Chapter 31: Battle for the Whereabouts of the Dark Reactor!

The robots of Yamatoman are watching TV, which is showing Godzilla beating up the Smashers. They are cheering for Godzilla with excitement when suddenly the door bursts open. They turn around to see Mewtwo, with Parry on his shoulder (and looking tough), standing at the busted entrance! "That's one of the Smashers!" gasps one of the robots. "I know him! How does he find us here?"

Mewtwo raises his hand and grasps the air, and the robots suddenly freeze in place and slowly levitate into the air!

"Wah! Let us down!" cries on them.

"So this is telekinesis!" exclaims Manta.

"Pretty cool, eh?" comments Yoh.

"Where is Yamatoman?" demands Mewtwo.

"We'll bring you to him if you let us down!"

Mewtwo opens his hand again and the robots drop onto the floor, piling on top of each other. "Bring me to him," says Mewtwo.

"That won't be necessary," says a voice. It is Yamatoman, who just entered this room that had spoken. "So you're Mewtwo, supposedly the most powerful of the Smashers."

"And I presume you're Yamatoman, right?"

"Yes. The only reason you've come here is to ask for the location of the Dark Reactor, right?"

"Is it not in your base?"

"Aye, sad to tell you, it is not in my base."

"Then where is it?"

"Do you expect me to give you the answer so easily? How about this, I will tell you where it is if you can defeat me."

"That is too easy." Mewtwo raises his hand to perform another cool psychic move, but suddenly, Yamatoman disappears from his sight! "What!" Then he spots someone lurking to him from the side and quickly flips into the air just as a spear thrusts forward to where he was standing. Mewtwo drops back onto the floor, on a safe spot, and says, "You're very fast!"

"A warrior is expected to be a strong fighter," says Yamatoman. "That is why Lord Wily made me look over the Dark Reactor of this place." Yamatoman charges at Mewtwo and begins jabbing his spear really fast, to the point where you see an illusion of many spears! Mewtwo was able to avoid it, of course.

Mewtwo cups his hands together and begins charging up a black energy ball, but is interrupted when Yamatoman fires a spearhead at him.

The other four (Parry is now on Anna's shoulder) watches from aside. "The way Yamatoman fights reminds me of Tao Ren!" says Yoh.

"He sure does! They both use spear-like weapons!" agrees Manta.

"Mewtwo will win for sure!" says Parry. "I tell you, he will!"

Some robots step up to them and say, "You think you have come here just to watch a show? You'll have to fight us! We, the Sniper Joes, will kill you!"

Manta freaks out and quickly hides behind Anna, but she kicks him away and says to Yoh, "Do what you have to do." Then she throws a katana blade at him.

Yoh catches the katana and then says, "Amidamaru, let's fight!"

Suddenly, a ghost-like samurai appears out of thin air and says, "I am always ready to fight besides you, Master Yoh!"

"A ghost!" exclaims Parry. "And he's calling Yoh his master!"

"They say animals have some sort of a sixth sense," says Anna. "That explains why you can see Amidamaru."

Yoh rises his hand into the air and shouts, "Amidamaru, spirit unity!" The ghost samurai turns into a ball of blue fire and places himself on Yoh's hand, who then 'pushes' it into his own body.

"Wha! The ghost just turned into a blue ball thingy and went inside his body!" exclaims Parry.

"Shut up," says Anna coldly. This made Parry fly away from her shoulder in fear and he lands on top of Manta, who is still knocked out cold from the kick earlier.

Yoh unsheathes the blade and charges at the Sniper Joes. With a single slash, he took out a good number of Joes. One of them fires its gun at him, but Yoh jumps into the air to avoid it and lands the sword on the Joe, cutting him in half from top to bottom.

"COOL!" shouts Parry at the top of his voice. Mewtwo and Yamatoman watch from aside with great interest. "So that's the power of a shaman…" Mewtwo thought to himself.

"That boy is no ordinary human…" Yamatoman thought to himself.

Yoh took out all the Joes who challenged him, but it's not over yet. A ball & chain thingy flies over to hit him, so he quickly uses his sword to block it, but the chain wraps itself around the sword!

"I got your sword now!" says a robot called Hammer Joe. "I'm going to kill you as a revenge for killing my friends!"

Yoh and Hammer Joe pull their weapons back and forth, trying to separate it. Unfortunately, Hammer Joe is stronger and pulls the chain back to him, dragging Yoh along. When he got near, HJ punches him in the chest and sends him into the air, but Yoh does a back flip in mid air and lands on his feet. Amidamaru appears behind him and says, "This is not good, Master Yoh! The enemy took the sword!"

