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Bound Together By Fate : Ch 4

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Bound Together By Fate Chapter 4
By: Black_ShadowGX

Disclamour: I do not own F-Zero, or any of its characters, Nintendo proudly owns this great series.

Split Second Decision

Author's note: Yes as you guys can tell I have mixed in the F-Zero Anime with the Canon F-Zero storyline of the consoles.  Cause I loved watching the anime and I believe it had some good points on how these characters would interact with one another, though I did have some problems with the anime as any fan of the series would. The removal of AX characters ticked me off when I first heared of the anime. The characters introduced in GX/AX were fine additions to the F-Zero series and why they never showed up in the anime was never answered by anyone. But both Don Genie & Deathborn did however appear at least around the end of the anime to show that Nintendo does own the characters from GX/AX and hopefully supports the idea they will return in a future installment of the series, and from the cameos in various games and SSBB the next game is taking place after GX/AX which is a sigh of relife for me. Now on with the story, sorry to keep you waiting.
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"Ladies and Gentlemen, Freaks and other life forms in attendance, Welcome to the BET Race!" said an announcer over a giant intercom over the spectator room. Various beings were gathered in the room watching the large monitor awaiting for the race to start. Many had placed their bets on veteran racers such as Mighty Gazelle, The Arrows, and such. Due to their F-Zero experience they were safe bets to win the race. However some did place their bets on the vile characters of Bio Rex, Octoman, and even Zoda had entered this race. Due to their violent natures, many figure they would simply take out the competition. While the noobie Princia would obviously get no bets placed on her, cause of her status in the F-Zero which was none at the moment. There was another name on that list of racers that stood out, one called Famicom was registered. Another unkown racer perhapes?

"The race will be starting in 5 minutes, racers be prepping your machines." the announcer said to the racers who were already at the pit stop, checking their machines for any abnormalities. The last thing an F-Zero pilot would want to face is a malfunction happening during a heated race, especially one with Zoda involved. Super Arrow's face was one with anger when he found out Zoda was involved at the BET race. "Perfect timing" Arrow thought to himself as he stared into the pit area Zoda was at. "That monster is sure to try and attack me & my wife during this race". Super Arrow and Zoda have a deep rooted rivalry with one another, that spans to the days when the ban on the F-Zero races was in effect. Zoda claimed many lives of pilots during the underground races making Arrow jump into the illegal sport to stop him.

"Though I suppose in a sense I should be thanking Zoda" Arrow smiled, not about Zoda, but cause he meet the woman of his dreams during the underground era. Her name was Monique Lamorex, known today as Mrs. Arrow. Neither him or her figured they would ever fall in love but during those days when the two meet on the track there was some connection, even though she would usually leave him in her dust, he admired her skills and she admired his heart to F-Zero and soon became friends and soon after they were in love. "Zoda, whatever your planning here I will stop you" Arrow said to himself. While Mrs. Arrow and Princia were checking their own machines though their eyes drifted to Super Arrow, keeping an eye on him.

"I suppose that ugly guy over there Super Arrow is keeping an eye on is Zoda huh?" Princia asked Mrs. Arrow. "Yes, that's Zoda, my husband's arch nemesis." Mrs. Arrow responded. Zoda was not a normal human being, through the power of science Zoda had drastically morphed his body into a purple skinned love child of the Joker and Bane from the old Batman comics. Zoda also had various types of drugs pumping into his body which only served to make him more dangerous, cause it practically made him more insane than he already was. Besides being known as a dangerous individual Zoda was also known for his overconfidence and is known to be somewhat of a big mouth. Those last two traits have cost him dearly in his plans for taking over the planet Earth against the Arrows and almost landed him in the hands of Captain Falcon.

Zoda machine numbered 13, was called the Death Anchor, the machine was blue colored machine actually made from a intergalactic missile stolen from the Space Federation by the secret society Deathriddle. Unknown to Zoda(and the other racers), however the machine is actually still wired to explode why this feature wasn't shut off was up to question but Zoda himself may or may not actually even care, since he was a destructive psychopath at heart. Getting into a race with Zoda was a danger to everyone involved. "Hello Mrs. Arrow, who's the very sexy looking lady with you?" said a young man who came up to Mrs. Arrow. Princia recognized the blonde man in the blue lightning suit from the bar. "Jack Levin, do you always have to flirt with every young woman you come across?" Mrs. Arrow responded. "This is Princia Ramode, she is here for her final exam with me and my husband" Mrs. Arrow said as she pointed to her husband who was now looking at Jack, who seemed to have a vein throbbing over his left eye.

