I've been (VERY) pretty lazy when it comes to writing this story so… (looks at the EIGHT MONTH GAP between the first chapter and this one) Yeah…
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From dglsprincess105 (Chapter 2): "Always wanted to read a self insert in the world of light."
From me: Well, lucky for you, I FINALLY decided to continue this fic!
So here it is, the second chapter of this fanfiction, and it's about battles, yayyyy… This is gonna be terrible… But… I mean, I did screw myself up when I chose to make a fic that's gonna include a TON of battles…
I have no idea on what else to type in here so i hope you enjoy reading this chapter!
Chapter Date: April 16th 2023
Chapter 2: VS Mario!
Vs. Mario
Conditions:
- Win the battle to awaken the fighter
-Final Destination-
Akira and Kirby appear on the stage. The former being absolutely confused while the latter prepares himself to fight the plumber.
"W-Where even are we?" The former says while looking around.
"We're in Final Destination!"
"W-What…? What do you mean…? How did we even get over here?"
"Um… I don't know…?" Kirby becomes confused as well.
"And what's that?" Akira points at the item Kirby had on his hand.
"It's an Unira!" Kirby replies cheerfully as he turnes around… and notices that the teen's wearing some completely new clothes, those being an orange shirt over a dark blue long-sleeved T-shirt, light gray pants, blue armbands, a dark blue piece of cloth on his waist, brown boots, and a blue bandana on his head, while he's also wielding a spear. "Um… Akira…?"
Akira blinks and looks down. "U-Uh… What…?" He asks, inspecting the spear he's carrying.
"That outfit looks familiar..."
"Well…"
Ready?
"Wait… W-Who said that?"
"O-Oh! Prepare yourself!" Kirby says as he turns around to face Mario.
GO!
Final Destination - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Once the battle starts Mario immediately starts running towards Kirby.
"Kirby, watch out!"
The pink puffball jumps over Mario to dodge the incoming attack.
"Uh… K-Kirby? He's heading after-" Mario uses a slide kick, causing Akira to fall down to the floor face first. "O-Ow… That hurt…"
"Akira!" Kirby lands and immediately starts charging a forward kick, launching Mario into the air.
"Ugh…" The teen gets up, starting to run towards the other side of the stage to avoid getting hit. "I have no experience in fighting, what am I supposed to do to him?"
"Well um… I'll fight for you!" Kirby says as he attacks Mario by throwing the Unira he had on his hand towards the plumber.
"But… then I'll feel bad for not fighting with you!"
Kirby turns around. "Oh, oka-" He gets interrupted and launched away by a small explosion that came from Mario's hand right after after he got back to the stage.
Akira saw this as an opportunity to land his first hit and started running at Mario to attack him with the spear…
And he misses. (insert inexistent crowd clapping here)
Akira trips and falls down to the ground again. "Great, I missed… Come on!" He shouts.
Kirby gets up and hits Mario with an upwards kick. Akira got up too and he looks up to see Kirby brandishing a sword and quickly falling down, hitting Mario in the process. "Seriously? And I can't even hit him?" He asks, feeling pretty jealous, to say the least.
Mario gets thrown into the eastern boundary and tries to recover back to the stage, but he was interrupted by Kirby using the same move again at the edge of the platform.
A banana peel then appears below Akira. "What's this…?" He asks as he crouches and grabs the item. "A banana peel? What am I going to do with this?" The teen looks up and sees Kirby getting thrown right at his face. "Wha-" Akira couldn't react in time and Kirby collided with him, sending both of them off of the stage.
Akira gasps and wavess his arms frantically trying to get back onstage, which just made him look like a complete idiot, as you would expect. "K-Kirby, help!" He yells.
Kirby responds by opening his mouth, inhaling him and floating back to the stage, spitting Akira out as once as he got back onto the platform. "What…?" The teen looks even more confused after being sucked inside Kirby.
"Are you okay?" Kirby asks as he shakes Akira.
Akira gets out of his state of confusion and looks at Kirby. "Y-Yeah." He gets up and turns around to look at Mario. "I really wanna fight too…"
"Don't push yourself too much, alright?" Kirby said, smiling at Akira.
The teen smiles back and nodded. "If you say so." He started running towards Mario again.
"Oh, wait…" Akira slows down and looks at his hand thinking that he still had the banana peel to throw at the plumber, but it wasn't there. He looks back at Mario, noticing him charging up another forward smash right in front of him, yelping and dodging the attack, landing on his back.
"Don't tell me I just wasted my time doing that…" He says, looking disappointed at Mario's hand causing an explosion that he barely avoided.
