SPOILER ALERT: Kid Icarus: Uprising
Master Hand paced around the meeting room. He seemed so restless.
It was merely 4 AM in the dawn. Yet the giant hand was already betraying his drowsiness. 3 hours was the length Master Hand gave up on his consciousness. Only 3 hours. He had woken up very early in the morning in order to set everything up.
This was a very prominent meeting, the one he cannot let up upon.
The meeting 'room' was actually separated from the mansion, for reasons unknown. It had its own building, which housed a few more other rooms, just beside Smash Mansion. Perhaps the mansion couldn't take anymore space, and Master Hand decided to separate some, or perhaps it's just his own preference, no one knows for sure.
The room was simply filled with a long U-shaped table, with chairs accompanying it. At the curved section, there was another table just for Master Hand. Otherwise, the room looked fairly plain.
Master Hand's walk (?) around was short-lived, the door had been knocked.
"Come in"
The door hinges bent as a muscular man with a helmet revealed himself behind the door.
"Morning to you, Master Hand", Captain Falcon said with a grin.
"There you are", Master Hand replied. "As a side note, I'm astonished you wake up this early on regular basis".
"I simply cannot violate my schedule", Falcon replied. "Even after this, I will need to circle the mansion one hundred more laps, then I must do all three of push-ups, sit-ups, and back-ups each for 200 times, and fin-".
"Alright alright", Master Hand quickly interrupted, not interested on hearing the man's speech. "I must ask you to wake everyone up in the mansion. Everyone, no one is missing. Then tell them to gather here. Got it?"
Falcon gave the hand a look.
"If I may ask, what for?"
"We have a very important meeting to do", Master Hand said, "And by important, I mean it".
Falcon stood still, then he saluted, "Very well. I'll make sure everyone attend".
But as Falcon was about to open the door, he heard Master Hand's voice, "And don't bother waking up Luigi. He isn't here".
Falcon now was confused.
"What?"
"I'll elaborate once you get everyone here. Now go!"
The Blue Falcon driver wasn't understanding much, but he did as what he was told, and dashed through the door, leaving the giant hand behind.
In a flash, he was already in the lobby. He sped through the stairs quickly and knocked on a random door.
"Hello! Meeting time!", he shouted.
But all he heard was nothing. He tried on another door, same outcome. Yet another door, same outcome. Falcon looked around, displeased.
"Fine", he stated, "I will just force them out of their slumber".
As he finished that statement, he began to inhale the air in such amount his chest inflated into unusual size. He inhaled and inhaled, and as he could not store anymore, and-
"EVERYONE! GET ALL OF YOUR HEADS AND BUTTS OUT HERE! IT'S MEETING TIME!"
…Yelled an extremely, obnoxious loud voice which volume penetrate even the thickest drum ears. A second after the ridiculous yell subsided, nearly everyone fell out of their bed with a loud 'THUD!'.
Unfortunately for just about all of the smashers, the captain wasn't even close to done.
"I REPEAT! MASTER HAND ORDERED YOU ALL TO GATHER IN THE MEETING ROOM! SO LOOK LIVELY AND-"
…Or not.
He was cut short as he now was held up high by a black hand. A pair of glaring brown eyes pierced through Falcon's disguised ones. The man seemed to be in pure anger.
"SHUT.", he started.
"THE."
"FUCK."
"U-"
BOOM!
"YESH!", Falcon shouted as an explosion occured out of nowhere. He flew up in the air, spun and landed in his fighting position. The man appeared to be surprised by the sudden burst, and took the blast as he slid backwards, but he showed no pain.
"Smash Mansion rule number 4! No curse words!". Falcon said with a grin, expecting a challenge.
"Silence!", Ganondorf roared.
Both sides, sensing a fight was inevitable, charged at the opposition. Falcon had his hands literally on fire, Ganondorf's was coated in a dark magic. Both clearly readied for massive punches, ready to bash the other's head, and the recoil would at least blow up a field.
"FALCON-!"
"Alright, you two. STOP THIS!"
"I've had enough of your antics, Ganon"
"Link…!", Ganondorf cursed upon realizing the one who was paralyzing him was his sworn enemy. Teeth gritted, he elbowed the green clad, sending him crashing to a nearby wall with a hole.
"Link!", Mario yelled. But before he could even move, he realized he had been hugging thin air.
