The Legend of Almagest
Chapter 1
Loki's Descent

	Somewhere in the dark void of space, a violent conflict was 
afoot. It wasn't anything too special at first glance, just a little flash 
of light chasing a little flash of darkness, the latter being completely 
invisible unless passing a star or anything to serve as background. 
Occasionally, the light one would crash forwards and cause a small 
explosion on the dark one. Soon enough, the dark one gave up and 
decided to crash into a planet out of spite to end the conflict. The 
planet it chose, go figure, was Earth.
	Sure enough, it was bound to land where a meteor decided to 
strike two years ago: Onett, Eagleland. It wasn't too special of a 
suburbian town. Hadn't its one attraction come into existance, most 
of the population of the world would be completely oblivious to the 
town. The attraction is known as "the real superman," "the little 
superhero of Onett," "The savior of PSI," but most people just refer 
to him as "Ness."
	Two years ago, when Onett was still insignificant, a comet 
crashed into Onett. Ness found out from a bug from the future that 
came with it that he was supposed to destroy the vile entity known 
as Giygas, the great cosmic destroyer. He met up with three friends 
that helped him out immensely, saved a village of Mr. Saturns from 
a slave-driving putrid pile of hell-knows-what, dismantled the statue 
that caused people to do whatever mad bidding it desires, broke up 
an insane cult bent on violence and painting everything blue, 
brought to sweet normality possessed cars, animals, trees, hippies, 
paintings, fire hydrants, etc., vanquished a great deal of hellbent 
starmen, single-handedly destroyed his own evil, and finally went 
into the past with his friends (all in robot form) and defeated 
Giygas. 
	Ever since, a great deal of people have taken advantage of the 
fact that Ness was friendly and very powerful. He has been called 
upon for rescuing, interrupting crimes, and all sorts of other tasks. 
With Ness keeping the peace, everyone could sleep easier.
	Now, there was a party at Ness's house, celebrating the 2nd 
anniversary of the defeat of Giygas. Most of the action was in the 
basement. Poo was busy meditating, though it was hard with all of 
the Mr. Saturns frolicking about pointlessly. Jeff was playing chess 
with Apple Kid. Paula, Orange Kid, Picky (who recently made friends 
with Ness, ignoring the mishaps that his brother, Pokey, caused), 
and Ness were busy with a four-player video game, that Ness just 
happened to be winning at. He was busy bashing Picky's ninja 
character into kingdom come with his dragon/human morph 
character, when there was wild pounding at the basement door.
	"This had better be the apocalypse," grumbled Ness, pausing 
the game. His hair dangled in his face, as it has grown to as long as 
his chin since the defeat of Giygas. He had grown thin, as well, and 
had on a jeans jacket and white t-shirt. He also had on black leather 
pants. Still, he had his trademark baseball cap.
	He opened his door, and was greeted by many people, all 
worried.
	"THIS IS TRULY THE APOCALYPSE!" shouted one.
	"A METEOR IS HEADED STRAIGHT FOR ONETT!" shouted 
another.
	"WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!" shouted everyone at some point, 
except for one: Dr. Andonuts. He was one of the few people that 
remained sane during a cataclysm in Onett, who informed Ness on 
all of the nasty happenings.
	"Good evening, Ness," he said. "I am very sorry to interrupt 
this party of yours, but there seems to be a meteor headed straight 
for your house."
	"Oh GREAT," said Ness. "At a time like this, the cosmos do NOT 
need to take the meaning of 'crashing a party' literally."
	Dr. Andonuts chuckled, and said, "Well, it's not that big of a 
meteor, but it is something to worry about. It is about the size of a 
human, and it's emitting dangerously high energy signatures of evil. 
I presume that if it hit, it would cause an explosion with the force of 
an atomic bomb." With that, Jeff's jaw dropped, Apple Kid fell of his 
chair, Poo's eyes popped wide open, and the gamers' controllers 
dropped as they gasped and looked at Dr. Andonuts. The crowd only 
grew more loud and panicked. Ness's eyes widened briefly.
	"Well, nothin' I can't destroy, forgive my cockiness," he said, 
cooly. He then turned to his comrades. "I'll be back in a few, guys."
	"Ness, you'll need this!" shouted Apple Kid. He pushed a button 
on his watch, tightly fastened around his pudgy wrist, and ness was 
instantly clad in a black jumpsuit, a helmet, and a backpack. 
Knowing what he had to do, he ran outside and turned on the 
jetpack. 
	He rocketed upwards, and turned on the nightvision on his 
helmet. Once he got into the stratosphere, he looked upwards, and 
saw a strange black dot in nightvision-induced green background. 
