Titles were always truly abstract to Cassie, being a "goddess" wasn't something to take lightly especially if countless lives depend upon your choice. So it wasn't in Cassie for her to think to highly of herself, Cassie found the light of the load soon after acquainting herself with the Goddess of Light, Palutena, and her faithful servant Pit and his doppelganger, Dark Pit. She smiled thinking about the evil twin, though in her case he was more dorky than evil. Dark Pit found a way to always make her happy no matter what was going on, he stood by her in times where she felt like things would never turn up and seeing how little was actually going on she felt the way he made her feel must have been rubbing off on the work she did as well. She smiled thinking about it all, she'd never want to take back anything for something else, she knew wishing for something when things were good would only lead to despair. As her thoughts went on about on Dark Pit she didn't notice the voice calling out her name. She turned to the door finding Ren, her second in command, standing there. She went over to him wondering what would have been doing on during that time of the night.

"Has something happened?" He shook his head,

"It's finished." She smiled knowing what he was talking about, she giggled jumping a bit in front of him, the sound of her feet were soft in the large room,

"Really? Well come on let me see it!" He nodded knowing how excited she got about things like this, he moved out of the way and she began running getting to steps going down them two at a time. Ren caught up as they made their way to the main storage room. For the moment it had been moved due to the experiment they were working on taking up the entirety of the room. Cassie pulled the door opened before stopping looking at the largely scaled object standing in the middle of the room. Ren walked in behind her keeping the light off, Cassie turned to him.

"So is there anything we got right?" Ren took out a clipboard,

"Yes; the containment of magic, it's origin, as well as the strength of it." Cassie squealed,

"I was really hoping for the origin! But it's still sad to know we only got three things right," he smiled to her,

"Just be grateful," She nodded,

"Right! So please, explain further," Ren nodded to her going on and speaking.

"The magic connects with the origin, it was in fact a mirror and after all of the testing on compatible materials we found one that worked and found the strength matching as well." Cassie nodded, "But it's origin is something I think you'll take special interest in. The battlefield we found it in has nothing to do with who originally owned this, but what it is capable of does. This mirror can create clones, copying the reality of the person it sees." Cassie stared at Ren for a moment, she didn't want to believe it at first but looking back to it she found herself in honest belief.

"Y-you mean… this is Pandora's?" He nods,

"Little concern; we were a bit worried it would still have her power and somehow have her wreaking havoc once more, but we tested it safely and found it still does copy but it's power is weakened, it's not activated all the time and we have yet to find anyway to actually tell if it is on or not." Cassie nodded, as amazed as she was at their work she found herself more amazed with the fact that she found Dark Pit's origin! She couldn't help the smile on her face,

"Ren, though it's late, I want you send a messenger for later in the morning, have Kuro come here alright?" He smiled knowing her enamored feelings for him were still very strong,

"I will see to it," She giggled,

"In the meantime tell me everything you guys found out!" He smiled as she moved to sit on the floor, he joined her and begun talking into the night.


In the morning, Dark Pit had been confronted by a messenger wizard,

"It seems a little too early for her to be up let alone wanting something from me,"

"Please, if you are not busy here then please come by and visit Miss Cassie, she was ecstatic by Ren words and requested you stop by!" Dark Pit nodded,

"Alright, I'll be there, but she better not be wanting me for another pointless viewing of something boiling," He chuckling knowing usually she called upon him just to be in the room with him, never for anything important. Dark pit took off first heading to her palace as the wizard followed shortly behind.

Arriving there Dark Pit made his way inside only to be stopped mid walk by an overexcited Cassie, she grabbed his hand bouncing up and down in front of him, her bare feet tapped in the otherwise silent room.

"Will you relax, feels like you're going to rip my arms off," She stopped and let his hands go, since he had been there he hadn't seen her smile fade at all, "What's up anyways? You're more excited than usual," She nods,

"I am because I found the most perfect thing!" She paused, "Well, Ren and his team did. They were excavating a battle field, seeing how nourished the soil actually was, it wasn't good, but instead they excavated a frame." She began walking with Dark Pit in tow, "At first we figured it was a picture frame, some painting that was destroyed as a result as the battle, either way Ren knew it had to be removed from the battle sight to normal decomp could go through, that's when we noticed a piece of glass was still stuck inside of the frame. It was a mirror!" She turned to face him once they got to a door,

"What, you finally have something to look at yourself with?" She pouted her cheeks, he sighed, "Well, what's so special then?" She perked back up,

"We found compatible glass composed of the same mineral type, now, it's not exact but he found it fixed it completely and found that it was housing the power of Pandora!" Dark Pit stared at her, "Don't you know what that means?" He nodded,

"Yeah, it means you're crazy!" She groaned,

"And why am I?"

