Hello everyone. After a month since the last update, I finally bring you another new chapter.
Anon : Thanks. In that case I'm sure you will like this chapter as well.
Phew. Longest chapter so far, it turned out to be a 'little' longer than I expected, however, that doesn't matter I enjoyed writting this chap.
"I want to stay with my brother..." A voice dripping misery echoes around my ears. I look around… I'm back where the seventh needle was; the cave of its resting.
I find my other self a few meters from me. He is crouching in the ground, and Claus' dead body in his arms, and the remains of his shattered helmet all over his body.
"Lucas, you must continue, we'll stay here with Claus." I drift my eyes to the right; there is my dad, his hat resting on his chest, and his voice weak, something that is not characteristic from him in any situation.
"But… but Claus," my other self says. He looks up to my dad, his eyes letting tears flow freely, his hair disheveled, and his clothes sporting several scratches with the occasional blood stain.
"Come on Luke, everything will go back to normality once you pull that last needle… please just do it." My other self turns his head to see Kumatora standing there. She has the most sympathetic look on her dark but lively eyes, the tears streaming down her cheeks, gleaming with the light that the needle gives off.
That's when my other selfstand to his feet, but not before my dad takes Claus into his arms. He walks shakily towards the needle... but that was the moment… the moment that changed everything –I remember it very well.
"Lucas!" Kumatora shouts from behind making my other self turns around to see the cause of such yell.
Porky's nearly destroyed spider machine is standing a few meters from us. "This is not over yet!" Porky yells and coughs due to the volume of his words. From the inside of the machine a red light appears, but before I can presence the tragedy, I wake up.
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My eyes slowly open and I sit up. I take a hand to my forehead. Even inside that dream I knew it was just a dream, still it felt so real.
Thankfully I'm still in the motel room. The sun illuminates freely the room thanks to the broken window and thus the particles of dust in the air sparkling along with the sun. I touch my shirt, it's all sweaty –letting my hood on wasn't a good idea. I glance down to the sheets, they are covered with blood. I sigh staring at my right arm, it isn't bleeding anymore, but it hurts worst than yesterday. I decide to unwrap the bag with my old clothes, I take my orange and yellow shirt and wrap it gently around my arm, I don't want to stop future bleeding, but I do it to cover the wound.
"Where is it? Where is it?" I ask to myself rummaging under the sheets and the pillow, but I can't find any unusual lumps. I peek under the bed and then sigh in relief, I extend my hand to reach Claus' trademark sword. I finally get up from the bed and coincidentally look out the window to find my next snag.
"Have you seen this person?" A cop standing in the motel's parking lot asks. In front of him a man in his mid-thirties responds:
"That is Lucas," the man states the obvious with slight fright in his voice. "Sorry, but no, I haven't."
There is a short pause and then the cop says: "We received a call last night, a person told us he saw Lucas around this area, this is the only place left to check. Would you mind if we look around?"
The man nods without hesitating. "Of course not."
I hit the wall with my fist in annoyance. I need time to think in a plan, and I won't be able if this people keep interrupting.
I walk up to the broken window and crouch in the support of it. There are people walking in the street, my presence surely won't go unseen. I leap towards the tree just like last night, climb down of it and walk behind towards the alley behind the motel.
I glance around after every step I give, there most be no cops around this area if I want to get out of-
"Freeze!" Another of those ridiculous demands is given by a cop with a gun.
"PK Fire," I say in a low voice. A ball of fire comes out of my left hand and hits the ground creating a wall of fire.
The cop acts smartly and speaks through his radio. "All units, fugitive spotted behind the motel in 'Green Leaf' avenue."
By the time he finishes, I already started running out of the area, I look back to see a whole squad of cops already following me not too far behind. I turn in the next alleyway. Using PSI, I push different objects to block the cops' future path. The end of the alleyway leaves me in the exposed street, but I can't go back now.
"Stop!" A cop commands which makes me accelerate and try to cross the street. I almost reach the end of the street, but a police car crosses in front of me. Its occupants quickly get out of it and draw their guns.
