Here we go, the final battle begins and Nigel faces not only Sarge's inner trauma but also his own.

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DM77's Psychonauts Chapter 29

Two Twisted Fathers

When Nigel entered the big tent he tripped and tumbled down landing on the ground. He shakes his head as he stands up and sees a worried Kid Sarge run up to him.

"Help!" Kid Sarge said panicked "Help! You got to help me protect the Bunearys!"

"Hey, hey, little Sarge!" Nigel said grabbing him to stop his running around "It's okay, those monsters are gone now. The Bunearys are safe. We're all safe!"

"No, it's not safe!" Kid Sarge told Nigel scared "He's coming!"

"Who's coming?" Nigel asked.

"My dad." Kid Sarge told him worried.

"Your dad….Khyber the butcher?" Nigel said surprised and a little worried.

"He says little Bunearys are good for nothing. Nothing but food!" Kid Sarge told him.

"HEEEEERE LITTLE BUNEARYS!" A loud but calm voice said, Nigel and Sarge look to see what looked to be a turqosed skinned alien looking being with teeth fused to his lips, dark red eyes wearing a black upper body suit with a red stripe in the middle, grey pants and belt, black boots and white bone like armour holding two sharp hunting knives, this was Sarge's mental representation of his father Khyber. He was also huge like towering over Nigel and Kid Sarge

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Kid Sarge screams in terror and runs away.

"DON'T RUN OR ELSE DADDY'S GOING TO KILL YOU!" Khyber said and laughs.

Nigel runs as Khyber chases them around the ring floor, in the centre taking up much of the floor was a large grinder machine so Nigel had to be be crargul to fall into it. Khyber once near to Nigel attempts to slice at the boy but he avoids them. Nigel also hears the ghostly voice calling to him, but he dodges a knife attack and it gets stuck in the ground, Nigel takes this opportunity to climb up Khyber's arm and attacks him with a Psi-Palm right in the face making him grunt in pain.

Khyber recovers and pulls his knife free and continues to chase. Nigel repeats the avoiding until Khyber gets his knife stuck in the ground again before running up his arm again. Khybe knocks him again and chases him again so Nigel repeats avoiding him again for a third time and when his knife was stuck ran up his arm and smacks him in the head and jumps off.

"AHHH!" Khyber lets out annoyed freeing his knife and in anger slives a hole in the tent "Hyyyyyy-up!" He scoops up Nigel with one of his knives and hurls him out through the hole, he notices an wrapped up package also there and hurls that through the hole as well. He then evilly laughs.

Nigel recovers and found he was in a more circus like area with a climbing tower for acrobats, he then sees the pacakage open and a figure stands up, he was a blond haired man in black raggy circus attire with green skin that almost made him look like a zombie. It was the last person Nigel ever wanted to see, his own father, Luke Skywalker or more accurate Nigel's mental representation of Luke.

After stretching looking around frantically Luke asked shocked "What's going on here? What have you done to our circus?"

"Dad!" Nigel said shocked, he was prepared to face all of Sarge's mental trauma but…he didn't prepare to fully face his own.

"Polluted! Perverted! This looks like the work of MENTALISTS!" Luke said in anger glaring at Nigel.

"I can explain!" Nigel tells him.

"Have you been assisting with PSYCHICS?" Luke asked his son.

"Dad, I…" Nigel said trying to talk to the mental version of his father.

"Psychics! Fortune tellers! They killed your grandfather! They cursed our entire family to die in water!" Luke tells Nigel in anger.

"Yes, but…" Nigel said trying to counterpoint him

"Including you, Nigel and me." Luke said cutting him off "But I'm going to live, you know why? Because I'm still an acrobat. Let's see if you are!" Luke then quickly ascends up the the ladder to the top of it, after reaching the top he calls down to Nigel "What's it going to be son? Die in the water? Or show me what you've got?"

Luke then goes futher up performing several feats of acrobatics, when he reaches the platform he was heading for he stands their smirking and juggles some spiked pins. Nigel then sees the tub in the centre beginning to fill with water and knowing the mental traps chances are it will fill the room when spilling out so he hurries and climbs the ladder.

"Here comes the water, boy!" Luke tells him as it begins to rise slowly.

Nigel tries not to focus on that and swings from the trapeze and makes to to the spinning wheel he swings from an embedded sword and makes it to the tightrope that separates him and his father, as he crosses it Luke hurls flaming pins at Nigel making the boy have to jump to avoid them as he makes his way across. When he made it across Luke heads on up.

Nigel continues to ascend up the acrobatic obstables all the while from above Luke taunts him and down below the water continues to rise. All the while that strange ghostly being is still calling out to him. It would be too much but Nigel did his best to focus on the task, trying not to die from this mental trap.

After climbing round some netting with parts on fire, Nigel uses Levitate to float up some bubble updrafts and through some rings of fire. After then trapeze past some giant spinning cleavors and across a final typerope. Nigel slides down a long and looping ladder and lands on the final platform where his father stood.

"Dad! I made it!" Nigel pants smiling at the mental version of his father.

"You cheated!" Luke yells at him angry.

"No. I used the acrobatics you taught me!" Nigel said to him.

"Don't lie to me, cheater!" Luke tells him "You crystal ball readers always cheat! You're no son of mine." He then uses one of his flaming pins and hurls it at the tent wall making a spiral portal and leaps into it.

Nigel feels the suction trying to pull him in, he tries to run but get pulled into it as well.

Nigel lands on the ground and recovers, he finds himself back in the arena where he fought Khyber and sees Kid Sarge standing there looking at him worried.

"Sarge! Are you okay? Where's your dad?" Nigel asked confused.

"He's over there. Talking to your dad." Kid Sarge said pointing over to where Khyber and Luke were talking.

"He did WHAT?" Luke said in shock.

"Uh-oh." Nigel said feeling like this fight is going to get a lot harder.

"Somebody's going to get GROUNDED." Luke said in seething anger as he uses one of his pins to ignite both of Khyber's large knives.

"Make that GROUND." Khyber said smirking and laughs which makes Luke laugh with him.

"Oh great…both dads are teaming up, wonderful" Nigel said with a sigh, he should have seen this coming. But now he has to fight both fathers at the same time.

To be Concluded….

Well out of the tent and into the fire, next time the final battle begins

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