"Hello Supes, nice to see you haven't changed much" Jack said to Super Arrow while giving of a goofy smile. "Likewise Jack Levin, likewise" Arrow responded. Jack levin was always a flirt to the ladies, which annoyed Super Arrow to no end, especially when Jack was flirting with his wife one day, Jack was lucky his wife restrained him from doing anything to the young man. "Easy man, I didn't come over to start a fight, I just came over to introduce myself to the lovely Princia" Jack said as he turned his attention to Princia who felt abit embarrassed with Jack around. "Hello there, Princia, nice to see such a fine woman like yourself besides the usual Dark Million scumbags around these parts." Princia did chuckle abit at Jack, while he was obviously a flirt, he did have this naive boyish charm about him that would make women fall for him and his stunning looks were a plus as well. "Jack, thank you for your compliments, and you certainly know how to make a woman smile" She responded to his words.

"Jack, can you for once take your job seriously without chasing after every woman you come across?" said voice from around the corner. The person who the voice belonged to soon stepped around the corner. The young man was the one from the bar she saw earlier with Jack Levin, one could tell he was extremely embarrassed to be around Jack. "Ryu man, do you always have to ruin my fun?" Jack said in response to Ryu's question. "I wasn't causing any harm by talking to Princia & Mrs. Arrow". "I know Jack, but man you embarrass everyone on the team whenever we have to go out on a mission" Ryu Stated. "Trust me Ryu, I can get the job done and still have some fun while I'm at it, to me it's you and everyone else that needs to loosen up abit" Jack said while giving off his usual goofy grin.

Right before Ryu could give Jack a verbal thrashing the announcer cut him off, "Racers 1 minute till race time, everyone please report to the race track." Princia chuckled when she saw Ryu give off that "saved by the bell" expression to Jack, while Super Arrow seemed to let off a sigh of relief. "Time to go Jack, we'll finish this after the race" Ryu said as he rushed over to his machine. "Ok, see you two lovely ladies later, oh and you to Supes" jack said to Princia, Mrs. Arrow and her now aggravated husband. He hated that nickname Jack gave him. "He's so lucky that I'm not a violent man" Super Arrow said as he gridded his teeth. "Calm down honey", Mrs. Arrow directed towards her husband. "Save that aggression for the race, especially with Zoda involved" Super Arrow only nodded to his wife and went towards his machine, ready to face Zoda in this BET race. Princia just shook her head and walked towards her machine as Mrs. Arrow went towards her own.

"What an interesting evening" Princia thought to herself. "Right now I've got to focus on this race, If I want to enter the GX grand Prix this year I've got to beat the Arrows" Princia climbed and strapped herself into her yellow machine, The Spark Moon. Waiting until the Arrows pulled out, she followed them onto the track, while the Garage was empty a lone Machine soon followed behind them, the Blue Falcon. Inside it's pilot Captain Falcon gave off a soft smile as he was headed towards the race track. "Ryu Suzaku & Jack Levin, it's always fun watching these two square off on and off the track" Falcon thought to himself. "It seems the Arrows have also brought a new student along with them, it'll be interesting to see how they affect this race"

"Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time for the F-Zero BET race to begin!" As the announcer said this, spectators came close to the monitors to watch the race unfolded. Most of them were middle aged men, who's greed knew no bounds they were always placing bets on the race to earn some extra money. Others were fans of the sport, always coming by to see if they're favorite racers were entering the BET race. There was also one individual watching these BET races as well, Don Genie, the new owner of the F-Zero GP, was sitting comfortable in his office.

The dark lit room looked like a home base of an Italian Mob Boss. A large monitor was placed near Don's desk as he tuned in to watch the BET race. His lips twisted into an evil smile as he saw who was in the race."Princia Ramode, what a lovely surprise. I wonder what your father would say if he saw you competing in a dangerous sport such as this?" he said to no one in particular. An evil chuckle softly escaped his lips as he lit a cigar to enjoy the race that was about to unfold. "A lovely surprise indeed."

The racers took their assigned positions on the track as they awaited the race to start. The assigned positions of the racers were as followed.
1. Mighty Gazelle
2. Mr. EAD
3. Octoman
4. Jack Levin
5. Mrs. Arrow
6. Princia Ramode
7. Super Arrow
8. Ryu Suzaku
9. Bio Rex
10. Zoda
11. Spade
12. Famicom

People were clamoring over two names on that list, one of them was Princia and the other was Famicom, two unknown racers had entered this race, while most weren't worried about either one of them at first since there was 10 other top rated racers in this BET race. That was until the 12th racer pulled up to the starting line which made the entire spectator room jump up with shock and excitement. It was the very symbol of the F-Zero circuit, the legendary machine of the most famous pilot in the history of F-Zero, Captain Falcon in the Blue Falcon. Fans of the F-Zero were chanting Falcon, while the money hungry men were complaining that they have lost millions of space credits due to this. Captain Falcon only smiled at their reaction.

