This is it... the final chapter!
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Final Chapter: The War's End
Today was finally the day. Time for Pit and his friends to confront Hades for real this time. Despite having obtained the new Great Sacred Treasure, Pit couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Hades was a powerful enemy; far more powerful than Medusa. The questions that replayed over and over in his mind were always the same: Would they fail? What if they lost? But then his friends helped him shake those off by reassuring him the following words: They can't fail… they wouldn't fail. Not with so much riding on the line.
Having his confidence and determination restored thanks to his friends' encouraging words, Pit ran over to the gates and leapt high up into the air. "Great Sacred Treasure activate!" he said. Instantly, the Great Sacred Treasure materialized around him as he took the controls and sped off across the Underworld along with his friends, who were given the Magic Wings as usual.
"The time has finally come, everyone. This is the final battle." Palutena reminded. "Good luck!"
"Thanks! We are SO ready for this!" Pit exclaimed confidently.
"Yeah!" his friends threw in.
"Hope you didn't get too lonely without me." Viridi's voice suddenly came.
"Viridi? What are you doing here?" Eleven asked.
"There's no way I'd miss the battle of battles! I made popcorn and everything!"
The gang then resumed flying around the Underworld, dispatching a few enemies along the way… and just then…
[BGM: The War's End – Kid Icarus Uprising]
"Hrrrraaah!" Hades shouted as he suddenly erupted out of the ground, landing in front of the gang with his arms folded. "Hello again, Pitty and friends."
"Hades!" Pit growled.
"Pit!"
"Hades!"
"Pit!"
"Hades!"
"Pit!"
"Hades!"
Unlike last time, however… the two just kept on going, much to everyone else's bafflement.
"Oh, for the love of…" Arusu muttered, annoyance kicking into him as he sported cross-popping veins on top of his head… and then he screamed out loud, "WILL YOU BOTH SHUT UP AND GET ON WITH IT!?"
That worked almost instantly as both Hades and Pit stopped. "Aw, you big party pooper!" Hades grumbled.
"Oh well…" Pit shrugged. "But anyway…"
"Now it's REALLY on! On to death/victory!" everyone declared, with Hades saying the word 'death' and then he lunged his fist as Jewel quickly enlarged herself and the rest of the group to Hades's level before they swung their weapons at Hades's fist while Pit rammed the Great Sacred Treasure towards it, causing a massive shockwave that spread across the entire Underworld when the gang's weapons collided with it. Eventually, after a short struggle, everyone was forced to jump back as Jewel shrank her and the group back to normal so they could fly alongside Pit.
"Let me get a closer look at that shiny new toy of yours." Hades said, referring to the Great Sacred Treasure as he fired a giant laser beam of dark energy that tore up the land but thankfully not the gang, as they had barrel rolled out of the way and retaliated with shots from their weapons while flying closer to Hades's face. Hades then spread out his hands… "Yaaah!" and clapped them in an attempt to crush the gang in between them, but they swiftly moved out of his reach and proceeded to shoot him more, only for him to block the shots with his cape this time.
"Lord of the Underworld, it's time for you to pay!" Pit proclaimed.
"Bwahahahahaha!" Hades laughed, creating purple orbs that shot fireballs at the gang as Shulk quickly shielded everyone from them with Monado Shield. "You can be awfully cute, Pitty. But that doesn't mean I won't squash you and your friends like gnats!" as he said this, Hades punched the ground and created a massive shockwave around it.
"Whoa!" the gang yelled as they shielded their faces… but once the shockwave dissipated, they noticed that Hades got his arm stuck to the ground in the process.
"Drat, my arm is stuck." taking this opportunity, the gang opened fire at him as much as they could until he managed to pull his arm out, "Grefff grrrr ah! All better! Here you go!" he yelled, unleashing a powerful blast of dark energy that knocked them a few feet away, but despite that, they managed to hold their ground.
"No thank you!" Trifle shouted and they all flew close to Hades again.
