Owen: Don't worry, he WILL be included in this story much later on, most likely when a couple characters are killed off. I don't want to give away too much info though because I plan on his appearance happening during a shocking part of the story.
Note: This chapter will have numerous dialogue references to Star Fox 64. Think you can find them all?
The 13 heroes were still flying through the ruined city, still destroying a few enemies here and there.
"How much longer till we get to the castle? I'm starting to get bored." Waluigi complained.
"Dude, you're SERIOUSLY bored right now? When we're all flying these awesome arwings and shooting down a bunch of enemies?" Birdo questioned.
"Ugh, don't worry. You guys should be at the castle in a few minutes. In fact, you should be able to see it from where you are. Can you?" Kylie asked.
"I think I see it. It sure is tall...and ugly! Tatanga must be taking notes from Bowser." Peach said.
"Yeah, we all see it Kylie. But I have a question though, where do we land once we arrive there? Do we just stop on the ground and walk into there, or stop somewhere on top of the castle...?" Daisy asked.
"It's simple, you don't. All you all really need to do is destroy the castle, defeat any enemies that are in the way, and free the prisoners. Oh, and of course, defeat Tatanga as well!" Arfur explained.
"YAY! I LOVE DESTROYING STUFF!" Fire Bro cheered and launched out another bomb and it launched to the Cheese factory and destroyed it.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! THE CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?" Toad cried.
"Uhh, are you okay there Toad?" Yoshi asked.
"He recently got addicted to cheese. Like, for the past week all he's been eating is cheese...one time, when we had dinner, he put a bunch of cheese into a bowl, microwaved it, and drank the melted cheese down!" Toadette exclaimed.
"EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Everyone else shrieked.
"What? It's not my fault cheese is so good. I even made up a song about it. Do you guys wanna hear it?" Toad asked.
"Hell no! Let's just stop talking about this dumb topic and move on to another topic that's actually interesting like...bunnies!" Dixie said.
"Wait a second, I, like, see something up, like, ahead!" Goombella said.
Everyone squinted ahead of them and saw a large batch of blue enemy ships that were a bit bigger than others they've encountered.
"Uh oh. These guys look tough. I'm going to use the bomb!" Dixie said and pressed the green button, launching out her bomb. All of the blue ships quickly moved out of the way from the bomb, and it exploded, hurting none of them.
"Oh my, they are certainly fast. I have an idea everyone, let's all release our bombs at the same time so they won't be able to avoid it. Understand?" Rosalina said.
"Got it!" Everyone else replied. They all pressed each of their green buttons at almost the exact time and all the bombs launched out. Immediately, like before, all of the blue ships moved high up in the air at a very fast speed and all of the bombs exploded, still hurting no one.
"Ugh you have got to be kidding me! How are they able to move so fast!? And where the hell did they go!?" Dixie yelled.
Suddenly, a bunch of laser shots hit everyone from above. The heroes screamed as they felt the shots hit their arwing, causing it to rumble a little.
"CRAP THEY'RE COMING FROM ABOVE! EVERYONE, WE HAVE TO ATTACK!" DK commanded and flew up in the air to where the blue ships were and everyone followed.
The heroes split up and began firing at the blue ships like crazy, while they fired back.
"We are, like, sooooo outnumbered! There's no way we are, like, gonna get through this!" Goombella cried.
"Just keep shooting at them! We can do this you guys!" Daisy said and managed to shoot a blue ship down.
"THIS IS FOR DESTROYING THE MALL YOU BASTARDS!" Peach screamed and locked on to an enemy, and shot them down with ease.
"MWAHAHAHAHAHA! I HAVE FURY!" Fire Bro crazily laughed as he was shooting his bombs out everywhere he could until he ran out of them.
One of the bombs exploded and managed to destroy 10 blue ships, while another bomb hit Birdo, costing her 25 HP.
"HEY, WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA!?" Birdo raged, trying to get her arwing under control.
Yoshi chased a blue ship, continuously firing at it until one of his lasers finally hit it. "I GOT ONE!"
