Motherbound Zero part 4

"A Truth Revealed"

Lucas is back in the darkness again, and still he is confused at what he sees. He sees flashes and images of people both familiar and unfamiliar. Lucas turned his head to suddenly look upon a familiar sight of the masked person he saw last night. Lucas's eyes narrowed as he looked at the person who remained motionless. Hazy memories were playing all around him, but he could neither understand it nor care to at this point. He was more concerned with who the person is under the mask. Lucas walked closer, however the person quickly drew his weapon and brought it to his side. Lucas is initially confused as to why the person suddenly wants to fight. However, Lucas looks down and in his hands is a bat. He let out a slight gasp wondering where it came from, and why this whole scene was so familiar. Lucas looked to the person again filled with curiosity.

"Who are you?" Lucas asked. The person said nothing as he raised his normal hand and began pulling off the mask. However, a bright light began showing as he did and the light soon overpowered the darkness that surrounded Lucas.

In the light's place the sun began to rise into the air wiping out the darkness bit by bit. The sun rose until it reached it's peak in the matter of a few minutes and it bright rays showered down below onto the land. The morning air is crisp and a slight chill comes with the blowing wind. However, at this moment the world is at peace, despite the fact it's falling apart. The morning after the whole bonding experience the three heroes had last night they are rightfully tired. They all had fallen asleep in their own sleeping bags. The bright sun shining through the trees, with a gently breeze flowing through the air, this added to how truly beautiful a morning it is. The sun's rays shone down, until one of the bodies stirred. Lucas is the first to rise from his sleep upon something landing on his face. Lucas shot up in a panic.

"Hey, what's-!" He began panicked but then he had calmed down once he came to the realization that it was just a hat. Lucas removed the hat from his face then looked at it. Ness and Ninten's hats looked exactly alike so he couldn't tell whom the hat belonged to by just looking at it. Lucas turned to the other boys who were far on the opposite sides from each other. Last night Lucas thought they hit it off really well, but here they are back to square one again. Lucas felt he might never understand their relationship. He saw that Ninten still had his hat cradled, so he surmised it was Ness's. Lucas crawled out his sleeping bag, and then yawned while stretching. Lucas had grabbed his shoes and put them on at the same time then tied one at a time. Lucas got up while scratching his head then went over to Ness, and put his hat next to him. Immediately Ness started to cradle the hat. "These two really like their hats,"

Lucas decided to simply take a breath of fresh air as he stared into the sky. He noticed the sun looked kind of off, but he supposed at this point in time that was normal. Now in the bright sun Lucas looked over the land, and his mouth dropped a little. The savannah they were sleeping in is starting to convert into a rocky trail toward a mountain of some kind. Lucas felt the spatial distortions strength and feared that time could be running out. Lucas glanced back at his friends, but for a brief moment another image flashed through his mind. He sees a campsite, similar to the one he made, with two people, and what looked like a dog. He saw that one is a girl and the other a man, however that's all he could make out before the vision faded. Lucas shook his head of the thoughts then rubbed his eyes. Lucas decided it was best to get going soon, so he went over to the mess they left last night and packed up their belongings while cleaning up a little. Lucas then rolled up his sleeping bag with his pillow inside.

"Hmm I wonder if he has…. ah there it is," Lucas said pulling out a mirror and comb from Ness's backpack. "Wow, Ness really does have everything," Using his PSI to make the mirror float Lucas began combing his hair. "I kinda wish I wore a hat that way I wouldn't have to do this every morning. I must've hated doing it before too," Ness had finally came around while Lucas was combing his hair standing over him. Ness at first didn't really comprehend what was happening until he had fully awakened.

"Making sure you're all pretty for your stalker," Ness teased.

"Ha, ha, very funny, this is just something…that feels right. It's the only thing I can remember clearly at this point," Lucas replied without turning around.

"Let's not start the angst so early in the morning," Ness replied.

"Well, I suppose, you are probably just upset because you need that hat more then what you let on,"

"Whatever," Ness grumbled. Lucas smiled at his brilliant come back. He then realized that those two are really rubbing off on him. Ness then sat up and then put his hat on. Ness looked to see the campsite not only on a different terrain, but clean and neat. The only things that needed to be packed were his sleeping bag and Ninten's.

