Chapter 7: The price of battle
Dr. Mario The demon virus continued his assault towards Dr. Mario. The virus shot forward in an attempt to corrupt the Doctor. In his defense, he took some scrapes and cuts. The virus was going to get in him if this continued. Parts of him had already entered and it was only a matter of time until the final blow was made. Dr. Mario prepared a pill to destroy the virus a mighty one, he only got one shot and the virus was far too fast. He could dodge the blur, but shooting it? Inconceivable. The virus shot towards Mario, but this time he didn't move. As the virus closed the gap between him leaving the faint hiss of the wind, Mario clutched his lab coat. With a twist of it the virus was turned the opposite direction dazed at where Mario went, for he was going far to fast to understand what happened. As he stood there Mario fired the pill. It hit the demon burning its skin as its coating dissolved. The virus' eyes bulged, his veins popping. He turned to see Mario. He lunged forward but his speed was lessened and his power diminished. Mario flipped above him, finishing him off with a tornado kick splattering the blue remains no the cold swamp sand. The room began to spin again and Mario found himself in a new room. Mario: Giga Bowser let out a powerful roar shaking the very earth, that is if that's where they were still. He swiped his scaly palm towards the plumber, who jumped out of the way. Mario shot a round of fireballs at the creature but Bowser eagerly swallowed them and shot his flaming breath back at Mario. Mario was far too weak to beat Bowser at the moment. An idea flashed through Mario's head. The mushroom! He swallowed it feeling its effects instantly. Its sweet nectar flowed through his veins. Mario's eyes bulged and muscles grew. By the time the Mushroom was finished Mario was as big as Bowser. He drew his fist back and nailed the scaly lizard in the face. He couldn't win with brute force or fire, Bowser still excelled in that area, and was still slightly bigger. Mario bounced off the open forehead landing behind Bowser. He dug his fingers into the soft flesh of the Lizard and begun to launch into his tornado attack. Mario spun around taking Bowser with him. His grip remained tight and when he reached his maximum speed he released flinging the lizard into a large stone wall. A large crack echoed across the area and Bowser lay on the ground a large crack running through his skull and a thick green liquid forming a puddle around it. Mario spun around with a flash he left his friends. Luigi: The ghost flung a fiery other-worldly ball at Luigi. He bounced away and launched into his torpedo attack. His ears pop his skin pressed back, eyes squinting and dripping with water. He crashed into the wall directly behind the ghost, his face twisting in pain. He bounced up to the top of the wall. He concentrated hard his hands covering in a green light. In an instant a vacuum appeared in his hand. He channeled all the green energy into it. Pressing the vacuum on, he shot all his energy towards the ghost. "hahahaha, puny plumber you think your little attacks bother me," laughed the ghost watching the attack hurtle towards him. As the ball made contact, the ghosts eyes bulged. The ball ripped through making a jagged whole in the white ghostly skin. Before the ghost could figure out what was going on, Luigi switched the vacuum back to normal and sucked him in. He began a victory dance, but his boogie was interrupted as the world spun and he found himself somewhere new. Peach: Peach observed her situation, a lunatic with a star wand. What could she do? The star wand was all powerful, how could she beat him. She couldn't, no that's not right. She couldn't beat the star wand. Getting him to let go of the wand was out of the question though. He had to beat himself. She wasn't going to get him to destroy himself by running in circles though. Peach pressed her feet into the dirt and leapt into the air clutching her umbrella. Her descent began, the white trimming of her dress blowing upwards. It stopped slamming her neck forward. Her feat were not in the dirt though, nothing but air was for her to walk on. She floated around dodging the attacks. As she moved to dodge one a star hit the ceiling. Rocks came crashing down. They landed on the dark warrior, but Peach knew it wasn't over. The rocks flew everywhere turning from boulders to coarse gray rubble. "Enough," came a deep voice "You have failed me". Gannondorf stood atop one of the rocks, his eyes icy. "If you want to live, give me the staff and we will find you a job," He demanded. The warrior bowed his head down "Here lord Gannondorf". He held out the wand and Gannondorf's closed his fist around it. As he held it up his brown flesh melted, running down his body. The warrior looked up in horror watching the change his mouth open. Soon Peach was left standing in a puddle of brown ooze, holding up the star wand in