Chapter 2

Solid Reunion

It was late night as… Wait, you know it's late night when this was happening already, so there's no point in saying this.

So as I was said, it was late night…

Dang…

So anyway, a single rebel soldier was standing still in one spot, keeping watch of whatever is going on around him. As he stood still, a cardboard box was seen behind him, slowly moving forward in a manner similar to that of a snail. But due to the tall grass on the ground, slight rustling sounds were made when the box passed over it. This grabbed the rebel's attention and he turned to look, only to see a box sitting there and not moving. "What's a box doing here?" he thought.

"Pichu!" said a voice from underneath the box.

"Oh, just some mouse playing with a box," he thought, and he turned and continued keeping watch while the box scurried away as fast as possible.

The box went behind some sacks and large crates, and Snake lifted up his box slightly and peeked out from underneath it and looked in every direction. "Nobody here…" he thought, and he saw a door on the building in front of him, so he got into his box again and moved towards that door.

When at the door, he quickly got out from his box and turned the doorknob, and then he went inside fast, taking the box along with him, and then he closed the door afterwards.

"Phew… Made it inside…" Snake said with a sigh of relief while wiping his forehead.

"Good thing they didn't suspect anything," Pichu said. "Nobody will ever know I'm someone suspicious!"

"That would be our advantage, I guess. Now where are we?" Snake said, and he looked around the place and saw various tanks. "Seems like a place where to keep these military vehicles. I wonder if there is anything here worth checking out."

The both of them quietly tiptoed through the place and stayed close to the side of the tanks to avoid getting caught. Snake also looked around the ceiling to make sure if there are any of security cameras hanged up there. He then heard some talking and carefully poked his head out from behind the tank and saw two rebels chatting together.

"And because of tiers, there were no variety in the Smash Bros. Melee tournament at all," one rebel said. "Pretty much everyone used Fox and all the matches were played on Final Destination, with no items."

"That's got to be very boring…" the second rebel said. "I would fall asleep if I was watching those matches. I wonder how those people are able to entertain themselves with a play style like that."

"This makes me wish that Brawl won't fall into the same fate as Melee. Speaking of which, they are deeming Brawl uncompetitive due to difference in physics."

"Then that may sound like a good thing knowing that Brawl will never be abused in that manner by tourney players."

Snake didn't care about their conversation as much as he did about their surroundings. He noticed another door behind them, and he would have to try and get past them if he wanted to go inside, but without letting them see him would be impossible. Perhaps he could use noise to distract them? But a better idea came to him, and he turned to Pichu and said to him, "I got something for you to do."

"What is it?" Pichu asked.

As the two rebels were talking with each other, Pichu ran out from behind the tank and scurried to the front of them and looked at them with a cute face. "Pichu!"

"Hey! It's a Pichu!" said one rebel. "I didn't expect to see one wandering around here!"

"Look at his face! He's so cute! No wonder girls love him!" said the other rebel as he crouched down to take a better look at Pichu.

Pichu wiggled his ear and waved his hand playfully at the rebel, and as they were admiring his cute looks, sparks began to appear around his cheeks and then a burst of lightning spread out from his body and zapped them.

ZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!!

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!!" screamed both the rebels, and they fell over and passed out from the strong voltage.

Snake saw it from his hiding place and thus quickly ran up to him and checked to make sure that the rebels were out cold. "You did a great job," Snake said to the Pokemon.

"Yippee!" Pichu cheered to himself.

"Okay, let's get going," Snake said, and they both went through the door.

Then one of the rebels looked up and said, "Huh? Didn't the building exploded? Where are the ruins?"

-

Somewhere else at Outer Heaven, Wario and Mario quietly sneaked through the place using the help of empty wooden crates. Whenever a rebel turned to look at them, they quickly stopped moving, and using this method, they were able to avoid getting caught and they made their way to a building safely. Something tells me that these rebels aren't the brightest of the bunch to figure out why a crate would be lying out in the blue.

The two of them traveled along the building walls and made their way to the back of it, where there was nobody. Seeing that the coast is clear, Mario and Wario came out from their disguises and began to look for a way into the building, but they couldn't find anything. "There eez no way in…" Mario said.

"We'll make one ourselves then!" Wario said as he rolled up his sleeves to ready to do some destruction.

"No, that-a would cause people to notice us! I'll get-a information from da codec," Mario told him, and he dialed into his codec. Yes, everyone is carrying a codec and not only Snake. "Hello? Eri? It's-a me, Mario!"

"This is Eri calling back," said the voice in the codec. "What's up?"

"We are outside a building but-a we do not-a know how to get-a inside. Da only door eez heavily guarded by soldiers."

"Sorry, I don't speak Italian…"

"But-a I'm not-a speaking Italian!"

"Wait a minute…" Then Eri's voice turned softer as she talked outside of the codec. "Fio, can you speak with him? He has a really heavy Italian accent and I can't make out what he is saying…"

"I'll give it a try," said another female voice.

Mario continued to listen to the codec until the new voice talked to him in Italian, "Ciao? Come posso aiutarvi?"

