Chapter 36: The Power of Gravity! Samus vs. Lassie!
In the onsen room…

Lassie is stripped and dipping in the onsen while Samus is lying on the floor, unable to get up. "I thought you said you wanted to show no mercy on me," says Lassie. "But did I hear wrong?"

"And you dare take a bath in front of your enemy?" says Samus. "You're only leaving yourself vulnerable!"

"It's true that a Devil Fruit user like me is at the weakest state if in water, but it's not like you can do anything to me either. Just look at your current state!"

"You said I would be able to move in a few minutes, so you better watch out!"

"In that case, I better get up." Lassie gets up and dries herself with a towel and begins putting on her clothes, and at the same time, Samus is able to move again.

"Finally! Now to show you no mercy!" Samus aims her arm cannon at her and shoots out a missile.

While still putting on her clothes, Lassie steps aside and the missile flies pass her, and then around her and goes back to Samus!

"What!" gasps Samus, and she quickly rolls aside to avoid the homecoming missile.

"You sure use dangerous weapons even though you're a woman," says Lassie, finally done dressing up.

"How did you do that? The missile went around you like a satellite orbiting a planet!"

"Isn't guessing the power of a Devil Fruit user the most fun part of a fight? Then I shall tell you. I ate the Yoku You Fruit, and it allows me to fully control the gravity all around me!"

Note: Yoku is the last two syllables in Juuryoku, which is Japanese for gravity.

"So that explains what happened to me and Mario," says Samus. "You strengthen the pull of gravity on the floor and it pulled us down with such force that we cannot get up. This can be a bit of a challenge, but if I have my gravity suit, then it'll be a breeze. But I don't have it right now…"

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Out in the garden…

Skull and Ganon stare at each other for a few seconds, and then Skull says, "Curse you! Attack!" The giant skeleton throws a punch forward to hit Ganon, but the boar demon counters with an even stronger punch that smashes through the arm of the skeleton. "WHAT!"

And then Ganon follows up by swinging his arm against the skeleton and totally demolishes it into nothing.

"How is this possible!" gasps Skull. Ganon then slaps Skull, who is falling in midair, and sends him rocketing towards the ground at a fast speed.

CRASH!

Skull gets back up, all beaten up and bruised. "Gaaa… ga…"

Ganon then lifts up his arm overhead.

"No… Wait… no…"

Ganon brings down his fist on top of Skull and hammers him into the ground.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!

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"Huh? Did I hear a whamming?" wonders Bowser. "Must've come from outside." He opens the door that leads to the garden and is shocked to see Ganon standing outside, holding a beaten up Skull in the hand. "Oh Ganon! I see that you beaten up that skeleton dude who was with Deathborn!"

Ganon then hurls Skull into the sky and over the shrine.

"Well, you gave him quite a beating, eh?"

Ganon looks at Bowser, and then raises his arm.

"Ganon? What are you doing? You're not going to hit me, are you? Hey! Are you listening to me?"

Ganon brings his arm down on top of Bowser.

WHAAAAAAAAAM!

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On the other side of the shrine…

Wario is trying to climb up the wall and to the hole he fell out from. "You're almost here, Wario!" says Kirby.

Suddenly, Skull falls down from the sky and lands on top of the still climbing Wario, and knocks him back to the ground below. "YA!"

CRASH!

"Wario!"

"Ugh… Who tossed this skeleton down from the sky…?" grumbles Wario.

-

Bowser is flattened and KO'ed on the floor, and for some unknown reason, Ganon is climbing up the wall of the shrine—King Kong style.

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Elsewhere deep within the shrine…

Deathborn is walking through a long tunnel, and he comes to a large steel gate at the end of it. "Hehehe! It's just behind this door!"

"Deathborn!" yells a voice. Deathborn turns around and sees Black Shadow standing behind him.

"So it's you, Black Shadow. I didn't expect you to be the first person to find me."

"I will not allow you to get Carma," says Black Shadow. "You have no right to do so!"

