Seems like this story isn't getting all that much reviews.... Pity that I plan for it to have around 30 chapters and things get more and more epic as the story progresses too…
Chapter 5
Fail Harder
Within the lobby area of the theater, there were still people hanging around and buying snacks. This was when an announcement got broadcasted into the room saying, "We are glad to tell you that the Terrarium Theater has been complete. For people who have complaints about the current theater being unable to view every participants at once, please check out the Terrarium Theater on the eastern side of the building. We are sure that you will be satisfied!"
Upon hearing this announcement, the people started to move over to the entrance on the east part of the building and as they walked, they talked among themselves on what the Terrarium Theater might be.
"That sounds like a funny name if you ask me," Young Link commented.
"Well, a terrarium is sort of like an aquarium, but you grow plants and let little animals such as frogs, lizards, and insects live in it," Ness explained.
Soon afterwards, the crowd was all gathered into the newly opened room. It was a very dark room, but one could easily make out a really, really big rectangular container made of glass in the center of the room. There was nothing inside it however. "So this is the terrarium they said just now," Captain Falcon as he walked into the room.
"Doesn't look like anything special though," Ganondorf commented.
"Maybe there is something special to it, but we haven't seen it yet," Marth said.
Suddenly, light came out from all over the terrarium and that was when something special happened. Within the container, which was previously empty, was the entire farmland of Old McDonald's Farm of Wack and there were tiny people and animals moving around within it. When one inspected closely, most of those moving things were actually the participants of the tournament. "Wow! Amazing!" Diddy exclaimed.
The kids poked their head close to take a better look and Ness commented, "This really is like a terrarium! It's the farmland with all those participants moving around inside!"
"I can see Pichu and Jigglypuff there too!" Pikachu pointed out.
"How did they get inside?" Parry asked.
Then there was once again another announcement broadcasted into the room, "We hope that you are amazed by the Terrarium Theater. What you see now is actually a 3D hologram displayed with the help of a satellite hovering over the skies of the farmland. The things that it has captured in its camera are now being broadcasted here. Now you can see the entire farmland in its miniature version as well as seeing every single participant and know what they are up too! This is definitely better than the normal screen, isn't it?"
"It sure is!" Popo said. "It's like a bunch of tiny life forms inside here and we are inspecting them!"
"I can see Fox and Falco there!" Link said, pointing to the Master Arwing which was hovering several meters above around.
"And that's Mario!" Peach said, pointing to the miniature plumber somewhere towards the middle of the terrarium.
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"What-a do you want-a?" Mario asked Failhard who attacked them for no reason in the previous chapter.
Failhard simply cackled maniacally with his tongue stuck far out and shouted, "Fail harder!!! Yahahaha!!!" And then the arms of the demon seat reached forward and slammed down on Mario. Mario quickly moved his vehicle backwards to avoid getting hit, but Failhard chased after him and the arms continued slamming around to try and hit Mario.
Mario kept on moving his vehicle side to side they avoid the arm slams, though it was kind of awkward doing this when you are moving backwards. "Stop-a that! Why are you attacking me?!" he shouted.
Then the arm stretched out to a longer length and came slamming into the side of the Brothers Roadster hard and sent the vehicle tumbling over to the side and Mario fell out and crashed onto the ground painfully. "Ow!"
"Fail harder!!! Gahahaha!!" Failhard shouted. The arms then came down on Mario to crush him, but the plumber got up fast and kicked off the ground and to the side in time to avoid getting crushed.
"Stop-a! You will kill me with that-a thing!" Mario said to him. "And that-a eez against da rules!"
"Fail harder!!! Fail! Fail! Fail!!! Yahahaha!!!" Failhard continued shouting. He went after the plumber and the arms kept on smashing down at him to hit him. Mario had to jump and run around really fast to avoid getting hit.
"Mamamia! You're crazy! Don't-a do that!" Mario screamed. Suddenly he was hit by one of the arms as it swung at him from the side and knocked away. "Ow!" As he fell onto the ground and tried to get up, Failhard zoomed at him and attempted to run him over.
