Note: If you haven't already, I suggest you read the previous chapters.
That would kinda help if you haven't already. And YES I know I misspelled
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CHAPTER FOUR
CONFRONTATIONS
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"How did I get on this tree?" I asked myself. "Guess it must have broken my fall." My back was being crushed on the tree branches. "Or.my back," I said as I rubbed my spine a little. I quickly jumped off the calm palm tree into a sandy beach. For some reason, I was in something's shadow. Whatever it was, it sure was big. I turned around reluctantly to see what it was. I looked straight at the fiery amber yellow eyes of an enormous moon!
"GAH!" I exclaimed. "This isn't Hyrule... It's Termina!" I examined my surroundings a little bit closer. I noticed an isolated observatory in the middle of a lake. "This is definitely Great Bay." I told myself. How I got from Final Destination all the way down to Termina was beyond me.
I noticed that the giant turtle of this stage was peacefully sleeping in the shallow waters. "Maybe I could hitch a ride on him," I thought. I quietly walked over to the turtle and leaped on its shell. The impact immediately awoke him. He seemed really startled and confused. "Don't worry big guy," I told him. The turtle took no hesitation to swim off the shore and straight to the observatory.
"Thanks!" I told it as I jumped off it's shell to the lower platform of the stage. That is probably the only time that turtle has ever done me any good. Normally when I fight on this stage, it's either never there when I need it or there when I really don't need it. Better late than never I suppose.
I, however, wasn't alone on this little station. "Ah ha! What do we have here?" a familiar voice said. I turned around to see the courageous swordsman Roy. Of course it wasn't just Roy.
"Oh, hey Sam." I replied.
"I see you're here too." He said. He must have landed on the observatory rather than a dingy palm tree. If he was there, could the others be here to?
"Hey, you haven't seen Cal or Jess have you?" I asked.
"No, I haven't seen them yet." he sighed. "So what happened back there?"
"How am I supposed to know?" I answered. Great. I know what's coming.
"Well this whole thing is your fault," he said with his pointed his sword at me. "I should have woken up by now."
"Whatever," I groaned. "We have better things to worry about, like that." I pointed towards the moon that seemed to be getting closer and closer every passing second.
"Oh, it's not going to hit us," assured Sam. Just as he finished his sentence, he noticed the moon on a different path than normal. Rather than crashing on the beach, it is on a collision course with the mountains. Statues lift up from the ground and push it back up. Not this time though. "It's way off course!" shouted Sam. "It's supposed to land over there!" he said as he pointed towards the mountainside.
"Well we better find a way out. Fast." I declared steadily.
Just then, a funny looking, elf like man stepped out of the observatory. "Oh, hello there!" he greeted joyfully. Sam and I jumped a bit in shock as the little man walked over to us. "Can I help you?" he asked.
"Hey, it's that Tingle guy," said Sam. "Tell us how do we get out of here," he asked the fairy wannabe.
"Ah yes, you've come to the right place! Wait here a moment," he told us. He then trotted away back into the dome shaped building.
"WHAT?! Come back!" yelled Sam.
"We don't have time for this!" I added.
"Forget him! Let's find a way out ourselves!" Sam said in disgust. I nodded my head and tried to think of a solution. The moon just kept on getting closer and closer.
"Uh.. So you got any idea how?" I asked.
"How am I supposed to know?" he barked. "You're the one who got us into this mess, so you have to get us out!"
Before I could say anything, a huge shadow engulfed ours. I turned around to see a large, round metallic figure that came crashing down on our position.
"WHAT IS THIS?" exclaimed Sam. The shiny, metallic object revealed itself to be a giant metal Jigglypuff!
"How did this get here?!" I shouted. We had no time to be fighting anything, not with that moon getting dangerously close.
"Here you are.... AH!!" Tingle came out of the building and dropped something in shock and awe of the giant puffball. He quickly tied a balloon on himself after he noticed the moon approaching even closer. "At this rate, the area will be gone in three minutes!" he calculated as he slowly floated away.
"That big fat chicken!" Sam shouted. "He was supposed to help us!"
"Sam heads up!" I warned. By the time Sam heard my warning, the Jigglypuff, which was about twice his side and about 4 times as round had smothered him with a quick Rollout attack.
I looked back at the moon. It didn't look like that in three minutes it would collide. I turned my head back at the giant Jigglypuff. "Heh, three minutes is more than enough time," I told myself.
The moon wasn't my priority now. I concentrated on the shiny silver balloon. Sam immediately flared up a Double Edge Dance as he came down to the ground. Every single strike seemed to be absorbed in the flabby body of the Jigglypuff. It didn't stagger one bit. Sam swung his blade up, down, down and up, with beautiful streaks of fire engulfing the balloon. I dashed over as fast as I could and grabbed the Jigglypuff, hoping Sam would take the opportunity to smash it. My grapple wasn't strong enough though, and the Jigglypuff broke free from my tight gripe. It floated in air and came crashing down with a drill attack. Sam and I quickly rolled out of the twirling feet of the Pokemon as it came down. Before we could make another move, it Side Smashed me to the right! Thrusting full force on it's right foot, the Jigglypuff bashed me as I came charging at it.
Once again, the turtle actually helped me out. I landed on it's hard shell, a little shaken by the attack. Funny thing was, all of my previous percentage vanished.
Sam quickly saw the open shot and sliced the Jigglypuff with a Side Smash of his own. The metal shell of the Pokemon took the hit once again as it casually grabbed Sam and began to press it's head on his back. Sam flew back a little after being thrown, and noticed ruby beams eating away at the Jigglypuff. I was holding my position from the turtle and was bombarding the Jigglypuff with laser blasts from my Blaster.
The Jigglypuff simply ignored the shots and focused on it's closet target, Sam. It Pounded away at him, while Sam responded with slash and run techniques. He would reach his sword and poke the Jiglypuff from behind. The Jigglypuff began to feel the attacks this time, since it's percentage count was getting higher. It immediately countered Sam's rolling antics by simply charging a Down Smash. It gathered air and released it's feet outward on the ground, creating a splits like kick. Sam was nailed and was pushed back to the turtle, which decided to submerge underwater.
Sam and I had to rethink our attacks. He quickly got up and jumped to the lower right small platform under the main piece of the arena. The Jigglypuff came trotting along down to Sam's position as I charged up the Fire Fox attack. It was sucked into the flames of the ability, making it quite susceptible to Sam's Up Smash. He lunged his Blade high up in the air with tremendous force to poke the balloon, flames emerging from the tip if the sword and igniting the Pokemon even more. Before Sam's attack finished, a charged right through the Jigglypuff with a blazing Fire Fox. Despite our attempts, the Pokemon refused to stagger from our attacks. It was quickly able to recover onto the stage just as fast as it was attacked.
A full minute had passed.
I slid near the Jigglypuff and began to swipe it with my tail, trying to push it in the air. "SAM!" I yelled. "Grab it!"
