Super Smash Exam
Okay okay… I know that I'm being very slow as of late, I'm hooked to my other story I'm writing. But here's the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own any licensed material in this story, I do own my OC's and the story itself.
…Bringing the Heat…
"The next match is… Lucas versus Rouge!" Ron Host announced.
"Wha! Me!?" Lucas asked in surprise.
"Hmmmmm… this kid did show some interesting powers, but I doubt it's anything I can't handle, after all he lacks the confidence to use his powers." Rouge thought confidentally.
"You'd do well not to underestimate him Rouge." Shadow advised matter-of-factly.
"Whatever you say Shadow." Rouge said as she glided down to the fighting area near Harris and Heidi.
"Ulp… here goes…" Lucas disappeared down the steps behind the other contestants and eventually came out of the door opening in the coliseum wall, walking up trembling a little.
"Best of luck to the both of you." Heidi said politely.
"Now contestants… begin!" Harris announced.
"Ha!" Rouge wasted no time, she immediately lunged forward and delivered a swift kick to the side of Lucas' head.
"AH!" Lucas shouted when the kick sent him rocketing to the side before he sprawled across the dirt. "Oof!"
"You're not honestly going to make it this easy are you?" Rouge took the air and after ascending a fair distance she flew towards Lucas foot-first, spinning like a drill.
"Ah!" Lucas floated to the side and got on his feet before running away from Rouge, right as she smashed in to the ground, kicking up a large cloud of dirt.
"Whoa! Rouge is absolutely merciless! Can Lucas survive this onslaught?" Ron Host asked.
"Bah… this match is needless…" N-Geek01 grumbled.
"Huh? But you don't like including completely pointless stuff, why would you allow this fight then?" Ron asked.
"…" N-Geek01 simply glared at Ron.
"Ah!" Lucas again dived to the side as Rouge tried to hit him with a flying kick.
"You think I'm done?" Rouge flew straight at Lucas and tried to tackle him.
"Aaaaahhh… can't you stop!?" Lucas asked in a panicked voice as he stumbled to the side. Rouge however did a somersault and wound up right back in front of Lucas with her foot prepped to kick.
BAM
"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!" Lucas shouted as the kick to his face sent him flying in to the air.
"It's over now kid." Rouge held a heart-shaped device in each hand and flew above Lucas. "Ha!" Rouge did an aerial axe kick that sent Lucas flying in to the ground.
BAM
"So long." Rouge then pressed the centers of the heart-shaped devices and dropped them when they began to blink.
"…" Harris and Heidi looked on as the blinking devices fell closer and closer to Lucas
KABOOM
"Oh no!" Peach shouted when the heart-shaped devices blew up.
"Those-a were bombs-a!?" Luigi asked.
"It looks like it might be over folks." Ron Host said. "Wait no! Something is glowing in the smoke!"
"Hm?" Rouge peered through the smoke cloud and found that Lucas was holding a pulsing blue orb above him. She also noticed that Lucas didn't even look like he had been hit yet.
"He's HOLDING PSI Magnet in his hand?!" Ness asked surprised. "Normally I'd just surround myself with it."
"It's that skill that Ness kid used to absorb some of my attacks." Shadow confirmed to himself. "That kid down there must have absorbed the explosion."
"Well, you might be more resourceful than I thought." Rouge said.
"Whew… uh-oh." Lucas looked up to see Rouge dive-bombing towards him. "Yipe!" Lucas jumped back as Rouge hit the ground, but this time she drilled in to the ground. "Huh? What is she doing?" Lucas soon had his question when the ground beneath him moved a little. "WAH!"
"Here it comes!" Rouge burst from the ground twirling around rapidly. She then delivered yet another kick to the side of Lucas' head using the momentum from her spin.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!" Lucas once again went rocketing to the side. "Ooooohhh… this won't ever end if I don't fight back…" Lucas thought to himself. He looked to see Rouge flying straight at him. "Ulp… come on Rope Snake!" A peculiar red snake came out of Lucas' sleeve and made its way to his hand. "Ha!" He whipped the snake forward where it latched on to Rouge's wrist.
"What!? Whoa!" Lucas whipped the snake back, dragging Rouge with it. Rouge was slammed in to the coliseum wall behind them. "Gah! Little…"
"PSI Fire!" Lucas sent a spark flying at Rouge from his fingers.
FWOOM
"Wah!" Rouge was caught in a small fiery burst. "Why you…" Rouge lunged back out with her foot outstretched.
