Chapter 4: Link vs. Mario! Marie's Regrets
Wassup, readers! Here we return with Subspace Legends!
"H-hey Link, wait up!" Marie gasped.
Link slowed to a halt. "Ugh, Marie, that's the 3rd time we've had to stop!" Link complained.
Marie came up to Link, gasping for breath. "S-sorry, but, it's just that… we've been running for over an hour…"
"We need to keep after that ship, though!" Link said, running off again.
Marie sighed and pulled out her rapier, which she named Silver Wolf, and gazed at it.
FLASHBACK
Marie parried another strike by her opponent. She then swiftly lunged at him, jabbing him in the chest, winning. "Yeah! That's how you do it!" She exclaimed before pulling off her mask, sweating.
Her opponent peeled off his mask as well, revealing the face of a 14-year-old boy with sandy hair and freckles. "Ugh… well, that's the 4th time in a row you've beaten me…"
The young Marie leaned on her rapier. "Yeah, that's the power of skill!" She boasted.
END OF FLASHBACK
"Marie! Let's go!" Link called out breaking her flashback. Marie shook her head, sheathed her sword, and ran up to Link.
The 3 continued running along the path, when Link, skidded to a halt and looked up at a hill. Marie looked as well and gasped. There, a trophy of Zelda lay on the ground, and then disintegrated into Shadow Bugs. A man in blue overalls and a red cap, and an angel in a toga stood there.
Link ran up the hill at alarming speeds, leapt into the air, and plunged his sword into the ground. Marie hurried up to meet Link, who stared angrily at the 2 figures, who Marie now realized as Mario and Pit.
"You! You killed Zelda! I'll destroy you!" Link accused.
"You-a fool! That girl attached us!" Mario pleaded.
"Lies! I shall kill you myself!" Link cried, shaking his head.
"L-link, maybe we should listen to them…" Marie suggested.
"When these people clearly murdered Zelda? I shall crush them!" Link screamed before lunging at Mario and slashing at him.
The Italian plumber deftly dodged the strike, and punched at Link, who guarded with his shield. Pit slashed with his 2 blades, but Link jumped back and brandished a bow, and prepared an arrow. He fired it at Pit, who used his Mirror Shield to reflect it back.
Just then, however, just before the arrow hit, Marie jumped out and sliced the arrow in two with her rapier. Mario shot a fireball at Marie, but Yoshi quickly intervened, and ate it, spitting an egg at the plumber. "OOF!" he yelled, being pushed back.
"Mario!" Pit cried. He prepared an arrow, and fired it at Link, but Yoshi ate it too, and he spat out another egg at Pit, who jumped over it and struck down at Link with his two blades. Link guarded with his shield, and pushed Pit away.
Mario ran up and punched at Link, but he stabbed at the plumber, who was knocked back again. "You're a… good-a opponent…" Mario muttered.
Link stood in an offensive stance. "I shall not forgive you for killing Zelda!" Link yelled before charging at Mario and nailed him with a barrage of sword slices. Mario was hurled backwards, tumbling in the grass. Link walked over and held his sword to Mario's throat. "I end your pathetic life here." Link threatened.
Pit suddenly prepared an arrow and pointed it inches away from Link's head. "Stay away from my friend!" He said.
Link lowered his head. Mario quickly scuttled away. Then, Link made a swift uppercut at Pit, who blocked it with his bow. "You didn't think I'd give up that easily? I mean, come ON!" Link taunted, slashing at Pit, who produced his mirror shield to block the strikes.
Yoshi ran up and tossed an egg at the angel from behind, but Pit dodged the projectile, and it hit Link instead. Meanwhile, Marie and Mario were locked in combat. "Hey, speak-a some sense into your-a insane friend there!" Mario said in his Italian accent, while throwing a punch at Marie.
"Sorry, but I doubt Link will forgive you." Marie said, dodging the punch.
"But-a why?" Mario asked, getting slashed by Marie's rapier. "OW!"
"Sorry! But, well, you, um, kinda killed Zelda…" Marie said quietly, while jumping back to avoid a fireball.
"AGH!" Link screamed as he was hit in the chest with one of Pit's arrows, and he turned into a trophy.
"YOSHI!" Yoshi cried as he was stabbed in the chest by one of Pit's blades, and he, too, turned into a trophy.
"Link! Yoshi!" Marie yelled, looking at her fallen allies. He cast a menacing glare at her foes.
"L-listen! It wasn't our-a fault! She was-a holding a menacing-a blaster! And she was-a pointing it at your friend!" Mario pleaded.
"Y-yeah! And, there was this creepy Dark Aura surrounding her…" Pit said.
"Wait, a dark aura?" Marie asked surprised.
Just as she finished her sentence, however, a strange vehicle with a long claw-arm dashed out of the grasses, its driver a fat penguin creature in a red robe.
It sailed by, holding 3 trophies, one of a girl in a long, frilly dress, a kid with small eyes and a T-shirt, and a guy who looked a lot like Mario, only in a frightened position.
The skiff rode past the 5, and turned around, using its long, claw arm to reach over and lift up the trophies of Link and Yoshi. It started to ride away, when suddenly, a pink sphere with stubby hands and feet Marie recognized as Kirby appeared from nowhere, riding on the claw arm.
Kirby produced a sword and sliced off the arm, freeing the 2, and tapping the bases of Link and Yoshi's trophies, thus de-trophitizing them.
The skiff turned around again, and came after the 6 (now adding Kirby). Link prepared an arrow, and quickly launched it. It shot through the vehicle, and it rode past the group, and smoke began ring from it. The skiff and its rider rode into the distance. "After that Skiff! And that Fat Penguin!" Link yelled.
"I have a name you know! And it's King Dedede! Mwahahahaha!" The fat penguin now known as king Dedede shouted as he escaped.
Instantly, the 6 smashers took chase. "(Alright, lets get that fat penguin… creature... thing!)" Marie thought smiling.
Hooray! This chapter was actually kinda hard to write. Unfortunately, some chapters might be very short, much like this one. But, never mind! See you next time!
