Chapter 29: Battle of Alias Lobby! Smashers vs. CP9!

Marth is in the same room with Kaku.

"You have a key, right?" asks Marth. "Give it to me now so you won't suffer any pain."

"That's unlike of you," says Kaku. "I didn't see your true power yet back in the weapon center. I really want to see more of what you can do."

"I'm much stronger than before now, so you better watch out!"

"I can feel your aura raging like a beast. You sure are ready for me this time." Kaku then takes out two swords.

"Two-sword style, huh?"

Kaku then jumps up and swings both his legs against the air, shooting out twin wind blades. Marth quickly jumps out of the way to avoid it.

"Sorry, but it is 4-sword style," says Kaku.

"So you consider that wind blade attack from your legs an extra pair of swords too?" asks Marth. "Makes no difference. Let's fight!'

Marth and Kaku charge at each other and clash swords violently. Marth swings one sword at Kaku, who ducks down to avoid it. Marth then swipes low, but Kaku avoids it by back flipping away. Marth runs after him and tries to hit him with his double swords, but Kaku uses Kamie to easily avoid them.

Kaku then uses Soru to get behind Marth to perform a surprise attack, but Marth turned around in time to block the blow. Marth quickly backs off from Kaku and delivers a powerful downward slash at him, but Kaku blocks it with both his swords.

After that, Kaku jumps up into the air and swings his swords against the air hard. "Rankyaku White Thunder!" He shot out a large wind blade in the form of a thunderbolt. Marth swings his swords against the thunderbolt very hard and cancels it out.

Kaku lands behind Marth and then crosses his swords in an x formation, and then dashes at Marth very fast. Marth holds up both his swords in a shield-like posture and blocks the attack, but the force of the blow pushes him back several steps.

As Kaku continues to push him, Marth quickly pulls off a spinning attack that sends Kaku into the air, but he is unharmed and lands on his feet. "Heh, this is fun!" says Kaku.

"I'm not playing games with you!" says Marth. "You better take me seriously!"

"If you want to, then I will!" Kaku then jumps into the air and kicks against the air several times and violently. "Rankyaku Chaos!" And he shot down thousands of wind blades at Marth.

Marth holds up both his swords and tries his best to block them. "So many wind blades! And such force they have! Ugh!" Marth got cut a few times, but most of the wind blades strike the floor instead and left behind several cracks.

Kaku lands back down and say to him, "Haha! You're good at surviving my attacks!"

"Enough of this and take on me seriously!" shouts Marth.

"Okay, then I'll show you my powers!" says Kaku, and then he begins to transform.

"What the!"

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Pit walks into the well decorated room and gazes around. "Wow! This place is so well designed that I feel like I'm in an outdoor garden!" Then he turns to the key that is in front of the sleeping Jabura. "I will just take the key from him and sneak off, so I can rescue Ms. Aran fast!" He quietly tiptoes towards the key, careful not wake up Jabura.

Suddenly, a chicken shows up from nowhere and it grabs Pit's attention.

"Oh no! They say that chickens are rather noisy animals!" thought Pit. "If it makes any noise, then this CP9 will wake up and attack me!" Pit and the chicken stare at each other in silence. "Please don't make any noise! Please don't!"

The chicken stares at Pit for a while, and then walks off.

"Phew… It didn't make any noise…"

But the chicken flies onto Jabura's head and sits on there, and this causes him to wake up. "Huh?"

"Nooo! Why msut you sit on his head!" cries Pit.

Jabura gets up and the chicken runs off. "Yawn… What a sleep…" The instant he woke up, he delivers a slap into Pit's face and sends him flying across the room.

BANG!

"Ugh! What a powerful hit!" says Pit.

"Sorry for that sudden attack just now!" says Jabura. "You're the one who shot down the flag, right? You sure got a good aim! I'm a very nice person, so I won't let you suffer. Instead, I will just slit your throat and you will die instantly and without pain. I'm such a nice guy, right?" Then Jabura begins to grow in size and transform.

