"Why would I ever help you?!" Viridi, the Goddess of Nature, shouted into her fountain.

"Your Underworld troops are more harmful to the environment than anything the humans could ever do!" The petite goddess exclaimed.

"This was about what I expected..." Medusa mumbled to herself, making sure that Viridi couldn't hear her.

"Viridi, please listen to my proposition. If you and your forces were to join me and mine, we'd both get what you want: you'd be free to terraform the planet back to the way it was before the humans, while all of their souls are sent careening to the Underworld." Medusa, growing noticeably eager towards the end of her proposal, said in a calm demeanor.

"And after you possess the souls of every human, you'll betray me with all your newly found power." Viridi retorted, fuming at the fact that she's even having this discussion.

"Goddess of Nature, what would it take to gain your favor?" Medusa, still trying to appear calm, asked.

"Why would you try convincing her?" A voice Medusa wasn't expecting asked.

"If she knows you'll just betray her, your just wasting your breath. You old hag." Pit, disrespectfully, interjected.

Upon hearing this, two things happened: Viridi bursted into laughter and Medusa became infuriated, irate even. Had it not been for the Goddess of Nature's laughter, reminding Medusa that Viridi is watching her, there'd be one less angel in this story. The Goddess of Darkness remained quiet, although she really wanted to see what color an angel bleeds.

"You done?" Medusa asked, her voice snippy, as Viridi's laughter died down.

The blonde haired goddess nodded her head.

"Good." Medusa said.

"Now surely I must have something you want." Medusa said.

Viridi thought of it for a moment. In truth, Viridi didn't like the thought of either side winning. Regardless of if Palutena or Medusa wins, the planet would loose. But that's when curiosity got the best of the blonde goddess.

"Who said that?" The tsundere-like goddess asked.

"No one important." The snake haired deity quickly said, trying to keep this conversation focused on their potential alliance. As well as save up on her minutes, due to her lousy service plan.

"I was important enough for Lady Palutena." Pit retorted, somewhat boldly.

"Oh there it is, there it is!" Medusa, feeling neglected for unknown reasons, shouted.

"Where has this been for the past two months?!" She added.

"What are you even talking about?" the angel asked.

"The emotion, the feeling! All you've done since you got here is eat my food and loaf around all day. Oh and you never once thanked me for letting you use my personal hot spring, instead the first thing you say in two months is an insult and call her 'Lady Palutena' when you're not hers anymore!" Medusa, who doesn't realize how much what she's saying makes them sound like an old married couple.

Pit, annoyed by how his captor was trying to paint herself in a better light, felt all his pent up emotions quickly start to rise to the surface. And, having already felt that he had lost everything, Pit felt no need to keep them in check.

"Oh is that right? Well first up, the food here stinks so bad that I considered starving. And that's coming from a guy who eats floor chocolate. Second of all, the only thing you've ever done whenever I see you is pick on me. And lastly, don't act like you aren't the reason why Lady Palutena left me!" Pit, letting the heat under his collar show, shouted. Also unaware of what their "relationship" sounds like without any context.

At this point, both the wicked goddess and the angel had forgotten about Viridi. Who had her head tilted in a way that made it nigh impossible for Medusa or Pit to read her expression. Especially since they weren't looking at her anyway.

"I'll do it." The youthful looking goddess said.

"What?" Medusa and Pit said, both completely dumbfounded.

"You both clearly have strong feelings for one another. But you, Medusa, obviously can't put work aside for him and he needs to get over Palutena. I can't just look the other way knowing that I could've helped two love birds." The goddess of nature said, her cracked voice exposing how moved she was.

"W-why thank you Viridi, I... WE are forever grateful." Medusa, ever the opportunist, said before hastily ending the call.

"Ah Pit. I could kiss you right now." the goddess of darkness said, looking more relaxed than she had in four months and two years. (Sorry...)