"Congratulations! You must feel so proud of yourself!" Waluigi said in obvious sarcasm.
"AHHHHHHHHH! SOMEONE HELP ME! I'M BEING CHASED BY LIKE 10 BILLION SHIPS AND THEY ALL KEEP SHOOTING AT ME!" Luigi cried, even though the actual number of ships that were chasing him was just 7, not 10 billion. He cried even more as he saw his HP go down to 70.
"Luigi, do a barrel roll! That will deflect the shots!" Kylie informed.
Luigi remembered the procedure for the barrel roll. He did that and almost fell out of his seat by how fast the arwing spun around.
"Woah...that was awesome! It was like being on a rollercoaster! I wanna do that again!" Luigi cheered and began barrel rolling numerous times.
"Uhh, Luigi? Don't barrel roll too much otherwise your stomach will get sick..." Arfur warned.
Luigi stopped and held his stomach. "Too...late..." He then puked on the side of his seat. Everyone heard the gross puking noises and made disgusted faces at it.
"ANYWAYS! Just keep on shooting them, guys. I think we're halfway there." Daisy said.
"Take care of the guy behind me, Daisy!" Peach screamed as she was being chased by a ship that kept shooting at her non-stop.
"Peach, try a somersault." Kylie said.
Peach (surprisingly) remembered the procedure for the somersault, so she put it in and before Peach knew it, she flew up, went backwards and returned to normal.
"Wow! That was so fun! It was like eating a jalapeno pepper while being chased by monkeys!" The princess cheered.
"I'm not even going to ask on how that's suppose to make sense." DK said and facepalmed himself.
"Toadette, you've got an enemy on your tail!" Yoshi said.
"What? Since when did I have a tail?" Toadette asked.
Birdo rolled her eyes. "He means there's an enemy right behind you! Use the brakes!"
Toadette did so and the enemy flew past her by accident. "Thanks Birdo! I thought he had me."
More and more enemy ships were being shot down and it was getting closer to the end.
"Time for a little payback!" Luigi locked on to a ship and blasted it, blowing it away completely, also knocking into another ship and destroying that one as well. "YES! DOUBLE KILL!"
"Nice job, Luigi! Now let me get this guy..." Daisy said and started speeding up so she can shoot the enemy with perfect aim. But suddenly, the ship was shot down by someone else.
"Hey go find your own target, Waluigi!" Daisy scowled.
Waluigi laughed at her. "It ain't my fault, you were taking too long to make a hit!"
Meanwhile, Toad was shooting his lasers everywhere like no tomorrow. "HOW DO YOU LIKE SOME OF THIS, HUH!? YOU WILL NEVER DEFEAT ME FOR MY ALTER-EGO IS CAPTAIN SYRUP!"
One of his lasers hit Dixie's arwing. "Hey Einstein, I'm on your side!"
"Almost there..." DK said as he shot down two more ships. After that, he flew back to where everyone else was and noticed all of the enemy ships were gone.
"YES! WE DID IT! WE DESTROYED THEM ALL!" Peach cheered.
"I thought I was a goner. I saw my life flash before my eyes!" Yoshi over-dramatically preached.
"Oh just shut up, Yoshi. You knew you were gonna be okay." Waluigi scowled and rolled his eyes.
"Ohmigosh, that was, like, super scary but I totally, like, enjoyed it! It was, like, so much fun!" Goombella also cheered.
"Did you guys know that my great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather invented enemies? Yeah, before then, people actually dealt with and pretended to be nice to each other!" Fire Bro obviously lied.
"Thank you Fire Bro for that stupidly false information you have provided us." Daisy groaned.
"Nice job you guys! We knew you could do it. Now keep on going to the castle. You should arrive there in 2 minutes." Arfur informed.
Tatanga saw everything happen from his throne room window. He was a little angry, but the defeat of his enemy ships was not that surprising since he knew that these guys would be major trouble.
"Alright then. They wanna play? Then let the real games begin." Tatanga threatened as he got out Grodus' scepter and aimed it at a large building not too far away from his castle.
