Chapter 12: Darkness falls.
Moon, Sarah, Ness, Paula, Lucas, Akira, Link, and Zelda all reappeared inside of Palutena's temple. I didn't take any of them long to notice that the amount of people in the room had increased drastically. In fact, assuming Moon could count correctly and hadn't forgotten anyone, almost all of the smash competitors were here. The only ones that seemed to be missing from the group were all the villains, Kirby, Richter, Olimar, and Shulk by the looks of things, also the entirety of the Fire Emblem Gang. While everyone else quickly scattered into their own groups, Moon led Sarah away from everyone else and towards the door before hearing several shouts coming from a bunch of different people. Moon pushed past Pit, who tried to stop them before they could hear what was being said.
"Byleth, for the last freaking time, give Palutena her position back!" Said the voice of Marth.
"Seriously, you are putting our reputation and allegiance on the line? For what? Some stupid kid?" The voice was rather deep and edgy.
"Ike, I presume." Moon muttered.
"What I don't understand...is why you have your allegiance to that boy. He's the Son of Giygas, heir to the embodiment of evil, he is poking at Palutena, just do it already!" Chrom's voice said.
"That boy," Byleth's voice said, with a rather stern tone, "That boy is powerful, far more powerful than what he appears to be on the outside. While you all are busy running behind this supposed 'holy figure of authority' in hopes of whatever silly position you fools have so clearly put my home cluster in will come back and help you. I've been busy just trying to protect my friends and students back in Fódlan."
"We know," this voice seemed to come from a younger boy, probably Roy in a groan. "But here's the logic you don't seem to understand. You said that your wife Edelgard sent you here in the hopes of gaining allegiance in the event of danger, correct?"
"Yes." Byleth said.
"So why, are you doing the exact opposite?" Corrin asked. "Our cluster has been in a series of allegiance to this cluster for protection...and now you wish to seek aid from...one boy? WHY? Edelgard will have your head when she finds out!"
"Also...why are you grinning? I hate that obnoxious grin of yours." Robin asked.
Byleth, though it was low, let out a laugh. "It seems that I was unsuccessful," he said. "Moon and Sarah have been listening to us for quite some time. My decision still stands, my wife would most certainly agree with my decision for your information. Now, leave this place so I can give the boy what is still rightfully his back...and when I am able to safely retreat home in the event of an emergency. You idiots will be left wishing you listened to me and not being forced to fight for something you know is wrong and against someone who may be able to kill all of you...I'll still try and help, but if my world becomes at all threatened, you better believe I'm getting the hell out of here."
The door swung open as the whole Fire Emblem gang muttered as they walked out. Each of them gave their own glares at the two of them as they walked away. Byleth came out into the hall a moment later.
"How did you even know we were here?" Sarah asked.
"You can pick up on a lot from being a professor." Byleth responded with a shrug. "As an ex-mercenary, I'm trained to always be alert for danger, I don't afford to let my confidence run high, or allow my newfound emotions to get the better of me. One slip up could've meant death amongst my students, wife, or other allies. Gave my students a headache early on how quiet I could be...but, it had it's perks I learned a lot from everyone, which is why I'm so well versed in fighting here."
"Yeah, I always wondered about that." Moon said, jumping in. "According to the Demonrift, you're supposed to be a lot different, from what I've read, you're well versed in all weapons from your cluster, you can use magic, you have great command in authority, you're only struggle was riding horses, flying, and heavy armor.
"Wait...he can fly?" Sarah asked.
"Well...yes...if I knew how to control a pegasus or wyvern." Byleth replied. "My students were able to make up for this issue however."
"So...why is everybody suddenly just rescued?" Moon asked.
"To be fair, you gave me orders to hold my position of power and give it back to you. You never told me exactly what I should've done to enforce my power...Palutena just warped out and kept bringing competitors...I thought you'd be okay with that since...well...you two just haven't been looking all that hot."
