Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Part 1: Preliminaries

Chapter 5: Dance of the Blades

Link's Super Smash attack: Ganon's Bane: Link will launch his enemy into the air with a bomb arrow, perform a shield strike and then a mid-air helm splitter. He'll land doing a back strike, and then finish his opponent with Ending Blow.

D Wing Assembly Hall

"That kid looked a little angry after he nailed the crazy psychic. Think he's okay?" Dante asked Lyn, who was getting up for her match.

"Don't worry about him. He can manage on his own." She said. And then she walked into the teleporter.

Mushroom Kingdom Arena

Lyn took a look at Peach. She didn't look like much at all. But Lyn didn't want to take chances. As soon as the call sounded, Lyn drastically overestimates Peach and cuts her down with a drawing technique of Mani Katti. She immediately appears back on the stage, the crowd was mute because only a few of them could make out how fast Lyn moved. She sheathed her sword and walked off. "THIS GAMES WINNER IS LYN!"

D Wing Assembly Hall

Dante was staring at Lyn, he only remembered one other person who could move at Lyn's speed. She seemed to ignore Dante, but she knew he was startled. Snake wasn't intimidated, and he just muttered. "When's the next match going to start?" A blue haired man walked onto stage and answered that question. The guide popped up, missing his chance to call Link and Ness's battle.

"THE NEXT MATCH WILL BE IKE GAWAIN vs. MEWTWO! FIGHTERS TO YOUR SPOTS!"

Pokemon Stadium

Ike looked at Mewtwo, not knowing anything about him. He decided that it would be better to simply kill Mewtwo before any hell could break loose. He wouldn't be fast enough. The call to battle sounded, and Mewtwo began to fling around his energy, Ike dodges left and right, looking for an opening. Finally he saw it, and sent a shockwave from Rangell into Mewtwo, knocking the pokemon off his feet. Ike dashed up and opened up a sword combo onto Mewtwo, opening several wounds. Mewtwo then teleported behind Ike and ran off to grab a weapon. He picked up a Pokeball and hurled it at Ike, but he cut it open with Ragnell. A small feeble fish flopped out of it. Ike then flung another shockwave from Ragnell, this one sent Mewtwo sprawling, his psychic powers failing him. Finally, Ike saw the Super Smash icon, he grabbed it. He looked at Mewtwo, and then flung Ragnell into the air. He leapt up to grab a sword, and then slammed down into Mewtwo, he then backflipped and did another aerial saw blade attack. Mewtwo was dazed from the blood loss and Ike's sword, but Ike wasn't done. Ike then thrust his arm into Mewtwo's faced and crouched, sword behind him. He then did a quick dash, sword infront of him, he then leapt up, slicing Mewtwo in half, he landed in a flip, and turned his back to Mewtwo dramatically, the Pokemon's corpse hit the ground with a sick thud.

Ike appeared onto the stage, he didn't look interested at all in what happened. "THIS GAMES WINNER IS IKE GAWAIN!" Ike didn't bother to strike a pose or do anything on the stage, he stepped down.

D Wing Gathering Hall

Dante felt excided after watching Ike. He hoped that he'd get a shot in on Link, but the guide interrupted any hopeful thinking. "We've gotten news on who will be moving onto the next round! The next battles will be Link vs. Mewtwo, Ike vs. Dante, and Lyn vs. Solid Snake. After that, we will have the matches Link vs. Ike, Dante vs. Solid Snake, and Lyn vs. Mewtwo. Ness and Peach, who lasted the least amount of time in the arena, are both disqualified. The next two rounds will decide who will be doing what. You have a days rest before the next round of battles. And yes, NOW we will respond to the complaints about the rooms. Smashers, sleep while you can!" The guide then stalked off.

Midnight, hall of the quarters

A lone girl wandered down the hall, outside of her room. She went up to a door of a room and saw that the light was on. She knocked lightly, and a short skinny man opened it up.

"Hey, what are you doing here?" Asked Otacon.

The girl looked at Otacon. She was shorter than him, her brown hair reached her shoulders, and she wore a large blue scarf. She spoke in a timid voice. "I was hoping I could talk to Snake."

Otacon seemed surprised. "Who are you, and why are you waiting so late? Snake's asleep!"

The girl looked disappointed. "My name is Mist. I just wanted to talk to him."

"What for?"

Mist then looked around a bit to make sure no one was listening. "He's a mercenary too, I wanted to talk to him for some help."

Otacon laughed a little. "Maybe you should come tomorrow at a better time. I'm only up because I wanted to finish a video real quick. Maybe I could tell him--" Otacon was then interrupted by Snake.

"I'll talk to her." He muttered. He then sat up, Mist went into the apartment and went up to Snake, acting shy again. "Anything wrong, Mist?" Asked Snake.

"I was just wanting to talk to someone, and you were more likely to listen to me since you are also a mercenary." Mist said, almost sadly.

"I haven't been a mercenary for a while. It's been a long time since I was a part of FOXHOUND. The last deal I did as a mercenary was Shadow Moses Island, and that was four years ago."

"I just was feeling a bit lonely. Ike was suspicious of some of the other fighters, so he didn't let me talk to anyone. I just like talking to people."

"I'm not much of a talker. What do you want to know?" Snake asked.

"Have you ever had to fight a friend?" Mist asked after a pause.

"Yeah. A couple of times. Why?"

"I had to do the same thing. I was with my brothers squad when he fought an old friend Shinon. He was my friend Rolf's teacher. But Shinon was shooting at us… he had left the group and tried to kill us. I killed him… he was the first one I fought… I had rushed to help Boyd who had gotten shot, and I ended up finishing off Shinon…" Mist eyes started to fog.

"You've seen some rough stuff." Snake said. He put his hand on Mist's shoulder and sat next to her, Otacon watched, also feeling sorry for Mist.

"Who… did you fight?" Mist asked finally

"My friend… his name was Frank Jeager. He was the most trusted warrior among Unit FOXHOUND. When I first met him, I was still a rookie. I was still green, but he showed me the ropes. But in the end, I had to fight him. We were soldiers on opposite sides, and we had our missions to finish. I fought him bare fisted in a mine field, and in the end I killed him… but that wasn't the last I saw of him." Snake said. Mist looked up at Snake, her expression was enough to ask him how he fought a dead man. "After I fought him in Zanzibar Land, he was taken by some doctors under the orders of a group called the Patriots. They revived him and put him into an experimental exoskeleton while they preformed several gene experiments on him. He finally escaped from the lab with the help of a girl he had taken under his wing named Naomi. We met again on Shadow Moses, and we fought again. He was like a ghost looking for a place to die. In the end he was killed. I still remember what he said to me in the end. After that, I was convinced of what I had to do."

Mist looked at Snake, and asked him what Frank's final words were. Snake closed his eyes and recited them. "Snake, we're not tools of the government or anyone else. Fighting was the only thing that I was good at, but at least I always fought for what I believed in." Snake then snapped his eyes open, Mist's were closed. She had heard enough of Snake's story. She then got up, her eyes still a little watery. "Are you going to be okay?" Snake asked. Mist turned around, she smiled a little.

"I'm glad we had talked. I hope you have better luck in the future with your friends. Is it okay if I talk to you tomorrow?" Mist asked.

"Sure." Snake said. Mist then turned around and went back to her room, and went to sleep without waking her brother.

I'll start putting two battles at a time in the chapters. There will be two more rounds of battles, and then things really get crazy. Next update is in the near future! Please review!