Super Smash Exam
Gasp! I've actually updated sooner than three or more weeks; been a while since I've done that. But anyways, here comes the battle I'm sure all of you have been waiting for, so I'm going to give it my all. Read and enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the licensed content; I do own my OC's and the story itself.
…Chaotic…
"Heh…" Shadow turned to walk down the steps behind the contestants.
"Hmmm…" Ness grunted kind of uncomfortably. It was tough the first time he fought Shadow and he knew that Shadow must have been significantly more powerful than before.
"It'll be alright Ness." Peach said, trying to comfort him.
"Yeah, you can-a do it-a." Mario told Ness.
"Shadow's no pushover but I've seen what you can do. I think you stand a good chance." Sonic said positively.
"Shadow's tough but you're pretty tough yourself. So don't sweat it." C. Falcon said.
"Yeah you'd know he's tough since he beat you in the first round in that one tournament a few months ago." Samus said slyly.
"Hey!"
"Mua ha ha ha ha!" Fawful laughed from behind them. "This talk of pep that you are doing the spewing of is of the meaninglessness! That hedgehog that is named Shadow has much fury! I ALSO HAVE FURY!!" Fawful shouted.
"Percentage of Shadow losing: eleven percent." Omega said.
"Ugh…" Ness sighed.
"Hey better than nothing." A disembodied voice sounded from around them.
"Wait I'd know that voice anywhere…" Link said. Suddenly a portal of blackness opened up in the waiting area and from it stepped a figure all too familiar to the Smashers at this point. "Ganondorf! Wait you look different somehow…"
"Yeah I decided to heck with shaving." Ganondorf said. He appeared to have more armor over his forearms, lower legs and chest. The armor also seemed more adorned with a few gold decorations, complete with a red cape. He also let his beard grow out and his hair was combed backwards and held in place by some gold hair decoration with small beads going to the gem on his forehead.
"What took you so long?" Zelda asked.
"I had finished my training but the end result of my training left me between a rock and a hard place basically. Took me a while to get here." Ganondorf answered. "So what did I miss?"
"I'm just about to fight Shadow." Ness said.
"I caught that much as I was coming here." Ganondorf nearly snapped. "Heh, but you shouldn't be so worried."
"What makes you say that?" Ness asked.
"So what if he's apparently more powerful than you, as long as you try hard enough you might be able to pull an unexpected victory, just look at pointy ears here." Ganondorf said.
"Yeah well don't forget who it WAS that got beaten by me." Link said, shooting a glare at Ganondorf.
"Yeah you're right. Thanks." Ness said, jumping down and floating down to the battlefield.
"Ganondorf… what was your training?" Zelda asked.
"I…" Ganondorf paused for a moment. "I tried to take over Hyrule again along with this Twilight Realm! Ga ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"WHAT!?" Link shouted.
"But another stupid kid in green showed up…" Ganondorf grumbled.
"Okay folks! Now that the brief intermission is over, let's get this battle underway!" Ron Host shouted.
"Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!"
"This may be slightly problematic." Heidi thought as Ness walked closer to the center of the battlefield more confidently.
"I know." Harris responded in thought. He cast Shadow a slight glare. "Shadow is easily one of the three strongest contestants here, and I heard that he and Ness have a slight history."
"If Shadow truly desires a battle with this boy then this match may well be far more dangerous than the other ones before." Heidi said. "Even we might have to get some distance from them."
"Heh… true." Harris responded. "Very well then, are the both of you ready?" Harris asked.
"Yes." Shadow answered, smiling at Ness with his usual arrogant smile.
"Good luck Ness!" Lucas shouted.
"Go get him!" T. Link shouted.
"Go for it!" Popo and Nana yelled.
"You bet." Ness said confidently. Ness kept a fair bit of distance away from Shadow, farther than the other contestants usually allowed themselves, but he could still plainly see Shadow's smile.
"Very well." Harris and Heidi backed away a few feet slowly. "Contestants… BEGIN!!" Harris shouted with a voice that boomed across the stadium.
"PSI Offense up!" Ness shouted.
"…" Shadow immediately dashed from his position and sped towards Ness.
"PSI Defense up!" Ness cast another PSI ability on himself and raised his hand up just in time to block a punch from Shadow.
