The Day the Universes Collided
Chapter Twenty-One
Nintendo Home Base
Game Realm P.C.
Time: 1445 hours
Elfin grinned as he looked down at Link, who was propped upside down against the far wall, Megaton Hammer in one hand. He snickered for a bit as the elf hero pouted at him.
"I take it the big heavy hammer didn't work. Heh, heh." Elfin teased as Link grumped and snorted.
"Shut up. I'd like to see you try to hit it." he retorted and winced as he fell over, "Ow! It feels like all the strength was sucked out of my body."
"Must be the figurine's shield that's doing it." Elfin muttered and turned to study Sumitra again, "I suppose this means that I'm the one to exploit the weakness and destroy it. But I think I'll do better if I try and figure out why it's bouncing back attacks." With that, he sat down in front of the figurine and studied it carefully, thinking. Sumitra merely sat in front of a large orb of golden energy. This orb, as Allstar Link grumbled while on the floor, was the Nintendo Power Core. It pulsed softly. Then it suddenly glowed brighter and Sumitra began to squirm. Elfin blinked and raised an eyebrow.
"Eh? Allstar? What's that thing doing?" he asked and turned to look at him. Allstar and Dark Link sat side by side against the wall, resting, but now were staring wide-eyed at the core.
"We are Nintendo; our luck is in heaven. We do what we can, with what we have, and await the results. We are blessed with the luck of heaven. We are Nintendo; Nintendo will endure." they both recited over and over. The core pulsed brighter and seemed to come alive.
"Guys, what the hell are you doing?" Elfin growled.
"Praying, I would think." Link remarked, looking their way from where he lay on the floor, "Fat load of good that's doing us now."
"But why pray? What gave them the idea to?" Waker remarked as he sat propped against the twins. Sumitra wriggled faster, making strange noises like beeping and whining as it did.
"Don't know, but this thing seems to not like it." Elfin remarked and blinked, "You don't suppose that the prayer these guys are saying and that pulsing energy core have anything to do with Sumitra going on the blitz, do you?"
"If it's doing that to Sumitra, what could it be doing to the Nintendo Twins?" Link remarked in confusion. The group blinked and thought about that as the Allstar twins continued chanting.
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Above Ruins of Star Fox Homeworld
Game Realm P.C.
Time: 1445 hours
Nin and Tendo writhed in space, clutching their heads and wailing in pain. X and Baux glared hatefully at the two Entities calling out to their characters. Maverick used his Power Pearl to float closer to the Twins, looking determined as ever.
"Children! FanFics! Third-Worlders! Please pray to the luck of heaven! Pray for Nintendo and feed them the Power of Creativity so they may fight back against the evil and regain their senses!" Sony cried to the entire universe.
"Come on, Sega characters! I know you can hear me! Pray to Nintendo and get back their sanity!" Sega declared and pumped her fists into the air. She then spread her arms out and looked up at Tendo, a look of grim determination on her face. "We are Nintendo; our luck is in heaven!" She winced in pain as a surge of energy rushed through her body, angered by her words of praise to another group of Entities. Ignoring it, she pressed on, reciting the words that Tendo had taught her long ago when the realm was in ruins during The Cataclysm.
"Damn. Now every fucking character and FanFic alive is chanting that stupid poem. Have they no idea that saying it in our presence reduces our power?!" X grumbled irritatingly. Baux shrugged. "What's with the silent treatment? Finally decided to use your brain for something other than keeping your head from caving in on itself?"
"Maverick's not paying attention to us." he remarked simply. X blinked at him, then looked towards the elf. "How many of our ships has he blown up over the years? Four hundred? Five? I wonder...if I fired an X Beam at him, would he notice it then? He seems distracted by those two goodies."
"Baux, if you so much as mess up one blonde hair on his head, I'm gonna fucking kick you in the dick so hard, you'll be fucking yourself inside out." X snarled, eyes glowing a vivid lime green. Baux scowled and shuddered as the chants went on from all over the universe. "Now where was I? Oh yeah. If enough of those damn prayers get said, the Nintendo Power Core should overload with energy and zap those two in the head." X remarked and tapped her lip thoughtfully. "And if that zap is big enough, they'll recover and realize what's happened. And when they do, they're gonna wanna fix everything, like they always wanna do."
"Well, they'll be shit outta luck 'cause they don't have a Backup System now to put back all the dead characters and worlds! Ha ha! We win anyway!" Baux laughed, "And while they get weepy over their characters, I can swoop down, snag 'em in the Darkness Prism, and have some serious fun!"
