Brawl – When the characters live together

By – The Director

Special guest - Joseph Thompson (O.C.)

Samus Aran

Current Age: 17

Height: 5' 8"

Gender: Female

Zelda Hyrule

Current Age: 17

Height: 5' 7"

Gender: Female

Joseph Thompson

Current Age: 16 ½

Height: 5' 8"

Gender: Male

Link was sleeping on the couch in Zelda's part of the ship. Gannondorf sat on the main bridge along with Captain Falcon, Kirby, Ike and Meta Knight. Zelda was also sleeping in her part of the ship. Samus was playing Metroid Prime 2 on Gamecube while she waited for a new fight.

Pit ran to the microphone on the bridge. "A new fighter is approaching in the Hyrule Forest! Fighters, get ready!" Samus paused her game, leapt up, and grabbed her chozo armor. Link grabbed his sword and shield, still drowsy, however, and Marth grabbed his headband and sword. The three ran to the main deck and decided who would go.

Several minutes later…

"Ha! Scissors! I win!" Samus put on her helmet and leapt out of the Halberd as it landed. She looked around and ran for the master sword pedestal. As soon as she got there, she saw a kid lying on a bench, sleeping. He wore a loose tie and a hoodie, and had a few beer stains on his clothes. "This is the challenger? He's a kid." She poked him. "Hey, kid, get up. Hey!" The kid stretched, rubbed his eyes, and got up.

"H'llo there. Who're you?" Samus seemed a bit shocked by the kid. One second, he's dead asleep; next second, he's ready to go.

'He's like Jigglypuff, sorta.' Samus thought to herself. "Oh!" She scratched her helmet. "I'm Samus Aran. Were you the challenger?" The kid nodded.

"Name's Joey. Joey Thompson. You're gonna fight me?"

"Yup."

"Awright. That's your funeral." Joey back flipped onto the platform behind him and pulled a gun out of his pocket. "Let's battle!" Samus smiled through her mask and jumped to the platform above her.

"3…2…1… GO!" The announcer yelled as the fight started. Samus began charging her gun as Joey disappeared into thin air.

"Where'd he…"

"Behind you!" Samus turned around and saw Joey hold the gun up to Samus. The group of other brawlers watched from the ship's monitor.

"Dude, Samus is getting owned by that kid." Everyone turned around and saw Link with a beer in his hand.

When everyone looked back at the screen, Joey was half-dead, and Samus was in her Zero Suit armor.

"She must've used a final smash." Gannondorf said, partially under his breath.

"Gwahaha! This'll be good for Youtube!" Bowser said as he held up a camera.

Joey held his gun up, shaking, but then collapsed on the ground. Samus walked up to him. She bent down and held her hand down to him.

"C'mon, I won't bite." Joey laughed and stood up. The two walked back to the Halberd as the crew set down the door for them to walk in. Joey stretched, as his wounds seemed to disappear.

"Nice." Link said, still drunk.

"It's what we do, I'm fine." Samus said, looking around.

"Hey," Marth said as he walked up to Joey. "We should spar sometime. You look like a pretty damn tough fighter.

"Well, I… um…" Joey looked around. Is fighting all these people do? "Sure, I guess so." Meta-Knight looked at a clipboard.

"Hmm… the only vacant bed we have is in Samus' room."

"You don't mind, do you?" Samus asked, looking at Joey.

"No, I'm fine with that." Joey said, blushing.

"It's settled, then." Samus said, clapping her hands. She had one of those 'cute' looks on her face. The kind that says, 'Hell yea!'

Joey had a bit of a hard time falling asleep that night. He was sleeping somewhere completely unfamiliar to him, anyway. It was weird, though. He could normally sleep anywhere. He stared at the ceiling for ages wondering why he couldn't sleep.

The next day, Samus opened the small closet-like door to Joey's small room. In the night, he had tacked up posters of video games and some bands. This included NiGHTS, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, and Reel Big Fish. Samus also saw that Joey had spray painted parts of the ceiling. She moved her head until she saw large marks of scrapes and scars, in the shapes of letters.

