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Chapter 12: The Squeaks who Squealed
Current Location: Smash Kingdom, Area: Banana Field, Western Region!
Plum, Kirby, Ike and the Squeaker Twins were walking along Banana Field. "…Err, when are we gonna get outta this godforsaken jungle?!" Ike irked.
Plum just looked at him from the corner of her eye. "Uhh…I-I think we're almost at the exit…" she murmured.
"You better hope so, for your sake!" Ike seethed. Plum just stared at him.
As our heroes continued their trek through the forest, Ike noticed Plum's antics. Occasionally, she would glance at him from the corner of her eyes.
Ike was still walking, when he noticed Plum glancing at him again. "…Hey, girl?" Plum nervously turned toward the swordsman. "…Is there's a reason why you keep looking at me?"
Plum just blushed slightly, while turning from him. "…Uhh...N-No…" she muttered, incoherently.
"What's that?!" Ike yelled, which made her flinched.
"Well…Umm…" Plum then looked at Ike's unbelievably heavy blade and noticed how he was carrying it on his shoulder. "…Uhh, y-your sword."
"…Ragnell?" Ike muttered, looking at his oversized sword. "…What about it?" he said, glaring at her.
"Uhh…W-Why do you lug it around on your shoulder like that?" Plum then started blushing. "Uhh…I-I mean, isn't heavy? Wouldn't it be lesser of a burden if you sheathe it…" Ike then glared at her, which made her looked away..
"Humph. Why would you care?" Ike huffed. "I didn't ask you why you decided to travel around with one of your bedroom slippers."
Plum just placed her head down and started staring at the ground, her cheeks were also bright pink. "That's it! I stands all I can stands and I can't stands no more!" Squeako growled, staring at Plum.
"Hey, buddy?!" Squeako yelled, sitting on top of Plum's shoulder. "What're you, antisocial or something?! She was only worrying about your well-being, you didn't have to snap on her like that."
"…Uh…W-Why kind of treachery is this?!" Ike gasped. "…I-It speaks!!!!"
"Okay, now you're just being overdramatic!" Squeak sighed, rolling his eyes.
Area: Banana Field, Eastern Region!
Pit had gotten him so distance away from Marth and was now shooting arrows at him. However, despite all of Pit's efforts, Marth was way too nimble and was able to easily outmaneuver his every attempt.
Pit stood there grinding his teeth, as he watched Marth draw closer and closer to him with every passing step. Marth made sure to keep an elegant display, as he danced around the arrows in an unorthodox fashion.
"Err…Dang it all! He's just toying with me." Pit groaned. "…I've should of known he'll been able dodge my attacks effortlessly…I mean, he is known for his fleetness, after all." he said to himself. "Hmm…Let me try this then."
Pit then pulled his lucky light-blue arrows from out his quiver. "Eheheh. Lets see him try eluding these!" he smirked, looking down at his arrows. "Alright, my best arrows. Don't let me down!" he then aimed his crossbow at Marth. "Triple Arrow! Go!" Pit echoed, as he fired them all out, simultaneously.
However, Marth didn't backdown; instead he smirked as he continued forward. "Hehehe. I shall not yield. You're pathetic display of archery merely falters your pending demise!"
Pit watched in dismay as Marth easily deflected his arrows with his blade. "Dang! Again!" he grimaced. "Err…He's right, though. I have to start strategizing differently, if I intend to come out victorious in this battle."
Pit was standing there pondering, when he noticed Marth, he was right above him. "…What?! Oh, no…" he yelped.
Marth immediately gripped his blade tightly as he came descending on Pit. "Humph. Let's end this frivolous struggle, shall we? Shield Breaker!" Marth's sword shimmered in a dark purplish blue color as he swung it downward upon Pit, aiming toward his chest.
However, Pit, just at the last moment, was able to flip backwards, barely escaping unscathed, only his robe had gotten ripped. "…Wha?" Marth uttered, before snickering. Humph. Not bad, if I do say so."
"Whew…Talking about too close for comfort…" Pit muttered, again gaining distance from Marth. "Uhh…It looks like I have no other choice, I'll have to fight him close combat. He's way too quick for me to try an indirect approach."
