Chapter 13: The Paths We Choose.

All of the Super Smash Competitors, except for Palutena stood in the central hall of temple, many of them, with horrified looks of anger as Pit talked to Richter.

"So...let me guess this straight!" Pit groaned. "Moon and Sarah just sent the two of you back here...without ANY explanation as to why or where they were going?"

"That is correct," Richter replied with his romanian accented voice. "Kirby and I were able to help them take Dracula, Marx, and Nightmare out of the villains operation. I suppose it was only to keep us out of villainous hands again."

"But you two were the only ones left to rescue!" Pit said furiously.

"MAYBE…" Ness shouted over him, "Maybe Palutena should have listened to what Moon told her and NOT have gone and rescued Olimar and Shulk, they're probably out looking for the two of them without the knowledge that they've already been rescued."

"Ness, ah please." Mario snapped. "Palutena is ah only trying to ah get her position back ah more quickly, the ah sooner we ah deal with this, the ah sooner we can ah get back to our ah normal lives."

"Not exactly." Dark Pit replied, crossing his arms. "Remember, we voted that Moon would be in charge until HE deemed this problem over, so, in theory, he doesn't have to give Palutena her power back. He can continue ruling the Multiverse as it is."

"And with the way you all and her have been treating him and Sarah." Byleth said, jumping in. "I don't think he's going to be willing to give her back all that power."

Pit and Mario both glared at them. "You seem to ah forget that Moon's popularity with us is ah very poor." Mario said. "Apart from you all, he ah only has ah support from Zelda, Link, Mewtwo, Lucario, Greninja, Incineroar, and, just ah because they refuse to ah be negative, Kirby and Isabelle."

"That would be because you all view them as evil." Paula snapped back at him. "Just because they have to wear the label of Giygas's children doesn't mean they're evil!"

"Lady Palutena has her rights, Moon can and will be removed from his position by force if it would come to it."

Byleth cracked an amused grin. "Is that truly what you believe?" he asked smugly. "From what Palutena has said, Giygas was an unstoppable force, not even manipulating reality would stop his reign of terror in the Giegue Cluster, which means that, in theory, the Giegue Cluster is the only cluster where fate was entirely dependent on something, if just one Giygas put strain on the council so badly last time, imagine what two children of the same entity would be capable of."

"There's nothing that a little Divine Intervention can't fix!" Pit snapped back at him. "Plus, there's no way Moon or Sarah could ever handle the Super Smash Brothers, they couldn't even handle Lady Palutena if they fought!" As he said that, a loud demonic screech suddenly echoed through the hall. Everyone turned around his horror before a wall was suddenly blasted.

KA-BOOM!

Chunks of marble and debris and dust flew everywhere as two large beams of black and red light exploded across the central hall, the beams of light blasted into a solid gold statue of Palutena which shattered into bits of rubble and fell to the floor with several loud bangs. Everyone saw Palutena in the wreck of the rubble, Pit quickly ran over to her.

"Lady Palutena...what happened?"

"It's...those two." Palutena grunted. From across the hall, where the large gaping hole in the wall to Skyworld Central Control was, Dark Moon and Dark Sarah emerged from the hole.

"Aw, look at that." Dark Moon hissed with a devilish grin on his face. "The goddess being so quick to point fingers at this the responsibility of this disaster already?"

"I think she should turn that hand a good 180 degrees around...you know, so it's pointing at herself." Dark Sarah hissed.

"Moon...Sarah?" Ness asked.

"Silence Ness." Dark Moon hissed. "Your friends aren't here anymore, it's our time to reign supreme, so it's best you stay quiet...We've got a score to settle with this bitchy goddess."

"You want to hurt Lady Palutena?" Pit asked, taking his staff and breaking it into two swords. "You're going to have to go through me first."

"With pleasure." Dark Sarah hissed. She then teleported behind Pit in a flash of black light and blasted him with a Pk Thunder, the bolt of lightning launched the angel across the hall where Dark Moon punched with an upwards strike. Both of them then shouted.

"PK FIRE!"

A large blast of blue and black flames erupted off both of their hands. The flames were large and hot, you could feel as if you were on a grill with their heat radiation, both flames collided with the Angel and unleashed a massive fiery explosion of light and heat.

