Pursuit

by CarnileN

When he couldn't restore the world as he was told, Lucas gets another opportunity and enters into an unusual tournament to find the old enemy that destroyed his life, but his goals are slowly hindered by more people than he can handle. As Lucas unveils his story bit by bit, allies join his side as enemies try to stop him in this race to get his world back.

3. Hope

"Are you sure, I mean is that even possible?"

"I don't know, I haven't seen something like this in anyone else,"

A pair of voices interrupts my slumber. I can tell one of them is Ness but the other doesn't seem familiar. The best now would be to remain with the eyes closed; they will continue their conversation without knowing that I'm aware of it.

"Now, is there something?"

"Ness, I need silence. I have to concentrate the most I can, his aura and mind are not normal…"

It is Lucario. What is he doing here and what are they are talking about? ...I better keep listening.

'Lucas, I feel dizzy...'

Dizzy? No offense, but technically you are not alive, how can you feel like that?

'I know, dizzy, like when someone is trying to look into your thoughts… or read your mind–'

Read your mind? Lucario! As I realize that, my eyes shoot open and I get out of the bed. I was right. Adjacent to where I was sleeping I see Lucario sitting and Ness at his side standing with a nervous look in his face.
"What are you doing!" I demand an answer.

"A-ah is not w-what it looks like," he is really bad at lying... Ness' brain won't come up with an answer; I turn to Lucario, expecting a lie, though.

Lucario moved both of his arms in signal to me to calm down. "Lucas don't worry, you were thrashing around in your sleep, I was just checking you were okay,"

'Liar!'

"Oh really? Well, reading my mind is OK! Now tell me the truth!"

Even when Lucario is still calmed, Ness keeps pushing himself to say something. At this point they will say the truth soon, but to my bad luck someone arrives.

"Link!"

"Hey Ness..." He trails off. "Perhaps, I'm interrupting something,"

"Yes, you are!"

'Of course you are'

"No, we are OK, do you need something?" Lucario asks, and there it goes, they will ignore my question.

"Not me exactly," Link then turns to me. "I got you a fight Lucas, will you accept it?" Ness and the blue dog looked at me; I think they also got a little surprised by the sudden fight request.

'A fight, we just arrived today! They didn't even tell us. You are not going to accept it, right?'

It would help to know about the "tournament" concept… "I do."

'Really...?'

"Great!" Link and Ness exclaims. I'm sure the latter one is just glad he will not have to answer my question, though. "I will tell Master Hand, in the meantime you should take time left today to practice,"

"What time is it?" I ask to know how much time I was sleep." Nine o'clock," Lucario respond me. I sigh; I was more than five hours sleeping.

'The real problem is that we don't know how much time Lucario and Ness were here'

You are right...

"Well, I think I will take your suggestion. I will be in the training room," I tell to everyone on here, but then realize the only place I know is the dinning hall and my room.

"Do you want me to go?" Ness asks, "You are still new here; I would be able to show you the different training rooms. And besides it's easier to train with someone else."

Did he just offer himself to be my punching bag? Cool.

'Don't think like that Luke, you can ask him what he was doing with Lucario'

"Okay, as long as you don't get nosy." I grab Claus' thunder sword, which was under my bed and then place it on my pocket. But before turning to the door to leave I can clearly see Lucario whispering something to Ness. But what it is? The doubt is killing me!

We exit the room and Ness goes in front of me, leading the way. We walk through a couple of corridors before getting to the lobby; we go down the stairs, then to one of the doorways adjacent to the receptionist desk. There was a pair more of doors; he motions me to enter into the left one. The room almost looks the same as the one Master Hand took me into.

"Here it is, my favorite training room, it has..." I didn't ask for his favorite room, besides this is the same as the other room.

'Lucas, you should listen, he is telling you about the controls'

I don't need to know the contro-

'Lucas, please...'

Okay, okay, I'll listen to him, then blast a couple of targets and finally, I will do the questions.

'Sounds okay to me'

"...and that is everything you need to know," Ah! What do I say now?

'Just ask him for the generic stage with a group targets'

Alright, thanks. "So, what you want?" Ness asks me.

"I will go for the generic stage with a group of targets." He nods to my request and walks up to the wall next to the door where there is a panel, he presses a couple of buttons and with a beep the room surroundings us starts changing.

