Professor Layton Hit the Road Chapter 15
After Arianna had finally calmed down, Sam went to retrieve the knocked-out kid from the lake. « Ok. You punched my only family left so hard it's a miracle he doesn't have a skull fracture. Now what? » Arianna said angrily.
« Now comes the most delicate part of the process. AKA the one where we don't punch stuff. » Sam explained. He then turned to the knocked out kid. « Take control of your mind! » Sam begun to chant.
« I don't think he can hear you, Sam. » Emmy noted. « Sure he can. He's unconscious, not dead. » Sam responded. « Minor details. » Max joked. « Destroy the intruder in your dreams! Regain control! » Sam continued the chanting.
Slowly, Tony begun to recover his senses. « i…wh…what's going on? » he asked confused before yelping in pain. «A-and why does my left eye hurt? » he teared up a bit, before Arianna enveloped him in a bone-crushing hug.
« TONY! Oh, thank goodness, you're all right! » she exclaimed, glad that his brother was back. «A-Arianna, what happened? And who are these people? » he asked worried. « Not to worry. We're Sam and Max. Freelance police. And the other guys in the back are Professor Layton, Emmy, Luke, Claptrap and Sniper. » Sam introduced the group.
« Are you all right, kid? » Emmy asked concerned. « Yeah…but my left eye hurts…and I have an headache. I also had the weirdest dream. » Tony responded. « Was there someone unusual in your dream? » Sam then asked.
« Y-yeah! There was this weird masked guy who kept telling me to do stuff! I haven't done anything bad, right? » Tony asked concerned. « You did essentially ruin your sister's name as a respectable member of society, BUUUTTT you WERE under the effect of hypnosis! » Max responded.
« Perhaps the same individual that hypnotized Tony is also responsible for the Spectre. Sam, could you tell me more of this "Brady Culture"? » Layton asked. « Ah, yes. Brady Culture. One of our first cases. That fiend had hypnotized the Soda Poppers to sell his Eye-Bo videos to hypnotize the whole world. He gained his hypnosis googles from the Prismatology movement, a movement leaded by Hugh Bliss, who intended to turn every man, woman and children into a source of food by feeding of their bliss. » Sam explained.
The whole group was silent. « I'm not even gonna ask. » Emmy said. In the meantime, Luke eyes widened in revelation. « Wait a minute…of course! It's not the spectre! » the boy explained. « Not the spectre what? » Sam asked.
« My father is not acting like himself in this period of crisis! I originally thought it was the spectre that changed him! But he was hypnotized! » Luke explained. « Now that you mention, he was acting rather suspicious. » Sam noted.
« He did say that it was his fault if you're the weirdest kid I've ever seen in my life, but when the Professor asked what he meant, he scurried off with an excuse. » Max added. « It would also explain why he hasn't asked help from the British government. I mean, other than Greppe, no one is supporting this god forsaken fog generator. » Claptrap also added.
« But why doing….all of this? Why hypnotizing the mayor? Why turning Arianna in a feared figure? Why the bloody spectre? » Emmy asked confused. « I think that Barde is the key piece of this puzzle. » Claptrap then said.
« What do you mean? » Sam asked. « Everyone here believes that Barde died an year ago. I scanned some files from my superior A.I. intelligence and found out some more information's. Apparently he killed himself by throwing himself out of his manor garden, but come. On! Did he really look like the guy who could commit suicide? He was the richest guy around! » Claptrap exclaimed.
« You mean…someone killed Mr. Barde out of sheer opportunism? » Layton asked. « Killed him, hypnotized him to jump off a cliff like a fu*king lemming? Who cares! He must be the bastard behind all this mess! » Claptrap exclaimed.
« But who in the bloody hell would kill this rich folk and terrorize this bloody fog generator!? » Sniper asked annoyed. « The only person that can answer these questions would be no-other than Barde himself! » Sam exclaimed.
« But…daddy's dead…. » Arianna sadly said. « Not a problem. We can bring him back. » Sam responded. Both Tony and Arianna eyes glammed with hope, while Luke, Emmy and Layton eyes widened in shock.
« You…you can bring daddy back!? » Arianna and Tony exclaimed happily. « Nope. But we know a woman that can. And she's no-other than Momma Bosco! » Sam exclaimed again. « Another one of your crazy characters? » Emmy asked exasperated.
« You bet! She managed to clone hundreds versions of me to work for Charlie Hotep in his plan for resurrecting Junior! » Sam explained. « Did I suffer Stockholm syndrome in this timeline? » Charlie asked confused.
« So here's what we will do. We will take Mr. Barde corpse, ask the help of Harry Moleman to summon his spirit, pluck that sucker in Momma Bosco's created clone, and he'll answer all our questions regarding the fiend terrorizing this town! » Sam explained the plan.
« And we can also find out what happened to my mum! » Luke exclaimed. « Didn't she go to travel? » Max asked. « She wouldn't just go on a trip without telling me. I know her. » Luke explained. « My father has been hypnotize to lie to me! The jerk that killed Arianna and Tony's father is also controlling my father and hiding my mother somewhere! » he exclaimed angrily.
« I sensed Clark's unease as soon as we arrived. He certainly isn't acting like himself. » Layton noted. « So do we pay him a visit? » Sam asked as he was holding a boxing glove. « Not now. For now, I do believe that its best to contact this Momma Bosco you speak of. » Layton said.
« Not to worry. The freelance police can get her and her in a jim! » Sam proclaimed. « Where does she live, anyway? » Luke asked curious. « She lives in The Street on an apartment above our friend Bosco's Inconvenience Shop in the States. » Sam responded.
« Wait…she's in the United States!? We need her help now! And god knows when you can get a plane to America! » Emmy exclaimed. « Not to worry. The Desoto should be able to get us there in half an hour or so. » Sam responded.
« Unless we take the wrong road and we go all the way back to Colonial America. » Max added. « Not to worry. We didn't eat any human beings, didn't inhale any funny gasses nor did we have delusions of being followed by people we failed to save in the past. Unless you are actually an hallucination caused by my grief and I'm actually on a murder spree in Britain. » Sam responded.
« Nah. I mean I was scratching your head like I was a cat last night. Pretty sure you were bleeding. » Max reassured the dog. « Speaking of which, could you kindly stop doing that every Sunday? » Sam asked annoyed.
« It's just how I show affection! » Max justified himself. « Then could you stop loving me so damn much? » Sam pleaded. « No way! I'll never stop loving you! » Max hugged the canine leg. « I don't know whenever to find this wholesome or disturbing… » Emmy commented.
« And that's Max in a nutshell! » Sam exclaimed. « So where should we meet after you pick up Momma Bosco? » Sniper asked. « Maybe the library? » Layton proposed. « Sounds like a good idea. » Sam responded.
« In the meantime, we will continue our investigation here. There are some details I want to clarify. » Layton said. Sniper then turned to Emmy. « If I promise to not shoot the bloody seal, can I have my rifle back? » he asked annoyed.
Emmy glared at the Australian, but decided to hand him the rifle. « As long as you don't shoot anyone. » she threatened the man. « Deal. Unless I really want to or we're under danger. » Sniper shot back.
« Truly we make the best team! » Max exclaimed. « Like a dysfunctional family high on moose piss. » Sam responded. « The best kind! » Max shot back.
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