"Why am I here? Why, oh, why? Oh, that's right! My planet needs saving!" thought a raven haired boy in a red baseball cap was sitting at a round table with 8 others. All of them yelling at each other looking about to fight.
"SHUT UP!" The all of them stopped in their tracks looking at the boy. "Look, you're in my house and I don't want my mom saying anything about us so, please calm down!" His voice was booming with power. With that, everyone sat down.
"Now, do you remember why you are here?" Everyone was either scratching the back of their heads or looking away not making eye contact. He just put a hand to his face. "Ok, let me remind you." He took his hands of his face and looked to everyone. "You've all been called hear by Master Hand, The earths in danger. Well ours is." He gestured to a girl with a similar baseball cap but black with a silver rim with a white star, and twins a boy and a girl both with black hair.
"And apparently you were chosen by the planet to protect it." A girl with brown red hair raised her hand. "So why choose us out of all people?" The raven haired boy shrugged. "I don't know he just said the planet was in danger and that I would need help. That's it."
"Well, why don't we introduce ourselves to each other? I'm Ness." He then looked to his right. A boy with black hair and green eyes and an X shaped scar on his left cheek.
"Phil, Phil Luciano." He sported black three piece suit and a blood red tie. "You look more like a business man for an adventurer, don't you think?" Phil turned around to see a white haired teen looking about the same age. He had his arms crossed. "I assure you, I'm more than a match for you. You can call me Leon. Leon Sakai." He said to everyone.
His cocky remark only earned an annoyed look from Phil. Leon smirked, then he looked to his right to see a small girl with a green sleeper's cap and two pony tails. "Um, I'm Green." She said, giving a large smile.
The brown haired girl from before wasn't even paying attention as she seemed to be staring into space. Green nudged her. "Oh umm, I'm Sabrina Feller, but you can just call me Poppy." She tipped an imaginary hat to everyone.
A girl in red hair and freckles with green eyes waved her hand to everyone. "I'm Lexi Falcon, she crossed her arms giving a friendly smile.
"Zane Andore, it's a pleasure." His accent seamed regal like Marth's, sporting green chest armor with a gold outline back pants and brown shoes
"Is it my turn? Well I'm Cien Torrey! It's great to meet you all!" She happy greeted. Lastly, every one turned to the twins. The girl spoke, "Janet, this hears my brother Jace." She had a disinterested tone. Jace gave a peace sign.
"Well, were all introduced now." Ness smiled.
"But wait where do we start?" Jace spoke up. Ness rubbed his chin thinking. Then he felt something rumble in his pocket. He dug in his pockets taking out a small stone that pulsated with energy. "That's strange it's never done this before, well not since I last used it." Ness inspected the stone.
"What's that?" Poppy asked her eyes shining with the rock. "That is a Sound Stone." Cien spoke up. "It stored power from each sanctuary of power. It uses the power of the earth to beat evil incarnates. Well, at least for this world." Cien had a matter of fact tone.
"Yeah, but since I absorbed its power, it hasn't reacted to anything." Ness put the stone on the table. Suddenly the stone started to spin violently. To everyone's surprise, the house started to shake as well. The sudden tremor made everyone leave the table backing up. "What's going on?" Green yelled over the noise the house was making. Then as quickly as it started it stopped.
"Look!" Everyone looked to the table. The stone radiated as a hologram showed out of the stone the entire earth was seen with several glowing dots. "Wow…" Lexi marveled at projection.
"What are those?" Leon asked getting closer. "I'm not sure but there all around the world…" Ness looked at the hologram. The only one in Eagleland is all the way across the country." Ness pointed to a glowing dot.
"Well let's head over there the sooner the better right?" Leon started to the door.
"It won't be that simple." Lexi stated taking her attention off of the hologram to look at everyone. "Well why not?" Leon asked returning to the group.
Lexi turned again to the hologram. "Here," Lexi pointed to what looked like the Pacific Ocean. "And places like this." She then pointed to what looked like the Arctic.
"We can't just walk to these places." Ness scratched his head. Everyone was thinking. Finally, Cien broke the silence and remembered something.
"Hey, Jace, Janet?" The twins looked to her. "Don't you have an older sister?" Jace's face lightened up. "Oh, yes! Raychale! But quick question does anybody hear know how to fly a plane?" Jace looked around.
"I can do it easy!" Poppy gave a thumb up. "Well were does your sister live?" Green asked excited.
"She lives a few miles outside of Fourside." Janet said happy to go back home. "Well that's no problem; I can get us there in a heartbeat!" Ness cracked his knuckles.
"The hell kind of name is Fourside?" Phil whispered under his breath. No one caught this however, as everyone took their bags and left towards the door
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. Everyone gathered outside the house waiting for Ness, as he wished his mom and sister a parting goodbye.
"Bye guys, I'll call you alright?" Ness's mom, sister and dog all gave him a group hug, even there dog joined.
