Chapter 10
Battle in the Desert
The Decepticons had arrived at Dry Dry Desert and found the pyramid containing the Sun Harvester. As Megatron led his large group of subordinates towards the pyramid, a voice called out to them and grabbed their attention. Looking up, Megatron saw a medium-sized skull-shaped spaceship floating in the air, and there was a glass dome visible atop it. Dr. Wily was inside the cockpit. "Found you at last!"
"Who is that?" asked Megatron.
"My lord, he is the one who found you in your cryonic sleep state and kept you prisoner," Starscream told him.
The skull-shaped spaceship came close to the sand, and Dr. Wily said, "How ungrateful of you! I found you and kept you in a good condition, and you repay me by wrecking my place and destroying my robots? You even left without my knowledge and permission!"
"An inferior human like you dare keep me imprisoned?" Megatron said to him with anger in his voice. "Nobody takes me prisoner, especially not an organic being!"
"Know your place, machine! Humans like us are responsible for your existence!" Dr. Wily angrily said to him. "It doesn't matter whether you are of alien origin or not, you machines are grateful that we made you and should submit to us!"
"Silence! Inferior life forms such as organics are destined to be ruled by superior machines like us!" Megatron said to him. "You are wasting my time and trying my patience! Leave now while I am feeling merciful!"
"You're the one who's trying my patience! I'll show you this is what happens if you treat your organic creators rudely! Thanks to the All Spark and studying your body's technology, I am able to create this!" said Dr. Wily, and then he pressed a button that caused his spaceship to change form. Various parts of the spaceship's body reassembled and rearranged themselves in the same way a Cybertronian transforms, and in just a few seconds, the spaceship had become a tall skeletal-looking robot, completely with a skull for its head, and Dr. Wily was inside the glass cockpit above it. "Behold the Skull Transformer! This is the perfect opportunity to put this to test!"
Megatron growled in anger, and Starscream said to him, "Do not let someone like him waste your time and strength, my lord. I will do the favor of ridding him for you!"
"I'll get rid of you myself! I will teach him not to make a fool out of me!" said Megatron in anger as he began approaching the Skull Transformer.
"I'll be the one teaching you a lesson!" said Dr. Wily as he made his robot walk towards Megatron. The latter let out a cry of anger as he swung his sword-turned-hand at Dr. Wily, but the latter stepped aside and then delivered a right hook across his face. Before Megatron could recover, Dr. Wily punched him in the body several times nonstop in a manner similar to boxing.
Growling in anger, Megatron caught both his robot's hands and then headbutt the head hard. Fortunately for Dr. Wily, the glass cockpit was extremely durable, so it was able to withstand the impact. The Skull Transformer took several steps back from the headbutt, and then Megatron impaled it through the chest with his sword before lifting the whole thing into the air.
Not willing to give up just yet, Dr. Wily made electricity cover the hands of his robot and then grabbed Megatron's head to zap him. Crying in pain, Megatron dropped the Skull Transformer, and Dr. Wily moved back before changing the hands into arm cannons to fire energy blasts at the Decepticon leader rapidly.
"ENOUGH!" Megatron shouted in anger as he used his arms to block the incoming shots. He charged forward, tanking the shots, and rammed into Dr. Wily hard to push him on his back. Megatron got onto the fallen robot and punched it in the head over and over hard, so much that cracks started to appear on the cockpit. Dr. Wily was now afraid. Megatron then picked up the robot by the shoulder and, with a swing of his blade, sliced the head clean off. Holding the head in front of his face and glaring at Dr. Wily, Megatron said, "I will kill you now!"
Dr. Wily acted fast by pressing a button that caused the glass dome to separate from the skull head. It turned out that the dome was part of a smaller, circular pod, and Dr. Wily was able to escape to safety in it. "You won't get away with this! I'll get my revenge next time!" he angrily shouted at the Con leader as he escaped into the distance.
