To the anonymous reviewer: The description for my OC Ivotas may sound like Sephiroth, but no, he IS not Sephiroth. The description sounds alike, but I never meant for the two to be the same.
And one thing: Starting on from this chapter and so on into my future stories, there is going to be a preview of the next chapter at the end of every chapter. That cuts off the suspense when you see the "TO BE CONTINUED" text at the end of every chapter. At least you get to know what's coming up next chapter, right?
Chapter 70: A Hell of a No and the Man Who Kills For Power!
Outside the grounds of Dark City, Crazy Hand is assembling a troop of over 100 wireframe people. "Listen up, you lot!" he shouts to them. "You wireframe have served the Royal Hand Family since the beginning of time, and therefore, the power to destroy Darkling has been passed down onto you! Now a big battle is coming before us, and you must all fight! Even if we die, we died from a good deed! There are women, children, and idiots to protect! Can you stand here and do nothing?"
The wireframes raise their weapons and make some weird sounds that sounds like shouting.
"Now let us engage the battle that is the fate of the world! The Smashers are in there, and they cannot depend on themselves! I say we charge forward and take on evil!"
The wireframe let out a loud war cry and charge into the city to engage the mob of Darkling. They clash with the armies of evil and a chaotic battle ensues. CH hovers above the battlefield and says, "Reminds me of the wars of the ancient days, where soldiers beat the hell out of each other in close range combat. Hey, I should be helping them." So he flies down to join the battle.
The wireframes fought hard, killing off any Darkling they come across. Some of them are injured, but that didn't bother them; they kept on fighting as if death doesn't matter to them.
Suddenly, a large furry beast wielding an axe appears over one of the wireframes and is about to strike him. The wireframe lets out a girly scream, and the ape stops and turns out to be DK. "Oh, a wireframe!" says DK. "Sorry to mistake you for an enemy."
CH appears next to him and says, "You're alive! Where are the others?"
"Give me a five? All right!" DK gives him a five.
"Okay… So where are the other Smashers?"
"Well, there are monsters everywhere, but they're no challenge to me!"
"Forget it…" And CH flies off to beat up the enemies.
A couple of Darkling have beaten up a female wireframe. They have her cornered and are about to do something so terrifying I can't say. A rod swings in from the side and bats them all away. Mario jumps into the scene and asks the wireframe, "Are you all right-a?" The wireframe hugs him in tightly and sweetly in response.
Suddenly, they all hear someone shouting out really loud, "HELL NOOOOO!"
"What was that?" asks Falco, who was also at the scene.
"That can only be one thing!" says CH, pointing to a mob of ugly Darkling with large mouths. "The Hell No Darkling!"
"Hell No Darkling?"
"Yes! They are the incarnation of people who give a big no to every opinion and advice they hear."
One of the HN Darkling shouts out at the top of its voice, "HELL NOOOOOOO!" When it shouted, two large fiery words that write "Hell No" fly out and towards the heroes.
"Out of the way! That attack is very dangerous!" screams CH in a high-pitch voice. They all jump out of the way and let the blast hit a building.
BANG!
"What was that!" exclaims Falco.
"That's their signature move, Hell No!" explains CH. "Their scream is worse than a shark bite! But they suck at close range combat."
"Then DK and me will go and fight-a them!" says Mario, and he and DK run towards the HN Darkling.
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Meanwhile…
Captain Falcon runs to Ivotas and throws a punch at him. Ivotas dodges aside and swings his sword. They both engage in a close range combat involving punching, kicking, and slashing. After a while, CF quickly backs off to his starting position. He has a couple of cuts on his body from Ivotas's sword. "He's pretty agile," thought CF.
"You cannot defeat me. I have killed much more people than you, so I am stronger than you in every way," says Ivotas.
"What made you think of that demented idea!"
"The powerful dictators gain their power through mass murder. They have taken the life of many. I want to be strong, so I follow their paths. I learn that the more you kill, the stronger you become. What good is power if you do not use it to take the lives of others'?"
"You're wrong! Power is for helping others!" Popo corrects him.
"And power is obtained through training!" adds Nana.
"You ignorant lots know nothing. Killing is the only way you obtain power. I will kill you all for your ignorance." Ivotas charges at CF again.
CF takes out his Hunter Spear and clashes Ivotas's sword with it, and they begin another close range weapon combat. CF thrusts the spear forward but Ivotas jumps up and lands on the spear. From there, he strikes his sword forward to hit CF, but he pulls his head down quickly to avoid getting his head sliced off. After that, he shakes Ivotas off the spear and quickly backs off into safety.
"He's not your only opponent! I'm also your opponent!" Popo swings his hammer at Ivotas and it shot out icicles and cold wind. The wind hits Ivotas and freezes some parts of his body, making him immobile. While he's frozen, Nana swings her hammer at him and sends him flying into a wrecked building.
CRASH!
"We did it!" cheer the Ice Climbers. But they are shocked when Ivotas climb out from the ruins.
"See? You are not strong enough to kill me," says Ivotas.
"How about you? You haven't kill us yet," CF reminds him.
"You will die very soon. Now behold my silence killing technique." After saying this, Ivotas dashes towards them but disappears shortly after he made a move.
"He disappeared!" gasps Nana.
"No, he's just moving very fast," CF tells her. "To the untrained eyes, he may have disappeared. But in reality, he has reached a speed where one cannot see where he is going."
CF is right; Ivotas is in fact running around them in full circles. Suddenly, knives start flying towards the 3 Smashers from all directions! "Watch out! Flying knives!" cries CF. The three dodge around fast and swiftly to avoid the flying knives, but they did get cut a few times though.
