Anyone saw that upcoming competitive Touhou/SSB game? I can't get over the quality of the characters' faces… That kind of face is beauty in the eyes of the creator, however, so don't really expect the final product to look different.
Chapter 10
Chaos on Wuhu Island
The appearance of the Overlords inside the two submarines surprised many people, though they thought they were Super Exos. Inside one of the submarines, Manith and Alina were in front of a computer, and the former told the latter, "You can set them loose now."
"You're going to let them run wild all over the island just like this?" Alina asked him.
"I mass produced the Super Exos for the purpose of terrorizing people, so this is a good opportunity to see how successful they will be," Manith told her. "Remember that Atrocitin is here as well, so does it not please you to know that the man who ruined your father's life is getting what he deserves?"
Hearing this, Alina said nothing further and then pressed a button on the keyboard in front of the computer. In doing so, the eyes of the Overlord armors lit up, and shortly after that, they stepped out of the submarine row by row and then took off into the air, a sight that amazed everyone.
However, the looks of amazement soon became looks of terror when the Overlords swooped down and started firing bullets and missiles all over the place. The crowd went wild, running for cover while screaming in fright.
"What's happening?!" screamed Luigi as he ran from the shore as fast as he could with Mario.
"That's-a what I want to know too!" said the latter.
What was happening was seen by Atrocitin from his hotel room, and needless to say, he could not believe what he was looking at. "Why are there lots of Super Exos flying out there and causing destruction?!" he asked.
"Mario! Luigi! Where are you?!" Peach cried out in the midst of the chaos. Everywhere she looked, she saw people running for cover and the Overlords causing destruction.
She saw an Overlord swooping down in her direction, so she held her arms over her face and screamed, but suddenly, Bowser jumped at the Overlord from the side, hitting it with a drop kick that sent it crashing to the ground. "Don't you dare lay a hand on Peach!" Bowser angrily said to it.
The armor got back up and fired from its wrist guns at Bowser, who withdrew into his shell for protection and then spun while moving towards its to knock it down again. Bowser then picked up the armor and slammed it against the ground over and over until it was destroyed.
"Thanks…" Peach said to him.
"You better go inside some building! It's dangerous out here! I already saw people getting killed by these things!" Bowser told her. "Leave everything here to me!"
"Peachy!" shouted Mario as he came running over to her with Luigi. "Thanks goodness you're all right-a!"
"Get her to safety, Mario!" Bowser told him.
"You don't have to tell us that!" Luigi told him, and then the Mario Bros. ran off with Peach.
"Take care!" Bowser called out to them, and then he heard someone calling him, so he turned to the source of the voice.
"Lord Bowser! Look! We got one!" Roy said to Bowser while posing next to an Overlord that was down on its front with Morton jumping up and down on top of it over and over.
"Good going, boys! Show these scrap metals what you've got!" Bowser told them.
The Overlord the two Koopalings knocked down suddenly got back up and fired at them from its wrist guns, but they withdrew into their shells in time for protection. Bowser was going to run to help them, but the Overlord got struck in the back of the head by Bowser Jr. using a surfboard.
The Overlord turned to him, only to get pushed down on its front by Roy and Morton, who then proceeded to stomp it like no tomorrow, while Bowser Jr. whacked its head with his surfboard over and over.
"Wait a minute! Don't mess it up too much!" Iggy shouted as he ran over to them. "I want to study one of these! They interest me!"
The Mario Bros. and Peach were approaching the hotel, but Luigi tripped and was left behind. Mario and Peach didn't notice it until they were some feet away from him, and when they turned around, they saw the plumber screaming at the sight of an Overlord standing a few feet away to the side and aiming its wrist gun at him. The armor was suddenly knocked aside by a roundhouse kick from Miss Fit. The trainer then helped Luigi up by the hand and asked him, "Are you all right?"
"Just a small scratch from falling…" replied Luigi. "Thanks!" Then he noticed the armor getting back up. "Watch out!"
Miss Fit quickly turned to the Overlord and jabbed her fingers at its abdomen with a force strong enough to push it back, and then she proceeded to attack it with a series of attacks that resembled yoga poses. She then raised her arms into the air and somehow formed a ball of light in front of herself to fire at the Overlord. "Salute the sun!" The energy ball blasted the armor on its back.
The Mario Bros. and Peach were lost in words at what they saw, as they never expected Miss Fit to be such a skilled fighter and also capable of firing a ball of light. Miss Fit turned to them and said, "All right, now get to safety! I can handle things here myself!"
"Where did you learn to fight?" Peach asked her.
"Self-taught! Now go! We can talk about this later!" the trainer told her.
"I suppose Rosalina really is telling the truth…" said Robin as he looked at the Overlords flying around the place from nearby the hotel.
"How about we do something instead of just standing here and gawking?" Reflet asked him.
Robin turned to a soldier next to him and told him to ensure the safety of the civilians and also call for support from their headquarters. After that, he said to Reflet, "We need to ensure the safety of Atrocitin, because if Manith truly is behind this, then he is likely the target."
"That's what's in my mind," Reflet told him. "Behind you!"
