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The following contains references, story details, and characters that maybe confusing to those who have not yet played or have beaten KID ICARUS: UPRISING.

Recap! Viridi the supreme leader of the forces of nature has been captured by a Dark Corps general simply know as "The Dark Minister". The Dark Minister challenged Pit to a fight for Viridi. Pit was cruelly defeated. During the fight Viridi revealed to Pit that she had a crush on him. In response to this, The Dark Minister gives Pit a chance to rescue Viridi and hinted the location of a Dark Corps stronghold near the town of Wadosia. Then The Dark Minister took Viridi away in a portal and left Pit unconscious.

Chapter summary: Pit must save Viridi from the clutches of the mysterious and dangerous Dark Corps Army, but in order for him to do this Pit will need some help from some old and new allies.

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KID ICARUS: AFTERMATH

~CHAPTER 2~

The Rescue: part 1

Pit had been out for a while since the time that Viridi was kidnapped by the Dark Minister. When Pit woke up he found himself back at Palutena's Temple. He was in his bedroom, surrounded by white marble walls and a few posters hanged from the walls. For a little while Pit had believe that what he had just experienced was nothing but a dream. He tired to get himself out of bed, and then felt a sharp pain in his side. Pit looked down to the area of pain and saw that it had been bandaged. Pit put his palm on his forehead. It was real, Viridi's capture, the Dark Minister, all of it had really happened. Pit got up and put on his uniform that was lying on the edge of his chair next to the desk near the wall. Once he was dressed, Pit walked out of his room and down the hall. 'What are we going to do know?' Pit thought. Then a memory came back to mind, it had to do with something The Dark Minister said. "If you can find the Dark Corps stronghold near the town of Wadosia, then you may be able to rescue Miss Viridi." The menacing calm voice of the Dark Minister played back in Pit's head. Pit stopped walking and looked up to the ceiling, 'Where the heck is Wadosia?' thought pit letting out a sigh.

"Ahem," Palutena voiced behind Pit. Pit was so startled that he lost his balance and did a face plant into the ground. "Wow, Pit I didn't know you were that scared of me." Palutena chuckled as Pit lifted himself back up to his feet. "I just… wasn't expecting that…" Palutena stared at Pit for second with a smile "It's good to know that you're okay Pit. You had us worried there for a bit."

"Indeed," Arlon said walking up form behind Palutena. "You gave us quite the scare, young master Pit."

"Sorry about that, I didn't mean to make you worry." Pit said rubbing his head from the fall.

"I know…" Palutena said. Then her smile started to fade away into more of an expression of sympathy. "You must be wondering what we will do about Viridi."

Pit looked to the ground. "Yeah" he spoke in his bow of sorrow. Then he looked up at Palutena and Arlon "We can't allow her to be that creep's prisoner, who knows what could happen to her."

"I agree," Palutena shook her head, and then paused for a bit. "That's why I'm sending you out to go rescue her." A smile appeared on Palutena's face when she said it.

"But, we don't know where she is!" Pit exclaimed.

"Oh, don't be so quick to assume. Where did The Dark Minister say the stronghold is?"

"Near Wadosia, but I have no idea where that is."

"Wadosia…hmm…oh wait that's where you faced off against Twin Bellows!"

"What? That's what the place was called? That sure is a weird name for such a small town."

"Great then we can get going." Palutena stated.

"Hold it you two!" Arlon exclaimed. "Don't you remember about how strong The Dark Minster is? He took down: Dark Pit, Phosphora, and young master Pit here, with very little effort at all. It would be unwise to go in alone."

"Oh don't worry I have already thought of that." Palutena said waving both Pit and Arlon over to the lobby. The lobby was a big room in Palutena's domain, from where she dispatched Pit and the centurions on missions, it was in a similar design to that of the lobby that Viridi had in her Temple, only with less tree branches and stained glass. When they entered the lobby, standing there was three fighters, the armored warriors that competed in the games at the Sky World Arena. Each one had there own colors, a yellow armor clad fighter was standing on the left, a light blue armor clad fighter to the right, and a dark purple armored fighter stood in the middle. "I have made arrangements for these fighters to help you in the rescue of Viridi."