"Great Sacred Treasure, do your thing!" Pit hollered as he began assailing Hades with fireballs while Melia unleashed Summon Bolt to power up the group's shots before they all started shooting along with Pit until Eight unleashed his palm weapon's Special Attack, where he would fire a large fiery sphere in front of him and shatter it into many fragments, dealing massive damage to Hades.
"Ungh!" Hades grunted, but then smirked, "Oh guys? I have something to show you!" he suddenly spun in place, creating a massive dark tornado.
"No no no!" Pit panicked as they were all getting sucked towards it.
"If you all get caught up in that twister, it will tear you apart!" Palutena warned.
Acting quickly, Pit hit the Great Sacred Treasure's thrusters to fly away from the tornado, but not before telling his friends to grab on to the machine so that they could escape as well. Once they were far from the tornado's reach, Hades stopped spinning and suddenly leaped over to their location. "Playing hard to get, are you?" he taunted as he began sprinting after them.
"Aaaaaugh!" Pit screamed as he and the group ran away from Hades while dodging his eye beams.
"Good thing I've been training."
"H-he's coming in fast!" Eight exclaimed.
"It's kind of like watching an elephant sprint." Viridi said as the gang resumed shooting him repeatedly… until Pit managed to hit him in between the eyes.
[BGM Pause]
"Ow!" Hades shouted, clutching the spot as he fell to the ground.
"Did we beat him?" Jewel asked as they cautiously flew closer to him.
"No, I'm fine. But I could've sprained my ankle, you know!" Hades then leapt into the air. "Good thing… I DIDN'T!" he yelled, attempting to crush them with a diving kick as they managed to avoid it in time, resulting in Hades instead impacting the ground and leaving a huge crater.
"What's the matter, Hades? You had enough?" Eleven asked in a challenging manner.
"Oh, no! I'm just getting started! Let's see if you can keep up!" Hades said before taking off into the sky, leaving behind a purple trail.
"You can't run from us!" Pit shouted. "Engaging pursuit mode!" after pressing a button, the Great Sacred Treasure took on a jet-like form. "Board on, guys!" Pit invited as the group landed on different spots of the jet and held on firmly, and so Palutena disabled their Magic Wings before they all took off after Hades.
[Resume BGM]
With this new pursuit mode's incredible speed, the Great Sacred Treasure managed to catch up to Hades with ease. "Why, I thought I'd left you all behind!" Hades said.
"Like I said, you can't run from us! Not when I've got the Great Sacred Treasure!" Pit boasted.
"What, you mean you can't keep up with me on your own?"
"It wasn't cool of you to disappear earlier. After all, this IS our final battle." Solo said as they began shooting the turrets from Hades's legs.
"Oh, I was just going to make a quick stop to decimate a country or two."
"In the middle of battle?! Why would you do that?!" Zelda questioned.
"Probably so he could fuel up on souls." Viridi said.
"Yes, I was hoping to greet Pitty and friends on top of a mountain of corpses." Hades admitted. "But I didn't even get a pile started with them hot on my heels. What a bunch of killjoys."
"Your hunger for destruction is as boundless as it is callous, Hades." Palutena said.
"Plus, a 'mountain of corpses'? Seriously?" Melia deadpanned as they finished destroying the turrets and made their way up to Hades's back… where more turrets began to form on his cape, these disturbingly being in the shape of Hades's own face.
"Are those…face guns?" Pit wondered.
"Not just any face. Hades's face." Palutena replied.
"I want you all to remember every detail of this lovely visage." Hades said. "After all, it's the last face you'll ever see!"
The gang kept firing on the face turrets and destroying them until they got up to a swirling object on the back of the cape, and so they opened fire at it until it was destroyed.
[BGM Pause]
"Ugh!" Hades grunted before turning to face the gang. "Now, Pitty and friends. That was VERY naughty of you!" he roared as he unleashed a storm of dark arrows at them.
"INCOMING!" Shulk yelled as Pit tried to avoid the arrows as best he could while the group held on, but the arrows were overwhelming.
"Yow ow ow ow!" Pit yelled as the arrows were damaging the Great Sacred Treasure, leading it to take serious damage as pieces of it began to fall off. "The Great Sacred Treasure is falling apart!"
