Chapter 29
As long as believe in yourself and try, you will succeed!
Something was about to happen within the security room of the dungeon…
"So what are you guys…?" G&W asked.
"We're the Slime Sisters," Amee replied.
"And we're gals," Slime added.
"That doesn't matter since you're going to die anyway," Pudding concluded.
"Uh oh… They don't look friendly…" Lucas cried.
"Well, what do you expect? This whole place is taken over by the enemies after all, so there's bound to be someone wanting our lives," G&W told him. "But in times like this, there will be no choice but to fight back!"
"So you're fighting back?" Pudding asked.
"Heheh! It will be boring if you just die instantly. I hope you entertain us!" Amee said.
"Let's get them!" Slime commanded.
All three sisters tossed their slimy bodies at the duo and they ran in separate directions to avoid getting splashed on. Slime then went after Lucas while the other two went in the direction of G&W.
"You're mine!" Amee said.
G&W reached for a nearby chair and hurled it at her, but the chair went through her body harmlessly. "It's no use!" she explained. "Physical objects will do no damage to us whatsoever!" She fell towards G&W and he quickly ran away.
"You're not escaping," Pudding said. She was about to fall onto G&W when he whipped out an umbrella to shield himself, and then he spun it by the handle to shake her off.
"Try and come near me now!" he said while continuing to spin the umbrella in front of him.
"You want to play rough, don't you?" Amee asked. "This will be fun!"
"I prefer a quick and silent death," Pudding said.
G&W closed his umbrella and used it as a rapier to jab them rapidly even though the attack didn't seem all that useful.
Meanwhile, Lucas was crying and running from Slime who chased him all over the place. "Get away from me!" he cried.
"Haha! Coward! I'm having fun with this!" she said.
Lucas then somehow tripped on the floor and rolled into the wall, and when he turned around, he saw Slime about to fall on top of him. Out of desperation, Lucas pointed a finger at her and a green blast of light came out. "PK Flash!"
BANG!
The burst of light blasted Slime backwards where she fell onto the floor with a splat, but then reformed herself again. "Ow! That burns!" she cried. "Was that magic?! Physical attacks may not work on us, but attacks with magical properties are our biggest weakness! I didn't know you're a magic user!"
"Phew… That was close…" Lucas sighed. "Looks like I have the upper hand here…"
"So what if you can use magic? You're just an immature little kid! You're still doomed! I'm going to dissolve you!"
Slime jumped at him again and Lucas quickly shot out a spark from his finger. "PK Fire!" But Slime altered her body in the shape of a ring and the spark went through the hole in the middle and she returned to normal shape again as she fell towards Lucas. The boy screamed and ducked down and she ended up smacking into the wall while he crawled away with great panic.
"You can't run!" she said. She turned to Lucas and then her body stretched in his direction while the legs remained on the floor. Lucas saw a lance attached onto the wall next to him and quickly pulled it out to use it against the slime. He thrust the lance forward and penetrated the slime's body using the spearhead, but this caused the slime to separate into pieces and then splashing onto his body.
"Ya!"
The rest of the slimy body slowly oozed towards Lucas and began to cover him. "Ha! I got you!"
"PK Shield!" Lucas formed a psychic barrier around himself and the moment he did, the slimes were repelled off him completely.
"What was that?!" Slime said in surprise.
"PK Fire!" Lucas launched another spark at her and this time successfully blasted her across the place with a fiery blast.
"Yeow!"
Meanwhile, G&W was still trying to hit the other two Slime Sisters using the umbrella as a rapier. Amee heard Slime crying and turned to look at her saying, "You're such a shame… Getting beaten around by that little boy…"
"Excuse me! He has magical powers which we are weak against!" Slime told her. "But I'm not going to lose to him! He's just a kid; how strong can he get?"
G&W slammed down the umbrella on top of Amee and smashed her into pieces and said, "You better not underestimate Lucas. I may not him all that much, but from the times that we have been together, I can tell that he's definitely a strong boy!"
"You should be more concerned of yourself first, otherwise you will die," Pudding said coldly to him. "We're playing rough now." Raising her right arm into the air, her arm formed itself into a knife which she slammed down on him.
"Whoa!" G&W sidestepped and also thanks to his flat body, he was able to avoid getting cut. "That was close!"
Pudding jumped straight up and swung her knife arm at him horizontally this time and G&W quickly bended his body to the side like you would do when folding a paper. When she swiped low, he jumped up and quickly ran back.
"Good at dodging, aren't you? You won't get away with this!" Amee said. She jumped down in front of him and turned both her hands into spiked blocks and then tried to crush him, but G&W quickly ducked down.
"Dammit! Time to fight back!" G&W got out a disk (looks more like manhole cover) and hurled it at her. It sliced through her and then stuck into the wall, but it was obvious that this hit didn't do anything to her.
