Theme Song:
To change the world!
And by myself I need to believe in what I can achieve!
And that belief has always been forever in me
This world's getting worst to my dismay~
and I simply look the other way~
No longer!
I falter no longer!
I worry no longer!
I tremble no longer!
Cause now I must choose
you gave me the courage to stand and take action
(you gave me hope I will never lose!)
One time my soul was as dark as the night
but you enter my soul with your light!
I see the sun, my heart knows no limits
Today I shall fight for the new
(I'll open up my windows to see the sky so blue~)
To change the world!
And I need to believe in what I can achieve!
And that belief will always be important to me!
-Corona Mountain Floor 2: Autumn Creek-
Luigi jumped back from Lemmy's thunder attack, backflipping in the air and landed next to Toad. "Man, we can't even get close to them! We gotta find a way to take those wands." Toad said.
While he was saying that Luigi surveyed the area before coming up with an idea.
"Those wands are magnetic and the rocks around us are magnetically charged, if you can distract them I can use this machine I built to increase the power of the magnetic rays to draw their wands." Luigi explained pulling something out of his pocket.
It was a small machine with a disk attached to it. Toad nodded and the two boys got in their positions as the two koopalings made their way towards their location. Lemmy and Larry slowly hovered slightly over the ground looking around for them. Toad and Luigi were hiding over a suspended rock-structure like wall. Between the wall was a gap that allowed them to see what was happening below. Toad leaped onto another ledge and landed on top of Larry's copter grabbing a hold of the steering wheel.
"Ugh! Get off you little snot!" he cried trying to regain control of the wheel. The copter went right and left in every different direction as the two of them.
"What are you doing big bro?!" Lemmy cried out failing his arm in a comical fashion.
"He won't let go of the wheel!" Larry gagged as Toad elbowed him in the stomach.
With that commotion going on the green capped plumber pulled out this machine again and began tinkering with the settings activating the device. The disk began to glow a soft blue color as the magnetic field around it began to glow as well.
Lemmy raised his wand, "Sandstorm's Fury!" he cried, a sandstorm whipped up around them.
"Whahahahaha!" Toad screamed, swept him off his feet twisting and turning in the wind before crashing in the ground landing on the machine breaking it.
"Toad are you alright?" Luigi cried running to his friend, but he was unconscious
"Come Toad wake up!" He cried gently, shaking him but it was no use.
"Well, well look who's all alone." Larry sneered at the frightened man cracking his fists.
-Corona Mountain Floor 6: Corona's Peak-
Kamek was doing a patrol around the mountain surveying what was going on, everyone under Bowser was on edge. They're was two main battles going on, one at the base and the second in the sky there was only two hours left until the cannon was operational and victory would be theirs for good.
(Once the cannon is operational we will destroy Delfino Plaza. Princess Peach will have no other choice but to surrender, But there is still Mario and the rest of his pathetic friends. But not even Mario can stop us this time.) he pondered to himself.
-Flashback-
Last Night 12:30 am
Bowser and Kamek were walking away from their base and silently admired the engineers working on the cannon that will be operational soon.
"My Lord, you're a certified genius! At this rate nobody will be able to stop us!" The wizard praised.
Bowser crossed his arm puffing up his chest "Of course I am! It took six months, but it was all worth it. You have no idea how hard it was to not use this bad boy sooner. And this is just a stepping stone, the whole Mushroom Kingdom will be ours and once I defeat Mario I'll finally have my darling Peach all by myself!" Bowser sang gleefully.
"I wholeheartedly agree with you, Your Nastiness!" Kamek laughed gleefully. The two of them laughed evilly as they made their way towards base camp.
-Flashback End-
Kamek continued to patrol around the volcano still in thought he saw Mario, Daisy, Navihe pondered to himself. He was going to help out at the aerial fleet, but something caught his eyes "Hohoho my lucky day." He grinned
-Corona Mountain Floor 4: Winter Road-
"There's only two and a half hours until that cannon's ready." Link said looking at his watch.
"Alright then let's pick up the pace we can't let Bowser turn that thing on!" Mario said, picking up speed. Everything was going smoothly until they heard a scream.
Quickly, they turned around and saw Daisy and Navi trapped in a magic cage with Kamek laughing next to it. "No, Daisy! Navi!" Lee cried
"Who's that?" Link asked
"Kamek Koopa, he's a powerful wizard and Bowser's second in command. Darn it, this is the last thing we need!" The red cap hero growled.
"On the contrary Mario YOU are the last thing we need right now. Why do you always have to be a pest to us?" the wizard asked, annoyed with a snap of his finger as the magic cage flew out of sight towards the peak.
