Chapter 4: First Blood: The Scourge
Super Smash Bros. [WarioWare; Diamond City] Alrighty then. It's time to come back to the battle of Diamond City. Just to let everyone know, Knightscourge and his army are all my creations, and mine alone. If I hadn't disclaimed before, I 3x this one. All properties of Nintendo, Sega, Bandai/Namco and the the others associated with Super Smash Bros., including the characters, locations, and stories belong to their respective owners and not me. Period.
The giant approached the team menacingly, giving off the vibe of potential death. It really didn't show on the outside, but Charles had the feeling that none of them were prepared for the showdown walking toward them. It is a completely foreign creature with combat habits unknown to them. All they can assume was the anonymous brutality summarized by the info given to them. What they could use is a strategy to outmaneuver this goliath. But the time for thinking was too late as the knight lunged toward them, sinking a large knife into the ground where it's prey stood. In an instant the fighting started as the Smashers dodged the incoming attack. "Damn. Good thing that didn't hit us." Said Wario. "He ruined the street with that!"
"Is that really a problem?" Mrs. Wii Fit asked. The giant pulled the blade out of the ground and looked over to it's targets. They were certainly fast, but the numbers did not matter to it, all that mattered to it was to kill these interlopers. It rose and charged at them swinging it's weapon toward them. They evaded once more, with Pikachu shooting electricity at it. The warrior took the shock with little affect, looking at the terrified Pokemon. It swiped it's hand at it, sending the small creature crashing into a wall with enough force to break on Pikachu's impact.
"Pikachu!" Pit yelled to his fallen comrade as it lay where it fell. "You'll pay for that!" The giant merely stood and looked at the angered angel. it pulled out a handgun that it pointed at Pit and Pikachu's direction. Charles ran to get Pikachu out of range when the fiend fired a heavy round toward cracked wall. In the nick of time, Charles carried the injured Smasher as Pit evaded the shot that smashed the wall.
"The heck! Stop breaking my city!" Wario lunged at the knight, hoping to lay a knuckle sandwich down to this punk. The giant anticipated the attack and countered it with it's gun. It followed the counter with a backhand to Wario, sending him flying into a nearby building. Toon Link looked at the raw power of this enemy smacking his allies as if they were fly s pestering him.
"Sweet goddesses, looks like it's my turn to shine." At that Toon Link also rushed to the fray throwing his boomerang at the metallic knight. The adversary also dodged the projectile, shooting at the charging kid. Toon Link ran past the blasts and jumped up to slice at it's legs. The giant moved to the side, swinging it's knife at the green clad boy. Toon Link dodged the strike attempt another slice to the enemy, but it jumped away. The Wii Fit Trainers also rushed in to stop this menace, but they had to dodge it's huge knife that it swung low to dismember them. Pit fired his arrows at it to support the others, but it moved away from their range at fired back at him. Jigglypuff floated over to the giant and caught it by surprise as it slapped it from behind. The enemy moved back from the fighters, trying to get better ground when the boomerang Toon Link threw came back and hit him behind the head. "Yeah!"
"Looks like it can be hit." Mr. Wii Fit exclaimed.
"Alright guys." Pit called out. " It can't fight on multiple fronts, so let's just overwhelm him!" Pit fired at the knight while the Wii fit Trainers, JigglyPuff, and Toon Link converged to attack the aggressor, hoping to overwhelm it with simultaneous attacks. Charles was helping Pikachu recover from the nasty hit it fully took. He looked at the battle, with the task force in close combat being swung at and being hit away while the giant knight fought ferociously to kill it's targets. It seemed it underestimated the skill of the combined force of it's prey, not anticipating resorting to desperate moves.
"Maybe they could use a strategy to fight this guy." Palutena said.
"That's what happens when you get a blockhead like Pit to give orders to the task force." Viridi chimed in. "It seems a bit too easy, this fight that is."
"Through my experience, this unit is actually of high ranking." Rosalina said back at the Temple. "I thought this one would put up more of a fight than expected.
"Wait, this one's supposed to be a strong one?" Palutena asked. "How do you know?"
"Like I said, from experience. The patterns on them flowed with different colours, with the most common soldier in green neon. Others came in yellow, blue, purple, brown, and red. That's all I've seen so far."
"About, how strong would the blue ones be."
"Actually, blue ones are sorta hard to find in the battlefield. Even Team Star Fox and Samus had a hard time taking down one of the blues. It's quite possible this one is actually just toying with them." With that thought, Palutena grew worried that this warrior was too much for the inexperienced task force and the lack of Smashers to handle. It was a risk she wasn't going to take, so she was going to do something drastic.
