SBS Time!
Sam PD: (asks questions about China)
Game2002: For your record, I am from Taiwan, not China. And before you ask, Taiwan IS NOT a part of China. We are our own country and have no relations to China asides from sharing the same type of culture. Plus, we're democratic.
If I were you, I'd be getting two very specific Sonic musics, both of which are like the best final boss themes ever, ready for the grand finale. Not that it's coming the next chapter, mind you...
Chapter 38
The Assassin Sisters, Katsura and Kochou!
"What's that?" Fox asked, looking at the sky.
"Looks like a fireball falling," Ness said.
The fiery thing crashed down before them and exploded with a bang.
KAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
The Smashers covered their face so that sand would not blow into their eyes and they also tried to retain their footing from the force of the blast. "Whoa! What is that?!" DK said in shock.
Young Link then saw a helmet falling from the sky and into the smoke that was created from the explosion. "Hey! I think that's Falcon's helmet!" he pointed out.
They kept their eyes on the column of smoke and eventually saw a silhouette of a man coming out, and so they got into fighting stance to take on whoever it is. The person stepped out and revealed himself to be none other than Captain Falcon! "Phew… Glad it's done with at last…" he said.
"Falcon! It's you!" Fox exclaimed.
"Did you just fall down from there and exploded?!" Falco asked.
"Well… I did fall down, but I think the explosion was due to the Failure being defeated," CF replied.
"So you defeated a Failure too?" Kirby asked. "Wait, how about the others that were with you?"
CF looked at the fortress that was in the air and answered, "They're still up there apparently…"
"Found you at last!" shouted a voice. Everyone turned to the source of voice and saw Ivotas standing there.
"Who are you?" Red asked.
Ivotas turned his eyes to CF and said, "I have been looking for you!"
"Who me?" CF asked, pointing to himself.
"You are the one that took my life once! This time I shall take my revenge!" Ivotas said, taking out his sword.
"What? You killed him before?" Pikachu asked CF.
"If we see him alive here, that means he's a Failure!" Pichu said.
"Uh? I don't know who he is," CF said.
"Does the name Ivotas ring any bells to you?" Ivotas asked him.
CF dug through his memory and then said, "No…"
"Whether or not you remember me, your end will be coming! I have been waiting so long for this!" Ivotas raised his sword into the air and shouted, "Final Transformation! Matar!"
Note: It means 'Kill'.
In a burst of smoke, Ivotas was now fully clad in armor that resembles a medieval knight's. "This time revenge is at my hand!" Ivotas said, pointing his sword at CF. "I will kill you and build up my power by killing all your comrades! Die!" And he ran towards him at a fast speed.
For no apparent reason, there was a banana peel on the ground before Ivotas. He stepped on it and fell on his butt. "Wha!"
"I dropped that," Diddy pointed out.
Ivotas then felt someone tapping his shoulder, and when he turned to the person, he met face to face with DK, who gave him a powerful sock to the face.
SOCK!
Ivotas flew backwards and tumbled violently, but then stood back up. Suddenly, Red gave him to the back of his legs and Ivotas fell over again. Kirby then grabbed him by the head and performed a backward suplex slam.
SLAM!
"Gah!" Ivotas got back up again, but the moment he did, Fox and Falco both zipped through him in an x formation and he was knocked into the air from this.
YL ran underneath him and did a spinning sword attack so fast that he whipped up a whirlwind that not only blew Ivotas higher into the air, but also cut him with razor sharp wind blades.
"PK Rocking!" Ness shouted as he shot out colorful energy orbs.
"PK Love!" Lucas shot blue hexagons. Both the PSI projectiles hit Ivotas midair and blew him even higher into the air.
BANG!!!
"Thunder!" Pikachu and Pichu shouted simultaneously, and a powerful lightning bolt dropped down from the air and zapped Ivotas.
ZAAAAAAAP!!!
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!" he screamed. He fell back down again after getting fried badly by the powerful lightning bolt.
CF was standing underneath him with his spear held next to him and the spearhead was pointing upwards. Ivotas fell onto it and was impaled through his abdomen. "Gah! No… This can't… be!" he cried, and he fell limp.
KAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!
"Well, that take cares of that," CF said, shrinking his spear to miniature size before putting it away.
"Are you sure you don't know who he is?" Fox asked him.
"Hmm… I think I know, but at the same time I don't know… Nah, that isn't important anyway."
-
Up in the sky…
Toon Link and Katsura ran at each other and clashed blades again. They struck each other's swords multiple times but no one ever got to actually hit each other. TL parried an incoming sword swipe and tried to sweep his sword across the floor to hit Katsura in the legs, but she jumped out of the way in time and then thrust her sword forward and TL blocked it with his sword.
He jumped back several steps and threw out a boomerang, but she was able to knock it away with ease. TL got out a bomb next and threw it in front of the floor before Katsura, who jumped back to avoid the explosion. When she landed, TL jumped at her and pointed his sword down at her to ready to plunge it into her. She swung her sword upwards and knocked TL's by his blade and he was swatted to the side but landed on his feet. "You're good," TL said.
"You're very good also," Katusra said.
"I'm enjoying this! Let's do it again!"
"Sorry, but I don't plan to carry this on forever."
TL got out his bow and fired some arrows at her, and she was able to block them with her sword. She then jumped into the air with her sword raised and ready to bring it down on TL, and he countered by jumping and performing a whirling blade attack. The powerful spinning attack struck Katsura's sword with such a strength that she was pushed back through the air and landed a bit roughly. TL landed and ran to her again with his sword pointing forward. She held up her sword and blocked the rapid jabbing attack with the flat part of the blade and moved back with each step too.
She eventually realize that she was going to fall off the edge if she kept on moving backwards, so she jumped up into the air and soared over TL and landed behind him. TL turned around fast to block an attack from her using his sword. When Katsura charged forward, TL rolled out of the way and she went past him and found herself almost falling off the edge.
"Whoa! Wa!" She panicked to retain her balance on the arena using just one foot and eventually pulled herself back onto balance. "Phew… That was close…"
"You look pretty clumsy, you know that?" TL said to her mockingly.
"You'll eat those words!"
-
Pit flew left to right to avoid the razor sharp cards being thrown at him by Kochou. Sometimes he would use his blades to deflect them too. "Watch out! That's dangerous!" Pit cried.
"But I'm enjoying it!" Kochou said while continuing to throw cards at him.
"Stop it please!" Pit shouted, and then he fired a light arrow at her. She threw another card and when this one hit the arrow, the arrow trajectory was altered and it flew off in the wrong direction.
"What?!"
"I still have got more!" Kochou said, and this time she threw five cards at once.
"Wha!" Pit quickly spun his blades in front of him like a propeller and managed to deflect them all at once.
"You're good!"
"It's my turn now, even though I don't really want to hurt you!" Pit pulled back his bowstring and fired arrows at her rapidly, but the little girl jumped and skipped around in a playful manner and managed to avoid every single shot.
"C'mon! Try to catch me!" she said playfully. She reached under her clothe and this time got out paper birds. When she threw them into the air, the paper birds flapped their wings on their own and went to Pit!
Pit quickly fired at the incoming paper birds. Though some of them were shot down, there were also some that were smart enough to avoid the arrows by flying out of its way.
Pit quickly held up his blades defensively when the birds came new and they exploded in front of him and sent him rolling back in air. "Whoa!"
BANG! BANG!
"Go, my little birdies!" Kochou said, sending out more paper birds.
Pit quickly flew around the place to avoid the paper birds while shooting some arrow at the same time. As if this wasn't enough, Kochou began throwing cards at him again. "Wa! Stop that!" Pit cried as he tried to defend himself from the cards, but he was unfortunate enough to get hit by one in the leg. "Ah!" Because of this, he also got caught up by the paper birds behind him and he was blown back onto the arena's surface.
BANG!
"YAAAA!!!"
Kochou walked up to the injured angel and touched him in the shoulder and said, "Tag, you're it!"
"Oh… I must not lose…" Pit cried.
