Melee Civil War
Chapter 5 – Versus Pichu and Versus Ganondorf
By Pelican (Pelican_13@Yahoo.com)
The four were instantly in the second Mushroom Kingdom battle stage. Pichu was on the far left while Link and Luigi were on the surface surrounded by a waterfall and Peach was on the far right. The announcer counted down to zero and the fighters dropped from their platforms.
Pichu was the first to make a move. He jumped down heedlessly to the platform occupied by Link and Luigi. In mid-air he used his Thunder ability. The lightning bolt from above missed him so he took no damage, but Link was conveniently in the lightning's path. Link withstood the attack and fell back to the platform while Pichu made a clean landing, right next to Luigi.
Luigi made his first attack a karate chop and because Pichu had just landed the forward smash attack hit, but Pichu easily took the shot. Pichu landed on his feet again next to Luigi and opened with a few weak attacks. After knocking Luigi with three attacks using his head he grabbed Luigi by the clothing around his neck and threw him forward. Link was ready to attack the vulnerable spot Pichu was left in and connected with a powerful sword smash attack.
Luigi jumped back to the middle platform. Pichu was sent forwards, hit the side of the higher right platform, and began to fall down the waterfall but also jumped up. As Pichu pulled himself up Luigi used his Luigi Cyclone. Pichu got caught by one of Luigi's spinning fists and his velocity chanced direction to upwards. As Pichu inevitably fell back toward the platform, Link jumped to meet him in mid-flight with a Spin Attack. Link powerfully thrust himself into a fast spin with his sword extended horizontally, which hit Pichu multiple times, but the final blow, a fierce upward slash, was the hardest, and Pichu was sent even higher than before.
Link landed on the left side of the lower platform and Luigi still stood on the right side. Peach jumped down from the far right platform and landed behind Luigi. Pichu crash landed between Link and Luigi on the lower platform. Pichu got up and found himself surrounded.
Pichu felt like he was getting smaller by the second and the two heroes were growing taller, ready to crush him. Just as it felt like one was about the strike a blow Luigi fell to the ground. Pichu and Link's view of Peach was no long obstructed and they both saw her holding a frying pan.
"You leave that poor pokémon alone!" Peach shrieked while tightly gripping her frying pan.
Luigi struggled to return to his feet after being hit in the back of the head by rolling towards Link, passing Pichu. Pichu ran up to Peach and turned around to face his now only two opponents. Peach ran up to Link and Luigi and pulled out a longer weapon, a golf club. She struck both men at the same time and they were propelled backwards. Link had been damaged and was less able to resist the hit, plus he was hit with the most powerful part of the club and was sent up to the far-left platform. Luigi hit the side of the left platform and wasn't in the state of mind to recover. He fell straight down the waterfall to his elimination.
Peach ducked down and grabbed a vegetable. This vegetable's mouth looked like it has been sewn shut; this type of vegetable does a lot of extra damage. Peach jumped upwards twice so she was higher than Link, and chucked the vegetable. Link was awaiting an attack from the platform below, so he wasn't watching the sky, and was struck down. The extra powerful vegetable knocked Link to the ground. During this time Pichu jumped to Link's surface. As Link stood up, Pichu used his Thunder attack. Link was hit multiple times and flung upwards. Pichu took some damage from its own electricity but nothing that he couldn't stand. When Link fell to the ground it was apparent he wouldn't get back up.
"GAME!"
The four fighters, eliminated or victorious, were transported back to the melee complex. Link just fell off his teleporter and landed on the hard white floor of the transporter room. Luigi stumbled off a bit, dazed after his great fall and landed back first against the wall, near Fox. Peach and Pichu stepped of their teleporters.
"That was fun," Peach taunted and turned to leave only to find the door blocked. Kirby, the Ice Climbers, and Yoshi were obstructing the door watching Link and Luigi stumble out.
"Peach?" Kirby asked, "I thought you were fighting Pichu."
The man that operates the consoles lifted Link off the floor and carried him in his arms to the wall where two heroes had already been laid out. He rested Link near Luigi.
