Well now that Nigel has helped majority of the asylum's residents it is time to ascend to the top of the tower and rescue all the remaining missing brains.

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DM77's Psychonauts Chapter 26

Ascending the Tower

Nigel had reached the top of the lift as high as it would take him up to the tower, thanks to the disguise he used to trick Crocker.

"Well here I am, up in the tower of an abandoned insane asylum. Wearing a straightjacket. Talking to myself." Nigel said to himself and realzing how insane he was acting "Okay enough with the disguise." He takes off and puts the items away in his backpack "The things I do for Rachel's brain." He looks up and sees he wasn't wat the top yet "Well, if I'm going to get to the top of this thing, I'd better start hiking."

Nigel jumps off he also had to keep an eye out for the stolen brains of the other camper, because when he has them he can taking them to Raine who will put them back into their rightful place.

However as he moves he notices a figure watching and upon being noticed the figure helps and scampers away, he wasn't sure but it looked to be a large purple stripped cat. He also had o avoid some large and mean Rattatas that would run up to attack him.

Nigel then sees a brain in one of the rooms bathrooms and goes in and finds it has a picture of Pain to indicate it's his brain, Nigel breaks the jar and picks up the brain "Pain. Huh. I thought it would be smaller." He puts it into his backpack and keeps going.

Nigel keeps moving through the halls following the cat who was spying on him before retreating. He sees a grind rail with an open door to the left. He jumps in and finds another brain in a jar with a picture of Nelson. He breaks it open and said "Nelson Muntz? I didn't know you had a brain. Heh, heh. Geez, I wish you were here for that joke, Nelson." He puts the brain into his backpack and keeps going.

Soon Nigel made it outside and uses the brocken ledges to ascend higher. He finds another brain jar with a picture of Heather on it and breaks it open and said "Heather. Maybe I should let Kristoff have some time alone before I return this brain.

He continues ascending up till he enters a large room that was side ways so he was running on the walls as a floor. He fins on a large window sill a brain jar with Lucio's picture, he breaks it open and said picking up the brain "Yo, Lucio. Good to see your brain again." He puts it away and keeps moving.

Nigel then keeps moving up the ruins of the tower while avoiding the rattatas that if they get too close will explode into a confusion gas dazing him if he was there. He sees on another window ledge another brain jar.

He jumps down and sees the photo was of DJ so he breaks it open and collects it saying "DJ! I told you I'd get your brain back!" He smiles as he put the brain that was stolen and kickstarted this adventure away. He then going a bit further up finds another brain jar with Luna Loud's picture on it and breaks it open and picks it up "Huh. Luna's brain is warmer than the others." He puts that in his backpack.

Nigel climbs up the metal frames of the building and sees the cat panting as they somehow able to move fast to not get caught up to. Once at the top he notices another brain jar and jumps up to it. He sees it has Veronica's picture on it and smashes it open and said getting the brain "Yay! Woo-hoo! Veronica's brain! Let's hear it for thinking!" He puts it away smiling.

He makes it to the top and the male purple cat then actually said something to him before fleeing telling Nigel "Beat it! Scram!" Nigel didn't but sees in a blocked room was another brain jar he sees a hole in the ceiling of that room and the one across from it, so he uses levitation to remove the chair blocking the opposite room to get the door open and uses the holes to access the other other.

Nigel sees the photo on the jar was of Cheese Sandwich so he breaks it open and picks it up while saying "Cheese's brain! Three cheers for brains!" He puts the brain in his backpack.

Nigel moves further up while the retreating cat yells at him to "Get lost!" the boy however keeps going, he then finds another jar as he reaches some of the rafters of this tower.

It had a picture of Alejandro, so Nigel breaks the jar, picks up the brain and said "To think that every cell in Alejandro's brain is dedicated to the ladies." He puts the brain away. He moves across the rafters only to be confronted by the Purple cat. Nigel noticed the cat had a name tag on that read Big the Cat.

"This is your last warning." Big tells Nigel firmly "Go back down right now or you'll be very, very sorry." Lightning then strikes and Big was gone.

