Chapter 8: Boss Battle: The Queen
The bullet was propelled out of the gun, it seemed to fly slowly through the air-as if time itself has slowed down; until everything sped up, blasting a Buzzard's head off. It stopped moving its wings. Hitting the ground with a loud crash. The bee's that were charging their canons finally open fired; launching rockets of explosive fireworks right at the Smashers.
"MISSILES INCOMING!" Lucario telepathically shouted in their minds. "EVERYONE DODGE!" All the fighters scrambled to get out of the line of fire. The solider grabbed Village from the collar; saving him just in time as sparkling projectiles hit the ground.
Some of the insects, seeing their group attack miss; flew straight towards the trophies; their electric stingers protruding out. Two of the bees parted from the swarm, going after the nearest targets: Lucas and Olimar.
The first one pierced the boy, zapping him couple of feet away. "LUCAS!" Shouted the spaceman before turning his attention to the pest. He put both his hands far part on the field, suddenly, colored plant stems sprouted from the ground. One white. One yellow. The astronaut pulled on the roots, plucking out two small plant-like creatures-corresponding with the color of their stems.
The Buzzard charged towards Olimar, its wings buzzing with excitement. He rolled out of the way of its spark needle, throwing the white creature in his right hand at the enemy. When the thing latched on the bug, it began to hit the Buzzard with its head; poisoning the flying insect.
The bee was intense distress, the poison making it hard to comprehend what's going on. The Buzzard thrashed its electric wings hysterically, hoping to hit its prey. The spaceman proved too evasive of the bug to handle however; avoiding all of the insect's attacks.
He faced the back of his attacker, hitting the back of its abdomen with the yellow plant creature, shocking the pest with 120 volts of pure electricity. The Buzzard screeched in agony as it collapsed to the floor, its muscles twitching as it looked up to the astronaut in fear.
Olimar put his hand on the dirt once again, spawning another stem from the ground. He plucked again to reveal a purple creature grasped between his fingers, the plant-like entity feeling quite heavy in his arm.
He raised both his hand behind him, slamming the Bee's head with the purple animal, caving the insect's skull right in; pools of oil sinking into the soil and staining the grass.
Olimar was so busy with his attacker that he didn't notice the second Buzzard sneak up on him. The bug was prepared to thrust it's stinger into the spaceman's back when out of nowhere…
"PK FREEZE!"
A large snowflake charged with psychic energy struck the bee; encasing the insect ice. The astronaut turned around to see the frozen pest float in the air for a couple of seconds before it shattered on the ground. Scattering frosty metal and black ice (Petroleum) everywhere.
He looked in the direction of the voice to see Lucas do a slight wave to him; giving a thumbs up as to say 'I'm okay' Olimar smiled and copied the gesture, raising his own thumb to say 'alright, good job!'
They heard more Buzzards flying their way, they gave each other a nod before they charged towards the bees together.
The jackal, solider, sword wielder, and child were fending for themselves against the flying pest. Lucario and Snake fired their own projectiles: A sphere of aura and missile from a rocket launcher at the insects. Both hitting their respective target.
The ball of life force weakened the swarm; the aura draining the energy of out them, whiles the rocket blew a good chunk of them-propelling the rest away several feet from the explosion.
"WOOO!" shouted Swordfighter, doing a fist pump close to his chest "You guys are killing it! These bugs are no match for us!"
"Don't get too cocky kid." Said Snake, reloading another rocket in his missile launcher. "It's unwise to underestimate your enemy when the fight has just begun."
"Underestimate?! We are absolutely destroying them!" fired back the blond. "I doubt they can bounce back from this."
"Snake's right Sword." Spoke the animal, forming another Aura sphere in his paws "Even though it appears that we are 'destroying them', these bees may have a trick or two up their sleeve. After all, the tables can be turned around in an instant with the right moves. I just hope we don't encounter their-"
As if god's listened and decided it be fun to punish them. Dropped a large Buzzard-right in between the 4 fighters. This was no ordinary Buzzard though, this Buzzard had a big frame than the other bees; its eyes glowed pink whiles a halo made of yellow sparks hovered above the insect's head.
Lastly was the abdomen. It was massive in size, but that was not the only thing strange about it; Instead of it being made of metal, it was constructed by an unknown material; its texture was dandelion in color and very translucent. Looking into the abdomen, a series of continuous self-contained firework explosions were erupting inside of the creature. The bangs from the endless finales became muffed to irregular pops with its backside.
