:. Chapter ten might have taken longer since I was on vacation and all, but I still hope it's to everyone's liking. Seriously, thanks to everyone who's given me reviews and who's read my story. Without you guys my determination wouldn't be with me right now. When this one comes to an end, I WILL make a sequel! Because these are really fun to write. Though my family finds my writings annoying, I'm glad there are those of you that are able to actually enjoy them. Thank you. I'll try to make this one longer and more enjoyable. This wont be my final chapter though. So don't worry, I'm here to stay. .:
Zelda turned to Wolf; she threw a glance at Charizard and nodded her head in approval. "While I was working my healing, I picked up readings of fire inside of her. Does Civ have the power of fire?" Zelda asked Wolf, curiosity mixed in with alarm shone on her face. She was obviously interested in Civ's ability to control fire, but also wondered why she hadn't done any fire moves on ToonLink when she was brawling against him.
Wolf was quiet; the truth was that he didn't really know himself. He remembered Civ bringing up the subject of fire a couple of times, but he hadn't really expected anything until now. "She's never really told me…" He informed, glaring into THESOURCE's eyes. "But I think that is the reason this demon's after her." He spoke darkly, he unsheathed his claws. He was about to run at THESOURCE with all of his anger, all of the hate that built up inside of him. But right as he had planned his attack, his old friend Meta Knight appeared in front of him. Only it wasn't necessarily his true being, it was the darkness that had taken him over. Meta Knight was only a shell of his self at the moment.
"You can't resist us Wolf, come join us. Hand over Civ and everything will be settled." Meta Knight spoke in his usual emotionless voice. THESOURCE had hit the target when it came to voicing his friend's personality. Has he done this with anyone else? Wolf thought to himself, unable to move due to the shock Meta Knight had put on him. He almost believed it really was the dark knight, until the evil look mixed in his eyes proved it otherwise. "You're not Meta Knight, and never will you gain control of me so that I'll be desperate enough to hand Civ over to you." He spoke darkly, slashing his claws at Meta Knight but hitting his mask. Damn… It's not just an illusion anymore. It's near the real thing. He told himself, looking at his claws that had slashed against Meta Knight's mask.
Red watched as Wolf tried to slash Meta Knight, he frowned a little at the noise Wolf made as he slashed against Meta Knights mask. "These are the real deal… We have to save Meta Knight." Red declared, holding two pokeballs in both of his arms. "I left Squirtle with Falco. He should be fine there. What do you want Charizard to do to help Civ?" He asked quickly.
Falco! Wolf thought suddenly, wondering what the bird could be doing at a time like this. He's probably got himself killed or something. He thought angrily, he turned to the Pokémon trainer and threw a glance at the suffering Civ. He had to act quickly. "Just get Charizard to breathe fire on Civ." He said calmly.
Red stared at Wolf uncertainly. "Breathe fire on Civ?" He echoed. Not sure if he could bring himself to order his Charizard to harm the injured wolf. "Are you sure?"
Zelda answered the question for Wolf, her eyes were filled with anger towards THESOURCE and she could still sense the faint heat source coming from inside Civ's body. "Yes, she'll be fine Red." She spoke coolly, using a bit of her own fire magic to put into Civ's minor wounds. To less then her surprise, it worked.
Red's face filled with surprise, this was more then enough to convince him. "Alright, Charizard use fire blast on Civ!" He demanded, pointing his finger at Civ like they did in the cheesy animes. (Oh c'mon, someone had to do it!)
Charizard hesitated for a bit, he blew fire onto Civ as he was told to. Puzzlement rose on the orange dragon's expression as Civ began to form into a dark shadow and simply faded into the sky. Charizard turned and gave his trainer an extremely confused look.
THESOURCE smirked then rolled his glowing red eyes. "If you thought that was Civ the whole time, you're a fool." He mocked. He walked slowly up to Zelda and grinned sheepishly. "Hey there babes, what are you doing hanging out with this mutt? I could treat you a lot better." He chimed, putting a shadowy arm around Zelda.
