Chapter 83: The Aparoid Homeworld
Once everything and everyone were ready, the Cornerians began the process to open a portal to the Aparoid Homeworld using the gate.
An operator listed one by one the steps as they were made. "Zypher Ring now expanding. Main re-block disengaged." A giant ring divided into three blocks that floated away from the station and from each others. Three smaller parts also came out from between the blocks and floated between them, remaining equidistant in a circle. "All blocks, orbits confirmed. No anomalies detected."
As a green energy began to come out of the blocks to form a ring, the Cornerian armada, commanded by Pepper himself, approached along with the Great Fox. It wasn't the full Cornerian army. Some of it had to remain behind to defend the planet just in case, and there were still the many forces dispersed around the Lylat System to defend the other planets from the aparoid raids.
"Commencing energy exposure." From lens on the three blocks came rays of the green energy that went toward the center of the ring, forming a Y-shape. "Expending gate lens." A big flash came from where the three beams encountered each others, and the portal was open. "Gate creation successful."
Half of the armada, with the Great Fox and Pepper's flagship at the head, moved to face the gate while the other half remained with the Unique Horn that also opened its own portal, much bigger.
"Eheh. We will get them with a pincer attack," Phantom said.
Fleet-wide transmission was opened, and Beltino began a speech. "Attention, fleet of Corneria. We in command have done all we can. From here on out, we're entrusting everything to you. So please, do your best... but try to come back alive."
"OK, pop..." Slippy said.
"Well said, Beltino," Pepper began. "Nine years ago, the Lylat System barely survived the invasion of Andross and his forces. And now, here are these space bugs threatening our homes. But this time, despite the surprise of the invasion, thanks to the help of unexpected allies, we are in a position of strength. Let's show these aparoids our wrath! Let's show them that we don't threaten everything we built, everything we care, without consequences! Now, link the gate! Target: the aparoid homeworld!"
"Ok! Is everyone ready?" Fox asked. "Star Fox! Move out!"
"Everyone, let's go!" Sweetie Belle shouted.
Thus, the fleet divided in two passed the two portals, appearing on opposite sides of a purple planet. The first fleet that had the Great Fox came out of the portal on a side of the planet that looked, as Krystal put it, very lovely. Nothing they expected.
But the second fleet, with the Unique Horn, came out above a side of the planet that looked very different. Desolate, artificial, with glowing blue vein things.
Peppy saying that the planet's size and mass were disproportionate definitively broke the illusion for everyone.
That, and the countless aparoids coming from its surface, and especially from a point in the center of the artificial side, starting the battle. The two fleets fired everything they had at the bugs, already killing thousands and thousands of them, but this barely put a dent in their number.
"Uh? My queen! Look! There's a hole in the center of this artificial side! Seems like the entrance of a tunnel," one of the Unique Horn's crew members on the computers gained the fillies attention.
"You got that, everyone?" Sweetie Belle asked to the rest of the fleet.
"Yes, maybe we could use it to make our way to the planet interior..." Peppy thought.
However, as Peppy said that, the last aparoids came out of the tunnel and a honeycombed yellow shield appeared to cover its entrance.
"Dang it! Of course there's a shield," Apple Bloom said.
"Multiple shield generators detected," ROB informed them before images of a platform above the shield were shown, indicating the presence of the shield generators there.
"Well, first, let's reduce the number of pests around the planet. Once the sky will be more clear and the fleet won't risk to be overwhelmed, I will take care of the shield," Sweetie Belle said before she exited the Unique Horn.
"Rather than wait, I will get on the platform and deactivate the generators," Fox said. "With the shield down, we will be able to reach the queen and end this battle."
"You sure, dude?" Phantom asked.
"Yeah, don't worry. Leave the commando operation to us while you guys protect the fleet and make diversion," Falco said.
Phantom and Apple Bloom nodded and also exited the Unique Horn to join the battle.
As the battle raged, Star Fox fought their way through the aparoids to the platform above the shield. Here, Fox and Krystal both landed on it while Falco and Slippy remained in their arwings to cover their friends from the sky.
Peppy even teleported in the Landmaster for Fox.
Apparently, aparoid hatchers helped powering the shield generators so they were, once again, the primary targets. The hatchers were hidden inside buildings, so the Landmaster had to be left behind. Of course, the hatchers were heavily defended. The mini-tanks were present but dozens along with countless of small spherical aparoids that rolled toward Fox and Krystal to jump on them and many bigger aparoids looking like the ones encountered on Katina but that fired green projectiles that homed in. On the ceilings were also aparoids crawling on it to drop explosive projectiles, and that was without counting the many turret-like aparoids that were pretty much in each corners. And then, Fox and Krystal quickly found out that the hatchers themselves were defended by shields, so they had to find the generators of these shields first and destroy them before being able to destroy the hatchers. And of course, the generators were also heavily defended and knowing that the two foxes had to go after them had prepared many ambushes in the corridors.