Kirby jumps over Akira and Mario, using his down special to attack the latter and send him offstage.
"This is really hurting my self-esteem… And it's already through the floor…" Akira says with a bored expression on his face before sighing.
Mario tries to go back onstage, but Kirby jumps off the platform and brandishes a hammer, landing a critical hit, causing Mario to get launched away to the blast zone, disappearing inside a tower of light.
Victory!
-World of Light-
Starting Area
Map (World of Light) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Akira and Kirby appear back at the entrance of the ruins inside a bright light.
"That light almost made me blind…" Akira squints his eyes.
"We did it!" Kirby jumped happily.
"I wouldn't really say we, since I didn't even land a hit on him…"
"At least you tried!"
"That's true but…" He pauses, but before he could say anything else, he looked up, looking at the Master Hand clone, who clenches his 'body' as a sign of anger and flies away, right before a bright light appears from the ruins' entrance.
Both Kirby and Akira blocks their eyes. "Really? Give me a break with these lights!"
Once the light dimmed out, a familiar figure appeared from it. "What… is this place?" The person asked, looking around ("holy shimata I predicted Mario's first line in the Mushroom Kingdom in the movie" - recctangle, a year and two months after this line was written).
"Mario!" Kirby runs over to the person, being revealed to be Mario, to hug him.
"Kirby? What are you doing here?" He looks at Akira. "And who are you?"
"O-Oh, yeah." Akira scratches his head with a nervous smile on his face. "My name is Akira."
"He tried to help me, but…" Kirby looks sad at Akira.
"Yeah… I've never fought anyone before, so I screwed it up a bit..." Akira replies.
"Nice to meet you, Akira. I'm Mario." Mario smiles at the teen.
"Nice to meet you too."
Mario looks back at Kirby. "So, what happened?"
Kirby stopped hugging Mario's leg and looked at him. "I used my Warp Star to get away from Galeem, but now there are clones of all the other Smashers, including you, that are being controlled by the spirits of everyone else."
"S-Smashers…?" Akira sweatdrops.
"That's what we're called, and I don't necessarily like it either." Mario replies. "And how did you get here?"
"I have no idea, I was just going to sleep, and then I saw a light come out of nowhere, and then I appeared here."
"...That's alright."
"And… What is your group about…?"
"To summarize it shortly, we're a group of people that participate in fighting tournaments."
"Oh, that's pretty cool."
"Thanks!" Kirby smiles.
"We should get going now, don't you think?"
Akira nods, but before they could start walking towards the center of the ruins… A blue window (computer program window... screen... thing) appears, and Akira stops walking. "Uh… Do you guys see this?" He asks, really confused.
"What?" Both Mario and Kirby asked.
"This… Window… It's showing… Some 'results'...?"
"What window?" Kirby asks.
"What, you guys don't see it…?" The teen sighs. "Great, now you're gonna think I'm weird…"
"But what do you mean?" Mario replies.
"Well, this… computer program-like window just appeared in front of me… and It's showing something…"
"What is it?"
"Well, it says... 'Mario joins the battle'..." He taps the screen, and it changes to another page "Oh, wow, it's showing the results of last chapter now, including an image of me and Kirby... We won 109... Smash Coins, 101 Spirit Points, three Skill Spheres, a small Snack, and… Slow FS Charging. I have no idea what that means… but I think it's like… a skill or something…?"
"Okay, but what are all those things…?" Kirby asks.
"What things?"
"The stuff in the 'Results'."
"Well, Smash Coins and Spirit Points are… I actually have no idea about what all of these even are…" He says, right before he puts his finger the Spirit Coins' image, and a box with text appears. "Oh... well, turns out that the latter are to buy stuff on the... Spirit Shop...?" He tilts his head a bit, while still holding his finger on the box..
"And that is...?"
"Again, no idea." Akira shrugs, before tapping on the next image. "Skill Spheres are... for unlocking stuff in the Skill Tree, Snacks are for feeding Primary Spirits, Primary Spirits… are also self-explanatory, they are the spirits you equip as your… primary one, and they can have Support Spirits. And last but not least, Skills are battle items are stuff you can use on the... Spirit Board, dunno what that is..."
"Oh… That's cool!" Kirby says cheerfully. "Also, Smash Coins are the currency we use!"
"That explains it..."
"But what is the Primary Spirit you currently have equipped?"
"Well…" Akira pauses for a second. "It's… Bowser, but in his wedding attire." He says nervously.
"That's… Strange… Kirby, did you beat a clone with that spirit?" Mario says as he looks at Kirby.
Kirby looks back at Mario. "No…?"
"Don't ask me, I don't know either." Akira says.
