Dream Vision
Disclaimer: I do not own Super Smash Brothers. That goes to Nintendo. I also do not own Queen's Blade that is owned by Hobby Japan. I also do not own Dark Knight Ingrid that is made by Lilith-Soft. The only characters I own are those from the Golden Land, angels from Skyworld including the royal bodyguards, Angel Assembly and archangels along with all the other angels and of course the witch hunters.
Summary: Pit's horrible reputation with hell finally catches up with him when he rejects the offer of dueling a powerful Overlord. The result was that many angel children are brutally slaughtered including someone close to Pit. The angels demand justice for the crime and the original idea of not leading a demon hunt becomes a reality only because of Pit's desire for revenge. Even if in Smash Realm all species are capable of living together, the desire for vengeance will result in so many people getting hurt and there's only one person who can snap him out of his rage inducing side.
Pairing: Pit/Pittoo, Ganondorf/Palutena, Rob/Shulk, Alvis/Rosalina, Corrin/Bayonetta with one-sided Pit/Laila
Rated: M (for mature) but E (for explicit on Archive or Our Own)
Genre: Tragedy, Friendship, Drama, Horror, Angst, Hurt/Comfort with some Romance
Warning: Swearing, extreme violence, sexual violence, violence on children, sexual themes and unintentional OOC
I think you people know the drill at this point. I enjoy writing crossovers with Kid Icarus with ecchi/hentai series with angels and demons. The reason I put this story in Smash Brothers is because of how the reactions of the Smashers (given the only people who can react in the Kid Icarus universe are Palutena and Dark Pit so cause more problems by adding the Smashers in). So I'm not expecting people to know who these characters from Dark Knight Ingrid are, but you'll in for a depressing and sad treat, enjoy!
Chapter 1: Bad Karma
They say heaven was a place filled with never ending light. The Goddess of Light and her angels were able to make the entire place bright when they needed to. Granted, the weather can be changed thanks to the weather angels. Skyworld specifically was capable of a day and night cycle due to some special magic left behind.
It was a dark, dreary night though. The sky was crying with the rain pounding on the structures outside of Palutena's Temple. The first division had its lights out. Very ironic for the division that specialized in light magic. Two shadows stood in the captain's room with the only light from the room coming from a small nightlight that was hung over the small desk that was near the bed. Two angels stood in the room with one looking over a contract that had vague guidelines to follow. Said angel couldn't actually read what was on the form, so the other angel was reading what was written word per word.
"By signing this, I, Pit, Captain of the Royal Bodyguards agree to allow the angels to pursue the killer in Smashopolis without a fear of the casualties below."
The brunette sighed hearing how that line was worded.
"Siris, I do care about the casualties…the Smashers…they can't be involved in this…but we're doing this with them there…"
Pit was speaking to a feminine angel with blond hair and blue eyes. His skin was pale as snow and his feminine figure was hidden behind the heavy customized tunic with a hood of white fur. Despite being inside a room, he was carrying an open umbrella. His expression was soft, but his eyes were cold as ice at the current moment.
"The angels know that, but don't care. The Head Angel has plans on going down to Smashopolis personally. The angels of Paradiso will lead the charge with the angels here in Skyworld…and the Seraph is silent on the issue, but is loaning his troops to us."
"…Unbelievable. And what about the fifth heaven…oh wait…never mind…why would they want to be involved with the madness that is going to happen?"
Pit laughed bitterly at what he intended to do next. He was given a red pen where he would sign his signature at the bottom. One had to wonder how he intended to write his name if he didn't write, but Pit simply was going to draw his trademark symbol that was used in Smash Brothers to approve of this terrorist like attack. If it was any other situation, Pit would have torn the contract apart and shouted at the Angel Assembly for wanting an excuse to harm demons. The situation actually had Pit agree with the Angel Assembly he hated so much. They had brought up how the law that Master Hand wanted to pass wasn't going to affect them anyway, so they might as well do this now to avenge their fellow angel children who had lost their lives to one evil demon in charge of Smashopolis.
Pit couldn't recall how many days it has been since that conversation he had with Master Hand's most trusted ally Count Black. He had helped fund the Smash Brothers Realm and has continued to expand the realm ever since. Master Hand may have been powerful, but he still needed help every now and then. At this point, there wasn't a need for the vampire seeing as how Master Hand had finally made a name for himself and was able to taunt the other Hands about how successful his tournaments were.
Regardless, Master Hand wanted the other Smashers to respect him despite being a demon. Pit was always on edge with him even during the Brawl era, but never felt the need to complain. Even when the Count asked Pit to come see him for something important, Pit didn't have too much of a problem. Dark Pit and Laila ended up coming along because the angel captain intended to hang out with them after he was done talking to the vampire.
The three angels came into the room and were asked to take a seat. Inside, Black explained to Pit that a powerful Overlord was upset with him as of late and issued a challenge against him. Only one Overlord came to Pit's mind and he paled immediately. At the time, Pit assumed it was his fiancé and not someone else. The last thing he wanted was for that brat to show up and start destroying Smashopolis.
