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SUPER SMASH BROS. Civil War
Chapter 25: The Prison
Subspace Negative Facility
Subspace Penitentiary
The eight Smashers snuck in later at night after the rebels broke in to free their people. The prison was trashed and ruined with piles of unconscious bodies from the indication that it was a surprise attack on the registration soldiers. The Smashers looked on to the destruction inflicted while avoiding any remaining soldiers.
"Darn, we missed the party! Now there's barely anyone here to fight," complained Wolf.
"Stay on your guard. SRA's sending in reinforcements, and no doubt Samus and her team are inside waiting for them. Head underground and find the portal. If you get caught, fight them. Get to it," the voice instructed. All eight Smashers could talk to and hear the voice through the small headset they were each given.
Snake and Wolf shot down any wandering soldiers with the suppressors on their guns. Peach and Yoshi knocked out incoming men. Robin and Rosalina used magic to confuse the troops that were going in as reinforcements. Meta Knight and Lucina swiftly slashed the available soldiers. As they headed underground, a battalion of troops defended the way in. They viciously reacted to the presence of the Smashers, believing that they were renegades.
"Hold the line! Go no further. None shall pass. Least of all of you," said one of the guards.
"Wait, we didn't come here to fight," told Peach.
"You are with the rebels; therefore, you will be detained," threatened the soldier.
"Detain this," said Wolf as he threw a smart bomb at the battalion, most of them scattered apart.
"Good work. Now we can move on," said Lucina before Meta Knight stopped her.
"Not so fast. There are more soldiers than expected, even more underground," Meta Knight sensed.
The eight Smashers decided to just stick together until they reached the Subspace portal. As they reached an underground elevator lift, a helicopter flew above them and shot down the glass in order for the soldiers to drop by and noticed the Smashers trying to get to the elevator. A loudspeaker from the penitentiary spoke as the reinforcements busted in.
"Attention all units! Any remaining rebels still in the facility are to be captured alive," yelled the female speaker; it sounded familiar.
"Guys, that sounds like Sam—" said Peach before being interrupted by the reinforcements.
"We have orders to arrest you. Come with us and the state will make sure you're in good hands," said one soldier.
"You desire to detain us, but I sense the fear in you," Meta Knight with a deep voice.
"Figures that there'd be more of you freaks," said another while charging up his weapon.
"You know, it's not very nice to insult others because that reflects on how you think about yourself," said Yoshi.
"You may have gotten more Smashers to help you, but for how long?" spoke one soldier who recognized him. "I take it the princess is alive and well, I see. Colluding with the other team, I see."
"They'll expose your status. Stop them," shouted the voice.
"Done," Snake stated as he threw a smoke bomb at the reinforcement team, dispatching them all quietly. The helicopter made a hasty retreat before it could be shot down.
"Alright. Shall we head underground now?" asked Lucina.
"After you," replied Meta Knight; it was meant with a kind but sarcastic tone.
Snake activated the primary lift, which was big enough to hold everyone inside. They waited patiently until they got to the bottom.
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Subspace Negative Facility
Subspace Negative Portal
As the Smashers took a breather, they glanced at how deep they were going underground and looked on at their surroundings.
"Wow! I can't believe a dungeon would be this huge," said Lucina.
"Look from above. It looks like you can fit anything through there. Come to think of it, this elevator is large enough to hold something big," Peach pointed to the sky.
"Hehe, that's for sure," said Rosalina, but she soon thought of something ominous. "Wait, if this elevator's large enough to… then that means… the helicopter!" she thought. "Everyone! Get down!" shouted Rosalina when she saw the helicopter come back with additional soldiers carrying machine guns. The helicopter swerved back and forth and around the lift, intimidating them.
"Oh no, we're screwed!" said Yoshi as he dodged the bullets.
"No, we're not," Snake smirked as he found the right angle to shoot at the moving helicopter. He pulled out an RPG and hit the helicopter as if it was a direct hit. The helicopter tumbled down into the abyss.
"I'm kinda impressed. This guy's alright. Maybe he won't double cross us," said Yoshi, with Snake scowling.
Suddenly, other reinforcements jumped down to the elevator. The Smashers attacked them as more came. These soldiers appeared different from the previous troops fought. They were the SRA Elite, units with upgraded outfits and power suits. They wore dark navy blue and black decals and covered their entire head with metal masks.
