Post by bobsnicket on Dec 22, 2007 23:14:08 GMT -5
Chapter 9: The Tournament
PART 3
Round II
(for battles) gh.ffshrine.org/song/644/18
Match#1: Kirby vs. Donkey Kong
The kickoff match for Round II was very interesting because the crowd witnessed another new Kirby power. DK threw an orange grenade at his pink opponent only for it to be swallowed and transforming him into…you guessed it… Orange Kirby, who then had to dodge a barrage of flying coconuts. Kirby then shriveled up squirting orange juice into DK’s eyes and temporarily immobilizing him, and flew above the disabled monkey, turned into a 1-ton weight, and pounded upon the unfortunate ape’s head.
Match#2: Yoshi vs. The Crystal King
This match was long and ferocious; for the fighters seemed to, strangely, gain a bit more stamina in each later round. It finally ended when the metal Yoshi foolishly ate the Crystal King’s crown and had an overwhelming brain freeze (but Metal Yoshi wasn’t destroyed).
Match#3: Super Toad vs. Mr. Game and Watch
Super Toad had a surprising array of weapons in addition to the beam sword he’d already demonstrated using: ninja spikes, a nunchuk, a water gun filled with lemon juice, and a jetpack. Unfortunately for Super Toad, most of these weapons were designed to defeat 3-D opponents. This was also the day he discovered his fainting allergy to black 2-D bacon.
Match#4: Dark Link vs. The Shadow Queen
See Round I, Match #8. Same concept. Interestingly, the particular Dark Link who entered the tournament was not Dark Link at all; but a familiar Paper Mario character who goes by the name “Doopliss.”
Match#5: Hammer Masta vs. Captain Falcon
As far as hammer-throwing skills, Hammer Masta really was a master. But even his accurate throws couldn’t hit the blurred speeding figure of Captain Falcon. One hit from Falcon’s famous Falcon Kick and the Hammer Bro was out like a light.
Match#6: Diddy Kong vs. Magikoopa
Unlike Diddy Kong’s first match (see Round I, Match #11), this time Diddy had to break out a couple of his weapons. He shot peanuts up at the flying magician while the Magikoopa dropped yellow blocks everywhere. Then, as Magikoopa fired a blast of magical shapes at him, Diddy wiped out his opponent with a rocking tune from his intricate yellow and red guitar, making himself a crowd favorite.
Match#7: Clubba vs. Popo
It was a furious match of hammerific proportions. In the end, Popo’s ice-creating advantage won over, and Clubba was immediately carried away to be thawed out in a hot tub.
Match#8: Fox vs. Charizard
Fox had often released the fiery beast from a Poke’ball to wreak havoc among his opponents in VS. Mode, but never had an opportunity arisen when he had to actually face this creature. Having to use his reflector to deflect all the red-hot flames spewed at him made Fox weary, but at one point he managed to dodge a dive from Charizard and Meteor Smash it onto the ground.
Match#9: The Shadow vs. The Master
“Foolish young one, you have no probability of triumphing over I, The Master, who has fallen to none save the legendary red plumber himself!” Those were The Master’s words before a fierce battle ensued. This time The Shadow didn’t have a Toad tranquilizer, but the Master didn’t expect The Shadow’s cape to have the power to deflect magical attacks. Now “The Master” had accumulated two losses.
Match#10: Iron Knuckle vs. King K. Rool
In this match the Crocodile King brought out his red boxing gloves, which predictably weren’t much use against Iron Knuckle’s enormous sword. And King K. Rool’s exploding oranges simply bounced off his opponent’s armor. Eventually K. Rool was disqualified for calling on several of his Kremling henchmen to assist him.
Match#11: Wolf O’ Donnell vs. King Dedede
When the match began, Wolf started circling around Dedede on all fours, as a wolf considers its prey. Then, suddenly, Wolf pounced towards the king, but was surprised when Dedede puffed up into the air like Kirby does. Wolf quickly turned around to find Dedede back on the ground facing him, panting slightly. Wolf immediately created a strategy to tire out his opponent so Dedede wouldn’t be able to fly anymore. He moved just close enough to cause Dedede to swing his gigantic hammer, then jumped back to avoid it. Several more times Wolf did this, and after a few minutes Dedede was sweating and breathing heavily. But as Wolf prepared for his final lunge, Dedede imitated another of Kirby’s famous abilities, and began sucking air very quickly through his mouth. Wolf tried to stand his ground, but the pull was too strong. He wasn’t eaten, but his alternate fate wasn’t too much better. At just the right moment, Dedede swung his hammer with the remains of his energy, sending Wolf flying away and collapsing motionless on the ground about ten feet away.
