Chapter 135: Originull Wasteland Part 2
"So, let's think about it now, but once we encounter Dedede again, who will fight him? Unless we decide to say "screw it" and we all attack him at once?" Phantom asked.
"I'm thinking of letting Kirby do the job. If Dedede defeats Kirby, I'll eat all of Rarity's fabrics," Sweetie Void answered.
"No, I'll fight him again!" Marx exclaimed. "The first time, he took me by surprise! But it won't happen again!"
Marx's defeat was really sticking in his throat.
Meanwhile, Bandana seemed to hesitate to say something, unsure. He didn't have time to decide however as they already arrived at their next destination: a mall.
"A mall again?" Present Sonic asked.
Fox shrugged. "A mall again."
"And this one has its first floor almost entirely buried in the sand. I guess that we will have to enter by the second floor," Zan Partizanne said.
Before long, the Lor dropped them in front of the mall where a single Blade Knight was standing guard. As Zan said, the sand prevented from entering by the usual entrance, but luckily, a sand dune and a board allowed them to reach the second floor where a broken glass let them enter.
The inside was as full of sand as the outside, so the heroes couldn't go to the first floor as they passed beside the stairs while fighting the enemies present. This left them no choice but to pass through a door to a room that seemed to be staff only as there were lockers, shelves full of folders, and desks with computers, among other things. Spooksteps ambushed them but were quickly disposed of, and the heroes traversed the room, fighting more Spooksteps and even a Needlous falling from the ceiling on a safe.
Another door led back to the main part of the mall beside an ice cream stand. There was a decorative giant ice scream cone, and further away, in the wall, was a triangular hole, perfect for the cone to fit. Seeing as there were no other way to continue, Kirby inhaled the ice cream cone and put himself in the hole while the others protected him from the many Primal Awoofies present and trying to stop him. Kirby then had the idea of channeling his energy into the wall, making the part around the hole explode. Kirby discarded the cone by the same occasion.
"Put the right shape in the right hole. Literally child's play," Little Ghost said.
Traversing the newly created hole, they returned in the staff only section of the mall where Phantas ambushed them. Traversing a pit by jumping on a spinning platform, they passed beside another hole in the wall, this time a circle, and they could hear a Waddle Dee call for help behind it.
"A circle. We have to find a ring! Hihi! It's funny! It's like a game," Sweetie Void said.
They didn't have to search far to find the ring. Returning in the main part of the mall, they had to destroy a bomb block to destroy a small wall of iron blocks, revealing a small room with a ring. Kirby inhaled it right away and returned in the staff only section to put himself in the circular hole and destroy the wall. His gusts of wind (and the help of the others) made short work of the Phantas and Scarfys trying to stop him. At the other side of the newly created hole, back in the main section of the mall, was a Clocker with a Waddle Dee.
Continuing, they had to traverse a carpet of spikes by jumping on small moving platforms. And like before, they passed a hole, this time rectangular, with cries of a Waddle Dee that could be heard coming from the other side.
"Vending machine!" Ness exclaimed.
Fighting their way through hordes of Primal Awoofies, they arrived at a door leading back to the staff only section. But before, Meta Knight cut a rope at a corner, making a platform drop and revealing a hole leading to a part of the first floor that wasn't buried in sand. Here, in front of cardboard boxes, was a vending machine. Sweetie then teleported Kirby back to the rectangular hole where he destroyed the wall, not minding the Mumbies that came, and rescued the Waddle Dee at the other side in the staff only section.
Meanwhile, some of the others had advanced through the door and returned in the staff only section to clean from all enemies, especially the ghostly ones that appeared. As they traversed a small pit by going down some stairs before climbing back a ladder, they were joined by the rest, and they saw a door behind a grid, in a small side room. The only way to enter that room, beside teleporting, was through a small vent that only the smaller among the heroes could traverse. So Kirby passed through it with Poo and Apple Death, and they passed the door, returning in the main section of the mall where a Bonkers awaited them.
To make it harder, Gordos came and began to float in a square formation, delimiting an arena.
Poo began by sending a PK Thunder, shocking the Bonkers, and Apple Death followed by levitating the Bonkers before slamming him repeatedly on the Gordos until he was knocked out. Kirby then used his Wild Hammer Ability to pound two nails, opening a gate and allowing them to reach a treasure chest with a Waddle Dee trapped in it.