We are now standing on a big blue platform, the walls stayed white. From the ground a row of ten dummies rise slowly. "There it is, if you use a weapon we have anyone you can think of,"

"I have my own one, by the way I suggest you to stay behind me," I tell him; I wouldn't really mind if he gets in the path of my sword, though. He frowns before taking a seat on the floor not too far from me. Now that the path is free, I take the thunder sword's hilt out of my pocket; I stare at it for a few seconds. The times I have had to use–since Claus is gone–and confront it, this weapon has truly scared me.

I turn on the sword; at the same time I hear a low gasp coming from Ness while his gaze falls on Claus' sword. Normally I don't need to say whatever power I want to use thanks to the fact that Claus' mind plus mine is more than the concentration that I need, but this weapon is different, I would have to have a lot of times more mental power than I have to control it–something to this day I praise Claus for.

"PK Thunder!" I yell, at the same time the power quickly starts to run through my body, then to my arm to finally wind up in the sword before said weapon release a fearful thunder crushing every single one of the dummies, creating an explosion along with it that leaves a huge crater where my targets used to be, finally leaving stains and holes in the wall.

'Wow...'

"I already feel bad for whoever is going to fight you," Ness says.

My practice continued. As I told to my brother, I used most of my powers for the exception of PK Love, since Claus is with me I haven't been able to use it. Why? I do not know.

I'm growing tired and Ness, too, I can hear him yawning already. This looks like a good situation to reformulate my question, no one will interrupt this time. "I think we should leave, it's getting late..." he tells me. Not yet, though.

"Before we go I want to ask you something," as I say this I walk towards the door blocking any entrance or exit. Ness just gulps already knowing the question. "What were Lucario and you doing with me?" Ness gives me an unsure look, this time no one is going to stop him from telling me.

"Okay, I'll tell you, it's not a big deal," he says that but back in the room he wouldn't even talk "Lucario special power let him see the aura of whoever he wants–"

"Aura? What is that?" I ask him.

"Aura, as far as I know, is the life energy that every being carries, it can show whether a person have good or bad intentions, how they truly are, or how real they are," Ness tells me with inspiration in his eyes, but the question main question is not answered yet.

"Okay, and that leads to…"

"The time when Lucario met you he saw your aura–he does that with everyone– and saw something unusual in yours…he saw two auras, he didn't know a person could carry more than one, so we wanted to know why there were two,"

'So if he 'saw' two auras which are life energies, he may have seen me. He may ask you if you know something about that second aura, take that in mind'

"That's why you were in the room–in my bed–, you were trying to decipher that but Lucario said my mind was not normal, complicated." Suddenly I feel a huge change in my tone, the curiosity of knowing exactly what Lucario saw is what I want to discover.

"Exactly. You know, I find odd that second aura thing, do you have any idea about that?" Ness finally asks me what I as waiting for, but is he reliable? Tell to a stranger about my brother's curse. Anyhow, Ness is already seeing the doubt in my eyes, the silence and the fact that my gaze gives off the truth that I know about the double aura.

Before I open my mouth for the following explanation, someone knocks on the door and then opens it. "Ness, it's late already, you should go to your room," a person said, adding an unknown but funny accent to the sentence. It looks like he haven't seen me.

"Oh, sorry Mario, I was helping my new friend–" Did he just called me friend…? "Lucas. Lucas, he is Mario, one of the founders of the Smash Brothers," Ness points to Mario; he walks up to me and stretch out a hand.

Now that Mario is in front of me I can get a better look at him. He's wearing long denim pants with braces and a couple of yellow buttons. Below that, a long sleeve red shirt, white gloves; as Ness he is using a red hat with the letter 'M' in the middle. And remarkable mustache and blue eyes.

"Oh so you are Lucas, we thought you were not going to come, we are glad to have you here." Why everyone tells me the same thing? Stupid monotone society.

"Yeah, hello" I say taking his hand and shaking it.

"Brother!" Someone calls from outside the room, "There you are. I left my key in the bedroom-, so I was..." The person trails off when he sees me; I'm more than sure that he is calling brother to Mario, his attire is pretty much the same, the only difference is that he prefers the green and he's slimmer than Mario.

'They look so alike, just like us, even with the clothes…'

Yeah…

"Oh, he's Lucas, a newcomer. Lucas, my brother Luigi," Mario says to me. Luigi does the same as Mario, walks up to me and stretch my hand.

