Invasion Persuasion

As night falls on the day of October, the candy consumed by the children six shall rise to form the unholy behemoth of dreams and nightmares, and in the end finish the task one could not. Terrorizing the unwatched lands of their imaginations to a point where not a word will be uttered, not a finger will be lifted, and not a thought will be unwatched...

As the sun set on the horizon and the moon was making its way to the sky, many ghosts and ghouls roamed the streets, carrying big bags. They stopped at every house as they walked, and each of the people who came to the door gave them sweets once the monsters yelled out 'Trick or treat!'.

"Jeez, you guys are slow! All the candy is gonna be gone by the time we get going!" Ness wailed, opening up the front door and jumping out. Ness was wearing an oversized labcoat with a small pin on it which read in shining gold letters 'DR. ANDONUTS'.

"Ness, if you would just be pa-" Paula was being pulled out the door and to the sidewalk by Ness, who had a hard time trying to walk with the oversized pants tripping him up.

"C'mon you guys!" Ness yelled back to Jeff and Poo, who were busy getting their costumes on. Jeff was dressed up in a snazzy suit and claimed he was going as the famous con artist Billy McKlain. Poo was dressed up as a samurai who he said 'was the samurai from the movies'. After ten minutes of getting their costumes on and eight minutes of listening to Ness complaining that everyone would have candy except them, they went down the dirt road to Downtown Onett.

There were already lots of kids trick-or-treating, and Ness had ran ahead of the three to a house. They went around Onett, collecting candy from old women, burly men, college students, and even a small bag of potato chips from B.H. Pirkle as a way to say 'thanks for saving the world'.

After their three-hour trick-or-treating was over, they all went backto Ness's house to eat the candy they had gotten.

Paula, Jeff and Poo had different plans. Once they got to Ness's house, the three collapsed on the sofas and throwing their bags onto the carpet, a few sweets falling out from Jeffs'.

"Aw, you can't be tired already!" Ness said as he picked up the small amount of candy on the floor.

"Ness, you gotta be crazy!" Paula yelled, sitting up. "We were nearly at Threed!"

"Yeah, and we should've gone on! You know how much partying they do on Halloween!"

The argument was short; Jeff and Poo were already fast asleep, and Paula ended it with one "Who really cares?! I just wanna sleep!"

Ness was wide awake though. He had a small amount of candy, and started playing games with some (don't ask how, he's just strange like that). At around three AM, he finally dozed off.

He was having a wonderful dream about giant candy bars and chips that were as big as him when he was shaken feircely by Poo, who seemed to be as tired as he was. Ness blinked a few times, and saw that Paula and Jeff and just woken up, and they seemed very tired.

"Unngh... What do you want, Poo?"

"Well, for one thing, it's nine AM... I think we should get up. And... Uh, your mom has pancakes."

The rest of the day was swell, except that Ness and his friends had to clean up the town after the sharks messed itup last night as a Halloween Prank, which was tedious work.

As soon as they finished, they went back to Ness's house to watch TV and eat some of their delicous candy. At around eight PM, it was time for Paula, Jeff and Poo to leave. Poo gave Ness his thanks and disappeared in a flash, and Jeff said that he had parked the Sky Runner somewhere behind the Pokey household, and that he hoped to see him again soon. Ness teleported Paula back to the Polestar Preschool, where the little kids ran out to greet her. The one kid with the baseball helmet walked over to Ness and asked "Hey, the power of PSI... I never knew it could create such a power as teleport!"

"Heh, well, it can. It's really cool, too." Ness said, messing up the boy's hair, but instead just got his helmet shiny.

Ness then teleported home and fell asleep, hoping to have another dream about wonderous amounts of candy.

Unfortunately, he didn't. This dream was quite peculiar. Ness stood in a room (well, at least he hoped it was a room) that seemed to have a wavy pattern of two different colours. He walked around, and didn't see anything interesting, just the same stuff. Suddenly, there was a low rumble, and then Pokey had appeared a few meters in front of him.

Ness was shocked for the moment; it was the first time he had seen or heard of the big pukeball in three months. He wished to punch his face in, but he didn't for two reasons: one being his hand wouldn't reach his face, it would probably get jammed somewhere in his fat. The other reason was that he seemed to be frightened... Usually when they met he tried to act tough, but now he was just downright scared.

"N- Ness? That you?" Pokey squeaked, laying his eyes on Ness.

"Yes... What are you doing here?" He said, giving him a strange look.

"I don't know how I got here... I just fell asleep, and here I am..."

Ness then remembered this was a dream, and did not worry about Pokey. Usually, in his dreams that involve Pokey, he is kicking his butt. But this one must have a super-duper butt-kick ending. He then heard another rumble, and then Paula popped out of nowhere a few feet to his right.

"Hey... Paula is here! I must save her from Pokey and then get to kiss her... Heheh.." Ness though aloud.

Paula, who seemed to be too confused to even notice this remark, finally made eye contact with Ness and bounded over to him.

"Ness!... What's going on?" She said, seeing Pokey cowering behind him.

"I dunno... It's just a dream, so I have nothing to worry about." Ness replied.

