SBS Time!
JakeCrusher:
How did Kitty transformed into a dog?
Game2002: Through Devil Fruit; did you not read carefully?

SlasherMask: Kitty's moves are very similar to ones used by Homunculuses in Full Metal Alchemist.
Game2002: He actually used Rokushiki (Six Forms) moves used by the CP9 in One Piece.

Chapter 24
It's come to this at last! Let's head over to the castle and stop him!



After the event at the Comiket, the three cheerleaders were immediately rushed over to the hospital for checkup.

Negi and his class were standing out in the hall in front of the operation room and they were worried about their condition. After a while of waiting and panicking, the doctor came out and assured them that they were all right. "Thanks goodness!" Negi said with a sigh of relief.

"Told you that you don't have to worry yourself out," Asuna said, patting him on the shoulder.

-

Soon afterwards, the three girls were brought to the rooms to have a rest before leaving the hospital. "I'm so glad that you three are still alive," Negi said to them. "I'm so sorry that I dragged you into this… I'm sorry for being an irresponsible teacher and got you girls hurt…"

"You don't have to apologize to us, sensei," Misa said to him.

"Yeah, it's not your fault that these happened," Sakurako said.

"We're the one who should apologize, sensei, "Madoko claimed. "We should've never told him where you were… Had we not run into that person, this would never happen…"

"Please have a rest, girls," Negi told them. "I will need to take full responsibility for this. Relax yourselves while you're at it."

-

"I'm sorry, your majesty," the high priest of the shrine said to Roy. "I do not understand what you are talking about. There was no such thing as a representative from St. Elimine's Church coming here in the first place."

"But his majesty truly did receive a letter saying such thing!" Merlinus claimed, and he showed the priest the letter too.

"But we never received message from St. Elimine's Church about this matter either!"

"Enough, Merlinus," Roy told his advisor. "It must be a mistake or something. Well, whatever the case is, let's just go back now."

"Someone must've played a cruel joke on you. That is unforgivable!" Merlinus said angrily.

"Nah, just let it past. It's no big deal."

They returned into the royal limousine and took off for the castle again. "I wonder what's on TV," Roy said as he turned on the mini TV on the back of the seat in front of him.

"And now coming up next is Ice Emblem!" said the TV announcer. Suddenly, the screen turned fizzy and gray.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Roy wondered. He fiddled around with the buttons for a while and then it returned to normal again, only this time it wasn't showing the usual stuffs, but a dark room with a silhouette that was barely visible. "What's this?"

BGM: Fawful's theme (Mario & Luigi 3)

"Geehehehehehe!" laughed the silhouette. "I have nervousness! The first time is that I am standing in front of the camera, which is the eye of the world as millions among millions look upon me!"

Then a spotlight came down from above and shined onto the silhouette, revealing a short person dressed in royal red robes. He then turned around to reveal himself as Fawful. "Who's this guy…?" Roy asked. "Is there a special show coming on today or what?"

"It doesn't say anything about this, your majesty," Merlinus said, looking at the TV program list.

-

Within the city, all the available TVs, be it demonstrations at electronic stores or big screens attached onto the sides of buildings, had been taken over by Fawful. "Hey! It's that short green guy that was with the witch!" Red pointed out.

"Eet sure eez him!" Mario said. "What-a eez he doing on da TV?"

-

At the hospital, the girls who were watching TV to kill time also saw Fawful performing on screen.

-

Raising his hand into the air, Fawful said out loud, "I have happiness! Happy I am as I am about to tell you that the awesomeness that is to be appearing in this country will come at a time when you will not know! Oh how my spines tremble! Such is the excitement! Such a sadness it is my former master Cackletta is nowhere to witness the awesomeness! I have fury against the annoying fink rats that crushed her into mince meat! Those fink rats that I dare not speak of or even hear about! They bring me rage and make my head boil like hot water every time I think of them!"

"That would be us," Marth said.

"Where is that guy getting at?" G&W asked.

