Chapter Ten: Wired
'Is he waking up?'
'No, you twit.'
'I am not a twit, twit.'
'How dare you call me that!'
'Ow! Don't do that!'
'Ouch, what was that for?'
'You deserved it.'
'No, I didn't deserve it. You're just making it up.'
'I can't lie, because you and I think the exact same thing, you twit.'
'I am not a twit, you twit.'
'Fine, dumdum.'
'Thank you.'
'You're welcome.'
'Wait a minute, did you just call me a...'
'Shut up, dumdum, he's waking. Call them in.'
'Who?'
'You idiot! The F.W.T.!'
'Don't yell at me, you ignorant, malpractice doctor.'
'I can't stand a minute longer of your behavior. Just get the F.W.T.'
'Okay, since you asked without calling be a name, brother.'
'I am not your brother.'
'Well, clone then.'
'Just get them, please?'
'Okay, don't be such a stiff stick.'
Ness opened his eyes and saw what looked like a laboratory. It had many gizmo and gadgets made for pulling and cutting. This gave him a very bad feeling. He went into deep thought and found that no harm had come to him except for being frozen.
"Frozen?" he muttered sitting up on the table he was laying on. He remembered he had been working in his secret hideout on a device that could send him to different realms. He was about to do the experiment A piece of ice with a face? Had he seen it before? He didn't know, and he didn't care.
Ness looked at the straps holding him done and he undid them with his clasped hands. Then, he reached of to a silver tray and picked up a scalpel. Slowly, he cut the rope around his hands and undid his feet. Getting up, he saw his device on the counter.
"Trap," he said and looked at the door. In a flood of memory and knowledge, he hastily jumped back into the room. The gray and blue walls, the well lit halls, the scent of clones. He was on Maxwell's planet. How? Why?
"Maxwell, what do you want?" he asked in a low voice and walked back out of the room. He looked down the hall again and saw a room marked 'F.W.T.' It was the only room close enough to where he wouldn't be spotted. He dashed for it, watching for clones or 'Secret Characters,' knowing he couldn't let them get word to the big boss.
The room he entered was white and vacant. It would seem endless if it weren't for the door on the other side. It was purple, but it had no doorknob to turn and had a small, blue shaded window. He went to it and looked through. On the other side he saw darkness. The instant his breath touched the glass, it froze on impact. It reminded him of space, dark, deep, and called. Then, words from no where called to him.
'The darkness calls me, but I ignore it. The darkness beckons me, but I shun it. The darkness turns me back, but, I look away. The darkness is nothing. The darkness is hollow. The darkness is deep... The darkness is here.'
Ness felt them sink into his body, causing him to shiver. The darkness in the room was deep, but hollow. It was nothing, but it was there. Ness couldn't help but to turn away from the class and remember a happier time before aliens, Maxwell, and chaos. As he forgot about the dark room, the lights slowly dimmed in the room. Ness looked around and saw several figures running around in the dark. Ness's happiness vanished and was replaced by rage, fury, and energy. He charged the figures, cutting at them with his psychic power.
Ness jumped out of the room and saw what he was killing. Purple frames, of those he didn't know, but there were only two.
"So, Maxwell, you get tired of the Polygon Team? Find some one else's DNA to mess with it? Coward!"
"Be quiet, Ness, you don't want to make a bad impression on our new friends," said a little man within the crowd of purple frames.
"Mario?" Ness was surprised, but he knew it had to be a clone.
"Mario with a Ph.D. in KOs. Dr. Mario you shall call me," said a different one behind him. Ness new this one was human because of the shake in his voice, while the other had a slight echoed, but smooth voice.
"You are Mario, but as a doctor? Is this some kind of joke?"
"No joke," cried something else in a squeaky voice. Ness turned to the ground and saw three strange creatures. They were blue, yellow, and red.
"Those are the Virus Brothers. They're here to help the Fighting Wire Team, or F.W.T. for short. Now, Ness, we'll give you a head start, but if we catch up, you're going to be pummeled badly. Run!"