Match#12: Luigi vs. Lanky Kong
As soon as Wario bellowed “Go!” Luigi bent his knees and prepared for his famous Green Missile attack, aimed right at the orangutan. Lanky was just standing in the same place, waving his arms in the air ecstatically, taking no notice of his opponent. A few seconds later, Luigi shot himself headfirst horizontally at a speed of at least 60 mph. Green fire blazed around him as he shot towards the orange overall-clad monkey. At the last second, when the audience was sure that Luigi was the inevitable victor, Lanky pushed off from the ground with his abnormally long arms and leaped into the air with a monkeyish cheer. Luigi alarmingly sped directly below the reflexive orangutan, and painfully scraped against the hard ground several times before coming to a halt. Then Lanky took out his also famous Grape Shooter, and shot several giant homing grapes toward Luigi’s sprawled figure. Luigi hastily got back up and began shooting green fireballs to counterattack Lanky’s barrage of grapes. The crowd gasped (and some screamed) as with each impact the grapes exploded and covered Lanky and Luigi in purple grape-flavored goo. After his ammunition was depleted, Lanky leaped backwards into a steady handstand and charged ferociously at Luigi. Luigi charged up one final Green Missile and the two figures collided with more gasps from the audience. The following scene revealed Lanky unconsciously mangled on the ground, and Luigi on his knees, wiping grape remains off of his lush mustache.
Match#13: Leon Powalski vs. Ness
Metal Ness continued to prove to be one of the most strategically difficult metal opponents of all the metal creations. The fact was that Leon Powalski had won his first match due to having such an idiotic adversary. He had a sharp tongue and fairly proficient flying skills, but when it came to ground fighting, he couldn’t do much. His predicament was further doomed because Ness’s immovable metal form could not be budged while he generated a very power PK Flash and mercilessly wiped out his unprepared opponent.
Match#14: Ganondorf vs. Young Link
Under normal circumstances any form of Link, young or old, would possess some unique power or weapon (besides the Triforce of Courage) that would allow him to defeat his archenemy without too much trouble. But this time Young Link had no Master Sword, no Light Arrows, and no protective Magic Armor. This time, Ganondorf really was just fighting a green-clad kid with hazardous toys. The evil lord gloated as he smacked Young Link away unconscious with one blow, and had to fight hard against his desires to resist going in for the kill.
Match#15: Captain Bobbery vs. Panther Caruso
Most readers would expect Panther, a fierce flyer and warrior, to defeat a mere Bob-omb with extreme ease. But Captain Bobbery was no mere Bob-omb. After all his experiences with the sea and monsters and near death had Mario not delivered to him some precious Chuckola Soda at the right time, Bobbery knew his trade better than any Bob-omb ever to exist (with the only possible challenger being Bombette). Panther gave a wild growl and sprinted toward the hardy Bob-omb on all fours. Similar to the previous match, as soon as Bobbery was about to be slashed, he exploded, shooting his remarkably unharmed self dozens of feet into the air. Panther slid to a stop and looked up; unaware that Bobbery had purposely fallen down quickly and stealthily behind him and had thrown (somehow) three time bombs right behind Panther’s paws. So Panther Caruso was surprised (to say the least) when he was suddenly blown off his paws and thrown into the air, to land back on the ground with a painful thump and a growl of defeat.