"I'll be right back." Palutena walked out of the room.
"Hey! Where do you think you're going? Your precious task force needs you for guidance." It was too late for Viridi to call back Palutena. "Crazy could she be off to at a time like this?"
"Rest-room?" Rosalina added.
"Probably went to cry about her failure in devising a team." Dark Pit said. "Wasn't a big surprise that it would completely fall apart."
Rosalina looked into the visage of the battle. The giant was not being overwhelmed by the task force, no. By Rosalina's point of view and shock, it was merely testing their strengths, in order to learn how to best it's foe.
Charles held Pikachu until it shook itself out of it's fatigue. The electric mouse saw the peril it's friends were in and accompanied them by zapping at the goliath, grabbing it's attention as well. Charles, however, stood back as his fellow combatants vigorously fought the mechanized knight. He still had no idea on how he was going to fight this behemoth. He heard an unusual call when he looked up at where Wario where had crashed into. Wario was holding up a slab of building two times his size looking down at the chaos below. "I'll teach you to just bitch-slap me away! Raah!" He threw the slab down, without even considering that it could have harmed the other Smashers/task force members. Luckily everyone dodged before it could crush anyone. Unfortunately the vile knight also evaded the projectile, taking aim at Wario, and shooting some rounds to the building. Wario jumped down, narrowly avoiding the rounds before landing to the battlefield to join in close combat. Everyone (but Charles) was now in a deep struggle against the gigantic knight, as they tried to bring the monster down, but the giant merely took their hits and hit them back much harder. He grabbed at Mrs. Wii Fit and threw her into Jigglypuff. Mr. Wii Fit hit another volleyball to the adversary, but it cut the ball in half with it's knife. Pikachu used Headbutt onto it's abdomen, but it retaliated by punching at the poor creature away from it. Toon Link decided to throw a couple of bombs to it's vicinity. After a few bursts from the bombs, the knight grabbed at a grenade from it's inventory of weapons, rolling it into an empty restaurant, demolishing the entire interior. "Not McGoombas! Rrrrr, now your gonna get it scum."
As Wario charged at the enemy, it slammed both it's arms down on the buff, yet fat, Italian man, pushing him further to the ground under all the force of the slam. "Man, how do you stop this thing?!" Toon Link said. Pit was not even sure if he had a clue on the best way to defeat this monster. Maybe Rosalina had some info on how to best these knights from her experience from before.
"Lady Palutena! We need some info on this guy! Does Ms. Rosalina have any stats on any of the enemies of her past engagements or anything to help us survive?!" Pit asked to an unanswering voice. "Um... Lady Palutena?" More silence.
"Sorry Pit, but Palutena went off somewhere, other-God knows where." Viridi chimed in. "I'll ask Rosalina for you... so which one of these bozos is Rosalina?"
"It the lady in the blue gown with a star child with her!" Pit's conversation with the Nature goddess was interrupted as Wario was thrown toward them followed by the armoured monster rushing at them with a killer's intent to end them. Toon Link tried to get to better cover, but his arm was held by the giant, his sword arm that is. The giant held the boy up to it's neck height, looking at the struggling creature at it's mercy. Toon Link looked into the helmet of the knight, seeing his terrified reflection in the face-visor. It was almost as if the monster behind the helmet was looking back at the little hero, tilting it's head slightly at the sorry critter in it's grasp. Without really realising it, Toon Link was falling back to the ground, looking up at the giant that once held his arm. However, Toon Link saw a thin object in the knight's hand, pouring out a red substance, holding an exact copy of his trusty sword he usually held. The knight had swung it's other hand with the knife. Hold on, what's his arm still doing in this creature's grasp if he's... The other fighters were shocked out of their minds, seeing the falling kid land to the streets, secreting blood when he landed. The knight lifted it's arm above it's head, letting the crimson substance spill on it's visor. This sickening act drove Pit and Wario to fury, watching this beast insult them in literally bathing in their carnage.
In Toon Links perspective, he did not feel much. He saw the monster, taking it's fill, release it's hand and look down on him, before taking his attention to the other Smashers. He looked over at Pit and the others, who appeared to be shouting at the giant before charging for another assault. It was completely silent for some reason, and for another reason he did not know, he was feeling unusually tired despite not really putting up a real good fight against their enemy. He felt himself being lifted up by someone. Using his dwindling strength, he turned his head to see Charles carrying him to safety, several of the others attempted to by them some time by battling the evil knight. Toon Link was settled down next to a broken stand, still bleeding. He looked at Charles, who was frantically trying to put pressure to the bleeding area. "Charles." The villager looked at the young hero hearing the struggle in his voice.
