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Super Smash Bros. Mayhem!
Chapter Eight: The Calm before the Storm
The docking/hanger back of the Great Fox was filled with the few smashers that remained, among those there were Sonic, Snake, Samus, Pikachu, Mario, Peach, Ike, Marth, Falco, Pit, King Dedede, and Link. Along with the 6 Hero's, this included Ramiro, Carlos, Danny, John, Anthony, and Katherine. All of the brawlers were talking amongst each other while everyone was sitting on several crates as chairs. Ramiro looked at the brawlers, sure they had some heavy hitters, but would it be enough to go against the new evil that they were facing. He looked at Carlos who nodded and then cleared his throat as a sign for everyone to be quiet.
"Hello everyone, I know you probably know us but well me and my friends are inhabiting your friends bodies right now, my names Ramiro and it will be a pleasure to work besides each and everyone of you." Ramiro said while the smashers just stared at him.
"Okay so anyway…." Carlos replied sitting up now, "Enough with the chit chat we need to know what everyone can provide, right now all we've got to go against the Halberd and the Tank Army are the Great Fox and several Arwings, and the problem is that only two of us know how to pilot one."
"So why do you need our help?" Sonic asked in an arrogant tone.
"Because Sonic, we'll need everyone's help, all of those who have already joined step forward." Carlos replied and then Ike, Marth, Falco, Pit, King Dedede, and Link stepped forward which was already more than half of the group. "See these people know what's going on, and guess what they know that were not enough to stop the Halberd, and that Tank army of Galleoms." Carlos said slightly annoyed and saw that everyone was quiet.
"Now to reiterate my question, which of you will stand and fight for your homes?" That was when everyone that was left stepped forward signifying that they were with them. "Good now exactly who can contribute what to this group?"
"I can have my Waddle Dee's work as the repair crew and crew for the ship." King Dedede replied.
"So they'll follow mine and Falco's directions?"
"Yes they will."
"Good, we have a crew, now all we need are vehicles."
"I can contribute my space craft for the attack." Samus replied pointing to her own craft.
"Good then we can upgrade it to make it more battle ready."
"Now then, we need fighters who can stand against an army of Alloy's, Carlos and Falco can take care of the Galleom knock offs in their Arwings while I can use the Great Fox to push the army back, but once we reduce them all to their lowest possible number we need some warriors to volunteer to help fight against them." Ramiro replied when Pit, Ike, and Marth stepped up.
"We'll help, I'm sure with our skills we should be able to fight them back." Marth replied.
"Good, good."
"Now the rest of you will most likely be on stand by until we get ready to invade the Halberd, so Mario, Peach, Snake, Sonic, Link, and Pikachu I'm sure I can count on you all for that." Ramiro said explaining the plan while the others nodded.
"Okay good people let's get to work and do some montage scenes!" Ramiro replied pointing his sword upwards breaking the fourth wall yet again. Everyone just stared at him silently with a cricket chirping. That's when he was about to speak but a Waddle Dee got thrown at him with King Dedede yelling, "Get off the stage!"
-Meanwhile on the Halberd-
Mewtwo was smiling the final parts of his plan coming into fruition already. That was when a Blue alloy walked in and reported to Mewtwo, "Sir, the Galleom tank army is almost finished, the last 2 are in their final stages, Duon is half complete as well sir."
"Good, that is all." Mewtwo said dismissing the Blue alloy as he watched the Halberd head towards the first destination, from afar it was a lone temple near the desert. Apparently Mewtwo wished to use this as a starting point for his campaign, the first thing he would do was to start from there and continue through the desert, then heading through the forest before arriving at Delfino Plaza.
