So I guess this is what I'm doing now... uhhhh... I hope you enjoy I guess. This isn't going to go much of anywhere. I'm mostly just doing this for writing practice, might as well post it yeah?
So there I was, having a mostly normal day, I went to my generic work, went to the gym for some exercise, kept to my routine you know? Had a chat with my friend… Went to sleep and…
Green. Lot's of it. I mean, I've been to green places but this? This takes the cake. I think it's called a meadow off the top of my head, but it'd be hard to say. I, however, don't honestly care.
So I walk through the meadow, and out into… A shipyard. Yes. What?
Don't sneak into a ship DO NOT
OH YEAH! That. That is Texty. I don't know if they're an imaginary friend, something jammed into my being or a mix of both. All I know is he showed up when I was like 6 or something, and my parents were fine with him.
He's usually more logical than I am. Considering he was telling me not to do the thing I'm currently doing.
Damnit Desmond…
I'm too busy not getting caught to respond, but I manage to somehow get comfortable inside a box.
And now, we wait!
You are the worst. Fine whatever, I'll just be here stressing over how we got to a new world in our sleep
I get a bubbly smile on my face as I feel the ship move from port. I settle with closed eyes
Night Texty!
...Night Desmond
I let my consciousness slip, mostly assuming I would wake up back in my bed, and I dreamt this.
...Maybe that wasn't the best thought process at the time before I went to sleep, but hey, I don't mind!
Gotta be ready for whichever is tomorrow!
I'm very much cramped.
Turns out, sleeping in a small box is hard. So bad news, I'm tired.
Worse news, Texty's tired.
Worser news, I just felt a thud of someone landing on something.
Better news, I'm now on an island. With no way back off.
Hey, when I'm in doubt , explore! And I am very much in doubt, so I'll try and figure out where I'm going! Starting with why I just saw a child with a mustache and a child with a top hat, both of which can not be older than 11.
And far more importantly, why the moustached one is being held at an explosive point. Literally. They're on a pile of TNT barrels.
Weapon. 3ft to your left, go for the head for maximum concussive force
Thanks
I take a step, grab the… rolling pin? Yeah sure this'll work, and rush towards the children and adult men.
"Hey! Let go of the little girl!"
Oh god, now they're all looking at me
No backing down now!
I brandish my Rolling Pin at the mafia, as the hatted child seems to just watch what's happening.
"Eh? Who Mafia sized man? Mafia going 'to make you pulp!"
Several mafia members fall down off the barrel pile, and walk at me, vaguely ready to punch me.
My appropriate response is to hit them in the head with the rolling pin.
They… oh for the love of all that is Texty they didn't flinch.
Right. Upper body strength of a noodle.
I sidestep a punch, as the kid with a hat, who I will thus forward call hat kid, smacks one of them with an umbrella. Several times.
Why is a kid far more athletic then us.
Because I'm now 70% sure they're alien?
That would explain it, yes.
Apparently Hat Kid is super… alien I guess, and has somehow managed to knock out, maybe kill, all of the grunt things. And the boss.
I slightly stumble as the moustached girl and hat kid talk, my intent being to say something.
But the Hat Kid holds up an hourglass thing? And poof, they're gone. With the moustached girl.
I sigh, and decide that the large… I think that's a slab of concrete, in the sky is an appropriate place to check for anything that'll tell me where I actually am.
I begin to slowly make my way around and towards the highest point I can see, fiddling with my rolling pin as I go, finding a few switches on it
How did those get there? It's just a normal pin!
Oh yeah, I think that's my fault
…thaaaaanks Texty.
I hop up onto a small ledge, scrambling to pull myself up and onto it, grabbing a few green orbs on the way
I can finally get a glimpse of the whole town from here!
And there's some weird purple thing, bug, person? Next to me.
"Um. Nice view?" I say
"Yes. Allow me to introduce myself. I am the Badge Seller. Perhaps you would like to buy my wares?"
"Uhhhh… sure why not, assuming those green things are money here. Whatcha got?"
"Only one badge which you might be able to afford, along with another… far more powerful badge."
The Badge Seller pulls out a yellow badge with some upwards arrows
"The SunBoost Badge enhances your abilities during the day. However once night arrives, Your body will catch up with the boost, and you'll tire. Only 50 Pons."
I reach into my pockets and count out 50 of those odd orbs, leaving me with only a few left, and I buy the badge, putting it on my shirt.
I immediately feel the physical boost from it, and start hopping around full of energy.
"WowthatsarushthankaBadgeSellerbye!"
Slow down Desmond!
Fine…
I climb my way into a weird kettle on my right, and I'm shot straight up onto the platform in the air.
I land at the same time as that small kid with a hat does, and we both look at eachother.
