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Melee Civil War

Chapter 1 – Management's Announcement

By Pelican (Pelican_13@Yahoo.com)

03/04/2002

Fans from all over loved the first Super Smash Brothers competition.  They demanded more and more matches and although this made the fans happy, the Nintendo stars were being worn down more and more with each match.   Recently, ratings went down and Nintendo decided to add more stars to the Super Smash Brothers lineup.  The second season of Smash Brothers, Melee, became an instant hit.  New characters, better levels, and more items set the Smash Brothers craze back in full gear.  However, because of more and more battles the SSBM stars were beginning to tire.

Luigi, Jigglypuff, Link, Zelda, Peach, and Capt. Falcon were resting and relaxing in the SSBM lounge when Mario burst in looking very aggravated.

"Guess what-a management just told me?" Mario asked the group, still enraged.

"What is it?" Captain Falcon asked.  He appeared exhausted from a previous match.

"They are-a adding even more matches!  We will have to-a fight even more!"

Link stood up, holding his injured leg.  "No way!  We fight each other to much as it is!"

"And you have to use a sword," Captain Falcon said to himself under his breath.  Earlier Captain Falcon, Luigi, Link, and Peach were involved in a match.  Link was victorious.

"What about you and your fire kicks and punches?" Link bolted.

"Guys… we're not in the mood to listen to more fights," Peach said, trying to pacify the two egos.

Mario also tried to end the fight by cutting in, "Does anyone-a care what management just-a did!?"

"I'm going to go talk to them," Zelda said as she slowly got up off her couch.  She left through a door leading down a hallway.  The office she was looking for was somewhere down there.

"And your bombs, let's not forget them," Captain Falcon said, trying to start the fight again.

"Drop it, Falcon!" Luigi cut in, "You lost!"

"So did you," Falcon retaliated.

"I'm not whining about it!" Luigi replied.

Just then another door opened, this one lead to the portal room where combatants are teleported to their next match.  Fox, Falco, Bowser, and Mewtwo entered the lounge and found seats on the couches.  They were almost unable to stand under their own power.

"Have a good match guys?" Link asked.

"No!" Fox, Falco, Bowser, and Mewtwo replied in unison.  The match had been a 2 on 2 team battle, the Star Fox team verses the two evil entities.

"I still say those blasters aren't fair," Mewtwo managed to say.

"Oh?  And your mind games are?" Falco replied.

"Falco?" Fox cut in, "I eliminated Bowser.  How hard is it to get Mewtwo without killing me!?"

Mewtwo had a little laugh at Fox's last comment.  "None can hit me with a bob-omb."

"Bird boy has no problem hitting me." Fox replied.

"Hey!" Falco managed to differ, "it's not my fault!  I might have broken my wing yesterday.  Don't expect my aim to be that great.  Anyway I did get the job done on Mewtwo."

"Do you know how nice Kanto looks from above?" Fox asked, "While you're on FIRE!"

Mewtwo began laughing again.  Bowser would be hysterical if he wasn't gasping for breath.

"Instead of listening to another battle in the R&R room, I'm going to see if Zelda needs help," Peach said as she got up and walked off in the same direction Zelda left earlier.

"I'm going too," Luigi said as he also left.  The room began to clear out with more excuses to get away from the Star Fox civil war until just Captain Falcon and Jigglypuff were left from the original group.  Jigglypuff had been silent this whole time anyway.

"Fox, drop it already!  I said I'm sorry as soon as I got back to you," Falco said trying to avoid a fight.

Bowser, who has been sitting in an oversized armchair, but the right size for him, finally got a comment of his own out, "I'll get you next time, McCloud."

Fox turned his attention to Bowser's threat, "I'm ready whenever you are.  In fact I'm ready right now but I'll let you catch your breath."

"You're ready right now?  Then why were you complaining about getting hit by my bob-omb?" Falco asked.

"Ohh, this is getting good," Captain Falcon announced as he listened in on the fight.

            While the battle of the egomaniacs of the air continued in the lounge there was another fight going on in one of the manager offices of Melee.  Peach and Luigi entered the office where Zelda has been pleading her case for some time.

"If you keep us fighting as often as this we're going to drop dead!" Zelda announced to a man sitting behind a desk.  He appeared to be in charge of the fight line-ups.  He was wearing a gray suit with a black tie.  His hair was black and combed back and his nose was shaped a lot like Mario's.