"Not now! Take it easy Link." Charles said finding some clothe to wrap around Toon Link's injury. "You'll be alright, just don't give up on us."
"Charles, I... I've never faced anything so powerful, not like this. I mean... I've faced titanic foes before. But this... I didn't see that coming." Toon Link was struggling to stay alive with all the blood he's lost. "I've... I've never had an injury like this before in my life. It's been so toned down. Nothing this serious."
"Shush! You'll be alright."
"I don't know about that... Maybe I could..." Toon link tried to get up, but Charles put his hand on his chest to restrict him.
"Don't. You have to rest now. Not to much though, just stay safe where noone can worry too much about you." He looked at the young hero. the bleeding was somewhat halted, but the little boy's breathing was troubling, to say the least, and his eyes were having trouble staying open.
"I'm making them worried? What kind of help am I to the Smash Bros. if I let myself get injured so easily."
"Don't say that. You're a great help to them."
"Let's face it Charles. I'm not really all that helpful for them." That took Charles aback on that response. "I'm not that useful around the rest. I'm just a clone after all." The term 'Clone' was first used in the Mellee Tournament to describe a few Smashers that had identical movesets to some other Smashers. It was a belittling insult used to discourage newcomers to the Smash Tournaments after the first Smash Incident. Maliciously used to create arguments about a Smashers relevance to the entire team or involvement in the tournament, saying they are "useless", "redundant", or downright a "stupid idea" to even be included in the the series. Amiibo has considered this slander as highly offensive, but enforcement to prevent this harassment has never been passed to avoid any psychological belittlement amongst the Smashers. Despite all the abuse, many Smashers try to comfort the harassed members. Only a few, inconsiderate Smashers may slip the tongue and use the term to insult them and make the individuals feel inferior. It's a serious manner similar to 'racism' if put to that level and is thus thoroughly avoided as much as possible. "They have Link, what use am I, if I have every move, every strategy he has. Just a worthless clone. Just leave me, I'll just hold everyone back."
"Hell no!" Charles was not the kind of person to just leave a person in need behind. He had no plans on letting a death of a friend haunt the team on their quest. " You are not useless, you hear me! You are unique, and special in your own way! So what if you have similar attacks as someone else. What matters is how you use them. It's true, you are another Link. But Link has been reincarnated multiple times, so I've heard. You're just a little different than him. You may be Link, but your spirit, you are a different person than he is. In fact, I think he may be a different Link than in the previous Smash Bros. Heck he could be a clone too. Bu you can't let other people tear you down like that. Use your features that you used from your adventures to differentiate yourself from your doppelgänger. And if that doesn't work, just remember you are a different person than he is. You are not that Link, you are Toon Link."
With those inspirational words, Toon Link felt the urge to fight back from falling into a never ending slumber and continue to live amongst the people who care about him in his life. Of course, the other members of their squad were taking a nasty beating from the goliath, unable to quell it's fury. Wario persistantly stood his ground, while the Wii Fits were too tired and battered to resume the assault. Jigglypuff stubbornly snubbed off it's injuries and valiantly continued to fight, whereas Pikachu was a little worried that this was not going to end well. The enemy ,on the other hand, wasn't even fazed, let alone tired, from it's long battle and intended to finish off it's weakened prey. Pit was in pretty bad shape too. One of his wings was bent the wrong way, and he held his arm as well. The morale was dropping on the task force's side, trying their best to survive against their powerful foe. Having had enough playing around, the knight stepped toward the tired team, when a large blast struck from the side. The giant recovered quickly, to see it's next adversary.
Down the street, a little blue man stood with his arm pointed to the knight, his arm being a cannon actually, retracting back to an arm. He pulled out two blades like a buzz saw, and threw them at the giant, sticking into its body. each time the blue person stepped, it made a mechanical clanking sound signifying that this person is indeed mechanical. The robot looked to the injured fighters, then back to the knight. The knight seemed interested in the new challenger, aiming his gun to fire. The robot fired a clawed projectile of some sort to the barrel of the handgun, and when the knight fired, it self destructed along with the explosion from the bomb. It's pistol was gone, so now it would need to use it's knife.
"That's good. Now I've got the advantage of range." The blue robot spoke in a regular voice, not very robotic at all. Pit looked at the fighter and tried to figure him out.
"Who are you?" The angel asked. The robot turned his head with a whir, looking at him with large blue eyes.
