Chapter 73: Battle! The True Power of the Space Pirates!
Some of the Smashers are busy defending the castle gate so no Darkling can go in and mess with their comrades. "We mustn't let any of them in!" says Marth as he slashes some Darkling.
"I will protect Peach no matter what!" Bowser roars out loudly as he beats some of them up.
As they are fighting the Smashers, several fireballs rain down from the air and struck Ganon in the back. It explodes on his back and pushes him forward onto ground. "RAAAA!"
"GANON!" cry the others.
Suddenly, Ridley lands onto the ground behind them with a slam. "Long time no see, Smashers!"
"It's Ridley!" gasp the Smashers.
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Back inside the castle, Link and the other two Smashers are facing off with the 3 Space Pirates. "Who will you take?" Link asks Fox.
"I don't know. I'll just take on whoever attacks me."
Link turns to DK and asks him the same question, and the ape replies, "Do I want a cake?"
Link shakes his head and sighs. "You'll never understand a single word…"
"You guys better be ready, because we are going to start even if you're not," says Punk. As soon as he said this, they all charge at the Smashers.
Pork chooses to attack DK. He jumps forward with his hands stretches out wide, ready to hit him with a frontal body smash. DK bravely runs forward and tackles him in the body. They both crash with each other hard and begin a fierce combat of fistfight, trading punch and kicks with each other. Pork manages to grab DK by the arm and lifts him up and hurls him against the ground. Before DK can get up, Pork punches and kicks him multiple times and sends him across the room with a powerful kick.
"Ha! I've been training a lot lately!" says Pork. "I'm not a slowpoke like I've used to be!"
Link and Pix are fighting together. Pix attacks by jabbing with his pincers very fast. Link has his shield up so he can block the hits, but even so, the attacks made several dents on the shield. "Must you always have your shield?" Pix asks him. "What if you don't have it?" He hops back a few feet and opens his pincer and shoot out laser beams from it. The laser hits the shield and blasts it into pieces.
"Oh no!" gasps Link.
"What will you do now without your shield?"
"I still have my sword!" Link charges at Pix and swings his sword at him. Pix quickly jumps up to dodge it and lands his feet into Link's face and kicks him backwards.
"Link!" Fox cries to him in concern.
"In a battle, you must not get distracted!" says Punk as he throws a punch forward to attack. Fox quickly moves his head aside and ducks down to perform a tail sweep attack. Punk jumps up and brings his foot forward for a kick, but Fox was able to grab his foot and push him a few steps away. Next, they dash towards each and trade blows together. It is a furious battle, as both of them are almost equally fast; though Punk's strength is stronger than Fox's.
DK has gotten back up and is fighting Pork. Pork swings his pincer at him, but DK quickly dodges aside and returns a punch into the side of his face. Pork gets hit in the face and flies aside. "Ha! I got you!" says DK.
Pork gets up and jumps high into the air, much to DK's surprise. "Big Belly Flop!" yells Pork as he spread open his limbs and drop down towards DK.
"Ha! I can catch you!" says DK. He raises his hand to catch him when he falls down. Pork falls towards DK at a very fast speed and crashes down onto him with a strong impact.
CRASH!
The impact was so strong that DK was crushed into the floor. Pork gets off him and laughs, "Hahahaha! You said you want to catch me? Now look at you. You'll flat as a pancake!"
"Ugh…" grunts the flattened ape.
Link is still fighting with Pix. Despite fighting unarmed, Pix is still able to put up quite a fight to Link. Pix was able to knock Link's sword off his hand. "Oh no!" cries Link. He quickly runs to catch it, but Pix caught him by the leg.
"Oh no you don't!" says Pix. He lifts Link up by his legs and swings him around in circles.
"WAAAAA! Let me down!" cries Link as he gets spun around. Pix lets go the grasp and Link is hurled across the room and he crashes face first into the wall.
BANG!
Link drops onto the floor; his nose is bloody and a couple of teeth have fallen.
"Just as I thought; you're weak without a sword!" says Pix.
