Doppelgängers Unite!:

(Palutena's Temple)

[Medical Bay]

10:00 Hours

Sanguine and Palutena were both standing in the medical bay observing the unconscious figures of Pit and Viridi, they also saw many doctors and medics working feverishly for a solution to their predicament.

"What are we going to do about this?" Palutena said quietly in concerned frustration.

"I'm not sure." Sanguine replied, crossing his arms and closing his eyes, attempting to think of a solution, when suddenly Hexus' voice flooded both Sanguine and Palutena's headspace.

["I think I have an answer."]

"You know how to fix this?" Palutena said with hope.

"He's Hexus, the guys always got solutions for everything..." Sanguine replied with his trademark smirk.

["That's why I was the teams top tactician!"] Hexus continued, ["Anyways, unlucky for Malus, I've seen that type of knockout spell before. The cure for it is magmatized smelling-salts."]

"Ooooookay then, I can just pick those right up after finding the Holy Grail and maybe slaying Satan with a magic Unicorn horn!" Sanguine said with heavy emphasis on his sarcasm.

["Shut up man, they're not that hard to find, the real problem is WHERE to find them."] Hexus said perplexed

Palutena was the first to speak up,"I know where to find them!"

["Really where at?"] Hexus asked

"I know there's some all the way back at...Viridi's temple, oh darn! You were just there." Palutena said in regards to Sanguine.

"I know, but none of us had any idea something like this would happen." Sanguine responded in reassurance. "Don't worry though, I'll go get them."

Sanguine turned to go, but was called after by Palutena before leaving the infirmary.

"Hold on Sanguine, before you go I just wanted to let you know that Viridi always said that the salts were in her temple's infirmary. Also..." Palutena hesitated,"I-I...be safe!"

Sanguine smiled at her,"Don't worry about it, you know I will." Sanguine left to the landing dock of Palutena's temple.


(Palutena's Temple)

[Landing Dock]

Sanguine stepped out onto the edge of the takeoff platform, he leapt into the sky and sped toward Viridi's Temple at lightning fast speeds, he touched down in no time and made his way to the temple infirmary. Along the way, Sanguine quickly ducked behind a pillar in the main hall, where he fought Malus, when he heard voices. Sanguine peeked out from behind the pillar and saw Underworld grunts with black masks interrogating a girl tied to a chair.

"I'M NOT GONNA SAY IT AGAIN, TELL US WHERE THE WISH SEED IS!" One of them yelled at the girl.

"I don't know! Please just let me go! She yelled through bitter tears.

The Underworld grunt slapped her across the face and went to speak with the other grunt that was present. Sanguine observed the girl being interrogated and noticed that she couldn't be more than 17, had yellow hair with red tips, and a lightning blue scarf which was splattered with her own blood. He saw that she had cuts and bruises all over her and was crying. Sanguine bared his teeth and clenched his fists with anger at the sight.

"Little bastards." Sanguine said under his breath. He noted that there were three grunts in the room, with one close by him! Sanguine utilized his stealth training to stick to the shadows, and sneak up on the third grunt closest to the door. He quickly got behind him, wrapped his hands around his head, and snapped his neck. Sanguine dragged the body into the shadows before anyone of the room's current party noticed him. He put his hand on the grunt's face and a low red energy began coursing from the grunts face into Sanguine's hand.


(Note: Sanguine can absorb defeated enemies power to make himself stronger.)


The grunt disintegrated into ashes and Sanguine continued to hug the walls, attempting to get closer to the remaining grunts. One of them finished talking with the other and went back to the girl who was struggling to get out of her bindings. He whipped out a black knife.

"If you're not going to cooperate properly, then I think we're going to have to change our methods drastically." The Underworld grunt said with malice as he inched the blade closer to the girl's neck, before he could do any damage, a gunshot rang out in the room. The grunt turned to see that his buddy had been shot in the head and was laid out on the floor.

