Chapter 8: Dealing with Inklings
I've wanted to do this, and I'm sure everyone wants to see this crossover. And found out Roy is back (not the Koopa) and Ryu is a part of the Smashers as DLC as well. Baby got DLC! Well enjoy this chapter on the way Splatoon was probably gonna be if they put Mario as the main dude.
Super Smash Bros. (Kid Icarus, Palutena's Temple; Pokemon, Lumiose City)
"I can't wait to see everyone again!" Ness said, eager to join forces with the Smashers, what with him being a veteran from the beginning. Little Mac didn't feel too good about this whole save the world and all existence from this crazy hunter lord.
Palutena turned her lovely gaze to the young champ. "What do you say? We could always use someone like you for our temporary Task Force in our search."
"Say?" Charles asked Little Mac. "How did you get involved with the Separatists Mr. Mac?"
"Well, at an exhibition there, I went out to get some air, when I was cornered by my past opponents in the WVBA." Mac clarified. "Then Mike Tyson came to my rescue and told me to run..."
"Hold on?!" Palutena and Charles weren't the only ones caught by the statement. Most of the fighters in the room heard the mighty fighter's name spoken by Little Mac. "The Mike Tyson?!"
"Iron Mike Tyson!?" "Kid Dynamite?!" "The Baddest Man on the Planet!?"
Little Mac wasn't shocked to know Mike Tyson. In one of his iterations, he went toe-to-toe with Mike Tyson in the final level, and all he could say is once you get past his unbelievably cheap uppercuts, he fought alot like Piston Hondo. "Yes. Then as I left, those crazy Separatists said they were taking me hostage."
"What do you mean, yes?" Pit yelled from across the room, incredulous on how casual Mac was to a great former Heavy-Weight Champion of the World.
"We're talking about the Mike Tyson!" Viridi exclaimed. "Former Heavy-Weight champion of the world, who won with 44 wins, all KOs! How is that just casual?!"
"We're getting off-topic." Palutena broke in. "We can discuss this later. Sorry Little Mac."
"It's alright." The young champ was alright with the admiration received by his peers. Besides, he is the WVBA Boxing Champion and still reigning (for now).
"Ahem." Ashley didn't care much about the pointless conversation, but more on getting on with the game at hand by alerting the others to pipe down so she can focus on pwning Greninja.
"Isn't he the cannibal?" Wario said digging into his nose with his pinky once more, totally enthralled by the conversation as well (sarcasm).
"Okay, that was a wild mistake," Charles defended. "I'm sure he apologized for the misbehavior."
"Anyway. I'm not completely sure. I guess I'm thinking about my coach we left behind." Little Mac was still concerned that he left his coach, Doc Louis, when he escaped his enemies and the Separatists back at Fourside.
"Oh, you mean Mr. Louis." Palutena opened up a blue curtain, revealing Doc drinking some juice on a chair enjoying a bowl of chocolate bars. The coach looked back and saw Mac and the rest of the gang.
"Sup. This is a very sweet bachelor pad. Or in your case my lady, a bachelorette pad."
"Oh stop, you." Palutena said back playfully.
"Doc!"
"Yeah I'm here." Doc Louis said standing up and walking out of the small room. "Couldn't leave me out of this story."
"I had Dark Pit return to Fourside to retrieve him, knowing how important your mentor is and his danger with the Separatists roaming about." Palutena explained. She had to do whatever it takes to ensure enough people to their side by rescuing anyone that could burden the mind if left behind. That's most unfortunate for Charles, but that's his reason to join this movement.
"I admit I had my doubts, but I had to see if you were okay son."
"Do you think he and Little Mac are actually related?" Mrs. Wii Fit whispered to her husband in the sidelines. He only shrugged on the not so controversial matter.
"Thank you Dark Pit." Said Little Mac graciously taking a bow to the black garbed angel. "You have my gratitude." Dark Pit didn't really care about the thanks, but rather turned his head to hide any emotion to the newcomers.
"Say Mac? Why don't we give these good people our effort? Maybe their is something we can do. Besides, we never had much of a busy schedule." Little did consider joining Palutena and her search for the Smash Bros., but now that Doc Louis is completely on board. Little Mac usaully looked to Doc Louis for guidance, and his advice in the ring is no different to his fatherly advice outside it.
