Just going to say a few things before some eventually stumbles across this and decides to read this.
this story was my last English assignment I got a few months ago. The assignment involved us reading a pre-written opening to a story and left us on a cliff hanger, which then we the students had to continue the story and write multiple endings to it.
I decided to basically make this story a Earthbound fan fiction. I decided to change some things in the Earthbound side of things, especially a character that's going to show up later.
I'll explain more in detail on the afterword which is going to be in the part 4 of this story.
oh yeah, if you also notice some mistakes in spacing and stuff, please pay no mind to it. I just copy pasted this entire text from my word document.
Alright, I'm finished ramblin'.
Hope you enjoy the read.
(Just a little side note before you start reading. The symbols at the start of each characters dialouge tells you who is speaking
- = Davy, the boy with a strong sense of…. Courage!
" = Jenny, the childish yet very rich girl with a tightly packed wallet and a faint accent!
* = Birdy, the serious one of the group!
= A certain Scottish owner of a sandwhich shop!
() = Characters thoughts mid sentence.
Why I decided to do this is because, some stories that I've read are pretty bad at explaining which character's dialouge is currently being read. So I decided to do this instead, hopefully it isn't confusing. Sorry!)
The Continuation of The Team Strikers
Part 0!
I release my grip on the school gate and look over at Birdy
-Well, there's not really much to do except going home or just wander around I guess.
Jenny crosses her arms proudly!
"Hehe, well if we're not going to school, I know just the thing to do then!"
She reaches into her pocket and takes out her wallet, which them reveals the power of a kid born in a rich family!
She proffesionally counts the fat wad of money that's in her wallet, and when she's finished counting, she closes the wallet shut and it makes that satisfying "pa" sound, and puts it back in her pocket.
"Any of ya' want to eat a nice warm luxury grub in this cold nasty weather? It's on me!"
My stomach growls in hunger
"I'm guessing that's a yes huh Dav? What about you Birdy? You wanna come with or are ya' going home?"
I turn my head towards Birdy, expecting him to say "ah, yes that'd be quite pleasant" or something else that sounds really british.
But, something about him was weird. He looked dazed, confused and his eye's had a bit of terror in them.
The look in his eyes kinda made me scared.
A couple of seconds after Jenny asked him, he snapped his head towards Jenny and said calmly.
*Jenny, Davy, please let's get away from this place immediately. We need to get somewhere underground, now.
Jenny seemed a bit spooked by that, but understandable laughed it off.
"H-Hahaha, Birdy ya' really gotta say this kinda stuff again? Stop tryin' to spook us, c'mon let's go get some grub."
Birdy looked at her dead serious
*Jenny, please, listen to me, If we don't move our legs now, in a couple of minutes we'll be dead because of……..something? Please just follow me.
He began sternly walking back to the bridge and towards the old factory.
Me and Jenny looked at eachother, she had the same look in her eyes as Birdy.
-….Don't worry about what Birdy said Jenny, he pobably just, hit his head or something in the morning and might've gotten a teeny tiny case of brain damage. Let's just continue on without him okay?
"Y-Yeah, that might be case…. But, now that he said that, my gut keeps tellin' me that he's right. Let's follow him!"
Damnit my chance at free luxury food has slipped out of my grasp!
-Alright then, lead the way!
She nods and proceedes to walk after Birdy, and then I also start following them.
After a minute or two after walking, she begins to slow down a bit to allow me too catch up with her. She looks like she wants to ask me something.
"Davy…. Has this… happened before?"
-…huh? Sorry I was thinking about how hungry I was, come again?
She lets off a quick sigh.
"Davy, have ya' noticed something weird about the stuff we've seen and talked about t'day? Like the graffiti and that stuff Birdy was talkin' about?"
-Nah not really, I just thought that it was weird and all. I mean sure, spraying the word "Remember" is a bit weird but, it just probably means something to the sprayer or whatever they're called. It doesn't really concern us.
-And the stuff Birdy was talking about was him just rambling nonsense like usual.
-Y'know what they say, smart people are also the dumbest people.
Jenny takes off her bonnet, and hands me a small note that was inside her bonnet. While she did that, she looked sad, I'd even say she looked on the verge of crying.