"What the…", he muttered. He looked upwards to see Falcon already grabbing the black man. The former quickly slammed the latter into the ground, pinning him down while twisting his arm as well, preventing further actions.
Ganondorf wasn't done, however. He swung his right foot and it was a direct hit to Falcon's stomach, releasing his grip and knocking him back. He charged forward to the grounded bounty hunter, but was stopped in his tracks by a metallic shield.
A thrusting sword came flying, nearly stabbing Ganondorf's face had he didn't reflexively moved his head away. However, as the wielder of Triforce of Power was distracted by the attack, the shield shifted to his left as it was replaced by a hard kick to his stomatch, flinching him. Not being done, the aformentioned shield met his face, hard, knocking him down, along with a green man. The sword's tip was mere centimetres away from Ganondorf's nose.
"I won't allow you to break loose here", Link claimed, "Now stop this foolishness or this sword will be painted in blood soon".
Ganondorf had his body filled with anger, but he was checkmated. He did nothing, signing his defeat.
Once sensing the situation had calmed down, Mario looked at the recovered Falcon. Despite the last assault, the captain seemed to feel no pain. Mario posed an unamused face as he spoke, "Right, I almost forgot, thank you for shattering our eardrums captain".
The racer simply grinned.
Mario sighed as his pupils drifted to the upper corners of his eyes, "If I heard correctly, there's a meeting right now? Better yank everyone outta their roo-".
"There's no need to".
The plumber turned to the sound to see Marth walking out, "And that was surely an abomination of a song".
His statement was answered by every doors opening, followed by loud THUDs. Nearly everyone laid in front of their respective doors. Link returned his sword and shield as he removed himself from Ganondorf's chest, staring at his fallen comrades.
"I do not seek hemmorages in my ears", Ike muttered.
"SOUND DETECTION ERROR…"
"Pikaaaa…"
"Whoever yelled a minute ago sounded like he likes a boot to the face…!", Falco's voice can be heard.
"…Urgh", Sheik grunted.
"Why do I even have ears?", Pit mourned.
…
…
"…Looks like everyone's awake. Let's go", he said, holding the urge to facepalm.
One could only imagine Master Hand's expression had he have a face. Everyone was walking like zombies upon entering the room. He glanced at Falcon, but could not find any clues on what happened beforehand.
"Mario, what happened?", he asked the red plumber as he passed by.
Mario raised an eyebrow, "Huh. Didn't you hear?"
"This room is soundpoofed".
"…Oh", Mario said dryly while rolling his eyes.
"What's wrong?"
"No. Nothing. Everyone's just tired, that's all", Mario answered. He thought it might have been better if the gigantic hand wasn't aware of what happened.
Master Hand was left confused, but shrugged it off shortly as he prepared himself. He looked around, noticing everyone was waiting. He cleared his throat (?) and said.
"Good morning, smashers", Master Hand greeted, "Now, you must all be wondering why we gathered here so early. I apologize for the inconvenience this situation may have caused all of you".
Mario suddenly felt a tinge of uneasiness painted in his heart. As if what he was going to hear will not bring any good.
"But… it seemed an unwanted fate had happened into our fellow smasher".
Mario shot up, "What!?"
The red plumber quickly spun his head around, "Wait, where's Luigi!?"
The room went noisy once finding absence of the green plumber. Master Hand's spirit immediately decreased into near nothing. They now were aware.
"Master Hand!?", Mario shouted.
"…That was the subject I wanted to discuss about".
Mario's face went pale.
"So, um, Rosalina?"
"Yes?"
"I… I just wanted to tell you…"
"What is it?"
"I… I think I've fallen in love… with… with you… My heart… had been beating fast ever since we first met… And… there's no mistaking it now… I-I love you!"
"Wh-"
"I-I'm sorry! I-I suppose you don't love me back. I can understand that and-"
"Shhh… It's alright…"
"Huh…?"
"This confession… made me realize… The love… of my heart, has been returned…".
"Wha-".
"Luigi, I-I also love you…"
"Uh?"
"Your gentle nature… Your determination and hard work, just to get here… You've fascinated me to no end… Everytime I see you then, I could not recognize this one feeling which dwelled in my heart. But now… now I understand it".
"Rosalina… you-"
"I-I know I am not interpreting my heart wrong… I- I also do love you!"
"Luigi! Hey, wake up! Luigi!? Luigi!"
