uInuyasha fans may notice that I left out some other major Inuyasha characters like Sesshomaru, Kikyo, and Kohaku. I want the flashback to be simple and easy to understand, and I fear that too many casts may drag the flashback a bit longer. And if you have read Feudal Smashers, you'll notice that I missed out Kohaku in that story also. Since this is in some way a continuation of that story, I left him out also.
Chapter 81: The Battle Rages On! The War of the Darkling!
Lilina is running for her life to escape a ferocious Darkling who is hot on her trail. She keeps on running until she unknowingly runs into a dead end with walls on three sides. "Oh no…" The Darkling caught up with her and slowly approaches her to do something more than nasty.
"Go away!" she shouts. She magically lights a fire in her hand and then releases a huge blast at the Darkling, but to her shock, the Darkling remains unharmed.
It starts approaching slowly, baring its sharp teeth. Lilina backs up against the wall in fear and sweats pour down from her head like a waterfall—her life is just flashing in front of her eyes.
All of a sudden, the Darkling is slashed in half by a sharp sword. Roy made it just in time to rescue her. "Lilina! Are you all right?"
"Roy!" Lilina throws herself onto Roy and hugs him tightly and then begins to cry tears of happiness. "Thank you for saving me!"
"It's all right. I'm here to protect you from all harms and danger."
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Elsewhere, Crazy Hand is leading all the innocent citizens of Onett to safety. "Hurry! This way! Women, children, and oldies first! Men can go whenever they want to! I don't care!" He notices Luigi among the evacuating crowd, so he sticks his index finger under the running away Luigi and flips him into the sky and grabs him in midair. "You're a Smasher, so you should fight!"
"But I'm scared!" protests Luigi.
"Well, that can't be helped!" He tosses Luigi back into the battlefield.
Jigglypuff is cornered by a Darkling. "Help me!" she cries. The Darkling is about to strike when suddenly Luigi flies in from the side and knocks it away.
CRASH!
"Doh… That was a rough landing…" groans Luigi, rubbing his head, and then he is disturbed by the roar of the angry Darkling. "YIKES!" The Darkling throws a punch forward but Luigi got up and ran away before it hits.
He keeps on running around and around to escape the Darkling, but when he turns his head around, he sees the Darkling running on all four after him at a very fast speed! "AHHHH! HE'S AFTER ME!"
The Darkling catches up with him and trips him to the ground with a swipe of its claw. It then stands up on both legs and raises its arm and roars loudly.
"AHHHH! I'M DONE FOR!" screams Luigi. He quickly pulls up his Thunder Rod and smacks the Darkling's face rapidly with it. This made the Darkling even angrier and it punches Luigi hard in the head, knocking him aside. "AUGH!"
Luigi lands from the blow and lies on the ground. "Ugh… I'm done for…" The Darkling approaches him and threatens him again. Luigi screams like a little girl and shouts, "LEVEL UP!" And his Thunder Rod levels up, in which the front end becomes like that of a plug. He thrusts the plug forward and it fits perfectly into the Darkling's nostrils. Electricity surges out from the rod and into the Darkling's body. It roars in agony as it gets electrocuted and then soon explodes into pieces.
KABOOM!
"Huh… huh… I did it…"
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"Take this! Earth Tremor!" Ganondorf lands onto the ground and smashes his trident into it, creating a powerful shockwave that knocks all the Darkling to their feet.
"Now eat this! Slashing Cannon!" Bowser swings both his giant claws and let loose a barrage of crescent-shaped shots, each cutting the Darkling into pieces.
"Well, that was easy," says Ganondorf.
"Sure they were," says Bowser, agreeing with him. "The Darkling usually do nothing but stand around, waiting to be hit."
Suddenly, a large shadow looms over them. They both look up and see a gigantic winged Darkling flying above them. The Darkling's head resembles a dragon's, but is sort of deformed. The Darkling looks down at them and bares its crooked but sharp teeth.
"What are you supposed to be?" asks Bowser. "Whoever you are, I will take you down like how I did with the others."