Sam used his Blazer to make his way up to the main platform, dishing out some damage in the process. The metal Jigglypuff, still not being phased by our attacks, slapped Sam with a Pound attack. It rolled to my side to dodge my attacks, and quickly threw me high up in the air. It floated up and smacked both Sam and me with an aerial slap. Just as it was coming down, it began to roll itself into a Rollout. I landed on the lower right platform out of the oncoming attack. Sam, however, had a different plan.
"I got this one!" he shouted. Sam held his ground on the far left of the stage, while straight across him the giant Pokemon rolled in it's place, gathering a tremendous amount of force for it's attack. If Sam was hit, he probably wouldn't make it back. The turtle was still not back, lessening his chances of survival.
30 seconds passed by. The Jigglypuff continued to charge up. The slightest movement would cause it to hurl at incalculable speed towards anything in it's path.
15 more seconds went by. "It's just wasting our time!" I concluded. But we couldn't afford to make any movements. Just as I finished my statement, the Jigglypuff launched itself straight at Sam! All of the energy it was gathering now became converted into an unstoppable Rollout. Sam was ready to take it head on. Just before the Jigglypuff knocked Sam out for good, Sam held back and used his Counter attack. Sam absorbed the oncoming blow with his sword and stopped the Jigglypuff in it's tracks. He then unleashed twice the strength the Jigglypuff had gathered, delivering a devastating blow. If it wasn't for the metal body of the Jigglypuff, it would have been knocked out of the stage for good.
The moon's shadow was cast over the entire arena. Only about a minute and ten seconds before it collided. I sprang up from my position and leaped high in the air. I then flung my legs upward, getting ready for my "scissor kick" aerial attack. I managed to land both kicks in as the Jigglypuff came hurling down back into the stage.
Sam thought up of a faster way to end it. He drew his blade over his shoulder. A fiery surge of energy from his body rushed to his sword. I did my best to keep the Pokemon in the air with an onslaught of aerial assaults. About 4 seconds later, I noticed Sam had a hot white glow emitting from him. I side kicked the solid balloon down to Sam's direction. As the Jigglypuff came crashing down, Sam exploded a fully charged Flare Blade. The explosion of the attack smoldered the Jigglypuff. It seemed to freeze for a second as the force of the attack overwhelmed it's metallic shell. It instantly flew up into the air, right towards the moon, which was only a few meters above us.
"Ha ah! Eat that!" Sam said as he did his victory stance. The Jigglypuff barely missed making collision with the moon as it sparkled in the sky.
"Good shot!" I congratulated. "Well that wasn't so hard. So what are we going to do now? That moon is getting closer!"
"Hmmm," pondered Sam with his hand on his chin. "How about I Flare Blade it into pieces!"
"Hey that's not a bad idea," I said sarcastically.
"I was only kidding!" Sam said silently.
Out of nowhere, Tingle came crashing down. Jigglypuff must have popped his balloon.
"YOU!" Shouted Sam as he picked up Tingle with one arm. "HOW DO WE GET OUT OF THIS?" he said while he shook Tingle violently.
"Well.. if you would have picked up my map," slowly answered Tingle.
"What map?" asked Sam. Only about 30 seconds until the moon came crashing down.
"I really must be going now.. ta ta!" Tingle somehow vanished into thing air.
"!!!!! How did he do that?" I asked. A glitch maybe?
"You bum! Go find that map!" ordered Sam.
"I don't need you to tell me that," I quickly remarked with an annoyed expression. I noticed a small piece of paper on the far left lower platform of the stage. "Oh, how convenient," I said.
"Hurry up and grab it!" roared Sam.
I quickly dashed to the map. The moon was so close though, that it's gravity affected the tide, causing the waters to rage and splash about. The map was swallowed up before I could grab it. Down it sunk into the murky depths. I couldn't swim anyway so I didn't dare to dive after it.
"You IDIOT!" Sam quickly scorned
"Well a lot good that would have done for us anyway," I thought.
"Ah, forget you!" Sam shouted angrily. He desperately tried to find a way out on his own. The moon was only a couple of yards away. The waves began to splash violently around us. I was thrown off the platform that I was on as they continued to pound the stage. The arena began to rumble as the moon approached. Sam had no other choice but to dive into the water and try to swim away. But just like in the game, you sink into the water rather than float in it. But the lucky Roy was lifted out of the water by the giant turtle, which had finally decided to emerge. It wanted to see what all of the commotion was about, and noticed the giant moon crashing down. Quickly, it frantically began to swim away to safety.
"HEY!" I said in rage. I dashed right across the stage and jumped off the far right edge off the stage. I double jumped, boosting me further out, but it still wasn't enough to catch up to the turtle. I then used the Fox Illusion to make a quick straight dash towards the turtle. I barely caught onto the back of it's shell.
"Thanks a lot," I grumbled. The turtle soon swam out of the moon's shadow. Sam sighed some relief as he looked back, hoping we where safe.
The first thing the moon made contact with was the observatory. It's face crashed head onto it as pieces of the building flew everywhere. The stage then became caught on a surging whirlpool created by the moon's gravity. Deeper and deeper the moon went. It buried itself into the area slowly. Sam and I watched with our jaws completely hanging. The tide began to slow the turtle down as it hurriedly tried to swim away.
Then moon suddenly created a bright flash as it was colliding Great Bay. A huge tidal wave was created from it, which lifted the turtle out off the water (and us as well). The entire area began to quake as the moon ignited itself. Mountains crumbled, the beach ceased to exist. A huge dark explosion covered the area along with creating a bile yellow sky. The explosion threw Sam and I out into the sky. We left Termina with two bright sparkles.
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Floating in the sky lay a giant floating arena. This stage happened to be the most vast and largest level in all of Super Smash Bros.. The giant piece of land was a temple that floated over the plains of Hyrule. It is shrouded in mystery and is a favorite battle site among many. But rather than being calm and peaceful, the temple hosted a battle at this very moment.
Cal flung back to safety as he tried to evade a mysterious warrior. "Did you hear that?" he asked his companion.
"Yes I did!" shouted Jess from afar. A small ring of fire soon flashed in the sky that followed the huge explosion. Jess continued to defend himself from the female warriors that where constantly hacking away at him with their two giant blades. He had never seen anything like them. Maybe that's because he never fully played through Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Cal had his attack repelled from the warrior that was attacking him. "Damn Gerudo Warrior!" he said. Just then, he was sent flying out of the temple's cave through the underground passage. "What are they doing here? They aren't even in Melee! What gives?"
On the far upper right section of the stage, four Gerudo Warriors began to close in on Jess. He was badly battered and didn't know what to expect from these new fighters. One of the female fighters sprung up at him with her blades spinning around her. Jess quickly held his ground and used Counter and knocked her back a little. This, however, left him open from behind. He was grabbed by another Gerudo while another came up to him and did a variation of Link's spin attack, only with two large blades rather than one.
