If I Could I Would

*Authors Note*: Sorry this took so long to get up. I was really spread thin with school so I haven't had much time for typing. Oh well, enjoy the newest chapter and please review!

I took off toward the battle stage my heart pounding fiercely. Some of my friends would forgive me…but not for long. I summoned my strength and walked through the door onto the platform where the Ice Climbers stood. Nana, the one dressed in pink gave me a sharp look, while Popo, in blue, cowered a little. I brushed off my shoulder and waited for the disembodied voice to count down.

"3, 2, 1…Go!" The voice shouted and I sprang up onto the top platform. This stage had a kind of stair step design. There was the bottom level which stretched the normal length and then three short platforms which rose like stairs from right to left. I waited for Nana and Popo to come for me. They cast a piece of ice at me and I waved a hand watching it melt into a puddle as my magic of destruction eroded it.

"Popo Catch!" Nana yelled grabbing a bomb and tossing it gently to Popo. I brought my whip out in a flash, causing it to blow up in Popo's face. He fell over and Nana jumped up to the second platform. "Meany! You'll pay!" She shouted and jumped toward me, her hammer swinging wildly. I brought out my saber in record time and ran it through Nana with a sneer. She gasped and I grabbed her with my fist. As soon as I kicked her off the screen Popo leapt up and tried to force his hammer down on me. Like lightning I grabbed the Hammer and twisted my head around smiling with glinting sharp teeth. I pulled my gun out and fired watching as he fell, clutching onto the bottom level at the last possible second.

"Squirt, you should know better than to play with fire." I said menacingly and grabbed Popo's hand. "Need a lift?" I said pulling him up. He gasped and I dropped him into the abyss below. Turning my silver eyes on the crowd I saw all of my ex-friends their eyes wide and mouths slightly opened. Meta Knight even had his sword drawn. I chuckled to myself and left as the announcer proclaimed me winner, I walked out just as confidently as I had walked in.

"Finally!" Tetrax yelled having broken through the bars on his cell. "What do they make these out of?" He whispered before leaving the mansion. In truth it probably would have taken him less time if it wasn't for the armored girl who stood guard. Until this morning when they all though he wouldn't try to break out, so they left. He smashed his way through the next wall forging a door through to the outside. "Who needs doors?" He said stepping through the debris.

"Nice to see you again." A too familiar voice said.

"Vilgax you slime! Where are you?" Tetrax said holding up his hands as the crystal melded into a sharp point and a wide kind of shield.

"Right here of course." His unpleasant voice said. Tetrax tried to spin around but found himself unconscious in seconds.

"I changed my mind." I said certainly. "I don't want to be a bad guy!" I yelled at wolf and Ganandorf. "Leave me be I want my old life back!"

"Celest, you are already in too deep I'm afraid…" Wolf said.

"No I'm not." I said with a huff.

"What will you do? Apologize?" Ganandorf mocked me with a laugh.

"Yes I will, and if you try and stop me you can expect a rude awakening. I'm more powerful in this form than the either of you will ever know." I said stamping my foot and turning around.

"I'm afraid you are in too deep." That venomous voice I knew all too well. Vilgax stood in my way. "It seems my entrance into this little escapade needed to be sooner." He pulled out a small black box and pressed a small button on it. A deep tone, too deep for any ears except for banshees to hear filled the room and Celest let out her piercing scream.

"STOP!" She screamed and Vilgax pressed the button again as Celest fell to the ground in pain. "NO I WILL NOT LET YOU CONTROL ME!" She screamed and Vilgax smirked.

"If you want another reason I'll give you one." Vilgax motioned and 99 (*Authors Note: A bounty hunter I made up off the top of my head. More deadly than 77 or 66, he looks almost exactly like them except he wears green and holds a much more menacing laser gun*) 99 threw a familiar face I thought I would never see again onto the floor in front of ,me.

"Tetrax…" I said softly bending down to him. He was wrapped in some kind of black vine. I reached for it but felt my energy drain as I drew closer. A slight shock form the vines made me quickly move away. "What did you do to him?" I yelled at Vilgax and 99. "How dare you hurt my friends!" I glided menacingly toward them about to grab both of their throats when the roaring boom shook my ears. I collapsed to the floor in pain screaming again.