Instead of running, Ness shot a bolt of fire at the Virus Brothers, making them explode in a flash of fire. Surprised, the real Dr. Mario jumped back, but the clone chuckled.
"Catch up time," he muttered, having the F.W.T. jump at Ness. In his mind, as fast as a computer, Ness calculated that there were thirty or so Purple Frames. Catch up time, in deed.
With a quick turn of his hand, he pulled out his bat and swatted the first two into each other. They fell, spewing clear blood. Then, he pulled out his yo-yo and wrapped it around the next Frame. He pulled it into the small end of his bat. the flesh on these new creations were tough, but the bat went through easily enough.
"Watch it!" cried Dr. Mario's clone, as three more went down at the swing of the bat. Ness turned to him, but several frames jumped in the way of his P.K. Fire. One fell, dying in flames. the other five backed away, but held their protective positions.
"P.K. thunder!" cried Ness, send a wave of electric, psychic energy through the five remaining. They fell as a single mass of burnt and bloody wire.
"So, they have of metallic structure, aye? P.K. thunder!" He sent another wave through six more, who fell, like the others. the fourteen that were left felt like running, but they knew they had a better chance of living if they stayed where they were.
"I knew this was a bad idea," said the real Dr. Mario. His clone cursed him with a few choice words, then confronted Ness.
"Look, you. We want to see your full power, okay. We need that energy to help produce Maxwell's new project. Now show us!"
"You weren't suppose to say that!"
"I'm psychic, that's why I knew I didn't need to run. I know what you are planning, and I know what its weaknesses are, now. Bye, bye." With a blast of psychic energy, he repelled Dr. Mario, and blew seven of the Frame to bits and pieces. Dr. Mario skimmed the wall, before making a face plant on it. He fell, holding his nose and tears. the real Dr. Mario snickered at this, but had to hold his laughter and tears, as well, as the clone stared at him. The clone got up in time to see Ness kill the last Frames.
"Well, that was easy, but why don't you send the whole legion, or is that hundreds of legions?" smirked Ness, staring at the clone, whose nose was running purple, now.
"Think it's funny, huh? well, let's see how well you do against a full clone, and not the frames of idiots."
"I think Zelda and Captain Falcon are smarter than you think. Zelda can since the future, too, you know, and Captain Falcon is way faster than you with better skills, and what not."
"Do you know nothing?" asked the real Dr. Mario, but got a laugh from Ness.
"You do know, you should be on our side. The worse that could happen is Maxwell make you not exist."
"He can't," said the clone, smirking. "Dr. Mario is from a different plain of mind. Just like all those others that infiltrated Maxwell's plain, he was captured and tortured until he told him who the real cause of his existence was. Maxwell took care of that person, and now he's in a loony bin in the real world."
"Then, why is he still in existence?"
"Because he still has ties with his first master. If his master loses all conscious thought, he goes bye-bye. But I'll stay here as long as I can, thanks to Master Hand."
"So, you're being ransomed for your master's life? How cruel and pathetic. Maxwell is a coward to hide behind his own power, clones, and mask." Ness, trying to concentrate on the clone, missed his chance at dodging the real Dr. Mario's pill attack. Ness, slid sideways, hooding his side, but was hit again from in front. Then, the two charged at him, punching and kicking. Ness tried to dodge, but he was held at bay by the assault. He felt darkness cover him, as he went unconscious.
'The darkness calls me, but I ignore it.
The darkness beckons me, but I shun it.
The darkness turns me back, but, I look away.
The darkness is nothing.
The darkness is hollow.
The darkness is deep.
The darkness is here.
Remember that the darkness is here, but it won't hurt you, because it is nothing. It can be deep and hollow, but it doesn't matter on the depth. The darkness represents something else within itself. In itself is a monster of evil and darkness. Darkness it stays in, and evil it does within it. The darkness shall not hurt you if you see what is within the darkness.'