To put it simply, Fox and Krystal had to fight like demons just to gain a few meters. Thankfully, they came prepared with a whole armory on them, from simple blasters to rocket launchers passing by grenades and even their own shields, without forgetting Krystal's magical staff. And their teamwork was absolutely perfect, their synergy making so they were fighting almost like one entity. Despite this, there were many close calls, the aparoids' number, cheer power, and slyness almost getting them at several occasions. And since they were inside windowless buildings most of the time, Falco and Slippy could do nothing to help them.
While Star Fox dealt with the platform, the UME were constantly moving around the planet trying to kill as many aparoids as they could. More than once, they had to stop the bugs from going after Pepper's flagship and the Great Fox that seemed to be their main targets along with the Unique Horn. At least, the Unique Horn had its force field protecting it so it didn't need as much protection and the majority of the aparoids getting too close ended up killed by the many cannons and the Star Fighters. By now, the surface of the planet was littered with craters of all sizes, result of the constant lasers and other projectiles raining from the intense battle above. The survival rate of a ground aparoid was very low, and that was mostly from stray shots.
The fillies kept attention to the evolution of the situation on the platform through their transmission with the members of Star Fox in case they needed to intervene. Frankly, Sweetie Belle could have sent a double to destroy the platform right away but the priority really was to reduce the number of aparoids right now to limit the loss and for this she already sent all the doubles she dared to create. The bugs were THAT many. Clearly, without the fillies, the Cornerian fleet would have been submerged and forced to retreat by now. Phantom had her powers working at one hundred and ten percent to materialize the biggest and strongest army she could in addition of weapons, bent reality, and anything else that worked. And Apple Bloom was also sending everything she had while she wasn't busy zombifying aparoids or even calling spirits from the afterlife to join Phantom's army. There were quite the number of people that were ready to come back temporarily to protect Lylat from these bugs. There were moment when they almost went to help Fox and the others, especially when they were ambushed, but they were quickly reassured each time that they were good.
Eventually, Fox and Krystal managed to kill all the hatchers in the buildings only for bigger ones to appear under the platform, defended by these aparoids that fired the green projectiles that homed in which were especially dangerous against the arwings. But against Fox and Falco, those were nothing.
"All targets down!" Fox shouted after he destroyed the last hatcher.
"You did it, Fox! Now we can invade the base!" Peppy exclaimed. "You heard that everyone? The shield is down! Now, we're about to enter the tunnel to take the fight to the queen. Just hold on a bit longer."
"This is very good news, Star Fox," Pepper said. "Go ahead. Don't worry about us."
"We shouldn't be far behind. The number of aparoids has diminished to the point that the situation is a bit more manageable for us. Soon, we should be able to leave and give you a hand without having to worry about the Cornerians," Sweetie Belle said.
"What a mess. Despite everything we sent, we still lost a lot of ships," Apple Bloom said gloomily.
"They really were far too numerous. Typical of pests, multiplying until reaching ridiculous numbers," Phantom said.
"Yeah. Even the Unique Horn's force field got taken down. It received some damage and... some of our Star Fighters were destroyed..." Sweetie Belle informed, on the verge of crying. She really cared for the crew of her ship.
"We are sorry to hear that. Their sacrifice will not be forgot-Huh? What's that?" Fox asked when he looked back down at the entrance of the tunnel which was now covered by a blue honeycombed shield.
"You gotta be kidding! They put up an auxiliary shield!" Slippy shouted. "Mmh... At least, it seems weaker than the previous one. An impact powerful enough should be able to open a big enough breach to let us pass before it closes."
"Give me one minute!" Sweetie Belle said. One of the alicorn's doubles, the one with her ten cannons, fired a powered-down Ultimate Doom Laser and moved it among the aparoids, killing many thousands more of them and sweeping the surface of the planet by the same occasion. Once she was done, she then moved to kill some aparoids that had managed to land on Cornerian ships before she finally went to join Star Fox, taking the occasion to fly right through several more bugs and slice many more with her swords and wing blades. On the way, she was joined by Apple Bloom and Phantom who thought that they could also now join the fight against the queen without worrying about the battle left behind. With the number of aparoids now much lower, and between Sweetie's doubles, Phantom's army of copies, and Apple Bloom's zombified aparoids and army of spirits called back from the afterlife, things should be alright.
When the fillies joined Star Fox, Sweetie Belle didn't lose time and charged at the shield, impacting it with the force of a giant meteor and breaking a big part of it.
"Shield breached! Hurry up before it closes!" she shouted.
Without word, the four pilots of Star Fox accelerated and passed the reforming shield, followed by Apple Bloom and Phantom.
"Good luck, Star Fox and UME," Pepper said at last.
They went down the tunnel that, at first, simply consisted of a straight line with honeycombed walls and other walls made of some kind of purple energy. No obstacles and no enemies in sight. But after one minute or two, a first group of aparoids came to stop them, and from there, many more followed. Then, a blue honeycombed shield not unlike the one on the entrance of the tunnel began to form on their path, trying to block it, but they managed to pass it before it could fully close. However, a second shield followed which forced Fox and the others to enter a secondary tunnel before Sweetie Belle could destroy it.
