All seemed to be well around Mario's home, silence, stillness, only for a loud explosion to ring out near the large forest near it. Mario and the Red Aniki Toad were dashing through the woods, throwing powerful kicks and punches at each other.
" Ho ho! You are just as strong as the rumors spoke of, Mario! But for the sake of our Master Shake King! We will take you down again and again until you are sent right to the Underwhere!" The Red Aniki toad throws a thunderous punch at MArio's head, watching as the plumber quickly ducked under it and soon smashed his own fist right into his jaw. The Aniki toad was seen flying high into the air and out of the woods.
Mario soon leapt high into the air right after and began to pretty much, unleash blow after blow onto the overly muscular toad, soon clasping his hands together and smashed him right into the earth before his home, seeing the rocks shoot up into the air. " They have the muscles, but they do not have the skills to take care of the business."
Meanwhile Luigi was facing the Blue Aniki Toad, or you know, that would be the case if Luigi wasn't running like the dickens from the man. Dodging a barrage of punches and bolder throws, the cowardly plumber leapt under a tree and hides there, kinda not realizing that his opponent tore the tree off of its roots and was looking down at Luigi, before blinking hard at this upcoming sight.
The sight of Luigi's Super Fire Punch shooting up and smashing into his chest, soon careening the male right into the sky and aflame, the skin of the male turning pitch black and soon landing right on Red Aniki. " Whew...that was close. I almost bit the dust."
Sonic himself was dancing with the Green Aniki toad. " I dunno what it is, but fighting against someone green, gives me a nostalgic feeling of fighting someone." Sonic thought back, while casually dodging and slide jumping over Green Aniki's attacks, causing the muscle bound orge alot of grief.
Sonic soon slammed right into his face with a barrage of spin kicks, surrounded by several blue rings of wind to simply show how fast he was going with those kicks, smashing and crunching the man's face with each strike, causing the earth to shoot up into the air.
Sonic soon spun once in the air and then smashed the tip of those shoes right into the jaw of the Green Aniki, sending him flipping through air and soon smashing right into his comrades. " Heh! Too easy!"
Shadow, however, was not giving Pink Aniki an easy time at all, judging from all the Chaos Spears poking and blasting at the man, making sure to hit every inch of his body before following up with a barrage of strong kicks. " Humph, get out of my sight!" Shadow soon spins up into the air and slammed his metallic shoes into his neck, causing it to crack and snap as the Pink Aniki soon crashed onto the pile.
Yukari was fighting against the Yellow Aniki, oddly, not yet doing any form of attack, rather taking each punch to the face and chest while yawning. The Youkai didn';t seem to be fazed by any of the attacks going to at her. The Aniki Toad was seemingly getting tired from this, soon throwing a punch at her stomach, of course, Yukari weirdly enough, reacted violently to this and summoned up a large sign to smash right into his jaw and sent him crashing right to the large pile of idiots.
" Well, that was pretty simple to finish up. They were not that strong." Yukari said while watching the others line up with her.
" Damn...looks like these guys are tougher than we thought, we have no choice, its time to combine!" Red Aniki pushed the toads right off of him and soon floats up into the air.
" Uh hang on a moment, did they just say-"
" Yes Luigi, seems that these guys are gonna combine." Yukari said while gently floating back on a gap to watch this as the other four floated up to his hands and legs.
Lightning began to pulse and spray from the fusion as the toads fused with his arms and legs, turning fully into more massive body parts, color coded for that fusion as the heroes stared at the sight with the blankest of stares. Soon the combination was complete and now a massive toad with multicolored parts was towering over them. " MUSCLE SENTAI! ANIKIGER!"
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" I am deeply concerned about alot of things right now." Yukari said, clasping her fan shut and staring at the horrid sight before them, a giant, muscle bound toad with multicolor body parts was before them and he was getting to unleash hell or something upon their bodies.
" It is now time! To face our power! AS ANIKIGER!" The being soon bent down and felt lightning coursing through his body and soon exploded with lightning arcing across the area as music finally picked up.
Brute Justice [ Final Fantasy 14]
" Well, looks like we really are gonna be fighting this guy, well, lets wrap this up quick-" MArio was soon looking right down the fist of the massive being, feeling it smash right against his body and sent him crashing right into the roof of his home, crushing it under his body before the others stared at the Anikiger.
