Sorry about the delay everyone, I know its been a couple months since I
last updated this fic, and I know its not the first time there's been such
a delay. This is really just a fun little thing that I'm writing when I'm
bored, so the updates really don't go up that fast. Anyway it's the fight
you've all been waiting for Link Vs. Samus. As usual I did change how the
fight went in the game for dramatic effect, even added some stuff. I also
removed some parts otherwise it would have taken me much longer to finish
this chapter.the fight really was an intense one on the game and the whole
thing would have taken me awhile.anyway read on.
Disclaimer: I don't own Super Smash Bros. Or any of the characters in this fic, its only fan fiction so.you know don't sue.
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Chapter 10: Round One Battle Eight
"Round one is beginning to come to a close folks!" Cheetor640 announced as Fox and George arrived in the competitors box. "Now we begin the final match of our first round! The winner of this round will join seven of his or her fellow combatants in round two!"
Cheetor640 held his hand towards the competitors box as the next to combatants emerged.
"The first is the hero of time! A veteran of Nintendo games from the original NES system! Link! The second is also a veteran who's been around almost as long as Link, Samus Aran!"
The spectators continued to cheer as Link and Samus reached the end of the walkway, and stepped into the ring.
"This is sure to be an exciting match!" Cheetor640 announced, once again stating the obvious. "Both fighters have been around since the original NES system. Thus they are both well experienced in battle, and I doubt that either of them are going to give it their all! Truly an exciting match is about to begin."
"Let's start the fight already!!" Samus and Link yelled simultaneously. Both had been waited through seven fights for this battle, and were itching to finally have their turn. The tournament's announcer's pointless rambling wasn't helping their patience.
"Uh, right yes." Cheetor640 said nervously. "Let's begin this fight, starting by picking the stage."
Cheetor640 gave the judge a nod. He responded and pushed the button on the stage-o-matic. The ring began to change, and slowly took the form of Fox's starship the Great Fox.
"And the match is ready to go!" Cheetor640 bellowed. "Link and Samus will battle aboard the Great Fox. Let the battle begin!"
The battle did not begin right away as the crowd expected. Instead they both assumed battle stances. Link had his hand gripped tightly on his sword - still in his holster - and Samus's arm cannon was at her waist ready to be drawn. This standoff lasted only seconds before Link broke it.
The sound of steel being unsheathed heard as link drew his sword, but unfortunately for the Hero of Time, he froze in place before he could take a second step. He had noticed Samus raise her arm cannon and aim it directly at him, then slowly began to gather energy.
Samus grinned under her visor. "Move and you'll be feeling the heat of a Power Beam."
Link was forced to remain in place. He felt anxious, his sword was ready to strike, but if he even tried he'd soon find himself shot by one of Samus's most powerful techniques. He couldn't afford to take that much damage so early on in the match. To make things worse Samus's arm cannon was gathering more and more energy every second, becoming more and more powerful every second. Cheetor640 nervously adjusted his sunglasses. He, along with the rest of the people in the stadium, were eager to see some decent action. Aside from Link drawing his sword, and Samus gathering energy, neither combatant had moved a muscle. To them, the match was pretty boring so far.
"Um." Cheetor640 said. "I said let the match begin."
Little did any of the people watching the match know that a great battle had began - inside Link's mind.
'I have to think of something quick,' the Hylian thought to himself. 'I'm in a damned situation here. I attack I get blasted. But if I don't attack eventually I'll get blasted eventually. Samus isn't going to sit there with her arm cannon pointed at me forever. Sooner or later she's going to fire. Unless I -'
A grin suddenly emerged on the warrior's face. It was risky, and he'd have to time it just right, but it just might work.
His hand shot to his side and inside his bomb bag. He removed a bomb and lit the fuse so fast you could swear that it had always been lit. The swift movement was enough to for Samus to notice and she immediately released her charged Power Beam. Link responded in kind and gave his bomb a toss.
