Hello. Thank you to everyone who read and reviewed the last chapter. This chapter will probably be a little shorter, but I think that's okay because the last chapter was really long and dialogue heavy. But we will see how it goes. I apologize I haven't updated in awhile. I'll be going back to school soon as well, so if I don't update for awhile it is because I am moving in and getting adjusted. But I will write when I can. As always I do not own Smash Bros., etc., but if Sakarai were to steal my ideas I certainly wouldn't mind some credit. Enjoy.
A ship came crashing to the stage. Out popped Captain Olimar. Olimar gave a brief glance around and plucked three pikmin from the ground. Next to him, several Waddle Dees appeared carrying King Dedede on his throne. They set the king down on the main platform of Smashville. Across the way, a magic blast occurred on the stage. Princess Zelda appeared from within it. Next to her was Red the Pokemon Trainer in the background. Red pulled a Pokeball from his belt and tossed it forward. The ball popped open and revealed Ivysaur.
(Two stock match, Smashville, Zelda/Pokemon TrainerRed Team, King Dedede/OlimarBlue Team, Team Final Smash Balls are the only active item.)
READY...GO!
Zelda and Ivysaur sent Din's Fire and a Razor Leaf across the stage respectively. King Dedede and Olimar threw a Waddle Dee and a pikmin across the stage respectively as well. Din's Fire exploded around the Waddle Dee and the pikmin collided with the razor leaf. Olimar plucked more pikmin from the ground. Ivysaur and Dedede charged each other. Ivysaur skidded in front of Dedede and whipped a vine at his head. Surprisingly, the king quickly ducked and swung his hammer like a golf club, knocking Ivysaur above him. The king jumped after his prey and twirled his hammer above his head. Ivysaur flipped upside down to avoid the hammer and turned his flower towards Dedede. Ivysaur released a burst of polled right into Dedede, sending the king to the floor.
Meanwhile, Zelda wrapped a long yellow beam around herself and disappeared. Olimar looked around for her, his pikmin staring blankly at the spot where Zelda was. Zelda appeared right behind Olimar. Zelda threw her hands at Olimar and zapped him with a magic shock. Olimar flew backwards and launched a pikmin at Zelda. Zelda used Nayru's Love to repel the pikmin away easily. Olimar launched more of his Pikmin at Zelda. Zelda repelled two away but the third one clung to her and began adding damage to her meter.
"Get off of me!" Zelda said. She brushed the pikmin away and merely zapped the next one with her...hand...magic. At this point, Olimar had run out of pikmin and began plucking some more. That's all the opportunity Zelda needed to launch Din's Fire at Olimar, blasting the small captain away.
"Serve your king!" Dedede shouted. He tossed a Waddle Dee at Ivysaur. Ivysaur caught it with his vine whip and slung it back at King Dedede. Dedede used his Inhale to swallow the Waddle Dee up. Then he fired it back out at Ivysaur. The surprised pokemon took the blow and fell over.
"Hahaha, gotcha now!" the large penguin called out. Dedede knelt down and launched himself into the air with his Super Dedede Jump. Dedede had on a wide smile as he plummeted towards Ivysaur.
"Ivysaur return!" Red shouted. He pulled Ivysaur back into his pokeball just as Dedede was about to crush him. The king looked around confused. He lifted up his left foot to see if the pokemon was stuck to the bottom of his shoe. Red threw a pokeball at the spot where Ivysaur disappeared.
"Go Charizard!" Red called. The pokeball burst open and out popped the huge flame dragon. Charizard roared into Dedede's ear.
"Gyah-ah-ah" Dedede said in surprise. He barely ducked Charizard's large claw. The king rolled backwards as Charizard threw his wing forward. Dedede lunged forward with a belly flop attempting to slide into Charizard. The large dragon merely put his foot on top of the kings head and opened its large mouth.
"Oh boy..." Dedede said. Charizard spewed flames from his mouth which engulfed Dedede. Charizard kept his foot on the penguin to keep him from moving.
"That's it Charizard, melt that bird!" Red called from the background. A large purple pikmin smacked into the back of Charizard's head, halting his attack. Charizard turned around meanicingly and stared at the wide eyed creature. The pikmin gave a soft "coo" and then bolted back to its master. The large dragon gave chase as the pikmin scurried away. Olimar put the pikmin back in line and looked up to see Charizard pull a giant boulder from under his wing. Charizard pulled his head back to smash the rock. Olimar dived forward and slid between Charizards legs. As he slid on his belly, he attached a pikmin to each of Charizards legs. The pikmin began gnawing at the lizards ankles. Charizard dropped his rock on his foot.