"No, it's…it's changing shape again!" Palutena said, and sure enough: in the blink of an eye, the Great Sacred Treasure took on a more humanoid shape, NOW looking more like a classic mech armor.
"Mech Armor mode engaged!" Pit declared, while next to him, the group was given the Magic Wings again (this time by Viridi) due to not having enough room to stand on the Great Sacred Treasure anymore. "This thing is so awesome." Pit gushed.
[Resume BGM]
"You're starting to get on my nerves." Hades said.
"Good! Because now you know how we feel about you!" Arusu retorted as they flew in closer to Hades, seeing his body now covered with several laser turrets.
"He's covered from head to toe in weaponry. Like a rainbow apocalypse." Viridi said.
"I prefer to think of it as my devastation ensemble." Hades replied. "I only wear it for very several occasions. You know, weddings, armageddons…"
"Then add in funerals to your list, because you'll be wearing it once we're done with you!" Pit said.
"That's not very classy if you ask me, Pitty!"
"Ugh, this guy… For real…" Solo groaned.
"Tell us about it…" Eleven chimed in as the gang proceeded to shoot every laser turret off his chest, and once they were done, Hades aimed his right palm at them as a small vortex came out of it.
"Yeaaah!" he yelled as the vortex began to suck them up, but they quickly fired shots at it while at the same time avoiding eye bullets until they managed to destroy it. "Hruuaaah!" Hades then aimed his left palm, only for them to repeat the same process and destroy the vortex on it. "Hruuugh!" Hades next created more laser turrets on his chest, with one noticeable feature being the small shield-like object in the middle.
"Aim for the middle!" Jewel hollered and the gang did it so, shooting the object while swiftly evading turret fire, and after enough blows, the object was destroyed and revealed the wound left by the Lightning Chariot that apparently never healed. To end this off quickly, Trifle unleashed the arm's Special Attack, delivering a flurry of punches at the wound.
"Ooooah!" Hades shouted in pain once the attack ended. "Come here!" he yelled, grabbing a hold of Pit while backhanding the group away.
"Gah!" the gang yelled.
"Plucked at the peak of ripeness! Now I'll just drill through the rind to remove the Pit!" Hades spawned a large drill from out of his chest and began drilling into the Great Sacred Treasure.
"Augh!" Pit screamed as he was suddenly ejected out of Hades's grip.
"Ugh! Now what?!"
"Take this!" Pit shouted, summoning a large laser blade to cut clean through Hades.
"Ooooooooh ow!" Hades yelled in agony as the blade cleaved him in two.
"You're not HALF the villain you thought you were!"
"That's what YOU think! Ha ha ha ha!" the now bifurcated Hades then took off to the surface.
"How did THAT not finish him off?!" Eight questioned as the group joined up with Pit.
"Beats me!" Pit replied. "But we have to catch up with him. Engaging ultralight mode!" the Great Sacred Treasure then grew four large wings of yellow light and, along with the group, flew off after Hades.
"Where'd he go?!" Melia wondered.
"Up. He's aboveground!" Palutena informed.
The gang then hurried up to the surface and upon arriving, they looked around to find any sights of Hades, but the only things they saw was the vast ocean and a nearby human city.
"Behind you, guys!" by Viridi's warning, the gang immediately turned around to see Hades floating behind them.
"Still stalking me, I see." Hades said. "Grrrrrrrrrraaaaaa ugh!" with a loud yell, the gang watched in disbelief as he suddenly grew a new pair of legs. "That's better."
"What the-?!" Pit was stunned.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Trifle exclaimed as Hades proceeded to toss some blue and purple energy shots at them.
"You've got incoming fire! Take out those blue shots!" Palutena instructed.
"But those purple shots will hurt you, so DON'T shoot those!" Viridi added.
"Also, you can't get through this by shooting wildly."
"Focus on which shots to attack!"
