Zelda sat in the pre-match waiting room, anxiously awaiting the start of the match along with two of her opponents; Pichu and Captain Falcon. Samus wasn't there yet. She studied her two opponents; Pichu, a cute little yellow rodent, bounced playfully on the seat of the chair, it couldn't speak other than its name. They had fought before, it wasn't very powerful but could move very quickly when it needed to. She smiled when it looked her way and it responded by jumping around excitedly.
"Pichu, Pichu!" it exclaimed.
'Where is Samus? The match is about to start,' she thought.
Her other opponent, Captain Falcon stood by his chair, arms folded, tapping his foot, seemingly annoyed at something. Zelda hadn't fought this tough looking man before but she had seen both Link and Fox face off against him. He had both speed and strength and knew how to use both to his advantage. Maybe she should avoid him and just worry about Pichu, and let Samus and this guy slug it out. Where was she? It's going to start any minute.
Finally Samus entered the room, fully clad in her armor, with less than a minute to spare. Zelda had never seen her up close like this before; she really was quite imposing. Zelda waved to her and smiled but got no response. Just then the door to the arena opened.
There was a short hall between the waiting room and the main arena area. In the middle of this hall was a device that was like a gate. It had four openings, each similar to a metal detector, for each of the fighters to walk through. As they passed through the gate a pale blue bar of light passed over them. This device would scan their bodies down to the last molecule, and was capable of restoring them to that state later on. This allowed all participants in the competitions to fight all out, without fear of death or severe injury.
After being scanned they stepped into the main arena, a big open area with featureless white walls and floor. It had a very eerie look to it, however it wouldn't look like this for long. This place could be changed around to look like any location at all. Many of the locations used were re-creations of places from the participants' home worlds. The four of them took up positions around the arena. There was a flickering of lights in the air. Blue cracks of electricity flashed around them. The white floor and walls became a mix of various colors swirling about beneath their feet. Then those colored lights seemed to be in the air as well, slowly they became less and less random as definite shapes took form. Their details slowly became defined, until the illusion was complete and it seemed as if they were standing in a different place altogether. There were many rock formations around the perimeter of a mostly flat open area. There were also several sporadically placed rock formations all over the place. The ground was mostly grass and dirt with several small shrubs here and there.
"READY, GO"
Captain Falcon charged straight at Zelda. Looks like she didn't have a choice after all. She readied herself for his attack. An electric bolt flew over Zelda's head, and straight at the Captain. He stopped suddenly allowing it to pass in front of him. Just then a missile whizzed by him, then another. Samus was running in their direction firing a barrage of missiles. Falcon back flipped away from her and out of the way of her missiles. There was too much going on around her, Zelda couldn't focus, as one event distracted her from the next. She froze.
Samus came charging at her still shooting missiles at Captain Falcon. As she passed Zelda, running at full speed, she did a short jump and an aerial spinning kick into Zelda's stomach, then landed and continued running after Falcon. Zelda was sent flying back and landed face down in the dirt. She staggered to her feet, heaving a bit as Samus' kick had knocked the wind out of her.
Just as she was standing up she was rammed head first by Pichu. She stammered back, but managed to stay on her feet. She took a defensive posture and faced off against the Pokemon. It stood there also ready, waiting for Zelda to make the first move. She lunged, swiping at it whit her arm. It was too quick however. It simply took a quick jump back and out of her reach. She lunged and attacked again trying to put more effort into it this time. Pichu jumped to the side than quickly jumped at her delivering another flying head butt, knocking her off balance, then it followed up with an electric shock.
Zelda cried out in pain and fell to her knees. She looked up at the little Pokemon, it was too fast to attack head on, she would have to try something else. Getting to her feet she devised a plan. Facing it again she waited for it to make the first move. It charged at her, leaping into the air it rolled its body into a ball, using itself like a cannon ball. Zelda stepped to the side narrowly avoiding it. She spun around to see it land and quickly jump again, much higher this time. As it flew through the air if fired another electric bolt. "There!" she exclaimed. Using her magic she formed a reflective barrier in front of her, then began gathering magical energies into a ball. The electric bold hit the barrier and bounced back hitting Pichu with its own attack. With the Pokemon stunned Zelda unleashed her attack, firing a tiny glowing spark of magical fire at Pichu. It exploded on contact. Pichu was sent skidding across the ground leaving a trail of dust in the air after it.
Captain Falcon stood in a slightly lopsided fighting stance, he was out of breath, blood ran down the side of his face from under his helmet and also from the corner of his mouth. Samus stood twenty paces away with her gun leveled and aimed at Falcon, a few scuffs on her armor was the only signs she had been fighting. She charged up her cannon and released the blast at him, never intending to hit him, she just wanted to get him moving. She started running at him immediately behind her shot. When he jumped over the blast she jumped to intercept him, preparing to slam him straight down into the ground. She raised her heavy cannon arm over her head and swung hard. Though things didn't go according to plan.
Falcon managed to rotate his body in such a way as to narrowly avoid the blow, and instead was able to grab her arm. Then using both their momentums and a little extra muscle power he swung her around, throwing her to the ground. Landing immediately after her, he readied his next attack. "FALCON..." Samus sprung to her feet just in time to see the Captin with his fist pulled back. "...PUNCH!" She was hit square in the chest and sent flying back, but not before managing to fire off a missile mere inches from Falcons face. With absolutely no time to dodge he was hit, finishing him off.
