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Episode 2, Part 3
"Oh no…" I grumbled. The tag-battle part of the tourney had begun. I was paired up with Luigi. That was the good part. We were going up against Flak and Ganondorf, though. That was the bad part.
Luigi sighed. "Of course we'd go up against two of the worst villains ever to fight us. Link and Zelda are going up against Bowser and K. Rusha…and Marth and Roy are against Wizpig and Risky Boots…Shantae and Roll are fighting GeminiMan and Amye…"
We continued down the list, and in every single fight (and there were way too many to be coincidence), two heroes were facing off against two villains. And believe me, I'd gotten plenty suspicious since Ganon and his cronies attacked us. I turned to confront our host.
"Male Wire Frame!" I shouted.
He turned. "Yes, Mario?"
"Okay, in every single fight, two heroes are fighting two villains. Can you explain why more heroes and villains aren't fighting each other?"
"Simple; I didn't feel like it."
"What? So it's not all random?" said Luigi, stepping in.
"It was," said the criss-crossing announcer, "Until some…unexpected turns of events came to light."
"What events?" asked Luigi.
"Yes, I haven't noticed anything happen-" then I was interrupted.
"You had better go get ready," said Male Wire Frame, a hint of 'You'd better do what I say or I'll crush you' in his voice.
"Fine…" said Luigi. But I wasn't so compliant.
"You had better tell us what's going on, or else we'll tell everyone something fishy's up!"
"They already know," said our our-so-unlovable host, hitting a button on the wall. With that, Luigi and I began to fade into the air, then finally teleported away in a brilliant flash of green light.
We reappeared in a dark, gothic castle that was battered, beaten, and almost, but not quite, in ruins. We heard footsteps behind us, and turned to face the threat.
Flak, lumbering along like usual, slowly walked into the room, grinning like the dunce he was. Ganondorf came down from levitating behind us, trapping us between a rock, a hard place, and a really big statue of a Stalfos.
"Well, Mario Bros., looks like your time is up. No items to help, no friends to cheer you on, and no living if you lose. Let's begin, shall we?"
Flak charged at us from behind me, in front of Luigi, (back to back bros.) and Luigi slammed into him, electrically powered, sending Flak through the wall and ruining Ganon's Castle even further.
I leapt at the King of Evil, hammer ready to strike, and he waited till I was about a foot away, then pulled out his sword. "Grahaah!" he yelled, as he blocked the hit, then spun his sword counterclockwise, then slashed horizontally, followed by a backslash with a spin. I dodged both, then swung my hammer to block the spin. His left hand held the sword, both my hands holding my hammer, his head turned toward me, and
His body turned sideways from me, so I was looking at his right shoulder.
Ganon's right hand clenched, commanding the unholy ground I was standing on to enclose around me, but in doing so, let loose with his sword. I jumped over his head, in front of him, doing a side-flip and turning a 180 so I ended up facing him. I shot a curved fire shot to him, which stopped about two inches in front of him, starting off a wildfire. He put his right hand forward, making a circular gap in the flames, then turning them blue, collecting them into one mass, and sending the stream straight up, turning it into a giant, flaming, dark blue snake.
I jumped, hammer raised once again, shouting a battle cry. "HIII-"
"-YAH!" my brother finished for me on the other side of the battlefield, in the exact same pose I was in. He swung the hammer down, scoring another successful blow to the giant known as Flak, but not seeming to do anything besides make the strongman stumble back a bit. Even though Flak had only hit twice, one of them a grazing blow, Luigi's left overall strap was torn off, and his left eye was black and swollen shut.
The gorilla grinned, mumbling to himself. "Hehehe…my CO Power meter is full!" he suddenly shouted, letting Luigi see his watch, (which apparently was really a power meter) which was glowing.
Suddenly Flak frowned, beginning to glow. "Graggkah…straggg…FLAK SMASH!"
"What are you, The Hulk?" Luigi asked Flak, mockingly, though I could see the fear in his eyes.