"I don't think so... This is all happening here... It couldn't be a dream, but I fell asleep..."

Another low rumble shook them, and then Poo and Jeff popped out of thin air and crashed to the floor. Poo stood up and dust himself off (which was silly; there wasn't anything in the room that would sully up someone's clothes), and Jeff still sat on the floor, dazed.

"W- W- Where the heck are we?!" Shouted Jeff, getting to his feet.

"I think this is a dream... Yet Wacko over here thinks it's a different dimension or something." Ness said, walking to Pokey.

"And how come you're here? Usually in my dreams you try to act all big and mighty..."

Paula smacked Ness upside the head with her purse, shouting "Ness! This isn't a dream!"

"Ow! Watch it, that hurt! Wait... How'd I feel that?"

"Ness! I already told you! It isn't a dream!"

"Yeah, stupid." Pokey said, trying to get back his self-confidence, but was still quite frightened. "This isn't some dream. So don't think you'll wake up, buttmuncher."

"Shut up, Pokey. What makes you think you'll get out of here and I won't?" Ness said, smirking.

Pokey's face quickly flushed, and he looked back at his corner.

Then the ground shook again, but nobody appeared, but a loud voice emitted from somewhere behind Jeff and Poo.

"Paula dear, It's time to wake up! Your mom made waffles!"

"Ness, wake up! I wanna take King for a walk!"

"Jeff, you there? It's time for Science, you slept through Biology..."

"Master Poo, some female visitors are here with gifts... I am sorry to bother you."

Suddenly, Ness, Paula, Jeff and Poo disappeared with a loud pop and Pokey was left alone. He started to shiver and clenched his teeth. A familiar voice echoed in the 'dream world', and it's owner seemed very displeased at the big ball of lard.

It was Halloween in the world of Starmen.net (well, it's not really Halloween any more, but they still celebrate it), where, instead of being three months later like in the Earthbound world, they are more than eight years ahead. Halloween Decorations were up, mixed in the most amazing contest ever, the Halloween Funfest! At this time, many Earthbound fans create wonderous things such as fanfics, songs, pictures, and poems. In this world, Earthbound is old, yet thousands, nay, millions, still love it and treat it as though it was brand new. A small Mr. Saturn reigned over these people, his little bit of blonde hair indicating he rose above all the rest (I mean, a Mr. Saturn with HAIR has to be special). His special sidekick was a tomato, who, somehow, is alive, and can walk... He can also talk like noone gives a shiz. A small Earthbound fan approached the great Mr. Saturn, and bowed.

"Sir Reidman..." He began. "We have all the decorations up, but a few of the Funfest decorations are missing..." He took a big gulp.

Reidman eyed him suspicously, and said "What is your name?"

"My name? I'm Naeroon, sir..."

"Well, Naeroon. You have better find those decorations before I find a new decorator. Don't you agree, Tomato?"

"Mmsghh?" Tomato attempted to say through a mouth full of what seemed to be plastic pumpkins.

"Nevermind..." Reidman sighed, looking back at Naeroon.

"And you... Uh, go make something for the Funfest, like a picture, or a fanfic..." And with that, he shooed him away.

Many of the Earthbound fans had alrady created many things, and Skulryk and Luna, the Funfest operators, had lots of work to do. But even then, this year they didn't get nearly as much entries as other Funfests, which made it seem that lots of Earthbound fans were losing their most important part of them- EARTHBOUND (Duh! Or whatever). They just hoped that it was true what Leeman and Squilburt said on the forums, that more and better entries will be submitted, and that they take time.

"Jeez... I wish this kid 'Jeff' knew something about computers and didn't save his song as a 32KB .html file..." Skulryk grunted, carrying the large box over to the Funfest page.

"Yeah, and did you hear? He didn't know someone already took that name... Let's hope we don't get them mixed up!" Luna said cheerfully, carrying SaturnStorms nice neat box which held 'Test of Esscence'.

Everyone was happy at starmen.net, and even the few moderators who were always cranky were smiling. It was a time of joyous activity, and Starmen.net was cheerful all-round. They knew tons about Mother 1 + 2 and even 3, and that made them even happier. Even Pancake, the artist who stopped drawing Earthbound and seemed to have left Starmen.net's side, even drew a picture for the Funfest. Sexiness was at 100%, and things couldn't be better.

Unless, of course, a small parcel dropped out of the sky and landed at Reidman's feet with 'MOTHER 3' written on it in crayon.

And the sky started dropping the parcels and also started to rain Gameboy Advance SPs.

Everyone looked at the ground, which was littered with unopened SP boxes and parcels marked 'MOTHER 3'. They were frozen solid; surely the boxes did not contain Mother 3... It must be some sort of cruel jest.

But it wasn't. Reidman climbed off his throne to pick up the parcel at his feet. Upon examining it, he found that it must be wrapped in a bigger box stuffed with paper. Opening it, he found the big box. He quickly opened that up and dumped what was inside into his hand. What had fallen out was certainly no joke; it was a Mother 3 Gameboy Advance box. With the Nintendo Seal of Quality, and signed my Mr. Itoi.

