"Sad that you no longer make these. We'll miss you."
Well, now I feel like I have to update just to spite sad comments like this.
Sorry about the incredibly long hiatus. I just really haven't been able to concentrate on this thing. I've actually had better concentration on my own original ideas, surprisingly enough. But I do not intend to just abandon my work. I never want to do that. However... long hiatuses will be a result. Sorry. Hopefully I can be better about this.I'd like to get a new chapter out every month.
This chapter probably hasn't improved much on my writing, though. I did have quite a bit done before I took a break, but I wasn't able to finish it until now. I'm really Sorry.
Tails' heavy eyes slowly fluttered open. Waking from his deep slumber, it took the fox a while to fully regain his consciousness. His vision was blurred, but he could make out two things. A light blue background with large white blotched spread across it. They almost seemed to blend in. Suddenly, a figure popped in his blurred sight. It was a very dark color, but Tails couldn't tell what it was. Was it blue? Green? He might've even thought it was red, if his brain was his vision cleared, the young fox could make out the figure's could tell that the figure was indeed green, with a very round head, and eyes that matched the blue background.
"Good morning, sleepyhead." Cosmo said, in a loving tone.
Tails smiled when he heard her lovely voice. He didn't even fully register what she said, he just heard her voice and he felt like he was in heaven. She sat down next to him as he finally began to start up his brain. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, yawning loudly.
"Hey ya, Cosmo." He greeted her.
"Did you sleep well?"
"Not really... I had a nightmare..."
"You did? Of what?"
"I... can't really remember... It had something to do with you... and me... and Luigi... And some sort of purple thing..."
"That old bully back on Westside island? Hangnail or whatever his name was?"
"No... it was something scarier."
"Really?" Cosmo said flabbergasted.
"Yeah..." Tails said, looking down to his lap, fiddling his hands, locked together having a personal thumb war or something of that nature.
"Well, don't worry... that scary dream can't catch back up to you." Cosmo began to scooch herself over to Tails' side. She locked her hand with his, giving him a smile. Tails' heart melted at her curved lips. She turned her head away, looking at what was in front of the young couple. Tails followed where she looked and saw they were on top of a hillside, overlooking their humble little home, the train station to station square, and even the sparkling blue ocean.
"It's beautiful, Isn't it?" She said aloud.
"Yes… You are." Tails said, looking at her.
Cosmo smiled sheepishly and blushed a crimson red before trying to look away from him. Tails chuckled, before looking back out to the sea. Blissful silence followed. The two young lovebirds slowly crept closer to one another, their fingers intertwined together. Tails turned his gaze from the sea to her matching eyes. She looked over to him and gave him a smile so sweet that it could cause cavities. Both of their eyes drooped as they gazed upon one another. Their faces moved closer to one another. Tails could just barely feel Cosmo silky soft skin run over his fur. They tilted their heads to the side and came closer until the sky crackled with thunder.
Tails' eyes shot open at this sound, and his vision was greeted with a very different scene. The sky was filled with blood red clouds, with the water reflecting this new color in the sky. Cosmo was not by his side any more, either. She was gone. Poof. Like she had disappeared right before him. The winds bellowed loudly, almost like a hurricane, blowing the emerald green grass. Tails looked around himself to see if he could find her on his other side or somewhere else. However, he only got his answer when she yelled out for him.
"TAI-" She screamed, before being cut off. Tails turned around, looking to where the scream came from. He immediately got up from his seat and ran over to try and find her, only to be horrified at what he saw.
She lied on the ground, expressionless. One hand laid next to her head, the other upon her chest. Tears seemed to be leaking from her eyes, which mixed in with blood that was on her face. Her blood. She had three claw marks right across her cheek, that went down her body to form three gashes on her side. Blood and dirt stained her once snow white dress. Tails could barely take in the sight that was in front of him. She was dead. Dead. Again. After all he went through with her, she was gone. But who did this?
Tails Got his answer when he received a strike to the head, knocking him down next to her. He turned around and looked up to see a pair of claws soaked in blood. He looked at the owner of the claws. He was very hard to make out, as the dim lighting of the sky covered him in shadow. He saw two eyes, and an evil grin looking down on him. A grin he knew all too well.
"N-no... it can't be..." Tails muttered.
The being laughed maniacly as thunder crackled the sky, the quick flash revealing dark purple fur. Within this quick flash, one of his eyes changed. What was initially a normal, eye became metallic, and cold one. Almost as if it belonged to a robot. The being lifted his claw, showing off a metal arm, drenched in blood, ready to strike down. Until...
