Origins: Dante and Vergil

The Demon World, the former site of the Qliphoth Tree

In the dank nothingness of Hell, a thick demon-slaying sword clashed with a much thinner katana-esque blade. The katana's black trenchcoat-wearing user grunted, gritting his teeth, ready to exert some force to repel the attack. However, the piercing blow of his opponent, his red trenchcoat-wearing brother, was simply too fierce. The man who wielded the katana was sent flying backward. Luckily for him, however, the man was well versed in how to respond to such an attack, simply taking a knee, and letting his knee bear most of the momentum as eventually slid to a stop.

"Score one for Dante!" the man in the red trenchcoat cheered.

"Where did you learn to count?" angrily demanded the black trenchcoat wearing man.

"Same place as you Vergil, from mom," smirked Dante.

Vergil knew deep in his heart he should've been mad, but he found himself smirking, "Your idiocy aside, we're even in terms of score."

"You know, I have a feeling this is never gonna end," said Dante, mirroring Vergil's smirk.

Vergil lazily rolled to his side, careful not to lay completely down to avoid getting whatever gunk the floor of the Demon World consisted of getting in his short white hair, "Maybe, but we have plenty of time"

Dante chuckled, wiping his own, slightly longer silver hair out of his eyes. Just as he did, a voice rang out

"Isn't that just, precious?" an evil coo seemed to ring out from thin air.

In a burst of darkness a woman appeared, tall, well-built and frighteningly beautiful, with her skin almost as pale as porcelain in some places, and blotched with an evil purple hew in some places. Her hair consisted of gnarly, ravenous green snakes, and her face bore something in between a dismissive smile and an annoyed scowl. Her intimidating staff shimmered with dark energy as her lips pursed into a smile upon seeing the two men.

"Who in the hell are you?" growled Vergil.

The woman laughed "My my, your world play truly is darling, just as my sources said it would be. However, when you interrupt the proceedings of one underworld, we all hear about it. Because of your meddling in the natural balance, I'm afraid you must suffer the wrath of Medusa!"
Driving the bottom of her staff into the ground, a horde of ghoulish looking demons similar to the ones commanded by The Qliphoth Tree appeared.

"Empusas? Where'd this girl get Empusas?" asked Dante.

"Not the time!" barked Vergil.

The two brothers crisscrossed each other, killing demons that would have otherwise attacked the other from behind Much to the brothers' chagrin, as they cut down a demon, three more would sprout from the ground. From another portal, a triangular monster flew into the battlefield. The being had two sets of wings, one set consistent with its white body, and another set that resembled the steel of a fighter jet. . When the flying machine came to a stop, the brothers went back to back, Vergil warning, "Don't you dare say it."

The monster Dante smiled broadly, "Jackpot!" firing his two twin guns at the machine, the bullets impacting and harmlessly bouncing off the creature.

Vergil looked over at his brother with a smirk, "I'd be lying if I said I didn't get great enjoyment out of that."

The wings of the mechanical monster rotated outward revealing a veritable armory of guns, all of which began firing at the two brothers, who ran to take cover from the onslaught behind the remains of the Qliphoth Tree.

"Not the time Vergil!" Dante shouted, weaving around the blasts of energy.

The two brothers dove behind the urethral wood of the once-mighty tree, a single laser blast narrowly missing Dante's shoulder.

Vergil sneered as the howling laughter of Medusa echoed across the battlefield, "Dante, the only hope we have is if I can make it up to that thing and use the Yamato to cut everything at once."

Dante's eyes squinted, "Vergil, that's 30 feet up, and with all those guns blasting at you, I don't think you could make it."

Vergil shot a glance at his brother, ice-cold anger blaring in his eyes, "I have to try."

Dante shrugged, "Alright, your funeral asshole. You go on my signal though."

Medusa laughed again, "Oh, you half-breeds, it does not matter when or where you go, the fact of the matter is my Underworld Gatekeeper has you pinned down, and now that all of its weapons have calibrated, it will spell your DOOM!"

As Medusa began to cackle again, a portal opened, and out of it, an angel with black wings dove into the Underworld Gatekeeper feet first, colliding with at its side and leaping off it just as the creature spiraled out of the air and onto the ground, segments flayed out in every direction and unconscious. Following behind him was a brunette, blue-eyed boy in a golden mech and a flawlessly beautiful, green-haired woman in a toga.

"And that is how you beat a boss," sneered the black-winged one.

"AGH! You three! It's always you three!" Medusa shrieked at the new interlopers

"Medusa! Why are you here?" called down the toga-wearing woman.

