Author's Note:
Super Smash Flash 2 is based on the popular fighting franchise by Nintendo and is currently going through its beta stages. This story, which is based on version 0.8, takes the characters, unlockable and otherwise, and the stages as they are to form the map of the imaginary world of Smash Flash. Each update twists the story drastically. Despite the title, this is the very first story in the series.
It seemed The Battle of Hyrule would meet its end with Son Goku triumphing over Fox McCloud. Goku lifted the fox by his torn jacket.
"Let me guess" Fox said with a bruised smirk "this is the part where you spare my life despite everything. After all, you are Son Goku, that's kinda your thing." A smile crept upon Goku's face.
"I think I've learned my lesson on that." Goku said as he threw Fox to the ground in front of him. He squatted lightly, hands by his side. "KAME-HA-ME-HA-ME." Fox saw that he was taking longer than usual. Surely the saiyan wished to kill him with the beam and leave nothing left. Nearly paralyzed from his defeat, he thought on his toes. He said softly as Goku charged his beam:
"ROB 64, execute order 64-RR." Fox said, addressing the robot which always piloted his ship, The Great Fox.
"Impossible. Your reflector is too damaged at the moment to be activated from The Great Fox. Additional Note: There are two foreign life forms atop the ship, one an orange fox and the other a blue hedgehog. Both life forms exhibit very violent behavior towards each other and damage may be done to the ship. Hence, what are your orders?" Fox grew a small smirk as he said loudly before the beam was fully charged:
"Enter Safe Mode X!"
"Safe Mode X, entered." Said ROB 64
"Who are you talking to?" Goku asked, beam nearly complete.
"That is none of your concern." Said Fox "All you need to know is that once I die, so too will Sonic."
"What?" Goku asked, his beam becoming slightly weaker.
"You heard me." Fox replied "Once you obliterate me, my ship will explode, and take Sonic with it. Now you have a choice Son Goku. Kill me, or save your friend. Hmhmhmhm, HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Goku's beam faded away completely.
"You're bluffing." Goku said.
"You know I'm not bluffing, or else you would have killed me. Your move, saiyan."
"Don't think this is over, Fox." Goku said as he left Fox at Hyrule.
The Nexus East of Planet Namek leads to a dead end. This meant that Megaman had Black Mage cornered. At least that's the way Megaman saw it.
"Nowhere for you to run, wizard! This is where you meet your end."
"No Mega, you'll find that it is you who should have run." Black Mage's eyes began to light up.
Whatever friendship they'd had before, whatever feelings of regret either had about the situation at hand, it all ends here, in Sector Z. Sonic had managed to catch Miles slipping and landed a devastating blow to Miles' throat. There was much blood lost, but after that point in the battle, Sonic was mostly on the run, still hindered by his broken ankle. Or perhaps it was his foot. He couldn't tell. All he knew was pain. Finally Miles had cornered him at the back edge of the ship. He stood with his back to the vast open space; his injured foot painfully planted further back.
"It's been fun toying with you Sonic" Miles said "I know there's no way you could actually outrun or outmaneuver me on that foot. But I'm afraid all good things must come to an end. But first, let's see how your foot gets you out of this!" Miles said as he fired off an electron blast. Every bone in his body that still functioned told him not to, but Sonic defied all of them and pushed off of his injured foot to quickly evade the blast. He made it just about a dozen feet before tripping on the same hurt foot. The pain was getting the best of him as he rolled over on his back, holding his foot in pain. The last thing he heard Miles say was: "Shit!" as the electron blast, still enhanced by Pikachu's thunderbolt, hit the engine of the ship. The explosion started at the back of the ship, where the two combatants were.
Fox was crawling his way out of Hyrule, when suddenly, he heard someone limping from behind.
"Stop running you son of a bitch, I'm gonna kill you." Lloyd said.
"Leave me alone." Fox replied.
"Leave you alone? Leave you alone?" Lloyd began to limp faster.
"Stay back!" Fox said, pulling out his blaster.
"Do you know what I've been through?" Lloyd asked "If something as simple as a gun could kill me I'd be dead by now." Just then, Fox got a transmission from ROB 64.
"Fox, engine is destroyed. Cause: an explosion triggered by foreign projectile. Systems critical."
"Activate automatic repair systems." Fox commanded.
"Repair centuries are dysfunctional. Total loss may be eminent without manual repairs. Systems failing." ROB 64, arguably Fox McCloud's greatest asset, was dying. He simply could not allow that to happen. He struggled to his feet.
"I'm going to die, but not today." Fox said.
At the Sky Sanctuary Zone, the princess was close to death, as Donkey Kong was still squeezing her. The Captain grew impatient.
"This will obviously not suffice!" Falcon said as he cocked his fist back. Seeing this and approaching from behind, Wario began to run as fast as he could which, given the sword wounds and bruises he suffered while fighting Lloyd, hurt him a lot. "Falcon!" the captain said as he prepared to land a deadly blow to the princess.
"Don't you touch her!" Wario shouted as he leaped at the captain from behind. His fist still clinched and cocked back, the captain turned around a full 180 degrees to finish his attack.