The bomb and ball of energy collided in a massive explosion.
"Aaaaah!" Samus screamed, taking a step back.
She pointed her arm cannon wildly as her visor overloaded from the brightness of the explosion, completely blinding her. It only took a few seconds for her visor to recover, but those two seconds were all Link needed to drop her guard, and to deliver a powerful strike with his sword. Samus was sent rolling across the roof of the Great Fox. But Link's attack didn't stop there. He ran forward sword drawn, and quickly brought it down on Samus.
However, Link's attack only clanked against the Great Fox. Samus dodged the attack by converting to Morph Ball mode and rolling under Link's leg, and then changing back to her natural state behind him.
"What the-" Link said as he realized he had missed.
Samus knew it wouldn't be long before Link would realize exactly what had happened, so she struck quickly. She thrust her free hand forward and launched her grapple beam. Link had just turned around when he noticed the blue energy rope wrap around his waist.
"Aaaaah!" Link screamed as Samus gave him a toss, and send him crashing onto the Great Fox.
Link quickly pulled himself to his feet and angrily tossed his boomerang. Samus was easily able to dodge it and prepared to launch her own attack.
"You were able to stop one big beam!" she yelled. "Let's see you stop a bunch of little ones!"
Samus began to fire her arm cannon in succession, firing dozens of tiny energy balls at Link. Link used a combination of jumps and ducks to dodge the multiple energy balls. To his amazement, not a single one even nicked him.
Link was about to launch charge Samus when he noticed that she was gone. She must have moved while he was dodging the energy balls. He looked up just in time to see her in morph ball mode, but not in time to get out of the way of the morph bomb that dropped on his head. The bomb not only damaged him but it stunned him long enough for Samus to strike again. She reverted again to her morph ball mode and propelled herself into the air, repeatedly hitting Link with her screwball attack.
After a number of repeated hits, Samus emerged from morph ball mode and safely landed on the head of the Great Fox. Meanwhile, Link landed on the fin of the ship a little less gracefully.
Link weakly pulled himself to his feet to stare Samus in the eyes. His eyes widened in fear as he saw Samus's arm cannon begin to gather energy.
"Oh great," Link moaned. "Another one, and I don't think I'll be able to time the bomb as perfectly as last time. I just got lucky."
Samus grinned. "Let's see you stop a second one."
With that loud statement, she launched the fully charged energy beam. Link inhaled deeply and took one hopeful jump. Miraculously he was able to jump right over it and land safely about a foot in front of Samus. The perfect range. Samus attempted her own physical attack, trying to club Link with her arm cannon, but Link's Hylian shield quickly put a stop to that. It only took a few seconds for Link to retaliate and deliver a single powerful swipe of his sword to Samus's midsection. The bounty hunter was sent flying from the ship, but fortunately for her was able to jump in mid-air and screw attack her way back to the edge. Her feet only touched the head of the ship for a few seconds before Link struck again. Samus attempted to defend herself, but at the range she was in none of her weapons here any good. She soon found herself trapped in a barrage of strikes of Link's sword, before finally getting hit by one powerful strike, and thrown onto the ship's fin.
Samus jumped to her feet immediately, and assumed a battle position. Link still stood at the end of the ship, ready to attack.
"Well," Cheetor640 said, examining the scoreboard. "It seems the damage meters for both fighters is almost equal! It could go either way here."
Samus scowled her opponent.
"I had it," she said quietly. "I had the advantage and lost it. It was because he got to close. His powerful attacks are based around that sword. He's best at close range - as opposed to my attacks that are best when used at a long range. If I don't want to do any worse I've got to stay away from him."
"Enough sitting around!" Link yelled.
Link charged Samus, sword drawn, while keeping his hand tight on one of his concealed weapons in case it was needed.
'Can't attack him head on,' Samus thought. 'Need to do this before he gets too close.'
As quick as she could, Samus launched her grapple beam. For a second time Link found him wrapped in the energy rope, and pulled towards Samus. Samus grinned and brought the tied and bound Link up to her face.
