Ness, D.K, Bowser, Jigglypuff, Yoshi, Zelda its your turn to shine in this new Ark.
Chapter 21: Earth
"Look at this place!" Ness shouted, surprised. "Its huge!"
They stared out of the windows of the Pleiades. In front of them was the planet earth. It was much larger than their own planets or even the Smash Planet.
"Amazing." Jigglypuff muttered.
"How are we supposed to find the one place that's being attacked?" Bowser wondered. "It would take forever!"
Zelda was looking through several reports that Master and Crazy Hand had sent them. "It says here that the place that we are looking for appears in times of great turmoil. And that the last time that it appeared was in the year 1999 on this planet."
"What happened then?" Yoshi asked.
"The apocalypse." Zelda replied bluntly.
"Peachy..." Bowser muttered.
"So has this place reappeared recently?" Ness asked.
"Yes..." Zelda said continuing to read through the report. "Its a castle. A castle that was created by and now holds a great evil. But according to this report, the evil is no longer in the castle but has been sealed away into someone named Soma Cruz."
"This just begs the question of how does Master Hand get this information..." Jigglypuff wondered. "Its so incredibly borderline stalker..."
"I guess being an all powerful being does have its perks..." Donkey Kong pointed out. Sure it was rather blunt but it did make sense.
"So our first objective is to find this castle." Ness said. "Then we can find whoever is in charge of it. Computer find any and all abnormal spiritual energy on this planet!"
"So if this place only appears in times of great turmoil do you think it would have appeared?" Bowser wondered.
"Found it! " Ness shouted excited. "I think. Its definitely here... but... it isn't..." Everyone looked at Ness confused it was evident that he was also confused. "It... seems to exist, just not physically. Ahh... this is making my head hurt!"
"And you're the one explaining it…" Bowser muttered.
They began to enter the atmosphere. The trip was peaceful until… "Unidentified aircraft identify yourselves now!" A voice ordered over the speaker. Everyone stared at each other each wondering what to do. "I repeat identify yourselves or be shot down." They looked out of the windows of the Pleiades to see two ships following them.
"Can they do that?" Bowser wondered.
"They will be unable to dent the Pleiades' armor with their current weapons." Yoshi said.
Suddenly the Pleiades was violently shaken. "Identify yourselves!" Everyone was too busy glaring at Yoshi to care. Another shot was fired and they were shaken once again.
"Should we just blow them up?" Bowser wondered.
"No we can't hurt the innocent!" Zelda said.
"Well they are trying to kill us..." Bowser retorted.
Everyone nodded in agreement. "But if we hurt them we may spark a war."
"Then so be it!" Bowser said as he pushed a button. Suddenly Pleiades shot at them. However a barrier appeared around the Pleiades and trapped the shot inside.
"We can't do it..." Zelda said. The barrier was clearly her Nayru's love.
"Unidentified aircraft you will be reported to the Government."
Everyone froze and stared at the speaker. "We have no choice now." Bowser said. "If they find out that we are world hopping, it would be horrible. They could all attack us!"
"Agreed." Everyone said knowing that world hopping was absolutely forbidden by the Government, and a crime punishable by death. The air was tense as Bowser pushed several buttons on the dashboard of the Pleiades letting out several bombs. Zelda brought down Nayru's love and they watched as the ships exploded.
"Just jump to warp..." Zelda ordered.
With that they disappeared. Everyone was quiet. "We better be more careful now..."
"They threatened us first..." Bowser replied. "Besides I doubt they would have believed us anyways."
Ness was meditating on the ground. "I've found it..." Ness said. "It's hidden, as though it's sealed, but its strong and slowly breaking out. I think this is what we are looking for!"
"Where is it?" Everyone shouted synchronized.
A holographic map popped out of the ground and Ness walked over to it. "Computer, input new destination." He poked the location of the castle on the map. The Pleiades suddenly flew there. The rest of the trip was uneventful. The Smashers just sat down and prepared themselves for battle.
"Arriving at destination." A voice said. They all looked up. Out of the window they could see a large castle that loomed over them.
They exited the Pleiades and quickly checked the damage on the ship. It wasn't anything major, just a few scratches on the paint. Slowly they walked towards the castle. Each of them could feel the evil power coming from the castle, how it wanted to claim their lives. "This castle is evil..." Zelda said.
"Its scaring me..." Donkey Kong whimpered as he visibly began to shake. Since Donkey Kong was an animal and is much more in tune with nature. Yoshi was also shaking.
"Well we can't turn back now..." Ness laughed trying to keep a brave face on however his PSI enabled him to feel the power inside of the castle and how it made his seem weak in comparison.
"We can, it just requires us to turn around 180 degrees and face the wrath of Master Hand..." Jigglypuff said. They didn't know what scared them more this castle or the thought of facing the wrath of Master Hand.
They walked through the gates of the castle, which immediately closed. Jigglypuff rushed back to open them and run away, but they were locked. Ness snapped his fingers and Jigglypuff was forcefully moved in front of them. They continued onwards.