Suddenly, Parry shoots himself at Hammer Joe while spinning rapidly like a drill. He impacts with Hammer Joe's eye and bores a hole in it. HJ screams in pain and drops his ball & chain, so Yoh quickly runs to it and gets his sword back, and then he slashes HJ into two. "Thanks, Parry!" Yoh thanks him.

"I'm glad to be a help!" says Parry happily.

While Yamatoman is still watching Yoh with interest, Mewtwo fires an energy beam at him. When the beam hits the unsuspecting Yamatoman, he freezes in place and can't move! "Wha! I lost my concentration on the fight! How can I!"

Mewtwo cups his hands together again to charge up a black energy. When fully charged, he fires the Shadow Ball at Yamatoman. Suddenly, a Darkling pops out from the floor in front of Yamatoman and takes the shot itself! The shot didn't kill the Darkling, of course. This Darkling looks different from the ones the Smashers encountered, for this one has spikes sticking out from its back and is a bit larger than the others too.

"Damn! The Darkling used itself as a shield!" says Mewtwo angrily.

Yamatoman is able to move again, and says, "You have great power, Mewtwo. Now let me show you what a Darkling can do!" He gestures to the Darkling, and the Darkling turns into a ball of purple flame and enters the spear! Yamatoman's spear flashes in a bright purple light and a purple aura of evilness surrounds it. "Behold, my spear is now has the power of the Beast Darkling, whose power is equivalent to 5 Soldier Darkling!"

Yoh gasps in awe. "That's the same as Over Soul!"

"It sure is," says Anna.

Note: In the dub, it is called Soul Control.

Yamatoman turns to them. "Sure, it's similar to Over Soul, but its powers are different. Anything possessed by the Darkling can only be destroyed by the holy weapons!"

Mewtwo got out his Psychic Spoon out of nowhere. "And that's what I happen to have."

The two of them charge at each other and clash their weapons together. Yamatoman thrusts his spear forward at Mewtwo, who uses the spoon to block the hit. Both their skills, to say, are actually very good, as neither side seems to be gaining an advantage. Yamatoman backs off from Mewtwo and hurls his spear at Mewtwo. Because of the Darkling inside it, the spear shot forward with an aura of evil around it. Mewtwo easily dodged it by stepping aside. But unknown to him, the spear turns around by itself and makes another attempt to hit Mewtwo. Once again, he is able to dodge it, but when the spear whizzed pass him, it made a small cut on his cheek. "How does the spear come back?" gasps Mewtwo.

"Because the spear is possessed, and the Darkling is now controlling it," explains Yamatoman. "You can consider the spear to a life of its own."

Mewtwo charges forward without hesitating and clash weapons with Yamatoman again. As they trade blows with each other, Yamatoman's spear starts to glow and bursts out a purple light, knocking Mewtwo backwards! "What happened!" he exclaims.

"Must I always explain?" says Yamatoman, looking quite annoyed. "The spear is now under the control of the Darkling, and it can do what normal spears cannot!" Then he turns to the others who are standing on the other side of the room. "Are you planning to stand there and do nothing?"

"It's not like I don't want to help," answers Yoh. "If it's Darkling-related, then I can't do anything about it."

"You took down my men just now, so you proved yourself useful, and so does the parrot." Yamatoman turns to Anna (Manta is still down). "But you're just standing there doing nothing."

"So what's about it?" says Anna coldly.

All of a sudden, Yamatoman charges at her in a blink of an eye. Before Anna can react, she feels something sharp hit her stomach. Manta got conscious again and gets back up, but then sees a horrible sight—Yamatoman stabbed his spear right through Anna's stomach! So Manta fainted upon seeing the horrible sight. Mewtwo's eye widens and Parry's beak drops in shock. As for Yoh…

After Yamatoman pulled the spear out of her, she spat out blood and collapse onto her knees.

"ANNNNNNNNAAAAAA!" screams Yoh. He runs to her and lifts her up. "Anna! Speak to me! Say something!"

"Yoh… I... ugh…" she grunts.

"Please don't die! I can't live without you!" Yoh's eyes begin to fill with tears. He pulls her to close to him and hugs her tight. "Please don't die!"

"The weakest one in a fight should always die first," says Yamatoman. "If she was more useful, then this would never have happened."