In this new tunnel that was smaller and made of swirling honeycombed walls with purple "veins", big panels partially blue and sliding back and forth of the walls partially blocked the path, forcing the pilots to be careful of their movements. After passing a few of these panels, they entered a bigger tunnel like the first one where they quickly encountered a big, circular structure that opened to release more aparoids, and they had to save Slippy who ended up chased by a bunch of them.
After passing this structure, they fought their first defensive aparoid turrets since entering the planet before the tunnel turned and shrunk. The new section had weird purple and glowing blue spheres coming out of the walls and following blue lines before returning inside the walls, threatening to ram the heroes. Thankfully, the spheres could easily be destroyed, but their number could have been dangerous. After two sections of these moving spheres, they entered another section with the moving panels before they reached a new section with triangular panels rapidly coming out of the walls without warning.
"Obstacles dead ahead! Watch out, everyone!" Fox warned.
This one almost caused Slippy and Krystal to crash, and even Sweetie Belle actually had to destroy a panel she had been about to fly into.
"Woah! An instant later and I would have gotten one heck of a headache!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed.
"Just a headache?" Slippy asked bemused.
"You're gonna block us at any cost, is that it?" Falco asked rhetorically to the aparoids.
Finally, they returned into a bigger tunnel where there was another structure that opened to release aparoids that went, this time, after Krystal. Then there was another shield that formed to try to block the path before the tunnel turned. Now, the heroes entered a section that was squared with pink energy barriers partially blocking the way appearing and disappearing.
"These attacks are intense. It shows how far we've come," Fox commented.
"We must be getting close," Phantom said.
"Fox! Falco's in trouble!" Krystal suddenly shouted as Falco was suddenly chased by a large group of aparoids.
Once the avian was saved, a big aparoid ship that could alter its shape and that had a strong armor came and began to fire at the heroes with both purple beams and homing green missiles. Sweetie Belle quickly got rid of it, allowing the others to focus on the turrets and other aparoids that were coming (some out of weird purple crystals on the walls). After another honeycombed shield and another turn, they passed another structure opening to release aparoids before they encountered a new kind of aparoid.
The aparoid placed itself in the center of the tunnel and launched energy tendrils that began to swirl while it sent rings lasers. The rate it fired these lasers forced the heroes to constantly moved in circles while they destroyed it.
Then, after many more turrets and another honeycombed shield, the tunnel turned and shrunk again, getting to a new section with blade barriers that circled followed by another section with barrier-gates that opened and closed like pincers.
Finally, they entered a new section of the tunnel that was totally different from what they went through until now, the walls being octogonal and slowly turning. Here came another new kind of aparoid that was silver-colored. There was a huge number of them, placing themselves in front of the heroes with their three spinning blades and opening their mouth to fire powerful plasma torpedoes. And on top of that, they revealed to have a very big armor so killing just one took forever for the members of Star Fox. But of course they were still no problem for the fillies who easily killed all of them, opening the way.
While they took care of the silver aparoids, they also found themselves assaulted by aparoid larvae falling from down the tunnel.
"Larvae. Now we are definitively close," Phantom said.
"It's time to confront the queen... Let's move!" Fox exclaimed.
And so, as the walls turned silver (again, honeycombed), they reached the end of the tunnel, entering the queen's chamber.
It was a vaste room half-filled with a gelatinous silvery liquid. In its center was a monolithic silver structure with a white head that looked like a mask in the image of a human face.
"That must be..." Falco began.
"The queen..." Krystal continued.
"Remember girls. No killing it. We must just weaken it," Slippy reminded the fillies.
"We know. We know when to restrain our powers to avoid killing," Phantom said.
"Stop..." a voice suddenly said in their transmitters.
This took everyone by surprise. "Huh?!?"
"Fox... There is no need to fight."
"That voice... Dad?!" Fox shouted.
"No way!" Slippy shouted.
"Give in. Join us. This is evolution. We will be one," the voice that Fox identified as the one of his father, James, continued monotone.
"Does she really think we will fall for that?" Phantom exclaimed.
"Fox, I don't know your dad, but I don't think that he would ask you to turn into a slave for queen ugly over here," Sweetie Belle said.
"Yeah. Don't let it fool you," Falco said. "You know that your father is..."
"I know!" Fox shouted, angry at the queen for daring to use his father against him.
"Come on, Star Fox. There is nothing wrong," a different voice said.
"There is no suffering anymore," a female one said.
"I'm with my mommy and my daddy," the one of a little boy continued.
"Tell the General to end this nonsense. No more bloodshed," a gravely one said.
More and more voices followed, all pretty much telling how nice it would be to let the aparoids absorb them, creeping out the heroes more and more.
"We will be together forever, son," the voice of James finished.