"Yo! What's up?!" The grunt swiftly, yet angrily turned to the source of the voice and met eye-to-eye with a highly unamused ex-mercenary holding a black .50 caliber rifle with fresh smoke pooling out of the barrel. The grunt wasted no time and quickly sent the blade slashing at the restrained girl, his action was stopped dead in its tracks however, when a black chain with a dark-blue aura caught his wrist and kept it from moving, he looked back at Sanguine who twisted the chain on his wrist, causing the grunt to let go of the knife. The grunt responded by using his free hand to take out his holstered 9mm and point it at Sanguine, however when he brought his attention back to the mercenary, he was gone! He searched around for the intruder before feeling a light tap on his shoulder, the grunt turned around and saw Sanguine staring into his soul, he let out a surprised yell and attempted to fire his weapon, but Sanguine was faster and he uppercutted his foe's trachea which sent him flying into a wall, the grunt slid down the wall and slumped down onto the floor, dead.

Sanguine turned his attention to the distressed teen who was still bound to the chair by its metal cuffs. Sanguine began walking towards her, she on the other hand was staring at him with apparent fear, clearly shell-shocked by the current ordeal, she closed her eyes as Sanguine was right next to her, waiting for the cruel jaws of death to clamp down on her. This did not happen though, because she opened her eyes to see Sanguine breaking off her restraints, she looked at him like a scared puppy, and he looked back.

"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt you, I'll get you out of her as fast as possible." Sanguine said with his calm composure."Do you need any help getting up?"

"No." The girl said wiping her tears away and calming down as she stood up slowly from the chair. "Who are you?"

Sanguine took his stance and re-fixed his sly grin as he began once more,"I...am Sanguine Carbide, ex-head hunter, counter-pick to injustice, a billionaire playboy philanthropist, and MLG winner of 3 tournaments! 2 in which I cheated!"

The girl stared at Sanguine in confusion before responding herself,"Well, anyways...I am Phosphora, lead commander of Lady Viridi's Forces of Nature."

"Cool." Sanguine said,"Uh, what even happened here? Care explaining?"

"Well, I was making my usual rounds of patrol in the area, and at about 9:41 or so, I came back report to Lady Viridi my findings, but when I got back this cloaked man with two swords was here-

"Malus..." Sanguine gritted quietly.

"And all these Underworld grunts that had invaded the temple, Lady Viridi was nowhere to be found, so in my anger I engaged the hooded man, but he quickly knocked me out and I woke up tied to that chair and was being tortured about the whereabouts of The Wish Seed, honestly I don't even know where it's located, just that it is being guarded by the Pheonix." Phosphora explained

"I see..." Sanguine said as he approached and knelt beside the second dead grunt,"well Viridi and Pit were both knocked out by the cloaked man, he calls himself Malus by the way."

"Lady Viridi...knocked out." Phosphora said in disbelief,"I failed at my one job, to protect her with my life."

"Hey it's fine," Sanguine reassured,"It happened to Pit as well, and besides they're both holed up in Palutena's Infirmary as we speak, safe and sound, I've been sent here to find some magmatized smelling-salts to resuscitate the two." Sanguine put his hand on the dead grunt's face, absorbing his power.

"What's that you're doing?" Phosphora asked with curiosity.

"I can absorb the life energy of dead people to become more powerful." Sanguine responded without hesitation. He approached the leader of the grunt party and began absorbing his power as well, in the middle of doing so, Sanguine glanced over and saw the troop's dropped 9mm pistol. Sanguine finished absorbing and picked up the gun, studying it.

"Weird," Sanguine said,"Hey Phoshpora."

"Yes Sanguine?"

"Does anyone in Skyworld use this?" He said beckoning at the pistol in his hand.

"No...I've never seen anything like that before, it's like...some kind of foreign handheld cannon." Phosphora observed the gun, confused by it.

"It's called a gun." Sanguine corrected,"What confuses me is how any of these guys could get a hold of one, more or less even know how to use it."

Sanguine continued to study the pistol, he noticed an engraving on the side of the gun. As Sanguine studied the engraving he saw that it was the familiar IMEC logo. Sanguine dropped the gun on the floor.