"PK Starstorm!" Dark Sarah hissed. A loud smash from the top of the ceiling sent several large meteors down from the sky. Each one directly targeted a telekinetically held Pit, crushing him and shattering on impact as they smashed the angel repeatedly.

"I've never seen the power of Starstorm be so powerful." Meta Knight said with a shocked tone. "The meteor strikes aren't even random like they are with Ness and Lucas."

"Noct did say that the path of darkness can lead to some pretty messed up things PSI." Akira replied to him. "That's why I was warned to be cautious if I ever met up with Moon and Sarah."

"Yes," Dark Moon hissed, without looking at him. "Your family and friends back at World Hearts really seemed to have learned from my host Akira, it is such a shame that he was the one who prayed to protect your father and mother, without him, you would've lost...but now...thanks to him, you're safe."

The last meteor strike struck Pit, who was now leaking out some type of white blood from his nose and mouth with several scratches and burn marks on his body. Dark Moon then quickly flung his hand down, without missing a beat, Pit smashed into the ground creating a large sink hole. Throughout all of that, Pit managed to force himself back up, then dashed in towards Dark Moon with an upperdash arm. Dark Moon simply moved out of the way and grabbed the angel by his neck. Pit started screaming in pain.

"You know Angelboy." Dark Moon hissed. "It's people like YOU who disgust me the most. Serving such psychotic filth, claiming to have the divine right of truth and ideals, thinking that they have the supreme authority. You serve this stupidass goddess, fully aware of the crimes and atrocities she has committed! And you wear that honor of being the Hero of Subspace like the ignorant bitch that you are. THAT HONOR DOESN'T EVEN BELONG TO YOU!"

"Wait...Pit was honored for saving everyone in Subspace?" King Dedede asked with a slightly irritated tone. "What the hell is that all about? I didn't get honored, neither did Luigi or Ness. We're the ones who rescued everyone!"

"Actually." Sonic said with a cheeky tone, "I saved all of you from Tabuu. Which is why I also got honored by Palutena."

"WHAT!" Luigi suddenly shouted. "You? You ah got honored? What the hell did ah YOU do?"

"Hush ah now Luigi." Mario grunted.

"You ah didn't do shit Sonic!" Luigi shouted. "You got ah blasted by Tabuu in ah less than ah five seconds, in fact, you ah didn't even ah fight him!"

"See, that's the problem," Dark Sarah hissed. "You all have been blinded by corruption that brings down the depths of hell on this council! Many of you aren't even aware of its existence, but that's why we're here, to fix that issue."

Palutena grunted as she stood up. "I think it's...I think you should stop." she muttered. "You aren't going to win, not when everyone is around."

"Send the first wave then." Dark Moon taunted. "I put my cards on the field, It'll just be me, my love, I ask of you to sit this one out, no matter what happens."

"If it's just you, then I'll fight you." Marth skidded to a halt in front of him.

"I was hoping it'd be you." Dark Moon hissed, drawing Saphria out. "I've been itching for a sword fight, hopefully you'll prove a better fighter."

Zelda turned her attention to Ness, Paula, and Lucas, who had all backed up and away from everyone else. Akira was also with them. She could hear distant shouts of pain from Marth as loud metals clanged against each other.

"Are you not going to intervene?" She asked in shock. "You can't get hurt by them, why aren't you doing something? Isn't your whole thing about helping others against the likes of evil?"

Lucas and Paula both looked at Ness, who merely shrugged. "Having Moon around for the past couple of months really opened my eyes to something." he said calmly to Zelda. "I'm going to use my better judgement here and say that there's a reason their dark sides are out."

"But...Moon said that if their dark sides got control then-"

"That's exactly his point Zelda." Paula interrupted. "Think, if Moon knows the danger of what their dark sides can do...if he knows full well that he and Sarah are the only ones who can stop their own respective dark sides...do you really think that they'd let them out?"

"But then that would mean that…"

"Someone, aka, Palutena, made them angry enough to the point where they were forced out." Lucas finished for her.

