Super Smash Academy part 3

"Preparation,"

Lucas's eye fluttered open to see the ceiling of his room. He was in his bed, but he felt weak, drained, and his body ached. He could only come to one conclusion. Either he partied a little too hard, or he got the snot kicked out of him. He tried to bring his hand to message his head, but it was as if the nerves in his body brought extreme pain throughout his body. Seeing as he couldn't move, and the pain he was in strongly suggest he not move he decided to go through what he remember.

'I was fighting Ness I at least remember that, but the fight itself is hazy. I know one thing…that black PSI…what was it? I only had this problem once, or twice. I thought I had suppressed this by now,' Lucas sighed.

"Lucas you awake?" came a voice. It sounded like Ness's.

"Yeah…" Lucas said weakly.

"You okay?" Ness said coming over to his bedside. Lucas could only turn his head to him. Ness looked at him curiously. "You okay?" Ness repeated.

Lucas noticed the bandage on Ness's shoulder. "Are you?" Lucas asked concerned.

Ness looked down at his shoulder. "Oh this, its nothing just a scratch, I've had worst,"

"D-Did…I…" Lucas began sadly. He just met him and he's already hurt him. He felt awful.

"Seriously it's nothing, see," Ness began moving his shoulder around to show it, but it was very obviously restricted. "I'm fine, but you don't look fine,"

"Body…aches," Lucas muttered. Ness barley caught what he said.

"Maybe I can help with that," Ness laid his hand on Lucas forehead. Ness felt a small spark when his hand touched it. He pulled back slightly. 'This is some serious discharge that Lucas is giving off,' Ness thought. Ness placed his hand against his forehead again ignoring the discharge. "PK Life up,"

A green light flowed through Ness's hand and then through Lucas's body. There was some resistance from Lucas's discharge, but Ness was able to get through it. The light faded from Lucas and Ness removed his hand.

"Better?" Ness asked.

"Much," Lucas said sitting up, but suddenly a discharge halted him. The discharge is black in color and shocked his entire body. Ness could only watch sadly as the pain flowed through him. "But, at least I have some of my strength back," Lucas said with a weak smile and one eye closed, but still clearly in pain.

"I have one question,"

"Y-Yeah,"

"What was that black PSI from before?"

"I don't have a name for it, but I've experienced it before,"

"Really, but why would you suddenly obtain this power,"

"It's more of a suppressed power,"

"Suppressed power?"

"Yeah, because my usual PSI color is white, not black,"

"Well since this had happened before do you know how to get rid of this discharge," Ness didn't enjoy watching someone in pain, especially when he could do nothing to help.

"I think this is just a misbalance of power inside of me. I guess I can only wait it out, I just shouldn't make any sudden movements," Lucas said moving slowly to a sitting position to face Ness. "So, what's on the agenda today?"

"Well tomorrow the first semester officially starts. We should go and get our schedules today, and we can just chill out I guess,"

"Sounds good when do we get our schedules?"

"An hour ago,"

"WHAT!" A sudden discharge halted Lucas from strangling Ness.

"Now, now Lucas calm down no sudden movements remember," Ness teased.

"Calm down! Ness how could you let this happen,"

"Chill Lucas I got yours too," Ness said taking out a folded piece of paper from his pocket. Lucas took it.

"Why didn't you say that sooner?"

"I wanted to see you freak out," Ness said smiling.

Lucas huffed at him then opened up the paper. "Let's see…I have Power Control A/B, Elemental Skills Y, Monster/Beast Management Y, Evasionary Skills Y, Acrobatic Training A/B, Mental Skills Y, Space Exploration Y, and Team Trial Y"

"Not a bad schedule,"

"What do you have?"

Ness used his PSI to bring his schedule from the desk to his hand. He opened it up and read it out loud, "I've got Mental Skills Y, Elemental Skills Y, Quips 101 A/B, Hand-To-Hand Combat Y, I have one free period, Accuracy Training Y, Fitness Y,and Team Trials Y,"

Lucas looked at the paper confused. "What's with this Y and A/B stuff?"

"Y means you'll have that class year long. Those are core classes. A/B classes you don't have everyday and they change at the end of the semester. Next semester you'll be able to choose, but the first years don't have a choice first semester,"

"But, I thought you had six classes last semester,"

"Maybe their changing things up, but I do think that we did get more classes added. Not that students get a say in much that happens here anyway,"

"Sounds crazy, but what does some of these classes mean. Seriously, Monster/Beast Management, what is that?"

"I forgot that class. I remember the teacher was pretty harsh at first, but it didn't take long to warm up to him though,"

Lucas stared at the schedule. "Hey, what about Lucario, and that other guy Sonic?"

"We're just chillen here," came a voice.

Lucas jumped at the new voice. He looked over to the window behind him. Sonic is sitting at the window seat with his arms behind his head and his right leg curled, and Lucario on the floor at the foot of Lucas's bed.

"W-When did you guys get here?" Lucas asked.

"A couple of hours ago actually. Lucky we did Ness was tempted to try out his new markers," Sonic gestured to open capped markers on the floor. Lucas glared at Ness. Ness chuckled nervously as he kicked the markers under the bed. "Anyway, glad that you would think of us, so how ya feeling?"

"Better-ish," Lucas answered.

"Your Aura seems off balanced,"

"My what?" Lucas asked.

"That power Lucario has. I asked to. He said its some kind of life energy," Sonic said.

"It's what gives me power. My aura is strong enough that I can use it for battle, but all living creatures have this Aura in them. Some do have powerful Aura, but are not equipped to use it, like you guys for example," Lucario clarified.

"Awe thanks pal," Ness said.

"So, since we all got our schedules for the semester what's next?" Sonic asked.

"I was gonna ask you that Sonic," Ness said.

"Why must we do anything at all?" Lucario asked.

"Yeah, I'm with Lucario," Lucas said. The discharge that was plaguing him was beginning to become less noticeable.

"Come on guys where's your sense of adventure?" Ness asked.

"Ask us tomorrow," They both said.

"You guys don't get out often do you?" Sonic asked.

"It's enough," they both said.

"Well, agree with each other as much as you like doesn't change the fact we're going out. This will be our last day of freedom before were faced with dangerous missions, teachers, judgment, and for some of us social rejection,"

"He means you guys," Ness said.

Sonic quickly covered Ness's mouth, so he wouldn't fuel the fire that was growing. Ness resisted, but Sonic kept him quiet. "What Ness means to say is although your friends with two of the cool kids on compass that doesn't guarantee a good time here. That actually gives you the opposite,"

"Why care about the other students?" Lucas asked.

"When you're the best here everyone wants to be recognized by you. I tell ya its crazy sometimes," Sonic said.

"Well that's too bad, but why must we be included in your plans? You two seem very well aquatinted," Lucario said.

"Yeah, but your our roommates. It would sure be awkward if we weren't all friends," Sonic said.

"But, I don't really feel like going out. My powers are still a little unpredictable for the moment," Lucas said.

"Well don't use your powers then come on Lucas lets have a little fun. There's a city just up the road from here," Sonic said.

Lucas and Lucario looked at each other then back to the pleading faces of Ness and Sonic. They both sigh.

"Fine," they both grumbled.

"Alright then lets go you guys!" Ness exclaimed punching his fist into the air.

Ness pulled a reluctant Lucas by the arm, while Sonic had to push Lucario from behind. They exited their room then went down the hall.

"First I wanna grab a bite before we head to the city. Better to eat the free food here then pay for it there," Sonic said.

"Yeah that would be a good idea, what about you guys?" Ness said.

"Sure I'm pretty hungry," Lucas said.

"Something to eat would be good," Lucario said.

"Alright follow us to the café," Ness said.

Ness and Sonic lead Lucas and Lucario down many hallways. They came outside onto a grassy area. It had a sun roof on the top that gave the feeling of being outside without actually being outside. The café was just on the other side of the lawn. There was a food stand of some kind with all kinds of different choices. They had three in all each different with food items to each person's preference. They saw someone ordering something to eat there as well. A beautiful girl with stunning tone, and it was easy to tell she took good care of herself.

"Hey what's up Samus," Sonic greeted.

She turned from the person working the bar. "Oh hello Sonic, Ness," She noticed Lucas and Lucario. Lucas's gaze went to the ground as he blushed madly at her. "Who are your unwilling friends this time?"

"Why must most of our friends by unwilling huh? Just because you are," Ness asked.

"Well there must be some kind of agreement from both parties to make something like that official,"

"So, you're saying you're an unwilling party in our friendly relationship?" Sonic asked.

"It's taken you two far to long to finally come to that realization," Samus said rubbing her head. "So who are the new guys?"

"This here is Lucario Sonic's roommate," Ness wrapped his arm around Lucas's neck. Lucas glanced up at him, but still turned to the ground. "This is my roommate Lucas. Guys this is Samus Aran famous bounty hunter. Go on you guys say hi,"

"Nice to meet you," Lucario said nodded.

"Uh h-hi," Lucas mumbled.

