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SUPER SMASH BROS. Civil War

Chapter 22: The Showdown

[Pro-Reg]

Showdown

The showdown between the rebel and registrant parties began. Being chased down by the rebels, Samus and her team baited them into a trap. Government soldiers covered the path, which forced the rebels to fight them head on to proceed on with the chase.

"Go on. I'll cover you," stated Ike, trying to hold back more troops.

"Thanks," said Mario as he slid beneath the distracted soldiers and evaded their gunfire.

"This is taking too long!" shouted the blue-haired mercenary, trying to avoid getting shot.

Fox drew out frags of smart bombs and shot the bombs all at once with his guns, damaging all their enemies and clearing a path. This allowed them to continue on to fight the registrant Smashers.

Samus, with the support of her allies in the back of her, fired her Zero Laser directly towards Mario as the catwalks they were on were straight. Using his shield, Mario charged at the bounty huntress and withstood the Zero Laser. He uppercutted her with his shield, knocking her down below the platform. Mario jumped below after her, whilst the registrants followed him. The leading rebels chased after them as well.

"Argh, you won't make it out of here so easily," Samus stated as she got up.

"We're here to help, Samus," said Captain Falcon as he and the others came to her aid.

"Stay up there guys. Back me up, Zelda. This shouldn't take long," said Mario as Zelda came to his aid while Fox and Ike watched from above.

The registration party engaged the two rebels in a heated conflict. Samus fired from her arm cannon, but Mario withstood the blast with his shield. Zelda shot the bounty hunter after the attack, knocking her back. It was then that Captain Falcon attempted to Falcon Punch Mario, but he missed. Mario immediately did an uppercut, launching him against the wall. Zelda blasted the remaining registrants, but they immediately recovered. Marth nearly went in for the kill, but Zelda managed to pull out her sword just in time. Mario blocked the gunfire from Falco. Captain Falcon dived in with a Falcon Kick and knocked back Mario for an opening.

"FALCOMM PAUNCH!" yelled out Captain Falcon as he did his signature move on Mario.

Mario, fortunately, survived the hit when he used his shield to meet the attack. Captain Falcon used Falcon Punch, but Mario blocked the attack once more. Meanwhile, Zelda had her hands full against the rest of the registration party. Samus and Falco repeatedly shot at her. Marth tried to cut her but was pushed back again. Samus intervened in the battle with Mario and Cap, and she used her rockets to damage Mario from another side. The Italian plumber saw it coming and jumped over Cap when the opportunity was open. Captain Falcon took all the damage.

"Sorry Cap! Maybe try to hold him next time," encouraged Samus as if it was a remark.

"Fine!" said Captain Falcon angrily as he continued to attack Mario.

Marth, Falco, and Palutena went after Zelda all at once. She was almost cut in one of her torsos by Marth and hit by Palutena's staff.

"I'm going in to help her," said Ike to Fox as he jumped off the catwalk and into the battlefield.

Fox watched from above and thought of a strategy by looking at attack patterns. He had a grenade launcher fitted with smart bombs and threw them at an exact moment where one of the registrants would be positioned. Samus caught sight of this and fired a quick missile at the anthro, making him fall into the battlefield.

The rebels were outnumbered as soon as registration soldiers arrived at the scene. "We won't be able to take them all on with just the four of us," Zelda warned.

"We'll see about that," said Fox as he pulled out several guns and took out almost all the soldiers with a couple bullets. He threw another round of smart bombs and hit them all in one go.

Everyone was astonished over what was displayed. Samus, irritated down to her last nerves, went for Fox. Cap and Marth attacked Zelda, whereas Ike was faced with Palutena and Falco. Mario tried to help out Fox, but was open to being attacked by Samus. As a team of two, Mario and Fox smashed Samus to the ground with each of them taking turns punching her. The bounty huntress needed repairs on her power suit.

"How is this possible?" grunted Samus before reading that her suit is down to 75%.

Captain Falcon swooped into her rescue and faced off the plumber and the anthro. "I'll hold them off. Repair your suit," said Cap while he defended Samus.

