As Ness struggles to wrestle back strange feelings for his best friend, Lucas wonders over the long-term holes in his own memory. Celebrity life as a Smasher has never been so difficult. Earthbound/Mother3 Time Paradox AU. Teenage Nesscas AU. *[NOTE 6/23/19]: Cleaning up prose in previous chapters*

What awaits Lucas at a two month long stay at a summer camp full of eccentric people? New faces, new friends...and a first love? Ness/Lucas focused (NessCas), partial Toon Link/Villager (ToonieVilla), later partial Shulk/Pit (ShPit), possibly other couples, and various crack with the Smash crew. (DLC characters to come sometime in the future.)

Lucas has been homeschooled his entire life. But now that both of his parents are gone, it's time for him to go to a real school. Things go well. However, Ness, a student from a powerful family, decides that Lucas is a suitable person to pick on. But even through the harm and humiliation, Lucas knows that there's some good in Ness. He just has to help find it. (NessCas fic)