"Hey Jack it looks like this race is just heating up" Ryu said to Jack as Falcon pulled into his assigned position #12. "Yeah, just when you thought this race was tough enough" Jack responded to Ryu's statement. Zoda and his minions Bio Rex & Octoman seemed just as stunned when Falcon pulled up. "Great, now that damn do gooder Falon is here along with the annoying detective Ryu Suzaku and Super Arrow, can this day get any worse?!" Zoda stated angrly. "Not a problem I will still send Ryu to an early grave today" Bio Rex said to Zoda. "Don't worry Zoda we got your back." Octoman replied with Bio Rex. All 3 of them worked for a organization called Dark Million, which was commanded by the Lord of Evil himself, Black Shadow. The 3 of them didn't want to try and disappoint their master.

"Racers start your engines!" shouted the annoucer. As if they were all in sync with one another all of the machines engines lit up, and various colors of flame soon started smoldering from the back of the vechicals. Each machine was now hovering a foot off the ground with a blast panel behind every machine rising to protect another from the firey blast that was soon to erupt. "3,....2....1....GGGGOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the announcer stated signaling the start of the BET race.

Right on cue once again, every machine blasted off of their starting positions with a Boost Start, giving a huge jump in speed right off the bat, while incinerating every camera that was in the area. These machines were simply made to race. As soon as the race began Bio Rex charged at Ryu Suzaku planning on taking him out of the race quickly, attempting to side attack him off the course. Ryu being an experience racer easily dodged the beast's wild charges. "Hey Barney, if your planning on taking me out, your gonna have to do alot better then that!" Ryu Stated as his machine, The Dragon Bird, began to pull away from the Big Fang, Bio Rex's deadly machine. "Don't you fucking dare call me that again you cursed mammal!" Bio Rex yelled as he continued his pursuit on Ryu.

Mighty Gazelle who started out in the top position kept a tight held on his strong lead. While Jack Levin and Mr. EAD in their machines Astro Robin & Great Star weren't too far behind either. "Geeze these guy are tough as nails" Princia thought as she struggled to stay in 6th place. The course the racers are on features plenty of 90 degree turns, missing guard beams and jump pads scattered throughout the course. No machine truly had an advantage here. It all has to come down to the skills of the pilots. Zoda was up in 4th place behind Gazelle, EAD, & Levin, though he soon planned on changing that. "Now it's time to send these fools to the hospital" Zoda stated as his machine tried to pull ahead of those machines only to be knocked aside almost hitting the guardrail, "What the hell!" Zoda stated as he looked to his left and saw to his dismay the King Meteor and it's pilot Super Arrow staring at him. "Zoda the only thing your gonna do, is rot in jail after I'm done laying a beating on you!" Super Arrow stated as he tried another side attack on the Death Anchor only to be greeted with one himself.

"Super Arrow you going to pay for interfering with my plans!" both Zoda and Arrow began to clash on the track falling behind the other racers into the 11th & 12th positions, they may not end up on the winners stand but they didn't care at this point and time anymore, they wanted to destroy one another. Captain Falcon was sitting calmly at 10th place, his face showed no emotion as his eyes were fixed on the road ahead of him, his veteran instinct of F-Zero taking control of his every movements, his machine glided through the 90 degrees turns as if he was taking a leisurely stroll through the park. Falcon was in complete control, whither the other racers realized it or not.

"Princia, since my husband is busy with Zoda at this point and time, you'll only have to worry about beating me in this race to get your license" Mrs. Arrow stated to her over the machine's microphone system that allowed communication between machines during races. "Alright then, let's show the guys how to race then" Princia stated as her Machine and Mrs. Arrow's pulled into the 4th and 5th places, with the Dragon Bird and Big Fang right behind them. The racers were navigating through the neon lit course at blistering speeds of over 1,000 kmh, however they were soon approaching the starting line once again, and pretty soon 1,000 kmh is gonna feel like a cake walk for what's gonna be activated on the second lap, the machine's ability to boost. Coming up on the 2nd lap the red machine the Red Gazelle still held the lead, with the Astro Robin in 2nd and Great Star in 3rd place.