"Okay, I'll trust you." Mario replies, looking back at the teen. "Though, is there something else?"
"Yeah… In the corner, it says…"
"Collection: Summon
There are some spirits you can only get by summoning. Use Reverse Lookup to see which spirits can be summoned.
(Category: Spirits)"
"Spirits…?" Kirby asked. "I think… they're the ones possessing the clones… like the Jigglypuff that… Beat you up."
"I don't think I needed to be reminded of that, though…" Akira chuckles a bit.
"I think I automatically 'equipped' them once I beat them… Remember the Unira I had?"
"Oh, Yeah… Right…" (I was the one who made Kirby equip them…) Akira thought.
"Is there anything else you can do with the 'Window'?"
"Uh… Let me check here…" The teen taps the 'EXIT' button, and it changes to another 'page'... It's the Job System.
"It switched to another thing once I tapped on it. It says I just unlocked… a new Job…? T-The 'Geno' Job…?" The tone of Akira's voice turns into a bit of a shocked one.
"Did you just say Geno?"
"Y-Yeah… I did… What about it?" The teen tries his hardest to not reveal any of his knowledge about everyone.
"Well, he was my partner in one of my adventures… What do you mean you have his 'Job'?"
"I don't know… and it also says I have the 'Bandana Dee' Job… Wait, was that the one I used earlier?"
"Bandana Dee? That's the name of my best friend!" Kirby said.
"Oh, nice… It says I'm currently using the Geno Job, but my clothes haven't changed at all…" Akira said as he looked down to his clothes, they were still the same ones he had while in his bedroom.
"I think they only change in battle."
"Well, that explains it a bit." The teen taps the screen again, and now it changes to a page that shows the current fighters unlocked, spirits currently equipped and four options, "Party", "Manage Spirits", "Skill Tree" and "Jobs". "Huh, interesting…" Akira taps the first option, and two buttons appear, "Fighters" and "Spirits" Akira taps "Fighters, and it shows the character select screen, but with only Kirby, Mario and Akira. (Oh, wow, so I'm a Smash Bros. fighter now? THAT'S PRETTY NICE!) Akira thought as he mentally did Joseph Joestar's "Nice!" pose. Akira's Icon had a lock on it, which meant that he couldn't be changed.
"What is he doing…?" Kirby asks Mario.
"I don't know, but we should probably let him continue." The plumber replies.
He taps the "Exit" button, and then tapped the other option, which was the "Spirits" button. His current Primary Spirit was the Bowser (Wedding) Spirit, he had currently equipped as Support Spirits the Smoky Progg and Celeste Spirits.
Akira goes back to the first page, and taps the "Manage Spirits" button. Three buttons appear, "Level Up", "Dismiss" and "Summon". The teen taps the first button, and feeds his Primary Spirit all the snacks he currently has. He taps the Exit button, and just decides to ignore the other two options and goes back to the first page again and taps the "Skill Tree" button. He scrolls through the Skill Tree and notices that he doesn't have enough Skill Points to even buy the first one. "Oh, great. I can't even unlock the first skill from the Skill Tree…"
"Skill Tree?" Kirby asks.
"Yeah, it's the third option in the Main Menu for this thing." Akira replies as he goes back to the first page, and taps the "Jobs" button, only two Jobs appear, the "Bandana Dee" and "Geno" ones. He taps the first one and sees that there are stats for it. "Cool... This seems like an agility-based Job..." He exits the page and notices that there's a button for the Job's moveset, and he taps the Bandana Dee Job's one, and as expected, the moveset appears, and he begins to study it. "Nice, atleast I'll get to know what moves to use while fighting..." Once he finishes, he begins to look at the Geno job's one, and after a while, he closes the window. "Alright, let's go."
They reach the set of stairs, and they notice another enemy in their way.
"That looks like R.O.B… And it's bigger too!" Kirby says.
"Don't tell me we're gonna have to fight an enemy every 10 steps…" Akira sighs.
"If we are going to, we have no other options." Mario replies.
"You're right, but it's still gonna be annoying… and what's R.O.B.?"
"As you can see, it's a robot, and its name stands for 'Robotic Operating Buddy'."
"That's cool… I guess."
"Oh, and we should fight with only two people at a time, because it could get out of control."
"Actually I think that's… N-Nevermind."
"And I suppose you have no experience in fighting, am I right?" Mario asks Akira.
"Yes." Akira looked disappointed about the fact that he couldn't do anything to help out with the fighting.
"And you already know what i'm going to say, right? I don't mean to offend you, I'm just worried that you'll get hurt."