"Well, miss Palutena, I guess I have decided to accompany your Task Force for the greater good." With that, the party of characters congratulated their new comrade in the team.
"Hooray! New friends!" Ness cheered. "Yeah! now We're talking! This job will be a breeze at the rate we're going!" Palutena could only smile at the enthusiasm of Sonic as he riled up everyone in the cheer.
"However, I do worry about what happened to everyone, like Mario." Ness's statement made Luigi jump in his seat at the mention of his brother's name.
"Mario." Luigi was now in the spotlight when everyone noticed him mumble Mario, much to his shy nature. "...um...what?"
"Umm, Luigi?" Charles asked with the concern only a good friend would show. "Is their something you want to tell us?" Luigi fell silent again.
Palutena looked over to Ness, even though the attention was clearly lent to Luigi by all. "Oh I'm sorry Ness, I feel we've overshadowed you by idle chit-chat. You aren't feeling forgotten are you?" She said this with most sincerity she could muster for the last mission was to look for him primarily to begin with.
"No it's okay." The PSI induced boy replied. "I'm just about as concerned as everyone else about Mario's whereabouts." Now everyone's gaze fell on Luigi, wondering what made him feel so disheartened.
"What's the matter?" Mrs. Wii Fit asked. "You're not comfortable talking about this?"
"No," Luigi finally said. "It's just that I can't help feeling it's all my fault of what happened to him." Now the air got tense. What could've happened to Mr. Videogame himself, everyone's beloved plumber pal. Suddenly a small crash was heard. What they saw was Ashley storm away from the table she was playing at followed by Red trying to calm her down. Pit was baffled by her reaction whereas Greninja still had his same poker face he had been playing the whole game with unfazed. I guess she raged out of a losing game, judging by the scrabble pieces strewn on the floor. Ignoring this distraction, Rosalina looked back to Luigi to get back to the topic at hand.
"Luigi," Rosalina asked with serious concern. "What happened to Mario?"
"...I'll tell you everything, but you won't believe me. Everything that lead up... to Mario's capture."
Luigi told his audience of a time not so long ago of the Mario Bros. small trip to the Pokemon Country. [play Lumiose City theme] Now the brothers had finished off another adventure staving off Bowser's conquest of the Mushroom Kingdom, and were granted a vacation from Princess Peach in the time of peace. So the plumbers decided to visit the Parisian landscape of Lumiose City in the Kalos region of the Pokemon Country. The first few days were filled with rest and relaxation, with not a care in the world. They did, voluntarily, go back to their roots and did small time plumbing for their business when using their free time. Luigi took a few tours on the history of he galant city and the rich history of it and the Pokemon that surround it. Mario explored on his own and found out about places without a tour guide. But neither of their methods conflicted with the other. They saw some interesting battles in the Pokemon Gym between trainers and the gym leader, Clemont, wondering if the Gym had a unlimited amount of badges for any trainer who won, thus questioning the authenticity of said tickets to the League. They even bumped into Clemont first hand and learned he is a big fan of Professor E. Gadd. The Mario Bros. even showed him their FLUDD and Poltergust 5000, which fuelled his ecstasy for the inventors successful inventions. Later on, on a fine day of finishing croissants with their breakfast, their was a broadcast on a nearby radio.[end BGM] "Attention citizens! A rogue band of graffiti artists is vandalizing Lumiose city! The young band of vandals have spread a colorful ink-like substance from their weapons and seem to take no consideration in anything they paint over. Local authorities are having trouble restraining the delinquents who seem to escape their grasp at any corner, teleporting from one mess to another. The rampage has spread from Estival Avenue, all the way to South Boulevard. And now the police are pursuing them all the way to North. Their also seem to be some sort of squid creatures swimming through the ink, but details are not clear. All citizens are advised to stay indoors until said vandals are apprehended and brought to justice."
Mario took an interest to this. "Hmm, well how 'bout that? Luigi, you hearing this? We're in North Boulevard right?"