"Mario go after Daisy and Navi, don't worry about Kamek, we'll deal with him." the hylian swordsman said calmly, grabbing his sword and shield.
Mario looked at the hyrulean princess who nodded in agreement grabbing her bow and telling him to go ahead; he wished them good luck before sprinting ahead.
Kamek raised his wand up but it was knocked out of his hand by a shock arrow when the arrow hit its target it created a small field of electricity around the wizard.
"EEEHHH AAA!" the wizard screamed in pain dropping his wand in the process, the blonde archer dove underneath the electric field snatching the wand as the electricity died down.
The wizard growled in anger forming a magic blue ball and threw it at them. The two hylians jumped away from each other, both of them to get away from the magic orb. The hylian researcher pulled out a fire arrow at the orb while Link charged at the wizard with his sword, the hylian swordsman's and the wizard's blades clashed against each other time and time again as they fought for dominance.
Lee pulled herself up from the ground and grabbed a thin one-handed sword with a sheikah eye on the handle. It was called the Eightfold Blade, which was very common weapon in Kakariko Village The evil wizard tried to slash the her in the side, but she dodge it and blocked the attack with his shield and spun around creating a gust of wind with this sword spiraling Kamek in the air.
(Was that a spin attack?!) he gasped slowly and regained control of his broom as he tried to catch his breath. "Seems like you're having trouble Kamek." Roy chuckled
"Watch your lip child, I can turn you into a toad with a snap of my fingers." Kamek hissed.
"Whatever, just let me help you out. That guy look pretty strong. Besides we got King Rhoam's daughter here. She's be a great tool to getting into Hyrul." Roy ordered cracking his knuckles.
Kamek scoffed at the young koopa flying over to the princess while Roy flew over to Link's direction.
The four of them stared at each other in a tense silence until the koopaling broke the silence with his wand, "Magma Storm!" he yelled then dozens of huge fireballs were shot in the air then came crashing down on them.
The hylians struggled to dodge the fireballs that were raining down on them, in the midst of that Kamek swooped down. Lee fired couple of bomb arrows at the wizard destroying the fireballs that were charging at her and two of them hit the wizard.
"Why you! Black Lightning!" Kamek commanded, shooting a bolt of lightning at the girl.
"AHH!" the hyrulean royal cried out.
Link went to help her but was stopped by a lava plume from Roy.
"Pay attention pal cause your battle is with me, ha!" Roy said, creating an area surrounded by lava around them.
Quickly he pulled up his shield protecting himself from the molten rock lowering it, slighting the camera showed Link's calm and focused expression.
"The Hylian Shield is the strongest shield in the world, how on earth did a loser like you get your hands on it?" Roy asked in curiosity.
(I can't get to Lee without cooling down the lava. I need to end this quickly so she won't get hurt.) he analyzed then checked his watch. They only had an hour to get to the cannon.
"Man you guys sure are a pain." Link groaned.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY PUNK?!" Roy yelled encasing his fist in a lava and went to punch the swordsman.
(Mario you better be at the top) he sweated biting his lip pulling out a giant sword that glowed an icy blue color.
-Base of Corona Mountain-
Peach slashed at another soldier with a katana that she borrowed from one of her soldiers. Her usually straight blonde hair was now curly and frizzled and there were cuts and scratches all over her faces and arms, her dress was cut in a few places. Things were going fine until Wendey and Ludwig joined the battlefield and it swung in the koopa's favor.
"YEEOOAA!" Peach cried falling to the ground by a cannonball that was shot at her.
"Just give up already! Breaking Thunder!" Ludwig said, a thunder cloud rammed into the injured princess
"You're not gonna win! Dark Waves!" Wendy sang summoning a dark psychic wave head towards the girl.
"PRINCESS!" a soldier yelled, jumping in front of her taking the hit instead of her.
"No!" Peach screamed rushing over to the fallen soldier. The koopalings just laughed and mocked what the brave soldier did.
(What do I do? We're losing this battle...I-I can't...I can't. I-I'm too weak. I just want to protect my people.) Peach whimpered, trying to fight back the tears in her eyes that fell anyways.
"Don't give up." a voice said revealing to be a Grand Star.
"Huh?" Peach barked
"Who said that?" Ludwig asked, looking around. Just then, a bright light broke free of the dark clouds, everyone stopped and looked at the Grand Star in amazement. Everybody knew about the legend of the Grand Stars, they were thought to be messengers of Hylia and the ancestors of the Mushroom Kingdom.
"Listen to the voice of the stars, you were chosen by the Goddess Hylia to end the darkness. To save the world. Use the powers Her Grace has bestowed onto you." the Grand Star spoke again.
