Yes, now, I am back! As far as I'm concerned, I'm going to need to type like mad!
If anybody noticed last chappy, the Doc got so mad he started using his old accent! Wonder why he wasn't using it anyways…(Hey, I'm the author, I know why. Ha.)
Well, the sooner the notes end the sooner the story starts! Thank you, everybody who reviewed! I'm glad nobody's mad with me. Now, let's see if this chapter turns out how I want it to…
Before I forget, I appreciate the correction concerning Ganon's last name. You know who you are. Just curious…Where was his last name first mentioned? is it made up by us fanfiction authors, or is it actually in one of the Zelda games? I'd like to know: stuff like that is interesting to know. Thanks again!
Let's-a Go!
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"Of all the people I know, I can't believe you forgot your own partners!" Cloud roared. "Just who do you think you are?!?!"
"I cannot even begin to explain what danger Roy and Doctor Mario are in, and now that we know Roy is unstable, they have even less of a chance of survival!" Meta Knight said coldly.
"I told you!" Matt roared back. "Roy's perfectly logical in battle, and should something bad happen, I'm sure he'll be able to handle it!"
"Inexcusable!" Meta Knight shouted. "Making excuses does not solve issues, and I think your issue is responsibility! If I were Master Hand, I'd remove you from the team immediately! Even though I'm not Master hand, I'm still dumbfounded by your irresponsibility!"
"Hey! They wanted to go to the library and investigate, and we let them!" Bowser yelled. "It's their fault for not coming back!"
"You dare to place the blame on others?" Meta Knight asked. "You're worse than Matt!"
"Looking for a fight, Mr. Marshmallow? I'm right here!" Bowser growled.
"Never, EVER, insult a knight." Meta Knight hissed. He and Bowser charged each other at the same time, but they were stopped a foot from each other. Luigi seized Bowser by the tail and threw him backwards towards the rear of the room, which only made him madder. Cloud deftly grabbed Meta Knight's wings, and jerked backwards. Meta Knight stopped instantly, and sheathed his sword which he just noticed he had drawn.
Click.
"Back up, everybody." Samus said, holding her cannon out and sweeping it across the offenders. "You people are acting nothing like civil. Meta Knight, Don't EVEN pretend you were acting right! You're all acting like idiots, and we're going to sit here and talk like we were supposed to! Not an all-out brawl like earlier, got it? I'll shoot the next person that offends full of lightning, so be smart and stop fighting."
Meta Knight jerked his wing free of Cloud's grasp and passed him a withering scowl, then sat down in the captain's chair without another word.
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Roy and Doctor Mario dived out of the cave's opening just as it collapsed.
They fell face first into the wet cloud around the library, and jumped back up to watch the library sink into the clouds.
First, the black mound appeared to sink into the clouds as if they were made of mud, then it dropped completely through. The pillars of the library roared past them in a screaming gale, and the roof passed them with a roaring whoosh. The wind blew them backwards across the ground, and then the wind came roaring back to fill in the space where the library was just seconds before.
The two smashers groped the slick clouds in search of a handhold, but they found none. They skidded towards the hole in the sky, and just as they toppled over Dr. Mario grabbed his knife and jammed it into the 'ground'. Roy grabbed his ankle and hung on while the doc pulled out another knife and used it to climb the wall.
Roy looked over his shoulder, and witnessed the library falling and shrinking out of sight as it fell into the blackness. When it was just a speck, it vanished beneath a black cloud that was completely pitch black. It looked like a bottomless sky.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH!" Roy screamed. He clutched Dr. Mario's leg even harder, and tightened his grip on the big yellow stinger he had under his arm.
"Oh, my…" Dr. Mario gasped. He had watched the library fall, too. His vision started to swim.
Great! He yelled at himself mentally. Some time to start getting faint!
He tried his best to focus and squeeze out all his thoughts, and after he had collected himself slightly, he pulled out one knife and stuck it into the cloud above the other one.
"Roy!" He yelled. "Get your phone!"
"My hands are full!"
Surprised, he looked back at Roy again, and saw the stinger.