God they're so weird today!
She hands me the note.
"I… found this note in my bonnet t'day. I don't remember puttin' anythin' in my bonnet, and there's no one that could've out in it either…"
-oookaaaaaaaaaay, lemme take a looksie then.
I open the note, and see a small illustration of a sky, but instead of a nice jolly blue sky, it's a evil greenish sky with a pretty messed up face in it.
-…Jenny, have you and Birdy do something satanic yesterday or something and get possesed?
Jenny gives off a sharp heh.
"I wish that would be nicer than what's really behin' the scenes?"
-Behind the scenes? What do you mean by that?
She looks at me, quite confused.
"Hmm? Good question, I wonder what I was goin' ta say…? Oh! We reached the old factory."
……..okay then
The three of us reached the doors to the old factory, the door of course had a big giant padlock on it.
But since it was rustier than my grandma's back, just a kick from the weakest of our group Birdy was enough to break the lock open.
As soon as the lock was broken, he instantly dropped to the floor and was frantically looking for something.
The inside was, well imagine what an old factory would look like…. That's exactly how it looks like.
There's random decayed wood chips that cover the entire floor, broken equipment, blah blah blah, normal old factory stuff.
Jenny decided to join the british madman in searching for something, though I highly doubt she knew what she was looking for.
They both seemed really desperate, Jenny was sweating like hell, panting, and I think I even spotted a tiny tear fall out of her eye.
Birdy was trying to act calm, but judging by his constant quiet mumbling and how shiny his forehead became because of the sweat, I don't really think he was anywhere close to being calm.
I kinda feel bad for them, hmmmm.
Should I go help the bird-brains out?
Yes = Read Further (part 1) No = Open word document part 2
Part 1!I decide to help the nut-cases with their search!
I decided to join their grand quest in finding, whatever they're looking for…. I should probably ask Birdy what he's looking for or we'll be here forever.
-Hey Bird-brains, what're we looking for anyways?
*…A door handle that will grant us access to a hidden underground basement, it should be around here somewhere. Please go look around the broken machinery, It may be around there.
-A basement?
*Yes a basement, please hurry up now we're almost out of time Davy. I'll try to explain everything once we enter the basement.
-Okay..? (A basement? It's kinda odd that there's a basement in this old run down factory, but alright whatever.)
I continue to search around the factory, I make my way towards a pile of kinda scary looking iron equipment.
As I approach the pile, I trip on something. I hit myself right on the noggin', It hurt like hell, but as I turned my head up I discover that just a few centimeters up lies a ginormous screw that looked ready to penetrate my skull.
-Holy crap, I just almost died!
*Yeah yeah, just keep searching Davy. Fast.
Jenny just looked at me quickly to assure I was okay, saw that I was fine and went directly back to searching.
-Pretty heartless today huh my dear Birdy?
Wait, what exactly did I trip on?
-Hey Birdy, I think I may have found something.
*Really?
-Yeah, judging from the shape of the object I fell on, I'm pretty sure this is a handle.
Birdy and Jenny both jump off from their feet, and run towards me.
*Where exactly was it located it?
-It's right he-
"Wait! I think I remember! It's right aroun' here right?
Jenny points to the exact spot I fell on.
-Yeah, it is. How do you remember though? You looked at me only after I fell.
"Hmmm. I don't know, I just remember.
-Y'know, you're starting to sound more and more like Birdy today.
"Really now? Well I do 'spose that's true to some degree.
Being weird again huh?
*Alright, now that we've found the basement, let's head in as soon as possible.
Weird that they're really calm now, they were so stressed and scared messes just a few moments ago.
-Yeah alright, I'll open it.
I grasp the handle and try to open the basement door….
Does this door weigh a ton or something?!
-Uhm, hehe……. Let me try again.
I firmly grasp the handle and use every muscle in my body to try and open the door.
I-IT'S TOO DAMN HEAVY!
I fall down on the ground, my arms felt like soft noodles.
-J-Just one moment please, *cough* lemme, lemme just *pant* catch my breath!
"….Ah, yes I forgot!
-Huh? *pant* forgot what?
"That only I can open it.
-Whaddya mean?