Tatanga concentrated very hard. Within a minute, he managed to lift up the building magically. He gave a smirk once this happened. He then waved the scepter around a few times and the building suddenly broke apart into a bunch of large pieces. Tatanga swung the scepter forward and all the pieces flew into the direction of the arwings.
"Let's see how they can avoid this one..."
"Wait a second, what is that up ahead?" Dixie asked as she noticed tons of large flying objects heading toward them.
"I'm not sure but we better get out of the way before one of us gets really hurt!" Rosalina said.
"Wait, what's going on you guys?" Kylie asked.
"There's these bunch of what looks like building parts coming right for us! I don't even know how that's possible! Does this mean the law of gravity theory is false?" Yoshi asked.
"Um, okay then, all you guys need to do is either shoot the parts to get them out of the way or you can just avoid them. There's really no need to panic right here." Kylie said.
"There's so many of them though! AHHHHHH! I ALMOST GOT HIT BY ONE!" Toadette screamed.
"Hold on guys, I'm gonna use the bomb to get rid of these things!" Waluigi said and pressed the green button which sent out another bomb and it exploded right in the center of the mess. However, all it did was make the objects fly faster out due to the explosion velocity.
"OH NO! IT DIDN'T WORK! HELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Peach screamed as she flew into a building part which cracked her windows and scraped against the top part of the arwing.
"Peach you idiot all you need to do is- AGH!" Daisy screamed as well, not paying attention to her surroundings as she also flew into a building part.
"Like, ohmigosh! I'm, like, surrounded by all these things! I'm, like, gonna crash!" Goombella cried.
"Goombella, like I said before try hitting them with your lasers, or use the boost to get through!" Kylie said.
"Oh...DUH! I am, like, soooooo stupid sometimes!" Goombella laughed and started blasting the large objects.
Meanwhile, Waluigi was flying all over the place, doing his best to avoid every building part that he could.
"You know, I'd really like to know how the hell this is all possible. I'm assuming Tatanga is now a magic demonic wizard and can make anything happen in the world, including sending objects flying into the air as if they were in outer space!" He complained.
"Based on your guys' descriptions, I find it very odd also. It seems Tatanga is A LOT more powerful than we had ever thought." Arfur replied.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH! I'M GONNA DIE! I KEEP GETTING HIT BY THESE THINGS! THIS IS BEYOND UNFAIR!" Luigi cried and screamed while he kept crashing into the building parts.
"Can someone go over there and help him!? Jesus, it's like hearing a 2 year old crying over his cookie being eaten by his pet Poochie!" Dixie complained.
"Be quiet Dixie. Luigi, where are you? I'm coming to help." Daisy asked.
"I don't know where I am! I don't know what we're doing! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO I AM!" Luigi cried again.
Birdo groaned. "For pete's sake Luigi, just haul your ass out of there! We don't have time for this!"
"FINE! I'M GOING! BUT I'M AT 30 HP RIGHT NOW SO DON'T BLAME ME IF I CRASH AND BURN!" Luigi cried yet again and got himself out of there.
Everyone else was trying to get out of the area as fast as possible, avoiding and sometimes shooting every single object that was in front of him. Some of them were starting to panic even more mainly because they were going pretty fast and had to maneuver around each large object every few seconds which definitely got them scared.
"Never give up! Trust your instincts!" Rosalina said in encouragement.
"What if I don't like to trust my instincts?" Yoshi asked.
"JUST SHUT UP AND GOOOOOO!" Waluigi yelled, boosting his arwing as many times as he could.
Even though everyone got hit by one of the building parts at least once, they all successfully got out of the area and got even closer to the castle.
"We did it! I was, like, worried for a moment." Goombella cheered.
"I'm fine. You okay over there, Toadette?" Toad asked.
"Yes Toad!" She happily responded.
"You're becoming more like your father, Yoshi." Fire Bro said.
"Huh?" Everyone said at the same time.
"How the hell do you know who my father is!?" Yoshi shrieked.
"Alright Kylie and Arfur, we're at the castle now. What do we do?" Dixie asked.