"Hold on, before you get your hard on, you'd better learn something. I brushed up on these two for a while." X grumbled and blinked as Maverick was knocked back by Nin, who recovered temporarily and unleashed another Meteor Storm attack before screaming in pain and pulling at her hair. "Damn, that was a good shot. Oh, yeah, they don't need a Backup System anymore. The Twins created a counterspell of their own to Nintendo's Wrath." she remarked.
"They did what now?" Baux asked as X suddenly jumped to her feet.
"Shitshitshit! If they get their sanity back, that's the first spell they're gonna do!" she screamed, "If we don't get the hell outta here and get back to our system before they use it, we'll get reset to the first stage!"
"What?!" Baux cried and jumped with her, "You mean get turned back into X Spirit?! We'll lose all of our powers then! And we'll be sexless too! We'll be one thing! What the hell spell is that, to turn Entities into their original forms?!"
"You don't want to know! Move your ass, Baux, or I'll leave it behind and let you get fucked over by Nin and Tendo!" X shrieked and leaped into space, vanishing in a blast of toxic green light. Baux scowled and leaped after.
"Gates knows you'd love to watch that happen...." he muttered and disappeared in the same color blast of light. Maverick righted himself and spotted the two bright flashes, frowning. He had expected the X Twins to try something with Nin and Tendo incapacitated as they were, but instead, they cut and ran.
"Why? What do you know that we don't?" he murmured. The Twins screamed again and he turned his attention to them, "Twins! Nin! Tendo! Fight the figurine! Don't let it control you! Listen to the prayers of all the characters that exist! The Power of Good, the Power of Creativity, those are the forces you should be listening to, not some stupid otherworld doll!"
"Pain! Pain! It hurts so much! Nin, all the voices! Make them stop!" Tendo wailed, holding his head and writhing, "I don't know who to listen to, Nin! There are voices from different worlds telling me what to do!"
"Follow the voice you know is right! Trust your hearts! You know who is the true mastermind behind the Power of Creativity that fuels you!" Sony called and cried sharply as Nin lashed out at her with a stream of energy blades.
"Sony!" Maverick yelled and threw a shield generator in her direction, "Catch! Fall back and recover! There's nothing more we can do now!" Sega wailed suddenly and began twisting about in pain. "Sega! Stop chanting! Your energy will kill you if you keep singing Nintendo prayers! Your characters are in enough pain as it is, reciting words that aren't theirs!" he snapped at her.
"No! There aren't enough voices! So, I'll add my own!" she growled and went on chanting. Maverick pursed his mouth, watching her suffer as she continued. Finally, he sighed and turned to face the writhing Twins.
"We are Nintendo; our luck is in heaven." he began to say softly, struggling to recall the exact words he long ago had placed all his trust in....
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Nintendo Home Base
Game Realm P.C.
Time: 1450 hours
"It bounced off the sword, the hookshot and the hammer. All of those things are the main weapons you usually use." Elfin muttered as he watched Sumitra continue spazzing. He had his sunglasses on, blocking out most of the power core's glaring light. The other Links groaned, eyes shut tight as the twins continued muttering hoarsely.
"We know that already! So what's your main weapon?! Hurry up so you can get knocked around like us!" Link yelled. Elfin grinned and stood up.
"My main weapon? It's my whole body." he replied simply and kicked Sumitra into the air. The figurine flew up and writhed as Elfin quickly moved into a roundhouse kick and sent it across the room. It hit the wall and would have touched the floor if he hadn't darted over and spun into another kick to slam it again. The can cracked and sparked with each blow, unable to send back the attack as it was distracted with the flow of new energy.
"Hey, this is kinda fun, too! I'm getting a real good workout from this!" Elfin laughed as he jumped up and delivered another kick that smashed Sumitra into the wall a final time. It shattered into several pieces and clattered to the floor. Link fell over and rubbed his eyes.
"Hey! My strength's back!" he exclaimed in surprise as Waker got up and stretched. "You did it, Elfin! You destroyed the figurine for this world!"
"Yeah, now let's get outta here before something else just as screwed up as this thing decides to attack us!" Elfin declared and grabbed for one of the twins, "Help me with Tweedle Dee and Dumb here!"
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Above Ruins of Star Fox Homeworld
Game Realm P.C.
Time: 1453 hours
Nin and Tendo suddenly stopped moving and stood frozen, staring blankly out at nothing. Maverick blinked and paused in his recitation as Sega and Sony fell silent and watched them. What was going on?
Tendo moved first, bringing his hands down to look at them strangely. He looked around, then at his sister, who mimicked his actions. He cocked his head a bit and looked confused.