Yep there's no denying it. This is the-
"Queen." Muttered Lucario, being slightly stunned. The Queen Buzzard Roared with anger; having her servants killed by the fighters. It began to move towards the solider and canine, blood-lust filling her heart. She was about to attack when a pellet hit the back of her head.
The bee turned around to see the boy and the sword wielder; the former carried a slingshot, who sheepishly smiled as he hid his weapon behind his back. The queen, in retaliation, swung her sparkling wings at the duo; sending them back with an electric jolt.
They crashed into Mario (who was deflecting the projectiles with his cape); forming a dogpile on the wet grass. The Queen was taunting by blinking the green lights of her antenna, as the insect marched over to them to tear them apart.
Lucario and Snake attempted to run over to their downed comrades but were stopped when more Buzzards blocked their path; surrounding them with electric stingers pointing right at them.
"They won't let us pass without a fight!" Lucario said to his bearded friend.
"Than fight we shall!" replied Snake, pulling out his SOCOM. "Give it you're all!"
The duo began to fight with a combination of lively aura, and deadly grenades. Despite being outnumbered, the fighter were standing their ground, the two sides being evenly matched.
As they fought, fireworks from the flowers shot up into the sky; creating vibrant colors as the sparks drifted to the battle down below.
As the three of them disentangled themselves from the pile, Mario picked up his red hat, putting it on his head. "Swordfighter! Villager! Why did you a tackle Mario? We're on the same a side." The plumber said with an irritated Italian accent.
"Sorry Mr. Red Plumber sir, we didn't mean to!" Villager said defensively. We were knocked back by the queen bee!"
"Queen Bee?" Mario said with the confusion before turning his head towards the sound of an electric buzzing. The queen was slowly marching towards them, crushing the flowers as went.
"Oh dear a god!" exclaimed the mustached man; igniting a fireball in his gloves "Come on you two, we got a monster bee to defeat!"
"But it's too big!" Argued the boy, "We no match for it!"
"Don't kid yourself kid!" Replied Mario, forming another fireball in his hand. "We defeated a beasts the sizes of buildings! A royal bee's not going to a change that! We can do this!"
The plumber discharged a barrage of bouncing flaming spheres against the metal insect; all which did zero damage against the giant pest-it didn't even flinch. "Or maybe a not." The Italian said aloud to himself, sweat dripping down his forehead.
The queen turned around, exposing it's stinger to the fighters. The abdomen vibrated for several seconds before shooting a red firework at the group. The missile hit the mustached man; launching him in the air.
"AAAIIIIIIIEEEEEE!" Yelled Mario, as he landed into a bush-riddle with thorns.
Villager and Swordfighter looked over to the shrub before rotating their bodies to the monstrous bee; both gulping loudly as their blood ran cold from fear. The queen began to fly towards the two fighters; shaking the ground as she landed on the dirt in front of them.
Swordfighter out of panic slashed at the queen's exposed legs; causing her to howl with pain. The bee flew up a couple feet before spiraling down on the blue fighter; sparkling stinger out with full force. 'No I can't go out like this, it's not fair. No wait No!' Thought Swordfighter; bringing his hands in front of his face to protect himself.
But to his surprise, he didn't feel the queen's stinger pierce his body. The sword wielder opened his eyes to see a red bubble that encapsulated his entire body; keeping the queen's piercer at bay, 'I'm…I'm doing it!' Sword thought ecstatically 'I created a shield at last! There's nothing that can stop me-wait why is shrinking?'
The shield he create began to implode from the sheer force of the Queen; the bubble growing smaller and smaller till it only covered his waist. "This can't be happening!" he looked over to Village, his mouth agape at the scene taking place before his very eye's
"VILLAGER! PLEASE! DO SOMETHING-" Was all the sword wielder said before his shield finally broke. Putting the blond fighter in a dazed state. 'What's going on? What's happening to me?!' Swordfighter's vision was very blurry, the image in front of him was rotating around like a pinwheel; the colors fading in an out; and the picture of multiple bee's spinning in front of his eyes.
The Queen laughed as she blinked her antennas, the halo hovering above her head as it began to move; capturing the fighter by the throat. He struggled to breathe as he and the bee were lifted up into the air.
"Mr. Swordfighter, NO!" cried Villager as he extended a hand towards his protector; feeling that the boy could grab him if he tried real hard. The child was distracted when he heard buzzing behind him.
