Random Pointless Rambling: I'm very excited about Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, even though I won't be able to play it due to not owning a Playstation 3 and Xbox360...

Chapter 48
The True Form that Cannot be Grasped


"Hiya!" Duster shouted as he landed the flying kick into the side of a hippopotamus's head.

KICK!

"PSI Fire!" Kumtora shouted as she fired a spark at the hippo's face. The spark exploded in a burst of fire that caused the hippo to take a step back.

BANG!

When the explosion had cleared, the hippo's face was charred, and then it fell on its side with a thud.

THUD!

"That's that!" Kumatora said while dusting her hand. "All right, let's keep on going!"

Nitori walked up to the fallen hippo and said, "While the concept of a hippo that can open its back to launch missiles is cool, I still think that it is cruel to turn an innocent animal into a partly mechanical being like this."

"That's Porky for you. His messed up mind makes he turn every innocent living thing possible into monstrosities of his liking!"

"We have to stop him before he goes too far with this!" Reisen said.

"Then let's go!" Duster said as he led the way out of the room and up a flight of stairs.

After going up the winding staircase, they emerged into a hallway and encountered Lucas's group. "Lucas!" Duster said in surprise.

"Duster and Kumatora!" Lucas said.

"What are you doing here?" Reimu asked.

"Well, it's easy to see that they somehow met up with us-ze!" Marisa said.

"Right, it's for the best if we can reunite with each other," Sanae said.

"All right, now that we are together again, let us go and fight Porky together!" Kumatora suggested, and so everyone ran down the hallway.

On the other side of the hallway was another flight of stairs, so they ran up it as fast as they could.

DING DONG DING DONG!

"I see that you've managed to meet up with your separated comrades," said the voice of Porky. "Okay, only some of them, but it's still rather surprising."

"Miracles will happen if you believe in them!" Sanae told him.

"Eh, whatever... Not like it's going to make any difference. I'll have to congratulate you for making it this far. My room is just at the top of this flight of stairs."

"Oh really? Then we're very close to teaching a lesson-ze!" Marisa said.

"Yeah right... Like I'm going to let that happen! Why don't you have a bit of exercise before coming up here? Let's see how fast you can run!"

As soon as he said this, the staircase suddenly started to move downwards. "What the!" Reimu said in shock, and then they all ran as they could to prevent getting carried back down. At the bottom of the staircase, a square-shaped hole opened up on the floor as well.

"There's a hole down there!" Reisen gasped.

"Hahahaha! How do you like it?" Porky asked while laughing. "Enjoy the marathon!"

"Like we're going to enjoy this!" Kumatora shouted back.

The heroes and heroines kept on moving their legs as fast as they could to try to get to the top of the staircase. "I... can't... take it... anymore..." Sanae said while panting heavily. "My legs... are tired..." When she could it no longer, she fell and was taken down the staircase.

Unfortunately, she bumped into Nitori and Reisen along the way and so pushed them down as well. "YAAAAAAAAAA!" the three girls screamed as they got carried down the moving staircase until they fell into the hole.

"Sanae! Nitori! Reisen!" Reimu shouted while looking back.

"Just keeping running upwards for now!" Marisa shouted. "We don't have time to care about them!"

"But what if there are traps down there?" Lucas asked. "They may need our help!"

"Don't worry," said the voice of Porky. "There's nothing down. They'll only fall down to the next floor and then so on, that's all."

"Are you saying that they're going to fall through more than just one floor?"

"Yeah, exactly like that. I'm not sure if they'll fall all the way back to the first floor though. It's gonna hurt a lot if they do go all the way back to the first floor though, but it'll be very funny at the same time!"

"You're one sick freak!" Kumatora shouted.

The remaining heroes and heroines continued to run as they could, and as they ran, they were slowly reaching the top of the staircase. When the top was in reach, Reimu and Marisa both leaped for it and grabbed onto the floor before slowly pulling themselves up. They then turned around and reached out their hands to pull up the others one by one. "Phew... That was tiring... My legs almost fell apart..." Lucas said while panting heavily. "Thanks..."

"We really owe you one..." Duster said.

The staircase then stopped moving. "That was boring..." grumbled Porky's voice. "I was hoping that you would all fall into the hole. Eh, whatever... It's not like you can make it into my room that easily."

"Just you wait!" Kumatora angrily shouted while pointing at the ceiling. "We're going to make it there before you know it! You better be prepared by then!"

"Ooh! I'm so scared! All right, let's see if you can really make it here!"