The pikmin scurried away as Charizard grabbed his foot in pain. Charizard turned around and used its flamethrower. But it was so angry it didn't realize that Olimar had stepped out of range.
"You got a purple one?" Dedede asked his partner.
"Yeah," Olimar responded, "What about you?"
King Dedede pulled out a gordo. He tossed it softly with his hand and caught it.
"This ought to do." Dedede said. He and Olimar launched their respective projectiles at Charizard. The large purple pikmin and gordo collided into the dragon, knocking him far away. Dededed held up his hammer and activated the jet mechanism. The hammer opened up and a large jet engine began charging. Olimar and Dedede began to walk towards the returning Charizard when Zelda kicked Olimar from behind straight into the air. Dedede turned around to unleash his hammer but Zelda already grabbed him. She used her magic to push Dedede into the air with Olimar. As they both descended onto her, Zelda waved her magic over her head in a figure eight.
The king and captain were caught in the shock zone and were zapped several times. Zelda followed up with a double open palm smash to her adversaries. The entire stage flashed red. The team smash ball appeared on the far right side, the opposite of everyone else. Zelda sent Din's Fire out to claim it. The fireball burst around the orb but didn't break it.
"Not on our watch!" the penguin cried. Dedede and Olimar were beginning to assemble, but the flamethrower of an angry dragon halted them in their tracks. Zelda smirked and summoned Din's Fire again. The burning energy flew towards the team smash ball, following its path, before bursting and shattering the orb. Red energy scattered everywhere. Bright red energy seeped into Zelda while a duller red flew into Charizard and the Pokemon Trainer Red.
"Red!" Zelda called out as the bright red energy was absorbed into her body, "Release your Pokemon!"
Charizard was transported right next to Zelda by the smash ball energy as Red tossed two Pokeballs at Zelda's feet.
"Go Ivysaur! Squirtle!" the Pokemon Trainer called. The tiny turtle and the plant pokemon appeared next to their larger companion.
Zelda pulled out her bow and arrow. "Have them use their best attacks!" Zelda yelled. She used her magic to summon a light arrow in the bow. She fastened it to the string and pulled it taught.
"Squirtle, use Hydro Pump!" Red said. The tiny turtle opened its mouth and shot a giant spurt of water out. But instead of like normal, the water stayed condensed and formed a large beam at the head of the arrow.
"Ivysaur, Solar Beam attack now!" Red said. Ivysaur knelt down and aimed its flower at the arrow head. Solar energy poured forth from its bulb, staying a condensed beam at the head of the light arrow.
"Charizard, Fire Blast!" Red said. Charizard opened his mouth, but instead of shooting Blair Witch Project Symbols made of fire out, it came out as a condensed beam that formed at the tip of the light arrow.
The light arrow now had all three Pokemom attacks circling its tip. King Dedede looked up from the ground to see the light arrow charging in front of him and Olimar across the stage.
"Not good!" the king said. "Move out of the way Olimar!" Dedede shouted. The king used his super jump to leap into the sky. Olimar looked at the beam.
"Oh no!" he cried in unison with the cries of his pikmin.
"Elemental Arrow!" Zelda shouted. She released the taught bowstring.
The light arrow ripped forward. As it did so, the three elements began swirling around the head and stretching out to the body. They formed long tails covering the length of the arrow. The arrow struck Olimar head on. All that could be heard were the sounds of the dying pikmin as their captain was jolted off the stage. The second the arrow connected with Olimar, the arrow split off into three new arrows. Each of these arrows was made up of one of the Pokemon's elements. While the Light Arrow continued in its direction, the "Fire", "Solar", and "Water" arrows flew in totally different directions.
Fortunately for King Dedede, he had leaped out of the way of the deadly light arrow. Unfortunately for the king, when the elements split off, the just as deadly solar arrow soared straight at the king. King Dedede's eyes bugged out of his head as he was struck by the solar arrow. The king flew high into the sky becoming nothing more than a small twinkle in the background.
"All right! That was awesome!" Red called out. He pulled out two pokeballs. "Return Ivysaur, Charizard!"
The large fire pokemon and the grass pokemon were returned leaving the water pokemon Squirtle out on the field.
"Zelda, that was great!" Red said to his teammate. Zelda acknowledged him with a smile.
"Yes, thanks for the help Red." Zelda said in return. "Now let's win this match!" Red threw his hand into the air as Squirtle gave a happy flip and said "Squirtle". King Dedede came floating down on his Life Platform with Olimar. The king was rubbing his head.
