Chapter 76: Giving A Hand
Upon entering Dream Land, Sweetie Belle pretty much left the scientists to do as they wanted as long as they didn't cause problem, briefly indicating the general direction of Void's home as well as some important places like Dedede's castle or the training building before she flew up to Floralia, to her castle.
However, she forgot to warn them about the black doors. Oh well. They will learn.
She rapidly reached her castle and found Taranza who was helping putting banners with the kingdom's new emblem, the one that Sweetie Belle gave him with the rainbow flower coming out of a heart-shaped hole. It was barely a day since Sweetie Belle showed it to him and they already managed to make a lot of banners and other stuff with it on them like vases, tapestries, and pieces of clothing! It was even painted on some armors, and shields had been made to either look like a rainbow flower or a black heart! She was always impressed at how much could be done in so little time when people worked together like that.
As soon as she appeared, Taranza interrupted his work and flew toward her to greet her.
"Greetings, Sweetie Belle! What do you think?" he asked as he gestured at the banners and at everything else.
"Amazing! I didn't think you would manage to do so much in just one day! You all made a great job! And make sure to repeat what I just said to everyone who participated."
"Of course! But I presume that you aren't here just to talk about the decorations. Has something else happened? Yet another enemy?"
"No new enemy, thankfully. It's the contrary actually. It's to send help to new allies. To make it short, there was a world invasion and there was a lot of damage, so they need help to rebuild."
"Oh! So you want Floralia to gather resources and a workforce to send to that world? Or maybe you intend to bring some inhabitants of that world to Floralia to give them shelter? We have plenty of place in the castle."
"All of the above. So start the process to ready everything. Take your time however, we won't be able to send them right away. We first need to link the portal to this world and this may take a few days, depending of how long it will still take before we find out how to link two different portals. It shouldn't be long, thankfully. Gandaro is helping while Magolor is still building the portal in the Pokémon Universe."
"Very well. I will tell all this to the servants so they can start to prepare everything. Is there anything else?"
Sweetie Belle told him that there wasn't before she bid him goodbye and left.
Instead of directly returning to the Mushroom Kingdom, she first decided to visit some of her friends, starting with Adeleine and the others who were at the girl's school in Lollipop Land (which was starting to turn into quite a settlement as more and more people came to live there, interested in learning the art of giving life to art). After saying a quick hello to the girls as well as Yin, Yarn, Paint Roller, Vividria, and a few others, she spent a few minutes joining the students in painting, knitting, and crafting before she left and went toward Dedede's castle to see the King and her other friends who lived there.
While she found Broom Sunglasses, Cape Knight, and Knuckle Joe, she didn't find Dedede and Bandanna Dee however. Cape Knight told her that they were in the Training Building with Kirby and some Waddle Dees of the Science/Engineering Department (the same ones who made Dedede's Hammer Mk2 and Sweetie Belle's first version of her magitech whip).
This made Sweetie Belle raise an eyebrow in wonder. If it had just been Kirby, Dedede, and Bandanna Dee, she would have concluded that they were training to face this army they had been warned about, but with the Egg Head Waddle Dees too? They had something in mind. A new weapon? But why would Kirby come? Science and Kirby were antinomic excepted when the puffball had his Doctor Ability on (and even then, Kirby had no idea what he was doing and just mixed stuff together hoping that the solution won't explode on his face). And it was already a miracle to see Dedede with an open book so seeing him participating in some sciency or engineering stuff was like a dream.
Wait, wrong comparison. They were in the Dream Universe where dreams were possible.
Let's rewrite that. Seeing Dedede participating in anything related to science or any other stuff requiring heavy use of brain cells unless it was to effectively clobber someone would be like seeing Twilight willingly put a library on fire.
It. Was. IMPOSSIBLE. Not even in dreams. Unless they were VERY crazy dreams. Or unless Dedede and Twilight were under some spell that turned their personalities upside down.
So Kirby and Dedede working with the science team? And in the Training Building?
Sweetie Belle HAD to see what was going on.
So she teleported right away to the building and entered it to see quite the show: Kirby was in the middle of doing the Water Ability course in the highest difficulty under the watchful eyes of Dedede, Bandanna Dee, and the Egg Head Waddle Dees who were taking notes. Yes, even Dedede was taking note. Every little details of how Kirby used the Ability was put down on paper. And seeing the stacks of papers that were littering the room, they had been at it for some time, probably with more of Kirby's Abilities. A quick glance at the top of a nearby stack revealed notes about the Sword Ability. And another stack had notes about the Tornado Ability.
In order to not ruin what they were doing, Sweetie Belle waited until Kirby was done with his course and everyone stopped writing before she made her presence known to them.
"Hello everyone!" she shouted, making everyone jump, excepted Kirby as he was just leaving the course after he finished eating the food that was given to him as an award.
