Trophy Recovery I
Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Brothers Brawl or any of the characters. I only own Sun-Wong, Isaak, Himeno, Roger, Aqua, Mcenche, Pepper, Li, Abbigale, Queen Neptune, Prince Pluto, Emperor Apollo, Queen Hinata, Queen Zoe, Prince Henry, Queen Crystal, Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter and the little bat Hoshi-Tsuki but not who he is. Zelina and Sao belong to Zelina56. I also own Nina, Serenade, Fuyumi, Ian, Wright, the arch-angels and the Angel Assembly.
Summary: Shadow manages to find a few of the trophies before a familiar enemy of Samus appears and attacks him and the rescued bounty hunter. Will they prevail? And Li and Roger's fight comes to an end with shocking results...
Me: Okay. This chapter was dedicated for Shadow the Hedgehog and Samus Aran fans. This might be the last chapter for Samus spotlight...maybe...maybe not. It depends on who fights who in the war. Enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 32: Trophy Recovery I
Shadow's trigger happy moment ended the instant he ran out of bullets. He cursed his luck. He wasn't satisfied with the amount of zombies killed. Normally one would be contempt with zombie head's shot off and them not rising from the dead again due to not having a brain, but not Shadow. He wouldn't stop until all the zombies were dead because they weren't much of a challenge. Despite them not being a challenge though they were ubiquitous.
One of the zombies however decided to take a rifle from the streets and start shooting the black hedgehog. Shadow grinned as he dashed at the zombie dodging all the bullets. He knocked the gun out of the zombie's hand and claimed it as his own. He then shot the zombie in the head. Shadow grinned as the blood oozed out of the body. He turned to the other zombies.
"Whose next?"
The zombies didn't know when to quit so they kept coming toward him. Shadow decided to finish all the zombies off in the area with Chaos Blast. He did so and the zombies were sent flying everywhere limbs falling off and everything.
"Too easy." Shadow taunted.
He was going to continue on until a shiny thing sparkled in the bloody streets. Shadow rushes to it and picked it up. He smirked. He had found one of the Smashers scattered around Tokyo. Shadow closed his eyes and a light surrounded his arm. Within a flash, the Smasher was back to normal.
"Oww, my head," he complained.
"Toon Link," Shadow began in a harsh tone, "go back to the mansion. Master wants everyone to regroup."
The younger version of Link rubbed his head still trying to remember what happened. Zombies wouldn't give him the time to think however so Shadow kept beheading them with his sniper.
"What about you?" Toon Link finally asked, "And what about everyone else?"
"Master Hand's orders was to retrieve all trophies and tell them to head back to the mansion to regroup. Don't defy his orders!" Shadow said in a strict tone, "Go now before we get surrounded."
Toon Link looked at him dumbfounded. It pissed the Ultimate Lifeform off as the cartoon version of Link expressed it by his facial expressions.
"GO NOW!"
Toon Link didn't have to hear the order again. He ran like there was no tomorrow...
Shadow couldn't help but laugh as he shot another zombie. That was the first time he could a Smasher around and he enjoyed it.
"Now, where was I?"
Shadow was having it easy that was he was getting annoyed having no challenge at all. He found some of the assist trophies and he was pleased that they were okay. The assist included Kat and Ana, Jill, Dr. Wright and Mr. Resetti. All exchanged a few words before he gave them all the same message to regroup at the mansion. They were all obedient except Mr. Resetti. He had to complain first before digging a hole that would lead to Smash Brothers Mansion."It was horrible!" Mr. Resetti complained, "That angel brat turned on us all! Watched everyone be turned into a trophy in front of my eyes before I became one. It's not fun being a trophy at all. I mean being stuck in a capsule is one thing but not being able to move a muscle or even speak is another! I swear when I find that monster I'm going to teach him a lesson about being frozen in time-"
Shadow fired the rifle over Mr. Resetti's head that killed another zombie. That only made the mole ever more upset.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?"
"There was a zombie behind you," Shadow said calmly, "Go back to the mansion now and rant later. Talking in the battlefield will get you killed."
"You ungrateful hedgehog! I have the most useful information than everyone else! I bet you didn't know that the angel brat killed some of us!"
