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Harmony of Heroes: Ultimate Multiverse Explorers - Lucar



Several months after her adventures on Popstar, Sweetie Belle decides it's time to start new adventures in new universes

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Chapter 111: Tournament Part 4

Luigi was crying, ashamed, on Mario's shoulder, the older brother trying to comfort him with some pats on the back.

Meanwhile, Sweetie Void looked at them not knowing what to think while Lulla looked proud beside her. "You know, Lulla, you can't just count on Sing to win your fights. You could have waited until you had no other choice before using it. Now, everyone knows about it and will be prepared. You could have actually defeated Kirby by managing to surprise him like this."

Lulla's expression changed from proud to horror when she heard this. Sweetie was right. She was doomed.

Master Hand then selected the fighters and arena for the next battle.

Falco!

Versus...

Decidueye!

On the roof of Thanatos' castle (which didn't seem to have the the ruins of the tower and other pieces destroyed by Ω).

"If a replica of Thanatos' there, good luck," Apple Death warned both Falco and Hau.

"Why?" Hau asked.

"He was the previous owner of most of the powers Ah now possess and used them in the worst way possible, if ya see what Ah mean."

The two got the gist, and Hay gulped before they entered the arena. Once on it, they couldn't help but look around a bit to admire the castle, then watched some ghosts fly around, before Hau got Decidueye out.

"You are in your element, Decidueye! This fight will be piece of cake!" Hau cheered his Pokémon.

"In your dreams, kid. Ghosts don't scare me and especially not your little chick," Falco retorted confidently.

"Oooh! This is on, Polly!"

You could see a vein pop up on Falco's head. "Nobody calls me 'Polly' and lives to see the next day."

Master Hand started the fight, and Falco immediately ran toward Decidueye. He wasn't as fast as Fox, but he still could race.

So Hau quickly shouted, "Use Spirit Shackle!" and Decidueye jumped high into the air, avoiding a kick from Falco, before it grabbed one of the vines of its leafy hood to use it like the rope of a bow while closing the hood almost entirely. In a flash, it then plucked a quill from its wings and placed it against the vine like an arrow, aiming, accumulating ghostly energy around the tip, before firing.

The arrow quill moved so fast that Falco wasn't able to move to avoid it. Thankfully for him, the arrow didn't target him. Instead, it planted itself in his shadow before unleashing a burst of blue fire-like energy that burned Falco for a few seconds before disappearing.

While it hurt, Falco wasn't impressed and, seeing where Decidueye landed, he grabbed his ray gun and began to fire at the Pokémon while starting to move to avoid the Razor Leaf that it used. However, Falco quickly felt a pull that stopped him from taking even one step, leaving him to be cut repeatedly by the sharp leaves. He still was able to limit the damage by protecting himself with his arms.

Once the leaves stopped coming, Falco used the respite to look down at the arrow quill still planted in his shadow, understanding that it was the reason that his movements were restrained. He moved to pull it off, but was quickly forced to place his arms again to defend against a Sucker Punch powered up by a Sword Dance.

"Urgh... I give you this... You got me good there," Falco admitted with a grunt before he ducked to avoid a Leaf Blade.

With Decidueye's constant assault, Falco didn't have any occasion to pull off the arrow, forcing him to be on the defense as he blocked or avoided the Pokémon's attacks. Eventually, he managed to get an opening, punching the owl Pokémon in the gut.

Where he lacked speed compared to Fox, he made up for it with strength, so his punch hurt!

Falco then quickly pulled off the arrow, finally allowing him to move from his position, and most of all, allowing to do a very fast spin kick on Decidueye's face. With his arms hurting like heck because of all the blocking, using his legs was the best way to continue the fight for him, beside using his ray gun.

Now that he got the advantage, he pressed it, continuously kicking interspersed with firing with his ray gun. While this happened, platforms made of bones formed here and there but nobody minded them.

