SBS Time!
Mystery-guy: If Kitty used to be a member of the government organization CP9, why did he join force with Fawful?
Game2002: Kitty never cared about doing good or evil. He just cares about doing what he does best and that is fighting, so as long as he gets to fight and beat up people, he's in it.

Chapter 31
I closed my ears and eyes! Now you cannot distract me nor defeat me!


"Distracted easily?" Kirby said curiously.

"Whether or not there is a weakness, it will not make a difference," Brawtaunt said, getting back.

"We'll see about that," Kaede told him.

"All right! Now that I know your weakness, I can take on you with ease now!" Kirby said, getting into fighting stance. "You better get ready!"

"You will see for yourself that it won't make any difference!" Brawtaunt said.

They glared at each other and there was a moment silence, and then Kaede got her shuriken and dropped it to the floor, making a loud crash that made Brawtaunt turn to look at it, and then wasting no time, Kirby ran up to him and kicked him right in the legs and Brawtaunt fell onto his stomach. "Ow!"

"Gotcha!" Kirby jumped onto his back and grabbed him by both hands and then leaped back to slam him by the head onto the floor. "German Suplex!"

SLAM!

Brawtaunt broke free from the grasp after hitting his head and got onto one knee and then Kirby ran up to him and jabbed rapidly with his stubby fist. "Vulcan Jab!" And Brawtaunt blocked using his arms.

Kaede picked up her shuriken again and dropped it the floor the second time. Brawtaunt once again was distracted by the sound that it made and turned to look at it, and Kirby managed to sock him in the face.

POW!

"Haha! You're really easy to distract, aren't you?!" Kirby said.

"That won't be enough to take me down!" Brawtaunt claimed. "I'll show you the power of a top tier fighter!" He rushed forward to grab Kirby but he quickly rolled behind him and then tried to uppercut him from the back. Brawtaunt quickly slid forward and spun around and then lifting up one hand, he dashed forward and performed an uppercut to knock Kirby into the air. "Brawtaunt Boost!"

"Ow!" Kirby flew up into the air and then Brawtaunt jumped up below him and did a full 360-degree flip and kicked Kirby across the place and right into Ku Fei's face.

"Ow!" she cried.

"Oh, sorry…" Kirby said to her while rubbing his head.

"Can you help me out? Please…"

"Oh right, you're stuck. Grab my hands then." Kirby grabbed hold of Ku Fei's hand and pulled back as hard as he could to try and get her out of the wall she's stuck in.

Meanwhile, Kaede went on ahead to confront Brawtaunt and they both exchanged punches and kicks. During the midst of exchanging blows, Brawtaunt suddenly pulled back his hand and covered his fist with red energy before slamming it forward. "Brawtaunt Punch!"

Kaede managed to move aside and dodged the blow and then used her shuriken to take a swipe at him. Brawtaunt barely got away in time and was cut slightly in the waist. "Brawtaunt Kick!" And then he slid into her with a foot charged with red energy. Kaede moved away in time again and when Brawtaunt kicked into the wall, he bounced off into the air and turning to face her, he dropped diagonally downward and tried to slam his foot onto her. "Brawtaunt Kick!"

Kaede leaped back and then hurled her shuriken at him but Brawtaunt ducked down and it went over his head instead.

While they continued fighting each other, Kirby continued to try and pull Ku Fei out. "Do you have a big butt or what?" Kirby asked her.

"Aru! That's not nice!" she said in an offended voice.

"I think I'll try pushing from the other side then," Kirby thought. There was a window on the same wall next to her that led outside, so Kirby jumped up to the window and then outside.

Ku Fei waited for a response and then she suddenly felt someone ramming her butt forcefully. "Ow! What are you doing?!"

"Sorry if it hurts!" Kirby's voice said. "But using force is the only way to get you out of here now. Just hang in there!"

Whatever Kirby was doing, Ku Fei was very uncomfortable as she felt her butt being touched and pushed. With a face turning red, she moaned and cried and even started to sweat nervously. "Oh… Ah… Aw… Whoa… Ooooooh… Oh my… It… feels… good… Oh… 阿... 哇...!"

