Hack: Another Chapter down. Not much to say. Half of it is just to get the story going. I think people will be pleased with where this is going…

Enjoy!

Chapter 25: Even More Intense Racing!

Captain Falcon smirked as he prepared himself for the second race of the Grand Prix, with Jigglypuff sitting on his shoulder. It was an hour left until the racers had to get back in their cars.

"I can't believe we actually qualified…" said Jigglypuff.

"Yeah, what damn luck. I'm kinda glad that servant dude killed another racer. He killed twenty four racers, leaving eight racers left including us. Because we were in the top half, we qualify by default," Falcon explained.

Falcon was sitting on a comfy bench in the main lobby, waiting for the next race to begin. Rather than being five races, there would only be four left because three quarters of the racers had their cars destroyed. He looked at the eight racers still remaining in the next GP race.

"…Mostly people I know. Good thing Black Shadow and Blood Falcon are still on the list…" Falcon murmured to himself. "Damn it, Samurai Goroh's on there, he's starting to become no joke… Jody Summer, one of the best racers… And of course I'm there too. Jack Levin, and… That servant dude. It says Zoda…"

I swear, Zoda turned his back on Black Shadow long time ago. Why is he on his side now? Is he being mind controlled?

"Falcon, are you okay?" Jigglypuff asked.

Falcon's mind snapped back to reality. "Yeah, I'm fine Jiggly. Just thinking to myself."

Samurai Goroh walked past Falcon, smirking at him. "You lucked off you bastard," he said, giving Falcon the middle finger. "This time, you're mine."

"Heh, look who's talking," Falcon replied, returning the glare.

"Hmph!" Samurai Goroh walked off to the car hold, getting his car ready.

"Here is your room," one of the butlers said as he lead Ash, Pikachu, Brock, and Misty into a hotel room. "Push the button here for service if you need us. Have a nice day." He closed the door, leaving the four in the room. Ash walked up to the large window and closed the curtains after quickly viewing the nice scenery of the entire Saffron City. He took out a pokeball and opened it, sending Fox out of it.

"We're here, Fox!" said Ash.

"Damn, that ball was uncomfortable, but it could've been worse," he said, stretching his legs and arms.

"What is it like?" Brock asked. Ash, Pikachu, and Misty leaned in to listen, obviously interested.

"You're just stuck inside a really small white sphere, squeezed in. But you can see and hear everything that's happening outside," Fox explained.

"Phew! I'm glad I never went in a pokeball before!" said Pikachu, sighing.

There were several loud stomach growls from the three humans and the pokemon. "Geez, I'm starving!" said Brock.

"We should go out and eat then," Misty replied. Pikachu smiled cutely.

"Okay! Fox, you can stay here right?" said Ash.

"Of course," Fox replied.

"I'll stay here then," said Pikachu, jumping on Fox's shoulder.

"…You want to stay here?" Ash asked. Pikachu nodded.

"All right, we're going out now. See ya! Behave, Pikachu!" The three pokemon trainers walked out of the door and closed it, leaving Fox and Pikachu alone.

"So…" Pikachu started. "Have any idea what the four others are doing?"

Fox shook his head. "Nope, I have no damn idea. Hopefully they took out another Ring of Darkness member by now, that would be sweet. Anyone here that might be affiliated with Mewtwo?" he asked.

"Well Giovanni used to be Mewtwo's trainer, but Mewtwo grew so powerful that Giovanni couldn't control him. Eventually, Mewtwo left his trainer and Giovanni was nowhere to be seen."

"…ouch. Must be tough to be ditched ever since giving your pokemon all that care."

"Nah, Giovanni was an asshole. He never cared for his pokemon. He only used them to gain power."

"…oh."

"He's the leader of a group called Team Rocket, and the members of Team Rocket create inventions to control pokemon, and also steal powerful pokemon from other trainers. Jesse, James, and their Meowth have been trying to steal me for years since I'm supposedly super powerful," Pikachu explained.

"Well of course you are, you're the main pokemon of the main trainer hero," Fox replied.

"Heh… I guess so."

"So know anything about Mewtwo in the pokemon world? I know he's psychic and some of his moves, but…"

Pikachu shook his head. "What he uses in the smash community is NOTHING compared to what he can do in Kanto. He is the most powerful pokemon in Kanto, guaranteed."

"But we should be able to beat him if we team up."

"Maybe, if we strike his weakness. He's a psychic type pokemon with insane special attack and defense, so we have to hit him hard with dark, bug, or ghost type attacks."

"…what? I'm not a pokemon."

"Well if you have any sort of attacks that are darkish, use them since they'll be effective."

"Ah well. But he has Ren Kiu."

"Oh. Right. I have no idea what he can do with Ren… Kuo? I never even heard of it until you told me the entire story."

"Well I faced Metaknight's Ren Kiu. He almost killed me in a second. His power is insane."

