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Chapter 36
Part of my plan to spread the mustard of doom onto the sandwich this is!
Fawful had just absorbed the spirit into himself and had undergone the transformation that I mentioned in the previous chapter, and he was laughing to himself delightfully in a voice that could give chills down the spines of people. "What is this form…?" Roy asked in surprise. "What did you just do exactly?"
"Geeheheheheh! A fink rat like you never will understand what the rottenness in my little gray matter that is my brain is thinking!" Fawful said.
"I thought you just wanted to release the spirit and let it return to the body in order to bring the Cruncher back to life again. Looks like you fused yourself with the spirit instead… What's the meaning of this?"
"Part of my plan to spread the mustard of doom onto the sandwich this is! Sooner or later you shall witness the awesomeness of my spectacular nasty little plans! The world shall know power as it shines down from the sky like thousand of dazzling sunbeams of coolness! Geeheheheheh!"
"Whatever, I'm not interested in what your plans are nor am I going to let you accomplish your plans! I'm going to strike you down right here and right now! For trespassing into my castle and claiming it as your own as well as imprisoning my people, you shall be punished!" Roy unsheathed his binding blade and ran at Fawful immediately. "Prepare yourself!"
BGM: Boss theme (Mario & Luigi 3)
Fawful snickered and then got out a gun from underneath his clothe and fired a purple star-shaped beam at him. Roy easily dodged the attack and swung his sword at him, but the headgear let out flames from the sides and Fawful took off into the air to evade the blow.
Roy looked up to see the mouthpiece of the headgear pointing down at him and spitting out purple energy balls. He hopped back to avoid it and then swung his sword to shoot fireballs into the air, but Fawful flew aside swiftly to avoid it, and then he pointed his gun at Roy and fired two energy shots at once. Roy once again dodged them but then the energy shots turned around and one of them blasted him forward onto the floor while the other one went over him. "Ow!"
The remaining energy ball turned around again to hit him, but Roy swung his sword at it and shattered it. "Didn't see that coming…" he said while rubbing the spot on his back that was hit.
The mouthpiece then came down to bite him but he jumped away in time. Fawful laughed as the mouthpiece extended in his direction and Roy held up his sword and the mouthpiece bit onto the sides of his blade instead. Taking advantage of this, Roy swung his blade to the side and Fawful was swung through the air and crashed into the wall, and the mouthpiece let go and returned to the headgear at once. "You're open!" Roy said, and he shot out fireballs at him.
"Open I am not!" Fawful said, and the mouthpiece opened up and swallowed the fireballs!
"What?!"
The fireballs were shot back to him again but Roy easily avoided them. Then a dark portal appeared next to Fawful and he disappeared into it. Roy looked around to try and find him and suddenly felt something behind him. A portal opened up next to him and Fawful fired an energy shot from within it. Luckily, Roy noticed this in time and quickly rolled out of the way and shot another fireball at him, but the portal disappeared before quickly.
"Dammit! Quit hiding and face me directly!" Roy yelled in frustration.
Then several portals opened up in the air all around him. Fawful pointed his gun out from one of them and fired multiple energy shots at once, aiming them at each of the portals. Roy avoided the energy shots as they flew at him and when the energy shots went into the portals, they would pop back out from another one, and Roy found himself having to constantly avoid the energy shots as they come in and out from the portals constantly. "Damn! This is annoying!"
Another portal appeared low on the floor and a hand reached out and grabbed his leg, causing him to lose his balance. "Whoa!" Then one of the energy shots managed to hit him and the others soon hit him.
BANG BANG BANG!!!
"OW!!!"
Roy was blasted by every single on of them and was burned somewhat from head to toe. Fawful came out from another portal and laughed at him. "Geeheheheheh! You are no match for the greatness of the power that I possess!"
"Oh yeah? Then you should behold my own greatness instead!" Roy got up and immediately shot out fireballs that Fawful managed to avoid by hovering away. Immediately after floating away, Roy ran up to Fawful and slammed down his sword at him. "Flare Blade!
Fawful quickly moved back but he was unable to escape the explosion created from the strike of the sword and was burned and blown back. "Ack!"