"Thanks, Cap," Samus nodded.

Captain Falcon stood his ground against Mario and Fox when he used both fists to counteract the oncoming attacks. Cap dodged the hits one by one. "FALCOMM… PAUNCH!" he did a double Falcon Punch on both Mario and Fox. Both of them fell to the floor.

Samus powered herself to a good 90% and charged her arm cannon directly at Mario's mustachioed face.

"Looks like I'm not taking you alive after all. I still have some courage to apologize for what I'm about to do," told Samus with a short smile.

"Same here. Heh heh," smirked Mario as he looked up and faced his doom, blood dripping from his mouth. Samus's smile quickly became a frown as her cannon was almost at full blast.

Ike defended himself to the bitter end and saw Zelda in trouble with fighting Marth. He threw his sword up to perform an Aether attack to distract Palutena and Falco, allowing him to bash them both to the floor. He jumped and grabbed his sword, and dashed to strike Marth.

"Your fight is with me," Ike challenged the prince.

"Zelda, go help the others. I've got this," said Ike to Zelda.

"Right!" she replied. The elf princess struck at Samus' back, however, the attack did not cancel the arm cannon blast.

Samus looked back at Zelda for a few seconds, giving Mario the chance to pull out his metal circular shield from his back. Samus quickly shot Mario when she returned her sights to him. Luckily, Mario blocked the shot and it deflected right back at her.

"Thanks, Zelda," Mario got up to fight.

"Now, let's end this," said Fox as he pulled out his gun.

"Gladly!" said Samus as she charged straight at Fox. The rest of the rebels were caught between fighting Cap, Palutena, Marth, and Falco.

"Mario, you take on the captain. We'll handle the rest," Ike suggested.

"Alright-a then," Mario nodded as he went after Captain Falcon.

The battle between Captain Falcon and Mario escalated when they exchanged fists. Blazing hot fist to fiery fist. The registrants, instead of ganging up on Mario with Cap, went for Zelda and Ike.

"Losing stamina over here," said Ike, who was weakened.

"Here. I'll heal you," Zelda placed her gloved hands on Ike.

"Thank you, my friend," he responded as he stretched and unleashed his sword.

"Very well. Let us fight!" shouted Zelda when she also held her bow and arrow.

"Prepare yourself!" warned Ike to the registered Smashers.

As promised, the registered Smashers battled the mercenary swordsman and elf princess.

"Your battle is with me, mortal," Palutena hovered.

"Miss Palutena. I can help you," came along Pit. He had burn marks and cuts on his armor and had broken cuffs. His white tunic had several marks and scratches.

"No. You need to rest, Pit," told Palutena, worried about the young angel's safety.

"I can still wield a blade," assured Pit, trying not to succumb to fatigue as he held his dual-bladed staff. "Don't worry about me, Lady Palutena. I'll be fine." Palutena gave a nod, still worried.

Zelda shot a light arrow aimed at Palutena; she immediately dodged it, hitting Pit instead. Luckily, the arrow touched his left shoulder, releasing a trail of blood from the wound. Pit felt the warm sense of blood and fell to his knees. He ripped off a piece of his tunic and wrapped it around the wound.

"I can't concentrate without a steady grip with both arms," said Pit. Grasping on to his wound, Pit tossed his Sacred Bow to his goddess. "Please… use it. I'll be fine." Pit flew away to receive medical care, even though his wings were becoming tiresome.

"I've had it with you, elf creature! No one strikes Pit! Now you'll pay dearly!" announced Palutena in full anger.

"Is that so?" replied Zelda rudely, increasing Palutena's irritation.

Palutena, with Pit's Sacred Bow, shot at Zelda, hitting her at the side of her left arm. Zelda shot Palutena across her pale cheek, dropping some blood. The goddess struck the elf princess with a heavenly blast, nearly disintegrating her.

"You could have killed me!" Zelda yelled out.

"That's the idea," Palutena fired again from the Sacred Bow.

"Alright! If this is how it's going to be, then the real fight begins now. You're about to see something different from my persona," smirked Zelda back.

