Harmony of Heroes: Ultimate Multiverse Explorers

by Lucar

Chapter 67: The Moon - Part 1

All remaining Cankens in the city either escaped or were eliminated.

And news from witnesses spread: Bowser had been possessed.

And since he was the one who had the Elemenstar...

"Oh come on! The Cankens got off with the Elemenstar?! Despite us winning?! Again?!" Sweetie Belle shouted.

"Seems like it," Apple Bloom groaned.

Phantom took a big breath to calm herself. "Let's hurry to heal everyone here so we can go to the Moon. If the last Elemenstar is there, then we must hurry."

"Or," Starlow began before she turned toward the still unconscious Wario. "We ask Wario where their pyramid is and we go grab the Elemenstars they already have, which they probably placed there! And we save Princess Peach by the same occasion!"

"Mmh... I don't know. Wouldn't it be too obvious? I'm sure that they hid the Princess and the Elemenstars somewhere else," Stuffwell retorted.

"You are overestimating the Cankens. Would they really think to hide Princess Peach and the Elemenstars somewhere else than in the middle of their HQ where they think they are well protected?" Starlow argued.

"I think that you are the one underestimating them. Remember how they managed to get the Elemenstars despite everything? They aren't stupid. We aren't even sure if they intend to do their ritual in their pyramid. They could do it on the Moon as soon as they have the fifth star, if the star is indeed on the Moon."

"Or maybe there's something specifically in their pyramid that will force them to do the ritual in it."

"The point is that we must not act on "maybes". Maybe they hid the Princess and the Elemenstars in their pyramid, or maybe not. Maybe they need the pyramid to do their ritual, or maybe not. What we know is that, as we speak, they are searching the Moon for the last Elemenstar. At least one of their leaders is there. It's very probable that they will even all be there since they already explored the whole planet. Whether the last Elemenstar is on the Moon or not, it is the perfect occasion to eliminate the whole leadership of the Cankens. And in the off chance that the last Elemenstar is on the Moon and that they could start their ritual right away upon getting it, then we must not wait. With them gone, then we can explore their pyramid to see if they indeed left the Princess and the Elemenstars in it. If not, then I'm sure that we will think of a way to find them."

"The suitcase has good points," Kamek began. "The priority is to eliminate the leadership of the Cankens."

"And save dad!" Bowser Jr. interjected.

"Right. And save Master Bowser, who we may certainly find on the Moon as the suitcase said. So if you decide to go to the pyramid anyway, then it will be without the Koopa Troops."

"But if Bowser, possessed by Cankentriops, is on the Moon, then you won't stand a chance!" Starlow warned. "I understand your points, but if Princess Peach is really kept prisoner inside the pyramid, then we must go and save her as soon as possible."

Mario and Luigi both agreed with nods, albeit uncertain because they knew that Stuffwell was right.

Sweetie Belle smirked. "I have an idea. How about everyone goes to the pyramid while I go to the Moon with the Koopa Troops?"

"Uh?"

Sweetie Belle explained what she was thinking. In absence of Bowser, she will take command of the armada and teleport it to the Moon so they don't lose time travelling to it. Then, on the Moon, they will fight the Cankens and do everything they can to eliminate the leaders and, especially, stop them from getting the last Elemenstar if it is there. Meanwhile, the rest of the group will go to the pyramid to see if Princess Peach and the Elemenstars are there, and get them out of there if that's the case. Or at least, if the Cankens need to use the pyramid for their ritual, manage to get the last star, and escape, then the group will already be there to welcome them.

"Are you sure you will be able to fight Cankentriops without our help?" Luigi asked.

"Don't worry. I have fought more powerful than this guy in the past. He is nothing."

"You really think that I will let you take command of the army?" Bowser Jr. shouted. "In absence of dad, then I'm the one in command! And if you decide to come, then you will be under my command too!"

"Do you even know how to lead an army?"

"Of course! Just ask the Koopalings!"

"Mmh... Then how about we both share command of the army?"

"No!"

"Then... How about a fight to determine who will be in command?"

Bowser Jr. thought about this and grabbed his paintbrush. "Fine!"

"Wait, Young Ma-" Kamek began only to be interrupted.

"The first to be KO! And it won't be me!" Bowser Jr. shouted before he charged at Sweetie Belle.

