Melee Civil War
Chapter 2 – A New Day
By Pelican (Pelican_13@Yahoo.com)
Kirby and Marth dropped from their platforms as the announcer said, "Go!" Kirby got the first hit in with a sideways mid-air kick. Kirby landed smoothly and Marth jumped back to his starting location, where Kirby was waiting with a smash attack. Marth had to jump to reach the ledge and hang on. Kirby saw a good opportunity to knock Marth off and dropped to the bottom platform, but as Marth was jumping back onto the main floor his sword hit Kirby head on. Kirby flew backwards but not very far as that was the first time he took damage. Marth jumped toward Kirby, trying to come up from below, but Kirby was ready. Kirby executed the splits and hit Marth with his left leg. Marth again was knocked off the right side of the arena. Kirby continued to dominate the match as crews at the scene taped it and a direct feed of the unedited version of the match was sent to the Melee HQ.
The lounge TV was on and the Nintendo heroes were actually watching, instead of arguing. Captain Falcon hadn't left his chair, nor had Bowser. Jigglypuff was sitting off to the side, still silent. Luigi was still on the side of the couch he stole from Zelda and Peach, and Fox had returned and was on the other side of the couch. The violence of the match didn't faze anyone in the room as Marth was smashed left and right. They had all been in matches far worse. For the most part, everyone was studying the fighting style of the pink puffball known as Kirby.
Not long after the match ended and Kirby was announced victorious with a score of one to zero. Kirby entered the lounge after having returned in his transporter platform. The lounge showed little enthusiasm in a two-minute match.
"Nice match, Kirby," Bowser said, not in any specific tone.
"Yeah," Captain Falcon agreed.
Kirby found a seat on the couch and sat. Not long later Marth stumbled out of the transporter room. He was rather dazed after being beaten left and right all over the Fountain of Dreams by Kirby. He got no acknowledgment from everyone in the room, so was the way when someone lost that badly.
As the day drew to a close and everyone had a fight or two the smashers began to clear out. Most everyone had to leave to their home worlds via the transporter room. On a usual date, Fox and Falco would have left for Great Fox together, but their fight continued. Marth and Roy would have left together if Marth wasn't still getting checked up after his pummeling at the hands of Kirby. With the increase in matches daily, relationships between the heroes were being tested, and many had already deteriorated.
The Melee fighters, bruised or sore, returned the next day. No one appeared in the mood to fight but plenty of early matches were scheduled. The only thing keeping the combatants to this routine was their sizable salary. The TV in the lounge was playing the edited version of yesterday's matches. Setting up the match for television usually took unseen production teams a few hours and the matches did not go on live, but the fans didn't seem to mind. The first match set was Mewtwo versus Peach versus Pikachu versus Link. Not surprisingly, the people in the first matches were unhappy because they had the shortest time to recover. Mewtwo, Peach, Pikachu, and Link were waiting in the transporter room for their match to start.
"Why do I always get the first match?" Link asked.
"Stop whining, at least you won your last match," Mewtwo replied.
"Pika pika chu pika pikachu!" Pikachu said suddenly.
"How can anyone understand him? All he can say is his name," Peach asked.
"Pikachu told Link to be thankful that he can use that sword in the fight," Mewtwo translated.
The transporter fields activated and the fighters were instantly in their battle zone, Yoshi's Island. On "GO" the transporter disks dematerialized and the battle was on. The four used mainly weak attacks at the beginning. Mewtwo and Link were dueling on the left while Peach and Pikachu were on the right. Link got a free moment and threw a boomerang, hitting Mewtwo at close quarters. While Mewtwo was falling to the ground, Link connected with a sword smash attack. Mewtwo flew backwards, hitting the green pipe and then slid up a ways.
