As the young male angel ran around the city, and searched every nooks and cranny in his sight, he still couldn't find any signs of an enemy from the other armies.

"Nothing strange here... Or here.. Or here!" Pit exclaimed, looking in crates, pots, anything you can think of at the moment. "Do you think Irena had any better luck than I did?"

The goddess didn't reply to the boy's question causing him to wonder if she was still there.

"Lady Palutena? ... Lady Palutena..?" he called, his voice slowly going softer and higher. "Lady Palutenaaa....!"

'Sorry, what was that? I was checking on Rina,' the woman answered, causing Pit to jump.

A wave of relief washed over his head as he began to calm down. He never really liked being alone by himself especially without Palutena or even the responsible Irena.

'You were scared?' Palutena asked playfully.

"... N-n-n-no! No, no! Not at all!" he stammered nervously. "Why would I be scared of something as little as that?"

'Haha, oh, Pit.. Calm down already, I'm just kidding!' the Goddess of Light reassured.

Pit sighed to release the tension in his body and walked off again to continue his task. It wasn't exactly quiet there due to the passing citizens who lived there, but it wasn't loud either since there were no signs of havoc.

"Man... It sure feels different today.." Pit concluded, finishing up the rest of his search.

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"Lady Palutena, I don't see anything strange around my area. Everyone looks perfectly fine, nothing has been shot by beams or chewed on, I don't think Hades is doing anything today.. " Irena concluded awkwardly as she scratched her head with very little doubt.

'I see, should we head back to the temple and rest then?' Palutena asked.

'I'd sure love an ice cream sundae right about now,' Pit complained. 'It's getting hot.'

The three went silent for a minute until a warping noise sounded on Pit's side.

'Floor food! And it's ice cream too!' he exclaimed stupidly.

"Hahaha, it certainly is warmer than earlier. The afternoon is coming soon," the female angel agreed. "Hades' army must be on hold at the moment."

'Hold? BAHAHAHA! Oh, Rina... Clueless as ever...' a male's voice rang.

'Hades..' Palutena said seriously.

The three frowned to themselves as they heard the God of the Underworld laughing and sighing to himself.

'Ah, to be honest, I'm actually in quite a pinch,' Hades suddenly confessed. 'You see, one of the idiotic Reapers caused a ruckus back at base..'

'You? Being honest?' Pit asked awkwardly.

"I can't see that.." Irena agreed, a look on her face that said "What the hell, are you joking right now? You must be joking."

"Awww, my feelings have been hurt.." he feigned.

Irena sighed in exasperation as she lifted herself up into the air to go look for her friend. If the God of the Underworld was going to complain about the housework his minions couldn't take care of, then there's no need for the two to be there.

'Is Miss Rina looking for her little boyfriend now? Awwwwww...!' Hades cooed.

'Disgusting..' she muttered. "And when did he become my boyfriend anyways?"

'I don't know, when you met?' the gods replied.

'You both are very embarrassing...' Pit said quietly, showing discomfort in his voice.

'Aw, and he's flustered too!' Hades continued.

'I'm not flustered! Not at all!' he exclaimed.

On the other side of the communication line was chomping noises as the boy ate his ice cream nervously. It lasted for at least a minute until his ice cream was all gone.

'Irena, where are you?' Pit asked, shooting an arrow into the air.

"Ah, I'm still quite far. Please remain," she replied, heading over to where the arrow was shot.

'He even worries about the child! Bahahahaha!' the God of the Underworld laughed.

'You can't deny it, you two, but you look more like a couple each time whenever you ask for each other!' Palutena chuckled.

"Then we won't say a word."

'Aw, don't be like that!' the goddess said. 'You both need to loosen up on these kinds of jokes!'

"These are honestly terrible things to joke about..." the girl sobbed.

'It's also a terrible thing to hide the fact that you worked with me!' Hades bellowed, cackling as he did.

'Worked with you?' Pit asked curiously. 'What does he mean by that?'

".... I don't know," Irena answered dully.

