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BGM: Where is the Hope? (Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age)

Yang dug herself out of the rubble, pulling herself out of it as she fell on her knees, panting. Her aura surrounded her as she clenched her fists. She could feel her strength returning to her as she looked up and glared at the Blast-O-Matic, smoke was sizzling out of the laser. "That… that scaly bastard…" She growled, punching the ground as she slowly rose up, her violet eyes turning red and her hair catching ablaze. She took a step forward until she found herself on the destroyed beach. She looked directly into the mouth and scowled. "I'm coming for you." She said.

"Fire girl survive big explosion. Impressive."

Yang turned her head to see Mumbo and the Banana Fairy Queen approaching her. "Who are you?" Yang asked.

"I am Mumbo Jumbo. Shaman of Spiral Mountain and friend of Bear and Bird."

"And I am the Banana Fairy Queen, a resident here on DK Isle. I live on an island not too far from here."

"Nice to meet you. I am-"

"Yang Xiao Long." The queen said. "My subjects have been watching over you ever since you came to DK Isle."

"You have? …Then why haven't you done anything to help out?!"

"It is not like us to meddle in one's affairs. The residents here on DK Isle usually come over to my island for guidance. I may not rule over DK Isle, but I do tend to visit there often. We know that you were drained of your aura, and how Cranky Kong brought your aura back."

"I know… but…" Yang turned to the rubble, saddened.

"Do not grieve for them. I can sense all of their lives buried underneath the rubble. They may be trapped, but they are alive. My fairies are doing everything they can to get them out of there."

Yang breathed a sigh of relief. "You're the protector of the isle, aren't you?"

"To some, I am."

Yang smiled a bit. "Sounds good enough for me." She said and turned to Mumbo. "How about you?"

"Mumbo came to the isle with Bear and Bird on vacation. We did not know Gruntilda was working with crocodile. It was just our luck when she trapped all of us."

"How did you get out of your prison?" Yang asked.

"Gruntilda didn't know about my island, she didn't even notice us." The queen responded. "When she was done working her magic, I went out to try to find anyone… and there Mumbo was, lying down in a cage just behind the isle. I busted him out of there and he made himself at home in my island… we were trying to find a way to return the favor, but you all put a stop to Gruntilda. While you were trying to find the others, we discovered Weiss trying to break herself out of the Crystal Caverns, so I sent Mumbo to try and help her."

"When Mumbo came to caverns, Mumbo saw ice girl fighting polar bear. She succeeded, but fell into the water. If Mumbo had not saved her, she would have drowned."

"…And she wouldn't have saved us from that grand piano…"

"Exactly." The queen nodded. "Your friends are being taken away by K. Rool to the dungeons as we speak. To him, he thinks you are dead… but here you are, alive."

"Fire girl may not have noticed, but look at your hands." Mumbo requested as Yang brought her hands up, as she saw a blue aura surrounding her hands. Her eyes widened in surprise.

"…No way…"

"You have struggled against using the Hadoken, but your willpower to take down K. Rool, along with Gruntilda, was enough to finally unlock it." The queen smiled.

"I… I almost gave up on this… I didn't think it was possible."

"Nothing is impossible as long as you put your mind to it." The queen smiled. "Now… what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to take K. Rool down once and for all."

"Good choice." The queen turned around and suddenly whistled as some banana fairies flew over. "Take this young girl to the mouth of the Blast-O-Matic. She has a score to settle."

"As you wish, your grace!" A Banana fairy saluted.

Yang smiled. "Thanks, your highness." She said as the Banana Fairies picked her up and carried her to the mouth.

"Good luck… you're going to need it." The queen softly spoke.

End BGM

With K. Rool…

"Heheheh, consider this your new home." K. Rool smirked, as everyone was in different glass cells. Ruby was in a fetal position, the light in her eyes had disappeared ever since she saw her sister getting blown up. Her whole body felt numb.

"Ruby…" Weiss looked over to her. "Ruby! Look at me…" She requested, but it fell on deaf ears. All Ruby heard was quiet, as if she had shut everything out. A few tears fell from her empty eyes.