"Gah! Sweetie Belle? Don't do that!" Dedede yelled as he put a hand on his heart.
"Poyo!" Kirby ran and hugged the filly who happily returned it, making some of the Waddle Dees daww.
"Cape Knight told me that you were here. What are you guys doing?" Sweetie Belle asked before she looked around at the stacks of notes. "Are you planning to make a robot in Kirby's likeness?"
Dedede smirked. "Close enough."
"We're-!" Bandanna Dee began to say before he was shushed by the King.
"I want to keep the surprise! Just know that it involves Kirby and his Abilities," Dedede informed.
"So you are making Kirby run through all the courses one by one to analyze all his Abilities to... I suppose... replicate them somehow?"
"Eheheh! Exactly! But that's the easy part. The hard part will be how we will replicate these Abilities," Dedede said before he crossed his arm and rose his chin like one of these snobbish nobles. "And I'm not telling you! You will have to guess by yourself or wait and see!"
"You will not believe it once you will see it!" Bandanna said excitedly.
Sweetie Belle snorted. "With you guys? And this universe? I'm ready to believe everything."
Sweetie Belle returned to the Mushroom Kingdom and found out that Scootaloo was already here (her Phantom powers included the ability to open rifts to other universes which was how the Phantom Ruby ended up in her universe in the first place) but not Apple Bloom. The Spirit of Death came not long after however while Sweetie Belle was telling Peach and everyone else the news on her side. All good news, not only from the alicorn but also from the other two. Their respective Celestia agreed to send help, and Apple Bloom's Celestia could even do it right away since her Equestria was already linked to this world. They just needed to wait for everything to be ready and for the portals to be moved to less problematic places than the Evershade Valley and Luigi's basement.
Everyone was happy to hear the news even if most of the help will only be able to come once the portals will be linked. Apple Bloom's Equestria will be a good beginning while waiting for the rest to come.
The three Equestria will also need to be linked to each others so the Celestia will be able to discuss together the logistic of this operation.
Sweetie Belle didn't forget to give her phone to E. Gadd so he could communicate with the Tails. The fact that the prof spoke the same language than the foxes despite being from different universes greatly made things easier.
The fillies then returned to Apple Bloom's Equestria because the Earth Pony filly wanted to show them around a bit and present them to some of the friends she made, many of which were ghosts. Mostly, this involved exploring Spookane, the town that Apple Bloom built (and was still building) in Evershade Valley for the ghosts.
They danced as a ghost mare calling herself Deathjay played her music, and Sweetie Belle was able to play the piano alongside the great Piano Virtuoso himself, something that she never expected would happen since he was dead since over two hundred years. Sweetie Belle knew nothing about playing the piano so the result was awful, but she had great fun even if, by the end, Piano Virtuoso seemed ready to explode. She then got to taste some food made by Chef Cordon Bleu, one of the most famous chefs who ever lived, and as she thought, his food was to die for. After that, a trio of mares known as the Magica Triplets gave them a small magic show helped by their assistant Ooga the Cavepony before the fillies were finally led to the museum by Apple Bloom.
Apple Bloom already told them that it served as a prison for the evil ghosts she captured after she used one of Prof. E. Gadd's inventions to trap them into portraits, and she apparently had quite the collection. Well, it was one thing to be told this, it was another to see it. Hundreds upon hundreds of portraits of various sizes and dimensions were placed on the walls inside the museum, each with at least one pony or other creature like griffons or zebras in it. The walls were absolutely covered by them, almost no place left.
You could see the pride in Apple Bloom's eyes as she showed her collection. Each portrait was the result of a life-risking fight. All these trapped creatures were the worst that the world had to offer. From bandits to serial killers and absolute psychos. It was really impressive to see all the horrors Apple Bloom had had to face, either by herself or with her friends. Well, Sweetie Belle also faced quite the horrors in her adventures, Zero and his Dark Matters easily at the top (but beings like Necrodeus, Drawcia's Soul, Sectonia's Soul, Corrupted Marx, and Master Crowned Magolor weren't far behind), but facing cosmic abominations wasn't the same than facing ponies that were sick in their mind. And Scootaloo went through a war but at least the beings she faced were robots so this wasn't as traumatizing as if she had had to fight and kill beings of flesh and blood. Her Infinite side, however, may have gone through some pretty bad stuff in his life but Sweetie Belle didn't dare to ask.
A killer clown... A crazy-looking mare with a freaking gattling gun... An ice queen with an army of penguins... A colt with a knife who looked suspiciously like a male pony version of Chara... (Sweetie Belle eyed this one for a whole minute in wonder before she judged that this was just a coincidence) Freaking Captain Blackbeard and his whole crew... Without forgetting Sombra!
Then, after exploring all the hallways, Apple Bloom led them down a set of stairs and through another hallway with a door at the end.
