Chapter 26
Devils of the Desert! The Terror of Type A!



Dedede and Meta-Knight got into defensive stance as Joykiller walked closer and closer to them. "Be careful, king," MK said to Dedede. "Let me handle this."

"It's your duty to protect me, Meta-Knight!" Dedede replied. "Go get him!"

"No matter what you do, your attempts will be futile," Joykiller said. "That is the way the world works. Every time you attempt to do something and hope for the best, faults will happen and bring you down."

"We will not let you people do as you want and create your own world, and we will not let our attempts go to fail either. En guard!" MK said, and he dashed forward fast with sword in hand.

Joykiller blocked the attack with his kunai and pushed him back. Joykiller then threw the kunai into the floor and quickly did a hand sign and said something. MK was able to catch a glimpse of an exploding tag attached onto the back of the kunai, but then it exploded and the whole bridge was shattered.

"YAAAAAAA!!!" Dedede screamed as he fell towards the earth below, but MK caught him by the hand. Unfortunately, the attempt was futile because MK was no match for the weight of the king and was therefore dragged down.

CRASH!

Fortunately for the both of them, the sand down there softened the landing impact, so nobody was harmed. Dedede got up and spit out a large amount of sand and said, "Couldn't you have saved my life?!"

MK popped out and said, "I'm sorry that I failed you, king."

Joykiller, on the other hand, landed onto the sand unharmed and using both feet. "This will be the arena of our fight," he said.

MK got ready again and said, "Come!"

"You have angered me!" Dedede said. "I am not going to simply sit down and let an offender of the king like you get away with this. Be honored that you shall be taken down by my royal hammer!"

"You will fight too, king?" MK asked him. "It's very dangerous, I highly…"

"The king has to step out and fight for his men at times!" Dedede interrupted him. "I am capable of protecting myself. When things are looking dangerous, I will withdraw and allow you to carry on for me instead!"

"…"

-

Back in the desert…

"Giant Punch!" DK unleashed a powerful punch into the face of Type C as it charged at him. The punch sent the centipede crashing to the sand on the side. As it grazed along the surface from the impact, Diddy threw some oranges at it, followed by firing peanuts from his gun. The peanut bullets struck the oranges and exploded, blasting the centipede in the body, and then it flew back into the air again.

Kirby ran to DK and shouted as loud as he could while pointing to Type C, "THROW ME UP!" He shouted this loud so that DK could hear, obviously.

DK reached out one hand and Kirby landed onto the palm, and then with a mighty swing, DK hurled Kirby high into the air and way above Type C. Kirby turned into a stone midair and dropped down on top of Type C's head with a powerful slam that brought it to the sand.

CRAAAAAASH!!!

"All right! Let's get him!" Diddy shouted.

"Time for this!" DK pulled the Giant Axe from underneath his necktie and shouted its name to revert it to its normal size. He caught it by the handle and then slammed it onto the sand hard and unleashed a sand wave. The wave crashed into the side of Type C's body and knocked it high into the air and even left behind a wound on its body.

Type C let out a screech and rose into the air and waved its body around for a while before dropping down on DK, who jumped back and avoided it. Soon after jumping back, DK jumped forward again with his axe raised into the air to hit the centipede. Type C pulled back in the nick of time and the attack missed, and then it jerked forward and attempted to grip DK between its mandibles. "Oh no!" Diddy gasped.

But DK was able to protect himself by holding the axe horizontally, and the mandible wasn't able to fully close around him. "Can't hold up… forever…" he thought.

"Throw me some orange bombs!" Kirby shouted to Diddy. "I can make use of them!"

"If that's what you say," Diddy replied, and he tossed some oranges at Kirby. Kirby swallowed them and magically gain a blue sleeping cap on his head.

"Behold the power of bombs!" Kirby said, and he whipped out a bomb out of nowhere and tossed it at Type C's head and blasted it, causing it to pull open its mandibles and thus allowing DK to escape. He immediately swung the axe at the bottom of Type C's head and left behind a painful-looking gash.

As Kirby continued to throw bombs at the giant centipede, Type C quickly dug its head into the sand and tried to escape. "Get him!" Pikachu shouted while running towards the burrowing tail.

"I'm on it!" Pichu said.

Both the mouse Pokemon got near and unleashed a pair of thunderbolts into the air that dropped down onto the tail. "THUNDER!!!"

Electricity surged down the tail and throughout the rest of the body underneath the ground. After the centipede disappeared fully into the sand, the five mentioned Smashers looked around with awareness on where it might come up from next.

Pichu placed his ear against the ground and listened carefully, and then said, "Be careful! It's coming up again from a place not too far!"

"Can you be more specific?" Diddy asked.

Suddenly, Type C burst out of the sand next to him and was diving straight for him.

"EEKS!!!"

But Diddy was suddenly pulled away by a vacuum-like force and he found himself sucked into Kirby's mouth and was then spit out shortly afterwards. "Just in time…" Kirby said.

