Chapter 15
The Second Raid on the Village! Eggman Strikes Again!
The next morning…
Knowing that Takano would return for another attempt, the Smashers convinced the villagers to evacuate to somewhere safe that isn't in the village until the coast is clear. The only ones left in the village were the seven Smashers (counting Olimar) and the Hinamizawa gang.
"Okay, so this is our plan," Ike said to his comrades. "You lot will stay out in the forest and prepare traps and ambushes to keep them from coming in, but in case they do come in, which doesn't really make a difference considering there are no more people in the village, Bowser, Wario, and I will fight them off."
"Sounds like a good plan," Ness agreed.
"I'd prefer running out there to beat them up myself…" Wario grumbled.
"I doubt those people would be a challenge," Bowser said. "Didn't you see how easily we dealt with them yesterday?"
"Still, we shouldn't lower our guards," Ike reminded him. "Okay, let's get started before they come."
"All right!" everyone exclaimed.
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Soon afterwards, the people who are not Ike, Bowser, and Wario were all out in the woods and each of them was hiding behind bushes and within trees.
Ness poked his head out from behind a bush and asked, "Is everyone ready?"
Toon Link's face appeared through the leaves on the tree before him and he replied, "More than ready to pounce on them!"
Then Ness heard something and said, "Shhh… I hear something! They must be near!"
Sure enough, the men sent by Takano were coming together in large groups. "We will shoot down anyone we come across!" the one in lead said.
Unknown to them, Satoko and Olimar were both watching from behind a nearby bush.
Then the men saw Rika standing before them, and she only smiled and said, "Hi!"
"She's the one that Ms. Takano wants dead!" the man in lead said. "This girl sure has the guts to show herself to us alone! This will make things easier!" But when he stepped forward to get her, he suddenly stepped onto a weak ground and fell into a hidden trap hole. "Ya!"
"What happened?!" gasped the others.
"Someone set us up a hole!"
Satoko snickered knowing that they stepped into her traps and she reached for a rope dangling next to her and pulled it down. The moment she did, a box hidden on the tree above those men flipped over and a plethora of Pikmin fell down onto them and began beating the lights out of them.
POW WHACK SMASH CRACK POW!
"OW OW OW!! YEOW!! OW!!"
"Hohohoho!" Satoko laughed in her trademark manner. "You activated my trap card!"
"Don't underestimate my Pikmins!" Olimar added.
But one of the men spotted them and quickly pointed his gun in their direction. "You brats!" But he was suddenly shot in the shoulder from behind. "YA!"
As the man fell over, Shion revealed herself sitting on top of a tree branch, holding a sniper rifle in her hands. The man, however, didn't go down, but someone suddenly tapped him on the shoulder from behind. He turned around just in time to see Mion giving him a powerful blow to the stomach followed by a judo throw to the ground.
SLAM!
"I wasn't kidding when I said I had a black belt in martial arts," Mion said, dusting her hand.
The man who fell into the hole climbed back up and growled, "Argh! I'll get you for this!" But the Pikmins that fell into the hole dragged him down by the legs. "HELP!!" And the sound of chipmunk-like cries and beating followed.
Elsewhere in the same forest, perhaps in a place not too far…
"PK Flash!" Ness shouted as he released a burst of light that blinded the people who tried to go past him.
While they were blinded by the light, Kirby pulled out a hammer and smacked them in the legs and knocked them down one by one. Rena showed up next and swung her cleaver around and knocked them down. One guy, however, had sunglasses to begin with. "Haha! I have sunglasses! This light will do nothing!" But he was smashed in the face by Keichi with a metal baseball bat.
CONK!
"You sure are overdoing this a bit, Rena," Keici said to her after beating up his enemy.
"Oh, I hit them with the back of the blade, so it wouldn't make them bleed," Rena told her.
"It's unlikely for a girl like you to carry around a large cleaver," Kirby commented.
The guy with sunglasses was going to get back up again and said, "Heheh… Your attempts are futile! We are heading to the village from all directions and not only this place! Even as we are speaking, the others are probably at the village already!" Suddenly, TL dropped down from above and stomped him out cold. "OOF!"
"That sounds bad…" Rena said.
"Don't worry about this," Ness told her. "The three strong ones are at the village, and plus, there's nobody else in the village besides them! There's nothing to worry about now."
