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Chapter 4
The Komaytos, both normal and cellular, slowly approached the fighters. Samus shot several spheres of plasma at them while Zelda had cast Din's Fire towards them as well. Their projectiles had contacted against the Komaytos. Despite the power of their attacks, the gelatinous creatures continued to float towards the bounty hunter and the Hylian princess, shocking both women that their attacks were rendered ineffective.
"My Din's Fire had no effect on them?" Zelda shouted as she attempted to use her magic again.
"That's unusual," Samus said as she shot one missile from her cannon arm and directed it towards a cellular Komayto.
"Ranged attacks won't work on them!" Pit shouted as he ran towards the gelatinous monsters. "You have to beat them down melee style."
"Pit!" The brunette ran towards him for assistance. "Be careful!"
The white angel held the twin blades as firm as he could. One of the normal Komaytos floated towards Pit to suck the life force out of him. However, he rolled forward to escape its attempted grab before striking back. He lunged and slashed his target in a crisscross motion. As it was in stun, Pit continued swinging his weapon. His left hand swung diagonally downward while his right hand swung diagonally upward. He repeated the motion until the Komayto was defeated. Right as that monster was gone, several Komaytos flew towards him. Without their knowledge, Zelda wielded her rapier and had thrust through one cellular Komayto. She repeated the attack three more times before killing it. A few of them then shifted their attention to the Hylian and followed her.
"As long as you attack, you'll be fine," Pit said to Zelda before changing his blades into the bow form. He then jumped at two cellular Komaytos and performed a series of buzzsaw-like slashes. It was not enough to take them down. As he landed on the ground, Pit knew that the enemies he just attacked were behind him. When they were close enough, the white angel turned around and roundhouse kicked both monsters. He then lunged at the two enemies and struck the two Komaytos with one blade targeting one enemy and vice versa. That was enough to defeat the two cellular Komaytos.
Meanwhile, Zelda fought two regular Komaytos. With her sword gripping her right hand, the brunette was ready to fight when the opportunity presented itself. When she heard Pit's advice against these creatures, she responded, "Acknowledged." Once the two gelatinous monsters were close to her, Zelda swung her rapier horizontally, causing them to be in a stun for a brief stint. She did her best to swiftly slash her blade in a horizontal and diagonally upward motion until one of them was taken down. One Komayto was killed as a result. The other one managed to escape before flying in to attach its mandibles onto the Hylian princess's head. However, Zelda leaped towards the creature to deliver a powerful magically-infused kick right onto its gelatinous skin. The power of her magic engendered her enemy to dissolve into liquid form, thus killing it. For them, the fight was getting off to a good start. It soon then turned into a quick scare when a cellular Komayto attached its mandibles onto Zelda's head from behind.
"AAHH!" Zelda shrieked as her life energy was painfully being sucked inside her. She tried to rip off the monster from her head by grabbing its skin on the side to pull it out. Nothing seemed to work as the brunette felt her vision becoming blurrier by the second. "H-help."
Her prayer was met with a shot of plasma to the enemy's pink-red core point-blank. The blast, strangely enough, only launched the cellular monster out to the skies while the Hylian princess was left unharmed by it.
"Samus," Zelda smiled with one tear falling from her left eye. "Thank you for saving me."
"I won't let any of these Metroid-like monsters harm you," the Amazonian woman said as she pointed her Arm Cannon at the oyster monsters that were surrounding the two women. "What do you say we team up against these clams?"
"I'm right behind you," the Hylian princess smirked as she retrieved her rapier that she dropped. She then decided to use her bow and arrows to counter against the Mega Mussels. Zelda then noticed the white angel who regrouped with them. "Pit, got any tips on these creatures?"
"Their shells are hard to break through," he answered before switching his twin blades into bow form. "However, when they open their shell, they'll reveal three pink eyes that'll fire projectiles at you. That's when you strike back."
"Against the eyes I see," Samus concluded as she concentrated on which mussel will open its shell first. "We have to be patient and not be reckless. We must stay close."
