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C’ mon, Pitty, try again.
“Shut up.”
What is this tomfoolery? I thought your skills were better than this, especially with that ‘goddess’ guiding you.
“Shut, up.”
If this pathetic power you wield is indeed from the Gods, maybe they aren’t so great after all.
“I said shut up!”
Trying to go in again and land another hit, Hades charged up before Pit could and practically knocked Pit’s teeth out. Flying back, Pit bounced off the bottom of the platform that was above him and flung into the dark abyss below.
In the few seconds Pit had to think while flying, he made one final thought.
‘I’m sorry, Lady Palutena, Pittoo, even Viridi. I’m sorry I wasn’t strong enough again.’
His immediate next thought was pain, and not in the way you would think.
Instead of flying into literal Hell, Pit slammed into the hard, concrete ground. Sitting up, he looked around to see a worn down temple in the sky and a blue, bipedal dog/fox looking creature just as confused as he was staring at him. The creature shook off its confusion, looked back at Pit, and reached it's paw out.
Wait a minute! That’s Lucario! How could Pit forget? Lucario was one of the first Pit greeted when he came back to the Game of Smash! But what was it doing here? What were they doing here?
Oh, right, it's holding out his paw. Shaking off the confusion just like his friend did, Pit took Lucario’s paw and stood up rather shakily. Lucario had to give a little bit of support to make sure the angel didn’t fall over again. Pit hopes the pokemon doesn’t hold it against him, after all, he did just fight Hade-
Gasping, Pit quickly pulled out his weapon, ready to attack the next person who’s going to try something sneaky, even shocking Lucario in the process. The fighting pokemon put it’s arms out in front in a ‘hey calm down’ motion, all the while watching Pit closely.
It was if the boy were a frightened animal, protecting himself as if he were on the verge of death.
With his swords still out, Pit looked Lucario in it's eyes, “Where’s Hades?”
Lucario took a second to process the question, before tilting it's head in confusion.
Pit saw and further explained, “Hades? God of the Undead? I was just fighting him. You’ve had to have seen him since your here, right?”
Lucario was still confused but seemed to have recognized Pit’s problem. With it's arms still out, the pokemon slowly walked closer to Pit. The speed was slow enough to not startle the kid but fast enough to reach him before he could back away.
Now close enough, Lucario quickly grabbed Pit’s arm and sent it's aura through his body. Pit gasped in shock and was quickly transported to another part of the temple. The only difference was that he was now transparent, no longer the opaque, solid angel he was just a mere second ago.
Oh, Lucario is showing him what happened. Alright...
Lucario had made it to the end of the temple. It had trouble getting in, as one of their teammates had tried stopping it in their mind control fury. The man was one of the first-timers. Lucario couldn’t help but feel sad at the thought of his first experience being this.
His name was Simon Belmont, a famous vampire hunter. After fighting the man, Lucario explained in it's non-verbal speech what was happening. Sending the hunter away (the man needed rest after all), Lucario traversed through the rest of the place.
Getting to the end, it saw it’s goal: a giant, floating gem. Fox had informed the pokemon that it needed to destroy the gem so they could continue. It was going to do exactly that, but right as it touched the objective it was thrown back. At first, the pokemon was annoyed: there was something protecting the gem, of course, what that could be, it didn’t know.
But then an arrow landed in the spot Lucario was just standing in a little bit ago. Looking at the projectile, Lucario saw two feet land in front of it. Along with that, the pokemon heard two wings flutter. Moving it’s own eyes, it looked up into two more, two of which belonged to the angel Pit.
Standing up, Lucario got into it’s fighting stance. A portal of light split open behind it's opponent. Unlike it's first fight in this place, Lucario was ready to be transported to where ever. After all, this seems to be a reoccurring theme for this end of the world scenario.
Besides, the kid was nice. One of the few fighters that talked to it normally and not in that condescending animal voice (even the trainer does it to the pokemon and drives it nuts). Seeing the light get closer, Lucario could only hope it could end this quickly for Pit.
Arceus knows what he is experiencing.
Gasping again, Pit jerked out of Lucario’s hold.
Panting in shock, Pit gulped, “So… Hades isn’t here?”
Lucario nodded.
