Post by Bert on Feb 4, 2009 16:28:36 GMT -5
(Chapter 9: More Heroes, More Villains)
The sun rose over the horizon, and Mario had an uneasy feeling in his stomach. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but he felt as if something...bad was going to happen today. He headed down the long hallway, and found the remaining Smashers all huddled around a table.
“What’s going on here?” Mario asked.
“We’re planning the final attack on Zero’s tower, and his army,” Meta Knight replied.
“The way I see it,” Ike began. “We can attack from this angle and easily barge into the tower and take out Zero. It’d be quick and easy,” he said, moving his finger across a map.
“That’d be easy if it weren’t for the over nine thousand polygons he has,” Link said.
“I’ll give you that much,” Ike shot back. “We can easily plow through them, though. Especially with Sonic’s spindash.”
“You DO realize that with a battalion as small as ours, we won’t even last ten minutes in that fight, right? Zero’s army is huge, and there’s only, like, ten of us,” Mario stated.
“Aha,” Ike laughed. “That’s where the rest of you come into play. You will all be responsible for gathering up as many people as you can to help in our cause. Meta Knight, you look for Ness and Lucas. Link, you look for the Kongs. Falcon, you look for Samus. The rest of us will continue to work on the final attack plan and fill you in when you return.”
The three left the castle and went on to find the assigned Smashers.
****
“Well, here I am; Fourside City. Man, this place is HUGE.”
Meta Knight walked around the large city, looking up at its large buildings. He turned a corner and bumped into Ness and Lucas.
“Ow! Oh, hey Meta Knight,” Ness said. Lucas was eyeing the blue puffball’s golden sword. “What brings you out here?”
”Believe it or not, I was looking for you two. You see, there’s this guy who’s trying to take over the world, named Zero or some-such, and he’s got this giant army of polygons which can fight much like us. They’re basically clones, which is what we’ve had a lot of in our past fighting tournaments.”
Ness and Lucas both looked confused.
“Err... anyway; we’re building up our army to fight back against his, and we could really use your help, it’d be much—”
A lanky, purple, mechanical arm smacked him aside, and there was none other than Pokey Minch.
****
Meanwhile, Link hacked and slashed his way through the Kongo Jungle, searching for Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. He suddenly bonked his sword against something big, brown, and furry, wearing a neck tie. Beside him was a smaller monkey with a long thin tail, wearing a red hat and shirt.
“Well, look who I found!” Link said triumphantly.
“Oh, hey Link,” Donkey Kong said in his language, which consisted of “Oos” and the like. “Why are you out here?”
“Well, there’s this guy named Zero, and he’s, like, trying to take over the world and has this giant army of polygons which are basically duplicates of us. We’re building up our group so we’ll have enough fighters to take him down.”
Donkey Kong swallowed his banana whole. “Hmm... while Diddy and I have never met this Zero guy personally, we have fought his army and barely managed to defeat them. You can count us in!”
It was then that a manic snarl could be heard behind them, and King K. Rool appeared.
****
Elsewhere, Captain Falcon was piloting the Falcon Flyer through space, looking for Samus.
“I can’t drive... FIFTEH FIVE!” He yelled. “Man...what kind of lame character development is this? The only way this story will get really damned good reviews is if the author makes serious characters incoherently random. What the hell man, WHAT THE HELL?!”
He looked out the window, and noticed a yellow beetle-shaped spaceship flying towards a planet.
“Found you,” he said, and followed her until she landed.
“Captain Falcon?”
“What?! Where?!”
“Falcon, what are you doing here?” Samus asked.
“Look a few paragraphs up. Actually, just read chapter 5 and you’ll get it.”
There was a long pause, and Samus finally spoke up again. “Okay, so there’s this guy named Zero trying to take over the world, and he basically just made clones of us? Wow, original. But I guess if he’s in God Mode, I can help out.”
A loud shriek could be heard from above, and there appeared the purple dragon Ridley.
****
The remaining Smashers had continued planning out their attack, yet didn’t really come up with a “plan” at all.
“So, let me get this straight,” Ike said, cupping his head. “Your plan is to go in there, kill EVERY polygon you can, and then nuke the tower?” He was referring to Gold.
“I don’t see why not. It’s not like we can really do anything else. War is war, and that’s what we’re in.”
“But going in there without a strategy is just a way of screaming “KILL ME PLEASE!”. You won’t last five minutes in the field.”
“Oh, I won’t? I’m sorry, Ike, I didn’t realize you could see the future,” Gold retorted.