Shadow froze. He couldn't believe it.
"That's right! He slaughtered half of us assist trophies like we were nothing! The poor Nintendog. He was only seven months old..."
Shadow clenched his fist in anger. That made him want to save the trophies in the area faster and Mr. Resetti wasn't helping.
"Go now before I shoot you..." Shadow said in a threatening tone.
Mr. Resetti swung his sickle around enraged, "I'm not leaving a kid like you behind! It makes us adults look bad!"
Shadow gave him a look that could kill. It was enough to scare the annoying mole. The mole dug a hole and disappeared. He never came out. Shadow knew that he was heading back to the mansion. That was all he needed to know.
But to think that some of my comrades are dead...Shadow mumbled. Lyn's image appeared in his head and he frowned. Where is she? He asked himself. The Ultimate Lifeform couldn't get his answer though at the moment. He continued onward.
The search for trophies in his section lead him to an abandoned construction site.
Just great. He thought to himself. A place where the leader of the dumb pack is. I hope I find someone here.
He did at the entrance of course. At the entrance was a Ganondorf trophy being worshipped by zombies. Shadow shrugged his shoulders and shot them all in the brain. He touched the Ganondorf trophy and it went back to the dark king.
"Before you take your anger out on something and become a zombie, I suggest you head back to the mansion and regroup."
Ganondorf had no saying in it when Shadow zoomed past him and destroyed the door with Chaos Spear. He stormed off to the mansion pissed that something that happened in SSE happened to him again. Only this time, it wasn't because he was arrogant and didn't notice that Master Hand was being controlled.
Once Shadow was inside the construction site building, it wasn't hard to find three Smash trophies. Meta Knight and Wolf's trophy were in plain sight guarded by no one. Samus' trophy was on the top where the metal poles were. Shadow checked his surrounds before touching both trophies. Both were still dazed.
"Master Hand wants all Smashers back at the mansion to regroup," Shadow explained again,
Meta Knight understood. Wolf understood as well, but he wouldn't take orders from an assist trophy. This forced Meta Knight to drag the leader of Star Wolf out of the construction site. Shadow shook his head in annoyance as he used his amazing jumping skills to ascend hopping from metal bar to metal bar until he got to the top where Samus' trophy was, which was a platform that he swore wasn't there when he looked up. He stared at it in confusion before deciding to release her.
"Master Hand wants all Smashers back at the mansion to regroup," Shadow repeated.
The reason why Shadow was confused was that he was certain that she wasn't wearing her power suit the last time he saw her. Then again, he was tied up when the Smashers left to stop Pit so he wouldn't know.
Instead of listening like the other Smashers did (though unwillingly) she got her arm cannon ready. It surprised the black hedgehog.
"Somethings coming...and fast..." she mumbled through her power suit.
Shadow listened with his ears. He didn't hear anything...wait! He heard wings flapping! Something was coming from below!
Samus reacted before Shadow, so she ended up pushing him out of the way right when the uninvited guest appeared and attacked them or rather Samus. It looked like a pteranodon but with a tail. The pteranodon caught Samus in between its mouth. She struggled not to fall in but it continued flying upwards.
Shadow thought that he wouldn't be able to reach it but he thought wrong when he used Chaos Spear that hit the pteranodon directly. It came crashing down breaking everything that was below it. This allowed Samus to get out of its grip and shoot it in the mouth. The pteranodon landed on the bottom floor hard while Shadow and Samus landed beside it shakily.
"What is that?" Shadow questioned.
Samus pointed her arm cannon at the pteranodon, "Ridley..."
Shadow's eyes widened. He remember hearing that name from Captain Falcon and Olimar. Was it that same Ridley?
"Didn't you-"
"I thought Pikachu and I killed you," Samus began, "But then Tabuu brought you back to life making you Meta Ridley. What are you now?"
The space pirate got to its face and roared. He was different from Ridley and Meta Ridley. He seemed to be Meta Ridley but merged with something that made him more deadly.
"Isn't it a pleasure to see you again Samus Aran," the space pirate spoke,
"What are you?" Samus questioned again.
