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Lucario's Haunting Past

Chapter 9: Searching

"Dammit!" Snake cursed. Fox, Red, Lucas, Ness and he stood in front of a large house just outside the bustling city of Jubilife. Snake was getting impatient and quite annoyed with this new development.

"Well this sure poses a problem," Fox bluntly stated.

"Damn right it does!" Snake snapped ", We come all the way out here, took a few hours to find this f…ing place, and here we find this!" He pointed at a large for sale sign that now had a large "SOLD" written over it. Quickly he grew sick of looking at it so he kicked it over.

"You're overreacting Snake," Red butted in ", We just got to look elsewhere. It's not the end of the world."

"Well, it took us hours to find this place and f…ing Johnny doesn't even live here anymore. Now we have to go back and figure out where the hell the guy lives now." Snake crossed his arms and leaned up against a tree.

"He's right about that," Ness agreed with Snake ", How are we going to find where he lives now? He obviously isn't here anymore."

The group all sat and thought about it. Where in the hell could a guy like Johnny have gone? It was quite puzzling. Even after ten minutes of straight thinking, none of them could come up with an idea. A few of them gave up thinking and enjoyed the scenery around them, Lucas being one of them. He zoned out and just stared at the surrounding land. It was sunny and beautiful out. There were rolling green hills behind the house and flowers scattered about. Some bird-like poke'mon called starley perched themselves up in a nearby tree. This world was quite a nice place, or at least this particular spot. Still, Lucas wondered about other worlds like where Fox and Snake came from. What was that like? Other worlds…suddenly an idea hit him.

"I got it!" Lucas shouted out scaring the living hell out of the rest of his friends.

"Holy crap Lucas don't do that!" Fox shouted back in a shaky voice from being surprised ", I nearly jumped out of my fur!"

"Sorry, but I think I know where we can find Johnny…for the most part," Lucas continued.

"Alright then, out with it," Snake urged him on.

"What if Johnny isn't in this world?" Lucas suggested. Puzzled looks were all he got as a response. Lucas sighed and continued ", Well think about it for a second, how would he have known that Lucario was going to be at the graveyard here?"

"Maybe it was coincidence," Red suggested ", Maybe he was going to visit a grave."

"But that can't be right, he was carrying a gun first of all and he was calm and casual. If you were there, you could just tell that it was planned. What if he was in the Smash World and he was spying on us to see if he could catch Lucario going somewhere alone? So maybe he moved to the Smash World."

The other smasher's thought about if for a moment. Some parts seemed logical, but some seemed a bit…weird. They all looked at each other for a moment, then nodded in agreement. Fox turned to Lucas.

"That's not a bad idea Lucas," Fox complimented ", It's not the most solid idea, but it is possible."

"Besides, we don't have anything else to go on," Snake threw in.

"Alright…now how do we find out where he lives there if he does?" Lucas realized the error in his plan. All the enthusiasm from before left Lucas, Snake and Red at this realization. Fox and Ness however just grinned a bit.

"What? You hiding something?" Snake asked.

"You guys give up too easily. You forgot about Master Hand," Ness replied.

"Yeah, he keeps a list of all the residents of the Smash World," Fox continued ", All we need to do is ask him to look for Johnny and hopefully we can pinpoint his new house…that is if he lives in the Smash World."

"Really? Whew. For a moment there I was thinking we were back to square one," Red sighed.

"Well what are we waiting around here for?" Lucas asked impatiently ", Let's go!"

Master Hand blissfully floated around his office. It had to be quite large to accommodate his large size, being a giant floating hand after all. Though he was organizing papers and such, he was in a surprisingly good mood after a really good brawl that happened only minutes ago. It was sure to bring the ratings up and there would be plenty of money coming in. It seemed that nothing could possibly go wrong today, then five smashers burst into the room frantically.

"Master Hand we need you to find a guy named Johnny for us now!" Lucas shouted.