DONG DING DONG DING

"Geez! I want beat up that guy already!" Kumatora grumbled.

"Yeah, he's starting to sound like an annoying fellow-ze," Marisa said with a nod.

"But what about Reisen, Sanae, and Nitori?" Lucas said while looking at the hole at the bottom of the staircase, but the hole closed up shortly afterwrds. "Uh oh... It closed up as well..."

"Porky said that they'll simply fall to the lower floors," Duster reminded him, "so they should be all right."

"They won't be taken out so easily," Reimu assured Lucas. "You don't have to worry about them."

"All right, if you say so... Let's pray for their safety..."


"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" screamed Reisen, Nitori, and Sanae as they fell out from an opening on the ceiling, but there was another hole on the floor below them, so they continued falling to the next floor.

Nitori quickly used one of her mechanical arms to grab onto the edge of the floor before she fell too far and then pulled herself back up. She turned around to the hole to look at Sanae and Reisen, but the hole suddenly closed up before she could do anything to help them. "Oh no!" she gasped. She then pounded that part of the floor. "Sanae! Reisen! Can you hear me? Hello? Answer me!" But there was no reply at all. "Oh no... I'm separated from them. I hope they're all right though..."

She then stood up and looked around the place. "Where am I anyway? This should be one of the lower floors..." And then she noticed a door at the far end of the room. "I'll just explore this floor then." So she went up to the door.

In the next room, she saw a seashell-shaped house built in the center. Out of curiosity, she walked up to the seashell-shaped house and knocked on its door. "Hello? Is anyone home?" she asked, but there was no reply. "Should I go inside? But it's not nice going in without the permission of the owner... Nah, better not be so curious..."

When she turned to leave the place, a door leading into the room opened up and Fassad came in. "Hey! What are you doing in front of my house?" he asked.

"You're that fat guy who showed up at the village!" Nitori pointed out. "What are you doing here?"

"You're the one who should be answering me instead! How dare you come to my house without my permission!"

"But I never went inside!"

"Who cares? For coming here, you will have to pay! And by the way, I'm sure that you gave me a slamming of a lifetime back in the village. This is my chance to get back at you! Nwehehehehe!"

"Oh yeah? I should get back at you for causing trouble back in the village too!" Nitori said as she got into fighting stance. "I'm not going to lose to you!"


Meanwhile, Sanae and Reisen finally hit the floor after falling for a while.

THUD! THUD!

"Ow... What a fall..." Reisen groaned as she sat back up.

"It's a miracle that we still alive even after a fall like that..." Sanae said. "My bones still hurt though..."

The girls look up to look at the hole on the ceiling, but it closed up shortly afterwards. "Even if we can fly, we can't back to the top anymore..." Reisen said. "Looks like we'll have to find another way back to the top..."

"Hope there's an elevator around here..." Sanae said. "Even stairs will do."

The girls then went through a door across the room and emerged in a circular room that was empty. They moved forward with awareness, and when they reached the center of the room, the lights suddenly went out. "Hey! Who turned off the lights?" Reisen cried.

Suddenly, red light poured into the room and red grotesque faces showed up on the walls, floor, and ceiling. These red faces started moving around the room while distorting in shape and size constantly, and all the while, a deep, echoing voice could be heard. "So you have the willingness to add this slice of recording into the final version of the sandwich of terror? Fawful understands! Strange sense of humor you have! You make Fawful have chortles! Geeheeheeheehee!" it said.

Freaked out by this, the girls hugged each other tightly and Reisen said in fear, "Wha... What... is... happening...?"

BGM: Cease to Exist (Earthbound)

"Where are we?" Sanae said in fright as the red grotesque faces moved along the walls nonstop.

"Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... I'm h... a... p... py..." said the voice.

As the two girls watched the faces move around the room, bright light suddenly filled the room, blinding them.

"Ugh! My eyes hurt!" Reisen cried.

"Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... I'm h... a... p... py..."

Lights of various colors started flashing within the room over and over in such a way that one would suffer from epilepsy. The two girls could not open their eyes because of this and were in great pain.

"Ya! My eyes hurt!" Sanae cried. "I'm going to go blind at this rate!"

"Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... I'm h... a... p... py..." The voice continued to chant the same phrase over and over again, but as it did, the pitch began to change as well. "Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... I'm h... a... p... py..." Originally a deep voice, it has became a really loud g-major voice.

