Chapter 1: The Meteor Falls
The year is 2009, in the peaceful town of Onett, a small town in Eagleland, a boy by the name of Ness, who is sleeping soundly in his bed, is about to be given the biggest wake up call of his life. And is it ever loud.
BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"HOLY HELL!! What was that?!?!" screamed Ness. As he got up, he could hear outside the sounds of police sirens wailing, probably heading towards whatever the sound was. Ness got up and put on his slippers, intent on investigating what woke him. He stepped out of his room into the hallway, turning on the lights in the process. 'Better check on Tracy, sound might have scared her.' thought Ness, as he went over to her door, knocked politely and stepped him. Tracy stood there, dressed and looking outside the window. Tracy was 13, so it didn't surprise Ness she was still up at this time of night. Ness, being 16 himself, used to stay up like she did all the time, but decided to stop only recently, favoring sleeping for 10 hours a day or so. Helped him clear his mind of problems in his personal opinion.
"Hey bro. Did the sound wake you up? Did it freak you out?" said Tracy calmly, like she had knocked to hard on his door.
"Oh no no, I like getting up at roughly 1am in the morning. OF COURSE IT WOKE ME TRACY! Man, that sound would wake the dead." Said Ness, grumpily. He did NOT like getting up in the middle of the night, always made him way too grumpy, and his family could attest to that.
Tracy however, ignored his yelling fit, and continued the conversation, "Well, the sound came from outside, and I suspect if you're going to go investigate, you'll need something reliable in case something should come up." Said Tracy, as she pointed to the mounted Baseball Bat beside her bed.
Ness did remember that bat with fond memories. He used it in Little League for years, Heck, he used it for TONS of stuff for years, practice, games, and he got even a few grand slams with it. Until, when he was 10 or so, the bat gave into years of use, and cracked down the side, almost near the center. Ness's dad told him although the bat was ok, and wouldn't shatter or anything, it would extremely mess up his game if he continued to use it. Ness cried himself to sleep that night, and was depressed the rest of the week. Tracy however, took about 2 weeks worth of allowance, and got him a mount made for it, and put the bat on it. Ness then looked underneath the mount, and saw the faint inscription she carved on it; 'World's Most Reliable Bat' and Ness could only chuckle. He walked over, and took the bat from the mount, and started to head downstairs.
As Ness stepped downstairs, King, his dog was sleeping beside the couch, and his mother, in her pink robe and slippers, had just come down before him and turned on the downstairs lights, and was pacing about, and saw Ness with his cracked bat in hand.
"What was that noise?! Ness, you don't seem scared at all. Oh don't tell me you're going out there! Are you NUTS?! You want to go check it out?" his mom exclaimed. She was openly upset which didn't surprise Ness in the least.
You see, over the years, Ness had become somewhat of an explorer, dreaming and wishing he could be a great adventurer, and held little ones all the time around Onett. Course never you mind these 'excursions' scared his mother Half to DEATH. However, he always came home on time, with a smile on his face, and laid her fears to rest.
"Yeah Mom, I'm going to go check that sound out, could be dangerous, and I can't let whatever caused that sound get awa-" said Ness
"Oh Alright Alright, ok fine. You'll sneak out of your room anyway, even if I asked you not to go. But at LEAST change out of your jammies before you go?" she asked humbly.
Ness looked down at his blue and white striped PJs and slippers. To him they were quite normal yes, but it certainly wouldn't be smart to wander all over god's creation indeed unless he wore something more practical. "Alright, I'll change." Said Ness, and he ran upstairs. As he closed the door to his room, he opened his closet door, and pulled out what he lovingly dubbed his 'adventure gear'. He liked it, but of course Tracy laughed her butt off when he called it the 'Adventuring gear', it was nothing major, just some jeans, a blue and yellow striped tee shirt, shoes and socks, his favorite, most comfortable backpack, and a baseball cap, with his favorite team's logo on it, turned backwards, so he could see more. As he put it on, he grabbed his wallet, which held his Picture ID, his ATM Card, and as he checked his pockets and the wallet, he found a sum of 20 dollars on him. 'Not bad.Not bad to check out this problem.' He thought as he stuffed the money in the wallet, and placed it in his back pocket. As he adjusted his backpack, he felt the two loops he sewed the pack itself, he added those originally to carry a thick walking stick, but he found it just the right size for his cracked bat. It took a few seconds, but he was able to adjust the pack to allow the Bat to fit perfectly in the slot, and made it easy reach for him to grab it. 'Looking sharp Ness.' He thought as he studied himself in the mirror. 'Ok then, let's get to work.'