Yoh grits his teeth and clenches his fists in anger. He stands up and gives Yamatoman the meanest glare ever. "I… will… NEVER FORGIVE YOU!"

Yamatoman shows no fear at all. "Anger and thought of revenge run through your mind. It is a good kind of condition for Darkling to possess."

Yoh raises his hand and shouts, "Amidamaru, Over Soul!"

"Yes, Master Yoh! We shall avenge for Anna!" replies the ghost samurai as he turns into a ball of blue flame and places himself on Yoh's hand. This time, Yoh puts the spirit into his katana blade instead. The blade glows with a bright blue aura and some kind of a strange red armor forms around its handle.

"So that is Over Soul…" says Yamatoman with a hint of interest.

"I will kill you!" shouts Yoh angrily as he charges at Yamatoman.

"Don't forget, you cannot destroy a Darkling with that thing," says Yamatoman. He raises his spear in front of him and blocks the blow Yoh delivers to him. Yoh continues to clash his sword against Yamatoman's spear, but it is as he said; nothing can destroy the spear as it is possessed by a Darkling.

"Do you have enough of this?" asks Yamatoman.

"I won't stop until I kill you!" Yoh shouts back.

"You cannot defeat me!" A burst of energy surrounds the spear and knocks Yoh backwards onto the floor. "I told you. You cannot destroy a Darkling with that weapon!"

Then Yamatoman senses Mewtwo charging at him from behind, so he quickly turns around and uses his spear to block Mewtwo's spoon strike. "You still want to try some? You cannot defeat me! That is why Lord Wily chose me as his strongest fighter!"

"I do not care what you said, I will defeat you!" says Mewtwo as he presses the spoon against the spear. "What right do you have to say that you're the strongest fighter?" Then these thoughts came to Mewtwo.

-

"I want to become more powerful! Even though I can't be the strongest, I want to be stronger than everyone else!"

-

Mewtwo yells out loud for some reason and presses the spoon down hard. To Yamatoman's surprise, the spoon cleaves through the spear and shatters it! Yamatoman lets go the broken spear and the Darkling emerges from the spear, roaring aloud. Mewtwo quickly turns to the Darkling and strikes it down with a single but powerful blow from the spoon. The Darkling screams and falls onto the floor, and then disappears.

"How dare you destroy my favorite spear!" says Yamatoman angrily. Suddenly, Yoh appears in front of him and brings his sword down on him at tremendous speed.

"How is… this… possible…? I'm… defeated…!" grunts Yamatoman painfully.

"Tell me the location of the dark reactor!" demands Mewtwo angrily.

"A warrior… keeps… his words… The forest… where it sits all alone… in the middle… of the wa…" Before he can finish his line, Yamatoman breaks apart into two and stops working.

"Great… Now we'll never know where it is!" says Parry, frustrated.

"At least we know it's in the forest," says Mewtwo.

Yoh walks back to Anna, who is lying on the floor. A medium-sized hole is on her waist level and you can clearly see the floor she's lying on by looking through it. Yoh crouches down by her and slowly lifts up her head. "Anna… Please don't die…"

Anna slowly opens her eyes. "Yoh… My future husband… I'm afraid I can't… live to see the day you become shaman king…"

"Don't say that! I believe you can survive! You will for sure!"

"It's not long for me… now… Not long…

"No! Please don't die!" Tears begin to drop out from his eyes again.

Manta has come to his sense and is shocked to see Anna at her current state. "Anna! What happened to you!"

"How sad…" says Parry, who is starting to cry. "Imagine losing your love one… I don't even have a mate yet…"

Mewtwo rubs his chin and thinks for a while, and then says, "Maybe there's still hope!"

-

Back in the forest, a powerful explosion rocks the entire place. The Smashers scream and are flung into the air from the explosion. Godzilla roars and slams his tail down on Fox, smashing him onto the forest soil. He kicks a dead log into Nana, crushing her underneath it. He raises his foot and kicks Falco hard in the guts, sending him back onto a rock (the same one). He bends down a bit and swipes his claws at Dr. Mario, flinging the doctor into the air and back onto the ground with a hard thud.

Unknown to them, the 3 Space Pirates watch them from a tall tree, safe from Godzilla. "Looks like they're really getting it this time!" says Pix with excitement.

"Godzilla is so powerful!" exclaims Pork.

"I thought they could do better than this," says Punk.

-

Samus is still walking alone through the forest. The gash on her waist hurts a lot and she can't walk properly. "Ugh… This pain cannot stop me! I must get back to the others!"