Jess was about to get knocked out with an attack like that. Cal knew he would. He had to think fast. He could try and stop Jess from flying out of the stage, but then Cal would knock him out. He heard a ding Noise right next to him. This little jingle could only mean one thing. An item! He turned around and found a Red Shell lying on the ground. He was now on the middle section of the arena. Above him was a high platform. Jess was going to be flying in this direction, and the only thing that could stop him was the Red Shell. He grabbed and quickly flung it up to the platform above him. The shell began to move around the platform, waiting for an unsuspecting smasher to get in it's path. Lucky for Jess, that smasher was him. As Jess was flying through the air from the Gerudo's unstoppable attack, he flew right into the shell's path, which stopped him from flying any farther back. The weak impact of the shell made him stagger in the air a little, but it was a lot better than a KO.
Cal then began to make his way back into the underground cave portion of the temple. This is always the safest place to be if your percentage count is really high. There are only four ways to get knocked out of the lower layer compared to the countless methods on the top layer. "Come on!" he ordered Jess. "We have to back off!"
Jess instinctively made his way to the passage that would lead to the lower section. The Gerudo's slowly made their way at them, while one Gerudo was awaiting them already in the lower part of the stage. Another Blade Twirl attack would send them out if they hung around.
"Ok," said Cal silently. "We're going to make our down and back up through the upper platform just above the edge down below. Then, we'll make our way back up to the main area, where we'll head back to the far right of the stage. Maybe we can pick them off one at a time."
Jess only stood his ground as he drew his blade. "Jess, you can't take any more hits," Cal cautioned.
Jess only gave a weak grin on his face. "I can beat them," he slowly assured. He stood there, just steps away from safety, charging a Shield Breaker (a variation of Flare Blade minus the power and the flames) leaving himself wide open to an attack. Unlike the mighty Flare Blade, Shield Breaker didn't tae that long to fully charge, though it wasn't nearly as strong as Roy's attack.
A Gerudo leaped into the air ready to slash Jess out of the arena. Cal quickly jumped right in front of Jess and initiated a Counter attack, giving a faint push to the Gerudo and two other oncoming female warriors. A fourth fighter came crashing down afterwards. Little did she know that Jess was ready for her. He drove all of his energy into a quick slash as he hit the Gerudo dead on! The Gerudo warrior flew straight out of the arena in one shot.
"Got ya!" Jess said proudly. Just as soon as the female fighter disappeared out of the ring, another came out in her place out of nowhere! "What the? There's more?!" exclaimed Cal. Both Marths stood their ground as warriors began to go in for another strike. "Come let's move down!" shouted Cal as he quickly made his way down. He had to air dodge while he did so from a patient Gerudo's smash attack.
"Are you crazy!" responded Jess, "We'll get bounced around!" Jess knew he had no other choice though. He reluctantly jumped to the lower section, making sure to avoid the Gerudo that was waiting there.
"We'll be a lot safer here," Cal told Jess. Cal was pretty worn out after fighting for is life against the horde of Gerudos. He still had no idea what would happen if he got knocked out of the stage, and he sure didn't want to find out now. As Jess and Cal were backing away, a rough voice startled them.
"Your safe nowhere!" laughed Bowser. Jess and Cal turned just as soon as they heard his voice.
Bowser chuckled in an evil tone. "Getting beat down by women I see?"
"They're so cheap!" Jess pointed out. The Gerudo warriors halted their attacks and regrouped next to the Koppa King.
Bowser shook his head and continued to chuckle. "Heheheh, I thought you were a mighty warrior in your world."
"Oh shut up!" roared Jess with a little sense of fear in his voice. "What do you know?"
"HAHAHA! I know more than you can ever imagine!" laughed Bowser as he ordered the Gerudos to vanish in thin air. "Now then." just before he can continue, a bright flash emitted in the sky. Sam and I came crashing down and landed right on top of Bower's hard horned head.
Quickly, Sam and I arose quickly to our feet before Bowser could push us off.
"YOU!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Jess and Cal quickly made their way back up. Bowser stood in the middle of the main section, while Sam and I stood to the far left entrance. Cal and Jess hung low on a pillar next to the underground passage's entrance.
"Hey look," pointed Sam. "Cal and Jess are here."
"Ah yes," Bowser said as he turned around and looked straight at Jess and Cal. "These two were just slaughtered by the Gerudos. Too bad they weren't knocked out. They only have one stock left.
Everyone froze. Our worst fear was confirmed. Did we really all have just one stock to work with?
Bowser slowly moved towards Jess. "I might as well get rid of your only life!" Heh, not when I'm around. I dashed right behind Bowser and said, "HOLD IT! You and I have a score to settle!" Sam came by soon enough to back me up if necessary.
Bowser only turned his head and smirked. "Shall I call the Gerudos?"
"Alright you," Sam quietly yelled at Bowser, "Talk! What is it that you want!"
"Want? Heh, what I always want of course!" he chuckled in his reply.
"The Mushroom Kingdom's not here I can tell you that," I said.
"But there is more to it. Much more." Bowser affirmed.
"Well whatever it is you want, your gonna have to get past all four of us!" I warned him as I clenched my fists and held them near my muzzle. "Your insane! I already beat you down once before, not to mention your other two lackeys!"
"I can assure you young fox, that was not me. You may think you had me." Bowser faced his attention towards me. His demon eyes made direct contact with mine. "While you are indeed a powerful warrior in your world, you seem to forget who is in control here," he said as he lifted his arms in the air. "You're in my world now. This is no dream, no game, but a twisted, complex universe in the making! You are just not strong enough to defeat me."
I was about ready to shove his words down his throat. "I ALREADY DID! AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN!" I was all pumped up to smash Bowser out of the arena.
Bowser gave me a sinister look as he said, "Bring it on."
Sam backed off a bit. I leaped in the air and quickly dashed right at Bowser with a Fox Illusion. Bowser seemed ready for it as he side step dodged my illusion. Almost immediately he turned around at my vulnerable body and lunged his head forward and delivered a nasty Side Smash. He rammed his horns right into my back as I was sent flying into the air from the awesome impact.
Bowser took a small leap in the air and jammed my back again with the back of his hard spiky shell. I forced my way back down to the ground with a defensive roll. I looked straight up to see the Koppa King coming down with his Bowser Bomb. "Too easy," I thought. I rolled right out of the way of his deadly assault, but something happened that I have never seen before. Bowser slammed his rear into the steps of the entrance to the temple, and for some reason it caused the ground to rumble like a violent earthquake. Everyone in the entire arena felt the shake and tossed us down to the ground. As I was trying to regain my balance, I noticed a small shockwave heading my direction. It was coming in on me fast. I had no time to defend. It's energy sliced right through me and lifted me once again into the air. Before I could make out what as happening, Bowser was moving three times as fast than normal. He gathered strength as he put his body into his invincible shell and rammed me again. I barely managed to grapple onto the far left ledge. Bowser landed onto the ground and waited for my next move.
I grinned as I let go of the tip and fell. Bowser rushed to the edge and looked over with an evil expression. I stopped myself in midair by charging the Fire Fox and aimed it right beneath him. My body flew straight up back into the ring, with an aura of flames protecting me. The impact on Bowser made him stagger into the air. Quickly I moved back into the stage next to the pillars of the entrance.
