Uh…hey everybody. Long time huh? Exactly two months since I posted the first chapter. I know I said I would post the next one in few weeks, but things… got complicated. I had to do a huge book project for English, had to do a lot of homework for school, study for test, and lastly chase off some Rokkaku guys of my turf. So I'm so sorry for the wait. That is of course, if anyone actually cares.

I also had another reason for posting late. But let's save that for the end, all right.

I know that I'm gonna hear this in a review, so I'm gonna say it first. I'm not that proud of this chapter. It's a little shorter than that last one and I feel that it's weak in certain parts. So in short, it kinda sucks. But I promise you, that the next one will be better!

Ok that aside let's start this thing! But first the disclaimer.

If I owned any of the things mentioned here, I'd be rich!

Let's Chu! (PING)_

"Sonic... the Hedgehog?"

That was his name. The name of the guy who had the nerve to call her out about manners. The guy who nearly gave everyone there a heart attack with that little stunt with the tornado.

And just like he said, he was part hedgehog. The ears on top of his head were a dead giveaway that he was part animal. Like that Wolf guy with his ears as well as his sharp teeth and razor sharp claws. Along with his wolf like hair style. Or little Diddy with his monkey tail.

And the hand was right. No one there had any idea just who the hell he was. Sonic the Hedgehog... nope, doesn't ring a bell. Everyone look at each other to see if one of them knew just who he was. They were just met with shrugged shoulders and closed mouthed "I don't know".

Along with the thoughts of "I don't know", everyone was thinking of their own thoughts about the blue male hedgehog. Some were within the lines of "What a show off." Or "This just got a little bit interesting." And also the lines of "What a fool." Well you get the idea, the usual banter that goes on when one is checking out the competition. Why don't we take a more in deep look at what some of them are thinking of, shall we?

Captain Falcon: "Heh, the guy is fast I'll give him that. But he's no were as fast as me!

Lucario: "His aura… There's something strange about it. Almost like the wind itself."

Peach: "Wow. He's pretty cool. And not bad looking at all, to boot. I'll keep my eye on him."

Meta Knight: "…"

Kirby: (Any thoughts that Kirby may be experiencing at the moment all have to do with any food items that are the color blue. Which include blue berry pie.)

Then at that moment, Samus had a thought... just how did he create that tornado anyway?

Before she had any time to continue her thoughts in that subject, a voice brought her out of it.

"Hey, now that I told you my name, what's yours?" asked the newly named Sonic.

Samus heard what he said and started thinking of a response. Honestly, she didn't even want to response to the guy. Most of the time, when people say hi she would either nod or not respond at all. But the she did kinda call him out about the whole having no manners thing. And by not responding, she would be called a hypocrite.

...might as well get it over with.

"Samus Aran" she told him, with a bit of coldness to it. Ok... a lot of coldness.

"Samus huh? Cool! Nice to meet you, dude!" said Sonic, with a smile.

"The feeling not mutual, hedgehog. Wait... did he just call me "dude"?" was her thought.

Before Samus had a chance to go more in deep into what Sonic had just said, Master Hand got everyone's attention.

"Well, now that we are all finally gathered, shall we head inside now so that we may finally begin?"

With that being said, everyone attention shifted from the blue dude with a tude back to huge mansion were they all had assembled. And some of them had cheered with the fact that they can final enter the beautiful mansion. They didn't need to be told twice as everyone made a their way towards the huge building. All of them were just itching to get started so all of them went inside on the double.

And all that had transpired just now, like the whole tornado thing, was now forgotten.

One track mind on these guys, huh?

All of them had no idea of what was in store for them thorough these doors.

Well, they were right.

The inside was defiantly much better looking than the outside.

The place was just plain awesome. Very high class and fancy. The brawlers, after entering through the main doors, found themselves in what can only be described as a long hallway that was decorated with various things. Things that ranged from vases, tables, candle sticks in their little holders, the works. Just about everything you would expect to find in a mansion just as this.

"Wow M.H., you really went all out with this place didn't cha?" remarked Sonic which was followed by a long whistle.