"If our scans on the castle are correct...destroy the topmost part of the tower, as that's where Tatanga should be. One group can take care of Tatanga, while the other group can destroy the other parts of the castle, without overdoing it, and free the prisoners. The prisoners should be on the second floor so don't go crazy with the shooting around that area." Arfur explained.
"Got it!"
"Damnit! These guys are a lot tougher than I had imagined. Looks like I need to get into my nice and comfy spaceship and fight these bastards..." Tatanga said to himself as he walked back downstairs to his throne room. Once he arrived there, he saw Beldam, Marilyn, Doopliss, Dimentio, and Grodus who all looked panicked.
"My king! The intruders have arrived and their ships look supremely tough! What should we do!?" Beldam loudly asked.
"Beldam, is our 'base' by the beach still clear?" Tatanga asked.
"Well, I believe so my king. At least, the last time I checked, everything was perfectly fine!" Beldam answered.
"Excellent. I want all five of you to go use the teleporter in the basement and remain put...oh, and bring some of my guards with you as well!" He ordered.
"Wh-what!? But...don't you need our help with these guys, my king!? I mean surely, as powerful as you are, you're completely outnumbered by them and have a good chance of going down!" Dimentio exclaimed.
"Just let me handle it, Dimentio! Now, you know the secret underground path to get out of here so go! No more questions!" Tatanga stomped. The other five hesitantly nodded and got the hell out of there.
Peach, Daisy, Rosalina, DK, Dixie, Luigi, and Waluigi decided to go for the topmost part of the castle, which is where Tatanga was supposedly residing while Toadette, Yoshi, Fire Bro, Goombella, Birdo, and Toad decided to do all the other work.
"Alright, we're here now so I guess we just pretty much destroy this part of the castle then?" Daisy asked.
"Yes, Daisy. Go for it." Arfur answered.
As they were about to blow it all down, they were caught off guard by a large, gray, flying spaceship that came out behind the castle.
"Woah...WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!?" Dixie screamed.
"My god, it's so huge!" Waluigi also screamed.
"We're gonna die, aren't we?" Luigi cried.
"Oh my god...IT'S...IT'S...SOMEONE!" Peach yelled dramatically.
Daisy smacked her forehead. "It's freaking Tatanga! I recognize that space ship anywhere!"
"Hello everyone. Well well well! I definitely recognize each and every one of you...especially YOU, Daisy! How have you been all this time? Did you miss me? Cause I sure missed you." The alien said threateningly.
"Don't flatter yourself, Tatanga, we're here to destroy you once and for all!" Daisy screeched.
"Is that so? I like a challenge. Hit me with your best shot!" Tatanga laughed and blasted a large, blue laser from one of his ports. DK barely dodged it.
"WOAH! That could've obliterated me! Uhh...Kylie and Arfur? We could use some tips on how to defeat this guy!" The ape shrieked.
"Okay, hold on a second, we are currently analyzing the shield of Tatanga...got it! Everyone, look on your screens where your own HP meter is at. Tatanga's own HP should appear right below yours." Kylie said.
Luigi squinted at the bar. "What!? 150 HP!? That's more than all of our HP's combined!"
"Luigi, quit over-exaggerating. You don't even know how to count right. Now, what should we do? Just shoot at him?" Dixie asked.
"Hmm, I assume so. Tatanga's spaceship is pretty small and doesn't seem like he has a lot of features, so yeah, go for it!" Arfur cheered on.
"Hey you guys, I'm starting to think that Tatanga is not such a nice person after all! He's just as cruel as Bowser is!" Peach stupidly said.
Everyone was in disbelief at what the dumb blonde just said, including Tatanga.
"Is she serious right now? Like...seriously now?" Tatanga questioned.
"Don't worry, that's only the worst of it you'll ever see." Waluigi commented.
"Prepare to die!" Dixie yelled and started shooting her lasers like crazy at Tatanga. The alien managed to avoid all of her shots except for a few.
"Damn, this guy is fast! Alright, everyone, start shooting at him! We have to corner him!" Daisy ordered and everyone started firing at his spaceship. Tatanga flew out of there and the 7 chased right after him.
