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SUPER SMASH BROS. Civil War
Chapter 44: Abyss
The Great Maze Escape
The Great Maze, Subspace
Leaving the Emissary Core, the Smashers were nearing the end of the Great Maze. They raced their way out to find the exit. The entire Facility began flashing red and blue, which meant the Smashers only had so little time to escape. Subspace soldiers and nanites were also escaping, but many of them went to hold back the heroes.
"Do we just fight them? We might lose time," asked Lucina as they were racing to get to the end.
"No! I have one better," Bowser replied. He charged forward in front of his allies and rammed through all the enemies.
The Facility sounded a loud alarm and the very walls and ceilings were peeling off, revealing more of Subspace. The Smashers, nevertheless, moved quickly to get to the exit. They crossed paths with more nanites, Copy Power Suits, and Primids. Just like from previously, Bowser rammed through them all like a train. There was no stopping the Smashers at escaping.
"Hurry! We're almost there!" Bowser signaled for everyone to move faster.
That's when bolts of purple mixed with green lightning tried to shoot the Smashers. Then, more Subspace fighters and more nanite soldiers trapped them inside the room. One of the nanites activated a containment field to keep them inside.
"You fools thought you were leaving without having some more fun. Get through them, if you even have time left," Tabuu's voice soon came up. "I'll be shooting lightning your way so you don't feel surprised."
"No fair," Peach protested.
"In my kingdom, fairness is a dead virtue," exclaimed Tabuu. The nanites aimed their guns and the Subspace Army fighters readied their attacks. "And… that's your cue."
The Smashers easily wiped out every opponent in the trapped room. Samus disabled the containment field and everyone was on their way to escape. It didn't really make a difference as Tabuu had more tricks to dish out. Once the Smashers entered another room, they became locked in by containment fields set up by Tabuu's army. Two mobile decontamination fields designed to disintegrate anything in its path was heading close to the Smashers.
"Ha. Make it out of this. If you die, well… Hahahaha!" Tabuu grinned.
Donkey Kong let out a loud gorilla howl, enough to disrupt the containment fields holding them all. Immediately, everyone survived. The Smashers continued to and were stopped by another obstacle. This time, it was a large room covered by a lake of deadly golden fire. There were springs and traps and casino themed objects above the fire lake.
"Recognize this? This is the exact same fire I used to kill the Ancient Minister. If you fall, then you're good as dead. My divine fire can kill anyone and once touched, there's no way to put it out. A rare gift for a god I might add," Tabuu crept a smile.
"Hang on. This one's mine," Sonic, staying rather silent for most of the time, decided to take one for the team.
"Be careful not to fall off. We won't be able to save you then," warned Mario.
Sonic gave a simple thumbs up while looking away and focusing on the task at hand. Everyone began to hype him up by saying "Go, go, So-nic!" Sonic jumped from one spring to another while avoiding every trap. From spring to the pinball machine, Sonic swiftly survived crossing the fire lake. He activated a switch, covering the fire completely under a metal flooring.
"Impressive for a slothful beast," Tabuu mocked Sonic.
"Hrr, he's got some nerve," Sonic gritted his teeth.
"You did good calling me slow," his friend Yoshi patted him on the back. "We've got a fight to finish."
"R-right," Sonic nodded.
The Smashers were not long in yet another room filled trap. The gate behind them closed shut and the room grew cold. Bowser, although cold himself, provided warmth through his dragon breath.
Ness and Lucas, as a team, created a PK Fire powerful to heat up the room. Together, the two psychic boys did PK Fire Omega, obliterating the cold effect of the room. Bowser and Donkey Kong broke the next gate open. The Smashers left the room after that.
"Great thinking, you two!" Palutena winked at the two boys with a semi-flirting tone. Ness smiled and rubbed the back of his head. Lucas began to blush again.
The Smashers moved on to the next level of the end of the Great Maze, a simple room with small holes on the floor and a switch… at the ceiling where traps lay, but that was a little concern. The floor began to show signs of spikes on the floor and fire.
"Forgive me for not being so original and creative on this one. Oh, and that's the same divine fire from the previous chapter and from earlier," Tabuu warned them again. The Smashers themselves had to hold onto something to stay alive. "No use clinging on the walls. The fires will kill you eventually," Tabuu added.
Dark Pit and Pit were up and carefully dodged all the aerial traps. They activated the switch, stopping the fires and spikes, and opening the door to get to the next room with more traps.
"I feel as though I should have designed a carnival. Something to really get this party going," told Tabuu in a joyful mood.
"An amusement park? Definitely a lot of people would kill for that," Snake with pure sarcasm.
"I know, right? Hahahaha!" Tabuu played along, knowing the wolf was being sarcastic. "By the way, the next trap, er, room will really be a 'shocker'!" Tabuu chuckled more than usual.
"I don't know whether to be afraid or feel sorry for that pun," Samus had a gloomy, unamused face.
"I try to amuse my victims before they die, AND IF THEY DON'T LAUGH, I KILL THEM IN THE NEXT FIVE SECONDS! NOW HURRY UP AND LAUGH!" Tabuu said demonically.
The Smashers began laughing.
