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BGM: Solo Menu – Palutena (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
"Do you have any idea where Viridi might strike next?" A Centurion wondered.
"I have no clue, but I hope it's not us." Another said. "I don't want to be entangled in vines!"
"I hope it's not Remnant."
"I doubt she'd go after Remnant. She probably doesn't even know about it."
"Hmm…" Palutena rubbed her chin in thought as she placed Viridi's picture on the corkboard. "Now we have the Forces of Nature to deal with…" She said as the three Centurions looked at her.
"Okaaaaaaay… where did she get that picture of the Nature Goddess?" The third asked.
"Don't ask." Both of them said.
"Lady Palutena!" A Centurion flew over. "Viridi's about to unleash another Reset Bomb!"
"What?! Where?!" Palutena asked.
With Pit…
"Holy…" Pit jawdropped as he watched Ruby consume several cookies within seconds. "HOW?! You're like a human-sized Kirby!"
"You should see me with strawberries." Ruby said, playfully winking at him.
"I see…"
"Guys, I don't know what it is that you're doing, but we've got a mission!" Palutena said.
End BGM
"Coming!" Ruby said as she took Pit's hand and used her semblance to get over to Palutena.
"Ooogh… I never to get used to that…" Pit groaned, snapping out of it as Yang, Weiss and Blake arrived, and as soon as they got on the stars, they immediately headed out.
BGM: Wrath of the Reset Bomb (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
And as soon as they did, they noticed the Underworld Army and the Grimm currently battling with the Forces of Nature. "The Underworld Army and the Grimm are engaged in battle with the Forces of Nature!"
"What? Why are Hades and Viridi fighting?" Ruby asked.
"Isn't it obvious?!" Viridi exclaimed.
"You again…" Yang growled.
"These brutes have a complete disregard for life. They're even worse than humans!" Viridi exclaimed as they took down a Belunka and a Nevermore.
"Ho ho ho! You're one to talk, little goddess!" Hades spoke up. "At least I give the humans YOU kill peace after death!"
…I wouldn't call it peaceful. Weiss thought.
"We have an opportunity here, you guys. Let's use this chaos to our advantage." Palutena said.
"Alright, so what's our target?" Pit asked.
"Viridi is planning to drop another Reset Bomb in this area."
"What?!" All of them exclaimed in surprise.
"Where, exactly?!" Blake asked.
"I'm still not sure."
"And with Hades's army after them too, the humans don't stand a chance!" Pit said.
"Not to mention the Grimm joining Hades' side." Yang added.
"I know, so we have to do something!" Pit said as they took own some enemies and flew around, looking for the bomb until Ruby noticed something in the corner of her eye.
"Uh… is that the Reset Bomb?" Ruby asked, pointing to an object falling through the sky.
"Yes it is, we better hurry!" Palutena said.
"Roger! That bomb won't be resetting anything when we're done with it!" Pit said as he flew off with the girls right behind him.
"What mischief are you getting into now?" Viridi wondered before realizing what they're doing. "Rise, my children, and pluck these dweebs from the air!"
"Dweebs?!" Pit and Ruby exclaimed.
"I'm sorry, but that's one point for Viridi."
"…Who the hell says dweeb these days?" Yang asked.
"Yeah, well… every dweeb has his day!" Pit said.
"Yeah!" Ruby nodded, high fiving Pit while Weiss facepalmed at this.
"Hmm, make that two points for Viridi."
"You were saying, Yang?"
"Well… would it be a surprise if it came out of Pit?" Yang asked as they took out several Badoots.
"She's not wrong." Blake said as they flew up and saw the Reset Bomb get closer to them.
"The Reset Bomb is going to wreak havoc if it hits the ground!" Pit said.
"There's NOTHING natural about that!"
"How do we stop it?" Yang asked as they flew down... only to discover obvious green spots sticking out.
"…Oh, that's convenient!" Weiss said as they began shooting. Palutena explained that shooting wildly could cause the bomb to explode prematurely… only problem was is that it was a bit difficult to shoot the green spots, as they were all falling with the Reset Bomb, but they managed to destroy them to expose the core.
"The core's exposed! Hurry!"
"Come on bomb, do your worst!" Pit and Yang exclaimed as they then destroyed it with ease, resulting with the core exploding and harmlessly falling to the ground.
"Yeah! Destructimated!" Pit exclaimed.
