Chapter 10: The Tournament is Ruined! Where is the Dark Reactor?
Link is standing in front of Archie, Bon Clay, and a horde of Darkling. "Who are you guys?" Link asks them.
"You haven't noticed it yet?" Archie asks him. "Don't you know we are with the Darkling?"
"Yeah! Why are you with them?"
Captain Falcon rushes besides Link and tells him, "It's simple! They are evil all along! They are going to take over the world with the help of the Darkling! And Bon Clay is one of them!"
"It would be better if you call me… Mr. 2!" Bon Clay tells him. "I've been told by Mr. 0 to accompany Archie on this mission."
Archie turns to Cloud and says, "When I met Cloud, I saw great power in him, and believed that he will make a great henchmen. Fortunately, he had a problem that's been bothering him for a while, so I made a deal with him. If he can kill you guys, then I will solve his worries!"
At this moment, Cloud slowly gets back up. "Please, Mr. Archie… Allow me to finish my job… So I can…"
"Enough of that!" shouts Archie, cutting him off. "You are useless! I never thought of solving your problems in the first place!" A shocked look appears on Cloud's face.
Archie smiles evilly. "As you all know, Darkling can only possess those with an evil heart. Killing the Smashers will be a huge sin as they are the chosen ones to bring down the king of Darkling. If you killed those Smashers, then you will be filled with evil in your heart, so I can allow the Darkling to possess you and make you a powerful minion of the Darkling! But now that you loss, you are no longer worthy to be possessed!"
"How can… you!" says Cloud angrily.
"Oh, but I can! Hahahaha!" laughs Archie.
"Wait a minute!" shouts Link all of a sudden. "Let's get this straight! You are under the king of Darkling's command to kill us. You hired Cloud to kill us, but because he failed, you fired him… And that means you are evil!"
"Of course they are evil!" says CF. "Why else are the Darkling with them?"
Link pulls out his sword and says, "Then you are all going to hell!"
Before he can move, Mr. 2 (or Bon Clay) kicks Link in the face. "Oh no you don't!" says Mr. 2. "Nobody messes with our plans!"
"It seems that the tournament is now messed up!" announces the president. "It's turning out to be a real fight! Everyone, if you value your lives, then get out of this place at once! I'm leaving first!"
With this, all the audiences start to run for the exit in fear and panic. "We shouldn't be escaping!" says Zelda. "We are the chosen ones, so we should jump into the arena and fight!"
"You're right, princess!" agrees Ness. "Take me in!" says Kirby, and turning to Luigi, he says, "You too, Luigi?" But he sees Luigi making a run for the exit. Kirby opens his mouth wide and begins sucking like a vacuum cleaner, sucking Luigi into his mouth. Zelda, Ness, and Kirby jumps down onto the arena, and then Kirby spit Luigi out.
Archie backs off from the Smashers and commands the Darkling to get them. Zelda quickly makes some hand signs, and then she starts glowing and transforms into Sheik! She turns to Kirby and Ness and tells them to find the Dark Reactor. "Yes sir!" reply the two kids. "I'm a woman!" Sheik corrects them.
Both the kids run into the inner areas of the coliseum.
A Darkling jumps at Link to get him, but Link uses his sword to slash it in two. The two pieces immediately forms together again. "Oh! I forgot my sword won't do against them!" thought Link, so he pulls out the Silver Arrows and fire it at the Darkling, killing it.
Ganondorf pulls out his Quake Trident and stabs down the Darkling one by one. Bowser uses the Sharp Claw to slash them into pieces. Luigi runs around like a madman and swings the Thunder Rod around like wild, killing all the Darkling that he runs into. Sheik uses the Snake Whip to grab a Darkling, and then smashes him against the other Darkling, killing them all.
While she is doing this, a Darkling slowly crept behind her, and then it jumps up to get her. When Sheik notices it, it was too late to escape. Suddenly, the Darkling gets electrocuted and dies. Sheik turns to her savior and sees Pikachu standing there, wearing the Electric Harness. "Thanks a lot!" Sheik says to him.
CF stabs a couple of Darkling with his Hunter's Spear, and then he notices Mr. 2 standing in front of him. "Hey you!" CF tells him (or whatever pronoun you use for a gay). "I demand a rematch with you!"
"Ooh! So you want to fight me again?" replies Bon Clay. "It is natural for people to try things again if they lose! Very well, I shall accept your rematch!"
Both CF and Mr. 2 stare into each other's eye. There is a moment of silence as they glare at each other. Only the sounds of wind and junks rolling along the ground can be heard…
CF yells and charges at Mr. 2. The okama dodges aside the charge and places his leg onto the driver's neck, and then pushes him onto the ground. CF quickly gets back up and throws a punch at Mr. 2, but misses again. Mr. 2 throws a punch and he successfully hits CF in the face. "Hehe!" he laughs. "I am faster than you! Indeed, I have the speed like that of a swan!"