"Hi Lucas, ha-ha I thought you were not going to come," … "Glad to meet you," Luigi smiles to me; I can't help but return the gesture.

"Likewise,"

"Oh yeah, Mario, would you lend me your key? I left mine in the room," Luigi asks to Mario, who responds with a nod handing the keys to the taller brother. "See ya later guys," Luigi says before dashing off the room.

"Well, I'm going to sleep, you can stay here, it is okay, I was just reminding you that it was late already," Mario says as he place a hand in his mouth to cover a yawn.

"Right, thanks Mario, by the way," Ness says. "What time is it?"

"Sure, ah…twelve o'clock." Twelve already? Wow, the time went flying.

'The bad thing is that I can only imagine that your fight is early tomorrow'

Ours. I think I better go to sleep.

"Whew, it's late, anyway, thanks Mario, good night." Mario says the same and leaves the room. Ness then turns to me with sleepy eyes, "Come on Lucas, you're more than ready for tomorrow, let's go to sleep."

xXxXxXxXxXxXx

Finally in my room, the mattress is so comfy and big. I leave Claus' sword aside me, ready for tomorrow. The night, such a good moment in the day, after so much hard work I can finally rest peacefully. I must say that I'm a little eager for tomorrow's match, I haven't have a decent fight in quite some time. That must be why.

I turn my body to the opposite side of Ness', my sight slowly fades as my body is starting to fall in rest, and everything is so sile–

"Hey Lucas, are you still awake?" Of course…what I was expecting?

"Yeah," I say groaning. "what you want?"

"You didn't tell me the aura thing, you were going to say something." Ness is right, but I'm already regretting the thought telling him, I need a little more confidence, anyway, someone will eventually know.

"It's late, Ness, maybe other day."

"Oh, come on tell me–"

"No. Ness I'm tired, just sleep," I say and decide to not listen more from him, he huffed at my response. Now, finally I can sleep calm.

'Good night, Lucas'

Good night.

xXxXxXxXxXxXx

"Lucas, Lucas, wake up!" Is Ness…again. He is shaking me to get up, why would not he let me sleep! "Lucas, I know you can hear me. Just wake up, remember you have a match." My eyes open slowly realizing that Ness is right…

With my left hand I push Ness out of my face–he was almost yelling in front of me–to get up from my bed, rub my eyes to let my sight prepared for the sunlight entering from the window.

I turn to Ness with sleepy eyes, he moves his arms in signal for me to hurry. I open the drawers aside my bed to get my clothes, and then enter into the bathroom, where I quickly change my clothes. When I start opening the door to exit, an arm appears to drag me out of the bathroom, it's Ness' who want to hurry me.

"Wait! My sword!" I tell him. He let go my arm and I take out Claus' sword from under the bed.

"Come on, it's getting late. Follow me," Ness says and dash out of the bedroom, I follow him through the large corridor, and then we enter into a lawn section to take the left exit of it. We wind up into a huge lounge, which at overview I notice several televisions with couches and tables in front of them… where I am? No idea.

"I thought you were going to lead me to my match," I say. Ness still looks around as if searching for something.

"It's here; I'm just searching for the exact section..." Ness continues looking around until he sees a group of people in front of a TV. "Aha! There it is,"

We walk up to the group of people. There must be at least twenty or so. When I enter into their sight most of them turn to me and I can hear some whispering. I don't care about them; I stand aside Ness, who is talking to Link and Lucario."Hey, Lucas, are you ready?" Link says.

"Yeah, I guess..."

I'm almost staring at Lucario in search of that gaze of him: the one trying to decipher me. "Good luck Lucas," he tells me, and I nod in response still wanting to know if he's trying to look my–how was it called?–aura. I wonder what he is thinking, but I have no time for that.

"Link, would you lead Lucas to the arena please," Ness says, taking a seat with Lucario. Will Ness tell him about yesterday?

'That would increase the pressure for telling them about me'

"I know..." I whisper to Claus.

'I think is not that bad, they seem like they can keep it, besides, someone have to know'

I was going to respond to Claus but a waving hand in front of me interrupts me. "Lucas? Let's go," I snap out of my thoughts and start following Link who is leading me into a backroom not far from the huge lounge. I find Master Hand as soon as I open the door; it looks like he was waiting for me.

"I wish you good luck, go out and show them what you can do, we'll be watching you from the other room," Link tells me. He pats me in the shoulder and leaves the place leaving me with Master Hand only.

