Here we are dear readers! The final match in Round 2! Please enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I only own Scales and Pi2.
It was getting late in the afternoon. Heinrich had been restrained and forced back into his cage. Wario's body parts were mopped up and sent to the infirmary to be revived. After the audience had recovered from the trauma of Heinrich's attack, Pi2 prepared the stage for the final match of the day. The projectors switched on. In moments, the stage was formed. It was a broken skyscraper, jutting out of a pool of water encompassing the arena. A holographic backdrop was set up, giving the illusion of more water all around, a whole city of broken skyscrapers, and further back, a horrendous monster formed out of water. The roof of the skyscraper was fairly large. There was a helipad, a stairway entrance, and a flagpole. "Our stage for this match is the Station Square Ruins! A perfect match for one of our challengers, the one who destroyed Station Square in the first place, Chaos! Now, in this, the final match of the second round, we will determine once and for all who is the Ultimate Sonic Adventure Boss: Chaos; god of destruction, or Scales; prototype ultimate lifeform. We begin in 3." Chaos slid up the side of the building as a puddle, reforming at the top. "2." Scales warped onto the building with Chaos Control. "1.Go!" Chaos and Scales both took fighting positions. They glared at each other. "You know Scales, I watched your last fight. I thought you were very good." Said Chaos. "Really? Well, I didn't think you did too bad yourself." "Why thank you." He paused. "I am looking forward to fighting you. It would be good to meet an opponent who can truly beat me, aside from Sonic of course." "Of course." Another pause. "You know, of course, I can't let you win." "We'll see if you can stop me. Ready?" "Ready." There was another pause, this one longer than the previous two. Finally, the fighting began. Chaos shot out a tentacle. Scales rolled under it and delivered an uppercut to Chaos. Unfortunately, all that it did was cause her hand to pass through his chin. While this startled her, Chaos knocked her away with a heavy blow. He followed this up by grabbing her with a tentacle, tossing her about in the air, then slamming her onto the rooftop. Scales got to her feet and eyed Chaos, trying to figure out what to do. The god dissolved into a puddle and slid towards her. She jumped over the puddle and ran to the other side of the roof. Chaos reformed and shot a tentacle at her. She dodged the limb and rammed into Chaos with a Chaos Control attack. He deformed into a puddle, slid away, and formed again. He brought all of his body mass together, turning into a ball, and started bouncing towards Scales. Scales spun with her tail whip, trying to knock the ball away. Instead, her tail went right through the water and struck Chaos' brain, stunning him and causing him to temporarily lose coherence. His body destabilized into a pool of water again, and he slid away. He slid up the flagpole and reformed, supposedly safe at the top. He shot out a tentacle from his new vantagepoint, almost hitting Scales. She dodged it and tried to figure out a way to hit Chaos. She jumped onto the staircase entrance, then double-jumped, taking her to the same level as Chaos. As he attempted to hit her with a tentacle, she performed a homing kick, smashing into his brain and causing him to lose his grip on the flagpole and fall to the ground, landing with a big splat. She grabbed onto the flagpole before she could fall and slid down it to the ground. Chaos paused, then raised his arms. His brain started glowing. Scales attempted an attack, but was knocked away by some kind of temporary force field. Chaos lowered his hands, and suddenly transformed! He was now larger, with slightly smaller legs and a thick torso. The long fin-tail thing protruding from the back of his head was gone and now three fins stuck out of his head, two small ones on the sides, one big one sticking from the top. His three-fingered arms were longer and stronger, and his fingers were longer and thinner as well. He actually looked sort of like an ape. His long tail wagged slightly back and forth. He had become Chaos 2, the form he achieves by taking the power from two Chaos Emeralds. (Of course, there weren't any emeralds around him, other than the one powering Scales. Don't ask how he transformed without an emerald, he just did, okay?) Chaos swatted at Scales with one of his strong arms, smashing her into the flagpole. Forming