The True Master of the Smash Bros. part 11
"The Battle of Fate,"
"This…sucks…" Pit stated sourly as he sat in a chair with his arms crossed.
"I thought Angels were supposed to be optimistic," Gannondorf stated with crossed arms as well.
"I thought Dark Warlocks were supposed to be tough,"
"Now, now kids, lets calm down," Sonic stated waving everyone calm as he stood. They were currently meeting in what appeared to be a mess hall with a few chairs and tables to sit and eat. The room was bleak even with the windows, but obviously it would be since it was night out. The entire team was currently having a meeting after having a quick bite made courtesy of Peach and R.O.B who downloaded a cooking guide onto his hardware. The rest of the Smashers were currently resting in their own designated area. The team decided to have a private meeting amongst themselves.
"Hard to stay calm in a situation like this," Zelda admitted as Toon Link's head rested on her lap as he slept. "We can't just run,"
"And I don't plan on that being our plan either," Sonic said.
"Then what should we do?" Lucario asked from his position on the floor with Lucas who was also sleeping against the pokemon's side.
"We must counter attack obviously," Gannondorf said.
"We should think before attacking to rashly," Meta Knight said strongly.
"Yeah, but we can't just keep running from whatever is happening," Pit said.
"As of now, that's all we can do," Lucario said glancing down at Lucas.
"What about the originals?" Wolf questioned.
"I think we should refrain from awaking them, it could be potentially dangerous," Meta Knight said.
"HOWEVER, THE NUMBERS WE HAVE MAY NOT BE ENOUGH, WITHOUT THE AID OF THE ORIGINALS WE MAY FALL SHORT," R.O.B stated.
"True, and with the Hands MIA I guess we don't have much choice," Sonic said.
"Wrong, we should bring the fight to this so called omnipotent being!" Gannondorf pressed. Zelda put a finger to her lips to coerce the Dark Wizard to lower his voice so the two children present could sleep. "Oh please, I must lower my voice for them? If they wish to be part of this team they should be involved with the discussion not falling asleep because it's past their bedtime,"
"They've had a long day, all of us have," Lucario said.
"Am I the only sensible one here?"
"Gannon, I feel you," Sonic said trying to get the wizard to calm down. "There's nothing more I would like to do than knock on this jerk's front door. But when he answers I wanna be prepared for whatever he may see, cause I doubt it'll be candy he's bringen,"
"Can we not plan an assault?"
"An assault on what and where Gannon?" Pit questioned.
"Isn't it obvious, Subspace is what binds the entity out of this world, and it is slowly fading away. Tabuu was merely a speck in comparison to him. Our best chance to win is to prevent him from even getting out,"
"We don't have the knowledge or power on how to do that," Wolf reasoned.
"We need information on Omni. We can better plan if we knew more about him," Pit reasoned.
"What are we gonna do, sit him down to some coffee and ask him a few questions?"
"Actually…" Lucario said with a finger on his chin. "That sounds like a good idea," Everyone in the room looked at the pokemon questionably. "Okay let me explain…"
Down in a dark corridor that was scarcely lit with a few hanging lamps, were numerous cells. Most of the cells were completely empty save for twelve of them. The cells were closed off by a blue forcefield that enclosed the prisoner inside. Not that the twelve would struggle anyway because of their current stupefied form. Two beings were moving down the corridor in unison with each other. They kept walking till they came to the fourth cell with a field. They looked inside to see a statue of a boy with a baseball cap and a smirk on his face. He seemed so friendly, but if awaken he could be a deadly foe. One of the beings walked over to a pad then pressed the button. The other moved inside then tapped the golden base of the statue then quickly jumped back out as the field went back on before the glow could subside. Slowly but surely, the light overtook the trophy and it became flesh and blood again as the boy stood in place confused and disoriented as he fell on his rear end.
"Oh, what happened?" He moaned while rubbing his head as he felt a painful headache coming on.
"You okay Ness?" asked one of the people there. Ness looked up to see who addressed him. It was hard at first to distinguish them because they blended in with the blue of the field in front of him, and it was dark but he made out their shapes.
"Sonic…Lucario?" Ness asked.
