whew, that was fun. I had a blast writing this chapter, and it is definitely where things start separating from what it used to be. Whether you think it's good or not is up to you, but I hope you give me your opinions on this. Anyway, quick shout out to two authors I really love. First, JuniorBLD, who I've mentioned before, and is an amazing author. Check him out, he's really good. Secondly, on wattpad, an amazing author and good friend of mine, Aubreydemoux. She's writing a really interesting story that is completely amazing, and really good read. Check it out if you have the time. Now, with that aside, on the the chapter.

He's not like us: Chapter Three

Recovery

Medical Wing, Smash Mansion

Samus awoke to darkness. Sweat trickled down her forehead, her nerves frayed as panic still gripped her heart. Memories of that dreadful day on K2-RL ran rampant through her head. Ridley's evil, smiling face, the fires, the blood, her screams as she looked at the remains of her dead parents underneath the remains of their home. It haunted her almost every time she closed her eyes. After the fear passed, it took Samus to put the pieces of what had happened before back together.

'I was sparring against Sigma and Megaman with Link, then,' Samus thought, then the final memory clicked into place. She sat up quickly, only to stop and gasp in pain as she felt all her wounds protest against her sudden movements.

"Aaah!" Samus clutched her side, her hair falling in front of her eyes, as she didn't have anything to hold her hair back, apparently. As the thought back to what had happened during the spar, Samus' anger grew. 'That dink is evil, I swear. He just stood there and did nothing as whatever he did nearly got me killed. He didn't even seem to care.'

Drawing herself out of her thoughts, Samus looked around and took in her surrounding. Upon inspection, she realized she was in one of the hospital beds in the recovery wing. The blue sheets complimented the white floor tiles, as well as the white walls with red cross symbols strewn across the room. Samus sighed and looked at the monitor connected to her arm through the ICU.

"Hey," a voice said from the doorway said softly, "You're up." Samus turned her head to see Link standing in the doorway. Samus smiled a bit, but Link could tell it was forced. "Sorry I wasn't here when you woke up, Dr. Mario kicked me and the others out as fast as he, saying you needed rest, and you'd never get that with us around."

"It's okay." Link looked at Samus with a worried expression.

"You doing okay?" he asked, taking a seat next to her bed. Samus simply shook her head, but it was all Link needed to understand why she was angry.

"You're mad at him, aren't you?"

"Did you expect me not to be?" Samus retorted. "He's the reason I'm in here right now," Samus retorted. Link smiled sadly.

"Yeah, well, you missed his reaction." Link stated simply.

"Hmph. Was it, 'whoops, looks like that happened, shall we continue?" Samus mocked, only to grunt in pain as moving to make a mocking pose caused her immense pain.

"No, he freaked out." Link sighed, then pulled out a phone, which surprised Samus as she didn't think he knew how to operate this stuff, let alone, own one. "Here, it'd be simpler if I showed you."

Link showed Samus a video of when she got hit by Link's Final Smash. What happened afterwards, though, was new information. She saw as Link freaked out at what had just happened, as Sigma melted down, at the words of despair fell out of his mouth.

"Oh, Chozo. What did he go through to have that kind of trauma," Samus asked incredulously. Link only shook his head.

"We don't know. Me and him bee lined it over here with you and he healed you as much as he could, which he said would've been about two months of healing in normal time. Mentioned that you'd still feel sore and lingering pain from your wounds. But past that, he didn't say not much else. As soon as he finished, he booked it faster than Sonic to… somewhere." Link told her.

"Well, why'd you come with him?" Samus asked. Link only stared at her in confusion, wondering why this was a question. He took her hand in his before answering.

"Samus, I care about you. I wanted to make sure you were okay," Link chuckled a little, squeezing her hand. Samus turned her head to hide her blush. Now Samus was a trained bounty hunter, a professional very capable of controlling her emotions. But anytime it came to the green clad swordsman, her defenses crumbled into dust.

"T-t-thanks Link," Samus stuttered out. Link smiled, before leaning over and kissing her cheek. Samus' heart skipped a beat, and her face flushe. Link didn't even seem to notice as he stood up.

"I'm going to check up on everyone and see if we can figure all this out. Sigma seems like he needs all the help we can offer."

"Y-you do that. I-I'll, uh, just be here… getting some rest," Samus mumbled. Link nodded, giving her a warm smile, before leaving, letting Samus sit alone with her thoughts. She tried to calm herself, but any thought of Link and him kissing her cheek brought more red to her face.

"Dang it, Link," Samus grumbled to herself, "What did you get so bold? I can't handle more of that."

