Time for the next chapter to unveil.
No messing around, let's do this!
Pit had continued watching the events that transpired below. And after seeing everything that happened, he was standing there in pure shock.
"What on Earth…"
As he continued to stand there frozen, trying to wrap his head around what was happening, a bright light shun behind him. He turned and saw the silhouette of the very Goddess he served, Palutena. He walked to her and knelled down.
"Lady Palutena, you saw what happened to the earthlings below?"
"Yes. They need your help, Pit. They don't know it, but they are about to face an evil force greater than they can imagine. You must go down there, warn them of this danger and help them vanquish it. Do you understand?"
Pit nodded and Palutena extended out her arm. From the palm of her hand, a golden ball of light appeared and morphed into a dual-edged bow.
"Take this with you, it will defend you against the enemies that lurk below."
The bow floated towards Pit, he grabbed it and two golden rings formed on his wrist.
"It is yours and yours alone to wield. Now go, there isn't much time."
"Got it," Pit rushed off in the opposite direction to one of the doors leading outside of the temple. Turning away from the door as it opened, he felt the wind rush against him and fell backwards. Taking a moment to enjoy the wind against him, he focused himself and guided himself through the clouds while Palutena kept him up. Even though Pit was an angel with wings, he couldn't fly on his own. He relied on Palutena's power to keep him up, but even then it didn't last for long. Once he spotted the land that covered his home, Skyworld, he flew towards it and landed.
Palutena's voice echoed in his head, "This is as far as I can take you. Remember your mission, Pit. Good luck and be safe."
"Understood. I won't let you down, Lady Palutena!"
Pit started his travel through the vast clouds and land of Skyworld and couldn't help but feel rather nostalgic. After all, it's been quite a while since he was given a mission. And he always did enjoy the scenery his home gave him.
He reached a patch of land that gave a wide view of the world below. Everything seemed normal, until he felt a strange rumbling. He then saw the mass of red clouds appear and the ship he saw back at the stadium come from them. It floated over him, realizing the purple spores all over the clouds that formed together into the strange creatures. And they were completely surrounding him.
"I figured they wouldn't make this easy," Pit grabbed the bow with both hands and pulled it apart, turning it into two short blades, "Bring it on!"
The creatures began attacking him. He noted that the Primids and Spaaks he saw back at the stadium were there, but there were also some new creatures as well. The first was a strange cylindrical creature that looked like it was made out of metal that he learned was called a Cymul. They didn't move around like the others, but it spun small triangle shaped blades around it whenever Pit got close. Luckily he was able to avoid them easily by shooting them with his bow. The same couldn't be said about the other one he fought. It was called a Greap. It was larger than every other creature he saw, with a circular black body, wheels for feet and two large scythes nearly as long as its body that appeared to be its arms. It attacked him by slamming its scythes into the ground and spinning them around its body whenever he tried to jump over it. Fortunately, when it slammed its scythe arms into the ground, it was stuck for a few seconds before it could pull them free, leaving it vulnerable. And Pit found out that attacking its head did more damage, though it did take a few precise shots to defeat it.
Once he was done, he looked around to see if there were any that he missed, then something caught his eye. It was a trophy of someone lying on one of the clouds. And upon closer inspection, he could tell who it was.
"Wait, that's the guy from the stadium!"
Pit walked to Mario, picked him up and brought him to the strip of land he was on. He didn't think it would be safe to restore him while on the clouds. Remembering how he saw Kirby do it, he touched the golden base of the trophy, restoring him.
Mario shook off the pain, adjusted his hat and looked around. But he couldn't tell where he was. As he tried to familiarize himself with the area, he was taken off guard when he heard a voice behind him.
"Hey, are you okay?"
He turned around and looked at the angel, "Yes, I'm alright. But, who are you?"
"My name's Pit. You're...Mario, right?"
He nodded and stood up, "How do you know my name?"
"I was watching the battle you were in, back at the stadium."
That's when he remembered what had happened before he was attacked, "The stadium...do you know what happened?"
"Yeah. After you got launched, this giant plant monster showed up and trapped the princesses in cages. But that little pink guy was able to save them."
"Good job, Kirby," Mario whispered under his breathe, "What happened next?"
"This really weird fat guy showed up, I think I heard the blonde princess say his name was Wario," He saw Mario slightly cringe at the mention of his name, "He then pulled out this strange gun and shot the other princess, turned her into a trophy and took off with her."
"Huh?! He took Zelda?!"
"Yeah. And that Kirby guy was able to escape with the blonde princess before the bomb exploded. And now the entire stadium has been swallowed up in a strange purple orb."
Hearing what had happened when he was gone was shocking, but there was still one thing he was confused about, "Wait, then why are you out here?"
"I'm actually the captain of the army of the Goddess, Palutena. We saw the incident from within the temple, and she sent me to help."
"Help?"
Pit nodded, "She said the people below are about to face a great threat unlike anything they can imagine. So she sent me to warn the Earthlings and help them fight against it."
Mario tried to take in everything that Pit told him, "If that's true...then Peach and Kirby are in danger! We have to do something!"
"I just saw the ship that summoned those creatures pass over. If we're going to find out how to stop this, we have to follow that ship."
"Right!"
Without a seconds notice, the two set off.
"I'd recommend you stay on the ground here Mario."
"Why? Will something happen?"
"I don't really know. You're the first human to ever enter Skyworld. And I don't want to take any chances."
"If you say so."
The two continued on and found that the creatures had spread out farther than anticipated. The Primids and Spaaks were still present, but the Cymuls that Pit encountered earlier were nowhere to be found. Instead, they were replaced by a different type of enemy. A tire shaped metal robot with three yellow hinges around it and an eye on each side called Glunders. They moved along the floors, walls and ceilings and didn't seem to be hindered by the type of land it was on. When one of the boys got too close to one, it opened its body and released electric shocks all around it. Though it didn't seem to be able to attack while airborne, so they were able to take them down easily by juggling them with attacks. And eventually, they encountered another giant enemy. A giant claw shaped enemy with a brown body and a skull face called a Roturret. It floated in midair and fired energy pulses from the tips of its clawed body when its eyes glowed red. But they found a tactic to defeat it. For one, it couldn't move while attacking, and its shots fired in a straight line. Plus, attacking seemed to confuse it and made it incapable of attacking them. So the two were able to take it down by constantly attacking.
After a few minutes, all the creatures were defeated and they reached another edge of the clouds.
Pit turned to Mario, "We'll have to continue our search on the surface. We won't be able to continue up here. The land doesn't stretch very far up here."
"Right. But how will we get back down?"
"I think Lady Palutena mentioned something about a portal to the surface once. We'll head back to the temple and ask if she can transport us down."
"Why don't you just fly us down?" He noted, pointing at Pit's wings.
The angel chuckled, "I might have fought in some intense battles before, but I don't think I can carry a full grown human all the way to the ground," His demeanor grew serious, "And besides, there's something about me you should know."
"What is it?"
Before Pit could answer, the rumbling had returned and the ship once again showed its face. But then something else caught their eye, something much smaller than the ship that zipped across the sky lightning fast.
"What was that?!"
While Pit was left astonished, Mario couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity when he saw the ship. And when he was able to get a good look at it, that's when it hit him.
"Fox!"
That's the end of that chapter. Next one will be up soon.
Until then!