"Okay, I'll give you a chance to try and hit me then!"
Pit got back onto his knees and said, "You said this yourself… Don't blame me if you get hurt!" And he began firing arrows at her again, but like earlier, she was able to avoid them by skipping and dancing around in a graceful manner.
"Lalala! You cannot catch me!" she sang happily.
-
"Hiya!"
Both TL and Katsura were clashing swords against each other again, and neither side seems to be gaining an upper hand. "I'm totally enjoying this!" TL said. He pulled away and jumped back and quickly got out a bomb and threw it at her. Katsura held up her arm and moved back to avoid the bomb when it fell in front of her and exploded, releasing thick red smoke in the process. Suddenly, arrows with bombs attached to the front of it shot out from the smoke and she barely avoided them.
"Whoa! What the?!" she gasped.
After avoiding those bomb arrows, a boomerang flew out next and bonked her right in the head. TL came running out from the smoke next and swung his sword again. Katsura barely had time to fight back and she was knocked back several steps every time she blocked a hit. TL suddenly swung his sword upwards and managed to knock her sword away, much to her surprise. "What?!"
TL did a horizontally swipe next and Katsura quickly hopped back in the nick of time, but she got a small caught in front of her body too. The sword fell towards her again and she caught it in her hand. "You're much better than I thought…" she said.
"Hahah! Now you know your real maker!" TL said.
"I'll show you then! You will know who the real maker is after this!" She bent down a little bit and then spun her sword in her hand by the hilt before pointing it into the air and shouting, "Final Transformation! Guerrero De Luz!"
Note: Means 'Light Warrior'.
You know the usual deal. Katsura was now clad in armor that looks like what a warrior would wear in fantasy stories. Imagine the Warrior of Light from Final Fantasy I as a visual guide.
"Ha! You think a wardrobe change will make you any stronger?" TL asked.
"You'll see about that!" Katsura said, readying her sword.
-
Pit was still having a hard time trying to hit Kochou, who was dancing around to avoid the light arrows. "I'm getting bored," Kochou said. "Can we play with something else?"
"Not quite yet!" Pit said. He fired another arrow that was once again avoided by her, but unknown to her, this arrow did a u-turn and managed to hit her from behind.
"Ya! What happened?!"
"Did I tell you that I can change my arrow trajectories too?" Pit fired another light arrow at her.
She once again avoided it but then turn around to keep her eye on the arrow as it u-turned. "Okay, I see now!" she said. "I'll be more careful this time!" And she avoided the homecoming arrow again. "Miss me!"
The arrow flew back to Pit and he got out the mirror shield and when the arrow hit its reflective surface, it bounced towards Kochou again. She was caught off guard by this and took another blow to her body. "Ya!"
"Yes!" Pit said.
"Ow… Okay then, you got me! I'm it again!" Kochou said with a smile while rubbing the part of her body that got hit. "This time I'll play with something different!" Pit got into defensive stance to take on whatever is coming next.
Kochou spread out her arms and started spinning on one foot and said, "Final Transformation! Metamorfosis!"
Note: Obviously it means 'Metamorphosis'.
White silk-like substance appeared around her and she was eventually encased in what looks like a cocoon. "What…?" Pit said with curiosty.
He waited for a while but nothing happened, but he eventually saw the cocoon wiggling. A crack appeared on the surface of the white oval-shaped encasing and it finally broke apart. Kochou came out from the broken cocoon and she was flying in the air with the help of a pair of large colorful butterfly wings. "What?!" Pit gasped.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, hehe!" she said. "Let's play again! By the way, do I look cuter like this?"
-
"Hiya!" Katsura brought down here electrically charged sword and TL blocked it with his own sword. Her sword met with his with a powerful force and sparks flew everywhere upon impact, not to mention the fact that she was showing a stronger feat of strength than before.
"Whoa! Stronger than before, I see," TL said while trying to push back.
"Now you know this isn't simply a wardrobe change," Katsura said to him. "Blade of Light!" Her sword gave off a bright light that blinded TL.
