Luigi VS Peach
Luigi screamed as he fell through the air and hit the ground. He had accidentally gotten teleported twenty feet higher than where he was supposed to go. Once he got up he looked around his new environment.
Darkness seemed to stretch on forever, in the distance disgusting bug like creatures crawled along the walls of the cavern Luigi was in. Horrible, menacing figures not of this world were hiding in the crevaces, occasionally coming out of smaller caves I the walls to search for food. Nearby platforms were connected to the ground by some sort of organic sticky rope-like thing. Glowing lava that periodically rose and fell was the only source of illumination in this dark world. It was just bright enough for Luigi to see a giant brain-like figure hanging in the distance.
Needless to say, Zebes was not the kind of place a coward like Luigi wanted to be.
He heard the sound of something behind him and ducked. Peach's golf club soared over his head. She then swung the club vertically down and Luigi rolled out of the way. She had swung the golf club with such force that it left a spider-web of cracks in the ground when it hit. Luigi jumped as Peach attempted to drop kick him. Luigi flipped through the air and narrowly avoided a vegetable before landing on one of the platforms. He ducked again to avoid yet another flying vegetable and rolled out of the way of another.
"3...2..."
Luigi sighed. The match hadn't even started yet and Peach was already trying to kill him. This was going to be a long fight.
Zelda had been trying to catch glimpses of Master Hand out of the corner of her eye. She wanted to learn more of the hand but didn't want to seem suspicious. She had seen what he did to Samus' helmet, she didn't want to know what would happen to someone who questioned the hand and didn't have some sort of protection. She had also taken a close look at Yoshi. The dinosaur was wide awake when he had gotten there, no way he would fall asleep. Zelda had sensed magic covering his body. If the hand had magic that powerful it would be pointless to get Link involved, he had powerful magic but no good protection for attacks that directly affect the mind. She would have to do this on her own.
Master Hand held out his index finger and swiped it through the air, creating a rip in space and time as he did. "I need to go check on something. The rest of you stay here." The hand floated through the portal and disappeared.
"Now's my chance." Zelda quickly ran into the portal just as it started to shrink.
"Ah!" Everyone heard Link scream. They all followed his gaze and saw Zelda disappear into the portal. Link started running but wouldn't make it in time.
Captain Falcon dashed towards the rip in space determined to help. Using his incredible speed he reached the portal in no time and jumped through just as it disappeared.
Luigi backflipped over another swing from Peach's club. The princess threw another vegetable at the green wearing plumber and jumped into the air. Luigi destroyed the turnip by hurling a fireball at it and saw Peach coming at him from above. He pulled his arms into an X formation over his head and blocked another swing from her club. The force of the attack had sent Luigi straight to the ground. He rolled out of the way just before Peach fell, club first, into the ground.
Luigi got up and rubbed his aching arms. He saw Peach trying to pull her club out of the ground. It had gotten lodged into the earth while she was trying to stab it through his head when she had fell. Peach gave up on pulling out the club and took out a frying pan. As Luigi readied himself for another attack he got rammed from behind and fell forward. Peach ran up to him and hit him into the air with her pan before he had even reached the ground.
As Luigi fell through the air he saw Toad standing next to the princess. He had completely forgotten they would be fighting as a team. This would be even more difficult than he thought.
Peach and Toad ran to where Luigi would land but he shot off like a rocket to the other side of the area. Luigi got up and turned only to be hit straight in the face by Peach's thrown frying pan. He fell onto the floor and grabbed his bleeding forehead in pain. He felt a turnip fly into his stomach increasing the damage being dealt to his body. He opened his eyes and moved his head to the left barely avoiding Peach's high-heel shoe as she stomped into the ground. She grabbed Luigi and smacked him into the air before throwing another vegi at him. Luigi caught the turnip, surprised at the force behind it, and threw it back at Peach who blocked it with her racket.
Peach suddenly shot quickly into the air with her umbrella pointed upward. She stabbed Luigi in the back with it and he was sent flying higher into the air. He forced himself to fall faster than usual and took Peach by surprise as he punched her in the face and sent her flying backward. Luigi saw Toad below him and shot a fireball at the mushroom retainer causing him to dive out of the way.
Luigi landed, grabbed Toad and then began to swing him around...and around...and around until letting go and sending him flying towards Peach. Toad managed to land on his feet just in front of Peach.
Luigi sighed. Hopefully that would be enough to fool Peach. He couldn't hurt her, he just couldn't! She was the princess! He had been holding back the entire fight and Peach would likely catch on if he didn't do anything other than dodge. He hoped he hadn't hit the princess too hard...Luigi decided his target would be Toad, Luigi could fight him without feeling any guilt. It was just then that Toad took out a bazooka.