"Um, Lady Palutena" Pit whispered "how in the world did you get these fighters to help out?! I thought fighters only fought for themselves and take orders from no one."

"Well, you are right about that, most fighters would only fight for themselves. But, these three are a special case."

"Why?"

"They volunteered to help you out just by the sound of your name."

"Wow, really?

"Well, not exactly, they were the only ones who actually cared about what was going on." Palutena stated.

"Are you sure about this? I mean I have played in the games in the Light vs. Dark matches and the fighters aren't really too much stronger than me or Pitoo and both of us were taken down by The Dark Minister."

"Pit I don't know if you know this, but these guys are not your normal fighters; these guys are some of the top best fighter teams in all of Sky world. Besides Pit haven't you ever heard oh the saying four heads are better than two?"

"I think its two heads are better than one." Pit said scratching his head.

"You know what I meant." Palutena rolled her eyes. Before Pit could ask more, the yellow clad fighter ran up to Pit. "HEY PIT!" the fighter shouted as he attempted tackle Pit. Pit stepped out of the way, letting the fighter fall to the ground in what would appear to be a genuine face plant. "Wait a minute." Pit said "I know that voice!" Pit snapped at his finger s when he finally figured out the person who the voice belonged to. "Is that you, Greg?!"

"The one and only" said Greg as he stood up and took of his helmet. He had Crimson colored hair that was spike on the sides and in the front, his face was almost like pits only he looked older and his face was a little more defined. (When you think about it I guess he doesn't really look that much like Pit at all…oh well you get the picture)

"WOW!" Pit exclaimed "It has been a long time hasn't it. Are you okay?"

"Just fine thank you for asking!" grinned Greg.

"Hey! Don't forget about us!" the fighter in dark purple said. Both the dark purple and light blue fighters took off their helmets at the same time. The dark purple fighter had messy black hair and a slender face with unusual grey eyes. The light blue fighter was actually a girl, her face was cute, she had short white hair that came to about the end of her neck, she was the smallest among the three of them, and her eyes were that of amethyst. "You do remember us don't you Pit?" said the black haired fighter.

"Jack? Angel?" Pit said with surprise.

"It's nice to see you again Pit." Angle nodded.

"I take it that you know these three, Pit?" Palutena assumed.

"Yeah I do! These guys were my best friends at the Wing Academy." Pit answered in a smile. "We used to do all kinds of stuff together, we were quite the group."

"What is this Wing Academy?" Arlon Asked lifting an eyebrow at Palutena.

"It's a school where the youths of sky world learn to become either fighters, police, or in Pit's case one of my personal guards. In a way it could be likened to earth's high school." Palutena said trying to sound all professional. If Hades or Viridi was here they would definitely call this a "Professor Palutena" moment.

"So you guys are going to come with me on my mission?" Pit asked.

"You got it!" smiled Greg. He was obviously all for it.

"Palutena told us what happened at Viridi's temple." Jack said "When she asked us to help you, Greg had pleaded for us to help; Angel was, well, she was a little emotional about the whole story."

"'A little emotional' is just a nice way of putting it." Greg rolled his eye and laughing at the memory. Only to contort face when his foot is smashed by the heel of Jack's boot. "YE-OW!" Yelped Greg as he held his foot, jumping up and down to keep himself in balance.

"Anyway, I agreed to help because you're my friend, and you seemed to be in a bit of trouble. And I always help a friend in need…" Jack said "unless it's Greg."

"Oh gee, thanks!" Greg snorted.

"I was just kidding." Jack said turning to Greg. All the while Angel is just laughing at the two of them.

