Post by smashbro on May 24, 2008 14:15:15 GMT -5
CHAPTER 51: UNEXPECTED HELP
As Lucas, Nana, and Pit trained, Young Link was resting and Red was sitting on the couch, staring at his phone.
“I wonder…I…no, no…I mean, I guess…” Red said to himself, looking up from time to time.
“What was that?” asked Young Link. “I think I heard a noise outside. Sounded like someone running.”
“We better go after them then,” replied Red, and he got up.
“Shouldn’t we bring Pit, in case he has to turn someone good?”
“No…just grab the music box.”
“ok.” And as young link grabbed the box, they ran out of the room.
After about 10 more minutes of training, Lucas went to take a break. “What happened to Red and Young Link?” asked Lucas.
“We’ve been chasing these noises for an hour now, where are they going?” Young Link wondered out loud, tired of following things they couldn’t see. Then, the noises stopped.
“I guess we could go back,” replied Red. “As they headed back, Red started to ask, “So…do you think…that I’d maybe…have a ch…no, but I still…I don’t know…” but before Red could finish a sentence, somebody shot past them and the music box fell to the ground. Neither Red nor Young Link noticed the box drop. The person who ran by stopped for a second, and they saw it was…Fox.
“Get him!” yelled Red, and the chase began. Soon, they followed fox to a room filled with crates, where another enemy was waiting for them…Falco.
“It’s a trap!” yelled Young Link, as he made for the door. But Fox got there first and blocked the way.
“Looks like we have to fight,” said Red, and he charged at Fox. Young Link threw his boomerang at Falco, but he would just keep reflecting it. And every time Red ran at Fox, Fox would just reflect him away.
“I’m not getting anywhere,” Red said to Young link.
“Me neither…let’s use the box,” and Young Link reached for the music box, but it was nowhere to be found. “What happened to it?” asked Young Link.
“I don’t know, you had it.” Young Link went towards Falco for another attack as he jumped above him, and then went to stand with Fox by the exit.
“We should try teaming up on one, maybe we can actually hurt them,” suggested Red, and he charged at the enemies as Young Link shot an arrow. But enemies dodged it, but seconds later it flew back into the room and hit Fox in the back. Red and Young Link both stopped and stared, unsure of what happened. And soon, another thing flew through the doorway at Fox and Falco. And when the deku nut hit the ground, it left both of the two members of Tabuu’s army stunned. Fox and Falco’s eyes both turned back to normal when they heard a familiar howl.
“You’re back!” said Red.
“What are you doing here?” asked Fox his question directed at his long time rival…Wolf.
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CHAPTER 52: THE MEETING
“Where did they go?” asked Pit, while he, Nana, and Lucas looked for a note of some kind. They had recently discovered that Red and Young Link were missing.
“We should go out and search for them,” said Lucas. “We’ll split up and meet back here in an hour.”
“But…why do we ALL have to split up?” Nana asked.
“It covers more ground that way,” replied Lucas. “And don’t worry, I know you’ll be fine.” Nana smiled, and the three headed off in different directions.
After walking for some time, Nana noticed something on the ground.
“Hey…the music box.”
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“We should go looking for more people again,” suggested Jigglypuff, and everyone agreed.
“You 3 go that way, I’ll be fine on my own,” said Luigi, and he started to walk off.
“Yoshi, go with him,” instructed Jigglypuff. “He might need help.”
“Ok,” and the 2 groups split.
“I don’t see why I had to have you come with me, I can handle myself,” Luigi told Yoshi.
“Look. You are strong but you don’t have to be alone…and about you beating me…” Yoshi was cut off when the met someone both recognized…Mario.
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“Where do you think everyone else is?” asked Jigglypuff out loud.
“I don’t know…but I hope Nana is ok,” replied Popo. “What was that?” he asked, hearing a rustling noise behind him.
“I don’t know. Let’s go see,” replied Jigglypuff. Popo turned to look at her, freaked out.
“Why would we go TOWARDS the creepy noises?!?” Popo asked incredulously.
“Because it could be Nana,” replied Jigglypuff, as she started walking.
“Oh…ok,” replied Popo, and they went to look at the noise. As they turned the corner, somebody grabbed Popo, pulled him into the shadows, and he fell to the ground. Jigglypuff looked at the unmoving Popo, as Snake came out of the Shadows. He took out a grenade, but stopped once he heard familiar music.
Snake swayed back and forth as if in a trance, and his eyes slowly became normal. Popo woke up and saw this.
“What the f***?” asked Snake. “Why am I with you 2?” Then, all of them turned to the music coming from the music box. Which Nana was holding. Nana greeted Popo and Jigglypuff, glad they were ok. Each of them told who was in their respective groups.
“So…why am I stuck with you 3 right now?” asked Snake.
“You were turned evil,” replied Nana.
“That’s impossible, I could never be captured,” Snake replied.
“You’re welcome,” said Jigglypuff. “So why don’t we have our groups join together…we’ll meet in the library. Nana and Snake, you go back and tell your group, I’ll go back with Popo to our group.”
“What? Why do I have to go with any of you?” asked Snake.
“You owe us,” replied Jigglypuff. “And you’ll be famous if you help us beat Tabuu.” Snake seemed satisfied with this reason.
“No,” replied Popo. Everyone turned to look at him. “I want to go with Nana.” At this, nana first looked happy, then confused.
“Ok then,” replied Jigglypuff. “I’ll go with Snake to my group, you two go to Nana’s group.
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CHAPTER 53: The Better Brother
Yoshi and Luigi faced an evil Mario.
“You circle around and attack from behind, I’ll distract him,” said Yoshi.
“I don’t need your help,” said Luigi, and walked up to Mario. As he saw an attack coming, Luigi lazily tried to dodge, but Mario hit him away.
“What happened?” asked Luigi. “With my skills, I should have dodged him.”
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you,” said Yoshi. “You aren’t that great. I let you win.” Luigi turned to Yoshi, then Mario, scared.
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“I wonder what happened to Nana,” said Lucas.
“This is the 10th time you’ve said that, it’s only been 5 minutes,” replied Pit. “She’s fine. But do…” Then, Fox, Falco, Wolf and Young Link and Red came back.
“You are good?” asked Pit.
“Yeah, now, where’s the other survivor?” asked Falco, unhappy.
“What’s your problem?” asked Lucas. Falco mumbled something about ‘wrong’ and ‘captured’.
“So, you’re back,” said Red.
“Yep,” replied Wolf. “Couldn’t wait to get some glory.” Red then glared at him. “Oh yeah and sorry bout the attacking you think,” he added, obviously not caring about what he did.
“yeah, whatever,” replied Red, not convinced by the apology.
Young Link approached Lucas.
“You think we have enough people to attack now?” asked Young Link.
“No…we should have at least the majority,” replied Lucas. “Then we can go and attack. After that, we should be able to revive…Nana!” Lucas then saw Nana and Popo come into the room.
“Yeah, and there’s more people good too!” said Nana. She started to run to Lucas, but looks back at Popo and then decided to walk. Popo then told the others of what had happened in his group.
“So, there were 7 of you that didn’t get captured?” asked Pit.
“Yeah,” replied Popo.
“Yes!” Pit whispered, remembering the prophecy. ‘Probably best to still not tell them,’ he thought.
“I told them we would meet them at the library,” said Nana.
“Then let’s go!” said Lucas, and they packed up.
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Mario ran towards Yoshi, and although he tried to get away, he was knocked down. Mario then went for Luigi, who desperately hit Mario. He again began cowering in fear and mumbled to himself. “No way I’ll make it….Daisy…never be as good.”
“You bet you won’t,” said a now good Mario.
“you…you’re good?” asked Luigi.
“so…guess I’m gonna lead since I’m the better brother.” Said Mario.
“No…I say we let Luigi lead,” said Yoshi.
“Oh…ok,” said Luigi. “Hey, who is that?” Jigglypuff and Snake then met the group.
“There are more people who are good!” said Jigglypuff. “We’re meeting them at the library.”
“So I guess we go there,” said Luigi.
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CHAPTER 54: ADVICE FOLLOWED
Team Lucas began to make their way to the library. But, as Pit had anticipated, now that there were so many members, they got sidetracked.
“So, once we get to the library, we’ll need some people to stay there and guard the place while the rest of us go out and find the others,” Lucas went on.
“Who decided to make him leader?” asked Falco.
“Dunno,” replied Wolf, surprisingly amicable to his enemy. “He just seemed to take charge.”
“He’s a good leader,” said Nana, defending him.
“yeah, but…” Popo tried to argue, but particularly didn’t want to argue with Nana, and couldn’t think of anything.
“He’s working out just fine,” said Pit. Then, he noticed a couple people. “Everyone, after them!” Pit ran after Toon Link and Diddy. Everyone followed him except for the Ice Climbers and Lucas. They had noticed someone else. Or two.
DK ran down a hallway, catching Popo’s attention.
“C’mon,” he said, running after DK. Lucas ran after someone else.
“I’m going after Lucario,” he said.
“Don’t you need the music box?” asked Nana.
“No,” he yelled back. “Go help Popo.”
Nana looked reluctant as she followed Popo.
Meanwhile, Fox, Falco, and Wolf all shot their blasters at Toon Link and Diddy. When they hit, Young Link engaged in a duel with Toon Link. Red, meanwhile, tried to trip up and stun Diddy without actually hurting him. But Pit was quick with his arrow, and soon the two were good once more. Diddy scratched his head, and Toon Link looked around, to see who was there.
“So…we’re good again?” asked Toon Link.
“Yeah,” replied Pit, who told them the whole story.
“Hey wait,” said Young Link. “What happened to Lucas and the Climbers?”
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Jigglypuff led her team towards the library. Snake, Luigi, Mario, and Yoshi followed her.
“Who decided to let the puffball lead?” asked Snake.
“I dunno,” replied Mario, “I haven’t been around for that long either.”
“There really is no leader I think,” said Yoshi. “But she feels good when she’s up front.”
Luigi went up to talk to Jigglypuff.
“Why did Yoshi lie to me?” asked Luigi.
“Yoshi wanted you to believe in yourself.”
“But, if I’m not as good as my brother, then why bother?”
“Stop comparing yourself to Mario. He may be stronger sometimes, but you have other qualities that make you better then him.” They were about to enter the library when they heard a noise.
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Meanwhile, Popo had followed DK. But suddenly, DK turned around and charged back at Popo. Dodging, Popo quickly hit him with his mallet.
“S…see?” Popo asked. “I can fight on my own.” DK shook his head, but soon recovered and tried head butting him. But Popo sent icicles at DK, stopping him. Then Popo tried his blizzard attack, but DK slammed the ground and Popo was thrown into the air. DK was about to go after Popo, when he heard familiar music, and turned good as Nana came into the room. They caught DK up on what happened.
“That’s great you guys!” said DK, and they went back to join the main group.
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Lucas went after Lucario, and was gaining on him. Lucas went to attack, and Lucario used his double team attack. But Lucas was able to dodge that, and sent a PK fire at him. Lucario went in to attack again, as Lucas charged up a PK freeze. Lucario got to him first though, and Lucas was sent flying. Lucario charged up an aura ball as Lucas fell, but, noticing this, he used PSI Heal to heal himself.