We will be watching you from the other room...? What does that meant?

'Maybe that what the big TV is for'

Oh yeah, maybe that's why there were so much people... I sigh inwardly realizing this...

'Mmm, that won't help your stage fright ha-ha'

How can you laugh, is not funny. I better forget someone will be watching my performance.

'Someones...ha-ha'

Forgetting those lasts words I bring my attention to the hovering glove in front of me."Alright Lucas, safety first..." Using his whole hand, he gives a small badge–wait, my Courage badge, I forgot it, and it's already too late to return for it. "Put this on. This is the most important artifact for a fight. Instead of dealing or receiving damage from attacks, this will take your physical and mental stamina instead. Aside from that there is anything else left to explain… and the rules... well, anything goes," Master Hand says. I place the badge he gave me in my left forearm; it attached itself in my forearm.

"Now, stand in this pad, it will take you to the arena." MH presses a button in the wall and a similar light to the one in the invitation letter appears, much bigger, though. I step on it and a light starts covering me again. "Good luck," Master Hand says before the light coats me completely and vanishes me.

When I feel the teleporter have done its job I open my eyes. The place looks a little similar to the one Ness took me, it has some differences, though. The platform is flat; it has different tones of blue with details in it, nothing special... Oh my…!

'Beautiful...'

When I turn to my left there is nothing but... the space, beautifully stained with stars, what I think are galaxies and the eventual meteor traveling through the infinite. I'm one to appreciate this kind of things and this is incredible.

'I can't find any cameras, so it looks like you are safe from someone watching you'

At least I can't see them watching me.

I was so distracted with the environment that I don't notice my opponent in the center of the stage. I'm–again–amazed with whoever is in front of me. Am sure it is a person, standing around seven feet, a tough looking opponent is waiting for me. He has a robotic armor that covers all of his body, sporting what looks like a cannon in the right arm... He reminds me to...

'Me... Well, at least you already have some sort of experience'

His whole armor is orange and looks indestructible; it will be a hell of a work to win this. "Are you done looking? I'm eager to test the new guy's skills," he tells me, the voice seems a little strange but it must be the robotic armor only.

"Sure, whenever you want,"

"Alright, this is going to be a two stock match–or two lives, per say–, you lose a stock/life every time you fall or get thrown to the boundaries of the stage," a voice said. I can't figure out where it comes from. "Let's start. Three, two, one, go!"

I stay in my position for a second, to see what he is going to do. My opponent does the same, albeit he grabs his cannon and apparently start gathering energy around it, creating a blue sphere each second bigger.

'What are you doing, go get him!'

I rush towards him. When he sees me he jumps and shoots his cannon, my only reaction is to use PSI Shield. It breaks and stops the attack at the same time. Now is my turn. He's still in the air. My hand gets coated by fire, and then I jump and launch a stream of fire. Luckily for him, the fire passed by his side.

"Nice attempt, boy," he tells me just before he swings his cannon… and lands on my face. I can feel the effect of the badge already, making my body feel heavier.

My opponent lands to prepare another shot of his cannon. I don't hesitate. I use PK Freeze and release the ice attack midair to send ice spikes in his way. As the spikes entertain my opponent, I take out Claus' sword and switch it on. When my sight goes back to my opponent, I find him dashing towards me with a readied energy shot. He releases the attack. "PK Thunder!" I yell putting on action my practice yesterday, a small version of a thunder quickly comes out of the sword. It destroys the energy beam in collision and trespassed it. My opponent finds himself in a tight situation, he rolls to one side dodging my attack, but he wasn't fast enough to avoid the small explosion. He's now in the ground, so I run at full speed and try to stab him in the chest, but he jumps and spikes me into the ground with a downwards kick.

He backs up and shoots a missile at me; I roll and quickly get up. I see a good opportunity. I decide to improvise; I plant my left hand in the ground, streams of fire start coming out of it. Once again he is faster than the attack and zigzag through my power. He looks distracted. It's time; I raise my sword "PK Thunder!" I cry as I bring down the sword in direction to him. The thunder lands successfully in his chest sending him flying offstage.