"You're about to fly," she mocked.
Link did not seem frightened at all. In fact, he wore a huge grin on his face.
"I might, but you're going with me," he said.
"What?" Samus said with a confused look under her visor.
It was then that she noticed the item Link held tightly in his hand. A bomb! And it was too late to throw Link, and the bomb, out of harms way. Both combatants were caught up in the explosion, and with their high damage meters both were thrown off into the distance, and out of the ring.
"What an explosion!" Cheetor640 yelled. "Both Samus and Link are out of the ring, thanks to a very clever Kamikaze technique by Link. For a second time the game is tied.but the pressure is on. If - oh forget it, just let them fight."
Two hover boards soon delivered both combatants to back to the Great Fox. Link smiled looking very proud of himself. Samus on the other hand was quite upset.
"What was the point of that? You knocked us both out."
Link grinned. "If I hadn't you would have thrown me out. I'd better have us both out than just me."
"Clever, but you're going to have to eventually."
"We'll have to see about that."
The second round of the fight began, and both took a running attack at each other. Link attempted a strike with his sword, but an attempt was all it was. Samus leaped into the air, and dodged it. Samus quickly launched a counter attack. She flipped and delivered a swift kick to Link's head. Link was able to recover quite easily, and - as Samus was landing - struck her with his sword. Samus struck back, and struck Samus's stomach with her arm cannon. The hit knocked the wind out of Samus but no more. He was able to fight back almost immediately.
A heavy battle ensued, with neither combatant making any ground. Link hit Samus with a barrage sword swipes, and Samus countered with a her flamethrower. Link sent Samus flying with a spin attack, sending Samus flying. The second she recovered, she quickly countered by blasting Link with a powered up power beam ball. The blast was stronger than Link could have expected and he was thrown from the top of the ship's fin, and to the lower level on top of the back thruster. Samus was quick to follow him and hopped down to land a few feet in front of him.
"Looks like we're equally matched," Link said, climbing to his feet.
"Appears so," Samus replied. "There haven't been too many occasions during this fight when one of us has had the advantage."
"Could go either way then?"
"I'd agree to that," Samus said. "Our damage meters are both at least over one hundred after that fight up there, and I'm sure you noticed were next to the edge of the battlefield."
Samus tensed up, and in response Link did to.
'It looks like Samus is about to fire her arm cannon.' Link though. He reached into his bomb bag. 'I should probably ready a bomb in case she fires. We'll both be caught in the explosion - it's risky, but if raise my shield at the right moment it could absorb the majority of the attack, giving me an advantage over Samus.'
Samus acted quickly, she threw her arm forward, but instead of what he expected, Samus attacked with her non-arm cannon hand, and launched her grapple beam.
"Not this time!" Link yelled.
As quickly as he could link removed his hand from his bomb bag, grabbed his hookshot, and fired it forward. Samus's grapple beam and Link's hookshot met, and tangled amongst each other. Both fighters were now caught trying to overpower one another.
"It's a tug of war!" Cheetor640 announced. "Link and Samus have tangled up their weapons, and are now struggling to pull the other towards themselves. Both of them each have a high damage meter, if either of them is tossed its almost guaranteed they will be out of the ring."
"He's right," Link gloated. "Whoever overpowers the other will probably win the match."
"All the more reason I can't let you win," Samus replied.
Samus began to pull even harder. Link was forced to do the same. They both pulled with all their might but neither moved an inch.
"I guess this only proves we're equal in strength," Link said.
"We are at the moment," Samus said. "But my suit gives me endurance, and I'm sure you noticed you don't have a suit to do the same. Eventually you're going to tire out."
Link scowled at his opponent. "Only if I wait!" he yelled angrily. "But I don't intend on doing that. I'm acting now!"
