Heaven - Dyntos's Workshop
Somewhere in Heaven lies a huge metallic sphere, this place is known as Dyntos's Workshop, home of Dyntos the god of forge, Palutena teleported Ashley, Kyle, and Pit here to fix Ashley's DAS which broke during the Dinomaton attack in Fossil Park America. They walked inside the sphere and all of a sudden all three of them heard a voice inside their head, a voice resembling an old man.
"Aaah so here's the three guests I'm supposed to expect huh ?"
"Huh ? What is.. ?" Said Kyle in confusion.
"Calm down Mr. Hyde that's just Dyntos, the ruler of this place, the voice you just heard is him speaking to us telepathically." Explained Pit.
Kyle scratching his head. "Oh, right I see, honestly I still haven't get used to this, if I was still with the police there's no way anyone would believe me."
"Umm Mr. Dyntos sir, my name is Ashley, and I heard you can build and fix anything ?" Ashley ask nervously.
"It's Lord Dyntos to you child, and say no more, I know why you're here, Palutena already told me everything, and of course I'm willing to help."
Hearing Dyntos's answer Ashley gratefully thanked the god. "Really !? Thank you so much Lord Dyntos !"
"Not so fast there child, I'm willing to help if you can pass my trials, I need to test you if you're worthy of my help."
Ashley's expression soured and unhappy by the demand. "What !? A trial ?"
"Hey is this really necessary ? All she want is just to get her stuff fixed !" Protested Kyle.
"Actually it is, this trial will help you utilize your newfound powers in real life, and let's face it, your life won't be the same anymore." Explained the god.
"Uuh Lord Dyntos sir...unlike me they don't have any experience fighting monsters, are you sure this trial is a must ?" Pit questioned the god.
Hearing that statement Dyntos mocked Pit. "I know that sonny, which is why today's trials will be about using your wits and brains which you clearly lacks."
Offended, Pit tried to defend himself to no avail. "Hey that's not true ! I use my brains for...many things." Kyle and Ashley stared at Pit skeptically.
"Anyway just keep walking until you see a door, inside will be the place for your first trial."
Ashley, Kyle, and Pit kept on walking through the straight corridor, and while they're walking Kyle have a question he's been meaning to ask for a while. "So Pit, if you don't mind I'm asking, why are you walking with us, can't you just fly with your wings ?"
"Uh well, actually I can't really fly." Pit answered reluctantly.
"Huh, really ? But those Centurions can fly." Pondered Ashley.
"Look, I just can't okay, and I don't even know why !" Responded Pit in anger.
"I'm sorry Pit, I shouldn't have asked." Kyle apologized for asking the question.
"No it's fine, sorry for that outburst, I know I still can't fly but I'm not gonna give up to find a way, since I'm immortal I have all the time I need." Said Pit as he's back to his cheerful self.
"I'm sorry too for asking that Pit, but still an immortal ? How old are you then ?" Ashley asked curiously.
"Hmm..I can't say I remember, I've been around before the universe is created, and none of us heavenly beings thinking about age either." Answered Pit.
"Before the universe !? But that means you could be billions of years old !" Ashley showing a shocked expression.
"Well, that's just how things are for us, I suppose that's the main difference between mortals and divinities."
As they kept on walking and talking they finally arrived at a door at the end of the corridor.
"So is this the place ?" Asked Kyle
"Only one way to find out." Pit walked forward and opened the door. Once inside they really didn't expect the inside to be so...normal. Inside of the room is consists of a bed, bookshelf, a table and chair, poster, carpet in the middle, and another door with a small whiteboard placed on the door.
"So you finally arrived at your first trial, the goal is simple, all you have to do is find a way to open the door with the whiteboard, that is all, the rest...figure it out yourself." Explained Dyntos.
"Open the door huh ? Does that mean we need to find a key ?" Questioned Pit.
"Not sure, there doesn't seem to be any keyhole in this door, maybe there's a switch or mechanism somewhere to open the door ?" Said Ashley as she walked and examine the door.
Kyle examine the bed by moving the pillow and he found a book with red cover. "Huh ? A book with red cover ?" He opened it only to found the book is completely blank. "What am I supposed to do with a blank book ?" Kyle scratching his head.
"Wait Mr. Hyde I noticed that there are books missing from the shelves, maybe we're supposed to find them and put it back on the shelves ?" Asked Ashley. "I mean something similar does happened to me when I explore Blood Edward Island."
"Honestly kid I don't know if I should praise your courage or worrying since you exploring an abandoned mansion in an uninhabited island, anyway we'll need all the help we can to leave this room."
Pit helped searching by looking under the carpet and he also find a book with red cover in it. "Hey I found one !"