I halt my race and stand in front of them. I glance back; the squad of cops is in the exit of the alleyway. "PK Freeze," I mutter and a snowflake is casted from my hand, it flies towards the squad behind me and explodes creating an ice barrier.
Without losing time I utter my next move. "PK Counter." An orange shield appears in front of me, anything that tries to touch me and meets the shield will counter the damage.
As I anticipated, both cops open fire at me as soon as they see my PK Freeze. The PK Counter acts shielding me and then bouncing the bullets at random directions. Unfortunately for one of them, one of the bullets bounces and lands in a cop's leg. He wails in pain as the bullet penetrates his leg. His partner quickly aids him, and when he remembers their target, I'm already gone.
"That was really close, eh Claus?" Oh, of course…
I continue running until I'm sure the sirens are far from me. I notice a perfect place to hide; in between two buildings an alley with multiple way outs is found. Giving my body a moment to relax, I enter walking into the alley, checking my surroundings. I should find a ladder with which I could get to a roof. That would be the best place to stay for now.
"There," I say to myself. I walk up to a fire escape that stretches from the bottom to the roof of the apartments. I look up, it's a good height, and from above I will be able to look for any danger nearby.
I start climbing the stairway with silent steps. I'm almost there, but before I reach the rooftop, I hear a voice already in the top.
"He must be around here, a heard a report from a cop not too far from here." I'm sure that I know that voice…Wait!
Before the realization comes to me, a voice invades my head, the volume of said voice is high enough to make me feel dizzy, but I'm still able to distinguish what it tells me. "An invasion, you are just provoking an invasion… and you will fall in my hands, Lucas."
When the voice finishes, due to its volume, is like something is banging my head, I can't stand staying in the same position, I stumble forwards in the stairway and fall upon the rooftop.
"Who's there? Lucas…" I hear another voice –which I supposed was in the roof as well. That voice, I can recognize it and very well. It's no other than Ness'.
"Ness," I barely manage to utter, getting up from my sudden rush of dizziness. My blue eyes glow from inside the shadows of my hood.
"You finally show up, the whole force have been looking for you," Link says with a serious tone, but still, his hand in his sword's shaft.
"I don't have time to waste, not even with you," I tell them.
From the corner of my eye I notice Lucario; he's sitting over the small frame where the door that leads to the rooftop is. He starts talking. "Lucas, please come with us. I'm sure you didn't do that to Luigi in purpose, there must be a reason."
"And you're right, there is one, but there's no doubt that as soon as I try to explain it, Mario will just not listen… and my mission will be ended, and of course you will continue with your happy lives." I glare at the three of them. I'm in a tight situation, there are no options. Lucario surely is faster than me, besides, trying to escape jumping from building to building isn't the best idea.
"You know very well we wanted to help you with your brother," Ness tells me, he seems honest, but as I have learned so far, there are no trustworthy people... Which makes me think why I opened myself to Ness and the other two?
"I don't know, Ness," I tell him, sighing. "I have to protect my family, and that implies getting you three out of my way."
Link looks disappointed; he takes out a small watch-looking device and brings it near his mouth. However, before he can do anything else, Lucario interrupts Link by placing his paw on Link's device. I can barely hear his babbling. "Maybe if we give him some time, he will trust in us and thus coming back to the mansion to clarify this, finally."
"If you say so…" Link responds and put away his device.
Ness gives a couple of steps forwards and stretches out a hand. "So? Will you come with us?"
My heart tells me to say yes and accept their friendly request, but I have to look into the reality, Mario and whoever are his followers will do everything to make me pay for what I did to his brother. In conclusion, the right thing to do –at least for the reason I came here– is to say 'no' and get rid of any threats that danger my mission.
"You should already know my answer, Ness." I give him a chance to retreat while I take out the thunder sword, press a button and turn it on. "We don't want to hurt each other. What if you just walk away and let me continue?"
"We have our mission as well, and is to capture you, Lucas," Lucario says, his words makes me glare at him and proceed to start a confrontation.