“Well, I’m not running away from you this time,” said Lucas, and Lucario froze for a moment, remembering about how he sacrificed himself for Lucas and the others.Lucas hit him, and went on, “Looks like I may turn out to be a hero after all,” Lucas said hopefully. “You are a hero,” replied a now good Lucario.
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CHAPTER 55: COUPLES SAVED
Jigglypuff led the other 4 in her party into the library where they found Captain Falcon, Link, Peach, Samus, and Zelda.
“We should be able to take them, one to one,” said Jigglypuff.
“Don’t worry bro,” Mario said, “I can beat your guy for you.” But an explosion was heard, which caught the attention of the enemies. Zelda, Samus and Captain Falcon ran to see what happened.
“Too easy,” said Snake, pulling out a grenade.
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Nobody seemed to know where the Ice Climbers or Lucas was.
“We’ll just go to the library, that’s where we were supposed to meet,” suggested Young Link. But when they got to the door, it was blocked.
“Young link, Toon Link, come here,” said Pit. They both took out bombs, and soon they could enter the library. Zelda, Samus, and Captain Falcon appeared, and were ready to fight, but soon heard breaking noises, and Zelda and Samus went off in two different directions.
“Too easy,” said Falco, as he took out his blaster.
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Samus charged up her cannon, and peeked around the corner, seeing DK and the Ice Climbers rush into the library. She turned to talk to Zelda, but she was nowhere to be seen.
“Do you think they already made it here?” asked Popo.
“Probably,” replied Nana.
“Shh…” said DK and he pointed to where Samus was.
Samus wanted to go after Zelda and find her so it would be easier, but she supposed she could do it on her own. She turned to look around the corner and when she did, no one was there. But a second later, she was hit in the face with a mallet.
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“So what’s happened since I was captured?” asked Lucario.
“Well…,” Lucas began, and he explained the whole story.
“Then…what do we do now?” Lucario asked.
“Check to see if the others are where I left them, and then see if they’re in the library,” replied Lucas, leading the way.
Lucario smiled and said to himself, “good job Lucas.”
After they checked the hallways where Pit’s group and the Ice Climbers went down, they decided to go to the library.
“So do you think?” started Lucas. “yeah, I think she…they’ll be ok.” They came up on a blocked doorway.
‘Ah!” said Lucario, as Lucas broke open the doorway. Soon though, they saw a familiar face…Zelda.
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As the rest of Pit’s group bombarded Captain Falcon with attacks, Pit launched his arrow and turned him good.
“What happened?” he asked, and realized he was good again.
“you guys tell him what’s going on, I have to go after Zelda and Samus,” said Pit, and he left that group.
Running through the hallways, he tried to get a tally of how many good people there were. If I can save Samus and Zelda, we should have a decent amount…no dout they’ll be sending more and more at us at a time now that there are more heroes…wait, what was that? Pit had just heard the sound of armor being his, and he soon found DK and Popo attacking Samus, with Nana getting out the music box.
“No need,” he said, and shot Samus with an arrow.
“What happened?” asked Samus.
“Fill him in while I find Zelda,” Pit said, and he pointed them in the direction of the other heroes.
Pit continued to another part of the library where Lucas and Lucario were fending off Zelda. Launching an arrow, she was turned good.
“Pit!”
“Lucas! Lucario! Zelda!” They all said their hellos and completely filled each other in.
“c’mon, we have to find everyone else,” said Lucas, and they started walking.
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The Ice Climbers, DK, and Samus all met up with Young Link, Toon Link, Captain Falcon and co. After a short reunion (including Samus running up to Falcon and hugging him, while red looked away) they walked around, only to find Jigglypuff’s party, still fighting Link and Peach. As they were about to intervene, an arrow was shot and Link and Peach turned good, as Pit, Lucas, Lucario and Zelda entered the room.
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CHAPTER 56: SWORDPLAY
“Ok,” said Lucas, once the whole group was together. “The most important thing to do is to secure this room. Once we do, we should send some people out to look for other heroes. Once we have enough people we can go to attack Tabuu.”
“How?” Nana asked.
“Mewtwo’s portal, it should be open,” replied Pit, referring to Mewtwo’s plan of attack.
“Then I’ll go out first,” said Link, and along with him went Young Link and Toon Link.
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“Hey little buddy!” said DK, going up to Diddy.
“You’re ok!” he said, running up to him.
“Yep, looks like most of us are back now.”
“Sorry I wasn’t able to save you guys before.”
“That’s alright. Things seem to be working out.”
“Yeah,” said Lucario, going up to them. “I think everything will turn out fine.”
“You wanna spar?” Mario asked Luigi.
“I..I don’t know,” he replied.
“Sure, you could take him,” said Jigglypuff.
“You’ll do fine,” encouraged Yoshi.
Captain Falcon sat on a couch with Samus, and Peach on a chair opposite them.
“I missed you,” said Captain Falcon.
“No, I missed you more,” replied Samus, playfully.
“Aww, you two are so cute!” said Peach, and the three started into some conversation.
Red look at the couple from where the snacks were, drinking cup after cup of punch.
“Makes me sick,” he said out loud, and drank another cup of punch.
“Something wrong?” Zelda asked, coming over to get a drink.
“No, nothing,” replied Red.
“If you want to talk about it…”
“Why him?”
“Well…”
“I mean, what does he have that I don’t have? A fast car? Oversized muscles? A nipple suit? I could have all that if I wanted. But I don’t want the suit, I like my clothes.”
‘You know, you shouldn’t count yourself out yet, she still thinks highly of you.”
“She does?”
“yeah.”
“more then him?”
“Well, I don’t know…”
“ (excited) so I have a chance!” A phone rings; Red looks at who it is. “Crap…he said, answering the phone. He walked out of the room and began to talk.
“So you’re on our side now?” Falco asked Wolf, who seemed to be surprisingly friendly.
“Ehh, for now,” Wolf replied. “Thought it would be fun to play the hero for once. People will like me, not just think I’m cool.”
“And you’ll be famous,” said Fox.
“And I’ll be famous,” Wolf agreed.
Lucas was taking a rest, when Nana came up to him. She sat down next to him, and said, “Tired from leading everyone?”
“Yeah, I’m tired,” replied Lucas, “But I’m not really leading everyone.”
“You give out all the orders and suggestions, and everyone talks to you before doing something,” Nana replied, admiringly.
“No, I don’t do that much,” replied Lucas, blushing. Then Popo came.
“Hi…,” said Nana, uneasy.
“You want anything to eat?” he asked.
“Yeah, I’m kinda thirsty,” replied nana. Then she turned to Lucas and mumbled, “Bye.” Lucas sat on the couch, looking at the ceiling, when Snake was suddenly appeared next to him.
“Yep, just as I thought,” commented Snake. “I don’t get you little kids and your…”
“Shut up,” said Lucas. “I’m going to go look for more people.”
“Hey!” Snake yelled after him, in a more considerate and caring tone.
“Yeah?” a hopeful Lucas replied, hoping for Snake to be more serious.
“Want a cigarette?” Snake asked. Lucas then just walked out, angry.
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“What did you do to us?” Ganondorf asked Tabuu, after he and all of the other captured brawlers shot with the machines once again.
“The modified machine makes sure that you don’t turn normal just by hearing people you know. Now you have to be beaten in a fight. For some reason the machines can never get perfect, but its better.”
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“Where do you think they would be?” Toon Link asked the others.
“Probably over by the portal,” replied Link. “They would be coming from there.” Hearing something, Young Link turned around and whipped out his bow, and hoped to hit whoever was following him.
But Roy dodged the arrow, and engaged in a duel with Young Link. Neither was able to hit the other.
“I’m coming!” Toon Link yelled, but he was nearly hit from behind by Marth. Now it was 3 on 2, and as Link rushed to help against Roy, another person came, evening the playing field. Ike ran at Link, and slashed, but Link jumped out of the way just in time.
“How do we beat them?” Young Link asked.
“Yeah, we don’t have the music box or Pit,” added Toon Link.
“Maybe if they…or we…just fight them for now, I’ll think of something,” Link replied. After some time of getting nowhere, the Link were worn out. But the enemies were ready for more.
“Get on the other side of them!” Young Link yelled. “Move them towards the center!” and he backed Roy into the center of the room. Link and Toon Link followed, so now the enemies were back to back, trapped by the Links. Young Link took out a bomb, and threw it in the air. Realizing what he was doing, Link did the same, and Toon Link did it just because the other two had.
“Spin attack!” Young Link yelled, and they did it at the same time, as the bombs came down and fell on Marth Roy and Ike. The links were thrown back, and when the dust cleared, there were 3 more heroes.
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“We’re back!” yelled Roy, as the 6 entered the library.
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CHAPTER 57: REDEMPTION
“My turn to go out,” Jigglypuff said to no one in particular, and left the library. “I hope I find someone and save them. I mean, I think some people…well, most people, still don’t quite respect me enough.” And Jigglypuff would have this opportunity. She heard a ‘plop-plop’ and around the corner came Kirby.
“Hi!” said Kirby, and Jigglypuff, thinking he was good, waved back. But Kirby ran at Jigglypuff and took out his hammer, as Jigglypuff soon realized the trick. Jigglypuff was sent flying backwards, but charged up a rollout, and headed towards Kirby. Kirby was taken by surprise, and fell over, as Jigglypuff used rest. Kirby was knocked in the air and Jigglypuff sang. When Kirby landed he was near Jigglypuff and fell asleep, his eyes turning normal once more.
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“So,” said Mario, walking up to Peach. “You notice how much stronger I got? I mean, Look at these muscles.” He flexed his arm muscles.
“Yeah, what about that muscle?” Peach asked, half-jokingly, tapping his stomach.
“Hey!” he said, and hit her hand away. Peach frowned and turned away.
“You know, that doesn’t impress me.”
“What? With these guns?!?”
“No…I liked you better when…”
“When what?”
“Well, you know…”
“Oh, yeah, when I took some time off and was a wimp? Like I’d ever do that again.”
“But, you were more helpful, and…”
“I’m not going back to that.”
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Wolf was out searching for some of the others, when he met Dedede.
"Hmmph...ironic," Wolf said, asnd he took out his blaster, and shot Dedede, while trying to think of a strategy. Dedede was hit, but ran at him, slapping Wolf. Wolf felt sometihng like a needle go into him, but the pain was gone quickly.
"What'd you do, sharpen your nails?" And wolf rushed at him with his claws. After a minute more of fighting, both were tired, but Dedede was looking worse. So he trough out a Waddle-dee, which Wolf reflected, but something strance occured. The waddle-dee got up and ran at Dedede, now covered with grey fur and with a small tail. The waddle-dee jumped at Dedede and hit, knocking Dedede over. Wolf shot his blaster a few times, destroying the Waddle-dee and hitting Dedede. When the king got up, he was no longer evil.
"Wha...What happened?" he asked.
"I came back," replied Wolf.
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Captain Falcon and Samus were still sitting next to each other, when Zelda came over.
“And look at these pecs!” Captain Falcon was saying. Samus laughed, but rolled her eyes, indicating she was tired of this line. Falcon didn’t seem to notice.
“You know, we all know what you look like,” said Zelda.
“Yeah…” replied Falcon, oblivious to what she really meant. “Well, I gotta go train.” He left, leaving Samus and Zelda alone.
“Isn’t he great?” Samus asked, but halfheartedly.
