This time, Pit had no dream. There was no distress, no hot spring, no clouds, no wet bed, nothing. For a while he just was, in an infinite plane of emptiness. After all Pit had been through over the last week, he actually sort of relished the experience. Still, he sensed something. Like there was something he needed to do. For some reason, he felt panic and despair. Who was that crying?
At the end of his infinite darkness he saw a light. Not just any light, though, a bright and immaculate light that silhouetted a beautiful figure. But the light was fading and so was the goddess beckoning him over.
Pit nodded- it was not yet his time. Since he was still not done serving Lady Palutena, he flew toward the light.
o-o-o-o-o
Blurry? He didn't need to wear glasses. He wasn't sure if any angels wore glasses, come to think of it. He tried moving his head but found it heavier than normal, almost too heavy to move. And his body...it was being squeezed from all sides, not letting him move an inch. And most strangely of all, he was no longer in pain. Confused and scared, he tried to call for help.
"Waa...aa..ah?" he cried out, a shrill, high pitched sound coming from his mouth when he tried to speak.
"Oh, he's awake!" he heard a voice, unmistakably Palutena's, cry with intense relief. Suddenly her blurry figure appeared in front of Pit, smiling down on him like he was the most precious thing in the world.
From beside her, a fuzzy figure that looked like Isabelle came into frame cradling a little black bundle of blankets in her arms. "I was starting to worry," Isabelle said. "Pittoo has been up for hours."
"Mweah?" Pit asked, still having trouble speaking.
"Now Pit, don't freak out but…" Palutena took a deep breath. "We had to use the Rewind Spring on you boys. Again."
The wheels clicked in Pit's infantile brain for a few seconds before, instinctively, he began crying, "Wwaahhh!?"
"Oh, his pacifier!" Isabelle said, grabbing something from a table. When she leaned over to put the pacifier in Pit's mouth, him and the little black bundle in her arms briefly met eyes. Dark Pit, who didn't look more than 4 months old, was glaring at Pit with the absolute deadliest of intentions. Thankfully, Isabelle pulled him away again as Pit's mouth naturally formed around the object in his mouth and started sucking.
Now that Pit was quiet, Palutena could continue. "Both you and Dark Pit are fine," she explained. "But changing your ages so fast can be dangerous. First thing tomorrow afternoon I'll return you to big kids again. Actual big kids, I mean. As you boys should be. So at least you'll get a little kiss on the cheek out of this, huh?" she added, with a wink.
When Pit had first saved Palutena from Medusa a long time ago she granted him adulthood with a simple peck on the cheek. However, she became creeped out by how stupid this manchild was so she reversed her magic to let Pit grow up and learn naturally.
Palutena bent over and picked up Pit, cradling him in her arms as he fussed a bit, still upset by his situation. "I know you want to sleep," she told him patiently, "but the rest of the kids are worried sick and I promised I'd let them see you when you woke up."
Pit tried to give a cry at this but, upon opening his mouth, Palutena pushed the pacifier in further and smiled down at him. From beside him he heard Dark Pit give a short cry before Isabelle did the same. The four of them exited the room and, before he knew it, he was back in what looked like his home room: Cabin B.
"Are they awake?!" he heard an excitable voice ask, knowing it must be Toon Link.
Palutena nodded and she and Isabelle walked to Pit's bed, laying the little angels gently on top of it. The kids all crowded around to see their new infant cabin mates, one wrapped in a white blanket and the other wrapped in black.
Toon Link was front and center to see to see them, smiling with joy that his friends were alright. It was clear his fresh black eye and slinged arm weren't gonna slow him down any.
"You guys were so cool!" he told the angels, seemingly more excited to see his friends than to see the babies. "The way you jumped out the window, Dark Pit! Oh, and Pit, we saw you flying away, totally on fire! It was awesome!"
