The Bulky Reptilian Brawler

The arrow was seconds away from hitting Bowser in the stomach. He couldn't jump above the arrow; it would simply curve upward and impale him anyway. He couldn't duck under it because once again…the arrow would simply curve and go through his stomach. So Bowser did the only reasonable thing any other Brawler would do. He quickly curled into a ball and rolled out the way, panting like crazy. Rick charged up his Dark Cannon again and aimed it right for Bowser. This time, Bowser ripped a mirror off the wall and held it in front of himself so that the arrow would reflect off it. It made a loud ricocheting sound and bounced its way back to the Dark Cannon, short-circuiting it and causing it to zap repeatedly.

"That can't be good." muttered Rick.

Rick screamed when the Dark Cannon exploded in his hands and knocked him over.

"You son of a bitch!"

Before Rick could even react, Bowser ran next to the wall and jumped off it, kicking himself off and kicking Rick in the chest. Rick's body was thrown through a column that soon came crumbling to the ground all over Rick, burying his body in dust and dirty. Rick groaned and started grunting when Bowser tackled Rick in the stomach and started punching him in the face. After five punches, Rick parried the next punch and latched onto Bowser with his claws. Rick then performed the Flying Slam maneuver, skyrocketing his way to the roof of the temple. When he reached the top, Rick shouted ferociously and threw Bowser's body to the ground, creating a rather large crater and shooting hundreds of tiles into the air. Bowser groaned and opened his eyes, only to see Rick coming straight down to Bowser again, his elbow pointed at his stomach. Bowser yelped and quickly rolled out the way before Rick came slamming down into the crater, unfortunately missing his target.

Bowser inhaled sharply and opened his mouth, releasing several thousand streams of his fiery breath right onto Rick. Rick couldn't do anything but groan loudly and try to block the flames, but nothing worked. However, after some time, Bowser's fire breath began to cease and he was merely expelling smoke from his mouth. Rick took this moment to elbow Bowser right in the torso, causing Bowser's eyes to grow wide and spit to fall out of his mouth. Bowser groaned loudly and kneed Rick in the face twice and jump kicked him into the wall, leaving a gaping hole inside of it. Rick shook his head and jumped out, charging his way to Bowser again. This time, Bowser was prepared. He knew that Rick was going to head butt him in the torso, so when Rick was close enough, he kicked him right in the jaw and shot his body into the air. Before he fell back down, Bowser jumped into the air too and kicked him three times in the face, punched him twice in the shell, and swatted his body away like a fly with his thick tail. Rick slammed through another two columns and his body slid across the tattered floor.

"Had enough?!" shouted Bowser.

Rick stood back up and shook his head.

"I'm just getting started!!"

Rick retracted into his shell and did absolutely nothing for a while.

"Huh???" muttered Bowser.

He shook his head in confusion and walked over to Rick to see what he was doing. But as soon as he flicked his finger on Rick's shell, it caught on fire and began to spin around like crazy. Rick began his Whirling Spin move next to Bowser and repeatedly spun Bowser around like he was in a tornado, making sure that the spikes on his back damaged Bowser greatly. Bowser screamed when he was thrown into the floor face-first. He turned around to see that Rick was bouncing off the walls like he was the ball in a game of pinball. It turns out that this clone was a big improvement from the original Bowser; he had been modified to learn new signature moves. Not even Bowser could bounce off the walls like that, let alone ignite his shell. Bowser shouted loudly when Rick ricocheted off Bowser and knocked him to the floor again, bouncing off the wall and ceiling. Then he came hurling his way to Bowser again, impacting his thick blue shell into Bowser's gut. Bowser bent over and retched, almost throwing up all over the floor. Before he could even stand straight up again, Rick appeared from nowhere and hit him in the shell, knocking him to the ground on his stomach.

Bowser growled deeply and dug his claws into the tiles, making sure they had a firm grip underneath the floor. Bowser glanced up and made sure that his shell was pointed upward so that he could thrust his shell right into Rick. When Rick was close enough, Bowser roared and jolted his whole body upward, impaling Rick in the stomach with the spikes on his shell.

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" yelled Rick.

Rick's body shot into the air like a rocket ship, making a thunderous crash when Rick was slammed into the ceiling. Bowser waited for the smoke to clear and began to chuckle to himself when he saw Rick. He was stuck in the ceiling; the spikes on his shell were lodged so far into the ceiling that they just stayed there and Rick couldn't come down. Rick was grumbling and panting like crazy, flailing his arms and legs around so he could try to get out. Bowser yanked five tiles out of the floor and began to throw them at Rick, hitting him several times in the face. Sure, he could've just left him there, but Bowser wanted to settle this by himself. He wanted to take on Rick with no interference. The last thing Bowser wanted was for Mario to stroll in and kill Rick for himself, taking all the glory.

"Stop throwing…AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!"

Rick screamed again after Bowser chucked another tile at his body, causing the spikes to loosen their grip, inevitably making Rick fall back to the ground. Rick groaned again when he landed on his stomach and gave himself abdominal pain.

"You gonna give up now?" chuckled Bowser.

Bowser screamed loudly when Rick decided to fight dirty…literally. He opened up his mouth and took a massive bite right on Bowser's butt.

"DID YOU JUST BITE ME IN THE ASS!?"

"Maybe…" said Rick in a muffled voice.

