Chapter Five: The Space Dogfight Part II
Fox and Falco rolled in opposite directions as Ridley lunged at the two pilots with its claws. They started shooting repeatedly at the dragon as it made a sharp turn upwards, barely managing to dodge the charred wall it blasted. The three were battling on the back end of the Great Fox. Ridley soared off and made a quick U-turn to hit them head on.
"Fire!" they both yelled as they caught flames and flew upwards, watching the beast fly right below them. Ridley descended from above and hovered at the end of the white ship. Fox and Falco took advantage of the opportunity and began smacking Ridley around with their aerial strikes, not even making him flinch.
"You are weak!" he shouted as he swung his arm and smacked Falco into the charred wall. He then spun around and whipped Fox with his tail, him too slamming into the wall. He dove at the two and snatched them up, returning to his hovering spot. "If only you knew what I'm gonna do to..." The three then got confused as they heard a faint rock anthem. They stopped what they were doing and just listened to the music. It seemed to be getting louder and louder. After the realization hit them, Fox and Falco turned to each other and smirked. "What's happening? Why are you smiling?" The music was now at full blast and they heard a latch being opened and heard a man screaming. Ridley turned his head around only to meet face to face with a huge bulky man with his fist on fire coming straight for him.
"Falcon... PUANCH!"
Ridley let out a screech that could shatter glass as he dropped the two Star Fox members to cover his previously bashed in face with his hands and flew back into the charred wall. Captain Falcon skidded to a stop as he leaned out on his front leg with his arms straight out. Fox and Falco ran over to the frozen captain, gun in hand.
"Hey, uh... Falcon? You ok?" Fox asked as his eyes darted from Captain Falcon to Ridley quickly. The four stayed in their positions for a few seconds, not moving a muscle, excluding Ridley's occasional groan. He was in fetal position on his side and finally began to sit up. Falcon suddenly leaped out of his position and did a flip and swung his right leg around and smacked Ridley's face, knocking him over again. Cap then landed on the limp body and jumped to do a 360 backflip to join the fellow smashers again. Ridley let out another groan, now rubbing the side of his head. Captain Falcon turned around to look at the two animals with a smirk on his face.
"That's how you show your moves, boys," he said with a cocky attitude. Out of nowhere, Ridley's tail whipped out past Falcon and wrapped around Fox, his arms being squished to his body. He managed to hold onto his blaster thankfully, but Ridley took off above the Great Fox, looking down on the two Brawlers still on board.
"See you around, suckers," he said, laughing, and flew off at a fast pace. Falco watched Ridley fly off as Captain Falcon pushed buttons on his wrist. He, too, looked up and watched. Falco jumped back out of surprise as the Falcon Flyer slammed into Ridley, knocking him off course. The Falcon Flyer then came back and Falcon hopped in as it never hesitated to stop.
"Oh, c'mon, dude, that's not even cool," Falco said as he ran inside the Great Fox. He soon came out and waited for about a minute, arms crossed. His Arwing suddenly flew by and Falco jumped in.
A whistle blew and a bunch of the rainbow colored creatures surrounded the small astronaut. He picked up a yellow one and launched it out of his hand at Meta Ridley. It was suddenly slashed away by Meta Ridley's claws and turned into a yellow ghost. The astronaut ran over to the stationary dragon and jumped at it, only to get swatted back down. He hit the ground on his back with a thud and laid there, too breathless to get up. The small creatures then ran at their enemy to avenge the astronaut. Fire charged up in the dragons mouth and a blast shot from it, blowing some of the creatures to bits. A white one ran to a fat, purple one and jumped on its hands, latching onto the beast with its teeth. Venom ejected from its mouth and inserted into Meta Ridley's right shoulder. With a flick, the creature was turned into a white ghost.
"Is that all you got?!" Meta Ridley yelled, chuckling. He then favored his right shoulder. "Ahh..." He then stopped flapping his wings and landed on the ship on one knee. Lasers flew past the dragon and he looked at where they came from. An orange ship was coming right for him. He managed to flop on the ground, the ship flying right over him. As the ship soared over him, an armored figure dropped from it. She landed between Meta Ridley and the down astronaut with her left hand on the ground and her gun-for-an-arm behind her.
"Meta Ridley..." the genderless voice said, facing Meta Ridley and staring at the ground. "I've finally found you."
"I can say the same to you, Samus..."
"What?"
A grin crossed the space pirate's face as he lunged at Samus with his left fist and connected with her stomach. She shot past the astronaut and skidded to a stop on her back. She stood up, now noticing the astronaut.