I point Claus' sword skyward and call: "PK Thunder!" One beta thunder falls on each: Lucario and Link, I can't see if they hit or not, but my target is Ness. Using PK Thunder on him would have been useless, I don't know what kind of defensive PSI he has.
I rush towards him. I hold the thunder sword in front of me; I don't want to kill Ness but to disable him. I swing the sword upwards pointing at Ness' stomach. I'm sure the sword lands on him successfully, but my ears catch a clank… another clank is heard and I feel the air that surround us pressuring our bodies, I let go the thunder sword to try and focus on my own health. Ness, who is in front of me, apparently is suffering as much as I am. The air continues to pressure us as if it is going to implode.
I am right, from a second to another both of us are sent flying by an explosion. I try to see where Ness lands, but my body crashes with the fire escape making me dizzy –my arm just feels worst than ever.
"Ness!" Lucario yells. I get up with difficult and see Link at the other side of the rooftop with Ness. Ness is being held with a hook that is attached Link's arm, Link frees Ness and both take fighting position.
I pick up the thunder sword it and hold it to my face's height. I would love to have a plan in this moment. Three versus one, there's a huge disadvantage. They three can charge towards me from different directions and easily trap me.
"What would Claus do?" I ask to myself. He was always good for difficult situations, after all, he commanded an entire army at some point. But now that I think about it, I never learned from Claus –at least I didn't have the opportunity to. I try to forget him for a moment –not an easy task at all– and think in somebody else... Of course! Kumatora and Duster, they fought alongside me long time ago. Duster was exceptionally good in tight scenarios… after all, he was a thief, he had to be smart and think quickly in all time.
Deep into my mind I can recall his words… "Remember: don't just focus on the main battlefield, look farther and search for options, something your opponent will never expect…" I smile briefly at the memory.
Look farther. There are only buildings… Hmm, if I distract them by traveling from roof to roof; No! That would be useless… Unless, I find a narrow roof and manage to take them one by one. That should work.
I turn my back on them, the fire escape is facing another building before me, without hesitating I strode backwards then run and leap to reach the building in front of me, its height is minor than the ladder so I don't need extra height.
Stumbling, I land in the next roof. That was close. I look back to my pursuers; they don't waste time and hurry jumping to this building. Ness boosts himself with PSI; Link uses his hook device to grab onto the building wall and climb to the roof; the last one: Lucario doesn't have problem, he simply jumps and lands precisely.
This roof is narrower than the last one, besides, if I get trapped, I can jump out and into the street, isn't a bigger fall than the one in the mall.
"Sorry Lucas, but you are provoking this," Link says before drawing out his sword.
"PK Thunder!" I respond him by casting an alpha thunder, Link uses his shield in his right hand to not only block it but deflect it, and I merely see the thunder shot out in a random direction.
In the corner of my eye I notice Lucario ready to attack, I jump backwards to evade the attack; once he's in front of me I push him with a PSI wave. Ness uses the multiple distractions to charge towards me. He puts his hands in front of his body and even meters away from me, he pushes me using PSI. My body is sent against the small wall that covers the edge of the roof.
Link puts away his sword for a moment and takes out a boomerang, he throws it at me but I easily block it with the thunder sword. I see Lucario place his paws in a strange position and a blue sphere appears, it starts increasing in size… I should stop that.
I start dashing towards Lucario, but Ness leaps in front of him confronting me. I slash Claus' sword horizontally and he leans to one side evading it, I try again but he dodges it one more time. Ness nods slightly and there is when I hear footsteps behind me.
"Now, Link!" Lucario shouts. Just as the words leave his mouth I feel something grabbing my stomach from behind, I get dragged and I see Link standing with his hook device.
My eyes widen, Lucario's sphere is the size of his body and he pulls his hands back before releasing the sphere.
"PK Freeze!" I half wail half shout, but it's worth it. I create a snowflake with my injured hand, the attack doesn't carry as much power, but it is enough to explode along with Lucario's sphere.