"Oh give it a rest brother." Luigi said, knowing the course of action Mario will take before him even realizing it. "It's not our problem. The authorities have got it covered. We came here to take a break after all.
Just then a splatter of blue liquid came splatting on the street and buildings across from the plumbers relaxation followed by kids spraying out said ink with their squirt guns and odd painting tools gone weaponized to spread more ink. The kids were obviously the culprits of the vandalism spree but their looks were deceiving. They looked like ordinary kids with differing outfits of fashion style, but their hair looked rather jelly-like and had a tentacle motif to it. The girls had two long tentacles for bangs on either side of her face, while the boys had two topknot ponytail tentacles on the back of their head. They also had black mask-like patterns too reminiscent to the Blooper back at the World of Pipes. They had canisters on their backs supplying their ink to shoot out of their ink guns, where some had giant paint rollers spreading ink in a large path and others had oversized paint brushes to swipe paint over walls. One of these kids had a long, lean weapon that shot out large, compressed blasts of ink when charged enough. Now that wasn't the freakiest thing the plumbers saw, for the kids transformed into squids that swam through the ink they shot, going onto buildings the ink was sprayed on to reach new heights. A police siren rang as it pursued the children, but the cruiser tripped up in the slippery goop, leaving it immobile. Mario, with his heroic heart and view on justice and right and all that, could not stand to see this insanity go on and had to do something to set things right.
"Doesn't look like they can contain this?" Mario was not willing to let some trouble go by knowing he could have stopped it. Luigi, despite his known cowardice, also felt a little strong about keeping peace but just this once he wanted to leave the peace-keeping to the ones whose job it was to do such. He wasn't going to stop Mario from doing what he wanted, but just once he had hoped that Mario would take this vacation thing with more solace. But he can't blame him. Mario has been on far more adventures solo than he has, which has made him far more vigilant than his younger brother. So his heroics can't be quelled so easily. "I'm justa going to check if things are okay. And maybe if can just talk to the youngsters, maybe I can convince them to end this game."
Luigi sighed. "Well if that's what you want. Just leave me outta it. I want to enjoy my stay here." Mario shrugged off his brother's sloth, and went back to the hotel to grab his FLUDD to confront the young graffiti artists. When he came back to the scene, he found that the streets and buildings were splatted with orange and blue ink conflicting with one another. Their were also signs of lime-green ink splattered here-and-there, alerting the robotic FLUDD of the situation.
"Mario. This mess of ink is all over the place." The FLUDD said. "It may not be deadly like the Isle Delfino pollution, but I advise to not get too covered by the slippery ink."
"Yeah, their should be some fountains around the area, but at the rate these kids are going, the only way to stop this completely is to find them and convince them to leave." Mario did feel a little unsure of the idea, it was all he had. "I just hope it works."
"Mario we should clear out this mess, so that the citizens can at least walk the streets. My sensors indicate this ink is highly soluble to water, so spraying it will clear it away in the most clean way." "Alright letsa go!" Mario utilized FLUDD to wash away the yucky ink and clean the streets and buildings of Lumiose City. Cars passing by thanked Mario for cleaning the streets and buildings so as to keep anyone from slipping.
Elsewhere, an orange Inkling girl lead her team of three other Inklings in their Turf war to spread as much of their team colours as possible.
"Alright! This is turning out as lovely as I imagined." The female Inkling said looking at the work she and her teammates did. She wore the basic outfit of any Inkling, wearing a white short sleeved shirt, black shorts, and pink sneakers. Her other teammates wore different clothes from her, with two boys and another girl joining her ranks. "Well done guys, at the rate we're at, we're sure to win!"
"Yeah!" Her teammates cheered, then followed her to another stretch of city to be their canvas.
"Well, well,well. If it isn't Stinka and her gang of hasbeens." Orange team looked to their right, to see all of Blue team looking down on them.
"Hmph, if it isn't the most underwhelming competition out there." Inka, the primary Inkling girl described earlier, teased the lead blue Inkling boy. He wore black shorts almost like Inka and white shirt with under sleeves along with purple and yellow kicks. He goes by the name Fin. "How much of the city have you covered? Not enough I suppose?" This angered the boy a bit. It seems the teams were on a time out for now, not considering Green team could still be painting.