"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!" Viridi yelled.
"I know, isn't it wonderful?" Palutena smiled as the five flew up. "But we can't rest yet, Viridi has a Reset Bomb factory that needs to be shut down. Once we deal with it, that'll be the end of these horrid things."
"Aye aye! Your reign of destruction ends here, Viri-" Laser beams proceeded to rain down on them. "WHOA! LASER BEAMS?!
"Yikes!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Children! You must protect the Reset Bomb Depot!"
"That won't work!" Weiss said. "Okay, WE GET IT! You have problems with us humans, but most of us aren't that bad and causing most destruction won't help!"
"Oh please! Why should I listen to the ice queen anyway… especially since she's working with the flying munitions depot himself?!"
"Hey, I am NOT an ice queen!"
"…Flying munitions depot…?" Pit wondered.
"Seriously, you're as destructive as a hundred Reset Bombs! Both you and the humans working with you… WHICH I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY! AND WHERE EXACTLY DID THESE GRIMM CREATURES COME FROM?!"
"Maybe, but we're destroying evil! It's totally different! Look it up!" Pit smirked as they flew up a little higher to get a better look at the depot.
"We're approaching the Reset Bomb Depot!"
"Whoa… this wasn't what I was expecting…" Blake whispered, seeing the huge, floating island. It had large leaves and crystalline structures all around. And there were multiple Reset Bombs protruding from the bottom that looked like they could fall off at any moment.
"It's huge!" Pit said, taking in the sight of the huge fortress.
"I'll look for a place to land."
They quickly flew around the depot, looking around for a landing spot while taking care of the Bladers and Palutena found a spot as soon as they came out of a hole. "Ah! Found the perfect spot! Get ready, this might be a rough landing!"
"What do you mean by-" Pit shot up in the air. "-ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH!"
"Man, he flew up like a rocket!" Ruby said as they took off after him and then landed as Pit was groggily getting up after faceplanting.
End BGM
BGM: Reset Bomb Depot (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
"You okay?" Blake asked.
"Yeah… I just should be used to this at this point." Pit said as he got up as they walked forward.
"Just going to stroll in without backup?" Viridi asked. "That's brave, if not very smart! Rise, my children! Politely destroy our guests!"
"Politely destroy?" Weiss asked with a raised eyebrow as she used her Orbitars to destroy the Nutskis and walked forward, only for them to be trapped and a bomb on wheels showed up.
"…That's the ugliest Bob-omb I've ever seen." Ruby said.
"That's not a Bob-omb, dummy! It's a Bumpety Bomb!" Viridi exclaimed.
"Hey, don't call my sister dumb… AGAIN!" Yang growled, wanting to tear Viridi into pieces. And even though she couldn't see it, Viridi was basically sticking her tongue out at Yang, as if she was thinking 'you can't even reach me!'
"Cute name. It almost feels wrong to destroy them… oh well! Just watch out for their blast radius!" Palutena warned as they got rid of the enemies before they moved on. "I brought a few Cherubots for you."
"Oh, sweet!" Pit said as he hopped on one, Blake hopping on the other and Ruby getting in the last one.
"You know, we should definitely trick these out!" Ruby said.
"Oh, good idea! I've been meaning to trick out an Exotank for Yang anyway."
"Hell yeah!" Yang fist pumped.
"…You know, I can't imagine those piles of metal being very fuel efficient…" Viridi said, watching the three make a mess of things in her depot.
"Actually, it runs on Goddess power, which is totally renewable." Palutena said with a hint of smugness in her voice as they walked around until they got in a small arena where the Forces of Nature were battling against more Underworld troops.
"DANG IT, HADES! GET YOUR FILTHY TROOPS OUT OF MY BOMB DEPOT!" Viridi yelled. "SAME GOES FOR THE GRIMM!"
"You're awfully cute when you're flustered, rosebud!"
"…Did he just attempt to flirt with her?" Weiss wondered as they managed to take out both troops and they walked off, hopping out of the Cherubots and went off, where some Lethiniums tried to take them out.
"Wowza!" Pit exclaimed, hiding behind a wall before destroying it.
"Lasers seem like overkill."
"We usually get much BIGGER enemies here…"
"Too bad Pit and his friends are just so… tiny!"
"Hey, we can hear you, y'know!" Pit snapped.
"Why are we getting dragged to your teasing?!" Weiss exclaimed.
