The Bounty Hunter and the Mercenary
Chapter 1- Roommates
Ike sighed as he approached the large loud house in front of him. His golden sword hung over his shoulder. He wore his same casual clothing with a few new things as the blue and gold armor on his shoulder. Ike looked up the mansion.
It was new. Very new and technological or in other words modern. It was too white as the sun's rays seem to reflect from it. Big squared and rectangular windows were stuck on the wall. Above the doors that give entry into the mansion were three bubble letters. SSB, which also mean Super Smash Brothers.
Ike walked up to the front doors and knocked on them three times loudly. As he waited, he can hear chatter coming from the building, but it was oddly quiet. 'Did I come too early?' Thought the mercenary. The door creaked opened and in front of him was a familiar red plumber.
"Ah! Hello, a… Ike?" Mario greeted him with a funny face. 'Knew this was gonna happen.' Ike thought. He coughed a little.
"Yeah, it's me." he told him. Mario's eyes grew slightly big.
"W-wow! You must a been working a out." Mario commented and scratched the back of his head. Mario meant his toned muscles that he surely didn't have in the previous year of Smash. Ike nodded.
"You could say that." he replied. "Uh, can I come in?" Mario shook back to focus and allowed him in. They both walk around at what looks like the living room. Ike scanned the place.
Almost all the walls were white, but the floors and some decorations add color. The living room was two times bigger than the old one. A rug was laid out on the floor. Three dark brown leather couches were lined up to shape a short, wide "U" and faced a ten by ten flat screen television. A few empty halls lead to other different areas and a flight of wooden stairs lead to the second floor. The second floor hall can be partly seen through a thin glass rail the separated the fall to the first floor and the second floor. Each hall had a sign that saids what was in the direction. The chatter Ike heard came from the kitchen which was up ahead.
"I have to ask Mario," Ike started. A question have been troubling his mind. "Why did Master Hand make a new mansion?" he asked.
"Well, we both a know that the a-nother mansion was a old." Mario started and Ike instantly nodded. "Also MH want to improve the a whole place with more a fun thing like hot tubs, arcades, and a more in the list. Then there are also some a newcomers that needed a room, so more rooms are a added." Ike nodded.
Then Mario handed Ike a card. Ike took it and glared confusingly at Mario, then to the card. "It's your a room card." Mario stated. "Your number is on the third floor just underneath the roof." Mario told him as he pointed to the elevator. Ike thanked him and off he went.
"60?" Ike mumbled as the elevator rose up and hauled at the third floor. He was again encountered by two signs. "45 to 53," Ike read a sign that pointed to the right. "54 to 60," then he read another sign pointing to the left and walked to his left. His eyebrows furrowed as he saw the enormous spacing between each door. At the end of the hall was a door with the number 60 on it. "Well, that's nice," Ike muttered. "The door farthest away from the elevator," he insert his card into some kind of machine which let a green light and the door unlocked. He hesitantly took the card back and opened the door. "Okay… That's a little cool." Then he shut the door behind him.
The rooms were huge! Yeah, there was more than one room. Not like bathroom and bedroom. There was like a medium sized living room with a mini kitchen. The living was your typical hotel living room, but with a little more area. It was hard wood like Ike suspected. The kitchen had it's own area that was separated by an island. Like said before, it was similar to a hotel. Medium size tv, cheap couch, granite countertops, small fridge, and other stuff. Another room was the bathroom which was connected to the living room. Above the cabinets were two sinks and mirrors with a toilet and a shower. Ike walked over to the last room and there were two queen size beds.
The bedroom was pretty normal. The pillows and sheets were white, but the blankets were blue on one bed and orange on another. Next to the beds were tiny dresser with lamps on top. At the side were two standard closets for storage. Ike flicked a switch and the ceiling fan started going with a bright light.
As Ike looked around in his new bedroom, he saw how wrinkly the other bed was. Not much, but enough to indicate that someone was here recently. Ike shrugged it off and sighed as he flopped on his bed.
Eventually, he went downstairs and head for the kitchen which was unexpectedly empty. Somehow Ike felt the chills on his spine, even though it's fairly warm. The dining room had some tables, chairs, and a couple of normal expensive tvs. Light shone through the windows from the back.
Ike entered into kitchen and was surprised to find Peach and Zelda in there, cleaning. Still he manage to get quick glances around. Everything was improved. Taller steel refrigerator, fixed microwave, new faucet, cooler countertops, more cabinets, more room, and new black gas stove and better double racked oven. The two princess were shocked when they saw Ike and stumbled back. Ike quickly reminded them and they sighed, relieved.
"You look very different…" Zelda commented.
"Yeah… What have you been taking?" Peach asked humorless. Ike just chuckled, but Peach wasn't kidding.
"Nothing. I've been taking nothing, but training sessions and exercises." he told them. As if on cue, Ike stomach rumbled and growled. He blushed embarrassingly. "Um, do you guys have left over?" he asked, red faced. Zelda and Peach smiled and whipped something up for the mercenary.