"But...corruption...all of them...what the hell?" Sarah stuttered.
"Bowser said he'd removed the corruption from Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Daisy...how he did I may never understand. But...there's no way that everyone here was able to just fight off corruption or have it removed...corruption can't just...vanish like that. Something is wrong."
"Regardless." Byleth sighed. "Now that you're back, I guess I have no need for power anymore, honestly, I'm better off without it, I already have the life essense of a god within me. I guess we should all turn in for the night?"
"If you so desire." Moon said calmly, I guess tomorrow Sarah and I will go look for Kirby and the remaining competitors. Ness and Paula will be able to hold down the fort for us." He and Sarah began to walk off.
As they started walking, Sarah heard Moon muttering to himself about the corruption issues, she was about to say something when she felt something metallic wrap around her waist. She looked down to see the extended whip of Byleth's Sword around her as she was gently held back away from Moon. She attempted to say something, but nothing came out of her mouth. When Moon had entered the next room, Byleth approached her.
"Don't worry," he said calmly.
"You...what...why didn't Moon's?"
"Precognition or Premonition is an...interesting power." Byleth said calmly. "It alerts one to danger, however, the power has a clear definition of danger, that being anything that brings harm to close friends or one's own well being. Your husband's power did not alert him to my separation from you, because I had no intention of putting you or him in danger."
Sarah just blinked in shock. "Wow...you...really know your stuff." she said in disbelief. "I didn't even know that was how Precognition worked...how do you even know all this stuff?"
Byleth shifted uncomfortably. "I...shouldn't tell you," he said quietly.
"So...why did you go through all this trouble just to separate us?" Sarah asked curiously. "I doubt you did this just to tell me how powers worked."
Byleth seemed to struggle with that question as he stood there in silence. After what felt like a long time of consideration, he nodded with himself.
"Moon holds a heavy weight on himself at the moment, one that he knows he must do, but at the same time...he just doesn't seem like he'd be able to accomplish that goal without someone by his side." Byleth said calmly. "Tell me Sarah, have you ever thought about what Moon would do without you there with him...or what you'd do without him?"
"Moon would probably kill himself if I weren't there with him." Sarah replied.
"Not...not like that." Byleth said. "What do you think he'd do if he didn't have you with him?"
"Like I said, he'd kill himself." Sarah replied. "Our hearts are bound as one, if one of us were to die, the other would be left in an inhumane state of shock and grief, tortured to no end, the strain and stress caused by this is not enough for us to handle...sure...we could probably move on with our lives...but Moon would probably rather kill himself than be without me...he's been tortured enough."
Byleth sighed. "Alright, let me try this...I know what you and Moon are planning," he said calmly. "Don't worry," he added quickly noticing Sarah's look of horror. "I frankly do not wish to put a stop to your little plan here...but Sarah, Moon will have a big responsibility on his shoulders, something that may cause problems in your relationship."
"Wha...what do you mean?" Sarah asked nervously.
"Say for instance, a timeline in one's world suddenly changes because of a flop." Byleth said. "In the original timeline, a town of let's say...800,000 innocent people, men, woman, and even children, are all murdered at the hands of an army's desperate attempt to stop another army from gaining tactical territory. However, because of a flop, the army that was supposed to arrive at the town reroutes its course and meets their demise costing only the lives 100,000 people all from that army. It would be Moon's rightful duty to set the timeline straight and rewrite the timeline back to the one where the town and it's 800,000 citizens are destroyed and killed. You say that you wish to fix what's broken...if Moon goes through with that as you say he would, he has now indirectly killed 800,000 people all for the better of stability."
Sarah shifted uncomfortably.
"This is not an easy thing to manage." Byleth continued. "What if you and Moon became separated by Clusters and Time itself? As I'm sure you know, in order to get back to the time you left, you have to wait until the timeline follows suit the current year of finale. While little to no time may pass for one of you...Moon could go for years on end before he could get back to you. He would know that you're still alive...but...five years without you...and the only way for him to get back...would be for him to fight for survival in a now unstable timeline that he must set straight. Are you two prepared for something like that? What do you think Moon would do if such a situation would present itself to him?"