"Vorrei solo sapere se ci sono possibilità di inserire l'edificio in quanto la porta è fortemente custodito," Mario replied.

"Si prega di attendere ..." Then Fio could be heard talking to Eri off of the codec. "He wants to ask on how to enter the building without using the door."

"If there are no windows around there, then the best method would be to go through the air vent," Eri replied. "Ask him if he saw any there."

"Excuse me… You don't need to speak-a Italian…" Mario said.

"Sorry about that, but Eri couldn't understand the way you speak with your heavy Italian accent. Anyway, do you see any air vents there?"

Mario looked around and found an opening just above where he and Wario were standing. "Yes, I see one!"

"I think Eri is suggesting that you take the air vent to go inside."

"Check the size first, because air vents are not built for everybody to go in. Unless they have a small enough body, they won't be able to fit through it," Eri's voice said.

Then Tarma's voice could be heard in the distance within the codec. "That's not entirely true. Remember the last time we were infiltrating the rebels' facility and you tried entering through the air vent after you claimed that with your womanly figure, you have no problem fitting through it? Guess what? We saw a hilarious sight of you kicking your legs like crazy and crying for help get free instead! We took like almost thirty minutes before we finally pulled you out!"

"Don't bring up that matter again!" Eri's voice shouted, and she sounds angry and embarrassed.

"Okey-dokey, I get-a da point…" Mario said. "Thank you very much…" And he ended the call.

"So do you want to go in from there?" Wario asked, and he was picking his nose out of boredom.

Mario looked up at the air vent and observed its size. The size of the air vent wasn't all that big, but after comparing his own body to it, it seems possible for him to fit in, but then he looked Wario and thought about this. "Hmmm…"

-

At another building, a lone rebel was standing in front of its door. As he was standing there, Captain Falcon appeared and walked up to him and tapped him in the shoulder. The rebel saw him and jumped back a bit before pointing his gun at him. "Hey! Who are you?"

"Call your mates," CF said to him.

There happened to be two more rebels standing nearby, and when they saw this, they both ran over to get CF.

CRASH POW BANG!!

Now those three rebels were lying unconscious on the ground as CF dusted his hands. "All done!" he said.

Samus came out from around the corner and said to him, "You just had to beat up someone, didn't you?"

"How else are we going to get inside? C'mon, let's go!" And they headed through the door.

"Sooner or later they're gonna report to the others about this…"

-

Yoshi and Pikachu looked out from behind a tall pile of crates and saw a spotlight shining around the ground before them. "We can't let that spotlight see us…" Pikachu said.

"I know, so let us destroy that spotlight first," Yoshi suggested.

"How?"

"Why don't you shock it with your attacks?"

"But I'm afraid that we'll cause a ruckus…"

"They shouldn't be able to see us in the dark. Just try it."

"Okay…" Pikachu gathered electricity to his cheeks and shot out a beam that struck the spotlight, and the light immediately burst and went out.

The rebel who was maintaining the spotlight was shocked by this sudden happening and cried, "The spotlight blew up!"

"Now's our chance!" Yoshi said, and they both quickly ran past the spotlight tower, but then a beam of light shined down on them unexpectedly. "Yoshi?"

"Hey! What's a dinosaur doing there?!" the rebel at the top shouted. Apparently, he got out his own flashlight to use it as a substitute, and they just had the bad timing they get spotted by him. "There's a dinosaur here!"

His shouting raised the attentions of the rebels in the surrounding area, and they all ran over to Yoshi and Pikachu and pointed their guns at him.

Marth and Pit happened to be standing nearby, behind a truck, to be precise. "Oh no! Mr. Yoshi and Mr. Pikachu are in danger!" Pit gasped.

"We'll have to help them!" Marth thought as he readied to take out his sword.

"Oh no… I told you it wouldn't be a good idea…" Pikachu cried.

"My bad…" Yoshi said in shame. "Looks like we'll have to fight our way through this, and it's time for support from the eleventh person!" Yoshi reached to a Pokeball that was hanging around his neck like a necklace, pulled it off, and tossed the ball into the air. "Come out, son!"

The Pokeball opened up in midair and Lucario came bursting out, and then he landed a flying kick into one of the rebels' face and knocked him out. The other rebels quickly pointed their guns to him, but Lucario dashed at the rebels fast and palm thrust one in the body and caused him to fly back and ram down the others. Another rebel behind him fired his gun, and Lucario turned around and brought up his hand, and when the bullet hit the spike n the back of his hand, the bullet bounced away, and then he punched the rebel in the face.

The rebel on top of the spotlight tower quickly reached for a mounted gun and began firing down at them. The trio ran underneath the tower to avoid getting shot. As the rebel looked down the tower to find them, Lucario's head popped out from the entrance on the floor and he gave the rebel a kick to the butt and made him keel over in pain. After that, Lucario went back down to meet up with the other two. "The enemies have been taken down, father," he reported.

"Good job, son!" Yoshi said to him. "In order to lower the chances of us getting spotted, you'll have to stay inside the Pokeball." Yoshi got out the Pokeball again and Lucario was pulled inside, and he tied it around his neck again.