Mewtwo had asked his lead generals to come to the bridge, they were Bowser, Wolf, Ganondorf, and R.O.B., "As you four know the time is close for our invasion of this world, now R.O.B. will handle leading the tank army while Wolf will escort the Halberd in his Wolfen, then Ganondorf and Bowser will be the co-Commanders until I leave where it will be Ganondorf as Commander and Bowser as second in command, Wario and Olimar will be the regular infantry that will defend this ship as well." The four nodded and headed off. Mewtwo smirked at this and when they all left he thought to himself, 'The fools have no idea that I plan to usurp Master and Crazy hand…. Soon I will be God!'
-Meanwhile on the Great Fox-
Falco was fixing up his Arwing with the help of a Waddle Dee. "No, no, no, if you keep adding more boosters sure it will go fast but it won't be able to maneuver around heavy artillery very well." The waddle dee then jumped on the Arwing and waved at the other ones to not bring anymore engines, so the ones carrying the large engines walked back to place them where they originally were. Falco saw this and sighed, "Let's see if this baby works well." Falco then got in the cockpit and started up the engine, the good news was it didn't stall and then the entire Arwing activated, he smiled at this and now was the time where he started to put in several upgrades to it.
Carlos meanwhile was scouting people to pilot the remaining Arwings, out of everyone Link and Ramiro were the only suitable pilots meaning that there were 5 Arwings left. This however gave Ramiro the idea on what to do with the remaining five. Ramiro then headed to Falco when he found him talking to a Waddle Dee, once that was over he confronted Falco, "Hey Falco I need to ask you something."
"Sure, what is it?"
"We have 5 Arwings left from the group, me and Link will be piloting one each which leaves 5 left, so I was wondering, how many of those could we use as mobile bombs?"
"Mobile bombs, are you crazy?"
"No, no, I would control them through whatever control was given to me, but I mean how many could we use?"
"Only 3, me and Carlos will probably need two more incase ours are damaged."
"I see, so is it possible to take out all of the weapon systems, load it with one explosive force, but while we take out the weapon systems we replace those with better shielding and speed."
"It's a long shot, but I think it's possible."
"Well that's good to hear, cause most likely were going to have to abandon the Great Fox once we fight the Halberd, most likely we can leave the shields on full power with the speed on full power diverting most power from the weapon systems to ram the Halberd head on."
"You want to sacrifice this ship to ram into the Halberd?"
"It's a long shot but I doubt it will work, but it would give us an excellent distraction, besides the Falcon Flyer, Samus' Gunship, and the two Arwings that me and Link pilot will be enough to carry everyone here, then we'll infiltrate the ship."
"That could possibly work, but you make a good point that we won't have enough fire power on the Great Fox to beat the Halberd, so you plan on taking it back?"
"Yeah, I have John titled with the job of taking out the combo cannon once we head towards it."
"Oh really, mind sharing that with me, I mean after all I need to be aware of what's going on."
"Why of course, but not right now, I want you to wait in suspense."
"You love torturing people don't you?"
"Oh no I don't torture I make you wait on the edge of your seat, just make sure your nowhere near the combo cannon when you see John."
"Okay…." Falco replied then getting back to work on the Arwings.
"So what are you improving on them?"
"Well with the help of the Waddle Dee's…." Flaco said turning some bolts on the ship with a wrench, "We're making them more maneuverable and faster that way they can dodge the heavy artillery, but at the same time keep their weapon systems intact so that we can do some damage."
"I see, and so you're going to use my idea for the other three?"
"Yes, also you're going to send the Great Fox on a collision course towards the halberd with Auto Pilot."
"Of course, now if you'll excuse me I need to talk about the infiltration crew." Ramiro said walking off to talk to the others.
-Meanwhile on the Halberd-
Olimar was ordering his Pikmin to finish up the Galleom tanks, and sure enough after several minutes the last two were completed wit the final touches. "Good Mater Mewtwo will be pleased." Olimar said then walking to see how Wolf was doing with the Metal Alloy version of Duon.
"Don't ask, it's 68% complete right now." Wolf replied as the Metal Alloys were slowly forming the monstrosity once known as Duon, while several were above the creation pooring several shadow bugs on it to hold it all together. These came from the captured Mr. Game & Watch from the science department.