"That's enough!" Fox yelled.
"Let us live together...
"Together..."
"Live... As one..."
.............
"That's... Enough!"
"!!!"
The voice of James suddenly returned, but clearer, and that was when the members of Star Fox spotted a fifth arwing behind them. An old model. However, this one had an aura... not of this world. They all immediately recognized who was in the pilot seat.
"W-What?! How?!" Fox shouted in shock.
At this, Apple Bloom floated backward in front of the arwing, forelegs behind her head and whistling innocently. "It's nice ta be the Spirit of Death."
"You go, Apple Bloom!" Sweetie Belle shouted.
Fox and the others clearly hadn't expected that. They were informed while they were assaulting the platform above the shield that Apple Bloom had been able to call spirits to join the battle, the spirits somehow even coming with their own ghostly fighter ships, but for her to call in the spirit of James Mccloud to make the queen shut up?
"Remember Fox. Don't hesitate. When the time comes, just act," James said.
Hearing these familiar words from his father, Fox shook his head to regain his senses before he got a determined expression and wordlessly nodded at James.
He then looked back at the queen. "Everyone, let's give the queen her present. Star Fox team... Let's go!"
Everyone then went to fly around the queen who deployed her wings, reminding of the wasp-like aparoids (her body shape was very close of one by the way). Energy accumulated from the wings, and everyone that was in front of the queen immediately flew out of the way before she could unleash it in the form of a devastating maelstrom of energy. At the same time, globes came out of the silvery liquid and floated around.
"Fox... Look at the queen. We can't get a self-destruct program through that armor..." Krystal observed.
"Rats! Stupid armor..." Slippy exclaimed.
"What's wrong? If something's in the way, we just blast it!" Falco said.
"I like your style, birdy," Phantom said, making Falco huff.
Most of them began to fire at the silvery scales that surrounded the queen's body as she began to spin. Others also fired at the globes to clear the space, but firing at them caused them to divide into smaller and smaller globes. It was only when they were small enough that they were destroyed for good. Eventually, the globes hatched into yellow larvae that began to randomly float around, so they had to quickly be killed before they collided with someone.
"Larvae are never beautiful things, but these ones could win an ugly contest," Sweetie Belle commented.
While the larvae were killed, the queen's scales were destroyed one by one, revealing more and more her wasp-like body and also eventually revealing a red gemlike surface.
"Weakness spotted!" Apple Bloom said.
"All right! Concentrate your fire right there!" Fox instructed.
However, they eventually had to move away as the queen accumulated energy in her wings again.
"All of you... Join us... It's your only salvation..." the queen said through one of the voices of the ones she absorbed.
"Give up already!" Falco shouted.
"Please... I don't want to die," a little girl's voice said.
"Now that's just cruel," Krystal said.
"Don't listen to her forked tongue," James said as he returned to fire at the gem-thing, only for new scales to form to protect it.
"Drat! She can regrow her scales!" Sweetie Belle said.
"Then let's just blast them again," Phantom said.
"You have no chance of victory," the queen said through a different feminine voice.
"Stop fooling yourself," a gruff one continued.
"Shut up already!" Slippy yelled.
Rapidly enough, as the queen spun again, the scales were destroyed a second time and everyone fired at the gem-thing that began to crackle.
"You're fools... Get smart and surrender," a familiar voice said.
"And now she's using Pigma," Fox said.
"Hah! You think we'd be fooled by stupid impersonations?" Falco questioned.
"Look out! Get away from the front of the queen!" Krystal yelled as the queen accumulated energy in her wings again.
Only for them to be cut by both Sweetie Belle and Phantom using a sword.
"That attack was starting to piss me off," Phantom said.
"Yeah, should have done that earlier," Sweetie Belle said.
"No matter what you do, you cannot win," the queen said through yet another voice as her scales reformed.
"All right! Just a little more!" Falco exclaimed as he saw that the gem-thing was almost destroyed.
"One last time!" Krystal said.
"Stop right there," a voice said.
"The aparoids are not your enemies. Think..." another one continued.
"If you waste this chance, you're utter fools," a third one finished.
"Ya're the foolish one if ya think we're gonna listen," Apple Bloom said.
More and more larvae were constantly coming from the silvery liquid, but the heroes didn't let them distract them long. The scales were rapidly destroyed, and they were able to fire again at the gem-thing.
"There's no reason to continue fighting."
"We live..."
"We will evolve as one..."
"My friends..."
"You who will be the food of evolution..."
"Think again, Fox!" the voices continued.
"Ignore that, team! Attack!" Fox shouted.
After a few more seconds, the gem-thing was destroyed, opening a hole in the queen's body.
"Now, Fox! Fire that program in there!" Falco shouted.
Fox quickly placed himself in front of the queen and did so, opening the compartment usually for bombs and firing the program instead with a "Take THIS!!!" The program went right in the hole, and a reaction began inside the queen. In a flash, most of her exploded, only leaving the bottom of her body where the gem-thing had been.
