Darkwarrior17: Well, hello again. Just for your information, this is a two part thing. The same fight, two chapters. So, those of you who are confused by the end of the chapter, I'll know that you didn't READ THIS!
Guns and Swords
XIII
The Final Round: Part 1
It was the last day of the tournament. It was raining. Thousands where pouring into the stadium, and machines were putting a roof up over the open air areas and putting up small pavilions where tourists could buy crappy merchandise and hot dogs for three times as much as they should be. Everything was going according to plan. Almost.
"Sir, squads four, eight, and ten are missing, and six and seven have been found destroyed." A random robot said to The Crazy Hand.
WHAM!
The robot was sent an impressive distance before plopping into the lake below.
"Any more bad news?" The Crazy Hand turned towards the rest of the robots. This had been going on for some time now, and the line of news was going from bad to worse. Grothlik was smart enough to start sending robots to give reports, and as his master's bad mood escalated, he avoided the Crazy Hand completely. Except for the occasion of his presence being seriously needed…
"GROTHLIK!"
Regretfully, Grothlik slunk out of his hiding spot (a three foot deep hole in the ground) and slowly walked over to where the Crazy Hand was sitting.
"Yes, sir?"
"Why haven't you caught up with the infiltrators of this castle? The machines rely too much on scanners. They can't catch up with whoever's in here. We need someone with eyes."
"Who, sir?"
"YOU, YOU IDIOT! Take a patrol and get down there in the basements. Also, when are you going to get those two traitors?"
"Now, sir?"
"Didn't I just tell you to get into the basement? NOW MOVE! I'll take care of them myself."
Ping!
"Okay, now when I get down into the basement, how won't I be seen again?"
"Sigh. I've told you, you'll have an Ultimate Cloaking Device. Now we'll drop you right above the elevator shaft. Nothing's scheduled to go down till 11:00 a.m., giving you a half hour to find Kirby." This was the third time Rasaara had briefed Fox, and he was pretty sure it still wasn't getting through. "Now, when you get too far we won't be able to communicate so you'll be on your own. DON'T do anything stupid. DO come back with all my stuff. And whatever you do DON'T turn off your cloaking device.
"One more TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME." Fox yelled as he was dropped down the shaft.
"That wasn't very nice." Krima appeared behind him, holding a transmitter device that was picking up radio signals and broadcasting them back onto the computer.
"I was not, repeat, not explaining that again."
"Fair enough."
Ping!
"Hello, and welcome to the final round of Guns and Swords. I'm your host, Troy Isaacs, and this is my co-host, Chlöe Larson. Today Ganondorf and Young Link will be fighting Samus and Captain Falcon on Hyrule Temple. There will be no items whatsoever dropping, to add a little twist."
"You go ahead and take Samus. I think I would do much better fighting Captain Falcon." Ganondorf said to Young Link.
"Don't underestimate either of them. Back in the cell, my older form was talking about how strong Samus was. I don't know about Captain Falcon, though."
"Great. I love surprises."
"You didn't love it when I beat you."
"… Shut up."
The Crazy Hand was starting off the fight before he did anything else. He looked down from his balcony and shouted: "GO!"
They were off. This time with no fast moves, just a quick scramble to get out of each other's range. In other words they ran like scared chickens so that they could watch their enemy.
"Okay… That was interesting… Does anyone know what they were doing?" Troy said watching as they peeked out of their hiding spots.
Luckily the Crazy Hand had already left; otherwise he would have been infuriated. No moves were made at all, and this would mean instant death to all four of them. But, he was not watching, and no death was made for any of them. Yet.
"Okay, Captain Falcon is fast. I won't win this unless I use it now." Ganondorf said to him self. He was lying down and in order to get at the Golden Bunny Hood, he would have to move or something. This would give Samus a good time to shoot, for she was on a ledge directly across from him. "Ah, crap…"
Ping!
Fox slammed onto the ground a good seventy yards below where he was before.
"Could have warned me…" he said, rubbing his head. He then got up and walked to the elevator.
"KSHHHHHWheKSHHHHyoKSHHposition?" Rasaara's com link crackled on with much interference.
