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SUPER SMASH BROS. Civil War
Chapter 32: The Palace
The Jungle Ruins
The Palace
The Smashers within the Ancient Jungle were stuck inside the palace until the other Smashers came to their aid from the Halberd. They locked the gates and were inside the palace courtyard, which also had nanites.
"Great! Now we can't leave," complained Samus.
"It's alright. I remember the layout of the palace… we need to reach the throne room," said Lucario.
"Yeah. And what are we going to do about them?!" Samus pointed at the nanites, who were pacing towards them.
"How about some action then?" Ike encouraged.
"We already have you beat," said one of the nanites.
"There's no escaping your fates," said another nanite.
The Smashers and the nanites fought in the courtyard. From the doors leading into the actual palace, a villainous Gorgon with a horrible staff and snakes on her head; Medusa.
"What the hell is that thing?" asked Snake.
"A Gorgon. Half-snake, half-female monsters," explained Peach.
"Medusa… it's been a while since I turned you into a serpent and you tried to kill me because of it," said Palutena.
"Ah, Goddess of Light. I was wondering when you would come about. By the way, where is your errand boy?" said Medusa very slowly while hissing.
"My errand boy is on his way and when that happens, you'll be sorry," said Palutena.
"I'm certain I will be sorry. Sorry that he won't be able to watch you die. Not to worry. I'll deliver him your corpse," hissed Medusa.
"Hmph," said Palutena as she readied her staff and fought Medusa by herself.
"Hisssssss," said Medusa as she charged forward. The mercenaries defended the Snake Queen and shot up the entire courtyard to kill the Smashers. Palutena swayed all the enemies away to get to Medusa. Lucina suddenly came to the aid of the Goddess of Light.
"I'm here to help you, Miss Palutena," said Lucina when Palutena pushed her back with a light forcefield.
"This fight has been long overdue for some time now. So do not interfere," said the goddess. Palutena and Medusa clashed staffs as the two goddess met eye to eye. The nanites blocked the way inside and attacked at an instant.
"Hiss! I will snap your bones hiss," said Medusa.
"You insolent mortals will never escape my wrath," yelled Medusa, pushing Palutena back into a wall. Bowser charged straight at the snake goddess and crushed her. Medusa recovered, receiving much damage, however.
"Hiss! Hehe…" Medusa healed herself.
Lucario interrupted her and shot an Aura Sphere, weakening Medusa completely. She could not proceed with any other attacks. Palutena delivered a final blow by smacking her with the staff, followed by an explosive magic attack. "Explosive Flame!"
"And never ever challenge me again!" Palutena stuck her tongue out and turned away.
At this time, the nanites in the courtyard were all defeated. The Smashers destroyed the gates and headed inside the main palace. More nanite mercenaries came their way to the throne room. Once they finished fighting off the oncoming enemies, they came up to the royal stairs with many steps.
"What's so important about getting to the throne room anyway?" asked Mario.
"There's a secret entrance under the throne chair that leads directly to the mines where we can escape," Lucario stated.
"And you're sure we'll be safe underground. There's not any nanites down there," asked Bowser.
"Keep your guard up," Lucario stated to all.
They reached the top of the stairs and had Bowser bash the guarded doors open, revealing inside to have nanites inside as well. The Smashers immediately disposed of them and sealed the doors. Lucario headed for the throne and activated a switch, opening up a stairway underneath the throne.
"This path leads to the mines, but it is quite extensive. Now let's hurry," said Lucario.
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The Jungle Ruins
Path to the Mines
More nanite mercenaries showed up and surprised the Smashers. The path to the mines were somewhat closed spaced. And the walls felt like they could collapse at any moment.
"These walls feel like they're squeezing me," complained Bowser.
"The path is not that long. There should be a chasm up ahead where we can cross over," said Lucario. The nanites pulled back fast as the Smashers advanced to reach the chasm leading to the mines, leaving everyone with a paranoid thought.
"Feels like a trap," said Snake.
"I'm afraid that's the only way across," Lucario pointed to the underground stone bridge.
The Smashers left the chasm and went inside some kind of a prayer room, where the nanites were waiting. It was a trap!
"I hate it when I'm right," Snake thought, drawing his gun.
"Bring it on, freaks!" shouted Samus.
"You are all making a mistake to challenge us, the Collective. Why not join us in victory?" asked one of them.
"We'd rather take that victory ourselves," Cap insisted.
"You will become a part of us, by force," said another in a raspy tone. The Smashers made certain every last nanite was defeated as they left the prayer room to go to a nearby stairway.
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The Jungle Ruins
The Elevator to the Mines
After traveling around the unexplored areas of the palace and fighting off more nanites, the Smashers found themselves in a large room with a large, gilded elevator. The room had glass-covered floors.
"This elevator leads directly to the mines. We'll be safe there until our other friends come to save us," said Lucario.
Mercenaries ambushed the fighters as they hid behind the columns present in the elevator room. The mercs were led by a masked nanite with heavy armor.
"Let us through" Mario said out in the blue.
"You will make good energy for our cause. So there's no point in stopping us," said the masked nanite fighter. Medusa returned as she slithered down the elevator room.
"Did you honestly believe that we could be beaten?" hissed Medusa. She suddenly grew tendrils from her back and glowed bright eyes.
The mercenaries also did the same thing and grew tendrils. Medusa struck Palutena without warning. Bowser responded by bashing the Gorgon queen with his horns. Medusa, however, got back up and was almost unfazed.
"A futile attempt," said Medusa as she bashed at Bowser, knocking him down. The rest of the Smashers faced the oncoming mercenaries. Bowser got back up and charged at Medusa, this time with more force than.
"Holy Light of Deliverance!" Palutena shined a bright light of energy and blasted it at Medusa.
