Chapter 1: A Little less conversation, a little more misconceptions.
Thanksgiving town always was unusually sunny whenever Ninten visited. Looking up at the pale blue sky, the psychic boy smiled contentedly, his best friend theorising about how his teleportation PSI could be by converting their particles into waves, while his girlfriend gave his hand a small squeeze trying to get his head out of the clouds.
"Ninten? Have you been listening at all?" Lloyd stopped, looking towards his raven-haired friend with an annoyed frown.
"Uh, yeah of course Lloyd," Ninten declared, giving a guilty smile to his Albino companion, who only rolled his eyes and continued forwards.
"Lloyd, you got to give Ninten a break, I mean, he's a total doof," Ana said, letting out a giggle when she saw that her boyfriend was about to agree with her, before looking at her with an adorable hurt expression, "but you're my silly doof."
However, before the banter could continue on, an orange circular-distortion apparated in-front of them making them stop and stare in confusion.
"Lloyd...What is that?" Ninten asked, pointing at it with a look of innocent confusion. "That's not that wave to tickling thing you were talking about right?"
Lloyd didn't bother to correct Ninten, only shaking his head and saying, "No...I don't actually know what that is…"
However, before the three could investigate the anomaly further a foggy mechanised test tube encasement with eight mechanical legs appeared in it's place.
The three got into fighting positions: Ninten pulled out his famous baseball bat; Lloyd pulled out his Death beam and Ana pulled out her Frying pan and yelled in Unison, "Starmen Smashers Ho!"
Ninten give a small giggle, still holding the bat ready to attack, "I told you that was a good battle cry."
"I wouldn't say that, old friend," a raspy voice permeated from the octopedal machine, giving the three heroes a shiver up their spines. "You're just as I remember...Annoying and courageous," the voice said, with a tinge of what could be misinterpreted as nostalgia, before a claw like device shot out and wrapped itself around Ninten's waist.
Alarmed by this development the three of them attacked the mechanical grip: Ana fired a PSI beam at the metallic rod between the claw and the machine; Lloyd fired off a death beam at the joint on the encasement, cracking it slightly, while Ninten bashed the claw itself with his bat.
A hoarse laugh erupted from the pod, eventually ending into a coughing fit, as the three saw that the claw was undamaged, "I thought you were smarter than that Ness, especially you Paula…" the voice mocked, the tube finally unfogging, exposing a subtle-blue boy, (confusingly covered in wrinkles) with pale silver hair wearing a pair of exceedingly drab & grey clothes.
The three looked at him in shock, not expecting a boy to be in control of the device, however Lloyd was the first to speak, "Who's Ness? He's Ninten," he all but whispered.
The boy in the tube leaned forwards, eyes opening with an effort as he took in the boy before him and noticed the small difference between his best enemy and Ninten: Ness never wore a red bandana around his neck and he certainly weighed a few more pounds than the boy before him.
Giving a weak shrug, the deathly boy in the tube let out a small chuckle, "Guess I can have another slave to mess with," he said, giving out a few painful cough as he laughed.
His laughter stopped abruptly when a shot of lightning hit the vehicle, causing it to shudder slightly and begin to glow slightly, "Ha! See you later losers! *cough*" He bellowed, the distance between the encasement and Ninten shortening as the claw was pulled in.
"Oh no you don't!" Ninten yelled, putting all his strength into bashing the joint between him and vehicles, managing to destroy it. However, this didn't matter as he felt himself drawn into the distortion with the boy in the tube. "ANA!" Ninten screamed as his surroundings distorted, leaving him in an orange, weightless vortex
"Come here little boy!" The once blond boy screeched, using one of the legs to try and pull the Raven-haired psychic towards him.
Ninten swung at the leg, causing him to fly away from the vehicle. spinning in a sickening matter, "Bring me back to them you bas-!" he yelled, before noticing that the octopedal vehicle was gone.
Swinging his arms wildly for a few seconds, Ninten finally managed to right himself up. Looking around for any kind of landmark or anything bar the infinite expanse of orange, but saw nothing. "Ana! Lloyd!" the Raven haired boy exclaimed desperately, even shooting out these thought in hopes of them hearing him, but got no reply.
Taking a deep breath, he looked around and gave a small chuckle, "At least I have time to write that novel now.."
A few minutes later…
"GAH! I'm so bored! ANA! LLOYD! ANYONE!" Ninten yelled, pulling his arms back & arching his back in an effort to make his voice louder, but like before he got no reply.
"Wait...Got to think Ninten...What would Lloyd do?" He asked himself, scratching his soft chin in deep thought.
Another few minutes Later…
"That's it! I'll use teleport!" The raven haired psychic declared in a Eureka fashion. Putting all his psychic energy into using teleportation, he began to run on the spot, legs getting faster and faster, before his surroundings disappeared and he reappeared in a rather unpleasant fashion: running head first into a blonde boy, knocking him over and lay on him.
"AGH!" the two yelled, blinking blearily at each other. Slowly pulling himself off of the Blonde boy, Ninten noticed that there were a small group surrounding him: A Pinkette teenager, a limping brunette & a chocolate coloured labrador. "Hey.." Ninten said, putting his hand out to the blonde in order to help him up. A perplexed look crossed the blonde's face at Ninten's outstretched hand before accepting it with a small grin.
"Who're you?" the pink haired female demanded as soon as he helped the boy up, pointing her fore finger at Ninten as power crackled threateningly around it.
Ninten raised his arms in a defencive stance and smiled slightly when the blonde boy gently pushed down the girl's arm. "I'm Ninten...Don't you recognise me?" the bandana wearing boy asked, striking a hero's pose, deflating slightly when they appeared not to. "...Okay then...Where am I? This doesn't look like any town I've been in...Not even Easter after all the adults got abducted," he asked, only now realising that he appeared to be in some kind of forest.
"Easter?" The blonde boy asked in confusion, looking to the other two humans in his party for any help. Gaining only perplexed stares from them too, the blonde shrugged and stated, "This is the forest just outside Tazmily village…"
Ninten looked at them and then thought back to the odd vortex and the boy in the tube,before asking, "Tazmily village...What year is it?" hoping that the idea that he time travelled was just a fantasy.
The three gave him a look as if he were crazy. Even the dog gave him an odd look. "It's 300X," The short haired Brunette said slowly, voice a little gravelly.
Ninten's breath left him. He had been transported a thousand and ten years into the future. A thousand years from his family. A thousand years from Ana… Doing what most people would do in this overwhelming situation, Ninten fainted. Rolling his eyes to the back of his head, his body fell limply backwards onto the forest floor, one thought pulsing throughout his mind as sweet consciousness left him.
'Why is it always me?'