Yuffie's indeed having a little better luck as she's about to find and rescue Ariel. But the Chaotic Bombers have plans of their own, mainly Warlock and Siren...
DISCLAIMER: WarioWare Inc. and Kid Icarus: Uprising are properties of Nintendo. Bomberman is owned by Hudson Soft even though Konami is in charge of all the latter's franchises as of March 2012, whilst Contra and Castlevania belong to Konami themselves either way. Wreck-It Ralph is a property of Disney. All other franchises mentioned (Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi, Final Fantasy, etc.) are properties of their respective owners. Keyla and Patricia are my online friend JapanAnimeGirl's OCs and are used with permission; the same goes for LovelyTekki's OC, Princess Cherry.
Chapter 4: And the search goes on
Warlock Bomber and Siren Bomber had just arrived in Sugar Rush, the former making sure to prevent 5-Volt from chasing them out by casting Stop, Silence and Osmose - in his respective order - on her. He was not taking any chances this time.
"That should give her enough time to think about her so-called strategy," he said mockingly. "Siren, you know what to do from here while I draw the Contras out."
"No sweat, Warlock," acknowledged the Singing Beauty. "Thanks to those silly-minded humans' typical ways of solving life's problems in the real world, I've got just the right present that keeps on killing. But first things first..."
"Hey, what's going on here?" asked one of the Contras, whom the Chaotic Bombers recognized as Bill. Warlock immediately made Siren invisible so she could slip by without detection until the right moment for her to "have some fun" as she put it.
Mission 3: Patching things up
Although Wario and Mona could not find Ariel in The King of Dragons, they were glad Yuffie's also on the search for Ariel, only in a different arcade game. White, Black and Pink, however, are fighting their way through the Mad Gears in Final Fight, believing that one of the Disney Princesses had to be there.
Little do they know Warlock and Siren are at work in the Sugar Rush game, the latter still carrying her unhealthy obsession with kidnapping Felix for his magic hammer and getting rid of Calhoun, all the while exploiting Phosphora's weakness.
November 11, 20XX
2:01 PM
Yuffie had little to no trouble getting past the enemies in Knights of the Round on her own, eventually making it to the end of its final level where Boxer Bomber was located. She could hear him boasting, "I offer the one and only mermaid princess Ariel from Atlantica to anyone, who can beat me! No minions, no sneaky underhanded tactics, but more importantly, no magic hammer! Ahh, fancy seeing you here again, ninja foo!"
"You better not have done anything bad to Ariel or I'll-"
"Ah ah ah, sticks and stones. Yer gonna have to beat me to da punch in this ring! I've put in some super swell moves of my own since our last encounter, like da Volatile Fists! Uhh! Uhh!" He emphasized those two words by punching his fists against each other, leaving a couple of explosions in their wake. "Oh, and fists only!"
"Well, if you insist..." She put on a pair of titanium gloves with spikes on the fists. "Found 'em while I was busting my way through Captain Commando and figured I'd need them to pierce your ultra-thick armor, even though they're normally not supposed to be in the game."
[Fight BGM: Stage 3 Boss - Dancing-Smash-Hero (Gunstar Heroes)]
"I'm gonna punch you so hard, you'll be seeing...um...ah, screw it!" Boxer Bomber charged forth anyway with his Volatile Fists, which Yuffie easily dodged by side-jumping out of the way. "AARGH! Quit movin' around so fast, coward! How can I smash you really good like that?!"
Yuffie stuck out her tongue at him. "Ninjas have finesse, not to mention reflexes!" She jumped over Boxer's rush attack and landed some punches of her own to the face, the spikes on her titanium gloves damaging his visor in the process.
"YEOWCH! I CAN'T SEE! Ugh, I'm just gonna punch around like crazy anyway till I hit ya!"