"At yer left, ya can see the portrait of the Father of Monsters himself, Grogar!" Apple Bloom announced like a tour guide.
Sweetie Belle laughed. "Well well well. Grogar, old friend, now I find you trapped in a portrait? Oh how the mighty has fallen!"
"Right. You fought Grogar too," Scootaloo remembered.
"Yup! When I was done with him, he was pretty much crying his mommy!"
"Really?!" both Scootaloo and Apple Bloom asked before they fell in laughter.
Scootaloo then stopped as she realised something. "Damn. This means I'm the only one among the three of us who hasn't gotten to fight Grogar."
"You would just end up beheading him in five seconds, even if he has his Bell," Sweetie Belle said.
"True."
"By the way, did Ah tell ya that Ah absorbed his powers too?"
"Ah, no, you forgot. But really? That's cool!" Scootaloo said.
"No wonder you were able to control a whole army of ghosts so easily back against Crakkthulx. Between Grogar's powers and Thanatos' powers, you must be one of the most powerful necromancers of the Omniverse," Sweetie Belle complimented.
"Thanks."
After that, Apple Bloom led them into the room behind the door at the end of the hallway which was where the portraits of the most powerful and dangerous ghosts were kept. And so, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo could finally see the feared Thanatos, the previous Spirit of Death now a powerless draconequus trapped in a portrait like all the others, the portrait depicting him sitting on a throne of bones and yet looking absolutely defeated. He had certainly been a terrifying being previously, but now, he was just pathetic.
Some of the beings in the other portraits, however, truly looked monstrous, even now. That... thing that looked like a spherical purple agglomeration of all kinds of creatures (mainly ponies) looked absolutely nightmarish, and the monster with a body so long and big that it could wrap itself around several towers of a castle just leaked power even from within its portrait. Then, there were the pony surrounded in toys and the pony with a scalpel who looked plain creepy, and knowing what they did, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo really wanted to throw their portraits into a black hole.
They then left the museum and Evershade Valley, Apple Bloom leading them to her manor where they encountered the totality of the Gem Family and where they played tag with the ghosts of foals (and even of some adults). With everyone having the ability to fly and to go through surfaces, this game of tag quickly took on epic proportions that made Discord and his apprentice Upside Left proud.
Finally, when Apple Bloom's Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo came out of school, Sweetie Void proposed something to them.
"I would like to make you visit the Dream Universe. So how about we return to your universe, Phantom, pick up your friends there, and all together go to the Dream Universe with the Lor Starcutter? Beside, I need to bring you to New Halcandra so you can be given translators for our future adventures. Many universes seem to share the same language than ours, but I'm sure that we will eventually enter one where that's not the case. I even entered universes that shared the same oral language but not the same written language."
The fillies all agreed, and Little Ghost even decided to join them. After getting permission from their respective families and after some goodbyes, everypony entered the Lor Starcutter (which had been left where Sweetie Void had landed it the first time) and the ship took off before opening a star-shaped rift to Phantom's universe. Here, the Lor landed back where it landed the first time and Phantom went out to search her friends.
"And after, we're going to get yer Apple Bloom and Scootaloo?" Apple Bloom asked to Sweetie Void while they waited for Phantom to return.
Sweetie Void shook her head. "I would love to, but they're having their own little adventure in another universe with my Rarity and her friends." She then got a worried frown as she said, "I hope they're alright. When I left them, there was that team of criminals that began to cause troubles. But I had to go to start gathering allies to face that army DD warned me about, and DD reassured me that the people in this universe could take care of them for now."
"Eh. If these alternate versions of us are like us (without the whole being dead or half-dead part, of course), then I don't think that you have to worry, especially if they have Rainbow Dash and the others with them," Scootaloo said.
Sweetie Void giggled. "You're right."
"I don't think that any universe is ready to handle three sets of Cutie Mark Crusaders anyway," Little Ghost said after holding a laugh.
"What is it supposed to mean?" Scootaloo asked in mock offense.
"Ahem! Moving on..." Sweetie Void said, barely holding a laugh. "We will have to find nicknames for you girls. Not you, Little Ghost, you are unique. But Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom will need one."
"Pfff. Mine is easy to find. I'm Scootabot," Scootaloo said.
"Mmmh... Let's go for Apple Death fer now," Apple Bloom decided. "Until Ah find something that sounds better."
"And I guess that I will be... Sweetie Lich? Sweetie Ghoul?" Sweetie Belle proposed, wondering which one to choose.
"They both sound okay," Sweetie Void said. "Whichever one you prefer."
Sweetie Belle simply gave a shrug in return, not able to decide. "Mmh... I guess that I will settle for Sweetie Lich for now." She then returned to looking at the screen showing the world outside of the Lor, the technologically advanced Ponyville.
