A/N: I have to say this chapter is really long. Well for me it is anyway. But I have to say, it was still fun to write. So enjoy the next chapter.
Chapter 2: Orientation
Raven woke up to the sound of someone knocking on her door. She slowly opened one of her eyes to look for a clock. But she couldn't find one.
"I don't want to get up…" The red-head muttered to herself.
However, she slowly got out of bed and flopped over to her door and opened it slowly. When Raven opened her door it revealed a person with short strait blue hair, in their hair was a tiara of sorts, and they word blue armor and a blue cape. Raven was starting to think that this person was a girl.
"Yes…?" Raven asked in a tired voice.
"Master Hand asked me to come and see if you were awake." The blue haired boy (apparently) said, then a smile appeared on his face, "I can see that you were not."
"Well….I'm not a morning person." Raven said as she yawned.
The boy seemed to laugh a little, "I would seem so."
"Well, are you going to leave me to sleep? Or am I going to have to shut the door in your face? Either one I'm perfectly content with."
The boy seemed to look a bit worried, "Actually, when I said he came to see if you were awake, he meant to come and get you, miss…"
Raven yawned again, "Raven. And if that's the case, I'll get ready."
As Raven shut the door, the blue haired boy was left to himself for a while. He was going over what had happened. The only woman he knew who wasn't much of a girly type was Samus. He had a feeling that Raven was going to be a lot like her.
After about two minutes, the door opened, and Ravens hair was no longer a mess and she looked much more awake. She walked out of her room and shut the door.
"I don't think I got your name." Raven said, looking at the blue-haired boy.
"My name is Marth," He said, "Prince of Altea."
Raven raised an eyebrow, "A prince, huh? Never though you royal types were into fighting...or tiaras." She muttered the last part.
The Prince didn't seem to notice though, "Yes, it is odd I suppose. But I like to think of it as training. A way to better myself to become stronger."
"Liar." Raven said as she started walking off in the direction of Master Hand's office.
Marth ran up to her, "Liar?"
"I've know some nobility, and they all seem to make others fight their battles. Unless they want to start a war." Raven shrugged.
"Surely you jest, because I've known an equal if not more amount of nobles with a good heart." Marth said looking at the girl in shock.
"I'm sure you have." Raven sighed doubtfully.
Marth went around to the front of Raven, stopping her, "Then let me prove to you otherwise."
Raven looked at him skeptically, "And how's that, O righteous Prince of Altea."
The prince seemed to think, "I don't know, but I swear I will."
Raven chuckled, "Fine, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a meeting with Master Hand…apparently."
"Actually, it's a public announcement and he wanted you to be there."
"And were are 'public announcements'?" Raven asked slightly annoyed that he didn't mention this before.
Marth then grabbed her hand, "Follow me. We have to hurry though, we're almost late."
Marth then ran off with Raven in tow, and considering she's used to using her wings to go places in a hurry, she was starting to trip. Without a word, Marth picked her up bridal-style and continued running.
"H-Hey!" Raven stammered while blushing, "I can run! It's not like we're being chased or anything. Wait, are we being chased?!"
"No, but I just don't want you to be late." Marth explained with a warm smile.
"So, this is for me? And not for your sparkling on-time record?" Raven muttered, lookin at her legs.
"What makes you think I have one of those?"
Raven shrugged, "You just seem like that kind of person."
Soon after she said that, Marth put her down, and smiled, "We're here. Oh, and I'll have you know that I am late sometimes, this is just something I didn't want to be late for."
"Uh-huh."
Raven then went through the double doors to the room the announcement was supposed to be. As she opened to door, she didn't expect a lunchroom. Raven looked around and saw that people were segregated into different tables. There were no signs, so Raven guessed that it was just people sitting with people they like.
"Just like high school." Raven softly chuckled. "So, uh Marth, where do I sit?" But there was no reply, Raven turned around and noticed that the Prince was gone. She quickly scanned the area and found him sitting at a table as some other people, who looked like swordsmen.
Raven sighed dejectedly, but she soon heard a chipper voice behind her that seemed familiar.
"Hiya Raven, nice to see you again." Raven turned around and saw Pit.
Raven gave him a faint smile, "Hey Pit."
"What's wrong? You look a little upset."
"Nah, just tired." Raven yawned faking a yawn.
"So, Raven," Pit started scratching the back of his head, "I was wondering if you wanted to sit with me for breakfast."
Raven smiled, "Sure. But I heard that Master Hand was going to give an announcement."
"Oh, that's later. But it's good you got here when you did, you at least get something to eat."