"Why doesn't anyone tell me these things?" Kirby asked, trying to make sense of why Peach and Pichu won, they were supposed to be fighting each other.
"It's not important," Peach answered, "Now please excuse me."
"Oh, sorry," Kirby responded. He and the other members of his team stepped aside. Peach left the room followed closely by Pichu.
Kirby walked to the far side of the room and got on the end teleporter. The Ice Climbers jumped on the one nearest to Kirby, and Yoshi stepped up to the one closest to the Ice Climbers. They stood patiently waiting for their opponent.
The transporter staff member looked at his watch and remarked, "He should have been here by now."
"Think he chickened out?" Popo asked.
"Let's hope not," the man replied.
The automatic doors slid open and Ganondorf strutted in.
"Ah, there you are," the man said, "please get onto the…"
"I am evil! Fear me!" Ganondorf interrupted.
"You're late!" Kirby accused.
"Shut up, you insolent pink blob!" Ganondorf insulted, "I am the king of evil!" Ganondorf stepped onto his teleporter.
"The level is going to be Yoshi's Island," the man informed, "Good luck to…everyone but Ganondorf."
He pressed a few buttons on his console and the light aroused from the teleporters. Ganondorf wanted to retaliate but was cut off by the transfer.
"Why you!" Ganondorf yelled, unfortunately he was in Yoshi's Island. Yoshi, Kirby, and the Ice Climbers laughed at Ganondorf's attempted retaliation.
The announcer counted down to zero and the match began. Ganondorf was on the far right side, on the slope. Kirby was closest to him on the right floating blocks. The Ice Climbers were on the floating blocks on the left side and Yoshi started on the pipe in the far left.
Kirby jumped above Ganondorf, the Ice Climbers dropped down to the blocks covering the hole in the middle of the stage, and Yoshi ran towards the middle of the stage. Kirby attempted a drill kick but Ganondorf blocked it. Ganondorf then used his Gerudo Dragon and punched Kirby into the sky, covered in the purplish magic of Ganondorf's attack. Yoshi and the Ice Climbers arrived on the scene. Ganondorf used his Wizard's Foot attack as both got in range. He slammed his foot on the floor and slid forward on it. Magic from his attack and his foot connected with both Ice Climbers and Yoshi, sending them backwards.
As Ganondorf stood upright after using his Wizard's Foot, Kirby had found himself and floated his way to being directly above his opponent. He transformed himself into a block and fell from the sky very quickly, crashing into a few blocks and then Ganondorf. Ganondorf was sent upward and then down toward the three yellow blocks over the hole in the middle of the arena. Just before Ganondorf landed Popo grabbed him. Yoshi got in two punches and Nana hit the warlock with her wooden hammer. Popo knocked Ganondorf forward with his hammer and let go. Ganondorf's flight path took him towards Kirby. Kirby used an upward smash attack to keep the enemy in mid-air and deal some serious damage. In mid-flight Ganondorf jumped once to the left, trying to get away from his four opponents.
The king of the gerudos landed safely near the green pipe. All his enemies stood to the right of him. Yoshi jumped to the blocks on the right side. Kirby ran straight for Ganondorf, and the Ice Climbers slowly advanced. Kirby used a strong attack, setting himself on fire and propelling forwards while Ganondorf used another Wizard's Foot attack. The two hit each other and their momentum canceled out. Kirby was the fastest to react and got in a swift kick upwards, making him do the splits while standing up. Ganondorf was kicked in the air where he was met by Yoshi. Yoshi rapidly kicked downward, displaying extremely impressive footwork and dealing unparalleled amounts of damage.
In the middle of the barrage of mid-air kicks Ganondorf lost consciousness. Once the attack was over he fell from the air and landed on the pipe below.
"GAME!"
Everyone was teleported back to Melee HQ. Ganondorf couldn't stand and fell straight down on his transporter. Kirby, Yoshi, and the Ice Climbers jumped off theirs and were mad with celebration. They left the room cheering and yelling while Ganondorf was left knocked out on his transporter. The teleporter operator looked at Ganondorf's fallen body.
"Awh man," the transporter operator said to himself in near-disbelief, "I'm gonna have to move him."