"It's amazing how this Ponyville is different from the one we know, right?" Sweetie Void commented.
"Yeah. The robots. The streets. The vehicles. The house," Scootabot listed.
Sweetie Lich nodded. "I don't know what to think. On one hoof, it looks really great, but on the other, knowing why it is different..." She looked down in sadness. "Knowing that ponies we know are dead here, and this time, they are really gone, not even their ghosts remaining... Wait. Are there even ghosts in this universe?"
"Probably. But without Thanatos' influence, they probably aren't as numerous as in your universe," Sweetie Void answered. She then looked too at the screen. "But yeah, I had a similar thought when I learned what happened here."
"We learned to live with that," they heard from the entrance, and the fillies turned their heads to see Phantom now present with her friends behind her. "The best we can do for the ones who died is to move on, live our life to the fullest and make this world a better one while keeping a place in our heart for them."
"Well said, Phantom!" Apple Death said before she looked at her alternate self and at the alternate Sweetie Belle. "Howdy! Uh... Are presentations needed when they're pretty much us?"
The fillies exchanged insure glances before they decided that it was better to do it anyway since they weren't exactly the same so they presented themselves to each others. The new arrivals were a little put off by Sweetie Lich being an undead and by Little Ghost being a ghost, but they quickly got over it.
"So, can you come with us?" Sweetie Void asked.
"Eeyup. We got confirmations from our families. As long as we remain near Phantom and ya," Apple Bloom answered.
"Great! But we will need to find nicknames for you and Sweetie Belle to avoid confusion. I go by Sweetie Void. These three are Apple Death, Sweetie Lich, and Scootabot, and your Scootaloo simply uses Phantom. What will this be for you two?"
Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom thought for a few seconds before the unicorn said, "Can we just go by Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom for now while we think of a nickname? I just can't think of one."
"Same," Apple Bloom said.
The others simply shrugged and agreed.
"So, everyone's ready to visit the Dream Universe?" Sweetie Void asked.
Everyone answered with affirmatives, so the alicorn made the Lor take off before the ship opened a rift to the Dream Universe. Sweetie Belle then led everyone on the desk of the ship where they took in the view as they came out of the rift above Dream Land.
"So you spent over one year here?" Phantom asked as she looked around. "Nice place. That castle over there, however, looks like the lair of an evil overlord."
"Ahah! Yeah. Dedede loves giving that vibe but he is actually a big softy. I lived in that castle and it was a nice home where I made a lot of friends and I had a lot of fun."
As the Lor passed over the castle, Sweetie Void waved at the Waddle Dees that were patrolling on the walls, and the Waddle Dees waved back.
Sweetie Belle then gasped as she spotted something in the distance. "Is that a theme park?!"
The Lor then proceeded to approach the theme park in question so they could have a better view of it.
"After we defeated Magolor, he built this theme park as a "My bad". As you can see, it's entirely themed after Kirby and many others who had had important roles in the adventures, me included. See that carousel?"
"Oh yeah! That's you!" Little Ghost exclaimed as she pointed down at the carousel. "But with your mane on fire... And electrified... And frozen..."
"The mounts are based on me when I used Kirby's abilities. Hey, how about, once my Apple Bloom and my Scootaloo are back from their adventure, we go all together have fun there?"
"Yeah!" everyone agreed enthusiastically.
Sweetie Void then pointed to a building visible further away. "And over there is something else that Magolor built. We call it the Training Building, and as its name suggest, the building is used to train. There's that room that basically uses hard light constructs to create foes and obstacles."
"Sounds like something right out of a comic book," Scootabot said.
"It can even recreate powerful enemies we faced, from Nightmare to Void, so it's really a good place to train. But the artificial Void doesn't hold a candle to the real one. And I can't go all out to avoid destroying the building. It's solid but not that solid. Maybe we should find something for that. Maybe make it so the room becomes a pocket dimension..." Sweetie Void said thoughtfully that last part.
"Let's go inside! Ah want to see some of these enemies ya'd to fight!" Apple Death demanded.
"Alright. Maybe Dedede and the others have finished what they were doing by now. If they haven't, then they could use a break."
"Dedede is in there?" Sweetie Lich asked.
"Maybe. He was there when I came a few hours ago taking some notes on Kirby's Abilities. But now, maybe he's gone."
And indeed, when they entered, they found nobody.
"Great! We have the building for us! So, let me show you how this work and I will let you choose which enemy you will want to fight. We can fight enemies individually or in waves, and in that last case, there's an ultimate difficulty where you have to fight everyone we ever fought one by one until Void."
"Mmh... Maybe another time. I just want a quick fight against one of the guys you fought to see how they were," Phantom said.
"Ah don't really want ta fight. Ah just want ta see these enemies ya showed us," Apple Death said.