"BARBARIC BLOW!" Flak shouted.
Luigi began to back up, yet still kept up the insults. "Congratulations, you used a three-syllable word!"
Flak let out a roar akin to that of a gorilla-lion-our uncle when he's angry hybrid. He leapt about 11 feet toward Luigi, slamming his fists down on my brother. He missed, only slightly, still letting the blow hit my brother, but also hitting the ground, and sending out a shockwave that sent my brother flying.
He then charged after my brother, into the woods surrounding the castle. Sadly, I don't know the rest of Luigi's fight. But with my fight, things had begun to heat up like crazy. I had beaten the snake, which burnt up in purple flames, and jumped toward Ganon, foot first. He raised his sword up, aiming for said foot, but I moved my leg slightly, moving the sword and creating a platform for me to stand on at the same time. Before the evil king could react, I flame-punched one, two, three times, but Ganon's head moved just the right way each time, so he evaded all three. He then flung the sword upward, catching it, but not me. I landed on my feet, rolling backward and picking up my hammer, which I had dropped.
I raised my mallet just in time to block a vertical blow from Ganondorf, who gathered purple energy around his right fist, and sent it forward along the ground with a punch downward. He, once again, loosened up on the sword, though, so I was able to jump away. He then raised his hand above his head, and a black ball of light (paradox number 2!) formed, swirling and bending and twisting in and out of itself, so it looked as if even Ganondorf Dragmire himself could not hold in the magic. He finally let it go, sending 6 balls of bright light, with a tail just as bright on each one, hurtling toward me.
I used my hammer to just barely block them all, sending the first one into the second one , sending the third back at behind me, sending the fourth to my left, the fifth straight up, and the sixth actually missed me altogether.
I took opportunity of this mistake, jumping into the air, swinging my hammer. Instead of blocking it, the terrible tyrant dove under me, slicing my left shoulder, making me drop my hammer and making my left arm useless.
As soon as I landed, moaning with pain, I turned for my hammer, but Ganondorf punched me away, then flew toward me, swinging the sword straight down. I blocked wit ha flaming punch, and then blocked two more sword swings before a horizontal swing sent me flying. I felt the fresh blood on my cheek, and then created yet another flaming fist. I leapt, punching at Ganondorf, but he grabbed my hand, dispersing the flames, and cracked my knuckles, sending me, screaming, to my knees. With his right hand, he raised his sword for the final blow, and I looked up knowing that I could do nothing to stop it.
But my brother could.
He swung his electrically charged hammer as he jumped, sending Ganon skidding across the ground, making him drop his sword. My brother then turned to me and said, "Yo, bro, what do you know?"
I shouted for joy, half hugging my brother, (one arm of mine was useless). Then we heard Ganondorf rise. I dove, picking up my hammer and taking a fighting stance. Luigi ran to my side.
"Huff…hah…" gasped Ganondorf, finally tired out. "I must admit…you two are several times stronger than I expected…if your brother is half as tough as you are, then I'm not sure I can win this fight as Ganondorf…" He then rose into the air, which seemed to speed away with him, along with the rocks, trees, and even the ground itself.
Finally, Ganon's arms and legs began to grow, and his body turned into a chest, a tail and lower body seeming to grow from it. His feet turned into hoofs, and his knees buckled forward, rearranging his joints with a loud crack, similar to that of lightning.
His head turned toward us, his eyes the most piercing red I've ever seen ,but slowly fading into an even more piercing, and very bright yellow. His head got larger as his neck widened, his hair becoming muffled and tangled, his nose and mouth fusing into a snout. Finally, two tusks spouted from said snout, finishing his transformation into the most fearsome creature ever, Mandrag Ganon.
My brother and I were shocked and afraid of this form…if you're rounding down by hundreds. If you weren't, we were paralyzed and terrified, and probably more than said terror except I can't think of a better adjective for either.