"I'm just a nosey bystander. That's all." He turned his attention back to the giant mechanized knight. "If you really must know, many know me as the Blue Bomber. But folks just call me Megaman. Now I have to even the playing fields with this thing." He looked at where Charles was tending to an injured Toon Link. He analyzed the situation, seeing the little boys condition as far more critical than the others. "If he did this to him, then I'll do 4 fold to in return." Megaman readied his weapons to face down the titanic foe, taking out the blades Megaman stuck in it. The battle was now entering into it's second phase, the legendary Blue Bomber would test his mettle with this brand new, hazardous adversary that had single handedly held off 7 strong fighters without being fazed. This battle certainly was getting more interesting for the invader, speaking an alien tongue that none of it's enemies understood. Best guess would be that it was far more interested in fighting a more worthy foe, hopefully.
During the Smashers/task force's fight in the city, 9-volt was in his home, now not at all worried about having a job to do at Warioware inc. or dealing with coming with new microgames to present. I guess now he could do what he really was best at, video games. However, now he was not being paid for doing his favorite thing (of course, with his history with Wario, he probably rarely got paid for any of his hard work). His mom was busy making lunch, blissfully ignoring the television of Ken the Reporter exclusively showing the mayhem of the Separatists attack, with the supposed Super Smash Bros. counter-attack, then the all-out war between the defenders and a mysterious, hostile knight creaming them in downtown Diamond City. A sudden knock on the door interrupted her session on chopping some vegetables. She walked to the door, answering to 3 men in suits. They obviously looked like they were part of an important branch in a government. The scary kind of guys that know your in trouble for some reason, and if you resist... you get the picture.
"Good evening ma'am. Are you aware of the situation the area is in?" The front one said.
"Hmm, I don't seem to recall any situation. Is their a problem gentlemen?"
"Mrs. 5-volt, ma'am, the city and this areas around it are in evacuation from the attacks happening down town. If the fighting escalated any further, the surrounding the suburbs could fall in potential danger."
"Oh, so that's what the t.v. was going on about I had no idea. I'll go get my son so..."
"Ahem. Pardon us ma'am, but before we leave, we need to discuss something with your son and about his affiliation to Warioware inc.. May we step inside." 5-volt hesitated, but she had a feeling that this day would come. She knew the government would have them brought in for questioning for their involvement in the past incident that nearly brought the very world to destruction. It was all because of Wario and his company's alliance to the the megalomaniac that tried to take over.
"Why, yes. Come in." They entered into the living room, where the t.v. showed the task force in their battle against the vile giant. The battle was getting so intense, that Ken and the camera crew had to get to safety so as not to get in the crossfire.
"We have information that your son, 9-volt, was in league with Warioware, and it's help to Subject P8 overrun as Prime minister."
"Oh, is that right?" She continued with her cheerful demeanor. She looked down to his sleeve. Just peeking out of the edge was a red clothe. It was quite peculiar for agents of the government to have torn cloth under their suits to signify a clean organization. Another abnormality was the tatoo below one of the guy's ear. She wouldn't know the familiarity, but it was the same shadowy clown design as a certain rebel group.
"I'm sorry ma'am. But we have a warrant to bring your son in for questioning." The man pulled out a piece of paper to show to the . Just then, 9-volt came out of his room.
"Mom, what's going on?" 9-volt asked his mother. "Who're these guys?"
"Go to your room dear. Mommy will take care of this." That statement didn't go well with the agents.
"I'm sure you won't make a fuss about this will you ma'am." The same guy said, a bit defensively. "We don't want any trouble. Just hand us the boy." 5-volt smiled at the guy demanding her to hand over her son to them. To her, it really didn't matter where these guys came from, they would have to go through her in order to obtain her boy as prisoner. She partially leaned her head back, then slammed her head into the man's, instantly knocking him unconscious. The other two men saw this action and mobilized to apprehend her, but that was a mistake. 9-volt was going to do as his mother said, but when he heard a body fall, he had to see if his mom was alright. To his surprise, he found his mom beating the living daylights out of the other two guys, seeing the first one knocked out next to the sofa. When the skirmish was over the other two guys were laid around the room, put into a slumber by their fearsome opponent. 5-volt dusted her hands off in a satisfied manner. Of course 9-volt had a reason to fear his mother, but this amplified that terror of getting on her bad side. She looked over at her son, still with a smile on her face.
"You see 9-volt, you threaten the child of a mother, their is nothing a mother wouldn't do to protect her baby." That statement scared the color right off of 9-volt. "Now it looks like we have to leave, before any more goons come to get you."
Megaman and the knight propelled into a ferocious battle that shot blasts into buildings, broke streets and poles, and shattered vulnerable glass that were unlucky enough to be present. The other task force/Smashers were a little motivated to keep fighting. But even with Megaman, the ferocity of the behemoth grew more stronger, as it strived to kill all of them. "There's no stopping this monster." Mr. Wii Fit said in exhaustion.