I felt beat. Panting and trying to catch my breath, I held my ground and waited to see what would happen. I examined my percentage count. 120%. How did he get me up from zero to one twenty so fast? He shouldn't be this strong or this fast. Bowser could somehow sense my hesitation. He could tell by the expression on my face. He merely just took a few steps forward while I stepped back.
Bowser and I made eye to eye contact with rage burning up. He slowly lifted his head back. My eyes widened for a second. He was going to try and smoke me with his fiery breath. Instinctively, I held onto my Reflector Shield, though I had a feeling it wasn't going to be an ordinary Fire Breath. Bowser opened his mouth and unleashed a cyclone of hot red flames straight at me. The flamethrower hit my Reflector Shield, but it just seemed to bounce right off it rather than reflect it back at him. The rate of fire did not grow weaker as it went on. It pounded my shied with it's magma force and heat. I was breaking a sweat trying to get up my defense, but it was no good. I had to stop the shield before it broke and left me vulnerable to Bowser's finishing move. The flame breath hit me and pushed me back a little. I was eaten up by the flames as it did so. The attack stayed on my body and the fire wouldn't stop. "How is this possible?" I thought. The pain was so unbearable. The heat made me fell as if I was on the surface of the sun. I tried to roll on the ground to shake it off. Bowser anticipated this. He took this opportunity to grab me in a Koppa Klaw.
The fire was off my body, but I wasn't relieved from any pain. That attack boosted me up to a high 157%. Now I was in the claws of the Koppa King. His brutal gripe was on my neck. He lifted me up with victory in his eyes. I frantically tried to break free, but his gripe was just way too much. On top of that, I was already worn out from all of the damage I have suffered. Bowser gave a proud roar as he took a bit into my flesh.
"LET GO!" shouted Sam as he made his way towards us. I could have used the help earlier, but knowing me I would have probably told them to back away if they tried.
"Make on move and I'll DESTROY HIM!" Bowser silently barked with command in his voice. His eyes became fixed on Sam. I was still constantly struggling to break free. The only words that came out of my mouth were, "you... Wish!"
"Where are those items when you need them?" Cal thought to himself.
Everyone stood their ground without saying a word. Straight across from them stood the Koppa King strangling yours truly, ready to dig his jaws into me again.
"Come on Bowser," Sam slowly taunted. "You too chicken to fight someone a lot stronger?"
Bowser chuckled under his breath. "You still dare to doubt my abilities? HAHA! You probably won't mind if I was to do.." I knew what was coming. "THIS!" he crunched his jaw into me once again. I yelped in agony as he did it again. "AND THIS!" I became too tired to holler in pain. I was shaking a bit as he continued to hack away.
"BREAK FREE!" Sam ordered in anger.
"I'm .... Trying! I CAN'T!" I said with every ounce of my depleted strength.
"Come on!" Cal cheered a bit. "You can do it!"
"Hehehe, he's obviously too weak to do so!" Bowser grinned as he gave me another deadly bite. Was it possible to be knocked out unconscious rather than out of the stage in this world? Cause if it is, sign me up. This was just way too much for me.
"Guys we have to do something!" Cal said weakly. "Who knows what will happen if he loses a stock!"
Something clicked in Bowser's mind. He began to laugh uncontrollably. "HAHAHAHA! I'LL SHOW YOU!" Everyone was shocked by his response. Bowser tightened his gripe on me and quickly hurled me out to the left, right out of the stage. I flew straight out, so fast as if I was blown up by a Bob- omb at 300%.
I crashed right onto the side of the arena. My body was pressed against an imaginary wall with such a force that could push a mountain. I felt like I was going to combust as a bright multicolored flash sucked me in. Oddly enough, while I was being jolted with this strange force, I began to feel a little refreshed. Suddenly, I vanished!
"HAHAHAHA!" Bowser laughed with great pride of his accomplishment. Immediately after he that, he charged right at the remaining Smashers, who were already charging right at him. All three valiant swordsmen began a fury of sword dances as they came in Bowser's direction. Bowser took the hits hard as the slashed in all directions. He quickly countered their attacks with by hiding in his shell and be to spin around, catching all three Smashers in it like a whirlpool. They were sent hurling into the air when Jess noticed something.
"LOOK!" he pointed. A small platform drifted down from the sky, and lying in it was a young ace fox pilot.
"Whoa.what happened?" I mumbled as I slowly rose my head.
"Well look who has decided to show!" Bowser said. He stepped back a little and lifted his right arm in the air. "BOB-OMBS!" he shouted. The clear blue sky became polluted with an atmosphere of Bob-ombs!
"What is this?" asked Sam.
"We'll meet again! You can count on it!" Bowser stepped into a portal that conveniently opened right in front of him, and vanished as soon as he entered.
I took note of what covered the sky. Rows and Rows of Bob-ombs were about to drop straight down. "EVERYONE GET DOWN!" I frantically ordered. Cal was already down in the cave, taking cover. I quickly made my way down and noticed Sam just standing there. "What are you doing?" I asked.
"Relax," he said confidently. Jess stood by his side waiting to see what he would do. The bombs began to drop. It wasn't like in Sudden Death Mode, where Bob-ombs fell one at a time. They came down like a sheet of rain. Sam must of figured that he could stop them by leaping into the air and using Counter, which made his body invincible for a second allowing him to destroy a couple of rows. Jess followed and did the same. Of course, they did not know just exactly how many bombs were dropping. The bombs began bombarding the area, with the only safe place being the underground cave. Sam and Jess were hit by the onslaught and were blown right out of the stage.
"Those idiots!" I said. I looked up into the sky and saw two bright sparkles in the background. The ground above us rumbled as if we were on a war front. We got out as the smoke finally cleared.
Cal began to ponder. "How do we know how many stocks we have? I thought we only had one."
"Let's hope that's not the case," I replied shakily. We stepped out of the passage and looked up to see if the Fire Emblem warriors came back. Sure enough, two platforms came down from the sky and carried them back down. I sighed a sigh of relief. "Good, you guys are alright."
"Oh.. Man," Sam moaned as he jumped off.
"Is. Bowser. gone?" asked Jess.
"Yeah, he ran away," I quickly answered. " I still don't see why he's so powerful! His attacks seemed different than normal. And somehow, he summoned a shower of Bob-ombs. This is just too bizarre."
Cal stared at the ground. "Well if this is a dream, I would like to wake up now."
"This is way to real to be a dream," responded Sam.
"I'm still not convinced," Cal said in a doubtful tone.
"Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm leaving this place and getting to the bottom of this," I said cheerfully. "If I know these kind of scenarios any better, than there is a lot more to this Smash Bros. world than we thought there was."
"And how do you plan on getting off this level?" asked Sam.
"Oh I'm pretty sure there's a way," I quickly replied. "We just have to find something to help us out."
As if something answered my plea, a bright flash brought forth an old man in elaborate robes. It came from the underground cave. He floated out of his portal like aura and stood beside us. Everyone turned around, hoping it wasn't another threat. Some of us however immediately recognized who it was.