triumph. The warrior drew his fist back and prepared to attack, when he was blown into the ever-popular stone wall, with a hole in his chest and a puddle of black acid. Peach made one final shot finishing them job, when she was removed from the scene upon its impact. Yoshi: The chase continued, but now it was reversed as Yoshi fled the adolescent tyrant. Baby Bowser's spikes left cones of air in the soft ground. The crack in Yoshi's shell was building up and soon enough it would break. Think fast Yoshi broke a whole in the shell with his tail and shot out an egg bomb. The dinosaur leapt to his feet to dodge and met Yoshi's tongue when he uncurled. Yoshi swallowed the angry demon releasing him in egg form. Yoshi climbed as high as he could, knowing time was of the essence and lunged down feet first into the hatching egg. Bowser let out a shriek of pain and rolled across the ground clutching his head. As he stumbled to his feet he met with Yoshi's side flying through a nearby tree, only to have on fall on top of him crushing him with its weight. DK: K. Rool continued towards DK. DK grabbed onto a tree jumping from tree to tree. He swung from the vines and jumped across the tops his feet brushing through the thin green leaves. Rool followed along snapping the trees in two. DK stole a glance Mario's battle. He watched as Mario shoved something in his mouth. Soon his flesh was mutating and stretching, his legs much too long. He dove to the next tree just in time. He kept looking back finally seeing Mario dig his hands into Bowser's tail. As Rool swung his tail towards the tree DK jumped down clinging to the Lizards Tail. He used his helicopter attack like he had done a million times before. A brown and green blur blended together stirring up a mighty wind. Leaves and dirt flew through the air. DK's hands began to slip and he thought it best to let go before he got in more danger. When he let go the lizard flew through 5 or 6 trees uprooting them. The Lizard stood up dizzy and confused. "DK MEGA PUNCH," the ape called slamming his brown fur into the scaly flesh of K. Rool. He cried out in pain, dropping down to the ground, blood trickling down his face. Captain Falcon: A flash of silver shot forward towards the powerful racer. Dust and dirt flew up from his pace leaving a trail in the gray dirt. Falcon jumped over the warrior but met with his elbow on the other side. His hands instinctively flew to his face to tend to the broken nose. This however left him open for the oncoming drop kick. His faced slammed into the dirt forcing it up his nostrils and into his mouth. The warrior jumped into the air and prepared to finish Falcon off with his silver fist attack. A silver blur splashed the air and sank into the dirt. He lifted his fist confused, there was no body, no Falcon. A searing pain shot through his back. Falcon withdrew his fist from the silver fighters back and he watched as the warrior stumbled about eventually finding his home in the dirt. Falcon clasped his hands together power surging through his body. As his dark mind crept back the warrior jumped up, revenge in his eyes. He only came up to meet Falcon's Falcon SLAM! The red energy slammed into his head sailing him through the air into the hard bark of a huge tree. He fell to the ground bloody and angry. Captain Falcon was not through though, this was not his normal rival, their races were friendly. This was not him, he concluded. He charged through the dirt leaving the brush aflame. His energy clashed into a silver opposing force. The Captains eyes filled with red as his huge energy filled his view. When it cleared he was not where he started. Falco: Falco pushed himself over Andross landing on his feet and charging towards him arms blurring with an onslaught of punches. His fists skipped across the hard brown flesh leaving nothing a look of horror on Falco's face. "Finished?" asked Andross his lips twisting into a cocky smirk. Andross slowly lifted his arm. Falco Prepared to block crossing his arms across his face. Not one to play fair Andross' hand made its way into the soft feathers around Falco's thigh. As Falco grabbed his thigh releasing a shriek of pain his face met Andross' other hand. His body crumpled sending bits of rubble into the air. His eyes made there way open. He stole a glance at his hands, doused in red, before seeing the ruthless face of Andross making its way towards him. Another attack came, but Falco was ready pushing off the tree he hit and using his speed dash to get away. Anger welled up inside him. The faces of all who Andross had killed haunted his every thought. The thing layer of sand beneath his boots swirled and a small crater began to develop. The rage erupted as fire covered Falco. The heat left the little bits of grass that existed black and dead. He flew forward leaving bits of the growing flame to wither away in the dirt. The fire slowly made its way into Andross who dug his feet into the