"What the! He turned into a wolf!"

Jabura has transformed into a large wolf man! "I ate the Inu Inu Fruit: Model Wolf!"

Note: Inu is Japanese for Dog.

However, Pit grabs his bow and gets up to confront him bravely. "I must get the key from you, so I will not run!"

"You want to fight back? You don't look like the kind to fight someone like me!"

"I am doing this to rescue Ms. Aran! I will fight you no matter what!"

Suddenly, they hear a cracking sound and they also see the ceiling cracking. "What's happening?" wonders Pit.

Then the entire ceiling bursts open and Marth and a giraffe comes falling down! "What the! A giraffe!" gasps Pit.

"Oh no! I just wanted to transform into half-beast form, but I went all the way into full beast form!" says the giraffe.

"Hahaha! Your power is so hilarious, Kaku!" laughs Jabura.

"What? A wolf? Why is this place filled with animals!" says Marth.

After a short while of crashing and tumbling…

"Haha! The Ushi Ushi Fruit: Model Giraffe is such a funny power!" says Jabura. "I pity you for getting stuck with that odd power forever!"

Note: Ushi is Japanese for Cow. Cows and giraffes come from the same suborder, Ruminantia. So in a way, these two animals are related.

"Shut up!" says Kaku the giraffe. "I like giraffes! They are my favorite animals!"

Marth watches from the side and thought to himself, "That pigeon guy is a leopard, and now there is a giraffe and wolf here… What's with all of them having Zoan type Devil Fruits…?"

Pit is hiding behind a couple of debris. "Mr. Marth is here… It should be easier fighting alongside him." Then Pit notices a couple of handcuffs hanged on the wall, and an idea comes to him.

"Hey you! I'm going to cut off that neck of yours right now!" Marth says to Kaku. "That will be your disadvantage!"

"You think so? You haven't seen anything of my powers yet!" says Kaku, and then he transforms again. This time he becomes a man-giraffe hybrid, and the funniest feature about him is his neck and nose is square-shaped! "This is my half-beast form!"

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" laughs Jabura. "That's even funnier!"

"Will you shut up already?" says Kaku. "I like giraffes! What's wrong with that?"

Suddenly, a handcuff flies to Marth's right leg and cuffs it. "Hey! What's with this?"

"I'm so sorry, Mr. Marth!" says Pit. "I wanted to cuff the two of them together so they will be at a disadvantage!"

"Then why did you cuff one of my legs?"

"Because that giraffe face is too funny! I couldn't concentrate my aim!"

Hearing this made Kaku angry. "I have enough! Rankyaku Wide Sunder!" He then performs a break dance of sorts and shot out a large ring-shaped wind blade all around him. Seeing this, Jabura quickly escapes to safety.

"Watch out!" Marth jumps towards Pit and pushes him onto the floor to avoid the deadly attack.

SLASH!

"Phew… It's gone…"

Pit gets up and looks around. "Nothing's damaged."

"Look carefully at the top."

Pit looks up and sees that the entire building is slit in half! "Whoa! He cut the whole tower in half! It even slid to the side and I can see a bit of the sky too!"

"That sure was a powerful attack…"

"Do not underestimate the destructive and terrifying powers of a giraffe!" says Kaku.

Jabura comes back into the room and says, "Letting your emotions get the best of you during battle will be your downfall!"

"I told you I like giraffes!"

"Whatever…"

"Now that you're done arguing, let's continue!" says Marth, but when he tries to walk, he finds he is having a hard time. He looks down at his leg and sees the most terrifying thing ever. His right leg is cuffed up together with Pit's left leg. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! WE'RE STUCK TOGETHER!"

"I'M SO SORRY, MR. MARTH!" cries Pit.

"How do we get this thing off! I can't walk or fight properly like this!"

"I don't know!"

"Looks like they're cuffed together," says Kaku.

