Hemera watches the skies from the orb that sees everything.
"Everything seems to be okay..." She sighs. Ever since she came, her best friend, Palutena has been in a bit of a...sour mood. She looked as if the entire world was coming after her, not like the Palutena she knew countless years ago. She acted so innocent, but as soon the chance came to prank someone, she would take it, not caring what others would think. She would not even be bothered by being threatened, unlike today at least.
She switches her view to the arena to see the three angels training along with some fighters. Pit is wielding the Centurion Orbitars, Dark Pit is using the Black Club, and Leo is rocking out the Crystal Bow.
Pit and his dark counter part rush towards each other with the speed of monsters. The clash their weapons and quickly jump away from each other. Pit sends his left fake centurion to tackle his enemy then does the same for his right. Ducking under the first and parrying the second, Dark Pit spins to his right and goes for a grand smash in attempt to send his opponent flying, which failed since Pit activates his Reflective Barrier. Dark Pit hits the barrier with full force, however, the barrier throws the force back at his Club, knocking him on the ground so hard, he barely held on to his weapons.
"I am seriously getting sick of everyone doing that!" He yells, summoning a black hole. Hemera, who is watching this match, is wondering the location of the gods helping them activate their powers, but decides to not question it.
The black hole pulls Pit towards it with it's gravitational force, causing Pit and every other unfortunate fighter near it to stumble towards it. Smirking at the scene of fighters swing and kicking wildly at each other along with Pit, (This IS a free for all match after all...heh, I said all twice. :)) Dark pit swings his club towards them, firing a charged shot, which misses Pit since he runs a bit backwards (with his feet slipping from the force of the black hole) and uses his Back dash Charge Shot to block it. Another fighter used his brief invincibility to take the shot like a sponge. However, both, along with the fighters who survived from being hit by the shot (Which was 2 not including the brief invincibility guy) could not dodge the mega laser fired from Leo. Only Pit survived such attack.
Dark Pit hears Leo shouting, "I'm a warrior as well guys, at least pay attention to me!"
Ignoring him, Dark Pit dashes towards his fallen rival to finish him. He swings his club downwards like a hammer to end him. Quickly reacting, Pit blocks and locks the attack with his Centurion Orbitars. He twirls them in a circular fashion to make Dark Pit's weapon fly out of his hands. Pit quickly gets up and power kicks Dark Pit to the ground. He afterwards release a stream of continuous shots.
"Nice try, Pittoo" He yells proudly while doing so. Jumping up, Pittoo- err... uh, Dark Pit sprints towards his weapon while activating his transparency power to make him invisible. It may be barely since the cloud of dust is covering the area he fired at, but Pit sees a black club floating up, then disappearing since it is now a part of the user of the annoying power. He immediately shoots towards that direction. Dark Pit appears again shortly afterwards, being able to dodge the fire with the use of the Bumblebee power, an escape type power that teleports the user to another area when he is almost hit by something, although it was only a LV 1 since he need to fit a full powered Black hole in the Power selection...
They charge again, only stopping because of the crystal arrow shooting in the area they would have clashed in. They both turn towards Leo.
"Whaaaaaaats up?" He asks with a smug smile.
"Your time of being 'ignored'!" Dark Pit responds angrily.
"You literately asked for it, you get it!" Pit yells, charging at Leo as well.
Leo turns tail and run. "W-wait, hold on guys! I-I give up! Uncle, uuuncle!"
Hemera cringe at the sight of arrows and charged shots from the black club being shot at him.
Deep in the depths of the underworld, Pen lazily sits on his throne, twirling his Gaia Javelin with boredom...although it was not the most impressive looking throne. He sighs at the sight of underworld troops multiplying. When one goes into the mirror of truth's box, five more comes out, but this procedure is still too slow for an impressive army to be built in a short time...
He barely managed enough to build a castle for himself. The throne was nothing more than underworld rock carved to look like one. The only thing it has is a royal red carpet thrown on it. Right now he is just waiting for the underworld army to be restored, just waiting to launch an attack of his own, but oblivious as he is to the surface world, he did not expect what happens next.
