Chapter 30
Do you really have what it takes to defeat me?
At the throne room, Chisame told the three Pokemon to leave the room for a while she get herself dressed properly using the curtain that she took down from the wall. After those three nodded and left, Chisame closed the door and made sure that there was nobody else in the room (not counting the KOed Petey) and then set up a video camera nearby before untying her hair and taking off her eyeglasses to transform into her alter ego.
"Hello, everyone!" Chiu said cheerfully in front the video camera. "Today Chiu is having a tour in the castle of Lycia's royalty! Don't you feel like being able to visit such a place like this? I'm so happy that I can sit on the throne and pretend that I'm a queen now! But some wild animal popped up in the room and caused some havoc, so that's too bad! Would you believe that underneath the curtain around my body are my clothes that just got ripped? I bet you fanboys are drooling and nose bleeding already! Too bad you'll never get to see me naked! Pyon!"
Suddenly, Chisame felt a heavy pressure approaching her and then in a split second, she had the video camera put away in who-knows-where, her hair back to normal, and her eyeglasses back on. Those three Pokemon poked their heads in from behind doorway to see what was going on and Pikachu asked, "Who was speaking just now?"
"Didn't sound much like you," Pichu said.
"Nothing, you're just hearing things…" Chisame told them.
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Elsewhere within the castle, Asuna, and Negi were running as a group through a large spacious area filled with pillars. "This place sure is big," Asuna commented. "And if you ask me, there are lots of unnecessary rooms… It basically makes the whole place look like a giant maze… I'm surprised the people living here have no problem running around."
"That's how castles are like," Negi explained. "This is so that if enemies invaded, they will have a hard time navigating around and getting to rooms that they want get to."
"It sure can be a pain trying to remember which path leads to where…"
"I can see a door over there!" Mario said. "Let's-a go!"
As they closed in on the door, Chamo suddenly asked Mario, "Where's your brother?"
"Luigi?" Mario looked around and then noticed that Luigi wasn't with them anymore. "Eh? Where did-a he go?"
Way in the back of the room, one could find Luigi lying on his back in front of a pillar and his nose was flattened while winged Yoshis flew in circles above his head.
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CRASH! POW! BANG!!
The Library Exploration Girls and Kotaro were watching a battle of intense and epic proportions going on in front of their eyes. Captain Falcon and Kitty ran and jumped all over the place throwing attacks at each other and their intense power would destroy the furniture that were in the way. "Whoa man… This is totally like something you would see in an action shounen anime!" Haruna commented. "I can't believe I would be looking at something like this in real life!"
"They both are equally strong… Doesn't look like a winner will be decided anytime soon…" Yue said.
"I don't know if I should step in to help or not…" Kotaro said.
"Mach Punch!" CF ran towards Kitty and slammed his fists at him rapidly over and over.
"Tekkai!" Kitty hardened his body and took every single blow with no consequences at all. CF then pulled back his elbow and thrust forward to hit him, but Kitty used Kamie to dodge aside and then tried to stab him with his finger. CF turned to the incoming hand and caught it before the finger reached him and pushed Kitty away before rushing at him to perform an uppercut, but Kitty hopped back to avoid it. "Rankyaku Boomerang!" He then kicked out a crescent-shaped wind blade at him.
CF ducked to avoid the wind blade and it soared through the place slicing down the decorative armors that were placed alongside the room, and then just like its name implies, the wind blade u-turned and came after CF from the back again. CF saw this and quickly ducked down again.
After the wind blade disappeared, Kitty jumped at CF and hardened his fist while falling towards him. "Tekkai Smash!" CF pulled out of that place and the fist slammed into the floor violently and created a medium-sized crater. Wasting no time, Kitty jumped at CF and did a roundhouse kick that he ducked underneath, and then he lifted his leg straight up to kick Kitty from below. "Kamie!" Kitty's body bent to the side as if it was paper and managed to avoid the kick before jumping away to safety.
