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-Hey this is really important, this is the official 50th chapter of Smash On!, I know it says 53 but I've done 3 of my own notes and things which I uploaded so yeah. Happy 50th, thank you so so much! I really appreciate everything you've done for me and helped me push forwards while writing this story! Please enjoy today's chapter-
"This paperwork is going to end up killing me Samus, I mean have you ever seen so much?" Ganondorf asked, his eyes flicking between sheets of paper in front of him.
Samus watched the dark lord hopelessly sign his name time after time in an attempt to reduce the mountains of work in front of him however every time he managed to clear half of a pile she would slam another half pile on top of it, much to his agony.
"It is more than usual but what can you do, fights have been delayed, people are in hospital, there was unauthorised use of a smash ball, property damage, disturbing the peace-" Samus listed in a monotone fashion.
"Yes yes yes I know Samus! I know. I'm the one signing papers here." He sighed and rubbed his tired eyes, "There's so much going on even I'm not sure who's pulling the strings any more, it's stressful you know? I mean, Sam's in hospital and we don't know what happened, someone got a smash ball and destroyed an entire building not to mention a warehouse went up in flames the other day, and our deal old benefactor won't reply to me about the island."
"Oh shut it, you're a demon lord Ganon! Get a hold of yourself, you were so much more badass back when you were younger." Samus snapped, "Yeah things are going on but we're the largest bag of misfit fighters who have our own lives and we're strong, of course you can't control everything we do. Don't have a God-damn crisis freak-out over this, and why do we keep calling Master Hand the benefactor, we know it's him right?"
"I-I'm not sure about that, but you're right." Ganon replied sullenly.
"Wait, not sure about it? Who else could it be? I don't mean to be disrespectful but surely you know how strong Master Hand is, there's no way he could lose." Samus replied, she was a little stunned by Ganon's words.
"This doesn't match his behaviour though...I mean a couple of years ago when Pit joined and such, some things are blank but I can remember clearly everything when I joined."
"That's probably just because of the things that happened and-"
"No, this isn't like that. Can you remember everything from back when we had the Toad infection, and then from when I joined and then even further back?" Ganon questioned.
Samus paused for a minute, then her eyes widened as she started to think.
"I-impossible, my Chozo DNA allows me to remember everything...And I even trained my memory, how can some events not be clear yet some are?" She asked.
"The benefactor. They made us forget things from back then, but why...If it was Master Hand I doubt he'd do that, but if he did then why not make us forget Roy? And what exactly have we forgotten from back then?" Ganon replied, he began to think harder.
"So based off this...You think it's not Master Hand who's in control?"
"Maybe...All the things we've discussed this year and the plans, they don't resemble his orders from back when I joined. And I remember his behaviour and orders a couple of years ago being extremely unnatural."
"You don't think it could be Crazy Hand then?"
"Hmm...Samus I don't know what to think, but I remember serving Master Hand a few years back, and his behaviour was what it's like now...So maybe I'm over thinking things."
"Or maybe you're not." Snake interrupted, walking into the room while smoking.
"Oi, some of us like our lungs." Samus replied angrily.
"Ah whatever, I couldn't really care. You've got a call from the doc downstairs regarding Sam and her condition." Snake said grouchily.
"Her?" Ganon questioned.
"You'll find out later. This benefactor debate however, it's intriguing...We don't have many problems regarding PR right now, so just send some material and I'll gather my own." Snake replied.
"You're going to do some investigating?" Samus said sarcastically, "Not just blow stuff up?"
"Heh, I remember back when me blowing stuff up was praised." Snake chuckled before wandering off.
Ganon sighed and leant back in his chair, thinking about the topics at hand. He sat up properly once more and clicked a small flashing button on his phone.
"Yes, hello Dr. Mario." Ganon said.
"No time for your formalities, we need to get straight to the point"-
'You just wasted more time saying that' Ganon thought.
"I'm about to interview Sam upon what happened to her, just listen, I don't have time to take notes." Dr. Mario ordered.
"Yes, of course, oh and about this 'her' thing?" Ganon asked.
"Listen, shut up. Snake's your spy, I'm not so just listen okay?"
