Chapter 19
Final Transformation! Retardo's Heat of Fury!
"Grrr! Get in already!" Roy cried as he continued to push Lilina with all his might. Even after lubricating her with butter, she still remained stuck at the hips and didn't budge a millimeter at all. Roy then switched to pushing her with his shoulders, but after a few minutes of tries, he fell back and panted heavily at his futile efforts. "Man… Nothing works at all… Hey, can't you use your magic to blast away the rock?"
"But at close range, I can hurt myself!"
Roy let out a sigh after hearing this as he had no more idea on what to do. Lilina also gave up struggling and thought to herself if she would be trapped like this forever. Thought of this made her shudder and she began to cry.
Roy got up again and went around the rock. "Damn… How are we going to get you out of there? Why won't anything work?!" Out of frustration, he gave a kick to backside of the rock. The kick he gave happened to be very strong, and when he did, cracks appeared all over the backside of the rock suddenly, and it crumbled down into pieces, leaving only the side with Lilina stuck into intact. "Huh…?"
The two of them stared at each other for a while at what just happened, and then Roy looked down and saw his sword lying before him, and he picked it up with joy. "All right! I got it back at last!"
"Good, now can you help me out of here?!" Lilina shouted.
"All right, I'll smash down this with my sword. Be careful now…"
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The kids were bewildered at the sudden transformation that Retardo underwent, and they all backed off in fear. "What happened to him…?!" Nana cried.
"I don't think our powers is going to work against him…" Popo said.
"What happened…?" Elise asked.
"Hohoho! It's the Final Transformation!" Assholicus replied. "All those who are favored by the master are given the power of Final Transformation to increase our powers! When transformed, our power level goes up by two steps! Now Retardo's power is equivalent to the Eighth Failure! If I transform too, then I will be as powerful as the Seventh Failure!"
"I don't care how strong he is! If we work together, we can defeat him!" Young Link said with determination. "C'mon, guys! Let's take him down together and prove ourselves!"
"BURN!!" Retardo shouted loudly, and he opened his mouth and a stream of fire shot out.
"Whoa!" Everyone got out of the way to avoid being burned. Pikachu turned to him and fired electricity, but Retardo easily endured the shock and pointed his arms in his direction, and fire shot out from the tip of the horns like that of a laser gun.
"Pika!" Pikachu jumped out of the way in time to avoid getting shot.
"PK Freeze!" Lucas shot a snowflake at Retardo and made it explode in his face, but to his surprise, it didn't do anything to him at all! "What?!"
"I don't think a little cold is going to stop him," Popo said. "But if we combine our efforts together, we may do something! C'mon, let's use ice on him altogether!"
"Are you sure this will work?" Nana asked him.
"I don't know, but we might as well try…"
The Ice Climbers ran up close to Retardo and took a deep breath to blow out cold air into his face. Lucas saw this and also helped by firing snowflakes again. Retardo covered his face with his hands to shield himself from the cold air and took some steps back, but then he took a deep breath himself and released a blast of fire from his mouth that easily penetrated through the cold air and burned the kids right in their faces.
"FIRE!!" they screamed as they dropped and rolled back and forth nonstop due to having their bodies on fire.
"I'll get you!" YL ran to Retardo and the when the Failure saw him coming, he swung his arm to hit him. YL stepped aside to dodge the attack and swiped him in the waist, but it did not leave behind any visible wound. Retardo turned to him fast and threw a fist again. YL moved back in time to avoid the hit, but the fire that was at the hand went past his face and singed him in the nose slightly. While he was in pain from this burn, Retardo lifted him up into the air with his horns and the surface of the horn burned YL. "YAAAAAAAAA!!"
"BURN AND DIE!!" Retardo shouted, and he tilted his head up very fast and caused YL to fly off into the air. The fire on the back of Retardo burned furiously as he jumped up into the air next and went even higher than YL, and he had his back facing him as he fell down.
"Oh no!!" Pichu and Jigglypuff, who were right underneath them, cried.