"I don't know about you guys," Viridi said in their heads. "But have guys considered pulling back from the fight?"
"We can't do that." Pit replied. "We have to keep it's attention on us. Besides, I'm sure none of us can outrun it now."
By the look of it really, it was far more feral than it was fighting last time, but if you looked really closer, the dark knight was indeed tiring. It was just that it's targets were more tired. Suddenly it pulled out another gun from somewhere on it and took aim. "Another gun?! I thought I blew it away?" Megaman was indeed perplexed, but he did not have the strength to fully disarm it again. The giant took aim at Wario, frightening the dude.
"Wah! No fair!" Complained the filthy guy. "You got something against me pal?!" The creature fired at Wario, blasting him to a building behind. The friends tried their best to reach the gun but the knight fired to them. Pit charged up an arrow and shot it into the knight's hand. The enemy dropped the gun, but in a moment rolled a bomb toward Wario's position. They weren't fast enough to kick it away so it continued to roll to Wario. "Sweet crap." The bomb exploded near Wario, but before the blast could reach him, a purple wave hit the wave turning it to mist, smelling like pears. Wario was cowering from the potential blast, but when he looked up, he saw a girl in a red dress with two huge ponytails waving a staff in front of her. "Weah!" The girl turned around to face him.
"You should be thankful that I saved you. Not that I care." It was Ashley, former employee of Warioware inc. and all its affiliates. She had come in the nick of time, just before Wario was blown up. But she was not alone (besides Red accompanying her).
"Shuriken!" A flash cut at the huge knight, damaging it.
"Katana!" Another flash flew across, slicing at the knight again.
"Ninja!" Now both flashes crossed paths, cutting at the giant again pushing it back more. The flashes landed in front of Wario and Ashley. Kat and Ana appeared to lend them all a hand in the fight. "Are you alright Wario-san?" Ana asked.
"We came as soon as we met Ashley to come help us." Kat followed, without taking her sight off the monster.
Wario was surprised. Yeah, he treated them like dirt, barely treating them like a good employer should and he was a lousy friend. But after that thing in the office earlier, that's what really got him wondering why they would waste their time saving a chump like him. "What the hell do you kids think you're doing? Can't you see this is a life-or-death situation! This isn't a game, you could really be hurt!"
"That's some way to thank us." Ashley said in her usual dark,sarcastic demeanour.
"We came to help you!" Kat said. "We saw the whole thing. With the Seperatists and now this."
"You guys looked like you could really use some help." Ana added.
"But it's not safe here. How could you come save me after all the crap I put you guys in?"
"Because that's what friends do for each other." Ana's answer hit Wario hard. "No matter how mean a friend can be, even if he is as greedy as dragon, friends always come back to them in forgiveness."
"That's right, and no matter what happens, friends stick with each other, through good and bad times." Both Kat and Ana's devotion to their friendship with the unlikely Wario certainly had some affect that touched Wario. Touched? Who are we kidding Wario didn't care (at least he would never admit it).
"It seems these two are more knowledgeable than you." Ashley said. That comment made Wario look at the witch in training.
"And what about you?" He asked. "What're you here for?"
Ashley looked away. "I have my own reasons, okay."
"So you 3 are here to help right?" Pit was relieved for more assistance. "Great, I'm not sure how long we can hold out." The giant recovered from the last attacks, and is kind of getting frustrated with all the combatants intruding in it's battle. Despite it's injuries, it prepared itself to finally finish this lengthy battle. The kunoichi girls also prepared to launch another flurry of swipes at their target. However, the dark being had seen the strike coming and smacked both girls away, immobilizing them. It then proceeded to jump in front of Ashley and Wario, preparing to finish them. Ashley was ened by frozen at the spot, too frightened to react to the uncoming death.
"Do something you!" Wario hollered. Ashley was still in place. "Hey!" It seemed their time was over. After it brutalizes Wario and Ashley, it will continue to tear apart the other fighters then for good measure, maybe it will call in reinforcements to help pursue any escaping the city. It seemed all was lost when a pillar of light fell to the battlefield. Down the light, Palutena floated down to confront the ravager. Catching the knights attention, it decided to take out the newest interloper and deal with the weak later, looking to the goddess.
"You will cease this onslaught any further." She called out to enemy. It responded by spewing an irritated alien language at her, readying itself to strike.
"Lady Palutena, you're here!" Pit was relieved that his goddess had come to their rescue.
Palutena looked back at her angel. "Pit, what's the damage so far?" She looked at the battered fighters, then saw Charles guarding Toon Link's body. "What happened!?"
