Day 3: Training

I woke up. Standing up and looking outside of the window I saw that it was snowing and it looked to be a rather cold day. Somewhere in the back of my mind was the thought that yesterday was raining and today it was snowing and that the weather just spontaneously changed. However I thought it to be normal. Quickly I got dressed and went down to the cafeteria.

Word had spread much like a wild fire. Everyone was looking at me in amazement that I had challenged Marth. Some how I could sense their anticipation. They were all ready for the battle in 7 days. I couldn't say I had the same conviction as them. Suckered into this position I didn't know what to do. Really I had no choice but to accept. Mewtwo walked up to me smiled.

"Ready for a day of training?" Mewtwo asked.

"I don't exactly have a choice." I replied. Mewtwo just chuckled.

"A few people will help you through this."

"Joy..."

"So just eat up and prepare yourselves... Actually would eating may be unwise... you are probably going to throw up through this training..." Mewtwo said out loud. I walked up and began to get some food to eat. When I was done eating the food Mewtwo took me to the gym. "They will be meeting us later" Mewtwo said. He snapped his fingers and instantly several weights went onto everyone of my limbs. I collapsed do to the weight. "You are currently wearing 120 extra pounds" Mewtwo explained. "30 on each leg and arm. The first thing that you should do is try to get used to walking around with this. The weight will go to fifty pounds per weight at noon."

"How is this training?" I wondered.

"By doing this you can move around quicker on the battle field." Mewtwo explained. Somehow I didn't think it actually worked that way but who was I to complain.

I stood up and began to walk around. I guess that I previously had never done any sort of weight lifting. It took about an hour for my body to get used to the weights. Eventually I began to try and run. When I had gotten running down I began to try jumping. It was a lot harder to jump but eventually I began to get that down. Probably not as high as I used to be able to but it was progress. Mewtwo was becoming rather bored and began to throw shadow balls at me that I had to doge. It started out rather easily with Mewtwo just firing one or two at me. But then it got harder. "I'm going to start firing them at you in rapid succession!" Mewtwo said.

Simple enough...

When he said rapid succession he meant it. He would fire them at me quickly. Each time anticipating where I was going to go. Eventually he began to hit me and I went flying back sliding across the floor. I didn't exactly figure out what was more painful the impact, or sliding across the rubber floor getting several burns from the friction. I stood up and Mewtwo seemed to smile. This went on for a while until I was lying on the ground looking up at the ceiling. "That's great for a beginner!" Mewtwo said. "You should probably stay down now unless you want to get hurt."

But I didn't, I stood up. Every part of my body ached and I stared at Mewtwo. Quickly I rushed towards him and he began to throw shadow balls at me again. I was able to roll out of the way as they flew towards me suddenly all of the weight seemed like it didn't exist. Something inside of me had been riled up. A memory perhaps. I jumped up into the air and punched Mewtwo in the face down to the ground. It took Mewtwo several seconds to realize what had just happened.

"What just happened?" he asked dumbfounded. "Where did this strength come from?"

Where did it come from?

Mewtwo got back up, a bit shaken. "You are now ready to go to fifty pounds." He said waving his hands. I could suddenly feel the weights again. "The next jump will be the harshest." He said. "Each weight will be 100 pounds." I didn't falter. Once again I began by walking around the gym. Once I eventually got used to that I began to run. However after one lap around the gym I collapsed.

"Its about time your stamina ran out." Mewtwo sighed. "You took quite a beating... and have exceeded my expectations. Training is done for today."

"But what about the others?" I asked.

"They decided to not come and help you. They will try the next training session." Mewtwo looked down at me. "We will meet again on the 7th, two days from now, your job until then is to never take off your weights at any time. They will remain 50 pounds until the next training session. Rest, relax and regain your strength."

"Okay!" I said.

"There is one other thing..." Mewtwo sighed. "Your fight will be the first to use this item." He said. Floating above his hand was a small sphere that was radiating a strange energy.

"But I thought Marth said no items."

