It was another beautiful day in Termina. The sky was deep blue, the birds were singing something only slightly creepy, and the land seemed at peace. In Clock Town people were mingling about, having a grand time. The children danced and singed songs they've learned from the forest as their parents went about, trying to finish errands. Ah, yes, Termina hasn't been this wonderful since they've stopped the creepy moon.
A woman sat in the middle of town, maintaining her little fruit cart. She would come every weekday from her farm in Ikana Valley to sell the fruit she'd grown in her garden. She didn't really need the money; she just like socializing with the town folk. And what better way to do so than with groceries?
"Here you go!" she handed a costumer a bag of oranges they just paid for. "Come again!"
The costumer smiled and waved as he walked off, carrying the bag over his shoulders.
She waved back as she turned to her next costumer. "Good morning! How can I help you toda-"
She gasped when she finally looked over. There stood two people wearing matching black capes that covered their faces. One was short, his huge nose poked out of the cape that was too large for him that dragged two feet on the ground, and he was carrying a empty brown sack. The other was about twice his height, her now-tacky blue hair poked out of her perfectly-fitting cape in all directions, and she was carrying two weapons: One was a sword with a hole crafted into it, the other was a bronze spear.
Yup. Mario and Lucina were robbing a street market.
"We'll help our a-selves, thank you very much!" quipped Mario as he took hold of the fruit cart and tried to knock it over. -But he couldn't, because this is Mario we're talking about here and he also hasn't eaten in two days.
Lucina held up her sword to the lady and motioned to the fruit. "I suggest you bag this and all your money for us before it's gets ugly." she said, trying to be cool but she actually sounded really bored.
Before she or anyone else knew what she was doing, the woman jumped over her cart, pushed passed the two, and ran like heck home while screaming, "Heeeeeelp! Heeeeeeelp! Those two caped freaks are trying to rob me!"
"Damn it," Lucina muttered as she rubbed her forehead. "I knew she would be a runner."
Mario huffed, feeling like his pride was just tainted. "Well, let's a-go after her!" he exclaimed. "We can't just let her leave! We were right in the middle of robbing her!"
"Oh, drop it, Mario. I really don't feel like chasing another person who insulted you down."
"But she called us freaks!" Mario stomped his feet. He was about to go on about getting revenge when he noticed a band of tough-looking guys carrying clubs coming towards them. "...And the police, apparently..."
Lucina looked up and noticed the mob. "Gosh damn it, not again."
She looked up to the sky as it began to rain, anime style. Yes, it was a beautiful day just a second ago, but as soon as that fruit lady hollered the storm clouds came rushing up and began giving the place more of the disappointment-feel it needed. Lucina glared at the cloud for knowing what to do at a time like this as she searched for something. He eyes drifted over to a tiny dark speck near the sun that flew in circles, waiting for it's signal to do something.
That was their ride.
"Dark Pit! Dark Pit! Get down here; we got another failure!" she yelled as she waved her arms back and forth frantically, trying to get their back-up plan to noticed them.
Her boyfriend looked over and swooped into action. He stopped doing loop-de-loops, pushed his wings back, and plummeted towards the town. He fell through the sky in a way that was actually graceful; just like a bullet he cut through the air and aimed for the town. But right before his face made contact with pavement he had his wings kick right back in and swoop him upwards. He then flew only seven inches off the ground towards Lucina and Mario in lightning speed to easily scoop them up and fly back to the others.
But he didn't notice the mob of town crime-fighters in his way until he was barreling through all of them.
"Urrrrgh! So many butts!" he yelled he flew on through, causing the mob to freak out in a ticked off manner. "Watch where you're going!" "Learn how to fly!" "Oh no, not today!" they exclaimed as he whammed into people.
He finally got through the tower of humans and made it to Lucina and Mario. "Need a lift?" he wittily asked as he scooped them up. With one hand he grabbed Lucina and placed her on his back so she could ride smoothly; with the other he grabbed Mario by the cape and held onto him like a fruit basket. He them swooped back up into the air and flew as fast as he could out of town.
"Oh boy! Flying!" Mario cheered as they somewhat-gracefully went through the clouds. "I've always loved flying!"
"Gee, never would've guess." sneered Dark Pit. "Ya know, besides the fact like every other game you're in you somehow can fly."
"Ugh, now don't you two start at it again." Lucina mourned as she held both her sword and her spear against her shoulder. "I've had my fair share of annoying today, thank you very much. I don't need being stuck listening to you two lamely insulting each other on top of it."
Mario huffed again. "Oh, I'll have you a-know I have improved my insults quite drastically since me and Pittoo's last spat. In fact, I have-"
"Oh, shut up, clay dough nose." Dark Pit interrupted while rolling his eyes.
"GASP! Shots a-fired! Shots a-fired!" Mario exclaimed. "Well, two can play it that way once a-more! you little sh-"
"Oh. That's what you did. You learned how to swear. Okay."
"Hey! You didn't let me a-finish! Why, you big old as-"
"ENOUGH!" Lucina shouted, sick of even listening to these two talk. "CAN YOU TWO JUST SHUT UP?"
The two insult-failures looked over to Lucina, who have face palmed herself onto Dark Pit's back. "Dear, are you okay?" Dark Pit asked.
"Ugh. Sure. Whatever." she mourned, once again not caring. "I just want to get back to camp."
Pittoo and Mario shared a look, but decided to let it slide. "Yes. Of course." Dark Pit replied. "We're almost there."
They flew in silence for a minute as they flew over Romani Ranch, heading into the woodland. They then landed in a little clearing with random tents scattered about, all of them clearly stolen.
"Honey, I'm home!" Mario declared as he stumbled about like he had jet lag or something.
Oh. Wow. Okay. Damn, these guys are not doing well, are they? Huh.
Heyo, amigos! Now listen up, homeschooling is really eating up my time so I might not be posting chapters as often. I'M NOT GOING ON HIATUS AGAIN, I SWEAR. Never again. I'm just giving you all a heads up. *Collapse onto pile of GED books.*
Thanks once again for reading! I love you all!