Earthbound 2
Chapter 5: The Zombie Waltz
By: Danboy
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Last Chapter…
Ness: I have some thing to tell you at my place, Frank… but first do you believe I have “special powers”?
Frank: No…
Ness: *sigh* <This is going to be tough…>
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Apple of Enlightenment: It’s just an analogy, people from the future gave it to me, people like your father, but my real name is Damon the wise… you can call me Damon. The One told me to stay here, and provide information for any one who comes this way, and he was the first person/deity I saw.
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Bizz-bizz: So… can we?
Damon: YES, YES! He trusted me with this wisdom, and He trusts you with this… so eat.
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Bozz-bozz: I feel great!
Bozz-bozz realized Change g
Bizz-bizz: Me too…
Bizz-bizz realized PSI Time-warp W
Damon: You have been transformed into a person much like myself, only in strength and not I.Q…
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Frank: O.K. so, the strange happenings last year… were all because of this dude named Giygas?
Ness: Not really it was due to his broken-down clone…
Frank: And you have to battle the original, now?
Ness: Yes…
Paula, Jeff, and Poo: AGAIN!
Ness: Yup… now if we’re going to get any-where, we will have to consult the old guy… <what’s his name…> Tali Rama--
Jeff: You mean the guy in that monkey cave in the desert?
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Chara: Why didn’t I tell her? Bozz-bozz, your mother is still alive… Bezz-bezz is still alive… I am… still alive… *weep*
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Tali Rama: Ah, Ness my boy, I have been awaiting your arrival… sit, sit…
Eagleland, Dusty Dunes Desert, Monkey Cave: 3:16 P.M., Saturday, June 5, 200X
Tali Rama: Ah, Ness my boy, I have been awaiting your arrival… sit, sit…
Ness: You… have?
Tali Rama: Yes, as you know, I can predict future events. I also know why you came here, and yes you and your growing group will become larger… you will find five more chosen ones--
Ness: “And we will find ten elemental stones…” we know, but we need to know how to decipher the map and where to find the other people.
Tali Rama: Yes… well *clears throat* people are very hard to track, and I may not be able to find the locations of all of them, but I am able to decipher maps…
Ness: Well here it is… *rustle*
Tali Rama: Yes… hmmm… well… it’s a type of… come back later… I’ll have it done by then…
Ness: Thanks… but what should we do till then?
Tali Rama: Go to Threed to nullify the problem there… and find another chosen one you’ll need her help…
Ness: Well… *laugh* we need you to heal our mentally challenged friend--
Pokey: ME! La, la, la, la…
Ness: So can you help us?
Tali Rama: Use one of the Special Herbs from your pack…
Ness: O.K…
Ness used a Special Herb on Pokey
Pokey: Hey guys… I feel… funny… *thud*
Pokey is unconscious
Tali Rama: Then leave him with me… he just needs rest, and some of my redirection in the correct path.
Ness: Sure… thanks…
PSI Teleport b
Tali Rama: WAIT… oh… darn I forgot to tell them where the next chosen one is… oh well…
Eagleland, Treed: 3:32 P.M., Saturday, June 5, 200X
Girl: *SCREEM*
Zombies: *grown*
Loaded Dice: How dare you deny my kind offer of letting you go… for $1000… is it worth your life?
Girl: I don’t have the money--
Loaded Dice: SILENCE! PEOPLE WHO DON’T SHOW THE PROPER RESPECT FOR GIYGAS WILL DIE--
*BANG*
Ness: Man, the teleporting gets harder to concentrate on… WHAT THE…
Loaded Dice: It’s Ness…
Zombies: Huh…
Loaded Dice: GET THEM, YOU FOOLS!
Zombies: *GROWN*
BATTLE START
Loaded Dice and cohorts took a surprise opening attack
Super Zombie A attacks
Ness took 50 damage
Super Zombie B attacks
SMASH!
Paula took 145 damage
Loaded Dice called for help
Super Zombie C appeared
Loaded Dice: You’ve noticed that the Zombies are stronger?
Ness: Yah, but I am too…
Ness uses PSI POWER!! a
Super Zombie A received 432 damage
Super Zombie B received 503 damage
Super Zombie C received 345 damage
Loaded Dice received 153 damage
All of the Super Zombies returned to the dust of the earth
Loaded Dice: My troops… YOU WILL PAY!
Poo: NOT WILE I AM STILL STANDING!
Poo used the Sword of Kings
Loaded Dice: *SCREEM*
Loaded Dice received 932 damage
Paula: ME NEITHER!
Paula used PSI Freeze W
Loaded Dice stopped moving
YOU WIN!
Ness and friends received 91024 Exp.
Paula grew to level 56
HP is up by 1
PP is up by 2
Off. is up by 4
Spd. is up by 5
Luck is up by 7
Paula realized PSI “Special” a
Paula named it PSI Love a
Jeff grew to level 59
HP is up by 3
I.Q. is up by 10!
Vit. Is up by 8
Poo grew to level 53
HP is up by 29!!
Vit. is up by 11!
Ness needs 36912521 more Exp. to get to the next level
Ness: Whew… Are you O.K.?
Girl: ……
Jeff: Yo… hello…
Girl: Huh… Oh yah I’m fine… thank you for saving me… I guess…
Ness: O.K… gang let’s move…
*walking*
Girl: <What just… happened?> Wait… let me come with you…
Paula: Sure… but what is your name…
Girl: I’m Emily… you can call me Ema…
Poo: Well Ema… welcome aboard…
Girl: Who are you people…
Ness: WHAT? You don’t know the boy who saved the earth last year, Ness Gotum…
Ema: Well… yes… but… I thought there was only one of you…
Ness: Ahh… the media distorts everything… there were four of us then too--
Jeff: In fact without us little Ness would have been toast.
Ness: Shut up Jeff…
Jeff: Sorry… *giggle* I couldn’t help it… I’m Jeff Andonuts… the genius of the crew… I can fix anything that’s broken… well… machine wise anyway…
Paula: I’m Paula…{Ness is my boy friend, so he’s taken!}
Ema: O… K…
Poo: Paula, I thought you’ve learned your lesson…
Paula: Sorry…
Poo: And I am Prince Poo of Dalam… a servant of master Ness… and keeper of the Sword of Kings…
Ema: So you’re the one who stole it…
Poo: NO! I took it from the true thief… a Starman Super…
Ema: A… what?
Ness: Look it’s a long story… we’ve got to get going, so either come or not…
Ema: I’ll come…
Eagleland, Dusty Dunes Desert, Monkey Cave: 3:21 P.M., Saturday, June 5, 200X
Tali Rama: BE GONE EVIL SPIRIT!
Pokey: NEVER OLD MAN, THIS BODY IS MINE!
PSI Fire a
Tali Rama: *GROWN* THAT’S IT! I CALL UPON THE UNTANTED ELEMENTS OF THE EARTH TO EMPRISON THIS EVIL MIMIC… NOW!!!
Purify S
Pokey: NOOOOOOOOOO…
Tali Rama: It is over Pokey… now wake…
PSI Healing W
Pokey: What… happened? Who are you?
Tali Rama: I am the guardian of the deserts, Tali Rama.
Next time…
Pokey: I only remember that I was on the mountain then I came home after ness and I meat this star… thing and a strange talking fly, but… I can’t remember any more of last night…
Tali Rama: Last night?
Pokey: Yah, today is November 14, 199X… isn’t it?
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Ema: An ugly man who controls the zombies lives in that valley, right?
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Leader Zombie: Yes, we need more men at the machines… use Sleep Powder to stun them… and I will tell you which ones to take and to leave…
(to be continued)