Zelda's body sparkled a shade of blue as she danced and twirled. Her entire body flashed white and transformed into someone new. She appeared to be a ninja with red eyes and had no intention of speaking; Sheik.

"So what is this? A ninja elf?" asked Palutena with a smug look.

Sheik said no word and the only sounds that were heard were gunshots, screaming, and explosions throughout the Research Facility. She darted straight for the green haired goddess with incredible speed.

"Whoa! So fast," Palutena said when Sheik disappeared into a cloud of dust. Sheik kicked the goddess in the stomach in an instant.

"But that's impossible," complained the goddess as she tended to her injury.

Sheik threw about a dozen small knives, making several cuts on her skin and clothes.

"Why you?! Take this!" shouted Palutena as she fired a divine blast from her palm, precisely damaging Sheik.

"This is what happens when you avoid punishment!" gloated Palutena.

The goddess charged at Sheik but disappeared before reappearing and striking the elf princess turned ninja with her staff. Sheik transformed back into Zelda from the amount of damage taken.

"I won't go on for much longer," Zelda was weakened. Without her, she won't be able to heal her friends. Palutena just looked on with disgust. "That's quite enough from you!" Palutena kicked Zelda in the face.

Ike was pushed back by the oncoming slashes of Marth and shots of Falco. His cape was almost torn to shreds and the armor on his shoulder slowly cracked.

"I'm coming, Zelda!" Ike shouted before being left open for Marth to strike his side. Ike fell off from the catwalk they were on and landed in the middle of a battlefield. Marth and Falco jumped down to finish him. Ike didn't have the energy to fight back as soon as he recovered.

"Argh!" Ike panted, spitting blood and holding on to his side for a while.

The brutal fight between Cap and Mario continued. Cap did a sweeping Falcon Kick, in which Mario jumped high enough to dodge it, leaving him defenseless in the air. The Captain leaped above and hit Mario in the stomach with his knee. Mario stood up and kept on fighting back. The plumber was pushed back into a corner as Cap moved in closer to end him.

"No, it wasn't supposed to be like this," proclaimed Mario.

"I'm sorry, but there's no other choice. You're not going to walk away," said Captain Falcon as he was ready to do a Falcon Punch.

And at last, Samus severely brought Fox to a fatal last stand. With every hit taken, Fox couldn't fight for much longer. Samus' power suit took a substantial amount of damage, although it wasn't enough. Fox's armor was already torn up, as well as his jacket.

"Why won't you just quit?" said Samus who was already irate.

"What's the point in quitting right now when you're this close to winning?" said Fox while spitting some blood out from his mouth and on Samus' helmet.

The bounty huntress brushed off the remarks and knee kicked him twice in the stomach. He coughed out more blood. Samus shot him with another of her rockets, breaking off parts of Fox's body armor and leaving burn marks on his clothes. Fox fell to the floor, barely being able to get up.

Samus held Fox by the neck and attempted to choke him. With the power suit, it wouldn't be long until she kills him. Fox formulated one final chance at survival. Fox used a smart bomb that attaches onto a host and blows up in seconds after that. With his might, Fox drove the bomb into Samus's power suit.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" said Samus before the explosion went off, making her release Fox from the choke hold.

Samus was forced back and her power suit was at a dangerous 40%. She had to reboot again to increase the maximum amount to a 75% at least.

"Now to help the others," Fox coughed in relief.

Fox was given time to help his friends, unfortunately not enough. He first went for Zelda and Palutena. He jumped in the stage they were on and shot the goddess several times with a paralyzing gun.

"Again?!" Palutena hissed because she was frozen for about a minute.

"Thank you, Fox. I'll be able to heal you," Zelda thanked him.

"Can you still fight, Zelda?" Fox was getting treated.

"Yes. We have to get to the others though," informed Zelda.

The anthro and the elf princess ran across another catwalk after Fox was all better. Ike lost his footing to Marth and Falco. Fox shot them both with the paralyzing gun.

"Thank you, my friends. We must get to Mario with haste," told Ike as Zelda healed him as well.

"Right," said Zelda and Fox simultaneously.