into a ball, Chaos then bounced into her, enveloping her in his body mass. Scales struggled to get out of him, but was held in by Chaos' awesome surface tension. She was running out of air, and had to act fast. She clawed at Chaos' brain. He screeched and deformed, freeing Scales. She gasped and took several deep breaths, glad to be back in the fresh air. Chaos slid away and reformed. He shot one of his arms at Scales, grabbing her and pulling her back. While holding Scales in one arm, Chaos pummeled her with the other, hitting hard for something made out of liquid. He finally threw her away and formed into a ball. Before she could be enveloped, Scales jumped out of the way, landing behind Chaos. She immediately hit the ball with her tail whip, striking the brain inside. Chaos shrieked and deformed. Suddenly, he slid right under Scales and reformed right before her, grabbing her before she could move. He started squeezing, trying to crush the life out of her. Scales had only one chance. She lashed out with her long neck, grabbing Chaos' brain in her teeth and ripping it from his body, causing it to immediately lose cohesion. Free, she bit down hard into the brain. It jolted her with static, causing her to drop it. It bounced on the ground and landed in the puddle, rejoining its body before sliding onto the top of the stairwell. Raising his arms, Chaos transformed again! He now looked somewhat like a large shark. He had no legs, but a long, fishy tail. His arms were long, clawed fins. A shark fin rose from his back, two small fins grew out from the sides of his head, and a forward- pointing fin grew from the top of his head. He was now Chaos 4. Since he could no longer really walk or even hop, Chaos actually managed to "swim" through the air towards Scale. Scales was a little uncertain on how to fight Chaos at first, so she thought it might be a good idea to watch for the time being. Chaos swam down to her level and started circling her, much like a real shark did, getting closer and closer. When Chaos was only inches away from striking, Scales kicked him in the head, hitting the brain. Chaos squealed and swam away, turning to face her from the other side of the roof. Chaos suddenly slapped his fins on the ground, generating a red wave. The wave shot towards Scales, knocking her off her feet. Chaos sped over and slashed at her with his claws while she was trying to get up. With a final blow to her jaw, Chaos knocked Scales across the building. As she staggered to her feet, Chaos slapped the ground again, making another red wave. She quickly jumped over the attack and performed a homing kick, hitting his brain. This time, Chaos destabilized into multiple tiny bubbles, which bombarded Scales as she landed, stinging like bees. She tried to shake them away, and eventually they flew off, reforming into Chaos. Swimming higher up, above the flagpole, Chaos looked down at Scales and fired his powerful Chaos Beam. She managed to avoid the attack, hiding behind the stairwell, out of Chaos' line of sight. As the deity started swimming over for a better vantagepoint, Scales leapt onto the stairwell and performed her Serpent Strike, hitting her opponent with a powerful blast of Chaos energy. Chaos wailed and destabilized, falling to the ground. When he reformed, he raised his fins over his head, and made another transformation! He was big. Really big. Really, really big. He was twice Scales' size, a horrendous beast. He had a big, blobbish body with six legs, four of which were skinny and stubby, the other two of which were long and looked kind of insectoid, with bent back knees. A pointy fin rose from the top of Chaos, near the front. A long tail grew from the back. Another tail grew out of Chaos' back, long and flexing, with a nasty-looking point at the end, like the tail of a scorpion. He had eight eyes, six tiny beads ringing the top of his mouth and his two normal big ones, one on top of the other. He had a mouth in this form, a big one with pointy teeth. The new creature growled. He was now Chaos 6. Chaos lunged at Scales. She jumped out of his way and fired a Serpent Strike. It fizzled out when contacting with Chaos' body. This wasn't good. Chaos turned around and lunged again. Scales jumped out of his way again, and leaped onto the stairwell entrance. It didn't look like Chaos' new form had much in the way of jumping ability. And his mass was too big to just deform into a puddle and slide up the stairwell entrance then reform again. She would hopefully be safe up there. That's when Chaos shot out