Many Earthbound fan gasped, many fainted. One even tried to snatch the one from his hand although there were millions of the signed games littered everywhere, and was stopped by SLing and Atticus.

As Reidman opened up the box, a brilliant golden light shone out, and he had to cover his eyes. After a few second it died away, and he pulled out the game. As he picked up an SP box and took out the small gaming system, he quietly slid the game into it and flicked it on.

It glew with a brilliant light, and then the screen darkened. Reidman knew tis would most likely happened, but when it did, it saddened him deeply. The screen turned to a dark purple colour, and across it flashed 'EARTHBOUND'. Reidman was quickly relieved, but the screen was still quite black. He tapped it lightly, but nothing happened. 'EARTHBOUND' flashed across again, and then the words seemed to move backwards until they vanished, and then a very strong wind started to suck everything into the SP. Reidman was first to go. When he was sucked in, the SP dropped and then started shaking violently, still sucking.

The many boxes that were on teh ground were sucked in like dust. The decorations were ripped from the walls, and the Food Court was sucked in next. All the Earthbound fans held onto one another, but quickly got sucked it. In a matter of minutes, the large room was bare.

Naeroon stuck his head out from around a corner, and looked around the empty room.

"Hey guys, where'd you all go? Oh man..."

In the unfinished vilage of Tatsumarii, two boys, Ryuka and Krause, played in their glitched backyard with their dog, Boney. They made sure not to touch the tree that made them invisible, or touch the patch of grass that kills you, or go past the part of the fence that'll play you in a skipping pattern forever. To the right of their backyard was a giant vortex, where their village was never finished.

The whole world was just a big glitch- And living in a small, 64-bit land wasn't very fun. Things happened over and over, and many people got bored. They either deleted themselves, or hid in their basements (Most of them were nothing).

But the people of this world did have festivities, now matter how buggy they became. Around this time of year they celebrated 'The Big Cancellation', where they celebrated the destruction of their world. Usually people would think this would be a sad occasion, but for them they tried to be as happy as ever with Polkas, Treasure Hunts, and the grown-ups even gave little kids candy when they dressed up as their favourite glitch in the game.

As day turned into night, the festivities started to roll.

Ryuka and Krause set out on their journey for candy. Ryuka was dressed up as the house with the glitch of the old man on the roof who kept falling off (it was a toy with strings on it for Ryuka's costume) at the outskirts of the village. Krause was dressed up as the tree in their backyard, which, as you know, makes you permenatly invisible. As they walked, they saw many dance, other kids dressed up, and a few games of 'Smack the Itoi Flambé'.

As their bags filled with more and more candy, the parties seemed to get more and more exciting. The dancing was faster, kids were talking about what they would do with their candy (most said they were going to eat it), and the flaming, paper-maché Itois seemed to be burning brighter. As Ryuka and Krause left for home with bags filled with delicous candy. On the way, they ate a bit of it, and commented on the taste.

"Nobody make Whizzler Snaps like ol' Grammy Toulouse!" Ryuka exclaimed, shoving some of the popping candy into his mouth.

"I still say the Super Sour Bonkers are the best." Krause mumbled, digging in his bag for some of the sour sweets.

As the boys set teir heads down to rest that night, they both had a very strange dream. In it, they were both there, just standing in a field, when three kids popped out of thin air and landed behind them. One of the boys had a red baseball cap and a baseball bat, and another, the only girl in the group, had a big bow anda pretty pink dress. The second boy had blonde hair and wore tidy clothes, and the last boy seemed to be a samuari in training. Once they got up and dusted themselves off, they walked up to Ryuka and Krause.

"Hey, kid... Have you had a dream like this before?" Ness said to Krause, blinking a few times.

"WHo the HECK are YOU?!" He said, hiding behind Ryuka.

"Hey, kid, we had a dream like this last night... I keep telling Dumbo over here that they aren't dreams, but he won't listen... Do you know what is causing this?" Paula said, walking behind Ryuka to meet Krause.

"I don't know, but I-

DING-DONG

DING-DONG

Ryuka and Krause both awoke with a start, but Ryuka was the one that went back to sleep. Krause was too scared to go back to sleep, and decided to go answer the door before his dad ripped whoever's head off.

As he opened the old, creaky door, what he saw scared him more than the dream.

Outside his house were thousands and thousands of people and creatures and other weird things, all different shapes and sizes. In front was a small Mr. Saturn with a tuft of blonde hair on his head, and a living tomato.

"Hey kid, can we stay here? We don't know how we ended up here, but we're hungry and cold..." Reidman said, looking over his shoulder at the rest of the Earthbound fans.

"Hey, you look familiar... Wait... NO." Tomato said, shocked once he saw Krauses' face.

"Tomato, let's just wait until later until we do this..."

A skinny teenager crawled up through the people to Krause sloth-like, and started to draw on an old piece of paper. He seemed to be starving, and would kill for food.

His picture even said so.

On it, it had two stick people, one with a knife who was stabbing the other, which had a pile of food behind him. He indicated with his pencil that he was the guy stabbing the other stick guy, and that the wounded stick guy was Krause. He would kill Krause if he didn't give him food. Tokage quickly threw a bread roll at him, and he started to eat it while curled up, and purred softly.