Sarah hesitated, truth be told, she had never considered any of this as a possibility. Knowing Moon, he probably already had a backup situation for this specific event. The two of them being separated for years in Moon's eyes? What would he do? Then there was the issue of cleanser and keepers. Without her, who would keep Dark Moon in check? Surely Moon could find a temporary keeper as he had done with Olive...right? What about Moon getting back to her?
"I...I suppose that he would do whatever it takes to get back to me...no matter what it was, I would still love him. He was only doing the right thing after all, setting the course of action for the better of the Multiverse...it's the right thing to do...as long as it was necessary, I wouldn't care how much blood goes under his feet. We aren't going to try and balance out anything, we already agreed that we wouldn't fix our world, even though we have the power to. We won't accept favors and bribes from anyone."
"A bit hypocritical now though." Byleth said, folding his arms. "You did put the shield around my world like I was told right?"
"Well, yeah," Sarah said, going red. "But that was different. You have been a great help to Moon, and he says that you, like us, are only trying to protect your home, he sees himself in you Byleth, which is why he agreed to help you."
"Funny," Byleth said. "I see Moon more as my wife."
"Edelgard?" Sarah asked. "Why?"
"Well, to be fair, Moon already strikes me as the type who will fight for the right of everyone, to help the Multiverse. However, he has some conflicting parts of him that eat away at him, almost to the point where he can't handle what he's doing. The only reason he keeps pushing, is because he has the support of someone close to him. If anything Sarah, the four of us, you, me, Edelgard, and Moon, we're all in similar places."
"Byleth." Sarah asked, "Moon said that, if given the option, you would turn back over to Palutena's side, if you are working as a makeshift double agent...why are you doing such a thing? Your Cluster has aided Palutena for several Multiversal years."
Byleth seemed to bite down on his lip. "I can't explain to you why I've taken such an interest in your husband. Given the circumstances, I would fight him, however, should my theory be proven correct, I will have no choice but to follow my wife's words. For now, you may consider me an ally and I probably will remain an ally, but I will tell you that, given the circumstances, I would fight Moon...now...I believe that I've eaten up enough of your time. You can run back to your husband now."
"Thank you Byleth...I guess." Sarah replied as she walked down towards Skyworld Central Control.
Byleth patiently waited for the door to close. When it had, he calmly removed himself from the wall and let out a sigh.
"Everything keeps adding up." he said, rubbing his chin. "But...I still haven't gotten the visions. When I get the visions...I'll have to have Annette confirm it really is what I think it is. I can only pray that I haven't made a huge mistake."
(Great Maze)
Moon and Sarah walked cautiously around an abandoned factory. It had already been a rough start to the day, after yelling at Palutena for who knew how long about how much danger she could've put everyone in and then forcing everyone to make sure she didn't teleport out of Skyworld to try something like that again, Moon had to deal with more of Mario's bullshit about being more open minded, and the Fire Emblem gang's remarks to give Palutena her position back. At the end of all that, it was clear to Sarah that he only wanted to get out before one more idiot made him explode.
"I still think it's weird how the corruption just...up and left the competitors." Moon muttered. "Something is wrong...I just don't understand what. Maybe some sort of...elaborate bait?"
"You're stressing yourself." Sarah replied with a worried tone. "Maybe it would be best to let your anger out at them."
"You and I both know I can't do that." Moon replied flatly. "The second one of us goes over the edge is when Palutena uses that to rally against us. Remember, we don't show our dark sides unless it's absolutely necessary. That's why I wanted to leave, hopefully find another villain so I can let it out on him...but that's not what I want to know...you've been acting strange since you talked with Byleth...what's the deal?"