"Is that why that ditching prince was in a hurry? So he could get something to eat?!" Le seemed to fume. Raven silently thought to Le that Marth might have been thinking of them as well.
Raven then looked around, "So…where do you sit?"
Pit pointed over to the table where Marth was sitting. "Over there."
Raven silently followed Pit as they got their food and walked over to the table, and as they got closer, her shyness started to kick in. When they got to the table Raven sat next to Pit and another blue haired boy whose hair was much spikier than Marth's hair.
"So, Pit. Who's your friend?" a white haired male asked.
"This is Raven. She's new here." Pit said with a smile.
"Nice to meet you, Raven. My name's Robin." The boy named Robin said as he held out his hand. Raven silently shook his hand and almost whispered, "Nice to meet you too."
Raven didn't see it but Marth, and Pit looked at her confused about her sudden shyness. However, she did hear a laugh next to her.
"I never would have thought that we would have two people here who are named after birds. Both of which start with 'R'." Raven looked and saw it was the blue-haired boy she was sitting next to, a boy with equal spikey (but red) hair was laughing too however he looked younger than Raven.
"It's not nice to make fun of someone you've just met, Ike." Marth lectured flatly.
"It's…alright. It is kinda funny." Raven said quietly as she shyly smiled.
"I agree, the probability of something like this would be unbelievingly miniscule. So, even though I am a part of this, I have to say it is quite humorous that it has happened." Robin said smiling.
The spikey red head looked at him confused. "Come again?"
"He's just agreeing with Raven, Roy." Marth explained, his tone unchanging.
"So much for showing us that he's not like other nobles." Raven heard Le scoff.
That might have been what Le felt, but Raven was starting to feel a little more comfortable with these people.
"So, are you all swordsmen?" Raven decided to ask.
"Yep. Though not all of the swordsmen sit here." Roy said.
"Really? Like who?"
"Lucina, Dark Pit, and Toon Link." Ike stated.
"Link sits with us as well, however he lacks being on time to important events." Marth seemed to say bitterly.
Raven was going to ask if the Prince had an issue with Link, but though better of it.
"So what about you Raven, do you know your way around a blade?" Robin asked her.
"A little bit. However, I'd have to say I know my way around a flintlock much more than a sword." Raven answered.
Roy gave her a confused look, "A flintlock? What's that?"
Raven pulled out her pistol. It was a dark wood toy-looking gun with gold trimming and colored gems on the side.
"It looks to be nothing more than a toy…" Marth observed, looking intrigued.
Raven smiled, "I can assure you that it isn't." Raven was half-tempted to shoot it, but thought better of it.
For the next twenty or so minutes, Raven, Pit, Ike, Marth, Roy, and Robin talked until the doors seemed to slam open. Raven looked and saw that it was Link. He looked like he ran the entire way to the cafeteria going at full speed, and without taking any food Link sat down next to Robin and Marth.
"Sorry…I'm late…over…slept…" the blond hero painted.
"Obviously." Marth scoffed.
"Easy you two. I don't think anyone wants to see a catfight between you two this soon in the day." Ike said coolly.
"Do Link and Marth not get along or something?" Raven whispered into Pits ear.
"During the last meeting, I heard that both Link and Marth were trying to get Zelda to go out with them." Pit whispered back "Long story short, Zelda picked Link."
Soon after that the Master Hand came through the door, and all conversations ended.
"Smashers, today I'd like to announce to arrival of a new participant of our meetings. Raven, would you please stand?"
Raven silently stood up, feeling her cheeks turn red as everyone stared at her.
"Like all of you, she will be taking the orientation, and for her it will be an all-out fight with an original smasher. That is all. Raven, you and your picked opponent will be fighting in half an hour." And with that Master Hand left, and conversations continued like normal.
"I wonder who you're going to fight." Pit wondered out loud.
"I don't know." Raven replied honestly. "Who did you fight, Pit?"
"If I remember, I think I fought Zelda. I lost though."
"That's to be expected, I heard that someone rarely beats their opponent in the orientation. Mine was Yoshi, and I have to say I lost as well." Robin adds.
You had it easy, Link. Not having to fight anyone to get in." Ike sighed.
"Neither did Mario, Luigi, Ness, Fox, Pikachu, Donkey Kong, Samus, Yoshi, Kirby, Jigglypuff, and Falcon." Link tried explained.
"So you didn't have an orientation?" Raven asked, starting to feel envious.
"No, we did. We had to defeat Master Hand." Link said nonchalantly.
Everyone at the table looked at him. "That was it?" Marth asked
"Well, that and go through classic on hard." Link added.
