Chapter 35: The Ultimate Fighting Machine Unleashed! The Greatest Battle of Skull Island!
"You're finished!!!" shouted Dr. Wily as the sides of the machine opened and fired out several buzz saws.
Mario avoided a couple of them and used the Fire Rod to bat away the remaining ones. After the buzz saws stopped firing, Dr. Wily charged forward in an attempt to ram him. Mario counterattacked by thrusting the rod forward and hitting the machine in the front and pushed it back. "Argh! I don't believe how strong you can be!" growled Dr. Wily.
Mario pulled back the rod and jabbed it forward over and over, hitting the machine multiple times and doing damage to it with each hit. Mario then swung the rod at the machine from the side and whacked it so hard that the machine slid across the floor and crashed into the wall on the other side.
CRAAAAASH!!!
"Ow!!"
"Eet's over!!!" Mario ran to the machine and jumped into the air and smashed it from the top very hard, shattering the top portion of the machine. While still in air, Mario shot fireballs at the crack on top of the machine and the fireballs went inside and burned the essential parts of the machine and created an explosion.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!!!
"Argh!!!!!" screamed Dr. Wily. "It's ruined!!! All ruined!!!"
Mario slammed the rod down on top of the machine again very hard.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!
The impact was too much for the Wily Machine MK-VI to handle anymore and it finally exploded.
KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Yes! I did-a eet!" exclaimed Mario.
"Not yet!!!!!!!" shouted Dr. Wily. Out of the smoke came a skull-shaped pod with a glass cockpit containing the evil scientist. "This will destroy you for good!"
"Bring-a eet!"
The skull pod disappeared into thin air and Mario was surprised. "Where'd eet go?"
"Over here!" Dr. Wily reappeared behind him and charged forward very fast and rammed Mario from behind and then disappeared again.
"Ow! He can turn invisible!" he thought. "I must-a be careful!"
Dr. Wily appeared high up in the air and dropped down energy balls from the bottom of the skull pod. "Take this!"
Mario saw the energy balls coming and ran aside to avoid it, but to his surprise, the balls began rolling along the floor when it landed and went after him! Mario jumped into the air and luckily the energy balls didn't follow him and they continued traveling towards the wall and disappeared. Mario turned to Dr. Wily and extended the Fire Rod towards him for a hit. Dr. Wily moved to the side fast and the eyes of the skull flashed and shot out an eye beam.
Mario rolled to the side to avoid the beam, but Dr. Wily steered the skull pod around and aimed the beam at him. Mario had to run around the place with the beam following behind him, and when he thought that trying to outrun it is futile, he used the Fire Rod as a pogo stick and bounced up high into the air, much to Dr. Wily's surprise. "What the?!"
Mario slammed the rod onto the cockpit and the skull pod was shot towards the floor, where it bounced back into the air. There was even a slight crack on the cockpit! "Argh! You're even more annoying than that blue robot now!" he growled angrily while rubbing his head. "I'm going serious this time!"
Several energy balls gathered around the skull pod and they shot out in various directions. Mario was just about to land onto the floor when one of the energy balls was shot at him, and he didn't have time to react as the energy ball struck the floor before him and blasted him backwards. "WAAA!!!"
More energy balls appeared around the skull pod and they all flew in the direction of Mario at the same time. Mario got up fast and jumped back to avoid the energy balls. Some of them hit the floor and exploded, but the ones that came in the back row avoided hitting the floor and flew towards Mario. He rolled to the side fast to avoid them, but the energy balls turned around again to go after him! "Mamamia!! Homing balls!"
He leaped aside again to avoid the energy balls, and as one would guess, the energy balls made a u-turn to hunt him down. Mario held the Fire Rod like a baseball bat and when the energy balls are near; he swung at the balls and batted it away like a bat to a baseball.
WHACK!!!
"What the?!" gasped Dr. Wily. The energy balls flew at him and exploded right in front of the skull pod, shaking it up badly. "Ugh!!! I can't believe how a fat Italian freak can give me so much trouble! I'm going all out now!!!" Energy gathered around the skull pod and encased it in a sphere, and it flew towards Mario at a fast speed.
Mario back flipped into the air and avoided the impact. He quickly turned around in time to see Dr. Wily doing a u-turn to hit him again. Mario got his Fire Rod readied in a batter position as Dr. Wily approached him. Right when the mad scientist was about to hit him, Mario swung the rod, but Dr. Wily acted fast enough and steered the pod to the left just in time and Mario missed the hit. "Wha?!"
"Ha!" Dr. Wily rammed into Mario from the side and he was sent rolling along the floor and not mention suffered a bit of burned skin due to the wall of energy around the pod.
"Ow! He's getting smarta!"
"You're dead!" Dr. Wily flew at him again to ram him down.
When he was about to hit, Mario quickly leaped into the air above Dr. Wily and instantly thrust the rod downward and smacked the top of the cockpit directly.
SMAAAAAACK!!!!!
The impact sent the pod crashing onto the floor. "Ow! You pest!" cried Dr. Wily.
Mario wasted no time and smacked the skull pod from the side and sent it bouncing off the wall and into the air. The momentum was very strong and Dr. Wily flew all the way to the other wall and bounced off it and back. Mario leaped into the air and swung the rod at the homecoming pod and sent it flying back to the wall again, which it bounced back… again…
"Stop it!!! I'm getting sick!!!" cried Dr. Wily.
"Okey-dokey! Now's da final hit!" said Mario. He used the help of the Fire Rod to jump up very high into the air, and holding the rod to the same level of his head and next to it, he extended the front of the rod forward with a strong acceleration. The rod impact with the skull pod and pushed it all across the room, and when it hit the wall…
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!!
