Hello once again, it's time for chapter fourteen and yes the plot will start to come to light more from this chapter onwards. Anyway on with the story. Serenity Searcher

Chapter Fourteen

Heated Contest

The computer screen was once again glowing as a figure stared at it, watching the failure of the White Knight. It let out a scream of inarticulate rage. How could the originals continue defeating its cyber warriors? Its latest project was almost complete, the figure tapped a few keys and the image on the screen changed to the latest battle in their precious tournament, this one was between Mario, Olimar and Wario on 75m. Watching this battle might reveal some of their weaknesses and the way to complete the Tinted Commander.

The battlefield…

Ducking under a piston as it came bouncing towards him Mario prepared to make the long jump across to the part of the stage free from Piston attack. The piston fell downwards and Mario jumped, landing right in the path of a purple Pikmin, which sent him flying backwards into the path of another Piston which flung Mario back up towards the waiting Olimar where he landed heavily.

Olimar started throwing Pikmin as fast as he could while Mario stopped them as best he could with fireballs, neither of them even thinking about where Wario was, until he arrived on his motorbike. Wario accelerated right through the two smashers knocking them away and to the ground. He leapt off and grabbed the nearby Home-run Bat.

Mario was caught between Olimar and Wario, Olimar threw a pikmin at him and he leapt into the air leaving Wario smashing the Pikmin with his bat. The poor sad little Pikmin turned into a spirit and faded away. Mario landed and immediately tried to jump over Wario but was stopped as he felt Wario's teeth dig into his leg and was spun around and slammed to the ground.

Before Mario could get up two Pikmin raced overhead, Wario simply opened his mouth and let out a ball of green gas, his new Gas Grenade technique. The ball of gas struck the two Pikmin who quickly faded into spirits.

Olimar plucked more Pikmin from the ground while Wario leapt onto his Bike and ran right through both Mario and Olimar, knocking them towards the barrier. Wario seeing an opening threw his bat right at Mario who ducked and the bat went flying out of the arena. Olimar dropped in between the two, and threw his Pikmin at the pair. Both fighters simply punched the Pikmin aside. Mario launched a fireball and Wario launched a gas grenade at Olimar who ducked.

The attacks met and exploded with enough force to send Olimar flying out through the ceiling barrier. Wario launched another Gas Grenade which Mario blocked with a fireball, another explosion occurred.

Mario raised his fists and they burst into flames, Wario raised his and they were surrounded by green gas, flammable gas. Mario punched Wario in the stomach, he doubled over and Mario swung a fist at his head, knocking him to the ground. Wario managed to get to his feet and punched as Mario attacked once again. Their fists met and exploded sending Wario through the barrier and Mario into the path of a piston then into the barrier. All the combatants were on one life.

Olimar was in the bottom half of the stage, jumping towards the upper-right corner where most of the fighting took place. He returned to find that neither Mario nor Wario was there although they arrived rather quickly.

Olimar attacked first and fats with Pikmin. Mario and Wario were hard pressed to block them all. Mario ignited his fists once again, and launched a fireball at Olimar. Olimar threw a Pokeball, the fire ball disappeared and Goldeen flopped out. There has never been a worse time for that one, although he was safe from the fireball now.

Wario's bike came right over Olimar knocking him to the ground and Olimar gave a small, sad sound as he saw his entire entourage of Pikmin fade into spirits. Pulling more from the ground he started throwing them at his opponents as fast he could. Mario managed to dodge and get close enough to punch Olimar and launch him into the barrier from a short distance.

Wario's fists were once again surrounded by gas and both fighters used their item call to summon an element harnesser each, Mario added fire to his attacks while Wario chose wind. The flames on Mario's hands doubled in size while the gas on Wario's started spinning around them like tornadoes.

Mario launched a large fireball while Wario countered with an enhanced Gas Grenade. The attacks once again hit in mid air and caused a large explosion. Mario leapt through the air and slammed his two flaming fists into the ground where Wario had been a split second before. Wario punched at Mario's head, he ducked, spun and punched Wario in the face as Wario punched Mario in the face. The fighters were flung apart.

