Collection of the Smash Stories: Unearthed

Chapter 1- Smasher Fox

Yes, it is me again. Some of you may have just took a look at my other collab with Icee the Hedgehog titled 'Priorities', and here I am, publishing yet another In-Progress smash fiction.

But this is going to possibly be one of the biggest Smash projects this archive has ever seen. (I think...) It involves most of the authors that are from 'The Fanfics Forum', which supports the Super Smash Brothers: The Fanfics community.

Before I officially start this off, I just wanna thank every author that is involved in this, because I never realized the forum would be this successful. Heck, it was only created about five months ago!

You all will see chapters from other known authors such as Icee the Hedgehog, Paradigm of Writing, LilacFoxGirl1, Plasmatroopa, CrystalClearCourier, DavidNoklevername, HyperInuyasha, and more. So please give credit to everyone who's posted chapters.

~KF

Fox McCloud

"Are you sure you can't get someone else to do it? ...Like... Mario or something? He is the main hero of this whole universe, after all..."

"As much as I want to Fox, I'm afraid not. Falco and Wolf are from your home planet and not his. Plus, you know them more than anyone else in this mansion, leaving you with no other option to choose."

Fox McCloud, the main hero of the Lylat System had been called to Master Hand's office the minute after he finished his breakfast back at the cafeteria. Now that he was at the office, his question was finally answered as to why he was called.

He had to interview Falco Lombardi and Wolf O'Donnell.

No, it was not an interview just so that he can get the chance to know them, only because that they already had, it was an interview as to why the wanted to be a part of the upcoming Super Smash Brothers era. He'd never done anything like it before, but as much as he loved to be an interviewer someday, he needed to interview two people he didn't want.

Falco was known to be in a close, friendly relationship with the vulpine ever since Falco joined team StarFox back on the planet Corneria. Ever since he admitted that he used to be involved in a galactic gang, the bond between the two was born. However, it didn't meant that the two always got along no matter what. Falco was a little ignorant at times when someone makes him annoyed, yet at the same time, he had his sense of humor, as much as he knew when to be serious.

As most of his fans knew, Wolf was considered to be a rival to Fox and Falco. He would dislike like him half the time, but when neither of them are bothering them, he could tolerate them somewhat. Like Falco, he could be pretty cocky, only worse. His sense of humor would show whenever he felt like irritating his fellow brawlers. Though, he never done so as often whenever he was around Bowser, Ganondorf, Wario, and King Dedede, the former three mainly.

With a sigh in realization that there was no other way around it, Fox accepted his responsibility. "Fine, I'll do it... But don't expect wanting to do this at another time..."

"Alright, then." Master Hand 'nodded', floating to the door to open it afterwards. Upon seeing him float away, Fox realized that he'd forgotten one detail.

"Hey, I need to chair to sit at if I'm going to interview them from your desk..."

"Falco Lombardi, please report to... Master Hand's office as soon as possible... Thank you..."

The anthropomorphic fox placed the microphone back in its holder. After he received a solid brown chair from Master Hand almost ten minutes later, he could finally get to business. Since he'd just made an announcement telling his avian bird friend to pay in a visit in the office, he knew he had to be patient for him to show.

Realizing that he had a couple more minutes to be alone, he placed his feet up on the table of the brown desk with ankles crossed. To add onto it, his two arms were placed behind his head as he slouched in his chair, subsequently closing his eyes, not caring if he had the risk of falling asleep, only because he never wanted to do the job that was assigned by his master.

Right before he could even think of any dreams he desired if he slept, a loud knock was heard on the door, making McCloud scrambled to a standing position in an instant. Taking a few steps to the door, he opened it, revealing Falco with an annoyed stare and folded arms.

Although he knew that it was the type of reaction he was expecting, he was definitely surprised that he already concluded his journey to the office. "...Just how did you manage to get here so quickly?"

"I was about to head in the Teleporter Room to have a brawl with Yoshi, but then your voice boomed from the speakers, making me a little angry because I was just about the fight! And why does it have to be you who has to interview us? Why does it have to be now and not later? Like, when I'm not brawling or something!"

Fox sighed, rolling his eyes. "I'm going to try and summarize this all up. Master Hand is on a tight schedule, so he chose to call me down just because I've known you two back in our world. And he wanted to get this out of the way as soon as possible because he is planning on creating more stages for the upcoming Super Smash Brothers era. You can go file a complaint later if you want. Now, please take a seat so that we can get this over and done with..."