Only to take a beam between the eyes. The next instant, he was on the ground, sleeping.

"Seems like I win," Sweetie Belle said. "So I will be in command. Any objection?"

The members of the Koopa Troop looked down at the sleeping prince, then shook their heads.

"Alright, so I want all the injured to be brought to me as quickly as possible so they can be healed! And I really mean all! This includes everyone that isn't part of the Koopa Troop, like the New Donkers and Donkey Kong! Spread the order!"

The Koopalings went to do so, but Kamek remained just in case.

In the end, everyone agreed to the plan as Wario was the first to be healed. However, Cranky judged it better for him to remain in New Donk City because he was starting to tire from all the fighting. Funky and Tiny decided to remain with him, not really being fighters themselves.

Then, Wario woke up. With a big headache.

"Ooohhhhh... I'm going to kill Cankentriops..."

"Welcome to team "We Want To Kill Cankentriops"," Phantom said, having seen Wario waking up. "You can contribute by telling us where the pyramid is."

Instead of saying anything, Wario looked at the scene around, spotting Mario, Luigi, members of Bowser's army, Waluigi, and everyone else. He saw Sweetie Belle who was busy healing anyone who was brought to her by Bowser's minions, most of them being New Donkers. He saw Pauline, who was talking with Mario. He saw that they were in some street in what must be New Donk City badly damaged. The dark clouds covering the sky. Airships flying left and right between the buildings or above them. Donkey Kong, unconscious, who was brought to Sweetie Belle. Bowser Jr. sleeping.

"Yeah, that's quite the mess you caused," Phantom said.

Her comment annoyed Wario. "How could I have known that that pyramid was some kind of prison for an army of mad cultists?! Generally, pyramids just have treasures with sometimes a few mummies, ghosts, golems, snakes, spiders, and/or traps!"

"It still doesn't change the fact that you're at the origin of this mess. And now, you will help us end it."

"Grrr... Fine. Give me a map and I will indicate the emplacement of the pyramid. You're lucky I have a bone to pick with Cankentriops and his lackeys, or I would have charged you for this."

"You would have charged nothing. Since you caused all this, then it's only natural that you do some community service." She extended a hand toward Wario, the hand suddenly turned into a nightmarish claw, and her mouth stretched to turn into an ear-to-ear fanged grin while her eyes became red with black pupils. "Is that clear, fatty?!"

Wario gulped. "C-clear!"

Donkey Kong was the next to be healed, and he woke up a few minutes later surrounded by Diddy and the other Kongs.

DK was very extravagant in showing how glad he was to be freed from the Cankens' possession as he almost immediately got up with a bounce and gave Diddy and Dixie a bear hug, even spinning with them in his arms before he received a friendly slap on the back from Funky.

"Welcome back Big Guy," Funky said.

"Getting yourself captured... I thought we were past that phase," Cranky grumpily said.

"Sorry Cranky," DK said sheepishly. "The guy possessing Wario took me by surprise." He then took a more serious expression. "Next time, I will smash his face to bits!"

"You may have an occasion. Mario and the others are about to go to these guys' HQ."

Looking around, DK indeed saw Mario and the others and agreed to go with them, impatient to give the Cankens a good beat down made in DK.

Beat downs were his specialty.

Cranky proceeded to explain more of the situation while Wario got a map and marked the emplacement of the pyramid. Phantom then showed the map to Sweetie Belle who was still busy healing people while she was also spinning Bowser Jr. who had woken up and challenged her to a rematch. She spun him with her magic until he couldn't stand anymore, becoming so dizzy that he fell.

With the emplacement of the pyramid memorised and Bowser Jr. defeated for the second time, Sweetie Belle continued healing the injured while everybody prepared for departure.

So, going to the Moon were Sweetie Belle and the Koopa Troops including Bowser Jr., Kamek, the Koopalings, and the Elite Trio among many others.

And going to the pyramid were Phantom, Apple Bloom, Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong, Wario, and Waluigi.

Once everything was done and ready, Sweetie Belle returned to Apple Bloom's Equestria to warn Prof. E. Gadd and give him the emplacement of the pyramid just in case. The prof had apparently finished his tests and was in the middle of building a machine to get rid of all of the Cankens in one go.