"Umm…I can't…uh…fight with him…I kind of got to uh…"
Everyone noticed that Pit's cheeks were starting to turn pink. Dark Pit rolled his eyes at how his twin was acting.
"If you think it is Overlord Laharl, fear not. Overlord Edwin issues you a challenge."
Pit let out a huge sigh of relief. "Oh thank Palutena."
"What? Are you saying that you couldn't take that brat on?" Dark Pit asked.
"Of course I can!" Pit declared. "But everyone would rig it so I wouldn't be able to win at all…"
"Ahem, if you are done speaking, I would like to schedule your duel."
"Woah, woah, woah! Who said I was going to fight this Overlord just because it's not the brat?"
"Excuse me?"
"First of all, it's Pittoo's job to do the scheduling for me if it concerns any demon."
"What?!"
Dark Pit wasn't pleased at all. The fifth division did have to interact with demons, but that was not on his job description!
"Second of all…if this Edwin wants to duel me, he can do it in person instead of passing it down through you, Black." Pit continued.
Black raised an eyebrow. "Oh?"
"Third of all…there is that tournament that's going to happen soon and I'm scheduled to fight. I can ask Pittoo to take my place, but he hasn't trained at all. I'm ready to fight, so the duel can wait."
"I see."
Black's voice was icy and it froze the light angel in place. Why was Black mad at him despite all of those logical explanations? He wasn't running away from the challenge at all. He honestly had things to do. What Pit didn't want to bring up was that the alternative to not attending the tournament (due to laziness and to avoid public humiliation if Laharl was watching from his Netherworld) was to go and train the angel trainees. The angels were starting to slack off with their training, so Pit and a few others would have to leave for a few days just to whip them back into shape. Granted, most of them were children, but they needed to start training now so they wouldn't be deadweight.
Despite Pit's excuse, Black insisted that the dark angel stay in the room for a few more minutes to talk about the challenge. At the time, Pit didn't think of the consequences of leaving his twin alone with the vampire and left with Laila in toe. It was only when Pit decided to pry Dark Pit later on with information that he would learn about what happened behind closed doors. The brunette respect Dark Pit's privacy despite the twin telepathy they shared, but this was such important information kept from him that he felt ashamed for letting an incident like this happen. After all, the white angel failed to notice that his younger twin was feeling uneasy after leaving the room.
Dark Pit was interrogated by Black not about the duel that he spoke of with Pit, but about the dark arena below the Smash Arena. The dark angel tried to play it off like he had no idea what the Count was speaking of, but he wasn't good at lying. Dark Pit was the repressed emotions that Pit had meaning that honesty was actually one of his positive traits. In a situation like this, it was proving to be harmful.
"Are you certain you have no information on the arena?"
"Of course not! I didn't even know there was another one!"
"How could you not know? Your twin participated in the arena since the Brawl era."
"I wasn't even born during the third tournament…" Li had muttered to himself. I don't have any memories of Pit's past. Pit was trying to hide it from me for a reason…
While the dark angel was lost in thought, he failed to notice the Count get out of his chair and walk over to the one Dark Pit was sitting in. He let out a surprised shriek when Black placed both his hands on the dark angel's shoulders. This gesture was unwelcome and Dark Pit had every intention to smack his hands away. This would be proven difficult as he was being held down in the chair.
"Your brother is a fool if he thinks he can avoid confrontation with the demon in charge of the arena." Black began with an evil laugh. "He thinks he's so slick with using the actual tournament to hide how he's a coward."
"W-What are you talking about?"
"Pit needs to be careful or he could lose the most important people in his life."
Dark Pit felt his heart sink as he started squirming underneath the pressure. This was not happening! He wasn't put in a situation where he could very well die if he said or did something wrong. Why was Pit waiting outside? Didn't he notice anything was wrong?!
"Replica," he whispers in Dark Pit's ear sending shivers down his spine. "I know you are very important to Pit in more ways than one. You two are closer than siblings…like lovers."
Dark Pit gulped. He was too scared to speak. Later on, he would feel ashamed for not kicking the Count sooner.
"I can very well make you disappear like I had the troublesome demon hunters that attempted to kill me in the past. Do not cross me."
Something inside the red eyed angel snapped. Black snarled feeling this light blast him at that moment. It was enough for Dark Pit to smack the Count's hands away from him. Quickly, he stood out of the chair.
"I'm sorry…I just realized there is something I had to do…excuse me."
There was no need to be polite. In fact, he should have had cursed him out like he would normally do to people he didn't like. Dark Pit was legit terrified of the demon in front of him and fled the room. He could hear the evil laughter echoing behind him whispering that he will kill him if he didn't watch his back. The dark angel didn't want to die. He wanted to be in the safe arms of his older twin.
"Pittoo!"
Dark Pit had never been so happy to see Pit. Laila had noticed something was wrong, but the blue eyed angel failed to notice his distress at the time.
"What did that old coot ask you?"
"It was…about the duel…" Dark Pit said trying to regain his composure. "I…told him that it's best to ask another angel to do the duel instead of you…"
"Ehh…I wouldn't mind fighting the demon." Pit told him. "The schedule just clashes with the tournament and the training. If he pushed it back to next week, I'll be fine."
