Melee Civil War
Chapter 4 – Falco, Bowser, C. Falcon v. Fox
By Pelican (Pelican_13@Yahoo.com)
Jigglypuff was alone in the charred lounge, sitting in a corner with her arms crossed. She still had the crown on her head. Fox entered the lounge, bound for the transporter room, but stopped in his tracks to survey the destruction.
"What happened here?" asked Fox.
"Jigglypuff! Jiggly jiggly jigglypuff!" Jigglypuff replied, angrily pointing at Fox.
"Calm down, I didn't know it was like that." Fox walked off into the teleporter room wondering what Jigglypuff was upset about, what practically destroyed the lounge, and if he could survive fighting three others.
Jigglypuff continued her pout as more superstars entered the room. Captain Falcon walked in being followed by Bowser and Falco Lombardi, whose wing was still in a cast. They also stopped to look at the devastation of the popular room.
"Who did this?" Captain Falcon said looking around the room.
"Jigglypuff, did you do all this?" Falco asked. Jigglypuff didn't even acknowledge their presence.
"We don't have time for this," Bowser cut in, "We have to get to that match."
Falco, Bowser, and Captain Falcon entered the transporter room, where Fox was already prepared for the match.
"Well if it isn't the great Fox McCloud," said Falco arrogantly.
"Falco?" replied Fox, "I'm surprised you actually showed up."
"Enough fighting!" interrupted a man behind a computer console. He looked more like a scientist in a white lab coat. Most of his body was behind a console. The four fighters gave him their attention. "Get on the teleporters and we can start this match."
The four complied and stepped onto their disc-like teleporters. Fox was on the far-left from the man at the console's point of view. Captain Falcon was next to him followed by Bowser and the impaired Falco was on the far right.
"This is a three-on-one stamina match. No items," the man reported. He hit a button on his console and a flash of light arose from each of the discs. When the light diminished all contestants had disappeared.
Aboard a smaller impersonation of the Star Fox team's mother ship, the Great Fox, flying around Corneria City, the four fighters appeared on their metal discs. Fox was on the far left, near the head of the Great Fox. Falco was the farthest from Fox, on the tail of the ship. The timer counted down to 0 and the announcer boomed, "GO!"
All combatants dropped from their discs and took their stances. Captain Falcon and Bowser blindly charged Fox, attempting to overwhelm him from the start. Fox had fast enough reflexes and jumped over Captain Falcon's attempted shoulder ram. In mid-air Fox got a good view of Bowser below and attempted a sideways kick to catch him off guard. However, in the charge Bowser was not completely off guard and was able to block Fox's offensive.
Falco still stood in the place where he had started. Captain Falcon and Bowser shouldn't have much trouble doing the fighting without him and besides, with a broken wing he wouldn't be of much help. Captain Falcon turned around after missing Fox with a strong attack to see him land after an attempted hit on Bowser. Falcon took advantage of his opportunity and used a Falcon Kick. He put his right foot was forward and slid along the surface of the ship in an inferno and it hit Fox from behind with complete surprise.
Fox was sent forward and aflame after suffering a Falcon Kick. He quickly recovered but Bowser had a plan of offensive of his own. He turned around and swooped a Koopa Klaw attack. He caught Fox and dealt some damage, but before he could execute more on the attack Fox broke free of the hold. Fox managed an Illusion attack to retreat towards to the middle of the ship, much to the dismay of Captain Falcon and Bowser.
Bowser and Falcon then stood about halfway between the head of the ship and where the tail began. Fox stood where the tail began its incline and Falco stood at the tip of the tail. Fox reached for his gun and drew it rather quickly. He took a moment to aim it at Bowser and Captain Falcon and began rapidly firing. Bowser was the one to take the hits but after being barely fazed by the first three he managed to block the oncoming wave of laser shots. Captain Falcon sprung into action and charged forward, taking a few quick laser shots that failed to stop his advance. Fox had no time to react and was caught by the shoulder of Falcon.
McCloud was sent backwards in mid-air by the force of Falcon's impact. Falco was quick to get involved in the match. While Fox was flying past Falco, Falco managed to connect with a weak punch, altering Fox's trajectory. Fox didn't expect to be hit by Falco, of all people, and was caught off guard. While the weak punch took his momentum to zero and left him standing, he wasn't prepared for another weak punch by Falco. Again, Fox was caught by surprise as Falco switched from punches to a barrage of fancy footwork. He connected with multiple kicks.