"Yes, it is us," Lucario said calmly. Ness sat there for a moment pondering one how he ended up where he is, especially when he last remembered being at the Castle. It didn't take long for Ness's face to grow concerned. He looked at the pokemon and the hedgehog with great fear in his eyes.
"W-Where's Lucas?" he was almost terrified to hear the answer.
"Sleeping," Lucario said. Ness was about to ask his condition but Lucario cut in. "He's fine, no serious injuries. He's just tired from all that's been going on,"
"You guys seemed wiped too," Ness pointed out.
"Tell me about it, my bags have bags," Sonic said scratching his right eye.
"I'm real sorry guys…" Ness said with a sad stare to the floor. "I hate how this keeps happening!"
"We know it's not your fault Ness," Lucario said.
"But it's my powers that are hurting my friends, and it's my hands that are hurting my best friend…."
"Lucas will be fine, that I'm sure of,"
"Yeah, he seemed pretty prepared this time around," Sonic added.
"I appreciate bringing me out of that trophy state, but why?" Ness asked almost angrily. "You know he's gonna sense that I'm conscious again and he's gonna have me break out and revive the others!" Sonic and Lucario never realized how much this whole situation was hurting the twelve. Sure, they had been pretty much isolated from most of their friends, but it seemed from how Ness is behaving that was their choice. Clearly, Ness hated being used, especially to hurt those close to him. "Why did you revive me!"
"We need to speak to Omni," Lucario said which made Ness gape in surprise. "We don't know much about him, and the more information the better,"
"And, you thought baiting him to posses me would work?"
"Out of the other originals, your mind is the source of your powers. Which means that your will is much stronger than the others, and therefore it takes more effort to possess you,"
"Really?" Ness and Sonic asked, to which Lucario nods.
"If you truly concentrated enough you might be able to resist him,"
"But Lucario, Ness has never even flinched when he's possessed," Sonic whispered to Lucario.
"Which shows how powerful he is," Lucario whispered back as he returned his attention to a brooding Ness. "What wrong?"
"You know who this guy is?" Ness asked.
"Yeah, but we shouldn't tell you. With more of your memories returning the easier it is to possess you,"
"I am starting to remember some stuff," Ness said rubbing his head.
"Well do tell while we wait," Sonic said placing his back against the wall as he sat down.
"I remember, coming here, and being scared out of my mind. There wasn't just twelve of us, there were a lot more guys. I…I actually…killed someone…" Ness's voice became shaky. "I remember doing things…I would never do…I was so scared…I just wanted to live,"
"That sounds awful,"
"I just couldn't believe someone out there was enjoying that," Ness said as he brought his knees to his chest. It was only when I ran across Mario did I realize that maybe we could fight whatever this is. Mario almost killed me, but he resisted the urge. Once he did, I tried doing it too,"
"And you met up with the others?" Lucario asked to which Ness shrugged.
"That's as far as I can remember,"
"Well let's keep it that way,"
"Oh, but don't you want to know the rest of the story?" Ness's voice altered as Omni took over. The switch was so seamless it caught Sonic and Lucario off guard. They thought surely Ness would sense when someone is taking control of him. "Well isn't this a controlled environment,"
"Don't do anything stupid Omni, we got you and we don't plan on letting you slip away," Sonic said.
"Sure," Omni stated casually as he had Ness lean against the back of the wall in a casual manner. "You want to know more about me, ask away?"
"Whoa, your just gonna go along with it?"
"Why not?" Omni stated with a smirk. "Every one of you is mere insects in comparison to me. Wiping you out is gonna be so damn easy, so easy that I decided to give you a fighting chance when I can,"
"Pretentious jerk," Lucario muttered.
"Sounds like someone is mighty full of themselves aren't we?" Sonic questioned.
"Maybe so, but with my victory shortly at hand, what can any of you do, I mean really. I took your castle, the mightiest of you smashers are under my control, the Hands have been caught, and my warriors are prepping for my return,"
"Warriors?" Sonic and Lucario questioned.
"Oh yes, see I kept the spirits of a few of my favorite fighters. I used subspace to create bodies for them and as we speak they are rebuilding the castle in my own image,"
"Must be an ugly castle…" Sonic muttered.
"You truly feel that we are no threat to you?" Lucario said.