"Mock all you want, this canvas is so big, it could be anyone's game!"
"Not if you start spraying and stop yapping." She pointed her shooter at him followed by the rest of her team, which made Blue team aim back at them. Green team arrived as the tensions rose to make them higher.
"Oi, times runnin out guys." One of the green Inklings said. "Better get spraying before we win." "Yeah right! Orange team's definitely in the lead!" Inka said pointing her shooter at Green team. Just then Mario showed up spraying more of the ink track with water.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Whattaya think your doing, ya geezer!" Fin yelled. "Your spraying off our turf!" Mario looked at all the squid kids gathered together, three teams of four Inklings of different colors.
"So you kids are responsible for all the mess in the town?"
The Inklings looked at the strange overall dressed man carrying a water spraying machine on his back accuse them of making 'a mess'. "Yo pops, we didn't make no mess. We're just playing a descent game of Turf War in a new environment."
"New environment? Where do you kids come from?" Asked the Italiano man.
"What are you, some sort of creeper?" Inka accused. "Asking us about our personal bis."
"Well, if you kids do this from wherever you come from. Then why come here to vandalize this city?"
"Because we got bored okay?" One of the green Inkling girls spoke disrespectfully. "Maybe we wanted to play Turf War in another place because we already tried all the stages back home."
"Geez tell him your life story why don't ya?" Fin said to the Green Inkling for explaining so much to the stranger. He turned his gaze to Mario. "Look old man, don't get in our way or you'll be sorry!" Now Mario knew he used to be young and rambunctious in his past, but his more mature composure kept telling him to set these brats straight and teach them a little something called respect.
"Okay, you rascals better behave yourselves and take a hike-a or their will be hell to pay." Mario was trying his hardest to be patient with the younger Inklings.
"Whatever dad!" Inka sarcastically remarked. "Let's bounce y'all! This old fart is wasting our time."
"Yeah!" Another Orange Inkling mocked. "Why don't you try and stop us!" Many of the Inklings laughed off as they leapt back to their Turf War, getting a head start from Mario.
"Old fart?" "Mario," FLUDD finally spoke after the back and forth between Mario and the Inklings. "It seems reasoning with them is not an option, as it is with all youth. You might need to take a more direct approach with them."
"Right. No choice now." Alas, Mario has faced youthful enemies in his past, eg. the Koopalings and Bowser Jr., so teaching these hoodlums a thing or two is not going to faze him the least. Of course, he has a feeling these kids are not evil, so he'll tone down the punishment to not seriously harm them. "Time to lay-a on some-a hate-a." [play Splattack (Splatoon main theme)]
The Inklings battled it out to attain dominance with their ink, but Mario caught up to them, spraying the ink with water. "Jeez this guy does not get a clue?" Fin stopped to see Mario pursue Green team, spraying away their markings. "Looks like old man Rivers want's his hip broken." Blue team snickered a little at Fin's insult to the plumber. After covering what was once Green team turf, Blue team decided to harass Mario. Mario saw their ink narrowly hit him, so he decided to flee. Now Green team, looking back to see Blue team, decided to duke it out with them, not noticing Mario in the cross-fire. The Inklings were now mixed up in firefight, trying to out ink the other. One of the green Inklings was covered with too much blue ink and splatted, letting a squid ghost float away somewhere, not really dying but to regenerate in another spot. Now Mario used FLUDD to jet up to a top of a building around the street they were on.
"Mario, I took the liberty to scan these "Inklings" and found out that they are 90% liquid." Informed FLUDD on their current situation. "So just a sprits of water would incapacitate them for a while."
"O.K. FLUDD, I'll give it a try!" Mario aimed the nozzle to Green team, preoccupied with dealing with Blue team. After spraying a substantial amount of water on the squid kids, the three remaining green Inklings ended up like the first defeated Inkling. This brought the attention of Blue team.
"Hey maybe the old geezer ain't so bad." Said a female Blue team Inkling, looking to Fin. "I mean, he's helping us win this match."
