Yeah, hey guys. It's been a long time, hasn't it? About two months to be exact. Yeah, poll took a while, and there was a tie for the saga I was going to do, but thanks to a guest user, I started working on this again.
Anyway, here it is guys, the first chapter of the winner: Subspace Saga!
Subspace Saga
Chapter 1
Introductions
"So, the Smashers have gathered up so many pathetic fools into one place. This is very convenient." A floating mass of energy spoke to itself. It was none other than Tabuu, the mass that ruled all of Subspace. His minions, the Shadow Bugs, all formed into Primid figures, each of them having a desire to destroy and fight. The mass lifted its tattered butterfly-like wings. The previous battles with the Smashers made his body weak like this. His only desire now was to recover and extract its revenge on the souls that did him this harm.
The only way to do this was to set off Subspace Bombs and use the energy it collected to restore his health.
There were some complications to this. Back then, he had the R. he'd enslaved created the Subspace Bombs. He had none, thanks to Ganondorf's actions back in the Isle of the Ancients. The Subspace Cannon was destroyed also thanks to the Smashers. All that remained in Subspace were his loyal Shadow Bugs. Over time though, they continued to grow and multiply in numbers and strength. All Tabuu required was a way for his Primids and other creatures to create new and much more powerful Subspace Bombs, but what? The ruler lingered on this thought, as his armies still grew in numbers. More Shadow Bugs created more monsters. All he needed was a way.
A simple path to world domination…
The morning rose as the official first day began. The day before, students explored the campus, met their teachers, and hung out around the campus. Now, they were still sound asleep at only 7:30 in the morning. The Dark Dorm was oddly quiet for Jigglypuff. The round Pokemon knew the students had to wake up at this time. Wolf wasn't here to help, so Jigglypuff had no choice, but to use it.
From outside the dorms, you could hear Jigglypuff scream, "JIGGILIIIIIIIII!" The Pokemon used its Hyper Voice attack, and for sure, the whole school was up now. All the Bird Pokemon flew up in fright.
"Ug, did someone just die?" One of the students asked out loud. Most of them groaned themselves awake while some others rolled off their beds in an attempt to wake up. One of the Dark Dorm members got up and spoke in fast Japanese. She looked pretty angry this morning, but who wouldn't when a puffball decided to scream to wake up the entire school.
"Excuse me, but what did you say?" One of the girls asked. The girl repeated her phrase in Japanese, but the other was confused at it.
"Don't you speak English or something?" The other asked. The Japanese-speaking girl just got out of bed and walked out without another word. The other girl stretched a bit and looked around to the new room she shared with the Japanese-speaking girl. Her name was Christiana Poname. She was a PSI user, just like Ness and Lucas.
Chris, are you awake? I heard something scream. It sounded like someone dying. A voice told her inside her head. It was telekinesis, and she was talking with her brother, who was in the other rooms. His name was Richard Poname, or as Chris liked to call him, Risk.
Yeah, it was our dorm leader, Jigglypuff. She decided to wake us up. This just sucks. I wanted to stay asleep a bit longer. Chris thought back.
Well, it is the first day of school you know. We have to be up early anyway. Come on, they have breakfast in the Cafeteria. That's where we go to our classes for the day. It's what Ness told me. Are you ready? Risk asked.
Yeah, yeah, I'm coming .Chris thought and left the room. The other students were coming out and leaving the dorm room. The Dark Dorm was just facing the Lower Campus side with a nice view. The Light Form faced the lake in the middle. Both sides were already coming with students going towards the Cafeteria, hungry for their breakfast.
"Wow, look at them all." Ike said from the teacher's tables. He was eating his breakfast along with the other swordsmen. All the other Smashers were there too, except for Mikee. Meta Knight was calm for today.
"Yeah, like a pack of soldiers ready for battle." Marth added.
"Guys, relax. Today will be fun. We just introduce what our classes do for the day. That's all we have to do." Link told them, trying to cheer up Ike.
"Speak for yourself. Strategy isn't the easiest thing to teach a bunch of kids. Kids like these probably focus on themselves and will only fight for themselves. They won't focus on the other important things, such as watching each other's back." Ike told Link, picking up his Ragnell.
