Post by Bert on Jul 22, 2009 20:31:30 GMT -5
Chapter 19: The Final Battle
(Part I: Mario vs. Zero)
Mario felt something he had never felt before. This wasn’t like when he took on Master Hand. He didn’t even feel like this when he took on Bowser when he had nearly taken over the universe. He didn’t even feel like this when he squared off against Tabuu a year and a half ago.
No, this was something different. He knew that this was the last of the villains Planet Nintendo would ever see who would pose a real threat. If he could take down Zero, Planet Nintendo would be safe forever.
He stepped back to the edge of the building and ran forward. When his foot hit the edge, he leapt high into the air as if he were some sort of superhero, and grabbed a handle on the back of the Koopa Clown Car. His head slammed against it, giving him a brief headache.
“Oof...”
He soon recuperated from his headache, and climbed up the side of the Clown Car, and held onto its thick, green rim while he had his feet on the handle. The plumber pulled himself onto the green rim, and kicked Zero in the back of the head, causing the Griseous Orb to fall out of his hand.
“No!”
But the Orb was not lost, as the fight Black Shadow and Captain Falcon had engaged in took them right into its path, and Black Shadow caught it. He then uppercutted Falcon, knocking him out.
“Get to the machine!” Zero bellowed. “And you. Oh, I’ve waited a long time for this.”
“You’ll have to catch me first!” Mario taunted, and leapt off the Clown Car and onto the rooftop.
In Zero’s right hand, a blaster formed. He aimed it at Mario and pulled the trigger, firing several thick, red lasers at the plumber, who dodged them all.
“What’s all this about you being more powerful than us?” Mario taunted. In response to this, Zero snapped his fingers and vanished in a puff of purple smoke, and reappeared behind Mario and kicked him, sending him flying off the building. Zero then charged after Mario and kicked him higher into the air, and then kicking him through another building.
“Ugh...” Mario groaned, and weakly picked himself up from the beating. He looked through the gap, and saw his grey-furred nemesis floating defiantly for a second, then dash towards him fist-first. Mario jumped out of the way and Zero flew into the room, which was nothing but four walls and a blue carpet and a roof.
After briefly leering at the hedgehog, Mario leapt backwards into a wall and pushed himself off of it in a powerful jump, flying towards Zero and tackling him into a wall, creating a large crack in the concrete. A couple pieces of rubble fell onto the floor.
Mario looked out a nearby window, and saw a bridge, connecting two of the buildings together. And like any final battle done properly, a bridge calls for a swordfight.
Using the power of video game logic, Mario reached behind him and pulled out a large wrench, and Zero unsheathed his sword. The two circled around the room for a short while, before Mario finally dinged his wrench against Zero’s blade. Zero raised his sword into the air and brought it down upon Mario’s hat, who blocked the attack and swung the sword aside, and went to attack Zero but was blocked.
Mario backed away and jumped out the window onto the bridge, and Zero soon followed him. From behind the building, they heard a loud, deathly shriek, which was, without a doubt, that of Ridley’s. On the rooftop, Samus appeared, and gave Mario a thumbs up.
Zero was just about to throw his sword at the armored woman, when Mario knocked Zero’s arm aside, throwing him off and preventing him from throwing the blade. The hedgehog remembered that it was Mario he was after and faced him.
“I must admit, plumber, the fact that you recovered so quickly from those aerial blows is mighty impressive. Perhaps I underestimated your power? Or perhaps you’ve grown more powerful since we last met. Or it could be a little of both.”
“It’s definitely a little of both,” Mario replied, grinning.
Zero took Mario’s reply into account. “So proud, yet so naïve. You still have much to learn before you’re capable of truly taking on someone as powerful as myself.”
Zero used the Dolphin Slash, but Mario blocked the move. Zero, now in the air, placed both hands on the hilt of the sword and thrusted downwards towards Mario’s head, only for this move to be blocked as well. After landing on the bridge, Zero executed the Dancing Blade technique, hitting Mario every time, with the last slash throwing him into a wall.
“Hahaha! Oh, this is too fun!” Zero exclaimed.
Mario picked himself up and faced his opponent, and wiped the blood off his mouth. He then lunged forward with his wrench, only for Zero to knock his hand aside and go in for a killing blow, only to instead insert his blade into the concrete wall.