Ness headed downstairs and opened the door outside. "Be Careful! Come Home as soon as you can." Said his mother as he closed the door. Ness looked to his left and saw two policemen forming a barricade towards town, Onett was well known for its attempts at putting up roadblocks, He then checked his watch. 1:28, it sure was cool out during the night time here in Onett. 'Times like this, I wish I lived in Summers.' He thought as he started off down the dirt path towards what he assumed was the path to the explosion.
"Tim! Do you know what's going on around here?" said Ness as he ran over to greet the blond haired boy standing near his neighbor's house. Tim was a boy from School that Ness knew.
"Oh Ness. Did you hear the big bang? I think a meteorite landed nearby. I'm gonna see if I can be the first one to see it. See you later Ness" Said Tim. As he ran off towards the crash site.
Ness looked up towards the higher ground; he could see multiple blue and red lights blinking and hear a commotion up there. 'Looks like couple people beat Tim and me there. A Meteorite eh? Well, that's CERTAINLY an Adventure.' thought Ness. He turned south and began to walk the long dirt path towards the crash site. As he walked, he ran across more police, walked pass them, overhearing one of them talk about how the Sharks were running loose, Kids were out of bed and he was hungry. Ness just walked past, and continued up the long path. As he walked up the long path, he walked over to a tree he had sat at not more than 13 hours ago. He had had a nice picnic lunch there, and noticed he left the basket there from that morning. 'Must have slipped my mind, well I am hungry....' and he searched the basket, he found little food leftover, just a bread roll and a cookie. 'Eh I'll eat the cookie now, save this bread roll for later' he thought as he stuffed the roll in his pocket.
Continuing up the mountain pass, he noticed the small shack owned by this weird man up there who considered Ness his only confidante, since the boy wandered everywhere. Lier X. Aggerate was the man's name, and he owned a small sign making business to make ends meet, but most people just ignored him, since he tended to do a lot of, what they deemed 'crazy things' in his household. He waved to Ness as the boy passed by, and Ness politely waved back, not wanting to talk to the old man right now about his crazy schemes of swindling people, and how he was stronger than everyone else because of his eating habits.
Ness rounded the side of the hill, and was met by a group of Police Officers, who had sealed off the final rise to the crash site itself, and beside them, was Pokey. The fat kid was trying everything to sneak past, distract, or confuse the guards to get a better look at the crash site, but was mostly just annoying them and holding the police up from doing their job. As Ness approached, one policeman came up to him, Officer O'Malley, an old friend of Ness's dad and asked Ness,
"Hey Ness, can you get Pokey off our backs for us? He's your best friend isn't he?" Ness looked skeptically at O'Malley. To say Pokey was Ness's best friend was saying cancer was GOOD for people. Ness had no fondness for the fat, blonde-haired, lying lump, but Pokey always hung around Ness like the plague, saying they were good friends, just to boost his own status around town. Which never worked anyway, mostly everyone around town hated him anyway. O'Malley saw Ness's expression and then stated,
"Well he's at least your Neighbor, right?"
Ness groaned, "Yeah, he is." That was possibly the worst part about it all, Pokey always came over and acted like they were on great terms, and Ness should be grateful for having him as a friend and coming over, whereas Ness would have rather seen him take a long walk off a short pier.
It was then Pokey noticed Ness talking to Officer O'Malley, in which he waddled over to the two of them, and spoke, "Hey Ness! Don't be Rubberneckin', your getting in my- I mean, Officer's way! Just go home, I, the great Pokey, will be able to tell you all about it tomorrow." O'Malley shook his head in annoyance, looked at Ness, and realized there was nothing indeed the boy could do to get Pokey to leave. Ness, decided to leave anyway, he wanted to get some sleep, and get rid of his annoyance by Pokey, leave it to that Darwinian Nightmare to hold himself in such high regards, and to blame Ness for doing what Pokey himself was doing the entire time. Ness headed back down the mountain, towards home. As he reached his house, he noticed there was his mom, standing at the front door, a look of worry on her face.
"Hi Mom, It was a meteorite that landed. The police have it blocked off already," said Ness calmly.
"Gracious! Well at least no one got hurt. Well welcome home, Ness. I talked with Sara, the librarian as she walked by about the meteorite, don't worry there's no need to talk about it tonight. You scoot up to bed now, we'll talk about it in the morning," said his mother as she opened the door.
Ten Minutes later, the light's went off in Ness's house, everyone fast asleep. Later that night, the police, having reports of a burglary in progress, left the crash site, and two dark figures entered the site..