"Shall we send men after him, my lord?" Starscream asked Megatron.
"Forget it! We have wasted enough time! To the Sun Harvester now!" replied Megatron in rage.
"MEGATRON!" shouted a loud voice from the sky.
"NOW WHAT?!" shouted Megatron in frustration as he looked up to see the Final Destination approaching. The giant, flying platform slowly descended some distance away from the Cons, and the Autobots and the Smashers could be seen standing on it. "So you came back to life, Optimus!"
The Final Destination didn't land completely, but remained a few feet above the sand. Optimus Prime jumped down from it and slowly approached Megatron, saying to him, "I know what you plan to do! I will not allow you to use the All Spark to activate the Sun Harvester!"
"You may die a second time trying to stop me!" Megatron said to him. "This planet will soon meet its end, and I shall rebuild it in my image!"
"Not as long as we all breathe!" Optimus angrily said to him. "This is between the both of us! Do not bring in the citizens of this planet!" As he was saying this, the rest of his comrades jumped down from the Final Destination and gathered around him.
"You're not going to let you destroy our planet! We will defend it as long as we live!" Link said to him.
"You've made a big mistake thinking you can destroy our planet and get away with it!" Captain Falcon said to him.
"If it's a fight you want, then I'm willing to give one to you!" said Bowser while punching his palm. The rest of the Smashers all said that they were going to stop him as well.
"Weaklings like you will not be able to stop me!" Megatron said with confidence. "You may all die trying to stop me! Try your worst and don't disappoint me!" At his command, all the Cons charged at the good guys to engage them, while Megatron himself and a few other subordinates continued heading for the pyramid.
"Everyone! Roll out and do battle!" said Optimus, pointing his sword-turned-hand at the incoming Cons.
"All right! Time for some action!" said Falco with excitement.
The Legendary Warriors roared as they stomped the sandy ground before charging forward, and the Smashers also charged forward to engage the evil robots.
Defying his heavy weight and appearance, Bowser performed an incredible and fast leap towards a Con, punching him right in the face and sending him flying. Three Cons surrounded him, and he responded by withdrawing into his shell and spinning rapidly to somehow float into the air. Like a flying saucer, he flew in a circle, hitting each of the Cons in the chest and knocking them on their backs, before landing and getting back to a normal position. "Is that all? Bring me someone who can fight better!" said the turtle in unsatisfactory.
Charizard flew at a Con and breathed fire into his face. The Con was able to endure it for the most part, however, and it fired at the Pokemon, who moved out of the way and flew in circles around him, and the Con fired nonstop. Charizard eventually gave him a fist full of fire to the back of his head so hard that he fell forward. The Pokemon then picked him up by a shoulder and flung him into the air, where the pterodactyl Cybertronian, Strafe, caught him by the shoulders with his talons. The Cybertronian tore his arms in two, and he fell back onto the sand while screaming.
The triceratops and the spinosaurus Cybertronians, Slug and Scorn respectively, rampaged across the desert, charging down and biting various Cons to pieces. Ness and Toon Link were riding on Slug, cheering for both the Cybertronians. "Yeah! Destroy them all, Dinobots!" shouted Ness.
"Dinobot?" said Toon Link curiously.
"That's my name for them!" Ness told him.
They both saw Shockwave approaching from the front, so Ness told the "Dinobots" to charge him down. Scorn let out a roar as he charged forward first with the intention of gnashing him with his teeth. However, Shockwave countered with a powerful right hook to his jaw, knocking him on his side. Slug followed up afterwards, only to be stopped in his tracks when Shockwave caught him by his horns. The Con amazingly lifted the large Dinobot into the air by the horns alone and then slammed him down onto the side hard, and Ness and Toon Link fell off him.
