Chapter 18: Crisis Aboard the Sky Liner! Fight to Claim Back Our Friend!

"It's a bit noisy out there," says Califa.

"They said someone has invaded onto the Sky Liner," says Kaku.

"Shall we go get them?" asks Blueno.

"The men aren't weak to the point that they need our help," says Lucci. "They can take care of a couple of small fries by themselves."

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POW! SMACK! SMASH!

Snake and Nero and trading hits with each other, and they both are equally bruised and not to mention equal in strength. It seems that no side is gaining the upper hand. After much beating around, they hop back several steps and stare at each other. "This will go nowhere if I don't use Rokushiki moves!" says Nero.

"You only know four moves, so it should be called Yoikushiki instead," says Snake.

"Shut up! Rankyaku!" Nero shoots out a wind blade at Snake, who jumps into the air to avoid it. In midair, Snake pulls out his pistols and begins firing at Nero again. "Kamie!" But he easily avoids it.

Snake lands down in front of him and performs a leg sweep attack that Nero back flipped to avoid it. After jumping back, Nero fires his own pistol to shoot Snake, but the bullets bounce off his vest.

"Told ya it wouldn't work!" says Snake.

"Argh!"

"And by the way, I want to tell you that this isn't any normal bulletproof vest." Snake points to a number 20 that is imprinted in the left hand side of the vest. "See this number? This is the latest version of my Snake Eater! Snake Eater v. 20!"

"What's so special about that?"

"You'll see!" Snake opens his vest to reveal turrets on the undersides of the vest! "Vest Weapon!" The turrets begin sweeping bullets around the place, but Nero is able to avoid them.

"Is that all you got?" asks Nero. "It still doesn't make any difference! Rankyaku!" He kicks out a wind blade Snake, and Snake quickly closes his vest and got hit in the front part.

"Augh! But good thing my vest is hard enough to block that odd attack of yours too!"

"Grrrrrr! I have enough! I'll put you in chains this instant, since you aren't allowed to be killed just yet!"

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Back inside the cabin…

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaa! You ate up most of my suit!" cries Wanze, whose suit no longer has arms. "Now it looks like an onion!"

"They sure taste good!" says Yoshi, munching on noodles. "But you are wasting foods by playing with them!"

"Noodle Stake Knocker!" Wanze jumps up in his suit and the noodles on the leg of the suit extend forward to hit Yoshi.

Yoshi charges forward with his mouth wide open and bites the front part of the noodle, and begins sucking it in!

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaa! Don't suck it in!" cries Wanze as his suit begins spinning in place due to Yoshi sucking the legs in.

Yoshi keeps on sucking and swallowing the noodles until the whole suit is swallowed and Wanze is sitting dizzily on the floor.

"Sasasa… You ruined my suit…" says Wanze. Yoshi then charges forward and tail whips him hard. "WAAAAA!"

"You have committed 3 crimes: One, you call yourself a chef when you don't act like one! Two, you play with food! Three, you say foul about my friend!" Yoshi then proceeds to kick and headbutt him hard.

"SA! I will never let you pass! Behind this door lies the wicked criminal Samus Aran, who tried to take over the world! I know how important this mission is, so you must not rescue her!"

Yoshi then hits him the face really hard and Wanze flies backwards onto the floor.

"SASASA! MY FACE! NOOOOOOOOO! YOU RUINED FACE!" Wanze gets back up to reveal his face. His eyes are no longer bulged out, and what's more is his facial appearance totally changed. He looks now extremely handsome, looking as good as Marth, Roy, Pit, etc. If you are a girl, then you'll surely fall for him. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY FACE! I SPENT SO LONG MAKING MY EYES BULGE OUT!"

"So that's your true form. You look better this way," says Yoshi.

"IT'S NOT! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING! I SHALL KILL YOU!" Wanze pulls out a really big knife that is dripping with acid. "I'll kill you with this Poison Knife! Prepare to die!"

"Hey! Vegetable knives aren't for killing! Put them back!"

"DIE!" Wanze charges forward and swings the sword vertically downwards, but Yoshi steps aside to avoid it.

"Dino Headbutt!" Yoshi then swings his head forward and hits Wanze in the stomach really hard.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!

"SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" screams Wanze as he coughs out blood and flies backwards, crashing through the door and flying into the other room.

CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

The 4 CP9 in that room look at the fallen Wanze, and then turn around to see Yoshi standing at the doorway. "Um… Yoshi?" says Yoshi.

