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Chapter 35: Twin Marx
Loud sibling used: Lola
Copy Ability: Mirror
Boss: Marx
Game: Kirby Super Star (1996)/ Kirby Super Star Ultra (2008)
Author's Note: Galacta Knight makes a cameo appearance in this chapter, but is never actually fought
At the Loud house, no, all over Earth, day and night change as fast as a person blinks! Lisa is trying to work with NASA to resolve this problem, but perhaps there's another solution…
"The sun and moon are fighting each other!" Lincoln notes
"If that really was the case, how come we're not dead from either the extreme heat or the rising tides?" Lisa claims skeptically
"Video game logic! Now there's only one way to stop it! We need to activate 7 dream fountains to harness the collective wish power to get the sun and moon to stop fighting!"
"Oh, and how are you going to get to space without immediately dying? I don't have any spacesuits made." Lisa admonishes
As if on cue, a dimensional star spits out a starship that can function as a spacecraft.
"You still need oxygen to breathe."
The starship's computer chimes in.
"Oxygen reserves at 100%, generating atmospheric field…"
"This flies in the face of science!"
"If you haven't noticed already, bosses from the Kirby series have been leaking out of dimensional stars. I think science and logic just went out the window." Lincoln cynically quipps
"Fine, who's going to space to do this?"
"I will."
All of the Loud siblings look at the person who said that…it was Lola.
"Are you sure? Have you recovered from the Masked Dedede fight?" Lincoln asks her
"Yes Linky, I'll activate the dream fountains."
"And I'll tag along with her." Lana volunteers "After all, you'd need a pilot to get you to those planets, and I'm the perfect candidate for the job. Besides, I'm your twin sister, I would never forgive myself if anything were to happen to you."
"Ok then, our journey across the stars begins!"
"Here's the CAS system, Lola, good luck."
Lola nods in understanding.
We see a montage of Lola and Lana's interplanetary exploits throughout the cosmos. A peaceful stroll through the grass planet Floria, A swim through the water planet Aquarius, A hop, skip and a jump, through the cloud planet Skyhigh, a volcanic excursion through the flame planet Hotbeat, wandering through the mazelike labyrinth of the cave planet Cavius (real original, we know), dashing through the artificial planet Mekkai and finally, shooting across the nebulae of the eternal planet Halfmoon. Lola has made it through all of the planets and activates all 7 dream fountains, just as she's about to leave Halfmoon, however, a pink angelic knight in a crystal descends down, he breaks the crystal and draws out his lance!
"Lola, get out of there now!" Lana's voice is heard on a walkie talkie. Yeah, Lincoln gave the twins his special ARGGH walkie talkies before they left, they just haven't needed to use them until now.
Lola is paralyzed with fear, as anyone would be if they saw Galacta Knight in the flesh. This Kirby boss is so badass, he could make META KNIGHT his bitch! All Lola could do is back away slowly and hope he doesn't notice her. Unfortunately, he does and speaks to her in the language of the ancients.
"Proelio lacessere audes mihi puellae?"
Lola tries to run away, but Galacta Knight blocks her with his lance. From Galacta Knight's point of view, he's scanning her, but there's nothing remotely interesting about her.
"Vade, vestri 'non dignitas mihi est."
Galacta Knight lowers his lance and lets Lola pass. Lola runs for her life.
"Militia est vita nemo potest challenge qui me?! Im 'relinquens virum istum iniquum locum."
Galacta Knight looks back at the princess he deemed weak. He notices that next to that worthless fighter, compared to him, at least, is another girl, trying to comfort her. He attempts scanning Lola again, knowing full well that it's a futile effort, but he doesn't want to go back to the Interdimension, sealed in that crystal, waiting for a worthy opponent. He is taken aback in shock, not from scanning Lola, but from scanning the other girl. This girl has a faint reddish orange signature emanating from her. It's very faint, but it's there. Lola had no such signature.
Galacta Knight dashes toward the twins. They try to escape to the starship, but Galacta Knight blocks them with his lance laser. He points to Lana with his lance.
"Quid est nomen tibi?"
Lana doesn't know the language of the ancients. Galacta Knight is waiting…
"Hey you, if you even think about poking Lana with that epee of yours, I will destroy you!"
Galacta Knight scoffs at her audacious claim. Knowing that she will easily lose a duel with him, but at least he knows the name of this girl.
"Lana, estne? Es quidem vir puellam valde specialis. Ut possit sentire Pugnator scriptor determinatio. Tu sunt dignus habetur pugnator mihi! Paratus?"
The epic rock theme kicks in as Galacta Knight tries to fight Lana. Lana knows that fighting Galacta Knight is practically a death wish, so she tries to flee the battle! It doesn't work.
"Huc redire!"
Galacta Knight summons energy spikes to skewer Lana from below! Before the attack connects, a massive energy blast hits him and interrupts the attack!
"Qui audet ?!"
Everyone looks at the source of the blast. It's Lynn's ghost, with the fighter copy ability! Galacta Knight scans her and finds that her entire spirit is radiating a fighting determination!
"Illa potestas!"
"Lynn!" The twins shout in joy
"Lana, Lola, get out of here! I'll distract Galacta Knight!" Lynn shouts at them
Lola and Lana flee Halfmoon using the starship and head off to a remote part of space near Popstar. Meanwhile, the 2 greatest warriors prepare to have an epic duel.