As Samus flew through the air from the force of Captain Falcon's attack she spied her next target. A trail of dust stretched across the battle field, at one end lay Pichu, with singe marks on its fur, and at the other end stood Zelda. Samus chose Zelda as her next victim. As she flew upside-down over a rock formation, she planted her hand on it and pushed off, altering her trajectory to send her towards Zelda. As she rotated right side up she landed about twenty yards away from Zelda. Jumping immediately as she touched the ground to keep the momentum she had, she closed the distance quickly.
'That girl is no where near as tough as Falcon, a quick but hard punch to the face with my cannon arm would end this quickly,' Samus thought as she flew through the air at Zelda. 'Then as soon as I land I'll fire a missile at the Pokemon,' she planned.
Zelda having just knocked down Pichu noticed Samus approaching in her peripheral vision. Samus would be on her in seconds, not enough time to do anything, she thought. All she could think to do was to cross her arms in front of her defensively.
Samus ticked off the fractions of seconds as she approached Zelda, she had to time it so she struck just as she flew past. She pulled her arm back in preparation, just a little more. As she approached she sighted up her target, the face, go for the face. ... her face... those eyes... soothing eyes. She was now staring Zelda in the face, and the image of Zelda looking at her with those same eyes the previous night flashed in her mind, as well as the feeling of comfort it gave her. 'NO, WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING. I MISSED IT, IT'S TOO LATE. TOO LATE TO PUNCH... KICK, YES I CAN STILL KICK HER. I'LL JUST...'
'She'll hit me with that cannon' Zelda thought, noticing Samus' arm in striking position 'No time to avoid it' At this point she acted on instinct. Focusing all of her magic into her hands, her Triforce became visible as it radiated its golden energy, giving her strength. She struck out at Samus blindly, connecting with her chest, hitting the same spot Captain Falcon had hit just seconds before. She released all the energy she had into the attack.
Pieces of Samus' chest plate came flying off her armor, exposing a mess of green glowing circuit pathways. The magic spread through the suits systems overloading them and shutting them down. Samus fell to the ground, the brilliant green light that normally emanated from the gaps in her armor was gone, she lay there motionless.
Zelda stood, staring in shock at what she had done; scarcely able to believe she had just defeated Samus. Yet something didn't feel right about it. Samus was going to hit her, she was sure of it. It didn't make sense that she didn't. She replayed the moment in her mind over a few times. Samus had plenty of time to strike. She was faster than Zelda and was already prepared to attack. This didn't make any sense at all. Did she allow herself to get hit? No, that didn't make any sense either. What possible reason could she have for that? Could it be she just have made a mistake, misjudged the timing for the attack? That didn't seem very likely either. Perhaps it was possible, however unlikely, that...
"Aaaahhhhh!" Zelda screamed in pain. Then fell to the ground and passed out, residual electric power arced across her unconscious body.
"Pichu, Pichu!" exclaimed the over excited Pokemon, having just won. It hopped up and down doing little back flips.
When Zelda came to she was back in the hallway, standing in the machine that scanned her before the match. All her injuries were gone now. She saw Samus ahead of her, walking away, already at the end of the hall. In mid stride and with a flash of light her armor dissolved into nothing. She was left holding a small metallic looking disk, it had the same color scheme as the armor and looked to be of similar technological design. She shoved it into her pocket and exited the hallway. Zelda ran to catch up with her.
'What the fucking hell was that!?' Samus thought "God damn it!" she shouted, punching the wall.
'That had to be the most pathetic thing I have ever seen. Getting distracted by... by what!? ...a pretty face? Pathetic!' she fumed as she marched down the hall.
"Samus!" Zelda called as she ran up from behind.
'Shit! She noticed I hesitated.'
"Hi. That was such an exciting match," she said coming up along side Samus "I can't believe I got you like that!"
Samus just gritted her teeth.
"I thought you were going to hit me though. Was there a reason you didn't?"
"I thought I told you, leave me the fuck alone!" she snapped at Zelda. Then walked off down the corridor.
Zelda stopped and stood there, looking down at her feet. "Fine. I give up," she said quietly.
She walked back to her room and sat on the couch. Staring at the floor, she tried to think about anything other than Samus. Link, where was he? She usually saw him every day. And Fox said he hadn't seen him either. She'd go look for him, that'd keep her occupied. But first maybe she'd get something to eat. Just as she stood up the door opened and Samus walked in. She winced upon seeing Zelda, and tried to avoid eye contact as she made her way across the room.
"Oh, I won't bother you anymore. I was just leaving," Zelda said sounding depressed, and started to walk out the door.
Samus took a deep breath and let it out. "Wait."
Zelda stopped and turned, looking questioningly at her.
"I... didn't mean to yell at you. I was angry with myself, not with you," she explained. "And... before... you were just trying to be nice and I guess... I was pretty rude to you, sorry. I'm just not used to dealing with people much. You... you don't have to leave."
Zelda managed a smile "Oh, it's alright," she said sounding a bit unsure. "Though I really was leaving to go get lunch."
"Oh," was all Samus said, she sat down on her bed and began rummaging through her bag.
Zelda stood and watched for a moment. "Do... do you want to come with me?"
"To get lunch?"
"Yes," Zelda said with a smile.
Samus seemed to ponder this a second, then shrugged. "Ok."
End Part Three
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