We snapped out of being paralyzed when two lightning bolts came from the sky into Ganon's hands, forming twin silver swords. He swung those swords vertically, one slightly higher and to the right of the other. My brother and I jumped over the swords, barely, only to be faced by a flurry of more swords.
Mandrag was only slightly slower than Ganondorf, but his strikes were at least 10 times more deadly…on his off-days. Me and Luigi knew it was either dodge those swords or instantly die.
Finally, Luigi worked his way behind the warthog, leaping with all his might toward the creature's head. The creature's tail, however, knocked him aside, into a pillar. He then bent over and, gathering a ball of energy into his mouth, shot a laser beam at me. I leapt again, above Ganon, who just turned the beam upward, zapping my left arm, which was already in pain. Now, I was surprised it wasn't torn off, and I was actually kind of hoping someone would. Then, Ganon turned, swinging his swords again. Luigi shot a beam of electricity, zapping the pig's eyes, and stunning it. I sent a burst of flame down his throat, and he instantly got up, coughing out smoke.
He then tried stepping on us, something probably meant to be a laugh coming from his throat. Then, he stuck his swords straight up at his "sides" and they started to glow. He put the two glowing sticks together, making a large trident. He gathered a ball of static electricity around the three tips, sending it our way. Luigi tried to stop the ball, but, like Bowser's fire breath, the blast was too powerful, and my brother was badly hurt.
The pig then tried to skewer me, sticking the trident into the ground over and over like a pitchfork being stuck into hay. Finally, Luigi jumped toward me, shouting out the name of one of our attacks.
CYCLONE BROS.!
I twirled Luigi around and around, finally tossing him at Ganon, and jumping aside just in time to dodge another blast from the trident. Luigi landed on Mandrag's nose, and then stuck a hand in each eye, sending electricity coursing through Ganon's head…literally. I could see it.
"AHHHH!" yelled Ganon, "My eyyyyes!"
He then smacked Luigi off his head, only to get a phoenix-shaped fireball in his chest, followed by a few quick hammer strikes as I hung onto his collar with my left hand, which I actually had to kick up with my foot..
He flailed around a bit, then finally picked me off, staring me in the face. I gave a sheepish smile, then an evil smirk as Luigi bounced on, off, on, off, on, off, etc. his head. Each time the King of Evil, who was now getting his butt whooped, was hit, he flinched, finally dropping me.
We continued to pound on him until, finally, he went down. He stood silent for a second, then started whooping and hollering like mad, patting each other on the back, shaking hands, congratulating, etc.
Then Ganon quickly rose, sent out a shockwave that sent us about 30 feet backwards, and shouted "ENOUGH!" at the exact same time. He then went charging, holding two swords again, and swinging like mad.
I looked at my brother, he looked at me. We smiled, clanking our hammers together.
TORNADO BROS.! And we were sent spinning, blacking the monster's hits left and right, finally smashing into his head.
Finally the beast went down again, turning back into Ganondorf, and we instantly teleported back, as the computer yelled. "This game's winners are…Mario and Luigi!"
We were met at the teleportation device by a fierce battle, waged between the heroes and villains. We saw Ness and Knuckles battling a giant robot that looked somewhat like Eggman with a lance and a shield. Link stormed through several Black Hole infantry, slicing as he went. Finally, he reached the device, looking over at the unconscious evildoers beside us.
"So you won your match, huh? But, apparently, just barely. Here, it's my last one, but you can have it," he said, holding out a blue potion.
We each took half, and therefore weren't fully energized, but our flesh wounds were all healed. As I tested out my left arm again, Luigi thanked Link. "Thank-a you so much! What can we do to help the good guys?"
"You're probably a couple of the highest-ranked heroes we have…get in there, fast!"
With that, SnakeMan slithered toward us, fangs bared wide. He jumped, going for Link, whose Mirror Shield sent the green lizard fumbling back. He got up, feeling his wounds, where purple blood seeped from. Link jumped into him, foot first.
