Chapter 38: A Traitor Among the Priests and the Dinosaur Hunter!

"Mario!" says Ness. "You've come to rescue me!"

"Yes! I'm feeling much better now!" says Mario. "How ya feeling?"

"I'm a bit hurt, but that's not a problem. PSI Life up!" Ness instantly recovers himself from his wounds. "Feeling better than before!"

"I can take on you two by myself!" says Pokey. "This Devil Machine is indestructible!"

"He's quite tough, Mario," Ness tells Mario. "He is immune to my PSI attacks due to a mysterious force shield and not to mention his mech has quite an armor."

"We'll see about that-a." Mario runs to the mech and lands a kick hard against the front part.

"Haha! You're not making any effort doing this!" says Pokey. "Take this!" His mech fires its machine gun at them, and the two of them have to run around to avoid the bullets.

"Pokey himself is vulnerable to attacks!" Ness tells Mario. "We should hit him!"

"Okey-dokey!" Mario jumps up into the air and towards Pokey's head, but when he is near; the mechanical hand comes out and grabs Mario by the leg, and then swings him around before hurling him away. However, Mario is able to land on his feet. "That-a was surprising!"

"You try to hit me, the hand gets you!" says Pokey.

"Darn! I'll need to handle that hand first!" thought Ness. He pulls out his baseball bat and says to Pokey, "Hey! Try and get me with that hand if you can!"

"You bet!" Pokey releases the hand at Ness, and Ness attacks it. Then he begins a furious fight with the hand through several smashing and battings. Finally, the hand grabs hold of Ness's bat and hurls it away, but Ness brought it back using telekinesis. But the hand grabs him and hurls him backwards.

"Ow! This is tougher than I thought!" says Ness.

"Hahahahaha! There is no way you can defeat me!" laughs Pokey.

"Oh yeah?" says Mario as he runs towards Pokey. He jumps into the air to attempt another stomp on his head again.

"Ha! You're doing the same useless technique over and over!" says Pokey as he commands the hand to reach over to grab Mario.

However, Mario quickly performs a spinning kick in midair and kicks the hand out of the way, and then he drops down on top of the mech's control panel and stomps it hard, causing it to malfunction, and then Mario back flips away.

"Ya! You just stomped on the control panel!" gasps Pokey. "And you deactivated the force shield in the process!"

"Is that so?" asks Ness. "Then… PSI Rocking!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOO!" screams Pokey as the colorful beams fly towards his mech.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!

"Yes! We did it!" exclaims Ness.

"Great-a job!" says Mario.

Out of the explosion of the mech, Pokey flies out riding on a flying cockpit. "Argh! See what you've done to my fabulous Devil Machine!" he says angrily. "But this is not the end, Ness! I will draw back for now, but I will destroy you some day in the future! As long as Deathborn's wish comes true, that day will come! HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

His flying cockpit begins to fly out the room, but suddenly, a figure jumps in very fast and slices the cockpit in half.

"What the! YAAAAA!" cries Pokey as the cockpit breaks apart and he falls to the floor.

"Roy!" exclaim Mario and Ness.

"I haven't had enough yet with Rungsan," says Roy. "So I came to look for more fun."

"Curse you all!" cries Pokey. "I will get you for this!"

"You're not running everywhere, Pokey!" says Ness. "PSI Paralyze!" He fires a white beam at Pokey and freezes him in place.

"Noooo!" cries the frozen Pokey.

"Now to give you a taste of my wrath!" Ness runs to Pokey and whacks him hard with the baseball bat.

PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" screams Pokey as he flies out the room and goes rolling down the stairs until he reaches the bottom and passes out.

"That should teach him," says Ness.

"That brat sure became quite a threat," says Roy. "I can't imagine what kind of a person he would become in the future."

"Now that's handled, we should be looking for the others," says Ness.

-

In another apart of the shrine, Jason and Carlos are engaged in a furious beam combat. They both shoot each other with their laser guns, but none of them really hit.

"I hate to admit it, Jason, but you're getting good at this," says Carlos.

"Of course! The evil side gave me power that is beyond imagination!" replies Jason.

"How can you betray the way of the priest and join the dark side? You should be fighting against it!"

"A fool like you would never understand the great power you can get from it! I will show you!" Jason fires several laser beams at Carlos, who swiftly evades them all, but unfortunately, he got shot in the left shoulder.

"Ugh! I must not let my guard down!" Carlos activates the jet pack on his back and flies in the air.

"So you want an air battle? I'll gladly take it!" Jason's shoes emit fire and he flies into the sky.

They both then engage in a battle in midair. Not only do they trade shots, but they also fly around and tackle each other furiously. They are moving in such a speed that the untrained eyes probably can't see their movements.

Carlos backs off and fires a laser at Jason, who is flying towards him at a high speed. Jason is able to avoid the beam by moving below it, and then he hits Carlos unexpectedly in the stomach.

"UGH!"

And then Jason hits him on top of the head and knocks him to the floor below.

BANG!

"Ha! Now you know how much power I got?" asks Jason.

"Evil will never prevail!" says Carlos, getting back up.

"Is that so? I shall give you more beating!" He flies down to Carlos and fight him using close range combat, and Carlos fights back using the same moves.

