I clung to Ness's shirt for as long as I possibly could before I had to let go of it, the very action of releasing the fabric of Ness's shirt from my hands filled me with sorrow and fear. Deep down, I knew that this may be the last time I get to touch him…
"A positively splendid job you did of breaking this poor little boy, Porky." Said Giegue menacingly.
"Thank you, but who are you and how do you know me?" asked Porky.
"You do not recognise me? You don't know who I am?"
"No… should I?"
"Such insubordination from the weak willed 'pig man' that I had the audacity to call an underling… although, as Giygas, my mind was not so rational as it is now…"
"Wait! You're Giygas?"
"Yes, Porky… I am and forever have been your master."
"LORD GIEGUE! I LIVE TO SERVE." Said Porky subserviently. "I also think I have something that could be of use to us, my lordship…"
Porky then pressed a few buttons and lurking in the shadows was a red, blinking light…
This red light began to move closer and closer until it finally emerged from the shadows.
It was a man, no taller than me, he was dressed in a black jacket with a fluffy collar and loud, brown shorts that were tucked into his tall black boots. The man also had a large, metal gun that was either attached to his hand or was there in its place, from the gun, there was a long metallic cord that stretched from the tip of the gun to the back of this man's mask. The mask was a large metal 'bowl' that had one orange visor that covered only one eye, from this, one could see that one of his eyes was where the blinking red light had originated from.
"I give to you… 'THE MASKED MAN'!" Said Porky in a tone that suggested he was proud of his creation.
The so-called masked man slowly approached Porky and then stood by his side with his gun armed and ready. See what I did there? Get it? D! ahahaha I'm so funny! Giegue looked dumbfounded by the events that had just transpired. I sensed that Giegue had no need for the masked man, nor Porky, but was still willing to keep up the charade.
"Very impressive Porky… is it an android or a cyborg?" Asked Giegue in a slightly sarcastic tone. Despite Giegue being our enemy as well as Porky, this sarcastic interaction between the two of them was very entertaining to say the least.
"HE is a cyborg, he will do anything I ask…"
"Fantastic! Make HIM kill that one over there!" said Giegue maliciously as he pointed towards Poo.
Poo stood there, speechless, in this large echoey room, I wouldn't be surprised if you could hear him gulp from many meters away.
"Masked man! Kill Prince Poo!" Said Porky with a slight cackle in his voice.
"Target acquired!" said the masked man in a robotic voice as if he was talking into a fan. His voice… although it was robotic, it was still very familiar to me… I knew that voice and I knew it well, but it couldn't be… could it?
The blinking red light in his eye changed from blinking to a solid, bright red with a little bit of murderous intent…
"Activating programme."
"What is it doing?" thought Porky. "it is just meant to start killing!"
" …
"10%..."
"20%..."
"40%..."
"70%..."
"65%..."
"Wait what?" asked Porky in a less menacing tone.
"A fatal error has occurred… would you like to send a report?" asked the masked man in a somewhat innocent tone despite it having tried to upload a programme that would get it to kill people.
"NO! DON'T SEND A REPORT!" Yelled Porky.
"Sending report…"
"SON OF A BITCH! NOW TO WAIT FIVE MINUTES TO DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" Cried Porky in a very frustrated tone.
"Five minutes?" asked Jeff.
"The WIFI signal in here is a pile of crap." Told Porky. It's quite hard to believe that the conversation actually went like this but there you go. I guess for people like Jeff and Porky, WIFI is a worthy conversation topic.
"PORKY… WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS INCOMPETANCE?" asked Giegue in a very frightening tone.
"I'M SORRY MY MASTER… I WON'T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN…"
"THAT'S RIGHT… YOU WON'T…"
Giegue then raised one of his arms and shot a large pulse of PSI energy. This blast then breached Porky's spider mech and then lifted Porky out of it. Porky was then dragged up to Giegue's face like clothes on a line or a spider on it's web.
"THE FACT THAT YOU WOULD DARE DISAPPOINT YOUR MASTER IS DISGUSTING… THIS ISUBORDINATION SHALL NOT GO UNPUNISHED… GIVE MY REGARDS TO LUCAS'S MOTHER IF YOU SEE HER…"
Giegue then used his telekinetic abilities to snap Porky's neck and then his life-less body was thrown back into the damaged spider mech in which it was then impaled by a large piece of shattered glass.
We all stood, shocked… we knew Giegue was cruel, but we didn't know he had a blood lust. I had thought that upon his entry, Giegue had some sort of grand plan for porky and his masked man but apparently not.