Following both goddesses' instructions, the gang proceeded to do just that and attack the god of the Underworld once again with shots of their own while dodging his small barriers that he would occasionally fire at them… and just when things were looking up, Hades suddenly took a step back after taking so many hits.
[BGM Pause]
"This is ever so tiresome." he said in between breaths.
"Then let's finish it!" Pit declared as they all charged at Hades to finish him off… only for him to teleport away. "Wait- huh?" Pit wondered as they looked around… and then Shulk received a Vision about Hades falling from the sky above them and crushing them, leading him to gasp in horror once it ended.
"Everyone! Above u-"
"BOOM!" unfortunately, Shulk was unable to finish his sentence due to Hades having fallen down fast before slamming his hands together on everyone, just as the Vision predicted. Luckily, they all survived… but not the Great Sacred Treasure.
"AAAAH!" the gang screamed as they were falling.
"Oh, no!" Palutena cried.
[Resume BGM]
"Wa ha ha ha. Looks like your little toy isn't so GREAT after all!" Hades mocked.
"Snap out of it, everyone!"
"Guys! Wake up!" Viridi called out, and while they didn't exactly wake up, they had thankfully landed on a ledge below just in front of the city.
"Gah!" they yelled as they landed on their shoulders, with some pieces of the Great Sacred Treasure landing around them. The gang soon recovered and slowly got to their knees, looking up at the towering Hades walking over to them.
"Since you've all been such great adversaries, I've saved my deadliest attack just for you! I do hope you enjoy it!" Hades said and then he reared back as dark energy began to gather around his forehead.
The gang looked up in horror, as they could do nothing since their bodies were too battered and bruised for them to move, while some bits of their clothing were either burnt off or torn to tatters. It seemed all they could do was watch what seemed to be the last thing they'd ever see.
"It's all over…" Pit spoke hopelessly. "The Great Sacred Treasure is destroyed…and I'm all out of tricks. We've failed."
"…No… No!" Trifle groaned, as he was the only one in the gang who haven't lost all hope yet. "We have not failed… We can't fail!" he turned to Jewel. "My princess! Heal all of us back up!"
"But…even if I do that, there's no way we'll be able to get out of this!" Jewel pointed out.
"Hold on…" Palutena interjected. "I feel an outside force – a godlike force – gathering power. But is it friend or foe… It seems to be…seeking Hades!"
The gang was surprised. "Really?! But who could it be…?" Eight wondered.
Hades, meanwhile, had finished charging his deadly attack. "Bye bye, Pitty and friends!" he roared… but before he could even fire…
[Pause BGM]
"Hmph!" a voice yelled as none other than Medusa suddenly appeared in front of Hades and punched his face with enough force that it literally decapitated him, but it also destroyed her left arm in the process.
"MEDUSA?!" the gang, Palutena and Viridi yelled in unison, completely shocked by this sudden turn of events.
"But we defeated you! Why are you helping us?!" Palutena questioned.
"Hades keeps reviving me, but I won't play the puppet anymore!" Medusa scowled and delivered another punch at Hades with her other arm, only for him to grab it, despite being decapitated, and rip it off. "No! How dare you?!"
"I am your master, Medusa, and I will revive you as many times as I desire!" Hades shot back. "Gwaaaah!" with another yell, he grew his head back, only that this one composed of blue flames with fiery orange eyes. "But you've worn out your usefulness!" he lunged at Medusa, delivering a clean uppercut on her that instantly killed her as she dissolved into nothingness.
The gang gasped. "Oh my goddesses…" Zelda breathed.
"Unbelievable…" Solo whispered.
"How could you do that?!" Pit snarled at Hades. Seeing that the Great Sacred Treasure's cannon was still intact, he decided to pick it up.
"Oh don't worry, Pitty Pat! You're next on my list!" Hades exclaimed, dropping all pretenses of politeness and getting into a fighting stance.
"You look like you need help, Pit. Activating the power of flight!" Viridi proclaimed… but for some reason, the power of flight wasn't reaching Pit. "Huh?! What's going on?!"
Hades laughed, as it turns out that he was blocking Viridi. "I will not let that pest fly again!"
"NO!"