Fin was not amused. "Yeah, but it's not a fair win." The very same girl was sprayed with water and was splatted away too, having small water droplets land on the others, giving them slight pain. "Yo, forget this! Let's go stop Inka's team from winning!" Pulling a fast retreat, Blue team left the grounds and dove back to their ink in squid forms. Mario continued the chase while spraying away the messy ink along the way. Now with Orange team, Inka and crew were looking for their opponents. Now, they saw Blue team swimming away and spraying the playing field while also keeping their distance from the water spraying Mario.
"Alright, you guys go on ahead, I got Daddy Yankee to deal with." Inka's team followed their squad leader's order and left to continue in the turf war, while Inka left to confront Mario and Fin's team. Fin came out of his ink and saw Inka swimming in the ink she sprayed to follow them approach.
"Crap! Now she's coming?! Fine." Fin was hoping on getting a showdown between him and his arch rival in this match pretty soon. "Alright guys. regroup with Jana and continue the game! Leave Inka and Lasagna breath to me!" The squad nodded and wished Fin good luck on his duel with two tough opponents. Now it was time to settle the score between him and Inka, for all the times she's beaten him in Turf wars and pretty much all the competitive games in Inkopolis in the past. Now was the time for him to show her who is the real MVP of the Inklings and show her who's boss. The inclusion of Mario is an annoyance to the main event, but he's sure he can shake off the grown-up in the ensuing battle. Fin sprayed his ink to the direction of a higher building. Inka tripped up Mario with her ink and followed Fin onto the low building. Mario looked up to where the Inklings swam as their squid forms.
"Oh boy," Mario changed the spray nozzle of his FLUDD with the rocket nozzle. "These kids these days don't make it easy don't they?" Mario blasted his way up to follow the Inklings but found more ink. He looked down and saw them sliding away as squids, inking up more of the path. The two finally secluded themselves up on the roof tops next to some busy streets after Inka cornered Fin.
"Give it up!" She said. "Your no match against me!"
"That's what you think, fish fingers!" Fin retorted back. "But my team will reign supreme here! And I'll finally end your little streak!"
"Dream on, shark bait!" The two exchanged fire but seemed evenly matched. Inka hid behind an air conditioning unit.
"Ha! You know you can't handle deez skills, so you resort to hiding. Can't blame ya." Fin searched for his rival, spraying some ink and replenishing it by diving in as a squid and re-emerging. "After all, you wouldn't be where you are without me."
"Your cocky attitude is what brought you down to the losers level!" Inka jumped out, spraying ink to her opponent, hitting his arm but not splatting him out.
"Urrgh, lucky shot, but how about this!" Fin threw a triangular Splat bomb to where Inka had swam to next. She was nearly splatted, but narrowly escaped the ink radius of the grenade.
"Aagh!" The Inkling girl rolled out to the open to face off against Fin holding his Splattershot up to her.
"Gotcha." Right when Fin had her, Mario had jumped up to confront them. "Wha? Why don't you bug off Moustachio!"
"That's enough! Lay your weapons down and leave!" It seems Mario has had enough playing around with the Inklings wild behaviour, his patience diminishing. Unfortunately, Inka was all too aware of that.
"Oh, you don't want to play anymore?" Inka mocked. She definitely didn't want any of this to end too soon. It was starting to get interesting. "But we haven't even gotten started." With that, the orange haired Inkling girl stood on the edge of the building then slowly laid back to fall off the side. Mario and Fin alike were astonished that they saw her fall back down from the apartment heights. Fortunately when they looked over the edge, she was waving to them from a top of a truck. She must have bounced off the awning from below to reach the new surface.
Fin was not amused by the stunt Inka pulled. Always excessive was she. "Show off." Fin ran to the other side of the roof.
"Where do you think you're going?" Ignoring Mario's question, Fin splatted the roof in front of him and dove in full squid then leaping off the roof as such squid onto a nearby vehicle. Mario decided to follow them by hovering onto the cars too with the hover nozzle but came on when the light turned green. Thus began the platforming car chase that would make even the Transformer movies jealous (JK). Mario almost lost his footing but continued on to catch the Inklings. Inka and Fin followed each other on the roofs of the cars they hopped upon, hoping to lose their third wheel.
