A/N I don't own Earthbound

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Chapter 3

"What do we do now?" Sean asked.

"We must travel to Twoson," Buzz Buzz informed. They started walking across town; it took about 10 minutes to get across town.

"There it is," Russ said, "The police blockade."

"Let's hop it and run," Sean said being proud of his plan.

"Good idea," Russ said as they ran for some trees and hopped the blockade.

"Hey you!" An officer shouted, "Come back here!"

"Run!" They ran until they saw a small shack.

"Let's go in there," Sean said. They ran into the house and noticed an odd looking man with four mice wandering an empty house.

"Umm…Ok," Russ said being very confused, "maybe not." They went back outside but didn't see the cop. So they continued walking to the town of Twoson. They entered the Twoson Forest and after walking for a while they came out to Twoson.

"What the hell is that?" Russ what looked like a humanoid life form but it is covered in a reflexive suit with a spike on its right arm. "Sean!"

"I gotcha." They rushed forward to attack. "Die!"

"Hahahaha," The humanoid said, "Little fools." It brought its hand up to face Russ and Sean. "PSI FIRE OMEGA!" Huge fireballs formed from its hands and flew at Russ and Sean.

"AHHHHHHH" Sean screamed as he was struck by one and was launched through the air to Onett.

"AHHHHHHH" Yelled Russ he flew through the air. He continued to fly until he got colder and colder, he thought his limbs were going to fall off, he saw a building and he was flying straight for one of the windows. "Oh Crap!"

"…and that's how he got here," Russ finished his story

"Wow," Dan said intrigued by his story, "Well in any case we should go to Twoson." he grabbed his pack, and he and Russ snuck out of the school and into the front yard.

"Put this on," Dan told Russ as he handed him a jetpack.
"How do I work it?"

"You press go and it fly be its self to the destination."
" Cool." So they press the go button and shot off towards Twoson.

"This is so much fun," Russ yelled out as they came over Twoson, "Hey where's that thing that attacked Sean and I."

"I don't know," That puzzled Dan, 'Maybe he made it up, but then how did he get to winters? I guess it doesn't really matter,' he thought. "Let's go down here." Dan said as we dropped to the ground.

"Hey what's this?" Russ is pointing to a picture of a girl kidnapped. The girl looked about 14 with blonde hair in pigtails. From what we could see it looked like she had a dress on but it could be an old picture.

"We should help her," Dan said as he scanned the picture, "ok her name is Paula, maybe her folks can give us some hints."

"Can we go tomorrow? I'm so tired."

"I guess so." So Russ and his friend went to a hotel got a room and fell asleep.

In the morning after a quick meal, they resumed our investigation.

"So shall we go talk to her parents?" Dan inquired.

"Sure," They walked over to the picture again, read the address, and started off.

As the two neared their destination they started to hear some commotion, "Wow she must have been important."

"Hey? What the heck?" Russ griped.

"It looks like we were too late."

They saw a boy with a red cap and the poster girl standing in from of the daycare she lived in.

"But we did find Ness," Buzz Buzz informed.

"That's true," Dan's stomach growled, 'That's right we haven't eaten yet.' "Hey why don't we go talk to Ness and get something to eat."

"Buzz Buzz, can we? You know, talk to him?"

"Sure but we must not mention anything about what we are doing,"

Dan led the way as they pushed through the crowd.

Flashback………

"I am a friend you have never met, my name is Paula, please help me……I can hear water…that's all I can hear…"

"AHH!" Ness awoke in a cold sweat. Panting, as if he'd just run a marathon.

He got changed, put on the Mr. Baseball cap he got, and headed out into the lobby of the Twoson Hotel.

"Hmm, I heard that guy is a sucker you will pawn up 50 bucks if you bug him enough," Ness said to himself as he looked over to a guy sitting, sipping his coffee.

He walked over and said, "Hey,"

"Hi."

"What's up?"

"Nothing."

"So…like that coffee?"

"Yup."

"So…wanna give me 50 dollars?"

"No."

'Hmm, maybe this isn't the guy' "You sure?"

"Yes."

"Aww, come on."

"No."

"Pleeeeeeease?"

"No."

"You know you wanna."

"No I don't."

"I'll leave you alone."

The man sighed, reached into his pocket and said, "Here, now go away."

'Score! That's how the hotel cost,'

He exited the building and after asking for directions to the nearest river started off to the Peaceful Rest Valley.

"Orange kid is soooo cool!" A girl said to her friend.

"Yeah!"

Intrigued, Ness walked over, "Who is this, Orange kid?"

"You don't know the Orange kid? Go down this road until you see the sign that says Orange Kid, that's his house."

'Hmm, may be worth a look' Ness turn down the road to his new destination.

'There's the sign I wonder if this guy makes anything useful? Hey wait a minute. Who's………Apple kid? Must be a rivalling inventor or something maybe I'll check him out too'

Ness entered the door and was greeted by a bright orange room and a kid in orange.

"Hi! Would you like to buy my technology?" He asked eagerly. Ness backed away, but Orange kid kept coming closer. Ness exited the house and after quickly glance around saw Apple kid's house 'Maybe he's not as weird' He ran inside to find a grubby looking kid and a mouse.

"…right…" He muttered.

"Hello, I am Apple Kid; do you have something to eat?"

'Well he's not pushy I guess I'll try it' "Here." Ness handed him a sandwich.

"Oh, thank you!" Apple kid ate quickly, "Would you like to invest in my research?"

"What do you invent?"

"Odd machines which for some reason are always finished right when I need them."

"Umm…ok, sure I'll invest. How much you need? $50?"

"No, no, I need $200"

Ness' eyes went wide, 'All my precious money' "Ok," He handed the money to Apple Kid.

Ness turned to leave, but the mouse blocked the door, "Umm, your mouse is in the way."

"Here," The mouse said, "take this phone, it may help you on your way."

"Umm…thanks." Ness grabbed the phone from the mouse, wondering how he understood it.

"Zip!" the mouse got out of his way.

Ness exited and returned to his original path, he soon entered a cave and found out that not all mushrooms are friendly. He pulled out his bat and proceeded to make scrambled mushroom out of a rather violent fungus.

"What was that?" he asked himself, "I guess this is what Buzz Buzz meant about Gigyas' influence and making stuff bad."

After exiting the cave he noticed the bridge was out, "Oh, no. Now I'll have to take the long way around."

With a sigh, he started off on the long way.

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A/N Finally finished chapter 3. Stopped writing for a while due to school and such. This chapter is the longest so far. I hope to make the next chapter even longer.

How do you like the flashback with Ness?