Blocking the entrance of the castle however was several Heartless.
"What's going on?" Ness wondered. "Why are they here?
"Who cares," Bowser said. "Lets just get rid of them!"
They all rushed towards the Heartless. Bowser quickly withdrew into his shell and rushed into the Heartless with his whirling fortress. However the Heartless weren't tossed around, instead they had grabbed Bowser's shell and stopped him from spinning. A moment later he was absorbed.
Donkey Kong was outraged and blindly rushed towards the Heartless. However this resulted in him being absorbed too. Jigglypuff tried to sing the Heartless asleep, however they were unaffected. By the time she had figured this out she was also absorbed.
Ness, Yoshi, and Zelda tried to avoid the Shadow Heartless. But they were surrounded. "PK Fire!" Ness shouted throwing a plume of fire towards the Shadow Heartless. When the plume exploded several of the Heartless went flying. The Heartless quickly recovered and surrounded them once again. It was only a matter of time before they were overpowered and absorbed by the Heartless. Once the Heartless had gotten what they came for they let go of the Smashers and vanished.
"I'm exhausted." Ness said gasping for air.
"Me too." Bowser said.
Ness tried to stand up, but suddenly felt a jolt of energy go through him. "Ness, it hurts!" Ness grabbed his stomach and he quickly began to throw up.
"Ness, are you okay?" Zelda asked quickly coming to his aid.
"No." He muttered. "Everything about this place is awakening Giygas. His seal is slowly breaking. All of the chaos. I want to escape. Let me out!"
They all stared at Ness. Each of them thinking about turning around and returning to Master Hand. "This is obvious that this is too much for you." Bowser said. "We should go back."
"I agree." Jigglypuff muttered. "This place gives me a bad feeling!"
Yoshi and Donkey Kong also nodded. "If it is for Ness' health we should retreat." They grabbed Ness and began to walk towards the gates. When they got to them they tried to open them. However they found that the gates were locked. Donkey Kong began to punch the gates, but that didn't even leave a dent on the metal.
"We can't retreat." Zelda muttered.
"I don't want to die!" Jigglypuff said. She began to rattle the gate, however that did nothing.
"It looks like we can only go into the castle." Zelda said.
"But what about Giygas' seal?" Ness wondered. "I feel that if we go into the castle, it will break."
"Well, we can't leave you out here." Yoshi said. "So you will have to come with us. If worst comes to worse, we will have to beat you senseless and add a new seal. You can do that, can't you Zelda?"
"I don't know. Giygas' could probably break through any seal that I make." Zelda replied. "But if worst comes to worse, I'll do it."
They approached the castle. Ness did his best to remain strong and keep the seal under control. He could feel Giygas squirming and trying to get out. A small fraction of his power was leaking out, but other than that nothing much.
Slowly they walked into the castle and down a long hallway. Suddenly Ness collapsed. "Are you all right!?" Everyone shouted.
Ness pushed himself up. "Somehow, yes." He muttered. "All of a sudden it feels like Giygas doesn't want to come out. That he is afraid of the power in this castle." They continued to walk down the hallway.
They could feel thousands of eyes watching them, creeping them out. When they went through the next door however waiting at the end of the room was a teen in a white coat.
They stared at the teen in the white coat. "My name is Soma Cruz, the reincarnation of Dracula. Why have you come to Dracula's castle?" He asked.
"We were sent by Master Hand." Zelda said. "To help stop the calamity in this world. We were told that this castle appears on in times of great disaster."
"I see." With that he turned around and opened the doors behind him. Slowly he walked into the room and the Smashers followed. He then sat down upon a throne. "I'm sorry to say that there is no calamity in this world." Soma said. "Something big is happening, something even bigger than what you think is happening. You came here to warn me about the Dark Lord attacking me and trying to capture me. However I all ready know this. Dracula's castle was sealed inside of an eclipse. Never again was it supposed to return to this world. But something like this... Something much bigger must be looming to have unsealed it."
"How do you know all of this?" Zelda wondered.
"Dracula is growing restless." Soma replied. "I can feel him trying to escape. In order to try and find out why he is trying to escape from me I searched for answers. That is why I know of your predicament."
"So we have to destroy Dracula..." Ness said.
"It is pointless to try and kill him, he will only revive himself again and again. It is hard to kill a powerful vampire such as him..."
"And how do you kill a vampire such as that?" Bowser wondered.
"You have to destroy his soul." Soma replied. "Unfortunately that would require killing me in the process. To believe all I want is to be normal..."
"We can help you become normal." A voice laughed from the shadows stepped a man with long black hair and pale white skin. Behind him were ten others cloaked in black cloaks only made noticeable by the red cloud markings on them, each of them wore a straw hat with two bells on the front blocking their faces. In front of the man jumped five different people with four of them wearing similar clothing: a fighting gi with a large rope tied around their waists. While the fifth one wore a kimono. Ness, Donkey Kong, Bowser, Jigglypuff, Yoshi, and Zelda stared at them; they were fully capable of feeling their power. They knew that in a moment they would be slaughtered.
