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Chapter 2
Party Crashers! Attack of the Monster!


Everyone was surprised and at the same time curious about the appearance of this ninja that was on top of the castle wall. "Joykiller? Just who is that guy?" Dedede asked.

"I don't know, but something tells me he's up to no good," Roy said.

Joykiller continued to look down from where he is and said, "You think you have solved the problem and everything is safe at last, but there are no such thing eternal happiness. Where there is celebration, disaster and despair are sure to follow!"

"Just what does that guy wants?!" Dedede asked.

Suddenly, the ninja disappeared in a puff of smoke, much to everyone's surprise. "He disappeared!"

Joykiller suddenly reappeared again right in front of Princess Elise and everyone was even more shocked. The princess took a step back from him, but the ninja grabbed her arm and said, "The master wants you. Come!"

"Hey you!" Ike suddenly jumped at Joykiller and tried to kick him, but the ninja slid out of the way in time. "What do you think you're doing?!"

"Do not lay a hand on the princess!" the advisor shouted.

"Those who do not have a part in this, begone!" Joykiller said, holding up a kunai.

"You're the one who does not a have part in this," Roy said to him as he got out his sword. "You came here without a warning and now you're threatening the princess. You don't deserve to be here at all!"

"As long as I, the great king of Dream Land, am here, nobody lays a hand on the princess!" Dedede said, waving his hammer in air.

"You will regret getting into this!" Joykiller said, and then as soon as he said this, copies of him began to appear next to him.

"Cloning jutsu! Something every ninja needs to know!" Roy said.

The multiples clones of Joykiller all threw kunais in their direction, but Roy easily countered it with a swing of his sword that released a stream of fire. Not only where the kunais burned away, but the stream of fire reached over to the ninjas and burned them down. "How'd you like that?" Roy asked. But when the fire died down, there was nobody at all. "Burned to ashes, I assume."

But the ninja popped back out in front of Elise. "You're coming with me, princess!" he said.

"Hands off her!" Meta-Knight shouted. He rushed to Joykiller from the side and swung his sword and the ninja blocked it with a kunai but got pushed away. The two of them clashed blades for a while and then Joykiller leaped back as far as he could. Dedede jumped at him next and tried to smash him with his hammer, but the attack missed

"I told you people not to interfere!" Joykiller said. He did some hand signs and fire appeared and circled around him before shooting forward.

"Ha! Like fire is going to be a problem to me!" Roy said. "Level up!" With a shout, his Binding Blade gained an armor of fire around the blade and it absorbed the fire that was shot forth and added its power to its own. "Flare Blade!" He slammed down his sword and a large explosion was created and it traveled in the direction of Joykiller.

Joykiller quickly hopped back to run from the fire and he did another hand at the same time. This time water miraculously appeared around him and crashed down on the fire and doused them.

Soon after the fire was washed away and steam was rising up, Ike ran forward and thrust his sword forward to try and stab him. Joykiller quickly reached for his sword and blocked the attack in time, and the two of them pushed against each other using their blades, but Ike had the power advantage and managed to knock Joykiller's sword into the air. Ike quickly swung his sword at the ninja, but the ninja did a hand sign in the nick of time and he disappeared the moment the sword hit him. "What?!"

Joykiller popped back up in air and grabbed his sword and did several back flips and landed on a safer location. His back as facing the Smashers when he landed and Ike noticed the number six printed on his back. "You people are getting in my way, and you are proving to be a challenge too," Joykiller said, turning around. "After all, it is part of nature that no things can ever go as planned. I came here thinking that it would be easy to claim the princess, but it turns out not as easy as I thought. This was to be expected after all."

"You still want to try us?" Ike said to him. "You better prepare yourself."

"The master does not want me to waste my life over this. I shall let you go for now, but the rest will not be so easy towards you if you ever come across them. We will not stop until the princess is in our hands."

"I can take on you anytime!" Roy said.

"You are the Smashers, I presume? You have made your name big and wide across the world and I can see why that is. We shall meet again!" After saying all these, Joykiller disappeared in a puff of smoke and returned again.

"He's gone," Ike said, lowering his sword.

"He got away like Eggman too…" Roy said. "Speaking of which, you think he's related to Eggman?"

"Maybe or maybe not," Ike said. "Who exactly is that guy anyway?"

Princess Elise let off a sigh of relief that the situation is solved. "Thank you very much, everyone," she said.