"Argh! I can't keep an eye on him if he's throwing all these knives!" says CF angrily, but somehow, he notices someone rushing at him from behind. He quickly turns around and throws a punch into Ivotas's face and sends him flying back. "Gotcha!"
"You are incredible to catch me," says Ivotas, getting back up. "But your power is not enough to kill me."
"I have enough of your killing this killing that talk!" CF shouts at him. "I will kill you to end your mindless killing!"
"You cannot, as you have not killed enough people in your lifetime." Ivotas dashes at him again and strikes with his sword rapidly. CF brings up his spear to block it, but he got struck in the right arm and flew back onto the ground in pain.
"YEOW!"
"FALCON!" scream the Ice Climbers.
CF gets up and says, "This pain is nothing! That does it! I haven't activated my 2nd level Weapon yet! And I'm going to use it!" He uses the blood he received from the hit and grips the handle of the Hunter Spear tightly, and says the message, "Power of the Royal Hand Families, you have… Hey! What's the next sentence?"
Ivotas thrusts his sword forward and CF avoids it and runs to the Ice Climbers. "I can't remember the message!"
Popo reaches into his clothe and take out an index card. "Here's the message."
CF takes the index card and reads it, and after he's done, his spear undergoes a change. It's still a spear, but its other end also has a blade. In short, it is a spear that is pointed and sharp in both ends. "That's all…?" wonders CF, quite disappointed that it looks so simple.
"You're dying soon, and you don't need any cool-looking weapons!" Ivotas says to him in a loud angry voice.
CF clashes his newly transformed spear with his sword. They clash each other with their weapons again. CF thrusts his spear forward, but Ivotas jump back several steps to avoid it. Surprisingly enough, the spear shot out an orange beam and hits Ivotas, blasting him backwards.
"Uh? What did I do just now?" wonders CF.
Ivotas gets up again and says, "Not enough!"
"I think I get it now." CF strikes the spear in midair rapidly, and it shot out several bright orange beams. "I will call this… Falcon Beam!"
The orange beams fly towards Ivotas very fast, but he quickly runs away before he gets hit. CF continues to shoot him with Falcon Beam, but Ivotas is running around so fast that it couldn't hit him.
After much running around, Ivotas was caught unnoticed by a strong gust of cold wind, which freezes him from head to toe. "Gotcha!" says Popo, who was the one who did it.
"Good going, Popo! Now let's give him the final blow! Falcon Beam!" CF fires the orange beams from his spear and they hit the frozen Ivotas. Because all the beams hit him at once, a large explosion is made.
BANG!
After the explosion clears, there are many smokes in its place. "We did!" cheers Nana.
"Wait… Not quite yet!" says CF, looking at the column of smoke with squinted eyes. He sees a silhouette of a person coming out.
"He's still alive!" gasps Nana.
Ivotas steps out from the smoke, and he is all burned up and bleeding severely. "Not enough…" he mutters. "You do not… have the strength… to kill… me…"
CF approaches him and spears him through the chest, and Ivotas falls down limp. "You said I lack the strength?" says CF in an angry tone.
"You're cruel…" comments Nana.
"He deserves it anyway!"
"Okay, now that this mad killer is dead, let's go on to the gate!" suggests Popo, so the 3 run towards where the gate should be.
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Back on Crazy Hand's side, they are still fighting the Hell No Darkling. They are doing a good job at destroying them.
"HELL NO!" screams a Darkling.
"Hell no to what?" Falco asks him rudely.
"HELL NO TO SUPER ATTACKS IN THE THIRD SMASH BROS. GAME!"
"Then die!" Falco shoots him in the head with his Atomic Gun and kills it.
Another Darkling shouts out very loud, "HELL NO TO WARIO IN THE THIRD SMASH BROS. GAME!"
"HE WILL BE A CLONE OF MARIO!" shouts another.
"Wario won't-a be happy to hear theez…" says Mario, and he beats up the two with his Fire Rod.
Another mob of Darkling are coming. "Not more Darkling!" complains DK.
"Then I'll give them something nice!" says Falco. "Level up!" His gun transforms into its 2nd level form, a bazooka. He fires a powerful shot at the incoming Darkling and the shot created a large explosion that immediately eradicated them all. "There!"
As they are fighting the Darkling, a large group of wireframe decides that they will head for the gate and open it first. Now you must now: The wireframes do talk, but they speak in a strange language that only the Hands and other wireframes can understand. The Smashers do not understand them, and neither will you. Therefore, I am going to translate what they say.
The group of wireframes head for the gate that is ahead of them, and they take out any Darking that barge their way. "The gate is up ahead!" says the wireframe in lead. "We will open it and let the Smashers in!"
Keep in mind that I translated their language; otherwise you would just be hearing the 'adult language' from Charlie Brown TV shows. You know, those 'maugldablkdalkfkdlaeodoa' sounds you hear.
The wireframes clear a way for themselves and successfully made it to the gate, but they are shocked at what awaited them there. Before them stands two gigantic Darkling! They are about 30 meters in height!
"Someone is trying to get through here," roars one of the Darkling.
"We will never let them through, not even an ant!" says the other.
The wireframes gasp and scream, "TYRANT DARKLING!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
And now for the preview of the next chapter, as promised…
Preview
Tyrant Darkling: We won't let you pass!
Wireframe dude: Be brave! We can make it! We will open the gate no matter what!
Tyrant Darkling: Ha! Die trying!
Wireframe dude: AAAAHHHHHH!
Ganondor: Don't worry! I'm here to help!
Wireframe gals: Yeah! Ganondorf is the man!
Other Smashers: How about us?
Ganondorf: I will go oink-oink!
Coming up next chapter: Tyrant Darkling! Bash Through the Gate!