Ending Black Jack

Well I had to admit I was scared, after all Sonic was a deadly enemy and I just got out a battle which had my whole energy expended. I tried to turn into Mario, but I felt that my spine hurt to much to bear the electro-shower that shape-shift me to Mario. So, I was really bad and I could read through Sonic look that letting me fall on the stairs would be fun for him.

But before he had his chance to do so, Robert started walking towards Sonic. He was not in such a lame shape as I was, but he was exhausted, a battle with Sonic would kill him. I had to warn him.

"Don't fight him!" I said weakly "He's too strong, and you're out of breath"

"Shut up weakling, there's no way this cat would win"

"I'm not a cat! I'm a hedgehog!"

"Yeah, whatever, anyway victory will be mine"

I saw Robert turning into Yoshi again, but I could see how tired he was, he could not fight Sonic like that. No, not alone. I tried to transform despite how much my spine hurt and I made it, but at the time I made it, I was already impressed of how Robert managed to dodge some of Sonic's attacks. But still, he was too fast and any attack Robert tried to do couldn't connect his enemy, not his launched eggs, not his tail, not his kick. Any attack was really useless; Sonic just avoided them all easily. He was toying with him! When I came to realize what Sonic's was doing I ran towards him cloaked by Yoshi who was sent flying back and then I jumped and connected a hard hit on Sonic face. It was hard for me to do so, my body barely reacted, it was still numbing after I gave that punch, and that was bad, it gave Sonic enough time to pay me back with a punch on my waist. It hurt too much that it would normally be. I had stopped breathing some seconds and I was almost absolutely positive that I would fall unconscious on the wooden floor. But I didn't, I had the chance to see how Robert stood up and tried to fight back. He was giving the best he could in his shape. He barely dodge when Sonic's spin attack passed next to him and then turning into a ball, with all his speed I could see how Yoshi's back was being taken, hurt by every rotation Sonic made at his back and then how he suddenly stopped to kick his stomach. Robert was sent flying back to the mirrors. The transformation was undone before he crashed them and I could see how blood started to fly as well. I was scared, how bad could Robert be now? I tried to stand up and go there, but a punch impacted in my face, throwing me to the wooden floor, where I was being hit. It hurt too much, I had no energy left in order to hold my transformation any longer. Mario form went out and when I came back to my original shape the time just stopped at the moment Sonic's fist was about to land in my face.

I thought it was a regression, an analysis of my whole life and achievements, but that was not it, time was actually stopped, I didn't know how, but I could crawl in order to escape from Sonic's fist which was moving really slow, but still moving anyway. When the time came back to its cause, Sonic's punch just destroyed all the wooden around his fist. I was just two meters away and I didn't know how to proceed then, it was really hard to tell what my next move would be, abandon Robert and save myself? Even if I tried, how was I supposed to escape from Sonic's speed?

Then hope appeared. Someone just shout "Pk thunder!" and a small thunderbolt just froze Sonic.

I saw both Lucas and Charizard coming in the scene, followed by Ash, Link and even Peach.

"Are we too late?" asked Link.

"Look at me" I said weakly "I'm not having a good time"

"Well, we came to have a word with Sonic" Lucas told me.

"I owe you one for saving me from Yoshi" Peach thanked me "It seems Link was right about you"

"Now" Ash interrupted "There are important issues to be talk. Link you stay with Matthew, everyone else will have a word with Sonic"

Link nodded and got near me, while the other passed next to me. I still wondered how Robert was, but that would have to wait, nobody liked him, and if I just mentioned to Peach, she would probably kill him by herself. Link drew his sword, he was prepared for the worst just in case of. I was not sure what they told Sonic, it was a really large conversation and I could read an unsatisfactory face Sonic. The only thing I heard was something like "What do you think the others are like?" I didn't understand what it meant, but I knew it was from Sonic's voice. The conversation turned loud and I couldn't recognize any word from it, my head was spinning. Mario tried to keep me focus, in order to hear and understand what they were talking about, but my head was at such commotion state that I just fainted.

My vision only detected black for the time being. I had no dreams, only resting with black wallpaper covering my mind. It was a pain to think, or maybe I was still reticent from my previous injuries.

When my eyes opened, I was at my bedroom, with Melanie and mom at my side.

"Are you alright honey?" asked mom.