"This machine will be able to extract the energy the Cankens are made up of in a very large perimeter. Since the Cankens are mostly made up of this energy, this will greatly weaken them, if not outright kill them. Once I'm done here and if you haven't eliminated all the Cankens by yourself by then, then I will join you at the pyramid. It shouldn't take me too much longer," he explained.

"Alright. Glad to hear it."

Sweetie Belle then returned to New Donk City, "fought" Bowser Jr. a third time by tickling him to submission (which finally convinced him to give up because he didn't want a repeat of this torture), and watched as the other group departed on the same airship that Phantom had materialized to come to the city from Sarasaland.

Finally, it was Sweetie's turn to depart to the Moon.

"All troops are ready," Kamek informed.

"Good!" Sweetie Belle replied before she lit her horn. "Bags included?"

"Bags included," Kamek confirmed. "Excepted for the ones who are used to teleporting like me, of course."

Sweetie Belle giggled. "Of course."

Then, the whole armada disappeared from New Donk City only to reappear somewhere in space near where she thought the Moon was.

From New Donk City, she knew that the Moon had been somewhere in the other side of the planet, but she had no idea of the distance, so she did a first teleport where the armada actually appeared not far above the atmosphere. Here, she looked around, saw the Moon, and judged the distance before she teleported the armada again. Excepted that it was hard to judge correctly the distances with the Moon and all because she didn't exactly know how big it was, so it still took her a couple of teleportations before the armada finally appeared close enough of the surface of the natural satellite.

Below, the planet was entirely hidden under the dark clouds that spread wherever the Cankens went. The Moon, however, didn't have any cloud so they could actually see the legions of Cankens flying all over it in search of the last Elemenstar.

Sweetie Belle waited a bit for everyone to get over the sickness caused by the teleportations before she used her powers to link her mind to the ones of everyone in the armada.

You hear me, everyone?

She got a big headache from all the confused answers she got in return. She should have thought of that. She quickly cut the feedback.

Ugh... Okay. Listen to me. Short story, I'm using my powers to communicate with all of you without having to yell or to rely on messengers to give my orders to everyone. It will be much more effective and faster this way. No need to answer me, I cut the feedback so my mind won't explode with all of you answering me at once. If one of you wants to tell me something, then just think about it and I will feel it so I will let you talk to me.

Now, before we start the assault, a little warning: if any of you sees Bowser, warn me! Cankentriops is far too powerful for you to fight, even in number. Back when he was possessing Wario, he already almost defeated Bowser Jr. and Kamek despite the two working together, and he even gave a bad time to Mario helped by Yoshi and Daisy with an Elemenstar. Now, he has Bowser. I may not know all of Bowser's powers, but I still can easily guess that Wario-Cankentriops was nothing compared to Bowser-Cankentriops. You simply wouldn't stand a chance at all.

Any comment? Yes? What is it? Sweetie Belle asked to the Koopa who gained her attention.

Uh... The Cankens are coming to us, the Koopa said.

And indeed, from the surface of the Moon, countless Cankens that had spotted the armada were flying toward it.

Well then. how about we welcome them with a good barrage of Bullet Bills? Come on! Fire! Sweetie Belle ordered before she walked to the edge of the airship she was on and watched as dozens and dozens of Bullet Bills eliminated a huge number of the Cankens. Then, she joined it by firing a huge beam that decimated many of the remaining Cankens and left quite a mark on the surface of the Moon.

The way is open! To the Moon! And don't stop firing! Magikoopas! Spikes! If Cankens get too close, send your respective projectiles at them! Hammer Bros, be ready to throw your hammers too if they get even closer! And don't forget, remain close to each other! Do everything you can to ensure that the Cankens don't possess anybody if they ever board the airships!

Remember guys, our priority is to find the Branches of the Pentacle and Cankentriops himself and eliminate them! You all got description of these guys, so you should be able to recognize them! Unless they are in possession of a body, then be careful if you face someone possessed. A secondary objective would be to find the Elemenstar before them, if it's even on the Moon.

The armada thus blasted its way through the Cankens and began a fierce battle against their legions with Sweetie Belle keeping watch and giving orders while she fired beams after beams from her horn and her cannons.

Once they reached the surface of the Moon, they were assaulted from all sides.