“Something on your mind?”
“Well…I don’t know if I could get used to him, being around him I mean.”
“Why?”
“Well, he’s kinda vain, and doesn’t think about the group that much…he always talks about getting stronger himself, or what he’s done…he doesn’t talk about anyone else.”
“…You know…there is this one other person…”
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Roy went up to the table with snacks, looking for someone to talk to.
“Hey! You’re back!” said Luigi, who had also gone to get something to eat.
“What’s up?” Roy asked Luigi told him what had happened since he was captured. “Wow.”
“Yeah…that’s what I said too when it was happening.”
“Its weird though…as much as I like getting into the action…its nice to just relax, kinda like this, but not having to worry about anything.”
“Yeah, I know.”
“Hey. Why don’t you stop by my castle after all of this is over?”
“You think we’ll win?”
“Yeah…of course. I haven’t had many of my old friends over lately, so I was kinda bored. Maybe we can start hanging out.”
“Ok, that sounds good.”
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“Hi,” said Red, answering his phone. “Where am I? Well, I don’t really know…what am I doing?...uhhh, not much. Why don’t I answer questions with detail? Well, uh, I, I don’t know, that’s just me I’m not good at talking unless I’m…oh, right, I’m rambling again…why am I repeating everything you say? I don’t know…but yeah, I’ll be able to make it to the next tournament. See ya there…I…ummm…bye.” And Red hung up, muttering under his breath as he tried to sort things out. But he had no more then 10 seconds to himself, as he saw Ivysaur and Charizard walk up to him, both evil.
“Well, looks like I gotta fight,” Red said to himself, and ran at his pokemon. But, as his pokemon were more trained in fighting, they took an early lead in the fight.
Red, did get some good hits in, but his pokemon were too much.
“Well,” Red said, wiping the sweat off his head, “At least I know I’m a good trainer.” So Red got in the middle of the two pokemon and dodged both of their attacks, making them hit one another.
“Yes!” exclaimed Red, but Red soon realized something. “Wait…they’re missing one…” and as the other two recovered, Red swung his arms around, hoping to hit…Squirtle. Squirtle was sent flying into a wall, with surprising force. Red ran up to him and kicked his shell around and finally sent it towards the other two pokemon. Squirtle’s shell hit Ivysaur, and, jumping out, Squirtle used waterfall to turn him good. Now, all that was left was Charizard. The two good pokemon double teamed him, and soon, Red had all of his pokemon back.
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Lucario went up to DK, hoping to get his idea started.
“Once this is over, we should get some members together and begin training them to use their powers,” suggested Lucario. “I think you would be a good mentor, so would you like to help?”
“Sure,” replied DK. “But could we have some time off first? I need some time to rest. And eat. I haven't had a good banana in a long time now."
"Ok...but after that, maybe a few weeks...we'll get together and train."
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Lucas, was walking around on watch, venting his anger. He tried to think through his feelings, but he couldn’t figure something out completely, and kept coming up with new questions. Snake is a…a…well, I don’t know. Oh yeah, what’s that word he keeps using? jack-***. That’s what he is. But Lucas didn’t have much time to worry about anything else. Just then, Ness arrived, and prepared for a fight. He started out by using a PK thunder, but Lucas only used it to recover. Lucas tried a pk fire, but this time Ness healed. The attacks went back and forth for some time, but the other always healed. Both realizing this, they took out their a attack weapons; the bat and stick. They rolled and dodged, trying to hit each other in the meantime. Throwing out his snake, Lucas tripped Mario, and as he fell, Lucas used PK freeze. Lucas began beating up the frozen Ness, and ended with a PK fire. Once Ness got up, he said hi to Lucas.
“I’m sorry about before,” Lucas said.
“I forgive you,” replied Ness, and they walked back.
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CHAPTER 58: GOTTA CATCH’EM ALL!
“Will you just admit it?”
“Won’t you?”
“Fine! Yeah, I was wrong! I know I shouldn’t have wasted my weapons! Now what about you?”
“No!” Fox and Falco were aguing about being captured, and Falco’s refusal to admit defeat.
“What’s going on?” Marth asked, coming over.
“He won’t admit that he was wrong!” Fox yelled. “You know there were no smash balls there, and so does everyone else! Why don’t you just admit it?!?”
“I won’t ad…I mean, I wasn’t wrong!!!” Falco yelled.
“Break it up, hold on.” Marth said. “Fox, if everyone knows, then why do you need him to admit it? It should be enough knowing you’re right.”
“I guess…,” Fox muttered, walking away.
“And you really do need to admit things,” he told Falco.
“What makes you the great judge?” Falco asked, walking away.
“I’m a moderator, not judge,” replied Marth, referring to a previous job.
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When Diddy saw a flash of yellow run past the door, he ran outside to see where it went. He saw it go around a corner, and he followed it. He followed it around endless corners, until he reached a dead end.
“Huh?” Diddy wondered when he was hit in the back by a skull bash. Diddy fell over, but wrapped his tail around Pichu, who was the one he had followed. Diddly fell to the ground, but pulled Pichu over with him. Diddy was the first to recover, who jumped on Pichu and persisted in karate chopping Pichu’s head. Pichu would be fine, he was used to taking damage, especially to the head, but the chopping was enough to turn him good.
“You alright?” Diddy asked, once he realized Pichu was good again. They then walked back to the library.
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Snake leaned against a bookcase, smoking a cigarette. Toon Link walked down the isle, and stopped near Snake.
“What’s that?” he asked, and reached for it.
“It’s mine!” replied Snake, angry.
“But what is it?”
“Cigarette”
“ So…”
“You smoke it.”
“can I have one?”
“No…it’s my last. And you’re too young.”
“So why am I too young?”
“Cause only adults can have them.”
“What do they do?”
“They’re cool. But they hurt you.”
“Then why do you have them?”
“Cause they’re cool. Just…you wouldn’t understand, you’re too young.”
“I’m not that young…”
“No…just naïve.”
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“I’m going out to find people, anyone want to come?” Red asked the others.
“I’ll go,” Samus replied, eager. Red smiled at this, but…
“Me too,” added Falcon, walking towards them.
“Oh, ok…” both said, then they looked at each other.
As they walked down the corridors, there seemed to be tension between them; Red and Samus didn’t talk. But Captain Falcon was oblivious, as he kept talking.
“So then, on the THIRD lap of the race, we were going around that really tight corner, you know, the one I mentioned before…”
“Yeah,” mumbled Red and Samus.
“Sure you do, so anyways,…” He was going to go on, but he was nearly hit by lightning.
Pikachu ran at the trio and jumped. Samus and Falcon dodged him, but Red reached out, grabbed him, and threw him in the air. PIkachu was stunned and did nothing to attempt to move in the air, and Red threw up a pokeball that hit him, and once it his the ground, Squirtle came, ready to fight.
“Waterfall!” yelled Red, and Pikachu was again hit. “Grab him!, maybe it would be good to bring him back back, see what happens.” Samus shed her armor and used her whip to grab him, but when she did, Pikachu turned good again.
“So we going back?” Captain Falcon asked. Pikachu nodded. “So, I was at the curve…” Pikachu rolled his eyes, and Samus looked at Red. She mouthed the words nice job and smiled. Red smiled back.
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"We haven’t had a relaxing day since my luncheon,” Peach said. “After this is over, you want to come to my castle?”
“Your regular one?” Zelda asked.
“No…my summer castle. It’s really beautiful there, and a lot of other lands are right near it.”
“Sure, sounds like it’ll be good. But I’ll have to get someone to watch over my castle while I’m gone.”
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As the other members came back, Lucario decided it was his turn.
“I’ve been out of the action too long,” Lucasrio said to himself, as he walked out of the door. He felt out of practice, like he hadn’t fought for weeks. But that was only one of the side effects of being captured by Tabuu. He was not able to remember anything else that had happened since he was captured, so no information could be given about Tabuu.
“Ahh…an old friend,” Lucario said, as he ran into…Mewtwo. Mewtwo saw Lucario, grunted, and started to run at Lucario. As mewtwo attacked, Lucario tried his double team, but Mewtwo easily dodged it.
“Seems like we are evenly matched,” Mewtwo said, charging up an energy ball…Lucario did the same, and the two spheres were destroyed after colliding in midair. Mewtwo disappeared, but Lucario was ready for it. As Mewtwo appeared behind Lucario, he attacked, and Lucario disappeared. Lucario hit him from behind, and Mewtwo was sent flying into a wall.
As he fell to the ground, his eyes turned normal, but he still got ready to attack. He ran at Lucario, and grabbed him easily, as Lucario was confused.
“You took my spot,” mewtwo growled. Then he realized what he was doing, and let Lucario down. He then acted as if nothing happened, asking, “Where are the others?”
“Did you say…?”
“Where are the others?!?” he repeated sternly.
“In the library…”
“Then let’s go.” On the way back, Lucario explained what had happened.
“So wait…” Mewtwo said, “Both Ice Climbers were not captured? So that makes 7, right?”
“Yeah…why do you keep asking that?”
“oh no,” Mewtwo said.
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CHAPTER 59: RIVALS
Tabuu realized what was happening just then. He had kept sending out small groups of his minions so that not many would be turned good again, but none had come back. He realized that they had all become good, and his plan made it easier for them to be captured, instead of having them all gang up on a few people.
“Ganon!” he called over. Ganondorf came over, wearing a robe which gave him the look of being significant.
“You called, master?” Ganondorf came over, full of pride. “Thank you again, for promoting me to chief assistant.”
“Yeah, whatever. We will be sending out more troops.”
“Ah. Which one?”
“Ones…we’ll need the blue-haired punk animal, king spiky shell, fat and smelly, count puffball, and you.”
“Sonic, Bowser, Wario, Meta Knight…and ME?!? Why?!? I am your most trusted servant!”
“Then prove it. Go and capture the good ones. And make sure all of you stick together.”
“Can I bring the robe?”
“No.” Ganondorf dropped the robe, as Meta Knight came up.
“What were your orders?” Meta Knight asked. Tabuu repeated them.
“Now go.”
Ganon and Meta Knight found the others, and explained everything Tabuu had said. Except…
“I thought Tabuu said to stay together?” Meta Knight asked.
“Yeah, sure,” Ganondorf replied. Then they left.
As the group of enemies were walking along, some people began to get restless.
“I’m bored!” complained Bowser. “I’m going off on my own; we’re heading the wrong way.”
“But wait!” Meta Knight yelled. “We were told to stick together.” Bowser continues to walk away though.
“Let him go,” Ganondorf, the leader of the group, said. He had an angry look on his face, and seemed not to care about what Bowser did.
“I’ll go after him!” offered Sonic, who went to find Bowser. He ran away before hearing a response.
“Wait!” Meta Knight yelled. Ganondorf began walking the other way. “We need to get them! We had orders…!”
“You take orders too seriously,” replied Ganondorf, walking away. Meta Knight then looked around.
“What happened to Wario?” he asked aloud. “<sigh> I better go find him.”
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“So then what happened?” Lucas asked, laughing. He was sitting on a couch with Nana, who was telling a funny story.
“Well, then…” she began, but Popo came by. She suddenly got quieter and shyer. “Hi.”
“So…what was so funny?” Popo asked casually, sitting in between the two.
“I was just telling him a story,” nana said.
