Chapter 66: The Hero Returns! Roy's Rematch with Crocodile!
"You made up your mind, right?" Master Tyrannomon asks Roy. "You sure you don't need my help?"
"Never mind. I believe I can defeat Crocodile this time," answers Roy. "I will defeat him by myself! He will pay for this dearly!"
"Well then, get going and good luck! Come back alive!"
"Okay." So Roy runs into the dark passage. When in there, he steps onto a certain floor panel and it sinks into the floor. This causes the door to slowly close again. This was also how Crocodile close the door when he went inside.
"Hey! You stepped on the closing button!" says MT. "Now the door is closing again! You'll surely be trapped inside unless the four switches are pulled again!"
"Why's the door closing?" asks Captain Falcon, who has just returned.
"And is that Roy running inside?" asks Parry.
"Oh, you guys are here too!" says MT.
Dr. Mario, G&W, Ness, and Pichu got here just in time to see the door closing. "We went through all the trouble to open the door and it's closing again!" cries Pichu.
"What happened?" asks Ness.
"Roy just went inside," Parry tells them.
"See! I told you! Roy is still alive! He cannot die!" G&W says to Dr. Mario.
"I never said he's dead in the first place…" says Dr. Mario.
Peach comes into the scene, carrying Marth on her shoulder. "Did I miss anything?"
"Roy went inside and the door closed again," Ness fills her in.
"Oh… It's good to know that he's still alive."
"Gosh! Look at Marth!" gasps Dr. Mario. "He should've been dead with all those bloody wounds! Quick, he needs to be treated!" He shines a light from the Healing Staff to Marth, and all his wounds slowly recover.
"Huh… I feel better," says Marth, regaining consciousness. "Did Roy just go in?"
"Yes," answers Pichu. "And Peach, why aren't you wearing your skirt?"
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Inside the deepest part of the underground ruin, Crocodile and Gennai are standing in front of a large wall filled with strange markings on it. "These are Digital Language, so you surely know what they means, right?" Crocodile asks Gennai. "Read it out loud to me so I can know where the Armageddon is."
Gennai walks in front of the wall and begins reading from it. "Several thousand years ago, the great war of the Hands and Darkling waged throughout the world; a battle between good and evil. The battle was long and hard, but the Darkling were finally defeated and sealed in the Forbidden Realm."
"I know all these already! Just tell me the 27th Holy Weapon!"
"It's not written here."
"What!"
"It only talked about how the Armageddon is created, but not how to obtain it."
"How can this be! Isn't it hidden here?"
"To be precise, it was written here, but you see how the markings seem to fade off at the bottom? They said this part was erased long ago so no one knows how to obtain it. Even I can't help out what is said."
Crocodile lowers his head in big letdown. "That's too bad… I came this far and don't know how to get it… But if it isn't said here how to obtain the weapon, then I will tear down this entire place until I found it! And you, Gennai, you have no more use left. I will kill you this instant."
Gennai backs off in fear on hearing this. Crocodile raises his hook and is about to bring it down on him when they both hear a loud shouting, "CROCODILE!"
Crocodile turns to the source of the shouting and is surprised to see Roy standing at the passage! "What! Roy! You're still alive?"
"I found you at last, Crocodile!" yells Roy. "I will beat you up this time!"
"Is the first battle not enough? You know there is no way you can beat me."
"But not this time! I'll show you!" Roy runs towards Crocodile very fast.
"Ha! Try and do so." Crocodile just stands there, waiting for Roy to come hit him. When Roy got near, he swings his fist into Crocodile's face. The punch sends him flying into the wall full of markings with a crash. Gennai is shocked at Roy's strength of sending Crocodile flying with a punch.
"I know your weakness now," says Roy, holding up his hand that is dripping wet with water. "It is water. During the first battle when I grabbed your leg with my bleeding hand, I found out about it. If you come in contact with water, you cannot turn into sand and is therefore vulnerable to physical attacks. That is why I brought this barrel of water with me so I can use it against you."
Crocodile sits back up and laughs. "Hahahaha! You're a smart one, Roy. But even if you have water, do you think you can defeat me easily? I told you already: We are not in the same level. You can never win against me!"