"That's unlikely of you, a person who dreams of evil, to say that. Remember 6 years ago when I tried to bribe you to come to my side? You rejected it even though you could've get your wish to come true easier."

"As evil as I may be, I am still a generous man. I lost this race fair and square, so I do not have the right to throw tantrum and complain about it. You who are not in the race, I will not allow you to get what you want by force! I will stop you here!" says Black Shadow as he gets into fighting stance.

"Heh! You want to try me?" asks Deathborn. "I have a lot of time, so why not?"

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Somewhere else again…

Captain Falcon is running through who-knows-where within the temple. "Argh! Just where on earth is Deathborn?" he wonders. "And furthermore, isn't there any directions here that tells you how to find Carma?" He soon comes to a stair leading downwards, and so he goes down.

After going down a flight of stairs, he ends up in a long hallway. "This place looks suspicious… Perhaps there is something on the far end of it," he says to himself. So he begins running through this long tunnel.

After a bit of running, he comes a rather large room with all sorts of broken furniture lying all around, and a door on the other end.

"Don't tell me that even gods use up their furniture…"

"Ha! Someone has come to play!" says a voice in the room.

"Who's there?"

Zoda jumps out from behind the pile of furniture and lands before CF. "You have come, Captain Falcon! Time to get you back for making me lose the race!"

"Argh! I don't have time to mess with you, so out of my way!"

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Back in the onsen room…

"Well, shall we start?" asks Lassie.

"You bet!" says Samus. She points her arm cannon at Lassie and fires an energy shot. Lassie quickly steps aside and the shot orbits around her and flies back to Samus, who avoids it. "Incredible!" she thought. "She can fully control the path of an energy shot that moves as fast as the speed of light!"

"I may not have any high-tech weapons, but I can still take you down using force!" Lassie rushes to Samus and performs several karate kicks at her. Samus blocks the blows using her arm and quickly jumps into the air to avoid any more of it. But when she is in air, she immediately slams back down onto the floor almost instantly. "Don't forget you are not safe from my gravitational control in air also," says Lassie.

"Argh! If only I have the gravity suit on, then your power won't do anything to me!" says Samus.

Lassie charges at Samus and throws a kick forward. Samus thought that her armor is thick enough to protect her from the hit, but…

POW!

"GAAAAAAAAAAAA!" cries Samus as she is sent flying out of the room from the kick. "Ugh… How can you be that strong…?"

"Oh, I used to train with a certain powerful girl named Cassmon," explains Lassie. "She's one of the Mercenary 4, I believe."

"Damn… I must not take you easily! You're far tougher than I thought!"

"You have not seen anything of my Yoku Yoku powers yet. Behold this! Gravity-Go-Around!" At saying this, all the stuffs in the room float up and flies to Lassie and orbits around her at a very fast speed, and then she launches several furniture at Samus.

Samus quickly fires her beam to destroy any incoming furniture, but the amount is too much and she got hit by a couple of them.

SMACK! WHACK!

"Ugh! This is getting too much!" she cries. And then she is hit by a large couch and crushed under it. "YA!"

"Is that all you got?" asks Lassie. "You said you wanted to show no mercy on me."

"Argh! I'll show you!" says Samus, pushing the couch away her so she can get up. "If you can control my projectiles so easily, then I'll take on you using close range combat!" She charges at Lassie and performs a jumping kick, but Lassie easily avoids it by ducking under it. After ducking, Lassie attacks with a sweeping kick that Samus quickly jumped over. But while Samus is in air, Lassie made her fall back down this instant by altering the gravitational pull.

After Samus slammed onto the ground, Lassie kicks her hard in the body and sent her flying across the room and hitting the wall hard.

BANG!

"You're really as weak as that fat Italian," says Lassie. "How can you say you want to avenge for him if you two are in the same level?"

"You haven't seen anything of me yet!" says Samus.

"Is that so? Sorry, but I don't feel like wasting time with you again. Let me end this as fast as possible," says Lassie. Once again, she makes all the stuffs around her fly around her in a complete orbit, and this time she even drags Samus into the orbit too!

