SBS Time

Ri2:
1. Does this peach have talking insects?
2. How'd Pit get in there?
3. Death?! And you could've given more details on how Meta-Knight destroyed the ships.
4. How did Master Hand and a wireframe…?
5. Aeris, Yuffie, and Tifa? Why not Yuna, Rikku, and Paine?
6.Was the bull thing necessary?
Game2002:
1. Pit's no insect!
2. Obviously, that's where babies come from! Haha!
3. Death is a well-known recurring boss in Gradius series, and the final draft of this story will be different from what you see in the preview, so wait until then for a more detailed fight.
4. It's the cycle of life, duh!
5. YRP have not appeared in any of my stories, and Vic Viper only appeared because he will have a role in Rise of Negativities, and I have no plans for those three.
6. It's funny, isn't it?

Have you heard? There is a Mario and Sonic crossover game about the Olympics! At long last, they are together! But when this news reached GameFaqs, they did what they do best: Complain and grumble. Obviously, they absolutely loathe Olympic Games.

I see that someone in the review is thinking Rise of the Negativities will be a chapter in this story. Whoever you are, you should receive a reply from me already telling you that it's a separate upcoming story. I hope to see your review when that story comes!

Story 6: The Thousand Miles Search for the Mother


In some town I'm not going to bother mentioning, because in almost every tales, they never mention the town name. So anyway, in the town lived a happy but poor family. The father, Crazy Father, who is in fact Crazy Hand not disguised as a woman for once, is a hopeless loafer who got kicked out of his job, and spends the rest of his day acting like a bum.

The mother, Zelda, is a very hard working woman trying her best to keep the family alive. They also have a son named Ness, and he is also a hard working boy.

Life is not easy for the family, because Zelda is a woman and at that time, women aren't suitable for most jobs, and their father is totally useless… In hope of looking for a job, Zelda searched many places to look for one, until…

Dear Zelda,
We have heard about your family problem and how you really want to look for a job to support your family. If you don't mind, you can come to my place and work as a maid. I will take care of you and give you enough salary to support the family. The location is The Town, The Country.

From Master Hand

-

And so…

"Mom? Do you really have to go?" Ness asks her mother.

"I'm sorry, son," replies Zelda. "I have no choice, as this is the only hope left to support our family. Don't worry; I will keep in contact with you no matter what. Take good care of yourself and your useless father."

"I will, mother."

"You can count on me to take of Ness!" says Crazy Father.

At last, the ship is departing for The Country, so Zelda quickly boarded onto it. As the ship departs into the sea, Ness runs along the harbor waving good-bye to his mother again. "Mom! Don't forget to write back letters!"

"I will, son!" shouts Zelda. "And watch out!"

And Ness reached the end of the harbor and accidentally falls into the water.

SPLASH

-

A few days after Zelda left, a letter arrived at their home.

Dear son and husband,

How are you two doing? I have reached the rich man's house and am working very well. The master is a very kind man and he treated me very well. Life is very good here! Still, I hope to come back to you as soon as possible!

From your mother, Zelda

"Good to hear that she's all right," says CF while reading the letter and drinking beer.

And so, letters came to their house every few days. Ness is very happy to be in contact with his mother.

But on that certain day…

"Dad, it's been a whole month already and there's been no letters coming!" says Ness.

"Sending letters isn't easy, son," CF tells him. "The mailman has to go through several dangers to get the job done."

"But no matter what danger there is, the letter would always arrive within a week!"

"Who cares?"

The days went on again, and no letter has arrived. Ness would love to send a letter there, but he doesn't know Master Hand's home address…

Soon, the lack of letters is bothering him greatly, so he came to a decision.

"What? You're going to The Country to find mom?" asks CF in surprise. "Are you for real?"

"I'm for real, dad!" says Ness determinedly. "Something must have happened to mom! I must go see her no matter what!"

"You have made a brave decision, son. But we do not have enough money to buy ourselves a ticket to go there! We only have enough for one person!"

"In that case, I'll go alone! Please, dad! I really want to see mother!"

After much convincing from Ness, Crazy Father finally decides to let Ness go find Zelda alone. So he bought him a ship ticket and gave him some money to take along, and so, Ness packed his stuffs and set off for the long journey.

-

"Take care, son!" shouts CF from the harbor.

"I will, dad! I will find mother and we will come back home together!" shouts Ness from the departing ship.

And so, the journey to search for the mother has begun…

-

That night, Ness is sitting on his bunk in the sleeping room. Since this ship ride is rather cheap, the sleeping rooms are rather small. Ness is sitting on his bed while drinking tomato juice. "I hope mother is all right," he thought. He looks out the window to if there's any sight worth watching, but since it's pitch black out there and has no lights, he couldn't see anything. "Aye… I'm bored… I wish something would happen…"

Then the ship begins rocking back and forth due to rough waves, and Ness slides around on his bed and accidentally spills some tomato juice onto his shirt.

"Whoa! This is bad! I got to clean this up!" So he got tissue papers and quickly cleans up the wet spot. Soon, he is done, but the juice's color had already dyed onto his shirt, but he simply shrugged it off. "Boy, I feel tired… I think I'll sleep now." So he dropped his head onto the pillow and immediately went to sleep.

