Okay...hands...tired...longer...than exepected...also, a few questions from reviewers answered:
The good guys are on the Heroic, bad on Hatred. I thought that was obvious. If you meant who specifically...too numerous to count, or name for that matter. You'll find out as the story progresses.
Oh, too another reviewer: very good question. No, the people who lost in the tourney are not gone, yes they are here. Yes, you are happy. ;)
"Okay, team, has anybody got any questions?"
That was Banjo. It was shortly after dawn. Our heroes had decided to finally go on the offense, but as seeing how large the enemy forces were, they'd have to take the stealthy approach. That's why they needed a plan, and why Banjo was triple-checking that everyone knew the plan.
"Only one," said Popo. "Where did you get this map?"
Everyone instantly looked down at the map of Risky Tavern, the thought not having occurred to most of them until now.
"It was in the pocket of the guard I knocked out," said Banjo, simply.
"You knocked out?" questioned Kazooie. "I knocked him out with a wing chop!"
"Well…I confused him!"
"Saying, 'Look, there's a monkey behind you!' only confuses them if it works!" yelled Kazooie in retort. By now the Ice Climbers were roaring on the ground with laughter.
"Y'know, maybe we should just never…speak of this again," Banjo said, saying the part after the '…' very quickly, and rolling up the map. "Now, team, let's go!"
CLUNK.
Steel doors made more noise than you'd think when they're being closed. Luckily, no guards were near the side entrance, so no one noticed. You could practically hear generic spy-movie theme song start playing as the team looked into the seemingly empty room.
Banjo looked down to Nana and Popo and nodded. They immediately shot out to beams of icy wind, completely covering the chamber. When the mist cleared, dozens of previously invisible infrared beams had been tinted a dark blue, with a shell of ice around each.
They all twisted and turned around the beams of ice, very slowly, since the freezing process worked on the floor, too. Finally, they reached a solid steel door. "Fingerprint needed," said a computerized voice.
"There was nothing about this on the map…" said Nana, confusedly.
Banjo smirked. "Then we'll have to…"
WHAM! CLUNK!
"…Improvise," finished Banjo, gesturing into the room. Everyone then walked over the now fallen door into the second chamber. A bunch of platforms, held up by large towering wood, painted silver and black, led to the other side in a very zigzagging, criss-crossing random way. On each platform was a small, stone, cyndrilical robot, attached to the platform by a band of brown that connected around the robot's middle, and spread outwards into the floor. A large brown disc with a small brown sphere on to of it was on the robot's head. Turning to face our heroes, the robots also had one large red eye. (If you've ever played the original Megaman Battle Network, they looked like StoneMan's arms after being disconnected, only with one large red eye and no mouth.)
Lasers shot out of the eyes, coming dangerously close to Team Double-Double Dip before they could react, and dodge. Kazooie shot a grenade egg at one robot, but it reacted quickly, shooting a beam to blow it up just outside of the shrapnel range. Banjo and Kazooie leapt through the smoke and Kazooie sliced it down the middle with her wing. Two seconds later the bottom half exploded, sending the top half about 10 feet up, which then also exploded.
The Ice Climbers jumped from platform to platform, occasionally smashing or freezing a robot, the jumped up on top of one of the ceiling's rafters, watching Banjo and Kazooie slaughter robots like a rampaging, 20 foot, radioactive lizard slaughters army tanks. Finally one robot was left, just underneath the Ice Climbers. They proceeded to jump down on opposite sides of the robot, a white rope still connecting them. One hammer came from each side of the robot, crushing it flat, and leaving the Ice Climbers hanging, headfirst, about two feet off the ground.
As the Ice Climbers came off their ropes safely, Banjo and Kazooie hopped over to the narrow, long platform connected directly to the entrance, and started walking over to regroup. Suddenly, though, the platforms started moving!
Although the pit was too dark to see into very far, obviously it was deep. And by the time Banjo and Kazooie came to a point where the non-moving platform originally was, the now-moving platform was too far away to jump to…at least, for the Bear and Bird.
The Ice Climbers proceeded to get another rope, each one passing each other, going to opposite sides of the robot, then jumping across. The then faced each other, blowing ice at each other, so the wind connected with the other wind and made a large ice pillar. They proceeded to tie the rope around the pillar, creating a rope bridge without wooden planks, and stopping the platform from moving at the same time.