"Here I am now, within the castle of his majesty, setting up an evil plan of absolute nastiness of the nastiness!" Fawful continued. "All his castle are belong to us and the queen has no way to escape and take her time!"

-

"What?!" Roy said in shock when he learned that Fawful had taken over his castle. "He's in my castle now?!"

"I think I'm starting to get all this!" Merlinus said. "Could the letter about the representative from St. Elimine's Church be a fake one created by him to lure you out of the castle so that he can take over it?"

"The truth is before us already! That bastard!" Roy said angrily. "He better not has done anything to Lilina or anyone in the castle! Driver, full speed ahead! Back to the castle on the double!"

-

"What is this absolute nastiness that I spoke of?" Fawful continued while making all sorts of flashy poses. "Oh how it makes my skin grow Goosebumps just at the thought of it! Master Cackletta's mustard of doom is about to be spread onto the sandwich which will make everything absolutely nasty! The plan of her to resurrect the nasty monster from hundred of years ago is on its way to becoming reality as I, her most beloved pupil, will bring the Cruncher back to life once again!"

"So it's come to this…" Captain Falcon said.

"No surprise that he finally got all the things that they wanted," Marth said.

"Oh no… Do I sense something bad happening…?" Luigi said, trembling with fright.

"I have excitement! I have nervousness! I have fury! Geehehehehehehe!!!" Fawful said while laughing like crazy. "The world that you know it will soon become a tasty snack for the Cruncher."

"Well guys, I think you all know what we have to do next," CF said. He turned to his comrades and they all nodded their head, except for Luigi who shook his head.

-

"So Negi… What are you doing to do now?" Asuna asked the child teacher who was walking down the hallway with a serious expression.

"I can't let him do as he wants anymore," he replied. "He's going too far already! I must stop him at all cost!"

"That's the spirit, bro!" Chamo said to him. "Let's head over to the castle and beat up that bad guy before it's too late!"

"Then I'm going with you," Asuna told him. "You can't possibly deal with everything by yourself, so you'll need as many help as you can."

"Thanks, Asuna. If possible though, I don't really want to drag everyone into this…"

"Who did you say you do not want to drag into this?" said a voice. They turned around to see Kotaro and some of the other girls coming over to them. "It's not like this is your own problem. You still have us to help you!"

"Aru! If you're going to fight, take us along too!" Ku Fei said, kicking the air to show off a bit. "I'm willing to accompany you!"

"Many of us here know how to fight, so we are willing to help you, sensei-degozaru," Kaede said.

"Saving the world and such isn't my thing actually, but something tells me that you won't be able to do anything without my help, kid. Plus, it looks like there will be some worthy opponents for me to duke it out with, so I'm very interested in this," Eva told him. "Looks like I'll lend you a hand."

"I am willing to help you and my master," Chachamaru.

"See? You can't really stop any of them from helping you," Asuna told Negi. "We're a class after all, and we should do things together!"

"Thanks, everyone… I'm really glad that I have great students like you supporting me," Negi said happily. "All right, if you feel that you will be able to help, let's put an end to this matter at once!"

"That's the spirit, sensei!" they all said.

-

Soon afterwards, Negi and his students went out of the hospital to see a bus outside with the Smashers standing in front of it. "We've been waiting for you, Mr. Springfield," CF said.

"You people!" Negi said. "What are you…?"

"We're all together in this," Marth told him. "We know that you probably want to have a hand in this too, so we're here to pick you up."

"Right-a! Let-a uz all fight-a together!" Mario said. "Da more people da more power!"

"I really appreciate your help," Negi said. "But…"

"No buts in this," Yoshi said to him. "We have been saving the world all the time and this one is no different."

"Consider us the kind of people who always get dragged into things that does not concern us in whatsoever way at all and yet still ending up being the ones to save the day," G&W said.

"We're very used to this already," Kirby added. "So whether or not you want our help, we still want to settle these ourselves!"

"Looks like we're getting big help here," Asuna said to Negi, giving him a nudge.

"Thanks a lot, everyone!" Negi said. "I'm sure that the more people, the easier we can deal with this!"