'IV, X, X, VI' Samus couldn't understand anything on the ceiling, questioning it out loud. This woke Joey up from his very light sleep. He hit his head against the bookshelf he had placed right next to his bed.

"Can I help you?" He said in a bit of a monotonous tone.

"Oh, no, I… um… breakfast is ready." Joey pulled the pillow over his head.

"Ugh… Already?" Samus giggled.

"Alright, I'll bring you some cereal and a glass of orange juice, alright?"

"Don't trouble yourself. I'll be up in a few minutes." Joey adjusted his alarm for five minutes ahead of the current time. "Go ahead. Save me a seat and I'll be there in a bit." Samus nodded and closed the door behind her.

As Samus sat down at the large table, she found that she was one of the last ones there. Most everyone else had left. Pit and Snake were still eating, Pit purposefully waiting for Samus. As she got there, Pit sat down right next to Samus.

"Hey, Samus, you doing anything later today?" Samus nodded.

"Yeah, why?" Samus said, with food still in her mouth.

"Oh, nothing, never mind." Pit walked back to his original seat. He sighed as Joey walked in.

"Hiya, Joey!" Samus said, cheerfully. Joey waved, yawned, and grabbed a bit of food. He sat down next to Samus and drooped his head. "What's up?"

"Lack of sleep." Samus thought to herself a bit.

"That's too bad. I was hoping you and I could go see a movie." Pit overheard and felt his anger rise. Joey woke up a tad more.

"Sure." Samus nodded, got up from the table, and set her dishes in the sink. Joey finished his breakfast as Meta-Knight started to talk over the loudspeaker.

"Will all newcomers please report to the main deck for assignments." Joey stretched and walked off to the deck. A few minutes later, Joey, Wolf, and Jigglypuff arrived on the main bridge. "Today, you receive your jobs."

Everyone had mixed opinions about that. "Joey, you will be in charge of stock and items." Joey signaled the traditional military salute and walked off. "Wolf, you will be the next combat advisor. And Jigglypuff, you will be the punching bag."

Jigglypuff sighed. Wolf showed Joey how the directory worked. Joey arrived in the item deck in a few minutes. He saw a few sticky notes on the computer.

'New item advisor,

We will need the following:

100 explosive crates

8 barrels

10 assist trophies

Thank you.'

Joey cracked his knuckles and lit a cigarette. "Let's do it to it."

In a few hours, the crates appeared by the teleporter. Meta Knight walked into the item deck, seeing Joey half-asleep on the computer.

"Joey, about the crates you ordered."

"Oh yeah, we got a price cut if we ordered 1000."

"There are more than 1000." Joey seemed puzzled.

"How many are there?"

"100,000." Joey walked away slowly. He stepped into the locker room, and saw Zelda's robes draped over the edge of one of the showers. Joey smiled, walked up to the stall, and tapped on the door.

"Hey, Zelda." Joey heard a bit of laughing..

"Joey? Seriously?"

"The one and only. How y' doin'?" Zelda smiled.

"Great, thanks. Geez, I haven't seen you in years. How've you been?" The water stopped. "Can you toss a towel over the wall?" Joey complied and waited for her to step out of the cubicle.

"I'm fine. Hyrule's crap no that you left.." Zelda giggled.

"You sure as hell haven't changed one bit." Joey laughed back.

"I see you died your hair brown." Zelda looked at her hair. It was still wet.

"Well, I-" Joey cut her off.

"I think it looks a lot better. Then again, you've always been the fashionable one. The kingdom's gone crazy without you; they really miss you. Can't blame them." Zelda blushed. She attempted to cover it up by laughing.

"I'll try to remember that. Now, shouldn't you be somewhere?" Joey checked his watch.

"How'd you know?" Joey smiled and kissed Zelda on the cheek on his way out. "Good to see you. Later!" Zelda stood in place and then spun around smiling and laughing. Joey looked around in Samus' room. He couldn't find her anywhere. He stepped into his room and got ready.

Zelda continued to hop through the Halberd. Samus bumped into her on the way back to her room. "Geez, Zel, watch out next time, kay?" Zelda maintained a happy attitude, even in pain.