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Back on the deck…

Nero kicks Snake hard in the chest and sends him flying backwards and off the deck! "Oh no!" gasps Snake. "Grapple Arms!" Then pair of grappling hooks shoot out from behind his vest and grabs onto the side of the deck.

"You sure got several tricks up your vests, eh?" asks Nero. "Need a hand?"

"No thanks!" Snake suddenly back flips up onto the deck and the hooks on the end of the grappling hook shoots off and hits Nero in the arm and the force pushes him backwards and pins him onto the wall!

"What!

"You're stuck now, my friend!" Snake then takes out a bazooka out of nowhere and aims it at him. "You sure put up quite a fight, but it's all over for you now!"

"NOOO! THAT'S GOING TO HURT! HELP!"

Snake pulls the trigger and shoots out a bullet shell. The shell hits Nero and explodes.

KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The explosion sends Nero crashing through the wall behind him and he lands into the room that the CP9 members, a fallen Wanze, and Yoshi are. Snake then steps into the room through the hole. "Whoa! I made it here?" he asks.

"It suddenly became so noisy in here," says Califa.

"The men aren't doing their jobs properly," says Lucci. "So useless of them..."

"Nero is defeated too," says Kaku.

"And he calls himself a CP9? He's such a disgrace to us!"

"So cruel… Looking down on their comrade!" says Yoshi angrily.

"They got a sick sense of justice with them," says Snake.

Lucci turns to the two and says, "I know what you are here for, but you will not get what you want. Samus Aran is a criminal that is being chased by the government for 8 years. Now that we finally caught her, you shall not take her back again, for the world will be in danger if that happens."

"What danger does she possess?" asks Yoshi. "She's a good girl!"

"Then you do not know the darkness that this woman possesses. She was one of the many demons aboard the Cosmo Space Lab that wanted to take over the world. If we allow her to go free, then the world will be destroyed. As the enforcers of justice, we cannot allow that to happen."

"You look eviler than I thought…"

"Whatever I say, you will not understand. You do not understand the great sin that this woman carries. If she stays with you any longer, she will only be a burden. We are helping you by taking her away; shouldn't you be glad about this?"

"Yeah right… We'll gonna take her back no matter what!"

Then the door on the other side of the room opens, and Samus, Wario, and Pit steps out. Behind them you can see that same government official, but he is beaten up and lying on the floor. "Hey guys! We found her!" says Wario.

"Good! Let's get out of here fast!" says Yoshi.

"I know where parachutes are, and we can escape using those!" says Snake.

"You guys are not going anywhere. Blueno!" Lucci commands Blueno to stop them.

Blueno then gets in front of Wario, Samus, and Pit and says, "Nobody passes here."

"Out of the way!" Wario throws a punch at Blueno, but Blueno uses Tekkai and is immune to the hit. "Uh? It did nothing?"

"Watch out!" says Snake. "They have some strange body hardening moves!"

"In that case…" Wario takes several steps back, and then lowers his head and charges forward very fast. "HEAD CHARGE!" He hits Blueno really hard, so hard that Blueno grunts in pain and takes a step back.

"Ugh!" he grunts.

"Incredible!" says Kaku. "His is able to perform a headbutt so powerful that it nearly broke through Tekkai!" Kaku then jumps in front of Wario and hits him in the face using Rankyaku.

"WAAA!" screams Wario as he got cut in the face.

"Mr. Wario!" gasps Pit. Suddenly, Samus grabs Pit by the neck and hurls him forward. "Ah!"

"Samus! What are you doing?" asks Yoshi, surprised by what she did.

"I told you I'm not going back with you!" shouts Samus angrily. "How many times must I say this to get through your thick skull? I don't need you to rescue me!"

"Well said, Samus!" says Lucci.

"What's the meaning of this, you bitch?" asks Wario. "We spent so hard trying to get here, and you reject us?"

"I have never asked for your help!" says Samus. "You guys are just wasting your efforts!"

"This is troublesome…" says Snake. "In that case…" He takes out a smoke bomb and sets if off, and the whole room fills with smoke. "Now get Samus and run out of here!"

"Dang! They dare pull off something like this!" says Kaku. Then the whole room is so filled with smoke that the CP9 cannot see anything.

Using this chance, Pit and Wario grabs Samus and quickly make a run for it along with Yoshi and Snake. "Yoshi! Let's get out of here!" cries Yoshi.

"You're not escaping!" Califa swings her thorn whip forward and it wraps around Snake!

"Snake!" gasp the Smashers.

"Don't worry about me!" says Snake. "You guys go first! I can handle everything myself!"

