Okay. first off, I'm sorry. I've been swamped with homework and certain letters on my keyboard stopped working. I had actually finished this chapter last year but couldn't submit it without finishing it. I'm sorry. I don't see myself updating very quickly unless you guys can donate a keyboard, but until then I'll try my best to copy paste my words into existence. I love you guys, however many of you are left, and I'm sorry once again.


Chapter 7: Reunite

Fire Mario walked confidently through the portal and into the Subspace, with Link following closely behind him. Without looking back, Mario waved his hand over his shoulder, which Crazy Hand responded to by waving back. Nodding, Mario just kept walking deeper into the Subspace desert. Link looked back and forth between the two, obviously confused.

"So you mean we're really going to go in here and save them? This place looks huge! How are we going to find them in here?" he asked, looking around him in all directions. Besides the still open portal, that was now being closed by the cloud barrier, all Link could see was purple sand in all directions. He didn't know why, but the place gave him the creeps. Before he could receive an answer, some purple sand started to rise between him and Mario. After a few seconds it bulged and formed a humanoid creature much like the ones that attacked them from the portal. In its hand, purple sand flowed to become a super scope, and without hesitation it raised it to shoot at Link.

"So you wanna fight, huh?" Link said, reaching back to retrieve the Master Sword and slice it in half, when suddenly, Mario's gloved fist was through the being's face. The being turned back to sand and collapsed around Mario's fist, and without saying a word, he turned back around and continued his walk, "Does that answer your question?"

Link nodded and unsheathed the Master Sword. He somehow knew that there would be more of these fights in the near future.

XxX

Samus felt as if she were floating in an empty abyss. She could no longer feel the shifting sand below her as the flare and heat from the super scopes seemed to fade in the distance. All senses seemed lost to her as she suspended in the air, free of all trials and tribulations. All she could see was white, and for some reason she felt calm, and safe. Already, she could hear the angels calling out to her…

Sa… mu….

Yes, soon she would be able to depart, and never have to worry about those stupid sand monsters, or those stupid metroids, or that stupid angel boy. Soon she would be able to depart for the land of the game over, and meet up with her friend.

Sam… us!

Yes, angels! Come take her away from this floating abyss! And while they're at it, banish the stupid boy with the wings…

Samus!

Samus winced, there was always the chance that the boy would be able to follow her up there as well…

"Samus wake up!" were the words that knocked Samus out of her stupor. She felt her eyes open, but could still see nothing but white. Noticing the softness of the white, she pulled her face back to notice that her face was buried in the toga of Pit, who was now holding her bridal style. Looking up at him, she could see that his face was completely serious, and if one looked hard enough, a little angry. He was looking over his shoulder at something, and whatever it was, it didn't make him happy. She followed his gaze to see an enormous crater in the sand where a super scope blast was. It easily spanned a size equivalent to a floor of the Smash Mansion. 'That could have been me' she thought.

It was around now that she noticed she was looking down at the blast from an angle, which meant she was in the air. She looked back at Pit to see that his wings were shining blue, turning his previously smaller wings to great behemoths that allowed him to carry them both. She felt her face get hotter, and she could feel a blush on her face. She had been blushing since she woke up in Pit's arms, but she didn't realize it.

"W-What are you doing you idiot? Put me down!" she screamed, starting to struggle out of his grip. Pit's face turned from serious to comical as he now struggled to keep her in his arms.

"Quit it Samus! We're a bunch of yards in the air! If I put you down now, you'll die!" he said between dodging her wildly thrown punches. She didn't seem to be listening though, so he tried another method.

"QUIT IT SAMUS!" he screamed in his most commanding voice, causing her to stop immediately. This surprised both warriors, causing them to just stare at each other, Samus in complete shock, and Pit in shock as well, though he concealed it by using the same eyes he used to command the armies of Paluntena.

Samus was the first to speak, "W-well then… I suggest you get us to the ground..." she said, almost in an offhand whisper.

"Y-Yeah… I'll do that" Pit responded in a similar tone. They said nothing else as Pit slowly descended to the ground, now a mile or so away from the blast.

As soon as they touched ground, Samus sprung from Pit's arms and rushed away, concealing her blush. Pit looked at her in astonishment, wondering why she was acting so weird, "Hey Samus… you okay?"