Captain Falcon was about to Falcon Punch him, but Mario distracted him long enough for his friends to come.

"Wait-a moment! Do you think it is alright to destroy your friends?" said Mario.

"You mean the same friends who asked for a fight?" remarked Cap.

"Yeah. But, we can make things right again. We'll get the government to repeal the Registration Act and that way this war ends haha," told Mario with a scared laugh.

"You've never been one for violence Mario, but ever since that mission one year ago, you caused all of this to happen, and look where it's gotten to us!" Cap scolded.

"And what of you? You've never been one of violence either. And here you are about to kill me," said Mario when he looked at Fox, Zelda, and Ike on top of a catwalk and signaled them to come to his aid.

"There may be another choice, but you would force me to push that rational mentality aside and take the hard way out," said Cap as he charged up a Falcon Punch. Fox shot Cap a couple times in the back with the paralyzing gun. The rebels saved Mario, and Zelda healed him quickly.

"You-a made it!" Mario thanked as all four of them shared a hug. The four rebels escaped from their enemies before they could recover. They recuperated at another battlefield.

"We must leave this place. There's no chance we can beat them. Fox, I hope that emitter you used did well enough so we can escape," Mario assumed.

"The shield should be down by now and—" Fox replied before pausing when he was surprised to see Samus in a convalescent and fine condition.

"You ass, a simple emitter won't be enough. Good thing the shield can disrupt any emitter within a certain quantity of time," explained Samus as the shield came back online.

"Grr! Now we'll never leave," Fox got frustrated.

"You won't be leaving anytime soon, I promise you that," Samus responded.

Following Samus were Captain Falcon, Palutena, Marth, and Falco; all of them fully recovered. Mario and his rebels had no other option. Their only choice was to live to fight another day… by fighting.

ooo

[Anti-Reg]

Faceoff

In one last attempt in the battle, Mario and his rebels were once again forced to flee. Mario decided to split from his squad and that allowed him to be chased by the pursuing registrants. Instead of Samus tagging along with her allies, she went after Fox again in a vicious struggle. The rest of the registrants were interrupted by Ike and Zelda who chased them from behind.

"Your fight is with us," told Zelda confidently.

"I'll go after Mario. You guys hold them off," said Cap.

"Not this time, Captain. I challenge you to a duel once more," Ike proclaimed as he charged forward with speed and threw his blade upwards, jumped to grab it, and hit Cap in the back as he descended.

"Don't expect anything nice," Cap threatened back as he got up. Zelda came to Ike's aid whilst the other pro-reg fighters went after her.

"We're in this together," Zelda transformed into Sheik once again.

"Here we go again," Palutena rolled her eyes when she held her staff in one hand.

The two renegade Smashers faced the rest of the registered Smashers, who had them cornered from two to four. Sheik and Palutena along with Falco dueled, leaving Ike to take on Marth and Cap. But, as soon as the fight began, the blue hedgehog sprang to assist the registered party.

"Hey, guys. Sorry if I couldn't make it in time," Sonic rushed in.

"Perfect timing, as usual. Help us out," told Falco as he avoided being sliced by Sheik's throwing knives.

"No problem," Sonic replied as he dashed straight for Sheik and swept her off her feet. Sheik recovered with ease.

"This is not going to be a piece of cake," Sonic took note of that. Sheik carefully dodged Falco's shots and Palutena's inescapable divine blasts.

Sheik and Sonic looked at one another after turning around and charged once more. Sheik did a flurry of kicks, but Sonic jumped up to evade. He then curled into a spinning ball and plummeted Sheik to the floor. Not giving up yet, she threw out a rope chain and captured the hedgehog.

Giving the ninja elf a grin, Sonic used his incredible speed to make Sheik release him, in which she did not and caused her to be dragged on the floor. Sheik did not let up as she looked at Palutena. Palutena's impatience spiked and she tried to shoot Sheik several times but missed. She leaped above to evade, however, it left her open when Falco threw a smart bomb at her.

"I do not need your help, bird," said Palutena rudely. Falco looked at her and gave the 'sarcastic sorry' face.