"So, you just arrived a hour ago." Peach stated. The three all sat at one of the tables and started talking.
"Hmhm," Ike muffled through his favorite food. Chicken or cooked meat in general. He gulped down his food and asked, "So, where's everyone else?"
"Well, it's either their watching someone's own battle, working out or training, or they haven't arrived yet. I think you're the first fighter from last year's newcomer to come." Zelda informed Ike. His eyebrows rose.
"Well, I guess that's a good thing-" Ike started until he heard the sizzling sound of a charged gun. Horrified faces were on the princesses' faces. With a gulp, Ike slowly turned around. He immediately recognized the owner and scowled.
"Long time no see, Ike," said a female. It was Samus in her orange power suit. She had her helmet on, but she too was growling like a dog. Her gun was right by her side, charged and ready to fire.
"What brings you here, Samus?" Ike snarled back, nearly ready to jump to his feet. As Peach stared worryingly, Zelda sighed.
"You know, I'm not sure you've have been informed Samus and Ike, but you're both already in trouble from last year." Zelda announced. "You'll both get even more trouble if you do this now. So, just shake hands or something." She told them. Although they did, lightning glared were shot to each other. This going to be a long year. Zelda thought.
"Samus," Ike surprisingly called to Samus. She looked up. "Do you know where the other guys are?" he asked Samus.
"They're watching a battle in another room. The tv room is what we call it." she told him and turned away. "It should be ending soon." Like Samus said, cheers and yelling were heard at the other side of the wall. It grew quiet, but was still audible. "That's probably them." Samus said. Ike stood up and looked back at the three ladies.
"Well, I'll be going. See ya ladies later," he said and walked out the kitchen.
Zelda and Peach faced Samus. "So?" they both asked. Samus furrowed her eyebrows, but remembered that she was wearing her helmet.
"So, what?" she asked.
"So, what do you think of Ike?" they exclaimed. Samus shrugged.
"Still don't like him," she said.
"There has to be a good thing that's new. Come on, Samus," Zelda begged. Peach nodded.
"Please Sammy," she begged too. Samus shook her and given in.
"Good things is what you want? Ike is using his manners for some reason, but I have a feeling he'll forget in a week. I don't know how to put this in the kindest way, but what's with the muscles?!" she asked. They shrugged.
"Ike said he was training or working out before. That's how he got big." Peach told her. Samus crossed her arms.
"Makes him look too intimidating…" Samus muttered. The princess' eyes widen.
"Oh my god…" Peach suddenly said. Zelda was speechless. "You're afraid of Ike!" she said out loud.
"No, I'm not!"
"Yes, you are!" Peach yelled. "Samus is afraid of Ike~!" she continued as she dashed out the kitchen. Samus who was a wild wolf, dart off for Peach, yelling behind her tail. Zelda stared dumbfounded and sighed. 'This is going to be a very interesting year too…' she thought.
Later, Meta Knight also arrived that evening.
Dinner was served and made by Peach and Zelda. Thick juicy steak was served with fluffy bread, fresh salad, and Peach's peach cake(try saying that ten times)! Before Ike started his way to his room with Marth and Link, Link started talking to Ike in the elevator.
"Ike, do you know who's your roommate?" Link asked him with a small smile. He shrugged.
"No clue. They haven't arrived yet and I doubt that it would be Meta Knight." Ike told Link who snickered teasingly. "Something funny?"
"Hm? Oh, nothing!" the green elf assured, smirking. "Just… Don't get mad about who your is roommate. Although, you still might." he said and the elevator rang with the doors open. "Well, see ya later, guys." he called and left to his right. Ike took a deep breath and gazed at Marth who furrowed his eyes confusingly.
"Do you know what he's talking about?" Ike finally asked the blue prince when the doors automatically shut.
"Nope, but roommates. I don't know what mine either, but it sound like Link knows your roommate and by the sound of it…" Marth paused. "It's not a good one." he told Ike who had a grim face. Then the sound of door bells opened the elevator. Both smashers left the elevator.
"Didn't know we were on the same floor…" Ike said out loud.
"Did you think I sleep on the roof?" Marth asked jokingly. Ike rolled his eyes.
"No, I thought you slept in the basement." Ike muttered sarcastically. Marth must've heard him as he growled deeply. They separate ways and he walked down the quiet hall.
Scanning his card, he entered his room. The sound of taps on plastic from the bathroom triggered Ike's interest. He placed his sword against the wall and walked over to the door. The beat silenced. He knocked a few times. No response. Ike grabbed and turned the handle. It was unlocked too. Weird…
"Hey, is anyone-" Ike started, but was caught off by the sight of a female? In a towel? Ike blushed so much that his face was the color of a pepper, but that wasn't truly why he blushed. It was Samus. "Here…" he continued not noticing how red his face is. Without warning, Samus grabbed a bottle of what looks like shampoo and threw it roughly at him. Ike dodged it clumsy. "Woah! We can talk about this, Sam- Ah!" Ike yelled as another whopping item hit him in the face which knocked him out of the bathroom. The door slammed loudly similar like what an angry child would do. "Ugh, great. Samus is in my room." Ike snarled dazey, but he thought about it again.
