I typed almost the entirety of this chapter on my phone because I was away from home and didn't want to wait until I get back, so I apologize if certain things look rushed and incomplete due to cutting corners, as typing on a phone isn't easy...

Chapter 8

vs. Alpha Zero

When Donkey, Diddy, Charizard, and Alpha Zero crash landed in the middle of a bustling metropolis, its inhabitants consisting mostly of people with tentacle-like hairs were shocked, and many gathered around those four to see what was going on.

Donkey, Diddy, and Charizard glared at Alpha Zero, who was still on top of the destroyed van, ready to take on him. The squirrel perform the first move, jumping at them at a fast speed and attacking with a dive kick.

The three jumped back to avoid getting hit, and then Donkey lunged at him and swung his fist, to which Alpha Zero responded by ducking down and then hitting him in the chin with an uppercut. Donkey flew back a bit from the hit, and before he could fully recover, Alpha Zero slid into him and jabbed him hard in the body rapidly hard, ending things with a roundhouse kick that knocked him to the side.

Charizard charged at Alpha Zero and attempted to hit him with his claws, but the latter dodged it and then grabbed his arm before slamming him onto the pavement hard.

From the side, Diddy used his guns to fire peanuts at him. Alpha Zero easily dodged it and then slid towards him at a blinding speed, kicking him square in the face before he could realize what was going on. Diddy flew back into a traffic light so hard that it got bent.

Donkey angrily ran at Alpha Zero and slammed down his hands, only to miss and hit the pavement instead. The gorilla proceeded to close in on Alpha Zero while throwing punches nonstop, but none of them hit at all. With a quick swing of his hand, Alpha Zero was able to hit Donkey in the neck with the side of his hand, and that alone was able to stop what the latter was doing and take steps back in pain.

Alpha Zero was about to go in for the kill when suddenly Charizard crashed into him from the side. The Pokemon slammed him onto the pavement hard by the neck and attempted to crush it against with his hands, but Alpha Zero grabbed his arm and easily bent it in an unnatural way, bringing great pain to him. Alpha Zero shoved Charizard away and then dashed at him, striking him constantly all over the body with jabs and kicks, not giving him a chance to fight back at all.

The final hit sent Charizard flying back a bit, and then Alpha Zero pulled out and threw nails at him. Moving fast, Donkey rushed in between them both with a manhole cover to use it to block the nails. He then leaped at Alpha Zero while holding the cover over his head to bash him with it.

However, Alpha Zero caught the cover, stopping it in its track almost completely and then managed to slam Donkey onto the pavement. Alpha Zero flung the cover aside after that rather than using it on the fallen gorilla.

Picking up Donkey after that, he flung the gorilla into the air before running towards him, and then he disappeared in a puff of smoke and reappeared above the gorilla to hit him with a dive kick. Donkey was unable to defend himself in time and was kicked onto the pavement.

Bouncing off the gorilla, Alpha Zero pulled out his whip and caught him by the neck before landing, and then he used his whip to pick up and swing Donkey around in circles several times. When the whip let go of Donkey, he was sent crashing into an electronics store's window.

Charizard then flew straight at Alpha Zero at a fast speed with his whole body on fire. The latter actually failed to dodge it in time and was knocked back. However, Charizard fell back with his head in pain afterwards, recoil as a result of using Flare Blitz.

Despite getting hit full on, Alpha Zero did not seem to be harmed too much by the attack. He took out a threw nails at the Pokemon, who wasn't able to escape fully and had his left wing stabbed by the nails, so he cried in pain.

Diddy shouted angrily as he ran towards Alpha Zero while firing from his guns rapidly. Alpha Zero stepped out of the way and then slid towards him with a fast speed, trying to hit him with a hand jab. Diddy managed to jump over the attack, only to get caught by his whip afterwards and then get slammed onto the pavement.

While Diddy was still bound and on the pavement, Alpha Zero attempted to stab him using his hand until he was interrupted by Donkey angrily running towards him on all fours.

Donkey roared loudly and as he jumped at Alpha Zero with his hands over his head and then swung them down like a hammer to hit him. The squirrel held up one arm and somehow managed to block the attack just like that, but the pavement underneath him cracked a bit due to the powerful force of the hit.

