It was a day later, after the Dead Valley's event in which Kumatora got kidnapped. Ness was still sleeping; Lucas and Claus were accompanying him in his room, waiting for Ness to wake up. Jeff, Poo, Paula and Duster were on the living room trying to come up with a plan.

"I can't believe he took Kumatora, we where so close to beat him…" Duster wailed.

"I know, but even with that monster out, he was still a formidable opponent," Paula said.

"We should stop wailing about that and think of something that can help us," Poo said from the other side of the room.

"Yeah, if we could find out a way to know where she is, everything would be easier," Jeff responded with a hand on his chin.

Everyone silenced, concentrating on their own thoughts until Paula broke the silence raising a hand. "Hey! You guys remember when the doctor took us to Gyigas,"

"Don't even say that name but yeah ,and what with that?"

"Remember he told us that he could find him thanks to the massive amounts of PSI, if he could found him in the past, he surely can help us now to find Kumatora if we search for her PSI energy," Paula explained. She indeed was right, but her idea was countered by another problem.

"It is a good idea…if we knew where he is," Poo pointed out.

Duster, who had been listening to the conversation was still clueless about who they were talking."And who is your dad Jeff?"

"He was a recognized scientist that have already helped us in the past with this sort of things,"

"Yeah, the Dr. Andonuts," Paula added.

"Wait, Andonuts? I think I know him,"

"What! But that's not possible!" Jeff was astounded, he thought his father dissapeared months ago, anyway he doubted that Duster referred to the Andonuts he knew.

"Yeah, we all know him, like you said, he have also helped us,"

"Hello everyone, what are you doing?" Lucas greeted the group in the living room, Claus was with him too.

"Well, we were talking about our next move and they told that Dr. Andonuts is Jeff's dad, who apparently was missing, and they think he can help us finding Kuma," Duster explained.

Claus frowned. "Andonuts your father, wow you don't look very alike,"

"So guys, will you be able to take us to my dad?" Jeff acquired, the joy in his voice was the same as the doubt in it.

"Of course we can," Lucas raised a fist in the air.

"But, he will be able to help us?" Claus asked taking a seat aside his brother and Duster.

"It may be a little complicated for you Clausy," An approaching voice said, it was Ness who was coming downstairs still rubbing his eyes. "Time ago, he had a machine that could detect PSI energy, one day the energy detected was so strong he decided to investigate where it was from, but without an answer he created another device to increase the machine's range, and well…the rest is history."

"That sound very clever, we can't trust him," Jeff whispered Paula who just rolled her eyes.

"Genius, your pointless speech didn't tell me a thing," Claus countered.

Paula sighed at the immatureness of Ness and her new friend. "Yes, Claus,"

"Thanks; see, that was indeed useful,"

Ness glared then started walking towards the orange haired psychic. "I'll show you how useful you aren't,"

"Could you two stop acting like that, we've more important things to do," After interrupting the two psychics argument Poo turned to Lucas. "Can you take us to Andonuts," Lucas nodded.

The group left the house and headed to the port to take the next boat to Nowhere Islands. Once in the boat Ness glanced at Lucas and asked. "This is where you come from?"

"Yes, the Nowhere Islands"

"It's funny, I didn't know this island exist,"

"Actually it's because-" Before he could finish the answer got cut by Duster. "Well Ness, that's why they call them the Nowhere Islands," he then turned to Lucas "They don't have to know everything; it will just generate more questions, okay?

Not much time later the gang arrived to their destiny. They didn't waste time to start their trip to Dr. Andonuts lab. They crossed the now city of Tazmily then took a train that didn't take to much to get them to the outskirts where the Dr. was established. The laboratory was in the sight, Paula, Ness and Jeff gasped, the place looked the same as in Winters. It was true after all, it's not like they didn't believe Duster but it was against the odds what he said.

Before Lucas could even open his mouth, the three teens ran off to the sliding doors to see the interior of the place. "This is a lot bigger than I expected,"

"Yeah…" Jeff said and prepared to go into one of the several doors in the lobby but Ness stopped him. "We should wait for the others we don't know this place." In that moment the twins and Duster entered. The latter motioned the three friends to follow him.

