Chapter 14 - We've Failed
(Author's Note: Warning - This chapter might be kinda disturbing. Though that's why I made it rated T for teens, but I think it might need a warning anyways.)
Pit stood there, laughing at his defeated twin who was lying motionless on the ground. I couldn't even do anything, I assume I was now a spirit, stuck in this world forever. If I could do anything at all, I'd just want to see my friend one last time…
I could not move or speak anymore, I didn't even have a body as far as I could tell. I watched the two angels below me in anticipation of what they'd do. To my surprise, Dark Pit started to get up.
"Pit… Why do you keep doing this?... Not to me, but to them. All of them… None of those outsiders deserve this…" Dark Pit said as he was trying to stand up.
Pit had no reaction for a while, then it turned into an irritated look.
"... Why? Because they're all liars! Just like that goddess I rid from this world so long ago!" Pit didn't have a glitching this time, he was speaking from his real voice.
"They're just humans from the outside, Pit. You always said it was your duty to protect them no matter what… Now look at everything you've done..." Said Dark Pit, who was just barely able to stand.
"Palutena's mission is no longer my own. And you're the one who proved that to me! You're the one who said she's been using me this entire time!... " Pit barked back, though the Cursed Palm's arua started to die down a little.
"You're the the real me, Dark Pit. You're someone who doesn't get pushed around. Someone who chose to be free by himself. Someone I looked up to…" Pit's expression softened. Dark Pit stared back at him, in shock of what he just heard.
"I just wanted you to be proud of me, Brother!" Pit yelled with a sense of anger and pain in his voice.
Both of them said nothing for awhile, I just watched everything unfold from the sidelines. I had the feeling the real Pit was always in there somewhere. But after all he's done, can he ever go back to the way he was before? The damage can't be undone either way...
"I… I am proud, that you finally did something for once in your life…" He took a slight step towards Pit.
"But all of this. Everything... In the end, you did nothing but lose yourself… " Dark Pit said with a pained expression.
Pit's Cursed Palm flared up again. "What are you talking about?! I didn't lose myself. I only grown more powerful! Because of this!" He lifted his arm with the Cursed Palm attached to it.
"That weapon didn't make you stronger, it just took away everything you used to be!" Dark Pit was out of breath from the previous battle, but he still shouted at the top of his lungs.
Pit wore a blank and cold expression, the two stayed silent for about a minute.
Meanwhile I saw and heard everything, I couldn't help but wonder. What was Pit thinking deep down in that head of his? I continued to watch, fearful of what happen. Would I die? Would my friend die too? What'll happen to the Kid Icarus game? Will someone new end up with it, fated to a battle they can't win? Could I ever see the real world again?...
"... Just leave me alone, Pittoo... " Pit turned around and vanished. The whole area where we fought Pit returned to the loading screen. I was sent to that loading screen alone, and the things I saw this time. They were the most unsettling things I've ever seen in my entire life.
I saw all the bodies again, a lot of them were the bodies of the game characters Pit killed. I was able to float around, scanning the whole area. I saw so many dead characters, the amount of corpses were unbelievable...
But the thing that made my heart drop was seeing my own dead body, placed upon a pile of other corpses. These were all bodies of regular people. People of all ages, and all of them died because of this game...
Then further down was the body of my friend, I wanted to scream or cry but I could only look. I couldn't even hear anything, so if my friend's spirit was right there calling out to me, I'd never know it.
Though despite how many bodies there were, I never heard of that many people gone missing or found dead playing a game in recent years. Perhaps their existence and mine were erased from the world. Pit did say he'll "eradicate" us at the start of that fight. Oh well, maybe that's good. Nobody will wonder where I disappeared to that way… But what would happen to my grandma in the hospital now?...
No matter where I went, how far I traveled through this place, I couldn't see anything but a motionless sea of blood and the remains of the fallen.
I was now living a wide awake nightmare. I appeared to be trapped here forever, no way out and no way to end it. No way to wake up and know it was only a dream, I'll never see a bright sunny day ever again...
So this is the madness that caused Dark Pit to say "Do you want to be trapped forever like us!?" They too cannot escape, and I assume they rely on us players to win the Special Battle for just the chance it'll end this… They must've been trying for so long…
How much time has gone by now? I can't tell. Has it been hours or days now?...
… I wonder where my friend is… They must be scared….. I can't find you... If I can have one wish, can we be together one last time?... I want to see their smiling face to know they're okay! I just want to spend time with my dear friend like we always did before! Where are you?! Please come back!
(3rd person PoV)
Dark Pit was sent back to the space between the two worlds. He slowly walked through the darkness until he found Magnus sitting on the ground by himself.
"M-Magnus? You're alive… He didn't kill you yet?..." Dark Pit asked.
"No, he didn't. After that battle I was just sent back here." Said Magnus.
"... I don't think I can get through to Pit anymore… That Cursed Palm taken away so much of who he used to be. And he took everything from this world… What are we going to do?..." Dark Pit stared off into the void.
Magnus looked at him and sighed. "We can't beat him, they can't beat him… If he ever kills us, that'll be our big break…"
Pandora decided to speak.
"Even as the Calamity Goddess myself, I cannot control any of this. And I certainly can't stop new people from playing that game..." Pandora said. It seems she had also lost hope.
Dark Pit sighed. He sat down next to Magnus. Everyone said nothing. They'd all just wait until a new person would play their copy of Kid Icarus Uprising. Trapped forever, yet being kept alive. At some point, they would all be driven to madness, and end up just like Pit…