Your period, my time
"Is he alright?" I asked to Mario when I took a close look.
Mario didn't answer, he wasn't sure. The guy seemed really bad, his chin was bleeding and his waist was really beat up. His breath was slow and heavy, like if it was difficult to accomplish. He opened his eyes and as soon as he saw me, he started pushing me back and rolled back in the grass with his hurt arms. He tried to hold his pokeball, but at the instant his fingers let it go. He was really in a bad shape and I thought that meeting Robert could wait. I had to help this guy first; I just couldn't leave it like that.
So I took him, I was holding him in my arms walking towards the house I just left. Lucky was at my side, there weren't many people that could care enough to take a look and recognize Pokemon Trainer, the smash bros brawl character. He was heavy, or so it felt hanging with 50kg, but I made it home. I opened the door fast, moving the key with two fingers while holding Pokemon Trainer's body. At the instant my feet touched the garden, Link saw me bringing the Pokemon Trainer and he helped me out. We both carried him to the guest room, where we left him at the bed. He was asleep. Link took his shirt off and we could see that his torso and waist were really injured. There were a lot of scars around the shoulders, and under his hat he had a lot of bruises.
"I pity him" I said. I really did, it seemed like he had been in an awful fight.
"I'll take care of him" Link told me "Weren't you going to rescue Peach?"
"Oh, yes! After all that's Mario's job"
We both smiled and laughed. It was true, I had to see Robert and Link was worth trusting... or at least I thought so, and I expected my guess to be right or I would really regret all this.
Anyway, I got out of the room and headed once again out of the house. It was at the time five o clock, what could take Melanie so long to not arrive home yet? Just when I was wondering, a text message told me that she and mom would be out of town with the grams who were expecting their visit since the last month, so the house was at my charge.
Just when I needed to talk with them; it was like they prepared it to avoid questions... and maybe they did, but as I had now even more free time to do whatever I wanted, I decided to check out what happened to Robert.
His house wasn't really far from mine, just twenty minutes by walking, and five by jumping with Mario form. For speed reason I obviously took Mario's way. The time limit was finally bigger and I could hold the form thirty minutes.
Robert's house was really amusing, his stepfather had a lot of money so they lived in a really good old house from the 40th, an aristocratic house with two floors, lime yellow outside with the kind of look that would have a doll house from the outside. I jumped to the second floor and I checked the first window. It had to be Robert's bedroom, because there I saw Peach's trophy at the nigh table next to the big round bed. My assumption was right after all, his intelligence only led him that far. But, why wasn't him at his room? The answer was some kind of weird noise that I knew pretty well, something like "nooouuuuunn". I had to check my back and there he was, I had no doubt it was Robert at Yoshi's form about to launch an egg at me. I dodged it of course, but that made Robert get pissed off, his window was now broken and he was furious at me. The struggle began.
I jumped at him, but he jumped backwards to avoid my leg to step on his face, and then he turned into an egg rolling forwards to me once my legs touched the ground, but I managed to sidestep and as soon as I saw that the rolling egg was coming back to me I used a cape that suddenly appeared to my hands to change his direction. He broke the egg and then his tail made a move that hit my legs, making me slip, giving him a chance to jump and yell "brain-ka!" He almost crashed my stomach. It was a close call; it scared me a little bit. I threw some fireballs, but Yoshi was good at timing and avoiding them.
I could see his face mocking at me and I suddenly got fired-up inside, feeling my soul burning on anger. I could see Robert happy expression making fun of me and getting confident of his victory. Treating me like a looser. Oh, my god! I hated that so much! I think that's the reason why I didn't bother to doge his kick and grabbed his boot, to then finally impact a punch on his proud face that would hurt him until the next day. I was so angry at him; I desired only the worst for him. And this was my chance of giving him that.
I didn't care about Peach anymore; the only thing in my mind was taking all Robert pride and then tearing it into pieces. I was so angry at him and he was at me, I had the feeling he knew who I really was and I didn't care, it was fine by me, even better if he knew I was a finer fighter than him.
My punch clashed with his kick, and my kick with his tail turning into a neutral attack. He expanded his tongue towards me and I rolled backwards to avoid being turned into an egg by that tongue, still I got my chance to grab it and pull myself towards him to kick his waist. It hurt him, still he didn't give in and he gave me a head butt really hard.