"Ya!" TL covered his eyes and moved back to get away from the light, and Katsura used this opportunity to slice him. TL was able to hold up his shield in time, but to his surprise, his shield was cleaved in half! "What the?!" He quickly ducked down and crawled away with panic to avoid another sword swipe from her.
"You're not getting away!" Katusura shouted. She raised her sword and light gathered around the tip of the blade and when she brought down her sword, the ball of light shot forward. "Light Meteor!"
"Eeks!" TL gasped. He had no time to jump away and was blown away by the shot. "Whoa!" While he was still in air, Katsura jumped at him and slashed. TL was able to block the attack somewhat using his sword, but he was cut somewhat in hishand. "Ow!"
When the both of them landed, Katsura zipped at him at a very fast speed and slashed through him. "Light Dash!"
SLASH!
"Yeow!" TL cried in pain. He tried to endure the cut on his body and looked at her angrily. "You're getting too far!"
"Well, you were going too far on me earlier too. This is a payback!"
"I'll get you for this, dumb girl! Hiya!" TL charged forward and clashed blades with her multiple times.
"Blade of Light!" Katsura's sword gave off bright light again and blinded TL, but he also dropped a bomb in between them and they both were blown back and hurt somewhat by it. "Ah!"
"Caught in it too…" TL cried. He saw Katsura dashing straight at him again, and he quickly rolled aside in the nick of time to avoid it. "Ack!" Katsura spun around immediately and they clashed and locked blades again. "Ngh! I won't lose to you!"
"Neither will I!"
As they were pushing each other back and forth, TL suddenly slipped in between her legs and got behind her without a warning.
"Hey!"
He immediately whipped out a bomb that resembles a mouse and tossed it at her, and it latched onto her back. "What's this?!" she cried, reaching her hand to the back.
BAAAAANG!!!!!
"AHHH!!!"
"Hah! Bitten by a Bombchu, didn't you?" TL asked while snickering.
"Ow… It burns…" Katsura cried. "Why you?! I'll show you!" She jumped up very high into the air and pointed her sword downwards and it began to glow. "Light Impact!" She shot down towards TL at a high speed but he got out of the way. When her sword landed into the ground, an explosion was created and a shockwave was released.
"Wa!" TL was hit by the shockwave and it was like a strong burning wind that blew him backwards. He was able to grab onto the edge just before he fell though and therefore climbed back up. "Whoa… That was close…"
Katsura pulled her sword out of the hole created on the floor from the impact and then ran at him while swinging in front of the air with such a speed that an illusion of multiple swords were created. "Light Illusion!"
"This settles it!" TL said. "Time to get serious!" He got into a slightly bent position and his sword began to glow. When Katsura was near, he unleashed a powerful spinning tornado slash. The blades of both sides clashed against each other furiously and sent both noise and sparks into the air.
As TL continued to spin, wind began to form around them until it suddenly became a tall cyclone. "What the?!" Katsura gasped. "Ya!" And she was carried up the cyclone.
TL was also carried up by the cyclone, and he pulled back his sword when he reached the same level as Katsura, who couldn't move properly due to the strong wind current. "Slash of the Wind!" TL shouted, and then he slashed madly at her with a fury sword combo.
SLASH! HACK! SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!! SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!!
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Katsura screamed upon getting sliced throughout the body over and over.
TL then ended the combo by slamming his the flat part of his blade down onto her, sending her straight onto the arena below.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!
The wind finally stopped and TL fell down, landing on his butt. "Phew… That was tiring…" he said. He looked at his sword and said, "Guess Orca has right when he said this sword has mysterious powers in it…" He then turned around to look for Katsura and found her… lower torso sticking out of the hole that was created from the Light Impact attack. "Lol…"
"Ow…" Katsura groaned. She opened her eyes and looked around her, and when she saw the predicament she was in, something began to take over her mind. It was fear… Something that struck her greatly… "No… No…" She began to kick her legs and struggled to move her arms, but they were jammed way too tightly against the edge of the hole. "No… No… No! No! NO!!!! NOT AGAIN!!!!"
"Um… What?" TL said curiously while watching the pair of legs that kicking like crazy.
