AN: Hello and welcome to the next chapter. Read all the way to the bottom, as there's an important message to be found there.

Enjoy.

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Pit's head hurt. A lot. He was lying in an unfamiliar bed. To his right was a desktop computer and to his front was a door that lead… where? But for the moment, all he wanted to do was close his visionary sockets and go back to sleep.

So he did.

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"Shinichi-kun, what's with that boy upstairs?" Shinichi's mother asked. She was doing the dishes, as she had just cooked an illustrious meal of turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing.

"Oh, I found him unconscious on the ground in an alley, on the way back from school," he replied. "He's very light, and deathly skinny."

His dad looked up from his tablet that he always had on after a meal. "Kind of like you, Shinichi."

"W-what? Dad, I'm happy with how I am," the lanky high school student replied.

"Fine, fine. But don't blame me when you don't get a girlfriend."

"Uh… anyway, I'm going to go take some food to the boy and see if he's all right," Shinichi stated.

"Okay, Shinichi-kun. Here's some turkey and mashed potatoes. Talk to him and see if he came from around here," his mother said. He took the plate from her and headed upstairs.

Shinichi took a deep breath, and exhaled. He'd never been good with direct encounters like this one. Summoning the courage within him, he raised his hand to knock on his own room's door.

An eye poked through the skin on his right hand. "Shinichi."

"What, Migi? At a time like this?"

"I'm sensing a strange vibe from this human. It's not the energy a normal human gives off. But it is also not one of us. Shinichi, be careful."

Shinichi chuckled. "Wouldn't it be crazy if he was angel?" He shook his head at the preposterous idea.

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Pit huddled beneath the blankets. "Lady Palutena… that creature in his hand might be onto what I actually am," he muttered to his goddess. "What do I do?!"

"Stay calm, Pit."

"Stay calm?! You're not the one who's about to be exposed like a criminal!"

"I said, STAY CALM," Palutena ordered. For some reason, the words seemed familiar to him…

A knock was heard from the door. "Um… May I come in? I brought food for you."

"FOOD?! I'm starving!" Pit shouted into the goddess intercom. What came out of his mouth; however, was a simple, "Sure." "Whoooa… my voice is so manly." Pit's voice was an octave deeper than it was when he was in Skyworld. "Lady Palutena, did you alter my…?"

"Yes, Pit. I used my 'Power of Vocal Cord Adjustment." Palutena sarcastically replied.

"You're just messing with me now, aren't you," Pit mumbled.

"Maybe. Maybe not."

"Hmph."

"Um… are you okay? Your facial expression is changing," Shinichi said.

"What? Oh, I'm all right. Sometimes… my face is a little weird," 'Hikari' replied.

"Oh, that's good. I brought you some food."

"Yay for food!" Hikari replied with a wink and a thumbs up. Promptly, he picked up the fork and began to shovel the food into his mouth.

As Pit was filling his mouth with delicious turkey and moist mashed potatoes, Shinichi asked, "So what's your name?"

In between bites, Pit replied, "My name's Hikari. I'm an exchange student from Akihabara and I don't know how I ended up unconscious…" Pit rubbed the back of his head and grinned, then continued. "Anyway, thanks for letting me crash here."

"Um… no problem. My name's Shinichi, and it's nice to meet you."

"Hey! This is exactly who you told me to find!"

"Quite the lucky guy, aren't you?" The hidden meaning behind these words implied that the Goddess of Nature had a thing for Pit.

"Likewise. Hey, that food was fantastic. Uh…" Pit scratched his chin. "How long have I been out?"

"About twelve hours."

"Whoa! So… when does school start?"

"In about… twenty minutes? If we leave now, we'll get there on time."

"Whoa whoa whoa." Pit jumped out of the bed and looked in the mirror before grabbing a comb and fixing his hair. "All right, I'm ready."

Shinichi smiled. He liked this spunky kid. "Okay. Let's go."

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In the human world, Pit was technically a junior. So, as luck may have it, he was placed in Izumi's class. He stood, leaning with his back to the wall with one foot placed against it as he waited for the teacher's signal to come in and introduce himself. A couple girls glanced at him as they walked by and whispered to themselves, as he was very cute in their eyes. After all, he had perfect complexion, radiant brown hair, deep gray/blue eyes, and an innocent, high-cheekboned face.

Perks for being an angel. However, he didn't notice any of their looks, as he was silently communicating with Palutena.

"So, Pit. How do you like it there so far?"

"It's nice, actually. Everyone's nice, but the guys are giving me dirty looks for some reason."

"They probably don't want your cute face interfering with their attempts at wooing a girl," she chuckled. "After all, you have a pretty much perfect face in the human world."

"I do? Oh… I mean, yeah, I do!"

"Oh, Pit. Sometimes you never learn," a younger and more childish voice rang out from nowhere.