"Hey, no problem! I can't let those people take you at will!" Roy said to her.

"But why is it that there are people wanting to kidnap Princess Elise?" Meta-Knight wondered. "First it was Eggman, and now that man named Joykiller wanted to do the same thing."

"Did they not mention about a power that the princess has?" Dedede asked. "Let's ask her then."

"Yah! What is that?!" screamed the people.

"Now what?" Ike asked, and he turned to the castle wall and was shocked at what was showing up too. "What the?!"

Peering over the castle wall was a demented face of a toad. The toad let out a loud croak that sounded more like a roar and it climbed over the wall using its massive webbed and clawed feet, and then it dropped down into the castle courtyard with a loud crash.

"AAAHH!! IT'S A MONSTER!!" the people screamed.

The Smashers got into fighting stance again when this monster showed up. "What is that?!" Roy asked in shock.

"It's not like anything I've seen before! It's a monster!" Dedede gasped. "Can't this party go on without anything harassing me?!"

People quickly backed away and ran out of the courtyard as the giant toad-like monster crawled towards the Smashers and the princess. "Hey you! You better not come any closer!" Roy said to the monster. "Or else I'll burn you into crisp!"

MK turned to the advisor and said to him, "Take the princess out of here!"

"I know! Please run for safety, princess!" the advisor said to Elise, and they quickly backed off from the place.

When the monster saw the princess leaving, it opened its mouth and a large bubble shot out of its mouth and flew over the Smashers. "Oh no! It's heading for her!" Roy gasped.

The bubble landed on top of Elise and encased her inside it. She panicked and pounded against the interior of the bubble to break out, but it was useless. "Help me!" she cried.

"I'll cut it!" MK said. But when he was about to go to it, the monster lashed out its long sticky tongue and caught the bubble and tossed it into the air and the bubble encasing the princess landed and latched onto its back. "Oh no!"

"He's taken the princess!" Ike gasped.

"Why you?! Why is it that all of you want to molest the beautiful girl?!" Roy growled angrily. He ran to the monster toad and was going to attack it.

The monster lashed out its tongue again and smacked Roy from the side and sent him rolling away. "Ow!"

"Aether!" Ike jumped towards the monster's face and brought down his sword to slice it, but the monster hopped back and avoided the attack. It turned to the castle wall and lowered its legs to ready to jump over it.

"Oh no! He's getting away with the princess!" the advisor cried.

Just as the monster toad leaped up, a ball of fire flew in front of its face and exploded and blasted the monster backwards. The monster crashed and landed on its back and the bubble fell off and rolled along the floor. Roy ran up to the bubble and stabbed it, causing it to pop and Elise came out. "Are you all right?" Roy asked her.

"I'm fine…" she said.

Roy turned to Lilina and said, "Thanks for the help!"

"I'm doing what I have to do," she replied.

The monster toad flipped back onto its legs and turned to their direction and croaked demonically. "You monster! I'll kill you for this!" Roy said angrily.

The monster opened its mouth and several bubbles shot out like cannonballs. Roy released a stream of fire to pop them, but another bubble that came out later was about to hit him in the body. "Oh no!"

MK suddenly rushed in from the side like a drill and popped the bubble and landed onto the floor. "I'll cover for you!" he said. He took flight again and aimed for the head of the monster.

The monster toad released another stream of bubbles at MK, who swung his sword around like crazy to pop them. But then the tongue shot out in a moment's notice and MK was smacked in the face and flew back. "Ah!"

The monster leaped up very high into the air afterwards and its shadow loomed over the Smashers as it fell back down. "Watch out! It's falling!" Roy screamed.

Everyone quickly got out of the way in time as the monster toad slammed down, creating a powerful shockwave that blew away the things around it and the Smashers were blown forward and tumbled roughly on the floor.

"Whoa! That thing sure put a lot of weight into that attack!" Dedede said.

Then the warts on the back of the toad 'opened' and glowing orbs hovered out of it. "Now what?!" Roy said.

The orbs flew in their direction very fast and one of them hit the floor and exploded. Everyone quickly made a run for it to avoid the exploding balls of doom. As Lilina and Roy covered the princess and ran, the toad suddenly dropped down before them. "Argh! Won't this thing let us go?!" Roy cursed. "Lilina! Take the princess and run! I'll stop him!"

"Princess Elise! Run with me!" Lilina said to her and she grabbed her arm and ran.

"But your husband!" Elise said.

