Of Psychic Powers and Baseball Bats
Chapter 14
Arc Three:
Onett's Warm Welcome
Part 4
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"So, my name is Ness, I'm from Onett, and…" said red-capped boy, trailing off at the end. "…I can't really remember much, it's still coming back to me."
"It's all right, you don't really need to hurry, we've got plenty of time," said Lucas, looking around at the hotel room the three have rented with Ness' money. It was a medium-sized room with three beds, yellow walls, and a brown carpet.
Ninten grabbed a cup of warm milk and took a long drink, "but it'd be better if you hurried," he said flatly, fidgeting with his fingers before looking around the room. "You know, this is a nice room," he commented.
"Well...I remember being with my friends..." he said, still struggling to remember. "And...my mom and my sister were there..."
"So, your friends and family were there...sounds like what happened to me," said Ninten, walking over to his bed.
"What did happen to you?"
"It was my birthday, my friends and family were there, and we got attacked," he said, thinking back to that day. "...Damn!" He suddenly yelled.
"What?" Lucas asked.
"I forgot about my cake!" He yelled in horror, clutching the side of his head. "WHY?!" He exclaimed, his eyes getting watery. "Damn that starman..."
"So you've fought starmen before, right?" Ness asked.
"Yeah...and why are you trusting us?" Ninten asked, his eyes narrowing.
"What?"
"I mean, why the sudden trust. Why do you have faith in us? We could be leading you into a trap!"
"If you were, then wouldn't you have thought about it?"
Ninten looked confused for a second before his eyes widened in realization. "You read our minds?!"
Ness nodded, "though, I didn't read Lucas' mind. I couldn't really do it without him realizing it. Yours...well, it wasn't very hard."
"What?! No way! I'm a great psychic!" Ninten argued.
"Didn't seem that way to me," said Ness with a grin.
"What?!"
As the two argued, Lucas couldn't help but laugh a bit before the new trio heard a ribbit.
"Save your game?" A frog next to Lucas asked with a bellhop uniform.
"Save Frog?" Lucas asked, surprised the frog suddenly being next to him.
"...who are you? And...you can talk normally?" Ness asked, seeing that he heard the frog's voice clearly, not just a voice in his head. "But you're a frog."
"And you're a boy, and?" The frog replied, a neutral expression on his face.
"...I can talk in English, but you're a frog, you shouldn't be able to talk."
"And you have a C- in English, so you shouldn't really be talking," the frog replied with a hint of snark, it almost seemed to grin.
Ness' eyes widened. "How do you-"
"Sorry, but that information is to be kept secret. Now, save your game, or not?" The frog asked again. Lucas, remembering what happened last time he had saved his game, could not have nodded faster.
"Is something...bad going to happen?" The blond psychic asked, worried and a bit frightened. "I-I..."
"That's something you'll have to find out later," the frog said before bowing his head. "Your game has been saved, goodbye!" Save Frog said before hopping away out the open window.
"...What is that thing?" Ness asked after a short period of silent.
"Save Frog. Well, actually, there are many of them. They're Save Frogs...they save my 'game.'"
"What do you mean your 'game?'"
Lucas shrugged. "I'm not entirely sure myself, but they helped me out a lot in my adventure, so we can trust them."
"But that doesn't explain how he suddenly knew my grades."
"And why do they keep appearing with those strange costumes?" Ninten asked.
"W-Well, I don't know either, but they still helped me out!" Lucas insisted, being the only who knew about the incident. He tried not to touch his neck, remembering how he had died, but he unconsiously shivered. The young psychic still didn't know how the Save Frog had done that, or if it had been real or not. "...But I don't know why..." he mumbled.
Ness sighed, "well, as long as they don't get in our way, it doesn't really matter. Now, I need to know, what happened so far? Why is this happening?"