"Is it working?" Fox wondered.
"I'm not sure, but..." Slippy said, sensing that something was wrong.
Then, what remained of the queen began to shake.
"Hm? Something's wrong, Fox!" Krystal warned as the chamber itself began to give big jolts.
The queen then slowly began to sink into the silvery liquid as a new feminine voice was heard, both talking through the transmitters and out of them. "All for us... All things in the universe... will be ours..."
"What?!?"
"Yeah, of course... It was too easy," Phantom said.
"All for us... Everything in this universe exists for us... Bow before us! Submit to us!" what seemed to be the real voice of the queen continued as her body sunk more and more in the liquid which was also draining from the chamber.
"What?!?" Falco repeated from Fox.
"Is the self-destruct program working?" Krystal asked.
"It should be working, but the queen's suppressing it!" Slippy revealed as the queen finally disappeared in a new tunnel. "This is bad. If she escapes now, she'll create an anti-body!"
"Then let's not lose time! After that thing!" Sweetie Belle shouted before she flew after the queen.
James flew beside Fox. "Let's go, Fox,"
Fox nodded. "We've got to defeat this thing and execute that program! This is it. The final battle!"
At this, everyone followed Sweetie Belle, chasing the queen.
They rapidly caught up with the queen inside a tunnel that seemed to entirely be made of purple pulsating energy with some honeycombed metallic plates circling them just in time to witness as she transformed, visibly becoming bigger while what remained of her previous body continued to face the heroes.
"Look out, everyone! That thing looks really steamed!" Falco warned as the queen turned to reveal her new body.
What remained of her previous body was now just... her butt. The first thing they could see beyond it was a circle of wing that spun around what was now the middle of her body, which was very thin. However, the top of her body, her "head", was huge and, when it fully faced the heroes, it revealed four pink eyes in a square formation and four tentacle-like appendages between them coming out of some four-pointed star-like thing in the center that seemed to be its mouth. The appendages constantly released the same globes than earlier, the globes quickly hatching into larvae that threatened to collide with the heroes.
"It must have a weak point! Watch the queen's reactions!" Krystal advised.
"I'm ready to bet everything I have that these big glowing eyes are what we search. As Button Mash would say, "If the boss as a big eye that stands out, there's nine chances out of ten that it's a weakness.""
"Quoting your coltfriend now, Sweetie Belle?" Phantom teased.
"Shut up! He's just a friend!"
Not minding the bickering between the fillies, everyone began to fire at the eyes when they didn't have to fire at the larvae. Seeing the eyes slowly closing the more they fired at them, they understood that Sweetie Belle was right.
"Fools! We are perfection. We possess all knowledge," the queen directly talked to them.
"Oh, trust me, you know nothing of the universe, you stupid bug," Sweetie Belle said.
"Look at its mouth! Something's coming out!" Slippy observed as the last eye was closing and the mouth opened.
It wasn't just the mouth in the end. The whole head opened like a flower, what was previously the top now being like petals, and the queen's real head revealed itself in the center, looking more like the head of a dragon with some kind of helmet.
"Oh my gosh! It's changing again!" Slippy shouted.
"I think it's trying to scare us with that ugly mug!" Falco mocked.
"Well that's a failure," Apple Bloom laughed.
"My sister when she wakes up is way scarier," Sweetie Belle said.
"We are perfect. We are not the same as these fell creatures," the queen said before she released dozens of mines. At the same time, the new head opened its mouth to release a series of rings of destructive energy.
"Waoh! Watch out!" Slippy shouted.
"Fire at the mines," James calmly instructed.
While they did their best to avoid the rings of energy, most of the heroes destroyed the mines, allowing a few of them to focus on the dragon-like head itself. Firing at it quickly destroyed the helmet-thing, revealing a single eye which immediately became the target. The dragon-like head then stopped firing the rings and instead attempted to directly headbutt the heroes.
"We've come too far to be beaten now!" Slippy shouted.
"Don't hesitate! The queen's afraid of us!" Krystal said.
"THIS time we're gonna end it!" Falco added encouragingly.
"Such pointless actions..." the queen said before the "flower" closed so the heroes had to fire at the four glowing pink eyes again. The larvae also returned, more numerous than ever.
"She's gaining time," Phantom said.
"How far from the surface are we?" Apple Bloom wondered.
"Don't know, don't care. Even if we reach the surface, we won't stop chasing her until she's dead, even if we have to go to the other side of the universe," Sweetie Belle said.
"We are the ones who survive. Resistance is nothing," the queen said.
"Ah yeah? Aren't we currently kicking your ass?" Phantom asked back rhetorically just as she forced the last eye to close, forcing the queen to open again to reveal her dragon-like head. Everyone immediately fired at it while avoiding the rings of energy it fired.
Again, the queen sent mines, forcing some of the heroes to fire at them while the head attempted to slam them.
"I don't know how long she will resist again, but I'm sure that she's almost done for," Slippy said.