But Decidueye was eventually able to jump like before, then it used Brave Bird. This time, Falco wasn't able to block or dodge, so he too the attack right on his torso and was sent flying far. Decidueye took some damage from the recoil however, but when it landed, it immediately used Giga Drain to drain some of Falco's energy as he was recovering, healing itself a bit. Finally, Decidueye used Leaf Storm, hoping to finish the fight.

To its surprise, Falco charged right into the storm of sharp leaves, and used his ray gun to fire at some of the leaves on his path, diminishing their number, and so, the damage he received. On the way, Falco moved a bit to the left to grab a baseball bat that had appeared and readied it. Decidueye jumped again to avoid his attack, but Falco surprised it again by jumping too.

Then Falco swung the bat.

In a tenth of a second, Decidueye plucked a quill and fired it down.

The bat hit Decidueye right on the head, but contrary to what Falco expected, the Pokémon wasn't sent flying. It remained right where it was, and it was even floating! As Falco lande, he quickly saw the reason: Decidueye fired the quill at its own shadow to stop itself from being sent away!

Despite the bad hit from the bat, Decidueye then used its position to its advantage to fire another quill at Falco's shadow, trapping him and hurting him with a blue fire-like energy again. While Falco pulled off the quill, Hau suddenly crossed his arms, showing his Z-Ring which flashed.

"That was a fun fight, but now, let's end this! Come on, Decidueye!" Hau then did a series of moves reminiscent of a ghost while an aura of energy appeared around him, then around Decidueye, and he shouted, "Sinister Arrow Raid!"

A big number of quills came out and surrounded Decidueye in an arc while the one planted in its shadow disappeared in the blue fire-like energy. Decidueye then charged toward Falco followed by the quills.

"Crap!"

Falco ran away while firing at Decidueye with his ray gun. Seeing that it didn't work, Falco readied the bat again and waited for it to come. And just as Decidueye was about to swoop past, Falco jumped to meet it and swung the bat.

The bat clashed with Decidueye's beak before Falco was hit by a small explosion, then by all the arrows which also exploded in a blue blast of fire-like energy. The two fighters ended up covered in smoke.

When it cleared, everyone could see Falco unconscious on the ground, and Decidueye seemed ready to join him but was able to resist, barely.

"Victor: Decidueye!" Master Hand confirmed its victory.

Hau jumped in joy at this, shouting, "You did it, Decidueye!" before he ran to hug his Pokémon, only for it to finally lose consciousness too.


"If it had been an aerial dogfight, I would have won," Falco mumbled after he was healed.

"Don't beat yourself. Z-moves are just OP," Blue said. "Fox is lucky that I didn't think of using mine. Using them isn't as much a second nature to me as it is to the alolans. This is the case for many of us here."

"And you still almost won despite it," Sweetie Void said. "But now that Hau reminded the others that they have Z-moves, I pity whoever will face the remaining Pokémon."

Susie giggled. "Unless they face you, then I will pity them."

And speaking of, the selected fighters for the next battle:

Captain Falcon!

"Ah. Finally," the captain said.

Versus... Sweetie Void!

Phantom patted Captain Falcon on the back. "Someone had to be the unlucky one. Sorry."

Captain Falcon didn't move and didn't say anything, giving his best poker face as Master Hand selected the arena: a platform made of logs strewn together sitting on rocks jutting out of a waterfall in a jungle with a small wooden house present beside the river. There were two tilted masts on the platform, each possessing two smaller platforms (one about midway and one near the top) made of horizontally sawed logs. A rock without anything on it was visible at the right of the platform, also jutting out of the waterfall. A floating barrel with an arrow pointing up was also present under the rocks with the platform.

Contrary to what some would think, the poker face wasn't hiding horror but determination. A will to try his best even knowing that he had no chance. Unless he was able to pull a miracle. Sonic did manage to defeat Phantom after all. Admittedly, Sonic had been advantaged because he already fought the Phantom Ruby in the past, and the arena helped him a lot, but it still showed that it was possible to defeat the fillies. He will just need to fight smart. Use the environment and items to his advantage.

"I don't recognise this place," Sweetie Void said.