"It's really a shame." Pit sighed, while staring at his crossbow. "I tried so desperately to avoid this kinda alternative…" he then separated his crossbow into two individual blades. "…No matter."
"Hm?" Marth muttered, as he just now realized that Pit decided to separate his crossbow. "…Hm, so you decided to try a direct approach now, eh?" he then smirked, while chuckling.
"…Eh, an admirable decision…But, nothing more." Marth then pointed his blade toward Pit. "Despite your choice, I'm afraid that's still won't suffice. You'll never prevail over me!" Marth then started his charge at Pit. "Now, ready yourself!"
Pit just groaned, while clutching his double-wielded weapon. "…It not that I distaste fighting close-up, it's just…I prefer fighting from afar…" he said to himself. "On the contrary…I get to show-off my awesome swordsmanship and prove that douche how wrong he is!" he then yelped as he ran right toward Marth. "Here I come!"
After running for toward each other, Marth and Pit finally clashed blades together. Both combatants were at a stalemate, pushing one another back with their weapons.
"Eh, looks like were at a draw, friend. What're you gonna do now?" Pit grunted, while smirking.
Marth just chuckled as he took a step back. "Don't be absurd!" he uttered, as he swung his blade.
However, Pit quickly parried him by shielding himself with both blades. Pit then swung one his blades, but Marth juked his body, avoiding any kind of damage. Pit just groaned, but that didn't slowdown the pace.
As Pit approached Marth, he thrust both blades outward, but Marth jumped backwards. Pit then tried using this opportunity by thrusting one his blade forward, but when he realized that didn't work, Pit tried a different approach.
Pit twirled both blades as he thrust his left-blade toward Marth, but Marth easily knocked it aside with his blade. Pit then pretended to thrust his left-blade, but instead thrust his right-blade one out. But to his surprise, Marth just lithely moved around him.
Pit turned and saw Marth standing behind him. "Uh?…Err…Let's try this…AGAIN!" This time Pit tried thrusting both blades forward, while keeping them close together. But Marth, used his Counter, and Pit found himself getting slashed in return.
"Tch…You're a persistent one, aren't you?" Marth muttered, grabbing Pit, he then started slamming his knee repeatedly in his stomach.
But still, Pit refused to go down. "…Err; you're beginning to test my patience!" Marth then grabbed Pit again. This time he tossed Pit behind him, afterward slashing him in his back.
Pit went tumbling backward and finally collided into a tree. "Urr…" Pit grimaced in pain, covering his stomach. "…Er, how so excruciatingly…ANNOYING!" he groaned, tossing a leaf that fell on his head off.
Pit then pulled out his quiver and looked inside; he had three sacred arrows left. "…This fight would be WAY more efficient if I was accessible to more sacred arrows." he then groaned "Complaining isn't gonna make arrows magically fall in my hands…I just have to make due with what I have…When that time comes, I'll use these remaining arrows."
Pit then lifted his head and noticed that Marth was just standing there, staring at him, while smirking conceitedly. "…Wha? H-He's patronizing me, the whelp!" he said to himself, while sneering. "You…" Pit then got up and went rushing toward Marth, gripping his two blades. "I'll make him pay for disparaging me!"
As Pit's speed escalated, he spread his wings and took gracefully to the air. As Pit began ascending up, Pit placed his two blades close together, without actually fusing them. "Let's see how you like my Crescent Slice!" Pit then performed a midair flip and went descending down.
As Pit approached Marth he separated his blades, the image of a crescent was seen as he attempt to slash Marth. However, Marth was one step ahead and spun aside him.
Pit tried quickly counteracting him by thrusting his second blade upward, but before Pit's blade could reach him, Marth slashed Pit in the top of the head; the afterglow of the attack resembled a reversed crescent moon. "…I liked that attack of yours, so I decided to borrow it."
When Marth turned, he noticed Pit staggering back and forth on the battlefield. "Though, my adaptation of it surpasses yours in everyway."
"…Uhh, m-my head…" Pit moaned, still tottering around in a daze.
"I must commend you for your longevity. Who'd thunk that you'll oppose me for this long." Marth then started spinning his blade like a baton. "…Which makes me come to this halting conclusion. I must end this battle, immediately."
