A/N:Hello, and welcome back to another chapter! I just wanna say a quick thank you to everyone that has made it this far in my story. You guys are awesome, and convince me to keep this story going! Anyways, to the story!
Chapter 11: The Garden-2
Olimar had been frolicking in a field full of daisies, tulips, roses... Some of the rarest flowers where he came from. He was in his spacesuit, but his helmet was down. He breathed a breath of fresh had just picked up a red rose: something he had never thought he would see in his life. On the flower was a strange insect. It looked like a fly that had gotten drunk and rolled on a newly painted street. He stated at it in wonder, and heard it speak to him. Buzz buzz buzz... It started flying around him, sprinkling strange yellow dust all over Olimar's head. He sneezed. The bee landed on his gigantic nose, and looked into his very soul. Olimar stared back, seeing the whole universe staring back at him. The bee started lifting its abdomen, as if giving him a personal show. Then, the bee swung its stinger right into Olimar's nose! He cried out in pain, and the bee fell to the ground, unmoving. His nose had developed a light red tinge, and his nose started growing! It got bigger and bigger and bigger, and it showed no signs of stopping. Soon, the nose was bigger than Olimar himself, and he felt the nose pressure rising higher and higher. Right when the he felt that his nose was about to pop, a bee landed on it. It raised his abdomen in a similar fashion as the first one, and swung down...
"Ah!" Olimar said, falling onto the floor. He sat up, running his helmet. He looked around, and saw that he was in his room. He sighed. That was one of the best dreams I've had in a while... He thought, getting up.
He was a weird guy. There was a lot of noise being made outside. Curious, Olimar walked outside, and saw Mario, fork and knife in hand, chasing after a mushroom ten times his size. The mushroom had a strange green tinge to it, put Mario didn't seem to notice. He chased after it, tongue flailing, down the street and around the corner.
Olimar blinked twice. He had seen some weird things at five in the morning here. Like, the one time he saw pacman and Kirby inhale each other, creating a black hole. Or the other time that Toon Link ride a whole herd of pigs down the street. None of these instances ended well. He was going to follow it, but decided that it was not his problem, and started walking towards the garden. He was going to go visit the mayor, but forgot that he was out in a vacation at Delfiño Plaza.
Stupid Samus. Thinking she could cheat Mother Earth. Olimar was planning on digging up the trees and flowers that were planted, and starting over. And this time, he wouldn't allow anyone else "help" him.
On the way there, he passed Villager's house. In front of the house was Toon Link, who was passed out. Olimar tapped him on the shoulder, but he did not stir. So, he picked up a purple pikmin, and chucked him right onto his belly. Toon Link awoke with a yelp, saw the purple pikmin, pet it once, and closed his eyes again.
"Uh… Toon Link?" Olimar asked.
"Wha? Huh?" Toon Link said, sitting up. He looked around. "...This isn't my room."
"Quite far from it, actually." Olimar said, taking back his purple pikmin. "So… any idea how you got here? I'm pretty curious."
Toon Link scratched his head, and strained his face. "Nope. Actually, I don't remember anything from yesterday at all…"
"Were you drunk off apple juice again?" Olimar said, giving him a stern look. Well, as stern a look as he could give, anyways.
"No… it's as if yesterday was just a big black blur. Or maybe a big white blur? I don't know." He got up, arched his back, and shook his head, much like a dog would after getting out of the shower. He had been hanging around Link too much.
"So, what're you up to?" Toon Link asked.
"Well, I'm heading up to the garden to take care of some stuff." Olimar said, showing Toon Link the wagon that I had forgotten to mention he had until now.
"Oh! Sounds like fun! Can I come and help you?" Toon Link said, putting on his best puppy face that his cat eyes could make.
"I guess I could some assistance would be nice... Why not?"
"Yay!" Toon Link into the wagon, and rolled it down the street, leaving Olimar I'm the dust.
"That's the wrong way!" Olimar screamed after him.
"Oh, right." Toon Link turned the cart around, and sped it back towards Olimar at full speed. It crashed right into him, sending him flying into the air. He fell back down, landing right in the wagon, and the two of them rolled their way towards the garden.
When they arrived, Olimar saw that Villager was already there, running around in a frenzy. He seemed to be searching for something. He was lifting up rocks, cutting down trees and looking in their trunks, and other things of the sort.