Yes, you guessed right. The wall was torn apart and Dr. Wily was sent flying out of his fortress. "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!"
As the skull pod flew out, Dr. Wily quickly ejected from it before he flew too far and slowly floated down using a parachute. "Damn that Smasher!!! I'll get him for this!!!"
Mario fell to the floor and let off a sigh of relief knowing that he won. "Phew… That-a was good-a exercise!"
Then the door to this room opened and Megaman and Fox came running in. "Mario! Are you all right?" asked Fox.
"Where's Dr. Wily?" asked Megaman.
"Eets all over!" replied Mario. "All over!"
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To make a long story short, all the Smashers reunited with each other and met back downstairs outside the Skull Castle.
"So that wasn't Dr. Wily we were fighting down there after all…" said Luigi after hearing from Mario that he fought the real Wily.
"Well, we done everything here," said Snake. "We busted up the machines that were trying to absorb the energy from the meteor and Mario also destroyed the Gamfax. We have no more reason to be here now."
"Maybe we can take a short vacation here!" said Roy. "Those girls are probably still waiting to play another round of tag with me!"
"It's important that we don't waste time," said Fox. "The others might have returned already and are waiting, so let's go back."
"Oh well…"
"Thanks for your help, Smashers," Megaman said to them.
"But where is Dr. Wily?" asked Dr. Light.
"Probably sent-a flying," replied Mario.
"I just hope he learns his lesson this time," said Roll. "He is always coming back for more and Rock will be getting sick of it sooner or later!"
"Nah, it's my job to make sure that he faces justice for good," said Megaman. "I will never get tired of fighting for peace!"
"That's good to hear!" said Pikachu.
"By the way, I'm not doing evil helping you, right? I mean, you are on the wanted list of the government…"
"You do not have to force yourself to follow absolute justice," Dr. Light told him. "Do what you think is right, as moral justice is the best kind of justice. The government may be important to the world with their laws, but that does not mean they are always right."
"I understand, doctor!"
"Okay, now that we're done, let's get going," said Luigi. "For some odd reason, I think something bad is gonna happen if we don't leave fast…"
"Hahaha! You people are not going anyway!" laughed a loud voice.
"Who's that?" asked Pikachu.
They all turned to the entrance of the door and saw a pair of lights flashing brightly from within the darkness. "Oh no! I was right after all!" cried Luigi.
"That's Dr. Wily's voice!" said Megaman.
"But I sent-a him out into da sky already!" said Mario.
"Behold my most powerful creation to date, even though it's yet to be complete!" said the voice of Dr. Wily. "I call this masterpiece Gamma! Even though it's not complete, it is more than enough to take down the likes of you!"
Then a gigantic humanoid robot slowly crawled out of the entrance using its hands and slowly limped towards them, and Dr. Wily can be seen inside the cockpit on its forehead. "Whoa! It's huge!" said Pikachu.
"Dr. Light! You better run to safety first!" said Megaman.
"You don't-a give up, do you?" asked Mario.
"I will never give up! I will fight until I can no longer fight!" replied the mad scientist. "This time victory is mines!"
Snake inspected the giant robot known as Gamma carefully, and said, "You know, I wouldn't be using that thing in its current state if I were you."
"Silence! I will show you the power of the ultimate fighting machine!" said Dr. Wily. "Die!" The left hand of Gamma slowly lifted off the ground and folded into a fist.
"Oh no! It's gonna smash us into pieces!" cried Luigi. Everyone quickly got into fighting stance and readied for whatever it coming.
Suddenly, the fist disconnected from the arm and fell onto the ground. "WHAT THE?!??!!!" screamed Dr. Wily.
"What happened…?" asked Sonic.
"See, that's why you shouldn't bring an incomplete machine out to battle," said Snake.
"Shut up! Gamma has other tricks up its sleeves too!" said Dr. Wily angrily. "Burn to ashes!" Gamma's mouth opened and breathed out a stream of fire.
Mario got in front of everyone and held his Fire Rod in front of him and spun it like a propeller and shielded everyone from the fire. As the fire burned against it, the Fire Rod began to glow in bright orange color and steam began to come out.
Then the fire coming out from Gamma's mouth died out. "Damn! Out of fuel!" cursed Dr. Wily.
By this time, Mario's Fire Rod is glowing brightly. He held the Fire Rod next to him and the back end of the rod extended backwards all the way into the forest. After stretching long enough, it snapped back at a fast speed and when it returned to its original length, the front end of the rod shot forward in reaction to the back part returning. You know what they say: For every reaction, there is an equal but opposite reaction. "FIRE BAZOOKA!!!!"
The front end of the rod hit Gamma in the face really hard that the whole robot was sent flying backwards at a very fast speed. "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!" screamed Dr. Wily.
Gamma flew back into the entrance of the Skull Castle, and…
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Whoa…" said everyone in awe.
The Fire Rod stopped glowing and Mario shrunk it into a miniature size and put it back into his pocket. "There! All done!"
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And so, the Smashers' job here is done and Dr. Wily was arrested. To make a long story short, the waved good-bye to Dr. Light and his family of robots and went back to Final Destination.
WORLD COMPLETE
TO BE CONTINUED
In the next chapter, you are… NOT going to learn about King N's identity. No, I repeat: NO! You are NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT going to learn who King N is just yet. If you think I'm kidding and you think you are going to learn who he is next chapter, you're gonna be disappointed. It's not time for you to learn who the main guy behind all this is!
Next chapter: Gamfax Not What it Seems to Be? The Dark Secrets of the Evil!
Trivia:
1. Gamme is the final boss of Megaman 3. Am I spoiling too many things for you?