'We've spotted her at an abandoned temple; she can't possibly do any of your deeds if she's locked herself in there for days. I even had Pit visit her daily just to drag her out of there,' Palutena said.

'Joke, my dear, it's a Hades' special!'

"That's also something you shouldn't be joking about," Irena growled.

'Irena, down here!' Pit called from below, waving his arms in the air.

Hearing him call her name, she then looked down to catch a glimpse of his brown hair and white clothes from above. Irena folded her wings and allowed herself to drop out of the sky to get to him faster, opening them back up swiftly to keep herself from tackling Pit or making impact with the ground.

"Whoa!" the boy said, holding his arms up and open in case she did land on him. "Careful!"

"No way am I letting you tell me that," she replied, grabbing him arms as she landed.

The boy chuckled as his arms relaxed back down to his side, smiling brightly at Irena who only gave a quick smile to hide her irritation towards Hades and walked off.

'Ah, before you lovely couple leave,' the god began.

"Please stop calling us that..!" the two angels requested in exasperation.

'I have a special gift for Pitty here and Rina!' he continued, ignoring them.

An eggplant wizard suddenly appeared out of nowhere near the two angels. The color in Pit's face was then completely drained out from fear of seeing his worst nightmare. The eggplant wizard. Nothing more, nothing less. The wizard suddenly launched a spell at the curious two without warning, the girl reacting quickly and stepping away. Unfortunately for Pit, the spell brushed against his arm roughly about a centimeter when he tried to dodge which caused him to become a giant purple eggplant with human legs. His legs to be exact.

"...... Aw, come on! It barely even touched me!" he whined, running around and eventually hitting a wall. "Oof!"

Irena blink at the moving human vegetable and suddenly snickered, puffing out her cheeks to contain her laughter. Just when the eggplant wizard was about to cast another spell at Irena, the angel pierced the enemy swiftly and painlessly with one of her light arrows.

"This is a horrible gift! That's it! Never ever expect a gift from Hades. EVER!" Pit warned himself and the girl.

She then couldn't take it any longer and burst into laughter when he ran over to her and leaned in really close, his face not even there to stare at. Pit groaned as he looked away and began to tap his brown sandals onto the hard paved ground. The Goddess of Light already knew what he was about to ask the two and decided to answer it before it was even brought up.

'Either wait for this to wear off or go to a clinic,' Palutena suggested as she laughed.

Hades, on the other hand, was busy laughing violently to even care what was going on around the angels and goddess anymore.

'That form looks great on you Pitty Boy! GAHAHAHAHAHA!'

"That's it, I'm out," Pit stated.

'But you can't fly without your wings,' Palutena chuckled.

"I'll take him home.." Irena suggested, walking over to the eggplant and wrapping her arms around him tightly. "Whatever you do, don't struggle too much or I'll drop you."

"I'm sorry," Eggplant Pit squeaked.

"This is such a pain..." she grunted as Hades' laugh echoed through their heads.

'It looks like you're bringing home a runaway eggplant!' he cackled. 'BAHAHAHAHA, WHOO HOO HOO HOHOHO!'

"The crazy old geezer has just gotten crazier.." the two angels commented.

'Anyways, no attacks today. The idiots are cleaning the rubble they created right now. Hey! Don't just leave the pile there! MOVE!'

'I should have the centurions work too...' Palutena thought aloud.

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Irena exhaustively set down Pit back onto his feet and fell backwards onto the ground groaning silently.

'Heavy...' she muttered.

"Sorry about that," Pit said, bending over to her.

"Eggplant..." she said, giving him an awkward look.

"Uh.. Right. Ahem, my bad," he said, stepping away. "Time to find the clinic.."

As the eggplant boy turned to leave, Irena blinked blandly and stood back up to have an easier time to see where he was going. It turns out that he was going to walk into a tree this time, possibly trip before he makes contact with the tree first.

"Pit, you might want to take a left," she warned, knitting her brows together nervously.

Of course, he didn't listen, or it could be because he had a hard time hearing as a raw purple vegetable. Pit ended up tripping over the short ledge where Palutena had a tree planted, falling forward and colliding hard into the thick brown trunk.