"I see, the Galleom's are fully operational."
"Good, now it's time for me to upgrade the Wolfen, if I'm to escort the Halberd I'll need it to be in tip top shape."
"Really, you're going to upgrade it…"
"Why shouldn't I, your not trying to deliberately sabotage me are you?"
"No of course not, I'm just saying compared to my Rocket that things a sleek piece of work, while mine is just like a hunk of junk."
"Oh okay then, but I'm still upgrading it."
"Okay, you go do that… whatever makes you happy." Olimar replied walking away while Wolf did the same. Meanwhile in the brig of the ship Ganondorf was walking around thinking to himself, that was when Bowser walked in, "So I'm guessing you're still upset that you didn't capture the princess yourself?"
"No of course not, I'm just thinking about how to use her to my advantage when Link comes to the rescue in the battle coming shortly."
"I see, any good idea's yet?"
"Not yet, but I will have her trophy next to me once I assume command of this ship when Mewtwo flee's it."
"You think Mewtwo is running away?"
"Why wouldn't I think he would? I mean he has given no explanation on what he plans to do while we're fighting all of the remaining smashers."
"You make a good point, but still I know you, you're not a loyal dog, your going to take control of the army once he leaves aren't you?"
"Why of course, that would be the perfect time to, wouldn't you agree?"
"Yeah but still….. Something doesn't sit right about what he's planning."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean he's only told us part of the steps, I mean what is his real plan, what will all of this gain?"
"I don't know but I don't plan for him to be ruling over this world, I am the only one fit to rule, well with you at my side since you and Wolf are the only competent ones around here."
"I'm glad you think of me like that, all the more reason I don't try to go against you for the power."
"Now if it isn't too much of a problem to you leave me alone so that I may think."
"Hell no, I'm not going to leave just because you asked me too!"
"Bowser stop getting angry, your acting more like a child than the king of the Koopa's you're known for being."
"Oh shut up." Bowser replied walking out while Ganondorf smirked.
"The fool, does he really think I'll share my power with him, ah it's too bad I can't turn any of these hero's into villains, it's much harder than what we did to R.O.B." And with that said Ganondorf went back to pacing around thinking of what his next move would be.
-Meanwhile on the bridge of the Great Fox-
Carlos and Ramiro were chatting a bit about the coming battle. "So when you played this game… did you ever think that you would have to lead an army against another army?"
"Dude, I had no clue I was going to end up as a furry….. I mean seriously who lives through this shit?"
"First off….. It's better than the real world, second off, it's like I can finally be a hero."
"You do make some good points there… but you do realize your slightly dead to John right?"
"Why am I slightly dead to him?"
"That's because you're freaking Meta Knight, the ultimate spammer of all spamming."
"Yeah, yeah, you're just jealous because I'm a bad ass guy with a bad ass ship."
"Dude I'm the cool guy with the bad ass ship, your ship was stolen."
"So what if you have a ship right now and I don't?"
"Anyway….. Yeah so how's Falco doing with upgrading the Arwings?"
"I believe he's got yours and his ready for the battle."
"Yeah that's good, hey you know I'm wondering, I know this is like the video game brawl universe, but I'm surprised no other Star Fox members are here."
"Seriously, well they are viewable as trophies, but maybe if we went to the Menu and tapped the bases then maybe it would turn them into characters?"
"Hm interesting…. Though were not turning the frog into a character, reminds me to much of this guy I hate."
"Well let's go check it out then."
-One failed trip to the Menu later-
"Well that was the worse trip I've ever taken." Carlos said sitting back in the chair on the bridge.
"Dude I just found out the Menu was never meant for characters except for the trophy viewing part of it, I mean you can see right through me."
"Dude don't complain."
"Anyway now we know something…."
"And that is?"
"Other trophy people cannot be revived at all."
"Damn straight!"
"What the heck?"
"What I'm not allowed to say new words?"