"Tsk! These moves sure are annoying!" CF grumbled.
"And that is why you will never defeat me!" Kitty claimed. "I'm starting to think if you really did defeat Rob Lucci."
"I'll prove it to you then!"
They dashed at each other and each threw a punch that cancelled out each other, and then they swung their legs that came in contact in midair. They pulled back their legs afterwards and started throwing a barrage of super fast punches against each other with each hit coming in contact and canceling out each other. The overall atmosphere of their attacks coming in contact with each other was a truly an intense one.
They pulled back their fists again and then threw an even more powerful punch, this time punching each other right in the side of face. Both sides took damage from each other's punch and then they were repelled all across the place.
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!
"Whoa! He actually landed a hit!" Kotaro said.
CF got back up and wiped off the blood on his mouth and glared at Kitty, who had a pissed off face, across the room.
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"Be careful… That man is no pushover… He's definitely a strong one-degozaru…" Kaede warned Ku Fei and Kirby as they got into fighting stance to take on the Smash Pro member, Brawtaunt.
"Don't worry! I won't lose to him-aru!" Ku Fei assured her.
"We have the number advantage here, so we will win for sure!" Kirby said.
"You people do not know your place," Brawtaunt said. "That girl did put up a fight after all. She's definitely a high tiered material, but still sadly not enough to take me down. I will see for myself on which position you two are then."
"You bet that we are in a tier position higher than you!" Kirby claimed. "Not that I care about tiers, mind you. Anyway, here I come! Break Dash!" He ran at Brawtaunt and immediately flipped upside-down and spun towards him with legs spread out.
Brawtaunt jumped straight up and when Kirby was underneath him, he thrust both feet down onto him and Kirby was smashed right into the floor upside-down. He landed in front of the puffball and then Ku Fei ran up to him and slammed forth her arm. Brawtaunt avoided it by sliding to the side with almost no movement on his legs at all and Ku Fei tripped on Kirby instead and fell forward, but did a handstand before she touched the floor and flipped back onto her legs properly. Kirby also popped back out from the floor by himself and rubbed his head in pain. "Ow, that hurts…"
Ku Fei ran at Brawtaunt again and constantly attacked with punches and kicks that he was either able to dodge or block with his arms. Brawtaunt suddenly got behind her using the sliding move again and then was about to slam his elbow into her when she spun around and blocked with her arms fast, but the impact was strong enough to make her slide back. "Not bad for someone your age," Brawtaunt commented. Suddenly Kirby came flying into him from behind and landed a kick in the back of his body. "Oof!"
"Don't forget that I'm fighting you also!" he said.
Brawtaunt angrily turned to him and caught him in the face before he fell but then Ku Fei came at him from the other side. Brawtaunt quickly used his other hand to catch her by the fist when it came flying at him. With both hands occupied, Kaede attempted to hit him from the front, thinking that this will be an easy task if he couldn't use both hands. But Brawtaunt pulled of an unexpected move of throwing both Kirby and Ku Fei at her and all three of them crashed to the back of the room. Brawtaunt then ran towards them with his hand pulled back, and reddish energy began to appear around his fist. "Brawtaunt Punch!"
"Watch out for that one!" Kaede shouted. The three of them crawled out of the way desperately and barely avoided the energy-charged punch. Brawtaunt's fist struck the wall and blew off a decent chunk out of it.
CRASH!
"Whoa man! That's one destructive punch!" Kirby said. "And somehow it reminds me Falcon Punch…"
Brawtaunt turned to them and did a sliding kick across the floor and his leg was coated with red energy when he did this also. "Brawtaunt Kick!"
The three of them jumped out of the way again and then Kaede reached for her giant shuriken on her back and hurled it at him. Brawtaunt ducked down to avoid it and then jumped at her and thrust forward his knee to hit her. "Knee of Justice!" Kaede quickly used her hand to block the attack and though she did prevent taking a full blow from it, she still slid back quite a bit and hit the wall.
