Antasma Vs Nightmare is a What If Death Battle created by TherealHyperA as the 3rd episode of season one.
Description[]
Mario and Luigi Vs Kirby! These two somewhat similar looking monsters might haunt your nightmares, but in the end were nothing compared to the power of friendship and dreams!
Introduction[]
Wiz: Dreams. These twisted creations of the human mind can be greatly treasured, or greatly feared-
(Before he could finish, Rhino and Rocksteady crash through the walls, knocking Wiz and Boomstick unconscious.)
Rocksteady: Hey uh, we’re here for the host gig? Sorry for crashing in I forgot my key.
Rhino: I’m just here because I get to run through a wall!
Rocksteady: Anyways, dreams are pretty scary sometimes. So imagine if some big, ugly guy had control over nightmares!
Rhino: That was beautiful! You into poetry?
Rocksteady: I went to night school. Antasma, vampiric nightmare and hunter of the dream stone.
Rhino: And Nightmare, the…well, nightmare of Kirby and friends. He’s Rocksteady and I’m Rhino!
Rocksteady: (Looking at his script) And it’s our job to analyze their weapons armor and skills to find out who would win-
Rhino: A DEATH BATTLE!
Antasma[]
Rhino: Antasma was once just a regular bat with regular batness. But one day he somehow ate a nightmare and became gained a powerful new form and becoming the evil bat king.
Rocksteady: This might sound scary, but it’s just another Tuesday for Mario. Anyways, Antasma became an enemy of the P’hillos residing in P’hillo island. Subtle.
Rhino: But his evilness was but to the test when he stole the powerful Dark Stone to fulfill his chaotic dreams. But the nations prince, Prince Dreamburt (Strike two on the subtly board), fought long and hard and eventually sealed the bat king into the dream world. Isn’t that the thing from Sharkboy and Lavagirl?
Rocksteady: That’s right Rhino. But before he was sealed, he shattered the Dark Stone into several pieces.
Antasma
Talks like a vampire
Beats his enemies with the power of nightmares
Has a banger Juno Songs cover
Looks cool I guess
The Freddy Krueger of Mario villains
Rhino: And he was trapped in the dream world for a pretty long time. But his power was growing.
Rocksteady: However, he couldn’t do it on his own. As such, he allied with the koopa king himself, Bowser! Together they stole a powerful artifact called the Dream Stone.
Rhino: They quickly began putting all of P’hillo island to sleep to restore the stones power to grant a wish. Bowser, wished for an incredibly powerful and well defended castle. Weird but alright guess he values his me time.
Rocksteady: However, in a fight with Mario and Luigi, he was betrayed by Bowser. Swearing revenge, he reveals that his wish was to be able to freely travel through the dream and real world, meaning that he could never truly be imprisoned.
Rhino: And so Mario and Luigi took the fight to Antasmas turf and fought him, where he revealed his true power!
Rocksteady: One of his favorite abilities is splitting into dozens of bats that swarm the enemy by charging. He can also teleport, breath purple fire, create clones, or a dark orb blast which surrounds the opponent and closes in on the opponent and create a huge shockwave that deals major damage!
Rhino: But perhaps the most…unusual things in his arsenal are his Antasmunchies! Weirdest name ever. Are we still getting paid for this?
Rocksteady: Pretty sure yeah. Anyways, these strange orbs are constantly hovering in a circle around the bat king. And if he needs an extra boost, he can eat a couple to increase his power!
Rhino: Maybe I should use those against Spider-Man! Didn’t need them to clobber you though.
Rocksteady: Oh shut up. Despite being defeated by Mario and Luigi doing absolutely nothing, he proved to be one of the greatest villains of all time!
Rhino:… Eh he can take second place.
Ending quote
Antasma: SCHREEYEE! I can open portals venever I vish now… for that is vut I vished from the Dream Stone…In the Dream Vorld, I vill be at my full strength. I haff changed Dreambert, you haff been varned!
