Issue 5: Pandora's Labyrinth of Deceit

Skyworld

Night has fallen on Skyworld. The D-Avengers take a good night's sleep before they raid Pandora's home tomorrow. Though, the only being who isn't sleeping at their usual rooms is The Other, Ero. The Great Totem made himself a large web in a small beautiful garden to mediate on, finding comfort to the sounds of the quiet fountain plastered in the middle.

With his eyes closes, all his natural instincts have increased while he mediates, able to instantly sense when someone approaches him from any direction. "What do you want?" He calmly asked Palutena, who quietly walked into the garden, without turning around to greet her.

"Your instincts are as good as ever." Palutena complimented before speaking her reasons. "I'm sorry to have disturbed you. I was hoping we could talk…like old times. We haven't gotten the chance to catch up, since, well, with everything that's been happening recently…" She said, scratching her long hair. Ero continues his mediation, not bothering with a reply or a grunt, saddening the goddess. "I…understand. I'll see you tomorrow then…" She quietly turns around and slowly starts walking away to leave the spider to his peace.

"Fine." Ero stoically spoke, agreed to Palutena's request before she completely left, making her happy.

"So your old sparring partners are finally gone, huh?" Palutena asked Ero, referring to the Inheritors and Grima's recent defeat as they, for once, share a friendly conversation through the open halls to the night sky in her temple.

"Bothersome pests. I'm grateful to my mortal allies for finally dealing them in." Ero replied, still acting pretty stoic but not as grumpy.

"I see." Palutena giggled as she stares at Ero as they walk.

"What?" He asked, annoyed.

"You've changed." She proclaimed. "You're much stronger since last time. Always training and hunting."

"It's my job. I have to keep myself busy somehow." Ero replied.

"It's not just that. You've gotten soft." The goddess smiled.

"Excuse me?!"

"You know it's true. Before, you'd rather die than go out on a walk with me." Palutena said, looking like she's the superior.

"Best way to get you outta my hair." Ero replied, crossing his arms.

"Was it because of your unity with Spider-Man?" Palutena asked, thinking that ever since Ero bonded with Spider-Man, he's loosen up.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Ero replied, acting tough, but Palutena's cute giggle implies she knows the truth.

"I have been meaning to ask: Spider-Man. He's the reincarnation of the Great Weaver you told me about. The Spider Deity whose web connects our worlds?" Palutena asked an interesting question.

"We prefer the term "Avatar", but yes, Spider-Man possess his reincarnated power and has learned to tap into it on his own, surpassing his predecessor in wisdom and strength." Ero answered, remembering how the spider that bit Peter was actually the reincarnation of the Great Weaver after his death, passing not just basic spider powers, but it explains why Peter's own Aura is so unique and powerful, almost divine in nature, all because The Weaver saw something special within Peter, a bottomless potential of immense willpower and hope.

"I was right. He was the second divine-like entity I sensed when you both arrived in this world: A God-like Spider-Man, a Spider beyond God. To think a mortal could possess divine energy. It's almost unheard of…" Palutena said, astonished of Spider-Man's limitless potential. Now she starts pondering something else and turns for Ero after thinking for a moment, "Ero, can you teach me ways to better protect this world?"

"Hmm?"

"You were right when there might've been another choice in stopping Medusa. I've put the humans in so much danger because of my actions." Palutena said, starting to regret her decision turning Medusa ugly.

"That's all in the past. What's done is done. Perhaps there wasn't another choice." Ero replied as they stop in place.

"Still though, I haven't been using my powers more responsibly, and I want to know how can I truly protect humanity." Palutena said, sounding serious in her personal mission.

"Hmph. It only took you a few hundred centuries. If you truly want to protect humanity, you must LEARN humanity." Ero instructed the young goddess.

"Huh? And how do I do that?" Palutena asked, a bit confused of this lesson.

Ero starts walking away, "You're the smart one. Figure it out."