"Hurry, or the ice'll break!" shouted Popo to BK, as Nana jumped into the pit, grabbing the ropes and "jungle-gymming" across. Popo soon followed, followed a little more slowly after by Banjo, who hesitated because the ice cracked a little bit. After Nana and Popo got the platform and Banjo was about halfway across…
CRAACK!
The top half (no real dividing line, kind of irregular) broke off, the string slightly above it. The rope, weighed down by the ice, fell into the pit, the platform moving rapidly to make up for lost time. (The other platforms had collected together at the other side of the bridge, forming another narrow platform like the one on the entrance side.)
"Banjo!" went Popo.
"Kazooie!" went Nana.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!" went Kazooie.
Banjo swung over to the moving platform, grabbing on with one paw and five claws, and holding onto the rope with one paw and no claws. "Phew…" went everyone except Banjo, who began climbing up the now-stopped platform.
The Steel Door would not open.
"Knock it down, Banjo!" shouted Nana.
"I can't," said Banjo, calm as ever. "I'm not very strong, it's just that the other door was on hinges. This one slides open, no hinges to knock off."
"No problem,' said Kazooie, who had successfully unscrewed the control panel's screws holding it in place while no one was looking. Everyone gathered around as she made a couple movements with her wings. After about three seconds, the light above the door turned from red to green, signifying it could be opened at any time.
"How'd you do that?" asked Popo.
"Well," said Kazooie, "There are three small power generators, two are backups. I turned off the switch for the second one, then cut these three wires so the power would automatically reroute, and with the second offline, the power went to the third, which obviously only had enough power to open the door, not to password-protect it."
"Oohh!" went everyone as Kazooie pressed the button to open the door…
revealing three guards there. Luckily, their backs were turned, so our heroes were able to slip into the shadows. As the three guards stepped in, looking around, Banjo put his blue backpack over the upper half of the first guards, tightening it up. As the other two turned toward the first, Kazooie (who had Split Up and was across from Banjo) gave one a quick Karate chop to spine, and then pushed off the cliff, as the Ice Climbers grabbed the arms of the other one and threw him off as well.
Banjo shouted into his backpack: "Alright, buddy, unless you want to join you undead friends in the pit of no return, talk!"
"Actually," came a muffled voice from inside the bag, "it's the pit of little return. There's a small opening at the bottom-left section of the wall that leads to the other side of the base…"
"Whatever," interrupted Banjo, rubbing his temples. "I'm willing to bet the trip down isn't all that pleasant either way! You see, we want to get to the airship, but our map of the base is incomplete. There is zero visibility of the airport area, and obviously not due to fog. So what kind of traps are set, what kind of guardly posts, etc.?"
"Oh, well, not many. And what few there are can be easily avoided if you go down the hall and take the second door to your left, go outside, and stick to the shadows," said the voice, oddly calm and cooperative.
"Alright, thanks," said Banjo. "Since you told us how to get there, we won't throw you into the pit. But, we're still going to knock you unconscious."
"Eh, that sounds fair," said the voice, just before Kazooie gave another wing chop to the spine. Our heroes then brought the body out of the backpack, gently laid it up against the wall, and moved into the hallway, taking the second door to the left.
As the walked in, the room seemed pitch black. "I don't think we're outside…"said Nana.
"No, you're not," said a cruel, feminine voice as the room lit up.
As our heroes' eyes adjusted to the light, the first thing they saw was a woman who would be about 5'4" if she wasn't on a big-screen TV. In her right hand was a glass of red wine. Her right hand was resting on the arm of the dead-black throne she was sitting in. Her legs were crossed. As their eyes adjusted more, they could see right hand was actually a hook. It was also revealed she was a skeleton in a black jacket, red shirt and red pants, with simple brown shoes and a generic pirate captain hat. Obviously, this was Risky Boots. Also, somehow, Risky had managed to keep her womanly figure even though she had no flesh anymore.