Jenny walks over to the handle and effortlessly opens it.
"Ladies first!
Okay then, I'm not even going to comment on that.
As Jenny continues to hold that one ton door, me and Birdy hurry up on inside.
As we hurry up on inside the pitch black basement, Jenny closes the door tightly.
I'm basically blind here but, somehow Jenny and Birdy knew where the light switch was.
And it's kind of surprising that they even knew that there was a light source down here!
As they turn it on, I am greeted by the smell of old leather, dust and science-y equipment.
The equipment looks quite incredible too!
It's kind of hard to describe, but the technology here looks futuristic, but at the same time it looks like machinery that could be invented in just a couple of years.
The entire room looks really old though, even the factory itself doesn't look this old!
-So.. What's the story here? Why were you two trying to fool me with that charade of yours into coming here?
-You two could've just said that there's a cool underground lab here y'know? I would've come immidiately, you didn't need to act all serious and scared!
No answer huh? Being ignored kinda hurts y'know.
"He should arrive here at any moment now, huh Birdy?
*Yes, according to what I've been able to remember at this point, he should be here in about 5 minutes. Listen Davy, we don't have alot of time on our hands right now so listen carefully and do as instructed.
*It's quite simple, even for your standards Davy, just don't let a peep escape from your mouth. Got it?
-…Okay sure, (I see the charade continues then huh? Better play along then.)
"We'll explain everythin' as soon as possible, okay Davy?
-Alright, you better! (Or else I'm making you buy me 3kg worth of Wagyu beef Jenny!)
*Alright quiet down now, you too Jenny.
Sheesh, this whole shtick is getting kind of annoying. At first I thought they were for real because of their really convincing acting but, their emotions seem to shift around too quickly. It's unnatural.
But still, it doesn't feel like they're lying about the stuff they're saying.
After 5 minutes of deafening silence and the three of us just staring at eachother, I spot a tiny sound entering my eardrums from above this dirty 'ol factory.
*Alright Jenny, seems like it was a succes. We finally have more time now.
"Yeah! And we've got the device and Davy now, we're unstoppable!
-…..The hell do you guys mean? Mind filling me in?
*Ah yes, I guess we do owe you a little explaination now do we? Especially now since you sort of proved us wrong in a way.
*But before we explain anything, please head back up and well, just see what happened to…. Well everything that you once knew of.
"Just don't freak out okay?
-….Alright, sure.
Man once I step foot outside I'm going straight home! I'm too tired of their whole nonsense play.
I turn my back against Jenny and Birdy, and begin walking towards the stairs that lead to the door.
I reached the door and prepared myself to attempt to open a door that weighs a ton, but surprisingly opened it with ease.
I guess that the door has a one way lock that only unlocks when Jenny touches the handle?
As I opened the door, I was greeted by the sound of a melody echoing through out the city.
It wasn't loud, but it wasn't quiet either.
The melody was played by trumpets and a deep brass instrument, don't really know what kind though.
The melody itself was also quite peculiar, it had the feeling of victory, but also defeat. The feeling of happiness pride, strength was there, but there was the feeling of despair, sadness and weakness….
I, know this melody somewhere don't I?
But the song echoing through my ears isn't the only thing that's weird here,
As I opened the door of the old factory, I noticed that everything felt dead. Not a single trace of life, even the bacteria that you could feel in the air your breathing as dead.
The wind is gone, the cold is gone, the warmness is gone, everything felt grey. Everything was, dead.
But the worst of all is, the sky.
The sky was filled with a kind yet hateful shade of green, and what seemed to be two dead hollow eyes, a nose that looked like a skeleton's and a happily twisted lip-less mouth that was looming in the sky seemed to be the one the one that did all of this.
Somehow, I felt sad for it.
At that exact moment, my brain started to ache. It hurt, I fell to the ground holding my head in pain, the pain wasn't anything I felt before.
It feels like someone is repeatedly stabbing my brain, opening up my cranium and tearing apart every part of my brain.
My left eye is bleeding, severely. All I can see from my left eye is red.
But, I have a feeling that… I remembered something. I just can't grasp what it is yet.
After a few seconds of pain, I managed to gather my strength up and use it to run back inside the factory and quickly get back into the basement.