"Wow Lucas, you expecting someone, you really cleaned up," Ness said. Ness also noted the new rockier terrain that was around them. "Geography just doesn't want to be our friend on this adventure…" Ness muttered. "Why'd you get up so early to do this?"

"What happens when you wake up to someone's hat flying in your face while you sleep," Lucas replied as he finished with his hair and putting the mirror and the comb away.

"Well we can't worry about that now, we officially start our adventure today. I can't wait to see what happens!" Ness exclaimed. Ness was then hit with a pillow followed by a shut up. Ness looked at the source to see an irritated Ninten looking back at him. "We gotta get going Ninten so get ready cause we don't have time to waste,"

"Why the hurry?" Lucas asked. "Well besides the obvious of course," he quickly added.

"Well you said you saw somebody last night, and since we don't know where he is I think it's best we move before this guy gets any ideas," Ness said.

"That sounds like a smart idea, are you sure your Ness?" Ninten asked.

"Keep talking Ninten, and one day you'll just wake up with me and Lucas long gone,"

"Ha, like you two would go off without me," Ninten said getting up.

"What's that suppose to mean?" Lucas asked getting involved in the conversation for a change. He actually admitted that he was quite shy, even around these two. However, after last night, he felt he didn't need to be unsure of himself with these two.

"Well all I'm saying is you guys wouldn't last long without me,"

"We haven't even actually gone into a real battle yet," Lucas said.

"Yeah, but from what I've seen you two will definitely need me," Ninten said putting on his hat and shoes.

"Huh, somebody sounds mighty full of themselves aren't we?" Ness asked raising an eyebrow at Ninten.

"You guys just wouldn't last," Ninten said.

"Ok then, the next person to get saved will have to clean up camp for the rest of this little adventure," Lucas said. Both Ninten and Ness looked at him with doubt. "What?"

"No offense Lucas, but you seem to attract danger, so I'm pretty sure it'll be you," Ninten said. Ness nodded in agreement.

"Well, we'll see then, so you guys in?" Lucas asked. Ness and Ninten looked at each other than agreed to the conditions. "Ok and you have to have it just like how I did today, okay?" Lucas clarified.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," they both said.

"That twin thing is really weird, are you sure you two aren't related?" Lucas asked.

"Well, do we look related?" Ness asked. Lucas decided not to dignify that with a response seeing as he already knew the answer.

"Lets just get going," Lucas said. Ness and Ninten nodded then packed up their stuff then they were all set to go. They left what was left of the plains and entered the rocky path in front of them. The path seemed to take them through a mountainous area with a desert not too far away. The three of them instantly felt the intense heat suddenly kick in to take away the cool morning air. The weather was clearly in flux as well. "Wow, this is really nice, hot, but nice,"

"Yeah, but it's almost strange how nice this morning was a few hours ago. I don't think the weather should change so drastically. But it's like the world is at peace. The energy of the planet feels so clean," Ninten said.

"We can't stop to smell the flowers guys, we have to keep moving," Ness instructed. Reluctantly they both went along with Ness.

"Something about this feels familiar…" Lucas muttered.

They walked for a couple more minutes, with Ness and Ninten sharing stories about their adventures. Lucas listened intently as they spoke and was filled with wonder at the things they experienced. They both had grand adventures and even grander friends along the way. Lucas felt somewhat left out because he could not share a story with them, but Ness and Ninten made it quite clear that was okay. In fact, they said they hoped their experiences wouldn't seem boring to Lucas once his memory returned. Lucas could only laugh along with them.