The Darkling flies in the sky for another short while before landing on top of a house, but its weight crushes the house underneath. "Now don't blame me!" shouts Bowser. "Slashing Cannon!" He swings his claws and shoot out several blades. The blades hit the Darkling's chest but surprisingly enough, does no damage to it. "Uh?"
"You didn't try hard enough!" Ganondorf tells him. "Watch. I can defeat it without leveling up my weapon to its second form!" Ganondorf jumps at the Darkling and prepares to skewer it. But before he is in range for the attack, the Darkling swings its humongous fist at Ganondorf and sends him flying. "AHHHHH!"
"Ganondorf!" screams Bowser, and he turns to the Darkling angrily. "How dare you!" The Darkling spreads out its wings and flaps it back and forth very hard, creating a strong gust of wind. The wind is so strong that Bowser is blown along the ground like a ball! Then the Darkling soars into the sky again.
Master Hand sees the Darkling and wonders to himself, "What is that Darkling? Father never told me something like that!"
Naraku sees the giant flying Darkling flying in circles around the sky, and says, "Ah, that's the Bahamut Darkling. It's the newest kind of Darkling to be discovered. It is said that its powers exceeds a Tyrant Darkling's."
Fox is standing on top of a house, shooting the Darkling rapidly with his Nuclear Gun. The Darkling flies around swiftly and avoids all the shots, and even if it did get hit, it just shrugs off the pain. Falco climbs up next to Fox and says, "Your weapon isn't strong enough! I'll show you mines!" He points his Level 2 Atomic Gun at the Bahamut Darkling and fires a large energy blast.
The blast hits the Darkling and creates a large explosion.
"Bull's-eye!"
But the Darkling bursts out of the cloud of smoke and lets out a deafening roar. It opens its mouth wide and creates a ball of energy in front of its mouth, and then it fires it at them. "What's that!" cries Fox.
Just before the ball of energy hits, Master Hand quickly flies in and pushes both Falco and Fox off the building. The energy ball hits the house and…
KABOOOM!
"That was close…" says MH. "If I didn't come faster enough…"
"I was thinking of reflecting it myself," says Falco.
"CH and I will handle the Darkling myself. You go and take on the smaller ones." With this, MH flies into the sky along with CH.
"C'mon, Falco, let's go bust some Darkling!" Fox tells his comrade.
"HELL NO!" screams a Hell No Darkling.
"HELL YES!" shouts back Falco, and then he blasts the Darkling into pieces.
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MH and CH fly towards the Bahamut Darkling and shoot bullets at it. Though the bullets did hit the Darkling, it did not do much damage to it. The Darkling opens its mouth and shoots out another large energy ball. "We must catch it and throw it away!" says MH. Both the hands form into a cup formation and amazingly catches the energy ball! They struggle hard to push the energy ball away, and succeed. The energy ball is send hurling aside.
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In a colorless flower field, Barney crawls out of a large smoking crater and groan, "Lo… What happened…? Did the sky just fall on me?"
Suddenly, the large energy ball falls on top of him and…
KABOOOOM!
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Back to the Hands…
The two of them are flying back and forth around the Bahamut Darkling, punching it rapidly. The Darkling swings its arms and tail around, trying to hit the Hands, but they are too fast to get hit.
"Now let's crush it in between!" MH tells CH. The Hands zoom towards the Darkling from both directions, planning to crush it in between.
The Darkling spreads out both its arms and miraculously stops both the Hands from moving using only its hands! "WHAT!" gasp both the Hands. The Darkling slams them together and hurls them towards the earth below.
The two fall onto the earth with a loud bang and leave a large crater behind. "That guy's stronger than we thought…" groans CH.
The Bahamut Darkling flies near the surface of the earth and grazes through several roofs of buildings and causes massive damage all over the place. Captain Falcon is standing on top of a building, and when the Darkling flies near, he quickly jumps onto the Darkling's back and stabs the sharp end of his spear into its skin. "Gotcha!"
The Darkling roars in pain and shakes around violently until CF falls off along with his spear. "Whoa!"
"I'll get him!" Sheik swings her Level 2 whip at the Darkling. All 8 strands of the whip wrap themselves around the Darkling, and the next thing Sheik knows is she is being pulled along by the Darkling as it flies! "Hey! Stop!" The Darkling takes off into the sky again, taking Sheik along with it. "Ahhhh!"