"CLEAR!" Said a voice in the sky as lightning struck Tails.
Tails' eyes shot open as he felt a good jolt spread through his body. This time his setting was a room with a black ceiling with many pipes-some of which were leaking-and various light sources all around him. Tails tried to take it all in, which was hard with the midget sitting next to him, yelling out.
"CLEAR!" E. Gadd shouted as he slammed down defibrillators on Tails' chest. This sent electric shocks throughout Tails' body, which made his fur stand up on end.
"Uh, I'm pretty sure he wasn't dead when I brought him in, Gadd…" Luigi said sheepishly from the side.
"You don't know that." E. Gadd said, looking at him and thrusting the defibrillators down on Tails, once again shocking him. It felt like a mule kicking him in the chest.
Luigi looked at Tails, eyes now wide open and his three bangs standing straight up on end. He was also panting heavily. "... I think I do…"
"Nonsense. I must make sure that his heart is beating. That monitor tells me that it's not!" E. Gadd said, pointing over to a TV screen of a soap opera where the the main character, Dr. Handsomeman, was being impersonated by his evil twin, Mr. Evilhandsomerman, during the surgery of his fiance, Ms. Beautygirl, and the heart monitor was flat on said screen. All according to Mr. Evilhandsomerman's plan. But, currently E. Gadd couldn't tell that it was a soap opera, he thought it was actually Tails' heart monitor, even though there wasn't one. Once again, E. Gadd struck down on the fox, who was now clearly wide awake. Tails screamed out in pain as the defibrillators sent a jolt through his chest.
Suddenly, on the soap opera, by the powers of plot convenience and Deux Ex Machina writing style, Professor Neutralhandsomestman ran into the room and ripped off Evilhandsomerman's mustache, as well as both of their shirts, revealing his true identity and the patient was alive and well, with the heart monitor going back to normal. Gadd heard this and looked up to Tails, who was panting heavily, still recovering from the extra shocks he had just received from the Professor.
"Oh, thank goodness, Tails, you're alive!" E. Gadd said, throwing the defibrillators up in the air behind him. One of them struck Luigi on in the face, shocking him horribly. He screamed in agonizing pain as he fell to the floor.
"Yeah…" Tails gasped, "W-what happened?"
"My little tracker told me something massive went on, and I had to come and get you two from inside the mansion." E. Gadd explained, "I found you unconscious in the basement, along with Luigi, who was cowering in a corner."
Tails looked behind E. Gadd to see Luigi trying to get up from the ground, moaning in pain. He didn't worry about him though. Luigi's taken worse then defibrillators to the face. Although, considering that Tails just got shocked by those things, he could certainly feel Luigi's current pain. Heck, it was still lingering in his chest. He held his chest as he asked E. Gadd a question.
"Mr. E. Gadd... are you a doctor?"
Gadd replied simply, "I'm a professor, yes."
Tails stayed quiet, unsure of how to respond to E. Gadd.
"Oh, but not the time for asking obvious questions. Now is the time for questions not all of us have the answer to. I need your memories to help fill in the blanks." Gadd gestured to Luigi, "From what Luigi told me, all heck broke loose, and you were unconscious when he arrived. Do you remember anything that happened before you fell into unconsciousness?"
Tails blinked before trying to a minute to try and see if he could recollect the events that happened prior. His eyes widened when the memories started flowing back into his mind. Cosmo! What happened with her?! Those weird ghosts had attacked him and her when they were trying to get to the jar. She said something about it containing the ghosts in the mansion. At least he thought she did. His mind was still starting up from the rude awakening E. Gadd gave him. He tried to rack his mind for more answers, but they didn't seem to be coming to him.
"I... I saw Cosmo... she was talking about some ghosts who wanted to take over or something..."
"Ghosts who wanted to take over, Eh?" E. Gadd hopped down from his seat, "Sounds just like that pesky King of the Boos."
"King of the whos?"
"No, King of the Boos!" E. Gadd corrected, "Anyways, listen up you two. We have a serious matters to talk about. Come with me to the veiwinating room."
Tails gave the professor a look as he walked past Luigi, who sat on the ground, with his face smoking. The plumber rubbed his face with his gloves, attempting to ease the pain. It didn't. In fact, if anything, it made it worse. The fox slowly got up, despite the pain in his chest from the defibrillators. He made his way to the plumber and held his hand out. Luigi took his hand and the kit pulled the plumber to his feet.
