Umbra Magic: Witch Time!

"When you send a tasty, slow attack like that at me, I just can't help but tease you." Bayonetta chuckled, then performed a seamless, hand-stand cartwheel at the last moment to dodge back from the bullet's range.

Palutena felt a bead of sweat rolling from her chin to the length of her slender neck... then felt it stop on her cheek. For that matter, the darkness of the clouds around them seemed to have taken on a pink tint... it didn't look like her bullets were moving either. "What... What's happening? Nobody threw a Dialga Pokeball, did they? I can't stand it when other gods muscle in on my territory..." The goddess was really just trying to calm herself down... She knew she'd forgotten about Bayonetta's ace-in-the-hole.

When the Umbra Witch performs a dodge at just the right time, she activates Witch Time. To those with no supernatural sense, it seems as though the witch moves at 100x speed, perhaps teleporting through the air or vanishing whole chunks of time at once. Palutena, on the other hand, had enough sense to tell that she was being affected... but not enough to break free from the effect! "C-Crap! I have to make sure not to use predictable attacks against this opponent!" It was a lesson learned too late...

With an idle, slow cat-walk strut, Bayonetta made her way around the bullets, circling until she was standing next to Palutena. The goddess' nervous eyes slid to watch her, while her body moved at such a slowed speed, she was practically immobile. "You should learn to incorporate some more variety in your move-set. There's... a lot I'll have to teach you." The witch's eyes curled into sadistic crescents as a smile played on her lips; she lifted one leg and ran the Claws of Durga teasingly along Palutena's back, tracing a curve from her shoulder blades, to the small of her back, then across the swell of her buttocks. Her grin widened as she switched legs, placing the previous foot down to begin running the talons of the other across Palutena's breasts, toying with the low hem of the tube-top making up the upper half of the goddess' dress.

"And that's enough foreplay~" The girl hopped on one foot, then began a string of kicks reminiscent of the lady Street Fighter who'd unfortunately not made her way into Smash as a competitor yet. Tens of blows came in quick succession as Bayonetta made paper dolls from Palutena's spring green dress! The combo counter went upward and upward while the goddess watched helplessly...

"I-It's not fair that Witch Time lasts so long! Kid Icarus could be a combo game too if Pit got this much vulnerability!"

Dress count: 4/8

By the time it finally finished and Palutena retreated, she'd been reduced to just an unusual bikini, formed of a mesh of vines and leaves that made a scant coverage at the top and a small skirt around the hips. It looked like something that might be thematic for Viridi, more so than herself, but that was what happened when you got down to your fifth-string costume. All the same, it had a kind of high-fantasy appeal, for anyone who entertains that sort of fetish.

"Mmm... I think I speak for everyone when I say I'd rather worship a goddess like this." Bayonetta turned her back and held up both gun-toting hands in a shrug, continuing to tease her opponent. "A deity ought to go au natural."

"And I think I speak for all goddesses when I say we'd rather you just stay in hell!" Palutena complained, fuming now as her face brightened to a cherry red.

"Oh, I'm not joking. Serious as an inquisition, darling! That little angel boy-toy of yours would be kneeling to pray at your alter if you gave him a glimpse of this..."

That thought just made Palutena's frame of mind worse! She knew she was rushing to a brash course of action, but she didn't care. "You think you know everything, huh?! Well, I've got a trick or two you can't handle with that cheating Witch Time of yours. You won't see magic like this in Super Smash Brothers!" Palutena raised her staff and prepared to use a technique befitting a reckless technique... but one with splendor befitting a goddess!