Chapter 69: The Battle Begins! Everyone Fight to the Gate!
The Final Destination flies nearer and nearer to Dark City. "Better be on a lookout for dangers," warns Crazy Hand. "Enemies may come any minute. You'll never know."
"You mean those?" asks Jigglypuff, pointing to some creatures flying towards them.
"Those are Darkling!" says Samus. "They're after us!"
"Quick! You must fight them off while I take control of the Final Destination!" says CH in panic. "Don't let them disturb me!"
"We will!" says Link. He takes out his bow and says, "Level up!" And his bow becomes large and silver. He shoots a silver arrow out of it and the arrow automatically locks onto a Darkling and stabs it in the body.
"That's your level 2 weapon?" Young Link asks him. "Then I'll show you mines!" He takes out his bow too and levels it up to its second level form—a large golden bow. He fires a Light Arrow at a swarm of Winged Darkling. The arrow hits one of the Darkling and resulted in an explosion that kills the nearby Darkling also.
As the Smashers are fighting off the Darkling, some tadpole-shaped spaceships fly in and join the Darkling. "What are those giant flying tadpoles?" asks Kirby.
Samus recognizes at once those spaceships. "It's Space Pirate spaceships! Watch out!"
The SP ships start firing lasers, and the Smashers move around fast to avoid it. One of the spaceships zooms towards DK while firing laser beams. DK avoids the laser beam and then hops aside when the spaceship flies low to ram him. DK quickly turns around and grabs the spaceship by the tail, and using his superhuman strength, he swings the spaceship around and around and hurls it into another spaceship, destroying them two.
Another spaceship heads for Ganondorf to hit him. When it got near, Ganondorf jumps up and lands onto the cockpit. Using his fist, he cracks open the cockpit window and pulls out the SP inside and throws him away. Then he jumps off and lets the unmanned spaceship fly aimlessly through the air and crash into other ships.
Several spaceships fire their laser beams at Fox. He activates the Reflector and the lasers get reflected back to the spaceships and destroy them.
Despite the Smashers fighting furiously to destroy the enemies, more and more reinforcement from the enemies come, and it is putting more and more pressure on the Smashers. "There's too many of them-a!" complains Mario. "We'll neva destroy-a them!"
Suddenly, two giant winged Darkling appear and begins attacking them! "What are those giants!" gasps Peach.
"Oh no! Garuda Darkling! One of the more powerful Darkling there is!" gasps CH. "They won't be easy to kill! At least for you guys…"
One of the Darkling slams its hand into the surface of the FD hard, making it shake violently, and the Smashers are thrown to the floor. "Whoa! He's going to destroy the Destination!" says Falco.
"We cannot let them do it! Judging by their strength, it is highly possible they can destroy it!" says CH.
"I won't let them!" Falco points his Atomic Gun (it's only in level 1 form) at the Darkling and shoots it. The Darkling takes the shots, but it merely roar in a pain. It opens its mouth and shoots out a burst of black fire. Falco quickly puts up his reflector, but the force of the blast sends him flying backwards. "Ah!"
"What! The shot did not get reflected!" gasps Fox.
The Garuda Darkling continues to shoot black fire at the FD, rocking it around wildly. "It won't hold on any longer!" says CH. "If this keeps on going, we're going to crash!"
"I'm throwing up!" screams Luigi because of the rocking of the FD.
One of the Garuda Darkling flies below the FD and rams it from underneath. This violently shook the FD and knocks the Smashers to their feet. The second Darkling closes its fist together and pounds the floor of the FD hard. The two Darkling attack the FD violently together, and Winged Darkling and SP spaceships are also attacking from all directions. The Smashers are becoming more and more helpless from the onslaught.
"No! It's getting out of control!" cries CH.
The two Garuda Darkling fly backwards and then zooms towards the FD at full speed. They impact with the FD very hard and made it spun like roulette. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" scream the Smashers.
"I'M SICK!" cries Luigi at the top of his voice, and he lets out a spray of vomits.
"AHHHH! IT'S GOTTEN ONTO MY HAIR!" screams Zelda from getting sprayed by disgusting liquid.
The two Darkling continue hitting the FD until the Smashers cannot hold on any longer. They each loose their grips on the floor and fly out in random directions. They were flying above the entrance of Dark City when this happened.
"AHHHH! I'M FALLING!" screams Pikachu.
"I forgot my parachute!" cries Falco.
"I'm too young too die!" screams Peach.