his scorpion tail, knocking Scales off the structure and onto the ground. Chaos surprised Scales by actually jumping into the air, trying to slam down on her. She rolled out of the way, barely avoiding the crushing fall. Scales tried to hit him with a homing kick, but was deflected by Chaos' surface tension. He now seemed too strong to hit normally. Chaos lunged at her again, and she started running in circles around him. Chaos tried to follow her, but was too slow turning around. He started getting dizzy. Finally, he stopped spinning, got angry, and fired out a Chaos Beam. Scales accidentally ran into it, taking damage. Chaos lunged at Scales, slamming her into the stair entrance. As she got up, Chaos opened his mouth and started a powerful vacuum, sucking Scales towards him. Scales grabbed onto the edge of the stairway roof, trying to resist the pull, but she was losing her grip. Scales looked over her shoulder, into the sucking mouth of Chaos, and suddenly noticed Chaos' brain was near the mouth. She got as brilliant idea. She let go of the edge, hurtling towards Chaos. Before she reached the mouth, she performed her Chaos Control attack. She sped right into Chaos' mouth, smashing into his brain and coming out the other side. Chaos screamed and destabilized. When he reformed, Scales used Chaos Control again, smashing into Chaos and hitting his brain. Chaos destabilized into his puddle form and tried to stay a puddle, sliding around to avoid his opponent. When he stopped, Scales ran onto the puddle, but it was too late when she realized her mistake. Chaos reformed around her swallowing up the lizard. As she struggled, losing air quickly, she frantically looked for the brain. She swam over to it, but it quickly darted away. She didn't have time for games! Instead of trying to chase the brain all around Chaos' innards, Scales fired a Serpent Strike. The green snake struck Chaos' brain, and he destabilized, releasing Scales. She took on the air eagerly, and as Chaos' puddle slid away, she wondered what would happen next. The puddle actually slid off the edge of the building, down the side, and into the water. There was confusion, both in the stage and out. Was this it? Has Chaos just quit? That's when some of the water around the building started to swell. With an incredible eruption of water, something emerged from the sea. Something looking exactly like the monster in the background. It was enormous, towering over the skyscraper. Starting from the waterline, a cone of water rose up, a sort of body. Two tendrils of water came from the sides. The cone got narrower and narrower, until the point became a long, craning neck. An internal water funnel of sorts spiraled from the surface of water inside of the beats, going up the cone and neck. At the end of the neck was the giant head, a long crocodile-like mouth, filled with sharp teeth. Fins came from the sides and top of the head as usual. The eyes were small, yellow and slitted like a lizard's, not just blank green orbs. The eyes were, oddly enough, near the point of the monster's snout, close to where the nose holes would be if it had a nose. The pink brain was near the back of the head, now about the size of a Buick. It was Chaos' true form, the monster known as Perfect Chaos. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a minute! How can he do that?" asked Pi2. "Um, do what sir?" asked one of the Goomba technicians. "How could he use the water to form that body? It's a holographic! It's not even reinforced with force fields to make it wet! How the hell did he form a body like that out of holographic water?" asked Pi2. "I don't know sir, but do you want to tell that thing what he can and can't do?" asked a Koopa. ".Good point. Let's just leave it, then." Scales looked up at Chaos, distraught. How the @$%#&^ am I supposed to fight this thing?!? Chaos roared and raised one of his tentacles. Scales immediately dashed to the other side of the building as Chaos brought the tendril down, smashing through a third of the building, greatly reducing the space Scales had to move in. Chaos roared and raised his other tentacle. Scales fired at the tendril with her Serpent Strike. The Chaos energy struck the tentacle, and actually destabilized it! Scales rejoiced until Chaos simply regrew the tentacle and swiped at her head, barely missing. Chaos opened his large mouth wide. Flames started appearing, and then multiple fireballs spewed out, raining down on Scales. She ran around what was left of the roof, trying to dodge the falling fireballs. Chaos