"I am not afraid, I am not afraid." Lucas told himself. "Ha!" He thrust a palm forward where a burst of energy occurred, cancelling out Rouge's kick.
"What?" Rouge was quick to throw another kick. Lucas ducked this kick and pointed his fingers at the ground beneath Rouge.
"Ha!"
"Whoa!" Rouge jumped up right as a burst of PSI energy occurred where she had previously been standing. Rouge tried to drop down on top of Lucas but he jumped back and ran back.
"Ha!" Lucas once again thrust a palm with PSI energy empowering it. Rouge side-stepped and attempted to kick his face. But luckily for Lucas he tripped and the kick harmlessly grazed the top of his hair.
"I warned her not to underestimate him." Shadow grumbled.
"Well, it seems the boy can fight." Harris commented.
"Yes he is starting to hold his own." Heidi agreed.
"Wah!" Lucas ducked another kick, but this time Lucas practically floated while flipping upside down where he thrust his foot upward.
BAM
"Ugh!" Rouge was sent flying upward by a PSI empowered kick.
"PSI Thunder!" Lucas sent an orb of electricity flying straight upward at Rouge.
"You can't get me in the air." Rouge quickly spread her wings and flew away from the orb. "Hm? It's chasing me?" Rouge quickly flew towards Lucas while the orb continued to chase her. "I'll just make it hit the boy." Rouge thought deviously.
"If she's trying what I think she's trying she's in for a big surprise." Shadow thought.
"…" Rouge landed right in front of Lucas then flipped right over top of his head as the orb flew in ready to strike Lucas. "I'll finish him after he strikes himself."
BAM
"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Rouge shouted when Lucas suddenly flew towards her covered in sparks. She got dragged along with him as sparks coursed through her before she went flying up in to the air before hitting the ground with a thud. "Umph!"
"Whoa! What did I just do?" Lucas asked.
"He didn't know he could do that?" Ness thought in shock.
"Uuuuuurrrrgggghhh…" Rouge weakly stood up and gripped another bomb. "Ha!" She threw the bomb at Lucas.
"…" Lucas looked at the bomb and held his hand up. The bomb floated a few inches from his hand, he then threw the bomb back behind him where it exploded harmlessly.
"Why you!" Rouge gripped another bomb and was about to throw it when Heidi appeared behind her and grabbed the bomb. "Wha?"
"The match is over." Heidi said before throwing the bomb away harmlessly.
"What? It is not over!" Rouge yelled.
"Yes it is… do you know what the boy could have easily done a moment ago?" Harris asked Rouge.
"Hm?" Rouge thought back to when Lucas caught the bomb and threw it away. She then recalled how Lucas looked at her with pity. "!!" That's when it dawned on her.
"That's right… he didn't throw it back at you as a show of mercy." Heidi said. "The winner of this battle is Lucas!!"
"Whoa!"
"Man I thought that bat girl was gonna destroy him."
"Man I lost my bet…"
"Um… sorry about this." Lucas said a little nervous while Harris and Heidi cast healing spells on them.
"Hm…" Rouge simply scoffed and walked away from the battlefield towards the doorway.
"Mmmmm…"
"Hey great job Lucas!" Olimar shouted.
"Hey Lucas! You were really good out there!" Ness shouted.
"Um… t-thanks." Lucas stammered.
"Rouge was a bit over-confident for my tastes." Heidi said. "Still she had the right ideas throughout the battle."
"What do you think of Lucas?" Harris asked.
"Well, he needs a lot more confidence, but he proved to quite able in a fight if he puts his mind to it." Heidi said. "Well shall we get ready for the next contestants?"
"Of course."
"The next battle is between Roy and Ike!" Ron Host announced.
"Okay, here goes." Roy jumped all the way down in to the arena and hastily walked up to where he was supposed to wait.
"Alright then." Ike turned to walk towards the stairs. His outfit was a bit different from a month ago. Instead of a blue coat he wore a black one with longer coat-tails, a cape that was red on the inside but blue outside, and a green-headband, plus the leather-armor covered his chest more completely and he wore an armored blue shoulder-pad over his left shoulder.
"Ah yes… this Ike is the one Casey favored." Heidi said.
"Casey is a good man, but still for this one to earn his favor is no small task. I'm interested to see what he's capable of." Harris replied. "Are the both of you ready?"
"Prepare yourself, and good luck." Ike told Roy as he drew a sword from his back. The sword was quite long, broad, and golden in color.
"You bet I'm ready, and good luck to you too." Roy drew his Sealed Sword and took a fighting stance.
"Very well… you may begin!" Heidi shouted.