Meanwhile, the others returned in the main section of the mall where they found a treasure chest partially buried in a sand pile. Sweetie sent a gust of wind to blow out the sand, and Anubis opened the chest, freeing the Waddle Dee in it. At the same time, Past Sonic, who went ahead, spotted a large circular hole in the ground, as well as a smaller circular hole in a wall a bit further away. Thinking a bit, he pointed at a clock on a wall, and Meta Knight took the clock and broke it so only a ring remained.
When Kirby returned with Apple Death and Poo, he saw the ring as well as the two holes and inhaled it. He then had to carefully jump on a spinning + platform to reach the circular hole in the wall, destroying it and revealing a small room with a water pipe. Perfect! He drank the water, becoming a huge water balloon, and jumped back on the + platform to join back the hole in the floor and enter it, perfectly fitting. He destroyed the floor, and some of the heroes dropped into the revealed break room where several Beast Pack members as well as a captured Waddle Dee awaited them.
Once they were done here, they returned on the previous floor, some with the help of the others, and they all traversed the + platform as well as the second one that was after it. Seeing another triangle-shaped hole in the wall at the end, and seeing another stand of ice cream with another decorative ice cream cone, Kirby inhaled the cone and climbed to the hole to destroy the wall.
A balcony outside of the mall revealed to be at the other side. And on it was a golden cage with three Clockers that looked to be very surprised, obviously not expecting the heroes to blow up the wall.
And that was all the Waddle Dees in the mall.
The sun fully disappeared beyond the horizon by the time the Lor dropped the heroes at their next destination: a canyon at the extremity of the desert. They almost traversed it!
"Too bad we are a bit late. Sunsets, or sunrises, are perfect while we traverse canyons. Now, at least, it's cold," Sweetie Void said. "Be prepared for lots of dangerous platforming however. I already see some blocks that crumble under our hooves, or feet, or whatever."
"Dangerous platforming is our thing!" Present Sonic said with a thumb up for himself and his past self.
Others were less exuberant however...
It started alright, thankfully. They just had to scale a cliffside step by step, through narrow walkways and switchbacks, all the while dealing with the Beast Pack slowing them down. At least, the crumbling blocks reappeared after a bit. It still took a lot of time for all the heroes to reach the top of the path without falling. Here, they found themselves before the entrance of a cave that they entered once everyone was present.
Right at the beginning, a light bulb awaited for Kirby to use it to light the way alongside Sweetie Void while Phantom materialized lamps for some of the others. The cave was rather narrow per moment, so they had to advance mostly in a file, again, until they reached a solar panel switch like they already encountered in previous pitch black areas like the haunted house from Wondaria. Activating the switch opened a large metallic door, allowing the heroes to continue.
After the door was a very narrow walkway above an abyss that the heroes had to very carefully walk on in a file while Apple Death dealt with the Ghost Gordos present. After jumping up a step, they arrived at a section of the walkway where the floor was entirely replaced by crumbling blocks, forcing the heroes to go one or two at a time. More crumbling blocks were present after that here and there when the walkway made a loop, along with Gordos on the path.
A large area with two Gigatzos then came, and Sweetie Void barely saw a secret path behind the second Gigatzo that led to a solar panel switch. activating it would make a staircase platform come out of a wall, and they would have to hurry up to climb it to reach a Waddle Dee, but Sweetie simply flew to the Waddle Dee. Much faster and less risky.
The heroes reached a second narrow walkway.
"Watch out!" Phantom warned Kirby before a pillar fell on the walkway, destroying part of it. Dark Meta Knight then pointed at the right, revealing a secondary path that dit a small detour.
The same thing happened again afterward, this time two pillars destroying a staircase that led to a door. Thankfully at the left was a solar panel switch that made a slope rise out of the abyss with another captured Waddle Dee. The heroes then passed the door and reached a room where a huge metallic door opened, revealing the exit of the cave, and the canyon.
Under the moonlight, the heroes exited the cave and followed the path before they climbed a ladder. They then had to cross a series of narrow passageways with bridges of crumbling blocks, making the advance just as slow as in the cave. On the third bridge of blocks, on an out-of-the-way part, was a Clocker with a Waddle Dee, the bird probably thinking that, by luring the heroes there, they would fall into the abyss below due to a lack of blocks to walk on once they crumbled. Too bad for it, the blocks didn't work when the heroes could fly.
Lots of Scarfys and Mumbies were present, as well as some Gigatzos, especially on the bridges of crumbling blocks. This forced the heroes to quickly deal with them as they traversed.