"Ow, that stupid arrow." the self-proclaimed King of Dreamland said. "If I'd have known it was going to do that I would have... I would have... well I would have known that it was going to do that!"
Olimar looked to his teammate. "Are you ready?" he asked.
Dedede thumped his chest. "You bet. Let's crush them!"
They both dropped off their life platforms and hit the ground. Olimar quickly plucked six pikmin. Dedede ran towards Zelda and Squirtle. Squirtle used Withdraw and tucked himself into his shell. He spun towards Dedede. The king swung his hammer around him in a circle on the ground. The large wooden mallet knocked squirtle's spinning shell away from the penguin. The king looked at Zelda and started to pull his hammer back like he was going to swing. Zelda disappeared in Farore's Wind. King Dedede smiled and turned around behind him. He raised his hammer and brought it down hard. Zelda had just barely appeared behind him before the hyrulian princess was blasted almost through the edge barrier.
The king spun his hammer happily and ran to the edge where Zelda would return. Meanwhile, Olimar chased down Squirtle who had just re-emerged from his shell. Olimar sent a pikmin out to grab Squirtle. The pikmin latched onto the turtle and pulled him back to Olimar. Olimar whistled to get the pikmin to form a chain. Olimar wrapped the pikmin chain around Squirtle's leg and whipped the turtle over his head. He whirled Squirtle around over his head in a circle. Olimar slammed the turtle down in front of him, then whipped him up and slammed him down behind him. Olimar jumped and slammed Squirtle straight down and then launched the turtle up.
Olimar broke the chain and the pikmin returned to formation as poor Squirtle was quite dizzy. Olimar jumped up toward the falling turtle and chucked a pikmin at him. Squirtle spun in his shell to knock the pikmin away. Squirtle hit the ground before Olimar did and slammed his fists into the ground. Two large water jets erupted on either side of Squirtle. The blasts knocked Olimar toward the right edge. Squirtle moved to intercept the tiny space captain when he felt a soft tap on his shoulder.
Squirtle turned around to see a short creature with a large blue eyeball. It waved at him with the short arm that had tapped him. The Waddle-Doo then proceeded to fire an electric stream from its eye right into Squirtle. Squirtle cried out as he was blasted into Olimar who smacked Squirtle down with a pikmin. Squirtle tumbled off the edge but recovered with his Waterfall, clearing the edge of the wandering Waddle-Doo and the defending Olimar. Olimar jumped over the edge and pulled his arm back, his hand holding a red pikmin. Before he could launch it at Squirtle, a fireball blasted Olimar away. Zelda appeared at the edge and held her hand down to Squirtle.
Squirtle reached up with its tiny arm and took Zelda's hand. Zelda pulled Squirtle up and tossed him into King Dedede and Olimar. Squirtle tucked into his shell and went spinning towards his adversaries. The turtle crashed into both opponents. King Dedede recovered and picked up the spinning turtle shell.
"Why you little..." the penguin started. He dropped Squirtle and chose to dodge as Zelda came dashing in with a magic blast from her hand. Dedede tossed a Waddle-Dee side by side with Olimar's pikmin. The two projectiles struck their targets as a red flash popped over the stage.
"Again?" Red asked as he eyed the Team Smash Ball that had appeared in the middle of the brawlers.
Olimar used a pikmin smash to damage the ball. Squirtle began charging his Water Gun as Zelda and Dedede ran for it. Zelda prepared a Din's Fire but Dedede grabbed her and tossed her behind him. He used a Super Dedede Jump to leap after the ball. The king looked to come down right on top of it, but as he was about to break it, Squirtle unleashed his Water Gun and pushed the ball away from the kings landing zone. Squirtle began running after it.
"Olimar!" Dedede called out, "I'll get the ball, you stop Squirtle!"
Olimar obliged by tossing every pikmin he had at Squirtle. A couple missed but the rest latched on and began damaging and distracting the turtle. This left Dedede and Zelda left to focus on the ball. The ball was floating back towards Dedede after being pushed away. The king readied his hammer.
"Gotcha!" the king said confidently. He looked to see a shadow appear on the ground in front of him. The shadow of a beautiful princess flying through the air with her heel set on a large penguin king. Dedede turn around to see Zelda flying through the air at him with her leg extended.
"Heeeyyyaaaahhhh!" Zelda cried as she went to strike the king. Dedede opened his mouth wide and began to inhale. Zelda's momentum was disrupted as she was sucked into King Dedede's mouth. The full king turned around and spat Zelda at the Team Smash Ball. Zelda crashed into the ball and broke it open. Red energy burst free and happily flew to its masters. King Dedede was given the primary energy and Olimar was given the secondary energy.