"Not bad." Shadow then proceeded to assault Ness with a barrage of punches and kicks. Faced with this onslaught of attacks Ness was quickly forced on the defensive.
"He's not giving me any openings to attack." Ness thought as he continued to block Shadow's attacks. Ness finally found a chance to create some distance when Shadow tried to do a quick sweep kick. Ness floated up in to the air away from Shadow.
"I won't let him off that easily." Shadow jumped up above Ness and curled in to a ball before lunging at Ness for a homing attack.
"Got him!" Ness floated underneath Shadow's attack and floated back up behind him. "Ha!"
"Ha!"
BAM
The two of them tried to hit the other with an aerial mule kick and both attacks collided with equal force, sending a small shockwave out around them. The moment they landed Ness turned around and dashed at Shadow; he threw a punch at Shadow that Shadow easily avoided and countered by throwing a gut punch.
"Umph!" Ness got hit pretty hard by this attack but he pointed a finger at Shadow and used telekinesis to grab him.
"Wha…?"
"Ha!" Ness spun Shadow around him before thrusting his finger up and sending Shadow flying straight in to the air.
"Rah!" Shadow curled up in to a ball and dropped down to land on top of Ness.
"Whoa!" Ness jumped back as Shadow hit the ground. However Shadow stayed curled in a ball and rocketed towards Ness. "OOF!" Ness was rammed in the body and sent flying away. "No… I did not come this far in the exam to get taken down this easily." Ness whipped out his yo-yo and threw it towards Shadow, guiding it with his psychic powers.
"Hm?" Shadow saw the yo-yo wrap itself around his leg before tightening. "Whoa!" Shadow then got yanked off of the ground.
"Hiyah!" Ness landed and used the yo-yo to lift Shadow in to the air. "Got you now Shadow!" Ness shouted. He then swung the yo-yo overhead and was about to slam Shadow in to the ground.
"Not yet kid!" Shadow held his hands out and stopped himself from being slammed headfirst by landing on his hands. "Good, it seems he has improved." Shadow thought with a smirk. "Don't get too excited kid! This is just the beginning!" Shadow stood up and then spun around with his tied up leg outstretched.
"WAH!" Because Ness was still holding the yo-yo he was yanked towards Shadow forcefully.
"…" Shadow quickly untied his leg and then faced Ness. "RAH!" Right as Ness was flying past him he kicked his leg straight up in the air and hit Ness in the body. "Ha!" Shadow then hopped off of his other leg and kicked Ness straight in to the air with it.
"Umph!" Ness gasped as he went rocketing upward a short distance. Shadow quickly jumped up after him. "Tch…" Ness floated downward until he was next to Shadow. "Ha!" Ness thrust his hand forward.
"Gah!" Shadow was zapped by PSI energy from Ness before he threw a punch to Ness' face.
"Gah! Doh! Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhh!" Ness was soon facing a barrage of punches and kicks before Shadow did an aerial axe kick that spiked Ness towards the ground. "Uh-oh!" Ness held his hands out and used PSI to stop his fall and allow him to get on his feet. "Whoa!" Ness floated back to avoid getting crushed underneath Shadow's foot.
"Hm? Where did he?" Shadow looked up to see Ness wasn't in front of him.
"Got you now!" Ness floated around Shadow while spinning. He landed, pulled out his bat and swung it at Shadow the second Shadow turned to face him.
BAM
"Oh that's got to hurt folks!" Ron announced as Shadow got nailed in the face by Ness' bat and sent flying backwards.
"Grrrrrr…" Shadow scowled before he flipped in mid-air and skid to a halt. "Fine… you want to play hardball? Then I'll up the ante." Shadow sneered. "Chaos spear!" Shadow's hands glowed yellow as his charged up chaos energy.
"Okay then, let's go! PSI fire!" Ness' hands became covered in a fiery aura as he charged up his PSI ability. "Yah yah yah!"
"Rah!" Shadow began rapidly firing chaos spear blasts from his hands.
"Ha!" Ness practically mirrored Shadow by firing PSI fire at a rapid pace. Both of them were firing their respective attacks practically the same rate of fire, both of them meeting and cancelling each other out in bursts of fire and chaos energy.