While he is saying this, he is immediately punched in the face by CF. "If you are a swan," says CF. "Then I'm a falcon! Falcons are more superior than swans!"
"I'll prove you wrong!" replies Mr. 2 angrily.
Meanwhile, Ness and Kirby are walking along the hallway, looking for the dark reactor. "Where do you think it can be?" asks Ness. "I don't know," replies Kirby.
The keep on walking and walking and walking and walking… Until they come to some stairs. "Wanna go up?" Ness asks Kirby. "Whatever," replies Kirby. So they go up.
Archie stands at the side, watching the heroes battling the Darkling. Sapphire walks up to him and says, "You! Haven't you learn a lesson yet!"
"Ah, it's that girl who always mess with my plans," says Archie upon seeing her. "This time, things will not be messed up! You cannot stop me this time! I have the Darkling on my side!"
"I don't care about what Darkling or not! I'll teach you another lesson!" Sapphire throws out a Pokeball and her Tropius, Tororo, pops out of it. "So you want a Pokemon battle, eh?" says Archie. "Then let it be!" He throws out his Pokeball and out comes a Crobat.
Tororo fires several razor sharp leaves at the Crobat, but the bat Pokemon was able to avoid them swiftly. Crobat flaps its wings hard, shooting out sharp wind blades. Tororo wasn't fast enough to avoid it, so he got a cut on his neck, but just like Sapphire had said, her Pokemon have high endurance.
Tororo begins flapping his leaf wings and takes off into the sky, and the Crobat follows him up there. In the air, they both dash at each other, trying to ram one another down.
"Crobat! Use Double Team!" Archie shouts to his Pokemon. Crobat starts moving very fast around Tororo, creating many illusions of himself. Tororo looks around in confusion, trying to find the real Crobat. "Tororo! Use Vine Whip and whip it in a circular formation!" Sapphire calls out.
Tororo extends a vine from his neck and whips it around the illusion of Crobat, and he is able to hit the real one. The real Crobat quickly backs off a bit and fires a couple of wind blades. Tororo uses his vines to smack the wind blades away, and then he uses the vines to grab the Crobat by the wings, restraining it.
"Now use Solar Beam!" Sapphire calls out. Tororo absorbs the sunlight into himself and starts glowing. The Crobat watches in fear as Tororo slowly opens his mouth. When the mouth opens, Tororo fires a powerful white beam at the restrained Crobat, blasting it out of sense. The Crobat falls back towards the arena and crashes into Archie, pushing him onto the ground.
"Oh no!" gasps Archie. "My Crobat loss!"
"You lose, sucker!" Sapphire jeers at Archie.
Meanwhile, CF and Mr. 2 are still fighting. Mr. 2 charges at CF and throws a punch at him. CF quickly moves aside to avoid the punch, and then quickly grabs him by the arm. "What!" gasps Mr. 2. While holding Mr. 2's arm, CF starts punching him in the stomach fast and rapidly. Mr. 2 screams at the pain of being pummeled rapidly in the stomach.
CF's hand starts to glow in an orange aura. He lets go of Mr. 2's arm and yells, "Falcon Punch!" The punch impacts with Mr. 2 and sends him flying into the sky, all the way outside the coliseum! CF raises his hand in triumph and shouts, "FALCONS ARE THE BEST!"
Ness and Kirby had climbed up the stairs and are now walking through a corridor. "Nothing new here…" says Ness. Just then, a bunch of Darkling appears in front of them. "Well, here's someone to keep us entertained," says Kirby with a smile.
Kirby takes out his Boomerang Dagger and throws it at the Darkling, killing 3 of them in one throw. Another Darkling jumps at Ness to attack him, but Ness bats him with the Ultimate Bat, sending the Darkling flying backwards across the corridor. The Darkling hits a wall and instantly disappears.
"Well, that was easy!" says Kirby.
Outside, all the Darkling have been killed. The heroes are confronting Archie. "It's all over, Archie," Link tells him. "Now die quietly!"
Archie will not get captured here. He digs into his pocket and takes out a small ball. He throws it against the ground and a huge cloud of smoke fills the area. "Ack! It's a smoke bomb!" exclaims Ganondorf. "I can't see anything!" cries Bowser.
"Now's my chance to escape!" thought Archie. Just as he turns around, a person appears in front of him and grabs him. When the smoke starts to clear, Archie sees the person grabbing him—the coach!
"What!" exclaims Archie. "I thought you're all tied up! How did you escape?"