"Yes Sonic. I make it a habit to upgrade and refurnish the mansion every time a new tournament begins. As to give everyone a sense of relaxation in between battles. A relaxed mind and body tend to produce spectacular battles."

To this Sonic could only nod his head in understanding. He was right on the money about the whole relaxing thing before a big event.

"Yeah, being relaxed is a super important part of a fight!" yelled Crazy Hand, making himself known. "But I wish you let me add the things I wanted to add. Like that flamethrower I wanted to put in the entrance to greet the guest!"

"... Crazy, the point of designing the mansion like this was to instill the sense of calm and relaxation to everyone. And how can they fell that if they are trying to avoid becoming a flame cabob?

"Well excuuuuusssse me!"

If one were to look closely, you could see that Link cringed a little. And Zelda giving him an odd look.

Master Hand and Crazy Hand's little debate continued, with Sonic serving as the peanut gallery. Who couldn't help but chuckle as the two brothers went back and forth. Thankfully for the others, everyone was to busy gawking at the wonderful mansion to hear Crazy's... ideas. Which was probably a good thing. Since he was kinda on thin ice with a majority of the new brawlers.

As noted a few seconds ago, everyone else were all looking at place were they'll all be staying at. Everyone was ecstatic. Most of them had never had the chance to stay in a big and fancy place like this before. So you can't really blame them for being ecstatic.

Although, some were less impress than others. Manly the older fighters because they have been there before and the only major difference was the furniture upgrade. And the two princesses as well. And do I really have to explain why they weren't as impressed like the others? Come on! It's not hard!

But not everyone had their mind on the mansion that they currently walking in.

Samus, who was walking in back away from everyone, was deep in thought. The subject of her thoughts: Sonic. Her thoughts ran along the lines of his personality, current knowledge of everyone else and finally his abilities.

"This guy... from what little I've seen, it's easy to tell that he has an easy going type of personality. Since he was cool and calm when he arrived late. Which means he won't really take his battles seriously. Which is great for me. I'll be able to take him by surprise then."

She has learned during her many years of bounty hunting, that learning her targets personality helps improve her odds of taking them down. From what she can gather, she'll be able to determine and predict any moves and attacks they'll try. And if she can do that, then she'll be able to play they like a violin. Oh, how she loves to play them like that and then cut their strings.

"From what little knowledge we've told by Master Hand about his background, this guy has a lot of experience in fights. Master Hand did say he's faced things that most wouldn't come close to hurting. And that he's saved his world a number of times. Huh, judging from the way he acts and his attitude, those "threats" can't be that bad.

With two of her main observation thoughts out of the way, she can concentrate on the last one, which is to figure out and analyses his abilities and move set.

"…"

"…"

It was then at that moment that she realized that she had never actually seen him fight before.

"Damn it!" she cursed mentally "Since the guy is new, I don't have any data on him or his abilities. Meaning I can't make a plan against him.

"Well I guess if I can't actually use actual battle data, that only leaves me with what I've observed. Let's see…"

No one could make out just who was causing it. Samus was having no better luck than the rest of them. Even with her suit, she could not get a lock on the source of the tornado.

Just then, her suit was able to lock on something. But the thing is, what she had lock on was something that was moving in the same direction as the tornado! And all of a sudden, she lost the lock she just inside the tornado.

"What! How did I lose the lock? That's not..." then her suit was able to lock on it again, only to lose it again.

The fact that she is constantly losing the lock on whatever it is, despite the fact that her suit should be able to keep a lock on her target no matter what, means it's no ordinary target. She then tried different settings to try and get a better lock on it. Nothing worked. Inferred, gamma, x-ray, none of it worked. Her last hope was the thought that it was cloaked by some means but that even proved wrong.

With all her settings used, she then came to one conclusion. "Whatever's causing this is fast."
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"Okay, judging from his earlier "introduction", it's a safe bet to say that this guy deals in speed. But the big question is how does he move that fast. I know for a fact that a person can't run fast enough to create something as a tornado. He either can control wind, kinda like Ness can with his PK fire and thunder, or he has something that enables him to go that fast."

