Me: We're back! Sorry for the long wait.
Crow: Yeah, we were busy uploading this on Deviantart, and we only just got ever one of the previous chapters uploaded so we could get this story's sequel uploaded at the same time on both sites.
Servo: Now the next phase of the finale begins. Prophet, in his true form VS the heroes of the worlds of Pokemon and Mario!
Zane: Like we did last time with Mario Science Theater, we've invited Gantz and his crew over. They should be here any minute now.
MMS: (walks in) Hey guys!
Zane: What do you know? Here they are now.
Ace: Let's get started already!
Chapter 48: Evolution's Greatest Fight for Survival
The legends handed down by the dinosaurs of the Mushroom World tell many tales. One of which, the Dentes Rhohos, who were said to torment the Cretaceous Period of Real World Earth many eons ago. 65 million years ago, the dinosaurs were wiped out, and the Dentes Rhohos were supposedly killed off as well. After that, the mammals rose to rule the world, thus giving rise to the Human race.
The meteorite that hit the Real World caused a rip in the space-time continuum, which resulted in the creation of the Mushroom World. Some dinosaurs survived the nuclear explosion-like blast and it's aftermath as they were sent to the Mushroom World. Unfortunately, the Dentes Rhohos followed the surviving dinosaurs. However, no one had ever seen them after the meteor's collision.
In the Real World, the only way to see dinosaurs is by visiting museums or watching TV and movies. As such, no one had to fear the chance of a real San Diego incident like in the final scenes of Lost World: Jurassic Park.
However, truth has been known to be stranger than fiction, and now that saying is being put to the test in a ironic, yet fate deciding battle between beings of the modern age and a prehistoric terror who should have died a long time ago. Ten humans, one dinosaur, one goomba, one koopa, a large group of pokemon, one gorilla, one chimpanzee, one shadow siren, one mage, one toad, and three robots VS a demon reptile.
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Prophet lunged towards Clay and Luigi, but he neglected to keep in mind that heroes stick together, and he was knocked away by a flying kick from Yoshi. Prophet glared at the young dinosaur, and said, "You dare strike a fellow dinosaur!? Don't you have any sense of pride!?! These inferior bings took our rightful home when the meteorite struck! We should be fighting side by side to take back what is ours!!!"
Yoshi then said, "No! You bad dinosaur! Me not stupid, like you! Yoshi heard stories of your kind, and how you turned against us good dinos to hurt other innocent dinos! These people are Yoshi's friends! Mario, Clay, and Luigi help Yoshi save homeland! In return Yoshi help them whenever they need it!"
Prophet was about to attack Yoshi, but was picked up and slammed into the ground by DK, who said, "When I'm done with you, you're gonna wish you were put on display in a museum!" Prophet quickly got up and delivered a kangaroo kick to DK's chest, which sent him flying across the room. When DK slammed into the wall, he kicked up a big dust cloud, obscuring everyone's vision.
Suddenly, a primal yell rang out as DK lept high into the air from the cloud towards Prophet, then brought both his fists down into the ground causing the ground beneath his hands to crack as a powerful tremor shook the entire ship.
DK unintentionally knocked his friends back, but this also sent Prophet straight up into the air, as he flailed madly trying to regain balance. DK slugged Prophet in the stomache with all his might as Prophet came down, sending the evil dinosaur up to the cieling where he slammed into it back first, causing it to fracture slightly.
As Prophet fell towards the ground, Goombario jumped into the air, and delivered a charged headbonk onto Prophet's back, sending him to the ground quicker. Just before he hit the ground, he was nailed by Luigi, who had charged up his Green Missle attack, which launched at Prophet with full power.
When Prophet landed, he was burned badlty by Luigi's attack, then he charged the group again. This time, he used some of his dark magic to create clones of himself. When everyone saw this, Diddy yelled, "Why you dirty, slime-sucking, no-good, cheating sack of crap!" Zane smirked, and then said, "Big deal, we all get to have a punching bag now!" As the group of Prophet clones, along with the original Prophet charged, the visitors from the Mushroom world rushed in to attack. Ash and his friends sent in their best pokemon to help out.
Crow, still in his armor, swung his gold-painted sword at one clone who swiped at Crow with it's claws, both the claws on the hands, and the claws on the Knuckle Claw weapons covering the beast's hands. The Prophet Clone tried to swipe with it's tail scythe, but Crow jumped, and sliced the clone's head off with one good swipe of his sword. The clone vaporized soon after. Crow was then jumped by another clone, but it was killed by a series of gunshots, courtesy of Tom Servo and his machine gun, Luciel.
Crow then said, "Servo, put that away, or you'll kill someoneone!" Servo quickly put Luciel away, realizing he forgot how guns could cause more harm than good in situations like these. He also put away his grenades as well. Servo then said, "How else am I supposed to fight!?" Crow threw a suit of armor, and a sword at Servo, and then said, "Followth thy lead, Sir Thomas Servo!" Servo quickly donned the armor, and did a few practice swings with his sword, and then shouted, "For God, country, and the princess!"