"What?" moaned Ness, opening his eyes to the two Dr. Mario's. Ness was fully awake now.
"He wasn't that hard to beat," said the clone, holding a cloth to his nose.
"Yeah, but he didn't lay a hand on me."
"That's because he felt sorry for you and wanted to take it easy."
"Master told us he is at his best when he is unconscious. He put up a good fight when he blacked out. Hey, he's awake!" Ness was struggling with the straps, but Dr. Mario had heard him and looked. The clone turned to him as well.
"You are a formidable opponent, but it didn't help you with me. I defeated you with the ease of my..."
"He heard us talking, and he can read our minds, dumdum."
"Hey, I'm not the dumdum, dumdum!"
"You know, from what I can see, you two have a major mood swing every few seconds. I think you two..."
"Shut up and stay out of this!" cried both Dr. Mario's. This is when Ness sensed the bond between the two.
'That's right, they aren't just clones, they are actually those people. The difference is what powers them.'
the two started to go at each other, again, but Ness tried to make since of what he just heard in his thoughts. What charges them?
"Think, Ness, think," but nothing came to him.
'What are you, Ness? Real or fake?' He was fake, created by the thoughts and powers of an eight-year-old boy, now eleven. He could be killed by Maxwell at anytime, so what kept him.
'Good is good and pure. Bad is bad and imperfect. Why would you want to kill something perfect if you could kill something imperfect?'
"Because, the clones are fueled by the evil of Maxwell, and on the evil of Maxwell can stop the power of Maxwell's good," muttered Ness, ignoring the two fighting. So good had to be killed by evil, so why didn't Maxwell just zap them? Because he still had a good quality in him. Why and how?
'The tournament.'
"He gave us a chance to survive against his evil, in turn, giving him a good quality. He didn't what us to die, he just wanted us to take on a few trials. The problem was, he became power hungry and thought he might try to have a little fun. His inner child didn't allow him to harm us personally, though. That's why we fought his robot form, instead of his real form. That's why Luigi stated that he was invincible, because he could take our powers away and make him seem stronger. He had control over us, but he didn't have control over himself. He wanted us to have a chance, unknowingly." "That is correct," said a new voice, walking into the room. it was an eleven-year-old boy, much like Ness, only, he was real, instead of fake. Ness's mind couldn't comprehend the details on him, that made him, him.
"What?" said Dr. Mario's clone, standing up from the corpse of the real Dr. Mario. Maxwell snapped his fingers and the clone disappeared.
"I have only control of those I have created for the purpose of doing evil. When I created you for the good of things, I had no desire to use you in anyway, so I gave you all a free will. Now, Ness, I want you to take a long rest, while I decide what to do with you for my experiment. Don't try to read my mind, because you can't. I planted those buffoons with ridiculous information to lead you down the wrong path. Both Dr. Mario's are under my control. Now, listen carefully, Ness, you have chance, just don't take it head on. I will be able to smite you all, because this time, you will fight me personally. Not as myself or my robot, but as my mask. Good night."
Ness blacked out, not knowing what was to be done to him. Maxwell walked out of the room, he snapped his finger, getting rid of Dr. Mario's corpse.
As he did walk out, he snapped his finger and the two Dr. Mario's appeared before him.
"Clone, I want you to stay here and watch for Ness. He'll try to escape again, but don't worry, the effects of my powers will still be in him. He'll be easy, awake or sleepy."
"Yes, sir," said Dr. Mario's clone, with a shaky voice, now. He went and stood by the door.
"As for you, I'm expecting some company, so will you please join them in about an hour."
"Yes, Master," said Dr. Mario, running down the hallway to somewhere.
"Idiot," muttered Maxwell, waiting for him to return.
"Um, where do you want me to go?"
"To the aerodrome, if you don't mind," said Maxwell, snapping his finger and sending Dr. Mario on his way. He snapped them again and he was gone.