Ness had pointed out that the distortions in space were starting to become much thicker. Lucas had been mentally keeping track of the spikes in energy the distortions seemed to give off. Lucas explained to his companions that each time the distortions spike up, they get more noticeable and violent. Thanks to their sixed sense, the PSI warriors can measure it. The problem with only be more serious is if they no longer need their sixed sense to track it. Ninten had a multitude of suggestions to what could possibly be behind the strange occurrences. His theories included aliens coming down to mess with the planet, a science experiment gone wrong, or some idiot deciding to mess with the fabric of reality. Lucas saw all these ideas as preposterous, but Ness was quite open to these suggestions. Lucas couldn't understand it, but he supposed with this magical power of PSI it did make sense that the uncanny was possible. They continued to talk and walk about past experiences, and ideas for solving their problem when a sudden chill ran down their spines.

"And then I…whoa, you guys feel that?" Ness asked stopping in the middle of his sentence. Ninten and Lucas both nod their heads. The weather wasn't what gave them all such a chill it's just something was giving them this weird feeling. Lucas realized that this must be their psychic sense kicking in. Lucas felt like this specific feeling was something familiar to him. He then started looking around like he was expecting something. He saw from the corner of his eye the something he was looking for. A lightning attack was headed right to them from above.

"LOOK OUT!" yelled Lucas pushing Ness and Ninten out the way. The attack then nailed Lucas in his back, throwing him forward and to the ground.

"Lucas!" Ness and Ninten looked up as they saw Lucas now on the ground trying to get up. Ness and Ninten got up and ran to Lucas. Ninten bent down to try and get Lucas back on his feet. Ness faced the direction the attack came from and he saw their attacker. It was some guy in a mask.

"Hey pal, that was pretty cowardly, attacking us from behind!" Ness exclaimed. The masked boy just smiled at him and laughed a little bit.

"I wanted your attention," he said.

"Well now you've got it!" Ness exclaimed charging at him. The masked boy then grabbed his sword and held it high creating sparks. Ness didn't back down even though he saw the attack. The boy fired the lightning attack with incredibly strength. Ness activated his PK Warp that he moved so fast his after image passed right through the lightning. Ness then came from the side and tried to tackle him with his arm, but the boy blocked him with his own arm. Ness looked at him surprise.

"I'm no amateur to fall for such a lame trick," He said. They both then tested each other's strength pushing against each other. Ness could tell that physically this boy was much stronger than him. Ness huffed in irritation as this person being the second person that's stronger then him. The boy then pushed Ness back throwing him off balance. "PK Whip!" he exclaimed. Then a whip came out of what looked like a cannon attached to his arm for where his hand should be. The Masked Boy swung the whip at Ness, but he did a back flip avoiding it. He then swung it higher, but then Ness squatted under it as it soared over his head. He pulled back his whip then swung it around a little over his head then lashed out again. He made a stabbing motion with it, but Ness jumped over it. Reacting he raised the whip, but Ness did a side flip in the air avoiding it.

"Not bad kid," the boy said.

"Not bad yourself," Ness said.

"Lets see you avoid these!" he exclaimed. Then four whips had sprouted out giving him a total of 5. He lashed them out at Ness. Ness jumped, rolled, and even smacked the whips out his way, but soon he was overwhelmed. Four of the whips had his hand and feet making him unable to move. The fifth whip then straightened into a stabbing form.

"Anytime someone would like to jump in is okay with me!" Ness yelled. Then five beams of energy pierced through the whips disperses them. The boy then turned his attention to Ninten who stood ready to fight. The boy just smiled with excitement. He raised his sword then fired another lightning, and Ninten reacted with his PK Starbeam. Then the beam struggle had started with Ninten pushing then the lightning reacting back with more power.

"You wanna know something cool about lightning?" the boy asked.

"What would that be?" Ninten asked.

"It can be very… conductive," He said. Ninten then realized that he was using his attack as a conductor. It flowed to all the way to Ninten. Ninten was then being electrocuted and with his focus gone his attack had dropped making him take the full blow. Ninten then fell to his knees with everything getting dark. Then Ness charged in and performed a PSI powered downward karate chop on the string of lightning saving Ninten.

"You okay?" Ness asked turning his head.

"I just… need a sec," Ninten said gasping. Ness nodded then focused on the masked boy. Once again he fired an intense bolt of lightning, but Ness stopped it with his bare hands. Using his PSI he controlled the attack. He then flung in another direction not harming anyone. The boy was clearly shocked at the display of power and skill.