"Hahaha, sweet, let's go!" King Dedede said. He and Olimar activated their energy, Dedede jumping to the right side of the stage as Olimar jumped to the left. Dedede whistled at the exact same moment Olimar used his pikmin whistle.
"Pikmin Army!" they both called. King Dedede began doing a strange dance as his body continued to glow. Several Waddle-Dees and Waddle-Doos began popping onto the stage. A couple Gordos appeared as well. The gordos began to fly across the stage randomly as the Waddle-Dees and Waddle-Doos began running across the stage.
A large group of different colored pikmin appeared as well. Some of the pikmin were dashing across the stage as others just flew into the air. While King Dedede was dancing, Olimar was plucking pikmin from the ground. The small captain was pulling five pikmin per pluck. Pikmin were spawning on their own and the ones Olimar were plucking were just adding to the chaos. Zelda and Squirtle found themselves buried and harassed by large numbers of pikmin, Waddle-Dees, Waddle-Doos, and several Gordos. Zelda dodged a flying pikmin when she was hit from behind. A Waddle Dee carrying a red and blue pikmin on his back ran into the princess. The pikmin had his arm forward as if saying "Charge!"
Squirtle was hit by a Waddle-Doo who was sending electricity out of his eye. The Waddle Doo was also accompanied by a yellow pikmin also generating volts. The tiny turtle barely got to his feet when his face turned to shock. A gordo was spinning towards him. On each of the gordos spikes, a chain of at least three pikmin were attached. The "gordmin" crashed into Squirtle with surprising force. The poor turtle was blasted off stage and through the edge barrier. An army of pikmin, waddle-dees and doos, and three gordmin later, Zelda was also knocked through the edge barrier.
The king and captain stopped dancing and plucking and jumped up and down in celebration.
"All right!" Olimar shouted. "Hey! Using the Pikmin Army fully stocked me with pikmin!"
"That's sweet!" the king responded, "It also left a Waddle-Dee and a Waddle-Doo running around."
Zelda wasted no time in dropping off of her life platform. Red tossed a pokeball onto the field.
"I choose you! Ivysaur!" the Pokmon Trainer shouted. The grass pokemon popped out of his pokeball and immediately threw a razor leaf at his opponents. Caught off guard by the pokemon's assertiveness, Olimar was struck by the leaf. Ivysaur used that brief moment to slam into Olimar with a headbutt. Dedede picked up Ivysaur and was about to bat him with his hammer when Zelda leapt into the air and struck Dedede with the kick she had intended for him earlier.
The brawlers began to get into it. Olimar hurled a pikmin at Zelda who ducked it and swept Olimar off his feet. The pikmin flew towards Dedede's hammer, latched on, and used the momentum of King Dedede's swing to fire back at Zelda. The pikmin latched onto Zelda and began smacking her with its flower. Zelda reached for it and Olimar used the opportunity to throw a white pikmin at Zelda. The white pikmin began to quickly poison the princess. Zelda felt dizzy and fell over.
Dedede drew his hammer back to make Zelda apart of the stage and he flung it forward. Ivysaur used his vines to grab the downed princess and pull her from harm's way. Ivysaur stepped up behind Dedede and cut at his feet with his leaves. The king flew above Ivysaur's flower. Ivysaur opened his bud and began firing seeds at Dedede. King Dedede was caught in Ivysaur's deadly Bullet Seed stream. Olimar threw a fire pikmin at Ivysaur, but Zelda returned the pokemon's assistance from a moment ago by jumping in front of Ivysaur and repelling the pikmin with Nayru's Love.
Zelda released Din's Fire which sailed behind Olimar, scaring him towards Zelda. Zelda grabbed the captain and tossed him into Ivysaur's bullet seed stream. Both Dedede and Olimar were in the bullet stream. Zelda added a Din's Fire to the mix which cleared her opponents of the stream. Ivysaur leapt after the two and used his pollen burst. Olimar was knocked away, but Dedede air dodged and struck his hammer down at Ivysaur. Ivysaur hit the ground and Dedede used a massive swing to attack both Zelda and Ivysaur. Zelda got to her feet and started towards Ivysaur when she heard a whistle behind her. Olimar's pikmin chain ensnared Zelda.
The tiny captain began to throttle her around as he had done with Ivysaur before. Olimar slammed her forwards, back, down, and up. He followed up with a purple pikmin into the air to knock Zelda towards the upper edge barrier. But Zelda used Farore's Wind to reappear on the stage. Meanwhile, Dedede took a razor leaf from Ivysaur. Dedede countered the next razor leaf with a gordo which struck through the leaf and knocked Ivysaur off the main platform. Ivysaur lashed out his Vine Whip to grab the ledge. The grass pokemon pulled himself onto the ledge. Dedede was waiting with a fully charged forward smash.