"He just looks like one person." A voice said. "Why did you bring all of us Orochimaru?"
"The Smashers are here." Orochimaru replied simply. "However... this probably is a bit of overkill."
"We aren't handing over Soma!" Ness shouted.
"Ness, unless you think that we can take on all of them and win I suggest you keep quiet." Zelda said.
"She has the right idea." The female laughed. "There is no way a second rate person like her would be able to beat me!"
Soma stood up off of his throne and walked pass the Smashers. "I know the way you are going to use for extracting my power will kill me." Soma said. "Most likely my body would die with out Dracula's power anyways." he held up his hand and his body began to glow in front of him appeared an army of monsters. "It is in this castle that Dracula's power is the greatest and I won't run out of power."
"How boring..." One sighed. "This many flunkies won't even be a match for one of your sound five Orochimaru."
The Smashers rushed out of the room by a door located at the side and Soma followed. Several people jumped towards Soma however the monsters blocked the attack. Quickly Soma closed the door and smashed both of his hands across the door.
"Great..." Soma laughed. "Now I'm being chased in my own castle."
"And now we're at a dead end!"' Jigglypuff screamed.
Zelda however wasn't convinced. "No." She replied. "It looks like a dead end but... it isn't."
"You're right." Soma replied. "The castle is alive and I'm able to move around the rooms. For example I just detached that room and sent it underneath the castle."
"And what about those monsters you summoned how long will they distract them for?" Bowser wondered.
"Quite a while." Soma replied. "They will continue to regenerate until I run out of magical energy. Which will take at least 2 weeks. The best part was I also mixed in 16 doppelgangers within the monsters they will have quite a hard time."
Everyone was quiet. They tried to listen for the sound of the battle going on down there but they were unable to hear anything. "We have to either seal away Dracula or release him." Zelda said. "They will continue to come after you until you give up."
"But trying to seal Dracula away or releasing him will dispel the monsters I put down there."
"And the process will take time most likely." Ness sighed. "Damn if we still had the Magatama!"
"What can we do?" Yoshi asked.
"It looks like we can only wait." Bowser replied uneasy.
Meanwhile in a dark room several figures were watching a giant monitor of the Pleiades destroying the two ships. "Go back a few seconds and play that again in slow motion." A voice ordered. They did so. "Freeze. Good now go back a frame." Now on the screen was a visible shot of Nayru's love.
"Captain Beta what does this mean?" an underling asked.
Captain Beta just stood strong and stared. "It means on that ship were the Smashers, and they were world hopping again. How dangerous…" A smile crossed his face and he tried his best to stop himself from laughing. He walked over to the computer and pressed a button. "Omega."
"This had better be good Beta since you've called me during a meeting, and haven't called me, a superior officer, by rank." Omega hissed.
"I'm sorry sir," Captain Beta said. "But I've found proof that the Smashers are world hopping and I'm going to visit them."
"Very well then Beta." Omega said.
"Very well Beta out." Beta said before cutting off the transmission. "Looks like we are going to meet again Smashers…"
Meanwhile in another room of the Government Headquarters: Omega was on the ground pleading for forgiveness. "I'm sorry…" He said. Around him were four figures. Combined they were the head of the Government. Each of them were sitting on a different point of the compass, all four of them were equal.
"Rise Omega." The person sitting on the north arrow of the compass said.
"Of course Master Digamma." Omega said
"Who are these Smashers?" Digamma asked.
"They are a group of fighters who put on the most watched tournament in history three months ago." The person on the east compass point said.
"Thank you Qoppa." Digamma said calmly. "But I'm sure that Omega was more than competent enough to answer the question himself."
"But that's not all." A voice laughed from the person sitting on the south point. "Beta has met them before, and they wish to oppose us. It was during that encounter that The Great Library was burnt down. And there's more, the traitor Samus Aran and Dr. Mario are apart of them."
"I see, thank you San." Digamma said.
"So these Smashers oppose us…" The west point said. "How unpleasant."
"Yes Master Sampi."
"What is Major Xi's status?" Sampi asked.
"I haven't received any reports from him yet Master."
"The next subject is The Dark Lord." Digamma said. "What about him?"
"The Smashers are also opposing The Dark Lord as well." Omega said. "I think we can kill two birds with one stone, Master, if we back out and wait for them to exhaust each other of their resources with each other, we then take out the weakened winner."
"Brilliant idea!" San laughed.
"Yes for now I believe we should follow Omega's idea." Qoppa said.
"Yes it is indeed a wise idea." San replied.
"I agree as well… that is what we will do with the Dark Lord. Our final subject is search for the The Revolution." Digamma said.
Omega was now nervous. "We have found a tablet that after being translated has given us a clue. To find The Revolution, we need a key, The Key to The Revolution."
"And what is this key?" Qoppa asked.
"An item that is currently in the possession of The Smashers: The N-Sword!"
To be continued...
The Government has been introduced… Captain Beta was first seen in Smash Wars: Quest for the 12.
And for the Government names I did use the Greek alphabet…