"All right, if everyone is ready, then let us go!" CF said.

"You have a big group coming with you also?" asked Marth, taking note of the students that were going with him.

The students that were going with Negi were Asuna, Nodoka, Yue, Haruna, Chisame, Ku Fei, Kaede, Mana, Eva, Chachamaru, Konoka, Setsuna, and Kotaro.

"Don't look down on us!" Kotaro claimed. "We may be young, but we pack a punch when it comes to fighting and all!"

"You won't believe it but they all have skills in magic that will surely help us!" Negi told them. "Actually, I told them to stay behind, but they insisted on coming along…"

"Good to hear that we have a large group of reliable people," CF said. "All right, if you're all ready, let us make our leave already." He turned to Gyde was standing at the door of the bus and said to him, "Ready to take us there?"

Gyde gave a thumb up, "If you're going to the king's castle, I'll take you there! I may not have any skills in fighting or saving the world, but this is the best I can do to help you guys!"

"You're trying your best, and we appreciate it, Mr. Gyde," Pit told him.

As the group was going to step into the bus, Negi turned to look at the remaining students who were standing at the hospital entrance. "You girls return to the hotel first. Sakurako, Misa, and Madoka will be fine in the hospital."

"Sensei, please don't strain yourself too much! Come back alive please!" Ayaka said to him. "I'm sorry that I am unable to do much in this. If only I am more useful…"

"Don't say that, Ayaka. You're the class president, so you have the responsibility to take care of the class while I'm gone. This is a big help enough to me already!"

The rest of the girls stepped forward to give their encouragements to him.

"You can do it, sensei!"

"Yeah! Whop the bad guys' butt and save the day!"

"Please come back alive!"

"We all believe in you!"

"You're the best, sensei!"

"He sure has lots of fans supporting him," Pikachu said.

"Just like me! I'm too cute!" Pichu claimed.

"C'mon and let's go already!" Wario said impatiently. "I can't wait to kick some butt!"

-

"We're here, your majesty!" the driver said as he quickly opened the door for Roy to step out.

Roy got out and looked at his castle, which didn't look different at all save for the flag being replaced with one that had Fawful's face. "How dare he change the flag just like that?! I'm going to show him whose boss!" he growled.

"Look, your majesty! There is a bus heading in this direction!" Merlinus said, pointing to an incoming bus.

The bus stopped near where the limousine was and the Smashers and Negi's group came out immediately. "Hey Roy!" CF said to him.

"You guys!" he replied. "I knew you guys would come to lend a hand!"

"We learned about everything already," Marth said. "We were just thinking what happened to you."

"Damn that bastard for tricking me out of the castle! I'm going to get him for this!" Roy growled.

"Your majesty, it seems that the bridge for crossing into the castle's garage isn't responding when I press the remote!" the driver told him. "It's as if the castle's computer system has been hacked!"

"You use computer systems in this castle?" ROB asked.

"You have to get with the times, you know…" Roy replied. "Now that leads us to the problem…" He looked at the massive castle gate that was across the river and said, "How do we cross into there? If what the driver said is true, we won't be able to lower the main gate which is also computer controlled…"

"Then maybe we have to find another way inside," Meta-Knight thought, looking at the trees that were nearby.

"If it is about computers, leave it to Chisame sis!" Chamo said. "She's an expert when it comes to hacking and such."

"Yeah, Chisame's Pactio artifact is about computer hacking," Negi explained, and he turned to Chisame. "Will you lend us a hand?"

"All right, I'll see what I can do…" she said. Taking out her Pactio card, she said the magic word and in an instant, a magical wand similar to that used by magical girls appeared in her hand.

"Neat!" Jigglypuff commented.

She placed her laptop onto the floor and turned it on and then stood up holding the wand in her hand. "Everyone stand back," she warned. "Otherwise you'll be taken into the cyberspace with me." Everyone quickly moved as far as they could and Chisame began to chant an incantation. A circle made of energy appeared all around her and then in an instant, her body fell limp onto the ground.

"What happened?!" Pikachu said in surprise.