Ninten sighed, "it all started when a certain handsome red-capped kid got attacked on his birthday..." he began as he launched into a story about all of what happened. He recounted the tale of how his friends and him were attacked, his dream, and traveling to Lucas' time. "And thus, I, the handsome and intelligent Ninten traveled towards Lucas' time, where I was knocked unconsious by seven million starmen, but I managed to defeated them all before collapsing from exhaustion," he continued. Luckily for Ness, Lucas was telling him as much as he knew from Ninten about the whole thing.
"Ninten was attacked, and then he escaped in my time...where he tripped over a ladybug and got knocked unconscious..." Lucas said, feeling bad as Ness snickered at that last part. "He was unconscious for nearly a day. Then...the Pigmask Army attacked. I...my village fought, but they were too many of them...and..." he didn't continue for a moment.
Ninten was too absorbed in his story to noticed the boy staring off into space. "Lucas?" Ness asked, waving his hand in front of him, but the psychic didn't react.
Lucas found himself somewhere else, he was on the rooftop of the hotel. "W-What? Why am I..." he trailed off as he heard a voice.
"Hello Lucas," said psychic looked down to see a frog with what appeared to be a fake, long, and white beard on its 'chin.'
"Save Frog?"
"That's right.",
"Why am I here?"
"That's a very hard question, after all, the reason for your existence...wait, that's not what you wanted to hear, was it?" The Save Frog said, shaking his head, and sighing. "You don't want to listen to the ramblings of a crazy old frog," he said with his head down low. "Well Lucas, I'm breaking many rules and laws telling you this, so please take advantage of this."
Lucas nodded, though he was still confused as to what was going on, the frog seemed trustworthy.
"Lucas, you need to know that the true enemy isn't Porky or Giygas, it is something far more sinister," the frog began. "For you see, unlike us frogs, you humans always seem to be the worst species on the planet, and the force that is launching all of the attacks wants to wipe you off, along with all other living beings on the planet."
"Just like Porky tried to do with the Dark Dragon, right?"
"Yes, but this force's reason isn't for enjoyment, unlike Porky, this being honestly thinks this is the right thing to do. Porky just wanted to end humanity and knew he was evil."
"But why?"
The frog shook his head, "I'm not very sure. Maybe it's bored. Maybe it's tired of seeing humanity as a species ," the frog had a grim look on his face. "Maybe it just wants this planet, and maybe the Dark Dragon as well, and everything here stands in its way."
"But...how? I passed on my heart to the Dark Dragon, how could it be control by...whatever is attacking?"
"I said, 'maybe,' there's no guarantee that that's what it wants," the frog began hopping away. "Goodbye Lucas, I hope you and your new friends manage to stay alive enough times."
"What do you mean? Why did I have that vision?"
The frog stopped. "It wasn't a vision, it really did happen. Now, good luck Lucas, I hope the best for your species." The frog then hopped away.
"Lucas, are you all right?" Ness asked as said boy shook his head, trying to get his bearings back. The room was spinning, and he felt nauseous.
"Yeah, I'm fine..." he struggled to say. "I'm, just a bit dizzy," he mumbled, trying to regain his balance, not wanting to worry anyone.
"You can barely stand," stated Ness.
"And you look a bit green," supplied Ninten.
"It's nothing..." Lucas insisted before falling down on the ground, unconscious.
"Hang on, I got this," said Ninten. "Pk Healing Omega," he said as blue glow enveloped Lucas. The blond boy opened his eyes stood up.
"I...I feel a lot better," said Lucas, smiling. "Thanks Ninten."
"Never mind that," exclaimed Ness, receiving an irritated look from Ninten. "What happened to you?"
"Well," said Lucas, looking down nervously, hesitating. "It happened when a Save Frog began talking to me on the roof..."
End of Arc 3: Onett's Warm Welcome
Beginning of Arc 4: ?
Kumatora looked around, hiding in the trees, Boney next to her. "All right boy," she muttered, grinning. "Ready to take back Tazmilly?"
"Woof!" Boney barked. "Of course!"