Motherbound Zero part 8
"Friends as Foes"
"This can't be good," said Lucas. He and his friends Ness and Ninten were still staring at the 6 masked people standing on the roof of a tall building. The six of them stared down at the boys who were frozen in shock.
"How in the world are we going to defeat six of these guys when we couldn't take three!" Ninten proclaimed.
"We fight anyway," Ness said confidently.
"Ninten, get off Ness," Lucas said tugging on Ninten's sleeve.
"Oh yeah," Ninten said getting off Ness.
"Whew great cause you weigh a ton," Ness said sitting up.
"Whatever let's just focus," Ninten said holding out his hand. Ninten pulled Ness off the ground. The other masked fighters were slightly puzzled by this.
"Weren't you two just fighting a minute ago?" Claus asked.
"Yeah we do that often," Ness said.
"Just be glad you don't have to deal with it off and on, off and on, all day," Lucas said sadly.
"Were not that bad are we?" Ninten asked. Lucas nodded wildly.
"We'll excuse us," Ness said.
"You two are kinda interesting," Claus said.
"Thanks," they both said. Soon the three of them were joined by Flint, Duster, Kumatora, and Boney. Upon noticing their increased odds the three PSI boys smirked at each other then up at the Masked People. Claus simply turned his attention to the new arrivals with indifference.
"It's nice to see you guys again as well," Claus said.
"Claus…is that you?" Flint questioned in utter shock. The commander's response was simple nod. "So you did survive, but why are with the Pigmask army again, I thought you were over that?" Flint asked with such sadness.
"There's no need to feel sorry I just can't help it. I'm afraid to say I like this job,"
"Claus are you really going to put Lucas through this again on purpose?" Duster exclaimed. Claus then started to laugh.
"Well it doesn't really matter if he can't even remember what I put him through," Claus said. At that Lucas's gaze turned to the dirt. Ness and Ninten looked at each other then nod, Ninten nudged Lucas with his elbow to get his attention. Lucas looked at him, and Ninten simply nods toward the Masked People. Lucas at first confused but went along anyway. "Our little Lucas has forgotten all about you, me, and even himself. At this point he's pretty useful, and he could be quite a beneficiary,"
Claus made no sense to what he was saying. From their stand point it sounded like he planned on using Lucas in some way. However, it was unclear what for and his true intentions. Noticing Ness and Niten's silence to such an attack on Lucas they all turned their attention to the three, but they saw he and his friends were no longer standing where there. Then everyone had the same question on their mind.
"Where'd they go?" they all said.
"You guys should really pay more attention," said a voice from behind the masked fighters. They all turned to see Ness ready with his PK Rockin, Ninten ready with his PK Starbeam, and Lucas ready with his PK Love. They fired their own respective attacks at the masked fighters and blasted them off the building top. They all pulled out their wings descending on the ground safely.
"Sneak attack! That's low," Claus proclaimed. Then Ness, Lucas, and Ninten came to the ground to engage them.
"Hey, we weren't going to let you trash talk Lucas all day, besides we practically walked to get there. You were just so busy flapping your gums to realize we weren't even standing there anymore," Ness said unleashing a PK Rocken into the thick of the group. However, the Masked People all dodged it perfectly with Ness failing to his any of them. Surprised that his attack failed to hit any of his targets he tried again, aiming for the one the with a J on his helmet. However, the Masked Boy J pulled out a disk like object that suddenly expanded and blocked the intense blast of PSI. Ness failed to notice that the male Masked Soldier P snuck up behind him and struck hard in the back of his head with a roundhouse kick.
Ninten noticed his friend threatening to be overwhelmed when the two girl Masked Soldiers who wore skirts instead of sweat pants, but they were the same color of faded orange. Both girls intervened in his way as they both unleashed a powerful PK Fire β, but combined together felt like an omega level blast. Ninten crossed his arms as he raised a PSI Shield to protect himself against the intense flames. His blue shield withstood the intense pressure of the flames as they broke apart as the stream hit the shield. However, it would not hold long. Suddenly, the girls were surrounded by pillars of rock that shot out of the ground to trap them. Ninten sighed with relief as his shield fell. He looked over to see Kumatora give him a thumbs up, to which he smiled to grateful.
