Techno Brawling
A/N: Fuckin' A, I cannot believe I haven't updated this story in over a year. …I gotta start working on my Fanfiction stories more. Anyway, here's the chapter. As always, enjoy.
Iggy's left eye began to glow brightly. He was about to shoot an intense beam at the plumber brothers through his eye, which would kill them instantly.
"LUIGI! MOVE!"
Iggy roared loudly as his eye fired a laser beam right at Mario and Luigi. The plumbers each gasped as the laser nearly reached them, but at the last second, grunted and hopped into the air, the laser continuing down its path and cutting through a tree. Luigi jumped higher than Mario (as always) so it didn't take long before Mario started to fall. The laser was still going and he knew if he fell down, he'd be dead. Luigi thrusted through the air with his special Green Missile move and, although wounding him in the process, knocked Mario out of the laser's range. Eventually, they both fell to the ground just when the laser stopped.
"Damn, I think this guy's gonna be harder than I thought."
Iggy laughed again and rushed over to Luigi with lightning speed, punching him in the stomach with his metal fist before roundhouse kicking him in the cheek. He jumped into the air and attempted to stomp his head into mush, but he rolled out of the way in the nick of time. Luigi kicked him in the stomach and quickly stood up, twirling himself around and performing his Luigi Cyclone attack. As the metallic koopa was hurled into the air, Mario rushed over and did the Super Jump Punch, earning a few coins in the process and tossing the koopa higher in the air. However, being half-metal, he fell down quicker than a normal koopa would, slamming into the ground and making another crater. He snarled and looked back up at the Mario Bros. before holding out his metal fingers at them. He grunted for a few seconds before the fingers shot off his hand and was sent flying towards the Mario brothers, as though they were missiles.
"What the fu—"
Mario pushed Luigi out the way before he ducked and the missiles collided with the side of a house, creating a thunderous explosion that shook the ground and shot fire and smoke into the air. After coughing and hacking and trying to find each other through the smoke, they ducked again once debris started to fall and clatter to the ground, some of which nearly flattened them like pancakes. Before either of them could react, Iggy ran…ran, Mario didn't even see him run up to him. But he did feel Iggy's fist launch into his solar plexus, and he felt his foot whacking against his neck, and he felt his half-flesh, half-metal skull pound against his own and send him hurling backwards a few yards. Luigi had no time to help Mario and went all out on Iggy, punching him four times in the head before charging up and performing a smash attack, sending Iggy back a few feet. If Luigi actually hit him on the fleshy part of his body, and not the metal section, perhaps he would've dealt more damage. Instead, he hurt his hand and only gave Iggy a minor injury.
"OW!" he shouted.
Iggy, with his insane scientific and magical creations, had invented an attack that was built into his new body, something similar to teleportation. First off, he punched Luigi in the face. Then he teleported faster than Luigi could blink and he was behind him. He kicked him in the butt, tossing him into the air, before teleporting into the air and slamming into his stomach again after making a giant fist with both hands. Before falling, Iggy kicked him in the back—spine to be more specific—and kicked him in the back of the head again. From that point on, it was just pure bashing and kicking until the reptile noticed Luigi was bleeding and looked like he had bruises all over his body. Only eleven seconds had passed, and Luigi had been struck 30 times. Iggy finished off his attack with another roar and shooting off his metal hand like it was a fist, hitting Luigi in the stomach. The rocket boost packed into the fist carried the plumber through the air, until he crashed into the guarding station Fice T. was usually stationed at. And like magic, another replaceable metal fist emerged from inside his metal arm to take its place, as though he never lost the hand at all.
"Damn, this guy is tougher than I thought!"
Mario felt a bowling ball land on his shoulder and turned around to see Iggy…only, his shell was red, and not blue. The red Iggy greeted him by performing a smash attack, veering his head back and slamming it into Mario's chin, launching him next to the pipe leading to Toad Town Sewers.
"What the hell? There's two of 'em now!"