I manage to move enough to knee Link in his right thigh, he losses his grip on me. I pick the thunder sword, turn it off and put it on my pocket… all of that in the air. I decided to jump off of the roof; I see how the cars pass in the street below me.
My hand is pressured by the air around me; signal that I'm charging my PSI. The street is just at an instant from me. I open my left hand and a huge psychokinetic wave crashes into the ground, my landing is safe thanks to this –while the cars get stopped by the same wave and thus keeping any person safe… I did something fine, finally.
My PSI is running low; my body is paying the cost of using so much PSI in such a short amount of time. Ness, Lucario and Link don't stay behind, a little slower than me, but they get down to the street, at last.
I have to get out of here, all this wreck must had already got the attention. I doubt anything in my arsenal would terminate them successfully. Or am I wrong…? PK Love. The realization comes to my mind as a lighting bulb.
I focus on the words PK Love and the image on my mind. My concentration is paid by the glorious feeling generating on my left arm. I touch the ground gently and a light shines out of the small cracks of the ground. –I feel in the heavens, my arm doesn't hurt; the white glow of PK Love is reflected on my face– I lift up my arm and I look at it… the power of love, the power of my wishes in my hand… is just beautiful how it represents my loved ones.
"What is that…?" Link asks, he tries to remain calm, but I can still feel the hesitation on his words.
"I haven't seen that before…" Ness tells him. He looks at me with fear, his pupils widen at the mere sight of the PK Love. I warned them… and they didn't hear; now they will have to pay a high price.
"Just run!" Lucario warns them, but it's too late.
"PK Love!" The energy leaves my hand, it travels like a huge sphere jointed to the ground –its velocity making cracks on the ground– and then reaches my enemies.
The last thing I can see before PK Love collides is Ness' eyes widen, but he doesn't give in –which is merely ridiculous–, that's when I see his arms moving around in crazy motions. The result: A PSI Shield, however, I can notice he is challenging my PK Love. He bends his PSI Shield in an 'U' form, so it traps my PK Love, and thus letting out Link and Lucario out of my attack's range, Ness is left alone versus the true power of love…
"No! What are you–" Link's words are interrupted by the explosion of PK Love. The entire scene is filled with a white light in the middle of the street.
I jog out of Link and Lucario's range, and get on top a nearby house… Before I go I just want to see PK Love's damage.
The white light dies down and everyone can see Ness' stupid maneuver result. I smirk at the scene… the building where we were on, it's half destroyed, wires, bricks and dust is all that remains. That was the top part. My eyes drift to the bottom, where Ness must be –or used to be.
One more cloud of smoke slowly dissipates and then I can have a look at the wreck. There he is… I find Ness in the lobby of said building, his unconscious body on the floor and shining upon him: shards of his broken PSI Shield floating in the air. I frown. Something is wrong, behind him, a group of people is mustered behind the lobby's desk; all of their frightened gazes are on Ness… My heart pumps guilt onto my blood and makes me want to surrender, but what is done is done. I should just leave this place. I stare at Ness' body one last time while Link and Lucario rush up to him trying to aid his friend.
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I have traveled four squares away from where the battle against Ness' squad was held. Somehow the guilt still tries to convince me in go back and help, but I can't do that, not now.
Due to my short advance in my escape, I have to stay hidden between alleys. I can't go out in the street either, thanks to the explosion when I tried to slash Ness with Claus' sword, my hood got almost entirely tore up and it's not very useful anymore. Also, I accidentally dropped my bag with my old clothes back where I encountered Ness' squad.
I peek out my head to see how populated is the street… that's when I hear more bad news –literally.
"Just an hour ago, Lucas was seen over at 'Crystal Shard' avenue; is known that he encountered three Smashers: Link, Ness and Lucario. A battle was held in said street, and thus a construction nearby was destroyed in hands of Lucas. This construction held at least two hundred persons…"
Two… two hundred…? And Ness saved them while I attempted to kill them. That would have been a mass murder. Apparently at then end I am a killer after all.
