NitroGaming Presents: Warped

Chapter 17

The Depths of Delirium

DISCLAIMER: I do not own most characters featured in this fanfiction. They belong to their rightful owners.

Author's Note: Holy cow I haven't updated this in a while! Sorry this took so long to publish, I have had a lot going on lately. I've recently been doing a lot of recording as well catching up on some time with family. Anyway, my third fanfiction has been confirmed. It should release its first chapter sometime after this chapter goes up. The only hints I am giving is that it is not based off a Nintendo game and that it is after one of my favorite animation series on YouTube. Stay tuned…

I felt like I was out for days. I opened my eyes and saw the room I was in was lined with pitch black walls.

"This is really weird." I spoke. I didn't remember at first, but I soon remembered the reason I blanked out.

"Ridley, h-he clawed at my face didn't him?" I muttered again. I then realized something else that sent a chill down my spine.

"Did he kill me?" I questioned. That made me feel sick. Poltergeist sacrificed his second life for me in my attempt to end evil in the multiverse. My parents, pets, and 7 siblings had no idea where I was, much less knowing that I was possibly dead. I thought long and hard about this possibility.

"What about those men in the helicopters?" "I have no idea what their alignment is and what their goals were." I said, beginning to remember more.

"I wish I had a mirror." I asked myself. Suddenly, a mirror seemingly appeared right in front of me. I stood up and looked at my reflection. I looked mostly normal, jet black hair, brown eyes, and I was wearing the endless hoodie that I used back on Outset Island. But the elephant in the room was the massive scar that ran over my right eye.

"Wait a minute, am I in my subconscious?" I thought. The scar wouldn't be there if I was dead. The mirror seemingly appeared out of thin air. I was wearing different clothes than when Ridley attacked.

"Let me try something."

I thought hard about my first and still one of my favorite games, Mario Kart DS. Suddenly, light beamed into the dark room and I could see Dry Bones and Toad racing around Tick-Tock Clock. Even the music and sound effects were heard as Toad sniped the skeleton with a Bomb-omb.

"This can't be my end." "I'm in my head."

Suddenly, I could hear the "In Your head" lyrics from one of my favorite songs, Zombie.

"I just need to be woken up from a coma." I said, smiling that I had a chance to continue with both my life and my quest to end peril." "I'm pretty light when it comes to sleeping, so I wonder if it's easy to wake me from a coma."

(3rd person)

Rayman had gotten Rocky to the infirmary on the ship's 5th floor. Sneaker stepped into the situation, surprising everyone when she started diagnosing the injured human. Rocky was lying in a hospital bed with IVs and other devices stuck in his arms. The blood from earlier had been cleaned up, but a massive gash still ran over his right eye.

"He is hanging on by a thread." "He can survive if we act fast." "Link, could you grab a cold compress and some needles?" "I'm going to have to do stitching on him." The young Hylian did what the magenta ghost told and hurried back with said items.

"Thank you dear, can I ask you to step out please?" "You may not like to see what I have to do." She spoke.

"Oh, o-ok." "Just let me know how he fe-feels." Link stepped out of a doorway and into a hall, where Spark was sitting outside of the door. Link was seemingly poisoned when he saw his newfound friend in grave danger. He was fighting back tears until Rayman comforted him.

"He should pull through Link." Said Rayman, who was also standing outside the door along with the other ghosts.

"He certainly is one of the smartest and most caring heroes I've ever met." Said Greenie. The poor ghost just lost a close friend and a father figure to him in the form of Poltergeist."

Everyone then drifted into silence. Spark and Link were now hugging each other. There was still no word of the status of Rocco Christian Pontzer. The silence went on for roughly 2 hours, it ended when the cordless phone on the floor rung. Each floor of the ship had a cordless phone each with a different number.

"I'll answer it." said Hider, who was wearing a pair of the pick-up gloves as he floated over to the phone, which was sitting on a small dresser near the door into the Paranormal Chamber.

"Hello," spoke the blue ghost.

"Yes, we have found problem with your Microsoft Vindows Computer—"

"NO, GO AWAY!" Hider shouted, something that blue ghost almost never did.

Rayman got a chuckle out of this, but everything went back to silence rather quick. Spark stepped away to grab an "Electro-Berry Smoothie" which was made up off the yellow berries found back in the Mushroom Kingdom. After he came back, Link went to the restroom. Rayman decided to use this time to try and bond with his fellow hero.

"You like the taste of those berries Spark?" said the limbless being.

"They're pretty good." "They're sour at first, almost actually SHOCKING." Rayman groaned at the dinosaur's pun. "But after a second or two, they get about as sweet as ripe blueberries."

"Good to know, I tried blueberries yesterday, they're pretty interesting." Said Rayman.

"My personal favorite has to be the Kiwano Melon." Said Spark.

"Kitano Who-sit?"

This conversation went on for about 15 minutes. Spark was telling Rayman all about the fruit from his homeland, as well as what Rocky had told him about fruit from Earth. Rayman was very fascinated with the information he was learning. Spark was even saying how Rocky had taught him how to make the smoothies.

Link came back right as the conversation ended. That's when Sneaker came out of the Infirmary door.

"Will he be ok?" asked Link.

"There's good news and bad news." The magenta ghost spoke. "The good news is, he is still with us, and is breathing again."

A huge wave of relief went over the entire group.

"The bad news is, he is still unresponsive." "He should wake in a couple of hours or so."

(3 hours later)

By this point, everyone had gathered around Rocky's bed. Sneaker could see him slowly start to wake up.

(1st person)

I was determined to get out of my subconscious. I had been trying to get out for a few hours now, trying some different ways. I felt like I was electrocuted at one point in there, as well feeling like a tree that was carved into with a pocket knife. All of sudden, I could see light come from above. I couldn't avoid it as it pulled me upward. I seemed to escape my head. I wanted to try doing something to see if I was still alive, so I opened my eyes very slowly. When I opened them, I could see a crowd around me. I internally smiled. I had made it out alive.