" Okay this guy is actually pretty damn tough! Lets go!" Sonic was ready for a brawl as he soon took off and flying right at the massive mass of muscle, throwing a barrage of kicks at the beast, feeling his kicks hitting hard and fast against his chest. Seems their defensive values are exactly the same.
Anikiger staggered back from the hits, now glaring down at Sonic before trying to smash him right down into the earth, watching as rocks and dirt shot high into the air, Sonic quick on his feet to dodge and lead him down the plains near Mario's house.
Of course this whole time, Bowser was watching from his window and soon growled, making his way downstairs, only to be stopped by Peach. " Sorry Peach, but I ain't letting no one clobber Mario, even If I am injured, I'm gonna go fight, no matter what." Bowser declared before charging through the door and taking off.
" Bowser, you've changed since the times we have had to travel together. Are you finally feeling a change of heart?" Peach thought to herself as she began to pray for the safety of the group.
Luigi quickly smashed his hammer down onto the fist of Anikiger, causing a minor shockwave, which was soon turned into a large one when the fist sent Luigi sky-born and right back down into the earth, his other hand smashing him down into the Earth.
Shadow was dashing around the massive giant and throwing a massive amount of Chaos Spears at his body, causing small explosions to rock his frame, causing it to stagger. Sonic took this time to leap right into his face and perform another powerful spin kick right into his jaw.
Of course this did not phase the beast, punching Sonic right down onto shadow and sending them crashing through the earth, causing large rocks to shoot up. " Hah! you cannot face this unholy power with whatever you believe you have!" Anikiger was flexing those astounding muscles before seeing a barrage of fireballs smash into his chest, skidding the monster against the rocks and dirt before Bowser stomped down the path.
" I've seen alot of stupid crap over the years but you toads are really taking the cake with this!" Bowser smashed his fists together and lets out a loud roar before leaping right into the air and going to slice up the toad's face with those razor sharp claws, drawing red marks on his face and then following up with a powerful strike to his face, causing the beast to fall back.
" Damn! Its Bowser! We crafted this form solely to best your physical might, but don't worry! We will take it easy on you!" Anikiger soon reared right back up, those rippling muscles soon relaxing and buffing up, soon walking to Bowser before the roar of a motorcycle roared in the distance.
A strong machine was tearing down the road behind them and soon revealed a certain fat man in yellow leaping from the bike and slamming his fist right into his face, throwing a wicked haymaker right at aAnikiger, sending him crashing down onto the ground.
" Wahhahahaha! Looks like I made it just in time for this good ole brawl!" Wario kissed his muscles before landing next to Wario, watching sonic and Shadow make their way to them.
" Another new person? Doesn't matter, Boss Shake won't let us come back until we beat down all of you freaks and take you out!" Anikiger was seen rearing its fist back and going to smash down on the group, them quickly dispersing in mere seconds and leaping around the beast.
Yukari herself was about to leap into the fray before she felt someone behind her, soon pulling out her fan and soon pointing it at the neck of a ginger haired man, his eyes covered by shades. "... Who exactly, are you?"
" Someone who came to tell you something Yukari Yakumo." The male spoke in a calm tone before pointing to the heroes fighting against Anikiger. " But it will happen after they best that being."
Bowser was quick to spin into his shell and soon kicked up a strong whirlwind before smashing right into Anikiger's chest, sending him crashing through many trees. Luigi was quick to dash up after the soaring mass and coating his hands in Lightning. " THunderrrrr!" the plumber clapped his hands together and created a massive gale of destruction, firing a destructive roar of lightning to blast the fused being hard.
Sonic gathered his powerful blue gale to quickly burst up and fire around the Anikiger, creating a massive tornado that began to rise high into the air, causing the Anikiger to get serious and aim its fists right at the people on the ground. " Your Sonic Wind is not gonna be strong enough to take me out! Take this! Rocket Punch!"
Anikiger's fists shot out from the wrist and fired down onto the group, only to fly right into the arms of Wario and Bowser, gripping hard onto them before spinning them around and launching them just like like a harpoon, adding a spin around the fist, causing a whirlwind to form around them.
" Aw shucks!" Anikiger used his forearms to try and minimize the damage about to rock him like a, complete pun intended, a huricane, the fists smashing into his body and sending him skyborn.