“This isn’t going well at all,” Sonic stated. “We’ll be outnumbered, there’s gonna be, what, fifteen or so of us, and a thousand of them? Gold’s idea actually makes sense, we can’t really make a strategy for something like this.”
****
“Pokey’s back?!” Ness screamed. “How?!”
“Surprised to see me again, losers?” Pokey daunted.
“How did you survive, Pokey?! Your defeat back in the ruined zoo should have killed you!” Lucas said.
“It certainly should have, but like Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park, ‘life finds a way’.”
“That... doesn’t even make sense regarding the situation,” Meta Knight said.
“And yet it’s going to be part of my main character development for this story!” Pokey stated. “And there’s nothing you can do to stop me!”
“Aw come on, are you kidding? We beat you when you teamed up with Giygas, and Lucas here beat you when you tried to take over the Nowhere Islands... which reminds me, how did you go from world-domination to island-domination?” Ness blurted.
“Wait, I went from world-domination to island-domination? Really?”
“Wow, saving the world is a cinch when your enemies have brains the size of a pea,” Lucas said.
“Enough! I will be rid of you now!”
****
“Oh, lovely,” Link sighed. “Just what we need, that stupid crocodile from Peter Pan.”
“Link?” DK began. “I really wouldn’t recommend making fun of him.”
“Why, what’s he gonna do about it?”
At that point, K. Rool struck Link with blinding speed and sent him flying into a tree.
“This is the end for you! ALL OF YOU!!!!”
****
Ridley dove towards the ground, jaws opened, teeth showing. It zoomed towards Samus and Falcon, but missed and swooped upwards.
“I thought that Ridley died when he exploded for no explainable reason back when we fought Tabuu?” Captain Falcon asked.
“Err... this IS Ridley. He never dies.”
“Eh, true enough.”
Ridley looked at them with his piercing yellow eyes, and let out a loud roar, which, when roughly translated into Ridley-ese, meant “Prepare to die!”
****
Instead of the classic “Epic fight” that most stories have when a new villain is introduced, I decided to go all 8-Bit Theatre on you, set the moments up for epic battles, and instead just rip them away. Aren’t I cruel? Anyway, in Fourside, Pokey walked towards the group, is spider-mech making the ever-familiar wheezing sound.
“Well, losers? Are you ready to die?”
The three stood their ground, save for Lucas, who was somewhat scared.
“I’d love to fight you, but I’ve got a master to serve. See you later!”
And with that, Pokey suddenly vanished.
****
King K. Rool stomped towards Link and the Kongs, and they prepared for battle.
“As much as I’d love to destroy you all right here, I’ve got better things to do than waste my time on punks like you! GOOD DAY!!!”
King K. Rool suddenly disappeared.
****
On Zebes, Ridley continued to leer at the pilot and bounty hunter, and they stared back, to the point where it became a staring contest. It finally ended and Ridley let out a loud shriek.
“Get ready, Falcon! Here he comes!”
But instead of going in for an attack, Ridley merely flew away into space.
****
It was late dawn by the time The Smashers returned to the castle. The mission to get more team members proved successful. Ness, Lucas, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Samus had all joined.
“I see that your objections proved successful,” Ike stated. “But... you say that their army has expanded as well?”
“Yes,” Meta Knight replied. “Pokey Minch appeared to us and said that he is working for Zero.”
“And we saw K. Rool,” Diddy Kong said. “He, too, is working for him.”
“Same with us,” Falcon stated. “We saw Ridley, but whether or not he’s working for Zero, we don’t know.”
“Speaking of which...” Gold began. “Mario, this note came in for you.”
Red handed a piece of paper to Mario, and on it, read:
“Dear Mario,
How are you doing? Are you having fun on your little adventure to try and stop us? I hope you are. I also hope you realize that this is the final adventure for all of you. You cannot possibly hope to defeat us. The army has over nine thousand clones now. You are greatly outnumbered.
Your end is imminent. You’d best prepare for the final crusade in this little game. The polygons, as well as our group, will utterly annihilate you in the end.
Enjoy these last few remaining moments of your life,
-Zero”
Mario crunched the paper in his fist.
“Okay, so, we know that Zero’s army is STILL building as we speak,” Red stated. “Whereas ours is... still rather puny.”
“We still need more people for our team. Any suggestions?” Meta Knight asked.
“We could gather a few more Pokemon, preferably fully evolved ones or legendaries,” Falcon said.
“Legendaries?” Marth asked. “You mean, like, Lugia?”
“Precisely!” Falcon exclaimed. “Although Lugia lives at the bottom of the Whirl Islands, so that’s out.”
“Well if Lugia’s out of the question... who can we possibly recruit?”