"That's normal," Chamo explained. "Only her spirit enters the cyberspace while her body stays behind here."

-

Chisame was now within a space-like area that was known as the cyberspace. Seven mouse-like spirits appeared in front of her to greet her. "Hello, Master! Nice to meet you again!" they said. "Need help in hacking or anything?"

Chisame took her seat in front of a virtual computer and started typing away at the keyboard while explaining to them, "We need to hack into the castle's computer system and open the front gate in order to cross the moat."

"Leave that to us, master!" they said.

The mouse spirits immediately went to work and Chisame looked through the castle's database to get a better understanding of it. "Won't hurt if I download a map of this place," she thought.

The mouse spirits came back to her and one of them said, "Master… I fear to tell you this, but if we attempt to fiddle with the gate controls…"

"What's wrong?"

"Well, you see… It is protected by a very special kind of firewall… One that we've never seen before and we fear trying to get through it."

"Look, we're depending on you here to get the gates opened, and if you guys cannot do anything, we will never get anywhere!"

"Um… Okay… We'll try…" Then the mouse spirits left again. A few seconds later, they came back with to her with a panicking expression saying, "Master! Get out of here quick before it's too late!"

"What?"

"The firewall has a special…"

Before they could finish what they say though, electricity burst in from all over the place and electrocuted her. "YAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

-

"Yaaa!!" Chisame snapped back to reality and sighed with relief that she was safe for the time being. "Ugh… The security is too… tight… Even I can't hack into it…"

-

"Your hacking abilities are nothing compared to high levelness of my smartness that I possess!" Fawful said, typing away into a computer. "Geehehehehe!"

-

"Sorry for failing…" Chisame said to Negi. "I'll try to hack into the system again if you want."

"Actually… You don't have to anymore, because…" Negi pointed to the castle gate and revealed that Meta-Knight had built a wooden bridge leading right up to the gate and Marth had cut a square opening on the gate too.

"Are you guys coming?" Marth asked.

"What?! Then all my efforts just now was for nothing, wasn't it?!" Chisame yelled in frustration.

"C'mon! Let's go and make those bastards bow down before me!" King Dedede said.

"Says the guy who has problems making the people of his own country bow down before him," Kirby said jokingly.

BONK!

"Let's get clobbering then!" Dedede said loudly. Behind him Kirby was lying face first on the ground motionlessly with a large bump on his head and Pichu was poking him with a stick while Konoka crouched at the side observing.

They wasted no time in crossing the bridge and into the castle. "For something made in a rush, you sure crafted it real good," Haruna commented on the bridge.

"That's my preference," MK told him.

Meanwhile, Parry, Blackshell, and Chachazero were all left behind in the bus along with the bus driver and Gyde. "There they go," Parry said. "I hope everything ends up all right."

"With master at their side, everything will end up all right," Chachazero said. "If only I can move around and aid master though… It's boring sitting here all day long."

-

"Whoo! This place is big!" Pichu exclaimed. The interior of the castle just a very grand-looking place with decorated knight armor and portraits of various well known people hung on the wall, not to mention a red carpet spread across the floor.

"That's my castle for you," Roy said. "But this would make the second time that you came here, right?"

"Yeah, the first time was during your wedding ceremony," Pikachu brought up.

"By the way, I managed to download a map of this place," Chisame said. She turned her laptop around and showed the layout of the castle. "And there seems to be these flicking spots on various rooms of the castle, though I don't know what they are."

"There are spots indeed," Asuna said, taking a closer look. When she took an even closer look, she noticed something. "Hey, I think these aren't spots… They're actually that same pattern imprinted on the container of the spirit."

Negi took a look for himself and said, "You're right! It is!"

"Then that would mean the spirit is hidden in those places?" Nodoka said. "But wait… I thought there was only one."

"Hmmm… The only thing I can deduce from this would be that only one of them is real," Yue said, rubbing his chin.

"Makes sense if they do not wish for us to find where he is undergoing his operation to revive the Cruncher so easily," MK said.

"This would mean a split up, right?" Yoshi asked.