"Simple, you pompous fool!" snarled Medusa, "King Conker revived me with souls, and Hades as well!"

"Hades?" gawked the boy in the mech, "Why are you aligned with him? You helped us kill him, remember?"

"Let's just say…with as many souls as we'll get to eat, it was easy to put aside our differences." Medusa hissed with a smirk

"I believe we've heard enough," said the black-winged one, whipping out what appeared to be a staff of his own pointing it in Medusa's direction without looking up from the corpse of the Gatekeeper, "Goodbye" he grunted.

Firing an energy bolt from his staff without even so much as a glance in Medusa's direction, the bolt collided directly with Medusa. The demon screeched in pain, causing several demons that appeared to be bats with flaming bats to fly from nowhere and smother both the mech boy and the toga woman.

"Where did she get Pyrobats?" demanded Vergil.

"And you got on me earlier for that? Puh-leeze!" spat Dante.

The boy sprung from the mech, extending his white angel wings. At this exact moment, Virgil ran forward, running through the crowd of humanoid demons that had spawned earlier. Nonchalantly sheathing the blade, the demons were chopped to bits.

"Awww, but I wanted to give the signal," Dante whined, still behind their cover from earlier.

Before Vergil could retort, the toga-wearing woman pushed through the bat demons with a loud grunt

"Blackhole!" she commanded

At her word, a blackhole appeared, entrapping the throng of bat demons within it

"MEGA LASER!" she shouted

From seemingly nowhere, a pink laser ripped through the black hole, evaporating not only the bat demons but the mech that the brunette boy had come in.

"Pit," sighed the green-haired woman like mother lecturing a child, "You can't keep being so careless with these Cherubots."

"I can't believe I'm saying this, but in Pit's defense, you destroyed the Cherubot with your Mega Laser."

"No offense meant Lady Palutena" Pit said slowly, "But…Pitoo is right!"

"Don't call me Pitoo," spat 'Pitoo' "My name is Dark Pit!"

"Look, I hate to break up whatever the hell is going on here, but I think you've pissed off this Medusa woman," shouted Vergil to the trio

Medusa was on her hands and knees, her faces switching between the manufactured form, the now scratched face she had had at the beginning of the encounter to her true form, a horrible, gnarled one-eyed monster face. As she shrieked, more Empusas appeared.

"Vergil! Cut these suckers down! I'm going for the lady!" Dante declared

"Heh, how typical of you," Vergil said with a grin as he charged into the crowd of demons as he had done before.

"Oooh! I'll help you out Red Guy," whooped Pit as he flew down, forming up on Dante.

As Vergil sheathed his blade after running a vertical path through the horde, once again cutting them to size, Dante spread his arms wide, a red burst of light emanating from him. When Dante came back into view, he was completely different, a demonic humanoid in form. Dante readied his sword, holding it like a fencer, and dashing at Medusa, crisscrossing her multiple times with blade slashes imbued with demonic energy. Finally, when Medusa was facing him, staggering from the pain, Dante stabbed her through the stomach.

"Guardiiiiiaaaan Orbitars!" Pit said, as two golden gauntlets appeared from nowhere

The Orbitars connecting with Medusa's face, and the demonic energy that surged up Dante's sword propelling her forward impacted the snake-haired woman at the same time. A portal of darkness open behind her, and as soon as she had cleared it, it closed.

The five sat in a bewildered silence for a few seconds before Palutena asked, "Soooo should we get down to business?"
"Oh?" Vergil asked, rolling his eyes, "And what business is that?"

"Offering you both a gig!" Pit yelled excitedly

"And getting you out of here, don't forget" groaned Dark Pit.

"There's a catch isn't there?" said the brothers together, looking at each other in bewilderment..

"Of a sort," said Palutena, finally setting down on the ground, "Ever hear of Super Smash Brothers?"

"Can't say that I have," said Dante, "But I'd go to Patty Lowell's birthday party if it meant a ticket out of here."

"Wait wait wait," started Virgil, "Is this one of those fighting tournaments?"

"Yeah, it is! We're also a peacekeeping task force!" chirped Pit.

"We have reason to believe several enemies from your past have joined King Conker's order, including Urizen, and the cult that raised your Nero," explained Palutena,

"It appears that unfathomable power is before us. If you need our help, we're in." Vergil quickly shot.

" Of course you'd say that considering Urizen is your other half," smirked Dante, his eyes suddenly widening in realization, "Wait, if it's a fighting tournament…is Ryu there?" asked the demon hunter.