"I'll prove you wrong!" Roy uses the hose to spray water on his sword, and he runs towards Crocodile to give a strike. Crocodile jumps up and lands behind him to avoid the attack, and he raises his hook to hit him. Roy quickly dashes out of the way before the hook comes down, and swings his wet sword at Crocodile, who dodges it by hopping back.
Roy runs at him with his sword pointing forward, but Crocodile steps aside and easily avoided the blow. He is about to hit him with his hook again when Roy grabs him by the hand and hurls him through the air! Crocodile lands onto the hard floor with a bang. "Ugh! How can he be so strong!" he wonders.
Gennai looks at the way Roy fights and begins to wonder, "The strength he has… Can it be because of his mother?"
Roy aims the hose at Crocodile and shoots water at him, but Crocodile quickly disappears into sand before it hits. He reappears behind Roy and is going to hit him, but Roy quickly turns the hose behind and splashes the water into Crocodile's face.
"Oh no! My body!" cries Crocodile. Roy uses this chance to slash the sword across his chest. "GAAAAAA!" And then he performs a powerful smash attack that sends Crocodile flying across the room.
CRASH!
He hits the wall and creates a large crack on it, and falls onto the floor. Roy looks at the fallen Crocodile and says, "Get up! I know you can't be defeated so easily!"
Crocodile gets up and wipes the blood off his mouth. "You're the first person to ever beat me like this. You have crossed my path! I am now angry!"
"That's the way I like it! Come on and fight me!" Roy points the hose at him and shoots water again. Crocodile stretches out his right hand (it's not a hook) and when the water touches the palm, it gets sucked into the hand! "What!"
"My right hand has the ability to dry up water. Even if you use water against me, I can counter it! Now I will demonstrate to you my most feared attack!" Crocodile places his hand against the floor. "Ground Secca!"
The entire underground chamber begins shaking violently and the floor begins to crack. "Wha! The floor is cracking!" gasps Roy.
"I am sucking away all the water molecules of this place, so this entire place will die!" explains Crocodile. "When everything is dried up, it will eventually turn into sand, and that's how deserts are formed in the first place! Ground Death!"
The pillars and statues in the chamber slowly crumple and turn into sand. Soon, the entire place is breaking apart. "Oh no! You're going to tear up the whole place!" Roy shouts at Crocodile, but he does not listen to him.
More and more sands are filling up the place, until a thick sandstorm is created. Roy takes off his cape and throws it to Gennai. "Cover yourself!" And the sandstorm devours the entire place.
When it finally comes to an end, Crocodile is the only one seen standing there, and the entire place is covered with sand. All the statues and pillars that were originally here have either become part of the sand or are in pieces. "Behold my devastating power. Hahahaha!"
Roy pops out from a part of the sand and says, "So what's about this move? It didn't hurt me whatsoever!"
"Why don't you take a look at your back? You don't have anymore water!"
Roy reaches his hand to his back and finds out that the barrel is missing! "Oh no! Where is it!" He looks around and sees the barrel, but it is shattered and the water is all gone. "Noooo!"
"Without water, you have no more chance against me!"
"I don't care! I will still… Ugh!" Roy bends down in pain and blood starts to flow out from his body.
"Look the like wound from our first battle is taking effect again. Surely you can't hold on any longer with that kind of body!"
Nonetheless, Roy still stands up. "I don't care… I will fight you…"
Crocodile dashes at him and strikes him with his hook. Roy coughs out blood and flies back from the blow. Crocodile approaches him again and beats and trashes him around. He grabs him by the head and slams it against the wall, and kicks him rapidly. "You want to defeat me? Don't make me laugh! You have no chance!" He lifts Roy up and hurls him across the room. But even after getting beaten up so badly, Roy still stands up.
Gennai pops out from the sand and sees Roy still standing with blood all over his body. "Roy… It's incredible that you can still stand after taking this much beating… Just what are you really?"
"How can you still be alive even after all these wounds?" wonders Crocodile. "Looks like you will not die until I tear out your heart!"
Roy raises his fist and runs at Crocodile while yelling at the top of his voice.
"What do you think you're doing? You have no water and you cannot hit me!"
Roy swings his fist and punches into Crocodile's face perfectly. The blow pushes him into the wall with a bang. "Ugh! What! How can you…" And he notices blood dripping down Roy's hand. "Blood…?"