He presumed that that was the meteor. So, he concentrated, 
extended his hands toward his target, and said the three magic 
words that have brought a stop to many criminal actions in Onett.
	"PSI...halt...OMEGA!!"
	Three two-dimensional triangles, flashing different colors, spat 
out from Ness's hands. Surely enough, after a minute or so, Ness got 
a mental signal that it hit, and succeeded in stopping the target in 
time. Ness jetted up to the location of the meteor (a shield 
materialized around him once he got high enough, to protect him 
from exposure to extreme height).
	"PSI shield omega," he said, to protect himself from the evil 
energy. He slowly moved into the meteor, turning off night vision 
and turning on a light so that he could get a better look at the 
meteor.
	He then realized something odd. It wasn't a meteor.
	By the looks of it, it was an angel. It was a teenage angel, with 
grey skin, dark fire surrounding his body, and scars all over. He was 
wrapped in a toga, and had an evil-looking knife in each hand. 
	Ness simply hovered in shock, and then realized what he had 
to do: the same thing he did with every evil entity that pops up.
	Kill it.
	"PSI ROCKIN OME--"
	He stopped himself in mid-buttkick. He thought to himself 
about a smilin' sphere exploding and injuring everyone nearby just 
when he thought he defeated it. He remembered that such things 
came up as trout-flavored yogurt and zombie paper. He recalled 
that he had never seen this angel before. For all he knew, it could be 
an exploding angel. He hesitated.
	In doing so, he didn't see that the angel's eye twitched. It then 
corrected itself to right-side up and saw his new antagonist. It 
simply grabbed Ness by the throat and threw his jet pack to the 
ground, a mile or so below.
	"Pitiful creature," he said. At this point, Ness didn't care if the 
angel turned into zombie paper and then exploded in a huge mass of 
trout-flavored yogurt, and simply drew his baseball bat.
	"Oh? So the Earth thing has a weapo-GAHH!" it said, 
interrupted by the bat crashing into his side. He immediately 
dropped Ness, and luckily, the Tallah Rama was at the party, and 
glided Ness down swiftly, but safely.
	When he got to the ground, he was still being chased by the 
angel. Ness simply said the three magic words that would defeat it.
	"PSI....teleport...alpha!"
	Then, Ness started running at insanely high speeds through the 
streets of downtown Onett, which he swiftly reached. As Ness was 
under a high test of his Dexterity, the angel couldn't catch up with 
him. Therefore, it just sat at the end of the large path that connects 
Onett and Twoson, and readied his super-speed for an instance 
when Ness would go on the path.
	Surely enough, being able to look in slow motion, the angel 
saw Ness come to the end of the path and turn to go straight at him. 
The angel charged towards him, knives at the ready.
	The joust's winner, of course, was Ness. When their paths 
crossed, Ness, being able to somewhat see in slow motion as well, 
crashed the ultimate bat against the angel's solar plexus. The angel 
felt an extreme amount of pain, and crashed to the ground on his 
head. Ness broke both of his arms slightly in the mess, and fell to 
the ground as well. Luckily, he had the support of Poo's PSI lifeup 
gamma. The angel didn't, and his halo fell and turned grey, 
signifying his death.
	The crowd cheered and gathered around Ness, but strange 
figures started rising out of the angel's dark fire, as observed by an 
onlooker with binoculars. Luminated by the streetlights, two vicious 
reptiles walked along, looking for prey. Their faces were like that of 
a carnivorous dinosaur with flowing hair, their bodies were like that 
of a lizard, their arms were muscular, their back feet were tall and 
like that of a rabbit with no hair and large claws, and their tails were 
as long as their bodies. Counting the tail, they were each about 12 
feet long. They were both five feet high, and wore black chest armor 
that looked like it once belonged to a knight. Their pupilless eyes 
glowed a brilliant red, as if they had Rudolph's nose instead of eyes.
	Immediately, Poo decided to investigate. He ran over to the 
creatures, his katana, the fabled Sword of Kings, at the ready.
	"Greetings, lizards," he said. "Sorry about your angel getting 
killed, it's just that..uh..." He hesitated, as the creatures were 
looking at him menacingly, making a sound from their throats as if 
they were hissing and gurgling at the same time, and baring their 
teeth.
	"Yovaltl meabh geck blearm vellgh," said the closest one to Poo 
to the other, its voice seeming to still mostly come from its throat.