Pit let out a small chuckle. Dark Pit forced himself to laugh at Pit's poor joke as he begged his older twin to take them away so they could start their date. Laila was staring at the door with concern but soon trailed after the two angels.
The date could officially start after the small meeting. Dark Pit wanted to be as far away from Smash Arena as possible and nagged his twin to take him anywhere but a place where there was fighting. Pit joked how it was uncharacteristic of him to suggest that, but it was a date and Laila was with them, so they might as well go to all the dating spots.
Food was a huge priority on Pit's list. Smash Gourmet was perfect as they were able to get access to any food from any part of the galaxy. They could go to any restaurant within the established building and pray there wouldn't be a food fight. It took up so much space in Smashopolis that Dark Pit had joked that it was a miracle that the tourists weren't fat. Pit chose to ignore the joke as he asked him where he wanted to eat. It was up to Laila at this point and she wanted Smash Express.
"Chinese it is…" Pit could be heard grumbling.
"You sound disappointed." Dark Pit teased.
"I wouldn't have had minded Smash Teriyaki, but it's what Laila wants."
Of course Pit had to pay for the food. He was the "man" of the three (and Dark Pit didn't bring his money just to annoy his older twin), so he had to suck it up. Laila was simply fine with the usual fried rice and orange chicken order. Pit and Dark Pit ended up buying one meal for the both of them (because Dark Pit knew Pit would gobble it up despite his complaints). They ended up sharing the drink (and Dark Pit had to put two straws in the bottle just so Pit wasn't dumb enough to drink from it).
"Thank you very much." Laila thanked as she started munching down on the food.
Pit just smiled and extended his hand out just to bed her on the head. Dark Pit snarked about how Pit's scarf was going to be eating the food if he patted her head for too long.
They allowed Laila to start the conversation seeing as how she was very excited to be hanging out with the angel twins. Dark Pit had commented on Laila being in a very good mood as of late. Her training was going well and if she passed the training session, she could very well start working under Pit. It was her dreams come true if she was able to serve under her idol. Pit expected good things from her despite being a Nephilim. Like Pit, Laila would prove that you didn't have to be a normal angel to achieve great things.
"Laila, you need to remember to focus during combat." Pit reminded her. "You can never take your eyes off the enemy."
"Okay!"
"You must make sure your rifle is always loaded with Holy Milk. Running out of ammo could mean the difference between life and death."
"Okay!"
"Pay attention to your wings. Because one wing is not organic, you have to understand its limit."
"Okay!"
"I don't think she's listening Pitstain." The red eyed angel teased seeing the unfocused look Laila had.
"W-Wait, what?!"
"You should wait for her to finish eating before you lecture her."
The brunette growled as he started munching on the barbecue that Dark Pit was taking his sweet time to finish. He wanted to eat as fast as he could and go straight to the mall afterwards.
"Umm, can I ask a question?" She asked after scarfing down the meal in front of her.
"Hmm? What is it?"
"Umm…are you in a hurry to visit your friends in the hos…pit…al?" She asked. She was starting to stutter again due to thinking she was crossing the line with the question. "They aren't in critical condition anymore…right?"
Pit's expression darkened thinking about Rob and Shulk. The good news was that both of them were alive. It was a miracle that Death hadn't paid a visit to Shulk who was on death's bed for the past couple of days now. The best doctors outside of the Smash Brothers Realm couldn't help the Homs besides that alien group that needed the assistance of someone from Bionis before they could actually help. The problem stemmed from having to ask Dunban to contact any medic from Bionis. The last thing Pit needed was for Sharla to lecture him on allowing Shulk to end up in critical situation.
The Smashers learned though that Homs in general were weak to many status alignments that were just a hassle to deal with. Most Smashers were used to poison, but it was deadly to a Homs. Pit contributes it to Shulk's DNA being closer to a plant than a human. If they didn't get him out sooner, he would not have made it.
In contrast, Rob was doing better due to Grima's blood running through him. Again a blessing in disguise, but now that it happened twice, Dr. Cunningham demanded that Rob stay in the hospital for a while. Robin did not want to hear how whenever her brother stepped out of the hospital, he would just end up getting hurt again by the same thing. It was worse this time too, so Rob's body wasn't up to snuff.
Despite Shulk being in critical condition, he recovered just as quickly. He would be able to be released from the hospital in two days at earliest. The Monado boy would miss the tournament, but he needed his rest. Dr. Cunningham wanted to keep Rob for more than a month, and Master Hand would probably fire him and the staff if they didn't release him sooner. That was out of Pit's hands, so all he could do was check up on the two and make sure they were okay. After all, it was Pit's fault for allowing Rob to participate in the tournament. If Pit did the same thing to the male tactician like he did to Dark Pit, then none of this wouldn't have had happened.
It was why when Rob got better, Pit would address to Master Hand about the dark arena and confess what he had done. He would gladly take the fall for what happened due to failing Rob as a friend. And as much as Shulk was a thorn in his side, Pit needed Shulk around to look out for Rob and for someone to motivate him to do better in Smash.
"Yeah, we will." Pit finally said after pondering the question. "I let you two eat first since we might be in the waiting room for a while."
