Chapter 24: Use the Holy Weapon to the Fullest! Everyone to the Rooftop!
RING RING RING
"Hello? Chief Spandam?" answers the middle head of Baskerville, replying to the phone.
"Is it really true that the villains have reached the courthouse?" asks Spandam.
"Things are as bad as you hear!"
"Judge! The villains have breached into the courthouse!" cries a soldier.
"Yes! I can see it!"
"Listen! If you let the drawbridge down, then I'm going to have all three of your heads cut off!" says Spandam.
The Smashers and the others come into the courthouse. "Look at that! A 3-headed man!" exclaims a Stray Fox guy.
"I've only heard of the 3-headed dog Cerberus!" says Pit.
"Forget about that," says CF. "Where do we go from here?"
"You villains have come into the holiest place of Alias Lobby, and perhaps in the world!" says Baskerville.
"We are to aim for going to the roof and help Mario, right?" says Marth. "So we should be going up the stairs."
"Right! Let's do it!" says CF.
"Listen to me when I'm speaking!" shouts Baskerville.
Several soldiers appear and charge at them. "Don't let them true!"
"Out of the way!" Marth charges forward with his sword swinging around. "Wild Mustang Stampede!" And he charged down all the soldiers. "Okay, let's go!"
"Let's do it!" CF and the Smashers quickly run for the nearest staircase.
"How dare you invade into this place and not listen to what I am saying!" says Baskville angrily.
"You guys guard the door!" CF shouts to the ones at the door.
"You can count on us!" replies Pork.
"That's it! You're not listening to me at all!" Baskerville pulls out his sword and jumps at the Smashers.
"Watch out!" shouts Yoshi, and they avoid the incoming attack.
"I'll handle this guy!" says Marth. "You guys go ahead first!"
Suddenly, Bluto and some other guys come running up the stairs and charge at Baskerville, pushing him off the staircase and crashing to the lower floor.
CRASH!
"Let us handle him! You go help your friend!" says Bluto.
"Fine then… Let's go!" says CF, and the Smashers quickly run off.
"Halt! In the name of the law!" shouts Baskerville.
"You better tell us if our boss is all right or not, or you're dead!" says Bluto.
Some of the soldiers are outside the courthouse and trying to get inside. "Go in and get those villains quick!" shouts a soldier.
"But it's impossible! There's this fat guy pushing us out!"
"Hits of the Thousand Pork!" shouts Pork as he thrusts his pincers against the air rapidly, pushing away anyone who comes near him.
"We must not let any of them through!" says a SF guy while firing bazooka shots out there.
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In the towers…
Punk is running up the staircase with the SF guys and fighting the soldiers that they come across. "We must get to the switch fast!" says Punk.
In the other tower, Pix is doing the same thing with the remaining SF guys.
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Back on top of the courthouse roof…
Blueno watches the hole in front of him, and Mario crawls out of it. "Phew… My face finally stopped spinning," says Mario.
"Of course. An open door always closes," says Blueno. "And good job avoiding my Rankyaku."
"Well, that-a wuz nothing."
"Shigan!" Blueno charges forward and strikes with his finger, but Mario rolled aside just in time.
"Geppou!" Blueno hops into the air and moves around there very fast. "Tekkai Smash!" He drops to hit Mario, but ends up hitting the floor instead and debris are sent flying everywhere.
"Mamamia! Eet's so hard trying to keep up-a with him!" says Mario.
"Tekkai Smash!" Blueno jumps at Mario again and tries to smash him, but Mario keeps on jumping backwards, and Blueno keeps on going after him using the same move again and again, and leaving behind several craters on the floor.
Mario quickly shot out a fireball at Blueno, but Blueno runs to the side to dodge it, and uses Rankyaku, which Mario jumped to avoid it. From the air, Mario hurls himself at Blueno and tries to land a kick on him, but Blueno zips out of the way again. After Mario landed, he runs after Blueno and throws several punches and kicks at him, but Blueno uses Kamie to move his body around like paper and successfully avoided them all.
While Mario is trying to hit him with all these moves, Blueno hits him with Shigan, and though Mario did avoid it, he got a scratch on his cheek. Blueno then proceeds to punch and kick Mario and sends him flying to the other side. He rushes at Mario very fast and throws a punch forward. Mario quickly jumped up to avoid it and punch destroyed the structure behind him instead.
Mario lands behind Blueno and performs a leg sweep, but the attack misses like always. Blueno hops into the air and throws several Rankyaku at Mario. Mario 'dances' around to avoid the incoming attacks, and jumps up to the same level as Blueno and throws a kick forward that Blueno stopped with his arms, and then he grabs Mario and throws him onto the floor. Blueno then falls towards Mario to stomp him, but Mario rolled away again to avoid it. The stomp created another crater on the floor, and Mario was instead battered by the debris that is sent out from the crater.
"Ow!"
"Rankyaku!" Blueno kicks Mario hard and sends him rolling across the floor.
"Doh! He's too hard-a!" says Mario. "But for da sake of Samus, I must-a win!" He pulls out his Fire Rod and starts beating it against Blueno, who uses his arms to block it.
"So that's the Holy Weapon he's using!" thought Blueno. He then attacks with Rankyaku, but the instant he lifts up his leg, Mario whacks his leg with the rod and sends the wind blade flying off course. "So you managed to alter the course of my Rankyaku."
Mario hops back several steps and says, "If I keep-a on using theez same old-a techniques, I won't-a go anywhere."
"So what are you going to do?"
"So that is why I studied my Holy Weapon carefully, and I learned a lot about-a eet." Mario holds the Fire Rod in the middle section and points the front end at Blueno. "And I found-a something interesting." At this, the Fire Rod begins to emit heat and steam.