"Ah! What are you doing!"

"Giving you a little ride. Isn't it fun?"

"Let me down this instant!"

"Fine then… You're no fun." Lassie then sends all the objects, including Samus, flying in all directions.

CRASH! BANG! WHAM!

"YAAAAAAAAAA!" screams Samus as she is being buried under several furnitures.

Because of this move, the whole room is a mess, with lots of stuff lying around. "Boy, I sure caused quite a mess dealing with just one person," says Lassie. "Now I wonder where'd she go?" Suddenly, she hears a growling sound of sorts and also a cracking sound. "What's that?"

Suddenly, the wall cracks and Ganon bursts his head into the room! "ROOOOOOAAAAAAR!"

"YAAAA! WHAT ARE ON EARTH IS THAT!"

Samus, who is still under the pile of furnitures, is also shocked to see this, but she recognizes the monster. "It's Ganondorf! When did he transformed and what is he doing here?"

"So you're a Zoan type Devil Fruit user!" says Lassie, thinking that Ganon is Samus.

"You an idiot…" thought Samus at hearing this.

"Just what type of fruit did you ate?" Lassie asks Ganon. "But I can still deal with you!" She makes the furnitures in this room fly up and hurls it at Ganon, battering him in the face.

Ganon roars angrily and is going to attack, but he spots Samus under a couple of furnitures. "Ganon! It's me!" she says.

"Huh? You're here?" asks Lassie upon seeing Samus. "Then what is this thing…? And no, I didn't mistake you for that monster!"

"Yeah right…" thought Samus.

Ganon was about to perform a deadly attack of sorts, but when he saw Samus, he resisted. He lets out a roar and then continues climbing up the wall until he disappears from sight.

"Ganon… It seems like he was trying to resist something…" thought Samus.

"You! You seem to know that monster," Lassie asks her. "Just what is your connection with him?"

"He's my friend, okay?"

"You keep such a disgusting pet! And you call yourself a woman? That does it! I'll end your life right now!" Lassie stretches out one arm and spreads her finger open wide. "Black Hole!" At this, all the things in the room get sucked towards the center of her palm. And yes, this is the exact same move she used to beat up those people who wanted to help Big Boy.

Samus tries her best to escape the gravitational pull, but it is too powerful. "Ugh! I can't stand it anymore!" And she loses her footing and flies towards Lassie along with the furnitures. "YAAAA!"

All the things hit Lassie's palm and sticks there, and it looks like Lassie holding up a giant shield made of various things. And Samus is on the other side of all those stuffs and pinned against them.

"Ugh! If I can blast through these stuffs and get her by surprise, then I'll probably gain the upper hand!" she thought. "Wave Beam is the only thing capable of going through objects!" She switches her arm cannon to Wave Beam and begins charging up.

"Blast Hole Reject!" shouts Lassie, and then all the stuffs she has gathered are shot out from her hand and sent flying in every direction.

"YAAAAAAAAAAA!" cries Samus as she is also sent flying from the attack. "Must charge it to the max!" she thought.

Lassie dashes at Samus and punches her in the body hard, and it even made a crack on it!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAA!" cries Samus as she is knocked to the wall.

"Now I'll crush you!" says Lassie. She pulls in a large closet to her and launches it at Samus's direction.

"Done!" says Samus, and then she fires a fully charged Wave Beam at the closet. The beam pierces through the closet and heads for Lassie.

"What the!" gasps Lassie. The beam hits her and zaps her badly.

BZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" screams Lassie. Finally, she falls backwards onto the floor, all burned up and electrocuted badly.

Samus takes a rest on the floor and says to herself, "Finally… That was quite a challenge…"


TO BE CONTINUED…

How was that? I tried my best to make this fight interesting, so I hope you like it!

And what will become a Ganon? Will he gain back his sense or will he continue to wreck things like a mindless monster? And what about Bowser? Is his only role only to get beaten up by Ganon? You'll find out soon!

Chapter 37: Ness Meets His Match? The Battle Between Eternal Rivals!