A handora rushes towards him with exhaustion.
"Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak!"
"...?"
"Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeaaaak!"
"Ugh... As soon as I get enough souls, I'll create soldiers capable of speech... Go get a piece of of paper or something and write down what you are trying to say."
"...Squeak?"
"Oh c'mon, you are a hand aren't you!?"
"..."
"Sigh*...Just...carve on the floor or something."
The Handora happily complies and start scratching the floor. Pen's left eye twitches at the sound of sharp nail scraping the ground. It took a while to finish and it drove Pen mad, but he stands up in alarm at what he is reading.
"Thanatos!" He calls.
"Yeah, what is it?" He replies. Panting can be heard for some reason.
"Get ready, the forces of Light are invading."
"What!? But I'm about to get a high score on Just Dance 4!"
"You can play your game later! For now, gather the troops!"
"Why so?"
"Like I said, because the forces of light is attacking! I'm heading out to slow them down! Try and send some units to support me!"
"Yes sir Mr. Pen sir!"
After rolling his eyes at the 'sir' comments, he opens the door that can lead anywhere in the underworld...in this case, the area Palutena is coming from.
"Time to play the role as the one man army!" Pen shouts as he jumps out with his wings glowing black powered by his own power." Immediately, he sees an army of centurions and other light forces, but what he mainly notices, is the green haired goddess before him.
"So, your Pen, the underworld angel that has been causing me so much trouble?" She asks.
"Whoops." He says while readying his weapon.
"And just what do you think your doing?"
"Stalling."
"Well, there's no reason to. YOUR the one we came for besides the mirror of truth!"
Suddenly, a smirk appears on the purple angel's face. "Is that so..." His wings glow...well not exactly glow, but you get the idea...The aura around it turns an even deeper black color as he flies into the skies of the underworld, yelling "Well come and get me!"
"Centurions." She commands. Her troops almost immediately goes after him. They quickly catch up and surround him in a sphere like fashion before opening fire. He twists, flips, and turns in all sorts of directions to dodge them while shooting continuous fire lasers out of his weapon. When at least half of them falls, Palutena decides it's her turn to act. She orders her troops out of the way and fire multiple mega lasers at her foe.
Pen is definitely taken surprised by her ability to use multiple powers. He dodges the first, second, and third, but the last one manages to blast him higher into the skies than he already was. He regains control, but for nothing since multiple shots from the troops is already heading towards him.
He screams in pain as he gets blasted out of the sky, spiraling fast to the ground. The remaining sky troops are already on him, attempting to increase the impact of when he hits the ground and then pinning him.
Pen struggles to get free. He wiggles left and right trying to break out of the hold before he crashes to the ground.
Finally, he realize that he needs help.
"Thanatos!"
All of the sudden, a great green shockwave irrupts from his wings, blasting every Centurion off of him. With one mighty flap, he completely stops midair right above the underworld ground. With his power combined with Thanatos in his wings, he flies at Palutena. She blocks a stab attack with her shield and then push Pen off of her. He immediately dashes around her, separating the double headed Javelin and going for a duel attack. Palutena warps away from him, leaving three light pillars in her place. The pillars spreads out then homes directly at him. Pen soars the the slightest opening between the left and middle pillar, turning his body to the side so he can squeeze through undamaged.
She starts casting another spell.
"Oh no you don't!"
Pen activates a Meteor Shower on her. Forced to cancel the spell and warp again, she throws her shield up another time just before she got impaled by the half Javelin.
"As much as I'd like to eliminate you, the mirror of Truth possesses a greater threat."
She knocks him back with a bash of her staff.
Flipping backwards and landing on his feet against the ground, Pen rests on his knees, staring emptily at his opponent. The light goddess possesses Pen's wings and they start to glow a beautiful blue .
He did not predict that she could do that, and activates Thanatos's power of flight again, only to get a warning by her.
"Go on and try it. If you do, your wings will explode."
"Yeah right!" Pen shouts in dismay.
