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(Now, "B" is Bowser Jr.)

-B-
A shadow emerged from an alley nearby. It was shaped very much as a chubby koopa, however with hair on his head, horns, and what appeared to be a spiny shell. Following the figure were several other beings. Two koopas, two goombas and a bob-omb. They were running towards the others. As they came into the slightly more lit spot where the others were gathered, the front figure was identifiable as Bowser Jr, youngest son of King Koopa, partial commanding officer of the Koopa Troop.
"Koopa Troopas, protect Samus' lab at all cost! Goombas, help fend off the infected!" He yelled. "The four of you are in command of any koopas and goombas affiliated with the Koopa Troop. We can't let them get too close!" he ordered. The four of them did as they were told. "How about me, Sir?" The Bob-omb asked. "You'll be in charge of commanding any incoming troops to go to their respective spots. Wait here. If any more bob-ombs arrive, tell them to stay behind, and blow up if any infected gets too close to the lab!"

With that, his head shifted to Mario. "Don't take this as a sign that I feel any different about you, you big meanie, but you're in main command of the Goombas for now," he said, before walking towards the lab.

As he entered, he quickly stated "I got some of my troops to defend your base. You're in charge of them."

-X-

Reacting immediately to Samus' command, he rushed towards the entrance. He assumed the virus wouldn't affect a reploid such as himself, and was therefore the safest soldier to have in the frontlines. Of course, X realized that going out there would be asking to be turned into a scrap pile, so he rushed to the gates, and started charging up a shot. He was about to fire, when he heard a voice yelling from nearby, telling everyone to stay away from the gates. He dashed away, and discharged the shot. The buster had taken a beating when he travelled, and he didn't want it to overheat and explode. Rather, he readied his Z-Saber. It didn't require him to use too much energy, ironically, and wouldn't cause anything to overheat.

-T-

Ty readied his lasharangs as soon as he heard the message, and got on top of a building. There, he changed to his frostyrangs. They would be helpful to slow down the attackers. He heard someone yell that he was going to blow up the first waves, and as such, he decided to wait until he had fired.

-L-

Just as Lemmy was about to yell out for people to stay clear of the doors, someone else did so instead. Lemmy usually didn't enjoy it when people took his shots for him. Regardless, he pulled out his bazooka as well, though it was probably a lot weaker than the human's, but he probably had more shots. The worm loaded up the bazooka, and aimed it at the gates, ready to bust out shots after the human was done firing.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

Mr. Game & Watch

Mr. Game and Watch stopped in his tracks as soon as the asteroid like moon appeared above the life sphere, he watched it with shock and awe as an army of infected spawned from the clouds surrounding it. This was the most life threatening scene he has seen ever since the events of the subspace invasion. He couldn’t look away from it, but then he heard a man shout to move out of the way of the entrance. He turned to the man and from under his feet appeared a 2-D trampoline with two silhouetted men on each side. He bounced away to his right landing on a rooftop beside a dog-like creature holding boomerangs.

Mr. G&W looked at the dog then back at the entrance of the life sphere. He was not much of a ranged fighter, but he would at least have to make do with what he had at least until the man was done with whatever he was doing. Then in his hand appeared a frying pan, he was as ready as he was ever going to be and a feeling of anxiety flowed through out his entire body.

A.I.M.

A.I.M. turned back to the entrance of the life sphere after Samus had downloaded the distress call into his circuitry. “I apologize for not staying and defending you, but as of now it is more important to be on the battlefield” the robot said to its creator. Once again from under its exhaust blasted a pillar of fire which propelled itself upwards and the machine directed itself to push forward toward the entrance.

The robot did not have the same feeling of anxiety and dread like Game and Watch, but it was preparing itself for battle mentally. A.I.M. programmed itself to share the same com link frequency as Leon. “Roger that, I’ll come over to watch your back” the robot answered as it transitioned itself to move more toward Leon’s area.

[WolfEx]

Shadow came to grips with the situation instantly throwing away the argument before hand out the window. He looked around at a small Koopa issuing orders and a couple of explosive weapon wielding fighters wanting to blow the gates down. Shadow decided to use his fighting prowess and battle forged brain to set up positioning orders and place himself into proper battling procedure.

"Listen...all you specimens with the explosive weaponry, follow me outside the gate and post up where I tell you!"

Shadow ran to the gate entrance and shoved passed the mass of fighters and species that horded the front attempting to fend off the infected. Explosions and war cries filled the air! The gate was barricaded by a sea of fighters firing weapons and energy based attacks from afar. Shadow curled into a ball and charged his way under the crowd fleeting passed their legs and avoiding becoming trampled until finally he made it directly outside the Sphere. He stopped a few feet from the mass and used his jet boots to stay hovered into the air to alert the fighters still posted up inside where to go.

