Chapter 13
Violence Towards Women

BGM: Boss Fight 1 (Kid Icarus: Uprising)

Equastrina jumped at Falco while performing a roundhouse kick, to which the latter responded by swinging his leg at her. Their legs collided against each other with a powerful force that actually whipped up a miniature shockwave.

They then backed away from each other, and Equastrina said to him, "That's one strong kick you've got there…!"

"Of course! You can't find a better leg than mines anywhere in the world!" boasted Falco.

"Yeah right! There's no way you can match a horse in kicking power! I'll show you!" Equastrina told him. She ran at him and attacking with a thrust kick. Falco lifted his leg and used his knee to block the attack.

Thanks to using armament haki, he was able to harden that part of the body enough to withstand the blow.

The pheasant jumped back a couple of feet after the attack, and then Equastrina leaped at him in an attempt to hit him with a dive kick. Falco jumped out of the way, and she slammed her foot onto the ground so hard that she created a miniature crater.

Falco whipped out his gun and was about to pull the trigger when suddenly Equastrina launched herself at him at a blinding speed, so fast that she disarmed the gun with a hit from her knee before he could fire it. Planting one foot onto the ground firmly, she swung her other foot at Falco's waist, kicking the pheasant away.

Falco was able to land on his feet despite the painful kick. He glared at her and said, "You better not get so full of yourself, or else you'll find yourself being sent to the glue factory!"

"You're just salty that you're losing the fight!" Equastrina taunted him.

"On the contrary, I'm the one who is winning soon!" said Falco as he stood back up, and fire began coming out of his legs.

Equastrina noticed this and was surprised, but nevertheless got into fighting stance again. "Get too full of yourself and you'll end up on someone's dinner table!" She then ran at Falco at a fast speed to kick him, and the pheasant countered with his own kick.

Probably due to his leg being on fire, Falco was able to kick harder than Equastrina this time, bringing pain to her. The fire also burned her. Equastrina cried in pain as she almost fell to the ground, and before she could recover, Falco kicked with his other leg nonstop rapidly, striking her all over the body.

SMASH KICK SMASH KICK KICK SMASH!

Fiery shockwaves were created with each kick, and eventually, he gave one last stronger than usual kick that shot Equastrina across the place. Some random Smash Pros were fighting some soldiers when suddenly she crashed into the former and pushed them across the place. They kept on flying until they finally came to a stop from crashing into a large rock.

CRASH!

With his bow split into a pair of blades, Dark Pit brought them down onto Cindy, who raised her staff to block the attack. The latter then pulled back her weapon before swinging it at Dark Pit at a fast speed, to which the latter used his blades to block each of the hits.

Their strikes were fast and hard, but neither side landed an actual hit on each other. Cindy thrusted her staff forward to hit Dark Pit, who stepped to the side. She swung the staff to the same side immediately afterwards, knocking Dark Pit away, but he was unharmed for the most part.

Merging his blades together into a bow, Dark Pit fired arrows made of dark energy at Cindy, who spun on bow at a fast speed like a spinning fan to deflect them. Dark Pit jumped to different locations and continued to fire dark arrows, only for them to be deflected the same way.

After deflecting some more arrows, Cindy ran at Dark Pit and thrust the staff at him, and the tip extended forward. Fortunately for Dark Pit, he reacted in time by moving to the side. Cindy kept on attempting to thrust the staff into him, and the latter kept on dodging with swift movements.

He was eventually backed against a large rock, and when he dodged the staff thrust again, Cindy's weapon made a clean hole on the rock when it thrust into it, despite the tip not being sharp at all. "Good thing I dodged that the first time…!" thought Dark Pit in surprise when he saw how the staff was able to pierce a hole on the rock.

"Scared? You better be! I'm a pro with this, which is why you will never beat me!" said Cindy as she spun and moved the staff around herself in a flashy manner to show off.

"You talk big, and that's going to be the end of you!" Dark Pit said to her. "I'm not as merciful as the others, so you better not get on my bad side!" Pulling back his hand, the ring around his wrist glowed, and instantly, a large mechanical gauntlet was formed around his arm, almost as big as his body. Despite its size, Dark Pit was still able to charge forward at a fast speed.

Surprised, Cindy hurriedly held up her staff in defense. With the Electroshock Arm generating electricity, Dark Pit gave her an uppercut using the gauntlet and knocked her into the air, her staff flying out of her hand.

Cindy fell on her back with a painful thud, while her staff fell not too far away, standing upright from planting one end of itself into the ground when it landed. Cindy got back up and hurried over to her staff and pulled it out of the ground just in time to use it to block a punch from Dark Pit when the he attacked her with his gauntlet again.

The electricity coming from the gauntlet traveled into Cindy's metal staff, zapping Cindy and making her drop her weapon in shock. Dark Pit used this opportunity to slap her away using the Electroshock Arm.