"A little more effort," James said.
However, the queen closed again, forcing the heroes to fire back at the four eyes while avoiding dozens of larvae. It didn't take long to close three of the eyes, but before they could close the fourth one, the queen suddenly gained speed before bolts of purple or pink electricity came out of the walls and became obstacles in the path.
"I thought she had revealed all her cards!" Slippy shouted.
"A cornered beast only becomes more dangerous," Falco said.
"It's like being inside a storm cloud," Phantom said.
"We are the perfect beings. We are truth," the queen said.
"You're lying. If you really were 'truth', then you would know that nothing is perfect, not even Gods," Sweetie Belle said.
The alicorn surrounded herself in a shield and passed right through the bolts of electricity as she accelerated. Once she was close enough, she fired at the last eye and forced it to close, opening the queen again.
"Fire at will!" Fox shouted.
"Come on, queenie. Time for you to leave your throne," Phantom said.
"It's time to do or die! Let's move!" Krystal exclaimed.
Finally, the queen began to explode. "NO! WE ARE TRUTH! ONLY US!! NO!!!!" she shrieked.
But as the heroes thought that it was over, the head detached itself from the body and transformed again as the body finally exploded. Now, she was an one-eyed insectoid creature that looked like nothing.
"Again?!" Apple Bloom shouted.
"Fox! Finish it!" Krystal shouted.
"Here I come, you evil space hag!" Fox shouted.
Desperate, the queen fired a tunnel of energy at Fox who avoided it by flying right into it while he fired. The queen had no defense left so every shots injured her more and more. More tunnels of energy followed, but Fox expertly flew into all of them, and then quickly flew out of the way when the queen replaced them by a huge beam. He never stopped firing.
The queen erratically flew to avoid him, but the rest of the team then came to add their fire.
"Let's show that thing real union!" Fox shouted.
They all fired as one at the queen, leaving her no chance.
And finally, the queen lost control, her body spinning as she was stunned. With a last screech, she disappeared in a flash of light.
"That's the end of the queen," Fox said. There was then a jolt, and the tunnel around everyone began to collapse. "Hey!!"
"The program's working!" Slippy exclaimed happily.
"Destruction is spreading across the entire planet," Krystal observed.
"So... I guess that's the end of the aparoids!" Falco finally said.
"So the whole thing was just one big entity," Fox said.
"And a nasty one," Sweetie Belle said. "As bad as the Phazon. No, I would even say worse. At least, Phazon wasn't intelligent. Well, not until Dark Samus arrived and placed a brain inside the living planet."
"Wait. That's not the first time you fight something like that?" both Slippy and Apple Bloom exclaimed.
"Sounds like an interesting story, but how about we get out of here before the planet explodes on us?" Phantom reminded.
"Right," Fox said with a nod. "All ships! Evacuate at maximum velocity! Let's go!"
And so everyone flew toward the exit.
"My doubles warned Pepper and the others. The fleet is getting away so they aren't caught in the explosion," Sweetie Belle informed.
"Thank you Sweetie Belle."
Then, James flew alongside Fox. "I'm proud of you, my son." Fox smiled at him, but then, James added, "And hurry up to give me grandchildren with that vixen of yours!"
This made Fox splutter and Krystal blush while everyone else laughed.
Not long after, they reached the exit, and three fillies and four arwings came out of it.
The planet exploded soon after, and everyone quickly escaped before they could be hit by the debris.
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So Lucar,less than 24 hours left for Kirby and the Forgotten Land.excited?
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Totally! I don't think I will be able to buy it day one, but I will get it as soon as I can.
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Cool.after you finish the Game,how much would take you to adapt it Story-wise in UME?like, after You finish with all the original Smash fighters,sooner,or later?
11190295
I have no idea. Probably sometime during Saga 2, or 4.
That doesn't quite warrant an "of course" given that it happened in a previous game. At least, that's what we all kind of assume happened that one time.
11190323
I meant that the miracle didn't repeat.
So... Did they keep counting of how many reploids did they destroy?
i.ibb.co/4Yyr5hL/AB-Icon.jpg HaHa... I defeated more that two million of reploids
i.ibb.co/4Yyr5hL/AB-Icon.jpg Damn... I need to work harder
11190358
It would be hard to count because of the respective armies. Phantom had her Phantom copies and Apple Bloom had her zombies (and if you want to count them, the spirits brought back from the afterlife to participate in the battle), and it's impossible to follow their actions. So they don't bother. They just know that the number of kills certainly numbered in the dozens of million, maybe hundreds. After, for Sweetie Belle, that's pretty much the case.
In this battle, Star Fox killed less than 1% of the aparoids (without counting the ones that died because of the program Fox fired into the queen). The Cornerian fleet killed about 5%. Phantom and Apple Bloom each killed about 10%. The rest was killed by Sweetie Belle.