swiped at her with a tentacle. She quickly ducked, and Chaos smashed the flagpole and staircase entrance off the roof. "Crap." Chaos opened his mouth and started charging his fireball attack again. Remembering how she had beat Chaos' last form, Scales got a brilliant idea. She cupped her hands, aiming for the mouth. "SERPENT STRIKE!" The blast shot from her hands, striking the growing mass of fire in Chaos' mouth. The two energy masses exploded, damaging Chaos' brain. Chaos roared and raised a tentacle. Scale tried to get out of the way as Chaos smashed away another third of the building, leaving her with the helipad and not much else to stand on. Chaos roared again and suddenly a small whirlwind that appeared out of nowhere spun towards Scales. Surprised, she avoided it. He whirlwind didn't go away, but kept slowly coming after her. Chaos started spewing fire while Scales was dodging the tornado, and she was now having a very difficult time avoiding both attacks. As the fireball barrage eventually ended and Chaos started preparing for another one, Scales looked at the tornado and suddenly recalled that in the first Super Smash Brothers game, the Hyrule Castle stage had a whirlwind that catapulted anyone who fell into it into the air. Perhaps this one worked the same? She ran into the whirlwind. It launched her high into the air. See saw Chaos was almost done with his charging. She quickly charged her own attack. "SERPENT STRIKE!" The attack streaked towards Chaos, exploding in the god's mouth and damaging his brain. Chaos screeched, raised his tentacle, then paused. He lowered the tentacle and started grinning. Scales didn't like the looks of that grin. Chaos dipped his head and opened his mouth, doing it at a downward angle so Scales couldn't shoot into his toothy maw. Lights started collecting together inside Chaos' mouth, performing a pulsating mass of energy. Chaos released the energy in the form of an incredibly powerful Chaos Beam, striking and destroying the building's foundations. Scales gasped as the skyscraper shook and started sinking. She glared at Chaos as the building lowered, knowing she could not hit his brain as long as his mouth was closed. Then she remembered Sonic's account of how he had defeated Chaos as Super Sonic, and found her way of achieving her final victory. She stood stock still as Chaos watched and the building sunk, charging her attack. She began to glow. The attack was charged, but she should not unleash it just yet. She had to do it at exactly the right time, or she would lose. When the roof was almost level with the water's surface, she unleashed the Lightspeed Attack. Since most people can't see objects moving at light speed, all they would have seen is a flash and some other things following. But here is what happened: At light speed, Scales ran across the water's surface, moving too fast to fall in. She picked up enough momentum to ram into the base of Chaos' body, actually run up the water funnel inside of him, smashing into his brain and exploding out of his mouth. As she exploded from the mouth, she came out f light speed, falling like a rock. Chaos screamed in pain and destabilized, vanishing beneath the water's surface. The stage flickered and vanished. The gravity catchers turned on, and Scales was carefully and safely lowered to the ground. On the floor, Chaos moaned and stood up, holding his head. As the crowd went wild, Scales walked over to the deity and extended a hand. "Nice battle." He hesitated, then took her hand and shook it. "You too. Shall we go inside?" "Let's." They walked out of the arena, side by side. The crowd's cheers echoed through their minds for some time afterwards.
And it's over! The second round, that is. The next chapter or two will be another break, followed by the beginning of the third round, where the heat will pick up. Keep on reading, and don't forget to leave a review! Next time: In part one of the second break, the Smashers relax. Most of them, anyway. Mewtwo is in the ward, watched over by a depressed Mew. Majora is berated a bit by his "master" and locked up for the time being. Majora plots to himself. Wario gets some encouragement from his brother. Bowser reminisces, and his reasons for entering the tournament are revealed. Chaos talks to Tikal, his reasons for entering the tournament are revealed, and he doesn't feel so bad about losing. Ganondorf has a violent run-in with Link, Zelda, and the Sages. As for Scales.well, you'll have t find out what happens with her and the Sonic team in the second part of the break, won't you? All of this and maybe more on the next.Super Smash Bosses!