Donkey then threw punches rapidly at Alpha Zero, who fought back with super fast hand jabs that both nullified the gorilla's punches and hit him. Alpha Zero himself also got hit a few times but seemingly shrugged off the pain.

The intense battle all this time caused collateral damage to their surroundings, but nobody actually got hurt so far. The squid-like citizens were in awe at what they were witnessing and also confused about what was happening.

Donkey eventually stepped back from Alpha Zero, who then threw nails at him. Donkey dodged it, and the nails kept flying until they hit a squid-like bystander with green hair in the chest. He fell down on his back with a look of pain and horror, and onlookers were shocked.

Donkey saw this and was equally horrified, even feeling responsible for that happening. He turned to Alpha Zero and angrily said to him, "Leave civilians out of this!"

"You only have yourself to blame for dodging my attack in the first place," the squirrel said in response.

Enraged, Donkey charged at him, and at the same time, Charizard and Diddy also charged at Alpha Zero. Despite all three of them ganging up on him together, Alpha Zero was able hold up by himself with no problem, even if he got hit a few times.

He struck back as well, and if anything, it was the Smashers who were having a hard time against him.

Grabbing Charizard by the neck, he swung the Pokemon into Diddy, sending them both away. Without turning around, he thrust his elbow backwards, hitting Donkey hard in the abdomen and knocking him back.

Donkey fell on his back and sat up while groaning in pain. "How is he so strong?! The three of us can't lay a hand on him at all!" he thought.

Despite this, Donkey refused to back down and so stood back up for another attempt.

"Know your limits before a god," Alpha Zero said to him. "With your current power, you will never be able to defeat me, much less defeat I Am."

"You better not underestimate us Smashers," Donkey told him angrily. "We have defeated powerful foes before, so you won't be any different!"

"A common misbelief among those who have done great things, thinking they are capable of anything just because they accomplished something special in the past."

Donkey ran at him with a look of rage, and Alpha Zero didn't run at all. Donkey was close to him and about to crush his head with his massive hands when he suddenly felt a sharp and unbearable pain in his chest.

Alpha Zero had stabbed him in the chest using his hands. Blood burst out of the wound created as Donkey fell back, gasping for air while coughing out a large amount of blood.

Onlookers were horrified at what they saw and screamed in terror, but none were as horrified as Diddy and Charizard. "DONKEY! NOOOO!" cried Diddy.

"The difference between us is too big. Mortals like you can never hope to defeat a god," Alpha Zero said to him. "Now allow me to end your suffering."

He was going to give Donkey the finishing blow when suddenly a female voice called out to him, saying, "Halt your actions at once!"

Everyone turned to look at the source and saw a group of "squid people" armed with what appears to be water guns standing there. The one who spoke was the apparent leader, a girl with orange hair. "I don't know who you people are, but you caused any trouble here and even attempted to take someone's life! We are the law enforcers of Inkopolis, the New Squidbeak Splatoon, and we will not tolerate acts of injustice here!"

"Gods do not have to follow the laws of mortals. We create laws for people to follow, not follow them," Alpha Zero said to him.

"Someone has a god complex..." said a male squid person along the group.

"Surrender yourself now, and we will not harm you!" the orange-haired squid said to the squirrel.

"I told you that a god does not need to follow laws," Alpha Zero said to them. He then took out nails and threw them, doing all this at such a speed that the squid people, known as Inklings, never saw what was coming. The orange Inkling was shocked when some of her team members were stabbed in their necks by the super fast nails and pretty much died on spot.

This was enough to enrage her and give order for the others to open fire, and the Inklings fired bursts of paint from their guns.

Despite the seemingly harmless projectiles, Alpha Zero still dodged them by sliding around, and towards his attackers. He got up to one of the Inklings and stabbed her through the chest with his hand. He then turned to the orange leader at the side and tried to use the same move to kill her, but she swiftly jumped out of the way.

She continued to fire at Alpha Zero, but despite the close range between them, he was still able to dodge it. He attempted several times to hit her, but she was able to dodge swiftly.

