Post by bobsnicket on Nov 15, 2008 18:50:09 GMT -5
Chapter 16: The Fortress
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{7} Fawful's Revenge
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Disc 2: 5. Invincible BGM
Lario sailed through the open space of Master Hand’s room, several hundred feet above the ground, and yet perfectly calm as he began to tilt down in the direction of the giant mouse hole. For he knew that as long as he had the power of the Superstar to serve him, he was invincible; nothing could hurt him, not even an attack from Mother Brain or a fall like this. He began to descend faster and faster, his brown hat whipping off to his great annoyance, and suddenly landed on his feet—unstably, but firmly.
But he soon noticed that something was quite wrong. For he had stopped falling sooner than he had expected, and could see a red-haired swordsman 65 feet below staring at him. He looked down.
In a very much Captain Hook-esque position, Lario’s slim legs were spread apart about two feet, residing each on the upper and lower jaw of Kraid. The creature’s mouth was tilted upward, appearing as if it had tried to catch Lario in his mouth on the fly, completely ignoring the bounty hunter and swordsman trying to slaughter him. But the skinny half-mustachioed minion of Master Hand was still glowing and sparkling with the energy of the Superstar, and his footing, while precarious, seemed to be doing well in holding Kraid’s mouth in place. It pawed up at him with its long, razor-sharp claws, but its arms were too short to reach him.
Lario laughed gaily. “My apologies, distinguished monster, but I’m afraid I am neither fit nor capable of being consumed right now, as it were. As long as I am basking in this effulgent glow of golden puissance, no creature of the acidic depths or hero of nobleness can harm me! So I’ll thank you kindly to put me down gently or else risk having your internal organs rearranged.”
(screw-up sound interrupts music)
That, of course, was when the Superstar’s energy ran out. Lario was suddenly nothing more or less than Lario, and Kraid noticed it hungrily. Lario had not done his homework on the function of Stars in Super Mario Bros.
Lario looked down at himself, abruptly feeling a lot less confident. “Oh, buggar…” With a crocodile-like plunge, Kraid snapped his gaping mouth clear around the Italian with a British accent and swallowed him whole. It then proceeded to pat its stomach with carnivorous satisfaction and burp so loudly that a huge rush of wind pushed all flying aircrafts temporarily out of control, and even sent a Space Pirate toppling over the edge of the table, screaming.
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87 Star Wolf.mp3
“PANTHER, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?”
Wolf and Leon barrel rolled out of the way as the Black Rose, a sickly bluish-purple color, came charging at its own teammates. The cover of the cockpit was shrouded in black and purple so they couldn’t see Panther Caruso inside. It fired blue lasers, not at the enemy Space Pirates, but at the other two members of Team Star Wolf, who just barely dodged them. Finally, it stopped in the air and allowed Wolf and Leon to turn around and face it.
A voice finally came over their speakers; but it was not the Panther they knew. The voice was slow, distorted, very low, and overlapped with a buzzing, alien tone. “Obey…must obey…Wolf O’Donnell and Leon Powalski, you must surrender…there is no hope…we will dominate all inferior life forms on this planet…the great being, Master Hand, has revived us to fulfill his purposes…do not resist...your bodies will be spared and only your minds destroyed if you give up…otherwise, your Resistance will be completely destroyed without mercy…” But then, the voice changed. The overlapping part of the voice was gone, and it sounded more like the Panther they knew—but it was faint, very faint. “Wolf…Leon…I…have failed you all…it took me…please…have mercy…destroy me…before I…”
Wolf stared at his companion with immeasurable worry. Ever since Panther’s Black Rose had tilted slightly before they entered the room, something had been wrong with the black cat. Then, he realized what must have happened: the tilting, Panther’s strange behavior, the discolored Wolfen, it explained everything.
Unbeknownst to them, there must have been one last Aparoid left back in the Battlefields which landed softly onto the Black Rose. Before it had been thrown off by high speeds, it must have corrupted enough of the ship to also entrap Panther with its mind-devouring parasitic force. And now, the Aparoid had seized control of the entire craft, along with the pilot inside it.
But Wolf wouldn’t give in. “Graaaaaargh! We’ll never submit to you, space scum! Panther, we can get you out of there! Just hold tight! McCloud and his team rescued General Pepper from the Aparoids’ control, and it’s no different with you!” The canine began to think of how to get Panther out of that Wolfen.