Samus finally calmed herself enough for her blush to disappear and regain control over her thoughts, she looked back on the discussion she and Lin had just had. Her thoughts drifted to Sigma and his reaction to what had happened.

"What happened to you Sigma? What traumatic events lie in your past?

…

Hands' Personal Office,

Master Hand floated in front of his computer, using his influence to type on the keyboard, when the doors to his office were blown wide open. Master hand shook slightly in surprise, accidentally hitting random keys

"What in the name of Sakurai-" Master Hand started, only to stop when he saw Sigma stumble in, his helmet gone, his hair flickering between brown and black. His face was panicked and stained with tears. Master Hand acted quickly, floating over to him.

"Woah, Sigma, calm down, you're flickering."

"No, no, no time," Sigma stumbled over the words, his voice dropping in and out between his normal voice and a deeper, disturbed one. "Where's Crazy?"

"He's in the back, I'll go gra-" Master Hand began to say, only to stop when Sigma disappeared from his view, the revolving doors leading to the back spinning madly. Master Hand blinked internally, surprised that Sigma had moved so fast he hadn't noticed. To move at a speed that could avoid his god-like abilities was impressive, but it also meant something was very, very wrong.

…

Backroom, Testing Lab

"Grah! Stupid essence!" Crazy Hand shouted, slamming himself in a fist onto the table in front of him. Lots of expensive equipment, liquids, parts, glass vials, mechanical weapons, and parts were tossed into the air before settling back down on the table again. "Why does Smash essence have to be so infuriatingly temperamental."

Before Crazy could continue with his experiments, something flew through the doors and landed with a thud on the floor. The sudden sound scared Crazy so much he knocked over lots of his lab equipment.

"Fusajiro! What the heck was that?" Crazy exclaimed, as he turned to see Sigma, on the ground, grasping his head, breathing heavily, a dark, purple mist emanating from his eyes, a creepy black starting to creep into the edge of his pupils.

"Sigma! Holy Tabuu, what happened?" Crazy dropped next to Sigma, putting his index finger on Sigma's shoulder.

"It's not working Crazy. It leaked." Sigma's voiced fluctuated more than it had with master hand, jumping between the two voices every second. Crazy's figurative heart dropped to the bottom of his glove.

"No, I thought we had it sealed within the limiter."

"It's not working then. It's leaking. Samus got hurt, it bypassed the game rules."

Crazy felt terrified at this news.

"Is she okay?" Crazy questioned. It'd be hard enough to explain this, the have to explain Samus to the public, as well as how devastating that would be to all the smashers…

"She-she-she'll be okay," Sigma sputtered. He gasped in pain and coughed up blood. "But I-I-I need a-another limiter. I can't-" Sigma screamed briefly, the pain causing his body to shake, and randomly bleed from all over. " I can't have IT do what it did last time. I-I ca-can't do that again. I can't cope with another incident."

"I can't just magic one up, Sigma!" Crazy said, freaking out, "It takes time to," Crazy was cut off as the mist shook and swirled violently, its movement cracking the floor and walls within the room.

"I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR THAT!" Sigma's voice stopped fluctuating and grew deep and dark as he shouted. Crazy was startled and slightly frightened by the outburst. They sat in silence as Sigma took in deep, labored breaths. "I-I can't," Sigma's voice began to fluctuate again, "I can't hold it in much longer. I-I-I need something!"

Crazy sighed. "I can seal it in, but it's going to hurt a lot. There's a reason we use the limiters rather than giving you all seals."

"I don't care. Just do it." Sigma's voice was firm, but obviously frightened. Crazy could feel Sigma's resolve and lifted himself into the air above the fallen man. He began gatehring energy beneath him.

"HURRY!" Sigma growled, more mist seeping from him. Crazy only grunted, then made three shapes in the air. A circle, a cross, and finally, the Omega symbol. The symbols appeared in the air as Crazy made them. As soon as Crazy stopped making the Omega symbol, the three shapes descended on top of one another, then as one symbol, fell on top of Sigma's back. Sigma let out a howl and blood dribbled out of his mouth like saliva. A brilliant light flashed. When the light finally died down, Sigma lay on the ground, his body calmed, the dark mist gone, the blood seemingly evaporated, all signs of pain or injury having vanished. Sigma stayed there, unconscious, his breathing now at a normal rate. Crazy Hand only looked at him in awe.

"May whatever God's rule this galaxy keep this boy from suffering another incident such as the last."

Alright, now that that's out of the way, I need to jump on chapter four. Please, tell me what you guys think. Suggest things you wanna see, ideas you liked or didn't like, all that. Tell me what worked and what didn't. Make sure to say what you drop a review and suggest this story to your friends. Anyway, till next time, stay cool!