Clash of the Smashers

Chapter Five: Mystical, Manic, Magic Mayhem!

Following the defeat of the childish Baby Bowser and the death of the exceedingly annoying Yoshi, the nine remaining Smashers charged into the next room of Bowser's castle, lead by a strangely furious Mario.

Inside the next chamber, which was mostly identical to the first as in it was a massive dungeon like place with torches high on the fifty foot tall walls. However this chamber had four holes in the floor at each corner of the room. The holes were about four feet long and wide, they were perfect squares and they led to a ten-foot drop that ended abruptly in a bubbling pool of lava.

The Smashers all entered on the left side of the rectangular chamber that was about one hundred feet long and fifty feet wide. At the other end of the room were several groups of Koopas draped in long robes that covered their entire bodies. They also had thick glasses on and each one carried a wand, similar to the one Baby Bowser used, but smaller. Each of these Magikoopas had different colored cloaks. The colors were: Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, Gray and White. Behind them were seven large Koopas, bigger then the average size but smaller then Bowser.

"Oh…dear…this isn't good," Bario said quietly.

"What? What isn't good?" Raichu asked,"What are those things?"

The Smashers lined up but kept their ears open as they were listening to Bario's description.

"Well…the cloaked Koopas are a powerful brand of Koopas called Magikoopas, meaning they're proficient in magic abilities. Each one has an attack where they can shoot from their wands a blast of magic but the different colored robes also mean that they have different specialties. Red means they can cast a spell on themselves or allies that temporarily increases attack…Green is the same only for defense, Yellow means they can create electrical fields around allies, White means they can heal, Gray means they can become invisible like Boos and Blue means they can do all that with more power."

As for the Koopas behind them, those are the Koopalings, Bowser's children. Their names are Larry, Morton, Wendy, Iggy, Roy, Lemmy and Ludwig. They are definitely tougher then normal Koopas, but I'm not to sure what they can do," as Bario named off the Koopalings he also pointed to each one so the Smashers would know who they are.
The Smashers were not surprised by Bario's incredible amount of knowledge as he apparently had studied about practically every enemy…ever.

There were five groups of six Magikoopas, each group had all six types in them and they were spaced around the Koopalings. The largest and oldest Koopaling, the one called Ludwig had large tufts of blue hair sticking out of the side of his head and a kind of crazy grin. He had the classic spiked shell that most strong Koopas had. Ludwig spoke.

"GWA HA HA! You fools…you may have killed my father's youthful incarnation…although if you killed him…then that means my dad is dead…meaning that we never existed and…AAAHHHH! Too much thinking!"

"Told you time-traveling was dumb!" shouted Larry, the youngest and smallest, with a mohawk of blue hair.

"Silence!" Ludwig shouted back, "That's unimportant! What IS important is taking out these Smashers…or at least that's what dad says…anyways Magikoopas…ATTACK!"

At his command the Magikoopas raised their wands and walked forward. They then proceeded to shoot off magical spell blasts at the Smashers. The attack spell they cast was a spinning multi-colored combination of a triangle, circle and square, also known as the "Random Geometric Shapes" attack. Thirty of these powerful spells flew toward the Smashers.

"MOVE!" Bario ordered the other Smashers.

They all quickly dodged the assault although the command wasn't necessary for Mario as he rolled under the attack, pulled out his hammer and charged for the Magikoopas.

The Yellow ones cast electrical spells on their nearby allies, the Greens powered up the other Magikoopas defense while the Reds increased their attack. The Grays, Blues and Whites all backed off and let the other fifteen do battle.

Mario flung his hammer at an electrified Red one, hitting it in the head and knocking it out of the fight. He shot a fireball at one of the Green ones as he jumped over and retrieved his hammer but a Yellow one hit him with a spell, temporarily knocking him down.

"Help him!" Bario commanded.

