MoonBound: Part 9

By: nessdude15

"Uh, Ness, the others." Paula said after a few minutes of being choked by Ness's strong embrace.

"Oh, right, them." he replied, finally snapping out of it. He quickly casted PSI Lifeup Omega, healing everyone in the group.

"Took ya long enough." Picky said, finally able to stand up after nearly being knocked out when attacked by those Starman Supers

"You and your girl friend should get a room." Pippi said, not looking too happy. "I could have died or something back there, but you just forgot about us didn't you?"

"Okay, I'm sorry, Ms. Over-reaction." Ness replied sarcastically.

"I belive we have more pressing issues at hand than your fruitless arguement." Poo said sternly.

"Yea, like how we're goin to get to the moon." Picky added

"Oh yea, Paula, I forgot to mention that we figured out to defeat these aliens." Ness said to Paula.

"Oh, I know. We have to get to the moon and absorb the energy of it's sanctuaries." She replied.

"What!? How can you know that!? I didn't tell you, and I'm sure no one else could have.!"

"Oh Ness, you're so silly. You always forget that I'm psycic and can read your mind and stuff. What do you think I did while you were arguing?"

"Oh yea...well...let's get going!" Ness replied as he began to walk down the dark hallway.

"Whoa, don't get too excited." Pippi replied. "We have no idea where to go next."

"Oh yea, I forgot." Ness said walking back to the group.

"This thing has to have escape pods or something...all I need is a map so I can locate them." Pippi said, looking around the walls with her flashlight for a map of the ship. After a few minutes of looking with no results, she finally gave up. "I could use some help here." she said to the rest of the group that was chatting about a trivial matter.

"Sure thing." said Paula who joined in the search. Poo also joined shortly after. Ness and Picky offered their "moral support" meaning they sat down and ate food from Dr. Andonuts's Instant Meal Device. A while later, they gave up and decided to go back and start at square one in the infirmary.

"Okay, let's head all the way back." Pippi said reluctantly. So, with her in the lead, once again, they backtracked all the way through the crumbled doorway, up the elevator and all the way back to the hallway the infirmary was located on. Pippi stopped suddenly, causing everyone behind her to crash into her.

"Whoa, looks like an alien crime scene investigation." said Picky who was looking down the hallway where a large number of alien robots and life-forms seemed to be investigating the infirmary where Ness and co. had entered the ship.

"That's preciesly what it is. I guess our arrival didn't go unnoticed... We have to get out of here before they see us!" Pippi said urgently, trying to sneak around the corner as quietly as possible.

The rest of the group mimicked her movements, and snuck back around the corner without any aliens seeing them.

"Wow, that was close." Picky said, as he began fiddling with his yo-yo. Then, in an instant of clumsiness, he dropped it to the ground, causing a loud bang to sound throughout the hallway as the yo-yo bounced off the metal floor. An instant later, a Starman that had heard it teleported directly in front of them.

"RUN!" Pippi yelled as she put a hole through the Starman's head, with her Bionic Slingshot, causing it to fall harmlessly to the ground. Picky grabbed his yo-yo and tore off down the hallway behind his friends.

They ran until they thought they had put enough distance between them and their pursuers, and came to a stop in the middle of the hallway.

"Oops." said an out of breath Picky

"You can say that again you clutz! I'll bet the entire ship knows we're here!" Pippi replied angrily.

"Leave him alone. It happens to the best of us." Paula said in her usual kind voice.

"That's right. We can't get anything done by bickering. We must find those escape pods." Poo added. Almost as soon as he finished speaking, a large group of Octobots teleported around them blocking all possible exits.

"Give up and you will not be terminated." An Octobot said in robotic voice.

"Never!" Ness yelled as he bashed through a group of Octobots that were preventing him and the others from continuing down the long hallway. With the path now clear, they continued fleeing for quite a while until the hallway suddenly ended, and a large door stood looming at the end.

"Oh great, another one of these." said Ness, realizing that this was the same style door that barred their entrance to the dungeons before.

"Well, we might as well see what's on the other side." replied Picky. "I guess you can take it down, right, Poo?"

"I do not think I can. My Psycic Points have been used up. I guess you will have to find another way." Poo answered.

"Great, our door-breaker can't break down the door." said Ness "Um...Paula, I guess you can freeze it over, right?"

