True Master of The Smash Bros part 9
"Battle Royale,"
"Let's hit em and hit em hard fellas!" Sonic exclaimed leading the charge of his team as they all moved to confront the Original 12. The battle ensued almost instantly after Sonic uttered the words from his mouth. Each smasher got on their appointed targets from before. Sonic took on Mario head on with a spin dash. Mario actually caught the spinning blue wheel then tossed Sonic aside toward Bowser. Bowser noticed Sonic coming at him once Sonic called to get his attention. Bowser caught Sonic then launched him back at Mario his force doubled. Mario had no choice but to cross his arms as his feet went sliding against the metal. "Yeah, we're ready for you guys this time,"
"I doubt you fools could truly win this contest of skill," Omni's voice came from Mario's mouth. "My word is law,"
"Well allow me to exercise my power of veto," Sonic said kicking off Mario's head.
"You are not going to win," Mario said performing a sliding kick that Sonic jumped over. Mario pulled himself up giving Sonic a powerful uppercut. "You don't stand a chance," Sonic regained himself in midair then landed back on the Halberd rubbing his chin.
"Doubt you know what you're talking about when you got Mario hitting like a girl scout,"
Ness performed a roundhouse kick that Lucas ducked under letting Ness's foot sailed through his hair. Lucas was still conflicted, but not so much that he'd leave himself vulnerable again. Ness suddenly lashed out with a vicious stream of flames. Lucas threw a PK Freeze attack, and with the rain still falling he had the advantage. Although you wouldn't know it's since Ness's attack still powered through. Lucas opted to bound to the side of the attack upon seeing that his efforts were wasted. Lucas raised his forearm to block a hammer punch from Ness and then he raised his other forearm to block a jab. Lucas rolled around Ness this time to avoid Ness from stomping on him after he jumped up. Lucas regretted this butt he needed to. He sent a charged up fist of PSI energy up the side of Ness's head earning a grunt of pain from him.
"I-I-I won't let you use my friend anymore," Lucas said.
"Oh, like you have a choice," Ness said but with Omni's mixed into it. Ness jumped to his feet than rushed toward Lucas delivering a superman punch into Lucas's jaw and sending the blonde bouncing against the hull of the airship. "Allow me to remind you of your place," Ness said walking over to him and raising his foot. Lucas noticed this and moved his head out of the way of the foot then swung his legs around to perform a sweep kick. Ness was left with no legs to stand on as he fell to the ground and Lucas rolled back onto his feet. Ness used levitation to gather himself in midair and back on his feet. Lucas looked at him annoyed.
"Can't ever make it easy…" Lucas groaned.
Lucario swerved between numerous fireballs launched in his direction from Luigi. Luigi releasing that Lucario wasn't gonna get hit he decided to go in for close combat. Luigi swung his legs at Lucario who caught his legs and then turned to throw the plumber. Luigi recovered in the air by performing a back flip and landing on the ground. Lucario huffed in annoyance. Sheik skillfully performed a quadruple spin flip dodging a missile from Samus. Shiek used her chain wrap around another missile and she swung it back at Samus. Samus using her own evasive skills performed an army roll out of the way with her canon arm trained on Sheik who groaned. ROB shot out his laser at Yoshi who was weaving in between the laser fire. ROB's laser was getting weaker allowing Yoshi to shrug it off better. YOshi came down on ROB performing his meteor smash. ROB swiveled out of the way to get on Yoshi's left side. ROB began to spin his arms rapidly in a circle. Yoshi performed his flutter kick to counteract ROB's attack.
Bowser was having a bit of a hard time cornering Kirby with the puffballs sudden movements. Bowser swung his claws forcing Kirby to jump back. Bowser then followed through with a hammer punch but Kiby performed a side hand spring. Bowser's desperate attempt to score a hit made him smash his skull into Kirby. This inadvertently made Kirby latch onto Bowser's head using his horns. Kirby swung himself on Bowser's head enough for the small puffball to kick Bowser in the face. Link and Toon Link were inserted in a fiery battle that seemed like a mirrored version of one another. As prior to advice Toon Link was avoiding in test of strength with Link and with that tid bit was doing well. Toon danced around Link's powerful swings, since Toon was more accustomed to striking evasively. In counter of Link's choice of overpowering his enemy with heavy sword slashes.