"What was that all about?" Fin yelled to the orange haired squid girl. "Don't do stupid things like that!"
"Aw, were you concerned for little ol' me?!" She teased.
Fin got a small pink tint on his cheeks. "Like hell I did! I just wanted to finish you before you went to get flattened!"
"Yeah whatever!" Inka looked back to Mario, still following. "What's the matter old man? Can't keep up?" Mario was getting a little annoyed of being called 'old'. These disrespectful kids these days. Why must all the youth of generations be so rebellious? The plumber was not completely fatigued, but the energy these two have outperform his. Mario isn't a kid anymore, so it's understandable since one of his previous conception names in Japanese translates to 'Middle-aged man'. However, he made this far, so their's no stopping him now. Mario jumped closer to the Inklings. "Ugh. Let's step this up a bit. Shall we?" Inka leapt off the car she was on and ran through the alleyways prompting Fin to pursue. Mario tried to catch up to them but slammed into light pole. This whole experience is really starting to get to him. In the labyrinth between the Lumiose complexes, Inka and Fin exchanged ink fire in a duel both had hoped to end fast. They sure made a mess of things, even making the pursuing Mario trip up a few times. Taking a turn, Inka fled down another alley, followed by Fin. However Mario slid down on their ink, down forward in the alleyway he ran in.
"Inka! I'm going to get you!" Fin was getting frustrated on how long it was taking for him to splat his rival. "Stop running and face me!" Immediately, the Inkling girl stopped abruptly in front of him pointing her Splattershot at point blank.
"Sure thing bub." Fin was caught by surprise by Inka's sudden turnaround taking multiple rounds of ink to his face, finally splatting him out. His squid ghost floated away to respawn. "Yes!" Inka pumped her fist in the air after her victory. [end BGM]
In front of the Lumiose tower, a portal filled with blue ink made the HQ of Blue team. Fin emerged out of the portal good as new, but infuriated by his loss to Inka. "GOD DAMMIT! Again she got me! But this time I'll catch her by surprise!" Speaking of surprises, Fin could have sworn that this entire area had been covered with his team colors. It was first priority that the team ink all around their zone so as to get some points at the beginning. Usually if an enemy team had been there, it would be sprayed in their colors resulting in a new coat of the previous team's ink. But the ink from before was completely removed. "Rrrrrrr." Fin gritted his teeth and picked his Splattershot to repaint the town but he heard a gun cocking sound behind him.
"You'd best not be-a trying to ink up again." Fin was caught with by surprise on the sneak up, but when he turned around, he became mortified to see Mario in a particularly agro state, complete with shaded eyes and a demonic aura surrounding him. "I've asked nicely, but you won't listen." Fin felt like wetting himself. He never thought that this guy would be pushed over the edge with so little effort. Tears of fear were building up in his eyes as he looked at the plumber slowly approach. "I realize that however many times I try to restrain you kids with water, you seem to be back kicking for more. So I thought I try to immobilize you in a different way, rather than splash you."
Fin didn't like that last statement. He sprayed them with water, which would in turn splat them into squid ghosts. But what other way was there to stop Inklings? "Wha- what are you sayin'? What did you do to my team? And the others?" Fin trembled as he choked the questions out.
"They're fine." Mario looked as if he came out of a Creepypasta (in a anime kinda way, not a messed up creepy), which he at first mistakenly mistook for a Halloween recipe on his favorite dish back during the Brawl Tournament. This state of Mario would traumatize even Jeff and Slender to remain chronic shut-ins. "Just taking a rest. I also cleaned up any mess they had caused in their previous area." Fin never expected this old guy to be some sociopath behind his boring mature exterior. Now he saw the sleeping giant they awoken and the horrors it did. One shudders to imagine what inhuman thoughts lie behind that mask. The mask of a senior game star that had lost his patience with a couple of kids.
"Hey, look man. We were just playin' around." Fin tryed to reason with Mario's beast mode, hoping in a miracle that he could break through to the humane side of it. "Nothing to go agro about." He backed up to escape but fell over. "Dude take it easy. I'm sorry I called you old alright! Just..."