"I wouldn't mind testing myself against one of them," Little Ghost said.
"Me too," Scootabot followed.
"Alright. Everyone who wants to fight advances. I will go first to show you, and then you will decide between yourselves who will go next. Unless you want to fight together against a common enemy? Team battles are also possible," Sweetie Void instructed. As everyone nodded, she then pressed some buttons to ready the training room, choosing to fight against Nightmare.
One of the weakest enemies among the "Big Bosses" but, at this point, Sweetie Void could slaughter in less than a minute everything that the Training Building proposed excepted probably Void and Galacta Knight so she should as well take it easy. Beside, it was fun to mess with who she thought at a time was invincible. Pfff! How things had changed since that day.
"So you press this button to decide what you want to do, and in battle mode, you do that and decide if you want simple battles or activate the wave mode before choosing which enemy or enemies you want to fight. In wave mode, it's actually decided by level of difficulty. And like I said, in the highest one, you have to fight all the foes we ever fought. To tell you how difficult it is, only three people succeeded in accomplishing it: me, Kirby, and Void. Not even Galacta Knight has managed to do it. When you aren't in wave mode, you simply choose the enemy or enemies in that huge list. From simple Waddle Dees to Void himself, everyone is here separated into three categories: common enemies, stronger enemies, and unique ones. The unique ones are the ones that interest us."
As she talked, she showed the list of unique enemies, showing one by one some of them like Meta Knight, Hyness, Sectonia, before settling for Nightmare. Once she pressed another button, the door to the training room then opened.
"And here we go! Have a good show!"
She then entered the room, and the next instant, light appeared and formed Nightmare, the terrible dark wizard who tried to plunge Pop Start into an eternal nightmare to gain enough power to conquer the universe.
"Wow! He looks terrifying!" Sweetie Belle said with awe at the huge dark wizard.
Phantom laughed. "With a look like that, you can only be evil."
Apple Death, Scootabot, Sweetie Lich, and Little Ghost shrugged and all said, "Meh, we saw worse."
The fight then began between Sweetie Void and the fake Nightmare. By now, the alicorn knew him and his moves by heart and had absolutely no problem avoiding his many star-shaped projectiles that he was constantly sending while teleporting around.
"Be warned. Many enemies I encountered spam teleport to try to confuse you. Not all of them, thankfully, but be prepared," Sweetie Void said as she side stepped a bunch of projectiles coming from behind her.
Nightmare changed tactic and plunged the room in darkness, but this didn't work as Sweetie Void could still feel the projectiles before she used magic to bring light back. Nightmare then charged energy into his hands to fire a powerful laser but it was avoided too. Finally, Nightmare charged at Sweetie Void in an attempt to ram her but the filly jumped at the last second and landed on his head, taking a ride. The wizard attempted to shake her off, even teleporting and rapidly flying around before he used one of his hands to catch her, but the filly then used one of her sword to slice it off.
"Okay, that's enough."
She planted her sword in Nightmare's head, and the wizard disappeared in an explosion of light.
The spectators all clapped, some of them in awe at Sweetie Void's performance. That dark wizard looked like he could have given some problems even to an alicorn, but she defeated him so easily!
"My turn," Phantom said while Sweetie Void exited the room. She looked at the list of unique enemies, trying to decide which one to fight. Her attention eventually settled on a certain pink masked knight with a spear. "I remember seeing this guy when you showed us bits of your fight against Void. So that's Galacta Knight? Despite his appearance, he looks tough."
"Oh. Galacta Knight is VERY tough. You want to try to fight him? I'm warning you, he's one of the most powerful enemies this building proposes."
"Mmh... Yeah, I think that I will fight him."
And so, Phantom entered the room where a copy of Galacta Knight appeared.
"Alright Pinky, let's see what you're made o-Holy shit!"
Without warning, Galacta Knight charged at her spear first and, in the blink of an eye, almost impaled her and she barely avoided it by moving to the side. Phantom then quickly teleported away as Galacta Knight followed his attack by a series of thrusts that were so fast that the fillies couldn't even see them with their naked eyes. Even Sweetie Void had difficulty following them.
"And that's not even his final form! So you should start to get serious if you want to defeat him!" Sweetie Void advised.
"Noted!" Phantom shouted back as she materialized a cloud of Phantom Cubes around her while she also turned herself into her anthropomorphic appearance, Infinite's red sword appearing in her right hand while a lightning spear appeared in her left hand.
Galacta didn't pay attention to the cubes and charged right through them, not minding when he found himself trapped in an alternate reality where dozens of laser cannons fired at him. He avoided most of the lasers easily and brushed off the ones that hit him like they were nothing before his spear finally clashed with Phantom's sword. Phantom then found out that she was right to get herself a second weapon because damn was that guy fast! She would even dare to say that his attacks with his spear were freaking faster than Sonic! If it hadn't been for her Phantom powers allowing her to get a superhuman (or superpony) reaction time, then the fight would have already been over! And teleporting to get some space didn't work because the knight just won't let her go. As soon as she reappeared, he was already at her!