"I am Omega Ridley, the form that will kill you once and for all!"
Samus saw something come out of Ridley's body. She recognized it instantly. She gasped, "Is that Phazon?"
Ridley roared in response, "Yes. Tsusuki was kind enough to bring me back to life after that miserable battle in the Subspace Bomb Factory. With Phazon inside of me, I feel stronger than ever. You will die in my new form!"
Samus growled. Phazon was a dangerous substance but for this leader to go as far as corrupting her worst enemy...
She looked at Shadow who looked extremely pale. The bounty hunter noticed that he was looking at the Phazon like it was a curse.
"Shadow?"
Shadow backed up. Memories of that alien Black Doom came back to him fast. They were terrible memories that he wanted to cast aside once he killed the bastard.
"Shadow?"
Shadow clutched his head. The Black Doom's voice was soon invading his mind. It wasn't pleasant.
"Get out of my head!" He cried out.
Samus was confused. What was he talking about? She couldn't get her answer because Omega Ridley came at her again. She jumped out of the way. The space pirate seem to ignore Shadow and just go after her. Samus cursed as she shot Ridley. It had no affect.
"Just try to harm me Samus Aran," he said in a dangerous tone as he shot fireballs from his mouth.
Samus rolled out of the way from the attack and shot a missile from her arm cannon. However, the fireballs were home in on her and she took a hit while Ridley was unaffected by the missile.
"Those weak weapons won't affect me," he told her and shot a massive line of plasma from his mouth.
Samus jumped out of the way to avoid the attack and prepared her charged shot. Ridley saw this coming and charged at her directly. It was super fast so she didn't have enough time to charge it up completely. Samus couldn't dodge the attack and was hit by Omega Ridley's wing. She fell to the ground only to get back up and start shooting. Omega Ridley flew around the room completely unaffected by attacks.
"Is this all you have to show me?" he asked getting bored.
Samus said nothing and charged up her charged shot again. Ridley flew at her at a fast speed again slashing at her this time. Samus dodged the attack and shot Ridley in the chest. It had no affect but the armor that Omega Ridley was wearing seem to be wobbling. She couldn't attack again though because the space pirate shot a large blast of phazon from his tail hitting her directly. Samus didn't get up this time.
"How pathetic," Ridley complained turning to Shadow, "If you're not going to be a challenge, then I might as well finish your friend off."
Samus groaned as she tried to get back on her feet. What are you doing Shadow? Get out of here!
Shadow glanced at Omega Ridley but seemed to be looking past him with emotionless eyes. He started hallucinating that Black Doom was watching him mocking him for every thing he did.
"You're not good enough Shadow," Black Doom said in that mocking tone, "And to think that you are my son..."
"SHUT UP!"
Omega Ridley charged directly at Shadow when Shadow shouted, "CHAOS SPEAR!" He hit the armor of Omega Ridley directly forcing the space pirate to back away.
"Damn you rodent!" Ridley cursed.
"Shadow..." Samus mumbled.
The Ultimate Lifeform seem to snap out of his trance when he realized what happened. He shook his head violently realizing that Black Doom wasn't there and sped toward Samus helping her up.
"Are you okay?" he questioned.
"Took you long enough," Samus responded, "What the hell were you thinking standing in the middle of the battlefield daydreaming? One false move and you could have had your head clawed off."
Shadow ignored her scolding and took out his gun.
"Just tell me this guy's weakness."
"If I knew his weakness, I would have killed him before he had a chance to attack you," Samus said in an exasperated tone.
Omega Ridley fired another homing fireball attack at them. Both were ready for it as they jumped in opposite directions. Shadow used Chaos Spear to destroy the fireball that was after him and Samus.
Samus took this chance to use the scanner that was in her helmet to scan Omega Ridley's weakness. The Space Pirate did not notice this and focused his attacks on Shadow. The Ultimate Lifeform was running out of bullets in his gun. He looked around and saw a box with firearms in it. There was probably a bazooka in their that could blast Omega Ridley to smithereens.
"I found it!" Samus announced.
"What did you find?" Shadow asked as he dodged another full body tackle from Omega Ridley.