Peach and Pikachu still used weak attacks, until Peach rolled behind Pikachu and connected with a golf club. Pikachu was sent off in the direction of Mewtwo at a great velocity. Pikachu's smacked up body crashed into Link, who momentarily fell. Link sprung to his feet and swiped the two fallen Pokémon with a smash attack. Both soared off the edge of the field. The match was a two stock contest, so both would return in time. Link watched in triumph as he eliminated two enemy's first stocks, but Peach decided to take advantage of the situation. She grabbed a Pokéball that has fallen by her feet and threw is at Link. The impact of the ball wasn't great but the impact of the Pokémon made him shoot straight up.
"Snorlax!" the Pokémon rumbled. The Snorlax made a jump for the sky to use a Body Slam attack, again connecting with Link. Link was flung high into the air, eliminating his first stock. Mewtwo and Pikachu had both returned and had decided to double team Peach. Peach gave Mewtwo an in-your-face smash with a tennis racket but Pikachu was there to capitalize and used his Thunder ability. Mewtwo recovered and floated towards Peach, Pikachu also approached Peach on the side of the battle zone. Link's disc had brought him back into the fight. Mewtwo charged up a smash attack for when Peach got up but Pikachu had another idea. Pikachu ran up to Peach and grabbed her. Pikachu threw Peach to the right and her first stock was instantly eliminated. Mewtwo's smash attack was released and it hit Pikachu with awesome psychic power. Pikachu was knocked just far enough to lose his last stock, Pikachu was eliminated.
Link picked up a Ray Gun from the far-left pipe, Mewtwo was standing on the slope at the right side, and Peach had just reentered the fight on her last stock. Mewtwo began to charge up a Shadow Ball attack as Peach and Link charged each other. Link used a strong attack, sticking his sword straight forward and getting a good hit in on Peach. Peach hit Link while getting back to her feet. Mewtwo fired his fully charged Shadow Ball in line with both Peach and Link. Peach jumped to avoid it but Link wasn't as ready and got hit hard by the ball of psychic energy. Peach charged the shaken Link and delivered one final hit with a frying pan. Link was knocked unconscious and off the edge of the area. Link had been defeated.
Peach landed safely on the blocks over the hole in the middle of the arena. Mewtwo gave Peach a cold stare, as if reading her mind and trying to determine her next move. Peach made a rather thoughtless move and charged Mewtwo. Mewtwo prepared a downward smash attack as he was on higher ground and released as Peach drew nearer. Peach however did have a plan. She jumped above the attack and gave Mewtwo a swift kick to his odd shaped head. Mewtwo fell and was knocked up the slope. Peach reacted before Mewtwo could recover and pulled out her golf club. Mewtwo managed to stand only to get hit hard with a club. He was knocked off the right side of the field.
"Game!" the announcer's voice boomed.
Peach, Pikachu, Link, and Mewtwo exited the teleporter room via the automatic doors and found a free couch in the lounge. Peach was extremely happy with herself after her unprecedented victory. Ness, Kirby, Captain Falcon, Fox, and Luigi were already sitting in the lounge just hanging out.
"Shadow Ball…painful," Link finally said, still in pain from the fully charged psychic attack.
"Well, if I couldn't hit Peach I would at least hit you," Mewtwo replied.
"Pika pika."
"What? Link can't stop it with his sword slashes?" Captain Falcon asked sarcastically.
"Man, Falcon, you just can't admit I'm better then you," Link replied.
"You have to use a sword," Captain Falcon argued, "I have a blaster and I don't use it, I'm more of a man than that."
"Not now guys," Peach cut in, "you are ruining my victory."
"Alright Miss Golf Club, Tennis Racket, AND Frying Pan," Link said.
"What?" protested Peach, "I just like sports."
"Football is a sport, basketball is a sport, tennis isn't," Captain Falcon replied.
"Racing isn't either," Ness snickered to himself just loud enough for everyone to hear.
"You know what I think?" asked Falcon, "I think – " Falcon's sentence was cut off by a sudden attack from behind with a wooden chair. Fox had grabbed a chair from the other side of the lounge and bashed it over Falcon's head, knocking him unconscious instantly. Fox looked at Falcon's body and the shattered chair proudly.
