I hope some of you are used to my way of portraying certain characters by now. If you read enough of my stories, you'll know that some characters act a bit differently from their original counterparts and even at times out of character. This has been my style since the beginning; I tend to add more personality to characters I think that do not have enough, even if it doesn't fit their style all that much.
Chapter 24: Nightmare in Dream Land! Attack of the Bacterion Army!
Bipedal machines known as Duckers marched down the hill, trampling over anything they come across and shooting down whatever is in their way, while in the sky, various flying saucers and spaceships sped at high speed towards Dedede's castle.
"They're trying to wage war against me!" said Dedede. "They're heading for my castle! We mustn't let them do what they want! Save my castle! But my life is first priority! Protect me and my castle!"
"What are your orders, king?" asked Meta-Knight.
"Summon the troops! Prepare the cannons! Deploy the warp starships!"
"Okay!"
"Warp starships?" said Kirby curiously.
"It's a new kind of warp star I invented," explained MK. "It's basically a warp star that is made of machine, but its main boast is its firepower similar to one of a jet."
"Sounds interesting!" said Falco. "I'm good at anything that flies, so mind if I try this out?"
"If you know how use it."
"Don't worry about this! Aviation is like breathing to me!"
"Then follow me!" MK led some of the Waddle Dees and Falco to where the warp starships are stored.
"What we do?" asked Jigglypuff.
"Since we cannot fly, we'll have to take the land force on foot," said Samus.
"Count on me!" said Bowser. "I'll make sure all of them are crushed!"
"Hurry up and fight them then!" said Dedede. "Make sure my castle is unharmed!"
"You don't have to bring that up every time you talk, do you?!"
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MK led the troop to the garage room, where several warp stars with cockpits can be seen. "So these are the warp starships?" asked Falco.
"Yes, I'll go over the controls fast for you," said MK.
"Don't bother!" said Falco as he climbed into one of the starships. "These controls are even simpler than the Arwing! I can handle it no problem!"
"But I think it's better that…"
"I told you I can handle this without problem! Now hurry up and open the garage door so I can take off"!
"All right… Be careful then!" MK pressed a button on the wall and the garage door opened, and all the warp starships took flight and flew out of the castle.
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Meanwhile, several inhabitants of Dream Land were running in panic as the Duckers trampled over their homes and blasted everything into smithereens. The Duckers aren't very big though; only slightly taller than an average adult, but their leg power is quite devastating.
The other Smashers ran out of the castle and stood outside the gate and got into offensive position. "From what I saw at the top of the castle, they're only approaching from this side of the castle," said Samus. "But for better safety, I think it's better that we split up and head for all sides of the castle and keep watch!"
"Got it!" said the others, and they all ran in separate directions.
"Now I'll show you why not to cross my path!" shouted Bowser as he ran towards a Ducker. He ran up to its legs and slashed it hard, bending it and causing the Ducker to kneel down on one leg. Bowser then punched it in the body hard and flipped it backwards.
Another Ducker spotted Bowser and fired at him, but he hopped out of the way fast and the shots destroyed that Ducker instead. Bowser hopped at the Ducker who tried to shoot him and breathed fire at its body, melting the outer armor. He then slashed it very hard and tore off the front portion of its body just like that. Bowser then looked up and saw a couple of spaceships flying towards the castle, so he quickly tore off the fallen Ducker's leg and hurled it upwards, spearing down the spaceships. "Bull's eye!" he shouted.
Then a couple of shadows loomed over him, and he turned around to see more Duckers pointing their guns at him.
"Psybeam!" A pink beam is suddenly shot in from the side and it destroyed both the Duckers. "Be careful of your surroundings," Mewtwo said to Bowser.
"Thanks for the help! Whoa! Behind you!"
A Ducker approached Mewtwo from behind and fired, but Mewtwo teleported behind it and hurled it away using telekinesis.
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Meanwhile, Dr. Mario is sitting on the ground, mixing chemicals together. "Done!"
"Fill'em up!" said G&W, handing him a sprayer.
Dr. Mario opened the sprayer and poured some of the liquid inside. "Done!"