Link suddenly grabbed onto the his hook shot with his free hand, and smiled confidently at Samus. Samus meanwhile was filled with fear. Using two hands would give Link extra strength. Extra strength that Samus couldn't match. She couldn't grab a hold of her grapple beam with the other hand. It was equipped with her arm cannon, and there was no way she could grab anything with her arm cannon.
Link smiled and gave the hookshot a mighty tug. A tug strong enough to make Samus loose her footing and go flying towards Link. Link finished it quickly, hitting Samus in the stomach with a powerful kick and sending her flying from the Great Fox, and out of the ring.
The judge's voice soon echoed over the stadium. "Game Set!" Cheetor640 announced the winner. "And the winner is decided! Link has won the match."
In response in the end of the match the Great Fox changed back to is normal flat self. Without a word Samus rose from her position in the grass and made her way back to the competitors box. As she passed Link she gave him a hearty thumbs up.
'At least she's a good sport.' Link said, as he too walked back to the competitors box.
When both Link and Samus were back in the box, Cheetor640 was handed a clipboard by the judges. He looked over the clipboard for a moment and then stepped into the ring.
"With that we conclude Round One of the tournament. All the fighters fought well but only eight of them will be progressing into round two." He paused for a moment as the crowd cheered, and then continued his announcement. "I will now announce the fights that will take place in Round Two. Four battles, four of which will proceed to the semi - finals. The battles are as follows:
Battle One: Pikachu Vs. Luigi
Battle Two: Jack Vs. Captain Falcon
Battle Three: Donkey Kong Vs. Wario
Battle Four: Fox Vs. Link
"The first battle will begin after a short intermission - be sure not to miss it!"
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There we go round one is now officially over. I hope you're all satisfied with the result of the match - again to you Metroid fans, I'm sorry but even I, the author, can't control the outcome of the matches, that's up to my N64 to decide. Even if I did someone's gotta lose right? Anyway enough justifying myself. Next chapter will bring us into round two - or the quarterfinals if you like to call it that. Hopefully the next chapter won't take as long to get out as this one did.but as usual I'm not making any promises. Like I did for round two I'm interested in knowing who you would like to win in Round Two - just for fun of course. It won't change the actual outcome, but it is interesting to see. And that's enough of my babbling. I'll let you go.
Stay tuned for the beginning of Round Two: Pikachu Vs. Luigi
Disclaimer: I don't own Super Smash Bros. Or any of the characters in this fic, its only fan fiction so.you know don't sue.
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Chapter 10: Round One Battle Eight
"Round one is beginning to come to a close folks!" Cheetor640 announced as Fox and George arrived in the competitors box. "Now we begin the final match of our first round! The winner of this round will join seven of his or her fellow combatants in round two!"
Cheetor640 held his hand towards the competitors box as the next to combatants emerged.
"The first is the hero of time! A veteran of Nintendo games from the original NES system! Link! The second is also a veteran who's been around almost as long as Link, Samus Aran!"
The spectators continued to cheer as Link and Samus reached the end of the walkway, and stepped into the ring.
"This is sure to be an exciting match!" Cheetor640 announced, once again stating the obvious. "Both fighters have been around since the original NES system. Thus they are both well experienced in battle, and I doubt that either of them are going to give it their all! Truly an exciting match is about to begin."
"Let's start the fight already!!" Samus and Link yelled simultaneously. Both had been waited through seven fights for this battle, and were itching to finally have their turn. The tournament's announcer's pointless rambling wasn't helping their patience.
"Uh, right yes." Cheetor640 said nervously. "Let's begin this fight, starting by picking the stage."
Cheetor640 gave the judge a nod. He responded and pushed the button on the stage-o-matic. The ring began to change, and slowly took the form of Fox's starship the Great Fox.
"And the match is ready to go!" Cheetor640 bellowed. "Link and Samus will battle aboard the Great Fox. Let the battle begin!"
The battle did not begin right away as the crowd expected. Instead they both assumed battle stances. Link had his hand gripped tightly on his sword - still in his holster - and Samus's arm cannon was at her waist ready to be drawn. This standoff lasted only seconds before Link broke it.