It was getting late in the afternoon. Heinrich had been restrained and forced back into his cage. Wario's body parts were mopped up and sent to the infirmary to be revived. After the audience had recovered from the trauma of Heinrich's attack, Pi2 prepared the stage for the final match of the day. The projectors switched on. In moments, the stage was formed. It was a broken skyscraper, jutting out of a pool of water encompassing the arena. A holographic backdrop was set up, giving the illusion of more water all around, a whole city of broken skyscrapers, and further back, a horrendous monster formed out of water. The roof of the skyscraper was fairly large. There was a helipad, a stairway entrance, and a flagpole. "Our stage for this match is the Station Square Ruins! A perfect match for one of our challengers, the one who destroyed Station Square in the first place, Chaos! Now, in this, the final match of the second round, we will determine once and for all who is the Ultimate Sonic Adventure Boss: Chaos; god of destruction, or Scales; prototype ultimate lifeform. We begin in 3." Chaos slid up the side of the building as a puddle, reforming at the top. "2." Scales warped onto the building with Chaos Control. "1.Go!" Chaos and Scales both took fighting positions. They glared at each other. "You know Scales, I watched your last fight. I thought you were very good." Said Chaos. "Really? Well, I didn't think you did too bad yourself." "Why thank you." He paused. "I am looking forward to fighting you. It would be good to meet an opponent who can truly beat me, aside from Sonic of course." "Of course." Another pause. "You know, of course, I can't let you win." "We'll see if you can stop me. Ready?" "Ready." There was another pause, this one longer than the previous two. Finally, the fighting began. Chaos shot out a tentacle. Scales rolled under it and delivered an uppercut to Chaos. Unfortunately, all that it did was cause her hand to pass through his chin. While this startled her, Chaos knocked her away with a heavy blow. He followed this up by grabbing her with a tentacle, tossing her about in the air, then slamming her onto the rooftop. Scales got to her feet and eyed Chaos, trying to figure out what to do. The god dissolved into a puddle and slid towards her. She jumped over the puddle and ran to the other side of the roof. Chaos reformed and shot a tentacle at her. She dodged the limb and rammed into Chaos with a Chaos Control attack. He deformed into a puddle, slid away, and formed again. He brought all of his body mass together, turning into a ball, and started bouncing towards Scales. Scales spun with her tail whip, trying to knock the ball away. Instead, her tail went right through the water and struck Chaos' brain, stunning him and causing him to temporarily lose coherence. His body destabilized into a pool of water again, and he slid away. He slid up the flagpole and reformed, supposedly safe at the top. He shot out a tentacle from his new vantagepoint, almost hitting Scales. She dodged it and tried to figure out a way to hit Chaos. She jumped onto the staircase entrance, then double-jumped, taking her to the same level as Chaos. As he attempted to hit her with a tentacle, she performed a homing kick, smashing into his brain and causing him to lose his grip on the flagpole and fall to the ground, landing with a big splat. She grabbed onto the flagpole before she could fall and slid down it to the ground. Chaos paused, then raised his arms. His brain started glowing. Scales attempted an attack, but was knocked away by some kind of temporary force field. Chaos lowered his hands, and suddenly transformed! He was now larger, with slightly smaller legs and a thick torso. The long fin-tail thing protruding from the back of his head was gone and now three fins stuck out of his head, two small ones on the sides, one big one sticking from the top. His three-fingered arms were longer and stronger, and his fingers were longer and thinner as well. He actually looked sort of like an ape. His long tail wagged slightly back and forth. He had become Chaos 2, the form he achieves by taking the power from two Chaos Emeralds. (Of course, there weren't any emeralds around him, other than the one powering Scales. Don't ask how he transformed without an emerald, he just did, okay?) Chaos swatted at Scales with one of his strong arms, smashing her into the flagpole. Forming into a ball, Chaos then bounced into her, enveloping her in his body