Chapter 19: Attack of the Generator.
After climbing the ladder from that strange room. Lucas and his friends found themselves now climbing up a taller tower, with livewire's of electricity spurting every which way, causing the hair on all of them to stand up frizzly.
"How much energy are they draining from that poor Paula girl to levy all that electricity around here?" Kumatora wondered aloud as they continued their climb, avoiding loose sparks whenever they strayed off course. "She can't be giving it to them willingly."
"You did say that PSI powers are tied to your emotions, didn't you?" Duster asked, trying to recall the conversation from 3 years ago. "Maybe they're torturing her and the other two that Poo mentioned in order to draw out lots of negative energy to make it as powerful as possible?"
"These fuckers are just cruel and heartless." Kumatora growled at the thought. "I mean damn, that Poo boy looked maybe a year older than you Lucas! I can't imagine what they're going through. Imagine if they got us?!"
Lucas felt his stomach twist at the thought of that. Having Paula, and potentially two other kids with PSI powers constantly draining was bad enough, what would they possibly do with 5?!
"Master Lucas!" Boney barked. "Is everything okay?!"
"Y-Yeah." the boy replied sheepishly. "It was just...concerning. Poo said he thought Paula would be here...but...we didn't see her going through this entire area. I doubt she'd be at the tippy top giving her energy directly to the Thunder Gun used to suppress Tazamily."
As the three climbed up the tower, the loose sparks only became more increasingly frequent. So much so that they often found themselves waiting near these massive things that Lucas assumed were called generator coils, just looking at some blueprints on the sides.
There were also occasional flashes of white light that would sometimes cause one of the group to feel dizzy, or make an occasional cry. At one point, Boney had even collapsed from one, Lucas was thankful they had secret herbs for these occasions, as they couldn't risk carrying one of them back to the Sauna in that creepy kids room if Fassad was on their tail.
Finally, they reached the last ladder, Lucas looked up, and, he saw a bit of daylight leaking out of the side, he placed his hands on the metallic letter and was ready to climb before…
"LUCAS LOOK OUT!" He heard the shouts of Kumatora and Duster, but wasn't fast enough to remove his hands as a loose spark dripped onto the ladder and began to shock him senseless. His body twitched and spazzed as the electrical shock coursed through him. Whatever they were doing to get this Paula girl's energy...it was certainly effective.
A flash image went through his head, it showed a girl in a pink dress with watery blue eyes that reminded him of his mother's fondness for the beach near Tazamily. She had pretty golden hair tied up in a cute little red ribbon.
The girl looked exhausted as she collapsed on the ground. There were all sorts of wires, cables, chains attached to her. There were machines all around her that were whirring and beeping.
"Get up...you need to get up." Lucas suddenly realized that HE was looking at the girl and talking to her. His tone sounded robotic and soulless. He caught the image of a brown trench coat and orange pants, just like the commander he was mistaken for. He also seemed to have a holder for a sword and gun on either side of his pants.
He watched the girl in pink push herself up, her body was twitching, her skin was pale, lips were cracked, her dress charred, and her hair looked burnt. There were tears falling from her eyes as she looked at him.
"WHY!" the girl pleaded, looking at Lucas in distress and hysteria. "Why would you do this to US?! Where is Ness?! Where is Jeff? Poo?! WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY FRIENDS?!"
There was a long pause before Lucas watched in horror as jolts of electricity came down and started shocking the girl senseless, the amount of electrocution that went off as she screamed and called for the Ness boy once again.
"Your friends cannot help you anymore." Lucas said, the voice still robotic and soulless. "You belong to King Pokey! Just like Me! And Pretty Soon, Everyone Else!"
Lucas felt some anger coursing through himself as he looked at the girl. He wasn't sure how he was seeing this, but the thought of it made him angry. Something he never felt before, just a burning raging flame as he felt the urge to try and kill whoever was doing this to the girl behind the glass tube.
The image was suddenly cut out as he snapped back to reality, feeling a chain break inside of his head.
"PK Flash!"
A new PSI Power? Had been a while since he had learned something brand new, and not just an upgrade of one of his old, even if he was still stuck with just Love Alpha.
"Lucas?!" he blinked awake as Duster and Kumatora looked at him, Boney was also whimpering as well.
"You okay, kid?" Kumatora asked.