Samus didn't answer as she continued to sit in the sand trying to shake off her red face in vain. Why did he make her blush? That didn't happen since… ever... In mid of her thoughts she looked up to see sand forming ahead of her and immediately she smashed it into pieces. She turned around and was surprised to see Pit not doing the same.

"Hey Angel-face!" Samus yelled, her blush now over, "it'd be smart to start kicking some sand right now!"

Pit, however, didn't seem to be listening as the creatures reformed again while some with gloves jumped straight at the boy. Samus rushed ahead to intercept when she something that surprised her. The boy had it under control!

Pit swiftly dodged the first hit by tilting his head to the right, before thrusting his shoulder forward, knocking the wind out of the creature. The second one reappeared behind him and attempted to grab him, only for Pit to bend and elbow the poor thing, sending it to the ground in what it registered as pain. Both jumped back as they tried to recover, but Pit wouldn't let them get that chance as he rushed forward to finish them, only for another one to form and grapple him from the back. Pit struggled with his bond while one of the downed ones recovered and rushed at him again, ready to punch him in the ribs. Pit saw this and flipped over his captor and thrust him into the punch instead, causing the poor thing to dispel into sand. Wasting no time, Pit now caught the outstretched hand of the creature and tossed him into his still recovering teammate, making them both collapse back into sand.

Samus would be impressed, had she not been now dodging the flames of other creatures as they spawned. Some of them were easily taken out by her gun, but others were harder to take care of. She slid under the flames of Fire Flower that a creature was aiming at her, and snatched it from him, before upper cutting it something fierce, making it collapse.

"Time to die, idiots" she mumbled as she squeezed the stem of the large flower, causing the petals to spin and emit fire. She waved the item in an arc, burning several other approaching creatures and returning them to sand. Afterwards, the flower ran out of fire and collapsed into sand as well. She looked around to see that more and more sand creatures were already forming and some were making their way over even now. Some held bats and some held power swords.

'Crap, I'm here again…' Samus thought as she picked up an unused bat off the floor, swinging it to get a hang of it. 'At least he's here too…' she thought again, before catching herself and shaking her head. Was she relieved that the little angel was here? No… Having an ally was always a good thing. That had to be the reason for her relief. She swung the bat hard at an incoming creature, square in its jaw. It turned back to sand before it even reached the ground.

Pit ducked under a punch and caught a bat before spinning and sending its owner into the swing of a laser sword. Without a pause he thrust the bat behind him and took out another creature, before grabbing its flower before it hit the ground. Jumping in the air, on his way down he started to spin, activating the fire flower and raining fire on his enemies below, now that he and Samus were far enough away from each other. When he landed, his enemies were now ash around him as he proceeded to rush into his enemies, the fire flower now depleted.

Samus was thoroughly impressed by the little guy's power. She hadn't expected him to be anything other than an archer. She genuinely thought that she would be the only one who had a backup technique. While watching his movements out the corner of her eyes, she raised her elbow into the gut of another creature, effectively clearing the area, for now. She relaxed for a second, exiting her battle pose before analyzing Pit's. Something about the way he fought seemed oddly familiar.

"Hey brat, that's a nice fighting style" she commented, turning back to the hazel haired boy. Said boy blushed a bit as he relaxed.

"Um… thanks, Samus…" he said, rubbing the back of his head. He moved to congratulate her too with a high five when he noticed more sand starting to rise up around him. Samus noticed this as well, and started running immediately.

"Keep up angel boy!" she yelled back to the boy. Pit stood there astonished, before starting to follow her. A sand monster jumped up to intercept him but Pit roundhouse kicked it into nonexistence, never stopping his stride. Within seconds he caught up to the bounty hunter as she rounded over a dune.

"Its funny, by now there would be like a million more of these things surrounding us but I guess we got luck-" Samus started before stopping, a look of pure horror on her face as she looked down at the scene below her, her face seeming pale in the warm light. Pit hadn't noticed her stopping, and kept running, bumping into her and causing them both to fall into the sand.

"Pfft, what gives! They're still forming behind us! We need to… go…" Pit started, but gasped as he saw what was going on ahead of them. Right ahead of them, were around 100 creatures with super scopes. All of them fully charged and about to fire.