mass. Scales struggled to get out of him, but was held in by Chaos' awesome surface tension. She was running out of air, and had to act fast. She clawed at Chaos' brain. He screeched and deformed, freeing Scales. She gasped and took several deep breaths, glad to be back in the fresh air. Chaos slid away and reformed. He shot one of his arms at Scales, grabbing her and pulling her back. While holding Scales in one arm, Chaos pummeled her with the other, hitting hard for something made out of liquid. He finally threw her away and formed into a ball. Before she could be enveloped, Scales jumped out of the way, landing behind Chaos. She immediately hit the ball with her tail whip, striking the brain inside. Chaos shrieked and deformed. Suddenly, he slid right under Scales and reformed right before her, grabbing her before she could move. He started squeezing, trying to crush the life out of her. Scales had only one chance. She lashed out with her long neck, grabbing Chaos' brain in her teeth and ripping it from his body, causing it to immediately lose cohesion. Free, she bit down hard into the brain. It jolted her with static, causing her to drop it. It bounced on the ground and landed in the puddle, rejoining its body before sliding onto the top of the stairwell. Raising his arms, Chaos transformed again! He now looked somewhat like a large shark. He had no legs, but a long, fishy tail. His arms were long, clawed fins. A shark fin rose from his back, two small fins grew out from the sides of his head, and a forward- pointing fin grew from the top of his head. He was now Chaos 4. Since he could no longer really walk or even hop, Chaos actually managed to "swim" through the air towards Scale. Scales was a little uncertain on how to fight Chaos at first, so she thought it might be a good idea to watch for the time being. Chaos swam down to her level and started circling her, much like a real shark did, getting closer and closer. When Chaos was only inches away from striking, Scales kicked him in the head, hitting the brain. Chaos squealed and swam away, turning to face her from the other side of the roof. Chaos suddenly slapped his fins on the ground, generating a red wave. The wave shot towards Scales, knocking her off her feet. Chaos sped over and slashed at her with his claws while she was trying to get up. With a final blow to her jaw, Chaos knocked Scales across the building. As she staggered to her feet, Chaos slapped the ground again, making another red wave. She quickly jumped over the attack and performed a homing kick, hitting his brain. This time, Chaos destabilized into multiple tiny bubbles, which bombarded Scales as she landed, stinging like bees. She tried to shake them away, and eventually they flew off, reforming into Chaos. Swimming higher up, above the flagpole, Chaos looked down at Scales and fired his powerful Chaos Beam. She managed to avoid the attack, hiding behind the stairwell, out of Chaos' line of sight. As the deity started swimming over for a better vantagepoint, Scales leapt onto the stairwell and performed her Serpent Strike, hitting her opponent with a powerful blast of Chaos energy. Chaos wailed and destabilized, falling to the ground. When he reformed, he raised his fins over his head, and made another transformation! He was big. Really big. Really, really big. He was twice Scales' size, a horrendous beast. He had a big, blobbish body with six legs, four of which were skinny and stubby, the other two of which were long and looked kind of insectoid, with bent back knees. A pointy fin rose from the top of Chaos, near the front. A long tail grew from the back. Another tail grew out of Chaos' back, long and flexing, with a nasty-looking point at the end, like the tail of a scorpion. He had eight eyes, six tiny beads ringing the top of his mouth and his two normal big ones, one on top of the other. He had a mouth in this form, a big one with pointy teeth. The new creature growled. He was now Chaos 6. Chaos lunged at Scales. She jumped out of his way and fired a Serpent Strike. It fizzled out when contacting with Chaos' body. This wasn't good. Chaos turned around and lunged again. Scales jumped out of his way again, and leaped onto the stairwell entrance. It didn't look like Chaos' new form had much in the way of jumping ability. And his mass was too big to just deform into a puddle and slide up the stairwell entrance then reform again. She would hopefully be safe up there. That's when Chaos shot out his scorpion tail, knocking Scales off the structure and onto the