"Better buckle your chin straps, cause this where the fun starts" Thought Falcon as all the machines approached the starting line again. The Red Gazelle as soon as it crossed the line activated it's boost and pulled further ahead from the pack, Mighty Gazelle's machine was simply a boost focused machine. The Great Star also pulled into 2nd place after activating it's boost it too was a powerful boosting machine. "Time to see what my machine can do", Princia thought as her machine crossed over the starting line. She activated her boost, passing up Jack Levin's Astro Robin who seemed not to be in such a hurry. Mrs. Arrow was hot on her trail, she too passed up Jack levin. As the Queen Meteor pulled up next to the Spark Moon, both pilots seemed to  attempt a side attack on one another only to rebound off one another. "Dang, maybe I should had boosted when I had the chance" Jack said as he saw both the Queen Meteor and Spark Moon ahead of him exchanging side and spin attacks.

"the rumors were true, your quite the aggressive racer" Mrs. Arrow stated as she and Princia continued to try and over take one another. "Likewise, what your husband said was true, your one tough racer to face". Princia responded. "I don't have to win this race, I just have to beat her, but she sure isn't making this easy" Mighty Gazelle and Mr. EAD were pulling farther and farther away from her and Mrs. Arrow. Just then both Mrs. Arrow and Princia were over taken by two machines blazing past them, the Blue Falcon and Dragon Bird were in a very heated race to the finish. Both trying to catch up to Mighty Gazelle and Mr. EAD. Princia couldn't believe her eyes as she saw those two machines fly down the race track, easily catching up to the Red Gazelle and Great Star, both machines were surrounded by blue flames and breaking speeds no possible by normal boosting, it must have been the most powerful technique an F-Zero machine could ever do, The Boost Fire.

"Still tough as ever Captain Falcon, but I don't plan on coming in 2nd place this time around" Ryu Stated as both machine's boost fire wore off and as both past the Great Star & Red Gazelle who were just as surprised to see the both of them up in front like that. Captain Falcon remind silent as both him and Ryu crossed the starting line once again both men entering their final lap. "Freaks from across the Galaxy, what you see before you is a race between the two greatest F-Zero pilots in the Milky Way Galaxy, Ryu Suzaku and Captain Falcon!" shouted the announcer. While most men who bet on other racers to win just simply started to pout, ones who placed their money on Ryu Suzaku, were shouting at the monitor pleading for him to beat Falcon, while the die-hard F-Zero fans were screaming their lungs off over the exciting race between the two.

"Hmm, they're not that far ahead, I can still win this race" thought Mighty Gazelle as he boosted further away from Mr. EAD catching up to Ryu & Falcon. Those 3 pilots were truly the best pilots currently in this race. Back around 5th & 6th place Mrs. Arrow and Princia were still competing over one another while Jack was busy keeping Octoman at bay behind them. "Damn Bio Rex, if you weren't so stupid maybe you would still be in this race and Ryu wouldn't be so far ahead of us." Octoman said to himself as he was the only member of his team left on the track. Bio Rex eliminated himself in the second lap, try to use a jump pad to cut ahead of Ryu only to miss his landing and crash landed his machine outside of the course boundaries. While Zoda and Super Arrow's heated battle only served to eliminate both competitors from the race.

"Come on Squid boy, let's see you try to over take me!" Jack Levin teased the Takorian by landing a light side attack on Deep Claw. "I swear by my 8 arms, you backstreet boy punk, I'll drag your burned carcass back to the Galactic Federation after I'm done with you!" Octoman lost his cool and began to attack the Astro Robin's pilot. The race continued pretty much the same throughout the 3rd lap, Princia was still struggling against Mrs. Arrow trying to get a good lead over her. But every little advance she tried to make Mrs. Arrow always closed the gap, Princia knew Mrs. Arrow had enough skill to catch up with Ryu and them up in the lead but, her focus wasn't completely on the race, it was on her. As her and Mrs. Arrow were coming up to the final 90 degree turn, Captain Falcon, Ryu Suzaku, Mighty Gazelle, & Mr. EAD all finished the race in that order. All four of them were parked in the holding area for the F-Zero machines, watching the rest of the race along with Super Arrow.

As they were approaching the final turn before the straightway to the finish line, Mrs. Arrow was finally starting to pull away from Princia, Both machines were near empty, both had used up their energy to boost up to the last sliver, boosting any more would place the machine in a critical state. "I'm going to lose to her if I don't do something quick" Princia thought as Both of them were about to enter the final turn, Mrs. Arrow was pulling further ahead of her. Then the monitor inside her machine lit up to show another technique used by famous F-Zero pilots, The Spin Turn. "At this point I'll try anything" she said as hit her booster one last time, and began to activate her spin attack feature and entered the turn with blazing speed. "What!" Mrs. Arrow exclaimed as she saw the Spark Moon spinning rapidly towards her glowing a crimson red.