"What the hell..." Sanguine sputtered in shock. He couldn't believe this, why would Malus' men be using guns from HIS old mercenary core? Sanguine put his questions aside, he had a job to complete. Sanguine holstered the pistol, got up and turned toward the infirmary door.

"I need to head to the infirmary and find the smelling-salts anyways, I'll see you 'round."

"Ohh no you don't!" Phosphora interjected,"I don't know about you, but I have my own personal vendetta against this Malus guy and his men for harming my Lady and her people, besides the smelling-salts are rare materials and are kept locked away, only Lady Viridi and I can access them."

*Sigh* ... "Fine, you can help me, but don't expect me to babysit you!" Sanguine replied

"Believe me, I can handle myself." Phosphora said with a smile, her usual snarky attitude returning.

The two of them traveled to the infirmary together, Sanguine insisted they both stick to stealth as to not draw attention to themselves. Sanguine killed any grunts in their way and took their power, eventually they made it to the infirmary. When they both stepped through the door they saw Malus, a few Underworld remnants, and The Mirror of Truth?!

"YOU!" Sanguine said

"ME!" Malus responded,"Back for more I see? Well you came at a bad time. You see I fixed The Mirror of Truth, and I have just been so busy creating MORE and MORE soldiers for my army to KILL you, and there is NOTHING you can do to stop it...nothing, nothing at all."

Malus was obviously baiting Sanguine into smashing the mirror as to create his own loyal copy to serve him, but Sanguine already knew what the mirror could do based on Palutena's description. Sanguine decided to counter-bait Malus by charging at the mirror, a dark-blue flaming punch at the ready, before the fist made contact with the mirror, Sanguine turned the punch to hit Malus directly in his new mask. Malus reacted almost instantly, dodging and grabbing Sanguine's arm, Malis then redirected Sanguine's momentum, causing him to be thrown into, and shatter, the mirror.

"NO!" Sanguine yelled

"YES!" Malus yelled back in triumph

As Sanguine landed on the floor, his doppelgänger also landed on the floor, opposite from him and in the same fashion. Both Sanguine and his evil counterpart rose from the floor staring each other down. Sanguine saw that he looked just like him, except that he was more pale, had red streaks in his black hair, blood-red eyes instead of Sanguine's purple, he also had Sanguine's eye scar over his left eye rather than the right, and had a blood-red and black mercenary Exo-suit instead of Sanguine's dark-blue and black, also his suit had the IMEC logo scratched off, but it was in reverse so it said CEMI.

Malus laughed hysterically, like a retarded hyena,"AHA HA HA HA HAAA HA HA HA! I WIN! YOU LOSE! HA HA HAAAA! NOW MY LOYAL PET! I ORDER YOU TO KILL YOUR COPY! Men, we're done with our mission at hand, let's move out!" With that, Malus and his grunts filed out the door and escaped the temple. However, Sanguine and Phosphora were left with Sanguine's opposite to deal with.

"Great now Malus has another you on his side." Phosphora said

"Actually." The evil Sanguine began,"You shattered the mirror before the process could be completed, thus I have no inferior serving complex, I serve under no one baby! I'm my own free spirit, I'm a lone wolf, I hunt alone, I eat alone, end of story."

"So Evil Sanguine-" Phosphora began

"Evil Sanguine sounds gay, I'll take Dark Sanguine for 400 Trebek." Dark Sanguine responded.

"He has my sense of humor AND tendency to break the 4th wall, just like me...*sniff* My son!" Sanguine cried out

"I'm you dumbass, of course I'm just like you." Dark Sanguine responded unamused

"Doppelgänger huh," Sanguine began," all you need is the eyepatch and the goatee..."

"The eyepatch is right here," Dark Sanguine said as he strapped an eyepatch over his left eye scar."But I really should grow a goatee, sounds sexy."

"As I was saying," Phosphora continued,"If you don't serve Malus,then you won't kill us on his order?"

"No, I'll still kill you, it's just that I won't do it because Malus told me to." Dark Sanguine said in reply. Dark Sanguine dashed at Sanguine and jabbed two fingers charged with bright red lightning into his gut, Sanguine flew back into a bookcase at shattered it on impact. As Sanguine got up he saw that Dark Sanguine's attention was focused on Phosphora as the two were engaged in a "Lightning Battle" ... Ha, see what I did there?!