After much trading of punches and kicks, they hop back to their starting positions. "This will not go anywhere if this keeps up!" says Carlos. "I didn't want to use this, but I have no choice! Behold my ultimate weapon that I spent years making!" He takes out a small device from his pocket and the device instantly grows into a large high tech-looking bazooka of sorts.

"That's something I haven't seen yet," says Jason. "You sure come up with lots of surprising things once in a while!" Then Jason whips out a bazooka-alike weapon also, but it looks a bit old compared to Carlos's. "Remember this weapon? Though it may be a bit old, it still retains its deadly powers!"

"You cannot defeat me using that old weapon!"

"We'll see about that! The last time I tried this, it destroyed an entire hill! Now isn't that devastating?"

"Then you shall see what this can do!" Carlos places his weapon against his shoulder and pulls the trigger. "Ultimate Laser Cannon!" The tip of the bazooka shoots out a gigantic laser beam.

"Destroyer Beam!" shouts Jason as he fires his own beam, which is slightly smaller compared to Carlos's.

Both the beam hit together and at first it seems like that both of them are of equal strength. But things start to change when Carlos's beam begins pushing against Jason's beam.

"Ugh! How can this be!" gasps Jason. "The weapon is overpowering mines!"

"Evil will never prevail, Jason!" shouts Carlos. "HIYA!" The beam becomes stronger than before and completely overpowers Jason's beam, it keeps on shooting forward until it engulfs Jason.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

An explosion blasts the wall of the shrine and Jason is blasted outside, where he falls to the ground below very hard.

THUD!

The power of the bazooka's recoil also sent Carlos flying backwards, but he still got back up. "Phew… I got him at last…" says Carlos. "I must find Deathborn now!"

-

"Seriously! Where is everybody!" says Falco.

"Everyone sure is elusive," says Fox. "Now it came to me; I should be contacting them with my cell phone! Why haven't I thought of it? I'm becoming oblivious around these days."

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" shouts a voice.

"Did you hear someone shouting?" asks Falco. Then they see Luigi running across the hallway, being chased by Pico and Bio Rex.

"Yeah, and I saw who shouted too," says Fox.

-

"HELP ME!" screams Luigi as he runs from the two villains.

"Get back here!" shouts Pico.

"He sure can run!" says Bio Rex.

Luigi keeps on running until he trips onto the floor. "OOF!"

"Now we got you!" says Pico.

"NOOOOO!"

Suddenly, Link appears before Luigi with his sword and shield in his hand. "I'm here to help you!" he says.

"Link! My hero!"

"Humph! You again!" says Pico.

"You haven't learned from our previous race yet, eh?" says Link. "This time we will settle things!"

"Fine! You'll make my time more than that coward!" says Pico, preparing his knives.

"Luigi, just stand back and I'll handle them by myself!" says Link.

"Do them good!" says Luigi.

Link runs at Pico and they both clash their weapons together. Pico fights by holding 6 knives, 3 in each hand. How does he hold it? By holding 3 knives between each finger per hand. Despite using shorter weapons than Link, he is still able to hold himself up very well.

"Boy! You're sure tough even with weapons like that!" says Link.

"I don't collect knives just for fun!" says Pico. "I always use them for cutting and killing anyone who offends me!"

Pico backs off and charges at Link very fast, ready to stab him with the knives. Link quickly jumps out of the way and Pico runs into a drawer, which instantly breaks into pieces when the knives hit it.

"Wow! It must be really sharp to break the drawer up like that!" exclaims Link.

"I have more skills than you think!" says Pico.

While they both are fighting, Bio Rex approaches Luigi and says, "I'll eat you!"

"NOOOO! IT'S YOU!" screams Luigi.

"You're not going anywhere!"

"Fine! If you want to fight me, then I'll fight back!" says Luigi as he gets into fighting stance.

Bio Rex laughs at him and then smacks him with his tail hard, sending Luigi across the room.

"YAAAAAAA!"

Bio Rex then runs to Luigi and slashes him rapidly with his sharp claws.

SLASH SLASH SLASH!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

And then he kicks Luigi in the stomach using his foot, and the sharp, pointy nails on the foot stabs into his body in the process.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" screams Luigi bloody murder.

"Luigi!" gasps Link as he fights Pico.

"You have time to worry about others?" asks Pico as he attacks Link.

"Darn!"

Bio Rex approaches the beaten up Luigi and grabs him by the throat. "Hehehe! You should've just run! You were very good at it!"

"Nooo…" groans Luigi.

"Now I'll bite your head off!"

"Help… me…"

"Dinosaur! Get away from him!" yells Link as he defends himself from Pico's attack.

Bio Rex opens his jaws wide and brings it towards Luigi's head. Just when Luigi's life is flashing before him, someone kicks Bio Rex hard in the head and sends him flying aside.

"Uh…? Am I saved…?" asks Luigi.

"Phew… That was close," says Link.

Bio Rex gets up and turns to his attacker, "Who's there?"

"The dinosaur hunter," replies Falco, who gave him the kick.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Pokey and Jason are both down! I didn't make the battle between Jason and Carlos too long, because I felt that battles between OC aren't necessary.

And Bio Rex seems a bit too tough for Luigi, but good thing Falco came to the rescue! How will things turn out?

Coming up next chapter: The Bird vs. the Dinosaur! The Flame of the Phoenix Increases!