"Told you that this wouldn't work," she reminded him, and then slammed down the right spike block to hit him. G&W rolled out of the way in time and ran behind Amee and pulled the disk out of the wall and turned around to block another impact from the spike block in time. Pudding came over and swung her knife arm and G&W desperately used the disk to block every blow.
With one hand holding up the disk from behind, he quickly produced a lighted match in his other hand and then pulled the disk away to swing the lighted match at them. "Stay back! I have fire!" he said. He swung it across the air and left behind a streak of fire but the slimes hopped back to avoid getting hit. "Judging from your action, it would appear that you are flammable. We're equal now!" He shifted his eyes (if he has any) to the other side of the room where Lucas was holding up to himself against Slime. "Hold on, Lucas. I believe in you, but don't worry; I'll help you if you need a hand!"
"PK Fire! PK Fire! PK Fire!" Lucas spammed the move over and over trying to hit Slime, who bounced around like a rubber ball to avoid getting hit by any of them.
"Your aim is lame!" Slime mocked him. "Hey, that rhymes! My turn to fight back!" She pulled back her hand and then unleashed a long-range stretchy punch into his guts and smashed him across the place.
"OOF!!"
CRASH!
"Ow… I didn't know it would hurt this much coming from something… slimy and liquid…" groaned Lucas, rubbing his stomach.
"We can harden parts of our body in order to perform attacks like this," Slime explained to him. "It can even be sharp enough to poke holes in you!" She turned her right hand into a large needle this time and thrust it forward to stab him. Lucas shrieked and ducked down and then crawled away, and the needle made a clean hole on the wall.
"Scary!"
"Oh yes! It's very scary! Be very afraid!" Slime said, and then she jabbed with the needle at Lucas over and over and the boy moved his body around frantically and somehow managed to dodge every single strike. Unfortunately his luck ran out when Slime finally scored a hit and stabbed through his left shoulder.
"Ah!"
"Haha! Gotcha!" Slime laughed. She was about to stab him in the heart next when suddenly a black disk was thrown in between Lucas and the needle and Lucas only ended up getting smacked in the face when the slime needle pushed the disk back into him. "Uh?"
"Yeow!"
"Phew… In time…" G&W said to himself in relief.
"But not you!" Pudding said, and then he swung her knife hand at G&W. He failed to avoid this and was slashed across the body and fell back.
"Eep!"
"And then this!" Amee then crushed him in between her spike block arms.
SMAAAAAAAAASH!!!!
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" After taking a powerful blow from the spikes and getting crushed (not like it makes a difference since he's flat to begin with), he fell over to the side panting with exhaustion.
"Mr. Game!" Lucas gasped.
"Showing concern to others will only allow yourself to get the best of you!" Slime said, and then she tried to impale him with her needle arm again. Lucas swiftly moved aside much to her surprise and then launched a PK Fire into her and blasted her back. "Yeow!"
Lucas quickly ran to G&W and held him up and said, "Are you all right? I'll heal you! PK Life-up!" He used a healing spell and managed to heal a bit of the wounds on G&W.
"Feeling somewhat better than before… Thanks…" G&W said weakly.
"But you're not going to feel so good again shortly after!" Amee said as she leaped over them. Both her arms were pulled back into the air and the hands were fused together to form a massive spike ball, and then she slammed it down at them.
"PK Counter!" Lucas quickly opened his palms and a yellowish shield was formed, covering the both of them. The spike struck the shield and bounced back and Amee soared backwards as a result.
"What?!"
"Whatever you do will not work," Pudding said. She ran up to the shield and then slashed against it rapidly, but in doing so, she got repelled and slid across the floor, leaving behind a trail of slime. "Ugh!" But her slashes were not for naught, as cracks had appeared all over the shield and then it shattered into pieces like glass.
"Oh no… I'm not strong enough to form a durable one…" Lucas cried.
"Shows how lame you are!" Slime mocked. "Eat this!" She extended her arm and changed it into a spiked club before slamming it into Lucas's face and smashed him across the room and into a table, knocking it over.
"YEOW!!!"
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!
"Heheh! You're not really all that tough after all!" Slime laughed.
"Let's kill him first," Pudding suggested. "He knows magic, which is harmful for us."
"Right, that paper-like weirdo can be left for the last," Amee said. "He doesn't have any method of harming us anyway."
G&W got in front of them and stretched his arms out to the side and said out loud, "Nobody harms the boy until they get through me!"
"You're really asking for a death wish, aren't you? We'll torture you a little bit more than!" Amee said. The Slime Sisters then bounced into him and rammed him in the body from all sides at a very fast speed. G&W was unable to tell where they were at all and kept on getting buffeted rapidly all over the body.