“Well that’s just stupid,” Zero muttered, and tore the blade out of the wall, elbowing Mario in the process. “Whoops, sorry. Wait, no I’m not.”
Mario swung the wrench and hit Zero across the face with it, and Zero retaliated by using the Dolphin Slash again, sending Mario flying upwards. Zero stood on the opposite end of the bridge, placed his right fist into his left palm, and thrust his elbow forward when Mario fell in front of him, sending the plumber into a wall and falling to the ground.
Zero leapt off the bridge and walked towards Mario, and rolled the plumber onto his back.
“Are you ready to admit defeat?” Zero asked dauntingly.
“Never.”
Mario rolled away from Zero and stepped back a fair distance just in case Zero attempted something.
“Very well then...it’s SHOW TIME!”
Using the two buildings on opposite sides of him, Zero broke them up into boulders, and threw them at Mario, who managed to narrowly avoid the attack. Mario leapt high into the air and attacked Zero with a forceful punch, only to miss and hit the ground instead. Zero simply slid backwards to avoid the move, and shot electricity from his fingertips and encased Mario, and threw him into another nearby building.
“Zero...you...don’t have to do this...you can still call it off and redeem yourself.”
Zero snorted at Mario’s remark. “Redeem myself? REDEEM MYSELF?! Do you really think that after how far I’ve come, I’m going to let all this effort go to waste? I’ve come so far just to get rid of you Smashers, you so-called “defenders” or “heroes”. I came here wanting to prove to you troglodytes that you will always, ALWAYS meet someone who’s more powerful than you; someone who can outclass you; someone who can take you down with enough effort. And you expect me to just give in and say, ‘lol, party’s over, kthxbai’? No. Not after all this. I’m sick of you, and I’m sick of this f*cking planet. The end is here, Mario. And I want you to realize that neither you, nor your pitiful band over there will be able to stop me.”
Mario lowered his head, still laying on the ground, and clenched his hand into a fist and pounded it on the ground in defeat. Zero aimed the tip of the sword at Mario’s head.
“Now, are we going to do this now? Or do you want to prolong it some more?”
Then, out of absolutely nowhere...
”FAWGOWN PWAAAAUNCH!”
Zero was suddenly thrown to the side and rolled across the ground for a fair distance before finally stopping.
Mario looked up, and there in front of him was Kirby, wearing Captain Falcon’s helmet.
“Hi~” the marshmallow said playfully. Kirby offered a helping hand which Mario gladly accepted, and pulled himself up. “Wet’s get um!”
“Go back and beat up Marx, Kirby,” Mario said.
“Otay!”
Kirby nodded and went back to join the massive fray. Mario, on the other hand, went to inspect Zero, who was lying on his back in a state of shock. He couldn’t fathom how Kirby, a mere...child, could unleash such power upon someone like him.
“It’s...just...how could...I mean...it’s not possible...”
“I guess Kirby is manlier than you thought, eh?” Mario said. “Now, about YOUR surrender...are you ready to accept the fact that you have lost?”
“No,” Zero said in a throaty voice. “No, no. YOU HAVE LOST!!”
Zero attacked with Pikachu’s Thunderbolt by loosing lightning from his finger tips, and threw Mario into the air and onto the roof of a skyscraper. Mario arose and saw Zero flying at him, full force.
“I WILL NOT LOSE!!!”
With absolutely no sense as to what he was doing, Zero crashed into the skyscraper, completely removing the roof in the process, and dove through it, removing each floor as he crashed through them with tremendous force and speed. Mario dropped to the bottom floor, but before he could pick himself up, he was attacked by a Spindash and thrown high into the air.
Using video game logic to his advantage again, Mario pulled out a large, wooden hammer, and saw Zero dashing right towards him. With one mighty swing, Zero was sent jettisoning into the ruined skyscraper, crashed through a wall, and rolled across the ground.
Black Shadow, still holding onto the Griseous Orb, sat in the chair of the alternate-reality machine, and grabbed onto the two handlebars in front of him, one of which had a small red button on it. He aimed it at the sky, which was covered in light grey clouds, and pressed the button, firing a small, blue laser, piercing the clouds. A small humming sound was emitted while the beam was fired, and after half a minute, Black Shadow released the button.