"That's home!" Donkey Kong answered with a big grin.

"Oh. It's your island? That explains it. I never went there. What is this floating barrel with the arrow?"

"It's an Arrow Barrel. A Barrel Cannon that launches you in the direction pointed by the arrow if you enter it, and you can decide when it will fire," Diddy explained.

So this meant that if Captain Falcon fell, if he was lucky, he could fall into this barrel and be fired back to have another chance. That was good to know.

When they entered the arena, Captain Falcon appeared on the right side of the large platform while Sweetie Void appeared on the middle platform of the left mast.

The arena revealed to not be that big. The Ring Out Barrier made it so they couldn't go on the shore of the river, and the wooden platform itself wasn't large. Going in the water was out of the question. At least, for Captain Falcon. The turbulent water would just carry him down the waterfall. At least, a look down allowed them to see that the Arrow Barrel moved back and forth under the rocks, so if he was lucky...

"GO!"

Sweetie Void immediately jumped down from her platform to face Captain Falcon who took his gun and fired. The filly used her weapon-turned-staff-mode - which Falcon would swear she didn't have when she passed the portal to the arena - to deflect the ray beams with simple swings before she threw it at him using her magic, like a spear but without the sharp tip. With a large movement of his arm, Captain Falcon was able to deflect the staff away and immediately punched afterward to meet Sweetie's hoof that had been about to hit his face. He then ducked to avoid a beam fired from her horn before he managed to grab her by the neck and slammed her on the floor. Finally, he raised a foot to stomp her.

But Sweetie Void turned her fur, mane, and tail into spikes before turning herself into metal, so Captain Falcon ended up impaling his foot without hurting the filly at all. He quickly rose the foot and hold it in pain, and Sweetie used the occasion to make a sweep at his other foot to make him fall. She then jumped on his chest as he landed on his back and began to pummel his face, her body still metallic. So not only Falcon was being repeatedly punched by metallic hooves, which hurt a lot, but his chest was getting crushed by the weight of Sweetie's metallic body, cutting his breath and making his ribs hurt.

Despite all this, Captain Falcon readied a fist as he breathlessly muttered, "Falcon..." Fire covered the fist. "Punch...!!" He punched Sweetie Void from the side and sent her flying off his chest despite her metallic body, not minding that the resulting falcon of fire burned him a bit and that his knuckles ached as a result of punching metal. He immediately stoop up to face the filly who didn't fly far as she was just in front of him, her body not metallic anymore. But as he focused on her, he didn't notice the staff returning and he was hit on the cheek with a swing from it.

Sweetie Void then turned into her human-self and jumped to catch the staff before using it to relentlessly attack Captain Falcon. One swing and she hit him on the left ribs. Another swing and she got him on the right leg with the opposite end. A spin followed by a thrust and the tip of the staff struck on the liver, making him bend. The thrust was then followed by an upward swing that hit Falcon on the chin. Falcon was able to block the next swing however, and he quickly moved away to jump on the midway platform of the right mast. Sweetie Void quickly joined him on it, but then, a star suddenly appeared and fell right on the bounty hunter.

This revealed to be a star from Mario's universe, as Captain Falcon was then surrounded by the sparkling aura of near invincibility such stars gave.

"Seriously?" she shouted.

Captain Falcon grinned. He didn't know what the star was, but he felt the energy coursing him and immediately got a deep understanding that, as long as it was present, the filly couldn't do much to him. So he used this to his advantage and began to recklessly attack Sweetie Void who did her best to dodge or block everything. Thankfully for her, the effects of the star didn't last long and quickly dissipated after a few seconds.

When this happened, she grinned, and Falcon actually gulped.

Then, without warning, a small blue crocodile-like creature was thrown at his head, and the crocodile's jaw snapped shut on his face. As Falcon tried to pull it off without success, Sweetie Void spotted something she recognised on another platform and gasped before reaching it with a jump. The item she saw turned out to be none other than a piece of the Dragoon, the legendary Air Ride machine, the nosecone more exactly.