"Ero!" Palutena called for him as he teleported away, presuming back to Peter's mindscape. Palutena scoffs and turns her head at Ero's attitude. "Fine! Don't teach me then! I'll figure it out myself! Tch. The nerve of that guy. Don't know whatever I saw in him." She said, hinting she may actually possess feelings for the Great Totem.


The Next Day

"Watch out! It's Spidey Time!" Spidey rushes to the door while simultaneously putting on his armor, flying high to the air with his Gear-riding friends and the young angel.

'Your destination is Pandora's Labyrinth of Deceit. The Reapers certainly hid it well…' Palutena informed them of their next mission.

"What are you talking about? I don't see anything." Pit said, noticing nothing unusual.

Spider-Man's armor quickly picks up something from radar. "Hold up. I'm sensing a space-time anomaly, 9 O' clock." The dimensional heroes turn to their left to see a huge crack in the sky appear.

BGM-Kid Icarus Uprising OST-Pandora's Labyrinth of Deceit

"Whoa! What is that?!" Lucina asked, shocked.

"Hopefully somewhere fun. Let's go!" Sonic grinned, boosting into the crack.

"O-OK!" Pit said nervously as the gang follow Sonic through the crack and into a green tunnel, fighting the Underworld troops that get in their way.

"This is getting weird…" Weiss said as they are seemingly teleported from the green tunnel into some weird black-and-white bubble tunnel.

'You'd have to be pretty out there to base your operations in a place like this.' Palutena said.

"Well, Pandora has always been pretty out there." Pit said while shooting down enemies with his new "Rose Staff".

'It's true,' Palutena shows the heroes a projection of Pandora's current form, a fiery, ghostly ball of energy, 'The goddess of calamity even LOOKS pretty out there. I guess it's no surprise that the path to her would be as twisted as she is.'

""Twisted"? I'd say "unhinged" is more like it!" Pit replied.

Not long after entering the bubbly zone, they are transported into a rainbow tunnel. "This is pretty weird. What's that up ahead?" Sonic asked as they approach a polygonal-shaped area.

'Pandora's Labyrinth of Deceit!' Palutena replied to the hedgehog as they enter the weirdly strange, polygonal labyrinth.

"Whoa!" Pit said, surprised of the domain they've entered.

'This is not what I expected.' Palutena said, surprised as well.

"What were you expecting, a funhouse? Where's the cotton candy?" Peter joked, blasting a flying Magmoo. A second later, he narrowly dodges a rising red pillar thanks to his internal warning alarm.

"Watch out for those red posts." Weiss warned them, carefully avoiding every pillar that ascends from all directions.

"I got this! Check this out!" Sonic starts grinding on the red pillars and stylishly performs tricks off them, and just as he continues racing through the path, Spider-Man warns him of an incoming obstacle.

"Sonic, watch out!" Spidey said but it was too late, as Sonic face-planted on a solid wall that was made to look like an open path.

"Sonic, you okay?" Pit asked as the hedgehog recovers, shaking his aching head.

"I'm fine…A false path. This Pandora lady's pretty tricky. How does she come up with this stuff?" Sonic remarked as they continue to the real path.

'She's like Loki. Messing with people is her specialty.' Ero answered.

"I wonder if they've went out." Pit wondered, quickly taking out more enemies before abruptly stopping at a fake wall. "Not again!"

"This is starting to get on my nerves." Lucina remarked with an annoyed look as they ride through another path leading downward to a branching path.

'The path branches up ahead. Spider-Man, can you use your Spider-Sense to determine the right way?' Palutena asked the friendly spider.

"I'll try, but no promises." Spidey replied, concentrating his Spider-Sense to scan for the right path. "This way." He gestures everyone through the left path, which proves to be the right one. "That was a close one. I was barely confident that was the right path." Pete said, implying that even his Spider-Sense is having a hard time through this illusion.

"We can't let her get to us! We have to hustle before the power of flight runs out for me." Pit said.

"Is that really a big deal? Weiss can always carry you." Sonic joked.

"I will NOT!" Weiss retorted.

