Chapter 16: Take Flight! Halberd Flies into the Sky!
The Smashers, Meta-Knight, and the Space Pirates are now on board the Halberd. "Wow! Looks cool in here!" says Pichu.
"I've spent 5 years working on this, but I never thought it would come to use at last," says Meta-Knight. "Time to see what this brainchild of mines can do!" He goes over to the controls and begins controlling it. "All hands on deck! We're ready to take off!"
"ALL RIGHT!" the others reply.
Then the ceiling above the Halberd begins to slide apart, creating an opening.
"Start the engines!" says Meta-Knight. Then the Halberd begins lifting off from the floor. Just at the same time, the ceiling is fully open, allowing the Halberd to fly through it. "We have come out!"
"YEAH!"
The Halberd gets into correct position and begins flying higher and higher, leaving farther from the ground.
"We're going to fly now! Everyone be prepared for it!"
"Yes!"
The Halberd starts to move forward, and also ascending upwards every time until it's higher than most of the buildings. Just at this moment, a medium-sized flying mech appears out of nowhere and flies after the Halberd.
"We're here!" shouts Bluto. "This is our Stray Fox's greatest airship, the Flying Fox!"
"YES!" exclaim the other SF people.
"Now allow us to attach ourselves onto the top of your airship! It has lots of space, right?"
The Flying Fox lands on top of the Halberd and claws appear from beneath it and latches firmly onto the Halberd, combining with it.
"Fusion complete!"
"Damn those guys!" says Marth.
"Calm down, Marth," Captain Falcon tells him. "They won't cause us any harm."
"We're going to rise altitude!" says Meta-Knight. "Everyone hold still!" The Halberd moves higher and higher into the sky, and it even wobbled around a few times. "This is my first time controlling this, so sorry for the shaking and wobbling!"
"Never mind!" says CF. "As long as it can fly, it's better than nothing!"
After a while, the Halberd finally flies high into the sky and is flying smoothly.
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Now everyone is settled down in the Halberd. Meta-Knight set the controls to auto-control, so he don't have to control it all the time.
"Say… There seems to be more people than expected onboard…" says Marth.
"Oh? Who would that be?" asks Popeye.
Marth and Meta-Knight turn to Popeye and Cid and say, "YOU TWO!"
"We have followed you onto this airship!" says Cid. "We want to go after the killers who tried to take Otacon's life!"
"We figured out you would use this," says Popeye. "We will never forgive the people who did this to Otacon!"
"Yeah! They took our friend!" says Pichu.
"And they took our boss too!" says Bluto.
"But I'm confused on the matter right now, Meta-Knight," says Cid. "Can you give me a clear explanation of what's happening? It's all so confusing!"
"Meta-Knight, we pretty much figured out who the killers are already," says Popeye. "We're not dumb. Go on and tell us; we wouldn't surprised."
Meta-Knight lets out a sigh and tells them, "You might have noticed why they disappeared so suddenly already, but Lucci, Kaku, Califa, and Blueno from the bar, are actually agents from the government. They have disguised themselves here for 4 years so they can take advantage of us. They are the real killers!"
Popeye and Cid listen in silence for a while, and they gasp out loud, "WHAT!"
"You said you know it already! Who did you think it was?"
"I thought it was Zemus and Golbez!" says Cid.
"Who on earth are they?" asks Meta-Knight.
CF stands up and says, "Now we are all after a same enemy, for they have taken someone important from us. They sure are powerful, especially that pigeon bastard. With such amount of people at our side, surely we can win!"
"Right! The Stray Fox numbers total of 50 people!" says Bluto. "We will lend you our hand!"
"We are doing the mission that we are assigned," says Punk. "So we, too, are in this fighting force."
"Then let us swear alliance to each other!" says CF. "We must get through this with cooperation and group work!"
"Yeah!"
CF, Bluto, Meta-Knight, and Punk all shake hands and swore alliance to each other.
"Things are starting to heat up!" says Pikachu.
Just at this moment, CF's cell phone rings, and he answers it, "Hello? Yoshi, is that you?"
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"Yes, it's me," Yoshi says into the phone.
"Where are you now?" asks the voice of CF.
"Well, we're still aboard the Sky Liner and we have rescued Pit and this guy called Snake. And a storm is blowing up here too!"