ground. Chaos surprised Scales by actually jumping into the air, trying to slam down on her. She rolled out of the way, barely avoiding the crushing fall. Scales tried to hit him with a homing kick, but was deflected by Chaos' surface tension. He now seemed too strong to hit normally. Chaos lunged at her again, and she started running in circles around him. Chaos tried to follow her, but was too slow turning around. He started getting dizzy. Finally, he stopped spinning, got angry, and fired out a Chaos Beam. Scales accidentally ran into it, taking damage. Chaos lunged at Scales, slamming her into the stair entrance. As she got up, Chaos opened his mouth and started a powerful vacuum, sucking Scales towards him. Scales grabbed onto the edge of the stairway roof, trying to resist the pull, but she was losing her grip. Scales looked over her shoulder, into the sucking mouth of Chaos, and suddenly noticed Chaos' brain was near the mouth. She got as brilliant idea. She let go of the edge, hurtling towards Chaos. Before she reached the mouth, she performed her Chaos Control attack. She sped right into Chaos' mouth, smashing into his brain and coming out the other side. Chaos screamed and destabilized. When he reformed, Scales used Chaos Control again, smashing into Chaos and hitting his brain. Chaos destabilized into his puddle form and tried to stay a puddle, sliding around to avoid his opponent. When he stopped, Scales ran onto the puddle, but it was too late when she realized her mistake. Chaos reformed around her swallowing up the lizard. As she struggled, losing air quickly, she frantically looked for the brain. She swam over to it, but it quickly darted away. She didn't have time for games! Instead of trying to chase the brain all around Chaos' innards, Scales fired a Serpent Strike. The green snake struck Chaos' brain, and he destabilized, releasing Scales. She took on the air eagerly, and as Chaos' puddle slid away, she wondered what would happen next. The puddle actually slid off the edge of the building, down the side, and into the water. There was confusion, both in the stage and out. Was this it? Has Chaos just quit? That's when some of the water around the building started to swell. With an incredible eruption of water, something emerged from the sea. Something looking exactly like the monster in the background. It was enormous, towering over the skyscraper. Starting from the waterline, a cone of water rose up, a sort of body. Two tendrils of water came from the sides. The cone got narrower and narrower, until the point became a long, craning neck. An internal water funnel of sorts spiraled from the surface of water inside of the beats, going up the cone and neck. At the end of the neck was the giant head, a long crocodile-like mouth, filled with sharp teeth. Fins came from the sides and top of the head as usual. The eyes were small, yellow and slitted like a lizard's, not just blank green orbs. The eyes were, oddly enough, near the point of the monster's snout, close to where the nose holes would be if it had a nose. The pink brain was near the back of the head, now about the size of a Buick. It was Chaos' true form, the monster known as Perfect Chaos. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait a minute! How can he do that?" asked Pi2. "Um, do what sir?" asked one of the Goomba technicians. "How could he use the water to form that body? It's a holographic! It's not even reinforced with force fields to make it wet! How the hell did he form a body like that out of holographic water?" asked Pi2. "I don't know sir, but do you want to tell that thing what he can and can't do?" asked a Koopa. ".Good point. Let's just leave it, then." Scales looked up at Chaos, distraught. How the @$%#&^ am I supposed to fight this thing?!? Chaos roared and raised one of his tentacles. Scales immediately dashed to the other side of the building as Chaos brought the tendril down, smashing through a third of the building, greatly reducing the space Scales had to move in. Chaos roared and raised his other tentacle. Scales fired at the tendril with her Serpent Strike. The Chaos energy struck the tentacle, and actually destabilized it! Scales rejoiced until Chaos simply regrew the tentacle and swiped at her head, barely missing. Chaos opened his large mouth wide. Flames started appearing, and then multiple fireballs spewed out, raining down on Scales. She ran around what was left of the roof, trying to dodge the falling fireballs. Chaos swiped at her with a tentacle. She quickly ducked, and Chaos smashed the