Chapter 35
The Great Dragon of Hatred! Smashers. Vs. Hatero!
"So… once you're done paying respect to the land where your ancestors once lived in, please leave immediately," the soldier said to the Smashers who were guarding the Final Destination. "We fear that the longer you stay, the secret behind this place will be revealed."
"Don't worry; we won't be staying for too long!" Peach said. "Take care of yourselves!" After this, the soldiers left them alone.
Luigi sighed and said, "Good thing they're gone…"
"Come to think of it, it wouldn't be that bad to tell them the truth," Popo said.
"On the contrary, I think this will only make things worse. What if they believed us and tried to take things into matter themselves?" Olimar said. "Your comrades in there may get caught in the act if you know what I mean."
"You have a point…"
Peach turned to the location of where Smelton's base (though it's hidden from their sight) and said quietly to herself, "Please come back safe and sound, and hurry…"
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Snake and Mario both looked into the distance and saw the massive black dragon looking down on their comrades. "Whoa… What the heck is that…?" Snake asked.
"Mamamia… Eet's huge!" Mario gasped.
"Hey, are you guys going to continue or what?" asked a voice.
The two Smashers turned around and faced the twin girls. "Let's get started again if you're done with your sightseeing," the girl with the left eye-patch—Lilileft—said.
"And don't bother worrying about your friends," the one with the right eye-patch—Liliright—added. "They facing off against Hatero in his Final Transformation, so they're as good as dead the moment the battle began. Also, your other friend down there who is fighting with Master Arrogarn is screwed also."
"I feel bad for them…" Snake said as he got into fighting stance. "But we'll have to worry about ourselves now."
"Right-a! We'll go help-a them afta we're done here!" Mario said, also getting into fighting stance.
"You talk like you're going to beat us for sure!" Lilileft said. "Don't be too full of yourself!"
"Right, because this is as far as you go!" Liliright said.
"I could say the same thing to you," Snake told them. "You girls better not get too full of yourself either!"
Both sides glared at each other for a while, and then they took off at each other.
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Down below them, a heated duel was going on. Four translucent arms coming out from Arrogarn, who was standing still and doing nothing, reached to Captain Falcon from all sides and attempted to take a swipe at him. CF punched and kicked away some of the arms and quickly jumped all over the place in acrobatic manners to avoid getting caught by them as they reached forward again. "This is tough… Especially the fact they are hard to see…" CF thought.
When all four arms reached forward at the same time, he quickly pulled back his arm and unleashed THE punch. "Falcon Punch!" The powerful punch knocked away all four arms and actually caused Arrogarn to take a step back somewhat.
"What?!"
CF used this opportunity to rush towards her from the side. "You're open!"
But to his surprise, the arms reached to him again faster than the blink of an eye and swatted him away. CF rolled across the surface really fast and almost rolled off the building, but stopped just short at the edge. "Phew…"
"Inferior being! You can never surpass me!" Arrogarn said as she approached him.
"We'll see about that!" CF replied.
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"Hiya!" Both Toon Link and Katsura cried as they clashed their swords and locked against each other. After a short while of pushing back and forth, they hopped back to their starting positions and glared at each other.
"You're very skilled for your age," Katsura commented.
"I take lessons from a very good teacher living on my island," TL replied. "If you look down on me, you're looking down on him too!"
They rushed at each other again and began clashing blades.
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Pit and Kochou looked down at Master Hand and Shat Focker as they fought each other.
"Hiya!" MH folded up into a fist and launched forward, but Focker drifted out of the way like a blanket blown around by wind and managed to avoid the punch. MH turned to him and fired a couple of bullets, but Focker managed to avoid them by drifting around in a seemingly aimless manner. "This guy is good at avoiding…"
Focker lifted up his right sleeve and energy came out from within it. "S---," he muttered, and then an energy ball shot out.
MH easily avoided it by moving out of the way and then commented, "What he said just now… Can it be?"
"S---," Focker said again before firing another energy ball that was once again avoided.
"Indeed, it is… The Power of the S---."
"Power of the… What?" Pit wondered.
"To see that there is someone who still practices this power in this era…" MH commented in unbelief. "The Power of S--- is a legendary technique that is supposed to be extinct thousand of years ago..."
Suddenly and without a warning at all, Focker appeared next to MH, much to his surprise. "Do you want to s--- first or do you want to f--- first?" Focker asked in an eerie-sounding voice as he lifted up his sleeve.
"What?!"
"F---." Then a burst of energy came out from the sleeve and blasted MH backwards, but he wasn't harmed much by this.
"The Power of the F---?!" MH gasped. "That's not possible! How is it possible to know both the powers at once?! I heard that the Power of the S--- and the Power of the F--- are two opposing powers. If anyone tries to master them together, it would result in the death of the person!" Suddenly, it struck MH in the head, if he has any. "I remember now! No wonder your name sounded so familiar!"
"What?" Pit wondered.
"I remember… Legend spoke of a man who actually mastered both the opposing powers. It was supposed to be something impossible, but somehow, he managed to sustain himself even after mastering both powers… But even so, he was unable to keep himself up for long. He eventually died from power overload of both the Power of the S--- and Power of the F---."