dirt pulling back his fist preparing to meet the oncoming heat. The fire warmed, streaks of blue sliding across its surface. Falco's eyes grew white with anger and it was over. The image of the fireball was left in front of Andross. A large black wound leaked dark black blood from Andross' crumpled brown body. His cocky smirk still etched into his face. As the Flames died down Falco found himself somewhere new. Fox: Fox didn't lose. It's as simple as that. He was Fox McCloud, he beat Andross and numerous other villains. The thought of failure was something that he'd never had to deal with. Not with anything that mattered anyway. There was no way to take this guy down though. He had his speed and agility, but that wouldn't stop him that would just prolong it. Fox tried the fireball technique after watching Falco's victory, but the general caught him and flung him into a tree, which he narrowly escaped. Without the magic staff how could he beat him? If he couldn't use real magic, he would have to make some of his own. Fox clutched his wrist holding the control panel for his arsenal of Gadgets. He performed his after image attack leaving the image to float there. An ice bomb rolled through the dirt behind the image. It had frozen the air around the image leaving a solid ice fox. Fox had left a present in its hands though. The black laser gun spit out red lasers its auto-fire switched towards on. The lasers proved only to aggravate the monster further. He shifted a white watch and he faded away. Fire consumed the surrounding trees. The air shook around it as though something was there. Angry the monster turned around and flung a fire ball of his own. He was surprised to see it come back into his face. Fox slid forward knocking the feet out from under the charging tyrannosaurus. His body slammed into the dirt disrupting the ground covering the invisible fox in dust. Fox jumped away from the monsters fist, doing his best to dodge lasers, as the ice fox had melted leaving the gun in the dirt spinning around shooting lasers every which way. Fox leapt into the air charging a kick towards a thick tree. As foxed bounced up onto the ground he hit the backside of the tree hard with his elbow as a result causing the tree to crash to the ground, the trunk stopping as it smashed into the dinosaurs head. Scorch marks from the laser plagued the bottom of the trunk. As foxed switched off his invisibility cloak he found himself in a new area with all his gadgets back in place.
Dr. Mario The demon virus continued his assault towards Dr. Mario. The virus shot forward in an attempt to corrupt the Doctor. In his defense, he took some scrapes and cuts. The virus was going to get in him if this continued. Parts of him had already entered and it was only a matter of time until the final blow was made. Dr. Mario prepared a pill to destroy the virus a mighty one, he only got one shot and the virus was far too fast. He could dodge the blur, but shooting it? Inconceivable. The virus shot towards Mario, but this time he didn't move. As the virus closed the gap between him leaving the faint hiss of the wind, Mario clutched his lab coat. With a twist of it the virus was turned the opposite direction dazed at where Mario went, for he was going far to fast to understand what happened. As he stood there Mario fired the pill. It hit the demon burning its skin as its coating dissolved. The virus' eyes bulged, his veins popping. He turned to see Mario. He lunged forward but his speed was lessened and his power diminished. Mario flipped above him, finishing him off with a tornado kick splattering the blue remains no the cold swamp sand. The room began to spin again and Mario found himself in a new room. Mario: Giga Bowser let out a powerful roar shaking the very earth, that is if that's where they were still. He swiped his scaly palm towards the plumber, who jumped out of the way. Mario shot a round of fireballs at the creature but Bowser eagerly swallowed them and shot his flaming breath back at Mario. Mario was far too weak to beat Bowser at the moment. An idea flashed through Mario's head. The mushroom! He swallowed it feeling its effects instantly. Its sweet nectar flowed through his veins. Mario's eyes bulged and muscles grew. By the time the Mushroom was finished Mario was as big as Bowser. He drew his fist back and nailed the scaly lizard in the face. He couldn't win with brute force or fire, Bowser still excelled in that area, and was still slightly bigger. Mario bounced off the open forehead landing behind Bowser. He dug his fingers into the soft flesh of the Lizard and begun to launch into his tornado attack. Mario spun around taking Bowser with him. His grip remained tight and when he reached his maximum speed he released flinging the lizard into a large stone wall. A large crack echoed across the area and Bowser lay on the ground a large crack running through his skull and a thick green liquid forming a puddle