The other Smashers barely noticed that Bario was slowly becoming the leader of their group…and they didn't care as they dashed forward to assist Mario.
"Ah…yes…the cheese is strong with you!" Meta declared as he sliced a Green Magikoopa.

Diddy ducked a random spell and smacked a Magikoopa with his tail while shooting at two other ones with his peanut guns. Link and Samus of course were cutting and shooting, complementing each other well while Kirby smashed and Bario slashed.

Raichu was also dashing and shocking and the Smashers were becoming an excellent team. Some of them were hit and the powered up Magikoopas were pretty tough…but Raichu quite easily dealt with the Magikoopas…actually absorbing the electrical field around some of them and using it to increase his power.

Soon most of the Red, Green and Yellow Magikoopa were incapacitated. However the other fifteen seemed remarkably calm while the Koopalings just seemed to be enjoying the show as they leaned on the wall.

"Something's wrong…," Falco said.

Suddenly the White Magikoopas cast their healing magic on their fallen friends and they were all restored to tip-top fighting shape.

"That's not good," Raichu said.

"Not good? That is so not fair!" Falco responded

"Take out the White ones first! Otherwise we'll never beat the rest!" Bario yelled.

Mario, Meta and Link ran to the White Magikoopas. The Magikoopas shot their spell blasts at them but the three fighters evaded them. The Blue Magikoopas seemed to not care as they just walked over to the Koopalings. The Gray ones however turned themselves invisible.
"YAH!" Link screamed as he stabbed at a White Magikoopa as soon as he was in range.

The creature took the stab head on and was killed. However before Link could repeat the process an invisible Magikoopa hit him with a spell blast.

"Yes! Let the pointiness flow through you!" Meta said as he sliced and killed another White Magikoopa.

However he was also blasted by a Gray one, knocking the slightly insanified Smasher down.

Mario slammed a White Magikoopa with his hammer, also killing the surprisingly weak creature. Two of the six Gray Magikoopas tried to blast him, but he reflected their attacks with his cape. They were hit and knocked to the ground, losing control of their invisibility. He then proceeded to smash them into itty bitty little pieces with his hammer.

Meanwhile Bario and the other five Smashers were battling with the rejuvenated Yellow, Red and Green Magikoopas. Bario swung his sword and managed to use it to block a magic spell. He then jumped at a Green Magikoopa and sliced it with so much force that even though it had powered up defense it was cut in half.
"Heh…take that!" he said, as he prepared to kill another one.

Diddy used his jetpack to fly over three Magikoopas that were attempting to blast him. Their spells missed him and hit each other. He then used his peanut gun to take them out. However another Magikoopa managed to get behind him and shot him from behind hitting him in the head. He fell to the ground and hit hard, barely able to stay conscious as the Red Magikoopa moved in for the kill…

Raichu vaporized a Magikoopa with a more powerful electric attack he called Thunderbolt…but it took a bit out of him and he took a second to catch his breath. He noticed Diddy lying on the ground, the Magikoopa about to attack him and a surprising rage flowed through him. He already lost his fiancé and Yoshi…he wasn't going to lose another friend. He dashed super fast at the Magikoopa and hit it from behind, knocking it over. As it struggled to get up he blasted it with his Thunderbolt and this time it stayed down.

Kirby and Falco were now taking turns keeping the Magikoopas back as they stood back to back. Falco shot them and when they tried to blast him, he activated his Reflector sending the attack back. Somehow Kirby managed to eat a Magikoopa and he was using their basic spell to keep them back…

Samus dodged one of the attacks and dismissively sent a missile at a Magikoopa. It was blown up, as were two more right after that by more missiles. A powered up Magikoopa hit her with a spell, causing more damage then she was expecting so she rolled into her ball form to escape temporarily.

Link got up to his feet and angrily used his spin attack, by whirling his sword around him at a high speed catching two of the Gray Magikoopas and a White one which cut them severely, causing them to die. He then shot out his Hookshot and grabbed one of the last White Magikoopas and threw it up in the air. As it came down he sliced it three times in the air and it fell down and lay unmoving.

