Lucas woke up that morning after having barely slept at all. He prepared his and my breakfast for that day and waited for me to wake up.
*YAWN*… "morning Lucas…. How did you sleep?" I asked.
"Not very well…" he responded cryptically. "Ness… um… do you remember anything… from last night… what you dreamt about?"
"No…" I said blissfully. "should I?"
"Oh… it's nothing to worry about… I was just wondering."
"Okay then… what's for breakfast?" I asked enthusiastically.
"We have some pancakes… some fried eggs and—" Lucas was cut off mid-sentence as a news headline caught his eye. It was a channel four news broadcast.
"Breaking news…. The pig mask army has struck again! The terrorist organisation was last seen blowing up a children's hospital in the NoWhere Islands… it is still unclear what their objectives are and who their leader is…"
Lucas dropped a glass of orange juice that was in his hand due to the shock he experienced. He than began to cry hysterically. "Its… It's not fair…" he mumbled in between whimpers.
I was so confused. I had no idea who the pig mask army were or what they had done, but one thing was for certain, whatever it was had Lucas in tears…
"Lucas… Buddy… calm down… why are you so upset?" I asked concernedly.
"B… Because… they're the reason… th… that… my family…" Lucas struggled to breathe as he tried to speak in between his crying, the pain in his eyes was almost unpleasant to watch, I struggled not to draw a tear from watching it. "My… my m… Mom… they killed my mom…"
"Lucas…" I said quietly.
"She… she was innocent… she didn't deserve to die… no-one does…" Lucas then began to collect his thoughts and started to breathe steadily. "We were happy together… then they took our mom away from us… Then my brother, Claus, he went to avenge her… and then he fell off a cliff… my dad then left, and he took our dog with him… They hurt so many people when they started that fire in Sunshine Forest…"
"Oh Lucas…" Lucas's story had bought a tear to my eye, but I didn't want him to know so I could stay strong for him. It was silly, wasn't it? Me, trying to be strong for someone I barely knew… but that was what he needed at this time… someone to be strong for him… lord knows his dad wouldn't be.
"It wasn't just people they hurt either!" Said Lucas in a tone that suggested he was much less upset but still had a hint of 'can you believe this?'. "They turned a Drago, one of the most peaceful animals on Nowhere Island, into a killer robot… that poor creature…"
Lucas proceeded to tell me about the leads he had on the pig mask army and how he and his friends were ever so close to identifying the culprit behind the pig mask army and how they were going to take him out. Something about the dialogue that me and Lucas shared made me realize that his deep and unconditional love for the fellow man extended even to the animals of the world, these Dragos he spoke of, were perhaps the most innocent in all of this. As Lucas said, they never wanted to hurt anyone, there wasn't even a reason for it, but they were turned into nasty killing machines with no control over their actions, they were the reason that Lucas's mom died and yet, he wasn't even mad at the mecha Dragos, he was mad at the pig masks for ruining a perfectly gentle giant in the first place.
Lucas rambled on well into midday but, even after all of that, I still felt as though he was keeping something from me.
"Lucas?" I said.
"Yeah Ness?"
"You seem a little bit absent minded today… even before the news on TV… What's going on? I asked.
"well you don't seem to remember but I read your mind while you slept last night as you appeared to be having a nightmare and what I saw was… Frightening…" He responded.
"what did you see?"
"I saw… so many people… dying… So many cries for help that couldn't be answered… I saw people… who I assume are your friends from what you have told me… they were killed atop a building with a colourful sign that said, 'Drug store'. Then I saw… people… I know… they were killed along with the rest of the world… I can only assume that this was a vision…"
"do you mean… like a memory?" I asked in a panic. "wait… you said there were people in my dream that you knew… who were they?"
"well I couldn't see their faces, but I knew who they were…" said Lucas. "they're my friends… Kumatora and Duster and my dog, Boney… they're the ones who have been helping me take down the pig mask army. There were also some other people there… but… I don't know who they were…"
"wow…" I said in shock. "was there anything else?"
"Oh yeah… some weird monster." Lucas told. "It was like a human cat… it was grey… it said Giegie?.. Giegue?... Giygas? Something like that was coming…"
" S?" I shouted in shock.
