Chapter 11: A Gift
"I need a status report, guys," Ness shouted.
"I don't have anything useful in my pack, and I'm to pooped to poop," Paula replied.
"Me neither, I think we used everything we had on the mech," Jeff answered.
"So what do we do now?" Paula asked.
"Why don't we try the strategy we had before?" Poo replied. "Stand guard and protect Paula!"
They all nodded in agreement, and Paula kneeled and began to pray. "Anyone who can hear me, please pray from the bottom of your…"
"THAT WON'T WORK THIS TIME FREAKS!" Pokey echoed, as Giygas attacked the group with PSI Special Omega. All four of them were violently thrown against the back wall.
"Oww…that really..hurt," Jeff managed to whine before becoming unconscious.
"Jeff! No!" Ness exclaimed. "PSI Heal Omega!" Jeff regained consciousness, just in time to see Giygas send another wave of psychic blast.
"PSI Shield Omega!" Paula called out. The psychic shield immediately surrounded Ness and his friends, but didn't stop the incoming blast. Once again, the Chosen Four were hit so hard that they hit the back wall. This time, both Jeff and Paula were knocked unconscious.
"No!" Ness shouted in agony. "PSI Heal Omega!" Ness brought Jeff and Paula back to reality, but unfortunately was now too exhausted to use any more psychic powers.
"What are we going to do?" Paula whined. "We're too weak to take another one of those blasts."
"I have an idea," Jeff spoke up. "Just distract them for a minute so I can get it ready."
"Okay, but hurry." Ness replied. "We won't survive this much longer. Follow my lead, guys." He moved closer to the alien and his cohort. "Wait, don't I get a last request?" Ness shouted.
"OKAY, I'LL LET YOU HAVE YOUR PUNY LAST WORDS." Pokey shouted back. "BUT HURRY UP, I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOU COME TO YOUR DOOM."
"From the time we first met, I thought we were going to be best friends," Ness began. "What happened that made you hate me so much?"
"WHAT? YOU WANTED TO BE MY FRIEND?" Pokey answered, showing a little less tyranny in his voice. "I NEVER EVEN KNEW."
"Of course, I looked up to you as the 'cool kid,'" Ness continued. "But now it just seems that you are mean and hate me."
"COOL KID?" boomed Pokey. "NOBODY'S EVER CALLED ME THAT BEFORE. MAYBE I WAS WRONG TO HATE YOU SO MUCH."
You done with whatever the hell you are doing yet, Jeff? Ness asked telepathically. He turned to see Jeff nod, and while Pokey wasn't looking, Jeff passed what looked like Ness's Gutsy Bat though the group and into Ness's hands.
Give it to him, Ness. Paula told Ness telepathically. It's a bomb.
"So my final request is to leave my most prized possession, my Gutsy Bat, to my best-friend Pokey," Ness finished.
"NOBODY'S EVER GIVEN ME A PRESENT BEFORE," Pokey responded, lowering his guard and reaching out for the "gift". Ness handed over the "bat" and backed closer to his friends.
"Take cover," Jeff whispered, as he pressed a tiny button on a controller he concealed in his hand. BABABOOM! The bomb exploded, sending Pokey flying through the ground into the unknown.
"NOOOOooooo you lied…I trusted…nooo!…" Pokey shouted as he fell down the cavernous hole the blast sent him through.
"Alright! We did it!" Poo cheered, with the others slapping high-fives.
"But what about that?" Paula asked, referring to Giygas still in the room. Jeff walked closer to the alien and reached out to touch the red giant. Before he came close enough to feel it, Giygas melted into a large puddle of red ooze, and followed Pokey into the darkness of the hole in the floor. Only a small glowing box remained.
"What was that?" Paula asked.
"I don't really know," Jeff replied. "It may have really been the real Giygas, or just a clone, but the machine my dad created is still here, so Pokey was telling some truth."
"At least that's over, and they both should be gone for good," Ness said. "Now let's go find our families." Ness searched the wall for anything that could be a switch and at last found a small red button.
"What's the red button do?" Poo asked, and immediately reached out and pressed it. Suddenly a doorway appeared into a very bright light.
"This way my friends," Ness exclaimed as he led the way into the light.