Sarah swallowed. "Moon...have you thought about what would happen if we became separated by cluster and time?"
Moon seemed to shift uncomfortably at her words. "Truthfully, yes." he admitted. "I came up with a plan should the event ever happen...hopefully it does not happen however, should the event transpire, I have a little gimmick, remember the Mindscape? Our Psychic Connection that transpires between you, me, Erick, and Dyson, and Ness' friends for some weird reason? Well, if what Jeff and Erick say is true, that connection exists beyond Time and Space, we could communicate with each other or anyone else who shares a psychic connection, at any time, from anywhere within the Multiverse."
"I don't really see how that helps." Sarah replied. "If you were to revert to your dark side, you don't go to the Mindscape, you go to Magicant, I would only be able to join our conjoined Magicant if I were to revert to my own dark side and…" she stopped talking, Moon wasn't even paying attention to her, instead, he was just looking at something in shock. She turned her head and saw a reflection of the two of them, only, it was their dark sides in control. Also, calling it a reflection was a bit of an understatement, both Dark Moon and Dark Sarah weren't even following their movements. They seemed to be doing their own thing. Both of them were pointing to their brains and saying something.
"What...what are they doing?" Sarah asked.
"I think that they want us to speak with them." Moon said calmly. "We might as well give them what they want, if it is what they want and we ignore it, they'll just put us through torture."
Both of them appeared inside of the voided landscape that they could call the Mindscape. After a moment or two of waiting in silence, both of their shadows appeared in front of them, both of them had an evil smirk and sharp piercing gaze behind their blood red eyes.
"Well...this is a sight for sore eyes." Dark Moon chuckled. "The two of you are on your last leg."
"We must admit, we are impressed." Dark Sarah giggled. "The whole exchange of anger and frustration that these bitchy ass heroes have given you...and yet you've only had to use my husband once."
"You guys have grown very patient all of a sudden." Moon said with a grunt. "What are you two up to?"
Dark Sarah flipped herself upside down and circled him and Sarah. "You could say that all we're doing is just wearing you down." she giggled. "Just poking and prodding at you, and you know that we're doing it too, you just refuse to take a break and do something about it."
"My love...they will not take a break." Dark Moon hissed. "We all know you won't...you've prepared everyone you needed to for the inevitable moment we take over. You know what's coming, and you're still doing nothing about it."
"It doesn't matter anymore." Sarah said furiously. "At the end of the day, you both still lose. You won't be able to make it back into the Giegue Cluster and take it over torture our friends like you so intend...that must irritate you two to no end!"
Both their dark sides cackled at her statement. "You really think that matters to us?" Dark Moon hissed with an evil grin. "Your friends would be the only real danger to us! Yet, you managed to convince Ness, Lucas, Paula, and everyone else you care about, to turn their heads another direction, because that's what they know you would've wanted."
"Besides," Dark Sarah giggled as she moved closer to the two of them, still upside down. "We don't even need to worry about them staying if they choose to do so, because at the end of the day, the second one thing goes wrong, Ness will pull them out of here."
"You aren't worried that another competitor may defeat you?" Moon asked.
Both their dark sides howled with evil laughter even more. "Please, even you know the answer to that question!" Dark Sarah giggled. "Not even Kirby would be able to stop us!"
"You know the arrangements though?" Sarah asked with a glare.
"Of course, of course." Dark Moon hissed, rolling his eyes. "Those arrangements are meaningless though, we would've done the same thing ourselves, it's less work for us to deal with honestly."
"Again, when you do get control during this make believe event Dark," Moon muttered. "You will withhold your end of the bargain...right?"
Both Sarah and Dark Sarah looked at them in shock.
"What do you mean...my husband's end of the bargain?" Dark Sarah hissed.
"I am just supposed to reveal the truth." Dark Moon hissed at her. "That is all we agreed to. If Moon couldn't handle his anger enough to show the Smash Brothers, I'm supposed to reveal the truth to them."