"Yes… I know…" The teen lowers his head in even more disappointment.
"Okay then." Mario and Kirby start walking towards the purple R.O.B, and once they get close enough, a black circle appears on the screen, expanding until the whole screen is completely covered in black.
Vs. Giant R.O.B. (4th alternate costume)
Spirit: Guardian (From The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild)
Conditions:
- The enemy has super armor and is hard to launch or make flinch
- Stamina battle
- The enemy favors neutral specials
-The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild-
Great Plateau Tower (Omega form)
Mario appears on the top of the tower.
"Kirby, get ready-" Mario turns around, noticing that he's with… Akira, instead of Kirby.
The teen gasps, looking around the stage. "W-Wait, What am I even doing here?"
"To be honest with you, I don't know why." The plumber looks at Akira's attire. "And why do you have those clothes?"
Akira looks down again, and he notices he's wearing other clothes now. He's wearing Geno's clothes, including a blue shirt and pants, and there's even wood covering some parts of his skin. "Well uh… The 'Job' system… remember? It said I had the Geno Job."
-"Mario!"- A voice comes from inside the teen's pocket.
"W-What?" Akira says as he feels something inside said place. He puts his hand on his pocket and pulls out a Switch-themed walkie talkie.
-"Why is Akira there while i'm back over here?"- The voice coming out of it... Is Kirby's!
"I don't know?" The plumber says.
"Me neither." The teen says.
-"Well... Just don't lose, okay?"-
"I'll promise you that." Akira says as he smiles.
Ready?
Both fighters get ready.
GO!
Nintendo Switch Presentation 2017 Trailer BGM
Mario runs at the R.O.B. clone while it readies to use lasers from its eyes.
"W-Wait… Mario!" Akira says, worried for Mario.
"I know what i'm doing, just follow me!" The plumber jumps and dodges the laser, but now it's heading towards Akira.
"Oh, not again!" The teen extends his hands in front of him to try to block the projectile, which obviously wouldn't work at all, but his right arm suddenly turns into a thin cannon. "W-What?!" The arm cannon fires a beam that destroys the lasers and damages the R.O.B. clone.
Akira retracts his right arm, and it turns back into its normal state. "Um… What did I just do...?" He looks at his arm, really confused.
"You used an attack!" Mario says as he lands behind the R.O.B. clone and lands a forward smash on it.
"Oh, okay!" Akira replies as he runs towards the enemy robot, jumps and extends his arm again, this time forming a cannon as thick as his arm, and it shoots out an explosion right on the R.O.B. clone's face. "I have no idea how I did that but I'll keep doing it!"
Mario follows up with a jumping uppercut (up special), pushing the giant robot a bit up in the air.
Akira charges his current Job's down special. "Uh… What?" Once he releases it, five meteors of energy fall from above and all hit the R.O.B. clone. "Oh, Nice."
Mario hits the enemy with a Sweep Kick, and follows it up with an overhand in mid-air.
The robot then launches another eye laser, hitting Mario.
"Mario, you okay?" The teen starts to charge up his Job's forward smash right beside the R.O.B. clone, it's a perfectly timed hit, but he gets hit by a laser. "O-O-OW!"
"I'm okay, you should be worrying about yourself!" Mario does another up special, leaving the enemy with less than 10 stamina.
"Fair enough, since I just got hit by a laser straight into my face!" Akira was charging up another beam. "Time to finish this!" It hit, and the R.O.B. clone was defeated (Akira: Wowie, kinda anticlimactic).
Victory!
-World of Light-
Starting Area
Map (World of Light) - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
A light appears at the center of the ruins, and both fighters come out of it, with Akira having his hand covering the spot the enemy's laser hit him. "O-Ow... T-That hurt... How do you guys even do this...?"
"We're already got used to pain a long time ago." Mario replies.
"R-Right..."
"Also, why are you covering your face? Shouldn't the feeling of pain have gone away already?"
The teen slowly puts his arm back down. "..." He remains silent as he keeps staring at the plumber in confusion. "I... think I understand more."
"Mario, Akira!" Kirby said while running towards them with a sad face. "I still want to know why wasn't I sent there..."
"I… have no idea…"
"Maybe it's because… you're the main focus of all this…? ...'Main character', if you will." Mario said.
"Why do you think that?"
"Well, judging by the fact that only you can see the 'window' you were talking about earlier."
"But i'm almost a total stranger to you, we just met today, if days even exist here…"
"That doesn't matter, it kind of might be more proof of the idea."
"Well, I never expected to be one…" Akira scratches the back of his head.
"And I'm guessing you're excited to be one, too?"