"You might want to be careful with saying who's tiny…" Yang warned. "Next thing you know, you're going to call a guy with a metal arm and a metal leg tiny because he didn't drink his milk and his growth was stunted… and that just might offend him."
"…Okay, that was oddly specific." Blake said.
"Hey, it could happen!"
"I don't know what you meant by that… but that also applies to Little Mac. Poor Samus was in the hospital for about a week." Pit said.
"Wait, Samus made fun of a little guy?" Ruby asked.
"Well, in her defense, she wasn't expecting how small he was compared to her height." Pit explained and they kept going where they came across some sort of mud creature. It had a pair of horns made of branches and two red crystals.
"Ew! It's a pile of mud!" Weiss exclaimed in a grossed out tone.
"…Nothing like fighting a pile of mud to make a guy feel tough…" Pit said sarcastically.
"Mudrones are pretty resilient, so you actually DO need to be tough to fight them." Palutena explained. "To completely defeat them, you have to defeat them at least three times."
"THREE TIMES?!" Weiss yelled… and three KO's later, the Mudrone finally disappeared and they kept going where they discovered electric walls.
"Um…I really don't think we should be touching these walls…" Pit pointed out the obvious.
"Good instincts!"
"Bawk bawk bawk! What are you, chicken?" Viridi taunted.
"No, we're just not like Nora…" Blake muttered, imagining what would happen if Nora had too much electricity absorbed and shuddered at the thought. They kept going until they got into another small arena where the Underworld Army came for another round.
"More Underworld forces!" Viridi exclaimed in disgust.
"I get what Viridi has against Hades. He's destructive and evil… but what does Hades have against Viridi?" Pit wondered.
"I think you answered your own question. Destruction is fun for him." Palutena replied.
"Well, five points for the squares!" Hades chimed in. "It's true, this is just my idea of a good time. Not that these serious ladies would know anything about a good time, especially those humans."
"…Ew!" Weiss exclaimed.
"Don't even PUT Lady Palutena in the same sentence as the Goddess of Brutality!"
"It's Goddess of NATURE!" Viridi corrected him in annoyance.
"Yeah, a Nature Goddess that's brutal." Yang said as they walked forward after they got rid of the enemies, including an enemy named Captain Flare.
"You'd think the Lord of the Underworld would be too busy for mischief making." Palutena said as they went down an elevator.
"Oh no! Making mischief is one of my principal responsibilities!"
"Does he sound a little… giddy to you?" Ruby asked.
"Yes… he does. What have you done, Hades?" Palutena asked.
"Oh, like I would spoil the surprise!"
"…He probably recruited some whackadoodle that teamed up with Team Dark RWBY." Pit said.
"Now, what makes you think I did such a thing, Pitty Pat?" Hades chuckled.
"You're not denying it, for one thing." Palutena said.
"I'm just going to say… it's a secret to everybody!"
"…He just had to pull a Zelda there, didn't he?" Pit growled as they hopped off the elevator. "Whoa… I wasn't expecting… THIS."
"Now that's what I call nature… kinda." Weiss said.
"Hmm… I wonder if Reset Bombs grow like fruit?" Palutena wondered.
"Organic fruit." Viridi corrected proudly.
"And when it's ripe, it falls off the vine and just organically destroys everything in its path?" Hades asked.
"That's not exactly how it goes…"
"But I'm in the ballpark, aren't I?"
"Nature dictates that all life must eventually break down. THIS is just an accelerated version of that process."
"Quick question!" Ruby said.
Viridi sighed. "Yes?"
"If you control plant life, do you also control the weather as well?"
"…I'm a Nature goddess, not some weather Goddess! Sheesh!"
"But Ruby might be on to something. Mother Nature also means the weather." Pit pointed out.
"DO I LOOK LIKE I CAN CONTROL THE WIND TO YOU?!" Viridi yelled.
"Well, you ARE full of hot air!" Hades said.
"OH, SHUT UP HADES!" Viridi screamed as they went around and destroyed a Mimicutie in the process, destroying more enemies and then came across a rather peculiar enemy. It looked like a rhino beetle with long legs.
"What's the deal with this guy?" Yang wondered.
"It's called a Meeba… and it's actually a kind of parasitic fungus." Viridi said.
"That shell will be hard to break, go behind it to attack." Palutena advised.