“Oh, yeah, I just remembered, I need to show you something,” Popo said, and he and Nana walked away.
“F***in bas****,” Lucas said after they walked away.
“Woah, where’s you learn those words?” Marth asked, sitting down.
“Snake,” Lucas replied sharply.
“Ah. But why are you saying them?”
“Because that’s what he is.”
“Who?”
“Popo.” Before math could answer, Pit ran up to them.
“Marth, you should come here,” Pit said.
“What is it?”
“Mewtwo’s back. We should t…”
“Ok…Lucas, I’ll talk to you later, is that all right?”
“Sure,” Lucas replied, still mad at Popo.
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Mario and Peach were arguing in the corridors, on watch. Peach still wanted him to go back to the way he used to be, and Mario kept refusing. That was when they ran into Sonic and Bowser. Bowser roared.
“That’s what you did last time!” Mario said. As he taunted, Sonic ran at the heroes, but Peach began throwing turnips in his direction. He dodges most, but was hit by one and fell. When he did, Mario went up to him and hit him repeatedly, until Sonic turned good.
Meanwhile, Bowser went to gram Peach, but she moved out of the way. He went into his shell and spun, aiming at her. But she stayed clear until he was coming out of the shell. She proceeded to hit him with her golf club, then tennis racket, then frying pan.
“Stop! Stop! I’m good!” Bowser yelled, and he was.
“See,” Mario said. “I beat you just like last time.” Peach and Boswer rolled their eyes.
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Wario had run from the other enemies, because he had seen a glint of gold. He ran into the room that had once before lured him, and found Luigi there.
“Oh…” Luigi said. He had figured that if he was somewhere no one would look, then they wouldn’t ask him to search for enemies. It obviously hadn’t worked. Luigi tried to run away, but only kicked up gold coins. As Wario was distracted, Luigi got up and tried to run. He flailed his arms out in front of him to knock away the coins in the air. He had chosen a random direction, and by his luck, ran at Wario. He hit Wario a few times though, who was knocked to the ground, landing on his butt. The only bad thing was Wario had been hit in the stomach. And earlier he had eaten a burrito.
“Uh-oh,” Wario said, as he launched himself at the ceiling. Both people were nearly knocked out by the fumes, but they dissipated. When they did, Luigi got up, and saw Mario hit Wario once, who was turned good. The group of now 6 headed back to the library.
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Zelda decided to take over for Red Samus and Falcon, after they returned with Pikachu. She saw them coming back; Pikachu led them, excited to be good once more, with sparks flying off his cheeks. Falcon was next, babbling on about some story. And Red and Samus were half listening and looked at each other every once in a while. As Zelda walked out of the room, she smiled. But then she realized that Falcon was left over.
“What have I done?” she asked herself. “I’ll need to find some way to fix this…to make them all happy. I just don’t know how.” She continued walking, muttering to herself. “…no, that won’t work…They wouldn’t go together…not now Ganon, I’m trying to figure this…GANON?!?”
While Zelda was preoccupied, walking down the corridor, Ganon had done the same thing, in the other direction. He ran at her, but Zelda used Nayru’s love and knocked him away. She charged up Din’s fire, until it was insanely huge, and released on Ganondorf, who was about to punch her with his warlock punch. They both flew back, on fire, but Ganon on orange fire, Zelda on purple.
As Zelda got up, she saw Ganon standing with his back turned to her.
“Where are the others?” he asked.
“Are you…?”
“Where are they?” he asked, as he turned around, revealing himself to be good.
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“I know I always follow the rules,” Meta Knight said to himself. “What’s wrong with that? No honor anymore, no chivalry. And now, there’s no respect from anyone anymore. Before, you would have people loyal to you, who would do what you told them. And you would do what they told you. But, of course, that chain had to be broken. And now it can’t be fixed by one person going back to the way it was before.” He stopped talking as he saw Kirby, who looked ready to fight.
“Sword?” he asked, and Kirby just ran at him and kicked him. “Fine then,” Meta Knight said, making a tornado and flung Kirby away. He turned into a drill, and spun, nearly missing Kirby. When he landed he saw that since the start of the battle, Kirby and he had only switched places. Then he was hit from behind, and he blinked. His eyes turned back to normal, and he landed next to Dedede who had his hammer out. As the 3 began to walk back, Meta Knight muttered, “No honor.”
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Pit and Marth ran outside of the library to find Lucario and Mewtwo.
“He’s gonna be excited when he heard the news!” Pit says.
“Yeah! It means we won!” Marth replied. But when they reached the pokemon, they were shocked at what they heard.
“Why are the 7 a bad thing?” Lucario was asking Mewtwo.
“What?” Marth asked.
“I thought it was good for there to be 7 of them,” added Pit.
“What’s going on?” asked Lucario.
“There was a prophecy,” Marth began, “That said Tabuu would be defeated once, and would rise again. That time, all would be captured but seven. If 7 had not been captured, then they would be able to beat Tabuu again.”
“So we beat him once during the emissary…so wouldn’t that mean we’re going to be him again?” Lucario asked.
“There’s one part you left out,” Mewtwo said. “It said he would be defeated the second time ‘only to rise again’. If we win, it means that the prophecy was true, and that he will come back. If it’s not, then we have lost to him.”
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CHAPTER 60: ACCEPTANCE
“So either way, something bad is going to happen,” Lucario reiterated, after Mewtwo had explained that either they lose to Tabuu, or he would probably come back again.
“Yes,” replied Mewtwo. “But prophecies aren’t always true, so I’ll have to go see if I can stop him.”
“What do you mean?” Pit asked.
“There is one island, which has unique properties, allowing sorcery or other powers like that to be amplified. No one lives there, so it should be easy to reach. If I could go there, then maybe I can seal Tabuu away forever.”
“Where is the island?” Marth asked.
“In the sea,” replied Mewtwo. “Now, Lucario, you said you were going to help train some others, right?”
“Yes.”
“Good. Make sure you do that as soon as possible, just in case we need to fight again. Pit, you have that seeing glass thing, right?”
“Yeah. You want me too…?”
“Watch what’s going on, and if you see anything, take care of it, and begin to alert the other members.”
“What about me?” asked Marth.
“You go train people too,” Mewtwo said, walking away.
“Could you communicate with Tabuu?” Marth asked.
“Maybe, why?” replied Mewtwo, still walking.
“Maybe we can reason with him.”
“No…it’s easier to just attack.” The four then went back into the library.
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Lucario began going around recruiting people to train, but he didn’t have much luck. Most wanted to just make it out of this, and maybe train after having some time off.
“What about you two?” Lucario asked Kirby and Diddy.
“Sorry, but we were gonna go to explore one of the jungles,” replied Diddy.
“Yeah, I don’t get many breaks, so I wanted to do something fun. And I don’t get to actually walk around in jungles just to relax, normally I have someone to save or something, so I have to rush through.”
“But you will come after that, right?” Lucario asked.
“Sure,” they both replied, and Lucario moved on.
“I want to train with you!” Lucas said, running up to Lucario. “Sorry, but I kinda overheard what you were saying, and…”
“That’s ok,” Lucario replied. “I was going to ask you next anyways. But why do you want to train right away? You’ve been doing a lot of that on your own.”
“Because it takes you mind off things, and helps you get stronger and people pay more attention to you.”
“Ok…you want to ask some other people for me?”
“Sure.”
Lucario went over to talk to the group of Mario characters (minus Bowser) and asked them to train.
“Sorry,” Peach replied. “I was planning on taking a break from fighting for a while.”
“Yeah, same here,” replied Luigi.
“I don’t need training,” Mario answered arrogantly. “I’m the best.”
“Oh really?” Lucario asked, and he feinted an attack at Mario’s head, and then hit him lightly in the stomach. Mario fell for the feint, and was knocked back a little.
“Hey! What was that for?”
“To prove you need training. You need to be humbled.”
“Fine…I guess I could give you a few pointers.” Lucario just sighed, but was glad Mario was going.
Menwhile, Lucas went up to the Ice Climbers.
“You guys want to train with me and Lucario?” he asked.
“Sure,” Nana said, and Popo said, “No.”
“Why not?” Nana asked.
“Cause…we need to go back to the mountains,” replied Popo.
“That’s where we’re going to train!” said Lucas
“I mean the icy ones. I don’t think we should yet, we need to rest,” Popo replied. He glared at Lucas, who then ran at Popo and pushed him against the wall.
“You don’t control her,” Lucas whispered, so only Popo could hear. Nana looked confused at this.
“So what do you want to do?” Lucas asked nicely, putting Popo down.
“I…I’ll go with Popo,” she said, and walked behind him. Popo smiled evilly at Lucas, and Lucas glared back. They walked away from each other.
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Snake decided that he should do something, and went out to go find everyone else.
“I don’t see why we don’t just attack now, the other 3 that are left are useless,” Snake wondered aloud. “It’s just the robot, alien man, and flat guy. Then again, the robot has a pretty awesome laser.” That was when a laser was shot at Snake, which he barely dodged. Snake turned, and saw R.O.B.
“Hah. One on one. Too easy,” Snake said. But then Game and Watch moved away from the wall, revealing himself. “Still, they’re not that good. I can take them.” But Snake felt his but on fire, and pulled off a pikmin. Captain Olimar stood behind Snake.
“Well, looks like I can get them all here right now,” Snake said, and he pulled out a rocket, and shot it as Game and Watch. But before it could hit him, Olimar threw more pikmin at Snake, who lost control of the rocket. Snake turned to attack Olimar, but was hit in the back by a spinning gyro, which R.O.B. had thrown. He needed a rest, so he took out his cypher to fly above them. He dropped grenades, causing lots of damage to his enemies. But they stayed his enemies, and Snake finally fell to the ground. All 3 attacked him at once, and snake only had time to plant a c4 before he was knocked out. As the 3 remaining members of Tabuu’s army approached, the bomb went off
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Back at the library, Marth was searching for anybody who visited different islands frequently. He found Yoshi, who he thought would have some info.
“Well, yeah, I’m going to go to an island after this. Me and Pikachu were gonna relax on Angelic Isle. It has lots of towns, and it’s really nice.”
“Wiat…lots of towns? Then never mind. But do you know of a place where no one lives?”
“Ethiopia?”
“No, an island.”
“Then no…Toon Link might know though, he sails.” So Marth went over to Toon Link.
“Would you be able to sail me around? I want to find an island that nobody lives on.”
“Sure. But how come?”
“Well, mewtwo said that there would be a chance that tabuu could return after this and I want to help. That’s where he’s gonna be. But he doesn’t want me to come with him.”
“Sure, I’d wanna help too. Do you mind if Pichu comes along too? Cause I was gonna sail with him, and he’d probably want to help…”
“Sure…but no one else, I don’t want to be too conspicuous.”
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R.O.B., Olimar, and Game and Watch looked over an unmoving Snake, now all of them were good. Snake took a breath though, and opened his eyes.
“Are you ok?” asked R.O.B.
“Yeah, of course I am,” replied Snake.
“What happened to everyone else?” Olimar asked.
“They’re fine…actually, you’re the last to turn good,” replied Snake. “We should go back.”
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“We’re back!” Snake said, entering the library.
“So that’s all of us,” replied Mewtwo. “Take an hour to rest. Then, we attack subspace.”