Roy charged up to him to attack him again and Fawful quickly formed a portal behind him to escape into it, but Roy swung his sword and shot a fireball into the portal before it closed. Another portal opened up close by and Fawful came out of it with his clothes on fire. "Yeow! It is the hotness!" Roy then delivered a fiery slash at him and smashed him across the place and into the wall.
CRASH!
"Haha! How'd you like that?" Roy asked. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot about Lilina!" He ignored the knocked out Fawful and ran to the door in front of the room and kicked it open. "Lilina!"
Lilina turned around and was overjoyed to see that her husband had come to save her. "Roy! Thanks goodness you're back!" And they ran up to each other to embrace.
"Don't worry; everything will be all right!" Roy assured her. "By the way, why didn't you escape by yourself? With your level of magic, you shouldn't have any trouble escaping."
"I would if I could…" she replied, showing him the handcuffs. "These handcuffs have a type of magic insulation that prevents me from using magic."
"Anti-Magic Cuffs!"
"And the key… I don't know actually… I think he has it with him or something."
"He has it? Wait a minute." Roy ran out of the room again just in time to see Fawful standing back up. "Hey you! Do you have the keys to the handcuff? If so, hand it over!"
"Now the fink rat asks for something!" Fawful said. "I have fury, and listen to you I will not, even if I have the key! My fury I will give you instead! Take it all for yourself!" He stretched out his arms and black fireballs were formed in midair and circled around him for a while before flying in his direction.
"What the?!" Roy quickly countered with his own fireballs and they cancelled out each other. Roy then ran towards Fawful and swung his sword, but the villain quickly flew out of the way and shot out some energy shots out from his headgear. Roy avoided them by jumping high up into the air and raised his sword high over Fawful and brought it down on him, much to his surprise.
"Yikes!"
SLAAAAAASH!!!!
Roy aimed for the headgear and now that it was destroyed, Fawful fell onto the floor with a thud while the headgear collapsed next to him and short-circuited. "Ha! Your fighting power should be lowered, I bet!" Roy said.
"You bully!" Fawful growled angrily, and he got out his gun and fired at him. Roy easily evaded them and then spun around to take out the shots as they turned to him for a second attempt and then spun back again to attack Fawful, who leaped back like a frog to avoid getting hit and continued to fire more projectiles at him.
Roy was able to counter all them with the sword and ran close to Fawful to strike him again, but Fawful quickly countered him by making dark fireballs appeared around him, and Roy quickly stopped just before he touched them. "Eat this!" Fawful said, and pointing his finger at Roy, the fireballs flew at him.
Roy swung his sword to shoot his own fireballs at the black ones but surprisingly enough, the black fireballs swayed off to the side and avoided contact with the orange ones and struck the floor around Roy and turned into a ring of fire surrounding him. "What the?!"
"Geehehehe!" Fawful laughed as he grasped his fingers together, and then the black fire started to close in on him. "The fire cannot be doused like you can with water on normal fire! You touch it and burn away you will like roast chicken!"
Roy thought of jumping over the fire, but it was rather risky and so without anything else better to do, he swung in a circle and plowed his blade through the ring of black fire, and strangely enough, the black fire disintegrated when the Binding Blade went through it.
"Eh?" Fawful was surprised to see this.
"I put out the fire, didn't I?" Roy asked. "It's not as deadly as you say after all! You're really more of talk rather than brawn if you ask me. Time to strike you down!" Roy leaped at him with his sword pulled back and slammed it down, but Fawful moved out of the way fast. Soon after landing however, Roy swung his sword to the side and created an arc of fire that struck Fawful and pushed him back through the air. Roy ran at him and planted his right foot right into his face before shooting a couple of fireballs that blasted Fawful backwards again.
"Ow! How merciless!" Fawful cried.
"People like you don't deserve mercy!" Roy said as he ran towards him.
Then a smile appeared on Fawful's face. "Match for you I am not! And to waste precious time here is of absolute pointlessness! I must spread the mustard of doom onto the sandwich and begin the final step at once! Our fight has been of excitement and fun, but there must be a farewell of no sadness and one that deserves no tears!"
"You're not going anywhere!"
Fawful got out a remote control with a single button from underneath his clothe and pressed it, and it caused a barrier to appear around him. When Roy slammed his sword onto the barrier, he bounced back instead. "Whoa!"