"I see you were actually gullible enough to believe what a guard being held hostage had to say. How very stupid of you. Now," she said, just before taking a sip of wine, "If you would kindly look 2 feet to my right, your left, and 20 feet in front of you…"
They looked, and standing there was a brown bull with black spots and a silver nose ring. It was standing on its hind legs, and was wearing nothing but a pair briefs, colored red, and a silver helmet with small horns pointed forward. Apparently, his real horns had broken off in a previous fight, either that or he was born without.
"This is Red Brief J," Risky Boots continued, shortly afterwards, taking another sip of wine. "He is very large, very strong, nearly invincible, in short, a building with feet. I'd like to say he will be your executioner today, but his man-made horns are too small to cause serious damage, and I do not have the time for him to hit you over and over until you die from trauma. So, he will be taking you my prisoner today." After another sip of wine, the screen flickered off, and RBJ punched his two hoof arms together, grunting.
Immediately our four heroes rushed toward the bull, and the bull…held his right arm outwards, his left arm above his head. Everyone else stopped, confused and wary. Suddenly a bright ball of blue energy formed in front of the right hoof, shooting forward. The Ice climbers, each went left, but BK stayed where they were. "Batter up!" shouted Banjo as Kazooie hit the sphere back into Red's left shoulder. His shoulder went back a bit, and so did his head, but he seemed unharmed totally otherwise, even after the angry grunt he gave off.
Red suddenly lifted up his right leg, putting both his hooves together above his head, spinning around, with a pink energy ring around his waist. He looked like he was doing ballet in a tutu. Banjo and Kazooie were startled, confused, and mentally disturbed by this, so much so that they were hit by his leg in Banjo's stomach.
Banjo was slammed into the wall, groaning as he slowly got up. "Don't worry, I'll get him!" shouted Kazooie. Before Banjo could object, (which was a good amount of time, considering he was in pain) Kazooie Split Up, rushing toward Red, who had just stopped spinning. Red turned as Kazooie sent a flying kick to his skull. Of course, she hurt her leg. "Oww.." she winced, hopping on her leg, just before Red sent her slamming into the wall, unconscious.
The Ice Climbers suddenly reappeared on either side RBJ, freezing him in place. There were a few moments of silence before he broke out of the ice, sending the Climbers flying. As they got up from the ground, he slammed one hoof into each of them, slamming them into the wall as well, and pinning them there, since the wall was two feet from where he was now standing.
Suddenly, as the Ice Climbers fell unconscious, a rock hit Red in the head. Obviously, it hadn't hurt him, but it had annoyed him, also obviously. He dropped them from their positions on the wall, turning to see Banjo bouncing another rock in his paw.
Red rushed forward, throwing a punch. Banjo pulled off his backpack, dodging the punch and capturing Red's fist in said backpack at the same time. He then razed his claw across RBJ's cheek, and actually left a mark where he scratched. Red turned his head back toward Banjo, slowly, then removed his book from Banjo's backpack, grunting angrily. He slammed his right hoof across Banjo's cheek, and although Banjo merely turned the upper half of his body sideways instead of being sent sideways, everything still blacked out.
When Banjo awoke, he found he was being dragged through a hallway. Trying to reach up to rub his head, he found that his arms were handcuffed together, and so were his legs. He looked left and right to see the others were already awake, in the same situation he was. He looked up and behind him to see Red Brief J's back, the, as Red turned and tossed them into a door, a large room.
Banjo stood up (with a little difficulty,) a looked around. Computers were everywhere, and the room was occupied by nothing but skeleton pirates. Stairs in the center of the room led up to a small throne, slightly suspended above the ground by a small pole, obviously so it could rotate. At the front of the room was a large window, and in it, the coastline of Hyrule was visible. It was obvious that they'd made it to the airship.
"So, you're here," said the cruel, feminine voice of Risky Boots, who swiveled around to meet our heroes face to face. She took the last sip of red wine in her glass before standing up, standing at her full height, now obviously about 6 feet tall. "I must admit, you lasted longer against Red Brief J than I would have expected. But, the fact still remains that you lost. Now, in just a few minutes, this ship will be going on a kamikaze mission, and the only passengers on board will be you four."
"Wouldn't it be faster to just kill us outright?" asked Nana, as the other three empathetically shook their heads.