"Fine, don't believe me. It's your life that's on the line." She says making a cold smile.
"Forces! Finish him, I'll destroy the mirror myself!"
Pen swears and flings his Javelin with all his might, but the attack gets dodged easily. He could only watch in anger to see her fly away.
The enemy forces firing at him did not help his mode at all.
"Thanatos, get me out of here!"
"I can't, there is too much clutter!"
"Damn... Well command the forces until I get away from these goons." He says, looking left and right at different centurion knights, strong arms, and archers landing not too far away from him. He summons and split another Javelin into two, glaring even harder when he sees that they are not moving yet.
"Well then...? C'mon, forces of Light... Demonstrate your capability!"
The light army does just that, unleashing a war cry as they surround him.
Leo's Journal
Being completely bored of my current days, I decided to toughen myself up with the new boot camp Palutena installed. I was still limping from the training arena battle against the two other angels, but that place is a nightmare!
As soon as I entered, I knew I completely made the wrong decision in coming there...
The trainer of the boot camp paced back and fourth of the training area, glaring at each welp that had dared entered... including Leo.
"ATTENTION ALL TURDS! MY NAME! IS! SARGENT EARL! OF THE NORTH STAR! A!K!A! THE TERMINATA OF THE-"
"Terminator? I thought you are a General." An unfortunate fighter says, not realizing the mistake he has made.
"Yes... That's right soldier, a general. Now tell me this, who haves the higher authority here? You... or me...?"
"Err..."
"Well!? Answer the question!"
"B-but what do you mean by-"
"You not only interrupted me of my speech, but corrected me. So I'll ask again, who is in higher authority? You... or me?"
"Y-You...?"
"That's right! SO WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO NAME ME!?"
"...C-curiosity...?"
"Well tell your "Curiosity" to disappear! Curiosity leads to hesitation, hesitation leads you to death on the battlefield!" The trainer screams in his face.
"Now drop down and give me fifty five!" He throws the soldier behind him and kicks him in the rear into an open space... across the battlefield. The rueful soldier started doing his push ups...after groaning in pain for a while...
"...Holy crap..." Leo whispers.
Sargent Earl gets in his face immediately. "What you just say, you smash bros color scheme reject?" He asks in a dangerously low tone.
"N-nothing!"
"Good, but I hope it wont stay like that! You'll be useless if you always do "nothing!" So! Are you about to start doing something!?"
Leo couldn't do anything but stagger.
"...I'm going rip your wings off and eat them for launch... DROP DOWN AND GIVE ME 25!"
Leo makes a loud "OOF!" as he gets power kicked some distance away from the others in the opposite direction of the other guy. Speaking of him:
"Hey captain, I got done th-" He did not finish his sentence since he got back handed into the world of unconsciousness.
"Solder, you shouldn't sneak up on your officer!" Earl yells pointlessly at the fallen fighter.
The next day was complete hell for me as well! We trained AKA worked ourselves to exhaustion until he said stop!
"Link, increase your speed when crawling through those tunnels! Daisy, don't think that just because your a girl, I won't expect you to raise your knees higher when going through the tires, you jackass! Leo, if you don't make it to the top of that belt rope, I'll beat you with it!"
"But the damn thing is literally a mile upwards into the sky!" He yells from halfway to the end.
"Not my problem!"
"What do I do after I complete this anyway!?"
"You'll skydive into the building sized, pointy rocks with only a few beds that will maybe save your fall!"
"This is ridicules! Your trying to kill us!"
"No, I'm trying to prepare you for war, kid!"
"But this stuff don't make sense!"
"What stuff kid? WHAT! STUFF!"
"Well first of all, skydiving into rocks will certainly lead to death!"
"You get revived anyway." He says casually, surprising half of the victims near him.
"Second, I can fly."
"What if you end up like our captain?"
"Third, we would have no reason to skydive into rocks considering the fact lady Palutena can just teleport us to our destination."
"Y'know, you talk a lot of crap... BUT WHAT IF THIS WAS A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION!?"
"Even YOU just said that we get revived, so that would not even matter!"