Fox and Punk are still battling each other. "I will end this right now!" says Punk. "Cloning Technique!" Immediately, lots of Punks appear all around Fox, surrounding him.
"There may look like a lot of them, but there's actually only one that's real," Fox reminds himself.
The Punks open their pincers and fire several laser beams at him. Fox quickly puts up his reflector and reflect the shots. However, the shots are too many, and the reflector can't hold any longer. "Argh…! It can't last any longer!" says Fox. When it finally reached its limit, the reflector flashes and disappears, and the laser beams blast Fox. "AHHHHHH!"
Then the real Punk rushes out of the clones and strikes Fox in the back hard, followed by hitting him with several punching and kicking combos. He lifts Fox into the air and hits him in the abdomen hard, then slams him against the floor over and over, and then shoulder bashes him across the room. Fox hits the wall hard and blood spurts out from his mouth before he passes out on the floor.
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Outside the castle, Ridley is giving much trouble to the Smashers. He swings his metallic arm at the Ice Climbers, knocking them high into the air.
"AHHH!" cry the siblings.
Kirby quickly runs below them and says, "I'll catch you!" But Ridley slams his claw onto Kirby, crushing him into the ground. The Ice Climbers fall onto the ground hard and passes out.
Ganon approaches Ridley and brings down both his holy weapons at him. Ridley quickly uses his hand to grab the swords. Because his hand is made of metal, he does not feel pain by touching the blades. As they are struggling against each other, Ridley thrusts his extendable tail forward and uses the sharp tip to pierce into Ganon's body and out through the other side. Ganon squeals in pain and jerks back. Ridley's chest opens and reveals several missiles inside. He shoots them at Ganon and engulfs him in explosion.
BAM!
When the explosion clears, Ganon falls back onto the ground. "Ha! Useless! I was expecting something more from you!" says Ridley.
"Then you're going to get it from me!" says Bowser. He flails his Sharp Claws around wildly, shooting several energy blades at Ridley. Ridley brings his wings forward and closes them together, using them as a shield to block the blades, but even so, the impact from the blades pushes him back a little.
Secretly, his tail slithers next Bowser and wraps around him. "Hey!" He lifts Bowser into the air and constricts him tightly. "Gaaaa… Can't… breathe…"
"I'll save you!" shouts Yoshi. He jumps at Ridley and smashes the Meteor Mash into his face. Ridley gets hit very hard in the head and falls sideways onto the ground.
"Why you!" growls Ridley angrily. He gets up and slaps Yoshi to the castle wall, and then he hurls Bowser against him. Bowser has his spiked shell facing Yoshi when he was thrown, so the shell crushes Yoshi against the wall and the spikes tear into his skin.
"GAAAAA!" shrieks Yoshi in pain. Ridley rushes to them and throws a powerful punch into Bowser's belly.
"YAAAAA!" cries Bowser when hit, and because it pushed him against Yoshi, it crushed the poor dinosaur even more.
The wireframe warriors and Young Linkall jump at Ridley to attack him. He spreads out his wings and performs a spinning attack, knocking them all away.
"You're going too far, Ridley!" says Samus angrily.
"We will avenge for our friends!" adds Captain Falcon.
Samus fires a fully charges Hyper Beam and CF fires the Falcon Beam from his spear. Ridley takes off into the sky and avoids the beam. He rushes at them and grabs them by their bodies. "Let me go!" demands Samus.
Ridley smashes their head against each other very hard, so hard that their helmets crack.
"GAAAAAA!"
And then he throws them two onto the ground and stomps his feet on them hard.
STOMP!
CF and Samus are flattened and squished into the ground badly. G&W runs to Ridley from the side and swings his 2nd Level Fly Swatter at him. Ridley quickly turns around and grabs the swatter with his hand. Since the swatter is electrically charged and Ridley's hand is made of metal, the electric surges into his body and electrocutes him. "AAAAAAAHHH!"
"Ha! How do you like that, Rildo?" says G&W. And yes, he said Rildo by purpose just to annoy him.
Ridley uses his other hand to touch G&W, and the electric passes onto him.
