Chapter 69: The Branches Of The Pentacle
Sweetie Belle was frankly ready to blast her way through the walls of what she dubbed the Aether Fortress, the fortress that Cankentriops made to protect the Aether Star, but upon passing the entrance, she saw that things may not be as easy as she thought they would be.
Because the inside of the fortress revealed to be a pocket dimension where the fillies were now in space, walking on a floor made of stars of different colors. Stars that led to some wormholes that probably served as entrances to other "space rooms". "Space rooms" that were not limited by physical walls, but by how far the star floor went. To verify it, Sweetie Belle went to test if there was a wall at the limit of the floor and felt nothing. Meanwhile, Phantom entered one of the wormholes, then came back and confirmed that there was a similar "room" beyond it.
"I think that we are in a maze," Phantom stated.
Sweetie Belle dramatically raised her front legs and shouted, "NOOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Apple Bloom raised a non-existent eyebrow. "Since when did ya turn into Rarity? Mazes aren't that bad."
The ghost suddenly felt chill creeping up her back as she found herself at the receiving end of a murderous glare from the alicorn. "You obviously didn't go through the Tartarus that I went through because of mazes. One of my first adventures involved me having to go through no less than three of them, and just thinking about them makes we want to bash someone's skull. They were THAT horrible." She then glared at the wormholes, growling. "And I thought that I didn't have to worry about them anymore..."
She then went to what seemed to be the center of the "room" and materialized a white totem pole in her effigy before she someone planted it among the stars.
"What are you doing?" Phantom asked.
"This totem pole will show that we already passed by this room. I will use different colors for the others. This way, we won't get lost. Stupid maze... Once I become a God, I will erase all of them from existence..." she mumbled the last part as she went toward the nearest wormhole, followed by Phantom and Apple Bloom.
Once they were gone, Jupacc appeared in the room and destroyed the totem pole with a low cackle.
The other teams also had their own problems, albeit not as... problematic as the maze Team Crusaders was in.
Team Mario found itself in what Sweetie Belle would have dubbed the Wind Fortress, and thus, the three members had to face strong winds pushing them back and avoid tornadoes. They regularly had to go on alternate paths to press switches to deactivate fans that blew winds so strong that they stopped any progress.
Team Bowser was in the Fire Fortress. Bowser himself had a high resistance to high temperature, to the point that taking a lava bath would only burn him slightly (as long as he didn't remain in it too long). Thanks to this, the many obstacles made of fire that were present were just an hindrance, Bowser using his own body to shield his son while Kamec simply teleported when the obstacles couldn't be avoided by flying.
Team Kong was in the Earth Fortress, full of rolling boulders and quicksands. Boulders also had to be pushed on switches to activate mechanisms to continue, and there was a huge number of golems here, forcing the primates to fight a lot.
Finally, Team Wario was in the Water Fortress. Nothing as bad as the Water Temple. Wario and Waluigi simply had to swim into room filled with water with sometimes strong currents, and fill jars with water so they would lower a platform they were on and unlock the exit. At some occasions, they also had to press switches to deactivate strong streams of water blocking the passage.
So yeah, they had it pretty easy compared to Team Crusaders.
Especially when the fillies understood that something was wrong...
"That's weird. Shouldn't we have seen at least one totem pole by now? There mustn't be that many rooms, right?" Apple Bloom asked.
Now that Apple Bloom pointed it out, it was suspicious, and this got Sweetie Belle worried.
"Let's return to the previous room," the alicorn said before they passed the wormhole they just took.
In the previous room, the totem pole she had placed was now gone!
Sweetie's eye twitched, the filly immediately understanding, and she swore that she will make Jupacc suffer Tartarus and she will take great joy doing it.
In the end, the five groups reached the final room of the fortresses, at the tip of the branches of the giant pentacle, almost at the same time, and for the five rooms, the sight was the same: the Elemenstar of the corresponding element was floating inside a ring on a pole at the opposite end from the entrance, and before the stars were the Branches.