Ku Fei jumped at him and did a roundhouse kick that he quickly blocked with his left arm and then using his right arm, he punched her rapidly. Ku Fei managed to block some of them, but still ended up getting hit a couple of times all over the body. She quickly did some back flips to avoid getting hit further more and then whipped out a long piece of towel which she swung at Brawtaunt and tied him up by the right arm. "What is this?" he asked.
"Get him now, Kaede!" Ku Fei shouted.
"I'm on it-degozaru!" Kaede pulled her shuriken out of the wall and then hurled it in the direction of Brawtaunt, who couldn't move because Ku Fei's towel was tying his arm.
"I see…" Brawtaunt said, and then he yanked the towel with all his force and managed to pull Ku Fei forward, much to her surprise.
"Aru?!" She realized what Brawtaunt was doing. He pulled her right in front of himself to use a shield, defending him from the shuriken. "Yikes!"
"Oh no!" Kaede gasped. Just as Ku Fei flew in front of Brawtaunt and was about to hit by the shuriken, Kirby came flying into the scene with a hammer in hand and, spinning vertically, whacked the shuriken flat onto the floor.
CLANK!
When he landed, Kirby swung his hammer at Brawtaunt's legs but he jumped out of the way and then ripped the towel off his hand. "I say… That was good teamwork that you thought of," he said. "But unfortunately, it is still not enough to match the skills of my tier ranking."
"We'll see about that!" Kirby said. "Don't go crying when you're lying on the floor all beaten up and unable to move!"
"You talk with great confidence, but save those for until you actually manage to surpass me," Brawtaunt said. And then without a warning, he slid at Kirby at a fast speed and then lifted one leg straight up and kicked him into the air followed by a second kick from the other foot, and Kirby was smashed against the ceiling with such a force that he basically became flat like pancake.
He slid at Kaede next and did an elbow thrust which she managed to sidestep and then countered with a roundhouse kick. Brawtaunt ducked down in time and then threw a kick across the floor, but she jumped up into the air. Being wide open in air, Brawtaunt got the opportunity to kick her twice from below and sent her into the air and banging her head against the ceiling. Brawtaunt then jumped at her with arms pulled back and legs thrust down. "Nipple Spike!" When Kaede fell down and her face came in contact with his chest, she instantly shot down the floor with a monstrous velocity that the floor cracked.
SMAAAAAAAAASH!!!
"Ugh… What happened just now…?" she groaned.
"Aru! He's strong!" Ku Fei gasped. "He managed to beat Kaede! I'm not as strong as her, so can I really defeat this guy? No, I mustn't be scared by someone like him! If I do not defeat him, I can never improve! I must grow stronger!"
"It seems that you are realizing that you are powerless against me," Brawtaunt said. "I do acknowledge you people for being able to survive a fight against me up till now. With the exception of people of higher tier rankings than me, everyone else who fought me couldn't stand more than a few minutes."
Kirby got up again and shook his head to get back to perfect sense and asked, "Just how powerful are you in your organization? I wouldn't be surprised if you are the strongest next to the boss!"
"The fact that you think of me as the strongest is overestimating me," Brawtaunt told him. "While I am a top tier fighter, there are still some more people who are above my level."
"And another thing, just now many rankings are there in your crazy tier system? Not that I care about tiers, mind you."
"You seem to be curious about our tier system. Very well, I will grant you all the privilege to know this considering that you are the only people to hold up against me for this long. This is how our tier system goes, from lowest to highest:
Bottom Tier
Low Tier
Middle Tier
High Tier
Top Tier
God Tier
Tier of I Am
"That would be seven in total."
"Seven tiers?" Ku Fei said curiously.
"And I thought top tier was the highest…" Kirby said.
