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// Searching for the Sun 
// Story: My Little Icarus: Chaotic Siblings 
// by Amereep 
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	The girls stopped their cheers of the victory over Discord to witness Pit talking to himself.  "Lady Palutena!" Pit said in shock "Is that really you?"

With a sigh of relief, Palutena responded back "Thank goodness I got through to you, I thought the worst had happen to you."

Pit was a bit insulted at that statement, and folded his arms "You shouldn't think so little of me."

"What in the world happened here?"

"Well you see, Discord took over Equestria, so me and my friends here decided to stop him.  It all started out within a dark room, a door of opens showing a burst of sunlight as a boy jumps through the door and spreads his wings.  The boy starts falling and is suddenly flying through the sky, wearing a white tunic that matched the color of the sword he was carrying, it's also covered with dark blue and gold rims."

Pinkie burst his story "For Pity's sake, get to the end."

Pit suddenly felt his life was at risk, so he jumped a couple of chapters forward "We took down Discord."

Palutena started to speak to everyone mentally "All of you took down Discord?  Now I feel really guilty for not getting here sooner"

"What kept ya?" Applejack said, looking up at who knows where.

"I tried to get here first thing in the morning, but I found nothing.  I knew that this was impossible and I started to think that their was a barrier hiding the island.  I tried my best to use my divine powers to break through it, but every time I got close to breaking it, the barrier suddenly shifted on me."

"Shifted?" Fluttershy spoke up.

"Yes, barriers are a lot like safes.  You could break through by force, or you could find a frequency, a code in other words, to unlock it.  Unfortunately, the frequency kept on changing and left me back at square one."

Twilight gave it some thought "Do you think that this is due to Discord distorting the world around us?"

"That might explain a lot, because from out here, everything seemed to be fine.  I guess you could say that Discord made a whole other universe, and everyone of you were in that universe."

Pit and Rainbow Dash's heads were spinning.  Dash stop the conversation from continuing before she got sick "Is Lady Celestia with you?"

"No" Palutena said in a worry tone "She's not with you?!?!"

Everyone was silent, worrying about the goddess.  "Do you think that rude vixen has her?" Rarity brought up.

"Do you mean Pandora?" Pit asked.

"Hey yeah" Twilight put together "She did say something about 'switching domains'.  Could Pandora somehow force Lady Celestia to stay within her realm?"

"It might be possible, her domain is pretty weird."  Palutena admitted "I suggest we check out 'The Labyrinth of Deceit', Pit lets go."

As a beam of light was starting to form around the angel, Twilight protest "We're coming too!"

"This is a trip for angels, you'll need to be able to fly."

"We have a balloon outside, we can get there."  everyone waited for a reply from Palutena "Please, she's our goddess and Pit's our friend.  We want to help."

Another moment of silence filled the room.  The light around Pit began to fade away "I really shouldn't risk followers of a different god's... very well.  Everyone to the balloon."  Everyone started to grin and headed out the door "Oh, and young lady" Twilight stop and looked up "I'll be holding onto Discord's soul.  I'll let Celestia decide his fate."  With that, the floating orb went up into the air.





The team made it outside and got ready, Pit was even going to help pull the balloon this time around (with the help of Palutena).  All of the non-fliers got into the basket; Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, Twilight, and Scootaloo.  "Wha... Scootaloo!" Applejack said, in surprise "How'd you get here?"  She picks her up, planning to lift her out of the basket "I thought I told ya it's to dangerous."

"Let her stay!"

Everyone looked at Pit for his sudden outburst "She can take care of herself."

Applejack wasn't satisfied "She may be able to take care of herself, but that doesn't mean she can protect herself from danger."

"Then I'll protect her" Scootaloo blushed at that comment "I'll take responsibility if she gets her."

Applejack's tone changed to an uncertain seriousness "Alright, but I'm holding ya to those words."

Pit, feeling proud of himself, went back to securing the rope around him "Putting up a fight to bring someone along?  Pit, did you get a girlfriend while I was gone?" Palutena teased him.

"Aargh, cut it out" a blushing Pit said.

After everyone was ready, Palutena used her 'Power of Flight' on Pit and guided him to the labyrinth.  She used an incredible amount of speed on him, due to the fact that the bizarre maze is quite a distance away and time was never on their side when using the flying power.  Everyone in the basket was screaming in terror as if they were on a roller coaster, the only one that was thrilled about this ride was Scootaloo.  Fluttershy was thrown back by the speed, but Rainbow Dash was keeping up with Pit.  They reached a space pocket and charged right on through, they soon found themselves in a room that looked a lot like how the castle looked under Discord's rule.  They reached the first peril of the maze "Wait, slow down" Palutena said to the ever persistent Rainbow Dash.  Rainbow glanced up, but she didn't catch as to why she needed to slow down.

*BAM!*

Rainbow Dash collided with a false path; the 'path' was in fact a wall that was painted on to make the victim think that their was.  With a smearing sound coming from Rainbow sliding along the wall, Palutena hurried Pit to the destination.

Not much later everyone landed safely (this time landing right-side-up).  All of the riders were scared stiff, gripping the basket, the exhilarated Scootaloo was the only one that seemed unscathed (at least in the negative way).  She ran up to Pit and the face rubbing Rainbow Dash "That was amazing you guys." she said to the two, followed by a look up "You gotta gimme a ride with that power of yours sometime Lady Palutena."

"Oh, you can't fly either?" Palutena replied, everyone hearing her "No wonder Pit took a shine to you."

"I SAID, CUT IT OUT!" Pit yelled in embarrassment.

Everyone made their way through the labyrinth, easier this time around sense Pit was here before.  Shockingly, their were no problem going through it, the traps were still there but no 'Forces of Darkness'.  The only problem they came across was trying to get Pinkie off of the bouncing floors in one of the rooms (she was just having to much fun).

Finally, they made it to Pandora's main chamber.  To their surprise, Pandora...

...was not there, instead a mirror was floating there, and within the mirror was none other then the goddess, Celestia.  "Lady Celestia!" everyone went, Pit and Rainbow Dash charged towards her.

"STOP!!!" Palutena yelled, halting the two angels.  A good thing too, because a few feet in front of them, a HUGE pillar of fire surrounded Celestia, engulfing her.

Pit and Rainbow Dash started sweating from the flames, plus the fact that they were almost turned into fried chickens.

"Now now" a familiar voice taunted "angels shouldn't get close to the sun."  A figure appeared at the corner of the room, being none other then Pandora.

The flames of the pillar faded when the two angels stepped back "Release her Pandora!" Pit ordered.

"Why should I" she provoked "I have an extra frame thanks to you and it seems so perfect to frame her.  It really lightens up the room."

"Release her you witch, before I lose my temper!" Rainbow Dash said, ready to attack.

With a flash, Pandora teleports between the two angels and the trapped goddess.  She quickly slices them back with her sword "You scrawny little angel" she said in a stern and deadpan voice.  The two angels watched her as she lifted up her sword to her head with one hand, giving the most stern glare anyone has ever seen.  The pillar of fire appeared again with a shaking boom behind Pandora, it gave her a dark silhouette look as those flaming eyes of hers kept on staring.

"You don't know the meaning of temper."

END OF CHAPTER 9