"His weakness is the wound in his chest!" Samus exclaimed, "We got to pull that armor away from him before you can use your Chaos powers!"
Upon revealing his weakness, Omega Ridley started shooting plasma attacks from his mouth at Shadow trying to obliterate him before he could wound him.
"Chaos Spear!"
Shadow fired another Chaos attack at Ridley's armor but no prevail. It wasn't going to be removed that easily. He fired another Chaos Spear into Omega Ridley's mouth. The attack caught the pteranodon off guard and he was temporary stunned. Before Shadow had a chance to use another Chaos Spear, Samus stepped in front of him and used her Grapple Beam to rip off Omega Ridley's armor.
"Shadow, look for a gun that can inject Phazon," Samus ordered.
The black hedgehog nodded his head as he zoomed over to the crates. Searching for a weapon wasn't his thing so he blew it up with Chaos Blast. Sure enough, none of the guns inside the crates were destroyed. There were hand guns, machine guns, a bazooka (which he was taking regardless) and a weird green gun.
This must be a Phazon gun. Shadow thought to himself as he picked that up as well as retrieving the other weapons in case.
"Look out Shadow!"
Shadow turned around to see that Omega Ridley recovered from the attack and flew at him at high speed. Shadow couldn't dodge in time but he shielded the Phazon gun because their lives depended on it. He felt blood oozing out of his shoulder when he felt the space pirate bite him hard. He gritted his teeth as he held out his groans of pain. Samus used a charged shot to hit Omega Ridley's tail. The space pirate seemed to ignore her attack and followed his bite with a Phazon claw swipe in the spines. The black hedgehog would not scream in pain because if he did, the enemy would know that he was terribly injured.
"Get off of him!" Samus shouted in range as she jumped into the air and landed on the space pirate's back and shot him multiple times in the head. Omega Ridley screeched as he released his grip on the Ultimate Lifeform as he flew around the room trying to get her off his back.
Shadow clutched his shoulder in pain. His shoulder dealt more damage than his spines but he noticed that his spines were a slightly different color. Was he infected by Phazon, or was that his and Omega Ridley's blood?
Samus held on to dear life as she continued shooting. Omega Ridley was starting to feel the pain with the continuos shots to the head. He crashed his back into objects that weren't destroyed as well as loop around in the air and fly so high only to fly back down at an amazing rate just to get her off of his back. The bounty hunter was not only taking serious damage to her power suit but she was also getting dizzy and losing her grip. If she lost her grip when he flew into the air, then she might be paralyzed for a few minutes and that would mean instant death.
The Ultimate Lifeform tried aiming the Phazon gun at Omega Ridley but the pteranodon was flying too fast for him. The injury made his vision untrusting. He was worried that he might accidentally shoot Samus and inject her with this alien substance.
"What are you waiting for? FIRE!" Samus yelled.
"Insolent wretch!"
Omega Ridley wasn't playing around. He flew up into the air again. Samus couldn't hold on anymore and lost her grip. She fell downward but continued shooting even though she was going to take massive damage. Omega Ridley wasn't going to let her take him along with her so he fired another plasma beam from his mouth. Samus aimed for the mouth even when she took the full blow from the attack. It stunned both of them. They both fell to the ground with a big thud.
"Samus!"
Samus groaned in response. She didn't get back up. Shadow saw from a distance that her armor was wasted. She needed to repair it if she wanted it to serve as a big use to her again. Omega Ridley however got up. Shadow's eyes widened in horror as he prepared a flame attack from his mouth.
"Good-bye Samus Aran!" He declared, "Say hello to your parents for me...IN HELL!"
Shadow acted fast. He ignored the pain he was feeling from his wounds that spread throughout his whole body and fired at the open wound. The space pirate was caught of guard. The black hedgehog went trigger happy on that one spot and it was doing insane damage to his opponent. Omega Ridley screeched as he flapped his wings again and turned his direction toward Shadow. He flew at him at top speed. Shadow knew it was the end him and Samus but in vain, he threw the gun at Samus. He was hit head on in the chest. The Ultimate Lifeform coughed up blood as he was sent flying into a pillar.