Robin turned around to see an Overlord pointing its wrist guns at him, so he quickly threw a fireball at it. "Arcfire!" While the robot was on fire, he charged up electricity in his hand and then fired a blast of it at it to fry it. "Elthunder!" He then turned to Reflet. "Go and find Atrocitin now! I will find out where these things are coming from!"
Manith and Alina watched the chaos going on outside through the point of view of one of the Overlord armors. "I think it's time we put to use the power of lag I installed into the Overlords," suggested the former.
"How is that thing really going to help?" asked Alina.
"Trust me, that ability is more useful than you think," claimed Manith. "Imagine all sorts of electronic devices going haywire at the worst possible time… At a time when people are trying to call for outside help or escape from this place, having lag interfere with what they are doing is something they really do not want to run into. Why don't you try it out yourself?"
Though skeptical, Alina decided to try it out anyway and thus entered a command on the keyboard for the Overlords. When the command was sent, the hands of all the Overlords out there released electricity, and then they punched their fists together at the same time to release EMP bursts that spread across the whole island, causing all electronic devices to stop functioning properly.
The Mario Bros. and Peach were inside an elevator when it suddenly stopped working. "Hey! What happened to the electricity?!" asked Luigi in shock in the darkness. The lights suddenly came back on. "Oh good, it's…" But it went out again. "Hey!"
The Miis were busy fighting the Overlords when suddenly they stopped moving and even fell to the ground motionlessly. Fox was standing nearby, firing at the Overlords with his blaster, when he saw this. "What happened to you guys?!" And he noticed that his blaster wasn't shooting anything, which made him curious.
Brawler tried to get back up and said in a stuttering manner, "Some… Some… Something… is… causing our… sys… sys… system… to go… haywire…" Then he fell back onto the ground as if he was suffering from spasm.
The soldiers told by Robin to call for help were unable to use their phones or any kind of communication devices as well.
"In case you're wondering why the Overlords are still functioning properly, and even our submarine, that's because all of these are installed with devices that protect them from the EMPs released by them," Manith explained to Alina. "We are the only ones who can still use electronic devices properly."
"What's with this TV?! A V.I.P. room's TV is supposed to work perfectly!" Dedede angrily said while hitting the top of his room's television. While there was an image on the screen, it wasn't moving at all, though there was still sound, albeit somewhat unclear. The image would occasionally move, but when it did, it would skip ahead to the scene the sound was currently at. Sometimes it would become static, however.
He was then surprised by the appearance of an Overlord crashing through the glass door leading to the balcony. The Overlord was going to fire at him, but several Waddle Dees rushed over to the armor and jumped at it to use their combined weight to pin it down. However, they were actually very light, and the Overlord had strength stronger than an average person, so it was able to get back up easily and shake them off.
"What are you guys doing?! This isn't how I taught you!" Dedede angrily said to the Waddle Dees when he saw what happened. "Get back up and fight like a real man!"
The Waddle Dees got back up and ran towards the Overlord again, this time grabbing hold of its legs and then pulling them forward to make it fall on its front. Other Waddle Dees then used this opportunity to thrust their spears at it, only for them to break. The Overlord got back up again, and by swinging around its arms and legs, it was able to knock all the surrounding Waddle Dees away.
Seeing this, Dedede growled in frustration while reaching for his hammer and said, "Do I have to do everything myself?!" He let out a cry as he ran towards the Overlord, who pointed its wrists guns at him, but the king swung his hammer at it before it could open fire and sent it flying out from where it came in from.
"Let that be a lesson to you for breaking into my room without permission!" he shouted at it.
Just then, there was a knock on the door, so a Waddle Dee went over to open it, and Meta Knight came in. "Your Majesty! There is big trouble outside!" he told the king.
"Yeah, I can see that," said Dedede, looking out the balcony. "What happened? It was so peaceful just a moment ago, and now it looks like a robot apocalypse is happening! Just so happened I was watching a movie about a robot apocalypse, by the way…"
"These robots that greatly resemble the Super Exos made by Atrocitin Evilene Nefariton suddenly showed up from submarines that appeared at sea, and they are causing destruction even as we speak!" Meta Knight told him.
"What do you propose that we do?" Dedede asked him.
"For your safety, I recommend that you stay here," Meta Knight told him. "I will go out there and give aid to those who need it."
"Then take my men if necessary," Dedede told him. "As the king of Dream Land, I should give the whole world a good impression of my country by showing support in times of need! Go out there and make me proud now!"
Reflet panted as she made her way to the highest floor of the hotel. Because the elevators weren't working properly due to the Overlords' action, she ran up the stairs instead to get to the floor Atrocitin was staying at after finding out his room number from the receptionist.
She found the room he was staying in and knocked on the door until he opened it. "Mister Nefariton! Are you all right?" she asked him.
"I'm all right, but I'm not pleased with what I'm seeing!" he angrily said. "The design of those robots is a complete rip-off of my Super Exos! If I find out who made them, I'm going to sue their heads off!"