"Just a little more!" Kirby's voice said. "Now to put the strongest blow into it!"

Suddenly, a powerful force similar to that of a hammer hit her from behind and in an instant, Ku Fei shot out from the wall like a rocket and flew towards Brawtaunt from behind, and for whatever reason, he turned around to see the Chinese girl flying into him.

BONK!

"Ow!" Brawtaunt almost fell back when Ku Fei rammed into his face using her head and after the impact, she bounced back into the air and thrust both her legs right into his face and left behind a pair of shoeprints on his flattened face. "Gugh!"

Ku Fei fell back and landed on her feet and raised her arms saying happily, "I'm free again!"

Kirby came in through the hole on the wall and wiped his head saying, "Phew… That was tough…"

"I have enough of being pushed around by the likes of you!" Brawtaunt growled angrily. "It is time I go serious and strike you all down!"

"With the three of us here, you won't be able to take us down so easily-degozaru!" Kaede said to him.

"We will definitely win-aru!" Ku Fei said.

"Bring it! Difference in numbers will not give you any advantage!" Brawtaunt said angrily. "So long as we are in different tiers, I will always be the one winning!"

"Hey, a pirate penguin," Kirby said randomly while looking through the window.

"Where?" Brawtaunt looked towards the window and when he did, both Kaede and Ku Fei charged at him and smashed him in the stomach together. "OOF!!!"

Ku Fei then uppercut him in the chin and Kaede kicked him into the air from behind and when Brawtaunt soared into the air, Ku Fei jumped up higher than him and arm thrust him in the body and face over and over.

SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK!!!!

After smacked several times, Brawtaunt crashed onto the floor and desperately got back up again, but before he could do anything, Kaede a delivered a roundhouse kick into his face and sent him crashing into the wall.

CRASH!!

"Good one!" Kirby said.

Brawtaunt got back up again despite all this and said angrily, "That does it! I'm very angry now! You think you can distract me over and over again? Guess what? I'm going to make sure that you don't do so again!" He took out a pair of earplugs and stuffed them into his ear. "I'm going to plug my ears so that I will not hear unnecessary sounds!" Then he got out a blindfold and tied it around his visor and helmet and said, "And I'm going to blindfold myself so that I will not see you do anything trying to distract me! Now there is no way I can let my weakness get the best of me! Show me your moves now!"

"He's lost it…" Kaede said, and the other two nodded in agreement.

"Now behold the power of Brawtaunt that is I!" Brawtaunt yelled.

Wasting no time, Kaede ran up to him to strike him in the guts, kicked him into the air, punched him rapidly, and then arm thrust him in the chest.

SMACK!

Meanwhile, Kirby transformed himself into a spike ball and Ku Fei tied her towel around him. Kaede continued to attack Brawtaunt mercilessly and ended the combo with a powerful strike to his abdomen and Brawtaunt slid back in a standing position.

"Take this!! Chinese Ball-and-Towel Attack!" Ku Fei yelled, and then she forcefully swung the towel at Brawtaunt and hurled Kirby in his spike ball form at him.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!!!

Kirby was smashed right into Brawtaunt's guts with a powerful force. With rolled back eyes and blood spurting out from in between his clenched together teeth, Brawtaunt shot back from the impact and right out of the window and screamed as he soared all the way across the place. "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"

He eventually crashed onto the ground and continued rolling across the grass roughly and painfully before finally coming to a stop as well as dropping his helmet in the process to reveal his wrinkly middle-aged face with a balding head.

Back in the castle, Kaede raised her arm in triumph while Ku Fei tossed a happy Kirby into the air over and over to celebrate their victory over the Smash Pro. "We defeated him!! 萬歲!!!" they exclaimed (Ku Fei exclaimed in her native language).

-

All this time, Lilina was locked up in her room with no way of escaping. The door was sealed tightly as well as all the windows. She could've used magic to break out of the place, but she couldn't as Fawful had taken everything into account. In order to prevent her from using magic, he cuffed her hands together with a special kind of handcuff that prevents the usage of magic.