Omega Ridley roared as he flew over to the Ultimate Lifeform.
"This will teach you not to mess with the leader of the Space Pirates!" Omega Ridley announced as he clawed at Shadow's body over and over again. Shadow couldn't hold the cries any longer and screamed in pain. He screamed louder with every slash of Omega Ridley's claws.
"That's it! Scream in pain! There's nothing better than hearing your prey scream their hearts out!"
The pteranodon grabbed Shadow by his claws and threw him over Samus slamming him into another pillar.
"You will die before Samus," Ridley mumbled as he prepared a plasma laser from his mouth.
Shadow closed his eyes. Sonic...Lyn...I failed you both...please forgive me...
Shadow waited for the final blow but nothing happened. Shadow opened one eye to see that there was a huge whole in Omega Ridley's stomach. Omega Ridley stared at his stomach in horror before realizing who did.
"Curse you Samus Aran!" he roared.
To Shadow's surprise, Samus got back up again despite her power suit on the verge of destruction. Shadow saw that she combined her arm cannon with the Phazon gun to deal the finishing blow on Omega Ridley when he wasn't looking.
"Just die already..." Samus murmured.
As if she didn't have to say that. Omega Ridley released Shadow from his death grip as he clutched his stomach in pain he flew away from the two but didn't get far because soon his body was flashing. He was going to explode from being overloaded with Phazon.
"No...I can't die yet! Not after what Tsusuki promised! Tsusuki, AVENGE ME!"
Those were Omega Ridley's last words as blue light came out of his body. He roared as he was being killed from the inside out until finally...
BOOM!
Samus shielded her face from the explosion as Shadow was on the verge of unconsciousness. It got really quiet after the explosion.
Samus fell to her knees. They had barely manage to defeat Omega Ridley.
"Shadow, you still alive?" she asked as she got up again and slowly walked over to Shadow limping the whole way.
Shadow glared at her, "Beside a few broken bones that won't take long to heal, I'm perfectly fine. You on the other hand is a different story."
Samus looked at her power suit and frowned on the inside, "I had worse missions than this that took a number on my power suit. You don't know how many times it came close for the helmet to crack."
Shadow couldn't agree with her more.
The bounty hunter fell to her knees again. Shadow saw that her arm was slightly blue.
"Did you...?"
"To defeat Omega Ridley, I had to get infected by Phazon to use it against him. I don't think there is a cure in this world, but after everything that happened, I don't think I can see them again and ask for a cure..."
Shadow groaned, "I'm guess that makes two of us. And I thought all this alien crap was done when I killed Black Doom..."
"Black Doom?"
"Its a long story."
"How?"
"A long story cut short, he's my blood related father..."
"Uh..."
"I'll tell you later...if we can get out of this..."
Samus agreed with him. She could no longer move after walking over toward Shadow. Shadow seemed to have lost too much blood and if he moved now, then he was as good as dead even if he was the Ultimate Lifeform.
"You weaklings are pathetic."
Shadow's ears twitched as well as his eyebrows. Who could have said something so offensive?
The next thing he knew, he was being lifted by someone. Who was it? He didn't know. He was on the verge of losing consciousness. He did see Samus be picked up by someone.
"Wolf...?" he asked weakly.
"Yeah, it's me."
"Why didn't you-"
"Like hell would I leave someone behind without returning the favor. We're even now."
"..."
"Meta Knight, you know what to do."
Shadow was surprised that Meta Knight was going to be the one to carry him. He didn't think the Star Warrior had the strength to pick up someone twice his size. He couldn't think about it however because he finally fainted.
"Are all Mobians this fragile?" Wolf questioned.
"No, he just took a beating," Samus replied weakly.
"Compared to him, you seem to be able to stay awake at the very least."
"Let's just get out of here..."
"You don't have to say that twice. Meta Knight, you lead."
Meta Knight nodded his head as he spread his wings flew outside the construction building with Wolf following him. The zombies in the area were wiped out while Shadow and Samus were busy fighting Omega Ridley. The path was sweet and easy.