"WHAT!?! Why'd you get that!?"
"I thought it looked nice! Maybe we could use it!"
"…Fine! Stick it inside your shirt or something!" Dr. Mario sighed.
"Uh…k."
"Be careful. If you let go…"
"I know!" Roy wailed. He slid the stinger inside his vest as carefully as possible, then he pulled out his phone.
"Ok, press the emergency button." Dr. Mario instructed.
Roy did so, and the phone began beeping and flashing a red light. The small visual display on the phone said this: "SOS signal engaged."
Dr. Mario tightened his grip on the knives stuck into the cloud wall, and looked over his shoulder black at the black abyss below. If things worked well, the only thing he'd need to worry about is sore hands. If not…
It was going to be a long wait.
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BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP!
"There, Meta Knight." Ganon said, looking at his phone. "See? They're still alive. I don't know what's been up with you lately, but you've been…hard."
"I still do not approve of those other smashers." Meta Knight said, silencing his own phone. "They are untested. Soft. They are not strong enough to face our enemy, whoever or whatever it is."
"Yeah…and you're saying we're up to the job ourselves?" Ganon asked. "They broke into two GUN bases, went back to the moon, explored some forest that hasn't seen the flow of time since five thousand years ago, and not to mention, rescued us. We've been sitting here inside this ship for the greater part of a month!"
"Excuse me?" Meta Knight said. "While YOU, that silvite girl, and the Eskimos hid in here with that batty professor, Cloud and I staked out this country, trying to find help!"
"And what good has it done? I told you we should have just waited! You've changed, Meta Knight."
"I've grown stronger, Dragmire. Even stronger than you. You know that. It scares you." Meta Knight said in a strange voice.
"…" Ganondorf only looked at the star warrior in front of him. He IS changed…What's going on? It's as he said. He is stronger than me now. He's PROVEN it against me…And the worst part is, I Am scared…
"Let us go, Ganondorf." Meta Knight said. "We have allies to rescue. E. Gad!"
"Was somebody just shouting Egad, or do they need me?" The little professor asked, cackling with laughter.
"What condition is the auxiliary power supply in? Can the ship fly with the leftover energy it has?"
"Fina has proven reliable in helping me." E. Gad said. "Yes, meta Knight. The ship can fly, but I'm worried about the right side plasma jets-"
"Can it fly?"
"Yes, but my hypothesis is, with our right row of jets disabled, our left turning is going to be drastically affected, if we even have any at the moment."
"Alright. The ship's radar has located them by the library." Ganon said. "…Hmm, what's that…?"
"…" Meta Knight stared at the inexplicable bleep on the radar. "…Looks like we have an unidentified flying object." Meta Knight said. "It's a thousand feet above the library."
"WHAT'S above the library?" Matt asked suddenly. He was standing on the right side of the bridge, when he heard Meta Knight speak about the U.F.O. He was over to them in a flash. "What is it?"
"I don't know." Meta Knight said.
Suddenly, Matt, Link, Ness, Paul, Yoshi, Pichu, Cloud, Kirby, Paul, Luigi, and Meta Knight all felt at the same time a strange humming noise at the back of their minds.
The humming rose to a screaming pitch, and everybody fell over at the same time, holding their heads, and screaming. It felt like a ball of white hot fire had formed in the back of their skulls, and quickly grew to engulf the whole inside of their bodies.
Just as suddenly as it began, it ended. Matt's eyes opened back up, to see Ganon looking at him with concern.
"Uh…How long was I screaming?" Matt asked ruefully.
"For about five seconds, actually." Ganon grimaced. "If ZELDA screamed that loud when I kidnapped her, I'd never kidnap her again! It was that bad."
"…I hope it never happens again." Matt said. "It felt like taking a bath in super hot lava…"
"Bowser might like that." Ganon joked.
"Not THIS kind of pain." Matt said. "There was this…noise inside my head. Almost like a scream."
"Are you sure you're alright?" Ganon asked.
"We'll be fine." Meta Knight said, picking himself up off the floor. He looked slightly cross-eyed. "Right now we have more pressing matters."