Then the golden star flew in the sky and twirled around at a rapid pace and millions of multicolored stars fell from the sky in a brilliant light show. Seven bright lights that sparkle brighter than any other star flew down around the mountain.
Just then, a pink-colored landed inside Peach as a pink aura glowed from inside her to her surprise.
The same thing happened to Mario, Daisy, Luigi, and Toad. Peach's aura became more radiant as a pink light fell from the sky and her body absorbed it.
The same thing happened when a red gem flew into Mario, a green gem flew into Luigi, an orange gem flew into Daisy, and a teal green colored gem flew into Toad. After that happened the light began to dim down.
"Use them and fight." the Grand Star said before flying back into the cloud.
The princess felt a surge of newfound in her as all of her cuts and scratches were gone like they were never there to begin with.
(I can do it.) Peach said in her mind forcing herself to her feet, little heart shaped diamonds shimmered around her fists.
The princess glared at Wendy and Ludwig who shook in fear at the new power that she now possessed. She bent down to him, placing her hand over his injury. The fallen soldier beside her watched in amazement as his wound began to heal before she calmly marched in front of him.
(I can do it, I can do it, I can do it, I can do it, I can do it. I CAN DO IT!)
"HEART DIAMOND!" Peach yelled raising her arms with hands in front of her.
A pink aura formed from her hands as a gigantic pink glass-like diamond in the shape of a heart formed from her palms. The diamond shined beautifully in the sunlight she released the diamond and it split into two colliding with the two koopalings with blinding speed.
"Wh-What was that?" Wedney groaned, rubbing her head she turned to her brother, but he was unconscious.
She bristled in anger getting back on her clown copter picking up her wand again. "Why you.. I have no idea why a Grand Star said or who this Hyliais is but don't think just because you got a power boost, but just because you got one doesn't make you stronger than me!" she snapped waving her wand around, a dark sound wave shot from it heading towards Peach.
"Heart Blast!" she countered releasing a pink colored energy blast from her hand colliding with the sound wave. Then she threw another energy blast at her female koopaling knocking her off balance a little.
"Princess are you alright?" Rosette asked running over to her.
"I'm fine. Listen I'll deal with Wedney, but you need to take over the forts, it's the only way we'll make it up the volcano." Peach ordered the commander. Rosette bowed before she led the army up towards the forts.
Wedney was about to launch at the army but was hit again by another heart attack. "Your fight is with me." Peach said
"You're gonna regret this, you spoiled princess!" Wedney replied back. The two girls stood in silence as everything else felt like it was in slow motion around them. The Koopa princess adjusted her pink polka dot bow slightly as the blonde haired princess's hair blew gently in the wind.
(This power she received..the Grand Stars are said to have special powers, that what Daddy said. I need to be cautious and take her out quickly. It's such a pain I can't just take her out, but Daddy's orders.) Wedney sighed.
(Wendey's power is based on psychic and sound waves. I need to use long-range attacks and keep my ears covered if I'm gonna have a chance.)
Peach analyzed putting earbuds in her ears. "Ha! If you think wearing earbuds is gonna help you well reality check cause you're dead wrong!" Wedney scoffed, releasing a dark energy blast at her. A light pink wall came up from the ground in front of Peach, but it began to crack under pressure until it shattered.
"Augh!" Peach stumbled a bit quickly regaining her balance.
"You may have magic but you sure don't know how to use it!" the koopa princess laughed,
"Magnetic Wave Storm!" she yelled. Despite wearing a dress, Peach somersaulted away from the four massive sound waves and took cover in a cave trying to catch her breath huddle behind a boulder.
"Where did all that confidence go?'' the koopaling sneered. She lowered the clown copter close to the ground to search for the cave that Peach was hiding in. The clown copter passed by the mushroom princess's hideout as she quitely ran out to another one and leaped in the air.
"Heart Flash!" she yelled as a swarm of bright pink hearts swirled around Wedney's eyes as a blinding light.
"AAAAHHHH! MY EYES!" Wendy screamed in pain covering her eyes.
"Heart Diamond!" Peach said, summoning another giant heart shaped diamond that destroyed the koopaling's clown copter as it crashed to the ground, kicking up a dust storm.
As the dust died down you could see Wedney scratched up and unconscious on the ground with her destroyed copter lying on the ground four feet away from her. "I gotta admit your cannon to me by surprise, but if you think I'm just gonna sit here and let you destroy this town you're dead wrong." Peach said, looking at her defeated enemy before running off to assist the Toad Army.
(Mario, you leave the Koopa Army to me. Just please make it in time to stop that cannon!) she silently pleaded running faster.
-Floor 4: Winter Road-
As for Link, Looking down at his left hand where his birthmark began to glow. A golden triangle appeared; however only the bottom right triangle glowed on his hand. It was almost like it was reacting to the mysterious lights that were falling from the sky.
