Smash City: Charge It!

[Stoney]

[dice=6]



Something rolled by a few feet away; Kirby waved at it.

Something else was approaching. Something big and tall with a long yellow streamer. It looked kinda like a human, but Kirby didn't know of any humans who had horns. Or feet and hands that big.

It was red and shiny, though.

Red...and shiny...

!!!

"APPLE!" Kirby cried out, stars in his eyes. With a look of pure joy, he hopped over the fountain, landed daintily on the floor, and inhaled Zero.

*POIK*



Kirby blinked, looking at his new costume and the giant blond ponytail he was now sporting. That guy wasn't food, then? Whoops.

There was something stuck in his mouth still...Kirby reached in, groped around a bit, and pulled out an exact replica of Zero's Beam Saber.

He tilted his head at it. Deactivated, the Saber didn't look like much...a small black cylinder with a button near the base. Curious, he pressed it and nearly jumped out of his skin in surprise when a glowing column of green energy sizzled out of one end of the cylinder.

Kirby stared at the softly humming blade, utterly transfixed. "OOOOOoooooh..."



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Link wasn't having a very good time right now. He was sprawled out on the floor like so much roadkill, his eyes replaced by two spinning swirls. He didn't even notice when the Goron rumbled by a mere couple inches from his head, so senseless was he.

"GuuUuUuNnNgh," He replied to Roll's question.

And then for some inexplicable reason, he sneezed.[rand=9160879627018399496111903495769331674607884324468284379830556745]

[SHM 128 III]

[dice=6]

And then a goron went rolling by, totally missing Shelly, but definately crossing her line of vision, right along with Kirby 'copying' the guy that was apparently harassing Roll.

"... ... ..."

On top of everything else that had happened, this finally proved to be too much for Shelly's poor, fragile mind. Eyes rolling upward, the koopa promptly fell on her back and passed out.[rand=67851114707119093557074771168749527708144600022359701429263803141]

[TurkwithStyle]

Croco was devastated by the tail crushing, but it didn't stop him from happily bouncing for the door. "This mall stinks! All sorts of weirdos hang here!"

[Sortie]

For the short moment it took to regain his senses X lay there, staring up at the expanse of clear glass that was the skylight. This is not working very well, he thought blandly.


Dirty, singed, soot-stained, and looking rather frustrated, X hauled himself of out the planter, looking around for Croco and whatever it was that had hit him. Something told him the crocodile didn't have a punch like being hit by a train.

While the latter seemed to be missing entirely, the former was easily spotted as he bounced toward the mall entrance. Once more X dashed at him, this time grabbing at the croc's injured tail.

[dice=6] (if hits, will flip Croco and slam him into the floor)[rand=857668730339086623881163362242386636017708208848748549706230440637]

[Vize Viper]

Now, when one addresses a mechaniloid, one expects certain responses... maybe a registry number, or a model name...

YOU DON'T EXPECT TO BE EATEN AND SPIT BACK OUT. So, Zero was now just... lying on the floor, in startled shock, before he shook his head, sitting up slowly to look at the mechaniloid...

"I feel violated..."

And stopped. Why was it wearing a helmet that looked like his... apparently with matching ponytail?

Then the beam saber registered. Quickly, the red reploid reached for his own saber, and was relieved to find it was still there. But seeing this thing holding HIS weapon was a bit disconcerting.

Pulling back a little to avoid getting sneezed on, Roll was about to try to rouse the pointy-eared man when she heard a thud behind her. Turning quickly, she saw Shell had fainted!

"Shelly!" Taking another worried glance at Link, she was conflicted on what she should do... when Beat showed up, lightly scorched.

: "Kwee!"

The girl's eyes lit up at the sight of the little bird, as she pointed at Shelly. "Wake her up, Beat! But be nice, I may need her help, ok?"

With another chirp, the bird fluttered over to Shelly, then opened his mouth...

Before a VERY loud rendition of a rooster crowing (or a Cucco, depending on who you ask), echoed from the bird.

With a JUMP at the sound, the girl looked over her shoulder at Beat. "Yeah. That's great, Beat."

[SHM 128 III]

"IEEE!!! I'M AWAKE! I'M... Huh?"

Needless to say, Beat's method of waking Shelly was... very effective, if nothing else. It took a couple of moments of arm flailing before she finally calmed down enough to recognize who had just woke her up from her very short bout of unconsciousness.

"Oh... It's you. Sorry, Beat, I didn't realize..."

The koopa's apology trailed off as she tried to get back on her feet, only to discover that she, well, couldn't. All she could manage to do was rock back and foward on her shell a few inches, but gravity quickly returned her to a flat-on-her-back position soon afterwards.

"Uh... Help? I've fallen and I can't get up..."

[TurkwithStyle]

[dice=6]

Needless to say, the crocodillian was snagged up by the tail and thrown on his stomach. He laid there on his underbelly with his legs and arms limp to either side, his eyes almost dead in appearance, and his mouth wide open. "ugh...I felt that one." Croco got up and shook his head rapidly, "Grr, yer really startin' ta bug me ya know that?" he then jumped up in the air and tried to bounce off X's spinal cord 3 times consecutively.

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Croco: 3 HP[rand=14688193994998514251137817060920449920921857361399860629328847458]

[Sortie]

[dice=6][dice=6][dice=6]


The first blow was avoided with a swift duck, but the second slammed him face-first into the floor. Not wanting to repeat that, X quickly rolled out of the way of the third bounce, and attempted to sweep Croco's legs out from under him with a sweeping kick.

[dice=6]

HP: 4[rand=348891319944600920223161463101536646870015664673533074355830669233]

[Vize Viper]

With what could pass for a sigh, Beat fluttered over, and grabbed the edge of Shelly's shell, pulling her upright.