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CHAPTER FOUR
CONFRONTATIONS
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"How did I get on this tree?" I asked myself. "Guess it must have broken my fall." My back was being crushed on the tree branches. "Or.my back," I said as I rubbed my spine a little. I quickly jumped off the calm palm tree into a sandy beach. For some reason, I was in something's shadow. Whatever it was, it sure was big. I turned around reluctantly to see what it was. I looked straight at the fiery amber yellow eyes of an enormous moon!
"GAH!" I exclaimed. "This isn't Hyrule... It's Termina!" I examined my surroundings a little bit closer. I noticed an isolated observatory in the middle of a lake. "This is definitely Great Bay." I told myself. How I got from Final Destination all the way down to Termina was beyond me.
I noticed that the giant turtle of this stage was peacefully sleeping in the shallow waters. "Maybe I could hitch a ride on him," I thought. I quietly walked over to the turtle and leaped on its shell. The impact immediately awoke him. He seemed really startled and confused. "Don't worry big guy," I told him. The turtle took no hesitation to swim off the shore and straight to the observatory.
"Thanks!" I told it as I jumped off it's shell to the lower platform of the stage. That is probably the only time that turtle has ever done me any good. Normally when I fight on this stage, it's either never there when I need it or there when I really don't need it. Better late than never I suppose.
I, however, wasn't alone on this little station. "Ah ha! What do we have here?" a familiar voice said. I turned around to see the courageous swordsman Roy. Of course it wasn't just Roy.
"Oh, hey Sam." I replied.
"I see you're here too." He said. He must have landed on the observatory rather than a dingy palm tree. If he was there, could the others be here to?
"Hey, you haven't seen Cal or Jess have you?" I asked.
"No, I haven't seen them yet." he sighed. "So what happened back there?"
"How am I supposed to know?" I answered. Great. I know what's coming.
"Well this whole thing is your fault," he said with his pointed his sword at me. "I should have woken up by now."
"Whatever," I groaned. "We have better things to worry about, like that." I pointed towards the moon that seemed to be getting closer and closer every passing second.
"Oh, it's not going to hit us," assured Sam. Just as he finished his sentence, he noticed the moon on a different path than normal. Rather than crashing on the beach, it is on a collision course with the mountains. Statues lift up from the ground and push it back up. Not this time though. "It's way off course!" shouted Sam. "It's supposed to land over there!" he said as he pointed towards the mountainside.
"Well we better find a way out. Fast." I declared steadily.
Just then, a funny looking, elf like man stepped out of the observatory. "Oh, hello there!" he greeted joyfully. Sam and I jumped a bit in shock as the little man walked over to us. "Can I help you?" he asked.
"Hey, it's that Tingle guy," said Sam. "Tell us how do we get out of here," he asked the fairy wannabe.
"Ah yes, you've come to the right place! Wait here a moment," he told us. He then trotted away back into the dome shaped building.
"WHAT?! Come back!" yelled Sam.
"We don't have time for this!" I added.
"Forget him! Let's find a way out ourselves!" Sam said in disgust. I nodded my head and tried to think of a solution. The moon just kept on getting closer and closer.
"Uh.. So you got any idea how?" I asked.
"How am I supposed to know?" he barked. "You're the one who got us into this mess, so you have to get us out!"
Before I could say anything, a huge shadow engulfed ours. I turned around to see a large, round metallic figure that came crashing down on our position.
"WHAT IS THIS?" exclaimed Sam. The shiny, metallic object revealed itself to be a giant metal Jigglypuff!
"How did this get here?!" I shouted. We had no time to be fighting anything, not with that moon getting dangerously close.
"Here you are.... AH!!" Tingle came out of the building and dropped something in shock and awe of the giant puffball. He quickly tied a balloon on himself after he noticed the moon approaching even closer. "At this rate, the area will be gone in three minutes!" he calculated as he slowly floated away.
"That big fat chicken!" Sam shouted. "He was supposed to help us!"
"Sam heads up!" I warned. By the time Sam heard my warning, the Jigglypuff, which was about twice his side and about 4 times as round had smothered him with a quick Rollout attack.
I looked back at the moon. It didn't look like that in three minutes it would collide. I turned my head back at the giant Jigglypuff. "Heh, three minutes is more than enough time," I told myself.
The moon wasn't my priority now. I concentrated on the shiny silver balloon. Sam immediately flared up a Double Edge Dance as he came down to the ground. Every single strike seemed to be absorbed in the flabby body of the Jigglypuff. It didn't stagger one bit. Sam swung his blade up, down, down and up, with beautiful streaks of fire engulfing the balloon. I dashed over as fast as I could and grabbed the Jigglypuff, hoping Sam would take the opportunity to smash it. My grapple wasn't strong enough though, and the Jigglypuff broke free from my tight gripe. It floated in air and came crashing down with a drill attack. Sam and I quickly rolled out of the twirling feet of the Pokemon as it came down. Before we could make another move, it Side Smashed me to the right! Thrusting full force on it's right foot, the Jigglypuff bashed me as I came charging at it.
Once again, the turtle actually helped me out. I landed on it's hard shell, a little shaken by the attack. Funny thing was, all of my previous percentage vanished.
Sam quickly saw the open shot and sliced the Jigglypuff with a Side Smash of his own. The metal shell of the Pokemon took the hit once again as it casually grabbed Sam and began to press it's head on his back. Sam flew back a little after being thrown, and noticed ruby beams eating away at the Jigglypuff. I was holding my position from the turtle and was bombarding the Jigglypuff with laser blasts from my Blaster.
The Jigglypuff simply ignored the shots and focused on it's closet target, Sam. It Pounded away at him, while Sam responded with slash and run techniques. He would reach his sword and poke the Jiglypuff from behind. The Jigglypuff began to feel the attacks this time, since it's percentage count was getting higher. It immediately countered Sam's rolling antics by simply charging a Down Smash. It gathered air and released it's feet outward on the ground, creating a splits like kick. Sam was nailed and was pushed back to the turtle, which decided to submerge underwater.
Sam and I had to rethink our attacks. He quickly got up and jumped to the lower right small platform under the main piece of the arena. The Jigglypuff came trotting along down to Sam's position as I charged up the Fire Fox attack. It was sucked into the flames of the ability, making it quite susceptible to Sam's Up Smash. He lunged his Blade high up in the air with tremendous force to poke the balloon, flames emerging from the tip if the sword and igniting the Pokemon even more. Before Sam's attack finished, a charged right through the Jigglypuff with a blazing Fire Fox. Despite our attempts, the Pokemon refused to stagger from our attacks. It was quickly able to recover onto the stage just as fast as it was attacked.
A full minute had passed.
I slid near the Jigglypuff and began to swipe it with my tail, trying to push it in the air. "SAM!" I yelled. "Grab it!"
Sam used his Blazer to make his way up to the main platform, dishing out some damage in the process. The metal Jigglypuff, still not being phased by our attacks, slapped Sam with a Pound attack. It rolled to my side to dodge my attacks, and quickly threw me high up in the air. It floated up and smacked both Sam and me with an aerial slap. Just as it was coming down, it began to roll itself into a Rollout. I landed on the lower right platform out of the oncoming attack. Sam, however, had a different plan.