Orange approached next, clinging protectively to Young Link, who wasn't wearing his hat and had a bandage wrapped around his head. Pit's face of worry from seeing his friends this way was distinct, despite his little baby features. Orange simply smiled down at him. "You should have seen Ganondorf," she told him. "He'll be out of commission for at least a month after that hit he took on his kneecap. Speaking of which…" she turned to Dark Pit, "I think you owe Ness a new baseball bat since you started all of this. He broke his."
Moving aside, Lucas took his turn with the baby angels. He looked uncomfortable as he timidly told Pit, "...I hope you get well soon…" before running off, covering his eyes.
"Can I hold him?!" Pit heard Nana ask, to his dismay.
"Didn't you hold him enough already?" Orange teased.
"But not as a baby!" Nana whined.
"Alright, just for a bit," Palutena said, picking up Pit and showing The Ice Climbers how to properly hold a baby.
While all the attention was on Pit, Dark Pit was brooding in his little blankey bundle. He didn't ask for these idiots to injure themselves to save him and he didn't have to nearly kill himself to save Pit! He was a layer of cloth away from having all the power he'd ever wanted but, seeing his cabin mates there to help him, his weaker emotions told him he'd rather be with them than rule over them. Angrily sucking on his pacifier and unable to move, a figure entered his view.
"Do you know how much trouble I'd have been in if something happened to you?" Ness said, smiling down on Dark Pit. It wasn't a normal smile; his eyes were full of sinister intent. He set the crutch he was using on the bed and sat next to Dark Pit, still smiling down on him.
"The Council of 64 took pity on me because of my injury but I still got a 30 minute lecture on responsibility from Luigi. Luigi of all people." The baby Dark Pit was frozen in fear as Ness gently picked him up, resting him on his lap and supporting his head with one hand.
"And then you make me worry sick about you for a full day after seeing you dive out of a window tower to save Pit," Ness continued. "That was...brave of you."
Dark Pit looked at him curiously as Ness reached into his pocket to fish something out. "I don't know what you think of me, or Lucas, or Blue, and anyone else. But I know you at least like Pit and you're willing to die for him. If that's what kind of a friend you are, then I want to try again with you."
Pulling out his cellphone, Ness scrolled to his images and showed Dark Pit the picture he took of him, pee streaming down his legs with a little puddle at his feet. Clicking delete and confirming, Ness lifted a tremendous weight off Dark Pit's soul.
"That said, when you grow back up…" Ness concluded, "don't be a total dick to everyone, okay?"
Dark Pit tried his best to nod, not being in any position to argue, but settled on a couple of confirmative blinks. Ness' smile changed to a grimace and he quickly took Dark Pit off his lap, setting him back down.
"Hey Isabelle, I think this one needs a change," he called across the room to the kids' guardian, covering his nose. Dark Pit heard a mix of cooing and giggling but, unable to tell who did which, he was unable to swear his vengeance.
"Alright kids, that's the bell then," Palutena told them, taking Pit back from Lucas, who was frightened to be holding such a delicate creature in his arms. "They can hang out tomorrow once they're all grown up."
"Aww, can't we keep them like this?" Orange asked mockingly, causing everyone to laugh.
Isabelle went over to Dark Pit, who was now crying silently. Picking him up, she rocked him in her arms. "It's okay, Dark Pit. I'll get you changed and this will be over in no time."
Dark Pit wanted to be mad, and brood, and be alone. Instead, being rocked in Isabelle's arms and surrounded by people he genuinely trusted, he drifted off to a peaceful sleep, looking forward to a new day.
o-o-o-o-o-o
Author's Note: This concludes Smash Bros: Baby Icarus! Thank you to everyone who followed, fave'd, read, and reviewed! It means so much to me that anyone would hang on and keep reading through all 25 chapters, so thank you thank you thank you!
I will be writing more in the Super Smash Brothers: Bedwetters Cabin universe but, for now, I'm taking a much needed break. I will be posting the next arc under a different story (so that I may better tag the star characters), so make sure to follow me so you don't miss it!