"Stills hurts like hell!"
"-besides, this is NOT a LIFE. OR DEATH. SITUATION!"
Earl pulls out a laser staff. "It is now!"
"W-wait what are you...- Gah!"
Leo just barely moves out of the way of a shot.
He begins to climb up as fast as he could, trying to dodge the laser shots from the trainer who is now laughing like a mad man.
Luckily, you don't really HAVE to go there...
Present Time
"Leo!" The training captain yells as he busts down Leo's bedroom door. "Good news! For me anyway. It's time to get your daily serving of suffering and pain!"
"..Huh...?" He responds.
"Meaning, your goddess is making you go more often to toughen you up!"
Leo cries on the spot.
As Leo gets dragged back to the training area, he spots a strange creature and so does Earl.
They both glance at each other, to the creature, at each other again, and back to the creature that looks more like a tumble weed with a big round eye.
"Errr... Is that thing one of Hemera's?" Earl asked Leo who shakes his head.
"No, I've most certainly have never seen that thing before..." He responds.
They both stare each other, occasionally blinking in silence.
"Hello...?"
Right after Leo tried to greet himself, the weed like creature removes it's vines to reveal a skinny humanoid of some kind. This monster pulls out plant weapons from all over and start shooting wildly.
Earl throws Leo Super Mario style out of the way and dives for cover behind a corner.
The wooden bullets strikes the corner Earl hides behind in a rapid pace. Growling in irritation he removes his shields and axe to block the shots and take out the creature, but the thing dodges out of the way of each stab, slash, and bash of the Centurion commander.
The tumble weed monster would have kept shooting, but Leo blasts it out of existence from his meteor bow.
Earl returns his weapons and looks at Leo in alarm. "We need to warn your goddess."
"No kidding." He says as lowers his meteor bow.
Leo runs in the Goddess's main room to alert her.
"Lady Hamera, an-"
"Invasion?"
"Yes, actually. How could you tell?" Earl asks.
"The forces of Nature's Infiltrator you killed has disabled the shields." She responds, pointing towards the Orb of all sight.
"Oh crap..." Leo whispers, seeing the invasion of the forces of Nature. The other angel is already defending it, while the dark one is no where to be found.
"I have to help him!" Leo makes a move towards the position Pit is at in the moment, only to be stopped by Hemera.
"I suggest you use THIS weapon!" She materializes a weapon from it's crystallized state.
"Hmm? What is... WHAT!?"
Before Leo in Hamera's hands is a marvelous Club. It shines white with radiance of power and is large as a human being. The club is not actually a club and is only specified as such because of it's massive size like the Magnus Club. It is actually a giant double sided axe and the handle is nothing more than a pole wrapped in purple cloth. The blades are shaped like half circles separated by the pole it self. Even still, the pole does not seem connected to the blades, they look as though they float at least an inch or two besides it. Between that small space it glows a brilliant sky blue.
The edge of the axe blades glows a bright pink.
"What is this!" Leo asks in awe.
"This is one of the new twelve weapons Dyntos creates this time around. He calls them the 'Righteous' weapons! This one was made after me, but unlike the other gods who haves a major Ego, I decided against naming it after myself! It is instead called, the DAYBLIGHT CLUB!"
"This is so cool!"
"And it also yours now."
"Can we start the defense now! Time is important!" Earl interrupts.
"Ah yes, of course. Now go out there and test your new weapon!"
"YES LADY HAMERA!"
Leo grabs the Club and as soon as he does so, two red, laser like lines spirals up from Leo's right hand, up his forearm arm, and ends at his elbow.
"This weapon is so cool..."
The two sprint towards the action at the edge of Sky world. Hamera watches, studying just what the way of the sky soldiers are.
When she looks at Pit again, She sees him struggling to get into reach of enemies even with his Earthmaul Club.
Sighing, she activates her power of flight on him.