"But you already know the truth!" Sarah snapped. "Why don't you just tell us?"
"Because then there's no reason to torture you sweetheart!" Dark Sarah giggled. "All you're left to wonder is who is responsible for all the suffering you two go through. You both are so close to figuring it out...and when you do...you'll snap like twigs!"
"It's all in due time." Dark Moon said. "In fact, it will happen right after this. The two of you will be so overcome with anger that you'll make them all wish they had listened to you from the get go. It's only a matter of time for us. So please, we're getting sick of waiting, rescue the rest of those idiots and get the hell back to Skyworld. That bitchy goddess already ignored your orders and got Shulk and Olimar. You might as well get the gumball and vampire killer and get out of here."
"Well...we've wasted your time enough." Dark Sarah giggled, flipping herself right side up again. "Au revoir to you two, we'll see you again soon." Both Moon and Sarah were both launched up into the void.
The two of them blinked back into existence inside of the Great Maze. Moon shook his head once again before withdrawing Saphria from its hold on his back.
"Well...I guess it's almost that time then." he muttered to Sarah. She only nodded in response to his statement.
"EHAHAHAHAHA!"
Loud demonic laughter suddenly echoed through the hall as they were both blasted by a large beam of light purple light. The beam blasted them across the hall and into a wall of solid steel.
"Well Well Well." They both forced their heads up to see a creepy big eyed purple jester hat wearing creature alongside some weird very tall man with sharp pointed sunglasses and a sharp purple nose with a devilish grin and star-studded cloak or cape that covered the majority of his body with golden horns and twisted purple claws floating before them.
"M-Marx...and...Nightmare." Moon grunted, breathing heavily. "Some of...ergh...Kirby's lot."
"Hello little children." Nightmare said with a cold, scratchy voice. "Welcome to hell, where you'll spend the rest of your lives weak and insane."
Marx cackled with demonic laughs before inhaling and firing another bright purple beam, blasting them back into the wall before either of them had time to react. Four boomerangs of sharp purple light then cut and slashed at their bodys before two black spheres of dark energy hit them and exploded, sending both of them into the opposite wall of the hall. Nightmare snapped his weird looking fingers creating some bright purple electrical shocks zapping both of them as they had no room to breathe.
Moon and Sarah both stood up, both of them were shaking from the amount of damage they had taken, both of them prepared themselves for another attack.
"Gee...Bowser said we should be worried about you two...and yet...here we are, beating the two of you senseless." Nightmare cackled. "Pure beauty...nothing can stop us now."
"Poyo!"
A small pink gumball creature with dark blue eyes and little nubby hands with magenta colored sharp pointed feet landed on top of Nightmare. The creature smiled happily before taking out a small silver cross and touching it to Nightmare's forehead.
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, a bright white light flashed through the area as Nightmare let out a really deep scream in agony. He suddenly transformed into a shadow that entered the silver cross Kirby was holding. The whole time there were loud screams of pure agony as the whole thing went down.
If it was somehow possible for Marx's absurdly large eyes to get bigger, they certainly did. The Jester creature slowly started to float away as Kirby landed on the ground doing some sort of cute little victory dance that involved him moonwalking from side to side doing a few weird cartwheels before jumping up and doing a flip landing on the ground and striking a pose with one nubby hand in the air and one foot up as he pointed at Moon and Sarah with the biggest smile on his face.
"Kirby Kirby Kirby that's the name you should know." Moon hummed.
"Kirby Kirby Kirby he's the star of the show." Sarah continued.
"He's more than you think, he's got maximum pink!"
"Kirby Kirby Kirby's the one!"
"If you don't get that reference, I don't know what to say then." Moon said with a wink. "Now let's quickly deal with Marx before-"
"Take this monster! You don't belong in this world!"
A glass bottle of water suddenly splashed on top of Marx's head. A tiny silver cross, smaller than the one Kirby used to trap Nightmare in, fell out of the water. Marx looked down to see the small cross then sighed.
