Cornerian Military Base - Peppys Office
Peppy still agape by the flying object hovered above the military base turned his attention to Fox who seemed to know about the flying object. Fox, you know this...thing ?"
Remembering that some battle stages in the World of Trophies are similar to fighters home worlds Fox, Falco, and Diddy recognize this flying object. "Yes, and don't worry the owner is a very powerful ally, and Peppy order everyone not to attack, the owner of this ship is not our enemy." Ordered Fox as he Falco and Diddy head outside with Peppy follow suit after ordering his soldiers to stand down.
Cornerian Military Base - Training Field
The soldiers outside questioning and panicking about the flying object suddenly heard a voice from the intercom. "Everyone stand down ! They're not the enemies !"
Obeying Peppy's order the soldiers dropped their weapons, and then three figures descend from the flying object, it's Rosalina, Polari. and Donkey Kong. Rosalina used her telekinesis to make Donkey Kong descend slowly.
When Donkey and Rosalina touched the ground Rosalina declared, "we come in peace Cornerians, we mean no harm upon anyone."
Luckily for Rosalina she doesn't have to explain further as she finally saw familiar face coming out from the building. It's Fox, Falco, and Diddy Kong.
"Diddy !" Shouted Donkey.
"Donkey !" Replied Diddy.
The two best friends finally meet and hugged each other, while Fox and Falco greeted Rosalina upon her arrival. They five of them started exchanging info about what has transpired. And then Peppy arrived outside introducing himself as the leader of Cornerian military. "Good afternoon young lady, it's nice to meet you my name is Peppy Hare, I'm the general of Cornerian military."
"The pleasure is mine General Hare." Rosalina and Peppy shake hands.
"Please call me Peppy, any friend of Fox is a friend of mine, so are you one of the people that Fox and Falco met during that otherworldly tournament ?" Asked Peppy. "Fox and Falco already told me everything."
"Then that's makes things easier, yes I am one of the participants during the 4th tournament." Answered Rosalina.
"Wait ! 4th tournament !? It has been going on four times !?" Peppy didn't expect at that answer.
"Oh yeah it's been happening four times, we were just about to tell you but Rosalina's Comet Observatory arrived here." Explained Fox.
"All this time and we had no idea about this, where is the location of this place ?" Questioned Peppy.
"I'm afraid the World of Trophy is not a place you can reach through space ship as it resides in a different plane of existence, only those summoned by the creators can enter, or through a rift in space time, but that rarely happens." Explained Rosalina.
Looking around Donkey Kong seemed to notice the damaged building and the many injured soldiers like there was a battle going on. "Excuse me, but did a fight just broke out here ?"
"Yes Donkey, creatures from another planet called Enigma came here and attacked us, we had no idea how they got here." Said Falco.
"Can it be that light responsible for what happen ?" Asked Fox.
"I believe the light is what caused it, after the light faded I can sense the weakening of dimensional walls, causing a rift in space time, so I advise be prepare for anything, space time rifts are unstable and they often bringing things you don't know to your world or you may stumble upon one and stranded in other world." Answered Rosalina.
"I see, thanks for the warning miss, and uh what might you be star creature ?" Peppy looked at Polari.
"My name is Polari, and I'm a Luma, also I work as Rosalina's advisor, I'm also existed since millennia ago so you better show me some respect.." Explained the Luma proudly.
"I've been meaning to ask another thing sir, outside this military base there's a black fog covering the entire city, does that happen often here ?" Since the base is surrounded by a steel wall soldiers unable to look at the city, Rosalina able to see one because she looked at the city when descending from her Comet Observatory above the base.
"What ! A black fog !? That's not normal here, Bill check the city condition !" Ordered Peppy.
Bill obeyed Peppy's order and take a look at the city, when he suddenly came back he proceed to deliver a bad news. "Sir it's true ! There's a black fog enveloping the city !"
"Did the Enigmas caused this !? Some of them managed to teleport away when we fight." Asked Falco.
"No that can't be ! Enigmas doesn't have that kind of power." Answered Peppy.