Ness was taking on the other two Masked Soldiers, Soldier J, and Male soldier P. Ness flexed his body into an awkward position tilting his head to dodge a kick from the P soldier, and sticking out his chest as laser blast past his back almost burning off his backpack. Suddenly, a small item landed at Masked Soldier J's feet, which caught his attention. His eyes widened to see a short fuse bomb. The moment he saw it he tried to get distance, but he remained in the blast radius as he was blown back. Ness was too busy to take full notice since he still had his hands full with the other soldier. He blocked a palm strike with his forearm then pushed the hand away to escape a grab, and responded with a jab. The Masked Soldier tilted his body out of the way to dodge, but then he grabbed Ness arm making bend at the elbow in his grasp as he placed the hand behind Ness's back. The Soldier was still close as he grabbled with Ness then bended backwards from his torso to slam Ness face first into the dirt.
Ness groaned at the aching in his arm and face plant. The soldier reached for his sword on his hip only to be tackled by a brown blur. Ness tried shaking off the pain as he noticed the brown dog take on the strange sword wielding foe. The dog performed an excellent dodge roll to avoid the blade then ran between the Masked soldier's legs. Successfully distracting him enough for Ness the nail him with a powerful PK Rocken blast.
"That's my dog!" Ness said petting Boney on the head.
Lucas stared down his brother Claus trying to read him, but simply could not. The fact could be that Claus was swinging his sword at him so viciously that studying his psyche had to take a back seat. Lucas squats down under the sword then leaned on his right leg as he flattened out his body to dodge a diagonal slash. Claus brought the butt of his sword toward Lucas's face, but Lucas caught him by the wrist. Lucas turned his back to Claus as he flipped the boy onto his back and disarming him. Claus looked up at Lucas surprised as Lucas pinned down Claus's arms as he looked down at Claus upside down.
"Well…never knew you had that in you," Claus said.
"Then makes two of us,"
"Why fight me Lucas, you think this might change anything. You may not remember, but I can tell you it won't. Let me help you show who you really are,"
"Tell me how to stop the world from falling apart," Lucas said trying to ignore the offer that was made. Claus however did see a twinkle of interest, and that's all he needed.
"Save the world?" Claus questioned. "Lucas, you went on this long journey just to destroy it. Look around, you see anything worth dying for around here," Lucas took a quick glance around the area still keeping a firm grip on Claus's arms. Lucas admits this place didn't seem much, but the powerful feeling familiarity was too strong. He couldn't simply let this place go, this is where they were, this is where he would get the answers. "You want answers don't you…not just to who you are, but what you fight for? Who your friends are? Who are your enemies? Why you have the ability to use PSI? And where does this power come from? You want these answers, don't you?"
"…I…"
"Don't you?" Lucas stared down at his brother's eye seeing some form of compassion despite it being mechanical, but he couldn't…he just couldn't turn on his friends. "Don't you wanna share your story with them too?" Lucas stared down at him.
"Lucas!" Flint called over to the boy. Lucas was shocked out his stupor and looked over to Flint. However, this distraction allowed Claus jerk up his left leg enough to plant the bottom of his boot into Lucas's check. Lucas lost his grip as Claus shot to his feet.
"Will you ever get this close to the answers?" Claus said pushing the boy down to the ground after he was up on his feet again. Lucas charged up his PSI as he stared up his brother unsure if he should attack or not. Flint rushed over to his boys trying to get them to see reason.
"Please, Claus, don't go through with this again. Don't you see? This is a second chance at life for you, don't you want that?" Flint asked extending his hand. Claus stared at Flint with indifference, a sudden vision passed through Lucas mind of Flint on the ground in pain. Lucas jumped to his feet to tackle his father to the ground right after Claus shot out a powerful PK Hate. The blast was strong enough to unleash a powerful gust of wind as it exploded. Lucas clutched his father tightly as the wind began dying down. Lucas stared up at Claus, astounded, that he had such reserves of power.