There are too many of them. They will eventually overrun our barrages of projectiles. No choices. It's time to disembark to go fight the Cankens directly. I want as many of you as possible to land while ensuring that the airships are still defended enough. For this, I want the flying troops to surround the ships and fight any Cankens that manage to pass the projectiles. Ground troops, I want you to remain close to the ships. Ships, don't stop bombarding the approaching waves of Cankens, both on the ground and in the air.

Following Sweetie Belle's orders, the troops that could fly flew out of the airships and helped fighting off the Cankens while the remaining troops jumped from the ships and landed on the surface of the Moon. Before long, Cankens began to target them, reducing the pressure in the sky (or whatever you call the sky for the Moon).

To all Hammer Bros and other long-ranged troops that landed, make sure to remain behind the ones who don't have any long-ranged attacks like the Goombas and the Koopas. Magikoopas, remain as far as possible from the Cankens behind the lines so you can bombard the Cankens with your spells while remaining safe, and don't hesitate to merge your magic into big, superpowerful spells for a max of damage in large areas. Lakitus, rain Spinies behind the lines too, but not far so the Spinies can quickly join the Goombas and others to fight. And Dry Bones, since you can reform your bodies when you are attacked, then even if you can throw bones as projectiles, I want you to be the front-line's shield against the enemies' own projectiles. Oh, and... RELEASE THE DOGS!!!

And the next instant, a large group of living balls of various sizes each with a chain (like the chained balls prisoner stereotypes are usually seen to have at their legs) behaving like dogs called Chain Chomps came out of the airships and began to tear apart the Cankens with their sharp teeth.

And keep an eye on them so they don't get too far and get themselves possessed!

"You surprise me, young one," Kamek, who was still beside Sweetie Belle, said. "Have you already commanded an army before?"

"I was the second in command of a king in another world so I had to learn how to. The captain of the guard taught me a lot. And I got some experience after leading troops to repel an alien invasion on the castle." Watch out over there! There's a big number of Eleckens coming! She fired a huge beam that eradicated at least half of the Eleckens she warned about, as well as many more Cankens unlucky enough to be in the path. "Darn, it's as if all the Cankens on the Moon are coming for us."

"It seems to be the case," Kamek said. "Either they really want us dead - which wouldn't be a surprise after all we did against them - , or they are distracting us to gain time for their leaders to find the Elemenstar."

Sweetie Belle frowned and rapidly flew to the surface where she dug into the ground to the core of the Moon. From here, she felt the energy of the Cankens. Again, like on the planet, she could feel that it had spread all over the surface. However, she could feel it little by little concentrate where the armada was. The Cankens really were assembling to fight the Koopa Troops.

However, she could feel a single point in the Dark Side of the Moon where there still was that energy. A lot of it. And she could feel a different, huge source of energy at the same place.

Buck... Guys, I will have to leave you. One of them seems to have found, or is about to find the Elemenstar at the other side of the Moon.

Leave it to us, she let Kamek reply to her. Uh? Oh... Bad news. The Broodals, including Madame Broode, are here, and they seem to be possessed by the Branches of the Pentacle. The five of them.

The Broodals?

Five rabbits who live on the Moon and helped Master Bowser plan his wedding with Princess Peach not that long ago.

Wait, what?

Long story.

Will you be able to deal with them? Especially Jupacc? The guy is tricky with his illusions.

We will manage. The Koopalings are already overwhelming them with number and it looks like we- Oh... Oh dear... The Broodals just called in their giant robot... Uh. It looks different than what I remember.

What?

Yeah... They have a giant robot... But don't worry! We should be able to destroy it! Leave it to us and go save the Lord!

Uhh... Okay. Good luck.

And so, Sweetie Belle dug her way to where she felt the two energies in the Dark Side of the Moon.

---

Things quickly became chaotic when Sweetie Belle left and the possessed Broodals came and began to spread havoc among the ranks of the Koopa Troops. Then the Koopalings came with dozens and dozens of elite troops selected among the ranks and began a giant brawl against the Broodals and some other Cankens.

Thanks to their weapons, you could tell which Canken was possessing which Broodal. Maztur revealed to be possessing Topper, the smaller of the rabbits who was round and was wearing a green suit and top hat. Hariet, the only female Broodal beside Madame Broode, recognizable by her purple dress and spiked hat, was obviously possessed by Kirima. Tukaral had Spewart, a Broodal who looked a lot like Morton excepted that he had orange hair and was wearing a blue suit and hat. The tallest of the Broodals (without counting Madame Broode again), Rango, was Zutr. And finally, Madame Broode herself, easily as big as Bowser with a red dress and a lot of makeup, was possessed by Jupacc.