Zelda shot an angry glare at THESOURCE. If that wasn't Civ she had been working on healing, who was it? She squirmed away from THESOURCE's grasp. It took all of her self-cautious not to smack the pervert across the face. "Where's Civ?! What have you done with her?!" She demanded.
Wolf watched hopelessly as the last of the shadows drifted upwards into the sky. Did this mean that Civ was dead after all? Had THESOURCE just gotten rid of her corpse and put a clone in her place? If that was true, why would he still be here? "Have you killed her?" he asked angrily.
THESOURCE gave Zelda an amused look. "Aww… Don't make this hard. You and I could get along so nicely." He flirted, grabbing Zelda's chin and making what seemed like a purr-like sound. He let go of Zelda then turned to Wolf. "Dead? Not exactly, that bitch ran away from me before I could do anything!" He growled, crossing his arms. "Consider her lucky, I was planning on trying out some great weapons on her." He smiled, flicking his tail in slight disgust.
"You creep!" Red yelled angrily, pointing at THESOURCE. He wouldn't take his friend being manhandled by some shadow-perv. "Charizard let's go, fire blast!" He repeated. He was really unsure of what else to do; all he focused on right now was saving Zelda from this creep.
"Red, no you idiot!" Wolf growled, knowing what would happen if Red just went out and attacked THESOURCE like he had done. Charizard or Zelda could be badly injured that way. "Take out the clones first! With them gone, he'll be open for attacks!" Wolf informed him, hopefully talking quickly enough to reverse the attack.
Red drew back a little as Charizard breathed a huge blast of fire straight at THESOURCE. He and his Charizard watched in horror as the flames were sent straight back at them. "Dammit…" Red muttered, wishing he had taken Wolf's advice earlier.
"Watch out Red!" Zelda shrieked, running in front of red and quickly creating a crystal-like form in front of her. It deflected the fire that hurled straight towards him and sent it back at THESOURCE. Zelda smiled in satisfaction. Would THESOURCE take damage? Hopefully, if Zelda's calculations were correct.
As the flames hurled at the black shadow, a low screaming was heard following by a howl of pain. The flames cleared and the shadow stood in their place, and angry look sat in his eye. He was obviously not expecting an attack like Zelda had performed. "That's it; you two are good as gone!" He snarled angrily, waving his paws once more. A shadow version of Samus and Fox quickly appeared in front of them. "Have fun with these two, goodbyes for now." He chimed, disappearing in a puff of black and red smoke that reeked of blood and fear.
"You coward, why don't you fight for yourself for once!" Wolf yelled at THESOURCE angrily, even though the shadow had disappeared. He looked up in front of him at the clones in front of him, Meta Knight, Samus, and his rival Fox. Who was he going to fight? He couldn't help feel that he could easily defeat Fox just because of the hate between the two. "I'll get Fox, Zelda you get Samus, and Red you get Meta Knight. We have to get these three back to themselves." Wolf ordered, immediately darting after Fox, trying to keep up with his speed.
Zelda blinked her thanks towards Red. She nodded towards Wolf's orders. He sure is full of determination; he must miss ordering his team around. She thought, not being able to help but admire Wolf's leadership. Before she had come into brawl Link had told her to be weary of Wolf. He had told her that the dog had tried to annihilate Fox many times and he was nothing but a ruthless killer. However, that's not what Zelda saw here. What Wolf was showing right now was anything but that. He was fighting for another's life, could Civ really mean that much to the rouge? Without hesitating any longer, Zelda stepped up to the dark female coated in a black colored power suit. "Alright, show me what you have." She told the clone, crossing her arms.
Red looked over at Zelda and watched as she faced up to Samus and began performing a few of her spells. He turned to check on Wolf and watched as he began fighting with Fox, each looked evenly matched. They blocked each other's punches and shots and only inflicted damage with the most heavy of hits. Red winced a little, and then looked over at Meta Knight. He swallowed the lump in his throat and little hope shone in his eyes. When he had joined brawl, he hadn't considered his life on the line. "Charizard… Blast burn on Meta Knight's mask!" He shouted, knowing that the iron in Meta Knight's mask probably couldn't withstand the heat of the intense fire attack.
