As Falco walked through the second floor corridor of Smash Mansion, he stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the baseball capped boy approaching.

"Aha!" Falco grinned. "'You are exactly who I've been searching for this whole time."

The azure feathered brawler watched the baseball capped boy carefully; he noticed that as Ness walked through the corridor, he constantly turned his head from side to side to check if anyone was behind him.

"Hm…this is suspicious behavior indeed…" Falco whispered. "This is very suspicious behavior."

After making sure everyone was out of sight; Ness quickly dashed up the flight of stairs that lead to the Smash Mansion attic.

"Hm…The Smash Mansion rule book strictly indicates that 'No brawler is allowed in the Smash Mansion Attic'…" Falco questioned. "Yet Ness chooses to violate the rule by going up anyway…very VERY suspicious behavior indeed."

Falco quietly walks up the stairs and stands outside the door; he peered his head in taking a look inside the forbidden attic.

The attic was completely empty; except for a piece of dusty furniture and an ancient black telephone that sat above it.

The baseball capped boy had a terrified look on his face as he grabbed the phone and began dialing the numbers nervously.

"Ness never known to be unhappy…" The blue feathered brawler was shocked at Ness' unusual facial expression. "He's the happiest kid in this mansion."

"Hello Ness, this is your father." Falco could hear a deep voice coming from the telephone receiver. "I have deposited $1000,0000…"

"Never mind that…" Ness replied anxiously. "Dad…please you have to listen to me!"

"The number of experience points you need for the next level is…" The raspy voice in the receiver continued, obviously ignoring the boy's pleas.

"Dad, please listen to me!" Ness was practically screaming. Falco watched in horror as tears began to stream down the young boy's face. "I can't take it anymore!"

"Ugh…what is it now, Ness?" The voice demanded.

"I…keep seeing him, Dad."

"Seeing who?"

Ness shut his eyes before choking out the name…"G-g-giygas."

"Ness, please. Don't waste my time with these little nightmares of yours again."

"That's just it. They're not JUST nightmares anymore, Dad…" The young boy took a shaky deep breath before continuing. "When I close my eyes...he's there. He's there when I open them..."

Ness's bottom lip suddenly quivered in fear as he jerked back his head; dropping the phone. "There, Did you hear him?"

"I didn't hear anything, son."

"How could you not?" Ness fidgeted in fear as he fell to the floor engaging in a fetal position. He could hear the same ominious sounds he once heard when engaging in battle with Giygas a while back. "He never stops…" Ness's eyes quadrupled in size as he slammed his hands to his ears at the piercing sound of Giygas' muttering voice deep within his head. "Please stop…" The boy shut his eyes as he whispered to himself. "Please…leave me alone."

Falco looked to his surrounding to grasp the voice but none was heard. "I…don't hear anything..."

"Ness, pick up the receiver." His father ordered.

"He's always calling my name…"Ness whimpered as he hugged his legs to his chest His face indicating pure terror. "He's here. Always around me, I see him in the face of every brawler. I can feel him wrapping his red snaky body around me…he's suffocating me with the toxic red mist." Ness began to shake violently in fear. "Dad, he wants to kill me!"

"Giygas is "not trying to kill you…" The voice muttered. "He is however; making you go completely insane."

"I want to go home…" The boy sobbed as he placed the phone to his ear. "Please come take me with you!"

"NO!" The voice bellowed. "You are going to stay there, you are going to pretend to be the happy boy you've always pretended to be and you are going to stop fantasizing about Giygas!"

"I'm sick and tired of faking to be the perfect and happy boy of Onett." Ness sniveled as he wiped his tears with his baseball cap. "My face hurts from smiling all the time. Don't you see? "

"As a matter of fact…no, I cannot see."

"I can't keep smiling to the world and say everything is going to be "Okay!" when I know they're not…Dad, take me with you."

"Ness, you know I cannot do that."

"But why not? You never gave Mom a reason to come home either. Give it to me straight, Dad. Do you have another woman in your life, another family perhaps?"

"I…"

"Say it, Dad. It's time for you to come clean about things now."

"Alright, I'll tell you the truth once and for all…" The voice took an enormous breath before continuing. "Ness, I am not who you think I am."

"What do you mean?"

"I am a telephone."

Ness and Falco could not believe what they were hearing.

"What you're trying to say is that my mom got impregnated by a black talking telephone."

"That's right."

"HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE!" Falco placed his feathered wings over his beak to prevent any further blurting but it was far too late. Ness had already spotted him behind the attic door.

"What are you doing here?" Ness demanded as he untangled from his fetal position.

"I'm here to collect my cake." Falco said as he made his way toward the boy. "Now tell me where it is or I'm calling the nearest mental institute to come and pick you up in a matchbox."

"I didn't take your cake." Ness replied sadly. "How could I? I was with you when it was stolen, remember? You wouldn't help me with my math."

"Oh…" Falco grinned. "That's right…"

"Now apologize." Ness pouted. "It's the least you could do for this inconvenience."

"I'm sorry you're so crazy…" Falco muttered under his breath.

"Come again, Falco?"

"I mean sorry for falsely accusing you and for listening in on your most intimate of conversations."

As Falco made his way down the flight of stairs; part of him could not help but feel sorry for the PSI powered boy. "Poor kid…" He sighed as he crossed off the boy's names from his list and searched for his next suspect.

If it wasn't Mario, Peach, ROB or Mr. Game and Watch...

If it wasn't Red, Squirtle, Ivysaur, or Charizard...

If it wasn't Lucario, Jiggly Puff or Pikachu...

And neither Popo, Nana, nor Lucas.

Samus, Snake nor Captain Falcon...

Or Olimar, Yoshi, Diddy nor Donkey Kong

Toon Link, Zelda, Fox nor Wolf or Ness...then who could it be?

You may or may not find out in the next chapter.

Thank you for reading!