"…Thankfully, one of the Smashers: Ness, he was there to reduce the casualties, so far, eleven deaths have been counted…" Reduce? Eleven? I can't believe such words, is this how my fate is written? Those persons didn't deserve such fate. And what if Ness wasn't there or he decided to try and dodge PK Love… Two hundred deaths… It was a miracle I don't have to carry two hundred deaths. However, eleven of those two hundred are still on my shoulders.
My mission to restore life is taking more lives than the ones I'll recover.
My thoughts are interrupted by the lady on the news, after a short pause she continues. "Mario has spoken his opinions about this and he's heading to the incident's site along with other Smashers…"
I can't listen to this anymore, not only because it makes me realize how much damage I just did… I mean… Ness was willing to take the risk of confronting me, but all those innocent persons no. Besides, if Mario is coming I should get out of his range immediately.
I prepare to dash out of the alley into another one crossing the street. I start running as fast as I can, and the people watching the news don't seem to care about my presence. I enter successfully into the shadows of the alley. Alright, next move. Another street I have to cross, this one is larger, but it looks relatively empty. I shrug and ignore that.
With a deep breath I dash out of the shadows and into the street, but an unnerving noise stops me dead on my tracks. I want to continue but my body doesn't, I give in, and look into the sky where the noise is coming from. High above the buildings a huge airship covers the blue sky. Its build is weird, like the one of a space ship, and its nose is in the form of an… eagle, probably…?
I frown at the sight of this, but it looks like it's descending. The wind that roars out of the airship engine makes my hair go everywhere.
When the airship descends a considerable height, three figures jump out of the airship and land in the nearby roofs of the different buildings, from there, they jump out of the roofs landing roughly but without problems in the street… and I get a better look at them.
"I finally found you, Lucas."
"I'm not expecting a good treat from you, Mario. Just let me tell you: I have a goal and I will achieve it no matter what. I really don't mind killing you." I respond back with hate running through my veins, although I'm sure Mario's hate for me could actually burn through metal.
"Okay, listen: Lucas is a dangerous enemy, if you have to, kill him, but our first objective is to capture him," Mario says.
"Roger!" His two companions answer him, due to their tone, I can acknowledge that they're utterly under Mario's dictation.
When I separate my eyes from Mario to identify his companions my eyes widen, one of them is Samus, the amazing fighter that fought against me. I wonder what she is thinking right now…
And the other one, it's hard to tell, I'm pretty sure I saw him when they raided into my room back when I was fighting Luigi. His clothes –or should I say costume?– are something I haven't seen yet: his entire body is covered by a blue skintight suit, over his blue suit he carries golden colored gloves, a helmet that covers the upper part of his head, white and golden shoulder pads, more golden on his shoes… and the only part that isn't golden is his leather belt that carries the emblem of a falcon… Does this guy think he is a superhero or something? I shouldn't laugh at his vestment; he must be a formidable opponent.
"Falcon, I want you to get him by behind, alright?" Mario asked the man in his right, in response he nodded.
Mario proceeds to whisper his next words to Samus.
The three of them stand at the other side of the street. I'm waiting for their next move as I have learned to be patience.
The first one to move is who I think is named Falcon. He started running away from Mario and I see how dust is lifted from the ground… He's a fast one. He dashes through the sidewalk, his feet lifting dust as he pass by… but I can't forget about Samus. I return my gaze to the front and realize Samus is halfway here. She raises her arm cannon, I catch a shimmer from inside her cannon and in the next second, her cannon let go an energy ball.
"PK Counter!" I quickly react, the energy sphere collides into my PK Counter, dealing minimum damage to me and deflecting the sphere back to Samus. She sidesteps her own attack with ease and resumes her race towards me.
I remind myself that Falcon is in the battle as well, thus turning 360 degrees to meet a flaming punch, courtesy of him.
The attack knocks me to the floor. Falcon stands in front of me and tries to stomp my right arm –such a dirty move. I make him back up with a PSI shockwave; he retreats three meters giving me enough space to do my next move.