"His power has definitely grown, even though I'm using a chaos emerald to increase the power of my attacks they're still cancelling each other out." Shadow thought to himself.
"That chaos control power of his has gotten stronger; even though I've been training my powers extensively I can only cancel his attacks out." Ness thought. "PSI Flash!" Ness stopped using PSI fire and sent a glowing green orb of energy floating towards Shadow.
"Chaos… lance!" Shadow charged up a red orb of chaos energy and sent a red blast of chaos energy towards Ness. Ness dropped his PSI flash in the path of the Chaos lance in order to protect himself and
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMM
A brilliant red and green flash occurred and blinded nearly everyone in the stadium.
"Whoa man folks! Those two are truly going all out with each other, but right now this battle's still simmering and waiting to boil!" Ron Host announced.
"Ha!"
"Rah!"
"UMPH!"
BAM
CRASH
The two tried to take advantage of the bright lights to attack each other. Shadow hit Ness in the abdomen with a spinning kick at the same time Ness hit him in the head with his bat. The two attacks sent the fighters flying to the sides where they crashed in to the ground.
"Ugh… hm? Whoa!" Ness rolled to the side right as Shadow crashed in to the ground, leaving an unsightly crack in the ground. "He must have used Chaos control while I wasn't looking. Good thing my telepathy just barely caught trace of him."
"It's just like the first time where he used that power of his to trace me." Shadow thought. Shadow then promptly disappeared again in a flash of light.
"Wait… this is different somehow…" Ness said.
"Chaos burst!" Shadow appeared in front of Ness as a small dome of chaos energy burst from Shadow and knocked Ness away.
"Ah!"
"Heh… ugh!" Shadow didn't notice the PSI thunder attack that came from behind him and hit him. "He must have done it while I was warping…"
"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!" Ness shouted like a madman as he rushed at Shadow. Ness threw a kick that Shadow dodged and countered with his own kick to Ness' face. Ness took advantage of a small opening and punched Shadow in the side. The two combatants were now flat out wailing on each other, throwing caution to the wind as they traded punches and kicks with each other.
"They keep going and going and they don't look ready to stop yet! You can feel the determination to win just booming from each of them as they fight tooth and nail! Look at them go!" Ron Host blared over the microphone.
"HA!" Ness and Shadow both punched each other in the cheek at the same time; they both staggered back a bit. "Got you!" Ness ran forward and thrust his hands forward.
"Agh!" Shadow felt a jolt through his body when Ness hit him and sent him skidding back a bit. "Not yet you don't…" Shadow curled in to a ball and spun in place for a bit before dashing at Ness.
"Umph!" Ness got rammed in the abdomen and was getting pushed along with Shadow, a huge cloud of dust kicking up as they traveled across the field.
"Ha!" Ness used his psychic powers to lift Shadow and slam him in to the ground.
"Chaos lance!" Shadow charged up energy before releasing numerous red bolts of chaos energy at Ness.
"PSI Magnet!" Ness put up his shield around himself and absorbed all of the attacks. "Thanks." Ness taunted. "PSI Thunder!" Ness quickly maneuvered his attack behind himself and struck himself with the attack. "Hiyah!"
"OOF!" Shadow got rammed full force by this attack and was sent flying backward towards the wall. "Well done… fine… you've earned this." Shadow thought. He flipped in mid-air and landed against the wall. "RAH!" Shadow launched himself off the wall with enough force to leave a large crack in the wall. "Chaos control!"
"Huh?" Ness looked around in confusion. "I can't sense him!" "OOF!" Ness got rammed in the back by an incredibly powerful tackle from behind and sent plowing towards the wall.
CRASH
"Ooooohhhh…" Ness said dizzily as he stumbled out of the Ness shaped hole in the wall.
"You know… when I posses a chaos emerald, my chaos control powers are a lot stronger. But when I use the power of two emeralds…" Shadow said, holding out a green emerald and a diamond colored one. "My power grows exponentially." He said with a smirk.
"He went to the trouble of finding TWO emeralds!?" Sonic asked shocked.
"This is bad…" Knuckles commented.
"Why?" Falco asked.
"I just finished scanning them." Samus said. "Alone they have a lot of energy, containing both positive and negative energy…"
"What? A gem can contain that kind of energy!?" Fox shouted in surprise.
