Chapter 4: Hyrule's Hero, The Umbra Witch.
For the longest time, everyone was silent. Just dead silence, everyone was looking at Moon and Sarah.
"Well, there's no point in lying to you." Moon said casually. "So, yes princess, we are Giygas' children...is there anything else you'd like to know?"
With the exception of Zelda, Paula, and Mewtwo, everyone readied some sort of weapon at them. Before any of them could do anything, Moon shrugged.
"Listen, Sarah and I have more important things to do at the moment, this is the least of our problems, if you guys don't want our help, we'll stop helping you, but we sure as hell aren't going to leave this place. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to do something else." He and Sarah vanished in a flash of pink light.
"They probably left to go find the villains." Meta Knight said. "It is perhaps lucky that we never told them where to go."
"The kid did seem to have a good run with Ridley." Snake growled. "It's not everyday I hear Ridley sparing someone."
"That kid's gonna receive one hell of a beating from me if that's the case." Samus said angrily.
"Guys come on." Paula started, all of the heroes then turned to her.
"Don't even get us started on you girlie." King Dedede snapped. "You and Ness are allowing these two kids to just...live? You really don't see any problem with this?"
"Paula, in your cluster, you wish to see the good in everyone, but this, there is nothing good about them, being children of an entity that no one can control, they are nothing more than ticking time bombs waiting to go off." Captain Falcon shouted. "They are evil clones of you designed to kill...we should just take them out now before-" A blast of psychic energy burst through the area, startling everyone. Everyone turned to face Mewtwo, who had shadow sparks bursting from his three fingers.
"Enough." The Pokemon snapped. "What the hell is wrong with all of you? This is probably why they didn't tell us immediately...because they knew that you'd do this bullshit. Do you idiots even hear yourselves?"
"Mewtwo-" the Pokemon turned to glare at Zelda.
"You too Princess?" he snapped. "Seriously, you all disgust me, you're letting your anger and worry blind yourselves over two children. Children who didn't ask to be created, they didn't ask for the life they got and they're forced to endure it, and what are you guys doing? You're pushing them back! They don't deserve this treatment!"
"Why exactly are you so pissed about this?" Samus snapped.
"Clones created for evil? Seen as nothing more than powerful weapons of destruction? Hideous monsters created to be monsters? Does any of this sound even the SLIGHTEST bit familiar?"
None of them said anything, they all just stood in silence. Zelda approached him and rubbed his arm.
"Mewtwo, please, this is different." she said. "Stop getting angry with them."
"Princess, you aren't ignorant, I know you aren't, you can see that the fact I have to explain this to these SPECIFIC heroes why they should be ashamed of themselves? Right? In my mind, you all are just acting like hypocrites."
"Are you saying we're just like them!" Samus roared. "For a genetically modified Pokemon of incredible intellect you sure are acting dumb! Saying that we could ever be the messed up evil pieces of crap that they are is just fucking stupid!"
"They aren't messed up monsters!" Paula shouted.
"Hush girlie."
"SILENCE!" Mewtwo shouted. "Really, you guys think that you all are all great heroes of superiority? Let's start with you two." he said, looking at King Dedede and Meta Knight. "You, King Dedede, were once a greedy selfish king who would hoard food from his subjects and would send monsters to keep your control as King, and you Meta Knight, a star warrior dedicated to fighting off N.M.E. sat by and let this whole thing go down, you turned your back on innocent, suffering people serving to King Dedede, not to mention that you've tried to blast Kirby with your Halbread SEVERAL times."
"Okay but-"
"Then there's YOU Douglas, you weren't exactly doing too hot after that major accident, taking up alcoholism, acting rude and distant from your cousin and others who survived. I wouldn't exactly call that heroic effort, you can't tell me that you don't look back on those years and frown at what you did?"
Captain falcon looked down at his feet.
"And what about YOU Samus?" Mewtwo asked. "You've genocided several species of creatures for the Galactic Federation, blown up several planets, not to mention having destroyed and killed races of innocent people, all the while you try to seek out revenge on Ridley. Yeah, you may live in a cluster of psychopathic murderous alien species, but billions of people have suffered just as your own home planet did by your actions!"
Samus glared at him, but didn't say anything.
"And do I really need to talk about you Snake?"
"I'd prefer you not too, we get it Mewtwo." Snake growled. "We aren't exactly perfect either, but we've worked for years to make our actions speak for themselves, even if what we've done in the past...or still do...is wrong...at least we're doing it for the better of others."