"Ok!All those that have not been ordered to protect the lab or stay back, come outside with me and prepare for flanking positions! And E-Gamma, my old friend, stick with me and help me clear out what we can to make room for the flanks!"

Shadow's orders were aimed at the few he saw sticking around. The robotic boy, the human, the worm, E-Gamma, and the tiger. He needed their abilities and weapon skills outside with him for a stronger impact to keep the invaders away. The gate was literally being swarmed by these things!

"ON THE DOUBLE!"

Shadow added, eager for support.

[WolfEx]

((MOD POST))

Samus heard a small turtle like creature announce quite a few able bodied creatures to help her keep the lab safe. She looked down and saw that actually quite a few added hands were below keeping her safe. She seemed thankful.

"Everyone helping me defend the lab down there, thank you! Just hang around and help buy me time! Don't let them attack my weapon, PLEASE!"

Meanwhile, Mario witnessed Bowser Jr. walk by to give him a little reminder that this is only a temporary alliance. With a devious smile Mario nodded.

"Ofcourse little one, I know Bowser still wants my hat on his plumber rack! But for now, we need to act and keep everyone safe."

Bowser Jr. made his way to the lab after Mario's little acknowledgment leaving Mario with a mini army of Goomba's to help him fight as most of the Life Sphere now got to safety in time.

"Ok my sharp tongued little buddies, we're going out of this sphere to help the battle! I hope your ready for a fight, it won't be easy. Some of you may be leftovers tomorrow, but I promise you, I will do my best to keep my fellow kingdom brethren safe from harm."

The Goombas looked at eachother, then at Mario and grunted. One of them spoke out.

"Yeah yeah whatever Mario! We're only doin this cuz we have to. Now let's go kick some diseased butt!"

A small roar of motivation sounded off as Mario nodded once again, and off they went into a small line with quick fashion to the gate.

Sonic was already outside the gate while watching out of the corner of his eye Shadow guiding a few able fighters to his command, forming a mini platoon of soldiers to flank the sides. He wasn't impressed, but he was surprised how responsible Shadow has grown to become. He stopped getting flooded in his thoughts and was now ready to leave his post for battle. He charged into a ball straight into the center of the battle field and immediately began fighting off the enemies with speedy maneuvering!

The battle was now in full swing! It was now up to the fighters and defenders of the Life Sphere to keep the planet safe.

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Gamma, following Shadow outside, Began firing at any target in sight. Rockets that looked like bright white orbs flew in every direction. "All infected lifeforms must be eliminated." He stated in his Electronic voice.

Meanwhile Leon cussed under his breath waiting for the infected to get inside. His focused gaze was set steadily apon the entrance to the Life Sphere.

[WolfEx]

---((MOD POST))---

--To Leon/A.I.M./Bowser Jr./Ty/Lemmy/All Staying Behind To Defend Life Sphere and Samus--

As the dark materialized asteroid comes ever closer, the citizens and fighters within Life Sphere are forced to focus and ready themselves as best they can for invaders. Panic was NOT an option. The asteroid still had time before it completely crashed into the Sphere, and Samus was working away to fix her cannon with the best of her abilities. She needed more time, however.

While the fighters staying behind aimed their weapons and energy at the gate for any invaders breaking through, a large, slow moving fog began to seep up through the small cracks on the ground caused by the asteroid's vibrations. Nobody really seems to notice it at first. Sonic and Mario were nowhere to be found after finishing up getting those that could not fight to safety. They were now on the front lines. And Samus was still busy repairing her weapon. Eventually the fog gets big enough to start surrounding the bodies of confused fighters. Everyone now knew that the Starvia disease was spreading within the Life Sphere. Those that were lead to Samus's underground bunkers fled the space in fear and worry hoping to escape before becoming infected by the toxic plume and scattered all around Sunshine Circle.

After a few minutes the fog formed into figures and began spawning creatures all over the place. The time to fight has come. The time for strong defenses is here. One by one the fog spawns diseased minions, one by one they all surround the main defensive lines. A gigantic circle of these enemies formed within the Life Sphere as most of the more experienced fighters decided to take the battle outside, they took the opportunity to catch the sphere dwellers off guard and attack, it's as if they've gotten smarter. All the defensive groups that have been created to protect the gate were now surrounded. Things were not looking well. The infected enemies now moved in for their assault!