"Luigi, you okay?" Tails asked him.
"I'm fine..." Luigi muttered, his head spinning around in circles, "Let's just go with Gadd, I can't feel my anything..."
Tails nodded to his friend and walked out the door. Luigi stood in his place, however. Or rather, stumbled in place. Tails walked back in and grabbed his hand, pulling him along with him, making sure he didn't fall to the ground unconscious.
The two sidekicks walked into the viewinating room of E. Gadd's lab. Said room had several large TVs over a large control panel, all of which had what appeared to be 3D maps of the mansion they were just in. Well, except for that one in the bottom right, which had that soap opera from the other room. E. Gadd sat in a spinney chair in front of the screens, with an espresso in a cup holder. He spun around to face the two, with two cups of coffee in his hands, one in a normal coffee mug, the other in a sippy cup.
"Okay, you two, we're gonna need to pull one heck of an all nighter for this one, so I suggest you drink up." E. Gadd said, holding out his hands.
Tails blinked, looking at the sippy cup in Gadd's hands. Was that meant for him? He wasn't exactly a coffee drinker, but he could probably down a cup. He felt somewhat insulted by the sippy cup. Yeah, he was a child, but he was old enough to not be able to spill a cup. Luigi reached for the coffee mug, but instead, his hand met the sippy one as E. Gadd handed it to him. Luigi blinked at the cup meeting his hands. The midget man then reached to Tails with the coffee mug, who's insulted feelings were now replaced with a mixture of confusion and amusement.
"Gentlemen, Mentlegen, Luigi." Gadd started, prompting another questioned look from the plumber, "It appears that the mansion that you two just inhabited was, indeed yes, haunted."
Tails and Luigi shot him a look that anyone would get for stating the obvious as if it was the biggest discovery in the world.
"Yes, yes, nothing we didn't already know, But! Here's where the true news begins. As it turns out, said mansion is haunted by Boos, a specific form of ghost, that I and Luigi have tangoed with before."
Tails' eyes glanced over to Luigi. Luigi's brow slanted, giving him a more worried look than before. He gulped to himself, though Tails could hear it just fine with his sensitive hearing. Clearly these boos were something he wasn't exactly fond of. Then again, what ghosts were Luigi fond of? He moved his gaze back to Gadd as he continued.
"The Boos are very much a normal sort of ghost, not very different from how most ghosts are in fiction. Not very special."
"Okay…" Tails said, "So, why are you telling us about them?"
"Simply put," E. Gadd explained, "It's the leader that we need to worry about. King Boo. Leader of the spherical specters, and, like them, has all of their abilities. But, King Boo is a thinker, and can come up with plans that, while simple, are effective. Well thought out enough to the point where he can set up traps and spells to do everything he needs."
"Set up… traps?" Tails wondered aloud.
"Yep. It's how we've tangoed with him before. He trapped Mario in a painting, and set up the whole mansion fiasco where I met Luigi. Hey, I should be thanking him. I wouldn't have ever known about you two otherwise! ... Or maybe I would have… I remember something about time travel when I was a younger lad, or something…"
Tails' mind began to wander into the events before he went unconscious. With Cosmo. When he opened that box, all hell seemed to break loose. It was chaotic. But this King Boo might've set it up as a trap. That actually would've made a lot of sense. Maybe King Boo was the leader of those other ghosts, the ones that stole Cosmo. Since she had their key, maybe they made a decoy box, that was meant to take care of them. Still, that wouldn't have explained what happened to Cosmo when they got there. Her face was... menacing.
"Regardless, it looks like we're gonna have to deal with these little 'Boogers.'" E. Gadd said laughing. Luigi just gave him a look while Tails continued to stare at the ground in wonderment.
"It's a pun... on Bugger. 'Bugger,' 'Boogers.'" E Gadd then looked to the side, realizing what he actually just said. He shook his head, getting his mind back on track, "Right, we're gonna have to get you back in there to deal with them. And if they acted anything like they used to, that means you might have to look through some old places."
"Oh, great..." Luigi said, placing his hand on his forehead. Tails simply remained the same, staring at the ground has his mind raced. E. Gadd snapped his fingers a few times, snapping him back to reality.
"Tails, did you get all that?" E. Gadd said.
"Oh, um, yeah... Hey... quick question, Cosmo... acted kinda weird back there in the mansion... right after I locked up the-"
"Unlocked." E. Gadd interrupted.