About an hour later, the ship rocked around again and Ness is tossed out of his bed and onto the floor, and he didn't even wake up. The rolls around on the floor and towards the door that leads outside (he forgot to close it), and stops at the deck.

Then some hobo (played by Reed) steps out from his room to go to the toilet. "Toilet…" he mumbles slowly. Then he sees Ness lying on the floor and also the red spot on his shirt, and he begins to tremble with fright. "Blood… Someone died… HELP!!!!!!! MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"

And everyone on the ship is awakened.

"What happened?!"

"Fire?!"

"What the?!"

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!"

"Have we struck an iceberg?!"

"Godzilla?!"

-

The next day, the ship finally reached The Country. Everyone steps down from the ship, and every single one of them has really tired and sleepy faces. "Is everyone all right…?" asks the harbor guard.

-

Ness wasted no time in making his way to The Town, and since it's very near the harbor, he got there in a about an hour. In that place, he asked around her directions to Master Hand's house until he is lead to a large mansion.

"Mother is in there!" he thought excitedly. "At last! I'm going to find her!" He marches up to the door and knocks it, and the owner of the house, Wario, steps out.

"What is it, kid?" asks Wario.

"Excuse sir, is this the house of Master Hand?" asks Ness.

"Sorry, kid, but he moved already."

Ness is shocked to hear this. "What?!"

"He moved out about a month ago to a better place. This town is getting worse by the minute."

Ness drops onto his knees and begins to cry. "No… I went through all the trouble to come here, but…"

"What's wrong, kid? You want to see Master Hand so much? I can tell you where he moved to if you want to."

"Thanks, mister!"

So Wario gave him the address of Master Hand's new home, and so Ness once again set off to find his mother.

"Let's see… The new place is Another Town, also in this country… It seems very far from here."

Nevertheless, Ness made his way out of The Town and into a forest. Luckily, it's not an uncharted forest, but a well known hiking place, so there are lots of hikers and tourists around here.

The place is also very beautiful, so Ness took his time to marvel at the wonders of the nature here. "Wow! I have seen such beautiful trees and flowers!" he exclaims. Because he is too busy sightseeing, he bumps into Cranky Kong.

"Watch where you're going, ya brat!" shouts CK. "Don't you have eyes or are you blind, ya brat!"

"I'm so sorry, mister…"

After some lecturing from the cranky old ape, Ness continues moving through the forest until it's evening. Luckily, there is a traveler's lodge built in the middle of the forest for hikers, so Ness goes into it.

Ness went inside and asks the front desk for a room, and the person at the front desk (played by the landlady of 10 Lives Apartment) replies, "We're in shortage of rooms, so you'll have to share with some other people."

"That's all right," says Ness. "I'm happy as long as I have a room."

"Then follow me." So the landlady led him through the hallway and towards the room.

While they are on the way, Ness notices that most of the hikers here are young women. "Wow! This place sure is popular with girls!" he thought. "What if I have to share a room with several girls?" His mind begins to wander as he imagines the landlady telling him that he has to share a room with several other beautiful women. "Hehe! How nice would that be!" He begins to drool at the thought of this.

But in reality…

"You'll have to share a room with these people," says the landlady.

Ness looks into the room and sees that the roommates aren't the nicest kinds of people you would expect: Cranky Kong (the same guy who lectured him), some clown named Buggy, Mr. 1, Dr. Eggman, K. Rool, and K. Omplain.

"Uh… Thanks…" says Ness, not wanting to sound disappointed.

-

That evening, dinner is being served at the lodge's café. Ness got his meal and sees an empty spot at a table with several girls, so he decides to go over and sit there. But when he got near, some fat female dragon (played by Ms. Lump) comes over and bumps him away and took the place, so Ness had no choice but to sit with his roommates on the same table. They really don't look like the nicest of the bunch.

-

That night, the lodge has closed down and everyone is asleep. Ness woke up in the middle of the night and wants to go to toilet. "It's so dark…" he mumbles. He reaches into his bag and got out a flashlight to help him light the way. He shines around the room to find a way to the door and careful not to wake up any of the people in this room. They're not the kind of people you want to wake up.

As Ness carefully tiptoes through the room, Eggman turns around in his sleep and his hands hit Ness in the leg, causing him to fall over and land on top of the fat scientist, who immediately gets up and Ness is sent falling backwards and lands on top of Buggy. Soon, everyone in the room is awake, but Ness quickly zipped under his blanket and pretended that nothing happened.

"Who stepped on me?!" shouts Eggman.

"Who's trying to kill me?!" shouts Buggy.

"Would you guys shut up?!" shouts K. Rool.

"Who wants to die?" asks Mr. 1 coldly.

"I hate these kinds of lodge! They are the worst! People always kick around and drive me insane!" complains K. Omplain, and he proceeds on to give pointless ranting and grumbling.

"Nobody disturbs my beauty sleep!" shouts Cranky. Fortunately, none of them knew that it's Ness who started this.

After everyone has settled down again, Ness slowly got back up and got his flashlight, and this time successfully made it out the room. "I have to use the toilet no matter what…" he says to himself.