Retardo fell down on top of YL and pushed him all the way down there and was flattened alongside Pichu and Jigglypuff.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!
"OH NO!!" Pikachu gasped.
Retardo got back onto his feet and turned to Pikachu with demonic-looking eyes. Behind him were to those three victims flattened into the ground like paper.
"DIE!!" Retardo shouted.
Pikachu growled angrily and said, "I will avenge for them! Pika!" He angrily ran forward and leaped into the air and launched a thunderbolt into the air that crashed back down on the Failure. "Thunder!!"
ZAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!
Retardo took the powerful blast to himself and was hurt by it somewhat, but he managed to shrug off the attack. He lifted up his right hand and the fire coming out around the collar increased and gathered together at the palm, forming a ball of fire. "BURNING MEATBALL!"
"What's with that name…?" Pikachu thought. Retardo threw a large fireball at him and Pikachu got out of the way fast, but Retardo continued throwing fireballs using both hands continuously, so Pikachu had no time to take a break. "Damn! He's not giving me a break! Ya!" He has blasted by a fireball's explosion that occurred next to him and was tossed onto the ground where he was instantly the next fireball's target.
BAAAAAAAANG!!
"Pika… I failed…" cried the Pokemon as he fell down onto the ground all burned up.
"NOOOOO!!" Elise screamed in shock.
"Hohoho! They're all beaten up!" Assholicus laughed in a jolly voice. "That's what they get for making Retardo mad! Oh lookie there! He's going for the poor girl! Hohoho!"
Retardo glanced towards Zelda and went over to her and fire covered up his right fist as he lifted it up to hit her. "Help! I can't get it out!" she cried, oblivious of her impending doom.
"ZELDA!! WATCH OUT!!" Elise screamed.
Just when the worst was about to happen, Sonic, curled up in a ball, suddenly shot in from the front and hit Retardo in the chest, Mario acme flying down from the air and landed a flying kick into his face, Ganondorf delivered a kick in between his legs, and Dedede swung his massive hammer into his stomach. The four powerful blows combined sent the Failure crashing backwards.
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!
Popo, Nana, and Lucas (they're still up, just too hurt to fight) were surprised at what just happened, but at the same time relieved. "Good thing they showed up in time to save the day…" Popo said. "Otherwise Zelda would've been a goner…"
The four newcomers looked at Retardo who was knocked down, and then Ganondorf turned to Zelda and said, "Boy, someone should put this onto Youtube for being the craziest method of catching a rabbit."
Mario ran up to the three kids and said to them, "Are you all right-a?"
"We're all right…" Popo said. "Thanks for coming… We couldn't have survived without you…"
Then Luigi and Peach ran up to the scene too. "Mario! What happened here?!" Luigi asked.
Peach was shocked to see YL, Pichu, Jigglypuff, and Pikachu lying around them all beaten up also. "Oh my! What happened to them all?!"
"I think I have a good idea of what happened here," Sonic said, looking at Assholicus.
"Hey, the fatso over there!" Dedede shouted to him. "How dare you sit on top of the princess with your dirty ass?! Get off her at once!"
"Hohoho! I have a big ass, I cannot lie!" Assholicus said in a jolly voice. "My ass is so big that I can sit on whoever I like!"
"You uncouth swine! How dare you treat the princess like that?!"
"The one over there is the ninth strongest Failure apparently," Popo explained. "And the one you just knocked down is the tenth strongest."
"I see," Ganondorf said. "He's the weakest then, but he must still be very strong to strike you down like this."
"Actually, we defeated him once already," Lucas said. "But he got back up and underwent sudden transformation."
"And according to the fat guy, all the Failures have a transformation technique that makes them stronger," Popo added.
"Transformation that makes them stronger? That sounds interesting," Ganondorf commented.
"Okay, you kids get a break," Sonic told them. "We'll carry things on from here!"
"Luigi, Peachy! Help da kids and Zelda!" Mario said to them.