Ashley open one of the drawers on the table and she found a book with green cover. Kyle the looked under the bed and he found a book with white cover, and when they all looked at the bookshelf it turns out only four books went missing, and since they found all the books, they put it back on the shelf.
"Well that's all of it, but there doesn't seem to be any changes ?" Questioned Pit.
"Maybe we're missing something, like a pattern ?" Replied Ashley.
"Maybe you're on to something kid, now that you mention it, all of these books does have the consistent pattern of red, white, and blue. Maybe if we rearrange it like this..." Kyle then take the books off and then placed it according to the pattern, once that's done they heard a clicking noise from one of the table drawers.
"Hey that drawer was locked earlier !" Exclaimed Pit.
"And it looks like placing the book in the right order unlocks it." Ashley opened the drawer and she found a piece of paper with a number '1987' written on it.
"1987 ? What's that supposed to mean ?" Asked Pit.
"Not sure, hmm maybe.." Kyle noticed something, he grabbed a black marker on the table and wrote 1987 in the whiteboard, which does nothing at all. "And I was sure it was going to work."
"Maybe there's still something else, hmm... Huh ? Could it be ?" Ashley noticed the poster on the wall, it has a picture of a bar chart, there's three bars colored red, white, and blue in order, and underneath it there's a picture of US flag with fireworks on it, and a + sign between the two pictures.
"I hope this works." Ashley grabbed an eraser on the table and erase the '1987' Kyle wrote, she grabbed the marker and wrote '3763' on the whiteboard. And suddenly the door is opened.
"We made it !" Exclaimed Ashley, as the trio leave the room the saw what looks like outer space and they stand on floating platform. "Wow look at this view, it's incredible !"
"Wait can we breathe in here ? Isn't this outer space ?" Questioned Kyle worried by the looks of the location, however Dyntos spoke with them telepathically to answer that question.
"No this is not outer space, you're still inside my workshop, I just made it to look like this, now congratulations for passing the first trial, no doubt it was too easy, but the 2nd and 3rd will be quite challenging."
"You made this !? Wow, the power of deities truly is unbelievable." Kyle scartching his head trying to comprehend the god's power.
As they walked further they reached a what it seems to be a glowing tile floor. However only some of the tile is glowing and some don't, and the glow turning on and off just like a dance floor.
"Ah so you've arrived at your second trial." Said Dyntos. "Now you see in front of you a glowing tile floor, all you have to do to pass this trial is to reach the other side without touching the lit floor, if you happen to step on the floor when it lit then you will be teleported back to the starting point, good luck."
"Well that's what he said, but then doesn't it seem like the glow changes too fast ?" Asked Pit.
"Hmm...maybe but I think we can pull it off." Assured Ashley. "I memorized the changes and they follow a pattern, the glow follow 5 patterns until it went back to the first pattern."
"Ah, I see, and if we know which floor going to glows we can avoid it, anyway according to my observation the changes occurred every 5 seconds, wow this new abilities really came in handy almost like cheating." Said Kyle.
"Now the problem is will it be easy to actually cross ?" Remarked Pit.
"I'll give the instructions, Pit, Mr. Hyde let me do this !" Pleaded Ashley.
"Okay I'll believe in you !" Replied Pit.
"Well you are the one with the photographic memory, just hope that this old body can keep up."
"Alright I'll go first !" Pit volunteered himself.
"Let me help too with the timing." Said Kyle.
Ashley and Kyle tried to guide Pit about which floor to stepped on, unfortunately because they can't match the timing and giving conflicting order Pit got sent back multiple times.
"This isn't working you guys." Complained Pit.
"Sorry Pit, but this is a first for me, I mean none of us expect to went to Heaven and be told we have superhuman abilities." Ashley apologized.
"Well, we were wrong to put you in that tile in the first place, hold on..no one said you can't jump right ?" Kyle realising the rules.
"Well all Dyntos said is to get across, he doesn't tell us how to do it." Answered Pit.
Once again Ashley and Kyle worked together again to help Pit across without any trouble, combining her memory and his analysis Pit managed to avoid the glowing tiles and successfully reached the other side.
"Alright I made it ! Great work you two !" Shouted Pit by waving his hand towards Kyle and Ashley.
"Pit managed to get across, other than us helping him, his combat experience and physical condition also helped during the running, jumping, and all the moving. This could be tough for us." Explained Kyle.
"Well we still must try Mr. Hyde, anyway I'm going next !" Ashley volunteered herself to go next.
