Again, the reason I am able to update so fast is because this plot is adapted from an existing story, so I know what to think of next. I just have to make some changes to make it different enough.

Chapter 9: The Enemies Unmask Themselves! Enter the CP9!

CRASH! POW! BANG!

"YAAAAAAAAA!" scream the people as they fall down from the second floor and hit the first floor. "She's too tough…"

"I told you that you cannot beat me," says the bird mask.

"Dammit! Get her!" cry the people, and they get out guns to shoot her. The bird mask jump down towards the first floor and pulls out a thorn whip and spins it around in a spiral formation, hitting the people down there.

"Thorn Road!"

WHIP! SLASH!

"GWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

-

Meanwhile, Mario, Pikachu, and Pichu are being chased by Pix and Pork. "Come back here!" shouts Pix. "You're not getting away from us!"

"We have no reason to fight-a them!" says Mario. "You can only run to Otacon's room!"

"Right! But hurting them a bit won't be a problem, right?" asks Pikachu.

"I guess so…"

Pikachu turns around and unleashes an electrical beam at them, and it caught them by surprise and zaps them.

ZAP!

"Ow! How dare you!" says Pork angrily.

"They'll pay dearly for this!" says Pix.

The Smashers quickly turn around a corner, and the two follow them. The instant they turn around the corner, Mario hurls a bucket of cold water at them.

SPLASH!

When splashed, Pix turns into a chicken and Pork turns into a cow! "Just-a as I thought-a!" says Mario. "They have not-a cured from their Jusenkyo curses yet!"

Pix hops on top of Pork and Pork moos angrily and charges forward. "Mad cow!" shouts Pichu, and the Smashers continue running.

-

Marth is being chased by Punk throughout the building. "It's unlike of you to not fight back," says Punk as he chases him.

"I do not have a reason to fight you!" says Marth. "We have never tried to kill Otacon in the first place! If we did, then we would be fighting back to defend our guilt! But we did not, so if I fight back, then I would be saying I am guilty!"

"Whether you're telling the truth or not, I must follow Otacon's order of taking out whoever tries to kill him!" Punk charges forward and slams his pincers at him.

Marth quickly turns around and blocks the hit with his sword and pushes Punk back. "I do not want to fight you!"

-

Meanwhile, Otacon is in his room and lying on the bed, and he can hear lots of noise coming from the outside. Suddenly, a wall in the room turns into a door and opens! The masked man and Samus step in afterwards, and the wall returns to normal. "What! How did you get in here?" asks Otacon.

"I have the power of the Doa Doa Fruit," says the masked man. "I can turn whatever I touch into doors." He pulls out a gun and shoots Otacon in the shoulder.

Note: Doa means door in Japanese.

"YA!"

"Why did you do that?" asks Samus. "We're not allowed to kill him yet!"

"He can still talk, so he isn't weak. In killing, you must take precautions." The masked man turns to Otacon and says, "The truth be told: The Smashers have nothing to do with this, besides Samus. It is we CP9 doing it."

"What!" gasps Otacon.

"You look after him, Samus. I'm going to guard this room from the outside. Do not kill him until we give the signal." Then the masked man exits the room.

Otacon turns to Samus and says, "I never thought you would join the government's side, Samus."

"That has nothing to do with you," says Samus.

"So you are indeed a devil, you sole survivor of the Cosmo Incident!"

"You do not know anything and you speak of me like that!" Samus grabs Otacon by the hair and pulls him out of bed, and slams him onto the floor.

"Am I not right in saying you are a devil? You are trying to take over the world, are you? Do you even know what exactly the government wants? They want the blueprint of the Armageddon from me!"

"The blueprint?"

"So you don't know about it! Listen, the Armageddon is one dangerous weapon that can destroy the whole world!"

"I know that already, but what about the blueprint?"

"As you know, the Armageddon was made when a Hand sold his soul to the Darkling, and thus a powerful weapon is created. The power of the weapon is so feared by everyone that is was broke up into several pieces and hidden all over the world! My master, Worker Hand, passed down the blueprint to me, and since you are a survivor of the Cosmo Incident, you know exactly where every single piece is!"

"Even if you know all this, what is the point?"

Otacon pulls out a gun and points it at her. "I must kill you now!"

Samus quickly kicks his hand and makes the gun fly off, and she grabs it herself and points it at Otacon. "Don't talk like you know everything! Do you know the feeling of losing your best friends and teacher? Do you understand the hellish life I've spent before I became a Smasher? Is that only you can think of? Are you really simple-minded in thinking that everyone aboard the Cosmo Space Lab are devils who are trying to take over the world using the Armageddon? You know nothing!"

-

Meat-Knight lies beaten up on the floor and tired. "They're… tough…" he thought.

The bull mask approaches him and takes the scroll from his hand. "We are after this. Seems like you know too much, so we must kill you."

"So you're after that? Actually, Otacon told me to take out the fake blueprint and then escape by myself to safety."

"The fake blueprint?"

"Looks like we've been tricked," says the skull mask.

"Then where is the real one?" asks the bull mask. "Looks like we must get the real one out of Otacon himself."

-

"Where is that Smasher?" asks a guy.

"He must be around here! We mustn't let him into Otacon's room! After him quick!" says another guy, and the angry mob runs off.

After they're gone, CF pops out from a storage room. "Phew… Saved… Now to get to Otacon's room! Samus should be here by now!" He quickly runs through the hallway while evading the mobs. He then passes by the office and looks into it, and sees Meta-Knight and the two masked people in there! "Hey! What's happening here?"