"MASTER HAND!"
"Didn't Mario tell you this would be a bad idea?" Fox asked Master Hand who was in a new, white human form. The head of the SSB organization glared at the fox(lol) while trying to explain to Samus and Ike why they're in the same room, at his office.
"Listen to Fox, MH!" Ike told him. "Even he and Mario knows. Everyone knows it's a bad idea." Master Hand simply shook his head. Samus glared lasers with her arms crossed.
"I believe it's a good idea. It's not just to lessen your fighting and arguing, but you both can become friends." he stated his point, but the majority of the smashers there laughed, even Ike and Samus. MH just frowned and sighed.
"Sammy! For once, listen to him. He's trying to help you and Ike." Peach jumped in. Sheik or a transformed version of Zelda nodded behind her.
"I agree," Marth supported. "This could help you both. Maybe not make you friends, but at least not make you both enemy-like rivals. It would also help Ike's jerkiness level lower." he also added. Ike scowled at Marth like a tiger. Master Hand clapped his hands with a joyful smile.
"Then it's offical! Samus and Ike. You both will have the same room for the rest of the year," Master Hand told them. Again, they had stunned faces. The rest of the year? Who told them that? In the middle of opening their mouths, MH hushed them. "I do not want to hear another complaint from the both of you, especially now. It will stay as it is, unless one OR both of you want to sleep outside tonight." The two fighters didn't speak a word as neither didn't want to go out, especially this time of year. Everyone was sent back to bed.
"This sucks," Ike muttered. Samus didn't respond.
"That's exactly how I felt like when you were my roommate," Marth muttered back.
"Shut up, Marth," Ike told him. Marth muffled something.
They once again separate ways. Ike and Samus didn't speak a word to each other as the approached their door. Samus scanned the card and entered in with Ike behind her. Samus immediately went to the bedroom and shut the door.
"Okay…" Ike whispered. "Samus, I'll be in the bathroom!" he yelled out. Another no response. He sighed and entered the bathroom.
After washing up and brushing his teeth, he opened the door and was thrown his pajamas. Samus who was in her own kitty pajamas stood there with an annoyed face. Of course, being the idiotic jerk, Ike started to smirk and snicker.
"Ike, shut up," the bounty hunter growled which would always make a person almost froze in fear, but not him. Ike still chuckled like a child.
"Are those from the previous year that Peach got you for Christmas?" Ike asked in the middle of laughing. Samus wisely just stomped off to the bedroom. Ike smiled as he closed the door and changed out.
He entered their room with his sword in one hand and his clothes in another. Samus was under the soft covers of the orange bed with her computer. In silence, she pointed to the closet closer to Ike's bed and return her attention back to her computer. He walked over lazily and placed his clothes. Then over to his bed, he placed his sword under his sleeping cushion.
As he got ready to sleep, something bothered him. The light. His sigh moaned like a fast wind through a tunnel. He got up slowly and turned the lamps off between his beds, but as he walked over to the other one, Samus stopped him. Ike told her that he need to go to sleep and asked why.
"I'm working on something," she said not bothering to look up while typing rapidly on the keys. Rebelling, Ike still turned off the light. Samus glared at him in the dark, but the mercenary didn't spot it. She turned on the light and went back to work. Again, Ike came back to off the light, while Samus turned it back on. This continued on for ten minutes. Finally losing his patience, he unplug the cord from the outlet and got over to his bed. Samus sighed and closed the screen. She placed the computer on the dresser and snuggled in her bed.
"Hey, Samus," Ike suddenly interrupted. Her eyes flickered open.
"What now?" she asked.
"Nothing too big. Just wanted a mini pep talk," Ike said. Samus was somewhat listen. "Look… If you don't piss me off and then I won't piss you off, k?" Samus nearly let a chuckle out. Was this some joke or trick?
"Sure, just let's see who'll do that first," she replied. I was hard to see, but the moonlight gave away Ike's friendly smirk.
"Good, anyway, good night," Ike said and sounds of shuffling were on his side. Samus replied back by 'good night' and eventually doze to sleep.
Author's Note:
Hello, this is EllaArtist! And this is actually my first story which makes very nervous, so please don't be too mad, if you don't like it. First, yes, this is a Samus x Ike story. Now, I do plan to add other ship into this series, but I'm still planning. I don't really have much to say, but thank you for reading my first story. Also NONE OF THE CHARACTERS OR SUPER SMASH BROTHERS BELONG TO ME! THEY BELONG TO NINTENDO! I just wanted to point that out. If you have any suggestion or comments, I will gladly read them and take them to thought. Thanks~!