"Ah shit...Here we go again."
A sudden flash of bright white light followed by demonic screeches echoed through the area as Marx's black pupil eyes turned ghostly white and his mouth flashed white as well. The jester creature let out several loud screeches as it soared around the room before an explosion of white light blasted through the area, leaving the jester creature to just fall to the ground.
A boy around 19 years old with brown leather boots and a dark blue coverup over most of his body with fading gray pants hopped down next to Kirby, he carried a metallic chain whip with a spiked iron ball at the end. He wore two white bandages around his wrists and a white bandaged headband could be seen below his brown hair.
"Looks like we found Richter as well...amazing!" Sarah cheered.
"Thank you for your help right there." Moon added for her.
"Don't mention it, Dracula was already dealt with as well." Richter replied with a stern voice. Kirby and I took them out."
"Hiiii!" Kirby cheered.
Sarah reached down for Kirby before Moon stopped her.
"Sarah, Kirby isn't Astro." he said calmly. "He is not immune to corruption."
"But...look at him!" Sarah pouted. "He's so cute and innocent and squishy! How could he not be immune to corruption?"
"What's going on?" Richter asked.
"Sorry," Moon said quickly, "I don't have time to explain to you, let me just send both of you back to Skyworld. He opened a pink portal that Richter and Kirby both fell through.
He quickly turned back to Sarah. "I know Kirby may look innocent and cute," he said calmly. "But he doesn't have purity, sure, he may see good in everyone and only tries to teach the ways of Jesus to everyone, but he will resort to force over some of the most unnecessary things, he once blew up a planet because someone stole his strawberry cake."
"Oh...wow." Sarah replied.
A loud demonic screech suddenly echoed through the area as Ridley landed in front of the two of them, the Dragon's death gaze didn't intimidate them however.
"Is there a problem Ridley?" Moon asked calmly, putting his arm in front of Sarah.
"No." the dragon hissed. "I just wanted to tell you two something that I found out...I think it may be something of interest to you."
(Skyworld Central Control)
Moon and Sarah reappeared inside of the central control room. They quickly took notice of the fact that Palutena was in the room, frantically pressing the screen of the control.
"Dammit, Dammit, Dammit." she grunted in fury. "What the hell did those bitchass children of that evil alien shit do to this thing? I can't freaking do anything to these files...I can't allow them to succeed in their-"
Moon put the tip of Saphria up to her back, the goddess jumped a little before turning around with an angry stare in her eyes.
"Hands up...drop the staff." Moon said with an angry tone. "Step away from your technology."
"I will do no such thing." Palutena replied flatly. "Your methods are criminally wrong and you know it, I will take great pleasure in finally being able to dispose of you two shitty brats when this is all over. If you want me to even consider the possibility of sparing your existence, you will stop your madness at once."
"YOUR actions are criminally wrong and YOU know it." Sarah replied flatly. "If you want Moon to even consider giving you your power back after this, YOU should step away and confess your crimes to the rest of the Smash Brothers."
The goddess of light didn't do a thing as she glared at the two of them. "You have no evidence to support your case...you know nothing...I am the Goddess of Light, the symbol of unity and peace who runs this Multiverse, I have made no such actions that go against the laws I helped create!"
Moon's eyes narrowed into a very intense glare, all of a sudden. Palutena was forced away from the Central Control and into a wall behind them.
"I asked politely." Moon grunted. "If you truly had made no such actions, you would've given up willingly...I know how this stupid world works goddess."
"By my order I can and will kill both of you." Palutena said furiously as she picked herself up and gripped her staff. "I will not allow you two to get any closer to this goal of madness you two have! I will not allow myself to be push-
"We know." Sarah replied with a lazy tone as she rolled her eyes. "You're just so off your game because you're used to being a conniving little bastard who works in the shadows behind everyone. But with us around, you simply can't do that anymore because we know your intentions and how you play."
