7-18-03 A/N: I have redone and improved (I think… heh) the first chapter of the story. You may want to read it, although nothing at this point in the story is greatly impacted by the few minor changes I made. It will, however, play a bit of a role later.
An exhausted and badly bruised Mewtwo was taken directly to the hospital wing of the stadium upon his return. Immediately after this, a wire-frame (a seemingly new model of the polygon creatures) walked up to announce the next battle.
"Bowser and Ness, please report to the telepods immediately," it said like always, then walked over to the control panel to prepare them for departure to Brinstar.
The large spiky turtle stomped up to the podium and let out a large roar of fury, which appeared to be his way to prep for battle. He stepped onto the pad, and turned to face the deafened crowd. He was about to let out another roar when he saw that Ness was doing yo-yo tricks for the crowd, which seemed at least mildly amused. He seemed to be preparing for an encore, when Bowser yelled over to him with his menacing, almost cocky voice.
"Hey punk!" he shouted "Get your ass over here so I can tear it apart!" This remark caused Ness to look over in his direction, shooting him a glare of disgust. "Yeah. I'm talking to you big head! Now get over here!" Bowser continued. This only caused Ness's glare to get even more sharp and angry-looking. He put away his yo-yo, and walked over to his telepad, not taking his eyes off Bowser the whole way. A few moments after he stepped onto it they were teleported away.
When they arrived, they gazed around at the scenery. There were heaps of metal junk everywhere, odd creatures floating and hovering around, pink tentacle things holding up platforms, and as far as the eye could see around the bottom of the platform they were on, there was a yellow acid, which seemed to be randomly lowering and rising. This was dangerous territory they were fighting on. Before they knew it, the countdown was complete, and the fight had begun.
Ness, determined to get immediate revenge on Bowser for his insulting taunts, dashed toward the large Koopa, and pulled out his yo-yo that he had been doing tricks with earlier. Bowser laughed to himself. "You expect to hurt me with a toy?" he exclaimed in amusement, not aware of the true power Ness had with these "toys." When near enough to make contact, Ness pulled out another yo-yo, and using some odd psychic ability to do so, did a quick back flip, and launched his yo-yos directly at Bowser's eyes.
The cocky Koopa had not expected this, and being as slow as he was, didn't have time to dodge this assault. He took hard hits in both eyes, which caused him to take a few steps back, put his hands over his eyes, and let out a large roar of pain. But Ness's assault didn't end there. He continued pummeling Bowser with his yo-yo assault, until finally Bowser regained composure, and got over the pain and starry vision in his eyes. He waited until one of the yo-yos missed (Ness was going so fast his accuracy was a bit off), and then launched his counter-attack. He positioned his claws and slashed the string one of the yo-yos was attached to. At the same time he used his other claw to slash the other string. Ness's formerly rather formidable weapons were now just useless strings hanging from his fingers.
As Ness tried to regroup, Bowser launched an unexpected attack on him, by tensing up a bit, and smashing his shoulder into the kid with all his might. This caused him to fly a good five feet, then slide across the both hard and rough ground another five. Before Ness had a chance to stand up, Bowser rushed over to him at top speed (which wasn't really that fast) and abruptly stopped less than a foot away. He then reached down to the boy and grabbed him around the waist with both hands. His claws sunk into the soft flesh, and little bits of blood oozed out. Then, he brought the boy toward his face, opened his jaws, and viciously sank his teeth into his shoulder, which caused more blood to start seeping out, this time from a different wound.
All this time Ness had been screaming out over his excruciating pain, and the bite only made him scream and yell louder. After releasing his jaw's grip, Bowser slammed Ness to the ground. He began laughing to himself.
"Too bad I didn't have a challenge," he said in his usual cocky tone "and that I have to kill a weak little punk like you." This remark made the very much in pain Ness stand up angrily, and glare at Bowser once again. He was fed up with all the remarks. Even though every muscle in his body ached, and he was still bleeding very rapidly, he was preparing to take the offensive.
Bowser, however, found this amusing. He looked at Ness with a face on the verge of laughter, and said to him in yet another cocky tone "What are you going to do? Hit me with more of your toys?" Ness just softly snickered in response, and then shouted the phrase "PK Fire!" A confused Bowser was immediately hit with a small bolt of psychic energy, one that soon exploded into a large amount of flames, which he was almost completely engulfed in. The Koopa roared in pain once more, taking a few steps back as he did.
Ness took a few steps back as well, and began preparing for his next attack. As soon as the flames had pretty much dispersed, Ness launched his next attack, after shouting the words "PK Flash!"
Bowser was yet again unprepared for an attack. Green energy sped toward him, and soon made contact, spreading throughout his body, giving him a very uncomfortable and almost unbearable jolt. Ness quickly did a flip over Bowser's head, and pulled out a baseball bat. As he was landing, he cracked the bat over Bowser's head. This caused his eyes to bulge a bit, and combined with the green energy still coursing through his veins, caused him to fall to the ground in pain.
Ness then jumped up to a platform a few feet away from Bowser. Once he landed, he began charging for his next attack, the "PK Thunder." As he charged, he watched a very sore Bowser slowly stand up, and turn toward him. He watched as he looked directly at him, then launch flames from his mouth, which were aimed at the space under the platform. This confused Ness at first, until he remembered that this platform was being supported only by an odd pink tentacle, which Bowser had probably just burned up.
His worst fear was confirmed when the platform he was standing on began falling away from the main platform, and into the acid. He wanted to jump off, but was paralyzed because of his charging for his attack. He and the platform quickly descended into the acid, and were quickly immersed and eaten up in it.
Bowser watched as Ness fell, and relieved, turned around and walked into the newly appeared telepad. When he arrived at the stadium, he was rushed off to the hospital wing (where Mewtwo still was) on a larger than normal stretcher.
A disappointed and very nervous Luigi stared continually at the screen, where the words "Bowser Wins!" continually flashed across the screen. He momentarily broke away from his gaze to look over at his gentle looking opponent, who was sharpening his blade and talking to some odd brown creature.
He would have to give it all he had if he wanted to win the next battle…