I fell down the stairs and ended up falling right beside Birdy.
He looked really concerned, he took my head up and started to try and clean the blood from my face away with his sleeve.
At that moment I passed out…..
I wonder why I couldn't scream or atleast faint like a regular person?
But, it's kinda hard to explain but when I opened that door, I kind of knew what would happen.
Sure I was still kind of shocked to see what had happened to the place I basically see everyday, but It felt like I heard that melody and that thing in the sky before, just from a different perspective…
Maybe that's what I'm remembering.
Man I'm starting to sound like Birdy and Jenny huh?
After what felt like an eternity, I finally decided to open my eyes, well atleast my right eye, my left one still hurt like hell.
I was on a bed, and on my right side was Birdy, and on the other side was Jenny.
They both looked concerned, Jenny's eyes were red presumably from crying and Birdy was looking like he was trying to figure out what happened.
I lift up my head.
Jenny quickly jumped up from where she was sitting at, not sure if she was sitting on the ground or a tiny stool, and gave me a big hug.
"Yer okay! Thank godness, I thought we were going to lose you again!
-Gyaaah! Jenny, you shouldn't hug an injured person like myself with all of your gorilla strength!
"Ah, sorry Davy, whoops!
She let's go off me, man I think I'm going to get another bruise.
-Anyways, what did you mean with "going to lose you again?"
"Well, I'd rather let Birdy do the explainin', my jaw would hurt from talkin' too much.
Birdy looks a bit reassured to see that I'm fine.
*This….. might sound absolutely bizarre but please bear with me, alright Davy?
-I've seen and heard a life time of crazy in just a few hours, so I think I'll be just fine.
*Alright, well as you probably noticed from our reactions and whatnot, this isn't our first time in this situation.
-Meaning?
*Well, basically me and Jenny are time travelers.
-Just when I though it couldn't get anymore weird and confusing… continue please.
Birdy nods
*Around 50 years ago in our time, the exact same thing happened to us.
*We three noticed that school was closed, so we went around exploring. We ended up coming here in the factory, where you Davy once again fell on the handle while we were playing around.
*Jenny went over to the handle and opened it, revealing the basement.
*Me and Jenny decided to go and search the place, but you were too hungry to come with us so you went Floyd's place to get yourself one of their ham sandwiches…. And that ended up being the last time we ever saw you.
*When that entity came down upon us, the doors to the basement closed shut and we got stuck there for 10 minutes.
*And when everything passed, we got out and saw the exact same scene as you.
*Me and Jenny being absolutely dazed and confused, went outside to look for you, our parents, or just civilians. We never found any of them.
*We got back inside, and started to wonder what we'll do to well, survive.
*Water and food was mostly secure, electricity still functions like normal, so everything we found food related was frozen, even canned food.
*We also used the basement as a shelter, but there really was no need for that though, since everyone was gone and weather mostly stayed the same dry and luke warm weather for 50 years.
*Around the time we finally figured things out though, we started investigating the technology that was in this basement, and that's when we've found that helmet.
Birdy went out of the room in a rush, grabbed something and came back.
*This helmet, will allow up two three people at once to time travel. Only downfall is that traveling with your current body is not possible, so you'll only be able to travel using your own conciousness and younger or older versions of your body.
*And once you do travel, it'll take alot of time to remember that you actually time traveled.
"Explainin' why we were so odd during this whole thing
It's not like you two are ever normal though..
-So why did it take alot of time to just plop the helmet onto your skulls and time travel?
Birdy put down the helmet on the floor beside Jenny's seat. And sat down by my legs on the bed.
*That's because it was out of fuel, apperently someone used it already.
*It took us years to try and find a suitable fuel for this helmet, we tried finding the biggest and most powerful fuels on the entire planet. We even went to different countries.
*But to no avail, but out of pure mistake, Jenny managed to get a tiny smidge of nitric acid on the helmet and managed to power it on.
*As soon as the helmet powered on, a tiny display on the back of the helmet appeared that you would need to enter a persons name to register them to your group, allowing them to time travel.
*Me and Jenny were a bit hesitant at first. I mean, why go back in time were everything was normal and fine, and see it get destroyed again? But then we remembered that we could use this helmet to possibly try and bring you back Davy.