"As long as it's liquid, I can still hit you!" says Roy, bringing up his blood-drenched fists.
Crocodile is very angry now. He takes off the covering of his hook and reveals another silver hook underneath. This hook has holes all over it and purple smoke is fuming out. "I will take you down with this poison hook. There is no way you can withstand its poison!" He charges at Roy and swings the hook. Roy avoids it and the hook hits a rock instead. When struck, the rock instantly melts into ooze.
"Wha! The rock melted!" gasps Roy.
"See how strong this poison is? Its acidic level is so high that it can dissolve anything!"
The two begin fighting each other in a close range combat, Crocodile using his poison hook and Roy using only his fists. Crocodile brings the hook forward and Roy ducks down to avoid it. He grabs Crocodile by the leg and trips him to the floor, and he hop onto him and punches his face into the floor, knocking out some teeth.
Crocodile gets up and pushes Roy away. "How can you be so strong! Why can't you just die!" He jumps at Roy and swings the poison hook again. Roy quickly jumps aside, but the hook was able to make a small scratch on him. Roy lands from the jump and bends down in pain.
"I hit you with the hook, so now the poison will slowly eat away your body! There is no way you can survive!"
Roy steps back up again. "Nothing can kill me… I will not die until you die first!"
"You still won't die? That does it! I will tear you into pieces!"
Roy dashes at Crocodile and the villain thrusts the hook forward. Roy dodges it by ducking down, and he performs a powerful uppercut into his chin. Crocodile flies into the air and as he falls back down, Roy kicks him across the room. He runs up to Crocodile and kicks straight into his face, and then grabs him by the collar and hurls him across the room again.
CRASH!
When Crocodile crashes into the wall, the poison hook falls off. "Argh! Just what are you! How can you still have such strength after getting hit by the poison!"
Roy pulls out the Sword of Seals that is sheathed to the side of his waist of the time. Holding its hilt tightly with his bloody hands, he begins chanting the message that is required to unlock the 2nd Level.
Crocodile replaces his broken hook with a knife and says, "What on earth are you blabbering about? I will kill you! I am a Shicihibukai, the government approved criminal! I have powers that surpass you! There is no way you can defeat me!" He charges at Roy and thrusts the knife forward. Roy lifts up his other hand and stops the blow by allowing it to stab through his hand, and at the same time, he has finished saying the message.
A fiery aura surrounds the Sword of Seals, and the entire blade becomes covered in blazing fire. "I don't care who you are!" Roy shouts at him. "I WILL KILL YOU!" He pulls his hand off from the knife, hops back several steps, and raises the burning sword overhead.
"I will tear you down along with this place!" shouts Crocodile. "Desert La Spada!" His hand turns into sand and shoots out a large blade made of sand.
Roy slams down the fiery sword and it shot out a large blast of fire. The fire hits the sand blade and completely burns through it. "What!" gasps Crocodile, and then the fire hits him. The force of the blast pushes him through the passage.
Gennai is shocked and surprise by the power of the 2nd Level Weapon. "Incredible!"
"UUUWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" screams Crocodile as he gets pushed through the hallway.
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The other Smashers and Master Tyrannomon are still waiting outside, but then they hear some rumbling coming from inside. "What's that sound?" asks Ness.
Suddenly, the big door explodes and Crocodiles comes flying out. He flies up into the air several meters high.
"Hey! That's Crocodile!" points out Parry.
"How did he fly up there?" asks Pichu.
"Who cares how he got up there. It can only mean one thing," says CF.
The other Smashers give a big smile, and they all shout out in unison. "ROY WON!"
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Back inside the ruins, Roy collapse onto the floor due to exhaustion. Gennai approaches him and says, "Thank you very much."
Roy smiles and replies, "That was nothing worth thanking."
TO BE CONTINUED…
Woohoo! What a cool and epic final blow! Still, it cannot match the awesomeness of the final part of Luffy vs. Crocodile. Man, that final blow was awesome, especially in the anime! Luffy punches Crocodile through several layers of bedrock and sends him into the air several hundred meters high! This story isn't quite the same, but it's still very well done, I believe!
So what do you think of it? Let me know in your reviews!