"I got this one!" he shouted. Sam held his ground on the far left of the stage, while straight across him the giant Pokemon rolled in it's place, gathering a tremendous amount of force for it's attack. If Sam was hit, he probably wouldn't make it back. The turtle was still not back, lessening his chances of survival.
30 seconds passed by. The Jigglypuff continued to charge up. The slightest movement would cause it to hurl at incalculable speed towards anything in it's path.
15 more seconds went by. "It's just wasting our time!" I concluded. But we couldn't afford to make any movements. Just as I finished my statement, the Jigglypuff launched itself straight at Sam! All of the energy it was gathering now became converted into an unstoppable Rollout. Sam was ready to take it head on. Just before the Jigglypuff knocked Sam out for good, Sam held back and used his Counter attack. Sam absorbed the oncoming blow with his sword and stopped the Jigglypuff in it's tracks. He then unleashed twice the strength the Jigglypuff had gathered, delivering a devastating blow. If it wasn't for the metal body of the Jigglypuff, it would have been knocked out of the stage for good.
The moon's shadow was cast over the entire arena. Only about a minute and ten seconds before it collided. I sprang up from my position and leaped high in the air. I then flung my legs upward, getting ready for my "scissor kick" aerial attack. I managed to land both kicks in as the Jigglypuff came hurling down back into the stage.
Sam thought up of a faster way to end it. He drew his blade over his shoulder. A fiery surge of energy from his body rushed to his sword. I did my best to keep the Pokemon in the air with an onslaught of aerial assaults. About 4 seconds later, I noticed Sam had a hot white glow emitting from him. I side kicked the solid balloon down to Sam's direction. As the Jigglypuff came crashing down, Sam exploded a fully charged Flare Blade. The explosion of the attack smoldered the Jigglypuff. It seemed to freeze for a second as the force of the attack overwhelmed it's metallic shell. It instantly flew up into the air, right towards the moon, which was only a few meters above us.
"Ha ah! Eat that!" Sam said as he did his victory stance. The Jigglypuff barely missed making collision with the moon as it sparkled in the sky.
"Good shot!" I congratulated. "Well that wasn't so hard. So what are we going to do now? That moon is getting closer!"
"Hmmm," pondered Sam with his hand on his chin. "How about I Flare Blade it into pieces!"
"Hey that's not a bad idea," I said sarcastically.
"I was only kidding!" Sam said silently.
Out of nowhere, Tingle came crashing down. Jigglypuff must have popped his balloon.
"YOU!" Shouted Sam as he picked up Tingle with one arm. "HOW DO WE GET OUT OF THIS?" he said while he shook Tingle violently.
"Well.. if you would have picked up my map," slowly answered Tingle.
"What map?" asked Sam. Only about 30 seconds until the moon came crashing down.
"I really must be going now.. ta ta!" Tingle somehow vanished into thing air.
"!!!!! How did he do that?" I asked. A glitch maybe?
"You bum! Go find that map!" ordered Sam.
"I don't need you to tell me that," I quickly remarked with an annoyed expression. I noticed a small piece of paper on the far left lower platform of the stage. "Oh, how convenient," I said.
"Hurry up and grab it!" roared Sam.
I quickly dashed to the map. The moon was so close though, that it's gravity affected the tide, causing the waters to rage and splash about. The map was swallowed up before I could grab it. Down it sunk into the murky depths. I couldn't swim anyway so I didn't dare to dive after it.
"You IDIOT!" Sam quickly scorned
"Well a lot good that would have done for us anyway," I thought.
"Ah, forget you!" Sam shouted angrily. He desperately tried to find a way out on his own. The moon was only a couple of yards away. The waves began to splash violently around us. I was thrown off the platform that I was on as they continued to pound the stage. The arena began to rumble as the moon approached. Sam had no other choice but to dive into the water and try to swim away. But just like in the game, you sink into the water rather than float in it. But the lucky Roy was lifted out of the water by the giant turtle, which had finally decided to emerge. It wanted to see what all of the commotion was about, and noticed the giant moon crashing down. Quickly, it frantically began to swim away to safety.
"HEY!" I said in rage. I dashed right across the stage and jumped off the far right edge off the stage. I double jumped, boosting me further out, but it still wasn't enough to catch up to the turtle. I then used the Fox Illusion to make a quick straight dash towards the turtle. I barely caught onto the back of it's shell.
"Thanks a lot," I grumbled. The turtle soon swam out of the moon's shadow. Sam sighed some relief as he looked back, hoping we where safe.
The first thing the moon made contact with was the observatory. It's face crashed head onto it as pieces of the building flew everywhere. The stage then became caught on a surging whirlpool created by the moon's gravity. Deeper and deeper the moon went. It buried itself into the area slowly. Sam and I watched with our jaws completely hanging. The tide began to slow the turtle down as it hurriedly tried to swim away.
Then moon suddenly created a bright flash as it was colliding Great Bay. A huge tidal wave was created from it, which lifted the turtle out off the water (and us as well). The entire area began to quake as the moon ignited itself. Mountains crumbled, the beach ceased to exist. A huge dark explosion covered the area along with creating a bile yellow sky. The explosion threw Sam and I out into the sky. We left Termina with two bright sparkles.
******Meanwhile*********
Floating in the sky lay a giant floating arena. This stage happened to be the most vast and largest level in all of Super Smash Bros.. The giant piece of land was a temple that floated over the plains of Hyrule. It is shrouded in mystery and is a favorite battle site among many. But rather than being calm and peaceful, the temple hosted a battle at this very moment.
Cal flung back to safety as he tried to evade a mysterious warrior. "Did you hear that?" he asked his companion.
"Yes I did!" shouted Jess from afar. A small ring of fire soon flashed in the sky that followed the huge explosion. Jess continued to defend himself from the female warriors that where constantly hacking away at him with their two giant blades. He had never seen anything like them. Maybe that's because he never fully played through Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Cal had his attack repelled from the warrior that was attacking him. "Damn Gerudo Warrior!" he said. Just then, he was sent flying out of the temple's cave through the underground passage. "What are they doing here? They aren't even in Melee! What gives?"
On the far upper right section of the stage, four Gerudo Warriors began to close in on Jess. He was badly battered and didn't know what to expect from these new fighters. One of the female fighters sprung up at him with her blades spinning around her. Jess quickly held his ground and used Counter and knocked her back a little. This, however, left him open from behind. He was grabbed by another Gerudo while another came up to him and did a variation of Link's spin attack, only with two large blades rather than one.
