2: Nightmares and trust.
Well hey there, I was not planning to continue this story but seeing as 75% of my reviews asked for more I thought I would oblige. So from now on this story is going to be a series of one shots for my favourite SSBB paring. All of them will take place in the same continuity, however this may not be updated much, only when an idea occurs to me, which might not happen very often and if that is the case then I apologise in advance.
Reviews answer time.
bankai179: Thank you, here's some more. (Awesome name by the way.)
Dark Lord Link: appreciate the kind words, and yes. Yes I am planning more.
Crazylu: glad you think so. And as you wish it. So it shall be.
GoldenMoon Maiden: you do? Yay I'm really glad.
Devil Gunmen: thank you very much.
So I hope you enjoy this one too, and I will write a wedding chapter latter on, but right now I haven't got enough ideas to do it well. So I'm writing this instead.
One last thing, this story is going to go by the way of Link being the one from Twilight Princess, just to make things clear.
Also please go read my Metroid Fanfiction for what I think was a really well done Samus monologue (Yay shameless self promotion!)
By the way, I'm one of the few who approved of Samus going all PTSD in Other M. It shouldn't have been Ridley that made her freak out, but the stress and all the death finally getting to her makes her more human in my eyes. But hey that's just me, I think Link should have had a break down as a Child in Ocarina too, but that never happened.
LinkXSamus Forever! (Or until we get bored I guess :P )
WARNING. The dream may be found slightly disturbing. Sorry if you find it so.
No one thinks Samus Aran is the type of person who'd wake up in the middle of the night, crying her eyes out and clutching onto her fiancé like a terrified little girl.
The world seems to view Samus as an eternally calm and collected woman that nothing and no one can hurt. but It's obvious to him why she puts on the act and tries to push away anyone who tries to get close to her.
She's scared.
She's scared of relying on people, because the way she sees the world is that as soon as she starts to care for someone they will die. Sooner rather then later.
"Samus?" Link asked quietly, sitting up and gently putting his arms around her shoulder. "What's wrong?" he asked gently, fairly certain what was plaguing her but waited for her to talk.
She seemed almost startled to see Link awake, and after a moment of looking at him like a startled deer, she hesitantly let go and tried to pretend nothing was wrong.
"Nothing." Samus muttered, shakily trying to wipe the tears from her eyes, "Go back to sleep." She ordered, turning away from Links worried expression and laying down again with her back facing him.
Link didn't move and just watched her in silence, fully aware that Samus knew he was looking at her.
"What are you doing?" Samus demanded after five or so minutes, turning around to glare at Link.
"Worrying about you." he answered sighing in frustration at her immediate scowl.
"Well don't. It's annoying." Samus muttered angrily.
"Please don't do this whole thing again." Link replied, quickly losing patience with her. It was far too early, or late, for him to be awake. "Every time you try and close off, and every time I have to spend all night worming the details out of you. Can you just TRY and let me help you? Just for one time?" Link snapped at her, they'd been through this song and dance enough times for him to know that provoking her almost always got her to tell him something.
Samus just looked at him, and for a moment she looked like she was going to talk. But instead Link could visibly see her shoulders slump and her face drain of emotion. "No." she choked out, Link was now expecting her to start crying again, well this was not what he was planning to happen. "You can't help."
Wordlessly Link pulled her into a tight hug and kissed the top of Samus' head, "I want to try though." he whispered to her soothingly. "It was a dream wasn't it?" Link asked, trying to slowly get her to let him in.
"Yes." Samus murmured, her head resting against Link's chest.
"So it was a nightmare?" he continued, glad to be getting somewhere with her.
"No. it was a really nice dream that reduced me to a crying mess." Samus dead-panned.
"Samus." Link said frustrated before flicking her on the ear. "No sarcasm."
"Watch it pixie-boy." Samus complained rolling her eyes at Link. "Fine, I'm sorry. Yes it was a nightmare."
"What was it about?" Link asked, hoping the fact that she had seemed to have relaxed somewhat would get a straight answer out of her.
She immediately stiffened, dashing his hopes. "Link. Please don't." she asked seriously, sitting up to look him in the eye. "Can you just let it go?"
"Alright." Link resented finally. Causing her to smile and resume resting against him. "Just tell me this. Was it one of the ones you've had before?"
Samus was silent for long enough for Link to think wonder if she had fallen asleep when she spoke up timidly.
"No. I've… I've never dreamt it before." She said before looking up in annoyance. "You said you would stop asking."
"Fine." Link said smiling at her. They laid against each other in silence while Link idly ran his hand through her hair.
"Hey Samus?" he spoke up quietly in case she was asleep.
