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Chapter 9: Enemy after Enemy, part 2
Young Cricket faced the old man who once was his sensei. "It`s the cricket against the mantis. I won`t win easily."
"Yeah, come one come all! I`ll defeat ya all! Nah, really! Believe me, you won`t get back on your feet after that!"
A huge bong was heard. The battle began. The other Elite Team 2 members went a few steps back.
Master Mantis and Young Cricket jumped at the exact same time. Young Cricket tried kicking his sensei but the old man twisted on himself, caught his student`s legs, and as they fell back he threw Cricket on the floor down there. Of course, the teenager landed on the head, causing one more bruise to appear, and he screamed of pain. Master Mantis was about to land on his past student when Cricket rolled out of the way. Mantis fell on his feet. Cricket tried kicking Mantis but the old man just avoided the hit.
Young Cricket got up, and jumped some steps back. Young Cricket then ran toward Mantis, but five meters away, Cricket made a long jump with his foot first, ready to kick his sensei. But the older martial artist grabbed Cricket`s leg, and with the power of judo he smashed him on the floor. The battle was seemingly lost. Young Cricket had problems getting up. Until Mona reminded him: "Use your head! You can defeat him!"
On this, Young Cricket stood up. He had the towel around his head ever since they got caught. He unwrapped his head from the towel, and Master Mantis could see how ugly he had become because of that uncountable number of bruises. On this, Cricket rushed toward his sensei, screaming like a devil, and tackled head first Mantis. That move sure hurts, but it was the only way of winning.
"Bruises Aplenty Technique!" Cricket screamed while attacking repetitively with his overly-bruised head, smashing Mantis until the master fell on his back.
"His hits are okay, but he can`t take many hits before losing. Maybe it`s his age."
Mona looked at that, and told herself: "That`s not exactly what I meant by "using your head", but that will be okay I guess."
Young Cricket looked at is sensei.
"For once, I have something to teach you. You must not remember why I tell you this, and you will maybe not remember what I tell you right now, but I`ll say it anyway. I don`t have to train on impulses, because it is natural. It`s normal to sometimes do things without thinking. It`s normal to have impulses."
"I will remember it," Master Mantis said with a low voice. "You can all go to the next room."
The rest of the gang passed through the door at the opposite side of the arena. Young Cricket followed them. Mona asked Young Cricket:
"Is this as normal as an impulse?"
And she kissed him on the cheek. Hearts appeared instead of Cricket`s pupils for a second.
"I dunno…"
***
The team passed through a short hallway, until they reached a replica of the Diamond Arcade. Mike was waiting for them in there. Jimmy knew exactly what was going to happen.
"Oh, hi, loser," Mike said, pointing at Jimmy. "Wanna take your revenge?"
"I sure do!" Jimmy said. Penny, the voice of reason as always, tried stopping him.
"You`re not ready, your leg still hurts a little!"
Jimmy pushed her away. "If we do nothing we`re caught here forever. If I lose we all lose, or maybe die. I have to win. But I`m sure he has prepared something. An even faster song, maybe." On this, Jimmy took out of his pockets two energy drinks. He opened the bottles and sipped down the entire content of the two bottles. Jimmy became hyperactive, able to dance at the highest speeds ever. Jimmy ran to his own machine at CDR (Champion Dance Revolution).
"What`sthedeal, dancebot? What`sthesong?"
"Whoa, cool down, loser. You`re speaking too fast. But the song we`ll use is Hardware Store, by Weird Al Yankovic."
"Neverheardofit," Jimmy said.
"You`ll discover it then, loser."
"Bringiton!"
On this, the song began. The machines were settled on Champion difficulty, and that song was way harder than Forest Rawest.
The first part was kinda easy for Mike, and it seemed even easier for Jimmy. The arrows were well-followed by the two dancers. They were going at a high speed, we could almost not see their legs at the speed they were going.
After a while, they got to the chorus. That part was even faster! It was so speedy nobody would have passed it, even if it was on medium difficulty. But Jimmy, over-boosted by the energy drinks, seemed not to care as he still had the highest possible score. Mike had the same score. The chorus passed. The second part began.
Jimmy`s teammates were acclaiming him. They were shouting "Go Jimmy!" "You can do it!" "Never abandon!"
The second part passed and the chorus (which was actually the same chorus as before but twice) also was passed easily by the dancers. Mike turned to Jimmy while dancing and told him: "This time, you`re going down, loser. Even I can`t pass the next part without any mistakes."
"YeahwellIdon`tgivead*mnsobringallyougotandanywayIamhyperboostedandnothingcanbeatmeohmygosh!!!"
The next part was simply impossible. It was impossible to sing, so imagine now if you had to dance on it! Yep, very difficult at Easy, it was impossible at Champion.
The singer began: "Allen wrenches gerbil feeders…" And the legs of the dancers became a real colored fog of legs going in all directions, tapping on all arrows, and this time Mike was no more laughing. Jimmy was faster than any human would ever be on a dance pad. Mike couldn`t believe his eye captors. At one point, Mike`s legs began smoking on the pressure. Damn! His leg motors were burning because of the speed!