Wario prepared to use his most devastating attack: the Wario Waft boosted with wind power it would almost certainly take Mario down. Wario moved closer and launched the waft. Mario sent a fireball into the massive gas cloud. The gas cloud exploded with tremendous force, Mario turned tail and ran trying to let Wario get KO'd before he did so he would win. Mario was swept up into the explosion and was launched skyward but before he hit the barrier the battle ended with him victorious.

The dark room…

The shadowy figure smiled to itself, it had learned of a weakness in Olimar's battle style, there was no power, if he could get the Tinted Commander in and take down Olimar he would have an agent in perfect position to act when the time came for him to attack. He wanted the Spirits of Creation and Destruction so badly he could almost taste it although he was not yet powerful enough. He needed to find out how to access subspace.

The Mansion…

Olimar was sitting in the garden with several Pikmin surrounding him. He had lost his battle quickly today, everybody had improved so much and yet he still wasn't strong enough to be a real contender in the tournaments he gave a sad sigh and the Pikmin closed in, trying to comfort him.

Donkey and Diddy were lazing around in the nearby hammocks totally unaware of the distress of Olimar but also of the approach of a second Olimar, this one with a darker helmet walking towards the mansion armed with a black battle Gauntlet.

The dark helmeted Olimar walked up to the one that lived in the Mansion and activated his battle Gauntlet. The barrier extended to include the two monkeys resting in their hammocks. Olimar was worried this was most certainly a cyber clone and they were usually very powerful and Olimar was not. He took a deep breath, drew himself up to his full height and attacked.

The Tinted Commander easily blocked the first strike and brought out a sword from each wrist. He slashed at Olimar but hit a Pikmin instead, it turned to spirit. Olimar threw a purple Pikmin as hard as he could; it was easily stopped by the swords and turned to spirit. The Tinted Commander did not have any Pikmin which was fortunate as Olimar was losing them as fast as he could pull them from the ground. The tinted Commander raised his hand, with a pistol in it, he fired a single shot.

The shot hit the ground in the middle of a group of three Pikmin and exploded, turning them all to spirits and sent Olimar flying. He leapt at Olimar and slashed with his swords, Olimar dodged as fast as he could but it wasn't long before he got hit. A sword hit his arm leaving a long, shallow gash from which blood leaked as was now expected from these clones. Tough to stop but they could cut you to ribbons if they wanted and this guy wanted to, really badly. Olimar felt a feeling of hopelessness: no Pikmin and stuff all offense without them and no time to pull more. Olimar was not going to go down without a fight though.

Olimar punched and struck his opponent right in his chest and he barely managed to dodge the counterattack, a sword right through the dome, shattering it and leaving Olimar with many small cuts from the falling glass. Olimar quickly hit a button on his Battle Gauntlet which allowed items to appear. Olimar rolled away avoiding another shot from the pistol.

Shrapnel from the explosion dug itself into his back as he grabbed the beam sword that had appeared. He then slashed at the Tinted Commander, who blocked with his swords. The Tinted Commander created a spark on his antenna and hit Olimar with it; the pain of the electricity flowing through him brought Olimar to his knees. Olimar managed to escape and throw the sword at the Tinted Commander but it missed, instead it cut through a hammock rope sending Donkey and Diddy to the ground waking them up and they saw what was happening. With barely a glance between them the two monkeys raced towards the battle.

The Tinted Commander merely gave an evil smile at the addition of extra opponents to this battle; he reached into his pocket and threw several coloured balls into the air. The balls each changed into an alloy of a different colour: blue, red, green, yellow, purple and orange. The battle had become 7 against 3 now. Olimar picked up another beam sword and threw himself towards the Tinted Commander while Donkey and Diddy ran to battle the alloys.

