Chapter 108: Tournament Part 1
Mario immediately sprung into action, running toward the rabbit Pokémon.
"Quick Attack into Fire Punch!" Victor shouted.
Cinderace was already a fast Pokémon, especially this one, so with Quick Attack, it reached Mario in the blink of an eye, ready to punch with its fist surrounded in fire. But Mario jumped at the last moment, intending to stomp the Pokémon. However, he didn't take into account that they were currently free falling on a platform. So, when he jumped, it was pretty much as if he was on the Moon, resulting in him falling toward Cinderace much more slowly from a higher distance than he expected.
That he was even falling faster than the platform itself should be impossible, but it wasn't hard to guess that it was Master Hand's doing to avoid that they remained stuck in the air. Unless this was some physic stuff that Mario didn't understand? Like, the platform didn't have as much air penetration than Mario's body? He decided to not think about it.
But it worked against him because his slower fall allowed Cinderace to avoid him before readying a Double Kick that Mario took right in the face upon landing, sending him on his back near the edge of the platform. He quickly got up with a jump only to leap aside in panic to avoid a Pyro Ball, Cinderace's signature move.
As Mario looked back at his opponent, however, they both spotted something that wasn't present before. Having appeared near the center of the platform, a bit on Mario's left, was a red Koopa shell.
"What is it doing here?" Mario wondered.
"MWAHAHAHAHA!!! This is an item! To add some spice to the fights! Use them however you like!" Master Hand exclaimed excitedly.
Both Mario and Cinderace exchanged stares at this before they sprung to reach the shell. Without surprise, Cinderace reached it first and kicked it toward Mario who avoided it with a side bounce. But to his surprise, the shell did a U-turn and he was forced to avoid it again. The shell then continued its course and, to Cinderace's surprise, was now after it. So it avoided the shell with a jump only for it to do a U-turn again to go after Mario. The plumber took his hammer and hit the shell, sending it right at the Pokémon who was rammed in the stomach. Both rabbit and shell dropped back on the platform, and the shell restarted moving around, going after Cinderace this time who barely avoided it by relling aside as it was recovering from the hit.
Then, suddenly...
"Ohh ho ho ho ho!" a laugh resounded in the arena from above.
Sonic, Tails, Phantom, and all the ponies from her universe immediately recognised it, shouting in unisson and in shock, "Eggman!"
And indeed, the feared Egg Dragoon, piloted by Eggman himself, descended to hover right beside the platform, facing the two fighters who stared at it mouth agape (which resulted in Cinderace being hit by the red shell, not paying attention to it anymore). Sonic remarked immediately that this was the prototype version, the one that didn't have yet two cockpits and all its attacks like the ice waves from its claws.
"This gorge will be your tomb!" the mad scientist shouted before he pointed the mecha's barreled cannon toward Mario and fired.
"Mamma mia!"
The plumber had no choice but to run to avoid the fiery projectiles fired by the cannon, also avoiding the red shell by the same occasion which finally disappeared in a puff of smoke. A paper fan appeared further away, but nobody payed attention to it.
"YES! Here we are! The items were the spice. THIS is the Dragon's Breath chilli pepper! Remember when I mentioned that this arena may have a few surprises? Well, here it is! Eggman and his Egg Dragoon arrives as a special guest! Don't worry, this isn't the real one. Like the arena, this is just a recreation of the Eggman and Egg Dragoon from when Sonic fought it on this platform. And like with the items, do whatever you want with him. You can either fight him to destroy the Egg Dragoon to bring back some respite to this battle, or you can ignore him and hope that he will help you bring the downfall of your opponent. Have fun!"
"Will all the arenas have something like that?" Tails asked.
"Not all. It will depends. Some arenas will have a "special guest" like this one. Others won't but may have other stuff. And some arenas will have nothing special. This will be up to luck."