Maybe it was a natural reaction, but Mrs. Arrow quickly turned her machine out of the path of the spinning machine, she almost collided with the guardrail as she did so. "That was too close" Mrs. Arrow thought to herself as she saw the Spark Moon pull further away from her. "She must really want her license if she used an advanced technique like that." Following suit Mrs. Arrow finished 6th place, right behind Princia who was in 5th. Jack levin followed closely to finish 7th & Spade at 8th, who never seemed to be interested in race to begin with. At the winner's stand Captain Falcon stood holding the Gold Trophy, Ryu Suzaku with the Silver and Mighty Gazelle with the Bronze. Several people surrounded the platform taking pictures of the racers as they held their trophies. While Ryu and Gazelle posed for the crowd, Falcon stood there, no emotion came across his face, his body was there but his mind was somewhere else at the moment.

---- After the Race -----

After the paparazzi had left, Falcon soon disappeared from the winner's stand and from the building with the large cash prize. In the lobby The Arrows, Princia, Jack, & Ryu were all talking to one another. "You did real good on your first try in a real race." said Super Arrow. "Especially around the end of the race, when you used the Spin Turn." Princia looked at Mrs. Arrow with concern. "Your alright though? I know I shouldn't have so rashly used that technique but if I didn't I wouldn't have been able to pass you in that race." "Don't worry about it Princia, it'll take more then a spin turn to take me out of action and besides if I was you I would have done the same anyways." Mrs. Arrow Responded. "Besides we said you had to beat us in a race, we didn't say how you were to accomplish that." Princia nodded at her response. "Even still your one tough opponent to face during a race, what your husband said was true." Super Arrow chuckled. "Yeah, I told you, my wife takes her racing seriously."

"Well, Captain Falcon was certainly a nice surprise in this race" Jack stated. "I swear that man just lives and breaths to compete in the F-Zero. He's way too fast" Ryu nodded to Jack's statement. "He's a very skilled pilot and bounty hunter, and from what I can tell that's all he lives for." Princia knew of Captain Falcon, in fact, when she first saw an F-Zero race, it was during the X Grand Prix. Captain Falcon's performance during that race was what got her into the sport of F-Zero. "Has anyone been able to come in contact with Falcon outside of a race or bounty hunting mission?" Princia asked everyone there. "no, and from what rumors tell of Falcon has no personal life with another person." responded Ryu. "I can't understand how anyone could live life like that." Princia had to agree with Ryu's statement.

"So he's always alone" She thought to herself. "I wonder if he was always like that?" "Princia!" Princia snapped out of her thoughts and looked towards Mrs. Arrow and her husband who were motioning her to come with them. "So are you wanting to get your F-Zero license or what?" asked Mrs. Arrow.  "Yeah, I'll be there in a sec." Princia responded "Ryu & Jack it was a pleasure meeting you, I hope we can talk again soon" "Princia, it was pleasure meeting you" said Jack making Princia smile while Ryu mentally face palmed himself. "Never miss a beat do you Jack?" thought Ryu. As they said their goodbyes Princia left to join up with the Arrows while Jack & Ryu talked to themselves.

"What happened to Octoman out there? Wasn't he scrapping it out with you?" asked Ryu. "We were but the squidboy chickened out of the race and left his broken buddies Zoda and Bio Rex." Jack Replied. "Something's not right here Ryu, especially when I saw Spade in the race, you figure Don Genie might have some business with Zoda?" Spade was one Don Genie's hired henchmen. Reason why he was in the BET race was unknown but deep in Ryu's heart he knew when things involved Don Genie, the outcome was never good. "You maybe right Jack, you maybe right" he responded as they both left the building to join EAD, who was waiting on them. A faint eerie chuckle could be hear from across the room. Spade soon formed out of the shadows in the corner of the room, smiling happily after spying in on their conversation. "Everything is going according to the plan, they haven't figured out anything yet." He said as he faded back into the shadows.

Next Chapter: The Hot Blooded Samurai
Chapter 4 is here, I've tried to get in multiple views of the race through different character perspectives and also give Don Genie his own little group like what Black Shadow has, I hope I succeeded in making this an interesting read for you guys.

Btw the next chapter is focusing completely on Captain Falcon that I promise.

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NanoZero07's avatar
I loved those smart remarks from Jack! He was comical. Off to the next chapter.