"What?"
"You unlocked that jar thing. I should know, I went down there after you two after you fell unconscious. I had to lock it back up." E. Gadd then pulled out a key from his coat. That was the same key Cosmo gave to Tails.
"It was... locked... and I unlocked it?"
"Yippers. You opened up the jar and let all the Boos out. But don't worry, I locked it back up. It was very creepy, but most of the ghosts had left. Not all of them, though, I looked inside the thing and it looked like there were a good... hmm... Maybe Gazillion more in there. So, really, what we have to deal with was just King Boo's first wave of troops. Both enlightening to know what we're up against at present, and terrifying to know what we could be up against in the future." E. Gadd explained.
Tails looked down to the ground, "Then why did she..."
"I'm going to be sending messages to your brother, Mario. Hopefully, he'll answer them and come to our aid in this fight against the Boos. But right now, you two need to go in there, and fight the good fight. Suck up some Boos. I'm counting on you two!"
"Uh, R-right." Tails said, saluting to E. Gadd. The professor shot a look to Tails.
"I don't need you to salute. I do need Luigi to respond though." He pointed over to Luigi, who stayed stiff in his place, holding a horrified expression, with his mouth open and his eyes huge. Tails snapped his fingers to the plumber, trying to get his attention.
"Luigi? Yoo-Hoo?" Tails tried shaking his shoulder, but he ended up pushing the plumber over like a stone cold statue. Tails held his hands up, trying to back a bit away from him.
"Okay, I don't know where he blanked out on. That's not good." E. Gadd said, smacking himself in the face. He knelt down and picked up the cup of coffee he gave to him, which had thankfully not been spilled over due to its lid, "At Least I took precautions for it."
Waluigi was climbing up the elevator shaft of the underground lab/port-a-potty, with a giant vacuum cleaner glued to his back by the narrator. His slim arms and legs shook as they held on to what little they could of the elevator shaft. They came close to buckling down, and sending him to the bottom of the shaft.
He would not allow that. Not the great Waluigi, oh, purple man would not yield to something as insignificant as the roadways of indoor transportation. Now, a fire breathing dragon turtle coming to his door needing help with his taxes? That's something he would yield to. Maybe. Waluigi didn't know, he never learned that stuff in school. Or much of anything. It's a miracle he has a successful Bridal Boutique business.
It was then that he heard a sound. A… moving sound. One that was getting louder and louder by the second. And coming from below. He glanced down for a second and saw that the elevator was coming up. With him in the way to be crushed. Waluigi panicked. Not wanting to have any more injuries or be subjected to any more slapstick humor, he tried to do something he's done before and failed, millions of times:
Think his way out of this situation.
This was a surprisingly easy thing to do, as he quickly realized that there were parts of the shaft that the elevator could not pass through, as it wouldn't fit through otherwise. While one would have to be paper thin to fit through these gaps, for Waluigi anything was more than possible. He quickly flattened himself up against the wall, with a giant smirk on his face, thinking he outsmarted the elevator. However, he was greeted with a surprise, as he was on the part of the shaft that the elevator was attached to to go up and down the walls.
Have you ever been run over by a car? Well, imagine that that car was going upwards at about 50 miles per hour, with steel tires, on a steel runway. Needless to say, Waluigi was in pain. Horrible, terrible pain. As he peeled himself from the wall, he caught himself on the sides of the shaft with his long arms. And then he realized something. How long it was done. It had to be more than 100 feet! And he looked up as well. It had to be twice that size as it was down.
As Waluigi felt relief of dodging getting squashed by an elevator going at that speed, he immediately realized he could have just grabbed onto it and hitched a ride up to the top, as opposed to having to climb all the way up with his skinny limbs, and the Poltergust slapped on his back. He immediately face palmed and then realized that was a dumb decision too, as he needed all the support he could get. His legs and arm buckled down under the weight of the machine on his back, and he fell down to the bottom of the shaft.
Once he reached the ground, he climbed his way out of the shaft, and into the hallway. He sat up against the wall, and spoke aloud.
"Next time, Waluigi will just ride the elevator..." As much as he hated to say it, Waluigi was right. He had to get out of this problem like a normal person.
"This is not good, this is not good..." Fantom said, floating back and forth in a straight line, almost as if the ghost was pacing with worry, "King Boo's out and all of his ghostly ghouls are all throughout the mansion..."