"As insignificant as an insect. You all are good, I will give you that much, but not good enough to win this,"
"If we prevent you from even leaving your prison it won't matter how strong we are,"
"True, but that would be the only way you can defeat me. However, you are heading in the wrong direction if that is your plan,"
"Well with such low expectations we have no choice but to rise above them," Sonic said with a shrug. "But what I don't get is, what you're after,"
"What I'm after?"
"Yeah, like aren't godlike beings supposed to be above petty things like revenge,"
"You misunderstand, I am merely returning things to how they used to be. This world was never meant to become such a place. It's a choice I wish to make and it is my right to make since this is my world,"
"What but-,"
"You all have even less rights since this isn't even your home world. In my opinion what do you care what happens here?"
"We made friends coming here, and I'd rather not see all that tarnished. Besides, none of us wanna be part of your sick games, or allow others to take part as well," Lucario said sternly.
"Because you're the "Good guys" and it's your job to stop me?"
"Basically," Sonic said shrugging.
"That's so dismal. Performing heroism because it is expected of you?"
"Don't get me wrong we don't get anything out of being the good guy. Heck, being the good guy is way more stressful then being the bad guy,"
"We all have a choice on how we use our powers, and this is what we choose," Lucario said sternly.
"Poetic…truly your words sing to me, too bad they can't carry a tune,"
"That would be your own arrogance keeping you from understanding what this truly means,"
"Oh, and what does this mean?"
"It means we're gonna kick your butt no matter how strong you are. We're used to the odds being against us," Sonic jumped in. However, Omni only laughed, which sounded creepy because it was forced and mixed in with Ness's voice.
"Let me tell you something kids. The forces you plan on going up against is unlike any power you've ever known. I am a being of infinite energy, can you even comprehend that? Of course you can't, that's because you're not supposed to. My power has easily touched every world that exists, simply because it's too much. What you see as arrogance, I am simply stating as fact. None of you have the power to defeat me, separately or together. You all are simply insects waiting to be swatted away. Which I shall do, but on my own time not yours,"
"Why you-," Sonic began but Lucario raised his paw halting the hedgehog.
"You speak of us as such lowly creatures, and I see what we are dealing with. I can draw a conclusion to your plans, so I don't think we need to spend any more time here,"
"Got what you needed huh?"
"You are set on belittling us. That will cost you. When you have such low expectations, it's not hard to actually surprise you," Lucario said.
"Well then go ahead, surprise me,"
"Okay," Sonic said as he turned to leave with Lucario right on his heels. Omni's eyebrows went up surprised, but quickly went back down in annoyance. He assumed they would trophify Ness before leaving, but to leave him in such a position is potentially dangerous. In their efforts to surprise him, they showed their weak underbelly. Omni had Ness use his PSI, which trigger a failsafe in the cage which electrocuted the boy to the point he reverted back to a trophy. "Surprise jerk…"
"What should we tell the others?" Lucario asked.
"The truth," Sonic said with a sigh. "What is the truth Lucario?"
"The truth is, I don't know how we're going to win…"
"Well we'll figure something out soon, aint that right R.O.B?" Sonic questioned. Suddenly the robot appeared from the shadows near Ness's cage. He rolled up to the hedgehog and jackal. "We kept him talking like you asked, so…"
"MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. PYSCHIC WAVELENGTH HAS BEEN DOWNLOADED. THE PROCESS OF ISOLATING, REWORKING, AND CREATING A COUNTERWAVELENGTH COULD TAKE LARGE AMOUNTS OF UNITERUPTED TIME,"
"Well we prepared for that didn't we?" Sonic asked.
"Yes, I also was able to sense out his wavelength and I should be able to now sense his presence. Weather in our friends, or somewhere in this realm," Lucario said.
"Good, Lucas sure is one amazing kid," Sonic said smirking as he remembered how the idea came to be.
Earlier…
"Okay let me explain-," Lucario began but he was cut off by an awakening Lucas. Lucas grumbled as he began to rise out of his slumber. His eyes fluttered open in a still very dozy state. "Oh, apologies for waking you Lucas,"
"You should wake up the other brat too while you're at it," Gannodorf grumbled glancing at Toon Link.
"Oh man did I fall asleep, man I'm really sorry," Lucas said yawning then rubbing his eyes.