This time is Ashley's turn to cross, using her enhanced photographic memory, she memorized the timing and the pattern to help her across. So far she managed to avoid the glowing tiles, but then next she's surrounded by glowing tiles, Ashley tried to jump, but because she hasn't completely used to her now enhanced physical condition, her jump ended up further than she thought, luckily the floor she landed on isn't glowing, but according to her memory the tile she's standing on is about to glow, close to the end Ashley decided to make a run for it and she finally reached the other side.
"I made it ! That was a close call." Said Ashley relieved.
"Way to go Ashley !" Ashley and Pit high fiving congratulating each other success.
"Mr. Hyde you're the last one, come on I'll help you navigate !" Shouted Ashley.
Now it's Kyle's turn to cross, Ashley guided him about which tile to stepped on, and remembering Ashley's enhanced physical condition he quickly make use of his enhanced body. Kyle managed to avoid the glowing tiles and managed to reach the other side.
"Whew that was quite the thrill, it reminds me during my time with the force." Kyle reminisced the old days. "Back in those days Bradley and me were known as the Kings of New York."
"I have to say Mr. Hyde that was amazing, you look like one of those cops in the movies." Complimented Ashley.
Dyntos spoke once again after seeing their success. "Well I see you pass the second trial, keep moving and you reach the third and last trial."
The three of them keep walking and finally they reached a door, the one that will lead to the third trial. Pit opened the door and they all enter. Inside however a completely pitch black as far as the eye can see.
"Man this place is really dark, I can't see anything. Kyle, Ashley, stay close to me...Kyle ? Ashley ?" Pit kept calling but those two didn't respond, by then Pit realise he was alone. And so are the other two.
"Pit ! Mr. Hyde ! If you're here please answer me, it's..dark in here." Ashley shouted and lowering her voice.
"Ashley ! Pit ! Darn it where are they !" Shouted Kyle panicking as he thought he lost them.
When Pit keep on walking a light shining behind him, he turn back to see a figure he's very familiar with. "Lady Palutena ? What are you doing here ?"
"Oh I'm just here to tell you that I don't need you anymore Pit, your nothing but a pathetic, insignificant being I've ever seen, I mean really why on Earth I kept an angel who can't even fly, you're just a plaything for me, and now I'm done with you !"
Pit felt really hurt hearing those words however he refused to accept those nasty words. "I see, is that how it is, then let me tell you what's on my mind, I know you're not Lady Palutena because she's kind, and benevolent and you're nothing but a fake ! So get out of my sight because there's nothing you can do to sway my faith in her !" As Pit stood defiantly to those words the illusion vanished and a light begin to engulfed the pitch black room.
Ashley also kept on walking until she saw a figure, the one she also recognize. "Mother is that you ?"
"Yes Ashley it's me Sayoko." Ashley run towards the figure and hugged her.
"Mother, I thought I never see you again ! I really miss you so much !" Cried Ashley, but the words that came out from Sayoko's mouth is not what she expect.
"Really, after you kill me, now you said you miss me, what kind of daughter are you ?"
"Mother what are you saying ?"
"I'm saying I hate you Ashley, if it weren't for you I would be still alive by now ! I still would be researching, making breakthrough, receiving Fame and wealth from it ! But you just have to be born and ruined everything do you !? Youre nothing but a bane of my existence !" Shouted the figure.
"No, it can't be, this can't be what you're truly feeling." Ashley shaken and scared after hearing what her mother said begin to shed a tear and blamed herself.
"Yes this is all your fault ! It's better off that you never born ! I could've enjoy the spotlight, but now I'm dead and it's all your fault !"
"No ! I refused to believe your my mother, she's not the type to do something for selfish reason like merely getting Fame and money, all her research are for the betterment of mankind, she was a great scientist and a great mother ! She knew the consequences of her action and yet she protected me till the end, and all you've been saying just prove to me that you're not her ! I won't be deceived and I know she love me !" After that the Sayoko hallucination vanished and a bright light engulf the room.
A figure appeared before Kyle and it's also someone Kyle recognized. "Bradley !? Could that be you !?"
"Hello Kyle long time no see, though I won't say I'm glad to see you considering you did betray me after all."
"I betrayed you ?" Questioned Kyle.
"Yes, see you knew Nile is hunting me down and yet you didn't even do anything about it, you just enjoy the normal life while I have to leave from town to town, live in constant fear everyday until they found me. Tell me Kyle what friend abandoned each other, as long as it's not me I don't care is that it ?"
"Hmm I see, do you think I'm gonna be fooled like this ? Bradley how long do you think I've known you ? Your a smart and kind person, you're the kind of person to do anything to protect your loved ones, risking yourself to be hunted down by Nile, I know you better than this, if you're just an imposter with Bradley's face the get lost ! I know you're not the real Bradley." The illusion vanished and a bright light engulfed the pitch black room.