"You won't defeat us. Do you hear me? You won't!" screamed Medusa.
The light goddess replied with another light blast of energy, but the snake mutant dodged the attack. Mario and Samus did a fusion attack that involved Mario throwing a fireball and Samus hitting it with an energy ball, fusing it together to a zero laser fireball. The fused ball hit Medusa directly, giving off mass amounts of damage.
"Hissssssss," Medusa cried out in pain. Fox threw a smart bomb at Medusa, delivering more damage.
Bowser punched Medusa so hard straight to the wall. Bowser then hit the glass floor as hard as he could, making it crack, and causing Medusa to plummet far down below. The Smashers made it to safety and took the fairly huge gilded elevator.
"Whew! That was a close one," said Peach. "What button should we press?"
"The third to the bottom," answered Lucario as he pressed it.
The elevator doors closed and went down and elevator music started to play as they headed down, much to everyone's annoyance.
"So… has anyone seen a new movie lately?" asked Samus, but no one responded. She pouted and stayed silent.
"This music bores me right through my ears," Snake thought before he cursed. "What have I done to deserve this?"
After that, no one made a thought or sound and let the music play on. The elevator reached the mines and everyone got off, after a breather. Samus decided to speak again. "Who plays Tetris?"
"I do," Peach stated. Everyone else nodded.
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The Jungle Ruins
Jungle Exit
"This way. We're outside," pointed Lucario.
All of the Smashers ran towards the mine exit and saw a light at the end of the caves. They raced to the exit and finally reached the outside. They were suddenly met with the unexpected. An entire army of Subspace fighters and the Ancient Minister stood in motion as they waited for the Smashers to come out.
"What is the meaning of this?!" growled Bowser.
Snake glared first at the fighters and then at the Ancient Minister. The man gave an angry look at the floating figure.
"So you've come back for more, you floating bastard!" shouted Snake. The rest of the Smashers were intimidated by the Minister's presence.
"This must be the one that Snake was talking about," Lucario thought. "I don't like the feel of this. What are they planning?"
"Grr! This is only getting worse and worse by the minute," Bowser thought.
The Ancient Minister said not one word, neither did he order anyone to attack. Across from the jungle, two machines operated a Subspace Bomb and set it to explode. Then, a ball of dark matter appeared and covered up almost one-quarter of the jungle. Though the explosion did not reach the palace, everyone witnessed its power first hand.
"Oh…" said Palutena.
"My…" said Zelda.
"Gods…" said Lucina.
"Whoa! T-that's intense! I can feel the ground shaking from here!" Fox felt the impact.
"What a powerful wave of energy! I can sense more than dark matter inside that sphere!" said Rosalina.
The Subspace Emissary and the Ancient Minister disappeared in a flash. A stream of rain and thunder followed throughout the jungle. As for the nanites, they pulled back as they were ordered to.
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The Jungle Ruins
Above the Skies
The Halberd experienced heavy rain, hard winds, and thunder. The ship went up high to reduce the amount of precipitation inflicted on. The aiding Smashers on the Halberd noticed the ruins and the palace through lens.
"Curse this infernal weather," Dark Pit complained. "Better than Skyworld, at least."
"Hey! I heard that Pitto," Pit pouted from the other side.
Meta Knight carefully commandeered the Halberd and flew at a fast pace. All of a sudden, the giant cybernetic winged dragon Meta Ridley returned. "Hahahaha! I'm back!" screeched out Meta Ridley. Porky screamed and yelled while calling out Ness's name, obviously to insult him. Porky, this time, was in an airborne spider mech.
"We'll take care of this dragon. Meta Knight, keep her steady so we don't crash down to our doom," Falco stated as everyone nodded headed outside to the foyer of the Halberd.
"Hahahaha! Fools! Did you really think we'd be left to die?" Ridley clung onto the ship.
"Ness… Ness… can you hear the sound of my voice… hey old friend… want to die?" Porky annoyed Ness.
One of Ridley's fireballs and Porky's spider mech energy ball tried to attack both of them. Luckily, Falco and Ness dodged the attacks, but the Halberd sustained damage.
"Hold on, bird brain. I still have a bone to pick with you," Ridley stated.
"I agree, lizard breath. You're gonna pay for a new ship, you know," Falco pulled out his blaster.
"How about facing me instead?" Dark Pit stood from the top of the Halberd. A flash of lightning struck behind him as he let the raindrops pour down on him.
"Eh. I woulda won anyway. I'll let you take this one because I'm feelin' generous," Falco shrugged his shoulders as he and Ness focused on Porky.
"And what are you supposed to be? A winged monkey?" Ridley insulted.
"Just an angel from hell who happens to have an idiot for a twin brother," Dark Pit stared at the floor and then back at Meta Ridley.
"Terrible backstory. Nevertheless, die!" Meta Ridley charged at Dark Pit, only for Pit to come out and shoot the dragon with a golden arrow.
"No need to worry, Pitto. I'm here," smiled Pit.
"Shut up and leave. I don't need your help," Dark Pit responded.
"Hehe, you should consider it help. That's one last mistake you'll ever make," Meta Ridley recovered from the attack.
Meta Ridley proceeded to fire multiple strays of fireballs at the ship, damaging it further. Dark Pit and Pit took to the skies and lured Meta Ridley out of reach. Falco and Ness, overwhelmed by Porky, as they had to evade every possible attack directed at them.
"I am the most powerful space pirate in the universe!" Ridley proclaimed.
"Oh, Ness… I'll make you dead… and the same goes for the rest of your friends," Porky complained.
Ridley and Porky continued to persist with the Smashers, and with the Halberd taking serious damage, the ship started to descend.