"She's… she's shutting everything out…" Weiss said. "She can't even hear me!"

Qrow growled. "The one thing that was holding her together was Yang… and now that she's gone…" He looked away. "She won't be the same anymore."

"Oh, don't be so dramatic!" K. Rool mocked. "I'm sure she'll come around when she feels like it! Ahahahaha!" He laughed, and then felt a poke on his arm. "Yes, what is it?" He asked, turning to a Kremling.

"Sire, um… I need to speak to you, privately."

"Certainly!" K. Rool smiled, happily walking away with his minion while some Klumps and Kasplats were walking around to keep an eye on the prisoners.

"Yang…" Ruby could only say, more tears falling as she buried herself in her legs.

"So! What did you want to tell me?" K. Rool asked once the others were out of earshot.

"It's about what you did to the blondie…"

"Ha! Is she a skeleton?" He smirked.

"No, sire… she's alive."

"What was that now? I must be in a jolly good mood to not hear you correctly."

"No, I'm right. Take a look at this." He said, pointing to the security footage as they saw the small Banana Fairies carrying Yang and dropping her off at the mouth.

K. Rool's eyes widened. "Impossible!"

"I said the exact same thing!"

"…No one should have lived through that!" K. Rool growled. "Lock the place down, boost security if you have to! I'll be in my throne room!" He said and walked off.

"But sire, what if she makes it through?"

K. Rool turned around. "She won't. I'll be watching from the throne room. If she succeeds, and that's a big if… I will personally pummel her like last time!" He said and walked off. "Now do your job!"

"Yes sire!"

Back with Yang…

"Thanks guys!" Yang waved.

"You're welcome!" A Banana fairy waved as they flew back.

Yang looked into the entrance of the mouth, closing her eyes and taking a deep breath… and then she opened them, getting into a fighting stance. "Here we go!"

BGM: Destroyed Skyworld (Kid Icarus Uprising)

Yang quickly ran inside, where she immediately saw that she was greeted by a few Klumps. "There she is!" A Klump exclaimed.

"Out of my way!" Yang yelled.

"Not a chance!" One of them exclaimed as they threw orange grenades at her, forcing her to roll out of the way and ran over. A Klump ran over and punched her, but she grabbed him by the arm and twisted it, then punched him right in the chest.

"Ooof!" He groaned as he tried to fight back, but Yang suplexed him to the ground and then grabbed one of his orange grenades and threw it at a Klump, immediately knocking him down as there was one Klump left.

"S-stay back, I'm warning you!" The Klump yelled, throwing an orange grenade… but Yang caught it and threw it back, exploding on his gut. "Argh!" He groaned as he tried to get up, but once he did, Yang was close to him.

"SHORYUKEN!" Yang yelled, knocking the Klump in the air and knocking him down. Once Yang landed, she quickly ran up the stairs only to see a Kasplat laughing and threw a barrel down at her, forcing her to jump to the side. The Kasplat kept throwing barrels down the stairs to try and slow her down, until Yang quickly punched a barrel to hit him in the head to knock him over. She then ran up the stairs and punched the Kasplat a few times before delivering an uppercut to knock him down for good.

"Stay down." Yang said as she ran off, delivering punches to the Kremlings and then kicked a Klaptrap toward a wall. She ran off through the corridor and jumped into the air, punching the ground to knock down a wave of Klaptraps. She then ran into the main generator room where she saw the Smash Ball was locked inside the Power Generator. "Who knew a Smash Ball had this much power…?" She wondered to herself.

She then noticed something as she backed up and saw the power generator was looking really out of shape. The metal was bent and warped, some pieces had fallen off, one part was on fire… and there was a loud creaking sound as if it sounded like it was about to collapse at any minute. "It has this much power to power it up… and then once used, it completely destroyed itself…" She mused. "Smash Balls are no laughing joke… it put so much stress into it."

She then turned around and noticed several Kremlings knocked on the ground, piles of metal were on top of them. "What happened?" She asked.