"No wonder you twelve seem to be stronger." Robin mused to himself.
"So, where am I supposed to go for the matches?" Raven asks looking at the clock above the door.
"I'll show you!" Link says with a slight smile.
"Thanks, Link." Raven smiles back. "Can we go now then? I don't want to be late."
Link looked shocked, "Oh…okay."
"Unless food is more important." Marth said with a smug smile.
Raven notice that Link looked conflicted, and she sighed. "You can stay here, Link. You need to eat anyway." And walked out of the cafeteria.
"Left or right?" she asked herself.
"Well if you're planning on getting lost, I would suggest left." Someone behind her said.
She turned around and noticed a girl who looked a lot like Marth.
"Thanks, I forgot my map at my room and got a little lost." Raven smiled.
"Do you wish for me to accompany you to the brawl room?" The she-Marth asked.
"That would be nice, uh…"
"Lucina." She said as she smiled, "Princess of Ylisse." Lucina started walking to the right
"Raven, pirate." Raven said now following the princess.
"Ah, so is that your title then?" Lucina asks.
"When you're a pirate, you earn a few titles." Raven shrugs.
"Really?" Lucina asks genially interested. "Do you mind telling me one or two?"
"Well one was 'the Winged Pirate', and the other was the 'Bloody Demon'."
"Why those titles?" Lucina then asks.
"I have wings for starters." Raven said as she formed her black raven wings on her back.
"Amazing!" the Ylissian princess awed, "and what of the other one, the 'Bloody Demon'?"
"Uh…that one's a bit personal. I got that one from some bad things I did when I was young." Raven loosely explained. The true reason was because of Unleashed, but she wanted to keep her secret for as long as possible.
"Very well, I shall not pry any farther." Lucina said with a soft smile. "And look at that, we have arrived."
Raven noticed that the door looked a lot like the dining area except it had a strange circular symbol on it.
"Thank you, Lucina."
"You are welcome, Raven." Lucina said as she walked away waving.
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Raven stood at the door for a little while until she decided to go it. The inside of the room was completely white with the exception of eight different colored large rectangles on the floor. Raven decided to step on the red one. When she did, a picture of her making a victory sign showed up in front of her.
Out of curiosity, Raven touched the picture, and when she did, her clothes changed. Her black shirt was now substituted with bandages and she wore a black trench cloak with yellow trimming on the angel sleeves, and her shorts were switched with a blue sailor suit skirt with black spandex underneath.
"Cool." Raven said to herself. She decided to press her picture a few more times. And other than the black cloak outfit, there were just different color variations of her normal outfit. Some even changed her hair color. In the end she decided to stick with her normal outfit.
After a few more minutes, a slender woman in a blue bodysuit and blonde hair in a ponytail walked in. She silently walked over to the blue rectangle right next to her.
"Uh…hi." Raven said awkwardly.
"Hello," she responded with a smile, "Your name's Raven correct?"
"Yeah. Raven, the winged pirate." She said slightly copying Marth and Lucina's way of introduction.
"A pirate, huh? Name's Samus Aran. I'm a bounty hunter." The blonde said with a smirk on her face.
Once as Samus said she was a bounty hunter, she started to feel a bit nervous.
"Smooth birdy, you've just earned yourself a stalker." Le sighed slightly amused.
"Don't worry, I don't do jobs here. So you're safe. For now." Samus said turning her back to Raven.
As if on que, Master Hand showed up. "Ah, good to see you two here so early. Now, your fight will be a standard two minute fight on a random stage. Samus already knows this, but your fight will be displayed in the stands and the lodge area."
Samus nodded her understanding, and Raven soon followed.
"Also, don't worry about killing someone. Everyone here has a protection shield when they enter a fight, so no damage will be permanent…sometimes."
A start button soon appeared in front of Raven, she pressed it.
Raven seemed to fly down to the stage on her wings, which soon disappeared upon landing. The stage in question was flat, and in the background she though they were going through the whole of time and space. Her observations were cut short when Master Hand's voice was heard, "Ready? 3.
Raven looked over and saw her opponent, it looked like an orange robot of sorts.
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She was confused, 'What happened to Samus?'
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'Oh well, I guess I'm fighting this thing.' Raven concluded
Go!
With that Raven quickly grew her gun and charged up and ice blast for later. The orange robot seemed to have the same idea, because it was charging a gun as well.
With gun, and now cutlass in hand she charged towards her opponent. It looked like she was expected to do that, because the robot soon let its charge go. And it was big.
The bird barely jumped over it but when she did, her face was met with metal to the face. The attack launched her a few feet however she landed with some grace.