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CHAPTER 61: THE FINAL BATTLE (2)
As Lucas, Nana, and Pit trained, Young Link was resting and Red was sitting on the couch, staring at his phone.
“I wonder…I…no, no…I mean, I guess…” Red said to himself, looking up from time to time.
“What was that?” asked Young Link. “I think I heard a noise outside. Sounded like someone running.”
“We better go after them then,” replied Red, and he got up.
“Shouldn’t we bring Pit, in case he has to turn someone good?”
“No…just grab the music box.”
“ok.” And as young link grabbed the box, they ran out of the room.
After about 10 more minutes of training, Lucas went to take a break. “What happened to Red and Young Link?” asked Lucas.
“We’ve been chasing these noises for an hour now, where are they going?” Young Link wondered out loud, tired of following things they couldn’t see. Then, the noises stopped.
“I guess we could go back,” replied Red. “As they headed back, Red started to ask, “So…do you think…that I’d maybe…have a ch…no, but I still…I don’t know…” but before Red could finish a sentence, somebody shot past them and the music box fell to the ground. Neither Red nor Young Link noticed the box drop. The person who ran by stopped for a second, and they saw it was…Fox.
“Get him!” yelled Red, and the chase began. Soon, they followed fox to a room filled with crates, where another enemy was waiting for them…Falco.
“It’s a trap!” yelled Young Link, as he made for the door. But Fox got there first and blocked the way.
“Looks like we have to fight,” said Red, and he charged at Fox. Young Link threw his boomerang at Falco, but he would just keep reflecting it. And every time Red ran at Fox, Fox would just reflect him away.
“I’m not getting anywhere,” Red said to Young link.
“Me neither…let’s use the box,” and Young Link reached for the music box, but it was nowhere to be found. “What happened to it?” asked Young Link.
“I don’t know, you had it.” Young Link went towards Falco for another attack as he jumped above him, and then went to stand with Fox by the exit.
“We should try teaming up on one, maybe we can actually hurt them,” suggested Red, and he charged at the enemies as Young Link shot an arrow. But enemies dodged it, but seconds later it flew back into the room and hit Fox in the back. Red and Young Link both stopped and stared, unsure of what happened. And soon, another thing flew through the doorway at Fox and Falco. And when the deku nut hit the ground, it left both of the two members of Tabuu’s army stunned. Fox and Falco’s eyes both turned back to normal when they heard a familiar howl.
“You’re back!” said Red.
“What are you doing here?” asked Fox his question directed at his long time rival…Wolf.
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CHAPTER 52: THE MEETING
“Where did they go?” asked Pit, while he, Nana, and Lucas looked for a note of some kind. They had recently discovered that Red and Young Link were missing.
“We should go out and search for them,” said Lucas. “We’ll split up and meet back here in an hour.”
“But…why do we ALL have to split up?” Nana asked.
“It covers more ground that way,” replied Lucas. “And don’t worry, I know you’ll be fine.” Nana smiled, and the three headed off in different directions.
After walking for some time, Nana noticed something on the ground.
“Hey…the music box.”
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“We should go looking for more people again,” suggested Jigglypuff, and everyone agreed.
“You 3 go that way, I’ll be fine on my own,” said Luigi, and he started to walk off.
“Yoshi, go with him,” instructed Jigglypuff. “He might need help.”
“Ok,” and the 2 groups split.
“I don’t see why I had to have you come with me, I can handle myself,” Luigi told Yoshi.
“Look. You are strong but you don’t have to be alone…and about you beating me…” Yoshi was cut off when the met someone both recognized…Mario.
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“Where do you think everyone else is?” asked Jigglypuff out loud.
“I don’t know…but I hope Nana is ok,” replied Popo. “What was that?” he asked, hearing a rustling noise behind him.
“I don’t know. Let’s go see,” replied Jigglypuff. Popo turned to look at her, freaked out.
“Why would we go TOWARDS the creepy noises?!?” Popo asked incredulously.
“Because it could be Nana,” replied Jigglypuff, as she started walking.
“Oh…ok,” replied Popo, and they went to look at the noise. As they turned the corner, somebody grabbed Popo, pulled him into the shadows, and he fell to the ground. Jigglypuff looked at the unmoving Popo, as Snake came out of the Shadows. He took out a grenade, but stopped once he heard familiar music.
Snake swayed back and forth as if in a trance, and his eyes slowly became normal. Popo woke up and saw this.
“What the f***?” asked Snake. “Why am I with you 2?” Then, all of them turned to the music coming from the music box. Which Nana was holding. Nana greeted Popo and Jigglypuff, glad they were ok. Each of them told who was in their respective groups.
“So…why am I stuck with you 3 right now?” asked Snake.
“You were turned evil,” replied Nana.
“That’s impossible, I could never be captured,” Snake replied.
“You’re welcome,” said Jigglypuff. “So why don’t we have our groups join together…we’ll meet in the library. Nana and Snake, you go back and tell your group, I’ll go back with Popo to our group.”
“What? Why do I have to go with any of you?” asked Snake.
“You owe us,” replied Jigglypuff. “And you’ll be famous if you help us beat Tabuu.” Snake seemed satisfied with this reason.
“No,” replied Popo. Everyone turned to look at him. “I want to go with Nana.” At this, nana first looked happy, then confused.
“Ok then,” replied Jigglypuff. “I’ll go with Snake to my group, you two go to Nana’s group.
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CHAPTER 53: The Better Brother
Yoshi and Luigi faced an evil Mario.
“You circle around and attack from behind, I’ll distract him,” said Yoshi.
“I don’t need your help,” said Luigi, and walked up to Mario. As he saw an attack coming, Luigi lazily tried to dodge, but Mario hit him away.
“What happened?” asked Luigi. “With my skills, I should have dodged him.”
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you,” said Yoshi. “You aren’t that great. I let you win.” Luigi turned to Yoshi, then Mario, scared.
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“I wonder what happened to Nana,” said Lucas.
“This is the 10th time you’ve said that, it’s only been 5 minutes,” replied Pit. “She’s fine. But do…” Then, Fox, Falco, Wolf and Young Link and Red came back.
“You are good?” asked Pit.
“Yeah, now, where’s the other survivor?” asked Falco, unhappy.
“What’s your problem?” asked Lucas. Falco mumbled something about ‘wrong’ and ‘captured’.
“So, you’re back,” said Red.
“Yep,” replied Wolf. “Couldn’t wait to get some glory.” Red then glared at him. “Oh yeah and sorry bout the attacking you think,” he added, obviously not caring about what he did.
“yeah, whatever,” replied Red, not convinced by the apology.
Young Link approached Lucas.
“You think we have enough people to attack now?” asked Young Link.
“No…we should have at least the majority,” replied Lucas. “Then we can go and attack. After that, we should be able to revive…Nana!” Lucas then saw Nana and Popo come into the room.
“Yeah, and there’s more people good too!” said Nana. She started to run to Lucas, but looks back at Popo and then decided to walk. Popo then told the others of what had happened in his group.
“So, there were 7 of you that didn’t get captured?” asked Pit.
“Yeah,” replied Popo.
“Yes!” Pit whispered, remembering the prophecy. ‘Probably best to still not tell them,’ he thought.
“I told them we would meet them at the library,” said Nana.
“Then let’s go!” said Lucas, and they packed up.
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Mario ran towards Yoshi, and although he tried to get away, he was knocked down. Mario then went for Luigi, who desperately hit Mario. He again began cowering in fear and mumbled to himself. “No way I’ll make it….Daisy…never be as good.”
“You bet you won’t,” said a now good Mario.
“you…you’re good?” asked Luigi.
“so…guess I’m gonna lead since I’m the better brother.” Said Mario.
“No…I say we let Luigi lead,” said Yoshi.
“Oh…ok,” said Luigi. “Hey, who is that?” Jigglypuff and Snake then met the group.
“There are more people who are good!” said Jigglypuff. “We’re meeting them at the library.”
“So I guess we go there,” said Luigi.
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CHAPTER 54: ADVICE FOLLOWED
Team Lucas began to make their way to the library. But, as Pit had anticipated, now that there were so many members, they got sidetracked.
“So, once we get to the library, we’ll need some people to stay there and guard the place while the rest of us go out and find the others,” Lucas went on.
“Who decided to make him leader?” asked Falco.
“Dunno,” replied Wolf, surprisingly amicable to his enemy. “He just seemed to take charge.”
“He’s a good leader,” said Nana, defending him.
“yeah, but…” Popo tried to argue, but particularly didn’t want to argue with Nana, and couldn’t think of anything.
“He’s working out just fine,” said Pit. Then, he noticed a couple people. “Everyone, after them!” Pit ran after Toon Link and Diddy. Everyone followed him except for the Ice Climbers and Lucas. They had noticed someone else. Or two.
DK ran down a hallway, catching Popo’s attention.
“C’mon,” he said, running after DK. Lucas ran after someone else.
“I’m going after Lucario,” he said.
“Don’t you need the music box?” asked Nana.
“No,” he yelled back. “Go help Popo.”
Nana looked reluctant as she followed Popo.
Meanwhile, Fox, Falco, and Wolf all shot their blasters at Toon Link and Diddy. When they hit, Young Link engaged in a duel with Toon Link. Red, meanwhile, tried to trip up and stun Diddy without actually hurting him. But Pit was quick with his arrow, and soon the two were good once more. Diddy scratched his head, and Toon Link looked around, to see who was there.
“So…we’re good again?” asked Toon Link.
“Yeah,” replied Pit, who told them the whole story.
“Hey wait,” said Young Link. “What happened to Lucas and the Climbers?”
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Jigglypuff led her team towards the library. Snake, Luigi, Mario, and Yoshi followed her.
“Who decided to let the puffball lead?” asked Snake.
“I dunno,” replied Mario, “I haven’t been around for that long either.”
“There really is no leader I think,” said Yoshi. “But she feels good when she’s up front.”
Luigi went up to talk to Jigglypuff.
“Why did Yoshi lie to me?” asked Luigi.
“Yoshi wanted you to believe in yourself.”
“But, if I’m not as good as my brother, then why bother?”
“Stop comparing yourself to Mario. He may be stronger sometimes, but you have other qualities that make you better then him.” They were about to enter the library when they heard a noise.
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Meanwhile, Popo had followed DK. But suddenly, DK turned around and charged back at Popo. Dodging, Popo quickly hit him with his mallet.
“S…see?” Popo asked. “I can fight on my own.” DK shook his head, but soon recovered and tried head butting him. But Popo sent icicles at DK, stopping him. Then Popo tried his blizzard attack, but DK slammed the ground and Popo was thrown into the air. DK was about to go after Popo, when he heard familiar music, and turned good as Nana came into the room. They caught DK up on what happened.
“That’s great you guys!” said DK, and they went back to join the main group.
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Lucas went after Lucario, and was gaining on him. Lucas went to attack, and Lucario used his double team attack. But Lucas was able to dodge that, and sent a PK fire at him. Lucario went in to attack again, as Lucas charged up a PK freeze. Lucario got to him first though, and Lucas was sent flying. Lucario charged up an aura ball as Lucas fell, but, noticing this, he used PSI Heal to heal himself.