"Looks like you're about to do the same thing again. You should probably head off to bed," Sonic suggested.
"If wants to be part f this team I suggest he starts giving us some idea too," Gannondorf protested.
"However, some sleep might do us all some good. A weary mind is the worst thing to have in a fight," Wolf stated with folded arms.
"We haven't made any progress though!" Gannondorf growled.
"That is true," Pit said in somewhat agreement. "We don't know how strong this guy is, what kind of powers he has, or even how he's controlling the Original 12," At this many people were sinking deeper into despair at the bleak situation until.
"You mean you guys' hadn't realized how Omni is controlling the others yet?" Lucas asked somewhat surprised. The room turned to him at his words.
"It sounds like you may know what is," Wolf questioned.
"Yeah, isn't it obvious?" Lucas asked with his own question.
"Well obviously not," Snake muttered.
"What is this being's secret?" Meta Knight asked.
"No real secret, he's using psychic powers to control them," At this the room went quiet. "I mean, psychic powers are able to do all kinds of things. The more powerful psychics can control people's very minds. I mean the original 12 have a mental connection with him which he uses to control him. I thought that screamed psychic powers right there," Lucas finished his explanation while sleepily scratching his eye.
"Why didn't you mention this sooner?" Pit exclaimed.
"Like I said, I thought it was obvious,"
"Well we know the how, so now what can we do?" Zelda questioned.
"How do we stop it Lucas?" Sonic asked.
"Well, I guess you can either severe the connection between them and Omni, but since that seems like impossible at this point. Our best bet would be to nullify his psychic signal,"
"Yes…I see now," Lucario said scratching his chin.
"Great job Lucas!" Sonic exclaimed ruffling a sleepy Lucas's head. Lucas gave Sonic a tired smile as he relaxed to go back to sleep against Lucario again.
"How does this help us again?" Pit asked.
"Keep up kid, we just figured out a way to keep Omni from controlling the original 12 and possibly control over other people," Snake said.
"Yes, but how do we do it?" Meta Knight asked.
"Psychic signals are much like invisible wavelengths. Wavelengths can easily be tampered with, but only when given the right signal. For example, my telepathy. You all can hear my thoughts, but lets say there was a signal in the room that prevented my thoughts from reaching you. That's how we can protect the originals!"
"I see now," Zelda said in understanding. "However, I assume that any wavelength will not suffice. Considering this is a very powerful being a powerful wavelength will be needed,"
"That is probably true. But the only way to know what wavelength to use and how to counteract it is to isolate Omni's psychic wavelength,"
"How do we do that?" Pit asked.
"Lucario's plan to talk to Omni holds some promise," Meta Knight stated.
"If we can get Omni talking long enough we can isolate that signal. Measure it, and create a counterwavelength that will render the signal dead," Wolf smirked at how devious the plan sounded.
"But how do we do it?" Pit asked.
"R.O.B," Sonic said simply turning his attention to the robot in the room. This machine has prove to be super useful to the team and Sonic felt that this was right up R.O.B's alley. "You think you can do it?"
"IS THE OTHER SIDE OF THE PILLOW COOL?" R.O.B responded.
"We have got to get him to stop talking like that…" everyone in the room save Sonic muttered.
"R.O.B should be able to record the signal using my telepathic abilities," Lucario said.
"ONCE SIGNAL IS ISOLATED, IT MAY TAKE SEVERAL HOURS TO COME UP WITH A COUNTER SIGNAL AND EVEN MORE TIME TO APPLY,"
"Dang…" Pit sighed.
"Well it's the best thing we have now. If we can obtain this signal the Smashers would be at full strength again," Snake said.
"Plus, the Originals can retain their memories without fear of Omni taking over them. They can remember how they defeated Omni and how to access power from the Smash Force directly increasing our odds even more," Meta Knight said.
"Well, what are we waiting for, lets get things going already!" Sonic cheered.
"Yes, he truly gave us quite the push we needed to get a foothold in this battle thanks to him," Lucario said.
"Let's say we get some shut eye, and then tomorrow we go make a mess of things,"
"Sounds like a plan to me,"
A/N: Looks like the Smash Heroes aren't going down without a fight. Omni may wanna step his game up if he plans on coming out on top of this one.