And then, Galacta Knight raised his spear and made lightning rain all over the room, but Phantom immediately answered by materializing lightning rods and she even used her lightning spear to "catch" the lightning bolts and send them back at the knight.
"Woah... The guy's actually giving Phantom a workout," Apple Bloom said, amazed.
"But in the end, she's still getting the advantage. But, uh... You said that this isn't his final form?" Sweetie Belle asked worriedly at her alicorn counterpart.
Sweetie Void simply gave a smirk in return while Phantom smashed Galacta Knight around with two giant hammers that she materialized while Galacta was trapped in an illusion.
The knight seemed to understand then that he needed to up his game so he raised his spear again and gathered energy before darkness engulfed him.
"Ohoh! He's going directly for his dark form! He saw how powerful Phantom is and takes her for the threat she is," Sweetie Void commented.
"His dark form?" some of the others asked.
The darkness disappeared, allowing everyone to see Galacta Knight's new dark form, and Phantom actually gulped.
"Just for info, in this form, Galacta Knight can cut a planet in half without sweating."
Translation: playtime is over, give everything you have because you're now facing a world-destroyer.
And Galacta quickly proved it as he sliced the fabric of space to fire a giant space-beam from the hole he opened.
As Phantom and Galacta went all out, making the building shake under the intensity of the battle, Apple Death asked, "How did ya defeat this guy? Ya weren't even an alicorn when ya fought him, right?"
"I got so angry at him almost killing my friends that I triggered a new transformation that allowed me to temporarily become his equal. Even then, the fight that followed was a close call and the two of us were on the brink of death by the end."
"What do you think are Phantom's chances?" Sweetie Lich asked.
"Oh, I don't doubt that she will win. She will just have to work hard for it."
And that was exactly what was happening. Galacta Knight was unleashing boggling attacks comprising of hundreds of sword-shaped beams, giant sharp waves, apocalyptic tornadoes, without forgetting the space-beams. He was so fast that it was almost impossible to follow him, and he was relentless. Phantom really had to use her best illusions to get to him while constantly moving to avoid everything he was sending. It was pretty much her only option as attempting to use her swordsmanship at this point was suicidal. As good as she was with a sword, and she could land some hits if she tried, Galacta's speed would allow him to land ten times this number of hits without problem. Yes, Phantom could easily heal any wound she took, but she would rather want to use the Phantom energy to attack.
Many of the stuff Phantom sent in her illusions didn't work. Galacta Knight easily destroyed things like seesaws or chains. Even giant monsters like Infinite had used back in the war against the Resistance in Mobius were just turned into cubes in a few seconds. She actually went as far as sending a copy of Sonic himself but even the hedgehog couldn't outspeed Galacta Knight and simply served as a diversion for a few moments before Galacta was able to destroy him by turning him into swiss cheese. Even Eggman's best robots like the Egg Dragoon were no match. Phantom's best chances were to use projectiles of energy. Galacta couldn't destroy these ones, just try to avoid them or to deflect them with his spear and his shield.
In the long run, it worked, and Phantom was able to defeat Galacta Knight, but she was out of breath by then. This knight could have given even Tirek powered by all the magic of the world a run for his money.
"I think that I will need a good nap after that," she said as she exited the room.
"No kidding. It's a wonder the building is still standing," Little Ghost said. "Alright, my turn! But... Uh... Can you warn me if I choose something too much for me? she asked to Sweetie Void who agreed with a nod.
Little Ghost settled for Drawcia, the painting witch. Sweetie Void reassured her that Drawcia should be okay but reserved a few surprises. Her main shtick was to give life to what she painted, pretty much like Pyrite, so she should be in familiar territory.
And the fight actually went well at first. Whatever Drawcia painted was easily destroyed and these balls of energy she sent from her body were easily avoided. There was a close call when she caused giant colored spikes to come out of the ground for the first time but Little Ghost reacted just in time. She teleported every once in a while but nothing problematic. The only problem was that her laugh was starting to get on everyone's nerves.
But then, after a final hit, Drawcia transformed into a giant, nightmarish, screeching ball of paint.
"What the buck?!"
"That's Drawcia Soul. Things get real so be careful," Sweetie Void presented and warned.
"Wait, is that actually Drawcia's soul?" Apple Death asked.
"Yes. In this universe, under some conditions, it is possible for some beings to unleash their soul to fight, becoming much more powerful but losing themselves in return as souls are pure will that will stop at nothing to reach whatever goal they had. And if this goal is to kill you... Well..." Sweetie Belle waved at the battle. "Just watch."