“It’s…too late, comrade,” Panther’s voice was so soft that it wasn’t much more than a purr. “Look at me…” At these words, the hatch on the Black Rose opened. The cockpit was completely enveloped in the purple, gooey substance of the Aparoids. The only visible parts of its pilot were the arms and feline head. And even those parts were being sucked at greedily by the throbbing mass of reddish-purple. “I…am finished…destroy me…make sure Krystal is safe…” The black-furred face smiled grimly as it disappeared into the parasitic substance.
“Panther, NO!” Wolf accelerated his Wolfen toward the hovering Black Rose. But it suddenly snapped into motion, and fired two heavy shots which blasted off both his wings, making it difficult for him to even remain airborne. “I won’t attack a teammate, even in your state, Panther!”
Leon’s voice came over his speaker as Wolf struggled to keep the Wolfen aloft. For the first time, the chameleon’s voice was no longer snide, just completely uncharacteristically serious. “Wolf, you must destroy it. Panther is gone. Remember the advice you once gave McCloud…”
Wolf did remember it. Way back when, where the Aparoids still terrorized the Lylat System in large numbers, he had come to Fox’s aid in Corneria. As he left, Wolf clearly remembered what he had told his rival.
“A word of advice, Fox. When the time comes, don’t hesitate. Just act."
But he couldn’t do it. After all the Star Wolf Team had been through, he couldn’t live his own advice flawlessly. Panther had become like a brother to him, like Leon (Andrew Oikonny and Pigma Dengar never did develop a very good relationship with him). Even if his friend’s mind was gone, he would rather be destroyed by him than destroy.
He didn’t move as the Black Rose closed in to finish him off. He closed his eyes, content to join his fallen companion…
“Fine, then. I’ll do it.” A fully-charged shot blasted from the Rainbow Delta and collided with the Black Rose. It exploded with, in addition to normal explosion sounds, what seemed like a shrill screech that died away with the last of the Aparoids, echoing not only throughout Master Hand’s Room, but through the Battlefields as well. Leon’s ship caught the critically damaged Wolfen from beneath and began to fly towards an empty shelf.
“Let’s get you to safety, Wolf.”
Wolf said nothing.
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Tails, Knuckles, and Amy rushed into the dark room filled with U. Reeka’s seemingly useless junk. “Shadow!” Amy called. “We’re here to help!” In the end, even the three of them decided that despite their extreme weariness, they ought to pitch in whatever help they could offer.
In the center of the heaping piles of technological equipment, Metal Samus was holding up a struggling Ness with its literally iron grip. It pointed its glowing arm cannon at the boy’s head and prepared to fire.
A large stone boulder, torn from the ground by Knuckles, smashed Metal Samus into the ground, which was forced to relinquish its hold on Ness’s shirt. Sonic’s friends hurried up to Ness. Amy put an arm comfortingly around him. “Are you alright, kid? Where’s Shadow?”
But Ness just shook his head, on the verge of tears, and pointed to a smoking mass behind him.
Amy, Tails, and Knuckles’s eyes widened in disbelief, but they had no time to question Ness further before the huge boulder Knuckles had thrown shifted, and then was thrown clean off as Metal Samus stood once more, its sleek helmet visor shining.
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Disc 2: 2. Hooktail Battle
The Marios and Luigis ran in circles inside the battlements, jumping to dodge the spinning blue capsule-shaped laser pellets being fired at them by the rampaging Fawful. In between the two older heroes, Mauluigi was also forced to flee from the projectiles, but it was by no means a friendly sprint. Mario kept pushing into Mauluigi in an attempt to knock him back into the line of fire, while the Babies reached out of their piggyback positions to smack Mauluigi’s rock-hard muscles with their hammers. The bulky figure, however, seemed too busy running on his legs of near tree trunk thickness to pay any heed to these feeble attempts. The Shadow Sirens, meanwhile, were hurling streams of purple flames at Fawful from the center, who seemed to have a scarily little amount of trouble dodging these. Whenever he bothered to fire a few lasers at them, the Shadow Sirens quickly disappeared into the ground until the coast was clear. This circulating pattern continued for as long as one would imagine such a scene would last in a game such as Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
But Mauluigi, although one who could bench-press 600 pounds, was no long-distance runner. Sweating like a pig, he finally became fed up with this endless, fruitless cycle. With just one of what felt to him the lightest of pushes, he shoved Luigi hard into the battlement wall, knocking him and Baby Luigi out cold.
