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“So, Lady Palutena… which Skylander’s next?” Pit asks.

Palutena looks at Pit and merely replies with a devious smirk.

“Uh… Lady P-Palutena?”

“I think we should take a break from Skylanders today, Pit...” The goddess finally expresses.

Pit nods in understanding, believing this is a literal break from sitting down and analyzing those beyond their universe. “Got it. I’ll just return to my quarters and-“

“…How about we look at one of their enemies, instead?” Palutena concludes.

“…Oh.” Pit states, sitting back down despite just beginning to lift himself off his seat. “Uh, who are we looking at, then?”

“We talked about Celestia Ludenberg last time.” Viridi says. “How about we look at the fella responsible for killing her in the first place?”

Showing up on the massive, floating orb is images of what appears to be a half-black, half-white teddy bear, a menacing red eye and sinister grin on his darker side.

“I… suppose this is the evil bear you were talking about before? Kinda cute. But also kinda scary.” Pit says. “You think we can replace that black half with a mirror of the white one?”

“Sure. Let me use my image editing magic.” Palutena responds with a smile.

“Wait, that’s a thing?” The angel asks, bewildered. “You really CAN do anything, Lady Palutena!”

“Either that, or her troops are in the back, photoshopping it!” Viridi smugly comments.

Ignoring that insult from Viridi, the image of the revised bear appears, with both sides being white, both of his beady eyes and gaping open mouth ironically only made things more unsettling.

“Gah! Change it back! Change it baaaaack!” Pit cries.

With a giggle, Palutena snaps her fingers, bringing the image back to normal.

Panting from the panic, Pit shakes his head. “Let’s… just get this over with.”

“Right, so this is Junko Enoshima, better known by her alias, Monokuma.” Palutena explains.

“Yet as Monokuma, she is referred to as a guy, but as a human, he’s a girl…” Viridi adds. “Don’t question it.”

“Junko Enoshima is known as the Ultimate Despair. She lives and breathes chaos and death, simply because she finds it more fun. That desire led her to destroy her own world.” Palutena continues, before once again being interrupted.

This time, by Pit. “Wait, she ENDED the WORLD? How? Did she have any powers… or anything?”

“No. She was just so good of a manipulator, she was able to utilize factors that can, particularly mind control and social outrage.” Palutena answers. “With the world in shambles and people around the world killing each other for no reason other than pure despair, the next phase of her plan went into motion.”

Images of 16 teenagers flash on screen.

“Pitting high school students with exceptional talents to kill each other to drive the world’s morale even further down the rabbit hole. While the majority did die, Junko eventually was defeated and killed herself by the survivors.”

“Why… did she kill herself?” Pit asks.

“Because she wanted to. Seemed fun and verrry despair-inducing.” Viridi shrugs.

“Wait, what?! She’s crazy! If she wanted to feel despair in the first place like that, she could’ve just killed herself day one!” Pit asks, baffled.

“Are you really trying to apply logic to a lunatic like her?” Viridi asks, disappointed in Pit.

“However, as stated before with Celes, Junko was brought back to life by the Link Jokers, this time bearing ultimate godly power to consume the multiverse. Only the combined might of the Disciples and their friends was able to destroy her physical form.” Palutena states. “Her soul was salvaged by a group of interdimensional villains, however, placed and preserved in the body of the bear puppet she used to orchestrate her killing game.”

“And with that, the Monokuma the Skylanders know and hate was born!” Viridi announces. “One of the heads of LOSE, this fluffy guy is behind a lot of the plans which threaten tons and tons of universes!”

“He’s still a skilled manipulator and even a tactician or sorts. His claws are near unbreakable, his strength equal to his world’s strongest beings and can’t even die.” Palutena says, describing Monokuma’s powers. “Even if you singe every bit of fur off his body and melt his robotic endoskeleton, his Link Joker soul can merely reconstruct it over time.”

“Is there any way to kill him, them?” Pit asks, the tone of his voice conveying clear concern.

“None that even I’m aware of. But it has to be somewhere.” Palutena admits. “Not to mention probably the most mysterious tool in his arsenal. After the Skylanders fought dark duplicates of other heroes, including Optimus Prime, Monokuma salvaged the heart that lies within the evil Autobot: The Matrix of Leadership. He hasn’t demonstrated much of it yet, but it wields great destructive capability upon a long recharge, and allows his arms to morph into a variety of weaponry.”

“Yeesh… how does he keep losing to the Skylanders with that much power, then?” Pit wonders, tilting his head, curious if not intimidated.

“He may be powerful, but Monokuma’s far from perfect. He sometimes glosses over oversights in his plans, both unintentionally and intentionally for the sake of despair. He sometimes finds enjoyments in his own failures.” Palutena tells Pit. “Not to mention frequently underestimating his foes due to his delusion of power long ago.”

“He’s also pretty quirky in his personality, cracking jokes and not taking things seriously… or so it seems. Monokuma’s also a neverending ball of hatred towards the Skylanders, especially towards the person who foiled his plans long ago: Makoto Naegi, and Sonic, who dealt the final blow towards his human form.”

Pit scratches the back of his neck. “He seems tough… but if I ever became a Skylander someday…”

He then nods in confidence. “I’ll take Monokuma on! I’m not letting him scare me! His despair is no match for my hope!”

Viridi groans. “Man, if Monokuma were here, those words would not evoke good memories…”