"Yes, let us split up then!" CF suggested.

They counted each of the flickering spots on the map and found a total of 12 spots. "Two of them are found in the location leading to the dungeon," Roy said. "Something tells me that the people in the castle are imprisoned there…"

"There is no more correctness in what you have said!" said the voice of Fawful from a speaker hidden in the corner of the ceiling.

"It's that guy's voice!" Kotaro said.

"You people are the annoying fink rats that make my head boil with mustard of rage!" continued Fawful. "Your perseverance and annoyance of getting in my way is the most annoying of the annoying! Stupid kids like you can never learn to sit still and play stupid video games and write stupid fan fictions! You are very right in saying that the spots on the map of the place that is this castle are the possible locations of the spirit however, so what I want to see you do now is your stupid and foolish attempt to stop the mustard of doom from being spread onto the sandwich of evil! Do you think you can find the realness? I have curiosity! Geehehehehe!"

"You bet that we can find the real one in no time!" CF told him.

"And it seems that king has returned! Your queen of your heart is in her room living a life a crying for eternity for your return. Do you think you can save her from her mustard of doom?"

"You better not lay a hand on Lilina!" Roy said angrily. "I'm going to get even with you!" He turned to them and said, "Guys, I'm going to find Lilina. I'll leave everything else to you."

"Okay, leave it to us!" Negi said. "You go and rescue the queen!"

"You know… I'm starting to think that we should've brought Kazumi sis along," Chamo said. "Her Pactio would be of great help trying to get a look around the whole place."

"Before we split up, however," CF said. "I want you guys to keep an eye on the cat bastard!"

"That guy!" Kotaro said angrily.

"Yes, he is without doubt a fearsome opponent. I want you to leave that guy to me instead! Try to escape if you run into him."

"That cat guy is a fearsome opponent indeed," Marth said. "It's best to leave him either to Captain Falcon or me to deal with. Save your life by running for him unless there is no choice."

"Okey-dokey, we'll keep an eye on him," Mario said. "Let's-a split up-a then!"

-

"Geehehehehehe! Fallen for my nasty tricks they have!" Fawful said.

"That was smart thinking, boss!" Metaboss said to him. "They've never realized that the flickering spots on the map are actually false alarms! Now they're going to either run into traps or our men who are waiting to beat them up! In fact, the container of the spirit isn't shown on the map at all! It is in this room all along!"

In front of the two, there was a glass container filled to the top with liquid and the Spirit of the Cruncher was inside. "The time has come blend the blood with it!" Fawful said.

-

"If you're heading for the top of the castle, take the staircase on the right and follow the path!" Roy said to a group consisting of Negi, Asuna, Mario, and Luigi. "I'll be heading down a different path to get to my room."

"Take care, Roy!" Mario said to him, and the four of them went up the stair Roy told them.

-

"The cat bastard! Beating him up is the first priority! I'm going to take full responsibility in taking him down!" CF said as he ran through the place looking for Kitty.

"I'm going to get my hands on him too, so count on me to help you!" Kotaro told him.

-

"Up this way!" Marth said to Setsuna and Konoka who were both following them.

"Don't worry, Ojou-sama," Setsuna told her. "I will not let harm fall onto you."

"And if you get hurt, Secchan, I'll heal you too!" Konoka replied cheerfully.

-

"Waha! I'm going to beat up whoever is going to show up in front of me!" Wario said as he ran alone to the location that he was given.

-

"The place we are headed two happens to have two flickering spots," Kirby said while he ran down the hall with Ku Fei and Kaede. "We'll see if any one of them is the one."

"And if anyone attacks us, we'll fight back-aru!" Ku Fei said.

-

"Hey, this is the throne room," Pikachu said. He entered into the place with Pichu, Jigglypuff, and Chisame.

"Yep, this is the place all right…" Chisame said, looking at her laptop. "But I don't see anything."

"What's that?" Pichu asked, pointing to a sign with Fawful's face drawn on it as well as a message that wrote: I laugh at your failure of an attempt! Geeheheheh!