"PK Fire!" A ball of fire is shot from my hand and towards Falcon. With another flaming fist, he hits my PK Fire vanishing it in the air… The plumes of fire caused by my PK Fire prevent Falcon from noticing me approaching at high speed.
I have a free move against Falcon, but my PSI hasn't recovered completely, however I'm still able to pull off a decent move: "PK Thunder!" When my hand is close enough to him, it creates a small thunder and impacts Falcon with it. The mere shockwave sends him to the ground, I want to take the opportunity to retaliate, but my attention is suddenly taken by someone else…
I hear the whistling sound of the wind running through my right ear a moment before I notice Samus' energy beam –she used in our first fight– rushing towards me. I want to evade it, but it's too late. The energy beam gets a firm grip on my wounded arm, which not only raises the pain in an unbearable way, but it makes disturbing cracking sounds invade my ears. My eyes widen at the raw force of her beam and I just want to pass out and forget the pain, but my body refuses –that must be why MH gave me that badge before fighting Samus.
I fall to my knees, my now broken right arm hanging above my head as Samus haven't let go the energy beam. She approaches and the sun let me look through her visor. Her gaze looks flustered and maybe guilty. Could Samus don't want to do this…? That must be the case. After all, Mario is the head of the organization and what he dictates must be done.
"My arm is broken and I don't want to move, you couldn't at least take that thing off my arm, it's making the pain unbearable," I tell Samus, once she halts in front of me. My gaze is on the ground, waiting for her answer.
"I can't, Lucas. Not only I'm under strict orders to capture you, but I know very well you're a smart fighter, even with that broken arm you can run away."
I must say that my primary intention was not to escape but to reduce the pain in my arm; however, in the corner of my mind the idea of escaping is still present.
"What will you do to me? I mean the organization."
"I don't have the slightest idea, if you didn't know; this is the first time something like this occurs."
She downcasts her eyes to the ground, and I can feel the energy beam grip weakling on my arm. I hate to take advantage of her feelings of guilt, but my goal is reflected in my heart.
I slip my left hand inside my pocket and search for the thunder sword's shaft. Here… I grip it tightly and ready my next move.
In a swift motion I take the sword out while it turns on. Samus veers his head to see what I am doing. She gasps when Claus' sword connects with her energy beam separating our link in a show of sparks.
I get up and dash away from Samus' range. I don't even start my escape when Falcon appears in front of me. I skid to the right trying to evade any contact… but it's futile. A force that could easily be compared with the one of a Steel Mechorilla –a chimera I fought back in the Nowhere Islands; as it names applies, it was a giant ape reinforced with metal parts… a formidable enemy– bashes my stomach and knocks me to the ground, careening my body a few meters –it was a mere kick from Mario.
"You should have stayed where you were," Mario tells me with a dominant tone. He walks up to Samus and whispers something in her hear, I can barely distinguish what he says. "If I wasn't here we would have already lost Lucas, I don't want more mistakes like that."
Falcon gets to their position, but neither Falcon nor Samus can utter a word; Mario turns her back on them and walks furiously towards me.
"Admit it, you enjoyed that–" the pain from my arm interrupts my words, but Mario understands the message.
"Of course I did," he says getting closer. "And you will feel my justice on you, very soon."
"Justice? That is bull–" before I can finish, Mario kicks me on the face, he recovers his dominant stance after I sit up again.
"You should shut up," Mario says. I stay silent, not in signal of me obeying, but because I don't want to listen to his nonsense anymore.
Mario jerks both of my arms –which make me grunt in pain loudly, something he doesn't care hearing– and rises me. Then, he turns my back facing him before I feel a sudden constriction on my wrists.
What is this? I try moving my hands, but it appears like Mario put me handcuffs.
I lost sight on Samus or Falcon until wind starts hitting my face, I veer my sight upwards to see the massive airship descending to the ground.
"Come with me," Mario commands me. I follow each of his steps, so I don't move my arm in the process, however, it still moves with the motions of my body, and I bite my lip trying to forget the pain.
When the airship touches ground, Falcon comes out of the prow. He approaches and taps the airship's back door. "Everything is ready, Mario. There's a special cell inside, Link and Lucario will be with him at all time."