'It would be…problematic. You see, I can't extract you if Pandora's powers are still active, nor will your Webwares allow you to escape through dimensions.' Palutena informed that until Pandora is defeated, interdimensional travel in here is impossible.

"We're gonna pretend you didn't say that!" Spidey quipped.

After destroying a giant Octos that was chasing them, they enter a room full of Handoras. 'It's a Handora ambush!' Palutena said.

"Wha—?! It's Pandora time already?!" Pit responded in surprise, thinking they're already fighting the boss.

"No, she said "Handora". You know, the hand monsters we're fighting." Lucina corrected the angel, shooting an arrow through a Handora.

"For a master of deceit, that's pretty weak! Mysterio's better than this." Spidey insulted the goddess of calamity.

While they continue to fight the swarm of hand monsters, Weiss notices a hole open up in the ground, "A way out!"

'Now's your chance!' Palutena said as they all fly through the hole and end up in the open earthly skies.

"Are we outside?" Weiss asked while they fight a large Belunka and its tiny whale babies.

"Maybe it's another illusion?" Sonic thinks while kicking a Belunka away.

"But it all seems so real…" Pit said, then all of a sudden everything goes black.

"Somebody forgot to pay their electric bill." Spidey joked, with the lights flickering back on as they seemingly return to the twisty turning weird labyrinth. "And it's back. This is VERY confusing." He commented as while webbing up monster pets.

'It isn't called the Labyrinth of Deceit for nothing, Spidey.' Palutena replied.

"How is the NAME the only thing that makes sense here?" Spidey asked.

'Stop whining and move, boy!' Ero ordered his human host.

Like a minute ago, the confused heroes brake in front of a branching pathway. "Where to, Spider-Man?" Lucina asked for directions.

"I have a headache. Let Palutena choose." Spidey said.

'What?! Oh, okay. Uh, go right.' Palutena chose and they accepted, abruptly stopping at a wall.

"A dead end?!" Sonic responded, shock.

"Darn it, Palutena!" Spidey berated the goddess as they turned around.

'You're the one who told me to choose!' Palutena retorted.

"Because you're the god! Don't gods have a godly GPS?!" Spidey countered, flying through a room with blast-reflecting columns.

'If we did, I would've used it by now!' Palutena replied, really getting tired of Peter's mouth.

"We're losing our grip here!" Pit said, noticing how everyone's going crazy in this mad labyrinth.

"I'm really getting tired of this place!" Weiss groaned, with the next illusion being space.

Lucina sighs, really tired of all these illusions, "Now where are we?"

"Space, the final frontier." Sonic joked, jumping off an asteroid.

'I believe we're close to our target.' Palutena proclaimed, hearing a loud sigh of relief from the Avengers.

"Oh thank god!" Peter said.

'You're welcome.' Palutena smiled, joking around as the hero squad take a jump pad to a narrow, cyberspace tunnel, which leads back into the labyrinth.

'You're nearing your destination.' Ero informed.

"You're sure it's not another illusion, right?" Pit asked but received nothing but a simple grunt as they land.

BGM End


The Avengers land on a platform, and while Spidey takes off his armor, the whole room flipped for everyone and caused them to faceplant, except for Spidey who didn't fall thanks to his "stick 'em powers".

BGM-Kid Icarus Uprising OST-Into the Labyrinth

"Hmm? You guys alright?" Spider-Man casually asked from the now-ceiling.

"We think so…" Weiss groaned, feeling a headache coming. Spidey hops down to help them up their feet. "Thanks." She thanked the kind webhead.

"No problem. Let's find out where we are." Spidey leads his team through a door where they are forced to contend with a Bluster and a few Skuttler Cannoneer.

While they work together to dispose of these nuisances, a new wicked, feminine voice enters their minds, 'Quite the thrill seekers, aren't you?'

"Now who's talking inside our heads?" Spidey asked while webbing up the Bluster for Weiss to kill.

"Pandora, goddess of calamity!" Pit answered, very familiar with this trickster goddess.