Boxer Bomber banged his fists against each other multiple times, charging up energy to unleash some sort of charge shot the size of a huge boxing glove. He let it fly just in time for Yuffie to lean backward just slightly beneath this explosive energy. Then it detonated harmlessly on the throne room's walls. The Punching Ring King did his attack two more times, followed by punching around until he tired out, missing every shot because of his tendency to smash first and think later. In fact, he hated studying his opponents' strengths and weaknesses, claiming it bored him to tears. He also did not bother to formulate any defensive maneuvers beyond simply blocking punches. Then he did one last charge like a mad bull, which Yuffie easily countered with a well-timed mega punch to the face, sending him flying all the way out of the game.
"Ha ha, man that guy sure was DUMB as bricks! Making yourself larger doesn't automatically make you invincible!"
[End BGM]
[Boss BGM: Boss Battle - Lorule (The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds)]
Just then, a trapdoor opened beneath Yuffie's feet, causing her to plummet down to a watery puddle room below where a big squid-like creature awaited her. "Erm...I think thatthing is supposed to be Arrghus." She pulled out a grappling hook, believing it would substitute for the Hookshot, and pulled out some orange eye blobs attached to the creature's body, and hacked away at them with her Conformer, all the while avoiding the other blobs swinging themselves around Arrghus's body. Once they were all gone, Arrghus grew mad and flew up...and crashed down on the watery floor, rebounding itself around the walls in hopes of squashing the teen ninja.
For each swipe to the face with the Conformer, Arrghus jumped up and back down to shoot laser beams from its eye, which proved to be quite annoying given its ability to move erratically while performing this attack. Yuffie eventually caught on to its attack pattern and finished it off, her victory being signaled by its body exploding into a purple wisp. Then a green crystallized prison appeared before her, cracking itself until it shattered open to reveal Princess Ariel of Atlantica in her sea green dress.
[End BGM]
[Victory BGM: Maiden Freed (The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures)]
"I thought I'd never see the light of day again! Thank you for coming to save me," said Ariel.
"I'm glad you're not hurt," commented Yuffie, "but we still gotta get you and the other Disney Princesses back to normal pronto! I have a young friend who likes you a lot as his favorite Disney Princess and...well, he was saddened to hear you got turned into a damsel-in-distress."
"Really?"
"Yeah...so, I think that makes about...we'll have to check in with the others back at the Sugar Rush game."
"I'm sure you and your friends will get us back to normal. Vaati and his minions may have turned us into helpless victims, but they didn't rob us of our memories. I'll try to think happy thoughts and see if I can't break the spell myself. After all, I am the adventurous kind of princess with an interest in human objects, mermaid or not."
That said, Yuffie used her grappling hook to get both Ariel and herself out of the watery room to exit the game. Suddenly, they stopped just at the entrance. "Hmm...I sense something's amiss in Sugar Rush. I hope the others, let alone Pit and Phosphora, have returned with the other princesses."
[End BGM]
[Stage BGM: Bowser's Castle (Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story)]
Elsewhere in the Final Fight game, the three Bomber-kids were on their way to the final level where the Mad Gear leader, Belger, was present. Throughout their search, they heard many claims from the gang members about a Disney Princess being Jessica in a fancy costume - either that, or the thugs were probably disillusioned.
"Don't believe what our boss said," stated one of the gang members that Cheerful White, Cool Black and Cute Pink defeated just now. "Dat blonde girl in a pink dress has gotta be Jessica in a princess getup, and I don't mean da one who's always getting kidnapped by dat fat dragon turtle-like thingy."
Pink turned over to her best friends momentarily. "White, you watched Sleeping Beauty with me once, remember? That guy must be talking about Princess Aurora, aka. Briar Rose!"
"You mean Jessica...oooh, I still hurt all over from yer 'toon bombs you threw at us."
Wasting no time, the Bomber-kids came all the way to Belger's penthouse and entered his office with five of his loyal enforcers alongside him: Damnd, Sodom, Edi. E, Rolento and even Abigail (mostly known as the man with a woman's name). The corrupt cop was the first to be baffled, saying, "They sent a buncha hooligan kids after us?! I promise to end this quickly..."