Meanwhile, in Zelda's room…Falco sat on a chair; he had a rather thick book in his wings. "How to spell cast… Chapter five… When spell casting, you must make up a hand motion in which to cast your spells…" He muttered, having of found one of Zelda's books in his boredom. He reread the words and shrugged. "Here goes nothing." He stood up off of the chair and made some weird stance with his hands. "What else did I have to do? Say something… Right Uh... Hocus pocus?" To Flaco's surprise, a beam of water shot out from his wings. "Wholy crap! I did it!" He exclaimed happily, frowning at the wall that was now soaked.
"Squirtle?" Squirtle mumbled, rolling his eyes at Falco. He had meant to fire the stream of water at his skull for acting so dumb. He couldn't learn how to spell cast if he tried. Well, whenever Zelda came back he knew she wouldn't take to well to messing with her spell books while she was gone.
Falco turned to Squirtle, and then face palmed himself. "Oh… It was just you." He muttered, closing the book shut and pushing it back in the shelf. "What the heck is taking them so long? I can't help but be worried… Don't you think Civ was acting a little weird?"
Squirtle shrugged, since he hadn't really been awake when Civ and the others had left Zelda's room. "Squirtle, squir." He stated, motioning out the door for the two to explore elsewhere. He was getting pretty sick and tired of seeing Falco try to cast spells, especially since he failed at it.
Falco hesitated a little. "Well… No one's come yet, I'm sure it's unlikely someone's going to come and just randomly decide to steal Zelda's stuff." Falco muttered, pushing the chair back into its place. "So… Let's go! Hopefully they're not all dead."
Squirtle quivered a little. He couldn't imagine his trainer laying dead on the floor or any of his friends badly injured. He knew Red didn't exactly have the best self-esteem then any of the other fighters like Wolf, or Zelda. He had actually lost his first fight with Diddy Kong because he had been nervous when giving orders to Ivysaur. "Squirtle!" He said, determined to show THESOURCE what he was made of, the day before he had snuck away from red to come to Kirby G's funeral. Every since that, despite his lack of understanding he knew that THESOURCE meant business.
"Alright, let's go!" He said enthusiastically, grabbing the small turtle and placing him on his shoulder. "And let's pray no one's dead without us…" He added, walking into the hallway. He didn't bother locking the door, because it'd pretty much be pointless anyway if someone really wanted to head in. Falco however was thrown off guard by a shrill scream coming from the other end of the hall. He recognized it immediately. "Sophie!" He shouted in disbelief.
Falco immediately ran through the halls, Squirtle was practically flying off of his shoulder as he ran. Sophie! She's not dead, she's alive! He thought eagerly. Civ hadn't killed his sister after all! "Sophie!" Falco roared, running down the long halls of the Brawl Manor. Damn halls! Why do they have to be so long! He thought, continuing to run towards his screaming sister.
Wolf continued fighting against the shadow Fox, he had been surprisingly strong. He hurt all over, and Fox looked to be in horrible shape too. "Fox, snap out of it!" He panted, standing a small distance away from the black-furred canine.
"Stop resisting Wolf… If you join us, you'll get everything you've ever wanted." Fox rasped darkly. Despite his fake appearance, he too was panting for air. Blood seeped from his forehead where Wolf had slashed him across the face.
Wolf smirked, Fox and he were both evenly matched in air fights, and ground fights. "What's the matter, scared?" Wolf taunted, kicking the air with his legs. "Whatever happened to your confidence Fox? You used to be such a great rival. Now you're nothing but a weakling, fight me!" He demanded, running towards Fox and punching him in the stomach.
Fox fell back and coughed up some purple-like plasma that looked strangely like blood. "F-Fool!" He spat angrily, pushing himself onto two legs. He glared up at Wolf and bared his fangs. "You were never the better piolet! Stop trying and give up already!" He demanded, obvious hate shown in his lifeless eyes. He lunged forward and bit into Wolf's neck.
