CHAPTER 1 - The Three Saviors
Ness finally gains consciousness once again and gets up. He looked around his surrounding, and found out he was in a place of unknown.
"Where am I? Is this how the afterlife looks like?"
It is a place full of flashing ancient lights that shine with heroism... and valiant gold walls has symbols on them. Ness stands upon a golden path that seems to go into a room full of even more light. Beyond this room lie other two golden paths that lead to unknown. Ness decides to clean his eyes to see if he was seeing things; everything stood the same.
"Am I seeing things or what? I mean I have seen weird things like this before but... never mind, I better start moving on. I have a doubt it is safe just standing here."
Ness proceeds and walks the golden path. As he got closer into the room of the vast shine of light, the brighter it gets. Ness discontinued to walk any further to examine the great big light energy that was near him.
"Wow... This energy feels so high in spirit... The glow of it is so strong that it kinda hurts my eyes..."
Ness continues to research on the mysterious light energy that lies in the center and only thinks about it. Without noticing, footsteps can be heard coming from somewhere inside the same room where Ness lies. After a few seconds, Ness stops thinking about the energy and gains to his normal self again.
"Wow, I kinda got off-track there... Well I better check out the other two paths..." Ness shakes his head to avoid being lost in his though.
As Ness walks away from the energy, footsteps sound off again, but this time noticing them. He decides to check back and see who or what was causing the sound.
"Hello? Is anyone in here? Anyone? I need help getting out of here..." Ness starts to take careless steps, moving backwards.
"…Please, if you know the way out of here, can you please..." Ness collides with someone behind his back.
Ness did not want to for many had suffered from this, but turned his head around to see who he bumped to. She was a young girl with a green gizmo-like hat with a golden-yellow band wearing glasses. She has warm-toned red-violet long hair, clothing looked modern, wearing a small inventory pack belt, holding a hammer in her right arm, and wearing polished brown boots.
"Eeek!" The girl jumps in sudden shock.
"Whoa!" Ness also jumps but instead running away in the opposite direction.
He bumps again into a person again, to be most likely the young girl again.
"Look, I'm really sorry about what I did back there... I hope you can..."
Bad luck for Ness, for it was not the young girl this time. It was a pure-white creature with a red hat with a blue tip, wearing a red shirt with a white star that stood in the center, and had long legs with blue lines in his feet.
"What the heck?! Aah!" Ness ends up jumping and running away once again.
It was once again not a good idea for Ness to run away with such speed. He slams to Lucca, pushing them both with much force onto the golden path's floor.
"Oohhh... I am really sorry about that..." Ness shakes his head and looks at the girl.
"It's all right, I've dealt with worst actually to tell the truth. I'm Lucca, what's your name?" Lucca asks Ness in a very polite matter.
" Oh me? I'm..."
The white creature instantly joins in the scene with the two.
"Allow me to introduce myself... I'm Homestar R..."
"Stay away you... you... you red, white, and blue piece of randomness!" Lucca gets out her silver pistol from her gun holster and starts to load up her silver pistol.
"Anyways, I'm Ness... but are you sure you should be doing that?" Ness asks Lucca with some bit of uneasiness.
"I'm Homestar Runner! Homestar Runner! I'm no monster or anything! I'm just a guy!" He starts to panic and tremble in terror.
"... You sure got him moving..." Ness says with emphasis.
Lucca faces Homestar with an inflamed look; sweat was coming out of her palms.
"How do I know you're not just lying like what most monsters do?!" Lucca speaks out in somewhat of a rage.
Ness was getting a feeling that something bad was about to happen; he attempts to try and calm the situation with Lucca's with his social skill.
"Umm, I hate to break this up, but are you sure he is a monster in the first place? Number one, he can speak not-so-bad English..."
Homestar jumps with great fear and attempts to try and look as innocent as possible.
"See? Me speaks English! I'll prove it too! Apples! Marshmallows… Strong Sad! Socks! Stupid! Cold Ones! Melonade! The Cheat! Homesta..." Lucca pulls the trigger of the gun, shooting out a bullet filled with vast speed.
"Nooooo!" Ness screams in extreme despair.
Homestar gets shot in the stomach; the bullet blast open his skin, taking out some big of amount of blood. He gives a small moan and then instantly faints. He lands onto the floor; with some splats of pure blood covering the golden path's shining texture. Ness aftertime recovers from his shock and screams to Lucca with aggressiveness towards her.
"Hey! Why did you do that?! Didn't you see it was obvious that he wasn't lying?!" Ness hated these kind of situations where one is badly injured.
"Let me finish up those numbers for you, okay? Number two, he wouldn't shut up... Number three, he looks like an idiot... Number four, he's down..." Lucca looks down at Homestar's large wound and feels a bit of malevolence inside of her.
"But you don't just kill whatever you see unless you're sure it is a monster..." Ness sighs with inner pain, wishing that this ordeal would of never happen in the first place.
(Why... why does this have to happen all the time when I try and introduce myself to people these days... why is my life like this?) Ness though to himself with strong shame.
"Oh I don't know, let's just leave him here... Oh! Wait! That's a great idea, isn't it?" Lucca shrugs the obvious in her perspective.