"Is he dead?" Wolf asked when Vilgax had ceased the noise, the only way he knew that was how Celest had stopped screaming and had collapsed into sobs. Wolf was looking at Tetrax.

I looked around at Tetrax as soon as the question was out of Wolf's mouth. 99 shook his head.

"He is not; his energy is slightly drained, but will return. Anyone who tried to break him out will not only drain their own but his energy as well. When he is revived he will not be able to move, that energy will be stored in the vines until I release him." 99 spoke in an out-of-world voice a buzzing almost audible through his words. (*Note*Yes even though 66 and 77 never talked 99 can! Ha there!)

"No." I said shaking my head. "No…No…"

"Relax my dear." Vilgax leaned down and picked my chin up. "He will be fine…If you cooperate." He hissed the last words with a slight undertone.

"What must I do?" I asked hopelessly.

"Good girl. Keep up this bad reputation and then we will talk." He said as I stumbled to my feet.

"Okay…" I shook and disappeared.

"99 you stay here with this slime. I will go back to my ship, come and see me if you have any complications." Vilgax said as 99 nodded. "Gentlemen, if you don't mind, the banshee will do much better if left alone." Everyone except for 99, Tetrax, and I had left. I waited until Tetrax had regained conscience. I appeared before him as he squirmed.

"Celest! Thank goodness, get me out of this!" He yelled.

"If I could I would…" She sighed. Tetrax looked down at his bindings and then over at 99.

"Damn!" He muttered. "This is my fault entirely."

"No, it is all mine." I said glumly.

"Don't talk like that." He commanded.

"This isn't the same…This isn't one of our assignments or adventures…" I said quietly.

"Will figure a way out…" I looked at him intently.

"Vilgax has me under his control…he fixed the…" I shuddered. "Tone box."

"That should have taken longer…" Tetrax struggled again and felt a little of his energy drain. "He used it?" He asked in a whisper.

Tetrax was the only one that understood what Vilgax's little mechanism did to me. For one it caused me to scream, letting out my scream meant giving up energy to try and protect myself; however, at the same time it allowed my own magic to work on me. (*Note*I know it is a little confusing… Let's put it this way…A banshees scream protects her from others magic, it is how they shield themselves. However, the very opposite of their high pitched tone is an impossible low tone that can negate the banshees screams effects. The banshee magic is destruction to others, but because of the low tone the banshee's magic it also reversed and it begins to only work on the banshee itself. Sorry if I just confused you more…but that's the way it works) so in other words, the "tone box" would allow my magic to work on me and cause my body to begin taking the effect of my dark magic. I scream out of instinct to try and put up a defense to save myself.

"Twice." She cowered. Tetrax shuddered.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm healed if that's what you are asking." She said bluntly.

"How did you heal?"

"It's easier in a cave, where all I have to do is disperse into the darkness and incubate in the shadows." Tetrax gave a small chuckle. "What?"

"Do you remember when we were on that desert planet and you could not find one spec of darkness during the day. It drove you mad…" I chuckled a little. "So, what now?"

"I help Vilgax, and hope he doesn't kill me before I can figure something out." 99 glanced in their direction, having been pacing outside, he only know noticed we were talking.

"Good luck." Tetrax said with a sigh.

"I'll need it." I agreed. "I'm sorry."

"Don't be. Just be careful."

"I'll try." And with that I slide out of the cave and back up to the Brawl Mansion. I slipped through my window again and landed on the floor lightly. "I don't remember leaving my lights off." I muttered.

"Because you didn't." Lucario's voice pierced the silence.

"What do you want?" I hissed.

"To know who that green crystal man, that alien, and that weird looking hunter guy are."

"You don't need to know." I hissed again.

"I'm the only one that trusts you." Lucario said flipping on the light. "I followed you down their today but didn't risk getting to close. If you ever need help just ask." He threw a piece of paper onto the floor in front of me. "Mario wanted me to give you this." He said with a backwards glance as he left the room stealthily.

"Always so cryptic." I said rolling my eyes before looking at the paper. I would fight Marth tomorrow…That should be fun…