Villager turned around to see two Buzzards land on the ground, slowly approaching him with their stingers out. "Uh…Nice bees?" said the child, trying to appeal the bee's better nature. Both of the insects scoffed with anger as they to come closer; cornering the boy in a patch of large flowers.
"Please! You don't have to do this! Can we all get along! No! Get away! GET AWAY!" screamed Villager as the bees began to fly towards him with their stingers poking out. The Smasher, in his fright bumped into one of the flowers; sending a well time firework into the path of the Buzzards-obliterating them to pieces.
The trophy blinked a couple of times before turning his attention towards the plant. "You saved my life!" the child said to flower, as if it was a living person. "If it wasn't for I'd be dead!"
"HOLD ON SWORD! WE'RE COMING TO GET YOU!" All of a sudden, the trophy heard a voice in his head. He looked over to the side to see the rest of the Smashers; scrambling around in the dirt to save their friend; the blond being put in a choke hold as he frantically tried to get the halo off.
"Sword! He's in danger! I got to help him! But how?" As he thought of a plan to rescue his friend, he accidently elbowed to flower sending another firework into the sky.
He looked towards the plant. Then the bee. Then lastly at the flower again. A smile began to form on the corners of his mouth as Villager said "This seems crazy, but it just might work!" He pulled out an ax, he winded it up behind him; the metal shining in the bright moonlight before taking a good hard whack at the plant.
"This is useless, our attacks aren't doing anything!" Shouted Snake. The queen was being barrage with a wide assortment of: fire balls, aura spheres, missiles, psychic snowflakes, and Pikmin; but it proved fruitless as the bee's armor was too durable to get damaged.
Swordfighter vision was fading in and out, no matter how hard he pulled and tugged at the infernal collar-It wouldn't budge off his throat. The queen was staring right into his soul, clenching hard to snuff the life out of her prey. Swordfight was just about to pass out when-
*SHWOOUUPP*
A firework exploded in the bee's abdomen; the bee suddenly screeching in pain. She let go of his grip of Swordfighter, having him drop down from the sky. Before he can hit the floor, Lucario leapt into the air; catching the falling fighter with ease.
"Sword! Are you alright?!" The jackal said to the Smasher in concern.
Swordfighter was coughing, massaging his throat to ease himself of the intense agony. "My lungs feel like they're on fire, but I'm okay. I can still fight!" The fighter said to his teammate; his voice sounding quite raspy from the pressure of the halo.
The Queen roared with anger, she was aiming her canon to shoot at the heroes when another firework hit her abdomen again. She fainted from the stress; crash landing into a pile of flowers.
Everyone was surprised to see the insect go down, looking to the source of the projectiles, they saw Villager hold one of the flowers in his arms, sparks slightly fading from the stigma.
"Villager, Was that you?!" Questioned the space captain. The boy nodded. "Yep, that was me." Chuckled the child. "Who knew that a bit of flower power, would be enough to save the day!"
A swarm of Buzzards began to encircle the Smashers, preparing to take them down. "Oh a crap!" said the plumber. "Everyone grab a flower now!" All the Smashers (With the exception of Villager.) Pulled the nearest flower to them. Uprooting the plants from the ground.
"Okie dokie! Now aim!" the trophies were pointing their flowers at the encroaching swarm. "FIRE!" yelled the voice of Mario, which was soon followed by the sound of many fireworks firing off at once.
The bees were dropping like flies, oil staining the beauty of the garden with its ugly blackness. They didn't stop until they were down to last bug, with the finally one trying to flee until it was obliterated.
The fighters realizing they took down all the bees, relaxed and see their flowery weapons onto the ground. "Man that was so…so…" said Swordfighter
"Extreme?" answered Lucas
"Yeah." Replied Sword. "Something along those line."
"I agree." The Italian spoke with agreement, wiping the sweat from his forehead. "It took a lot of will, but we defeated them with nothing but our wits. Now that we defeated a all of them, we can finally a head-"
*BZZZZTTT*
They picked up their weapons as they turned around to see that the queen has gotten back up from her fall. More enraged than ever.
"We still got the queen to deal with! I handle it!" Swordfighter fired a sparking missile right in the bee's face. It didn't damage the insect at all, instead it buzzed with more rage as she aimed her cannon at the fighters.
"I think you pissed it off." Snide Snake, still keeping his flower trained on the monster. The insect's abdomen began to twitch and bulge, the fireworks inside of her getting more bright and louder by the second.