"Fail!!! Hahaha!!!"
"No!!!" Mario cried. He closed his eyes and expected the worst to come when suddenly a pair of missiles was fired at the side of the madman's vehicle, making it spin across the place. Mario turned to where the missiles came from and saw Snake in his vehicle not too far away. "Snake!"
Snake came over close and said to the madman, "Just what do you think you plan to do to my comrade? Are you crazy or what? Did you not read the rules about killing?"
Failhard steered the vehicle in his direction and simply cackled and yelled, "Fail harder!!!! Gahahaha!!" And he stepped down on the wheel and zoomed at Snake.
"What's wrong with you? Haven't learned your lesson yet?" Snake asked. He pulled the trigger on his controls and fired another pair of missiles from his vehicle again. The arms of the demon seat swatted across the air and knocked the missiles away however and then reached forward to attack, but Snake backed up his vehicle fast to avoid it and continued firing missiles that were only swatted away constantly.
"Fail! Fail! FAIL!!!! YAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"Geez! This guy really is insane!" Snake thought. "I don't want to mess with the likes of you, so you better beat it now!" Snake pressed another button on the controls and his vehicle planted a mine onto the ground as he moved back.
Failhard did not avoid the mine; he drove right onto the top of it and his vehicle was blown up into the sky by the triggered blast.
BAAAAAAANG!!!!
His vehicle crashed back down on the side and the wheels were busted from the explosion, but the overall vehicle wasn't destroyed. The madman, however, still had a psychotic expression on his face. "Your wheels are busted. What can you do now?" Snake asked.
"Yahahaha! Fail harder!!!" Failhard said manically. Then the eyes of the demon glowed in red and a pair of beams shot at Snake, much to his surprise. He barely had time to move back and the beam struck both his vehicle's headlights, destroying them.
"Damn you!" Snake shouted angrily.
"Yahahaha!! Fail!! Fail ever harder!!! Yahahaha!!!" Failhard then slammed his finger down on the really, really, really clichéd red button that was next to the steering wheel and then his vehicle started shaking.
"Eh? What's happening?"
Shortly after it started shaking, a pair of skinny legs grew out from underneath the vehicle. Combined with the seat that had a head and a pair of arms, the vehicle had basically transformed into a robotic demon, and the vehicle's body at the 'waist' made it look like it was wearing a tutu.
Hahahaha!!!
"Mamamia! Heez vehicle changed!" Mario gasped.
Failhard laughed manically and shook his head left to right and splashed his saliva everywhere and also made stupid sounds. "Brbrbbrrrrbrbrbrbr!!! Muahahah!!! FAIL HARDER!!!!" The demon vehicle took a step forward with a hard stomp to the ground and swung its arms around the air to show off.
"That's something cool you pulled off with your vehicle, but you're just an immature madman from the way you are behaving," Snake commented. "If you really want us dead, then I see no reason to give you a beating of your lifetime!"
"FAIL!!!! GYAHAHAHAHA!!!!" Failhard burst out laughing at the top of his voice. The Demon Car (I'm calling it by this name) took a running start forward and raised both its arms to and readied to bring them down on Snake, who quickly backed up his vehicle and launched a pair of missiles. The arms came down on top of the missiles and smashed them right into the ground and the Demon Car ran to Snake again.
Snake quickly moved forward and then steered away to the side and managed to avoid an arm smash by the Demon Car, who gave chase afterwards. As Snake's vehicle moved forward, it dropped behind a mind. The Demon Car managed to step onto the mine and it exploded under its foot and the whole thing fell over onto its knees. Snake looked back and said, "Ha! Got you that time!"
"Fail… harder!" Failhard said, and the Demon Car stood back up and ran after Snake again. Because it had long legs, it was able to run really fast.