"Hope you don't mind. We let ourselves in." Sonic joked.

'Oh, please. Make yourselves at home. Doesn't bother me. But you should know that the whole "goddess of calamity" was really the old me. The new me leads a more grounded life. Yoga, macrobiotics, reflexology.' Pandora replied.

"Without any feet? That'll be funny to see!" Sonic mocked the feetless goddess.

'How dare you take that tone with me?! Especially since calamity is really more YOUR domain these days!' Pandora said, offended by Sonic's mockery of her.

'Uh…' Palutena has no comment.

'It's really quite insulting.' Pandora said.

'Then I'll be honored to put you out of your misery.' Ero threatened, scaring the goddess of calamity as she immediately recognized the Totem God and his fearsome reputation.

'T-The Other?! What's the Great Divine DEMON doing here?!' Pandora stuttered in horror.

'Divine Demon? That's a new one. Are all the gods of this realm afraid of me?' Ero sinisterly chuckled, further frightening the ghostly goddess. 'Give up now, and we'll TRY to spare you at the brink of your pathetic life.'

'I-I'm not scared of you. Loki dear enhanced my power with his precious ISO-Norn Stone.' Pandora replied, trying to sound all tough and fearless.

'And for your sake, it better be enough.' Ero said, causing Pandora to gulp in fear while the mortal Avengers walk into a room with multiple doors.

"There's so many doors…" Lucina said.

'And I'm sure there are just as many tricks.' Palutena stated.

'Uh, no doy.' Pandora insulted Palutena for being very obvious.

"Spider-Man, can you use your Spider-Sense to find the right door?" Weiss asked the web-slinger.

"Sure," Spidey replied as he starts pointing his finger at each door. "Eeny, meeny, miny…" Weiss and Lucina face palm at Peter's childish behavior, while Sonic, Pit, and Palutena just chuckle from the amusement. Then, just as he was about to choose the right door, his spider-sense tingles to multiple trap doors underneath everyone. "WHOA!" Spidey leaped away in time but his friends weren't so fortunate as they fell through the trap hole screaming before it closed. "Guys!" Spidey zipped over to the holes they fell through, punching it repeatedly to get it to open again.

'It's alright! They're safe!' Palutena quickly assured the worried Web-Slinger.

'For now anyways.' Pandora said.

Peter turns to his ear comms, hoping he can still contact them, "Damn. I can't get a signal here."

'It's okay. I can still communicate with them. It seems you've all been separated. I'll try to direct everyone to a place you can meet up.' Palutena told him.

'So now you're all alone, little spider.' Pandora taunted the mortal spider.

"Those guys can handle themselves, and I've been meaning for some quiet time. Let's go, Ero." Spidey said to his spider other.

'Right.' Ero replied.

Spidey hurries through a room that houses a Girin hiding beneath the ground to ambush the kid with the Spider-Sense. "Anyone called for a bug zapper?" Spidey quipped, firing his taser webbing to the pincers of the Underworld bug, instantly killing it. He soon finds himself in a room with moving walls. "Where are we?" Spidey asked his inner spider.

'Ask Pandora.' Ero replied.

'The Hall of Marvelous Moving Walls! If it was Palutena, she wouldn't say it with feeling.' Pandora proclaimed.

"Hate to hear her sing." Spidey joked, flawlessly navigating the wall-moving room into a large circular room full of identical mirrors.

'Welcome to the Room Doom of Mirrors, Spider-Man. Impressive, isn't it?' Pandora asked as Spidey walks to the center of the room.

"Meh."

'What do you mean, "meh"?'

"I've been to one of these before."

'No you haven't.'

"I have. I totally have."

'Oooh. Then move closer to the mirror standing in front of you. It's said to have magical properties to anyone that stares at it too long.' Pandora said, manipulating Spider-Man to walk up to the large mirror up ahead.

Spider-Man stares at the supposed magic mirror to stare at his reflection. After a good minute, nothing happens. "Did I put off some weight…Meh." He joked.