"Because you guys could be recreating another goddess, the world has enough of you guys and not enough of anyone who can really matter," She looked to him,

"But, Kuro, don't you see? Besides this I managed to recreate the mirror of truth, the thing that created you," Hearing her say that, he realized he hadn't even noticed that, Cassie opened the door and pulled him inside. "We can't uncover it, Ren explained that the power we found is limited so we're not sure how much of her power is actually left inside, apparently it had been working but it suddenly stopped, we're looking for a safe way to test when it's off and when it's on," Dark Pit looked up at the large tarp in the dark room, Cassie let go of his hand and spoke once last time. "I wanted to show you your home… in a sense this is where you were born from and I wanted to see how happy you'd be!" Dark Pit looked to her dejected expression, he felt himself smiling a bit and spoke up.

"You know I don't get 'happy' anyways," She looked to him, "But this is pretty amazing, I'll give you that," Her smiled peaked a bit, "This mirror can't replicate something's that already been made right?" She shrugged,

"We're not exactly sure of all it's quirks quite yet," Dark Pit walked over and lifted the tarp a bit, seeing their feet in the reflection he actually was shocked to see that Cassie and Ren had managed to piece the whole thing back together, he dropped the tarp once more before turning to Cassie. She was smiling with a grin he could easily read, "What?"

"You're impressed!" He rolled his eyes,

"That's not to much of an accomplishment," She held up a finger,

"In reality; yes, yes it is!" She giggled, Dark Pit knew her reason for caring for his opinion to much was partly because of the fact that she liked him. That being said, he wasn't too far from that himself. The lengths Cassie would put herself, as well as her wizards, through just get a mention of praise. He felt as if he wanted to do a bit more for her,

"Cassie if you want-"

"Could this wait until another time? Right now focus on me!" Hearing the voice, Dark Pit suddenly felt something hit his shoulder, he looked around seeing a shadowy figure uptop the mirror, Dark Pit stood in front of Cassie.

"Who's that? Did one of the clones get out?"

"So this thing has cloned other people already?"

"I told you, we've tested it, that didn't mean we were sure of when exactly or how exactly it clones people." The figure spoke up,

"You two have the worst case of friendzoning I've ever seen, but maybe it won't matter if you're both dead!" Another colorful blast came right for them, Dark Pit pulled Cassie against the mirror before speaking to her.

"Stay here, if it comes down to it, stop it," She nods to him before he jumped back out, he couldn't see the person too well, but he went for it anyways aiming an arrow up at them.

"You can't hit me! But I can see you just fine!" Another blast came out at Dark Pit and once more he avoided it,

"Oh, I have an idea!" Cassie's loud voice was enough to catch all their attention,

"Stupid, I told you-" Dark Pit's comment was cut short when the light nearly blinded him, it worked so well the figure at the top, especially close to the light, groaned out and lost their footing. While falling, the tarp was grabbed somewhat softening the fall, the thud was loud, resounding in the storage room. Cassie hoped no one would be too alarmed by the noise, she went over to Dark Pit seeing the small bruise on his shoulder,

"You're alright?" He nodded,

"Yeah… why did you have the lights off in the first place?" She giggled looking off,

"I thought the mirror couldn't see us if the light was off," He gave her a look,

"Real smart Ms. science," She blushed and approached the person on the ground. "So who is it?" But she stopped getting over. "What?" She stared for a moment before speaking,

"... It's me," Dark Pit hoped her brain wasn't working right, but he walked over and saw it for himself that an exact double of her was lying on the floor passed out.


They bound her hands together and then her arms before propping her up in a chair, Cassie looked at her double with intrigue, Cassie wondered what exactly the "truth" of her was.