"Zelda!" cries Link in concern. "I'll rescue you!" He fires a Silver Arrow at the Darkling and it automatically homes in onto it and pierces the Darkling in the chest and explodes on contact. The Darkling cries from getting hit and then shoots a small energy ball at Link, who quickly rolls away to avoid it.
"Somebody save me! It's too high!" screams Sheik, who is still… You know it already…
Roy walks to the Hands, who are getting up from getting knocked out earlier. "Take me up to the Darkling!"
"What are you going to do?" MH asks him.
"I'll take on him!"
"But it's in the sky!"
"That's why I tell you to take me up!"
"I'll take you! Hop on!" says CH. He opens his hand (literally, that's what he is) and Roy hops on, and then CH takes him into the sky.
The Bahamut Darkling sees them coming and opens its mouth to charge up another energy ball. "It's firing the energy shot!" shouts CH.
"Then throw me! I can prevent it!" says Roy.
"Then go!" CH stops in place and hurls Roy towards the Darkling.
"Level up!" shouts Roy, and his sword gets covered in a coat of fire. The Darkling charges the energy ball until it is very big and then fires it at Roy. Roy swings his sword vertically at the energy ball and succeeds in slashing it into pieces!
"Wow! That was amazing!" exclaims CH.
Roy lands on the Darkling's head and runs across its body while cutting across its skin using the edge of his sword. He cuts all the way to the tail and then jumps towards Sheik and quickly pulls her down along.
The Darkling roars in a massive pain from the severe ash across its back, and it begin falling towards the earth below. Roy and Sheik hold hand-to-hand as they drop down, but are saved by CH.
The Bahamut Darkling falls and hits the ground and explodes into pieces. CH puts both Roy and Sheik onto the earth safely. "You did the most amazing thing, Roy!" CH says to him.
The other Smashers walk up to him and congratulate him for performing an amazing feat also.
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Naraku isn't very pleased with what he saw. "Those annoying pests!"
Suddenly, Mario pops up in front of him on the warp star. "Naraku!"
"You again? I thought you're dead."
"I'm not going to die until you die first-a!" Mario slams the Fire Rod at Naraku, but he simply sidesteps to avoid it.
One of the tentacles growing out of his back wraps itself around Mario. "You're a measly little human. How can you defeat a great demon lord like me?"
"Ugh… Do not-a underestimate me!"
"Ha! I always underestimate humans! They are weak and worthless creatures created to fear demons!" He slams Mario back onto his warp star and destroys it with a single swipe of his tentacles.
"AHHHH!" screams Mario as he falls downwards. Luckily, he is caught by the Final Destination that happens to be hovering below the Black Wing. Actually, it was MH who piloted it below there just now.
"That was close, Mario," says MH.
"Grrrr… That-a Naraku…"
Naraku looks down and says, "Now stay there and watch what is going to happen next!"
MH and Mario both hear a thundering noise and witnesses a flash coming from the sky. The people down there also hear it. They all look up and see a large door with several giant locks attached to it floating in the sky! MH is extremely shocked to see this. "No! That's the prison door of the Diablo Darkling!"
Naraku stands on the edge of the Black Wing and spreads out his arms wide. "Now the time has come! The Diablo Darkling shall come forth and once again terrorize the world!"
TO BE CONTINUED…
I hate to say this, but this story is coming to an end soon. There are only 3 more chapters left, so I hope you don't feel sad about this. All good things should come to an end eventually. This story has come a long way, and it should end too. I'm so glad that many of you enjoyed this story!
Preview
Diablo Darkling: Now I can break free from my prison again!
Mario: Mamamia! What-a do we do!
Master Hand: We must not let it come out! The world will be done for that way!
Crazy Hand: Use the missile!
Master Hand: You mean the holy missile Dr. Finklestein made? Yes! That is the only way left!
Naraku: How dare you! I will kill you all!
Mario: Naraku! DIE!
Coming up next chapter: The Finale Comes Next! Use the Holy Missile!