Chapter 6: Humiliation

Shulk had jumped into the pool, and was now swimming around. He thought it would be a nice peaceful swim to help get his mind off of Metal Face.

However, the Kid Smashers were also in the pool, generally being kids. They had pulled out some water guns and there were now firing at each other. They were occasionally shooting towards Shulk who was unable to see any visions to dodge. He figured since they were just attacking with water, and posed no actual threat to him, his visions wouldn't actually occur. He decided to just humor the kids, and occasionally fought back by pushing a wave of water at them.

After a while, they got rather exhausted.

"Well, Shulk, it's been fun." Ness said. "We'll be seeing you around."

"Yeah, same." Shulk laughed.

They all went into the changing rooms and Shulk just began to swim around the pool at his own pace. Eventually he went to a hot tub and relaxed in it.

After 15 minutes he got out and went to the changing rooms. He just opened the locker that he put his clothes in and then just stared in horror.

It was empty.

Well, not completely empty, the Monado was still there. Shulk just cringed, all of his clothes were gone. It was quite clear as to what happened. The Kid Smashers stole his clothes as a prank. Or, rather, the most likely suspect was Toon Link. After missing with the bucket of water, Toon Link had tried to prank him a few times. But with his visions he was able to see any impending danger.

"Crap..." Shulk muttered.

He now was forced to rush through the Smash Mansion, back to his room with nothing but his boxers on.

"It will be fine." He told himself. "No one will see me..."

Shulk peaked his head out of the changing room and saw that no one was in the hallway. He quickly just ran out and began to dash towards what he thought was safety.

However he ran into Palutena.

She just looked at him in shock. "Oh my..."

"Lady Palutena!" Pit said rushing to get back back at her. However he saw Shulk. He just drew his blades. "What are you doing you pervert!"

"Pit, can I borrow your toga?"

"Oh, you're into that..." Palutena smiled.

"What?!" Pit said. He just began to fire several arrows at Shulk who swung the Monado to block them. Shulk changed his stance to Monado speed, and just rushed past the two.

When he thought he was safe, he paused for several seconds and just leaned against the wall. However he suddenly had a vision, out of nowhere a suit of armor rushed towards him and swung a giant sword.

He just jumped out of the way. Sure enough a giant suit of armor appeared and swung it's sword at him. He just activated the Monado and cut through it causing the armor to disappear.

"I'd expect something like this from Captain Falcon, but not you, the Newcomer!" A voice said. Shulk turned to see Princess Zelda standing there. "This is simply unacceptable."

"Wait I can explain." Shulk said.

"I don't think any explanations are necessary!" She said summoning another phantom. "I thought you were refined!" The phantom rushed towards Shulk who just jumped away, and then ran past her. He began to jump to the side to dodge several volleys of Din's Fire that was tossed towards him.

"She's seriously trying to hurt me!" Shulk thought. He decided that the first room that he saw he would go into, to try and escape from Zelda.

He rushed into a library where he saw the Male Robin sitting at a table, reading a book.

"Robin!" Shulk said. "Can you come with me to my room."

Robin just looked at Shulk rather surprised. "Wow, I didn't know you were so bold. But wait I thought you had a girlfriend... wait could it be you go both ways?"

"That's not what I meant. Take your cloak off." Shulk said.

"Shulk, we're in public, where everyone can see us." Robin replied.

"You're doing this on purpose, aren't you..." Shulk said.

"THERE YOU ARE, YOU PERVERT!" Zelda shouted, rushing into the room. She summoned another phantom and it rushed for the two. Shulk was able to dodge the attack, however Robin wasn't so lucky. He was knocked away. Shulk just began to flee through the Smash Mansion, bumping into others. They let off screams of shock.

"I haven't even had my debut fight, and all ready I'm thinking I should just retire to save myself from any more embarrassment." Shulk thought. "When I find Toon Link I'm going to kill him!"

He narrowly dodged a Phantom. What was scaring Shulk now, was that Zelda seemed to be able to account for him seeing the future and was mercilessly attacking where he could dodge to. Since the attacks weren't actually aimed at him, his visions weren't kicking in.

Unfortunately the next Smasher he ran into was Princess Peach. She let out a scream of shock. Unfortunately for Shulk, Bowser was right there. "You're trying to do something to Princess Peach!" He shouted, rushing towards Shulk. He dodged the attack and just swung the Monado, changing it to Smash form, so that Bowser was sent flying back.

Another Phantom rushed towards him. This time he blocked the sword attack, but it was quite clear that they had a large overwhelming strength and he would be forced away soon. Sure enough he was sent flying from the Phantom's strength. He switched the Monado to jump, and just bounced off of the wall and quickly changed it to speed in order to escape.

He made his way through the mansion, having actually lost Zelda this time. However at the end of the hallway he was in he saw Toon Link. Toon Link just had a devilish smile across his face.

"Hi Shulk."

"You will know the pain and suffering you caused me!" Shulk said, stretching out his hand. Instead of gabbing his red Monado that was currently, somehow, on his back, he summoned a blue sword that seemed to be made out of energy. The Monado III.

Toon Link suddenly looked very afraid. He tried to flee however Shulk jumped into the air. "Monado Purge!" he shouted. Suddenly Toon Link was hit with a wave of energy that caused him to fall down onto the ground.

"PERVERT!" Zelda suddenly shouted, appearing behind him. "Now you're attacking Toon Link!?"

"Yes!" Shulk replied. "Because Toon Link stole my clothes from my locker, and put me in this predicament of being chased by you."

"Toon Link, is that true?" Princess Zelda asked.

"Not at all." Toon Link replied.

Shulk just turned to glance at him. "You lying sack of..."

Toon Link just laughed. Suddenly a Phantom narrowly missed Shulk. "I don't think you have time to be worrying about me." He said.

Shulk just quickly fled. Somehow, he managed to get to his room without actually meeting anyone else. However, waiting for him there was Master Hand.

"Well, I think we've found an alternate costume for you to wear." Master Hand said.

"What?" Shulk said surprised.

"Yes, I was actually looking for you because we only had 7 alternate costumes for you, and we were having difficulty coming up with an 8th. But, that will do fine." Master Hand said. "Plus some manservice will hopefully stop some people from continuing to complain about some of the other alternate costumes."

Shulk just went into his room and just began to weep.

... And that's my story of why Shulk has his Boxers/bathing suit as an alt. (In Xenoblade, I'm pretty sure it's the same thing… I never really bothered with the bathing suits.)