Megalomaniac
Chapter 1: Insomnia
It was cold. Very cold. Ness stood still, joints stiff, peering off a cliff
into a deep, dark, swirling abyss. It seemed to call to him, "Ness......
Come down to me." Ness felt his eyes roll back as he, powerless to defend
himself, dropped limply off the cliff into the swirling chasm. Opening his
eyes, he could see the chasm was being sirupted by his presence. It seemed
to shake in fear. Squinting, he could see a tear forming in the darkness,
revealing bright light. He was sucked into the rip and saw a girl, kneeling
down, praying, crying. Then Ness fell to the ground, and it cracked. The
area exploded into a tremendous boom.
Ness leaped out of bed, sweating, clinging to his bedsheets. "Whoa.... What
a weird dream." He shook off memory of it, to realize the earth shattering
explosion was not just heard in his dream. He swung open the blinds and
looked out of his window. Police cars came rushing down Mountain Path,
sirens blaring. Slightly nervous, Ness walked downstairs to see his mother
staring out of the living room window, looking worried.
"Honey," she started to say.
"Mom, what was that?" Ness interrupted.
"Dear, I have..."
"Hey, they're saying it on the news."
"Ness,"
"A meteor? Cool!"
"Darling,"
"No time to chat, mum, I wanna see this!"
"But sweetie..."
Ness ran out of the door, grabbing a warm, half-drunk CapriSun. He walked
out, took a sip, realized it was old, and tossed it in a bush. He walked
down Mountain Path to find tire tracks and police cars all up and down the
dirt road. He walked up, and suddenly fell to his knees and started
crawling. Escape was futile, though, for Liar X. Agerate still saw him and
dragged Ness up to his house.
"Dude, you REEK of Garlic." Ness said, convulsing.
"Yes yes. See Billboard? I made it. Ain't she a bute?"
"Ungh..." Ness took a lighter from his pocket, lit the billboard on fire,
and walked off, leaving Liar opened mouth, gazing in horror at his sign.
Walking further up the path, he noticed a wrapped gift box laying abandoned
on the ground. "Oh-ho-ho! So THIS is where that present landed!" Ness said,
gleefully. He opened it up to reveal a large loaf of French Bread. Wondering
how it fit in the box, or how it wasn't damaged in... the "incident"... Ness
put the bread in his incredibly deep pajama pocket, that also contained the
lighter than really shouldn't have been in there to begin with. He continues
up a hill and suddenly smelled a powerful stench. "Pokey," he muttered,
recognizing the stink. He soon saw the scraggly, rotund oaf annoying the co-
whoops- police officers.
"Whoa... Look at that meteor!" Ness said, amazed.
"Wha-? Hey, Buddy! How are ya!?" Pokey said, running to Ness, that is, if
you could call it running.
"Oh great," Ness whispered to himself. "Hi, Pokey."
"You should really go off to bed. The cops are REALLY getting mad at you
being here. A'course, I'M just fine. I'll tell you about it tomorrow at
school."
"But it's the middle of summ- *ahem* Okay, Pokey, I'll be waiting to hear
it at school!" Ness said, chuckling to himself. He watched Pokey go back to
where he was, and he caught a glimpse of a face of pure horror adorning a
police officer.
Ness barged through the door of his house and stumbled up the stairs. He
plopped down on his bed, and, within seconds, he was out. He was instantly
awakened but a shattering noise and the hard plop of a rock hitting his
stomach. He looked around, and saw his newly broken bedroom window.
"Pokey," Ness grumbled. He looked out of the window, and, sure enough,
Pokey was standing, staring up at him.
"Uh, oops?"
"Hey- next time, make sure my window is OPEN." Ness chucked the rock back
down to Pokey, and it struck his waving hand.
"OW! Hey, Ness, buddy ol' pal, good chum, me mate,"
"Look, Pokey, I told you a hundred times over. I DON'T LIKE YOU."
"Okay, that works. Hey, Picky's gone. The cops left, and I did too, and
Picky wasn't with me!"
"He wasn't with you to begin with. Are you sure he isn't at home?"
"Yeah, I checked right after my snacks."
"Okay, okay, fine. I'll be down in a minute."
Ness donned his street clothes- A pair of slightly ripped blue-jean shorts,
A blue and yellow striped shirt, his yellow "Sport-Wear" backpack, and his
red cap. walking out of his room, he was hit by Tracy's door opening.
"Ness! There you are! How many times have I told you not to leave your
things in my room?" Tracy dropped a cracked baseball bat on Ness's stomach.
He got up, and put his hand on her head.
"You're not the boss of me, Tracy. Go back to sleep."
Frustrated, Tracy kicked Ness in the shins and ran into her room, crying.
"OW. Ugh, sisters." Ness muttered. He walked down to find Pokey sitting on
the couch with a large bowl of potato chips. "Dude, those were out last
chips, you pig!"
"Honey," Ness's mother replied.
"C'mon, Ness, let's go! And I wanna stop at my house, I still have a bowl
of ice cream there I wanna grab." Pokey said.
Ness grabbed a dog cookie and threw it at King, who was snoozing by the TV.
"C'mon, dog, you're coming with me."
(Oh! A cookie! Huzzah! I'll follow you to death and back, Ness ol' buddy
ol' pal!) King inhaled the cookie and ran by Ness' side. All of a sudden,
the phone rang. Ness picked it up.
"Hello? Ness?" the phone asked.
"Dad?"
"Ness! I hope you find Picky and discover something about that meteor!"
"How did y-"
"No time for mending plot holes, son. You have your ATM card, right?"
"Yeah, I got it right he-"
"Good! BWAHAHAHAHA!" *SLAM! beep beep beep*
God, I swear he works too much, He's crazy. Well, let's go, Pokey, I wanna
go back to bed.
~End Chapter1~
Chapter 2- Ness meets A friendly aliena, and a not so friendly one...