Chapter 33: Dark Pikachu's final battle!

"He's here," A voice said. "I can sense him."

For the past week everyone was working on the Great Fox trying to get it in working condition again. With ROB 64 back and no longer programmed to try and capture criminals he was able to work on repairing the ship which improved the speed of the repairs. Eventually all that was left was the complex details.

Link and the rest of the 12 were now training. Those who hadn't previously unlocked their Weapons of Heart learned how to do so during this training.

Both Pikachu and Link were sparing against each other using their Weapons of Heart. Link's sword and Pikachu's lance were clashing and discharging large amounts of energy into the forest. Suddenly Pikachu stopped. "He's here I can sense him!"

"Who?" Link asked.

"Dark Pikachu!"

"Where?"

"I don't know exactly… but it's far off. And there is lots of electricity. It's defiantly a large city but other than that I can't tell."

"It might be Fourside." Ness said apparently eavesdropping into the conversation.

Link looked at Ness and asked, "Aren't you supposed to be at Paula's grave?" Ness looked away. "We just can't fight The Master as we are. Our final ace might be that shard."

Ness held out the Smash Shard that consisted of six small shards put together. The first shard was from Paula, the second from Jeff, the third from Poo. The fourth, fifth, and sixth were from the three siblings Rai, Sui, and Tei. Link over the course of the past few days had sensed something powerful within the shard. Strangely no one else could feel it. Not even the Great Fox's equipment, but Link just dismissed it to nothing more than the equipment still being damaged and never repaired.

"Well perhaps we should investigate Dark Pikachu," Pikachu sighed getting up off of the ground. "We should at least get six so three more."

"Count me in," Fox said appearing out of nowhere.

"Us too," Mario shouted dragging Luigi.

"I'd also like to go," Captain Falcon sighed. "But I waited too long."

"Okay," Ness shouted, "those who are coming make sure you are touching me or someone who is touching me. We will be teleporting to Fourside." Within seconds they disappeared.

They reappeared at the center of Fourside. Skyscrapers reached up into the air and Luigi quickly discovered that he was very claustrophobic. "Its almost like they are going to fall in on me…" He moaned.

"All right," Pikachu said. "Our mission is to find Dark Pikachu, when you find him don't confront him. Just send a signal." With that everyone except Link and Pikachu ran off into different directions.

"You all ready know where he is don't you?" Link asked. "And on top of that you want to confront him yourself."

"Yes," Pikachu responded.

"If you are going to fight him at least use this," Link threw the Smash Shard. "If the Master uses it we have to learn how to use it and how to counter it." Pikachu nodded understanding before he ran off.

"Should I follow him?" Link asked himself. He pondered the question for several minutes before he finally ran after Pikachu.

"I've found you!" Pikachu shouted at Dark Pikachu. Dark Pikachu didn't respond instead he just sat down staring at Pikachu. "Why are you here?"

"We are connected are we not?" Dark Pikachu responded. "We all ready know the answers and what the other will say, we know where each other is after all that's how you were able to find me." He extended his paw and revealed a Smash Shard in his possession. "In fact I hold what you do!" Pikachu began to frantically search his body wondering where he put the Smash Shard until he realized that it was the one that Dark Pikachu was holding. "I am here to avenge my brother even if it means my own death."

"I know," Pikachu responded.

"I wasn't talking to you," He replied. "I was talking to the eavesdropper." From the shadows The Master emerged.

"I've come here for that shard!" The Master said. "Give it to me and I will spare your friends lives." The Master snapped his fingers and projected onto the walls was Mario, Luigi, Ness, and Fox fighting several Polygon fighters.

"I don't feel any remorse for them," Dark Pikachu coldly replied. "Now prepare to die!" Dark Pikachu ate the Smash Shard and ran towards The Master. He did an iron tail that the Master easily evaded. "I'm not going to hold back one bit!" He shouted enraged. "Full power: Electric Dragon!" Dark Pikachu discharged a large amount of electricity and created a long electric dragon. It rushed forwards and bashed The Master and sent him flying into the sky. Dark Pikachu appeared behind The Master and slashed him across the back. Stunned temporarily the dragon knocked The Master down into the Fourside Power Plant with his tail causing a black out across Fourside.