I rushed next to Luigi, turned to him, said "You heard him, let's get in there!" and dashed forward, punching a Waddle Doo on my way.
Kirby, who was nearby, faced off against Gruntilda, who threw a green fireball at him. He inhaled it, and on his head instantly appeared a crown, flaming with might. He shot 1, 2, 3 fireballs at the skeleton witch, who blocked the first and 2d shots, but was too slow to send a fireball of her own at the third. She was then knocked back by a fiery stream, and Kirby was knocked away, now powerless, by Valter, the corrupt Dragon Rider.
Bomberman tossed a bomb at Larry Koopa, who seemed to have a new obsession every month. This month? Tennis. Using his racket, Larry sent the bomb back, getting into a ready stance in case B-man sent the bomb back.
He was not, however, expecting Donkey Kong to rush in front of Bomberman with a barrel and catch the bomb, then throw the barrel at him. Larry was so surprised, in fact, that he didn't react in time, and got blown away. D-Kong high-fived B-Man, accidentally sending the white Bomber flying. "Sorry…" he yelled.
Flak, who had apparently woken up, charged in front of DK, and they grabbed each other's hands above each other's heads, faces about an inch apart, in a frowning/staring/strength contest. Finally, Flak began to glow. Smiling maniacally, he shouted out, "BRUTE FORCE!" And he started to force DK down to the ground, and you could see the strain on Donkey's face as he was forced down on one knee.
"Hey!"
Flak turned towards the voice.
Buck, my little green orange-mohawk'd little Yoshi friend from the Glitz Pit was standing there, holding a green-spotted egg. "Leave my friend alone!" he yelled, tossing the egg, hitting Flak in the eye and creating a small firework-like-display.
Flak winced, then started to shrink, Kong gaining the upper hand again. When he reached about 5 inches tall, he stopped shrinking, only still holding up against DK because of his CO power. He let go, sending the king of the jungle stumbling, and ran away, screaming in the second-most-high-pitched voice I ever heard.
Meanwhile, FireMan was getting ready to fire a blast of…fire…from his two turret-like arms. I shot my hands into the barrels, sending the fire back in, and causing the turrets to explode. Fire tumbled over, his arms now a mass of wires, and then I sent him into the audience stands, unconscious.
Luigi threw the oddly persistent Waddle Doo over his shoulder, and Kirby sucked him up, turning into Beam Kirby. He then jumped onto Samus's back, sending all his power-up energy into the "battery"/jetpack on her back. She then raised her arm, and, without charging, sent out a massive storm of Kirby's Beam ability, sending Eggman's robots, Black Hole troops, and a very upset Doopliss running.
Luigi and I finally reached Male and Female Wire Frame, the Male with his hands on his hips, and the Female with her arms around the Male is a loving embrace. The Male raised his right arm and snapped his fingers. Suddenly, without their actually moving, the Fighting Polygon Team "dashed" sideways in front of us, hundreds of fighter copies staring us down.
I have a feeling Male Wire Frame would have smirked if he had a mouth. He said, "Attack!" and they did.
"Captain Falcon" and "Amy Rose" leapt on me, attacking relentlessly for a second or two before I sent "C. Falcon" into the stratosphere and "A. Rose" into "K. Rool" Luigi kicked "Zero" in the chest, creating a hole. Then "Zero" cracked into millions of tiny pieces.
We continued like this with much of the team, before they began to overwhelm us. I could no longer tell which Fighting Polygon was supposed to be which as I was punched and kicked at the same time, and finally they had me on the ground, kicking at me.
I don't remember what happened next, but Luigi tells me I created a fireball around myself, sending the polygons into whatever place they referred to as the afterlife. I then went on a flaming rampage, stopping (and waking up) in front of the Wire Frames.
They suddenly separated themselves from each other, stood up straight in the exact same position, and started to unwrap their wires, rewrapping them around the other. They fused together using this method, gaining height, until finally two smash symbols were floating around inside the "head", circling around each other, and the two hearts had formed into one grotesque heart, beating at a rate of hundreds of times a second.