"Sodom and I may be the members of Bad-Anon," added Rolento, "but we know where our loyalties lie."
"I'm not surprised Vaati's also pulled you guys into his scheme!" shouted Cool Black. "Just so he can increase his chances of becoming king of Disneyland!"
Belger couldn't help but laugh at his would-be foe's statement. "Vaati? Naaah, you're sorely mistaken. He may say he's king, but if there's anybody around here who's gonna be the true king of this Disneyland kingdom, let alone Game Central Station, it's freakin' Turbo. Forget Vaati!"
"Hee hee heh, Vaati's old news," said Damnd. "While King Turbo's gonna control all of Disneyland, Mad Gear controls this stinkin' city as a tribute!"
Cute Pink was beyond disgusted. "Ugh! I can't believe someone would deliberately worship that lunatic infamous for crashing a RoadBlasters cabinet at Litwak's Arcade on Earth, back when TurboTime was still around! Even after he somehow survived and took over Sugar Rush by posing as King Candy, he was found out in the end and ultimately defeated. In other words, he's dead. Ralph and the good guys won."
"M. Bison may not have the guts to pay him tribute, but we do," hollered Belger. "And now that you know who's the real king, it's time for pain!"
[End BGM]
[Boss BGM: Bowser Battle (Super Mario 64)]
Damnd and Abigail were the first to attack Cheerful White and pals, the former whistling for backup from his lackeys. The three Bomber-heroes ran away from the attacks and came back to jump on the lackeys' heads prior to blasting Damnd and Abigail with their bombs, knocking them all out in the process. Then Edi. E stepped in, flanked by Sodom and Rolento, but he insisted that he handle them himself. Afterwards, he showed off his sheer police brutality by swinging his nightstick around and pulling out his pistol to shoot the heroes, not caring if he also hit his own guys, so long as he'd get to them. White, Black and Pink ducked beneath the bullets and grabbed ahold of Edi. E's legs until he tripped over and hit the floor face-first.
Next, Rolento jumped in and threw some hand grenades around, regardless of whether his cohorts got blown up or not. Pink spiked the thrown grenades like volleyballs, Black batted them with Edi. E's nightstick, and White caught a few others and juggled them in his hands for a bit, before throwing them back. Rolento was so shocked by their anti-grenade abilities, he didn't even bother moving out of the way when his own grenades exploded on him and Sodom. The force of the impact caused Belger, who had been hiding behind his henchmen all along like the coward he really was, to be knocked off his wheelchair and out the window with a CRASH. Just like in the game, he fell all the way down into the pavement with a loud thud, which was merely enough for his followers to run away.
"Our new friends in the Basilisk Dynasty will pay you back double-time for this insult!" cursed Rolento. "This was merely a warm-up compared to what's coming, but the Disney Princesses belong to Vaati and you know it!"
[End BGM]
[Victory BGM: Maiden Freed (The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures)]
With the Mad Gear members gone, a pink crystallized prison descended from the ceiling, shattering itself to reveal Princess Aurora.
"You've come to my aid? Did you enter this dangerous territory filled with evil-hearted men just to rescue me? And yet you all appear so young...oh, thank you! You carry my hope, as well as all of Disneyland's...but why did these men repeatedly mistake me for this Jessica character?"
"Some guys are just plain crazy," answered White.
"I know, right?" added Pink. "Some people never learn."
"Are the other princesses well, too?"
"I dunno," said Black, "but I'm sure our friends saved them just like we saved you."
"That's good to hear..." Just then, she felt something evil and gasped. "Oh, dear! There is a vile being approaching your Sugar Rush world...I can feel it in my heart."
Upon hearing those words, Pink too felt uneasy. "That means 9-Volt and his friends are in danger while we were out! They need us, NOW."
[End BGM]
[Boss BGM: The Dispossessed Eidolons (Final Fantasy IV: The After Years)]
"My wizardry senses indicate you've been laundering our master's Disney Princesses," stated Warlock Bomber, "and as punishment for defying Vaati, we're gonna wipe you out and turn Sugar Rush into a Cy-Bug hive! But I didn't come alone..."