*So we entered our names into the helmet, yours too and came here.
After finishing he crossed his arms and had nothing else to add to that.
…..My brain can't believe that this is real but, hell after what I've seen today, I know it's real.
-uhhm, I don't really know what to say. Everything has happened really fast, my brain hurts.
I stand up from my bed, revealing my clothes soaked in dry blood.
-I am going to drink some water and soak everything in, then can we talk about what to do next.
*Okay, got it.
-Can someone mind escorting me through the place though? I have no clue where anything is.
"I'll come with ya' bud.
Me and Jenny make our way out the bedroom and into the main area, she grabs my hand and leads me into the kitchen…. Well atleast I think it is one?
The kitchen is just a small hole in the wall with a tap, sink and an oven that seems to awfully stink of burnt chemicals, hopefully they're not harmful ones.
I turn on the water, wash my hands first and then cup with my hands some water and gulp it all down.
It's cold, I can feel the water slowly cooling down my entire throat. But the taste of iron in my blood still lingers in my mouth.
I figure since I'm right by a sink, I might as well unwrap the bandage around my eye, it doesn't hurt anymore and is itchy as hell.
As I try to unwrap my bandage, Jenny looks curiously at what I'm doing, seems like she wants to see if my eye has turned into a bloody raisin or not.
As I unwrap the bandage, I feel the skin near my eye get warmer, supposedly from all of the blood that's near my eye.
As the bandage is nearing it's end, I feel a slight tug on my eyelid as I pull it off.
My eye is red, like the entire thing, pupil and all, my eye sight is……. Amazing though. I've never seen better in my life!
It's like I'm viewing the world through an hawk's eye!
I can see every single tiny speck of dust strolling through my view, I can see the pores on my hands.
This is amazing!
I'm smiling like a maniac here…….. Why?
"You sure your eye being like that is fine? It might get infected, it doesn't look good. It looks, terrifying. Davy put the bandage back on, it might spew puss out or somethin'
Jenny went to go grab the first aid kit from the room where Birdy was at, to presumably go get some more bandage for me.
After a few minutes of just looking around the room in the most clarity my eyes have ever given me, I started noticing a thump going in my eye, and then it started feeling like my entire body was on fire.
I violently fall down to the ground.
My head, God my head is tearing apart.
Jenny and Birdy come rushing into the room, and ask what's wrong.
Can't talk.
I'm vomiting blood, my legs are shaking. Blood starts pouring out of my eye….. But wait it's green….
Oh…. I think I remember something.
I'm……….. Courage aren't I?
Who… Is that?
………It's inside my body, I can feel it inside my veins, inside my blood, inside my heart.
It's warm, but cold.
Everything turns black, every pain I felt is now gone.
My body feels strong, I have a strong feeling of joy, great joy. It feels like I could laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh until the end of time.
Malicious joy, confidence, sadness, tragedy, joy, anger, depression fills my body.
My right hand feels warm, and I can feel the taste of iron on my tounge.
I feel my body picking something heavy up and propping them upto something.
It did this twice.
After it did that, a looming feeling of dread doomed upon me.
But I still felt happy, strong, satisfied, sad, confident, angry, devastated.
After what felt a few minutes, I opened my eyes. I was in the middle of the room with all of the electronics where.
I was clean, my clothes were spotless, and so was my dirty hands and face.
I went over to the sink to see my reflection, my entire face looks like it's been infected with something.
Green veins adorn my face, my eyes are both a charming color of green, with two sad looking pupils in the middle.
It feels….. nice, it's comforting.
At that moment, the melody started playing in my head.
It's………………………………..nice, I'm so happy =)
I turn around and go to the bedroom where I was at to see if I can find Birdy and Jenny.
I'm greeted by them, hanging from the ceiling from nooses on their necks.
Blood is dripping from their stomachs and faces, Jenny's and Birdy's expression twists my stomach.
Pure terror.
Jenny has alot of blood around her lips, looks like she wanted to bite it when It attacked her.
Because of that, it cut her lip open and stabbed her in the stomach.
Her bonnet is nowhere to be seen, leaving her beautiful silky hair hanging down all alone.
