Chapter 14
Fight on the Halberd! The Power of Mr. Game & Watch!


"What is that…?" Sheik said in horror upon seeing the massive creature known as Duon.

"It is an enemy," Lucario said in a fighting stance. "We must destroy it!"

Peach slowly shifted to the side in fear and said, "I'll just sit at the side and watch you do something about it…"

BGM: SSE Boss Theme

The blue side of Duon gazed down at the Smashers and pulled back his head into the air and slammed it down forcefully. Lucario and Sheik both jumped up into the air in opposite directions to avoid getting hit by the giant blade that was growing out of the monster's head. While they were in air, Sheik threw needles and Lucario fired an Aura Sphere. The needles didn't seem to do anything, but the explosion from the aura attack seemed to caused the monster to flinch somewhat.

The moment he landed onto the floor, Lucario leaped at the monster again and gave it a powerful palm thrust the side of his head. Duon turned his face to him and lifted his arm to try and hit him, but Lucario suddenly disappeared as if he was an image and reappeared above Duon and slammed down onto his head from above. Sheik jumped at the monster from the side too and pulled out the knife that she was never seen using until now and readied to stab the monster with it, but Duon lifted up his other hand to block the attack.

The giant monster spun around to reveal the purple side. He pointed his arm cannons at Lucario and fired bullets rapidly at the Pokemon, but he jumped around with skill and managed to dodge every shot.

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Falco looked down from the air and contacted Fox, "Fox, there's something big on the deck and someone is fighting it."

"I know," Fox replied. "I'm on my way to help them," Fox replied. He steered towards Duon and fired the ship's laser at his head. Duon angrily looked at him and fired a large missile from his shoulders and Fox quickly steered away, but to his surprise, the missile went after him! "What?!"

Fox escaped through the air but the missile gave chase no matter how fast he ran, but Falco showed up to rescue Fox by shooting down the missile. "It's your turn to be thankful!" Falco said.

"Thanks!"

"Let's get that thing out of the way then!" Falco steered to Duon and fired at him. Lucario and Sheik tried to run for cover because the lasers were hitting the floor too.

"Wait! We're on your side!" Sheik cried.

Falco kept on approaching the monster while firing at him, and then Duon spun around to reveal his blue side and slammed down his head. Falco barely swooped up to avoid getting sliced into two pieces. "Phew! That was close!"

Fox arrived next and pelted the monster constantly and also shot out a smart bomb that created massive explosion upon hitting Duon's body.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

The monster was badly injured by the blast, and it was very angry. Placing the pair of hands on both sides of the body onto the floor, Duon leaped up as high as he could and managed to hit Fox's Arwing from below using his head.

The impact damaged the Arwing just like that and Fox struggled to maintain his balance. "Whoa! It's crashing!" he cried. Seeing that there was no other choice, Fox pressed the eject button and launched himself into the air while the Arwing fell through the sky in flames. Fox hopped off the seat and landed onto the deck with style, and a cup of tea appeared before him. "Eh?"

"Want tea?" Peach, who was drinking tea herself too, asked him.

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Duon rushed over to Lucario and Sheik and swung his blade-like arms them like crazy, but they were small and agile targets and they were able to dodge them with skill. Sheik jumped to the side and threw a couple of kunais that were attached with exploding tags and they exploded on contact while Lucario shot out blue energy balls.

After enduring the projectiles, the body spun around and the purple side tried to shoot them with his gun. All the while, Falco also lend his support to the good guys by shooting the monster too.

After consuming the cup of tea, Fox approached the monster and said, "I'll give them a hand."

"Fox!" Wolf shouted to him as he approached from the side. "I may have lost to you in the dogfight, but I'm not going to lose to you in a fist fight!"

"Not now! I have that thing to deal with! Save it for later!"

Suddenly, one of the projectiles fired by Duon crashed down in their direction and they barely jumped aside to avoid it. "Tsk! Annoying thing!" Wolf growled. "Fine! If you can survive that, I'll take you down myself!"

Duon spun to his blue side again and lowered his head and pointed the blade on it at them and charged forward. Both Lucario and Sheik jumped aside and Duon stopped just in front of the edge and moved back a couple of steps to avoid falling. The purple side pointed and fired his arm cannon at them again.

Fox suddenly jumped in front of one of the shots and pulled out his reflector and successfully deflected the shot back into the monster for damage. The monster angrily glared at Fox and gathered all his strength to his wheels and leaped up very high in an attempt to crush him, but Fox got away.

Sheik turned to Fox and said, "Thanks for the help just now. We could use your hand."