"You could say that… But it's also wrong at the same time… I don't really like being the center of attention… It makes me really nervous."
"It's okay, I won't judge." Mario smiles.
"Thanks…" The Results Window appears in front of Akira again. "Oh, the window again."
"What does it show you?"
"It says that I unlocked the Guardian spirit, It's a two star support spirit that's a normal type. Its skill is Weapon Resist, and as you can imagine, it decreases the damage of melee weapons." Akira taps the screen and it changes to the results.
"What's that?" Kirby asks.
"Well, Spirits are classified by ranks, the one-star rank is called Novice, the two-star one is named Advanced, three star; Ace, and finally, four star; Legend. There are four Spirit types, Normal, Attack, Shield and Grab. The last three are weak and strong to another type, Attack is strong to Grab but weak to Shield, Shield is weak to Grab but weak to Attack, and Grab is weak to Attack but strong to Shield, meanwhile Normal isn't weak or strong to any."
"Oh..."
The teen goes back to look at the screen. "Now we won 94 Smash Coins, 75 Spirit Points, two Skill Spheres, a small Snack and a medium Snack. The Primary Spirit leveled up to Level 20, and as for the information in the corner…"
"Bullet Bill:
This item lets you transform into a Bullet Bill and charge across the screen. You can control the direction, but be careful not to self-destruct!
Category: Items"
"Actually... This information is kinda useless, now that I think about it..."
"Do you need to do something else?" Mario asks
"Yeah, I just need to feed my Primary Spirit some snacks before fighting. And I think I'll switch you and Kirby, for now."
"Alright then, take your time."
Akira then begins to do as he said, and he switches out his Support Spirits with his newly acquired one, upon finishing he sighs and closes the window. "I'm ready, let's go."
The other two fighters nod, and they turn around, noticing that they had to choose which fighter to fight. There were three paths, Sheik is at the northern one, Marth at the eastern one, and Villager at the western one.
"Well, it's your choice, leader." Mario says.
The last word shocks Akira a bit, as he wasn't expecting anyone to ever say that. "U-Uh… W-What did you just say?"
Mario and Kirby turn around. "You're our leader now!" The pink puffball says cheerfully
"Why though…?"
"I already told you that you seem to be the 'star of the show', as some would say, of all of this, remember?" Mario replies.
"Yeah… But…"
"Don't worry, we won't pressure you that much." Mario smiles again.
"Yeah!" Kirby cheers.
"O-Okay… F-Fine…" Akira smiles a bit. "I guess I'll choose… Villager."
"Nice choice." Mario says as they all walk towards Villager, and the same scene with the black cross happens.
"I'm Akira."
"And I'm Mario."
"Man, fighting actually is really fun, now that I think about it…" Akira says as he smiles a bit.
"It does get kind of tiresome after a lot of battles." Mario replies.
"Yeah… I guess so…" Akira scratches the back of his head. "But hey, it's not like we have any other choices now…"
"You're right." Mario nods.
"Anyways…"
"Next chapter will be: Farewell To The Starting Area!"
"I wonder when I'll get to meet Bowser…" Akira mutters under his breath.
Would you like to save your data?
Yes
There is already an existent save file, do you want to overwrite this file?
Yes
Day 1
-World of Light-
Starting Area
Akira, Kirby, Mario
Jobs: Bandana Dee, Geno
Alright, guess I actually did a pretty good job with the fights, but I don't know what you guys'll think (i hope it's a good opinion).
So, I'll just have to suffer the misery of making more battles…
References:
Yes, I have indeed copied the idea of having the Job system here from TSEWC (and therefore, Final Fantasy).
The Bandana Dee Job's outfit is based on: deviantart kirby-otaku/art/Bandana-Dee-790323294
The Geno Job's moveset is based on Project M's Geno.
Extra Notes:
Not So Fun Fact: I'm gay for a couple of characters in Smash, so Akira also is (Example; the "I wonder when I'll get to meet Bowser" line (bro looks like a literal 10 imo, but his personality isn't... really good, to say the least). But of course, this will not turn into a Yaoi fic or something similar, because... why would you ever think that? Akira's literally 15, and I'm not just going to make this fic even more self-indulgent than it already is, you know?
So Akira will just… blush, and sometimes get nervous around those characters, I guess.
The three smashers (Yes, including Villager) look a bit weirded out at Akira, who's just... standing there.
"..." Akira's right eye twitches.
"...Why Bow-" Villager gets interrupted by... Well...
"FU-"
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A-Anyways, thanks for reading, and have a wonderful day (and i hope the last paragraph didn't weird you out or anything, which is very unlikely but I just wanted to make sure)!