'Is he waking up?'
'No, you twit.'
'I am not a twit, twit.'
'How dare you call me that!'
'Ow! Don't do that!'
'Ouch, what was that for?'
'You deserved it.'
'No, I didn't deserve it. You're just making it up.'
'I can't lie, because you and I think the exact same thing, you twit.'
'I am not a twit, you twit.'
'Fine, dumdum.'
'Thank you.'
'You're welcome.'
'Wait a minute, did you just call me a...'
'Shut up, dumdum, he's waking. Call them in.'
'Who?'
'You idiot! The F.W.T.!'
'Don't yell at me, you ignorant, malpractice doctor.'
'I can't stand a minute longer of your behavior. Just get the F.W.T.'
'Okay, since you asked without calling be a name, brother.'
'I am not your brother.'
'Well, clone then.'
'Just get them, please?'
'Okay, don't be such a stiff stick.'
Ness opened his eyes and saw what looked like a laboratory. It had many gizmo and gadgets made for pulling and cutting. This gave him a very bad feeling. He went into deep thought and found that no harm had come to him except for being frozen.
"Frozen?" he muttered sitting up on the table he was laying on. He remembered he had been working in his secret hideout on a device that could send him to different realms. He was about to do the experiment A piece of ice with a face? Had he seen it before? He didn't know, and he didn't care.
Ness looked at the straps holding him done and he undid them with his clasped hands. Then, he reached of to a silver tray and picked up a scalpel. Slowly, he cut the rope around his hands and undid his feet. Getting up, he saw his device on the counter.
"Trap," he said and looked at the door. In a flood of memory and knowledge, he hastily jumped back into the room. The gray and blue walls, the well lit halls, the scent of clones. He was on Maxwell's planet. How? Why?
"Maxwell, what do you want?" he asked in a low voice and walked back out of the room. He looked down the hall again and saw a room marked 'F.W.T.' It was the only room close enough to where he wouldn't be spotted. He dashed for it, watching for clones or 'Secret Characters,' knowing he couldn't let them get word to the big boss.
The room he entered was white and vacant. It would seem endless if it weren't for the door on the other side. It was purple, but it had no doorknob to turn and had a small, blue shaded window. He went to it and looked through. On the other side he saw darkness. The instant his breath touched the glass, it froze on impact. It reminded him of space, dark, deep, and called. Then, words from no where called to him.
'The darkness calls me, but I ignore it. The darkness beckons me, but I shun it. The darkness turns me back, but, I look away. The darkness is nothing. The darkness is hollow. The darkness is deep... The darkness is here.'
Ness felt them sink into his body, causing him to shiver. The darkness in the room was deep, but hollow. It was nothing, but it was there. Ness couldn't help but to turn away from the class and remember a happier time before aliens, Maxwell, and chaos. As he forgot about the dark room, the lights slowly dimmed in the room. Ness looked around and saw several figures running around in the dark. Ness's happiness vanished and was replaced by rage, fury, and energy. He charged the figures, cutting at them with his psychic power.
Ness jumped out of the room and saw what he was killing. Purple frames, of those he didn't know, but there were only two.
"So, Maxwell, you get tired of the Polygon Team? Find some one else's DNA to mess with it? Coward!"
"Be quiet, Ness, you don't want to make a bad impression on our new friends," said a little man within the crowd of purple frames.
"Mario?" Ness was surprised, but he knew it had to be a clone.
"Mario with a Ph.D. in KOs. Dr. Mario you shall call me," said a different one behind him. Ness new this one was human because of the shake in his voice, while the other had a slight echoed, but smooth voice.
"You are Mario, but as a doctor? Is this some kind of joke?"
"No joke," cried something else in a squeaky voice. Ness turned to the ground and saw three strange creatures. They were blue, yellow, and red.
"Those are the Virus Brothers. They're here to help the Fighting Wire Team, or F.W.T. for short. Now, Ness, we'll give you a head start, but if we catch up, you're going to be pummeled badly. Run!"