The flying heroes reached a ledge where there was a scissor-lift. Not minding it, they pressed a switch that opened a gate to a door. Kirby, Meta Knight, and Marx went through it. In the new area it led to, Kirby would normally have to use another scissor-lift to cross another bridge of crumbling blocks to reach an elevated platform, but the three simply flew to reach the captured Waddle Dee on yet another bridge of blocks.
Back with the others, they continued on the passageway and bridges, reaching a part where a pillar falling caused a section to be destroyed. This forced the heroes who couldn't fly to either do long jumps, or let the flying ones transport them.
Finally, they reached some building that they had to climb with a long ladder to reach a door to enter it. After traversing the building, they exited it and entered a courtyard with an arch that Kirby inhaled to become a glider. Like the previous time this happened, Sweetie created a flying carpet to transport everyone else that didn't fly, and they followed Kirby and flew in the canyon.
They passed beside a lighthouse lying against the cliffside, then avoid several sets of falling pillars before they passed several destroyed wind turbines. Avoiding more pillars as well as sone Gigatzos, they then had to avoid an actually falling stone pillar, and then pass through an even bigger one, snatching a captured Waddle Dee at the other side. Passing not far of wrecks, Kirby then finally landed at the end of the canyon, in a valley not far of another lighthouse, where a golden cage was present, the three Clockers transporting it not expecting the heroes to come all the way here.
But it wasn't over. According to Krystal, more Waddle Dees were present further ahead in the valley. Sweetie had to use her flying carpet to transport everyone above the rocks until they saw a slope that descended toward a tunnel. So Sweetie made everyone land, and they followed the path in the tunnel.
However, something quickly felt wrong in this tunnel when they saw elements from previous areas they visited. Barriers, billboards, longing chairs, stuff from Wondaria, notably the dogs, gift boxes too, lockers from Alivel Mall, all that among many other things.
They then saw a wall on which was a lot of wanted posters of all the heroes, posters that they regularly saw as they explored the areas, but never in that much quantity.
"It seems that we're about to face that mysterious presence that has been following us since Natural Plains," Krystal said.
Present Sonic nodded. "Some kind of collector judging by all that junk, and also very obsessed by us. It gives me the chill."
Finally, they entered a large room in the cave with lots of handmade puppets of all the heroes hanging from the ceiling. Among them was a golden cage with three Waddle Dees that were knocked out.
"Now handmade puppets of us. Brrrr," Diddy said.
"That stalker wants to add us to his collection, it seems," Phantom said.
Carefully, the heroes approached the golden cage to free the Waddle Dee, only to be stopped by a boom! that shook the room.
They quickly turned around and saw, just behind them, a huge crazy-looking armadillo who was holding a cage. He swung, trying to catch Elfilin in the cage, but Sweetie Void immediately destroyed the cage with a beam, making the armadillo step back in surprise. The armadillo simply laughed at this.
He then grabbed another cage from his shell (which had street signs attached on it for some reason) and, now attempted to capture Jeff who quickly jumped away.
Present sonic and Past Sonic exchanged a look, then did a quickly rock paper scissor, which Past Sonic won.
"Alright, it's your turn," Present Sonic said. "Repair our broken pride that Dedede destroyed."
Past Sonic nodded, and then ran just in front of Sillydillo, making himself a target. To make sure that the animal would go after him, he showed his butt and slapped it while sticking his tongue out.
It worked. Frowning, Sillydillo swung his cage at him, but he easily dodged it and hit him with a Homing Attack on the head. Now properly angry, Sillydillo did some rapid swings to try to catch the hedgehog who continuously ran out of the way. When he had the occasion, Past Sonic did another Homing Attack, hitting Sillydillo on the head again.
While this happened, the others returned at the entrance of the room to watch the fight.
After a third Homing Attack on the head, Sillydillo rolled up into a ball and broke the floor, making Past Sonic and himself fall into another, larger room with an opening to outside the cave, the Moon shining through. Sillydillo then jumped away from Sonic and rolled up into a ball again before he rolled toward Sonic who ran out of the way with a "Olé!" Sonic then quickly rolled up into a ball too and began to charge energy. Sonic and Sillydillo then rolled toward each other, and Sillydillo was the one who found himself lifted off the ground like a pin by Sonic.