Suddenly, someone taps her on the shoulder and she turns around immediately and points her arm cannon at the person.

"Hey! Don't shoot me!" says the person who tapped her. "I didn't mean harm!"

Samus immediately knows that he's the boy who asked for directions back in chapter 27. "It's you! I thought you fell off the cliff!"

"That fall was nothing!" says the boy with pride. "I have trained my body to the extreme and my skin is like iron!"

"Yeah, whatever…"

"Can you tell me where Tokyo is?"

"I think it's in that direction," says Samus, pointing to a certain direction. "But it's very dangerous there at the moment."

"Nah, nothing is too dangerous for me!"

"You better believe me…"

"By the way, do you have time?"

"What?" asks Samus, thinking that he's asking her for a date.

"The suit you're wearing seems to imply that you're a mechanist of some sorts."

"Well, you can say that. I'm pretty good at fixing large machines and gadgets. Why'd you ask?"

"I just spotted something large and mechanical over there, and I don't know what it is. Can you come and take a look?"

Samus nods and follows the boy as he leads her through the forest. After a bit of walking, they came to a large lake. The boy points to a small island in the middle of the lake. "That's the one I'm talking about."

Samus's eyes widen and exclaims, "That's the Dark Reactor!" Sure enough, the reactor is on the island which is in the middle of the lake. Therefore, what Yamatoman said just before he died was true; the reactor is sitting on an island in the middle of the water, and by water, he means lake.

Samus switches her arm cannon to Hyper Beam and fires a large colorful beam at it. When the beam hits the reactor, it flashes brightly and explodes. Samus and the boy put their arms over their eyes to avoid getting blinded by the flash.

-

Godzilla begins to behave strangely. He starts roaring painfully and shakes his body like mad. "What's wrong with him?" wonders Fox.

To everyone's surprise, Darkling start to emerge from Godzilla's body; each of them screaming with pain and agony, and then they disappear. The 3 Pirates watch in shock while the Smashers watch with joy, knowing that the Dark Reactor must have been destroyed.

After the last Darkling came out, Godzilla lets out one last roar and collapse onto the ground with a hard thud.

"The Darkling left him…" says Falco.

"The Dark Reactor is destroyed for sure!" says Fox. Then the Smashers jump up and shout with joy. "YIPPEEEEE!"

"What the heck happened!" exclaims Pork. "The Darkling came out of Godzilla!"

"The Dark Reactor is destroyed!" gasps Pix. "Since when!"

"This is incredible…" says Punk. "So one of them have found the reactor and destroyed it…"

-

"What did you do that for!" the boy asks Samus.

"It is part of my mission to destroy that," she replies. "Have you heard of the Darkling?"

"No."

"Never mind… That thing is bad for the society and it needs to be destroyed."

"I never knew that…"

"I should thank you for finding it! What's your name?"

"Ryoga Hibiki."

"That's a good name. Thanks!" And then Samus turns around and walks off.

"This is strange… There are many things in the world I don't know…" says Ryoga, but he shrugs the thought off his mind and continues his 'journey'. He took the wrong turn and falls into the lake, and a black piglet emerges from where he dropped in.

-

Samus made it back to the other Smashers and is glad to see Godzilla lying unconsciously on the floor.

As Dr. Mario uses the Heal Staff to heal everyone's wounds, they hear footsteps coming towards them. After a few seconds, they see Parry, Mewtwo, and three other people unknown to them coming towards them. "Hey guys!" shouts Parry.

When they got there, Manta got surprised by the sight of Godzilla lying there. "Wow! You guys defeated this monster!"

"Yeah, I did!" says Falco with pride.

Popo jumps up and hammers his head. "You're not the only one! In fact, we did nothing at all! It was Samus who destroyed the reactor!"

"Who are those people with you, Mewtwo?" asks Nana, pointing to those three.

"They are Master Hand's old friends," replies Mewtwo.

"Wow, he sure has lots of friends."

Mewtwo turns to Dr. Mario. "Doc, we need your Heal Staff."

"Why?"

Yoh, carrying Anna on his hands, walks up to him and begs, "Please! Heal my fiancée! I can't live without her!"

"Calm down, kid. I'll help her! Now place her on the ground."

Yoh slowly places Anna onto the ground and Dr. Mario checks her body (nothing perverted). "Hmmm… Her pulse is weak… I'm afraid she can't live any longer…"

"Please help her! I'll pay you all I can!"

