"Urgh..." The Dark Lord's body had disappeared entirely, and standing in his place was a man in a blue outfit, with oddly green hair. "W-what... Happened to me? I'm... Feeling kind of dizzy..." The man stood up carefully and took a look around, before he walked away.
Susumu turned back to her team. "We did it, everyone! We beat the Dark Lord!" The group quickly descended into a mass of cheering, hugging and laughing.
"Oh! Well done, everyone!" A familiar, squeaky voice rang out, as a tiny, familiar figure approached.
"Martcha!" Susumu exclaimed. "I'm so glad you're okay!"
"Well, of course I am!" Martcha said with a bow. "...Susumu. All of Miitopia is indebted to you. Thanks to you everyone's faces have been saved, and the world can live in peace from now-"
As she was speaking, however, something was happening behind her. Some sort of strange, purple blob rose up from the ground and into the air. Samuel let out a scream as he pointed at the blob.
"Eh?!" Martcha looked up, seeing the purple blob floating above her. The blob turned around to reveal that it also had a single eye, one that reminded Samuel of what had happened to Susumu before. The shadowy blob looked around, before laying its eye on Susumu. Looking up at the blob, she froze in place before it jumped at her.
"Susumu!" Martcha squeaked. "That thing is-!" Martcha suddenly jumped in front of Susumu, taking the hit in her place.
"Ohhhh no!" Martcha struggled against the shadowy blob for a moment, until it eventually dragged her to the ground.
"Martcha!" Susumu was about to dash over to save her, but was quickly held back by Samuel. She could only watch what was happening.
Martcha sat up, coughing as a strange purple substance started to run down her face. "Susumu... You've... Got to..." She didn't get to finish her sentence before she was dragged back into darkness.
"M-Martcha..." Susumu's eyes started to fill up with tears. The Great Sage herself... The one who had brought Susumu this far... Was-
Suddenly, the shadow began to react. A small, almost dog-like shape rose from the shadow. The darkness quickly cleared away to reveal... Martcha? It looked like her, but... Something was wrong. Suddenly, it started speaking in that high-pitched voice of hers. "I... I have the Great Sage's power!"
"Martcha...?" Susumu and Sachio tilted their heads in confusion. Samuel hung back in terror, but Raya couldn't hold back his laughter. "Aww, just look at her!" he chirped. "She's all purple and stuff now!"
"Raya... I... I don't think that's Martcha!" Samuel squeaked.
The tiny dog-like figure hovered above the group. "Oh, I'm afraid your little healer friend is right," she said. "Actually, he's... Sort of right. I'm certain not your so-called Great Sage. But... My Garaden, do I FEEL like a god now!" She looked at once of her tiny, detached paws. "Ah... So much power in this one... Of course, it was hard to get into her heart... But now that I've done it... Just thing of what I'm going to do to Miitopia now! And yet... Somehow, I feel... Even STRONGER than a Dark Lord. I am... Ultra Dark Lord Martcha!"
And that was where Raya absolutely lost it. "W-what?" He gasped in between fits of laughter. "Just look at her! Acting all evil and stuff... It's hilarious!"
Raya quickly stopped laughing as soon as Martcha fired a beam from her staff right above his head. "Well, now, you little heroes, I bid you all farewell! Kyahyahyahya!" And with that, the Ultra Dark Lord disappeared into the darkness.
"M-Martcha... She just saved me..." Susumu sobbed.
"Then we've gotta go save her!" Raya declared. "Come on, let's-"
But he was stopped by Susumu. "How are we supposed to do that?!" she demanded. "She's a GOD, Raya! She's more powerful than anything we've ever faced!"
"Yeah, but did you see how we took down that Dark Lord?!" Raya reminded her. "If we can take him down, we can certainly take her down!"
"But... We don't even know where to start," Samuel said.
"We might not," Sachio began. "But I have a friend who might have seen her around. He's... A bit odd, but maybe he can help us! We'll just have to go and find him."
"We're with you all the way, Sachio," Susumu said. "Let's go find your friend and save Martcha!"
...But will the bad guys let her do it?
END OF ACT 4