Zelda shook her head. "No." she said flatly, "I know she and Moon have their differences and a bitter relationship, but she knows what type of power Dark Moon and Dark Sarah would hold."

"I still have a hard time believing that Dark Moon and Dark Sarah are more dangerous than Nightmare would be." Akira said calmly, "My father told me what Nightmare put him through, I see many similarities, while there are obvious differences, I haven't seen anything too much as to prove his deadliness and superiority to whatever despicable creation Giygas could have created on my father.

Dark Moon blocked another swing from Marth's Falchion, before swiping in an uppercut motion, launching the sword out of Marth's hands and into the air. Marth made an attempt to back away and catch his sword, however, Dark Moon held him telekinetically.

"Seriously," he sneered as the hero king struggled to move in his frozen position. "For such a tactical military commander who supposedly never lost a single goddamn unit in his so intricately planned out attacks, you sure suck at this." He slowly stalked up to the boy, now defenseless and immobile. Marth glared at him furiously while everyone else stood, petrified in either fear or shock.

"Such a shame that you didn't listen when you had the chance." Dark Moon continued. "However, you have proved your usefulness." he grinned with a devilish look in his eyes. "I think it's time that I make my statement to you assholes, and unveil the truth." He gripped Saphria in a pose of readiness as he leered Marth down.

"This…" he said. "Is for breaking every rule in the goddamn book!" Without missing a beat, he drove the sword through Marth's chest. The young prince's eyes widened in shock as he was impaled, the blade going through the entirety of his body. Blood poured out on both ends as he withdrew his sword. The young king fell to the ground and didn't move any more.

"I think that this proves my point." he glared at everyone else.

"Oh...what's this?" he asked. "I see that our friends Lucina and Chrom are still here." he said with a hint of disappointment.

"Wait...if he killed Marth...then...why are they still here?" Mewtwo asked.

"Would the bitchy goddess like to explain this one?" Dark Sarah hissed.

Palutena glared at them but didn't say anything.

"Well, you had your chance" Dark Moon hissed. "Well, the reason why Lucina and Chrom are still here, is because Palutena made an illegal deal with Marth, in which she manipulated reality and broke the Gladio Cluster apart to preserve stability of the Gladio Cluster after agreeing to not press charges against Lucina for unnecessary time travel instead of correcting the timeline like she was supposed to. That's why all of the Fire Emblem gang serves as close knights to her and it's why they have so many representatives."

A couple of angry frowns were shot at the goddess but nothing was said.

"Oh, doesn't seem to peak your interests." Dark Sarah hissed as she approached Dark Moon and stood next to him. "Well, Mewtwo, Popo, Nana, would you like to know the reasons why you weren't allowed to compete?"

"Wait…" Popo's voice was a bit squeaky. "We weren't barred because of illegal teaming?"

"I was barred?" Mewtwo asked. "I was told that my invite was sent, but that it must've gotten lost."

"Well no," Dark Sarah giggled. "Palutena barred you two for inecest, and Mewtwo, she never sent your invite. In fact, we found the letter hard locked into Skyworld Central Control."

"Oh, and then, I'd like to throw some more out there." Dark Moon hissed. "Does everyone wonder who Rosalina's parents are? Cause I'm sure you'll never believe this one...get this, it's Palutena and Mario!"

This one struck gold, everyone's attention as there were several gasps of shock, the most notable coming from the Basidiomycota group, then there were murmurs."

"Mario...is...is this true?" Peach asked angrily.

"Oh, don't worry you shitty princess of toads." Dark Sarah hissed, "Mario's memory was wiped so not even he knew, it was all to keep that information private."

"But that," Dark Moon hissed. "Doesn't even compare to the amount of BULLSHIT that you have gone with." He turned to look at Ness, Paula and Lucas, "You want to know who was responsible for all the destruction, chaos, and creation of Dark Sanctuary? Do you want to know who hired Pokey to go destroy it to get rid of us? Do you want to know who is responsible for the near genocide of all of Giegue?"

All three of their eyes, plus Akira's widened.

"No…" Ness sputtered.