"Alright then let's get down to business." Said Palutena, all eyes now looked toward her. "This mission is of the up most importance. We have to rescue Viridi from the Dark Corps stronghold located near the town of Wadosia. I would suspect that their defenses will be tight, and their will most likely be a lot of enemies scouting the surrounding area, so you'll have to fight in the air for r a bit. Once I have found a landing location near the stronghold you'll go in and rescue Viridi. Pit will be using the power of flight to fly to the stronghold; the rest of you will have to follow his lead."

"That is if they can fly" Arlon stated to Palutena.

"Oh, we can fly" Greg said as his wings appeared in a flash of light. Fighters have a technique that allows them to detach and attach their wings when ever they like. Pit never understood the basics of that technique. "Just look at these bad boys" said Greg showing off his wings, they looked a lot like Pit's, so nothing to special.

"Yes, anyway, I have the weapons that you may need for this battle." Palutena said. This had cued the centurions who brought in three weapons. "I picked them out based on your performance with these weapons in the arena. Jack you'll be equipped with a lancer staff."

"Nice" Jack said, taking his weapon, twirling it around like it was a cane.

"Angel, I have decided to give you a needle palm."

"Thank You" Said Angel putting on the palm.

"And last but, not least, Greg you'll be equipped with an EZ cannon."

"Yes!" Said Greg doing a fist pump, he picked up his weapon.

"Your weapons firing techniques and most of their melee techniques have bee set up so that you won't hit each other, just like in the Light vs. Dark matches." Palutena then walked over to the Gate door, and waved her staff in front of it and it opened. The fighters put on their helmets. "I'll be able to communicate with you from here, but don't be surprised if enemies can communicate with you too."

"Right" Simply replied Jack "So, it'll be like the commentators during the games."

"Yeah, but except for this time we can hear what their saying." added Greg.

"Don't worry, I will try not to say anything that may embarrass or annoy you, however I can't say the same for the enemies" Palutena tried to reassure.

"Just be glad Hades isn't still alive." Pit said under his breath.

"Whys that?" Angel asked

"You don't want to know" Pit looked down to the floor, remembering all of the little arguments and comments that Hades would make whenever Pit was on a mission.

"Well I think that just about goes over the gist of things." Palutena says. "Pit if you would do the honors."

"Right, Ok everyone, stay close and follow my lead!" says Pit before he rushes up the steps to the gate door. Jack, Greg, and Angel follow pit running up the stairs. "All right here we go!" Pit says jumping out into the sky. Pits wings are now filled with the power of flight, the fighters' wings activate and unfold allowing for flight. Then all of them are surrounded by the open sky above the earth.

Viridi wakes up from her unconscious state. Here eyes slow to open, scans around the cell that she is currently in. She then begins to realize that she is now in a night gown; her original clothes sit there on the edge of the bed. She shivers at the thought of someone else having to change her clothes, it just feels… wrong. She looks around the room again. It is very plain, four black walls with red designs on them. The designs where done in a fashion like how the Aurum had their hive designed. In fact if you took a picture of one the rooms in an Aurum base and put it in negative, this room would probably be your result. Viridi then is blinded by something in her eyes, she rubs her eyes. It's water. Tears… a sign of emotional distress, this was something that would never appear in her eyes before this point. Nothing can ever drive her to this point…Not the underworld army, not the Aurum…. nothing has ever driven Viridi to the point that she would shed tears. Well, there was one thing that has made her do this before. During the incident with the Chaos Kin… she had secretly, cried in her bedroom when she even had the thought of Pit dieing from his Wings being burned due to the fact that he used the power of flight twice. There was something different about this time though, this time it was deeper worry. The worry that she would never escape from this place and would never, know if Pit is ok or not. At least during the Chaos Kin incident she knew that Palutena would take care of Pit, but now…now how can she ever protect Pit from this? If The Dark Minister is only just one of the Generals of the Dark Corps army, and he was just going easy on Pit; then the other generals must be absolute nightmares! They would most likely not restrain themselves as The Dark Minister did.