Kirima for the Wind Star.
Maztur for the Fire Star.
Tukaral for the Earth Star.
Zutr for the Water Star.
And Jupacc for the Aether Star.
For once, none of them were possessing a body.
They were ready to fight to the death to protect the stars.
"Uhuhuhuh! You are heroes, right? Then surely you will be gallant with me and not attack a girl," Kirima said, her fan hiding her mouth while she looked at Mario flirtatiously.
Mario answered with a frown and pulled out his hammer. Luigi then followed his example while Yoshi took an offensive pose.
Kirima huffed. "Very well, you ruffians. Let's do it the hard way."
Maztur raised his sword in front of his face in a prayer pose. "My Lord, watch me as I slay the Beast and his spawn and free the world of their dirty presence!"
Bowser Jr. groaned bemusedly. "Sweet... We got the weirdo..."
"I already can't wait to make him shut up," Bowser said with a growl.
"I will finally have my revenge!" Tukaral shouted as he hit the ground with his hammer.
Dk pounded the ground. "You're the one saying that?! You won the fight because of your master!"
Diddy smirked. "But this time, we are three."
"And you are alone," Dixie added with a "bring it on" sign.
Of course, Tukaral didn't understand them.
"Oh bother... Let's just get this over with. I really want to sleep," Zutr said with a sigh.
"Oh, you will sleep, my friend, you will sleep... and never wake up," Wario said, pounding his fist on his palm while Waluigi took his tennis racket and readied a Bob-Omb.
"We meet once again," Jupacc said, not bothered by the death stares the fillies were giving him.
"Yeah. It's as if fate itself is asking us to put an end to your miserable existence," Phantom said.
"Actually, it's more because we have a bone to pick with you after our first encounter," Sweetie Belle corrected. "In a more literal way in Apple Bloom's case."
Apple Bloom rolled her eyes.
"And after all the dirty tricks you pulled off, especially in that stupid maze?" Sweetie Belle continued. "Well, we will enjoy the next few minutes."
And at this instant, five fights began at once.
The heroes expected for a moment that the fights against the Branches would be similar to the ones until now, but they were quickly proved the contrary. With the Elemenstars just behind them, the Branches were able to use their energies to boost their own powers like Cankentriops did back on the Moon.
So it was with some shock that the members of Team Mario were fighting to not be pushed back by the strong gusts of wind that Kirima sent with her fan. Maztur planted his sword in the ground, causing geysers of fire to erupt all over the room. Tukaral turned the stone of the ground into sand to create quicksands while he created fist-shaped boulders that he sent at the Kongs. Zutr flooded his room and sent dozens of water arrows. And Jupacc fired from his eyes beams of light like Cankentriops did while he used two Chakrams as portals.
While fighting the winds, Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi had to regularly jump to avoid sharp winds while they tried to approach. They quickly came up with a plan, and Luigi jumped on Yoshi's back. The dinosaur had less problems facing the wind, so he managed to reach Kirima, allowing Luigi to land a few hits with his hammer. This forced Kirima to stop sending winds, using instead her fan made even sharper by the wind to try to cut the two. This however opened her to Mario who spun with his hammer out, hitting the Canken several times. Kirima used two of her arms to send electricity, forcing the brothers and their friend to retreat, then she sent small tornadoes with her fan.
Bowser tanked the fireballs sent by Maztur, allowing Kamec to send some magical beams in return while Bowser Jr. fired with a cannon that had been hidden inside the mouth of his Junior Mobile. While Maztur moved to avoid the projectiles, Bowser suddenly rammed him like a train just as fire appeared on his sword. Maztur kicked Bowser away before he opened his chest-mouth and breathed out fire which Bowser replicated, the two getting in a fire-breath clash that ended with Bowser Jr. using his car's boxing gloves to punch the Canken repeatedly from the side.
Tukaral smashed the sand with his hammer again and again, each times causing a column of stone to sprout. The three primates jumped left and right to avoid them while being careful of the quicksands. Eventually, Diddy activated his jetpack to fly around, making diversion by firing peanuts at the Canken with his guns. While Tukaral didn't seem affected by them, they still annoyed him enough that he pointed his hammer at the flying monkey and sent electricity from it as well as stone fists. He then saw DK coming and the two ended up exchanging punches, Dixie quickly coming to help by hitting the Canken with her ponytail. Tukaral eventually managed to uppercut DK with his hammer, only for Diddy to dive bomb him.
Wario jumped with Waluigi on his back as Zutr electrified the water, then used the plane-like helmet he put not long before to glide toward the Canken. He then grabbed Waluigi and used him as a bat to smash Zutr's head. Zutr quickly recovered from the hit and caught Wario before he slammed him into the water, but Waluigi was able to jump on the Canken and clung to him, hitting him several times with his tennis racket. Zutr eventually caught him too and threw him away before he formed a bubble of water around Wario's head. Before he could drown, Wario drank all the water and expelled all of it as a stream right at Zutr's face. Wario then charged, but quickly jumped back to avoid being eaten by Zutr's belly mouth. Instead, the mouth ate a Bob-Omb thrown by Waluigi, the bomb exploding inside.
Several chakrams flew around, each with a portal in it, and Jupacc constantly used them to send beams of light or even his hands to punch the fillies. He wasn't using illusions, knowing that it was no use, but these portals made up for them. When a laser or a hand entered one of them, it was impossible to know from where they would come out. And of course, without warning, he sometimes sent one of the chakrams to directly attack the fillies. He also constantly teleported to avoid them and their projectiles. Apple Bloom eventually tried to attack Jupacc's shadow, but the Canken saw it and used light to make the shadow move elsewhere, the light also burning Apple Bloom. He then teleported to avoid a group of Phantom Cubes sent by Phantom, only for Sweetie Belle to then teleport right on top of him (just above the tip of the pyramid that made his body) before she blasted him to make him crash on the ground. Phantom quickly took the occasion to teleport beside him before she grabbed him and planted him tip-first into the ground. Apple Bloom then used a big bone like a hammer on his pentagonal face to bury him a bit more.
Peach woke up, sitting against a wall. Just in front of her were Starlow and Stuffwell who looked at her with relief.
"You are awake!" Starlow shouted.
"What... happened?" Peach weakly asked.
"Cankentriops started the ritual to summon Crakkthulx and used you to open the portal. You lost consciousness during the process," Stuffwell explained before he moved slightly to the side to let the Princess see the portal in question. "Mario and the others are working to stop it."
By now, the portal had grown a lot, easily covering over half of the surface of the pentagon of the giant pentacle (reminder: at its widest, the pentagon was close to a mile), and it was still growing!
"Oh no! Is there anything we can do to help?"
"I don't think we have enough power to even slow it down," Starlow regretfully dismissed. "All we can do is pray that they hurry up."
"Let's still try. Even if it's just to gain a few seconds, it will be better than just remaining here watching," Peach said determinedly.
Starlow hesitated, but eventually agreed. Like the Princess said, it was better than nothing.
So the two combined their magic and sent a beam at the portal. However, as Starlow had guessed, it barely slowed it down.
"What do you three think you are doing?" someone suddenly shouted.
Surprised, Peach and Starlow stopped and looked around until Cankentriops, still alive, appeared before them. However, he looked really hurt. He clearly didn't escape the explosion unscathed.
"You're still alive?!" Starlow shouted.
"Teleported before the smoke of the explosion cleared. I hoped to remain hidden until I recovered enough. But trying to slow down the opening of the portal? This, I won't allow! Guess that I will have to kill you three! Especially you, Star Sprite! After what your kind did to us, I'm itching some payback!"
Starlow gulped. "B-bring it on! I will do what us Star Sprites weren't able to do all these years ago: end your threat for good!"
Princess Peach inhaled, then exhaled, steeling her nerves. "I will help! I... I can fight!"
"I will help too," Stuffwell said with uncertainty. "I may be a suitcase, and I wasn't made to fight, but I'm sure that I can be useful. Also, our enemy is weakened, so we may have a chance."
Starlow nodded. "You're right! We can do it!"
"Pfff! You three look pathetic! It should be over quick!" Cankentriops said as he summoned his scepter.
Starlow started the fight by headbutting Cankentriops, only to be hit in return by his scepter. Peach immediately followed by lunging forward and bashing Cankentriops with her butt. She then went on to slap him several times until Cankentriops electrified her. Starlow headbutted him again, stopping him and allowing Peach to retreat beside Stuffwell who opened and let out a Mushroom and a Fire Flower. The Princess quickly ate the Mushroom to heal before she absorbed the power of the Fire Flower, gaining a white and red dress. She then sent fireballs at Cankentriops who had been in the middle of firing beams at Starlow who escaped. At the same time, Stuffwell opened again and sent miscellaneous objects stored in him such as a vase, a bomb, a weird metallic soccer ball, or a little toy Mario.
He eventually received a beam that propelled him backward, and Peach had to duck to avoid another beam before Cankentriops teleported right beside her and hit her with his scepter, causing her Fire Flower power to disappear. She retaliated with a kick followed by extending an arm and discharging pink magic from her hand on his face. Both Starlow and Stuffwell then rammed him at the same time, but Cankentriops grabbed the Star Sprite and used her to bash both the Princess and the suitcase.
Annoyed to be used this way, Starlow charged energy and yelled, "Supernova Spaaaarkle!!!"
Yoshi, with Mario on his back, jumped to avoid a sharp wind. At the summit of his jump, Mario jumped too from his back right at Kirima's face and spun with his hammer. Kirima had been in the middle of strangling Luigi, and the hits from Mario's hammer forced her to release him. As soon as he was freed, Luigi jumped on the Canken's back and pounded it. Yoshi then came, rolling inside an egg-shell, only to be kicked by one of Kirima's legs like a soccer ball. Kirima caught Mario by the head and attempted to behead him with her wind-boosted fan, but was stopped by Luigi doing the Green Missile on the back of her head. The two brothers then quickly jumped away to regroup with Yoshi. Kirima choose this moment to throw her fan and make it do circles around her, the weapon surrounding itself in a tornado while releasing sharp winds randomly in all directions.
Maztur was busy destroying weird blob creatures coming out of the paint that Bowser Jr. put a little everywhere, sending fireballs after fireballs at them while keeping an eye on the Koopas. Kamec sent a giant broom that Maztur burnt to ashes, distracting him from Bowser who charged at him. Maztur readied himself for another clash with the Koopa King, only for Bowser to enter his shell at the last moment before spinning, injuring the Cankens several times with the spikes of his shell. Despite the pain, Maztur was able to grab the shell and stop it from spinning before he threw it toward the Magikoopa who avoided it by teleporting. Maztur then targeted Bowser Jr. who was approaching with his clown car and used his sword to send several waves of fire. Bowser Jr. had to use his Junior Mobile in kart-mode to avoid them, sometimes having to bounce. While avoiding the waves, the Prince of the Koopas released some Mecha Koopas that slowly walked toward Maztur while Bowser charged again.
DK and Tukaral were exchanging hits again in a pure fistfight (plus Tukaral's hammer), Tukaral's fist enveloped in stone. Diddy and Dixie were both on Tukaral's head (on the pentagonal face) and continuously pounded it, but the Canken didn't mind them despite the headache they were giving him. Tukaral eventually pointed his hammer at DK to send electricity, but Dixie jumped on it, making it point down at the ground. DK punched him right on the eye, Tukaral countered by dropping a boulder on the ape, followed by an uppercut with the hammer (despite Dixie still clinging to it) that sent him flying toward a quicksand. Diddy got him out of it thanks to his jetpack. Tukaral then caught Dixie and threw her right into a wall of stone that he sprouted out of the ground. Diddy, still holding DK, dropped him toward the Canken, and the ape smashed his head.
Wario charged again at Zutr, sending him on his back. Waluigi was about to throw another Bob-Omb at Zutr, but then, Wario grabbed it and put it in Waluigi's butt, to his horror. Wario then grabbed Waluigi and pointed him toward Zutr as the Canken was getting up. When the Bob-Omb finally exploded, Waluigi was launched like a rocket, hitting Zutr in the chest - Wario made sure to avoid targeting the belly so Waluigi wouldn't risk getting himself eaten by the big mouth there- and sending him on his back again. Recovering quickly, Waluigi took the occasion to repeatedly stomp the Canken's head, judging that it wasn't the moment to rage at Wario. Eventually, however, Zutr grabbed him by the leg before he got up again, and Waluigi found himself upside down with the head in the water. All the water flooding the room then turned into ice, trapping the man. Zutr left him to his face and turned back to face Wario who was also trapped by the ice. Thankfully, Wario didn't have any problem getting himself out, then he grabbed the ice by the hole he left and took out a big chunk that he threw at Zutr with all his strength. Zutr deflected the chunk of ice with his trident only to be hit by another charge from Wario who then grabbed Waluigi and got him out of the ice. Waluigi still had his head trapped in a block of ice however, which gave Wario the idea of using him like a bat to violently hit Zutr on the head, the hit destroying the ice and freeing Waluigi for good.
Beams were flying in all directions. Sweetie Belle deflected them with her mirrors. Jupacc sent them back at the fillies with his portals. Jupacc then sent electricity at one of the chakrams. From it, the electricity went from chakram to chakram, creating a web that constantly moved as the chakrams continued to fly around. The fillies knew by now that destroying the chakrams wouldn't work because Jupacc could generate new ones, so they simply worked to avoid the electricity while continuing their attacks on the Canken himself, but Jupacc used the Aether to bend space and make it so most of their attacks ended up missing him.
Sweetie Belle quickly understood that Aether was pretty close to Void Energy. She wouldn't be surprised if Aether was a direct mutation of the Void energy, and she was thankful that she had been able to defeat Cankentriops on the Moon before he could learn to control it, or things would have turned messy. She was also thankful that the Elemenstar didn't seem to be able to give the full scale control of this element as it was pretty clear that someone having full control of it could be considered a God. It was THAT powerful. But here, Jupacc seemed to only have minor manipulations of Light and some other forces such as Space, Gravity, Time, and Spiritual. Maybe that his own being limited how much he could control the star's element. It was hard to say.
But the little he learned to/could control still gave the fillies quite the workout. It was now hard for Phantom to land a hit because Jupacc learned to read minds and she didn't have any defense against that contrary to Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. So she mostly acted as support, attacking only when she was given an opening. Apple Bloom had her own problem as the Light that Jupacc used with the Aether revealed to be very effective against ghosts and burned her just by being in proximity when she was in her ghost form, so she had to remain in her normal form most of the time.
Sweetie Belle didn't have any problem beside trying to outsmart Jupacc with her own powers to manage to land a hit, which wasn't easy. Jupacc suddenly altered gravity so Sweetie felt as if she weighted an elephant. It was okay for her, but her friends found themselves working hard to remain standing up, and the sudden shift still opened her long enough to receive a light beam in the flank. She used this gravity-shift against Jupacc by teleporting just above him, and she dropped on him like a boulder, which opened him to Phantom who sent a group of Phantom Cubes at him. Trapped in an illusion, Jupacc was attacked by flying buzzsaws. Jupacc quickly recovered and managed to avoid most of them, only to feel intense pain. Knowing the origin, he sent light toward his shadow, burning Apple Bloom who had attacked it, before he bent space to change the trajectory of a beam from Sweetie Belle so it went toward Phantom.
Cankentriops teleported to avoid a powerful beam sent by Peach and Starlow combining their powers and sent one of his own beams at the Princess in return. Starlow quickly placed herself in the way and took the beam, and she was immediately healed by Peach.
Cankentriops was about to attack again, but he stopped himself as he felt something.
Bowser avoided the sword and clawed Maztur a couple of times before the Canken placed a hand on his head and electrified him. He was stopped by Bowser Jr. cutting him on the side with a buzzsaw coming out of his Junior Mobile. Bowser immediately readied a punch which Kamec boosted with his magic. After a few seconds, the Koopa King attacked, hitting Maztur on the face. The Canken was sent flying and crashing on a wall.
His body began to explode with little Poof! all over it.
"N... No... The Paladin of Lord Crakkthulx can't... Against this Beast... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!"
And he finally exploded under the victorious roar of Bowser, leaving only his sword behind.
Cankentriops felt it and muttered "Maztur..." before he felt something else.
Wario threw ice chunk after ice chunk at Zutr who used his trident to destroy them. Meanwhile, Waluigi approached the Canken from behind and jumped on his back before he climbed on his shoulder and put his hands on his eye, blinding him. Because of this, he got hit by the chunks of ice. He quickly raised his trident and produced spikes of ice that randomly rained all over the room from the ceiling. Wario avoided some, then caught one and threw it at the Canken. Seeing the spike coming, Waluigi waited the last instant before he jumped away, not giving time to Zutr to react before the spike planted itself in his eye.
Like Maztur, as he dropped his trident, his body began to explode.
"....... I guess... That's it's time to sleep... Sorry BossEye."
And he exploded.
"Wahahahahahaa!" Wario laughed as he did the victory sigh.
"We did it! We did it! We did it!" Waluigi shouted, doing a small dance.
Cankentriops looked in direction of the Water Fortress. "They are losing..."
Mario let himself propelled up by a tornado. Yoshi quickly made diversion by grabbing Luigi with his tongue and sending him toward Kirima to ensure that she wouldn't target the elder brother. Luigi crashed on Kirima's head and clung to it before he gave her a sheepish smile as she glared at him. Luigi then put a finger in her eye, making her scream in pain, before he jumped down. At this instant, Mario dropped back, spinning vertically, and bonked her on the head with his hammer, the hit causing it to slam on the ground.
Her body began to explode.
Seeing it as she got up with difficulty, she growled, then roared in rage as she raised her fan and readied herself to attack Mario.
But she exploded before she could do anything.
Mario looked at Luigi and Yoshi and made a thumb up.
One last jump followed by a powerful punch from DK was all it took for Tukaral to get the same fate, his body starting to explode.
"How can I lose to these animals? Again?! HIIAAAAAAAARRRG!!!" he yelled before he disappeared in an explosion.
DK pounded his chest, Diddy clapped, and Dixie bounced in joy.
"I must act. Quickly," Cankentriops said to himself before he materialized five clones of himself who then teleported.
Before he could do more, he was hit by a charged beam of magic from Peach and Starlow, and he felt the magic beginning to tear his body apart.
Jupacc pretty much turned into a chaotic disco ball as he began to spin in random direction while firing lasers from all his eyes, the lasers thus randomly sweeping the surfaces of the room. Sweetie Belle used mirrors again to attempt to deflect the lasers back at him, but Jupacc used his portal-chakrams to ensure that no laser reached him and even send them back at the fillies. Phantom teleported beside Jupacc and attacked him with her sword which the Canken easily dodged before he read her mind. But what he didn't read was what Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle had planned. Sweetie Belle teleported Apple Bloom (in her normal form) right above where Jupacc was dodging and she dropped on him with a scythe she materialized, giving him a bad cut.
And his body began exploding.