"Guys, come on." Zelda said. "Sure, they may have all that with Giygas, but at the end of the day, the Triforce of Wisdom says that they are our only chance at rescuing everyone. They're helping us, do you really think that if they were working with the villains that they'd just help us like they're doing now? The Triforce says they question their abilities and their own status, are we really going to put them down for something they had no control over? Remember what Ness and Lucas said, 'Villains aren't born, they're made.' so, are we going to make a villain out of our assumptions...or are we going to help?"
Dark Pit suddenly flew into the room followed by Viridi a moment later. "Hey," he grunted, "Did we miss anything?"
"Where were you exactly?" Meta Knight asked with a hint of suspicion.
"Talking with the humans." Viridi said. "Interesting bunch of kids, being Giygas' children certainly isn't easy for them."
"But you trust Moon and Sarah, right?" Paula asked nervously.
"Of course we do." Dark Pit replied. "I see a bit of myself in those two, a mirror counterpart who was meant for evil, but has since found good and sees things for the better."
"Where...where are Moon and Sarah at the moment?" Zelda asked.
"They're turning in for the day," Dark Pit said. "Resting up for tomorrow, said that draining all the corruption from you guys tires them out. However, Moon did ask that you come and talk to him Zelda."
The princess raised an eyebrow at that comment. Dark Pit pointed her down a grand hallway towards a rather large room, when she stepped inside the door slammed shut, making her jump.
"Don't be alarmed." Moon said, "I just wanted to ask you something in private."
Zelda looked at the boy, he seemed a little pale, probably some sort of side effect from the corruption, she doubted that there was such a thing as an "Immunity" to something so powerful.
"Moon...if you aren't happy about me calling you out then..."
"I'm not mad about that." Moon responded. "I'm actually kind of glad you said something earlier, I can trust that all of you will want to keep this a secret from the rest of the competitors, you can tell Link if he won't say anything to anyone else as well. However, that's not what I wanted to discuss with you, princess."
"Then...why did you want to speak to me."
Moon stared at her, she didn't know why, but looking at him felt very unsettling. He had some sort of taunting edge to him, it was like she was looking at a human Ridley...just that cold stare, taunting smile, and pretty hardcore attitude was intimidating.
"I...I want to borrow the Triforce of Wisdom." he said. "It's uh...It's kind of important, I just need it for tonight...I can return it to you tomorrow...would that be alright?"
Zelda bit down on herself. That was a rather...absurd request. She had only known the boy for a day now, and he was asking to borrow her piece of the Triforce?
"Be kind to him...trust him...do whatever he asks of you...he is only trying to help."
She recalled the most important thing that Link had ever told her, "When there is ever a time we are not together, do not panic, just listen to the Triforce and you'll be set on the right path." The Triforce piece told her to listen to what the boy asked of her. The number one rule of the Multiverse Council, whatever the Triforce of Wisdom says is best, no matter how stupid or insane it may seem, it was indeed, the best option.
She reached back behind her neck and untied the necklace from her neck, she handed the piece to him.
"Just...please do not lose it." she said.
"I won't, and, um, I recommend that you rest up princess, you're coming with us tomorrow to rescue Link, we're going to leave Paula here in place of you."
"What...why?"
"Corruption has an...interesting effect with love. In the event that Corrupt Link doesn't want to go down easily, the feeling of you in emotional distress might snap him out of it. Now, go get some rest...you'll need it."
The princess nodded and left the room. When she had left, Moon turned the opposite way and walked back towards Skyworld's Central Control where Sarah was waiting for him.
"Well...good news...our corruption worked on the technology." she said. "Bad news is well...there's quite a lot of stuff to go through." she noticed Moon holding onto the Triforce piece.
"You didn't steal that right?" she asked nervously.
"Nope, I asked her, and she gave it to me."
"Good...so...how does it work?"
"If my theory is correct, it should just work like this." Moon tied the necklace around his neck and placed his hand over the piece. The piece began to glow and shine from behind his hand and he stayed silent with his eyes closed for a very long time. After a couple minutes, a few black sparks shot off from his hand and some shadow light made its way onto the piece. More minutes of uncomfortable silence before Moon opened his eyes again, breathing heavily.