"I guess I can give it a shot." Paula said walking up to the gigantic door.

"I'm afraid I cannot let you do that." Said a menacing voice from nowhere.

"It's him." Picky muttered grimly.

"That's right, little brother. Did you think I would just sit here and let you get away with this?" replied Pokey, now appearing between Paula and the door in his new and improved Spider Mech.

"We beat you everytime you come against us. What makes you think this time will be any different?" asked Ness.

"Do not think we have been idle while you were wasting time down on earth. Me, and Giygas's most trusted friends will destroy you and the earth once and for all. Even as we speak, our army is organizing, and getting ready for our attack on earth. And there's nothing you can do about it."

"Those must be Giygas's three generals that Starmaster was talking about." Pippi replied.

"What!? How could you know that!? Not even our own army knows about that!"

"We know more about you than you do." Ness replied jokingly

"Oh yea, like what?" Pokey asked.

"That you're big, fat, and look like a pig!" yelled Picky

"Ohhh, you will regret that!" replied Pokey who was turning red with anger. He pushed a button inside of his cockpit, and a large beam shot out of the Spider Mech, and hit Paula, sending her flying backwards. She landed with a loud bang on the ground, knocking her unconcious.

"Big mistake." Ness said angrily, a familiar spark lighting his eyes. He drew his Gutsy Bat, ran up to Pokey, and smashed off one of the legs on the Spider Mech. To Ness's surprise, another one popped out of the Mech and took it's place.

"Whoa, how are we gonna beat this thing?" Picky said with a puzzled look on his face.

"You're not." Pokey answered as he fired a beam, sending Picky flying back, and landing unconcious on the floor next to Paula.

"Here goes nothing." Pippi said as she began to rapidly fire her Bionic Slingshot, putting numerous holes in the Spider Mech.

"Starstorm Omega!" yelled Poo as an army of stars attacked the Spider Mech, tearing what was left of the armor off.

"PSI Turn off Spider Mech!" Ness yelled as he ran behind the naked machine and flipped the now exposed switch. It made a strange noise and crashed to the floor.

"You will not survive our next encounter!" Pokey yelled angrily as he pulled out a small remote control, pressed a button, and disappeared into thin air. Ness immediately ran over to his fallen friends and revived them with PSI Healing Omega.

"Did we win!?" yelled Picky as soon as he came to.

"Yes, we won." replied Pippi with a smile. "I guess there must be something on the otehr side of that door, or Pokey wouldn't have guarded it like that."

"I guess that's my cue." said Paula, getting on her feet. She took a stroll over to the door, and froze it over to the best of her ability. Ness came after her and smashed the door with his Gutsy bat, causing it to fall in.

"Well, let's what we have in here." Pippi said, leading the way with her flashlight. "Here we go." she added, flipping a up a switch that she had found on the wall, causing that ever-familiar white light to fill the room. And what a room it was. Rows upon rows of small alien spacecraft were lined against the wall, which appeared to have sealed openings through which the space-craft could exit.

"Well, I guess we found what we were looking for." Ness said happily.

"Sure, but you forgot one small detail. How the heck are we supposed to breathe on the moon?" asked Picky

"The answer will come from the stars above." replied Ness jokingly.

"No, seriously, how the heck can we get the power spots on the moon if we can't breathe?" Picky asked again in a serious tone

"Maybe these will help." replied Poo who was standing near the opposite wall where rows of alien space-suits were hung.

"Hmmm..." said Pippi, walking toward the siuts. "While they are obviously made for aliens, and fitting into them won't be easy, the do appear to breath Oxygen, just like us. The next obstacle to be overcome was actually fitting into the suits. Picky, Pippi, and Paula, being the smaller members of the party fit into them with minimal difficult. Ness and Poo, on the other hand had a bit more trouble.

Finally, after struggling with the strangely shaped suits for over half an hour, they both finally found siuts they could fit in.

"While you and Poo were trying to fit into your suits, I belive I have figured out how to work these escape pods." said Pippi to Ness.

"Well then, let's go, said Ness hopping into a pod. The rest followed and sat down in the crammed space pod. The interior consited of a small row of seats, bleak metal walls, and a control panel in the front where all of the buttons and controls were located.

"Try to get some sleep. This could be a long trip, and I know you guys must be tired." Pippi said as she typed in something on the control panel, and blasted away from the ship on a straight course to the moon.