The next room had electrical generators and machines. The gates shut down and everyone began to feel a tingle of electric shocks. The volt power increased to the roofs, causing a great deal of electric pain to everyone except Pikachu. The mouse Pokémon used all the ounce of his power to absorb the electricity to destroy the source of the electrical shocks. Once Pikachu was done with absorption, he released the electricity in a frenzy, destroying the room and opening up the gates.
"Amazing, Pikachu!" Peach patted Pikachu's ahead.
"Pika-pika!" Pikachu cheerfully smiled at the affection.
"Alright. Next one's the last part:... the actual exit! My treat," Tabuu got straight to the point.
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Hold the Line
The Great Maze, Subspace
The alarms flashed faster and sounded louder than usual. The heroes sped up and saw an elevator lift they had to take to get upstairs. They rushed to get on and activated the lift to go to the top. They silently prepared. The lift stopped and at last, they viewed not another gate, but a bright white portal on the floor.
"Finalmente!" Mario sighed with relief.
"Don't take a breather already, Mario," Tabuu mocked Mario. "One last course of a battle and you'll have completed the Great Maze."
In this last room, from each side, were three small gates. Each gate opened up; Primid soldiers, all carrying guns, lined up as they went through. The Power Suits followed behind them. Then, remnants of the Pigmask Army also joined in, as well as remains of the ROB Army under Tabuu's control. Even the nanites entered into the fight.
"A worthy conclusion to the Great Maze. Get through all the waves and you may pass. Only three minutes," instructed Tabuu.
"Stand together!" said Mario.
"Yes!" Samus agreed.
The Smashers and the rest of the Subspace Army engaged in one fight to the finish. They had three minutes to survive. Dark Pit, Palutena, Pit, Ness, and Lucas all fired their respective projectiles at the army, initiating an enormous brawl. More of them came out of the gates. Ike, Marth, Lucina, and Roy were the next to attack head on and clash with the army. Ike stabbed through the metal of each ROB Unit. Marth and Lucina slashed away at the Primids. Roy thrashed his fiery blade at the Power Suits. Robin conjured her electrical strikes and poured down on her foes.
The next wave showed up, bursting in fast. Lucario charged an Aura Sphere and fired it. Greninja created his water shurikens and shot them as well. Snake and Samus launched their RPGs and blasted the Subspace soldiers away. Fox and Falco gunned down as many Primids that came through the gates. Captain Falcon punched and kicked at all ROBs. Another wave emerged from the gates. They were seemingly stronger than previously, able to withstand more sword attacks and rockets.
"Looks like these guys have gotten used to our attacks," Snake noticed.
"Then we must slash at them harder," Ike used the burning powers of his blade to set the Primids aflame.
"PK Freeze!" Lucas summoned PK Freeze Omega to freeze all of the enemies.
"Good job, kid," Snake threw his time bomb in the middle of the frozen soldiers.
After the bomb went off, the last wave arrived in hundreds of numbers. Wasting no time left, Samus charged up her Zero Laser at a maximum level. Lucario tapped into some of his awoken power and readied an Aura Storm. Mario first fired his Finale, followed by Samus and Lucario's energy waves. In an instant, all of the Subspace Army died off and vanished.
"Oh wow! You have certainly gotten stronger the last time we met. I look forward to killing you all at your best," Tabuu applauded them. "You may proceed to my throne…"
The Smashers stepped into the portal and were soon teleported to the end of the Great Maze
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The Great Maze Exit
The Great Maze, Subspace
The Smashers walked inside a hallway covered in golden hieroglyphics and depictions of Tabuu. They opened the giant golden gate; the damp and vast reaches of Subspace was all that the Smashers could see again.
"Welcome back to the Abyss. You have finally made it across the treacherous Great Maze, and coincidentally across the endless Abyss. I await you at my throne," Tabuu shone a light path directed to his throne.
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Subspace
The Abyss
The heroes followed the light path over the deep Abyss, and eventually reached an area beyond what they've seen in their past journeys; the said area had raging streaks of green and purple lightning striking everywhere, tornados circling about, and the ever hellish holy chants that have returned. A giant purple door could be seen at the end of the light. Followers in red cloak robes knelt down to the dark floors and prayed in the ancient language to Tabuu. The scholarly worshippers paid no attention to the Smashers, as the Smashers did the same. In a brief moment during mass, all the scholars stood up and stared at the Smashers. Then, the scholars grew long scythe blades and faced the Smashers.
Fox tried to shoot them dead, but it had no effect. Marth charged at one of them and tried to stab them, but that had no effect either. Zelda used her magic to disrupt the scholars and their unnerving Subspace abilities, but it had no effect either. Ness tried PK Freeze on them, causing one of the scholars to be frozen, but they broke free a second later. The holy worshippers had ghostlike abilities, making them immune to almost anything. The Smashers did their best to dodge the scythes, as the scholars were incredibly fast.
Palutena released her divine light around the area, weakening the scholars and their immunity. Pit and Dark Pit immediately shot arrows at the scholars, killing them all. However, the holy chants did not stop after that.
The giant purple door slowly opened. The only thing the heroes saw at the end was the Wings of Tabuu.
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Enter Tabuu
