Nextgen Kids: Legend of the Nine Newborn

Operation: AINCRAD, Level 4: A Heart of Courage

Instead of writing 100 brief battles, I decided to write a more fun level idea that isn't as exhausting for my brain!

Level 4: A Heart of Courage

King Kazma shoved open the tower gates and marched into the first floor. Awaiting him was a younger boy in a blue ripped shirt and black shorts, his teeth grit. "I am Kid McSkirmish, the guardian of the first floor! I won't let some amateur walk into Dad's tower!"

"Whatever, kid. Let's just get started!" (Play "Battle Time" from Super Paper Mario!)

Act 2: Tower of 100

The gates sealed just as Sector Q made it up the stairs. "Crud! We're locked out!" Eddy exclaimed.

"Glitches detected on the roofs!" Boly alerted.

"To the roofs!" Jenny declared.

They hurried around the right side and followed a staircase up to the 2nd floor. A troupe of Egg Pawns were ready to shoot into that floor's window, but the operatives smashed them before they could get the chance. Kazma would win his battle and come up to the 2nd floor, so the team jumped some platforms to the 3rd floor. Ring Snakes flew about the air, spitting fireballs. Eddy chopped them to pieces and released a Laddie. Miko easily formed a ladder to the 4th floor, where a series of Thwomps were attempting to smash into the room. Miko timed and dodged through all the Thwomps, making it around the tower to find a Barry. She used her barrier to bounce the Thwomps away as the spikes made them derez. Kazma reached this floor by the time she was finished.

There was one more Thwomp that appeared below the edge, thrusting up and down. They jumped on as it launched them to a spring, which bounced them to the 5th floor. Several Egg Mages would channel magic over the room and drain Kazma's HP, so Carmine threw bombs at the airborne robots and destroyed them. "Miko, can you refill my bombs?" Miko nodded and flashed the glove on her friend. Afterwards, they had to jump some Ring Snakes to the 6th floor (though it seemed the snakes were otherwise harmless). Boly detected Snipebots on distant towers, but also alerted them to a Pixl nearby. They broke open a vase and found a round, green Pixl designed like a crosshair. Its name was fittingly Crosser.

Miko gave the Pixl to Quill as a rifle formed for him. He could lock on the distant mechs and shoot them down. They could afterwards Wall Jump two pillars to the 7th floor. There were several vases placed around with robots hidden in a few. Carmine's Observation Haki could sense where the robots were and tossed bombs into those vases, destroying the mechs. They had to take a Barrel Cannon route to the 8th floor, having to shoot to the next ones with good timing as the cannons rotated. The world glitched as the giant fire wheels from before began dropping and rolling down the roof. The kids dodged past the wheels until they could find a ladder, leading to a platform with a Pause Switch. The next roof's edge was blocked with fire, so they had to Pause the wheels and jump across them to find the way onto the 9th floor roof.

Boly alerted them to small turrets hidden inside the actual combat ring. They would begin shooting at Kazma once the fighter arrived to challenge the next foe. Quill noticed a small hole in the wall and drove his RC car inside. He shot the car's small turret to take out the mechs once they stuck out. Destroying them all seemed to free a small, round Pixl with blue and green sun rays. "Me_K.O., this Pixl is designed to reduce the dimensions of your avatar."

"So, it shrinks us? Let's find a place to use it." They jumped some platforms to the 10th floor. There were no apparent glitches, but Kazma's opponent appeared to be a tiny samurai. It was swift in dodging Kazma's stomps while leaping to land strong hits. "Aha! Kazma, have this!" Miko transferred the Dottie Pixl through the window and shrank Kazma. Taken off guard at first, he regained himself and dueled with the samurai on equal ground. After KOing the fighter, Kazma grew back to normal size.