"Hey you! How dare you hurt our dino friend?!" Toon Link angrily said as he took out his sword to face Shockwave. He jumped at the Con with his sword over his head and then swung it down, only for the blade to bounce off his's exterior harmlessly. Toon Link fell back and landed on his feet. Shockwave attempted to stomp him, but the latter got out of the way, and then Ness appeared in his place and created a blast of green light. "PK Flash!" Not only did it stung Shockwave's single eye, it also blew him back a couple of feet.
Slug used this as an opportunity to charge into Shockwave, knocking him away. Scorn then lowered his mouth onto Shockwave and bite his arm hard, gnashing it constantly in an attempt to tear it off. Shockwave growled in anger as he punched Scorn's jaw over and over to make him let go, and then he changed his hand into a gun and shot him at point blank to make him pull back. Slug charged at Shockwave again, once again pushing him back. Toon Link leaped over Slug and, with a bomb somehow attached to the front of an arrow, fired it at Shockwave, blasting him in the face. Ness then released a large amount of colorful energy explosions at Shockwave. "PK Rocking!" The explosion engulfed Shockwave, seemingly destroying him. "Did that do it?" However, Shockwave was seen still standing afterwards.
"Do not be so confident of yourselves!" he angrily said to the good guys. He then transformed into a futuristic-looking tank and fired from his turret. Scorn was in the way and got blasted back several feet. Slug charged at Shockwave after that, only to blasted away in the face. The Con then turned to the two kids and fired at them, but they got out of the way and kept on running for their lives.
"We meet again, Breakdown!" Bulkhead said to the Con that he considered his rival.
"And this will be our last!" Breakdown said to him. Both the Cybertronians charged at and rammed against each other hard, creating a shockwave upon impact. Both the robots then threw punches at each other as if boxing, both side landing hits against each other's face squarely. However, neither side gave in to the blows and kept on with the punching. It was as if they could do this forever.
Bulkhead was eventually able to deliver a right hook that knocked Breakdown down on his side, but the latter got back up fast and delivered a left hook at the former's head, though Bulkhead blocked it in time. Bulkhead then slammed down his hands like a hammer onto Breakdown's head, making the Con "eat sand." Finally, Bulkhead picked him up by his hand and spun in circles several times before hurling him into the distance. "You've gone soft!" Bulkhead shouted out to him as he watch him land on top of a generic Con.
With a single punch, Ganondorf was destroy the leg of a Con. It was thanks to enhancing his fist with both dark magic and haki that he was able to do this. Another Con tried to attack him from behind, but Falco came "flying" into it with his leg, which was on fire, outstretched, and sent it flying. Turning to the pheasant, Ganondorf said, "I saw him coming with Observation Haki and could've dealt with him, you know."
"You should be thankful that I got him for you!" Falco said to him. Suddenly, he rolled to the side to avoid some laser beams fired at him. They both looked up to see a green and a dark blue jet speeding through the air at a fast speed, and they were firing laser beams downwards constantly.
"You think you're safe from me just because you're in the air? Think again!" said Ganondorf as he formed a magical energy ball in his hand and then threw it at the green jet. The jet dodged it and then dived at Ganondorf while firing nonstop, but Falco got in front of the Gerudo and used his reflector to bounce the beams back to the jet. The jet swooped up and out of the beams' way, but not before getting hit a couple of times. It then touched the ground and transformed into a the robot of the same color, Skyquake.
"I'll crush you like a bug!" he said to the two Smashers.
The dark blue jet landed behind them both and then transformed a similarly-colored robot with a golden face, Dreadwing. "Let's crush them together!" he said.
"We'll see who's crushing who soon enough!" said Ganondorf.
Skyquake slammed down his fist onto Falco, who countered by kicking straight up with a leg full of fire. Pulling back his hand, Skyquake said in surprise, "That feeling! So organics can use Enerspark as well? Then I shall happily crush using my Enerspark!" The Con attacked again, this time making sure to use haki. Falco dodged it and then zipped forward a blindingly fast speed, slamming his haki-infused haki elbow into his face and knocking him back. "Ugh!"