Crow then said, "Shouldn't that be 'for God, country, and the queen'?" Servo then said, "Peach isn't a queen yet, remember?" Crow nodded, and the two got back to fighting as they fought back-to-back to prevent another sneak attack.
Vivian blasted about seventeen clones with her Firey Jinx spell, destroying them with little effort. Suddenly, the real Prophet lashed out at her, slashing her right arm badly. Clay caught the sight, and so did Luigi. The two brothers rushed in and knocked Prophet away before he could get the chance to kill Vivian where she lay.
Clay knelt down, and picked Vivian up, and ran to the other side of the field as he shouted, "Luigi, try to hold him off!" Luigi gulped fearfully, but listened to Clay's command. Luigi then said to Prophet, "Ok you ugly, black, good-for-nothin' evolutionary reject! I may be afraid of you, but I'm not about to let you hurt the girlfriend of my little brother! Get ready for extinction!"
Prophet rushed Luigi, but Luigi stepped aside, and tripped Prophet as he ran past. When Prophet hit the ground, Luigi stomped on the evil reptile's head. Prophet flipped over, and tried to kick Luigi with the large claws on his feet, but he was blown across the field by Lucario's Aura Sphere attack. Lucario then said to Luigi, "I'll take care of him." Lucario soon rushed after Prophet.
Luigi went to see if Vivian was ok, and he was glad to see that Clay and Meriee were able to heal her wounds. Clay then said, "Prophet's gonna get it now!" Clay rushed to Kooper and Goombario, and spoke with them for a moment, and the then spoke to Zane.
Eventually, all the clones were whiped out, and that's when Prophet decided to activate another power. He unleashed all the raw power of his dark magic to increase his strength to the highest level. He had a dark aura covering him to signify his new power. Prophet then said, "Never before had I ever resorted to using this ability. This ability gives me enough power to destroy a castle if I wanted to! I call it Rage of Darkness! You fools have nothing that can match my power! Even if you had a Starman, or any of the Crystal Stars, you wouldn't be able to harm me!"
Zane then said, "Actually, you may wanna rethink that." He then gestured over to Luigi, Clay, Kooper, and Goombario, who each had a Starman. They quickly absorbed the power of the Starmen, and they began glowing gold, and many other colors. Prophet then said, "Even if all four of you were to attack me, you wouldn't leave a scratch!"
Kooper then said, "Perhaps not if we each went after you individually, but how about like this!?" Kooper withdrew into his shell, followed by Clay and Luigi carefully standing on top of Kooper's shell. Finally, Goombario jumped onto Clay's head, then used his charge attack to raise his attack power. The power of the charge went into both Clay and Luigi. The two plumber brothers coated themselves, along with Kooper and Goombario with electricity and icy mist. Then Kooper began to spin in place, and created a burst of flame showing he was charging up his Fire Shell attack.
Prophet raised a scaled eybrow as he wondered what his enemies were up to. That's when Kooper shot towards Propher with Luigi, Clay, and Goombario riding on his back. Prophet, being confidant his power kept him safe, didn't budge an inch. He was in for a rude awakening as the four friends slammed into him hard. The move they used was Clay, Kooper, and Goombario's team attack, the Freezerburn Spin, which was further strengthened by Luigi's electricity, and the starmen they absorbed earlier, thus putting them over Prophet's current power level.
Prophet was frozen, melted out of the ice by the flames and then burned, and finally electrocuted all at once as he was hit by the great power of that team attack. Prophet slammed into the wall, and fell to the ground. He turned his head to the four as they stopped their attack. Soon after, the power of the Starmen faded away. Prophet then asked, "H-h-ow did you- (cringes) hit me!?" The dark aura faded away after Prophet finished his question.
That's when Goombario said, "We may not have been able to hit you individually, as Kooper stated, but we pooled our strength together. That was what allowed us to take you down! People like you believe power is bestowed by strength alone, or by trying to outnumber your foe. But real power lies in trusting your friends and working together!"
That's when Zane asked, "Can DK and I break this bastard's neck now?" That's when DK smirked, and said, "I don't think that's nessesary." He pointed to a nearby window, and everyone saw a familiar rainbow-colored bird. Prophet looked through the window in fear as he saw HO-OH glare back at him. HO-OH then flew up, and over the ship and slammed into the roof where Prophet crashed into the cieling before. HO-OH then said to Prophet, "Now it's your turn."
Prophet screamed in protest as HO-OH blasted Prophet with his Sacred Fire attack, reducing Prophet to ashes. After the evil monster was destroyed, Luigi asked in frustration, "Why couldn't you have just come in sooner and do that!?"
HO-OH chuckled, and said, "Two reasons: One, I needed Prophet to be subdued before I destroyed him. He probobly would have fled before I made my move if I attacked too soon. Second, I wished to see how you fought your foes, and I must say I'm impressed."
Zane then said, "Anyway guys, at least Prophet's gone. I wonder how he's taking his defeat?"
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Prophet, now a ghost, was trapped in a dark void. Suddenly, he heard a voice say, "I've been waiting for you."