"YES!" Dark Moon shouted. "It was all her!" he growled pointing at Palutena. "She's the one who tried to get rid of you, her whole intricate plan was to use the excuse of all the crimes that she committed within our world, to blame it all on you and Paula, then wipe our Cluster clean off the map!" He laughed psychotically. "You took everything from my host, and gave my love and I the greatest gifts of our lives."

"She may have committed those crimes." Ike declared, gripping his sword. "But that doesn't change the fact that you've been pushing us around, and you just killed Marth. How about you take all of us on." The rest of the Fire Emblem gang braced themselves with their swords. Except for Byleth.

Dark Moon stood there with a deadpan stare. Then, in a flash of black light, he transformed into a giant demonic looking beast of somesorts, it had black fur, red eyes, and the marking of Saphria could be seen across its back. The creature had sharp claws, but it wasn't like that mattered anyway.

The creature opened its mouth and a gigantic blast of fire exploded from its core, blasting all of the swordies across the hall. In a flash of black light, Dark Moon stood back on the ground again.

"How did you fools honestly expect to defeat me with just swords?" He cackled.

"ALLOW ME TO DEMONSTRATE!" Byleth shouted, "Thunder!"

A blast of blue lightning struck Dark Moon and blew him backwards. Byleth skidded to a halt in front of everyone else with the Sword of the Creator, and the rest of the hero's relics readied for a fight.

Dark Moon glared at the mercenary as he stood there, brace for a fight.

"What exactly do you think YOU are doing?" he hissed. "I just unveiled that Palutena is one who slithers in the dark. Something that you and your wife Edelgard are opposed to? I thought you were my host's ally?"

"That may be true." Byleth said. "But even then, I stand to make a statement. The only reason I came here was so Fódlan under Imperial reign could have backup from the Multiversal controller. I remain an ally to both of you, I'm simply fighting you for my testament of my own decision before I jump to conclusions.."

Dark Moon grinned with an evil smile.

"Then you'll either earn my respect or die like a fool." he hissed.

"That's a gamble I'm willing to take." Byleth replied.

"Very well then. I'll look forward to this one." Dark Moon gripped Saphria before making a charge towards Byleth.

Byleth grabbed the sword of the creator and launched it downwards, the blade extended outwards and Dark Moon jumped into the air.

Byleth's hands flashed a yellowish coloA large boulder of flaming rock appeared above Dark Moon and slammed him into the ground. As the Dark side struggled to get up Byleth took out Failnaught and fired a beam of light at him, striking the center of his chest and blowing him backwards.

Dark Moon stood up, clutching his chest. "I see that the reawakened power of Sothis has allowed you to become more powerful." he hissed. "Stay back my love," he added furiously as Dark Sarah made a motion to approach.

Byleth made a small little movement towards him.

"Oh? You're approaching me?" Dark Moon hissed. "Did your first two strikes give you some confidence?"

"I can't beat the shit out of you without getting close to you." Byleth responded as more yellow light surrounded his gloved hands. "Fire!"

"PK Fire!"

A fireball and blue wave of flames collided and exploded into a massive wave of heat. Dark Moon used a PK Accelerate to start getting a little quick within his movement before dashing towards Byleth with Saphria readied. In a quick moment Byleth basically instantly jabbed a lance forward piercing through Dark Moon's chest. Up close Byleth's hands flashed yellow once more as another Fireball blasted Dark Moon backwards.

"PK Rollin!"

A blast of black and red light shot from Dark Moon's hands, Byleth quickly rolled out of the line of fire then, he fired a blast of thunder blowing him backwards across the hall. Dark Moon's body flashed in black and blue light as he transformed into a nine foot tall black dragon with a hunting knife tail. He flew upwards before diving towards Byleth.

Byleth somehow teleported behind his dive and used the Sword of the Creator to wrap around his leg before slamming him into the ground, he then took out Failnaught once again and blasted another arrow through Dark Moon's chest. Dark Moon fell to the ground as Byleth stalked up to him.

"Y-Yo-You...are...powerful." Dark Moon hissed as he forced himself up, shaking. Byleth took out a weird looking axe with a hook and spikes around it. "I...I thought we were...allies."

Byleth didn't say anything as Palutena approached his side.

