I originally didn't plan to take this story seriously; the Smashers are just having fun and will return to their home after a few chapters. But then while I was on bed sleeping, I thought stories would attract more people if it has a definite plot and a villain, so I whipped up one in just a few minutes. Therefore, this story will have a plot and a villain now!

Chapter 2: The Unbelievable Wonders of the World in the Sky!

"There's been no word from her around these days," replied Palutena to the question Pit asked in the previous chapter.

"I see…" said Pit.

"Who's Kaori?" asked Mario.

"She's a demigoddess," replied Pit. "She helped with the building of our temple and Angel City. It was with her help that we are able to finish this place in a few days."

"A demigoddess?" asked Nana curiously.

"Yes, she is more superior to the people below, but her powers are inferior to gods and goddesses."

"I've heard of demigods and demigoddess," said Young Link. "But never really learned much about them."

"I plan to give her a visit her today," said Pit. "You can come along if you want. I'm sure she'll be glad to meet the people below."

"Good idea!"

Suddenly, a loud thunder is heard in the sky.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

"Whoa! That was frightening!" said Ness.

"Wait a minute…" said Popo. "If we are above the clouds, then how is it possible for there to still be rain?"

"There is," Palutena told him. "The layer of clouds reaches up very high into the sky, so it is possible for there to be weather here."

"I didn't know that…"

"But it rarely happens, as precipitation isn't common in such heights."

So the Smashers got up from the swimming pool and got dressed up. Peach also came back from her stroll around the garden and is told that they are going to visit a demigoddess.

"A demigoddess? I love too!" said Peach happily.

"But how are we going to get there?" asked Ness.

"We'll take cloud cycles," replied Pit.

"What's that?"

"I'll show you." Pit took them through the temple and came to a place with several mini-clouds parked around the place.

"What are these?" asked Popo.

"These are cloud cycles," said Pit. "They are equivalent to the things you call motorcycle in the world below, but these are much easier to control."

"What's this?" asked YL, looking at what looks like a telescope placed by a window.

"Oh, that's the telescope for viewing the world below. You can look at every part of the world down there."

"Really?"

"Of course!"

"Can we see our friends who are in Monstry?" asked Mario.

"Of course you can! I'll show you." Pit went to the telescope and adjusted it a bit. "There you go."

Mario looked into the telescope and saw Luigi, G&W, Bowser, Roy, and Reed at a swimming pool having fun. Bowser is surrounded by beautiful women with odd features while Roy is ignored by them. "I see them!"

"Let me see!" said Peach, and she looked into the telescope and saw the same thing. "They are relaxing in the same way as us!"

"They're supposed to be living with Mista Binko in heez palace."

"I can see our mansion!" said Ness, looking into another telescope. He saw Captain Falcon shaking the neck of some person and then beating him up. "I wonder who the person he's beating up is."

"Do you want to learn how to ride the cloud cycle now?" asked Pit.

"Are they easy to control?" asked Pichu.

"It depends how well you concentrate your minds, as these clouds are controlled by your thoughts. When you are on top, the cloud cycle will go in the direction you wish to go, and you must concentrate thoroughly in the direction in order to travel smoothly, or else you can easily crash."

"Don't we need a license?" asked Peach.

"These are like bicycles you have down there; it is available to everybody. Even children ride it for fun!"

"I can't wait to start!" said Ness as he hopped onto one of the cloud cycles. "Let's see… Go up!" The cloud cycle he is on shot up into the air and smacked his head against the ceiling. "Yeow!"

"Do not be so hasty, Mr. Ness!" Pit told him. "The speed is controlled by how calm or anxious you are."

"You should've said that earlier…" said Ness, rubbing his head and lowering onto the floor.

"Let me try!" said Pichu. He hopped onto one and commanded it to go left, and the cloud went left. "I did it! It's going at smooth pace!" But he hit the wall.

CRASH!

"Please watch where you are going, Mr. Pichu…" said Pit.

Mario stood onto a cloud cycle and carefully navigated around at a slow speed. "Keep calm and slow…"

The Ice Climbers are also practicing moving around on the cloud cycle too. They aren't too successful as they panicked too much and constantly crashed into each other. YL is doing just right, but sometimes he got too excited and crashed. The only person to have mastered it at the moment is surprisingly enough, Peach! "It's actually very easy!" she said happily.

"Good-a for you!" applauded Mario.

"Because you are always cheerful and happy, Ms. Peach," said Pit. "Therefore you are able to control the cloud cycle nicely."

"Weee! This is fun!" said Peach as she flew around the parking area at moderate speed and doing many spins in the air.

"I'm not going to be beaten by a girl!" said Ness. He controlled his cloud to move around and once again he is too hasty and it spun too violently and Ness is sent flying away. "Yaaaaaaa!" But before he hit the wall, the cloud zipped in front of him and caught him. "Whoa! The cloud came to rescue me!"

"For safety reasons, the cloud will automatically protect and rescue its rider whenever the rider is tossed away," explained Pit. "That way no fatalities will be caused. I think it is best that we practice a bit before setting off."

And so, the Smashers practiced riding the cloud in the place. There were lots of accidents, though none of them are fatal, but eventually, the Smashers got better at it.

"Weeee! I can ride perfectly!" said Ness excitedly as he flew in circles around the room at a rather fast speed.

"Me too!" said YL, who is flying as fast as Ness, but he is standing instead of sitting down on it.

"I can drive too!" said Pichu, doing several flips in midair without falling down.

"Okay, it seems that everyone has mastered it," said Pit. "Let's go out there and enjoy! There's much more space out there!"