While he talked, Cinderace decided to use the distraction to do a Sunny Day before sending another Pyro Ball at Mario, but the plumber saw it and took his hammer, hitting the ball with it and sending it at the Egg Dragoon's cannon. This knocked the arm with the cannon away, stopping its attack. Mario then barely caught a kick from the rabbit aimed to his face and spun with it before throwing it toward the mecha. Cinderace crashed on the Egg Dragoon's torso but was able to bounce from it back on the platform. But then, Eggman readied electricity on the Egg Dragoon's drill and swept it toward Cinderace. The Pokémon had no problem avoiding the drill with a small leap, but it didn't expect the wave of electricity it unleashed and it was caught in it. Mario barely avoided the electric wave by jumping, and by the time he landed, the electricity disappeared. As for Victor, he was able to jump on a broken metal plate that came up from below, serving as a temporary platform.
Victor then spotted something. "A Poké Ball? Cinderace! Look at your right!"
Recovering from the electricity, Cinderace spotted the Poké Ball and immediately went to grab it and opened it, letting out what revealed to be a Snorlax who jumped toward Mario, using Body Slam. Thanks to the slower fall caused by the arena being in free fall, Mario was able to avoid the Snorlax while running toward Cinderace, only for Eggman to prepare his Egg Dragoon's cannon to fire again. But despite the mecha targeting him again, Mario didn't stop and actually got the idea of guiding the Egg Dragoon's cannon so it ended up firing at Cinderace, by running so the Pokémon was between him and the cannon.
Cinderace used its powerful legs to avoid that, using Agility and running around while using Flamethrower when Mario was getting too close. Mario then spotted a small white and pink capsule on the floor and grabbed it before throwing it at Cinderace while Eggman began to charge energy into the cannon. Cinderace kicked the capsule which had for effect to open it, letting out a Bob-Omb. After Cinderace grabbed it, the two fighters had to jump in opposite direction to avoid the giant ball of ice fired by the Egg Dragoon and the explosion and shockwave that followed when it hit the platform. Cinderace decided to throw the bomb at the mecha, right into one of the green cores in the lower body, causing a lot of damage and staggering it a bit.
Ciderace saw Mario coming and quickly used Counter, blocking Mario's punch and returning it two times stronger. Mario was badly hit on the face and was sent on his back, but he was able to get out of the way of a Fire Punch by rolling backward and immediately countered with one of his famous uppercuts that sent the Pokémon flying high into the air. Mario then had to jump too to avoid a wave of electricity unleashed by the Egg Dragoon and was able to punch Cinderace with enough force to send it toward a wall.
Cinderace quickly recovered and bounced off the wall before it used Counter on the fiery projectiles of the Egg Dragoon's gun, sending the bullets back at the mecha. Counter didn't last long however so it was eventually forced to run to avoid them. Mario placed himself on the way to block it but Victor instructed Cinderace to use Tackle to directly ram the plumber and not stop running. But its Tackle was met with a hammer in the face that sent Cinderace into one of the fiery projectiles. The small explosion caused by the projectile sent it toward the edge of the platform, but Cinderace landed on its feet, then bounced backward onto a broken metal plate that came from below, and then bounced off of it toward Mario who had been running toward it. Cinderace readied a Fire Punch and Mario barely blocked it with his arms, but he was still launched a few meters backward.
Cinderace then grabbed what some of the spectators recognised was the Star Rod and tested it with a swing, sending a star-shaped projectile. Seeing this, Cinderace grinned and sent star after star at Mario who now had to both dodge them and the fire bullets from the Egg Dragoon's cannon. Some of the stars ended up hitting the mecha, causing some damage to it. As the Egg Dragoon stopped firing, a crate appeared and Mario quickly ran to take cover behind it. The stars rapidly destroyed it, and out of it came three items: a beam sword, a paper fan, and a baseball bat.
Mario took the sword and, to everybody's surprise, threw it toward Cinderace. The rabbit yelped and barely moved out of the way, and Mario used the respite to run toward the Pokémon with his hammer ready. The two ended up clashing, hammer against Star Rod, only for the Egg Dragoon to interrupt them with another round with its cannon, targeting Cinderace this time.
"Cinderace!" Victor called, gaining its attention, before he pointed at the opposite side of the platform, not far of the Egg Dragoon.
Cinderace looked where he was pointing and saw another Poké Ball, and immediately changed course to get it. With all its attention on the Poké Ball, it didn't see the approaching plumber however.