"Us again!" Ness exclaimed swing horizontal kick into The commander's head. Ninten came from the opposite direction to swing his cupped fist into his chin launching him. Claus deployed his wings then points his cannon at him. Lucas leaps up to grab and point his cannon arm up into the air as it fired and thus harming no one. Lucas pulled back his right hand to push it forward to send out a PK Love into the boy's chest. Claus was sent to the ground rolling in anger. Upon his downfall the other Masked Soldiers retreated to surround their leader.
"Damn it…he's still so damn powerful…" Claus growled.
"I thought you might've been able to overwhelm him like last time," Masked Soldier J said with thinking face.
"He's getting stronger, even more powerful then when he did have his memory. This isn't making sense…"
"Hey guys, anytime you wanna give up just let us know," Ness called over to them.
The Female Masked Soldier P simply huffed at Ness cockiness, "You shouldn't be so confident when we're still able to fight," said the girl folding her arms. Ness for some reason just suddenly took a liking to her. She was dressed kinda like the guys except she had a skirt that went to her knees and her jacket sleeves were shorter.
"Well maybe I can make up for that rudeness," Ness said.
"Not if you were the last guy on earth," she said turning her head.
"Well with how things are going, I might just wind up being just that,"
"Ness are you really trying to flirt with her of all times," Ninten proclaimed.
"Maybe,"
"What about that Paula girl?" Lucas asked.
"Who?" Ness asked.
"You are so sad," Lucas said shaking his head. Upon hearing the conversation the girl who Ness was attempting to flirt with became furious.
"PK Fire!" she yelled. Ness noticed the flames at the last minute as he jumped over them doing a split.
"Whoa, seems like she's got the hots for you Ness," Ninten said elbowing him. Claus had his hand in his face the whole time while doing this some of the others giggled.
"Soldier P, get back in line please," said Claus embarrassed.
"That was weird," Ness muttered.
"Really? I thought all girls react to you that way," Ninten said. Ness reached into his backpack pulled out a roll of tape tore a piece then slapped it on Ninten's mouth. "I think the world will be a much happier place now,"
"Are these guys for real?" Claus muttered to himself in disbelief that they were losing to these guys. Finally growing annoyed he lashed out, "Enough of this!"
"What's with him?" Ness asked. Lucas remembered he did that when they were talking.
"He just suddenly goes berserk for no reason I wonder why," Lucas thought.
"You're just stalling because you know we'll win!" Claus proclaimed.
"Were you not paying attention to what happened, we cleaned your clocks," Ness said.
"For now, we won't let that continue though," Claus said.
"Ah… really why's that?" Ninten asked finally removing the tape.
Claus simply pointed at his helmet, "These helmets link our powers and abilities to each other, so what ever he can do I can do as well. We all have power shared between us," Ness, Ninten, and Lucas all traded glances with each other noting that this power was similar to their own ability.
"That's why you couldn't beat us before we were sharing power, and our minds are linked so we don't even have to communicate with each other verbally," said the "J" masked soldier.
"Well to bad for you guys their not fighting alone," said Kumatora as she Duster, Flint, and Boney ran to their side.
"I have an idea about that so called power," Ness whispered to everybody. "Individually their powerful but it they have to fight as a group then they'll use up their power faster,"
"Oh, I see, so we just make them lose their cool and if they use to much then all of them will be too weak to fight," Ninten said.
"But we have to remember their strong without that connection so we still must be careful," Lucas said.
The battle took off again setting off in another gear. Kumatora tried her PK Earth to control the earth to contain Female Soldier P and A like last time. The two of them however unleashed a psychic shockwave that shattered the rock about to surround them. Kumatora raised a shield, barley in time, as a blast of PSI nailed her in the chest with the shield taking half of the damage. Soldier J fired his laser pistol at Duster who was forced to duck behind a piece of metal from a leftover tank. Male Masked Soldier P slammed his elbow into Boney's head knocking the dog to the ground. Ness was forced to intervene to prevent the dog from getting impaled. Lucas and Ninten rushed Claus, but the Commander proved to be much powerful. He deflected Ninten's fist then kicked him away, and in return he blasted Lucas in the chest with an intense blast of red PSI.