"Well we need to know what's going on on the city anyway !" Exclaimed Fox.
"Deploy available soldiers at once ! We must investigate this phenomenon !" Bill then relay the orders and organized his bulldog squadron to investigate the black fog surrounding the city. "What is happening here !?"
"Let's us help ! We might be able to do something !" Exclaimed Rosalina.
"Thank you for your offer but, I can't involve otherworlder in our problems." Replied Peppy.
"Come on Peppy, let them help, Donkey has strength no one in this planet has, Diddy's agile and Rosalina have powers beyond imagination nothing can get in our way with this team up." Suggested Fox.
"*Sigh*.. okay it seems there's no choice, we appreciate your help." Thanked Peppy. "I might contact Beltino about this, he got to have fog disperser machine in his lab, I also give you permission to use any of our equipments if you need it."
"We can borrow one of the armored vehicles from the base, let us use that for faster travel !" Suggested Fox.
Peppy headed back inside to seek Beltino and Slippy's help while Fox and the others covered the ground, Bill covered things from the sky.
Earlier...
Corneria City
Corneria city, a bustling metropolis also known as the Capital of Planet Corneria, it's a very busy place and the most populated of all Lylat System. Sitting outside a cafe a female blue anthropomorphic fox wearing a white top and white skirt sipping a tea and seemed to be in a lot of thought and there seemed to be something wrapped in cloth in the chair next to her.
"Oh Fox, I know you only worried about me, but why can't I worry about you, what do you think I feel if you died during a mission ? Do you just expect me to accept that ?" The fox decided to maek up her mind. "Get a grip Krystal ! Once you see him again you will give him a piece of your mind !"
As Krystal drinking her tea she noticed something strange surrounding her, a black fog appeared below her feet, and one by one the citizens collapsed on the ground. Krystal quickly unwrap the cloth revealing a staff and she used it by creating a force field to protect herself.
"What is this black fog ?" Krystal looked around, but then soon she saw a moving figure amidst the fog.
"It's really amazing what you can do with a bunch of Koffings and Hypnos, just use haze and mass hypnosis and poof the entire place fell, if only things are a lot easier in our world, don't you agree ?." Asked Proton wearing a night vision goggles.
"Well I'm here for the fun of it anyways, a world with no Pokemons but talking animals, I have to say to think stuff that we imagined when we were kids are actually true, now I'm really glad I accept your offer after I left Team Galactic." Said a woman with a weird styled purple hair wearing a uniform with a letter R.
"Our boss does have eyes for talent, and good thing too he saw something in you miss Jupiter." Praised Proton.
"Well as true as that sound flattery won't get you anywhere, hmm what's that ?" Jupiter noticed the glowing circular shape.
Jupiter sent out a Pokemon, it's shaped like a bronze bell. "Bronzong, flash cannon." Bronzong fire a beam of metallic energy and blast the circular shape dispersing some of the fogs revealing Krystal hiding inside her force field.
"Well well what do we have here ?" Said Jupiter smiling evilly and Proton also stared at the blue fox still hiding inside the force field.
Back at the present
Cornerian Military Base - Training Field
Fox and the others are ready to go, they used one of the military armored vehicles to move around town more easily, except for Diddy, Polari, and Rosalina who choose to fly and cover things from the air. Also Rosalina connect everyones mind through telepathy for communication.
Fox drive the car to the exit and give Rosalina the order. "Rosalina Now !" Rosalina used her telekinesis to part the fog revealing the streets full of unmoving cars and unconscious people.
Corneria City
"Great, looks like we won't be able to move any further with a car and what's going on here ? All this people collpsed on the streets, any luck up there Bill ?" Said Fox through a comm link.
"Not yet Fox, there's nothing up here." Replied Bill.
(Hold on Fox let me try something). Rosalina used her telepathy to search for anyone still conscious, and fortunately she found it, and also some others but not what she expects.
(Good news everyone, I detected a few people still conscious, it's not far from here, and also Mr. Grey I sense something straight up north not to high from here).