The conversation would be cut short hearing a familiar angel screaming in the distance. The three had just finished throwing their food away and headed out of Smash Gourmet to see a bluenette with one small angel wing and one big angel wing pleading the ice cream man to give her a discount on the ice cream. It was the last flavor of what she wanted and she didn't want to give it to anyone else. Pit felt his eyebrows twitch as he accidentally made eye contact with her.
"Ahh! Captain Pit! I'm so glad you're here! You won't believe what happened."
And with that, Pit could officially conclude that the date was ruined because of Nanael's appearance (and the fact she would be tagging along with them afterwards).
Once the sun went down, the date was over…or at least Laila tagging along was over. Despite Nanael crashing in on the date, the blond had fun overall. She was given the confidence she needed to do well during the training session tomorrow.
Pit still found a way to fuck things up at the end of the day. Dark Pit and Nanael both glared at him when he petted her on the head again before telling her the words she didn't want to hear.
"I'm proud of you Laila. You're like a daughter to me. I couldn't ask for anything else."
Laila's smile faltered almost immediately. Pit assumed she was happy to hear that, but it was quite the opposite. The brunette would find out later that Laila was in love with the angel captain. He was one of the few angels who treated her right and understood her condition. He had encouraged her to become a powerful angel that others would look up to. He had made her feel important when everyone else found her a waste of space. She honestly thought she had a chance. She failed to realize Pit was secretly dating his clone, but now reality was hitting her in the face. Even if she got to work close to Pit, he would never be hers.
"Hmm? Laila? Is there something wrong?"
"N-No…it's nothing." She forced herself to smile for him though. "I'll do my best tomorrow."
"Of course you will. Working under me will happen as long as you never give up." Pit told her with a sheepish smile.
Laila was on the verge of tears. She looked away just so Pit wouldn't see her wipe her tears away. Pit remained puzzled before coming to the conclusion she was tired.
"Idiot…" Dark Pit could be heard muttering. "You're going to kill her chances."
"Eh, no biggie. There are better angels that could work under Pit anyway." Nanael snarked causing the dark angel to glare at him.
"What did he you say?"
"I'm stating the obvious. Besides, if Pit wants Laila to work under him, he should just go train the angels himself instead of using the tournament as an excuse." She looked at Dark Pit and laughed. "He must really think you'll ruin his reputation if he can't ask you to stand in for him."
"Why you-"
Pit's voice destroyed any hope of Dark Pit ripping her to shreds. The voices of the other angels started to pierce the sky. Pit was waving them over, but he stopped noticing a certain Umbra Witch walking his way.
"OH HELL NO! BAYONETTA, YOU GET AWAY FROM MY ANGELS NOW! I WILL NOT LET YOU KILL A SINGLE ONE OF THEM!"
Bayonetta hummed at Pit's screaming. If there was a single angel from Paradiso, she would have ignored him. However, many of the angels coming down from the heavens were children. She loved killing angels, but children were a different story. She would deny that she even liked them, but when they were put in harm's way, she was always the first to protect them. She had relented especially seeing the small angel with sea green hair fly down toward Pit.
"PIT!"
"Oh, Rita!" Pit exclaimed. "How have you been?"
"Fine! I'm going to make father so happy!" The young boy exclaimed.
Rita was the son of Magnus. Originally the boy was a human but died. Pit fortunately found his soul before it was taken to the Underworld and made him an angel. He only realized later he was Magnus' son and reunited the two. Now, Pit was in charge of looking out for him in Skyworld if he wasn't in the mansion.
"That's good."
Pit looked at the other angels who were coming along. He didn't recognize that many of them but most of them were from the tenth division. The tenth division was a division full of orphaned children who Palutena took in. She couldn't take all the orphans in Skyworld, but just enough to where they can be trained to grow up as strong and "independent" as Pit. Rita was the main captain of said division despite being taken advantage of. His vice-captain was an adorable angel girl with strawberry blond hair that was tied into two pigtails who was named Stella. If Rita's theme was nature, her theme was stars. Pit had joked to Rosalina that if Stella graduated from the tenth division that she would want to work under the Goddess of Space. The rest of the children were brats in Pit's eyes, so he didn't bother greeting them.
There was also Ginger from the eleventh division who wasn't a teenager, but wanted to promote himself to a higher rank obviously and the four weather angels Raine, Sunny, Wendy and Blizzard. They were worse than the children of the tenth division and they needed to be whipped into shape. Then you got some potential archangels Raguel and Remiel (a child and a teenager). Finally, you got a mysterious angel girl with rabbit ears. Pit thought she was cosplaying as the White Rabbit, but she might be part Moon Rabbit from how she acted.
"State your name." Pit said to the rabbit-angel girl.
"Kyueru, Captain!" She shouted as she saluted. "I am a member of the twelfth division! I was sent by Captain Kaguju to escort the children to the training grounds! I cannot be late!"
"Ah! You're going with Sun-Wong, I assume?"
"Yes, Captain! I will not disappoint!"