Zero’s dream was about to come to fruition.
(Part I: Mario vs. Zero)
Mario felt something he had never felt before. This wasn’t like when he took on Master Hand. He didn’t even feel like this when he took on Bowser when he had nearly taken over the universe. He didn’t even feel like this when he squared off against Tabuu a year and a half ago.
No, this was something different. He knew that this was the last of the villains Planet Nintendo would ever see who would pose a real threat. If he could take down Zero, Planet Nintendo would be safe forever.
He stepped back to the edge of the building and ran forward. When his foot hit the edge, he leapt high into the air as if he were some sort of superhero, and grabbed a handle on the back of the Koopa Clown Car. His head slammed against it, giving him a brief headache.
“Oof...”
He soon recuperated from his headache, and climbed up the side of the Clown Car, and held onto its thick, green rim while he had his feet on the handle. The plumber pulled himself onto the green rim, and kicked Zero in the back of the head, causing the Griseous Orb to fall out of his hand.
“No!”
But the Orb was not lost, as the fight Black Shadow and Captain Falcon had engaged in took them right into its path, and Black Shadow caught it. He then uppercutted Falcon, knocking him out.
“Get to the machine!” Zero bellowed. “And you. Oh, I’ve waited a long time for this.”
“You’ll have to catch me first!” Mario taunted, and leapt off the Clown Car and onto the rooftop.
In Zero’s right hand, a blaster formed. He aimed it at Mario and pulled the trigger, firing several thick, red lasers at the plumber, who dodged them all.
“What’s all this about you being more powerful than us?” Mario taunted. In response to this, Zero snapped his fingers and vanished in a puff of purple smoke, and reappeared behind Mario and kicked him, sending him flying off the building. Zero then charged after Mario and kicked him higher into the air, and then kicking him through another building.
“Ugh...” Mario groaned, and weakly picked himself up from the beating. He looked through the gap, and saw his grey-furred nemesis floating defiantly for a second, then dash towards him fist-first. Mario jumped out of the way and Zero flew into the room, which was nothing but four walls and a blue carpet and a roof.
After briefly leering at the hedgehog, Mario leapt backwards into a wall and pushed himself off of it in a powerful jump, flying towards Zero and tackling him into a wall, creating a large crack in the concrete. A couple pieces of rubble fell onto the floor.
Mario looked out a nearby window, and saw a bridge, connecting two of the buildings together. And like any final battle done properly, a bridge calls for a swordfight.
Using the power of video game logic, Mario reached behind him and pulled out a large wrench, and Zero unsheathed his sword. The two circled around the room for a short while, before Mario finally dinged his wrench against Zero’s blade. Zero raised his sword into the air and brought it down upon Mario’s hat, who blocked the attack and swung the sword aside, and went to attack Zero but was blocked.
Mario backed away and jumped out the window onto the bridge, and Zero soon followed him. From behind the building, they heard a loud, deathly shriek, which was, without a doubt, that of Ridley’s. On the rooftop, Samus appeared, and gave Mario a thumbs up.
Zero was just about to throw his sword at the armored woman, when Mario knocked Zero’s arm aside, throwing him off and preventing him from throwing the blade. The hedgehog remembered that it was Mario he was after and faced him.
“I must admit, plumber, the fact that you recovered so quickly from those aerial blows is mighty impressive. Perhaps I underestimated your power? Or perhaps you’ve grown more powerful since we last met. Or it could be a little of both.”
“It’s definitely a little of both,” Mario replied, grinning.
Zero took Mario’s reply into account. “So proud, yet so naïve. You still have much to learn before you’re capable of truly taking on someone as powerful as myself.”
Zero used the Dolphin Slash, but Mario blocked the move. Zero, now in the air, placed both hands on the hilt of the sword and thrusted downwards towards Mario’s head, only for this move to be blocked as well. After landing on the bridge, Zero executed the Dancing Blade technique, hitting Mario every time, with the last slash throwing him into a wall.
“Hahaha! Oh, this is too fun!” Zero exclaimed.
Mario picked himself up and faced his opponent, and wiped the blood off his mouth. He then lunged forward with his wrench, only for Zero to knock his hand aside and go in for a killing blow, only to instead insert his blade into the concrete wall.