"Ha!" Both of them lunged forward.
CLANG
"Ha!" Ike and Roy immediately got in to an exchange of swords. Ike would always take one-handed slashes with his momentum adding to the power of each swing.
"Ha!" Roy met Ike with a few spinning slashes of his own in order to match Ike's momentum and power. "Hiyah!"
"Rah!"
CLANG
This time the two met with a powerful spinning slash that caused a slight sonic boom around them. The two locked blades and were pushing back and forth, neither one of them gaining the edge over the other.
"Roy's dragon heritage lends him quite a bit of strength, but even so this Ike guy is pushing even with him." Link said in amazement.
"Does he have some unique heritage?" Marth asked.
"No… Ike's strength comes entirely from his training." Mewtwo answered.
"Okay, I'm no push-over, but this guy is strong…" Both Roy and Ike thought. The two of them broke the lock and jumped back from each other.
"My fireballs ought to give me an edge since I can attack from a distance." Roy thought. He swung his sword and sent numerous large fireballs at Ike.
"…" Ike simply prepped his sword to swing. He did a one-handed swing at the air that sent a wave of blue light flying towards Roy, slicing through the fireballs.
"Whoa!" Roy immediately took a counter-stance, blocked the wave, and sent it to the side where it soon disappeared. "Hm?" Roy looked above him to find Ike flipping through the air towards him. Roy immediately jumped the side as Ike slammed his sword down in to the ground. "Ha!" Roy followed up with a vertical slash.
"Hm!" Ike immediately raised his sword in defense. The two again locked blades and for a minute spun around each other, maintaining the lock and eventually meeting face to face, trying to overpower the other holding their swords with both hands. "You're pretty good."
"You're not so bad yourself." Roy said. "Ha!"
"Ha!" The two broke the lock again and continued to exchange blades back and forth.
"If this isn't an epic sword fight I don't know what is folks! They've both been going strong without landing a blow on the other and they have yet to show signs of slowing down!" Ron Host said.
"Yes… they are proving to be quite powerful combatants." N-geek01 chuckled with amusement.
"Brrrrrr…" Ron shivered at the creepy chuckle. "You've been trying to terrify me the whole time haven't you?"
"RAH!"
CLANG CLANG
"Now." Ike thought. He moved in and first did two quick and powerful horizontal slashes. Roy blocked the first one and dodged the second. However Ike followed up with a vertical slash that got Roy somewhat diagonally on the chest. "Ha!" Ike then finished with an upward slash that caused him to back-flip through the air and away from Roy.
"Tch…" Roy winced in pain from the nasty cut on his torso and the slight cut the upward slash left on his head.
"Quick draw." Ike very quickly and suddenly lunged forward with his sword prepared to swing.
"Counter." Roy took a counter-stance and the moment Ike struck his blade he deflected Ike's sword to the side. "Double-edge dance." Roy then performed four, quick, rhythmic slashes. Ike dodged the first two but Roy landed a scratch to Ike's head and a deeper cut to Ike's torso with the final slash.
"They're both quite evenly matched." Heidi commented.
"True. Though if a scale is perfectly balanced all it will take is a single grain of rice to tip it." Harris responded.
"Hiyah!"
"Ha!"
Roy sent a crescent shaped wave of flame at Ike while Ike sent a crescent shaped wave of light at Roy. Both waves cancelled each other out on contact.
"Fire darts!" Roy thrust his sword forward multiple times, sending small pointed blasts of flame at Ike.
"Hm." Ike simply grunted and this time he gripped his sword with both of his hands. "HrrrrrrrrrAAAAAAAHHHH!!" Ike swung his sword vertically with all of his strong, sending a massive wave of blue light flying towards Roy, causing the fire darts to disappear as it blew past them.
"Whoa!" Roy raised his sword to block it like the last one. But this wave was monumentally more powerful than the last one and Roy was unable to fully block this one. "Gah!" as the wave blew over him a major wound appeared across his torso. "Ugh… even I can't muster that much strength holding a sword with two hands."
"You're not finished yet are you?" Ike asked.
"Not even…" Roy took a more firm stance and held his sword pointed to the ground. "I was hoping to save this for later, but you're the best chance I'm going to get to test this new technique I've been working on."
"New technique?" Marth wondered.
"…" Roy stood silent for a moment as the aura around his sword glowed brighter and brighter. Soon small flames were starting to ignite on various parts of the blade until they spread over the entirety of the blade. The blade of Roy's sword was now enveloped entirely in flames with small portions of it leaping in and out of the flames. "Blazing blade!"