Those words being said, the taller veteran walk to the nearest of the two red velvet chairs and sat, his right leg crossing with his left knee and arms still folded.

Fox responded to this by giving him a bored stare. "Proper sitting position, please..."

"Hmph..."

Once he was in said sitting position, Fox proceeded to begin the interview. "Since I already know your name, we can just skip that part. Anyways, here comes the main question. Why do you want to remain a smasher for the upcoming Super Smash Brothers era?"

"Easy." Falco smirked, "Being a smasher since the Melee era made me feel as if I'm an important person, which I already am of course."

Ignoring his vulpine friend rolling his pair of eyes, he continued. "I was known to be one of the more advance fighters, since I have my fans looking at those tier lists. Some might consider me as a clone of you, but trust me. If I was a direct clone, then how come they don't see me as your identical twin?"

Despite being slightly annoyed that he was bragging about himself, Fox had to force a small smile. "Gotta admit, I kinda like his question at the end." He thought, "Okay, then. So, what is your specialty when it coms to fighting? And what is your style when it comes to combat?"

"Even better question... with an 's'..." Lombardi mumbled, "I prefer to be a skilled fighter, unlike some people who wants nearly every single attack to be powerful, yes I'm talking about Ike, Bowser, Ganondorf, you get the point. And for my fighting style, I'd like to be an aerial ace and wait for openings for attacks."

"Interesting." Fox nodded, "If Master Hand accepts you as a veteran fighter for the new Smash Brothers era, do you wish to improve?"

"Ugh, I have to explain my downside..." Falco mumbled again, even though he clearly knew that the shorter smasher could hear, "Yes, I do wish to improve my fighting techniques... I think that's all that needs to be said about it..."

"Alright, then. What are your advantages when it comes to your fighting?"

Falco's mood quickly changed back following that statement. He pulled out his blaster from his holster and spun it around vertically. "Obviously this baby to start off. A technique that I learned in the Brawl era is called 'Short-Hop Double Laser', which of course you are familiar with since we both share this technique. It forces my opponents to approach me instead of me approaching them, simply making battling an easier task. Since I'm an aerial ace, I can do well against some ground fighters like Zelda. And finally, I am one of the few that can perform a good chain grab."

"Nice." Fox commented, "Now for the last question. What are your weaknesses in battle?"

"Here we go with my downside again..." He sighed, "Well,... one of my problems has to do with my recovery, being that it is pretty straight forward and does not go as high as yours or Wolf's... And I hate to admit that I can have a difficult time trying to K.O... Nonetheless, there are not that many known weaknesses I have, so I guess it's not that bad..."

"Cool, cool..." He nodded again, while writing down on a yellow note pad. Once he set his black pen down, his head shifted upwards to meet his again. "Okay, then. I believe that is it. You can leave, now."

"Gladly." Falco smirked, getting to his feet to dash out the door. It was quite obvious that he really wanted to brawl with Yoshi just to show off his skills.

"...That actually went pretty well in a way..." The Lylat hero shrugged, picking up the microphone for a second time to call the next fighter, "Wolf O'Donnell, please report to Master Hand's office as soon as possible. Thank you."

"... ... ..."

Fox was now impatiently tapping his fingers on the desk, his face on the knuckles of his right hand, with a tired look slowly becoming visible in his eyes. He had waited about ten minutes for his rival Wolf to show up. Yes, he knew that the Smash Mansion had become bigger with the new smashers and Assist Trophies coming in, but it shouldn't take the lupine about ten minutes just to get to Master Hand's office. He confirmed that if he was not in the room after three more minutes elapses, he would simply make another announcement. And if that didn't work, he would have to call some other smashers so that Wolf could be in the office by force.

Although, on the bright side, if he didn't show himself up in three minutes, he had the opportunity to use that time to relax. After all, he was a bit sleepy, since he was one of the last smashers to drift off into sleep the night before. He stretched into the same position he did before he had to interview Falco.

The moment his eyes could close completely, a knock was then heard from the door, Fox of course being annoyed. Deja vu.

"It's open... Come in..." He said, dropping his feet to floor while his hands grabbed the pen and notepad, the latter being flipped to a new page.

Only a few seconds passed before Fox thought of why he never said those words when Falco was at the door. The veteran basically got up for nothing.

Nevertheless, O'Donnell entered the room to see his rival. Not paying attention to the fact that his arrival was more calmer than Falco's, Fox got right to business. The poor pilot was that desperate to get his job over with.

"What's up?" Wolf greeted, "Not that I actually want to see you here... You're not our master..."