Then the Slime Sisters all fused together and became a large tentacle that wrapped itself around G&W's body and lifted him into the air before hurling him across the place and into the wall.
CRASH!
"Mr. Game!" Lucas gasped.
"Quit crying! You're next!" the Slime Sisters said to him in three simultaneous voices. The Slime Sisters started altering the shape of their fused body and then grew in size. Lucas watched with wide open eyes and mouth as they became a large slimy knoll-shaped monster with six eyes and massive arms dripping with slime from the fingers. "Are you scared now? This is our ultimate fused form, the Slime Terror!"
"Ma… ma… mia…"
The Slime Terror folded and hardened her (I'm referring to it as a single entity from now on) fist and then threw a stretchy punch at Lucas, who quickly jumped away. He fell onto his stomach and was unable to get up in time as the arm came slapping into him and sent him crashing face first into the wall.
CRASH!
"Hahahaha!" The Slime Terror laughed. "You're just a kid! How much power can you possess! Even if you have magic, it will not be enough to take us down!"
Lucas crawled up and backed up against the wall with tears of fright flowing down his eyes. "I'm going to die… I'm going to die… I'm too weak to do anything…"
"Die like a crybaby that you are!" The slimy monster changed her right hand into a lance and pulled back to ready to impale him when suddenly G&W shouted out loud and she came to a stop.
"Don't let those words get you down, Lucas!" G&W shouted angrily. He slowly stood back up and glared in their direction. "Just because you're a kid doesn't mean you are weak and a crybaby! You must be strong no matter who you are! There are no limits in power to any kind of people as long as they try! Even if you are young, you can succeed if you try!"
"Shut up, stickman!" the Slime Terror said, and then she swung her left arm at him and smashed into the wall.
BANG!
"Mr. Game!" Lucas cried.
G&W stood back up despite this and said, "I told you… There are no limits in power to any kind of people… To those who believe they can and then try, they will succeed… Even a group of ants can carry a large and heavy object if a large number of them work together with strong determination! Let me tell you something about my life that I've only Dr. Mario knows… Did you know… that I was discriminated back in my younger days?"
"Discriminated?"
"I look different… I look neither like human nor any sort of humanoid… I don't know what sort of creature I am… And people laughed at me and rejected me because of this… I was depressed and couldn't make any friends. I had no faith in myself at all and I cursed the way I look. People would just pass me on as a freak and no one ever took me seriously. Do you know how it was to live that kind of life?"
Lucas shook his head in response.
"My life was like that until I met Dr. Mario. He didn't see me as anyone weird. Instead, he saw me all alone and came sat next to me one day… That was when we were college students. He was the first true friend I've ever had. Through his encouragement, I became more and more confident and I did my best in everything. Slowly, my reputation started to get better among everyone when I showed them the skills I have. Eventually, people started to care less about how I look like and what I am. From that day on, I became confident of myself and looked brightly towards life. I was determined to make the world acknowledge me and I succeeded. If I can do it, you can surely do it! Lucas, if you believe that you are strong, you will without doubt be strong! Did you not vow to become strong ever since the death of your mother and brother?"
Lucas then remembered how his mother and brother died and the day he vowed to become braver and stronger. He started to remember the times that he fought alongside the Smashers against the Negativities and was starting to feel ashamed of his current state, which was almost nothing like those times.
"You can do it, Lucas! Even if you are young, you can create miracles and do the impossible! Look at Negi! He's younger than you and yet he's a teacher already! I don't know what sort of life he lived or how he came to that current status, but he is living proof that young people can succeed in life and stand out among others!" G&W said out loud. "Are you going to let that barbaric monster laugh at your cowardice and uselessness? Believe in yourself and show them that you are strong!"
"Such an inspirational and touching speech!" Slime Terror said. "But you won't be getting a chance to do anything! Time to dissolve all of you!" The slime monster turned to G&W and stretched her arm towards him and he got away in time. When the monster's hand touched the floor, she created a crater on it.
"Looks like it is acidic now!" G&W said. "We must be careful and not touch it!"
"Like you can actually avoid it!" Slime Terror turned to them and stretched out her arm to punch them but they quickly ran right out of the room.
"Hey, they're coming back out!" the prisoners said. "Why haven't they…? Oh my god! What is that?!"
G&W and Lucas ran to the far end of the prison room and watched as the Slime Terror squeezed her way out from the door. "I don't think this is a good place to fight her…" Lucas said. "The prisoners will be involved…"
"You're right in saying that, so how about we kill all the prisoners first?" the monster said.
"Hey! Don't get them involved! We're the ones you should be coming after! Nobody touches the prisoner until we die first!" G&W yelled at her.
"Like we're going to listen to you!" Then the monster's feet started to ooze along the floor and closer and closer to the jail bars, and it started to melt the bars they moment they touched.