"YAAAAAAAA!" G&W quickly lets go, but is immediately slapped away by Ridley.
"RIDLEY!" Marth yells at him. He jumps forward and swings his 2nd Level Durandal. It hits Ridley on the right hand and cuts it off. "Gotcha!"
"My hand! You'll pay!" roars Ridley angrily. He uses his tail to wrap around Marth and lifts him into the sky.
"Oh no!"
Ridley keeps on flying upwards very high, and flips Marth's head towards the earth below, and then he flies back down very fast. "AAAHHHH! STOP IT!" cries Marth, knowing what he is going to do.
Ridley slams Marth's head against the solid ground very hard.
CRACK! BANG!
His head smashed into the ground and made a large crater on it. "Oh no! Marth!" cries Dr. Mario. He quickly runs there to heal him, but before he has the chance, Ridley opens his mouth and breathes out kinetic energy breath at him. The breath hits Dr. Mario and burns him badly. "YAAAAAARGH!" He drops onto the ground and rolls around desperately to put out the fire.
Ridley looks around to see if there is anyone left to kill. He sees Popo and Nana lying unconsciously on the ground, Kirby flattened like a pink gum, Bowser and Yoshi lying in bloody heap next to the castle wall, Ganon all burned up and down, Samus and CF crushed into the ground, G&W still down from the electrocution, Marth in a small-sized crater and his head in a small puddle of blood, Dr. Mario toasted next to him, and wireframes and Young Linksprawled all over the place. He smiles and laughs, "Hahahahahaha! Are that all you Smashers got? I was expecting more! It was so fun torturing you! You better not die, because I won't be satisfied until I can beat you over and over, feed on your flesh, drink your blood, and tear your heart into pieces!"
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Somewhere inside the castle, Mario's group is wandering around. "Where is Naraku?" asks Roy.
"I don't-a know," replies Mario. "We don't-a have da map."
Suddenly, they hear a growling sound. "What's that sound?" asks Peach
"I have a bad feeling about this…" says Luigi in fear. And then they hear more growling sound.
"It comes from behind that door," says Roy, pointing to a door on the wall.
"Don't open it!" pleads Luigi.
"Why? What's wrong?"
"I don't know, but I'm just afraid."
"Nah, there's nothing to be afraid of." Roy walks to the door and opens it, and he sees a large slimy monster behind it! "What's this!"
The monster growls and says, "Blood… flesh… Give me body…" The disgusting pile of slime slowly crawls towards them, so Roy slams the door shut.
"What did I tell you?" Luigi tells Roy.
"It can't open the door," Roy assures him. Though the monster can't open the door, it is able to slip through the door from the gap below it! "Eek!"
The monster crawls out from under the door and says, "Give me…"
"I'll give you!" Roy takes out his Sword of Seals and slashes the monster in half, but to his surprise, the monster connects together again! "What!"
"How is that possible!" gasps Parry.
The slimy monster hurls itself at them, but they quickly run away. Roy shoot out fireballs from the sword and it hits the monster. The monster catches on fire when hit, but it soon died out and continues going after them. "How is that possible!"
The monster stretches its long slimy hand forward and grabs Peach. "AHHHH!"
"Peachy!" gasps Mario. He runs to the monster and starts beating it with his Fire Rod. The monster lets go of Peach and she quickly runs back to them. "You run away first! I will fight-a theez monsta!"
"But Mario!" protests Luigi.
"Just-a go!"
"You're not going to fight that thing alone!"
Mario strikes the monster rapidly with the Fire Rod. The monster stretches out a slimy tentacle and wraps it around Mario, slowly pulling him into its body. Mario struggles hard to get loose, but he is eventually consumed into the monster's body. "MARIO!" scream Luigi and Peach.
"He's got Mario!" gasps Parry.
"I'll rescue him!" says Roy. He slashes the monster rapidly, making drops of slimes fly everywhere. Yet, the monster still doesn't die.