"There's even the Dragoon? But how will this work? Won't we be Ringed Out if we use it?" she wondered aloud.

"It's a special case," Master Hand answered her. "Once you collect the three parts, the Dragoon is immediately formed. Then, once you climb on it, it will transport you away, no Ring Out, then do a U-turn and fly back toward the arena. You won't need to do anything beside stirring it so it rams into your opponent, so you don't need to know how to drive it. Whether you hit your opponent or not, the Dragoon will then return above the arena and disappear, dropping you back on it."

"That's great!" She felt relieved about the 'no need to know how to drive it' part because she never learned how to drive them. Maybe she should ask Kirby if he would let her learn with his Dragoon.

While Master Hand talked, Captain Falcon finally managed to pull off the blue crocodile before throwing it down the waterfall. He then jumped down on the main platform and grabbed a red diamond-shaped object with written on the top, white face a big black 'B'.

It wasn't hard to guess that it was some kind of bomb. Not sure of the kind however. When in doubt, he decided to just throw the bomb toward Sweetie Void who still was thinking about learning to drive the Dragoon.

Thankfully for Captain Falcon, this Smart Bomb was quite a toned down version of the real one invented by Slippy. If it had been a real one, then the resulting explosion would have enveloped the whole arena and Captain Falcon would have been caught in the blast, and its power would have blown him and Sweetie right to the Ring Out Barrier, knocking him out right away by the same occasion.

This replica's explosion only took a small area in comparison, small enough that it didn't reach the captain. But this meant that its power wasn't as great, and so, Sweetie wasn't blasted very far and she quickly recovered to air-jump back on the platform, back in her filly form, making sure to keep hold of the piece of the Dragoon with her magic. She then made Falcon regret his action by sending her staff like before only to turn it into whip mode at the last moment when the captain was about to knock it away. She then made it wrap him, making sure to get his arms so they were stuck alongside his body. Then, she used her whip to lift Captain Falcon in the air before she made the magical links between the sections explode. While this happened, Sweetie Void spotted a second piece of the Dragoon, the body, on the bare rock and took it using her magic.

As she expected, Captain Falcon remained conscious despite the explosion. He was a though one after all, went through a lot. It wasn't a small explosion like that that would get him. The explosion barely ended and she barely returned her whip to her that he came out of the cloud of dust that it created and attacked her with a Falcon Kick on the face that sent her flying. But she immediately recovered midair and charged back at Captain Falcon with a hoof surrounded in fire, giving him a terrible fire punch in the gut. But then, she was grabbed by the tail and Falcon made her hang upside down in front of him before he Falcon Punched her, releasing her tail at the last moment. Again, this sent her flying but, this time, she teleported while keeping her momentum and appeared right behind Captain Falcon, ramming him on the spine. She then levitated a crate and slammed it on him, the crate revealing a Poké Ball, a beam sword, and a mushroom from Mario's universe which dropped on the captain, making him grow in size until he was two times bigger than usual.

Captain Falcon quickly grabbed the sword, which somehow grew to fit his size, and began to attack Sweetie Void with it. But the filly quickly flew away while taking the Poké Ball before throwing it at him. The ball hit him on the head and opened, letting out a Goldeen that only used Splash, to the filly's dismay. Captain Falcon easily kicked the fish away.

But then, Sweetie Void spotted the final piece of the Dragoon on the main platform, the multicolored 'feathers' forming the tail, and quickly grabbed it with her magic. As Master Hand said, the three pieces immediately assembled and she didn't lose time before hopped on it before it flew away with her. In a blink of an eye, she was just a twinkling star in the sky. Captain Falcon, in panic, thought quickly and decided to jump down into the Arrow Barrel, thinking that he will be safe in it.

He wasn't.

A couple of seconds later, there was another twinkling star that announced the return of the Dragoon, and the air ride machine pierced the barrel at a speed beyond the one of sound. This not only knocked out Captain Falcon right then and there, but it also sent him flying beyond the Ring Out Barrier far into the sky. Sweetie Void landed back on the arena not long afterward.