"I was able to talk with him a bit afterwards." Mewtwo sighed. "When we informed the Manager about this match she decided that it was time to add this item to our roster. It's deadly... So I'll talk about it now and you will see it in action tomorrow... its called a Smash Ball. As it appears you must destroy it on order to gain its power, however it won't break on the first strike. So you must continuously bash it until it does break. Then with the aura you can perform a super move called a Final Smash. Marth's is as about as deadly as they get. A one hit KO. But if he misses, he loses a life, unless a wall is in front of him. Yours, you will have to create yours soon. And we are going to have to set up a profile for you as well... Which may get a little complicated..."

"And a weapon to counter his sword!"

"You still have that object that you tripped over yesterday right?" Mewtwo wondered. I reached for my belt and there was the silver cylinder object that I tripped over yesterday. "Its a beam sword. You can use that as your weapon." With that Mewtwo looked at the door

Two strange men in black suits were standing at the entrance of the gym. "Mewtwo!" One of them called. "The Manager wants to see you." Mewtwo winced, it looked like he knew what this meeting was going to be about, and it wasn't going to be a pleasant one.

"I'll see you later then. Get some rest!"

Mewtwo teleported me to my room where I proceeded to sleep for the vast majority of the day.

Eventually I woke up around 3 pm and decided to walk around the Smash HQ. I don't know what urged me but eventually I decided to go outside.

For the first time I walked outside of the building. There Ness, Young Link, Nana, Popo, and a new person with blonde hair were standing on a giant mound of snow. They were trying to throw snow balls at each other in order to knock each other off. I picked up some snow and patted it into a ball. I tried to throw it however it failed miserably hardly getting farther than a few meters. I remembered the weights and I realized that I have absolutely no idea how to throw anything.

"So you're the new comer that challenged Marth." Ness said noticing me. "You won't win like that."

"I probably would do better if it weren't for these stupid weights." I said. Ness just began to laugh. Pichu jumped onto Ness' head.

"Lets help him!" Pichu said. Ness just quickly glanced at Pichu.

"So you're the person who bet on Pichu. And now Marth wants to fight you to regain some honor."

"Its quite twisted logic..." I said.

"He thinks you set up the match so that he would lose." Ness replied.

"Mewtwo said the same thing." I replied. "And he was training me to fight."

"How much weight is that?" Ness asked.

"200 total, 50 pounds on each limb."

"That's quite heavy." The new boy said.

"I'm sorry but who are you?" I asked.

"This is Lucas," Ness replied. "He became a Smasher today."

"I see." I replied. Lucas held up a ball of snow and threw it at me, quickly I dodged.

"Your battle is in 7 days you won't be able to win against Marth like that!" Ness shouted

"I will defeat him!" I shouted. They began to throw snowballs at me, which I found a lot harder to dodge than Mewtwo's shadow balls. They were being thrown in rapid succession, while they were hard to spot due to them being small and white as opposed to the large purple shadow balls. Not to mention they blended in with the environment quite well.

"You have to climb up this hill!" Ness shouted. He raised his hand and the small hill made out of snow began to grow bigger. Nana and Popo slammed their hands down and a blizzard began to fall. Snowballs rushed towards me. The vast majority of them hit. Quickly I took cover behind a large bolder of snow that they had made. I leaned against it and began to strategize about how I was going to climb up the hill. I closed my eyes and began to listen carefully. The wind was rather deafening however I could hear them throwing snowballs and a few of them hitting the large boulder. This led me to believe that they just knew the general area that I was in and were equally blind as I was.

I'm safe for now...

"He's hiding behind a boulder!" Lucas shouted.

Crap how did they figure that out?

I got up and ran towards another giant boulder. This time I stopped.

I'll go right...

I breathed in getting ready and then I ran to the right of the boulder. However they began to throw to the left of the boulder. Suddenly I realized that they were reading my mind in order to anticipate the attack. However they made the mistake of who's right. Using this brief moment of confusion I ran up the hill until I got to the top. I was surprised to find that it was abandoned.

No one would abandon the hill like this...

Quickly I rolled out of the way as several snow balls went flying towards me. I smiled and ran towards them.

I win!

"Not yet!" Ness shouted. "You have to get us off of the hill!"