11190380
o lord...thats ALOT of them...
o also..i have an idea that will only make sweetie slightly more op...having an upgrade to her cannons so they have a swarm mode... they each use there own mass to make around 10 other cannons..but they all are using the same amount of mass..so they are all VERY small...but they are all able to make VERY small in terms of width cuts in things..and they also have a 'bullet' mode..where each tiny cannon covers itself in pure energy...and they RAM into or thru something going at the speed of light for sutch a short time the small cannon disappears and reappears right behind the target and the target now has a hole in it..but its so small its smaller than a penny...and its also a good way to block some attacks since they could just go around her in every direction...so things like regular bullets and most ranged attacks would not be able to even hit her...and she would be a SMALL ball of death..got insparation from the one gundam that has all the small cannons that come out from under its 'wings'.
11190281
..wait what??
thats going to be today???!?!?!?!!!
11190535
They don't have the technology yet to do something like that.
11190540
.......'yet' is they key word there....i mean...they could also use the tech that magolor is making cause of the poke ball data into real-world and real-world into data thing.
11190595
Yeah, and there's still a lot of Ancient technology to study too. They barely scratched the surface of what they could find from the ruins on Halcandra and New Halcandra. It's not tomorrow that they will be able to reproduce something like a Clockwork Star.
11190538
Wait…omg so sorry! I thinked today was the 25 of March!
Hype probably made me mix it up!
Don't forget Kirby and the Forgotten Land for Kirby's world
11190937
Of course.
11190953
Thanks!
11190794
oh...ok
11190613
..true..wonder if they will accidentally make a full on supernova on accident ...
oooooooor..magalor could accidentally make a digimon world......dang..there are a lot of possibilities....
including a aware ai...
11191155
A digimon world would be totally possible with the technology from the Pokémon world. They would just need to program the AI of the digimon or whatever other "pnj" there will be, and find how to make them sentient to be able to act on their own will.
11191219
...ooor some random virus happens and they let it go since its making a new world inside there data...maybe something from one of the megaman's worlds??
11191291
Maybe. Sent by Doctor Willy or some other mad scientist from another game. A lot of mad scientists will be present in this story. And I just realized that I could write a scenario like the one of Code Lyoko, lol.
11191291
And then it turns into Alpha from Mega Man Battle Network 3. The reason should be obvious from the lore of what I'm rather generously calling "that character".
11191317
ye...also..there ARE some creation gods that lost homes cause of devourers...So it would be VERY easy for them to just...make new worlds to live in inside of computers...aaand there are also those like the one who made the magic paintbrush and craftrix ...also..sorry if i spelled her name wrong...i don't have enough time to go back into a sweetie dreamland to remember it.....but yea..guys that CAN create things like that can probably make a virus to get themselves or a hole planets worth of beings into a digital realm...what with since craftrix and the paint fairy girl both being in there own pocket dimension...that kinda makes them powerful enough to go to more...connected dimensions..ie..thru a computer into the world
11191330
yea..that..might be a thing..???
but im not counting on THAT happening till there are ACTUAL living lives at stake...cause then megaman could pop up and sweetie gets back just in time to join in on THAT adventure...and then its its own ark and all that...kinda why i leave the writing of a good story to the ones who CAN do that without re thinking every word...
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11191340
I will have to see who and what is this Alpha. I barely know anything beyond the Megaman X saga.
11191333
I think you're talking about Claycia.
If a Devourer devoured an universe with a Creator God, then the Creator God was devoured with the universe unless the God in question was spending some vacation time in another universe or they learned about the Devourer coming and escaped. The surviving Creator God then could simply create a new universe and restart from scratch.
As an aside, I was digging through your slightly older blogs out of boredom and came across this:
Now read what you did in order to retain Wolf's important role in the Aparoid Queen fight without having to contrive a reason for Wolf to actually be there.
11191357
Right. At the time, I still wasn't sure of what I would do with the Star Fox universe so the aparoids and Apple Bloom calling James hadn't been planned yet. But now, I guess that there will be something about it. But first, I have to go and collect more info about the F-Zero universe. It's one of the universes where I never played a game beside the first one when a demo could be played in one of the Smash Bros games so I barely know anything about it. It would be really nice from Nintendo to get a new F-Zero game out, or at least a remake of a previous one.
Some of the more important bits I gleaned from TvTropes:
James McCloud was even more blatant than you think; his vehicle clearly has the same kind of design as the Arwing and Landmaster, and the company that supplies him has the same name. He's an honorable mercenary like Fox eventually became, and it's eventually mentioned that he has a son.
Magic is more present than you might expect; of particular note is the potential jurisdiction issues regarding The Skull and Apple Death.
The final game includes two time-travelers from the future; I don't remember whether this will cause problems but it may make an opening for Sweetie to join.
If Sweetie has any way of detecting powerful magical artifacts, a major twist from near the end of GX gets spoiled early.
Deathborn, the villain from the last one, happens to have a signature move of banishing his enemies to the furthest reaches of the universe. A scene where he does this to Sweetie Belle only for her to portal back seconds later is as inevitable as it will be hilarious.