"Wow is this telepathy !? This kind of power is amazing for communication purposes, Fox you need to tell me about this World of Trophy once this is over." Bill then lowering his altitude to search around and he found a strange creature, it shaped like a floating naval mine with smiling face and has a crossbone skull below the mouth. "Got it ! Fox sending visuals."
Fox receiving visuals from Bill surprised at what he saw and so is Falco and Donkey. "Is that a Koffing ? It's a Pokemon !"
"Pokemon ? Care to explain Fox ?" Questioned Bill.
"Not now Bill, for now shoot that thing down, that creature can emit dangerous gases." Ordered Falco.
Bill nodded and shoot the Koffing, damaging it and causing it to fall. "Alright got one !"
"Okay Bill shoot down the rest of the Koffings, we will go to the direction Rosalina pointed." Fox, Falco, and Donkey left the car and follow Rosalina and Diddy who fly with his jetbarrel. Fox using his illusion dash, Falco used his phantasmal bird and Donkey used his high jumps to catch up with Rosalina, Diddy, and Polari.
Meanwhile...
Haah...haah it's like they fight as one, and what are these things this man and woman using ? Thought Krystal.
"Give up now, there's no point in resisting Team Rocket !" Declared Jupiter.
"No, you all responsible for this, I can't just standby and let you get away with this !" Defied Krystal.
"Honestly you just like those brats who interfere with our plans back then, but since there's no Pokemon here we can have an easy victory this time." Proton prepare to attack again, he ordered Weezing to tackle Krystal, but she managed to shield herself with a force field, readying a counter attack Krystal removed the force field and take a fighting stance, but Jupiter commanded Bronzong to use block on Krystal, immobilizing her.
"I can't move !" Krystal completely incapacitated.
"If only this we're so easy we would've won years ago." Claimed Proton.
"You know the rules of our world Proton using Pokemon to harm humans directly is a serious crime, break this rule and even the police won't have any mercy on us." Sighed Jupiter. "Lucky for us such a rule doesn't exist in this world."
"You're right, well then to finish things off, Weezing use sludge bomb !" Weezing use the sudge bomb move to attack Krystal but before it reach her an energy blast shot the sludge bomb, destroying it.
"What ! Who dares !?" Shouted Proton. And then the fog where Proton and Jupiter stands suddenly dispersing making them removing their night vision goggles.
Proton and Jupiter saw an anthropomorphic Fox and bird, two monkeys, a black star, and a flying human. Fox then noticed someone familiar on the ground.
"Krystal !" Fox rushed to the blue vixen. "Are you okay ? Speak to me !?"
"I'm fine Fox, I'm just immobilized, Fox you need to get out of here those humans have strange creatures with them, I tried to fight them but they keep countering my attacks."
"I won't leave you, and don't worry I know who am I dealing with." Fox turned his attention at the Team Rocket members. You two are Pokemon trainers am I right ? No need to lie to me those things on your belts are called pokeballs, a tool to capture Pokemon."
"You know about Pokemons ? Then I supposed you're the people the Ancient Minister warned us about." Said Proton.
"What !? Did you say Ancient Minister !?" Hearing this Fox, Falco, Diddy, and Donkey shocked by what they heard.
"Hey what do you mean by Ancient Minister !? You're going to tell us everything !" Demanded Falco.
"In due time, but first allow me to introduce ourselves, my name is Proton, and I'm a high ranking member of Team Rocket, and this is Jupiter our newest recruit, although she has enough experience before joining us, but we'll leave it at that for now." Proton snapped his fingers and five rocket grunts showed up and prepare to fight. "Everyone attack !"
The grunts sent out 3 Golbats and 2 Hypnos. Donkey leaped and pummel one of the Hypnos to the ground but it's just an illusion, and Hypno using disable on Donkey Kong, immobilizing him. Seeing this everyone else then attack. Golbat used a wing attack but Rosalina stopped it with telekinesis and throw the Golbat away, Diddy shot the second Golbat with his peanut popgun but the Golbat managed to avoid it and used supersonic on Diddy confusing him, causing him to shoot randomly.