"Yes, it would," said Risky, as she started to pace around the room. "But as I said before, it would actually be faster to send you on this mission than it would be to wait for you to die of trauma. And, if I or any of my crew are to get close enough to you in order to kill, Red will have to step back, in order for us to do the job properly. That will give you all a chance to break your shackles and/or escape."
The others contemplated this as Risky stopped at the window, staring out at the Hylian coastline. "You see, we knew the Heroic would try and stop us, whether we put up a shield or not, they would eventually detect us, and try to stop us. So, we purposefully waited until the last second to put up our shields, thereby leading them to think this would be an easy job, and that we were barely holding out, so that they would send some of their worst troops in to do the job."
The heroes were shocked at that. –We're…some of their worst troops?-
"So imagine our surprise," continued Risky, turning her head toward them, as well as interrupting their thoughts, "when they sent you." Team Double-Double Dip was startled again. "I mean, you definitely aren't their best troops, but you also definitely aren't the worst. Especially with Joe on the team!" she turned back out toward the coastline. "But, now Joe is dead, and-"
"Dead!" shouted Nana.
"He's not dead!" shouted Popo. "He's the greatest! You wait and see, you ugly skeleton sea-dog!"
Risky seemed oddly calm after Nana's interruption and Popo's insults. "Think about it," she said. "My troops are located all over this island. It is a small island, and there are not many places to hide. In fact, you four found probably the only place last night. Not that I know where that place is…but the fact is, if Joe was still alive, he'd be wherever you were. Since he obviously wasn't there, he must either be air molecules, vaporized in the explosion, or in the strong sea currents, the bottom of. In fact, sea currents are why we waited so long to attack…"
Suddenly, there was a loud shaking. If our heroes were outside right now, they would have seen a large pillar come from the bottom of the aircraft into the ground, in the blink of a cat's eye. The three wheels formerly supporting the aircraft slowly rose into the machine, as the ground beneath the aircraft started to crack…then the ground beneath the airstrip…then the base…then the mountain…then the jungle…then the entire island.
The aircraft slowly rose into the air, revealing the pillar was connected, under the ground, to a piece of metal, which quickly grew into a weapons deck…an observation deck with a lookout point…a bow…a stern…a battleship. The entire island broke and sank into the sea as the dead-black battleship rose from beneath the waves.
Though they could not see the full extent of it, the others were in awe at the fact that what they thought was an aircraft…well, y'know.
"Hmph. The sea currents are strong, and Hylian spellcasters know how to make them stronger." Risky said when the transformation was complete. "That's why I needed surprise on my side. By the time they're ready, they'll all be dead. You see, although the Allied Nations and Black Hole are staying out of this war for the time being, for enough money, you can still get weapons. And besides this battleship, and the "aircraft," which is really a propulsion system, I have 12 Black Bombs ready in the bottom part of this battleship ready to be fired. Of course, even though we have enough oil now, calculating charge, providing wind and currents and trajectory, and several other things make shooting them into Death Mountain quite a chore."
"Shooting them into…that's crazy!" shouted Banjo.
"I think not," said Risky. "We will have activated our escape systems by then, leaving you behind to get caught in the eruption that should blow Hyrule all the way to Eagleland. The weapons on the battleship are all fake, but they look authentic. They need to in order for Hyrule to not see our plan coming until the afterlife. Plus, you four will be strapped to Black Bombs when we fire them, just in case. I wonder which will kill you first, the G-forces, the lava, or the eruption?"
Our heroes were very scared. This Risky Boots was a villain. "One last note before I send you to the brig for the next hour: without Joe, you four are bugs to me. Take them away, Red!"
Red began dragging them again, this time in the opposite direction.
The dungeon was completely pitch black. Although their shackles had been taken off, little hope was for escape, since Red Brief J. was guarding the door, which had no hinges, so Banjo couldn't break it down, and there was still little moving, as the room was cramped.
Occasionally, a small sniffle was heard from the Ice Climbers, who were very upset about the whole situation, just as the adults were, but also like the adults, were trying not to cry. Kazooie broke the silence. "I can't believe that Joe is…is really gone…"
Everyone expected an objection from Popo. Instead, he quietly said, "First…dad goes up…into the mountains…doesn't come back…and then…mom gets sick…and finally, I find someone I can look up to again…and now he…" Popo broke down completely, sobbing and sniffling.