Nigel was a bit freaked out but he keeps going forward, he finds another elevator and rides it up.


Once up where he was near the top of the tower he runs up the stairs only to see a crow in a cage who upon spotting him hits a button which turns the stairs Nigel was on into a slide and sending him back down.

He knew how to handle this, he turns invisible and moves up before knocking the cage off the pedestal so the bird can't hit the button. That will show him, he spots another jar with a brain in it.

The photo was of Mr. Hippo so Nigel breaks it open and picking the brain up asked "How can something as small as Mr. Hippo's brain hold so many boring stories?" He puts the brain away he then climbs up a ladder and comes to a window and peaks in to see Nefarious lab where he was speaking to Big.

"Worthless! These brains are worthless, Big!" Nefarious yells at the cat angrily "Just like the one in your head!"

"Oh, no, no, they're nice." Big said meekly "They're….they're nice brains, Dr. Nefarious. Really!"

"They're TOO nice! They won't fight!" Nefarious tells him on what the main problem is "I need killers! I need angry brains! I squeeze'em, I poke'em, I twist'em! What do I have to do to make them fight?" He thinks and smirks "Maybe I should try my drill."

"I'm not going to bring you anymore brains if you're going to be so mean to them!" Big tells the robot scientist firmly.

"No matter what I do?" Nefarious asked him.

"No. No matter…what." Big said.

Nefarious smirks and goes over to a pet habitat that holds a green frog that was over a gas stove and said while reaching for the knob to turn on the stove "Not even if I…"

"No! Don't!" Big said in worry.

"Not even if I cook you a little…" Nefarious said as he turns on the flames of the stove.

"Don't. Doctor, no!" Big said in worry.

"A little frog soup?" Nefarious asked chuckling.

"Please, Dr. Nefarious. No!" Big cries out scared

"Huh? A nice hot Frog soup, hmm, hmm?" Nefarious said thinking.

"Noooooooooo!" Big cries out

"Nothing better on a cold night like this than some boiling hot soup!" Nefarious said to Big.

"Leave Froggy alone!" Big yells at Nefarious.

"Oh, okay." Nefarious said shrugging as Big pants calming down. "You sure?"

"NO! I mean, YES!" Big lets out.

"All right, all right." Nefarious said nodding "Oh, why don't I just go ahead and heat you up a cup?" He smirks "It's made of frogs! Frogs that you love!" He smirks looking at the frightend frog in the habitat "Isn't that right Froggy?"

"Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it!" Big repeatedly said.

"Okay, okay." Nefarious said nodding and Big pants but then said said "Well, maybe I'll just make some for myself."

"Ahhhhhhhh!" Big screams out and runs out of the lab.

"Bring me a good brain, Big or Froggy becomes Crispy!" Nefarious calls out to him and laughs madly "Crispy! HAAAAAA!" He said to Froggy adding "When you're a dentist even part time, you have to learn to have a sense of humor, you know. It helps to calm the patients down." He gets to work and makes a protective shield around his work area appear.

Nigel sneaks in and looks at the table and is shocked to see two brain jars both having brains inside them one had Felicia's picture and the other has Wiz's picture. This angered Nigel and he hurries out the room and runs around the railing.

He finds another brain jar with Tony Rydinger's picture. He breaks it open and said picking it up "Tony, what can I tell you? You were right. The old legends were true." He puts the brain away.

He then finds another jar that has Bufords brain in it and breaks it to claim the brain and said to it "Welcome back to the thinking world, Buford." He then puts the brain away.

Nigel thinks on it and realizes that counting the already rebrained campers back at camp he has gathered all the missing brains, so he uses his connection with Raine Whispers and transport back to HQ.


Once back at HQ, Nigel hands off the brains to Raine who begins to re-brain the campers while Nigel will one by one explain what is happening to them.

The first camper was Lucio with Nigel finishing up saying "…And that's how the Sarge is planning to take over the world."

"Wow. That is so no chill." Lucio said shaking his head. He then thinking asked "Hey where's Luna?"

"We're going to be re-braining her really soon." Nigel tells him.