But despite all their powers, they could do nothing between the Koopalings, Bowser Jr who joined the fight a little later, and all the Koopa Troops that came with them. More Cankens did come to help, but then, the airships fired at them.

So Jupacc then yelled, "Enough playing around!" before he... She... They took a remote control and pressed a big red button. A few seconds later, a giant robot jumped from a nearby cliff and landed behind them, and the possessed Broodals all quickly climbed inside it.

The robot wasn't actually as big as Luigi, Waluigi, Bowser, and DK had been, but it still was easily a little bit over half their size. It had a similar appearance to the Broodals, looking like a bipedal rabbit, even wearing a sparkling golden suit and top hat, but everything was made of metal and the eyes were replaced by a big visor through which the Broodals could be seen piloting it.

"Eheheh! What do you think of this?" Jupacc said. "These rabbits called it the Super Robobrood. A machine engineered to destroy, armed from ears to metallic fluffy tail. Prepare to be annihilated."

Cannons then came out from all the sides of the top hat and began to fire homing firework rockets at the airships before the robot raised a leg to crush Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings who quickly escaped.

Thankfully, the robot's movements were rather clumsy as it almost fell after that.

"Be careful Tukaral!" Jupacc yelled.

"Sorry. I don't know how to pilot that thing. Too many buttons and levers."

"Same. It's bothering," Zutr said. "What is this button doing?"

The robot began to play a music.

"Be careful, you idiot! What if this button had been to self-destruct?" Kirima shouted, annoyed.

"Why would someone put a self-destruct button?" Maztur asked.

"I don't know," Kirima answered.

"Have any of you read the notice?" Jupacc asked.

"No," the four answered, making Jupacc groan before he began to list what each buttons and levers did.

"Hey! You aren't the only ones who have a giant robot!" Bowser Jr. yelled once they were far enough.

Kamek came at this moment. "Hum... I don't think that the Mecha-Bowser can fight that thing."

"I know! I'm not stupid! I wasn't talking of the Mecha-Bowser! Wah!"

Bowser Jr. and a few others had to jump to the side to barely avoid some bolts of electricity fired from the left hand of the robot.

"Oh. Wait, are you talking of...? I thought that we wanted to keep it a secret for the next time we confronted Mario?"

"Do you see any other solution? The armada is being decimated! Beside, the filly isn't here anymore so she won't be able to tell Mario."

"She could see it if she comes back. But I guess that we don't have a choice."

"Then let's call it, guys!"

At this, Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings each took their own remote control and pressed a button.

But nothing happened...

"Uh..." Bowser Jr. began.

"We have to wait for them to come all the way from the castle," Kamek said. "Obviously, it will take some time."

"Drat... Uh... Try to do diversion? So the armada won't be destroyed by the time they arrive?"

Kamek gave Bowser Jr. a deadpan look. "... How?"

"Uh... I don't know! Think of something! You're the smart one!"

"I may be the "smart one", but I'm not a miracle maker. But I will try."

Kamek flew away, then returned with a large group of Magikoopas. Together, they gathered their magic into a giant ball that they launched at the Super Robobrood, only for the robot to punch the ball back at the Magikoopas who barely escaped. They then returned and did another attempt that ended with the same result.

"I'm starting to get the hang of that thing," Maztur said.

"Shut up and focus. The next ball is coming," Tukaral warned.

At least, it was a diversion, so it worked.

And at least the airships were firing back at the robot so it was taking some damage, but it was rather minor as the airships also had to contend with the Cankens.

And eventually, a giant Bowser robot landed, followed by seven airships that looked more like futuristic airships shaped to look like Bowser. Some of the ships had unique feature however. For example, while they generally didn't have wings, one of them had them. Another also had what looked like a giant magic wand hooked to its underbelly.

"Finally!" Bowser Jr. shouted."Alright guys! Morphin time!"

"Yes!" the Koopalings shouted as they took their remote controls again and pressed another button on them.

