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"It amazes me." Samus announced

"What does?" Athena asked

"How you've just been 'kidnapped' from your everyday lives and bought into a world that is completely different and you hardly seem bothered at all."

"I guess this place is just very calm and welcoming" Athena replied.

"Although," Trucy thought aloud "I do miss Daddy and Polly"

"Yeah" Athena agreed, "not being able to see people who are close is difficult"

"I'm sure you'll see them soon enough" Samus offered.

Athena nodded, and Trucy broke from her brief moment of sorrow, and smiled again.

She looked toward knisa who was standing next to Athena silently. "Forgive me" Samus said softly, raising her head to face Athena again. "But you seem a little young to be the mother of a child as grown up as Knisa."

Athena smiled "She's adopted" then Athena's face fell remembering the case which had caused her to adopt Knisa. "It's a long story" she said in order to avoid having to tell the story.

Samus nodded in understanding, "sorry."

"Don't be." Athena replied.

The rest of the day was pretty much uneventful. Palutena showed Athena, Trucy and Knisa around the palace, while the plumbers caught up with Samus. Pit roamed the palace completely unaware of the new arrivals, waiting for his sister to wake while he went through what Palutena had told him the night before.

The clouds once again caught fire, and the residents of the palace went to bed, for the last peaceful night that they would have for a very long time.

"Hey Apollo you seen the girls since they went to the park earlier?"

"Nope."

"Hmmm" the spiky haired attorney placed his phone on his desk "they won't answer my calls" he announced.

"Maybe they're just out of signal" the red clad attorney offered.

"Maybe" Phoenix agreed. He started to sort out some papers on his desk, stopping to read a few. He held one in his hand which just had a picture on it, the picture of a perfect circle with an off centred cross drawn inside.

"Hey that was on the letter" Apollo announced

"What?" Phoenix asked

"That symbol" he said pointing to the piece of paper, "it was on the seal of the letter Athena had"

"That's a little odd" Phoenix said "personally I've never seen it before, any idea what it means Apollo?"

Apollo shook his head, "no idea" he confirmed.

Phoenix shrugged, he put the paper back on his desk in a neat pile, the page with the strange symbol was on the top. "It's getting late." He announced

"Yes it is" Apollo agreed. "Don't worry, I'm sure they'll be back soon, you'll see"

Then the pile of paper on Phoenix's desk began to rustle, the top page scrunched up into a ball, which smoothed itself off and became a perfect sphere which had a metallic shine and a glow which kept changing colours, and an off centred cross adorning it. The attorneys shared a glance before the sphere shattered like glass, a buzz saw was wedged into the wall behind the attorneys. A small purple vortex emerged from the direction which the saw had come from, before the two passed out.

Apollo had been very wrong, they wouldn't be back soon, however soon enough they'd meet again, under very different circumstances...

"Thank you for coming."

"No need to thank me, I'm here to help."

Palutena smiled at the plumber "I'd just like to run a few things past you, seeing as you're the highest ranking hero here. If that's ok of course?" She said.

The plumber nodded "of course, go ahead" he answered through his thick accent and thick moustache.

Palutena paused before speaking, "As you are probably well aware, the attacks on residential areas are increasing in frequency and sheer destruction-"

Mario nodded, listening intently

"- well, I believe that we need to be doing all we can in order to stop them. Our investigations aren't turning much up in the way of leads and if we were to be attacked we need to be prepared. So I think we should start training tomorrow. Like the brawl tournaments and competitions we all take part in, but for training purposes."

Mario nodded "I agree"

"I also think we should start training the newcomers" Palutena announced, "they're probably in need of some combat training"

"More than likely." Mario agreed.

The sky became it's dark blue colour, the sky was lit by countless stars and a bright moon, which illuminated the sea of clouds on which Skyworld stood, this night would be the last of it's kind for a very long time.