"It's not that it's just… really? Usually only I say stuff like that."
"Oh yeah you're right…."
"Well I guess it's time for me to brief everyone on what we'll be doing, come on." Ramiro replied heading off of the bridge followed by Carlos, but in the shadows it seemed something was watching them. When they got to the hanger there was a screen in front of the brawlers that were gathered since they would be the attack squad. Ramiro got on a crate and pointed his sword at the screen, as soon as he did that the specs of the Halberd came up. "Alright people here's the plan, once we land on the Halberd were to dock the ships since none of the weapons can reach the deck of the ship. Now once the combo cannon is destroyed there will be an opening for you guys to head into, Link and I will not be joining you since we'll be going with a frontal assault to the bridge to disable the defense systems. Now once inside fight any enemy that gets in your way, if their powerful then retreat and go a different way, the main goal is to get to the smashers that are being held in the brig." Ramiro said now pointing at the lower area of it, and that was when Carlos started to talk.
"Alright, now if anyone can find the device that stops a character from being de-trophified then destroy it. That way you all won't have to be lugging around everyone's trophy."
"Now any questions?" Ramiro asked and everybody raised their hands, when Ramiro saw this he sighed and then looked towards Carlos, "This is going to be a long briefing….."
-Meanwhile in the Ancient Temple-
Mewtwo was walking through the ruins when he entered a dead end of the temple with a large interior, the roof was far above from where he was standing at and there was a bit of light shining from the hole in it. "Come out, I require you assistance." Mewtwo commanded at which a giant floating head with two hands came out, anyone could describe it, it was Andross, Fox's mortal enemy.
"Mewtwo, why have you disturbed my slumber?"
"I haven't, you see two smashers were hanging around the Menu earlier, apparently they thought they could revive some good guy trophies to help them in their fight against me, unfortunately it didn't work and they decided to just touch your trophy base for fun, what they didn't know is that due to the Menu's lag trophy characters just take a little longer to revive than the smasher counterparts, so you woke up here."
"Hmm, so I should thank those idiots for giving me a new lease on life?"
"No don't thank them, because I want you to help me take over the world of brawl."
"Oh really and why should I join you?"
"Because you old fool I am already one step closer to my goal, you see my plan is very simple to usurp Master and Crazy hand, but I will need a right hand man, and that's where you come in."
"So you plan to go against the God's of this game?"
"Yes, and I plan to win and make this entire game my domain."
"I like what your planning Mewtwo, it seems like we'll be great partners after all."
"Yes, indeed we will, indeed we will….." Mewtwo said smiling evilly and the chuckling.
"So what is it that you wish for me to do?" Andross asked curious as to what Mewtwo was planning.
"There will be a big battle against my tanks and the smashers, Fox and Falco will be leading the air attack."
"Fox?"
"Unfortunately he's not really Fox Mcloud. He's one of the heroes from an ancient prophecy that foretells that they will defeat the ultimate evil."
"Oh really, this is very interesting."
"Yes, I do not want you to interfere with the battle though, you are free to do what you wish after Wolf get's his turn with Falco and 'Fox'."
"So Wolf is involved in this as well?"
"Yes, yes he is involved, as well as Olimar, Wario, Ganondorf, and Bowser."
"I see, well count me in on this little parade."
"I'm glad you agree with me…. Now I'm off to put the final touches on my army, I'm predicting we'll be stopping near here but if we don't feel free to follow undetected."
"Right, very well then I will leave you to your affairs." Andross said heading back into the shadows. Mewtwo left the temple and was now outside of it, he smiled. He looked above to see the clouds start to darken red the Halberd was approaching and soon oh so very soon would his plan get into action.
To Be Continued…
Why did Mewtwo ally himself with Andross? Who was the mysterious person on the bridge? What is Ganondorf really planning? Can the Great Fox match up against the Halberd? Stay tuned to the next several chapters of Super Smash Bros. Mayhem!
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