I'm back from my trip! Now let's get on with the story.
Chapter 64: The Furious Heat Blast of the Frying Pan!
Peach is running through the ruins. She has been running for who-knows-how-long. She doesn't dare to look back or stop. In fact, she seems to have forgotten why she's running in the first place. She soon came to a brick wall and lean against it to catch some air.
"Huh… huh… That was so frightening…" she says to nobody. "All of a sudden, I felt a chill run down my spine and just had to run. I believe I'm safe here. Now why was I running? Oh yeah, there was this big bald man and a super hot lady trying to kill me, and then Marth came to the rescue, but I still ran because that lady is after me. I wonder what kind of skills does she have? Infatuate people with her sexy body?"
All of sudden, a long spike shot out of the brick wall behind Peach and pierces her through the right shoulder. "AH!" she cries and falls forward onto the ground, and then quickly gets up and turns around. She sees something sharp poking several holes on the wall until it made an outline of a door, and it 'opens', revealing Ms. Doublefinger behind it.
"I found you at last, little girl," she says.
"How did she do that! She must've used some kind of a sharp spear-like weapon," Peach thought.
"I ate the Toge Toge Fruit, and it allows me turn any part of my body into spikes," explains Ms. DF, and she turns the tip of her fingers sharp like nails as a demonstration. "It is sharp enough to pierce through anything."
"A Devil Fruit user! This won't be easy! But still, I mustn't get frightened so easily!" Peach pulls out a turnip and throws it at Ms. DF, but she caught it by piercing her needle-like hand through it.
"This turnip is still fresh. Why do you waste food, little girl?"
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Meanwhile, Dr. Mario and G&W are wandering the ruins, looking for the big door. "I think we're lost," says G&W.
"Nonsense, just keep walking," says Dr. Mario. So they continue walking, until G&W speaks again.
"I'm wondering: If Crocodile is indeed inside the ruins even as we speak, then what does that make Roy?"
"What do you mean? Oh yeah, he was supposed to be fighting Crocodile back at that inverted pyramid."
"But I remember the Mr. 5 pair saying Crocodile is inside the ruins and they are guarding the switch. If Crocodile is here, then where is Roy?"
"Perhaps he's defeated and Crocodile came here?"
"Roy defeated? That's not possible!"
"I fear the truth… He may even be dead…"
"Don't say that! Roy can never die! His mother was a half-dragon so he can't go down that easily!"
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Peach finds herself running through the ruins again. "Help me! I'm chased by a spiny mad woman!" She keeps on running and bumps into a brick wall (these things are everywhere!). Ms. Doublefinger approaches her and thrusts her needle hand forward to stab her, but Peach quickly moves her head aside to avoid it, and then moves her head around wildly to avoid the following stabs. She quickly escapes by slipping between Ms. DF's legs. Ms. DF quickly turns around and brings the needle hand down on her, but it only caught Peach by the skirt and she made it out with a small piece of cloth torn.
"That girl sure can run," says Ms. DF.
When Peach got to a fair distance, she pulls out several turnips and hurls them at Ms. DF, who easily cut them into pieces.
"I told you not to play with food, little girl."
"Take this!" Peach takes out a mushroom and throws it at her. When she cuts the mushroom, it releases several purple spores that blotted her view, so Peach quickly uses this chance to escape.
She keeps on running until she found a safe place to hide—among of rocks. "Please don't find me here…" she says quietly.
Ms. DF walks around the place and calls out, "Come out here, little girl." Spikes protrude from below her feet and she walks up a tall pillar using them.
Peach is still cowering in her hiding place, thinking up of a battle strategy. "Close contact attacks won't work, because she can turn her body into spike. Long range projectiles are useful here, but I all know are throwing turnips, which will never work against her!"
"I found you, little girl," says a voice.
Peach turns to the source of the voice and is surprised to see Ms. DF standing on top of a tall pillar. "Eek! How did you get up there!"
Ms. DF jumps into the air and transforms into a spike ball. "Sea Urchin!" Peach quickly runs out of her hiding place as the spike slams down onto it.
"Don't follow me! Go away!" screams Peach as she runs from the spike ball, which is rolling after her. When it got near, she quickly runs to the side and the spike wall crashes through some walls.