Instead of running, Ness shot a bolt of fire at the Virus Brothers, making them explode in a flash of fire. Surprised, the real Dr. Mario jumped back, but the clone chuckled.
"Catch up time," he muttered, having the F.W.T. jump at Ness. In his mind, as fast as a computer, Ness calculated that there were thirty or so Purple Frames. Catch up time, in deed.
With a quick turn of his hand, he pulled out his bat and swatted the first two into each other. They fell, spewing clear blood. Then, he pulled out his yo-yo and wrapped it around the next Frame. He pulled it into the small end of his bat. the flesh on these new creations were tough, but the bat went through easily enough.
"Watch it!" cried Dr. Mario's clone, as three more went down at the swing of the bat. Ness turned to him, but several frames jumped in the way of his P.K. Fire. One fell, dying in flames. the other five backed away, but held their protective positions.
"P.K. thunder!" cried Ness, send a wave of electric, psychic energy through the five remaining. They fell as a single mass of burnt and bloody wire.
"So, they have of metallic structure, aye? P.K. thunder!" He sent another wave through six more, who fell, like the others. the fourteen that were left felt like running, but they knew they had a better chance of living if they stayed where they were.
"I knew this was a bad idea," said the real Dr. Mario. His clone cursed him with a few choice words, then confronted Ness.
"Look, you. We want to see your full power, okay. We need that energy to help produce Maxwell's new project. Now show us!"
"You weren't suppose to say that!"
"I'm psychic, that's why I knew I didn't need to run. I know what you are planning, and I know what its weaknesses are, now. Bye, bye." With a blast of psychic energy, he repelled Dr. Mario, and blew seven of the Frame to bits and pieces. Dr. Mario skimmed the wall, before making a face plant on it. He fell, holding his nose and tears. the real Dr. Mario snickered at this, but had to hold his laughter and tears, as well, as the clone stared at him. The clone got up in time to see Ness kill the last Frames.
"Well, that was easy, but why don't you send the whole legion, or is that hundreds of legions?" smirked Ness, staring at the clone, whose nose was running purple, now.
"Think it's funny, huh? well, let's see how well you do against a full clone, and not the frames of idiots."
"I think Zelda and Captain Falcon are smarter than you think. Zelda can since the future, too, you know, and Captain Falcon is way faster than you with better skills, and what not."
"Do you know nothing?" asked the real Dr. Mario, but got a laugh from Ness.
"You do know, you should be on our side. The worse that could happen is Maxwell make you not exist."
"He can't," said the clone, smirking. "Dr. Mario is from a different plain of mind. Just like all those others that infiltrated Maxwell's plain, he was captured and tortured until he told him who the real cause of his existence was. Maxwell took care of that person, and now he's in a loony bin in the real world."
"Then, why is he still in existence?"
"Because he still has ties with his first master. If his master loses all conscious thought, he goes bye-bye. But I'll stay here as long as I can, thanks to Master Hand."
"So, you're being ransomed for your master's life? How cruel and pathetic. Maxwell is a coward to hide behind his own power, clones, and mask." Ness, trying to concentrate on the clone, missed his chance at dodging the real Dr. Mario's pill attack. Ness, slid sideways, hooding his side, but was hit again from in front. Then, the two charged at him, punching and kicking. Ness tried to dodge, but he was held at bay by the assault. He felt darkness cover him, as he went unconscious.
'The darkness calls me, but I ignore it.
The darkness beckons me, but I shun it.
The darkness turns me back, but, I look away.
The darkness is nothing.
The darkness is hollow.
The darkness is deep.
The darkness is here.
Remember that the darkness is here, but it won't hurt you, because it is nothing. It can be deep and hollow, but it doesn't matter on the depth. The darkness represents something else within itself. In itself is a monster of evil and darkness. Darkness it stays in, and evil it does within it. The darkness shall not hurt you if you see what is within the darkness.'