"That's too bad. Their's only one way to leave this city now!" Mario's shadow loomed over Fin's terrified state, flowing over him as his pupils in his eyes shrank in pure fright.
"Aaaaaaaaaaahahaaaaaaahahahahaaaaa!" The view looked over the roofs of Lumiose city away from Prism Tower as birds flew away from the area classically.
Inka was busy spraying the path as she proceeded in the marketplace, yet was also looking for her teammates. She was getting really worried, that and she had not seen any competition in a while. It was quite disturbing, and to make matters worst, Inka felt as if she were being followed. In contrast to what she was thinking, Mario appeared right in front of her, complete with a stern expression laid upon his face. She didn't see him coming up in front of her, so she was obviously taken by surprise showing that by giving a small shriek. "What do you want? Gonna spritz me with some of that tap water?"
"No." The plumber answered in a serious tone. Inka wasn't expecting this attitude from him. What's up with this guy? "It wouldn't do much anyway, considering you 'Inklings' would just respawn at your basement."
Now Inka was starting to grow worried for the situation. How did this old foo know so much about them? "How do know this, huh?"
"Through the extensive knowledge of FLUDD here." Mario motioned to the mechanism strapped to his back, to which it said to Inka "Hello.".
"Yeah hi. Any-which-way, you wouldn't happen to know what happened to the others, and if so, what did you do to them?" The Inkling girl showed some aggression in her demand, finally seeing Mario as a threat now.
"Nothing really. Just immobilized them is all. If you don't believe me, ask your friend here." Mario pulled Fin from the sidelines gagged and tied up on the floor. He just so happened to be knocked unconscious which meant he could not liquify to escape the bindings. Inka saw this and visibly showed anger as she scowled at Mario. "The others are in the same state, so if you don't want to end up like them, I suppose you lay down your arms and come with me peacefully." Inka felt unsure about surrendering to this random guy interrupting their Turf War, however she looked to Fin and then back to the plumber. They already had their fun and it would be to their best interest to not be further on this guy's bad side. Though wherever this psycho had her fellow Inklings, he could do something to then if she didn't comply. She chose the only logical solution out of this and lowered her Splattershot, which was ready to continue in a battle had she chose to resist Mario.
It took some time for Inkopolis to send an official to settle the matter the Inklings caused. Judd, a cat referee from Inkopolis was sent as a representative to bring back the kids from being arrested for extreme vandalism and resisting arrest. "Mew (the city of Inkopolis would like to apologize for the trouble these twelve Inklings have caused for their unauthorized playing outside Inkopolis)." The cat stated before the city of Lumiose. If it wasn't for the subtitles accompanying him (that everyone could somehow read leaving big questions unasked and unanswered) no one could have understood the apology.
"Just to be frank, I was totally against this." Inka blurted out behind Judd. He just looked back at her to tell her to shush. Inka obediently sat silently alongside her fellow Inklings, embarrassed and guilty for being caught for their misconduct. What did they expect, that they would be excused for playing outside Inkopolis and it's suggested arenas for Turf war and other Splatoon related games. This was really going to be bad for her, considering she's one of the most skilled players on the circuit. Fin and the others sat quietly, to resist making a fool of themselves any further. Not only that, the news media had come to catch a scoop of the century, Mario of the World of Pipes had singlehandedly stopped a rogue band of children from vandalizing Lumiose city of the Kalos region, in the Pokemon Country. Judd thanked Mario for his intervention, and said that Inkopolis would like to repay him for his aid (of course it would have to pay off the damage of certain objects being broken and other things slipping on the ink during the Turf war to Lumiose City) Mario went back to Luigi, who was waiting for Mario to finish his escapade.
"Had fun?" Asked the green plumber. Luigi was often overshadowed by Mario's fame no matter where they went and this whole incident only filled mario's fame over his drastically. But he really didn't seem bothered by this one bit. He'd much rather prefer to be not surrounded by fans wanting his attention due to his more reserved personality.
"You bet! But I couldn't help feel really overwhelmed with the job." Mario modestly stated. "Let's face it, we've been in the game for a long time, no-a punintendo, and these kids are pretty-a new to the scene. I felt like I couldn't compete with their much younger spirit."