"Okay! I'm off to get rid of the pests!" G&W got back the sprayer and ran towards a group of approaching Duckers.
A Ducker appeared next to Dr. Mario and was about to attack him, but the doctor quickly threw one of the bottles containing the strange liquid at the body of the Ducker, and the machine instantly corroded and malfunctioned. "Corrosive acid works best on these things," he said.
"Get ready to rust!" cried G&W as he ran towards some Duckers. "He pressed the pump and the sprayer shot out sprays of liquid and gas that instantly corroded the Duckers when they came in contact. "Rust up!" He turned to another Ducker and rusted it. "Get rusty!" And so forth…
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"Hiya!" Kirby swung a large hammer at a Ducker's body and instantly shattered its view and knocked it to the ground, where it broke into pieces. Kirby swallowed one of the pieces lying there and transformed into Metal Kirby, in which his body becomes metal!
A couple of Duckers approached him and fired their guns, but the bullets would just bounce off Kirby's metallic skin harmlessly.
"You can't scratch me! Take this! Metal Ball!" He hurled up into a ball and rolled forward, bowling down the Duckers.
PING!!!
Another Ducker approached him and slammed its foot down on top of Kirby, but because of the metal skin, Kirby only sank into the ground and not get flattened. The Ducker kept on stomping however, not giving Kirby a chance to get up or fight back. It was suddenly shot in the body with a missile fired by Samus.
Kirby climbed out of the hole he was stomped into and thanked Samus for helping him. "Thanks for the help!"
"No problem!" she replied. Some more Duckers approached her and fired, but she quickly jumped into the air and fired missiles at each of their body, destroying them all. She then fired the grapple beam at the nearest Ducker and pulled it into the air before slamming it on another one that was approaching her from behind.
"Samus! Mind if I borrow your powers?" asked Kirby.
"Um… Fine!"
Kirby opened his mouth wide and sucked in Samus, and then spit her out shortly afterwards. Kirby is now wearing a helmet identical to Samus's and it covers his whole body. "Good thing my armor protects me from all those saliva…" said Samus.
Kirby turned to a couple of approaching Duckers and held his hands in front of him and began to charge up an energy ball. "Take this! Charge Shot!" When fully charged, he fired the plasma beam at the Duckers and blew them to kingdom come.
"Your copying abilities sure amaze me sometimes," said Samus.
"That was nothing!"
A couple of spaceships flew over them and Samus looked up. "They're heading for the castle!" she said. But a warp starship flew into the scene and shot them down instantly, and it immediately went for another set of spaceships to take on them. The warp starship flew with such style and grace that Samus easily recognized its pilot. "Falco sure is good even when it comes to piloting new stuffs…"
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"Heh! This thing is fun! It has more mobility than an Arwing!" Falco said to himself as he piloted the warp starship.
He went after some spaceships that were heading for the castle and shot them down one by one from behind. "I won't let you take on the castle!"
He tried to shoot the last one in lead, but that spaceship quickly flew upwards to avoid the shot and got behind Falco and tried to shoot him. Falco, however, was quick enough to u-turn into the air and got behind the spaceship, and proceeded to shoot it down. "Ha! You think skills like that are enough to take on the great me?"
Several spaceships appeared behind him and were about to fire, but another warp starship flew in and instantly shot them down. Then the monitor inside Falco's ship turned on and Meta-Knight is shown on it. "Don't let your guard down too much," he said.
"You don't have to tell me that! Don't underestimate me!"
"Don't be too full of yourself. Being too proud of oneself can lead to downfall."
"You're starting to sound like Mewtwo, you know that?"
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"Was someone saying something about me?" thought Mewtwo as he fought the Duckers.
"Jiggly!!!" Jigglypuff rolled around the place at high speed and rammed down several Duckers by hitting them in the legs.
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Dedede watched as the Smashers and his army tried to fight off the Bacterion Army. Actually, only the Smashers are doing the job while his army is getting whopped badly. "Those Smashers sure are strong!" he said. "If only my servants would follow their examples…" He looked up and saw a spaceship approaching his castle. "Eeks! There's one approaching! Somebody get him! Get the cannons ready!"