"Yeah, you told me."

"That's a hint of what we're up against in the near future."

"We…?"

"I meant me, Luigi, Jigglypuff, Captain Falcon, and Samus."

"Ah. Well I'm a little hungry, so I'm going to get some ketchup in the kitchen to drink."

"You drink ketchup?"

"Shut up!" Pikachu snapped at Fox before walking off. Fox shrugged it off as he lay his body on the sofa, putting his head on his crossed arms. In a few minutes, he went to a deep sleep, silently snoring.

"What the hell is that ship doing? For goodness sake, there's a huge ass missile coming towards it! The pilot must be such an idiot!"

"I don't know why, that ship looks kinda familiar to me…"

"I sense faint life patterns… The pilot's sleeping?"

"Wow, the pilot of that ship really has to be an idiot. A lot worse than Slippy, and that's saying something."

"Shut up, Falco!"

"Both of you, be quiet!"

"You shouldn't even be flying an Arwing, Krystal! You're pregnant for crying out loud!"

BOOM

The missile finally exploded, with the orange ship nowhere in sight. The three Starfox pilots gasped.

"Great, we couldn't save another ship," said Falco.

"It's your fault you started the huge argument!" Slippy retorted.

"It wouldn't really matter at all since you didn't really need to save me," said Samus as she appeared on the intercom.

"Phew…" All three Starfox pilots said simultaneously.

Samus's ship appeared in the middle of the three Arwings. "What are you three doing out here anyways?"

Falco shrugged. "Just chilling out and helping my two fellow teammates to get better by using my sexy piloting skills!"

"…I'll pretend I didn't hear that," said Slippy.

"Same," Krystal added.

"Bah, whatever. What were you doing, Samus? Were you taking a nap or something?"

"…Shut up."

"Ah ha! I was right! Always have one person awake on the ship! Is there anyone else on there?"

"Just Luigi, who's also sleeping."

"As I thought! You're piloting skills don't match up with mine!"

"…Is that a challenged?" Samus asked, giving Falco a glare through the intercom.

"I suppose it may be!"

Slippy and Krystal sighed. "Krystal," Slippy started. "How many times now?"

Krystal took out a counter on her hand and pressed a button. "Hm… I think it's the 206th time this month."

"Really? I swear it was 211…"

"No, it's 206."

"But there was that one time you were sick…"

"Oh. Right." There was another click.

Back to Samus's and Falco's arguments.

"There's no way you can beat me!" said Falco. "I'll race you! Choose your destination!"

Samus smiled. "How about Kanto? It's a half day trip there if we race as fast as possible."

"Fine by me! Be prepared to be PWNED by the ace pilot of Starfox!"

There was a loud groan. "Samus," groaned Luigi. "How much longer?"

This time it was Samus who let out a groan. "Falco here challenged me to a galactic space race to Kanto. You fine by that?"

Luigi stretched his arms. "Fine by me, it'll probably get us there faster." He yawned and went to sleep… AGAIN.

"What are you going to do afterwards?" Slippy asked.

Falco grinned. "I guess I'll just stay with Samus and Luigi here for a while. It's been pretty boring without Fox."

"What?" Samus gasped.

"Got a problem with that? You're destination is Kanto, right? I lied about the reason why we're here."

"Damn right…" Slippy muttered under his breath.

"We're looking for Fox to catch up with him. Our sensors showed us that he's in Kanto right now, and apparently you guys are going there too."

"What a coincidence…" said Samus.

Falco smirked. "Yep. You two can just go back to base and chill out," he said to Slippy and Krystal.

"What? You can't order us around!"

"…I concur."

Falco frowned. "Okay, first of all, Krystal here shouldn't even be out of her room because of her little baby! And second, Slippy is just going to hold us back since you have absolutely NO experience on ground combat."

The two other pilots groaned. "Make sure you go back, okay?" Falco commanded. "Go!"

The two other Arwings flew off as Falco turned back to Samus.

"So aren't we going to get this race started?" said Samus.

"Of course. On my count… Three, two, one… GO!"

Samus's ship and Falco's Arwing sped off as fast as possible, leaving trails of light behind. Wonder who's going to win this galactic race…

Captain Falcon's car was positioned in the far back, behind the seven other cars, all ready for the next GP race.

"Get ready to see my sexy racing skills, Jiggly!" said Falcon.

"I already saw them…" Jigglypuff yawned. "And I'm not very impressed."

"Shush!"

"Three… Two… One… GO!" The announcer said. All eight racers sped forward at hundreds of kilometers per hour, Falcon slightly lagging behind the seventh racer.

KABOOM. A small white car was sent flying behind, almost hitting Falcon's car. Falcon steered the Blue Falcon out of the way as he witness James McCloud (not Fox's father) using the escape pod to escape from the explosion).