As Sweetie Void talked, Drawcia Soul had begun attacking, randomly, erratically bouncing around as she attempted to crush Little Ghost. She screeched, teleported a dozen times, screeched again, turned into a giant fireball and attempted to ram into Little Ghost, teleported a few times again, screeched again...
"Ah see what ya mean. She really lost all reason..." Apple Death said. "It's like fighting Madness incarnate."
"And if you think that's bad, that's nothing. When I fought the real Drawcia with Kirby, it wasn't just her who went crazy, but the whole world around us. We fought her in a painted world she created from scratch, and when she unleashed her Soul, everything turned into pure chaos and by the end I was fighting a headache. Thanks the stars I am not epileptic."
Little Ghost destroyed a small group of these one-eyed things that Drawcia Soul sent and attacked using lightning, causing heavy damage. In the end, despite everything, Little Ghost had not much problem despite some bad hits, especially when Drawcia Soul turned her body into little blobs of paint that she rained all over the room. Before long, in a last screech, Drawcia Soul exploded into light and Little Ghost exited the room with a proud expression.
"This leaves Scootabot. You still wanna try?" Sweetie Lich asked.
The robotic pegasus now looked insure. Galacta Knight had been a monster of power who gave even Phantom trouble, and while Sweetie Void and Little Ghost easily defeated their respective adversaries, said adversaries had still been powerful ones that she wasn't sure she would have been able to fight herself.
She still looked at the list, looking at the beings and examining them to determine how powerful they were and if they would be okay to fight.
She eventually stopped at something that looked... not powerful at all. A little jester on a ball named Marx. He didn't even have arms. He really looked harmless. Of course, if he was in this list, then it meant that he was probably hiding something, but maybe that it was alright for her to fight this guy.
Sweetie Void looked at what she selected and frowned. "Marx, uh? I... don't think that it's a good idea for you to fight him."
Scootabot waved her off. "Bah, it's a jester! How bad could he be? What, he will make me laugh to death? Play some mean pranks? It will be okay."
"Are you sure?" Sweetie Void asked before she selected Dark Matter. "Dark Matter here is the first enemy I actually ever fought back when I didn't have much power yet so I think that it would be better for you if you fight him."
"No thanks," Scootabot replied before she selected Marx again. "Don't worry. I will manage. It's not a jester that will scare me."
"Uhh... Ya remember all the killer clowns we encountered?" Apple Death reminded.
This made Scootabot question her choice. "Well... I guess that we will see."
She then entered the room where the jester appeared, bouncing on a ball with an innocent-looking smile.
"So, what do you have in store for me, little guy?"
Suddenly, with a crazy laugh, Marx turned into a bat-like horror before saying, "Time to play!"
"Okay... Nope!" Scootabot ran toward the exit only for Marx to teleport in her way.
"Where do you think you are going? We haven't even started!" he said before his cheeks bulged out and he spat a giant laser that Scootabot barely dodged by jumping to the side.
When the pegasus got up, she looked in horror at where the laser impacted the wall.
"Scream "I give up!"" Sweetie Void yelled.
"Uh... I give up! I give up!"
Marx lost his smile and said, "You're not fun," before he disappeared in a flash of light.
Scootabot immediately left the room under the laugh of her friends.
"Next time, listen to us," Apple Death said, giving her friend a small bump on the leg.
Scootabot huffed. "Yeah yeah... But seriously, how could I have expected that jester to turn into... that?"
"Welcome to my world," Sweetie Void said. "Really, in this universe, everything is possible. You can get your butt kicked by a tree, and a freaking boar even threw bombs at me once. Aah... Good times..."
Scootabot stared at the alicorn before she shook her head. "Anyway, I think that I will pass my turn, finally. Maybe another time."
At this moment, Apple Death entered the training room, and Marx reappeared.
"Uh? What are you doing?" Scootabot asked.
"Giving this jester a piece of mah mind for scaring mah friend."
At her words, Marx laughed before he transformed. He then teleported a few times around the Earth Pony filly until he just disappeared. Apple Death looked around, trying to find him.
"Under you!" Sweetie Lich shouted, making Apple Death look down at a large shadow that was in the ground under her. Understanding, she jumped aside just in time to avoid Marx as he came out of the ground. As Marx flew out, Apple Death was able to catch him by the wing to keep him close before she punched him between the eyes. Marx then screeched in pain as his body decomposed rapidly until only his skeleton remained before Apple Death slammed it on the ground, scattering his bones (which weren't numerous since he was just a head with two feet and two wings).
Apple Death dropped the wing she had been holding before it disappeared in light along with the rest and she grinned. "It's been fun playing with ya, Marx."
"Yikes..." Sweetie Void let out, wincing a bit. This Marx was just a copy of her friend but seeing it finish like that...