“Well, I’m not running away from you this time,” said Lucas, and Lucario froze for a moment, remembering about how he sacrificed himself for Lucas and the others.Lucas hit him, and went on, “Looks like I may turn out to be a hero after all,” Lucas said hopefully. “You are a hero,” replied a now good Lucario.
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CHAPTER 55: COUPLES SAVED
Jigglypuff led the other 4 in her party into the library where they found Captain Falcon, Link, Peach, Samus, and Zelda.
“We should be able to take them, one to one,” said Jigglypuff.
“Don’t worry bro,” Mario said, “I can beat your guy for you.” But an explosion was heard, which caught the attention of the enemies. Zelda, Samus and Captain Falcon ran to see what happened.
“Too easy,” said Snake, pulling out a grenade.
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Nobody seemed to know where the Ice Climbers or Lucas was.
“We’ll just go to the library, that’s where we were supposed to meet,” suggested Young Link. But when they got to the door, it was blocked.
“Young link, Toon Link, come here,” said Pit. They both took out bombs, and soon they could enter the library. Zelda, Samus, and Captain Falcon appeared, and were ready to fight, but soon heard breaking noises, and Zelda and Samus went off in two different directions.
“Too easy,” said Falco, as he took out his blaster.
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Samus charged up her cannon, and peeked around the corner, seeing DK and the Ice Climbers rush into the library. She turned to talk to Zelda, but she was nowhere to be seen.
“Do you think they already made it here?” asked Popo.
“Probably,” replied Nana.
“Shh…” said DK and he pointed to where Samus was.
Samus wanted to go after Zelda and find her so it would be easier, but she supposed she could do it on her own. She turned to look around the corner and when she did, no one was there. But a second later, she was hit in the face with a mallet.
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“So what’s happened since I was captured?” asked Lucario.
“Well…,” Lucas began, and he explained the whole story.
“Then…what do we do now?” Lucario asked.
“Check to see if the others are where I left them, and then see if they’re in the library,” replied Lucas, leading the way.
Lucario smiled and said to himself, “good job Lucas.”
After they checked the hallways where Pit’s group and the Ice Climbers went down, they decided to go to the library.
“So do you think?” started Lucas. “yeah, I think she…they’ll be ok.” They came up on a blocked doorway.
‘Ah!” said Lucario, as Lucas broke open the doorway. Soon though, they saw a familiar face…Zelda.
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As the rest of Pit’s group bombarded Captain Falcon with attacks, Pit launched his arrow and turned him good.
“What happened?” he asked, and realized he was good again.
“you guys tell him what’s going on, I have to go after Zelda and Samus,” said Pit, and he left that group.
Running through the hallways, he tried to get a tally of how many good people there were. If I can save Samus and Zelda, we should have a decent amount…no dout they’ll be sending more and more at us at a time now that there are more heroes…wait, what was that? Pit had just heard the sound of armor being his, and he soon found DK and Popo attacking Samus, with Nana getting out the music box.
“No need,” he said, and shot Samus with an arrow.
“What happened?” asked Samus.
“Fill him in while I find Zelda,” Pit said, and he pointed them in the direction of the other heroes.
Pit continued to another part of the library where Lucas and Lucario were fending off Zelda. Launching an arrow, she was turned good.
“Pit!”
“Lucas! Lucario! Zelda!” They all said their hellos and completely filled each other in.
“c’mon, we have to find everyone else,” said Lucas, and they started walking.
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The Ice Climbers, DK, and Samus all met up with Young Link, Toon Link, Captain Falcon and co. After a short reunion (including Samus running up to Falcon and hugging him, while red looked away) they walked around, only to find Jigglypuff’s party, still fighting Link and Peach. As they were about to intervene, an arrow was shot and Link and Peach turned good, as Pit, Lucas, Lucario and Zelda entered the room.
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CHAPTER 56: SWORDPLAY
“Ok,” said Lucas, once the whole group was together. “The most important thing to do is to secure this room. Once we do, we should send some people out to look for other heroes. Once we have enough people we can go to attack Tabuu.”
“How?” Nana asked.
“Mewtwo’s portal, it should be open,” replied Pit, referring to Mewtwo’s plan of attack.
“Then I’ll go out first,” said Link, and along with him went Young Link and Toon Link.
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“Hey little buddy!” said DK, going up to Diddy.
“You’re ok!” he said, running up to him.
“Yep, looks like most of us are back now.”
“Sorry I wasn’t able to save you guys before.”
“That’s alright. Things seem to be working out.”
“Yeah,” said Lucario, going up to them. “I think everything will turn out fine.”
“You wanna spar?” Mario asked Luigi.
“I..I don’t know,” he replied.
“Sure, you could take him,” said Jigglypuff.
“You’ll do fine,” encouraged Yoshi.
Captain Falcon sat on a couch with Samus, and Peach on a chair opposite them.
“I missed you,” said Captain Falcon.
“No, I missed you more,” replied Samus, playfully.
“Aww, you two are so cute!” said Peach, and the three started into some conversation.
Red look at the couple from where the snacks were, drinking cup after cup of punch.
“Makes me sick,” he said out loud, and drank another cup of punch.
“Something wrong?” Zelda asked, coming over to get a drink.
“No, nothing,” replied Red.
“If you want to talk about it…”
“Why him?”
“Well…”
“I mean, what does he have that I don’t have? A fast car? Oversized muscles? A nipple suit? I could have all that if I wanted. But I don’t want the suit, I like my clothes.”
‘You know, you shouldn’t count yourself out yet, she still thinks highly of you.”
“She does?”
“yeah.”
“more then him?”
“Well, I don’t know…”
“ (excited) so I have a chance!” A phone rings; Red looks at who it is. “Crap…he said, answering the phone. He walked out of the room and began to talk.
“So you’re on our side now?” Falco asked Wolf, who seemed to be surprisingly friendly.
“Ehh, for now,” Wolf replied. “Thought it would be fun to play the hero for once. People will like me, not just think I’m cool.”
“And you’ll be famous,” said Fox.
“And I’ll be famous,” Wolf agreed.
Lucas was taking a rest, when Nana came up to him. She sat down next to him, and said, “Tired from leading everyone?”
“Yeah, I’m tired,” replied Lucas, “But I’m not really leading everyone.”
“You give out all the orders and suggestions, and everyone talks to you before doing something,” Nana replied, admiringly.
“No, I don’t do that much,” replied Lucas, blushing. Then Popo came.
“Hi…,” said Nana, uneasy.
“You want anything to eat?” he asked.
“Yeah, I’m kinda thirsty,” replied nana. Then she turned to Lucas and mumbled, “Bye.” Lucas sat on the couch, looking at the ceiling, when Snake was suddenly appeared next to him.
“Yep, just as I thought,” commented Snake. “I don’t get you little kids and your…”
“Shut up,” said Lucas. “I’m going to go look for more people.”
“Hey!” Snake yelled after him, in a more considerate and caring tone.
“Yeah?” a hopeful Lucas replied, hoping for Snake to be more serious.
“Want a cigarette?” Snake asked. Lucas then just walked out, angry.
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“What did you do to us?” Ganondorf asked Tabuu, after he and all of the other captured brawlers shot with the machines once again.
“The modified machine makes sure that you don’t turn normal just by hearing people you know. Now you have to be beaten in a fight. For some reason the machines can never get perfect, but its better.”
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“Where do you think they would be?” Toon Link asked the others.
“Probably over by the portal,” replied Link. “They would be coming from there.” Hearing something, Young Link turned around and whipped out his bow, and hoped to hit whoever was following him.
But Roy dodged the arrow, and engaged in a duel with Young Link. Neither was able to hit the other.
“I’m coming!” Toon Link yelled, but he was nearly hit from behind by Marth. Now it was 3 on 2, and as Link rushed to help against Roy, another person came, evening the playing field. Ike ran at Link, and slashed, but Link jumped out of the way just in time.
“How do we beat them?” Young Link asked.
“Yeah, we don’t have the music box or Pit,” added Toon Link.
“Maybe if they…or we…just fight them for now, I’ll think of something,” Link replied. After some time of getting nowhere, the Link were worn out. But the enemies were ready for more.
“Get on the other side of them!” Young Link yelled. “Move them towards the center!” and he backed Roy into the center of the room. Link and Toon Link followed, so now the enemies were back to back, trapped by the Links. Young Link took out a bomb, and threw it in the air. Realizing what he was doing, Link did the same, and Toon Link did it just because the other two had.
“Spin attack!” Young Link yelled, and they did it at the same time, as the bombs came down and fell on Marth Roy and Ike. The links were thrown back, and when the dust cleared, there were 3 more heroes.
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“We’re back!” yelled Roy, as the 6 entered the library.
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CHAPTER 57: REDEMPTION
“My turn to go out,” Jigglypuff said to no one in particular, and left the library. “I hope I find someone and save them. I mean, I think some people…well, most people, still don’t quite respect me enough.” And Jigglypuff would have this opportunity. She heard a ‘plop-plop’ and around the corner came Kirby.
“Hi!” said Kirby, and Jigglypuff, thinking he was good, waved back. But Kirby ran at Jigglypuff and took out his hammer, as Jigglypuff soon realized the trick. Jigglypuff was sent flying backwards, but charged up a rollout, and headed towards Kirby. Kirby was taken by surprise, and fell over, as Jigglypuff used rest. Kirby was knocked in the air and Jigglypuff sang. When Kirby landed he was near Jigglypuff and fell asleep, his eyes turning normal once more.
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“So,” said Mario, walking up to Peach. “You notice how much stronger I got? I mean, Look at these muscles.” He flexed his arm muscles.
“Yeah, what about that muscle?” Peach asked, half-jokingly, tapping his stomach.
“Hey!” he said, and hit her hand away. Peach frowned and turned away.
“You know, that doesn’t impress me.”
“What? With these guns?!?”
“No…I liked you better when…”
“When what?”
“Well, you know…”
“Oh, yeah, when I took some time off and was a wimp? Like I’d ever do that again.”
“But, you were more helpful, and…”
“I’m not going back to that.”
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Wolf was out searching for some of the others, when he met Dedede.
"Hmmph...ironic," Wolf said, asnd he took out his blaster, and shot Dedede, while trying to think of a strategy. Dedede was hit, but ran at him, slapping Wolf. Wolf felt sometihng like a needle go into him, but the pain was gone quickly.
"What'd you do, sharpen your nails?" And wolf rushed at him with his claws. After a minute more of fighting, both were tired, but Dedede was looking worse. So he trough out a Waddle-dee, which Wolf reflected, but something strance occured. The waddle-dee got up and ran at Dedede, now covered with grey fur and with a small tail. The waddle-dee jumped at Dedede and hit, knocking Dedede over. Wolf shot his blaster a few times, destroying the Waddle-dee and hitting Dedede. When the king got up, he was no longer evil.
"Wha...What happened?" he asked.
"I came back," replied Wolf.
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Captain Falcon and Samus were still sitting next to each other, when Zelda came over.
“And look at these pecs!” Captain Falcon was saying. Samus laughed, but rolled her eyes, indicating she was tired of this line. Falcon didn’t seem to notice.
“You know, we all know what you look like,” said Zelda.
“Yeah…” replied Falcon, oblivious to what she really meant. “Well, I gotta go train.” He left, leaving Samus and Zelda alone.
“Isn’t he great?” Samus asked, but halfheartedly.
“Something on your mind?”