These thoughts troubled her so much that she began to hope that Pit wouldn't come to her rescue. Then she was startled by a knock on the door. "Please step outside Miss Viridi." Spoke the menacing monotone voice of The Dark Minister. A shiver went up her back at the very sound of his Voice. What is the matter with me? I'm usually not this easily scared. Viridi thought to her self walking up to the door. It slid open immediately as she stood in front of it revealing the red cloaked man who had led the attack on her temple just a day earlier, or at least she figured it was a day. "I am sorry if you do feel unease. However, I must complete my mission with haste. I hope you can understand." Dark Minister said.

"Are you always this nice to your prisoners?" Viridi asked

"No." the reply was swift and blunt. The Dark Minister had two heavy armored red and black troops following him. They must have been some sort of elite guard or something like that. They looked like the guards that protected the reset bomb pod, back when Pit had gone to the reset bomb depot to destroy the pod. Only these guards were sleeker, more metallic looking, and were less natural. "Now Miss Viridi if you would follow me this way please." The Dark Minister said walking down the hall. They passed several corridors, going left, right, left, right… then before they had arrived at the destination, The Dark Minister Said "Once again I'm am sorry that you have to go through this, this is nothing personal against you." Then the door slowly slides open.

"Oh yeah, doesn't just feel great to finally get use these wings?! Oh man, this so much fun!" Greg said, flying in all sorts of spiral patterns.

"Hey just don't go flying into any tornados or wind storms okay Greg?" Jack warned his ever so gleeful friend.

"I have to agree though" Says Angel "it does feel nice to be flying around like this."

"Yeah, it's pretty fun!" Pit exclaimed. "We have to keep on the look out though. Palutena did say that there are enemy patrols around here." Pit looked around trying to see if there was any flying toward them.

"Aw, don't sweat it!" Greg tried to reassure "if any of them decide to show up, I'll give them a great big fireworks show, aimed at their faces."

"I can see where you get all those cheesy comments, Pit." Palutena said bluntly.

"What are you trying to say Palutena?" Greg scowled.

"Greg, don't go and start getting off on the wrong foot with Palutena. She is a goddess after all." Jack warned.

"I'll say what I want to say it's a free world isn't it?" Greg snapped back. Then seemingly out of no where a swarm of big red and black bugs start to fire on Pit and the three fighters. "Whoa!" Greg did a barrel roll to the side to avoid the red laser fire being shot from the bug's stingers. "I take it that those guys aren't friendly" Greg starts firing his cannon.

"What are these, bugs?" Pit asked as he countered the fire with a few shots from his weapon.

"They're called Ravagers. They swarm like bees, but sting like wasps." Palutena explained "They would be considered the grunts of the Dark Corps army."

"They look more like mosquitoes to me." Angel said as she takes out a bunch of enemies with a charge shot.

"If they are attacking like this then we should be getting close to Wadosia." Palutena reasoned. Pit and the fighters all have to dodge from the enemies' fire, and at the same time fire their shots. The ravagers however move quickly so it is hard to land a good hit on them. As the fighting in the air continues the foursome move closer to the surface. Finally they break through the clouds. "Looks like you made it through that just fine." Palutena says with a sign of satisfaction.

"Yeah… were completely fine... After having been shot at a million times with in a minute!" Greg says back.

"Come on Greg its nothing new to us. Remember that we have jobs where we get shot at every day and with much more ferocity." Jack says.

"Yeah well, I guess I'm just not used to flying and fighting at the same time." Greg shrugs. As they fly toward the destination, Pit begins to notice something a little different in the landscape. There are burn marks and rock piles that were not there before. Rumble outlines the hills and smoke was rising to the west. Something bad must have conspired here. "What happened here?" Pit said.

"Looks like a bomb hit this place! What the heck is going on here?" Jack scowled.

"Did the Dark Minister do this?"

"That could very well be the case. You did see the amount of destruction that was done to Viridi's temple, right? Keep in mind that it took all but five minutes for him and his troops to decimate that place." Palutena said with a hint of concern. The memory of the burning temple and the destroyed gardens, gates walls turrets and more is all that came to Pit's mind when thinking back about what had happened just recently.