We could go that way all day if it wasn't for Gabriel's interruption. He raised his gun to shoot both of us. The red laser made us flinch and we had to stop, while he at Fox form and with his agility got into the room with the broken window. Maquiel at Samus form also appeared and put his cannon in Robert's forehead.
"You'd like to say something looser" Maquiel asked.
"If this dinosaur could talk" that was Robert voice, but we felt it in our mind. As Yoshi could not talk by his mouth, his mind was able to compensate that.
"Well, we can hear you" I added.
Robert was indeed surprised; the eyes that Yoshi put were really big and as an "O" each one, so we could tell.
Fox had Peach trophy at his hand when he came to touch the floor. How come that nobody saw us? We were at the street in front of an old house, and there wasn't a single person in the whole area? This was too convenient, and it wasn't the first time. It was odd, not normal, usually people should be walking around us normally, until they saw us, and they did watched enough smash bros characters to make noise about it. But there wasn't any, not even a single soul, and there wasn't any fog like the one Sonic prepared for the sake of "not being interrupted".
Anyway, I made an eye signal to Maquiel, the one that mean "no time for this" and we left Robert at the place, leaving our smash form with Peach already rescued.
So we head back home, while Gabriel caught up.
"So, as far as Maquiel told me, we're doing this for Link, Yoshi was Robert, your Judo's partner, and your father left you a memento that guides you on how to fight the smash brother's character, is that right?"
"You caught it quick"
"World's became insane" he claimed.
"No doubt" I replied.
We got back at my house. We were breathing fast, we ran all the way to avoid being followed by Robert. We were also sweating, so we just took a deep breath and got inside the house. I gave the trophy to Link and asked him to save it for a while before turning her. The best would be expecting her with my mother and sister to "attend her as the princess she was". Link agreed, and he just stored her temporarily on the closet. Then he got back to look after the Pokemon Trainer who was still unconscious. What a day! So much just happened in one day, it was still Wednesday! Not even Saturday, but the third day of the week! How was I supposed to go to school the next day after all this commotion? I was alone at home, taking care of three smash brother characters, all by myself, with two another human hosts who were expecting some information from my father's private diary. Yep, it was really hard to keep my cool, I almost started shouting, but I kept myself calm somehow.
I still needed some time, time to process everything. It was way to fast, like if the world just sped up too much for me to keep up its peace.
I could figure a solution. First of all I kicked out Maquiel and Gabriel of the house, everything they needed to know I would tell them, but I needed privacy with my father's life. Then, I had to start thinking of dinner; I would have to go with spaghetti the easiest food for these times.
So I got into the kitchen, thinking of three mouths to feed, one of them a soul to explain everything that's going on and convince him that he can stay and that I was no evil. It was going to be hard, although I wanted to maintain myself in action, keeping myself doing nothing would be worse, despite everything I had in mind to do was very difficult to accomplish. Everything, but the food, it took twenty minutes and it went well. So we had dinner, now I had to check on the injured on the gust room.
When I entered I had the luck that Link already made half of the explanation. He looked at me with doubt in his eyes, but I could tell he was grateful, still there was something else in his mind, I could tell, he probably left a friend behind under an overwhelming pressure. Then I noticed that he was hanging just two pokeballs in his belt instead of three.
"Which pokemon did you lose?" I asked.
"I did not lose him" he corrected me "I asked him to escort Lucas somewhere safe"
"Charizard, wasn't him?"
"Yes" he looked at me still with a suspicious look "I must say that I appreciate that you took care of me, not many humans would do the same. But I do not trust you..."
"Yeah, yeah, Link went through that too"
"I still doubt about you" Link pointed.
"Didn't I rescue your friend?"
"Well, certainly you did..."
"Then don't screw with me Link!" I was really hot headed that night "And hear me Pokemon Trainer! Since now, as your name is too long, tell me your real name"
"I don't have one" he confessed with sorrow.
"Then I'll call you Ash for the time being"
"Why?"
"Never mind why" I was not in the mood to explain him that the anime character that represented him was called Ash "I'll be calling you that until you choose a name. Now, can you move?"
"I don't think I can..."
"I'll bring you dinner"
"Why are you taking care of Link and me?" he asked puzzled "It makes no sense! We're fighting your race! We might kill people!"
"No more chatter!" I really had enough-. You're in my house now! So both of you are going to eat quietly and let me sleep. I had more than I can handle today.