"We couldn't outmanuever him. We've sustained a heavy beating, and have a serious casualty." She assumed that Toon Link's sorry was caused by their assailant. She would not tolerate having her team-mates harmed this badlyfrom enemy hands.
"You. You did that to the boy." The creature snorted, admitting it's act. "I won't forgive you for this atrocity. You hear me?! You're not getting away with this transgression. So prepared to be purged!" At a moments notice, the towering knight flashed upon Palutena, slamming it's blade upon her if not for her using her powers to hold back the tremendous force. They were locked in combat, Palutena under the knight's force. "Your leader may have hindered my full strength, but that does not mean, urgh, that I am powerless!" With that, Palutena knocked back the giants attack, hitting off balance. She followed by revealing her signature glyph over her head and fired a hail of shots at it. Then she glided over to smack her shield on the side of it's head, smacking pieces of it in different directions.
"Yeah! You get him Lady Palutena!" Pit cheered.
Wario sulked "Yeah right. We weakened him for her." Palutena avoided a swing from it's knife and formed wings to counter-attack with. She jump back and fired another trio of light projectiles at it. After it took the attacks, Palutena flew head-first into the metallic body of the adversary. "Angelic Missile!" The giant was knocked into a building, then fell back to the battleground. When she recover, Palutena glided in superfast speeds. "Super-Speed!" The goddess landed a series of fast smacks from the shield and staff kicks onto the unfortunate victim laying more hurt on it. The display of great skill and agility that Palutena sure amazed her task force and the Smashers alike, sort of embarassing some that they couldn't have put on as much damage as she could on the enemy. After that she pointed her staff at the injured creature and yelled out, "Explosive Flame", enveloping the knight in an orb of burning might.
Kat and Ana awoken to see Palutena totally pwning this malevolent fiend, hitting it with pulses from her staff. "Wow." The girls whispered in admiration. The giant did lay a scratch on the woman, fazing her back.
"Oh no. Hold on Lady Palutena!" Pit rose to help his goddess.
"No. Pit get back! I got this!" Pit listened to his lady's order, letting her handle this fight. The goddess avoided the knight's fury by jumping on to the side of buildings and letting the giant give chase. She wanted to see if the knight could actually catch her and lay some serious blows on her, but she was not impressed with the result. She landed back the streets and jumped before the giant could take a cut at her, the kicked at it's head below her. The knight was hit away from her, recovering fast, but losing her. Palutena appeared in back of it and smacked her shield on the back of it's head toward the ground. The creature, in desperation attempted to get it's footing back to resume the battle. "Really now? I'm getting real bored of this." Palutena pointed her staff at the monster before shooting a highly concentrated laser through the knights side of it's neck, then through the chest finally ending it. Palutena stood in victory of the emissary of Knightscourge, but then the toll it took on her energy really showed when she needed to take a breather. It must've really took a lot of strength to kill this fiend, surely, it would have taken more of her strength had she faced this monster at it's full strength. Guess the only reason these fella's were not doing so well was because it was their first time facing off one of Knightscourges forces. maybe they would have fared better with a lower ranking soldier than a high ranking captain. But back to the matter at hand, Palutena approached her injured team to help them. "Is everyone alright?!"
"We have a man down! Or, boy to be exact." Palutena rushed over to Toon Link,already looking pale from the blood loss.
"He's in pretty bad shape." Charles concluded. "He needs immediate medical attention, soon!" Palutena looked down on Charles in dissapointed manner, making Charles look away from the goddess. She looked back to the others.
"Are their any other serious casualties?"
"No." Pit stated. "Just some nasty bruises and maybe a broken bone or two." Palutena turned her attention back to Toon Link. She wave her staff over the child, dropping some liquid magic onto him.
"That should help heal him. But it's not instant, what with my powers weakened." She turned her attention to the various friends around her.
"So you must be Ms. Palutena." Mr. Wii Fit said. "It's a pleasure to meet you your highness."
"It's so nice to meet you Ms." Mrs. Wii Fit folowed by bowing her head.
"Oh please, the title's Lady." Palutena gave a small blush. "But friends like you two can call me Palutena. It's wonderful to have your voluntary aid. Thank you."
"It's our pleasure to help out." Mrs. Wii Fit replied. "We'll do our best to help out in any way possible."
"I'm sure you will." Palutena turned to Wario and Jigglypuff. "Ah, previous Smashers. It's great to meet you."
"Cut the snot lady" Wario said in annoyance. "No need for sucking up." "Puff!" Jigglypuff followed with a greeting.
"Well I formed this team to bring the members of the Smash Brothers back to fight invaders like before. Jigglypuff is happy to join us I presume. How about you, Mr. Wario." Jigglypuff nodded it's head in approval.