"Repeat that, know it all?"
"KSHHHHcall me that."
"Yeah sure thing, know it all, what did you say?"
"KSHHH SAID KSHHH CALL ME THAT!"
"I did."
BRZAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!
A quick electric jolt went through Fox's body. Every single one of his hairs (mind you he has a lot) stood up on end at once.
"Now listen you dolt! If you don't shut up and get moving, then I'll personally go down there and kick your ass into the basement!" A new voice came onto the link, this one loud and clear. "The only reason that that was such a small shock is because I didn't want to hurt Rasaara's equipment! Now you better…"
"Okay, now that we have a good link, open the elevator with the long bar with a hook."
Fox took the crow bar from his assortment of equipment and began whacking the elevator door with it.
"Oh, my God…" Rasaara put his hands over his face and was pretty sure he was about to cry.
"Wow. I was sure he would figure out how to use a primitive tool such as that."
"Yeah, I think we both overestimated him."
Well, when Fox realized that his mindless strategy wasn't working, he pressed the button with the arrow pointing down.
Ding!
"Welcome, entity of no being. Please step inside." A computerized voice said, while pondering the existence of nothing and whether or not he should tell it to come in. Oops, too late.
"Oh, my God! He figured something out on his own!'
"Wait. Why didn't we do tell him to do that before?"
"Ummmm…"
"Oooh… MORE BUTTONS!"
"So is his stupidity smarter than our intelligence?"
"…What?"
Ping!
Link, who had hid down in the little tunnel, was getting tired of waiting and decided to jump out of nowhere and shoot at Samus. Samus noticed and quickly fired down at him. Ganondorf jumped up and put the Golden Bunny Hood on and went racing towards Samus when Captain Falcon jumped out of nowhere and punched him in the nose.
"Ow…" Ganondorf said, and then punched Captain Falcon in the nose harder. This knocked him off the gazebo and sent him sprawling. He looked up and Ganondorf was about to kick him in the chest. He quickly rolled over and Ganondorf landed with a loud "thud" inches away from him. He kicked out tripping Ganondorf and quickly jumped up only to be kicked by Ganondorf.
Meanwhile, Young Link had gotten up really close to Samus and now was slashing away at her. He raised his sword again when Samus caught him with her chain. She quickly threw him across the stadium, and began to charge her blaster again. Link landed close to where Ganondorf was fighting Captain Falcon. Ganondorf managed to kick Captain Falcon away long enough to throw Link back at Samus. Samus had just finished charging her gun when she noticed that Link was coming back at her really, really fast. She was about to shoot when he hit.
WHUMP!
BAM!
They were sailing through the air when Samus managed to fire. This propelled her faster off the edge and Young Link really far the other way. Perhaps if Samus hadn't fired she would have made it back on. Perhaps not.
Young Link on the other hand, got lucky, for it was a long way to get launched by any means. He landed with an "oof" on the far ledge, a couple of feet away from the drop.
"Whoa… Shit!"
Ping!
Fox was now down in the basement, and since there was a lava flow under him it was really hot.
"Guys? My feet are burning."
"That's normal. Now get moving." Krima growled at him.
"Uh-oh…"
"What?"
"Grothlik is headed down."
"So what? That pushover couldn't catch a fly that was glued to his nose."
"The thing is, the clones can."
"Wha…?"
Rasaara pointed to a monitor that showed Grothlik briefing a bunch of Fox and Falco clones.
"Shoot…" Krima said.
"I think we should go down and help him."
"Yeah… Me too."
"OPEN UP NOW! I'M WARNING YOU!" The Crazy Hand was pounding on the door with all his might, and was trying to figure out how to tear it down.
"Then again, I wouldn't dare."
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON UP THERE! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS TALKING ABOUT? RESPOND!"
"Fox, you're going to have some company. Not some sissy robot patrol. Were talking about your clones."
There was a brief bit of cursing before Fox said, "Is there any way I could get back up?"
"Not a chance. They're headed for the elevator right now and even if we did get you up, we would have to get you past the Crazy Hand."
"How hard could that be?"