"Utter filth…" Said Giegue in a quiet, but still blood curdling voice.
He then looked down at the masked man who then looked back at him, Giegue looked as if he wanted to end the cyborg too but couldn't be assed.
"Why are you here… Now?" asked Kumatora fearlessly.
"Well… considering that it has been a fair number of days since our last encounter and you still haven't been able to locate me… I thought it only fair that I reveal my face once more to give you that little spark of hope in defeating me… of course… you can't"
"Then why even bother? It takes a lot of energy to open a portal like that so why would you bother risking it?" asked Ness while unable to make heads or tails of Giegue's true intentions.
"Oh please… you think that creating a portal to transport myself takes a vast amount of energy… my boy, you are so wrong… creating a portal is easier than destroying the fourth wall"
"oh, not this again!" Paula thought to herself.
"OKAY… WHO BROKE THE FUCKING WALL THIS TIME?!" asked a very familiar but still unknown voice.
The masked man then pointed towards Giegue and uttered the words…
"The unknown creature is responsible… report sent… please check your emails periodically for a response"
"OH, MY FREAKING GERD… IT TOOK ME THREE WEEKS OF WRITING TO RE-BUILD THE WALL AFTER YOU BROKE IT THE FIRST TIME AND THEN YOU GO AND BREAK IT AGAIN! SERIOUSLY… WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!?" asked the strange voice
"WELL I WOULD SAY THAT THIS INTRUSION RESTS ENTIRELY ON YOUR SHOULDERS FOR MAKING ME AS POWERFUL AS I AM… DID YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT A FOURTH WALL WOULD BE BEYOND MY POWER?!"
"YOU BETTER WATCH IT… DON'T FORGET I CAN EDIT YOU OUT FASTER THAN YOU COULD SAY OKEY"
"YOU DON'T SCARE ME!"
"OH YEAH? LET'S SEE ABOUT THAT" said the very peculiar voice.
The sounds of keys typing on a keyboard could be heard in the distance as Giegue slowly started to disappear…
"OKAY, I APPOLOGISE, PLEASE DON'T ERASE ME!"
"OKAY, FINE!"
Giegue then stopped disappearing and then regained a complete body.
"ALL OF YOU… BEHAVE!" said the mysterious voice before it disappeared.
We all looked on in horror, just trying to comprehend what had just witnessed, did this being from beyond the fourth wall really have the power to erase Giegue completely?
Regardless, we all pressed on with our battle plan. I locked eyes with Ness and couldn't say a word from the utter fear and dread in my heart. To say I was scared of Giegue would be like saying I'm scared of Bees, the very sound of his name would send shivers down my spine, it would make the adrenaline course around my body as my heart began to race, yes… scared was definitely an understatement.
Giegue started laughing in a horribly evil tone, hysterically. He then silenced his lips and proceeded to turn his attention to the group.
"Tell me…" Giegue began. "How is it that you all managed to have reversed the effects of passing through the time space wormhole? As I recall, that little brat over there, lost access to her PSI, the prince lost his sight and Jeff lost his intelligence and was rendered mute as a result…"
"Wait a sec!" cried Paula. "YOU! YOU MANIPULATED THE WORMHOLE INTO TAKING AWAY AN ESSENTIAL PART OF EACH OF US! YOU DID IT TO STOP US FROM STOPPING YOU!"
"Oh my, step aside Jeff, it appears your group has a new genius." Said Giegue sarcastically. "Now how did you figure that out?"
"Well… We almost defeated you by praying… you were on the brink of death before Ness disappeared… you then regained the upper hand until we were sucked into the wormhole…"
"Indeed… I was convinced that not one of you simpletons would be able to deduce my true intentions and yet, here I stand being told the beginning of my entire plan." Giegue told. "It's true, I used what I stole from each of you to regain this form… of course I was still beaten and weary from our battle so I needed the time to recover, that's why I took something from Jeff and Poo that would render them unconscious so that would be two potential attackers that I wouldn't have to worry about, that is also why I took away your PSI because the only attacks that Ness has are attacks that would have either temporarily blinded me or would have hurt you all in the process and would have destroyed Lucas's house. Although there was one thing that I didn't account for…"
"And that is?" Asked Kumatora in a way that suggested she had Paula's back.