"Ah- WHOA!" he exclaimed. "AUGH! ..OOWWWWW! My face! My pretty little face!"

'That's why I said take a left... At least you'd fall into the grass.." the girl sighed, walking over to Pit.

"Uhh, a little help here???" he called anxiously, kicking his legs and trying to get up. "R-Rina...?"

"Hold on.."

Just as Irena helped Pit get back onto his feet, the Goddess of Light that resided in the floating temple in the sky appeared before the two, smiling her charmingly bright smile as always.

"Did you run into trouble again?" she questioned, finally recovering poor Pit back to his old self.

"Hah? I'm free! I'm really free from that body!" he cried, falling to his knees and hugging himself.

"At least that saves me the hassle to bring him to the clinic or to you directly again.." the female angel sighed in relieve.

"Why does it have to take a while for your powers to generate me back to normal?" asked Pit.

Palutena raised her hands up to her shoulders and shrugged silently, giving an apologetic grin to the two before her. It is a tiring deal having a friend turned eggplant to look after all day long, or so Irena thought. Pit let out a nervous laugh as he rubbed the back of his neck, a blush beginning to dust his cheeks light.

"I'll try not to get caught in it again...." he promised.

"That's if you are able to avoid them quickly."

"Don't you worry your pretty little head! Pit here will be extra careful from here on out! Or maybe not.." loudly thought the male angel.

Palutena giggled and then turned away to head into a different room.

"I'm making dinner today-"

"Change of plans. You're not doing it alone," the younger looking being cut in quickly. "I'll help... Remember what happened last time?"

The tall woman blinked curiously at Irena as her mouth cracked a large smile on her face.

"I sure do! That was pretty fun wasn't it? But it made a whole mess in and all around the temple," she replied.

"All the more reason to help.." Irena said, chuckling awkwardly.

"I'll help too," Pit suggested.

"No," the women immediately replied.

"Awww....." he groaned, stalking away.

"Poor guy... He really needs friends.." Palutena suddenly said in a pitiful tone.

Irena looked over at the goddess and rose her brow awkwardly. It is kind of true that the boy was a loner, only hanging out around with her and Palutena or just working for the goddess, but he didn't seem to be bothered about the fact that he was indeed a full out loner. Not to offend him all at that, the Goddess of Light was semi-right. Just partially.

"Shall we surprise him with a meal he'll never forget? He sure has the appetite for an angel his size," the goddess asked, nudging at Irena.

"Oh, he'll forget. Don't you worry about that..." the girl replied, growing a little uncomfortable. "I know what you're trying to hint at, Lady Palutena...."

"Hm? I'm not trying to hint at anything, my young and faithful second in hand soldier!" she laughed, walking away.

"... When did I become your soldier?" questioned the angel who followed behind.

"When we found you, of course! You're an ally without an actual god or goddess to guide you, so I've taken you in!"

"Dang it, Lady Palutena, I'm not an orphan or anything..!"

"Well, you did look like one, haha! I love how Pit rubbed off on you, Rina," commented the woman.

"W-what do you mean?" Irena asked embarrassingly.

"Oh? Dirty thoughts now, eh?"

"N-n-no!" exclaimed the now flustered Irena. "Not at all! That's not it!"

"Saying it twice isn't very convincing," Pit suddenly hollered from the other side of the room. "Not convincing at all!"

"Tell that to yourself!" Irena exclaimed, completely embarrassed. "... D-don't look at me like that...!"

The girl awkwardly ran off as Pit smiled and blinked at her silhouette blankly.

"Someone's excited tonight," Palutena chuckled.

"Excited? She looked frighteningly embarrassed to me," Pit said straightforwardly. "Should I go see her?"

"Run to her, Pit, and embrace her tightly in your arms!" the goddess teased.

"Err... I'll just go see how she's holding up...." he said awkwardly before giving chase.

"Don't forget to embrace her afterwards!" Palutena called after jokingly.