Ultimate Smash Adventure
Boy, I say one thing against the majority opinion on the Melee message boards and those guys flamed me to hell. I was thinking about going back over to those boards and admitting that I made a mistake and that they were right, but when I went back, there were almost 100 responses flaming the topic creation, so why bother trying to penetrate their skulls. They'll just flame me anyways. Here's the next arc. Not sure what you guys will think.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything in this story except for the story itself.
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Open skies
The Halberd flew through a huge dimensional hole and soon, the smashers found the ship flying over what seemed like endless skies. "So this is Arcadia." Roy said in awe.
"It's amazing, just a lot of clear skies and a few floating rocks, and flying fish." Link said.
"Pichu?"
"Yes where did Kirby go?" Meta-Knight asked.
"There!" DK said pointing to the deck. Kirby was attempting to inhale fish from the deck.
"He's eating raw fish?" Ganondorf asked. "I guess I shouldn't be surprised." Ganondorf said.
"Pichu!"
"Huh? Whoa! There are monster's on deck!" Link said. Indeed, some kind of shellfish and a strange almost translucent looking thing was floating behind Kirby.
"Hang on!" Roy said as he ran out to the deck. Kirby was just obliviously swallowing fish from the side of the deck while the monsters were slowly floating toward him. Then Roy got in to a fight with the monsters, which didn't last long with his mad sword skills.
"Pyo!" He said while happily and obliviously inhaling fish. Roy then dragged Kirby back in to the ship against his will.
Meanwhile…
There was a really large wooden galleon with blue paint on the metal parts of the ship. The numerous sails had a blue skull with wings coming from behind it sitting on a cutlass. The flag was also blue with the same skull and cutlass was printed on the flag in white. On the bridge of the ship were three people that were about 17 years old. One was a male with brown hair, blue outfit, a glass eye patch over his right eye, and a scar under his left eye. Another one was a girl with orange hair in two fairly large pigtails, she was in a really short yellow outfit with a single yellow glove on her left hand and yellow boots. The last one was a beautiful girl with blonde hair and gentle blue eyes. She was wearing a pirate's dress and bandana and there was a strange silver thing floating around her that was wearing an eye patch, a pirate hat, and a mustache.
"Pow Pow!" Came the bark of a strange looking purple dog.
"What is it Pow?" The boy asked.
"Vyse, there's a strange looking ship off to the starboard side." Said the girl with the orange hair.
"Hang on a second Aika." Vyse said. He leaned toward a speaker tube that was labeled "Crow's nest." "Domingo, can you see that ship off in the distance?" Vyse asked.
"Yes, it's heavily armed that's for sure, the wings look a little strange though, I don't think it belongs to either Valua or Nasr." Came a voice through the tube.
"Well, if it's not Valuan, and it's armed… does that mean… we can attack it?" The girl in the dress asked.
"Right Fina." Vyse answered. "Alright, tell Khazim to get the cannons ready."
"Aye aye!" Aika responded.
Back on the Halberd…
"So… what are we looking for again?" Link asked.
"Master Hand said that two of the Seven Deadly Fates were in Arcadia, so we should be on our guard." Meta-Knight said while flying the ship.
"Where's Pit?" Ganondorf asked.
"Pichu!" He shouted from the deck.
"What's he doing on the top of the ship?" Roy asked. Pit suddenly flew down on to the deck and walked up to the bridge.
"There's some kind of ship coming at us from the east." Pit said.
"Let's see… we're facing north, so that would mean, they're coming at us from the ship's right." Roy said.
"Ooo oo?" DK asked.
"Umm… they were flying a flag with a skull sitting on top of a cutlass." Pit said.
"They must be pirates then." Meta-Knight said.
"Pirates in the sky?" Link pondered this.
"Pyo!"
"This is bad Kirby!" Ganondorf said. They could see the ship now; it was turned to where it was flying alongside the Halberd a few meters away from them.
"I hope it's not armed." Link said. No sooner did he say that, on the upper side of the ship, several cannons were sticking out of the ships.
"You had to open your big mouth." Ganondorf said.
"Evasive action!" Meta-Knight raised the altitude to barely avoid the first round of cannonballs. The other ship decreased the altitude and slowed down. Soon the other ship was behind them. "Not good." Meta-Knight said.
"Why?" Roy asked.
"Our engines are in the back of the ship." Meta-Knight answered.
"That isn't good." Pit said. "Is there any way to shake them?"
"These guys are good whoever they are." Meta-Knight said as he was steering the ship to try and out-fly the other ship. The ship fired another round of cannons and a few shells hit the back of the Halberd. "Hang on! I'm increasing altitude to maximum." Meta-Knight said. He did and he also brought the Halberd to a complete stop and was now flying behind the other ship.