Zelda and Pit nodded to acknowledge Samus' command. To their surprise, the four Mega Mussels that surrounded them all opened their shells and shot numerous balls of energy at them. Because they were not anticipating such method of attack, they had to think of something quickly. Then, they came up with a counterattack. Zelda ran in front of Samus while Pit was behind the bounty hunter. The blonde woman trusted her allies and focused on shooting at one of the monsters and trying to destroy its eyes. The Hylian princess had cast Nayru's Love and created a blue diamond-like barrier. The size of the magic was larger than normal as it protected not just her but also Samus and Pit. The white angel summoned his blue and yellow transparent Guardian Orbitars in front of him. The monster's spheres of energy were blocked and deflected back at the enemies causing their eyes to be hit by them. Once the projectiles were reflected back, Zelda and Pit immediately fought back. The princess fired multiple arrows at each eye of a Mega Mussel while the white angel shot blue, ethereal arrows. All three fighters were firing as many attacks as they could to defeat the oyster monsters. Sadly, they managed to destroy several eyes of some Mega Mussels before they all closed their shells.
"Damn," Samus cursed as she was a bit disappointed that her attacks were not as strong as they were before. "Are you two okay?"
"Perfectly fine," Zelda reassured.
"Not breaking a sweat," Pit responded. "But this may be a problem."
"Why is that?" The bounty hunter asked.
"Their eyes will regenerate when their shells are closed."
"So we have to quickly kill them or they'll just regenerate their eyes that easily?"
"Well," the white angel was still concentrating on eliminating these clams while communicating the bounty hunter. "Because we destroyed some of their eyes, they'll regenerate slower."
"At least we did something," Zelda stated before pulling her arrow below her chin.
The creatures executed another battle tactic on their part. One Mega Mussel would open its shell and fire multiple energy orbs. Once it did, the next one followed suit until all of them had done so. Realizing how they were retaliating, the three fighters were prepared to counter back.
"Pit," Zelda called to her ally. "Your Guardian Orbitars..."
"Alright," he shouted before summoning his defensive weapon to reflect the projectiles back to the enemies. Pit then moved around Samus and Zelda to guard them against the energy orbs, which in turn both women were left unharmed. The bounty hunter shot numerous projectiles such as missiles and plasma shots to add damage to one of the mussels. The Hylian princess released her arrow and landed a critical hit on one of the monster's eye. Luckily, that eye was destroyed, making that creature vulnerable due to having just one eye left. Zelda then lowered her bow before casting Din's Fire at another Mega Mussel that had its three eyes regenerated. The explosion caused its eyes to burn and become blind for a moment. It was the perfect moment to strike back. As a result, the brunette fired three consecutive arrows at each eye. All three were hit, and that monster was brought down. Two left remaining. Pit reflected his enemy's projectiles before rapidly shooting his arrows at both eyes equally in order to effectively kill it. He noticed that one ball of energy was coming to him. He swiftly rolled to the right to dodge the attack. The white angel continued firing his arrows until his enemy had fallen. It was then that Samus delivered the final blow to the last Mega Mussel, thus defeating it.
"We got some monsters down," the bounty hunter stated as she scanned the area for any potential assistance.
"We got to help the others," the Hylian princess suggested.
"We have to hurry," the white angel said as he searched for his goddess in case of backup. "Hades could bring more of his army in if we don't quickly defeat these monsters."
"We must hurry," Samus calmly responded before gesturing the two to assist the others.
Mario, Luigi, and Peach had to fight Cellular Komaytos and Mega Mussels as well. In their initial phase, the brothers threw their fireballs in hopes of bringing them down from range. They then realized that it was ineffective, so they had to figure out other options. Two of the gelatinous creatures approached the brothers with their mandibles, eager to latch themselves onto the brothers. Mario decided to run at one of the monsters and settle it with his hands. One of the enemies lunged at the red plumber. He then rolled to the side to escape its grab. He quickly leaped towards his targeted Cellular Komayto, grabbed its skin, and dragged it to the ground with him. As it was being pinned onto the ground, Mario continuously punched his target's pink-red core by swing left and right with both of his fists. Without his knowledge, a third but different Komayto appeared out of nowhere and latched its mandibles onto the side of Mario's head.
"AA!" He screamed as he stood up and tried to break the monster's grip.
"Mario!" The pink princess shouted his name as she grabbed a tennis racket and swung at the Komayto that was latched onto the red plumber. Then one final, powerful strike was enough for the Komayto to lose its grip on Mario, be sent flying and die from the attack. He nodded and gave thumbs up to his lady for saving him. "Do be careful, Mario. These monsters don't fight like Bowser's minions."