“I thought he was. I remember so vividly, he was trying to steal the-” Pit turned around to point at said object, but all he ended up doing was looking at that gem Lucario talked about. Looking at it, Pit thought and was able to put two and two together.
He let his arm drop from where it was pointing. He looked to the floor forlornly, “... I attacked you, didn’t I?”
Lucario blinked in surprise. Before it could nod or do anything else, Pit had his question answered, which in turn had him fall to his knees and put his hands around his ears. He clenched his eyes shut while Lucario ran up to him in an attempt to comfort him, but the damage was done.
Pit was trying to prevent the tears from flowing.
‘Oh god, it’s happening again. I’m gonna be taken over and I’m just going to hurt everyone- but I’m not now, maybe I can take this opportunity to get away before that happens- but wait, what if I’m under control now? Oh god, this could just be an illusion, I could be killing right now and I wouldn’t know-’
Pit stopped his train of thought when he was shaken pretty hard, so hard to the point his hands flew off the sides of his head. He looked up with his tear-stained eyes and cheeks to peer into Lucario’s eyes. Just like everything else, the pokemon was able to convey so much without words.
Its emotions conveyed pure concern the angel. That realization brought Pit out from his panic once again.
Standing up quickly, Pit rubbed his eyes while Lucario stood back, still watching. The angel couldn’t cry now, not while all these people were in danger, not while his friends were. Even if the idea of a higher being taking him over freaked him out, even if this same higher being pitted his friends against him, Lady against him-
One more time, Lucario’s gentle grab brought him out of his terror. He looked down at the pokemon for a second, emotion unrecognizable, before smiling in reassurance. That’s his job, right, protect the people?
Lucario gave a look to Pit. Part of it knows Pit is putting up a facade, but the other says that there’s no time to point it out. Letting go, Lucario stood, staring a Pit. The angel was confused before the pokemon pointed behind him.
Pit looked around to look at the gem again. Now he was just more confused.
Lucario saw he wasn’t getting the message, so the fox/dog hybrid charged up an aura sphere and tossed it at the shiny objective. The attack hit the gem, but stayed there, then bounced back with more force at the fighters. Pit screamed and ducked, but Lucario grabbed his aura sphere and took it back into it's body.
Pit stood up in awe. It was a few seconds before Lucario jerked his head at the gem for Pit to look at.
Pit finally got the message, “Ohhh, you want me to break it?”
Lucario grinned and nodded.
Pit let out another ‘oh’ before turning around. Pulling out his bow, Pit charged up an arrow while examining the gem more closely. Now that he thinks about it, it looks a lot like something Lady Palutena would keep…
Oh, only Pit can break it, now he gets it. Letting the arrow fly, it punctured the outer layer of the shiny, blue rock. The ground shook for a moment, nearly causing both fighters to fall over, before shattering into pieces and causing an extremely bright, white light.
The light would slowly fade away, leaving the two fighters to look at the empty space where it once was. Eventually, the ground shook again, this time being able to actually trip the fighters, both landing on their butts with an ‘oof’.
The two looked at each other before nodding and standing up. Both ran back to the entrance and out of the godforsaken fake temple. Getting outside, Pit looked around. His eyes eventually looked out to a faraway part of the world.
Not that there was much to see, it was all a bunch of dusty clouds! Jeez, whatever this apocalypse causer made of feathers and a ball of light wanted from this world it probably wasn’t much to begin with. Oh well, might as well ask about it.
“Hey, Lucario, why is the world- er, like that?” Pit pointed to said problem.
Lucario looked, then pondered the question, before miming like he was pushing on a wa-
“Ohhhh, you mean there was a wall in the way? So- let me guess- the entire world was like that, but this half isn’t because you could reach it and fix it?”
Lucario nodded.
“Was that gem the power source for the wall?”
Lucario nodded once again.
Pit nodded in return, this time ending the verbal conversation. Of course, he still had many more questions, but he could ask them later. He had a world to save, no time to ask, just time to do.
Lucario turned to walk down a dramatic pathway, no doubt the same one it walked up to find the temple they were in. Pit watched for a moment before doing the same. He wonders who is currently freed and who he’ll have to help free himself.
But before all that, he makes a promise. One to himself, and to everyone else.
‘Don’t worry, guys, I’ll be sure to save you. I've done it before and I'll do it again, no matter what it takes.’