Fox McLean and the Case of the Kidnapped Heroes

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Meanwhile, Falco and Zelda were in the middle of a heated battle. Despite being two-on-one, Wolf was managing to dominate both of them.

"Give it up, agents!" Wolf called as he blasted them with his laser. "I'm more than a match for you all. Fox would have been much more of a challenge, but he obviously went down the wrong hallway."

Zelda jumped and weaved through the lasers, constantly transforming into Sheik and then back again. Falco was reflecting as many of the blasts he could back at Wolf, but his reflector was wearing out.

"We're in trouble, princess!" Falco told her as his reflector died completely. "This would be a great time for something good to happen!"

Suddenly, a Smash Ball appeared in the middle of the room. The fight abruptly stopped as all three fighters lunged for it. However, Falco pushed Wolf out of the way, allowing Zelda, now Sheik, to break it.

"Quick, while you're close!" Falco yelled. "Finish him!"

Wolf was helpless to get out of the way in time. "AAAAARRRRGH!" he howled, his claws protecting his face.

"ARROW… OF… LIGHT!" Sheik screamed. She took out a bow, loaded it with an arrow, and fired. She missed. The arrow hit the wall and wiggled pointlessly.

"Oops," she said. Wolf began to laugh. Falco just stood in disbelief.

"HOW could you miss? He was three feet away!" He yelled at her.

"I'm used to shooting at giant beasts!" she defended, transforming back into Zelda. "I'm not actually that great of a shot with a bow; that's what Link does!"

"As fascinating as this is," Wolf said, pushing a button on his eyepiece, "I'm afraid that this is the end for you!"

A cage dropped over the two agents. "Now that you're completely helpless, I'll tell you my plan!" he said.

"I was wondering about that," Zelda said.

"Well, I don't really have much of a plan, to be honest," Wolf began. "I just got bored, so I decided to take out my two greatest enemies, Fox and Falco."

"To bait you into coming here, I teamed up with Bowser and Ganondorf to kidnap Mario and Link. Peach was an extra prize, as was Zelda, when we captured her at New Pork City. I bribed a Goomba to mention Norfair while Falco was in his bag, and then he went and pointed Fox in the right direction."

"Then you arrived here, and my plan was to battle Fox here while you were eliminated by Bowser and Ganondorf. But you took the wrong halls. So, I'll just wait for Fox to figure this out and come rescue you, which by my calculations should be…"

The door burst open, and Fox, Kirby, Mario, Link and Peach burst into the room. "Give up… Wolf?" Fox asked in surprise.

"Exactly," said Wolf as another cage dropped down and trapped Mario, Link and Peach.

"Mama mia…" Mario groaned. "Not again…"

"Don't worry, Fox!" Kirby said optimistically. "We can take him!"

"I'm not so sure," Wolf said. He quickly pulled out his laser and shot blasts at Kirby. Fox leaped into the path of the gun and took all the blasts. He collapsed to the floor, and was immediately caged by Wolf.

"Uh oh…" Kirby said as Bowser and Ganondorf also came into the room, surrounding him.

Meanwhile, in another part of Norfair, the Ice Climbers were exploring. "Wow!" said Popo. "I didn't know it was so hot here. We shouldn't have worn these parkas."

"We can do it!" Nana said. "We should just freeze the lava!"

They began pulling out Freezies and began hurling them into the lava. The lava froze, but immediately was thawed out by other lava.

"This isn't working," Popo said. "Let's throw bombs!"

"No, Popo!" Nana protested, but it was too late. Popo dumped dozens of Bob-ombs into the lava at the same time. The resulting explosion formed a tidal wave of lava, coming right at them.

"Oh dear!" Nana said. "We've got to get to a capsule! I think I saw one right over…"

Popo had already climbed inside and locked the door.

"POPO!" Nana screamed.

Alarms began blaring all over Wolf/Bowser/Ganondorf's castle. All the agents and villains began looking nervously around.

"Uh, what does that mean?" Peach asked.

"It's the lavalarms!" Bowser cried. "A wave of lava must be coming! And there's no way we can get out in time to avoid it!"

"Wait," Falco said. "Lavalarms? That's what you called them?"

"Well," Wolf said, "We didn't think we would ever need them."

"This-a looks like-a the end for us!" Mario cried, running in circles around his cage.