11191434
Thanks for all these infos!
Doh!
There had to be time travelers. I will have to do more specific researches on these two characters.
Bwahahahaha!!!
I was still thinking of when in the F-Zero timeline to make Sweetie Belle enter the universe, and just for this, I think that I will make it happen during GX. And this Deathborn should make a good first F-Zero antagonist so I can keep Black Shadow for later.
11191352
..unless they got tired from just evacuating there own universe for that god thing..
also yea..claycia is the correct one i mistyped
Man, I REALLY don’t want to be,SPECIALLY in Willy’s shoes when Phantom Finds them and just so happens there is a no Goddy-Two Shoes to talk her out of expiring their Free trial of existing,LOL
You should make a story for Kirby and the Forgotten Land after this story is completely finished (since Forgotten Land comes after SSBU World of Light)!
11192421
Beside the presence of Kirby, World of Light has absolutely nothing to do with the Kirby timeline, like the Subspace Emissary. I won't have to wait for the end of the story to write about the new Kirby game.
Well, managed to see a bit of the new game and I learned a couple of things... Careful of Spoilers...
- Kirby can eat the cake of others but no one is disturbed about it (maybe because he is the hero, because he is cute or because they fear him)
- Abilities can now be upgraded in a shop (Even if in theory is a power from Kirby)
- Kirby can use Dedede hammer better that him
and finally
- Donkey Kong have a cousin in Dream Land
All in all it seems a good game even if I only found it in the middle and left after half a hour
11193868
I’m pretty sure some of those were already revealed on trailers so I your Comment is Pretty Bland Spoiler-wise,Not than that is a bad thing
Between the reaction of Phantom's infinite side to Clawroline and the fact that the post-game quest would make a lot more sense if Apple Death were there, we basically need the full UME to overkill the Forgotten Land.
11200049
I don’t get that about Phantom infinite side reacting to Clawroline
But regardless,I think the Forgotten Land could Provide a Good Challenge,Specially Morpho Knight and Fecto Elfilis
11199948
Even better, there is no spoilers... Even if I did not watch the trailer, I could comment about how there will principal missions and side missions that could make Kirby return to a map a couple of times.
11200063
Infinite is/was male, and have you seen Clawroline?
11200170
Oh,I think I get you now.
Still,Take in account that Scoots is also there inside that body
Also there is the Fact that Clawroline and Leongar seems to have something going on…
11200196
Yeah, that just makes it all even weirder. And hilarity ensues.
You don't find out about that until after you defeat her the second time. Heck, you don't even find out about Leongar until his own fight starts.
11200205
OMG,I just thinked the Most hilarious shit;The infinite half of phantom asking and insisting the Scoot half to let it hit on her,and when Scoots finally yield and let it infinite trow a Flirt, BUM,turns out she’s taken
11200233
Excepted that there is no Infinite and no Scootaloo anymore, just Phantom. The two merged "body", mind, and soul. Think of Vegeto or Gogeta from Dragon Ball Z.
11200274
Ohhh yeah right I kinda forgot.
So Lucar,did you played the forgotten land already?any thoughts?
11200657
I just talked about it in a blog I posted today. I bought it yesterday and finished it, even the post game. Freed all the Waddle Dees, found all the blueprints, got all the chronos in the Treasure Roads, found all the Soul Pieces, finished all the mini-games, and fought the ultimate final boss. All that remains is to get all the figurines.
To resume what I think of the game, it was near perfection. The visuals, the ost, the lore... And like always, the final boss was epic, and I loved the finish sequence. And the true final boss' final form surprised me with how its attacks took huge chunks of my life when they barely did anything previously.
11200665
Yeah,he definitely was no joke,I already want to See how you adapt the fight in UME,even if that it’s gonna take some time…
What I do wonder is how he Fits the Overall Canon tho…
11200673
Well, from what I understood...
The humans were the Ancients, and their warp technology came from Elfilis. You saw how Elfilis' rifts are star-shaped like the ones of Star Dream or the Lor Starcutter? Also, another thing that may be a coincidence or not. You remarked how Elfilis' incomplete form, Fecto Forgo, looks like a heart? A heart inside a cylindrical glass container? A bit like the Heart of Nova? And so, the humans used Elfilis' power to move to Kirby's universe. However, there's still some missing puzzle pieces. If the Ancients were the humans and they came from Earth, then what was Halcandra? The Other Dimension? And let's not forget Shiver Star.
11200696
my theory is that the Forgotten Land Is a Different Universe and the Humans from there are not exactly the same,Kinda like how the in Mario the Humans of New Dong city and the ones of the Mushroom Kingdom are Different,the forgotten Land ones could had been More Realistically Looking while the Ones of Shiver Star were a Variant Born years Later and became more cartoonist due to the Dream universe’s influence.
maybe they were Not exactly the Ancients but a PART of the Ancients,more specifically they could Had been Close Allies of the Tech-inclined ones