"Jeez, he's too much of a doctor." Samus said.
"Let's just listen in for now." Ganon sighed.
A couple of floors down the mansion Sam was stuck in her own private ward. She wondered how many more times she'd have to come here in-between fights which made her chuckle, her left arm was still completely broken and half of her face was bandaged up. She looked around the room, again, at this point she'd memorised the layout but she had nothing else to do with her dead eyes; Sam could just about manage to sit up but her body was absolutely in a state. After consulting the personalities the Gunner refuses to tell her what happened, so she guessed it was pretty harsh, it was at that point Dr. Mario entered the room.
"Good, you're up again which means your body is healing." He said happily walking to the end of the bed.
"Y-yeah, I feel a lot better too and I feel happier al-"
"I don't care for that emotion crap, I'm not a therapist. I'm your doctor remember?" He interrupted as he picked up a file and started to flick through it.
Over the last week Sam had gotten to know the doctor very well, he seems like an impatient, aggressive, rude and arrogant person however he really does care. He's just a doctor to his core and takes the role very seriously. She trusted him to the point in which she came out as trans-gender to him.
"So now we come to the main part of your check up." He said suddenly.
"Hm?" Sam hummed.
"I need you to bring out the Gunner, could you do that?" Dr. Mario asked, pulling out a chair and taking a seat.
"Y-you want me to switch? U-um, okay then." Sam replied, closing her eyes and letting a glow consume her.
Once the glow faded nothing actually changed about the way she looked apart from a more calm expression and a tenser aura.
"Good, I'm aware you're very business like and analytical so this should go easy. It's a pleasure to meet you miss." The doc said.
"Zero. I've decided my name is zero and I'm a guy, Sam and Phoenix are the ones who identify female, not me." Zero replied coldly.
"My apologies. I'm guessing you know the reason why I'm interviewing you so I'll get straight to it. What happened to Sam in order for her body to come back in such a state?" He asked.
"Hmph, we haven't even told her, so I'm not likely to tell you doctor." Zero replied.
"For the sake of your bodies health it'd be better if you told us, your body is surrounded in a strange dark aura which is stopping us from healing you effectively; if we know what happened then we can try and find similar cases and get a cure."
"I doubt you'll get a cure...The case is that we had encountered an enemy of sorts, they were immensely strong and utterly defeated us. As for this dark aura it is of no concern, we are slowly absorbing it and making it our own aura." Zero replied, he was trying to end this quickly.
"I see...It's rather amazing that you can do that, very fine aura control. Which is odd, as Sam appears to have no training or at least remembers none of it...However you and Phoenix have combat training, making it look like Sam's strength and aura control is natural."
Zero narrowed his eyes, a flash of anger in them and he smirked.
"It appears you've been thinking about this." Zero said.
"I have, I don't care for emotions however psychology is another thing. Sam appears to have very little memories of her past, and any combat experience seems to come off as natural talent which is a good disguise...To scare people. A you have certainly scared my peers with the capability of aura absorption and conversion, it is an amazingly high level skill which requires teaching off a master. Or masters. I know of only a few who have that finesse control and ability over aura, so for my patient's health I ask you; who was the enemy which you fought and what happened in Sam's past?" The doctor questioned seriously.
There was a long pause of silence between the two, Dr. Mario was giving Zero a fierce and powerful glare while he merely returned it with a smirk.
"I will not answer either of those questions." Zero said finally, "I'm leaving now and when I do Sam will be unconscious, meanwhile Phoenix and I will clear all the aura surrounding Sam so now I ask you, will you allow him visitors?"
"The second all the aura is cleared I will message his friends to come stay with him." The doctor said, taking a stand, "I respect your choice not to talk about what happened but I also think it's selfish; whoever you encountered is targeting you, or even this organisation and I fear for what we'll face."
A couple of hours later Sam felt herself awake to the sound of chattering come from around her, she peeked around with one slightly open eye to see her friends gathered; Robina, Link, Robin, Lucina, Shulk, Sheik, Ike and Palutena. But no Pit.
"H-hey you guys." She said weakly as she pulled herself up.