The sound of steel being unsheathed heard as link drew his sword, but unfortunately for the Hero of Time, he froze in place before he could take a second step. He had noticed Samus raise her arm cannon and aim it directly at him, then slowly began to gather energy.
Samus grinned under her visor. "Move and you'll be feeling the heat of a Power Beam."
Link was forced to remain in place. He felt anxious, his sword was ready to strike, but if he even tried he'd soon find himself shot by one of Samus's most powerful techniques. He couldn't afford to take that much damage so early on in the match. To make things worse Samus's arm cannon was gathering more and more energy every second, becoming more and more powerful every second. Cheetor640 nervously adjusted his sunglasses. He, along with the rest of the people in the stadium, were eager to see some decent action. Aside from Link drawing his sword, and Samus gathering energy, neither combatant had moved a muscle. To them, the match was pretty boring so far.
"Um." Cheetor640 said. "I said let the match begin."
Little did any of the people watching the match know that a great battle had began - inside Link's mind.
'I have to think of something quick,' the Hylian thought to himself. 'I'm in a damned situation here. I attack I get blasted. But if I don't attack eventually I'll get blasted eventually. Samus isn't going to sit there with her arm cannon pointed at me forever. Sooner or later she's going to fire. Unless I -'
A grin suddenly emerged on the warrior's face. It was risky, and he'd have to time it just right, but it just might work.
His hand shot to his side and inside his bomb bag. He removed a bomb and lit the fuse so fast you could swear that it had always been lit. The swift movement was enough to for Samus to notice and she immediately released her charged Power Beam. Link responded in kind and gave his bomb a toss.
The bomb and ball of energy collided in a massive explosion.
"Aaaaah!" Samus screamed, taking a step back.
She pointed her arm cannon wildly as her visor overloaded from the brightness of the explosion, completely blinding her. It only took a few seconds for her visor to recover, but those two seconds were all Link needed to drop her guard, and to deliver a powerful strike with his sword. Samus was sent rolling across the roof of the Great Fox. But Link's attack didn't stop there. He ran forward sword drawn, and quickly brought it down on Samus.
However, Link's attack only clanked against the Great Fox. Samus dodged the attack by converting to Morph Ball mode and rolling under Link's leg, and then changing back to her natural state behind him.
"What the-" Link said as he realized he had missed.
Samus knew it wouldn't be long before Link would realize exactly what had happened, so she struck quickly. She thrust her free hand forward and launched her grapple beam. Link had just turned around when he noticed the blue energy rope wrap around his waist.
"Aaaaah!" Link screamed as Samus gave him a toss, and send him crashing onto the Great Fox.
Link quickly pulled himself to his feet and angrily tossed his boomerang. Samus was easily able to dodge it and prepared to launch her own attack.
"You were able to stop one big beam!" she yelled. "Let's see you stop a bunch of little ones!"
Samus began to fire her arm cannon in succession, firing dozens of tiny energy balls at Link. Link used a combination of jumps and ducks to dodge the multiple energy balls. To his amazement, not a single one even nicked him.
Link was about to launch charge Samus when he noticed that she was gone. She must have moved while he was dodging the energy balls. He looked up just in time to see her in morph ball mode, but not in time to get out of the way of the morph bomb that dropped on his head. The bomb not only damaged him but it stunned him long enough for Samus to strike again. She reverted again to her morph ball mode and propelled herself into the air, repeatedly hitting Link with her screwball attack.
After a number of repeated hits, Samus emerged from morph ball mode and safely landed on the head of the Great Fox. Meanwhile, Link landed on the fin of the ship a little less gracefully.
Link weakly pulled himself to his feet to stare Samus in the eyes. His eyes widened in fear as he saw Samus's arm cannon begin to gather energy.
"Oh great," Link moaned. "Another one, and I don't think I'll be able to time the bomb as perfectly as last time. I just got lucky."