"You've got to be kidding me..." Luigi sighed again and got ready to battle his mushroom headed foe.
Captain Falcon landed on the ground, happy he had been able to make it through the portal, at least he was happy until he turned around and saw that his way back had completely vanished.
"Great..." Falcon muttered. Sarcastic comment complete he looked around. The area seemed to be a hallway, a dark one. The walls, floor, and ceiling were all gray in color. He looked forward and saw Zelda peeking around a corner. He began to walk up to her when she turned around and shot a ball of fire at him. He ducked under it and rolled behind Zelda grabbing her from behind so that she couldn't move or fight.
"Falcon? What are you doing here?"
"I could ask you the same thing..."
"...You can let me go anytime now you know."
"Fine." He said as he released her, "Nice reflexes by the way."
"...Thankyou. And I apologize for attacking. I thought you were someone else."
"Master Hand?"
"How did you know?"
"Its pretty clear that he's up to something. I'm just guessing you came here to find out what."
"Correct, captain."
A group of wire-frames rounded the corner and saw the two intruders. They all immediately dove towards them and began to attack. Captain Falcon rolled backwards to avoid a punch from one. His entire arm caught aflame as he launched forward in his Raptor Boost and launched the wire-frame into the air in a burst of flame. He then jumped after it and grabbed onto the wire creature creating a bright explosion and yelling as he leapt off of it sending it flying diagonally downward. As he fell he jumped in mid air over another wire-frame and used a Falcon Kick, yelling the name of the attack as he did, and sent his burning leg into the head of the wire-frame completely destroying it. He used another Falcon Kick and his leg was once again covered by a mighty flame as he slid along the ground and destroyed the first wire-frame he had attacked.
He turned around and saw Zelda destroy two wire-frames with Nayru's Love, the magical shards surrounding the shield slicing them to pieces like scizzors through paper. She then sent a flying ball of magical flame to destroy the last standing wire-frame.
Captain Falcon smirked. "Not bad, princess."
"Thankyou," she replied, "although you should really be complimenting the goddesses who bestowed me with these powers."
"Sure, whatever."
Luigi leapt over another shot from Toad's bazooka. The plumber shot a green fireball at his foe but Toad jumped over it and smacked Luigi with a large hammer sending the italian plumber soaring through the air until Peach jumped in front of his path, pulled out her War Fan, and smacked Luigi back to Toad. Toad jumped up, landed on Luigi while he was flying, and picked the plumber up before throwing him into the lava below.
Luigi soared back up onto the main platform and ran around for a few seconds holding his burning butt, trying desperately to put it out. The he felt something wrong. Very, very, VERY wrong. Luigi raised his hand and felt the top of his upper lip only to feel just part of his mustache left. Part of it must have been burned off when he touched the lava.
He saw Toad ready the bazooka once again and launched a green fireball into the barrel of the weapon causing it to explode, the explosion was a beautiful mix of red and green flame. Luigi shot into the explosion using his Green Missile ability, flying at full power knocking Toad out of the explosion and off of the main platform. Toad used a mid-air jump to try to get back but Luigi intercepted him by kicking the toadstool in the head, grabbing him, shooting him with a barrage of green flames, and then using his Super Jump Punch. The explosion created from using it in close range sent Toad's fiery body into the sky. Luigi landed back on the main platform and took out his Poltergust 3000. He sucked some of the lava into the vacuum and then shot a massive fireball out of it towards Toad's still falling body creating a mighty explosion that sent Toad flying all the way to the right-side wall of the cave.
Luigi watched as hundreds of monsters dove out of smaller caves in the wall and attacked Toad. Toad tried to fend them off with his hammer but was getting swarmed by the hellish creatures. He wouldn't last long.
Luigi smirked and turned towards the stunned princess. "I'll show you what happens when you mess with the 'stache." electricity crackled around Luigi's body as he charged a lightning bolt in his hand and pointed his finger towards the princess.
"THUNDER-R-R!!!"
Zelda and Falcon turned around another corner and ran down the dark hallway. They had been taking many twists and turns in the maze of halls they had entered. Dispatching wire-frames whenever they needed to do so. Finally they reached a glowing doorway in the wall. The bright light shining out of it obscured what was on the other side and hurt their eyes after adjusting to the darkness of the hallways.
"This might be dangerous..." said Falcon. "I'll go. You should wait here." The racer then ran into the opening and vanished from sight.
"I can take care of myself." muttered Zelda, who was a little miffed about being brushed off as someone weak. Zelda then entered the doorway as well. If anyone had been around to see it, they would have seen the bright doorway close behind her.
Peach blocked another lightning bolt with her parasol. She knew Luigi had electrical powers thanks to the Thunderhand but she didn't know he was this advanced at the technique. "Must have been practicing in secret." she though as she dived out of the way of another bolt.