around it. Mario spun around with a flash he left his friends. Luigi: The ghost flung a fiery other-worldly ball at Luigi. He bounced away and launched into his torpedo attack. His ears pop his skin pressed back, eyes squinting and dripping with water. He crashed into the wall directly behind the ghost, his face twisting in pain. He bounced up to the top of the wall. He concentrated hard his hands covering in a green light. In an instant a vacuum appeared in his hand. He channeled all the green energy into it. Pressing the vacuum on, he shot all his energy towards the ghost. "hahahaha, puny plumber you think your little attacks bother me," laughed the ghost watching the attack hurtle towards him. As the ball made contact, the ghosts eyes bulged. The ball ripped through making a jagged whole in the white ghostly skin. Before the ghost could figure out what was going on, Luigi switched the vacuum back to normal and sucked him in. He began a victory dance, but his boogie was interrupted as the world spun and he found himself somewhere new. Peach: Peach observed her situation, a lunatic with a star wand. What could she do? The star wand was all powerful, how could she beat him. She couldn't, no that's not right. She couldn't beat the star wand. Getting him to let go of the wand was out of the question though. He had to beat himself. She wasn't going to get him to destroy himself by running in circles though. Peach pressed her feet into the dirt and leapt into the air clutching her umbrella. Her descent began, the white trimming of her dress blowing upwards. It stopped slamming her neck forward. Her feat were not in the dirt though, nothing but air was for her to walk on. She floated around dodging the attacks. As she moved to dodge one a star hit the ceiling. Rocks came crashing down. They landed on the dark warrior, but Peach knew it wasn't over. The rocks flew everywhere turning from boulders to coarse gray rubble. "Enough," came a deep voice "You have failed me". Gannondorf stood atop one of the rocks, his eyes icy. "If you want to live, give me the staff and we will find you a job," He demanded. The warrior bowed his head down "Here lord Gannondorf". He held out the wand and Gannondorf's closed his fist around it. As he held it up his brown flesh melted, running down his body. The warrior looked up in horror watching the change his mouth open. Soon Peach was left standing in a puddle of brown ooze, holding up the star wand in triumph. The warrior drew his fist back and prepared to attack, when he was blown into the ever-popular stone wall, with a hole in his chest and a puddle of black acid. Peach made one final shot finishing them job, when she was removed from the scene upon its impact. Yoshi: The chase continued, but now it was reversed as Yoshi fled the adolescent tyrant. Baby Bowser's spikes left cones of air in the soft ground. The crack in Yoshi's shell was building up and soon enough it would break. Think fast Yoshi broke a whole in the shell with his tail and shot out an egg bomb. The dinosaur leapt to his feet to dodge and met Yoshi's tongue when he uncurled. Yoshi swallowed the angry demon releasing him in egg form. Yoshi climbed as high as he could, knowing time was of the essence and lunged down feet first into the hatching egg. Bowser let out a shriek of pain and rolled across the ground clutching his head. As he stumbled to his feet he met with Yoshi's side flying through a nearby tree, only to have on fall on top of him crushing him with its weight. DK: K. Rool continued towards DK. DK grabbed onto a tree jumping from tree to tree. He swung from the vines and jumped across the tops his feet brushing through the thin green leaves. Rool followed along snapping the trees in two. DK stole a glance Mario's battle. He watched as Mario shoved something in his mouth. Soon his flesh was mutating and stretching, his legs much too long. He dove to the next tree just in time. He kept looking back finally seeing Mario dig his hands into Bowser's tail. As Rool swung his tail towards the tree DK jumped down clinging to the Lizards Tail. He used his helicopter attack like he had done a million times before. A brown and green blur blended together stirring up a mighty wind. Leaves and dirt flew through the air. DK's hands began to slip and he thought it best to let go before he got in more danger. When he let go the lizard flew through 5 or 6 trees uprooting them. The Lizard stood up dizzy and confused. "DK MEGA PUNCH," the ape called slamming his brown fur into the scaly flesh of K. Rool. He cried out in pain, dropping down to the ground, blood trickling down his face. Captain Falcon: A flash of silver shot forward towards the powerful racer. Dust and dirt flew up from his pace leaving a trail in the gray dirt. Falcon jumped over the warrior but met with his elbow on the other side. His hands instinctively flew to his face to tend to the broken nose. This however left him open