"You both know that you will be stopped...good always triumphs over evil!" Palutena snapped.
"You forget." Moon replied with his smug tone as he continued clicking. "This isn't your story anymore Goddess. It's mine and Sarah's. Reality can quite literally be whatever we want. You lost your divine intervention to the Demonrift...I control everyone and everything."
"You both are bastards, you're both so much like Giygas." Palutena snapped. "You both call yourselves heroes when you choose to walk the path of darkness?"
"The path of darkness isn't always as black and white as one may think." Sarah replied without looking at her. "Moon, that one." she said pointing to a file labeled History of Dark Sanctuary.
"STOP THIS AT ONCE!" Palutena roared.
Both children looked at the screen ignoring the goddess. For a moment, they just stood there in silence. Then Moon let out a chuckle, before laughing like a maniac. Both children turned to Palutena with the most pissed off expressions they ever had.
"IS THIS SOME TYPE OF TWISTED JOKE?" Moon shouted, pointing at the screen. "DO YOU THINK THIS SHIT IS FUNNY?" They got no response from the goddess.
"You…" Sarah hissed. "Just made the biggest damn mistake of your life."
Both their eyes flashed red and stayed red, their skin and hair turned to a shadowy color. Their clothing became black, and Saphria's blade switched from blue to black. Both their dark sides grinned evilly at the sight of Palutena's glare at them.
"For a goddess who claims to know what's best...you sure are a damn fool." Dark Sarah hissed at her.
"Now now, my love." Dark Moon replied with a cold voice. "Show a little courtesy to the goddess, afterall, we have her to thank for everything."
"You two…" Palutena grunted. "The fact that Ness ever allowed you two to continue your lives disgusts me, now that I'm finally facing you both, I will take massive pleasure in finally taking you both out of this Multiverse. You both don't deserve your lives."
Both dark sides cackled at that as Dark Moon held Saphria in a more attack-ready stance and Dark Sarah started generating some visible PSI Energy from her hands.
"Yet we have our lives." Dark Moon hissed. "And it's all because of you."
"You tried to take us out once, but that didn't work." Dark Sarah hissed. "Because Tabuu had anticipated that...but you know what that saddest part of this whole thing is?"
"What?" Palutena grunted.
"Tabuu didn't even do it for us." Dark Moon hissed. "He didn't do it for Giygas or anything else, he did it for the sole purpose of hopefully teaching you a lesson. And in doing so, he created the worst possible outcome for you."
"And to think that this WHOLE situation could've been avoided if you had simply let him continue his research under your supervision. But nope, you'd rather cause all of the Subspace event, and try and genocide an entire cluster off the map of the Multiverse."
"I...will...kill...both...of...you." Palutena grunted.
Both dark sides cackled again. They both laughed and cackled as they stood in front of her.
"You brought us into this world." Dark Moon hissed. "And now you get to suffer the consequences of your stupidass actions...it's time to show the Multiverse just how shitty and terrible you really are."
That's all for today's chapter, seems like we've finally reached the climax of this story by the looks of things.
I never intended to draw this out for every Smash Character, especially since there are so many of them, at it's max, I was hoping that this would be like a 15-16 chapter series. Next time, we see the Dark sides finally getting their shots at this story. Well, Dark Moon will mostly get the spotlight probably. I actually had this chapter finished since last Tuesday, but weekly uploads are just my thing.
Hopefully you all are ready, we don't have much left in this series maybe three or four more chapters before we move onto Black Dawn, A Crimson Flower, Chapter 1 of which, is nearly finished with production. I'm certain by this point you probably know what game it's going to be, if not, then I guess I'm very bad at dropping hints, or most of you have never played said game. Either way, hope you all are excited for that.
Anyway, leave a review letting me know if the big twist caught you off guard, or if it was just expected at this point. I'll see you all, next time.