X15

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Fifteen infected appeared in a cluster closing in on those defending the gate bent on destruction. A few even began firing black goop at the defenders on the roof and around the lab with very little hesitation. Surrounded and outnumbered with even more infected on their way, what shall the outcome of this battle be?

--To Shadow/MegaMan/E-Gamma/Rabbid/Those That Chose To Fight Outside--

Shadow and Gamma began attacking vividly at every enemy they've seen around them to create a big enough opening for a flank opportunity. Sadly, the more they tried to attack the more that would surround them and get even closer to the Sphere. The battle outside the Sphere was MUCH more chaotic. Mega Man meanwhile seemed to be slashing away with his saber to cut down any enemy in his path, with a small rabbit carrying a plunger running around along side him. But a cybernetic warrior with close range capabilities and a small vulnerable rabbit screaming at the top of its lungs is bound to be bombarded by attacks from afar one way or the other.

Noticing this, two massive groups of Infected moved in on the four fighters with intent to obliterate them. One group was all air assault, a group of Paratroopas that seemed to have been infected by the disease itself began flying down to charge the smash brothers with aggression.

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The ground troops were much more intense. They appeared to be a couple Bob-Omb's that became exposed to the disease and joined the infected's ranks as "suicide" bombers. They started to light their fuses and began marching to the four fighters.

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HP %: 0

Being attacked from both sides is a tough situation, team work is obviously a must and requirement to survive this predicament!The war rages on with a bombardment of enemy tension!

[WolfEx]

Shadow instantly thought of using Chaos Control to teleport behind one of the groups and bash them, but if he were to attack the bombs directly, he would be hurt by their own explosive impact, and the paratroopas were a bit too high up to teleport to. He did have a plan of action however.

"E-Gamma, focus fire on the bombs, Mega Man, if you can I need you to try and shoot down those ParaTroopas, I will find and set up a position that can create the most impact for both groups with my Chaos Spear, hopefully cutting through both of them together without fault."

Shadow used his boots to Dash around the enemies to try and get to a more fixed position in order to stop them with minimal effort, he didn't want to use too much of his power to take them down.

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Gamma's continues line of fire Came to a halt as it attempted to lock on to a couple of bob-ombs near it. Once it had accomplished this, two more flare like missles flew towards their round, bomb shaped, targets.

Leon watched the diseased fog spread closer to him. He had to act fast. Pulling the trigger, his rocket flew and hit a group of infected; how many he wasn't shure. He ran down and out of the building. He sprinted just ahad of the fog, not able to look back at anything that might be behind him.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

Mr. Game & Watch

Mr. Game & Watch was not a ranged fighter in the least, so he decided to wait it out for the others to take the brunt of the battle so that he would end up in the crossfire of the battle. He watched the other fighters cluster up in front of the gate as he got closer to it. Shadow was saying something to them all, but he didn’t even attempt at listening. As Game & Watch predicted as soon as the gates opened a barrage of missiles and bullet flew through the gates, luckily he decided to stay away from there.

Whether or not this development of the infected creatures’ invasion was fortunate for G&W this still meant he was now able to fight. Mr. Game and Watch’s hands formed into a frying pan on the right hand and a chair for the left, those also being the same texture as him. He leaped down from the rooftop he was on leaving Ty to fend for himself and a parachute came out from his back again being the same texture. His parachute made his descent much slower and gave him time to attack before landing.

He held out his frying pan out in front of him and began to make and up and down motion with his arm and as he did little black squiggled lines in the shape one would call bacon flew out from the pan having no real source of where it came from. He aimed his projectile at the group of infected and rained a barrage of the substance at them, sure it wouldn’t do too much damage but it would weaken them for sure.

A.I.M.

A.I.M. continued to fly its way toward Leon to back him up, but it seemed to be too late as he had already fled. The cause of his disappearance was an infected group had invaded the life sphere, the robot’s head tilted downward to view the creatures below it. “New objective, charging laser, all systems ready for battle, prepare to descend” the robot commanded itself. The amount of fire blasting out its exhaust grew less and less as it began to slowly get closer to the ground.

It saw the infected creature below it and saw a large barrage of silhouetted food come toward its position. “Aborting and searching for new landing zone” it commanded itself again. A.I.M. scanned the area around itself and propelled itself more leftward to avoid being hit by friendly fire. It found a suitable landing spot on top of a small shack, not to high above the ground, but it was still out of the way of its allied attackers and still gave the machine a height advantage.