"Hey Villager!" Toon Lonk waved at him. "Whatcha doin!"
"Well, the pile of stuff that we left here last night is gone now, and I'm trying to find it." He said, looking under his seventh tree. Or was it the same tree, but the seventh time?
"What pile?" Toon Lonk asked, looking to his right and left, quickly.
"It's kinda a long story." Olimar said, getting out an axe. "But we didn't want that stuff anyways. It wasn't quality. Not grown from the heart."
"I guess you're right." Villager said. "But it sucks that I couldn't even find it. All I found was a couple of coins, a few bugs, and a rupee or two."
"Oh! Can I have those?" Toon Link said.
"Oh, sure." Villager held out two green rupees.
"No, not that! I can get those in seconds. I'm talking about the coins! I capsule make an awesome necklace or something out of them!" He took the Villager's coins, and pocketed them.
"Alright." Olimar said, clapping his hands together. "Shall we get started with taking down the- whooooaaah!" The sound of a menacing roar echoed throughout the city, and poor Olimar was knocked to his feet.
"What was that?" Villager asked.
"I think it came from over there!" Toon Link pointed to the north, where the same roar sounded again, this time much closer.
"We should go investigate!" Olimar said. They all started to head in the direction. But, they didn't even have a chance to investigate. The source of the sound came to them. Around the corner came a giant heart from Legend of Zelda, with a contorted, demonisque face. It had burly legs and arms, and it was surrounded by a small green aura.
Toon Link stood there in shock. He looked at the Heart's left arm, when he saw that it had a tattoo of a heart that said "I less than three you" in it. He couldn't help but burst out laughing.
His laughter attracted the heart's direction, and he looked at Toon Link right in the eye. The heart squinted, and Toon Link knew that he was in trouble. It ran over before Toon Link could even react, picked him up, and jumped 100 feet in the air, miles away from the direction.
"Tell my grandma I love herrrr!" Toon Link yelled as he was taken away.
"Well... That was strange. And random." Villager said, after about 201749294028 hours of shocked silence.
Olimar scratched his head. "I don't think that that's as random as we think it is..." As of ok cue, Samus sprinted around the corner, and stopped in from of the two of them.
"Oh... Hey..." She said, putting her hands on knees, panting. "...something happened."
"Yeah, we kinda realized that." Villager said, pointed to the giant heart shaped footprint left in the cement.
"You don't happen to know why that happened, do you?" Olimar asked, tapping his foot.
"Well... I might've used the wrong ray gun last night..."
Olimar sighed. "I told you, love and hard work is the only way to grow plants."
"Yeah, whatever. All of the crops are now alive, and they're angry. We have to hurry, they're multiplying as we 's going down in the shopping district." Samus waved, and ran the other way, heading towards the Kirby household.
"I have a bad feeling about this..." Olimar said. The two of them sprinted to the shopping district, where they saw a bunch of giant fruit, mushrooms, and all other kinds of goodies, being baddies. Most were just the size of the smashers, but every now and again there was a giant fruit or mushroom or whatever wrecking havoc. Villager saw a giant Penguin suit smashing down Daisy's florist. Poor Daisy was watching her shop get torn down before her eyes.
The Penguin suit saw Olimar and Villager, put in the open and vulnerable. It started sliding on its belly towards them.
"That guy doesn't look friendly! C'mon! Let's go!" Olimar said, grabbing Villager's hand. They bolted back the way they came, with the penguin got on their heels. Or should I say cold? Hahaha! Get it? No? Fine. Whatever. I don't care.
Anyways, while they were running, Olimar felt himself being lifted up, and pulled into the nearest alleyway. The Penguin suit kept sliding after Villager, who was not as fortunate as Olimar. He looked up and saw Samus, who was putting her finger to her lips,
signaling him to shut up. She then pointed around the corner, where Olimar saw Link and Lucina being swarmed by mushrooms, hearts, peaches... All kinds of stuff. They were doing a pretty good job of keeping them away, but they just kept coming, with no end in sight. Olimar knew Link was a great fighter, and Lucina was... Getting there, but they wouldn't last forever.
"We have to go help him!" Olimar jumped up, but was shushed again by Samus.
"Are you crazy! That's suicide! Were gonna get destroyed out there!"