"It's preparing a powerful attack!" The canine telepathically shouted to his comrades as the bee continued to charge. "What should we do?" said Swordfighter, 'I hit her in the face but it did nothing! Didn't she evolve her weak point?"
"More like didn't target her weak point." The solider said to himself aloud; staring at her translucent belly.
"Snake, what do you mean?" Olimar said to Snake, becoming very confused.
The queen's abdomen expanded to its limit, the pyrotechnic energy ready to be discharged from her stomach.
"No time to explain!" Said the bearded man "Shoot at the abdomen! The yellow thing! NOW!"
All seven Smasher fired the last of their flower's energy at her weak point. She began to screech and holler in pain as the area began to glow. Blinding the world in a mass of color.
Jigglypuff, Ganondorf, Pokémon Trainer, and Falco were playing a simple board game; a pile of coins from each of the Smashers were placed in the middle of the cardboard square shining in light of the sun.
"Why are we gambling money over a stupid game like Sugarland?" Said the blue bird, resting his hand on his cheek in boredom. "Well Falco. This is the best we can do." Grunted the green man. "Perhaps if somebody didn't let their orange dinosaur burn all the playing cards we'd be settling this over poker right now." Complained Ganon, narrowing his eyes at the trainer. "He didn't mean to set fire to the playing table; and for the record, he's a dragon." Said P.T., Defending his trained Pokémon.
"Whatever." said Ganondorf; rolling his eyes. He turned to the pink animal; drinking a nice cold glass of lemonade. "Jigglypuff it's your turn."
The balloon Pokémon, put down the cup; doing a slight bounce in the air saying the word "Jiggly!" as she grabbed the pair of dice with her arms; shaking the plastic cubes a couple of times before dropping it on the board.
12
"Oh!" said Trainer, being slightly amused with roll. "Your character gets to move 12 spaces; and because of the fact you got a double, you get to go again!"
"Puff!"
Jiggly moved her character exactly around the board; when she was done moving her piece, she picked up small cubes again-rolling it on the board.
12
"ANOTHER 12!?" Shouted the caped man in surprise as she began to move her piece.
"If she gets another 12 she'll get the jackpot, we got to stop her gu-" was all the avian said before he was interrupted by the sounds of dice being tossed against cardboard.
12
"WHAT?!"
"HOW?!"
"THAT'S TOTAL BULLCRAP!"
Yelled the voices in outrage as Jigglypuff reached to the finish line; raking in the coins with a smug grin.
"JIGGLYPUFF!" Boomed the pink animal as she danced around her winnings. "There is no way you could've gotten 12 three times in a row!" accused Falco, pointing a feathered finger at the round creature. "I call foul! A move like that is almost impossible to achieve!"
"Jiggly puff Jigglypuff."
"I'm not a sore loser!"
"Guys, Guys." Said the Trainer, attempting to calm the group down. "She won fair n square; it's just a game. It's not worth screaming or celebrating over."
Right after P.T. was finished speaking; an explosion of fireworks erupted in the distance, creating the most fantastic finale they ever seen. The four of them stared at the colorful sparks for several moments before turning their heads back to Jigglypuff, whose smile was growing smugger by the second.
"Oh shut up you!" said the bird, his eye lids twitching with indescribable anger.
After the finale was over, the Smashers open their eyes and unplugged their ears; observing the land to be void of the bees they fought earlier. "Is it over?" questioned Lucas. "Is the monster dead?"
The queens disembodied head landed in front of them, embedding itself into the earth. Its eyes flashed pink for what seemed like eternity before fading out forever.
"Yeah I think it's a dead." piped the plumber, rising up from the ground.
"Well let's not stick around to find out." Said Olimar, dusting the dirt from his suit "We'd accomplished our mission to rescue the Newcomer, there's no reason to stay here any longer. It's time to head home."
"I agree with the spaceman." The solider replied with agreement, looking at his device to memorize the directions back to the ship. "Who knows what's lurking in this field at the time of day. The last thing we need is another battle on our hands."
Everyone nodded as the group decided to head back to Olimar's spaceship. They flew from Techma Fields all the way to the Smash Mansion, where they were briefing Villager all about the nature of the WOT.
"So let me get this straight. I'm in a realm that's separated from reality; created by a flying hand?"
"Yep!"
"And that a cosmic man tried to destroy creation by turning everything that ever existed into nothingness, adding it to his dimension?"
"That's correct."