"Awww!" the girls said in unison. All the girls, except, Janet and Poppy who just rolled their eyes in boredom. The boys weren't even paying any attention, either inspecting their swords or looking into space.
"Now then, let's go!" Ness went up to the group. "Now everybody grab hands and hold tight!" Everyone did as asked however reluctantly. Ness started to run and that run turned into a fast sprint. The others were almost tripping over each other trying to keep up while holding hands.
Just then a portal appeared in front of Ness.
"Whoa!" Leon yelled as everyone was thrown out the portal. "You guys alright?" Everyone except the psychics was on the ground trying to recover. Leon was the first to stand. Looking around they were in a park. But the buildings were tall and could be seen around them.
Looking around Zane and Green started to marvel looking excited. "Wow this is amazing!" Green was in awe at the sight. "This is grand indeed." Zane was the person most dazzled at this spectacle, for he has never seen such a place before.
"Yep, this is home!" Jace stretched. Janet grunted, and turned towards the city. "Her house is on the outside of the city." After everyone else recovered from the teleportation they walked out of the park and towards the buildings following the twins lead. Leon went to the front of the group to Jace.
"So what's the deal, how do you all know each other?" Leon put his hands behind his head looking forward. "Well, we knew each other for a while," Jace looked back along with Leon. "Truth is I think both Janet and Cien have a thing for Ness. I think the only reason my sister even agreed to come here in the first place is because of him. Not to mention she and Cien never really saw eye to eye." Sure enough the two girls didn't seem to enjoy each other's company. Just then Janet nudged Cien. Not taking kindly Cien turned her hat backward. As he nudged harder, each hit was increasing in physical strength. Cien ultimately had enough, and psychically pushed Janet into a nearby building.
"Hey! What was that for?" Janet yelled from the rubble. "You started it!" Cien replied angrily.
"Guys…" Ness was about to intervene, but Jace stopped him. "Let them go. We don't want to be starting an all-out brawl." Ness along with the rest of the group backed up.
Everything was silent for a second the citizens started to back up, and avoid the street entirely. Cien took a step as a silver ball of light materialized in her hand. She wind up and threw it as it rushed towards Janet with blinding speeds. In a flash of light Janet's whole world was fuzzy. Cien took this time to take out another attack. Going up to her Cien punches Janet in the face with a psychically charged punch sending her back, but out of her daze.
"Wow, two tom-boys fighting is interesting. Anybody got popcorn?" Phil had his back against the wall several buildings away. "Geez, those two are sure drawing in a crowd." Lexi spoke up looking at the crowd starting to form around the two. Leon gritted his teeth and thought, "If these guys don't stop horsing around, they might injure some civilians!"
Cien grabbed Janet but she managed to reverse the grip throwing her across the wide street. Gaining her bearings she looked at Janet who had a smile with her hands in the air. "Cien, look above you!" Leon barked. Cien looked up to see several large white energy balls.
"No fair, that's a cheap shot!" snarled Cien. She stared daggers into Janet's eyes. "Now, now, Cien! You know better than that!" taunted Janet. She kept smiling; bringing her hands together the white balls came down at once. Cien swiftly dodged the spheres, evading destruction.
Cien took out her baseball bat and started to wind up. Knowing what was coming Janet turned to Jace. Jace only rolled his eyes. "Ugh, fine." Jace took out his sword and threw it to his sister. Cien just finished winding up and a white ball finished materializing. With a giant crack the ball came at blinding speed.
Janet caught the sword as it filled with a white aura. Janet took a massive swing; the white ball was repelled and sent into the air above the tall skyscrapers, followed by a large explosion.
"Oh, now you're trying to kill me!" Janet yelled. The two rushed to each other.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, time out!" A girl with plaid blue short skirt and a blue and white hoody appeared. She swiftly lifted the two flailing girls by the collar. "What is with you two attracting a crowd like this?" The two stopped there struggling looking around them. They both saw a large crowd of people cheering along with a few news vans.
"Oh…" Janet blushed. "Come on, let's go." The others are already waiting at the house. In a blue flash they disappeared much to the disappointment of the crowd.
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"Give them a minute." Jace said sitting down. The group was in the living room of Raychale's house. The living room was made up of mostly blue and white. The windows were looking out to the city; the living room was decorated with several grand chairs and a flat screen.
In a blue flash Raychale appeared holding the girls in the air by her collars still. "I told you. You guys don't realize the damage you can cause when in a populated area." Said Raychale put the two down. Cien walked back to the girl spinning her hat back to its original side.
Janet turned to her older sister who had an annoyed look. Raychale went closer to Janet and flicked her on the forehead. "Ouch." Janet whispered going back to the group.
"Alrighty then, now that you're all here. What do you want?" said Raychale getting right to the point. Ness took out the sound stone and placed it on the table. "The hologram appeared a few seconds after everyone backed away.