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Inside the upper floors of the courthouse…
"Hmmm… Everyone got separated…" says CF. "Can't they ever learn to follow the leader for once? Oh well, I just have to head up. Gotta find the stairs."
Somewhere else…
Pikachu, Pichu, and Yoshi are confronted by large guys in spiked armor and wielding ball & weapons. "Guilty!" say those guys.
"Who are these people?" asks Pichu.
"They're the same guys from before!" says Yoshi.
"We'll have to take on them if we want to get pass here!" says Pikachu.
Somewhere else again…
"Crescent Moon Slash!" Marth swings his sword in a horizontal crescent slash and took out several soldiers in his way.
"UUUUUUUWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"Man, these people are everywhere! And where are my friends anyway?"
"I'm sure they will be all right, Mr. Marth," says Pit.
Elsewhere in the courthouse again…
Wario opens a door and looks inside. "Nope… This is just the storage room. Where on earth are the stairs that lead to the rooftop? Mario needs my help, and I need to go and prove to him how weak he is without my help!" He turns to run again, but runs into a whole bunch of soldiers instead.
"There he is! After him!"
"Argh! Just die, would you guys? Head Charge!" Wario lowers his head and runs through the crowd of soldiers.
BANG!
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
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Down in the first floor…
Bluto and the SF guys are fighting Baskerville. "I didn't know that this place hold trials," says Bluto as he clashes his weapon, an iron club, with Baskerville's sword. "I always thought that criminals here are just proclaimed guilty without a chance to defend themselves."
"That's not true at all!" says Baskerville. "We do hold trials here, and it is the execution jurors that hold the trials."
"You mean those big chained ball-wielding guys?"
"Yes, and they were formerly criminals who are forced to work for the government. Because they want to drag people down to the same fate as them, they proclaimed every single person here guilty. So therefore, never has there been a criminal here who has been proclaimed not free of guilt yet!"
"It makes no difference from what I heard!"
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On the rooftop…
"What's going on? Why is your Holy Weapon emitting steam? Is it trying to mimic a steam engine?" ask Blueno.
"Now I'm going to beat-a you for sure!" says Mario.
"Listen, if you're gonna just snipe me from there, you're just giving me time to escape."
"Oh yeah? Try if you like-a."
"Oh well… Do your worst… Soru!"
"Fire Gun!"
The Fire Rod shoots forward at a tremendous speed and hits Blueno just as he is about to run off using Soru, and he is sent flying backwards.
BANG!
"GAAAAAAAAAA! What was that!" gasps Blueno. "That hit was so fast that I couldn't see it at all!"
"Fire Gun!" Mario extends the rod forward at such a high speed again and pelts Blueno hard.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Mario jumps into the air and jabs super fast with his Fire Rod. "Fire Machine Gun!" The rod strikes Blueno on the body rapidly.
BANG! JAB! SMACK! POW! WHACK!
"GUUUUUWAAAAAAA! UGH! YAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"Fire Missile!" Mario extends the rod forward really fast and hits Blueno in the back, crushing him against the floor.
CRAAAAAAAAASH!
"EEEEEEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
Mario lands next to him and thrusts the rod forward again. "Fire Shotgun!"
BAAAAAANG!
The hit sends Blueno rolling along the floor and he hits a stone monument.
CRAAASH!
Blueno gets up and coughs out blood, and says, "What did you do!"
"The nature of da Fire Rod is fire," explains Mario. "I found out that-a eet also reacts to da environment around-a eet. The hotter da environment eez, da stronger it'll get-a. Therefore, I use da Fire Flower Glove that I am wearing to transfer da heat into da rod, thus making it very strong and move very fast."
"You sure have great knowledge of those weapons! But still, you cannot beat a Rokushiki user like me!"
"We'll see about-a that!" says Mario. The back end of the rod extends far away, and after stretching for a long distance, it snaps back very fast.
"If I cannot avoid it, then I'll take the attack with my strongest Tekkai!" says Blueno. "Tekkai Steel!"
"Fire Bazooka!" shouts Mario.
When the back end snaps back to its original length, the front end shot forward instead. It hits Blueno in the body and creates an explosion that made Blueno slide backwards very far.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!
Blueno gets back onto his feet and smirks. "Boy! You're tough!" says Mario. "But-a I still can fight-a you! Get-a ready!"
Suddenly, Blueno drops onto the floor and passes out.
"Um… Well, that-a done eet… I wuz getting tired anyway. He sure wasted a lotsa time on me. Now what-a do I do from here?"
At this moment, a door on the floor opens and CF comes out. "Hey Mario! I found you at last!" he says.
"Falcon! You're here!" says Mario.
CF looks at the fallen Blueno and says, "Whoa! You beat that bullhorn CP9 by yourself already?"
"Yep, I did!"
"Good! That'll make things easier!"
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In the Judicial Tower…
"Quick! We're taking both Samus and John Doe to the take off pad!" says Spandam. "We're heading for the government headquarters at once!"
"Yes sir!" say the soldiers
"Better get things done fast, or else those villains will get what they want! They must not succeed!"
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CF stands on the edge of the courthouse rooftop, and faces the Judicial Tower. He takes a deep breath, and yells out at the top of his voice, "SAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUS!"
The yell is so loud that it reached into the tower and into Spandam's ear. "Uh? What was that?" he asks. "Can it be the Smashers?"
"Them?" says Samus.
"At last!" says Snake.
"WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ARE HEEEEEEEEEEERE TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RESCUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!" continues yelling CF.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Blueno is defeated! That makes only 7 CP9 members left. Let's hope that the Smashers are able to rescue their friend!
Chapter 25: Smashers Gather Together! We Will Rescue Our Friend No Matter What!