The battle was even now, at least in Iggy's eyes, but Luigi was already wounded by the last attack he delivered, so it was more like 2 against 1 and a half. But it could be worse. At least they weren't going against an army of them all at once, and they were in a better position than Bowser or Diddy Kong and his uncle were in. They just had to avoid their weapon-oriented attacks and that laser that came out of their eyes and they'd be okay. Red Iggy laughed maniacally and pointed his arm at Mario, watching as it transformed into a flamethrower in mere seconds. Mario yelped and started running along the sidewalk as the flames whooshed behind his tracks, creating a short fire that turned all the grass into tiny, black particles that could be destroyed by a raindrop. Red Iggy stopped his attack and transformed his arm back into its natural, metal form before he ran over to Mario and attacked. He quickly resorted to his only option and threw a fireball at him, but it did no damage; apparently Red Iggy had some pyro upgrade, which would explain the color, and his use of the flamethrower and his invincibility to fire. Luigi, unfortunately, was dealing with Blue Iggy, an Iggy who had a machine gun installed in his arm. Once Luigi saw his arm transform into what looked like a high powered gatling gun, he groaned loudly and got to his feet. The bullets shot out at an astronomically high rate, piercing through the earth and kicking up mounds of dirt and grass with ease. Luigi hopped over the river and started running over towards the pipe leading to the sewers, before jumping into the air, watching as Blue Iggy's bullets tried to hit him. However, they were always two inches or so short of nicking his shoes and leg. The bullets suddenly stopped and Blue Iggy heard his gun jam. He grunted questionably before swearing and desperately trying to start his gun back up. Luigi took the opportunity to run up to the koopa and whack him in the nose, breaking it, before kicking him in the abdomen. While down, Luigi grabbed him and twirled his body around before letting him fly, his body crashing through a tree.
Meanwhile, Mario was having difficulty handling Red Iggy, since his flamethrower had infinite energy. With no way to counter the attack, Mario did the next best thing: disabled the weapon. Everytime Red Iggy activated his flamethrower, a small red light would turn on near his shoulder. Mario quickly jumped to the roof of Tayce T.'s house and waited for Red Iggy to follow. Before he even had time to plant his feet on the roof, Mario kicked him in his fleshy shin, causing him to shout and get to his knee. While down, Mario jumped high into the air and stomped on Red Iggy's arm, cracking the light on his shoulder and permanently destroying the flamethrower. Red Iggy looked at his arm and snarled viciously before jerking his head back over to Mario. He jumped into the air, twirling his body around twice in an effort to kick him in the face, but Mario grabbed his leg and slammed him down to the roof, shortly before letting out a cry and stomping on his torso. Red Iggy groaned and coughed up a fair amount of saliva before Mario was going to grab him again. Only, as he bent down to pick him up, he let out a strained cry when something began to apply pressure to his throat. Out of nowhere, a Green Iggy jumped onto the roof and grabbed Mario. However, half of his body wasn't machine, and looked more like it was made of grass or a bundle of vines packed closely together like Ramen noodles. His left arm was made of said vines, and they could extend themselves several feet long like a rope. Green Iggy decided to save a fellow clone in need, and he used his vine arm as a garrote, which was currently wrapped around the plumber's throat, slowly draining away his air supply. Green Iggy yanked hard on his vines and dragged Mario back a couple of steps, allowing Red Iggy to recover and rise to his feet. Mario tried to fight against the restraints, but Green Iggy merely tightened his weeds, and the plumber fell to his knees. Red Iggy laughed malicious and grinned widely before he started punching the human in the face with both fists, giving him a bloody nose. His face was beginning to turn red and it looked as though he was about to pass out.
Elsewhere, it seemed that Luigi was handling Blue Iggy quite well, doing a three hit combo involving punching Blue Iggy in the face before thrusting his buttocks at him, his common attack. Blue Iggy blocked an attack by grabbing his fist with his metal hand, before he began to squeeze the fist real hard, making Luigi yelp and whine as he tried to break free of his grip. As he tried to evade the attack, he noticed Blue Iggy smile widely and his eye began to glow again. Luigi punched him in the face before grabbing his chin and jerking his head upwards, inevitably causing the beam to shoot up into the clouds. The plumber waited until the beam was gone before he kicked Blue Iggy in the groin and did a breakdancing sweepkick move, hurling Blue Iggy over to the damaged tree. Blue Iggy opened up his metal fist again and fired off his missile fingers, narrowly missing Luigi once he hopped into the air. But it was all a useful diversion, as Blue Iggy hopped into the air and jump-kicked Luigi straight to the ground, grabbing him by his legs after he fell before picking up his entire body and slamming him against the ground twice like a rag doll. Before he had a chance to do it a third time, Luigi tossed a green fireball in Blue Iggy's face, making his shout out loud and cover the wound.