After the events that just happened, Fantom was going mental. He was in what they would call the closest thing to headquarters in this mansion. Which seemed to be a storage room, with many boxes and other unsorted junk. There was a fully decorated Christmas tree for some reason. They supposed the original owners of this house just didn't like decorating their tree every year, so they just had a fake one with all of the decorations still on it. Regardless, Fantom was not alone. Specks, the gaseous head, floated with him, though, not in a pacing line like Fantom. Boofurd, meanwhile, was taking care of some other business he was sent on by Fantom.
Specks stayed in place, turning his head to face his ghostly companion, as he float-paced with worry, "Yeah, bit don't we have a curse on it so they don't get out?"
Fantom's eye twitched. He angrily looked at his ghastly ally, his own teeth clenching to the point of breaking. In fact, they seemed to already been cracked a few times.
"Yes... yes we do, Specks..." He slowly floated up next to Specks as he spoke, "But don't you remember how that curse works?"
Specks looking up with a puzzling look, trying to recall how the incantation worked. He blinked a few times before it finally came to him, "Oh, we're linked to it! It took out a chunk of our life force to put it up! I remember now."
"That's right, Specks!" Fantom said, giving him as fake smile with wide, anger filled eyes, one of them twitching uncontrollably, "And what happens if they break the curse?"
"They'll get out!" Specks said, proudly.
Fantom's eyes widened, though they contained the same expression as before. He grabbed Specks by his single feature, his head, and gripped it tightly, "THat's right! But what else'll happen, Specks?"
Specks looked at him thoroughly, trying to read his expression. Specks wasn't the brightest bulb in the box. This made Fantom's afterlife quite hard when dealing with situations like this. Specks looked up, sticking his tongue out, with a puzzling look on his face, almost as if he's trying to figure out the most basic puzzles one could think of In fact, he was actually moving his head upwards, spinning it in Fantom's hands.
Fantom blinked when his face started to go upwards, with a frown replacing his fake grin, and a pair of confused eyes to go with it. He was quick to it, though, and his face read more of a "I'm so done with this" kind of face. When Specks made his way back around to looking at Fantom, his face was joy filled, open mouth smile and wide eyes, after remembering what it was that Fantom wanted him to remember.
"We'll die!" He said ecstatic.
Fantom nodded, twitchingly, "Not exactly...but yeah, that's the gist of it..."
Suddenly, Boofurd phased through the door, with a tight fist and a smile on his face. However, he quickly noted something was off. He opened and closed his hand quickly before looking down at it. He nodded his head before going back through the door. This time, the door opened, making a creaking noise, alerting Fantom and Specks to his presence. He floated in, this time with a pizza slice in his once fist clenched hand. They both shot him a look.
"Pizza doesn't go through walls." Boofurd said, floating around them both before sitting his head-body down onto a beanbag chair. He gripped the pizza with both of his hands and started to eat it. Somehow.
"Well?" Fantom asked, impatiently.
"Relax. Bud's fine." Boofurd said, noming down on his pizza, "Fell asleep a while ago. I just had to get some pizza."
"Our entire existence is at sake here, and you're just sitting around eating Pizza?!" Fantom exclaimed, angry at Boofurd's seemingly lack of care.
"Well, it's not like you're doing anything to stop it right now."
"That's because I'm trying to figure out a plan!"
"Okay, cool. What do you have so far?"
Fantom twitched his eyes before going ballistic and beat his head against the nearest box. Unfortunately, he was a ghost, so he did a cartwheel in midair, going through the box as a result. Specks chuckled lightly to himself, trying to not make himself known to Fantom. But Fantom did hear it. With his momentum, he kicked Specks' head and had it fly through the ceiling. Fantom flailed around, trying to stop himself from spinning. When he got to a slow speed, he glanced down at Boofurd, who had a full mouth and a mischievous grin plastered on his face.
"I hate you." Fantom said.
"I love you too." Boofurd replied.
Specks quickly flew back into the room with a smile on his face, "Guys! Guys! I have an idea for the barrier!"
Both of them looked at him, Fantom with wide eyes, Boofurd simply getting up from his chair and grabbing something unseen in the room.
"What is it?! Tell us now, Specks!" Fantom demanded.
"You know those two guys who were catching ghosts in the mansion earlier? Why don't we just talk with the green cap guy and ask them to help us?" Specks said with a smile.