Before Pit could protest, he felt his body acting oddly. That's when he recognized it, this feeling. Even though it was only two months, it felt like a forever ago since his wings felt the sensation that only power bestowed upon him by a goddess could provide: the power of flight.

"Where are you taking me?!" Pit, showing worry, asked.

"I've been forced to change my plans, which is probably for the best anyway seeing how boring my old one became. This new plan however seems to not only be better, but more... delectable for my taste." The towering goddess said as she arose from her throne with a grin that made Pit feel like she were an actual snake and he were its prey being toyed with before eaten.

"And I think it's time you had a bit of an attitude adjustment." She added as she opened Pit's cage and made him fly out.

"Do you have to be so cryptic?" The angel protested as he was flown shortly in front of her.

"Blame the out of practice writer." Medusa said as she walked towards an armory, that the writer should've mentioned before just now, with a slight cringe.

Pit's eyes were immediately drawn to an all too familiar set of armor, an evil looking purple knight-like armor whose helmet sported two large horns as well as a long red cape.

"Dark Lord Gaol?!" Pit said in disbelief.

"Ha. Hardly." Medusa said, taking what the angel said to offense.

"This is my Gainas Armor, Gaol was the name of the spy my troops captured. But she clearly wasn't worthy to wear it." the ruler of the Underworld said, clearly harboring bad blood towards Gaol.

"But that's not important. What is important is making a few, modifications." Medusa said before snapping her fingers.

Ominous purple-red flames erupted from the armor, spinning as if it were in a vortex. This intimidating, yet strangely beautiful, sight was accompanied with the painful sound of metal being warped and reshaped. This sound hurt Pit's ears. But it and the flames soon died down, revealing a completely new looking set of armor. This new set retained the same eerie shade of purple but instead of the large full body armored form it was before, it consisted of a chest-plate with some detachable shoulder guards, lightly-spiked greaves with space for the wearer to comfortably bend their knees, gauntlets that cover from the wrist to the forearms, and a helmet with a black visor that was shaped like a pair of bat wings.

This new look wasn't as intimidating as the old one, but it's shorter size caused Pit to fear for what Medusa would tell him next.

"Who's this armor for?" The former second In command of the forces of light nervously asked, despite already knowing the answer.

"Now Pit, we both already know. Just like we both know that there's nothing you can do unarmed." Medusa said with a smirk as the newly designed Gainas Armor slowly floated towards the floating angle.

"Please don't..." Pit pleaded, knowing exactly what will happen next. Along with what heinous acts he'll commit under her.

"Don't worry, you'll learn to love it after a few centuries." Medusa said with a sadistic smile on her face.

And with another snap, the armor began attaching itself to Pit. This created a blinding flash that was followed by the sound of Pit screaming. It sounded even better than Medusa expected, the way his pitch would just die down and then get even louder was soothing to her and her snakes. But unfortunately for her, this hardly lasted a minute before the flash and the screams stopped. When they did however, Medusa was almost as excited as she was when she defeated Pit. The angel that had defeated her, now sporting her armor, was quietly kneeling before her. There was nothing visible in his eyes other then one thing: obedience.

"Speak." Medusa said.

"I am Pit. Servant of the goddess of darkness. All life, especially that of humans who hide in the light will be made to return to the dark." Pit said, his voice sounding more like that of his dark copy.

Hearing this pleased Medusa greatly, it was roughly two-steps away from being a genuinely happy smile. Without uttering a single word, she flew him onto her right shoulder. She then gently slid her left pointer finger across his chin, like one might for a cat or another pet.

"This might not be so bad after all..." Medusa thought aloud as she considered what she know had.

Author's Notes

I'm sorry. The name "Gainas" comes from the Japanese name for Gaol and the new armor is based off of the armor that the fighters wear in the multiplayer mode.

By the way, Medusa won the loyalty poll. So now for the next one (assuming I do update again, which I hopefully will): Pit x Medusa, Palutena, Viridi, Phosphora, Gaol, or nobody.