Deciding to go with the ladder of those two options, Samus began to physically take a good look at Sonic to see if she can find anything like a device of some short. She didn't have to look hard since Sonic was right in front of her. Well… more like in front of her line of vision since she was all the way in the back, and Sonic was talking to both Master and Crazy Hand who had also taken roost in the near back.

So far her search had turned up nothing.

"Damn. I can't seem to find it. You would think that something like that would be in plain sight. Or probably not since it might be the key to his powers. …then again."

Her gaze then drifted south… and not in that way, perverts! To see the only other thing that could have a connection to the speed category.

"His shoes!" she mentally exclaimed. "Of course, that has to be it!"

With her eyes on the prize, she activated her visor in order to scan his shoes for any type of energy signature to see if her theory was right. As her helmet was scanning it, Sonic had stopped for just a few seconds before continuing forward. A little detail that Samus was ignoring or missed.

With the sound she was all to familiar with, her visor had finished it's scan and was displaying its findings.

…and they weren't what she was expecting.

"What the… nothing! No trace of energy or a mechanical source." True, while she didn't get the results she wanted she did get some other info. It seems that his shoes are made and laced with a material that is highly resistant to wear and tear. Meaning you can run on those puppies for a thousand years and they'll still look good as new! Other than that little tidbit of debatable coolness, there was nothing else to write home about.

"Arrgh, ok so maybe his shoes weren't it, but I know I'm on the right track! What else am I overlooking?"

I'm sure by now you're asking yourself why she's so determined to figure out the male hedgehog and thinking this all through. Well if you can recall from earlier, during in which Sonic had made his remark about her not having no manners or class, she really didn't take all to well to it. She hated people that believe they have the right to go and do anything they wanted, at any given time and place, just because they done a great thing or two. And, in her mind set at least, that's exactly what Sonic is like. All just based on her brief, and only, meeting with the male hedgehog.

Samus at the moment was still trying to discover the secret to his speed. Truth be told, her thoughts were kinda leaning towards the possibility of him just being able to run fast, naturally. She had seen, and mostly fought against, some space creatures that were able to run fast. But compared to the speed that Sonic could seem to have, they're not even in the same class as him. But as she had mentally stated before, no human being, even a half hedgehog one, can go that fast.

So there goes that theory.

Finally running out of ideas, she just decided to scan him entirely. Top to bottom. Every nook and cranny. Not missing a tiny detail.

So she set her visor on a higher setting in order to scan a larger target. A quick click, her visor set out to do what if was created for. Whenever her visor sets out to scan something, it zooms in on the target in order to get a much clearer scan. When it does this, any sound that might be near the target will be amplified allowing her to her it herself.

So because of that, she was able to hear a small part of the conversation that Crazy Hand was having with Sonic at the time.

"…so then as he turned around, I hovered high above him and told him in a scary voice "SO… SNOOPING AS USUAL I SEE?"

Sonic, upon hearing that part of Crazy's story, started laughing like a madman. To him, it was a great punch line to Crazy's story. Man what a story! He was laughing so hard that even Crazy got in on it. Which resulted in earning them a few strange looks from a few of the other brawlers.

Samus on the other hand, didn't get it.

"…ooookaayyy." was all she could say.

Her suit then beeped, snapping out her slight confusion, and told her it was almost done scanning Sonic. It was roughly about 55% done with the scan. She didn't want to miss a thing she decided to scan him even longer than normal. 62%, almost there!

"Almost…huh!"

Samus had just noticed that Sonic had just suddenly stop laughing and walking all together. His body had become rigid and his ears perked up and stood tall. "Why did he stop all of a sudd…" But Samus couldn't finish that thought, when all of a sudden Sonic quickly turned around look right at Samus! And I mean look her dead in the eyes through her visor.

Samus just froze up from the sudden attention she was reviving from the hedgehog. "What the…! Why the hell us looking at me like that? He couldn't know that I'm… that's impossible!" Her thoughts were scattered as to why he was suddenly looking at her. Then his gaze turned from a blank one to a slightly angry one.