"Uuuugh… we used the Smash Ball's full power… to charge it up… we had no idea… that it would cause the Power Generator to… fall apart…" A Kremling groaned. "Smash Balls are… dangerous…"

Yang clenched her fists. She walked over to the door that held the Smash Ball and tore it off, retrieving the Smash Ball as it looked like it had all of its power drained. It then cracked in Yang's hand and then shattered, millions of pieces falling to the ground. She clenched her fists. "Just how powerful are these things…?" She wondered to herself and then clenched her fists. She remembered how Bowser used the Smash Ball to become Giga Bowser on Yoshi's Island, K. Rool used this to power up his Blast-O-Matic and wiped DK Isle off the map, nearly killing her in the process if it wasn't for Cranky saving the day.

If these Smash Balls were used in the wrong hands… who knows what would happen if someone like Ganondorf used it, or King Boo plotting his revenge against Luigi and Jade, or someone like Torchwick… or someone worse than him. She knew what she had to do. She had to stop this. She had to make sure K. Rool doesn't blow something else up. She imagined it being used against Beacon or the Smash Mansion, or even Toad Town.

"No one should need this much power…" Yang said and ran off, leaving the crumbling main generator alone while punching ahead through any of the Kremlings that stood in her way. She didn't know where her friends were at, but she had to take care of K. Rool first. The mad crocodile had to be taken down no matter what. She ran up the stairs and into the throne room.

End BGM

Yang kicked open the door and saw that it was empty yet again. She immediately went over to his throne when she noticed the security footage on the screen. She went over to check it out and saw the remains of DK Isle, but that wasn't the only thing she saw. She saw her friends and family in the dungeons. She saw Weiss looking defeated, Blake leaning against a wall, Banjo and Kazooie trying to bust their way out and failing, Donkey Kong, Chunky and Tifa trying to punch their way out, only to fail. Tiny was pacing around, Diddy was sitting down with a sigh, Lanky was using his arms as jump rope to occupy himself, Shantae was sitting down and using her fireballs as a distraction for herself, Bolo was lying on his back taking a nap, Sky leaned on a wall with her arms folded, Rotty was throwing her head against the wall like a ball to preoccupy herself, Piranha Plant was also taking a nap, Qrow was pacing around, but unlike Tiny, he was absolutely furious.

And then she laid eyes on Ruby. She could see her looking like she has given up, the light in her eyes were gone, tears were streaming down her cheeks… her eyes just looked empty. She was in a fetal position and it looked like she was in the state where she had lost everything. Yang put her hand over her mouth, a tear running down her cheek. Seeing her sister like this nearly broke her heart. Her shock immediately turned to rage and pounded her fists on the control panel. "He'll pay for this!" She yelled.

She turned around to see the portal to the arena. Without even blinking, she immediately ran into the portal, sending her back to the arena. She walked inside, noticing the bleachers were empty. She immediately stepped into the ring. "Oi! Croc head! Show yourself!"

A spotlight shined brightly on a bleacher. "I'm not sure how you managed to live… but you won't be so lucky this time."

Yang immediately turned her head to see K. Rool walking down. "You…" She clenched her fists as K. Rool smirked, leaping over to the arena and landing on the canvas.

BGM: A Tense Moment (Super Mario Galaxy)

"You're going to pay for this." Yang said.

"Oh, really now? I have won." K. Rool smirked as they slowly started circling around each other. "In fact, I have won twice."

"Yeah, I gathered that… but no matter how many times you kick me down, I'm going to come back swinging."

"Tell me… how did you live?"

"I got my aura back. You can thank the old man for that."

"Cranky, eh? Well know… I guess I'll have to punch it out of you this time." K. Rool chuckled, not even fazed by Yang's aura coming back.

"Your obsession over me destroying you several months ago proves that you hold a major grudge… and I'm going to knock you down a peg or two."

"Heh! You will try! Once I get my hands on more Smash Balls, who knows what I will use my Blast-O-Matic on this time? All I have to do is repair the main generator."

Yang's eyes widened. "You know about it?"