In a flash, the green plumber shot up.
"HOLY FLIPPING CHAIR! WHAT DID SHE SA-".
However, the momentum from his unintentional jump was too much. He had nearly gotten himself a face full of dusts by kissing the firewood. He had stopped his face mere inches in front of it.
"Gah!", Cosmic said in surprise, "What the heck was that, Luigi!?"
Luigi quickly returned into a safe position before facing the blue fellow, which had sat on the ground from the earlier outburst.
"Wh-What happened?"
Cosmic rolled his eyes, "Actually, I also can ask you the same question. You were freakishly drolling in your sleep while muttering things out! What kind of dream you were experiencing!?"
But when Luigi took his sweet time to respond, Cosmic sighed. This was replied with Luigi sheepishly rubbing his head, "Hah. Er- yeah, I… had quite the dream there… heheh".
"?"
"But let's not worry about that!", Luigi quickly switched the subject... horribly.
"So, uh, how's the weather today?"
A facepalm was his answer.
"Whatever, let's just wake up now".
The green plumber yawned, however, "Ahhh… Do we really have to do it now? My drowsiness isn't yet done with me and-".
"Sure. Let's take our time shall we? I mean, what could possibly go wrong with your body in the hands of an unknown, shady, powerful thief in who knows where?"
Next moment, Cosmic saw Luigi had disappeared from his log. He spun his head around only to see Luigi quickly jogging in place with a horrified face, as to signify hurry.
"What are we waiting for then!?"
Cosmic simply smirked as he stood up and walked towards his brother. They then quickly ran in one direction, hoping to find clues on Luigi's body whereabouts.
Meanwhile…
"Ah… what beautiful body you have here…".
The scene changed into a cave. A deep, dark, dank cave. Nothing can even be made out of the darkness. There was no light, not even a little bit. Just pitch black.
"It had been so long for me to dream on having a proper yet powerful body… What great feeling I am experiencing!"
Suddenly, green fire was lit up out of gloved hand. The light revealed the cave's walls, which were colored in dark blue. Stalactics were hung in seemingly countless amount. After a second, a snake can be seen crawling about in front of the flame, which took the hand's interest.
Even though the snake meant no harm, the hand morphed into a pointing gesture, and after a pause, a small ball of green fire was shot. The fire sped through the air, and soon made contact with the snake's skin. The poor snake was helpless to the attack, and can only flail until the fire burned the entirety of its body, killing it.
The hand was brought back. The flame again returned onto its fingers. A smile can be seen behind the aforementioned hand, endorsing the fact the person was taking pleasure of his act.
"With this body… soon YOU shall befallen with the same fate…".
The smile opened up, revealing the person's sharp canines. Then the teeth lost their links with each other, as the person laughed with his head pointed upwards, ringing the cave with distrubing voice which grew and grew in volume. The screen changed into the view of the dead, roasted snake, as the laugh continued, to seemingly no end.
In the meeting room…
SLAM!
"What do you mean by Luigi may be in danger now!?"
The tension rose dramatically by the plumber's anger.
No one dared to open their mouths, they all know his anger too well.
"Why did you send him away ALONE!?"
Master Hand stayed shut. He was willing to take all the blame, even though he had actual reasons to send Luigi alone. The smashers were better off not knowing his own affairs. His dark past.
"MASTER HAND!?"
"Mario, I don't think you should-", Peach started, but was cut off.
"…I have my own reasons", the hand said.
Wrong move.
"REASONS!?", Mario's anger reached its summit. Flames started to light up his clenching fists, "WHAT IF HE IS KILLED!? CAN YOUR 'REASONS' BRING HIM BACK!?"
Widened eyes started to form one by one on the smashers' faces. Some even were ready to leave their seats. However, Master Hand was unbudged.
"Luigi…", Mario muttered out.
"AAAAAAARRGGHHH!"
In an instant, Mario stormed out of the room, leaving his tensed comrades behind. They tried to call him back, but to no avail, Mario was too far off gone.
Once their fruitless yellings were gone, silence conquered the room.
"…Pathetic decision", Ganondorf spat, while directing himself to the door.
"You have lost my trust as well", Meta Knight followed.
"The Master Hand I know would never plan horribly like this".
"There were multiple exits, yet he chose the foolish one".
