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Smash Brothers: Collision

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"Where's Dante?!" Link asked, turning around quickly to avoid any surprise attack from above.

Indeed, after a strange sound, an Auroros fell behind Link, pricking it's beak into the sand.

Link slashed the bird-like creature away and looked around.

"We should search a cave or something!" He shouted, taking another Auroros down using the bow.

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Will accelerated into the portal and looked down.

"They're having trouble with those cretures!" Will announced. "It seems they've got it under control, but should we help?"


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"That's what I'd like to know!" Hyp shouted, hurling his knife into an Auroros and downing it.

Strut hurled his spear into another Auroros also downing it.

Both Strut and Hyp retrieved their weapons from the dead Auroroses.

Deimos dodged an Auroro's dive and clubbed it as it was stuck in the sand.

Ms. Swimmer also dodged an Auroros. She ran up to it and pounded away at it with her twin sticks.

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Elsewhere in the Cave of Many Voices...

Rita smiled weakly at the powerful looking creature before her that was being so kind.

"Really, you don't need to worry about me. Dinosaurs do have a lot of blood you know," she said, trying to make a joke, but when she tried to laugh, the way her whole body moved made her hurt worse. "Ah."

"Listen, my friends will be back soon. Please don't let me burden you. Just go."

At that moment, two Primids had snuck in. They were really big compared to most of them. The two noticed the primids but Rita called, "Just run! I'm already endangering you just by keeping you here by talking. I can't keep putting other through trouble. I'll handle them myself."

She quickly staggered to her feet as she stumbled over to take on the enemies.


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Kyro hesitated but nodded, turning away.

However, just as he was about to run, something came to his mind... he had already left Cera fall on the other creature's cluthes...

not again. He thought, turning around.

"I won't let you here!" He shouted, jumping to Rita's side with  firm look. "Not after I lost her!"

(OOC: Gee, insert SSBB's song version of "Encounter" here. o.o)

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"Hey, in there!" Link shouted, pointing at a small cave hole in the sand.


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(OOC: Gee, insert SSBB's song version of "Encounter" here. o.o)
Great idea, and sure, no problem. I think that fits very well here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvKcWfNiPg

(I am nowhere near Serris' level of mastery on this, but I can be somewhat assertive in battles myself.)

"But-" then when Rita saw the determined look in his eyes, she would no longer reject his involvement. She understood all about doing what you felt strongly for.

Now she had to do everything she could to make sure this creature doesn't pay for staying with her. She couldn't fight her best in this beaten body of hers. She knew she wasn't fully ready to do something like this, and she found it very scary to be like that, but those things didn't matter now. She had to try, to do everything in her power to keep them both safe.

"Wish mode!" she called. White rings of energy started on her feet. They ran up her body, changing it. Her back legs were smaller but more muscular and her front legs were no longer legs but arms, with razor sharp claws at the end. Her body stood straight and her neck shortened. Her face narrowed and her flat teeth were no longer flat, and now filled her mouth.

She roared fiercly and charged at one of the primids. This one had a sword and it swung down at her. She reached up and blocked with her claws. The primid applied more power in this game of force and the pressure on her claws made them start to bleed, but she didn't even notice the pain.

She roared even louder and spun her arm around suddenly while pincing the blade between her claws and the primid lost its grip on the sword as it flew away and hit the ground with a thud. She wasted no time and pounced on it. It kicked her hard to knock her off but she was merely shoved back a little and she bit into its arm. She tightened her grip and the primid could not get loose. She smiled evily as she licked up the blood that was coming from its arm.

She eventually let go so it would try to run, but as it stood up, she grabbed its throat and shoved it against a wall. She was smaller than it, but she knew nothing but aggression right now. A good blow to the stomach would cause even more gasping for breath, something it couldn't even do very well now.

With her free arm, she curled her claws up in a fist and pummeled its lower abdomen until it was too low on oxygen to sustain motor movement. As its body started to go limp, she actually let go so it wouldn't die just yet, and then repeatedly slashed into it deeply to cause even more pain, and the whole time, she seemed to be enjoying this.

Sharpteeth are born with very strong instinct and agression. Flatteth are more peaceful and doen't have such intense tendencies. Since sharpteeth have them naturally, they learn to control them and use discretion, so they don't get berserk in battles.

But Rita, like any other leaf eater would, currently has extreme difficulty switching from her own mindset to another one that is so contrary to it. She doesn't naturally have such instinctive behavior, so to get so much all at once would completely overwhelm her, and she would lose herself in the process.

She couldn't control this power yet, but she could always see everything she was doing, and she cried inside the whole time she was like this. She only changed in a dire situation where more fighting power was needed. Although she wanted to more than anything, as of now, she hasn't learned use her power and her mind at the same time.

Someone who cared for her like Mallow or Jigglypuff would get through to her heart and she could overcome it and return to her senses and change back. But they were both gone and she had acted rashly now because her judgement was clouded by worry. Her body could keep this up for a very long time, but her feelings screamed in anguish. She really needed help, but she didn't know anyone else who cared about her that was around.


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Kyro watched as the longneck, now mutated, stroke over the Primids with ferocious power, leaving Kyro's hands still full with the other Primid.