"Watch out!" Victor tried to warn it, but too late as Cinderace wasn't able to react in time to avoid being punched in the face. As a result, it was launched a few meters away, and in its surprise, it dropped the Star Rod.
Mario then quickly ran toward the Poké Ball and grabbed it before letting out the Pokémon that was in it.
Which revealed to be a Mew... Which flew away without doing anything, leaving behind two bemused fighters plus one trainer. Because of this, Cinderace was hit again by one of the projectiles from the Egg Dragoon's gun.
Mario then had his attention taken by the Egg Dragoon which gathered electricity on its drill, readying another electric wave. Having enough of the mecha, Mario took his hammer, jumped to avoid the wave, and began to attack the green cores. To reach them, he had to jump, so he generally only could hit them once before he had to bounce off the mecha to return on the platform.
It wasn't him however who ended up destroying the Egg Dragoon, but a Pyro Ball from Cinderace who tried to use the occasion to attack Mario by surprise, but Mario was able to move out of the way of the fire ball which hit instead one of the green cores. It was finally too much for the Egg Dragoon which explosions began to litter it. With Eggman screaming "NOOOOO!!!!!" the mecha then fell down, disappearing under the platform.
Mario and Cinderace didn't pay attention to the dropping mecha as the rabbit used the Pyro Ball a second time, only for Mario to use his hammer to send the ball back toward Cinderace who then kicked the ball back at Mario who hit it back at Cinderace, and this continued for a moment. Cinderace's feet, however, quickly began to ache because of this and it wasn't long before the ball hit one of its feet again but the Pokémon wasn't able to kick it back toward the plumber. Instead, it felt like it was hit on the foot by a cannonball. The ball pushed the foot backward and continued its path while Cinderace lost its balance as a result.
Recovering, grunting in pain, Cinderace saw Mario approaching with his hammer, then spotted a hammer that had appeared not far at its left, and quickly bounced toward it to grab it. Hammer clashed against hammer, but Mario got the upper hand and knocked Cinderace's hammer out of its hand. Mario then immediately followed with another swing of his hammer which Cinderace Countered. But Mario avoided the Counter punch with a small bounce and did several vertical spins with his hammer while in the air. Cinderace quickly used Iron Head to cover its head in metal for defense before it was violently hit by the hammer, sending it face first on the ground.
"Cinderace!" Victor shouted.
The Pokémon wasn't moving anymore. Carefully, Mario turned it on its back and saw that it was unconscious.
"End of the fight!" Master Hand exclaimed. "The winner is: Mario!" He then used a finger to open a rift to allow the fighters to come out.
Before that, Victor returned Cinderace in its Poké Ball, congratulating it for the good fight it put up, before shaking hand with Mario. "That was an amazing fight."
Mario nodded. "Your Pokémon really is strong."
"Thanks."
The two then passed the rift and found themselves before everyone else who congratulated them.
"You two sure gave us a good show!"
"That mecha was impressive, but it looked like it was barely an annoyance to you!"
"That moment with Mew was funny."
"I never thought I would see a human defeat a Pokémon in a battle."
"Alright. Alright everyone," Master Hand gained everyone's attention by snapping his fingers. "Let's proceed, or we will be here all day."
Behind him, the screen shrunk and returned to showing everyone's names while a second screen appeared and showed the tournament bracket, which was mostly empty excepted for the presence of Mario and Cinderace's names. The name of the Pokémon grayed out while Mario's name advanced on the corresponding line and stopped at what will be the second round.
"So, for the second fight, we will have..." Master Hand punched the red button, starting the selection process. After a few seconds, the first fighter was chosen. "PHANTOM!"
Phantom grinned. "Great. Didn't have to wait much."
Master Hand then punched the red button again, and before long, the second fighter was selected. "Versus Sonic!"
This took both Phantom and Sonic by surprise. They didn't expect to fight each other. Especially not so soon. Then they exchanged glares and you could almost see sparks flying between them.
"Ready to get your butt trashed again?" Sonic said.
"As if. This will be different. I'm not Infinite, even if he is part of me, and you don't have that cat friend of yours to help you. I even have the powers of the real Phantom Ruby this time! Not of that piece of jump that I had! My victory is assured!"