"Don't underestimate the Crazy Hand. He may be insane, but his senses are amazingly sharp and he certainly isn't stupid."
"Well then, what should I do?"
"Proceed with the mission and try to find Kirby and his friends. They can probably take them out."
"How many are there?"
"A score."
"…what?"
"Twenty! Just get moving, we don't have the time! GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!"
Ping!
Link was running to attack Captain Falcon when Samus dropped out of nowhere right in front of him. Being surprised, he had little time to attack, and even though he did attack, it was a wild shot and Samus easily avoided it. Samus then ran up and corkscrewed into Young Link, sending him near the cliff edge. She grabbed him with her chain and threw him off the edge. Link managed to make it back on, only to be thrown off again.
"Oh, darn. It looked like he was going to make it back on. Let's see how Ganondorf and Captain Falcon are doing."
There fist fight had stopped for the moment; both were panting hard.
"Well… you're faster then you look…" Captain Falcon said, still panting.
"Yes… It seems we're equally matched for speed… Too bad we aren't for strength."
"What?"
"I haven't been using full strength. Obviously."
"Ha! He's bluffing," Captain Falcon thought to himself. "Okay…" He said aloud. "Then use your full strength, if you aren't already at it."
WHAM!
The blow came suddenly. Captain Falcon was knocked back, off the small edge, and onto the area of where the tunnel was. Ganondorf quickly followed with a jump kick and sent him farther. He was running for him when Captain Falcon kicked out, tripping him. Captain Falcon quickly jumped up, and as Ganondorf tried to get up he pushed him down the slope. Ganondorf skidded down the hill, falling off the edge but catching onto the edge. When he realized that there was land under him, he was going to let go, when he thought of a better idea.
Captain Falcon ran down the hill and looked down the ledge. He didn't see Ganondorf still gripping on.
"Where is he?" He said to himself.
He jumped down, still not seeing Ganondorf. Ganondorf swung his legs out, grabbing Captain Falcon by the neck with his legs. He swung him back and forth, like a pendulum, getting faster and faster. He then flung Captain Falcon off the edge, pretty fast. But, lucky for Captain Falcon, there was a small ledge under there a couple yards out. And that is where Captain Falcon landed.
Ping!
Ding!
"Have a nice day!" The elevator said cheerily. Out of it stepped Grothlik and his patrol of clones. Grothlik took out a scanner and looked around. The device showed footprints of multiple life forms. One track glowed redder than others.
"Something's been down here recently."
"Kirby, sir?"
"Possibly. We'll have to check it out."
Grothlik obviously had no idea what he was doing, for if he had look closely he would have noticed that the footprints looked remarkably like those of the clones who were following him. But, he did not look closely, and he did not notice at all.
Elsewhere in the basement, Fox was also searching.
"Guys, do you have a reading? Any life forms?"
"None whatsoever." Rasaara replied.
"I'M TELLING YOU, IT WILL BE MUCH BETTER FOR YOU TO COME OUT NOW, WHILE I'M IN A GOOD MOOD!"
"What the heck was that?"
"Who do you think?"
"Oh God, make him go away!"
BAM! BAM! BAM!
"SHUT UP! I'M TRYING TO WORK!" Krima yelled over her shoulder.
Surprisingly, it worked for a few seconds. Then the banging started again.
"I SAID SHUT UP!"
"MAKE ME!"
"MAYBE I WILL!" Krima was about to open the door when Rasaara stopped her.
"What about the little birdy?"
"I'm, cough, cough, not little." Falco's voice was sore and scratched, but he walked out just fine, looking much better then he had.
"Wait a minute! You shouldn't be able to do anything!"
"Why?"
"You were having an allergic reaction to the dart!"
"No, that was a fever of 106. I think that medicine worked pretty well. Where's Fox?"
"…"
"…"
"What? Where is he?"
Ping!
Captain Falcon was still on the little platform, and Ganondorf was waiting for him to try to jump up.
"You can't win, you know." Ganondorf shouted over to him.
"I can try!" Captain Falcon shouted back.
"Go ahead then!" Ganondorf said, sneering.
Suddenly Captain Falcon smiled. "I think I will. But before I do, look behind you."