"Here it is, he must be around here,"

"I'll go and bring him, wait a second," Lucas said before entering in one of the several doors.

"Lucas, what it is, I'm a little busy in there," A voice was approaching the eager friends outside the sliding door. When the doors opened again they revealed Dr. Andonuts with Lucas at his side.

"Alright, now wha-"

"D-dad?" Jeff stuttered, Ness and Paula were frozen, after all, the hope of seeing Andonuts again were not too high. Jeff broke in tears as he and the scientist got into an embrace, Ness and Paula also joined them, whispering different words like "I missed you…" or "I can't believe this…".

After some minutes, Andonuts and the chosen remembered that they were not alone and let go each other, with the exception of the smart scientist who kept an arm around his son.

"Thanks…" Jeff said between tears.

The twins and Duster could only smile at him, there was nothing to thank, it was just a coincidence that they knew Andonuts, the least they could do was help a little. "Dr. we are more than happy that you are okay, we thought we had lose you," Ness said, with joy in his voice.

"Well Ness, I'm happy too,"

"But how you ended here?" Paula asked, at the same time the twins and Duster looked at each other.

"Sincerely I don't have the slightest idea; the last thing I remember was the Great Invasion and then I wound up here with most of my memories gone,"

"The Great Invasion?" Ness put a hand on his chin "That name sounds in the back of my head, but why?"

"I know, it seems familiar," Paula added.

However Jeff had something totally different to say after glancing at his dad. "Wow, you look a little different,"

"Yeah ha-ha, but you look pretty much the same after all these years,"

"Years?" Ness frowned "It have been no more than ten months, but years, you seem to have lost the sense of time in this place,"

"What, I'm serious, I don't know how much, but at least more than six/seven years,"

Ness, Paula and Jeff looked at each other with puzzled looks, wondering if they have been counting the time the wrong way for the last months. Although Andonuts indeed looked different hence gave a point to his words that have not been months only. However before the mystery could be uncovered for the heroes Duster reminded everyone about their actual mission in there.

"Ah sorry for interrupting like this but…we came here for something else," Andonuts tilted his head and gave off a curiosity look.

Ness huffed, not because he was in disagree with Duster but because he was right. "See Dr." Lucas started "We have an issue here; we bumped with a strange PSI user who first kidnapped Ness' mom and his sister only to draw us into a trap where he finally took Kumatora because he wanted info about that eight Needle," The Dr. Nodded meaning he have understood everything so far "Ness…"

The capped boy took Lucas word and continued "We need the mechanism that you used to detect that monster –you know who I'm talking about-, she is a psychic too so maybe you can detect her PSI energy to take us to her…please,"

"Quite a situation you got dragged in," The Dr. stopped for a second before giving off a smirk "that's a yes, but it will take sometime. In the meantime you should show them the place, your parents have been spreading the news that you got into the quest for the Needle so you should pay them a visit too."

"Okay great, thanks a lot Doc,"

"Wait, I will stay here," Jeff said then turned to his dad "you may need help,"

"Okay, good luck," Ness told to dad and son before leaving the room accompanied by Paula, the twins and Duster.


"And this is the market," Lucas said pointing to where most Tazmily habitants preferred to do shopping. Lucas took Andonuts' suggestion and was showing to Paula, Ness and Poo the city, the place was not as huge as Onett but it still was worth the little stroll, after showing the chosen different parts like a hotel, the hospital, the main market where the arcade was too, but Paula and Duster had some problems in the latter one because after Ness showed how to play to Claus and Lucas no one wanted to leave. Around the afternoon when the city stroll was done, only one place to visit was left: the twins' house.

They were walking through the path before his house, but at the moment they got the first glance of their house, the image struck the two young brothers. The roof of said house was ripped off, the beautiful garden her mom always took take of was burned, the wall where the door was, was completely demolished. "W-what…I c-can't believe t-his…" Both twins said before falling into their knees.