Diddy ran up to the orange alloy and leapt over it placing his paws on its shoulders to get a bigger jump off, dropping an orange grenade as he went. The orange alloy watched him and the grenade blew up blowing him to pieces. Diddy drew his peanut popguns and let loose a string of rapid fire shots into the face of the purple alloy. Landing in front of the alloy Diddy ducked a punch, tripped the alloy over with a sweeping kick and removed its head from its shoulders destroying it.

Donkey's first punch turned to red alloy into a pile of junk; he then clapped his hands onto the head of the blue alloy destroying it. Leaping into the air Donkey brought his two fists down into the ground, sending out a massive shockwave that destroyed the remaining two alloys. The Tinted Commander noticed the easy destruction of his back-up but was unable to summon more as Olimar was using the beam sword to keep him occupied.

Olimar over extended himself on one attack and left himself open for the sword of the Tinted Commander to slice into his side. He dropped to the ground, unable to remain standing after the stress from the battle and the wound was quite deep. Donkey and Diddy saw the danger and knew they had to finish this quickly or else Olimar would actually die.

Diddy ran at the Tinted Commander firing his peanut popguns, the swords flashed and blocked every single one. Diddy leapt into the air and over him still firing but every shot was still blocked. In frustration Diddy drew an orange grenade and threw it, but the Tinted Commander was fast. He drew his pistol and shot the grenade while it was still close to Diddy. The grenade exploded sending Diddy backwards and into the ground with several burns.

Donkey seizing the opportunity provided by Diddy's distraction grabbed the commander from behind, slammed him into the ground and unleashed a devastating hand slap attack straight onto the cyber clone as he lay on the ground. Each hit causing more damage to the clone, Donkey crushed the hands first, followed by the legs and then he just pounded the thing into the ground. They had won but would Olimar survive.

Diddy was hauling himself to his feet as Donkey was checking on Olimar.

"He gonna be ok Donks? We gotta get him to the Doctory kinda Mario right?" Diddy had lost his cool, he was now scared. One look at Donkey told him everything he needed to know, they didn't have time to get him to the Medical Wing.

"Diddy, run ahead get the Doctor, we need him to meet us on the way. Go now." Diddy didn't need to be told again he was off as fast as he could go. His fear gave him speed and he could have matched Sonic for speed today.

Diddy burst into the Medical Wing, the Doctor and Master Hand were in a discussion but Diddy didn't even care he just shrieked to get their attention. They turned to look at the rather rude interruption, saw the panic on Diddy's face that was explained in a single word "Olimar".

Both Master Hand and Doctor Mario took off racing down the corridors to meet Olimar on his way to the Medical wing. They met Donkey halfway up the stairs to the second floor; the Doctor took one glance at Olimar, then another at Master hand. Not a word was spoken but Master Hand waved his fingers in a rarely seen dance, surrounded by golden energy and a doorway appeared, they all hurried through as it closed to arrive in the Medical Wing. The Doctor immediately set to work.

Donkey and Diddy watched and waited nervously, did they save Olimar? Were they too late? Had their quick actions given the doctor enough time? The Doctor worked for a while in silence, only breaking it to ask for things he needed. The monkeys were always quick, although not always correct with the objects they provided. Then finally Dr. Mario straightened up, wiped the sweat off his brow and said" Hesa going to make it, it was a close for a while but he'll pull through" The monkeys sighed and related the story of the latest Cyberclone attack on the mansion.

The Dark Room…

The shadowy figure growled with anger, yet another brilliant creation had been destroyed, this one by mere monkeys. How could those stupid monkey smashers defeat his greatest weapon yet? Out of defeat came a small victory. He now knew who possessed the Spirit of Creation, he just needed to locate the Spirit of Destruction and he would have all the power he needed to make this world and the world beyond, his. A trip to subspace would be in order first but soon, very soon he would have his victory.

Chapter Fourteen is done. I promise to try and update quicker in future but hopefully you will all be happy with the additional plot details there and thanks for those who theorized on who our major villain is, we actually enjoy the thought and involvement you put into this story. Thanks for reading and keep an eye out for aerococonut's next chapter.

Serenity Searcher.