"These guys are starting to annoy me," Wolf got irked.
"If only we had an army ourselves," Lucina expressed.
"That won't be necessary," said Meta Knight, who adamantly used his Star Warrior powers to temporarily make everything dark and frozen. "KNOW MY POWER!" he boomed. In a striking hit, most of the SRA units were thrown out of the moving lift.
"You did it!" Lucina tried to hug Meta Knight by holding him but the Star Warrior did not allow it.
"Do not lay a hand on me!" Meta Knight warned her.
"My apologies. I got carried away," Lucina made a quick apology. Robin proceeded to laugh.
At last, the Smashers got off the elevator lift as soon as it reached its destination. The level they were on was dimmer and looked as if it was recently trashed up, knowing that the rebels can't be far.
"I can sense that a few of them are still breathing, and there's a high level of power coming from that direction," informed Rosalina.
"So that must mean the portal's that way," Peach stated.
"More rebels! Cut them down to nothing!" one soldier alerted. This time, there were dozens of men lined up and huddled together to form a barricade. They even had their weapons ready to shoot.
"You're gonna be ripped to shreds!" said the commanding soldier.
Snake and Wolf smirked at each other for the first time and pulled out their RPG and smart bomb explosives respectively and opened fire first.
"We're going to die—" screamed the soldiers as the explosives touched them, destroying the barricade of men.
"Wasn't that a bit too much?" said Peach, with her blue eyes wide open. The two men said nothing.
Once the soldiers defending the room to the Subspace portal were eliminated, the Smashers arrived at the entrance. There were two paths to take to get across to reach the entrance. The Smashers took the one on the left. As they ran across, they could see the portal via the windows. The portal appeared as a circular device capable of teleportation and was powered by dark matter. Guarding the portal were more SRA Soldier Elites; a squad of men wearing power suits and super-powered machine guns that have the same strength as Samus's own power suit.
"I can sense negative energy coming from the portal. It really is from a different dimension," said Rosalina.
"We need to get inside somehow without having to fight those guys," said Peach.
"That won't be an option," informed Snake.
When they reached their destination, the entrance was locked and there was no way to get in.
"I'll disable the lock so we—" told Wolf when the security system said 'Access Denied'. "Tch!"
"I'm next," Snake tried to do the same, but it didn't work.
"If only we had an access card or a password," said Peach.
The Smashers saw troops to the right at another hallway and went after them for interrogation. They soon reached a big room where they saw a huge opening gap above them. Then, yet another helicopter carrying SRA units arrived below them. The ground troops were cornered into a strong defensive shield.
"Hehehe, looking for this," mocked one of the men holding the key card.
"We're going to be needing that card, so can you kindly toss that to us?" Yoshi said in a smart mouth tone.
The helicopter viciously lowered down to intimidate the heroes and the soldiers aimed their guns. Everyone had to take cover to avoid being shot dead. The helicopter continued to swarm in on them like a vulture.
"How about no?" the SRA unit taunted.
Out of nowhere, a lone rebel soldier, in a critical state and still alive from midst from the chaos, fired a rocket at the unsuspecting helicopter before succumbing the wounds, crashing it down on the squad. The soldier holding the card was knocked out and was pulled out of the burning helicopter so the Smashers could retrieve it.
"Yes, now let's get to the portal," Peach grabbed the card.
The Smashers raced to the portal entrance and opened the locked gate with the key card. The gate opened at a mild pace as the portal room was dark blue and was defended by the elites.
"Dammit! They're here! But it's highly unlikely they'll get past us," said the elite soldier.
The loudspeaker came back on and demanded angrily, "Anyone who's still standing must immediately get to the portal and enter into the prison. And round up any remaining rebels!"
"Guys, it's Samus again!" told Peach.
The elites also seemed to believe it although they didn't know it yet. However, they rudely brushed off the comments and loaded up their arm cannons. Snake threw a smoke bomb at them and made the first move by firing an RPG, but did little damage, much to his surprise.
"Looks like rockets ain't gonna cut it," Snake informed.
"These are power suits, pal. So that's not good enough," laughed an soldier elite.