"Ugh! Even the voice is starting to hurt my ears for some reason!" Reisen cried while pushing down her ears over her head. "We have to stop whatever this thing is before it tortures us to death!" And then she fired using one hand at one of the red faces on the wall. However, the energy bullets struck the wall and nothing happened.

"Friends..." said the voice in g-major voice. "Go... b... a... c... k..."

"I don't know what you're trying to say," Sanae said while holding up a paper amulet, "but the fact that you are attacking us means that you are an enemy! You're probably a demon as well, so I must exterminate you!" And then she threw the amulet at a random part of the wall. The amulet exploded, but it did nothing and the red faces continued to move around the wall.

"It hurts, Ness..." said the voice.

"Wait a minute..." Reisen said. "Isn't Ness the name of the person that also joined the Smash Brothers Tournament?"

"Yeah, I think so..." Sanae said as she opened her eyes. Suddenly, there was another bright flash that caused her to shut her eyes. "Ugh!"

The red faces in the room started to speed up as well as becoming even more distorted than before. The voices also changed from low pitch to high pitch constantly, not to mention the volume constantly changing.

"Ugh! This thing is going to annoy us to death!" Reisen shouted as she fired all over the place, hoping to bring down this monstrosity, but her attacks were not doing anything.

Sanae threw a card into the air and shouted, "Daytime Guest Stars!" The card released a bright flash and then rained down energy projectiles in diagonal trajectories, striking the faces that were moving along the floor. Even so, the faces did not suffer any kind of damage.

"Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... I'm h... a... p... py..." the voice said in monstrous voice, and then red lightning bolts rained down all over the place, zapping the girls once again.

ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Both Sanae and Reisen screamed in pain and then fell onto the floor charred.

"It hurts, Ness..." the voice said in deep voice. "It... Ack! *cough* Geez! My throat is in pain chanting all these over and over!"

"Well, you came up with the idea of recreating that alien named Giygas in simulation form, complete with voice acting," said another equally deep voice.

"Yeah, that's what I remember hearing the whole time when he fought Ness and his friends. Boy, what a freaky experience that was... I have to admit that Giygas scared me quite a bit..."

"In the process of recording we are still in," said another voice that sounded just as deep, but then it became monstrous sounding. "For you to say things that are of no importance will only make this simulation of the very past that you have once experienced no longer the same."

"It hurts, Ness..."

"In the process of recording we are still in," said the voice, this time in the kind of voice heard when one inhaled helium. "For you to say things that are of no importance will only make this simulation of the very past that you have once experienced no longer the same."

"Well, then don't install this part of the recording into the final version of the simulation! But if you think of it, it may be funny if they do hear this blooper. Heheheh!"

"Well, you came up with the idea of recreating that alien named Giygas in simulation form, complete with voice acting."

"So you have the willingness to add this slice of recording into the final version of the sandwich of terror? Fawful understands! Strange sense of humor you have! You make Fawful have chortles! Geeheeheeheehee!"

"Hey! I didn't... *beep* Friends... Go... b... a... c... k..."

"Um... What was that just now...?" asked a curious Reisen after hearing series of weird dialogues.

"Simulation...?" Sanae wondered, and then something came to her. "That's it! I know what this thing is now! It's actually!"

Suddenly, a bright flash filled the room, blinding them.

FLASH!

"Yaaa!" Sanae shrieked as she placed her hands over her eyes.

"What is it?" Reisen asked while rubbing her eyes.

"So you have the willingness to add this slice of recording into the final version of the sandwich of terror? Fawful understands! Strange sense of humor you have! You make Fawful have chortles! Geeheeheeheehee!" said the voice in g-major.

"A simulation is basically an imitation of something," Sanae explained. "In the outside world, scientists have invented machines that can make one feel as if he or she is experiencing something real, but as real as it may feel, it's actually fake. What you see and feel are in fact holograms and illusions!"

"Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... Ness... I'm h... a... p... py..."

"Illusions..." Reisen said. "Then maybe I can do something about this..." She closed her eyes for a second, and when opened her eyelids again, her pupils were glowing with red light. Using her glowing eyes, she looked around the room as if scanning the place, and when she looked at the ceiling, she saw something. "There it is!" And then she swung her arm upwards to fire grenade-shaped energy balls. "Mind Sacrifice!" The energy balls struck the ceiling and exploded.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Immediately, the red faces disappeared and the room became pitch black. "Phew... It stopped..." Sanae said while sighing with relief.

"Okay... That was weird..." Reisen said. "Now the room is pitch black... I can't see anything at all..." She took a step forward and kicked something, so she bent down to pick it up. "What's this?"