"Even if this kid is physically stronger than me, I bet he can't fight better than me though," Ness thought. Ness tried to get up close so he might have a better chance to for victory. Ness finally got up close to him for some close combat. The boy swung his sword down, so Ness moved to his right side. The boy then swung wide, but Ness had ducked under the blade and he saw an opening. Ness then threw a punch, but the boy's other arm had blocked. The boy smacked his hand away with the arm he used to block the attack. Ness stepped back, and with his left hand he summoned green energy around his hand. The boy did the same within his arm cannon but with a red glow. Ness went up while the boy went down making the attacks collide creating an explosion. Both had jumped back to avoid getting caught within it.

"Man, he actually was able to fight just as well as me at close range," Ness said in shock.

"As good as you? Ha, no way, I'm much better," The boy gloated. "I haven't even gotten a scratch yet," he said. Just as he said that a white beam of energy hit him from the side exploding on contact. Ness then looked in surprise as Lucas ran to his side.

"You okay?" he asked.

"Yeah," he responded.

"Good, now let's take him down," Lucas said. The boy rose from the smoke with just a few scratches. He raised his sword then sparks had started to fly.

"PK Thunder beam!" he yelled. Then super concentrated beam pf electricity came at Ness and Lucas. There was great explosion, as the attack seemed it connected. Using the built in radar in his helmet he scanned for any life. He found nothing so he assumed they were dead. That's when he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned to come face to face with Ness and Lucas. Ness and Lucas both pull their arms back for a wind up, than punched him at the same time. He then hit the ground rolling against the rocky surface of the Earth. He looked up with a furious look on his face. With sword in hand he got up and charged. Both Ness and Lucas just smiled at the unaware prey. As he drew closer with the duo now in his swords range he wound up to swing his sword. He was then hit in his left side with a PK Starbeam. He then rolled on the ground and landed on his front. Then Ninten had walked up to them.

"Told you guys would need me," Ninten said.

"Whatever, lets just finish this," Ness said rolling his eyes. They both nodded then Ness put his hands on both their shoulders then activated his PK Warp. The boy was on his feet again with his lightning sword flaring with energy. He looked and saw the three standing in front of him.

"I'll end you here!" he yelled. He ran up to them and swung his sword. Lucas and Ninten rolled to the side while Ness just jumped back. He continued charging toward Ness swinging his sword. The boy was just crazily swiping at Ness who is having an easy time dodging each blow. Ness just jumped from side to side jumping, rolling, and weaving. The boy tried swiping from the side with his sword when Ness saw his chance. Ness jumped up then landed on the boy's head with his hands than pushed off at the same time pushing the helmet down over his eyes. The masked boy growled then fixed his helmet on his head then turned around to be greeted with a fist in his face. He almost fell but recovered as Ness threw a PK Flash at him.

"PK Hate," He said. Then a red shot came out his arm cannon nailing Ness in the chest and exploding on contact. Ness fell to the ground then looked up to see him standing over him with a cannon in his face. He was about to fire when Lucas tackled him down. The masked boy then threw Lucas of him, but Lucas recovered.

"Well Lucas, it's been a long time huh?" The masked boy said.

"Who are you exactly?" Lucas asked.

"You still can't remember, pity, well I guess you'll know when this mask comes off," the boy teased tapping his helmet.

"Fine then, if that's how you wanna play it," Lucas said. The boy just smiled as Lucas charged at him. White energy had gathered around both Lucas's hands. While a red light came from the boys arm cannon. Hate and Love went against each other in this battle. The attacks were so opposite that they expanded on contact and exploded. Lucas threw PK Love out both hands while the masked boy was just fending him off with his one cannon hand.

"You never could beat me in a fight," the boy said.

"Well I don't remember that," Lucas said. They both charged at each other and as they collided their two attacks collided with each other at close range.