“Luigi!” Mario cried. He began to stop and turn around to rush to the aid of his brother, but as a result, a blue laser scorched the ground not three inches away from his toes. He was forced to resume the pursuit. The Shadow Sirens still fired jets of purple flames up at their enemy, but to no avail.
However, in Mauluigi’s driving moment, he let down his guard. Fawful, cackling all the while, swiftly took advantage of this and knocked the mauler down with a single laser pellet. Mario and Baby Mario stopped and watched in absolute horror as the evil bean fell upon his prey with a ceaseless, pitiless barrage of lasers. The blue beams fell in such rapid succession that Mauluigi could not even be seen in the blur of blueness, each blast generating loud, blaring laser sounds and small, nasty-sounding explosions upon contact. Fawful ceased fire, revealing a groaning, resentful Mauluigi still remaining below immovably. But the airborne sidekick wasn’t finished.
“Ha ha ha! Feel the fullness of my indiscriminate wrath, foolish man of muscles!” From the mouth-like nozzle attached to Fawful’s helmet came a huge, green glow. Then, as it finished charging, the late Cackletta’s underling unleashed a giant, rapid green laser of massive proportions into Mauluigi, consuming Master Hand’s apparent creation completely in the disintegrating energy. The jet blazed on for several long, dreadful seconds, flashing before the Marios’ and Shadow Sirens’ eyes, and finally narrowed and finished, leaving billows of black smoke and a wide scorched spot on the rooftop.
And nothing else.
Mauluigi was destroyed. The Lario Bros. were no more.
“Mama mia…” While normally, this would have worked in the heroes’ favor, it seemed insignificant due to the looming feeling that their turn had come to face the same end. Mario was both terrified by Fawful’s newfound power and sickened by the twisted pleasure with which their enemy had done it.
Fawful turned to Mario and Baby Mario. “Now…Red…tiny Red…your turn! May your dauntless persistence irk me nevermore! Ha ha ha ha ha!” His weapon glowed dangerously green once more, and before the Marios had hardly realized what was happening, the Green Death (as it is rumored Fawful calls it) was coming their way. Again, they felt the end of their existence approaching as rapidly as this final blast. But just when they were about to die the same way as Mauluigi, a slender shadow dived in front of the surging green light, bringing with it a wall of purple flames, and somehow took it all in. The attack dissipated, and the wall of flames vanished as the shadow crumpled limply onto the ground, still wearing a red-and-white striped witch’s hat.
“Oh no!” Mario ran up to and knelt beside the fallen Vivian, who was barely breathing. “Vivian!” Baby Mario tried to quench his fright by sucking his thumb, but with no success, and began bawling loudly and openly.
The rosy cheeks were deathly pale, but she still had a cute, faint smile as she reached up and grasped Mario’s hand gently. The softness of her voice only made it all the sweeter. “Mario…I…love…” And that was the end.
Mario, Beldam, and Marilyn were silent as up above, Fawful, with his emotionless indifference, invoked a new strategy. “Well,” he said smugly with the widest possible grin showing his cheesy, malicious teeth, “I could simply let you Fink-Rats die for each other, one by one, but what fun would that bring? How much more tortuously agonizing will it be to you unintelligent cockroaches when I extirpate Red’s partner in crime, GREEN, FIRST!” Fawful cackled again, and began charging another dose of Green Death—but this time, he turned and pointed it at the unconscious Luigis.
Mario and the others, out of shock and grief, simply had no will left to fight, even at the peril of another of their number’s life. They gazed despondently as Luigi and Baby Luigi were about to become the next casualties in this war, like the many before them.
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A blurred figure suddenly rose above the battlements in a gravity-defying leap, raised a long, glinting sword (don’t ask where the glint came from), and stabbed it squarely through the green bean. It then slashed at the helmet jetpack, breaking it in two. Fawful’s eyes froze in their thirst for vengeance, and suddenly went blank, although the mouth was still stretched in a haunting smile. The embodiment of lethal insanity collapsed to the ground, his face scarier than any sinister clown one can imagine.
