Of Psychic Powers and Baseball Bats
Chapter 12
Arc 3:
Onett's Warm Welcome
Part 2
By the time you read this, I will have been taken away by the monster known as "high school", wish me luck you guys. I will need it trying to vanquish the malevolent being.
"Pk Techno Gamma!" Ninten yelled, aiming his palms out in front of the face of the tree which kept dangling him by his foot. The tree let go of him as it was blown back. Ninten managed to land on his feet before aiming his palms at the tree that still had Lucas in its tree.
"Let him go before I seriously use my true PSI power," threatened Ninten. The tree sneered.
"Go ahead; you'll just hurt your friend!" Ninten gritted his teeth in annoyance.
"Ninten, close your eyes," warned Lucas. "Pk Flash!" The blond boy yelled, a bright green light suddenly flashed, blinding everyone in the area, that didn't have their hands occupied and thus could cover their eyes.
The tree shrieked in pain and let go of Lucas before covering its eyes with its limbs.
"Pk Techno Omega!" Ninten yelled, unleashing waves of neon-colored PSI energy at the living tree. The wooden tree fell to the ground, defeated. "Man, I thought I was done with living trees when Magicant disappeared," the red-capped boy muttered, remembering the living trees that had attacked him in his past adventure.
"Well, at least it's over," said Lucas hopefully before suddenly the two were hit by a PSI attack, numerous waves of small PSI explosions followed by a large explosion, which blew them away a few feet.
"What the hell was that?!" Ninten demanded, standing up, covered in dirt and dust. He coughed a bit and looked at the one who had launched the attack.
The one who had cast the PSI was a boy with a red cap, blue shorts, a yellow and blue stripped shirt, a metal baseball bat in his hand, and no scarf unlike Ninten.
"Who the hell do think you are?! And who the hell do you think I am?! Didn't you see how I took down those trees?!" Ninten yelled. "Well that's how you're going down, Pk Techno Omega!" Ninten yelled. The waves of PSI energy approached the boy as he suddenly jumped to the side with remarkable speed.
"Pk Rocking Omega!" The boy yelled as more blasts of energy approached the duo of Ninten and Lucas.
"Pk PSI Shield Beta!" Ninten yelled, raising his arms up, putting on PSI Shields for the two before grabbing his baseball bat. "Pk Quick Up!" He cast before running towards the boy.
The boy grabbed his bat with both hands and prepared to swing. Ninten, anticipating that the enemy would underestimate him and his intelligence jumped right before the boy swung and landed right behind him. He grabbed his own baseball bat before swinging.
"Pk Offense Up Omega!" Lucas yelled right before the bat hit, increasing the damage given. The boy turned around the same time before falling to his knees, clutching his head.
"Do you give up?" Ninten asked, taunting his enemy.
The boy replied by tackling him and raising his own baseball bat. He stood up, pinning Ninten down with his foot and raised his bat up, ready to strike.
"Pk Shie-ARGH!" Lucas' PSI move was interrupted by branches from behind suddenly grabbing his neck and lifted him up. He could no longer feel the ground below, but he could feel the branches beginning to squeeze, cutting off his air supply. Lucas began to struggle, trying to break free before hearing three words that made him lose all hope.
"Pk PSI Block," he heard something say in a mechanical-like voice. "Pk PSI Block," it said again, blocking Ninten's PSI powers now.
"No..." he choked out.
The Ninten-look alike brought down his baseball bat which Ninten had block with his arms. He lifted it up and brought it down again. The starman that had cast the PSI Blocks then walked part the tree that was strangling Lucas, letting him get a clear view of it. It was one of the golden starmen. The mechanical beast walked over to the two boys who were fighting and aimed one of its arms at Ninten. "Pk Defense Down Alpha."
Lucas' eyes widened with shock before he closed them, accepting their loss. Yet, he felt tears go down his cheek.
'Dad...Kumatora...Duster...I'm sorry...' he thought to himself as the boy's body limped and fell to the ground as the tree released him.
Ninten gritted his teeth harder with each strike before noticing the dead blond boy on the ground. His eyes widened in terror as the realization that if he had taken out the boy sooner instead of taunting him dawned on him. He let out a cry of pure rage and sorrow.