I sigh. It is finally over; I can still feel the exhaustion of the stamina badge. Suddenly I hear feet landing in front of me, my eyes swiftly shot upwards. He arrives in front of me and rams me with his cannon, and then complement it with a kick that sends me upwards; he combos this sending what looks like a energy whip in my direction; it grasps me around my waist and slams me into the ground in front of him. My body violently bounces on the ground. He reacts at this delivering a flying kick into my torso, the blow sends me all the way to the other side of the arena where to avoid losing I hang on the edge.

He throws a missile into the sky. I wonder why for a second, but the missile change direction and starts flying in my path. I use my PSI Counter to deflect the missile but it ends up exploding in the deflector.

I can already feel my mind getting tired… indeed, my attacks are at least twice as powerful with Claus, but I only have one body to control all the energy.

I get up from the edge into the arena crawling due to the fatigue, there's where I see another of his energy spheres coming at me; thankfully Ness taught me a couple tricks with PSI Magnet. I use it and absorb the sphere. With my left hand glowing from the energy sphere, I rush towards him. I let go the energy sphere I absorbed with twice the power, but he ducks at the last moment still receiving some damage. I jump forward to give my next PK Fire some momentum, the attack lands and I take the moment to run towards him. I let go a punch, he dodges and grabs me again with his energy beam, this time sending me off the arena with a simple swing.

It looks like it's over; at least I don't feel all dizzy because of that stamina badge. Wait…I feel strange, am I hovering? I look below me, and find out I'm standing in a small white platform, I try to give a step forward but the platform vanishes dropping me into the arena with my body glowing white. I turn around, my opponent is there, again charging another shot…Was not this over?

'Lucas, the beam!'

That small thought gives my rival enough time to act. He throws his laser beam at me getting a firm grasp in my head this time. He jerks his cannon backwards and I'm sent flying towards him. He lands a kick into my stomach, then punches me with his cannon, embraces me with his laser beam and slams me in the arena's edge. My body feels a little sore, so I take my time to stand up… and then I see there is no case on it. He reacts at this with the charged shot of his cannon knocking me out of the arena.

I'm so stupid. The voice said it was a two "something" match; that surely meant we had two opportunities before losing the fight. Whatever… the fight is now over. I wonder how the others will react at this. Perhaps my performance was well, bad, horrible?

When I feel I'm on solid ground I open my eyes. I'm back in the backroom. I take a look at my body… there are no bruises, no stains on my clothes. Not even my hair is disheveled.

I hear the door slowly opening. It is Ness, and behind him, Lucario and Link. "That's one of the best newcomers' fight I have ever seen. I mean you went against Samus!" He tells me waving his arms all around.

'Samus? That was his name?'

"One of the strongest competitors," Ness tells me. He is clearly happy with the outcome of the match even though I didn't win.

I hope you give me the chance to fight you sometime, Lucas," Lucario says. I forgot his presence. Does Ness already told him about what I said yesterday?

'Maybe, but he hasn't mention it yet'

The guys give me space to exit the room and I see some of the people back in the main television room in here.

Aside all of the people in here someone stands out of the multitude. It is him, my opponent. He walks up to me, still sporting his whole armor. In front of me, he place his hands in his helmet.

'Alright…that was unexpected'

As soon as Samus takes off her helmet I can see long blonde hair. I can't say I'm not surprised; it is just that I didn't expect that. When she takes her whole helmet off the first thing to attract my attention are her sky blue eyes and once again, her hair; aside from that there's not much I can see, her whole body is still protected with her armor.

"Well fought, boy," she tells me, her mouth turning into a smirk. "Don't worry we will have our rematch, this was more like a tie," Samus extends a hand; I nod and take her hand shaking it.

After that, she moves away from me so I can leave the room. Outside of it I see more people. In one side Luigi and Mario, who give me a thumb up as I pass by. Behind them a tall person with gray war clothes and a bandana in his head, he watches me firmly. In the other side I don't get to see very well the who's there because in front of everyone is something I would call a dragon–maybe dinosaur–.Its skin is a pale orange, its stomach is mainly beige, and also has a enormous shell in his back along with several pointy spikes. He has orange pointy hair. His gaze it terrifying. Everyone else I can see is simply watching me, some smirking.

When I get away from the group of people, Lucario, Ness and Link joins me to leave the place.

xXxXxXxXxXxXx

Four days have passed since I arrived. I haven't met anyone new aside Samus. I have got to know Luigi better, he is a nice person. Lucario and Link, along with Ness, have helped me in a lot of stuff here in the mansion as well. They are also reliable persons. In the course of these days, Claus and I decided that Ness is reliable enough to tell him about him (Claus).