Bowser moved at his maximum speed towards the Star Fox fray, hoping to assist Falco. Bowser stopped behind Fox and uses a devastating smash attack. Falco did not interfere with Fox's unwanted flight path this time and let Fox go off the edge of the tail of the ship. He landed with a thud on the lower deck of the ship, near the main engine. Captain Falcon and Bowser walked to the end of the command ship's tail and jumped to the flight deck. Fox slowly managed to get back to his feet as Bowser and Captain Falcon landed nearby.
Captain Falcon, wanting to extract more revenge for being hit over the head with a chair, charged towards Fox once again. Fox this time was able to prepare for the oncoming attack and trusted all his energy into a forward smash attack. His roundhouse kick connected on Captain Falcon's face. The impact flung Captain Falcon backwards, his back hit the tail of the ship and he fell to the ground. Bowser watched Falcon fly past him and then turned his attention back towards his opponent. Bowser began a brave charge for Fox while Falcon climbed to his feet.
Fox's preparation of Bowser's next attack wasn't good enough as Bowser used his strong attack and pounded Fox into the ground with, off all body parts, his face. Fox almost fell off the edge of the ship, but managed to grab the end of the engine. Bowser got a few steps closer to the edge to try to locate Fox. Fox pulled himself up with just the strength in his one arm and firmly kicked Bowser in the face. Bowser was sent back a little ways, not very far because of his great weight, and Fox stood on the edge of the ship. Fox quickly executed a Fox Illusion attack. Almost instantaneously he sped past the unsuspecting Captain Falcon and Bowser, knocking them off their feet, but as Fox looked up after performing his attack all confidence of him standing a chance in this match faded.
Falco was the one right in front of Fox, and before Fox could recover from using an illusion Falco connected with a swift upward smash attack. Fox was smashed above the level of the tail of the ship. He ascended a little further until gravity took hold and he reversed direction, falling back towards the lower deck of the ship. He landed hard and bounced up once. His body hit the floor once more after the bounce and he was knocked out.
"GAME!" the announcer proclaimed.
Back at the Melee headquarters' transporter room, the characters were brought back from the battle zone. Fox stumbled off his disc, still in a haze, and fell on the floor in one of the corners opposite from his transporter. Bowser, Captain Falcon, and Falco stepped off victoriously and congratulated each other.
"Nice hit," Captain Falcon sent this compliment to Falco.
"Yeah, but you guys did most of the work," Falco replied modestly.
"Hey guys," Bowser said, "how about we go and see what happened to the lounge?"
"Good idea," Captain Falcon replied and they all left. Fox remained against the edge of the wall near the lab coat man's console, watching the winning team leave.
The three victorious fighters entered the lounge to look more closely at the devastation. Just then, Pichu ran into the lounge and as fast as he came in left through the door leading to the teleporter room.
Captain Falcon examined the couch Luigi was once sitting on, "It's charred black, could it be a clue?"
"And look what I found," Falco replied, "pieces of wood."
Falcon narrowed his eyes. "Very funny," he said sarcastically.
Through one of the other doors Link, Peach, and Luigi entered.
"Hey," Link greeted.
"Yo," replied Falco.
"You guys know what happened here?" Bowser asked.
"It was-a Pichu," Luigi answered.
"We're fighting Pichu like right now," Link informed.
"Well good luck," Captain Falcon said. Link entered the transporter room first followed by Luigi and Peach. Pichu was already on his transporter in the far side of the room. Pichu didn't notice his three opponents enter as he was preoccupied looking at the beaten fox on the other side of the room.
"Are you all ready for the match?" the man behind the console asked. Pichu redirected his attention and noticed Link and the others.
"This is a stamina match with no items," the man informed. "Have you decided what stage to use?"
"Pichu!" Pichu said while jumping up and down, "Pichu pi pi!" The man just looked at Pichu confused.
"Well, how about one of you decide?" he said after turning back toward the team of three.
"Doesn't matter to me," Link stated.
"How about Mushroom Kingdom II?" Peach proposed.
"Very well," the man in a lab coat replied, "Please step onto the teleporters." The fighters did as they were instructed, each on a light-emitting teleporter. The unnamed man pressed a few buttons on his console and the light consumed the fighters, and they were gone.