"Well...I'll give Nayru credit." he muttered. "Took a lot of prying with corruption for it to give me the answer I was looking for. Kept telling me that it couldn't tell me that...makes sense though, anything that could cause distrust in the Multiverse would of course want to be hidden."
"Did...did you just...kill her essence?"
"No...I just...weakened it...like...a lot...if I kept going, I probably would've destroyed it. But I was able to pry deep enough to manipulate her to just tell me. Then, I made sure that, in the unlikely event Zelda asks what I used it for, it won't tell her."
"So...we can't trust her then?"
"All I was able to pull out of it was yes, the information we seek can be found in here, but it's very well hidden. In the event that we can't find it before we have to rescue Palutena, I have a backup plan." he took out the Demonrift and placed it on an Altar in front of the large circular computer like object. A bunch of Blue, White, and Yellow light started to flash around the book before a line of light was drawn over it. The light settled down after a moment and Moon took the book off the altar.
"What did that do?" Sarah asked.
"I may or may not have just transferred the entirety of the information stored here into the book take a look."
Now that she was looking at it more closely, the book looked much thicker. It looked as if several hundred pages had added themselves in out of nowhere.
"So...there's no need for us to go through the technology then?"
"Well, the entirety of non-hidden information." Moon said. "We still need to search through the Giegue Cluster's massive file." Sarah nodded and touched a small world sector listed as Giegue on the circular computer screen. A giant list of subset information was listed consisting of things like log dates, technology, power, people, and much more.
"Only five, technically now four, small worlds in our cluster and we STILL have at least ten thousand files of information." Sarah groaned.
"It could be worse, Animalium and Basidiomycota have a massive ever growing list as well...and...hold a second." Moon said. One file was listed at the very tip top that had a rather...weird mark.
World Hearts - 10 year
"Huh...looks like Sapphire and friends must've jumped around time since we last saw them. Hey, look at that, he and Willow sealed the deal, had a son as well. How nice. After this is over, let's pay them a little visit."
The second file clicked open a small subset log entry was written inside.
Log Entry 19234
(censored) dammit! Why didn't it work? WHY?! Now they're over there! (censored) I hate their good caring hearts! They shouldn't exist! They deserve to DIE! Now, the children of Giygas are alive, well, and in a different world! Why is everyone getting my (censored) way? This is dumb! I need to get rid of them, Moon's too smart, I can't let them anywhere near this place. If they learn...I'll be screwed.
"Well...fantastic." Moon muttered. "One suspicious file down, a good nine hundred more to go."
"Let's...just get this over with." Sarah sighed.
(Next Morning)
The group woke up the next morning and recentered. Dark Pit however, immediately pulled Moon and Sarah aside
"Honestly, what were you two doing last night?" Dark Pit asked. "You both look like you came out of a night of no sleep."
"That would be...because we didn't." Moon muttered, rubbing his eyes. "That bitchy goddess has more information than we thought. Honestly, it takes way too long to surf through everything. Plus, we aren't looking for you quite yet."
The angel frowned, "Listen kid you've got a lot on your plate. What exactly are you two planning, I can see when someone has that little...plan."
Sarah grinned. "Well, you could say that...if our own plan works by the end of this...the Multiverse will definitely see some...drastic changes." she said.
"What types of...changes? What type of stupid plan do you have?"
"Do we look like the people with a long drawn out plan? We kind of just...make a goal...then make shit up as we go...if it works, it works if it doesn't...well we make a backup plan."
Viridi approached them as well. "You two better get a move on," she said.
Moon and Sarah nodded, they approached the group. Paula immediately stood up to follow with them. Moon stopped her promptly.
"No Paula, we're taking Zelda with us. Hopefully we can snap Corrupt Link out of his state with her in the event things get too desperate."
"A wise move." Meta Knight said. "You will most likely find Link in Hyrule Castle, not the Temple, the castle. Be careful though, last I heard, Ganon reported some...slow downs in time when he was looking around and also something about...weird bats."
Moon nodded, "Alright then, Zelda, Sarah, grab onto me. Let's go find Link." The princess and Sarah grabbed onto his arms and the three vanished in a flash of pink light.
(Hyrule Castle)
The three appeared in front of a large white and purple castle.
"I caution that you guys be careful as we look for my husband." Zelda said as the three walked around the castle outgrounds. "Link is very powerful and he has developed some, what Palutena calls, Barbaric tendencies."
"Hey, if I could pick up any freaking object and make it a useful weapon, I too would abuse the heck out of that." Moon said.