"Say goodnight for real this time, Pitty Pat! And soon, your friends shall join you!" Hades declared, and then he began charging another powerful attack from his forehead.
"Oh, no…!" Pit paled up along with Trifle, Zelda, Shulk and Melia… while they were all completely oblivious of Jewel whispering some sort of plan to her Bodyguards.
"NOT SO FAST!" the Loyal Bodyguards suddenly yelled as the others looked back to see the four running over to the edge and jumping off of it… and at the same time they were doing that, Jewel used her Size Peridot to enlarge her Bodyguards as they had their swords out while letting a war cry, and once they grew up to Hades's level, they slashed him in the forehead.
"ARGH!" Hades yelled in pain as he recoiled back while clutching his forehead, and then he looked over to see the now colossal Heroes glaring at him.
"You want to get to Pit? You'll have to get through US first!" Arusu proclaimed.
Hades growled. "You are such irritating nuisances! Out of my way!" he put his hands out to fire two laser beams at the four, but they rose their shields to block them.
"Whoa…" Pit awed and looked back at Jewel, who winked at him in response.
"Just because my Bodyguards are my shield doesn't mean they can't be everyone else's shields too, am I right?" she said.
"OK, Pit. I've got a plan." Palutena spoke up. "I'll be using my powers to charge up the gun of the Great Sacred Treasure. It'll take some time to pull it off, so let Jewel's Bodyguards distract Hades while it's at it. But once it's fully charged, let loose!"
"Got it!" Pit nodded as Palutena immediately started charging the gun.
[Resume BGM]
Meanwhile, the Loyal Bodyguards were battling Hades as Eleven swung his club at him, but he caught it with his hand, but then Eleven smirked and used his free hand to fire a Frizzle at his chest before proceeding to slash him repeatedly. Hades jumped back and fired a sweeping laser from his forehead at them, but they formed a shield wall to block it as Arusu struck him with a Hatchet Man, making Hades fall to the ground on his knees and then the Legendary Hero, together with Solo, proceeded to slash Hades repeatedly.
"What pests you are!" Hades roared, punching Arusu and Solo away from him and ran forward to punch Eight in the gut as the latter stumbled back, but managed to hold his ground and fired a Zapple at him. "Ungh!" Hades grunted.
Back with the others, the gun's charging at this point was now at 50 percent and just kept going higher. Noticing this, Pit ran towards the edge and aimed the gun up to Hades, who was busy fighting the Heroes.
"I fight for all creatures living and breathing." the angel began. "I fight for all departed souls still hanging in limbo. I fight for my friends, who are helping me defend this world! But most of all, I fight for Lady Palutena, the goddess of light! And it's in all their names that I will crush you, lord of the Underworld! I won't let you desecrate another soul!" and just like that, the charging finally reached 100 percent.
[BGM End]
"Charging complete!" Palutena announced. "Jewel's Bodyguards, move aside!" they did just that and stepped aside.
"Now! Fire!" Viridi ordered.
"Grrrraaaaah gah!" Pit yelled and fired the cannon, a massive beam of light shooting forth from it and engulfing Hades.
"GWAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Hades screamed in agony as the light seared his body, eating away his very being and substance. "It's hard to believe… But, you actually got me, Pit. The nerve of you." and just like that… when the light faded, there was nothing left of Hades.
The still-gigantic Loyal Bodyguards breathed out a sigh of relief. "That was intense…" Eight breathed.
"Yeah… but we've all done it." Eleven replied with a smile, and then their bodies suddenly glowed as Jewel was using her Size Peridot on them as they shrank back to normal. They were left standing in midair, of course, but all they had to do was cast Zoom to warp back to the others.
Then, after a moment of silence, Pit made a V sign while cheerfully exclaiming, "Victory!"
"…It's over… It's finally over!" Trifle beamed.
"Yes… and this world is finally at peace." Zelda smiled, and just then, the gang was assailed by scores of cheering coming from the human city behind them as they turned to it.