'What the…What's going on?!' Pandora asked, strangely shocked nothing weird happened to Peter when he stared at the mirror. Ero, however, was fully aware what she was planning but didn't bother speaking as he knew it wouldn't work on Spider-Man.

"Is that all? This place's starting to bore me." Peter asked as the large mirror disappears. "Hmm?"

Pandora growled. 'In that case, Plan B.' She summons fake, thin versions of Spider-Man from the remaining mirrors who all fail trying to attack their superior original because of his incredible reflexes.

"Oh man. You gotta be more original than this, Panda." Peter mocked, punching down a few fakers.

'It's PANDORA!'

Spidey ignores her, webbing some mirror fakers to the ground. "My arch-rival, Fishbowl Man, did the SAME thing a few weeks ago. See?" He kicked through a mirror to reveal a passage to escape the "Room Doom of Mirrors". "Think of some new concepts, lady!" He said as he swings away.

'Grr. Why didn't it work on him? It's impossible. Well, let's hope I have better success with the others.' Pandora said to herself.


Meanwhile with Sonic

"So everyone else is okay?" Sonic asked the psychic goddess talking in his head, successively bouncing off all Underworld troops in this mazy labyrinth.

'That's right. The path you're taking should rendezvous with the others…hopefully.' Palutena said, not completely sure because of how tricky this area can get.

"I'm sure it'll be fine." Sonic grinned as speedily enters a racetrack course with a vehicle. "What's this?" He asked as he approaches the mechanical chariot.

'It's an Exo Tank, a vehicle of the gods. Why don't you take it for a spin?' Palutena suggested.

"Nah. I doubt a vehicle of the gods can keep up with my speed. Besides, what's it doing here anyway? Isn't that the more important question?" Sonic asked as he plays around in the racetrack.

'I wanted to get my driver's license. So I whipped up a little parking lot to practice in. But then it hit me. How am I supposed to steer without hands?' Pandora said, joining the conversation.

"How'd you build a parking lot without hands?" Sonic asked, rolling down a ramp and jump off to another part of the course.

'Hard work and determination.' Pandora simply replied.

As Sonic continues running through the track, a speeding Leox quickly caught up with the blue blur to his side. "Oh, you seem pretty fast. Wanna race?" Sonic grinned to the non-talking creature as they start racing. The Leox managed to overtake Sonic for a bit because he was acting cocky, waiting for a chance to completely out-speed the creature. Pandora takes this small chance to add a rear view mirror to the monster on wheels, confusing Sonic on its addition and why it would help. As the speedy hedgehog stares at the mirror, he notices a dark version of himself from the mirror before it disappeared completely. "What was that all about? Probably some trick by Pandora. Oh well." Sonic revs up a figure-eight and plows through the Leox at remarkable speeds and finishes the course in record time. "Now to find the others!" He grins as he enters another room, completely unaware of a new dark blur following him.


With Weiss

The ice heiress battles her way through a room with rotating platforms that are quickly getting on her nerves. "I really, really hate this place!" She complained, slicing a Paramush down and attacks a Specknose with lightning attacks. "Anyways, WHY are we here again?" She asked the all-knowing goddess in her head.

'Pandora has the Mirror of Truth, making her Medusa's most valuable commander.' Palutena answered.

Weiss lands on a platform after successfully navigating the rotating room of terror, "Uh, what's the Mirror of Truth?"

'I'll bet smarty-pants here knows the answer.' Pandora barged in their private conversation, referring to Palutena to answer.

"Oh great, it's you!" Weiss remarked, annoyed of Pandora's sudden return.

'Hiii, darling!' Pandora said, irritating the Ice Queen.

'The Mirror of Truth makes a copy of whatever stands before it. It copies what's in your heart and creates beings identical in nature. So what Pandora possesses is a way to create monsters on a catastrophic scale.' Palutena explained Pandora's vile deeds.

'That's one way of looking at things.' Pandora said as Weiss enters a room with green mats to bounce off from.