SLAM!
"What's with all the screaming!?!?" Samus asked, standing in the doorway. "One moment, everybosy was fine, the next, it was like they had been tortured with something horrible! Luigi couldn't even speak!"
"That's Luigi we're talking about, Samus." Matt said.
"Oh…Right." Samus said. "There's something strange happening. My ship's sending me a warning about an unidentified creature flying above us, and it's also telling me the library is gone."
"Gone!?!?!" Everybody shouted in shock.
"Yeah, look for yourself." Samus said. She pressed a button on her helmet, and it projected an image of her ship's periscope. It had a long-distance camera pointed at a giant gaping hole in the clouds. The ship appeared to be flying in a circle around the hole.
"What the heck?" Matt said. "That Hole's at least half a mile across! What the heck happened? Wait! Is that-"
"Oh my…"
"E. Gad!" Meta Knight roared. "Get the ship started! We're leaving now!"
The professor hurried over to the controls of the ship, and whistled. A door opened to the left and the right, and a few waddle dees appeared.
"Get this ship up and running." Meta Knight ordered. "The right row of jets are jammed, so make compromises where necessary."
The waddle dees nodded, and quickly jumped over to their stations.
"…It's sad." Meta Knight said, speaking to Matt. "Most of the waddle crew perished in the crash. These are all the waddle dees left on the ship."
"How did you crash?" Matt asked.
"Still haven't figured that out." Meta said. "GUN was attacking us, and we lost their battle jets in this storm up here and we were going to camp for the night when we were hit by a giant bolt of lightning. There was a power outage, or something like that. The ship recovered, in time to be struck by a huge volley of rockets. The GUN planes caught up to us and we gunned them down. The ship took too much damage in the fight, and we had to crash land here in the coliseum. We were still wary of the black creatures we had encountered at the mansion, so we figured it was best to flood the stadium and submerge the ship while we repaired it from the inside. We've been here ever since."
"Well, your chance has come to get out and about a bit, hasn't it?"
"Indeed, it has." Meta Knight said.
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"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Roy screamed.
"Nobody can hear us, Roy! It's useless!" Dr. Mario said. "Just be patient!"
"But I'm scared, Doc!" Roy whined. "I'm s-scared!" Then he broke down sobbing, and gripped the doc's leg harder. "I want my mammy!"
It was still raining. It had been raining the whole time. Dr. Mario's clothes felt like freezing cold lead armor on his body. They weighed a ton to him, Roy wasn't helping, and if he didn't catch the flu from being out here so long, it would be a miracle.
Murphy's Law. If it can go wrong, it will go wrong. Right when you need it the most, that's when the thing you need fails you.
SNAP!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The two smashers screamed. The knife snapped right off its handle, leaving Dr. Mario with a useless metal knife handle in his hands. Quick as a flash he drew his last surgical knife and thrust it into the cloud wall. It tore through the clouds because it was too sharp, and the clouds were beginning to thin.
"CURSE THESE BLASTED SHARP PIECES OF KNIVES!" Dr. Mario screamed.
The knife sliced through thin air, and Dr. Mario's heart stopped as he looked down at the black abyss below. Everything went silent, and all he could hear was his own heartbeat.
As he looked down, he saw a black silhouette. It seemed familiar in a way, but panic took over him and he screamed. Loud.
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Atop the Halberd…
Everybody but Meta Knight was on the deck.
They could see Dr. Mario and Roy now. The doctor was screaming his head off and thrashing about, and Roy was crying and sobbing, and holding onto the doctor's leg.
"We're in position." Meta Knight said over the phone. "It's up to you now."
"Let me handle this." Ganon said. He pushed everybody aside, and assumed a sumo-wrestling stance, perfect for catching falling people.
Dr. Mario and Roy quickly came within hearing range, and Ganon braced himself. If it had worked, he'd have caught them perfectly.
THUNK!
"OOF!" Ganon grunted. He lay sprawled on the deck, with Dr. Mario and Roy safe on top of him. The doc seemed to have regained his senses, and frowned dejectedly.