"You! The Smasher!" says Meta-Knight.

"You're Meta-Knight, right? And the masked people… You must be the ones influencing Samus to do evil!"

"A Smasher…" says the skull mask. "Are you here to take the blame for us?"

"Give back Samus! What are you trying to do to her?"

"Rankyaku!" The skull mask swings his leg at CF and shoots out a projectile from it.

"Whoa!" CF quickly rolls aside to avoid it. Suddenly, the bull mask appears behind him and slams him onto the floor. "YA!" And then he pulls out u-shaped pins and pins him to the floor by the arm, legs, and neck. "Hey! Let me out!"

"We do not have time to fight you," says the bull mask. "We'll just pin them up for now. They will meet their demises anyway." Then he proceeds to pin Meta-Knight onto the floor also.

"Wait! Don't go! I'm not done with you yet!" shouts Meta-Knight, but the masked people leave the room without listening to him.

-

Cid is running through the hallway looking for enemies. "Where are the baddies? I'm gonna pound them good!"

"Cid! Look!" cries a guy. Cid goes over to look and is shocked to see the white masked man sitting outside Otacon's room, and there are blood puddles besides him!

"What have you done to Kaku and Lucci!" gasps Cid.

"I've beaten them up and tossed them out the window," replies the masked man.

"How dare you!" Cid swings a large hammer at the masked man, but the masked man broke the hammer with a simple punch. "WHAT!"

"Ya! That guy destroyed Cid's iron hammer with his fist!"

The masked man then punches Cid hard in the face and knocks him out.

POW!

"Ahhh! He knocked out Cid in just one hit!" cry the people. "Quick! We must go get help at once!" They quickly turn to run, but the masked man charges at them and beat them up.

POW! BANG! SCHAWP! KICK! PUNCH!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

-

In the office, both CF and Meta-Knight are pinned onto the floor and unable to move. "Smasher… Sorry for the mistake this morning…" says Meta-Knight.

"It's all right," says CF. "At least we know who the enemies are now."

"Damn… If only I was strong enough… How is Kirby now?"

"He's still a greedy pig. All he does is eat. But he can be serious when it comes to fighting. Don't underestimate him too much."

"I see… The last time I fought him he wasn't as good. He still had hard times trying to beat me. I really want to see with my own eyes on how good he is now. But look at me now! I've been beaten by people I don't even know, and now they're going to kill Otacon! Otacon made me a the lead engineer here, so I owe him a lot!"

"I understand you…"

"Perhaps I am even weaker than Kirby now! I have always strived to become the best I can! But do I look like I am the best?"

"Trust in yourself! You are not as weak as you are! This morning I can see that you have great strength in you! You must fight to your extent and prove yourself!"

"I know… But…"

"You want to protect Otacon, right?"

"Yes, I want too… I want to protect him with all my strength, even if I die! I will not forgive anyone who tries to harm him!"

"That's the spirit!"

-

The bird mask is fighting with Popeye when suddenly her cell phone rings, and she answers it, "Hello?"

"There's been a hitch in the plan," says the voice of the bull mask. "Come to Otacon's office at once."

"Okay."

"Are you trying to escape?" asks Popeye. "Don't think I'll let you!"

"I'm not trying to escape. I just have an appointment at the moment." The bird mask charges forward and stabs her finger through Popeye's stomach.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" And Popeye passes out from the fatal hit.

"Aaaaaaaaah! She defeated Popeye in a single hit!" cry the people. "What strength she has!"

Then the bird mask proceeds to beat up everyone before heading out of this area.

-

Soon, all 4 masked people are in Otacon's room, along with Samus. "Go away, you brats!" says Otacon. "I have nothing to give you!"

"Now, now, Otacon," says the bull mask. "Will you please stop being so stubborn?" Then Hattori the pigeon flies into the room and perches onto the bull masks' shoulder.

"What?"

The bull mask then unmasks himself, and he turns out to be… Lucci!

"LUCCI!"

"The government asked nicely from you many times, but when will you finally give it to them?" asks Lucci. "When will you stop holding back?"

The skull mask unmasks himself and reveals himself to be Kaku!

"KAKU!" gasps Otacon.

"Hiding our true identities were easy," says Kaku. "But keeping it forever is worthless."

The bird mask unmasks herself to she turns out to be Califa! "We wish to leave this place a memory without hurting you as much as we can," she says.

"CALIFA! YOU TOO!" gasps Otacon, again.

The white masked man takes out his mask and turns out to be Blueno! "There is nothing you can do now, Otacon," says Blueno. "It is about time we finish our mission."

"You're the owner of Blueno's Bar! This can't be! You all work for the government!" gasps Otacon. "I must be dreaming!"

"No, you are not dreaming," says Lucci. "We are the Cipher Pol 9; CP9 for short. And we have dedicated our lives to the government since we were young."

"This can't be! This can't be!"

TO BE CONTINUED…

Those who saw OP up to this point shouldn't find the identities of the CP9 surprising, but I see that Falcored will be shocked and surprised by this.

And in case you didn't know too, the 3 Space Pirates have Jusenkyo curses, which are taken off from the anime Ranma 1/2. It is a cursed pool of water and if anyone falls into it, he or she will transform into the creature that last drowned in that pool. Whenever the victim touches cold water, he/she will change into the cursed form, and touching hot water will turn back to normal. Punk was cursed in Old Time Friends and Pix and Pork were cursed in Cow and Chicken.

Coming up next chapter: The Shocking Truth! CP9's Intentions Revealed!