[BGM: Triumph over Hades – Kid Icarus Uprising]
"Listen to those cheers!" Pit gleamed. "…We did it! We saved every living thing! Everywhere!" everyone then cheered together.
"Now this world is safe for now." Palutena said. "I can't thank you all enough!"
"You're very welcome, Palutena." Shulk replied.
"So…that means we can head back home now, right?" Melia asked.
"Ah, yes." beams of light then shone above the group. "These light beams will send you back to where you came from in the blink of an eye. Oh, and by the way… I'll let you keep the weapons that I gave you."
The group's eyes widened in surprise. "Oh my gosh! Really?!" Jewel asked.
"Yep. Think of them as souvenirs from yours truly… and from this adventure!"
"Oh, heck yeah!" Arusu exclaimed. "Thanks a lot, Palutena!"
"You're welcome!"
Pit then walked up to his friends. "Thank you so much for helping me out, guys. Lady Palutena was right after all; I don't think I could've done it without your help."
"No problem, Pit." Solo replied. "Despite the shenanigans we went through, I sincerely enjoyed this adventure."
"Same!" Eight agreed.
"I just know we'll meet each other again one day." Palutena said as she made the beams of light shine brighter. "And until that day comes, take care, you guys."
"Goodbye!" Pit waved. "Until we meet again!"
The group waved back, and then they all disappeared by the beams of light.
"Alright, now let's get back home and take a well-deserved rest, Pit." Palutena said as she next made a column of light shine on Pit, and whisked him back to Skyworld.
And thus… after three long years, the war was over, and Angel Land was at peace again.
The En-
"Hold on just a second there!"
Huh?! What?! Who said that?!
"Why it's me, your friend Hades!"
Hades?! Don't tell me you're still alive!
"Nah, I'm just what remained of me. A soul with no body."
Ooookay, then… But why would you interrupt me like this?!
"I just want to give some few more final words before leaving this story for good, okay?"
Well… Sure.
"Thank you! Ahem. Well, I must say I am impressed. Such a teeny little angel like Pit defeating such a big, bad god of the Underworld. Why, that must make Pitty the most powerful Nintendo character of all time!"
I don't know about that… I'm pretty sure there are some other Nintendo characters who have slayed evil beings that are possibly far more powerful than you.
"Well, either way, I'm actually really proud of him. 8-bit Pit would have never made it this far. But don't worry, dear Author, I'm not going to tear up the credits again. The fanfic really is over."
Yeah, yeah, I already know that… You literally interrupted my "The End" card just now!
"I know. Which is why I'm here to delete your fanfic!"
…Wait, WHAT?! No! Please don't do that! I worked SO hard on this!
"Too late now! 1, 2, 3, GONE!"
NOOOOO! …Uh… nothing happened…?
"Naaaaw, I'm just messing with you, girl… Settle down. Your story is safe."
Oh, you big bastard… No wonder why the gang found you incredibly annoying… And plus, I doubt you could even delete this since you're just reduced into a soul anyways.
"Yeah, I mean…I don't even have a body anymore. Couldn't delete a fanfic if I wanted to. I'm not even sure I can be resurrected in this state. There's the real tragedy. This dashing physique, this literally godly body is gone forever?! Ladies everywhere are no doubt weeping as we speak!"
Ugh…
"Oh well, I'll figure something out. I have, what, 25 years until the next sequel?"
Well, as far as I know, nothing has been said about a sequel… yet.
"Anyhoo, I'll just let your readers know that they can always revisit me and other…friends…in the chapters they've read. They can read our battles over and over again like a favorite book, or a broken record! Oh, and if the mood strikes them, they can instead read your other previous fics you wrote!"
Huh, yeah, they can do that… But I should let you know that I'll be working on a new story real soon that takes place after this one, Hades, so I'm pretty sure these stories will be left ignored at the moment.
"Alright, then… But because I'm not a sore loser, I guess I'll look forward to your next story as well!"
Right…
"So, here's to Prince Trifle Uprising – my new favorite fanfic of all time. Thanks for reading! Hades… out!"