"Don't give me that look!" she told him.

"Alright. Calm down, woman," said Falco. Much to what he said, the goddess calmed.

To finish off Sheik, the green haired goddess struck the elf with a heavenly blast, rendering Sheik to transform back into Zelda.

Ike tried not to get hit by Cap's kicks and cut by the blue-haired prince's sword. Focusing his attention back on Marth, Ike sliced off a bang of Marth's hair. Ike angrily broke off half of Marth's armor in a blaze of fire matched with his mighty blade and smashed him off the catwalk. Looking at what just happened, Cap decided to take on the blue-haired mercenary swordsman alone. They proceeded for a showdown.

"So this is it," countered Cap before he aimed to hit Ike in the face with his right hand, devising a plan. Ike easily grabbed hold of Cap's gloved fist, allowing an opportunity for Cap to hit Ike in the stomach with the left hook.

"Falcon Punch!" he yelled, fatally smashing Ike's armor in the stomach.

"...Err, but… h-how?!" said Ike, tending to his wound. Before that could happen, Captain Falcon gave him an uppercut.

Ike didn't recover until he got himself up and was consumed with anger. Exploding with rage, Ike's blade and aura glowed a blue fire instead of the usual color. "I won't lose, do you hear me?! I won't!" promised Ike to Cap as he struck the captain with a strong blade attack.

He performed the Aether attack on Cap, causing the Captain's helmet to be removed and collapse from receiving a great deal of damage.

"...Sorry about that," Ike said when he lowered his rage and helped Cap get up unexpectedly.

"Why?" asked Cap.

"Because I cannot allow my enemy to be helpless such as when I strike like that," explained Ike.

"Still, you either come alive or you don't," told Captain Falcon.

"Yeah, we'll see," Ike stated.

"We're not done yet," Palutena showed up.

Ike immediately attacked Palutena and made her lose balance. He helped Zelda get up just before her energy started to fade out from her body.

"If I continue any further, I'll never get us out. Ike, you have to beat them. I can heal you, but lay me down somewhere safe," instructed Zelda. Without words, a healed Ike carried Zelda to a safe zone as Palutena, Sonic, and Falco looked on with surprise.

"I will take you all on myself, or should I pick one of you at a time?" Ike announced, brandishing his sword.

"Either way is fine," said Palutena, showing off her staff.

Ike and Palutena dueled as soon as Ike gave a nod. Both fighters were in a clashing stalemate as Ike used his blade and Palutena had her staff.

"You're pretty good. Then again, I am fighting a goddess," pointed out Ike.

"Thank you. I might feel bad after you die," Palutena smirked.

"We'll see," said Ike, who refrained from attacking. He patiently waited for the moment to hit her. Palutena calmed for a while to focus on defeating Ike. However, in anticipation of an attack, a nearby explosion in the research facility affected everyone and knocked them all out.

What the Smashers missed was silhouettes of soldiers, neither rebel nor registrant, with chemical explosives in their disposal.

Samus and Fox confronted each other across the catwalks to reach their final destination. Samus tried to shoot him and Fox tried to shoot her back. "Let's go for round two, hm," smiled Samus after they both reached their location at the same time.

"Give me your best shot, Aran," Fox replied. Mario ran to aid Fox and joined in the fray.

"I'm here to finish the job," Mario jumped in.

"More convenient for me," she replied as she charged her arm cannon.

"Let's-a do this!" threatened Mario as he pulled out his metal shield.

Fox only had a gun in hand and a reflector in the other. Samus started off by firing from her arm cannon. Fox immediately deflected it and sent it back to Samus, but she dodged it as soon as she could. This allowed Mario to throw his shield right at Samus's suit. Mario charged forward and caught the shield and smashed the glass out of her helmet.

Her suit was at 60% and dropping fast. Mario repeatedly hit her in the abdomen and Fox shot her several times using his gun. To retaliate, the bounty huntress punched Mario back a couple times. Of course, Mario fought back and fended off what she had in store. Decreasing to 65%, Samus charged up her Zero Laser as she dealt hard blows from Mario and Fox. Samus' power suit dropped to a failing 50%. As they were battling on the stage, all of them argued.