When all was said and done, a giant monster with a muscular chest, but very skinny arms, and hands with claws on the end, stood before us. It had a half-circle head, with no neck, and a gigantic mouth with sharper-than-razor teeth within. The mouth took up most of the space on the "face" and there were no eyes or nose. Two "blades" made from quills like Sonic's, (only pink) emerged from the shoulders and went down the hunched back, creating an effect like they were one.
The monster roared, then sent one of its clawed hands toward us, speed comparing to that of Sonic…okay, not Sonic. But BeastMan. Yeah. Him.
Luckily, Luigi's hammer was out. After he blocked, I slid left, shooting a fireball into its face. The monster roared with pain, but somehow I could feel it wasn't really hurt. It then rolled into a ball, trying to run us over.
I dodged left, my brother right, quickly diving back for a hammer hit, knocking off a few quills. He ended up behind me, after nearly getting shot by Fawful, who was then shot down by Fox.
Luigi yelled for yet another Bros. Attack as the monster got back up, ready to fight some more.
HAMMERTOSS BROS.!
Luigi electrically charged his hammer, and then tossed it to me. I hit it into the wiry abomination's heart, and electricity coursed through it. Soon, its heart blew up, and it fell over backwards, the sledge hammer landing in Luigi's hands. I rushed on top of it, grabbing two of its wires in the places that would be considered a collar.
"Okay, who started this war, and how do we get home?" I yelled angrily.
"B—bow…ser…" the creature said, answering half my question before it's head fell, and it started to fade into the air, finally melting into pink wisps of air, leaving two said wisps in my hands. I unclenched my hands, looking at the wisps, and after a second or two, they disappeared.
"MARIO! LUIGI!" roared a voice at the other end of the stadium. I looked up, and so did Luigi, to see the King of Koopas shouting a challenge, right on cue.
After fighting so many more troops, Bowser was finally in front of us. He said not a word, but formed a boomerang of fire in his hands, tossing it. He wasn't the best shot, but Luigi and I could tell he hadn't meant for it to hit us. We watched it zoom around, finally hitting the dreaded "Tel-e-por-tation!" button, destroying it, and pressing it at the same time. That's when we realized we were on the pad.
Finally, the flash of green light faded away, leaving us to face Bowser on the Final Destination. As the gigantic black wormhole loomed behind us, sending out small stars, one occasionally passing by me every once in a while, we truly saw the evil in the king's eyes for the first time, as he laughed triumphantly. We realized that he wasn't insane…
…He was just evil.
A selfish, evil tyrant who had no thoughts for anyone but himself, and ruled a gigantic empire of darkness with an iron fist. He looked at us with the gleam of bloodlust in his eyes, and said, "The fool, Ganondorf, didn't bother to set it for battle until death, just to battle until unconsciousness. Well, I did set it for death. Finally, we can end the battle that started this adventure. And by adventure, I mean our lives. Ever since I was Prince Bowser and you two were babies you've spoiled my fun and foiled my plots. Well, that ends today, whether it's you two or I who dies. Get ready, plumbers…your heroic adventures end today!"
With that, we rushed toward each other, Bowser's claws bared, our mallets ready. Sharp blades and blunt clubs smacked together over and over. Finally, Bowser's mouth opened and he spewed a beam of fire. Luigi, being slightly faster than I, dodged in time, but I was hit, and had to resort to my fire powers. But Bowser's breath was too powerful, and I was knocked across the stage.
Luigi landed behind Bowser, then made a hurdle toward Bowser, forming a ball of electricity in his hands. My brother let it loose, but Bowser twisted just the right way, so he evaded the ball lightning and scratched Luigi's stomach with one of his spikes. As lil' bro scrunched over in pain, they tyrant kicked him backwards across the stage.
Weeg and I both jumped into the air, him jumping slightly higher. At our intersecting point and the zenith of both our jumps, we used a brothers attack.