After the light faded Pit, Kyle, and Ashley stand in a throne room, while Kyle and Ashley doesn't know this place Pit does as it brings old memories. "Hey this just like the place when I fought Magnus and Gaol, and that fake Lady Palutena."
"That's because it is sonny, hmm..the last trial ended up faster than I thought. I see you didn't forgot about the experience you gain from your adventures, congratulations you pass your trials." An old man suddenly appeared in the room. He's a bald man with white long beard and mustache, wore a gray Chilton and brown sandals with metal piece on his left wrist and right ankle.
"Are you Dyntos ? The one that spoke to us this whole time ?" Asked Kyle.
"That's Lord Dyntos to you sonny, and yes that was my voice." Confirmed the god.
"Lord Dyntos what's with that last trial !? Why did you show me something so terrible !?" Ashley demanded answers angrily.
"Yeah, what was the point of that visions ? You better able to explain this !?" Kyle also angry but he managed to contain himself better than Ashley.
"Alright, I'm sorry for showing you such a sight, but I have a reason to do so, you will experience hardships on your way, and what that means is you have to figure it out yourself."
"That doesn't explain anything, what do you mean !?" Shouted Ashley.
"I'm sorry but I can't reveal any further, at the very least your life will not be the same anymore, in fact life on Earth will never be the same anymore."
"Is it our newfound powers ?" Questioned Kyle.
"Yes, that will play a huge role, not to mention you gain your youth back, what will people that knows you will say, not to mention do you truly believe anyone who was born in 1946 to look so young ?"
"Can't you do something you are a god right ?" Asked Kyle impatiently.
"Alas I cannot, the only one who can do this is the gods who ruled the source of all this, World of Trophy, so only Master Hand and Crazy Hand who can undo all these changes, but so far none of us managed to get in contact with them."
"So if we find them, we can ask for all of this to be undone ?" Asked Kyle.
"Yes, they're the only one who can bring everything back to normal." Answered Dyntos.
"Wait ! If everything's back to normal then what happened to mother !?" Asked Ashley.
"Then she's back to the afterlife, I'm sorry child, but this is why I give you those harsh trials, you might gonna have to make tough choices like this, and sometimes know when to obliged and to rebel is the way to find your answer. I suggest you think about this first, now you're here because of a request right ?"
"Oh yes, my DAS is broken and Palutena said you can fix it ?" Ashley grabbed her DAS from her pocket and give it to Dyntos.
"Okay just wait a second." Dyntos vanished with the DAS, and then he's quickly back with the DAS suddenly fixed. "Here you go, I fixed your machine, and I've added a few great features, you can store objects here no matter the size, you can open locked doors, it also has auto return function so in case you lost it, it will teleported back to you and many more."
"Wow it's good as new, thank you Lord Dyntos sir !" Ashley thanked the god.
"You're welcome, and now I have something for you sonny, here." Dyntos give Kyle a metallic bracelet.
"Oh uh thanks ? But I'm not really the accessory kind of guy."
"That's not just an ordinary bracelet, it's a shapeshifting device that change it's form according to it's users needs, I call it morph bracelet."
Kyle grabbed the bracelet and imagined a gun on his head, and the bracelet transform into a gun. "Wow ! Impressive, I could use something like this in my life." Kyle then changed it back to a bracelet and put it on his wrist.
"Yes well, glad to have you enjoyed my gifts, now I would like to talk with Pit here in private, I will teleport you two back to Palutena's Temple first." Dyntos then teleport Ashley and Kyle back to Plautena's Temple while he talk with Pit in private.
"Okay they're not here, so what do you want to talk about Lord Dyntos ?" Questioned Pit.
"It's about where they go from here and how their life's going to be." Said Dyntos.
"Wait, Master Hand and Crazy Hand can remove those powers right ?"
"If it's just the new powers then yes they can, but all this chaos happened because of a joint effort of Dialga, Palkia, Victini, and Xerneas. If Mr. Hyde wished to be back to his real age, then only Dialga can do that." Explained Dyntos.
"Will he do that ?" Asked Pit.
"Of course, those legendary Pokemons aren't the type to be irresponsible with their powers, I'm sure Dialga will be more cooperative in fixing his own mistakes. Anyway Palutena contacted me earlier, she wished for those humans to not get involved with what's ahead."
"What do you mean ?"
"Well if you want the details you can ask Palutena herself, but if what she told me is true then even I can't just stand idly by, I might gonna have to make a move too."
"Whoa ! Something so bad it forced you to act too Lord Dyntos !?"
"Yes, and like I said if you want further details you can ask Palutena, now I'm sending you back to her temple." Dyntos then teleported Pit back to Palutena's Temple.