Mario was on the verge of death, nearly too woozy to fight anymore, when he looked up at Red Iggy and noticed his eye was glowing too, ready to fire the devastating and most certainly fatal laser. Mario glanced down at the vines garroting him and wanted to slap a palm against his forehead. The vines were part of Green Iggy's arm, which meant he could still feel some form of pain in them. Mario opened his mouth and bit down on the lush green extensions, making Green Iggy scream and swear, loosening his grip around his throat. Mario inhaled sharply before clutching the vine. He grunted with effort and threw the vine over his head, tossing Green Iggy over his own body and down onto Red Iggy. The resulting crash lead to Red Iggy inadvertently blasting his laser through the roof and down into Tayce T.'s house. The entire roof caved in and all three occupants fell to the ground floor. Mario coughed several times before wiping the soot from his face and dumping all the dust and debris from his cap, sneezing and putting his trademark headgear back on.
"Tayce is going to kill me for this…"
"Not if I do it first!" snarled Green Iggy.
The earth koopa rose from the ground and started swinging at Mario, before uncoiling his vines and whacking them at Mario like they were a whip, leaving a huge mark on his cheek. The lush koopa did it again, this time ripping through the fabric of his clothes. The third chance didn't come though, as Mario grabbed a frying pan and whacked Green Iggy in the face with it, twice. Dazed and hearing birds tweeting in his ears, Mario grabbed Green Iggy's vines and shoved them into the garbage disposal, flicking the switch on.
"What the—"
Green Iggy shouted as he was slowly being sucked in, shortly before it turned into blood curdling screams and he was being sprayed in the face with the chopped up bits of vine and "blood" spewing from his arm. He wouldn't be getting out for a while, not with his artificial arm intact, anyway. That just left Red Iggy, who was still a little wounded by the fall. Red Iggy shook his head and got on his hands and knees, just in time for Mario to uppercut him. While in the air, the plumber jump-kicked Red Iggy in the gut, his body sent flying out the glass window with a loud crash. He quickly hopped out the broken window and rejoined his brother, who was busy battling Blue Iggy. Only, he was losing again. Blue Iggy transformed his metal arm into a special, crafty shotgun that blasted large shells that were capable of making a hole in a concrete wall that was three feet thick. Although the shells were rather easy to dodge, blue Iggy fired them rather quickly and Luigi's speed was beginning to dwindle with all the damage he took in the past.
"This isn't working bro!" shouted Luigi, as he ducked to avoid another shotgun blast.
"I know! We gotta find a way to use their attacks—"
Mario jumped into the air to avoid one of Blue Iggy's blasts.
"—their attacks against each other!"
"How!"
Just then, Red Iggy appeared to join in on the fun, carrying a large plank in his hands; it must've been a broken part of Tayce's roof. However, this proved to be a major advantage, because if they timed it right, the Mario Bros. could use the plank and shotgun against each other. Mario baited Red Iggy and Luigi baited Blue Iggy and the next thing they knew, all four of them were within inches away from the other. Luigi punched Blue Iggy in the face twice before jabbing his fingers at him, poking him in the eyes. Simultaneously, Red Iggy was being punched in the face by Mario. When the plumber turned around and noticed Blue Iggy was stunned, he ducked when Red Iggy attacked with his plank. Unfortunately, the plank only hit Blue Iggy, smacking him across his metal temple.
"That's how." chuckled Mario.