Dark Pikachu used Volt Tackle to run at The Master tearing up any ground in his way. When he came into contact with The Master a large explosion of energy happened. They both went flying in opposite ways. "Mirror Coat at the last second," Dark Pikachu sneered. "I should have expected something like that." The Master just stood where he landed completely unscratched by the attack. Dark Pikachu's eyes widened in horror. "Wait why have none of my attacks hurt you?"

"Because you're weak!" The Master replied. He raised his hand and from his body came an Electric Dragon much like the one that Dark Pikachu summoned. Dark Pikachu's Electric Dragon rushed down and clashed with The Master's Electric Dragon. "Mimic, its quite powerful when used correctly,"

"This is bad!" Pikachu exclaimed. "He has learned how to control all of the Pokemon moves."

The Master just laughed, "Not quite all. There are a few that I'm trying to master. But I don't need to use them against a fool like this!" Dark Pikachu's Electric Dragon destroyed The Master's Electric Dragon absorbed the electricity and dashed at The Master. The Master just extended his left arm and stopped the beast from moving. He tossed the Electric Dragon aside and noticed that Dark Pikachu was gone. He looked at Pikachu who just pointed up to the top of a sky scraper that hadn't been damaged by their battle.

Dark Pikachu stood atop of the skyscraper and stared down at the Master. From there Dark Pikachu jumped down off of the skyscraper. Using the force from his fall he cut The Master's right shoulder using Iron Tail. However at the last second spikes erupted from his arm and he pierced Dark Pikachu.

"Why do you fight?" He asked as Dark Pikachu fell to the ground.

"You didn't hear me clearly!" Dark Pikachu said gasping for air. "I swore that I would avenge my brother even if it meant my own death!"

"You barely stood a chance against me last time," The Master recalled. "Just what makes you think that this time will be different?"

"Nothing," he admitted. "There is nothing different from last time," Dark Pikachu closed his eyes and electricity surged around him. "No, that's a lie. You are weaker since you failed to absorb Giygas' true essence" All of the power from his Electric Dragon went rushing towards him. "If I can't stop you here, I will join my brother!"

"A suicide attack?" The Master inquired. "More importantly how did you know that I failed to absorb Giygas?"

"We are connected," He replied, referring to Pikachu. Dark Pikachu jumped towards The Master performing an Iron Tail and slashing him across the face, the electric energy on the tail scratched The Master and began to burn away some of his flesh. "Know that even though I failed to defeat you, others will be coming!" Dark Pikachu shouted as he bit into The Master's left shoulder. "May we see each other again, brother." He muttered to himself before letting of all of his electric energy.

The Master screamed in pain as the electricity went through his body. He eventually collapsed onto the ground with Dark Pikachu still biting his shoulder. "You fool…" The Master said to the dieing Pokemon. "You put your whole existence into that attack why?" Dark Pikachu didn't respond, it was likely that he was all ready dead. His body turned into dust and disappeared into the wind. "ANSWER ME!" The Master shouted irritated.

"Could it be that you have been with out your own heart for so long you have forgotten how it works?" a voice shouted enraged. There staring at The Master was Ness his left arm was bleeding. "How many lives do you have to take before you are satisfied?"

Each of the members of the twelve appeared around The Master, each of them holding their own weapon of heart. "I'll take your lives and then I'll be satisfied," He responded simply. "But you must come to me." He said before disappearing.

"Where can we find you?" Ness shouted out. There was no response from The Master.

"I think up there…" Fox said pointing towards the sky there in it was an object about the size of the moon, however it was shaped like the Seal of Smash.

"Its an actual planet!" Jigglypuff said surprised. Pikachu walked up to them holding the Smash Shard that Dark Pikachu had used.

Link just stared at it. "Are we ready to head out?" he asked.

"Yes," Fox responded.

"Then lets finish this!"

"Wait!" Pikachu shouted holding the shard that was drenched in Dark Pikachu's blood. "Before we head out, I want all of us to add our power to the shard. We do this with our Weapons of Heart!" Pikachu placed the shard on the ground and all of them took turns pacing the shard on their weapon. "Fox when did the others get here?" Pikachu asked.

"When those Polygon's appeared I called for back up. They swiftly came."

"Now lets finish this battle, to The Master's stronghold!" Link shouted.

To be continued…

The final battle will begin soon! ALMOST DONE!!! 7 more chapters and an epilogue! On a small side note I really should learn how to manage my time better and actually work on this story instead of delaying stuff… And to believe that I actually wanted to finish this story by the Wii launch date… I should actually finish this story by the end of the year…