It suddenly hit me like a lightning bolt out of the sky… It wasn't a memory nor was it some whacked out crazy nightmare… it was a vision of the future.
"But I… I…" I stuttered. "I defeated him… How is he alive?"
"Who is Giygas?" asked Lucas.
"The embodiment of evil itself… he's coming to finish me off… he's coming to do what he does… bring an end to G."
"…" Lucas was stunned… he didn't know what to think… nor did he know what to say… "we have to… we have… to… beat him… we can beat him… right?"
"We can't… at least… not on our own…" I said as I began to accept the possibility that Giygas may win this time around.
"Wait… what if we could bring your friends here?" Lucas said.
"how would we do that?" I asked.
"well all we have to do is figure out how you got here and then we could bring them here…" Lucas told. "We'd have them and my own friends to help us… if they're as powerful as you say they are… then Giygas won't stand a chance."
"Maybe…" I said pessimistically.
About an hour passed while Lucas and I brainstormed ideas for how to bring my friends to us. After a seemingly endless phone call with someone named Kumatora, Lucas returned to the living room with a smile and an idea.
"So… My friends Kumatora and Duster are on their way and they have an idea that we can bring to life…" Said Lucas.
"Oh yeah? What is it?" I asked sceptically.
"well Kumatora is a psychic like us… with all of that excess psychic energy… we should be able to find a way to your world and to your friends."
"Well I think I know how I got here…" I said cryptically. "I have a technique called 'PK TELEPORT' but I sometimes have difficulty controlling it… maybe a surge in psychic energy caused me to teleport somewhere else… to here."
"That's great!" Lucas said. "If we can supply you with all the energy you need, you may be able to do it again—"
*KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK*
The front door swung open and in stepped a tall tom-boy with pink hair and what I would assume is a lanky hippy.
"WE'RE HERE!" Said a rather girly voice from the tom-boy body of a woman. "Where's the psychic?!"
Lucas and I stood up and greeted the guests, Lucas then proceeded to introduce me to his friends.
"Kumatora, Duster, this is Ness." Lucas said.
"Nice to meetcha!" Said Duster in a common American accent. "I'm Duster, I'm the muscle behind our little team—"
"HA- IN YOUR DREAMS!" said Kumatora in a mocking tone. "I'm Kumatora… I'm a princess but don't let that intimidate ya… just between you and I, Me and Lucas are the ones with the power."
After she said that, Kumatora looked up at Duster and smiled in a coy and bitchy way. It was entertaining to watch.
"Nice to meet you both…" I said nervously. "I'm Ness!"
"Okay!" Lucas interjected. "Let's get down to business…"
It was strange to see the shocking transformation that Lucas underwent in the presence of his friends, he went from being a shy and passive boy to a loud and cocky man.
"So, we need to figure out how we will get Ness's friends to our world, so they can help us defeat a new evil that has come." Said Lucas confidently.
"Wait!" yelled Kumatora. "This 'new evil', does it have anything to do with the pig mask army?"
"As far as we know… It doesn't have anything to do with this world… It did come from Ness's world though." Said Lucas.
"Wait? It came from Ness's world?" Kumatora questioned while eyeing Ness suspiciously. "If it came from Ness's world, and it's evil, then that must mean that Ness is evil… You know what we do to evil people…"
"Wait… Kumatora, NO! That's not what I meant—"
Kumatora picked up a solid oak chair and held it as if she was about to launch it. "You're going to wish you were never born kiddo!" Kumatora then threw the chair at me but luckily, I jumped out of the way in time.
Duster placed his hands on Kumatora's shoulders and said "Calm down! Seriously, Ness hasn't done anything wrong… he's a victim."
She then calmed down after, it seems that Kumatora and Duster had a relationship that ran deeper than mere friendship.
"Okay…" said Lucas in a tone that suggested he was trying to forget what had just happened. "Ness. Why don't we make our plan based on how you attacked Giygas the last time?"
"Okay then." I answered.
I then told the story of me and my heroic friends who risked our own lives to defeat Giygas…