"NOOOO!!!! WHY?!?!! WHY MUST HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF?!?!!" she screamed. "WHY MUST THIS HAPPEN AGAIN?!?!?!" Her past memories began to come back into her mind. She began to remember how she first died. It hurt her to be reminded of this again, and not to mention very humiliating.
"What's with her…?" TL asked with a strange expression.
Katsura continued to struggle with great panic to get free, but it was useless. "I'm not falling for this again! One time is enough! Not the second time! Ngh! Ungh!" As she continued to kick her legs, she suddenly felt someone grabbing them. "Uh?"
"Fine, I'll get you out…" TL said as he began to pull her upwards.
"Why are you helping me?! I'm your enemy!"
"Who cares? You look pitiful like this, though it is funny… To the author at least... Hehe…"
"Don't laugh!!!"
"Ngh!" TL tried all his might to pull her up. There was no effort at first, but suddenly, Katsura's warrior outfit disappeared in a burst of smoke, reverting her to her original form in the normal clothing. TL was able to pull her back up with little effort afterwards. "Out at last!"
"Finally…" Katsura said with relief. "Guess the armor was too bulky and got in the way."
"So… What's your story?" TL asked him.
"What story? Wait a minute… I'm not telling you anything!"
-
"I'm now a beautiful butterfly!" Kochou said while hovering around in the air playfully.
"Whoa…" Pit said with awe.
"Okay, let's continue our game again! Let's start with this then!" Kochou flew across the sky and scattered red pollen.
"What?!" Pit lifted his arms over his face to protect himself from the pollen, though they still fell onto him. "What's this?" Suddenly, he felt his whole body itching. "Wha?! It itches!" He scratched himself at all places and even fell to the floor and rolled around like crazy. "Ah! What's happening?!"
"That's the itchy powder!" Kochou explained. "Don't worry; the effect will wear off by itself after some time, but if you want to get rid of it instantly, just wash yourself with water. Too bad there's no water around here though… I'll play nice and try something nicer on you then!" She flew over him again, this time scattering golden powder.
When the powder landed on Pit, he stopped feeling itchy. Instead, he began to laugh uncontrollably. "Hahahah! What now?! Hahaha! Wahaha!! I can't stop… Hahaha!! Laughing! Hahaha!"
"That's the laughing powder!" Kochou said. "Same thing applies for this too!"
"Stop that! I can't concentrate on… Wahahaha! Like this!!!" Pit said while rolling on the floor laughing like crazy.
"Okay, I'll give you a chance to do something then!" This time, Kochou flapped her wings and released slightly invisible waves. When the waves hit Pit, he stopped laughing but was feeling dizzy this time.
"Ugh… Now I feel… sick…" he groaned while touching his forehead. "What… now…?"
"That's the Dizzy Wave. It will make the world around you spin. Don't worry, you should be able to at least fight… to some extent."
"I will… get you…" Pit said, trying his best to aim an arrow at Kochou. He couldn't stand still and misfired, but the arrow also made several loops and crazy turns in midair.
"Ooh, look at the pretty arrow fly!" Kochou said happily.
"You… won't… get away… with this…"
"What shall we play next?" Kochou wondered. She was too busy thinking of this that she didn't pay attention to the arrow that was now flying around behind her. Unknown to her, the arrow happened to turn in her direction and struck her in the back. "YA!! What happened?!"
"Yeah… A hit…" Pit said, still trying to retain his balance.
"That's not nice! If you don't play nice with me, I have no reason to play nice with you too! Gust Blade!" Kochou flapped her wings and wind blades shot out, striking the tip of his wings.
"YAAA!!" Pit fell back onto the floor, but he also regained his consciousness as a result. "Phew… Feeling better…" He felt his wings with his hands and said, "Good thing they didn't suffer too much. I can still fly…" He stood up and took off into the air. "Now I'm fighting for real!"
"Shall we play rough this time?"
Pit fired an arrow at her and she dodged it, but Pit somehow controlled the arrow and it turned to get her again. She quickly flew around the place with the arrow chasing her, but the arrow eventually stopped chasing and went off on its own. "Looks like the arrows cannot follow its target forever," she said.