Blue Iggy quickly recovered from the attack and stood up, jump-kicking Luigi in the face. But at the last second, Mario tripped Luigi and ducked himself, and the metal foot only made contact with Red Iggy's plank, the hunk of wood shattering in half. Mario grabbed Blue Iggy by his other leg and threw him clear across the field, his body hitting the sewer pipe. But Red still wasn't out yet, and had a few more tricks up his sleeve. Because of his fire upgrade, he could easily exhale fire breath like his father Bowser. He inhaled sharply before belching out an endless of flames from his mouth. Mario quickly shielded himself to avoid the heat before he stared at Red Iggy and noticed his flames were beginning to dwindle, and now nothing was coming out but acrid smoke. Red Iggy began to cough violently; he wasn't completely used to his fire upgrade, and Mario made it worse when he kicked him in the throat and grabbed his trachea, hurling his body behind him. Blue Iggy blocked one of Luigi's attacks and charged up his shotgun. He snickered evilly and locked onto the back of Mario's head, ready to blast his brains apart. Luigi saw the attack and got off the ground.
"NO!" he screamed, kicking Blue Iggy in his metal arm.
Blue Iggy fired his weapon, but his aim was off a few inches, and Mario heard the shot and quickly ducked to avoid the impact. Red Iggy, unfortunately, didn't. The shell smashed against his temple and face, obliterating a majority of the metal side of his head and maiming part of the face as well. Red Iggy didn't yell or scream, just moved backwards a few feet as he coughed blood and broken metal shards from his mouth. With a couple of miniature explosions in his cranium, he fell on his face and died, his red eye dimming until it was black and inactive.
"HA! That's one down!" said Luigi triumphantly.
Mario was about to comment as well, but he felt an electrical surge soar throughout his entire body, a surge nearly strong enough to fry his hair. Lucky for him, it was nowhere near that lethal, but he couldn't stop fidgeting and jolting around for a few seconds. It turns out another Iggy clone, this one yellow and with an electricity upgrade, had attacked Mario. Like the other Iggy's, half of his body wasn't flesh, and made of metal. But for some reason, Yellow Iggy was radiant with power, and his metal body and hair shined bright yellow, almost like lightning.
"ARGH! We just got rid of one! OW!" shouted Luigi when Blue Iggy grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his back.
"Just remember what I said: make them go against each other!"
Of course, their problems didn't stop there, and Mario looked over at Tayce T.'s house to find Green Iggy emerging from the rubble, charging towards him. His vine arm looked completely destroyed though. However, Mario noticed that it was quickly regenerating, and the arm would soon be intact and ready for whipping. And if that wasn't bad enough, behind him was an electric koopa who was capable of shocking him to the point where his urine would evaporate before it even left his bladder. Then again, he thought about using their abilities against each other. He heard Yellow Iggy let out a crackling laugh before raising his electric arm and somehow, summoned a lightning bolt, as though he were Zeus. Mario yelped once Yellow Iggy threw the bolt, and as a result, it hit Green Iggy in the chest. He didn't die, but the bolt was strong enough to inflict a serious amount of damage and create an explosion that sent his body backwards. Mario went over to Yellow Iggy and kicked him in the face. Then he screamed and gibbered once the current soared through his body. Yellow Iggy was electric all over; perhaps he ate a Volt Shroom, or made a potion where he was permanently electric. All Mario knew was that regular attacks wouldn't do any damage. Ah well, he still had half a plank of wood to whack him against the head with, thanks to Blue Iggy smashing it. Mario grabbed the hunk of wood and began to battle with Yellow Iggy, who transformed his left arm into a mysterious and deadly lightning sword. Both of them were whacking their weapons together like they were actual swords. Mario whacked the electric sword away and hit Yellow Iggy in the face twice before performing a smash attack. Sadly, it wasn't as powerful as a home-run bat, but it was good enough. It'd be lovely if a wayward bat or beam sword fell from the sky though…
The smash attack was capable of sending Yellow Iggy several yards across the fields, hitting and destroying a section of the train station that traveled to Mt. Rugged. Green Iggy tried to flank Mario, but he jerked his body around and blocked all of his attacks. He was using his partially maimed vines as a whip again, only they made no contact on Mario's flesh and simply left giant marks in the hunk of wood he used as a shield. Mario side-stepped the lush koopa and smacked him across the face and torso before jumping into the air and slamming his shoe into his ear. Green Iggy shouted and fell to his knees before lashing his vine at Mario's leg, making him scream and drop the plank of wood. He used this to his advantage and wrapped what was left of his vine arm around Mario's throat again like a garrote, slowly sucking the life out of him. Meanwhile, Blue Iggy saw what had happened and decided to assist his clone, since he currently had his metal foot on Luigi's throat. He smiled again as his artificial eye glowed and the laser prepared to activate. Green Iggy saw what his plans were, and stood Mario up so he was in the line of fire. As Blue Iggy roared and fired the laser, Mario stomped on Green Iggy's foot and stunned him. Coughing loudly, he took a few steps forward with the vines still wrapped around his neck, but at the same time, Green Iggy moved forward, and was right in the path of the beam. Green Iggy turned to his left and looked at the beam before grunting when it slammed into side. The beam carried Green Iggy clear across the fields until he slammed into a tree, his vines snapping off and giving Mario his freedom. Green Iggy screamed horribly as the laser continued to surge through his body until he finally exploded, his body practically incinerated. When the smoke cleared, not even tree was left, and nothing fell from the sky but half of Green Iggy's metal face, and a few burnt limbs from the tree.