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Back in the village, Bowser, Ike, and Wario were all sitting casually on a bench. Wario was looking very impatient though. "I'm tired of sitting here all day and waiting for the prey to come! I'd rather go out there and see the prey myself!"
"They'll come," Ike told him.
"I can't wait any longer!" And Wario got up and ran off.
Ike was going to call him, but Bowser stopped him and said, "He's always like that. It doesn't really make a difference if there are only two of us either."
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Back in the forest…
"Shion and I will go look around for anymore suspicious people," Mion said to Satoko and Olimar.
"Take care!" Satoko said.
"Leave this place to us," Olimar said.
Mion and Shion went off on their own and began looking their way back to the village, but they seem to be lost. "Are you sure this is the right way?" Shion asked.
"Nonsense, we live in this place, so we should no it better than anyone else!" Mion told her. "There's no way we can ever be lost!"
Then they heard some rustling sound and thus they got into awareness as if someone is approaching. "I think someone is coming," Shion said.
"Better be careful…" Mion said, and the twins stood back to back and looked around them with awareness.
Suddenly, the ground below them gave way and they fell down into a trap hole! "YAAAA!!"
They fell to the bottom and hit the ground standing upright and still facing back to back. "Ow… What is this…?" Mion said.
"I think we fell into one of Satoko's trap…" Shion said. "And she could've made it bigger…" The hole they fell into was apparently very narrow with there chest pressing against the wall somewhat, and they could barely move their arms down there.
"We have to get out of here!" Mion cried. She looked up and saw the opening above them. "The top isn't too far from us, so we should be able to climb out… as long as I can move my hand…" She tried to lift up her hand, but there was too little space for her to pull it up. "Ngh! Just a little more! As long as nothing blocks out our only way out, there is still…"
Suddenly, something loomed over the hole and fell down and blotted out the hole completely.
"HEY!"
Above the ground, we see that Wario was the one who fell into the hole, but he was much too fat to fall into it complete and was stuck at the waist. "Eh? What's this?" Wario wondered.
"Hey! You're that fat guy, right?!" Mion's voice shouted from below him. "You got us trapped down here! Get out of there!"
"Oh, you must be that green-haired girl," Wario thought. "Fine, you don't have to tell me because I'm going to come out anyway." Wario pushed against the ground around him and tried to pull himself up, but his flab was jammed tightly. "Oops, looks like this will take a while."
"Get your ugly butt out of our sight at once so we can get out!" Mion shouted. "It's bad enough not having space to move around down here already!"
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"I hope Shion and Mion don't run into any of the traps that I set up over there," Satoko said.
"They'll be all right," Rika told her.
"Hey guys!" Ness said as he group ran over. "How's it going here?"
"We're doing fine ourselves," Olimar replied. "The twins went off on their own to look for incoming danger."
"By the way, it seems that the enemies are coming over from all directions," Keichi said. "Some of them might even be in the village by now."
"But I said you don't have to worry since we have three powerhouses over there to deal with them," Ness reminded him. "We should just deal with our problems here instead."
"Hey! There they are!" shouted some more people in uniform as they ran over.
"Looks like company…" Olimar cried.
"Yeah! Time to rock!" TL said, getting out his sword and shield.
As the group got into defensive stance to take on the incoming enemies, there was suddenly a swipe behind those men and they all fell over wounded, and the trees around the place also fell down.
CRASH!
"What the?" Kirby wondered.
Then it became clear on what happened just now. A floating legless robot with sword and shield hands floated over, and one could see Eggman sitting within the glass dome which served as the head. "You people really made a fool out of me enough times!" he growled angrily. "This time I'm going to make you pay for everything, and then I will find the power in that village and the world will be mine!"
"Eggman again… You're still at it?" Ness said.
"I will not give up until I get what I want! This time you will meet you maker!"
"And we are helping our boss too!" Scratch said, showing up in a small flying saucer that had a gun sticking out of the bottom.
"Me too!" Grounder said, appearing in another flying saucer that had a drill.
"Who are these people?" Keichi asked.
"One of our enemies," Kirby told him.
"You brats will regret ever coming against me!" Eggman said angrily. "I will make sure you learn your lesson!"
"Well, we're going to make sure you learn your lesson first!" TL said, readying his sword.
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Back in the village, things were as the man with shades said. Takano and some of her men came in from other parts of the village, but they were surprised to see the whole place deserted. "Where is everybody?"