"That's not all I've got!" Pit said, pulling back his bowstring again. This time the arrow split into three and they were all fired at the same time.
Kochou quickly escaped the three arrows that also followed her. She flapped her wings to fire gust blades that eliminated two of the arrows, but one of them was still going for her. She quickly dodged it and this time the arrow kept on moving forward. "My turn!" she said, and she fired gust blades at him.
Pit quickly spun his bow in front of him and both the gust blades were deflected, and Kochou moved out of the way to avoid it. "Eeks! That's not nice!"
Pit then flew at her with his bow separated into blades and swung them around to hit her, but she also moved around with agility and skill to avoid getting hit. "You cannot hit me!" she sang. She suddenly spun around and smacked Pit in the face with her wings and knocked him back, and then she pointed her hand palms at her and a rainbow-colored beam shot out at him. "Pixie Beam!
"YAAAA!!!"
Kochou charged through Pit next and caused him to spin in air. She stopped to turn around and fired another Pixie Beam at him. Pit was unable to regain his awareness in time and was blasted by the beam farther into the air, but he managed to stay airborne. "Ow… It hurts… At this rate, I'll fall…" he thought.
"I had a lot of fun with you, but I feel tired already," Kochou said. "Time to end the play!"
"I'll end this all right!" Pit said, pulling back his bowstring as far as he could.
Kochou fired gust blades at him again, and he quickly flew out of the way. She went after him and continued to fire the blades, but Pit only tried to dodge them and didn't bother fighting back. "What's wrong? Not doing anything?" she asked.
"Not yet!" he replied.
This kept up for a little while longer and then Pit finally said, "It's time!"
"Time to end it all right!" Kochou said. "Pixie Beam!" And she fired the rainbow beam again.
"Spiraling Arrow!" Pit twirled the bow in his hands exactly at the same time he released the bowstring. This resulted in an arrow that traveled forward like a spiraling beam and it went down the beam in a spiraling formation too. Pit moved out of the way in time to avoid getting hit by the beam, but because Kochou couldn't move until she stopped her attack, the spiraling light arrow struck her in the body.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!
"YAAAAAAA!!!!" She fell through the air and crashed violently onto the solid surface of the arena, and both her wings disappeared as a result.
"Phew… Did it…" Pit said, landing onto the arena also.
Kochou sat up and tears began to flow down from her eyes. "No… I lost… Game over for me…" She lowered her head and said, "This is the end of me…" As she continued to cry, Pit walked up to her and offered her a hand. "Uh?"
"Are you hurt? Get up," he said to her politely.
She looked up at him and said, "You're not killing me?"
"I don't like killing. Plus, you don't really look evil to me. C'mon, get up!"
Kochou grabbed her hand and stood back up and bowed down her head to him and said, "Thank you so much for sparing me! I'm so thankful to you! I mean it!"
"Don't worry! I won't remember this fight at all!"
"NOT AGAIN!!!" screamed a loud voice suddenly.
"Uh?" They both turned to look at the other floating arena and saw Katsura stuck upside-down in the hole.
"Oh no… Sister is stuck like that again…" Kochou stated.
"Again?" asked Pit.
"Yeah… It was around 400 years ago… We were both hired assassins sent to do away with a warlord. After scaling the towering fences of the fortress, sister didn't jump off the top of the fence properly and fell through a hole on a bridge that was built over a small stream and got stuck like that. I tried to pull her out, but we were eventually caught by the security. I was taken away and eventually executed, but sister was killed on spot in that predicament…"
"I feel sorry for her…"
"Don't tell her that I told you this, or else she will go in for a fit over me…"
-
Meanwhile, Master Hand and Shat Focker were standing across each other and giving each other glares (but they don't have visible eyes…). They both were panting heavily also as if they had a rough battle…
TO BE CONTINUED
Why didn't I kill off Katsura and Kochou? Didn't feel like it.
GAME2002 TALK SHOW
Let's go to a place where we can never return from! It will be very fun! I think…