"Whoa whoa slow down! Repeat that?" Master Hand asked the psychic boy.

"Let me rephrase that," Fox sighed ", Could you please help us find a certain resident here in the Smash World. It's really important."

"Hmm…" Master Hand thought about it for a moment ", I could allow that, but that breaks the privacy policy. I don't believe I can let you look at that list for an address, it goes against the rules."

"But you made the rules!" Ness threw in ", Can't you bend them?"

"I could…but it just doesn't seem right to me. It would have to be a truly important reason for me to do so."

"Let's just say that your prized aura wielding smasher, Lucario, has been kidnapped," Snake explained ", is that 'truly important' enough for you?"

"What!? Hell yeah that is!" If there was one thing that Master Hand hated the most, it was when one of his fighters went missing. Even if it was one of the less popular smashers like Jigglypuff he went ballistic. "Bring that list up, we need to find this guy this instant!"

Master Hand took them all into the viewing room where PORTAL's main monitor resided. Master Hand summoned a special keyboard to fit his massive…well, to fit him.

"What did you say his name was again?" he asked.

"Johnny um…Miller I think it was," Fox answered.

Master Hand typed in Jonathon Miller into the search bar and a list of Jonathon Millers appeared.

"You're quite lucky that there aren't actually a whole lot of Johnny Millers in the Smash World. There are 56 of them and only 22 go by the nickname Johnny."

"Alright, we're looking for a fairly rich middle-aged man with a wife of about the same age and a teenage son," Fox explained. Master Hand complied and typed in those factors. PORTAL narrowed down the selection to one possibility.

"That's our man," Snake pointed out ", Now see if you can pinpoint his location."

Master Hand pushed a key and a map was pulled up on the screen and a little red blip showed on the map. A bubble with an arrow pointing to the blip showed his house and contained address information. The house was quite large and extravagant.

"I believe we caught the kidnapper," Red gave a thumbs up to Master Hand ", Thanks for the help! Can you come with us to help us rescue Lucario?"

"Unfortunately I can't go," Master Hand replied in a disappointed tone ", I have so much work to do and I couldn't possibly put it in the hands of any single person other than myself."

"Alright, in that case let's go right now!" Lucas started to take off for the door anxiously, until Snake grabbed his arm.

"No, not yet."

"What! Why?"

"You can't just run into a place without knowing what you're up against. I need to take some recon first so we know where and how we can bust in and get Lucario out of there."

"It's getting late though," Fox yawned ", Maybe we should do that tomorrow."

All the smashers nodded in agreement except Lucas.

"But what about Lucario!" he tried to convince them.

"Don't worry so much about him Lucas," Red calmed him ", He's a tough poke'mon, I'm sure he can take care of himself for tonight."

"But…but…okay…" Lucas reluctantly agreed. All five of them said goodnight to each other and headed straight for their dorms.

None of the five friends could sleep well that night. Snake was the only one that went straight to sleep; he wasn't one to dwell on things. Lucas however, had the hardest time falling asleep. He was really close to Lucario and didn't want anything to happen to him. He could only imagine what he was going through at the moment. What if Johnny was beating him? What if he was in pain? What if he made a friend there and Johnny killed him or her? So many questions ran through his head as he lay there in his bed staring up at the ceiling. He rolled over to look at the clock, which read 1:37 AM. He knew he needed sleep but he just couldn't. He sighed and continued to stare at the ceiling.

"Lucario," he spoke under his breath ", Please be okay…"

Shortly after, he nodded off to sleep.

Okay, that was kind of a boring chapter maybe sorta kinda. I guess I wasn't too fond of it but I don't know what you guys think XD

Lucario-…

Oh, sorry to any Jigglypuff fans for referring to her as a less popular smasher. She just isn't to me, I hate her so deal XP

Lucario-…

Lucario, you're emo.

Lucario-What? No I'm not!

Okay then…R&R peoples :D