"Of course, a Kremling told me about it after I gloated to your friends. It's a price to pay for using such power… but it is worth it. I'll just keep rebuilding until there's nothing left to destroy. Who knows what I will strike next once I get my hands on more of them! I might fire it at the Smash Mansion for fun, I might use it on the Mushroom Kingdom, I might use it on that school of yours… heck, I could probably pack this up, head to Dreamland and make a mess of things over there! There's no telling where I'll strike next! Heheheahahahaha!"

"You're a mad man…" Yang growled. "Do you know what kind of power the Smash Balls can do?! Some of your men are dead because of you! They've been crushed by metal!"

"A small price to pay for power." K. Rool smirked. "They knew what they were doing."

"So you don't care what happens to your men… as long as you are in power?!"

"That is right. They follow my lead all the time, no matter how questionable it may be!" K. Rool smirked.

Yang clenched her fists. "You need to be stopped. Smash Balls are not to be taken lightly!"

"Oh yeah, who's going to stop me?"

"You're looking right at her."

"Ho! That's a laugh… you really think you can stop me, firecracker?"

"I don't think I will… I know I will. I will do what I must."

"Well, blondie… let's see if you can take me down."

End BGM

The two of them stopped walking and got in their fighting positions.

"For glory!" K. Rool exclaimed.

"For my friends!"

BGM: The Phoenix (Fall Out Boy)

Yang and K. Rool charged at each other, both of them raising their fists and punching each other, their fists connecting to their cheeks as they jumped back. K. Rool quickly threw his crown at Yang, but she rolled out of the way and then grabbed the crown, throwing it back at K. Rool, smacking it into him as she launched herself to her, punching him a few times with a right and left hook, and then used an uppercut. K. Rool retaliated with a counter punch and then grabbed her, quickly jumping in the air and using a Backbreaker. "Gah!" Yang winced as K. Rool threw her to the ropes and then punched her in the face when she returned, but Yang slid underneath and punched him hard in the back in retaliation.

K. Rool turned around and brought out his Blunderbuss, shooting her with a cannonball but Yang rolled out of the way and then charged at K. Rool, but then saw him aiming his Blunderbuss to try and suck her up, but she jumped up in the air and saw him aiming the Blunderbuss up. Her fists glowed blue and then quickly pulled her arms back. "HADOKEN!" She yelled, launching a blue fireball and slamming it into his face.

"Argh!" K. Rool exclaimed, disrupting his Blunderbuss as Yang smirked and punched him in the head to knock him back a bit, and then she quickly delivered a right hook to his cheek to knock him down, but he got back up, turning around and backhanding Yang when she got close to him to knock her down. K. Rool kicked her away, and then threw his crown again to hit Yang and shot a cannonball from the Blunderbuss, forcing Yang to dodge the crown and the cannonball. Yang charged at him right after as K. Rool smirked and punched her, but she blocked this with her arms and then counter punched him in the gut, and then got closer and used an uppercut to knock him into the air, and then she jumped up in the air and punched him into the ground.

K. Rool got back up and charged at the firecracker, going for a haymaker but Yang quickly jumped to the side and then unleashed another Hadoken on him from behind. Yang ran over and punched K. Rool in the face when he turned around, then did a flurry of right and left hooks until K. Rool quickly did a counter punch to her gut to stop her from punching her as he punched her in the gut a few times as Yang would block this with her arms, which is just what K. Rool wanted and then unleashed an uppercut to her chin to knock her in the air and then he jumped up and punched her in the gut to slam her into the ground. K. Rool landed next to Yang and punted her across the ring.

Yang got back up, letting out a growl and then pounded her fists together, her eyes going red and her hair catching on fire. K. Rool let out a chuckle and did a 'come at me' gesture as Yang lunged at K. Rool as he quickly brought out his Blunderbuss and shot her, but she slid underneath the cannonball and kicked the Blunderbuss off of his hands as his smirk slowly disappeared as she got back up and unleashed a Shoryuken to knock him up in the air. Yang looked at the Blunderbuss and quickly grabbed it, aiming at K. Rool and pulled the trigger right as K. Rool got back up and he got hit in the face by a cannonball. "How's it feel?!" She yelled, throwing the Blunderbuss out of the ring and running up to him, quickly delivering a haymaker to knock him toward the ropes, and when he bounced back, she delivered an uppercut to knock him on his back.