"Keep your hopes up."
Master Hand suddenly punched the red button for the third time, starting the selection of the arena. It wasn't long before the scrolling stopped on the image of what the fillies recognised was the Falcon Flyer above some track on Big Blue (judging by the ocean visible in the background with structures pocking out of it). They couldn't recognise what track it was however. Also, some of the F-Zero machines were present under the ship.
"Uh. This will be interesting. What will be the platform? The Falcon Flyer?" Sweetie Void wondered.
"You will see soon enough," Master Hand answered as he opened two rifts like before. Without prompt, Phantom and Sonic walked through them and ended up on the Falcon Flyer. The sudden acceleration as they landed on the ship which was flying above the speed of sound didn't bother them at all.
Sonic looked around and couldn't decide between amazement at the beautiful place and worry at the presence of water everywhere. He was also starting to get excited thanks to the speed they were going.
"This is my kind of race!" he shouted as he looked at the machines below.
"Uh... Is it me, or are the machines bigger than normal?" Phantom questioned.
"They had to be big enough to serve as platforms," Master Hand answered.
"This is already more complex than the previous arena," Fox commented back on Sinnoh. "Instead of falling, they are moving at incredible speed. The arena isn't just a circular platform, but moving vehicles on a racing track. And if they fall on the track itself, they would be left behind and this would be the ring out. They also have to make sure to not fall off the track itself." He snorted. "Of course, Phantom doesn't have to worry about any of this. She can just fly."
Tails grinned. "But Sonic couldn't have dreamed for a better arena! Well, for him, it would have been better without all the water, but that's good enough. I feared that he would be stuck on some small arena with barely any space to run."
There was a moment of silence before Captain Falcon said, "Right. That hedgehog can run as fast as the machines. This arena's speed won't be a problem for him either."
After asking if the two fighters were ready, Master Hand did the countdown and the battle started.
Instead of sending Phantom Cubes, Phantom immediately used a wave of Phantom energy to ensure that Sonic was in her power and would remain in it. Then she changed gravity for Sonic so everything seemed to shift ninety degrees so it looked like for him they were moving up. To not fall down and get a ring out, Sonic had to cling to the Falcon Flyer and climb to the ship's beak.
"Almost got me there! This is some really broken powers to have in such a battle! You could just inverse gravity, send everyone into the sky, and be done with it!"
"That was the idea, too bad I fell on a cockroach that clings too much."
"Hey! I'm an hedgehog! Not a cockroach! Do you need glasses that bad?"
Phantom didn't answer and instead gathered Phantom energy into a ball before she threw it at Sonic who jumped from the ship toward the track and began to run up on it despite the shifted gravity. As the Falcon Flyer was starting to fly ahead, soon passing the translucent ring out barrier, platform-like drones came to take its place while the machines were constantly moving up and down the track, bumping into each others, accelerating, or slowing down. This made running on the track dangerous, but Sonic had no problem avoiding the vehicles. He was in his element.
Phantom then materialized cannons and began to rain beams all over the track, but Sonic dodged all of them. Changing tactic, Phantom shifted gravity again to it looked like the world was upside down. She hoped that Sonic would at least fall on one of the drone-platform, and this would result in him having limited place to dodge her attacks. However, to her surprise, Sonic was able to keep running on the track while upside down. She cursed, but then saw that they were approaching a jump in the track and grinned knowing that Sonic will be forced to fall thanks to not having a track to run on anymore. But before even reaching the jump, Sonic jumped and did a Homing Attack on her.
She hadn't remarked that he had gotten so close to her!
"Gah! You...!"
Sonic was able to land on one of the drone-platforms, then quickly jumped on another to avoid an electric spear thrown by Phantom, the spear electrifying the platform when it planted itself on it.
However, he had nowhere else to go. There were only two platforms currently, and one of them was still being electrified.
"Drat..."
"It's over!" Phantom shouted as she fired a giant beam from a cannon that covered the whole platform.
But Sonic surprised her again by jumping up to cling to one of the machines, avoiding the beam. Getting annoyed, Phantom didn't lose time this time and fired a smaller beam right from her hand, only for Sonic to let go of the machine to fall back on the platform, a hand behind his back.