"Get a load of THIS!" Tatanga said as the back ports of his spaceship opened up and out flew a bob-omb which exploded right on to Rosalina's arwing.
"Oh no! That bob-omb really damaged me, I'm only at 30 HP now!" The space queen started freaking out.
DK started growling. "That's it, no more playing around!" He boosted and got even closer to Tatanga and fired away.
The shots were making dents in Tatanga's spaceship and started to damage it a little. He was getting more furious by the second.
"GAAAAAAAHHHH! MORE BOB-OMBS!" He screamed and shot out a crapload of bob-ombs at everyone.
"Everyone, watch out!" Waluigi yelled and they all did the best they could to avoid the bob-ombs. Some of them exploded in the air while some barely passed the arwings.
One of the bob-ombs managed to explode onto Luigi's arwing, bringing his HP down to zero.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOO! THIS IS THE END! GOODBYE WOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD!" Luigi screamed as his arwing crashed all the way down to the earth.
"LUIGI! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Daisy cried.
Tatanga saw the crash and simply laughed. "That's one annoyance down!"
"Crap, this doesn't look good at all!" Kylie freaked out.
Daisy began to rage. Fire was burning in her eyes. She was no longer playing around.
"THAT DOES IT! EVERYONE, MOVE ASIDE! I AM USING THE BOMB!" Daisy screamed and smashed down on the green button.
But nothing happened.
"Huh? What...what's going on here!? Do I not have any bombs left!?"
Everyone else tried theirs as well, but they also seemed to be out of bombs.
"Crap, all of us don't have any bombs left! This is NOT good!" Dixie shrieked.
Arfur typed something into the large keyboard he was at. "Guys, I just submitted a request to ROB for an extra bomb. I need to have one of you press the left yellow button that way ROB can get your location and send it to you in a box near your current location. However, he can only send one bomb every 10 minutes so you must use it wisely!"
"Okay, I'll do it! Guys, you keep shooting at Tatanga while I get this bomb." Daisy commanded and pressed the left yellow button.
"Location confirmed. Sending supplies." ROB said in a very robotic voice.
"Okay Daisy, the box with the bomb should be somewhere near where you're at. Once you locate the box, you just have to destroy it and you'll retrieve your bomb." Kylie said.
"Got it!"
Meanwhile, the other six descended to the lower part of the castle.
"So...uhh...we just blow the crap out of this castle then?" Toadette asked.
"No, we make love to the castle. OF COURSE WE DESTROY IT!" Birdo raged.
"DESTROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY!" Fire Bro sang as he smashed the green button, sending off another bomb that exploded at the bottom front part of the castle, destroying some of the architecture.
"...Okay then...everyone, blast the first floor area but not the second floor since that's where the prisoners are!" Toad instructed and everyone started firing their lasers at the bottom part of the castle like there was no tomorrow, destroying the walls and crumbling the architecture. A bunch of enemies came outside the castle and started firing at the arwings with what looked like laser guns.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" Birdo shouted, releasing a bomb and exploded on the ground, creating a meteor-like hole, making the enemies scatter about.
As they shot more and more, the building started crumbling even more and before they knew it, they saw that they entire first floor was covered in rubble from the windows. Along with the walls down there, that were completely broken open and shattered.
"What the hell are those noises?" Ludwig asked, hearing the booming sounds from below.
"I'm guessing a fight broke out over something irrelevant like a piece of pizza and the guards are now shooting each other over it." Kammy said.
"Wait a second, you guys, look!" Lemmy pointed out the window and everyone gathered around. They all saw some kind of aircrafts shooting lasers at something that was below they were.
"Um, are they here to rescue us?" Bowser Jr. asked.
"They better damn well rescue us otherwise I'll...cry even more!" Bowser whined.
"Excellent! I think we're, like, done with the first floor you guys!" Goombella cheered.
"Yay! NOW FOR THE SECOND FLOOR!" Fire Bro said and charged his lasers.
"NO WAIT!" Everyone screamed.
Fire Bro unleashed another bomb and it exploded directly in the middle, blasting open the wall.