"LUCAS!"
"Lucas?" The previously-seen dead boy's eyes opened at the sound of his named being called by a certain amphibian which was apparently smiling with a knowing glint in his eyes. "Do you know understand the importance of saving your game?"
Lucas breathed heavily, looking around to see everything like it was when Ninten and him talked to Save Frog. Sure enough, everything was the same as it was before.
"Lucas, are you all right?" Ninten asked, concerned. Why wouldn't he? Lucas was paled face, clammy, was sweating a lot, and was breathing hard.
"I...Save Frog, did you know about this?" Lucas asked, still trying to get over the shock of dying and then everything going back to how is was before.
"Know about what?" Ninten asked, confused about the whole situation before.
The two ignored him.
The frog nodded. "Good luck this time Lucas," he said before hopping away. Lucas looked to the right as the tree about to grab Ninten. "Pk Love Omega!" He yelled, throwing the PSI attack, hitting the tree and blowing is away.
Ninten turned as saw the defeated tree falling to the ground, smoking a bit from the heat and the explosion of the Pk Love.
Lucas turned around as a tree approached him. "Pk Techno Omega!" Ninten yelled, hitting the tree, also defeating it.
"All right, then that boy..." Lucas mumbled, looking down at the defeated tree before he looked up and raised his hands up. "Pk PSI Shield Omega!" He yelled as the Pk Rockin' Omega almost hit them. The red-capped boy stood there, standing several feet from them. "Ninten, can you take that boy out? I'll support you," said Lucas, not really having a weapon unlike Ninten.
Ninten grinned and nodded, taking his baseball bat out, "but, how did you know about all of those things?" Ninten asked.
"I...I'm not really sure," said Lucas, still wondering what had just happened. Did he really die? Or was it just a vision of the future?
And why did he receive it or why is he still alive?
"Well, you can tell me later," said Ninten, beginning to walk over to the other boy that looked like him, "I'll take this guy out first."
Lucas smiled before his face turned grim as he turned and saw a tiny hint of gold near a group of trees and bushes. "I know you're there!" Lucas yelled.
Nothing came out.
Instead, all of the trees and bushes suddenly stood up with legs that seemed to come out of nowhere before rushing at the psychic. The thing leading them? A golden starman.
Lucas' eyes widened, not really expecting this many enemies to attack him.
Kumatora ran through the Sunshine Forest, hoping to evade the starmen and Pigmasks that were invading the islands.
She absolutely hated running away, not wanting to appear weak and a coward; she also hated Lucas even more for reminding her that not running away is the idiotic way to handle this situation.
The princess sighed in annoyance, but at least she and Lucas ran away. The bad news however, is that they were separated and a new enemy has surfaced.
In frustration, the pink-haired princess stopped running and punched a nearby tree.
It only helped a bit.
"Now what?" She asked herself, kicking a small rock nearby before hearing barking. "Wait...Boney?" She called out, hearing several thoughts of the brown dog nearby. Said dog then jumped at her from behind, knocking her to the ground and barked several times at her, wagging his tail.
"Kumatora! I have never been so relieved to see you again! Usually I just run away," the princess heard the dog think.
"Nice to see you too, Boney," she said, her voice muffled by the fact that she was still face-down due to Boney. "Can you please get off?" She said, her voice eerily calm.
"Sure!" Boney said, getting off as the princess stood up. She spit out some dirt that had gotten in her mouth before looking at the dog.
"Well Boney, looks like it's up to us," she said, crossing her arms and grinning.
"...What do you mean?"
"Simple, since Lucas is gone at the moment, it's up to us to save Tazmilly. You ready?!" Kumatora exclaimed, pumping an arm into the air.
Boney just stared at the princess before nodding, seeing as he would probably get forced into doing this either way.
"Save your game, you two?" A frog suddenly said, hopping over to the newly formed team.
It'll probably take me longer to finish up chapter since school started, but, let's enjoy this one in the meantime! So long, and see you next time my readers!
-TheImperfectDarkOne