The Hero from Onett

After he was grabbed in the arm by the tiny…thing, Ness nearly fell over. He kept his balance though and caught his breath.

"I need to go buy Steak."

He gestured Knuckle Joe to follow him, though he moved at a slower pace considering he wasn't alone anyway.

Stomp. Stomp. Stomp. Ness’ feet banged down the stairwell at rocket speed, he hopped down the last few steps of each flight he went down, he was making quite the racket. He bounced off the last step and headed out the exit, the sky was black.

"I need to go buy Steak."

Yeah, Falco was certainly crabbier than usual, meanwhile, Ness looked calm. Somewhat. Falco had noticed that he had a little quirk in that moment, but he wasn’t one to question the little things, so he ignored it.

It seemed that Ness wanted to eat steak, well he wasn’t exactly being subtle about it

"Ness, do ya want steak by any chance?" Falco chuckled, "Look, if y’wanna go for steak, we can go for steak. Y’got the money?"

"Oh boy! How did you know I wanted steak?!"

Ness snorted quietly, as if a joke had popped up in his mind, but he shook his head deciding against telling it.

It seemed that Ness wanted to eat steak, well he wasn't exactly being subtle about it

With most other people, they’d of been offended by Falco’s tone, but because it was Ness and he was dealing with Falco, he shrugged it off. He took note of Falco’s frustration and though momentarily about some form of solution that he could give to Falco, or at least make him feel better, if he needed a mechanic, surely someone who stayed at the Hotel could help.

"Shulk, eh?" Falco thought out loud, "He seems like the kinda guy who’d have no problem fixing things, I guess. Dunno about the arwing, though." He put his hand to his forehead. "Think think think." At this point, he was desperate to get the arwing fixed, so Shulk was definitely worth a shot. 

Begs the question, though, would Shulk actually fix it? Neither Shulk nor Falco had really talked to each other, and just up and asking Shulk out of nowhere to do a potentiall difficult errand seemed a bit rude. Slippy wasn’t here though, so Shulk was probably the next best thing.

Ness snorted quietly, as if a joke had popped up in his mind, but he shook his head deciding against telling it.

He made a fast stroll down to the scrapped Arwing and skidded to a halt, making a worried look at the crumpled metal of the aircraft. Noting Falco’s growling he could safely assume that it didn’t work, he called out to Falco from outside of the Arwing.

"Oh, Ness, yeah, everythin’s fine, y’know, just hangin’ out in the junkwad that used to be my ship.” He had a bit of frustration in his voice, but it wasn’t directed at Ness. “Bullshit. This is bullshit.” He muttered. 

Last night was a riot. The morning was no different, especially for Falco. He’d learned that his arwing was busted, broken, crashed. He’d basically just fully woken up after the night he learned about it, he figured it could be a lie since the one who claimed it crashed had a tendency to lie, especially to Falco’s face.

Falco got changed quickly, and stormed his way down the stairs of the hotel, brushing himself past anyone who was in his way, his pace was somewhat fast, it was similar to the walking pace of an agent who had just been told to report to base. 

At last, Falco stepped outside. Scrap metal. As he looked in the direction of the arwing, that was the first thing he could compare it to. It still looked like it could fly however, Falco could slip inside the cockpit. ‘Whatever.’ he thought as he went to start it up, the screen in the arwing, which he would use to communicate with his colleagues, started up, though hope for it went away as a message appeared on the black screen.

〔Unable to start up due to an error in the system. Necessary components may be missing of corrupted.〕

Damn it. Falco let out a sigh of indignation as he fiddled a little with the system, he was trying to activate the backup system which despite having very little knowledge on the computing of the machine, he knew how to do having needed to do it before.

〔Backup system activated, checking backup components.〕 〔…〕 〔…〕 〔…〕 〔…〕 〔Unable to start up due to an error in the system. Necessary components may be missing of corrupted.〕

He made a fast stroll down to the scrapped Arwing and skidded to a halt, making a worried look at the crumpled metal of the aircraft. Noting Falco's growling he could safely assume that it didn't work, he called out to Falco from outside of the Arwing.