"PUNCH!" Falcon hit Wario with the same attack used to kill Mario. It was uncertain if Wario had survived or not as he flew back and skyward. As Wario reached his apex, a figure fell from the sky, meeting Wario with a hard downward fist to the skull, finishing what Lloyd and Captain Falcon had started. Wario landed hard on the nearby floating stones. These stones gave out underneath his weight and dropped from the sky, as did the corpse which had momentarily rested on it. Wario, longtime nemesis to Mario of the Mushroom Kingdom, was finally dead. The strange figure responsible landed just ten feet from the captain. "Finally." the captain said "I was beginning to lose hope. The opportunity I've been wishing for." The figure was facing away from the captain. He only turned his head around to say:
"You should always be careful what you wish for."
All Megaman regretted was that no one was there to see him stand up to the once great Black Mage. The self-proclaimed "root-of-all-evil".
"You were never the one to stand against the main threat. That stopped happening when you came to this world. We both know that." Black Mage said as he tossed a flaming rock at Megaman. Megaman dodged it as he replied:
"And we both know you stopped being the main threat a while ago. Mario took you down." Megaman shot off a megabuster blast. Black Mage used another rock to absorb the shock. He responded:
"And where is he now?" Megaman began charging toward his foe as he yelled.
"It doesn't matter. We don't need him to save us all the time." Seeing the charging robot, Black Mage casted a lighting spell that slowly moved toward Megaman. Megaman did his best to slow down right before touching the lighting bolt.
"We both know that's a lie. Those that stand a chance against us are still alive only because Douglas Falcon does not place their demise at high priority. It should be clear to all of you by now that if we want you dead, we will make it so. You yourself have survived our wrath thus far only by idling. Hiding amongst the grounds of Hyrule Temple while your friends die. Until now wherein you only got into this fight because you had no choice." Black Mage teleported behind Megaman while he was distracted by the lightning bolt. He grabbed Megaman from behind and began whispering in his ear. "We finally found you all. Who knows how this bloodbath will end? All that I'm sure of is that you, you will not leave this place alive!" Megaman spun the wizard off of him as he retorted:
"I'm a robot. I imagine I'll never know what heaven or hell is like. But you, you'll know, soon."
An alarmed Goku made his way to Sector Z as fast as he could. But when he arrived, the damage had been done. The Great Fox was in pieces and aflame. All he noticed that hinted that there ever was life were blue and orange hairs floating about. Tears began to fall rapidly, but upon leaving his face, floated into the debris.
"Fox." Goku said as he started shaking with anger. "I'll kill you. I'll-" Goku paused mid-sentence. The feeling he felt at that moment was the same one he felt when he found Naruto's corpse. Confused, Goku walked back through the Eastern Nexus, to the Green Hill Zone. He dropped to his knees and began crying. This time, the tears were not to mourn death; rather they were to express the severe confusion and helplessness in the situation. When he did not fight, Mario died and the entire conflict began. And when he did fight, it seemed as though things got worse. Everything except his instincts had told him to kill Fox when he had the chance. But then, his instincts had been a little off since he had gotten to this world. Maybe he was no longer the ultimate weapon he had been back in his old world. Maybe he never should have made that wish in the first place. He sat in a meditative position and closed his eyes to rest.
The self-revitalized Fox McCloud managed to elude and escape the injured and slow-moving Lloyd, though he had to take a detour. This meant going through the Sand Ocean stage. The journey reminded him of his battle in the final round of The Great Fox Tournament. It was the best battle he had ever fought, despite losing. He had never felt so in-his-prime. It made him think of when he would begin to plateau, or when he would begin to decline as a fighter. But when he reached Sector Z and saw the devastation done to The Great Fox, it made him think of his own mortality. ROB 64's communications with him had since failed and he had no idea whether or not the robot was still functional. His view, which was from the Western Nexus, made him forget about everything else that was going on. He tried once more to get through to ROB 64.
"ROB, ROB, do you read me?" Nothing. "Well most of the front of the ship is still intact. I might be able to work with that. But I've got to get in and help ROB before he goes offline." Fox made his way toward the ship.
He had finally left me. His descending upon the Sky Temple. I had no control at that point. With his heroic history, I had only hoped I was right to assume that he would rectify all things. Captain Falcon eagerly spoke to him.
"Now is the time you face your greatest challenge of all. Greater than any possessed warrior, any wizard at all. Now Mario, face me at your finest."
"Don't think you're going to leave this place alive." Mario said "I'm going to make your suffering greater than that of all those who've died thus far. Their pain combined won't match yours!"
"You don't know how happy I am that you would make such a bold statement. I dare you to come and make those threats reality. Donkey Kong, take the Princess and leave us. I shall settle this alone. Are you ready, plumber?"
"I was going to ask you that same question." Mario said, signaling the captain towards him. The captain began to run towards Mario. A small smirk crept upon Mario's face in the milliseconds it took for the captain to get closer. "Hm, tears and death." He whispered to himself as the captain got closer. "My bittersweet return." The captain was just outside of striking distance.
"Falcon . . . !" the captain said as he was preparing to attack. Mario clinched his fists and moved in on his opponent as he whispered the last phrase to himself.
"A gutter of warfare."
Hey everyone, Battalion Ice here. I know its weird me finally addressing the audience blatantly after all this time, but I couldn't think of any other way to get this information out to you. All I basically have to say is that: a) the next chapter will be the final for this particular story and b)there will however be more stories that will continue/spin off of the current storyline. Also, after reading chapter 9, feel free to ask me anything (preferably something story related), any question you might have, for example any holes you feel exist in the story. I'll do my best to answer any questions that won't be answered in later stories. You can ask these questions via reviews, PM's or forum if I choose to start one. Also stay tuned for a super important note directly after the final chapter.