"Are you that mad!?" He shouted at Lucca without having to stare at her face.
Suddenly a ray of hope shines in Ness' mind; he finally remembers he has the power to heal wounds and cure diseases with his PSI powers.
"Wait...What about healing him up? I have this power in me called PSI and I can be able to use it to heal up that wound of his..."
Lucca turns around and puts her hands on her hips, avoiding to look at Ness' face.
"Okay whatever… fine... but if he plans to come with us in our dumb quest of getting out of here he better close his mouth during it..."
Ness gathers his PSI energy and directs it onto his palms; the energy glowed a fade blue light of hope.
"Hopefully I can help him out... PSI Heal!" Ness then programs his healing energy towards Homestar's wound. The energy now turned into a bright-lighted mist.
The misty blue healing energy floats right off of Ness' hand then stood itself on Homestar's wound. Ness removes the despair he had inside of him and now hopes that his ability will be enough for Homestar to gain consciousness once again. He crouches and continues to send his misty blue energy to the wound.
"He's bleeding pretty badly in his stomach area. I really hope this is enough healing energy to handle this one up." Ness gives out a depressive look.
"I hope so too... I can't believe it... what have I got myself into this time?"
Homestar finally slowly opens his eyes; he sees Lucca looking at him with a very anguished expression in her face.
"Are you okay Homestar Runner? That is your name am I correct?" Lucca asks the very badly wounded Homestar.
He struggles to turn his body orientation to face Lucca.
"I... can't... feel my... my legs..."
Lucca now felt even more awful at what she had done to Homestar.
"I don't think your healing techniques will be enough to help this situation up, he looks like he could die any second right now. You're going to need this to make it work out..." She gets out her first aid kit and starts to search for a specific tool to try and help out Homestar's recovery process.
Ness continues to manipulate his energy to heal Homestar's bad wound, while Lucca starts to bind in a strap of a healing band directly onto the wounded part of his stomach. When she got done tying up the healing band, it caused her to become really weary. She now gave out an extreme sorrowful expression on her face and was shuddering a bit.
"It's okay Homestar... you'll be just fine..." A tear drops from her very own eyes.
Ness after a short time finally noticed that Lucca was silent-crying as if she were crying for the last time.
"You're crying?" Ness felt great empathy towards Lucca and also gives out a anguished look.
"Hehe... Now I know why Crono and Marle left me here all alone... All I am is just the burden one who thinks she's the important one on the team... I should have never made that teleportation machine, so that none of this would of ever happen... The Pendant and the Teleporter..."
"I'm sorry for cutting you off but what are you trying to say?" Ness did not understand one single thing that Lucca was trying to say.
Homestar faces Lucca as he also finds out that she was heavily crying; he continued to lie there in the golden floor very still and silently.
"I'm the pursuer around life itself... I'm really sorry Homestar and Ness... Please forgive me..."
"Lucca..." Ness wiped a tear off of his face.
Homestar seems to be very touched up by Lucca's words; he then tries to get up to say something in return.
Homestar attempts to get up, trying to fight off the great pain he was suffering from his wound.
"Hey!" Ness runs toward Homestar to help him get up.
"Homestar!" She also tries to help Homestar out.
Both Ness and Lucca helps Homestar regain balance in order to stand up. He finally gains the balance, but the other both still decline to let go of him.
"I can feel... my legs again..." He took a deep breath to try and freshen up.
"Oh thank god..." She sighs with great inner-relief.
Ness also sighs with vast relief; hope again wins another round against despair.
"Now that should be good news..." Ness arranges his hat for it turned uncoordinated when he was healing up Homestar's wound. In a sudden instant, Homestar spontaneously lost his balance and dropped. Lucca was just in time to grab on to Homestar to avoid his fall into the golden floor.
"Homestar!" Lucca starts to grasp onto Homestar's body much firmer than before.
"I don't think you should be standing up right now... Just rest here for now..." Ness stretches his body and yawns with great length.
"Ness is right Homestar… you should really get some rest." Lucca also stretches and yawns, starting to feel sleepy.
"Now that's a good idea." Homestar silently says to the two.
Lucca and Ness slowly set his body down onto the blood-stained golden floor. Homestar closes his eyes; he seems to have fall asleep the instant after he was put down. Ness felt his breathing to make sure he wasn't dead; he was breathing slower than normal. Lucca faces down at Homestar's face and gives a melancholy look on her face.
"I'm really sorry Homestar... I hope you will forgive me for what I have done to you..." She puts her hands on her heart, thinking about what she had done to Homestar. Ness wanted to try and make Lucca feel better but just couldn't think of a good way to do it.
"I think he will... We should rest too so we can gain some energy for later use. I'm tired from all the healing work I did back there... and you must be tired of all of that long bandage work you did back there also." Ness gives out a bright soft yawn and starts to turn really sleepy.
"If you say so..." She lies down next to Homestar, positioning herself in the left side of Homestar.
"Good night guys..." Lucca closes her eyes and hopes tomorrow will become a better day for her.
Ness lies down near Homestar also, but positioning himself in the right side of Homestar. He gives out a last soft yawn and closes his eyes.
"Good night..." Ness then instantly went to sleep.
All were sleeping, and the ruin stood there with the three… soundless...