"Viridi? Wow, it's been a while. I haven't seen you for a long time! The last time I saw you was when Thepictoad was active, and he hasn't been for a long time. That idiot, I liked being in 'The Uprising of Toad.' Maybe I'll force him to start it again," Pit said.

"No… I meant that you never seem to learn from your mistakes."

"What would my mistake be?"

"Being too self-absorbed!" Viridi responded angrily.

"Well, it's good to see you're still yourself, Viridi…" Pit mumbled, before averting his attention to the teacher's voice.

"Come on in, Hikari-kun."

"I gotta go now, I'll talk to you later, Viridi." Pit opened his eyes and walked through the door to meet his new class.

He stood where the teacher motioned for him to stand. "HIKARI" was written in Japanese symbols on the chalkboard, and underneath it said "JUNIOR, 17 YEARS OLD."

"Hi… My name's Yasuda Hikari. It's real nice to meet you all. I'm a transfer student from Akihabara and I'm eager to see how this school is compared to my really big one," Pit said with a lopsided smile.

All the girls in the class pictured sparkles and a colorful background behind him, as he seemed to radiate cuteness to them. The males; however, gave him a dirty look before turning their attention to each other to gossip about him.

"Is there a lot of anime and manga in Akihabara as everyone says there is?"

"Oh, yeah. Everywhere you go, you'll see anime ads and manga stores. I love it!" Pit exclaimed, even though he had no idea what he was talking about.

"What are some shows you watch?" a girl asked. She was sitting next to Shinichi, and she had brown hair pulled back over her head in an interesting hairstyle.

Shinichi whispered to Satomi, "I didn't know you watched anime."

"I always do in my free time," she replied with a smile.

Pit placed his index finger and thumb underneath his chin. This was a topic he knew a lot about, as he spent a lot of time in between Sm4sh and Uprising watching anime. "I really like Akame ga Kill, Steins;Gate, and Another," he replied after a few seconds of thought.

"Well, that's enough for now," the teacher said with a sigh. "Hikari-kun, would you be so kind as to take a seat? The one behind Izumi will do," the teacher stated.

Shinichi looked up with a smile and Pit grinned back. They were seatmates!

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On lunch break, Pit was walking around when he bumped into a woman with long purple hair and a stone-cold face. Her eyes seemed dead, as if she had reanimated from the ground mere seconds ago.

"Oops, sorry. I'm new here, so I don't exactly know where I'm going…" Pit said with a chuckle. "Could you point me in the direction of the side door where students exit the building…?" Pit cocked his head. "Um… sensei?"

The woman was mumbling to herself. "This one does not give off the signal that a normal human does. It does not appear to have one of my kind."

"Uh…"

"I'm done being Ryoko Tamiya. Eliminate."

Her head morphed into a terrifying clump of flesh-based, bendy javelins with dangerously sharp blades on the end. An eye was in the center of it all, where the neck base used to be. They swung unnaturally fast, and Pit was forced to duck before rolling to safety, out of her range.

"Tch… that happened too suddenly. First Blade Armament!" Pit yelled, and a glow of vibrant yellow flashed from his right golden wristband. A gun-shaped sword, with elegant curves complemented by white, blue, and yellow stripes materialized in his hand. He held it up, then swung it downwards diagonally.

"Host of Ryoko Tamiya standing before me… Waugh!" Pit was interrupted with a short jab aimed at his heart. He dodged by circling around the weapon and countered with a few strikes. "You really don't play any games, huh? Well, you're in luck, because I'm not limited to my restrictive Sm4sh moveset!" He dived to the left, firing three pink balls of energy at the enemy.

"Pit… how many times have I told you that your pre-boss-battle-speech never works?"

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I'm really sorry for the low quality of these chapters, but I just think it's funny to mash up Kid Icarus, one of my favorite game series with serious anime/games. Next chapter, we look at the battle, and what Pit thinks of the situation Shinichi's in.

Thepictoad and the Slain Executioner- eh?

TET: It's been so long, KI archive. I missed you! *derps*

TSE: … you haven't changed

TET: That's right. I'm dead, after all. Would you be as kind to keep TUOT going? You can do whatever you want to the story, just keep the name moving along.

TSE: Uh… okay. After all, I need inspiration for my main story, Sayo and Ieyasu: Killers of Fate.

TET: Sweetness! I'll leave you to it.

TSE: I guess you can keep an eye out for an adventure themed Kid Icarus Uprising story. It'll be like Akame ga Kill, where the members are sent out on missions against some other forces. The Underworld and a new force will be teaming up against the Forces of Nature and Skyworld. Viridi has a few angels, but Skyworld's get the spotlight. The Underworld has angels, too, but their commanders are a little more… well-known, shall we say. Prepare for death; I'll be basing the style off Akame ga Kill. So, some of my angel OCs in TUOT will die… Naturally, Toad will be in the story. I even forgot the new name I gave him…

TET: I wish you luuuuck. Byyyyye

TSE: *Shakes head* is that how I really was two years ago? Wow.