"Nin? What are we doing in space?" he asked her. Nin mirrored his expression and shrugged. "I remember going to the core and seeing some funny little thing...but then nothing else."
"Tendo!!!" Sega cried and shot forward, grabbing him in a fierce hug, "Tendo! You're back to normal! Oh thank the heavens they listened to us and came around again!" Tendo looked startled by the sudden embrace as Maverick leaned back in space and grinned crookedly.
"Sony? What are your war ships doing here? This is Nintendo airspace. We have a peace treaty, you know." Nin said in a low voice, obviously frustrated with what was going on. Sony, Sega and Maverick all suddenly realized the original goal at that moment.
"Don't you remember anything, Mother?!" Sony cried as Maverick tried desperately to think of a way to tell the Twins what happened, "You've destroyed all of your children! Look down there! You burned Star Fox and all of the worlds you've created to ashes! You killed them all!" Nin and Tendo jerked in shock, then reached out with their power to find their children. Their eyes grew wider when they couldn't feel anyone in their area.
"What have we done?" Nin murmured and began to cry, "Tendo! What did we do? I can't find anyone! I can't find Mario or the Links or Princess Peach!"
"I can't find anything either! Sega! What was I doing?!" Tendo exclaimed, looking at the pixie in horror. Sega gave him an expressionless look.
"You mean, besides ripping my wings out? Wiping out people left and right." she replied flatly. Tendo pulled away quickly and looked to his sister.
"Nin, this is horrible! What will the Players think?! We've destroyed everything we created!" he cried, "We've turned into X and Baux!"
"Calm down, Tendo!" Nin blurted and darted her eyes around, thinking as fast as she could, "We have time, but we don't have energy. It was all used up freeing ourselves, and the voices of the other characters have gone silent. They can't say our prayer any longer, or they'll be killed by their own energy."
"What do we do?" Tendo whispered. Nin closed her eyes, sighed and opened them again, giving her brother a fiercely determined look.
"We're going to bring them all back. We used Nintendo's Wrath on everything. So we'll have to use the ultimate healing spell to put everything back the way it was!" she told him. Tendo looked startled, then worried. "I know we may not have the energy for it, but we can pull it off with our own."
"Nin.... We could die...." Tendo murmured in a low voice. Nin winced slightly and nodded, "Seems like we don't have a choice anyway. All right. I'll go along with it."
"Maverick, I want to say that I'm sorry for whatever we did during our madness." Nin told the captain.
"You weren't in control of yourself. A figurine from another world was sent here to destroy this world and it chose you two to do it with." Maverick replied, "I'm more concerned with what you two are about to do. We can't use my Backup Copy. Nintendo's advanced too far for it to be of any use." Nin floated up to him and leaned forward. Maverick cringed, then looked surprised when she only murmured something in his ear and then pulled back. After a moment, her words hit home. "You're going to WHAT?!?!" he screamed, "Holy Mother of Miyamoto! Everyone! Get out of here! NOW!"
"What? Why?" Sega asked as Maverick flew to her and grabbed her wrist, "Hey! What's going on?!"
"Sony! Get out of here! Go to your world! Take your characters with you! Nin and Tendo are going to restart the system!" he shouted at her, "Sega! Warp us back to your system! If we're in this space when they restart, we'll be turned back into our original selves!"
"But...but...how?!" Sega sputtered.
"I completely forgot about the last spell that Nin and Tendo had used to rebuild the Game Realm! They're going to...!" Maverick declared as Sony screamed in realization and vanished in a burst of silver light, her remaining ships blinking out of space with her.
"Holy Yugi Naka! They're gonna use Nintendo's Dream!" Sega finally caught on, "We are soooo outta here!" She vanished in a flurry of blue sparkles, taking Maverick with her. Nin and Tendo nodded at each other and curled up into balls, hugging their knees close to their bodies and closing their eyes, sighing in relaxation as they drifted off to sleep.
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The Legacy of Links
Game Realm P.C.
Time: 1450 hours
"Hey, guys? What's that?" Link asked, looking out the portholes at a wave of light that was fast approaching them. Allstar and Dark Link looked out with him and shrugged.
"Whatever it is, it's coming this way. Fast." Dark Link murmured.
"Oh, this can't be good." Advance Dark Link groaned as he spotted the wave. "Everyone! Brace for impact!" The little elves strapped themselves into their seats as the other Links looked at each other, then raced for their own.
The wave of light hit the Legacy of Links head on, passing through it as the heroes inside cried out in shock, their heads spinning madly as they saw the whole world turn brilliant white, then darkest black.....