Some of you might be wondering why haven't the Smashers used the Holy Weapons? Indeed, they haven't been using them for a while already. I really don't find a need for them to use those weapons around these days. Most of the Smashers have also gotten a lot more powerful than before, which almost renders those weapons pointless. You can also say that I almost forgot that those weapons exist…

So either way, those are basically the reasons why the Smashers haven't used the Holy Weapons in a while. This doesn't mean I've completely abandon them, however. Perhaps I may find an opportunity to use the Holy Weapons in the future, but for now, there is no need for them.

And for those are who curious about Justice of Two Worlds' development, one out of the last three chapters is already done. The second one is in the middle of development, and it might be the toughest of the three to complete. I'm trying to see if I can get the whole thing done in a couple of months, but I can't guarantee things.

Chapter 14
Regenerator

Link and Snake were running up the island and towards the dome on the volcano when they came across Edgy Edge Edgeton the Edgiest Edged Edgelord, standing in their paths with both his swords, which were dyed in the blood of his opponents, out

"And who are you supposed to be?" Link asked him while getting into a fighting stance.

"I am the edge that shall cut through your flesh and make your blood cover the blade of my swords," replied Edge in an overdramatic manner. "Your blood shall quench my blades and satisfy my quest to enter into the darkest of all darkness. Only when I attained the darkest of the darkness shall I…"

"I've heard of him," Snake said to Link, ignoring Edge as the latter rambled on. "I think he's called Edgy Edge or something. Word has it he's thinks being an emo is very cool and all. That guy's a real nut job…"

"I'm not sure emo is the term you're looking for here…" Link said to him. "But yeah, I can tell he's a real nut job."

"…tear off your skin and hang it on my room as a reminder of the number of enemies I have slain. All those who see the number of people who have become my victims shall tremble before me and realize how weak they are before my almighty strength!" said Edge, who had been rambling nonstop all this time, even though those two weren't paying attention to him all that much.

"Yeah, yeah… If you're done speaking nonsense, how about you just come after us already and prove that you are not just talk?" Link said to him in a bored and also frustrated tone.

"What you speak may sound like courage, but what I hear are nothing but the reckless rambling of a man who thinks he is something special when he is in fact…" Before Edge could finish speaking, Snake pulled out his gun and fired at his forehead. However, Edge reacted fast and blocked it with his sword.

Snake was surprised by this and said, "Looks like he does have skills after all!"

BGM: 02 Battle – Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (Super Smash Bros. Brawl)

"Behold the skill I possess and tremble in fear at its might!" said Edge as he crossed his swords together, and the blood dying the blades began glowing. "Bloody Execution!" He swung his swords together to fire a red x-shaped projectile in their direction.

Snake got out of the way, while Link held up his shield and successfully blocked the attack. He then ran towards Edge and clashed swords with him. Both sides swung their weapons at each other with tremendous force, causing sparks to fly around as a result.

Edge's swords eventually glowed in red as he continued to swing them, and when he hit Link's sword, shockwaves were created that resulted in Link receiving a recoil. After Link took steps back, Edge swung one of his swords to fire a red crescent-shaped projectile. "Bloody Crescent!"

Link rolled out of the way in time before charging at Edge again. Edge slammed down one of his swords against Link's sword so hard that a large shockwave was created, blowing Link back.

Snake fired from his gun at Edge after that, but the latter easily deflected with one sword. Despite this, the former kept on firing, only for each bullet to be deflected. Edge then fired red crescent at Snake, who jumped out of the way before pulling out a grenade and hurling it at him, but Edge easily swatted it aside, where it exploded shortly after hitting the ground.

Snake took out something and hurled it at Edge, who swatted it away again. At least that's what Edge thought. In reality, Snake threw a sticky plastic explosive, a C4, that stuck onto Edge's sword when they came in contact. Smirking, Snake took out a remote and press the sole button on it to detonate the C4. Edge was engulfed in an explosion. "Got you!" commented Snake, confident that he got him.