"Yes but here's the thing, when in the presence of another emerald their power harmonizes and if Shadow can use both of them at once…" Samus started to explain.
"Oooo?" Both DK and Diddy looked at her curiously.
"Then he can tap an incredible amount of power." Lucario reasoned.
"Chaos spear!" Both emeralds glowed in Shadow's hands and an enormous amount of yellow bolts of chaos energy flew at Ness.
"PSI Magnet!" Ness once again surrounded himself with his shield. He stopped the blasts as they struck his shield, but this time they didn't restore his energy, in fact he felt stunned. "They're… too strong this time…" Ness thought in shock.
"I knew your shield had to have its limits... good bye." Shadow said as he held both glowing emeralds in one hand. "Chaos… magic." Shadow snapped his fingers and Ness soon found himself surrounded by a swirling purple vortex of chaos energy.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!" Ness shouted as the vortex pummeled him. When it cleared Ness collapsed and hit the ground.
"Hmph… call the match, it's over." Shadow said as he turned to walk away.
"Hm…" Harris and Heidi looked at each other and nodded in agreement.
"PSI… life up!"
"Or not." Heidi said.
"Hm?" Shadow turned around to find Ness standing back up with his some of his wounds disappearing.
"I'm not down yet Shadow…" Ness said, panting.
"You might as well give up." Shadow said, hiding the emeralds from view. "My power exceeds yours by leaps and bounds with merely two emeralds. You have no hope of winning at this point." Shadow told him.
"I won't know… if I don't try!" Ness said.
"Very well." Shadow said.
"Ness be careful!" Pit shouted in concern.
"Pyo!"
"Chaos spear!" Shadow once again threw numerous yellow bolts at Ness.
"PSI Rocking!" Ness countered by throwing multiple, glowing orbs at Shadow. The orbs cancelled out the chaos spear attack and the orbs were also far more numerous than the spears and thus moved in towards Shadow.
"Hm!" Shadow leaped back and narrowly avoided the PSI attack.
"PSI teleport!" Ness suddenly appeared from a portal that opened up behind Shadow and rammed him from behind.
"Guh!" Shadow went skidding forward a bit from the ramming attack. "Chaos spear!" Shadow wheeled around and fired a chaos spear attack at Ness.
"Whoa!" Ness narrowly dodged the attack by jumping up.
"Chaos lance!" Shadow fired the faster and more powerful chaos lance at Ness this time.
"Ugh!" Ness grunted when the attack hit him, but this time a smaller blast came back and hit Shadow.
"Ugh!" Shadow grunted. "What…? That was… Chaos lance!?"
"PSI Flash!"
BOOM
"Ah!" Shadow went flying back a bit.
"I used PSI shield before I teleported, Paula taught it to me during the last month." Ness said.
"Chaos control." Shadow disappeared from view.
"Huh?" Ness landed and looked around. "Oof!" Ness soon received an axe kick from Shadow followed by an uppercut.
"Ha!" Shadow did a spinning kick that sent Ness flying backwards before warping again.
"…" Ness decided to take a chance and float in to the air. A good move on his part since Shadow appeared and used Chaos burst. "PSI fire!" Ness fired a bolt at Shadow and hit him with a pillar of flame.
"Gah!" Shadow winced in pain. "Chaos… boost!" Shadow covered himself in a red aura. "Chaos snap!" Shadow then disappeared and in the blink of an eye appeared right in front of Ness.
"PSI Life up!" Ness healed himself in desperation as Shadow pulled a fist back.
BAM
"Gwah!" Ness felt like he got punched by a rocket as Shadow's punch sent him flying across the arena where he tumbled on the ground before being stopped by the far wall.
"Had enough yet kid!?" Shadow yelled across the stage.
"Not… yet…" Ness weakly stood back up. "PSI… thunder!" Ness sent the orb straight upward. Then he extended his pinky fingers and then curled them back up again. The electric orb dropped straight down on top of him and Ness glowed with cackling energy. "Thunder… charge!"
"What's this?" Snake asked.
"Whoa! Ness looks intense." The Ice Climbers chimed in.
"Whoa…" Lucas trembled in awe.
"What did he just do?" Olimar asked.