"After all this time, as nasty as mortals can be outright annihilation is not the answer, Galeem why can't you see that ?" Lamented Dyntos.
Palutena's Temple
Pit finally return as everyone else waiting for him, Palutena then welcomed Pit back home. " Welcome back Pit, Dyntos's trials wasn't too challenging was it." Teased the goddess.
"Well, let's just say Ashley and Kyle here doesn't need my help." Pit dodging the answer. "And by the way, why do I need to be tested too ?"
"Don't ask me Pit, thats all Dyntos and Ashley I asked Dyntos earlier about the whereabouts of your mother, and she's on Earth, unfortunately I don't know her exact location but she's in America."
"Really !? Oh thank you Lady Palutena, I will find her this time !" Ashley becoming excited after hearing the good news.
"Well then goddess guess we won't see each other any time soon then." John looked a little sad.
"John Raimi I appreciate your interest but relationship between humans and deities often leads to tragedy so I'm sorry, I'm sure you'll find someone right for you." Palutena gently turned him down.
"I see, okay then." John feeling dejected. And everyone else looked at him with pity.
"Oh right I need to remind you, once you leave Heaven none of you can see John Raimi when he's in ghost form except for Ashley and Pit who can see ghost." Explained Palutena, but for some reason she winked at John.
"Okay, so everyone is here, now I will send you back to your world." Palutena lift her staff and a light appeared above everyone except for Pit, but then it doesn't work and the light shattered.
"What !? The teleportation failed !?" Said Pit shocked at what he just saw.
"What happened goddess, is something wrong ?" Asked Vince.
"Well yes, I can't seem to teleport you all back to Earth, there's a barrier that's blocking my power, and it seems the barrier covering the entire planet." Explained Palutena.
"What !? Then how are we supposed to go back ?" Asked Nikki.
"You just have to entered it manually like from outer space. I could teleport all of you to the Moon instead though."
"Please don't joke around goddess, is there really no other way ?" Kyle demanded to know.
"Hmm, well I guess it's time to use that then. Pit do you remember the lake where you battle Hewdraw ?"
"Of course I remember that, what about it ?"
"Well there's something I keep in the bottom of the lake maybe we can use that to send everyone back home."
"Anything's fine, we really need to go back home." Pleaded Ashley.
"Okay then I will send you there." Palutena then teleport everyone to the destination, and this time the teleportation worked.
Near the Lake
Everyone arrived at a lake near a walled town, to Pit this place brought a lot of memories. While everyone else are enjoying the view.
"It's beautiful here so this is Angel Land, nature seemed intact here, not many buildings everywhere." Said Ashley admiring the view.
"I'll admit, a view like this really inspire me to start painting again." Vince also admiring the view.
"This place sure brought back memories like when I fought Hewdraw." Reminisced Pit.
"What is this Hewdraw Pit ? Palutena mentioned that name earlier too ?" Asked Nikki.
"Oh Hewdraw is one of the commanders of the Underworld Army, he's a three headed dragon." Hearing that statement everyone's face went pale.
"Three headed dragon ? They don't live here right ?" Asked John nervously.
"Oh don't worry about that, I already defeat Hewdraw, so you can be sure he won't be back." Assured Pit.
And then something seemed emerging from the lake and to everyone's surprise is a ship, a giant metallic ship which Pit recognize. "Lady Palutena isn't this the space pirate ship !"
Palutena respond telepathically. "Why yes Pit it is, after you defeated the space kraken I decided to take the ship for myself, even renovate the inside."
"Well this is getting weirder and weirder, first we saw dinosaurs, monsters, angels, Gods, talking animals, and now aliens, what's next ? Demons ?" Replied Kyle sarcastically.
"Dont tempt fate or you really might see one Mr. Hyde." Teased Palutena. "Now everyone get inside ! That include you Pit, I want you to stay with them until they reached their destination safely."
"You can count on me Lady Palutena ! Everyone here will be safe under my watch !" Exclaimed Pit.
The ship went closer to the land he the door opened by itself, and everyone went in.
"I'll set the ship to auto pilot so don't worry about driving this thing." Palutena Spoke telepathically to everyone as the ship finally rise up in the sky and headed towards space.
Meanwhile...
Palutena's Temple
"And there they go, all I need to do next is just open a portal that send them to Earths orbit and done they're back. Hmm...although that barrier, I recognize that power, but is it possible, weren't he was imprisoned, did he broke free from his seal ?" While Palutena wondered about the barrier surrounding Earth, she received a telepathic contact. "Arceus ? What ! Is that true !? Understood, I'll tell Pit right away."