Olimar shook his head. "No. We can win. We just have to work as a team." Olimar looked back the green swordsman, who was obviously starting to get tired.
"No. We have to focus on evacuating the citizens of Smash City. Nobody who can't fend for themselves here is going to die because of my fault." Samus stood up, and activated her Varia suit. "So, you just gonna stand there, or are you actually gonna help?"
Olimar looked behind him once again. The swarm had grown in numbers, and we're starting to mend together to form about a dozen 9 foot tall mushroom-heart hybrids. Link sighed, and got in his battle stance yet again. Lucina had a limp. They screamed and charged at the them, disappearing into the dust of the broken buildings.
"...yes. Yes I will." He plucked out 50 purple Pikmin from who knows where. "Let the Smashers defend themselves for a while. I'll evacuate the left side of town, and you get the right. Try to get as much smashers to help you as you can." Samus nodded, and sprinted into the dust.
Olimar went the other way. When he exited the alleyway, he looked around. The "swarm" as he decided to call it, had definitely gotten bigger. They no longer looked like cute mushrooms and hearts. They had evolved, and they now looked like a half-mushroom half-mash thing with black, shattered wings. Their looked like mushrooms and hearts had babies and then zombified it. He also saw that there was many more smashers helping. He saw Luigi trying to defend Daisy, Mario repeatedly jumping on a giant mushroom (maybe it's friendly!). If you got that reference then you're awesome.
Anyways, Olimar called over to them. He told them about evacuating everyone, and they quickly spread the word around the whole city. Some smashers stayed in the Shopping District to contain them, while some went to the Residential Area to evacuate everyone. Even the likes of Ganondorf and Bowser were helping! But whether it's because they actually want to help or if they just like smashing things will never be known.
In a couple of hours, all of the residents and Snashers were safely outside the walls of Smash-City. Olimar counted them all to see in anybody was missing.
Olimar saw Samus and Marth talking, and walked up to them. "So, is there anybody missing?"
"Just two. Link and Lucina. I couldn't find them." Samus said, a stone-cold look in her eyes. "I sent them messages in hopes that they know where to find us."
"Oh... So what do we do now?" Marth asked.
"Well, I think it's time to go look for the two of them." Mario said. "Once everyone's here we can come up with a plan." As if on cue, Link and Lucina, kneeling on each other for support, limped out of the gates in front of them. Lucina soon collapsed in front of them. Link followed soon after.
"Ohmygosh! Link!" Zelda ran to the collapsed pair. Ike and Marth followed her, and together they carried the two of them to the rest of the smashers.
"What do we do? I'm all out of potions." Zelda said. Olimar had never seen so much worry in her eyes. Not even when she lost her favorite harp, Harpy! Yes, she named her harp. Doesn't everyone?
"I could use my heart power to help them." Peach said. Samus shook her head.
"Just let them come to. I don't think exposing their bodies to even more hearts and mushrooms is a good idea." Samus said.
"Wait... So we can't use our owl healing methods against them?" Ness said. "Then... How do we win?"
"Well, we just have to." Samus said.
"But they're never ending!" Peach said. "What so we do?"
"Well... I do know that we can win."
"...so you're saying they have a weakness?" Marth said.
"Yes. Swarms naturally elect leaders. It's natural. Like bees. All we have to do is find the leader, neutralize it, and the swarm will crumble on the spot due to its leader's death." Samus said. She took out a map, and pointed to the stadium.
"Something tells me that their nest is I'm the stadium."
"The center of town. Of course." Snake said. He threw his cigarette on the ground. "Well, nothing's ever gonna get done if we just stand there. Let's go."
The smashers stood at the gate. Samus took a deep breath. "Open the gates!" The gates started to open, slowly. Pit started aiming his bow. Marth and Ike stood with their swords at the ready. Robin and Robina (temp name, might change) prepared their tombs. The smashers were silent. Then, the gates opened, and the swarm started pouring out. The smashers simultaneously took a breath, and together they charged at the endless swarm in front of them.
To be continued...
A/N: Another cliffhanger? You guys must hate me for this now! The thing is, I wasn't originally gonna make this chapter go in this direction, but I thought, "Why not?" and this happened. Next chapter will be the end of the garden, and it might even include a certain warrior from Bionis... Leave suggestions and feedback if you want. It really helps me and keeps me interested in writing the story. Until next chapter!