"Lynn, da mihi bona pugna!"
"Wouldn't have it any other way."
The 2 begin fighting one another! Meanwhile, near Popstar, Lana and Lola try to calm down after surviving an encounter with the greatest warrior in the galaxy. But there's no time for rest, as something was reacting to the dream fountains' activation. The clockwork star NOVA appears!
"READY"
"I will grant you one wish…"
Marx tries to knock the starship away, but Lana responds by punching him. Unfortunately, he still managed to say a wish before Lana knocked him away.
"Well, I want to control POPSTAR!" Marx manages to say before being sent into deep space
"OK 3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF!"
"WOW! It worked. The Sun & Moon are fighting. Go find NOVA. All my plans worked! POPSTAR is all MINE! Now, I can do anything! I must be going now. Hahahahahahahahah…!"
Marx transforms from his cute jester form into a nightmarish mirror bat creature, while NOVA attempts to crash into Popstar! Popstar's Sun and Moon attempt to hold it back, while Marx flies off to a reflective battlefield.
"Lana, stay here. I'm going after Marx!" Lola asserts
"Ok, just please…come back."
"I will, Lana."
Lola gets dropped off at the reflective battlefield where Marx awaits.
"Mirror!"
Lola now has the Mirror copy ability!
"Huh? You can't stop my plans! But go ahead and try! You aren't Kirby, so how could you ever hope to defeat ME?!" Marx declares while cackling insanely
Marx begins the battle by spreading out 4 diagonal cutter blades at Lola, she responds by guarding! Thanks to the mirror ability, she reflects one of the cutter blades back at him for 5% damage!
"Gah?! You dare hurt me?!" Marx screeches
Marx flies offscreen and plants seeds into the battlefield, they sprout thorny vines with roses growing on them. They don't hurt Lola, as she was nowhere near where the seeds were planted. Marx reemerges from the battlefield by popping out under her, which she blocks. Lola hits him with the mirror ability's scepter, causing 10% damage!
Next, he appears on the right side of the arena and sends out a barrage of dual tipped energy arrows at her, which she blocks! Despite this, Lola still takes 5% damage from all the arrows! Lola goes over and deals 10% more damage, plus 6% more damage from the mirror fragments the scepter produces for a total of 16% damage! Marx responds by flying airborne and dropping an ice bomb on Lola, she counters by jumping up and dealing 10% more damage, and jumping over the ice blast that the bomb explodes!
Marx flies to the left side of the screen. This time, he fires a massive energy laser from his mouth. Lola tries to evade it, but she gets caught and takes a massive 20% damage attack! Lola tries to use her mirror attack but Marx flies offscreen and uses the thorny vine attack again, which Lola dodges, and guards when Marx reappears!
Marx attempts to uses his cutter blade attack, Lola reflects it for 5% more damage, and uses the mirror ability's duplication attack to deal 30% damage total, before he tries the energy arrow attack again, which Lola once again guards, dealing 5% damage to her.
Marx splits himself in two and forms a miniaturized black hole to tear Lola apart! Lola manages to escape Marx's mini black hole's gravity field until he reforms himself. When he does, Lola splits herself in 2 to deal 15% damage to Marx! Marx's final attack is to try to drop another ice bomb, but Lola just hits him with the scepter and the fragments it generated for 10%, plus 2%, plus 2%, for a total of 14% damage!
"NO, impossible! How could a someone as pathetic as YOU beat ME?!" Marx screams
Marx's body is bathed in a white-hot light as he explodes and flies off. With missile-like precision, Marx crashes into NOVA, killing himself in the process, as well as causing the clockwork to explode into pieces, Popstar is saved!
Meanwhile on Earth, we see that a mysterious person has been watching the entire Marx battle on a tablet.
"How could Marx fail with the power of NOVA? Hmm…those sisters are tougher than I gave them credit for."
The screen focuses on the person's tablet. It's dark purple, with black highlights. The company's name is still engraved on it.
"NME enterprises"
A bell rings, could this mysterious person be a student of some sort? Either way, their school day is over, as they exit the school, we see its name.
"Royal Woods Elementary"
"What?! The perpetrator is a Michiganian?! And one from Royal Woods?! Just WHO is this person?!"
They amble about aimlessly until they find something. It's a fountain of dreams…
Wait…a dream fountain? On Earth?!
The person activates the fountain and summons NOVA!
"READY"
"I will grant you one wish…"
"You know, Lola's battle with Marx was so awesome…I want her to fight him again!"
"OK 3, 2, 1, BLAST OFF!"
We see that some energy is flowing into Marx's lifeless corpse. It regains enough energy to metamorphize himself into a powerful new form! He flies back to the reflected battlefield where Lola was!
The person gets into their version of a starship and heads off into space! Like the one Lana got, it also generates an oxygenated atmospheric field.
Back at the Loud House, Lincoln receives a voicemail from it. This is what it said.
"Hey Larry, I bet by now you've noticed all of the strange anomalies recently happening. Well, they're because of me! I found a Clockwork Star when I was heading home from school one day, and it said it could grant any wish I wanted. Do you know what I want? To make your life as miserable as possible! Now, I know that your precious sisters will come to your aid, so I will deal with them eventually, but this quarrel between us will never end."
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