flagpole and staircase entrance off the roof. "Crap." Chaos opened his mouth and started charging his fireball attack again. Remembering how she had beat Chaos' last form, Scales got a brilliant idea. She cupped her hands, aiming for the mouth. "SERPENT STRIKE!" The blast shot from her hands, striking the growing mass of fire in Chaos' mouth. The two energy masses exploded, damaging Chaos' brain. Chaos roared and raised a tentacle. Scale tried to get out of the way as Chaos smashed away another third of the building, leaving her with the helipad and not much else to stand on. Chaos roared again and suddenly a small whirlwind that appeared out of nowhere spun towards Scales. Surprised, she avoided it. He whirlwind didn't go away, but kept slowly coming after her. Chaos started spewing fire while Scales was dodging the tornado, and she was now having a very difficult time avoiding both attacks. As the fireball barrage eventually ended and Chaos started preparing for another one, Scales looked at the tornado and suddenly recalled that in the first Super Smash Brothers game, the Hyrule Castle stage had a whirlwind that catapulted anyone who fell into it into the air. Perhaps this one worked the same? She ran into the whirlwind. It launched her high into the air. See saw Chaos was almost done with his charging. She quickly charged her own attack. "SERPENT STRIKE!" The attack streaked towards Chaos, exploding in the god's mouth and damaging his brain. Chaos screeched, raised his tentacle, then paused. He lowered the tentacle and started grinning. Scales didn't like the looks of that grin. Chaos dipped his head and opened his mouth, doing it at a downward angle so Scales couldn't shoot into his toothy maw. Lights started collecting together inside Chaos' mouth, performing a pulsating mass of energy. Chaos released the energy in the form of an incredibly powerful Chaos Beam, striking and destroying the building's foundations. Scales gasped as the skyscraper shook and started sinking. She glared at Chaos as the building lowered, knowing she could not hit his brain as long as his mouth was closed. Then she remembered Sonic's account of how he had defeated Chaos as Super Sonic, and found her way of achieving her final victory. She stood stock still as Chaos watched and the building sunk, charging her attack. She began to glow. The attack was charged, but she should not unleash it just yet. She had to do it at exactly the right time, or she would lose. When the roof was almost level with the water's surface, she unleashed the Lightspeed Attack. Since most people can't see objects moving at light speed, all they would have seen is a flash and some other things following. But here is what happened: At light speed, Scales ran across the water's surface, moving too fast to fall in. She picked up enough momentum to ram into the base of Chaos' body, actually run up the water funnel inside of him, smashing into his brain and exploding out of his mouth. As she exploded from the mouth, she came out f light speed, falling like a rock. Chaos screamed in pain and destabilized, vanishing beneath the water's surface. The stage flickered and vanished. The gravity catchers turned on, and Scales was carefully and safely lowered to the ground. On the floor, Chaos moaned and stood up, holding his head. As the crowd went wild, Scales walked over to the deity and extended a hand. "Nice battle." He hesitated, then took her hand and shook it. "You too. Shall we go inside?" "Let's." They walked out of the arena, side by side. The crowd's cheers echoed through their minds for some time afterwards.
And it's over! The second round, that is. The next chapter or two will be another break, followed by the beginning of the third round, where the heat will pick up. Keep on reading, and don't forget to leave a review! Next time: In part one of the second break, the Smashers relax. Most of them, anyway. Mewtwo is in the ward, watched over by a depressed Mew. Majora is berated a bit by his "master" and locked up for the time being. Majora plots to himself. Wario gets some encouragement from his brother. Bowser reminisces, and his reasons for entering the tournament are revealed. Chaos talks to Tikal, his reasons for entering the tournament are revealed, and he doesn't feel so bad about losing. Ganondorf has a violent run-in with Link, Zelda, and the Sages. As for Scales.well, you'll have t find out what happens with her and the Sonic team in the second part of the break, won't you? All of this and maybe more on the next.Super Smash Bosses!