"I see… How is everything going?"
"It's going fine."
"Not fine!" shouts Wario. "I really hate the wind that's blowing around!"
"Listen up, Yoshi," says CF. "I'm going to tell you the truth about everything." And so CF tells him about Samus.
"I see… It's really complicated all right… Okay, now we'll try to get her back! You can count on us!" And Yoshi hangs the phone, and turns to his friends and tells them what he heard.
"So Samus was doing this to rescue us?" says Wario.
"A lot has happened since I left the group," says Pit.
"So the devil Samus does care for her own friend…" says Snake.
"Don't call her devil!" says Yoshi.
"Well, whatever… Now that we are together and in the same situation, I, Solid Snake, the boss of Stray Fox, will lend you a hand!"
"Whatever, as long as you can make up for stealing our money," says Wario. "Let's move on and beat some baddies!"
"I've been wanting to ask this," says Pit. "But what is that thing?" He points to a large tank-like machine with 6 legs and wings.
"That's the Metal Gear FLY," explains Snake. "It is a flying tank that excels in sky combat."
"Who cares about that? Let's get going!" says Wario.
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Inside the cabin where Jerry and his men were…
"The people in this cabin have been defeated!" says one of the soldiers who are in there investigating. "Who could be powerful enough to defeat Jerry of the CP6? That's terrible!"
Unknown to them, the others are looking into the cabin through the window. "There's another door through that room," says Yoshi. "How are we going to get in there without getting caught?"
"Let's barge in and beat them up!" suggests Wario.
"We should avoid pointless fights as much as possible," says Snake. "We might rise an alarm and lure stronger opponents, and things will be troublesome."
"Then what suggestions do you have, Mr. Snake?" asks Pit.
"We'll have to lure them out of this room and make sure they don't come back after us. I wonder what way is possible?" Snake begins to wonder and then he spots a bucket and some soap by the wall.
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"Reports also said that 2 of the criminals have escaped," says the soldier captain. "Either they have escaped by themselves or they were rescued by people who sneaked onboard is still unsure, but spread out and look for suspicious people and capture them at once!"
"Yes sir!"
Suddenly, the door opens and the 4 people stick their head in from the side of the doorway. "Nyah nyah! Come catch us if you want!" taunts Yoshi.
"Right! I'm gonna beat you up if you come out!" says Wario.
"There they are! After them!" commands the captain.
All the soldiers immediately charge outside. The moment they stepped outside, they begin sliding along the deck and towards the end of the airship!
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" they cry. They couldn't stop themselves from sliding, and for some reason, the fence on the edge of the airship is gone, and the soldiers go sliding off the airship and fall to their doom below. In fact, all the soldiers ran out to get them and fell off.
"Yes! A success!" says Snake. "Covering the floor with slippery soap sure is a good idea of taking them out!"
"I pity that they are falling to their deaths below…" says Pit.
"It's the sea down there, so they have a chance of surviving."
"How dare you!" growls the captain angrily. "Die!" He pulls out his sword and charges at them, but Wario shoulder bashes him hard and sends him crashing back into the cabin.
CRAAAAAAAAASH!
"That was easy," says Wario.
"Okay, let's get going," says Yoshi, and they go back into the cabin and through the door on the other end.
On the other side, they see a short, fat guy with purplish-white curly hair skating around the room while pushing a food tray. The oddest feature about him is that his eyes bulge out very far. "Sasasa! Are you guys hungry?" asks the odd guy. "Want some ramen?"
"Oh goodie! Gimme some!" says Yoshi.
"We don't have time for food," says Snake.
"But you should at least see how I make ramen!" says the guy. "My nose hair is arranged in a crisscross formation like that of a net." Then he stuffs batter into his mouth and squirts out fine strips of noodle from his nostrils and into a bowl. "See? I swallow the flours and batters and then squirt them out through the nose, and they come out as fine noodles!"
"DISGUSTING!" shout the four.
"Out of our way," says Wario. "We have no time to mess with you or eat."
"I feel sick after seeing how you make noodles…" says Yoshi.
"Wait a minute!" says the guy. "I know what you guys are here for! You're here to rescue that devil Samus Aran, right? I am Wanze of the CP7, so I will not allow you to pass here!"
"Then we'll beat you up!" says Wario.