Growling, Phantom materialized dozens of cannons again, but before she could fire, Sonic suddenly revealed a gun and fired a beam, which took her off guard. The beam didn't hurt much, but this still knocked her a bit and opened her to more beams from the gun, and because of that, she wasn't able to command her cannons to fire.
"What, did you forget about the items? A few have popped since the start of this battle, and they aren't affected by your gravity shift," Sonic said smugly. "I'm not usually one to use guns, this is more Shadow's stuff, but in the current situation, I'm willing to make an exception."
Phantom, however, was quickly able to recover her senses and deflected the beams before she finally commanded her cannons to fire. But Sonic hadn't remained idling on the platform while firing with the ray gun however and had jumped back on the other platform which wasn't electrified anymore. Phantom didn't see that and didn't see that the platform had started to move toward her. So, as she recovered from the beams and made the cannons fire, she found herself face to face with a spiny blue ball. Then, instead of bouncing off her face like usual, Sonic actually clung to her, throwing the gun away.
"Hey! Hands off!"
"Ah! Try to fire at me while I'm on you!"
Phantom replied by punching him on the face, which led to the two exchanging blows for a few moments while Phantom tried by the same occasion to shake him off, in vain. Eventually, she decided to just push him against the track, dragging him along it. This shredded some of his spines but Sonic quickly used this to his advantage by starting to run on the track (still upside down) before he punched her again and then threw her toward the closest machine. The machine thus rammed her and sent her flying almost to the ring out barrier before she stopped herself.
"Okay! No more miss nice filly!" Phantom yelled before she materialized ranges and ranges of cannons above (or under, whatever) the track and used them to create multiple beam barriers taking the whole track with no way to avoid them. Before Sonic could react, he ran right into the first one and was badly burned. Then he ran into the second one, then the third one, before he finally reacted and thought of something. He quickly approached the edge of the track and grabbed the guard rail here before using it to get to the other side, and then to jump on the underside of the track. Now he wasn't upside down anymore, even if the ocean, was now a few meters above his head, along with the bottom face of the cuboid formed by the ring out barrier.
Phantom's eye twitched, and she reversed gravity in hope that, in absence of anything to cling on or to fall on, the stubborn hedgehog will finally get ring out. But then, said hedgehog saw this and simply moved back on the upperside of the track. But this time there was no reversed gravity to save him! So she recreated the beam barriers! Only for him to use the drone-platforms as cover from the beams coming from above, and the machines as cover from the beams from the sides! And because the elements of the arena seemed totally indestructible, none of them was destroyed.
Phantom was filled with silent rage as she thought Screw it! and began to send everything she could think of. She began by sending dozens of circular saws, then replicas of the machines, then a replica of the Falcon Flyer, then a whale, then a Death Egg Robot, then a replica of the Great Fox, then a building, then another building, then yet another building, then the Halberd, and so on and so on.
But this didn't worry Sonic however, the hedgehog jumping on the thrown objects and running on them, using them to reach Phantom so he could do another Homing Attack on her. But this time, Phantom had Infinite's red sword and she used it to block Sonic before sending him back on a drone-platform with a swing. Phantom then teleported right beside him and swung her sword again, deciding to get close and personal.
The two became blurs, Sonic jumping around, on platforms and on machines, to avoid the sword and Phantom not giving him any respite as she continuously and ferociously attacked, occasionally teleporting to try to take him off guard. Every now and then, Sonic attempted a Homing Attack, but he was pushed back by Phantom's sword every time. They passed a whole looping and several long jumps doing that, and eventually, the Falcon Flyer returned.
Then without warning, Phantom teleported away, out of reach, and materialized a real army of pretty much everything that could fly and hurt that she ever encountered. Robots, Cankens, Paratroopas, Pokémon, Aparoids, and so on. But that number quickly turned against Phantom when Sonic simply bounced from enemy to enemy, swiftly avoiding any projectiles sent at him, and used them to approach her again.
He had an answer for everything she was throwing at him! Should she send him to the Null Space? She wasn't sure if transporting your adversary to another dimension was against the rules or not.