Meta skillfully dodged the spell assault of the last two Gray Magikoopas and then, now knowing where they were he flew over and slashed them, quickly causing them to cease living. The last White Magikoopa tried to heal his allies but they were too DEAD for it to work and Meta Knight soon ended his life.

"Another day…another fantastic Doughnut!" he yelled as he spun his sword around.

Bario finished off the last Red Magikoopa as Raichu tried to help Diddy stand up.

"Thanks…for saving me," Diddy slowly said.

"It was nothing! I couldn't just leave you there!" Raichu told him, "Are you okay?"
"I'm good, just stunned…I can stand," Diddy told him.

While leaning on Raichu Diddy managed to get up.

"Just give me a second to get my bearings back and I'll be okay," Diddy said.

Mario, Meta and Link rejoined the other Smashers and together they faced the Koopalings and the six Blue Magikoopas.

"Alright you scum…bring it!" Falco said to the Koopalings.

Wendy, the only female Koopaling, was about Larry's size but bald, although she wore a red polka dotted bow to try and pretend that she wasn't bald, just giggled.

"Heh…that funny bird wants to fight…oh well…kill them," she told the Magikoopas.

They raised their wands. Expecting another spell attack the Smashers were surprised as the Magikoopas cast a Power up and Defense up on themselves…and then became invisible.

"Samus! Use your Echo Visor!" Bario said.

Samus nodded but before she could get it activated the Blue Magikoopas shot six Spell Blasts at her. She tried to dodge, but they were to fast and the strong attacks slammed into her, knocking her unconscious.

"That isn't good," Diddy said as he finally looked ready to fight again.

The powered up Blues then tried to do the same thing to Bario, but Mario jumped in the way and reflected with his cape, somehow the Blue Magikoopas managed to avoid their own reflected attacks. Bario however noticed where one of the spells came from and dashed forward and slashed in that general area, killing one of the Blues. Mario shot off several fireballs that impacted on all five of the Blue Magikoopa but, using superior magic skills they managed to prevent any damage from being done. However that caused them to lose control of their invisibility.

Diddy ran at one shooting repeatedly with his peanut gun and then beated it into submission with his tail. The four remaining Magikoopas, knowing they couldn't possibly win went on an all out freak-out attack, shooting spell after spell at the Smashers. However Falco used his Reflector while Link blocked with his shield and Mario utilized his cape. The others just dodged except of course for unconscious Samus. With their own attacks reflected back the Blue Magikoopas eventually died. The Koopalings seemed quite upset by this.

"What?! Shoot! Now we'll have to fight you. Fighting is SO boring!" said Lemmy, a smallish Koopaling with eyes that pointed in different directions and spiky rainbow colored hair. He was riding on top of a green ball with yellow stars, which actually doubled his height.

"Alright! I'm going to beat these weaklings UP!" shouted Roy, the second largest Koopaling, with a red bald head, and sunglasses that he figured made him look cool.

"Oh…I am REALLY not ready for this," moaned Iggy, another small Koopaling with spiky rainbow hair and thick glasses.

"Fighting is fun! I like fighting! La la la! Pudding is cool…but not as cool as me because…," rambled Morton, a Koopaling who looked very similar to Roy, but he was a little smaller and had a white bald head.

"Fine! We'll fight you and win!" Bario claimed.

"Excellent! One Koopaling for each Smasher!" Ludwig said with evil joy, as Samus was still unconscious.

"Obviously you can't count! There are eight of us to only seven of you!" Raichu said.

"You're not counting THAT guy are you?" Larry inquired as he pointed at Meta who was standing over by the entrance not moving. The Smashers looked at him for several seconds until he just fell over for no reason.
"Uh…okay one to one sounds good," Bario said.

The Smashers lined up figuring that one-to-one matches would probably be more organized then a crazy brawl. Kirby faced Roy; Link challenged Morton, Falco to Lemmy, Wendy to Diddy, Iggy to Raichu, Bario to Larry and Mario prepared to battle Ludwig.