They all pondered for a moment, and then Gold said, “I know someone.”
The sun rose over the horizon, and Mario had an uneasy feeling in his stomach. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it, but he felt as if something...bad was going to happen today. He headed down the long hallway, and found the remaining Smashers all huddled around a table.
“What’s going on here?” Mario asked.
“We’re planning the final attack on Zero’s tower, and his army,” Meta Knight replied.
“The way I see it,” Ike began. “We can attack from this angle and easily barge into the tower and take out Zero. It’d be quick and easy,” he said, moving his finger across a map.
“That’d be easy if it weren’t for the over nine thousand polygons he has,” Link said.
“I’ll give you that much,” Ike shot back. “We can easily plow through them, though. Especially with Sonic’s spindash.”
“You DO realize that with a battalion as small as ours, we won’t even last ten minutes in that fight, right? Zero’s army is huge, and there’s only, like, ten of us,” Mario stated.
“Aha,” Ike laughed. “That’s where the rest of you come into play. You will all be responsible for gathering up as many people as you can to help in our cause. Meta Knight, you look for Ness and Lucas. Link, you look for the Kongs. Falcon, you look for Samus. The rest of us will continue to work on the final attack plan and fill you in when you return.”
The three left the castle and went on to find the assigned Smashers.
****
“Well, here I am; Fourside City. Man, this place is HUGE.”
Meta Knight walked around the large city, looking up at its large buildings. He turned a corner and bumped into Ness and Lucas.
“Ow! Oh, hey Meta Knight,” Ness said. Lucas was eyeing the blue puffball’s golden sword. “What brings you out here?”
”Believe it or not, I was looking for you two. You see, there’s this guy who’s trying to take over the world, named Zero or some-such, and he’s got this giant army of polygons which can fight much like us. They’re basically clones, which is what we’ve had a lot of in our past fighting tournaments.”
Ness and Lucas both looked confused.
“Err... anyway; we’re building up our army to fight back against his, and we could really use your help, it’d be much—”
A lanky, purple, mechanical arm smacked him aside, and there was none other than Pokey Minch.
****
Meanwhile, Link hacked and slashed his way through the Kongo Jungle, searching for Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. He suddenly bonked his sword against something big, brown, and furry, wearing a neck tie. Beside him was a smaller monkey with a long thin tail, wearing a red hat and shirt.
“Well, look who I found!” Link said triumphantly.
“Oh, hey Link,” Donkey Kong said in his language, which consisted of “Oos” and the like. “Why are you out here?”
“Well, there’s this guy named Zero, and he’s, like, trying to take over the world and has this giant army of polygons which are basically duplicates of us. We’re building up our group so we’ll have enough fighters to take him down.”
Donkey Kong swallowed his banana whole. “Hmm... while Diddy and I have never met this Zero guy personally, we have fought his army and barely managed to defeat them. You can count us in!”
It was then that a manic snarl could be heard behind them, and King K. Rool appeared.
****
Elsewhere, Captain Falcon was piloting the Falcon Flyer through space, looking for Samus.
“I can’t drive... FIFTEH FIVE!” He yelled. “Man...what kind of lame character development is this? The only way this story will get really damned good reviews is if the author makes serious characters incoherently random. What the hell man, WHAT THE HELL?!”
He looked out the window, and noticed a yellow beetle-shaped spaceship flying towards a planet.
“Found you,” he said, and followed her until she landed.
“Captain Falcon?”
“What?! Where?!”
“Falcon, what are you doing here?” Samus asked.
“Look a few paragraphs up. Actually, just read chapter 5 and you’ll get it.”
There was a long pause, and Samus finally spoke up again. “Okay, so there’s this guy named Zero trying to take over the world, and he basically just made clones of us? Wow, original. But I guess if he’s in God Mode, I can help out.”
A loud shriek could be heard from above, and there appeared the purple dragon Ridley.
****
The remaining Smashers had continued planning out their attack, yet didn’t really come up with a “plan” at all.
“So, let me get this straight,” Ike said, cupping his head. “Your plan is to go in there, kill EVERY polygon you can, and then nuke the tower?” He was referring to Gold.
“I don’t see why not. It’s not like we can really do anything else. War is war, and that’s what we’re in.”
“But going in there without a strategy is just a way of screaming “KILL ME PLEASE!”. You won’t last five minutes in the field.”
“Oh, I won’t? I’m sorry, Ike, I didn’t realize you could see the future,” Gold retorted.
“This isn’t going well at all,” Sonic stated. “We’ll be outnumbered, there’s gonna be, what, fifteen or so of us, and a thousand of them? Gold’s idea actually makes sense, we can’t really make a strategy for something like this.”