"Well, still, they're kids. I bet some of them already know the importance of teamwork, and you'll need it to survive out there in their own worlds. You just have to give them a chance. They'll probably pull through." Pit told them.
"Easy for you to say; you have the best class to teach. Brawl Basics?" Marth asked.
"Yeah, it's just showing the Brawl Field and hosting my own Brawls. I don't know why it's important though. I guess Master Hand wants these kids to enter the Brawl Tournaments, and the class is to get them to know the field." Pit told them.
"Mikee should be in your class. He's been losing more often than Jigglypuff, and that is saying something." Link said. The group laughed at the joke, and then looked around for him, but he wasn't at the tables or even with Dawn, which was unusual.
"Is he being a lone wolf today? I'll ask Dawn to see what's up." Pit told the guys. As he left, Meta Knight rose up from his seat and left as well.
"Hey, Meta, where are you going?" Link asked.
"I have to prepare my class. I teach the ways of the swords." The Star Warrior replied and left the building. Link shrugged and went back to watching Pit. The angel talked to Dawn, asking the question. She pushed back her blue hair and told Pit something. Pit nodded and walked back to the men.
"Dawn said that he was coming, but later. He was setting up his class for the students as well. Energy Control, I wonder how that's going to go." The angel wondered. The other swordsmen shrugged and continued eating. Dawn wondered about something and got up to leave the cafeteria also.
"So, those are the Smashers? I heard there were two new ones. Where are they?" One of the students asked a twin. His name was Clive, and the one he was talking to was his twin brother, Greg.
"I don't know. The blue-haired girl already left, so my guesses are that she's going to see the other new Smasher." Greg replied, still eating his breakfast.
"Who knows? Besides, I'm done, and I'll be heading to my class. Meet up with you at lunch time?" Clive asked. Greg simply nodded and Clive left the cafeteria. Greg was thinking to himself. He was thinking of this whole school thing.
"Uh, mister?" A little girl asked. Greg looked down to Sophia the Squeaker.
"Yes, what's wrong?" He asked.
"Fox and Falco want to speak to you." She told the fox. He adjusted his jacket and got up.
"Thank you." Greg said and left towards the table with Fox, Falco and Wolf. As his presence was noticed, they turned their attention to him.
"Yo, Greg, how's it been?" Falco asked.
"It's been okay. How about you guys and Wolf?" Greg asked. The former enemy just closed his eyes, not looking irritated at all.
"Crazy stuff. First off, the new guys had an adventure with us, and secondly, the school was built while more crazy things occurred. It's been a tough life as a Smasher." Falco told him.
"It wasn't a fun time, that's what Falco is trying to say. Besides that, have you signed up for our classes? I run mechanics and Falco here teaches Aerial Combat." Fox told their friend.
"Ha, the only good combat style Falco is good at is running and getting into trouble with several ships on his tail." Wolf scoffed.
"Excuse me? Mind running that by me again?" Falco asked, getting up from his table and looking Wolf in the eye.
"Falco, calm down. Arwings are easier to pilot instead of Wolfens. They can move on to pilot Wolfens if they want." Fox told the pilot. Wolf shrugged and looked at Greg again. The red fox just clenched his fist. He didn't like Wolf at all, and he despised the fact that he was on their side. From Fox, he turned against the team once before, during the time the two new Smashers were around. How is it safe to say that this pilot wouldn't turn against them again? Greg didn't trust him or any 'former' evils.
"Well, it was good seeing you guys, but I have to head for class. It's the Energy Control class. Do you know who's running that class?" He asked.
"Energy Control…isn't Mikee running that?" Falco asked.
"Yeah, he is. He's a cool kind of guy. He'll teach a lot, but be sure to tell us how he acts. We have to know." Fox asked. Greg nodded and left them. He was going for the class that he hoped could teach him on how to control his fire ability.
As he went to the class, there was already a small crowd of students looking into the classroom. Some gasped; some just watched whatever was going on inside his classroom.
"Hey, what's going on?" Greg asked one of them.
"It's the teacher, he's training inside the classroom, and he's sparring with another one of the teachers." One of the students told Greg. He shrugged and decided to watch, and he saw the blue-haired girl fighting against the new Smasher he heard about.