"Gwa ha ha! You foolish Smashers won't be able to-AGH!" Ludwig started to say before Mario charged at him. The battle was on!

Ludwig side-stepped Mario's mad charge, but Mario was a clever plumber and he quickly stopped and turned around. As the other fighters spread out through the massive room, avoiding Samus who was still unconscious, Meta who was kind of creepy and the four pools of lava Mario pulled out his hammer as Ludwig shot a fireball at him. Mario deflected it back with his hammer but Ludwig just took the blow without any visible reaction. Mario was pretty surprised as he stopped his attack for a second.

"Gwa ha ha! I have learned since previous battles and toughened up; I am completely fire resistant Mario! GWA HA HA!" Ludwig laughed repeatedly, seemingly not realizing that telling your opponent why the attack was ineffective is really dumb and arrogant.
It didn't take long though for Mario to renew his hammer powered charge. He ducked under another fireball and swung his hammer into Ludwig's head. Ludwig was obviously experiencing some pain as he winced. It didn't seem to affect his strength though as he let off a powerful clawed swipe that might have taken Mario's head off if he didn't jump over it. Mario came down, expecting to crash into Ludwig's head but with a surprising burst of speed for one so large, Ludwig dodged it. This could be difficult…

Bario avoided Larry's speedy spiky shell, as Larry spun around trying to hit him. Bario side-stepped another pass and then as Larry turned around to do it again Bario smacked him with the flat of his blade. Larry was jostled roughly in his shell and popped out very disoriented. Bario stabbed towards Larry's head but Larry suddenly fell to the ground and swiped at Bario's legs, cutting them with superficial slashes and causing him to fall over…

Kirby avoided a POWERFUL punch from Roy, but then Roy took a tiny hop and his massive girth created a small shockwave when he landed, stunning Kirby. Roy then was able to land one of his punches on the tiny pink puffball and he was sent flying back. He managed to get a hold of himself and he sucked in a large quantity of air, allowing him to float around. He floated over the confused Roy and then became a very heavy rock. He came plummeting down about to slam into Roy's head…but he was stopped abruptly. Confused, it took Kirby a second to realize that his heavy rock form was being held up by Roy. Roy had managed to catch Kirby and, by using incredible strength prevented Kirby from hitting him. Roy then tossed Kirby on the ground, causing him to revert back to normal state as Roy loomed over…

Diddy shot several peanuts at Wendy but she deflected them by going into her shell. As Diddy tried to come up with a new plan, Wendy popped out of her shell and suddenly took off some of the bracelets on her hands and threw them into the air. They quickly became large round circular energy rings.

"That's not good!" Diddy exclaimed as the rings floated over his head.

Wendy made a downward motion with her hands and the two rings floated down…but didn't touch Diddy. He looked around him in confusion as the rings just hovered around him, one at leg height and the other at neck height. Wendy just giggled and made another hand motion…and the rings started to contract. Diddy leaped up right before the rings slammed together, which would have probably killed him. As Diddy fell to the ground, preparing to make this a hand-to-tail combat Wendy summoned some pretty solid candy rings, although they weren't glowing energy things…they were probably going to hurt. She shot three at Diddy…

Lemmy skillfully rolled around on his ball avoiding Falco's shots. Falco activated the Fire Falco device and he was surrounded by flames. Using the second feature of his fancy technology he shot off at an extremely high speed. However before he made contact with Lemmy he was hit twice by…big bouncy balls? Yes Lemmy was somehow creating big balls like the one he was riding on…and throwing them. However they were much more solid then they looked and this hurt Falco. The Fire Falco attack ended as Falco tried to dodge the attacks…and build up some energy for the Reflector…

Raichu shot an electric ball at Iggy. Iggy was hit and suffered some damage, but he pulled out a wand similar to the Magikoopas and shot off three expanding rings. Raichu ducked under them and ran up to Iggy and shocked him again. Iggy smacked him with the wand but then had to stop and catch his breath…

Link ducked Morton's wild swings as he babbled on about being the best Koopaling. Suddenly Link used his sword to block a punch, severely cutting Morton.
"AGH! My hand! You cut my hand! That hurts! It is painful! I am in AGONY! Ouch!" Morton yammered.