"Yeah?" She replied, the tiredness in her voice telling that she wasn't far off.
"I love you."
Samus smirked, "Hell yes you do." She replied quietly before falling asleep. Finally sounding a lot more like herself.
But Link didn't get back to sleep for a while. he know it was unfair of him, but he honestly felt bothered by not knowing what Samus was being upset by, so Link started trying to come up with a plan to find out. In hindsight? This was one of the dumbest things Link ever did. But at this point Link saw it as the only way to help her.
THE NEXT DAY.
"And so you can see why I'm worried right?" Link asked his friend as they sat opposite each other in the Mansions gardens.
"Yes. However I am unsure why you feel the need to involve me. Or rather, I can guess and I hope I'm wrong." Lucario replied shaking his head slightly.
"I just want to help her." Link insisted, "It's nothing more then that."
"You know very well I do not like invading peoples minds without a very good reason." Lucario said annoyed, "And yet you come to me, on the-"
"Don't quote the God Father." Link protested with a laugh.
Lucario chuckled slightly, "Fine, Wait, when did you watch the GodFather?"
"This place has a surprisingly big DVD collection." Link shrugged, "Got to do something between matches."
"Ah. Have you seen Lord Of the Rings?" Lucario asked smirking.
"Why does everyone constantly assume I like-" Link began but stopped, "Wait. Are you trying to change the subject on me?" He protested raising an eyebrow.
"I'm trying yes." The Pokemon sighed, "Link. Samus is my friend as much as you are, and I don't feel comfortable with this."
Link took a deep breath, "I'm sorry Buddy. I just wanted to know how to stop the woman I love from crying in her sleep. But you're right, I should have left you out of it. It's my problem, well it's Samus' really big problem, not yours."
"You are trying to guilt trip me aren't you?" Lucario said after a moment of watching the clouds float past.
"I'm trying yes." Link repeated grinning.
Lucario gave a long suffering sigh. "Alright then Fine! But you owe me like, three favours for this."
"Reasonable trade." Link agreed, "Thank you."
"Yes. Yes." Lucario said dismissively. He closed his eyes and started to float cross-legged in mid air as he cast his mind out. For a few minutes he sat completely still before opening his now pale glowing eyes and looked at Link with a pained expression.
"This is what she dreamed Link."
The world seemed to be on fire, everything in sight was covered in such bright flames that it hurt Link's eyes to look at them, it took a few seconds for Link to recognise where he was standing but when he did he gasped.
Smash Mansion gardens.
In real life he knew that He and Lucario were sitting about five meters behind him, and Link tried to turn around to look when he realised he was unable to move, he started to panic until Lucarios voice suddenly cut through the scene.
"You are watching a memory of a dream Link. The best way to describe the experience is if I forced you into a DVD of it. You can think responses and I will hear you."
"Oh. Alright." Link tried to say out loud but found he couldn't move his mouth either. So he focused on the words "This feels weird." In his head.
"You get used to it." Lucario said dryly before leaving his head and letting the dream resume.
"What is going on?" Samus spoke quietly before starting to slowly walk into the mansion.
It was disturbing to see the Mansion so destroyed, chairs were overturned and in splinters, the kitchen was visible as Samus passed it and it seemed that the gas cooker might be the cause of the fire due to the fact it seemed to be resembling a crater now.
"Where is everyone?" Samus muttered almost desperately, Link thought it was a good question until a loud scream of pain filled the air.
"NANA!" Samus shouted, recognising the sound, immediately the woman took off towards the sound as fast as possible. Link was slightly surprised how she was muttering "Please be alright. Please be alright." Over and over, he had never knew that she was that close to the young girl. Then again, there was no way that Samus was heartless enough not to respond to that kind of sound being made by a child.
Samus made it to the top of the staircase that led to the dorm rooms and immediately froze at the sight she found.
Yoshi, Popo and Fox were lying on the ground in various sprawled positions. Yoshi would have seemed like he was sleeping if it wasn't for the pool of blood seeping from the lizard, Fox seemed to have been shielding Popo from something or someone seeing as his body was holding the young boy under him tightly to his chest.
"No." Samus whispered faintly, moving forward she checked both Fox and Popo for a pulse with trembling hands. "God damn it." Samus growled before she stood up and activated her suit. "I'm sorry." She said before moving onwards.
The dream continued as disturbingly as it had begun. Link desperately wanted to close his eyes when the dream continued to reveal everyone in the mansion dead from some kind of grievous injury. And yet there was no sign of whoever had done these horrible things.
Samus was trembling by the time she reached the stadium. Walking around the bodies of Master Hand and Pit with only some hesitation, she walked in and froze dead at what she saw. Link meanwhile swore out loud.