"WHEW! Just two more! You holding up okay bro?" asked Mario.
Luigi was twirling Blue Iggy around by his legs before letting go and watching his body soar into the sky, landing inside the post office. With him out of commission, the only Iggy left was Yellow Iggy, who came back for more and was battling with Mario again. Of course, since Luigi took care of his Iggy (temporarily) he assisted his brother and started swords fighting with Yellow Iggy too, making sure he used a plank of wood. Yellow Iggy grunted as he slashed his lightning sword at the plumber brothers, but it was all a useless attempt, as they blocked his attacks. Yellow Iggy tried shooting a lightning bolt at them, but Mario simply shielded his face with the wood, and while Yellow Iggy attacked, Luigi whacked him across the head with the plank of wood. He shook his head and turned around to strike Luigi with his the lightning sword, but he blocked it again, and Mario whacked him in the head when his back was turned. Yellow Iggy screamed with frustration and powered up his sword, striking it vertically upward and cutting right through Luigi's board. He watched as the board shattered in front of him and laughed nervously as Yellow Iggy was seconds away from cutting through his flesh. Mario swiped his board at Yellow Iggy's legs to distract him momentarily before Luigi bent down and picked up a thin piece of the broken plank. He jammed it into the koopa's artificial eye, forcing him to scream and jerk around like he was having a seizure. His left eye was also a portion of his brain and electronic configuration, so when Luigi stabbed him, it didn't take long for his brain to fail and his electric gizmos to go haywire and creating a series of tiny explosions. Mario and Luigi ran away from Yellow Iggy as his head began to pop and spew smoke, and the koopa clone let out another scream before half of his head blew up completely. Mario and Luigi sighed heavily and sat down as they watched Yellow Iggy fall to the ground with smoke coming out of his maimed corpse.
"Okay…so all we gotta do now is deal with the real Iggy, and we're done here." said Mario.
The plumber brother panted as they ran to the center of the city and noticed that Iggy had actually been thrown through the post office building, and was busy crawling his way out in pain. He coughed up a little blood before standing on his feet, his knees wobbling.
"Alright Iggy, we've taken out your clones. Tell us what's been going on and perhaps we won't break your metal jaw. Sound fair?"
Iggy laughed hoarsely before coughing up a little more blood.
"So…you took out my clones. Doesn't matter…doesn't matter—he can just make more!"
"He?" said Mario.
"More?" shouted Luigi.
"As many as the eye can see! But you won't stop it. You can't stop it!"
"Iggy, what are you talking about?"
Iggy laughed maniacally before chucking a smoke bomb at his feet, creating a giant black cloud that blinded Mario and Luigi for several seconds. After the smoke cleared and they were done coughing and wheezing, the Mario Bros. noticed that Iggy was gone without a trace.
"COUGH! More clones? What do you think he was talking about bro?"
Mario sighed and shook his head. "I don't know, but if whoever he's referring to can make more clones of Iggy, there's a chance he can make clones of the Brawlers. And if he can do that and turn them evil…"
"Shit, this whole universe is doomed!"
"We gotta do something now."