Insults and insults were thrown. Soon, the room was empty but for Master Hand, still laying his gaze down. Crazy appeared, noticing his downed brother. He sighed and said, "Don't worry, bro. You had your own reasons".
There were no responses.
"…But why didn't you just tell them the actual situation here? It could've saved you from those insults".
"…I wish to not remind myself about it".
"Huh?"
"You know me well, Crazy. Our pasts are better off lost in the depths of hell".
"But Master Core…".
"We've yet to know who is the culprit", Master Hand spoke, "And I'd be damned if I'm already believing he is already dead".
"Luigi… How can you be so sure?".
"Do not underestimate him. He was the only mortal to be able to beat Master Core in centuries. Granted, perhaps most of our people here can, but that only proves on how powerful the smashers actually are".
Crazy stared at his brother.
"But a certain fact separates him from the others", Master Hand stated, gaining Crazy's curiosity.
"His will is second to none, and that is good enough for me".
"This way".
"Cosmic, I'm not sure if we should get back to the blood puddle".
"What other alternatives do we have?"
"…None".
"Right, so let's go".
The Luigis decided to return into the very spot where it all began. Luigi felt anxiety flowing throughout his body, silently hoping there will be no more ambushes. Having his body stolen was a problem enough. He followed Cosmic closely from behind, as the blue plumber continued to lead the way.
Step by step, Luigi could feel his nervousness rising. What if the ambusher was waiting for them there? What if they were walking straight into a trap, that could end their lives for good? All of those ponderings swirled inside Luigi's head.
However, he couldn't help but to lay a little suspiciousness on Cosmic, as sinful as he felt it. They have met less than 24 hours and they're already embarking onto an adventure. Luigi was grateful for the Cosmic Clone's help, or else he would be dead by now.
Well, technically, he was already dead. But he was given a chance to revive himself, making those two things differ.
He may have acted like he had placed his full trust, but deep inside, there still were doubts lingering in his heart. It wasn't like he wasn't being thankful for getting his moustache saved, but after his particular adventure about 'You won a mansion!' letter, which lead into a world of predicaments and nonsenses, he was mentally taught to not trust anyone quickly, especially when their origins are deep down in the hole of mystery.
'I suppose his whenether his act is genuine or not will be proven sooner or later… I'll remain cautious for the time being'.
But all of those thoughts snapped when Luigi walked straight to Cosmic's back, causing the latter to tumble slightly. However, instead of complaining, he adroitly grabbed Luigi and jumped straight into a bush nearby, much to the latter's surprise.
At the moment Luigi began to think he was already betrayed, Cosmic popped both of his and Luigi's head out of the bush, quickly hushing the surprised Luigi.
"Stay silent", Cosmic ordered, "Look there".
Luigi raised an eyebrow, but did what he said anyway.
He saw someone crouching beside the puddle of now dried blood. He was no ordinary human from what he looked on skin. His entire skin was red, and a fiery-like aura was emananting from his body. His hair was pointy and colored red-yellowish, in fact, it almost appeared like flames. Tatoos can be seen all over his body. He was naked except for an underwear covering his groin, and his entire body was quite bulky.
"Who is that…?", Luigi whispered.
"Search me", Cosmic said, "But there's a possibility he's the culprit".
Luigi's heart pounded faster that instant. Facing the culprit already?
"So what do we do?"
"We-", Cosmic started, but as he looked toward the person, he wasn't looking at his back anymore.
…The person was looking at him straight in the eyes.
"Damn!", he cursed, "Book it! Now!"
"Wha-", Luigi started, but was quickly pulled off the spot.
Luigi quickly placed his feet on the ground to support himself, as Cosmic's grip loosened. Soon enough, Luigi ran independently, hot behind Cosmic's tail. However, before it can last long, a yell can be heard.
"HOLD IT THERE, CITIZENS!"
Seeing the bros didn't bother to listen, the person literally rocketed into the air with pyrokinesis, and that was enough to outspeed the Luigis. The person landed in the path, startling them as their run was halted.
However, just when the bros were about to form fighting positions, the figure called.
"Have no fear! Phyrron is not your enemy!"
The duo loosened their guards, but were still cautioned.
"H-How can you see us?", Luigi asked.
The red man raised a grin, "It is because I am suffering the same fate as you both, my friends!"
Luigi and Cosmic's jaws dropped.
"You… what?", Cosmic asked in disbelief.