"Let's get out of this first, shall we?" Sanae said, and then she threw a card into the air. "Night with Overly Bright Guest Stars!" The card released a large amount of white light that brightened the room, thus allowing them to see the door that leads to the exit.

They went over to the door while it was still bright, but found that it was locked, so Sanae stuck a paper amulet onto it. The paper amulet exploded and blasted down the door.

KABOOM!

After that, they went outside and found out what was it that Reisen picked up. It was a circle device with several lights around it, but it now mostly in pieces. "What's this?" Reisen asked.

"This must be the simulation device," Sanae said. "How did you find it anyway?"

"You said that simulation causes people to see illusions, and I have the ability see through illusions; therefore, I was able to see through the simulation and find the source behind it."

"It sure came in handy! Thanks to you, we're no longer within that freaky simulation!"


Lucas's group made their way into a large room where they encountered a large pig-like creature standing on the other side. "It's that thing again!" Duster said in shock.

"But we destroyed it before!" Kumatora said.

"What is it?" Reimu asked.

"That's the Natural Killer Cyborg!" Lucas replied.

DING DONG DING DONG!

"Correct! It's the Natural Killer Cyborg, the NK Cyborg for short!" said Porky's voice. "To be precise, it shouldn't be called a cyborg anymore as it no longer uses an actual brain, but rather, a computer. Still, the name NK Cyborg is stuck, so let's just go with it, okay? Or maybe we can call it the Natural Killer Robot from now on... That doesn't sound so bad! All right, it'll be called the NK Robot from now on!"

"Man... This thing was a pain to deal with back then..." Kumatora grumbled. "I can't believe that we have to fight it again..."

"Oh, you better believe that you have to fight it again! It's been given new upgrades, so expect an even tougher fight! You're not going to come meet me so easily!"

"You're basically a coward who doesn't want to face us-ze!" Marisa said. "Am I right in saying this?"

"Mock me however you want to! I won't get offended! All right, take your time playing with the NK Cyborg! I've given him orders to destroy anyone who comes into the room. Have fun!"

DONG DING DONG DING!

Lucas took a step back while Boney lowered his body slightly while growling angrily at the pig monstrosity. "Be careful... This thing is tough..." Lucas warned everyone. "We better be on our guards, or else..."

Before he could finish talking however, the robot pointed its arms at them and fired several missiles from the center of its claws.

"Watch out!"

Everyone except for Reimu ran away. The shrine maiden held out her arms and shouted, "Cautionary Border!" A blue wall was formed, and it protected her from the missiles.

Immediately after the missiles exploded from hitting the wall, the robot rushed towards Reimu as fast as its crab-like legs could carry it, and then with a swing of its arm, the shrine maiden was knocked to the side really fast.

SMACK!

"UGH!" Reimu cried as she flew straight into both Lucas and Boney, and the force of the hit was so strong that they flew out of the window together.

CRASH!

"LUCAS! BONEY!" Kumatora gasped.

"REIMU!" Marisa gasped.

Kumatora, Duster, and Marisa ran to the window to see what happened to those three, and they were surprised to see Reimu hovering in midair with Lucas holding onto her right leg, and he was also holding Boney by his body using one arm. "What the!" Kumatora said in surprise.

"Reimu! Your flight ability is back!" Marisa said. "Then that means..."

"Yeah, we can fly again," Reimu said with a nod, "but it's not easy trying to stay in air while carrying two people at once..."

Boney barked, so Lucas translated it for Reimu. "Boney said, 'I'm not heavy!'"

Reimu looked at the top of the tower and said, "I'll go to the top floor to find Porky first. Can the three of you deal with that pig thing?"

"Don't worry!" Marisa told her while giving a thumb up. "Leave that swine to us! You go on ahead and fight Porky!"

"All right, I'll be going there first!" Reimu said before flying upwards, carrying along with her Lucas and Boney. "Ugh... It's going to take a while flying and carrying the two of you at the same time..."

"Sorry..." Lucas apologized.

After Reimu, Lucas, and Boney left, Marisa, Kumatora, and Duster turned around to face the NK Robot. "All right! Let's take out this thing together-ze!" Marisa said.

"You bet!" Kumatora said.

"After that, we have to get to the top in order to help Reimu, Lucas, and Boney in their battle against Porky!" Duster said.