"I…I'm gonna call the rest of the Heroic…" Banjo said, pulling out his wlakie-talkie.
"NO!" said Nana through her tears. "That's for real emergencies!"
"This is one!" said Banjo, beginning to cry too.
"Not one we can't handle!" said Nana, rubbing her eyes dry…and actually smiling. "The only reason we couldn't beat Red before is because we didn't work together!" Everyone thought about this, scenes from the fight flashing through their minds. "But if we come with a plan and work together, like we did entering the base, we can beat him down easily!" She turned to her brother. "Joe may be gone, but maybe not! And even if he is, if he were still here, and one of us had died, he'd be sad, yes, but he'd wait until after the battle was over to start mourning! That way he's always at his best when he's fighting!"
Popo dried his eyes as well. "Yeah, I…I guess you're right," he mumbled, smiling as well.
Banjo and Kazooie smiled as well, ready to go out and fight. "Alright, Red Brief J is not that smart, so maybe, combined with his own muscles, we can use that against him…here's what we're gonna do…"
About 15 minutes later, Red yawned, getting bored. Well, he wouldn't be bored for long…an explosion ripped the door off its frame, slamming into Red and knocking him against the wall.
"Who knew I could use grenade eggs and Wonderwing at the same time?" Kazooie chuckled as they ran off to Red Brief's left. He got up, angrily, just as the Ice Climbers rounded the corner. Banjo and Kazooie stayed behind. Kazooie went "Nya, nya, nya nya nya!" then blew him a raspberry, shortly before going into Talon Trot mode down the hallway corner.
Red steamed so hard it came out of his nostrils before he super-dashed down the hall, stopped, turned, and went down the other hall as BK went to the right, down another hallway. Suddenly, a white rope tightened just in front of Red, and he tripped over it, the fact he was Super-dashing sending him a good 40 feet, spinning in midair.
CRASH!
The Ice Climbers, one side of the rope in one of each's hand, came from their hiding place, and BK, Banjo now walking, came back from the hallway. Red Brief J was now more than halfway through the side of the ship, only his shoulders and head sticking out. He was squirming, trying to get free. Banjo calmly walked up to him and said: "Y'know, if you get free, the boat will sink." That immediately stopped his squirming, but did not stop the angry grunts and the steam from his nostrils.
Our heroes emerged from a small hole, covered by a metal lid, onto the main deck. Immediately Risky Boots came over the intercom. "Sorry, but you're late. The hatch is now opening, the Black Bombs coming out, the escape system ready to launch and there is little to nothing you can do to stop us."
With these words, the front of the ship opened, and the hum of rocket engines came from within. Slowly, the Black Bombs emerged, floating in the water, and Team Double-Double Dip could do nothing but watch. As the hum got louder, everyone on the ship was absolutely still, and it was clear they were ready to launch, finally, with the last burst of energy…
…they stopped, the hum slowing, the rocket's energy draining, until finally nothing but the sea was moving, and even then, rather slowly. Suddenly, the current seemed to "reactivate" or something, and pushed the Black Bombs back into the ship. 12 large explosions later, the ship was a wreck, now only kept afloat by…a miracle would be my guess.
"Wha…what happened?" asked Popo.
"Well kid, that's what happens when you Slow down time."
Our heroes turned to find none other than our missing hero, Viewtiful Joe.
"VJ!" Nana and Popo yelled, running toward him and wrapping him up in a big hug. "You made it!" said Popo. "And the reason no one found you was…"
"Was because I wasn't on the island, I was on the boat!" chuckled Joe as he finished Popo's sentence for him. VJ then looked up into Banjo and Kazooie's stunned faces. "Don't you remember?" he said, pretending to be surprised that they were shocked. "I said that there weren't gonna be any casualties on this mission, remember?"
Banjo chuckled, and Kazooie smiled.
Meanwhile, back in the "aircraft"…
"Um…ma'am?" said the Chief Scientist. "We're going down…"
"NO, DUH!" shouted Risky as she picked him up by his collar with her hook. Then she threw him away as she gave her order: "Launch the escape system, now!
The back of the boat opened, revealing a more generic pirate ship inside. It slowly floated out into the water…then began to lift into the air!
