THIS STORY IS IN THE SAME ALTERNATE UNIVERSE AS MY FUTURE 'BATTLE OF HIGH SCHOOL' ARMS STORY. IN IT, ALL OF THE CHARACTERS HAVE NORMAL NAMES. ONE OF THOSE NAMES IS USED IN THIS CHAPTER.

MAYLEE = MECHANICA

THE OTHERS WILL BE REVEALED AT THE BOOK'S RELEASE. IN THE MEANTIME, ENJOY.

It was no secret that young Maylee liked her.

She was practically unstoppable. Time and time again, Maylee had been impressed by the wonderful figure that was Ribbon Girl.

Ribbon Girl had been fighting for around a year when Maylee first heard her name. Maylee had never been big on anything that was popular, nor was she big with exciting bands that everybody loved, as she had always been the outsider type of tomboy.

Maylee's older brother, Mason, had been watching one of the first ever ARMS tournaments on the TV that sat in the living room of their small suburban home. Maylee ended up stumbling on into the room when he started hooting and hollering for his favorite fighter, Spring Man, to win.

That was when Maylee saw her.

She was beautiful, to say the least. Maylee had never been big in boys either, which also set her apart from the other girls her age, and it was at that moment that she understood why.

Ribbon Girl was stunning. She wanted nothing more than to meet her in real life, say that she thought Ribbon was wonderful. Maylee instantly fell in love, and it was that love that fueled her to this day.

That was back when she was twelve. Now, May was fourteen and into the inventing club at her middle school. Her brown hair was stained slightly with grease from the machines that she tinkered with in her free time. May brushed some sweat off her forehead and looked at the project sitting before her.

Maylee had been working on it for years now, ever since she truly got into ARMS. Maylee grinned. Maybe it was finally done. She hoped so. She couldn't wait to show it off in the ring, where it was meant to be used.

Maylee looked up at her suit with a wide grin. It was going to help her get into the ARMS tournaments once and for all. She'd go down with all of the other greats, just like Spring Man, Ninjara, Kid Cobra, and most importantly, Ribbon Girl.

It was large and yellow. Buttons and levers littered the interior of the cockpit where she was meant to sit. Maylee clambered up and took a seat in the pilot's place. She took firm hold of the levers on either side of her hands. "Alright," she smiled. "Let's do this."

With a swift jerk of the right lever, one of the arms lurched forward. The spring it was attached to sent it rocketing out. Maylee pulled the lever back so the arm would return before it damaged the garage of her house. Her dad was going to kill her if she did anything like that.

Maylee tried the other arm next. It was in working order as well. She did her best not to grin like a Cheshire Cat, though her efforts weren't exactly going in her favor at that moment in time. Maylee pressed a button, which sent the suit skywards. It landed with a lurch. The jumping was clearly working just fine.

After a few more tests to make sure that it was in a good enough condition to fight, Maylee hopped down. She dashed up to her bedroom on the second floor of the house. She was one of the lucky ones, gifted with a room alone. Mason had to share a room with her other brother, Marcus, but Maylee was alone due to being the only girl in the family. She was especially thankful for this when she was up late working on her suit for the future ARMS tournaments she was destined to enter.

Maylee pulled on her pale orange gloves first. She yanked off her darkly colored outfit, the one she always used for building things, and changed into the bodysuit she had been preparing for this day.

The chest area was a yellow color, the same as her suit. There was an orange symbol on the front, detailing a twister. The same design could be found on the front of her suit in white and black instead. Maylee's bodysuit had dark gray everywhere else. Her short sleeves were nearly pitch dark, as were the leg portions. Her boots were a bright orange color with yellow laces that reached her upper shins.

Maylee pulled on a pair of goggles on next. They were yellow around the outside with lenses of orange tint. She grabbed a comb, the first time she had seized one in the last few days. Since it was summer break, she had time to kill and didn't need to brush her hair. Without a mother living in her house, she wasn't forced into it, which was a blessing in Maylee's eyes. She had never been a fan of brushing her hair, which was why she kept her dark brown hair cropped short.

Maylee combed the knots through her bobbed cut as she looked into her mirror. Once the main portion had been dealt with, her comb went through the little curl that sat on the top of her head.

Once May was satisfied with its shape, she walked over to the full length mirror in her room. A wide grin appeared on her lips. She did a few poses in the mirror before grabbing her phone.

May propped it up against the nearby wall and set a timer for around five seconds. She nodded to herself and got into position.

She stood in front of the wall and put her hands on her hips. She smiled at the camera as the flash went off. Afterwards, May walked to her phone and checked the picture.

It looked surprisingly good, which she was happy about. She hated retaking pictures, and if she had done so right then, it would have put a damper on her good mood.

Maylee smiled and looked up at her mirror. "The ARMS Grand Prix had better watch out," she said. "Mechanica is coming soon, and she isn't about to let up."

A new book. Cool.

I figured that I was going to come across a variety of short stories in my imagination's plain that I would want to make into stories. Unfortunately, not all of those would have exactly fit in with the main books that I'm writing at the moment, so I decided to lump a bunch of them together into one book.

Some of the stories here will go along with my main stories (Evolution Adventure, Endless Elementals, and the as of now unreleased Battle of High School) such as this one, but others will not. This book will have a lot of random things in it, so if you're looking for any specific thing, then you'll probably have to check back each time this book is updated, as things are rather randomized.

These chapters are also going to be much shorter than what you guys are probably used to. Instead of going for the typical 5,000 words of Evolution Adventure and my other main books, this is going to vary anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000. It depends, but most of them will be around 1,000 to 2,000.

I think that's about it. I hope that you enjoyed!

-Digital