"Eh... Gonmon sure is strange when he's hungry." Tokage laughed, going back to the group.

Krause just stood there, shocked. He quickly did whatever he would do in an emergency:

"DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD!"

Living with tens of thousands of different creatures wasn't so bad. Sure, it took a long while to get used to it, but heck, thousands of people who worship you, you start to grow on them.

Or, they grow on you.

"Leeman, stoppit! Get out of the cereal!" Reidman shouted, bonking Leeman with his giant nose, who was now growing onto the bottom of Ryuka's cereal bowl.

"Yuck... Naw, he can have it..." Ryuka threw the bowl onto the floor with a disgusted look on his face.

As the months went by, seeing every face wasn't a big surprise. In fact, many of the Earthbound fans did chores, since there was nothing else to do around the house.

"I- I need... Anime... Must... Have... JAPANESE..." Tomato shreiked, twitching badly

"Whoah... What's with him?" Krause said, backing away from the sink, where they were doing the dishes.

"He's a little weird like that. Hey Dummy, snap out of it!" Yelled Pancake, flinging a spoonful of mashed potatoes at his head.

It now seemed that every day was like this, except it was different in many ways. Once December rolled around, all of the Earthbound fans were saddened at the fact that they would miss the December Funfest... It would come around, but nothing would be done. Many who lived on the Funfests just had to do something for it. Some were drawing a Christmas Earthbound picture with knives on one side of the house, but they quickly learned their lesson from Flint. The ones who wanted to write badly couldn't, so they had ideas in their heads that they couldn't put anywhere, which was starting to make them strange(r than they already are). Reidman was starting to get very worried, and called a meeting in the basement later that night.

"I have called this meeting," Reidman began, "because I think it is about time we do something about this mess we're in."

"What problem?" Wampa said. "This place is amazing... Sure, we may live in a dump, but, hey, we're living with the people from the game we are trying to be re-made!"

"Hrm... I believe my Sexy Hamster of Doom can get us back... If we can get him fast enough..." Giovanni said, stroking his moustache.

"Hey, how about we make a Phase Disorter?" Plo said, standing up.

"It would never work... Besides, where would we get the pa-

"Giovanni will-a take care of-a dat!" Giovanni said, holding up two giant bags of cash.

Since they had no other decent plans, they decided to build the Phase Distorter 2000. Thanks to Giovanni's bottemless bank account, they were able to get all the parts they needed. All the people are Starmen.net worked on it, and in roughly ten months, they were done.

"Hoo boy!" Simonbob exclaimed. "If dat ain't the most purdyest thing in the world, I dun know what is!"

"Yes yes, Simonbob... Now, everyone, get in!"

It was quite a tight squeeze. More than ten thousand people jammed into an airtight container was not good. Tomato reached the control panel and pulled a few switches, hoping they were the right ones, and then the Phase Disorter started to shake violently. A low humming sound started up, which worked up to a high-pitched sound, and then it felt like they were all smacked hard in the face with a frying pan. After they had blasted off at super sonic speed, it seemed like only seconds had passed before they stopped. The door slowly popped open, and everyone inside was thrown out onto the ground.

"Holy shnizzlefazzle. That was so hypetastic that I could go again like a fat kid for 'pops." Sephy said, stumbling to his feet.

"Yeesh... I don't think we're back at Starmen.net yet... In fact, I don't think we're close..." Tomato sighed, looking at the grassy hills that surrounded them. To their left, there was a giant factory. To their right was a large, properous city.

"I say we head for the city." Mr. Accident said, walking towards it. But, instead of everyone following, they all went in the direction of the factory.

"Guys! wait up!"

"Hmn. I wonder why we are going to the factory." Chris_Davis said, "I mean, the city is much better, and... Oh, wait." He had just reached into his pocket, but retreived nothing but lint. He also thought that no one else had money, except for Giovanni, maybe.

"Let's just hope this is a pasta factory or something..." Mr. Accident grumbled behind Chris_David.

Indeed, it was 'something'. It wasn't a pasta factory, but it was still amazing, if not even more. Although old and run-down, the sweets factory seemed as though it was filled with candy.

"H- Holy poop!" Emilio cried, dropping to his knees. "It's... GOD."

As the group headed back to town, stomaches bloated and minds content, they saw a flash of shining light to the right, and then it faded. In it's place stood two boys and a girl. They each took out a mask; the boy with the red cap put on a pig mask, the boy with glasses put on a rat mask, and the girl put on a rabbit mask. They each carried a bag filled with candy. As soon as Tomato glanced over, his left eye began twitching uncontrollably, and he yelled out "HOLY FUDGESICLES! First Krause, Flint and Ryuka, now Ninten, Lloyd, and Ana?!"

Reidman, Tomato, and a few other administrators ran over to the three.

"You guys don't happen to be Ninten, Lloyd and Ana, do you?" Reidman asked, lowering his immense nose.

"Yes we do... But how do you know that?" Ninten said, his skin slightly paling under his mask.