Wolf growled, however he filled with pride. "That's the Fox I want to see." He smirked, tearing Fox off of his neck and throwing him down onto the ground. Wolf pulled himself on top of him and pinned him down, then dug his fangs into Fox's neck.
Fox's dark eyes filled with terror as Wolf's jaws clenched around his neck. Wolf definitely had the upper hand when it came to size difference. He kicked his legs around and managed to kick Wolf off of him before he could dig his fangs too far into his neck. He quickly pulled out his blaster that was covered in purple plasma, and quickly shot at Wolf.
Wolf picked himself off of the ground and immediately switched on his reflector. The light red shield sizzled a little as the shots bounced off of him and fell against Fox. The reflector switched off and Wolf walked slowly up to Fox and put one foot on his chest. "Fool, if you think a clone like you can beat me, then you're wrong." He smirked. "This will finish it." He declared, digging his claws deep into the clone's chest.
Immediately, Fox let out a low plea and the sound of blood gurgled in his throat. About five seconds after, a light formed around him and his trophy sat in his place.
Wolf stared contently at the trophy; he set it up and stared at the terrified look on Fox's face. "Hmmm… Revive the trophy… Don't revive the trophy…" He argued with himself, moving his hands like a scale, he immediately wondered how his friend's fighting was going. He looked in the direction of Zelda and was surprised at the sight of what looked like a male-ish figure fighting in Zelda's place. Is that Zelda?! Wolf thought in shock.
Zelda, now Sheik ran to the side of Samus. Samus was trying to pelt her in large blasts from her cannon, and it took all of her agility to dodge them. The clone was surprisingly putting up quite a fight. That SOURCE guy really is something to make clones like these… She thought, throwing a couple of shurikens at Samus.
Samus dodged most of the shurikens, but a very few of them slashed through her power suit, forming a little blue static around the puncture. The dark power suit looked beat up and worn out but the space fighter still stood strong. She began charging up a blast from her cannon and immediately shot it straight at Sheik.
Sheik saw this coming and slid out of the way; she dashed at Samus and punched upwards at her chin, making a puncture in her suit. She dashed around to the other side of Samus while she was distracted and kicked her in the back, sending her toppling over. Sheik had planned to toss a few more shurikens into Samus's power suit while she was down, but instead Samus grabbed her swiftly and tossed her onto the ground with her. Surprised by the clones's quick-thinking, Sheik barely had time to think as she was almost smashed into the ground. She picked herself back up and grabbed Samus this time, throwing her across the ground.
Samus sat on the ground, sparking every now and again. Sheik stood over her, breathing hard. Obviously the two had both fought hard. Sheik sighed in relief as the darkness began to fade away and Samus turned into a trophy. Without hesitation, Sheik tapped Samus's trophy and a bright light filled the area. The light quickly faded and Samus stood up, holding the head of her power suit.
"Agh… THESOURCE… He took over me didn't he?" Samus asked groggily, she turned to see Sheik and nodded her thanks. She looked at Wolf and chuckled a bit as Fox's trophy sat next to him. "You're going to wait to revive his trophy aren't you?" She asked, her voice eventually fading back to its original stature.
Wolf stared in relief at Samus. "Maybe…" He muttered, pushing the trophy away for the time being. "…. Is that you Zelda?" Wolf asked with curiosity, he stared at Sheik. She looked nothing like Zelda.
Sheik nodded, she made a few arm movements and a bright sparkling light surrounded her. Soon after it faded Zelda stood in Sheik's place. "Yes, it is. I'm able to change myself using my magic." Zelda explained, turning to Red. Who looked to be struggling with Meta Knight. "I hope Red's going to win…" Zelda mumbled.
Samus held Zelda from running to help Red. "Red's a good fighter, he just gets pressured easily. Just wait and see how he does." Samus told her, turning towards Wolf and laughing quietly. "Wolf… Unfreeze Fox's trophy."