"Then it has the potential to make entire ARMIES for Medusa. That is sick. We have to destroy it! But wait…Does the mirror copy the reflection's soul too? Or just the body?" Weiss asked before she contends with more monsters like a Shildeen.

'That's a good question. Maybe Pandora will tell us.' Palutena replied.

'Do I LOOK like a strategy guide? In case you haven't noticed, this isn't the Ask Auntie Pandora hour.' Pandora yelled.

"You don't have to yell!" Weiss yelled back, scoffing her way through the bouncy room, unaware the mirror in question has been scanning her from a distance, moving while she's moving in the shadows, forming a dark version of Weiss in the mirror before that one disappears from sight.


With Lucina

The Exalt princess walks through a door that leads her to a room with no path. "Is this a dead end?" She asked.

'Hmm. I guess you'd better turn back.' Pandora taunted the blue-haired swordsman.

'No, it's a trick. There's an invisible path you can walk on.' Palutena informed the time-traveler.

'Do you have to ruin EVERYthing? Honestly now.' Pandora replied, angry for Palutena ruining her fun.

'Shoot downward in front of you to reveal the path.' Palutena instructed.

"If you say so." Lucina draws up her bow and shoots a single arrow to the floor below, revealing an invisible path. "There is a path. Thank you, Lady Palutena." She thanked the goddess as she runs around doing the same thing to reveal her path to victory, but just like Sonic and Weiss, she's being tracked by an invisible Mirror of Truth to copy her dark essence into reality.


With Pit

Pit managed to survive all the trickery of the labyrinth, making him the first to reach Pandora's room. 'Pandora is just up ahead. The others should arrive pretty soon. Until then, it's up to you to destroy the Mirror of Truth!' Palutena told her most trusted angel.

"Roger!" Pit replied.

BGM End

Pit heads through the door, and Pandora emerges from behind the Mirror of Truth. "You made it. Yay." She said, sounding incredibly uninterested at his arrival.

"Pandora," Pit exclaimed and gets ready to strike several weird poses as his superhero entrance, "Underling of Medusa floating before me! It's time for you to atone for your crimes. I am Pit, servant of the goddess of light! And you. Are. History!"

Everything goes quiet for a moment, with Pandora blinking at the idly awkward Pit while Palutena asks, '…What was that all about?'

BGM-Kid Icarus Uprising OST-Boss Fight 1

"OK, whatever. Do what you're gonna do." Pandora stoically said, firing multiple purple fireballs that Pit easily avoids and counters with his own rapid bullets.

"What kind of attitude is that to have? I can take anything but indifference!" Pit replied annoyed, dodging the bombs the living ghost pops out.

"What's the point of getting worked up? What's the point of anything, really?" Pandora apathetically asked.

'Quite an existentialist view for a ball of vapor.' Palutena remarked.

The Goddess of Calamity dives into the ground to attack, forcing Pit to back-dash to safety, firing a charged shot as Pandora reappeared to throw more bombs. 'It doesn't seem like you're doing much damage to Pandora. Meleeing her bombs back at her will be more effective. Try that.' Palutena advised.

"With pleasure!" Suddenly, Spider-Man appears and web throws the bombs back at Pandora causing her to stagger in pain as the other D-Avengers arrive to the scene.

"You guys made it!" Pit said, happy to see his friends safe and sound.

"It isn't fair to give you all the fun." Weiss smirked as they run up for battle. The Schnee heiress reflects the incoming bombs with her glyph, leaving her stumbling for a dash kick to the face from Sonic.

"Little creatures!" Pandora insulted her enemies.

"I'm 5' 10''. That doesn't sound little to me." Spidey quipped, dodging the living flame's fireballs before reeling her in for a stab from Lucina's sword, staggering her for Pit to kick another bomb to her face.

BGM End

"Game over, Pandemonium. Give up now while you still have a chance." Sonic threatened the goddess of calamity.

