The Beginning of Mistrust

"She lied to us." Samus said breathlessly.

"What else should we expect…"Snake started.

"…from a banshee." Fox finished. Pit looked over at Link who's brow was furrowed, and Zelda who looked on the edge of tears.

Meta Knight and Lucario sat beside each other, their faces solemn.

"A banshee…" Meta Knight said almost in awe.

"Full of darkness. Creatures of evil." Lucario sounded as though he was reading a piece of information from a book.

"How could she never of told us…everything about being confident that she was hero, all a lie." Meta Knight sighed and spun his sword hit in his hand his face still impassive.

"Her glove covered up her true aura." Lucario said.

"Did you…" Meta Knight started.

"Yes, as she…flew away…I caught a glance of her true aura." He looked out onto the field were the glove lay in ruins.

"She tricked us all." Meta Knight said understandingly. He thought he knew what his friend saw.

Wolf smirked. After this it would be easier to gain her as an ally. Even if by force, now no one stood in their way. He looked at the ripped glove and left it there as he watched the chaos of Celest's lies play out among the heroes. The villains had already left and Wolf soon followed the smile of triumph still upon his face.

I rubbed my black shoulders and watched as the friction sparked flames between my fingers. I closed my eyes and tried to calm myself, but my human form seemed far from obtainable.

"Let it go." I heard a voice in my head, and knew it was my own. "Be myself, this is who I am, who I always will be." The voice was clear with no objections, my conscious gone replaced with emptiness. "I can be powerful, I can win… I can be me again…" I knew it was true, just letting my true self be released I would again be able to take control of it. I bound my courage inside of me and released my true power. It felt like having freezing water cascade over me followed by the warmth of rushing wind. I closed my eyes and waited. When I finally felt better I opened my eyes. My body was the same black as before, but now black and purple flames lapped around it. My clothing was still a dark purple and my hair seemed to just be flames, no longer tied back, the locks moved as if in water. My eyes…cold silver, no pupil, just metallic colored. But I felt stronger, stronger than I had ever felt before. I stretched out a hand in front of me and willed it to transform. My human hand gloved in grey appeared, but I soon let it go. I was much more powerful now…now that I was myself.

Lucario had waited until everyone left before taking the ripped glove. His eyes glowed softly and he realized the glove contained a powerful spell, but no aura. He tied the two pieces in a knot and threw them away in the nearest waste can. Then he ran off toward the infirmary. His only chance of anyone believing this was the two people who were unconscious.

Chancy placed an ice pack on Falco's head as he stirred quietly.

Sonic was already up and trying to get past the pink Pokémon, however, even with his speed, the nursing creature seemed to come out of nowhere and drag him back to his hospital bed.

"May I speak with Sonic?" Lucario's voice sounded as he approached Nurse Joy urgently.

"Yes, but please keep it down, Falco is sill knocked out." She gave him a fleeting smile and he approached Sonic.

"So is everything about Celest true?" Sonic asked in a rushed tone. Lucario knew it was too late to convince him…but maybe Falco.

"Yes." Lucario said indifferently to Sonic. "At least that she is a full Banshee." He concluded. Sonic gave a low whistle.

"Sorry to hear that." He said lying down in thought.

He spoke to Sonic a little longer before leaving, but not before pulling Nurse Joy aside. "Nurse Joy may I ask something of you? When Falco wakes up inform me and only me, then after I have spoken with him, then you may let the others know." Nurse Joy gave him a quizzical look.

"Why?" She asked.

"It concerns Celest." He said knowing she had heard about it by now.

"Oh…sure…I'll keep an ear and eye out." She said with a smile as Lucario left. His mind was filled with hope and despair.

"So she is ready." Vigax's cold voice said. The villains were gathered around a table deep in the cave. A light fixture was hung from the ceiling dim, but casting light into the villains eyes. Enough to see where they were but not enough to attract attention from outside the cave's entrance.

"Almost." Wolf said.

"When you gain her onto your side, let me know, but do not let her know of me." He said his snake like voice growing more solemn. "I need her to believe she is in control before she realizes that I am…Otherwise she may resist enough to conquer us all."

"Very well."Wolf said.

"Keep my identity a secret too." Eggman jarred in. "I don't want Sonic finding out I am here." He waged a finger as he spoke.

"Is she really worth all this trouble." Bowser breathed. "We are spending immense time on this one girl, should we not take more time on our own plans!"

"Patience." Ganandorf hissed.

"Yes, patience, trust a general and super being…this bounty hunter is the best we could ever have." Vilgax said releasing a cold raspy laugh.

Tetrax Shard had followed Vilgax to this new dimension. If you could even all it that. He was a crystal alien, green in color with golden eyes. His friend and pilot Pluto climbed out of his ship behind him, a fat pink/orange creature with three yellow eyes and three antennae, he was quite ugly but talented in flying and generating his body back to its original shape from even his tiniest bit.

"We have to find Celest." He said quietly. There ship was concealed in the forest miles away from the Brawl mansion. "She must be here somewhere, if Vilgax has come all this way." Pluto nodded and made a few gurgling sounds. Tetrax pulled out a hover board and jumped onto it pulling out a GPS system. If anything he knew he must keep Vilgax from finding him.