Zelda's eyes narrowed. Moon shrugged, then, he took the Triforce of Wisdom out of his hoodie pocket and handed it back to her.
"A bit of corruption got into it." he said. "Basically put it, the piece won't give you any information it gave to me. Sorry about that, but then again, you wouldn't want to know what information I wished to know."
"You...added the same type of corruption that the villains are using?"
"I couldn't stop it, even if I tried, corruption spreads to anything I touch that doesn't originate from the Giegue Cluster, people like Sarah and Paula, my sword Saphria, and the Demonrift. Unless of course Sarah and I are...calling corruption back like we do with all of you."
"So...the Triforce piece told me that you two don't have anyone left in your family...that the two of you are hunting someone down to make them pay...do you two mind sharing some insight on what exactly you two intend to do?"
"Well, princess, it is true that we are hunting someone down, but sadly, we don't have any evidence to support that they were the one who sent Pokey to our world." Sarah replied. "In any event princess, we want to see reform in some heroes. It's best that you stay out of our plans princess. You won't want to be a part of them."
"HYAAA!"
A boy wearing a black tunic with shadowy skin and blood red eyes jumped down from atop the roof. He carried a shining sword and shield and braced himself for an attack.
"Smashing!"
A woman with weird narrow glasses and black hair, with a small mole on her left cheek jumped down next to him. She wore probably the most questionable outfit ever and was holding two guns in her hands.
"Fighter number 63, the Umbra Witch, Bayonetta." Moon said. "She's an Umbra Witch who mysteriously entered the Imperium Cluster one day long ago. She hunts corrupt angels and wields four guns. Two of which are attached to her feet. As an Umbra Witch, she has access to all sorts of mysterious powers, her main methods of attacking are her guns, and opening up the limbs of Demons to smack an opponent with a punch or stomp. She also can slow down time using her special "witch time" technique...if not for the tournaments limitations, she'd be the 3rd strongest competitor here."
"Four guns, the limbs of Demons, AND she can slow down time?" Sarah asked. "Who let her join the roster?"
"No one, she just showed up," Zelda said.
Link quickly pulled out a boomerang and flung it at the three of them. The three dodged out of the boomerang's line of travel and scattered about. Moon launched his blue PSI Fire attacks at Link who used his shield to block the attack before pulling out a blue glowing orb and tossing it at Sarah.
"That's a bomb!" Zelda said quickly, noticing Sarah's intent curiosity at the weird object. Sarah quickly backed away as Link pulled out a small object that looked like a weird sort of I-phone and pressed down on the screen, the bomb blew up leaving a blue blast of energy in the air.
Bayonetta meanwhile had started her own speedy assault on Moon, who had used his powers to create a shield to block incoming effects of her large barrage of bullets. A phantom knight from Zelda knocked her off footing leaving the bullets to fire randomly, breaking a bit of glass that made up several panes of windows in the castle replica.
Sarah shot a beam of ice from her hand, encasing part of the umbra witch's legs in ice. Moon then hit her with a close ranged slash from Saphria, sending her off to the side. He then launched off a PK Fire, the blue flames engulfed Bayonetta and sent her into a screeching fit. He kept his concentration on her, trying to hold her in place so that the flames could wittle her down enough. Then, he felt a sharp pain enter his knee, looking down, he could see two iron arrows that had shot through his knee. He stumbled, losing his concentration on his fire attack.
Link was suddenly struck by a heavy lightning bolt that came from Sarah, who was keeping him at bay from Moon with her own PSI attacks. Her hands flashed brown as a sudden rumbling earthquake shot through the area, knocking Link off his footing to Zelda could hit him with some of her Din's fire.
"You take care of Bayo." Sarah said to Moon. "We will deal with Link."
Moon nodded and turned back to the Umbra Witch. Bayonetta jumped, growing what looked like some weird sort of...butterfly wings she landed behind Moon and slid at him with her foot out, shooting some more bullets at him. He countered by waiting for her foot to touch him, before kicking off through a portal that he opened, launching him behind her to unleash a slash with Saphria.
Bayonetta let off another howl in pain before an orange portal opened, out of nowhere, a giant blue fist with some spiky rings and red painted nails or claws unleashed a massive punch at him, launching him into the cement wall of the castle. He grunted and lifted himself up, wiping a bit of blood that had started leaking from his minor cuts. Saphria started to glow brightly.