In Angel Land, the battle was not going well for the royal bodyguards. The Li vs. Roger battle proved it. Both Aeons were not equally match. Bahamut had a clear advantage being able to fly, shoot beams from his mouth and more importantly, use all five senses in battle. The major thing that Atomos lacked was vision. The Aeon was technically a demon with small eyes and a huge mouth that could suck up anything. Bahamut was something it couldn't suck up. Atomos' gravity attacks had no affect on the dragon Aeon.
As for Roger and Li, Li had a huge advantage being nimble and wielding a fast sword compared to Roger who was wielding a heavy gun blade. Li had it won.
"It's over..." Li and Bahamut said at the same time.
Bahamut prepared one last attack. It was his ultimate attack.
"MEGA FLARE!" Li ordered.
Bahamut unleashed his most powerful attack on Atomos. Not only was the Aeon defeated instantly but half of Angel Land received the full attack resulting in a massive explosion. Fire was among the houses and angels told to stay inside the building fled in order to escape death from the flames.
"ATOMOS!" Roger cried out as he watched his Aeon turned into dust. His Aeon wouldn't be able to fight for a while with a wound on the inside that deep.
Li laughed as he readied the dark beam at Roger. Sun-Wong noticed this during his battle with Alex Kidd.
"Look out!"
Too late. Li fired the beam and it hit Roger directly. Roger was engulfed in the attack. When it ended though, all that was left was a dark feather sealed within a capsule.
"Fool. I was always 5th seat. You can't just take it away from me loser," Li mocked.
Sun-Wong eyes widened in horror watching his comrade fall to the former 5th seat.
"Lived, how could you?" he asked. He was so confused.
"An opening!"
Alex Kidd slashed at the earth angel's left arm. Sun-Wong jumped back and clutched his arm in pain.
"So cheap..."
Alex laughed hysterically, "You angels are pathetic leaving yourself wide open! Now you will join your friend!"
Sun-Wong was enraged as he turned toward Li. He couldn't bring himself to raise his weapon against the boy he found that faithful day.
Li saw the look in the orange angel's eyes and shook his head, "I don't need pity from you Sun-Wong."
"Why you betray us?"
"You guys betrayed me first so I'm just getting my revenge," Li stated as he prepared another dark beam attack.
"But that's impossible. We all love you. How could we betray you?" Sun-Wong questioned extremely puzzled.
"SHUT UP!"
Li fired the dark beam at Sun-Wong. Unlike Isaak who didn't do anything, he proceeded to defend himself. He twirled Nyoi-Boi in front of him to prevent the attack from hitting him. It almost hit Alex though preventing him from getting any closer to the earth angel.
"Lived, you need to open your eyes!" Sun-Wong shouted, "We would never dream betraying you! You are part of royal bodyguards! You are part of our family! We love you!"
"SHUT UP!"
The emotional stress was enough to increase the dark beam ten fold. Sun-Wong couldn't defend from this high power. He realized this and frowned.
I'm sorry Himeno...please survive this...
The vice captain was engulfed in the dark beam. When the beam disappeared, there was nothing there but an orange feather incased in a capsule.
Alex laughed as he retrieved the capsule.
"Nice going devil! With their vanguard team gone, we can storm the castle and kill that bitch!"
"You won't lay a hand on Palutena..." Li murmured in a dark tone as he walked over to the killer and took the capsule away from him. With a snap of his fingers, both capsules were gone.
"Why not?"
"Tsusuki needs her alive. You kill her and you forfeit your life. Not to Tsusuki, but me."
Li was dead serious when he did that. His eyes glowed a bloody red. It was enough to scare Alex. Li scoffed as he walked on. It was time to go where Mr. L and Gray Fox were. That was where two more royal bodyguards would be.
Roger Hoyt, if you didn't steal my spot you would have lived longer...not. You have been killed anyway.
Sun-Wong, even though you were part of the reason that Pit and I were able to live those two years of happiness before the war, you are still lacking...
Himeno felt a jolt in her heart after Mr. L tried to unleash a series of punches at her. She felt empty. She hadn't felt this empty for a long time. That long time being when Sun-Wong was turned into stone during the war with Medusa.
"Sun-Wong..."
Mr. L heard her and chuckled, "If you can feel that jolt then he's probably already dead."