On the edge of Skyworld where floating Islands can be seen miles away behind the Skyworld army, into the horizon where the citizens live, a huge ship made of natural materials and covered with flowers, vines, and trees floats closer and closer to Pit's home. It really looks like a ship fashion disaster. This only aids Pit's desire to destroy the thing for the sake of his home world. He realizes to his shock that he have acquired the power of flight.
His wings glows a bright orange and he suddenly takes to the skies...well... HIGHER in the skies and from the skyworld ground, his wings looks like an orange twinkle in near space.
There is only one Goddess at skyworld right now, and that's Hamera.
"Lady, Hamera, is this your doing!?" Pit asks as he blasts a Nutski that has been taunting him for some time now.
"It sure is! It is a neat trick Palutena taught me for Leo when he was in his first steps into flying!"
"Well, that's convenient to me!"
"Right now, I'm taking you on a raid mission. Assistance should be with you momentarily. For right now, I'm getting you on that ship ASAP!"
Just when Hamera finish her briefing, Pit's wings glows a sunny yellow, sunlight seemingly shining off his wings and he accelerates at almost an alarming rate.
Despite how fast he is soaring, the ship of Viridi does not seem to get any closer because it is so big, it's size can be compared to Zeus's ego.
On his way, he flies in a rapid circle, shooting plant monsters on the way to the ship.
"Pit, what are you doing?"
"A basic maneuver! By doing this, most shots don't hit me!"
True to his word, most of the shots being launched at him flies past him in a curve because of the attempt of homing. He swings his club back and forth, sending mini shortwaves to terminate the opposing army. Although, it is a miracle that shots being fired back and fourth everywhere don't even accidentally hit him.
"You would think the opposing enemy you fight would catch on to that and just shoot ahead of your path..."
Then new voice chimes in the conversation, responding to her.
"Hey, for YOUR information, I'll counter that strategy soon enough!"
"Viridi!" Pit shouts.
"Hey, flightless wonder!"
"Viridi, what is your purpose for attacking the skyworld Army?" Hemera asks.
Silence besides the war and chaos of the battle can be heard. "...Who are you?"
"My name is Hemera, goddess of day time, thank you very much."
"Never heard of you..."
"That matters not. What does matter is destroying that abomination your army is manning!"
The goddess of Nature Gasps. "A-Abomination!? Why you- ... Your going to pay for that soon enough, but for right now, where is Palutena!? I've got a... certain surprise for her."
He struggles to get his point across because of the rapid amount of enemies chasing him, but Pit still speaks. "Palutena is not here at the moment, and besides, if she was, you would have to go through me, and the skyworld army!"
"Oh, that is just cute, but it words alone wont scare my troops away from this battle!"
"Viridi, why are you doing this!? I thought our army called-"
"What? Truce? Don't be a fool, Pit. The forces of Nature and Light are enemies and it is going to stay like that! Don't think we're best pals because we took down Hades together! Right now, it's on!"
"Fine, if that's how it is, then I'll have to break this struggle between our forces!" With that last word, he blasts his pursuers into oblivion with a charge shot. With his wings glowing almost gold, he soars faster and faster towards the ship, yelling a war cry as he attempts to shoot a hole into the ship's shell, aka a thick forests of hard trees, however, this does nothing.
Just when Pit is about to growl in annoyance, a massive Golem like humanoid floats from below and in front of the angel, causing Hemera to back him up in distance. The thing is about ten times taller than a human. With a terribly terrifying screech, the rock monster spreads it's wings which is about five times taller than the body itself.
"Break the struggle? HA! The only way that's going to happen is with your goddess using her energy crying over the lost of her kingdom!" The Nature Goddess says as the Golem glows an evil purple o unleash some sort of horrible attack.
"I was about to say the same for you, Viridi!"
With those words, a wall of heat so hot, the air it affects is red, slams onto the enemy, causing it to cry in pain.
Then, a certain angel flies into sight, wielding a new angelic weapon. "Leonidas!?" Pit exclaims in shock.
"Would you please just call me Leo!?"
"My bad. Huh!?" Pit turns towards the rising monster, but it gets shot down again by a tackle from a massive figure. "Huh?"