"Sorry, Samus! Just kinda giddy, I guess!" Samus was still confused.

"How so this time? Did they finally make Pokémon like it was in its glory days?" Zelda shook her head. "Did you get a raise on your paycheck?" Zelda shook her head again.

"Guess again!"

"Third time's the charm." Both girls giggled. "Did you meet an old childhood friend who you haven't seen in years?" Zelda stopped smiling.

"Damn. You're good." She gained her giddy attitude again. "Wanna know who it is? Huh?" Samus sighed.

"Alright, who?" Zelda burst into a huge smile.

"My best friend, Joey!" Samus' attitude faded. She looked Zelda in the eyes.

"Joey Thompson?" Zelda nodded.

"Uh-huh. Why? You know him?" Samus nodded slowly.

"He's my roommate." Zelda's smile lessened.

"Aw, lucky you. He used to be my best friend. Back in…" Zelda let her mind wander off. Samus shook her head.

"Anything helpful about him I should know about him?" Zelda thought to herself for a bit.

"Don't go in his room, keep spiders and crabs away from him, don't yell at him, he hates Valentines Day and… um… I think that's it." Samus sighed.

"What about what he likes?" Zelda laughed.

"Romance movies books and stories on , chocolate, cigarettes, Manga, everything from the 80's and 90's, rain, and spending time on his own." Samus looked at Zelda.

"He likes romance movies and being alone? That's not a good combo." Zelda shrugged.

"Oh well. He's my best friend. I don't see how it affects you, Sammy." Zelda's smile widened as she walked off. Samus felt like she had been told off. She ran back to her bedroom as fast as she could. She saw Joey sitting on his bed, curled in a ball. He had a loosened tie around his neck.

"Hi, Samus." Samus looked at the clock. It was thirty minutes after the movie was scheduled to end. Samus ran up to Joey.

"Joey, I'm so sorry. I just got caught up and… well, I… I'm just so sorry." Joey sat up and walked out of the room.

"It's alright. Just leave me alone." Samus tried to catch up. Joey vanished into thin air. Samus ran around the ship trying to find Joey. She heard talking coming from Zelda's room. Samus cracked the door open a tad and saw Zelda holding Joey's hands in hers. Samus listened to their conversation.

"-It's alright, Joey. There are other girls out there. She didn't mean to be late, I know it." Joey drooped his head.

"Yeah, I guess so." There was a pause. "Hey Zelda, who was your first crush?" Zelda blushed.

"Well, I'm pretty sure you already know it was Link. That's obvious. But then…" Zelda caught herself. "So Joey, what about you? Who was your first crush?"

Joey looked Zelda in the eyes. He let a small smile stretch across his face. "I'm pretty sure you already know who." Zelda turned red. They both laughed a bit as Zelda hugged Joey from behind.

"Well, I'll be sure that it doesn't happen to you again." Joey's smile widened as he kissed Zelda across the mouth. She felt faint and rested her head on Joey's shoulder. "Good night." Joey heard Zelda whisper.

"You too, Zel." Zelda smiled and went to sleep. Samus walked off to her room. Pit tried talking to her, but just got pushed away. She looked in the emptiness of Joey's room. She sat down on her desk and started to think; one thing she did ever too much.

The next morning, Zelda woke up early. She saw Joey sleeping on the chair in her room. She walked over and shook him gently.

"Joey? You awake?" Joey nodded, half-asleep. He sat up and rubbed his eyes.

"Heya, Zel. Mornin' already?" Zelda nodded.

"Come on, we're late for breakfast." Joey felt through his pockets. He grabbed his box of cigarettes. "Joey, please don't smoke before breakfast." Joey tossed the cigarettes into a trashcan.

"I wasn't gonna." Zelda looked back at him.

"You were… you… you're quitting?" Joey nodded.

"It was just something to fill that void. I've got a better occupant, now." Zelda smiled and hugged Joey.

"You're cheesy, but adorable." Joey tried to worm out of her grip.

"Please don't call me adorable." Zelda laughed.

"You're so sweet, Joey!" Joey chuckled.

"Well, at least someone thinks so."

End – Part 1