PRE-CHAPTER WARNING: The second part to the chapter featuring Kirby, Luigi and Bandana Dee WILL feature gore. It won't be anything too bad, just a lot of blood, so I don't plan on changing it, just thought you may want a warning. (also, I've never written bloody stuff before so it might be more funny-bad than horrifying)

Chapter 17

Hammurs base six was destroyed during the fight with Smithy. Hammurs base five was destroyed by Mario and Link. Hammurs base four was shut down by Ness and Geno taking away the power sources. And Hammurs base two (The slabship) was currently being attacked by Samus and her team. The ocean based Hammurs base 3 was the only base left that was yet to be attacked by the heroes. It was a very large base. It stretched from just above the ocean surface, all the way down to the sea floor. It was the largest of the Hammurs Bases in terms of height.

Around half way down the base, in the main control room, a swarm of robots were working hard to rebuild something. The commander of this base stood, watching over the machine. He discovered the wreckage of it not long ago when he found that Egg-shaped Doctor. When he discovered what it was, he knew he had to use it. This was his best plan yet.

The commander was a tall man with a red cape and grey skin. Circling his face was ginger hair that dropped down the side of his face into a beard. He also wore a black suit of armour.

Nameplate: Ganondorf

Ganondorf's plan was close to completion now. He couldn't help but smirk at his own genius. Suddenly, he heard a strange clanging noise. He turned his attention to the wall that the sound had come from. An intruder?! He called robot's to his side and prepared to attack and suddenly, the wall broke open and in dropped Metal Sonic, totally soaked. The brawn bots rushed to the breach he made and resealed it, before the base was flooded.

Metal was sparking slightly but was still functioning. He dragged himself to his feet and gave Ganondorf a weak salute.

"What are YOU doing here? Did you lose your base already?" The warlock asked angrily. Metal nodded a little and Ganon shook his head. "Ugh... Just... Just go and have some repairs. Then make yourself useful, OK?" Metal nodded a little and slowly walked off to get fixed.

Ganondorf hated having to work on a team. And as always, he had his own agenda at work. Which meant he would need to "take care" of Metal Sonic soon. Suddenly, an alarm went off in the base. Intruders! Ganondorf ran to a nearby computer and checked the base map. There were three intruders and they were entering from the roof. They wouldn't be able to get to Ganondorf right away, but that was no excuse to let them enter. He called over the closest robot. A former enemy that he had Dr Eggman Hack into and reprogram to work for them.

Nameplate: ROB

"Robot! Go and remove the intruders. And quickly!" Ordered Ganon. ROB nodded and left to find the intruders. Nothing was going to get in Ganondorf's way this time...

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Bandana Dee and Kirby ran as fast as they could through the meadow. Luigi was a little slower, but he was following them.

"Hey, Guys? Why do you-a think so many hands are attacking the-a castle?" Asked Luigi. Dee gave an answer without turning.

"Isn't it obvious? When Tabuu attacked, Dedede was the guy who planned out the way to beat him. If Dedede hadn't prepared, Tabuu would have won. Whoever's behind this whole thing recognized the threat and decided to go after him." He said. Luigi nodded. It seemed pretty likely.

"Puyo!" Yelled Kirby. Shadow hands were ahead of them. Not as many as there were at the castle though. Only a small cluster. Nothing they couldn't handle. Bandana Dee charged, twirling and thrusting his spear like a pro. Luigi gulped and lit up his hands, throwing green fireballs. Kirby took a DEEEEEEP breath, sucking in a shadow hand, and then turned to exhale, firing the shadow hand he sucked up at another.

"C'mon guys! Not far now!" Yelled Bandana Dee as he ran up a nearby hill, attacking the Shadow hands that got in his way. Luigi and Kirby took down their foes and ran after Bandana dee to the top of the hill where they stopped and looked down. Castle Dedede could be seen. It was about a five minute run away now. The swarms of shadow hand made it seem like the entire castle was made out of them. "No time to lose, guys" Said Dee. He began to make his way down the hill when something caught their eyes...

A large, round, white creature with large white wings and a bright golden halo flew down before them. It had small black dots for eyes and it's red lips were curled into large smile.

"W-what is that? Is it an angel..?" Asked Luigi. Kirby's eyes didn't leave the creature. He glared at it with a burning passion. And that's when it happened. Those red lips began to open and revealed a horrifying sight. It wasn't a mouth at all, it was an eye. A pure red eye with a black pupil and small streams off blood flowing down from behind the bottom eyelid. It's wings grew extra sections that, rather than being white, were blood red too. From the bottom of this "Angel" a tail made of a single long thorny vine grew downwards.

Nameplate: 02 (Zero Two)

Luigi wailed in fear and even Bandana Dee took a couple of steps backwards. 02 was not messing around. Almost right away, he swung his tail with enormous force to try and crush Kirby. Kirby rolled out of the way, inhaled and fired a blast of air at 02's tail right away. It did almost nothing though. 02 swung his tail again and managed to catch Dee off guard, wrapping around him and lifting him up, crushing him in the grip.

