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Chapter 14
The Foiled Revenge Attempt! Smashers to the Rescue!
"You sure this will work?" Ike asked Bowser.
"Trust me in this! I know Wario as good as Mario and surely this will work!" he replied.
The Smashers were apparently inside the truck. Ness and Toon Link were setting up a ramp that they built in front of the cliff. Wario and Kirby were in the container at the back of the truck, and Wario was crouched down with his butt facing outside while Kirby was standing on his back in his fire form. Yes, he hadn't exit that form yet.
"It's ready!" Ness called.
"Then get onboard quick!" Bowser called back, and the two kids ran back into the back of the truck.
"I'm ready when you are!" Wario said.
"I'm ready to do this too!" Kirby called out.
"Okay, then fasten your seatbelts!" Bowser said as he gripped firmly onto the steering wheel. "We'll be going for the wildest ride of our lives! On your mark… get set… GO!!"
Upon the signal, Wario released a burst of gas from his back and Kirby breathed fire right into the gas. This resulted in a large stream of fire being created, and Bowser stepped down the gas pedal to the fullest to travel at max speed and the truck zoomed towards the ramp.
Combined with the makeshift jet engine, the truck gained enough speed to fly up into the air after it traveled up the ramp. The sight of the truck in front of the setting sun is something to behold too. Too bad there's no picture for you to see this.
The truck landed with a thud onto the other side of the chasm and continued on its way. "All right! We did it!" Bowser exclaimed.
"That sure is something…" Ike commented.
Wario stood up and laughed, "Hahahaha! Behold the power of gas!"
"Wow! That was amazing ride!" TL exclaimed. "I wish I can do that like Wario too!"
"That doesn't look like something proud to have…" Ness said.
"C'mon, we have to get back to the village!" Ike said.
"Don't worry; we'll be there in a jiffy!" Bowser said as he drove the truck at top speed through the forest.
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The sun grew lower and the night began to take over. Meanwhile, we see Rena running through the forest with great panic and behind her were a couple of men in uniform. "Don't let her get away!" they shouted.
Rena kept on running but then several more men appeared in front of her. "Oh no!"
The men slowly approached her and they have guns and knives in their hands, ready to take on her. "You better come with us quietly or else you'll die!" one of them said. That man slowly approached Rena to do something to her, but in an attempt to protect herself, Rena whipped out a large cleaver and slashed that man in the body. "GAAAAH!!"
"Don't come near me!" Rena shouted, holding up the cleaver defensively. "YA!" She was then shot in the right shoulder and she fell to her knees and placed her hand on the shoulder in pain.
"You will die for doing this!" the other men said.
Rena got more scared as the men got closer and closer to her. "No… Go away!" she cried. "Go away!"
One of the men raised a knife and was about to bring it down on her head when suddenly…
Trees fell over as a rampaging truck came by. This grabbed the attention of everyone, and some of the men were unfortunate enough to get knocked down by the falling trees.
CRASH! POW!
"AAHHH!! WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" they screamed.
Everyone got out of the way to avoid the mad truck, which eventually crashed into a very big tree and stopped moving.
CRASH!
"Doh… It can't take the impacts anymore…" Bowser said. "We have to give it a rest."
"At least we are at a place near the village," Ike said, getting down from the truck. When he got down, he saw those men looking at him. "Hmmm? What's this?"
"Who are these people?!" the men said.
"I know them! They are the Smashers!" said one of them.
"But aren't they supposed to be killed by the monster?! What are they doing here?!"
"Looks like these people are the ones that want us out of the village," Bowser said.
"I can tell that from the way they're speaking," Ike said, and then he saw Rena sitting on the ground. "Rena!"
"Guys!" she cried. "Ow!"
Ness saw the wound on her shoulder and asked, "What happened to you?! Did they hurt you?" And she nodded her head as response.
"I see…" Ike said, and he unsheathed his sword afterwards.
"Hoho! Looks like people we have to beat up!" Wario said with delight as he cracked his fists.
"How dare you lay hand to a beautiful girl like her?!" Kirby said angrily.
The men backed off in fear, but one of them said, "So what if they are the Smashers? There are only six of them but there are many of us! We have the number advantage! There is nothing to be afraid of!" Then they all raised their weapons and ran to the Smashers to attack them.
"I pity these fools," Bowser said.
And you know what happens next…
POW CRASH SMASH KICK BOOM KAPOW WHAM CRASH BAM BANG POW KICK SOCK SLASH CHOP CHOMP KABOOM SMASH CRASH POW!!
You can guess what is happening after reading all those painful sound effects. Wario grabbed two guys and swung them around like clubs to whacked the living daylights out of everyone else. Bowser charged around while swinging his claws like crazy to clear the way. Ike slashed down anyone he came across. Kirby kicked and punched the senses out of everyone. Ness knocked out everyone's teeth with his bat. Toon Link sliced and diced everyone who came up to him.