"Here's your nachos Sammy, oh hi you guys!" said a young woman with a smile. She looked to be at least 30 or so. She has dirty blonde hair, a well toned stomach, tan skin, with sparkling blue eyes. She was pretty as well. She has on the usual lunch lady uniform with the apron and everything.

"Hey Pam," Sonic and Ness said at the same time almost drooling.

Lucario found it interesting they didn't do that over Samus. Lucas acted like the ground was just so interesting that he didn't look at any of the beautiful woman in front of him.

"Samus are you a returning student?"

"Why yes I am. I actually already have spot for being a Smash Brother,"

"Girls can be Smash Brothers too?"

"Why would you think they couldn't," Samus said almost glaring at him.

Sonic and Ness stopped gawking at Pam to notice Lucario about to get burned by this overwhelming fire that is Samus.

"W-Well the name itself threw me off I suppose," Lucario quickly tried to regain his good favor. Samus clearly had nothing else to say to him as she turned to Lucas.

Lucas still didn't wanna look at her. "Hey little guy I don't bite," Samus said.

"Unless you say the wrong thing," Ness muttered. Samus quickly slapped him upside his head. "Ow!"

"Ignore him he's just immature. Come on something wrong? I heard you pulled off some impressive moves at the class registration yesterday,"

"T-thanks…I-I uh," Lucas muttered.

"Something wrong?"

"Samus your hot and the kids shy do you really think it would be easy to talk to you, specially when those anger management classes haven't quite kicked in yet," Sonic muttered that last part.

"Oh, well maybe I should put a paper bag over my head then," Samus said sarcastically.

"No, that's not it its just I haven't seen anyone as pretty as you," Lucas quickly said. He didn't want to make her feel bad about her appearance. Some are blessed with beauty and should enjoy it.

"Well thank you," she said patting him on the head. "Its nice to hear a compliment,"

"I just called you hot, and I don't even get an ego stroke!" Sonic exclaimed.

"Well the last thing we need is someone to stroke your ego. Subtle compliments aren't so bad either," Samus said. She turned and took her nachos. "Thanks Pam,"

"Those are gonna go straight to the hips," Ness muttered. Samus hit him again. "Ow!"

"So, what can I get you boys?" Pam asked turning to them.

"Four dogeys with the works Pam,"

"Alright be ready in a sec," she responded then hurried off.

"Your making us eat dogs!" Lucas exclaimed.

"You've never had a hotdog before?" Sonic asked.

"Never! Why would I want to eat a dog!"

"Lucas you do know hot dogs aren't actually dogs,"

"Then what are they,"

"That is a lesson for another day, but for now Ness could you run to the garage real quick and prep our ride?" Sonic asked handing keys over to Ness.

"Sure I'll be back in a sec," Ness took the keys and left.

"You have a car!" Lucas and Lucario exclaimed.

"When you got it, you got it. I use that car for space missions. It could fit all of us in there. Ness still needs a little more practice with it some I'm letting him drive,"

"Ness…can drive, and you go out into space!" Lucas exclaimed.

"Yeah, plenty of times. You don't think we stick to mission only on the ground do you. We have to learn to interact we all kinds of people, and creatures,"

"There's much more to this school then I assumed," Lucario said.

"Well it shows that you really can't judge a book by its cover,"

Lucario nodded. Lucas stared up into the sky dreaming of the day he would journey into space. The idea felt more reminiscent then feeling of something brand new. Strange as it may be he always had a longing to go high into the sky into space. He's never been there at least he thinks he hasn't.

"Here's your chili dogs guys," Pam said with a warm smile as she held out small trays with the chili dogs in them.

"I came back just in time perfect," Ness said. "Good thing I thought I might get hold up. I ran into him again,"

"I'm sorry," Sonic said.

"Who?" Lucario asked.

"A guy name Hoagie. He's super smart, but he's a super jerk. I can't stand him," Ness said angrily biting into his chili dog. "Just goes to show you guys you'll always run into people you absolutely don't like,"

"Hear, hear," Sonic said holding up his chili dog.

Lucas and Lucario glanced at each other then tried their chili dogs. They seemed to enjoy them quite a lot.

"Ya know I have an idea," Sonic said. Everyone turned to him. "I can tell we're gonna be great friends despite all of our differences. How about at the end of the everyday we get together like this and enjoy a couple of chili dogs?"

"That wouldn't be a bad idea Sonic, but maybe the anti fun duo over there might disagree," Ness said.

"Actually, that sounds like a great idea," Lucario said. Everyone turned to him shocked. "Reluctantly I'd have to agree with Sonic. This could be a nice place to relax after a long day. Enjoy each others company, and the Aura here is so perfect,"

Finally, the group turned to Lucas. Lucas glanced at them all. "Well I guess I'm in too,"

"Cool, alright lets go have some fun okay guys?" Sonic said.