"YAH!" Link cried as he slammed the distracted Koopa with his shield. He flew back, as Link was pretty strong and slammed into Roy, dragging both of them by a lava pool. They teetered on the edge. Link looked at Kirby and they nodded. Kirby used his Cutter to create a shockwave that caused Morton to bump into Roy again, making the two literally stand on the brink of death. Before they could get their balance Link threw a bomb over by them, which exploded…and knocked both into the pit. Their dying screams brought a stop to all the action as all the combatants looked over to Kirby and Link to see what was going on. Ludwig was the first to figure it out.

"Curse you! You killed our brothers! Koopalings! Go all out! Unleash your supreme attacks to get vengeance for our deceased kin!" Ludwig cried out in a fury.

Before any of the Smashers could do anything the remaining five Koopalings (Except for Iggy as he already has his out) pulled out a wand. Mario charged for Ludwig but Ludwig smacked him with the wand, momentarily knocking him away. Ludwig then gleefully surrounded him and Mario with pipes, by waving the wand. Large green pipes came from the ground and ceiling and formed a circular ring completely cut off from the other fighters.

"Alright Mario…this is it! GWA HA HA!" Ludwig laughed as Mario jumped for him again…

Larry however used his wand not to create pipes…but to summon vines from the ground. Bario hacked and slashed at the rapidly growing plants but Larry just kept them coming. After a bit Bario was trapped by some of these vines and they were slowly squishing him. He appeared defenseless as his sword arm was trapped. However he gave a small smile, which seemed out of place given his current situation.

"Heh…I was hoping to save this for Bowser…but these guys are tougher then I thought," Bario said as he raised one hand above his head...

With Roy dead Kirby looked around and saw that Diddy was closest, so he went over to help him battle Wendy. The three candy rings she had thrown at Diddy were dodged, but now she was using a more dangerous attack…a water blast. She was firing immense blasts of water from her wand, which not only hurt Diddy but also caused him to be knocked towards one of the lava pools.

"Hee hee! You shall suffer the same fate of my brothers you stupid little monkey!" Wendy said.

She fired off a final water blast designed to send Diddy to his doom when Kirby kicked a distracted Wendy, causing the attack to miss by a bit. Seeing a chance Diddy activated his jetpack and flew away from the pool as Wendy threw a candy ring at Kirby which hit him, causing considerable pain…

Lemmy used his wand to fire off the classic three orange expanding rings attack, but Falco decided to use his Reflector (All his devices share the same energy system and it takes awhile to recharge it after using something as draining as Fire Falco) which reflected the attack. Lemmy rolled out of the way and growled at Falco.

"You're a tough little bird…and I hate fighting. It's so annoying! But I'll end this quick! ICE ATTACK!" Lemmy shouted.

He pointed his wand straight at Falco. He then fired a beam of ice at the Smasher. He tried to reflect it but the beam was to powerful and shattered his Reflector. This caused Falco to become dazed and confused as Lemmy prepared to unleash the attack again…

Link saw Raichu struggling against Iggy, who had used his wand to become a fifteen foot tall giant. He stomped around apparently indifferent to the shocking attacks that Raichu was hitting him with and appeared to be only a matter of time until Raichu was squished. So Link pulled out his Bow and shot off an arrow which flew through the air and slammed into Iggy's exposed foot. He gave a slight cry of annoyance and tried to brush it out. This only caused it to be pushed in deeper and it appeared to strike a nerve, making Iggy give out a loud pained noise. He spun around to see his attacker and upon spying Link charged angrily at him. This might be painful…