As he Homing Attacked her, she materialized a big shield that she used to bash him away before she grew to a giant size (not too big to not reach the ring out barrier) and began to sweep the arena with two big lasers from her palms while she made her minions disappear. But Sonic simply avoided them by running left and right on the track before he ended up reaching her feet and proceeded to repeatedly Homing Attack her all over.
She tried to slap him like a fly but failed, so she disappeared and reappeared in the opposite side of the area, back to her normal size, before she materialized new minions, this time random robots and vehicles that could roll as fast as the machines. Since they weren't flying, there was no way that Sonic could use them this time to reach her.
The minions fired at Sonic with guns and rocket launchers, but he was used to such circumstances thanks to Eggman so he had no problem avoiding them despite the machines being obstacles to freely move around. He simply bounced above them if he had to. Between destroying the minions, he grabbed items to see if he could use them to regain the advantage. But he only got a beam sword, some kind of bumper, a green shell, and a big tomato with a M?
"Wait. Is that...?"
Didn't Sweetie Void say something about tomatoes that healed all your wounds back in Kirby's homeworld?
He ate it, and all the burns and few other wounds he got since the start of this fight disappeared.
"Healing items?! Seriously?!" Phantom yelled.
"That's part of the spice!" she heard Master Hand say. "You should have payed more attention to them! They are part of the fight!"
Phantom facepalmed with a groan. "No matter..." She glared back at Sonic as the hedgehog restarted destroying her minions while searching for items to use, which she made sure to destroy or to push on the track with her powers. By now the Falcon Flyer was gone again, so she had a better view of everything as the drone-platforms weren't that big. "You needed a tomato to heal, but not me! With the Phantom Ruby's power, I'm constantly regenerating myself! All the wounds you caused on me are already gone! You will never be able to knock me out!"
"But I can still win by ring out! I just gotta figure out how..."
Phantom didn't reply with words, instead shifting gravity again so Sonic had to cling on the side of one of the machines. Phantom's minions weren't affected by it however and could still roll on the track without problem, always firing at Sonic. The hedgehog had no choice but to jump from machine to machine to avoid the projectiles, and then jumped on the back of a minion that looked like one of the members of the Subspace Army, the ones that looked like living, robotic one-wheeled red bikes. Riding on it despite the weird angle, Sonic was able to steer it left and right (or up and down). Phantom didn't lose time dispelling the minion, forcing Sonic to jump again on a machine.
Phantom then restarted firing small beams from her hands while sending cannons to reform her beam barriers. Like before, Sonic went to the edge of the track and jumped on its side, running on it, to avoid the barriers. The track's side didn't have a lot of place to move left and right however, so he had more difficulty avoiding the homing missiles and the beams, often forcing him to jump back on the machines before returning on the track's side.
"You know, we can continue like that for hours!"
"You will eventually tire out! Even you have a limit to your stamina!"
"Pff! Come on! I could jog like that for days, no problem! Without counting the hunger, thirst, lack of sleep, and need to go to the restroom."
"He calls going beyond the speed of sound a simple jog..." Phantom muttered before she suddenly reversed gravity, almost getting Sonic as he was saved by Homing Attacking a few missiles before jumping on the opposite side of one of the machines where he was burned by a beam barrier which Phantom continued to create. But then, Sonic got the idea of Homing Attacking the missiles again to reach one of the cannons producing the beams forming the barriers, then used the cannon to reach Phantom, this time attempting a kick. But Phantom moved aside in a blink of an eye and punched him in the gut.
Before he was propelled away, Sonic was able to cling to Phantom's arm, then pocked her eyes with two of his fingers, forcing her to put a hand on them in pain. He then used this to wrap himself around her body before headbutting her. But Phantom quickly recovered and was able to catch Sonic by the neck, almost strangling him. He punched her arm to try to force her to release him, in vain.
Phantom glared at him, then looked at the closest face of the ring out barrier, and though Why didn't I think of that earlier? before she grabbed Sonic by the legs with the intent to throw him toward the barrier. But then, Sonic curled into a ball and began to roll in the air. Phantom still holding to his legs, she found herself spinning around at sickening speed while Sonic was starting to fall down with her toward the ring out barrier. But instead of waiting to fall into it, Sonic Spin Dashed mid-air forward right into the ring out barrier before him, bringing Phantom with him.