Pit smirked as he looked up to see the earth angel of the second division come down along with the wind angel from the fourth division. Both had been good to him in the past. When Pit wasn't in Skyworld, they took care of things for him. Sun-Wong was the one who ended up doing all the paperwork anyway. The brunette felt bad for asking him to do this too.
The light angel noticed the jealous look the wind angel was giving the earth angel. Pit chuckled at Himeno's jealous streak kicking in. She obviously liked Sun-Wong and she hated how he was going to be working with the sexy rabbit-angel messenger.
"I wish you luck then." Pit hummed. "Please take good care of Laila."
"O-Of course Captain!"
The brunette turned around and glared at Nanael.
"That goes for you too, Nanael. You're there to watch the children. If I hear a glory story from you, I will demote you."
"W-What?! That's not fair!"
Dark Pit returned the smug look the bluenette originally had. Nanael hissed at the black angel as she forced herself to spread her wings and fly with the angels. They all gathered just to remind Pit they were going. Himeno had to stay behind…and that meant Pit had to find ways to entertain her tonight.
"See you all later!" Pit shouted as he waved all the angels good-bye. "Good luck and make everyone proud!"
"We will!" Rita hummed as he grabbed Laila's hand. "Let's go. Ms. Kyueru will leave us."
Laila glanced at Pit weakly before looking ahead to see the other angels fly off. She flew off with Rita to catch up to Stella and the other tenth division angels. Ginger had flew ahead of the crowd despite Sun-Wong warning him to not rush ahead. Nanael had to trail behind everyone due to her inability to not be able to fly as fast.
The only angels left on the ground were the angel twins and Himeno. The pink haired angel would fall into a slump if Pit didn't care for her. As he proceeded to make plans with her for the evening, Dark Pit had suddenly grabbed his twin's hand. He pulled the brunette close as he whispered in his ear.
"You owe me a real date tomorrow."
"P-Pittoo. The tournament is tomorrow…"
"Forfeiting won't tarnish your reputation if everyone cares about what the angels are doing."
"B-But…"
"Please stay with me tomorrow…"
Dark Pit was scared of what would happen if he was left alone. He didn't want to be anywhere near Count Black and those other two demons that caused great harm to Rob and Shulk. Pit was still in the dark about how his younger twin felt, and he only agreed if Dark Pit could stop clinging to him in front of Himeno.
Bayonetta never left her spot and apparently picked up what the angel twins were planning. Pit would blame her for the fight he would get into with his Goddess after the tournament.
Pit went and did what Dark Pit wanted. He skipped the tournament and the angel training session just so he could be with Dark Pit for the entire day. As long as the two didn't leave the mansion, they wouldn't be dragged to the arena. It wasn't apparent that the light angel hadn't left until it was too late. Master Hand had tried to ignore the incident that engulfed the mansion as of late. The dark arena combined with Shulk's near death and Rob being sexually assaulted twice by the same culprits forced Master to focus on why people visited Smashopolis. They came to watch the battles in person and to meet the Smashers. They did not come to hear about all of these terrible events caused by his neglect.
Because he was trying to focus on making everything perfect, he missed a check spot. As a result, Pit and Dark Pit were able to get away with sleeping most of the day until the tournament actually started. Master Hand could have easily went back to the mansion and grab the light angel, but then he mistakably thought that maybe Pit went with the angel trainees after all and gave him the benefit of the doubt. Crazy actually thought his brother was being too nice to the angel captain.
It was a thirty-two entry tournament despite there being more Smashers this time around. Master Hand had forced every Smasher to train, but when it came time to randomly selecting the fighters, those who were not chosen were allowed to relax. Only a few Smashers could substitute in for someone else such as Pit with Dark Pit, Rob with Robin or Corrin with Cory should one of the twins be incapable of participating. Unfortunately, Dark Pit was missing too, so there was no opponent for Mewtwo to fight in the first round. Even if his match was skipped, he wasn't going to fight until round two. The psychic Pokémon considered it a waste of time on Master Hand's end.
The bracket was split into four groups of eight. It was a two stock, single elimination tournament in which Master Hand gave the flexibility of the fighters using customs creativity in exchange for only getting one chance. The stages were tournament legal, but Master Hand might make an exception to spice things up.
The Smashers in Bracket A were Pit, Mewtwo, Lucario, Falco, Wario, Donkey Kong, Marth and Meta Knight. Because Pit failed to show up, he would be eliminated from the match thus allowing Mewtwo to advance.
The Smashers in Bracket B were Rosalina, Alph, Ganondorf, Samus, Lucina, Link, Pac-Man and Palutena.
The Smashers in Bracket C were Peach, Olimar, Fox, Sonic, Captain Falcon, Zero Suit Samus, Zelda and Greninja.
The Smashers in Bracket D were Pikachu, Diddy Kong, Mario, Luigi, Kirby, DDD, Sheik and Megaman.
Everyone else could either sit in the crowd and watch the matches or watch the battles from other places in Smashopolis. During these major tournaments, Smashers got discounts. Most of the Smashers went to Smash Casino to bet on their money on the fighters. Someone was going to be rich by the end of the night (and it wasn't going to be Wario).