"Oh no baby." Robina said worriedly, darting over to help her loved one sit up, "Are you sure you want to be up?"
"Mhmm, I do. I've missed you." Sam said, tears forming at her eyes.
"I've been so worried." Robina cried, leaning in and kissing her passionately.
"Good to see your up and moving again, you worried us there." Link laughed, tapping her lower leg happily.
"You look really rough, are you sure you don't need that rest?" Robin asked.
"Oh no, really I feel okay." Sam replied happily.
"Well I'm glad to see you're really feeling better!" Shulk said energetically.
"T-thanks." Sam said happily.
"Do you remember what happened?" Lucina asked worriedly.
"No, my other personalities are hiding my memories so I really don't know. Sorry." Sam replied apologetically.
"I remember the last time I got bandaged up like that, it's not fun." Link said, nodding his head.
"When was the last time you ever got like that, I don't remember you in being such a state." Robin said unimpressed.
"You weren't here, it was a good couple of years ago shortly after the Toad infection." Link explained.
"Oh yeah I've been meaning to ask about that, what exactly is the Toad infection?" Sam asked.
A few members in the room shuddered.
"The darkest time in Smash history." Ike said, his eyes had gone dead with despair.
"I've seen some things but never again could I go through that." Marth added.
"Okay Sam, Robina, Robin, Lucina and Shulk, let me enlighten you." Link announced, "It was back a couple of years ago, when people like Pit had first joined and we didn't have a Smash Zone, Peach was fighting against Pit..."
Pit slid across the ground, the sheer force of Peach's slap was so immense he felt his muscles throb in pain as he came to a halt. He glanced up to see a turnip fly his way, he quickly slammed his shield into the ground and reflected the vegetable but Peach jumped above him and started to kick wildly; he rolled around her and started to spin his bow-blades and advance.
"Hyayahyahyahyahyah!" Pit yelled as his spinning blades pushed into Peach's back and sent her rolling along the ground.
"And newcommer Pit lands a solid blow on Peach, what a fierce competition we have going on now!" The announcer yelled as he watched the battle unfold.
The crowd roared as Pit and Peach battled fiercely, with Pit being new he had a lot to prove and was determined to win his tenth battle.
"Sorry Peach but I can't let you win!" Pit yelled as he fired off an arrow.
"Hmph, keep trying little boy but these arrows are too weak." Peach said as she smashed her behind into the arrow head.
Meanwhile up in the podium the fighters watched the battle happen.
"Hmm, so what do you think Link? Pit's holding up pretty well." Marth said.
"I agree, he is indeed most praise-worthy for his efforts, however he still lacks the power and discipline." Link replied.
"You know you need to lighten up, you're far too serious." Marth chuckled, "Maybe in your next reincarnation you'll be more fun."
"Hmph, I don't intend on dying any time soon Marth and if I do reincarnate as an idiot may the Goddesses end my life and stop the cycle." Link laughed.
"Don't speak like that Link, it's unbecoming of you." Zelda said calmly.
"I apologise dear." Link replied.
Meanwhile back in the battle Pit slashed forwards at Peach who blocked the attack and countered with another slap.
"C-can you please stop slapping me?" Pit whined.
"Aw too bad." Peach said sadistically before slapping Pit again and sending him spinning.
"Right that's it!" Pit yelled before slashing at Peach quickly.
The princess quickly reached down beneath her skirt and then just as quick pulled out a wailing Toad.
"HELLO!" It yelled upon reveal.
Pit's blade hit the mushroom being and upon contact the small being unleashed a stream of rapid spores which sent the angel off the stage and left a layer of green on the stage.
"And this battle goes toooo Peach!" The announcer yelled.
"Aww, did I win?" Peach said mockingly.
"Jeez and I thought I could be cocky, but she is so damn arrogant." Marth said annoyed at her words.
"Just ignore her, that over-confidence of hers will bite her back one day." Link replied.
"I think we should go see the kid." Ike said, sweeping his hand through his long blue hair.
"Jeez dude, get a hair cut." Marth said, pulling an annoyed face.