"I never imagined that Ness would form more alliances so quickly… Ness losing his memories was never an intention of mine but upon seeing him vanish, he planted the seed for my plan. I assumed his memories would remain intact upon arriving wherever he arrived, ergo, he opens another wormhole to get back to our fight and then I make my cunning escape… however, when the wormhole opened and swallowed you all, I saw that as a grander opportunity, why bother escaping when I can use you three to regain what I had lost as my powers grew?"
"And that's this form that you call Giegue?" asked Jeff.
"You mean the form in which I was born as… yes."
"And what now then?" asked Ness nervously. "well? You must be fully recovered, or you never would have risked coming back here for more…"
"How right you are…" responded Giegue menacingly. "while I was recovering, I simply observed the order in which the events of the original timeline were meant to take place… Lucas, Kumatora and Duster discover the leader of the pig mask army and vengeance for everyone lost in the pig mask's wake is won, then upon Porky's instruction, they then face off against the 'masked man', they earn the victory and restore peace to this world, that is when I discovered a power that I can use."
"W… what do… you mean?" I stuttered in a desperate attempt to seem stronger than I was at this time.
"Well… long ago, the Magypsies worshiped the power of the mighty dragons which bought them the use of their PSI, one of those dragons now rests underneath the Nowhere islands, in the original timeline, that dragon restores all of the damage caused by Porky and his pathetic goons. The only way to get this dragon to appear is to collect the seven needles and bring them together, the dragon appears and only someone with a pure heart can get it to grant you a wish… that person being Lucas… thanks to my unending power, I was able to erase the need for your group to collect the needles and so I did it myself, from this, you would never have gained use of your attacks like PK LOVE and PK FLASH as they were never taught to you, but of course, that part of the new timeline corrected itself when Ness was added to the equation…"
"Yeah! Because Ness taught Lucas how to use his attacks!" yelled Duster.
This retort by Duster was an attempt to prove to Giegue that he was not as powerful as he thought he was, and yet, this acknowledgement of Giegue's mistake didn't even seem to make Giegue twitch… clearly, me learning my attacks isn't that much of a mistake.
"What? You think that my one mistake somehow throws a spanner into the works of my entire plan?"
"Well… until you said that… kinda." Muttered Duster quietly.
"No, you uneducated moron…" Said Giegue rudely. "All that did was increase the number of possible outcomes of this new timeline, all of which end with my victory…"
"If you win in every scenario, then why bother telling us all of this?" asked Kumatora.
"Well… wouldn't it be unfair if you all died without knowing what I really had planned." Said Giegue maliciously as he turned his head to stare deeply into my eyes, this action filled me with uneasiness, but I stared back just to prove that I wasn't afraid.
"you plan to kill us?!" Asked Poo in a panic.
"No, not individually and it isn't vital to my plan that you all die, however, once I have earned my victory, you will likely perish along with this pathetic world."
No-one could do so much as make any kind of vocal noise, let alone speak… the one thing that we all couldn't wrap our brains around was whether Giegue planned to destroy the world, or simply rule it which would put an end to our very way of life… one thing was certain, however, Giegue needed to be stopped.
Giegue could put an end to all of us just as quick as he could click his fingers, the overwhelming power I could feel from him would give Porky nightmares and yet, it was clear that the power he displayed was only a fraction of what he was capable of, so why hide it? Why toy with us the way he has been?
"Lucas…"
"Huh?!" I sounded without any regard for who I was speaking to.
"I must say, it was brave what you did… showing kindness to the man-child who killed your mother…"
"I could tell that he was only heart-broken, and some people only need to be shown compassion to be saved, I thought that would be enough for him, but clearly not…"
"Of course… Porky wasn't the reason you lost control of yourself…" said Giegue with an especially evil smile on his face.
"What?"
"That's right… I seized control over your mind and I must say… it was easy after he broke you…"
"I ALMOST KILLED ONE OF MY FRIENDS AND YOU WANT TO STAND THERE AND TELL ME THAT IT WAS ALL YOUR FAULT!?"
Giegue did not say a word and instead, he simply kept hovering where he was and just kept on smiling maliciously.
I then looked over to Duster who remained in poor shape, but he didn't seem mad at me, rather, he seemed to understand what I went through… becoming a different person and losing yourself. Yes, he understood it.
Giegue then looked down at the Masked Man and went to attack it… he then stopped as if he suddenly had a new idea.
"Interesting…" told Giegue. "I just thought of a way to make this moment so much more delectable…"
Giegue waved his hand above the masked man's head and then both of its eyes began to glow red just as mine had done.
It then looked up at our group like it was ready to pounce…