"Wait a minute!" Greg shouts "you mean this Dark Minster dude walked in, beat just about all of Viridi's commanders, wrecked the temple, and captured Viridi, all in less than five minutes? That's impossible!"

"Guess Dark Minister is somewhat of a 'speed-runner'" replied Jack.

"If he did all that, all in about five minutes, imagine what would happen to the city if he's been there for a whole day!" Palutena said "We must stop the Dark Minister or else he could wreak havoc amongst the humans."

"Then let's get going. Where's his base?" Pit asked.

"You should be coming upon it now. Hold on tight the defenses are thick." Pit and the fighters get closer to the town of Wadosia, or at least what was Wadosia. The Dark Corps army is definitely destructive everywhere buildings are crumbled, roads a torn apart and the coliseum where Pit had fought Twin Bellows has been all but burnt to rumble. Smoke from the fires still in the city plume up to the sky like dark thunder clouds. But then there was also something else, a lot of the building had been transformed into black and red buildings, to pit it felt like he was back at the Aurum islands. "You were definitely not kidding about the whole wreaking havoc thing." Greg says. Then from the buildings and streets red dots begin to appear. "What are those?" the red dots then become a swarm of laser beams, one after another; it takes every flying skill the group has just to dodge them. "Yikes!"

"This isn't good at this rate you'll never get into the base." Stated Palutena "unless…"

"Unless what?" Pit asked

"Ah Ha I got it!"

"Huh?"

"You're just going to have to move faster than the lasers and keep going in a straight line!"

"Are you crazy woman?! That will zap fry us for sure!" Greg shouted over the laser fire.

"Well only one way to find out." Palutena activate the speed boost power of flight to every one there and they all were trying to keep in a line.

"You are absolutely insane…" Greg blurted out before his wings where pushed forward and flew like jet. "AAAAAHHHHH!" laser whizzed past the fighters and Pit. For about thirty seconds they did this until they were out of range for the lasers. "I AM SURE THIS IS NOT COVERED BY MY IN SURANCE!" then finally the four some were out of the ranged of fire.

"Is every one okay?" Palutena asked.

"We are fine." Jack assured, accounting for both him and Angel

"I'm okay" Pit chimed.

"Yeah just peachy…other than having 3000 lasers shooting at me and nearly getting my face ripped clean off, I am perfectly fine!" Greg said with obvious sarcasm.

"Ok then now on to the Dark Minister!" Palutena said flying Pit over a large hill. The others followed and eventually they say it. The tall towering Black ad Red Base of the Dark Minister, It looked similarly to the Lighting chariot base. One large tower stood at the middle and wall turrets around it protected the tower form and ground invasion.

"Whoa" Pit said admiring the structure.

"The Dark Minister defiantly has a good real estate agent." Greg noted

"You have arrived" Dark Minister's voice spoke to pit and the others.

"Is that the Dark Minister talking?" Greg asked

"It is I."

"Dark Minster, release Viridi at once and we won't be forced to hurt you!" Pit reasoned.

"I would love to do so but the problem is that I have a mission I must fulfill. And it requires that Miss Viridi stays in my custody. I hope you understand."

"Then you give us no choice, we are going to have to take Viridi back by force." Palutena stated.

"Very well then, Proceed but take caution me and my troops will not hold back from taking you down." Dark Minster says. "I'm looking forward to our rematch Pit."

Then the monotone voice disappears and trails off through the minds of the team.

"We're going in!" Palutena stated as she led Pit and the other to the base of the tower.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Ok so, MAGNUS and GAOL will be in part two, sorry about that, I just realized how long the chapter was getting and decided to make it into two parts. I posted both chapter 1 and 2 on the same day because that will probably be my publish rate, 2 chapters per every three weeks. Or something like that. Any way please keep on reading. - PS- probably won't take me three weeks to write two chapters, but still.

~Gearmaster777