K. Rool snarled and grabbed her by the legs where he punched her behind the knees to knock her down and then he kicked her over to the ropes, and when she bounced back, K. Rool delivered a nasty uppercut to send her flying back a few feet, which Yang recovered… and her aura static'd a bit. "Heh, good, just what I need!"

"That's what you think…" Yang growled as the two lunged at each other, both of them delivering a haymaker and hitting each other in the cheek, knocking each other back, but Yang was determined to end this. She jumped over and delivered several punches to his gut as K. Rool blocked this, which he realized too late on what he did as Yang smirked and delivered an uppercut to push him back, and then she let out another Hadoken to knock further.

K. Rool snarled and then lunged at Yang, delivering a punch but Yang counter punched this with a smirk, delivering a few powerful hooks to his cheeks and then with all the power she had left, she let out a mighty yell. "SHORYUKEN!" She screamed, punching K. Rool in the jaw as he was sent flying out of the ring… and slammed right into the bleachers, crashing through them. The dust settled shortly after… and K. Rool lay there motionless in defeat.

End BGM

Yang stood there, panting. "H-holy… crap… I did it…" She whispered as she crawled out of the ring and grabbed K. Rool by the foot, dragging him off of the bleachers.

"Uuugh…" He groaned.

"Your highness!" A few Kremlings came running in to try and help him, only to realize they were too late. Yang was dragging him by the leg to the throne room.

"Your king has been defeated… now beat it."

"Yipe!" A Kremling paled as they quickly ran off in a hurry as Yang dragged him to the throne room, teleporting the two of them inside the throne room.

"Tell me where our weapons are. Now." She ordered.

"Uuugh… press the button on my throne…" K. Rool groaned as Yang pressed a button on his throne as the hatch opened up to reveal Crescent Rose, Myrtenaster, Gambol Shroud and Ember Celicia. Another hatch opened up to reveal the Kongs' weapons, Qrow's scythe, Crescent Boomerang, Shadow Whip, and even Eiskönigin. With a smirk, Yang equipped Ember Celicia while also strapping everyone's weapons on her shoulders, her back, and even her waist.

Yang had an idea and called out Dàhuô. "Hey bud, can you help me sniff out the dungeon?" She asked.

"Tep!" Dàhuô nodded, sniffing the ground and picking up on a scent. "Tep Tepig!" He said and walked off as Yang followed her while also dragging K. Rool. The two of them walked along until they reached the bottom of the Blast-O-Matic.

"This it?" She asked.

"Tepig!"

"Right." Yang nodded, firing a bullet from her gauntlet to open up the door to see that the guards were playing a card game.

"So! Admit that I'm the superior Klump, or draw 25 cards!" The Klump smirked.

"I'll never admit to that!" A Kasplat exclaimed, drawing some cards… and then K. Rool was thrown onto the table. "Ack!"

"…Eh, this Uno game was rigged from the start anyway…" Another Klump grumbled as they turned over to see who threw their boss… and immediately yelped in surprise.

"It's the firecracker! She's alive?!" A Kasplat asked.

"Yeah, I'm alive… and you better beat it before I beat you up like I did with your boss!"

"And what if we refuse?" A Klump asked.

"Then my little bud will roast you."

"Tep!" Dàhuô smirked, some embers flaring out of his nose.

"Eeep! Right away!" They all started running.

"Heh, too easy." Yang said as she walked over to the cells while leaving K. Rool on the table. "Let's see… where is that control panel… aha!" She pressed a button as the glass doors rose up.

"Huh…?" Weiss looked up. "YANG?!" She yelled, as everyone else but Ruby looked up and looked surprised.

"'Sup?" She grinned, placing her fingers on the side of her forehead and thrusting them forward.

BGM: Missing You (Kingdom Hearts II)

"We… we thought you were dead!" Blake exclaimed.