"OK, OK. I'll give you what you came for." Pandora teleports to the mirror. "Here it is. The Mirror of Truth." She floats behind the mirror, presenting its light on the heroes.

"What does it do again?" Spidey asked, completely oblivious, but then his Spider-Sense tingles to a barrage of dark energy blasts that sends the heroes flying across the stage.

"I'm sure someone like you can figure it out, genius." A voice that sounds awfully close to Sonic's but more sinister-sounding. The downed heroes, mostly Sonic look to the air in shock when they witness a dark, spiked-up hair version of Sonic, possessing no pupils or irises and is constantly surrounded by a dark blue aura, descends from the air and lands next to dark clothed, sinister versions of Weiss Schnee and Lucina that suddenly appeared.

"You're…me?!" Sonic slowly asked, totally stunned as he slowly gets up from the ground.

"And I'm you. Greetings, Sonic the Hedgehog, to your worst nightmare." Dark Sonic said to his good counterpart.

"Clones…of us?" Weiss said as her eyes widened.

"Indeed. It's like looking in a mirror; don't you get it?" Dark Weiss sinisterly smirked at her little joke.

"That wasn't very funny." Lucina glared at the evil Weiss.

"Like you know what's funny." Dark Lucina taunted her good self, angering her.

"A mirror that creates clones? That really is a nightmare." Spidey remarked, as he has personal problems with clones that either tried to take over his life or just plain kill him.

At supersonic speeds, Dark Sonic pounds the real Sonic to the ground before he immediately recovered to clash at invisible speeds with his dark counterpart. While that happens, Weiss fights her own counterpart too using a variety of glyphs and magic spells while Lucina's blade sparks whenever she clashes with Dark Lucina's Dark Falchion.

"How do you like my little project?" Pandora taunted the two remaining heroes not fighting themselves, Pit and Spider-Man.

"Pit will tell you! Destroy that mirror!" Spidey ordered as Pit start rushing toward the mirror.

"Yaaaaaaah!" Pit goes for a dropkick to destroy the evil mirror, he briefly sees his reflection's wings starts to radiate a purple aura and his eyes gleam red. "Huh?!" As the good angel shatters the mirror, a dark version of himself bursts out from the other side. When Pit lands, he turns to notice his dark half come to life. "What the-?!"

"That didn't go as planned." Spidey said, face-palming.

The dark Pit looks over his shoulder at Pit for a simple, "Hey," as Pandora floats over to him.

"Let me introduce you to the newest member of the DARK D-Avengers. This here is Dark Pit. He'll be your escort out of this life." Pandora said all calm and collected, but that quickly changed when Dark Pit unexpectedly punches her, sending her flying backwards. "No!"

"Speak for yourself." Dark Pit replied, not caring for her in the slightest.

"Wasn't expecting that." Spidey said from the sidelines, joining the two Pits to finish off Pandora.

BGM-Kid Icarus Uprising OST-Boss Fight 1

Spidey mocks the evil goddess while he beats her around with his webbed fists, "Haha! What's wrong, Pandy? Seeing double?"

"Would you shut up and fight?!" Dark Pit scolded Peter, charging in with his counterpart for a combined charged shot that weakens Pandora to the point of turning into an irritated orange ghost head.

"You fool! You were created to serve ME! Your opponents' over there!" Pandora scolded as Dark Pit kicks her in the fiery face.

"You're A boss, Pandora. But you're not MY boss!" Dark Pit back-dashes for another rapid-fire assault to avoid getting sucked into Pandora's vacuum mouth.

"Wait, so was creating Dark Pit and these "Dark D-Avengers" part of Pandora's plan all along?" Pit asked his gods.

'Who knows, who cares. For now, use the rebellious Dark Pit to your advantage and finish this hunt.' Ero replied as Spidey skids away from Pandora's fireballs and swings into the air to avoid more incoming shots.

"So why you'd called it the Mirror of Truth? You should've chose a better name like "The Mirror of Creating Clones to ruin One's Life"?" Spidey quipped as he runs along the walls to avoid more flame breath from the evil trickster goddess.