"Olimar? What have you done to Olimar?!" she shrieked angrily.
"The same thing I'm gonna do to you! Ah!" he gripped his shoulder again and fell back onto his knee. Now that she found an opportunity, Samus shot a missile aimed for Meta Ridley. It hit his shoulder and exploded, awakening Olimar with a yelp.
"Huh? What's going on?" he sat up, looking around. Samus sprinted to him and stopped where he was at. "Samus? Is that you?"
"C'mon, it's time to beat some Meta tail!"
"What'd he ever do to you?"
"What do you mean?"
"Meta Knight didn't do anything to you! Why are you trying to hurt him?! I oughtta..."
"No, I mean Meta Rid-" Samus got blasted by a huge fireball and flew backwards, stopping right before she fell off the ship.
"Ohh, you meant Meta Rid- GAH!" he too got blasted and flew backwards to where Samus was laying. The remaining rainbow creatures attacked Meta Ridley again, this time doing some damage. He was getting electrocuted, ignited, and poisoned all the while grasping his right shoulder.
"Enough!" he screamed, "My plan has already worked I'm outta here!" He flew limply to the two smashers laying on the ground and snatched up Samus. Olimar managed to stand up and looked to the direction Meta Ridley flew.
"No... WOAH!" he jumped back as he saw Ridley slam into Meta Ridley, knocking them both off course. The Falcon Flyer flew past Olimar and picked him up. "Captain Falcon? Is that you? I can't believe this!"
"The one and only," he said with a smirk. Olimar was now in the passenger's seat, too small to see the action through the windshield.
"What's goin' on out there? I can't see!"
"Falco's in hot pursuit to get Fox from Ridley in his Arwing and we're chasing down Meta Ridley to get Samus." A red version of an Arwing came into view to Falcon. "Oh, crap, someone else is here to play..."
"Who?! WHO?! TELL ME!"
"Wolf... I always hated that guy..."
The red Arwing shot an abundance of lasers at Falco, him having to do numerous barrel-rolls to dodge, all the while chasing down Ridley.
"He can't do this alone!" Captain Falcon slammed his fists down on the dash, putting two dents in them. "I'm sorry, my love," Falcon made a sharp turn and headed towards the red Arwing, letting Meta Ridley flee the scene.
"Your love?"
"Did I say that out loud?"
"Well, I mean, it's hard to miss."
"Okay, fine, I like the bounty huntress. As in, like-like."
"Yeah, I can see that."
"Just let me focus okay?"
"Whatever."
A codec opened and Wolf's face showed up. "Hello, my dear friend."
"How'd I know you were behind all this?"
"Maybe because I told you? Anyways, listen. Just let the harmless Ridley go and no one will get hurt."
"Okay, first of all, he's not harmless, he's a killing machine. Second, I'm pretty sure Fox is gonna get hurt because why would you take him? And third, it's pretty sad that you need someone else to fight your battles for you. How'd you get two of them anyways? They're the same person."
"It's called cloning, you idiot. Now, prepare to die, you waste of nature!"
"I don't plan on dying anytime soon. Now if you excuse me, I'm gonna get Fox back."
"And how how are you going to do that, exactly?"
"Like this," a smirk crossed Falco's face and Wolf got confused.
"You didn't even do any- AHH!" the Falcon Flyer rammed into Wolf's ship and sent him tumbling. Wolf managed to stop spinning and got control over his Wolfen. "Grr..." he shot Falco's Arwing head on unexpectedly. Falco ejected from his smoking vehicle and landed inside an opened Falcon Flyer, and not a moment too soon. The Arwing exploded to bits as the trio watched from inside the Falcon Flyer. Well, except for Olimar that is. The Falcon Flyer took multiple hits from Wolf.
"Get outta here Falcon. Face it, we lost."
"Captain Falcon never looses!" The machine took even more hits.
"Falcon, get outta here before we die! We will get them back, just not right now."
A red light flashed from within the Falcon Flyer and "WARNING!" showed up on the windshield.
"Fine..." they flew off, not daring to go back into the fray.
"Looks like I'm the winner, now, Fox..."
A/N: Yes, finally finished! Well, there's the second part. It's longer than I thought it would be. If you haven't noticed already I have a little pattern of who's getting captured with the exception of a really important character. What's the point in making a captured character the most important one? Anyways, the pattern has nothing to do with their placement on the player select screen. Please review, follow, or favorite! Or all three! I'd prefer all three! But I'll enjoy if you do just one! Or two! You could do two! Just please, at least do one! Have a good MLK Weekend! That's all I have to say… DEUCES!