****
“Pokey’s back?!” Ness screamed. “How?!”
“Surprised to see me again, losers?” Pokey daunted.
“How did you survive, Pokey?! Your defeat back in the ruined zoo should have killed you!” Lucas said.
“It certainly should have, but like Jeff Goldblum said in Jurassic Park, ‘life finds a way’.”
“That... doesn’t even make sense regarding the situation,” Meta Knight said.
“And yet it’s going to be part of my main character development for this story!” Pokey stated. “And there’s nothing you can do to stop me!”
“Aw come on, are you kidding? We beat you when you teamed up with Giygas, and Lucas here beat you when you tried to take over the Nowhere Islands... which reminds me, how did you go from world-domination to island-domination?” Ness blurted.
“Wait, I went from world-domination to island-domination? Really?”
“Wow, saving the world is a cinch when your enemies have brains the size of a pea,” Lucas said.
“Enough! I will be rid of you now!”
****
“Oh, lovely,” Link sighed. “Just what we need, that stupid crocodile from Peter Pan.”
“Link?” DK began. “I really wouldn’t recommend making fun of him.”
“Why, what’s he gonna do about it?”
At that point, K. Rool struck Link with blinding speed and sent him flying into a tree.
“This is the end for you! ALL OF YOU!!!!”
****
Ridley dove towards the ground, jaws opened, teeth showing. It zoomed towards Samus and Falcon, but missed and swooped upwards.
“I thought that Ridley died when he exploded for no explainable reason back when we fought Tabuu?” Captain Falcon asked.
“Err... this IS Ridley. He never dies.”
“Eh, true enough.”
Ridley looked at them with his piercing yellow eyes, and let out a loud roar, which, when roughly translated into Ridley-ese, meant “Prepare to die!”
****
Instead of the classic “Epic fight” that most stories have when a new villain is introduced, I decided to go all 8-Bit Theatre on you, set the moments up for epic battles, and instead just rip them away. Aren’t I cruel? Anyway, in Fourside, Pokey walked towards the group, is spider-mech making the ever-familiar wheezing sound.
“Well, losers? Are you ready to die?”
The three stood their ground, save for Lucas, who was somewhat scared.
“I’d love to fight you, but I’ve got a master to serve. See you later!”
And with that, Pokey suddenly vanished.
****
King K. Rool stomped towards Link and the Kongs, and they prepared for battle.
“As much as I’d love to destroy you all right here, I’ve got better things to do than waste my time on punks like you! GOOD DAY!!!”
King K. Rool suddenly disappeared.
****
On Zebes, Ridley continued to leer at the pilot and bounty hunter, and they stared back, to the point where it became a staring contest. It finally ended and Ridley let out a loud shriek.
“Get ready, Falcon! Here he comes!”
But instead of going in for an attack, Ridley merely flew away into space.
****
It was late dawn by the time The Smashers returned to the castle. The mission to get more team members proved successful. Ness, Lucas, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Samus had all joined.
“I see that your objections proved successful,” Ike stated. “But... you say that their army has expanded as well?”
“Yes,” Meta Knight replied. “Pokey Minch appeared to us and said that he is working for Zero.”
“And we saw K. Rool,” Diddy Kong said. “He, too, is working for him.”
“Same with us,” Falcon stated. “We saw Ridley, but whether or not he’s working for Zero, we don’t know.”
“Speaking of which...” Gold began. “Mario, this note came in for you.”
Red handed a piece of paper to Mario, and on it, read:
“Dear Mario,
How are you doing? Are you having fun on your little adventure to try and stop us? I hope you are. I also hope you realize that this is the final adventure for all of you. You cannot possibly hope to defeat us. The army has over nine thousand clones now. You are greatly outnumbered.
Your end is imminent. You’d best prepare for the final crusade in this little game. The polygons, as well as our group, will utterly annihilate you in the end.
Enjoy these last few remaining moments of your life,
-Zero”
Mario crunched the paper in his fist.
“Okay, so, we know that Zero’s army is STILL building as we speak,” Red stated. “Whereas ours is... still rather puny.”
“We still need more people for our team. Any suggestions?” Meta Knight asked.
“We could gather a few more Pokemon, preferably fully evolved ones or legendaries,” Falcon said.
“Legendaries?” Marth asked. “You mean, like, Lugia?”
“Precisely!” Falcon exclaimed. “Although Lugia lives at the bottom of the Whirl Islands, so that’s out.”
“Well if Lugia’s out of the question... who can we possibly recruit?”
They all pondered for a moment, and then Gold said, “I know someone.”