Marth landed gruffly onto the scorched stone (almost the entire rooftop had been scorched by something by this point) and sheathed his sword. He turned to Mario, noble but grim. “That was close.”
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But before anyone could further contemplate anything that had just happened, a great rumbling occurred. By great, it is meant that the entirety of Master Hand’s Room, the Battlefields, and all the regions throughout the Nintendo world were shaking violently. As evening set, the purple in the skies deepened unnaturally, and clouds spread apart into nothing, revealing a sort of violet galactic view. A great sense of suspense and apprehension, as well as dread, rose throughout the land. Everyone who was anyone could tell that something very important was about to happen.
The Battlefields continued to throb with the clamor of battle, for the Wire Frames had no mind to fear with. The Alliance pressed on, unable to ignore the change in atmosphere, but having no other choice than to keep fighting. King Dedede and his troops halted in their cowardly tracks and looked above them, sensing there was no escaping what fate had in store for them.
Back inside the room, all fighting suddenly desisted at the disturbing shaking. Even the Space Pirates stopped their raging, fearing their master above everything else. The rumbling was the only sound for a number of minutes, and ceased instantly. Complete silence reigned throughout the expansive room: not a single sword was lifted, nor a single gun fired. This silence sent a creeping chill up the spines of every occupant of that room, ominously instilling indescribable trepidation within each and every living being present.
With much dramatic theatricality, while at the same time horrifyingly realistic and awe-inspiring, two giant white hands descended through the ceiling of their room, ever flexing their fingers. Master Hand and Crazy Hand descended slowly, together, to where they were in plain view and everyone could see them.
A resounding, booming, knowing voice. “IT…IS TIME.” Master Hand declutched the magnificent, shining, colorful ball he had been holding, which started floating around within his grasp. He then crushed the Smash Ball by making a sudden fist. An equally resounding, booming, and knowing laugh, joined by the well-known one of Crazy Hand, came from the enormous white glove as he activate the first ever…Final Smash.
TO BE CONTINUED...
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Character Locations
NORTHERN BATTLEFIELDS:
Armies: Pokemon, Bowser's Army, Dedede's Army (fled), Mushroom Kingdom, Beanbean Kingdom, Host of Hyrule (minus Hylian Soldiers), Delfinians, Waffle Kingdom, Shy Guys
Heroes: Bowser, Ganondorf, Goombario, Pichu, Jigglypuff, Mewtwo, Mr. Game & Watch, Prince Peasley, Toad, Lance, Wes, Gary
Villains: (known) King Boo
SOUTHERN BATTLEFIELDS:
Armies: Kongo Jungle, K. Rool's Army, Icicle Mountains, Yoshis, Jinjos
Heroes: Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Lanky Kong, Tiny Kong, Dixie Kong, Professor E. Gadd, Banjo & Kazooie, Mumbo Jumbo, Humba Wumba, Dr. Mario
CENTER FORMATION:
Armies: Fire Emblem, Star Warriors, Hylian Soldiers
Heroes: (Master Hand's Room) Marth, Roy, Fox, Falco, Slippy, Krystal, Wolf, Leon, Panther
Heroes: (Fortress) Bomberman, Ness, Pac-man, Mario, Baby Mario, Luigi, Baby Luigi, Ice Climbers, Shadow the Hedgehog
Heroes: (Battlefields) Link, Young Link, Zelda, Peppy
Villains: (known) Space Pirates, Mother Brain, Kraid
MISCELLANEOUS/VARYING:
Armies: Cornerian Fleet, Bounty Hunters, Timber's Island, The Great Sea
Heroes: Pit, Shadow Sirens, Diddy Kong, Rito Postman, Kirby
[glow=yellow,2,300]Trophy:[/glow] Pikachu, Princess Peach, Samus, Chunky Kong, Sonic, Wario, Waluigi, Captain Falcon[glow=gray,2,300]DECEASED:[/glow] The Shadow Hand, Bottles, Orca, 49 Hammer Bro Soldiers, Pigma, Nascour, Darunia, Professor U. Reeka, Epona, Lario, Mauluigi, Panther, Vivian, Fawful
