My sincerest apologies for the long wait, but a combination of life issues and a surge of inspiration for another story delayed this chapter greatly. I also extend an apology to Cyphrus Cross, I decided to finish this chapter on my own, but I hope you'd still like to be my editor/co-writer.
I'll stop talking now so all of you can enjoy this delayed chapter.
Chapter 9 Telepath vs Knight
As soon as he heard, FIGHT, Meta flew towards Krystal with his Drill Rush (Side-B) attack. Krystal countered by thrusting her staff forward and releasing a burst of cold at its tip.
The sudden drop in temperature caused Meta to stop his attack, and he was promptly thrown downward from a whack to his head from Krystal's staff.
Meta shook of a little dizziness in time to see Krystal come down after him and attempt to land another hit with her staff. He changed his cape into wings and used a mighty wing-beat to push himself out of range of the staff.
The little knight used his momentum to flip himself right-side up then quickly charges at Krystal, Galaxia at the ready for a strike. Krystal held her staff vertical and caused an explosion at its lower end, lifting her high up and throwing a little smoke into Meta's eyes.
The vixen flipped in mid-air and landed on the upper platform, then fell down to try and hit Meta from behind. The odd thing was...he wasn't there as she came down.
"What the...where did..." her sentence stops when she feels a sword slash powerfully across her back. Krystal gasps a little as the force chucks her into the lower platform, leaving her temporally stunned. She hears Meta's shoes clink on the metal platform and manages to get out of the way in time to dodge another sword slash.
The two begin swinging their respective weapons at one another but usually just wind up blocking the other's attack. Krystal was having a little difficulty with blocking the little knight's attacks, simply on account of how small he was. She was used to fighting against opponents her height with attacks at the torso level, not a small opponent who was slashing at her shins.
Another thing that was throwing her off was how fast those slashes were coming, his sword was moving at speeds that border-lined on being a blur...and Krystal was pretty sure that had it not been so cold, Meta's slashes would be a blur. If it wasn't for her own fur coat and the insulating properties of her bodysuit, she wouldn't have been able to keep up.
After roughly a minute, Meta tires of his random-slashing technique and backs off, but only to put enough distance for him to use his Mach Tornado. At such a close-range, Krystal is sucked right into the vortex and is mercilessly slashed up. After a couple seconds, the attack ends as Krystal is knocked upwards.
Two things happen as Krystal reaches the height of Meta's throw, she hears a wing-beat, a sign that he was coming after her, and a small ring-shaped object appears in the air above her. She had no idea as to what this item was, but the vixen quickly grabbed and tossed the ring down towards Meta.
He saw the ring coming, but thanks to the strength of his own jump he was going too fast towards it to dodge. Meta felt the ring (somehow) cling to his forehead, and, half-a-second after it attached, he felt electricity shooting through his little body. It wasn't enough to cause him to yell out in pain, to be honest it was more like a long, bad static zap, but it was still enough to stun his wings and force him back down to the stage.
Meta lands on the left platform, but can't get away from a descending Krystal, again because of the tingling electricity going through his body. Krystal lands on her feet and immediately takes advantage of his paralysis by smacking him every which way with her staff.
Krystal manages to inflict roughly forty percent to Meta before the ring detaches and he starts his high-speed counter-attack. The vixen blocks five slashes before jumping away, landing on the right platform. Meta attempts to follow by using his Drill Rush, but is blocked when Krystal swings her staff a little, throwing a fireball that flashes right in Meta's eyes when it explodes.
The knight stops his attack and covers his eyes, and is soon clubbed on the head by Krystal's staff. He gets sprawled out on the lower platform, and (despite his somewhat fuzzy vision from the blow to his head) he sees what looks like a large ice chunk fly towards him. It had to have been some element from the stage because it was way too big to be a Freezie.
Again he uses a wing-beat to push himself out of the way, and unfortunately for Krystal, she lands right where he was. The ice-ball pegs Krystal in the back and freezes her into a large ice chunk instantly, the same as a Freezie would. Meta runs towards Krystal, hoping to get a few free hits in, but didn't notice that the ice-ball froze not only Krystal, but also the surrounding area of the platform.
Meta's boot comes down onto the ice sheet and he immediately slides forward, slamming his right arm against the iceberg. His impact weakened the ice enough for Krystal to free herself, but like her opponent, she slips and falls on the ice.
Meta gets up first and was about to slash Krystal, but the dimming of the stage and a Smash Ball appearing behind the vixen draws his attention away from some free hits. His cape turns into wings and he promptly chases after the orb, but not far behind him is Krystal, the blue fox hoping to keep the powerful item away from the swordsman.
She has no such luck, Meta quickly lands four slashes onto the Smash Ball before kicking it with his boot, shattering the orb and absorbing its power. Even better for him, Krystal was right at his side the moment his body was bathed in the rainbow aura, and without skipping a beat he casts his cape over her, forcing the lighting to fade to black.