"If what we told you before is to be believed, then it's likely Manith is behind everything, and we think he may be targeting you," Reflet told him. "Allow me to keep you safe until this is over!"
The military helicopter carrying the Smashers was approaching the island, and as they got closer to it, they were able to see the Overlords running amok there. "Looks like we're too late…" commented Link when he saw what happened.
"As long as the enemies are still around for us to teach them a lesson, it's not entirely too late," said Ganondorf.
"Quickly find a safe place to land," Chrom ordered the pilot.
The pilot nodded and moved the helicopter towards a part of the shore that doesn't have much Overlords running around, but when the helicopter got close to the island, the pilot noticed that the controls were becoming unresponsive. The control panel's computer also made static sounds and displayed messed up characters.
"What's happening?" Chrom asked the pilot.
"I don't know! Everything became messed up all of a sudden!" replied the pilot. "I can't seem to get the helicopter to turn properly too!"
It was also at this moment that the Smashers noticed R.O.B. acting strangely. The eyes of the robot were displaying static-like images.
"R.O.B.! What's wrong with you?" Samus asked him.
"Com… Computer… not… functioning… functioning… func…" said R.O.B. in a stuttering manner.
"Enemy approaching!" cried the pilot all of a sudden. An Overlord flew at the helicopter without a warning and rammed into the windshield with a strong force. Luckily, the windshield was durable enough to withstand the blow, so it suffered nothing more than a crack that wasn't too big. However, the crack grew in size when the armor punched the same spot over and over.
"How dare he attack us from a location where we can't reach him?!" said Link angrily.
"For you people, at least," said Dark Pit as he split his Silver Bow into a pair of blades. "I'll deal with that guy myself!"
The cloned angel exited the helicopter from the hatch and flew to the front to strike the Overlord from the side, pushing it away from the windshield. The others looked out the windows at them, and Shulk asked, "Will he be all right?"
"I'm sure he'll do fine," replied Captain Falcon.
All of a sudden, the helicopter shook violently, causing most of them to fall to the floor. "Hang on! The chopper isn't working properly! I'm trying to get it under control!" said the pilot.
Outside, Dark Pit swung his blades at the Overlord several times, but the latter was able to skillfully block each of the hits using its arms. When the armor fired from its wrist guns, he flew in a large circle around it to escape the shots, and then he fired an arrow of dark energy at its hand to make it stop. He then charged at the armor and used his Electroshock Arm to hit it with an uppercut that knocked it high into the air.
The Overlord wasn't defeated yet, though, and it charged back to him using thrusters on its feet. Dark Pit quickly moved to the side to avoid it and then fired some more arrows at it. The Overlord took the arrows to the chest, but it didn't seem to be bothered much by it. It then fired missiles from its shoulders.
Dark Pit dodged some of the incoming missiles and destroyed some with arrows, and in the midst of doing so, the Overlord charged at him and tried to punch him with spikes that came out from its knuckle. Because he was too busy dodging the missiles, Dark Pit wasn't able to avoid the punch entirely, so the armor's fist scraped the side of his face.
"You want a piece of me?!" the cloned angel angrily said while making a weapon resembling a purple rifle appear in his hand. "You're forcing this on yourself, j***!" He pointed the rifle at the Overlord and pulled the trigger, causing it to fire a beam that instantly pierced a hole through its chest. Just like that, the Overlord stopped functioning and fell to the sea.
Dark Pit then turned to the helicopter to see that it was on fire due to being attacked by two Overlords, and as a result, it was spinning out of control. "Oh boy…" he grumbled.
"I'm losing control of the chopper!" the pilot cried while trying to gain control of the helicopter.
"Move it towards the sea!" Chrom told him.
"The controls won't work properly!" said the pilot.
"I'll handle this, then," said Mewtwo. He used his psychic powers to form a spherical barrier around the helicopter, and then the latter floated towards the shore at a moderate speed and landed in a shallow part of the water. Just like that, the fire was put out.
"Phew… That was close… It's all thanks to you, Mewtwo!" Captain Falcon said to the Pokemon.
As they were getting out of the helicopter, they saw two Overlords with holes pierced through their chests falling into the water nearby. Dark Pit came down with the rifle in his hand and said, "Lucky to have a psychic with you, right?"
"That's one reason we don't go down so easily!" said Link.
They then turned to the shore to see people running around with the Overlords causing havoc. "How are we going to put an end to this?" asked Shulk.
"I believe the answer lies in there," said Mewtwo, pointing to the pair of submarines some distance away from where they were.
"Those must be Manith's submarines," said Chrom. "He's likely inside one of them with Rosalina."
"In that case, some of us will go to those subs and rescue her, while some of us try to destroy as many of those armors as we can," suggested Captain Falcon. "Also keep an eye out for our friends. They're without doubt doing their best fighting these armors at the moment."
"Sounds like a good plan to me," said Ganondorf while punching his palm.
"Then let's get started!" said Link with enthusiasm while getting into a fighting stance.
TO BE CONTINUED
This chapter is supposed to be longer, but due to procrastination wasting too much time, I decided to release it in a shorter form and save the unused parts for the next chapter instead.