"There are people there!" said one guy, pointing to Ike and Bowser.
The two Smashers stood up and walked towards them. "They came at last," Ike said.
"Let's get them!" Bowser said, cracking his fist.
"You people again!" Takano said angrily. "I'm going to kill you all for yesterday! There are only two of them! Take them out!" And the men all charged forward with weapons in their hands.
"I really pity these fools…" Bowser commented, and then he breathed out a stream of fire and it reached and burned up those people before they got near them.
As they fell down and rolled around to put out the fire, Ike swung against the ground hard and created a shockwave that shook up the dirt and the men were tossed into the air and fell back down.
Some other men fired their guns at Bowser, but he turned around and allowed the bullets to hit and bounce off his shell, and then he moved backwards towards them and rammed them down with his spikes.
Several guys came running up to Ike with metal clubs, but they were knocked out of their hands with a single sword swipe, and they ran away screaming with fear afterwards.
"These people are strong! We cannot defeat them!" the others cried.
"Argh! Why can't any of you do the job when there are only two people?!" Takano shouted with frustration and anger.
"Looks like they're scared," Bowser said.
"Listen, we will defend this village no matter what!" Ike shouted to them. "If you dare lay a hand on these innocent villagers, we will show no mercy to you!"
Takano and her men backed off slowly in fear and wondered what to do, but Bowser also stepped forward little by little as if he wants a piece of them. "Want some more?" he asked.
"As expected, nothing can be done if these pawns do the job by themselves," said a new voice.
"In conclusion, small fries will never accomplish anything big," said another one.
"Uh? Who is that?" Bowser wondered, and he looked towards the place that the voice was coming from and saw two familiar people standing on the roof of a house—Joykiller and Jumpclusion.
"I know one of them," Ike said. "It's the same ninja that tried to take the princess away during the birthday celebration."
"So that would mean they are the Failures!" Bowser gasped. "What are they doing here?!"
Takano turned to them and said, "At last! I was waiting for you to come!"
The two Failures jumped down from the roof and walked towards the Smashers. "The orders from the master weren't necessary supporting these people, but it is for the death of you Smashers," Joykiller said.
"So long as we can hold you up until the master obtained Everything, our objective is met," Jumpclusion added.
"So Everything indeed is here…" Ike said. "We'll have to stop you!"
"You're not getting past me!" Bowser said.
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"You guys run for your safety!" TL said to his friends. "I will take on him!"
"Hey, you're not the only one around here that is capable," Ness reminded him. "Don't forget there are people here that can stand up to him also."
"Will you two be all right?" Keichi asked.
"Relax, they can easily best you in a fight," Kirby told him. "In fact, I can probably best you in a fight too!"
"Don't talk like I'm a pushover…"
"I will make you kids learn some respect!" Eggman said. "Get ready to be schooled!" And then he swung down the sword at TL, who blocked it with his own sword. "Hmph! Such strength for an age like you!"
"You better not look down on me just because I'm a kid!" TL said while holding up his attack.
"He's strong…" Rika said.
"And cool!" Satoko added.
"Hey Eggy! Don't forget to praise me too!" Ness said to Eggman, and he jumped over TL and tried to smack the robot in the cockpit, but Eggman moved back in time to avoid getting hit.
Ness landed in front of TL, and Scratch immediately showed up in front of his face, pointing his flying saucer's gun at him. "And don't forget that you are against us too!"
"Uh oh…"
Right when Scratch was about to fire, Olimar tossed a purple Pikmin at the cockpit and knocked Scratch backwards. "Whoa!"
"That was close…" Olimar said.
"Die!" Eggman shouted as he charged forward and swung his blade horizontally. Both the kids did a back flip to dodge the hit, but the trees around them were also sliced down.
"Whoa! This sure is dangerous!" Ness said, and he turned to the others behind him. "You better run to a safer place or else you'll be done for!"
"All right, but be careful yourselves too!" Keichi said, and then he ran off with his gang to a safer distance. Kirby and Olimar remained behind though.
"What are you two still doing here?!" Ness asked them.
"Are you putting us in the same league as them?" Kirby replied. "Don't forget that I am a Smasher!"
"Somehow I feel like having the responsibility to help you kids too," Olimar said. "I'm the only adult here, you know. I know… you can't that from my height…"
"No matter how many of you are left behind, you cannot hope to prevail against me!" Eggman said. "This time I am more than ready to take on you!"