"Okay… I think we didn't find it…" Pikachu said. "That's one down…"

"Great… Now what do we do?" Chisame asked.

"Let's just leave the remaining locations to the others. I just hope that…"

Suddenly, a loud crash was heard as Petey Piranha fell down in front of them and let out a loud roar. "So loud!" Jigglypuff said.

"It's that plant monster from the Comiket!!" Chisame gasped in shock.

"And I was hoping that nobody would attack us…" Pikachu said. "Looks like we have no choice but to fight now…"

"Bring it, Pichu!" Pichu said as he began generating electric from his cheeks.

-

"This way to the dungeon!" Red said, leading his group which consisted of G&W, Pit, and Lucas.

As they ran down the hallway, they encountered a Fawful sign which had the same message written. "Looks like a fake one," G&W said.

"Yeah, it is…" Red said. "Looks like we fell for it indeed… But there's another one down the path in front of the dungeon room, so let's…"

CRASH!

Everyone was freaked out when the wall tumbled down and Robirdo came into the room and turned to look at them. "I'm as good as you are," the pink robot said in a feminine but robotic voice.

"What is this?!" Lucas cried in shock.

-

"One of them is here," Mana said, opening the door that led to a courtyard. She was accompanied with Yoshi and Lucario. The moment they stepped into the courtyard, they looked around with awareness and Mana pointed her rifle around to see if there were any enemies.

"Hey, what's that?" Yoshi asked, pointing to the Fawful sign. He walked up to it and read it and then said, "Oh well… We didn't hit the jackpot…"

"Father! Be careful!" Lucario shouted. He tossed himself at Yoshi and quickly pushed him out of the way before a bullet struck him.

Mana quickly pointed her rifle at the castle roof and shot down a Monty Mole who attacked using a mounted gun. "That was close…" Yoshi said. "Thanks…"

Suddenly, Monty Moles started popping out from the ground one by one and fired at them using crossbows and guns that fired pebbles. Yoshi and Lucario quickly ran for cover while Mana evaded all the projectiles and shot back with perfect accuracy, knocking the moles out by their foreheads. "Nice aim!" Yoshi commented.

"I use only bullets that aren't fatal enough to kill people," she said as she reloaded a couple more bullets into the rifle.

Then a massive figure burst through the ground before them and landed with a thud. "Moho! You have come to my ground!" Major Burrows said. "This place will be your grave and nobody will escape!"

"Yoshi… Looks like company…" Yoshi said with a gulp.

-

"We did not find it after all," MK said, looking at the Fawful sign in front of him.

"Lame…" Dedede commented. He then looked around the place. "This place looks old. They didn't bother to decorate the stone tiles, do they?"

"Lycia is known for keeping its ancient looks after all," MK reminded him.

"And he said that they're catching with the times and are using computer technology to control the security system…" Dedede felt around the walls just to know how the stone walls feel, and unintentionally caused one of the stone tiles to sink in. When it did, a secret passage opened up next to him. "A secret passage!" He looked down the passage to see that there was a slider going downwards.

"Be careful, my lord!" MK gasped. He quickly got in front of Dedede's back and brought up his sword to block an incoming rocket fist. MK was pushed back however and bumped into Dedede, making him slide down the slider.

"DYEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!!"

"What have I done?!" MK said in shock. He turned to his attacker and saw that it was Mega Titan. "You were the one that tried to lay a hand on the king, did you not?"

-

ROB came out in a place full of trash. "This must be the junkyard," he thought. "The location is supposed to be here…" He looked around and eventually spotted the Fawful sign erected in the center. After looking at the sign, he said, "It would appear that I did not find it." He looked up and scanned around the place and took notice a certain pile of junk in front of him as it had a pair of eyes looking back. "Enemy has been detected hiding within the junk. Show yourself at once!"

Then out from the pile of junk leaped out the trash can robot Garuken and it landed in front of ROB, smashing the sign into pieces in the process. "A mechanical being," ROB commented. "And one that isn't designed to have intelligence other than destruction."