"Don't worry; I'll be backing you up!" Fox said.

The blue side spun over and slammed down his hand on Fox, who jumped up and landed onto the hand and ran up it. He gathered fire around his body and bashed into the face of the monster and then bounced back while firing his gun at him. Duon lifted his arms and was going to bring it down on Fox while he was still in air, but Falco's Arwing swooped by and caught Fox and brought him to safety. "Thanks again, Falco!" Fox said, and then he jumped onto the deck.

"Time to show that monster a lesson!" Falco said. He turned back to Duon and fired at him rapidly again. The purple side faced his direction and fired his arm cannon rapidly, but Falco was able to deflect them. As the Arwing flew over the monster, missiles launched out from Duon's shoulder and went after him.

"Get off me!" Falco shouted as he tried to outrun the missiles, but they followed him everywhere. This gave him an idea suddenly. "Wait a minute…"

He steered in the direction of Duon again and the missiles followed. He was about to ram into the face of the monster but then swooped up at the last second. The missiles were too late to turn though and they crashed right into their owner.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

Duon was blown back badly by his own projectiles and was at the edge of the deck and in danger of falling down. Lucario ran towards the monster and jumped at his body with both hands pulled back, and when at range, he delivered a fury of kicks and punched into his body. "Close Combat!"

POW SMASH CRASH KICK WHAM CRASH BASH SMACK SMASH!!!!!!!

The intensity and the power of the attacks were more than Duon could bear. He finally lost his balance on the edge and plummeted off the Halberd. The others poked their head over the edge and could see the monster disappearing into the ocean below.

SPLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!!

And he was no more…

"We did it!" Peach said happily.

"Yes, we did," Fox said.

Wolf walked up to them from behind and said, "Now that you're done with your first opponent, Fox, it's time you start with your second round!"

Fox turned to him and said, "You sure you want to do this?"

Wolf got into fighting stance and said, "This time I'll show you who the stronger one here is!"

CRASH!

Everyone turned to the control tower of the battleship and saw G&W and Dr. Mario both flying out from the window and crashing down onto the floor violently.

"What the heck?!" Wolf gasped.

G&W got up and cried, "Ow… How can this be happening…? I can't be defeated here!"

Snake looked out from the window and said, "You lose, mister!"

G&W looked up and saw the other Smashers and said, "What?! When did you guys get here?! And you rescued one of the princesses too?!"

"I'm Zelda, one of the princesses too!" Sheik told him. "And this time I'm going to teach you a lesson for what you've done to us!"

G&W jumped up and said, "Darn it! I'm not going to be defeated here! You do not know the power that I possess!"

Wolf got in front of him and said, "Leave it to me! I'll show them that they are messing with the wrong guy!"

"No! I have enough of being made fun of!" G&W said angrily. "This time I'll show them that I am not one to be messed with!"

Fox raised his gun at him and said, "Surrender now and we will not harm you!"

"Do not look down on me! Do you know why the master gave me the authority over this battleship and made me one of the top commanders of the Subspace Army?" G&W said. "Because if it wasn't for me, the Subspace Army would never be created in the first place!"

The good guys were surprised to hear this and Fox asked, "What are you talking about?"

"Never judge a people by their looks! You think I look strange? I'm flat, 2D and black while all of you are three dimensional and realistic-looking! I bet many of you cannot even imagine that someone like me exists! You probably find it funny and hard to imagine that I can interact with everything in this world! But due to this appearance alone, many people see me as a freak and I didn't even get a chance to shine in some author's story series just because he cannot imagine me fitting in with the cast! Do you understand how it is to be born in this way and get rejected and mocked at because of your looks that cannot be changed?"

Everyone listened to him silently and without saying a single thing as if they felt pity for him.

"I never amounted much in life! I could never prove myself to others! But that was until he came… He saw something special within me that I didn't even know I have! With this hidden potential, the army that you see right before your eyes have been created! It was thanks to me that the Subspace Army even existed in the first place!"

"Allow me to do the rest of the explanation," Dr. Mario said. "Game's DNA and cells are very different from the rest of us. It is discovered that through interaction and fusion with other kinds of drugs and chemicals, these DNA would gain life of their own and a large amount of them fusing together could result in the creation of a new life form."

"What? How is that possible?!" Fox said in unbelief.

"It was all thanks to this that I am able to stand on top of everyone!" G&W continued. "He saw this hidden potential and made me a top commander! I can finally prove myself superior to everyone for looking down on me! You laugh at my looks, and now it is my turn to get back at you! Doc, give it to me now!"