Nightmare[]
Rhino: Y’know Rocksteady, Dreamland seems like a perfect vacation spot. All the beautiful landscapes and food you could eat!
Rocksteady: Uh have you seen the cosmic threats that attack Dreamland every other Tuesday?
Rhino: Hah! What could possibly-(Rocksteady shows him a picture of Zero 2, Fecto Elffilis, and Marx) Those aren’t Kirby enemies! These are biblically accurate angels or Terraria monsters!
Rocksteady: Nope.
Rhino: And Kirby fights those?!
Rocksteady: On a daily basis. (While he is talking, Rhino is in the background burning a Kirby plush) But one Kirby enemy you probably don’t think of when you think of this is Nightmare, one of Kirby’s earliest enemies!
Rhino: But he’s still very powerful. His goal is to spread Nightmares throughout all of Dreamland, and the way he does it is by corrupting the fountain of dreams.
Rocksteady: Kirby of course attempted to stop the monster. But due to a lose lose scenario and a misunderstanding, Nightmare was set free. And this Kirby went off to take him on.
Rhino: And this is how he showed off his true combat prowess. In battle, he uses two different forms. In the beginning of the fight he becomes a large Power Orb.
Rocksteady: In this form, he can fire small stars and a sonic wave. He can also move quite quickly across the screen!
Rhino: But after taking enough hits he goes into his true form. Which looks really weird, typical for Kirby.
Rocksteady: In this form he may be able to take fewer hits, but he can only be damaged when hit in his tornado like core, which he likes to hide behind his cape a lot!
Rhino: This form also gives him more attacks! He can still throw stars, but he can also ram the opponent or drill them with his core!
Rocksteady: But of course he was no match for the far stronger Kirby, but he had a special surprise upon his death. This surprise was self destructing!
Rhino: This exploded part of the moon, which should be multi continental in power!
Rocksteady: So be careful while you sleep, because this monster will be in your nightmares!
Ending quote
Uhh nightmare didn’t talk a lot in the original game so if you can find something please add it.
Intermission[]
Rocksteady: Alright the combatants are set, we’ve placed our bets for the winner!
Rhino: It’s time for a DEATH BATTLE!
Rocksteady: Aw I wanted to say it.
Rhino: How about we both do it.
Rocksteady: Alright.
Both: ITS TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!
Fight[]
It was a dark, stormy night at TherealHyperA’s home. A dark wind blew the leaves off of the trees before seeping into the house through the window. Inside, HyperA was sleeping on a bed he made out of French proof cardboard boxes. The dark energy swirled around his head before going inside his mind. After this, he began to stir in his sleep and he began to have a nightmare.
INSIDE THEREALHYPERAS MIND
A shadow figure was walking through the dark forest. The sky was painted an eerie purple and the ground was the same dark color. The figure removed his cape, revealing himself to be Nightmare.
Nightmare: Reveal yourself bat king.
He looked to the leafless trees at a lone purple and black bat with familiar eyes. The small creature flew a few feet in front of Nightmare and has it flew, about a dozen identical bats followed close behind. The landed in a familiar formation, before some black smoke appeared around them and formed the bat king, Antasma.
Antasma: Long time no see Nightmare. I take it you too vant the Dream Stone?
Nightmare: Indeed. And I expect to reveal its location to the king of nightmares.
Antasma: I am afraid I haff to decline.
Nightmare waved his hands and some stars appeared around him.
Antasma: (brief evil laughter) Come and fight me if you dare, and I vill be your vorst nightmare!
FIGHT!
The stars fly at Antasma, who flies to the side and avoids them. He breaths a few balls of purple fire at Nightmare, but he puts up his cape to protect his core. The Kirby villain backs up before transforming into his power orb form. Antasma fires some more energy blasts but they barely scratched the power orb. Nightmare teleported behind the bat king and fired a blast of sonic energy, which knocked him far away. In response, Antasma split into a dozen smaller bats and flew towards him. Nightmare fired stars at the bats and slowly picked them off one by one until there was only one left right in front of him. It transformed back into the bat king and slashed his claws at the power orb. It was sent flying back into some trees while Antasma laughed.