"Ummm… hi?"
The kid scoffs, and runs off to help the moustached girl who's being attacked
Let's just take a vent in, I'm sure there's one somewhere.
I'm inclined to agree on this one, that kids mean…
I run around the side of the club called
"Go Away Please"
…yeah sure. There's a little vent at the back that I can just about fit into and scramble along.
Never before has being slightly more inclined to crawling has been useful
I struggle to crawl as the ducts get tighter before I hear a creak, and the part below me snaps.
"AAAAA OMPH! Urgh…"
I look up and see someone on a throne. Probably the boss of all those minions.
"You dare enter Mafia turf! I, Mafia Boss, will beat young man to pulp!"
"Eep."
The mafia boss jumps off his throne, and spins, as a stage pops up out the ground, like on cue.
"SuperCharge!"
I blink as he fires literally flaming balls of energy at me along with waves on the ground, as I jump between them, he seemingly speeds up!
"UltraCharge!"
I dive through another wave and bouncing ball, smacking him in the head with my rolling pin, just barely connecting twice before he jumps away
The Mafia boss throws both his cleavers at the walls of our little stage, and jumps back towards me.
I sidestep his jump, and get ready to hit him over the head
JUMP NOW DESMOND!
EH?
I listen to Textys advice, jumping up.
A cleaver passes the spot I just was on, and I smack the Mafia Boss with the power of gravity and a rolling pin.
He goes stumbling back, and I faintly hear something open and clatter, but I'm too focused dodging another Megacharge to pay attention to that.
I rush to land another hit, getting it in just before he jumps away again, this time dropping sandbags from the rafters as a Mafia grunt charges across the stage.
I jump over the Mafia boss, but I'm smacked dead in the chest by a sandbag, and I go stumbling back a bit, but still manage to throw my rolling pin and bounce it off his head back into my hands.
He begins spinning again, this time I get the glance of a top hatted kid struggling through the crowd to get to the stage.
Too busy dodging to help them though, and I'm getting tired.
Any bright ideas Texty?
Try… bait him into something big?
Thank you!
"Come on Mafia Boss, I'm not even breaking a sweat over here!" I sass from my little spot hopping over more projectiles and waves.
"GRRR! MAFIA! BALL!"
The boss makes a massive dog pile of his own me, and starts using it to try and trample me. I just dive into a small gap and grip tightly, letting him pull me up, before I smack him in the balls with all my might.
I press one of the switches on my rolling pin, and a hook shoots out, and I use it to fling him off the ball.
I take a breath and jump off the ball, letting myself fall and land on his chest, causing him to…
Explode in semi-brutal fashion. I feel like vomiting…
"Oh gods. This is not… not at all what I thought would happen!"
I step off the now goopy pile, and a little glittering hourglass is dragged along with my feet. I pick it up and shake it off, before hopping off the stage and over to the hatted kid.
"I believe you are looking for these?"
I present it to them, and they snatch it, glaring at me.
"…rude."
I don't get a chance to say anything else before a blur of red swipes it from the kid.
Hey Texty, should we help this kid? They're kinda mean…
Hey, they seem adventurous. Might help us figure out where the hell we are.
I then turn to look at the moustached girl as she drops the hourglass thing
And now I'm facing the same why I was before?
I quickly turn again, and watch silently as the kid and the moustached girl get into an argument and then the moustached one runs off after some slick move to take the Hat Kids money.
"Wow, both of you ar-"
The kid roughly grabs my wrist as they hold the hourglass, and suddenly it's like I'm having a seizure, with all the colours.
Calm down Desmond!
I shake my head. I'm in some sort of building. I spin round and.
Oh.
My.
God.
Is that the planet that I was just on?
I snap out of my disbelief as the kid starts talking.
"Don't want you helping them, so you're going to help me get my Time Pieces back!"
I flinch at the sharp tone
"O-okay then…"
They point me to a makeshift hammock in the corner of the room before they go back to their room.
I'm suddenly overwhelmed by insane tiredness as the Badge catches back up to me, and I walk over to the hammock and roughly lie down on it, almost immediately falling onto the ground.
I don't remember falling unconscious but I do remember dreaming.
It looked just like the ship, and there was someone in the hammock. They looked older than me, and equally disgruntled in their sleep.
I smile softly.
Hey Texty? You think we can make this work?
I don't think so. I know we can. We'll crack the kid eventually.
I smiled, I remember that much. Then I fell into an entirely thoughtless sleep for several hours.
I guess that's Chapter 1. I still barely know how this website works... uhhh.
I guess special credit to Mr. Mega1423 and his story Megacharge? It got me into this media method, so I'll reference some of his ideas that I probably thought was original at the time.
