Another Fight…Another Plan
"Five more minutes." I yelled though my door as Samus knocked again. I was practicing unsheathing my sword and stretching all of my sore muscles.
"Get out of there or I will break down the door." Samus called and I heard her cannon click into place.
"Okay, okay!" I yelled opening the door. "What is it?" I asked loudly.
"Training." Samus said and I could hear the grin in her voice even though it was slightly muffled by her helmet. I looked to her side to see Falco, eyes drooping as a yawn exited his mouth.
"But…but…What about the tournament?" I asked trying to find a way out.
"Well, today Link and Ganandorf are sitting out because there are an odd number of teams, but you and I are facing Mario and Snake, and Wolf and Sonic are facing Meta Knight and Lucario." Falco said stifling another yawn.
"So when is our match?" I asked as Samus pulled me out of the door and through the hallway, Falco trailing behind.
"Our match is about one o'clock this afternoon, right now is Meta Knight's and the others, we are missing it." Falco seemed a bit miffed that he was missing this grand match.
"Sorry." I mouthed as Samus dragged me into the familiar dome shaped room. She picked the same field as Meta Knight. Falco and I stood side by side…waiting.
"So you want to go first?" Falco asked.
"Sure." Samus said and Falco stepped aside as Samus approached me. "Pull out your whip." She commanded. I did so and handed it to her. "Quite plain, ever thought of upgrading it?" She said as I stared at her.
"No." I said flatly.
"Well, we'll just have to go with it." She sighed and flicked her wrist allowing the whip to crack in the air and then fall back to the ground. "Here" She said handing it back to me. "Now try to do what I just did." I flicked my wrist and the whip popped faintly and pitifully before slithering onto the ground.
"I suck at this stuff." I said flatly. Samus laughed.
"You just need training." She smiled and held out her hand. I placed the whip in her hand again and watched as she took a stance. "Pay attention." I watched every move, every flick of her wrist and wave as she used the handle with grace and poise before turning the mood into a forceful attack. I tried to commit it to memory, and she spent time going over different movements, but I was not as good as she was. While my stance was perfect and form right, I lacked the strength and agility with it she had. I
basically could tie things up and hurt people, but…but I was weak, weaker than I thought. Finally, Samus gave me some wrist exercises and instructed me on practice every day until we tried again. She gave me a smile when she sat over to the side and Falco walked over.
"More? Really?" I sighed and he pulled out his gun. He pointed it at the sand bag and fired. It hit directly in the center and flung it back a couple of inches.
"Try to hit the same spot." He said and I pulled out my own gun. I looked at the ash stricken part and aimed… I was terrible; I hit the side of the bag, half the laser flying off past the sand bag, dissipating into the air. I fell to my knees and put my face in my hands.
It hit me…I had only been able to win the first two matched from sheer luck and my partners; I would never last five seconds on my own.
"Celest…" Falco said putting a wing on my shoulder. I shrugged him off and stood up.
"What do I do?" I said trying to look willing to learn.
"Here, let me position you, your form is terrible." Falco came closer to me as Samus chuckled at his comment. He grabbed my left hand, which held the gun. "You're left handed." I nodded and he took a second to think. He picked up my other hand and laid it horizontally parallel to my chest. The he positioned my left hand on top of my right arm and lifted my arms and hand up to where the gun was at eye level. "Now try, close one eye…No your right eye, and concentrate." I fired after a ten second delay, closing both of my eyes. When I opened them my scorch mark on the bag was only a couple inches from his own.
"I did it!" I said happily punching the air.
"But you still need practice, and this is a fairly large object…" He kept talking, apparently very interested in this subject. I nodded politely not hearing any words that escaped his mouth.
"It was fun." I lied to Meta Knight and Lucario, who had lost their match to Sonic and Wolf. Apparently it was a magnificent battle and had taken over thirty minutes to complete. Lucario smiled seemingly happy after his loss, Meta Knight was in a darker mood, but still the same impassive warrior none the less. We were having lunch after my intense training, and I was regretting every minute having missed my two best friends match.
"Celest we've got to suit up." Falco said from behind me.