Birdy has cuts all over his face, looks like when it attacked him it mostly targeted his face.
His face that was brimming of intelligence is now a bloody mess.
I look down on the ground, I see a bloody bonnet soaked with tears, blonde soggy hair and my pocket knife covered in blood.
I pick up the knife and grasp it in my hand. I feel good.
It was me.
I killed them.
Davy killed them.
Courage killed them.
My best friends since childhood, my only family left…
Now dead, pale, cold and gone.
I'll never be able to see them again.
Courage feels good.
Davy feels good.
I'll never be able to hear Jenny again.
Davy feels sadness.
Courage feels sadness.
I'll never be able to hang out with Birdy and eat together at Floyd's, while laughing and talking again.
Courage feels satisfaction.
Davy feels satisfaction.
I'll never be able to hang out with the both of them and simply just enjoy life with them.
Davy feels depressed.
Courage feels depressed.
I drop the knife, tears fall down my cheeks, I go over to them and hug their cold hanging bodies.
-I didn't want to do this, but I did.
-I want to see them again, but I won't.
I look at the knife…… I want to join them.
I let go of their bodies, pick up the knife and her bonnet.
I put the blood soaked bonnet on my head, as a reminder of my sins.
I go sit on the bed…
I stare at the knife, put it against my heart.
Join them = Read further (part 3) Don't = open doc part 4
Part 3.I….. I can't go on without them...They're my only family left…
I thrust the knife into my heart, it hurts, it's painful.
The blood that stains the knife is……. green.
Ah, Courage…. I finally remember now.
-I finally remembered Courage…. Seems like it was too late though….
Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy
I…………………..did………..again……
So………………….sorry………..could………not……control
I……….love……….you……
George………..Mary…………I……..miss……….you
Feel……………..sad……..Davy
I…….want……….cry………
Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry
I open my mouth, painfully and weakily.
-It's… alright Courage….. It's not your fault…
I cough blood.. It's green.
I…..sorry…….
-No, I'm sorry…. I couldn't remember our promise in time.. I'm sorry, please forgive me.
I'm sorry Courage, I'm sorry Birdy, I'm sorry Jenny. I hope you'll forgive me when I'll meet you two again.
I start crying.
I pull out the knife and let myself bleed out, I'm going to see them again.
I stab myself again, it doesn't hurt anymore, it's getting cold.
Everything is fading to black, I close my eyes.
I'm going to die.
As I take my last breath, I hear Courage say something.
apple……of…..enlightenment….says…..we…going…to….meet…again….me …..you….and….
friends……..
Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy Davy
I'm……..happy
-I see……..
-Then I guess we'll see eachother soon huh… Please… take care.. Come and find me, make me remember…..
Davy…………I…..sorry
I……..make…..you…..remember…
So…..plea….please……..forgive………..me
I smile.
-Thanks, I forgive you. And I won't let you down next time..
-See you later Courage.
I close my eyes peacefully, and die.
I feel a nice breeze against my hair.
I open my eyes and see grass, a tree and a fantastic sun outside.
I start walking towards the tree, and see Jenny and Birdy sitting under the tree, talking.
They looked lonely, sad. Maybe because they're best friend just cold bloodedly killed them.
They spot me, and their faces instantly brightened up. They're waving their arms in the air, signaling me to join them.
They've just got killed by my hands, and yet they're telling me to come join them….
I started running towards them, and instantly hugged both of them, while crying.
I apologized, and apologized, apologized and apologized.
They told me they knew, about everything after dying and ending up here.
Even about Courage……
After apologizing and all that, we just started talking for hours, days, weeks, months, years.
We never became hungry or tired, since we were in the afterlife.
We did everything we wanted to do every since our deaths, and since Birdy and Jenny haven't seen me since 50 years ago in their time and only recently just met me again, they have also missed me greatly.
This was the happiest time in my life, and so was theirs.
After some time, a white blank door shape hole appeared in the tree.
It was the door to our next lives, the lives where me, Jenny, Birdy and Courage meet again.
Surprisingly enough, we felt ready.
We three hugged it out again, told our farewells and hopes that we surely will meet again and entered the door…..
The Team Strikers live on.
END