"Don't worry; he's a strong man so you can trust in him."

The toad looked at the two girls run and was going to go after them, but a couple fireballs struck it from the chin and it glared down at Roy angrily. "Hey you! Pick someone that is more capable!" Roy shouted to him.

The toad lifted up one leg and slammed down on top of him, but Roy's strength kicked in and he was able to hold up the massive foot, though he was showing signs of hardship. The monster toad continued to press down its foot to crush him, and just as Roy was losing power, a bluish beam shot in and blasted the leg. The monster lifted up its leg in pain, and then Ike jumped at it and sliced off that leg, sending red blood pouring down from the severed leg. The two swordsmen backed off to a safe distance and Ike asked Roy, "Don't forget I'm on your side helping you too."

"Thanks," Roy said.

"Hey! Are you guys forgetting about me?" Dedede asked, stepping forward. "I'm not going to let either of you hog all the spotlights!"

"I will fight alongside the king too!" MK said.

"Then let's take on this monster together!" Roy said.

The warts opened and several more exploding orbs flew at them, and they all spread out in both sides to avoid getting hit. Roy shot out fireballs and blasted the toad in the side of the body and MK slashed the air rapidly to shoot out multiple beams at the toad too. The monster toad roared in pain and it lashed out its time and swung it horizontally and struck the both of them.

Ike ran up to the monster from the front and so it lashed forward its tongue to hit him. Ike stepped to the side as the tongue smashed into the floor, and he quickly brought down his sword on the tongue and sliced it off. The monster yelped in pain with the tip of its tongue severed and it quickly pulled back the remainder of the tongue into its mouth.

Dedede jumped up very high into the air and as he dropped towards the monster, he raised his hammer and a jet engine appeared behind it and charged up. "Jet Hammer!" And he slammed it down onto the toad's head.

SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!

The toad's fell flat onto the floor and Dedede landed in front of it and said, "Haha! Mess with the king, would you?" But he was surprised to see the toad opening its eye and getting back up again. "You're a tough little froggy, aren't you…?"

"You! Give me a lift!" Ike shouted to Dedede.

"Address me by my name, can you?!" Dedede shouted to him. Ike jumped at him and Dedede caught him by the feet and pushed him forcefully upwards and Ike was tossed up very high over the toad.

He pointed his sword downwards and stabbed it deep into the toad's back when he landed. The monster toad cried in pain and tried to shake him off, but Ike held onto its skin with his sword began running towards the head while dragging the sword along, slicing across the skin and cutting open it. He ran towards the head and jumped off it and the monster had a gruesome cut from its back to its head and it was basically sliced open in half with bloody pouring out of its wound.

Despite this, the monster managed to stay up on its feet and it roared loudly as blood continuously poured out from it. "This thing sure is persistent," Ike said.

The monster lifted up its front legs and reached forward and slammed down, but they got out of the way in time. It opened its mouth again and released another stream of bubble afterwards. "It's about time you get resting!" Roy said. "Take this and go away now! Fire Dragon!" He pulled back his sword and swung it forcefully, releasing a stream of fire that took the form of a dragon.

The fire eliminated the bubbles and went into the monster toad's mouth. The monster's body expanded somewhat like a balloon and some fire also shot out from the sliced up wound on its back, and finally…

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!

The monster toad exploded in a blazing burst and was no more. Strangely enough, not even pieces of its flesh were found. It was as if the fire totally incinerated it into nothingness.

"Well, something is to be said about exploding frogs, heh…" Dedede said jokingly.

The Smashers put their weapons away and went to where Lilina, Elise, and the advisor were. "It's over," Ike said.

Elise let out a sigh and said, "Thank you so much…"

"You don't have to mention it. Protecting you is necessary for this country to stand up."

"I'm so sorry that all these happened… I never expected my birthday celebration to be like this…"

"It's not your fault if those bad guys wanted to get you," Roy said to her. "Don't blame yourself."

"At least I got some bites before all these happened," Dedede said.

"Is eating all you think of?" Roy asked him.

"Just like how women are all that you think about."

As they chatted with other, the advisor looked at Princess Elise and thought, "His majesty's fear is staring to come true… The power that he sealed away inside of you with his last breath… is starting to get eyed by other people…"


TO BE CONTINUED

I'm not sure if this chapter was pulled off well enough. Still, I think it's a blasting start to keep you wondering what might come next. Hope you like it anyway!