"You think you can beat me using PK Love, ha, how pathetic," the masked boy said. Lucas didn't answer as he let his actions speak for themselves. Lucas gathered an intense amount of PSI energy and pushed forcing the PK Love to consume The Masked Boy. It pushed The Masked Boy back until he cut through it with his sword. Lucas then came at him full speed. Without time to react he was surprised by the punch in the face. He went flying and then hit the ground. His mask was starting to slip off now, giving Lucas the chance he was looking for. The boy then stood up wiping his face where he was punched. "Okay guys now is our chance,"

First Ninten came in and fired his PK Starbeam into his side. The boy recovered quickly in midair by deploying wings from his back, but Ness grabbed his leg then slammed him into the ground, then threw him up. Ninten shot him even higher in the air. Ness met him in the air then threw him down to the ground. Before he could hit the ground Lucas blasted him with a powerful PK Love. The boy flipped absorbing the impact as he hit the ground skidding against the harsh dirt in his boots. Once he regained himself he went charging at the trio.

"What's with this guy?" Ninten asked aloud as he jerked his body out of the way of a sword jab. "He just keeps coming," Ninten gave the boy a good shoulder tackle knocking him back a bit but he came charging back again with his sword ready to strike. Ness met him first as he swung his sword. Ness ducked, while Lucas jumped back, and Ninten deflected the sword using his power.

As the three PSI heroes battled this mystery fighter they began feeling this odd sensation rolling through them. They immediately noticed it when suddenly it was easy fighting this one person without getting in each other's way. Ness went with a roundhouse that narrowly missed the Masked Boy's face. Ninten went in low for a strong jab into the Masked Boy's stomach. Ness vaulted off Ninten's shoulders to knee the boy in the head making his head jerk to the left. Lucas came from the opposite side with PSI energy charged in between his palms, and a while glowing energy got bigger. Lucas got close then slammed a close range PK Love into the Masked Boy's side. The Masked Boy was stronger then expected though as he shrugged off the weak attack.

"You're gonna need more then an Beta Level attack to beat me," The boy said.

"Beta?" Lucas said confused.

"Keep pressing, don't let him distract you," Ninten urged.

Ness and Ninten pressed forward working together to throw a volley of physical blows the Masked Boy's way. However, the boy was quick and precise moving out of the way of each strike. Ninten dived in with an haymaker that the Masked Boy moved around to get on the outside of Ninten. Ness was quick to follow up with both his hands raised and a strange PSI guitar in his possession.

"PK Rockin!" Ness exclaimed slamming on the guitar.

The boy reacted quickly pointing out his cannon arm and shooting out a quick red burst of PSI. This created thick smog that blocked the view. Ness and Ninten waited for it to clear, but then grunted in annoyance seeing the boy unharmed and in the same position he was in before the attack. Clearly his attack was even with Ness's cancelling them both out. Ness and Ninten look at each other then they turn back to their opponent.

"Wow, I expected so much more from you guys," the boy said rather disappointed.

"Sorry to disappoint but…" Ness began.

"Well we were just the distraction," Ninten finished as he and Ness jump to the side opening up a clear lane. The Masked Boy was confused until his face fell seeing Lucas charging up his PSI to incredible levels. Lucas crossed his arms then uncrossed them launching a much more powerful PK Love.

"Damn it!" the Masked Boy growled as he jerked his upper body low to the ground avoiding the blast. "Close on-,"

He couldn't even finish his sentence as Ness to his left with a sweep kick and Ninten came from the opposite direction with a superman punch. Both made contact making the Masked Boy twirl in the air crazily, and Lucas let out another burst of PK Love to send him flying, although weaker this time around. Suddenly, a new power began coursing through the veins of the PSI heroes.

"PK Trinity," they all called out feeling their power shared among each other. They began glowing with their own specific energy aura. Ness's a bright crimson, Lucas's a pure white, and Ninten's bright navy blue. They suddenly warped away at the same time surprising the Masked Boy who barley regained his bearings. Ness punched him in the face with a hammer pucnh. Ninten did a sweep kick, and while in the air Lucas came in slamming his fist into his stomach and him into the ground. Ness then grabbed his collar then threw him up, then Ninten kicked him back down with an axe kick, and Lucas came in delivering the final blow by plowing the boy into the thick rock of the mountain trail. Lucas stood up as the boy's helmet fell off.