"Leave it to us, and good luck!" Luigi said.
"Be careful, Mario!" Peach said.
Mario, Sonic, Ganondorf, and Dedede faced Assholicus and readied to fight him, but then they heard Link shouting and running towards them from over the horizon. "Look who is late," Ganondorf said.
"Hey guys! I heard some commotion over here and so ran over to see what's going on!" Link said, entering the scene and panting, but then he saw Zelda's predicament and was shocked. "Zelda!" He quickly ran over to her. "Zelda! What are you doing?!"
"Link? Is that you?" Zelda asked. "Hurry up and get my head out of here! I'm stuck like this for a while already!"
"Okay! I'll get you out!" he said, and he started pulling her back by the shoulder to get her out.
As the four watched him trying to help Zelda, Retardo suddenly got back and shouted, "DIE!! ALL OF YOU!!" They all turned to him surprised.
"Mamamia!" Mario gasped.
"Figured he wouldn't go down that fast," Ganondorf.
"He's the guy who stuffed Zelda's head into the hole!" Nana said.
"What?!" Link said in shock, and then his eyes turned angry as he gazed at Retardo. "I'll get you for this!" And without thinking twice, he got out his sword and charged straight for him.
"Hey! Link! Are you helping me?!" Zelda cried.
When Link approached, Retardo threw his fist forward to punch him, but Link got up his shield to block the blow. However, the impact was incredibly strong and he shot back faster than he ran and tumbled onto the ground roughly, but the shield remained unharmed. "Ow!"
"Charging blindly into your enemy like that won't always work," Ganondorf said. "We'll have to…"
"I'll get him!" Sonic said, and he charged straight for Retardo.
"Come up with a plan first…"
Sonic's speed was much faster than Retardo, and when the Failure tried to punch him, he zipped behind him in a blink of an eye and gave him a kick to the back. Retardo turned and tried to hit Sonic again, but the hedgehog had already run back to his front and gave him another strike. "Haha! You're too slow!" Sonic taunted.
"BURN!!" Retardo shouted, and the fire on his body spread out intensely and Sonic fell back from the heat.
"Whoa! He's really hot-headed, isn't he?"
Retardo lowered onto all four limbs and pointed his horns in Sonic's direction and ran forward like a raging bull. Sonic got out of the way and Retardo continued heading for the other three Smashers.
"He's coming!" Mario gasped.
Ganondorf remained calm however, and he simply approached the incoming Retardo by walking. When the Failure approached him, Ganondorf pulled back his arm and suddenly swung it right into the side of Retardo's face and he was smashed to the side.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!
"Whoa… That was strong…" Lucas said in awe.
"Really shows the gap between our power levels…" Popo commented.
Retardo got up and glared at Ganondorf angrily. "You still got more to show me?" Ganondorf asked.
"DIE!!" Retardo screamed, and he slammed down his hand on him, but Ganondorf easily dodged it by stepping to the side, and he immediately threw another punch into Retardo's face and knocked him down again.
Retardo was angrier than before now. He got up again and pointed his horns at Ganondorf and shot out streams of fire from it. Ganondorf took a large jump backwards and avoided it, and then Retardo formed a ball of fire in his hands and threw it. "BURNING MEATBALL!!"
The fireball went towards Dedede, who opened his mouth and caught it inside, but then he spit it out again and the fireball flew straight into Retardo's face. Dedede lifted his hammer and ran up to him and hammered him right in the chest and knocked him back several steps. As Retardo was going to regain his balance, Meta-Knight suddenly swooped down from the air and slashed him in the body multiple times, and there were actually visible wounds this time!
Retardo fell back from the pain and was met with Mario's foot to the face when he jumped into him. Immediately after planting one foot into the face, Mario pulled it back and switched to the other foot to give him another stomp, and then Mario kicked himself back into the air and leaned his body forward and gave him a punch before he flew back to far.