	"Barralgh volap megh bapaleagm megmamgamg," replied the 
other, taking a snap with its fangs at Poo. The astonished, yet 
somehow not surprised, Poo jumped back a few feet, and lunged his 
sword into the creature's arm. It roared in pain, and knocked the 
sword away with his other arm. The other creature launched a 
fireball at Poo from its mouth, but Poo sliced it in half. Poo then 
made a horizontal slash attack in their facial areas,making a deep 
gash in the one closest to him, and a nasty cut on the other. He then 
cut off a leg on each one. When they fell, he wrestled both of them 
one at a time and then slit their throats.
	Just then, another two came out of the fires, and charged at 
Poo.
	"PSI...starstorm...OMEGA!"
	Instantly, huge masses of star-shaped objects burst from Poo's 
outstretched hands continually in a blast of light. His clothes 
whipped in the wind caused by the sheer energy from the blast. The 
projectiles zoomed out at an almost inconceivable speed, knocking 
the strange creatures back and KOing them. The attack lasted for so 
long that three more emerging creatures of the same type were 
KO'ed. When the attack stopped, he slashed them with his sword 
repeatedly to make sure they were dead.
	Six more of the creatures at once then emerged from the angel 
carcass. However, this time, another person came to the scene. It 
was the white flash of light, the second angel. It swooped down and 
struck dead all of the creatures in one hit from an energy blast, and 
extinguished the fire coming from the dead angel with something 
that looked very much like a lightning bolt and sounded very much 
like water splashing.
	Then, the angel looked at the carcass of its dead nemesis. It 
then went to the crowd.
	"Who or what destroyed Loki?" it said. It looked skinnier than 
the other angel, obviously named Loki, and it had blonde hair.
	"If you're talkin' about that evil angel thing," shouted a 
businessman, in front of the crowd, "it was Ness!" The crowd 
responded with its usual murmur on such a matter, regarding such 
things as Ness and how fast he was going.
	The angel went to the person that the crowd was pointing 
towards.
	"Hello," it said. "My name is Eros. You are presumably Ness, 
are you not?"
	"In person," said Ness.
	"I commend your work, Ness. You have proven to me that the 
people of this planet are much stronger than I have presumed."
	"Just him and his friends," the crowd insisted, in one form or 
another.
	"Oh," said Eros, "Anyway, I would also like to 
con...grat...ul..a..YOU!" He shouted, making a building invisible and 
drawing his bow with an arrow on it, revealing a tall, lanky, white-
skinned boy of 19 with spiky black hair, jeans, two semi-automatic 
pistols, a vest, and a black shirt with long sleeves. "DIE, MESSANGER 
OF-"
	"Wait, wait, wait, waity waity waity WAIT A MINUTE!" shouted 
the young man. "What in the name of Jesus is goin' on here? I ain't 
doin' NUTTIN'!"
	"Well," said Eros, "I just happened to intercept a message 
between you and none other than Giygas telling that Loki is dead!"
	GiygasÑthe word rung like a vile echo in the ears of everyone. 
Several people fainted, including Jeff, who remembered the nasty 
beating he took from Giygas in the supposedly final battle. Poo's and 
Ness's eyes widened. Paula clapped her fingertips to her mouth.
	"G-Giygas is alive?!" shouted Ness. Eros turned to him, seeming 
slightly annoyed.
	"Of COURSE he's alive," said Eros. "He HAS been for the last 
4,500,353,217 Earth years! Sure, some powerful entity nearly 
destroyed him back in 199X in your calendar, but he discarded the 
form he took before he was completely-COME BACK, YOU!"
	Obviously, the aforementioned tall person was running away. 
It was typical of him; he's always caused trouble when one least 
wanted him to, as Ness learned the hard way. He, Rufus Minch, was 
always making fun of him and his brother, Pokey Minch, when they 
were together. Then, he went to military school, and Ness was 
without him for awhile, as he failed from school to school.
	Rufus was not just running away, though. He was signaling a 
strange red aircraft that was flying at a low altitude overhead.
	The aircraft landed about 400 feet away from Ness, who, of 
course, ran to it to investigate. Out of the aircraft came another one 
of the creatures, only it was different. It had the same hair, but 
fancier armor, a spiky kilt made of the armor material, a flowing 
cape, and staff as long as its body. It was rather muscular, and 
slightly bigger than the other creatures, but its bulk was all muscle. 
It looked at Ness, and outstretched his arm.
	Ness felt a strange tingling inside him, and he was thrown in 
midair by the strange force into the creature's hand by the neck.
	"Ah," said a strange voice that he heard that seemed to be 
emanating from the creature, "Ness. When I saw you for the first 
time, I was writhing before you in my own stupidity. Now, you are 
limp and powerless before me." That was all that Ness remembered, 
as he blacked out with a strange thing that felt like a great electric 
shock that pulsated through him.