"The victor is: Sweetie Void!"

"No surprise there," Phantom commented.

"Did she have to use the Dragoon on this poor man? She could have simply thrown him beyond the barrier," one of the Fluttershy said.

"For the show, I guess," Chromatic Bolt replied. "Or just for the heck of using the Dragoon."


"At least, I let him fight a bit instead of knocking him out right away like a certain puffball did," Sweetie Void said.

"Yeah... But I don't know if it was better or not. You looked like a cat toying with its prey," her Twilight said.

"No matter what I would have done, it would have looked bad anyway, but this way he got some fighting time."

"The first fighter of the next battle is... POO! Versus... MAGOLOR!" Master Hand announced.

The arena selected afterward looked to be from Termina judging by the Moon visible in the background. However, Sweetie didn't recognise the area it was from. Admittedly, she didn't see much from Termina back then, but recalling Link's recounting, she identified the area as the Great Bay. It didn't take place on the coast however, or the temple, or the pirates' stronghold. Instead, it was on a group of platforms in the middle of the sea, not far of the coast.

One of the platforms, an metallic one, was right on the water with the statue of an owl on it. Right at its left was another metallic platform, this one elevated on four piles, with a weird round building on it. Finally, at the left of the platform with the building, barely poking out of the water, was a small flat rock serving as a third platform. It wasn't all however as a giant turtle was present at the very right, head facing the platforms, two palm trees on its shell.

Before the two fighters entered it, Poo thought to ask something.

"Can we swim?"

"Yes. But be careful to not swim beyond the barrier. This includes going too deep."

Poo nodded, and he entered the arena alongside Magolor. The boy appeared on the left side of the platform with the house while Magolor appeared on one of the palm trees on the turtle.

"This will be hard not to fall in the water..." Poo muttered as he understood that he would be very disadvantaged if he fell in it. Heck, he was already disadvantaged because Magolor could naturally fly.

"GO!"

Magolor flew to Poo right away, preparing an Ultra Sword. Before he could attack, Poo yelled "PK Brainshock!" and sent a ray of psychic energy that reached Magolor. This confused the alien, the world starting to spin around for him. In his confusion, his attack hit nothing, and Poo used this to place a PK Shield on himself before he attacked with a PK Freeze that managed to freeze Magolor. He had no problem freeing himself from the ice however, the confusion gone, before he countered by sending several orbs of energy that were able to pass through Poo's shield and hit him fully. He then conjured one of his needles of energy right under the boy who was sent flying by it. Poo landed on his feet right on the small rock and immediately sent a PK Thunder in return. Magolor barely blocked the resulting thunder strike with his star-shaped magic barrier in time, but it wasn't able to block the following PK Starstorm, the barrier breaking under the meteors.

After being his by a first meteor, Magolor quickly opened a portal and entered it to avoid the others. Poo remained on guard, looking around in wait for Magolor to reappear. But he didn't expect him to charge right out of the water, but he still reacted in time to avoid him by jumping back on the platform with the round building. Magolor entered another portal however, and came out of another right behind Poo, still trying to ram him. But Poo was ready this time and, in the blink of an eye, he unsheathed his weapon, the Sword of Kings, spun around, and slashed at Magolor who was sent backward to crash on the turtle.

Turtle who decided that it was the moment to immerse himself into the ocean, Magolor thus ending in the water. Poo quickly used PK Thunder to strike the water, electrifying Magolor.

Despite this terrible blow, it wasn't enough to down Magolor who flew out of the water and sent energy balls right away. But he then remarked something that made him stop his assault as his eyes became as big as saucers.

"Eehh?! Wait-wait-wait! Wait! Is it me, or is this ugly Moon over there getting bigger and bigger?"

"Don't mind it. What happens with the Moon will have no consequence on the battle. It's just part of the background of the arena, for the ambiance," Master Hand reassured.

"If you say so..." Magolor accepted before he looked back at Poo only to see that his body was now metallic. "Uh? You can turn into metal too?"