BGM: Natural Killer Cyborg (Mother 3)

The robot pointed its arms at Marisa and the others and then fired missiles from center of its claws. Duster and Kumatora ran for their lives from the incoming missiles, but Marisa stood simply moved left and right in a graceful style to avoid the missiles. "You'll have to aim better than that if you want to hit me-ze!" Marisa said. "I've dodged even more intense stuff than this!"

Marisa then ran towards the robot while moving left and right to avoid the incoming missiles. When she was in front of the robot, she performed an uppercut with her magically-enhance broom. "Miasma Sweep!" After hitting the robot in the face, she landed back onto the floor and then leaped back while using the back end of her broom to fire star-shaped projectiles at its face. "Radial Strike!"

The robot was unaffected by the projectiles however. It fired missiles at Marisa again, but with a swing of her magically-enhanced broom, she managed to destroy them.

"PSI Freeze!" Kumatora shouted as she fired a snowflake that exploded upon hitting the NK Robot's face, resulting in the face being covered by a thin layer of frost.

Duster ran up to the robot and landed a flying kick into its nose, and then he flipped back into the air before landing in a crouched position. The robot slammed down its claw at him to hit him, but he quickly leaped to the side and landed next to an indoor plant, and then he kicked the indoor plant at the robot.

"Green Spread!" Marisa shouted as she used a green card to fire a spread of green laser beams that converged just before hitting the robot. The robot turned its attention to Marisa and then fired a pair of eye beams at her, but she jumped out of the way and then used the same move again. "Green Spread... again!"

"PSI Fire!" Kumatora shouted as she shot multiple exploding sparks at the robot. Duster approached the robot from behind to kick in the back as hard as he could while Marisa attacked it with a combination of star-shaped projectiles and laser beams.

The robot, annoyed at being attacked from all sides constantly, made its body rise slightly from its legs using a metal pole, and then its claws turned into machines gun before the body started spinning 360 degrees over and over while firing from its machine gun hands rapidly.

"Watch out!" Duster shouted. All three of them quickly ducked down to avoid getting shot by the bullets.

As the robot continued to fire nonstop but never hitting anybody, Marisa threw a bottle across the floor and underneath the robot's body. "Get away as far as you can!" Marisa shouted as she crawled backwards as fast as she could.

Kumatora and Duster quickly did as she said by crawling away as fast as they could. The NK Robot was still going trigger-happy with its machine gun hands when suddenly the pot exploded in a huge blast of blue light.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The explosion was so strong that the robot was blown into the air, and it left behind a hole on the ceiling before crashing back down onto the floor so hard and left behind a crack on it. The explosion was also so strong that the indoor plants were blown away and Marisa, Kumatora, and Duster were blown back into the wall.

"What was that!" Kumatora said in shock.

"Deep Ecological Bomb," Marisa replied. "Pretty flashy, don't think you-ze?"

Despite this, the NK Robot got back up again and its eyes were glowing with bright yellow light. "Uh oh... Those eyes are telling me that it's going to use that..." Duster said.

"Well, it sure is one hardy pig to still be standing even after getting blasted at such a close range-ze!" Marisa said. "What's it going to do now?"

The robot opened its mouth to reveal a cannon hidden it, and then it stuck out a little bit before releasing light from its turret. "It's going to fire!" Kumatora cried. "Get out of the way!"

When the robot was done charging, it let loose a huge laser beam that sped across the room and towards Marisa. "Yikes!" Marisa cried as she quickly jumped aside in the nick of time.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

The huge laser beam left behind a large hole on the wall, and even the floor was charred despite not getting hit by it. While Marisa did not receive a direct hit from the beam, she was still blown across the room by the sheer force of it. "Ow..." she groaned as she sat back up while dusting herself. "That thing reminds me of my Master Spark... Wait a minute, why don't I use it against him-ze? Boy, I sure become forgetful sometimes!" She took out her hakkero and a card and then got into stance to get ready to use it. "All right, you better get ready for..." Before she could finish talking however, the robot scuttled over to her really fast and delivered a punch to the side of her body really hard. "UGH!" And she shot across the room and flew into the wall.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

"Marisa!" Kumatora gasped. As she was running towards Marisa, the robot turned to her to fire missiles at her. "Yikes!"

"Kumatora, watch out!" Duster shouted as he ran towards her. He quickly swung his leg at the missiles to kick them off course, but he was still hit by another missile that collided into his chest. "GAH!"

BANG!

He was blown back into Kumatora and was badly injured. "Duster! Are you all right?" Kumatora asked him in concern. "I'll heal you! PSI Lifeup!" But while was doing this, the NK Robot approached her from behind and was going to slam down its claw onto her.