His expression revealed that he was not going to go easy on these enemies. Then he saw the Cellular Komayto that he supposedly was beating down on approach his brother while Luigi was occupied with another enemy. He and Peach ran to assist the younger plumber who looked at both monsters who were trapping him if he tried to escape. Peach threw a turnip at the weakened Cellular Komayto that then turned to see what had hit him. It saw the blonde princess running towards it. However, the enemy did not see Mario who leaped above her, controlled fire on his right fist, and delivered a powerful punch which ended up killing the monster. Seeing that his brother and princess arrived in time, Luigi ran towards the other Komayto and performed a series of rapid, childish punches. He then jumped up to karate chop several times to deal more damage to his target. However, Luigi stood back and waited for the Komayto to come to him. His plan was stepping in the right direction as his target approached the green plumber to suck his life energy. The next thing that happened was Peach floating towards the Cellular Komayto. She fiercely slapped the monster, causing it to move back. Mario hopped onto his princess's back and jumped higher above the Komayto before landing on top of its head with his brown shoes. Mario then immediately jumped repeatedly as the target was slowly descending onto the ground. By the time the monster was on the ground, it was unable to move since Mario continuously stomped on it until his brother ran towards them. Once the green brother got close, he clenched his fist and executed a jumping uppercut right onto its pink-red core. As he performed his attack, his older brother swiftly leaped away to prevent from being launched upward. The strength of Luigi's uppercut was so strong that the Komayto was incinerated while being sent upward.
"Great teamwork," the princess said as Mario and Luigi stared at together and nodded in agreement. "There are more enemies to fight. Let's get moving."
"Arcfire!" The voice of a tactician who had cast a spell from one of her tomes after swinging around with her bronze sword shouted as she managed to hit her target.
She did not realize that her projectile had attracted other enemies. Shootflies that were surrounding the battlefield had sensed a strong ranged attack present within the battle grounds. Their eyes became red while their ears had spread out to listen to where the attack was coming from. Robin charged up her tome for a little bit before releasing it to a Mega Mussel.
"Elthunder!"
The entire swarm of Shootflies then detected the ranged attack and flew towards where the tactician had shouted her spell. They were aggressively flying towards the tactician and swarmed around her, making her lose focus on her primary target.
"What the?!" Robin was surprised to see that many bat-like monsters surrounding her with their menacing red eyes. "What are these things?"
"Mother!" Her son saw that his mother was in trouble with the new monsters that had shown up. Lucian immediately ran towards there to assist Robin, leaving a Komayto to follow him. The masked swordsman swung his Parallel Falchion twice at two of the Shootflies. Because it was a surprise attack, both of the enemies were killed instantly. Lucian instinctively ran behind her mother's back to support her backside. "Mother, are you okay?"
"I'm fine," Robin gently smiled before looking at the bat-like creatures that were surrounding them. She was confused as to why they were not attacking. "Strange…"
"Why aren't they attacking when they were encircling you?" Her son asked as he was also bewildered by how the flying monsters were just floating around with their red eyes.
"My thoughts exactly," she then was ready to conjure up another spell. "But do be careful. Let's keep our back together. We must figure out how to deal with these pests."
"Will do, mother!" The Ylissean swordfighter then waited until one of the Shootflies approached him. Because they were merely flying around and surrounding the mother and offspring, Robin and Lucian decided to take action.
"Elwind!" A regular wind had cast from her tome. Two boomerang-like wind magic dispersed and struck the many Shootflies that were in her sight. Although they were hit, it was not enough to kill them. As her son was running towards the enemies within his sight, those monsters flew past him. As he turned back, he realized that they were going to attack the tactician. It was too late for him as her mother did not anticipate being attacked from behind. "AAAGGHH!"
Robin fell onto the ground. Other Shootflies that did not attack her first then followed through. The tactician felt quick pains from the flying creatures that slashed her with their ears. Although painful, no wounds were detected from those attacks.
"Mother!" Lucian then decided to stand in front of her mother to protect her as she got up on her own. "You must stay for a bit. They can attack at any moment."
"Lucian," the tactician sounded fine even though many Shootflies attacked her. "I think I figured them out."
"You do?"
"Yeah," she then turned her back and unsheathed her Levin Sword. "They respond if I only use my magic spells. However, what if I use my Levin sword instead?"
Before they could experiment their plan, a dark angel ran at the swarm of Shootlies and swung numerous times with his Silver Bow. After several swings, Dark Pit shot several purple arrows at some of the flying creatures. His arrows managed to hit them, but the ones that were not hit sensed another ranged attack within their presence. As a result, the remaining of them flew to attack Dark Pit. He smirked since he knew what was going to happen next.