The year is 2009, in the peaceful town of Onett, a small town in Eagleland, a boy by the name of Ness, who is sleeping soundly in his bed, is about to be given the biggest wake up call of his life. And is it ever loud.
BOOOOOOOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"HOLY HELL!! What was that?!?!" screamed Ness. As he got up, he could hear outside the sounds of police sirens wailing, probably heading towards whatever the sound was. Ness got up and put on his slippers, intent on investigating what woke him. He stepped out of his room into the hallway, turning on the lights in the process. 'Better check on Tracy, sound might have scared her.' thought Ness, as he went over to her door, knocked politely and stepped him. Tracy stood there, dressed and looking outside the window. Tracy was 13, so it didn't surprise Ness she was still up at this time of night. Ness, being 16 himself, used to stay up like she did all the time, but decided to stop only recently, favoring sleeping for 10 hours a day or so. Helped him clear his mind of problems in his personal opinion.
"Hey bro. Did the sound wake you up? Did it freak you out?" said Tracy calmly, like she had knocked to hard on his door.
"Oh no no, I like getting up at roughly 1am in the morning. OF COURSE IT WOKE ME TRACY! Man, that sound would wake the dead." Said Ness, grumpily. He did NOT like getting up in the middle of the night, always made him way too grumpy, and his family could attest to that.
Tracy however, ignored his yelling fit, and continued the conversation, "Well, the sound came from outside, and I suspect if you're going to go investigate, you'll need something reliable in case something should come up." Said Tracy, as she pointed to the mounted Baseball Bat beside her bed.
Ness did remember that bat with fond memories. He used it in Little League for years, Heck, he used it for TONS of stuff for years, practice, games, and he got even a few grand slams with it. Until, when he was 10 or so, the bat gave into years of use, and cracked down the side, almost near the center. Ness's dad told him although the bat was ok, and wouldn't shatter or anything, it would extremely mess up his game if he continued to use it. Ness cried himself to sleep that night, and was depressed the rest of the week. Tracy however, took about 2 weeks worth of allowance, and got him a mount made for it, and put the bat on it. Ness then looked underneath the mount, and saw the faint inscription she carved on it; 'World's Most Reliable Bat' and Ness could only chuckle. He walked over, and took the bat from the mount, and started to head downstairs.
As Ness stepped downstairs, King, his dog was sleeping beside the couch, and his mother, in her pink robe and slippers, had just come down before him and turned on the downstairs lights, and was pacing about, and saw Ness with his cracked bat in hand.
"What was that noise?! Ness, you don't seem scared at all. Oh don't tell me you're going out there! Are you NUTS?! You want to go check it out?" his mom exclaimed. She was openly upset which didn't surprise Ness in the least.
You see, over the years, Ness had become somewhat of an explorer, dreaming and wishing he could be a great adventurer, and held little ones all the time around Onett. Course never you mind these 'excursions' scared his mother Half to DEATH. However, he always came home on time, with a smile on his face, and laid her fears to rest.
"Yeah Mom, I'm going to go check that sound out, could be dangerous, and I can't let whatever caused that sound get awa-" said Ness
"Oh Alright Alright, ok fine. You'll sneak out of your room anyway, even if I asked you not to go. But at LEAST change out of your jammies before you go?" she asked humbly.
Ness looked down at his blue and white striped PJs and slippers. To him they were quite normal yes, but it certainly wouldn't be smart to wander all over god's creation indeed unless he wore something more practical. "Alright, I'll change." Said Ness, and he ran upstairs. As he closed the door to his room, he opened his closet door, and pulled out what he lovingly dubbed his 'adventure gear'. He liked it, but of course Tracy laughed her butt off when he called it the 'Adventuring gear', it was nothing major, just some jeans, a blue and yellow striped tee shirt, shoes and socks, his favorite, most comfortable backpack, and a baseball cap, with his favorite team's logo on it, turned backwards, so he could see more. As he put it on, he grabbed his wallet, which held his Picture ID, his ATM Card, and as he checked his pockets and the wallet, he found a sum of 20 dollars on him. 'Not bad.Not bad to check out this problem.' He thought as he stuffed the money in the wallet, and placed it in his back pocket. As he adjusted his backpack, he felt the two loops he sewed the pack itself, he added those originally to carry a thick walking stick, but he found it just the right size for his cracked bat. It took a few seconds, but he was able to adjust the pack to allow the Bat to fit perfectly in the slot, and made it easy reach for him to grab it. 'Looking sharp Ness.' He thought as he studied himself in the mirror. 'Ok then, let's get to work.'