And the Smashers disappear into the dark skies. CH is the only person left floating in air. "How dare you evil Darkling! I'll kill you!" He closes his fist and charges into one of the Garudo Darkling very hard. The punch sends the Darkling flying back in pain, and then CH blasts it with several bullets until it explodes. Next, he turns to the swarms of spaceships and Winged Darkling and slaps them all like mosquitoes. The remaining Garuda Darkling fires a blast at CH, but CH dodges it and delivers a powerful punch at the Darkling, and then follows by shooting it with bullets until it explodes.
"Phew… Done…" says CH. He turns the look at the FD and sees it falling towards the darkness below. "Oh no!" So he quickly flies after the falling FD.
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Naraku had been watching all these through a large screen. "Very interesting. The Smashers' powers are not to the point of the powerful Darkling yet. Still, I'm surprised they can get this far." Suddenly, the phone rings and he answers it, "Hello?"
"I told you I want to kill them myself!" shouts the voice of Ridley from the phone. "Why did you send those Darkling and my men to attack them!"
"Calm down. I know very well that the Smashers cannot die so easily. Surely they have fallen in the city and are lurking around like mice at the moment. If you can find them, they're all yours."
"I will hunt them down to the very last! I will kill them all! There is no way they can escape me!"
"And while you're at it, send out the report that there are annoying mice in the city, so our armies of darkness can go exterminate them." With this, Naraku ends the call. "This is getting more and more interesting. Hehehehe!"
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The report about the Smashers inside the city has been spread all over Dark City, and the Darkling and Space Pirates are on the move to hunt them.
Two Space Pirates are having a conversation with each other. "Found anyone suspicious?" SP1 asks SP2.
"No."
"Well, keep looking! Commander Ridley is offering a rise to those who can find them and bring them to him alive."
"Oh goody!" And they run off to look for the Smashers.
When they have gone, Popo and Nana poke their heads out of a nearby bush. "They're gone," whispers Popo.
"That's good…" says Nana. "This is bad… We're separated from the others…"
"Now we must try and make it to the gate to the deeper part of the city ourselves. Perhaps we can meet up with the others there."
Then the hear a voice saying, "There's this helmet-wearing guy in blue suit fighting our army at Area 2! Let's go get him!"
"That sounds like Captain Falcon," says Nana.
"I think we should go and help him," suggests Popo. They jump out from their hiding place and bash the persons, who are two Space Pirates, who said this just now and continue along the way.
"Uh… Where are the ruins…? Didn't a house just fall on me…?" mumbles one of the SPs before passing out.
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Somewhere in the city, CF is indeed fighting a large horde of Darkling. He swings and thrusts his Hunter Spear around wildly, taking out any Darkling that come near him. He spears one of the nearby Darkling and hurls it to another group. Another Darkling approaches him from behind, and he reacted by thrusting the back of the spear into the Darkling, knocking it backwards, and then he turns around and stabs it. "Man! These things don't stop coming!"
Suddenly, a cold wind, along with several ice shards, fly in and freezes the Darkling. Nana appears and smashes them all with her Quake Hammer. "We found you!" says Nana.
"Who did that icy wind attack just now?" asks CF.
Popo steps in with a large crystal hammer against his shoulder. "It's my 2nd level weapon. It can release cold air when swung against the air."
Several Space Pirates appear and surrounds them. "We found you at last!" says one of them. "Come with us quietly or die!"
"I prefer fighting violently," says CF. He puts his spear away and cracks his knuckles. "You guys will be easier to handle. I'm more comfortable with my fists!" He charges at a group of SP and starts punching and kicking the crap out of them. His quick speed and strength made it so that the SPs have a hard time with him.
"Should we use our holy weapon here?" Nana asks Popo.
"It's your choice. I'm using it, because it's much stronger than my usual wooden hammer," he replies. So the Ice Climbers fight the whole horde of Space Pirates.
After much beating and smashing around, the Space Pirates are finally all defeated, along with the Darkling that came as reinforcement. "That was easy!" says CF, dusting his hands.
"I found it challenging…" says Nana.
"You should fight more. It helps a lot if you encounter an enemy."
At this moment, a person appears. The person has long silver hair, wears battle armor, wields a simple sword in his hand, and has several daggers around his waist. "I will kill you."
"Who do you think you are that you dare say this to me?" CF asks.
"I am Ivotas, the person that will kill you."
CF inspects him for a while. "Hmmm… His eyes are blue, not purple, so he is not a Darkling." And he asks him. "Whom do you work for?"
"I work for the Darkling King at the moment, but in reality, I work for neither side. I kill for my own reasons."
Nana hides behind Popo in fear. "Please don't kill me…"
"I will kill you all."
"NOOOOO!"
"It is for me to become stronger. The more people you kill, the stronger you are."