A cyan beam appeared from the bottom and had struck upward hitting the Shootflies that were flying towards the front of the black angel's face. Robin and Lucian were confused as to how some enemies had been killed by a blue beam. They turned to see Palutena who had conjured up her attack from a distance after taking down the Mega Mussels she had dealt with.
"Didn't I say that we fight together?" The goddess said with a slight hint of humor in her tone. "Did you all expect me to fight these clams by myself?"
"My mother was in danger, so I had to help," the masked swordsman defended himself.
"Well," the tactician sheepishly chuckled because she was not sure if she could tell her son that the goddess was making a joke.
"Did you really think you're going to listen to her joke?" Dark Pit scoffed at the masked swordsman thinking he was naïve.
"We should focus more on the battle instead of debating whether my son can't tell a joke or not," Robin teased yet was serious simultaneously before taking out her tome. "Since the four of us are here against these monsters, I guess they don't mind if I use my magic again. Lucian, get close to these pests and I'll use my magic once you're near."
"Understood, mother," the blue-haired swordsman said as he ran towards the swarm of Shootflies that were no longer surrounding them. "Surely, they don't pose much a threat, but I won't let my guard down."
Dark Pit followed suit to attack the remaining Shootflies that Lucian was not planning on attacking first. Palutena and Robin then were ready to follow through once the swordsman and the dark angel had made the first contact. The goddess shot multiple blue spheres from the orb of her staff to the enemies that Dark Pit and Lucian struck their weapons with. When the Shootflies reacted to Palutena's projectiles, Robin immediately was prepared to strike back after fully charging her tome.
"Thoron!" A powerful cylindrical stream of electrical magic had struck through the majority of the Shootflies remaining. The power of her attack caused them to be in paralysis, making them unable to fly towards both her and Palutena. Lucian and Dark Pit took one swing at each remaining Shootfly because it was enough for them to be defeated.
The rest of the fighters dealt with more of Hades's Army when the next wave came at them. This time they were not separated from each other as commanded by the Goddess of Light. Since they had an idea on how to fight the same monsters that Hades's created, it was not much of a problem for them, which started to upset Hades a little.
"Why can't my pathetic monsters do anything against you annoying little shits?" The Lord of the Underworld vented his frustration by how the Smashers were able to fight his small army with no issue. "This is starting to make me mad."
"You do indeed have a great ton of power," Palutena smirked as she made a sarcastic comment.
"Now that your army is beaten into a pulp," Dark Pit pointed his Silver Bow at the astral form of the demon lord. "It's time for me to kill you."
"Come on now," Hades pretended to act like he was hurt by the words of his enemies. "I got some tricks upon my sleeve."
"Like what?" The dark angel scoffed.
"I'm so glad that you asked, Pittooty Too," Hades then snapped his right middle finger with his right thumb to create another different monster. A dark cloud shrouded in front of the demon, rapidly spinning as fast as it could. It then became larger in size, prompting some fighters to look apprehensive about what was about to happen. The mysterious, dense mist then had impacted the ground in front of the Smashers who then covered their eyes from the gale blowing at them.
What they saw next was a giant Reaper whose skeleton toes were exposed with his glowing green eyes. Its giant scythe looked daunting with its appearance being different compared to regular Reapers. The Great Reaper had let out a powerful roar to intimidate the other Smashers. The booming wave of its scream caused most fighters to close their eyes and cover them.
"The Great Reaper?" Pit shouted in shock and confusion. "I thought I killed that thing!"
"So Hades can summon stronger monsters now?" Robin asked, expressing astonishment by her enemy's power.
"This is the power of the Master Core," Master Hand explained as he was ready to fight back. "He is able to not only retain his former power, but he can also revive far greater monsters."
"That's insane!" The tactician grunted and cringed at the explanation.
"I like to see you all try," Hades mocked his enemies as he fired multiple dark orbs of energy at Pit, Dark Pit, and Palutena.
The goddess then had cast a transparent, reflective barrier to deflect the attacks back. The angels summoned their Guardian Orbitars to rebound the dark orbs. Despite managing to deflect those attacks, one shadow ball was redirected towards the bounty hunter. Samus was prepared to block the attack when her sensors detected a projectile coming at her. However, a Hylian princess stood in front of her and conjured Nayru's Love to redirect the attack to the Great Reaper. After seeing that his projectiles were futile, Hades scoffed since he sort of knew that his opponents were capable of blocking his attacks.
"So is there a way to fight this ginormous reaper?" Robin asked the angel and the goddess since she knew that they had experience against it.