"Still haven't learned your lesson?" Snake said, looking back. He continued to lay down more mines, but Failhard was smarter this time and he ran around in a wavy path to avoid stepping onto any of the mines. Then the Demon Car bent down and jumped up really high into the air, so high that Mario would be jealous. The vehicle did several flips and spins in midair and fell down in front of the Snake Eater X, much to Snake's surprise. "What?!"
"Fail!!!" Failhard shouted as one of the vehicle's arms lifted up and slammed down. Snake was able to back off in time to avoid the hit however.
"Time to use this!" Snake said. He pulled a lever next to the steering wheel and the mortar on the back of the Snake Eater X pointed the cannon shell at the evil vehicle before launching it. However, the Demon Car swung its hand at the cannon shell and easily sent it flinging to the side where it hit a tree and exploded.
KABOOOOOOOM!
"What?!" Snake gasped.
"Yahahaha! You fail!!! Fail!!!! Fail harder!!!" Failhard laughed manically. The head of the demon ten bent back and took a deep breath, and then it released a burst of fire from its mouth.
"What the?!" Snake quickly backed off again, but he was unfortunate enough to go over the mines that he planted and was blown up into the air.
BANG!
"YAAAAAAAA!!!!"
Luckily, the vehicle fell back down onto the ground in one piece and was mostly unharmed thanks to durable armor. "Man, running into my own trap… I should be ashamed of myself…" Snake grumbled.
He looked up at the Demon Car which breathed out a stream of fire again, and Snake quickly steered to the side to avoid the attack.
Meanwhile, Mario ran to his vehicle which had fallen over upside-down and tried with all his might to flip it over to the correct position, but he has his limits in his strength and therefore made no progress no matter how hard he tried. "Ngh! I must-a go help-a Snake!"
Luigi got back up and shook his face and said, "I remember a fist flying straight into my face… What happened afterwards?" He turned to look at Mario trying to get the vehicle right-side-up and asked, "What's wrong, Mario? The vehicle flipped over?"
"Come help-a me!" Mario told him. "We must-a help-a Snake!"
"Huh?" Luigi turned to look at Snake and saw him dueling with the Demon Car. "Eek! What is that?!"
"That-a guy showed up to attack-a uz all of a sudden and Snake came to help-a uz. He eez having a hard-a time however. Come help-a me flip-a da vehicle back-a up!"
"Okay!" Luigi ran over to the side of his brother and helped him flip the vehicle. Though he is not a strong man either, the combined strength of both the brothers proved that teamwork always works, and they managed to slowly lift the car off its side and eventually brought it back onto its wheels. Luckily there was no damage of any kind. "Phew… Did it…"
"Let's-a go!" Mario said, leaping into the driver's seat while Luigi ran around to the other side to get on. Mario stepped on the gas and zoomed in the direction of the Demon Car. "Hey you! You betta stop-a what-a you're doing now!" The front of the Brothers Roadster opened up and a turret came out shooting fireballs.
The fireballs bounced along the grass without burning it (which is strange) and hit the heels of the Demon Car's legs. The head of the demon turned to them and then the eyes glowed with blood red light before a laser beam was fired at them. "Eye beams!" shrieked Luigi.
Mario quickly steered aside to avoid the beam and continued heading for the vehicle. As they closed in on Failhard, Mario shouted to Snake, "You get-a da missiles ready! I'll distract-a him and you shoot-a when you have da chance!"
"I got it!" Snake replied.
"Fail! Fail harder!!! Yahahaha!" Failhard laughed as the Mario Brothers got closer. Mario quickly shouted for Luigi to take out whatever thing he can find for throwing and Luigi responded by taking out a green shell and hurled it.
The Demon Car swatted away the incoming shell with its arm, and Mario immediately zoomed right up to the legs of the vehicle and released the super cape from behind their vehicle. He spun the vehicle around and touched the cape against the Demon Car's legs and somehow caused it to spin around and face the other side. Mario shouted to Snake and Snake quickly fired a pair of missile. With its back turned to the missiles, the Demon Car was struck in the back by them.
BAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!
The Demon Car almost fell forward, but it managed to retain its footing and Failhard turned to them and simply laughed and said, "Hahaha! Fail harder!!! You fail!!!!"
"Looks like-a theez guy will be harder to take down than we thought-a…" Mario said.
"And he's a psychopath… Laughing no matter what situation he is in…" Snake commented.
The Demon Car faced its left palm at the Mario Bros. and a hole appeared on the middle of its palm from which a spike protruded out from, and then the spike shot forward with a rope attached to its end like a harpoon. "Watch out!" Snake shouted to them.
Mario quickly backed off but the spike stuck into the front part of their vehicle and the Demon Car pulled them forward forcefully. "Ya! Da force eez too strong!" Mario screamed.
When they were pulled up close, the Demon Car delivered a kick into their vehicle and the whole thing was sent soaring back into the air in circles and the brothers fell onto the ground while their vehicle crashed back down farther back upside-down again. "Doh…" Mario groaned.
"Uh… I see magic balloons in the sky…" Luigi cried.
"Damn you!" Snake yelled angrily at Failhard. The Demon Car turned to his direction and pointed its palm at him and launched the harpoon again. Snake quickly backed off but was still caught in the front by the spike and was pulled forward. He stepped on the pedal to the max and tried to fight against the pulling however. "I'm not getting over there!" He quickly reached into his item compartment and got out a combat knife and, still with his leg on the gas pedal, reached his body and arm forward and cut off the rope, and his vehicle zoomed back and he almost fell off. Snake then got out a gun and left his vehicle to approach Failhard on foot. "You're really driving me angry! If my vehicle will be destroyed trying to teach you a lesson, then I rather teach you a lesson on foot!"
Failhard simply cackled manically and blurted out his favorite phrase, "Fail harder! Gyahaha!!!"
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"What's with that guy? He's attacking the Mario Bros. and Snake nonstop," Marth commented, looking at the miniature holograms of those people fighting within the terrarium.
"That person is going against the rules already," Mewtwo commented. "He is not trying to disturb them in this tournament, but rather to take their lives."
"That shouldn't be allowed!" Pikachu said.
"And that is why the man has broken the rules."
"What a terrible man! Why is he doing that?!" Zelda said.
"Mario, please be all right…" Peach said.
"You don't have to worry," Link told her. "You know those three aren't ones to be taken down with ease. I can't be sure about Luigi though…"
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Snake walked close to the Demon Car and pointed his gun at Failhard saying, "You have already gone against the rules by threatening to kill us. While I may be pissed off at you, I do not plan to break the rules anytime soon, so I'll just give you a painful beating and then leave you to the officials of this tournament. You better get ready to get disqualified!"
"Gyahaha!!! Fail harder!" Failhard yelled out. The eyes of the demon glowed and shot out a pair of eye beams to which Snake rolled out of the way and then fired a couple of shots at the eyes. The shot was a perfect hit and it easily blew off both the eyes of the demon, rendering them useless. Failhard did not seem to mind though; the Demon Car took a deep breath and then breathed out fire.
Snake ran out of the way and the demon turned his head after him while continuing to breathe fire. Snake quickly pressed a button at the back of his gun and it instantly remodeled itself and grew in size to become a bazooka. He placed it on his shoulder and turned in the direction of the demon and fired a shell. The fire breath and the shell collided with each other but the shell penetrated through the flames and struck the demon in the head, creating a blast.
BAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!
The explosion merely blew off the outer covering of the demon head over, making its interior visible. Despite this, Failhard simply laughed like a fool and kept on yelling his usual phrase. "You're seriously insane…" Snake mumbled with disgust.