Peach had noticed Luigi had been holding back but he wasn't anymore. She would have to start taking this seriously. Peach ran towards Luigi blocking as many bolts as she could with her parasol, occasionally missing one that scarred her normally perfect face.
Upon reaching Luigi she smacked him into the air with her racket and threw a vegetable after him. Luigi sucked it up with his pultergust and shot it back. Peach blocked with her racket and rolled to the side to avoid Luigi as he stomped the ground she had previously been standing on. Luigi's stomp had caused the entire platform to shake wildly. Peach had seen many creatures fall by the jump attacks from the Mario Bros., it was definitely an ability not to be underestimated.
Luigi shot another mighty bolt towards the princess but she blocked with her parasol, Luigi covered his hand in green flame and grabbed the umbrella causing it to catch fire. Peach threw away the weapon and brought out her racket to block a punch from Luigi. Luigi bent down and kicked at Peach's legs in an attempt to trip her but she hopped over the attack, Luigi then jumped above her and kicked downward with both legs. Peach blocked with her racket but the force of the kick spiked her downwards. Peach got up just in time to block a punch from Luigi as he landed. Luigi tried another punch that broke through the net of Peach's racket and nailed her in the face.
Peach was thrown backwards from the powerful attack. She landed on her back and quickly rolled and jumped to her feet ready for another assault from the green man. She ducked under a green fireball sent to her head. Peach summoned a balloon with a spinning X inside of it. The inflated toy slowly floated above Luigi and popped, tons of tiny X symbols raining onto the plumber.
Luigi couldn't see any damage done from the attack and tried to shoot another bolt from his hands, but instead just created a tiny spark that snuffed out in not even a second. "What the!?"
Peach took this chance to make a surprise attack and pulled out a vege-"What the heck!? I pulled a bob-omb out of the ground!?!?...-oh well, this works." Peach hurled the explosive at Luigi. Luigi tried to throw a fireball to destroy the bob-omb mid-flight but not even an ember came out of him. The bob-omb made contact and sent Luigi reeling backwards crashing into the side of one of the platforms.
"That wasn't an ordinary balloon you know. It has magic put into it that stops you from using any special powers." Peach said a little too happily as she walked towards Luigi. She would be able to finish him off easily now, the poor man was burnt to a crisp and still had damage from all of her earlier attacks. He couldn't have the energy to move, and without any of his special abilities that made him helpless.
Once Peach had gotten close enough Luigi pulled the head of the Pultergust from behind him and shot a stream of flame at the princess covering her entire body in searing hot fire.
Falcon saw Zelda emerge from the glowing doorway and shot her a look. "I thought I told you to-"
"I'm sorry Captain, could you please remind me of when it was I appointed you to be one of my guards?" Zelda said, her voice dripping of sarcasm as well as an underlying frustration of this man treating her like royalty...even if she technically was royalty.
The pair looked around the new room, it was large, and didn't look much different from the other parts of the strange area other than the fact that it was much bigger than any previous rooms. That and that this one actually had something in it. There was a large glowing circle floating just above the ground, the only reason the room was so tall was probably to allow it to fit inside. In the center of the orb was a glowing mass of lights blocking some kind of human shaped figure that floated in the center, its outline barely visible in the flashing orb.
To the left of this was some kind of computer device, and in front of it was...
"Master hand..." Zelda whispered.
"Now what do we do? If he sees us here we'll probably get disqualified..."
"Thats the least of my worries."
Master Hand floated in front of the computer. "What is the status on the release?"
The computer answered in a robotic voice. "Project Release is nearly complete. Estimated time is three hours."
"Good." Master Hand let out a hearty chuckle. "And once all of the fighters have disposed of each other there will be no one left to stop us."
Zelda gasped, then quickly covered her mouth with her hand. Master Hand quickly turned around and saw Zelda and Captain Falcon standing in the room. "Well, well, well, what do we have here?"
Captain Falcon ran straight towards the hand, but Master Hand simply snapped his fingers and the F-Zero champion fell unconcious. Zelda summoned Farore's Wind but her spell was stopped as Master Hand grabbed her before she could teleport away. "I think I may have a use for you two..." Master Hand laughed quietly and deeply, not a trace of humor in his voice. Master Hand threw Zelda towards the glowing orb and it absorbed her as she hit the surface of it. He then picked up the body of Captain Falcon and did the same to him.
As the fire danced around Peach's body Luigi continued to feed it by shooting a continuous stream of fire from his vacuum. He saw the measurement device on the machine say it was almost out of fire so he used the last of his fuel to shoot a massive fireball out of the ghost-catching device into Peach causing a bright explosion. Luigi could feel the heat against his body as Peach's figure was completely obscured by the fire.