(The Triforce of Courage? But why now?) Link pondered to himself. But pushed the thoughts aside, that can wait til later now he needed to focus on the battle.
"What's going on? What's with the lights?" Lee asked her confusion.
"What the heck was that Kamek?" Roy asked but the wizard didn't answer his question.
(The Triforce of Courage! This isn't good, he needs to be felt now!) Kamek thought waving his wand.
"So you let's see how you two can handle this." Kamek said, aiming his wand at them.
"Metal Spikes!" he yelled as a swarm of tiny metal spikes charged at them. The two hylians shot four bomb arrows and destroyed the metal spikes while Roy charged at Link who dodge the attack.
The swordsman leaped in the air, his broadsword glowing with a divine light as he sliced Roy's clown copter in half in slow motion. He landed on his feet with a calm expression as the clown copter exploded behind him.
"And that's the game." he said then turned to the other battle that was taking place.
Lee glared at her opponent with blue eyes grabbing a few ice arrows. Kamek charged at her, releasing multiple poisonous magical balls at rocket speed.
The princess opened her eyes before the spikes came in contact dodging them all moving like the wind. Kamek zipped through the arrows with amazing speed deflecting the arrows with a magic barrier
(Now!) Quickly Lee reappeared behind him with three throwing knives in her hand each one had a small bombs attached to it.
"TAKE THIS!" she yelled throwing them as they went off
"EEEAAHH!" Kamek screamed in pain as the explosives went off around him. Knocking him unconscious.
Suddenly, a sharp pain jab in her head. Lee rubbed her forehead in an attempt to soothe the pain.
"Lee are you okay?" Link asked gently, shaking the girl's shoulders snapping her out of the vision. The princess shook her head as the haze in her mind faded away bringing her back into reality. "Yeah, I'm okay, don't worry." she said as when the Triforce of Courage on his hand grabbed her attention.
"Link, your hand-why is it-"
"Let's talk about it later. We need to help Mario right now." Link said she nodded in understanding.
"How are we going to get to the top? We won't make it if we run." Lee said.
Just then, two jet planes came into a nearby cliff, one of the jet's hatches opened revealing Crow.
"Hey you need a lift?" he yelled over the wind and engine with a smile.
"Perfect timing mate!" Link laughed leaping on the wing and Leefollowing his actions landing on Ax's jet wing. The two jets backed away from the cliff and zoomed up the volcano.
-Floor 5: Spring Plains-
Mario was running full speed up the volcano with flames trailing behind him. He just passed the Winter Road a few minutes ago without breaking a sweat, the plains were filled with lush trees and it was pretty humid, a sign that he was getting close to the peak. He saw a group of koopas running towards him but he blasted them away with a fireball as he continued on his way.
(Ever since that weird light came inside of me I got fire powers. I wonder what that Grand Star was talking about back then, but never mind that. I gotta save Daisy and Navi then stop that cannon!) he thought to himself.
He skidded to a halt backflipping away from Bowser as he crashed down to plains, the animals around the area fled the spot scurrying for cover.
"Heh. I should have suspected as much Mario I figured you would make your way up here. But this is the farest you're gonna go!" Bowser grinned.
"Think again pal, I'm climbing to the top to stop that canon!" Mario yelled running towards the koopa king forming a fist that turned into flames. Leaping into the air raising his fist.
"FIRE FIST!" he roared slamming his fist down onto his foe. The koopa kings raised his arms together in an x formation blocking Mario's fiery fist. The red-capped hero's eyes widened as the koopa king went into his huge shell spinning at rapid speed knocking him backwards.
"FIREBALL!" he yelled, shooting five giant fireballs at him.
Bowser retreated back into his shell and spun around at speed of fast; it created a whirlwind around him dissipating the fireballs. The two clashed again engaged in an intense hand to hand combat. Both of their auras were so powerful it made an intense gust around them in a circle until they punched each other in the face sending each other backward.
(He's stronger…) Mario gritting his teeth.
"This is the end, Mario you can't beat me this time there's no way I can stop my cannon! And after I beat you Peach will be mine and we'll finally get married!" Bowser laughed with a slight blush on his cheeks. Mario's cheeks turned red in anger growling in annoyance.
"There's no way I'll let that happen! I'm gonna stop that cannon right here and now, you're not getting away with this Bowser!" Mario said with a fierce look on his face.
Author's Note
This is part two of the Delfino Plaza battle and the next chapter will be this small arc finale. Will they be able to stop the canon in time? Stay tune to find out! Also I want to thank everybody who took the time to read this. It really helps me out since this is something I really like to do!
~SenjuPrincess~