THE MURDER AND VENGEANCE OF PITOO - PART 3

"Hey! I know you're here Lucario!" said Bowser as he stormed into the item storage room. He turned around and blew a huge fireball at the top of the entrance. Some concrete blew apart and promptly landed in front of the door; the only door I might add. He turned back to the vast land of items and crates. "Come on out!" Lucario and King Dedede squeezed further into their crate hideout as fear arose, as well as curiosity.

"He blocked the only exit. That's actually pretty smart." said Dedede, surprised by Bowser actually using a strategic move.

"He must be that focused on getting revenge." said Lucario quietly. He engaged his aura vision mode, trying to look for another way out of the room. As he did that, Bowser marched toward a pile of crates, took a deep breath, and blew, making the crates burst into flame.

"Not there... where are you!" yelled Bowser, proceeding to set another group of crates on fire. King Dedede started shivering, knowing full well that he'll be killed for protecting Lucario. Even though he didn't want to in the first place.

"I'll get us out of this." whispered Lucario. He picked up a pebble (yes there were pebbles there, shut up) and threw it into a specific batch of crates. Bowser, reacting to the noise, immediately pounced toward the crates, believing that Lucario was hiding there. However, Lucuario was (obviously) not over there. Instead, there were explosives, which only Lucario could see. Bowser widened his eyes to a comical size as he saw the word EXPLOSIVES on the crates he was falling toward...

BOOM!

Bowser was hurled elsewhere in the room as things continued to burst into flames. Dedede broke through the box fort, wanting to take the chance to get out of there.

"Hurry, before that guy comes after us!" yelled Dedede. He waltzed over to the entrance and tried to smash the rocks with his hammer, but to no avail. The concrete was so strong that it couldn't be broken by a hammer... then again, a fireball blew it up. You know what, let's not think too much into this. Let's think about the story. Yes. Forget all aspects of logic and get back to reading.

While King Dedede was trying to smash the rocks to no avail, Lucario scanned the room, looking for something. Then, he grinned, spotting something rather unorthodox but extremely helpful. "Follow me!"

"You found another way out?"

"No. But I found a way to fight back."

"...You're joking right." said Dedede, wondering if Lucario got brain damage in the last 20 seconds.

"Bear with me." said Lucario, shaking his head. He sprinted off deeper in the maze of crates. Dedede, not wanting to be alone, tagged after him.

"Okay, what are we looking for that's so damn important?" asked Dedede.

"You'll see." said Lucario, who's oddly cheerful for someone getting chased by a turtle dinosaur thing. Speaking of the turtle dinosaur thing, the turtle dinosaur thing burst in through a crate, covered in food generated by a party ball.

"Stop calling me a turtle dinosaur thing!" yelled the turtle dinosaur thing. Bowser looked at Lucario. "And you! I'm going to smash your face in so hard that you'll wish you never had one!"

Lucario casually looked over to Dedede, ignoring the turtl- Bowser chasing after them. "Knock over that box." Dedede knocked over the box Lucario referred to as he ran past it, spilling out... ah yes. One of the most ultimate comedy props: banana peels. Bowser's foot landed on one... and he flipped over and landed on his back, like the turtle dinosaur thing he is.

"I'M NOT A TURTLE DINOSAUR THING! I AM BOWSER, KING OF THE KOOPAS!" yelled Bowser, trying to get himself upright, while Dedede tried his best to keep himself from giggling.

"Over here!" yelled Lucario, standing in front of something covered in a table cloth. Dedede approached as the Pokemon pulled the table cloth off. "Here we go."

The penguin's jaw dropped. "Woah, are those actually..."

"Yes." said Lucario. On the table in front of them were actual Beam Claws, in pristine condition. By the looks of things, it was going to be an item to be used in the Smash tournament. Dedede picked up and examined a note sitting next to the set of claws.

Dear Ms. Palutena,
I'm sorry, but we won't use your Beam Claws in the Brawl tournament. Not only has it not been introuced yet to the real world (I'm making a request to Sakurai to fix that problem), but it's ridiculously overpowered. I once tested it out and I accidently sliced through an entire wall. Which was behind a bunch of other walls. You get the point, right? So anyway, I'm mailing these back to you. The only thing that would prevent me from doing so is if someone hijacked the Subspace Army behind my back and revolted against me, but what are the chances of that happening?
-from, Master Hand

"...Stupid Master Hand for rejecting these and stupid minister guy for not reinstating it." grumbled Dedede.