Jess was about to get knocked out with an attack like that. Cal knew he would. He had to think fast. He could try and stop Jess from flying out of the stage, but then Cal would knock him out. He heard a ding Noise right next to him. This little jingle could only mean one thing. An item! He turned around and found a Red Shell lying on the ground. He was now on the middle section of the arena. Above him was a high platform. Jess was going to be flying in this direction, and the only thing that could stop him was the Red Shell. He grabbed and quickly flung it up to the platform above him. The shell began to move around the platform, waiting for an unsuspecting smasher to get in it's path. Lucky for Jess, that smasher was him. As Jess was flying through the air from the Gerudo's unstoppable attack, he flew right into the shell's path, which stopped him from flying any farther back. The weak impact of the shell made him stagger in the air a little, but it was a lot better than a KO.
Cal then began to make his way back into the underground cave portion of the temple. This is always the safest place to be if your percentage count is really high. There are only four ways to get knocked out of the lower layer compared to the countless methods on the top layer. "Come on!" he ordered Jess. "We have to back off!"
Jess instinctively made his way to the passage that would lead to the lower section. The Gerudo's slowly made their way at them, while one Gerudo was awaiting them already in the lower part of the stage. Another Blade Twirl attack would send them out if they hung around.
"Ok," said Cal silently. "We're going to make our down and back up through the upper platform just above the edge down below. Then, we'll make our way back up to the main area, where we'll head back to the far right of the stage. Maybe we can pick them off one at a time."
Jess only stood his ground as he drew his blade. "Jess, you can't take any more hits," Cal cautioned.
Jess only gave a weak grin on his face. "I can beat them," he slowly assured. He stood there, just steps away from safety, charging a Shield Breaker (a variation of Flare Blade minus the power and the flames) leaving himself wide open to an attack. Unlike the mighty Flare Blade, Shield Breaker didn't tae that long to fully charge, though it wasn't nearly as strong as Roy's attack.
A Gerudo leaped into the air ready to slash Jess out of the arena. Cal quickly jumped right in front of Jess and initiated a Counter attack, giving a faint push to the Gerudo and two other oncoming female warriors. A fourth fighter came crashing down afterwards. Little did she know that Jess was ready for her. He drove all of his energy into a quick slash as he hit the Gerudo dead on! The Gerudo warrior flew straight out of the arena in one shot.
"Got ya!" Jess said proudly. Just as soon as the female fighter disappeared out of the ring, another came out in her place out of nowhere! "What the? There's more?!" exclaimed Cal. Both Marths stood their ground as warriors began to go in for another strike. "Come let's move down!" shouted Cal as he quickly made his way down. He had to air dodge while he did so from a patient Gerudo's smash attack.
"Are you crazy!" responded Jess, "We'll get bounced around!" Jess knew he had no other choice though. He reluctantly jumped to the lower section, making sure to avoid the Gerudo that was waiting there.
"We'll be a lot safer here," Cal told Jess. Cal was pretty worn out after fighting for is life against the horde of Gerudos. He still had no idea what would happen if he got knocked out of the stage, and he sure didn't want to find out now. As Jess and Cal were backing away, a rough voice startled them.
"Your safe nowhere!" laughed Bowser. Jess and Cal turned just as soon as they heard his voice.
Bowser chuckled in an evil tone. "Getting beat down by women I see?"
"They're so cheap!" Jess pointed out. The Gerudo warriors halted their attacks and regrouped next to the Koppa King.
Bowser shook his head and continued to chuckle. "Heheheh, I thought you were a mighty warrior in your world."
"Oh shut up!" roared Jess with a little sense of fear in his voice. "What do you know?"
"HAHAHA! I know more than you can ever imagine!" laughed Bowser as he ordered the Gerudos to vanish in thin air. "Now then." just before he can continue, a bright flash emitted in the sky. Sam and I came crashing down and landed right on top of Bower's hard horned head.
Quickly, Sam and I arose quickly to our feet before Bowser could push us off.
"YOU!" I shouted at the top of my lungs. Jess and Cal quickly made their way back up. Bowser stood in the middle of the main section, while Sam and I stood to the far left entrance. Cal and Jess hung low on a pillar next to the underground passage's entrance.
"Hey look," pointed Sam. "Cal and Jess are here."
"Ah yes," Bowser said as he turned around and looked straight at Jess and Cal. "These two were just slaughtered by the Gerudos. Too bad they weren't knocked out. They only have one stock left.
Everyone froze. Our worst fear was confirmed. Did we really all have just one stock to work with?
Bowser slowly moved towards Jess. "I might as well get rid of your only life!" Heh, not when I'm around. I dashed right behind Bowser and said, "HOLD IT! You and I have a score to settle!" Sam came by soon enough to back me up if necessary.
Bowser only turned his head and smirked. "Shall I call the Gerudos?"
"Alright you," Sam quietly yelled at Bowser, "Talk! What is it that you want!"
"Want? Heh, what I always want of course!" he chuckled in his reply.
"The Mushroom Kingdom's not here I can tell you that," I said.
"But there is more to it. Much more." Bowser affirmed.
"Well whatever it is you want, your gonna have to get past all four of us!" I warned him as I clenched my fists and held them near my muzzle. "Your insane! I already beat you down once before, not to mention your other two lackeys!"
"I can assure you young fox, that was not me. You may think you had me." Bowser faced his attention towards me. His demon eyes made direct contact with mine. "While you are indeed a powerful warrior in your world, you seem to forget who is in control here," he said as he lifted his arms in the air. "You're in my world now. This is no dream, no game, but a twisted, complex universe in the making! You are just not strong enough to defeat me."
I was about ready to shove his words down his throat. "I ALREADY DID! AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN!" I was all pumped up to smash Bowser out of the arena.
Bowser gave me a sinister look as he said, "Bring it on."
Sam backed off a bit. I leaped in the air and quickly dashed right at Bowser with a Fox Illusion. Bowser seemed ready for it as he side step dodged my illusion. Almost immediately he turned around at my vulnerable body and lunged his head forward and delivered a nasty Side Smash. He rammed his horns right into my back as I was sent flying into the air from the awesome impact.
Bowser took a small leap in the air and jammed my back again with the back of his hard spiky shell. I forced my way back down to the ground with a defensive roll. I looked straight up to see the Koppa King coming down with his Bowser Bomb. "Too easy," I thought. I rolled right out of the way of his deadly assault, but something happened that I have never seen before. Bowser slammed his rear into the steps of the entrance to the temple, and for some reason it caused the ground to rumble like a violent earthquake. Everyone in the entire arena felt the shake and tossed us down to the ground. As I was trying to regain my balance, I noticed a small shockwave heading my direction. It was coming in on me fast. I had no time to defend. It's energy sliced right through me and lifted me once again into the air. Before I could make out what as happening, Bowser was moving three times as fast than normal. He gathered strength as he put his body into his invincible shell and rammed me again. I barely managed to grapple onto the far left ledge. Bowser landed onto the ground and waited for my next move.
I grinned as I let go of the tip and fell. Bowser rushed to the edge and looked over with an evil expression. I stopped myself in midair by charging the Fire Fox and aimed it right beneath him. My body flew straight up back into the ring, with an aura of flames protecting me. The impact on Bowser made him stagger into the air. Quickly I moved back into the stage next to the pillars of the entrance.
