Motivation 101

First update for this story in my least favourite month of the year. It's like a whole month of Mondays…

Disclaimer: Not mine.

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"Ugh, I cannot believe we're back to this. I'd thought all this was done for, but no. Back to square one. Peach, you have to actually hit me!" Samus shouted, they were making progress on thee wire frames too.

"But you'll get hurt." The Mushroom kingdom's princess protested. God, she really was sickeningly sweet sometimes when she got like this. It was enough to rot entire rows of teeth in a great white shark just thinking about it sometimes.

"That's the point to attacking someone."

"I just don't want to hurt you."

"You were fine with the wire frames yesterday."

"Well they were just programs who can't feel anything, unless… oh no."

"Haven't you tried hitting back against Bowser whenever he kidnaps you?"

"He doesn't do it that often…"

"Okay, let's look at it this way, if I was going to attack you, what would you do?"

"Run away?"

"You'll run into a corner eventually or I'll catch up."

"Call for Mario?"

"He'd take time getting there."

"Call for Luigi?"

"Why would you want Luigi's… never mind, same problem. Unless they're with you 24/7 you can't rely on them."

"What if she insulted your dress?" Zelda asked, trying her best to help the situation.

"Well I… I'd be insulted, my taste in clothes is one of the finest in all of the Mushroom Kingdom, its part of my duty to look as though I am a princess and… how dare someone even contemplate insulting my dress or my person. It'd be just… rude!" Peach said, slightly flustered at even the implication. Her Pink dress was something to be proud of, the intricate patterns were works of art in there own right… everyone had told her that she looked fabulous in it and…

"thatdressmakesyoulookfat." Samus mumbled.

"I'm sorry Samus, what did you say? I was not paying attention."

"That dress makes you look fat." She said, well it was worth a shot, to see if it did provoke her into attacking.

"…"

"Princess?" Samus asked. Peach's eyes had gone wide and the only movement was the occasional twitch to indicate that she wasn't dead. Yet, her mind however.

"Peach, are you okay?" Zelda asked in a more concerned tone.

"I think I broke her brain."

"How long is she going to be like this?"

"Don't ask me, I didn't know she would just paralyze herself over such a small thing."

"Well she does hold her appearance quite highly."

"I can see that." Samus said experimentally poking the frozen royal, to see if she reacted. Nothing.

"Should we do something?"

"Just try to avoid bumping into her."

"Why would I 'bump' into her?"

"Because since she's not moving you'll have to go first. I'll go easy on you."

"I'll try." Taking the place of Peach, who Samus had moved onto the sidelines carefully, Zelda stood the other side of the mat, trying to work out what to do. The wireframes had at least run on programs which could be decude fairly quickly, even if they did have a faster reaction time then her there was always some weakness inbuilt at each level. Samus however despite resembling a mechanical being for most of the time was not bound by such. Trying not to show any fear she charged with a dash attack, that always seemed to be effective against the wireframes, but Samus rolled out of the way fairly easy. Trying to recover Zelda let loose a small magic spark at the bounty hunter, suprising herself when Samus flinched from the sudden shock. She hadn't really expected that to work particularly well, and dropped her guard, allowing Samus to grab her arm and throw Zelda onto her back.

"You should have followed up, while that spark works quickly and you can hold it on for a fair amount of time but it has very little force to knock your opponent back so they can easily recover from it." Samus explained, helping her back up to her feet.

"So what should I do when I can not focus the magic onto that same spot?" Zelda asked, incorporating magic into her attacks seemed like a good idea at first but it had some issues, namely she had to focus the majority of the spell's energy at one focal point. Even with the triforce of wisdom, it was hard to keep up in battle where a split second could the difference between victory and defeat.

"You'll have a fraction of a second to either punch me in the face or back off so I don't hit you."

"My…dress…I'll…AAAAAAAGRH!" Peach screamed, lunging herself at Samus wildly.

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"Samus, how are things going with the girls?" Master Hand asked, checking in on his helper, who was in her armour again. Does she ever spend much time outside of it? Must be force of habit or something, as though she'd feel naked without it. Hmm…

"Well they're fighting people instead of robots."

"Perfect, now all we have to do is get the special mud delivered."

"What mud?"

"For the… spa. The spa that will be installed in the new mansion, that I am having built. Of course. Why else would I require that amount of mud? Certainly not for any lewd and marketable activities, that's for sure."

"Why else indeed?" Samus said, with only a trace of sarcasm. On a related note, in the cafeteria at the same time as this conversation…

"Falcon senses tingling!" Captain falcon said, dropping his fork into his meal.

"You-a don't have 'Falcon senses'." Luigi said.

"Well my 'Punch Luigi in the face' senses are tingling."

"…"

"I'm gonna punch…"

"I got it."

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Apologies for the lame joke at the end, I just didn't know how else to end it.