Pirate Ship - Galactic Sea
The ship finally left Angel Land atmosphere and now its currently at the Galactic Sea, home to space pirates and many dangerous creatures. But everyone's too busy enamored with the ships interior than to worry what's lurking outside. The pirate ship went through massive makeover, so many changes with the interior, there's many bedrooms now, dining room, lounge, bathroom, and many more, the only things doesn't change is the outside, navigation room, and the hot spring room except that now it's split between men's hot spring and women's hot spring.
"Wow it's beautiful it's like we're in a luxury cruise !" Awed Ashley.
"Lady Palutena this isn't how I remembered the inside of the ship, you really go all out with the makeover."
"Yes well, I was thinking of making it more friendly purposes oh and you don't have to worry about stepping outside to the deck I created a special field around the ship so anyone can breathe in outer space and protect you from zero gravity, of course if you leave the field range you will suffocate to death in the vacuum of space."
"Yes... thank you for the warning goddess, we'll be sure not to stray too far from the ship." Replied Kyle sarcastically.
"Why don't everyone enjoy the hot springs in this ship, enjoy a nice long bath before your all back at home." Suggested Palutena.
While everyone agreed to the idea, Palutena spoke with Pit privately. "Pit I need to talk to you it's personal."
Meanwhile everyone enjoyed thensehthe in the hot springs room, and using the opportunity to rest after the training they received earlier.
"Well, soon we'll be back *sigh* all I have waiting for me are a bunch of men in uniforms, at least you have a wife and child waiting for you back home Kyle." Sighed Raimi.
"It's not as easy as you think, what am I gonna tell Rachel I look like this, not to mention Mila is still traveling around the world right now I just hope that bright light turn them back young too at least." Kyle explains he had no idea how to act now that he turns young again.
"Oh right, that would be complicated, but I mean, you said Mila is your adopted daughter right ? You don't have any other children with you ?" John asking about Kyle's family life.
"Nope, believe me Rachel and I tried everyday but no luck, we're unable to have children on our own, and Mila already welcoming the possibility of having a younger siblings no less, but what can you do ?"
"Then you stop trying then ?" Asked John curiously.
"I wouldn't say that, Rachel said I was really amazing and she liked it so we continue doing it anyway, if we got a baby then great for us, if not then at least the love never fade." Answered Kyle.
"Ahem.. Mr. Hyde you do realize there's a kid in here right ?" Said Vince in a nervous tone and blushing cheeks.
Kyle noticed Popo in the bath and just realized to his horror, while Popo just listened cluelessly. "You tried having kids ? What's that supposed to mean."
"It's uh well..look kid, you'll know when your older, you're just not the right age to know where babies came from." Kyle panickingly refused to answer.
"Anyway more importantly I wonder if I'm gonna need to have a job again, Mila's the one talking care of us now, but since I got my youth back I wonder If I should go back to work ?"
"You know Kyle if you like you can join CR-2 you have police experience right ? And you said your powers revolved around planning and strategizing so why not make it to good use." Suggested John.
"Or you could work as my bodyguard, I can pay you nicely." Suggested Vince.
"Well those are tempting offers, I'll be sure to give either of you a call once we're back home."
"Hmm Mr. Hyde, Mr. Raimi your bodies sure are well toned and muscular." Popo looking at both Kyle and John's body.
"Well if you work in law enforcement kind of field, you'll need a great physique to do keep up with the job, you know Popo once your older why don't you work with CR-2 we could use another superhuman agent like you or Nana, freezing the enemies rather than shooting them could be a less lethal option." Offered John.
"Hmm working as a counter terror agent huh ? Never thought about it, but I do like the prospect, we'll keep in touch Mr. Raimi."
"Heh already begin recruiting for future candidates huh ? Though I must admit having superpowered people on the force will have better chance in taking down terrorist organizations and crime syndicates, well assuming they don't have any superpowered members." Said Kyle
"Okay, oh and when you've come of age keep on exercising, then your body will be like us." Advised John.
"So Mr. Baito are you sure you'll go with us, this might be your chance to go back to your world you know." Asked Vince.
"I know, but now I wonder, where would I go, or stay, or if anyone even remembers me there,. I found Earth to be my home now." Answered Baito.
"Well if you sure, you can stay in my mansion if you like, I could use a company in that lonely place." Vince offering baito place to stay.
"Thanks Mr. Vince I'll be sure keep that in mind." Baito thanked the artist.
"Hey I want to ask all of you something ? Are you guys fine with getting this new powers ?" Asked Kyle.
"Well I can say it's much easier to live now with these extraordinary abilities why do you ask ?" Questioned Vince.
"I'm still not sure about keeping these abilities, i mean sure they're handy but we'll I don't know." Kyle said unsure with what will happen next.
Meanwhile on the girls side...
