Giygas may have been defeated, but sometimes Ness had to wonder where his old friend and next door neighbour Pokey Minch had run off to. He never saw him again after he fled from battle when Giygas had become unstable, those taunts of his being the last thing he had ever heard from the boy. Pokey may have been a dick, but he had also been a bit misunderstood. Ness didn't truly get why Pokey had taunted him and turned to Giygas-the supposed alien that was going to destroy him and take over Earth!
Ness had thought about how Giygas knew he was the 'chosen one' and why he had come to conquer Earth. He had chalked the first up to the whole being psychic powers thing, but the latter he wasn't so sure. Things coming to conquer Earth and fighting a chosen hero or four was something out of a TV show or movie! Then again, there was the story of Ninten. The odd-named boy who had gone out one day after a poltergeist hit his house and ended up fighting Giygas himself. There were other details, but sources were scarce by the day and not all were reliable.
ANYWAY, back to Pokey, Ness hadn't realised just how jealous the boy had been of him. He had been fragile and childish. Probably things that led him to be manipulated by Giygas to completely turn against him. Now Pokey was gone and the Minch household was more chaotic than ever. Just where had he gone? Would he ever come back?
Ness would never know what happened to Pokey Minch, but a boy named Lucas would. In the far future way past his time on the Nowhere Islands, Pokey would appear again. Old, but not much wiser than he was before. Still mentally a child, he tried to conquer the Nowhere Islands. Ness would never know the mementos that Pokey-now calling himself Porky- kept. The boy named Lucas would see them, but not fully understand the meanings behind them. He would see shots of Ness and his friends projected on a theatre screen, but he would never understand everything that they represented.
It was because of Ness that Pokey had eventually ended up here. It was because of Pokey that he had ended up here. Nothing ever worked out for Pokey, and it never would. Now he sits, alone, in a capsule all by himself, doomed to insanity and immortality for all eternity. Not even death would claim him. What a horrible life this boy has lived. All he wanted was something better than what he had, but his burning jealousy had been his downfall.