"Pyo!" Kirby said happily.
"Pichu!" He cheered.
"Yeah!" DK clapped.
"Fire!" Meta-Knight ordered. Ganondorf pressed a button and the cannons open fired on the back of the other ship. A few shells did connect.
Meanwhile…
"These guys are pretty good." Vyse said. "We're going to try and board them now, before we take too much damage."
"Alright then!" Aika said while grabbing a fairly large boomerang with a green color. "Let's go!"
"Uh-huh." Fina nodded.
"Here we go guys." Vyse said while picking up twin cutlasses that were colored blue.
Back on the Halberd…
"These guys are getting awfully close now." Roy said.
"I think they're going to try and board us." Link said. Indeed, they saw three figures leap down from the other ship and on to the deck of the ship.
"Pyo?"
"Fight fight!" DK said while running toward the door.
"Well there's only three of them." Roy said.
"And we are the best of the best." Ganondorf added.
"Well, I guess we have to protect ourselves." Pit said.
"Pichu!" The smashers ran out on deck and saw the three young air pirates standing there ready to fight.
"Odd crew." Vyse commented. Vyse had his right hand cutlass held normally while his left-hand cutlass was being held by the usually unused handle and the dull side of it was being supported against his arm.
"What are you doing on my ship?" Meta-Knight asked.
"Well… you guys are armed, so we Blue Rogues have no problem attacking you guys." Aika said.
"This is still our ship! We're not going to go down without a fight." Roy said as he drew his sword.
"Indeed." Meta-Knight said while drawing his sword. The smashers all took a fighting stance and got ready to fight off the three young pirates.
Vyse charged forward with his cutlasses drawn. Link and Roy charged at Vyse with their swords drawn and began to swordfight with Vyse. "This guy's good." Roy thought while the two of them were fighting Vyse. Vyse eventually knocked Roy out of the way and charged at Link. Vyse slashed Link with his right-hand cutlass and uppercut with the left cutlass. Vyse then did an upward slash with the right cutlass and seemed to freeze in mid-air.
"Cutlass Fury!" Vyse then slammed the cutlass down full-force and Link was sent flying backward having taken some major damage.
"No does that to Link except for me!" Ganondorf shouted while charging at Vyse with a flaming purple fist. Vyse then crossed his swords.
"Pirates of old… defend our cause!" Ganondorf threw a punch but it was blocked by what looked like a floating pirate skeleton. The skeleton then reappeared and slashed Ganondorf. The same thing was happening whenever anyone attacked Aika or Fina.
Kirby threw a kick at Fina but it was blocked and countered by the ghost. DK tried to attack Aika and it was blocked and countered. Finally Pichu fired an electric bolt at Fina and it zapped her a little bit.
"So, the defense isn't perfect." Meta-Knight said. He drew his sword and charged at Aika and did a tornado slash. Aika was able to dodge the attack and threw her boomerang at Meta-Knight, who simply leaped over the attack. Aika then had to dodge a fist DK threw at her. Pit then fired an arrow at Aika, who dodged it by using her boomerang to block it.
A glowing circle with strange symbols then surrounded Fina.
"Moons… give me strength." Suddenly, all the smashers were standing on a large red magic circle; several flaming meteors were descending down on them. Kirby bravely stepped forward and inhaled them. Kirby was now sporting his flaming hat, Fire Kirby.
"That was unexpected." Vyse said. Kirby inhaled and let out a huge stream of fire. Vyse, Aika and Fina managed to defend themselves for the most part.
"Hang on." Aika did a stance and soon, the smashers were standing in a barren wasteland with only Aika remaining, and her boomerang was glowing orange. "Here goes…" Aika then threw her boomerang in to the air where it stayed there. She then leaped up, caught it, and did several front flips while holding a glowing ball of light. She then threw it down and several boomerangs surrounded the smashers and carved there way through the ground. Suddenly, all that was left of the wasteland was a small chunk of ground surrounded by lava. Aika's boomerangs then returned to her and became one boomerang again. "Omega Psiclone!" Aike then threw her boomerang straight down at the smashers and it became a huge flaming meteor that exploded and burned the smashers severely. The scenery returned to normal after that.
"That… was painful." Roy said while standing up.
"Is that the best you've got?" Ganondorf shouted.
"Try this then." Vyse said. He and Ganondorf were suddenly standing on the surface of what looked like the moon. "Behold…" Vyse slashed his left cutlass and held his right cutlass above his head. A tornado stirred around him and lightning struck the cutlass above his head. He slashed the cutlass and sent a wave of lightning at Ganondorf that destroyed the moon as it went. Ganondorf was hit forcefully by the lightning and all that was left was space that seemed to be zooming by them as Vyse flew forward with his cutlass. Vyse then did a cross slash with the two cutlasses. "Pirate's Wrath!" Vyse shouted. The scenery returned to normal and Ganondorf fell down in severe pain.