The Waddle Dees scurried to get the cannon ready. They loaded the cannonball and pointed the cannon at the spaceship and quickly fired. The hit was perfect; it destroyed the spaceship and it caused a chain reaction that blew up the other spaceships approaching from behind.
"Yes! Good work! Keep it up!"
Out from the smoke, another spaceship emerged and instantly fired its gun. Dedede panicked and quickly jumped away to avoid the firepower and the bullets grazed through the floor, leaving holes on it. "How dare you burn holes on my precious castle?! I'll get you for this!!!" he shouted angrily. He whipped out his hammer and jumped at the spaceship and gave it a massive whack. The spaceship was sent flying into another set of spaceships, and like a pinball, the spaceship bounced around them, destroying them one by one until it exploded itself. "Ha! Now you know what happens if you come against the king?"
He then noticed a bluish flash appearing in the sky. "Uh? What's that?"
The blue flash turned out to a portal of sorts, as several more spaceships emerged out of it, including a rather large one!
"Oh no! Reinforcements!"
"Ha! Nothing to me at all!" said Falco as he flew towards the large ship and began firing at it. The multiples turrets on the body of the ship began to fire at him, but Falco was able to avoid them with ease and shot down the turrets one by one and then proceeded to shoot the body. The body of the ship is quite durable however, so it withstood the shot and suffered merely burnt scratches. "Tough customer we have here, eh?"
Another warp starship approached the large ship, and the cockpit on the warp starship opened to reveal MK. He ejected himself out of the seat and flew at the starship, and he delivered a single but powerful slash that instantly chopped the ship in half!
SLAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!
As he fell down, his warp starship passed underneath him and he landed into it right on. "Whoa! That's some crazy antics you got there!" said Falco.
"I've been training myself ever since I saw the Smashers fight against the government with such determination and strength," he said. "If the Smashers are that strong, that means Kirby is strong too. I am his rival, so I must be worthy enough to face him the next time we meet."
However, another portal showed up and another large ship of the same kind emerged. The top part of its body opened and it released several round pods that floated around. "What are those?" MK wondered.
"That's not important!" said Falco. "What's important is that we're gonna shoot them down right now!" He flew at the pods and fired at them, but some of the pods were smart enough to fly away from him.
Many of the pods flew at the castle and parts and their body opened and several bullets shot out in various directions. "EEKS!!!" shrieked Dedede as he quickly ran indoors to avoid the rain of bullets that tore holes on his castle roof. "Stop bombarding my castle!!!"
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Back on the ground, the Duckers stopped moving. "What's with them?" wondered Samus.
One by one, the Duckers body fell backwards and planted its back against the ground, and then the front portion opened up to reveal a bigger gun hidden underneath. "What are they doing?!" asked Kirby.
BANG!!!
From the guns, a mortar shot in the direction of the castle!
"Oh no!"
The mortar landed on one of the balconies and blew it off. More mortars rained down and began to tear down the walls of the castle little by little.
"Nooooooooo!!!!!!! Stop it at once!!!" screamed Dedede, watching the mortars destroying his castle. "I'm the king! I order you to stop it!!!" He looked up and saw a mortar flying in his direction, and he screamed. As he opened his mouth to scream, the mortar flew straight into his mouth and remained stuck there! Dedede let out a cough and the mortar is shot into the sky, where it crashed straight into the large ship that emerged from the portal.
BAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!
"Whoa… What was that…?" said Falco.
Dedede wiped his mouth and said, "Heh! I told you not to underestimate the king!"
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"Stop whatever you're doing!" Bowser ran to one of the Duckers that is in mortar form and slashed it in the body hard, tearing a hole that instantly caused it to malfunction. He lifted up that Ducker and hurled it at another one and crushed it.
"Jiggly!!!" Jigglypuff continued rolling around and bowled down even more Duckers.
PING!!!!