BODY SLAM BROS.!
I grabbed Luigi's feet, and smashed down on Bowser's head, or at least tried. Bowser ducked into his shell. Luigi grabbed the round, not sharp sides of the middle spike and began spinning, me still attached. Bowser was spinning to, and so we created a cyclone, sending us all back to square one and are original positions. Bowser suddenly separated his molecules, teleporting over to us as the background changed to an icy mountain.
Bowser swung his head toward us, intending to gore. We both jumped over him, me slamming my hammer into his shell, breaking off one of his spikes, and Luigi stomped on his tale, only to be flung off, not expecting the Koopa King to have so much strength in his entire body.
A cold wind blew past us, sending even more chills down my spine. Luigi was shivering. Even though he usually liked the cold, this was just too much. Bowser charged toward us again, and I waited, swinging my hammer at the last second. Bowser grabbed the hammer's head and swung his claw into the ground. He would've hit me, but I let go of the hammer and jumped backwards to dodge it. He lifted his claw from the ground, forcefully, sending a brown-ish shockwave toward me. I was caught off guard, and hit with the full force, hitting the ground with my face.
"I got him, Mario!" Luigi yelled as Bowser tossed my hammer over the edge. Luigi ran toward Bowser as I got up and the dictator snapped his fingers. Suddenly, a giant stalagmite shot up from the ground, nearly skewering Luigi, who was speedy enough to make a long jump away from it, toward Bowser. But more earth spikes followed.
Luigi twisted around two of them in mid-air, jumped off the side of one to dodge another, used yet another as a pole to swing around and shoot himself forward…
…Then finally was grazed in the side by one shooting upward.
I saw Luigi wince again, as he headed straight for another stalagmite. He looked toward it, too close to do anything. But I could do something.
I gathered a huge fireball around me, so large and hot, that the snowy icecaps behind me seemed to melt away, being replaced by a space-scene, planets, stars, and incoming meteorites as well. I used the fireball as a humongous shockwave, barely missing the now-descending Luigi and destroying all the stalagmites. The flames engulfed Bowser who was sent flying back, near the edge of the stage. Luigi landed where Bowser was, pulled out his hammer, and leapt toward the Koopa King. All this happened within one second.
And the next second was the most horrible one of my life.
Bowser bent his body and neck down, then brought both up, just as Luigi started swinging his hammer. The world seemed to move in slow motion as Bowser moved his head into Luigi, skewering him with his horns. Luigi let go of the hammer as he began to fly backwards, a tear coming out of his eye, a scream of pain, terror, and confusion escaping from his lips. And the worst part was that if Luigi had swung his hammer a second sooner, the blow might not have hit.
Luigi and the mallet both went flying back, Luigi stopping about 4 feet from the opposite end of the stage as Bowser, and the sledgehammer stopping about 2 feet away from me. I picked it up and ran to my brother, hoping he'd somehow pulled through the attack.
I crouched down, holding out the hammer in front of me. "Y-you dropped your hammer, Weeg…"
He was gasping for air, and tears were forming in his eyes. "I-I don't think I'll be needing it anymore…brother." He put a hand on my shoulder. "Please…use it…you lost your hammer…here…" he said, pulling off his hat, and pressing it into my hand. "I want you…to have this…" I clenched my hand around both his hat and his hand. "Take care…of the Mushroom Kingdom…for me…Mario…my brother…"
And then he let out a sigh, losing consciousness.
"Luigi…" I sad, saddened. I felt my eyes blur with tears. Even though we were no longer in the icy mountain, I felt overwhelming cold. I slowly let go of my brother's hand, letting it fall to the ground. I then heard a chuckle behind me. I turned to face the most evil creature known to man.
"That's one bro down and one to go." Bowser said, satisfied with what he'd done. I wondered why he hadn't attacked me while I mourned Luigi. Then I realized that he was letting me feel the grief of losing a brother…and a dear friend…
That was a big mistake.