“Well…I don’t know if I could get used to him, being around him I mean.”
“Why?”
“Well, he’s kinda vain, and doesn’t think about the group that much…he always talks about getting stronger himself, or what he’s done…he doesn’t talk about anyone else.”
“…You know…there is this one other person…”
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Roy went up to the table with snacks, looking for someone to talk to.
“Hey! You’re back!” said Luigi, who had also gone to get something to eat.
“What’s up?” Roy asked Luigi told him what had happened since he was captured. “Wow.”
“Yeah…that’s what I said too when it was happening.”
“Its weird though…as much as I like getting into the action…its nice to just relax, kinda like this, but not having to worry about anything.”
“Yeah, I know.”
“Hey. Why don’t you stop by my castle after all of this is over?”
“You think we’ll win?”
“Yeah…of course. I haven’t had many of my old friends over lately, so I was kinda bored. Maybe we can start hanging out.”
“Ok, that sounds good.”
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“Hi,” said Red, answering his phone. “Where am I? Well, I don’t really know…what am I doing?...uhhh, not much. Why don’t I answer questions with detail? Well, uh, I, I don’t know, that’s just me I’m not good at talking unless I’m…oh, right, I’m rambling again…why am I repeating everything you say? I don’t know…but yeah, I’ll be able to make it to the next tournament. See ya there…I…ummm…bye.” And Red hung up, muttering under his breath as he tried to sort things out. But he had no more then 10 seconds to himself, as he saw Ivysaur and Charizard walk up to him, both evil.
“Well, looks like I gotta fight,” Red said to himself, and ran at his pokemon. But, as his pokemon were more trained in fighting, they took an early lead in the fight.
Red, did get some good hits in, but his pokemon were too much.
“Well,” Red said, wiping the sweat off his head, “At least I know I’m a good trainer.” So Red got in the middle of the two pokemon and dodged both of their attacks, making them hit one another.
“Yes!” exclaimed Red, but Red soon realized something. “Wait…they’re missing one…” and as the other two recovered, Red swung his arms around, hoping to hit…Squirtle. Squirtle was sent flying into a wall, with surprising force. Red ran up to him and kicked his shell around and finally sent it towards the other two pokemon. Squirtle’s shell hit Ivysaur, and, jumping out, Squirtle used waterfall to turn him good. Now, all that was left was Charizard. The two good pokemon double teamed him, and soon, Red had all of his pokemon back.
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Lucario went up to DK, hoping to get his idea started.
“Once this is over, we should get some members together and begin training them to use their powers,” suggested Lucario. “I think you would be a good mentor, so would you like to help?”
“Sure,” replied DK. “But could we have some time off first? I need some time to rest. And eat. I haven't had a good banana in a long time now."
"Ok...but after that, maybe a few weeks...we'll get together and train."
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Lucas, was walking around on watch, venting his anger. He tried to think through his feelings, but he couldn’t figure something out completely, and kept coming up with new questions. Snake is a…a…well, I don’t know. Oh yeah, what’s that word he keeps using? jack-***. That’s what he is. But Lucas didn’t have much time to worry about anything else. Just then, Ness arrived, and prepared for a fight. He started out by using a PK thunder, but Lucas only used it to recover. Lucas tried a pk fire, but this time Ness healed. The attacks went back and forth for some time, but the other always healed. Both realizing this, they took out their a attack weapons; the bat and stick. They rolled and dodged, trying to hit each other in the meantime. Throwing out his snake, Lucas tripped Mario, and as he fell, Lucas used PK freeze. Lucas began beating up the frozen Ness, and ended with a PK fire. Once Ness got up, he said hi to Lucas.
“I’m sorry about before,” Lucas said.
“I forgive you,” replied Ness, and they walked back.
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CHAPTER 58: GOTTA CATCH’EM ALL!
“Will you just admit it?”
“Won’t you?”
“Fine! Yeah, I was wrong! I know I shouldn’t have wasted my weapons! Now what about you?”
“No!” Fox and Falco were aguing about being captured, and Falco’s refusal to admit defeat.
“What’s going on?” Marth asked, coming over.
“He won’t admit that he was wrong!” Fox yelled. “You know there were no smash balls there, and so does everyone else! Why don’t you just admit it?!?”
“I won’t ad…I mean, I wasn’t wrong!!!” Falco yelled.
“Break it up, hold on.” Marth said. “Fox, if everyone knows, then why do you need him to admit it? It should be enough knowing you’re right.”
“I guess…,” Fox muttered, walking away.
“And you really do need to admit things,” he told Falco.
“What makes you the great judge?” Falco asked, walking away.
“I’m a moderator, not judge,” replied Marth, referring to a previous job.
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When Diddy saw a flash of yellow run past the door, he ran outside to see where it went. He saw it go around a corner, and he followed it. He followed it around endless corners, until he reached a dead end.
“Huh?” Diddy wondered when he was hit in the back by a skull bash. Diddy fell over, but wrapped his tail around Pichu, who was the one he had followed. Diddly fell to the ground, but pulled Pichu over with him. Diddy was the first to recover, who jumped on Pichu and persisted in karate chopping Pichu’s head. Pichu would be fine, he was used to taking damage, especially to the head, but the chopping was enough to turn him good.
“You alright?” Diddy asked, once he realized Pichu was good again. They then walked back to the library.
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Snake leaned against a bookcase, smoking a cigarette. Toon Link walked down the isle, and stopped near Snake.
“What’s that?” he asked, and reached for it.
“It’s mine!” replied Snake, angry.
“But what is it?”
“Cigarette”
“ So…”
“You smoke it.”
“can I have one?”
“No…it’s my last. And you’re too young.”
“So why am I too young?”
“Cause only adults can have them.”
“What do they do?”
“They’re cool. But they hurt you.”
“Then why do you have them?”
“Cause they’re cool. Just…you wouldn’t understand, you’re too young.”
“I’m not that young…”
“No…just naïve.”
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“I’m going out to find people, anyone want to come?” Red asked the others.
“I’ll go,” Samus replied, eager. Red smiled at this, but…
“Me too,” added Falcon, walking towards them.
“Oh, ok…” both said, then they looked at each other.
As they walked down the corridors, there seemed to be tension between them; Red and Samus didn’t talk. But Captain Falcon was oblivious, as he kept talking.
“So then, on the THIRD lap of the race, we were going around that really tight corner, you know, the one I mentioned before…”
“Yeah,” mumbled Red and Samus.
“Sure you do, so anyways,…” He was going to go on, but he was nearly hit by lightning.
Pikachu ran at the trio and jumped. Samus and Falcon dodged him, but Red reached out, grabbed him, and threw him in the air. PIkachu was stunned and did nothing to attempt to move in the air, and Red threw up a pokeball that hit him, and once it his the ground, Squirtle came, ready to fight.
“Waterfall!” yelled Red, and Pikachu was again hit. “Grab him!, maybe it would be good to bring him back back, see what happens.” Samus shed her armor and used her whip to grab him, but when she did, Pikachu turned good again.
“So we going back?” Captain Falcon asked. Pikachu nodded. “So, I was at the curve…” Pikachu rolled his eyes, and Samus looked at Red. She mouthed the words nice job and smiled. Red smiled back.
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"We haven’t had a relaxing day since my luncheon,” Peach said. “After this is over, you want to come to my castle?”
“Your regular one?” Zelda asked.
“No…my summer castle. It’s really beautiful there, and a lot of other lands are right near it.”
“Sure, sounds like it’ll be good. But I’ll have to get someone to watch over my castle while I’m gone.”
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As the other members came back, Lucario decided it was his turn.
“I’ve been out of the action too long,” Lucasrio said to himself, as he walked out of the door. He felt out of practice, like he hadn’t fought for weeks. But that was only one of the side effects of being captured by Tabuu. He was not able to remember anything else that had happened since he was captured, so no information could be given about Tabuu.
“Ahh…an old friend,” Lucario said, as he ran into…Mewtwo. Mewtwo saw Lucario, grunted, and started to run at Lucario. As mewtwo attacked, Lucario tried his double team, but Mewtwo easily dodged it.
“Seems like we are evenly matched,” Mewtwo said, charging up an energy ball…Lucario did the same, and the two spheres were destroyed after colliding in midair. Mewtwo disappeared, but Lucario was ready for it. As Mewtwo appeared behind Lucario, he attacked, and Lucario disappeared. Lucario hit him from behind, and Mewtwo was sent flying into a wall.
As he fell to the ground, his eyes turned normal, but he still got ready to attack. He ran at Lucario, and grabbed him easily, as Lucario was confused.
“You took my spot,” mewtwo growled. Then he realized what he was doing, and let Lucario down. He then acted as if nothing happened, asking, “Where are the others?”
“Did you say…?”
“Where are the others?!?” he repeated sternly.
“In the library…”
“Then let’s go.” On the way back, Lucario explained what had happened.
“So wait…” Mewtwo said, “Both Ice Climbers were not captured? So that makes 7, right?”
“Yeah…why do you keep asking that?”
“oh no,” Mewtwo said.
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CHAPTER 59: RIVALS
Tabuu realized what was happening just then. He had kept sending out small groups of his minions so that not many would be turned good again, but none had come back. He realized that they had all become good, and his plan made it easier for them to be captured, instead of having them all gang up on a few people.
“Ganon!” he called over. Ganondorf came over, wearing a robe which gave him the look of being significant.
“You called, master?” Ganondorf came over, full of pride. “Thank you again, for promoting me to chief assistant.”
“Yeah, whatever. We will be sending out more troops.”
“Ah. Which one?”
“Ones…we’ll need the blue-haired punk animal, king spiky shell, fat and smelly, count puffball, and you.”
“Sonic, Bowser, Wario, Meta Knight…and ME?!? Why?!? I am your most trusted servant!”
“Then prove it. Go and capture the good ones. And make sure all of you stick together.”
“Can I bring the robe?”
“No.” Ganondorf dropped the robe, as Meta Knight came up.
“What were your orders?” Meta Knight asked. Tabuu repeated them.
“Now go.”
Ganon and Meta Knight found the others, and explained everything Tabuu had said. Except…
“I thought Tabuu said to stay together?” Meta Knight asked.
“Yeah, sure,” Ganondorf replied. Then they left.
As the group of enemies were walking along, some people began to get restless.
“I’m bored!” complained Bowser. “I’m going off on my own; we’re heading the wrong way.”
“But wait!” Meta Knight yelled. “We were told to stick together.” Bowser continues to walk away though.
“Let him go,” Ganondorf, the leader of the group, said. He had an angry look on his face, and seemed not to care about what Bowser did.
“I’ll go after him!” offered Sonic, who went to find Bowser. He ran away before hearing a response.
“Wait!” Meta Knight yelled. Ganondorf began walking the other way. “We need to get them! We had orders…!”
“You take orders too seriously,” replied Ganondorf, walking away. Meta Knight then looked around.
“What happened to Wario?” he asked aloud. “<sigh> I better go find him.”
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“So then what happened?” Lucas asked, laughing. He was sitting on a couch with Nana, who was telling a funny story.
“Well, then…” she began, but Popo came by. She suddenly got quieter and shyer. “Hi.”
“So…what was so funny?” Popo asked casually, sitting in between the two.
“I was just telling him a story,” nana said.