"The Mirror of Truth is just that. It reflects the truth. It seems that under that cute veneer of yours, Pit, you're actually quite ferocious." Pandora said while defending herself from Pit's shots.

"You don't know anything about me!" Pit retorted as he reflects her bombs for massive damage.

"Ow! Whatever! What I want to know is how wasn't Spider-Man affected?! I used the mirror on him for a good MINUTE but nothing happened!" Pandora asked, still bewildered by no Dark Spider-Man when Spidey blatantly stared at the mirror earlier.

"You did? Maybe you didn't charge it right?" Spidey quipped.

"What kind of mirror requires a battery?!" Pandora retorted as she gets blasted to hell by Dark Pit.

'Spider-Man recently conquered and found communion with his darkness, making him stronger than ever before.' Ero answered, briefly referring to the Inter-dimensional Symbiote Invasion that took place a few months ago, when Peter confronted and befriended his dark half, allowing him to achieve the rare divine state, Perfect Synchro within his united soul. 'Your mirror had no effect on him. This is the TRUE Spider-Man you fight now!'

Pandora is flabbergasted, as she not only learned her Mirror of Truth is useless against Spider-Man, but that Spider-Man also mastered that one state few gods BARELY achieved. "Im-Impossible! You mean to tell me this "mortal bug" perfected THAT technique. Per-!" But before she could reveal what she's about to say, the Pits sniped her from both sides, finally defeating the goddess of calamity for good.

BGM End

"And that's that!" Pit victorious said.

"…Took you long enough." Dark Pit criticized his light self.

'What was Pandora about to say?' Palutena asked Ero what Pandora was going to say before she was defeated.

'None of your business.' Ero replied.

As Pandora explodes and falls to the ground, Dark Pit takes this opportunity to kick the real Pit in the stomach, sending im flying backwards and roughly lands on his stomach. "Pit!" Both Spidey and Palutena said at the same time, hoping he's okay. Peter rushes over to check on the wounded angel but was intercepted by his beaten teammates after their fight with their own dark selves.

"That was for stealing our looks!" Dark Sonic said to the D-Avengers.

"WE'RE supposed to be the original here!" Sonic growled as he gets up the ground, with he and the girls still ready for another round.

Meanwhile, Dark Pit leaps through the remnants of Pandora and absorbs her energy. "What are you doing?" Dark Lucina asked the dark angel.

"None of your business! I'm just making sure Pandora's powers don't go to waste!" Dark Pit rebelled and rises into the air and flies off.

"He can fly?!" Pit said in total surprise.

"That's one thing he's better than you at." Spidey joked, annoying Pit.

"Shut up…"

"So long, Avengers!" Dark Weiss waved a sinister farewell to her counterpart and her friends.

Meanwhile, Dark Sonic charges up a purple energy blast. "See you in the afterlife!" He fires a powerful beam that forced Spidey to form a web shield to barely block it, and once the smoke cleared, the Dark D-Avengers have already disappeared.

"If isn't this our darkest hour." Spidey joked.

'It's possible those four are allied with Medusa. We need to follow them.' Palutena said as she summons her light to pick them up.

"Then let the light SHINE our darkest hour!" Spidey continued joking, much to everyone's annoyance.

"Would you shut up?!" Weiss retorted at the wall-crawler.

"Brighten up please?" Spidey joked, receiving a painful smack to the head from Weiss as they are whisked away.


BGM-Kid Icarus Uprising OST-Opening

Spider-Man: Hey, it's Spider-Man. And just like that, MORE CLONES. Now coming in black. Dark Pit and the rest of his "sunshine" gang are causing havoc. What? Both he AND Dark Sonic aren't interested working with Medusa? Seem to be going through that rebellious phase I say. Whatever. It doesn't change the fact they need a massive light butt-whopping.

Next time on D-Avengers: God Mission:

Dark Clone Saga

Spider-Man: Now you guys know my pain with clones.