world. I'm not gonna kill you. But if I did, it wouldn't matter, because you're useless. You left us when we needed you most." Goku turned his back and looked up to leave. "Just stay out of my way, Kirby."
The princess searched for her stage amid this newly arranged world. She found herself in a strange green room. She tried her best to simply walk through, but was stopped when a brick wall appeared in front of her.
"What the-" She stumbled back. "Megaman?" She wondered if the robot was responsible. After doing a double-take she jumped atop the wall. When she jumped again to get down, another wall appeared in the air and she hit her head. "Ow!" She fell to the ground. As she gets back to her feet, she is hit from behind and sent skyward. She turns to look down before descending. A fast moving figure comes rocketing up at her, taking her in his arms as he blasts upward. "Let go!" She shouts while doubled over his shoulder. The figure landed on another brick wall fixed in mid-air and put the princess down. "Hi-ya." She knocked him off the wall with her frying pan. He landed on a nearby wall. When she looked down at what was happening behind him, she saw several explosions. He had actually saved her. "Oh no. I'm sorry! Thank you for saving me. What is your name?" He grunted as he stood up.
"I'm the Bomberman. And what's your problem?" He said confusedly.
"Sorry. I was just scared."
"You ought to be."
Goku came upon Skull Mountain while searching for his friends. There he saw Megaman. He was excited to see that he was alive.
"Megaman. You made it. I wasn't sure you were alive." Goku ran up behind him. Megaman did not turn around. "Megaman?" Megaman grabbed the saiyan by his gi, swung him to the opposite side and bombed the saiyan, sending him back. Goku lands and can only get to one foot. "What are you doing? What's wrong with you?" Megaman begins charging his cannon. The energy being taken in is much darker in hue than usual. Goku fires an energy bomb at Megaman. Without dropping his charge, Megaman puts up his reflector with his free hand. Goku dodges his own energy bomb but is hit with the dark megabuster blast. His body torpedoes and he is momentarily paralyzed when he hits the ground.
"There is nothing wrong with him." A voice said, approaching Goku from the other side. "He has merely been upgraded." The ground beneath Goku reformed around his arms, legs and torso to restrict him. He looked up. It was Black Mage.
"What are you doing?" Goku asked.
"I am not taking any chances." Black Mage then froze Goku from the neck down. "Hyrule is a big stage, I guess you and Kirby didn't notice my presence. Nice going back there, by the way. Beating your friend to a pulp. Hell, you left him so vulnerable, I-"
"What did you do?!" Goku shouted from his disadvantaged position. "Did you kill hi-"
"Relax, brute. He wasn't worth my time. You on the other hand." Black Mage paused and played with a small spawn of lightning in his hands before continuing. "You were right with what you said to Kirby back there. It's a good thing you aren't as strong as you were before you came to this world. Of course even in your world, you wouldn't be able to defeat me."
"Then what does any of that matter to you?"
"It matters because, although you still would not match my power, you would be too close for my comfort. And it would be entirely too much trouble killing you then. So I'm just going to take care of it now."
"What? Wait, too much trouble then? You're speaking as if you have the power to leave this place whenever you want."
"Now you're getting it, boy."
"You have the power to take us all home! And you haven't?!" Goku got angry but was still helpless.
"Are you really surprised? Perhaps it's my fault for not letting all of you witness just what exactly it is I am capable of! The moment I was freed from the Grand Medallion, I could have left. But I stayed. Because this place is a buffet of heroes, ripe for the killing. I could leave now, but I'm not finished yet."
"You monster!"
"Flattery won't save you here, saiyan. You ought to worry less about my ability to travel and help others travel between worlds, seeing as you'll never make it back to yours. Megaman!" Black Mage looked up at the robot. Without any more words, Megaman approached Goku's downed and trapped position. Goku noticed Megaman's pupils were grossly discolored. "I created Game Shark before he came here. I lead Sora to his downfall. I was the Grand Medallion that brought Wario here. I am the source of all the conflict that eventually brought Captain Falcon here and killed Mario. I am The Black Mage. I am the unmaking of every being that calls itself good. Filling a robot with my influence is child's play compared my full potential. It's too late for you, Goku. But one day, all of your friends will learn not to underestimate me."
"Even if you kill me, Black Mage, Mario is back. He and the others will rise to the challenge and kill you! He beat you before. He'll do it again."
"HA! You imbecile! Mario never defeated me!"
"What?"
"Wario was the one who triumphed over me. Mario was simply the distraction that led to my undoing. But as we can both see, that too was temporary. Wario and I shared a connection when I was trapped inside the Grand Medallion. I can tell from the lack of connection now that Wario is now dead. How he died is of little importance to me. Now the only one to ever defeat me is dead! And you're telling me now that the one most capable of killing me is Mario? The man that died? HMHMHMHM! Comical! I have no reason to fear Mario. But thank you for letting me know he lives so that I can re-kill him. I'll put it on the list." Goku looked up at Black Mage with surprise before looking back at Megaman's soulless, yet hue-filled pupils.
"Megaman." Goku pleaded. "You don't have to do this."
"Ah, yes." Black Mage said with a grin. "The moment of hopelessness that comes just before the death of my enemies. It's one of the things I live for." Megaman raised his cannon and pointed it at Goku's head. "Megaman is made better by my influence. His enhanced arsenal can cut down anything." Black Mage knelt down next to Goku's ear. "Even saiyan skin." Goku saw a projectile being spawned from Megaman's cannon. "You know the problem with you saiyans is . . ." Megaman launched a saw blade at Goku that sliced the saiyan's head clean off before getting lodged in the ground in front of Black Mage. Blood stained his hat and robes. Goku's decapitated head rolled to the side, eyes still open. "You can't quit while you're ahead."
Concluded.