"As you wish," Dr. Mario said as he handed him a syringe.

G&W took the syringe from him and injected his own arm with it. After this, the same purple particles that were used to create the Subspace monsters started to ooze out from all over body and engulfed him. "You will see the power of the Shadow Bugs! Because they are my offspring, I have the power to manipulate them however I want to!" G&W said as the purple particles called Shadow Bugs covered him up more and more. "You will now see the true terror that I possess!"

He was eventually covered up fully by the Shadow Bugs that began to expand in size and change form. Soon, more details were formed on the large purple mass and it eventually became a large black octopus that was flat and paper-like in appearance.

"Eeks! An octopus!" Peach gasped.

"What the?!" Fox said in shock.

"Bow down before me now!" the mutated G&W said loudly.

Falco swooped down on his Arwing and fired at the newly formed octopus rapidly. One of the tentacles reached to him at a very fast speed that he did not see coming and managed to catch it. "Whoa!"

G&W squeezed the Arwing with his tentacle and then slammed it onto the deck forcefully and destroyed it, but Falco escape mostly unharmed. "Dang! You'll pay for it!" he growled.

Another tentacle reached to the Smashers at a fast speed and caught Peach with it. "Yaaa!"

G&W held her up high and said, "You make anything silly and she'll be squished!"

"Don't you dare do that!" Sheik shouted.

"You destroying my ship and now you're playing dirty! I'll get you for this!" Falco shouted.

"Try me!" G&W said. The other tentacles reached forward and tried to hit the other Smashers and they all got away to avoid getting hit.

Falco jumped at G&W and his tentacles tried to swat him down while he was in air. He delivered roundhouse kicks in air and kicked away the incoming tentacles and also bounced off another one that went for him. He was going to aim for the tentacle that was holding Peach but was then suddenly caught in the back of the leg by another tentacle. "Whoa!"

"Haha! You're finished!" G&W laughed, holding Falo upside down by the leg.

"Oh yeah? Fire Bird!" Falco shouted, and fire shot out from his body and G&W quickly let him go because it burns. Falco flipped himself right-side-up and then charged into the octopus's face with a fiery bash and bounced back, and then he zipped at Peach and dashed through the tentacle to loosen its grip, causing Peach to fall down slowly thanks to her parachute-like skirt.

"Yay! Thanks!" Peach said happily as she quickly moved farther from G&W.

"Why you?!" G&W growled angrily as he turned to Falco. Falco whipped out his gun and shot his face multiple times and G&W tried to hit him with his tentacles again. Falco leaped up and fire once again appeared around his body as he charged forward in a drilling motion. "Fire Phoenix Drill!"

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!

The powerful attack rammed G&W in the face and he was pushed across the surface a decent distance before coming to a stop. "Argh! I'll get you for this! You're not going to defeat me!" G&W shouted. Suddenly, a missile flew straight into his face.

BANG!!!

It appeared that the missile was shot in from the control room by Snake, who was seen holding a bazooka. "Bull's eye!" he said.

G&W was really angry now. He cried with fury and reached forward all his tentacles and attacked him with blind rage. Lucario grabbed one of the tentacles and gave it a palm thrust to push it away, and then he held up both hands over him and a bright flash was created. "Flash Cannon!"

G&W was blinded by the light and it was launched right into is face afterwards.

BANG!!!!

Sheik threw some kunais attached with exploding tags at him and then Lucario jumped into the air and landed a flying jump kick onto him from above. Fox charged up with fire and rammed into his face. Despite taking all these blows, G&W still managed to stay up and shouted, "I WILL KILL YOU ALL!!!"

"Sorry, but that's not happening!" Falco said from behind him. G&W turned around just in time to see Falco's right foot covered in fire. "Blazing Phoenix Kick!"

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!!!

The devastating fire kick was G&W across the place and crashing into the remains of the Combo Cannon, destroying it even more.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!

"Mamamia!" Dr. Mario gasped in shock.

When the smoke cleared, the octopus was seen lying all beaten up on the busted cannon. Purple particles came out around his body and G&W changed back to his original form and was unconscious.

"We did it!" Sheik said.

Snake and MK watched the whole thing happening from the control room and Snake said, "Looks like they dealt with things themselves."

"And our task here is accomplished too," MK added.

TO BE CONTINUED

I'm not sure, but I think this chapter is lacking somewhat. Wasn't really in the mood for typing around these days, but at the same time didn't want to take too long either. I tried my best to get busy and submit this chapter the best I can, so I hope you can live with it in the meantime.