Himeno gasped. She shook her head in denial.
"No! He can't be dead! He's the vice captain! He can't die!"
Mr. L couldn't help but smile. Girls like her were so easy to break. If someone they cared for died, then they wouldn't be able to move on. He had this battle won.
"You can join him if you let me deal the finishing blow."
The wind angel seem to be listening to him as she lowered her weapon. She hid her eyes beneath her hair. Tears were falling and that was a sign of weakness in battle. Mr. L noted that she wasn't suited to be a warrior.
"Yes, that's it. Give up. I'll end your suffering now."
Mr. L did not realize that a dark aura was surrounding her. He also didn't noticed that her usual light green tunic turned dark green as her hair turned a dark shade of pink. She was also clutching the tip of her hand until it bled. When Mr. L was close to her, she lashed out at him with a clean sweep. The dark side of Luigi noticed this at the last minute and avoided having his head cut off. He jumped back surprised.
"Sun-Wong is dead you say..." Himeno began. It was then did he knew that he wasn't facing the peacemaker anymore, "I won't know for sure if I let my weak half cry and allow you to kill her so..."
Himeno looked psychotic in Mr. L's eyes...maybe not. She just looked angry. An emotion that Himeno would never be able to express.
"I'll kill you and check the vanguard team to see if he's all right!"
With that said, the fighting continued.
Mcenche and Gray Fox were evenly matched in skills and speed. The speed was only because Mcenche was skating. If Gray Fox melted the ice then it would be all over for the ice angel.
"You're pretty good," Gray Fox commented, "The only one that could match up to me is Snake."
"I'm honored," Mcenche said in a sarcastic tone.
"But all good battles come to an end."
Gray Fox proceeded to slice at the ice skates that Mcenche was wearing. Noticing this, he jumped away.
"I won't fall for that," Mcenche stated, "because Pepper does this to me all the time."
Gray Fox grinned under the mask. Mcenche shivered but started chanting. Gray Fox grinned even wider. Mcenche was summoning his Aeon.
Well...shit.
Aqua finished taking out a load of demons. When she did, she realized that Pepper wasn't fighting beside her like Zelina was.
"Something wrong?" Zelina questioned.
"...where is she?" Aqua asked.
There was no answer.
Pepper was in another part of Angel Land for a reason that everyone needed to know. Angel Land was at war. People say that nothing good comes out of it, but for Pepper, it was the quite opposite. In war, there was no one to blame when someone died except when you saw that person be murdered in front of your eyes. In this case, there was no way she could get punished by killing the person that ruined her life. That being her stepsister.
It was easy. The town was in chaos. She knew that her stepsister would never retreat to the underground. Yes, the underground is the base that even Li doesn't know about. In fact, only her friends, her dad, her older sister and she knew where it was. Her stepsister was as dumb as a brick.
It was truly the perfect murder. On her Chocobo she rid into another part of the town acting as a savior. Angels were running onto the street only to get assassinated by the demons. With Chobi's flamethrower, most were eliminated from the main path. She wasn't done there. She rode Chobi all the way to the house where her stepsister was staying. Sure enough, the house was on fire and her stepsister and her friends were evacuating.
Upon seeing Pepper, her stepsister ran to her.
"Thank God, I'm glad to see you're okay. Where is mom and dad? Take me to them now."
"He's not your dad..." Pepper said in a dark tone. She had a dagger in her arms and prepared to stab her.
Her friends screamed not because the demons were clawing at them and sending them to their doom but because Pepper stabbed her stepsister in the heart with her dagger. The fire angel saw the look in her stepsister's eyes as she fell. She couldn't help but grin. Chobi squawked as if it won a battle.
"Why...?" she asked her stepsister.
"I'm not stupid," Pepper began, "You and her moved into my life after my dad proposed to my stepmom. Because you were the older one, you thought I would be your slave until the day I die? Bullshit, you would have gotten fatter and fatter until you burst. What about me? I would take your crap everyday and for what reason? Because my dad forced me to get along with you. That's why I ran away from home and Palutena took me in and became a royal bodyguard. So you see, you saw this coming. Therefore, your death is your fault. Not mine."