"Gotta get rid of Zoda… fast!" said Falcon as he heard another loud explosion from Zoda (that servant dude) slide attacking. A turquoise car was also sent flying back, striking the car directly in front of Falcon's car. Falcon drove to the left again, avoiding the crash.

"Five seconds… Three cars down already. Damn!"

Falcon spotted his target. A thin purple car was attempting to slide attack another blue car, who was doing well to evade it.

"I'm not stupid enough to fall for your tricks!" said Samurai Goroh as he boosted ahead to avoid Zoda's attacks. Falcon took his place, driving forward to follow Zoda from the side.

"You're fight's with me, bitch," said Falcon. Zoda hissed at him as Falcon gave another slide attack. "Jigglypuff, do it!"

"What?"

"Get into his car and beat the shit out of him!"

Falcon used another slide attack and there was the sound of glass shattering. Jigglypuff had broken into Zoda's car.

Falcon smiled as he drove next to Zoda's car. After three seconds…

REST

Zoda was sent flying out of the window as Jigglypuff quickly hopped back into Falcon's car. Zoda's car violently swerved to the side without a driver, exploding with collision on the track barrier.

"That was sweet!" Falcon complimented. Jigglypuff blushed.

There were only four cars left on the track and the first lap was over. Falcon was closing in on the third place racer, who was strangely Black Shadow.

"Nice seeing you on the racetrack again, Black Shadow," sneered Falcon.

"Pah… You'd do well to avoid me if you knew what powers I had."

"Sorry, overheard your conversation with Blood Falcon."

"…What? I'm going to kill that bastard…"

"Hey, I'm your enemy here," Falcon finished before giving Black Shadow's black car a fierce slide attack.

"Now is not the time to be racing now… I have other things to attend to now," said Black Shadow. Suddenly, on Falcon's intercom, Black Shadow teleported away from his seat! Without a driver, his car exploded after falling off of the track.

"Damn it… I knew I should've attacked him right there in the bathroom… But that would be pretty awkward," Falcon said to himself. The Blue Falcon finally caught up with both Samurai Goroh and Blood Falcon, who were both racing each other neck to neck.

"Yo, guys! What did I miss?" Falcon smirked.

"Peh! I guess you're not rusty anymore!" said Samurai Goroh as he slowed down to avoid a slide attack from Blood Falcon.

"You'd do well to avoid me," said Blood Falcon.

"Pfft, always the same thing… You guys always want to beat me in front of public just to show that I'm a bad racer."

"That never happened to you, you idiot!" said Samurai Goroh.

"And it definitely won't fucking happen right now!" Falcon replied, using a boost to speed past the two other racers.

Blood Falcon pushed his car sideways into Samurai Goroh's car, trapping him between the left track barrier and Blood Falcon's car. Before long, Samurai Goroh used his escape pod a second before his car exploded.

"Excellent… now to take care of my archenemy… My crude copy."

Blood Falcon used several boosts, taking all of the sharper turns without losing any speed, and quickly caught up with Captain Falcon.

"What the fuck!" said Captain Falcon as he saw Blood Falcon beside the Blue Falcon.

"I won't fucking let you go!" Blood Falcon screamed as he attempted to slide attack the Blue Falcon into the barrier. Captain Falcon quickly slowed down, leaving Blood Falcon to crash into the barrier.

"Sorry, but I'm still the better racer, bitch."

"You… bastard…" Blood Falcon drove directly in front of Captain Falcon and immediately came to a stop. Caught by surprise, Captain Falcon could only drive around Blood Falcon, so he made a sharp curve around Blood Falcon's right.

Suddenly, Blood Falcon's car dashed sideways into Captain Falcon's car, pushing him into the barrier! His car also accelerated to Captain Falcon's speed in less than half a second, continuously pushing him into the barrier.

"Shit… How does your car have such an insane acceleration?" said Captain Falcon.

"The Endowment of Exigency… Thanks to Black Shadow!"

"That's considered cheating, you bitch. Jiggly, go get that bastard."

Jigglypuff used a rollout through the window and into Blood Falcon's car, crashing in. She found herself in an enormous empty hemispherical room. Blood Falcon appeared at the doorway, smirking.

"I set my car to autodrive, so it'll keep Captain Falcon busy. You're that little pokemon runt, aren't you?"

Jigglypuff nodded. "Is it all the Endowment of Exigency?" she asked.

"Well I'm sure I'll get a promotion if I kill you right here! I am faster and more powerful than your friend, there is absolutely no way you can defeat me, especially since you can't match up to my damn speed." Blood Falcon disappeared, running around the room so fast that Jigglypuff shouldn't be able to see him.

Don't panic… He's just a more powerful Captain Falcon, and I know Captain Falcon. It's finally time to put my new abilities to the test… To see if my intense training wasn't a waste… "I think you'll find me more difficult to defeat than other enemies you faced," Jigglypuff started. "It's time to end this."