While Sillydillo was stunned as a result, Sonic quickly attacked him again with more Spin Dashes, sending the armadillo flying again repeatedly. Sillydillo eventually recovered his senses and landed on his feet before he tried to catch Sonic, to slap him, to punch him, to stomp him, but Sonic was just too fast for him. He missed all the time. Sillydillo then had the idea of placing his cage on Sonic's path, and Sonic ran right into it. Too bad for Sillydillo, Sonic's quills were strong enough to shred iron, so the hedgehog easily destroy the cage and freed himself, giving Sillydillo a Homing Attack in the face for his trouble.
Sillydillo glared at Sonic, observing him by the same occasion, then jumped and... did his own Homing Attack!
"Wha-?!" CRASH!
With a mighty crash that shook the cave, Sillydillo landed right on a very surprised Sonic, crushing him. Sillydillo then made sure to stomp for some extra hurt. He forgot however that Sonic, as a hedgehog, was very prickly, so he found himself holding his foot while jumping around yelling in pain.
Sonic quickly took the occasion to attack again with a Spin Dash right on Sillydillo's other leg as it landed after a jump, tripping him. Sonic then did several Homing Attacks on Sillydillo's head while he was down until Sillydillo got up. The armadillo then attempted another Homing Attack of his own, but this time, Sonic knew that it was coming, so he easily dodged it.
So Sillydillo pulled out of nowhere a female armadillo made out of junk and began to dance with it all over the room.
"Damn. Now, I pity the guy," Sweetie said from where the other heroes were looking in what remained of the previous room, up above.
"I don't know, I think that he's just super crazy," Present Sonic said.
After dancing for a few seconds, Sillydillo suddenly threw his "dancing partner" right at Sonic, the fake female continuing to spin. Instead of dodging, Sonic hit it with a Homing Attack that sent it right back at Sillydillo who had been about to throw another fake armadillo. Taken by surprise, he was rammed by the fake female, followed by a Spin Dash from Sonic that sent the three of them (Sillydillo and the two fake armadillos) flying to land in a pile. Sonic then attacked him with several Homing Attacks before he could get out of the pile.
With a screech, Sillydillo eventually fell unconscious.
Of course, the three Waddle Dees were already saved, and everyone congratulated Past Sonic.
"That armadillo fought well, but the result was obvious," Present Sonic said.
"That he was able to copy the Homing Attack still was surprising," Phantom said. "He must have some Pinkie Pie genes."
"So, now, we are done with this desert. But there are still Waddle Dees to save, right?" Fox asked to Krystal who confirmed with a nod.
"And let me guess, the next Waddle Dees are in the direction of the volcano?" Sweetie Void asked, and again, Krystal nodded.
Apple Death groaned. "Something Ah never missed in mah adventures with Mario are volcanic areas."
"Nobody likes them," Marx said.
"I like them!" Flamberge shouted.
"Excepted crazy fire mages," Marx added.
"Hey!"
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well, this story updated twice and this time i got to chapter 39 on my reread before i lost my place.
Sane fire mages like volcanic areas too, what with all fire to call upon. -Flamberge, probably
That would require sane fire mages to exist. -Marx, probably
additionally, i like that you just had the Sonics play rock paper scissors to see which of them fights Sillydillo.
Side note, i acknowledge the chances of this happening are likely 0% due to it being a spin-off series but i still feel it is worth asking, will Mario + Rabbids come into play, even if it is just giving Mario Luigi and Peach the weapons they had in one of those games?
I really just want to see Apple Death's reaction to Luigi pulling out either a sniper rifle that looks like the PolterGust, or a Bow that would not be out of place in a Power Rangers show and Peach whipping out either a shotgun-type weapon or the Boom-Brella
figured at least one link for some visual reference would be nice.
EDIT: note that the link above is for the weapons skins for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, released October 20th 2022.
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Sane fire mages are legendary specimens.
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I'm still undecided about Mario + Rabbids. It would have to be an alternate Mario, Luigi, and so on. I already have Doctor Mario to think of.
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point taken.
Damn! The next chapter came rather quick
How are characters like the Miis and Game and Watch going to be handled? It would be a stretch to make them fit.
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Game & Watch will be the one as we see in the Subspace Emissary. For the Miis, I have my little idea.
Hmm... Looking forward to finding out what's on Bandana Dee's mind...
Though I still gotta finish up the last Natural Plains chapter in my own story.
And Equestrian dragons, fire-type pokemon, some dragon-type pokemon, and other creatures who thrive in volcanic areas.
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True.