"Because, uh... I can read minds!" Tomato said, looking over Reidman's shoulder.

"Oh, cool! I can too! Nice costumes you guys have!" Ninten said, poking Reidman.

"Ooo... It looks so real!" Ana said, poking Reidman as well.

"Er, uh, it's state of the art... Uh, but do you guys know any way to get to someone who can help us... Er, with a big problem?" Tomato said.

"Uh, Queen Mary might be able to help, but-

"Alright! Let's go!" Said Pappycat, hopping over to Ninten.

"No! It isn't that easy... And I can't just teleport you guys there, we were going to get more candy and it's sorta-

"Who cares about anything? Let's just go!"

"Listen! A, I can't trust you guys since I just met you, and B, I think it's going to be difficult to get you somewhere where only a few can get to!" Ninten yelled, taking off his mask.

"Bah! You have powers! You can get us there! Or we'll take your candy away!" Xodnizel said, glaring down at Ninten from the small group of Administrators.

"Xod, try to get him to do it..." Reidman said as he stood back.

"No! Not my candy!" Ninten shrieked. "Please! I'll get you guys there..."

"Okay kid, but jeez... Next time don't blow our ear drums like that!" Arad said, tapping his head.

Ninten slowly closed his eyes and each of his index fingers on his temples on either side on his head. A low humming noise emmited from his cap, which slowly turned into a high-pitched squeal, and then everyone was engulfed in blinding light. Next thing they knew they were lying down on a cloud world while people in cloaks and straw hats walked by.

"Cool... Magicant... Mother 1 style!" A random Earthbound fan shouted out.

Ninten quickly ran ahead, while the rest were behind. They got to the giant castle guarded by three guards.

"Ah! Ninten! Nice to see you!" Said the guard on the far left.

"Hey Nich... Uh, me and my 'friends' really need to get in to see Queen Mary..." Ninten said, stand in front of the middle guard.

"Sure! Guys, let's move!" Nich said, and the other two guards moved out of the way for the group to pass.

As they entered the large castle, the group was amazed at how big and spectacular it was. The castle was decorated with pumpkins, fake skeletons and bats, cobwebs, and many other things. The jesters wore ghost costumes and roamed around, and the carpet that lewd to Queen Mary's throne was tattered and dusty.

"Ah! Ninten! I see you've brought guests!" Queen Mary said from her large throne. He wore a large black gown, and had a pale face, yet it has alive with happiness.

"Hello Mary... I have a, er, few friends, yes. They seem to have a problem. Do you think you could help them?"

"Sure! Uhm, what might be your problem?" Queen Mary asked Reidman, who was at the front of the group now.

"Well, you see..."

Reidman finally finished telling Queen Mary their story ten minutes later, but the story did not seem to surprise her. She just blinked and said, "What about this Phase Disrupter, or whatever it's called? Can't that help you?"

"Well, uh, we don't know. We think something is wrong with it. We were going to teleport to Starmen.net but ended up here, like I said..."

"Well, how about you try pulling the knobs and pressing the buttons and such before everyone gets in? That might help."

"Hey! I never thought of that... Thanks!" And with that the group ran out.

"Hey, does anyone know if it's even here?" Arad said, looking around.

"Yes, it's back where I teleported you guys here." Ninten said, following behind the group.

The Phase Disorter 2000 stood there, in all it's shiny, silvery, tranporting glory. Tomato quickly clambered in and pressed a few buttons and pulled a few levers. He then gestured everyone in, and they quickly blasted off into the Starmen.net dimension.

As they got out, they were welcomed by moonlight and numerous buildings on a quiet street. Some people whispered to others, thinking that something else went wrong, but Reidman just shrugged and walked forward.

"Meh. Naeroon must've decorated or something... Let's hope he didn't touch that SP! Now, where is it?"

They all began looking around in the vastly shaped room, but could not find it.

"Hey, I just realized something.", Darthbelch said. "How come it's so dark?"

"It could be that either we actually aren't in Starmen.net and it's so dark because it's nighttime wherever we are, or because the lights are off." Xodnizel said, searching in a garbage can for the missing SP.

"Hey guys! I think I found something!" Yelled Ryanbomber, who was squatting over a big pile of what looked to be a gooey piece of cheese. They all ran over to the weird object, but quickly jolted away, coughing madly.

"Jeez man, that freaking stinks!" Pikachan said, pinching her nose.

"Pffsh. Ooo, it's gonna come alive and eat us all! Help me!" Ryanbomber chuckled, poking it.

It jiggled and slowly oozed down the garbage can it was on, and grunted. It slipped into a garbage can and quickly grew to an enormous size. It grew a ghost-like body with piercing red eyes, and a large grin. It chuckled in a menacing way, and open it's big mouth. Rows of sharp, blood-stained teeth showed when he opened up, and started to jump after them in his garbage can.

"Ryanbomber, I hate you." SimonBob said, backing away.

"Bu-

"Just shut up."

"Sssso, you are the infamoussss Sssstarmen.nettersss?" The thing hissed, it's wry smile growing ever larger.

"What are you?!" Reidman said, backing off.