“Oh, yeah, I just remembered, I need to show you something,” Popo said, and he and Nana walked away.
“F***in bas****,” Lucas said after they walked away.
“Woah, where’s you learn those words?” Marth asked, sitting down.
“Snake,” Lucas replied sharply.
“Ah. But why are you saying them?”
“Because that’s what he is.”
“Who?”
“Popo.” Before math could answer, Pit ran up to them.
“Marth, you should come here,” Pit said.
“What is it?”
“Mewtwo’s back. We should t…”
“Ok…Lucas, I’ll talk to you later, is that all right?”
“Sure,” Lucas replied, still mad at Popo.
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Mario and Peach were arguing in the corridors, on watch. Peach still wanted him to go back to the way he used to be, and Mario kept refusing. That was when they ran into Sonic and Bowser. Bowser roared.
“That’s what you did last time!” Mario said. As he taunted, Sonic ran at the heroes, but Peach began throwing turnips in his direction. He dodges most, but was hit by one and fell. When he did, Mario went up to him and hit him repeatedly, until Sonic turned good.
Meanwhile, Bowser went to gram Peach, but she moved out of the way. He went into his shell and spun, aiming at her. But she stayed clear until he was coming out of the shell. She proceeded to hit him with her golf club, then tennis racket, then frying pan.
“Stop! Stop! I’m good!” Bowser yelled, and he was.
“See,” Mario said. “I beat you just like last time.” Peach and Boswer rolled their eyes.
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Wario had run from the other enemies, because he had seen a glint of gold. He ran into the room that had once before lured him, and found Luigi there.
“Oh…” Luigi said. He had figured that if he was somewhere no one would look, then they wouldn’t ask him to search for enemies. It obviously hadn’t worked. Luigi tried to run away, but only kicked up gold coins. As Wario was distracted, Luigi got up and tried to run. He flailed his arms out in front of him to knock away the coins in the air. He had chosen a random direction, and by his luck, ran at Wario. He hit Wario a few times though, who was knocked to the ground, landing on his butt. The only bad thing was Wario had been hit in the stomach. And earlier he had eaten a burrito.
“Uh-oh,” Wario said, as he launched himself at the ceiling. Both people were nearly knocked out by the fumes, but they dissipated. When they did, Luigi got up, and saw Mario hit Wario once, who was turned good. The group of now 6 headed back to the library.
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Zelda decided to take over for Red Samus and Falcon, after they returned with Pikachu. She saw them coming back; Pikachu led them, excited to be good once more, with sparks flying off his cheeks. Falcon was next, babbling on about some story. And Red and Samus were half listening and looked at each other every once in a while. As Zelda walked out of the room, she smiled. But then she realized that Falcon was left over.
“What have I done?” she asked herself. “I’ll need to find some way to fix this…to make them all happy. I just don’t know how.” She continued walking, muttering to herself. “…no, that won’t work…They wouldn’t go together…not now Ganon, I’m trying to figure this…GANON?!?”
While Zelda was preoccupied, walking down the corridor, Ganon had done the same thing, in the other direction. He ran at her, but Zelda used Nayru’s love and knocked him away. She charged up Din’s fire, until it was insanely huge, and released on Ganondorf, who was about to punch her with his warlock punch. They both flew back, on fire, but Ganon on orange fire, Zelda on purple.
As Zelda got up, she saw Ganon standing with his back turned to her.
“Where are the others?” he asked.
“Are you…?”
“Where are they?” he asked, as he turned around, revealing himself to be good.
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“I know I always follow the rules,” Meta Knight said to himself. “What’s wrong with that? No honor anymore, no chivalry. And now, there’s no respect from anyone anymore. Before, you would have people loyal to you, who would do what you told them. And you would do what they told you. But, of course, that chain had to be broken. And now it can’t be fixed by one person going back to the way it was before.” He stopped talking as he saw Kirby, who looked ready to fight.
“Sword?” he asked, and Kirby just ran at him and kicked him. “Fine then,” Meta Knight said, making a tornado and flung Kirby away. He turned into a drill, and spun, nearly missing Kirby. When he landed he saw that since the start of the battle, Kirby and he had only switched places. Then he was hit from behind, and he blinked. His eyes turned back to normal, and he landed next to Dedede who had his hammer out. As the 3 began to walk back, Meta Knight muttered, “No honor.”
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Pit and Marth ran outside of the library to find Lucario and Mewtwo.
“He’s gonna be excited when he heard the news!” Pit says.
“Yeah! It means we won!” Marth replied. But when they reached the pokemon, they were shocked at what they heard.
“Why are the 7 a bad thing?” Lucario was asking Mewtwo.
“What?” Marth asked.
“I thought it was good for there to be 7 of them,” added Pit.
“What’s going on?” asked Lucario.
“There was a prophecy,” Marth began, “That said Tabuu would be defeated once, and would rise again. That time, all would be captured but seven. If 7 had not been captured, then they would be able to beat Tabuu again.”
“So we beat him once during the emissary…so wouldn’t that mean we’re going to be him again?” Lucario asked.
“There’s one part you left out,” Mewtwo said. “It said he would be defeated the second time ‘only to rise again’. If we win, it means that the prophecy was true, and that he will come back. If it’s not, then we have lost to him.”
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CHAPTER 60: ACCEPTANCE
“So either way, something bad is going to happen,” Lucario reiterated, after Mewtwo had explained that either they lose to Tabuu, or he would probably come back again.
“Yes,” replied Mewtwo. “But prophecies aren’t always true, so I’ll have to go see if I can stop him.”
“What do you mean?” Pit asked.
“There is one island, which has unique properties, allowing sorcery or other powers like that to be amplified. No one lives there, so it should be easy to reach. If I could go there, then maybe I can seal Tabuu away forever.”
“Where is the island?” Marth asked.
“In the sea,” replied Mewtwo. “Now, Lucario, you said you were going to help train some others, right?”
“Yes.”
“Good. Make sure you do that as soon as possible, just in case we need to fight again. Pit, you have that seeing glass thing, right?”
“Yeah. You want me too…?”
“Watch what’s going on, and if you see anything, take care of it, and begin to alert the other members.”
“What about me?” asked Marth.
“You go train people too,” Mewtwo said, walking away.
“Could you communicate with Tabuu?” Marth asked.
“Maybe, why?” replied Mewtwo, still walking.
“Maybe we can reason with him.”
“No…it’s easier to just attack.” The four then went back into the library.
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Lucario began going around recruiting people to train, but he didn’t have much luck. Most wanted to just make it out of this, and maybe train after having some time off.
“What about you two?” Lucario asked Kirby and Diddy.
“Sorry, but we were gonna go to explore one of the jungles,” replied Diddy.
“Yeah, I don’t get many breaks, so I wanted to do something fun. And I don’t get to actually walk around in jungles just to relax, normally I have someone to save or something, so I have to rush through.”
“But you will come after that, right?” Lucario asked.
“Sure,” they both replied, and Lucario moved on.
“I want to train with you!” Lucas said, running up to Lucario. “Sorry, but I kinda overheard what you were saying, and…”
“That’s ok,” Lucario replied. “I was going to ask you next anyways. But why do you want to train right away? You’ve been doing a lot of that on your own.”
“Because it takes you mind off things, and helps you get stronger and people pay more attention to you.”
“Ok…you want to ask some other people for me?”
“Sure.”
Lucario went over to talk to the group of Mario characters (minus Bowser) and asked them to train.
“Sorry,” Peach replied. “I was planning on taking a break from fighting for a while.”
“Yeah, same here,” replied Luigi.
“I don’t need training,” Mario answered arrogantly. “I’m the best.”
“Oh really?” Lucario asked, and he feinted an attack at Mario’s head, and then hit him lightly in the stomach. Mario fell for the feint, and was knocked back a little.
“Hey! What was that for?”
“To prove you need training. You need to be humbled.”
“Fine…I guess I could give you a few pointers.” Lucario just sighed, but was glad Mario was going.
Menwhile, Lucas went up to the Ice Climbers.
“You guys want to train with me and Lucario?” he asked.
“Sure,” Nana said, and Popo said, “No.”
“Why not?” Nana asked.
“Cause…we need to go back to the mountains,” replied Popo.
“That’s where we’re going to train!” said Lucas
“I mean the icy ones. I don’t think we should yet, we need to rest,” Popo replied. He glared at Lucas, who then ran at Popo and pushed him against the wall.
“You don’t control her,” Lucas whispered, so only Popo could hear. Nana looked confused at this.
“So what do you want to do?” Lucas asked nicely, putting Popo down.
“I…I’ll go with Popo,” she said, and walked behind him. Popo smiled evilly at Lucas, and Lucas glared back. They walked away from each other.
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Snake decided that he should do something, and went out to go find everyone else.
“I don’t see why we don’t just attack now, the other 3 that are left are useless,” Snake wondered aloud. “It’s just the robot, alien man, and flat guy. Then again, the robot has a pretty awesome laser.” That was when a laser was shot at Snake, which he barely dodged. Snake turned, and saw R.O.B.
“Hah. One on one. Too easy,” Snake said. But then Game and Watch moved away from the wall, revealing himself. “Still, they’re not that good. I can take them.” But Snake felt his but on fire, and pulled off a pikmin. Captain Olimar stood behind Snake.
“Well, looks like I can get them all here right now,” Snake said, and he pulled out a rocket, and shot it as Game and Watch. But before it could hit him, Olimar threw more pikmin at Snake, who lost control of the rocket. Snake turned to attack Olimar, but was hit in the back by a spinning gyro, which R.O.B. had thrown. He needed a rest, so he took out his cypher to fly above them. He dropped grenades, causing lots of damage to his enemies. But they stayed his enemies, and Snake finally fell to the ground. All 3 attacked him at once, and snake only had time to plant a c4 before he was knocked out. As the 3 remaining members of Tabuu’s army approached, the bomb went off
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Back at the library, Marth was searching for anybody who visited different islands frequently. He found Yoshi, who he thought would have some info.
“Well, yeah, I’m going to go to an island after this. Me and Pikachu were gonna relax on Angelic Isle. It has lots of towns, and it’s really nice.”
“Wiat…lots of towns? Then never mind. But do you know of a place where no one lives?”
“Ethiopia?”
“No, an island.”
“Then no…Toon Link might know though, he sails.” So Marth went over to Toon Link.
“Would you be able to sail me around? I want to find an island that nobody lives on.”
“Sure. But how come?”
“Well, mewtwo said that there would be a chance that tabuu could return after this and I want to help. That’s where he’s gonna be. But he doesn’t want me to come with him.”
“Sure, I’d wanna help too. Do you mind if Pichu comes along too? Cause I was gonna sail with him, and he’d probably want to help…”
“Sure…but no one else, I don’t want to be too conspicuous.”
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R.O.B., Olimar, and Game and Watch looked over an unmoving Snake, now all of them were good. Snake took a breath though, and opened his eyes.
“Are you ok?” asked R.O.B.
“Yeah, of course I am,” replied Snake.
“What happened to everyone else?” Olimar asked.
“They’re fine…actually, you’re the last to turn good,” replied Snake. “We should go back.”
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“We’re back!” Snake said, entering the library.
“So that’s all of us,” replied Mewtwo. “Take an hour to rest. Then, we attack subspace.”
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CHAPTER 61: THE FINAL BATTLE (2)