Openings appeared on both the palms of the Demon Car and sticks came out from both of them. The fingers grasped around the sticks and blades came out from both the upper ends of the sticks, revealing them to be concealed axes. "Fail harder!!! Gyahahah!!!!" Failhard yelled loudly. The Demon Car took off at Snake and then slammed down the axe on him hard. Snake quickly leaped to the side and fired another shell, but the demon swung the axe at the shell and knocked it away where it exploded on the ground, and then the demon went after Snake again swinging the axes over and over. Snake turned and quickly made a run for it.
"Here I come!" Mario shouted. He ran to the demon from the side and leaped into the air and landed a flying kick into the side of the demon's head, grabbing its attention. When the demon turned its attention to Mario, the plumber jumped to the body of it and swung his fist at Failhard, giving him a powerful wallop across the face.
POW!
Mario then stood on the front end of the kart and grabbed him by his collar and started shaking him saying, "Stop-a theez madness already! You will not-a gain anything from trying to kill uz! I don't-a know what-a grudge you have against uz either!"
But the madman simply laughed and yelled, "Fail harder!!!! Gyahahaha!!!!" The arm of the demon swung in from the side and pushed Mario away and then he tried to hit him with the axe afterwards. Mario quickly pulled out a yellow cape from underneath his shirt and held it in front of him, blocking the blow from the axe. Since it was made from the same material as the super cape on the Brothers Roadster, it was able to withstand the blow from the blade. Unbelievable, but it works.
While Mario was shielding himself using the cape, Snake fired another shell at the Demon Car and managed to blast it in the side of right elbow. This shot managed to deal big damage to the shoulder and its outer covering was burned off, revealing its electrocuting circuits underneath. The joint was also busted and the arm fell down limp and was unable to move, but the axe was still gripped tightly in the finger. "One down!" Snake said, doing a yes hand sign if you know what I mean.
"Hahahaha!! Fail! Fail! Fail ever harder!!!" Failhard yelled like crazy in between laughs. He seemed to ignore the fact that one arm was destroyed and started swinging the axe on the other hand at Mario who fought back by using the cape to block every blow.
"You still haven't learned yet?" Snake asked. "Then I'm going to blow up your vehicle!" He ran around to the other direction and crouched down some yards away from the right shoulder and took aim with the bazooka again. But the Demon Car turned around without a word and flung the axe at him. Snake was shocked and quickly pulled his bazooka in front of himself as a shield and the blade of the axe cleaved into the weapon. "Damn! If I fire a shell like this, it may backfire!"
Mario put his cape away underneath his shirt and created fire within his right hand and then jumped at Failhard to hit him with it. The arm of the Demon Car suddenly swung at him and caught him within its grasp however. "Wah!"
"Hahaha!! You fail! Fail!!! FAIL!!!! GYAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" Failhard laughed.
Luigi saw this and said in shock, "Mario!"
Mario tried to struggle t get free, but then the opening on the palm opened up and the harpoon shot out and stabbed into Mario's stomach. When Luigi and Snake saw Mario's body jutting back, they gasped in horror. "MARIO!!!!"
But instead of the spike coming out from his back, Mario flew backwards off the grasp of the hand instead with the spike pushing him against the stomach. Mario then fell to the ground and groaned as he sat up, rubbing his stomach. Luigi ran up to him and cried, "Mario! Thanks goodness you're alive!"
Mario reached underneath his shirt and got out the super cape. "Phew… Theez was underneath my suspenders and eet saved me from being stabbed…"
"You're very lucky, aren't you?" Snake commented, running up to Mario. He turned to Failhard and said, "Now how do we deal with that guy?"
"Gyahaha!! Fail! Fail! I want to see you fail! Fail harder!!! Hahaha!!!" Failhard said manically as the Demon Car approached them.
"I'm angry now!" Mario said. He dashed off in the direction of the Demon Car and it slammed down its hand to hit him. Mario avoided it by jumping up and landing onto Failhard's head to give him a nasty stomp before bouncing to the demon's head. He stomped it really hard and bounced up into the air and then back down to stomp it the second time, and then it was followed by another bounce into the air where Mario did a back flip before landing his feet onto the demon's head yet again. But Mario bounced up one more time and this time came landing onto the head with a spinning stomp. The final stomp was the strongest and the robotic demon was pushed down onto its knees and Failhard nearly fell forward. Mario fell back and landed on his knees in front of it and Luigi and Snake ran up to him to accompany him.