"Master Wolfe, Bayonetta is no easy foe, there is a reason why she won Smash Duel. You've been under her witch time spell for quite some time, which is why you've been having issues with her attacks. Use PK Accelerate to give yourself a bit of a boost and get in close to hit her with a hydro slash."
"PK Accelerate." Moon felt himself feel noticeably lighter, and quicker on his feet. He charged at Bayonetta, taking the time to concentrate on directing his PK Hydro towards Saphria. Before the Umbra Witch knew what was coming, he was close to her and slashed through both of her legs. The corrupted witch fell to the ground and stopped moving. But just to be safe, he used PSI Paralysis to hold her in place. When he turned back to Sarah and Zelda, both of them already had Link down.
"So, princess," Moon said, approaching them. "I think it's best that your husband know about us from the get go. So I hope you won't mind explaining this to him before we deal with Bayonetta?" Zelda shook her head in response.
Moon and Sarah both placed their hands on Link's arms and held him in silence for a few minutes. To them, the shadow color on his skin reverted back to a more, creamy white color, his eyes changed from red to more of a turquoise color. His hair became a weird reddish brown and his tunic changed to blue. The boy blinked and shook his head a moment later, he quickly looked around in a bit of a panic until his eyes found Zelda, he relaxed and went up to her, placing a kiss on her cheek.
"I'm glad you're safe Zelda." he said. "But...what...what happened? And...who are these two?" he asked noticing Moon and Sarah.
"Link, those are Moon and Sarah Wolfe, two of the six people you've voted to have stay in Ness' world. They, alongside Ness' girlfriend Paula rescued me from the villains."
Link nodded and smiled. "I sincerely thank you for rescuing my wife." he said. "But, I must ask you, as I'm sure you've been told, Palutena doesn't seem too fond of the two of you. Can I ask what exactly is it about you two that required a total of 12 meetings over the course of two weeks?"
Zelda shifted uncomfortably before looking at Moon and Sarah, who both nodded. "Well, Link, Moon and Sarah are...the Children of Giygas." she said nervously, she noticed his surprised look of horror and quickly added. "Before you say or do anything, I want you to know that Triforce of Wisdom said that they are our only hope at rescuing the others. I know it may seem crazy and completely uncalled for...but it is the honest truth."
Link looked at Zelda like she had gone completely insane. Then, he turned back to Moon and Sarah. They could see a look of hesitation in his eyes, almost as if he was trying to recover from some sort of weird dream.
"Well, if the Triforce of Wisdom says you are our only hope, then you are our only hope." he said. "You two don't seem all that bad though, and you rescued my wife, I'll be in your debt, and it's the least I can do to support you as I've been doing."
"Thanks, now let's deal with Bayonetta." Moon said. He and Sarah moved over to Bayonetta and repeated what they had done to Link. After a few minutes, the Umbra Witch blinked, shook her head, and then formed a rather weird looking smile.
"Well, I'm certainly surprised." she said with a weird accented tone. "I was not expecting to be rescued by the Children of Giygas."
"Wait...you...you know who we are?" Sarah asked in shock.
"Of course darling," the Umbra Witch responded. "Palutena thinks she can be all private about why she keeps calling those meetings, but I'm always listening in, just waiting for a reason to execute another angel of hers once they slip up. I can keep your little secret from everyone, it's best that way. Just don't fuck with a witch, becaue then I'll let your little secret slip."
Moon cracked an evil grin. "Wouldn't dream of it you ugly ass witch." he said. Everyone looked at him in shock.
Bayonetta's lips curled into another sly grin. "I like you." she said, looking at him. "I think you'll do amazing things for the Multiverse, don't worry little kiddies, I've got your backs."
"Well, thanks Bayonetta." Sarah said. "Now that that's settled, you all should grab onto Moon so we can return to Skyworld."
"Are you two sure you're okay?" Zelda asked quickly. "The two of you look quite pale."
"We're good princess." Moon said. "Let's get going." Everyone grabbed onto him and they vanished in a flash of pink light.
Bit shorter chapter, but I think it worked out alright. Hope you all enjoyed it, so, due to a family vacation, we probably won't see another chapter for a week or two, so be sure to follow the story to stay up to date. I may be able to get a chapter for my Pokémon Fanfic up as well, but it is unlikely, leave a review letting me know what you think, I'll see you all next chapter.