Raychale took a look at it. "Well looks to me that you need a plane. I got that already ready for you guys." Raychale signaled the team to follow her. The group went through the large house to what looked like the basement. "The stairs were dark. Raychale lifted her hand a small bright blue ball as it flew down the stairs as it looked to be waiting.
"Follow my energy, and you will be at the plane you need." Raychale turned to leave the group. "Wait so how do you already know we needed a plain?" Zane asked, Raychale turned on her heel. "Let's just say a little birdy told me." She took out a lollypop from her hoody and put it in her mouth.
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The group followed the glowing blue orb down the row of stairs, overtime the hall started becoming more metallic. Finally at the end of the steps group was a large cave like hanger.
"Huh? How the heck you have the Batcave under your house?" Poppy looked around. "The what..?" Green scratched her head.
"Never mind, but look at that!" She pointed to luxurious blue and white personal Jet big enough for the group and more.
"Can you fly that?" Zane looked back at Poppy. She nodded as she went ahead of the group. The ball of light dissipated as the jet automatically opened. The excited group ran inside.
The inside was luxurious tan inside complete with a bar. In the back was a hanger, where they could drop off from the plane. There were enough seats for everyone to use as beds as well as bathrooms. All and all, it was a lot for a small jet.
Poppy couldn't believe what she was seeing as she quickly went back outside, then back in. "Wow, it's a lot bigger on the inside." She shook her head to clear her thoughts. Alright, we should go immediately. We have no time to waste!"
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The day was turned into night as the jet cruised through the clear sky. Leon, Jace and Janet were at the bar talking. Zane and Phil were looking out the window at the land below, Ness and Lexi was once again inspecting the hologram, Green was talking to Cien about their adventures.
"Alright, so we're around hear." Lexi went to touch the hologram suddenly it started to spin to another one of the locations. The spot glowing red and another spot on the other side was glowing blue and moving. The red spot looked to be somewhere in Europe.
"Whoa…so whoever touches the map…there location shows…" Lexi looked to everyone else. "Hey guys I think we've figured it out. We can find our locations if we touch the hologram." Everyone cluttered the area.
"Oh, I'll go!" Green went up to the hologram. The globe turned to the South American rainforest. Zane went next it somewhere in Japan, the twins came right after it was somewhere in the middle of the ocean, Cien's chose the location in Eagleland. Leon chose the location in China. "I have operatives in China," said Leon, "If we need to go there, I'll arrange for our arrival."
"Ok, now all we need is Poppy's." Lexi stated as she went to the cockpit door. But, there was no need as Poppy came in. "Well, I won't need to go back until a few hours." She stretched. "Poppy if you would." Lexi gestured to the hologram. Understanding the message, she jogged up to it. The map showed, the United Kingdom.
"Alright, that's it guys! We won't touch down for a few more hours, so get your rest. I have a feeling we're going to need it tomorrow." Poppy said grabbing her bag heading to the bathroom to change.
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With everyone changed into their nightwear they started to sleep. Well, almost everyone. "Why aren't you asleep yet?" Zane asked Leon who looked from the window, Zane was in some blue PJs, Leon wearing the same thing he was earlier. "I could ask you the same thing." Leon replied looking at Zane. "But if you must know, I'm not tired. I rarely sleep." "Same here. I don't really sleep that much." replied Zane. Leon was about to question why, but he decided against it.
"So what do you think of all of this?" said Leon trying to strike up on conversation. "All of what?" Zane asked confused. "You know this. The team the globetrotting, saving the planet from who knows what." Zane shrugged.
"Well, truth be told. I have no idea. I mean my kingdom was one thing but a whole planet entirely…" Zane leaned on Leon's chair absorbing everything that has happened in the past 24 hours.
He was taken from his homeland, taken to a giant hand, being told he had to save a world other than his own. He was dropped in front of Ness's house with his weapons and things he needed, arguing about something he completely forgot about in the table. Teleported, he saw two powerful psychics fight, created a plane, a destination and made it to where he was now. He wasn't surprised he hadn't collapsed from the day like the others.
Leon stood in silence as he finished listening to Zane's story. He wanted to tell Zane his story, but Zane got up and said, "Well, you should get some rest. You'll need it for tomorrow. Goodnight." He nodded at Leon, and returned to his own seat.
Leon just sighed and looked back out the window. "I've got a feeling, he's out there somewhere." Leon could remember that day, all too well. He felt sorrow as he remembered that dreadful memory. He wanted to forget it, but it was no use. He looked out the window and thought, "Brother, where are you?"
Disclaimer: The characters and places used belong to their respected owners. Nintendo owns Earthbound and blah, blah…
Thanks to DMC7500 for beta reading! Hope it's as good as you hoped! I've got plenty of ideas for this story and since you guys know where your locations are you can tell me something you like to see your character do. Oh, and by the way did I get them right?