"Ramen Beam!" Wanze shoots out strips of noodles from his nostrils. The Smashers quickly duck under it and the noodles pierce into the wall like bullets!
"Whoa! How is that possible!" gasps Snake.
"I will defeat you all using my Ramen Kenpo!" says Wanze. "Prepare to face your doom!"
"You should be facing your doom instead," says Wario.
"Who me?" Wanze looks around. "Who were you talking too?"
"You!"
"O RLY?"
"YA RLY!"
"NO WAI!"
"YES WAI!" Wario throws a punch forward but Wanze dodges it perfectly.
"Sasasa! You can't hit me!"
"Why you!"
"Everyone! Let me handle him!" says Yoshi. "As a lover of food, I cannot bear the sight of seeing him play with food like that! I shall teach him a lesson! You guys go look for Samus."
"I'll never let you pass!" says Wanze.
"Then we'll look in other places instead," says Snake. "Follow me; I'm sure we'll find a better route."
"Fine! As long as I get to beat someone up, I'm happy!" says Wario, and the 3 quickly leave the room through the door they came in from, leaving Yoshi to fight Wanze.
"They think they can get away with it?" says Wanze. "There is no way they can defeat the CP9, no matter how strong your friends are!"
"Enough talking and fight me!" says Yoshi. "You call yourself a cook when you play with food!"
"Sasasa! Take this!" Wanze begins skating around the room very fast and he even travels up the walls! He moves so fast that his roller skates eventually caught fire, and he throws a fiery kick at Yoshi. "Fire Skate!"
Yoshi quickly ducks under the attack and then strikes Wanze in the bottom and sends him flying backwards.
"Yeow! You successfully hit me!" says Wanze. "Do you have superhuman strength or what?"
"No, it's just you who is very weak," says Yoshi.
"How dare you call me weak! Even my father wouldn't say that to me! I am a CP7, so I am very strong! Ramen Kenpo! Men's Formal Suit!" He grabs the plates of noodles that are lying around and spins it around him, and the noodles form a large armor made of… noodle. "Behold the ultimate battle suit!"
"You're playing with food again!"
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Meanwhile, the other 3 are traveling around the deck. They soon come to the decision that they should split up, because it would be easier to find. Since all the soldiers and small fries are gone, things should be safer, and the stronger ones haven't been informed of this matter yet. Whatever the reason is, I just wanna separate, so no complaints, okay?
Snake is traveling by himself. "Good thing they have several weapons stored in the previous room," he says to himself. "Now I should be well prepared to take on whatever is tossed at me." Then he spots a suspicious figure sitting on the deck. "Who are you?"
The figure that he saw is a man wearing reddish shirt under a black vest, and he wears a black cowboy hat with a feather stuck on top. He also has strange markings on his face that resembles whiskers. "I am Sea Weasel Nero," says the man. "I am a member of the CP9."
"Oh great… Of all the opponents I have encounter, it has to be a CP9? This spells trouble…"
"I am an Rokushiki user," says Nero. "There is no way you can defeat someone like me!"
"Well, let's see about that first." Snake then points to the sky. "Hey, a UFO!"
"Where?" Nero looks up to see the UFO. "I don't see anything!" He looks back down and sees a box there instead of Snake. "You lied to me! And you think you can get away with it by hiding in a box?" Nero approaches the box, but then Snake pops out from under it very suddenly and uppercuts Nero in the chin. "WA!"
"Got you fooled, eh?" asks Snake. "I'll show you why people fear the boss of Stray Fox!"
"Why you!"
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Meanwhile, Samus is inside a cabin all by herself, with nobody else in the room at all. Then she hears a knocking on the window, and she turns to see Pit and Wario's face out there. "Pit! Wario!"
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At this moment, the Metal Gear FLY on the deck begins moving. "Enemy spotted within 5 miles radius," it says in a robotic voice. "Prepare to engage it at once." Then it takes off from the Sky Liner and flies off into the story sky.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Yoshi is fighting a CP7 and Snake is fighting a CP9. Can they defeat their enemies and can the other two Smashers successfully rescue Samus and convince her to go with them? Will the ones on the Halberd catch up in time also? Find out soon!
Coming up next: Fierce Battle in the Sky! The Terror of Metal Gear FLY!