Besides that one incident with Pit, the tournament went very smoothly with many upsets that got the crowd going. Mewtwo doing well due to his pent up rage allowed him to get to the semi-final match with Rosalina. The Goddess of Space needed to get her mind off of her failure, so she took it out on her comrades (specifically Alph as Ganondorf wanted a difficult match). Alvis had wished her luck, so you could say she was fighting for him. Palutena was easily distracted with Pit's disappearance that it showed in her performance if only slightly. She could take out Pac-Man and Link, but the minute she fought someone as serious as Rosalina…then she would lose due to a mistimed bair.
The other side of the bracket was surprising mainly due to the close matches Fox had with ZSS in the semi-finals and the fact that Kirby took Sheik out early in round two thanks to his aerial combos into his custom up b that had great kill power. The pink puffball wouldn't be able to go far because of Mario's combo breaking moves. Pikachu also noticeably took out Diddy in round one thanks to his amazing gimping maneuvers. Mario just took Pikachu out in round two though. The Italian Plumber was simply on fire that even if Fox had trained the most and was ready to take the tournament, he would lose because Mario had no fear going off stage to challenge Fox's recovery. There was nothing saltier than getting spiked by Mario or losing the money that was placed on the leader of Star Fox.
The final round was between Rosalina and Mario. The Goddess of Space couldn't help but smile seeing one of her first friends after the Luma on the other side of the battlefield. She would have continued isolating herself if he didn't extend a hand out to her. Now, she was part of Mario's group and she wasn't going to leave.
"Rosalina, you look like you want to say something before the battle begins." Mario commented noticing the twinkle in her eye.
"…Thank you Mario." She answered softly. "Thank you for inviting me to Smashopolis. I was able to meet so many wonderful people because of you. I am not alone anymore because of you."
"Rosalina…"
"But because I'm in Smash, it doesn't mean I'm going to throw away the win for you. As Queen of the Cosmos, this will be your ultimate challenge."
She was being overdramatic. Mario could tell with how her voice was starting to become normal instead of echoing like it normally did. Mario was ready to win.
For a fitting stage, it would be Omega's form of Mario Galaxy. The music chosen was The Grand Finale seeing as how that was a fan favorite amongst the audience. Nothing needed to be said as the countdown began.
"3…2…1…GO!"
The adrenaline from the previous battles had reached its peak here. Mario knew how to fight the space Goddess. He just needed to make sure Luma was gone. He would not hesitate to knock them off the stage…even if it was the Baby Luma that had helped Luma on his journey.
Rosalina had a hard time getting in once Mario killed her Luma. She was very floaty, so he could juggle her for days. She could read his movement and grab him when he got close, but she had no real follow ups until Luma came back. She couldn't send Luma in without the cape hitting Luma back at her.
The first kill still went to Rosalina because of Luma saving the day flying back to her and dairing Mario away. That move had so much knockback that it didn't matter if Mario was at a lower percent. Rosalina with rage made it too powerful.
Mario wasted no time removing the first stock off his opponent. Luma would be gone again and he would throw her into the ground and then attempt to spike her. She reacted fast enough but every single time, he was going to go down and intercept her until he grew tired after the fourth attempt. Luma came back and was waiting for the Italian Plumber to make a mistake. Rosalina tried to grab onto the ledge, but he quickly pushed her off the ledge and then baired her off the stage before the Luma could react.
There was only one stock left and the audience made sure everyone knew that. The chants for the one stock were strong and the signs being held up for their preferred fighter were being raised high. It was no longer about playing it safe when they could hear the audience screaming their names.
From that point on, the two exchanged blows that were risky, but ended up doing a lot of damage to the opponent. Rosalina was starting to show off her Luma management being able to cover the ledge while Mario was trying to recover and showing she didn't have to move an inch for Luma to come and defend her. Mario was starting to show more orthodox throws besides the usual down throw to up tilt. He could throw her into the air, dair her and then follow up with a fair. It was getting ridiculous with how many of those punches he landed to knock her into the ground. Rosalina was started to tech them each time, so Mario would start getting punished more. The crowd started to roar when Rosalina started her up air strings. She stopped only because she felt like it wouldn't be fair to end it this way. This nearly cost her the battle since Mario was going to throw her off the stage and end it. Luma to the rescue again because the Goddess of Space waited for Mario to jump off the stage with her and slam Luma into his chest. He did tech the stage, but Rosalina already recovered to the ledge…only to do a surprise spike downward into space thus ending the game.
"GAME! THE WINNER IS ROSALINA AND LUMA!"
As long as the sandy haired Goddess didn't rely on the "cheap" up air, the audience would clap for her. Mario honestly did not expect her to be so aggressive at the end especially when Rosa had issues spiking simply because Luma hit them first. Master Hand was very pleased with the results.
"AND THERE YOU HAVE IT FOLKS! OUR WINNER FOR THIS MONTH'S TOURNAMENT IS ROSALINA AND LUMA!"
The crowd will cheer or boo for the Goddess of Space, friends of Rosalina would jump out of the stand to go and hug her for winning, Smashers that went to Smash Casino probably cried about the amount of money they lost and Rosalina would get her gold trophy. That was all Pit recalled before he had turned off the TV because he knew Palutena was coming back to ridicule him.