"What the hell was that for?" asked Mewtwo.
"I didn't like his blaster comment," replied Fox.
The fighters in the lounge just shrugged and continue talking. Falcon was getting annoying anyway.
"Alright, and I'll inform management you are going to be out of action," the unnamed nurse said.
"Thanks a lot," replied Falco. His right wing was in a cast held up in a cloth around his neck. Falco exited the infirmary, making sure to keep his wing inactive. He walked down the hallway towards the ever-popular lounge.
Fox and Ness faced off in the next match so they left together for the transporter room. A few moments later Falco entered with his cast broken wing. He noticed Captain Falcon covered in shards of wood taking up part of the couch.
"What happened to him?" Falco asked pointing to Falcon with his free wing.
"Fox hit him over the head with a chair," Luigi answered.
"Arg," Falco replied disgruntled, "That is it! Where is Fox anyway?"
"You would have done it to Captain Falcon if you were here. He said he was more of a man then to use a weapon in a match," Peach informed, "He was talking about his blaster. Much like the ones you and Fox use."
"Do not associate me with him!" Falco said angrily.
"Don't displace you anger on us!" Link replied.
"Right now Fox and Ness are in a stock melee, we can watch it if you want," Luigi said.
"Where is the remote?" Link asked.
"Pika pika!" Pikachu said pointing towards the floor in front of the big screen TV.
"You get it," Link told Luigi.
"No way," Luigi replied, "Falco you get it."
"You guys are supposed to do stuff for me," Falco replied, "I have a broken wing."
"Shut up, I'll get it!" Mewtwo told everyone conscious in the room psychically. With that Mewtwo lifted the remote using his psychic pokémon abilities and turned on the TV. Currently Fox was dominating the match on Peach's Castle, the Mushroom Kingdom. Ness was on his last stock while Fox had three remaining.
"Fox is a-winning," Luigi announced.
"Really?" Link asked sarcastically.
Bowser entered the room in time to see the ending of the match on the big screen. Fox used his illusion attack to throw Ness off his feet then caught him with an upward smash attack. Ness was knocked well above the castle and was eliminated. Fox was victorious.
"Hmm, I wonder if Fox is still up for that rematch," Bowser said to himself.
"That ungrateful…" Falco said to himself, most likely he was thinking the rest of his sentence in his head.
Captain Falcon slowly regained consciousness after being hit over the head with a wooden chair. "Who hit me?" he mumbled to himself, "Someone's going to pay!"
Bowser, Falco, and Captain Falcon focused towards the transporter room waiting for Fox to exit. A few moments later Fox swaggered out of the transporter room, happy with his win over Ness.
"You're going down, McCloud!" Bowser, Falco, and Captain Falcon said in unison pointing at Fox.
"What the heck?" Fox replied in a confused tone.
"Well I'm outta here," Luigi said and promptly left. He was followed closely by everyone else in the room except Fox, Falco, Bowser, and Captain Falcon. Once all had cleared the room the fight commenced.
"I want to take that offer for a rematch," Bowser said dogmatically.
"I'm going to get you for hitting me over the head with a chair!" Captain Falcon added.
"I'm just pissed!" Falco said in indignation.
The three angry superstars had cornered Fox into a corner of the room, awaiting his reply.
"You guys want to fight me!?" Fox asked in a boisterous rage, "Pick the time and place!"
"That we can do!" Falco replied, pointing with his good wing at Fox.
"How about one hour, you pick the place?" Bowser suggested.
"Corneria," Fox replied.
"Then it's settled, you fall in one hour!" Falcon threatened. With that Falcon, Boswer, and Falco departed leaving Fox alone in the lounge to think. Did he really want to fight his old friend, Falco, and some of his newer colleagues under such irritable conditions? He shrugged to himself and walked on, leaving the lounge room empty.