In the midst of dodging his hand jabs, the orange Inkling took out and swung a paint roller at him. Alpha Zero managed to block it with his arm. Paint splashed everywhere as a result, some of them getting into Alpha Zero's face and hindering his vision.

He was acts taken off guard by this, and in this split second, the orange Inkling fired at point blank at his body, blasting him back with a burst of orange ink. Alpha Zero flew back some distance before hitting a car, and his clothes were shown to be torn at the front from the attack.

"I have you pinned down!" the Inkling said to him. "Outsiders tend to not realize the power of the ink we fire at! If we want to, we can make them as lethal as real bullets!"

Alpha Zero was able to stand back up, even though that attack looks like it should've injured him to the point of being unable to do so.

Before he could make a move, Donkey suddenly lunged at him from the side and slammed his head against the car door, much to the Inkling's surprise.

Diddy and Charizard were at the side with looks of shock. "Donkey!" cried the former. "Don't push yourself! You're too hurt to keep on moving!"

Despite his serious injury, the gorilla was filled with so much rage for Alpha Zero that he didn't let it hold him down. He slammed Alpha Zero's head against the car over and over brutally, to the point the car was getting ruined.

With a frustrated look, a first so far for him, Alpha Zero removed himself from Donkey and then forced the latter into the same situation as he was in earlier, slamming his head against the car. Alpha Zero then kicked Donkey against the car so hard that the latter was pushed backwards along by the gorilla.

When Donkey came to a stop, he lifted the car over his head and threw it at Alpha Zero, who avoided by disappearing in a puff of smoke. He reappeared before Donkey and was going to stab him with his hand, but Donkey managed to catch his arm and then pulled him forward to headbutt him hard in the head.

Alpha Zero was knocked back quite a distance. He then took out a handful of nails to throw at the gorilla. The orange Inkling then threw a pyramid-shaped object in front of the squirrel.

Not trusting what that thing was, the squirrel jumped back just in time to avoid getting caught in an explosion of ink caused by the object, but a large amount of ink still got into his eyes, blotting out his vision.

Donkey suddenly leaped through the ink explosion that had yet to fully dissipate. With swift movements, he snatched the nails out of Alpha Zero's hands and then stabbed him in the throat with them.

Donkey then punched him into a building wall before running up to him to mercilessly punch him in the head over and over, hitting so hard that blood was seen flying into the air.

SMASH SMASH POW SMASH POW SMASH SMAAAAAAASH!

Onlookers, including Diddy and Charizard, were horrified at the brutality that didn't seem to be stopping. Eventually, the two Smashers ran to Donkey to pull him away. "Enough! That's too much! Stop already!" Diddy told him.

When they finally pulled the heavily panting and bleeding Donkey away, they saw that Alpha Zero was in a horrid state. His head was completely mutilated, to the point that his skull and brain were visible, and his left eye was almost falling out.

It was an appearance that gave people nightmares.

Despite this, Alpha Zero was still able to speak, albeit in a weak manner. "What good is a victory that... came as a result of help from others? Such victory only proves... that you are weak and must... rely on others to win..."

"I won... That's all that matters!" Donkey said to him.

"Victory not obtained through your own strength... is not true victory... If this the extent of your strength, then your friends will not be able to win against us," said Alpha Zero.

"Don't underestimate our friends! They will defeat you all for sure and end whatever you are planning!"

"You cannot stop us, and you shouldn't... if you know what is good for this world..." said Alpha Zero. The was the last thing he ever said before he stopped breathing.

It was Donkey's turn to pass out. Diddy and Charizard tried to wake him up, while the orange Inkling immediate called for an ambulance to come help him.

TO BE CONTINUED

I based the fighting styles and appearances of the higher ranking Smash Pros on characters from Smash Bros. Melee, though Alpha Zero is a bit different.

His fighting style is based on Sheik, who is a high-tiered character in Melee. As for his appearance, I got it from someone on the competitive Smash Bros. forum Smashboards.

A while back, there was a user there called Alpha Zero, and he used Conker from Conker's Bad Fur Day as his avatar pic. He once made an outrageous statement, saying that anyone who plays Melee and doesn't know how to wavedash are weak and terrible players.

Back then, I was offended by his claim so much that I created this character. Yeah...