Mother 3 one-shot about grinding and neuroscience. Warning: You may or may not like it.
"I... don't think this much grinding is necessary," Duster noted as the party beat the crap out of another robot.
"But who KNOWS what will be waiting for us when we find the Egg!", said Lucas. "You want your memories back, right? That pork guy just attacked us out of nowhere, and he was really strong. Something like that could appear when we find it. You never know."
"Hey guys! Boney just reached level fifty-seven!", Kumatora shouted at them.
"Bark."
Lucas whacked an Wound-Up Road Hog with his stick. Suddenly, his head began to feel hot. "I think I'm about to learn some new PSI..!"
"Bark (that's great! I hope you use it well.)," barked Boney.
The hot and nauseous feeling snapped away, and Lucas learned something new. He decided to try it out to see what he could do. He touched his index finger to his forehead and muttered the new word that popped up in his mind.
"Refresh."
The air around the party began to smell like Febreze and scented bath soap. They all began slowly recovering health, but in random spurts.
"That was a pretty cool move," duster admitted, trying not to sneeze at the weirdly refreshing smell. "Now are we done grinding?"
"Not until I learn more offensive PSI," Kumatora insisted.
"You can already use the omega form of all of them. What more is there to learn?" Duster sighed.
"I dunno, but my parent once said something cool about the potential of PSI I have ABOVE Fire, Freeze, and Thunder. Seems pretty damn awesome to me."
"Look! A Bright Smile!", Lucas screeched. "Let's kill it!"
The party ran up to the Bright Smile and all attacked it together. It died and vanished into a pile of DP. They could all feel themselves getting stronger from beating it. Kumatora began to feel her heat heating up.
"Haha.. time to learn that cool technique.."
She began to feel the fever getting worse. This is probably gonna be a strong one, she thought to herself as sweat dripped down her back and a headache started to pound above her right eye. I can't wait for this to be over and I can see what it's gonna be. However, before that could happen...
"M-mom?"
"Huh, where?", asked Lucas.
"Right there." Kuma pointed at a wall. No one was there.
"Are.. you feeling alright? I know learning PSI gives you fevers and all," Duster muttered.
"But I can see them. And I smell pickle juice. Oooh look, dangerous weapons! Hi mom!"
"Oh... I think I read somewhere that when a fever get too high, 102°F to be exact, their brain is so hot that their neurons go too fast, causing them to hallucinate.", Lucas informed.
"Bark!", barked Boney, which translated to "So, Lucas, what's the plan?"
"This won't last long. Let's just wait for her to learn whatever she learns."
After wait for ten minutes, brown and orange sparks appeared around Kumatora's head and snapped her out of the fever, ending the hallucination.
"What the hell did I just do?"
"More like 'what the hell CAN you do'. Show us the new technique you probably just learned!", Lucas cheered, excited he didn't have to hear another ten minutes of screaming.
Kumatora thought hard, and a new word flashed in her head. It began with PK, making things even better. She walked up to a Road Sign and whispered "Pk Ground". The ground started shaking. The tunnel started to crumble. Quickly, the party ran out of the tunnel and listened to hundreds of Pigmasks, Chimeras, and other creatures get crushed to death.
"I think we can get my memories back now," Duster awkwardly whispered.
"Bark! (And, let's stop grinding!)"