"…" Ike planted himself more firmly to the ground as he took a slightly difference stance.
"Let's go!" Roy dared with renewed confidence. Roy dashed forward while slashing his sword at the air. This slash sent more numerous and larger fireballs at Ike while a few smaller fireballs flew off to the sides from the slash.
"Here goes." Ike ran forward undeterred. He side-stepped and spun around any fireballs that came at him. When he stopped from one spin he saw three more approaching him. "Aether!" Ike tossed his sword upward, twirling through the air and dispelling two of them. Ike jumped up and caught his sword flawlessly and came falling down, slashing through the last fireball and preparing to bring his sword down on Roy.
"RAH!" Roy spun around and made his blazing blade meet with Ike's Ragnell. Roy barely blocked the attack but nonetheless managed to and the two swordsmen were in yet another blade lock. Despite Ike using both of his hands to push this time Roy was slowly but surely beginning to gain the edge over Ike.
"Weren't they even in strength a while ago? Why isn't that Ike guy pushing even now?" Nana asked.
"It's got to be the heat." Blue said.
"The heat?" The ice climbers asked.
"I can feel the heat of that sword from over here, just imagine how bad it is up close to it." Snake told them.
"I get it, Roy's dragon genes keep the heat from bothering him, but it's making Ike's strength wane." C. Falcon surmised.
"Grrrrr…" Ike spun away from the lock when it was clear he wasn't going to win.
"Not getting away this time." Roy flipped over the top of Ike and drew an imaginary circle with his sword as he flipped over top. Instead of small sparks like with Y. Link, he was blowing flames like a flamethrower around Ike, surrounding him with much more intense flames. "Now that I've got you trapped are you ready to surrender?"
"There's no way I'm doing that." Ike told him from within the massive circle of flames.
"Suit yourself." The flames on Roy's blade burned even brighter and more intense than before. "Prominence strike!" Roy jumped in to the air slightly and then thrust his sword four different times, and each time a pointed blast of flame flew through the air. The four blasts soon curved towards the circle where Ike was trapped.
"All four of those are going to hit him at once!" Ness shouted.
"All four blasts reach epsilon threat level." Omega said.
"Meaning?" T. Link asked.
"They're all powerful enough to knock Ike silly by themselves." Rouge told him.
"Eruption!" The flames surrounding Ike were suddenly blown away by a circular blast of flames that burst from around Ike when he thrust his sword in to the ground. "Ha!" Ike flipped forward and narrowly avoided each blast of flame. However the heat was enough to cause small burns on Ike's skin. He nonetheless flipped forward gripping his sword tightly. "YAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!" Ike landed as he swung his sword vertically, sending his largest wave of light at Roy yet.
"True Power…"
"HE'S USING THAT!?" Marth shouted in panic.
"DRAGON SLASH!!" Roy swung his sword and sent a dragon shaped blast of flames flying forward. The two attacks collided and very briefly kept pushing back and forth with each other, eventually though Roy's attack passed by, diminishing the strength of the light wave significantly while the dragon slash kept plowing forward full strength.
KAAAAAAAAAAAAAABOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM
Ike's Ragnell and Roy's Binding Blade both went twirling through the air before they got stuck in the ground. When the smoke from both of their positions cleared, Ike was barely supporting himself on his hands covered in numerous burns while Roy was standing on both legs despite the deep cut on his body.
"…" Harris and Heidi looked at each other before nodding their heads. "The winner of this match is Roy!" Harris declared.
"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!"
"Roy's our boy!!"
"No! We like Ike!"
"Go Roy!!"
"There you have it folks, after exchanging blades and techniques Roy has emerged victorious!" Ron Host announced.
Heidi went to retrieve Roy's sword while Harris went to retrieve Ike's sword. Roy very shakily walked over to Ike just as Ike was beginning to stand. "Hey, you really kept me on my toes… you did a great job." Roy complimented as he offered a hand.
"Heh… you did pretty good yourself." Ike said, taking Roy's hand and shaking it. "I wish you luck in your future battles."
"Hm… as I thought… a normal person couldn't possibly wield this sword properly with just one hand." Harris thought as he held the sword in one hand while stroking his chin with his free hand. "And yet he can…"
"Not only that Harris, but Ike kept a cool and controlled head throughout the entire battle even as they both kept upping the ante." Heidi spoke to Harris' thoughts.
"So he did Heidi. And while Roy's power was undeniable…" Harris' eyes trailed to the accidentally burnt patches of ground that resulted from the swings of Roy's blazing blade. "He does need to exercise better control of that new technique of his."