Palutena tilted her head, while Dark Pit rolled his eyes, "How did you know?" asked the goddess

"Because Ryu's friggin everywhere. Get us out of here! I can't wait to see Ryu! I bet Nico and Nero will be happy to see us!"

"Oh, they've already received invitations to watch!" Palutena explained with a beaming smile

Suddenly, they could hear loud, error prompt sounding beeps coming from Pit's wrist device, like the incorrect answer buzzer on a gameshow.

"What in the name of Heaven and Earth are you doing?"

"Trying to enter the code. You know, the one that'll get us back home?"

"You idiot! You know you can't read!" yelled Dark Pit.

"You're just trying to be helpful," cooed Palutena, "Thank you Pit!"

Dark Pit simply huffed and entered the code himself. All five stepped through the portal into the Smash Mansion. The half-demon brothers stood to reason that the way the sun glared into the windows, it was near sunset. Standing before them were Marth and Sans.

"Ah, Dante and Vergil, sons of Sparda," began Marth, "I am Marth, Prince of Altea, and Vice President of Super Smash Brothers."

"Where's the Prez? Can we meet him?" asked Dante, causing Vergil to roll his eyes.

"Mario's busy. We're only a short time away from the big training week, so he's trying to set up things for opening day."

"Marth, Medusa was there and said something about souls. Apparently whatever it involves brought her and Hades back together when the former helped us kill the latter." Paultena explained.

Marth frowned, "Hmmm, that is concerning. I will report it to Mario immediately."

"Hey, not to interrupt…" Dante began

"Which you are!" snapped Vergil.

"And now you're interrupting me," Dante snapped back, "But is there a way I can get like a pizza or something?"

"Yeah," said Sans, "Although I know our McDonalds affiliate is already set up though. People don't like to go there because it always smells like farts," explained the skeleton turning his head and winking to no one in particular.

"What was…?" Vergil asked, utterly befuddled

"Sans just does that occasionally," Marth explained with a sigh, "Look, Vergil, you're rooming with Dark Pit. Dante, you're rooming with a fellow named Wolf. He's not going to be around until late or until morning, so you'll have the room to yourself for the time being."

"Pizza in bed!" cheered Dante.

"Idiot," muttered Vergil.

"Hey man, that sounds pretty sweet. I might join you once we drop off NoFun McLamepants over here." Sans said, gesturing to Vergil.

"So you're telling me you want me to eat pizza with you, in bed?" asked a surprise Dante,

"Hey, it's not a sex thing. I have a girlfriend." Sans explained.

"Non-intimate, in bed pizza-eating sesh with a skeleton? This party's getting crazy, let's rock!"

"Hell yeah man. Let's go get you to your room." Sans said, gesturing to the grand staircase.

As the three walked briskly up the steps, Pit moaned, "He had to mention pizza! Now I have a craving!"

Palutena put her hand on her chin in thought, "Now that you mention it, pizza does sound good? Wanna join us Dark Pit"

"Nah, I've got some poetry to finish writing in my room" scowled Dark Pit, heading up the stairs as Dante, Vergil, and Sans disappeared behind the double doors

"Eh, your loss Pitoo! C'mon Lady Palutena, my treat!"

"Don't call me that!" the angel clone spat, " Vergil probably appreciates fine literature anyway!"

Pit and Palutena shared a giggle, walking towards the kitchen. Just as the two celestial beings disappeared from sight, Marth's watch pinged. A message had been left for the administrative team group chat.

Mario: Wolf, Fox, and Falco are already setting up their recruiting job. Shulk, you're up for one, head to Conference Room A, Zelda, Altair, and the Ice Climbers are needed for the last three and I want them all done tonight.

Sans: Not it. Got a bro date tonight.

Mario: O_O

Sans: Yes! I got an emoji out of you

Otis: uwu, you have your date tonight Sans, Me n' Mikey will take care of Zelda
ROB: I will brief Altair

Marth: I guess that leaves me with The Climbers
Shulk: I was already in the neighborhood. The guy in the bathrobe is it?
Mario: Great! Yep Shulk, that's him.
Shulk: I'll head out first.

Mario: Awesome. You guys are superstars! I'll send out the notice tomorrow morning. Break for the weekend, and then physics week starts.

Sans: Wait, this place has no days of the week right? So how do you know it's the weekend?
Mario: I'm the boss, it's the weekend when I say it's the weekend. Everyone's dismissed. I'll be available in my room if anyone needs anything.

Marth grinned as everyone logged off. Conference Room B was seldom used because it was a side room of the dining hall, but as it was dinner time, it would be nice and convenient for pulling someone away from their dinner….but not before he got a bite first!