"Good Job Byleth," She said. "Now, Kill this boy at once!"

Byleth looked at Dark Moon with honorable consideration, then, the axe head approached the floor as it began flashing red light.

"AMYR!" Byleth shouted before swinging. Then, Byleth just froze, he stopped, just standing there with wide eyes. Aymr was still clutched in his hands as he stood there, paralyzed in shock.

Palutena glared at him. "What the hell is wrong with you?" she snapped. "Finish him at once!"

Byleth blinked back to reality and just looked at Dark Moon, who was still standing in front of him, breathing heavily.

"Is...is the shield still up?" Byleth asked.

Palutena glared at him. "What shield?"

Dark Moon grinned evilly as Dark Sarah teleported next to him.

"The shield only breaks when my host wishes, or when my host dies." he replied. "That should be unimportant to you, we still have a fight to finish. My love?"

"PK HATE!"

A blast of black and red light launched Palutena far away from the dark sides and Byleth.

"Now...where were we?"

"Cease fire" Byleth said. "HUBERT!"

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, a man who looked older than Byleth, with long black hair, glowing yellow eyes, and a black robe outfit that made him look like some sort of witch doctor appeared in a flash of orange light. Everyone's eyes widened in shock.

The man turned to Byleth and bowed. "Yes your highness?" he asked calmly.

Byleth looked at him. "Hubert, I want you to get Edelgard and Annette at once. It's time for me to withdraw from here."

Hubert looked at Byleth with a cunning grin. "Your highness, I know that you think you have some say in how things go, but her majesty won't allow such a cowardly attitude, you do remember why you are here...right?"

"Hubert, just...do me a favor and look." Byleth said, pointing at Dark Moon and Dark Sarah.

Hubert looked across the temple floor at the two of them, his face turned from a clever grin to a frown as he looked at them. He turned back to Byleth and bowed.

"I understand your highness." he said calmly. "I shall fetch her majesty and Lady Annette at once." the man then vanished in a flash of orange light.

"Byleth...what the hell?" Palutena growled.

"This is not your problem Palutena." Byleth replied, still holding Amyr in his hands.

A moment later, another flash of orange light saw Hubert with two other girls, both of whom seemed to be in their early twenties. One was a girl wearing a tan dress cloak with an orange sweater around the top of her body. She had long orange hair and ocean blue eyes with a sweet smile on her face, a pendant of a shining silver star was hung around her neck.

The other was a girl with lavender eyes and white hair locks falling out of the sides of her silver battle helmet with golden horns on the front. She wore red battle armor with a long cape around her neck. Her face seemed stone cold, however, looking carefully, you could see some remorse within her eyes.

The armored girl quickly ran over to Byleth and gave him a hug. "You're okay." she said sweetly before separating. "But...why did Hubert come get me and Annette? Why do you want to withdraw from-"

"Your majesty, his highness wishes that you see for yourself." Hubert said, pointing across the temple floor.

Both Edelgard and Annette looked across the field, both of their eyes widened at the sight of them standing there.

"I never would've thought…" Edelgard started. "Annette?"

"I know your majesty." Annette replied. She slowly walked up to the two dark sides and gave them a rather nervous bow.

"Hello Moon," she said calmly. "I'm Annette, I serve the empress of the Adrestian Empire which rules all of Fódlan. I just wish to ask you a few questions, this is only in regard to a safety protocol...is that okay?"

Dark Moon and Dark Sarah stood there with probably the most confused reactions of everyone in the room.

"Why would we be answering questions when we could just as easily be killing you?" Dark Sarah hissed. Dark Moon put his hand up in front of her.

"Patience, my love." he said calmly. "I'm already getting my ass beat by Byleth, I'll do anything to delay more of that."

"You've been fighting him?" Edelgard asked Byleth with wide eyes.

"Only up until now...he was never of interest." Byleth replied, "Just let Annette do her thing."

Annette still stood in front of Dark Moon with a half-hearted smile on her face. "Thank you," she said sweetly. "This won't take long."

"Please, take as long as you'd like." Dark Moon hissed.

"Okay...so, first off, are you more of a sweet tooth?"