"Yeah!" they all cheered.

They school sat in scenic nowhere. The school could be considered an oasis. A perfect oasis, for all types of heroes. The school couldn't divulge it's location to the world with so many enemies around, so they simple lived out of the way. Suddenly, a flying object shot out of the school flying high in the air. It performed a loop de loop then shot down to the ground. It was a blue car of sorts. Hedgehog spikes on the back, hover capabilities as well as flight capabilities, bigger then a van, but about the size of a truck. Ness sat in the drivers seat with a wicked smile. Lucario and Lucas sat in the back holding onto the cushioning for dear life. Sonic was running beside the car.

"No, way would I be in the car at the same time Ness is driving. I value my life," Sonic muttered to himself.

They shot down the road at breakneck speed. Ness rolled down the windows of the car. "Hey Sonic wanna race!"

"Ness that car may have been built for speed, but there hasn't been a machine yet that can match my speed. Trust me Captain Falcon has tried, but failed!"

"Then lets see you put all that talk into action then,"

Ness slammed on the gas petal making the car speed up. Sonic laughed then instantly went charging after it. Sonic caught the car again running along side it. He still had on his smile. They city was fast approaching. Sonic gave a small salute then shot ahead. Ness gritted his teeth then poured more power into the after burner. It started gaining on Sonic, but barley enough to pass him. Suddenly, an alarm began to sound in Sonic's car. This startled Ness, but he quickly recovered. He honked the horn to get Sonic's attention. Sonic turned to see the flashing red in his car. Sonic then performed a back flip right into the car's passenger seat. Ness instantly took the car into the sky.

"W-What's going on!" Lucas yelled not used to being thrown around in such a vehicle.

"I don't know. Sonic your car just went haywire," Ness said.

"No, it detected something," Sonic said. Sonic pressed a button on the dashboard and suddenly a screen appeared in the center of the drivers wheel. It showed it had a fix on something.

"What's happening?" Lucario asked.

"Yeah Sonic what's going on?" Ness asked equally confused.

"Finally, it detected one," Sonic immediately switched seats with Ness to get behind the drivers wheel.

"Sonic what's happening?" Ness asked.

Sonic didn't respond with words but he flew closer to the city. The others gasped in shock. A whole armies worth of robots were marching down the street. They were giant in size looked to pack a mean punch. They thick armor on the legs fore arms, shoulders, chest, and the face. The face was only just a lens. The hands were clamps, and wheels were underneath the feet. There was also a flying pirate ship from the looks of it. It had a strange symbol of the bow. The pirate ship was giving the robots some heavy fire, but they weren't flinching in the slightest. There armor was clearly much to thick.

"That's what," Sonic finally said.

"Who are those guys?" Lucario asked.

"I don't know about the group in the streets, but the ship there is the ship of the notorious Captain Whiskers. A robot pirate the raids planets of treasure, then melts it down for his own gain. Those robots down there I've never seen before," Sonic explained.

"Why are they here?" Ness asked turning to Sonic.

"Listen I don't really have time for a Q&A right now. I want you guys to stay here in the car, and stay in the air," Sonic said.

"Whoa your not saying your gonna handle those guys yourself are you?" Lucas asked shocked.

"I just need to obtain the target. I don't want any of you down there got me," Sonic said looking at all of them.

"But what if…" Ness started.

"Stay here. I'll call when I need pick up, but until then stay here," Sonic said.

Lucario and Lucas were shocked at how serious Sonic was handling the situation. Ness reluctantly nodded. Sonic hits a few buttons on the steering wheel then jumps out. Sonic performed a chain of somersaults until he slammed on the ground. He was ahead of the robots in the streets, but Captain Whiskers had a head start and were heading toward the target.

"I'd better hurry,"

In a quick burst of speed Sonic began dashing toward the target. However, the moment Sonic set foot on the ground the robots came alive, and the pirates were ready to go on the offensive.

"Stay in the car I can't believe him!" Ness exclaimed.

"I hope he'll be okay," Lucas asked. Just looking at all those robots terrified him. He think he sees Sonic moving toward a construction site. "What is Sonic after anyway?"

"No idea, but I hear that Sonic's been given a special assignment that only he can complete. He hasn't told me yet though,"

Suddenly they all hear a boom and then an explosion followed. They all looked to see the giant flying pirate ship opening fire on Sonic, and if that wasn't bad enough the robots on the ground finally came to life and began dashing down the street hot on Sonic heels.