Cindy tumbled violently onto the ground and came to a stop after a while, and she slowly got back up while groaning in pain. She turned to see that Dark Pit, after removing his gauntlet, had picked up her staff. "That's mine!" she angrily said to him before running towards him to get it back.

Dark Pit dodged her as she closed in on her to try to get back her staff. Though she moved swiftly, the dark angel was easily able to keep the staff away from her.

Eventually, Dark Pit kneed her in the abdomen hard, and while she was in pain, he pointed the staff at her and extended it. The front end went right through Cindy's left eye and out of the back of her head. Needless to say, she screamed in pure agony. "YAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Dark Pit let go of the staff, and Cindy continued to scream while trying to pull the staff out of her eye and head. Without showing any form of mercy, Pit split his bow in two and then used one of the halves to cut her head clean off.

SLAAAAAAAAAAAASH!

With a large amount of blood shooting out like a geyser from the neck stump, Cindy's headless body fell back onto the ground. Cindy's head, with a look of horror and pain, was still impaled by the staff, which was held in the air by Dark Pit.

He held the staff upright and then planted it into the ground to hold it in place, while the head continued to remain on it, though it was slowly sliding down, leaving parts of the staff it passed through covered in blood.

Ridley was moving around at a fast speed and beating up various lower ranking Smash Pro members who were easy for him to deal with. As he was doing so, he sensed danger approaching and thus jumped out of the way just in time to avoid purple liquid being shot at him.

He saw that it was Arthropa who fired at him using her scorpion tail. Without saying anything else, Ridley charged straight at her to attack her. The bug-like girl used the help of her spider-like legs growing out of her back to jump high into the air and over him. As she was going over him, she fired more purple liquid from her tail at him, only to miss as well.

After she landed, she looked up to see Ridley shooting fireballs from his mouth in her direction. She swiftly moved away using the help of her spider legs. Ridley dashed at her afterwards, and she responded by thrusting her scorpion tail at him, aiming for his head.

However, he moved his head to the side, just enough for the tail to go past him harmlessly, and collided his hand into her neck, pushing her across the place. Arthropa grunted as she planted two of her spider legs into the ground firmly to avoid being pushed back, but Ridley pushed with such a force that she ended up creating trails on both sides as a result.

"Enough already!" she angrily said before extending her tail over herself to such a length that it was able to get to Ridley's back to stab him there. Her tail came to a stop when Ridley's own tail caught it, however.

Letting go of her neck, Ridley lifted her into the air using his tail, which was wrapped around hers, and slammed her onto the ground hard a couple of times before hurling her away. Arthropa was able to recover in midair and land on her feet. "You dare make fun of me!" she angrily said to him. There were small injuries on her, and yellowish-green blood were bleeding from them.

"That's the point of fights," he said to her.

"Nobody makes fun of us Smash Pros and get away alive!" she said before firing bursts of purple liquid from her tail at him. With swift movements, Ridley dodged them while closing in on her and then attacking with his tail. She also swung her tail at his, and both their body parts clashed against each other over and over hard.

Ridley eventually backed away into the air and shot a fireball at her, to which she avoided it by sliding backwards, a move that all Smash Pros were good at. Ridley dived at her afterwards and tried to slam down his hand onto her, but she once again slid back.

Arthropa thrust one of her spider legs at him to impale him, but Ridley caught it with his hand before thrusting his tail at her, stabbing her in the abdomen. Arthropa grunted in pain while coughing out yellowish-green blood.

Arthropa took some steps back with her hand over her wound, and then she glared at Ridley. "Why you?! DIE LIKE A BUG THAT YOU ARE!" She then extended all her spider legs at him to stab him all over the body.

Ridley defended himself by closing his wings in front of his body, and the spider legs were unable to penetrate them. "Armament haki?!" said Arthropa in shock.

When Ridley pulled back his wings, fire was burning in his mouth. Arthropa hurriedly moved out of the way, but he suddenly charged at her in a blink of an eye, grabbed her by the collar, and then slammed her onto the ground. He then flew into the air and shot a large blast of fire onto her.

KABOOOOOOOOM!

BGM Ends

When the explosion cleared, a charred crater was revealed to have been created by the fire blast. Arthropa was lying in the center, charred and badly wounded. Ridley landed next to the crater, and Arthropa looked at him weakly and said, "You… How dare you…?! So violent towards… a woman…!"

"I prefer younger girls," Ridley told him with a straight face. She gave her a "what the heck" look in response before passing out.

TO BE CONTINUED

I'mnotsosecretlyintoryona

The arthropod equivalent of blood is called hemolymph, which is usually green in color. Since Arthropa has bug-like qualities, I decided to go one step further by giving her hemolymph rather than blood.