Episode 4: Loyalty

Lucas rushed down the hallway, to find several doors in the hall. Most of them being locked. What he found in the rooms that are unlocked were torture rooms, and rooms with weapons in them. He heard Ness' voice getting louder with every step he took.

"P-Please stop! It hurts!" The raven haired boy sobbed, as Jonathan closed in on him.

'Forgive me child.', he thought. However, Lucas quietly zapped the man with a painful PSI attack, knocking him out cold.

The blonde boy check his friend's state. Ness looked pretty beaten, he's been stripped off his clothes, and was tied in chains. "Why…", Lucas muttered as he saw how much in pain his friend was. "How did you end up here?"

"I saw Pit, beaten up on the ground. Then the elevator collapsed with him, and I later got knocked out. Now I'm here." Ness continued to sob, as Lucas held him close. "I was being pulled through so much! I want it to stop!"

Lucas use PK Fire on the chains, as he comforted Ness. "Now, now. It's okay. You're safe now. I'm never letting anyone hurt you again, and I mean it!" He kissed the injured boy gently on the lips, before hugging him tightly.

Ness hugged back weakly, still being very scared from his torture.

"Come on.", the blonde boy said as he wrapped a towel around his friend. "We should get out of here."

Meanwhile back in the mines, everything was a blur as Nana and Popo started to wake up.

"What's going on?", Popo wondered. He looked at his twin sister, then checked himself. They both looked unharmed, no longer looking like a spirit. "What? How come-!"

"It's hard to know for us to.", Falco said as he saw the young ice climbers awake and confused. "I just touched the base of your trophied body, then it glowed, then there you two were."

Both twins didn't care about that after he said that. What matters to them now is that they're both alive now. "I don't know how you and Pit did it, but thanks." Then Nana and Popo just thought of something. "Oh no! Yoshi!"

"What about Yoshi?", Pit asked.

"We saw him in the factory saving Kirby!", said Nana. "Popo and I tried to get to him, but I think he got scared. Plus, we overheard that these mean people got Ness as well."

"Oh fuck!"

"Yeah! And they said that he's in the basement of the lounge back in the icy mountain."

"Oh my gosh we gotta get over there and find him."

"But wait!", Falco shouted. "Link's still here. We can't just leave him."

"You're right.", Pit agreed. "I'll go look for him."

"No I'll do it!"

"You sure?"

"Yes I am." The avian ran to find the hylian, while the angel and ice climbers exited the mines.

Back with Toon Link, the young hylian manage to get in the security office. What it showed were bombs in the corner, and they were set to go off during the first period of school tomorrow. 'I have to get all of them off the school!', he thought.

Then he heard sirens coming outside.

'Help must be here!' Toon Link quietly came out of his hiding place, before walking to the school entrance. His eyes widened just by seeing who the person is.
"Toon Link?", Mario wondered as he looked at the hylian.

"Um… Hi?" He didn't expect Mario to go to his aid if he was asked that.
"What were you doing here? No one is suppose to be here around the weekends."

Toon Link shook his head and said, "There were strange people setting bombs in the school. I was wondering around the school for evidence, but I found that they were going to kill everyone in the school tomorrow with those bombs!"

"Wait what? Who would do something like that?"

"I don't know, but I know they took Yoshi and possibly-!"

"They kidnapped Yoshi?!"

Beads of cold sweat fell, as the hylian slowly nodded his head.

The man couldn't help by facepalm along with sighing at the same time. "Ugh... kids these days.", he muttered. "Do you know where they took him?"

"I just saw them slit his neck, and dragged him somewhere as I fled."

"Okay fine then. We'll tell some people to remove the bombs before tomorrow. In the meantime, I'll take you back home."