…Is he gone? Whew. Good riddance. Ahem, anyways, back to before I was interrupted…
The End…for real this time! Oh, but first…
Epilogue
We now cut to a barren and empty Underworld, where there stood the Dark Heroes looking up at the horizon.
"Lord Hades…" Dark Eleven muttered, his fists clenched in rage. "If only we had gone off to intercept them while we had the chance…!"
"But alas… we lost that opportunity." Dark Solo simply said.
"Don't you dare say that like it's no big deal!" Dark Eight lashed out. "Those guys who defeated our lord… we'll make them pay for what they did!"
"Say, I don't mean to change the subject all of a sudden, but… has this door always been on your back, Dark Eleven?" Dark Arusu asked upon taking notice of a certain backdoor planted on Dark Eleven's back.
"What door?" Dark Eleven turned to look at his back to see said door. "Huh…how odd. What could this thing b-…"
Suddenly, the backdoor opened by itself… and the Dark Heroes were sucked into it as they screamed. They didn't know yet, but they were about to meet a certain organization by the time of their vengeful return…
Meanwhile, with the group…
[BGM: Welcome to Pi'illo Blimport – Mario & Luigi: Dream Team]
Nine beams of light soon appeared in front of Pi'illo Castle, and each member of the group appeared from them. "Ahhh, it's so good to be back!" Jewel chirped.
"True." Trifle chimed in. "But we sure had fun back in Pit's world, huh?"
"You said it!" Zelda agreed.
"Hey, guys!" a voice called out from the castle's entrance as they looked over to see Melissa, Dreambert and, surprisingly, Kirby, running over to them.
"Sis!" Jewel exclaimed as the sisters hugged, and once they broke apart, Jewel glanced over at Dreambert. "Oh, Dreambert…" her smile faded away since she knew exactly what she had done before. "I'm…I'm sor-"
"It's okay, Jewel. It is I who needs to apologize for not believing you and your friends previously." Dreambert replied. "Melissa here managed to convince me."
Melissa giggled. "You can thank me for that."
"Right." Jewel giggled back.
Then, Kirby walked up to her. "Is it true that you just came back from Pi's world and had an adventure there?!" he asked.
"Yep, we did! And Palutena even let us keep these new sick weapons she made for us to help out Pit!" Jewel showed off the Diamond Claws.
"Wow! These look great!"
"I'll say…" Dreambert mused in awe as he inspected the claws. "I never in my life saw a weapon like this before…"
"Say, if you don't mind me asking… why is Kirby here too, Jewel?" Eight asked.
"Oh, that's because-…" Jewel cut herself off when her eyes widened up in realization. "Wait… Summer vacation is today?! Oh my gosh, I need to get myself ready for the tourists, ASAP!"
Melissa and Dreambert laughed. "Oh, sis…" Melissa playfully sweatdropped.
"Heh heh, sorry about that…" Jewel chuckled. "It's that I sometimes get so caught up in the time flow of a different universe that I lose myself in it by the time I get back to my own universe…"
"It's okay, sis. You still have plenty of time to prepare yourself."
"Yup. The Blimps and boats have just left the Blimport and Wakeport right now, so it'll take some time before the tourists arrive." Dreambert added, making Jewel sigh in relief.
"Well, since summer vacation is starting today…" Melia said before turning to Shulk, "Shulk, set up the device."
"Ah, of course." Shulk nodded and took out a small device from his pocket and started pressing a few buttons on it.
"What are you doing?" Solo asked.
"I'm opening up the portal to my universe with this device I built." Shulk answered. "You see, the main reason why I and Melia came here to Pi'illo Island was that we could later take Trifle and Zelda to our universe until summer vacation starts."
"That's right." Trifle nodded. "I and Zelda told Shulk and Melia that we want to spend our summer vacation on their universe sometime during our picnic preparations."
"Oh." Solo said.
Eventually, a circular portal appeared, showing Shulk's world on the other side. "There! The portal is open!" Shulk announced.
"Sweet!" Zelda exclaimed as she, Trifle, Shulk and Melia approached the portal. "Well, I guess I'll see you guys again until summer vacation ends!" Zelda waved as they went into the portal, but not before Trifle went over to Jewel and kissed her on the cheek first.