"I know this isn't fair to ask, especially since I didn't see your match, but will you guys be there?" I asked looking at Meta Knight and Lucario.
"Wouldn't miss it." Meta Knight said.
"Me neither." Lucario agreed. I smiled my flashy smile and walked away.
Falco was waiting in the Red Teams room already changed into a red jacket and pants. I looked down at myself and walked over to an identical computer as the ones before and watched as my grey and brown outfit turned different shades of red. Falco looked up at me out of the corner of his eye.
"Forty seven." He said as he preformed another push-up. "Forty eight."
"You know." I interjected quickly. "I relay like the number forty." I smiled at him as he reached the floor and stared blankly.
"What number was I on?" He asked looking at me pleadingly.
"I don't know…" I said with a smile. "Thirty something or was it sixty…"
"You are no help." He muttered. I watched as he did ten more and then stopped.
"By the way, I think you were on forty eight before you did those ten." He shot me a menacing glance and I fell over in laughter. He joined in not able to help himself. "Ready?" I asked tears in my eyes from laughing so hard.
"If you are." And we walked out onto the field.
Meta Knight and Lucario were front and center. Where Sonic normally sat, however, when Meta Knight gave him the look of death he quickly moved away to prevent a fight. Meta Knight was very pleased with himself. They watched Celest take the floor with Falco, and Snake and Mario enter from the other side. It was a single flat platform on which they were fighting, and as the announcer shouted "Go" both teams leapt into action. Mario through a fire ball which was only deflected by Snake's bombs and such. It seemed Mario and Snake had not spent any time together, while Falco and Celest already knew each other's moves. Celest used her dark power to stop most of Snake's explosives. Mario was fighting Falco and Celest was up against Snake. Unfortunately, one of Snake's bombs remained hidden on the floor and Celest was so high on damage from other attacks that all it took was this one explosion to send her flying out of sight.
Then Falco saw it, the Super Smash Ball. He grabbed it, broke it open, and descended in a Land- Master he took out both Snake and Mario as Celest appeared on the felid halfway through the new fight. She laughed at the sight of them flying off the screen and waited for Falco to join her by her side before Mario and Snake were there again.
(Back to first person)
I laughed as Falco landed beside me and he taunted kicking his shield like a hacky sack. As soon as they landed we were at it again and I remember trying to do my best with each of my weapons until…Snake grabbed the Smash Ball, He was far off and began firing at us from a distance, having the most damage I watched as he aimed for Falco. I jumped in the way and fell to the ground. I quickly got up and we moved, Snake kept trying to get me, and on his last try I was blasted out of the stadium as my world went black.
Falco watched as Celest was blown off and sucked in his courage. He had nothing to lose.
"Ow." I said rubbing my forehead carefully poking it and realizing it was just a small migraine.
"Chancy!" I familiar voice chimed and I opened my eyes as the pink motherly Pokémon gently placed and ice pack on my head.
"Thanks." I said and she smiled serenely. Then I noticed everyone else, everyone who wanted to train me plus Kirby, Pikachu, and Toon Link. "Hey." I said looking at them.
Then I saw Falco's face…
"No way!" I said loudly. He nodded. "But how?"
"I found a bat." He said pride filling his voice.
"You won with a bat?" I questioned. "Only a bat?"
"Well…a few bomb-oms helped." He admitted, still glowing with pride. I sunk into my pillows.
"You are so lucky." Samus said and I could sense her rolling her eyes.
"More than I deserve." I agreed.
(Villains)
"Well?" Ganandorf asked as Wolf paced back and forth.
"He will be here at the end of the tournament tomorrow." Wolf said.
"Who said?" Bowser scoffed.
"Eggman." Wolf chuckled. "And he himself."
"So we move the plan up to tomorrow." Ganandorf suggested.
"When she wins tomorrow with me by her side, I will reveal it to everyone, that way it is not only a threat, but a true out casting from her so called friends." Wolf sneered at his words and then snickered to himself.
"Tomorrow then." Bowser agreed. They departed quickly from the cave they had met in before going their spate ways and sulking in their own thoughts.