Type C came out in front of DK and lunged at him and DK quickly swung forth his axe, but Type C managed to clamp its mandible at the sides of the axe and then hurled DK into the air by swinging up its head. "Whoa!"

DK lost grip of his axe while he was in air and Type C went after him with mandibles wide open. "Oh no! Donkey is in trouble!" Diddy gasped.

DK flailed his arm around in air and managed to catch the axe again, and he shouted, "Level up!" And his axe transformed into a large and longer axe that had blades on both sides. He brought down the axe as he fell down and managed to slice the giant centipede right down the middle and all the way to the bottom, cleaving it from head to tail fully.

Both halves of Type C split apart, and it immediately exploded.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!

DK landed and his axe turned back to normal and he raised his arms in triumph. "Oh yeah!"

"Wow! You did great, Donkey!" Diddy exclaimed.

"You're awesome!" Pichu added.

"Phew… I thought you were a goner for a while…" Pikachu said with a sigh of relief.

"One is down!" Kirby said, and he turned to the other six Smashers that were standing not too far from their current location. "Now they're dealing with the last one."

"We should help them!" Pikachu suggested.

The others were throwing attacks down into the sand pit and hitting Type A. Despite taking blows onto the mandible, the giant antlion seems to be unaffected by the attacks at all. "Ha! Fighting this guy is like fighting a brick wall!" Falco stated as he fired his gun. "He doesn't move at all and yet is tough to bring down."

"Just keep firing! It should go down for the count eventually!" Fox said, firing his gun rapidly.

The mandible opened and closed over and over while taking shots to its sides, and then after a while, it slowly sank back into the sand. "It got away…" Lucas said.

"Have enough already?" Falco asked.

"I don't think so…" Pichu said, placing his ear against the ground. "I can still hear it moving underneath us…"

Then the whole place began to rumble and everyone was startled by this. "Now what…?" Red asked. Then out from besides them, the mandibles rose out of the air again, but it continued to rise into the air and thus revealing itself to be a large monster with a menacing humanoid face and the mandibles were actually horns on its head!

"YAAAAAAAA!!!" Lucas screamed in fright.

"We were fighting this the whole time?!" Ness gasped.

Type A slammed down both hands onto the ground and lowered its horns towards them and it tried to clamp the Smashers, who quickly jumped back to avoid getting caught.

"Now that you've showed yourself, things will be easier to deal with!" Falco said. He used his Atomic Gun to fire into the face of the monster, making it cry in pain. The monster then opened its mouth and gathered up energy to fire a plasma shot. Falco rolled out of the way to avoid getting hit, but the explosion created from the shot blew him away. "Whoa!"

Type A reached its hand to Falco to grab him, but Ness quickly fired a green energy ball at it and it exploded, blinding the monster. "PK Flash!"

While Type A was recovering from the blast, Young Link fired his Light Arrows shot Light Arrows at the body of the monster. Angered by this, Type A reached forward to grab him, but YL jumped away and slash at its arm. Type A pulled back its arm and opened its mouth and charged up an energy ball again. "Watch out! He's going to use that again!" Fox shouted.

"Time for some home runs!" Ness said, readying his Ultimate Bat. Type A shot the energy ball at Ness and he swung his bat at it.

"Watch out!" Lucas cried.

But the energy ball was batted back to the monster! It flew back into its mouth and exploded from the inside, stunning the monster greatly. The monster reared back with its mouth wide open and it was churning with smoke. "Ha! Looks like it got a taste of its own medicine!" Falco said.

"Be careful, it may or may not be down yet," Fox told everyone.

Type A let out cries of pain and then it leaned forward and slammed its hands onto the ground, and then after a couple of coughing, it fell face first onto the ground.

"Whoa… Did we do it already?" Ness asked.

"But if he really is dead, he should be exploding instead," Fox said.

"Whatever the case it, looks like he's out for the count already," YL said. "We might as well get away before he gets up again."

"Is leaving it here like this safe? It may get up and terrorize people again…" Lucas said.

"Wait, I think something isn't right…" Pikachu said, looking at Type A.

The body of the giant antlion monster started to shake. Then its back burst open and a large pair of translucent wings came out and everyone was shocked by this. "Whoa! What's happening?!" DK gasped.

Then a large dragonfly-like insect came out from the body of the monster, and this new creature had the same face as Type A, including horns. The monster stood on top of the now lifeless old body and glared at the Smashers menacingly. "Uh oh… It's after us again…" Kirby said.

"I get it now…" Fox said. "That's the antlion in its matured form. I think you get the point…"

-

Yoshi and Lucario were somewhere in the building interior and they were walking across a wide passage that was suspended high in air and the sides were lined with railings to prevent one from falling off so easily. "Nothing so far," Yoshi said while skipping in a carefree manner. "Let's hope it remains like this!"