"Behind you!" Duster told her.

"Master Spark!" Marisa shouted as she combined her card with the hakkero to fire a huge laser beam at the robot. It struck the NK Robot in the side with such a force that the robot was pushed across the room and towards the wall.

However, the robot managed to turn to face the laser and then slammed its feet into the floor really hard to come to a brake. It then opened its mouth to counter with its own laser beam. Marisa's Master Spark was pushed back and it became a classical scene of a pair of beams pushing back and forth against each other.

"Ngh! He's got a strong beam as well-ze!" Marisa thought as she tried her best to hold up her Master Spark. As she tried to keep up the Master Spark, she started to feel more and more tired, so the NK Robot's beam was overpowering her beam little by little. "Oh no..."

Just when things were looking bad, Duster leaped towards the top of the NK Robot and slammed his leg onto the glass dome there really hard.

SMASH!

This caused the robot to halt its laser beam, and at the same time, Marisa's Master Spark came to its end. "Phew... That was close..." she said as she sat down onto the floor out of exhaustion, "and tiring..."

"PSI Starstorm!" Kumatora shouted as she raised her arms into the air to summon a portal that shot out several meteor-like energy balls. The energy collided into the NK Robot with such a force that the robot was pushed back several steps with each hit, and the energy balls also struck the floor and walls, creating behind massive damage as they did.

CRASH! BANG! BAM! CRASH!

When the energy balls stopped raining down, the room was a mess and the robot had fallen on its back. "How'd you like that?" Kumatora said to the fallen robot.

"Man, you just had to go ahead and use it that move despite knowing the amount of damage that it can cause..." Duster said to her. "Luckily, this tower is a very durable one; otherwise, we would have gone down together with it..."

Marisa ran up to them and said, "You almost got me with that attack earlier! Good thing I managed to dodge every single one of them-ze!"

"Sorry about that... I forget that you were in the way of the attack..." Kumatora apologized to her. "You're good at dodging however."

Suddenly, the NK Robot helped itself back onto its feet again and opened and closed its claws rapidly. "Whoa! That guy's still up and at it-ze!" Marisa said in surprise.

"Ugh... I've used up quite a bit of energy using PSI Starstorm earlier..." Kumatora cried. "I'm running out of power to fight now..."

"I can still fight," Marisa told her. "Leave this to me-ze!"

"I would recommend aiming for the glass dome on its head," Duster told her. "I remember aiming for that spot when we fought the original version of this thing in the past. There shouldn't be any difference just because the brain is replaced with mechanical components."

"Okay, aim for the glass dome on top of its head, right?" Marisa said as she got out her hakkero. "Leave it to me-ze!"

The NK Robot fired a plethora of missiles at Marisa as she ran towards it, and she used her broom to destroy the missiles when they came near her. Marisa then hopped onto her broom and used it to take flight towards the ceiling. The robot fired missiles at her again, so she quickly placed a card in front of her hakkero. "Star Sign: Dragon Meteor!" And then she fired a massive laser beam that destroyed the missiles and went towards the glass dome on the NK Robot's head at the same time.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

The powerful laser beam struck the head of the robot with such a force that it pushed the robot downwards until the floor gave way, so the robot fell through the floor and landed onto the lower floor with a powerful crash.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

Marisa continued to fire the laser beam at the robot until the robot exploded.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The explosion of the NK Robot was so powerful that the floor underneath Kumatora and Duster were also apart, so they fell to the lower floor as well. "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" they screamed.

When the explosion finally settled down, the upper and lower floors were now connected to each other because they were entirely destroyed by the explosion. Debris and pieces of the NK Robot were everywhere while dust floated around the air. Duster and Kumatora got up and dusted themselves. "Whoa... And I thought Kumatora's PSI Starstorm was destructive enough already..." Duster said. "This is even more destructive!"

Marisa floated down on her broom and said, "Sorry for getting the both of you into this mess, but at least I managed to teach that swine a lesson-ze!"


TO BE CONTINUED

In case some of you did not get it yet, the voices heard in the Giygas simulation room are prerecorded voices. Pokey told Fawful not to put in the voices that has nothing to do with Giygas, but Fawful put them in anyway because he misunderstood what he said.

I'm going to church retreat tomorrow and will return on Tuesday to work on this story again.

God bless you all!

Next chapter: Greedy Facade

Trivia:
1. "Cease to Exist" is official name for the popular theme that most people call "Pokey Means Business".