To his surprise, Edge charged out of the smoke, looking unharmed. Snake was ready to defend himself when suddenly Link got in front of Edge to block his sword attack aimed for Snake. Link then kicked Edge back in the abdomen before flinging a boomerang at him. Edge easily deflected it, and then Link charged at him again to stab him in the body.

Edge blocked it by crossing his swords together, and Link tried hard to push against him. While the two were doing this, Snake ran behind Edge while reloading his gun and then fired from there. To his surprise, the bullets bounced off Edge. "What the heck?!" said Snake in surprise.

Edge then forcefully swung his swords to sides to repel Link, and then he spun while sticking his swords out to the side to unleash red crescents in various directions. "Death Spinner!"

Link blocked one heading towards him with his shield, while Snake ducked underneath the one heading for him. Edge charged at Snake afterwards and swung down one sword at him, but the latter stepped aside in the nick of time before taking out his sword to stab him. However, the blade broke when it came in contact with Edge's skin, much to his surprise.

Snake hurriedly moved back from him while taking out an uzi and firing at him, but Edge easily knocked away all the bullets. "I can accept him knocking away the bullets, but being immune to getting shot and getting stabbed… The only explanation for this is… armament haki!" Snake said in his head.

Edge then slashed the uzi, destroying it, and Snake backed away in shock. Edge was going to slash Snake afterwards, but Link dashed at him from behind and stabbed him through the back. Edge cried in pain and coughed out blood, but managed to remain standing.

When Link pulled out his sword, Edge turned around to slash him, but Link blocked his attacks with his shield while fighting back with his sword. Because Edge was injured, he was unable to fight properly, and Link was able to score multiple hits at him.

"It is not over until the blood of one of us is drained completely! You shall witness the power of I possess that shall pulverize your bones and burn your skin!" said Edge as he raised his swords into the air, and the blades glowed in bright red. "Behold my ulti…"

Before he could perform an attack, Link slashed him diagonally across the chest, interrupting his supposed ultimate attack. Edge took several steps back in pain, and then he was shot in the back rapidly by bullets. With bullet holes all over his body, he turned around to see Snake holding an uzi. "But I destroyed your weapon…" said Edge. After that, Snake pulled out a pistol and shot him right in the head. Edge then fell back dead.

"I brought extras," Snake said to the dead body.

BGM Ends

Ganondorf and Bowser were standing close to each other when they beat up some lower ranking Smash Pros members. The soldiers they helped were thanking and cheering for them.

"This is too easy!" complained Bowser. "I thought Smash Pros are supposed to be top of the world folks? Where are all the strong ones?"

"Sounds like you have a death wish if you want to face a strong foe," said a voice. The duo turned and saw that Irene had showed up.

"Oh ho, you mean you are more than qualified to give me a challenge? I hope you better not disappoint me!" Bowser said to her, sounding enthusiastic.

Ganondorf glared at Irene for a few seconds and then said to Bowser, "Watch out… I can sense that she's definitely a powerful person. You better not underestimate her."

"That's Irene! She's a very powerful member of the Smash Pros! I heard she was a candidate for becoming one of the four god-tier members!" one of the onlooker soldiers told the Smashers.

"That's what I want to hear! This will provide me good fun and practice!" said Bowser, pleased with what he heard.

"Trust me; you won't be having fun once I get serious with you," Irene said to her in an intimidating tone.

"Oh, I'm so scared!" said Bowser in a sarcastic manner. "All right; let's see if you really live up to your words! Since you're a lady, I'll be a gentleman and let you have the first move!"

Irene said nothing but simply stared at him. She then broke the silence. "Your loss." After saying that, she suddenly slid at Bowser at a fast speed and swung her hand at him, creating a trail of fire that came out from each of her nails when she did so.

Bowser was struck in the front part of his body and pushed back, but his shell was strong enough to endure the blow. "That caught me be surprise, but too bad it did nothing to me!" he said. "My turn!" He then breathed fire at Irene, and she didn't run at all but instead let the flames engulf her.

When Bowser stopped breathing fire, he was surprised to see Irene completely unharmed, even though the fire was still burning on her body. It soon disappeared. "What?! How come you're not burned?!" he said in surprise.