Because Phantom was spinning around Sonic, she touched the barrier first, followed by Sonic a fraction of a second later.
"Ring out!" Master Hand shouted before the two fighters were brought back to Sinnoh. "The victor is: Sonic!"
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I remember reading this a while ago but i wanted to know why you wrote Sweetie Belle as a goddess.
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She isn't really a goddess yet. She has just ascended into alicornhood at the end of the previous story and, where the others are some kind of avatar of the Sun, the Moon, Love, and Magic, she has become some kind of avatar of the Void, which is the Origin and the End of Everything. And right now, she is more of a half-goddess as she hasn't reached maturity yet, like Kirby.
Phantom needs some practice
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Since Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Twilight arent deities that means Sweetie will outrank them when she reaches maturity.
Which is my favorite Pokemon to send out against opponents in Melee. Sure, they could run away from Snorlax as it falls, but I can always hit them back into it.
Nice Shadow The Hedgehog reference!
Were you thinking of the final phase of Fecto Elfilis when you wrote this? Because that's the first thing I thought of.
I hope at some point Phantom and Apple Death find some way to close the gap in power between them and Sweetie Void so they can be more useful for the final battle in the distant future.
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She pretty much already did. on the Prequel of this she Battled Luna(who was stated to be the most Combat-Proficient Alicorn at the Time) and did so with Barely Effort at all.
the Only Princess who can ever Hope to somewhat Match her now is Twilight,Due to How Close Magic and Void are In Nature with Magic Being Right Below if Only Because Is Limited By Rules that may Vary depending of the Current Reality is it Bound to.
but of course,To reach such Level Twilight first would have to go trough some serious Awakening In her Capabilities.
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As already said by 11343565, her powers are already beyond the alicorns, and she already technically outranks them because Void is superior to the Sun, Moon, and so on, and she is also a Queen.
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Surprisingly, not at all. It was just a random idea among many others, and I didn't think at all of the Big Rig Mouth sequence.
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They already are very good in their own ways. Phantom has her reality-bending powers, and Apple Death can turn a whole army into controlled zombies very rapidly. Phantom losing to Sonic is pretty much because of bad luck and because he is Sonic. And this was a very close fight.
Damn, I guess I should have thought about Phantom's cockiness more. At least I got the Mario vs Cinderace prediction right, but Phantom losing here invalidates most of my guesses for this quadrant; I had her making it all the way to semis.
I repeat, most real tournaments tailor the brackets to minimize the chance that major players get eliminated in the first round. Sonic and Phantom are the only two characters in this quadrant who stood a chance against each other.
Other future matchup things: Kirby is now sure to defeat Apple Death because Sonic is more or less completely incapable of harming the latter unless she lets him and that'd be incredibly boring for a semifinal.
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I didn't think that this was cockiness from her. She first tried to play it smart and to win by using what seemed to be the simplest solution: shift gravity to get a ring out while remaining out of range from Sonic's Homing Attack. And when this didn't work, she tried different tactics again and again and lost more and more patience until she just started to throw everything without thinking much. But she forgot an important advice: the best solutions are often the simplest ones. She could have simply materialized a big wall in Sonic's path right before him and he would have crashed into it, and because of the rapid advance of the arena, this would have resulted in a ring out. And this was just one potential easy solution.
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Falco would have a similar problem against Decidueye. The Pokémon being a Ghost-type, only his ray gun and some items would be effective. And Master Hand knows that and a boring match is the last thing he wants.
YES
new chapter!!
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yyyep
Well, it was a entertaining read
I was wondering if items were gonna be a part of this. Which raises the question: will Smash Balls and Final Smashes or some equivalent will be a part of this arc?
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No. If the characters have an ultimate attack like the PK Starstorm, then they will be able to use it whenever they want without needing a special ball to activate it.
I don't know why, but I imagine Eggman was momentarily confused, while aiming the Egg Dragoon's gun at Cinderace, then shrugging and firing.