The robot was hit on the arm by goop which was thrown by one infected creature, it fixated on the creature’s position and fired a large red laser blast from its ‘eyes’ at the thing.

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Once he was well ahad of the fog, Leon turned to take out a few infected. As he did, he noticed A.I.M flying above the dark shroud. Leon fired a few rounds and signaled the mechine to come to him.

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(Sorry for not posting yet)
-X-

X started charging up shots and firing towards the paratroopas, but kept on missing. They were too quick to get hit by the large shots that came towards them once in a while. X changed to firing regular shots at a higher rate, attempting to get in shots at their wings to bring them down. "I'm having a hard time hitting them!", he yelled, as he tried to avoid the incoming attacks.

-L-

Lemmy's eyes lit up in a strange sort of happy fury of insanity, which he, as a worm, had inherited to get whenever a battle of such a scale was upon him. He started to laugh insanely, and starts firing the bazooka and reloading almost automatically, aiming the bazooka towards the infected. However, this cost him, as pretty soon, he ran out of ammo. "What?! How is this possible?!" he yelled, throwing the bazooka out of the window he was hiding within, which made avoiding any attacks easy. Not giving up on explosives yet, he pulled out a grenade, pulled the security out, and hurled it towards them.

-T-

Ty decided to stay on the rooftop as he saw several rockets get fired from a window nearby. Rather, he stayed up there and kept throwing regular rangs at them whenever there wasn't an explosion going on in there. He didn't want them to be destroyed.

-B-

Bowser Jr. gazed out at the newly arrived infected. "Koopas! Attack!" He yelled. As the koopas he had lead there, as well as a few that had arriced earlier, sprinted towards them, he continued; "Do NOT let them get into the lab! That is the #1 priority!".
Just as the troopas were about to get close, a hail of rockets rained down, making them retreat. They waited for this to be over. Jr. could hear a twisted, high-pitched laugh from the window the shots were coming from. Strange, considering how loud the explosions are.

[WolfEx]

---((MOD POST))---

--To Leon/A.I.M./Bowser Jr./Ty/Lemmy/All Staying Behind To Defend Life Sphere and Samus--

Leon fired rockets at the massive number of infected clumping nearest him. Alot of them were scattered around the area so he really only managed to hit a maximum of two, but it was a direct hit blowing them to pieces. Meanwhile, the scattered Infected were being attacked by flying Bacon pieces from Game & Watch. A few of them thought it was real bacon and began opening their mouths to receive the attack, but they were surely surprised by the maneuver and their mouths became quickly scorched dealing damage to their head area. Most of them leftover were smart enough to prance around the Bacon attack and avoid it all together. A.I.M. took a great vantage point and honed in on one of the Infected to attack. Luckily he seemed to pick one of the few that was already attacked by flying Bacon and finished him off with a fixated laser beam attack slicing him to bits.

Leon Sprinted forward to gain distance from the attackers and turned around to attack the group of them left, but he fired blindly this time and missed them. Lemmy began to enter a battle frenzy and viciously attack the enemy with a wave of explosive attacks. But because of his height and radius near his comrades, he actually managed to severely hurt alot of his own colleagues around him with his careless blasting. Most of his explosive projectiles didn't even hit the Infected, but moreso his own people. The grenade however was very effective and wiped out three of the Infected from the group, although it was a risk. Ty tossed his boomerang at the Infected below when explosions and attacks were not already going on. Sadly though, due to his distance above ground and the scattered formation of the Infected, he couldn't quite do the damage he desired, but instead he managed to bonk one on the head as the boomerang whooshed back into his hands, that single Infected enemy simply rubbed his head and looked around to wonder where the attack came from.

Bowser Jr. attempted to command his mini army of Koopas to attack the Infected, but because of so much explosions going on and constant influx of attacks, his army became stricken with fear and ran back to him trembling at the explosive impacts. There was not really a time at the present moments to attack without being hit themselves by friendly fire.

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HP %: 90%

The attacks from the defenders were pretty powerful, but there were still nine standing. Two of the nine noticed Leon running around to find proper safety areas to attack them and decided to double team him by dashing towards him and tossing snow ball sized goop at him in a duo effect of riddling slop bombs. Their aim was more towards his large explosive weaponry to render it ineffective by clogging the parts with goop. Three of the nine had their sights on the annoying worm and began circling him with fisticuffs out jabbing at his wormy figure. The one Infected that Ty bonked with a boomerang eyed him on the rooftops and began walking his way to climb up to his standpoint and fight him off. The remaining three moved to Bowser Jr. towards the lab in a defensive march preparing themselves to be forced away as they try and push themselves through Bowser Jr. and into the lab's entrance.