The aftermath of the tournament was awful on Pit's end. The two angels had spent most of the day watching the tournament on the fourth floor. There was a TV out in the open hanging from the ceiling. It could be seen as their personal TV seeing as they were the only ones that were on the floor. The two conveniently missed the portion of the tournament where the audience was disappointed at Pit's failure at showing up. The commentators had taken jabs at Pit's disappearance whenever he had a chance and Pit had to roll his eye. People got to see Mewtwo got farther in the tournament bracket because of that.
Palutena had to wait until the interviews and autograph signings were done before she could teleport back to give Pit a piece of her mind. Because most of the Smashers would either have to take the bus or wait for Master Hand to teleport them all at once, Pit was spared the humiliation of the other Smashers seeing him get chewed out.
Dark Pit had hid in his room by the time Palutena showed up at the door. Pit tried to play it off like he didn't know why she was angry. Palutena knew him best…
"Pit, why were you here the entire day?"
"I was tired…"
"From what? You trained for the tournament and didn't attend! You didn't go with the rest of the angel trainees! Why are you slacking off in the mansion?"
Pit growled at her as a response. He really didn't want to admit that he wanted to spend some quality time with his younger twin over fighting.
"I just slept in." The angel captain lied.
"And Pittoo did too?"
"He wasn't even going to be in this tournament! Relax Lady Palutena, I'll go the next time. I overexerted myself."
The green haired Goddess was far from convinced. She kept prying him demanding Pit tell her what he was hiding. It was bad enough that the arena made her wary of her angel's involvement. Now skipping a tournament was far out of line. To change the subject, Pit had claimed that Palutena was salty from losing, so she was the one that needed to relax.
Dark Pit felt a pain in his cheek when he heard the sound of a hand smacking someone's cheek outside the room. He groaned knowing that Pit messed up somewhere with trying to talk to Palutena. Pit let out a rather pathetic cry before cursing at his mother figure.
"Pit, if you do this again, it will be more than just a slap."
"Urghhh…please don't spank me…" The light angel whined. "I really was tired…"
Palutena reluctantly gave up on badgering Pit. She was feeling a little woozy from her matches, so she needed some rest too. Fighting Rosalina took everything out of her (and she still lost because of Luma).
The brunette let out a sigh of relief seeing Palutena teleport away from him. He needed to sleep for real to make sure he would be prepared for the punishment tomorrow. Knowing Master Hand, he would be the one to subject him to some sort of punishment for skipping out. Again, Dark Pit had apologized to his older brother for taking the fall for him, but Pit just laughed it off.
"Anything for you Pittoo." He stated with sincerity. "You're my everything…more than Lady Palutena…"
Dark Pit immediately grabbed the pillow on the bed and slammed it in Pit's face. Pit could tell his younger twin was blushing, but it was true. Pit would throw everything away if it meant to keep Dark Pit safe. Unfortunately, an incident would happen where other feelings would be stronger than his strong love for the dark angel…
The next day should have eased the tension in the mansion. Pit had every intention of ignoring Palutena if she was going to continue lecturing him for being an irresponsible captain again. Instead, he ended up waking up early unable to get back to sleep. He sighed as he moved off the bed without waking up Dark Pit to look outside the window. The brunette might as well get some fresh air before hopping into the bath.
He noticed that after trial and error, Mario was finally getting what he wanted down below. When the sales didn't work out for him, he went for simply paying up the ass for the Rosalina Amiibo. He finally got it delivered in the mail along with something else. The Italian Plumber had stayed outside all night waiting for the package. If that wasn't an addiction, Pit wouldn't know what it was. Luigi had stayed out with him to make sure his older brother didn't catch a cold. This could have been avoided if Luigi just gave his Rosalina Amiibo to his brother.
"Who is the package for?" Luigi ended up asking seeing his brother repeatedly state he finally got the Rosalina Amiibo.
"Oh? It is for Pit-o."
Pit could be heard grumbling at how Mario was saying his name.
You only need to call me by how my name sounds.
Pit was going to go close the window and head back to sleep, if Luigi's startled cry didn't catch his attention. Looking ahead, he saw a bloody figure approaching the mansion. The closer the figure got to the mansion, the easier it was to see that it was a female angel.
"H..elp…" She cried out weakly as she reached out to the Mario Brothers. "P…it…every…one…"
Pit's eyes widened in horror at the angel. "No way…Nanael!"
The plumbers were surprised to hear Pit's voice so early in the morning. He wasn't awake then, he was now. His sudden shouting followed by jumping out the window did in fact wake up Dark Pit who growled at how it was too early for him to be shouting.
"NANAEL!"
Nanael's condition was terrible. Her white tunic was torn, her body was covered with claw marks, and her good wing was close to being ripped off her back. She was going to vanish at this rate.
"What are you two doing?! Get Lady Palutena, or Rosalina or anyone!" Pit ordered.
Mario had no problem charging back into the mansion to go get the real Rosalina. Luigi pursued his brother after giving a sad look toward the young girl in front of them.