Fawful laughed at him and a portal appeared underneath him and he started to sink into it. "I said you're not going anywhere!" Roy shouted. "Flare Blade!" And he slammed down his sword with all his might to create a fiery blast that engulfed the barrier.
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!
When the fire and smoke cleared, the barrier was gone and so was Fawful, but there was a key left behind on where Fawful originally was. "Damn, he got away…" Roy grumbled. "This key… It must be for Lilina's handcuff."
He picked up the key and at the same time, Mario, Luigi, Negi, Chamo, and Asuna came into the room. "Roy!" Mario said.
"Oh, it's you guys!" Roy said.
"How's everything?" Negi asked him.
"Apparently, we were all too late…" Roy told him with a disappointed face. "The Cruncher's spirit was in this room all along…"
"What?! That means the Cruncher will be revived soon and kill us all!!" Luigi gasped in horror. "What do we do?!"
"That means Chisame got all the locations wrong!" Asuna said in shock.
"Can't blame her since this location apparently wasn't marked down on the map…"
"What-a happened?" Mario asked. "Did-a Fawful successfully revived the Cruncher?"
"You wouldn't believe this, but he actually absorbed the spirit into himself!"
"What?!" they all said in shock.
"I fought with him afterwards but then he escaped after a while. He said he was going to begin the last step of his plan. I don't know where he went though…"
"Oh no… We're too late…" Negi cried in disappointment. "We allowed him to free the spirit… I can't believe this…"
"Don't worry, bro!" Chamo told him. "I'm sure everything will turn out all right in the end!"
"Roy… How's everything?" Lilina asked, coming out from the room.
"Oh yeah! I forgot that I have to unlock your cuffs!" Roy said, and he went to get the job done immediately.
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Meanwhile, the other Smashers and students were fighting the army of Fawful-lookalike robots down in the lower area of the castle.
Wario lifted up a robot and leaped up into the air to perform a piledriver on top of another robot and destroyed them both at once.
Yoshi ran towards a robot with Lucario riding on top of him and Yoshi jumped at the robot and kicked it rapidly in the face to push it down, and when another robot approached him from the front, Lucario quickly protruded claws out from the back of his hand and slashed it in the body.
ROB fired a beam that pierced through several robots at once and then MK flew past them, and then the robots broke down into two pieces.
Jigglypuff jumped up the front of a robot's face and slapped it rapidly, and then Pichu jumped onto the top of the robot and electrocuted him. Pikachu then tossed himself at the robot and hardened his tail before striking the robot in the body.
Pit shot several light arrows from the air and shot the robots in the head, taking them out instantly.
Red summoned his Venusaur and had him smack the robots away as well as using his vines to throw and slam them around.
Lucas used PK Love to blast away the robots while G&W slammed a chair onto the head of another one.
Ku Fei landed a flying kick into the stomach of a robot and then arm thrust it away, and then Kaede leaped up from behind and threw her shuriken at the robot, slicing it through the upper part of the body.
Chachamaru rapidly punched a robot in the body and then ended with a kick that pushed it across the floor, and then she fired an eye beam that pierced the robot through the body and destroyed it.
Mana kept her distance from the battlefield and headshot the robots with perfect accuracy.
Chisame… sat in the corner and prayed that nobody would come after her.
As they continued to battle the robots, the wall suddenly burst open and Captain Falcon came crashing in. "Captain Falcon?!" they all said in surprise.
"Darn it!" CF growled, and he ran back into the previous room to continue fighting Kitty. He jumped at Kitty at a fast speed and socked him in the face to knock him back through the air, and then he planted another punch onto his face and smashed him onto the floor.
"Grrrr!!!" Kitty growled angrily and leaped back onto the floor and delivered a quick jab to CF who quickly recovered and then threw a barrage of super fast punches at him.
"Ultimate Mach Punch!"
POW POW POW POW POW!!!!
Despite Kitty hardening his body using Tekkai, he couldn't fully protect himself from the power of the punches and thus quickly used Soru to get out of the way. "Rankyaku!" He kicked a wind blade at him and CF quickly jumped away and swiftly charged at him.
They came in contact and pushed against each other with all their strengths using their hands and locked eyes angrily. "Just give it up! There is no way you can defeat the master of Rokushiki like me!" Kitty growled.