Fox quickly sighed. "Look our master really has his... hand full for the time being. Let's just get these questions over with so that we can resume doing whatever we desire..." He cleared his throat, "Why do you think you deserve to be recognized as a smasher for the upcoming era?"

"Hmm... Where can this guy begin...?" His clawed finger proceeded to stroke the bottom of his chin, "Well, Master Hand and you all know that I don't have these claws for nothing, them being sharpened on a weekly basis in order for them to hurt my opponents in battle. The leader of StarWolf does not play around in battle. I may not be the best like Meta Knight, but since I'm a bounty hunter, never expect an easy battle when I'm on the field of battle."

"And I thought Falco was the one who brags the most... besides Sonic..." Fox shrugged, "Okay, now... What is your specialty? Fighting style?"

"My blaster, which is the only one that I consider to be real." O'Donnell smirked, "And I like to be a 'reactive' type of smasher, meaning that whatever attack the other fighters throw at me, I throw back. In other words, defense. But sometimes I don't wanna play safe."

"Knowing you, I'd thought that you never wanted to play safe in brawl in the first place..." Fox recalled, "Shall I-"

"No." Wolf promptly interrupted, "Please do not bring up those flashback of me on Smashville and Final Destination. Those were the worst brawls in the history... of brawls..."

"...Anyways, moving on..." Fox cleared his throat once again, his fist covering his mouth for a brief second, "In combat, what are your advantages?"

Wolf held his clawed index finger on his left hand. "Once again, the claws... And how do I put this... In my first brawl match against Sonic, Lucario, and Snake, I've gotta say that I am glad I chose to be a bounty hunter, because that had greatly affected my skills in combat a lot. Despite that, I'm still learning new techniques to this very day in time, to make sure I'm the absolute best this mansion's ever seen. Fangirls would faint when they see me in the next tournament, because Wolf O'Donell will be the one to take each and every fighter down."

"... ... ..." No words could escaped from the mouth of his rival, though he had to think for a moment. "...Wow, Wolf... Just wow..."

"Ahem."

"Oh," He snapped back to reality, "My apologies there. If Master Hand does confirm you as the next veteran to join, do you wish to improve?"

"Indeed I wish to improve, Cloud."

He hated it when he called them that. Even back in the Lylat System, whenever he had the chance to call him that, it made him imagine himself being an actual cloud. As much as he wanted to say something to the older fighter, he shoved that thought away because all he wanted to do at the time was to finish the interview, knowing that he was almost done with Wolf.

"Although I have skills that are deadly to certain smashers, there are fighters that are somehow more skilled then me... Meta Knight..." He mumbled the Star Warrior's name, "I'm in the middle of the tier list, but at least I am above you. In fact, Falco is one of the Top-Tiers. So, I have to run this fact in. You're literally the worst StarFox smasher in the tier list."

"Insults not needed, thank you." He immediately responded back. Yes, it was another dislike he had to deal with on times like this, even when someone had to bring up the tier lists. One would find it understandable, though, since he was the best smasher in the Melee era. For the Brawl era, though, he could never find out what went wrong.

"Last question. It's actually similar to this one. What are your weaknesses against the other members of the Smash Team?"

The leader of StarWolf sighed, shaking his head. "You're not easy to get along with, are you? Well, some attacks are performed way too quickly, some attacks are too powerful to handle, the bright side being that they are a little too slow. It's basically a fifty-fifty matchup whenever I'm battling certain brawlers such as Donkey Kong. Finally, my recovery can be a little outta hand, though you know that I hate to admit that..."

"Well Wolf, we all have our ups and downs." Fox explained, "We can't win every match, yet we can't lose every match. Even Meta Knight has lost a match against Ganondorf once, and you know that. That is why we always use the phrase, 'practice makes perfect'."

At first the deadly animal didn't know how to respond. "... ... ...You know what? ...You're actually... not right... See ya."

With that being said, the lupine got up from the red velvet chair and exited Master Hand's office, leaving Fox alone to give a blank stare at the door.

"... ... ..." He sighed, getting up from his own chair, "That guy would never grow up... And the worst thing is, he is older than both me and Falco... Well, at least the train had finally reached its destination. ...Worst phrase ever, but I don't care. I'm leaving this office, not even going to call Master Hand to let him know that I'm done."

He opened the door that was just closed by his rival and wandered out. "I hope to Lylat that Kirby had not swallowed the vending machine again..."

And there you have it. The first chapter of this great collab has finally been published. There will be a different user on the next chapter of course. All you guys have to do is to guess which one's coming up next.

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