"Well?" said Risky, angrily. "How come the magitech thrusters aren't thrusting!"
"At the risk of being thrown again, I'd like to mention that someone has jammed our thrusters completely. We are barely lifting off the surface, and the thrusters will completely die at around 4000 feet." Said the Chief Scientist.
"Of course…" said Risky, rubbing her left temple.
Back at the battleship…
"Uh, oh, the bad guys are escaping. Got to run!" yelled Joe as he launched into Mach Speed, jumping onto the back of the pirate ship. Banjo and Kazooie and Nana and Popo all tried to follow, but another small explosion blocked them! Then, something flaming fell in front of them. Banjo picked up the Ice Climbers in his arms as he ran around, looking for a lifeboat, a way off, a safe haven, anything…
Meanwhile, Risky saw Joe climbing onto her ship's poop deck. She let off a sigh. "If you want something done right, do it yourself…" she muttered, walking out onto the deck as VJ started beating up some of her crew.
Joe saw Risky Boots walk out the captain's cabin out of the corner of his eye. "Ah!" he said, turning toward her completely and punching out the last pirate at the same time. "The boss lady shows herself! You know, you look pretty good for someone who has lost most of her body!"
"Thank you. I try," she said, then, to Joe's astonishment, taking off her hook…
…and revealing she still had both her skeletal hands.
"Okay…" said Joe. "What's the point?"
Risky bent the hook down, turning it into a handle of sorts, then turning the bottom of the hook toward Joe. As she drew her sword using her right hand, 9 small gun barrels appeared in the hook, turning it into a gun.
"Oh…now I see…" said Joe. Then, he did a pose. His V-emblem on his forehead suddenly got much longer, turning the points into two swords. The swords then separated from each other until they were horizontal, and then the red circle split in half, wooden handles sticking out. Joe caught these swords, then did a bunch of fancy poses, ending with the sword in his right hand in front of his forehead, and his left-hand sword in front of the imaginary line between his chest and stomach.
Risky responded to this by shooting her hook gun. Joe responded to this by slowing time, dodging 5 shots, hitting four back, and returning time to normal. A second passed before Risky Boots chuckled and said, "You're a bad shot, Joe…"
Joe leapt into the air, coming down with his swords in an X-like formation. Risky responded by sticking her sword in the center of the x, vertically. "And a worse swordfighter…" she said, knocking him away, and his swords landing in front of him, his back turned to her, him lying down. He reached for the swords…
…Only to have nine rounds knock them off the ship. He looked toward Risky, he mockingly posed as she said: "Thankfully, I am neither!" Angrily, Joe got up, soon getting nine rounds to the chest, which didn't kill him, but did knock him off the ship.
Back on the battleship, things were getting bad. The ship had broken in half, was three quarters underwater, and what wasn't underwater was on fire. "Oh man…" said Banjo, "We came all this way…"
"Look!" shouted Nana, pointing to the falling Joe.
"Oh no!" shouted Popo.
Kazooie looked on as well…she started thinking…dozens of images, thoughts raced through her mind. –Can't let them down…- -You're a weakling!- -A bird who can't fly!- -Joe's in danger!- -You can!- -You can't!- Suddenly, one of those thoughts seemed to have Nana's voice.
-You have to try…-
Kazooie opened her eyes, now full of determination. "Banjo, run toward Joe! Don't stop no matter what!"
"Okay…worth a shot…" mumbled Banjo, running out of options. As he ran Kazooie slowly spread her wings…they jumped…gravity pulled down, and then…
…They were flying!
Kazooie opened her eyes again, this time to winds in her face, clear blue skies, friends cheering her, all that good stuff.
"I new you could do it if you tried!" shouted Nana.
"Yeah, and you were right," said Kazooie. "Maybe I should start believing in fairy tales…" shortly after this sentence, she caught Joe.
"Thanks for the lift!" he said, not seeming to have been worried at all.
"Yeah, don't expect me to do it often, you weigh a ton!" said you-know-who.
"Kazooie…" said Banjo, good-naturedly.
"I know, I'm kidding!" she responded, flying up to the ship.
Meanwhile, Risky Boots thought Joe dead. "Oh, well…maybe next time the one who…" Then she was whacked by Kazooie's wing upside the head.