Raven again faced her opponent only to find him gone. She soon looked up and saw that the robot was making a down-ward strike. Raven quickly sidestepped out of the way and attacked with the blade of her cutlass going into the robots chest. It seemed to be winded and Raven took this chance to shoot her ice blast at it. When doing so, the robot was then encased in ice and sent into the air. Before it could break out, Raven flew next to her ice-encased opponent, who was over the edge and slashed him downward. When the robot went far enough a red light seemed to blast where he fell. Raven gave a sigh of relief when it seemed to be over.
However Raven was soon grabbed ad was now being held by the very same robot she thought she destroyed. It was now pummeling her with punches and sent her flying towards the edge of the stage. Her wings caught her thankfully, and she got back to the platform.
She decided to charge her opponent again, but with a better plan. This time the android launched a missile with a green tip. Raven side stepped out of the way but as soon as she did, she was met with metal slamming into her back. The android then picked her up and tossed her down the edge. Making the score 1 to 1.
Raven then respawned in the air on a floating blue mechanical platform. Wanting to catch her orange opponent by surprise, she quickly jumps off. As soon as she jumped of a strange ball with changing colors appeared,
"Raven get that! If you do, you can use its power to let me out and we can win this!"
It seemed the robot had the same idea because it was attacking the strange sphere as well. She didn't want to be left out of this fight yet, so she threw her sword at it. Somehow, the sword hit the smash ball, and its power was now radiating within her body.
"Now call me. Yell my name!"
Raven slowly nodded. "UNLEASHED!"
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In the stands, every smasher was watching this fight. And everyone had an awestruck face. Except one person, Link (1).
"Not again…" Link muttered to himself with his head in his hands.
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Le looked at her hands, making sure she was in control. She then glared at their opponent. She could smell its fear. In a flash, Unleashed charged towards the robot but as soon as she got to it, it side stepped out of the way. Le made a sadistic smile, and expecting that she used all of her strength and back-kicked him.
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Le then took out her sword and slammed it into the ground and flew at her opponent with the blade making a crevice in the ground.
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The android decided to charge another plasma shot
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Unleashed reached her opponent and made an upward slash, launching the robot.
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Trying to gain some traction in the air, the orange robot tried to stop its loss.
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The red lights of Ravens 'kill' were launched.
Time!
For everyone in the stands they were shocked, Samus had lost. More importantly, she lost to a newbie. And again the only person in the stands who didn't look shocked was Link. Slowly he got up and left, he needed to speak with Raven.
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Raven was soon warped back to the room she started in and next to her was Samus.
The blonde walked over to her and held out her hand.
"That was an interesting fight. I hope I get the chance to fight you again."
Raven just looked at her confused. "You were in the fight? I was fighting an orange robot-looking thing.
Samus gave her a smile
"Wait." Raven said putting the pieces together, "You mean…That was YOU?!"
Samus nodded and smiled. "Don't worry, you aren't the first to think I was a man in that suit."
"More importantly, I'm impressed by the wings you displayed." Samus said rubbing her chin, "You aren't an angel are you?"
"No, last I checked they were bird wings." Raven said.
Before Samus could react to that Link came bursting into the room, shocking both of the girls. Link walks directly over to Raven, with obvious anger in his eyes.
"Mind telling me what the Hylia that was?!" Link almost yells.
"What do you mean?" The red-head asks genuinely confused.
"You KNOW what I mean!" Link yelled, getting angrier by the second
"Listen, Link. If she knew then she would have told you." Samus said coolly, "Also why are you so mad?"
Link flashed a look of anger at Samus, silently telling her to 'get the hell out'. Samus just shrugged and left. Leaving the two.
"Well?" Link asked again no less angry than before
"I don't know what you're talking about Link." Raven said again, with a confused look on her face.
"I mean Unleashed! Why the HELL is SHE here?!"
"Because she wanted to come." Raven replied, soon mellowing down after figuring out why Link was so mad.
"And you LET her?" the hero asked taken aback.
"She can't really come out unless I grab that circle thingy, and she's not all rage and kill you know." Raven refuted as she crossed her arms. "And if you have a problem with that, I'm sorry."
Raven decided to just walk back to the food room. That fight left her quite hungry. Link silently, and disconsolately followed her. About halfway there he finally spoke,
"How are you going to explain her to everyone else?"
Raven shrugged, "I don't know. By the way, why does MH have the new comers' fight? I heard that most of them lose."
"It's just a way for him to know if your fighting skill is 'good enough'." Link said.
The rest of the walk there was as normal as one could guess it could be, but that was about to change then they got to the cafeteria.