Hypno confronted Falco and attempt to hypnotize him however Diddy's random shooting fortunately hit the Hypno at the back of it's head, in pain Falco seize the opportunity and spin slash the Hypno with his razor wings. Polari attempt to move Donkey to no avail, the third Golbat used leech life to suck Polari's blood if he even have any, but Polari amanged to dodge the attack, Polari fly away while Golbat keep chasing him, they fly around until Polari had enough, but unknown to him he shoot a black energy beam to the Golbat causing massive damage toward the bat Pokemon. And it fell to the ground. However Polari also got hit by Diddy's random shooting.
Jupiter order Bronzong to use heavy slam on Donkey Kong while he's still immobioized, but then Krystal managed to save him by shooting a stream of fire from her staff harming the steel type Pokemon.
"Krystal you can move again !" Exclaimed Fox.
"Yeah it seems whatever she did to me is wearing off, now I can fight alongside you."
"Okay, let's deal with them !" The second Hypno attempt to hypnotized Fox, but Fox used his reflector and surprisingly the hypnosis is reflected and putting Hypno to sleep instead, Krystal swoop in and perform a leg sweep and smack the psychic Pokemon hard with her staff.
Rosalina save Polari and then she saw the Weezing in front of her using smokescreen, Rosalina create a force field to protect herself and Polari, it worked but thanks to the smokescreen Rosalina views is obscured. Diddy then come to his senses.
Donkey Kong disable finally wore off and see what happened, he grabbed one of the cafe's chair and throw it at the Weezing, hurting it and saving Rosalina. And when Rosalina removed her force field the first Golbat return and used leech life on Rosalina from behind, sucking her blood and caused her to fall to the ground and caused her to drop Polari, luckily Donkey managed to grab them both before they hit the ground.
"Oww.. who would've thought getting hit by a peanut could be extremely painful ?" Moaned Polari in pain.
Donkey put Rosalina and Polari down and then he grab Falco and throw him at the Golbat, Falco used his spinning beak at the Golbat, hurting it the Golbat managed to use haze to get away from Falco. Golbat then used acrobatics to attack Falco from many angles and fell to the ground..
Bronzong confront Fox and Krystal, Fox activated his booster and use his Fire Fox attack on the Bronzong, Fox charged at the steel type Pokemon and greatly damaged the Pokemon, and Krystal follow suit by shooting fireballs at the Pokemon damaging it further and send it flying towards Jupiter, however she managed to avoid being hit by the falling Bronzong.
Weezing then attempt attack Fox but Diddy shoot it with his gun, the Weezing is knocked away from the hard impact.
As the battle rage on soon the black fog begin disappearing. Bill contacted Fox through his comm link. " Fox we did it, we defeated all the creatures."
And now Slippy contacted Fox. " Sorry we're late Fox, the fog disperser machine is now activated, soon the soldiers will arrived at your location."
And not a moment too soon Cornerian soldiers arrived at Fox location.
"It's over Team Rocket, you're surrounded." Claimed Fox.
"We make a great team are the we Fox ?" Remarked Krystal.
"Yes we are Krystal, look I'm sorry for my behavior earlier, I just don't want you to get hurt, you know my job is dangerous."
"I know your only concern about me, but how do you think I feel if you're gone, do you expect me to just be alright like that, I'm capable of taking care of myself you know."
"Yes you're right Krystal, so from now on we'll protect each other." Fox and Krystal finally reconcile and hugged, showing a lot of affection much to the jealousy of both Cornerian soldiers and Team Rocket grunts alike.
Jupiter angry at their apparent defeat send out her Skuntank and ordered it to use poison gas, Krystal stepped in front of Fox and used her staff to use her force field however she was too late, she already inhaled Skuntank poison gas, she managed to set up a force field, but some of the posion gas already inside the force field forcing her to breathe more of the poison gas, and she collapsed to the ground writhing in pain.