I took off my trademark cap, and placed Luigi's on my head. Bowser slowly walked toward me, slicing a passing meteor without even looking. As he got closer and closer, my anger built. Finally, the most powerful flame I'd ever made engulfed Luigi's hammer, and I leapt toward the beast, swinging it. I moved faster than I had ever moved before, slamming the hammer into Bowser's mid-section.
He roared with pain as a giant burst of flame shot backward from Weeg's hammer, and forward into Bowser…not his shell, but Bowser himself, as I had made a humongous hole in his shell.
He stumbled backwards, dazed, and I took the opportunity to strike a few more times with Luigi's hammer. Finally, he grabbed Luigi's hammer, and tossed it left, but I didn't let go, so he just kind of moved it aside. Then, he stuck his right claw into my left side, holding it for a few seconds before his left claw smacked me across the face and sent me flying to just in front of Luigi. Bowser emitted a huge flame from his mouth, which headed straight toward me. Unlike Bowser, I probably would not survive a fire shot this large.
With what I thought would be my last breath, I did the only thing I could. I screamed for help. I put my arms in front of my face, closing my eyes. I know, it sounds rather cowardly, but if you had seen that flame, you'd have probably done the same thing.
"I'm coming, bro! Hang on!"
I suddenly felt myself moving sideways, lifted up by some strange force. I looked back to see my brother's face as he set me down, then jumped toward Bowser, whose belly was empty of flames for now.
"What!" yelled the tyrannical king. "How are you still ali-"
Luigi sent a ball of electricity into the hole I'd created. Bowser growled, and I could smell his flesh cooking. I jumped over my brother, hitting King Koopa with my bro's hammer, and sending him about 7 feet backwards, his spikes leaving an indentation where he skidded.
I turned towards my brother, overjoyed. "Luigi!"
"Mario!" he yelled back. Then we hugged.
When we stopped, I said "Here your hat and your hammer!"
"Thank-a you!" said Luigi, as we both put on our hats, then he pocketed his hammer.
"How are you alive, anyway?"
"I don't know!" responded my little brother. "I just heard you calling for help, and then…I was back, I guess."
"Grr…" came Bowser's voice from behind us. We turned to face him, but cautiously backed up at the same time. "You…will…DIE!" he said, screaming the last word, then charging like a mad bull.
We were backed up to the edge now, with nowhere left to go. As the scenery changed to a grassy field, brothers looked to each other.
"Luigi! It's time for that attack!"
"Are you sure, Mario?"
"It's our only chance!"
"Okay!"
We held hands at arm length, turning to face Bowser. I charged my hand with fire, while Luigi charged his with electricity. We created a small ball of spinning fire-electric power, as Bowser continued nearer.
The ball slowly, but getting more rapidly, grew larger as Bowser grew closer. Finally, when he was about 9 feet away, the ball started sending out an invisible shockwave that stopped in his tracks and caused him too walk two spaces back.
"What?" said Bowser, covering his face and gawking at the size and power of our energy. "But…how…you're just humans!"
"Exactly, Bowser!" I replied. "We are humans! And that gives us something that you and all the other villains, human or otherwise, don't have! Humanity!"
"Yeah!" said Luigi, as the shockwave actually caused the stage to bend a little bit. "And that's why we're going to bring you down, Bowser!"
Bowser probably would have retorted, but he was too scared.
Finally, the ball increased to about 4 ½ times our size, and turned into a Yin-Yang symbol…only red and green instead of white and black. We shouted out the name of the Bros. Attack together.
YIN-YANG BROS.!
With that, we rose up the energy ball, then brought it down and forward, our bodies now back to back. We shot a green flame beam with red electricity sparkling from it. Bowser screamed, but could not be heard over the noise of the blast, such a high frequency I doubt any animal could have heard it. How do I know there even was a sound? The deafening silence.