"You have gone too far already!" Mario said. "We cannot-a kill anyone in theez tournament, so you betta stop-a theez before we accidentally kill you!"
"Actually, I feel like killing you now if it weren't for this rule," Snake said in a murderous tone.
"And why are you trying to kill us?" Luigi asked. "We haven't done anything to you and we don't even know who you are! Give us an explanation at once!"
The Demon Car slowly stood back up and Failhard glared at them with his psychotic face and said, "Fail harder!"
"Ugh… This guy really gives me the creep…" Snake said with disgust. "Seriously, what's wrong with him and his obsession with failing?"
The Demon Car stood back up again and took a step forward and the three took some steps backwards to get ready for its next attack, whatever it may be.
"Hey guys! Having trouble and needing our help?" said a voice. The three looked up to see the Master Arwing flying towards them.
"Eetz Fox and Falco!" Mario pointed out.
"We saw some of what happened to you," Fox broadcasted his voice through a speaker somewhere on the vehicle. "We'll help you take on this guy!"
"Time to give him some few lessons about messing with our friends!" Falco said.
"Let's go!" Fox then steered the Master Arwing downwards and dove straight for the Demon Car.
Failhard looked up at them and simply laughed and said what he likes best. "Fail harder!!! Yahahah!!!"
A couple of lasers were fired at the arms and joints of the Demon Car, and then Falco yelled, "Eat the smart bombs! They're delicious!" He pulled the trigger on the controls and then a bomb was launched at the Demon Car.
The bomb, which had the letter B on it, flew close to the Demon Car and when it was just in front of the head, it gave off light from all over it and then…
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!
A brilliant spherical explosion swallowed up the Demon Car and only its silhouette was visible through the flames and light. Mario, Luigi, and Snake closed their eyes and ears and ran away as far as they could to avoid getting caught in the explosion, and the Master Arwing swooped back up into the air before they touch it too.
When the explosion finally stopped, the Demon Car was nowhere in sight. Rather, it was now in pieces lying all over the ground, and Failhard was seen lying on the ground all charred from head to toe. "Fail… harder… Gyahahaha…" he said weakly to himself.
"Yes! That really taught him!" Falco said, giving a yes sign.
"Guess how many people are going to complain about our sudden and random appearance ending the fight with ease…" Fox said.
TO BE CONTINUED
Oh noez! The ending is deux… Bah! Who cares?
PROFILES OF WONDERFUL AND GREAT INVENTORS
Fox McCloud
Age: 26
Favorite food: Chicken
Like: Aviation, studying
Dislike: Violence (doesn't mean he'll turn down a fight though)
Bio: Fox was once the leader of a mercenary group called Star Fox before he joined the Smashers in their daily adventures and life. Mewtwo asides (obviously), he is the smartest Smasher and the only one to graduate from a well known college, Harvard. He is very skilled at piloting anything that flies and prefers to be a pacifist at most times.
Falco Lombardi
Age: 28
Favorite food: Beef
Like: Aviation, boasting about himself (usually through lies and false stories)
Dislike: Not having a part in fights, being told to be humble
Bio: Falco was a member of Star Fox and served under Fox, though he had complaints about it. He is very skilled in piloting anything that flies (perhaps even more so than Fox) and is very, very proud. He constantly boasts about how awesome he is and people around him sometimes think he goes too far with his proud ramblings.
Master Arwing
Description: Resembles an Arwing, but has an additional cockpit on top of the back part. Falco sits there and is in charge of offense while Fox controls the movement.
Features: Fire lasers and charging them, barrel rolls for deflecting incoming projectiles, smart bombs, radar for detecting surrounding