for the oncoming drop kick. His faced slammed into the dirt forcing it up his nostrils and into his mouth. The warrior jumped into the air and prepared to finish Falcon off with his silver fist attack. A silver blur splashed the air and sank into the dirt. He lifted his fist confused, there was no body, no Falcon. A searing pain shot through his back. Falcon withdrew his fist from the silver fighters back and he watched as the warrior stumbled about eventually finding his home in the dirt. Falcon clasped his hands together power surging through his body. As his dark mind crept back the warrior jumped up, revenge in his eyes. He only came up to meet Falcon's Falcon SLAM! The red energy slammed into his head sailing him through the air into the hard bark of a huge tree. He fell to the ground bloody and angry. Captain Falcon was not through though, this was not his normal rival, their races were friendly. This was not him, he concluded. He charged through the dirt leaving the brush aflame. His energy clashed into a silver opposing force. The Captains eyes filled with red as his huge energy filled his view. When it cleared he was not where he started. Falco: Falco pushed himself over Andross landing on his feet and charging towards him arms blurring with an onslaught of punches. His fists skipped across the hard brown flesh leaving nothing a look of horror on Falco's face. "Finished?" asked Andross his lips twisting into a cocky smirk. Andross slowly lifted his arm. Falco Prepared to block crossing his arms across his face. Not one to play fair Andross' hand made its way into the soft feathers around Falco's thigh. As Falco grabbed his thigh releasing a shriek of pain his face met Andross' other hand. His body crumpled sending bits of rubble into the air. His eyes made there way open. He stole a glance at his hands, doused in red, before seeing the ruthless face of Andross making its way towards him. Another attack came, but Falco was ready pushing off the tree he hit and using his speed dash to get away. Anger welled up inside him. The faces of all who Andross had killed haunted his every thought. The thing layer of sand beneath his boots swirled and a small crater began to develop. The rage erupted as fire covered Falco. The heat left the little bits of grass that existed black and dead. He flew forward leaving bits of the growing flame to wither away in the dirt. The fire slowly made its way into Andross who dug his feet into the dirt pulling back his fist preparing to meet the oncoming heat. The fire warmed, streaks of blue sliding across its surface. Falco's eyes grew white with anger and it was over. The image of the fireball was left in front of Andross. A large black wound leaked dark black blood from Andross' crumpled brown body. His cocky smirk still etched into his face. As the Flames died down Falco found himself somewhere new. Fox: Fox didn't lose. It's as simple as that. He was Fox McCloud, he beat Andross and numerous other villains. The thought of failure was something that he'd never had to deal with. Not with anything that mattered anyway. There was no way to take this guy down though. He had his speed and agility, but that wouldn't stop him that would just prolong it. Fox tried the fireball technique after watching Falco's victory, but the general caught him and flung him into a tree, which he narrowly escaped. Without the magic staff how could he beat him? If he couldn't use real magic, he would have to make some of his own. Fox clutched his wrist holding the control panel for his arsenal of Gadgets. He performed his after image attack leaving the image to float there. An ice bomb rolled through the dirt behind the image. It had frozen the air around the image leaving a solid ice fox. Fox had left a present in its hands though. The black laser gun spit out red lasers its auto-fire switched towards on. The lasers proved only to aggravate the monster further. He shifted a white watch and he faded away. Fire consumed the surrounding trees. The air shook around it as though something was there. Angry the monster turned around and flung a fire ball of his own. He was surprised to see it come back into his face. Fox slid forward knocking the feet out from under the charging tyrannosaurus. His body slammed into the dirt disrupting the ground covering the invisible fox in dust. Fox jumped away from the monsters fist, doing his best to dodge lasers, as the ice fox had melted leaving the gun in the dirt spinning around shooting lasers every which way. Fox leapt into the air charging a kick towards a thick tree. As foxed bounced up onto the ground he hit the backside of the tree hard with his elbow as a result causing the tree to crash to the ground, the trunk stopping as it smashed into the dinosaurs head. Scorch marks from the laser plagued the bottom of the trunk. As foxed switched off his invisibility cloak he found himself in a new area with all his gadgets back in place.