Inside, Mikee was sparring off against Dawn. It was mainly a test to check out the room's limits to training. It was also a good excuse to warm up and to clear nervousness for both of them. It was a good fight. Mikee was the one rushing in and swinging into Dawn's guarding stance. She was skidding back with every single hit. She soon swerved away and slammed him on the back towards the ground. Mikee stopped himself with his hands on the ground and sweep-kicked her. She landed on her back and he jumped back, charging up his Shine Cannon. He fired and Dawn rolled out of the way in time. She leaped back up to her feet and fired her Dark Devastator. Mikee punched into it, but the energy exploded, making it his fault. He was pushed back and slammed into the wall. Dawn charged and swung her fist, missing and causing a dent in the wall.
"Heh, not bad. You've been training." Mikee said, cracking his fists to release the tension in them.
"Of course. I still have a lot to work on if you can already transform to the Shining Mode, then I still have a lot to learn. Besides, this counts as quality time with each other." Dawn said and smiled. Mikee smiled as well, not lowering his guard.
"True, true. With all these students, we'll have less time with each other. We should do this more often." Mikee said, getting ready to go into Burst Mode. Dawn looked over to the window to see the students. They all opened their eyes wide and hid except for Greg who still watched.
"We have a little audience. Take a look." Dawn mentioned. Mikee turned to see and he looked back to Dawn.
"I guess it's time for class to begin, Need a Shadow Warp?" Mikee asked. Dawn nodded and smiled as he warped her to her classroom. His glance went to the class he was going to teach. Mikee approached the door, took a deep breath, and opened it to welcome his new and first students.
"Wow, you were good at fighting!" One of them told Mikee as she came in. It was a girl and according to Mikee's files, her name was Cherry Amello. She had a sister here, and she was a magic user.
"Well, I'm not that great. Let's just come inside everyone. It's time for what this class is about." Mikee told the students. He counted six students exactly: Kiroe, Greg, Cherry, Eva, Matthew, and Chris. These were his six students for the school year, unless some more came in eventually. He let the students sit on the floor because there were no chairs. The Light Warrior cleared his throat and began.
"Good morning everyone. I am the teacher of the Energy Control, Mikee Aeros, but call me by my first name, nothing formal. In this class, I will teach you the basics of energy as well as some moves using whatever energy type you have. See, I am an energy user myself, focusing more on Light energy. With this, I can transfer this energy either to my fists and fire it as a beam. You saw that when I was facing my friend a minute ago. Luckily for us, Master Hand approved a first day field trip to a place where we can demonstrate what we can do." Mikee told them. They were excited about this as Mikee walked to the students. He snapped his fingers and the group of seven vanished without a trace.
The seven appeared at the Gritzy Desert background. It was a different section of the desert, as if he prepared this place for them.
"This is the place to practice energy attacks. There is no life for miles. Now, what I'm going to demonstrate is what each and every one of you is able to do. First off is you create something for your physical attacks, something useful in close-quarters combat. Next up, you'll learn how to shape your energy into balls. When this happens, it's condensed, and pretty good to hit with. If you focus enough of your energy, then it becomes a pretty good weapon. I use it as my move, the Shine Cannon." Mikee explained. He demonstrated this by letting the energy form around his right hand like a cannon and then firing a sphere of his Light energy into the distance. It exploded, but not as big as one would imagine.
"It's not all. If you condense it and then release it at a single point, you can create a flow of energy that can be used as a beam attack. This is useful with mid-range combat." Mikee told them and fired out his Shine Beam, which caused a bigger explosion. The students looked pretty interested as Mikee closed his eyes and floated up.
"Finally, this one is a special one of mine, which will be harder. This one is my personal. For the final to pass my class, you must create your own energy move using your abilities. As for me…" Mikee said and crossed his arms. His signs appeared which surprised the students. Mikee's hair became a lighter shade of brown. Mikee was in his Perfect Mode. He cupped his hands to his side, charging up a ton of energy. He yelled out and fired a huge beam towards the center, causing a huge explosion. Desert winds blew out in gusts, reaching the students as they resisted being blown away. He powered down and joined his students. They seemed pretty surprised, even Greg.