"You're a spirit too?", questioned Luigi.
"I say yes!", he answered, "A special one, if I may say so myself!"
"Special?", Cosmic inquired.
"I am more than happy to explain, but first we must settle down first, brothers!"
Luigi looked at the man with an unamused face, "Is your name Yell, by any chance?"
"Hm? What was that, green man?"
"Oh, nothing. Nothing at all", Luigi quickly covered, complete with a typical whistling.
Cosmic, catching what Luigi had said, directed a face to him, which came out unnoticed. He sighed, and turned into the flaming figure in front of him.
"Alright. But be aware: You haven't earned our full trust".
Now it was Luigi's turn to throw a face to Cosmic, which came out… unnoticed. Luigi rolled his eyes. Karma.
Despite the slight threatening tone, the fire man didn't seem to mind it much, or at all.
"Very well, blue man! If I may ask, what are your names, siblings?"
"Luigi".
"...Cosmic Luigi. But call me Cosmic".
"Hm. I see you both are twins?"
"Uh, yeah", Luigi replied, not being used to the word 'twin' as of yet.
"That reminds me. I have yet to introduce myself", he said. He slowly levitated himself into the air, and went into a salute.
"My name is Phyrron, the sun god Phyrron!", he declared with pride.
"God!?", both bros said at once.
"Or a fallen god. If I should say", Phyrron said, still retaining his grin, despite the seemingly depressing fact.
"Ah. So that was your story, twins!"
The three of them had settled down on an area not too far from their meeting spot. They were sitting on three logs faced against each other. How the log Phyrron was resting on didn't went into ashes when he touched it was beyond anyone's knowledge.
Luigi and Cosmic had just finished elaborating on how they were here. The bros originally hesitated to tell Phyrron their full story, but both of them agreed their past would do little differences in the grand scheme of things.
"Alright. Our mouths are pretty much dried right now. Your turn!", Luigi ordered.
Phyrron smiled, "That would be my pleasure, friends!"
Both Luigis leaned in, ready to hear Phyrron's tale.
"I was once this fine sun god", Phyrron started, "Until one day, when a certain alien species invaded my home, that is".
"Alien?"
"Yes, green man. Then I set out, ready to stop them without fear, as I did not want my beloved home to be torn into shreds".
Cosmic Luigi snapped. He felt an ache in his head as a memory emerged from his head. He reached out a hand in hope to ease it, but it was fruitless. A voice said in his head. From his memory:
'Your sword is dull…'
"Cosmic? Cosmic! Are you alright?", Luigi asked in concern. Cosmic had been clutching his head during his headache in seemingly painful manner.
"Y-Yes… Don't worry about me. I just suddenly had this headache", Cosmic replied reassuringly.
And soon enough, the pain subsided. The relieved Cosmic Clone raised his head, gesturing Phyrron to continue.
"Continuing my story telling. When I flew toward the aliens' base, I met this one, obnoxious angel along with his two goddesses. Not only that, the party was complete with an evil god of darkness who sized bigger than this entire forest".
Cosmic's reaction was a dropped jaw, not having much clue on whenether Phyrron was telling the truth, or he was just flying in his imagination right from the start. He even considered the notion Phyrron was abnormal or at least just had hit his head very hard recently. Some things he had seen inside Luigi's perspective were basically borderline illogical, but the bizzare story Phyrron was elaborating easily took the cake.
Luigi, on the contary, was genuinely believing the story, shown in his sheepish sitting stance. He was listening to every bits of it with seemingly no suspiciousness contaminating his face full of curiosity, much to Cosmic's confusion
Cosmic sighed in response to his brother's innocent attitude, not believing what he had heard from Phyrron was considered normal by Luigi. He shrugged his thoughts off quickly to return to… listening to nonsense, if he was to describe it.
"This one angel, was a jerk. He told me to wipe the floor clean while he 'provides support'. But no, all he did was to fly around in his gleaming wings like a fool, and his goddesses couldn't be even more careless".
"That… sure was a crap situation you went through", Luigi replied with honesty.
'That sure was a good harvest from your far-fetched imaginations', Cosmic thought with unamused face.
"I have experienced even worse! As soon as the aliens were driven away, all by my own, he was the one who received praises and congratulations despite doing nothing! Had I was not exthausted at the moment, I would've sent him to burn in the deepest of hell".