Everyone followed suit, except for Fox, who was unconscious, and Kirby, who looked thoughtful.

"I'm too pretty to die!" Zelda cried mid-transformation.

"Yes, you are!" Link yelled to her. "I love you, princess!"

There was a silence. "Awkward…" said Ganondorf.

"I've got an idea, everybody!" Kirby said. "It should save all of us!"

"Well, do it fast," said Wolf, checking his eyepiece. "Because the wave is almost here!"

The tidal wave of lava hit the castle, disintegrating it instantly. Nothing was left of the structure except for some bricks and rocks. However, one of the rocks began to move.

Kirby popped out of his stone form. "Whew! We're safe! Wait, where is everybody?"

"We're in here, you idiot!" Ganondorf yelled from Kirby's belly. "Let us out now!"

"Oh yeah." Kirby let out a huge belch. All of the characters came spewing out from Kirby's mouth. The cages were all gone. Fox was completely healed, due to the large amount of Maxim Tomato juice in Kirby's stomach.

"Well," said Wolf, shaking gunk out of his fur, "I guess I owe you guys some thanks. I'm sorry I tried to brutally kill you all."

"That's quite all right," Fox said. "Just another day's work for us agents."

"Yep, all is forgiven," said Link. "I don't really feel like fighting now that we're all covered in Kirby's… juices."

"I do! DIE, AGENTS!" roared Bowser. Mario pushed him off a cliff. "AAAAHHHH! Stupid plumber!" he yelled as he fell.

"Well," said Ganondorf, "All seems to have ended well."

"Not quite…" Fox said

Several days later, Kirby visited his old classroom where he had learned all about becoming an agent. It seemed quieter than before, but that was probably because Toon Link had tried smarting off to the new recruits, and Ganondorf and Wolf had taped his mouth shut. Fox and Falco agreed that both of them would someday become excellent agents.

After saying hi to all his old classmates, Kirby headed to the Agency locker room. Fox was in there getting ready for a mission.

"Whoa!" Kirby said in surprise. "Do we have another mission already?"

"No, I do." Fox said, frowning at Kirby. "Why would you be coming?"

"I'm your partner!"

"No, Pikachu's my partner," Fox said. "We just split up for a few days training the new agents."

"So… that was all training and I'm not your partner at all?" Kirby said sadly. "I thought we were friends!"

"Of course we're friends. And we still work together. Our teams may get to partner up sometimes. We just aren't partners."

"Yay!" Kirby spun around and cheered. "But… so, who is my partner?"

"Whomever Pikachu was training with."

Just then, Pikachu came into the room, followed by an angel. "Hey, guys!" Pikachu said cutely. "This is Pit. I think you two were in class together?"

"Oh yeah!" Pit said. "Hi Kirby! I'm glad we're going to be partners!"

"Hi!" Kirby turned towards Fox. "This might be fun!"

"No, you know what's really fun?" Pikachu asked with a glint in his eyes. "Falco has to train that new foreign exchange student, Marth. He can't speak a word of English!"

They all laughed. "Who's Zelda training?" Kirby asked.

"She seems to have gotten stuck between transformations," said Pit, "so she's getting medical treatment."

Just then, Luigi came into the room. "Guys, you've got a mission! There seem to be two children who have broken out of jail in New Pork City! Go knock them back in!"

"Agents, let's go!" Fox ordered. The four agents set out on a new adventure, together.

THE END

Epilouge:

Deep in the bowels of Norfair…

A hand broke the surface of the lava. A girl stepped out onto a platform, where her brother stood waiting.

"Revenge…" she said, walking slowly towards him. "Revenge…"

"Now, Nana," Popo said nervously, "just think of all the pain I've been in since you were swept away by that lava!"

Nana stopped and posed thoughtfully. "Hmm…" she said slowly. "That is a good point."

Popo extended his arms. "So we should just forget about the past and move on, agreed?"

Nana smiled. "Yes, Popo. We should. Just one thing, though."

"Anything, sweet Nana."

She threw him into the lava. "Whaaaa!" he cried as he disappeared beneath the surface.

"Hooray!" cheered Olimar. "What a happy ending!"

She threw him into the lava too. Not because he had done anything wrong, of course. Just because he existed.

And they all lived happily ever after for a few days. Then things got messy. Er.