"I am a- er, let'sssss jussst sssay I am the bringer of death." It chuckled, coming closer.

"You mussst be the legendary Reidman... I think I'll borrow you for a bit."

He reached his long arm out to Reidman, and grabbed his nose with his thumb and index finger. He picked him up and eyed him warily, and glanced back over to the group.

"And with thissss... Beginssss the end of Earthbound."

Suddenly, as the thing slipped into the shadows, low humming noises could be heard past the houses, which grew louder and louder.

"Xod, do you have to be like Ryanbomber?!" Yelled Gonmon, grabbing a stick off the ground to defend himself from the impending doom.

"I don't know... But you'd better give him back!" SLing yelled, pickin up a rock and"Jeez! I'm sorry! It was just a joke!"

From the left and right, the streets quickly flooded with zombies. Overhead, Lil' UFOs darkened the skies and made quite a racket. Ghosts of Starmen were appearing in the shadows of the alleys, and were all edging closer to the group. All of a sudden, the large 'thing' appeared in front of them all, and the zomibes stopped moaning, the UFOs stopped humming, ans the Ghosts of Starmen stopped moving.

"Heheh... Do you know where your puny masssster isss now?" It said, grinning widely.

chucking it at one of the Lil' UFOs. It cracked the hard exterior and sparks flew everywhere, and it suddenly dropped to the ground, and exploded.

"You foolssss! Attack!" The thing said, and slipped back into the shadows.

The monsters started to close in on the large group, and the small, insignificant people started to pick up rocks and sticks to throw. Although not very strong, they knocked out quite a few UFOs and made a small group of Zombies back off. But that was nothing compared to the waves and waves of monsters that ever still coming.

"We aren't gonna live!" Shouted Doogstadice, running off.

"Jeez! No!" Tomato said, running after him.

He bolted past groups of the ghosty starmen, all of which were aimed to shoot the group.

"Dang... If I don't find him, he ain't comin' back soon."

He finally located the little Earthboundy dude, but it was in a dark alley. All he could actually see was his little hat. Afraid that he might already be killed by a Ghost of Starmen, he called out his name. Suddenly, he jumped out with a zombie in front of him.

AAAAAH!" Tomato shrieked, tearing at the zombie. Soon it was a pile of rotting intestines and broken bones.

"Yeesh... Do that again and you'll be looking like HIM." Tomato said, pointing to it.

As they headed back, they saw that most of the army was closed in on the rest of the group. They were fighting valiantly with sticks and stones, but were quickly overpowered. They ran away, farther from them, to give them more time to think of a strategy. A loud yell erupted from inside the group, which followed with the crack of a bat, and a flying hippie.

"Daimyou! What the heck was that for?!" Dali's_Clock yelled from the group.

"Jeez! He turned on us! He was poking me with a stick!"

In the Mother universe, Ninten and friends were having the same problems. Surrounded by thousands of various enemies, the three thought they would never get past them.

"C'mon gang! We can beat the shiz outta these guys!" Ninten said, his voice not-so-confident.

"But Ninten, you know-

Ana quickly stopped talking, or moving. Breathing also, for that matter. She just stood there, limp.

"Lloyd, who was the only one of of the two left who saw this, shook Ana crazily.

"Ana! Stoppit! I'm tired too, but stop sleeping!"

Once he let go. she just dropped to the ground, in a messy pile.

"Ninten! Ana is-

"He did not see Ninten anywhere. He started calling out his name, but was quickly picked up by the feet and carried away. He saw a glimpse of Ninten lying unconcious on the ground beside Ana before all went black as they entered the nearby cave.

The world of Magicant, which was now plunged into darkness by the now near-death of Nintens' mind, was, well, dark. The people who roamed the streets ran into the nearest house, and many of them were scared. Few were just surprised, but were still slightly scared. The world was fading and many things were starting to just pop out of exsistance. The shops, which usually had unlimited items, were now disappearing, and the items just seemed to melt away.

"We aren't gonna live through whatever this is..." Kink said, looking out the window at the disappearing Magicant."We might, but, it just won't be pretty." Said Notch behind the old man, throwing a ball around.

"How can you be so calm at a time like this?!" Kink said, turning around.

"I dunno... Genetics, I guess. But I sure didn't get it from you, grandpa." He chuckled, catching the ball once it bounced back to him after hitting the wall.

"Hmph. Let's just hope you're right and we don't all die."

Outside small patches of the clouds were gone, and the lake was drying up. Queen Mary was frightened, but still tried to keep calm.

"There isn't anything bad... It's just a massive earthquake or something..." She said to herself, but she knew it was worse. A large cone ripped off the side of the castle, and a large gaping hole was all that was left of one of the back rooms. Queen Mary shuddered and closed her eyes.

Kink turned aroundto face his grandson, his long grey beard trailing behind him.

"Look here.." He said, tilting his old straw hat. "I think you know something we all don't."

"No, I just know to keep calm and hopefully this will all blow over." He said cheerfully, throwing the ball around again.

Outside, more and more of the clouds were disappearing, and even a full house popped out of exsistance.

"This is not supposed to happen!" Kink whispered to himself.