"NO ! Krystal wake up please !"
Proton noticed a flashing light then give an order. "Retreat ! Our objective is complete !"
Fox angry at Jupiter run towards her, but Skuntank used smokescreen to obscure Fox view and allows Team Rocket to escape.
And then a figure floating above them, it's someone Fox, Falco, Diddy, and Donkey knows.
"R.O.B WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS ! WHY ARE TOU WORKING WITH TEAM ROCKET !"Fox screamed at the top of his lungs but the Minister just fly away, Fox grabbed his blaster and shoot the Minister floating platform, causing him to dropped something. Donkey grabbed it and it seemed like a gold plate.
Ancient Minister then opened a wormhole and he entered, and closing it after that preventing a chase.
"R.O.B why is he doing this, why did he work with Team Rocket ?" Said Diddy in sad tone.
"I don't know Diddy, why are they even here ? Was their goal just to wreak havoc ? Then again putting the entire city to sleep can't exactly bring chaos, hmm..Rosalina your Observatory is about to fall !" Donkey pointed at the falling Observatory.
"No, I must save it, or it will crash into the base." Rosalina used her power to teleport the observatory to space at Corneria's orbit, no doubt straining her body for teleporting a huge object.
"Rosalina don't push yourself to hard, that bat creature just drain your blood." Said Polari worried.
"Thanks Polari but I'm fine, this is nothing, and as for Krystal I can do something." Rosalina conjure a refreshing herb which shaoed like a four leaf clover and put it in Krystal's mouth she eat it and her condition stabilized.
"Look we're all hurt so let's just head back to base and go to the infirmary." Suggested Falco.
Everyone agreed and they head back to the base while Polari go checked on the Comet Observatory by teleporting accidentally.
Cornerian Military Base - Infirmary
After the battle with Team Rocket everyone rested in the infirmary, including the soldiers who were injured during the battles with Enigmas. Krystal finally regained consciousness and is feeling a lot better, and so is Rosalina who thanks to being a mortal deity heal faster than anyone, Falco got bandages in his arms, legs, body, and shoulders.
In there Fox introduce Krystal to his otherworlder friends and explains to Krystal about how he knows about the Pokemons.
"You got summoned to another world to battle ? Sounds hard to believe but I supposed you do know about those people earlier, so Fox I believe you. And thank you for the herb Rosalina.
"You're welcome Krystal, refreshing herb is a famous poison antidote in Mushroom World."
Polari then teleported to the infirmary explaining the condition to the Observatory. "I'm back, and it seems the black fog are just mere distractions, what they after is the beacon that powers the Observatory."
"How many of the energy was taken ?" Asked Rosalina.
"Only half of it, we still can't travel far with only half energy though." Answered Polari. "By the way do you see what I can do back then, to think I'm able to shoot such powerful energy beam, and I just teleported just for thinking of the Observatory, who knew I had it in me ?"
"Oh yeah you were a great help in taking down one of those bat Pokemon, Rosalina did you know he can do that ?" Asked Donkey.
"No I don't, and I guess neither is Polari, hmm...maybe what happened to Polari is also what happened to us, I can sense an energy wave similar to those from the World of Trophy when that bright light engulf us." Explained Rosalina.
"Meaning Polari was exposed to the energy from the World of Trophy, explaining he can do what he did." Realized Fox.
"Neat ! That means I can fight too ! I promise not to slown anyone down." Polari said with excitement.
"And also the same must've happened to those Team Rocket members, have you noticed how in sync they are with their Pokemons just like Red ? It's as if their mind is one." Said Diddy.
"But that doesn't explained why Peppy turned young again you know." Replied Falco.
"Did somebody say my name ?" General Peppy entered Krystal's and Rosalina's room along with Bill, Beltino, and Slippy. "I have to say congratulations on a job well done."
"Wish I can help you more Fox, I could've blast those people with my ship blaster." Said Bill.
"I don't think it's gonna be that easy Bill, Pokemons have strange powers, the Pokemons you just shoot down are called Koffings, and they can blow themselves up if they're in danger, taking out their attacker along with them." Explained Fox.
