Chapter ten is here. Unfortunately updates may be a bit sporadic or nonexistent for a while as aerococonut is going on a holiday and we also need to have a chat to work a few extra things out. The battle is a standard three person two stock free for all.

Serenity

Chapter 10

Horrible Timing

The King of Evil strode down the hallways of Smash Mansion; it was his least favourite time of year, springtime. It wasn't that Ganondorf hated the season; it's just that it was the hay fever season and he got really bad hay fever. Whenever Ganondorf had the chance he would spend his springs in either the desert or holed up in Hyrule Castle, which Link took offense at and always booted him out.

Ganondorf turned the corner and walked into Olimar. The little guy sure seemed to be in a hurry, he was running as fast as his short legs could carry him, with six Pikmin at full sprint behind him. Olimar bounced off Ganondorf's armoured leg. At that moment Ganondorf gave an almighty sneeze, and in the instant that his eyes were closed the Pikmin went from being cute and alive to little sad spirits. On a better day he might, might (he had his reputation to consider after all)have apologised to Olimar for the needless murder of six Pikmin, but his hay fever was so bad he didn't even notice.

It could not have been worse timing for Ganondorf, he had a match with Sonic and Captain Falcon, both of who were very fast, while he was slow as anything, and to make matters worse they were fighting on possibly the most floral stage Ganondorf had ever seen. Not very good timing at all.

The floral field was a large circular arena covered in flowers with the occasional platform popping up from the ground. There were larger orange flowers in the open areas, sticking up about a metre high. Above the ledges jutting out of the ground were a series of floating platforms in the shape of flowers. This was a large open stage with very little room to hide.

The battle was on when the announcer called GO. Sonic and Captain Falcon took off with a blur, and Ganondorf barely had time to react before Captain Falcon was delivering a punch to his face. Ganondorf tried to punch back, but was thwarted by a second, then a third punch. Ganondorf back peddled, with the aim to give himself more room, straight into a waiting sonic, with a home run bat. Ganondorf was quickly launched into the barrier.

Sonic quickly threw his bat at Captain Falcon, with a leap Captain Falcon evaded the attack, landed behind Sonic and sped into a Falcon Kick. Sonic took the hit and rolled into a homing attack, striking Captain Falcon and sending him into one of the larger flowers on the field. The flower exploded in a burst of pollen, launching Captain Falcon up onto one of the floating platforms above the stage.

Ganondorf rejoined the battle by grabbing Captain Falcon in a flame choke and leaping off the platform. The pair raced towards the ground, onto a proximity mine set by Sonic. The explosion sent the two flying, into pillars on separate ends of the stage. Sonic was starting to get cocky "You guys can't keep up with me. You're too slow. You're too slow."

Ganondorf sneezed once again; the sudden flow of magic caused the pillar behind him to crumble, through his foggy mind Ganondorf saw a possibility. He began chanting and the rocks behind him rose into the air, Sonic and Captain Falcon started running towards him to try and stop him while Ganondorf took careful aim, and launched the boulders into the pair of them. Sonic was able to dodge the barrage but Captain Falcon wasn't so lucky. The boulders hit him and launched him straight into the barrier.

Sonic was still running at Ganondorf and had dodged the main part of the barrage, but Ganondorf was ready, he dropped the rocks to form a low wall in front of Sonic. The hedgehog did not see the low wall and, tripped over it, straight into Ganondorf's Warlock Punch. The punch was not strong enough to KO Sonic at such low damage but it did send him flying away.

Captain Falcon returned to the battle and chased after the smash ball which had just appeared on the platforms. With a perfectly timed kick the ball shattered and he felt the power of the smash ball flow through him. "Blue Falcon or new Final Smash?" Captain Falcon thought to himself as he dropped to the ground behind Sonic.

Sonic and Ganondorf reacted instantly by running behind the nearest pillar, they would put aside their differences long enough to avoid the final smash. While they were hiding Ganondorf sneezed, three times in quick succession. On the third sneeze Sonic was hit with a massive explosion and was sent rocketing towards the barrier. Captain Falcon honed in on the sound of sneezing and explosions and unleashed his new Final Smash, the Giant Falcon Punch.