Meta Knight did the same thing before and made the room pitch black and sliced through the armor, but giving off the slightest dents on all of them. Much to the Star Warrior's shock, he knew blades weren't going to cut it either to kill them.
"Impressive, I'll give you that, but our suits are meant to be invincible to knives. Now, fire!" said the soldier to the Smashers before redirecting to the others and ordering them to attack. They shot a barrage of energy blasts. Rosalina activated a forcefield around her allies. The Smashers had to act fast, otherwise, they wouldn't be able to proceed.
"I can only hold this shield for a short amount of time," said Rosalina, trying to make sure the shield doesn't weaken.
"We have no cover left to avoid getting shot," told Yoshi.
"And I don't have anything to disable those power suits," said Wolf.
"Our attacks aren't hurting them at the least," said Lucina.
"Really in a pit over here," thought Snake as he clenched his teeth.
All of a sudden, the portal was active as a small group of unusual soldiers appeared before everyone in the room. They wore all black military fatigues with balaclavas, but for some reason, they acted… mindless. The group of soldiers then showed off glowing light blue eyes and suddenly grew something from their back. They grew two light blue tendrils and now acted menacingly as they growled, roared, and hissed.
"What the hell? Who are these guys?" asked the elite. "Stand back… or I'll shoot ya!"
The soldier immediately opened fire on the group but did not give even the slightest flinch. One of the strange soldiers walked at an incredible pace in front of the elites and no one saw it coming. The strange soldier grabbed hold of the arm cannon locked on and crushed it point blank.
"Uh, uh, uh how?" said the elite nervously before being knocked down by the dangerous foe. Not long, the small group took down every last one of them. The Smashers looked in awe and fear as the new enemies set their sights on them.
"W-what are these guys?" said Snake as he tried to hit one of them but it had no effect.
Snake and the soldier spared by fist fighting. Somehow, Snake and the soldier were evenly matched. Snake was exceptionally skilled and finally knocked out the soldier. In spite of being knocked out, the soldier got right back up.
"Maybe these will work," said Wolf as he threw more explosives. It did not even work.
Lucina tried to slice one of them and nothing happened. Lucina had her eyes wide open.
"Oh my—" said Lucina with fear until the monstrous soldier all abruptly collapsed.
"I didn't expect this to work. Well, we do know now," said the anonymous voice.
"Y-you saved us," said Lucina.
"Of course I did. Now get to that portal," the voice continued.
"Hold on. Are you inside the prison? And what the hell attacked us?" asked Snake.
"Not yet, and by my conclusion, those were the same terrorists, like the ones you encountered in the Research Facility. According to the data I collected, these terrorists are being controlled by nanites, small nanotech machines that take control of one's mind. These nanites might also be part of a sentient hive mind. There's no doubt that the Masters are behind it," explained the voice.
"What do you mean nanites?" Snake pondered. "And why ain't you telling us anything?"
"I'll get to you shortly. Just head into the portal and see what's going on," said the voice signing off.
Snorted, Snake reluctantly entered into the Subspace portal along with the Smashers. "Whoever you are, I don't know what game you're playing, but I know you're working for the enemy," thought Snake as the portal transported their bodies to another dimension.
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Subspace Negative Facility
Into Subspace
The eight Smashers finally teleported to the main room in the facility within the dimension. The facility itself was a large complex with a space-like background and theme, being that this is another dimension. The color scheme was light blue and the lighting seemed almost light orange. The Smashers could see Subspace from the visible glass atmosphere around the entire facility. Subspace, a dimension of darkness filled with nothingness and virtually no stars were seen. It's an empty and lifeless void if it weren't for the amount of violence happening right now in the prison break.
"So this must be Subspace. Maybe we can still get a signal from that—" Snake thought as he tried to contact the unknown person.
"C'mon, talk to us!" shouted Snake.
"It's no good. Signal won't reach across," Yoshi noted.
"Dammit!" said Snake in frustration.
The Smashers crossed a long bridge to reach the inside of the complex, with elevator lifts moving around and large-scale sounds of riots and violence occurring.
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Going Negative
Wolf's ears twitched and began sensing something with his nose. "I can sense the mutt's nearby. I smell his blood," said Wolf.