"Link and Lucario? They couldn't stop Lucas earlier this day, I hope they can watch him," Mario says as we enter the airship. As we walk through the corridor of the ship, I notice various people inside as well. I recognize two of them: One is the same dinosaur-like creature I saw after the fight with Samus.
The other one is a person around my age –maybe a couple of years older. By glancing his outfit, I acknowledge it resembles one of the royalty. While his blue hair covers most of his face, I notice his downwards gaze is following his hands, which are honing his sword.
My inspection is interrupted by Mario pushing me, in signal to walk faster. I jerk my left arm out of his range. After going through a pair of corridors in the airship, we halt in front of a metal door. "You gotta be kidding," I say.
"Shut up," Mario responds. There is a number pad adjacent to the metal door, he starts typing a sequence of numbers. I don't care in finding out which numbers he is typing, I will not be able to open the door from the inside. He presses one more number and a beep sounds. The door slides open revealing Lucario and Link inside. I sigh when we notice each other.
"Enter," Mario commands. I enter into the armored room, but before Mario closes the door, I have one more thing to say.
"This won't stop me!"
Mario glares at me and throw a punch to my face.
"My arm!" I whine as I fall in my back and thus over my arms. The door closes before me; I'm now trapped with Link and Lucario.
"How could you do that?" Link asks from nowhere, I suppose he's talking about Ness. He is looking at his sword and apparently doesn't care that I'm on the floor.
"I told you I was going to get you out of my way, besides, I gave you an opportunity, but you didn't care."
Lucario enters casually in the conversation. "Lucas, you know that with that last attack you almost killed several people? Ness saved them most of them."
I rise and turn to Lucario, who is sitting in the opposite side of Link. "Yes, I know! I didn't want to put their lives in danger, though."
Lucario's piercing red eyes are lock on me, his next words confident as always. "Remember when you told us about the Pigmask Army?"
No... He won't use that against me. "Don't dare to continue, I know my home better than-"
My words are cut abruptly by Lucario's. "You told us, their experiments and goals led to mass murders and severe damage to countless parts of the Nowhere Islands..." He listened to every single word I said. His knowledge of my own history is a bit unnerving... Using my memories against me is causing me nostalgia. "And now you have turned into one of them, perhaps?"
"Of course NO!" I wish I could use my hands, I would shut him up.
"See, Lucas? What were you thinking? Perhaps, as a little fact, you psychokinesis won't work with those things on." I groan looking at the handcuffs –I notice the handcuffs' build is strange, hence its effect– and take a sit.
"Lucas?" Link speaks breaking the silence. Personally, I don't give a crap on what he says at this moment.
"What you want?"
"When we: the Smashers were called to take a decision of what was going to be done with your situation, Ness was the first one to speak for you, he said he knew that you weren't the same Lucas we saw with Luigi." Link pauses to meet his gaze with mine. "He knew something fishy was going on. However, most of us didn't agree with him."
"Did you think the same as him?"
"I'll be sincere: no. I think Lucario neither."
Lucario backs up Link's words. "You're right."
"And what happened?"
Lucario continues. "We decided capturing you was the best option."
I remain silent. Ness was really backing me up? I don't have a reason to counter his strange reactions… It could be that Ness was truly in my side? He's way of thinking is very intriguing.
After a pause, Lucario keeps talking. I get confused by his words. "By the way, we haven't given up with your brother."
What? Are they still willing to help me…? I'm utterly flustered. However, I don't know if it will be the same, after those past accidents, I don't have any idea how this will end, or if I shall trust in their words.
"He's right. I don't know how, but we will help you with Luigi's problem as well," Link opens his mouth one last time.
With those last words, the rest of our flight back to the Smash Mansion –I suppose– is silent. Link and Lucario left me with a bunch of questions, specially questions about what he told me at the end, I still can't believe they want to continue helping me… it may be a trap setup by that bastard of Porky, but I think I'll have to throw the dices and see what happens next.