I delivered a swift punch to something, however upon closer inspection it turned out to be a snowman. The blizzard subsided and there I saw that the top of the snow hill was rather large. "They could be hiding anywhere" I paused and once again closed my eyes I couldn't hear them at all, the silence was deafening. There was no trace of them ever being up here. Suddenly an idea hit me. I jumped into the air and then I went through the snow. What I was standing on was a shell; the actual inside of the snow hill was hollow. I fell through the roof. There Ness, Lucas, Young Link, Pichu, Nana and Popo were standing in front of me looking rather shocked that I was able to get this far.

"You're against 6 Smashers!" Ness laughed. "You can't win!"

"I can." I replied.

What am I thinking? Sure they are all about half the size of me and their proportions are incredibly weird. I mean just look at Ness, Lucas, Nana and Popo their heads are bigger than their bodies! And they are trained fighters. How am I supposed to win?

"You're just kids!"

"And your just a teen!" Ness replied back.

Ouch... that did hurt...

"I'm twice your height." I tried to retort.

"And we have hammers." Popo said devilishly pulling out a wooden hammer about the same size as he was.

They began to chase me around the inside of the hollowed out snow hill with their hammers. Just a quick word of advice, when somebody has a giant hammer, you run fast. Faster than you have ever ran before! And when you are done running you run some more.

Ness, Lucas, and Young Link began to throw snowballs at me. A few of them hitting. Most of them were snow however a few had ice mixed in. But they didn't hurt, mostly due to the adrenalin pumping through me. "Is that all you got!" I shouted.

"PK Thunder!" Both Ness and Lucas replied. A ball of energy rushed towards me quickly I rolled out of the way but it seemed to follow me no matter where I went. Eventually they hit me. A slight shock went through my body. But somewhere I believed that I was beginning to get accustomed to these shocks and building up an immunity.

"Keep it up!" I taunted.

They continued to throw PK Thunders towards me. Even Pichu began to shock me. It was then I noticed that Nana and Popo were staying away from me. Probably due to all of the electricity flying towards me. More and more rushed towards me and I continued to dodge, a few hit me and temporarily stunned but it didn't last all that long. Eventually all of us were gasping for air. Each of us at our limits.

Ness' and Lucas' hands once again began to spark. I just smiled as they began to fire another PK Thunder at me. This one knocking me off of my feet. I just lied there on my back. I could feel everyone walking towards me.

"Looks like you lose." Ness said.

"Yeah." I replied. "Oh well it was good training." I was trying to remain optimistic.

Soon after the snow hill began to disappear along with the Smashers. I just lied on the snow until I noticed that it was rather cold and got up and walked towards the building. The building was warm, unlike outside. Outside was cold, and bitter but inside was warm, and inviting... boy those last two lines were depressing.

I just noticed it but my body was sore. I slowly trudged up to the Manager's office. I knocked on the door. But there was no response. I was about to turn away when suddenly the door opened.

"Come in." She said.

I entered the room cautiously just so she wouldn't chain me to the chair again. "Please sit down." She said moving me slowly to that chair.

"Is there a different chair?" I wondered.

"Yes... Just sit on this sofa." She directed me to a sofa and I sat down. Once again I was in her office. This time however it was rather comforting that I wasn't handcuffed to the chair, and being electrocuted every other second. "Why did you come here?" she asked.

"They seem like they resent me." I muttered completely uneasy.

"They do. We have seen several cases just like yours, just minus the whole amnesia bit." She replied looking at me. "Just to be completely honest they have wound up in one of two ways... insane or dead. Actually... no just one way dead..."

My heart was beating really fast.

"This world went against the natural laws of logic that they knew and were driven to near insanity. While others looked for a way to escape, looking for a way to escape also drove them to insanity. The other way people believe that since we are just computer programs and nothing more that we exist solely for their own sick and twisted entertainment. These people have tried to kill us in the past believing that we could just regenerate, with them we have had no choice but to kill them."

"I see." I replied. I had begun to understand why they disliked me so much. I really had no choice but to just accept it.