Prophet turned around, expecting Haze to be the one talking to him, but instead met a face he hadn't seen in millions of years. "D-d-d-death!?" Prophet screamed. Sure enough, the figure was the Grim Reaper, whom according to legend was cheated of the power of immortality by Prophet and the Dentes Rhohos when they first came into being.
Death smirked sadistically, and said, "I've been waiting too long for this!" With one swipe of his scythe, he sent Prophet to Hell where he would rot for his crimes.
Death then chuckled, and then he said to himself, "He'll soon have some company who will be wanting to have a few words with him, heh heh heh..."
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Back with the heroes, Luigi said, "Hey guys, this isn't over yet! What about-" Just before he finished his sentance, a voice shouted, "MASTER KALE!!!!!!" Luigi quietly finished his sentance by saying, "Branz..."
Sure enough, the DR Zangoose arrived on the scene. He knelt down before the ashes of his former master, and began crying. Branz looked towards the heroes, and shouted, "YOU! How could you do this!?"
Clay then said, "It's not our fault! Prophet started this mess, so he brought it upon himself! There's an old saying, what goes around comes around. It means all actions have consequences. The result depends on the action. If you do good things, good things come to you. But if you do bad things, such as world domination, or transforming pokemon into demon-like monsters, then you're simply hurting yourself as bad things will come to you in return!"
At that moment, a sinister voice filled the room. "Always trying to get people to get along, eh Clayton Mario?" "Wha-what was that!?" Max screamed in suprise. Suddenly, not to far away from Branz, two creepy clawed hands appeared out of nowhere, and floated in the air on their own. Zane was visibly terrified the moment the mystery voice spoke to Clay. When Servo noticed this, he asked, "What's wrong?"
Zane did a double take, wondering how he should answer. Then he said, "That was the same voice from that haunted house we were trapped in!" Everyone forgot about the suspicious nature of Zane's fear as they realized the Toad was right.
HO-OH, who was infuriated by this intrusion, said, "You again... I warned you to leave and never return after what you put these good people through!" The voice then said, "I told you I was only going to concede that one time. Now if you excuse me, I have important business to attend to with Branz here."
The specter turned it's attention to Branz, and said, "So, have you thought about my offer yet?" The figure then said telepathically to Branz, ("When you give me your answer, remember not to use my name. I want to remain anonymous for now...")
Branz nodded, understanding the specter's tellepathic demand, and said, "Yes. I acce-" Before Branz could finish his sentance, another voice, one Branz recognized, shouted, "STOP RIGHT THERE!!!"
Suddenly, another Zangoose appeared in between the specter (whom everyone reading should recognize as Haze by now) and Branz. The newcomer was a shiny Zangoose with blue stripes on it's white fur instead of red stripes, and also sported red claws instead of black. This particular one also sported some gold highlights on it's ears as well.
The new Zangoose, clearly a female, said to Branz, "Please stop! You don't have to go through with this!" Branz stood there, shocked to see the female Zangoose. It was his childhood friend, Goldie. Branz then thought, ("H-h-how!? I thought she died!") Branz shook his head, and then said in his mind, ("My mind must be playing tricks on me, like back at the hideout! But why are these illusions appearing anyway?")
Then he heard the voice of Crow say, "How'd that other Zangoose get here?" This was another shock to Branz. His enemies could SEE Goldie!?
Haze was getting impatient, so he threw Goldie away from Branz, and then put up a powerful energy shield, and just in time as HO-OH had used Sacred Fire again, but the attack was rendered useless against the barrier. Haze then began pouring his dark magic into Branz.
Branz tried to reach out to Goldie despite the barrier. He also saw that the heroes, his enemies, actually tried to save him from whatever was happening to him. Branz began to question his loyalty at that point, particularly since Goldie was alive and well, but knew it was too late. All he could say before Haze's spell took control was, "Forgive me..."
At that moment, Branz's soul was removed from his body as the body underwent a horrific transformation.
To be continued...
Ace: Wow, that was intense!
Waly: Poor Vivian. I hope she'll be ok after that hit.
Me: She will. She's still got some tricks up her sleeve.
Gantz: I liked the moves you gave Prophet to give him an edge against the team. A fan of Naruto I assume?
Me: No, but I did base Prophet's clone attack on the Shadow Clone Jutsu, as well as the pokemon attack Double Team, which works similarly.
Gantz: Ah, that's cool. What about the Rage of Darkness move? How'd you come up with that one?
Me: It was partially something totally random, as wel as inspired by Charizard's temper tantrum in the previous chapter. considering Prophet was practically invincible, I figured using Clay's team attack (courtesy of Sonic Heroes) strengthened by a fourth team member, along with Goombario's charge attack and four starmen would be enough to finally weaken Prophet enough for HO-OH to finally strip the psychotic dinosaur of his immortality, and kill him without the chance of Prophet trying to escape.
MMSB: Ah, Death makes a return apperance. Maes sense how he'd want to see Prophet in his current situation. But what's gonna happen to Branz?
Me: You'll see next chapter. R&R!