Within the span of a week, Ness seemed to have recovered from his case of the Chaos Pox, but still got it off and on occasionally, implying it's actually an allergic reaction to the Chaos Kin's ashes.
But when the Kid Icarus smashers were called to the Battlefield stage for a classic Smash battle, Dark Pit was nowhere to be found. Crazy Hand realized he hadn't gotten out of the Chaos Vortex yet. This sent Pit and Palutena into panics, and they were willing to fly straight into the Chaos Vortex to try and find him.
"Kaelynne, can we borrow Quaker for a bit?" Pit asked in slight panic and without a pause. Kaelynne was caught very off-guard.
"Um..." she started. "Why? So you guys can find Dark Pit?" Pit nodded a frantic 'yes'. Kaelynne nodded in understanding. "Sure you can borrow Quaker. Just don't lose him, alright?" Kaelynne handed Quaker's Poké Ball to Pit.
Palutena breathed a silent prayer of thanks before realizing the consequences Dark Pit may have been facing in the vortex while he was stuck there. "Y'know," she started, striking up a conversation with her royal guard's captain, "for a huge collection of ashes, the Chaos Kin sure closes a portal fast."
"The Chaos Kin isn't IN the Chaos Vortex!" Lucas called out as the aforementioned evil moth flew around Smash Mansion rapidly. Pit and Palutena were in shock, and slightly paralyzed with fear.
Its deed done, the Chaos Kin snatched one final smasher's soul and then flew off into the darkest reaches of the chaotic land it called home. Pit and Palutena (the latter riding Quaker out of slight fright) instantly followed, and so did Lucas, riding Kaelynne's Articuno, Blizz.
Before everyone knew it, suddenly they were in the Chaos Vortex, on the same platform they were on before, with a stone Ness on the sidelines.
"That explains the off-and-on Chaos Pox," Pit realized. Palutena gave him a look that said, 'This is all just a tactic, right?'
Pit gave the light goddess no look whatsoever, and started looking around for his clone, who, like in the World of Trophies, was nowhere to be seen. Then Lucas found Dark Pit unconscious and locked up in a cage, which was dangling from a stone.
But right as Pit was about to slice his doppelgänger free, the Chaos Kin appeared out of nowhere, ready for another battle.
