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Without further ado, let the chapter begin!

Poor Link! He was so terribly disappointed that Falcon did not get blown up, grappled and thrown away, and stuffed up a cannon just for good measure by Samus. Instead, an Arwing above did the dirty work.

It went something like this:

With only one Chance left each, the two were fighting all-out now, with neither tiring nor giving in. Link was watching from a convienient screen quite a bit aways, and some sort of cute but annoying little pink fluffball bythe name of Kirbywas chomping down on all his popcorn. So after a shouting match, the elf went off to get his own popcorn. When in the kitchen, the popping sound was suddenly eclipsed by a huge BOOM!

He immediately rushed out to see, but the only he saw were the two flying in opposite directions as lasers pummeled them away.

The screen went back to its usual dormant blue state- the match was over. Link cursed.

"You fought well," Falcon told Samus. The helmet nodded. "Just too bad that the damn plane saved you. That was the first real fight I had in a long time, and that's saying a lot!" He flashed a white grin.

Samus didn't respond but just stared.

Falcon cocked an eyebrow. "Don't do that, some people might get the wrong idea about us, you know. But if you were a girl, trust me, you and me would be out to dinner before you know it! Just too bad you're not, I've always wanted a girl that could fight." He laughed.

Samus actually wasn't staring at him, but then again, our egocentric friend had no idea of knowing.

Inside the metallic helm, Samus was running a quick system check, just to make sure that nothing was damaged. Even though all injuries somehow were relieved after the fight, it was never too good to be careful after the X-parasite incident. And that was a good thing she was cautious...

WHAM! There was a loud thwacking noise, and an assassin tumbled down from the rafters above, Samus's cannon-arm whacking him firmly from behind the head. Falcon grinned.

"People trying to kill you too? I know what you mean, it's exciting at first, but now it's just plain annoying. Well, I'd better be off, fangirls tend to explode if they don't see you for more than ten minutes-" He stopped abruptly as Samus took the helmet off.

A waterfall of golden hair spilled out from the suit. Icy blue eyes appeared, nestled in a pale face.

Now, Captain Falcon had seen many beautiful ladies. The princesses were beautiful, that was for sure, but Peach somehow was too silly and was cute rather than pretty, and Zelda was somehow just too stiff and too proper a lady, couldn't fight, and had two genders. She was beautiful, but in a more domestic way, like a noblewoman.

But this lady was a work of art, a masterpiece. Somehow her face was delicately pointed but not like Link's sharp chin. It held the ferocity of a vicious fighter but the sadness of someone gone through many trials on her own and grown up too hard and too fast. Her lips were soft-looking and pouty. Unlike a make-up clown freak, it was a delicate soft red, not a bright new-sportscar red. No docile look hung about her. It was as if nothing domestic and mudane had ever touched that face- she held a sort of wild, dangerous beauty. If Zelda was a noblewoman, than here was an Amazon. This was no little mad fangirl. This was no lady-like princess. She was beautiful, and Falcon was utterly besotted.

"…insert a few gurgling nosies…"

Samus Aran brushed the thing film of sweat off her face, grabbed the assassin's collar and started to walk off.

"Y-You're a girl?"

She stopped, looked around, and gave a cool nod."I have a bounty to turn in." With that, she left, leaving the captain utterly stunned.

Yes, I know that the whole assassin leaping from the rafter things was totally lame. Originally, it was that he jumped out of a locker, and there was this conversation in the second chapter with someone ordering the assassin to kill Samus, but it was even cheesier and I took it out. I just needed an excuse to add more character and background to Samus.

Thank you for reading! Please leave a review, please?

-Mako