XxX

Link couldn't remember the last time he had this much fun. Hacking and slashing through an army of enemies before him, sometimes completely outclassing the enemy swordsmen, he took down near legions that stood before him with only his sword and shield. His kill count was in the thousands and he hadn't even taken out his secret weapon that Mario had tossed him a while ago. Thanks to the lingering magic he was nowhere near tired as he blocked a boomerang strike from above, only to do a spin attack in order to clear him some room. Those unlucky enough to get slashed simply fell to pieces, and he loved it. He prepared to charge into the throng again, but stopped when he heard Mario laugh, and he quickly ducked, holding the Hylian shield above him as Mario's twin fire dragons seared the area, once again clearing it. Link nodded to the little destructive plumber after seeing him for the first time in a while, and instantly they took off again.

Link smiled as he remembered his interaction with the newbie…

XxX

Flashback

Link looked around the dark, creepy area, still feeling the heat of Mario's last attack, when the angel Pit glided in from nowhere and landed behind him, his face almost delirious at first, but relieved when he saw them.

"Ah… so that explosion was you guys?" Pit laughed, his fast heartbeat almost visible through his toga.

"Yeah" was all Link was able to say. Such destructive power was out of this, or at least his world.

"It'sa me!" Mario toted gleefully, strolling over to the two, before shaking Pit's hand. Pit went along with it, being shaken by Mario's enthusiasm, but eventually shook back, showing remarkable strength by matching Mario's. Eventually their handshake broke, and Pit decided to ask his question.

"So does this mean that Samus found you guys? We can go home now?" he asked, hopefully. Mario and Link looked at each other hesitantly.

"Wait… Samus isn't with you?" Link asked.

"No… she set out for food or something a while ago. I thought she might have escaped when I heard your explosion… So she's not with you guys?"

Both heroes shook their heads.

"Then that means that I have to go look for her…" Pit concluded, opening his wings, preparing to fly off in search when he was intercepted by Link, who was grabbing his arm.

"What are you talking about? We came here to rescue you! Listen, we'll get Samus, you need to go through the clouds. Crazy is waiting for you on the other side."

His words didn't seem to get through to Pit, however, as the winged hero just turned back and tried to fly once again. Link struggled with holding him back, however and tried a different approach.

"I will not have a death on my hands, angel! I will bring you back as a trophy is I have to!" Link yelled, retrieving the Master Sword from its sheathe. Pit saw this and his eyes narrowed as he reached back to grab his bow, but frowned when he remembered he no longer had it. Link's sword came down in an rush, and instantly Pit brought out Paluntena's shield, its sacred gold and steel creating sparks against the Blade of Evil's Bane.

The two fighters were pushed back by each other's blows. They both took a second to recover before both of them rushed at each other again. Mere seconds before they were to meet again, Mario appeared in between and lit the ground ablaze.

"Graagh!" Pit yelled as he jumped clear of the searing hot flames.

"What gives, Mario?" Link asked, also trying to compose himself. Mario said nothing as his flames died down in the cool purple sand. Still silent, Mario walked over to Pit, and placed a hand on his shoulder. With a nod, Pit has a look of surprise on his face, before its replaced by a smile and he flies off.

"The hell Mario!" Link asked, surprised.

"Behind you" Mario answered. Without even turning around, Link plunged his sword into the stomach of a rising sand creature.

"What would you do if Zelda was stuck out there?" Mario asked, walking past Link and towards the battalion of sand creatures that had formed from Pit's travel to their location. Link said nothing.

"I thought so." Mario said, handing Link a white mask with certain markings on it. When link took it, his eyes bulged as he realized what it was. The instant it touched his skin, Link felt a dark power rush through his body. While it made him feel empowered, he also felt poisoned by its presence. Without hesitation he shoved it in his magical pouch with the rest of his items, where the mask could lay dormant.

"Where did you get this?" Link asked.

"A very Crazy source" Mario answered. At this, Link nodded, before looking off in the direction of the winged hero, who was now barely a speck in the distance.

'Be careful man, and I may just acknowledge you as a hero."


I'm sorry it was so short, I will try to update sooner...