Ninten growled in annoyance as Lucas knocked to the ground by a heavy attack. Ninten rushed forward to tackle Claus to keep him from impaling Lucas. Claus threw him off easily, but clearly he's lacking in the energy department.
"Let's turn it up guys!" Ness called. Instantly, Ness, Ninten, and Lucas activated PK Trinity.
"PK Burst!" all three of them exclaimed as they threw back the Masked People through the air, and completely at their mercy. The power unleashed shattered the very ground on which they stood on. The power was so powerful that it actually factored in the distortions creating a powerful flux. This surge actually threw off all three of the boy's minds a bit as they got a little thrown off.
Ninten then suddenly remembered he had a question, "Just one final question before we finish you guys off. What did you do with our friends?" Ninten asked.
"Yeah, and what's up with this fake Ness business," Ness added. Claus actually looked unsure.
"I don't know anything about your friends, and I don't even know who they are. I also don't know about a fake Ness. The only person that looks like you Ninten is standing right next to you," Claus said pointing.
"What?" Ninten questioned angered. He was so sure that it wasn't Ness though, but it seemed that strange spacial distortion seemed to mess with his mind.
"Yeah, I haven't seen anyone on our side that even resembles either of you two," Claus said. Ninten looked puzzled then he turned to Ness. Ness caught his gaze and began to feel nervous. Unfortunately Ninten could see Ness's nervousness.
"Why so nervous Ness?" Ninten said now turning toward him.
"C-Come on Ninten, I know what you're thinking," Ness said getting really nervous.
"What you think I'm thinking you're a lying, deceitful, little creep, and you are the worst kinda person I'll ever meet. Because if you think that was what I'm thinking your quite right," Ninten said stepping toward Ness. Lucas then jumped in between them.
"Ninten, the enemy is over there not here, besides you know Ness by now do you really think he would do that to you to himself?" Lucas asked.
"Sure, we're gonna ask amnesia boy for advice," Ninten said.
"Shut up you jerk!" Lucas yelled hurt by his words.
"You think you're so smart, well where are your memories Lucas, huh?"
"I….I….I don't know okay!"
"So what makes you think you can solve this problem,"
"You better back off Ninten, seriously," Ness said stepping in. "If a fight is what you want your about to get it,"
"We are not going through this again! Because this time I will just let you go off on your own," Lucas said. Ninten had a serious look on his face like he was in no mood for someone to not do what he wanted.
"My…this is… a different turn of events then I expected," Claus said rubbing his chin.
"All you do is whine about everything Lucas!" Ness exclaimed.
"And all you two can think to do is to beat someone up. That isn't the answer to everything!" Lucas retorted. Now Lucas and Ness were arguing which is even rarer then Ninten yelling at Lucas. This so called friendship was coming apart at the seams for no apparent reason.
"You're both stupid!" Ninten yelled.
"You're both morons!" Lucas yelled.
"I wish you two would rot!" Ness yelled.
It seemed like in a moments notice that suddenly all three of them began fighting. Lucas shooting out his PSI attacks at both boy's were able to dodge. Ninten swung a haymaker at Ness who leaped over it while sending a kick at Lucas head, but the boy jerked his head away from it.
"What is wrong with you guys!" Duster exclaimed.
"Something is wrong here…" Kumatora muttered in thought sensing something odd in the air. Ninten had a balled up fist then backhanded Lucas out of the way. Lucas slammed to the ground; the attack really threw him off guard. Then Lucas started to hear laughter. He wondered who would be laughing in a situation like this. He looked up to see his brother was giggling.
"Bet ya didn't see that one coming huh bro. Now stop wasting time over there and come where you belong," Claus said. Suddenly something in Lucas just snapped. What little good times he did remember with his brother had suddenly disappeared while only bad ones replaced them. Lucas was done with Claus once and for all. Lucas slowly and calmly got up brushing himself off. His hair was covering his eyes. He seemed calm though so no one expected what had been going on inside of him.