"Looks like you're a bad matchup for me," she said while brushing off a small bit of fire on her left shoulder.

"Judging by what I saw, it stands to reason that she was fire-based powers, which also includes immunity to said element," Ganondorf said to Bowser.

"Well, that only makes things more challenging, which is good!" said Bowser. "I'll take on you with my fists and claws instead!" He ran at Irene and threw a punch, but she easily dodged it by sliding to the side. He grabbed Bowser by the side of the neck and easily lifted him into the air before hurling him backwards.

Irene ran after and jumped at him, swinging her hands at him and attacking with a fiery finger wipe that knocked him even farther. As soon as Irene landed, she turned around just in time to grab Ganondor by the fist when he attempted to punch her.

Irene tried to punch him with her other free hand, but Ganondorf caught her fist. He then lifted her into the air and slammed her hard onto the ground, though she got back up with a fast speed and backed away from him.

Fire swirled around her and covered her fist before she lunged at Ganondorf to attack him. He responded by punching her with a fist full of dark energy, but she coated her arm in haki to block the attack, though the punch stopped her in midair.

With her hands on fire, Irene attacked Ganondorf rapidly with fiery finger swipes that he blocked by pulling his cape in front of himself and coating it with haki to harden it to the point it was almost like steel.

Suddenly, Irene felt tremendous pain when Bowser thrust his claws right through her body. "Gotcha!" he said.

Ganondorf then grabbed Irene by the neck and burned her with dark fire before hurling her away. The two watched as she hit the ground, only to be surprised to see her standing back up, and the bloody hole on her body disappear at a fast speed. Her fatal injury had healed in a matter of seconds, including the burnt spot on her neck caused by the dark fire.

"What the?! How did she do that?!" said Bowser in shock.

"Just what is her power?" wondered Ganondorf.

Flames surrounded Irene as her body began to change form. "The mythical version of the Sala Sala Fruit," she replied as her transformation process finished. She now had red skin accompanied by black stripes, and her head was as if it stopped in the middle of changing from a human's head into a salamander's head.

"What the heck?!" said Bowser in surprise.

"A Devil Fruit…" said Ganondorf.

"Salamanders have powerful regeneration, and in folklores, they are associated with fire," explained Irene in her new form. "No matter what you do to me, I will be able to heal off all my injuries. You might as well say that I have achieved immortality!"

"There's no point in immortality if you can't put up a fight! You'll only end up become an eternally suffering punching bag!" Bowser told her.

BGM: King Bowser – Super Mario Bros. 3 (Super Smash Bros. Ultimate)

"You shall see for yourself if I'm a punching bag or not," Irene said to him in intimidating tone. She then slid towards Bowser at a fast speed and, before he could react, gave him a powerful headbutt to his head that knocked him back quite a distance.

Ganondorf then approached to attack Irene. Both sides traded punches and kicks at fast speeds, their attacks covered in their respective elements. At first, it seemed that neither side was having the upper hand, but eventually, Ganondorf was slowly wearing out Irene.

He punched her hard in the face followed by grabbing the top of her head and slamming it against his knee multiple times. He then lifted her into the air and slammed her onto the ground so hard that she bounced up into the air quite a height. Using one hand, Ganondorf shot a ball of dark energy at her that exploded on impact.

Irene was blown back through the air and landed violently onto the rocky ground. She got back up while grunting in pains. There were some visible wounds on her body, all of which healed up in an instant.

"What a recovery speed…!" commented Ganondorf.

Irene held up one hand and generated fire on it. She then pointed it to the side, just in time to release a burst of fire that struck Bowser and blew him back when he tried to sneak up on her to attack her.

Bowser retained his footing before leaping high and fast towards her to flatten her with a body slam. Irene easily avoided him by stepping to the side. She then lifted him up by one horn and gave him a fiery headbutt to his forehead. Bowser endured it and then gave her his own headbutt. He struck her with even more force than his, causing a sickening crack to be heard as her head whipped back at an unnatural angle.

Irene let go of Bowser as she fell on her back, seemingly dead from the neck breaking. A few seconds later, however, her neck reconnected itself, and she got back up with a look of anger.