"I'll see what I can do to steer the ship! Hope for a miracle!" Joe said, running off.
"Wait!" said Banjo. "What about her?"
Joe stopped. "If I believed you couldn't handle her, I would have asked you to steer."
He ran off again. Team Double-Double Dip turned to face Risky, who had just gotten up. "Oh, so you bugs will face me now?" She raised the barrel of her hook. "I shall enjoy squashing you!" she finished, firing off nine rounds at BK. Nana and Popo froze them in a large icicle Banjo crouched down, allowing Kazooie to chop all but the bottom part of it off, then flip it up. Banjo jumped pulled back his legs, and kicked the icicle into Risky. She landed about 5 feet away from her first position, icicle on top of her, before she sliced it in half, flipping backward. The Ice Climbers, Nana standing on top of Popo, stood in front of her, hammers raised. Risky turned gun back to hook, on left hand, in order to fight both. Finally, after a short stalemate, she knocked the Ice Climbers away, turned hook into gun, raised it in order to fire.
Kazooie knocked it into the air, where it fired off harmlessly, before Banjo caught it, pointing it at Risky, who just chopped the barrel off with her sword. Banjo and Kazooie looked at it, dazed, before Risky tried to sever them in half with a vertical slice. Banjo used the hook part left to block the blow, knocking Risky's sword away, and kicked her into the mast, all with one move. "Ice Climbers! Sail!" he said.
Getting what he meant, the Ice Climbers pulled out the ropes that held the sail, which then fell onto Risky. As she squirmed to get free, they used their own ropes and those that were holding up the sail to tie her to the mast. Once they were done, only her head and feet were showing out of the sail. They then calmly walked up to her.
"Guess what, Risky Boots?" said Nana as she and Popo raised their hammers.
"You were just beaten by a bunch of bugs!" finished Popo, bringing hammers down and knocking Risky unconscious.
At the steering wheel, Joe was trying to gain control of the descending ship, when he noticed something in the distance…it was a giant Eggman head, emitting a wave that kept it afloat. Circling its bottom were pillars holding green energy, all connected to a giant ray gun at the very bottom. A plan formed in Joe's devious little mind…
"…and I will destroy Central City!" laughed Eggman, finishing his rant. Little robots ran around with Eggman on top of the ray gun. Sitting, tied up, in the particle accelerator, obviously in danger, were Sonic, Marth, ad Megaman.
"I am entirely sure, for I know not of your modern technology, but…I believe we are in trouble," said Marth.
"Don't worry," said Megaman. "I have a small knife in my pinky, I've cut the bottom rope, so we can break free at any time. Sonic, you'll beat Eggman to the switch, break it, and the we stall so he'll forget to check, and the energy he's storing will overload and his machine will explode!"
Suddenly, a giant pirate ship crashed the room, sending an explosive shockwave that sent everyone to the ground on both ships. The three heroes looked up, confused. Sonic, as usual, broke the silence.
"Or, that works too…"
"Very well done," said Mario, later. "If you're wondering, Risky Boots and Red Brief J, along with several genric enemies, are now both in our custody. Megaman teleported them with you guys when he sent you home. And, the two crafts exploded fully at about 2000 feet above ground. No one was hurt.So, great job, guys! And, whatever you're teaching them, Joe...keep it up!"
"Actually," said Joe, "I was off somewhere else for most of the mission. These guys did most of the work on their own." he said, indicating Team Double-Double Dip, who blushed.
"Well, I'll make sure to put that in the records." said Mario.
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
"Sorry, gotta go," said Mario, turning on the intercom. "Link? Zelda? Marth and Roy? Come on up!"
Wow...whoo boy! Looks like that messy business is over! Now, preview for next chapter, but first: I've decided to stop dividing it into episodes. I figure, let it do it itself. Also, please, tell me, what's your favorite chapter and/or quote and why? That way I get more review...I mean, I'm just curious. ahem Preview!
Team Mideavil (could use proper spelling, please...) a.k.a. Link, Zelda, Marth and Roy, face off against some of Wily's best...or worst, depending on how you look at it. Who will win this clash of time periods? Find out, in the next chapter...
'Age-Old Battle for All Time!'