"Until I make sure that you are no more threat to my comrades, I will not stop!" CF told him.
"There is no way that will ever happen! Rankyaku!" Kitty lifted his right leg and tried to kick CF, but he jumped back in time to avoid the attack. "Rankyaku Line!" Kitty then kicked out a wind blade that traveled in a straight line, but the attack once again missed and CF jumped at him to attack him again.
"Captain Falcon seems to be having a hard time…" Yoshi said.
"It looks like his opponent isn't pushover either…" Pikachu said.
"Should we go help him?" Kaede asked.
"Better not…" G&W suggested. "Remember Falcon saying that we should leave the cat guy to him?"
"But that guy's a dog…" Pichu told him.
"He smells like a cat though," Yoshi claimed.
"Whatever the case is, he is fighting someone really powerful right now and it is best that we do not interfere with him. We may just be a burden…" G&W continued. "We all know how strong Falcon is, so we can bet that he's going to win this fight. The best we can do now is to pray for his luck."
"Hey look, Honya-chan and her friends and Kotaro are over there-aru," Ku Fei pointed out.
"You can do it, Falcon!" Pichu shouted out loud.
"Let me know if you need my help!" Wario said.
CF turned to look at them and said, "Don't worry! I can deal with him! You people stay out of this for your own safety!"
"Their safety will not be guaranteed," Kitty said. "Once I'm done with you, I will go kill them all!"
"I will not allow you to do so!" CF said angrily. "Ultimate Falcon Kick!" He slid across the floor at a super fast speed but Kitty moved out of the way in time. "Ultimate Falcon Roundhouse!" CF immediately swung his feet at him the moment he came to a halt and Kitty barely had time to block it with his arms. CF then grabbed one of his arms and pulled back his other fist before slamming it into his chest hard.
SMASH!!!!
"Urk!" Kitty slid back and came to a stop and then said angrily, "You're really asking for it! Now I'm going to use the ultimate technique that only people who have fully mastered the Rokushiki knows how to use: Rokougan! Did Rob Lucci used this on you or not?"
"What? Never heard of that," CF replied.
"Then that would mean he never had the chance to pull off this ultimate technique on you! This ultimate technique will surely blow you away! You're forcing me to go all out on you now!"
"Bring it!"
"You can do it, Falcon!" Pichu cheered loudly.
"You win!" Jigglypuff said.
"I wouldn't say that if I were you," said a voice. They all turned around and were surprised to see Metaboss, Petey Piranha, and Major Burrows standing in the room. They all looked beaten up to show that they had suffered battle wounds previously.
"Eeks! That plant monster that almost digested me is back up again!" Chisame cried.
"You're still up and at it?!" Yoshi said in shock while Lucario got into fighting stance.
"Don't underestimate us!" Metaboss said. "We're not the likes to be defeated by you so easily, and neither will Kitty fall so easily!"
"Kitty is without doubt the most powerful among us here!" Major Burrows explained. "No matter how strong that guy named Faptain Calcon or something is, he will never defeat Kitty!"
"Just you wait!" Pichu said. "Captain Falcon is one of the most powerful Smashers and there is no way he will lose too!"
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"Ultimate Falcon Punch!!" CF dashed at Kitty and threw forth THE punch, but Kitty managed to avoid it in the nick of time.
Quickly placing his fists on top of each other, he placed his arms next to CF's body before he could react and shouted, "Rokougan!"
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!!!!!!
"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUWAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" CF felt MASSIVE amount of pain spreading throughout every single part of his body as a shockwave burst out from Kitty's fists and struck him. CF did not fly back however; blood burst out from his mouth and he took some steps back weakly before falling over onto his knees and continued coughing out blood, and then Kitty kicked him across the face and he fell limp onto the floor.
The Library Exploration Girls were horrified at what they saw and Kotaro was very shocked as well. "CAPTAIN FALCON!!!"
"CAPTAIN FALCON!!!!" gasped the rest of the Smashers.
"Bweheheheheh! Told ya!" Metaboss said, and he laughed along with his other two partners.
TO BE CONTINUED
Captain Falcon is defeated?! That can't be possible! There is no way the hero can lose! Find out the epic conclusion to the battle between Captain Falcon and Kitty in the next chapter FOR REAL!!!