Flanked by the Black Wizard of Destruction were three evil witches, each possessing the ability to fly and cast deadly spells on people. Icy, the Witch of Ice; Darcy, Lady of Darkness; and Stormy, the Queen of Storms. Their combined threats were merely enough to guarantee a difficult battle, but that did not stop the four Contras from calling in Ralph and Vanellope to help out. Fortunately, though, Arctic and Yuffie made it back in time alongside Wario, Mona, Ariel and Jasmine to even the odds...but neither one suspected Siren Bomber doing her own agenda due to her invisibility.
"Looks like we found you at the right place at the right time!" taunted Icy.
Ami smirked in response. "Good. Now we can make you Alfea fairy-haters leave!"
Lance took a quick glance at her and Aaron. "Careful now. You don't wanna lose your Super Contra power-ups. We're gonna need them to neutralize this Trix threat. Speaking of which, I never believed Purple Basilisk would entertain such thoughts like hiring those three witches from Winx Club."
"In short, he's desperate," said Arctic. "But if anyone around here's an ice princess, it's me! An ice princess who just so happens to be good at bowling, that is!"
"Tch. As if!" retorted Icy. "You look more like a twerp in that ugly helmet of yours!"
"Whatever happens," warned Ami, "don't let Darcy get around us with her dark magic. She's the most dangerous of the three, because one time she almost crushed Musa with a ball of compacted hover-cars! Trust me, Yumi and I saw it in one episode of Winx Club with our own eyes!"
Yuffie assured, "That's why we don't plan on letting her have her sadistic fun. Speaking of sadistic, I got a bad feeling Siren Bomber's somewhere around here. I can sense her black-hearted being, but I just can't seem to find her..."
"Oh, let's just say she's starting to have some fun," said Darcy. "Look behind you!"
"Ohhh no, we're not letting you catch us with our pants down!" retorted Ralph, who threw some punches while Vanellope glitched around to toss some Cherry Bombs at the Trix witches.
"I'll check it..." But before Mona could finish her sentence, she noticed Siren Bomber taking Phosphora's form to trick and harm 9-Volt. "Oh. No. She. ISN'T!"
Fortunately, though, Pit and the real Phosphora arrived back in Sugar Rush from their attempted search for the Disney Princess. When Mona told them what was happening, Phosphora didn't need to say anything, her righteous fury being enough to tell them Siren Bomber would get what's coming to her, let alone a lightning bolt in the mouth for stealing her identity.
"Well well well, if it isn't Miss Goody-Airhead herself," mocked the Singing Beauty. "Or should I say fake? Pit, don't listen to her! I'm the real deal!"
"You think we're gonna fall for your evil ruse again, Siren?" shouted Pit. "Fat chance!"
"And don't you dare hide behind my boyfriend either!" added Phosphora. "Besides, he'd beat your sorry butt too!"
"9-Volt's not the only one who can tell the real Lightning Flash from the fake," said Cherry. "Nobody impersonates her, EVER!"
Phoebe got in front of 9-Volt and formed a green 10-lb. (4.53 kg.) bowling ball on her hands with the power of imagination by thinking of Wii Sports Bowling and Punch-Out!. "Bowler's Fist! HAH!" She gripped the energy ball tight by its three finger holes and threw a hard enough punch to smash Siren Bomber's face, causing her to revert back to her original form.
"Here's a little going-away present for HARPY Bomber!" Phosphora charged up a ball lightning and threw it at Siren Bomber, but the Singing Beauty was ready for it. She pulled out a handheld vacuum cleaner-like device and absorbed the electric attack, converting it into dark lightning before firing it back at Phosphora, inflicting damage!
"How do you like my new invention Mosquito Bomber made for me?" asked Siren Bomber. "I call it the Anti-Phosphora 5000!"