"Huh, I can understand that. A little. Not as much as you went through though".
"I appreciate the symphaty, but you've yet to see it all! Right after I asked for a little recognition, he took advantage of my worn out body and sent me plummeting downwards in a 300 story fall!"
"What!?"
"Needless to say, my body couldn't take it any longer. I died on his dirty, disgusting hands and here I am, a spirit of once a fine sun god".
"He just hit you out of your levitation and left you to fall into your death, just like that!?", Luigi asked in disbelief.
"Exactly".
"Dang!", Luigi stood up, fists trembling with noticeable force, "Oh, if I manage to get my hands on that angel…".
On the other side of the ocean, all Cosmic did was to stare at him with the corner or his eyes while giving him an unamused look. After all the suspicions on him, he couldn't believe Luigi just trusted Phyrron without any signs of caution. It took so much work to get the green plumber to believe him, yet Phyrron made all that efforts look like dusts.
"Yes, it is such a tragic story, if I do say so myself", Phyrron remarked.
Cosmic felt their converstation need to go further no more, as all the possible thing that can be produced from this talk would be just an endless loop of flying pig stories.
"Now with that done, I suppose we should bid our goodbyes now", he said, standing up.
Both audiences looked at him with raised eyebrows.
"Now what's the hurry, my blue friend?", Phyrron asked.
"Yeah. We don't even know where to go next yet! The puddle of blood gave us little to no clues".
"And simply sitting here won't solve anything", Cosmic said firmly, "It's your body, Luigi. You know just as well as I do if someone manage to fully take control of it. Your hope on returning to your former self would be all but hopeless".
Luigi didn't respond. He realized his body would need to be saved, fast. Or else he will be stuck like that forever. He wasn't ready to go into the netherworld yet, he still had so many things he wanted to do in life.
"I… guess that's a very critical objective we need to solve fast", Luigi muttered, leaving Phyrron disappointed by their quick leaving.
"I suppose this is the end of our converstation now, Phyrron. Take care of yourself".
But just as Luigi was about to walk away, Phyrron called to them.
"You said you want to retrieve your body back, eh youngsters?"
Cosmic turned, "Yes, and it's crucial for Luigi's survival. Now if you'll-".
"And what if I tell you I can provide help?"
Both bros' attentions were magneted in.
"You can?", Luigi questioned.
"I would like to thank you for being all ears to my bitter story, my friends".
Luigi smiled, agreeing on the offer. But on the other hand, Cosmic was still being fidgety on whenether they should listen to the sun god. They hadn't even met and knew each other for more than two hours. Blindly trusting a stranger would be a foolish choice, and that was the last thing on his list to do.
But after analyzing the situation, he came into a conclusion: Phyrron was their one and only reliable clue as of now. Considering he was also in the same state as them-except for a fact that he had no body to return to, and was forever prisoned to be a spirit-, Cosmic assumed Phyrron had a kind enough heart to help them to not lose their chances.
He was hesistant to follow this procedure, but it was for the best.
"Let's hear it from you then. What kind of help you can lend us?", Cosmic inquired, returning into his sitting position.
Phyrron grinned, "You said you were afraid of the green man's body being taken over by a person, correct?"
Both Luigis nodded.
"I have lived long in this world. I knew countless tales ranging from hardly special to absolutely unbelieveable. And I do believe, I have heard of one tale which can be your weapon on claiming back your body".
"A weapon?", Luigi asked.
"Yes. It's a legendary tool which functions as an extractor. Whoever it touches will experience their souls ripped off their bodies".
Luigi raised his head up, "Could it be possible this was the tool my attacker used to do the same thing to me?"
"While it is definitely still in the realms of possibilities, I'm afraid the chances are quite low".
"Why's that?"
"This tool is known to break after every uses, blue man. And the materials used to craft one are beyond the hardest of the hardest to find. In fact, unless you backpacked out of this world, the chances of finding them are even lesser than zero", Phyrron explained.
Cosmic raised his eyebrow, "Out… of this world? What the heck does that even mean?"
"This world isn't the only world that exist, my friend", Phyrron claimed, "There are millions and millions of dimensions out there, be it similar or the opposite of this world. Those materials can only be found in specific dimensions, and you both will have to go out there and journey through time and space itself".
Both bros' reactions were their jaws dropping to the floor at the notion of them travelling through universes.