Link recognized his attacks were yielding no results and decided to take another approach. Link jabbed his sword at Toon, and in response reverse the grip on sword and along Link's sword to slide against his blade. Link pulled his sword arm back to swing horizontally, but Toon performed a military roll underneath it. Toon struck at that moment, but Link's shield deflected his swords attack. However, Link felt the ricochet of the attack. Toon saw his opponent was temporarily stunned so he moved in for another attack. Link's paralysis was much briefer then Toon anticipated. Link drove his fist into the jaw of his younger counterpart. Toon Link's entire body felt the shocking blow and the harsh wet metal as he hit it. Toon got a knee rubbing his jaw and ignoring how soaked his tunic was getting from the heavy rain. Suddenly, Link towered over him and brought his sword down. Toon swiftly held his sword up flatly to block the blow. He had no other choice as Link finally got Toon into a contest of strength. Link pushed down harder and his weaker counterpart while Toon was struggling not to fall back. Toon saw Link begin to lean in adding to the pressure of the blade, but also giving Toon an idea. Toon tilted the point of his blade downward far enough for Link's sword to slide right off. Toon quickly burst forward swinging his sword and knocking Link back onto his back.
Toon said nothing as he allowed his opponent to shake off the attack and stand back up. Link smirked a bit, if in satisfaction of a challenge, or the real Link just being proud. Toon needed to focus though, Link was onto his game plan, and Toon had no idea on how to put Link down and out. Toon took a basic sword stance, and Link mirrored him as the prepared for another round.
ROB rapidly spun his arms around like a super fast top. Yoshi in response performed a flutter kick at almost the same speed. The two attacks hit each other with neither side gaining ground. ROB surmised that since Yoshi was hovering in the air he needed to come down at some point. His muscles would get tired before ROB could exhaust his servos. ROB was also thankful he was water proof. ROB moved to the side making Yoshi have to come down. ROB circled around the side still spinning to whack Yoshi from behind. Yoshi turned his head around to shoot out his sticky and stretchy tongue. It wrapped around ROB's throat and pulled him in. ROB attempted to resist, and that only helped anker Yoshi so he could stand after the fall. Making the calculations in his head, ROB realized about 40% of Yoshi's weight was on his only standing leg and the rest was on him. ROB instead rolled forward taking away Yoshi's anker. With his balance already off ROB charged forward to tackle the green dino. However, ROB underestimated how much strength and speed Yoshi has. Yoshi performed a one legged hop over the charging robot. Yoshi yanked his tongue making the robot jerk back. Yoshi pulled his tongue back and slammed his feet into the robot below. Yoshi jumped up and quickly performed a ground pound on the robot trying to break it in half. ROB made his head to a complete half rotation to where it was facing Yoshi.
ROB had been charging his laser the entire time. He knew Yoshi would've been too quick to for the fully charged laser to hit. Close range was his best option. He calculated every move up to this point, allowing Yoshi to believe he had full control of the fight.
"I BELIEVE THE TERM TO USE HERE IS…PWN," ROB said shooting out his laser that nailed Yoshi in his chest throwing the dino into the air.
Lucario fought toe to toe with Luigi as they fought through the intense rain falling from the sky. Lucario's fur started to became shaggy and wet. However, the pokemon did not allow this to distract him as he focused on his fight. Luigi jabbed his flat hand forward only for Lucario to jerk his body out of the way. Lucario performed an elbow jab into Luigi's chest followed up with Lucario pulling his arm up to slam the side of his paw in Luigi's face. Luigi fell back on his feet a bit as he rubbed his mouth.
"Interesting…you're quite the incredible fighter," Omni commented through Luigi.
"I sense your talking to me now," Lucario said still in a fighter's stance.
"You are a Pokemon, correct?"
"Yes, what of it?"
"I just think it's so fascinating to see you here. I also sense wisdom from you, tell me something. You must be able to sense that your friends are not in the least amount of control,"
"You are wrong about that," Lucario said with sternness in his voice. "Their will is much stronger then any might you can muster,"
Luigi smirked as his eyes glanced around the area seeing friend fighting friends. "Well looking at them you wouldn't know it,"
"What is it that you want?" Lucario demanded. "I heard the story, but is your goal simply to reclaim lost power,"
"Simple he says," Omni said. "Despite that little brutal tournament I had going on, I was one that was not at fault for anything. Do you have any idea what the worlds were like when I was in command?"
