Smash Brothers Civil War: Chapter 17

SUPER SMASH BROS. Civil War
Chapter 17: Going Deep

[Anti-Reg]
Smash Tower Briefing

Peach landed safely from the elevator shaft after Fox and tried not to make it a noise. With his sensitive ears, Fox already heard the blonde-haired princess and turned around to face her.

“What do you want? Come here to try to stop me?” Fox allowed the princess to confront him.

“No, nothing of that,” she said.

“Sorry but I won’t go quietly on a leash like last time,” he told her.

“You’re right that I shouldn’t treat you like a pet and more as a friend,” she confessed.

“...” he almost looked surprised.

“Yeah. I mean, you’re like the brother I never had and I just want us to be friends,” Peach told him.

“...Why are you playing these games? Why the hell are you playing these games with me, princess?!” shouted Fox. “I-I… love you. I don’t know what I’m saying. Ever since we met, you’ve been so kind and caring towards me that I fell in love with you, but I know you don’t feel the same way,” Fox was denying his feelings for Peach.

“Fox, maybe it was… wasn’t meant to be. I like you too, but I’m not looking into romance and I wouldn’t think of us as a couple,” said Peach expecting acceptance.

“Don’t you even care that I howled my true feelings in front of you? You know what? Now that I’ve said it, I don’t know what I was thinking if you and I were together,” shot back Fox as he decided to leave.

“Wait, you can’t go!” shouted Peach.

“Get off my case!” barked Fox before running off.

“What’s wrong with me? Why did I say that? Now he's never going to love me. I should have said how I felt… but… but, I lied,” Peach thought to herself as she ran after him with tears dripping on the marble floor.

ooo

[Pro-Reg]
Main Office

The rebel Smashers fought against Zero Suit Samus while trying to buy time to leave the tower unharmed. The entire tower was almost completely dark, but everyone could still see even though the iron curtains blocked the sunlight.

“You won’t be able to get away this time,” said Samus as she used her whip.

“Unlike what happened before,” grinned Mario after dodging the attack.

“Heh, this woman is not so strong without that suit of armor,” told Ike when he almost struck at Samus.

Samus used her gun and whip to hold them off at the same time.

“Try me,” she whispered to Ike.

“Certainly,” smirked Ike when he tried to slice her with his golden sword.

“You know, how much did that cost you, or did you paint it gold,” she pondered at Ike’s sword.

“Forged with tungsten, woman. I will—” shouted Ike before Samus punched him in the gut.

“Maybe I should’ve warned you,” she grinned.

“How about me?!” said Mario after trying to hit Samus from above with a fiery fist, but missed.

Captain Falcon swooped to the top all of a sudden and attempted to Falcon Punch Mario, but missed; Zelda phased the Captain to paralyze him for a while. Mario repeatedly shot fireballs at Samus but she dodged them all, which left her open to an attack by Zelda, and she was forced into the ground by both Zelda and Mario’s combined attacks.

“See. I told you,” glared Zelda looking down at Samus in satisfaction.

However, the Smash Tower finally turned on and the lockdown ended.

“Hehe, the power’s back online and online security will react,” smiled Samus as she instantly got back up again.

“It’s just as I had planned,” Mario made a grin.

“What?!” Samus, taken aback.

“We had to make sure you got the tower back online so we can download all the information we need. That and we disabled security from the start”

“N-no!—”

As Captain Falcon fell to the floor from being paralyzed, Samus tried to fight back, but Mario fired back with his flaming Finale wave, a stream of fires pushing them both back.

ooo

[Anti-Reg]
Smash Tower Briefing

Peach caught up with Fox, who was finishing the download on the information they needed. The brown furred fox heard her footsteps and loaded a gun and pointed it at her face.

Looking back at her again, he said, “Tell me why I shouldn’t shoot you right now?”

“Because you’re better than this. I know you don’t want to shoot me,” she told him. Fox placed his weapon away and took off the drive from the computer he hacked into.

“I’m not going to change sides,” he told her.

“Please don’t do this. You have no idea what you’re getting into here,” she asked politely, interrupting him, something she never does.

“Not this time,” he said after walking away with the drive.

Fox slid down to the lobby using the elevator rope in order to group up with the rest of the rebels, who managed to get away from Samus.

“You got the information?” asked Mario.

“Yeah, now I’ll be able to put the tower on lockdown again. At least for a couple minutes before we leave,” explained Fox.

“Alright, team! Let’s-a go!” ordered Mario as he and the rebels went deep beneath the building. The rebels easily went past Peach, who refused to attack.

ooo

[Pro-Reg]
Going Deep

Samus and Captain Falcon hastily recovered from defeat and had to find the other registered Smashers.

“Not again with a lockdown,” complained Samus.

“It doesn’t matter right now. We should find the others,” said Captain Falcon. The other registrants were currently tied down after finding the backup generator and handling rebel resistance as a distractor.

As she was running after the rebel Smashers, Samus called the registrant Smashers and said, “Get to the main lobby and hurry. The rebels are getting away!”

“We hear you, Samus. We’re on our way. Let’s go, team!” signaled Falco.

“Who made you a leader, bird?” patronized Palutena.

“Ain’t important, Miss. We gotta make sure the resistance don’t get away,” replied Falco.

The registrants immediately found their way into the lobby, meeting up with Samus and Cap. “It was all a setup! Just a way to rob us of the equipment and steal our information,” told Samus.

“Well what are we waiting for, let’s move,” interfered Marth.

“They’re headed down the sewers,” said Captain Falcon.

“That may sound unpleasant for my liking,” said Palutena in a maiden voice.