Bowser promptly did a "suitable" attack and returned the favor by farting in Rick's mouth, "persuading" him to let go. Rick released his choppers and started coughing violently while trying not to choke on the smell. While Rick was stunned, Bowser kicked Rick in the back four times and head butted him in the back of the head, inflicting minor brain damage and hurling Rick through another column. Just as Bowser ran to Rick's hurt body, he jumped from the rubble and performed a Bowser Bomb move, pinning Bowser right to the floor. His nose began to bleed and Bowser was sure one of his teeth cracked. Rick dragged him off the floor and performed a Koopa Klaw maneuver, latching onto his skin with his claws. Rick smiled devilishly and began to bite down on Bowser's face over and over again until he decided to head butt Bowser and breathe his fire breath on him. Then he did the Whirling Fortress again, shooting Bowser through a couple of tables.

He emerged from the wreckage looking completely beaten, as did Rick himself. But Bowser simply shook his head and slapped himself in the face twice.

"Get a hold of yourself Bowser! You'll never live this down if the world knows you got your ass kicked by yourself!" he said to himself.

Bowser stood up and realized that he was doing something he had never done before. He was wheezing…heavily at that matter. His chest was gradually rising and falling and his chest began to hurt more than usual. Then he looked down at his scar and suddenly got a scary thought in his mind. What if someone just shut off his pacemaker? He could have a heart attack (or die even) right then and there. Maybe the Bowser Bomb that Rick inflicted on him cracked the machine that was keeping him alive at this very moment. He needed to end the fight with Rick as soon as possible. Bowser ran to Rick and was about to punch him clear across the temple, but Rick quickly countered him and ended up jump kicking him and bashing his body into the ground.

Bowser coughed twice and stood up from the ground weakly. Rick walked over to him and was about to fry Bowser with his breath, but Bowser swiped his claws on the ground twice and mutilated Rick's feet. Rick started to shout, "OW!" repeatedly while hopping on one foot over and over again. Bowser grabbed Rick with his Koopa Klaw move and realized that the only way to beat Rick quickly enough was to transform into Giga Bowser, but he was too weak to do that now. So he decided to make up his own special combo fighting tactic. It started out with Bowser unleashing his Koopa Klaw and biting his opponent several times in the face, which is what he did to Rick. Then he kneed Rick four times in the groin and abdomen and started head butting Rick several times. Lastly, Bowser stomped on Rick mangled foot and punched Rick in the jaw 12 times as quickly as he could, knocking out four teeth. Bowser let go of Rick and let his body fall to the floor. However, the second that Rick stood up, Bowser let out a ferocious roar and jump kicked Rick right in the face with both of his feet, leaving red footprints on his cheeks and knocking out another tooth.

Rick was launched clear across the temple, smashing through four columns and crashing into a pile of sharp rocks and broken tables and stones. The impact made a loud crashing noise which ended with a soft clatter of stone that fell from the ceiling. Bowser slowly walked over to Rick and saw his frail body lying on the ground. He was bleeding heavily and his whole face had been scratched up by the combo move that Bowser just did. He was finished. Bowser walked over Rick and kicked him in the face, rolling his body over. Bowser crouched down and looked at Rick's face, trying to see if there was some sort of "identity" to him. Rick was lying on his back, whimpering like a helpless dog or some sort of beaten animal. He wasn't…pure in Bowser's eyes. To him, Rick was just a thing. They looked the same (well, their "palette" color was different) but otherwise, they looked exactly alike. But Bowser thought Rick was nothing but a nuisance. Hell, his name wasn't even Rick; he's just a genetic copy of a real being that possess an actual soul. Rick was just another robot off the assembly line.

Bowser decided to put Rick…or Dopel1875 out of his misery and stomped on his throat with his right foot, crushing his trachea and neck, causing Rick to spit blood out of his mouth and choke. Rick continued to gag for a couple of seconds until he made a loud death rattle and his eyes rolled to the back of his head. Bowser's clone was dead. Bowser stepped off Rick's neck and slowly strolled his way to one of the broken walls. He hoisted himself on the edge of the opening and threw his body outside, landing in a pile of dirt. Bowser sneezed and stood back up, looking up into the sky. It was dark grey and the wind was blowing cold air in his face. Bowser still had no idea where he was at all, but wherever he was, it looked gloomy.

"I gotta get back to my castle." muttered Bowser.

Bowser turned around and his eyes grew wide at what he saw. Hundreds--thousands of different palette colored Bowser clones were standing behind him, forming a little army. All of them looked fierce and prepared for battle, ready to beat Bowser to a bloody pulp. After Bowser stared for a couple of seconds, all of his clones smiled devilishly, revealing a set of razor sharp white teeth with a little drool seeping out the corner of their mouths. Some of them even cracked their knuckles.

"Oh, shit." said Bowser meekly.

Just when Bowser took a step back, he made a loud rambling noise while his head violently jerked left and right. Someone approached him from behind and zapped him with a powerful electrical attack. Bowser groaned and fell on his belly, unconscious. One of the Bowser clones walked up to the subdued koopa and was about to fry him with his fire breath, but the dark figure that stunned Bowser stopped the clone.

"No, don't kill him yet."

"But Master…isn't that why we were sent--"

"We can still use him as…leverage. I think I just found a way to kill two birds with one stone…or in this case, four birds."

The dark figure laughed evilly and gazed down at Bowser's body.

"Put him on the spaceship."

One of Bowser's clones grunted and lifted Bowser, carrying him above his right shoulder and walking onto a high-tech flying battleship similar to the Subspace Gunship or the Halberd. All of Bowser's other clones followed him along with the dark figure, making sure that they sealed the platform that lead to the cargo compartment of the battleship. Then the engines activated and the gunship slowly began to rise up into the sky, disappearing beyond the gray darkness like it was never there.