Antasma: Give up now Nightmare. Or I vill make your life a living horror.
He cloned himself into about 6 Antasmas who all charged up a huge ball of energy.
Antasma: I vill give you a choice. Join my side, or be destroyed!
Nightmare: Never!
The orb fired another wave of sonic energy at dissipated the clones. But before their death, their balls of energy combined into one giant ball held by the original. This massive energy ball was twice the size of the power orb, or as big as a spirit bomb. Your pick.
Antasma: My lucky day.
Nightmare attempts to charge at Antasma, but before he could get close, the bat king throws the ball at the ground. This caused a huge purple explosion that destroyed the entire battlefield below him. He flew down to the massive crater and looked around in case his opponent survived.
Antasma: Vut a pity. He would haff been a valuable asset against the P’Hillos.
Behind him however was a looming shadow. It revealed its hand and tapped on Antasmas shoulder. It was revealed to be Nightmare in his true form.
Nightmare: I WILL BE NO ONES ASSET!
He rams the bat king so hard he goes flying backwards and hits him with stars as he flys. The bat king regains control and fires more blasts of purple flame. Nightmare blocks most of the strikes but puts his guard down too early and gets hit in the core by a stray blast.
Antasma: So you haff revealed your weakness. I pity your ignorance.
But while he was talking, Nightmare had summoned hundreds of stars and prepared to fire. He waved his hand and the army flew and hit Antasma. The bat king made an effort to dodge, destroy, or counter most stars, but could not destroy them all. He was left standing down on his figurative knees as Nightmare flew through his assault and drilled right through him with his core. Nightmare laughed as he slowly approached the injured rpg villain.
Nightmare: If anything, you should’ve joined my army!
This, however, angered Antasma. He looked at the Antasmunchies that had surrounded him the whole fight and grabbed 3. He tossed them in the air before eating them. He started glowing an even brighter purple as his power increased. The bat king teleported in front of the enemy of Kirby and scratched his claws against his indestructible cape. This didn’t break it, but did distract Nightmare and left his core open. Antasma created more balls of dark energy in his hands and fired them point blank at the core.
Nightmare: Ugh. W-what?!
Antasma: You call yourself a nightmare? I VILL SHOW YOU TRUE FEAR IN THE REALM OF INSANITY!
Antasma held up his hands and rings of dark orbs surrounded them. He thrusted them upwards until they fell down around Nightmare. He slammed his hands together and the dark orbs closed in and exploded, completely destroying his core. He began to rise as he was taken over by dark red energy.
Nightmare: I’ll see you in hell!
The dark energy erupted and Nightmare self destructed. This explosion destroyed the entire realm, leaving only blackness and smoke. Antasma was thought to be dead. That was until the familiar shape of his eyes illuminated the darkness and his laugh echoed through the void.
K.O!
Results[]
Rhino: That was awesome! I feel bad for that guys mind though.
TherealHyperA: Eh I wasn’t using it for much.
Rhino: But wait a second, how did Antasma win?
Rocksteady: Well it’s actually very simple. Before we get into stats, let’s talk about abilities and weaknesses.
Rhino: Nightmare could do some cool stuff, but Antasma had a way larger and stronger arsenal. Not only that, but he had a more exploitable weakness, while Antasma was only really held down by his arrogance and being hit really hard I guess.
Rocksteady: But there was a reason we didn’t reveal any of Antasmas stats in the analysis. You see, the highest you could put Nightmare is multi continental, due to not really scaling to Kirby or being particularly strong compared to other antagonists.
Rhino: But Antasma directly scaled to Mario and likely Bowser as well. And Mario could defeat users of the Grand Star, which could light up entire galaxies! So even if you were generous and scaled Nightmare to his death, he would even be able to scratch Antasma!
Rocksteady: While Nightmare was dreamily powerful, he just couldn’t make Antasma bat an eyelid!
Rhino: The winner is Antasma.
Next Time[]
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