Mission Infiltration

Lucina

Night has fallen and the cold was becoming worse by the second. Luckily, being able to be in a group helped out. With everyone near, the temperature became warm and gave some relief to the upcoming task. Lucina was assigned to be one of the leader's of the groups that would go into the castle from the back. Her key member was Shulk who would help the group out locate any traps, but more importantly, Peach. She agreed with Robin's plan, but to go into the enemy fortress blindly was a heavy risk. Then again, Robin made more risker plans back home. The other members of her team were Sheik, Marth, Pac-Man, Game & Watch, Dark Pit, and a Luma to be their launch star. Being with Marth made her nervous, but Lucina aimed to make a good impression on him with this mission.

The group was waiting at the edge of a forest, waiting for the main force to strike the front gate. It took awhile, but eventually, a loud sound came from the other side of the castle. A alarm rang and the troops that were seen patrolling this side of the castle were running towards the front. Lucina gestured Sheik and the Luma to start their mission. With haste, the Luma transformed into the launch star and Sheik hopped in, The launch star span and launched Sheik way up toward the castle. Lucina can see another figure flying toward the castle, likely to be the other group. It took about minute before Lucina can see Sheik give the clear signal. One by one, Lucina allowed her group to go in the launch star, making herself the last one to go.

When she landed, Lucina noticed something off. She finally realized that she was missing one member. "Where's Game & Watch?" she said frantically. Everyone suddenly noticed it too and looked around the area. Pac-Man then got everyone's attention and presented the air in front of him, happy with himself. Seeing everyone's confusion, Pac-man grabbed something and span it around. Game & Watch suddenly appeared, jumping up and down. Apparently Game & Watch was right with them all along, but he was facing him the wrong way, having his thin side facing them.

Lucina sighed with relief, happy that one of her friends was safe. "Ok team, let's go find a way into the castle." Dark Pit was the one who found the entrance on the side of the castle. With Sheik leading the way and Shulk giving feedback with his visions, the infiltration of the castle went very well so far. Everyone seemed happy with the easy mission, but Lucina was a bit suspicious. Being with Robin a lot gave her some knowledge in strategy. According to Robin, even though an enemy is attacking one's base, one should not send the whole army to defend it in the case some other force will sneak in the castle, like what her group is doing right now. The only reason why Robin made a careful pick in the groups was for that case. Yes, Bowser is probably not the most smartest in castle defense, but it still bothered Lucina.

"Keep an eye out," Lucina said to the smashers behind her. "You never know when something may go wrong."

"彼女は右である. それはあなたのガードを抑えることがないことが重要です," said Marth, pointing one finger up.

Dark Pit rolled his eyes and said, "Yea, yea. Let's hurry up and just save the princess already." He turned around to Shulk who was in the back of the group. "You see anything yet blondie?"

"You don't have to say it so rudely," Shulk said, bit annoyed. "But no, i haven't seen any..."

Lucina turned when Shulk stopped talking and saw that his eyes were glowing. A vision? When they stopped glowing, Shulk instantly did a frontward roll. He barely made it out when a giant block with a face crashed down where Shulk previously was. The block looked at us with an angry face, but it lifted up. Lucina rushed over to see Shulk was alright.

Shulk wiped the sweat of his head. "Whew, that would have been a sticky situation."

"Yes, it would have been," Lucina said with a smile. "Thank goodness you have those visions of yours."

"Yea, it would be a goner without them. Now let's keep on..." Suddenly the floor underneath Shulk disappeared and he fell through. The floor reappeared before anyone could follow him.

"Shulk!" Lucina slammed the floor, but it was as solid as it could be. "Tch, no..."

Marth came to her side and held her hand. Lucina, surprised, looked at him. Though he only gave a nod and a smile, that was all he needed to do to say Shulk will be alright. Lucina took a second to recover her thoughts and then she stood up.

"We need to hurry and find Peach. With Shulk gone, we have to be careful of which paths we are going go."

Pac-Man gave a thumbs up and a wink. Game & Watch rang his bell. Dark Pit and Sheik gave a simple nod. Marth simply smiled.

Lucina nodded to her group and lead the way. In her head, she felt that someone else was behind this. It may have seemed like a simple trap, but someone must be smart enough to outplay Shulk's visions. Lucina wasn't sure if Bowser or his son fitted that bill, but if that was the case, who was?

. . .

Lucina's group continued to transverse Bowser's castle. They found stairs after stairs leading down. They must be some basement floors because they were much more floors than the castle showed on the outside. It increasingly became hotter with each floor too. Dark Pit eventually needed some help walking down because everything he wore was absorbing the heat. Finally, they reached the bottom floor and they found the reason why it was so hot. Half of the room was filled with lava! It flowed from the sides, likely coming from the lava moat from outside. In the middle of the room was a hanging cage and it was Shulk, Lucario, and Peach! Lucina was surprised that Lucario was captured also.

The group made their way down to the floor of this level which was in the shape of a plus sign. Everything else was flowing lava.

"Princess Peach!" Lucina yelled when they were under the cage. "Are you not hurt!?"

The princess held out her hand. "Yes, I am quite alright."

"Are Shulk and Lucario fine?!"

Shulk's voice came out. "Don't worry about me and Lucario. We aren't hurt."

"Guess you're not really feeling it in that cage," joked Dark Pit.

"Now is not the time, ok!" Shulk yelled back.

"Where are the presents and the tree?" Lucina asked quickly before an argument was going to start.

Oh," Peach said, "I don't know. I've been in this lava filled room from the beginning ever since Bowser Jr. put me here."

"Where is that little punk anyway?" Dark Pit said.

"Ahahahahahaha!" A laughter filled the room. "It's not nice to make fun of someone in their home you know."

Lucina's group made a circle and searched for the source of the laughter. There answer was a cannon firing at their location. They all dodged it and found Bowser Jr. in his flying clown car.

"And for that, I am going to punish you!" With a whistle, the walls of the room that connected to the floor came down. One by one, Goombas and Koopas marched into the room. Out of the lava, 4 Magmaarghs came and inched closer to the intruders. It was a 5 on possibly more than a 100.

"This is going to be a hard battle," Lucina said calmly, Falchion ready. "You guys ready?"

Sheik got her needles ready. Marth unsheathed his Falchion out. Pac-man got out his fruits out. Game & Watch flickered back and forth with different weapons in each frame.

Dark Pit span his blades. "Hey, if I can beat a 100 of those Mii's with ease, I can take out 100 useless minions in no sweat."

Bowser Jr. raised his finger and pointed at the intruders. "Attack!"