"…Err, hold your tongue, mortal! It's not over, until I say…" But before Pit could get his statement off, Marth vanished before his eyes. "…Wha? W-Where did he go?"
As Pit stood there frantically looking around, Marth suddenly appeared behind him. "…Eh, Dancing…" Marth then started slashing Pit with extremely fast-paced single strikes, while moving cursorily in an unorthodox manner. "…Blade.
"Uh…Ur…Uhh…" Pit uttered as he was slashed all over, repeatedly, by green, red, and blues blurs.
Marth was still slashing Pit with his fast-paced strikes, when all the sudden Marth lifted his sword straight up in the air. "Critical!" A gauge was seen appearing below his feet. Lights then appeared inside the gauge, but Marth wasn't able to filled it completely, only halve. "…Dammit."
Marth's blade shimmered as he came down on Pit's body. "…Uhh…WAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" Pit shrieked as he went spiraling away from Marth.
Marth stood there sighing, as he watched Pit disappear, eventually twinkling like a star. "…How inconvenient. Now it seems that I have to search for him within this accursed jungle."
Area: Banana Fields, Western Region!
The Squeak Squad alone with Donkey Kong were jumping from tree to tree heading in some direction in the dense forest.
"Yo, Boss? Where are we going to look for Trophies for first, huh?" Spinni cried out to Daroach, who was ahead of both Storo and himself. "It's not like we know where to look first, ya know?"
Daroach was sitting on top of Donkey Kong's shoulder, when he turned around. "I'm well aware of that." he said, while snickering. "So, rest ease. What's more, I've already decided who I wanted to turn into a Trophy first!"
"Ohhh…And, who might that be, boss?" Spinni said, leaping to another tree and landed on the ground, all while looking at Daroach.
"…Kirby." Daroach said with a serious look on his face.
"Kirby, Boss?" Spinni muttered, turning to Daroach. "Isn't he that pink fat blob, who cake we stole a few years back?"
"Correct. The same one." Daroach huffed. "I told The Squeaker Twins that their first priority was to track and locate him. Afterward, their main objectives were to contact me immediately and to make sure to keep him under close surveillance." he then folded his arms. "Unlike me, you and Storo, they lack the capability of combat."
"Boss…I'm sorry I ever doubted you." Spinni snickered, while fixing his shades. "I've should of known that you was already planning ahead." he then shrugged his shoulders. "That's why you are the boss, after all!"
"Eheheh. You know, Spinni? Flattery will get you just about everywhere Spinni, my friend." Daroach snickered. "At any rate, our priority from now on is to find the twins, posthaste. You two understand, correct?"
"Hyuk, Hyuk, Hyuk, Hyuk! You got it, Boss." Storo chuckled.
"Yeah, you got it, Boss. Let's find them, so we can finally trophize Kirby once and for all!" Spinni also chuckled.
"Quite. I'm glad that we're all up to understanding one another. Now, let us move out." Daroach then turned, looking down at DK. "Undalay, Ape Escape!" he yelped, while kicking him in the side.
The Squeak Squad and Ape Escape…Oops, I mean, DK, was just about continued their way through the jungle, when Daroach suddenly noticed the Invisiwave Squeako released earlier moving above them.
"Huh…" Daroach muttered, before smirking. "Speaking of the Squeaker Twins, it looks like our little spies just located Kirby for us."
Spinni and Storo then lifted their heads and saw the waves as well. "Oooo…Pretty lights." Storo chortled.
"Say, boss? If I can recall correctly, don't you have the ability to understand Squeako's Invisiwave?" Spinni said, still looking up at colorful waves. "So, what does it says?"
"Heheheheheh…I'm surprised that you're not capable of figuring it out yourself. I mean, it's quite rudimentary, Spinni." Daroach snickered, while placing his hand in his cloak.
"Well, instead of criticizing me in how I lack the necessities to understand Squeako's Invisiwave, how about you go ahead and translate for us, good sir?" Spinni grumbled, while folding his arms.