"What kind of an idiot taught you that…?" Popo asks him.
"This is common sense. Strength is determined by the number of people you killed. I have killed 929 people in my life. Therefore, I am stronger than you all, who barely ever killed anyone."
"You call that common sense!"
"Yes. You have killed less people than me, so you are very weak."
"You think I'm weak? Wait until I beat the crap out of here!" says CF madly.
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Somewhere else in the city, Link is plowing through a mob of Darkling with his sword. "Die! Die! Go to hell! Out of my way!" He pushes his way through the incoming mob and knocks them all into the sky or aside. Despite all these violent blows, the Darkling just got back up and continue to assault him, and Link continues to hack and slash them away.
"It no use!" Jigglypuff tells him. "Darkling no fear of your sword! Use Holy Weapon!"
"I know that! It's just I'm more used to with the sword! Why can't my holy weapon be a sword instead of an arrow!"
Another mob of Darkling charge at them.
"Argh! Not more!"
"Let me do it! Level up!" Jigglypuff changes her Magic Wand into its 2nd form and fires a large pink glittering blast out of it. When the blast hits the Darkling, the entire mob disintegrates into nothing.
"That was cool!" says Link. "Now let's head on to the gate!"
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The same things are happening elsewhere in the city. The Smashers have all survived falling into the city, and they are all fighting their way through the army of Darkling and Space Pirates. There are even robots and various strange monsters fighting them!
"Where do these monsters come from! And why do they all look like snakes?" wonders Bowser.
"If I'm not much mistaken, these demons are Naraku's pawns when I was sent to Feudal Japan," replies Roy. "Since Naraku is in charge around here, it's no surprise you see these."
"Then why must they look like snakes?" asks Bowser as he slashes an incoming monster into shreds.
"How would I know? I never found out why Naraku wears a baboon costume either!"
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Samus fires a missile at some Space Pirates. When the missile hits one, it releases blue air that freezes the nearby SPs. If you played Metroid Fusion, you'll know this as the Missile Diffusion.
Fox, on the other hand, are fighting lots of robots. These robots have a skull marking and a W initial on them. "Something tells me that these are Dr. Wily's robots," he says while shooting them.
"Him dying doesn't mean his pawns are all eradicated, you know," Samus tells him.
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Falco is battling several Space Pirates using karate-fighting style that he learned somewhere. "Hiya!" He kicks and punches anyone who comes near him. A Darkling with a large mouth appears over him and is about to swallow him in one gulp. All of a sudden, a shining arrow shot in from the side and hits the Darkling in the side of the head, killing it. "Thanks, Young Link."
"No problem!" says YL. Unknown to him, another Darkling approaches him from behind. Falco quickly points his gun at it, but YL thought he is aiming at him. "What are you doing, Falco? Don't shoot me!" And he quickly ducks just as Falco fires the Atomic Beam and kills the Darkling.
"You should thank me!"
Another mob of Darkling appear and charge at them. Ganondorf hops down in front of them and stabs the Poseidon Trident into the ground, creating a shockwave that kills all of them. "Now you should thank me!"
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I can go on and on with the other Smashers, but it may take to long. They are all fighting for their way to the gate of the inner city, and they are to say, doing a fine job at that. Maybe except Luigi, who is running around. But he did do one amazing feat.
You see, he was cornered by some Space Pirates. "You're cornered! Now give up!" say the SPs.
"Help me!" cries Luigi.
"No one is going to save you!" A SP reaches his hand forward to grab him. Quick as a flash, Luigi performs an uppercut into the SP's chin, sending him into the air in flames. "AAAAHHHH!"
The other Pirates are shocked at what Luigi executed, but Luigi himself is confused. "Uh…? What happened…?" he says curiously.
"How dare you beat up a good friend of ours!" says another Pirate angrily.
"Yeah! He owed me money!" says another. They all jump at him, and Luigi screams and uppercuts again, sending them all into the air in flames together.
"AHHHH!"
"What happened!" wonders Luigi again.
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The three specific and reoccurring Space Pirates, Punk, Pix, and Pork, are sitting on top of a building, overlooking the battle that is going on below. "The time has come for us to engage the Smashers for real," says Punk.
"I can't wait to fight them. Hehehehe!" laughs Pix.
"We were never friends with them in the first place!" says Pork.
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Naraku, too, is watching the fight from the top of his castle. Through the window, that is. "Fufufufufu… This ought to be interesting. Let's see how far the Smashers can make."
TO BE CONTINUED…
Ivotas is another OC of mine. And I want to know: How many of you still remember Punk, Pix, and Pork from my previous fictions?