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I’m playing my friend Bob online. He chose Minerva, the witch, and I chose the robot.
He’s more experienced than me (this is my first time online, I only played the computer before) so he setup the match for us: the ball is rather fast but so are the characters. Also, we start with more lifes than usual, more crates, and he chose one of his item presets, but didn’t tell me what it was.

The game starts, after a while the terrain fills up with crates: from the looks of it, only Multiballs, Armageddons, and Super-Attacks… okay, so he wants to play it rough!
It doesn’t take long for the ball to hit a Multiball crate, and things get intense. We fight like crazy to keep all 3 balls in play, I manage to keep track of Bob’s movement, he just picked-up a powerup, but which one?
Not time to think about that, I just caught a ball on the left side, but the other 2 are approaching on the right side. I make a run for it, and on the corner of my eye I see something else is coming towards me. I catch the balls… but also get hit! So apparently, what he picked-up was a Super-Attack… dammit, he played me like a noob!
Since he’s playing the witch, his superpower turns me into a frog… man do I look stupid!

By the time I’m done cursing him, the first ball is in my goal, and he’s returned the other 2. I manage to catch one but my frog racket is so small that I miss the other one.
That’s 2 goals in no time, one ball left in play, and I’m sure he managed to pick up some powerups while I was panicking…
On the bright side, the ball I did catch was on the corner of my tiny racket, so it’s zigzagging like crazy, sweeping the terrain clean of powerups. I pick one up (an Armageddon no less!), but I can’t use it yet: I can’t attack while I’m a frog! I hate Bob, that’s final.

Oh wait… the Armageddon I just got, it’s got 5 shots, instead of the usual 2! Bob really customized the setup, and did a good job of it too… 5 Armageddons, I love him!
Finally, I’m turning back into my old self, I can attack again, let’s shoot an Armageddon right now: take that, moron! Apparently, he’s loaded too, because he responds with another Armageddon: the ball is caught in-between, rebounds a zillion times, and finally shoots out on his side… one goal for me!

18-19: I can’t believe it, it’s only the first exchange and we already played for a full minute! This is nothing like playing the computer, I really have a whole new world to explore!
But no time to catch my breath, Bob is firing Super-Attacks like a machine gun (think you can play the countdown-trick on me? think again, I don’t wanna be a frog again!), the ball is starting again, there are 3 Multiball crates on the terrain… this is gonna be insane.