"Rust up! Gotta rust'em all!" sang G&W as he ran around and spraying corrosive gas at the Duckers. But it finally ran out. "Eh? No more?" Then another Ducker showed up in front of him. "Uh oh…"
But a bottle flew down from the air and landed on the Duckers and broke, instantly causing it to rust up and stop moving. G&W turned around and saw that it was Dr. Mario who threw it. "Thanks for the help!"
"That was the lost corrosion potion," said Dr. Mario. He looked around the place and saw that most of the Duckers were destroyed, and the remaining ones are getting torn down by the other Smashers. "But it looks like we don't need it anymore."
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BANG!!!!!!
"That's the last of them," said Mewtwo, shooting down the last Ducker with Shadow Ball. He looked up and saw the warp starships taking out the remaining spaceships. "We'll leave the ones in the sky to them."
"We can still help them if we get to the highest part of the castle!" said Bowser.
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"It's the last set of enemies now!" said Falco as he flew towards it. He fired at them, but the spaceships were smart enough to get of the way. "They're getting smart!" He quickly flew around in a zigzag path to avoid the incoming gunfire from the spaceships.
"I'll handle them!" said Meta-Knight. He flew near the fleet and quickly opened the cockpit and ejected himself again. He flew in the direction of the fleet, and when he is among them, he began spinning like a cyclone and orange wind began to whip up around him. "Mach Tornado!"
MK transformed into a devastating orange tornado that sucked up the spaceships into the vortex of doom. They spun around him and began to break apart from the heat of the wind and the tremendous velocity. Finally, the spaceship broke down into pieces and flew everywhere and burned up in the atmosphere.
"Cool…" said Falco as he watched from his warp starship.
After MK stopped spinning, he fell down and landed on his warp starship, and he flew towards the castle and parked it at the rooftop.
"Well done, Meta-Knight!" said Dedede, coming out from his hiding place.
"It's my honor to protect this country, your majesty," he said.
Falco landed his warp starship in the same place and the other Smashers came up to the castle top too. "We got rid of all the bad guys!" said Kirby.
"They're too easy!" said Bowser. "I feel sorry picking on them, really!"
"You guys did a great job!" said Dedede. "Though I could've done better if I was out there fighting."
"Why you no come?" asked Jigglypuff.
"Because I have to protect my precious castle! It's as important as my life!"
"Since when did you become so protective about your castle?" asked Kirby.
Samus noticed Mewtwo looking out into the distance, and asked him, "What's wrong?"
"It's not over yet," he replied.
This grabbed the others' attention. "What?! More enemies are approaching?!" gasped Dedede. "But I don't see anyone."
Mewtwo stretched out his arm and 'touched' the air and closed his eyes.
"What's he doing?"
"He's sensing out the opponent's aura," explained Dr. Mario. "He can tell if there is someone nearby just by doing this."
Mewtwo suddenly opened his eyes and said, "They're coming!"
BGM: Gradius I boss theme
Immediately after he said this, round machines known as Zubs appeared out of blue portals in the air and began charging in their direction! "More, eh?" said Falco, taking out his gun. "That's good!" He began pointing at the Zubs and shot them down one by one, since they were easy targets in the way they charged forward blindly.
A group of Zubs flew at Bowser, but he got rid of them with a single claw swipe. "Piece of cake! I don't even need to use fire!"
Samus fired several missiles that automatically aimed for the Zubs and took them out. Kirby inhaled the Zubs into his mouth and spat out multiple stars that shot down the others.
"Take this!" Dedede swung his massive hammer at another approaching group of Zubs and easily eliminated them.
In only a short amount of time, they destroyed of the Zubs. "That was too easy!" said Bowser. "Even easier than the previous battle!"
"I was expecting a bigger challenge," said Falco, twirling his gun in his finger before putting it back into its holster.
"I didn't even have to do anything either…" said MK.
"Don't let your guard down!" said Mewtwo loudly. "It's not over yet! Something else is coming, and it's a really big one!!!!"
TO BE CONTINUED
A series of giant opponents has emerged to challenge the Smashers. The Smashers must face these gargantuan enemies and then rush for the Fountain of Dreams in order to restore happy dreams to the inhabitants of Dream Land
Next chapter: Destroy the Core! Release Dream Land from Nightmares!