"But perhaps you will be different." She replied. "We never had someone with amnesia before. So while everything is new for you here you won't be drawn to insanity by your memories of the past and the logic here." She had a smile across her face.

"What are some of these so called abilities that you are talking about?" I asked.

"Oh just normal things such as defying the laws of physics by being able to jump in mid air. You know those sort of things."

I forced a nervous uneasy laugh. "Thank you for seeing me." I replied getting up and walking away.

"Be careful." She sighed. "Recently, about 3 months ago another came to this world. He proved to be quite a threat. We were unable to kill him. The scars from that battle runs deep in each of the Smashers minds. And we fear that he is still out there waiting for the right time."

"But what about the 40 day limit?" I wondered, out loud, very loudly.

"There is a 1 in 4,000,000,000 chance that the person won't degrade and is actually compatible with this world."

Lucky bastard.

"He was the first and only person that we know of... And 40 days is the recorded maximum amount of time that you can spend in here. There have been cases where they don't even spend half of that. I can get Dr. Mario to check how long you have tomorrow with you physical."

"Physical?" Had I been drinking something I probably would have spit it out in shock.

"Yes in order to participate in a Smash Battle you need a profile, however in order to do that you have to have one of our Doctors check if you are in tip top shape. We don't want anybody to croak before their big match."

You have no idea how much I want to croak before this match... And by croak I mean GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!

"Anyways just go down to the Doctor's office any time tomorrow and he will quickly check if you're in good shape."

"It might have helped had somebody not all ready started spreading posters around and stuff..." I sighed.

"Yeah that might of helped and there are a few things in the fine print that you will have to step over."

I couldn't help but look at her. Yesterday she seemed so detached from reality, while today she was exactly the same as she was the first time I met her. Cold, harsh, observant, and not to mention down to earth. "Something else is bothering you isn't it?"

"Yes..." I replied. I didn't know how to say it. "Um about yesterday... Do you remember what happened?"

"Yes I was at home the whole day."

"But you were here?"

"No that was my identical twin sister." She replied. "I thought Mewtwo would have told you..."

Does Mewtwo even know that she had an identical twin sister!

"Actually no I didn't..." Mewtwo replied. I jumped up in the air and was greeted by a strange glance from the manager.

"I'm sorry," I quickly apologized. "Mewtwo just told me that he didn't know and I'm not exactly used to people talking to me telepathically, especially out of the blue..." I couldn't help but look at her, she was after all a young attractive female and I was a young male whose hormones were probably slightly out of whack. But there was a lot I didn't know about her, for instance: her name. "Uh... what's your name anyways?"

"I don't believe I need to tell you that. You're just going to hit on me aren't you?"

Damn she's good...

"Reminder: I can read minds."

"Can your sister?"

"That's an invasion of privacy. Besides you wouldn't like her, too random, not serious at all. She dropped out of college after the first week and somehow manages this job with me. Tell you what, you tell me your name and I'll tell you mine."

"I believe you just got owned." Mewtwo laughed. I unfortunately had to agree with him.

"We can just be called Anonymous 1 and 2."

"And our children can be Anonymous 3 and 4!" She said with a great deal of sarcasm in her voice, unfortunately I didn't pick it up.

"Really!" I said excited.

"No." She said coldly. "I have a name,"

"Thank you then." I replied exiting the room. I didn't know where to go after that. Somehow I returned to my room. I opened the door and entered.

My room was different, what used to be a single room with just a bed, dresser, and TV was now a small bachelors pad. The room was also much bigger. "This must of been what she meant by going against the natural laws of logic." I looked at the fridge and stove. My hand reached towards the fridge and I opened it up. Inside was a lot of beer. "This can't be good for my health..." I muttered looking for food. There in the fridge were several white and pink capsules. I grabbed one and took it out and immediately it turned into a plate full of food. On the plate was rice, covered in a sauce. It almost looked like it was on fire.

This can't be in any way healthy...

But I didn't care if it was healthy or not. I opened a drawer and grabbed a fork. Immediately I began to eat it. Once I was done I collapsed onto my bed and I drifted to sleep.

To be continued...