Pit couldn't believe what his eyes were seeing. He wraps his fingers around the handle grip as the blinding light subsides. Two glowing bracelets that resembled halos appear on his right hand. Pit knew that his dream wasnt real. But some component of it HAD to be, otherwise Palutena's Bow wouldn't be in his hands. He remembered that Palutena wanted to warn the other smashers about something, so she gave the most powerful weapon she could craft to him. And here it was in his hand. He had to warn them.
His wings spread wide as he stands. Pit knew that this was just the beginning of the terrors that he would encounter in the future. But every beginning has an end.
Both Link and Samus had their heads resting upon the marble tables at breakfast. Link had been snoring exceptionally loud, and had been told to 'shut it' several times by different smashers. They seemed to disregard the fact that his dreams predict the future. Samus, however, had been sleeping rather peacefully. But when poked by Snake, she groaned noisily, mumbled something about a 'Zebesian lollipop' and went back to sleep.
"I don't think a nuke could wake those two." Snake said to Pit, sitting across from him. But Pit merely looked up at him curiously, his mouth full of cinnamon rolls. Snake shakes his head.
After breakfast, Pit sifted through the crowds in the endless hallways of the mansion, in search for The Hunter and Hero of Time. Not surprisingly, he finds them standing outside Link's door, chatting drowsily. They seemed to look as though they were still half asleep. As Pit draws nearer, the conversation Link and Samus are undergoing becomes more concise.
"-Up...Master...desk...sight!" Link exclaims. He sounded shocked. The Huntress listens intently, or at the very least, tries to. Obvious that the drowsiness has overtaken her. Link shakes his head. "I live...world of magic...this...normal." Pit continues to stalk closer to them, intrigued by the conversation.
"Especially weird. One moment I was acquiring the Omega Cannon, next I wake and it's right in front of me." Samus claims, shaking her head in confusion. Pit was beginning to test his luck by inching closer. He stood in a nearby group of people, far away enough not to be noticed, but close enough to hear. He pulls out of the group to get the best quality information.
"This can't be a coincidence." Link mutters.
"Well, Captain Obvious, what do you think it means?" Samus snaps with a playful laugh. She smiles.
"Were going to have to find out."
Pit, in attempt to listen clearly, casually walks by, only to be stopped by Samus.
"What do you want, Angel Boy?" She asks sternly.
"Huh?" He responds.
"What. Do you. Want?"
"Uhm..." Pit replies. Busted.
"You need something, don't you?" Samus claims, narrowing her eyes.
"Err..."
"Samus, lay off the kid. He's only been here a year." Link intervenes.
"He needs something from us. I saw him inching toward us. He was listening." She says. "Obviously for a reason."
"Maybe he was just walking past, like a normal person?" Link suggests. But his words were ignored. It didn't seem to strike him that no one here was normal. They all had some sort of enhancement on their bodies, whether it be magic, like Zelda, mechanical, like Samus; or something purely unexplainable. Like Captain Falcon's: "FALCON PAUNCH!"
"What do you need, kid?" The Huntress asks lightly.
Now was as good of a time as any. The two mascots of Smash were right in front of him. "Lady Palutena told me to warn you. Something's coming. Something terrible. And apparently it's disguised as one of us. She gave her most powerful weapon!" Pit exclaims.
"Navi told me something wasn't right. Now Palutena?" Link shakes his head. "Is it a odd that we all have our best weapons?"
"I think not." Samus answers. "But first I think we need-" She was quickly interrupted by a violent shake of the mansion. Several portraits of tournament-victorious smashers had fallen. Samus turns toward what she thought was the source. Windows began to develop rifts as they threatened to shatter. Smashers scramble into their dorms for safety as the quiet shake succeeded to a rumble. Samus knew that Pit's room was too far for him to walk to safely. Instead, she protects him, her arms and back acting as a shield. An enormous black silhouette passes over the light illuminating the mansion. Link stares at it, attempting to decrypt the thing it belonged to as he sidestepped falling debris. He only managed to make out that this ponderous thing had two very large wings.
"GET DOWN!" The huntress yells. Nobody thought twice over this command. All of the smashers had fallen to the ground, their hands protecting their heads. Though, in Zelda's case, it was magic, protecting multiple people. Samus cringes in pain as multiple objects shatter on her back. 'Thank Zebes I'm not wearing my suit' she thought. 'Otherwise all of my upgrades would've disappeared!' The massive rumbling of the mansion had stopped, which only made everybody more nervous and tense. Rainbows do come after hurricanes, but no one was entirely sure this storm was over yet.
A shrill, cutting screech splits the air. This was only, however, a forewarning. A plume of flames and pressure cause a large section of the hallway to collapse, conveniently obstructing the exit to the great hall. Pit tried to get a closer look of what caused the structure to compromise, but Samus stopped him.
"Stay here." Was all she said. Another mass of flame blew apart the exterior of the hall, letting daylight pour inside. Samus shielded her eyes. As her vision returned, she could see dark, leathery wings that outlined the metal of armour. The huge wings beat almost silently in the wind as the creatures face became visible. Red eyes. Harpoon tail. Mechanical enhancements. It only fit one bill.
"Ridley?!"