"I'll take us back to the school." Mikee said and snapped his fingers, warping them once again. As he came back, there was an odd power he sensed during the teleport. The warrior felt it as something dark and powerful. It wasn't anything he knew, but if he could feel it during a Shadow Warp, then it was certainly something to be concerned about.
The group of seven appeared as the school bell rang. It was time for the next class for the students. Mikee didn't have any more students to teach. He had it this way in the case of personal lessons for the students. They left the classroom, telling him bye, but one of them remained. It was Eva.
"Sir, what was that back there? Your arms and hair glowed and you unleashed all that energy. I've never seen anything like that." She asked. Mikee smiled and looked at the clock.
"Class periods have a break of ten minutes. I'll tell you next class tomorrow, along with the other students. Just be ready because tomorrow, you'll demonstrate to me what you guys and girls can do personally. I'll have to be the judge of your current level of skills." Mikee told her. She left after that with a smile, joining the other students. Mikee crossed his arms and sighed. He clenched his fists and went in another Shadow Warp, hoping to find that power he sensed earlier.
A few hours later, and soon enough, it was already lunch time. All the students grabbed their lunches and headed outside while some of the Brawlers either joined them or remained inside. Dawn and Mikee were one of the many that were inside.
"Well, I think I like this whole idea of being teachers. I was able to show off my main energy attacks." Mikee told Dawn.
"That's great. We were lucky today. A Waddle Dee was hurt outside and I was able to heal the poor guy for the class to show the benefits of being a healer. The only problem was three students, and that was it." Dawn said and felt down about it.
"Don't worry too much. Master Hand told us that students will still be coming. I'm sure you'll get more healers." Mikee told her. She smiled, happy that Mikee was trying to cheer her up. It was rare, but she realized that Mikee was having fun with this.
"My class was challenging. I had a lot of students come in, probably around ten for strategy." Ike groaned. He looked pretty tired to them.
"Well, you're one of the lucky ones. There were a lot for Weapons, but Master Hand decided to combine Meta Knight's class with mine so we could both learn from the classes, and there are a lot of students. Marth is also willing to lend a hand with our class, so three are teaching it now." Link told them.
"That's pretty cool. I just feel sorry for Falcon and Sonic. They have to train everyone." Mikee said, drinking his soda drink on the table.
"Well, it really isn't that bad, having all of them. They just make the kids run laps or climb things. It's a pretty simple class." Link told them.
"Well, it doesn't matter. These students will become great heroes by the end of the year. The thought of helping the universe get better with stronger and wiser heroes, it makes me happy!" Dawn said.
Anything makes her happy…Mikee thought and finished his can. He still wondered about the power he felt. He didn't want to bring it up to anyone. Everyone seemed to have a good time. He didn't want to get them worried about something he felt during the transfer. Besides, if it was an enemy, he could take care of it. He crushed his can and tossed it in the trash from his distance. The rest of the day was on the way.
Wow, I can't believe I wrote this much. I would make it longer, but I have plans for tomorrow, and probably the weekend too.
I want to say, thanks everyone. The poll came to a tie between the Subspace Saga and the Smasher Saga, and it got me working on a plot, so thanks for everyone who voted. I am so happy that I stayed up until 3 in the morning to finish this.
Also, thanks to Link some numbers for reviewing my other story. You got me going, I guess.
So, the characters I have used in this chapter already have excellent forms. I still cannot use some because I can't decide for the classes and/or their forms were not enough on detail. I know it will be a bother, but I need the ones who didn't put any classes on their form to re-submit the form. I also didn't use a couple, seeing as they will be coming later on. I can't fit all while thinking of plotlines and when to use them.
As the story implies, there will be new students coming in still, so if you read this chapter, then congrats! You have just won a scholarship to Power Academy!
Just kidding, but seriously, I'm opening up the form and submissions again. I want everything to be filled out though, and limit two characters per author, and I am not one for making decisions. If you need the form, it's back on Chapter 1.
Thanks for reading, review, and tell your friends! The Power Academy doors are welcome to all!
~PerfectPhoenix