"Language Hero." Lucario commented with a small air of trying to distract him.
"Shut up. This is-" Link trailed off.
"Pretty bad. I know." Lucario said sadly.
Instead of any battle stage that the tournament used, the SSBB arena was transformed into a replica of K-2, a place Link only recognized because he had once asked to see what the planet had once looked like.
Standing around were four towering figures, each of them about a foot taller then Samus, regardless of what size they were in real life.
Mother Brain. Ridley. SA-X and Dark Samus.
"Deactivate the suit." Mother Brain ordered, it's voice scratchy and hateful.
"I'm going to kill all of you." Samus replied coldly, she raised her arm cannon and started to charge up a shot.
"I wouldn't do that." SA-X said. Her voice sounding like Samus' if stripped of all emotion. "Ridley? Show her why not." She said with a shrill laugh.
Ridley moved to show he was holding a bloodied and wounded Link in his grasp. He dug his talons into Links shoulder slightly, causing him to cry out in pain.
Samus swore. "Al-alright. Just stop. Let him go and I will do what you say." She promised sounding desperate.
"Thought you would say that Sammy." SA-X laughed again as Ridley dropped Link to the ground disinterestedly. "Now deactivate your armour. Like we told you."
Samus slowly did as she was told, reverting to her zero Suit.
"Your pitiful emotions make you weak AND stupid little girl." Dark Samus said coldly, before swinging her arm cannon into Samus' jaw, bringing her to her knees.
"Why did you do this? You gain nothing." Samus demanded, glaring as best she could at the four beings she hated as much as anything else.
"Why?" Mother Brain asked amused. "Because we wanted to hurt you. That's why. Did you think you could carry on pretending and it wouldn't catch up with you?"
"Pretending? What the hell are you talking about?" Samus yelled angrily.
SA-X walked up and took a firm grip of Samus' hair, "Pretending you're a person Sammy. You aren't like them. You don't have feelings, or friends. Or family. Or even any humanity. You gave it all up remember? You're like us! A monster."
"I'm nothing like you." Samus growled angrily, causing SA-X to laugh.
"You're a bounty hunter. A merc. Etc etc. The Chozo found a little girl, tore up her soul and put a weapon in there instead. All you exist for is to be sent off to kill the people that other people want killing." SA-X explained calmly. "When was the last time you did something without being hired to do it? YOU? you are like a gun. You have no goal in life unless someone is using you. Tragic really."
"Shut up." Samus demanded, fighting against SA-Xs grip fruitlessly. "At least I don't take a pleasure in killing people." She replied smugly.
"Oh no?" Mother Brain smiled. "Never once enjoyed shooting a Metroid? Never smiled once at killing off a few Space Pirates? Are you sure?" It asked, laughing when Samus gave no answer. "That is what I thought."
"You do not deserve anything but the pain and death you cause others." Dark Samus said tonelessly.
"Just like you." Samus spat.
"Hey now you're getting it!" SA-X said cheerfully. "So now what do we do with her?"
"First off. We make sure she has nothing left." Ridley snarled before calmly slitting Links throat.
Samus screamed Links name in horror and rage, made worse by the four monsters starting to laugh at witnessing her pain.
Suddenly Link was outside and back in the real world. He was just about to ask what was happening when a sharp bolt of pain went through his mind. Link and Lucario both gripped their heads in pain at the same time.
As soon as the pain started it stopped. Link looked at Lucario wearily.
"What the hell was that?" Link asked horrified.
"It seems that your girlfriend has psy-shielding in her suit. I saw her activate it for a training mach with Ness and then the pain started." Lucario said with a groan. "This is bad."
"The headache? Had worse." Link said grimly.
"No the fact that Samus probably knows exactly what just happened." Lucario said right before Samus marched out of the mansion and grabbed Lucario, hoisting him into the air.
"What the hell were you doing in my head?" She demanded, shaking the blue pokemon in anger.
"I asked him to." Link said ashamedly lowering his head. "I wanted to know what you were woken up by. I'm. I'm sorry Sam'."
Samus let go of Lucario and slowly turned to her Fiancé. "Your response to me saying I don't want to talk about it is to start hacking my brain?" She said in disbelief and hurt.
"I just. I wanted to help you." Link tried weakly.
Samus didn't move for a moment before she punched him across the face. Being in armour meant that it was extremely painful and left Link on the ground stunned.
"I. I honestly thought that I could trust you Link." Samus said quietly before she turned around and walked away back into the mansion. Ignoring Links cries for her to wait.
=End=
Ooh it's a cliff-hanger! Second part of this should come up soon.
Don't ask why I gave SA-X the personality that I did.