“Well that’s just stupid,” Zero muttered, and tore the blade out of the wall, elbowing Mario in the process. “Whoops, sorry. Wait, no I’m not.”
Mario swung the wrench and hit Zero across the face with it, and Zero retaliated by using the Dolphin Slash again, sending Mario flying upwards. Zero stood on the opposite end of the bridge, placed his right fist into his left palm, and thrust his elbow forward when Mario fell in front of him, sending the plumber into a wall and falling to the ground.
Zero leapt off the bridge and walked towards Mario, and rolled the plumber onto his back.
“Are you ready to admit defeat?” Zero asked dauntingly.
“Never.”
Mario rolled away from Zero and stepped back a fair distance just in case Zero attempted something.
“Very well then...it’s SHOW TIME!”
Using the two buildings on opposite sides of him, Zero broke them up into boulders, and threw them at Mario, who managed to narrowly avoid the attack. Mario leapt high into the air and attacked Zero with a forceful punch, only to miss and hit the ground instead. Zero simply slid backwards to avoid the move, and shot electricity from his fingertips and encased Mario, and threw him into another nearby building.
“Zero...you...don’t have to do this...you can still call it off and redeem yourself.”
Zero snorted at Mario’s remark. “Redeem myself? REDEEM MYSELF?! Do you really think that after how far I’ve come, I’m going to let all this effort go to waste? I’ve come so far just to get rid of you Smashers, you so-called “defenders” or “heroes”. I came here wanting to prove to you troglodytes that you will always, ALWAYS meet someone who’s more powerful than you; someone who can outclass you; someone who can take you down with enough effort. And you expect me to just give in and say, ‘lol, party’s over, kthxbai’? No. Not after all this. I’m sick of you, and I’m sick of this f*cking planet. The end is here, Mario. And I want you to realize that neither you, nor your pitiful band over there will be able to stop me.”
Mario lowered his head, still laying on the ground, and clenched his hand into a fist and pounded it on the ground in defeat. Zero aimed the tip of the sword at Mario’s head.
“Now, are we going to do this now? Or do you want to prolong it some more?”
Then, out of absolutely nowhere...
”FAWGOWN PWAAAAUNCH!”
Zero was suddenly thrown to the side and rolled across the ground for a fair distance before finally stopping.
Mario looked up, and there in front of him was Kirby, wearing Captain Falcon’s helmet.
“Hi~” the marshmallow said playfully. Kirby offered a helping hand which Mario gladly accepted, and pulled himself up. “Wet’s get um!”
“Go back and beat up Marx, Kirby,” Mario said.
“Otay!”
Kirby nodded and went back to join the massive fray. Mario, on the other hand, went to inspect Zero, who was lying on his back in a state of shock. He couldn’t fathom how Kirby, a mere...child, could unleash such power upon someone like him.
“It’s...just...how could...I mean...it’s not possible...”
“I guess Kirby is manlier than you thought, eh?” Mario said. “Now, about YOUR surrender...are you ready to accept the fact that you have lost?”
“No,” Zero said in a throaty voice. “No, no. YOU HAVE LOST!!”
Zero attacked with Pikachu’s Thunderbolt by loosing lightning from his finger tips, and threw Mario into the air and onto the roof of a skyscraper. Mario arose and saw Zero flying at him, full force.
“I WILL NOT LOSE!!!”
With absolutely no sense as to what he was doing, Zero crashed into the skyscraper, completely removing the roof in the process, and dove through it, removing each floor as he crashed through them with tremendous force and speed. Mario dropped to the bottom floor, but before he could pick himself up, he was attacked by a Spindash and thrown high into the air.
Using video game logic to his advantage again, Mario pulled out a large, wooden hammer, and saw Zero dashing right towards him. With one mighty swing, Zero was sent jettisoning into the ruined skyscraper, crashed through a wall, and rolled across the ground.
Black Shadow, still holding onto the Griseous Orb, sat in the chair of the alternate-reality machine, and grabbed onto the two handlebars in front of him, one of which had a small red button on it. He aimed it at the sky, which was covered in light grey clouds, and pressed the button, firing a small, blue laser, piercing the clouds. A small humming sound was emitted while the beam was fired, and after half a minute, Black Shadow released the button.
Zero’s dream was about to come to fruition.
