Melee Civil War
Chapter 6 – Versus Roy and Versus Ness
By Pelican (Pelican_13@Yahoo.com)
The man working the teleporter room had managed to move Ganondorf's immense body to the other side of the room and prop him against the wall, along with Fox, Link, and Luigi. Just then, the white automatic doors opened and Marth entered the room. He looked around the room and found he was the first to arrive from his match. He also noticed the odd man in a white lab coat gasping for air.
Marth took one step forward when Mewtwo teleported into the middle of the room. At first Marth was startled and took a step back, then he noticed who had entered. Mewtwo examined the room. He saw the white floor and walls and the automatic door with two windows. He was in the right place.
"Are you all that's here?" Mewtwo asked after turning to Marth.
Marth just shrugged his shoulders. The automatic doors opened once again and another man in a white coat entered, only he had a stethoscope and was holding a pill larger then his fist.
"Mario?" Mewtwo asked.
"That's-a doctor Mario," Doctor Mario corrected.
"Whatever," the man in the lab coat interrupted, "just get on your teleporters and we'll wait for your opponent."
The team of three complied and stepped onto their teleporters, patiently waiting for Roy to arrive.
"Think he-a isn't coming," Doctor Mario announced.
"Roy is weak, he knows that if he shows up we will destroy him," Mewtwo said in an eerie tone.
The three waited for twenty more seconds. They all expected Roy not to show.
"How much longer do we wait?" Marth asked.
"Let's give him one minute. In the mean time have you decided on an arena?" the man replied.
"Does it really matter? We will destroy that inferior being!" Mewtwo responded psychically.
"Why-a do you always talk like-a that?" Doctor Mario asked, "It's creepy."
"What about Final Destination?" Marth asked.
"Final Destination it is," the transporter room employee confirmed.
The man went to punching in some buttons on his console as the automatic doors slid open and Roy marched in, he was standing as tall as he could and held his chest out.
"It's-a bout time!" Doctor Mario said angrily.
Marth used one hand to cover his face, "Roy, you are so pathetic."
"Let's see if you're saying that when I stand over your unconscious body!" Roy threatened.
"Just get on the freaking teleporter!" the man cut in, "You're late as it is."
Roy didn't argue. He walked up to his teleporter and stepped up. He still tried to look as intimidating as he could. The console controller pressed a few buttons and light aroused from the discs.
As the light lowered the four were on a flat platform floating in what looked like pure nothingness. As the timer hit zero the superstars dropped to the black and purple platform. Roy started on the far right; Dr. Mario was the nearest to him followed by Mewtwo and Marth. Dr. Mario started running towards Roy and slid forward on his primary foot, tripping Roy before Roy could react. Mewtwo began to channel his psychic energy to his hands and charge his Shadow Ball attack while Marth ran past him, towards the action.
Roy was tripped forward and hit the ground face first. He quickly jumped to his feet as Dr. Mario turned to see the victim of this first attack. Roy looked as if he was about to use his sword by his arm movements, but something from behind knocked him to the floor. Marth had reached his opponent and connected with a basic sword slash, Roy never saw it coming. Roy rolled past Marth to return to his feet, but now it was Mewtwo's turn to get a hit in. He released his fully charged Shadow Ball attack and timed it perfectly. Roy was sent into the sky aflame with psychic energy. Marth had Roy in his sight and jumped up with a Dolphin Slash attack. He trusted his sword, Falchion, into the air and hit Roy in his mid-section.
Marth fell quickly after his attack and landed cleanly on the platform as Roy was sent upwards more so, and then began to descend. Doctor Mario positioned himself so his could get a good hit in as Roy struck the floor. Doctor Mario extended his fists and rapidly sped in circles, using his Doctor Tornado technique. Roy was caught with three hits and then flung back towards the air, if it officially is air. Mewtwo began to concentrate his psychic energy into another transparent purple ball with his hands. Marth waited for Roy to get almost directly above him on his decent and bolted upward with another Dolphin slash attack. His sword hit Roy before he had a chance to react, recover, or even see his attacker.
Above the platform the connection of Marth's sword to Roy's already beaten body was enough to do the cocky sword fighter in. Roy fell to the welcomed surface of the platform below. After Marth's finishing blow Roy had dropped his sword. It fell a few steps away from Roy's prone body. Marth victoriously walked over to Roy's sword and picked it off the ground. As Marth returned to his normal posture the four fighters were transported back to the white room in the melee complex. Roy was standing when he arrived back at the teleporter room but was still too weak to stand and fell to the floor from his metal disc.
"It is over already?" the employee asked.
"Roy is weak, we are strong," Mewtwo proclaimed. He jumped off his disc as Dr. Mario and Marth stepped off theirs. Mewtwo used his psychic abilities to move Roy's body out of the way and towards the back of the room. He joined the other stars sitting against the back wall of the room: Fox, Link, Luigi, and Ganondorf.
"Hey, I-a know!" Dr. Mario said, "Let's-a go out and-a get a pizza!"
"Sounds good," Marth announced.
"I might as well join you," Mewtwo said. Marth walked up to Roy, who was gasping for air and had a trickle of blood running out of his nose, and dropped Roy's sword at Roy's feet and turned around, almost getting blood on his cape. He then left the room with Dr. Mario and Mewtwo with his head held high.