Lucario suddenly came to a stop and said, "The presence of an enemy is close by."

"Really?" Yoshi asked, and he sniffed the air and said, "You're right! It smells unfamiliar, so it must be a foe! Let's hope it's not…"

"They are approaching before us."

The two kept watch across the place and saw two people approaching them. It was the bulldog and the emo-looking guy.

"Two of them… I knew it…" Yoshi said. "They don't look nice…"

The two newcomers walked up to the front of them and stopped, and Yoshi and Lucario got into defensive stance. The emo placed his palm on his hand and sighed with disappointment while the bulldog said, "So you are the ones that invaded this place? Wow, you look more harmless than I thought…"

"Yeah, we're the ones that came in here…" Yoshi said. "So if want to, we can leave quietly now…"

"We will fight our way through here if we must," Lucario said in a threatening way to the villains.

"Um… What he said… So you better get out of the way before we beat you up. Don't look at me like this, I'm a lot stronger and more dangerous than you think. Yoshi!"

"So you want to fight us?" the bulldog asked. "Wow, you're a lot dumber than I thought… You could've just scram from here before anyone got hurt. I'm so disappointed in your decision that I really want to beat you up right now."

Lucario got into fighting pose and said, "Report thy identity!"

"I am Wowzer Boringnator," the bulldog said. "And this person is…"

"I am Unimpressio Bororing, the Seventh Failure," the emo interrupted and at the same time showing the number 7 tattooed on his right arm. "I am so disappointed with what I saw that I lost my will to fight." He then walked away to the side and said to Wowzer, "Do whatever you want with them. I'm not in the mood to care anymore."

"What's with that guy…?" Yoshi wondered. "But the seventh strongest… Thanks goodness it's not that high… But seven… That's no small number either…"

"Disappointing things are such an eyesore," Wowzer said. "I will get rid of you both immediately."

"Let's begin," Lucario said.

-

Meta-Knight and Joykiller clashed swords several times with each other and then they hopped back to their starting places. They gave each other a stare for a while before charging at each other again. Joykiller kicked the sand this time and tried to blind MK. This tactic was successful and while MK was trying to clear his vision, Joykiller swung at him. MK wrapped himself up with his cloak in the nick of time and disappeared just before he got hit. He reappeared behind Joykiller and slashed him, but when Joykiller was slashed, he disappeared in a puff of smoke. "A clone!" MK thought.

"Where'd he go?" Dedede asked. Then out of a rock behind him, Joykiller leaped out from there with his sword raised over his head.

"Watch out!" MK shouted to Dedede.

Dedede turned around fast and used his hammer to block the sword swipe and Joykiller landed back onto the ground. "How dare you sneak up on me from behind!" Dedede said angrily. "Take the royal punishment!" He lifted up his hammer and slammed it down to hit him, but Joykiller easily avoided it by jumping to the side and he threw some shurikens. Dedede turned around fast and used his hammer to deflect them.

When Joykiller threw another set of shurikens, Dedede caught them all in his mouth and spit them out again, and Joykiller jumped away to dodge them. While he was in air, MK shot at him in a drilling manner and Joykiller used his sword to block the hit, but the force was so strong that he was pushed across the air and landed onto the floor roughly.

MK charged at him again, and Joykiller quickly did a hand sign and said, "Earth Style! Sand Wall Jutsu!" Then a wall made of sand appeared in front of MK and he crashed into it face first painfully.

"You think a wall can get in the way of the king?" Dedede asked, and he smashed the wall into pieces with his hammer, and MK was unfortunate enough to get buried underneath the rubbles. Poor guy…

Dedede moved forward to get the villain, and Joykiller did another hand sign and chanted some stuff. This time four sand walls appeared all around Dedede, trapping him in the middle, and there were long spikes lined along the surface of the walls too! The walls closed in on him to crush him, but Dedede performed an amazing jump into the air and got out of his impending doom. "Haha! Not even walls of spikes can take down the king!" he said.

He fell towards toward Joykiller and landed in front of him. The impact sent the sand flying everywhere and Joykiller was coughing from the dust, and Dedede was able to smash him onto the ground.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!

"Ugh!" Joykiller quickly got up and hopped back to a safe distance, but MK came bursting out from the rubble and charged into him and slashed him multiple times. Joykiller continued moving back and bend down in pain from the hits he received.

"It is your loss," MK said to him.

"Ask for forgiveness and I will consider showing you mercy!" Dedede said.

"There is only one way to get through this now," Joykiller said, and he stood up and held his sword horizontally in front of himself. "Aguafiestas!"

Note: Spanish for 'Killjoy'.

And then in a burst of smoke, he transformed into a different being. He now took the appearance of a samurai wearing gold armor. He wielded a sword in one hand and a spear in the other.

"He transformed…" MK said.

"Ha! It doesn't matter, we can still win!" Dedede said.


TO BE CONTINUED