"It is as you say," Focker said. "I am the man to s--- and f--- at the same time. I am both the s--- and the f---. The Power of the S--- and the Power of the F--- are both within me."
"So you have been brought back to life by Smelton…" MH said.
"I wonder if Master Hand will be all right," Pit wondered.
"Master Focker is very strong," Kochou said. "I'm afraid your big hand friend won't win."
"No, he will win. He is master and he is strong! Speaking of which…" Pit suddenly shot up onto his feet and backed off from Kochou and pointed his bow and arrow at her. "You're my enemy! I'm supposed to fight you and not chat happily with you!"
"But I don't feel like fighting," Kochou said. "I want to play a game instead…"
Pit lowered his weapon and asked, "What game?"
"Let me think… I know! Let's play with cards!" Kochou then reached underneath her shirt and got out some cards. "C'mon! Let's settle things using these!"
"Um… Are you serious…?"
"Of course! This is a lot more fun! The rules are simple!" Kochou said while arranging the cards. She then picked up one card and without a warning, tossed it at Pit like a knife.
Pit reacted in time and quickly deflected the incoming card with his bow. "Whoa!"
"The first person to fall over bleeding loses!" Kochou said while holding up another card.
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Smelton heard several noises coming from the outside. "I thought I told them not to take things too rough in fear of causing any damage," he said. He then turned to look at the large glass orb that was containing the ultimate evil known as Gamfax.
Several tubes and wires were connected all around the glass orb and being transferred into the evil energy from them. "We are… Gamfax…" the evil incarnate said.
"But no matter what those Smashers do, they will be too late in the end to stop me!" Smelton said to himself.
Suddenly, there was a violent banging on the door which grabbed his attention. "Who goes there?"
The door then slammed open and Ike was seen standing behind it. "Found you at last!"
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Back on the surface of the building…
The five Smashers watched in fear at the massive black dragon before them and took a couple of steps back. "You got to be kidding me…" Link said. "This transformation is too exaggerating…"
"Wait a minute…" Samus said. "If Final Transformation is supposed to increase your power level by two steps, wouldn't that mean… he is now equivalent to the number one strongest Failure?!"
"You're right…" Marth replied. "We are basically fighting the First Failure now…"
"I can't even imagine how powerful the second and first Failure will be after they transform…" Link stated.
"What's the matter? You guys scared?" Wolf asked. "A little transformation isn't going to scare me! He's still an old man at heart, so he's a pushover!"
"Don't be too sure… He's nothing like before anymore…" Marth warned him. "We can't take on him recklessly…"
"What do we do then?" Sonic asked.
Hatero suddenly roared loudly and with a wide open mouth, he breathed out dark-colored flame. "Watch out!" Marth shouted. He slashed both his swords to eliminate the incoming fire. Immediately after this, Hatero slammed forth one of his massive claws and tried to crush them, but they got away in time.
Samus got to a safe distance and fired several super missiles and Link fired arrows. All the projectiles hit the body of the massive dragon but bounced off him harmlessly, and Hatero turned to them and breathed out fire again which they avoid. Sonic ran to Hatero from the side and jumped at him in the form of a ball and rammed into his skin hard, but he ended up bouncing off him instead without doing any visible damage. "Take this!" Wolf used his gun to fire shots at the dragon, but they're not doing anything useful.
Marth ran up to Hatero and jumped at him with both swords raised and ready to slash him. When he brought it down, Hatero reached forward one claw and clashed with Marth's swords and pushed him forcefully down onto the floor and then tried to bring the claw down on him to crush him. Sonic ran over to Marth and pulled him out of safety just in time.
"Thanks…" Marth said.
"No problem, bro!" Sonic replied.
"None of your shall survive this!" Hatero roared at the top of his voice. He took a deep breath and breathed out a large amount of fire that formed into a wall of fire that moved towards them.
"Oh no… How are we going to avoid this thing…?" Link said in fear.
From Hatero's side, he could not see the Smashers from over the wall of fire when it almost approached them. He assumed that they were consumed within the flames when suddenly something unexpected happened. The fire was penetrated and three projectiles—a colorful laser, a glittering silver arrow, and a crescent-shaped wind blade—shot forward and struck Hatero in the body, blasting him backwards some steps. "RA!!!"
It was already known that Marth already had his weapon at 2nd level form, and now both Samus and Link had theirs in the 2nd level form too. "Now we should be able to hold against him," Samus said.
"C'mon, let's get him!" Link said.
Hatero growled angrily and said, "I hate persistent fools like you! I will kill you all!" He moved forward and slammed down one claw to try and crush them. Link quickly fired another silver arrow at the incoming claw and impaled through its palm, causing Hatero to pull back his claw in pain.
"Take this! Hyper Beam!" Samus fired a charged laser beam and shot him square in the neck.
BANG!!
Hatero was pushed back a decent distance from the attack, but he wasn't showing signs of tiredness as he stepped forward again. He opened his mouth and black balls of fire shot out like meteors and impacted all over the place, causing the Smashers to run like crazy to avoid them.