"Kuro, you don't think she's dangerous do you?" He shrugged,

"Only she can tell us that… but by the looks of her first few words to us as well as the fact she was willing to blast us, I would assume so," Cassie stood up normally,

"But my intentions can't be harmful, by what Palutena said about you and Pit that you're the truth of Pit… so what would my truth be?" Cassie pondered the thought for a second before Dark Pit spoke another question,

"How did it even copy you? It wasn't up," Cassie thought,

"I think before when it was off it must have registered by image and then when it saw me, or at least a part of me, it must have copied what it saw before… remarkable!" As amazed as she was about the ability of the mirror Dark Pit found himself more concerned with the photo double, if she was evil it meant that she had all the capabilities of Cassie but with an evil heart and mindset… that also meant he he couldn't take care of her for the "two sides" rule placed on copies and their other forms. He looked to Cassie worried if things could get too drastic. That was when a gasp shook them both, it was from her, she gasped out taking in rushed. breaths, she calmed down a bit before looking to them both.

"Great," Dark Pit spoke,

"You should be happy, you could have died from a fall like that!" The copy looked to Cassie,

"Oh really? Tell me more I'm so interested," Her tone was taken up with Cassie, Dark Pit stopped them before an argument broke out,

"Look, we're not here to start any kind of fight. We wanna know what exactly were you planning by attacking us," She looked to him,

"Why should I tell you?"

"Because if you don't we'll leave you to rot or better yet, test your body, we can't dissect you but you can take the place as our human rat-"

"Crazy girl! You'd experiment on yourself?" She nods,

"I've wanted to test things on myself, but I can't do that as my body is immune to certain things, you might be a bit different," She scoffed before turning her head away, Cassie sighed,

"Alright. Kuro I think it'd be alright to just leave her here, I have an extreme fear of being alone in darkness, it might be the same for her," She paused, "Even if it's not, she can stay here until we're ready to take her to the lab!" Cassie spoke with a cackling giggle, Kuro laughed as well,

"Wish I could say she joking," Cassie smiled before turning on her heel to exit the room, the copy sighed before yelling out to them.

"I was trying to form an army," Cassie stopped,

"How and what for?" She hesitated at first but spoke again,

"For what else? I wanna take this place over and rule over it, I don't really have a reason, I just want this place so you can't have it," Cassie looked at her with a certain expression,

"She's got your petty nature,"

"Okay Kuro, do you want this to be a game of spot the difference, because you can play it alone," He went over to her,

"Still if she wants this place I wouldn't take her threat to lightly, you managed to take both me and Pit out and especially if she's got a brain smarter than yours, even by a little bit, you could lose this place." Cassie stared at him, he wasn't wrong and Cassie knew to take this seriously. She looked back to the copy.

"What should we do then?" Dark Pit shrugged, Cassie looked to the copy

"Well we won't get anywhere without a proper introduction…" She looked to Cassie,

"I already know who you two are, and I most certainly don't care about your names!" She struggled against her restraints,

"I'm Cassie."

"Call me whatever, I don't really care," She huffed, Cassie smiled a bit,

"So what should we refer to you as?" The copy looked at her not having much else to say. "I say Sisi,"

"What kind of name is that!" She yelled, Cassie shrugged to her,

"You wouldn't tell us an actual name… How it sound Kuro?" He shrugged,

"Fine I guess, it's like a play off of your name," Cassie looked to him happily,

"I can't believe you got it!" He scoffed,

"Not like it was that difficult, you're pretty easy to understand," Cassie giggled, Sisi growled in response to their conversation.

"Oh, relax, we'll find something out for you soon enough," She rolled her eyes, "So, Kuro, how should we handle this?"

"I don't think it's a good idea to let her stay here, even if she is restrained, we should take her to someplace where it wouldn't matter if we have to use force," Cassie nodded,

"Got a place in mind?" He nodded,

"I do," Cassie smiled.

"Good then we'll leave now-"

"but I think it would just be a bit easier if you stayed here," Cassie let out a cry at his interjection,

"Huh? What for?"

"Because, whatever she has planned it obviously involves taking you down, we shouldn't give her the chance, so you stay here while I make sure she's in a place she won't break out of and then we can plan what to do with her next."

"You know, it's a lot of fun to talk about someone when they can't hurt you!" They ignored Sisi,

"Well… if you put it like that I guess I can understand," He nodded to her, Sis let out a groan.

"You two have so much tension with one another, I bet you're more upset than you'd like to be huh?" Referring to Cassie, they stared at one another,

"No, I'm just fine." Cassie paused, "Don't let her trick you, I'll have Ren find you so he can run a few tests on Sisi and see how much we really have to worry," He nodded going over and getting Sisi on her feet,

"Alright, sounds like a plan,"