Wolf smirked. "I'll wait after Red's done fighting, he might try to stop him otherwise." He pointed out, knowing how Fox liked to play the hero and save everyone. At times while fighting Fox, he felt a little bad for Falco when he was battling Panther or Leon. If Falco was shot even once, Fox would dive in and attack Panther to give Falco time to recover. Good thing he was a leader, he certainly wouldn't want to deal with Fox's nonsense.
Samus turned away from Wolf and realized how right he was. Fox was a nice guy, but he was a bit too proud of himself, especially when it came to fighting. "Good point…" She whispered, looking back at Red who looked to be struggling with his opponent. Meta Knight was for the most part a great opponent. Even when cloned. She couldn't help wondering if Wolf had made a mistake when pitting Red against Meta Knight, but then again he figured Wolf meant it for the best. That's what a leader would do. Try to make their teammate stronger.
After running down fifteen flights of stairs, Falco finally found the source of the screaming. His eyes filled with anger at the sight of a small sky-blue falcon in a steel bar cage. She sat on the ground hopelessly. Sonic stood in front of the cage, his quills were a dark gray color and he wore black braces around his wrists. He looked do be guarding the young bird. That stupid hedgehog got himself taken over? Falco thought, looking up at Squirtle. "You distract him… I'll go try and get Sophie free." He whispered.
Squirtle stared at Falco uncertainly; he finally scurried off of Falco's shoulder and ran in front of Squirtle. "Squirtle!" He hissed angrily, leaping onto Sonic's back and firing a stream of water at him, soaking his fur.
Sonic shivered; despite being taken over by THESOURCE he still hated water as much as his normal self. "Stupid turtle!" He spat angrily, grabbing the turtle off of him.
As soon as Squirtle was about to be thrown off of Sonic, Falco ran and caught him and placed him down beside him then ran up and kicked the hedgehog in the chest. "Hey Sophie, long time no see!" Falco said happily.
Sophie looked up and looked at his brother with pride. "Falco! I haven't seen you in so long!" She cried happily
Falco smiled at Sophie, before running up to Sonic and trying to pin him to the ground. However, his attempt failed when Sonic picked himself up and ran to the side of Falco. He threw his fist into Falco's chest, knocking the wind out of him. "You're too slow!" He taunted.
Falco growled angrily, despite the pain he felt in his chest he pushed himself onto two legs and began to continuously hit Sonic with the tip of his wings. "This is what you get for locking my sister up!" He snarled, throwing a punch across Sonic's face before he could have any time to react. "And this is what you get... Because..." Falco hesitated for a bit, he had absolutely no clue at all why he was beating up the dark Sonic. "Well... I just don't like you!" Falco snarled, punching Sonic again then slamming his skull into the ground, knocking him out for the time being.
Squirtle stared in amazement as Falco beat the living hell out of Sonic, the guy certainly didn't have any mercy. "Squirtle! Squirtle-squirt!" Squirtle mumbled uncertainly. He threw a glance over at Sophie and shuddered. Something looked... Different about her. Instead of the light blue bird they had seen earlier, this being has dark black feathers and pericing red eyes. "You're such a fool if you think your sister would actually LIVE!" Came the voice, that had once been sweet. But this voice was dark and demanding, like someone Falco had once known.
"THESOURCE!" Falco snarled angrily, watching in his horror as Sonic began reviving off of the ground. Squirtle wasn't too useful without his trainer giving orders. How was he going to fend off both of these clones at once? He couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness at the thought of having to attack Sophie, who had looked so real a few minutes before. But if he was right, all he had to do was defeat the clone to get his sister back, right? But things didn't looked good right now. Excluding Squirtle, Falco was outnumbered. That is until a space captain walked into the room, several plant-like creatures followed behind him. He had a determined look upon his face and he clutched a red Pikmin tightly in his right hand.
Olimar! And he wasn't a clone!:. Oh darn. xD Gonna have to wait for the next chapter for Olimar action! Short, but still good. I'm starting to get lazy, but I don't want to keep all of you people waiting. .: