Chapter 70: Cankentriops
Cankentriops fired a light beam from his scepter at the group. Feeling its terrible power, Sweetie Belle quickly intercepted it and deflected it with a lot of difficulty toward the sky, the laser eventually exploding with such force that the night was turned into day for several seconds.
During these seconds, the heroes began their assault on the leader of the Cankens. It began with a fireball from Bowser, followed by Mario and Luigi attacking with their hammers, and then by Wario charging and DK punching. Cankentriops didn't flinch when he was hit by all of them, and Phantom putting him in an illusion where he was attacked from all sides by lasers was barely better. It was as if he couldn't feel pain anymore. Or didn't care about it.
However, in return, he loved to inflict it. As the heroes attacked him from all sides, he raised the sword and the hammer as the Fire Star and the Earth Star lit up. Huge boulders then formed in the sky before they were surrounded by intense fire that melted them into big balls of lava that began to drop all over the area. Phantom quickly used her illusion powers to turn everyone's reality and transpose it to the real world so the balls of lava turned into giant beach balls that simply bounced around harmlessly, at worst bouncing on the heroes. However, Cankentriops then raised his scepter and used the Aether Star to bring reality back to normal, turning the beach balls back into lava balls. Sweetie Belle quickly materialized a giant tennis racket and used it to send a lava ball that had been about to fall on Waluigi at the Canken. The others managed to avoid getting bad burns, Diddy and Yoshi still getting some minor ones from droplets of lava balls splattering not far of them.
Despite taking a lava ball on the face, Cankentriops raised the trident and the fan, and the Water Star and Wind Star glowed before little particles of ice appeared everywhere in the air and strong winds blew in a small cyclone around the Canken. The wind transported the particles of ice at dangerous speed, the particles cutting and injuring everybody until Apple Bloom took control of them and directly sent them at Cankentriops, cutting him from all sides.
Cankentriops then raised the Chakram as the Aether Star glowed again and, the next instant, portals moved on the ground out of his feet toward the heroes. The ones who could fly weren't bothered by them, but the ones who couldn't were forced to avoid them with jumps. As portals continued to come, another opened above Cankentriops and he fired a continuous laser into it, the laser coming out of the other portals. This meant that the heroes now had to jump to the sides to avoid them, instead of just jumping up to let the portals pass under them.
All the while, the heroes continued to attack whenever they had the occasion. Without surprise, Sweetie Belle was the one dealing most of the damage, pummeling the Canken with giant fist-shaped shields, cutting him with her ten double beam swords, constantly sending lasers from all sides. She attempted to end the fight rapidly by beheading Cankentriops, but somehow, the head remained on his shoulders after the passage of her sword. It seemed that he now possessed a strong ability to regenerate as any injury he was given quickly disappeared.
To defeat him, they had to deplete him of his energy fist. Tire him out.
Thankfully, since he was fueling the portal below, his energy was constantly diminishing. It was only a matter of time. And they could make it faster by forcing him to use more in the current fight.
Which was the occasion to see some unusual teamwork from the heroes. As Cankentriops sent flying electric water sharks, Mario grabbed Bowser by the tail and spun before throwing him toward the Canken. While he was sent toward Cankentriops, Bowser entered his shell and spun too before colliding, causing a lot of damage. As Cankentriops sent tornadoes of fire, Wario ate some garlic before DK grabbed him and positioned him so his head was facing the Canken. Wario then farted which propelled him like a rocket to violently headbutt their enemy. DK was left half-dead from the gas, but Sweetie Belle thankfully quickly took care of him. Waluigi threw Bob-Ombs at Yoshi who ate them and used them to lay eggs that he then threw at Cankentriops, the eggs exploding on him. Diddy fired a peanut that Kamec grew to giant proportions with her magic. Bowser Jr. in his clown car flew beside Luigi and used his paintbrush to create a path of blue paint that Luigi slid on as he readied his hammer. Once he was close enough, he then gave Cankentriops a strong hit.
Cankentriops eventually decided to protect himself with a shield, but it was quickly destroyed by Sweetie Belle despite it being stronger than originally. It still took a few second, which gave Cankentriops enough time to charge a huge quantity of energy as the five Elemenstars glowed. A black hole appeared some distance before him, its pull attracting the heroes who did their best to not be sucked in until it disappeared. Many of them understood what Cankentriops was preparing, and Apple Bloom quickly levitated everyone up right as the Canken fired from his original eye a powerful cone-shaped multi-colored beam that destroyed everything in its path, the beam eventually growing so big that it reached the ground below and dig a bigger and bigger trench and disintegrated a huge part of the cliff surrounding the valley in the distance. Thankfully, Sweetie Belle moved all Koopa Troops in its path to another place, the beam only killing other Cankens who hadn't gotten time to move out of the way in the end.
Once the beam dissipated, Cankentriops was left very weakened. However, before the heroes could act on it, he roared.
It wasn't a roar of madness or anger or challenge.
It was a call.
In the following moments, dozens of Cankens came from all around and flew toward Cankentriops who opened his mouth. The Cankens then exploded into clouds of purple energy that Cankentriops sucked in, replenishing his own energy.
"Of course he can do that..." Sweetie Belle said with a deadpan expression.
"What, so this means that as long as there are Cankens still around, we won't be able to end him?" Wario asked.
"Well, I could teleport everyone here to the other side of the world, blow up the whole area and end this fight right there and now," Sweetie Belle said. "Or not. With his current power, I wouldn't be surprised if Cankentriops can survive against me going all out at least a minute or two even after I exterminated all the Cankens."
"And leave all the fun to you? Don't count on it," Wario replied, and the filly simply shrugged in return before she resumed attacking Cankentriops.
At the same time, Mario took out a bell which he absorbed the power to gain a catsuit that he immediately used to pounce on Cankentriops and repeatedly scratch him. Luigi also took an object, some kind of raccoon costume, and once absorbed, he gained a fox-like suit. He then nodded at DK before he turned himself into a statue, and the ape quickly grabbed him and used him as a club until Luigi was forced to come out of his statue form.
Sweetie Belle looked at Mario and his catsuit and made a note to herself to visit a certain sunglasses-wearing friend with such a suit.
Professor E. Gadd, transported by Little Ghost, arrived on the cliff surrounding the valley of the pyramid. Behind him, transported by a group of ghosts, was a rather big machine that looked like a coil. The ghosts dropped it beside the old man as he looked down at the terrible battle that was taking place in the valley.
"Seems like we arrived just in time," he said. Then, he pressed a button at the base of the coil. "Let's end this."
Purple electricity began to course up the coil, and a few seconds later, it began to emit a purple light at the top, a light that gained in power as the seconds passed.
The group of ghosts then took the machine again and transported it into the valley below.
And as it approached them, it absorbed the Cankens' energy, purple wisps leaving them and going toward the machine. More and more, they turned into powerless husks until they just disintegrated. Being mostly made of that energy, it proved to be fatal to the Cankens, just as the prof had planned.
However, there was one Canken it revealed to not be fatal to...
With a roar, Cankentriops threw the fan, the weapon sending fireballs in a spiral pattern. He then swung the hammer at Wario who was charging at him while he went to impale Dixie with the trident only for her to avoid it with a leap to the side. When he saw a couple of fist-shield come, he opened his mouth and destroyed with balls of energy, only to end up punched directly by the Sweetie Belle herself, the punch blowing up part of his head and making him step back. However, his head quickly regenerated and he attempted to bite the filly with his sharp teeth covered in energy. She used claws of energy to keep the mouth open, not without some difficulty, and fired several beams from her horn into it before she teleported away just as Cankentriops fired another beam from it. Phantom then came and planted her sword into his main eye while Apple Bloom used scythes to slice off his arms. The arms, however, attached themselves back to him while he stomped the floor to create a shockwave and used the Aether Star to create areas where time was slowed down, forcing the heroes to be careful of where they were going especially as, after a few seconds, the areas' time stopped, immobilising anything and anyone in them.
Then, E. Gadd's machine passed in the sky above them, and as soon as it came too close, it drained Cankentriops of his energy. The drain was quick, and painful as the Canken roared and attempted to attack the machine with a beam that Sweetie Belle stopped.
"About time," Apple Bloom said as she eyed the machine, understanding that it was E. Gadd's and what it was doing.
In just a matter of seconds, by the time the machine moved away, Cankentriops looked like a dried mummy.
But he wasn't dead.
Because he still had something in him. Crakkthulx's energy.
Even if he was terribly weakened and even if the Cankens were pretty much exterminated, the fight wasn't over. The heroes quickly understood it as Cankentriops, with a roar that transcribed all his determination, brought out that energy which not only brought himself back to "normal" (considering his current appearance as "normal") instead of remaining a mummified shade, but also added a few features to his physic. Mainly an eye in his left pec, another in his lower right forearm, a tentacle sprouting out of the left of his head near the top, and a second, longer tongue coming out of his large mouth. Also, the ring of solidified light behind his head became black, and its bottom was now enveloped in flesh coming out of his back with another eye present there.
"Ahhh... Gaaahhhh... Lord... Coming... Aah... Must... Not... Rraah... Give... Up... Rahh..."
Lasers then shot out from all his eyes and swept the floor and the sky randomly.
Again, Sweetie Belle blew up his head by punching it, and again, it regenerated. However, instead of returning to its pyramid shape, it took on a mass of... flesh, eyes, and tentacles.
Then, his upper-right arm suddenly grew several meters, taking Sweetie Belle off guard as she was flying away so he was able to grab her by the head before slamming her on Mario, causing him to lose his catsuit. A tentacle then wrapped itself around Bowser's foot and lifted him before using him as a weight to hit the others. A Phantom Cube touched Cankentriops and sent him to a reality where several circular saws embedded themselves into his body, one of them cutting the tantacle holding Bowser, but the wounds just closed or turned into mouths and more eyes. In return, Cankentriops teleported beside Phantom and almost beheaded her with the sword that she was able to avoid, then she teleported to not have her head bit off while Yoshi ran away to not be squashed by the hammer.
Several magical beams from Kamec hit him on the back where the ring was more and more covered by flesh, gaining his attention. Diddy took the occasion to high-kick his right leg on the knee, only to be slapped by the fan enveloped in fire, sending him away. Both Wario and DK then charged and punched him, the first from the left and the second from the right, before Apple Bloom appeared before him and blasted him on his chest, sending him crashing on his back. In the middle of his flight, he threw the trident enveloped in purple electricity at Apple Bloom, impaling her and sending her further back.
Cankentriops' appearance continued to shift as the fight advanced, becoming more and more grotesque. The right part of his chest had bloated a bit, and the middle-left arm had moved so it was now on his belly. He also became hunched, now using his long upper-right arm as a leg to remain up, and his "head" was now constantly tilting to the left, slightly backward.
He called back the trident, then used it as well as the other weapons to send projectiles of fire, water/ice, stone, and wind while his eyes resumed firing lasers in all directions. In return, the heroes' attacks doubled in intensity in hope of finally ending this fight.
But all they seemingly managed to do as they attacked Cankentriops was to turn him more and more into an... Abomination. He lost more and more shape of what he was at the origin. A huge mouth suddenly opened in his torso and a tentacle-like tongue came out and grabbed Luigi in a clear attempt to eat him, and he was saved by Phantom slicing it with her sword. A big round eye then opened in his belly, under the arm there, and fired a huge beam of light that Sweetie Belle had to deflect. One of his arm was eventually sectioned, but as it dropped on the floor, it gained a life of its own and leaped to attack Waluigi before Bowser turned it into ashes. Even the weapons... merged with Cankentriops, becoming part of his body, gaining just as grotesque shapes and seemingly gaining life.
The sword lunged at Dixie, now at the end of a tentacle. The trident randomly fired projectiles at the heroes. The hammer constantly smashed the floor around, sometime sending shockwaves. The fan was flapping, each flap sending waves of projectiles. The chakram detached itself from the main body and went after random targets. And the scepter slowed down time, raised the gravity, fired beams, and just did its best to be the greatest nuisance.
And by now, the ring on Cankentriops' back was fully enveloped in his flesh, making it fully a part of him too.
Phantom quickly managed to destroy the Chakram as it went after her, slicing it to little pieces that she then disintegrated with laser cannons. The hammer then went next as it attacked DK only for the ape to catch it before tearing it off and pummeling it until it disintegrated into oblivion. The hammer attempted to defend itself by firing an ice ball on DK's face, but it just made the ape angry. Mario and Bowser Jr. faced the sword, respectively using hammer and paintbrush to attack it until it was destroyed. The fan was disintegrated with a beam from Sweetie Belle, and Bowser caught the trident and used his sheer strength to break it into pieces that disappeared. This left the scepter which Kamec took care off with the help of Diddy using his jetpack and his guns as well as Yoshi throwing eggs at it.
All the while Apple Bloom constantly blasted and sliced the main body which was starting to lose stability. Bloated parts began to blow up by themselves, limbs fell off (only to gain life of their own and attack any nearby hero), eyes closed, and overall, everything began to melt. The ring with the Elemenstars was eventually swallowed, disappearing inside it.
Despite having lost his weapons, Cankentriops continued to use the Elemenstars' powers, now at their paroxysm. Winds picked up to the point that the heroes had to use all their strength to not be blown away. Constructions made of fire, water, and stone flew around, randomly targeting everyone. Lightning and beams of light rained. Time, space, and gravity constantly shifted.
Sweetie Belle had to work really hard to counter these last cases, cursing these Aether Powers.
Then, Cankentriops took a last blow from Wario, and it was finally too much.
Letting out a roar of agony, his body began to blow up, energy escaping him. What remained of his body trashed and twisted in unnatural ways, and even attempted to continue the fight. His many mouths tried to say something, but all that came out of them were random words or unintelligible sounds in a cacophony that forced everyone to cover their ears. They still could hear, especially the blood-chilling screech that the roar eventually turned into.
And finally, he exploded. The last traces of him were wisps of energy disappearing into the atmosphere, and the five Elemenstars now resting on the floor.
Floor which Sweetie Belle made sure remained here despite Cankentriops now being dead to ensure that they wouldn't drop into the portal below.
And so, the Cankens were gone. Once and for all.
There were many sighs of relief among the heroes as they understood that it was finally over. Mario took the Elemenstars, and below, the portal began to close. The sighs then left place to shouts of victory, with hugs, roars, slaps on the back, and acrobatics.
Which were suddenly interrupted by an intense earthquake as a voice not of this world yelled something that nobody excepted Sweetie Belle understood, but even her multiversal translator seemed to have difficulty as the voice sounded glitchy to her and hurt her brain.
"F̷̦̓̾̒Ớ̷̛̺͂͑́̓̐Ǫ̵̢̞̮̻̺̈́̓̐͂͆̇͊͠Ȍ̷̲̠̺͚̑̈̍͝Ö̶̜̺̜̦̺̈́Ǫ̷̝̟̦̖̱̝͊̾̀̕Ò̶͕̘̤̙̹̘̳̌͋̀Ȭ̷͎̲̮̪̖͔̤͜͠Ō̴̬̩̫̳̻̭̦̭̈Ơ̶̯͇̍̓́̉͝Ṏ̵̢̢͙̠̯́̓͊̃͝ͅL̶̗̘̫̔̍͛̃́͒!̵̯̪̘̮͛̀͝!̶̳̰̮̣̙̝̒̍̓!̴̢̮̪͓̮̍͑͂̕̚͝ͅ!!"
Out of the portal, which was already almost closed, then came a large tentacle with a single eyeball at the end that broke right through the "space platform" right in the middle of the group of heroes, the eye, two times bigger than Bowser, slowly circling to get a look at all of them. The tip of more tentacles then came out and placed themselves against the edge of the portal, stopping it from closing and even broadening it back a bit.
"D̷̫̙̟̞͂̉͗I̴̗̻͖̖͎̙̤͗̆Ḑ̵͔͕͌̄̽̊ ̵̧̛̫͉͇̝̭̺͌̅͊̎̄Y̷͈̗̰̍̽̑̃̊͊̋Ō̶̢̾̏͌̈̚͠U̴̢͓̣͙͈͆̈ ̶̢̰͖̺͇̾̄Ŗ̴͉̥̼̹̮́̇̓̽̚͜͝Ȩ̴̧͎̺̭́̅̉̊͘A̷̳̔̽L̴͍̖̮̩̙͒̇͝L̸̟͇̪̊̓Y̶̨̖͖̬͍̐̽͜ ̵̛͓̥͓̒̀̐̀́͆T̷̢̲̓̇̇̐́̎Ḧ̴̡̤̲̮̣́̽͑̿̿̚Ï̷̲̽̾̎N̷̛̯̞͈͖̍͌̋̀̀̕K̶̛͈̊͛͗ ̷̢̫̼͉͓͑͛̀͘ͅͅY̵̨̺͎͓̒̽Ǫ̴͙͕͈̟̋͊͜Ű̴̡͕̞̼̘̼͊̓͠ ̷͇̺̝̜̠̺̓͊̆͌̐̓H̴̢͎͈̻͌̄͛̓͘A̴̬̋ͅD̶͉̆͐̂̚ ̷̧̰̞͕̩̽̎̈́̍̂͝Ẁ̵̡͚̦͉̄̋͌̏̚͝O̵̡̥̮̮͓̖͉̎͐͛͋N̵̖̟̩̺͔̲̆̓͑̑?̷̱̬̈̅̕ ̴͉͈̐͊̈̕͘D̷͓̆̉̐Į̷͙͇̹̯̄̿̍͜D̷̡̜̈́̈́̅ ̴͍̏̆͌͗̕͝Y̸͕̰̘͖̺͓̋̇̍͊́̽̄Ō̸̡͓̞̮̤̔̄͜Ṷ̸͛̾́̓̅ ̶̟̒́̂̾̋͘R̴̰̼̀̂Ȅ̴͙̺̞̞̃̽͐̚A̴͓̭̺̥͈̥͍͐̀̈́̉̀L̴̘̫̻̟͍͠͝L̵͉͓̈́̀̏͆̿̉̕Y̵̡̨̞̗̟͚̮͒̈́̓ ̶̹̽͗̀̓͆̍T̴̛̙̦̻͉̙̰̰͋̀̅́H̶͚̭̱̎̈́̀̉͊̄Ḯ̵͖̮͉̯̓͌̾̚Ņ̸̛̬̑̅̈́̿͜K̵̟͓͕̥̼̑́ ̵̙̝̉̈́̐͛̓̂̔Y̸̧̛̟̞̲͑͘͠O̶̬͙͆͐̔̕U̴̢̧̫̦͓̥̓ ̶͓̦͖̥̣͝H̴̛̜̟̩̳̤̦͙̀̓̄͂̕Ā̵̡̛̜͍̊̃̽͘͠D̴͖̓̚̕ ̵̨̲̳̯̮͆S̷̭̻̻̪̟̫̊̔̉̅̽͊T̶̡͒̿̽O̴̠̲̙͕̣̜͔̽͛́̉̂͛̕P̵̡̡̠̟̔̈́͐̒͌͘P̷̨̯͔͓̰̱̀ͅE̵̠̯̦̭͎̜̔͂͑̍̀D̵̺̭͙̔ ̴̡̧̢̘̼̭͈͗̍̿̈́M̵̙̲̤̅̍̀̍͗Ÿ̵̖̌̽ ̴̢̼͍̊̊̐̽̔͝C̴̙͇̠̟̉́̕̚O̵̝̮͓̼͋̎͋̔͊̕͝M̸̱̟̪̭̜̑̀͌͐͂Į̴̢̗̗͚̤̇͆͛́̾͘͠N̷̫̭̩̘̫͖̆̍̾̀͜G̸̟̩͒͂̈́̆͝?̴̖̤̦̰̞̦̩́̾̈́̚͘ ̶̛̛̖̼͖̤͚͖͊̑͌̓̐T̵̙͇̱̮͈̗̝͌̋̕H̸͙͔̪̖̣̽̊̚Ę̵̙͚̜̠̎͒̈́̈́̕͝͝ ̸̝̭̪̉̈́̈́̒Ì̴̠̱̫̤̈́̂̍̒͆͆Ǹ̷̙̤̞̟̎̈́̉͐̆͝S̴̡͚̤͎͕̘̀͋T̶̘̫͈̰̞̯̀̾̈́́͐͜Ä̶͈̦́̌͝͝N̵̦͎̬͆͌T̴̬͍͋̔ ̵̨̮̥̀̅͒̓̇̌̈́T̸͓͉̜̜͚̖̼̊͠H̶̛͚̓̓͗E̸͎̋́̐̄̈͌̆ ̵̨̗̭̠̈͗̈́́́P̴͓̲̹̺̰̬̘̈́͊̋́̋̏Ǫ̶͇̙̓̄̀̏̍̅̕ͅṚ̶̬̙͗̈́͜ͅT̷̡͕̜̟͍̈́͌̆̍̿̕A̴̖̪̓̈́̊́̎͐̃͜L̶̫̮̳̮̭͓̦̈ ̸̳̬̱̐̂͂̑O̴̧̪͌͗̑̑͆̔̆P̷̨̧̺̈́̈́̅̈͌̂̓Ȩ̶̺̹͈̮̈N̵̫̙̟̦͂ͅE̵̺̥̱̫͑͋͐̅Ḑ̶̬̦̣̤̿ͅ,̴͚̻̗̬̒̔͛ ̶̨̡̛͍̻̮̐̈́͝͠Ỳ̵̜͉̀̀͝O̵̼̍̈́U̵̠̗͛ ̷͕̮̗̱̲̠̈̆̆̇̔͜H̶̢̺͉̙͍͊̒̓͊A̴͐̈͜͝D̴͚͉̻̰̝̱̔̉̚ ̸͉͎̼̤̓͛͐͆̀L̷̩̫̤̹̀̑O̷̠̻̦͖͉̲͙͝S̴̢̭̪͊͆̈̃́͌̇T̸̙̲̪̓͋͒̅!̶̛̺̜̖̙͍̻͈̈́̐̀̄́ ̵͚͔̣͉̅̍I̶̦͗͠ ̷̛̼̲̥̙̼͋̏͐͐̍͝Ẃ̴̗̼̗́̅̕͠ͅȀ̸̲̜͇̠̮̠͑͌̚S̷̘̜͂̾ ̶̟͔̳̱͊J̴͔̣͕̯̐̓̈́̎́͌̚͜U̶͔̱̤̰͔͗̾̀̈́S̵̡͉͌͌T̸̞̎͋͆̒̏̀̄ ̸̯͚̅T̵̘̩̖̺̭̘̀Ả̶͉͍̠̰̏͆̾̒͝K̴̡̨̡͙̹̤͔͛͛͆͌͂̊̕I̵͕͕̼̪͉̼͑̋́͊̄̄N̸̡̛̛͙̈́͜G̷̺̹̼̟̦̮̚ ̴̧͓͕͔̀͑I̴̹̒̈͂͝N̶̪̻̯̺̄̈͘ ̷̫͕͋̉Ṱ̵̦̝͍̬̓͐͘̕͜H̸̡͔̬͂̏̈́̓͋E̵͇̳̦̠̊̀ͅ ̶͎̹͘S̵̙̮̬͑̀̽̀H̶̝̥̀̌̒̐͝O̷̭̜̱͝W̸̻͖̮̗̔͑͋̓̚,̸̝͔̲̞̪̉ ̷͚͉̣̩̯̭̉̉W̴̬̝̪̫̽͜A̷͕͔͘T̶̺̮̠̙̗̭̄͜C̷̹͊̏H̵̨̗̙̹͌I̶̬̱̋͆̀͘N̶̛̞̩͕͎̫̉͛̓̀͜͝ͅG̸͉̙͙̭͓͠ ̷͖̥̳̎̌Ḁ̴̛̊̿̓͒̔̚Ś̵̢̖̹͕͈̻̈́͆̈́̎͐̽͜ ̴͚̙̘̺̦̻̈͐Y̷̛̼̫̻͈̗̽Ŏ̸̧̢͓̟͈̳̯̈́̈͊͐͝U̶̧̡̙̫͒͂͐̓ ̶̧͚̹͍͉̀́͂̌̾̍Ų̶̢̭̞̰̫̈́̏́͑͊S̵̨̛̼͎̺̤͍̤̐͛Ẹ̵̢̮̳̒̒̂̔̕L̶̲̲̪̖̠̠̜̈́̀͆̅̽͝E̵̢̼͕͙͗̾͛̔͘͠S̵͕̺͖̿͆́͝S̸̹̖̲̟͎͈͎̆͌̽̈́̈̀L̸̨̜̦̱̱̫̬̃͛̚Y̶̩̹͖̹̩̽͜ ̶̱̳̠̗̎͝S̵͎̩̣̅̍͊͐T̵̖̱̘̜́̏̀͛̋͊̕R̶̮̫̙͇͇͋͑̈́Ủ̷̩̫̞̖͛͂̽̊͜͠G̵̨̻͖̰͊G̸̛̛̝̉̂̈́̄͠L̷̤̃̔̀͆̑̏̓ͅE̴̢̢̗͇̜̬͊͂͒̍̚͝͝D̵̥̝̣̰̲̲͗̌̒̿̈͌͝ ̶͉̐̇͘T̶̡̲͎̞͆̽̅̂͜ͅO̴̗̒̆ ̷̡̡̖̘̰͚͈̄C̸̺̥̀̄̅̉L̵̻̑Ő̶̱̏̀͛̚͘͜S̴̤̘̦͓̮̆̓Ẻ̵̡͝ ̵̡̪͔̫̙̿̊͗̉̐I̷̗̯̫̅͛̓̀T̵̪͕̿͜͝,̵̢̬͎̲̗̯̈̈́̆̔̾̈ ̴̝͌̀̌̍W̵̩͓̘̪̪̪͜͠Ǎ̶̛̮I̵̢͓͍̻͖͖͗̐͋͒͜͝T̶̰̳͖̠͔̲̰̈́̄̆Ȋ̴̧̯̲͓N̶̠͆̂̐Ḡ̴̗̪̗͍̲͌̀̆͘͘ ̷͓̺͚̈́ͅF̵̖̻͔̺̿̈́Ő̴̲Ṟ̸͝ ̵͉̤̳͇͚̊̇̋̈́T̶̢̠̿́͋͐̀͝Ḧ̴̠̩̪̺̯́͠E̵͕̺̊̆̔͒͌́ ̴͕̦̌́͒L̶͖̩̤̈́̒͐A̶̜̫͇͆S̷̻̭̜̳͐͆̽̄̋̓ͅT̴̨̤̑͒̉̏͝ ̶͕̆͒͘Ḿ̷̛̥͌͌̂Ơ̴̲̭̭̖̅̊̔̅M̵̺̥̠͒͗̃Ẹ̴̛́̾̽̎̓̕N̷͈̠̤͔̓̑̄̔͋͘T̶̙͌ ̷̬̙͖̈́̈́W̸̨̞̫͕͚̄̕Ḩ̴̰̟̜͋̋́̈́͜͝ͅÉ̸̻̦̰̳̑̀͛̉̓͘͜N̴͎̯̯̬͕͓͂́̔ ̷̗̆̉̒́̆̕Y̸̨̬͓͍̜̝̌̀̉͂Ơ̶̥̬̾͝U̸͓̫̍̀͐̓̚̚Ŕ̴̖̰̺̘̮̭́͂̾̈́ͅ ̴̳̠̳̠̩̌̐́̕͜͜H̶̢̟̞̫̮̀̓́̕Ő̸̬̤͉͍͓̳͙͂̀̋̈́P̴̘̬̍E̵̹͙̝͍͓͋̂͌͛̇̃͘ͅS̸͚̼̅͊́̈̈́͝ ̶͉̘̘͖́̒̔͝W̷̙̹͓̉̿̾͐́͘͜͝Ǫ̶͙͂Û̶̹͉̜̜͓̈́̍̚͜͝͠ͅL̷̢̩͇͔̝̲̑̕̚ͅD̶͙͔̹̼̦̙̀̋͆̕͝ ̶̺̗̩͖̏̈́̆́̈́̍ͅB̸̝̽̏E̵̡͚̯͌̇̓̿͠͝ ̷̼͋̽̄T̷̢̑̉̈̉͠H̸̙̮̖͈̮͐̕E̸͕̰̙͙͗̀ ̶͙͙̤͚͙͊̈́̌̓̉̀̈́ͅH̶̨̽̀͂̚͝Į̸̠͖̫̰̘͂͑̿͒̚G̷̹̘̯̠͉̙͐̍H̸̡̠̊͛͛̀͋̕ͅE̸̯͚̓̑͑S̶̨̡̛̤̟̣̗̀̋̈̕̕T̷̪̳̙̘̄͐͛̀͠͝!̵̰̫̯̟̅͆̊̈́̕ ̸̮̜̳̀̊͑̔̑͜͝Ậ̷̧̘̬̈́̄͆̎͝N̷̳̜̙̩̗̩̉̃̈́̔̈́̈́͠Ḑ̸̡̛̮͖͚͂̅̒͘͝ ̴̗͔̟̣̺̙̦͂͒̊́̆̓͠N̷̢̧͍̫̣̣̈́̅̓͌͝O̴̢̥͐̽͊̈̕̚Ẁ̴̦͌,̶̢̲͇̥̠̠̬̈́͝ ̸͍̣͈͚̮̓̔̓̍̄I̸̧̳͔̳̋̊̀͂͝N̵͎̻̤͔͐͐̑͆ ̸̢͍͖͙̎̽T̶̢̤̹̹̫̈̂͋̀͂̈H̸̞̹̊͛̑̈́̑I̷̛̪̳̔̍̋̾̊Ś̴̡͖̟͛͊̚͠ ̴̜͛̅̀͌̔͘̕H̸̘͈̱̦̓͝O̴̦̫̍̓̈́̐̔U̴̯̪̣̺̩͠R̵̢̠͕͙͙͂̓ ̸̲̫̼͚̀̍͑͋̔͠͝T̵̺̘̔H̵̡̖͓̹̲͂͑̀̕Å̸̦̾̆T̶̨̝̤̂͑̎ ̸͋̎ͅẀ̵̜̦̝̼̂̉A̶͚͙̋̎̓͑Ś̶̹̦͗ ̴̛̥̽̚S̷̡̻͖̝̰̉͌͠Û̴̦̳͝Ṕ̵̪͎͘P̶̧̝̅̏͌̇͝O̵͑̾̌̿́͜͝͝Ś̷̳̼͖̙̜͒̊̉͒Ê̸̼͈̻̠͇̽D̸̹̿̿ ̷̧̭̜̮̟̯̉̓̂͜T̵̞͍̘̱͐̋̄̊̕͜Ǒ̶̜̹̱͙̳̮̓͐̉̒͒͝ ̷̛̝̥̟̰̟̠̰̋͋̌̂̆̚B̶̘̠͍̳̞̟̓͛̈́E̶̡̞̭̅͌̊̐͗ ̷̳̻̪̖͖̀Y̴̪̦̽̽͆̃̀͝Ö̴̙́Ữ̸̭̦̼̮̱͝͝R̵̺͕̺͐ ̶̧͕̹͔̗͋̉͗̎̀̾ͅF̶̔̚͜Ǐ̵͚͎̞̆̇͂͝N̴̯͕͗̈́̅̔̌͝Ȩ̸͉̾̉̐̊̃̇̚ͅS̷̢̛͓͔̜̣͉͌̀͒T̸̗̫̩͓̝̩̟̉̍͝,̷̳̝͎̞̞̀͗ͅ ̴̗͎͙̇̐̔̈́̀̐͜Ï̶̮̪̗̫̒ ̸̧̧͕͓̱̯̼̎̎̓S̷̢̝̤̹̯̊̎̐̃̋͠H̶͓̓̇A̶̮̘̩̪͛̿̍L̴̢̙̻̳͊̎̆Ḷ̴̲̜̆̽́͆̕͠ ̷̪͎͐̉̃R̸̛̦̜̗̦̟͖̈́̀͆̋͊̅͜I̷͈̞̞͑͐̍̂̐͝S̷̨͖̖̦̫̰̼͋̄̑͋̏Ḙ̸̦̖̜͒̊ ̵͔̓̔Ȧ̷̡̜̬͙̹̾Ṇ̷̮̩̭͎̍̀̍̋̅͘D̶̯̄̂̓͛͌͠ ̸̹͇̭̈̈͐̈̀̂͜D̸͓̹̔͛̔͛̓͝͠Ȇ̷͉̞̄̂͒S̴̱͈̟̯̭̬̞͐̀̿͋͝͠T̴̨̳͔̺̫̣̝̿͋̒͗̀̎͝Ṛ̵̪̥͉͇͉̓͊͐̋̈́͛͘O̸̧̩̓͜Y̶͓̹̠̅̈ ̶̮̭̖̠͋̐̂́̋̅̕T̶͔̻̩̙͉̀̂̉͐̏̕H̸̡̛̯̥̭̔͌͐͂̉͜͝Ì̷̈́̉̀́͘ͅͅS̷͉̥̦̦̈́̂ͅͅ ̶̻͎̥̈́̔̓U̷̪̩̪̗͈̐̈̆̚̕N̵̩̠̻̻̟̈́̀̀Ī̶̢̛͖͍̹͐͛V̶̖͐͐͗͊̀͝Ȩ̶͙͇̹̝̤́̈̀R̴̡͚̠̞̼͉̔Ş̷̯̼̹͇̭͊É̶͉̗̫̭͍͌͌!̷̜͙͖̝͔͗̅͑͠͝ ̴͖͉͖͎͔̼̖̀̽̄̇̍A̸̧̬̝̝͗̌̒̉N̸̡̳̬͇̪̗͉͒̄̄̆͂͌D̸̺̱͍̘̠̝̒͐͌ ̶̹͈͑̆͐̍͝Y̸̫̙͚͉̥̑̈́͌͊̄͑̎O̸̰̼̮̺̎̉͛͆̾͐̉Ǘ̶͙̤̅͋̇̒̄̇ ̶̛̛̲̟̮̞͒̊̂S̸̡̛̙̬̰͎̀H̵̖̮̹̻̰̦̄̅͛̀A̷̯͍̰̚L̵̛̠͔̙̀͋̉̈L̶̘̤̦̜͑̔͜ ̸̻̿Ḑ̶̨͔́͝ͅI̵͔̙̤͇͕̐Ë̶̙̙̲͖̂͋̈͒̕ ̷̼͍̱̌̄̒̈́͜͠Î̸͇̲̇͝N̶͚̺̈̆̊̕͘ ̴̢͇͙͙̦̊̚D̴̲̫̦̥̘͕͔̓͒̑̇̌̐̕Ḛ̵̯̗̤͉̒͠S̷̹̮̮̱̫̗̓̉͝͝P̷̡͎̥̫̰͚̼̊A̵̼͌̍͝Î̷͚̤̠̥̖͉̽̅̃̚R̴̡̖͓̥͌̆̅̐͗̕͜ ̷̳̦̦͑͋Ą̴̮̬͓̹̄̿͗͊̊͝͠S̷̥͍͉̄́̈́́ ̸̬͋͒Y̴͙͈͑̂Ö̴̧̹̘̥̣̫́͆́̽U̵͕͍̳̝̦̇̾ ̷̟̠͍̿̃̄̆̌̑̎Ȗ̶͓̖̄̋͑̚͠N̶̤̽͌͑̎̕̚D̷̹̯̘̠̻̉̇̾͊E̵̢͆R̸̰̎̋̀̈͝Š̴̯͍͇̫͍̂͌͘ͅT̵̜͌͒̋͊Ḁ̴̠͓̺͙͍͖̈́̇̆N̷̡̘̯͓͌͝D̵̮͖̗̫͈̪̔́́ ̸̧̼̯̲̘͙̰͐͝͠T̵͔̝̦̼̟̦̊͆H̸̗͉̝́ͅÁ̶̞͔͚̀͋̋͑̒̕T̷̙̺͛̏͘ ̷̡̧͍͓͚̦̀A̴̹̟͌̕L̶̩̘̙̱̤͐͂͜ͅL̵̢̬̮̬̙̹̈́̉̌͆ ̷̪͛̑̎̃Y̵̞̦̹̜͑̋͒̉̍O̷̲̱͎̖̥̺͔̐͌͑̈́̍̈́U̵̞̼̪̦̬̬͋͋́͝ ̶̟̱̅̿̃͊͘D̷͕̱̍̉̾͗̃͘I̶͈̝̞̐̉̌̋͠D̷̻͙͉̓ ̸̘͕͓̲͓̿̀͒́̏͘͜W̵̫̣̖̗̓̔A̵̧̡̢̯̘̖̽͋̏S̷͚̩͔͕̋̔͂ ̷̨̘̿̓̈́̋̊F̷̳̼͗̔̚͠O̸͈̫̗̲̐͜R̷̫̄̏̈́͒̏͗ ̶̢̛͕̼̳̞̭̹̀̓͌̊̾̒N̷̹͈̗̻̰̈́̓̌͝Ŏ̸̧̄͐̍T̸̪̒̈̌̽Ḧ̶͕́̃͆͗͑̔ͅI̸̧̪̬͉̫̪̙͂͊̅̋̚͝N̴̳̱̭̩̍̄͛̉̃͝Ğ̸̟͎̟͖̱͛̃!̴̭̳̺̦̻̚"
"I won't let you!" Sweetie Belle yelled despite the terrible headache the voice was giving her before she fired a beam powerful enough to disintegrate the eye.
This only had for effect to make Crakkthulx laugh before the shaking returned. He used his tentacles to broaden the portal again, letting more of him come out, starting by what seemed to be the head.
Sweetie Belle had to teleport everybody back beside Peach, Stuffwell, and Starlow as the "space platform" was shattered. The tentacle with the eye revealed to only be the tip of the iceberg, so to say. It was part of what revealed to be Crakkthulx' "hair", made of more such tentacles, some with eyes, some without. As more and more of the head came out, it revealed to be almost as wide as the pentagon that served as the base of the Cankens' pyramid. It was almost spherical, with a single, giant eye taking the majority of the "face".
Then came the body, mountainous, rising and rising and rising, easily reaching over three miles of height. It started with a muscled humanoid torso with skin that looked like the one of an elephant, two herculean arms ending in eight-digits claws, and a pair of large wings like the ones of a dragon, so large that they obscured a huge portion of the sky. Then, below the torso, the body turned like the one of a squid, separating into countless tentacles that could topple the biggest skyscrapers without effort.
They forced everyone to retreat even further, on the cliffs surrounding the valley.
Once the last of his tentacles passed, the portal closed.
And Crakkthulx laughed.
"How are we gonna fight THAT?!" Bowser Jr. asked in panic.
Bowser pounded a fist into his palm. "I don't know, but as they say, the bigger they are, the harder they fall! I will just make the Magikoopas turn me giant again!"
"Even if ya turn giant, one of these tentacles could still crush ya like a bug!" Apple Bloom said.
"Do you have a better idea, Smartybone?!" Bowser asked.
"I could try to drop a sun on him but... it may not be enough..." Phantom thought aloud. "What do you think, Sweetie Belle? Sweetie B-"
Phantom looked at her side at Sweetie Belle only to be taken off guard as her alicorn friend suddenly took off and flew toward Crakkthulx.
Crakkthulx hadn't expected something like that, so he wasn't prepared as Sweetie Belle rammed into him and actually lifted him toward the sky.
"Ẁ̷̮͓Ḥ̶̫͍̰̰̫̉̎̈́̋Á̵͖̦͎̩̩̩͂́̍Ţ̶̬̭̟͖̺̄?̷̪͇̩̔̾̈́͐!̴̲̱̖̻̬́͐͆̐"
"Let's have a talk somewhere more private, okay?"
And at a speed nearing the one of light, she flew away from the planet with the god-like entity.
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Yeah, we all knew this was coming (if only because I told you so). While Crakkthulx probably could have resisted that if he'd tried, he had no reason to suspect that it was possible and that was always going to be his downfall. I'm not putting spoiler tags on this because I mean that always; I'm pretty sure I already linked the TvTropes page saying that they couldn't possibly have stopped the ritual and am mildly amused by Crakkthulx agreeing with me.
Just in the best...
Judging by that cliffhanger, Sweetie Void has lost her patience.
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It's more "I will have a battle of godly proportions, but I would rather have it somewhere where we won't accidentally blow up the world, so let's go somewhere else."
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What did that monster say? I couldn't understand him because the text was so messed up.
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You should learn to read Zalgo. More will certainly come and I won't feel like "translating" all the time. Beside, it's very easy to read, especially when the letters are very large and in capital like there.
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I take it next chapter is when Rosalina and Luma show up as they're the only Mario characters that have not shown up who are in smash ultimate. I'm also glad that you're giving WaLuigi an at least supporting role with his mad bomber tendency. Also are we going to see Mario wear his doctor scrubs?
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I'm still not certain how Rosalina will appear.
As for Dr. Mario, he won't be the same Mario. Alternate universes and all that stuff.
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I was thinking she would show up in space as she is a space fairing princess.
Having detected the elder god entering their universe and knowing that I could cause another imbalance that the lumas would have to reset the universe for. She would probably have already been hurtling towards Mario's planet in her comet observatory's meteor form. Just as Sweetie Void gets past the half destroyed Moon, Rosalina would show up and possibly show the fight to the others specifically her father Mario (it's heavily hinted that she's the child of Mario and Peach from a timeline long ago) maybe even have her help deal the finishing blow on the elder God (the only reason I don't say his name is because I forgot how to spell it)
Is there going to be Sunset Shimmer in one of these arcs?
I would love to see her reaction to the OPCMC.
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Maybe.
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better answer than the radio silence i expected.
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It's just that I'm still not sure of the role that I will give the EG-verse. They will obviously participate in that whole multiverse civilization stuff, and maybe in the battles against the Subspace Army and the Light/Dark Calamities, but I'm not sure how yet.
seesaws should be buzz saws or circular saws.
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Thanks. Corrected.
The part of this quote where Yoshi starts throwing eggs always has me seeing a scene similar to one in SpongeBob.
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This one specifically, but Yoshi and Waluigi with a massive pile of eggs behind them.