"Ivysaur return!" Red called out. Red pulled Ivysaur out of the way right before he was crushed.
"Stop doing that!" Dedede shouted back to Red.
Red threw a pokeball at the place where Ivysaur was. "Go Charizard!" the Pokemon Trainer cried.
Charizard sprang free of the pokeball and smacked King Dedede away with his wing. King Dedede crashed right into Zelda as tiny Olimar ducked the two bodies. Dedede landed on the stage but Zelda was knocked off and below the stage, making her have to focus on recovering. The next couple of seconds would prove to be match changing however. The penguin got to his feet and opened his mechanized hammer, charging the jet engine inside. He began to slowly creep towards Charizard. Charizard blew his fire at Olimar who jumped over the dragon's head and landed on the right side of the stage. Olimar threw a blue pikmin which latched onto the pokemon. But ignoring it, Charizard turned around with a huge boulder in his claws. Charizard bashed its skull into the rock, directly on top of Olimar. The direct impact blew the rock into pieces and sent Olimar rocketing off the stage. The tiny captain blasted through the edge barrier as his pikmin became spirits.
Charizard shook his head loose of the cobwebs from the skull bash.
"Charizard! Behind you!" Red called.
Charizard turned around to see King Dedede right behind him, his hammer shaking violently as the blue flame sputtered fiercely.
Zelda pulled herself over the ledge and saw the scene before her. "No!" she cried.
"As Meta Knight would say," the king started, "KNOW MY POWER!" King Dedede unleashed his Jet Hammer directly into Charizard. The dragon was sent careening off the stage and through the same edge barrier Olimar went through.
"Charizard no!" the Pokemon Trainer called out.
"That's for Olimar!" King Dedede said. Red hung his head in defeat in the background.
"Sorry Zelda." Red said.
"It's okay," Zelda said, "I'll take it from here." Zelda was caught off guard by a Waddle-Dee to the face. She responded with Din's Fire. Dedede super jumped over it and landed where Zelda teleported out of the way. Zelda reappeared as the king belly flopped into her. Zelda hit the ground but pulled herself up quickly.
When Dedede thrust his hammer forward, Zelda countered with Nayru's Love. This spun Dedede around and off his feet. Zelda pulled her hands back and let her magic charge to its maximum. When Dedede turned back around, he was met with a full powered forward smash from Zelda. The penguin was blasted towards the left edge barrier.
"No way!" the king shouted, "Not like this!" Dedede puffed himself full of air and began floating back towards Zelda. Zelda ran to the edge to guard it.
"Oh great!" Dedede panicked, "Now what!" Dedede hadn't realized he was inhaling in his panic. Dedede sucked Zelda into his mouth before he was safely on the ground. His large body containing the princess fell helplessly towards the bottom. They both fell through the bottom edge barrier.
GAME!
SUDDEN DEATH! GO!
King Dedede and Zelda both panicked and went for their projectiles. Dedede used Waddle-Dees while Zelda used Din's Fire. The two cancelled each other out. Dedede dodged Zelda's forward smash and went to inhale again. Zelda dodged away from it. The princess ran forward and leapt into the air extending her leg. Dedede dropped as quickly as he could. Zelda's long slender leg snatched the hat right off of Dedede's head. Forgetting his head wear for a brief moment, the king threw his hammer straight up. Zelda took the blow and was launched into the sky, past the upper edge barrier. As she flew into the background and King Dedede breathed a sigh of relief, ba-boms started spawning everywhere. One spawned right on the poor penguin. King Dedede didn't even have time to react as he was blasted off the stage left barrier. He fell through, mere moments before Zelda's figure twinkled into the background, giving the Hyrulian Princess and the Pokemon Trainer the victory.
LAME!
Poor Dedede. I have actually had that happen to me once or twice in matches. Sorry it took me awhile to update. I'll be going back to school this weekend unfortunately so I don't know when I'll update next, but I'll get back to it at some point. I appreciate all the ideas for Team Final Smashes I have received. They are great, keep them coming. Thank you to those who suggested the Pikmin Army. I had actually thought of it myself when I first thought of writing this whole story. It is kind of an obvious one. But I still think it is fun and charming. Sorry there wasn't any pre-match or post-match banter but I didn't really know what to write for it this chapter. So I apologize if that made the ending abrupt. Please review and thank you very much for reading.
-Travis