Boofurd, expecting a violent kick to Specks' head, pulled out a soccer goal post, and was ready to move it in front of him as he flew. Fantom caught this, and decided to take the little bit of rage he had with that idea out on him. After all, it wasn't Specks' fault he wasn't the smartest guy. He pointed his finger at him and flicked a tiny ball of darkness at his face, which send him flying through the wall. It also made a tiny explosion in the wooden wall, but still.
"Okay,Specks... that is not a 100% bad idea... it's just flawed..." Fantom explained to him, "They have been sucking up ghosts. We are ghosts. In turn, they will try to suck us up before we can explain ourselves."
"Plus Green cap is terrified of us." Boofurd said, walking through the wall on his hands.
Specks looked to the ground with a rejected look on his face. Until Fantom interjected a "but." Then He lit up.
"But... They do capture ghosts. And our enemies, are also ghosts. With any luck, they'll be back and they'll clean up this mess. All we'll have to do is sit back and let them."
"Yeah. That, and play with Rosebud. until then." Boofurd said, floating up next to them.
Fantom looked at him as he floated up, with the realization of what he just said.
"Shoot, now we have to do a protection mission..." He said, facepalming.
Luigi gulped aloud to himself, looking over the mansion once again, knowing full well what was waiting for him inside. King Boo and his horde of minions. He hadn't fought him since the first time he met E. Gadd, and he knew he wasn't exactly happy to be stuck inside a painting for as long as he was. He felt a hand pat him on the shoulder. He looked back to see Tails looking up to him, with a concerned look on his face.
"We'll get him, Luigi. I promise."
Luigi blinked, his worried expression not fading from his face. He glanced back at the mansion, knowing what would come to them both. Knowing who would be the final boss of this tale. He attempted to reassure himself, saying he had Tails behind him, but that didn't exactly calm him down, considering he was an eight year old. Granted, a really competent eight year old, capable of making a starship in the span of six months, but still and eight year old.
As Tails and Luigi walked from the outhouse laboratory, two figures watched from the shadow covered windows. Both with blood red eyes, both with sharp teeth, both with a vendetta against the two opposers to their goal. And both with second thoughts of their current partnership.
"Look at them... Those little Do-Gooders. Both of them on their way into our humble base of operations. Which they wouldn't have been if you hadn't stopped me." King Boo spat with a hiss in his ghostly vocal cords.
"Hey, I didn't stop you from getting the Plumber. Just the freak. You could've gotten him when you had the chance." Rebuttaled the ghost king's apparent partner.
"You and I both know that if I hadn't ended them both, then we would still be dealing with one of them." Boo explained, floating around the cranium of his ally, "I understand what you want with him. Vengeance is like soft served Ice Cream... Best served cold and sweet enough to savor... But after what had happened to you, you should very well know your vengeance would be on the long term."
"Yeah...But not like this. Both of us know the powers I got... And what I can do with them!" The being lashed out at King Boo with giant claws. The ghost king remained unfazed as his partner fazed right through his intangible body. Lashing out at him again and again, his partner knowing no harm would come to the king of the Boos, so he decided to go to town. Striking at the ghost king over and over, using him as target practice. After a few minutes of slashing, the being dive bombed right through King Boo, landing on the claws that were extended from his form. They sucked as much air as they could into their mouth before exhaling it quickly. The pupils in their eyes at their minimum. For the first time in a long while, King Boo's partner was legitimately tired.
"You quite done?"
The being panted heavily before answering, and in fact, during the answer itself, "I'm tired... Out of energy... Out of Breath..."
"Yes. It is what your kind does."
"I know... Hahahahaha... Believe me, I know..." His partner cackled aloud. The laughter grew more and more demonic as time went on. A faint glow made itself apparent to the room, coming from their fist. Slowly, the being lifted their hand, opening it ever so slightly to show a small, red gemstone in it. They opened their hand further and it sprang upwards. Right in front of their face.
"Hahaha... cAn yOU FeEL tHe sUnSHINE? DoSe iTbRiGhtEn uP YoUr dAy?"
Once again, so sorry that this chapter is so short, it took so long to come out, and it's not as good as previous chapters. However, on the bright side, we've finally entered the rabbit hole. This story's always had three parts to it, and we've just entered the second one.
There was going to be a scene with Professor Pickle and his assistant on their way to Station square, but I decided to cut it. First time I've had writer's block for a scene.
But yeah. I do plan on finishing this story sometime this year, getting at least a chapter out each month. And Also Ben 10 Omniverse: Greengate. That thing has one more chapter to it, and I'll be damned if I'm just gonna let it rot.
Read, review, and all that junk.