It's a bad stage match-up, so to speak

Dark Pit leaped up from the lower platform to join the others, forcing them to retreat one more platform up to the top-center one and look down on him. Aggravated by their keep-away strategy, but still cocky, he put on a wide smile. "What's the matter, goddess? Is it your body or your skills you aren't confident in?" he questioned, before jumping up to float level with their platform. When he got there, he raised both eyebrows, then scowled; things weren't as stacked in his favor as he thought. Somehow, all of the girls had (seemingly) gotten dressed again! "What gives? Not that I needed the advantage, but..."

But he had needed the advantage! If the three girls didn't care about their state of dress at all, then he really was stuck fighting three capable fighters, even if they were at 150%. He was going to lose this one for sure!

"Ha ha... Well, it just so happens we came prepared," Palutena boasted, now feeling reassured in the effectiveness of the body-paint strategy. From a distance, at least, Pit's doppelganger seemed to be fooled. "I can't blame you for not understanding a goddess's strategy. I'm really the brains behind Pit, you know? Sort of seems like Viridi's left you to fight on your lonesome here." Cocky, she continued pouring salt in the wound.

The Inkling gave a suspicious warbling behind her and Wii Fit Trainer placed one hand on Palutena's shoulder, while shaking her head. "Try not to misattribute your results! Focus on what got you there."

"I-I'm quite certain I still can't understand what you're saying," Palutena lied, turning her eyes away from her ally and back towards her opponent, to hide the fact that she'd really had no part in coming up with this plan. "Whatever the case, if you're really Viridi's minion, then you won't mind being planted beneath the ground, will you?" With that taunt, she unfolded her wings from behind herself, them slammed the area around her with what some might call an unfairly horizontally wide attack. Dark Pit dodged backward, only to eat a volleyball spike to the face before he could get his shield back up. He retreated before the followup from the Inkling's ink gun could hit him. "We've got him on the ropes! That had to be a good twenty or thirty percent just now! I'm finally going to win another match!"

"Keep that confidence!" the Wii Fit Trainer encouraged her, flashing a thumbs-up.

"Yeah... If you're so confident, why not come down here to the bottom cloud and face me there?" Dark Pit questioned, then began peppering the top platform with upward-turned arrows to **** her into that course of action.

"Fine... Team, descend!" She and the others circled downwards, to the right, to meet him, while she reflected his arrows back towards him. Everything still seemed safe enough for now. In the next second, however, he was dashing towards her! "Ha! You're ****!" she chuckled, while raising her counter attack.

"You're the **** one," he returned, wearing a menacing smirk. "You honestly think I didn't see through what you and that squirt came up with? Then let me make it a little clearer!" Instead of an attack, Dark Pit caught Palutena's naked body in a grapple, placing both hands onto her bare waist. While she screamed in offense, he discarded all notions of gentlemanly behavior and aimed for the fountain in the backdrop, then threw her bodily towards it.

Palutena landed with a huge splash before she could deploy her wings, finding herself lying on her back with her legs hanging out as though she was ill fit inside a tub. The damage was pretty minimal... if he'd wanted to defeat her, he probably should have aimed off the stage. However, as she groggily rose from the fountain and moved to rejoin the others, she noticed her team's wide-eyed stares and Dark Pit's victorious grin... The paint was now running, completely washed from her lower half except just the pink over her shins. Her erotically groomed pubic hair was visible now above her bare slit; the ink hadn't held at all, when exposed to water. While her breasts were still painted, it was obviously just that: paint. The fact that all of the paint had fallen from the rest of her torso, her arms, and her belly made that clear.

The goddess crossed both hands over her lap and grit her teeth. "Why you...! I'm going to tell Viridi you were perving on me!"

That seemed to get his attention. The boy returned her irritated expression and leaned forward with his hands on the hips of his toga. "Oh yeah?! Well, I'm gonna tell her you're a perv who streaks while calling herself Mystery Box! They say that streaker has her pubic hair cut into the shape of angel wings, right? Guess what I just saw!"

"T-Truce! Don't tell Viridi that!" Palutena pleaded, shaking her green hair back and forth wildly. "Inkliiing! I need more paint..."

The Inkling nodded, then submerged for a moment to recharge. In that moment, Dark Pit flew forward, catching her with an uppercut and launching her into the stratosphere. "Ha! Typical Palutena. Thinking about yourself and not your teammates!" he scoffed. Then, with a wolfish smile, he reached down and picked up something that had been left behind... it was the empty ink gun the squid kid had been using. He walked towards Palutena, causing her to retreat to join her remaining ally. Once she did, he dipped the ink gun into the water, filling it up as though it was a water gun. "I always thought Mario was kind of an idiot for bringing a water gun into battle, but what do you know? Turns out there are some occasions where it can be just the right tool!"

Palutena groaned, already dripping wet and cold, while keeping both hands between her lap and fighting her urge to hide behind the exercise guru. Wii Fit Trainer just adopted a Salute the Sun yoga pose and began taking in breath. "Now's the time to be proud of your body! These are the results of your training!"

"Y-You're telling me to just fight naked?! Really?!"

"Your body won't fail you!" the Wii Fit Trainer answered, while nodding her head and bobbing her ponytail. "Follow my lead and I'll show you an optimal workout!

"Do it if you can, Palutena. This gets worse before it gets better..." Dark Pit threatened, while pumping up his makeshift water gun.

Palutena was rapidly running out of trust for her partner, but she desperately hoped that where the Inkling had failed, the Wii Fit Trainer could help her persevere. But what could the grayish girl possibly have planned?