"So if they already had their place for a vacation… then what about us?" Arusu asked as he, Solo and Eight glanced at Eleven.
"I…don't know." Eleven awkwardly replied. "I actually never thought of what place we would go to spend our vacation together in the first place..."
"And that's where I come in to resolve your problem, Bodyguards!" Jewel spoke up. "Well, actually… I'll let Kirby here say it for you guys." she winked at the puffball.
After a nod, Kirby looked up at the Heroes. "You're going to spend your vacation…at my world!"
Their eyes widened in surprise. "Are you serious?!" Arusu asked.
"Yup! I already made all the preparations necessary, and I even let my friends know of you guys' arrival! You can thank Jewelie for that!"
"Really? But, how did…?" Solo wondered as the Heroes glanced back at Jewel.
"You see, during the time while I was helping Dreambert and the Pi'illo folk with the summer vacation preparations, at one point I contacted Kirby and told him about how nice it would be if you guys spent your vacation at his world. As you all expected, Kirby immediately accepted my request and began his preparations." Jewel explained.
"That's… insane." Eleven blinked. "You planned that just for us?"
"Of course! And besides, what better way for you guys to see Kirby's world for the first time than during a vacation period?"
"That's a great idea!" Eight smiled. "I've always wanted to know how Kirby's world is like!"
"And you're about to know it soon enough!" Melissa giggled.
"I just know you guys are going to love it!" Kirby threw in.
"Great!" Arusu exclaimed. "I can't wait!"
"Alrighty! Then I'm going to open the portal to my world right now!" with that said, Kirby pulled out a Crystal Shard (the same one Kirby receives at the true ending of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards) and it immediately glowed. Instantly, a star-shaped portal opened up in front of Kirby, showing Planet Popstar on the other side.
"Well now, I suppose we should be off, sisters." Dreambert told the princesses. "We've got to get ourselves ready to receive our upcoming tourists, after all."
"Right on!" Jewel replied while Melissa merely nodded, and so the trio proceeded to walk into the castle. "Goodbye, guys! Have fun!" Jewel waved at her Bodyguards, who waved back at her along with Kirby, and then she and her siblings entered the castle.
[BGM End]
"Ready to go?" Kirby asked the Loyal Bodyguards.
"Yep, we're all ready to go." Eleven answered for them.
"Okay! Let's go!" Kirby said and hopped into the portal first, as the Heroes immediately followed in afterwards before it closed. The moment the four stepped into the portal, the whole world around them appears to be warping out like a trippy ride, causing them to shut their eyes during this.
But once they would open up their eyes again, they would find themselves standing on a whole new world before them…
To be continued in... Heroes' Return to Dream Land!
If you're wondering what the heck was that fourth wall breaking moment where Hades's soul was talking to me, this was a reference to how in the original game, if one waits for a while after the credits sequence, Hades's soul will began speaking to the player, and those lines he spoke out are exactly what he says (aside from having to change a few words, mainly "save data" to "fanfic").
And there we have it! As always, I want to thank you all who have read and reviewed this story, and I hope you have enjoyed reading this as much as I've enjoyed writing this! Honestly, comparing this story to the previous one I wrote so far from Jewel and Trifle's Saga, I think I managed to go deep with the storytelling a lot better. Then again, I believe it was due to the story of the original game that made it easier for me to write a more elaborated storyline. And there's also the fact that I took inspiration from two other great Kid Icarus Uprising adaptations (mainly Kid Icarus Uprising: The Novelization from PhantomHeartless5, and RWBY Uprising from Nan the Keyblade Master) to write my version.
But now, it's time for an adaptation of a story from a franchise that I have been wanting to do for so long since I began writing adaptations of video game stories... Kirby! If the title of my next story doesn't give it away already, I'll be starting up with one of my personal favorite Kirby games: Return to Dream Land! Since I'm soooooo excited to start it up, expect this story to come out soon still in this month of August!
Fairy out! ;D