As the explosion of flames died down and the smoke faded Luigi could just barely make out Peach's frame. He couldn't believe what he saw. She was still standing. As Luigi began to make out Peach's figure better he saw something in her eyes he wasn't used to seeing. Rage, anger, hate, all words didn't do justice to the look in Peach's eyes.
It was as if all the horrible thoughts anyone could think of entered Luigi's mind the second his eyes locked with Peach's. He wanted to just get up and run as far away as possible but couldn't. Wether it was because he was paralyzed with fear or too injured to move never entered his mind, he just knew that the sweet princess he knew was gone, in her place was something he couldn't imagine even in his worst nightmare. Her physical appearance didn't change, but the look on her face showed that her mind did. The flames that danced around her and licked the air only seemed to make her look even scarier.
Peach picked Luigi off the ground with one hand around his neck. She pulled back her other hand and punched Luigi in the gut with such force that even with the new strength she possessed she had to struggle not to let Luigi fly out of her grip. Luigi would have fallen unconcious from the blow if Peach didn't slam him face first into the ground right afterward. His face was buried into the ground creating a deep crater for his head to hide in. Peach began to stomp his body deeper into the ground, as Luigi's form was stomped deeper into the earth the entire cave they were in was shaking violently due to the strength of Peach's attacks.
Finally she lifted Luigi into the air, only to slam him down again with such force the platform they were standing on broke in half. Peach jumped to the left half of the platform as the right sunk into the lava, dragging Luigi through the ground as she did causing rocks and dirt to fly into the air. She lifted Luigi above her head and punched him with such force it would shatter a diamond if the attack had hit one. Exactly twenty-six bones were reduced to dust with every other one being broken from the attack that sent Luigi flying upward and immense speeds. He hit the ceiling of the massive cave hard causing many boulders to fall from above. Luigi fell back down and landed head first onto the hard floor of the single remaining platform.
The flames around Peach vanished and she fell to the ground exhausted. She had used her emotion powers for too long while she was hitting Luigi and now she was more tired than she had ever been. Peach fell onto her side unconcious. The two of them laid on the platform, neither of them moving. Peach was unconcious and Luigi had finally blacked out from the pain. The damage done to the cave from all the shaking and impacts finally began to take its toll on the structure. Thousands of rocks began to crumble from the walls and ceiling into the lava, feeding it and causing it to rise higher. The platform the combatants were on had already been sinking and tilting due to the damage done to it but the lava now started to devour it faster. Luigi's side was sinking deeper into the lava before Peach's and Luigi was eaten by the rising molten-rock.
Peach was teleported out of the arena just before it had completely disappeared into the magma.
Peach awoke back with the other contestants. Toad was standing next to her completely unharmed, it took her a moment to register that he was holding a Luigi trophy in his hands.
"I...won?" Peach asked looking to each fighter for confirmation. Mario was the one who nodded and helped her up.
Suddenly Master Hand flew into the area from a portal. "Attention contestants! Zelda and Captain Falcon have been disqualified from the tournament! Ganondorf and Ness will both automatically pass the first round due to this. Would the next fighters please get ready?"
Young Link and Mr. Game&Watch were both teleported away by a bright light.
Author's Note: I think with this chapter I'm finally starting to improve, even if its just by a little. This is my favorite chapter so far. Please tell me what you think. And I promise to use less line-breaks next time...
Stuff:
1) When Luigi forced himself to fall faster, that was fast falling. A technique in SSBM where if you point down on the control stick at the right moment your character falls faster than usual.
2) Toad says he has a bazooka in Super Mario RPG for the SNES, he has a hammer to attack people in Duel mode in Mario Party 3, and can pick people up while they are soaring through the air in SMB2.
3) The War Fan is a weapon Peach uses in Super Mario RPG.
4) The poltergust 3000 is Luigi's vacuum from the game Luigi's Mansion, and it has the ability to suck up certain elements (fire, water, and ice) and use them as projectiles.
5) The Thunderhand is an ability Luigi gained in Mario & Luigi: Super Star Saga. Yelling 'THUNDER-R-R' is what Luigi does whenever he uses the ability.
6) The balloon attack is one of Peach's magical abilities in Mario RPG.
7) Peach's parasol can block any kind of attack in Super Paper Mario.
8) One of Peach's abilities in Super Princess Peach is to become angry and incredibly powerful.
Sorry for using such obscure abilities for Toad and Peach, but you have to dig pretty deep in a franchise to find attacks that characters who fight as rarely as Toad and Peach can use.
SirPains: Sorry for being a chapter late with my response. Every chapter should be all, or almost all action so hopefully you'll like every other chapter more than the first. And thanks for reviewing!
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