"Ninjas can free themselves from ropes," the coach tells him. "You have ruined the tournament. It is such a disgrace to the citizen."
Meanwhile, Ness and Kirby are confronting a big enemy. Standing before them is a Darkling bigger than the ones they encountered before! "This shouldn't be that much of a problem," says Ness.
Kirby throws the dagger at the Darkling. The Darkling uses his hand to swat the dagger back to Kirby. Ness jumps towards the Darkling and readies his bat, but the Darkling immediately swats him away. Kirby quickly opens his mouth and catches Ness with it. "Thanks, Kirby. But please use your hand next time…" says Ness.
"My hands are too short!" says Kirby, giving an excuse for using his mouth.
The Darkling approaches them and slams his fist down at them, but the two Smashers quickly hops aside to avoid the hit. Ness quickly rushes behind the Darkling and whacks him hard with the bat. Kirby also rushes to the side and slashes the Darkling on his leg. The Darkling yowls at the pain and falls onto the floor.
Outside, the coach is still restraining Archie in place. "What should we do with him?" asks Sheik. "Kill him!" suggests Sapphire. "He never learns his lesson! If we let him go now, he'll come up with more plans again!"
As they are speaking, a Darkling rises in front of Archie. "Quick! Do it!" Archie tells the Darkling. The Darkling then possess Archie!
Archie becomes stronger than before and shakes the coach off him. "Oh no! He's possessed by a Darkling!" cries Pikachu. "But I can take him down!" Pikachu fires an electric bolt at Archie and zaps him badly. Of course, Pikachu has the Electric Harness on, so he has Darkling-busting powers. Archie collapse onto this knees and says, "Never mind… I can allow more Darkling to use my body… and kill you all!"
Two more Darkling appear out of nowhere and goes into Archie's body. Archie rises again and yells loudly. "What's he yelling for?" asks CF. Archie then throws a punch at CF, making him fly all the way back. Archie then jumps to Sheik and grabs her by the neck, choking her. "Ack! Let me… go!" demands Sheik.
"You let her go!" says Link angrily and he stabs his sword into Archie. But amazingly, Link's sword bends when it hits him! "What the!" exclaims Link. "Being possessed also makes one's skin tough!"
Archie lifts up Sheik with one hand and slams him down onto Link. CF dashes at Archie while pointing the Hunter's Spear outwards, getting ready to stab him. Archie immediately jumps out of the way and knocks the driver on the back. Ganondorf jumps toward Archie and points the Quake Trident at him. Archie jumps back off to avoid the stab, but doing this doesn't guarantee him a safe escape. When Ganondorf's trident stabs into the ground, a shockwave is spread out along the ground and it hits Archie, knocking him to his feet. Pikachu then blasts him with a powerful thunderbolt attack, zapping him painfully.
Meanwhile, Ness and Kirby are gaining the upper hand on the big Darkling. When the Darkling slams his hand down on Kirby, Kirby jumps up into the air and stabs the Boomerang Dagger down into the Darkling's head. Ness then winds up his Ultimate Bat and smashes the Darkling hard in the face. Finally, Kirby performs Final Cutter using that dagger. He jumps up and slams the dagger onto the floor, sending forward a shockwave. The shockwave hits the Darkling and blasts him into bits.
"Yeah! We did it!" says Kirby happily. "Now let's see what's behind this door," says Ness. They open the door and see another stair, so they climb up it. Once they reached the top, they found themselves on the roof of the room the president was in!
"Quite a surprise we walked this far, eh?" says Ness. "And look what we have here!" says Kirby while pointing to none other than the dark reactor. They both got out their holy weapons and strike the reactor. The reactor begins to flash brightly.
The other people who are in the arena sees the bright flash coming from above the coliseum. "That means the dark reactor is destroyed!" says Bowser. "Ness and Kirby did it!" says Luigi.
Archie puts his hand over his head and screams, "NOOOOOOOO!" The Darkling possessing him immediately comes out and disappears into thin air. Soon, the bright flash stops…
"Yes! This world is now free of Darkling!" exclaims CF. Archie gets back up and says, "Curse you Smashers! I will be back!" He quickly turns around to leave, but is immediately punched in the stomach by Sapphire. "Where do you think you're going?" Sapphire asks him. The coach pulls out a kunai blade and slashes Archie across his back. "You're not going anywhere," the coach tells him.
Archie growls angrily, and then he feels a huge pain in his body. He looks down and sees a blade sticking out of his stomach. Cloud is standing behind, and he has stabbed his sword into him. "No…" says Archie one last time before collapsing onto the floor—dead.
"Phew… It's over at last…" says Sheik. Kirby and Ness floats down onto the arena (using Kirby's floating ability) and run to meet up with the others. "We did great, didn't we?" asks Ness.