"Wooooh! You rock Apple Bloom!" Little Ghost shouted.
Apple Death gave a mock bow.
Meanwhile, in the Mushroom Kingdom...
"Grrrr... I... will make... her regret...!" Bowser growled as he was being fed some soup by Kamec. The King of the Koopas was now heavily bandaged, result of both Sweetie Belle's punch and of his landing afterward. At least, he had a new shell. The previous one had been starting to crack.
"How, your horribleness? I fear that this filly may be beyond you," Kamec asked.
"I don't know... But I will find a way..."
"MUAHAHAHAHAH!" a crazy laugh suddenly echoed from nowhere, making Kamec jump and throw upward the bowl of soup that then landed on his head.
Despite his injuries, Bowser jumped out of his bed and readied himself to fight. "Who's here? Show yourself!"
The next instant, a rift opened, and Bowser could see the silhouette of something at the other side. Whatever it was, all he could see was a giant hand.
A left hand.
"Who are you?! How dare you enter my castle?!" Bowser shouted.
"Technically, I am not in your castle," the being said. "As for who I am, I am someone who can give you what you wish.
POWER."
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I think it's called hard light, not physical light.
And so, the army of darkness begins to come together...
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Corrected. Thanks.
Eheh. I waited to write that last scene for a while.
So we begin
Castlevania could at least make a good showing there. No, not Dracula or any of the other characters. The actual main castle is canonically a "creature of chaos" and has multiple undead armies whether its master is present or not. (Aria of Sorrow is particularly notable, for spoilery reasons)
Oh boy, Giga Bowser is here.
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Wait what? The castle in Castlevania is alive?
Great chapter... I liked how everyone looked at some of Sweetie enemies... And somehow I have the image of when they see the real Marx and Scootabot run away
The reaction holy water has with the ground is only supposed to happen when in contact with evil creatures... which means that the castle qualifies as such. You may also have noticed that its layout completely changes in every game, and maybe even the random meat you can dig out of walls.
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Uh... I hadn't thought of that. I went to the castle's wiki and it's apparently confirmed in Symphony of the Night that the castle itself is somehow an entity. Curious now to learn how it became like this.
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Marx definitively left an impression on Scootabot before even encountering her, lol.
And a Crazy Hand has arrived. It seems that Dharkon is making a move! I wonder how Galeem might respond. Attempting to go after one of the Celestias for some potential Daybreaker action, perhaps?
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Maybe he have some bad breath? Also... I wonder if Marx and Discord are going to get friendly
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Well... The thing is that this isn't Dharkon. This story won't just cover Ultimate but the whole Smash Bros series. One saga for each games, and we're still in the middle of the first saga which is just a big introduction pretty much like the first Smash Bros had been. We still have a LOOOOT to go through before Galeem and Dharkon show up.
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Ah, makes sense. So probably then just Master and Crazy hand for 64 and Melee, Tabuu showing up for Brawl, of course, a bit of a lull during the WiiU/3DS era and then Galeem and Dharkon for Ultimate, if I'm reading that right?
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And of course they will become friends. They are so much alike that it would be a shame if they aren't to the great displeasure of a certain lavender alicorn.
With him constantly keeping his mouth open, I wouldn't even be surprised.
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Pretty much. There are some stuff that will happen differently but that's pretty much the gist of it.
… that’ not good.
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I should not worry about the lavender alicorn, while Sweetie is a Goddess of Chaos, she is in the side of the alicorn bookworm so she could stop before they made her join the mad side or join the other Twilight and make 'The Twilight Zone'
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You seem to forget something. Sweetie Belle has developed quite the troll side alongside Dedede. If she sees an opportunity to mess with someone, she will take it.
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True, but at the same time Twilight is a friend of her sister, so if she ask nice there is a chance that Sweetie could help
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True.
I just Knew Bowser won’t stay Down like that.Dude’s been fighting Mario for years and still come for more.Even if Sweetie void beats him again now,he probably will just seek another All-Powerful cosmic relic or another source of fenomenal cosmic powers(Boy,if he ever goes to the Dream universe seeking for ancient artifacts and powers…*shudders*)
If I have to guess,this is gonna be like Bowsers’s Fury form but like one hundred times worse,or maybe even is OP,Reality-warping Dream Stone form,since I think it pretty much the only thing in Bowser arsenal than can make Sweetie Void go all out…counting the Canon that is.
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It's Giga Bowser. Like, this is a Super Smash Bros crossover, therefore Giga Bowser. He probably will end up with a second phase based loosely on the Ultimate version of his Final Smash, but being insanely huge didn't exactly work out that well for Crakkthulx...
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If it’s was giga Bowser Sweetie Void still would be able to one-shot him since fisical Strength and height are irrelevant against her,with in turn,would be boring.
Oh god it’s time for Subspace