"If only you'd signed that stupid act, we wouldn't even have to fight," told Samus.

"Our choice is our own… we had to stop that registration act from becoming law. You abandoned us. All for Bowman and his cronies," said Mario, grabbing hold of Samus's arm cannon to prevent from shooting.

"Not true… I have little support for what those suits have to say," admitted Samus breaking free of Mario, only to be facing Fox.

"What?! Then why side with them?" Fox, angrily trying to attack Samus.

"...Because of Mario!" she responded before knocking down Fox and shooting him with the stomach with her charged arm cannon, impaling his battle armor. She turned her attention to the Italian plumber.

"It's because of you! I never trusted you when we did that mission attacking Bowser and bombing his castle. You and the dog over there went in and blew everything to kingdom come!" said Samus.

"I wouldn't put you or anyone else at risk even if I hadn't told you I was going to blow up the castle!" said Mario holding his ground.

"...You're lying! It's because of you that law was passed!" she accused him.

"It's the law that's destroying us. We can't let our problems with each other get in the way of removing that law. Why do you persist in helping the government anyway?" questioned Mario.

"Because you don't deserve to lead us!" yelled out Samus before her anger overpowered Mario. She punched him harder, putting bruises around his face and causing him to fall to the floor, desperately unable to proceed much longer.

"...I understand. If justice is not served by stopping registration, then let the government know there is no peace for them... either the law goes or they go… or you!" Fox got up. Fox and Mario looked at each other, and then at Samus.

"You traitors won't have such an easy time with me," Samus spoke as Fox glared at her.

The female bounty hunter and the vulpine continued to fight without mercy. Samus tried to shoot him again but missed. Fox kicked her after that attempt, which wouldn't normally phase her power suit, but due to the amount of the damage taken, her suit read a low 40% and could not withstand a direct hit below 25% or less. Samus countered back with a ramming charge, knocking the vulpine for a while. She proceeded to limp away and activated her emergency reboot system.

"Need to give repairs… for some time," she told herself, realizing 35% wouldn't save her.

"Not gonna happen, Samus!" yelled Mario who unknowingly recovered in time. Mario threw his shield at Samus's back, canceling the reboot system.

Mario helped Fox get up after being rammed like that. The two rebels saw in dismay at Samus's power suit. The power suit itself was tainted with burns, several bullet holes, dents, and marks on the suit, in addition to the glass on the helmet being broken. The bounty huntress had to fight even if her power suit was close to shutting down. She tried to attack Mario first but this proved inevitable as the plumber maneuvered through her attack and kicked her to Fox, who returned the favor by striking her. Mario smashed her helmet with his shield, making her move to Fox, in which he kicked her with a barrage of attacks. Mario broke parts of her power suit off using the shield and Fox shot her several times before pushing her to Mario again.

"You're through!" Samus aimed her Arm Cannon at Mario, a close quarters Zero Laser attack.

Fox tore up Samus's Arm Cannon with an uppercut, and broke it to pieces by jamming his gun into her Arm Cannon. The Arm Cannon exploded, causing Samus to be sent back. Samus finally fell to the ground, but as a small trick to catch them by surprise. Once Mario and Fox stopped, Samus made a daring opportunity and grabbed Fox's neck again like last time.

"One more step, and he dies," intimidated Samus to force Mario to not move.

"...Not y-yet," said Fox while trying to speak. The vulpine used another smart bomb and placed it on the power suit. Samus let go right away.

At a dead 10%, Samus ejected from the power suit just before it created a massive explosion, sending the Smashers to a lower level in the facility as the floors fell apart. Everyone hastily survived from the fall.

"You're going down," said Samus, revealing herself in a dark blue sleeveless zero suit and shorts as well as boots. She only had a gun in hand since her whip was decimated along with the power suit.

Captain Falcon woke up from being passed out and took the liberty of rescuing his allies. He tried to wake up Palutena, Falco, and Sonic. In spite of the chaos throughout the chemical plant, a team of registered soldiers came to the rescue.