Lilina sadly paced through her room with her hands cuffed together in front of her body and looked out the window with a sigh. "Roy… Please come quick…"

-

Roy was getting closer and closer to where Lilina was, but then he ran into Metaboss who came here to stop him from progressing any further.

"Bweheheheh! So the king has come at last!" Metaboss said to Roy. "You're not getting any farther than here! The boss is doing his work in the room ahead and your queen is in the room after that!"

"Get out of the way!" Roy said to him angrily. "You came into my castle without permission and then harmed my wife! I won't let any of you get away with this!"

"Oh don't worry! Your wife is quite safe! She's the queen after all, and we know how to respect a woman of that status!" Metaboss told her. "If you really want to see her though, you'll have to try and…"

"I said get out of my way!!!" Roy shouted out loud, and without letting Metaboss finish his phrase, Roy whipped out the Binding Blade and smacked him in the body with the flat part of the blade really hard.

SMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!

The strike from the sword created an explosion and Metaboss was instantly blown out of the window and towards a tower that was in the distance. "BWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!!!!"

With the evil pig out of the way, Roy sheathed his sword away and continued down the hall again. "I'm here to save you, Lilina!"

-

Luigi got back up from the floor and shook his head to return to his senses. "Oh… How silly of me to run into the pillar… I should've watched where I was going. Where are Mario and the others anyway?"

CRASH

The wall burst open without a warning and Metaboss came crashing in and fell onto the floor on his belly. Luigi hopped back in fright and instantly recognized him. "It's that pig from that fun fair!"

"Doh… That bastard…" Metaboss groaned as he got back up again, rubbing his head. "He should've let me finish first…" He then saw a frightened Luigi standing in front of him and said, "You must be one of the people that came in here to stop the boss! Lost, are you?"

"Yes…" Luigi replied in a scared voice. "Would you mind guiding me the way to the top of the tower so that I can reunite with my friends?"

"I can tell you all right, after I pummel you up!"

-

Mario, Negi, and Asuna continued their way up the spiraling staircase to reach the top of the tower to find where they believe the spirit is located, which of course is not there at all. "Are you sure it's all right to not go back and find your brother?" Negi asked him.

"I don't-a think-a anything bad-a will happen to him," Mario replied. "He may not-a be as strong-a as me, but I'm sure he can deal with certain situations himself. I have faith in him, so don't-a worry!"

"According to your friends however," Chamo said. "He's the weakest among all of you, isn't it?"

"Well… That-a eez true in most-a cases…"

"I see a door!" Asuna said, and she ran ahead of them and slammed open the door. When they stepped into the room behind it, there was nothing at all save for the Fawful sign in the middle of the room. "What's this?"

Negi went up to look at the sign and said, "Looks like we didn't find it…"

"That's too bad, bro!" Chamo said. "I wonder if the others did find it however. We wasted our time coming here after all."

"What-a eez that-a?" Mario asked, pointing to a camera-like device that was floating in the air.

They all looked up to see the camera thingy floating around and taking pictures of them and they were all curious at what it was doing exactly. The camera then moved to the far end of the room and tilted its lens towards the floor and shined down a beam of light. Slowly, a figure materialized out of the light and turned out to be a clone of Mario, though not a perfect replica as it was a very blocky version of him. "Mamamia! A clone of myself?!" Mario said, surprised.

The camera moved to the right side of the Mario clone and shined down another beam of light, this time creating a clone of Negi. This clone wasn't perfect either because it looked more like a chibi version of the original with stubby arms and legs as well as a cute face consisting of two dotted eyes and a smiling mouth.

"Is that supposed to be me…?" Negi asked.

The camera moved to the right of the Negi clone and then created another clone, this one being a clone of Asuna. Unlike the other two clones, this one is pretty much an exact replica, save for the bust size being somewhat larger than the original and having evil-looking eyes. "Why is mines the only one that looks like the original?" Asuna asked.

After that, the camera floated away to the top of the room and then shined down a beam of light, and in a bright flash, the three of them (four if you include Chamo) found themselves in a place with swirly purple background. "Theez must-a be a 3D hologram!" Mario said.

"Wait a minute… How comes there's no clone of me?!" Chamo brought up.