"Okay, Toon and I will take on Eggman, and the two of you go for his lackeys," Ness said to his group. "How's that?"
"No problem here," Kirby said.
"As long I do not have to go through a rough time, I'm fine with that," Olimar said.
"Ha! You'll see soon enough that I am not a lackey!" Scratch said, and he opened fire at Olimar, who dodge the shot by jumping back.
"You'll find out who is the lackey soon enough!" Grounder also said, and he pointed his drill to Kirby and charged to him, but Kirby rolled away in time.
"Take this!" Eggman thrust his sword forward and tried to stab TL, who used his shield to block the blow, and then he swung back his sword and began clashing blades with Eggman.
TL, being the more skilled one, parried his attacks and took a blow to the robot from the side, but the armor of the robot wasn't something to be penetrated with ease and it didn't take much of scratch. "Ha! You think you can cut me down with a measly sword after I made sure the metal is strong enough to withstand such thing?" Eggman asked while laughing.
Eggman then began thrusting his sword at TL and jabbed his shield over and over. The rapid blows started to form cracks on the shield too. "It's going to break at this point!" Suddenly, the shield burst apart and the sword thrust forward and barely took him by the shoulder. "Ow!"
"Meet your maker!" Eggman shouted, but the robot was then zapped by a thunderbolt fired by Ness.
"You're not picking on him alone!" Ness said.
"I'll get you for this also!" Eggman said as he turned to Ness and tried to hit him, but he dodged it by ducking down. He crawled out of there as fast as he could and stood back up before releasing a bright flash.
"PK Flash!"
"Ha! Like that will work!" Eggman laughed as he lowered his goggles onto his eyes. "And you thought the goggles do nothing?" He tried to hit him with the sword afterwards again, and Ness almost got hit but still managed to avoid taking fatal blow.
TL took out a bomb and hurled it at the robot and blasted it in the side of the body. Eggman turned to him and said, "So you want to play with explosives? I'll gladly accompany you!" His shield opened up to reveal a cannon behind it and it fired a missile at him.
TL gasped and jumped away quick and barely avoided getting caught in the blast. Soon after he landed, he fired an arrow at Eggman but it bounced off the robot's body harmlessly.
"Ha! I told you nothing can break through this armor!"
"PK Offense Up!" Ness shouted while holding up his bat, and an orange glow appeared on his bat as he ran to Eggman and delivered a powerful swing that was actually strong enough to knock the robot away into a tree.
SMASH!
Eggman bumped his head on the glass and cried, "Ow! What did you do just now?!"
"We have ways of getting through heavy armor unfortunately," Ness told him.
"You kids are full of surprise. Such is to be said about the Smashers!"
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"Ha! Dance more!" Scratch laughed while firing constantly at Olimar, who was 'dancing' around like crazy to avoid getting shot in the feet.
"Stop it! Stop it!" he cried. "I can't handle this any longer!"
"Haha! This is fun! Is this the best you can do?"
Olimar quickly got out a spray can and sprayed white stuff onto the cockpit of the saucer and blocked out Scratch's view. "Hey! What the?!" he cried.
Olimar quickly reached into his bag and got out what looked like seeds and stuffed them into the ground and immediately pulled them out again, and thus Pikmins were created in a moment's notice. He quickly threw all the Pikmin he has onto the flying saucer and they began beating on it over and over.
"Hey! Get these things off!" Scratch shouted while shaking his saucer left to right. However, the gun continued to fire in Olimar's direction, but the aim was bad and Olimar didn't have to move as much as before to avoid them. Some of the Pikmin's climbed to the gun and slowly chipped it off to the ground, leaving the saucer devoid of attacking methods.
Olimar then plucked up six purple Pikmins and formed them into a chain. He let out a whistle and the Pikmins on the flying saucer immediately jumped down. "Gone at last!" Scratch said, but he had no time to celebrate as Olimar swung his Pikmin nunchuck at him.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!
The flying saucer crashed down and the cockpit broke, and Scratch climbed out in pain. "Darn you… I'll get you for this!" He got up and angrily ran towards Olimar, but the Pikmins all jumped onto him and pinned him to the ground and pummeled him over and over. "OW! HEY! GET OFF ME!! HELP!!"