The part ended after the singer said "matching salt and pepper shakers". Mike was trying to keep up despite his motors about to burn. The last chorus, which was the first but repeated three times, was the last straight line before the end.
The chorus was sung once. Mike had a lot of problems following. The chorus repeated. Mike was really having problems. At the last repetition of the chorus, Mike fell on the floor, remembering Jimmy of the dance battle that had occurred many days ago. Jimmy, whose speaking speed came back to normal, approached Mike after the song ended.
"You see, Mike, robots are as weak as humans when it comes to superhuman abilities. We have legs, you have motors. If we have no legs, and if you have no motors, it comes to the same result… Now, I can see you are unable of moving, so we`ll just go on."
***
In the next room, there was Orbulon. No big surprise there. Mona knew it was her time. Orbulon presented himself and told them everything about this battle.
"It`s a quiz! Here is how it works: You ask a question, I answer it. If I`m right, I get a point, or else I win nothing. Whatever the result is, I ask you another question, and if you have it right you gain a point. Then, you ask me a question, and so on. The first at 10 points wins."
"Wait, that`s unfair!" Mona shouted. "That means you can have one point before me!"
"Not unless you ask me a question I don`t know the answer…"
Two stands appeared. Mona took the right one and Orbulon the left one. There was a microphone on each.
"I know I`m not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree," Mona said, "but aside from Penny I`m one of the smartest humans in Diamond City. I`m not Marie Curie but I`m not an idiot neither. Let`s go. Question one: What is the distance between Turin and Palène?"
"One thousand three hundred twenty-two kilometers." One point appeared on Orbulon`s stand`s screen.
"My turn. Who is a brilliant pun-making Quebecer humorist who has made over three thousand sketches?"
"François Pérusse." A point appeared on Mona`s stand`s screen. "How is called a polygon with eleven sides?"
After ten minutes, each one had nine points. It was Mona`s turn to ask a question. Mona racked her brain to find a question Orbulon couldn`t answer. She remembered something. Something that happened some days ago.
"What is the meaning of the expression "going bananas?"
Orbulon thought about it. He thought for a minute approximately, and he found no answer.
"Sorry, I don`t know. Okay, my turn to ask you a question now. Is there water on Mars?"
Mona thought for some seconds before answering "No." The last point appeared on Mona`s screen. Orbulon had made up a question based on what no human should know. Only he knew there was zero water on Mars, but she got it right? Plain luck then.
"I won!" Mona ran to her friends. "We can move on to Mario`s room!"
***
They effectively entered in Mario`s room. He was on some kind of throne. "I see you finally reached me. Good job. I don`t think anyone alone would have been able of doing that. Congratulations."
Mona had kept the alarm Wario had given her, and she pushed the button. Now Wario would know where she is exactly.
"Shut up and tell us why you did all that!" Ana yelled. She had not said a thing since her fight with her sister, but it`s because she was harmed. Now the pain was gone and she could talk again.
"First of all, I have to tell you that I didn`t do that because of vengeance. I know Wario stole my castle because of his own desires, actually, my real goal is to put a stop on the Warioware series."
"What?" Everyone said.
"Yes. I`m narcissic at the point of hating anyone from MY universe who starts his own series. I already hate the Yoshis and the Kongs. Now that Wario has had his own game, I wanted to prevent it from continuing."
***
Down there, in the cylinder, Wario received the signal from Mona. He lit up the dynamite and then he packed it up in the dynamite cannon that he had placed in front of his motorcycle. He then pushed the accelerator. He had built a ramp behind his house. He went at full speed, speeding up on the ramp, until he was flying in the air. With that he pushed a button on his motorcycle. Wings appeared from each side of the motorcycle, and reactors appeared behind. Wario then launched the dynamite, which was about to explode. He cannoned it toward the magnifier glass and the dynamite exploded while near the glass, causing a huge hole to appear. Wario passed on his flying motorcycle through the hole. His goal was to land in the Giant Airship. The pieces of glass fell on the grassy field down there.
No cow was crushed to death during the filming of this scene.
***
Up in the airship, Mario was still explaining his motives to the Elite Team 2. However, while the team was watching Mario, Mike, who had been crawling on the floor, reached a lever on the wall. He pulled it, and a big cage fell on the Elite Team 2. On this, Mario said:
"This time, I`ll kill you all, and then I`ll destroy Diamond City."
But as Mario was approaching the cage, a loud explosion occurred on the side of the room and Wario blasted through the big hole, on his bike.
"No more problems, your hero is there!" Wario told his friends.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Mario screamed. "You dare entering the Giant Airship without my permi…"
Wario opened his mouth.
"Ah, shut up, Luigi!"
Everyone looked at Wario.
"WHAT?" They all screamed in unison.
Author`s notes: Ha-ha! Wario would never, ever have mistaken Mario for Luigi or vice versa. It`s the great ending in next chapter. I hope you are all ready for the greatest fight ever!