He tried as hard as he could to struggle free but he just couldn't. That was when he heard a familiar inflation jumping noise. Thank goodness Kirby had the sense to try and defend him.

"Jiggly!" came an unexpected voice. A small pink puffball with a strange hair curl had flown up. It looked, shockingly, a lot like Kirby. Suddenly, it launched itself forwards and pounded 02 directly in the eye, causing blood to spurt out onto the grass below.

Nameplate: Jigglypuff

Jigglypuff performed a small back flip, before starting to charge up a spinning attack and she suddenly launched at 02, smashing directly into it's eye once again and spraying blood down. Jigglypuff, who somehow managed to stay clean of blood, fell down and landed gracefully on the floor as 02 released Bandana Dee in pain. Kirby watched Jigglypuff in awe...

Bandana Dee landed and forced himself to stand through the pain. Just what WAS this thing?! He raised his spear and prepared to fight as 02 began shooting projectiles. Jigglypuff jumped side to side, dodging the blasts while Bandana Dee spun his spear in circles to reflect the projectiles back. Kirby opened his mouth and sucked in one of the projectiles, firing it back into the creature's eye, causing yet another spray of blood.

Luigi dove behind a nearby tree and shook with fear. This thing scared him way more than Tabuu or King Boo and didn't plan on wanting to fight unless absolutely necessary. He was going to fight when he saw Bandana Dee in danger but Jigglypuff saved him so Luigi felt he wouldn't be missed if he ducked for cover.

02's eye was coated in blood now. Each time it blinked, flecks of blood were strewn about. It began to swing it's tail again and delivered a powerful blow, sending Kirby flaying backwards into the tree Luigi was hiding behind. Kirby fell down into the grass and slowly pulled himself up. As he did so, he looked down and saw a beautiful red flower. He smiled, cutely. "Puyo!"

Bandana Dee wasn't paying attention to Kirby, he was focused on the fight. He began to twirl his spear and pulled backwards. "Take... THIS!" he shouted and he threw the spear with all of his might. The spear shot right towards 02 and... went right through 02's pupil.

With a spear lodged firmly in the centre of 02's eye, the deadly angel began to writhe in pain and then, BOOM! In a flash of white light, 02 exploded, leaving no trace that he was ever there. Even the blood that coated the grass had vanished. Dee's spear lay on the grass below where 02 was hovering and he walked over, picking it up.

"I-is it over..?" Asked Luigi, stepping out of his hiding place. Dee nodded and breathed a sigh of relief. Kirby slowly walked over to Jigglypuff and tapped her on the shoulder(?). The Pokémon turned to look and Kirby inquisitively and he held out the red flower he found. Jigglypuff smiled and took the flower, placing it behind her ear. Kirby smiled with a light blush before running back to Bandana Dee and Luigi's side. Jigglypuff followed.

"Ok, team. We're nearly there. If we could take down that... thing... then we should be able to take on those hands and save the King. You all ready?" asked Dee. Kirby and Jigglypuff nodded. Luigi felt somewhat ashamed that he didn't take part in the fight. He could have helped and Kirby may not have taken that hit that sent him flying into the tree. He was determined to prove himself a fighter now. He nodded along with Kirby and Jigglypuff. He was ready to help save Dedede.

Jigglypuff's ears twitched a little and she looked up into the sky. Luigi saw and looked up a too. "Hey! Bandana Dee! Look up-a there!" Kirby and Bandana dee looked up to the sky and saw a plane flying toward the castle. Not only that, but a familiar looking figure with bat wings flew alongside it.

Kirby smiled brightly. "META! HIII!" He shouted and waved his arms wildly up to him.

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"Castle Dedede in sight! We're going in for the landing" Announced Tails to the crowded plane. Suddenly, a faint shout could be heard from down below.

"Meta! Hiii!" came the voice. Metaknight, who was flying alongside the Tornado looked downwards to see Kirby and Bandana Dee standing with Luigi and a fourth.

"You go on ahead, Tails. I have some friends to meet." Meta-Knight said and he suddenly nosedived. Meta-knight shot downwards and managed to slow down just in time to land directly before Kirby and the others. "What are you doing here? Where is King Dedede?"

"He's still at the castle! We need to get to him, fast!" Replied Dee. Meta-knight nodded and turned towards the castle, shooting off without another word. Kirby, Jigglypuff, Luigi and Bandana Dee ran after him, ready to fight off the hands with all of their might.

OOC NOTES TIME:

Ahh! That was MUCH more fun to write than the last chapter. I had a lot more to work with. Also, having 02 as a boss fight was the first boss fight I planned. While the Diaboromon chapter was the first chapter I'd fully planned out, 02 was the first boss I planned without having a full chapter around it. So... dat blood, right..? :I

NEXT TIME ON SMASH BROS...

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