"Attack its head and toes," the white angel answered her question. "Those are his weak points."
"I see," the tactician was a bit weirded out that the Great Reaper's feet were one of the two major weak points. "Well, if that what it takes to kill that thing, then so be it."
"Pit, Pittoo," Palutena turned to her angels. "I need you two to fly while everyone else here fights on the ground."
"You got it, Lady Palutena," Pit optimistically said with determination before tightly gripping his Palutena Bow.
"We'll make this real quick, so none of you guys mess up," his doppelganger said before wielding his Silver Bow.
"We will do our best," Lucian responded as he gripped his sword horizontally with the tip of the blade pointing at the Great Reaper.
With that, Palutena granted her Power of Flight to Pit and Dark Pit who then took off to fly around the Great Reaper. Meanwhile, the rest of the fighters remained on the ground to take the monster down.
The white angel was flying around clockwise while the dark angel flew in the opposite direction. Pit and Dark pit fired their arrows rapidly onto the creature's head. Several arrows from both angels had struck the Great Reaper. The monster then began retaliating by gripping his scythe with both of its hand, bringing it back, and then swinging it diagonally at the white angel. Pit barely escaped the attack just by an inch.
"That was a close one," Pit said as he took a deep breath.
"Are you okay?" Palutena communicated her angel through her laurel.
"I'm fine," he felt like his normal self again before shooting more arrows. "I just need to be more careful."
"Continue to shoot arrows on the Great Reaper's head," the goddess commanded before using her staff to fire reticles at the monster's feet.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Smashers did their part fighting on the ground. Samus shot missiles while Zelda had cast Din's Fire to keep their range at the enemy. Mario, Luigi, and Peach managed to get closer to the Great Reaper. The princess threw numerous turnips at the monster's feet. The brothers decided to get even closer to the creature who was still occupying against the angels above. The green plumber threw fireballs first before running in to deliver karate shops and punches. His older brother only threw one fireball before performing a flying sex kick. Once he landed, Mario went on to continuously throw out strong punches to damage the reaper. Lucian joined with the Mario brothers to engage in close combat while his mother stood further back to strategize her battle tactics. Lastly, Palutena stood aside with the tactician and shot three columns of light at the Great Reaper's feet. Afterward, she pointed her staff at the monster and a large, red explosive flame was conjured up right on the reaper's feet. Mario, Luigi, and Lucian were startled and took several steps back to avoid touching the goddess's magic.
The Great Reaper looked down and saw that more fighters were attacking from the ground. Enraged by this, the Great Reaper ignored the attacks from the angels and focused on the others down below.
"Pittoo, we have to help out the others!" Pit warned his doppelganger as they realized what was transpiring.
"Don't just stand there, go!" Dark Pit shouted back before shooting another arrow right onto the Great Reaper's eye. Despite that, it looked like it had no effect.
"Lady Palutena!" Pit called his goddess through the laurel. "Let us fight on the ground."
"I can't risk you two getting hurt by the Great Reaper," the green-haired woman responded. "Focus fighting in the air. Do not worry about us. We can take care of things here. After all, we have some of the strongest people here."
"Are you sure?" The white angel was concerned that something terrible might happen.
"Relax, Pit," Palutena reassured before firing more columns of light at the Great Reaper. "Everything will be alright."
"Understood," Pit reluctantly said before continuing to attack the reaper's head.
The Great Reaper then began lifting its right foot, had hovered it over the brothers and the masked swordsman and stomped on them. Luckily, all three leaped away in time to escape from being crushed. The reaper lifted its other foot but went past the swordsman before hovering over to the goddess and the tactician. Seeing that her mother was in danger, Lucian immediately took action.
"Mother! Lady Palutena!" The blue-haired swordsman ran as quickly as he could to push Robin and Palutena out of the way.
Robin managed to run away, but Palutena could not move. She looked down and saw that her ankles were tied together by some sealed purple magic.
"What's this?" The greenette was becoming worried that she would not escape in time. However, she knew who tied her ankles together.
Before she met with the reaper's skeletal foot, Lucian managed to push the goddess out of the way, barely escaping the stomp. Both of them had fallen and rolled away.
"Thank you for saving me again," Palutena smiled at the swordsman.
"Your ankles are tied together," Lucian stated before positioning his Parallel Falchion at the purple magic. "Hold still."
The masked swordsman swung the blade and had broken the magic that immobilized Palutena for that moment. The goddess could not help but be glad that Robin's son had saved her again.