Wolf quickly activated his reflector when a fireball was going to hit him, but the fireball was too powerful to be deflected and he was knocked back, but was able to lower the damage taken thanks to the reflector.
Samus charged up her arm cannon and managed to shoot out several super missiles at once, all of which are glowing with multiple colors. The missiles and the fireballs crashed with each other in midair and exploded. Link shot out another silver arrow that made several swoops and turns to destroy the incoming fireballs, and then the arrow flew towards Hatero. The dragon caught the arrow with his hand crushed it however.
"Hey you!" Sonic shouted as he ran towards Hatero. He jumped up and curled into a ball and tossed himself towards the dragon's head at a fast speed. The dragon used his hand to bat Sonic away, but Sonic tossed himself at him over and over. Wolf then ran and jumped to Sonic and kicked him like a soccer ball, causing Sonic to shoot forward at a faster speed and Hatero missed a hit and Sonic rammed into his forehead forcefully.
When Hatero was flinched by this, Marth slashed with both his swords and shot out an x-shaped beam. "Dragon Gate!" The powerful attack slashed the dragon from the side and Hatero was scarred from the neck down the side of the body.
SLAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!
"RAAAAAAAAR!!!!! HOW DARE YOU?!?!" Hatero yelled in anger as he turned to Marth and shot out a huge burst of fire.
"Oh no!" Marth held up both arms to protect himself, but the fire blasted him backwards and he flew off the building.
"Marth!" Samus quickly ran to him and jumped off the building to grab him and then launch her grapple beam at the edge of the building. However, she jumped off too far to reach the building again. Luckily, Link shot his claw shot and the grapple beam managed to latch onto the front tip of it, and Samus and Marth were able to pull themselves back onto the building this way. "Phew… Safe…"
"Just in time…" Link said, but then a shadow loomed over him and he looked up to see Hatero looking down on him. "Oops…"
"How dare you ruin the fun?! I hate people like you! I will kill you all!" he said.
"Take this!" Samus quickly fired a beam at Hatero, but he easily shrugged it off and shot out a stream of fire. The three of them ran away in time however.
"Damn… He's really tough…" Marth said.
"How are we going to destroy him like this?" Link asked.
"I don't know… We'll just have to give all we got."
Hatero turned to them and breathed out a wall of fire again. Marth slashed the air forcefully to create a whirlwind that flew the fire away though. Samus and Link attacked with their Holy Weapons afterwards, but with a single claw swipe, Hatero managed to deflect them and breathe out another stream of fire. The Smashers ran away to avoid it, but Marth ran forward instead and took a swipe at one front legs.
"Here goes!" Sonic shouted all of sudden as he ran straight into Wolf from behind and pushed him towards the dragon.
"Claw of the Thunder God! Turbo Style!" Wolf shouted as he slashed his claws to produce electricity.
Combined with the momentum of the speed, it was a very powerful attack that managed to hurt Hatero a lot.
"Heh! How do like the combo attack just now?" Sonic asked.
"We'll show it to you again if you are willing to!" Wolf said.
Marth saw this and something came to him, and he shouted to Sonic, "Sonic! Let's try that again!"
"What's that you say?" Sonic asked. "Oh wait… You want a try it out too? C'mon then!"
Marth jumped out of the way to avoid a claw slam from Hatero and ran to Sonic as fast as he could. "I'll ready my swords and you do the same thing you did to Wolf by pushing me from behind very fast!" Marth explained.
"I know what to do already!"
Marth crouched down and crossed both his swords in front of him while Sonic ran some distance behind him. "Ready or not, here I come!" Sonic said, and he ran straight into Marth and pushed him forward at a fast speed.
At the same time, Hatero breathe out a stream of fire at them, but combined with the speed, Marth was able to penetrate through the fire with his swords. "Critical Hit!" Marth shouted as he slashed down both blades.
SLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!
The powerful impact not only scarred Hatero badly, but it also sent him flying off the building! Unforunately, Sonic was unable to stop in time and both Marth and he fell down along. "Whoa! Too fast!" Sonic commented.
As the trio fell down, Marth landed onto Hatero's body and slashed him in the chest rapidly and the dragon cried in pain and tried to shake him off.
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Roy looked up and saw something falling towards them. "What's that falling down here?" he wondered.
"Identified as a living thing of mass size," ROB said.
They both moved back into a safe distance and the massive thing crashed down before them violently and sand flew up everywhere.
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!
Roy coughed and cleared his eyes of the sand and said, "What was that?!" And then he saw Marth and Sonic rolling out from the sand cloud. "You guys!"
"Whoa! Surprised that we survived the fall!" Sonic said.
Marth saw Roy and ROB and said, "You guys…"
"Hey, what's with falling out of the sky all of the sudden? Don't tell me you fell down all the way from there?!" Roy asked as he pointed to the fortress in the air.
"Yeah, we did…"
"What happened?"
Suddenly, Hatero rose up from the cloud of sand and growled furiously at them. "Yikes?! What is this?!" Roy gasped in shock.
"Still alive?!" Sonic said.
"He really is no pushover…" Marth commented as he got into fighting stance again.
TO BE CONTINUED
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