"Now lets see your real face," Lucas said turning him over. Then Lucas's eyes widened as he took a few steps back in total shock.

"That's …no it can't be …how …why," Ness and Ninten then took a look at the face and were in the similar amount of shock.

"That face it's … Lucas," Ninten stammered. The boy with Lucas's face then stood up with a bit of trouble.

"Well that's not totally true, since I am the oldest. I'd say he has my face," the boy said.

"Oldest… then could that mean…" Ness started.

"Yes, Lucas and I, are twin brothers," he said coolly smirking at Lucas who seemed to be having a panic attack. Lucas upon hearing this couldn't but be overwhelm with the memories. Lucas feel to the ground thriving in pain as his brain felt like it wanted to climb out of his skull. Vision from last night played in his head all over again, and the trauma felt all too real this time more so.

"Who are you!" He yelled. Ness and Ninten were just standing there in shock.

"I already told you, I'm your brother," Lucas's eyes gazed at his so-called brother trying to gain understanding. Lucas's eyes could've burned through stone. They were racked with such emotion that even the boy was at a lost for what was going on. "Well, not what I expected, but hey whatever, I guess I will just head out," He grabbed his helmet then put it on his head then pulled out some wings from his jacket then started to take to the air. Ness and Ninten had just snapped out of their shock to Lucas's cries of pain. Ness and Ninten ran over to Lucas attempting to calm him down.

"Maybe he was right, maybe, there are some things best forgotten," Ninten said feeling completely useless in helping Lucas.

"We can't think that way, we have to let him go through this before we do anything," Ness said. Lucas's mind was in so much pain by the memories of his twin that it started to play tricks on Lucas making hallucinate.

"Stay away from me you!" Lucas ordered.

"Lucas calm down," Ness said.

"You don't know me, I don't know me…why does this hurt so much," Lucas cried.

"Lucas it's us Ness and Ninten," Ninten reassured him. But it was like talking to a wall, as Lucas didn't comprehend any of it.

"STAY AWAY!" he yelled his hand glowing like a white flame a PK Love. Ness and Ninten looked at him in shock.

"Lucas, no, it's us. We're your friends," Ness said.

"How do you know?" Lucas asked them. "For how long can I be your friend? I don't even remember having a family, I don't remember my life, and the more I remember…the more I think this was a blessing,"

"Forgetting the people you care about?"

"My own so called brother just attacked us!" Lucas yelled. "Does my family sound so stable, who's to say I'm not like him? Whose to say I wasn't raised like he was, what's to say that's my nature too?"

"Because…you're too kind hearted to be like that…" Ninten said.

Lucas collapsed to his knees his tears falling freely from his face, "Oh god!"

"Lucas, please, remember, good things," Ness said.

" …" Lucas did not respond he simply laid on his knees with the tears never ceasing.

"He's in complete shock," Ninten said walking over to Lucas. Ninten lightly tapped Lucas shoulder, but he received no response. "Lucas, we have to keep going,"

"I…" Lucas chocked up on the verge of more tearing bursting out. "I don't want too…"

"Lucas, no, trust me. Staying in one spot wont make you feel better, it'll only make it worse," More tears flow out of Lucas's eyes as Lucas falls to his hands and knees staring at the dirt below him. He saw as his tears rained down on the dry ground.

"What if I created…if I made him to be…like that…I don't want that…to..." Lucas cut himself off, but Ness and Ninten understood what he was getting at.

"We wont hurt you Lucas, ever, even if you forget us," Ness said getting a little closer. Lucas's mind was still a little bit in turmoil, so the message didn't exactly get through.

"We gotta go," Ninten said.

"Come on Lucas," Ness said bending down and patting Lucas on the shoulder, however the boy did not respond. Ness sighed as he handed Ninten his backpack. Lucas suddenly felt himself hoisted up until he was settled on Ness's back. Some color returned to Lucas's eyes, as he looked genuinely surprised. "We are here for you, weather you remember or not,"