Ludwig was slammed by the hammer of Mario in the face. However instead of falling down he punched Mario, sending him flying into the pipe wall. While he got back to his feet Ludwig breathed several fireballs which Mario jumped over and then came down in front of Ludwig. Ludwig just grinned and jumped a short hop. When he came down a shockwave was created like Roy's…but Mario having seen the attack before jumped over it and smashed Ludwig again with the hammer. Ludwig appeared to be weakening…

Larry looked at Bario in confusion. Why did he have small smile…and why was he raising one hand above his head? His questions were soon answered as a SECOND sword, exactly the same as the first appeared! He then used it to cut free of the vines. Now wielding two swords Bario ran for Larry. Larry shot a fireball, but Bario used his dual swords to block it and by then he was right there in Larry's face. Larry gave a small moan of fear as Bario looked right into his eyes…and pierced his heart with his second sword. As Larry died he thought that he almost saw a satisfied grin appear on Bario's face…

When Wendy focused all her attention on Kirby she made a big mistake…she forgot about Diddy. He shot at her with his peanut guns and unlike last time she wasn't able to get in her shell fast enough and they hit her, knocking her over. As she fell to the ground she gave an angry protest and then Kirby slammed her hard with his hammer, sending the light weight Koopaling into the lava and her doom. Only three Koopalings left…

As Iggy charged for Link Raichu jumped on his back. He let loose a massive electric attack…but Iggy kept going. Cursing his foolishness Raichu realized that he couldn't hurt the Koopaling through his SHELL! He started to crawl up his back, trying to not let Iggy know he was there.

Iggy tried to punch Link, but he rolled out of the way. What he DID punch though was a bomb that Link cleverly left there. Iggy grabbed his burned and blackened hand and glared daggers at Link. He tried to sweep him with his good hand but Link stabbed it. Iggy let out a cry of rage…until Raichu, managing to get to Iggy's enormous head let loose a powerful attack…and fried Iggy. As he fell to the ground only two Koopalings were left…

Lemmy fired another Ice Attack at Falco. Fortunately he recovered from his dazed state and was able to jump over it. He fired several shots at Lemmy, but they didn't seem to be doing much good. He dodged another of Lemmy's balls…but then a large bluish white ball flew up and slammed into Lemmy. As Lemmy tried to recover numerous missiles flew into him. The Koopaling, not exactly the strongest physically quickly fell to the barrage. Falco looked around wildly trying to find his savior…and saw Samus, conscious and giving him a thumbs-up sign. He smiled and returned the gesture. Only Ludwig remained…

Ludwig growled at Mario and started swiping furiously hoping to cut the powerful plumber. Mario back-flipped away and then threw his hammer at Ludwig. Ludwig temporarily couldn't see as blinding pain shot through him…but Mario could. Mario dashed behind Ludwig, grabbed his hammer and then gripped the eldest Koopaling by the tail. He spun Ludwig around a bit and then let him fly, in a classic throw he utilized many times before, both on Bowser and in the Smash tournaments. He flew through the pipes, shattering a bunch of them and landed in lava pool. The final Koopaling was down. The nine Smashers hooked up as the door to the next area opened. While most went in, (Including Meta who got back to his feet) Diddy stopped Bario.

"Hey! Bario!" he called.

"What?" Bario asked as he put the two swords on a sheathe on his back.

"Where'd you get the second sword?"
"Oh…well I always had that. I was just planning on keeping it a secret so I could surprise Bowser with it…might as well keep using it now…come on! We should catch up with the others!" Bario said.
Diddy nodded in agreement and the two Smashers went through the door…to take on their next fearsome foe.

(Author's Note: YAY! Chapter Five is done! This is the longest chapter so far…and hopefully one of the more interesting. I'm planning on this story getting bit by bit more exciting and actiony as it goes on, which is why some enemies seem to die easy now, and I guarantee the last chapter will be AWESOME! YAY Pudding! Or something.