Chapter 21: The Secret of Shredder's Immortality and His True Form Revealed!
"ROY!" shout the other Smashers as they run towards the hole on the wall made in the previous chapter. Shredder steps in front of them and says, "He's dead already, so don't bother rescuing him."
"How could you do such a thing!" says Young Link angrily. "I will kill you!"
"I'll kill you first before that happens."
Marth is facing off with the Darkling that appeared a moment ago. He is happy that is he can finally use the Durandal, but it's kind of heavy to swing around. The Darkling jumps at Marth to attack him, but he quickly ducks down and the Darkling flies over him.
"This sword is too heavy!" Marth thought. "If I can't wield it properly, then I won't be able to fight the Darkling!" As he was thinking this, the Darkling latches onto his back and dig its sharp claws in his shoulder! Marth yells in pain and pushes his back against the wall, crushing the Darkling against it and making it let go.
Once again, the Darkling pounces at Marth. He quickly lifts up the Durandal in front of him, with the sharp blade pointing outwards. The Darkling comes in contact with the blade and splits in half, and both halves fly past Marth and disappear. "Phew… Did it…" says Marth.
Shredder saw the battle earlier, and said, "You may be able to defeat one soldier Darkling, but can you defeat 8 of them at once?" As soon as he said this, 8 more Darkling appear around Marth!
"Marth!" cries Captain Falcon. "I'll help you!"
"Don't bother!" replies Marth. "You handle Shredder! This is a good time to use my Durandal!"
CF turns to Shredder and says, "If he says so, then I'll kill you!" CF charges forward and throws a punch at Shredder, who quickly sidesteps to the side to avoid it. As soon as he sidestepped, DK also charges forward to punch him, but Shredder is able to avoid it too.
Pikachu fires an electric bolt at Shredder, but he was able to avoid it by doing some acrobatic back-flips. As soon as he landed from the flip, Pichu fires another electric bolt at him, but Shredder once again avoided it. "He's fast!" Pichu thought.
"I sing a song!" says Jigglypuff, and then she begins to sing a soothing lullaby. Shredder simply walks up to her and gives her a big, hard kick. "JIGGLYPUFF!" screams the balloon Pokemon as she soars across the room, but CF caught her in midair.
YL charges towards Shredder and clashes his sword with his. "Your sword is too small," says Shredder, and then he pushes YL away with a strong force.
Marth is having a hard time trying to lift the Durandal again, and he's pitted against 8 Darkling! The Darkling dash and jump around, trying to hit him, and all Marth can do for now is to dodge their attacks.
"How can anyone ever lift up a sword this big and swing it around easily?"he thought, but then it came to him that the original user of the Durandal is a short man, yet he was able to lift it up with one hand and swing it around easily as if it's a drinking straw. "Maybe it's because I'm losing skill with the sword," Marth thought. He remembers that he hasn't been practicing sword fighting lately, but doing some other pointless stuff instead.
"What am I thinking? This is no longer a practical fight, but a real fight! If I lose, I'll lose my life! No! I must not let this happen! I must not die here!"
He picks up the big sword and swings it at the nearest Darkling, killing it. The other Darkling saw it and then glare at Marth angrily, and then they all pounce at him together. Marth lifts up the Durandal and performs Shield Breaker with it, killing all 7 Darkling. Marth drop to his knees and says, "Somehow… I did it…"
Meanwhile, Shredder and YL are having their own swordfight. Shredder thrusts his sword forward fast, trying to pierce YL'S heart. YL was able to avoid it, but it didn't stop the sword from stabbing through his left shoulder! YL screams in pain and falls back onto the floor, putting his right hand on the shoulder to cover the wound.
"You should've just stayed home and play games, kid," Shredder says to YL. YL pulls out a boomerang and throws it at Shredder, but he easily avoided it by moving his head aside a bit. "What is that little toy supposed to do?"
The boomerang flies back to Shredder and smacks him in the back of the neck. Shredder falls forward and Young Link stabs his sword into Shredder's heart!
"You hit the bull's eye!" exclaims CF. "That will surely kill him!" But Shredder got back up onto his feet, lifts up YL by the neck, and chokes him! "You're as annoying as the turtles!" he says angrily, and then he hurls YL across the room. He pulls out the sword that is stabbed into where his heart is supposed to be and throws it at YL too, but the kid is able to avoid it.
"What are you…?" says Yoshi. "He is ghost!" cries Jigglypuff. "Ghost can no never die!"
"I don't care whether you're a ghost or whatever," says Marth. "I will avenge for Roy!"