Garuken pointed his arm cannon at ROB and began firing junk parts at him, and ROB moved through the place at a fast speed and easily evaded them. His eyes then flashed and fired a beam at the body of Garuken, but the beam bounced off it's metallic body harmlessly. Garuken continued firing junk parts at him and ROB kept on dodging them. When the trash robot saw that it was hard trying to hit ROB, it did something different. A magnet came out from its right arm and ROB felt himself being pulled forward.

"Magnetic force!" he thought. "Activate Anti-Gravity System at once!" And then ROB stopped moving forward. "Now your magnetic powers have no use against me as I have altered the gravity and space around myself. If I were in water or weightlessness, I would be able to move without resistance as well."

-

"It's down this stairs, master," Chachamaru told Eva.

"Good, let's go and see if we hit the jackpot or not," Eva said. Just as they were going to go down, Chachamaru suddenly got pulled towards the wall behind her. "Hey, what are you doing?"

"Master… There appears to be strong magnetic activities…" she replied. "It is a strong one… I can't…"

Then the wall behind her was pushed apart as the magnetic force grew even stronger. "Master!!"

"Chachamaru!" Eva was going to run after her but all of a sudden, the wall in front of her opened up and Dedede came tumbling out.

"DYEH!!!" He crashed right into Eva and then they both fell back and went rolling down the staircase.

"HEY!!!"

-

Pieces of trash were being pulled towards Garuken's magnet arm until a large mass of junk was formed. ROB was never pulled forward thanks to his anti-gravity system, but Garuken continued pulling in metallic junks. "Are you blind at the fact that this move is useless against me?" ROB asked. "I pity a mindless being like you who cannot comprehend what is in front of your eyes."

Suddenly, the door behind him was torn down and metallic things started to fly in. "Such a strong attraction…" ROB commented. He was then surprised when Chachamaru came flying out from the door. "She is…"

Chachamaru crashed into the mass of junk that was on Garuken's arm and was stuck onto it tightly with no way to move. Garuken then stopped the magnetic pull and lifted up his arm that and threw the pile of junk in ROB's direction. Instead of running, ROB held open his arms and caught the female android as she was among the mass of junk as well. The junks shattered into pieces and flew everywhere afterwards. "Are you all right?" ROB asked her.

Chachamaru stood back up and said to him, "I am all right. I thank you for saving my life." She turned around to face Garuken and said, "The strong magnetic pulling came from this, am I right?"

"Yes, and I would suggest that we take it down together."

-

Dedede and Eva tumbled all the way to the bottom of the staircase and rolled out into a large circular room. "You idiot!" Eva yelled and then gave Dedede a punch over the head.

"Dyeh! How dare you hit a king like me?!" Dedede shouted angrily.

"You're the one who bumped into me first!"

"That does not give you the right to hit me!"

"I have the right to do anything because I'm the queen of vampires! I don't care if you're the king of Dream Land, the king of penguins, or the king of fat people!"

The two of them glared at each other for a few seconds. They heard a weeping sound coming from within the room and turned to see a Fawful sign, but they were actually looking behind the Fawful sign. Emonicus was sat down on a chair placed against the wall weeping quietly. He slowly lifted up his head and looked at them through his hair-covered eyes. "Life… is so sad… So cruel…" he said in a sad tone.

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"And we're the first to find it!" Haruna said, slamming open the door leading to the room with the spirit, only to discover the Fawful sign mocking them. "Eh?"

Yue walked up to the sign and then said, "Looks like this isn't the one… Knew this wasn't going to be so easy…"

"Aw man… I was hoping that we three end up being the ones saving the world and then Negi sensei will be impressed by you, Nodoka."

Then they heard the door closing behind them and they turned around to see Kitty standing in front of the door.

"A cat…?"

"It's… the cat person that Captain Falcon said…?" Nodoka wondered.

"I assume that you are all here to die," Kitty said sternly.


TO BE CONTINUED

All right! The most exciting parts of the story are starting at last! I've been looking forward to do this part and I'm going to make things as epic and as exciting as possible. Stay tuned for a series of action-packed battles!