"Hehehe. Certainly, my translating challenged friend!" Daroach said, chortling. Spinni just rolled his eyes. "It says, and I quote…"
'Yo, Master D-Dawg, Double-G Money, all on them Honeys, we found da pink dude you've been hatin' on recently. You can meet up with us on the westside of Money Fields…or whatever the hell this LAME ASS place is called…Damn, I love money! Have you noticed how much I LOVE MONEY?…And the honeys, can't forget the honeys…Anyways, when you find us, we'll be with a swordsman with a serious complex problem and a Lil' Brunette! But don't you dare, I reiterate, don't you dare, eyeball her! That broad's all mines, ya heard? MINES! Not even one glance, ya hear? I better not even catch you even accidentally turning toward her. Only I am allowed to gaze upon her perpetual sexiness'
Spinni turned to Storo and muttered. "…Perpetual…sexiness?" Storo just shrugged.
"Furthermore…Umm…Urmm…Well, yes, I do believe the rest of his message is a bit, how do you say…irrelevant?" Daroach said, while clearing throat. "Needless to say, the Squeaker Twins has INDEED informed us Kirby's location. The only we have to do now is to catch up with them, it's only a matter of time now."
"Right, Boss!" Spinni and Storo said in unison.
The Squeak Squad and DK then once again went on their way, but Daroach had other things on his mind, right at the moment. "Fufufufu, Kirby, you're gonna pay dearly for humiliating me. If it wasn't for you, Dark Nebula wouldn't of gotten a chance to degraded me, by possessing me!" he said to himself, while sneering. "Such humiliation, such…humiliation…"
"Hey, boss? A-Are you okay?" Spinni said, staring strangely at the caped mouse. "You're looking a bit spaced out there."
"Oh, I'm okay, Spinni. I'm just a bit excited, that's all." Daroach said, looking ahead. "Pretty soon, we'll have our vengeance on Kirby. That pink puffball will be a Trophy. Mwahahahahah!!!!"
Spinni just stared at him. "Oh! Which reminds me." Spinni then turned around and started looking behind him. "Uhh…What's up with all those…Shadows?"
Daroach just sighed, while standing on Donkey Kong's head. "Shadow didn't trust on this task alone, so he ordered that his clones were to escort us around this jungle." he then shrugged, nonchalantly.
"Err…That PUNK!" Spinni sneered, while balding up his fist. "He actually thinks were going to double-cross him after we swore our loyalty to him…" he then started growling. "That's ungrateful little wrench!"
The Squeak Squad and Donkey Kong then turned and looked at the Shadow clones, it was about 4 or 5 Shadows standing no to far where they were. "Uhh…Don't mind us, we're just here to…Uh…observe." One of the Shadows said, while snickering.
"Yeah, whatever he just said." Another Shadow said, also snickering. The rest of the Shadows were seen in the background nodding their heads.
"Hahahahahahah! Look at all the doggies!" Storo chuckled, clapping his hands, while approaching the Shadows.
"Hahahaha, look at that, boys." One of the Shadows snickered, trying to keep himself from laughing. "Isn't that adorable. It's a big fat, blubbery retard."
The Shadows then started laughing all uncontrollably, while pointing at Storo. "Huh? Why do doggies laugh?" Storo muttered.
"I don't understand! Why do you even bother to put up with him, Boss! You're way more competent than him…" Spinni whispered.
"Quiet, Spinni." Daroach said, while nudging toward the Shadows. "Don't you see? They're still watching us." They then turned toward the Shadow, they were still harassing Storo. "Besides, we still need Shadow. I know he might seem a bit…vexing, but there's no way we could take him. So, for the time being, we'll just have to continue to take orders from him."
"Alright, boss…But, I'm only doing this, because you think it's for the best. I could give a rat's ass about Shadow personally!" Spinni sighed, before jumping away from Daroach.
"Thank you. That's all I'm asking from you, Spinni." Daroach muttered, jumping back onto Donkey Kong's head. "Besides, I'm beginning to think that he's not really the brains behind this operation…"
"…It matters not to us, at the moment." Daroach huffed, while watching Storo, Spinni and the Shadows go ahead of him. "Soon all will be revealed and I'll soon know who's really running this show…" he then started chuckling. "As for now, let's go, Ape Escape!"