"Nah, you can't get rid of me that easily." Yang chuckled. "Oh, by the way, I have presents~!" She smiled, tossing everyone's weapons toward them.

"Oh sweet!" Weiss smirked, picking up Myrtenaster and Eiskönigin, Blake picking up Gambol Shroud and her Shadow Whip, the Kongs picking up her weapons, and Qrow picked up his scythe.

"Good to have you back, firecracker." Qrow smiled as one by one, Yang hugged everyone… and then she turned over to a depressed Ruby who wasn't paying attention at all. Yang chuckled and slid Crescent Rose and her Boomerang over to her.

"Oi, pipsqueak, you might want to look up." Yang teased.

Ruby turned her head to see Crescent Rose. "…Crescent Rose…?" Her voice completely melancholy. "…You're mocking me at this point, K. Rool…" She then looked back down as Yang walked over to her sister and gently knelt down, putting her hand on her shoulder.

"Hey. I'm not K. Rool."

"…Don't touch me…" Ruby mumbled, but Yang didn't move. "…Get your hand off of me…" She mumbled again, then briefly looked up to see who was touching her. "…Using my sister's arm… you're making fun of me at this point… she's gone…"

"Oh brother…" Yang put her other hand on Ruby's chin and made her look up. "I'm alive, ya doofus!"

"…Yang…?" Ruby looked at her for a few seconds. "…No… no… he's making fun of me… go away…!"

"Would he be making fun of you right now?" Tifa asked, tossing K. Rool's body toward her.

"Ow…" He groaned.

"Huh…?" Ruby looked at K. Rool's body and then back at Yang, then back at K. Rool and then back at Yang. "…Yang…?"

"Yes, it's me." Yang smiled.

"Yang…" The light in her eyes returning as more tears swelled in her eyes. "Yang!" She sobbed and hugged her, burying her head in her chest.

"There's the sunshine in my life…" Yang smiled, hugging her back as Ruby cried loudly as everyone else smiled at this while shedding a few tears as a few fell from Yang's as well.

End BGM

Suddenly, the whole place started shaking. "Wh-what the?!" Weiss yelled.

"The whole place is going to come down on top of us! The Smash Ball was too much for the main generator to handle!" Yang exclaimed. "We need to get out of here!"

"Right!" Tifa nodded as they started running, but parts of the Blast-O-Matic started caving in and preventing them from getting out normally.

"Over there, at that window!" Tiny yelled, pointing toward a window as Blake took out Gambol Shroud and shot the window a few times to destroy the window as they quickly leaped out of the window and into the water right as the whole place started crumbling, leaving K. Rool in the rubble as they surfaced and swam to the beach.

"Is everyone okay?" Qrow asked.

"Yeah… we're fine." Shantae nodded as they saw K. Rool's arm bursting out of the rubble, waving a white flag.

"Thank goodness…" Yang said, chuckling a bit.

"So… now what?" Weiss asked.

"I think it's time for us to find a new home!" A voice said as they turned to see Cranky, Funky, Snide, Candy and all the animal friends approaching, along with the golden bananas that was being hauled over by Rambi, while Funky had Gruntilda over his shoulders. "Yes, I'm still alive somehow. I'm not sure how it's possible, but I'm alright!"

"Mumbo could help rebuild home." Mumbo said as he and the banana fairy approached them.

"Nah, forget it! We can make use of a new home at the jungle in the Mushroom Kingdom!" Cranky said. "These two boneheads over here have it made over there! I think it's time we settled there ourselves!"

"I wouldn't mind relocating…" The queen mused.

"If you insist." Mumbo nodded.

"So! Shall we head on back?" Funky asked, pressing a button as a portal opened up. "Back to the Smash Mansion we go!"

"Right." Yang nodded as they all walked into the portal, but not before Mumbo using his powers to bring K. Rool out of the rubble.

"Mumbo thinks the hands will deal with you." He said as they went into the portal, closing it behind them.

We only have the epilogue now, folks!

EDIT: A friend told me that Yang's eyes are violet, not blue. I always keep thinking they're blue for some reason...