"What was that?" Link asked.
"Never mind that. We underestimated our foe, so we now have to take these three seriously." Meta-Knight said.
"Try this!" Roy sent three fireballs at the three. They dodged the fireballs, but DK, Ganondorf, and Pit with his hammer leaped at the three and slammed them back down to the ground.
"Pyo!"
"Pichu!" Pichu shot out a bolt of lightning while Kirby breathed out a stream of fire. The two elements collided close to the three pirates and exploded. Link, Roy, and Meta-Knight then rushed at them with various sword combos that did manage to land a few hits on the three pirates. It was now back to square one with the Air Pirates and the Smashers fighting each other seemingly even.
Meanwhile…
Ramirez was in some room by himself thinking about his plans for the smashers when they get here. And he was also thinking about his old Lord Galcian. Those three air pirates murdered him. When he was the only one to save this wretched world from its existence. Now his new Lord Kefka will surely fulfill this promise, and not just with Arcadia. These thoughts raced through the mind of Ramirez.
"And where were you?" Ramirez asked. The Black Knight then appeared out of the shadows.
"Taking care of a… hindrance so to speak." The Black Knight said.
"Ah… so one of our weakest members is dead at last now correct. That seems to be all of them." Ramirez said.
"Correction, we still have two weak ones left." The Black Knight said.
"Ah yes… Eggman and that new person Ridley mentioned. Sadly Eggman is still useful to us." Ramirez said.
"Oh well… project Imago is nearly complete, and then he'll outlive his usefulness." The Black Knight said.
"Hmmm…"
"Now what are you thinking?"
"I still feel like there is a rift in the Alliance." Ramirez said. "Oh well, the smashers are here. We need to be prepared."
"Good, Scales was no effort whatsoever, maybe there is one among them who can pose a challenge." The Black Knight said.
Meanwhile…
The smashers and the pirates were panting heavily from the exhausting fight. "These kids are tough." Ganonodorf said.
"Who… are… these guys?" Link asked.
"You are all quite skilled." Meta-Knight said. "May I ask who you are?"
"So… you guys… really… aren't from… around here…" Vyse said.
"Pichu…"
"I'm Vyse, captain of the Crescent Island Blue Rogues." Vyse said.
"Captain? At your age? That's impressive." Ganondorf said.
"I'm Aika, I love treasure and my friends." Aika said.
"I'm Fina, it's a pleasure to meet you." Fina said.
"Nice to meet you too." Pit said.
"Oooo oo oo."
"Ha ha ha!" Aika laughed. "You guys are kind of funny." Aika said.
"Well, it seems it is best to put this behind us." Meta-Knight said.
"Guess so…" Vyse said.
"Wait! Why did you attack us?" Link asked.
"We're Blue Rogues, we only attack armed ships. Although lately we've been leaving the Valuan Empire alone since a good friend of ours is currently the emperor." Vyse explained. "We then use some of the gold for us, and the rest for other people."
"Pyo…"
"Are all pirates around here like this?" Roy asked.
"No… there are the Black Pirates, they'll attack anybody and cross several other lines the Blue Rogues don't." Fina said.
"Wait! Could you help us?" Pit asked.
"What do you need?" Vyse asked.
"Honestly, we're on a mission to expel a terrible threat that is sure to reside here." Meta-Knight said.
"Nothing has been happening since several months ago." Vyse said.
"Hm?" DK said while giving a puzzled look.
"Well…" Vyse, Aika, and Fina began to explain about a corrupt Valuan armada that tried to take over the world by awakening the Gigas and eventually two of the armada's leaders used the almighty Silver Gigas to try and take the world for themselves.
"An interesting tale." Meta-Knight said.
"That's impressive for a bunch of…" Ganondorf began to say.
"How many times have you said that?" Link asked.
"Not that many times." Ganondorf said.
"Anyways… sorry we couldn't be of any help." Vyse said.
"That's all right, we'll just be on our way." Meta-Knight said.
"Pichu!" He waved.
"Goodbye." Fina said while waving back.
The two groups got back on to their ships and took off. As for where the smashers were going next… they had no idea.
"Now what?" Roy asked.
"I wish I knew." Pit said.
Meanwhile…
"It's time…" Ramirez said.
"Agreed." The Black Knight said.
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Not a bad beginning to this arc if I do say so myself. But it's up to you guys whether you think it's good or not. So read and review.