I felt beat. Panting and trying to catch my breath, I held my ground and waited to see what would happen. I examined my percentage count. 120%. How did he get me up from zero to one twenty so fast? He shouldn't be this strong or this fast. Bowser could somehow sense my hesitation. He could tell by the expression on my face. He merely just took a few steps forward while I stepped back.
Bowser and I made eye to eye contact with rage burning up. He slowly lifted his head back. My eyes widened for a second. He was going to try and smoke me with his fiery breath. Instinctively, I held onto my Reflector Shield, though I had a feeling it wasn't going to be an ordinary Fire Breath. Bowser opened his mouth and unleashed a cyclone of hot red flames straight at me. The flamethrower hit my Reflector Shield, but it just seemed to bounce right off it rather than reflect it back at him. The rate of fire did not grow weaker as it went on. It pounded my shied with it's magma force and heat. I was breaking a sweat trying to get up my defense, but it was no good. I had to stop the shield before it broke and left me vulnerable to Bowser's finishing move. The flame breath hit me and pushed me back a little. I was eaten up by the flames as it did so. The attack stayed on my body and the fire wouldn't stop. "How is this possible?" I thought. The pain was so unbearable. The heat made me fell as if I was on the surface of the sun. I tried to roll on the ground to shake it off. Bowser anticipated this. He took this opportunity to grab me in a Koppa Klaw.
The fire was off my body, but I wasn't relieved from any pain. That attack boosted me up to a high 157%. Now I was in the claws of the Koppa King. His brutal gripe was on my neck. He lifted me up with victory in his eyes. I frantically tried to break free, but his gripe was just way too much. On top of that, I was already worn out from all of the damage I have suffered. Bowser gave a proud roar as he took a bit into my flesh.
"LET GO!" shouted Sam as he made his way towards us. I could have used the help earlier, but knowing me I would have probably told them to back away if they tried.
"Make on move and I'll DESTROY HIM!" Bowser silently barked with command in his voice. His eyes became fixed on Sam. I was still constantly struggling to break free. The only words that came out of my mouth were, "you... Wish!"
"Where are those items when you need them?" Cal thought to himself.
Everyone stood their ground without saying a word. Straight across from them stood the Koppa King strangling yours truly, ready to dig his jaws into me again.
"Come on Bowser," Sam slowly taunted. "You too chicken to fight someone a lot stronger?"
Bowser chuckled under his breath. "You still dare to doubt my abilities? HAHA! You probably won't mind if I was to do.." I knew what was coming. "THIS!" he crunched his jaw into me once again. I yelped in agony as he did it again. "AND THIS!" I became too tired to holler in pain. I was shaking a bit as he continued to hack away.
"BREAK FREE!" Sam ordered in anger.
"I'm .... Trying! I CAN'T!" I said with every ounce of my depleted strength.
"Come on!" Cal cheered a bit. "You can do it!"
"Hehehe, he's obviously too weak to do so!" Bowser grinned as he gave me another deadly bite. Was it possible to be knocked out unconscious rather than out of the stage in this world? Cause if it is, sign me up. This was just way too much for me.
"Guys we have to do something!" Cal said weakly. "Who knows what will happen if he loses a stock!"
Something clicked in Bowser's mind. He began to laugh uncontrollably. "HAHAHAHA! I'LL SHOW YOU!" Everyone was shocked by his response. Bowser tightened his gripe on me and quickly hurled me out to the left, right out of the stage. I flew straight out, so fast as if I was blown up by a Bob- omb at 300%.
I crashed right onto the side of the arena. My body was pressed against an imaginary wall with such a force that could push a mountain. I felt like I was going to combust as a bright multicolored flash sucked me in. Oddly enough, while I was being jolted with this strange force, I began to feel a little refreshed. Suddenly, I vanished!
"HAHAHAHA!" Bowser laughed with great pride of his accomplishment. Immediately after he that, he charged right at the remaining Smashers, who were already charging right at him. All three valiant swordsmen began a fury of sword dances as they came in Bowser's direction. Bowser took the hits hard as the slashed in all directions. He quickly countered their attacks with by hiding in his shell and be to spin around, catching all three Smashers in it like a whirlpool. They were sent hurling into the air when Jess noticed something.
"LOOK!" he pointed. A small platform drifted down from the sky, and lying in it was a young ace fox pilot.
"Whoa.what happened?" I mumbled as I slowly rose my head.
"Well look who has decided to show!" Bowser said. He stepped back a little and lifted his right arm in the air. "BOB-OMBS!" he shouted. The clear blue sky became polluted with an atmosphere of Bob-ombs!
"What is this?" asked Sam.
"We'll meet again! You can count on it!" Bowser stepped into a portal that conveniently opened right in front of him, and vanished as soon as he entered.
I took note of what covered the sky. Rows and Rows of Bob-ombs were about to drop straight down. "EVERYONE GET DOWN!" I frantically ordered. Cal was already down in the cave, taking cover. I quickly made my way down and noticed Sam just standing there. "What are you doing?" I asked.
"Relax," he said confidently. Jess stood by his side waiting to see what he would do. The bombs began to drop. It wasn't like in Sudden Death Mode, where Bob-ombs fell one at a time. They came down like a sheet of rain. Sam must of figured that he could stop them by leaping into the air and using Counter, which made his body invincible for a second allowing him to destroy a couple of rows. Jess followed and did the same. Of course, they did not know just exactly how many bombs were dropping. The bombs began bombarding the area, with the only safe place being the underground cave. Sam and Jess were hit by the onslaught and were blown right out of the stage.
"Those idiots!" I said. I looked up into the sky and saw two bright sparkles in the background. The ground above us rumbled as if we were on a war front. We got out as the smoke finally cleared.
Cal began to ponder. "How do we know how many stocks we have? I thought we only had one."
"Let's hope that's not the case," I replied shakily. We stepped out of the passage and looked up to see if the Fire Emblem warriors came back. Sure enough, two platforms came down from the sky and carried them back down. I sighed a sigh of relief. "Good, you guys are alright."
"Oh.. Man," Sam moaned as he jumped off.
"Is. Bowser. gone?" asked Jess.
"Yeah, he ran away," I quickly answered. " I still don't see why he's so powerful! His attacks seemed different than normal. And somehow, he summoned a shower of Bob-ombs. This is just too bizarre."
Cal stared at the ground. "Well if this is a dream, I would like to wake up now."
"This is way to real to be a dream," responded Sam.
"I'm still not convinced," Cal said in a doubtful tone.
"Well I don't know about you guys, but I'm leaving this place and getting to the bottom of this," I said cheerfully. "If I know these kind of scenarios any better, than there is a lot more to this Smash Bros. world than we thought there was."
"And how do you plan on getting off this level?" asked Sam.
"Oh I'm pretty sure there's a way," I quickly replied. "We just have to find something to help us out."
As if something answered my plea, a bright flash brought forth an old man in elaborate robes. It came from the underground cave. He floated out of his portal like aura and stood beside us. Everyone turned around, hoping it wasn't another threat. Some of us however immediately recognized who it was.