"Oh man Sonic needs help!" Lucas exclaimed.

"We can't do anything from here he locked the controls. Only way were moving is if Sonic remotely unlocks it," Ness sighed.

"I guess we can only have faith that Sonic knows what he's doing,"

Sonic weaved around and quickly dodged all the heavy fire the pirate ship was giving him. He looked back to see the robots on his tail. Sonic began picking up the pace. The armor on the robots were impervious to them, and although non could hit Sonic, it was difficult to focus on going faster when he had to dodge. Sonic cracked a smile then shot forward in a burst of speed. He was speeding toward a construction site. The area was covered in dirt, and machinery. The fire from the pirates was starting to get heavier by the second. Sonic finally fed up with it took a sharp right turn then began running up a building.

Sonic then shot forward toward the ship. The ship still shot at Sonic but Sonic was able to shift his weight to avoid them. Sonic used to as stepping stones then kicked one back at the ship. The side of the ship exploded, but it wasn't giving up. A whole group of robot pirates manned the side of the ship. They all began firing laser rifles at Sonic. Sonic touched down on the ground then began running on the rooftops. Sonic looked to see the robots on the ground already were in the construction site.

"Alright time to end this," Sonic said.

Sonic kept jumping from building to building dodging lasers, and cannons until he made it to a building under the ship. He took a mighty leap into the air, and then grabbed the railing. He tossed himself over while he stepped on the head of one of the robot pirates.

"ARRG mates permission to kick your poopdecks," Sonic said.

All the pirates pointed their lasers at Sonic. Sonic smiled then in a flash before they could stop themselves Sonic was gone, but there was a hole where he was. Sonic used his sonic spin to take out the members of the crew. Sonic skid to a halt then used his sonic spin to pile right into the floor to the deck below. The pirates there were taken by surprise. Sonic kicked a cannons barrel hard enough to spin around until it knocked one the pirates to the floor or off the boat. One of the pirates put a cannon to Sonic's face. Sonic performed a back flip knocking the barrel right back him. The blast blew a huge hole in the side of the ship.

"Too bad Captain Whiskers isn't here. He would of loved this," Sonic said.

Sonic looked below to see the robots may have found what they were looking for. Sonic glanced around until he the cannon caught his eye. He smiled. He took out the cannonball then lit the fuse. He positioned the cannon then curled up until he squeezed into the barrel. The cannon fired unleashing Sonic into a quadruple spin. A robot just picked something up from the dirt, but it was short lived. Sonic smashed right through its face and snatched the item out its hand. The other robots attacked on site. Sonic rolled out of the way of a punch from one, and then used his spin attack to bounce off the robots chest. He landed on the elbow of a crane.

"Alright time for pick up," Sonic said as he pulled up his glove then pressed a button.

Sonic's ship suddenly came to life. It shot off to Sonic's location.

Sonic flipped off the crane as it collapsed to the ground. One robot came charging at him, but Sonic slid in between its legs. One robot was able to slam its fist on Sonic presumably crushing him. However, Sonic used his sonic spin burst out from the ground through the robot and into the air. Sonic lost his momentum then kicked off the top of the incomplete building to be scooped up by his car.

"Thanks for the fun guys!" Sonic called back. Sonic took a breath of relief as he relaxed in his seat. "Whew what a rush, and to think the semester hasn't even started yet,"

"Sonic what was that huh? You could of gotten hurt, or worse. You didn't have back up or anything! Plus you left us like sitting ducks!" Ness exclaimed. Sonic simply pat him on the head. He was confused by this gesture. "Okay what was this all about?"

"This here," Sonic said showing what was in his hand. It looked like a green emerald.

"THAT!" Ness yelled. "You almost get killed for that!"

"Chill out Ness I don't even have a scratch on me,"

"But still for that. You ever heard of a jewelry store?"

"That does seem a bit extreme for just that one measly emerald," Lucas admitted.

"Even Lucario is speechless look at him," Ness gestured. Lucario's mouth was half opened.

"Incredible…" Lucario muttered.

"Why thank you Lucario," Sonic said.

"Not you but the emerald. Guys that isn't any emerald Sonic just got. Can't you feel that power?" he asked.

"Power?" Ness asked.

"Now that you mention it…emeralds don't usually glow,"

"This is my special mission. To collect all seven of the Chaos Emeralds, and it seems they've become active again," Sonic said as he steered his car back to the school.

The sun was beginning to set, and they just merely got a taste of what's to come. The semester begins tomorrow. Sonic's car the Blue Star flew fast back to school, with the legendary Chaos Emerald in tow. Many questions were raised and attention has been grabbed.