"Yes...I'm fine." Lucas said, completely forgetting the fact he had just been electrocuted. He and the group climbed up the last ladder, where they found themselves on a domed roof floor. There was a very large generator with a robot sticking out of it. There was a warning sign next to it.
Dr. Andonuts and Jeff's Reminder: Under no Circumstances should the Mr. Generator be cooled off! The systems are fragile and require lots of heat in order to continue powering itself. If its systems get too cold, it will explode!
"Okay, the Thunder Gun should be right up here!" Lucas said, looking up at the dome. "After we destroy it, we can find another way down."
Suddenly, the robotic body of wires booted up and whirled around, facing Lucas, Kumatora, Duster, and Boney.
"Warning! Warning! System Failure! ID not Recognized! Initiating Self Defense Protocol!"
"How many of these fucking guard bots do these assholes have?!" Kumatora muttered.
Mr. Generator charged up a bit of electricity on its fingered hands and struck it down.
Lucas, quickly thinking, channeled his PSI into himself "PSI Shield times 4!"
The four barriers of light sprung up and nullified the electricity generated, which made sense as it came from another PSI user.
The Robot Generator twitched a little as it extended its arm out and slapped Lucas into the metallic generator face, and Lucas felt a quick sharp burn on his face as he hit it and fell to the ground.
Duster ran forward towards the Robot and swiftly axe kicked it. The Robot had its head pop up like one of those weird candy dispensers Lucas had seen kids play with. The wires short circuited and shocked Duster backwards.
"Drop your head master Lucas!"
Lucas ducked as Boney somehow managed to light off a firework that launched into the generator Robot and exploded. The damage was minimal, and the metal didn't even look burnt.
"PK Thunder !" Kumatora shouted. Two bolts of lightning erupted off of her fingertips and zapped the Generator Robot silly. Lucas felt his heart sink as the Robot continued to stand strong.
Several more shockwaves erupted from the Generator, however, the PSI shields held their ground, protecting the four of them as Lucas ran up and whacked the robot with his stick. The hit managed to make a dent in the stature, but the Robot still stood strong as it went to unleash another slap to Lucas.
Kumatora jumped in front of him and quickly used PK Freeze α. The small beam of ice erupted from her fingertips and encased the finger of the Generator Bot in ice. The robot whirred a bit.
Critical Failure...Cooldown alert...must use internal heat to stop.
Duster quickly took advantage of the encase fingertips as they saw a few drops of water begin to drop off the ice, He took out a bomb and chucked it across the Room.
Lucas saw this and quickly used a regular shield to cover him and Kumatora as the bomb exploded, the explosion was loud and big enough to blow a hole in the cover roof, and tear the Generator Bot's left arm off.
"Error...Error! System Processing...Shutdown Sequence engaged." The Robot began to shake and sputter as steam erupted from it.
"It's gonna blow!"
"Nwheehee!" The four of them turned to Fassad as they backed up onto the terrace, where Lucas could finally see the Thunder tower Gun firing Lightning off in a more rapid direction.
"I must admit, that was very clever of you…" Fassad said, twiddling his moustache as he peeled a Luxury Banana. "Now tell me...how did you manage to get this far?"
"Eh...it wasn't hard when your dumbass army thought Lucas here was the commander. Pretty stupid of them if you ask me. Especially when he shows up without a uniform." Kumatora shrugged as Fassad leered at her.
Lucas looked up as a large machine flew through the air and was heading towards them. He felt his stomach turn, it was either die in an explosion here, or get captured at this point.
Fassad chuckled immensely at the four of their continuous expressions between each other.
"Oh, don't worry about that." he chuckled. "That ship isn't here for you. It's here for me! All for me! We don't need yours and the brat princess' powers. Our little friends provide us with quite enough. Even though I personally wouldn't mind giving you a good few rounds of torture."
He dropped the Luxury Banana peel on the ground and continued his little monologue walking around.
"Ever since I showed up, you have been nothing but little bitchy pests." Fassad grumbled. "Our Gracious Pig King can't stand to see people choose misery over happiness you know?"
"Torturing and Brainwashing, forcing Slave Labor, Recruiting them for an army? That's what you call happiness?" Duster asked. "You torture those four kids with PSI powers you know?"