"YOU SAID FLIPPING WHAT!?"
"I don't wanna to get lost without any way to return! I still have my family and friends waiting for me!", Luigi exclaimed.
"Going through dimensions!? Are you insane? Think of all the paradoxes that can happen. If we screw up, the risk would be twice in size!", Cosmic threw in.
"I fear there are no other choices, my friends", Phyrron said calmly, "Taking back your body is your top priority, and your only solution are no other than this legendary weapon".
"T-There has to be another way!", Luigi said without thinking, "Can't we just beat up whoever was stealing my body, let me get back inside and be done with it?"
"Nope. That is a very far-fetched idea", Phyrron shook his head, "You can't simply weaken your body and return to it. If you DO want to be in, you'll have to use the same medicine your ambusher used against you: Ripping their souls off".
"Are there no other way around?", Cosmic asked, "The idea of us warping through dimensions is borderline insane to begin with. A mistake can lead into a fatal predicament, to add".
"If I had another idea, I would've told you both, twins", Phyrron stated, "No other way can be compromised. This is the one and only solution you both have. It's your decision to either take the road or drive back home".
Luigi hung his head low, and placed his palm on his forehead.
He was perfectly fine with them having to go through miles in order to claim back his body. Even if they had to struggle on their way, or rather, if he had to struggle. It was his body after all, it was his responsibility.
But travelling through dimensions was something out of his journal. Not only it posed risks on interfering with another universe, but if he fail, he may never find his way back again. It was quite literally life or death.
He assumed interacting with other universes would be quite fine. After all, the smashers were brought here from different worlds and time periods. However, screw up, and he's not coming back. To pile up, they risk interfering with other universes. He wasn't sure if those are alright moves to peform, as the risks seemingly were known by no one.
'Transcending dimensions themselves…', Luigi mused, 'Would… would this be of no problem?'
"Phyrron", Luigi raised his head, garnering Phyrron's attention.
"Can… can you ensure we know our way around?"
Phyrron grinned. At that point, Luigi already knew his answer.
"Of course, my friends! In fact, I will be assisting you throughout your adventure, as I cannot simply sit back knowing you both are risking your lives for something dear to you"
Luigi turned to Cosmic, who was looking at him with an uncertain face.
"Luigi. Are you…"
"Yeah", Luigi answered, confident in his remark.
He then got up from his seat, and declared, "I'll take my chances".
Cosmic stayed silent. Phyrron simply grinned, impressed by the plumber's will.
Luigi then turned to Cosmic, "Cosmic, you don't have to go with me if you don't want to…"
Cosmic shook his head, and stood up, facing Luigi with his solemn face.
"I'm right behind you on this one, Luigi".
Luigi showed surprise, but his face quickly morphed into a grin. He then nodded.
At that instant, Phyrron bursted into laughter, completely startling both brothers. Soon, his laughter died down and he said, "Hahah! Your brotherly bond inspires me. The brother willing to put his life in danger for the other! What a beautiful sight to see!"
Luigi simply chuckled.
"So then", Cosmic started, sensing Phyrron had finished, "What do we do as a start?"
"Well!", Phyrron said, although comprising unnecessary loud shout, "I can open up a portal here, but I suggest you boys pack yourselves up beforehand".
Both bros looked at him with confusion.
"This will be a tiring journey!", Phyrron explained, "You need preparations, as who knows what you both will face!"
Cosmic, understanding, turned to Luigi, "He has a point. We don't know what are waiting for us. Running blindly into danger without supplies would be foolish".
"I suppose so", Luigi stated, "But if we are going, we'll need our backpacks. Without them, we can't store much".
"Backpacks…?", Cosmic questioned. But he quickly had an idea on what Luigi was referring to.
"Luigi, we couldn't possibly-".
"It's crazy, and maybe stupid at the same time", Luigi said, "But if we want to adventure out there, we have to prep ourselves. A backpack should be insanely useful later on".
"We are going back to the mansion?", Cosmic asked unbelieveablingly, "What if we are thought to be ghosts!?"
"Lucario can sense us", Luigi explained, "But I would much rather not".
Cosmic for a moment he thought he understood Luigi's plans, but that second sentence plunged him back to confusion.