"You sure did well!" Luigi tells them. "You deserve some prizes!"
"Food!" shouts Kirby with joy. "Until I have the money to pay you, that is," says Luigi. "Boooooooooo!" cries Kirby.
WORLD COMPLETE
Sheik turns to the coach and asks him, "Did you say you're a ninja?"
"Why yes," the coach replies. "I come from the Konohoa Village, or Hidden Leaf Village, of the Fire Country. I was a coach for the chounin final exam. I wanted to see the world, so I packed my belongings and left. Now I'm living in this country, Hoenn. Of course, I still have my way of the ninja."
"That's interesting," says Sheik. Link walks up to Cloud and asks him, "Hey pal, are you hurt?"
"That was nothing," Cloud tells him. "What is the problem that you were having?" Bowser asks him.
"I'm looking for someone," Cloud tells him. "Archie promised to help. I tried to exploit the power of darkness, but failed. I fell into darkness and couldn't find the light. Archie promised to bring me out of darkness if I could kill you all, but it turned out he wants to bring me even deeper into darkness."
"Don't worry, It's all over now!" Ganondorf tells him. "I once was a man of darkness too! But now what am I? Here I am, standing in the light and fighting against the darkness. As long as you resist the darkness, you can find your way to the light. Here's an advice: Never trust someone with an evil look and evil grin." Luigi immediately backs off from Ganondorf upon hearing this. Ganondorf looks at him strangely and asks, "What's wrong?"
"What you were saying, you are reflecting yourself," says a voice out of nowhere. Everyone looks around, looking for the person who said this. "Look up here," says the voice. They all look up and sees a large winged Darkling, and on top of it rides a man with pale skin.
"Ganondorf, what you said reflected yourself," says the man. "I tell you the truth: You still have darkness lurking in the deepest part of your heart."
"What do you mean?" Ganondorf asks him. The coach recognizes at once who that man is. "Orochimaru! What are you doing here?"
"Can't I come here?" replies Orochimaru. "I see that Archie have failed. He couldn't use the power of Darkling properly. People like him will always have a bad ending."
"So you are the king of Darkling's henchman? Aren't you?" Link asks him.
"Henchman? Watch what you're speaking! I am one of the highest ranking officers of the Darkling army. I have full control over the Darkling and I also know how to use their powers well."
Link unsheathes his sword and says, "Just come down and fight!"
"Fighting isn't necessary," replies Orochimaru. "The time has not yet come." He turns to Ganondorf and says, "Ganondorf, you will come seeking for me. I tell you…" With this, he rides off on the winged Darkling.
"What does he mean?" wonders Ganondorf. "Tsk! We let him escape!" says Link angrily. "I should've just jump up and slash him!"
"Do not underestimate Orochimaru!" the coach tells him. "He is one of the three legendary ninjas of Konohoa!"
"You know him?" asks Bowser. "He is very powerful, and he has mastered lots of jutsus. He even created new jutsus himself and went so far into learning forbidden ones. The village saw how dangerous he would become and banished him."
"Why don't you just kill him instead?" asks CF.
"The problem is he knows the forbidden jutsu of immorality and resurrection. He can go into a new body and live on forever!"
"That's cool!"
"It's not cool! Maybe cool for the user, but not for the others. It require the sacrifice of one people every time you use it."
"Human sacrificing! That's terrible!" cries Sheik with a freaked out face.
"Yes, so you see why we banished him."
"Can we go back to the Final Destination now?" asks Pikachu. "Our job is done here."
"Why yes! We should be going!" says CF. "Let's see if the others have made it or not? Let's go!"
"This time I drive the warp star!" says Kirby. Link turns to Cloud and asks him, "Where are you going?"
"Going where I believe can bring me out of darkness," he replies.
"Hope we meet again!"
"I hope." With this, Cloud went through the exit of the coliseum. "All right, let's get moving," says CF. "Going so soon?" asks Sapphire. "You haven't been here for that long!"
"As long as we're far from you, we're happy," says Ganondorf.
"Why you!" says Sapphire angrily.
Somewhere outside the coliseum, Mr. 2 is lying unconscious. Soon, he starts to come to his sense. "Oooo… What happened? The last thing I remember is I am flying like swan through the sky."
Orochimaru appears in front of him. "You're that snake ninja!" says Mr. 2. "What are you doing here?"
"Archie is dead…"
"He is? Such pity! Death is inevitable…"
"Indeed, it is… Come, let us return to the others."
TO BE CONTINUED…
This is the end of the Pokemon Coliseum arc. The next arc will be on South Island, the island where Sonic and his gangs live. Team 3 will be going there!
And to tell you all, there probably won't be another update until next week or so. I'm going on a trip this week, so be patient while I'm gone!