"I've gone and made a fool of myself." he sighed. "I'm afraid I lost my mind for a bit up there…"
"Oh, mommy!" Roy wailed, gulping air and crying with joy. "We're safe! WHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
"Chill, Roy." Yoshi said. "Everything's Ok."
"Yeah, you're safe now!" Ness said. "Get u-"
TINK!
The stinger fell out of his vest, and onto the deck with a tinkling noise. It scattered a few sparks as it settled, and little bits of electricity traveled across the deck.
"What in the name of Palutena is THIS?" Matt asked picking it up.
"We found it underneath the library. BEFORE it fell."
"It fell?" Link asked.
"I don't know why." Dr. Mario said, throwing his arms up in the air. "It just…caved in and went bye bye."
"Bye bye, wonderful books!" Roy sobbed.
"But…You found this under the library?" Matt asked again.
"Yes. It was in a cave at the base of the library. There was a monster sealed inside since the last dark lord lived, sometime during Master Hand's and Cress' adventures. It escaped."
"…WHAT escaped?" Samus asked, quiet.
"I found some runes…'Scorpio, the lord of lightning, the servant to the earth, bearer of darkness, and guardian of the sky'…"
"A whole bunch of titles, and for who, what is this Scorpio?" Bowser asked.
Matt and Fox suddenly exchanged significant looks.
"Oh No…" They both said, at the same time.
"It's another elemental demon!" Paul shouted, clapping his hands against his head and sighing. "Not again!" Yoshi went very light green, and started to sway dizzily.
"I don't know anything about these elemental demons, but it's going down!" Ganon said.
"Meta Knight!" Matt roared into his phone. "We have a crisis!"
"What!?!!? Did we miss catching the doctor and the fiery swordsman!?!?"
"No, they're fine. We caught them, but we have a rank A disaster on our hands!"
"No!"
"Yeah, it's as we said, Meta Knight! It's another one!"
"What should we do?"
"To avoid casualties, I'd say we need to fight it from a distance, bring it down so it can't do anything fishy to us or the ship."
"Well thought out. I apologize for my words to you earlier. We can talk more later, but for now, we have an Elemental Demon Lord to take down."
"Right! Meet you at the bridge!" Matt said. CLICK!
He shut his phone off, and turned towards everybody else.
"We're going back to the bridge." Matt said, tightening his grip on the stone stinger. "Me and Meta Knight have decided to fight the demon from afar. That way, nobody will get…hurt by it when we kill it."
"Understood!" Fox said. "Let's go, everybody!" He opened the hatch leading back into the ship's interior, and everybody dashed in to prepare for battle.
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The door in the bridge opened up, and the smashers walked in. Meta Knight turned to face them.
"We have visual." Meta Knight said. He waved his hand at a device with eyepieces, and Link walked over to them to look.
At first, he couldn't see much, but his eyes adjusted after a bit. He could see a shadow moving among the clouds above, and every time lightning flashed, a slightly triangular silhouette could be seen.
"All the lightning seems attracted to it." Link commented. "I'm sure that's what we're looking for." He gasped when the shadow suddenly dived, and broke free of the cloud layer. It was a gigantic scorpion with ebony black armor that shone in the semi-darkness. It's four front legs were normal for a scorpion, but the rest of its legs were shaped like wings, which propelled it through the sky at incredible speed. Its claws were as big as two Bowsers, just the two closing parts on each claw. It was easily the size of a small ship. Lightning danced across its armor in a shower of sparks, and its stinger was long. Lightning coursed freely across its tail, and at the end was a giant yellow crystal stinger ten times the size of the stinger Matt was holding.
Speaking of Matt, when Meta Knight brought the periscope view up on screen, Matt dropped the stinger he was holding in shock, and gaped at the screen.
"T-t-that thing wouldn't even fit in the cave beneath the library!" Dr. Mario exclaimed. "How did it grow so fast!?!?!?"
"I don't care, as long as it dies even faster!" Ganon said. He ran to a set of controls, and put on a visor before grasping a few control sticks. On the side of the Halberd a laser cannon whirred to life, and aimed at the flying scorpion.