"There have been no serious injuries reported," the man argued, "and the show is making more then ever.  Did you see the last match?"

"No, but it's all-a the rage in the lounge," Luigi said sarcastically as he entered the conversation.

"What is a serious injury?" Peach asked, "Decapitation!?"

"Don't tell me the heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom are that sore," the man replied.

"What if we just refused to fight?" Zelda cut in.

"What do you think the fans would say?  Sorry, your majesty, but there is nothing I can do now," the man responded, "Now if you don't mind I have some work to get done."

"Would that-a happen to involve who the next victims are?" Luigi asked, infuriated.

Luigi, Peach, and Zelda exited in a rage.  They walked back towards the lounge to find a nice place to sit, relax, and recover.  However, when they returned to the lounge they found that it wouldn't be a place to relax.  The big screen TV the couches were centered towards was on but the volume was low and no one was watching, everyone was too busy with their petty fights.

"If you can't throw a bob-omb then go to the infirmary and get your wing looked at," Fox told Falco.

"They treat broken arms!  I bet an avian hasn't set foot in that room!" Falco responded.

"Then I'm going to see if they have something to treat this headache I'm getting talking to you!" Fox said angrily.  He got up and headed out another door.  This freed a spot in the main couch and Peach saw the opportunity to have a good seat.  Zelda also saw this and went for the couch.

"Hey!  I saw this spot first," Peach argued.

"What?" Zelda asked, "Fox just left.  We both saw it."

While Peach and Zelda argued Luigi jumped on the couch from behind.

"You jerk, that was my seat!" Zelda said to Luigi, who was too relaxed in the chair to even bother.  Zelda let out a disgruntled note and walked away.  Peach was still standing there looking very ticked off at Luigi's behavior.

"You are a real jerk," she said and walked off.

Luigi didn't seem to care and leaned back further on the couch, unnoticed to him he brushed up against Falco's wing.  Falco gasped air painfully at the touch and stood up.

"Maybe I should get it looked at," Falco thought to himself and walked off towards the infirmary.

            The R&R room had become less hostile but the same was not true in other parts of the Melee headquarters.  In a familiar manager's office Ganondorf was having a word with a familiar corporate man.

"What the heck was that last match!?  Why am I in these handicap matches?" Ganondorf asked in just as much rage as the previous fighters that spoke with this man.

"It was against Pichu and the Ice Climbers.  You're that much bigger," the man replied.

"A two-on-one is still a two-on-one, I don't care if it's Pichu and the Ice Climbers or… someone weaker then them.  It's just not fair!" Ganondorf exclaimed.

"Oh, big guy like you can't take on the mouse?" the man taunted Ganondorf in a voice like he would talk to a baby.  Ganondorf took exception and struck the man's desk with a Warlock Punch.  Bits and pieces of wood flew all over the room, much hitting the man in the face.  Ganondorf stormed out, also destroying the door to the office.

            Meanwhile in another part of the building more hostilities were taking place.  Fox was on his way back to the Melee lounge while Falco was going to get his wing looked at in the infirmary.  They stopped in the hallway for a "friendly" conversation.

"So you're going to take my advice after all?" Fox asked.

"Don't make me show you the skies of Kanto again, and I don't mean the blimps," Falco shot back.

"Well then how about we see if you can KO me when we are SUPPOSED to be fighting each other?"

"Are you challenging me to a match, McCloud?"

"I think I am, Lombardi."

Falco replied, "That's big of you, challenging me to match while I might have a broken wing!"

Fox thought for a moment then said, "See if it's alright first, if you can fight then I'll be glad too."

With that Fox walked past, purposely bumping into Falco as he passed.  Falco realized at that time that something was seriously wrong with his wing, but he held his pain in until Fox was out of earshot, then griped the injured spot.

"That guy is really asking for it," Falco mumbled to himself as he entered the infirmary.  He noticed a few beds, one of which Pichu was resting on after a battle against Ganondorf.  The infirmary was very general, as it needs to treat all kinds of different creatures.  Falco spotted a female human nurse and approached her.

            The portal room was getting ready for a transport and camera crews at the Fountain of Dreams were preparing to record yet another brawl.  The opponents this time were Kirby and Marth in a straightforward one-on-one, two-minute melee match.  Kirby stepped onto one of the platforms emitting light from its surface.  Marth said something to Kirby in a language no one could understand anyway and stepped onto his platform.  The timer was set in Dreamland and the two fighters were instantaneously transferred to the battle zone.