Samus grinned. "Let's see you stop a second one."
With that loud statement, she launched the fully charged energy beam. Link inhaled deeply and took one hopeful jump. Miraculously he was able to jump right over it and land safely about a foot in front of Samus. The perfect range. Samus attempted her own physical attack, trying to club Link with her arm cannon, but Link's Hylian shield quickly put a stop to that. It only took a few seconds for Link to retaliate and deliver a single powerful swipe of his sword to Samus's midsection. The bounty hunter was sent flying from the ship, but fortunately for her was able to jump in mid-air and screw attack her way back to the edge. Her feet only touched the head of the ship for a few seconds before Link struck again. Samus attempted to defend herself, but at the range she was in none of her weapons here any good. She soon found herself trapped in a barrage of strikes of Link's sword, before finally getting hit by one powerful strike, and thrown onto the ship's fin.
Samus jumped to her feet immediately, and assumed a battle position. Link still stood at the end of the ship, ready to attack.
"Well," Cheetor640 said, examining the scoreboard. "It seems the damage meters for both fighters is almost equal! It could go either way here."
Samus scowled her opponent.
"I had it," she said quietly. "I had the advantage and lost it. It was because he got to close. His powerful attacks are based around that sword. He's best at close range - as opposed to my attacks that are best when used at a long range. If I don't want to do any worse I've got to stay away from him."
"Enough sitting around!" Link yelled.
Link charged Samus, sword drawn, while keeping his hand tight on one of his concealed weapons in case it was needed.
'Can't attack him head on,' Samus thought. 'Need to do this before he gets too close.'
As quick as she could, Samus launched her grapple beam. For a second time Link found him wrapped in the energy rope, and pulled towards Samus. Samus grinned and brought the tied and bound Link up to her face.
"You're about to fly," she mocked.
Link did not seem frightened at all. In fact, he wore a huge grin on his face.
"I might, but you're going with me," he said.
"What?" Samus said with a confused look under her visor.
It was then that she noticed the item Link held tightly in his hand. A bomb! And it was too late to throw Link, and the bomb, out of harms way. Both combatants were caught up in the explosion, and with their high damage meters both were thrown off into the distance, and out of the ring.
"What an explosion!" Cheetor640 yelled. "Both Samus and Link are out of the ring, thanks to a very clever Kamikaze technique by Link. For a second time the game is tied.but the pressure is on. If - oh forget it, just let them fight."
Two hover boards soon delivered both combatants to back to the Great Fox. Link smiled looking very proud of himself. Samus on the other hand was quite upset.
"What was the point of that? You knocked us both out."
Link grinned. "If I hadn't you would have thrown me out. I'd better have us both out than just me."
"Clever, but you're going to have to eventually."
"We'll have to see about that."
The second round of the fight began, and both took a running attack at each other. Link attempted a strike with his sword, but an attempt was all it was. Samus leaped into the air, and dodged it. Samus quickly launched a counter attack. She flipped and delivered a swift kick to Link's head. Link was able to recover quite easily, and - as Samus was landing - struck her with his sword. Samus struck back, and struck Samus's stomach with her arm cannon. The hit knocked the wind out of Samus but no more. He was able to fight back almost immediately.
A heavy battle ensued, with neither combatant making any ground. Link hit Samus with a barrage sword swipes, and Samus countered with a her flamethrower. Link sent Samus flying with a spin attack, sending Samus flying. The second she recovered, she quickly countered by blasting Link with a powered up power beam ball. The blast was stronger than Link could have expected and he was thrown from the top of the ship's fin, and to the lower level on top of the back thruster. Samus was quick to follow him and hopped down to land a few feet in front of him.
"Looks like we're equally matched," Link said, climbing to his feet.
"Appears so," Samus replied. "There haven't been too many occasions during this fight when one of us has had the advantage."
"Could go either way then?"
"I'd agree to that," Samus said. "Our damage meters are both at least over one hundred after that fight up there, and I'm sure you noticed were next to the edge of the battlefield."