"I'm not dead!" shouts a voice from somewhere. "That's the voice of Roy!" says Pikachu.
Suddenly, Roy pops up from the hole on the wall! "ROY!" shout the other Smashers in surprise and also in joy.
"When I got burst outside, I fell down and grabbed onto a metal pole sticking out from the side of the building," explains Roy. "If it weren't for that, then I would surely have died. Then I tried to climb my way back up here." He turns to Shredder and looks at him angrily. "I will kill you this very moment!" He charges at Shredder and clashes the Sealed Sword with Shredder's sword. As the two are pushing their swords against each other, Marth also comes in and clashes his sword against Shredder's.
Suddenly, both their holy swords start to glow in a light brighter than anyone can imagine! "What's happening!" cries Shredder.
"FLARE BLADE!"
"SHIELD BREAKER!"
Right at this exact moment, the ninja turtles step into the room and witness the magnificent scene.
Both their swords not only smashed through Shredder's sword, but they also slashed Shredder severely. Shredder screams in pain as his entire body breaks in several pieces! The head lands in front of the ninja turtles and Raphael stabs his sai into it, saying, "This is for all the evil deeds you have done!"
"You did it!" exclaims CF. "You killed him!"
"I have a feeling he's still alive," says Yoshi.
Marth and Roy stand in front of the broken body of Shredder and stare at it. "He's not… human…" says Marth.
"He's a… robot…" continues Roy. "A ROBOT!" exclaims the other Smashers in shock. The ninja turtles weren't surprised when they heard this.
A part of Shredder's broken body starts moving by itself, and suddenly, a gray brain-like thing on a floating platform pops out from that part!
"What!" gasps Roy. "His inner organ has come to life!" screams Pichu.
"You finally revealed your true form, Shredder," says Leonardo. "TRUE FORM!" gasps the Smashers.
"You Smashers and turtles have ruined everything!" says Shredder angrily. "Don't think this is the end! The king of Darkling will kill you all himself!" After saying this, Shredder flies toward the hole on the wall to escape.
"Oh no you don't!" says Pichu. "You're not going anywhere!" He charges towards Shredder and hit him with Skull Bash. Because Pichu has the Crash Helmet on, the impact is like 10 times stronger than usual, and getting hit by it is like getting hit by a 10-ton metal rod. Shredder gets knocked far over the horizon, and screaming all along the way.
"Yeah! Did it!" says Pichu happily.
"You guys defeated Shredder!" says Michelangelo. "You're awesome!"
"But our mission is not finished yet," says Marth. "We have to find and destroy the dark reactor."
To make a long story short, they found the reactor in one of the rooms. CF uses the Hunter Spear to destroy it, thus eradicating all the Darkling in New York.
In a dark alley way…
"The warp star is still here," says CF. "Let's go back fast!"
"How can we ever thank you?" says Leonardo.
"You guys are very strong!" says Raphael.
"You guys rock!" says Michelangelo.
"So you guys have to go now?" asks Donatello.
"Right," replies Marth. "We may still have more missions to accomplish. We will not rest until we destroy all the Darkling."
"Hope we meet again!"
"By the way," says YL. "What is that brain thing? That's Shredder's true form?"
"That's an Utrom, aliens from another galaxy," replies Donatello. "Some of them came to Earth and secretly blend themselves among the humans. Not all of them are evil like Shredder though."
After saying good-bye to each other, the Smashers rode the warp star into the sky.
"I hope we meet again," says Michelangelo. "Someone's coming this way!" says Leonardo. "Hide quickly!"
The turtles jump into the nearest manhole and into the sewer, once again disappearing from the awareness of surface dwellers.
WORLD COMPLETE
In a dark and unknown place, Punk walks up to Ridley and says, "Master Ridley, may I ask you something?"
"Speak up," replies Ridley.
"Is it safe to follow that man's order?"
"He wants to fill the world with darkness. He hired us all so he can make it done faster. As long as I go with him, I can wipe out the Smashers from this world!"
"But I have heard that he's a terrifying man! He kills without mercy and even treated his henchmen badly!"
"He needs us in order to reach his goal, so he won't treat us the same. I'm not just an ordinary underling, but a Dark Lord! I have one of the highest ranks in his army, so I deserve great respect!"
"Still, I'm worried that he will recognize me."
"You may have met him a few months ago, but to him, it's been 500 years since he last saw you! He definitely forgot it already! Enough talking! Get going with your mission!"
"Yes master," says Punk before disappearing from Ridley's sight.
TO BE CONTINUED…
That's the end of the New York arc, next coming up is Halloween Town!