"Ugh... Eheh... That was fun while it lasted... But don't think you have won yet! Lord Crakkthulx will come to this world!" he shouted before the leader of the Branches of the Pentacle finally exploded.
"Finally! He's gone!" Sweetie Belle shouted.
"What did he mean?" Apple Bloom wondered. "We've won, right? There's nobody left, right? And Crakkthulx isn't here yet so Ah don't think we're too late ta stop him from coming."
"I think that he meant THAT!" Phantom shouted as she threw her sword in direction of the Elemenstar as it was being picked up by Cankentriops. The leader of the Cankens teleported away with the star just before it could impale him, then reappeared quickly to grab Jupacc's chakram before disappearing again.
"What?! Ah thought that he was dead!" Apple bloom shouted in shock.
"Well, apparently, he survived, and now, he took the Elemenstar. I don't know what he is planning, but that must not be good. Let's return to the center of the pentacle," Sweetie Belle said before she teleported the three of them.
The same thing happened for the other teams. As they were about to grab the Elemenstars, a clone of Cankentriops appeared and took the stars as well as the Branches' weapons before disappearing. The teams then had to re-traverse the fortresses (now without the elements serving as obstacles with the Elemenstars gone).
Team Crusaders was the first to appear, just in time to witness the clones drop the Elemenstars and weapons before they poofed into non-existence as the real Cankentriops' body was dissolving into purple energy.
By now, the portal covered the majority of the surface of the pentagon, forcing everyone to remain near the walls.
"I will not die yet!" Cankentriops yelled. "LORD CRAKKTHULX! I BEG YOU! GIVE ME POWER! HELP ME FACE THE FOES WHO ARE ATTEMPTING TO STOP YOUR ARRIVAL!"
As the other teams came out of the fortresses one by one, they witnessed as a huge quantity of purple energy came out of the portal and went toward Cankentriops. At the same time, the Elemenstars and the weapons levitated and went to orbit around the leader of the Cankens as he flew toward the center of the pentagon. Strong wind suddenly picked up as the clouds above swirled faster and faster, some of them parting to reveal the partially destroyed Moon above.
Then, there was a big flash of dark light.
And Cankentriops has transformed.
From the edges of the pentagon, it was difficult to see, but Cankentriops seemed to be much bigger than before. They watched as he slowly descended until he landed... on nothing, as if he was now standing on something invisible. Sweetie Belle could actually feel that he turned the space under his feet solid, creating a large platform to stand on above the portal which continued to grow larger despite the Elemenstars being gone from their emplacements.
No doubt that Cankentriops continued to feed it by himself.
Thankfully, it seemed to not be as effective as the portal was growing much more slowly.
Sweetie Belle saw Starlow fly toward her.
"Peach and I will use our power to slow down the portal even more. You should quickly transport everyone else to fight Cankentriops together. But be careful. I can feel that he is now more powerful than anything we ever faced."
Sweetie Belle nodded at Starlow who flew back toward Peach. Then, after looking around at the other teams that she could barely see in the distance, with a single teleportation spell, she transported everyone excepted Peach, Starlow, and Stuffwell, on the "space platform", not far from Cankentriops.
Upon appearing, she looked at the others as they understood where they were and what they were about to do. Expressions ranger from determination and anger to outright terror, but everyone eventually turned to face their common enemy, now able to fully see his new, terrifying appearance.
Cankentriops now towered over all of them, even Bowser. If she was to compare his size to someone or something, she would compare it to a two-story building. He was now also very muscled, with three pairs of tree-trunk arms that were each holding one of the Branches' weapons as well as Cankentriops' own scepter. His head still was a pyramid, but much larger, and the face facing them now had three eyes, one at the center, one slightly up to the left, and one near the right edge, the last two constantly looking at different directions while the first one was glaring at the heroes with rage and madness. More eyes could be seen on the faces at the left and the right, and no doubt there were more on the two faces at the back. And in addition, there was now a mouth under the center eye that almost split the pyramid in half, a large tongue hanging from it. Finally, behind the head was a large ring seemingly made of solidified light with the five Elemenstars inlaid in it.