Ganondorf whirled around. There was Samus, with a fully charged blaster liable to go off sooner or later. Most likely sooner.
"YAAAAAAAH!" Link did a flying kick into Samus just as she fired, pointing her shot up a little. Ganondorf ducked, and Captain Falcon jumped over, almost. Actually he came a few feet short.
"AHHH, shoot…" He said as fell.
Young Link was on top of Samus, trying to beat her senseless. She finally managed to grab and throw him off the cliff. Link made it back on, but not before Ganondorf had socked Samus in the stomach.
"Don't sneak up on me." He said to the coughing Samus, who was lying on the ground.
Wham!
Captain Falcon punched Ganondorf in the head, throwing him a little bit. Link fired an arrow quickly, catching Captain Falcon of guard and making him take a pace back. He was about to fire another arrow when Samus kicked him down and grabbed him.
Wham! Wham!
Ganondorf kicked both Samus and Captain Falcon in the heads. Unfortunately he was a little too late and Samus had thrown Link off the cliff. A little too far.
Ping!
"WHADDYA MEAN HE'S ALL RIGHT?" Fox shouted into the mike.
"EXACTLY WHAT I SAID! WHAT DID YOU THINK I MEANT?" Rasaara shouted back. "Look, he just got up and said he was feeling better and now he's complaining that he's hungry."
"Damn, he really is better. Shit, Grothlik's coming. I'll respond later."
"Hmmmm…" Grothlik was looking through his device, next to a small stream of lava. "What ever it is, it's going upstream." Actually, Fox was going downstream. Grothlik just couldn't tell.
The group began to head downstream, when a small rockslide blocked the path.
"You two." Grothlik pointed to two of the clones. "Go check that out."
The clones ran up the slope, disappearing behind two rocks. There was a sudden yell, and a few laser blasts, and then one of the Fox clones came down.
"Just a piranha plant, sir. It got the other one." He reported.
"Let's move on." Grothlik ordered and began to climb over the various rocks. Little did he know that on the top of the hill were a dead piranha plant, and two fox clones lying dead next to each other.
Ping!
FFFT!
Ganondorf, after being beaten for several minutes by both Captain Falcon and Samus, was relieved to see Young Link shooting arrows at Samus. He quickly punched Captain off the ledge, and was then K.O.ed by one of Samus' shots gone awry.
Captain Falcon once again almost made it back on again. His hands grasped onto dirt but slipped.
"Dang it!"
Young Link had jumped up onto the gazebo and was shooting at Samus, who was rolling and ducking to avoid the arrows. She finally made it directly below him and corkscrewed into him. She then shot a smart missile, knocking him onto the ledge a few feet away. Link fired an arrow, probably saving his life, and ran for cover.
Ganondorf was beating the hell out of Captain Falcon. Knowing that he was probably going to die soon, Captain Falcon decided to go for the one target he could stand up against. Link.
Captain Falcon jumped over Ganondorf, kicking him in the face on the way, and ran for Young Link, who was facing Samus as he concentrated as much fire as he could.
Ganondorf, realizing what was happening, ran after Captain Falcon, knowing that he probably wouldn't make it in time.
"LINK! LOOK BEHIND YOU!"
Link turned. He saw Captain Falcon three feet away, fist raised. He brought his sword up. And was K.O.ed by Samus from behind.
"Ha! What a loser." Captain Falcon sneered.
BAM!
Craaack!
"Crack?" Troy asked aloud.
"Yog brog mide jawd! OWWW!" Captain Falcon shouted at Ganondorf.
BAM!
Ganondorf K.O.ed him with a punch to the stomach. He turned to Samus.
"Are you ready for this, Aran? Are you ready?"
Samus raised her gun. "I'm ready!"
Darkwarrior17: Well, I made my goal. Even if I had to extend it. I finished before my thirteenth birthday! One day early. Odreagh, thank you for the review. That's what got me moving, even if it wasn't a necessarily good review; it was definitely a different one. Thanks for the pointers; I'll have my sister work on that. PLEASE, GENNY, DON'T KILL ME! Although she says she won't work on past tense, present tense, and so on. Well that's that.