"Agreed, but he's bought himself more chances to do so." Heidi thought back. "Your sword." Heidi said to Roy.
"And your sword." Harris said to Ike.
"Thanks." They both said as Harris and Heidi cast a healing spell on them, getting rid of all their cuts and burns.
"We're only three battles in and nowhere near the finish yet folks! I hope you're ready to grip your seats as if your life depended on it because the most intense battles have yet to come!" Ron Host announced. "Now if you'll excuse me." Ron said as he exited the booth for a moment.
"Yes Ron… it does have yet to come." Ngeek01 commented with a smile after Ron left the booth.
…Notes…
"Hello everybody! Ron Host here!" Ron Host was sitting in the brick wall room with the chairs and table that he and I are usually in. "I cut out at the end there so that I could start this idea the author had."
"For at least a little while, Nintendogeek01 has asked me to interview a few authors from this section. And for our first interview we're going to have a representative speaking for Smash Bros. author… wiiboychris!"
Applause from nowhere sounded as a teenager with black hair and dark skin with pretty ordinary clothes came in. He had red eyes and the same black markings as a Lucario would on his face and hands.
"So who exactly are we talking to?" Ron Host asked.
"I'm an OC of the same name as my creator. Chris. Oh, and I'm in my aura apprentice job." Chris answered.
"Aura apprentice? Ah never mind I'm sure somebody out there knows what you mean by that." Ron Host said. "Well without further ado let's get cracking!"
"Okay ask away."
"First of all, what got wiiboychris started on writing fan fictions?" Ron asked.
"It was at first an accident, he was trying to find something else during his first visit to the internet, he found a fan fiction about Digimon that was of humor and then, after he examined the whole site he decided to become a writer to see if he had the skill, and fortunately after studying the English language, he did it!" Chris answered.
"Okay, Nintendogeek01 has been taking guesses and was wondering where exactly he got the idea for your job system?" Ron asked.
"From Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, but with different skills, powers and abilities from characters from other videogames, but of course, I will not get too far with it...until all the characters of SSBB have all their combined Final Smashes with me." Chris said.
"Hey, Nintendogeek01 has a tactics advance story he thinks you'd find it'd be worth checking out. But that's beside the point." Ron said. "If wiiboychris could turn any character in your story in to a fruit, who would it be and what fruit?"
Chris gave Ron an odd look. "...What kind of...well, he'd turn Link into a Watermelon!" Chris answered nonetheless. That's when a watermelon came rolling in dressed in Link's tunic and hat.
"There we go!" Ron said. "Has he had any reviews to date that have made him mad for any reason?"
"Sometimes, but they helped in some way or a lot, he's glad about that."
"That's the spirit." Ron said. "Is there anything that wiiboychris wishes he never typed up?"
"His first fanfiction…" Chris said with a painful face. "It was in script format which he later found out was prohibited here, I don't recommend expert readers to read it because it has many errors in it."
"I'll take your advice!" Ron said.
"Hey wait a second…"
"Who are some of his favorite authors and artists?" Ron asked.
"Hoogieman, his story "Crazy Crazy Mansion" inspired him, KILL THE EMPIRE has good stories, YoshizillaRhedosaurus, he's well known in this section by his Yoshi stories, Dianagohan, she's very polite when you talk to her and Nintendogeek01, he's been very helpful to wiiboychris." Chris answered. "You know this feels odd talking like that when I'm modeled after him."
"Ah get over it." Ron said. "How supportive are wiiboychris' family of his writing?"
"Honestly… neither his family or friends know, even though he's told his mom countless times. She listened when he moved to the USA, just because she wanted to know if he knew how to talk in English." Chris responded.
"Oh here's a tough question…" Ron said. "If wiiboychris was forced to kill any character in his story, who would he kill?"
"Ooooooh… ummm… okay people, he asks that you don't hate him but he would want to kill…" Chris paused.
"Who?" Ron asked.
"That's odd…" Chris put his hand to an earpiece in his ear. "The radio just cut off there I didn't catch his response."
"Oh so that's how you were answering for him so quickly." Ron said. "Oh well moving on to the last question… does he have anything to say to his readers that he would like to say now?" Ron asked.
"You bet. He says and I quote 'Keep reading my stories and review if you want to!'"
"Well thank you for your time Chris." Ron Host said.
"No problem." Chris said as he got up and left, followed by the sound of applause.
"Well leave a review folks, and don't forget to check out other authors like wiiboychris! Now back to the announcing booth." Ron said before running out.