While the rockback did look around for anything to use in his aid, he realized that his pitty stones wouldn't do a thing to a giant creature.

During this moment, though, the Primid had enough time to take a dash towards him.

Kyro realized of the strike not a moment too soon, being able to curl and make a jump while rotating, falling over the Primid with brutal speed.

Having left the Primid immobile for a moment, Kyro spun down the back of the creature and made a quick dash against a nearby wall, quickly turning and hitting the Primid once again at high speed, throwing it upwards.


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No matter how hard she "tried" to keep the it alive, even a primid could only handle so much damage. As its body went limp again, this time it didn't recover. She threw it down and turned to see the powerful creature from before taking down his opponent down as well.

But she wasn't herself right now. She roared fiercely at the rockback and actually approached him in a not so friendly way. She had such strength, but she was not able to process thoughts clearly. The rockback could have taken her down with his great strength, durablilty, skills, and strategy, which combined could defeat her. If they fought all out, Rita would be the one not to make it.

As she came at him, she stopped and bit her arm hard enough to draw her own blood. Her heart tried to stop her body by hurting it, but such pain didn't phase this body enough. Someone needed to step in since she didn't have the willpower to stop herself.

It had better be soon, because she just jumped at the rockback. She may even have to be gotten through to by force. As of now, words won't mean too much from a stranger. She snapped at him.


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"That's better than nothing!" Hyp shouted, running towards the hole in the sand.

Mutt, Deimos, Strut and Nod all ran towards the hole.

Ms. Swimmer tried but a Sword Primid blocked her path and swiped at her.

"Big mistake." Ms. Swimmer said, parrying a blow from the sword and retaliating with a blow to the Primid's neck.

The Primid flinched but still kept attacking. Ms. Swimmer parried an overhead sword blow and struck the Primid in the ribs, winding it for a brief moment.

Ms. Swimmer then closed in on the Primid, slammed the butt of the stick in her right hand into the Primid's shoulder, forcing it to drop its sword.

Ms. Swimmer kicked the sword away and performed a tail sweep that knocked the Primid to the ground. She finished the Primid off by stomping its head.

She then ran into the hole.

"What took so long?" Strut asked.

"I got attacked."

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Link spun on himself to repel a group of Primids and jumped into the hole, where he sat against the wall and heavily sighed.

"We've been having nothing but bad luck. There's enemies everywhere." He commented, sheathing the sword. "Its impossible for us to go anywhere if we can't just get past all of them..."

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Kyro looked up and gulped, quickly curling to avoid further damage.

However, that couldn't be enough.

Therefore, Kyro rolled under her and stopped behind, uncurling.

"Rita, snap out of it! The enemies are gone!" He called out.

It didn't seem to have any effect, though... and this made Kyro gulp and push more ideas out of the brains...

There's gotta be a way...


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This time, Rita jumped on him and slashed his back, although this only hurt her, since her claws couldn't cut into a hide that hard. She jumped off and threw a large rock at him, which was deflected by his back as well. She roared at the top of her lungs.

Kyro didn't understand, but she had screamed, "Fight me! Why won't you fight back?" As she was now, she couldn't comprehend why an "enemy" wouldn't retaliate. Maybe he wasn't an enemy? But that knowledge couldn't register in her just yet. She snapped and snarled in his face getting ready to slash into it.

"Surely he'll try to kill me now," she thought.


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Kyro snarled during a moment, but inside, he was hesitating:

Do something... A voice kept echoing.

The rockback curled while spinning in the air, just over Rita's head, falling at high speed.

However, and thanks to a great timing, Kyro uncurled and fell over the creature's head uncurled, bringing it closer to the floor only.

"There's someone here who is needing you right now!" Kyro shouted as he looked at her in the eyes. Kyro took a deep breath and shouted with his lungs: "Rita!"

The name echoed through the cave, colliding with every wall that seemed to cross its path.


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"Hey, Link. I think I found a way to get past the Primids. I have one question, though, and this is to the entire group. Whose Final Smash hits the most targets?" Ike said as he pointed towards the multi-colored orb that was moving erratically around the cave over everyone else's heads.

"Well, I'm not sure how many of them I could hit with Blue Falcon. Probably about a dozen or two would go down. What about you, Ike?" Captain Falcon replied.

"Mine's no good. Great Aether isn't meant for more than a handful of targets."


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"I don't know what a 'final smash' is but that crystal strike attack I used against Dark Ms. Swimmer allows me to pull crystals from the ground and throw them at enemies. Even if the crystals miss, they'll shatter into a bunch of tiny fragments that will tear apart anything in their path." Deimos said.

"I can simply trample these things underfoot." Nod added.



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Virgil smirked.
"I can probably hit most of these guys too."
He added, flexing his glowing arm...

Motochika nodded.
"The same for me.  But, I doubt my attack will function as well here, where there is no water to easily access."
He sighed, holding a ready stance...


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While the fighting outside continued, the battle in the Cave of Many Voices drew to a close...