"The universe coward under you might, some world's even believed you their god. You single handedly created thousands of religious factions, simply to appease yourself. Am I close?"
"Quite," Omni responded with a chuckle. "The part you missed would be how peaceful everything was. I only created these life or death games to survive the monotony. The universe isn't as infinite as you may think. It does have it's limits to how many beings should be in it,"
"Over population of a universe, you're kidding?"
"Afraid not, ya see it's like this. Ever world has it beginning and it's end, not way of avoiding that. Most worlds are merely counterparts of the other. You find it interesting looking in how different world's are. Even the counterpart to this one,"
"What?"
"I plan on reclaiming what was mine, not simply because it's right, but simply cause how things work. It worked like that for eons, and now suddenly the script changes. I'm afraid I am not the flexible type,"
"You want control over all living things,"
"You just have no idea who your real enemy is," the being spoke. Lucario's eyes narrowed. This being was probably as old as time itself. Lucario didn't want to delve too deeply onto his words, seeing as the being has probably had eons of practice in terms of manipulation. Lucario tried to see past Luigi's aura to delve deeper into the aura of Omni. What Lucario saw mystified him.
"Well, as of this moment, it's you," Lucario said charging an Aura Sphere. Luigi frowned at Lucario.
The battle of the smashers continued in full swing as each side fought hard even though the elements were completely against them at the moment. The hull of the Halberd in all honesty couldn't take much more of the punishment. Suddenly, a bolt of lightning struck the Halberd rocking it and shocking all those on the metal hull. The saying goes lightning never strikes the same place twice. Well as great as that sounds, smashers are usually exempt from such rules. Another lightning bolt struck the side of the ship actually causing heavy damage. The fighting momentarily stopped as every assessed the situation at the moment. However, the fighting began back up again despite the rocking of the battlefield, the rain, the lightning, and the howling wind.
"We need to end this!" Sonic exclaimed jerking his head back and away from a roundhouse from Mario.
"Only way is to turn them into trophies," Pit said the blades of his bow to deflect the laser blast from Fox. Pit ducked down for a moment then reattached his bow and took a knee. He took aim then fired. Fox however performed a small hop as the arrow soared between his legs as his blaster was trained on Pit. Fox let out a few more rounds, but in response Pit began spinning his bow in one hand deflecting the laser blast at the last moment.
"And how do we do that?" Shiek asked as she pushed Samus cannon arm up with her hand making Samus shoot a missile into the air. Shiek with her other hand performed a flat palm strike into Samus's head. Samus's head jerked back and her body followed. However, Samus quickly twirled around to slam her heel into Sheik's side. Making both fighters hit the ground. "They won't go down easy,"
"We just need to hit them a bit harder," Gannandorf said catching Falcon's fist in the middle of Captain Falcon's raptor boost. Gannondorf summoned intense dark energy around his other hand. He reached for Falcon's head, but the smasher was too fast for the warlock. Captain Falcon jerked his body down avoiding the grab. The racer then jumped up ramming his knee into Gannondorf's chin. Falcon kicked off Gannon making him fall back.
"I'm with that idea, but how do we do it," Toon asked running out of the range of Link's bombs. He pulled a bow and arrow out and shoot and arrow at the Hero of Time. The arrow collided with another bomb thus triggering an explosion.
"It takes almost everything to simply fight them to a standstill, let alone beat them," Meta Knight said trying to strike Jigglypuff who was taking the howling winds to her advantage.
"If we have a plan to stop them, let's use it already," Wolf said raising his reflector to reflect the lightning blast Pikachu was summoning from the sky. It was taking full advantage of the lightning in the air.
"ROB?" Sonic asked as he turned his head to look at the robot, while at the same time blocking a hook kick from Mario with his fist.
"SUGGEST A FORM OF TEAM BLAST AS YOU WOULD PUT IT. WITH THE WEATHER CONDITIONS, IT'S BEST WE ALL WORK TOGETHER FOR THIS,"
"You heard the bot let's do it!" Sonic said ducking down to perform a leg sweep on Mario. Lucario performed an over the shoulder throw on Luigi while grabbing his extended arm.
"Sonic we should call upon our Final Smashs,"
"An idea I like, let's do it," Sonic turned to Lucas who had just kicked Ness to the ground. "Nice move," Lucas sheepishly scratched the back of his head.