"You're a murderer..." she mumbled as she coughed up blood, "Zeus won't let you get away with this..."
"I don't think so," Pepper said with a malign grin, "This is war. Since there are demons attacking everyone, he will think that they killed you. Not a royal bodyguard. I may not be reincarnated when I die but to hell with that. I'm just glad that you'll be gone forever."
"And you'll soon join me."
Pepper said nothing after those words. Her stepsister's head fell to the ground where she laid in her own pool of blood.
What have I done? Pepper asked herself coming to her senses. Chobi did not notice her distress and ran in the other direction to where Aqua was. Was it worth killing her? I finally got her out of my life...but was it really worth it? I'm happier with the royal bodyguards...so...I just sealed my own fate...pathetic of me. Pepper Padoga, 8th seat of the royal bodyguards fell from grace because of the past. She paused before she laughed. Well whatever. It's not my problem anyway.
Me: TBC with 6925 words.
Yohko: What took so long?
Me: School and Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn. Ever since I gotten that one F, I'm trying to get my grade back up. When I got a B- though, I got Radiant Dawn. I can tell you I'm at the end of the game being on chapter 4-5. Ranting will be after notes.
1. Phazon is that alien substance from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
2. In this story, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption doesn't happen so she has no idea the true harm of Phazon and is reckless with the Phazon gun getting corrupted by attaching it to her arm cannon instead of being injected by it from Dark Samus.
3. Black Doom hails from Shadow the Hedgehog. He is the true dark antagonist in the game trying to get Shadow to give him all seven Chaos Emeralds. He reveals that he made a deal with Gerald Robotnik that if he could give blood to create the Ultimate Lifeform, then Gerald would give him the Chaos Emeralds. However, not wanting the world to end when the Black Comet gets to the earth, he programed Shadow and the ARK to destroy the Black Comet when it was needed. Black Doom is defeated by Super Shadow at the end but he still haunts Shadow due to being blood related.
And yes I killed my stepsister. I was planning how to write it. This is important in Pepper's life. It will never happen in real life so you don't have to worry about me or my stepsister. In the story though, it's technically a dark Cinderella story if you know what I mean. Why wait for the prince to come when you can end the misery by killing the one who makes you suffer. Pepper will regret this decision later. Even angels can kill but something like this may not go unpunished.
Here are some questions.
1. Who will the next chapter be dedicated to? Lucas or Shigeru? You'll find out in the next chapter.
That's it. Please review. I will work on the Thanksgiving fic now. I will now rant.
Yohko: Oh boy. If you don't want to hear her rant, stop here and review. Otherwise, continue.
Me: So I got Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn finally and I am on chapter 4-5. I'm disappointed in the some of the characters in RD. The one I am most disappointed with Marcia and all the Pegasus Knights. They were my main units in PoR but for them to take a lot of damage and not dodge makes me mad. It makes me use the Dragon Riders Haar and Jill instead. Oh yeah, I like Soren in this game. He doesn't even need that much protection as in PoR. I don't like Micaiah PERIOD. How can she get the Black Knight and the Laguz royal to like her? That's Mary Sue. She's still a good character though. And most of the Radiant Dawn guys are HOT! My favorite character in Radiant Dawn of all times is...
Yohko: Drum roll...
Drum rolls.
Me: SHINON!
Yohko: Why him?
Me: Because he's awesome in battle, he has feminine hair, he's hot, has a nice personality and he really is a good person inside if he has a support with Gatrie or Rolf. Oh! His support with Gatrie was SO yaoi! Other yaoi conversations are Ike and Soren, Edward and Leonardo, Skrimir and Ranulf and Tibarn and Reyson. You got to play the game to understand.
My mains are...
1. Haar (he's a tank)
2. Shinon (he's my favorite)
3. Titania (I always use her)
4. Nepenhee (I didn't use her in PoR but she's better in RD)
5. Edward (he's a doll)
6. Ike (main character)
7. Soren (he's better in RD)
That's it for the ranting. Ja ne!
Damn, there were so many usage errors in this chapter...other than that...this chapter was fine...and I grin again looking at how I killed my stepsister.