"There you are! Now I got you in my clutch-" Bowser reappeared, ready to destroy Lucario when he saw what he was holding. "...are those Beam Claws?"

Lucario proved that they were indeed Beam Claws by shooting several lasers into Bowser's chest, blowing him backwards. He looked at the Beam Claws, astonished. "These things are great!"

"Yep." agreed Dedede, shoving the rest of the Beam Claws down his mouth and into his protective stomach for cheating purposes later. Bowser popped up to attempt to attack again, but Lucario shot him again. The foe that they've been fearing for the last hour was now curling up in a ball, crying in pain. Lucario felt sorry, so he approached Bowser to comfort him. Dedede looked at Lucario with a wild expression, astonished that Lucario still considers peace as an option for dealing with a pissed off Bowser. "Don't go near him you idiot!"

But it was too late. Lucario was stretching out a hand to help out Bowser, putting the Beam Claws aside. "I'm sorry if that hurt you too much."

"The one who will be hurting... is you, sucker!" snapped Bowser. He grabbed Lucario by the leg and in a swift movement, jumped into the air, and landed on top of Lucario, pinning him to the ground. He raised his fist, prepared to punch him. "Goodbye aurachamp!"

"Oh no you don't!" said Dedede defensively, grabbing Bowser's arm before he could punch Lucario. Bowser responded by punching him with his other fist.

"Stay out of this fatty!" growled Bowser. He turned back to his prey.. who had the Beam Claws back in his hand, pointed at Bowser's head.

"Don't hurt my friends." said Lucario with a casual but frightening tone. He fired exactly one shot, skewering Bowser's head. Bowser was transformed into a trophy, having been instantly killed. Lucario pushed the trophy off of him, taking a breath of relief, glad that this nightmare is over.

Dedede was rubbing his face, which was hurting a lot. Despite that though, he too was happy. "Yeah! You took him out like a total badass!" He paused. "Now what?"

"...For one, we could extinguish that fire." said Lucario in a deadpan tone, looking at a raging fire that had broken out thanks to Bowser's fiery breath and the explosions.

A few minutes later, Smashers stormed into the item storage, as the smell of ash and loads of smoke would be hard to not notice. Lucario and King Dedede, who were slightly burnt in a terrible off-screen firefighting attempt but was otherwise okay, were rescued from the burning room. Bowser was revived and after some questioning by the Ancient Minister, he recieved a two week punishment of no junk food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, which is terrible to him. Meta Knight and Falco apologized to the two for leaving them alone with Bowser, and that if they helped, there would have been a less likely chance of fires breaking out. And so, people continued to Brawl, do their nonsense, and play Uprising. So everything worked out okay I guess.

Except King Dedede opened up a black market selling Beam Claws, effectively taking control of the Smash Castle's economy. People started to cheat like crazy in their matches, ruining bets along with the patience of everyone who actually played fair. And so things spiraled into chaos, which ultimately lead to the Ancient Minister flying around and shooting rioting Smashers in the kneecaps with a revolver. Somehow. Basically, a lot of Smashers suffered and King Dedede got off free, while also having made a fortune.

But he's one of the main characters, so that can be forgiven. Hey, people forget that Cartman from South Park is a complete monster on a regular basis, so why not?

END OF ARC 2

Right, that's another arc down. Also, speaking of Uprising, I'd be interested in playing some of you sometime. Maybe I'll post my Friend Code on my profile? Oh whatever. Also, speaking of my profile, I'm going to put up another poll to decide the next arc, because I'm terrible at making my own decisions. The poll will open shortly after I post this chapter and it'll be closed on... the 20th again. Why the hell not. Go democracy or whatever.

Oh yes, and I started a tumblr awhile ago. Just type in my username (all lowercase letters) and the tumblr end-y link-y thing. I'll post previews of some things I'm making and you can ask me questions. Fun for the whole family.

Anyway, see you guys on the next chapter of The Normals, whatever it may be about!