In fact, it looks like a good moment now. Ness went for a snack before going to sleep, and when he comes back I'll tell him.

With a beep from the door, it opens. Ness enters with a pair of candy bars in his hand. "Here, take one, you will love it, they are delicious." He hands me one of the candy bars, I hesitantly accept it–I'm not a big candy lover.

"So, Lucas, I guess I deserve an explanation about that double aura thing, I know you know something, buddy." Ness says crossing his arms. This is the moment; few people know the truth about what happened to Claus.

This is going to take sometime… I sit down in my bed, Ness doing the same in his. The best would be if I only explain the necessary. "Okay, I was going to tell you, anyway." I sigh before starting.

"I'm sure that the aura you have being seeing is my…b-brother's." Ness' gaze turns puzzled. I hardly manage to say this. I'm used to my brother, but having to revive the cause of why is he inside me is painful. I give a moment to Ness to understand.

"Your brother? That's crazy… But how?" he asks me, not hesitating a second if my reason is true or false.

I was afraid he would ask that. I can tell him about Claus, but the whole history… I don't want to revive that.

'He deserves at least a resume of it. Maybe he can end up helping'

"Yes… A couple of years ago, I got a mission. I needed to pull these things called Needles…" I start, and drop my eyes to the bedspread. Saying this gets me really weak emotionally, I hope he can respect all of this. "There were seven of these Needles. I needed to do this in order to reset the world, and before anyone else would use the power of the creature freed by the Needles–"

"To reset… the world…?" Ness interrupts me, albeit I can't blame him, the question is valid.

"Yes, a group of people had turned it into a different place, brainwashing the people to make them believe all of their destruction was for the good cause; that what they were doing was the correct thing. They created monsters, hybrids made of two or even more animals. Their goal was to pull the Needles I'm talking you about. Thus killing anyone that would cross in their way, including my… my… " I can not say it! I grasp the sheets–crushing the candy bar–in a failed attempt to calm me down, but it's futile, my rage is easily shown.

"M-Mother…and…and brother." I try to control my breathing so I can continue. And it is impossible. After a low gasp, I hear Ness getting up from his bed, what is he doing now? Suddenly I feel his hand on my shoulder; I would normally shove it off of me but I don't really care in this moment.

"I am sorry. I'm truly sorry… you have had to go through that… If you ever need something, please tell me." Ness said. He sounds sincere, even though he doesn't feel my pain he is not like everyone else. Back in the island–with the exception of my good friends like Fuel, Duster or Kuma–everybody would glare at me, their eyes telling me why? Why I failed? I had the opportunity to restore everything but didn't.

"Thanks," I look up to him giving off a smile, in response he smiles back then sit in the bed besides me.

"Well, the case is that as I was saying, just before pulling the seven Needle, the leader of the group I was talking you about did something with foreign PSI to me, and my brother–who was being brainwashed as well and forced to fight against me–… well, his conscience ended up inside mine."

His serious face turned into a sorrowed one. I have seen it, it's hard to see someone suffering, and it makes oneself feel bad.

I felt comfortable telling that to Ness, so I decided to continue explaining him a little more, even about Kumatora and Duster, how I discovered my PSI powers and stuff like that…but never getting into the "Who" who made my life a hell.

He also opened, telling me some chunks of his own history, about his friends that accompanied him in what seemed like an endless adventure trying to save the world, but as me, he didn't tell me how it all ended, Ness simply stopped explaining.

"Wow, you have gone through hell and survived. I'm happy that I have had the opportunity to meet someone like you," Ness says. We are already in our respective beds, ready to sleep, lights turned off.

"We are also happy, Ness, there are few people that are truly worth knowing nowadays,"

"We? Oh you are referring to your brother-"

"Exactly," I say. Even though the room is dark and Ness can't see me, I smile at he mention of my brother.

Silence takes over the room.

"Lucas!" Ness suddenly yells sitting up, hence making me jump from my bed also sitting up.

"What!"

"Your brother… maybe I can help you two–"

Did he just say he can help us?

'I knew it!'

I'm now confused and excited at the same time, but what is Ness' plan? "How, how?" I ask eager to know the answer.

"I know someone that is very good with this kind of stuff, if I can find him, I'll tell him tomorrow to come."

"Really? That's awesome!"