"GIANT FALCON PUNCH" He yelled as he punched the pillar Ganondorf was hiding behind. A huge flaming falcon burst from his fist and destroyed the pillar and knocked Ganondorf into the barrier, and out of the match. The falcon kept going until it hit the barrier itself, leaving a burning trail in its wake.

Sonic returned to the battle by dropping straight down towards Captain Falcon. Captain Falcon took off running. The crowd was getting excited, Ganondorf had been boring and now this battle was going to be all about speed with two of the fastest smashers in the fight.

Captain Falcon sprinted for the bomb gauntlet item which had just appeared, while sonic sprinted for the bomb gauntlet at the other end of the stage. The bomb gauntlet could hold and launch between five and ten bombs. Half of the pillars on the stage had been destroyed so there even less cover than before. The two combatants ran at each other, gauntlets at the ready.

Sonic took the first shot at Captain Falcon, who threw himself to his right to avoid the attack, although he still felt the flames from the bomb. He rolled and shot a bomb straight back at Sonic, who dodged it cleanly. Coming out of his dodge Sonic fired a bomb as Captain Falcon did the same. The two bombs collided and exploded.

Captain Falcon fired three shots in close succession; Sonic took his time to shoot down all the bombs before they reached him. Sonic fired again, Captain Falcon fired but all he heard was a loud click. His gauntlet had run out of ammo, the bomb hit him and sent him flying to the barrier and out of the match. Sonic celebrated his victory by shooting his remaining bombs around.

The medical wing was in a constant state of danger from Ganondorf's wild magic sneezing. There was the occasional explosion and one of the beds was currently galloping around as a purple horse. Dr. Mario, badly singed and hair standing on end was treating ganondorf. The king of evil was currently drinking a concoction that the doctor had provided. Ganondorf's nose dried up and he was able to think straight in time to notice Wolf make the first move since his mysterious battle.

Wolf opened his one good eye and saw the doctor come running over. Wolf did not recognise the stranger standing over his bed so he tried to leap to his feet, but was brought down by one of his wounds reopening and pain from several of his limbs. He let out a gasp of pain and fell back onto the bed.

"If you are here to kill me please do it quickly." Wolf grunted, fighting to stay awake. The doctor leaned in and said" I am-a not herre to kill you. I am-a here to save you." Wolf did not believe it.

"Like hell you are. You are Mario's cyber version, sent here to take me down with your messed up battle gauntlet." Wolf reached for his blaster but was stopped by a sudden sharp pain in his shoulder.

"Wolf what happened to you? Snake and Raiden found you injured more badly than anyone at Smash Mansion has ever been before next to a pile of robot parts. You were dying so Master Hand created me to save you."

"Who's Raiden?" Wolf asked, and then his eyes feel on Raiden (who had entered the medical wing when the conversation had stopped being sneeze related) "You Raiden? Who are you?"

"Raiden friend of Snake's soldier from the VR training system, I have had field experience. I arrived here the day you were attacked." Raiden said offering his hand for Wolf to shake; the offer was declined and was quickly withdrawn.

"Wolf what happened?" Dr. Mario asked, trying to get the conversation back on topic.

"Well I was outside in the garden and then I saw this Wolf clone, he was wearing a black uniform and had slightly darker fur than I do. He has a red battle gauntlet on, I fought him in a hit point match and he was far stronger than me. I took real injuries had blood from my wounds. I shoved a smart bomb in his face and he only lost his snout and one arm. I used an electro grenade and fell unconscious after that, did I kill it?"

"Yes Wolf its dead." Raiden said simply.

"Master Hand have any idea what it is?"

"No. He doesn't have a clue." Dr. Mario lied to everyone. The doctor thought it might not be a good idea to say anything when even Master Hand was reluctant to say anything on the subject. The doctor left the medical wing to give the news to the Hands.

Yes this chapter took ages sorry difficulty seeing where we are going with the story. I did however put some additional plot information in there which will slowly be revealed. Aerococonut will write the next chapter so keep an eye out.