Everything went dark for Krystal when Meta's cape covered her, then she felt a mighty slash cut across her chest that accompanied a bright flash of light. From the sheer power of the slash, Krystal is tossed away helplessly over the horizon, allowing Meta a brief couple of seconds to catch his breath. Krystal quickly returns to the top platform, grabs a Beam Sword that had just appeared and lunges at Meta with the laser sword poised to stab the swordsman.
Meta had heard Krystal's boots when she landed and spun around with just enough time to block her slash with his own sword. However, while Galaxia was holding back the glowing blue blade, Krystal still had her staff, and promptly used it to jab Meta in the side. The Dreamlandian flinched from the sudden attack, which weakened his hold on the Beam Sword, which (in turn) earned him a slash from above.
He was cast off the edge of the stage, but managed to fly back to the lowermost platform. Krystal (of course) attempted to continue her assault, but was forced to back away due to a sudden flurry of sword swings...he apparently wasn't fond of Krystal having two weapons to wield against him.
The vixen took a few steps backwards to get clear of the frenzy of dangerous slashes, wondering how to get him to stop. She attempted to toss the Beam Sword, but it bounced on the slashes and fell over the edge. How do I get him to stop? Krystal quickly thought, A Fireburst won't make it through, an Ice Blast needs me to get too close...maybe... In an instant Krystal lifted her staff above her head, spun it so the jeweled end was pointing towards Meta, then slammed the tip into the ground, causing a large tremor to shake the whole platform.
Meta didn't take that much damage, but he did lose his balance and fall backwards. He got up with enough time to block a quick swing of Krystal's staff, then made a jab for her gut, forcing Krystal to leap backwards to avoid getting hit. Meta flew straight towards Krystal, with Galaxia poised for a slash, but Krystal used another Rocket Boost to leap away.
She landed back on the top platform, but before she could move, Meta flew up to and deliver three quick cuts across her back. Krystal gasped from the attack and spun around to try and force Meta away with another staff jab, but found that he had dove back down for the bottom platform...making a beeline for a Pokeball.
Meta quickly scooped the sphere into his free hand and tossed it into the ground, and after a bright light flash...
...a blob of pink goo appeared.
Back in the living room, everyone who wasn't related to Pokemon in some way began laughing hysterically at the new Pokemon, sure that it was another of the 'dud' Pokemon (Goldeen and Munchlax).
"I wouldn't laugh if I were you guys." Red states, reclining a little in his seat on the couch.
"Why?" Bowser asked through his chuckles, "That thing is absolutely pathetic!"
"I wouldn't say that Bowser." Mewtwo replied from his isolated corner of the room. "That is a Ditto, it can change itself to become whatever it wants...its just done it now in fact..."
Mewtwo spoke the truth, in her fight Krystal was now having to fight off two Meta Knights, one the normal colors and the other in black and white. Granted the Ditto-Meta wasn't as fast (or as bright, since it frequently waited an average of three seconds between attacks) as the original, but she couldn't do anything to damage it.
Luckily though, the Ditto doesn't do much damage to her before it disappears, but soon there's another problem...a siren was blaring. Roughly a second after the siren went off, the energy beam from the Fichina Weather Control Station faded and a cylindrical shelter appeared on the right platform.
Both Meta and Krystal headed for it for two reasons, Meta because this shelter was similar to the one in Norfair and Krystal because she knew what Fichina was like without the Weather Control Station.
Meta did manage to open the door and get inside first, but was promptly tossed out when Krystal lifted him up then used her staff like a baseball bat with him being the ball. Meta fell down past the lower level, but managed to fly back...although it was in vain. The force field door slammed shut, leaving Meta the victim to a horrible blizzard as it tore through the stage.
The blizzard subsided after about three seconds as the Weather Control Station roared back into life, and Krystal was released from the shelter unharmed...but the same couldn't be said of Meta, who was frozen into a mini-iceberg from the blizzard. With a nudge from her staff, Krystal pushed the iceberg over the edge and took out the first of Meta's stock.
She had just enough time to breathe before a somewhat pissed Meta returned, with his sword flailing around in all directions. Krystal was forced to barely blocking each swing with her staff as the slashes came dangerously close to hitting her shins.
"You're not bad Meta..." she compliments while continuing to block his onslaught.
"Hmph...if it wasn't for this cold, I'd be at my full potential." he replies.
He continued to slash at her for the next couple of seconds, although Krystal managed to block all but two of the hits, before the stage's lighting dimmed again and a Smash Ball appeared just above the two.
Krystal, determined to keep Meta from getting it again, quickly jabbed the bottom of the ball with her staff, both damaging and pushing it out of Meta's range. The little swordsman quickly took flight after it, but was beaten when Krystal used her Rocket Boost to launch immediately to the ball's height. With another jab she broke the ball and allowed its energies to flow into her.
