Disclaimer - In this story, I own the Shadow Man and the Princess. I own nothing else. However, I may work for Nintendo someday.*starts fantasizing*.huh? Oh, on with the story.

To all readers, if anyone has been waiting for a good battling chapter, this is the one. I promise I will pour in as much effort with this chapter as possible.

Chapter 7: Confrontation with the Shadow Man

**From Chapter 6: "Princess!" Poo shouted. "I don't know who you are," he told The Shadow Man, "but you're going down!" "I am the Shadow Man. And also, I am afraid it is YOU who is going down. "Dr. Andonuts, stay out of this, you too Mr. Saturn!" Ness shouted backwards, to the two. "Very well. We shall stay back." Replied Dr. Andonuts Then as a second crash of lightning sounded, our heroes rushed to the battle.

And so, the battle began.

**End Flashback.**

"Shadow Man, you're going down!" Ness shouted. "Very well. Let the battle begin." Replied the Shadow Man.

***Battle Scene***

The Shadow Man knew that fighting with hands was pointless. Instead, he decided to use his PSI. He put two fingers to his head, as if he were charging an energy ball on his head. He was, but it didn't look like one. As he charged it got so big he balanced it on one finger. It was fairly small compared to the major damage he could dish out, but still something powerful. After charging further, the Shadow Man pointed his finger with the energy attack in it and yelled "PSI Starball Alpha!" Even Jeff could sense the insane power, and the party dodged the attack with time to see it whirl off into the sky. Ness instantly concentrated his energy into a ball and retaliated by yelling "PSI Rockin' Omega!". Although it hit, it didn't seem to hurt him too much. Ness realized he'd been under intense training, but he never realized just how intense that training had been. Paula concentrated her energy as tightly as possible, then threw out her hands, yelling "PSI Freeze Omega!" Although it was as tightly powerful as possible, it hurt him just as much as Ness's blast had, which wasn't too much. Jeff fired a shot from his Gaia beam, and that hardly scratched him. Even Poo's PSI Starstorm Omega didn't take him down. He smiled. Concentrating, he yelled, "PSI Bullets Beta!" Instantly, a huge barrage of small bullet like energy blasts started being shot at the group, but what was odd was that they were also being made to rain down on our heroes. It hurt like heck. It was time for a plan. Jeff dodged behind the Shadow Man, and shot a few times. They stung just enough for him to whirl around and throw a bullet at him. Jeff dodged around and around and around, all the while shooting. The Shadow Man kept throwing energy at him, all the while unaware of what damage he was about to receive. All the while, Ness, Paula and Poo had been charging up their most powerful attacks. At just the right time, a few revolutions and a half, when Jeff was safely in front of the Shadow Man, they released their attacks. "PSI ROCKIN' OMEGA!" "PSI FREEZE OMEGA! "PSI STARSTORM OMEGA!" The Shadow Man only had just enough time to see them coming before he was taken down with the full force of all the combined force. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" He screamed as he was taken down.

***End Battle Scene***

"YES!" Ness shouted! "We did it! We took down the Shadow Man. Jeff than looked up at the sky. "Hmmm, I wonder why it hasn't stopped?" he thought. Then he looked behind him, and his face instantly changed to one of horror. "Uh, Ness." he said, tapping Ness on the shoulder. "Nice try, Jeff," Ness said, far from being convinced, "You're not going to make me look." "Ness." Jeff replied with more worry. "I'm still not looking."

"NESS!!! BEHIND YOU!!!" "Alright." Ness looked behind him. There standing, in the full, was the Shadow Man, standing in the flesh. ".Oh no.he's back?!" Ness shouted, ready to go insane with worry. "Yes," replied the Shadow Man in his cold, icy voice. "And this time, I've got a special little surprise. I thought it was only you 4, so I wouldn't have to worry, but obviously, it looks like that's going to change, along with your luck!"

The Shadow Man then started gathering up all the energy he could possibly carry, getting insanely powerful. All Ness and his friends could do was stare in horror. Soon afterwards, he yelled words that would make him a remembered legend. "PSI CHARGE ALPHA!!" Theses words echoed through the night. And then, absolute power came surging through his every vein, and every muscle, and his PSI was overflowing with energy! Ness and his friends were amazed! How he could gather so much power was beyond them, but they had only one choice, to fight.

***Battle Scene 2*** Ness swung his baseball bat at the Shadow Man, but it did hardly any real damage. Paula charged up a PSI Freeze OMEGA, but it did hardly any real damage, Jeff even shot him with a Big Bottle Rocket, and he still wasn't damaged. Poo used a PSI Starstorm Omega attack, but even THAT didn't hurt him much. Charging up as far as he could, he yelled, "PSI STARBALL BETA!". Immediately, our heroes jumped out of the way, and the ball was shot, only just missing them (by about 5 mm) !!! The cycle went on and on and on, and nothing was happening. They dodged with success, but they weren't hurting the Shadow Man. They did try their special trick (see 1st battle scene) where Jeff shot, dodged, while they charged up their most powerful attacks, but that still didn't work as well as it could, because though it injured him, it didn't quite do it hard enough. 'We can't dodge forever.' Ness thought, starting to get worried, 'He'll hit us eventually, and we'll all be dead. But if we die, then so do the other countless people who have nothing to do with this."

And starting to pile up with rage over the many people who would be killed, he charged up the ultimate attack. Paula, Jeff and Poo, were quite startled by the power, and all they could do was watch. Even the Shadow Man was startled at this, but simply charged up another PSI Starball Beta and pelted it at him, but Ness was too quick. He put out his hands and yelled 'PSI Super Rockin' Alpha!'. It met face to face with the Shadow Man's PSI Starball Beta, and so a great pushing game began. Although both their blasts were not countable in the power they contained, the Shadow Man was, little by little, winning the war. Paula suddenly used her PSI Freeze Omega to push back the PSI Starball Beta. Poo followed suit and used a PSI Starstorm attack to help push back. There was only one thing he could do. While everyone was occupied, he snuck around, and shot the Shadow Man. Although not injured, he lost his grip on the powers, and all of these energy attacks rushed towards him. Slamming into him with full force, he was catapulted backwards.

***End Battle Scene 2***

And guess what? The Shadow Man still survived, although he couldn't fight in this form. "If you think I'm finished," the Shadow Man said, "You're horribly mistaken. I can go further." But no-one was looking at him, they were looking up. Something was coming down with incredible force. The Shadow Man had only just time to look before he was pinned down to the floor by a huge.robot leg? Everyone took a look at this. You could tell they were all surprised. But when the person who was controlling the ship came out, they were even MORE surprised. For guess who it was? ".Pokey?!"

(A/N: Yes, a cliffhanger! You'll all have to wait for me to write the next chapter before you find what Pokey's doing here. But what I can tell you is that there will be a big (if you haven't guessed it already) surprise!)