"Phew… I'm glad that we got through this alive…" Pikachu said with a sigh.

"Come on; let's get going!" Yoshi said as he led the way.

"Looks like they handled everything themselves," Marth said from his hiding place.

"Thanks the goddess…" Pit said.

"All right; let's get moving too."

-

Snake and Pichu continued traveling around inside the building they were in. They crept around carefully and made sure that no one saw them. As Snake was tiptoeing quietly, his codec gave off a signal and quickly returned the call. "This is Snake."

"Hello? Can anyone hear me? Please respond! I need help!" said the voice.

"Who are you?"

"You can hear me? Great! I've been trying to contact someone for a long time, but to no avail!"

"Who are you?"

"I'm a prisoner captured by the rebels and am stripped of all weaponries! I only have my codec, and I'm trying to contact someone by hacking into the signal. I'm glad that someone finally answered!"

"So you are a prisoner? Where are you?"

"I'm in Building E! I am imprisoned on the second floor!"

Snake looked around the place and saw a sign on the wall that writes, "Building E."

"That's a coincidence; I'm in the same building as you too."

"Thanks goodness! Please help me!"

"Okay, just sit still and wait for me to come and rescue you. Over!" And Snake ended the call.

"Who was it?" Pichu asked him.

"No idea, but he seems to be captured by the rebels and need our help. Let's get going to the second floor."

They ran to the nearest staircase and made it to the second floor with ease. They looked around and made sure that there were no guards, and then they quietly went through the hallway and looked into each door, which all appear to be prison cells.

After looking through every door and finding nobody, Snake saw one with someone inside. "Hey, are you the one that contacted me with the codec?" he asked.

The man looked up and ran up to the door to greet Snake. "You must be the one that responded to me too! Please help me out!"

When Snake saw the person, something came to him. The person had whitish hair and he looked about the same age as him, or perhaps a year different or something. Snake suddenly had the feeling that he met him before. The person also took a good look at Snake and then said, "Wait a minute… Is that you, Snake?"

"You know me?" Snake asked. "Wait a minute… Looking at you… Can you be… Gray Fox?!"

"Snake! Long time no see!" the man said with joy. "How long has it been?"

"Gray Fox?! It really is you?!" Snake gasped in shock.

"It really is me, Snake! The same person that grew up alongside you back in Great Tech City!"

"So it's you, Gray Fox! I didn't expect to see you here! I'll get you out first and we'll talk later!" Snake checked out the door and found no way to open it without a key. "Looks like I'll have to destroy the door."

"Wouldn't that grab people's attention?" Pichu asked.

"No other choice, so let's pray nothing wrong happens. Gray Fox, you stay back." Snake then got out his transforming gun and turned it into a bazooka, and he backed off as far as he could and aimed at the door and fired at it. The bazooka shell struck the door and blew it up.

BAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG!!

The method was a success as the door crumbled into pieces, and Gray Fox stepped out and ran to Snake. "Thank you for helping me, Snake!"

"Gray Fox! How come you are over here?" Snake asked him.

"A friend of yours?" Pichu asked Snake.

"Yeah, we knew each other when we were teens back in Great Tech City. He was the only person that was the nicest to me, besides Worker Hand of course. But one day when the government was looking for volunteers to join the army, Gray Fox volunteered himself, and thus we parted ways ever since and I never saw him again… until now."

"It's really been a long time, Snake! You changed quite a bit!" Gray Fox said to him, patting him on the shoulder.

"So what are you doing here?" Snake asked him.

"Actually… I came with Big Boss to take down the rebels. Believe it or not, I am actually training under Big Boss!"

"That's a first to hear. To be able to train underneath a great soldier is something to be proud of!"

"Yeah, Big Boss is perhaps the greatest man I've ever met in my life! He is a perfect role model for me!"

"Speaking of him, where is Big Boss? Did he not come to stop the rebels?"

"Unfortunately, we underestimated the rebels too much, and both of us were ambushed and overpowered by them. I was locked up here and Big Boss was taken somewhere else, and I never saw him again. So I have no idea where he is."

"I see…"

"But we are able to gather some stuff regarding this place, so I may have a slight idea on where he is."

"Good; I and my friends were sent by the government to take your place, so it would be good if you can help us."

"You know, I find his name to be somewhat strange," Pichu said to Snake. "But I guess it's the species difference that makes his name sound cooler than Fox's."

-

Back in Smash Mansion, all the Smashers were sleeping, except for Fox, who was having problems falling asleep on his bed. "Shouldn't have eaten too fast during dinner," he thought. All of a sudden, he felt a sick feeling up his mouth, and when he couldn't handle it any longer, he let loose a huge burp. "BURP!!"

The burp was so loud that a lot of gas was released from his mouth, and the smell was so strong that Falco smelled it from his bed and he shot up and gasped for air and even fell off his bed. "GAAAAAA!! WHAT'S THAT SMELL?!" he screamed.

"Sorry… I had a sudden feeling that someone was making fun of my name…"

"Then shouldn't you be sneezing instead?!"

TO BE CONTINUED

The Italian was done using Google Translator in case you're curious.