"And How I'm actually an immortal trophy; cloned from the original me back at my world?"
"That's a right!"
"This is the strangest day I had since…Well last Tuesday." said Villager, taking a bite out of his grilled cheese sandwich. "This is the best birthday ever! I can't wait to tell my friends back home about my adventure!"
All the Smashers in the room except for Villager stayed silent; a solemn expression overtook their faces as the boy scratched his head in confusion.
"What's wrong? Why are you guys so sad all of a sudden?"
"Nope!" said Swordfighter shaking his head "I'm not going stick around. Lucario may I leave the room; I don't want to be a part of this."
"You can go. I don't blame you for not wanting to break the news. This is the hardest part of rescuing a Newcomer; telling them the truth. Just wait outside."
The sword wielder left the room, closing the door as the boy stared at him with a perplexed look on his face.
"Sword!" shouted a voice on right, he turned around to see Gunner and Brawler approach him at walking pace; with the girl giving the blond a strong hug as she wrapping her arms around his back.
"We heard you came back; R.O.B.'s been saying that you rescued someone from a monster! I'm so proud of you!" Said the shooter.
"More like he rescued me." Chuckled the blue fighter. "If only my shield haven't broke I would have-"
"Woah, you created a shield!?" Gunner said with astonishment.
"Yeah. Tried to defend myself from a giant bee but that didn't work out too well." Replied Sword.
"Giant bee?" Brawler raised his an eyebrow in bewilderment.
"It's a long story."
"Ooh!" squealed Gunner "You got to tell us what happened. We've been dying to know."
"Ha Ha, okay. Let me tell you what happened.
"And then we arrived here; bringing the boy to safety at last."
Gunner's jaw dropped open, her mouth widened with awe as she listed to Sword's story.
"So what happening to the boy now?" Said Brawler, admitting feeling pretty surprised; and jealous from Swordfighter's tale.
Sword sighed, his cheerful attitude turning into a depressed one. "They are telling him the same thing we've been told a week ago; especially the part of no-return."
"Oh my god." The Gunner covered her mouth with both her free hand. "I can't imagine what the poor thing's going through right now."
"Pfft, I'm sure he's fine." Said Brawler, leaning up his back against the wall.
The door began to open slowly, the trio turned to see villager, whose eyes have turned bright red; the trails where his tears had flowed still visible on his face.
"Villager, are you okay?" Sword wielder trying to keep his voice soft as possible as not to upset the poor Smasher.
"I…I…Just leave me alone!" cried the boy, running down the hallway with his hands being pressed up against his face; disappearing into the corridor.
"I take it he didn't treat the news very well." Brawler said plainly to the canine who exited out of the room."
"You have no idea." Spoke the canine, putting his paw against the wall from emotional exhaustion. "Everything was going well until we mentioned 'That part.' That was when he broke down, I tried to comfort him but he left the room in a hurry. I felt his aura. He's in intense emotional anguish, and it's growing ever so more as we speak."
"We can't allow this to continue." Her eyes beginning to water. "There must be something we can do."
Gunner's right, the longer this goes on; the harder of a toll it will take up upon Villager; But what? What could they possible do to help the poor kid? Swordfighter thought for a moment before a lightbulb turned on in his mind.
"Hey Lucario, didn't Villager mention that today was his birthday?"
"Yes." Said the jackal, his eyes opening at what the blond was implying "Yes he did."
"I think a good old fashion birthday party would be enough to lift up his spirits." Swordfighter replied to the animal; a smile creeping up on his face.
"I'll call up the rest of the Smashers. In the meantime, why don't one of you check up on him; make sure he's okay."
"I'll do it" Gunner raised up her hand before chasing after the crying fighter.
"Sword why don't you prepare the kitchen for baking, I'll be busy with the invitations."
"Sure thing!" saluted the blond fighter before heading off; leaving the fist-fighter and the aura jackal by themselves.
"And Brawler." The red fighter responded to the sound of his name; turning his head towards the blue Pokémon. "Don't be a dick." The animal said sternly before slamming the door shut. Locking the door with a loud clank.
The mii blinked a couple of times before crossing his arms "Well screw you too, you mangy mutt."
"I heard that!"
Brawler ignore the dog; walking down the hallway, leaving it silent once more.
Here's the 8th chapter. Hoped you enjoy it.
I got a question for you: What do you think would the Smasher's do for Villagers Birthday?
Would they make it a blast, or a bomb?
Leave your answers in the reviews.
till next time!