BEUM!
A streak of light shot across the sky and hit the scorpion with an explosion. The scorpion shook the smoke off, and headed right towards the ship, unharmed.
"Oh, crap." Ganon said.
"You should have not acted so hastily." Meta Knight said. Before anybody else could say anything, the scorpion rammed into the ship and knocked everybody off their feet. It rammed the ship again, and grabbed the siding with its oversized claws. It crushed the sides and ripped it off, and smashed the side cannon with its giant stinger. There was a sound like a thunderclap, and the cannon exploded in a shower of sparks.
"Drat!" Meta Knight yelled. "That cannon cost me a thousand smash coins! Good going, Dragmire!"
"Hey! I can't help the monster took a liking to your hardware!"
"You owe me, Ganon. Don't think I'll forget this!"
"This is a load of barnacles." Ganon huffed, throwing the useless visor aside.
CLANG!
"The demon is going topside." Fina reported, looking away from a screen. "It's headed for the deck!"
"If that thing gets inside we're toast!" Popo shouted. Nana grabbed him and hid behind him as the ship shook with the scorpion's weight.
"…We know what to do, everybody!" Paul said. "Let's go!"
"Be careful!" Fina called after them as they left. Cloud, the Ice Climbers, Dr. Mario, Roy, Yoshi, and Pichu stayed behind. "Aren't you going to help them out, Cloud?" Fina asked as she took off her headphones.
"They'll be alright without me." Cloud said stiffly.
"I hope so." Dr. Mario said.
"I still think enchanted gold hula hoops are scarier." Roy shuddered.
"Roy! Shut up!"
"Is he alright?" Fina asked worriedly. "And what's a hula hoop?"
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The deck door opened up, and Meta Knight and Samus were the first two out.
Meta's sword, Galaxia, was out and unsheathed, and the molten metal that indicated it was in its holy form glowed with a dull red light. Samus was decked out in her Athena Suit, and the crystals on her shoulder armor glowed with pent up power. Matt's gun glowed with its characteristic blue light, and his Emerald Blade lay in his right hand, poised for battle. Fox brandished his staff in his left hand, and held his blaster in his right. Kirby had the Star rod in his hand, and had a hungry look on his face. Luigi's Thor Hammer crackled with lightning, ready to smite evil with holy judgment. Paul's magic sword shone like a rainbow in the rain, and Bowser's adamantite claws sliced the air as their owner warmed up for battle. Ganon drew his crimson red sword of light, and grasped it with both of his hands.
The scorpion screeched, then jumped into sight. It hit the deck with all of its weight and knocked everybody over, and charged towards them with its super sharp spindly legs. The smashers got out of the way just in time as it rocketed past, and bowled into the gate leading to the inside of the ship. It tore through it like it was paper and stamped it into the ground as it passed it, completely trapping them up on the deck! It turned around and screeched triumphantly. And that was how the battle started.
Ganon, Matt, Meta, Bowser, and Link rushed Scorpio head on, forcing it to rear up and stab at them with its legs. It stabbed rapidly at them with ALL of its forelegs and forced them backwards while using its wing-legs to keep airborne. They tripped over the mangled ground and fell on their backs and Scorpio flew over them and went right for Kirby, Samus, Luigi, Paul, and Fox.
"This plan isn't working good." Samus said. "Run!" They split up and ran in different directions, confusing the demon for a moment. It decided Samus was the most dangerous, and pursued her relentlessly. It gained on Samus, who ran towards the communications antenna and ran up the side of it with her momentum. She was halfway up it when the demon crashed into it. Samus timed her jump so that when it hit the antenna, it bent backwards. She kicked off it and the antenna catapulted her way into the air. Scorpio aimed its stinger at her and all of the lightning on its body went up to its tail in a wave and it fired a massive plasma bolt. Samus utilized her boosting jets and swerved out of the way to avoid the lethal projectile, and smashed into its tail in a spinning drill kick. The demon's armor completely absorbed the blow, and it retaliated by sending a huge amount of voltage through Samus's suit.