--To Shadow/MegaMan/E-Gamma/Rabbid/Those That Chose To Fight Outside--

Gamma fired a barrage of powerful missiles at the coming Bob-ombs. It destroyed 3 of them on contact seeing as their fuses were already lit, they were more focused on finding someone to blow up than looking for any incoming attacks. The enemies were destroyed almost instantly. The two remaining Bob-ombs avoided the attack as they began rushing to find an enemy to hit. [X was trying to get a fix on the flying enemies attempting to clip their wings. For the most part he missed, but did manage to clip the wing of one of them sending him plummeting to the ground and allowing for a generous bruising on its head as it lands skull first into the dirt. It barely survived the fall. The rest of them barely managed to avoid the gunfire and now had interest in X realizing the danger he posed on them and began flying towards him. Shadow seemed to gain a prime vantage point directly behind the enemies and was successfully unnoticed in doing this allowing him to prepare for attack.

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The injured Paratroopa was now ground bound and wasted no time charging towards the gate to Life Sphere. He felt a need to join his ranks near the gate and better use himself as a foot soldier than anything, in other words, he was fleeing from the current battle outside to move position inside. The four remaining flying Paratroopas approached closer to X and tucked their body parts in their shells like falling bombs and honed in on X in a single file line of offense. All of them directly struck him in the chest. Due to X's armor they couldn't severely damage him, but he took a large hit causing him to fall on his back.

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The two remaining Bob-ombs locked in on Gamma and placed themselves promptly beneath his feet digging themselves firmly in the dirt near him waiting to explode, which was any second now.

The first wave of enemies is slowly dwindling, but a smart tactic rather than blind ambition will be the deciding factor here!

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Roxas jumped between Leon and the two infected. Then, quickly raising the key blade, he yelled "Guard!!". I small, magic shield appeared in front of him, reflecting some of the balls of goo. Then, without hesitation, he charged at the two infected, his blade swinging upward to knock one of them into the air. Once it was airborne, he swung his blade at the other one, trying to hit it from the side.

[WolfEx]

Shadow watched as the chaos around him continued and enemies outside were barely being phased by the defensive force of the Life Sphere fighters. Taking initiative now that he was in the exact spot he wanted to be in directly behind the enemies on their tails, Shadow expanded his hands and went in for the kill to finish off the group of Paratroopas in front of him.

"CHAOS...SPEAR!"

After the enemies tackled Mega Man Shadow sliced them with a wave of piercing energy while they were still lined up and hoped to do some serious damage if not defeat them entirely. He had a good feeling that he really did a number on them with a confidence in his eyes. He waited for the smoke of the attack to clear.

[Mr. Game & Watch]

A.I.M.

From atop the shack that A.I.M. took vantage point from, he was able to hear the gun shots given off behind him and traced their trajectory, since it seemed odd that they were being shot at the sky. It angled its optics toward the origin of the bullets and detected Leon who was about to be attacked by two infected creatures. However, the other crowd of infected creatures were storming their way toward the bunker. A choice had to be made, until another uninfected person defended Leon which made the odds even for their fight.

A.I.M. chose to pursue the ones charging for the bunker since there was little defense to handle the amount of infected enemies. It knew it couldn’t just charge into battle blindly since it would be largely outnumbered, so it devised a strategy. A.I.M. whipped out a spin top from the supply pad that opened from the base of its body. It grabbed the cylinder top of the weapon and began to spin it with intense speed. Within seconds the top was at its max velocity and A.I.M. released the spin top upon the unsuspecting enemies below.

A.I.M. blasted off the roof and raced a short distance toward the group of infected enemies pursuing the bunker. Once it was hovering above the enemies it shot out a large blast of flames from its exhaust to try and eliminate any enemies that evaded its spin top attack.

Mr. Game & Watch

Finally Mr. G&W landed from his descend from the rooftop and onto the battlefield. What he had observed while his parachute lightly lowered him to ground level was that his bacon flipping attack had fooled the infected into believing that it was actually food. Game and Watch isn’t particularly a genius himself, but he is definitely able to notice a strategic advantage when it is obviously given to him.

The infected creatures seemed to be all occupied with their own tasks and an entire group of them surround the small worm, which seemed to be quite an overabundance of their strength on one small enemy. Game and Watch saw this as an opportunity to take a couple of them out while they were distracted. The incredibly flat man charged at the infected creatures and as he did his head began to morph into a deep sea diver’s helmet. He paused in his tracks and released all his momentum at the enemies with his modified head.