"You remind me of Pit, sometimes," she commented before firing reticles from her staff.
"This isn't the time for that talk," he responded rather coldly. "This enemy must be taken down."
Palutena shrugged her shoulders, hoping that she could try to get to know the mysterious Ylissean. From the distance, Hades noticed something interesting about that interaction. Something inside him felt that there was more to the goddess and the swordsman. He first took a gaze at the Ylissean and observed how he fought and the way he sounded. After watching for some time, the demon reached an astounding conclusion.
He smirked. "So that's who you are, Lucian…. Since you like protecting those you care about, I think I can spice things up from here."
After dodging the reckless stomping by the Great Reaper, the Smashers managed to retaliate with their own attacks. Samus and Zelda, after avoiding the monster's sight, had snuck up behind it and shot their projectiles on the back of its feet. The surprise sneak attack caused the Great Reaper to turn back and charge towards both women. As a result, Lucian, Palutena, Mario, and Luigi countered back against the reaper. Palutena released a powerful ray of light at the Great Reaper's head. Pit and Dark Pit continued fighting in the air by mixing their offensive tactics with a series of slashes and kicks to deal more damage. Mario and Luigi threw out more fireballs on its feet to make the creature fall, which did not work. Lucian ran towards the reaper's left foot and swung his blade horizontally before charging at its right foot to swing in a vertically upward motion.
Robin shot several different magic spells at the Great Reaper that was becoming confused, mindlessly swinging its scythe and stomping in place. She then realized that its head was the bigger weak point, so she was ready to aim there. Electricity was present from her tome. Her eyes were locked at her target. She spun around before extending her right arm to cast her powerful magic spell, Thoron. "Time to tip the scales!"
A large, cylindrical stream of electrical magic was sent towards the head of the Great Reaper. The magnitude of Thoron was powerful enough for the monster's eyes to gush out light.
"What's happening now?" Robin shouted, hoping that things were going in their favor.
"Attack its head," Palutena commanded to everyone who could use ranged attacks. "The light on its head is its greatest weak spot."
Samus fired a charged shot. Zelda had cast Din's Fire. Robin used Elwind. All three attacks had struck the Great Reaper who was extremely weak as of now. The goddess then commanded her angels to deliver the final blow since it was vulnerable and close to them. Dark Pit and Pit were flying towards the monster on opposite sides. The white angel had his Upperdash Arm ready while the dark angel had the Electroshock Arm at his disposal. Because Dark Pit was closer, he struck first on the reaper's head. Pit then delivered the final blow with a powerful uppercut to defeat the Great Reaper.
The Great Reaper was crushed again. A blue stream of light was coming out of its head. It stumbled backward trying to fight back. However, it was to no avail before the Great Reaper had fallen to its sides before dissipating into nothingness.
"All done!"
"That's how we get it done."
"Nice work, Pit and Pittoo."
The angels flew back to Palutena as the Power of Flight was nearly out of its juice. The Smashers regrouped together before facing the astral Hades who was slowly clapping at his enemies pretending to be amused by the show he was watching.
"Bravo," he sarcastically said with a tone of little interest. "Bravo, everyone. You all sure know how to fight in this world."
"Give it up, Hades," Pit hollered at the demon. "We took down more of your army and the Great Reaper. There's nothing you can throw at that we can't handle."
"Oh," Hades sounded intrigued and played along with the white angel. "Are you sure about that?"
"Y-yeah, I'm sure," he had a small doubt inside of him, but he was not going to let that get to his head.
"What about that tactician and her son?"
All of the Smashers, including Robin and Lucian, were bewildered by what the Lord of the Underworld was talking about.
"Maybe I should speak to you all in private?" Hades sadistically smirked before conjuring up power from the Master Core within him. His right finger was pointing upward while a bright orb was being created. "There are some bugs here that shouldn't be here. Let me eliminate them."
He then threw the ball of light at the Smashers. What they did not expect was that the orb had split into multiple rays of light to target each fighter. However, the number of rays was not equivalent to the number of Smashers.
Mario was the first one to get hit who tried to protect Peach and Luigi. They, too, suffered the same fate as him.
Samus pushed Zelda out of the way before she was struck by the light.
"Samus!" The Hylian screamed at her lady's name before getting hit by another ray of light.
Enraged by the sudden attack, Master Hand clenched his fists and charged at Hades. The demon simply laughed as the last ray of light was actually targeting him.
The right hand had been hit. His disembodied hand fell onto the ground and was unable to move.