"Ha, no way will I ever let this stuff go short. Oh hey, have you seen Sheik around?" Ike replied, blushing a little.
"You don't have a shot with her Ike, trust me she's really cold." Link replied apologetically.
"I can hear you." Sheik said with a quiet, angry tone.
"Oh, my apologies." The three boys replied in sync.
"W-wait you heard?" Ike stuttered, his face completely flustered.
"Yes I did. Hm? Anything you want to ask boy?" Sheik asked cheekily.
"I-er, well-" Ike was fumbling over his words.
"Just take him on a date, for our sake." Marth interrupted.
"Gladly." Sheik replied as she took Ike's hand and lead him away.
"Huh, maybe she liked him back." Marth said in amazement.
"No way, maybe that's why she took him away." Link said sarcastically.
"That tone doesn't suit you." Marth growled.
"Hm, maybe. I'm going to see how Pit's doing, a first loss is never fun." Link said as he started to wander off.
"Oh, great, I'll just hang around with myself then." Marth groaned.
Pit was sat in the cafeteria, alone, and for the short time he'd been there things had been pretty well for him; he'd won every battle (up until this point), people had seemed to accept him relatively easily and the mansion was really nice. Though he was kind of alone, and it sucked, he didn't even have Lady Palutena to help guide him through this. There was a small thud and as he looked up Link was sitting opposite him, smiling friendly and doing a small wave.
"Hey there, you feeling okay? The first loss can always be a little hard to deal with." He said friendly.
"Oh, yeah, yeah I'm okay thanks mister Link." Pit replied, a little flustered.
"Well that's good to hear, Peach can be a little mean when she wins so it'd be best to ignore her." Link continued.
"Thanks for the advice, I'll do my best then." Pit replied, a small smile grew across his face.
"Good to hear, hey you have a little something on your arm." Link said, pointing out the green mess on Pit's arm.
The angel tried to wipe it off his arm however it merely moved onto his hand, it had a strange moss-like feel to it yet it spread like a liquid on him; the hyrulian took Pit's hand and inspected the green gunk on his hand, getting some on his own fingers.
"Hm, these are probably some spores released by Toad during the match." Link said before making a noise of disgust, "It's really gross, I'm gonna go wash it off and I think you should too."
"Y-yeah maybe." Pit replied, looking at the stuff on his hand.
"Anyway, see you around then." Link said, taking a stand and walking away.
"Yeah, see you." Pit said, getting up himself and walking away.
The angel returned to his room, it was a mess and had no evidence of anyone but Pit being in there; he walked into the bathroom and put his hands under running water and soap. No matter how furiously he rubbed his hands it just wouldn't come off, in the end he wiped the gunk on the mirror and it worked strangely.
"Huh, pretty weird...And gross." Pit chuckled to himself before getting undressed and heading into the shower.
He closed the door behind him as he left the bathroom and fell onto his bed, pushing back the wet brown hair on his face. It'd been a long day and he felt himself become more tired, his eyes slowly started to close as he drifted off to sleep. The next morning had rolled in and Pit was starting to wake up but he didn't open his eyes, he heard something odd, it sounded like breathing. Someone was in his room and was breathing. Quickly and full of adrenaline from fear Pit threw the covers over to the side so they covered whoever it was and Pit looked to see it was someone small, extremely wide headed person. Pit gulped and reached out to pull up the cover, slowly and cautiously until a pale face with beady black eyes became visible.
"HELLO!" The thing yelled energetically.
Pit screamed and kicked his foot out, getting it directly in the face and sending it directly into the wall opposite him. Now getting a better look Pit realised he'd actually kicked Toad, though he looked a little different as it's coat was pink and it had pink spots rather than red, the mushroom person fell face-first onto the floor and slowly pulled itself up before it's mushroom head started to swell. It then puffed out green spores from it's head which coated a green circle of gunk on the floor. Pit quickly got up and ran over towards the Toad with a worried face.
"Oh Toad, it's just you. I'm really sorry, are you okay?" Pit asked, concerned for it's health.
"HEY!" Toad replied.
"Yeah hey, maybe we should take you back to Peach." Pit said, picking up the small being.