In summary: The Smashers are being their normal selves.
All the while, Rena sat in her place, watching the fight going on with wide eyes. "Whoa… They're strong…"
After the short but rough battle was over, the whole place was wrecked. Not only were there mauled and unconscious bodied all over the place, but the trees were also all torn down. Basically, a brand new clearing had been created in the woods.
Ike sheathed his sword and said, "Well, that was easy."
"I haven't beaten up anyone for a long time, so this made me happy!" Wario said, stretching his muscles.
Kirby walked up to Rena and asked her, "Are you all right?"
"Thanks, I'm all right," she replied with a smile. "You're so strong!"
Ness came up to her and reached into his backpack and got out a band aid. "Here, let me help you."
"Thanks!"
"So what's been happening while we were gone?" Ike asked Rena.
"Oh yeah! It's horrible!" Rena said. "The village was under attack by lots of men in uniform! I managed to escape with Satoko and Rika, but we got separated on the way. I do not know what happened to the villagers afterwards…"
"In that case, we must get there fast!" TL said.
"C'mon! Let's get moving!" Wario said.
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Back at the school…
"Hidden power...?" Rika thought.
"So whatever the case is, nobody is going to rescue you," Takano said. "Not even the Smashers!"
"You won't get away with this!" Keichi shouted.
"All right, I've talked enough for today. Shall we start the divine punishment now?"
"The room is firmly sealed up from all sides," one of the men reported to her.
"Good, now get the poison gas ready," Takano said to him.
"Poison gas?! You're going to poison us all?!" Mion gasped.
"For the villagers at least," she replied. "It would be waste of time to execute them one by one. I will save that for you bunch. Heheheheh!"
"You monster!"
Takano turned to her men and shouted, "Get on with it already!"
"Yes ma'am!" they replied, and then one of them opened a small opening on the door and threw a metal canister inside.
"NO!!" Shion screamed.
Inside, the canister fell onto the floor and began releasing purple gas, and the villagers screamed and backed off from it. "NOOOOOO!! IT'S POISON GAS!!"
"Poison gas!!" screamed Olimar. "I have to do something!"
From the outside, one could hear screaming and crying for help. The gang could do nothing but watch in horror and listen to the dreaded cries. Of course, they can't see inside, but they can imagine what is going on.
But then, they began to hear what sounded like chipmunk cries, and that was when the screaming died down too. "What is that?" Takano asked.
"No idea, ma'am," one of the men replied.
The chipmunk cries eventually died down, and Takano said, "Whatever that is, the villagers are probably all no more. Now for the next part…" And she turned her eyes to Rika, who backed off in fear.
"What are you going to do to her?!" Shion shouted.
"I'm going to give her the cruelest death one can ever imagine," she replied. "You know how I also work as a nurse? I'll allow you to be guests for this surgery."
"Wait… You're not going to dissect her, are you?!" Mion gasped.
Rika was then placed by force onto a desk, and then Takano reached into her pocket and got out a sharp scalpel and began to draw near Rika while smiling evilly to herself. "If you want to be angry, blame your ancestors."
"NO!! DON'T!!" the three teens screamed.
Rika simply closed her eyes and began to expect for the worst. "This is fate… The end has come for us all…"
"Hey! The door is smoking!" one of the men shouted.
"What?" Takano turned to the classroom door and saw smoke coming out from its surface, and then slowly, a hole was created and it grew larger and larger. Soon, it became large enough for Olimar to come through, and he was followed by several red Pikmins. "Finally came out of here," he said.
"What?! Shouldn't everyone inside be dead already?!" Takano gasped.
"On the contrary, everyone is quite all right," Olimar replied.
"How is that possible!? How did they survive the poison gas?!"
"Simple, I had my white Pikmins do the job. I plucked out a lot of them as fast as possible and because they are immune to poison, they inhaled all the poison gas that were coming out of the canister. And so everyone was safe in the end! Later I let the red Pikmin use their fire attributes to burn a hole on the door for me to come out.
One of the men opened the door and saw all the villagers inside safe and sound, and there were several white Pikmins standing around the empty canister. "As you can see, everyone is quite all right indeed," Olimar said.
"Phew, what a relief…" Shion said.
"Who is that guy…?" Keichi wondered.
Takano gritted her teeth angrily and said, "How dare you mess things up?!"
"I also heard your conversation from inside," Olimar added. "I know I have nothing to do with this since I am an outsider, but I think it's wrong that you want to kill everyone for that reason. Please stop it, please…"
"I won't let anyone get in the way of my revenge!" Takano shouted angrily, and she turned to Rika again and gripped the scalpel tightly. "I will kill her right now!"
"No!! Don't!!" Mion shouted.
CRASH!!
That was the sound of the school door crashing down and everyone turned his or her attention to it and saw the six Smashers coming in one by one. "Looks like we are on time after all," Ike said.
Takano backed off in shock and said, "What?! What are they doing here?!"