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Grounder zoomed forward and tried to impale Kirby with his drill, but the pink puffball stood aside and easily dodged the attack. "I won't miss you this time!" Grounder said, turning around and going for the second attempt, which missed too. "Dang! I won't miss a third time!"
Kirby jumped up when he was near and landed onto the cockpit and 'tap danced' on top of it rapidly, pushing the flying saucer to the ground and not to mention cracking up the glass. "Ow! Stop that!" Grounder cried.
Kirby jumped off and Grounder hovered up again and tried to hit him with the drill, but Kirby jumped up and delivered a roundhouse kick into the cracked glass and easily shattered it. "What?!" Grounder gasped.
Kirby then grabbed him by the head and amazingly leaped up high into the air, taking the robot along with him. "Drop Slam!" Kirby shouted as he fell back down and smashed Grounder into the ground.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!
"Duh… Lost again…" cried Grounder's head as it rolled onto the ground and his body could be seen lying in ruins besides it.
"That was too easy!" Kirby said.
Suddenly, a tree besides him fell down and he got away fast. "Whoa!" He saw that it was the intense battle between Eggman, Ness, and Toon Link that caused the tree to fall.
"They're having a dangerous fight there!" Olimar said.
"But it's best that we leave it to them and not get ourselves into trouble," Kirby stated.
"Haha! How about this?" Eggman said. The sword pulled back and energy swirled around it and he delivered a powerful swung that released a crescent beam.
Ness created an energy shield in front of him, and though he absorbed the beam, he still received a bit of knockback. "Whoa! That was strong!"
TL tossed some two bombs into the air and whipped out his bow fast and fired arrows that shot the bombs and pushed them into the robot, blasting it.
BANG BANG!
"You're not taking me down with those!" Eggman said, firing missiles out of the robot's shield.
Ness and TL ran around to avoid the missiles. TL ran up a tree and kicked off it into the air above Eggman and stabbed down with his sword, but he ended up bouncing off instead.
Ness delivered a bat swing, but it was blocked out by the shield, which immediately opened and fired a missile. However, thanks to TL falling down from the top and landing onto the arm with the shield, the aim went to the ground instead and Ness was simply propelled away from the blast, though it still burned him. TL bounced of the arm and landed in front of the robot, and then it tried to impale him with the sword but he rolled away in time.
"PK Rocking!" Ness released colored balls at the robot and blasted it constantly, causing the robot to move back with each blast. TL also helped by throwing multiple bombs.
"Argh! You brats are annoying!" Eggman shouted. "Take a load of this!" He pulled back the sword and energy once again swirled around the blade, and then he thrust forward the sword and shot out a horizontal energy cyclone.
The speed of the cyclone was fast and they couldn't avoid it in time and was blown away by the attack directly. "AH!!"
"Oh no!" Olimar gasped.
TL and Ness fell down painfully, but they managed to stay conscious. "That hurts…" Ness cried.
"Now I will make sure you fall to the next attack!" Eggman said.
"We have to take him out now!" TL said. "If only I can get through his armor!"
"It's worth a try then," Ness said. "I'll increase your sword's power. PK Offense Up!" And he transferred orange energy into TL's sword from his hand.
"Okay, let's see how this goes!" TL said, and he ran to the robot to attack it.
"You're making a fool out of yourself running to me like that!" Eggman said. He thrust forward his sword but TL jumped into the air and from there, he slammed down the sword forcefully and successfully created a vertical gash in front of the robot. "WHAT?!"
TL landed in front and delivered a horizontal slash that pushed the robot backwards and left behind another gash on it.
"Argh! I'll get you for this!" Eggman shouted it frustration, and he shot a missile out of the shield.
TL ducked down and let the missile pass over him. Ness held up his shield and a bluish shield appeared in front of him, and when the missile touched the shield, it froze for a while before flying back to Eggman, hitting the robot in the shield and blowing it off.
BANG!
"WHAT?!" While Eggman was shocked from this, TL sliced off the sword arm. "Curses! How dare you?!"
"You're the one getting schooled this time," Ness said. "Okay TL, move out of there and let me deal the finishing blow!" He raised his arms and a colorful aura appeared around him and then he released a powerful blast of energy. "PK Rocking Omega!"
TL got out of the way and Eggman took the powerful blast to himself. "NOOOOOOOOO!! THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!!"
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