Soon, large amounts of Queen Mary's castle was missing, more than half of the clouds were almost gone, and the once thriving lake was a mere hole. Almost everything was wiped off the tiny cloud land, and the roof of a house was even ablaze. Small children were outside houses that were reduced to rubble, crying madly.

"Heh, seems you are wrong." Kink chuckled, facing the window once more.

"The world will be destroyed."

"Pffsh. Why do you think I bet you my last ten bucks?" Said Notch, catching his ball. "If the world was really gonna blow up in our faces or something, I wouldn't use all my money for a bet."

Kink watched destruction and mayhem unleash itself outside with glazed eyes. Notch's ball suddenly disappeared, and he was quite annoyed.

"Bah. They may be tearing this place apart, but there's no reason to take my ball away..." He grumbled, standing up.

"I'm tellin' ya, boy, that money is as good as mine." Kink said, grinning widely.

As couple more hours past, in which almost all of Magicant was gone, and their house was now nothing. All that was left was a few patches of cloud, and a small bit of Queen Mary's throne, in which she stood upon. Suddenly, a small gap in the clouds grew into a large swirling vortex, and was slowly pulling clouds, rubble, people, and other various objects towards it.

"Heh. Boy, give me my money. That's the thing that's gonna kill us all." Kink said, holding out his hand to Notch as they were both being sucked in slowly.

"Sheesh.... Fine." Notch grumbled, digging in his pocket and passing a ten dollar bill to him.

"Now, we just wait."

After ten minutes, almost all of Magicant was gone, except for the small bit of cloud Kink and Notch stood upon.

"Well, boy, seems this is where it ends. Nice knowin' ya." Kink said, extending an arm to shake.

"Yeah, I guess this is it. G'bye, Grandpa." Notch said, shaking his hand. As soon as they let go, the last bit of Magicant was sucked in, and the Vortex erupted into nothingness.

Back in wherever they were, the Starmen.netters were having great difficulty with destroying the current onslaught of monsters. A Few Ghosts of Starmen had captured some of the Starmen.netters, and even more zombies were closing in from the streets. A black figure had joined the zombie group, and was approaching the group. In the moonlight, the figure appeared to be a blonde woman wearing sunglasses and an old one-piece bathing suit.

"Heheh... Master has sent me to destroy you... It has taken much too long for these idiots to destroy you." She said, pointing behind her.

"Jeez! I don't want any more of this!" SkullKidLink yelled, flinging a rather large stone at the woman head. he let out a loud screech and disappeared.

"Whoah. That was... Freaky." He said, blinking. But he soon found out that it was not the rock that did it, but a power, most likely called PSI Rockin'.

The hoarde of zombies was quickly fading, and four children emerged from a gap of their destruction. There was a light mist of blood around them, but it did not bother them. They ran ahead, seeing the group.

"What a bunch of weirdos... Uh, I mean, are you guys alright?" Ness said, fending off some UFOs.

Tomato quickly swerved his head around to see the four, and his eyes began to bulge. A vein grew in the top part of his head, and he began blinking madly. He ran over to Ness, and began punching him.

"You stupid cosplayer! Do that again and I'll-

"Hey! Stoppit!" Ness shouted, SMAAAAAAAAAAAAASHing Tomato with his bat. He went flying, but quickly landed.

"No... It can't be real... I've gone mad!"

But it truly was the real Ness as his friends.

"We must've ended up in the Mother 2 world!" A random EB fan shouted from the crowd.

"Eh? What?" Jeff said, zapping a zombie.

"Meh. Nevermind." OnionRingOfDoom said, hiding behind him.

Although Ness and friends were strong, the enemies were just as strong. It was a very tough battle, and the enemies were endless.

"Ness! You're so stupid! It was after Halloween, yet you still wanted to come here?!" Paula yelled, smashing a UFO.

"Jeez! YOU said if we came here we would live! And besides, these weirdos would've died if we didn't come!" He yelled back, using PSI Rockin' Gamma and knocking down a few zombies.

"Let's stop fighting and get rid of the enemies." Poo said calmly.

"Well, y'know that small little Mr. Saturn who could talk right we met waaay back there?" Ness said, peering over his shoulder.

"Yes... What about him?" Paula gulped, holding her frying pan up to smack down some more UFOs.

"He sorta followed us.."

"NO! You didn't!"

"Uh, yes, I did."

Ness unzipped his bag, and a deep breath was taken from inside the bag. A Mr. Saturn with blonde hair popped out of the bag, gasping for air.

"Reidman!" Tomato shouted, bounding up to him.

"Eurgh... Need... Air..." Reidman said between breaths.

All of a sudden, Ness dropped to the ground with a loud thud. Next came Paula, who fell lightly. Poo, who was hovering over the crowd, fell ontop of a Ghost of Starmen with a loud 'clunk', sending them both to the ground. Jeff jsut stood there, looking at the mess of his comrades.

"Jeez! What happened! Did the- Jeff was knocked over the head with a mighty blow of a flying UFO, and was sent to his knees. The Starmen.netters were now left defenceless against the hoarde of enemies that they were to face.

