Riolu arrives at Skyworld and looks around and is amazed by everything he sees, "Everything's so..." Pit finishes his sentence, "Holy?" Riolu gives him a different word, "White." Pit replies in a sarcastic tone, "Yeah... everything's white, that is the color of light." Riolu tells him, "Silly angel, white isn't a color! And I should know because I'm colorblind."

Pit asks him, "Are you for real?" Riolu nods, "Yep! As a canine Pokemon I am cursed to not being able so see colors. Anyways... where is that Palutena?" A voice goes into Riolu and Pit's ear, "Follow the trail of light. As for Pit... you can just stand by for the next mission." Pit nods, "Alright, Lady Palutena... I guess I'll see you in a bit, Riolu."

Riolu nods and follows the light, inside one of the buildings, Riolu could see a figure in the distance and assumes that Palutena but for kicks, Riolu wants to try to ambush her. Riolu gets ready and as stealthy as possible, he strikes her with a force palm but she deflected it with her staff. Riolu gets knocked back quite a bit but sticks his landing, Palutena scolds him in a teasing way, "Now really... is that any way to treat someone who has invited you to their home?"

Riolu feels bad for what he did, "Sorry... I just wanted to see if I could get a hit on you." Palutena just smiles and says, "I'm only teasing... you should know that you could never confront a goddess with only mortal training." Riolu gets a bit confused, "Mortal training? As in... my training meant nothing?" Palutena tries to cheer him up, "I didn't mean that... that's why I invited you here, so you can be trained in my army."

Riolu crosses his arms and then realizes, "Wait! Does that mean that angel boy is going to tell me what to do?!" Palutena nods, "That's correct! He is the captain after all." Riolu sighs angrily, "I hate being told what to do." Palutena replies, "That's how things are... isn't that how things work in your world?" Riolu nods, "Yeah..." Palutena says to him cheerly, "It's going to be alright... who know? You might outrank him one day." This gets Riolu hyped up, "Really?!"

Palutena nods, "In about 300 years or so." Riolu gets this surprised face, "300 years?!" Palutena replies, "This is an estimate... it could take exactly 6789 years." Riolu gets an even more surprised face, "If you haven't realized... I do not have a life span as long as that."

Palutena jokingly states, "Not with that attitude." Riolu sighs and nods, "So... Pit is going to show me the ropes and I have to learn them. I got that... but why would Celibi send me here of all places." Palutena doesn't give him the exact answer, "Who knows, but hey... aren't you glad you're here?" Riolu shugs, "I guess... beats having that bird squawking at me saying 'don't use aura sphere, it's too dangerous!' Blah blah blah! I'll show him!"

With that, Riolu returns back to Pit and tells him, "Palutena wants you to teach me how things are done." Pit gasps, "Really? You know... I do prefer working alone but it's nice having somebody to show things are really done around here!" Riolu replies, "At least are fine with this." Pit jumps up excitedly, "You bet!" Palutena teleports to them and asks Pit, "This is a rare occasion but since you have an underling for you to guide... I'm allowing you to control your flight path." Pit is really surprised by this, "You're kidding, right?"

Palutena shakes her head, "I'm serious... but do not go off in dangerous areas, only for beginners." Pit gets disappointed, "Aw, man..." Palutena opens the door to the overworld, "Good luck you two and do not get killed, Riolu." Riolu frowns a bit, "That's reassuring..." Lady Palutena just smiles and Pit says to Riolu, "Are you ready?" Riolu nods, "Yes... I'm ready to go!"

Pit runs into the gates to the overworld as Riolu tags alongside him and before he knew it, they were in the air! But there is one problem... Riolu can't fly! Pit sees Riolu panicking in midair as he plummets towards the ground and he sighs at him and carries him so he doesn't meet his doom. Riolu sighs in relief and says, "Is she trying to kill me? If you weren't here... I would be part of the ground and that won't be good."