Luigi watches Roy making a futile attempt to kill the monster, and he thinks to himself, "Mario is going to die, and I'm just standing here doing nothing! How am I worthy of being his younger brother? I must not always rely on others! I must be brave and help him myself!" Luigi takes out his Thunder Rod and runs to the monster and strikes it hard. Electric comes out from the rod and surges into the monster's body, electrocuting it. The monster shrieks out in pain and then explodes into slimy pieces, and Roy is send flying back from the explosion.
"Whoa! What did you do?" asks Roy, surprised.
"It seems that the monster is weak to electric," explains Luigi.
"You're so brave, Luigi!" Peach tells him. "You killed the monster!"
"Yeah… I did something helpful after all!"
"But where's Mario?" asks Parry, because he did not see Mario anywhere. "Can he be digested by the monster?"
"Oh no! How can it be! MARIO!" cries Luigi.
"Um, look…" Roy points to a square hole on the wall and it was a flapping door on it. Above the hole is a sign that says "Trash Deposit"
"Do you know what I'm thinking?"
"Um… Mario fell into it?" asks Luigi.
"Perhaps the explosion of the monster hurled Mario into it," says Peach.
"By the way, what was that monster?" asks Parry. "It doesn't look like a Darkling."
"It's probably one of Naraku's pet demons," answers Roy.
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Sure enough, Mario is hurled into the trash deposit after the slimy monster exploded. He falls down the winding tunnel, crashing and banging against the metal wall along the way.
CLANG!
"Ow!"
BANG!
"Ouch!"
KANG!
"Yeouch!"
Finally, he falls out of the pipe and onto a pile of… unidentifiable stuff. "Phew… At last… But-a where am I?"
Mario looks around and notices that he is sitting on top of a pile of rotten flesh! "Eeeeew!" He quickly hops onto solid floor and looks around, and is shocked at the surrounding of the room. There are lots of dead, decaying bodies and rotten flesh all over the room! In fact, some of those fleshes seem to be moving! With careful observation, Mario found out that these are carcasses of dead demons. "Theez must-a have something to do with Naraku. I think-a I should get-a outta here."
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Naraku approaches his throne and presses a button on it. The throne moves aside, revealing a passage behind it. He walks into the passage and enters a long, dark hallway. Eventually, he made it to a large room with a gigantic steel door on the wall. Naraku coughs and wheezes, and puts his hand over his face. "Ugh… The evil aura… It's even too powerful for me… The Diablo Darkling is surely a terrifying being."
A small opening at the top of door opens, and a pair of large purples appear from behind it. "Darkling King Naraku… When will my time come?" asks the being in a loud terrifying voice that echoes throughout the room.
"The time will come soon," replies Naraku. "When the Black Wing has spread its darkness, then it is the time when you, the Diablo Darkling, will rise into the world."
"You better make it fast and without failures! I do not pay you to be the Darkling King for nothing! Do not think you are superior to me just because you broke the seal on us! I am the mastermind of all the evil of the universe, and I demand that you respect me!"
"I will never disrespect you, Diablo Darkling. You are the master of all evil. Even I, Naraku, pale in comparison to your evilness."
After saying all these, he leaves Diablo Darkling's presence. He is actually trembling in fear and sweat runs down his face. "Diablo Darkling… What terrifying voice and power…"
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Punk, Pix, and Pork watch the three beaten up Smashers slowly rising to their feet. "So you're still not dead yet?" wonders Punk.
"I will not lose here!" says DK.
"I refuse to shed a single blood in battle!" says Link angrily.
"We came all the way here, so there is no way we are going to lose," Fox says sternly.
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Back outside the castle, Ridley is surprised that the beaten up Smashers are getting up. Marth slowly lifts himself up, despite his head bleeding severely. CF and Samus get up slowly too. Bowser also gets onto his feet. "That's the way I want it to be!" says Ridley. "I am not satisfied with this yet! Show me your true power! Do not fail to entertain me!"
"You're asking for it," says Marth.
"Do not blame us," says Samus next.
"I will show you my true power!" says CF angrily.
"Be prepared to die!" roars Bowser.
TO BE CONTINUED…
What is the Black Wing? You'll find out sooner or later!