Chapter 4: No Match for Sephiroth
Mario, Marth, Fox, Pit and Shulk looked on in shock to see what Sephiroth, now in control of Link's body, planned to do.
Then, in an instance, Sephiroth fired rapid beam shots from his sword, forcing the other heroes to leap out of the way.
"Link, stop this!" Marth called out as he draw out his sword and rushed over to him.
Sephiroth just grinned and teleported away, before Marth could lay a slash on him.
"Marth, behind you!" Shulk called out in warning.
But it was too late, for Sephiroth appeared behind him, rushed straight through Marth and appeared on the other side.
However, slashes and cuts then appeared on Marth's body, which caused Marth to scream in pain as he then crashed to the floor.
"Marth! That does it! We're fighting too!" Pit snarled as he, Mario and Shulk nodded at each other and charged at their possessed friend, while Fox just froze in place.
'Link... how... how did Sephiroth control you like that...?' He thought in fear.
-In Cloud's room-
Cloud suddenly awoke as he felt a familiar evil energy.
"No, it can't be!" He said, before he quickly got dressed and grabbed his Fusion Blade, preparing for the worst as he rushed out of his room and towards the sounds of conflict.
-Back to the others-
Mario leapt into the air for a huge punch, but Sephiroth leapt away and landed gracefully on the treasure chest.
Pit then held his Palutena bow and fired a light arrow at him, but Sephiroth just cut it away with his blade.
Shulk held the Monado and charged at Sephiroth with his speed power, but Sephiroth held his sword behind him and blocked the Monado.
Mario and Pit kept firing their fireballs and light arrows at him, however, Sephiroth cast a shield around himself and the attacks struck the barrier, while he remained unharmed.
Fox then clenched his fist as he silently thought. 'I know you're still in there, Link. I have to fight you, to free you. Forgive me my friend.'
He then charged at Sephiroth with a flying kick, but Sephiroth blocked his foot with his hand, shocking Fox.
"Impossible!" Mario gasped, stunned at the speed and power Sephiroth possessed.
"Hmph. Nice try, little anthro. But you have to be better than that!" Sephiroth said as he pushed Fox's leg back, causing Fox to lose his guard, to which Sephiroth was about to then slash him from behind.
But to his surprise, Marth came at him and tried to slash him once more, causing Sephiroth to vanish again.
Seeing Marth in his condition, Mario asked, concerned. "Marth, are you alright?"
"Yes, I am fine. I can still fight." Marth replied.
"Hmph. You're stronger than I thought but I had enough of this!" Sephiroth's voice said, making the heroes look up to see him in midair, now sprouting a single black feathered wing.
"Careful, he's up to something!" Shulk called out.
"Sin... Heartless Angel..." Sephiroth said as he then powered up, while Mario, Fox, Marth, Pit and Shulk suddenly felt most of their energies drained from them, causing all to fall on their hands and knees..
"M... my energy... What's happening...?" Pit asked, struggling to stay up.
"My Heartless Angel attacks drains all your energy to just 1 health point or 999 damage ratio. I am afraid you're little resistance is a failure." Sephiroth explained as he landed before them.
"Y... you monster...!" Fox called out as he tried to reach for his blaster.
Sephiroth just smirked as he then used his Octaslash move and begin to slash Fox up many times, cutting Fox's shirt to shreds and cutting him up, causing Fox to groan out as he began to lose a lot of blood.
Finishing him off, Sephiroth then slashed him to the wall and Fox collapsed, defeated.
"Fox!" Mario called out, but then turned to see Sephiroth use his Heaven's Light move as he lifted his sword up and slashed Marth greatly across the chest, causing Marth to then collapsed to the ground in defeat.
"He's beating us one by one and we can't stop him!" Pit called out as he saw Sephiroth above Shulk, who then used his Hell Gate Attack and impaled Shulk in the stomach, before he pulled it out and slashed Shulk so hard, he cut Shulk's chest, arms and legs and sent him crashing to the ground.
"And now only two remain." Sephiroth said, before using his Scintilla attack, slashing Mario and Pit several times, cutting them up and defeating the pair with one mighty slash.
At that point, Zelda, Peach, Krystal, Palutena, Ike, Pikachu, Samus, Kirby, Ryu, Bayonetta, Snake, Cloud, Tifa, Sonic, Pac Man and Megaman turned up and were shocked to see Sephiroth standing over Mario, Pit, Marth, Fox and Pit, who were all lying in their own puddles of blood.
"Fox!" Krystal cried out as she rushed to his side, holding him close and not caring that his blood was getting on her. "Fox, please don't die!"
"Mario!" Peach called out in concern as she rushed to Mario's side and held him. "Mario, are you alright?"
"Pit! Pit, please open your eyes!" Palutena called out as she held Pit.
"Relax. They're all still alive, barely. I have no time to waste on trash like them. And to think, that red plumber is the mascot of all Nintendo." Sephiroth said.
Zelda looked at him in fury.
"You evil monster! Let Link go!" She then ordered, which just made Sephiroth smirk.
"I think not. Your hero is nowhere in sight anymore." Sephiroth said, letting them all know he had control over Link for good.
"Link can repel you no doubt. And you will fight me now! I am not so easy to defeat like last time and so has Pikachu!" Ike snarled as he held his blade.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu shouted, sparking electricity from his cheeks as he braced himself for battle.
Sephiroth paid no attention to them as he looked at the angry faces of Cloud, Ryu, Bayonetta and Snake glaring at him.
"Hmhmhm. The time has come." He then said before he disappeared, leaving behind Link's green hat, causing Cloud to rush to where his nemesis once stood.
"Cloud, come and find me. We will settle this once and for all." His voice was last heard.
With Link now gone, Samus looked down at the defeated five heroes in sadness.
"I cannot believe Sephiroth did this." She said, saddened that Link had been taken, before asking. "Now what do we do?"
"For now, we nurse them back to strength and then we need to find out what happened." Sonic said as he helped Peach lift Mario up.
Kirby then spoke something in his own language, which Pikachu understood and then said to Samus. "Pika, Pika, Pikachu, Pika, Pi, Pikachu!"
"What? Kirby saw what happened? We better get Meta Knight. He can translate for Kirby. Let's go!" Samus said as she and the other Nintendo rushed the fallen five to the hospital wing, leaving the third party characters and Zelda alone.
Zelda looked down at Link's hat and picked it up.
"Link... how can this happen? What happened to you?"
"I think someone must have knocked Link out and allowed Sephiroth to take control. I noticed he had sustained trauma to the head before he left." Snake explained.
"Yes, but who could have done it?" Bayonetta asked.
Tifa looked at Cloud, who still stood in Sephiroth's place and she saw him grasp his fist, which caused her to ask. "Cloud… you're planning to go after him are you?"
Cloud turned to them and said silently. "Yeah. Sephiroth knew that I stand in his way. One way or another, I have to stop him."
"We need to know where he left to first. For now, we have to wait until we hear where he went." Ryu suggested.
"Ryu is right. Right now, all we need is patience." Megaman replied, agreeing with Ryu, as did Cloud, who nodded, before he looked at the ransacked safe and thought. 'Sephiroth... you've gone too far.'