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Inkopolis Square, World of Trophies
The square was currently the epicenter of a massive battle between the Inkling citizens along with their fighter allies, and the Lightspace Army who wanted the Great Zapfish for Galeem to use as he saw fit.
Steven, the Inkling known as Agent 3, was about to enter the battlefield. As soon as he did, he was greeted by a squadron of Light Primids armed with super scopes. The enemies all took aim and fired, but Steven was quick enough and moved out of their crosshairs just in time, advancing further into the heart of the conflict.
Amidst the chaos happening all around him, he could see the faraway figures of Mega Man and an opponent wielding a similar looking hand cannon exchanging powerful projectiles.
They looked evenly matched from Agent 3's perspective, so he decided to help his new friend to shift the odds in their favor.
Meanwhile, Peach was making her way up to a higher building in order to get a better view of the battle with Yoshi following her along. The dinosaur even offered the princess a ride like he would to Mario. The princess happily accepted the offer, and were able to make their way to a rooftop only a few blocks away from where the Great Zapfish was.
"Okay. We should be able to tell what's happening from this high up." Uttered Peach before looking at the Great Zapfish, noticing an orange haired Inkling in a bright tactical uniform. "Looks like there's a lone Inkling over there defending the power creature. We should head on over and help her out!"
"Yoshi! Yoshi!" Responded the dinosaur in agreement.
Yoshi then jumped between a large building gap with Peach still on his back. However, Peach saw how large the jump was and realized what this meant.
"Uhhh Yoshi?" Said Peach worriedly. "I don't think we're gonna make it!"
The dinosaur blocked out the worry though, and once he was at the highest point in his jump he started to flutter kick to maintain his altitude. Unfortunately, this still wasn't enough.
At the last minute, Peach opened her parasol which prompted both of them to be relieved. After a few moments of gliding, they barely made it onto the edge of the rooftop as they both looked at the sheer size of the Great Zapfish.
"Thank you Yoshi!" Said Peach gratefully. "I'm glad you've been a friend to us all this time."
"Yoshi!" Responded the dinosaur before they both finally made their way onto the rooftop.
Amelia was currently tending to her previous minor injury when she saw Peach and Yoshi standing on the rooftop.
Believing they were hostile, Agent 4 pointed her hero shot at the two fighters. "Don't come any closer! If you want the Great Zapfish, you'll have to go through me!"
"Listen! We're not enemies!" Pleaded the princess. "We've come to defend this city from the real enemy down in the square!"
Agent 4 remained unconvinced and threw a splat bomb to prove her point.
Peach and Yoshi moved out of the way before the dinosaur threw a few of his eggs at the Inkling Agent. However, Amelia was fast and managed to evade each projectile.
The princess then got in between the two fighters. "Stop it! Both of you! There's no need for this!" Said Peach once more. "We need to defend the creature from the real enemy!"
This then resulted in a standstill as the dinosaur and Inkling were catching their breath.
Back in the square entrance, Bowser was battling King K Rool with neither ruler gaining the upper hand. The Koopa struck K Rool's belly with his fist. However, all the attack could do was slightly push him back.
"How are you withstanding my strikes so easily?" Asked Bowser in disbelief.
K Rool was more than willing to respond. "Golden underbelly." He then proceeded to slap his stomach as if he had eaten an entire buffet. "Courtesy of Galeem's augmentation!"
Bowser retaliated with a stream of fire breath. However, the crocodile was using his new frontal armor to walk right through the inferno as if it wasn't even there.
"Is that the best you can do?" Taunted K Rool as he was approaching closer. However, an object was coming from his backside. Before the crocodile king knew it, he was struck from behind with a miniature wrecking ball.
This attack came from Bowser Jr. as he got closer to his opponent while positioning his vehicle in attack mode. "You stay away from my dad!" He then fired a devastating barrage of spiked cannonballs.
K Rool could only laugh as his golden belly shrugged them off. "Do you really think your pitiful toy can stop me?"
"No." Answered the adolescent Koopa. "But it can surely distract you."