I just started to get up, slowly. My body hurt. There was no physical injure, but it felt like there were too many. I moved my head trying to remember everything. There were so many things after all, the first thing that came in my mind was about the diary and everything, and it was the most important thing right then.

"Mom... you knew about it, didn't you?" I asked weakly "You knew I was Mario, and you knew that I was fighting against those smash characters. That's why you let Link stay. You also knew about dad's doing"

"Yes, I did. I knew everything. Your father told me"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"You were too young. Your dad wanted you to be older, even more than you're now in order to be mature enough to take on his quest"

"His quest?"

"Well, there are many details to be told. You know he was an army soldier, but do you remember how often he went to Japan to work?"

"Yes"

"Well, he was a test subject and the same as you are right now" I was shocked, and so was Mario "There was a project in order to create a new console for 2013, and your father knew that it would only bring disaster. So he was the first case. He was Luigi"

The image of Luigi heart's being ripped out just shocked both Mario and me. We could not believe it; a relationship that way, seven year ago. But, how? If he was Luigi then one of the deaths we knew was fake, after all Luigi died in front of Mario's eyes with his heart ripped out and my father died murdered in a plain. How could they have died in two different places if they were one? It made no sense to me, but there was one thing I couldn't deny: "That's how he knew about this" I still was skeptical, but my mother explained me that his entire job was to avoid the virtual reality that was being done by Ninentdo, started to be real. So, he got divorced in order to keep us apart of his job and then fought as Luigi trying to stop something inevitable. He traveled to Japan time to time to test the virtual console Nintendo had programmed to finish in the next two years; the project that my dad told me in his letter that could "create" a new life form. He was at the beginning of this whole crisis.

I still could not believe it, but I let that go on the moment.

"Robert was at the theater!" I shouted "What happened to him?"

"He is fine" Melanie told me softly "We took him to the hospital; he was full of cuts, but nothing serious"

"Good" I couldn't believe I actually worried about him "There are a lot of things I want to ask"

"Shouldn't you sleep a little bit more?" asked my mother staring at my weak body "You've been seriously wounded"

I still wanted to ask question, but my eyes closed and felt asleep.

It was Monday; I spent most of the time sleeping and asking question. Now my house had became the host home for Lucas, Pokemon Trainer/Ash, Peach and Link. Our guest room was full, and Peach had to sleep along with Melanie.

My body still hurt a little, but nothing compared to the days before.

I walked to school once again like nothing happened. Robert was already in his house at recovery. Apparently the side story made by my mother was that he was found on the street severely cut after some vandals tried to take his money.

As for Gabriel and Maquiel, they both were informed about everything by Link, They were surprised to know that he became such an ally after everything. Now they're justice league was increasing and it was about time for me to make a choice. There could not be any more games in the future; this was real thing, not a brawl fight I got after school. So I had to decide to finally leave playing games and take this seriously, as the war it was ranging on the world. It was a matter of time before people come to accept that smash characters were real. They already knew, now it came to accept it. And we had to do something about it; we would be on two sides' enemy. Normal people would fear us, they didn't know we were in their side, and smash characters are what we had to fight. But farther, we had to figure who was the one pulling the strings behind the curtains, someone who start all this and who could end it, but how to find him? And in the mid time, what did we do? We'd try to turn as much characters on our side, if we were lucky most of them would come to reason and there would be not need to fight them all. But I had something to do first. Figure what the hell happened to Bowser.

So I got school and I would spy on Salaric. It was highly probable that he would take him, but I could not let myself be suspicious. Luckily, we had math at first.

I entered the classroom and both Maquiel and Gabriel looked at me concerned. I wondered what could be our next step into all this.

I noticed that Maquiel had quite a sad look on her eyes, like if she was being force to do something she didn't want to. I kept watching at her some seconds and I realize that I found her somewhat attractive now, I didn't know why. When she realized I was staring at her I blushed, so I turned my head in Salaric direction that was as usual. Only one day he talked about Nintendo and then he never spoke about that again. Odd, but maybe he realized that we were expecting him to do so.

The class ended and I followed Salaric to his office.

"Is there something the matter Matthew?"

"In fact, there is" I had no time to lose "Do you have some information about the smash characters?"

He looked at me puzzled for an instance.

"Actually, I knew there was someone investigating some kind of trophy"

"Who?"

"Well, it may be awkward for us to go an ask her, especially in the situation they're now"

"What do you mean?"

"Its Gabriel mother" my eyes wide opened "And it seems she has been having a hard time with him"