"You taught me that one,"
"Try and gather them all up, me and Lucario are gonna take them out in one shot. Make sure they don't try any funny stuff,"
"Alright," Lucas focused his powers as best he could. Wolf swung his right open hand to claw at Pikachu. However the pokemon hopped over it, but it was also vulnerable. Wolf quickly turned around kicking the rodent toward where the others were pushing the Originals to. Toon Link was having trouble pushing Link back, so Gannon helped him with a well time Warlock Punch.
"A little overkill," Toon said looking at the Warlock who only smirked in accomplishment.
Sheik wrapped her chain around Samus's cannon. This made Samus attack with her other hand that Sheik slyly moved underneath. She wrapped the chain around Samus's other hand. However with the suit on Samus was pretty strong, strong enough to shatter the chains without a thought. Sheik was surprised by this since she knew Samus's raw strength wouldn't have been enough to break them. "Ugh, this technology,"
"ANNOYING ISN'T IT?" ROB said slamming his rocket boosters into Samus's chest.
"Since when did you get a sense of humor?" Sheik asked.
"I MADE A JOKE?" ROB questioned. Sheik rolled her eyes while sighing.
"Alright everyone get back," Lucario said pushing his paws forward with Sonic standing in front of him. "Ready?"
"As ready as I am wet,"
"What is this?" Mario mumbled in Omni's voice.
Sonic assumed his super form of Super Sonic. Lucario unleashed his Aura Storm. Lucario's attack slammed into Sonic, empowering him. This power boosted his spin form. Super Sonic began circling around the Originals at supersonic speed. The tornado that followed was made of pure energy from both Super Sonic and Lucario. The energy was so bright some had to divert their eyes away from the light. Super Sonic circled around a couple of more times then shot up into the sky. He hovered above the tornado then shot down and in a flash of an explosion and a great rush of wind Super Sonic ended the tornado. Sonic reverted to his trophy form, but so did all the other Originals. Team Sonic Universe sighed with relief. Lucas did the honors of tapping Sonic's base to awaken him. Sonic grumbled as he sat up rubbing his head.
"Did we win?" Sonic asked.
"For now…" Lucas said brushing his blonde hair out of his eyes that had flattened out thanks to the rain. When the battle ended so too did the rain. "Finally, it stopped raining,"
"I won't be relieved till we see the sun," Pit said trying to wipe off the water from his clothing. He was kicking himself for wearing such an outfit in this weather.
"Agreed," Sheik said.
"The damage to my ship wasn't as bad as I thought it might be," Meta Knight mumbled glancing at the scars the battle left. The small Knight wrapped himself up in his cape as he walked away after he sheath his sword.
"I see he's not the celebrating type," Sonic said with his arms crossed.
"Half of our team is like that," Toon said wringing out his hat.
"Anyone hurt?" Lucas asked looking everyone over. No one seemed too injured from the battle. "Well that's good,"
"I still don't understand what their gain was for coming out here," Snake said with a finger to his chin. "They gained nothing, save a quick fight from us,"
"Maybe they already succeeded on their mission and we were just too late," Lucario said.
"Awe Lucario, don't be a Debbie downer," Sonic whined.
"I sensed something odd from this Omni person; I don't know what his gain is. However, he's after something, and we are the key to getting it,"
"Power?" Snake asked.
"He already has so much, and he doesn't seem intoxicated with it. Something to do with the Smash Brothers, and this Smash Force…."
"Let's just get home," Sonic said.
And with that the Halberd began it's return trip back to the Castle. Everyone would be relieved to go back and have Master Hand explain more about this Omni character. None of them had bothered to wake up the Originals, for the sake of just getting some quiet. All their questions, and confusion would be a little annoying with the fight they just had. Meta Knight masterfully handled the ship as if it wasn't damaged at all. They arrived back at the castle in the matter of a few minutes, much faster than before without all the rain and wind.
"Oh my god…" Meta Knight muttered. Since he was the only one watching the scenery he was the first to see.
"What is…oh no…" Zelda said cupping her mouth as if she was lost for words. A single tear dropped from her eye and to the floor. Gannon only let out a low growl of annoyance.
"Smash Castle…it's…it's-," Lucas began in disbelief.
"Been completely destroyed," Lucario finished as they came upon the fresh ruins of Smash Castle.
"That's it, this guy, is so done," Sonic said with a stern edge of seriousness. "We're gonna end this stupid fued,"