"Lucas, was always in the way!" Ness said annoyed as he continued battling Ninten. Lucas didn't answer anyone only sinking his fingers into the dirt. Ness figured it was shock from being hit like that. Ness blocked a punch from Ninten to return with a kick that Ninten blocked.
"Guys you're supposed to fight them not each other," Kumatora said stepping in.
"If anybody else stands in between me and him again I WILL disintegrate you," Ninten said so coldly.
"Oh, it has a backbone all of a sudden," Ness said. Ness was then launched by powerful haymaker that through him into the air and plowed into the ground quite some distance away. Ninten jumped up to slam his feet into Ness's chest, but Ness rolled away at the last moment then dove in for a superman punch directly into Ninten's jaw.
"Wow, I have never seen him that angry before," said masked soldier "A".
"Same here," said masked soldier "L".
"Who cares let's just take care of this bunch," Claus said. Lucas's head was still hanging down.
"I'm going to end you," said a cold voice. It actually gave chills to who ever heard the voice. Lucas then looked to Claus with blood lust in his eyes. Claus could see Lucas's eyes had turned a faded red.
"A-Attack," Claus said pulling out his sword and pointing it. All the masked soldiers charged at Lucas. Lucas with his left hand charged with PSI energy punched "J" soldier across the face. With the same hand he brought back into the neck of "J" soldier making him fall down. "P" soldier came in straight forward he then threw a punch with his right hand. Before his fist reached Lucas's face Lucas grabbed his wrist. He then twisted it counter clock wise. Then with Lucas's right hand he charged up a PK Spark attack. He brought him closer then Lucas put his hand on his chest then fired three powerful burst out his hand and straight to his chest. Smoke actually came out his chest as Lucas stepped to side letting him drop to the ground. Then both girls had charged him. Lucas grabbed the throat of "P" soldier then made her collide with "A" soldier then spun her around and slammed her into the ground.
Everyone was horrified at Lucas's viciousness. If anyone who had a heart saw this they would surly break a tear. "This isn't the Lucas we know that's not the son I raised," Flint said shocked.
"Lucas has always been a good kid why would he…" Duster said.
"Because…that's not who I am now…" Lucas called back. "I've been so lost…so confused, and lonely. I didn't think I did anything to deserve this, so why am I putting up with it! My chest hurts, and my head aches. I'm tired of all this confusion, so if I can't get it one way, I'll get my past back another," He then started to walk towards Claus who was actually too scared to move. "Ha, isn't this ironic, but I guess the only difference is your too scared to move," Lucas said laughing at him. Claus then swallowed his fear then held up his thunder sword. Lucas looked at him with an eyebrow raised. "You sure you wanna do that, but then again I'm going to kill you either way,"
"You're not Lucas, who are you?" Claus asked.
"Claus don't you recognize you sweet younger twin brother?" Lucas asked with his hands behind his back as he rocks on his heels.
"PK Thunderbeam!" Claus exclaimed. A powerful beam made of pure electricity was coming at Lucas. Lucas smiled as he activated his PK Burst. Lucas gained a white aura around himself then held out his hands. He then took the attack then converted it into a ball in between his hands. Lucas held the ball up high then charged some of his energy into it. Then brought the ball back down then fired an incredible beam of energy mixed with yellow and white at Claus.
Claus was too surprised to do anything, as he was overwhelmed by the attack. When the light finally died down everyone saw Claus barley standing. Claus's arm canon and thunder sword fell apart into pieces on the ground. Claus then fell forward on his front then his masked just fell off. Lucas then walked over then turned his brother over by pushing him with his foot.
"Sad… just sad how easy this was," Lucas said disappointed.
"I knew you wouldn't kill me your still my brother Lucas,"
"You really shouldn't cling on to such remedial titles. I obviously wasn't trying to kill you, I just wanted to tell you before you go that I'm relieving you of command," Lucas said.
"What?" Claus said lowly.
"Yep, turns out you're just not cut out to be commander anymore sorry bro, but that's how the cookie crumbles," Lucas said picking up his helmet.
"I guess you can keep the uniform, no need for me to wear that ragity thing. Besides, it suits you for your coffin, that is, if anyone wants to throw you a funeral," Lucas said. He turned to the masked soldiers recovering from the attack. "Any complaints to this new management?" They were silent in response to his question.