He roared. "GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! Destroy!!! Must! Destroy!!!"
"You will destroy nothing!" Bowser shouted.
Suddenly, a huge beam of light came out of Cankentriops and went toward the clouds before, the next instant, lightning rained and destroyed every single airships present, making them crash.
Bowser winced. "Excepted my armada..."
"Buck, I hope they're alright," Sweetie Belle said with worry as she looked at the still numerous (but much less numerous than previously) Cankens now charging down at the crashed troops.
"It's not the moment to worry!" Phantom shouted. "He's coming!"
"GRRROOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAHHH!!!!!!"
With another mighty roar, Cankentriops raised his scepter and pointed it at the heroes while he also readied the other weapons.
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I give 50/50 on whether Cankentriops is actually in there anymore.
it would be cool to see it animated
For those who don't get the reference, this is the Waluigi Launcher, first invented by YouTuber SMG4. It's very effective, but Waluigi usually doesn't like it.
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I can perfectly see how this would play out. The scene would dynamically shift between the different fights, again and again, until the final attacks. It would be epic.
Yeah, it would...
While Sweetie managed to copy the power-ups of Kirby (Unless I missremember) could she also copy the Power-Ups of Mario? Or she is not really interested (Or she will not know about them to avoid make her more powerful or mix them giving a headache) I wonder somehow what could some of them do to her.
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She can copy Mario's power-ups, all of them. She can send fireballs. She can send iceballs. She can turn herself metal, or glide, or turn herself into a statue, turn herself giant, or small, etc... Most of them are actually pretty redundant with some of Kirby's power-ups, or other powers that she already used. The only power-up she can't copy is the Power Star because she can't turn herself invincible.
She could potentially make a Power Star out of Void Matter or whatever, to say nothing of how she can take basically anything that "invincibility" ever protected Mario from with no more than mild annoyance. Heck, there are ways to die under that effect and she's barely harmed by those either!
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Uh, I didn't know that the Power Star's invincibility had a limit beside the obvious "don't fall into pits like an idiot". Then I guess that she could make one. Creating items giving real, total invincibility (even temporarily) wouldn't be possible for her unless she was a God (among the more powerful ones), or else, she would be, well, invincible. Or at least, she would have to lose a lot of time gathering a LOT of energy to create one.
Yo Lucar!would you consider making a Terraria Crossover someday?there are a few Stories here and there,but I’m interested in how you would approach the idea.
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A crossover with Terraria would be nice, but I know nothing of the story. I would need to look into the wiki and watch lots of let's play.
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I wonder if Sweetie Belle in Cat Costume could give more heart attacks that Maid Costume, that seems to be one of the more useful power-up from Mario for our dear cute demi-godess
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Oh, trust me, once she will learn the existence of the Bell, she will have a blast using it against a certain sunglasses-wearing friend. And a few others. Everyone shall learn to fear the power of cuteness. After, technically, she could already turn herself into a cat if she wanted. It just never crossed her mind.
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Well that’s fair.you could also play the game since is available in French,the Price is reasonable and just needs a decent enough PC to Run,but yeah you still would need to search some or the Lore in the internet.
Pits, lava, being crushed between platforms. Basically the same things that ignore your other powerups. Also, just because the games say "you're invincible" doesn't mean that it's enough to withstand attacks more powerful than anything that was in the game in question.
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Good point. Same situation with the Invincibility Candy from the Kirby series I guess.
just realize since you're crossing with other games was involved with Smash. Are you going to involve Undertale and Dragon Quest?
Also which would the crusader visit, Ness or Lucas?
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Undertale was already visited. And yes, there will be Dragon Quest (not sure if I will just do the 11 or put in the others too). And we will visit Ness first.
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Ohh right, i forgot . Derp