"Okay!" the others replied.

And so, they went out of the building through the garage gate.

-

Palutena watched them leave from her room window. "I hope they have a safe time!"

Then a loud thunder is heard again.

BOOOOOOOM!

Palutena looked up into the sky with a stern and rather worried face.

-

The Smashers and Pit are riding through a vast sea of cloud. They flew near the cloud water and saw fish-like creatures swimming in it. "There are fish down there too!" exclaimed Peach in surprise.

"There sure are, Ms. Peach," Pit told her.

Then several dolphin-like creatures leaped out from the sea and swam alongside the Smashers playfully. One of the dolphins got near Peach and allowed her to pat him on the head.

"So cute!"

Suddenly, not far in the distance a large whale jumped out of the water and splashed back into it, creating a large ripple that spread through the place. "Wow! There are even whales!" exclaimed Popo.

"I never thought there are creatures like these living up here!" said Nana.

"Too bad-a we forgot-a to bring our camera," said Mario. "Or else we could-a take a picture of them and show it to da others when he get-a back."

"Don't worry; I have prepared this," said Pit. He reached into his toga and got out an empty snail shell.

"What's that?" asked Pichu.

"These are shell dials," replied Pit. "They're pretty much the main sources of energy up in the sky. These shells store of sorts of things like electricity, fire, light, wind, sound, and even images!"

"So it acts like a camera?" asked Ness.

"Yes; we can use this to take pictures." Pit turned the opening of the shell towards the whale in the distance and pressed a button in the center of the shell's spiral, and a snap is heard alongside a flash. "There! Now we'll just have to bring it back to Angel City and have the picture processed before we can see it."

"I can't wait to see it!" said Peach.

Then Pit spotted an island with a large temple in the distance. "There's Ms. Kaori's temple!" he said. So they flew towards the island as fast as they could.

-

They made it to the temple and drove their cloud cycles up the large staircase to the temple gate, which is huge just like Palutena's temple. Pit went up to the door and pressed the doorbell, but even after they waited for a while, there was no reply. "Strange… How come nobody came to answer it?" said Pit. "Ms. Kaori never leaves anywhere unless she is summoned by someone."

"Maybe she is sleeping?" said Pichu.

"She should be awake at this moment." Pit continued to press the doorbell and knock the door, but still no response. "I have a bad feeling about this… It's too quiet here…"

"So what do we do?" asked Nana.

"She must be in trouble!" said Pit. "We must find a way inside fast!" Pit flew around the place in search for a possible entrance, but he crashed into a large pillar.

CRASH!

"You're panicking too much!" Peach said to him.

"You're right…" said Pit painfully while rubbing his nose.

"Young Link and I will go look around the place for suspicious things," said Ness.

"Okay, and I'll look for possible places to go into the temple," said Pit. "We'll meet again later at this place if there's no progress."

"Okay!"

So Ness and Young Link flew off on their cloud cycle.

"Will they be safe?" asked Mario.

"There are no dangers around here," replied Pit. "They will surely be safe."

Pichu placed his ear against the door and said, "If I heard right, there is the sound of breathing coming from within. There has to be someone in there."

-

Ness and YL are flying alongside the outside walls of the temple, looking for anything worth observing. "Wow! This place is huge!" said YL.

"Palutena's temple is huge also," said Ness. "Must be a tradition for gods and goddesses to live in huge and grand places."

They kept on flying until they came to what looked like the backyard. "We're at the backward…" said YL. "Maybe we can go in from the backdoor?"

Ness slowly navigated around the area looking for any possible entrances into the temple. He flew around a large unidentified object and his eyes eventually fell on something. "Young Link!" he gasped. "Come look at this!"

"What is it?" asked YL. He went over to Ness and looked at he was pointing, and he was shocked. "What the…?"

"I can't believe this…" said Ness in awe.

Before them stood what looks like large living mound with an opening at the center of it.

-

Meanwhile, Pit and the others ventured around the temple, and they finally found an entrance through a slightly opened window. "Finally, we got in…" said Popo.

"Should we tell Ness and Young Link?" asked Nana.

"I'm sure they we'll meet-a with them again," said Mario.

"The whole place is too quiet," said Pit.

"But I was positive I heard breathings in here," said Pit. "We should look around more."

"Right, let's go search for Ms. Kaori."

-

Back in the backyard…

Ness and YL are still looking at the organic entrance that led into a tunnel of red fleshy wall. "What is this…?" asked YL.

"Without doubt, this has to be it!" said Ness.

"What is it?"

Ness turned his head to YL and replied, "Have you ever played Gradius V?"

"Yeah? So what?"

"Remember stage 4? It took place in an organic area, and before that, we were seen entering a large piece of flesh through a hole similar to this…"

"You don't mean…"

Ness nodded his head before YL even finished his question. "Yes… An organic alien mass…"

"How is that possible?"

"I think aliens have invaded this area and captured this demigoddess Kaori, and they have made the place their nest." Ness pointed to the organic tunnel. "This is without doubt the alien nest, similar to the ones we saw in Contra and Gradius!"

YL began to tremble at the thought of this. "This can't be real…"

"But now we saw it with our own eyes… We have to accept it…"

"What do we do? Should we contact the others?"

"Let's go inside and look around first," replied Ness.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Ness and Young Link have decided to enter the organic alien mass… What exactly is happening in this place? Find out next chapter…

The shell dial, as some of you might know, is taken directly from the Skypiea arc of One Piece.

I will be leavig on a trip for 3 days, so don't expect any updates until three days later.