"This is troublesome!" says Jabura. "I don't want to fight them like this!"

"Hey you guys!" Kaku tells the two. "What number is your handcuff? We can use our keys to unlock you if the number matches."

"Number 2!" replies Pit. "Please free us!"

Kaku and Jabura look at their keys, and shook their heads. "No… We don't have it."

"Um…"

"Well, then we'll see who kills them first!" says Jabura.

"Good idea," says Kaku.

"RUN!" screams Marth, and both he and Pit runs the best they can away from the two CP9 members. It's not easy running with legs cuffed together, I tell you, but they somehow managed to get away.

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"Whoa! This stair is slit!" says Pichu. "It must have something to do with that shockwave just now." He continues to run through the place, and then he sees Marth and Pit running across the hallway, and they are being chased by a giraffe and a wolf. Pichu runs after the two while shouting to them, "Hey guys!"

"Pichu! Go find number 2 key!" shouts Marth. "We're cuffed together!"

"Please help us, Mr. Pichu!" says Pit.

"Why?"

"Just go get it! You're depending on you!" says Marth, and he continues running off with Pit.

"So I have to get number 2 key…" says Pichu. "Got it!" And he runs off in a different direction.

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In another room…

"I shouldn't be drinking tea at the moment!" says Pikachu.

"But you ate the cookies and drank several cups already," says Califa.

"I was hungry just now, but now that I have eaten, I have the strength to fight you!"

"Why don't you play with me a little longer? You're so cute!"

"Don't think I'm weak just because I'm cute! I can take on you anytime!"

"And what a cute outfit you're wearing too!"

"This is my Holy Weapon, the Electric Harness! My electrical powers will greatly increase!"

"Is that so?" Califa charges at Pikachu very suddenly and kicks him across the room.

"PIKA!"

"You make no difference to me. Anyway, I feel so hot and dirty. I think I'll take a bath now."

-

Wario opens a door and looks inside. "Nobody here… And why am I opening the door of a refrigerator anyway?"

-

Yoshi is running across a hallway with Kumadori chasing after him. "Yoyoi! Begone, you vile being!" says Kumadori while swaying his staff around.

"This guy is a creep! His hair is moving around like octopus tentacles!" says Yoshi. He quickly stops in his track and turns around and hits Kumadori in the stomach suddenly.

BANG!

"YOI!" Kumadori flies back into the wall and passes out.

"That was easy!" thought Yoshi. He walks up to him and got out a key from the pocket. "Got it!"

Then Pichu comes running into this place and meets with Yoshi. "Yoshi! What number key is that?"

"Number 3. Why?"

"It's not… Never mind…" And Pichu runs off again.

"What's with him?"

"Yoyoi! You cannot defeat a great being that I am!" says Kumadori, who got back up.

"You again!" Yoshi jumps at him and headbutts him in the stomach again.

BANG!

"YOI!"

-

Captain Falcon is now outside the tower and standing at the edge of the island. He sees the third island across a chasm. "So that's the take-off island… How do I get over there?" He looks down the cliff and sees what looks like a metal pipe sticking out from the island he's on and connecting to the other island. "That must be a bridge to that place! I'll jump down from here and land there. He jumps down the cliff and hopes to land on the metal 'pipe', but he slips on the slippery surface and slides off. "WHOA!" And he falls towards the sea below! "HELP!"

Suddenly, a long rod shoots down and CF quickly grabs onto it, and he is pulled back up again.

"I saved you in time!" says Mario, who used the Fire Rod to rescue him just now.

"Thanks for the help, Mario…" says CF.

"You shouldn't go there. I found-a secret passage in da basement of da tower!"

"Really? Take me there!"

TO BE CONTINUED…

Can Pichu get the number 2 key in time and rescue Marth and Pit? Is Kumadori really that weak to get hit many times by Yoshi? And will Wario get to find someone to fight? Find out soon!

Coming up next chapter: Snake the Stealth vs. Fukuro the Silent!