The seven airships then began a dance with the Mecha-Bowser as they opened themselves and shifted to take different forms. One by one, the transformed airships then merged with the Mecha-Bowser, forming some kind of extra armor that also added some features like longer limbs that had a wider range of moves. In addition of a thick chest piece, helmet, and so on, they also added a pair of large wings, and the left arm ended in a mouth while the right arm simply ended in a claw holding the giant wand. Even the shell had an upgrade, more armored with the spikes longer and sharper and with two mounted cannons.

The resulting robot looked like an armored Bowser about the size that the real Bowser had been when he fought Donkey Kong.

Bowser Jr. and the Koopalings then entered the robot by a leg and quickly climbed it to their cockpit inside the head before the Super Robobrood would start attacking it. The arrival of the Mecha-Bowser and the airships merging with it definitively gained the possessed rabbits' attention.

Just in time as a group of Cankens forced the Magikoopas to scatter, giving an opening for the Mecha-Bowser to approach.

"So you guys have your own giant metal golem? This promises to be interesting," Jupacc said.

"It's called a robot, you cavemen!" Bowser Jr. yelled.

"Technically, it's a mecha," Ludwig corrected.

"Shut up! It doesn't matter what it is! Just know that it's called the Megakoopa! And that it will squash you! Look! It's even bigger than your stupid tin can!"

"Oh bother... And I thought that we would finally get an easy fight," Zutr said.

"Ah! Destroying this army without resistance would have been too boring!" Tukaral said.

"Don't get your hope high. Their... robot could be all bark but no bite," Maztur said.

"The Megakoopa can bite! And it can bite so hard that it will have no problems tearing off the arms of your metal rodent!" Roy shouted.

"Yes! And it can use magic! I'm sure yours can't!" Iggy boasted.

"We can do that!" the five Branches shouted before the Super Robobrood raised a hand and Maztur's sword appeared in it, version giant like Tukaral's hammer back when he was giant Donkey Kong or Zutr's trident when he was giant Waluigi.

"Ahah! It doesn't scare us!" Bowser Jr. said.

"You should be..." Jupacc said threateningly.

The sword was filled with electricity before the Super Robobrood charged at the Megakoopa who fired a magical beam from its wand. With a single slash, the Robobrood destroyed the beam and continued to run before the sword ended up clashing with the wand.

But then, the Robobrood raised its left hand and Zutr's trident materialized in it before it was filled with electricity too. The rabbit robot then brought it down on the Megakoopa to pierce it, only for the Megakoopa's mouth at the end of its left arm to open before it sent a stream of fire on the rabbit's face. Despite the fire, the Robobrood continued its attack and pierced the Megakoopa with the trident, electricity spreading in the robot.

"AaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAahhhhhh!!!"

"Morton won't... " Morton shouted before he made the Megakoopa punch the Robobrood on the head with the left arm. Then, the Megakoopa gave a strong kick on the belly of the rabbit, forcing it to take some steps back. This caused it to leave the trident planted in the Megakoopa, and the electricity stopped, saving the robot from having its circuits roasted.

As soon as they recovered from the electricity, the Koopalings made the Megakoopa put its wand in its mouth before it grabbed the trident, got it out, and threw it at the Robobrood. The trident impaled the rabbit, but it barely took a step back before it recovered from the hit so it was able to duck to avoid a fire beam fired from a big cannon in the mouth of the Megakoopa.

Firework rockets were fired from the Super Robobrood's hat, countered by Bullet Bills fired from cannons in the Megakoopa's chest plate. The Robobrood then fired electricity from its left hand, only for the Megakoopa to use its wand to teleport behind the rabbit. Before it could react, the Megakoopa then grabbed it and suplexed it before it fired two Banzai Bills from the cannons mounted on its shell.

The Banzai Bills exploded in the Robobrood before it could get up from the suplex, causing big damage, but the Robobrood made the Koopas pay by firing more firework rockets from its hat. When the Super Robobrood then got up, it charged head down right into the Megakoopa, the ears impaling the bigger mecha, only to receive a hit from the bottom end of the wand on the back of the neck. The Megakoopa then grabbed the Robobrood by the ears as they got out and spun before throwing it away into a cliff.

The Megakoopa then used the wand to send several boulders just as the Super Robobrood got up and materialized Tukaral's hammer, the robot rabbit using the weapon to destroy the projectiles. The Robobrood then materialized Kirima's fan and Jupacc's chakram before it filled them with electricity and threw them at the Megakoopa, only for the robot Koopa to take off with the reactors on its wings and under its feet.