"Sorry Meta, but I win." Krystal said in faintly sing-song like tone as she landed on the top platform, "Krazoa Spirits...come!" she yelled while holding her arms out.
Immediately eight strange...things...began to fly towards Krystal. They were semi-transparent, colored a mix of cobalt blue and purple, and shaped like a tribal mask of sorts. Where the eye-holes were in the 'masks' was a faint white light and multiple tendrils trailed after the masks as the assembled around Krystal, while her rainbow aura was absorbed.
The eight spirits flew into her body, each time that happened Krystal flinched slightly, and slowly she began to glow that blue-purple color, which also replaced the whites of her eyes.
Krystal tightly gripped her staff as she held it in front of her and channeled the energy of all eight Krazoa Spirits plus the Smash Ball into the jewel at the tip. Once all of the energy was forced into that jewel, Krystal let out a yell as she jabbed her staff upward, releasing dozens of small, basketball sized spheres of white light into the air.
Each sphere began to fly around erraticly before crashing into a part of the stage and exploding, with some even just exploding in midair. Meta did his best to fly away from the deadly spheres, but was suddenly hit in the side by one, and tossed toward another...which exploded and cast him towards another...which also exploded and cast him towards a fourth...which ducked out of the way at the last second and allowed Meta to return to the stage by his wings.
He landed and hid his wings under his cape as the last sphere went off on the other side of the stage, and Krystal's Final Smash ended.
"Impressive Krystal...rarely have I seen someone control so much energy so easily." Meta says in a rare compliment.
"Thanks, but I'm still going to win!" she yells while jumping at the swordsman with her staff ready for an attack.
Meta leaps backward to avoid her attack, but is quickly struck when she jabs her staff forward into the bottom of his mask. He's tossed backwards and is quickly struck downward by another blow to the top of his head.
Once again, Meta attempts to fly back up to the stage, but is struck downward again by Krystal. With his strength depleted and head throbbing, Meta is unable to recover this time and looses his last stock by falling across the lower boundary.
The two smashers return to the Brawl Room in expected status, Meta with a hand to his head (resulting from numerous blows from Krystal's staff) and Krystal swaying slightly thanks to a delayed Smash Sickness experience.
"Congratulations Krystal, you've won." Meta says while stepping off his panel and walking for the door.
"Ugh...thanks..." she groans, only as a result of the slight nausea she was experiencing. The blue-furred fox tries to step off the panel, but quickly loses her balance and begins tumbling forward.
With one swift movement, Meta leaps into the air and grabs Krystal by the arm, using his wings to both stay aloft and pull her back upright. Once she was stable again, Meta lands and continues his walk for the door. "I suggest using your staff as a walking stick until your Smash Sickness subsides, it should prevent you from collapsing." he says while going around the corner, before his cape flutters after him.
Krystal takes his advice and uses her staff to assist her movement from the Brawl Room back downstairs to the living room, accepting her gracious applause with little more than a smile and a wink...that was all she really could do.
She re-claims her seat beside Fox just as Master makes his next announcement. Attention...would Colette please report to the Brawl Room to battle Princess Peach. I repeat, would Colette please report to the Brawl Room for a fight against Princess Peach.
Peach stands from her spot beside Mario and walks for the Brawl Room, her dress flowing along behind her. Colette follows, albeit a little nervously. The two blonds arrive and take their places on the panels.
Just before she signs in, Peach notices Colette's uneasiness and asks, "A little nervous?"
"Yea...I'm not really that much of a fighter..." Colette mumbles back.
Peach puts a hand onto Colette's shoulder and smiles at her. "Don't worry. I'm sure you'll do fine. Its a little weird at first, but you'll get used to it. I was the same way."
Colette gives Peach a look that asked 'Really?'
"Honest." Peach says before a wink, "You'll do great, I can tell."
Colette returns the smile before pressing her button, the same time Peach does. With a flash of light, the two are warped into yet another new stage...Paper Theatre.
This stage was reminiscent of the Bridge of Eldin, since the participants couldn't fall off the bottom, but they could get tossed over the sides or top. The stage itself was an actual stage in a very fancy theater, with a large series of seats for a crowd, which already held ten observers.
On the stage was several large, wooden props that resembled hills and hanging above were a couple cloud props. The stage itself was oddly simple, which meant that there was probably some sneaky effects that were going to catch a fighter off-guard.
A cloud of peach blossom petals appear on the right-hand side of the stage and a huge pillar of white light appears on the left. The flower petals begin to settle as Peach appears, her parasol over a shoulder. She waves as the pink parasol disappears. At the same time, Colette descends from above inside the light pillar, aided by a pair of large, transparent angel wings that were made of light. The wings spread themselves and fade as she softly lands on the stage.
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FIGHT!
Well? Krystal and Meta's fight wasn't a let-down was it? The inspiration for that other story is beginning to fade, so that (hopefully) means that this story will be updated much more often. Don't worry though...I never discontinue a story.