"Okay Shadow… let's go!" Ness dared. He ran forward much faster than normal towards Shadow.
"A new technique eh? Let's put it to the test." Shadow also ran forward, both of them tearing up the ground as they dashed for each other.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM
"Whoa! What is going on folks!?" Ron shouted.
BAM
BOOM
"HA!" Ness and Shadow met, bat to fist and were creating shockwaves as their attacks collided with each other. Ness floated around Shadow and tried to hit him over the head with the bat. Shadow wheeled around and caught the bat and gut-kicked Ness.
"Ugh! Ha!" Ness grabbed Shadow's leg and shocked Shadow before backing away and adjusting his grip on his bat.
"Grrrr…" Shadow growled in frustration. He tore forward and threw multiple punches at Ness.
"Ugh! Oof! Ha!" Ness batted Shadow away and then jumped after him. "HA!"
"RAH!" Shadow kicked the bat out of Ness' hands before Ness could slam him over the head with it. "Ha!" Shadow punched Ness twice before slamming him towards the ground. "It shocks me a bit every time I hit him, but compared to how much damage I should be dealing this is nothing."
"Ugh… I don't think I'm shocking him enough to make up for how hard he's hitting me…" Ness thought in agony. Ness barely rolled to the side in time to avoid being crushed by Shadow. Ness then firmly grabbed Shadow and held on tight.
"Let… go…" Shadow growled as he kicked Ness over and over again.
"No." Ness retorted as he held on to Shadow despite the brutal kicks he was getting.
"Grrrrr…" Shadow's temper was really flaring up this time. "Fine… then don't blame me for whatever happens next." Shadow threatened. "Chaos…"
"This energy build up… oh no!" Ness panicked. "PSI Magnet!"
"BLAST!"
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
"…" Even Harris and Heidi's eyes were wide open in shock at the massive explosion of red chaos energy that just occurred in the field.
"NESS!" A lot of the other contestants shouted in worry.
"Is-a he okay-a!?" Luigi shouted.
"That chaos blast is disrupting my ability to feel their auras… I don't know." Lucario said.
"I hope so…" Blue said nervously.
"…" When the light and dust finally died down Shadow was standing in the middle of the field while Ness was thrown several yards away from him completely passed out. "Heh… you fought decently well." Shadow said as he turned to walk away. Paying no mind to the bruises and burns he had.
"Even after all of that he still has energy to spare? Even I'm impressed by this…" Mewtwo thought.
"That's kind of terrifying." Marth admitted.
"He's powerful to say the least." Ike said.
"But what about Ness?" Fina asked with concern.
"The winner of this battle is Shadow the Hedgehog!" Harris shouted.
"Yeah you rock Shadow!"
"You're a jerk!"
"Yeah that's the way to own him!"
"You fought well." Heidi told Ness kindly as she held a glowing white hand over Ness. "You have nothing to be ashamed of."
"Hm… this chaos control power is interesting…" Harris said as he walked up to Heidi.
"Indeed… even with my healing arts I'm having a difficult time healing him." Heidi said. "We should take him to the infirmary."
"Hey!" Lucas ran up with the Ice Climbers, Pit, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Yoshi, and Kirby ran up.
"Is he alright!?" Pit asked.
"Jiggly!"
"He'll live." Heidi assured them as she picked Ness up.
"It will take a while but he will recover, for now we'll take him to the infirmary to recover." Harris told them.
"Yoshi…" Yoshi sighed.
"Well folks it looks like after a knock-down, drag-out fight the battle is over. Our administrators are currently taking Ness to the infirmary themselves. So we'll have to wait a few minutes… but the next match is… Mewtwo vs. Ganondorf!" Ron Host's voice blared.
"!!" A lot of the contestant's faces froze. Especially the former smashers; they knew just how strong the two of them were.
"So… our match…" Ganondorf thought with a wicked smile on his face.
"I must admit… I am looking forward to how this battle will turn out." Mewtwo thought to himself as he shot Ganondorf a glare.
"Soon… very soon." A man in the stands wearing a mask thought to himself.
"Yes… very soon."
…Notes…
Phew… done. Not only did we have this intense battle going, now we have yet another one coming right up. I hope you're all ready to cling to your seats because it's not over yet. Until then read and review.