Ness headed downstairs and opened the door outside. "Be Careful! Come Home as soon as you can." Said his mother as he closed the door. Ness looked to his left and saw two policemen forming a barricade towards town, Onett was well known for its attempts at putting up roadblocks, He then checked his watch. 1:28, it sure was cool out during the night time here in Onett. 'Times like this, I wish I lived in Summers.' He thought as he started off down the dirt path towards what he assumed was the path to the explosion.
"Tim! Do you know what's going on around here?" said Ness as he ran over to greet the blond haired boy standing near his neighbor's house. Tim was a boy from School that Ness knew.
"Oh Ness. Did you hear the big bang? I think a meteorite landed nearby. I'm gonna see if I can be the first one to see it. See you later Ness" Said Tim. As he ran off towards the crash site.
Ness looked up towards the higher ground; he could see multiple blue and red lights blinking and hear a commotion up there. 'Looks like couple people beat Tim and me there. A Meteorite eh? Well, that's CERTAINLY an Adventure.' thought Ness. He turned south and began to walk the long dirt path towards the crash site. As he walked, he ran across more police, walked pass them, overhearing one of them talk about how the Sharks were running loose, Kids were out of bed and he was hungry. Ness just walked past, and continued up the long path. As he walked up the long path, he walked over to a tree he had sat at not more than 13 hours ago. He had had a nice picnic lunch there, and noticed he left the basket there from that morning. 'Must have slipped my mind, well I am hungry....' and he searched the basket, he found little food leftover, just a bread roll and a cookie. 'Eh I'll eat the cookie now, save this bread roll for later' he thought as he stuffed the roll in his pocket.
Continuing up the mountain pass, he noticed the small shack owned by this weird man up there who considered Ness his only confidante, since the boy wandered everywhere. Lier X. Aggerate was the man's name, and he owned a small sign making business to make ends meet, but most people just ignored him, since he tended to do a lot of, what they deemed 'crazy things' in his household. He waved to Ness as the boy passed by, and Ness politely waved back, not wanting to talk to the old man right now about his crazy schemes of swindling people, and how he was stronger than everyone else because of his eating habits.
Ness rounded the side of the hill, and was met by a group of Police Officers, who had sealed off the final rise to the crash site itself, and beside them, was Pokey. The fat kid was trying everything to sneak past, distract, or confuse the guards to get a better look at the crash site, but was mostly just annoying them and holding the police up from doing their job. As Ness approached, one policeman came up to him, Officer O'Malley, an old friend of Ness's dad and asked Ness,
"Hey Ness, can you get Pokey off our backs for us? He's your best friend isn't he?" Ness looked skeptically at O'Malley. To say Pokey was Ness's best friend was saying cancer was GOOD for people. Ness had no fondness for the fat, blonde-haired, lying lump, but Pokey always hung around Ness like the plague, saying they were good friends, just to boost his own status around town. Which never worked anyway, mostly everyone around town hated him anyway. O'Malley saw Ness's expression and then stated,
"Well he's at least your Neighbor, right?"
Ness groaned, "Yeah, he is." That was possibly the worst part about it all, Pokey always came over and acted like they were on great terms, and Ness should be grateful for having him as a friend and coming over, whereas Ness would have rather seen him take a long walk off a short pier.
It was then Pokey noticed Ness talking to Officer O'Malley, in which he waddled over to the two of them, and spoke, "Hey Ness! Don't be Rubberneckin', your getting in my- I mean, Officer's way! Just go home, I, the great Pokey, will be able to tell you all about it tomorrow." O'Malley shook his head in annoyance, looked at Ness, and realized there was nothing indeed the boy could do to get Pokey to leave. Ness, decided to leave anyway, he wanted to get some sleep, and get rid of his annoyance by Pokey, leave it to that Darwinian Nightmare to hold himself in such high regards, and to blame Ness for doing what Pokey himself was doing the entire time. Ness headed back down the mountain, towards home. As he reached his house, he noticed there was his mom, standing at the front door, a look of worry on her face.
"Hi Mom, It was a meteorite that landed. The police have it blocked off already," said Ness calmly.
"Gracious! Well at least no one got hurt. Well welcome home, Ness. I talked with Sara, the librarian as she walked by about the meteorite, don't worry there's no need to talk about it tonight. You scoot up to bed now, we'll talk about it in the morning," said his mother as she opened the door.
Ten Minutes later, the light's went off in Ness's house, everyone fast asleep. Later that night, the police, having reports of a burglary in progress, left the crash site, and two dark figures entered the site..