TZBM: For being the story I most wanted to write when I first envisioned it, I sure have a strange way of showing it. You know, not updating it for over a year. We just got to the good part! What happened to my priorities? Well, I updated now, so no matter. Since Teddy is going to appear this chapter, I need a new disclaimer. Eenie, meanie, minie-you.
Buzz Buzz: Me?
TZBM: Yes. You won't be appearing in the story for awhile. So get to it.
Buzz Buzz: Fine. TheZeldaBigMacintosh does not own nor claim ownership of the characters, locations, or other intellectual property in this story. This is simply a work of fiction using already copyrighted ideas.
TZBM: Thanks, Buzz Buzz. Story time!
Chapter 3: The Original 4
The Phase Distorter materialized in the middle of a small town. Ness and his friends climbed out, surveying their surroundings.
"Where are we?" Ness asked.
"A rather small town from the looks of it." Paula answered.
"It feels a bit warmer than usual. We must be closer to the southern coast of Eagleland than either Onett or Twoson." Jeff agreed.
"Somebody is coming!" Poo suddenly exclaimed.
The group turned to see four people, one of which looked like Ness. The other three were a girl in a pink dress with blond hair in two pigtails with a dress hat on her head, a boy with glasses and silver hair dressed in a red t-shirt and dark brown shorts, and a tall man with dark hair styled into a pompadour wearing sunglasses, a red muscle shirt, and tan pants.
'Who are these four people?' Ness thought.
"We should be asking you that." one of the four people answered.
"You-you read my thoughts!" Ness exclaimed. It was then he realized the one who had spoken looked almost just like him, save the fact that the other person's shoes were blue, he lacked a backpack, and he wore a red handkerchief around his neck. He also had slightly longer bangs.
"Well of course. I am psychic, after all. Wait...you look just like me. Who are you?" the boy who looked like Ness asked.
"I'm Ness. We were sent by Buzz Buzz to find the original Chosen Four and request their help in eliminating an alien threat." Ness explained.
"You're Ness? I guess that makes our jobs easier." the boy said, turning and nodding at his group who proceeded to drop their guard. Ness did the same to his group.
"So, you guys are the original Four?" Ness asked.
"We sure are. The name's Ninten." the boy now known as Ninten introduced.
"Ninten? What a coincidence. You have the same name as my f-oh my God." Ness realized.
"What is it?" Ninten asked.
"Wait, what's your name?" Ness asked, turning to the girl standing next to Ninten.
"Ana." she replied.
"Ho-ly crap." Ness muttered to himself.
"What? What's wrong?" Ana asked.
"N-nothing! You, uh...I have friends in my timeline with those names." Ness made up an excuse. Ness knew enough about time travel to know that the more you mess with it, the more likely it is to mess up.
"Huh. Maybe it's our future selves." Ninten mused.
"Yeah. Maybe." Ness agreed.
Jeff cleared his throat audibly.
"Oh, right, introductions." Ness remembered.
"I am Jeff Andonuts. I'm the tech geek." Jeff half-joked.
"My name is Paula Polestar. Pleased to meet you." Paula greeted.
"And I am Prince Poo." Poo bowed slightly.
"Sweet! I get a prince as my counterpart. Bit of a dippy name, though. Then again, who am I to talk? What kind of name is Teddy?" Teddy laughed.
"I'm Loid." Loid finished.
"Now that that's out of the way, let's move onto the matter at hand. You guys know what's going on?" Ness asked.
"Not really. All we know is that Giegue's entire race is planning an attack." Ninten explained.
"Giegue? Who's that?" Ness ended.
"Perhaps it was Giygas's name before he became an eldritch abomination." posed Jeff.
"Makes sense to me. We'd better get back to the past." Ness concluded.
The Chosen Four of past and present turned to the Sky Runner, but as they started towards it, a sudden burst of energy collided with it, blowing it to bits.
"Whoa!" Ness cried out, shielding himself with his arms.
"What was that?!" Teddy shouted.
"Up here, fools!" a metallic voice said.
The eight looked up to see a green figure with a star-shaped body.
"A starman!" Poo realized.
"Not just any starman! I am Starman Ultra!" the starman introduced.
"How many starmen levels are there? What's next? Mega Starman?" Ness joked.
"You're mocking me!" Starman Ultra was getting angry.
"Maximum OverStarman." Ninten added.
"Screw you! You're lucky I have to be somewhere else, otherwise you'd all be vaporized!" Starman Ultra concluded before flying off.
"That was funny and all, but we did just lose our only way back to the present." Paula informed.
"Oh yeah." Ana realized.
"Would it be possible to build a new one?" Jeff asked.
"Looking at what's left of it, it seems to be fairly simple in structure. If we found the right materials, we could give it a try." Loid explained.
"It's our only shot. But if the Gigan Emperor knows we're in this time, it might be a long road ahead." Ness reasoned.
"We don't really have a choice. If we don't try, the Earth is doomed." Poo decided.
"I guess we might as well set out, then. But...where do we go?" Ness wondered.
"Let's start with Duncan Factory. There's bound to be something there we can use." Loid said.
"Alright, then. Let's go!" Ness exclaimed.
"One problem." Ninten said.
"What's that?" Paula asked.
"PSI Teleport can't transport all eight of us. We'll have to go the long way around." Ninten explained.
"It's not an adventure if you get to all your destinations in the blink of an eye, anyway." Ana added.
"How optimistic. Someone should teach Teddy how to be like that." Loid mused.
"Hey!" Teddy said in mock-anger.
And so the Chosen Eight set off. But as they did, Paula pulled Ness to the back of the group so they could talk.
"Ness, when you found out Ninten and Ana's names, you seem so shocked. Why?" Paula whispered.
"Well, you see, this thing is...they're kind of my parents' past selves." Ness whispered back.
"What?!" Paula almost forgot to whisper.
"There's no doubt it's them! They have the same names! I had to have gotten my psychic abilities from somewhere! And that red hat Ninten is wearing is the same one I'm wearing! My father handed it down to me when I was a baby!" Ness explained quietly.
"No wonder Buzz Buzz didn't want to tell. But, why didn't you tell them?" Paula wondered.
"Oh yeah, like I'm supposed to go up to them and just say 'Hey, by the way, I'm your son from the future!' I don't know if they've even fallen in love yet! If I told them, they might freak out and never get married, never have me, and send us into a paradox!" Ness continued.
"A paradox? Oh, you mean how they would not have had you so you couldn't have come back to ruin things, so they would have you, which means you could come back to ruin things, so they wouldn't have you, and the whole thing would repeat endlessly." Paula ascertained.
"Exactly. I don't wanna chance that. Now come on. The others will get suspicious. And...please don't tell them. Or any of the others." Ness pleaded.
"My lips are sealed." Paula finished.
The two caught up with the others, and proceeded onwards.
TZBM: A bit of drama there for you. Hope you enjoyed. I will try to update this more, but as always I can't make any promises.
Buzz Buzz: Thank you all for reading. Farewell.