Bowser was thrown at least 70 feet before the beam disappeared. He went at least 20 more before he actually landed, and went skidding across the ground, almost on his back, but leaning a little to the left because of his spikes. He stopped so close to the edge that his left arm actually dangled off it, sending pebbles down to the green field below.
All was silent for a second. Then we heard the overwhelming cheer from the guys back 'home'. Brothers faced each other again, grinning madly, jumping up and down, pretty much going insane with relief, happiness, and, well…joy! But our joy ended quickly when we heard the sound of movement form Bowser's direction.
As he stood up, he began walking toward us, one foot never moving, the other foot dragging it along. He was charred and blackened all over, and several wounds poured out blood, crimson clashing with the green of his shell and, in several parts of the former armor, skin. His left horn was broken off, and most of his hair was burnt off. His left arm and leg seemed to be paralyzed. Occasionally, a bolt of electricity would run down his body, left arm and/or tail.
He spat, or rather croaked, out the words "This…isn't…over!"
But he was wrong.
The surrounding scenery suddenly went pitch black. The only light source seemed to be coming from the stage itself. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a dot appeared on what would be the horizon, if there was one. Then another, and another, and soon hundreds of dots were there. We all squinted, momentarily distracted. The dots seemed to be getting larger and larger. Most were a dusty brown. Finally, we realized that the dots were heading toward us.
Then, there was a green flash of light from somewhere below the stage. The dots sped up, coming in at probably beyond the speed of light. Luigi was the first to recognize a dot.
"Look…it's the Mushroom Kingdom!"
We all stared as the dots continued to come. Even though we shouldn't have, we seemed to know all their names. Cosmo Land. Kanto. Hoenn. Hyrule. Star Haven. Mira. Spiral Mountain. Zebes. Corneria. Macro Land. Omega Land. Johto. Popstar. Mobius. Earth. Dreamland. All the worlds were coming together.
Finally, the Mushroom Kingdom started to slow down. It came to a stop just short of the gigantic stretch of land, which had appeared underneath the stage. Then ,with a flash of green light this place had become famous for, the two lands fused into one. It continued with each and every one of the worlds. And the new world was created. And a new name entered our heads…this world…would be called…
…Nintendo…
It was truly beautiful. Soon, the worlds rounded themselves around some unseen gravity, and became a planet. The stage below us disappeared in a flash of green light, and we were falling through space. Yet, somehow, we were standing straight up on solid ground, and we were swimming in the water, and digging underground. And we knew we were safe.
Bowser looked toward us. "I'm not totally heartless, you know. And, I suppose, in honor of this new world we should hold off this fight until another day."
With that, he flew, walked, swam, tunneled off. And we knew he'd gotten home, to Bowser's castle.
And we were back to everyone, minus the bad guys. Luigi and I were congratulated, hugged, praised, and Peach gave me the biggest kiss I've ever gotten. I tuned to Luigi and said, 'So, are you going to be alright?"
"I think so…" said my brother. "but I don't think I'm gonna be fighting for a while!"
Everyone laughed. Then Viewtiful Joe said, "You guys rock hard! Can I have your autographs?"
Suddenly, pens and paper were everywhere. We refused the autographs, saying we'd get to everyone later. Then, Fox said, "So…what now?"
"They'll probably be back," said Link.
"Then we'll have to fight back!" said Kazooie.
"Right on!" shouted Knuckles.
"Alright, all in favor of forming a team to battle evil in this new world!" my brother shouted, enthusiastically.
Every single had shot up.
"In that case, ladies and gentlemen," I bellowed, "The Heroic is formed!"
The cheer that went up was the loudest I'd ever heard.
Yeah. Wow. Um, just to clear up a few things...
1) The mystery figure on the throne was not Bowser
2) I know Final Destination is way too big, but why shouldn't it be outside of the video game?
3)People will die in this fan fic, just not in this chapter. Just to let you all know. Sorry if I scared anyone with the Luigi thing, by the way, or disappointed anyone by bringing him back.
4)You all rock.