Time for chapter two! I would also like to thank 16StarBoy for reviewing last chapter. I hope you enjoy this one! Disclaimer: I own none of this. All character's and places mentioned belong to thier respective owners.
The forest was peaceful. Like much of the land of Smash, the forest rarely had any disturbances more drastic than a small fight between the trophies that lived there. Today, however, the tranquil atmosphere is abruptly shattered.
In the middle of the forest, next to a small shrine, a large vortex appeared, hovering above the ground. The vortex spat out a single creature, then winked out of existence. The figure lay in a crumpled heap. A small bird, curious to the strange happenings, flew up the figure. It landed, and hopped closer to the figure. Almost instantly, the small bird was crushed by the figures quick stomp as he rose. The figure looked around the forest, hearing the hum of life.
"Looks like I'll have to fix that." The figure smirked to himself. He then curled his hands into fists, and was surrounded with a dark aura. With a roar, the dark aura around the figure began to leave him in waves, shredding the branches off of trees and ripping apart the bodies of any creature unlucky enough to be near him. With a final blast, the aura left the figure, and what was once the large, lush forest was nothing but a barren waste. The figure looked around at his work, and nodded to himself in satisfaction.
With another cruel smirk, he began to walk towards the tall buildings in the distance.
Samus grunted as her jet boots absorbed the brunt of the impact from hitting the tiled ground. As soon as she regained her breath, she resumed her run toward the Temple of the Goddess. The blonde-haired bounty hunter in the skintight blue suit had a mission. As she approached the end of yet another small island, she jumped towards the other island floating a number of meters away. Using her jet boots and the updraft that blew between all of the floating islands in Skyworld, Samus made the jump that a normal person would have failed miserably and plummeted to their death.
"How are you holding up, Sis?" a young voice from Samus's right. She turned, and was not surprised to see her brown-haired "brother". Said brother was actually Pit, the Captain of Skyworld's forces. The young Captian was wearing his usual white tunic, and his blue eyes sparkled in contrast to his pure white wings.
"I'm alright." She told him, not wanting to waste time in getting to the goddess. Samus continued to run towards the goddess's temple, and was followed by Pit. In unison, they jumped from the island they were running on to the much larger floating island that was the home of the goddess's temple. Unlike Samus, Pit relied on his wings to glide from one island to another.
As they approached the temple, no longer running, they saw their reason for coming to the sacred temple. Walking out to greet them was none other than Palutena, the Goddess of Light. The Goddess' long green hair floating freely behind her as she walked down the temple steps. Pit immediately fell to his knees in a bow, while Samus merely slightly inclined her head towards the goddess.
"Lady Palutena!" Pit said respectfully as he climbed to his feet and began to hop from one leg to another like an excited child. "Why have did you call? Do you need your dashing captain to destroy some Underworld forces? Or are we going to a hot spring! Please say it's the hot spring!"
"Calm down Pit!" Lady Palutena said with a chuckle. Her face then immediately turned back to that of a serious goddess. "I have called you here because I felt a large dark power from the forest."
"The forest?" Samus questioned. "Isn't the forest outside of your sphere of influence? I was under the impression that the forest was part of Zelda's domain."
"Yes, the forest." Lady Palutena restated. "While yes, the forest is supposed to be part of Zelda's kingdom, we need to remember that I need to investigate any large energy force, especially one that wiped out one of the forests small offshoots."
"Wait," Pit said with a shocked expression. "Did you just say that it took out a whole region of the forest? And you probably want to send us to investigate, right?"
Lady Palutena nodded. "I can use my powers to teleport you to the ground fairly close to Lumiose City, but my power is limited past that point. I need more information on whatever that force was."
Samus and Pit immediately agreed to the mission, and were teleported to the outskirts of Lumiose City. As they walked toward the city's center, they were surprised to see a fight going on right outside Prism Tower. A large bipedal frog creature was shooting blades of water towards a small pink creature that was wearing a hat much like the frog, and the pink creature was blocking the frog's attempts to injure it by shooting blades of water much like the frog's.
With a short pause and a gust of smoke, the frog disappeared and quickly reappeared, and cut the pink creature's stubby arms almost completely off its body with one of its blades of water. Now bleeding badly, the pink creature pitifully cried "Help!" as the frog raised its deadly blade.
"NO!" Pit yelled as he caught the frog's blade with his own. The frog, now seeing two new threats, swiftly kicked Pit in the stomach, and turned to flee.
"Pit!" Samus cried. "Protect this pink thing, and I'll chase down this frog." Not waiting for a response, Samus began to chase the ninja-like frog throughout the alleyways of Lumiose City. She couldn't get a clear shot on the frog because of all the pedestrians, and was forced to give up the chase once the frog seemingly disappeared from one of the alleys.
Samus returned to the plaza, only to see a man in a doctor's coat next to Pit and the unconscious creature. She overheard the doctor and Pit discussing the creature's condition, and looked down to see the creature's arms covered in bloodied bandages.
"Samus!" Pit yelled as he noticed his self-proclaimed sister. Samus nodded towards Pit, and then turned toward the doctor. "Will it be alright?" She asked him.
The doctor, who had brown hair and a large mustache, put his hand on his chin as he replied "I'm not sure. Kirby has recovered amazingly from many injuries, but he has never almost had his arms cut off."
"By the way," The doctor continued, "I have neglected to introduce myself. I am Dr. Mario, and this poor thing is Kirby. I have met this young man, but I don't know you. May I have the liberty of knowing your name?"
"Samus." Samus replied. "So, what are we going to do with this 'Kirby'?"
Pit immediately responded with, "We are going to stay with him until he's better, obviously." But, to his shock, Samus shook her head. "Lady Palutena has given us instructions Pit. You need to fulfill you duty, and I need to pay my debt."
To her surprise, Pit smiled. "I've already talked to Lady Palutena. She said we can put off checking the forest. She said that Kirby might have been attacked because he has information on the occurrence."
"Fine." Samus grudgingly agreed. She didn't have any ill will towards Kirby, but she still thought wasting time waiting for a pink marshmallow to recover was a waste of time.
"Besides," Pit went on, "If we can convince him to come with us when he's better, well, there is safety in numbers."
No longer having any reasonable arguments, Samus agreed to follow Pit as Dr. Mario and a women with very pale skin put Kirby on a stretcher and carried him to the hospital.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Who was the figure that wiped out a whole section of the forest? Why is Samus taking orders from Palutena? Why did Greninja try to kill Kirby? Well, you'll have to wait and see!
Current Pary: Pit and Zero Suit Samus.