"Dang, this isn't good..." Eggy said, flinching ahead of time.

All hope was lost for the group. The Thing appeared once more, is bloddy teeth seeming to have grown.

"Heheh, I see you have found Reidman. No matter, you cannot destroy my army! Just the sight of them wiped out your little kiddie friends here!" It chuckled.

"This is a first... But he's right." Flaming Turnip gulped.

"You see, Ness and his stupid little friends cannot defeat me." It went on.

"Hmn... I wonder... Tomato said to himself, pulling out a small device with a number track and a big red button.

"He is much too small to defeat me and my army. Giygas is nothing compared to me."

"Yes, I think this might be our ticket out of this..."

"Now, if Giygas won, I would've stolen his soul and made him a part of me."

"Now, just to excecute it, but I need Reidman..."

"But, he's so stupid he lost to those four..."

"I just need to get him to press it..."

"But, as you know, I-

"REIDMAN! THE SEXY BEAM IS AT 1337 PERCENT! PRESS THE BUTTON!" Tomato yelled, throwing the device over to Reidman. He hit the big red button with his large nose and it went crashing to the ground. Luckily, it was executed before it was destroyed.

"Heheh. Now YOU will be dead." Reidman said, looking up to the sky.

"Huh? Wha-? What are you talking about? What is this 'Sexy Beam'?" It yelled, looking up to the skies as well.

There was a great ball of mixed colours gathering in the sky, and a loud, piercing squeal erupted from it. It grew larger and wider, and the squeal turned into a high-pitched humming noise. It began swirling around in many different shapes, and it soon charged up fully, blasting its way through space. It soon engulfed the whole town and much more, and all the monsters were shreiking and turning into piles of ash.

"N- No! This can't happen! I cannot be destroyed!" It said, and soon turned into a pile of ash inside the garbage can. like all the rest.

"Phew... That was close." Tomato said, sitting down. Ness, Paula, Jeff and Poo gained conciousness soon after, and did not know of anything that happened.

"Eh? What? I thought we were trick-or-treating..." Jeff said, rubbing his forehead.

"Uh, this is a dream!" Tomato said, backing away.

"Yeah... But you will wake up soon!" Reidman said, running off towards the Phase Disorter. The rest of the group followed quickly behind.

Tomato punched in a few calculations, the group got in, and they quickly zoomed off to another dimension.

The Phase Disorter finally stopped, but everyone was too scared to open it. Xodnizel sighed and pushed open the door. They were greeted by a large, grey room, and a small 'thing' which was very skinny and seemed to be almost dead.

"Whoah! We almost forgot about Naeroon!" Squirty said, peering over someone's shoulder.

"Yeah... That was an actually fun 'adventure' without him talking all the time about nonsense." Freiza said, walking past them.

"Well people, we have a lot of work to do to make this place better!" Tomato said, putting up various decorations.

Everyone started to put up many different objects, and in a mere two days, everything was the same.

As the months sped by, and Funfests started up, they always reflected on that one time they were stuck in sheer bliss, but total chaos at the same time. There were amny jokes about it, but the people who made them were either shot in the head or kicked in the crotch. They hoped that it would never happen again. Although Naeroon was not there for the big adventure, he was told at least five thousand stories about it, each one a bit different. He decided one Halloween Funfest to write a story which involved his own twist of everyone's stories about it. Soon after he was shunned by the Sm.net community and was kicked in the crotch several times. The rest of the Sm.netters lived happily ever after, except for one time when Tomato went berserk.

Oh, and Gonmon has a garbage can full of ashes he picked up from some enemies on that time long ago.

Not really a chapter, but just explains stuff that's really stupid in my story. :)

'WTF TEH SEXAY BEEM IZ MUCH KOOLR THEN DAT'

Yes, true. But, I was sorta blah at the time, and I didn't make that chapter all too good. :O

'WTF DID NINTEN AND ANNE AND LOID COME BACK FROM DETH STUFF'

Ninten and Ana came back to life, and after the Thing in there Mother 2 univers was destroyed, so were all the monsters in the Mother 1 universe. Setting Lloyd free. :)

'WUT EVER HAPPENED WITH THOSE WEIRD REAMS ANEWAYZZZZ'

Well, The four went to Threed for parties, and Paula said the evil dreams would go away if they did. LUCKY FOR HER SHE WAS RIGHT. :O And, the dreams also haunted Krause and Ryuka. They weren't haunted anymore either. ;D

'WTF IS THAT THING AT THE TOP IN ITALIKZ'

Well, that's sort of like a 'curse'. And, if you read this, you would sorta understand it. :P

'WUT ABOT TEH VIOC THAT POKEE HERD'

Oh, that? That was the Thing. :D How it is familiar to him, we may never know. And POKEY WAS NOT CURSED. :O But he was the UFO that was destroyed at the starting of the Invasion.

There you have it. If there's anything more that doesn't make sense, let's have a nice little flame war over e-mail, shall we? :)

PS: The name is named after my RPG in the IF forums, but they are two different things. They are persuaded in THIS by their sheer coolness. The Thing was actually scared, and he persuaded them into fighting. :D Got it?