The angel captain's healing magic wasn't exactly great. It was enough to keep an angel alive or to restore health if he was recovering after a fight. He left the healing to the more experienced angels of the fourth division. Unlike the light angel, the dark angel decided to leave the fourth floor and travel down the stairs the normal way. Mario had rushed past him to the fifth floor and banged on the door. Palutena wasn't in the greatest of moods, but Rosalina had felt something was amiss. Luigi went to Dr. Mario or Peach to see if they could clear some space in the infirmary.
Unintentional panic was created as a result of this. Dark Pit had rushed to Pit's aid first as he tried to move her closer to the entrance. His expression was unreadable as he tried to get information out of her. Nanael had a difficult time speaking and Pit felt like her vocal cords might have been injured.
"Nanael…what happened? Where is everyone else?"
The bluenette only shook her head weakly. Her eyes were already bloodstained from being awake for a long time, but the minute small tears fell down her cheeks, Pit felt his heart sank.
Soon, Palutena, Rosalina and a few others would end up arriving at the entrance. Rosalina calmly told the others to move so she could check on the condition of the small winged angel.
"Rosalina…"
"…We need to heal her immediately before she dies." Rosalina said coldly. "Dr. Mario…"
"No problem!"
While Rosalina requested the doctor's assistance to carry the body (since she felt like Pit wasn't handling her correctly), Peach had suggested to Dark Pit to leave and leave the rest to them. The black angel did not appreciate being treated like a child. He wanted to know who harmed the fellow angel (as obnoxious as she was). At this point, more Smashers were showing up if only because some of them were doing their morning jog (or returning from whatever they were doing last night).
"Why is there blood everywhere?!" Corrin had asked suddenly paling at the red splotches that were leading toward the mansion. "Why is there nothing but death in the air?!"
Bayonetta and Corrin had been in Smashopolis after the tournament (despite not entering). While it wasn't anyone's business to know what they were doing, the Umbra Witch was far from pleased leaving early from where they were staying just to not alert Cory of her brother's disappearance. The "death" statement troubled her because she felt the same thing the dragon prince was feeling. It wasn't just her either. Besides Dr. Mario, Ms. Fit, Sonic (both who were training early in the morning) and the Mario Brothers, everyone felt the presence of death.
"…It's coming from the box." Palutena finally spoke. She felt her heart suddenly become heavy. "Pit…it's addressed to you."
Pit gulped realizing that something he wasn't going to like was inside of it. The other Smashers looked at the box suspiciously and could tell something was wrong. The packaging seemed to be rushed and it seemed like the box was leaking fluids. Regardless, it wouldn't be too difficult to open. The light angel just needed to take his two blades and poke through the center of the box.
He attempted to do that, but felt the blades hit something. He paled recognizing that it was something that should not even be in said box. His hands were shaking, sweat was starting to pour down his face even if the morning air was chilly and he wanted someone else to open the box for him. Pit forced himself to open the box and regretted it immediately. Fortunately for him, he wasn't the one who screamed when Pit had dropped the box in a panic. Something forced its way out of the box and rolled onto the ground. The unexpectedness of the package left even the usually stoic Rosalina and Bayonetta horrified at what was in it. Peach covered her mouth trying not to scream while Dark Pit was too scared to register what happened. Palutena's expression blackened as if it was an attack on her. Mario had forced Luigi to look away at that moment and Dr. Mario had forced himself to focus on the dying angel in front of him. Pit wanted to scream, but Corrin ended up screaming first at what was in the box.
"No…way…" Pit murmured to himself. "It can't…"
What was delivered to Pit was the severed head of the young angel trainee Laila...
Me: TBC with 8981 words.
Li: Laila, no!
Me: RIP a lot of the angels. Notes!
1. The reason why Pit can see what is going on through Dark Pit's mind is because of the twin telepathy. Pit is pretty much prying into Dark Pit's mind about that particular incident with Edwin Black because Pit is about to make the most important decision of his life.
2. In my original outline, I actually forgot to write about what happened to Rob and Shulk (and then there would be a plot hole of Shulk interacting with Pit later). Now, I listed it here. Dr. Cunningham is from Trauma Team and the doctors who helped Shulk include Sharla and other aliens that I don't want to name drop now.
3. Kyueru is the new QB girl recently announced. From the dialogue, its implied she also works for Nanael, but we don't know much about her except she's the White Rabbit in the Grimoire universe.
4. The tournament bracket I had was completed before any of the DLC characters outside of Mewtwo were announced. However, there really was no need for me to change it when the point of the tournament it to show that despite the shit that is about to go down, "WE ARE STILL PARTICIPATING IN SMASH BROTHERS!" I think this is the second tournament I casually wrote about in my universe before something bad went down. I did it in Venomous Narcissus and now here too. Other stories that will have tournament fights (and are actually confirmed for me) include Metal of Honor (crew battle), Monkey Business (triple battle) and most likely Even Deities have Flaws.
5. And thus Mario's Amiibo Hunting for Rosalina comes to an end in this particular timeline. Seriously, if Luigi just gave him the Amiibo originally, it wouldn't have been a problem.
That's it. Reviews are appreciated. Ja ne!