"Why don't you get you head out of the clouds and go after the demon of a ship, so-called-Capt'n!"
Pit gulps at the sound at the voice. He remembers Palutena's words exactly.
'Pit, you may be my champion and all that,' Palutena stared, 'but what if your the only one here? What if the centurions still have to rely on their big-'
'And handsome!' The angel interrupted.
'and handsome hero? For that purpose, I recommended you to the boot camp, lead by Captain Earl!'
Aka the same captain that put poor Pit through hell and worse. And considering the fact that Pit escaped hell when he was a boy, that's saying something.
Leo puts on a smirk as he hefts the giant axe he carries around his shoulder. "Yeah! We can take this thing down for you! Go on!"
With a nod, Pit let's Hemera guides him to what she believes is the entrance. The angel ascends to the fourth Atmosphere of the planet to reach the top of the ship, where the said entrance is at. He looks back at the scene of red slashes of heat and a big Centurion charging at the boss who is fighting back with shots from his wings.
He notice that as he goes higher and higher in the skies, more natural enemies are appearing. Groups of Jitterthugs comes rushing towards him. The green, which are firing from afar, is careful to stay away from Pit and prevent friendly fire from the red ones, which attacks Pit at close range. Grunting in agitation, he back flips, descending from the close ranged assaulters before firing a shot that eliminates them all which is red.
With his wings flashing a gold color, he closes the distance between him and the green Jitterhugs, finishing them with one mighty swing. Quickly rising above the ship of disaster, he watches the surface of it, a vast forest of pink similar to the environments the Reset Bomb creates.
"You ready, Pit?" Hemera asks.
"Of course! Let's end this now!"
"Alright. We need to get you as close as possible. On foot, it will take days for you to get to the control area. Plus, the power of flight is going to run out!" With that said, Hemera dives the power of flight in the forest, quickly avoiding the trees getting in the way to the ship. "Should be here..." She says to herself, making Pit randomly drop in a 90 degree angle.
The angel, who was about to scream in surprise, notices a hole in the ship's ground the size of a football stadium. Feeling the same emotion he got when he descended to the underworld with it's key, he waited for anything to happen while he plummets through complete darkness. The sound of the outside battle almost muted, replaced by the sound of the wind passing by the angel in the speed he falls.
He was about to grow kind of nervous, but a green light from afar is seen shinning far away. Hemera decreases his speed and they observe a green orb just floating there in midair and multiple pathways that leads to who knows where.
Pit takes note of this thing. "This must be an engine or something!"
"It does release power of some sort..." Hemera replies.
"Maybe I should destroy it?"
"I don't know... It seems a little too easy to get to. I mean, all we did is fly downwards..."
"TADA! I present to you, the portal ball!" After Viridi introduces the item, it changes from green to Pink as it slowly began to expand in size, revealing a humanoid shape. "Nothing more than a more professional way of transporting my troops!"
As Viridi says, a yellow beam soars from the ball towards pit, who almost gets hit. "Cool, right?"
"Not cool, NOT COOL!" Pit panics, dodging rapid fire from this person.
"Pit, we have to find Viridi as quickly as possible, or otherwise, you will never destroy this ship!"
"Good luck with that. My new officer here wont allow that to happen."
Hemera is confused with her words at first, but then she gasps.
"Pit, be careful!"
"What, why!?" Pit asks.
A smug voice from the source of the beams sounds in the air. "Because this is not a sparing match anymore, Pit-Stain."
"Irritating pests." Pen spits, glaring at the disappearing corpses of his enemies.
He stares ahead at the castle he hails from, hearing a great battle occurring with in it. Cursing as he glances at his wings that glows blue, he rushes towards his new home on foot, cursing Palutena's name once more.
And with that, three great battles begins. The centurions vs a mysterious boos creature made by Viridi, Pit vs the nature goddess and the tricks she may have in her ship, and Pen plus his underworld forces vs Palutena. However, one more starts and it is not in the defender's favor.
"So your Hamera?" Phosphora asks the daytime goddess who grunts in annoyance.