Samus tensed up, and in response Link did to.
'It looks like Samus is about to fire her arm cannon.' Link though. He reached into his bomb bag. 'I should probably ready a bomb in case she fires. We'll both be caught in the explosion - it's risky, but if raise my shield at the right moment it could absorb the majority of the attack, giving me an advantage over Samus.'
Samus acted quickly, she threw her arm forward, but instead of what he expected, Samus attacked with her non-arm cannon hand, and launched her grapple beam.
"Not this time!" Link yelled.
As quickly as he could link removed his hand from his bomb bag, grabbed his hookshot, and fired it forward. Samus's grapple beam and Link's hookshot met, and tangled amongst each other. Both fighters were now caught trying to overpower one another.
"It's a tug of war!" Cheetor640 announced. "Link and Samus have tangled up their weapons, and are now struggling to pull the other towards themselves. Both of them each have a high damage meter, if either of them is tossed its almost guaranteed they will be out of the ring."
"He's right," Link gloated. "Whoever overpowers the other will probably win the match."
"All the more reason I can't let you win," Samus replied.
Samus began to pull even harder. Link was forced to do the same. They both pulled with all their might but neither moved an inch.
"I guess this only proves we're equal in strength," Link said.
"We are at the moment," Samus said. "But my suit gives me endurance, and I'm sure you noticed you don't have a suit to do the same. Eventually you're going to tire out."
Link scowled at his opponent. "Only if I wait!" he yelled angrily. "But I don't intend on doing that. I'm acting now!"
Link suddenly grabbed onto the his hook shot with his free hand, and smiled confidently at Samus. Samus meanwhile was filled with fear. Using two hands would give Link extra strength. Extra strength that Samus couldn't match. She couldn't grab a hold of her grapple beam with the other hand. It was equipped with her arm cannon, and there was no way she could grab anything with her arm cannon.
Link smiled and gave the hookshot a mighty tug. A tug strong enough to make Samus loose her footing and go flying towards Link. Link finished it quickly, hitting Samus in the stomach with a powerful kick and sending her flying from the Great Fox, and out of the ring.
The judge's voice soon echoed over the stadium. "Game Set!" Cheetor640 announced the winner. "And the winner is decided! Link has won the match."
In response in the end of the match the Great Fox changed back to is normal flat self. Without a word Samus rose from her position in the grass and made her way back to the competitors box. As she passed Link she gave him a hearty thumbs up.
'At least she's a good sport.' Link said, as he too walked back to the competitors box.
When both Link and Samus were back in the box, Cheetor640 was handed a clipboard by the judges. He looked over the clipboard for a moment and then stepped into the ring.
"With that we conclude Round One of the tournament. All the fighters fought well but only eight of them will be progressing into round two." He paused for a moment as the crowd cheered, and then continued his announcement. "I will now announce the fights that will take place in Round Two. Four battles, four of which will proceed to the semi - finals. The battles are as follows:
Battle One: Pikachu Vs. Luigi
Battle Two: Jack Vs. Captain Falcon
Battle Three: Donkey Kong Vs. Wario
Battle Four: Fox Vs. Link
"The first battle will begin after a short intermission - be sure not to miss it!"
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There we go round one is now officially over. I hope you're all satisfied with the result of the match - again to you Metroid fans, I'm sorry but even I, the author, can't control the outcome of the matches, that's up to my N64 to decide. Even if I did someone's gotta lose right? Anyway enough justifying myself. Next chapter will bring us into round two - or the quarterfinals if you like to call it that. Hopefully the next chapter won't take as long to get out as this one did.but as usual I'm not making any promises. Like I did for round two I'm interested in knowing who you would like to win in Round Two - just for fun of course. It won't change the actual outcome, but it is interesting to see. And that's enough of my babbling. I'll let you go.
Stay tuned for the beginning of Round Two: Pikachu Vs. Luigi