"What! You all are supposed to serve me," Claus said now on his hands and knees.
"Oh, don't feel bad Claus, there just puppets, who serve who they feel is the strongest, and I say I just proved that's me," Lucas said.
"But…" Claus protested. Lucas then walked over then gazed into his brothers blood red eyes. Suddenly Lucas's eyes began to get a darker red while Claus's started returning to its original color. Until now Lucas's eyes were even redder than Claus's were. Claus's eyes were now back to there normal color.
"Lucas …do you know what you did?" Claus asked now feeling really weak.
"Originally, you asked for death when we met at the seventh needle… well brother wish granted," Lucas smiled. He then hugged Claus around the chest then released him. Claus was now sitting on his legs. Lucas put the helmet on his head then smiled as his left hand started to glow. Then he pointed it as Claus then a beam came right out his hand. "PK Pierce," Lucas said. The stabbing blade of energy had gone right through Claus's stomach. Everyone was in total and complete shock.
"I don't believe it he…" Flint said with tears running down his face. Lucas released the beam making Claus fall on his left side.
"I say what I mean and mean what I say," Lucas said.
"Lucas!" someone called. Lucas turned to see Fuel. Fuel looked horrified at what he just saw.
"Don't be such a baby Fuel, it's nothing, besides if I know my brother he'll be back," Lucas said now dismissing his presence.
"Shall we go the ship is waiting," said soldier "P"
"Yeah, let's get going," Lucas said. Flint and the others rushed to Claus's side as all the Masked People began walking toward the ship that still functioned enough to fly. Kumatora attempted to use her PSI Heal omega to help the wound, and Flint and Duster were attempting to stop the bleeding.
"Should we…?" ask male soldier "P"
"Naaa leave em be, they aren't very important," Lucas said glancing at them. Suddenly, there was an explosion and then Ness came flying through the air and landed harshly on his feet. He glared up to see Ninten came rushing at him like a rhino. Ninten swung a wild hook punch, but Ness side stepped it, and afterwards he grabbed Ninten's head to slam his knee into nose. To finish him off he swung his leg for a sweep kick knocking Ninten's feet from under him. Ness mounted Ninten then placed his forearm against his throat as he placed his knees on Ninten's arms. Ness held up one hand with a charged PSI attack ready to end Ninten there and now.
"Stop!" Kumatora exclaimed grabbing his arm before it came down. She shoved him off Ninten allowing Ninten to get up. Ninten was about to come charging again, but Kumatora slammed a karate chop on his neck knocking him down. Ninten was much stronger than expected, as he was still conscious. However, he seemed to be much calmer now.
"What, ow, geez that hurt!" Ninten said rapidly rubbing his neck.
"This'll hurt even more!" Ness said as he launched a PK Laser at Ninten. Ninten was overtaken by the attack and fell to the ground this time laying unconscious. Ness charged forward to finish him, but fell short when Kumatora decked him so hard he was knocked out. She hit his temple and he was growing tired as well so that helped.
"What was going on with them?" Duster asked worried.
"I don't know, but we should definitely find out," Kumatora said with her hands on her hips. They all glanced up at the sky to see the dot of the ship that had carried the Masked People away long before they settled this battle. They all sighed at how things feel apart. It was so sudden and so unexplained, but they planned on getting to the bottom of it. But first, three people needed medical attention.
"We'll take Ninten and Ness to Alec's place, Flint you go ahead and take Claus home and see what you can do," Duster said still in the mode of adrenaline. Flint didn't even give a nod as he carried his barley breathing son home. Kumatora and Duster decided to carry the two none related twins.
"Gosh, this is a fine mess these three has put us in," Duster groaned.
"I know, still, they're the thing we need if we wanna save Lucas," Kumatora said glancing at where the ship was momentarily in the sky.
Lucas joined up with the masked warriors then flew away in their ship, Ness and Ninten are unconscious. Suddenly things got a whole lot worse than what anybody thought possible. It was sad to see the purest of people succumb to corruption.