"Hah, I always wanted to try a hot spring." Said Ashley as she relaxing and feeling her stress and worries washed away.
"Have you ever been to Japan Ashley ?" Asked Nikki.
"I have before, but never went to a hot spring. I can't believe how nice this is."
"If you'd like I can show you around Japan and which place has the best hot springs, I still work there you know." Said Nikki.
"Thanks miss Nikki, it's just now that I know my mom's alive I wanted to find her, I'm sure she's been to hot springs before but there's so much I want to tell her."
"I see, hmm say Ashley, you got photographic memories right ? Won't that mean schools going to be much easier for you now ?" Asked Nana.
"Oh now that you think of it, yes It does, I can memorize everything in seconds now, no more late night studying for me."
"Haha...that's kinda cheating is it ?" Asked Nikki.
"Well it's what Ashley's got, if anything having photographic memory seemed to opened a good job prospect as well." Said Nana.
"You know I've been thinking, should we go public with our new abilities or kept quiet about it, at least with my abilities I don't need to buy food anymore, I just draw an apple, materialize it in reality then eat it." Explain Nikki.
"I prefer not to use it in public, it might draw unwanted attention, in the World of Trophy we don't have to hide our abilities at least." Answered Nana.
"Oh yeah, you said you met people from all over the universe right ?" Remembered Ashley.
"Well Popo and I didn't tell you all the details, but yeah we have people from past, future, and any worlds altogether, we have Kings, princes, princesses, evil overlords, mercenaries, aliens, monsters, psychics, even two dimensional being."
"Wow that's quite the exotic group, not much different from us, hahaha..." The three of them laughed.
"Still a king huh ? So he must be an old, seasoned warrior huh ?" Asked Ashley.
"You're right on the seasoned warrior part Ashley, but if your talking about age and looks, he's in his early twenties and have a very pretty face, you can even mistake him for a girl." Answered Nana.
"I'd like to see him then." Said Ashley curious by Nana's statement.
While they all talking a shaking can be felt throughout the ship.
"What happened !" Screamed Nikki.
Palutena spoke to them through telepathy. "The ship is under attack, a space kraken ensnare this ship with it's tentacles, I can't teleport you now or I'll risk bringing it to Earth, you have to defeat this monster first."
"Leave it to me goddess I'll take care of this !" Exclaimed John.
"Wait you're not gonna take care of this thing yourself did you ?" Asked Popo.
"Hmm, you know what, Popo come with me, you might be a kid, but you clearly have your fair share of battles, but for civillians like Mr. Hyde, Vince, and Baito I prefer if you stay here where it safe !"
"No ! We're coming with you, if there's a reason for us to be gifted with these new powers then we wanted to use it for the greater good !" Declared Vince. "Besides even if I can't fight I can at least provide support with my drawings."
"Yes Mr. Vince I have a favor to ask." Popo asked for Vince to draw two large wooden hammer for him and Nana, Vince complied and draw Popo's requested item, everyone's get dressed and headed to the deck.
When they arrived they saw tentacles ensnare the ship and Pit already fighting one of the tentacles.
"Pit we're here to help !" Shouted John.
"No stay back, you don't have any experience fighting giant squids before right ? Well I do so I'll handle this myself !" Objected Pit.
One of the tentacles slammed the deck where everyone is standing but luckily they manage to avoid it. Insist on helping Pit Popo give Nana the second hammer and they synch their attack on one of the tentacles forcing it to let go of the ship.
"Pit it would be faster if we worked together at least !" Shouted Popo.
"Okay ! But watch yourself !" Pit finally relent as he kept slashing the tentacles with his sword also forcing that tentacles to let go of the ship. And Pit moved on to the next tentacle.
John then transformed into his ghost form and shoot the tentacles with his energy blast, removing that one from the ship too. Kyle turn his bracelet into a gun and shoot the tentacles however, realizing it has no effect he ended up imagining a bazooka, the gun turned into a bazooka and Kyle shoot at the tentacle this time giving visible damage. Peepers bite another tentacle and his bite hurts so much the tentacle is forced to let go of the ship. A new tentacle arise and attempt to swat the people from the ship, but Vince summon his paint brush and quickly draw a steel wall, it materialized and block the tentacle from swatting anyone from the ship. After all of the tentacles removed from the ship last one rise to attack but Baito summon an arcade crane to grab the tentacles, preventing it from reaching the ship. Pit, Popo and Nana, Kyle, and John combined their attack on that one tentacle and cause huge damage on it, Baito remove his crane and the tentacle fall back to the sea.