"Hey! Who asked for your advice?!" Viridi asked as they destroyed the Meeba and kept going as they went over to get a treasure chest and destroying a Mudrone in the process. They then hopped onto a grind rail and doing style points while some of them were cheering. "…Are you always so insufferably upbeat?"
"And what's wrong with that?" Ruby asked, dodging a Megonta as they quickly got rid of it.
"…Well, for one… humans like you should be dead by now and two… upbeat annoys me to no end!"
"…You need a different hobby." Weiss quietly said as they walked forward and dealing with the rest of the Forces of Nature.
"Fight harder, children! They're just four little humans and one little angel! If this fortress goes down, it's the end of all Reset Bombs!"
"That's right. Ready yourself, Goddess of Nature!" Palutena warned as they took care of a Boom Stomper and went onward… and discovered the Virgo Chamber. Ah, I was wondering where the Virgo Chamber was." She said as they walked in.
"Darn it, I should've hid that chamber somewhere else!" Viridi growled as Ruby was holding the Virgo Palm when they came out as the Palm disappeared and they kept going onto a different elevator, appearing outside where they were ambushed… but luckily, they found some Cherubots as they quickly destroyed them with ease with the help of Yang and Weiss and they ran off.
"Up ahead is where the heart of the Reset Bomb Depot is at."
"Sweet, it's so close!" Ruby exclaimed.
"Let's take it down for the sake of humanity!" Yang cheered as they went forward and took down the last line of defense before they walked in and went down the elevator… and where the Reset Bomb Pod was located.
End BGM
"Destroy that Reset Bomb Pod to take down the entire depot!" Palutena ordered.
"Not a problem!" Yang smirked.
"That's what you think! Guards! Wake up and report for duty!" Viridi ordered as the guards woke up and jumped up, landing in front of Pit and RWBY.
BGM: Boss Battle 1 (Kid Icarus: Uprising)
"Ugh! I should've brought more soldiers! MORE competent soldiers!" Viridi growled as they began to attack the guards.
"Sorry about that, sprout. I'm afraid they're busy fighting my guys." Hades smirked.
"But you have to admit, Hades. My troops are no joke, right?" Viridi asked as Yang punched a hole through a guard.
"…Oh yes, they're just terrifying… quake-in-your-boots terrifying." Hades sarcastically replied as Yang kicked a guard down into the hole below, which resulted in an explosion and destroyed the shell before Pit could ask anything about how to destroy the shell.
"…Sweet!" Pit exclaimed as they began to annihilate the Pod as it was soon destroyed before the shell grew back. "Ha ha! Obliteration!"
"Good, now let's get you out of there!"
End BGM
"Heh, that was pretty sweet." Yang grinned… and then suddenly, the whole place started to rumble as Pit's wings glowed and RWBY's Stars came to their aid.
"Quick, hop on!" Blake said as they hopped on and got out of there, following Pit… but the explosion caused them to fall out of their Stars and Pit going careening out of the Depot.
"WHOOOOOOA!" They all yelled.
"MY DEPOT! THAT'S IT, YOU ARE NOW OFFICIALLY ON THE TOP OF MY TO-KILL LIST!" Viridi screamed.
"Uh oh, I better get you guys out of there!" Palutena said as heavenly lights sent Pit, RWBY and the Stars away back to Skyworld.
At Viridi's temple…
"UNBELIEVABLE!" Viridi screamed. "Of all the things that can happen, my depot was not only destroyed by an angel… BUT BY HUMANS! AAAAAH! I'M SO FRUSTRATED, I WANT TO DESTROY SOMETHING!"
"Tea, mistress Viridi?" A butler asked as Viridi turned to him. "It usually calms you down… and a nice hot spring bath."
"…Thank you, Arlon." Viridi said, taking the tea from him and drinking it. "Ah, I always love your herbal tea."
"If it's not too much trouble, Mistress Viridi, perhaps I should take a crack at Pit and those humans."
"Sure… go for it." Viridi said, sighing. "Let me guess, you have a feeling they're going to the Lunar Sanctum?"
"Yes." Arlon nodded and floated up. "It must be protected if we are to keep it from escaping. Take care." He said and flew off.
Viridi sighed. "Well… time to take a Hot Spring bath to calm me down…" She said as she finished her herbal tea before heading over to calm herself down.
And thus, Viridi goes to calm down and Arlon goes and... well, goes to be a gentleman, I suppose.