Ganondorf jumped at Dreadwing and punched him with a fist full of haki, but the latter used Armament Haki to block the punch. He then swung his hand at Ganondorf to knock him to the ground, but he was able to land properly. Changing his hand into a gun, Dreadwing fired at the Gerudo rapidly, but the latter jumped around to avoid them. He eventually threw an energy ball at Dreadwing, who stepped aside to dodge it.
Dreadwing then changed his hand into a sword to attack Ganondorf, who infused his arm with both haki and dark energy before clashing harmlessly with the blade.
Having transformed into their jet forms, Megatron and Starscream made it to the top of the pyramid in a matter of seconds. Standing next to the peak of the pyramid, Megatron looked down at the battlefield below and took notice of some particular Cons that looked unique compared to most of the generic purple Cons that took up most of his army. Said unique Cons had designs that resemble construction vehicles. "Constucticons!" Megatron shouted to those Cons. "Merge into Devastator!"
Upon hearing this, said unique Cons ran towards and jumped at each other, their bodies transforming as they did so, and when they came in contact with each other, their bodies merged together seamlessly. Within a matter of seconds, those Cons had fully merged into a massive green-colored robot, Devastator.
The good guys were shocked beyond words when they saw the towering robot, standing around 30 meters tall. "Holy Palutena! What is that?!" asked Pit in shock.
"That's one big robot!" said Yoshi.
"Ha! Looks like that guy will be a good challenge!" said Bowser with enthusiasm. "You know what they say: the bigger they are, the harder they fall!" He then ran towards Devastator and jumped at his leg to punch it. However, his entire body shook when his fist came in contact with the iron-hard leg of the giant Con, and then he fell to the sand with his fist in pain. "Ow!"
Pikachu walked up to him and said, "Indeed, the bigger they are, the harder it is for them to fall..."
Ignoring the Smasher who just attacked him, Devastator approached the pyramid and climbed up it, as the architecture was taller than him, and then he slammed his hand against the peak of it. Obviously, Megatron and Starscream got out of the way to avoid getting hit. After slamming his massive hand against the pyramid multiple times, it cracked and broke apart, revealing a machine that resembled a giant antenna underneath, and there was a control panel underneath it. "The Sun Harvester! At last!" said Megatron. He took out the All Spark and wasted no time in inserting into a slot just above the control panel. After that, he inputted commands onto the panel, and the machine activate with a loud sound of engine.
This grabbed the attention of everyone. "Oh no! Are we too late?" asked Mario.
"There's still time before the machine fully activates and drain the sun!" said Optimus. "We must make haste and destroy the Harvester while there is still time!" Wings suddenly sprouted from Optimus's back, and then he flew toward the peak of the pyramid.
"Whoa! Didn't know you can fly!" commented Mario when he saw him take flight.
"Devastator! Stop them!" Megatron told the giant robot. The latter turned to Optimus and tried to swat him out of the air, but the latter dodged it and then fired at the side of his head rapidly before charging into him with a powerful impact that caused him to roll down the pyramid. As the giant Con slowly got back up, some of the Smashers and Grimlock approached him.
"C'mon! Let's take down this thing together!" said Bowser with enthusiasms while punching his palm.
Meanwhile, Optimus hovered in front of Megatron and Starscream. "Stop this madness now, Megatron!" he said to his archenemy. "The life of this planet will be at stake if you fully activate that thing!"
"I made it clear that this is what I want!" said Megatron as he pointed his Fusion Cannon at him. "You can try to stop me, but you will surely die before that happens!"
While all this was happening, Master Hand had raised the Final Destination into the air and was watching with Crazy Hand at everything that was happening down there. "Are we not helping?" Crazy Hand asked his older brother.
"Only when things are looking bad," replied Master Hand. "The Smashers have learned how to use haki quite recently, so this is the perfect opportunity for them to put things to test. Our interference will only hinder them from progressing forward. In this world, they must learn to master such a thing if they want to compete with the top dogs."
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