"What?! Fox is still alive?! We have to get to him!" yelled Peach cheerfully. "Wait a minute! He's bleeding?!" Peach shouted.
"Not so fast. We're here to investigate. Best thing to do is avoid them," said Snake with his arms crossed and eyes closed.
"But they need to know that they're in danger," Peach advised.
"Then let's do something about it by looking for any suspicious characters," Snake replied.
The Smashers reached the initial entrance, guarded by SRA Elites.
"We have orders to detain you, Smashers. Once the chaos inside has settled, we'll round everyone back into their cells, and you'll join them," said one of the guards.
"Robin quietly stepped forward and held her spell book and activated a magic spell, releasing an electric strike and rendering the guards limp.
"Wow, Robin! You're amazing," complimented Peach.
"You're welcome," Robin smiled.
The Smashers entered the facility complex and more guards found them. With no time to spare, they overpowered the guards and activated the first lift to go up to Level 2. Instead of the regular guards, there were nanite infected soldiers.
"Was wondering when these guys would show up again," Snake stated.
The nanite soldiers screamed and yelled like rabid apes. This time, they charged at the Smashers and acted more violent. Meta Knight, Snake and Robin each did a special attack simultaneously by darkening the area, setting in proximity bombs and using lighting magic to knock out the enemy off the complex.
The Smashers pressed forward to the second lift up another level. When they reached Level 3 of the facility, things turned out worse than expected. Nanites and SRAs fought each other, with the nanite soldiers easily dominating the elites. The nanites activated four fire turrets in front of them.
"I have this covered," said Rosalina as she used her holy cosmic magic to stop the nanites from attacking. Robin took care of the turrets using her fire magic to turn the weapons on themselves.
Once the turrets were destroyed and the nanites regained consciousness, the Smashers continued to fight. Then, a set of SRA Elite guards came by and activated the Decontamination Field, a light blue forcefield wall.
"I wouldn't touch those if I were you. These fields can't be broken, which means our part is done," affirmed the other SRA elite.
"Hahahahaha!" the nanite soldiers laughed at the statement as if it were a joke.
"Hey, it wasn't that funny," questioned the other elite when another group of nanites came from behind and infected the SRAs, turning them into nanite soldiers. The nanites instantly injected an infective agent that morphed them into more nanite soldiers. Instead of deactivating the Decontamination Field, all the nanites acted as regulars as their glowing eyes disappeared and tendrils receded.
"Now what?" Snake grunted.
Wolf threw a smart bomb to a nearby wall, causing it to crumble and revealing a different path.
"This way," told Wolf as the Smashers hastily made their way away from the nanites. Strangely, they stood in zero motion. Once they were out of the line of sight, they went to the next elevator lift that goes to Level 4. "What is it with these freaks?" said Wolf.
The nanites from before caught up to them and pointed at them all scary like. They all shook heads to say the Smashers won't move on.
"We can do this!" encouraged Peach.
Snake and Wolf pulled out their guns and shot at them while Robin and Rosalina used stun magic to prevent any further movements and Peach, Yoshi, Lucina, and Meta Knight all struck the nanite soldiers with combo hits to dispatch them. At last, they rose up to Level 4 and came face to face with more Decontamination Fields.
"I think this is the last lift for when we reach the Final Level," Peach pointed out.
"Hopefully, we can save the others," said Rosalina.
"Speaking of which, that riot they started doesn't sound like it's going to die down anytime soon," told Yoshi.
The sounds of rioting only grew louder as the Smashers got closer. The Decontamination Fields shut off temporarily thanks to Snake, who hacked into the system. From all the way below them, dozens of more nanite bogeys climbed up ferociously and were determined to get to the top level.
"Once we head up there, we'll be faced with almost the entire prison, so we gotta play it safe," warned Snake.
"Seems like we'll have more than that to deal with," Wolf pointed above as he heard the nanites climbing above the floors.
Despite disagreements just to find what they're looking for, Snake nodded and told the team, "Alright, we'll save everyone, but after that, we get what we need."
The Smashers used the last lift to reach the final Level of the facility complex. As the elevator lift carried them up, Snake thought to himself in confirmation.
"Well, this is the moment of truth. From here on in, it's all or nothing," Snake thought as the lift took the Smashers to their next destination within the Subspace Negative Facility.