-

The wyvern soared down from the air and Nacien stretched his sword to the side to fly by Marth and slash him. Marth ducked underneath the attack and turned to watch as the wyvern did a u-turn in air for another attempt. Marth readied his sword and ran at Nacien as his wyvern descended to attack again. They both clashed blades together very hard and the wyvern quickly pulled back into the air before Marth could deliver another strike to it. "Pretty good, aren't you?" Nacien said to him.

"I'd prefer it if you would come down to show me exactly how good you are without the help of your pet," Marth told him.

"I'm a wyvern lord, mounted units who specializes fighting on wyverns," Nacien explained while stroking his hair like a narcissist. "But if you insist, I will show you that my skills are still unmatched even without my ride."

Behind Marth, Setsuna was telling Konoka to hide down in the building. "Ojou-sama, please stay down there," she said. "It's dangerous for you to be out here."

"Be careful yourself too, Secchan," Konoka told her. "If you get hurt, I will try my best to heal you! As long as it isn't more than three minutes…"

"Don't worry about me; concern your safety first. It is my duty to protect you after all."

The wyvern landed onto the tower and Nacien got off it and then told it to stay away from the fight in the meantime, and the wyvern flew off into the air to watch its master fight. "So… shall we begin?" Nacien said to Marth.

"You bet I'm ready to take on you!" Marth said, holding up his sword.

"Marth-san! I'm ready to help you!" Setsuna ran besides him and unsheathed her sword and got into fighting position.

"Ah, a fine lady wants to fight me too!" Nacien said. "Much as I know how to respect and treat a lady with courtesy, I will not hold back in a fight against one either. If you insist on taking me together, I wouldn't mind too. I used to be a high commanding general in Bern's military force, so my skills are not to be looked down at."

"Then this fight should prove interesting," Marth said, and he rushed over for the first attack and swung his sword which Nacien blocked with ease using his own. Nacien pulled back and then swiped horizontally which Marth was able to leap back in time to avoid and then Setsuna came jumping over Marth to slam down her sword on Nacien.

Nacien simply smirked and raised his sword overhead to block the blow and after Setsuna fell back, he tried to slash her but she leaped aside swiftly and then dashed forward to hit him after her feet touched the floor. Nacien managed to block the blow and then locked swords with her. Marth used this chance to charge in from the other side and was about to take a blow out of him.

Purplish light suddenly came out from Nacien's blade and a burst of shockwave blasted Setsuna backwards and he quickly turned to Marth to block his attack and then pushed him back. He then swung against the air to shoot out a purple energy beam which Marth was able to deflect with his sword. "What was that?" he asked.

"Dark Rune, a sword infused with dark magic," Nacien explained. "This gives the sword more destructive power than usual as well as the ability to fire dark projectiles. It is a very versatile sword due to having long range and close range capabilities."

"Interesting, eh? My sword may not be magical or anything, but to fire projectiles is not out of the impossible either!" Marth slashed the air very hard and shot out a wind blade and Nacien quickly countered with another dark projectile attack.

Both the elemental blades struck each other and exploded.

BANG!!!

-

Down in the lower part of the castle, Emonicus was lying on the floor looking beaten up and exhausted. Evangeline walked up close to him and said, "Aren't you supposed to be the second strongest around here, and perhaps even stronger than that cat guy? You're nothing like they claim to be at all and no sweat for me. This is too easy!"

"My life... is harsh… It is sad…" Emonicus said in a very sad voice as tears slowly flowed down from his eyes which were concealed behind his hair. "Life is sad… Life is a disappointment… Nobody ever loves me… How I want to cry… I want to cry…"

"Hmm?" Eva backed off from Emonicus as he got back up using his wobbly arms again.

"How sad… How sad…" he cried weakly. "I want to cry… I want to cut myself… My life… is a complete… failure… Nobody likes me… You don't like me too… Right…?"

TO BE CONTINUED

The blocky Mario clone is actually from Mario & Luigi 3.

And yes, there are Chinese characters in this chapter. The first two that you see are simply moaning sound effects and then the ones after Brawtaunt was defeated means 'Hooray'.