Suddenly, a door opens and Ms. Lump walks out, and not being human and the fact that her face looks quite scary half-asleep, Ness lets out a shriek. "GHOST!!!!!!!!!"

Immediately, Ms. Lumps jumps awake and shouts, "WHERE?! GHOST!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

And everyone got frightened up from sleep.

"Fire?!"

"Ghost?!"

"What?!"

"Thief?!"

"Argh! These kinds of lodges are the worst!"

"Who wants to die?"

"Can't you youngsters keep your mouth shut and let old grandpa have a sleep?!"

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!"

-

The next morning, everyone had breakfast and left the lodge, and they all have tired and sleepy faces as if they didn't sleep last night.

"What a night…" mumbles Ness. "I have to get on the road to find mom again…" So he continues to journey to look for mother.

He walks through the forest path, asking directions from passersby and relying on road signs. Eventually, he came to Another Town. "At last…" he says. "I can find mother here…"

He begins asking around the place for Master Hand's house, and he learned a shocking revelation. "What?! Master Hand moved again?!" he gasps.

"Yeah, he didn't like this place very much, so he moved," explains the current owner of Master Hand's former house, Mr. Game & Watch. "I think he moved to Yet Another Town."

"Oh… This is bothersome…"

"That place is really far from here. It takes at least 5 days to get there from here."

"Thanks for telling me… I have to move out…" And so, Ness begins to leave, but G&W stopped him.

"Wait, kid! How about I hire some people to give you a lift there?"

"Why thanks! That would be great!"

So G&W hired a driver named Captain Falcon. "C'mon, kid! Hop aboard!" CF says to Ness. "I'll take you to Yet Another Town in a jiffy!"

"Thanks, mister!"

So they board onto CF's expensive car found nowhere else in the world and zoomed off at an unimaginable speed.

The ride went smoothly and it seems that Ness will reach Yet Another Town very soon. When night came, CF stopped his car at a small inn for a break. "It's not safe to drive at night, so we'll rest here," says CF. "Go rest at that inn; I'll take you again tomorrow morning."

"Thanks!" says Ness, and he heads to the inn. Inside, he asks for a room, but the innkeeper (played by Susanna Luvly) told him that all the rooms are full, so he may have to share a room with other people. "Um… That's okay…" Ness begins to worry that the room will be filled with not so nice people again, like at the forest lodge.

So the innkeeper lead him to his room, and to Ness's surprise, it's full of girls in there! (Tifa, Yuffie, Ms. Valentine, Tayuya; to name a few)

"Wow! Thanks! I like this room!" says Ness excitedly. So he spent a happy night with the girls.

Okay, the night isn't so happy. The girls are the wild type, and they spent the whole night drinking and getting drunk, and so acting very wild and doing crazy stuff. Poor Ness had to suffer the whole night in the corner of the room trying to sleep, enduring the laughing, screaming, catfights, and beer bottle hurling. He preferred the night at the lodge with those evil-looking men.

-

The next morning, Ness had his breakfast and went outside to find Captain Falcon, but to his surprise, he did not see the car! "Where'd he go?" Then he notices a notice taped on a nearby electric pole.

I hate to tell you this, kid. But I had to rush back home because my grandma is very sick. You're on your own, kid.

From Douglas J. Falcon

"This sucks…" grumbles Ness, but he had no choice but to walk along the only road towards Yet Another Town.

-

The trip is not easy, as there are no stores or resting places along this really long and seemingly endless road. Sometimes he would take a break or he would try to call for cars to pick him up. He managed to pick up a truck ride, but then the truck driver (played by Samurai Goroh) took his money and kicked him out, so Ness was left without any money, and his supplies are running low.

Still, he managed to stay up and tried his best to keep moving, despite the hardships he had to face. Now isn't this so touching?

-

After 5 days of tireless walking, Ness finally reached Yet Another Town, and he is wearing ragged clothes and is really skinny and beaten up. "Mom… Where are you…?"

Then some kind passersby saw him and immediately took him under their care. When Ness recovered, he told them the reason he is here, and the people are touched by his story. Wasting no time, the people tracked down Master Hand's house and they finally found it, and Ness is sent over there.

At long last…

"MOM!!!!!!!!!!!" shouts Ness with joy as he jumps into Zelda's arms, who is lying sickly in bed.

"My son! I never thought you would come find me!" says Zelda happily.

The others watch from the side happily and not to mention with tears. "How touching… The boy went a long way to find his mother," says MH. "I've never heard a more touching tale than this…"

As it turned out, Zelda got sick during her work, so she couldn't write letters. MH, worried about her health, kept on moving to new places to live in, hoping Zelda will recover.

To make a long story short, Crazy Father is called over to this place, and the whole family lived happily ever after in Yet Another Town.


END OF STORY

I'm sure of you might have heard this tale somewhere, though it's not as well known as the others. Touching, isn't it?

Like Vic Viper, Buggy from One Piece has not appeared in any of my past stories, but he, too, will have a role as one of the main villains in Rise of the Negativities, that explains why he is here: To advertise for that story.