Match#16: Sonic vs. Prince Peasley
There couldn’t have been a better match to close Round II. Neither side appeared to be winning for some time. Peasley was on his cloud slashing at the blue hedgehog with his sword. Sonic, on the other hand was avoiding the prince’s cloud-and-sword antics by performing some amazing stunts himself. There was flipping, jumping, ducking, diving, rolling, dodging, leaping, running, and numerous other descriptive action words that don’t immediately come to mind. Sonic finally managed to get underneath Peasley’s cloud, and kept up pace so as to stay under it. The speedy animal punched straight through the fluffy white cloud and knocked Prince Peasley about eight feet to the ground. With his cloud gone, Peasley haughtily got to his feet, brushed himself off, and smugly yelled, “Enguarde!” before leaping at Sonic with his sword pointed forward. Sonic dived (why do these action words keep coming up?) behind Peasley and swiftly landed a kick similar to the Sonic vs. Metroid scenario to end the match and the round, but the game was far from over.
During and After Round II
As it turned out, the sixteen-character warning party was not ejected out of the stadium. They actually landed somewhere much worse, instead of being safely ejected out of the stadium where they could have reentered by forcing their way through the guards and found the lobby where there were characters who would believe them.
But alas, they had no such freedoms as they landed into the dank holding cell beneath the infirmary. Luckily it was large enough for all of them to fit, but it had cold, damp, stone floors and walls, and on one side were a single moldy mattress and a small stone bench. On the other wall were a contrasting steel door with no knob on their side and a very small barred window. It was only when they had recovered from their fall and were beginning to look around them that they realized they were three members short. The Shadow Sirens must have disappeared at the last second, but they had no way of finding them underground. Unfortunately the cell was too small for Link to blow up one of the walls with a bomb without seriously injuring some of them, so there was no foreseeable way out. Link, Zelda, Falco, Mario, the Rito Postman, and Banjo and Kazooie crowded around the small window and peered through it. The rest were either too short to see through the window or were too weary to attempt to stand up.
Through the bars they could see a room none of them recognized and were very surprised to see, except for Mario, who was the only one to recognize the sleek black walls and the complicated machine about fifteen yards away. Mario gasped louder than anyone, and pushed his way in front of the window.
“This is a-very a-bad!” Mario said. “I have a-seen Master Hand use a-this machine to a-turn Pikachu into a trophy! If they a-have the same machine a-here, then they must be a-planning to a-turn some people into trophies!”
Everyone else stood there wordlessly, taking in the true meaning of Mario’s words. If there was a device in the Fourside Colosseum that could transform things into trophies, then it was more than likely that its intended victims were contestants who had lost and had been taken into the hands of the infirmary. It was after thinking this that Mario noticed the only difference in this room: there were stairs leading up, presumably to the infirmary, in the farthest right corner.
Meanwhile…
But there was one problem with their theory. Some of the fallen characters, after the second round, were now entering the stands to watch the rest of the tournament. Bowser, along with the other non-competitors, watched carefully, but there was no sign of Yoshi, Samus, or Roy, who had all fallen in the first round and should have recovered by now. Bowser was especially sure that Yoshi would have returned to the stands to watch Luigi fight, but the adorable green dinosaur was nowhere to be seen. Chunky Kong and Bomberman came to sit next to him, and began babbling about their matches, but Bowser wasn’t listening. He knew there was something suspicious about this tournament, and he was determined to uncover it. But for now it was best to just keep eyes and ears open to any sign of additional abnormal activities. He wouldn’t have been able to investigate anyway, because the audience was supposed to stay seated during matches, and the next round was about to begin (Wario’s voice as irritating as ever).
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Character Locations
Fourside City (Colosseum): Luigi, Kirby, Mr. Game and Watch, Slippy Toad, Peppy Hare, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Popo, Fox, Toad, Ganondorf, Captain Falcon, Diddy Kong, Tiny Kong, Lanky Kong, Bowser, Sonic, Wario, Bomberman, Chunky Kong
Fourside City (Infirmary): Yoshi, Roy, Samus, Prince Peasley, Young Link, Donkey Kong, Lanky Kong
Fourside City (Holding Cell): Zelda, Link, Falco, Nana, Goombario, Mario, Bottles, Banjo and Kazooie, Professor E. Gadd, Pit, Metaknight, Rito Postman
: The Shadow Sirens
Trophy: Pikachu, Princess Peach-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
END OF PART 3 (Part 4 is the end of Chapter 9)
Notice: I had to post the parts in seperate threads because I passed the maximum...the other two parts can be found in Old Stories.
