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Chapter 13

They were at a stand still- Alex surrounded by the eleven Smashers left. "Well?" Ike gasped, stepping forward and raising his sword. "There's more of us than you. Are you going to make us go through the formality of a fight or just give up now?"

Alex looked around coolly at the battered group of Smashers, who all were bleeding or clutching at broken bones, then looked down at himself. His worst injury was a cut on his shoulder, which seemed to be just a little painful and nothing else. "No. No, I think I'll take my chances with a fight. You see, I have the Golden Sun. I am, by far, the most powerful of all of you. Even the god of our land couldn't kill me. You think you can?"

Zelda glared at him and cast Din's Fire, but held the fire in her hand and snapped, "Yeah. Yeah, we do and we will. I don't know about your god, but all of us are strong enough to fight you and hold our own. If you want to go through with this, then fine. And maybe we can't kill you, but we can hurt you so badly you won't want to become a Smasher."

"Oh, I doubt that. I came here to get something with these friends of mine- albeit, weak friends- and I'm not going to leave until I get it."

They stood in silence for a moment, then the battle began again. And now they saw that that Alex wasn't lying about being the most powerful of the elemental warriors- if anything, it was an understatement. Now it was becoming clear that before, when he'd been fighting the Smashers and defeating them each time, he had been holding back. And when they'd finally gotten a good shot at hitting him- Charizard, Lucas, and Zelda all about to strike at the same time- he disappeared.

Disappeared.

The flames collided in the empty space amid laughter from above them. The Smashers jumped away in shock and looked around nervously before finally finding him on the roof of the Smash Mansion.

He laughed again and shook his head at them. "You can't catch me!" he called down before pulling back from the edge as Pit took aim and fired.

Charizard stretched his long neck and roared before slamming into the Smash Mansion- after all the abuse it had taken from the arwing battle that had previously just been fought around it and all the other explosions from the elemental warriors' attacks, Charizard's blow had enough force behind it to bring the mansion down entirely.

There was a shout from the roof as it crashed down to the ground. Alex tumbled from the top and landed on his hands and knees right in front of Charizard who let out a stream of fire at his head as Ike ran at him, his sword raised to strike.

Alex screamed it agony and threw himself out of the way, drawing his sword with one hand and raising the other, shouting, "Storms! I summon you! Give me strength!"

Zelda and Ike laughed before charging at him, then froze at the sound of thunder.

Storm clouds were rolling in faster then they thought possible, rain already falling down onto the Smashers and dousing the remaining flames on Alex's torso. The creature laughed, his icy eyes flashing dangerously as he pointed his sword at the Smashers. "Still confident?" he shouted over the thunder, the suddenly frequent flashes of lightening turning his pale form into a dark silhouette.

Trembling slightly, Zelda conjured another ball of fire only to have the rain put it out. Alex laughed at her again and shook his head, water droplets glistening on his face and in his hair like ice. "I live in this world! I am as powerful as a god!" he shouted, raising his arms to the sky. "Storms! Water! That is my power- and you… you all have nothing!"

The Smashers all looked nervously at each other, torn between uncertainty and terror, before Ike stepped forward and raised his blade. "You're no god! You're not all powerful! If you were, then you wouldn't have fought like this to become one of us! You're nothing but a liar and a cheat, Alex! You won't get away with terrorizing us all by calling yourself a god."

Alex's eyes narrowed and he shook wet, light blue hair out of his eyes. "No… I'm not all powerful. The god from my world wouldn't let that happen. I stole the Golden Sun, yes, but not all of it. The god gave a small part of it to one you've already fought- Isaac." He pointed at the limp blond on the ground, then growled, "But I have enough of it! I have enough to be more powerful than all of you! I may not be a god, but I'm close- closer than you'll ever be!"

"Doesn't matter. We don't care how strong you are; the reason we're here as Smashers is because we're heroes in the worlds we're from. Not tyrannical dark overlords- and we''re not about to let one of you get what you want from us!" Lucas cried before attacking Alex- for the last time.

The storm continued brewing overhead, rain pelting down on them as the Smashers and Alex locked in combat. As the rain was putting out any attempts of to use fire against him, they had to rely purely on physical strength. Alex, however, was fighting with the element of water on his side and continued teleporting to different locations around the battlefield, catching the Smashers unawares and crushing them every time.

Slowly the odds got worse and worse from the Smashers, from eleven to one, to eight, to five, and finally, to three.

Ike, Lucas, and Toon Link versus Alex.

But now they knew why Alex had been holding back before- it was exhausting to him. It was clear he was growing desperate and he was moving slower now. His attacks with water were growing weaker and his blows with his sword weren't as strong. On top of that, he was no longer able to stand tall and proud with any injuries- he was finally just as battered as the Smashers.

"I'm a god!" Alex cried, gasping for breath, leaning on his sword for support. "You can't do this! I'll fight you as many times as it takes to defeat you! I can hold it up! Let us fight, over and again, until you finally give up."

Bruised and broken, Ike stood at the head of the trio and shook his head. "No. We will fight, over and again, as many times as you'd like, but you won't prevail. It's time we ended this…" He closed his eyes for a moment, then pointed his sword skyward, his eyes flashing red as he charged at Alex, shouting, "Great Aether!"

"PK Starstorm!"

"Triforce Slash!"

Ike shot up into the air, slashing at Alex repeatably with great, powerful strokes while Toon Link attacked from the other side, trapping Alex within a spiraling Triforce to stop him from escaping. Lucas, encased in an electric ball, hovered right on top of Alex, surrounding him in electricity and stopping him teleporting.

Finally, Lucas, Ike, and Toon Link descended lightly to the ground, all breathing hard, as Alex, finally unconscious, fell limply to the ground and collapsed, out cold. The Smashers had won.