The force of the shock sent Samus flying into a cannon where the impact knocked her senseless, and it fired another plasma bolt at her. Luigi slid in front of her and knocked the beam back at Scorpio with his hammer and the impact knocked it slightly off balance.
That was just enough time for Ganon to run in and hack off one of its limbs. The useless leg fell to the deck with a crash, and Ganon ran for his life. Link stepped in between Ganon and the scorpion and fired a bomb arrow at its maw, inflicting a good amount of pain on it. Link ducked under a giant claw the size of a wreaking ball and slashed it with his sword and rolled under one of its stabbing forelegs and got up right under its body. It slammed itself down on the ground, which Link avoided by rolling out from under it. While it was getting up he ran over to one of its wings, and with a well aimed swing removed the front right wing completely. It got back up as quickly as it could, and flew back to avoid Luigi swinging his hammer. It stabbed Luigi in the leg with one of its legs and before it could crush him with a pincer Bowser whirled past inside his shell and grabbed him.
THUNK!
The claw made a giant crater in the metal deck.
"How dare you ruin my ship!?!?!" Meta yelled. He flew right at the demon and dodged one of its lasers, and slashed it with his sword. It went right through the scorpion's armor and scorched the inside of its claw.
It screeched again and backed up. Then, a strange thing happened. The air filled with the strange humming noise from before, then the scorpion flashed and Meta Knight was sent away with a noise like a gunshot. He hit the ground beside Matt, and it only took one glance to see he was unconscious.
"What the heck?" Matt said. The scorpion started humming again, and Matt saw it was facing him he backflipped out of the way just in time. He could feel an invisible wave of energy shoot past him in the rain. It knocked the raindrops aside and left a bit of empty air, which quickly filled back with rain. "Samus!" Matt yelled. "Get a scan on this thing, and quick!"
"Got it!" Samus said. She got back up from where she hit the cannon, and limped away to a safe distance. Fox jumped up into the air with some help from his staff, and fired a whole bunch of boosted lasers at its wings. It shielded its wings with its legs and left its mouth unprotected, which Link shot another bomb arrow at. The explosion blew its mouth parts off and scattered them across the ground, causing the scorpion to shriek. Fox used his Fox Illusion attack and sliced past its side. Two of its right wings fell off and hit the ground with a clang, and Ganon used the chance to run up and hack the rest of the legs off on its right side. Bowser rolled past and tossed Luigi at its left side and he crushed a leg with his hammer. It made a thunderclap noise as it hit and the hammer smashed the leg to pieces. Bowser used his remaining momentum to spin up to the last leg, which he sawed in half with two quick and lethal slashes. The last leg fell to the ground in three pieces, leaving the scorpion with three more wings to keep it in the air. Paul rushed in and crushed a wing with a concussive blast of wind, and Kirby followed up with two quick successive star beams.
BOOM!
Scorpio screeched and flailed about, thrashing about on its belly and shaking the ship mercilessly. Everything seemed to move in slow motion as it backed up, balanced on its tail, and fell over backwards on the guard rail.
Samus never had the chance to get out of the way.
Scorpio fell on her and the deck with an ear-splitting crash, and it fell backwards over the side of the ship, Samus with it. Everybody ran over to the edge and watched in dumbfounded horror as she and the demon faded out of sight.
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Samus found herself helplessly falling through the stormy sky, caught in the demon's turbulence. Escape was not an option at this point, so Samus decided to do what she did best.
"Time to exterminate!" Samus said. She cocked her cannon and thrusted towards the demon, which seemed to have gained something of a fragile balance while falling. She flew towards it and it fired a giant blast of lightning at her with its stinger. She grabbed its side with her grapple beam and swung around to dodge its beam, came up under its underside, and slammed herself right into its wounded side in morph ball mode. Samus activated her spider ball, which allowed her to stick to Scorpio's shell.