"Yeesh suicide attack, how deplorable. Good thing I took them out from afar."
"So we kinda overheard you talking about powers ? What do you mean ?" Asked Slippy.
"Well by being exposed to the World of Trophy you will received abilities you never thought you have, a superpower is the right word." Explained Rosalina. "Have you noticed anything unusual after the bright light ?"
"Well now did you mention it, the soldiers does seemed stronger and less easily tires this time around, it's as if they have higher stamina than before." Noticed Peppy.
"Really ? So what powers do I got ?" Asked Slippy excitedly.
"Don't know, what you have is random, when we arrived at the World of Trophy we have Master Hand and Crazy Hand explain things for us, but now they're not here, who knows what you got ? You might have to find out yourself." Answered Falco.
"Understood, we might have to perform an examination to everyone here to see if that light changes anything. So what're you gonna do now ?" Asked Peppy.
"We were thinking of going to Planet Popstar to find out about the space pirates, hopefully we got to meet our friends there." Answered Fox.
"Wait Fox, I've heard you seemed to know about that Ancient Minister, you called him Rob ?" Questioned Beltino.
"Yeah, he was our ally, well never mind I'll explain." Fox explained to everyone about the Ancient Minister, and his history and the entirety about the World of Trophy.
"That's awful, I know what it's like to be the only survivor of your kind." Krystal said in a sad expression.
"But now he against you, why do you think that is ?" Asked Bill.
"I don't know but we will get to the bottom of this." Said Fox determined.
"Then this will be our clue, R.O.B dropped this." Donkey showed everyone the gold plate Ancient Minister dropped. "I don't know what this for but I'm sure it's important."
"Polari have you contacted Lubba ?" Rosalina asked the black star.
"Yep, all he said just give me a call and I'll be there with Starship Mario." Answered Polari.
"Good, so it's settled then, now we're going to Planet Popstar." Confirmed Rosalina. "Mr. Peppy please look after our Observatory in the orbit while it still not functioning."
"Don't worry Ms. Rosalina, your home will be in good hands under the watch of Cornerian Military." Peppy agreed to watch over the Comet Observatory until it's fixed.
"Fox, I'll go with you this time." Demanded Krystal.
"Hold on Krystal, you're not fully recovered yet, but once you do I will be expecting your help." Replied Fox. "That goes to you too Falco."
"Don't worry Krystal, just contact me with telepathy and I will teleport you to Fox location." Replied Rosalina.
"Alright, I'll rest for now, but don't think you're gonna leave me out of this, it seems you need a lot more help than usual Fox."
With that settled Fox, Diddy, Donkey, Rosalina, and Polari leave to Planet Popstar by teleporting while Falco and Krystal rest until they fully healed, Peppy discovering this new ability ordered Slippy and Beltino to do an examination on the soldiers, while Bill continue with his duties.
And done, that's it for this chapter.
Let's just say there is an explanation why even criminals didn't harm Pokemon trainers directly, because the law won't show any mercy towards anyone who broke this rule, and why they don't do what they did in home games, everyone knows what Pokemons are capable of, there's no way their going to be that apathetic especially since they can fight back with their own Pokemon.
Refreshing herb is an item from Mario & Luigi series, it's used to cure the poison and fury status ailment. It shaped like a 4 leaf clover.
Rosalina knows Krystal before Fox introduced her because he mentioned her name multiple times during the battle with Team Rocket.
The words in parentheses means a telepathic conversation.
When it comes to Pokemon status ailment I'll differentiate between immobilized and paralyzed.
Falco spinning wing slash is based on Falco's neutral strike while the drill attack is based on forward aerial.
Fox recognize a Koffing because they appeared on smash run in SSB4
Character debut : Krystal, Jupiter, Koffing, Hypno, Golbat, Weezing, Bronzong, Skuntank, Team Rocket grunts
Boss Battle : Proton, Jupiter, Hypno, Weezing, Bronzong, Golbat