"MAMA!" It shouted, causing Pit to wince and turn away.
"Yeah let's definitely take you to Peach." Pit said.
The angel carried Toad all the way to the cafeteria and looked around until he saw Peach, he wandered over and placed the pink Toad on the table.
"Hey Peach I found Toad in my room this morning, you should take better care of him." Pit chuckled.
Peach looked at the pink Toad and then back to Pit.
"That's not my Toad." Peach said, pulling out her Toad from beneath her dress.
"HEY!" The two Toads said in sync when looking at each-other.
"Wait, then where did this guy come from?" Pit questioned.
"I'm not sure." Peach replied curiously.
The table shook a little as the two turned to see a blue Toad placed down and Link holding onto it's head.
"Peach listen, I don't want to find your annoying little subjects staring at me when I awake...What's going on here?" Link said, looking at the gathering of Toads.
"Even I'm not sure." Peach said, a little concerned.
The door to the cafeteria opened with a loud bang as a multitude of coloured Toads wandered in, each of them shouting loudly and happily wandering about; Ganon followed after them with a tired face and looked at Peach, Pit and Link.
"So, you're aware of the deal at hand then?" Ganon asked.
"Yeah yeah, look I'll go take them back with me." Peach said as she took a stand.
"MAMA!" One shouted.
"HELLO!" Another yelled and soon all the Toads were yelling the same two words over and over again.
"Oh my God get them out of here Peach or I'll stab one!" Marth screamed.
Peach flipped him off and started to lead the small gathering of Toad's out of the room.
"I hope that goes down well." Pit said.
"It probably will." Link said, arms crossed before heading over to Marth.
As night rolled in Pit returned to his room, no one had seen Peach or the Toads for the rest of the day and so it had been much quieter so once more Pit went to sleep. It was about three o'clock in the morning when Pit heard low groaning sounds in his sleep, with a groan he sat himself and looked around the dark room and in the centre of the room was a terrifying sight. From the circle of green spore gunk the pink Toad emitted the previous day were a bunch of slender arms, feet and small Toad heads growing out from it and then one fully formed Toad head staring at him along with another Toad who had a full torso formed.
"HELLO!" They both yelled at him.
"What the?" Pit yelled in fear, grabbing his blades in anticipation.
The hands started to reach out for him and the Toad with a torso started to push against the floor, there was a thud from the bathroom and Pit turned to see a green Toad slowly enter the room and make eye contact with him; the mushroom person leapt at Pit but the angel kicked the being away and towards the same wall, spores were relased once more against the wall and as the Toad fell arms started to grow out the wall, grabbing him and saving it. Pit darted to the door quickly and slammed it behind him, panting to himself and his body shook with fear.
"W-what the underworld was that?" He said to himself, it was then he looked around.
The walls were coated in spores, arms, feet and even more heads turned to face him but luckily he was just out of their range.
"HELLO!" The Toad heads yelled, the sound echoed and continued to move down the corridors.
Soon afterwards there was a low rumble that got louder and Pit looked in horror as a wave of Toads crashed against the wall at the end of the corridor, they were climbing over each-other on all fours, all of them yelling that dreaded "HEY!". By reflex Pit shot and arrow of light at the approaching Toads and knocked back five on the bottom row, but they were simply climbed over and more spores released; they rose up like a wave above him, cloaking the area in more shadow and Pit braced himself, ready to strike when he suddenly felt a tug on the back of his shirt and was overcome by a wave of panic, letting out a sudden scream but then as he was dragged back he saw multiple bombs fly past him and explode into a wall of fire, knocking back the Toad tsunami and himself. He was slammed to the ground and watched as the fire parted around him and the cover provided, he looked to see Link crouched with him and his shield in front of them.
"Link!" Pit said happily.
"Good to see you're okay Pit, stay back." Link replied standing up after the flames had gone.
The wave of Toads was advancing towards them once more and Link ran forwards, swinging the Master Sword and knocking back the wave a little before darting back and tugging Pit along.
"Come on move it!" He yelled as they started to dart away.