"You guys are trying to stop that thing's leader from seriously destroying our world by assembling the Smash Bores again. It's a crazy notion, obviously, but it's just crazy enough to work." Ashley, Kat and Ana looked at Wario. "Ah what the hell, I'm not doing anything else, plus it's better to bring my rep up with the Smash Sissies again. I'm in."
"Excellent. I suppose you girls would like to accompany us on our adventure for the support, hm? Besides it's probably not so safe here, now that Knightcourge has scouted out this location." Palutena asked Wario's former employees.
"Yes we would!" Ana said. "We'll assist Wario-san's club in any way we can!" "yeah!" Kat added.
"If you say so..." Ashley said. Red appeared next to her. "Yippee! We get to go save the World!"
Palutena fixed her attention on Megaman. "Well, well. If it isn't Megaman. What bring's you to our world?"
"I was traveling to procure the whereabouts of Dr. Albert Wily, whom I've tracked down to this very planet." Megaman answered. "But it seems their are bigger problems to deal with."
"Indeed their are."
"I would be happy to join you on your journey. Maybe Wily could have some involvement in this."
"Perhaps. It's great to have you on the team, Rock." Megaman got a questionable look from Palutena's comment. "Oh. Don't worry to much about what I said. It's just a reference to our readers." Megaman got even more confused on Palutena's next comment, so he decided to drop it to avoid any more confusion.
"Pika!" Pikachu cheered on the success on their first mission.
"That's right buddy! We did it!" Pit cheered alongside the Pokemon. "That's what I'm talking about! look out Knightscourge, the Super Smash Brothers are coming for you!" Palutena was pleased to see that they had succeeded in finding new members to her task force and some Smashers to help in their cause. then she went off to Charles, standing next to Toon Link, who was breathing more steadily and recovering some colour back to his skin.
"Palutena, I..." Before Charles could say any more, Palutena slapped him across the face, making the others gasp. Charles looked back at her, caught off guard from the sudden impact.
"I'm not saying it's completely your fault about the casualties of today, but you could've done something to prevent any bloodshed today, from our forces that is." She looked deadly serious. "You worry about not being able to help, because you don't have any distinguishing means of offense. Not all of them are full fledged warrior legends here." It's true. Pikachu and Jigglypuff aren't even at their full stage, but they put up a real fight. The Wii Fit Trainers are an excellent example of this. They are just an ordinary couple of fitness trainers, probably with above average physical strength, going up against minions of chaos and even a captain of Knighscourge's army. They haven't got any super powers or anything special. Monotone humanoids, that's all. "They all have something you seem to lack. That something is what you really need to save your friends, if you hope to have our aid." She walked past Charles. "Come now, let's prepare to go back to my temple. We have a long way to go if we want to assemble a large enough team to challenge Knightscourge."
The other allies followed Palutena, along with an awkward silence that stuck along with them after Charles' chastisement. The villager held his stung cheek, establishing on his cowardice and what he wanted. "You coming Charles?" Mrs. Wii Fit asked next to the group, preparing their decent. He nodded his head and quietly walked next to Megaman and Jigglypuff, intent on not looking into anyone's gaze. Mr. Wii Fit held Toon Link in his arms, and judging by his more natural state of breathing, must mean the healing process was taking effect to Charles' relief.
Palutena showed her glyph over her head once more. "Now, Warp Home!" In an instant, all the characters in Palutena's vicinity warped in a beam of light, much like how the others had been transported here in the first place, into the air. Supposedly they were heading back to the temple to recover and debrief on their next move. In the shadows, however, two ominous figures approached the heap of destroyed alien armor, looking upon the spoils with great pleasure.
Orbiting over the current planet, a titanic space-craft floated with a spinning engine and double deckered. Some tinier craft flew around, in, and out of the main ship. Inside the main bridge, a armoured alien knight patterned with orange circuitry came to meet the captain of the ship, the Holocaust (the alien language spoken is translated here). "Great Knightscourge, we've lost contact with Galanex down in hostile territory PI7-D. All life signs have gone offline." The other cybernetic knight, flowing with red circuitry, stood up from the captains chair leaving his resting hounder pets to approach his underling.
"So he was simply vanquished down there has he?" He spoke in the language we understand. "I thought he was made of sterner stuff."