Dark Moon still stood there with a clear look of confusion. "Uh...well...considering my favorite food is cake...I'm probably a sweet tooth person."

"BYLETH SERIOUSLY?!" Pit shouted. "You had him at axe point and now you bring three other people to just sit here and get to know him?"

"PK ROLLIN!" Dark Moon roared. A blast of black and red light shot from his hand blowing Pit across the temple.

Annette watched the beams fade away before turning back to him. "Well, I guess there's my answer to what would've been my next question." she said calmly. "So then...how much blood would you be willing to create in order to get back to her?" she continued, pointing at Dark Sarah.

"As much as I'd have too."

Annette's face seemed to form a more hopeful sort of smile. "So...do you know why I'm asking you these questions?"

"No...frankly, I don't even know why the hell any of this matters."

"Very well then." Annette replied, with a hint of disappointment. "That is all." She turned back to Edelgard.

"Your conclusion?" Edelgard asked.

"Yes your majesty, it is exactly as he foretold."

Edelgard nodded in approval before bowing to the dark sides herself.

"On behalf of Fódlan, I thank you for your time." she said. "I hope my husband hasn't caused any hatred on us towards you, if so, we apologize for our misunderstanding, I will be withdrawing him from this whole ordeal until it is over, Fódlan is our bigger concern at the moment and we do not wish to lose more lives fighting off the likes of you. In exchange for my husband's withdrawal, do you promise not to attack us?"

"EXCUSE ME?" Palutena shouted. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

Edelgard turned to face the goddess. "I'm withdrawing my husband from clear danger, Fódlan has already wasted enough lives as it is in civil war, I do not wish to lose anymore for a cause that we semi-believe in. If it's all the same to the rest of you, I'd recommend that you all do the same." she turned back to Dark Moon. "So...do we have a deal?"

"Not like I could invade your world anyway, but sure." Dark Moon hissed.

"Thank you for your generosity, we shall not be of any trouble to you. Hubert, get us out of here."

"As you wish, your majesty." Hubert, Byleth, Edelgard, and Annette all vanished in a flash of orange light.

"That was weird...but...now we aren't screwed." Dark Moon hissed.

"You little, Explosive Flame!" Palutena shouted, pointing her staff at Dark Moon, who quickly teleported a bit closer to her. He outstretched his hand and her staff flew from the goddess' grasp and into his as he grinned evilly.

"Now Now," he hissed. "It's most rude to attack those when they are making a peace agreement. Although, I think that you don't deserve your shot at soothing for peace." he held her staff sideways and grasped it in his hands.

"You can try." Palutena scowled, "But my staff is of Skyworld descent, it is indestructible-"

Dark Moon snapped the golden staff in two and tossed it to the ground, "My dear goddess, you have no idea what's possible with my power." he hissed, stalking closer to her. "Now that I've been so rudely interrupted, and frankly have gotten bored, and am pressed for time. I think I might as well put a stop to this nonsense."

Ness's eyes widened in shock before he shouted. "EVERYONE! COVER YOUR EYES!"

Dark Moon glared at Palutena as a white light flashed from his eyes at her. Thankfully, everyone else had bothered to listen to Ness and covered their eyes. When they uncovered them, Palutena stood as a statue of diamond.

"LADY PALUTENA!" Pit shouted.

Dark Sarah cackled. "She's dead and alive at the same time, perfect way for us to kill an unkillable entity."

Dark Moon approached her diamond statue and simply pushed it, the statue wobbled for a bit before falling to the ground, it didn't shatter, however.

"Dammit." he hissed. "I can only encase her...ah well...the only ones who can fix aren't going to. Who's the god now bitch!"

He cleared his throat as he looked over the rest of the smash competitors.

"This goddess has brought about your ultimate demise." he hissed. "For those of you who are lucky enough to have made good with my host, I will give you the opportunity to save yourselves and return home. Your worlds are safe from any invasion I would've had. As for the rest of you, and those idiots who want to stay and fight, if you don't submit to the rule of the Rogue Alliance, you will not be met with mercey." he then turned to Ness, Lucas, Paula, Akira, Zelda, and Link, who were all on the opposite side away from everyone else.