"No. There was that weird green box with an exclamation point that appeared. When I picked it up, it disappeared, and my body was metallic."

"Oh. An item that turns you into metal? I don't know from which universe this comes from, but it would be nice to have something like that on hand for the future."

At this, they resumed the battle, Magolor sending this time swirling fireballs while Poo replied with PK Freeze which Magolor avoided by entering a portal again. He reappeared right behind Poo, and this time, he had a magic barrier ready to block the sword slash. He then quickly grabbed and ate a steak that was present on the floor, the food healing him a bit, before he moved back to reach, lift and throw a yellow paper-mach ball that was surprisingly heavy. The ball landed hard on Poo but it didn't do much since he was still metallic, but then, the ball floated up a bit and made a little jingle before opening, letting out a shower of confetti as well as several items.

Out of the ball came a strawberry shortcake, an onigiri, a pineapple, a Poké Ball, a Star Rod, a green shell, and a paper fan.

Poo immediately grabbed the Poké Ball and threw it at Magolor, hitting him on the head with it before it opened and let out a Meowth that used Pay Day. While Magolor was stuck being repeatedly hit by gold coins, Poo ate the three food to heal himself, then used PK Shield to put the reapply the shield on himself, then used PK Lifeup Alpha to heal himself up a bit more, before he finally used PK Magnet to steal some energy from Magolor and replenish himself. The Meowth then disappeared, freeing Magolor from the storm of coins, and the alien quickly recovered before he sent a dragon made of fire that badly burned Poo who wasn't metallic anymore. Magolor then moved so when he fired an energy ball at the green shell, it flew right into Poo's face. The green shell wasn't as effective as it would have been however as some of the damage it caused was absorbed by Poo's PK Shield.

Poo used PK Brainshock again, but Magolor immediately put up his magic barrier to protect himself, not wanting to get confused again. Magolor then raised his hands and created a rune circle that collapsed into a black hole, and Poo was too close to react in time and think of how to avoid being sucked in. For many long seconds, the boy was stuck inside the black hole where he received heavy damage before he was violently thrown out of it to slam on the floor. An energy needle then came out from under it and sent him into the air right in front of Magolor who blasted him into the water.

Despite all this, Poo was still conscious, but barely, so after swimming back to the surface of the water, he quickly used PK Lifeup to fully heal himself. But then, Magolor used his magic to gather a huge amount of electricity before unleashing it into the water.

Then, Magolor formed a giant hammer.

Despite being electrified, Poo still was able to react and created his best PK Shield in the hope of tanking it. But no matter how powerful the shield, it didn't protect him from the knockback of the hammer when it smashed on him, propelling him deep underwater.

"Ring out! The victor is: Magolor!" Master Hand announced.

"Are all people from that Dream Universe that scarily powerful?" one of the Twilight who wasn't Sweetie's Twilight wondered.

"Nah," Sweetie Void answered. "A very large majority of the inhabitants of the Dream Universe are still what you would consider normal. It's just Magolor who is easily in the top 10 of the most powerful in the universe. Maybe in the top 5. I'm not sure. Let's see... Void is number one... Kirby is number two... Then there's Galacta Knight... No, wait, I think that Meta Knight has surpassed him. And maybe Dedede too. Uh... Does Morpho Knight count? Well, no matter what, I take back what I said, Magolor isn't in the top 5. But top 10, this, I'm sure. Not sure of his position however. I will need to check with Marx and Dark Meta Knight. And Hyness. And the Mage Sisters. And Taranza. And Gooey. And Bandanna Dee too who is getting pretty darn strong. Uh... I'm not so sure about the top 10 anymore..."

Everyone who could hear the filly could only look at her with bemused expressions.

Author's Note:

I wanted to put in the next fight but I decided to cut here. It's a good place for the end of the chapter, and I'm honestly currently lacking the inspiration to end said fight. Really, I have been stuck on this fight for several days now.
Let me tell you, it's not tomorrow that I will do a full Pokémon crossover fic.

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