"We have collected some sound memory from his last moments before he was terminated." The knight rolled a small spire to show Knightscourge what is to be heard. The holographic screen showed them a wave that released sound form the previous battle. "*static*... Pikachu!*static*... How do you stop this...*crash* Wah!... *blast**boom* Charles...*static*...jiggly..." These sounds intrigued Knightscourge. No ordinary creature would dare stand against any of his troops of that caliber. They must've put up one helluva fight to survive against someone like Galanex. "*static*...Lady Palutena!...*static* You will cease this onslaught any furthe... *static*...I'm getting bored of this... *zap**static*..." The transmission ended there. Knightscourge looked to his soldier.
"Those... are no ordinary objects shaming my presence."
"...Objects?"
"Yes. These are more like game,ready to be bagged. I can't believe the opportunity that's present. That whole area. I need it... no they would be expecting that." Knightscourge's plans needed to be revised after this event, but the problem is how is he going to change it. " Do you have any visual data from the scene."
"We're loading as much as we can, almost 70%."
"I don't care! Show me what's present!" The orange knight knelt it's helmet to Knightscourge, obeying his superior and leading him to a room to look at Galanex's memory data for clues on the radicals. Through the massive ship, droves of warriors walked through the halls, entering different rooms to train, exchange weapons, and examine war machines for any potential orders of invasion. The bloodthirsty giants acknowledged their head as he passed by to reach the surveillance room to replay Galanex's last moments. Reaching said room, some technicians received orders to replay what Galanex saw in his visual memory. the clip played without sound, showing two monochrome humanoids, two Pokemon, an angellic boy, a young boy in a ridiculous green outfit, a blue robot, a marvellous woman with celestial powers, burly moustached man, and short, young man were all caught in the gaze of Knighscourge's soldier. Jigglypuff, Wario, Pit, Toon Link, and Pikachu stood out to Knightscourge, but it was the celestial woman, and the other man that made him tremble with rage, looking back at his scar on the other side of his elbow. "That's him." Knightscourge silently said, fixated on Charles' image. "The one who made me bleed."
Deep under the surface, numerous creatures of different worlds assembled in a eerie cave dome. The creature assembled to a podium, where Captain Syrup, Mad Scienstein, and a hidden figure (who stood in the shadows) stood to the crowds. "My fellow afflicted!" The hidden figure spoke out in a booming voice. "The time certainly has come! The time to rise out of the dirt, and build upon ourselves fortresses of our own, to bring down these so called "Heroes and Villains" down to our equal. The time to show them how it feels to be constantly abused, to be constantly set aside as "minor appearances" and as "cannon fodder" to their success. The time to take your rightful place as rulers of this society!" The crowd cheered on the biased speech. "You abused, you exploited, you ill-treated. You are the future of your honor. No longer will you be stepping stones or lowly mooks to your slaveowners and destructors! Now you will be kings! Now you will lead a new order where the heroes will bow to your whim and never mistreat you! It's your choice on this, and you have taken a stand!" The crowd cheered on more, motivated to take on action. "We must commemorate our fallen comrades who are out there as we speak, spreading the word of our justified rebellion. They are ready for a change, how 'bout you?!"
"YES!"
"Will you stand for our rulers' indifference to us?!"
"NO!"
"Then show it! And let them all know, THAT WE WILL NOT BE FORGOTTEN!" The hordes roared in applause, all ready to topple the old system for a system that will accommodate everyone, big and small. Scienstein and Syrup looked into the crowds, impressed by the amount of followers of the Separatists.
"Those were certainly choice words to rile up the masses master." Scienstein spoke to the hidden figure. "What is next on the plan?"
"The hordes will blindly lead themselves into the way of the officials." The hidden figure said. "They will serve as a distraction to the real objective ahead. Of course, the other portion of masses will come in handy. For security purposes of course."
"I've had information that a band of misfits are planning on assembling the Super Smash Brothers again. Could pose a problem." Syrup said.
"If any can get in my way, it can only be the Smash Brothers. As long as they stay focused on the armies of Separatists then everything will go by smoothly. I assume you two can handle keeping those meddlers out of my hair."
Oh boy, now we're cooking! Looks like our growing team are arriving to a two front battle. Their is a whole lot more to the story I thought for SSB4, involving every single trophy present in the game. I'm debating on what I should do for the next chapter. Flesh out their predicament to the others about Rosalina's engagements against Knightscourge,or begin the introduction of the Fire Emblem: Awakening crew? To let everyone know (those who have played Smash4) Knightscourge's ship is the spaceship in the 'space orbit' custom stage background. If you have not played it yet, look up SSB4 custom stages and look for the background with the spaceship on it. That's what I placed as Knightscourges HQ.
Smasher appearances: Megaman
Anyone who is an Assist trophy will be included to assist the Smash Bros. in the story. It's getting late, and I'm sorry for the wait, moving also got in the way of my writing. I hope you guys like this chapter of the story, until next chapter, see you guys later!