And with that sudden switch of expressions, Samus instantly aborted her scan of him. Her visor beeped letting her know that the scan was not finished, but a interrupted scan was the last thing she had on her mind. Not two seconds after her visor returned to normal, Sonics body loosen up and his ears went back into a more relaxed position. His angry look also was replaced once again with his blank expression. And he just stood there, staring at her.

Each of them just stood there, for what seemed like an eternity. Having an invisible stare off with one another. Sonic with his blank stare, while Samus had on a hidden look of surprise. Holding her breath, waiting for the hedgehog to make a move. If he would even make a move.

Finally, Sonic started to slowly turn around while keeping his eyes on her. When his body had pretty much turned completely around is when he finally took his eyes of the hunter. He ran forward back to rejoin the main group, that was getting further away from them. And so Samus was by herself alone with her thoughts.

"What just happen just now?" was her only thought.

"Ms. Aran, is there a problem? Your lagging behind."

Samus was taken out of her sudden shock by the cool and calm voice that was Master Hand.

"Once again Ms. Aran, are you all right?"

Samus, who had finally snapped out of her little trance, finally responded to the giant talking hand.

"Huh, oh yeah. I'm fine, don't worry about." She answered in the fashion that most are used to. Short and sweet and to the point.

Master Hand, even though you can't physically see, wasn't really satisfied with the answer he had received from the huntress.

"Are you sure? You've been acting a bit odd ever since we were all outside. And just now I've caught you staring out into space. I am only concerned about your well be…"

"Look I said I'm fine!" she had enough of this. "And beside, whatever may or may not be wrong with me is not yours or anyone else's concern. So I would appreciate it if you just back the hell off!"

Samus was the kind of person who mostly quiet and keep to herself. But when she is pushed far enough, that personality does a complete 180. Goes from quiet to mouthy pretty quickly.

Master Hand, just as before when faced with the outbursts of the other brawlers, just floated there. Taking the huntress words in.

"…very well then, Ms. Aran. I apologize for intruding on your personal space. And rest assured that it will not happen again in the future. Just remember to keep your mind clear during your battles. Otherwise you'll never make it past the first rounds. With that being said, by your leave Ms. Aran."

At that the giant hand turned away from her and started to float down the long hallway. Samus was glad that he was leaving, she just didn't like people prying in on her business. Now she started walking on ahead while keeping her eyes on Master Hand.

And just before Master Hand turned the corner, he stop and look back at Samus.

"One more thing. If you're done sorting out your possible "problem" would you mind joining the rest of the group in the dining hall? The plan was to have a big welcome feast for everybody and also for the newest competitors to introduce themselves. So if you have time, please make your way to the dining hall. Everyone would hate it if they had to wait on someone who didn't arrive on time."

And with that he turned and left Samus field of vision.

Samus just stopped. Due to the fact that she figured out the hidden meaning behind the last thing the hand had just said. And she was not happy.

With no one around or anything in the empty to take her anger out on, she just resorted to letting out a frustrated growl that echoed throughout the hallway.

"Hand for your sake, this tournament had better live up to the hype. Because I need something to vent on. You better had deliver or else."

And with that lingering threat in the air, Samus made her way done the hallway to rejoin everyone else. Her mind set on getting everything out of the way so she can fight.

Better be careful what you wish for girl. You never know if your gonna get it.

Chu! (PING)

Well, told you it'd be somewhat crappy. And honestly I don't really blame you. But like I said, the next one will be better than this one. This is my promise to you!

And also, thanks to the first three people who actually submitted a review this thing. I really appreciate it.

As I said before, there was one other reason why I took so much time with this. And that was the fact that I had another idea for a SonicxSamus story! And it's kinda of…different than anything I've thought of before. So I spent some time on that idea, played with it a little. And time does fly by when you're thinking.

Hey Coli Chibi, if you're reading this, you might have an idea as to the nature of my new story idea. I mean after, you commented it. If you can figure it out, nice one dude. Well, do you think you're up to the challenge?

This is Chaotixflames, signing off.