“Urgh! Me, Cap, Marth, and Lucina will get after them while the rest of you clean up. Falco, figure out a way to turn off the lockdown,” Samus told the pro-reg Smashers as they went underground after the rebels.

The registrant Smashers followed the rebels deep into the sewers where it looked like it was under construction and well manufactured.

“Gods, how are we going to catch up to them? What was Palutena saying again?” said Lucina.

“Trash,” Samus bluntly replied.

“Fair point. I think… wait! There they are! On the other side,” shouted Lucina in surprise, pointing at the rebels. The rebels were too far to catch from the deep sewers.

As soon the rebels disappeared further into the sewers, Mushroom Star soldiers snuck up behind the four pro-reg Smashers and loaded on their guns.

“Aw crap! Let’s just arrest these guys instead,” said Samus frustrated as they attacked them one by one.

After stopping the soldiers, the registrants had to go back to the tower. They were able to lift the lockdown that was placed again and checked on the damages.

ooo

{One Day Later}
Smash Tower Briefing

“They stole over fifty cases of SRA munitions, dozens of SRA government robotic operating machines, as well as our key plans to end this war,” Captain Falcon reported.

“No doubt they’ll be more militaristic than before. We have to be ready at any time, at any cost,” Marth stated.

Peach looked down at the floor for guilt.

“Can me and Sammy speak alone, please?” Peach asked everyone.

Peach held Samus’s arm and marched her somewhere discreet.

“What is it, Peach?” Samus questioned.

“This is my fault. I couldn’t stop Fox from stealing the information. I failed you because of how I felt about him,” said Peach.

“It wasn’t your fault. I should have seen it coming,” Samus replied.

“No, I didn’t stop him from getting the information. I was frozen and at gunpoint until he turned around and he said he hated me.”

“Don’t worry about it, sis. I couldn’t stop him from stealing the registered weapons. Look at it like that.”

“But I lost someone I care about.”

“I promise that he’ll love you again, Peach. And if not, I’ll pull his tail and drag him to you.”

“Okay, Sammy. I just hope it’s not too late to win back his heart.”

“Let’s head back to the briefing to talk about the next phase in our overhaul.”

Samus and Peach returned back to the briefing station and plans were continuing in the civil war.

“I would be lying if I said we didn’t have any real problems handling the rebels. We have to prepare for anything they can shoot right back at us,” spoke Samus.

“Which is why we plan to apprehend all rebel forces to prevent this war from going too far,” said Captain Falcon.

“Currently, there is a penitentiary under construction and will be operational in a week and ready to hold our friends,” Samus announced.

“Where is this ‘penitentiary’?” asked Lucina.

“It’s a prison located in another dimension of space and darkness. It was founded when stumbled upon a huge, spherical portal of dark matter. We found it near the city after the second coming of Master Hand,” explained Samus.

“It proves useful because we learned several things from that dimension. First, it has oxygen. Second, there were no inhabitants of what we saw. And third, this dimension could provide a link to other universes,” Captain Falcon added.

“I see,” Lucina noted.

“Getting back to the main topic, we send captured rebels to the prison to reduce their militancy. We’ll also have Landmasters and Arwings patrolling the area as well as armed helicopters and ground troops overlooking on top of small buildings for security measures and looking for rebel soldiers,” said Samus.

“Wouldn’t this act of ‘security measures’ provoke a fight?” Palutena asked curiously.

“Exactly,” said Samus with a smirk, which put chills on a few people.

“We’ve been given clearance to operate. We will be patrolling the city. Falco and Samus will cover the skies and the rest will handle below,” Captain Falcon stated.

Speeding up the stairs, Sonic made it to the briefing. “You’re late, hedgehog. And where were you when we needed these last couple of days?” asked Samus, irritated.

“I was on patrol like you guys said and—” he almost revealed.

“Blah, blah, blah, I don’t want to hear any more of your crap. What did you really do?” said Samus, acting annoyed.

“Argh, fine! I was running around the city because I just can’t stay indoors and expect to be called on for action,” Sonic made an excuse.

“Well, that’s what you signed up for in the registration,” Captain Falcon said to the hedgehog.

“Of course I did,” thought Sonic while trying to be interested. “Yeah, but besides the rebels, there are those who didn’t sign up at all,” he spoke. “Aside from that, while I was racing all over town, I saw new faces coming by, but I ignored them,” told Sonic.

“What is wrong with you?!” Samus shot back, putting some fear into Sonic.

“We may be down by a couple Smashers and some of the pro-reg government forces, but we can’t possibly lose with our military power,” exclaimed Samus.

“And if we do lose?” pointed out Palutena.

“There’s one last move we could try, but that could mean a full-scale faceoff. I’ll discuss it later,” Samus hinted.

“Wait! Before we close out, it’s important who else wasn’t present to sign this law,” Lucina pondered.

“I think Rosie didn’t sign up because she wasn’t there at the time,” said Peach when she remembered.

“Yeah, and those two mysterious ninjas, who probably are far away in the jungles,” included Palutena. “Ah, yes. I remember that strange Lucario creature.”

“And then there’s that troublemaker of a wolf. He might not go quietly,” Robin pointed out.

“I saw this puffball with a sword that looked like our old friend Kirby. And then this angel with dark wings and red eyes. I thought for a second it was Pit, but it wasn’t,” Sonic informed them that Meta Knight and Dark Pit were present.

Palutena gave Pit a glare as soon as he flew in. “Pit. Why didn’t you tell me your evil clone was here?”

“I, uh, it slipped my mind?…” Pit excused.

“What more secrets lie ahead beyond this world?” wondered Lucina.

“No one else?” Captain Falcon looked around. “I suppose that concludes our discussion. Be prepared to fight tomorrow,” he ended the briefing.