While everyone about to celebrate Pit warned them not to get excited yet, and true to his word the Krakens head then showed up at the left side of the deck. It fired a blue laser beam at the deck, causing everyone to run away panicking not trying to get hit. And then the Kraken attempt to slam his head on the deck with full force, but before that Nikki draw a huge cushion in front of the Kraken softening the impact, Pit switched his weapon to cancer claw and keep slashing the Krakens head, John gathered spiritual energy and fired a powerful beam at the Kraken, causing it to dive, and then it showed up at the right side of the deck this time firing a purple energy orb. Aiming it at Vince and Nikki, Ashley remembering Dyntos about what her new DAS can do use it to store those purple orb in her DAS and surprisingly it works. Ashley then released the purple orbs aiming it back at the Kraken. Furious the Kraken then slam it's head on the right deck causing imbalance to the ship and everyone is about to be thrown off the ship except for Peepers as the duck carry him while flying so he doesn't fall off, but John use his newly found telekinesis to stop anyone from straying too far from the ship saving all of them.
However the Kraken took advantage of this and grabbed Kyle in it's tentacle causing him to dropped his bracelet, Popo create a large icicle and throw it telekinetically towards the tentacle, stabbing it and the duck also pecked the tentacle furiously, surprisingly the pecking is painful enough for the Kraken, forcing it to let go of Kyle. The duck then grabbed Kyle to prevent him from hitting the ground, after safely landed to the ground thanks to duck's assistance Kyle grabbed his bracelet and truned it into a rocket launcher he shoots it at the Kraken, further harming it, but the Kraken prepare to retaliate by firing laser beam towards Kyle, he tried to dodge it but the beam grazed his leg and tore his pants. Wanting to end this quickly Baito summon a string of tickets to restrain the Kraken while Vince draw a huge spiky wrecking ball and it swings at full force and smashed it at the Kraken along with everyone else keep on launching barrage of attacks finally defeating the Kraken and forcing it to let go of the ship.
This time victory is assured, however Ashley tried to checked on Kyle as he just got hit by the Krakens beam, and much to her surprise the injury isn't heavy at all. "What !? Mr. Hyde I saw you take a direct hit, but the damage isn't bad."
"It's all thanks to the World of Trophy effect, your bodies durability is increased, things that can immediately kill you now can't do that anymore." Explained Pit.
"I have some experience with first aid, Pit does this ship has first aid kit ?" Asked John as he turn back into his human form again.
"Wait John I can still see you even though we leave Heaven already ?" Kyle is confused by the possibility.
"Well as it turns out I can choose who to see me when I'm in ghost form, that's what I found out during my training." Explained John.
"To answer your question I don't know about the first aid kit John even I just know about this ship." Answered Pit.
"If it's first aid kit maybe I can draw you one." Nikki then draw a first aid kit, it materialized and actually full of medicine inside.
"Wow this art materialization powers is very handy !" John praised Nikki's ability while he use what's inside to fixed up Kyle's leg.
"Thanks John, you know about my hesitation about this ability, maybe I decided to keep it after all, it's gonna be too late for me to learn everything again from scratch, but this might be the shortcut I need to keep up." Kyle seemed to have found a resolve.
Kyle's leg is now bandaged and just waits to be healed, and he also decided to accept his newfound powers and then Palutena congratulate them on a job well done. "Great work everyone now I'll open a portal to enter the solar system." And then a magical portal appeared and the ship went through it. The ship went out from the portal and finally they arrived at Earths orbit.
And this arc is finished, sorry it took so long, real life problems are in the way, once again thanks for being patient with me.
Well as you can see characters like Kyle and Ashley who is not a fighter in their own game suddenly gaining special powers is a reference to how smash playable characters have abilities that they not have in their home game like Cpt. Falcon falcon punch and ice Climbers cryokinesis, expect various characters to either gain new powers or have their own existing powers upgraded in future chapters. Just for reminder they got it from the bright light that carries out energy from the World of Trophy and through space time rift that leads to World of Trophy exposing many people to it's empowering properties.
Obvioulsy the Space Kraken fought in this chapter is the same one Pit fought on Kid Icarus Uprising chapter 8. And sorry it has long words, I just can't make it easy fighting boss level enemy.
In this fic, after Pit defeated the space kraken in Uprising, Palutena decided to take the space pirate ship for herself.
And by what I mean with Kyle's pants torn is only the part where the beam hits the leg not the whole pants.
And to say using arcade tickets to bind someone else is weird, well arcade tickets does related to arcade or games so it's included in Baito's movepool. Anyway expect unusual but very helpful powers in future chapters.
The thing is Smash Bros is an excellent game, however I wish there's a mode where characters can interact with each other, and seeing how they mostly come from different worlds will surely make great conversation topic, I just hope Future Smash titles can have Story mode or any mode that allows character interaction, no need for voice acting, text bubbles just fine.