" Humph, this fool has power but he has nothing else, that's why this battle is so simple and why I will be the one to end this." Shadow soon looked up into the air and leapt high through the air, getting ready to unleash the powerful Chaos Blast, only for a pair of brown boots to stomp on his head, MArio vaulting right off of his head with flames dancing around his palms.
" ITs over! Mario! Finale!" Mario smashed his wrists together and fired an unholy combo of two massive fire dragons that shot up to Anikiger, chomping down on its right thigh and left shoulder, causing a massive burn to rock the being and causing him to spin in the air like a corkscrew, exploding higher and higher into the air.
" Baaahhh! I should have been the one to take down that freak but atleast we won't have to see that freak anymore." Bowser grimaced at this, watching the explosion rock the air above them as Anikiger landed right down on the ground before them, still looking like he wanted a fight, only to see a large spark of lightning arc along his body.
" Nghhh! I can't believe this! I was beaten by these musclless freaks! No! H-hail Shocker!" Anikiger did something akin to a Nazi salute before falling backwards, hitting the earth as many explosions rocked the ground and destroy Anikiger;s body, leaving the others in silence.
" Shocker? What in the world is that?" Mario asked, finally landing on the ground with his allies, standing in silence with them, seeing the remaining Emeralds flying to them out of the smoke. " But atleast we got these things back, they might be ultra useful against the Shake King."
" BAh, we don't need such trinkets to take on that lugg, I had him on the ropes when he attacked my company building!" Wario flexed that fat oversized arm of his while grinning, the others just stared at him not much believing him at all, soon heading back to the house and spotting Yukari watching a ginger haired man leave through that wavy and clear portal.
" The Earth is in danger of being altered by an enemy group? Why tell me this...perhaps I should tell Ziden and the others about this grave threat." Yukari was lost in thought before Mario waved up at her and called her. " Hmm? Oh? Did you guys win already? That was pretty easy."
" Yeah, no thanks to you! You were supposed to be helping us you ha-" Luigi almost slipped up and forgot who he was speaking to, those sharp golden eyes seemed to not be piercing into his soul, but slicing at it with naught but a gaze. " N-nevermind."
" Good. Now then, you have all the emeralds, now what is your plan? Strike at him while the iron is hot or rest up until you are all ready for the final battle against that man." Yukari asked as the group all huddled up, now beginning to plan.
" If we go at him with no plan in mind, he will just tear our asses apart again an then we will not be able to beat him." Shadow said while looking at Sonic mainly.
" Hmm, perhaps some of us should wait in the shadows and then strike at him when his guard is down?" Mario asked while bowser cracked his knuckles.
" I'm ready to take him on as a decoy and then beat him to an unholy level." Bowser smirked, those flames licking along his fangs.
" But the problem is, where the heck is he?" Luigi asked while Yukari decided to float down to them and points out into the distance.
Everyone's eyes began to drift out to the sea and saw something surprising, a massive ship was docked near the Princess' castle, dwarfing both it and the Toad Town. " That ship...was that always there and was it always swirling with darkness?" Sonic asked, his finger instantly darting up and twirling in his ear. Seems that their main location has been discovered and it was time to stomp down and take down the Shake King and anyone else that was on his ship.
" Beat him and this world can know peace again from the tyranny of evil, up until Bowser decides to cause trouble again." Yukari teased before seeing the sullen look on Bowser's face.
" Before we continue, I do have an announcement to make... I'm retiring from the whole villian act." Bowser said, letting out a soft puff of fire as once more, silence took the area before a loud 'WHAAATTTTT?!' overtook everyone.
Trivia
1. The Aniki Toads will be recurring enemies through the stories you will read and see, so don't expect to not see them anymore.
2. The form they took when they fused is a reference to Brute Justice, a boss from Final Fantasy 14, whom you will see in the next story.
3. Bowser did just retire, for real, reasons explained next chapter.
4. Certain Fans will know exactly, who and what Shocker is. Those same fans will know the person who is walking through that portal
Author's note:: It has been ages since I uploaded a chapter and I must say, it feels good to finally have a muse to write and I apologize for the long wait, ergo, I promise you all, this story will end soon and a good bit of the next crossover will come out before the end of this year. I am glad to be back after reading alot of good fanfics, I know I am not that great a writer but it will not stop me from telling fun and 'epic' stories to these people who look for a good story! See you next update!