Shortly after the automatic doors closed shut as Marth, Dr. Mario, and Mewtwo left the room, they reopened and another team of three entered, lead by Donkey Kong. Close behind DK were Princess Zelda and Samus.
"Is this going to be another three-on-one match?" the console operator asked.
"Another?" DK returned with a question.
"How many have there been?" Zelda added to DK's question.
"This is the fifth one today!" the man answered. He pointed to the wall where the losers were resting, "Here's the results."
"Ouch," Samus said to herself looking at the exhausted superstars.
"Who are you fighting anyway?" the man asked.
"Ness," Zelda replied, "He called my triforce piece the 'Triforce of Knowledge'".
The man had a confused look on his face as he listened to Zelda. "Isn't it?"
"Wisdom," Samus answered.
"Where arena do we fight on?" DK asked in his slurred accent.
"Well, it's up to you to decide," the man replied, "Just tell me where."
"Zelda," Samus said, "you pick."
"Well then, I'll pick Hyrule."
The man in a lab coat punched in a few buttons on his console as Ness entered the room. The three fighters directed their attention towards the new arrival.
"Great," the man said, "You're here! Get on the discs and we can start right away."
"I'm ready," Ness announced. Without hesitation he stepped onto the disc closest to the doors. Ness had a sly little smirk on his face. DK got on the disc closest to Ness followed by Zelda and Samus.
"You're going to lose," DK threatened as the light consumed the fighters and brought them to Hyrule Castle. Ness was on the far right and everyone else was to the left of him in the order of what disc he or she was teleported on.
The pre-match timer counted down to zero and the fighter's discs disappeared, dropping them to the floor below. DK jumped towards Ness while Ness jumped away from DK. Donkey Kong landed on the platform that Ness started on. It was made of stone and looked like it once might have been a pillar. Ness touched down on the longer surface below. Zelda and Samus charged forward to aid DK.
Donkey jumped forward once again and right into Ness. Ness pulled out his bat from under his clothing and smashed DK just before he landed. DK was one of the bigger melee superstars and hadn't taken any damage earlier but he was still dislodged and sent backwards past the platform that he started and hit the uppermost platform of the arena with devastating force. He slid backwards a few feet, disoriented from the unprecedented attack he suffered. Ness pointed his bat into the air, revealing to Zelda and Samus that is was illegally covered in metal.
"That's it!" Samus declared. She pointed one of her metal armored covered arms at Ness and launched a rocket through a hatch above her wrist. Zelda transformed to her form known as Sheik and Ness jumped to avoid being hit by the rocket. Samus's explosive missile flew below Ness but curved upward and did not explode on the ground. Sheik charged forward to meet Ness and Ness began to descend to the floor.
The missile curved upward into a loop and hit Ness from above and behind. He was knocked forward about a meter and his clothing caught on fire from the explosion. Sheik connected with two graceful kicks and sent Ness off in the opposite direction. As Ness was smashed off toward the right side of the arena Sheik transformed back into Princess Zelda. Samus jumped down to the flat platform. Zelda used her magical Din's Fire attack. Energy from one of the three goddesses of Hyrule was transferred into a ball and whipped forward by Zelda. Ness rolled to get up and stood in the wrong place at the wrong time. The ball of fire energy exploded right in front of him and he was set aflame again.
Samus ran forward and executed a shoulder ram on Ness, who was still on fire. Ness flew forward and the fire extinguished itself. He stood less then a step off the edge of the arena. Samus courageously charged forward and looked as if she was going to attempt another shoulder ram but Ness attacked first. He whipped out a yo-yo, with an illegal bob-omb glued to one side! He whipped it once to the right and flung it back to the left, hitting Samus with added momentum and exploding upon contact.
Zelda watched as her comrade flew past her and slammed into the side of a piece of the temple. Zelda knew then that Ness's confidence was great only because he was going to use several devious tactics to win this match. Zelda didn't stand for it and charged Ness. She stopped just a few short feet from Ness and used another Din's Fire attack. Ness rolled past the concentration of fire energy and right into Zelda's partially charged forward smash attack. Zelda channeled some of her sage energy and sent Ness off the side of the arena.
Zelda waited for Ness to use his second and maybe third jump to return to the battle zone, but he didn't. She ponder for a moment. She should have won if Ness fell to his elimination, but that didn't happen either. She took a step forward to try and locate Ness, but still didn't see him. Then, for a brief second, Ness's outline mysteriously appeared in front of her. Zelda stepped back and shook her head, thinking what she just saw wasn't real. Unfortunately for her, it was real. Ness was using another illegal weapon, this time a cloaking device. He quickly pulled out the metal bat, completely visible to all, and hit Princess Zelda with a powerful swing.
Zelda flew towards the middle of the arena in the sky. She landed hard on the platform most of the competitors had started on. Ness jumped to the broken pillar to get a better look at the devastation he had caused. As he landed, his cloaking device wore off, but it didn't matter to him. A smirk crossed his face when he didn't see any of his opponents. He looked up and was abruptly hit by a missile. The resulting explosion knocked him off the pillar and he fell to the floor below. He managed to stand up only to be knocked down by DK's massive feet pounding into him from above. Ness hit is head on the hard dirt below. He turned his body around so that he could see DK looking down at him, and his vision slowly began to get darker and darker. He breathed deeply a couple more times, and then blacked out.
"GAME!"