They continued to run through the corridors, the wave was far behind them at this point and things were going well but the Toads on the walls continued to yell and signal their location, suddenly Link stopped as he felt something grab him, he looked down to see a single arm stretch out from the floor and grab his leg; he groaned as he tried to pull away and from the green moss half a Toad's face grew. He managed to shake free but from out the wall, just out of sight, a red Toad dived out the moss towards them; there was a loud thud as it was suddenly sent flying and Ike landed after performing a quick-draw.
"Good, you found Pit. Let's just get back to the base." He said.
The three nodded and arrived at the cafeteria, slamming the doors behind them and barricading it. Pit looked around to see most of the fighters gathered in the room, all of them were bruised a little and watching the exits carefully.
"What's going on?" Pit asked.
"We're having a Toad infection it seems." Ike chuckled.
"Ike be serious, we don't have time to joke around now." Link barked.
"Fine, it appears Toad, the original one, has been spreading spores and overrun the place." Ike explained, "We've managed to get some of the fighters as you can see yet, a lot of the place is impossible to get to, there are walls of spores and waves of Toads roaming about."
"That's...Terrifying." Pit said.
"Yeah, and no matter what we do we can't destroy them or their spores." Link said.
"That's why we have to go after the original." Marth said, walking over to them.
"The original?" Pit asked.
"You mean Peach's Toad, how are we going to find him?" Link added.
"We managed to get some access to some cameras with Snake's tech and we found him sitting in the centre arena on a spore throne." Marth answered.
"Heh, sitting on a throne of spores...He's treating this like a party, Toad's actually a fun-guy." Ike replied, a smile growing on his face.
Marth slapped him.
"I won't allow it." Ganondorf said authoritatively.
"Come on Ganon, we can't just wait here all night. We need to attack the source." Link argued.
"It's too dangerous, it's better we wait for Mario to wake up and scorch them all." Ganon replied.
"By morning the spores may have spread too far, it a wall blocks his door there's no way he can get out!"
"And if we let you go we could have casualties on our hands!" Ganon yelled.
"I can reincarnate, it'll be okay!" Link continued.
"And you want to try this alone?" Ganon asked.
"Yes."
"Idiocy, Link you should know better than that."
"Well it's worth a shot rather than leave it to chance." Link yelled.
The fighters watched the two argue and fight about what to do when Pit stood forwards.
"Well I'm an angel so I can't die, I could go too. I'm prepared now." He said bravely.
"Pit, not you too." Ganon groaned.
"Ike and I will go too, we've faced tougher than this." Marth stated.
Ganon looked at the group assembled before him and sighed.
"Fine, I'll allow it. But Marth and Ike, if Pit and Link are to fall then you are to retreat immediately." Ganon said.
"Agreed." Ike replied.
The four quickly burst out of the cafeteria and into the corridor as the Toad alarm went off, the rumbling got closer. They charged through the halls quickly, beating back any Toads that leapt out the wall and any hands that reached out for them; it was the the Toad tsunami was directly ahead of them, Pit and Ike dived forwards, spinning his arrow-blades and Ike created a wall of blue fire.
"Marth, Link, keep going!" Ike yelled.
The two boys nodded and leapt on top of the tsunami, running along the heads of all the Toads. After continued running the two burst into the main area and it was an amazing sight. The centre stage was covered in the green gunk, the seats in the arena had splodges of green as did he walls; multiple arms and half-formed Toads hung out limply and it the very centre on the throne of spores was Toad, smiling to himself.
"Toad, surrender yourself now or we will defeat you!" Link yelled.
"I'M THE BEST!" Toad yelled back, raising his arm.
The Toads in he walls became active and started to leap out of the gunk and more started to form. Two waves of Toad crashed into each-other in an attempt to hit the two but they leapt forwards and headed towards the centre stage, both thrust their blades ahead of them but a wall of Toads rose up out the ground from the spores on the stage and blocked the attacks; the fighters leapt back before they could get hit with spores. These Toads were different to the others as they were clones of the original Toad, and had patches of spores were the red dots were. As the two landed on the spore covered stage four half-Toads rose up and grabbed their legs and from the spore patches on their heads another two half-Toads formed and grabbed their arms. Toad laughed to himself and threw his arm up in the air.