"That is what the public assumes, but in reality, Top Tier is merely the third highest ranking," Brawtaunt told him. "A member of a God Tier can easily take on at least three Top Tier members by himself with no problem, and within the Smash Pro organization, there are currently only four members who have the title of God Tier. All these four members believe themselves to be gods and look down on everyone else around them."
Kirby was then instantly reminded about the Smash Pro members Lou and Alpha Zero. "If I remember correctly, Peach talked about Smash Pros showing up at Wonder Town and claiming themselves to be gods… Can those two actually be members of the God Tier ranking?!"
"And obviously the most powerful member of the organization holds the title of the Tier of I Am. Only one person holds that title and that is none of other than the mastermind of the Smash Pros, I Am."
"So he's the boss…" Ku Fei thought.
"While I may not know the boss as much as the God Tier members, I do know that I Am believes himself to be more superior to gods. To him, a god is a lowly piece of trash. He sees himself as a perfect being that surpasses even a god."
"That's complete bull…" Kirby grumbled. "How can there be a status even higher than a god?"
"That is what I Am believes in, and if he believes in something, he wants it to be as he believes in," Brawtaunt told him.
"Whatever you say, that is not important to us now!" Kirby said angrily. "Now we're only concern in beating you up and then going on to support our friends! You better stop getting in our way or else we'll screw you up badly!"
"Do you honestly think you have what it takes to beat me?" Brawtaunt asked. "I have shown you already the difference between our powers."
"I believe I can beat you!" Ku Fei said. "Behold my Chinese Kung-Fu! Spinning Dragon Kick!" She jumped at Brawtaunt with one legs stretched out and spun with a fast velocity that a layer of wind surrounded her.
As she approached, Brawtaunt quickly leaped straight up into the air and then slammed down both his feet onto her head from above and smashed her onto the floor.
"Ah!"
He landed next to her and then kicked her in the chin to send her a slight bit into the air, and then he leaped forward and delivered a powerful knee slam into her guts. "Knee of Justice!"
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!
"YAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" Ku Fei shot back from the powerful impact and her back went through the wall first with a powerful crash.
CRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!"
"Ku Fei!" Kaede gasped.
Ku Fei slowly tilted her head up and said, "Don't worry… I'm all right…" She looked back and realized the predicament that she was in; her butt was stuck into the wall. Placing her hands against the wall, she pushed to try and free herself out from the wall, but her butt was lodged way too tightly in the wall and her struggles were fruitless. Scratching the back of her head, she said in a sheepish voice, "Sorry, but I think I'm stuck… Aru…"
Kaede turned to look at Brawtaunt angrily and said, "I won't forgive!" And she ran towards him to ready to attack him again.
"You know that you cannot hope to hit me if you attempt to attack directly," Brawtaunt said.
Kirby was also going to help out, but then he felt his nose itching and then sneezed. When he sneezed, Brawtaunt turned to look at him, and in doing so, Kaede was able to throw a punch across his face.
POW!
"DOH!!!" Brawtaunt fell back from the punch but managed to recover back on his knees. "Why you?!"
"Now's my turn to hit you!" Kirby said as he made a dash for Brawtaunt.
A smirk appeared on Kaede's face and she suddenly pointed to the side of the room with a shocked expression. Brawtaunt was curious on what she was pointing to and thus looked to the side, only to give Kirby a chance to uppercut him in the chin. "Rising Break!!" he shouted.
SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!
"UWAAAAAAA!!!!" Brawtaunt soared up into the air from the punch and crashed his head against the ceiling before falling back onto the floor again. The helmet managed to protect his head from getting hurt badly against the ceiling's impact.
"I figured out your weakness!" Kaede said with a smile.
"Really? What is it?" Kirby asked her.
Pointing to Brawtaunt who was glaring at her angrily, she said out loud, "His weakness is that… he gets distracted very easily-degozaru!"
TO BE CONTINUED
More explanation and revelation revealed about the Smash Pros here. Bet the tier system really isn't what you think, right?