"I meant that whole part for the Pokemon." he hissed. "I know you six will want to stay and fight, it's in your nature, you all will be spared time and time again until you see everyone else fall, then you'll give up and go home...or you can go home now."

"We will stop you." Ness replied. "We aren't leaving here without our friends."

"Then, good luck getting them back." Dark Sarah giggled. "Also, just a word for you all. If you want even a chance at trying to beat us, you'll leave that bitchy goddess who wanted to kill all of our cluster encased in diamond. Au revoir now." Both dark sides vanished in a flash of black light.

"Lucar, Lucario!" Lucario said to Mewtwo.

"What's up with Lucario?" Zelda asked.

"Lucario says that, since they were kindly given the option, that he will be taking all Pokemon representatives here in Smash and going back to the Animalium Cluster, he's only giving the option to me...I will be staying." Mewtwo said.

"Wait, how come I don't get an option?" the Pokemon Trainer asked.

"Cario! Luca!"

"Lucario says that he won't allow any Pokemon that aren't close to the range of a legendary stay." Mewtwo said. "All of them will be returned to their respective trainers who allowed them to come, as for you Red, he says that Kanto would be left in a state of futile chaos should you be killed in the crossfire."

"I'm also guessing this has something to do with the fact that this Lucario, Greninja, and Incineroar belong to Animalium Incarnations of Moon and Sarah." Akira whispered to Ness who nodded in response.

"Ninja! Grenin!"

"Greninja thanks us for inviting them, he says it's a shame that this happened, but that he too, does not wish to stay here."

"Incin! Cineroar!"

"Incineroar also asks that, should we somehow survive this, to never invite him back here again. I don't think you'll have to worry about that last one though."

"Lucario!" Lucario, Greninja, Incineroar, Pikachu, Pichu, Jigglypuff, and Red all vanished in a flash of orange light.

(Animalium Cluster; Alola Region)

Sapphire, Genji, and Scar all reappeared in the little sanctuary ranch that their trainers had at the Alola League to store their Pokemon. Instantly, a slightly older Moon and Sarah took notice of them and walked over to give them a hug.

"Hey," Sarah said. "Happy to have you all back...everyone here has been missing you."

"We're sure you all are eager to spend time with us," Moon continued. "But please, go interact with the other Pokemon before telling us what happened." the two trainers then got up and walked off, leaving the three Pokemon at the ranch."

"So...are we going to tell them and everyone else that we retreated like cowards away from psychotic versions of themselves who were out to destroy the Multiverse?" Genji asked Sapphire.

"Absolutely not." Sapphire replied. "Now, let's go kill Sammy!"

That's all for today's chapter, I hope you all enjoyed it. So, fun fact, I intended to have a character absolutely mess Dark Moon up to give him a bit of a shock in the beginning before they got plot armored stopped, while Byleth was the one I settled on for this, I had written that same scene for FIVE other characters. If I'm being honest, each one was scrapped Ironically because of Byleth, I'll go over who was intended for this and why I passed them over.

First up was the competitor who was actually supposed to be here, Mewtwo, honestly, Mewtwo started off as a strong contender for this series as a main character, however, when Byleth was revealed, I decided I wanted to include some tension between the cast of Fire Emblem, Mewtwo sort of lost my interest. That one was on me.

I considered having Dark Pit doing this one just for him to flex on Palutena and Pit. Honestly, I didn't approve of how that one was written.

Link, Zelda, and Akira were also written a battle beat up scene, however, I wrote them all, completely forgetting about how my lore simply wouldn't allow for this battle to take place, out of all of these five written characters, I think I like Zelda's the best, since she was very hesitant on fighting Moon, but knew she had to.

Ultimately, I think you all probably know the real reason for Byleth's and all Pokémon except Mewtwo's departure from this story, I didn't intend on having everyone stay, I wanted to write out a few characters in the beginning. Marth on the other hand...well...hehehe. I killed him for the hell of it, I'm sure you weren't expecting that one.

So, How'd you like seeing a couple characters from Three Houses? And, you're probably wondering... "Why the hell were they even there?" well, that's in due time, my fellow readers.

Anyway, leave a review if you want, and I'll see you all next time.