"TOAD ROCKET!" He yelled.
Marth managed to break free and roll out of the way but Link wasn't as fortunate; as a large stream of Toads shot out of the ground and dragged him into the air and smashed him into a wall and didn't stop.
"Link!" Marth yelled as he stared at the continuous stream of Toads.
He didn't have time to help and fully-formed Toads leapt out the ground at him, he spun around and sliced through them all cleanly and as they exploded into spores he rolled out of the way. 'These aren't like the others, these clones are just made from spores' Marth tought and he looked up at the throne, Toad was gone. He quickly noticed a lump in the spores below and leaned back as Toad leapt up with an upper-cut, just missing, with his arms covered in spores.
"You're not much of a fighter!" Marth said as he thrusts his blade at him.
Out of Toad's spore arms a shield of arms forms which stops the blade in it's tracks and gets stuck; Marth tries to pull back but Toad opened to palm of his other hand and multiple arms with clenched fists and punching wild came out from it.
"TOAD TOAD GATLING!" Toad yelled.
The multiple impacts sent Marth off the stage however he kicked off the walls of the arena and leapt towards the stage, slicing forwards however Toad sank into the spore ground and rose up into the throne once more.
"You're ripping off One Piece there." Marth said.
"HELLO!" Toad yelled once more.
Toad opened his palm once more and from it shot a long chain of arms with a fist at the end which headed towards Marth.
"TOAD TOAD PISTOL!"
Marth easily dodged around the attack and advanced at Toad once more, Toad leapt forward and from his fingertips formed ten half-Toads. He threw his arms forwards at Marth.
"TOAD TOAD BAZOOKA!" Toad yelled.
Marth took a counter stance and shredded through the Toad clones before going into a forwards smash and slicing at Toad directly; the mushroom person fell back and sunk into the ground before appearing on his throne once more now looking angry. He rose his arm and out of the ground shot another stream of Toads, Marth dodged around them but then another steam rose which he barely dodged that time. He was ducking and weaving around the multiple streams of Toads rising from the ground, dancing around them and blocking some punches that lashed out every now and again. Toad smirked as two arms rose from the ground slowly and then grabbed Marth's legs, tripping him up and then more arms restrained Marth's arms. The prince struggled to no avail, Toad rose up from his throne and clenched his fist. A shadow swallowed Marth as he looked up to see a gigantic fist made up from Toad clones form above him.
"TOAD TOAD GIANT PISTOL!" Toad yelled as he threw the fist forwards.
Marth braced himself but then there was nothing and the restraints on him quickly pulled back into the ground; he stood up quickly to see Toad stood there frozen as the entire Master Sword stabbed through his head downwards and into the ground, Link could be seen squatting behind Toad.
"Yeah way to go Link!" Marth cheered as he headed over, but then he covered his mouth.
Link's legs were completely covered in spores and multiple half-Toad faces peered around, parts of his arms were twisted and half his face was green. There was blood on the floor around him.
"T-TOAD WINS!" Toad yelled one last time before exploding into multiple spores which blew away in the wind.
The spores on the ground started to glow blue and started to blow away in the wind, the Toad body parts followed this pattern and soon the mansion followed. The Toad infection was over.
A couple of days later Pit sat next to an opaque glass wall in the hospital, he could hear the sounds of a video playing on the other side.
"It's time to tip the scales!" Pit heard a voice say, then the sound of the video ending.
"Hey Pit." Link said on the other side of the wall.
"Yeah?" Pit asked.
"I don't like the look of that Robin guy."
-A few days later Link died, Zelda followed shortly after which lead to being reincarnated to the Link and Zelda we know today-
Wow 50 chapters, this isn't even a third of the entire story yet believe it or not. Really Thank you so so much, I honestly appreciate it. You've helped me survive and be happy for months now with your support and reviews, and while we've had some dark times like the month of no updates and the Sam being trans plot point, you're still here reading along with me. Thank you. I'm glad to say we have 20 chapters until the official story starts and ends the world establishing/filler content.
P.S Did any of you get Mewtwo? I did and I adore him, new main OMG