King K Rool realized what this meant and turned his head toward Bowser once more, only to have his backside brutally dropkicked. This attack sent him flying and forced him to use his helicopter-like invention to safely retreat to another location of the square.
"I'll get him!" Said Bowser Jr. eagerly.
However, his father stopped him from doing so. "No junior. Let him go. We can get him later."
Bowser Jr could only respond in a smile as he and his father started to fight more Lightspace forces.
"I understand, dad." Uttered the teenage Koopa. "Let's get back to fighting these guys!"
Bowser could respond with a smile as Light Primids started to close in on them. However, both Koopas knew that they had what it took to take them down.
Elsewhere in the square, Mega Man and Samuel were still battling it out with neither fighter gaining the upper hand.
Unfortunately, that immediately changed as the Mii Gunner was one step ahead of the Blue Bomber. Once he got close enough, he was able to stick an EMP grenade onto his shoulder, rendering the robot immobilized. As he was about to deliver a fatal missile shot, the gunner received a stream of blue ink from Steven's hero shot.
The ink only made Samuel flinch as he focused his fire on the Inkling Agent. Steven was having a hard time, but his nimble frame meant he could evade the gunner's shots. He attempted to throw a splat bomb, which only knocked Samuel back and covered him with even more ink.
This was all the attacking Agent 3 needed, so he started to turn into his squid form and move inside the ink he made around the gunner for a better shot.
Samuel then showed a grin, something the immobilized Mega Man was unnerved about. "Do you really think you can hide from me?"
A compartment then opened from his power supply on his back. Inside it were dozens of small, but powerful missiles that can home in on a target's heat signature.
The Mii Gunner launched the missiles into the air which forced the submerged Steven to move around the ink unpredictably to avoid the descending onslaught.
During this though, Steven thought of a brilliant idea.
Agent 3 jumped out of the ink and tackled the gunner onto the ground. "No, but I can do the best I can!" He then unloaded the rest of his ink reserves onto the gunner before getting under him.
Samuel soon realized what the Inkling was doing. He was immobilized from the ink Steven covered him in, so he had no means of physically escaping from his own barrage of homing missiles. However, he noticed that there wasn't much defense near the Great Zapfish. Just before he was about to get hit, the Mii Gunner fired up his hidden jetpack and managed to fly away from the attack despite some initial resistance. This left Steven and Mega Man alone with imminent danger about to strike them.
Fortunately, the Blue Bomber had some of his energy recovered. It wasn't much, but it was enough to fire a crash bomb at the group of missiles, destroying them all in a harmless chain reaction above their heads.
This use of energy forced Mega Man to kneel down in exhaustion once more with Agent 3 attempting to help him up.
They then noticed the gunner flying toward the Great Zapfish, intent on prying it from its tower by any means necessary.
"We need to get back to that tower! It's likely Amelia's still there, but with her injury, it won't be a fair fight!" Said the Inkling. "Are you good to go?"
Mega Man was quick to respond. "My reserves are recovering from the EMP blast, so I think so. Let's get moving."
The two blue colored fighters then started to make their way to the tower, fully intent on defending the Great Zapfish from any Lightspace threat.
Soon enough though, the Inklings and their fighter allies soon found themselves overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of Lightspace troops. Additionally, half of Bowser's forces were currently wiped out.
Things were looking dim for the heroes when a few drones made a massive hologram of King K Rool.
"This battle has gone on long enough for both of us!" Shouted the crocodile. "Surrender the Great Zapfish, and no more people on your side get hurt!"
This prompted some of the Inklings to weakly murmur to themselves. However, all the fighters responded with faces of resistance.
"Is that really your final choice?" Taunted K Rool.
"We will never give up an innocent nation's source of power!" Shouted Little Mac as he got to the front of the crowd with Greninja and Mr. Game & Watch by his side. "You'll have to kill us all first!"
This shout of resistance raised morale not only for his fellow fighters, but for the Inkling defenders as well.
"If that's your final wish." Said the crocodile king as the hologram faded away.
K Rool then turned his head toward a few Light Primid Pilots. "Prepare for concentrated bombardment on the square! We can pick up the creature from the rubble afterwards!"
