Chapter 65 - The Big Battle!

**"The real Sakura Kasugano wouldn't try and kill her idol."**- Dan

**The Big Battle!** is the sixty-fifth chapter of Darkness Rising.

## Summary

Bowser's Doomship lands in Shadaloo's hideout and Bowser, Giovanni and Ashnard shows up. Ryu tries to get Bowser to go away, but Bowser retaliates by releasing the Team Phantom Grunts and a couple of his Koopa Troop soldiers.

Peach and her gang of Street Fighters battle Bowser and his army. During the battle, Bowser breaks Ryu's back, convincing Chun-Li that Bowser is as evil as Peach claimed. Akuma then joins in and kills off many Koopa Troop soldiers. He also manages to fatally wound Gary.

After a fight with Blanka, Bowser releases the Robotic Nightmares. However, Akuma destroys them all so Bowser releases another wave, which Blanka takes out.

Ryu gets his back healed by Honda, then Chun-Li drags him back into the fight. During the fight, Ken fights Kiawe only for Luigi to show up, Diddy fires a peanut at Peach's dress, Blanka repels Toadette, Bonnie and Mist with Electric Thunder, Guile and Rosalina have a conversation before the former takes out the latter with a Flash Kick, Dhalsim defends himself from Lillie and Snowy's Blizzard with Yoga Flame, T. Hawk fights Iris and finishes her off with a Raging Typhoon, Fei Long and Korrina starts kicking each other, Dee Jay and Yoshi beats each other up, Rose uses her Soul Power to counter Soren's magic, Yun and Yang teamed up to take May and Max down, Viper takes Cherry down with her gadgets and finally Zangief defeats DK with a Spinning Piledriver, causing the Kong to suffer brain damage and Mario getting the first-aid kit.

Ryu and Chun-Li takes Dawn and Sophocles down until Sakura shows up. The two Street Fighters were shocked upon seeing her still alive after Peach told them she was dead. Sakura explains that she was killed and resurrected into a Team Phantom Grunt. She started fighting Ryu and Chun-Li and manages to knock the latter out. She was about to finish off Ryu until Dan joins in.

Meanwhile, Shadaloo crawls out of the rubble Akuma buried them under and notices the Daein Rocket Koopa Organization on their grounds. M. Bison demands them they leave his hideout only for Soren to attack him. Vega and Balrog then shows up and Soren summons Brock and DK. While the two Phantom Grunts took the two Shadaloo Kings out (Which Brock totally ruining Vega's face), Juri and Adon shows up and took down Brock and DK, respectively.

Bison then encounters Bowser and after a conversation, Shadaloo decided to fight alongside the Daein Rocket Koopa Organization to take down Peach and her New Shooting Star Striker group.

Interested in Akuma's abilites, Bowser wants him to join the Organization, too. However, Akuma refuses, so Giovanni gets his Mewtwo to knock him out.

During the battle, Peach manages to get on the ceiling of Shadaloo's base but the Team Phantom Grunts all blasts her down, causing the destruction of Shadaloo's base and burying Peach's party of New Shooting Star Strikers into debris.

Angered by the fact that Bowser's troops destroyed his base, Bison decided to abandon the organisation. But he then rejoins after Bowser offered him a place in Neo Bowser Castle.

Bowser and the Team Phantom Grunts approaches the buried Peach with Mario telling her that she lost. Peach demanded Mario to come to her senses and break out of Team Phantom's control.