"WOAH! What on earth is all this!?" Flurrie shrieked.
"Oh no! Aircraft monsters! I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!" Goombario cried.
"Wait a second...is that Yoshi!?" Bobbery pointed out.
"Yeah, that is! What is he doing in there?" Bombette asked.
Yoshi lifted his window hatch. "Hey guys! I'm here to rescue you all!"
"You mean WE'RE here to rescue you all!" Birdo scowled.
"Yay! We're saved! But wait...how did you get that aircraft thingy? Did you steal it from the aircraft store?" Koopie asked.
"No, I- wait a second, there's an aircraft store!? Well anyways, I'll explain everything later. I'll blast open that door for you guys and you need to let the others out!" Yoshi said and shot at the prison door which blasted it away.
Everyone in the room got out in huge relief and managed to unlock all the other prisoner doors to let everyone else out.
"Yes! We got them out! Now...there's the problem with Tangela...I mean Tatanga!" Toadette said.
Peach, Rosalina, Dixie, DK, and Waluigi were still shooting at Tatanga as much as they could.
"Damnit! He's only at 100 hp, our lasers aren't doing much damage! Where the hell is Daisy?" Dixie yelled.
Tatanga turned his spaceship around. "FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRE!" His front ports opened up and a wave of blue energy blasted out at everyone. They all managed to barely dodge it, except for Peach who had it scrape against her arwing.
"Oh no! I've dropped down to 20 HP! Someone, give me a super shroom!" Peach demanded.
"Peach, we don't have any items right now! Plus I'm not even sure how that would work for our arwings..." Waluigi pointed out.
"Alright, I didn't want to use this so soon but you leave me no choice..." Tatanga said and suddenly, the top of his spaceship opened up and a large and wide bazooka popped out.
"My god...WHAT IS THAT THING!?" DK shrieked.
"It's the biggest bazooka you'll ever see. It has auto-lock and can obliterate anything it wants to. I highly suggest you run now...or in this case, FLY!" Tatanga laughed and started charging the bazooka.
"Crap, this doesn't look good! What should we do!? Someone is going to die because of that thing!" Dixie said.
"We have to retreat! We can't risk anymore of us going down!" Rosalina answered.
As Tatanga was about to unleash his shot, he was suddenly blasted away by a bomb that they've all seen before.
"WOAH! What just happened?" Peach gasped.
"Sorry I took so long guys. Kind of got lost on my way back." Daisy said.
"YES DAISY! YOU DID IT! GREAT JOB!" Waluigi cheered.
They all then saw Tatanga's spaceship coming back to them, except it was A LOT more ruined looking. Wires were popping out, his glass was shattered, and the bazooka gun was destroyed.
"GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Fine, you win this time you bunch of jackasses! But you haven't heard the last of me! I WILL GET MY REVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENGE!" Tatanga yelled and flew off...only to crash into a tall tree a minute later.
The heroes cheered and rejoiced and saw the others join them.
"Hey guys! Is everything okay with Tatanga?" Toadette asked.
"More than okay, we beat Tatanga! Well, we didn't actually BEAT him, he just kinda gave up and ran away. The pansy." Waluigi explained.
"Awesome! I just knew we could do it!" Yoshi also cheered.
"Alright guys, we have a small airplane of our medical staff and enforcements coming over to the castle's location right now. We will be picking up every survivor there and bringing them back to our 'hospital' that isn't too far away from our building. We also know of Luigi's location and we'll be bringing him back as well." Kylie said.
"Sweet! Gosh, this has been, like, a hectic day!" Goombella said in relief.
"I've taken a few hits, but I'm okay." DK said.
"Okay, we need you guys to report back to our building pronto." Arfur said.
EOC.
So the fight between good vs. evil has just begun and it's expected to get more chaotic, dangerous, and probably humorous. Trust me when I say that everything will be better written from now on because next chapter has more character interactions and more plot devices. Please review.
Also, guys, try not to be TOO intimidated by the large amount of characters because really, pretty much only half the cast is gonna be active in the main storyline while the other half will just stay behind for support and whatnot.