Her scan earlier, which she finished just before Scorpio fell on her, revealed its armor was weak against concussive blasts, and that its electrified shell was magnetic…
Samus rolled up onto its back and stood up on Scorpio's back. It was broad enough to use as a small battle arena, and Samus as going to need all the room she could get. Scorpio screeched and sent a wave of lightning through its shell towards Samus. She dodged it by jumping over it and then she fired her missiles at its claws and cracked their armor. It swung a claw up and tried to smash her up against its back, and she jumped over it and landed on top of the claw. The demon channeled the energy wave from earlier into its tail, and focused the lightning into a beam. Samus jumped over the beam and instead it hit the claw and blew it up in an explosion. She fired a super missile at the tail and knocked it backwards and made it miss her again before it could hit her. She curled into her morph ball and rolled along to its underside to avoid the leftover claw, and planted a row of morph ball bombs along its belly. Samus swung back up topside and kicked the tail away with a spin kick and wrapped her grapple beam around the end just as the bombs all exploded and made a fissure in its belly armor.
Black blood started to pour from its belly wounds, and Scorpio was livid, and in major pain. It thrashed its tail about to shake Samus off and batter her around, but she held tight and shot missiles at every single part of it she could aim at. Scorpio finally bent its tail over its back and reached to pluck Samus off its tail and crush her in its claw, but she jumped off and instead it grabbed its own tail and tore off the end. Samus fired another super missile at the claw and removed it from the body. She landed on its back as Scorpio started charging the last of its energy into its tail.
"You want to go out with a bang? You got it!" Samus cried. She switched to her wave beam and charged up a massive amount of lightning, and waited for the right moment. Right when Scorpio fired a massive lightning bolt from its tail, Samus countered with a super charged Wavebuster attack, and the two beams of lightning fused into one giant beam of plasma with a ball of unstable lightning in the middle. Push came to shove, and Samus was giving it her all. She emptied the rest of her suit's energy reserves into her arm cannon, which glowed like a star. Even though Samus was fighting with every last drop of her energy, the demon's big blue bolt of lightning was still winning against her thin and powerful purple lightning bolt. The ball of lightning was slowly being pushed towards her, when she screamed with exertion.
Something inside her snapped, and the little bubble of phazon inside her body started to swell. Samus could feel the phazon radiation begin to overwhelm her, and she activated her Hyper mode. Her body flashed like a gigantic light, and her whole suit crusted over with phazon crystals. Her shielding started crashing, and any moment her suit was going to fail. Her Wavebuster grew in size and stopped the ball of plasma, and continued growing and pushed the ball of plasma back towards Scorpio at an increasing rate of acceleration.
The ball of plasma hit Scorpio's tail and blasted its whole body with millions of volts of lightning just as Samus's power suit failed and lost control. The lightning completed its circuit, using Samus as its amplifier. Her suit glowed like a star and shone super bright, blasting the clouds away with its brightness. Then followed a horrifyingly loud cacophony of thunder crashes. Lightning from everywhere hit Samus and Scorpio, lighting them both up and turning them into glowing ball of light.
They broke free of the last layer of clouds, and just before Samus lost consciousness she saw the ground rush up to meet them.
They hit the ground, and instantly there was a huge explosion with a radius of about ten miles. The whole sky lit up with the flash, and the explosion blew away the lower layer of clouds. Lightning danced freely across the ground from the crater where Samus landed.
Inside, Samus lay amidst a pool of black blood that used to belong to Scorpio, mixed with phazon. The phazon grew over her prone body and crystallized to form a shell. It filled up with the blood and liquid phazon, completely sealing Samus inside a chrysalis.
Samus's life support went critical.
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Ha ha! So…yeah, what happens next? The smashers won against another demon, at the cost of a friend.
What are they thinking? Is Samus going to live? Will Meta Knight's insurance company ever pay for his ship? Again, what's next?
Tell me what you think, and I'll update soon with a short chappy!
(Guess what, I typed this chapter up in ONE day!) HA! Beat that, peeps. Kidding. I'm just dedicated. I hope you all had as much fun reading this chapter as I had writing it! Thanks for reading!
I'll see you all next time, so take care! Good bye for now!
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