"What?" moaned Ness, opening his eyes to the two Dr. Mario's. Ness was fully awake now.
"He wasn't that hard to beat," said the clone, holding a cloth to his nose.
"Yeah, but he didn't lay a hand on me."
"That's because he felt sorry for you and wanted to take it easy."
"Master told us he is at his best when he is unconscious. He put up a good fight when he blacked out. Hey, he's awake!" Ness was struggling with the straps, but Dr. Mario had heard him and looked. The clone turned to him as well.
"You are a formidable opponent, but it didn't help you with me. I defeated you with the ease of my..."
"He heard us talking, and he can read our minds, dumdum."
"Hey, I'm not the dumdum, dumdum!"
"You know, from what I can see, you two have a major mood swing every few seconds. I think you two..."
"Shut up and stay out of this!" cried both Dr. Mario's. This is when Ness sensed the bond between the two.
'That's right, they aren't just clones, they are actually those people. The difference is what powers them.'
the two started to go at each other, again, but Ness tried to make since of what he just heard in his thoughts. What charges them?
"Think, Ness, think," but nothing came to him.
'What are you, Ness? Real or fake?' He was fake, created by the thoughts and powers of an eight-year-old boy, now eleven. He could be killed by Maxwell at anytime, so what kept him.
'Good is good and pure. Bad is bad and imperfect. Why would you want to kill something perfect if you could kill something imperfect?'
"Because, the clones are fueled by the evil of Maxwell, and on the evil of Maxwell can stop the power of Maxwell's good," muttered Ness, ignoring the two fighting. So good had to be killed by evil, so why didn't Maxwell just zap them? Because he still had a good quality in him. Why and how?
'The tournament.'
"He gave us a chance to survive against his evil, in turn, giving him a good quality. He didn't what us to die, he just wanted us to take on a few trials. The problem was, he became power hungry and thought he might try to have a little fun. His inner child didn't allow him to harm us personally, though. That's why we fought his robot form, instead of his real form. That's why Luigi stated that he was invincible, because he could take our powers away and make him seem stronger. He had control over us, but he didn't have control over himself. He wanted us to have a chance, unknowingly." "That is correct," said a new voice, walking into the room. it was an eleven-year-old boy, much like Ness, only, he was real, instead of fake. Ness's mind couldn't comprehend the details on him, that made him, him.
"What?" said Dr. Mario's clone, standing up from the corpse of the real Dr. Mario. Maxwell snapped his fingers and the clone disappeared.
"I have only control of those I have created for the purpose of doing evil. When I created you for the good of things, I had no desire to use you in anyway, so I gave you all a free will. Now, Ness, I want you to take a long rest, while I decide what to do with you for my experiment. Don't try to read my mind, because you can't. I planted those buffoons with ridiculous information to lead you down the wrong path. Both Dr. Mario's are under my control. Now, listen carefully, Ness, you have chance, just don't take it head on. I will be able to smite you all, because this time, you will fight me personally. Not as myself or my robot, but as my mask. Good night."
Ness blacked out, not knowing what was to be done to him. Maxwell walked out of the room, he snapped his finger, getting rid of Dr. Mario's corpse.
As he did walk out, he snapped his finger and the two Dr. Mario's appeared before him.
"Clone, I want you to stay here and watch for Ness. He'll try to escape again, but don't worry, the effects of my powers will still be in him. He'll be easy, awake or sleepy."
"Yes, sir," said Dr. Mario's clone, with a shaky voice, now. He went and stood by the door.
"As for you, I'm expecting some company, so will you please join them in about an hour."
"Yes, Master," said Dr. Mario, running down the hallway to somewhere.
"Idiot," muttered Maxwell, waiting for him to return.
"Um, where do you want me to go?"
"To the aerodrome, if you don't mind," said Maxwell, snapping his finger and sending Dr. Mario on his way. He snapped them again and he was gone.