"Kwee!"

"Thanks, Beat." The girl then returned her attention to trying to rouse the blonde.

"Hey, are you gonna be ok?" She even dipped her hand in the fountain, and splashed some water on Link's face.

"Would somebody mind telling me WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?!?"

[Stoney]

"K'PBTH." Link spat up water in a sudden fit of hacking and coughing. His eyes blinked open.

Link's pupils shifted around, taking in his surroundings with the help of peripheral vision. Clearly a manmade building of some sort. Lots of assorted debris lying around. Other people were nearby, and they were staring at him in what may or may not have been concern.

Where was he? This wasn't the forest. Was Midna okay?

Such thoughts were driven from Link's mind when he noticed the small girl sitting next to him.

"..."

He tried to move, winced, and lay still -- every inch of him was sore. He gritted his teeth and glared at the ceiling above him as his most recent memory finally resurfaced. "Damn it, Kirby..."

Link moved his eyes to look at the girl again. "Hey, would you mind helping me out?" He asked in a strained tone. "I can't really move right now."

He tried to direct her with his eyes, pointing his gaze down towards his belt. "Reach into my pouch and pull out one of the bottles in there, please. Any one of them will do."






So pretty and shiny and GLOWY! And it made pretty humming sounds when he swung it! Kirby was enthralled by the majesty of this weapon he now held.

Come to think of it, it reminded him of another weapon he used in a pervious adventure. Kirby tilted his head at the sword as he gave it a couple experimental swings. "Spaaku?" He asked of it, as if expecting a response. "Cuttah?"

If the Z-Saber had a reply, it was not forthcoming.

So Kirby tried another test; he turned to a nearby section of broken cement and swung the saber at it. The energy blade slid neatly through the rock-hard substance, bisecting it into two halves that fell apart before Kirby's eyes.

Eyes that then lit up in recognition and triumph.

"SPAAKU! CUTTAH!" He cried in glee while dancing around, hugging the Z-Saber close like one would while greeting an old friend. Never mind that the energy blade was still activated and now perilously close to his flesh; Kirby was way too happy to care. "SPAAKU-CUTTAH! HIIII!"

[SHM 128 III]

"Yeah, thanks, Beat..." Shelly also replied, rubbing the back of her shell, "Sigh... I hate it when that happens..."

Doing her best to tune out all the rest of the weirdness that was going on at the moment, Shelly made her way over to Roll and watched as she managed to cause Link's Awakening wake up Link. She didn't know Link personally all that much, but she learned enough about him thanks to Zelda's occational visits to know how important his bottles were.

"Do what he says, Roll," Shelly insisted as she herself began to search through Link's belongings, "You'd be surprised how much a bottle of Lon Lon Milk can cure."

[TurkwithStyle]

[dice=6]

Needless to say, the reptile was sweeped. "GAH!" Croco said as he landed face first down on the ground. "Ugh...you just don't give up do ya?" He got up and reached out to grab X in the bag once again, and beat him sensless.

[dice=6] (grab roll)

[dice=6][dice=6](if grab roll successful, roll against these. Otherwise, ignore.)

Croco: 2 HP[rand=0174275510084196955255498536576582567929825495804506190392741057882]

[Sortie]

[dice=6]


Seeing the croc's intentions, X swiftly activated his dash thrusters, just managing to slide out of reach. He then rolled to his feet and dashed around behind Croco, bringing his metal boot to bear upon Croco's side.

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[Vize Viper]

With a confused shake of her head, the girl robot began looking through the pouch Link mentioned, and pulled out, not a bottle of milk, but one holding... what looked like a floating ball of light with wings.

"Uhm... Ok...?" The girl looked up at the Hylean, about to ask if she should open this bottle, when it finally clicked what about him had been gnawing at her.

He had pointed ears. And they were REAL. They didn't look like some freak mutation, so she really only had one assumption that, in This World, didn't seem so odd... He was an elf.

She was less than two feet away from a genuine elf boy, who was... actually kinda cute.

And one thing Roll had never admitted to her brothers, or her "father", was this: She REALLY liked elves. She had a whole collection of pictures of them in her room back home, wherever THAT was, most of them of males.

Okay, she really liked Elf GUYS.

So with a faint blush forming on her cheeks, the girl held out the bottle, looking down.

"HereyougoIhopethishelps."

Zero, meanwhile, was carefull inching his way towards Kirby, hoping to disarm him before he... cut himself in half, or hurt someone around him.

Especially since he knew now that that fake Z-Saber was just as dangerous as the real deal.

"Easy now... whatever you are. Be careful with that thing or you could hurt somebody... Like me."

[Stoney]

Link's eyes lit up; his pouch contained several bottles with healing substances inside, but this girl had been lucky enough to find one with a fairy in it. The tiny creature was the most potent healer in his inventory; it could even save him from the brink of death.

"That'll do," he agreed. He reached up a hand to take the offered bottle --

--And winced in pain, unable to make his spasming muscles move more than a couple inches.

"...Ow." Link slowly lowered his arm back to the floor and took deep breaths, trying to relax. Close your eyes, Link. Be calm. Deep blue ocean, deep blue ocean...

"Could you...uncork it, please?" he asked the girl without opening his eyes. "I'd do it myself, but, well..." He let the sentence trail off.





Kirby paused as he heard a nearby voice address him.

He turned and gave Zero a big open smile...then he bowed. Or did his body's equivalent of bowing. "San kyuu!"

He pranced over to Zero, saving the Hunter some trouble, and halted at the Reploid's colossal ginormous megahuge sizable feet. "SPAAKU-CUTTAH!" He declared, lifting the sword in one hand and pointing at it with the other. "ROOK! ROOK!" He waved it around enthusiastically, the tip of it almost grazing Zero's nose.