Anyways, Sanguine found that he could sneak up and get the drop on DS if he acted fast, he vanished and appeared behind Dark Sanguine, attempting to hit him with a fiery fist, Dark Sanguine was faster and stabbed Sanguine in the neck with an energized lightning blade, Sanguine's eyes went white as he exploded, clouding DS' vision.

"What the?! A copy!" Dark Sanguine said in surprise

"Not just any copy!" Sanguine's voice rang out in the thick smoke,"AN EXPLOSIVE COPY MADE OF FIRE! The smoke cleared enough for Dark Sanguine to see Sanguine knee him in the stomach with a fire-charged knee, Dark Sanguine retaliated by punching Sanguine in the face with his own lightning charged fist the very second Sanguine kneed him. Both combatants were locked together like a violent statue before collapsing onto the floor, end of Rocky 3 style. Both were breathing heavy as they struggled to get up.

"Wait!" Sanguine said,"If you kill me, you'll die to!"

"What the hell are you going on about now, faker?! Dark Sanguine said in disbelief

"Look." Sanguine responded. He threw an apple at one of the mirror shards, a black apple coming from the other side. Sanguine proceeded to set the original red apple on fire, after it burnt into ash, the black apple exploded like a grenade.

"Wow...um, wasn't expecting this to happen." Dark Sanguine responded, clearly surprised.

"In that case," He began," I won't kill you, but that doesn't mean I'll still like you, 'cause...I hate you, like, a lot."

Dark Sanguine took a smoke grenade off of his own utility belt and threw it on the ground, as it exploded he quickly escaped from the two.

"You may or may not see me again! FAKER!" Dark Sanguine yelled as his voice grew more and more distant the further he got.

"Well, that happened." Sanguine said,"Right Phosphora?...Phosphora?"

"Right here!" Phosphora said as she returned to Sanguine, her cuts and bruises patched up by bandages, and adhesives.

"You got yourself fixed up!" Sanguine noticed

"Aaaaaand..." Phosphora added as she held up glowing-red pebbles.

"The Magma salts!" Sanguine exclaimed,"Good, let's go then. We should get back to the others as fast as possible!"

"Right!" Phosphora said

The two took off down the temple's corridor, emerging into Viridi's front garden in seconds. They both flew up into the air and dashed towards Palutena's Temple, making it there in no time.


(Palutena's Temple)

[Infirmary]

16:00 Hours / Evening

Sanguine and Phosphora both ran into the sick bay's waiting room where Palutena was calmly sitting and reading a book, she looked up when the two ran in and noticed the change in members of party.

"Commander Phosphora?" Palutena stated,"what're you doing her, and why are you so damaged?"

Sanguine chimed in breathlessly,"Long story...explain later...here's Salts..." Sanguine handed the salts to Palutena, who in turn, handed the salts to a present medic. The medic prepared the salts and brushed them under Pit's and Viridi's noses. The two both slowly woke and rose up, Pit happy to see Palutena and Sanguine, and Viridi annoyed by the two's presence. She was however relieved to see her best commander there on site.

Phosphora immediately ran over and hugged Viridi as she began bawling into her shoulder,"OH MISTRESS VIRIDI! I'M SO SORRY I WASN'T THERE TO SAVE YOU WHEN YOU WERE ATTACKED! I'M THE WORST GENERAL EVER AND I DESER-"

Phosphora was cut off from her cry-fest as Viridi smacked her across the face.

"Pull yourself together commander! I can't have my top general break down over something as insignificant as this!" Viridi yelled as she attempted to knock some sense back into Phosphora.

"What happened over there Sanguine?" Palutena asked with concern.

"Alright! Everyone back into the dining hall!" Sanguine yelled over the group,"Looks like I have some more explaining, and more eating to do."


Author's Note:

And now Phosphora and Dark Sanguine join the mix! MORE PLOT!

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