Kid Icarus: The Sequel

Chapter 7: Pandora's Puppet

                              "His very existence is unnatural. He must be eliminated." – Palutena

The hooded figure covered in a dark gray cloak chuckled with her voice, "You don't recognize me? Oh wait, you could never hear me before." The person removed her cloak to reveal Marsha, though she looked different.

Her hair was the same shade of blue as Pandora's but the hair still went down to the ground, however instead of being completely wavy, she had two braids form a half ponytail.

Palutena took a good look at Marsha. "What did Pandora give her to wear?" Then she laughed, "Marsha looks hilarious!"

Marsha was wearing a really short dress that went down a few inches below her hips. It was split into two colors in vertical halves; light blue and light purple. Her leggings were the same colors but on opposite sides so the purple part was underneath the blue part and vice versa. To top it all off, she had a small necklace which was allowing her to speak, thanks to Pandora.

Pit nervously got his bow ready. "D-do I have to fight her? She is like a niece to me?"

"Oh then the better it will be to kill you by the order of my true mother, Pandora."

"You're nothing more than a puppet to her! Lady Palutena, this is not the real Marsha. She must be being controlled somehow."

Palutena caught an eye on the necklace. "If I recall, she is a mute, she cannot speak. That necklace must have been designed by Pandora to take control of her and restore her hair to its natural color, along with giving her the ability to speak. Regardless, her very existence is unnatural. She must be eliminated."

Pit dodged the ball of fire that Marsha summoned which set a tree on fire. "Wait the last thing you said sounds familiar. You said the same thing when we were chasing Pittoo for the first time. Why is her existence unnatural?" He shot an arrow to spook Marsha.

"Don't you get it Pit? She was created by an evil being and unnatural means." Palutena was reflecting her view of Dark Pit onto Marsha.

Pit ran and kicked Marsha. "What do you mean unnatural means? How did you make me? How did you make other angels? You did not get pregnant thousands of times."

Palutena realized she got check-mated by Pit but tried to justify her stance. "You and the others were made with the intent of good. That is what matters. You all were natural because of your purpose to be good."

Marsha chimed in because since she could speak she could hear telepathy. She got sarcastic, "How cute to say only those created for a good purpose are worthy of life. It seems the creation is always connected to the intent of the creator."

Pit sensed some truth in that statement. "True, I mean you could change how the creations are designed to become good. I mean, Dark Pit is not as destructive as he used to be thanks to Viridi."

Marsha snapped her finger to disable the fire spell and used a spell to warp right behind Pit and smacked him with her magic book. "Ha ha ha ha!"

Pit rubbed his cheek and made his bow into two blades. "If I can just destroy that necklace, Marsha will be safe."

Palutena was not happy with Pit, "For the sake of mankind, she needs to be killed. As the Goddess of Light, I have to keep mankind safe."

"And what a terrible job you do!" Marsha tossed a gust of harmful wind at Pit which knocked him down then snapped her thumb and middle finger with her left hand to disable the spell so she could do another one.

Pit was torn between Palutena's command and the life of Marsha. Marsha tripped on her air and accidentally set a range of the ground frozen in ice. Her hands were stuck and Pit's legs were stuck in a bad position so he could not attack.

Pit looked at Marsha, "So, how long until the spell wears out on its own?"

Marsha replied, "An hour."