"Ha! Told you they would be here to stop you!" Mion said.
Ike saw Takano and said, "So it's you behind everything after all."
"Too bad your plans to distract us didn't work out very well," Bowser said.
"How is that possible?! You people should be dead by now!" Takano said angrily.
"Sorry, but trying to kill us is something you will never be able to do," Wario said. "I am too awesome to die!"
"And how dare you try to kill everyone in the village for a small reason?!" Ness said angrily.
"You will be taught a lesson for this!" Kirby added.
Then Rena appeared at the door too and was relieved to see the villagers unharmed. "Thanks goodness everyone is still alive!"
Her friends were also happy to see her! "Rena! You're all right!" Keichi said.
"Hey guys! I'm glad you're all right too!"
"Okay, time to clean up this place," Ike said, taking a step forward.
"Yeah, time to give them a rotten day!" Wario said with delight as he punched his palm.
"Get them all! I don't care what; just get them out of my sight!" Takano shouted to her men.
"Aye, I really pity these fools…" Bowser said.
"Shall we reuse the same scene?" Kirby asked.
And so...
POW CRASH SMASH KICK BOOM KAPOW WHAM CRASH BAM BANG POW KICK SOCK SLASH CHOP CHOMP KABOOM SMASH CRASH POW!!
You can guess what is happening after reading all those painful sound effects. Wario grabbed two guys and swung them around like clubs to whacked the living daylights out of everyone else. Bowser charged around while swinging his claws like crazy to clear the way. Ike slashed down anyone he came across. Kirby kicked and punched the senses out of everyone. Ness knocked out everyone's teeth with his bat. Toon Link sliced and diced everyone who came up to him.
In summary: The Smashers are being their normal selves. And I really did reuse the same scene! Hooray for copy and paste!
"Darn it!" Takano cursed, and she quickly made a run for the exit while the Smashers were busy beating up everyone.
"Oh no you don't!" Olimar shouted as he threw his Pikmins at her. The Pikmins grabbed onto her legs and tried to pull her back in, but she shook around to get them off.
"Get off me!" she shouted, and she swung her legs furiously and shook those Pikmins away before whipping out a gun and shooting them down one by one.
"Oh no!" Olimar gasped upon seeing his Pikmins getting killed.
"Don't think I'm giving up just because of this! I'll be back tomorrow first thing in the morning! Your doom will be inevitable!" Takano shouted furiously, and she ran out into the darkness of the night!
"She's getting away!" TL shouted.
The Smashers ran out of the school building but they saw Takano driving off in a truck at a fast speed, and they were too late to track her down in the darkness. "Dang, she got away…" Wario grumbled.
"At least everything is resolved here," Ike said.
Ness turned to Olimar and said to him, "You did help the people here too, right?"
"Yeah, if I hadn't done anything about the poison gas, I'm sure everyone is dead," Olimar replied.
"You lost your Pikmin, didn't you?"
"That's not a problem. I can still plant a lot more, and besides, it's their duty to sprout, live, and then die."
"Hey, what are you guys waiting for? Free us all quick!" Keichi shouted.
To make a long story short, everyone in the village was saved thanks to the efforts of the Smashers.
"You guys sure came late," Mion said. "We would all be dead if you came any later."
"Good thing I am always on time for school," Ness said. "And ironically, this is a school building!"
Kirby walked up to Rika and said to her, "Everyone is fine now."
"Thank you… I didn't expect you to save us all," Rika said with a smile. "I was honestly thinking that it is over for all of us. It feels good to be alive."
"Of course! You can have all the riches and wonders you want so long as you are alive! Harhar!" Wario laughed.
"By the way, where's Satoko?" Shion asked.
"We got separated during the escape," Rena told her. "I haven't seen her ever since…"
"Me too," Rika said.
"We better find her then…" Mion said. "What is she is captured or even killed?"
"Don't say that!" Shion said in shock.
Then just at this moment, Satoko showed up at the door and she was badly wounded and dripping with water, and everyone was surprised to see her. "It's her!"
Satoko looked around and saw that everyone was safe and sound. "Is everyone… okay… here…?"
Rika and TL ran up to her and held her up by her arms since she looks like she's going to keel over anytime soon. "We are all right," Rika told her. "It's all thanks to the Smashers. You don't look all right though. What happened? We better get you treated at once."
"Thanks…" Satoko said in relief. "I'm just glad that everyone is still alive…"
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The truck was parked somewhere in the dark woods and Takano was having an angry conversation with someone on the cell phone. "I can't believe I've been made fun of by them!" she shouted. "I thought you had them killed already!"
"They are the Smashers, so that is to be expected," the voice over the phone replied. "You cannot take them down with simple things like this."
"I don't care! I want everyone in the village dead tomorrow morning! I will get my revenge no matter what!"
"I wouldn't care much for this any longer, as I want the power tomorrow too. If you insist, I will send you one last support and then you are on your own."
TO BE CONTINUED