Rita clutched her throbbing head. She seemed dazed, and her body seemed to jerk involuntarily. While this was happening, she again jumped on Kyro's back, but this time, she didn't try clawing him or anything else like that. She was sniffing him very intently. Not long afterwards, she fell off of him and lay sprawled on the ground. She wasn't moving.

It looked like she was dead, but a low growl could be heard coming from her mouth, and those white rings came back, and this time they did the opposite as before. Very quickly, she was a longneck again, old wounds and all.

She slowly opened her eyes to see the rockback beside her, and she got to her feet. "Oh, thank you so much."

Kyro had no idea what was going on with her, but since he did just save her, he has a right to know.

"Listen, I'm one dinosaur, but two of them at the same time."

She wasn't making sense so far, so she elaborated further.

"This world has two separate realitites, the newer one created by an old friend of mine. All but a select few inhabitants of it have a different form, one for each. Those that are split up have a sharptooth and leaf eater version. In fact, if you are from this world too, you have another version yourself, you just can't get to it.

Now when I was pulled from this world, which is another long story, I was transported entirely all at once, so my two forms merged into one being. My original form is the longneck one you see, and I can change into my sharptooth one by calling the words, "Wish mode."

My strength and fighting skills are greatly increased, but I haven't mastered controlling the switch between my way of thinking and that of a sharptooth, which is aggressive and uses a lot of instinct. When I'm like that, my carnal side takes over and I can't control my body. But while my mind can't be reached, my heart is still open.

Those that I know that care about me can reach me by connected to the feelings deep within that vicious form. I know I'll learn to use it right someday, I just need practice. My two friends have always been nearby to bring me back, but I don't work with it much because it's scary in there. I can still see all the horrible things I'm doing.

I just- couldn't let you get hurt after you stayed to protect me, so I changed anyway. I just didn't expect that I'd turn on you too. My friends weren't here now though, so I took a big risk not knowing what would happen.

I have your scent now though. Reaching me doesn't seem to last very long, so before changing back, I used that time to jump on you and get a good sniff. Before I lost it again, I said, "True form," which changed me back. If you ever see me like that again, you won't have so much trouble bringing me back to my senses.

After seeing you in action here though, I now know that you could have handled both of those things by yourself; I only made things worse. I'm so sorry. I got so worried I wasn't thinking. Please forgive me," she finished, getting on her knees before the great creature, even though it greatly pained her to do so.

She wondered how he would take this. He knew she was very dangerous. Would he just let her go? She waited for him to say something.


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Kyro smirked as it the creature turned back into a longneck before his eyes, approaching Rita after the transformation ended and the explanation was made.

"Listen... there's no problem." He soothed, lying by her. "Whatever is done to help, its for help. And if you're dangerous or in danger, I'l stay here, either ways. I've lost someone already, and I..." Kyro stopped and looked down. "I don't want to lose anyone more." He finished.

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"Mine's good for multiple targets." Link added, showing the Four Sword. "One Link can take on various targets."

He sheathed the sword again.

"What's your plan?"


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Hyp looked at Link. "Kill as many of these things as possible then get out of here?"

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Link hummed something and facepalmed.

"Right. Ignore me." He said, looking up at the orb. "I wish we could use it the two at the same time. We'd attack a lot more enemies that way..." He trailed off for a few instants and fixed his look on Captain Falcon.

As if a light bulb had been lit over him, Link seemed to have awaken and opened his eyes widely.

"Hey, how about we use the Blue Falcon to get through them?" He suggested. "Although there's a problem... someone would have to go outside the ship."


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"What's a 'Blue Falcon'?" Raptix asked from his position on Deimos's back.

"Don't know but if it can help us get through these things. I'm all for it." Deimos replied.

"Agreed." Ms. Swimmer added.

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Timmy, Tommy, Savannah, Alfonso and Tom were still slaughtering Primids of all varieties.

Tom cleaved a Metal Primid in two as Tommy and Timmy set upon a Sword Primid and pummeled it.

Suddenly a ROB robot with a subspace bomb appeared in the mass.

"What the hell is that thing?" Tom asked.

"Get out of here!" Alfonso shouted, "It's got a countdown timer."

Tom, Tommy, Timmy, Alfonso, Savannah all ran for the town gate only to see a horde of Primids closing in on them.

"Tom! Go! We'll hold them off." Timmy shouted.

"But you'll..." Tom protested.

"No buts! Go!" Savannah commanded.

Tom gulped and ran towards the town's gate. The rest of the group readied their weapons and started attacking the Primids.

As he passed through the gates he felt an odd swirling sensation before he blacked out.

(OOC - where shall I place Tom Nook? I'm considering having him deposited in a cave somewhere and the group will meet with him sometime later.)

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"The Blue Falcon is a... how to say... craft, that Captain Falcon there ues in races, and he's got us out of a monster's way some time ago. Well, not me, another guy." Link tried explained. "It goes really fast, but since I'm not sure we'll have either enough space inside or be safe from all attacks, we'd rather take the same strategy from before: someone goes outside and keeps us safe from anything potentially dangerous." We'd btter be switching out, by the way."

((OOC: Well, we could get Will, Adrian and Falco to get near him with the ships. That is, if Starfall agrees.))