"Well, when she comes out, she's going to want to hit stuff." Lucio said thinking "I'd better go wait by her drums." He walks off.

The next was Alejandro with Nigel telling him "…and that's why we have to find Rachel right away."

"That is some crazy stuff, guys. I'm kind of glad I was out." Alejandro said to that. "Well, with the world ending and everything, I should probably go and see what girls want to make out one last time." He then walks away.

The next one was Cheese Sandwich. Nigel tells him "…so I said, 'Brianer? I don't even know her!' Haha!"

"Veronica!" Cheese Sandwich said and runs off.

Next was Luna Loud with Nigel finishing up saying "…and that's who's been kidnapping all the kids."

"Oh, man. I just want to burn that Sarge!" Luna said angry but she calms down and asks "Hey, where's Lucio?"

"He's waiting for you at band practice." Nigel tells her.

"He better not be painting the wrong band name on my drums again!" Luna states and runs off to find him.

Next was Tony Rydinger with Nigel telling him "…no, I promise you. You didn't drool at all."

"Is Violet okay?" Tony asked him.

"Yeah, she's waiting for you down by the docks." Nigel said with a nod.

"Gotcha." Tony said smiling

"Hey, do you want to help us save the…" Nigel said but Tony runs off to be with Violet. He shakes his head and asks "Okay, is making out all anyone thinks about in this place?" We then come to a bit later when Pain is done being rebrained with Nigel telling him "…And that is how I beat the Hideous Hulking Goldeen of Lake Oblongata."

"Hmm. So does the Sarge…does he have an evil sidekick?" Pain asked grinning "A yes man, or a lickspittle? Anything?"

"Not sure. Why?" Nigel asked shrugging.

"Uh, no reason. Bye!" Pain said and runs off.

The next one was DJ and Nigel was happy as he says to him "Scared? You'd better believe I was scared. You'd have to be a fool not to be. But the trick is to never let them see you sweat!"

"Wow, I guess that's what those squirrels were trying to tell me." DJ said thinking.

"Huh?" Nigel said confused by that.

"They kept saying 'the man with the explosive mind is going to kill everyone.'" DJ admits ashamed "I thought they were talking about me and my ability to blow people up." He then begins to leave "Oh man. I have to go apologise."

The next one was Buford and Nigel said to him "…that's a good question. But I didn't taste it, so I don't really know the answer for sure."

"Well, if this Brain Tank comes for Buford Von Stomp, it will be sorry." Buford said nodding "Better go find my nerd, see what the plan is." He runs off.

The next was Heather and Nigel finishes with saying "…and then the Goldeen ate me and we became best friends."

"Oh my god!" Heather said to that.

"I know!" Nigel said smiling proud.

"I mean, OH MY GOD!" Heather said again.

"I know" Nigel said again.

"ALEJANDRO!" Heather cries out and runs off to find him.

The next one regretfully was Nelson. Nigel then sighs and said to him "…yes, and because you got your brain stolen and I didn't, yes. I do. I think I'm better than you."

"Ah ha! I knew it! Well, you're wrong!" Nelson said to him "Have fun dying!" Nelson then walks off, he was going to find Lisa and see what she was planning.

The next one was Mr. Hippo and Nigel finishes his story saying "…And that's what happened to your brain."

"Wow. What an amazing story." Mr. Hippo said amazed "I mean, that is a really, REALLY good story. And you know what the best part is? I'm in it! I'd better go write that whole thing down before we all get killed!" He runs off.

The last one was Veronica and Nigel said "…and that's how I earned all my merit badges."

"O-M-G. I feel so stupid for throwing myself off the roof now!" Veronica cries out.

"What? Why'd you throw yourself off the roof?" Nigel asked surprised hearing that.

"Because the poison didn't work!" Veronica tells him "Listen, I have to go. The world could use some major league cheering right about now!" She runs off to find Cheese Sandwich.

With all the brains returned Nigel lets Raine transport him back to where he was before. With all the camper's brains returned to their owners it was time to put an end to Sarges evil schemes.


All the brains recovered, now time to stop Sarge and Nefarious. Let's see how that goes.

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