Teehee! My short little plot-arc-ending chapter. I kept last chapter's cliffhanger because I didn't want to put up an entire plot arc in one chapter. ^.^

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Fox's gun blazed as a mini leapt at him. The mini was knocked away to the wall. Fox fired again as three came at him. One was knocked away by his laser shot, another by Falco's as he leaped to his feet. So he was fine. Good.

There must have been a thousand of them, and more were arriving every second. The two moved closer together, standing back to back, firing shot after shot. More Minis were accumulating as fast as they could fire their weapons. They kicked off the creatures that climbed their legs, and knocked back others with their fists.

"Fox!" Falco said, twisting to fire at two that were jumping off of the machinery on to them. "How fast can you run right now?"

"Fast," said Fox. "I think."

"Then go. Run in circles, put on a show, whatever. Just don't let them catch you."

"Got it," said Fox, trusting Falco's plan. He leaped, with a flip he was out of the circle. Some of the minis turned to follow him, and he ran around, dodging the masses and shooting others to make them join the chase. Falco slipped out of their sight and crept up on the big one. With a burst of his gun, the large one was sent flying. Falco grabbed the key piece from where it sat.

"Fox!" he shouted. "C'mon! We've got to get out of here, now!"

Fox immediately ran for the door. Falco followed quickly. "Follow me," said Fox. "I know the way back to the portal."

The two raced down the hallways, straining their muscles in an attempt to get out of there in time. They ran as fast as they could, just barely scaping past corners. They heard the beep, beep, beep, of the bomb get louder and closer.

As they raced by it, Falco saw the time they had left. "One minute to get out of here," he said to Fox.

"Let's see what we can do with that," Fox panted. And they kept running.

The ship was a maze of hallways, and fear tightened Fox's chest. What if he chose the wrong way?

Soon enough, though, they reached the red door they had come out of. Fox flung it open and the two ran out - into the clear field.

"Close the doors!" Fox shouted.

Those nearby, Captain Falcon and Ness, helped to push the doors shut. When they were shut, Falco and Fox collapsed on the grass, panting hard.

"I don't think I've ever run that fast in my life," said Fox.

"And that's saying something," put in Captain Falcon, his voice laced with bitterness brought on by memory of the one time he had raced Fox. "you're ridiculously fast."

"That ship was about five seconds from exploding when we ran out of that door," said Falco.

"Oh," said Roy. "That doesn't sound good. What happened?"

"They were overrun by these tiny little creatures, and they abandoned ship and set a bomb to explode it. When we got there, the bomb was set for an hour and a half," said Fox. "But, we somehow managed to even get the key." He pulled his half from his pocket and tossed it to Falco, who put the two halves together like a puzzle piece. He then tossed it to Marth.

"I know we have got get moving and all, but mind giving us a few minutes to catch our breath?" Falco requested. The two sat there in the grass for a while, while their breathing slowed and their legs ceased to ache.

^^ I'm churning out chapters. That's because it's so much easier to just edit than actually write.

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