"ARGH!! I'LL KILL YOU!" Retardo shouted. He was going to attack them again when suddenly Sonic dropped down from the air and did a dropping kick in the middle of his head, and the moment Sonic landed in front of him; he jumped up and kicked Retardo in the chin so hard that he basically flipped backwards. After Retardo fell down, Sonic ran around him in circles very fast, so fast that wind was created and it basically became a tornado.
Sonic curled into a ball and was carried up by the tornado he created and when he was above it, the tornado disappeared and he dropped down like a meteor onto Retardo's stomach really hard.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
Sonic bounced back to the others and landed in a crouching position while keeping an eye on him. "Heh! How'd you like that?"
Retardo managed to crawl back up again despite the attacks. "BURN IN HELL!!" he screamed, and he opened his mouth and churned fire within it, but a bomb suddenly flew into his mouth and exploded the moment it touched the fire and Retardo took heavy internal damage and fell back once again.
BAAAAAAANG!!
"What the…?" Ganondorf said. They turned back and saw that it was Link who threw the bomb.
"Don't think I'm out for the count yet! I won't forgive what you've done to my friends!" he said angrily.
Meanwhile, Luigi was pulling Zelda by the shoulder to get her out.
"Ow! My neck hurts!" she cried.
"She sure it stuck hard!" Luigi said.
Peach then pushed him aside and said, "I'll do it!" She grabbed Zelda by the hair using one hand and placed the other hand on one shoulder. "Here goes! Hiya!" And with a strong yank, Zelda's head forcefully popped out of the hole and both Peach and she fell back a bit. "Phew! There!"
Zelda coughed out soil from her mouth and wiped her face clean and said, "Phew… Thanks…"
"You're welcome!"
"Well, things are taken care of over there," Sonic said.
"I'm glad she's all right," Link said, and then he turned to Retardo. "Now time for you to pay!"
"BURN AND DIE!!" Retardo shouted. "BURNING MEATBALL!!" He tossed a fireball at them and Ganondorf countered by throwing a dark energy ball. Both the elemental balls hit each other and exploded, and then out of those explosions came out arrows with bombs attached to the front. The bomb arrows struck Retardo and exploded, covering him in smoke and fire.
Link dashed forward next and delivered a powerful vertical slash and it left a gash right down the middle of Retardo's body. Retardo cried in pain and angrily swung his arm at Link, who jumped up to avoid it and slashed again, this time injuring him in the face.
Link flew over his head and landed behind him and slashed him in the back of the legs next. Retardo turned his head back to look at him and increase the intensity of the fire on his back to burn him. Link brought up his shield to block the fire and moved back to a safe distance. Retardo turned around and both his hands caught on fire and he reached forward to grab him with the burning hands, but Link threw a bomb at him that he quickly crushed in between his hands, which caused an explosion in flinching him.
"Time to end this!" Link said. He hopped back a couple of feet and raised the back of his hand and the Triforce emblem on the back glowed brightly, blinding Retardo. "Triforce Slash!" A beam shot out from the symbol and struck Retardo, halting his movements. As hard as he struggled, he couldn't move a muscle and Link dashed and slashed the living daylights out of him while light particles flew in every direction. This sight alone was enough to make everyone behold with awe.
"Whoa! Nice light show!" Sonic exclaimed.
Then Link finally gave the final slash that knocked Retardo high up into the sky.
SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!
After Retardo was shot up into the sky, Link jumped up very high into the air with the help of light coming out from underneath his feet. He went above the airborne Failure and plunged his sword down into his head.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!" Retardo screamed upon his skull stabbed through. And then the both of them crashed onto the ground and an explosion ensued.
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!
TO BE CONTINUED
Things have turned very one-sided the moment the strong ones showed up. This really shows the difference in power level between the Smashers, doesn't it? Of course, this doesn't mean that the Failures are all pushovers when fighting the Smashers. I can guarantee you that the high numbered Failures, especially after transformation, will be some of the toughest foes the Smashers ever fought.
Anyway, the next chapter will be one that most people is perhaps waiting for and I hope you will learn a lot too.