"If we are spotted", Luigi said, "The thief of my body would be able to use it to terrorize us. On one side, I'm sure they don't want me to be dead. On the other, we also don't want our objective to perish. This will all happen because I'm just going to predict that the thief had expected me to be dead, never to return. But I'm not, and I would like to keep my presence a secret until we can retaliate. Because if he does know that I'm still in this world, we would be in trouble, as he has every control of my body".
The long explanation took some time to sunk in Cosmic's head, but eventually, he agreed.
"Very well made startegy, brother".
Luigi smirked as a response.
"Excellent!", Phyrron spoke, gaining both bros' attentions, "Now that you both have a plan up your sleeves, I believe you both should hurry. The clock is ticking!"
Both Luigis nodded in agreement. However, before they can take off, Phyrron stopped them.
"Whoa, hang on there, boys! I've forgotten about one thing!"
"What?", Cosmic asked.
"Take both of these!"
Phyrron threw two rectangular objects into the air. Cosmic caught it with ease, but Luigi's bounced a few times on his hands. Little did he know, he tripped in backward fashion and had the object fell flat on his nose.
"…3DS…?", Luigi muttered once realizing what had just meteored into his mushroom-like nose.
Cosmic examined the little machine in front of him, continously rotating it and eyeing it from different angles. But he found little to be taken special.
"Okay Phyrron. What the hell are you giving us?"
"It is no ordinary 3DS!", Phyrron said, "It allows for interdimensional communications, for one. Those 3DSes will let us contact each other without any need to be in person".
The bros looked at Phyrron with mouths agape, clearly amazed.
"And that's far from done! It also has the ability to detect and examine your locations, and it will produce a map as an output, complete with a guide to your objective, if you both have put both can be sure you won't lose your tracks as long as this feature exist!"
"Great!", Luigi exclaimed.
"To add, it can analyze both living beings and non-living objects. This can prove useful when battling new enemies. Not only that, it also can be upgraded with new features when I have made one, whenever I feel it was necessary. And all of these are done automatically!"
"Nice", Cosmic smiled, impressed.
"To wrap it all up, it also has a free Kid Icarus: Uprising copy inside of it!"
"Wait. What?", Cosmic asked in disbelief, unsure whenether what he had just heard was correct or not.
But when he glanced at Luigi, the plumber was already jumping his legs off.
"OH YES!", he yelled, "I'VE ALWAYS WANTED THIS GAME FROM DAY ONE! THIS IS ONE OF THE BEST GAMES IN THE 3DS! THANKS SO FREAKING MUCH!"
Cosmic could only stand still with jaw hitting the ground to his brother's act.
Phyrron simply laughed heartily. When Luigi stopped, both bros bid their goodbyes as they ventured into the woods, in the Smash Mansion's direction.
"Be sure to come back soon, friends!", Phyrron yelled behind.
Luigi turned around and gave a thumbs up, whereas Cosmic simply nodded.
After they distanced away, Cosmic asked his brother in much curiosity.
"Luigi".
"Yeah?"
"How come you trusted him so easily?"
Granted, Phyrron was their only clue. But his brother has little to no suspicions shown or felt within him. If he was him, he would be against being too open of his personalities, in fear of showing his weaknesses.
"Eh? What's with this question all of a sudden?"
"We have only known him in less than two hours. Methinks we shouldn't give away our trust to strangers that easily".
"No. He wasn't a bad guy".
"How can you be so sure?"
Cosmic's question was thought by him to earn him a solid answer, but instead he got:
"He was a hyper man. I mean, what kind of a bad guy who is as hyper like him? Evil ones usually are shadowy and errie right? He wasn't!"
Andddd, facepalm.
Cosmic sighed at his brother's naiveness, before continuing on his walking, albeit was flabbergasted on Luigi's seemingly loose requirements for the fiery god to receive his trust.
'It kind of disturbs me to feel this way', Cosmic mused secretly.
'But… I've a feeling… Phyrron wasn't being sincere'.
I apologize for the long wait, friends! You all see, I moved house, and it took quite a while to set up an internet here. To add, school wasn't and still isn't being kind to me with their works. But hey! Holiday is just around the corner! That probably ought to speed things up!
And here I introduce you another character, Phyrron! I wonder what game he originated from...
In contary to what happened in previous Author Notes, I have little to say this time around. Except, of course, enjoy the story! As it still has a long way to go!
R&R! Critisms are always apprectiated! That's all for today, see you all later! Have a nice day, everyone!