Pit shakes his head, "She wouldn't do that, now let's go defeat some monsters and hopefully not run into Medusa while training." Riolu scratches his head, "Medusa? Is that who these monsters belong to? Pit nods, "She's the leader of the Underworld and she commands the monsters to do her bidding and let them wreck havoc across the world." Riolu nods, "Can't wait until I get to do a solo mission!"

Pit gives him a sheepish smile, "Let's wait until you get a bit better." Just then... they see more monsters coming for them, the cyclops monsters that they saw earlier and these nose monsters. Riolu snickers at their design, "Look at that one! I want to punch it so bad!" Pit replies, "There will be monsters that won't play around and are quite fierce! Just be on your guard, Riolu."

Riolu hops out of Pit's arms and attacks the monsters, "Kyaa! Take this!" He uses a force palm attack and launches the monster off as they hit their own from the force of Riolu's attack. Pit is quite impressed with his natural power that he has.

Back with the worryness that is Chatot... Chatot looks everywhere for Riolu but can't seem to find him, obviously. Chatot searches high and low in the forest looking for the blue Pokemon. "Where could he be?! He's making me so worried!"

But Riolu is as alright as he can possibly be! He is fighting these monsters with only his paws as he has no weapons yet. Pit could have easily wipe them out but seeing that Riolu can handle them on his own, he stands back and watch carefully. Whether or not that Pit can go anywhere he wants to now, he still got five minutes so Riolu must be quick about this but that isn't going to happen as more monsters show up.

Pit spins his bow and says, "Time to speed things up a bit!" He goes in and slices the monsters with his bow as they can become two blades if you separated them. Riolu prepares for another aura sphere in his paws, "Aurrraaaa... sphere!" He shoots it out and he is actually getting better getting them out and with good power.

Pit notices that his five minutes are almost up and he says to Riolu, "Alright... time to head back shortly!" Riolu shakes his head, "What are you, crazy?! I'm having loads of fun killing these guys! Especially these nose creatures." Pit sweatdrops and says, "This isn't about fun! It's about protecting everything we hold dear and by the way... those nose creatures are called Specknose." Riolu tries to sink this all in but the Monoeyes capture him and they all group up together to hold him down.

Riolu tries the best he could to break free but they got him tight. Pit tries going to help but as soon as he charges after them, his five minutes are up and he plummets to the ground. He shouts to Palutena telepathically, "Need some help here!" Palutena shines a light at Pit and takes him bac k to her temple in Skyworld.

Pit catches his breath from the big fall he had and says to Palutena apologetically, "I'm so sorry! I didn't expect for the monoeyes to get Riolu and now-" Palutena stops him, "It's alright... I knew that this might happen so I'm going to take over your training with him for now."

Back with Riolu as he struggles to try to break free from the Monoeyes, he hears Palutena's voice, "Riolu... can you hear me?" Riolu nods, "Yes... I'm so glad to hear you right now. Can you help me out?" Palutena replies, "You can get out yourself, you just have to use your natural abilities. Don't you have a move to help you break out in a flash?"

Riolu realizes that the word 'flash' is a hint for a move that Lucario can use and Riolu if they are skilled enough. Riolu shouts out, "Extreme speed!" And he escapes in a flash while taking down the monoeyes in a blink. After this, now it's Riolu's turn to plummet to the ground but Palutena has the solution to this and summons a cloud for Riolu to ride on to replicate's Pit's flight.

Palutena introduces the cloud to Riolu, "Meet your new friend, the Nimbus cloud!" Riolu scratches his head, "I'm sure that I've seen or heard of that name before and this cloud." Palutena obviously pretends to not understand what he's talking about, "I do not know what you mean, this is an original mode of transportation given to you by the gods in which you should be grateful to ride on. Maybe I should have let you fall and see if you can fly."

Riolu panics and says, "No! I like it! Thanks!" Palutena controls the cloud and she says, "Now.. let's take you to your training area."

Pit is watching this from Palutena's viewing globe or whatever it's called. Palutena reminds him, "Don't you have an army to command, Pit?" Pit nods, "Oh.. right." He runs off to his army as Palutena guides Riolu to his training.


Will Riolu be able to handle Palutena's training and rival up against Pit in the future? Find out next time!