The pilots only responded with a nod as they focused their crosshairs to rain fire on anything within a two mile radius of the Great Zapfish.
The fighters were unflinching in their resolve. Peach faced the destruction with acceptance which prompted Yoshi to do the same, Bowser and Bowser Jr. were holding onto each other, and Greninja, Little Mac, and Mr. Game & Watch closed their eyes in preparation while holding onto each other. Finally, Wario was just angry that his life would be ending here and thinking that he wouldn't get those Mushroom Kingdom riches after all.
Eventually, as soon as they heard shots start to fire, they all expected the worst to happen. Wario was the first one to look up and realize that part of the Lightspace Mothership was somehow emitting smoke. As soon as he looked a little closer though, he could see a faint looking attack transport ship in the distance.
"Look! There's another-a ship attacking the enemy!" Shouted Wario.
This prompted all the fighters and Inklings to look up once again and see it for themselves.
The transport ship then opened its front cargo compartment to reveal an aircraft some of the fighters knew all too well. This aircraft immediately launched out of the transport ship and into the sky, destroying Lightspace fighter crafts and drones left and right.
"Yeah! I knew he would be back!" Shouted Little Mac in joy.
This new craft was an Arwing with Fox McCloud piloting it, taking down any airborne hostiles that came his way.
"Don't worry guys!" Said Fox over the intercom. "The cavalry's arrived!"
Meanwhile, the transport ship swung down onto the battlefield with its front compartment still open. As soon as it was low enough, Donkey Kong and Roy jumped from its opening and descended onto the battlefield..
Roy landed with a fiery strike that created a brilliant explosion of flame, effectively burning any unfortunate enemies to cinders.
As Donkey Kong was falling, the gorilla charged up for a deadly attack, making sure his fist would be the first thing that landed. Once it hit the ground, it created a huge shockwave that effectively knocked out a good chunk of enemies.
The transport ship then fleeted past the Great Zapfish tower as a fighter clad in green jumped out of the large craft and landed onto the rooftop, eager to defend his new allies.
"Who are you?" Asked Peach "And why do you look so much like Link?"
"I'm not the Link you know." Responded the boy with a deadpan expression. "You can call me Toon Link."
"I… suppose that might be the case." Said Amelia. "But I have no idea what's going on."
Steven and Mega Man then hurriedly made their way back to the rooftop, seeing Peach, Yoshi, Agent 4, and Toon Link.
"Amelia! We have incoming!" Shouted Steven.
Unfortunately, his warning was a bit too late as the flying Samuel fired another round of small homing missiles at the rooftop of the tower.
This onslaught knocked Peach and Amelia off of the structure while Toon Link and Mega Man redirected some of the missiles with their mirror shield and leaf shields respectively, saving Steven and Yoshi in the process.
Samuel then got onto the rooftop and readied himself against his opposition.
As Peach and Amelia were falling from the rooftop, the princess thought fast and caught the Inkling with her right arm before pulling out her parasol with her left, drastically slowing their descent before crashing into the ground.
Agent 4 got up first. "Urgh… Owww…" She then looked at the recovering princess.
"You… You… saved me… Why?" Asked the Inkling.
Peach was quick to respond despite the injuries she sustained. "Because I'm not the enemy."
She then got on her feet as Amelia was doing the same. "They are."
They then both looked at the swarm of Light Primids heading their way.
As soon as they were ready to fight off the enemy numbers, the transport ship from earlier crashed into the horde, effectively taking them all out.
Diddy Kong then sprung from the top hatch and jumped out of the ship in utter joy.
The small primate then hugged Peach because he hadn't seen her in so long.
"It's great to see you again Diddy!" Said Peach. "I guess your partner's out there near the entrance?"
Diddy nodded in response before looking at the Inkling beside her.
"This is Agent 4." Said the Princess. "She's a friend."
The monkey then shook the flattered Inkling's hand. "My friends call me Amelia."
As soon as they were done with introductions, the trio got back into battle mode as another wave of Lightspace forces was heading their way.