"But Mr. Snake!" says Pit.

"Don't worry about him! Let's just save ourselves!" says Wario, and then they quickly run off, dragging along Samus.

"Ha… I will not allow any of you to get pass me!" says Snake. "By the way, where is Blueno?"

"He went after them already," says Lucci. "Using the power of his Doa Doa Fruit, he can create air doors that lead to anywhere. He is the master of sneaking into places because of this."

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Meanwhile, at the deck…

"How do we get out of here?" asks Wario.

"Snake said he prepared parachutes around here," says Yoshi.

Suddenly, a door magically appears in front of them, and Blueno pops out from it!

"Wa! How did you do that?"

"This is my Devil Fruit power," explains Blueno, and then he hits Yoshi with Rankyaku and knocks him to the floor.

"YOSHI!"

"Why you!" Wario charges forward to get him, but Blueno quickly hits him in the body with Shigan and pierces through his flesh. "WAAAAAAAAAA!"

"You cannot defeat me. Now surrender Samus Aran to us. Do not force me to kill you, because it is part of our promise to Samus that we should let you go safely."

"We will never let you do it!" says Pit, but then Samus punches him in the head and knocks him out. "Yeouch!"

"Just let me go quietly," says Samus meanly.

"Why must you do this, Samus?" asks Yoshi.

"Samus Aran has suffered a terrible past," says Blueno. "The Annihilation Call has taken everything from her. Even I pity about her tragic life. In order for her to end her suffering, she has no choice but to accept her fate now."

"Good-bye," Samus says to her comrades. "We will not be meeting each other again. I wish you a safe trip."

"Before that, you guys must leave here at once," says Blueno, and then he forcefully put the parachute bags onto the three of them and then throws them off the Sky Liner. "Farewell."

"SAMUS!" shout Wario and Yoshi.

"I won't let you take her!" says Pit as he flies back, but Blueno hits him with Shigan and sends him falling back down. "YA!" But Wario quickly catches him.

"Curse you villains!" says Wario. They have no choice but to watch the Sky Liner flying farther and farther into the distance.

"Now what…?" asks Yoshi.

"How would I know?"

-

Samus and Snake are locked inside a cabin room. "What? Otacon is still alive?" asks Snake in surprise.

"Yes, they told me that their friend called them and told them everything, and saying that Otacon is still alive," says Samus.

"Phew… For a moment, I thought I lost someone to argue with. Anyway, it's good to know that he is safe. By the way, what's the problem with you rejecting their help?"

"The longer I stay with them, they more trouble I will bring them. I have been rejected by humanity several times in the past, and I'm afraid it will happen again, so I want to leave them in peace before that happens. It seems as if living in this world is a great sin for me…"

"I don't know what kind of trouble you have been through in the past, but… existence IS NOT a sin!"

Then the speaker voice speaks out loud, "We will be reaching Alias Lobby in 10 minutes."

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Back onboard the Halberd; the radar is making signals again. "Something is on the radar," says Pix. "It's approximately 10 meters below our level and about 100 meters away from us."

"What can it be?" wonders Meta-Knight.

Captain Falcon grabs a binocular and looks out the front window. "I see something there! It looks like…"

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Pit is desperately trying to fly upwards with Wario and Yoshi grabbing onto his legs. "Can't you fly any higher than this?" asks Wario.

"It's too heavy!" says Pit. "I'm trying my best already!"

"Can't blame you for this…" says Yoshi. "You should lose some weight, Wario."

"You eat more than me, so you should be the one cutting off on some weight!" protests Wario.

"But you weigh more than me!"

"How do you know if you have never seen my weight to begin with?"

"You don't know my weight yet and you are skipping the conclusions!"

"Please don't argue, misters!" says Pit. "I don't think I can hold on any longer!"

"Hey! There's something approaching us from behind!" says Wario.

The Halberd appears in sight from behind them. "It's Wario, Yoshi, and Pit!" exclaims CF.

"Really?" ask Pikachu and Pichu excitedly.

"Very well; get ready to pull them in!" says Meta-Knight.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Yoshi and Snake have prevailed over their enemies, but they failed to rescue Samus in the end. Plus, the Sky Liner will be reaching Alias Lobby soon. Can the Smashers catch up in time? And what exactly happened in Samus's past that she is called a devil?

And yes, Wanze's true form is a very handsome man,atrue bishounen-type face. Bishounen means beautiful and handsome-looking boy if you don't know Japanese.

Coming up next: Arrive at Alias Lobby, the Judicial Island!