"Calm down! I am going to help her!" Dr. Mario gently taps the tip of the staff on Anna's body. A bright white aura surrounds her, and after a few seconds, it fades away. To Yoh's surprise, the hole on her stomach disappeared! Anna slowly opens her eyes…

"Anna!" shouts Yoh with joy as he embraces her tightly. Anna doesn't know what to say. She thought she is surely dead, but now she's feeling better than ever! Instead of pushing Yoh away, she hugs him back.

"Wow! That is cool!" exclaims Manta. "The holy weapons can do such amazing things!"

Parry begins to cry again. "Oh… The joy of seeing your love one coming back to life again! Imagine how happy that is! I don't even have a mate yet…"

Suddenly, a loud roar startles them all. They all turn to see Godzilla and, to everyone's surprise, he slowly gets back up! Godzilla stood back up and looks around in confusion. The last thing he knew is he was resting peacefully under the sea, but now he's standing in the forest! Godzilla lets out a roar and walks towards the direction of the sea.

"He's still alive…" says Falco. "Now that's why they call him GODzilla."

"You guys are really good," says a voice.

The Smashers recognize that voice and look up a tree and see Punk standing on a branch! "You again!"

"I've never thought you could free Godzilla from the Darkling!" says Punk. "You people are indeed strong, but can you defeat the king of Darkling?"

"We can defeat anyone!" says Falco.

"Well, let us wait until then." Punk turns around to leave, but he says on last thing. "Fox, I'm sure you'll know who the king is."

"Who?" asks Fox. Punk didn't reply; he just jumps off from branch to branch in a very fast speed.

"I know who the king of Darkling is?" wonders Fox.

-

And so, the Smashers returned to the warp star and says farewell to the Nerima Wrecking Crew (Ranma ½ cast), Yoh, Anna, and Manta. Of course, not all of them can see Amidamaru. Even if one of them can see, he/she doesn't know he's a ghost and wouldn't mind about it either.

"You are indeed worthy of the chosen ones," Cologne says to the Smashers. "You are the only ones who can destroy the king of Darkling!"

"And just who is the king of Darkling?" asks Fox.

"He is the vilest of all demons. He is none other than…" She tells them his identity.

"What! Him…!" gasps Fox.

"You know him?" Popo asks Fox.

"We must go back and tell everyone fast!" says Fox. "We must!"

So the Smashers hop onto the warp star and zooms off into the sky. Their friends wave good-bye to them from below. When the Smashers flew high into the sky, they can see Godzilla walking into the sea.

"Well, it sure is an interesting day," says Soun. "Now let's go back to our daily lives!"

"Now I can continue my underwear raiding!" says Happosai with joy, and then he jumps away.

"Oh no you don't!" Ranma shouts at him angrily, and then begins chasing him.

"Let's go back to the restaurant, Shampoo," Cologne says to her great-granddaughter as she hops off on her walking stick. "There are customers waiting."

"Yes, grandma!" says Shampoo happily as she follows her.

"Wait for me, my love!" says Mousse as he follows her, but Shampoo splashes a bucket of water at him, turning him into his duck form.

Anna turns around to leave. "It's back to our home. Let's continue your training, Yoh."

"Oh boy…" says Yoh with a depressed face. "When can I get out of this mess…?" When Anna approached him, she grabs hold of his hand, not in a threatening way, but in a soft and kind way. "This just isn't like her…" thought Yoh. He can see her face smiling quite happily instead of the usual stern and cold-looking face.

"Their relationship seems to have developed," Amidamaru says to Manta. "Don't you think so?"

"Yeah, I know that. But trust me, it's gonna go back to how it is a few days later."

Godzilla lets out one last roar before he disappears into the ocean depths…

WORLD COMPLETE!

"So… Six of the nine Dark Reactor are down," says a person who I'm not gonna reveal until next chapter. "They are more powerful than I thought…"

TO BE CONTINUED…

Well, how do you like it? This Tokyo arc took me a while to come up with, so hope you appreciate it! Sorry if I'm too rude to Anna. I don't hate her, but I just had an urge to do that… And I support Yoh & Anna pairing! It's official, so don't deny it! And rejoice that Godzilla is still alive, yeah!

You're gonna get excited over this, because I'm going to reveal the true identity of the king of Darkling in the next chapter! Ha! Can't wait for it, right? I promise it'll come very soon! You'll be in for a big surprise! Let me give you a hint, the king also appeared in one of my older stories!