"Mario, are you feeling run-down-a?" Luigi couldn't believe his older brother was tiring out. "It's not like you."
"It's-a fine. I've been very busy, that's-a all. Man, it's-a good thing we're on a vacation."
"Yeah. Maybe after this whole thing, you'll feel more relaxed, and ready to take on anything, like the good ol' days!"
The Mario bros. went back to their apartments noticing the streets were particularly empty. Must be because of the scene back with the Inklings that has attracted a crowd. Before both the plumbers could reach the road where their hotel was located, a certain anomaly made footprints in the ground in front of them. The footprints crushed the concrete beneath it, but no physical being stood where the cracks were made. The Italians were very confused at this sight, but when they looked up, they saw a big distortion above them shaped in a mecha-humanized shape. They looked on at the strange outline until Mario was hit by an invisible force. He got nailed toward a building, hitting it so hard he didn't move. Luigi, out of sheer terror, ran to an alley to hide behind a dumpster. He looked on at Mario, laying still on the ground being blurred by the distortion in the air. Eventually, the distortion scaled off to reveal a huge cybernetic knight towering over the awning of the nearby cafe Mario was flung at. It was clad in dark menacing armor with an orange circuit pattern flowing across it's body. It carried a short sword (well short compared to it's colossal form). It bent down to examine Mario's fallen shape, spewing out alien words undistinguishable. Luigi wanted to fight off the big monster, but all that thorny armor and that fearsome attitude was too much for the plumber. The knight picked up Mario's body then stood up. It looked around, noticing the scenery it was in. "What a filthy existence this is." It can talk. It can talk their language, all the more disturbing. "This is definitely the one Knightscourge wants." He looked to where Luigi was halfway hiding, relishing in the fear the tiny person was emanating by his look. Maybe it was expecting Luigi to come and take back his family however almost knew it would be disappointed by Luigi's absence of action. "Useless punin. I see no value in these. All lack a sense of challenge to me." He must be implying that it wanted Luigi to fight for what he cares for, but utterly disappointed by the cowardice. He looked up to the sky, where a dropship also removed it's cloaking coat, where it pulled the behemoth to it's interior, along with the famous red plumber to wherever it flew to when the knight had boarded.
I wasn't serious about it going demented. Mario just turned fearsome, just like some scary tough anime character would when being messed with. After seeing a few creepypastas myself, I didn't want anyone to be creeped out of Mario spilling blood through his eyes or what-not. Just scary in a anime way, like someone fucked up and were about to be beat by the easily angered one in a comedic way. Creepypasta is unsettling as FUCK! Not as scary as it is just unsettling and disturbing. Please don't interpret it as that scary please. TT-TT
Well it looks like the famous Mario is now captive of the malevolent Knightscourge and the Dusk templar. How will Charles and the others hope to get him back from Knightscourge, and is he carrying other Smashers captive as well? Where is he holding them, in his flag ship, the Holocaust? Those answers will be revealed further on in the story. The different franchises of Nintendo that live on their planet reside in their respected realms (with some exceptions like Popstar and the Lylat system orbiting around the main Nintendo planet) each with their own names: The World of Pipes (Mario/Yoshi/DK/Wario universe); Triforce realm (LOZ universe); Pokemon Country (Pokemon universe); Earthon (Earthbound/Mother universe); Animal Crossing World (Animal Crossing universe) and many others.
Smasher appearances: Mario (not in the team yet)
A nod to whatever references I put in, such as the Youtube video series Nopunintendo, that I will thank in an update to this chapter later. I'm tired so i'll proofread this later. By the way, I've also watched a youtube vid series made by charlescbernardo who happened to have played Animal Crossing: New Leaf I suppose. I don't want to mix my Villager main char. of this story with his in his videos, just to distinguish. I didn't intentionally name the Villager Charles in this b/c of him I truthfully saw his work after I started this. Still, I recommend watching his videos which are very good. If you like them, then watch other vids by him. But if you don't, thats okay, I just recommended it thats all. I like how it relates to the common VG player like me and the fun experiences he has playing the games. Well, good night and until next chapter, see you l8tr!