Strange Beginnings
It was love from the moment she hit me in the nuts.
No, really.
Thinking back on it, that was what sparked it all off. Right back in the first battle of the War Games, when she whipped out that freaky Ball Hammer thing of hers, and went on to win by the most painful (and embarrassing) method possible. I couldn't walk straight for hours.
I couldn't stop thinking about her for the next few days. Revenge, mostly- she'd roughed me up and humiliated me, and I wanted to do the same to her. Well, not too much, or me ma'd have hit me, but yeah. When I discovered the Magic Mushroom ability of my Earth Shovel, I thought it was perfect- that way I could beat her without hurting her.
And then she turns around, screaming something about the volcanoes erupting- and the terror falls off her face, and she blushes.
The rest, they say, is history.