The Megakoopa then sent giant fireballs from its arm cannon, and the Robobrood ran to avoid them before it took a boulder and threw it at the flying mecha. The Megakoopa easily avoided it only to be hit by another boulder that the Koopalings hadn't seen coming as it had been invisible.

Jupacc's illusion power.

Annoyed, the Koopalings made the Megakoopa charge toward the Robobrood, arms first, not minding the boulders hitting it. Seeing the Megakoopa coming, the Robobrood materialized Tukaral's hammer again and readied itself.

---

Back a few minutes earlier, Sweetie Belle arrived at the Dark Side of the Moon, where she felt the energies. Here, she found some kind of temple sculpted in the stone of the Moon.

And right in front of the entrance, she found Bowser.

Or Cankentriops.

And he was grinning.

"I knew one of you "heroes" would come, and you are too late," he said before he grabbed something from inside the shell and revealed it to be a white crystal star. "I have the Elemenstar!" He then quickly put it back inside the shell.

"And why haven't you yet teleported back to your pyramid?" Sweetie Belle asked suspiciously.

"Isn't it obvious?" Cankentriops said with a chuckle. "I want to kill you. And in this wasteland, I will finally be able to unleash my full power."

"What do you mean?"

"Why do you think I didn't turn myself giant? It was to avoid destroying everything. Because I don't want to reduce Lord Crakkthulx's fun by blowing up a few cities in advance. Here, however..."

A purple aura of energy surrounded Bowser's body before he began to grow like in New Donk City. Only, this time, it was Cankentriops in command, the colors took on darker, purplish tints, and the eyes glowed the same color.

"You shouldn't have come alone, little one, because now, your chances of victory as null!" Cankentriops finally shouted as the body finished to grow, now easily two times the size Bowser had in New Donk City, before he laughed. "Prepare to be crushed like the ant you are!"

He then raised a leg and violently brought it down on the filly, the force causing cracks to spread, pieces of the ground to rise or crumble, and the area to shake violently.

Cankentriops looked down, satisfied, thinking that the filly was now just a bloody smear.

Only for her to appear before his face, giggling.

"You missed! Did you forget that I could teleport?"

Before Cankentriops could react, Sweetie Belle's mane and tail suddenly turned into ethereal fire before she punched him on the cheek. To his surprise, he not only felt the punch, but he actually had to take a step back to keep his balance.

With a growl, he rubbed his cheek and glared at the smiling filly. "Are you a god?"

Sweetie Belle giggled again, eyes closed. "Not quite." she then opened her eyes, now filled with emptiness. "But for you, I guess that I'm as good as one."

Author's Note:

Thank you to The Kelduo for helping me find the theme for the robot fight. Seriously, I couldn't find a single remix of the Robobrood theme excepted a surf rock cover and some 8-bit versions or whatever. And Mecha-Bowser? Outside of the one from Mario Galaxy which got some nice covers but had nothing to do with an epic fight, it was the desert. For a moment, I thought that I would have to settle for the normal Robobrood theme. I'm disappointed. Really disappointed. I expected better of the Mario fandom.

Comments

[Edguy0009]

I kan tell dat 'der's a nice gud stomp'n kom'n up.

[Herald of Opera]

And in this wasteland, I will finally be able to unleash my full power.

Sweetie Belle: Lol, same.

[Lucar]

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Ah! Exactly! I hope Mario and the others won't mind the Moon missing a chunk or two...

[The Kelduo]

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The citizens of Pop Star didn't mind it when Kirby's fight against the Nightmare blew up a chunk of the moon, so I don't see why the people in Mario's universe would have a problem with part of their moon missing due to a major battle. I mean, there won't be a giant space station in it like the space colony ARK in Sonic Adventure 2.

[Justalad 45]

11044542
>Implying that Sweetie couldn’t just restore whatever chunk of the Moon they rip off with the literal power of creation that is the Void.

Also,very nice inclusion of the Morphing time,I did wondered why Nintendo never did a reference like that with the Koopalings(at least that I Know of.)

[Lucar]

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The ARK wasn't in the Moon, it blew up half of the Moon. The station itself was inside some round asteroid, probably a fake one.
11044663
I know, right? The Koopalings are just asking to put in a Power Rangers reference.