"Oh my god! It's acidic! Help us!" The prisoners cried and pushed against the wall to avoid touching the incoming slime.
"Dammit! I won't let you get away with this!" G&W said, and he produced a lighted match out of his hand and pulled it back to ready to throw it.
"PSI Offense Up!" Lucas spread open one hand at the match and coated with an orange shield just before G&W threw it.
"Fire Attack!" G&W shouted, and he hurled the match coated with PSI energy into the face of the Slime Terror and not only did the match tore through her head, but it also caused an explosion that literally blasted off her head.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!
"What was that?!" she cried as her head and face slowly reformed itself. "How dare you?! We'll kill you first!" And the Slime Terror lunged at them.
G&W and Lucas quickly made a run out of the room with the slime monster chasing after them. As they ran down the hallway, G&W said to Lucas, "Quick! Pass me some of your attacks! Preferably your strongest ones!"
"What are you doing to do?" Lucas asked him.
He took out a bucket and explained, "I'm going to catch them! I'll need to catch at least three before I can throw a very powerful attack at the monster!"
"Okay!" Lucas placed one finger on his forehead for a few seconds and then pointed at the bucket. "PK Love!" And he fired a large hexagon-shaped energy into the bucket. The energy managed to fit into the bucket despite being bigger than it.
"You're dead!" Slime Terror said as she stretched her at them again. Lucas quickly turned to the incoming arm and shot out a snowflake at it.
"PK Freeze!"
The PSI attack caused the arm to freeze over and then it shattered afterwards, though it wasn't much of an issue for Slime Terror since she could grow a new arm. Lucas quickly turned to G&W and fired another PK Love into his bucket.
"Hey guys! How is it?" asked the voice of Red as he and Pit appeared on the far end of the hallway. "We just dealt with our opponent, so…"
"Get out of here!" G&W shouted to him.
"Why?" Red saw the Slime Terror coming from behind them and understood, so he quickly turned to run with Pit.
"What is that?!" Pit cried in shock.
"One more!" G&W said. Lucas was about to fire another PK Love at him but then a slimy fist came crashing into G&W and sent him flying down the hallway. "Yeow!" And because of the acidic level of the slime, he was burned slightly on the skin from the punch.
"Mr. Game! Catch!" Lucas shouted at him, and he fired the final PK Love which G&W managed to catch.
"Just in time…" he said.
Lucas turned around and to his horror, saw the Slime Terror about to crash down onto him like a tidal wave. "Oh no!"
"You're dead!" she shouted.
Out of desperation, Lucas fired another snowflake out of his hand, and this one was bigger than the previous one. "PK Freeze Omega!"
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!!!!!!!
The snowflake exploded and released cold air all over the place, and not only was the Slime Terror fully frozen, but even her surroundings were turned to ice. "Good going, Lucas!" G&W said as he ran forward with the bucket in his hand. "Now's my turn to show the monster!" He jumped towards the frozen Slime Terror and then swung the bucket at her. "The combination of Oil Panic and PK Love: Love Panic!!" And then oil that was glowing in blue light came splashing out from the opening of the bucket and into the monster's body.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!!!!!!
Both Lucas and G&W were sent flying backwards from the blast as the Slime Terror exploded and shattered into millions of pieces. The explosion was so strong that even the walls were torn down.
When things finally settled down, Lucas and G&W looked up to see drops of slimes on the floor, and they were slowly gathering together. "Uh oh… They don't look like they're defeated yet…" Lucas cried.
The slimes gathered together until they formed each of the sisters again. "Dammit! How dare you treat us like this?!" Slime growled angrily. "This time we're going to get serious!" But suddenly, steam started coming out from all over their body and they found themselves starting to melt. "Uh? What's happening?"
"We've reached our limit," Pudding explained. "We're on death's bed now."
"Oh well… But at least it was fun while it lasted," Amee said.
"Aw man… Why must this happen to us…?" Slime groaned.
"We're the bad guys after all…"
The Slime Sisters melted into puddles of ooze which started shrinking until they were no more. Lucas and G&W sighed with relief that they had finally won. "We did it…" Lucas said.
"Beeheheheheh! Now you now you great we are!" G&W laughed. "See? I told you that if you have determination and try your best, you can surely succeed!"
"Thanks for the encouragement, Mr. Game and Watch!" Lucas said to him. "If it weren't for you, I would've returned to my cowardly ways in the past, but now I'm reminded of how I wanted to be stronger and braver. Thank you very much!"
Red and Pit approached them and Red asked, "So, have you rescued the prisoners yet or have you found anything notable over there?"
TO BE CONTINUED
This chapter actually came out much better than I thought! I don't remember seeing any story that puts that much emphasis into Mr. Game & Watch. It's always about Ike, Marth, Roy, and other good-looking bishounen characters. The stickman needs more love and spotlight, don't you think?