"Oh no!" panicked 9-Volt. "Phosphora! PHOSPHORA!"
"She's too weak to say anything to you anymore! You see, I'd been fuming over my defeat to that blonde bimbo, I got desperate enough to find out her weaknesses and son of a gun, it turned out to be dark lightning as well as fire - evil fire, that is!" Siren pulled out yet another nasty-looking object, a red-colored bomb with a white skull painted up front. "Oh lookie what I brought too: the Dangerous Bomb, filled with the ultra-flammable and life-threatening white phosphorus! I just LOVE it when some men out there don't need me to 'guide' around, because naturally, humans LOVE destruction. And bombs, too." Then she had a fit of evil laughter to show off her bi-polar personality some more, not to mention her bomb-happy attitude, as she lit the fuse. "This time, I WIN! That is just too perfect to overlook! 9-Volt will cry as his guardian angel is reduced to nothingness!"
Pit grew mad enough to brandish his Upperdash Arm, intent on preventing Siren Bomber from carrying out her demented desires to kill his girlfriend in front of him and his friends. "You're just as deluded as those who think death and destruction are the solution to a better world! At least not all humans are bad!" Mona backed him up with the Magnus Club while Patricia and Cherry worked their lightning and fire powers to keep Siren at bay. As for Keyla, she managed to swipe the Dangerous Bomb and throw it up in the sky really high where it exploded harmlessly. Everyone covered their eyes so the huge blinding explosion wouldn't bother them.
"Thank goodness I've been practicing my ball-throwing abilities now and then," said Keyla. "Now here's my Striker bowling ball to that harpy's face!" She slammed her black-and-purple swirled ball against Siren Bomber, followed by the backwards-dash charged shot from Pit's Upperdash Arm, causing her to drop the Anti-Phosphora 5000 which Mona smashed into pieces with a hard enough swing from the Magnus Club.
[End BGM]
9-Volt ran over to his weakened guardian angel to try to awaken her, but could not stop himself from crying sad tears, the droplets eventually falling onto the girl's face. Slowly but surely the effects of dark lightning were washed away as if a pure-hearted child's tears were the only cure. Then 9-Volt kissed Phosphora's cheek, hoping she would be back to normal. In a flash, she woke up and hugged him with a smile.
"Shhh...it's okay, 9-Volt, don't cry." She kissed his cheek in return. "You know I'm not easy to get rid of, but thanks for washing the dark lightning away from me. Alright, now get behind me, 'kay? I'll take care of Siren Bomber once and for all."
"No, NO, NO!" yelled Siren Bomber. "No fair!"
"Yes, YES, YES!" blurted Phosphora, getting up with a start and charging up her lightning with her blue scarf. She tossed a barrage of lightning bolts, followed by electrical punches and kicks, and finally, her "Fastball Lightning Special" which involved throwing two ball lightnings along with an even bigger one, all of which blasted the female Chaotic Bomber to a crispy blackish-brown.
"Aaaargh! I HATE you and those other guardian angels of 9-Volt's! You ALWAYS spoil my fun, but just you wait, for one day you'll all FALL and I'll absorb Pit's soul unto myself to become immortal! And Felix's! And especially 9-Volt's!"
Phosphora scoffed at Siren's ranting. "Oh boo hoo hoo. Go drink from a milk bottle and snap a photo of yourself crying with Purple Basilisk and his stooges!"
"Stupid tree-hugging bimbo...UGH! I'll get her and Calhoun next time, and then steal 9-Volt, Felix and Pit's souls if it's the last thing I ever do...!"
With that, Siren Bomber stormed off whereas the Contras and their friends had just finished chasing Warlock Bomber and the Trix witches out of Sugar Rush, followed by Cheerful White and his two best friends returning with Princess Aurora, thus leaving only two Disney Princesses to go. While the heroes hoped for Blaze Bomber's safe return, they wasted no time coming up with a plan to find and rescue the last two.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Two more Disney Princesses to go - that's Snow White and Cinderella.