"Serves those fallen four right." Fassad grumbled. "Ness, Paula, Jeff, and Poo. They were the only ones who could stop our great Pig King, so I took care of them personally myself." his stalking around as he seemed amused at the thought.
"Well, I took care of them, in a useful way." he finished after a moment. "Our king wanted them dead for good. However, I found more practical uses for them. And, after easily separating Paula from the rest of them. The others were doomed to fall eventually. All of these worlds are exactly the same...all except for yours."
Lucas blinked, and turned to Kumatora and Duster, who seemed just as confused as he was.
Fassad twiddled his moustache, "Of course, this isn't the same thing, but the weaknesses are apparent within them. However, with the Dark Fallen Four on the way...things will be looking quite bleak for everyone else in this wide Multiverse of ours."
"The fuck are you talking about?!" Kumatora snapped.
"Nothing of importance, princess." Fassad leered at them. "I'm just rambling to myself as we prepare for our future. Now that you all will no longer be a problem, that is. I'll be taking my leave no-"
Lucas quickly spotted that the banana peel Fassad had thrown down had somehow moved over to the otherside, the fat bastard slipped on the peel and was sent falling down the very tall tower.
Quickly looking, the blond boy turned to Kumatora, who quickly shook her head. "I didn't do it, as much as you may think I did." she said, putting her hands up.
Lucas quickly scanned around, and briefly caught a glimpse of someone in red, he couldn't get the biggest impression of whoever it was.
"HEY! YOU IDIOTS! GO! FASSAD DOWN!"
He quickly turned around to see the retracted rope from the pigmasks on their border, he along with the others, quickly grabbed onto it and held on as the flying machine took off.
As they soared and flapped through the wind on the Rope Ladder, Lucas looked up towards the machine's opening. Where he saw the commander he had impersonated. The Commander looked to be his height and shape, so he could somewhat understand why the Pigmasks may have mistaken him for the commander, especially if the helmet never came off to an average person.
The Commander stared at him blankly, or at least, he assumed so based on that mask covering his face. Lucas felt a strange connection with the person he was staring at, he looked up somewhat remorsefully, hoping maybe the commander could be merciful enough to try and land them somewhere and attempt to capture them.
The commander seemed to read his mind though, as he quickly took the sword Lucas had seen a holder for in his vision with the girl, a Sapphire Blue Blade with an Emerald Green hilt.
Lucas watched as the Commander swiped off, slicing the rope off and watching the four of them plummet off.
The person in the red mask watched as he watched the four of them fall off the helicopter.
"Fools...at least they managed to survive the explosion." The person muttered. A bit of a silence, almost as if he was waiting for someone to respond to him.
"I guess I shouldn't fault them too badly. It is their adventure after all. People always do dumb things."
An eerie silence just kind of spread over the area as the person muttered silence.
"I don't understand why you wanted me here, and, you know, not watching over the Dark Fallen Four!"
The person shrugged to themselves as they looked down at their wrist, where a tattoo of a marking of screaming in agony alien face was imprinted on his wrist.
"You and your fucking cult of nonsense. When will I get what I promised?"
"Yeah that would figure. You talk about how much shit I've lost, and what you'll give back to me. Then, you don't stick me in the world you took me from. You're full of shit you piece of crap. When can I reclaim what is rightfully mine?!"
The Flashing red imagery of a ghastly face chuckled immensely as images of 16 kids, each split into four groups. All of them were the same, 3 boys, 1 girl. The most glaring one
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Dun Dun Dun DUN!
References, here, References there, References EVERYWHERE!
You know, I always intended to build a Smash Verse of the Mother Series. I still have a draft of an F-Zero and Metroid Fanfiction. However, I scrapped the project just out of issues.
The basic concept of the story was that, 5 years ago, A terrorist attack by Blood Falcon and Black Shadow killed almost every single F-Zero racer. Captain Falcon developed an immense hatred and turned to Alcoholism, before his cousin, Jodi Summers, got him off his butt because the Glalatic Federation was finally ready to investigate the incident. And, he teams up with Samus as they look into the attack.
Huh, maybe if I can ever think about how to tie it into the presence of the disaster that was Unfound Revenge, the story will return to light. But, that happening has about the same odds as Mother 3 reaching the West officially.
Anyway, that's about it for this chapter. I'll see you all, next month.