"Sir, we saw that you were unconscious, so we came under a moment's notice," explained one soldier.

"Rally up our forces. We're evacuating. Take them and get them to safety," ordered Cap as he pointed to his party members.

"Sir, what about these two?" asked another soldier when they found Ike and Zelda among them. Doubt and guilt were all Cap could think about himself right now when he thought of Ike's generosity. He was given no other choice.

"Sir?" said one soldier.

"...Take them to the penitentiary, and make sure they are given medical help," instructed Cap. "I'm sorry about this," he thought as the soldiers got the Smashers out of harm's way.

Captain Falcon had to return to assist Samus, but on the way, a team of mysterious bandits with explosives set off several chemical tanks, instantly blowing them all up and severely rendering Captain Falcon's right arm limp and useless as it drew blood. Despite the arm injury, Cap continued on in order to support Samus. The three Smashers were evenly matched as they were all weakened from fighting. Finally, Samus gave in.

"Amnesty, huh Samus? Was that your best bet against us?" asked Mario.

"You still don't get it, do you? You still don't know where you're pushing things," grunted Samus.

"Don't start with that nonsense again. What you do won't change right from wrong," said Mario.

"Sometimes you have to do the wrong thing at the right time to save everyone," she responded.

"Nothing you say is going to change the way—" said Fox before he saw Captain Falcon's presence. Everyone noticed his broken and bloodied arm.

"Cap?" Samus blinked.

"...I still live!" said Cap as he made his way down to their location.

"Cap, where are the others?" asked Samus.

"Gone… and I mean that they're safe, but we have to leave. This facility is unstable and it's going to collapse on us," told Cap.

"Not without these two," Samus stared at the remaining rebels with her cold blue eyes. "You're not moving anywhere."

"Don't worry. Not gonna move," Mario said sneeringly while raising his arms up in a surrendering pose.

"Why you?!..." Samus yelled when she heard the sound of a gas leak about to go off.

"What the f—" Mario heard the sound as well before it was too late.

All four Smashers heard the sound as the volume increased exponentially until explosions came from all sides from the underground cylinder like battlefield they were on. The frequency of the chemical explosions resulted in a disruption of what allowed the shield to remain secure and stable. Now was the chance for evacuation on both sides. As for the main fighters, luckily, the four Smashers survived, but Cap and Sam escaped from the rebels to rendezvous with the registration forces. Mario and Fox were separated from their enemies.

"...Dammit!" cursed Mario as he pounded his fist on the floor before he got up.

"What now?" said Fox after getting up as well.

"We're finishing this," Mario proclaimed.

"No, if we don't leave now, we'll end up dead or into the hands of the registration forces," warned Fox.

"Fine, I'll go in alone. You fall back to base now that the shield's down," told Mario.

"Mario, we can't risk you getting captured," argued Fox trying to reason with his leader.

"Not discussing it, Fox. You have your orders," Mario reprimanded as he turned away from his second to command and rushed to find an alternative way to reach Cap and Samus.

ooo

[Pro-Reg]

Faceoff

Cap and Sam, however, got themselves to a safe place once the explosions allowed for an easier passage. The said explosions caused Samus's legs to become numb so she couldn't move easily. Captain Falcon carried her with arms on him as he walked, even though his right arm was broken.

"…Thanks, Cap," Samus weakly thanked him.

"No problem," he replied.

As he was carrying her, Samus made conversation. "Hey Cap? What happened to your helmet?"

"Got smashed in half while I was fighting Ike," Cap questioned.

"Ah, that's too bad. I liked that helmet," she admitted. "Sorry, just making small talk. The fumes are getting to my head."

"I miss it too, heh heh," Cap shook his head, followed by a short chuckle. They were greeted by surviving registered troops when they saw them.

The registration forces began an emergency evacuation and rounded up anyone who was left in the facility.

As the Research Facility deteriorated from the sounds of explosions, screams, and the air of chemicals being released as the sky had a visible orange and red color. What remains in the dark comes out in the light to bite on the innocent.