"That was so close…" says Peach.
Ms. DF step out from behind the walls and says, "You sure can run fast, little girl." Both her legs turn into long needles and she begins moving towards Peach very fast. "Sewing Machine!"
"Not again!" Peach quickly runs off screaming. When Ms. DF got near, she stabs her long needle arm forward and pierces Peach through the left leg and pins her to the ground.
"AH! It hurts!" she cries.
Ms. DF lifts up a feet and a clump of sharp spikes grow out from below it. "Hedgehog!" She brings it towards Peach's face just as the princess pulls the Frying Pan in front of her face. Ms. DF's spiked foot hits the surface of the pan and a mysterious burst of light blasts her backwards into some stones.
CRASH!
"Huh, huh, huh… Saved by the holy weapon…" says Peach with a sigh of relief.
Ms. DF got back up from being pushed back. "I don't know how you did that… But you're starting to annoy me. All you can do is run and scream!"
"Is that what you think? Very well, then I'll show you I can fight!"
Ms. DF's fingers turn into long spikes and she stabs herself in both her shoulder. "Needle Acupuncture!" After stabbing herself, her muscles begin to grow until her arms are very large and muscular!
"What did you do to yourself!"
She charges at Peach and swings her fist, but Peach ducked under it just in time and the punch destroys a rock that was next to her instead. Peach brings up the Frying Pan and is about to hit Ms. DF with it, but she hits her in the hand and the Frying Pan goes flying off. "Oh no!" Ms. DF swings her fist and successfully hits Peach in the face, and she flies forward onto the ground. "Ah!"
"Now die!" Ms. DF runs at her to give the final blow. In desperation to protect herself, Peach tore off her skirt and flings it at Ms. DF's, covering her head. "Hey! I can't see!" Peach quickly turns around and jumps back at her, hitting her with the almighty Peach Bomber. An explosion is created when the two come in contact.
BANG!
And Ms. DF is blasted onto the ground. Peach lands onto the ground from using the move. "Phew… That did it…" But she is shocked to see Ms. DF standing up again!
"You darn bratty girl! You have angered me!" says Ms. DF angrily. Her hair turns into a bunch of sharp needles and she charges at Peach. "Pin Cushion!"
"No!" cries Peach, and she quickly runs to fetch her Frying Pan, which is just lying aside, and then she makes a run for it again with Ms. DF chasing her from behind. While she is running, she takes out a small index card that has the message for unlocking the 2nd Level Weapon. She uses the blood that is trickling down her shoulder (made near the beginning of chapter) and reads the message as she runs.
She soon came to a dead end with nowhere else to go, and worst of all, Ms. DF is coming closer and closer to her! Peach quickly brings up the Frying Pan and uses it as a shield to block the charge. Ms. DF crashes her spiny hair onto the surface of the pan and Peach tries to push her away while continuing to read the message.
When she finally finished the last phrase, the Frying Pan begins to glow in red and releases heat. It burns Ms. DF's head, and she quickly jerks backs and cries in pain. "Yeouch! It burns!"
"You want more?" Peach places the Frying Pan against her face and lets its steaming hot surface burn against her skin.
"YAAAAAA!"
The Frying Pan releases more heat and glows brighter, and then like a volcano, it lets loose a large blast of heat that blasts Ms. DF all the way to the back.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" she screams as she gets blasted through several brick walls by the force of the heat blast.
CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH! CRASH!
Soon, the heat blast comes to an end and Peach drops to her knees, her legs wobbling violently. "Wha… What was… that…?" She sees a Ms. DF-shaped hole on the brick wall in front of her, and she approaches it and looks into it, where she sees several more walls behind it also with Ms. DF-shaped holes on them. After about 6 walls did you see Ms. Doublefinger lying unconscious on the ground.
Peach sits down and leans against the wall. "Phew… I finally did it… I won…"
TO BE CONTINUED…
It's only Marth vs. Mr. 1 before the last battle of this arc starts. And didn't I say Peach tore off her skirt and flings it at Ms. Doublefinger? So she's only in her panty and her upper section of the dress at the moment.