"That's broken…" commented Bowser with a tone that implied jealousy.

Irene pulled back her hand and lunged at Bowser to attack with a fiery hand swipe, to which the latter tried to counter with a punch. When Irene swung her hand, a large trail of fire was created, successfully blowing Bowser away.

Ganondorf rushed at Irene immediately after that to attack with a hand full of dark energy. Irene raised her hand to block it in time, and both sides traded blows against each other violently that ended with Ganondorf landing a successful punch to Irene's abdomen, resulting in an explosion of dark energy that went through her body, thus creating a hole on her.

Irene was blown back by the explosion and landed violently, only for the hole on her body to disappear at a fast rate. She jumped back up as if nothing happened to her, and fire began swirling her body as she transformed again. This time, she got on all fours and completely became an intimidating salamander about the size of a car.

With her body on fire, Irene rushed on all fours towards Ganondorf at a fast speed, leaving behind a trail of fire in the process. In response, the Gerudo slammed his fist onto the ground to send forth a chain of dark explosions. Though Irene ran to the side to avoid direct contact with them, the bursting of the ground caused by the attack knocked her into the air.

Ganondorf then ran and jumped at her with his hands raised over his head, and a ball of energy was formed and gradually growing in size. He hurled the projectile diagonally downwards at Irene, pushing her to the ground with it, and an implosion was created.

Ganondorf landed afterwards, watching the implosion still happening. Suddenly, Irene, charred from head to toe but gradually healing up, charged at him still in her salamander form. She rushed at such a speed that the Gerudo was unable to react in time and was bitten in the shoulder, and she was still on fire, thus giving him burning pain as well.

Ganondorf grunted in pain as he tried to pry her off, only to be lifted into the air and swung around before being hurled away. Irene was going to approach him when Bowser crashed onto her back all of a sudden hard, almost crushing her. He then grabbed the upper half of her mouth and pulled it upwards in an attempt to break it, but then Irene jumped and performed a complete flip in the air, hurling Bowser off her back as a result.

With her tail burning brightly, she gave Bowser a powerful tail whip to the body. Though Bowser got hit, he grabbed hold of the tail when it touched her and was not sent flying. Enduring the fire, he swung Irene in circles before hurling her away.

Irene changed back into her hybrid form in midair and landed on her feet. She looked up to see Ganondorf and Bowser running at her together.

She generated a large amount of fire in her hand and then unleashed a massive flamethrower at them. Bowser withdrew into his shell and spun as he tossed himself forward. When the flamethrower came in contact with him, it somehow got caught up in the spinning motion and swirled around the shell, basically becoming a fire tornado.

Bowser collided into a surprised Irene and pushed her back, grinding her with the spinning motion of the shell and also burning her, though the latter didn't affect her.

When Bowser was done spinning, the fire spread out almost like a shockwave, blowing back Irene. Ganondorf approached Irene afterwards with his fist pulled back, and he slammed a fist full of dark energy in the form of fire and electricity into her body, creating an explosion.

Irene was badly burned by it, and it was painful, even if she healed from her wounds almost instantaneously. Bowser and Ganondorf approached her again, striking her nonstop, and though she fought back her hardest, she was still overpowered by them.

POW SMASH BANG WHAM SMASH KICK BAM!

BGM Ends

After more than a minute of trading blows with each other, everyone was feeling tired. Ganondorf and Bowser had quite a bit of injuries, whereas Irene had none for obvious reasons. Despite this, she was breathing heavily and no longer had the strength to stand up.

Changing back to her normal form and falling on her knees, she said, "Fine… You win… but we're still going to succeed… in the end…" With that, she fell to the side and passed out.

Ganondorf and Bowser were fatigued as well, but still had enough strength to stand. "Guess regeneration does not equate to infinite stamina…" said Bowser.

TO BE CONTINUED

Irene's fighting style is supposedly to partially based on Bowser's. The other god-tiered Pros are based on characters found in Melee, so I figured someone who is almost as powerful as them should be based on one as well.

And in case you haven't realized it yet, all the music choices used here are ones found in Smash Bros. games, remixed or not.