And now...
CHAPTER 2: PART 8
Ness: 856, 802…We’re going backwards!
Fox: the 900ds are over here!
G&W: no they aren’t!
After what seemed like ages for the three smashers, they had finally managed too locate the section of library in which the Termina geography book should be. Ness had managed to link the book up to a PSI energy flow. (he managed to “Link” it up, get it? GET IT??)
Ness: we must be close, I can feel the force running through my veins like wild animals, and my feet are starting to hurt.
G&W: have you ever thought of using your powers for profit?
Ness: I had a psychic hotline back at Onett, but I stopped it because I accidentally blew up the phone several times.
Fox: Termina chronicles, Termina lore…AHA! “The Geography of Termina”
Ness: good on ya, Fox! there should be a small cupboard underneath the shelf that it’s on, the PSI appears to be radiating from there.
Ness and Mr. Game and Watch gathered around fox as he gingerly opened the cupboard. Almost instantly, they found themselves flying through a mass of badly clashing colours.
Ness: Fox! what is the spirit?
Fox: I don’t know, it looks like some kind of flying brain!
G&W: that is most disturbing.
Fox: shows that you haven’t seen much action Flat boy.
The brain suddenly morphed into a beautiful librarian, (do not accuse me of being weird, please) she lifted her finger to her lips and made a hissing sound and a room materialized beneath their feet. The librarian grew huge and, towering above them, began to open a huge encyclopedia.
Ness looked around the room, littering the floor were a lot of big, thick books.
He turned around to see Fox squirming on the ground, his eyes open wide with a look of terror masked across his face.
Suddenly the sound hit Ness’s ear, it sounded like a hundred people speaking in a monotone all at once. The librarian was reading a passage from the book, it was the most boring thing Ness had ever heard in his entire life. His Knees felt weak and his head began to swirl. He felt like falling to the ground to escape the sound.
Mr. Game and Watch struggled to mute the sound but it overpowered him and he fell, gibbering, onto the floor next to Fox.
Ness stood his ground.
Ness: (thinks) if I can survive my English class I can survive this! There has to be a way to fight it, all the spirits seem to have provided their own weakness so far!
Ness suddenly remembered his English classes. His teacher often made them read stupid books aloud to the rest of the class. However, she hated it when she had to read and the kids spoke and interrupted her. Ness sometimes used to read just one word ahead of her and it drove her bonkers.
His knees buckled underneath him. The sound was seeping into every pore in his body.
Ness: I’ve got to think of a way! what would I do in English class?
He stared up at the librarian’s book, it was called “Johnneis Big Encyclopedia of All Stuff” He looked towards the books on the floor. Sure enough, one of them was a miniature version of the librarian’s torture implement.
Ness crawled up to the book and grabbed it. Rising to his feet with great effort he thew open the cover to look at the contents page.
Library spirit: Tiger, A large member of the feline family, these ferocious predators are…
Flipping rapidly through the pages, Ness reached “Tiger” and read down the paragraph as fast as he could.
Library spirit: …leaping upon its helpless prey, it…
Ness: BITES…
The librarian’s voice went haywire, she fumbled the book and screamed: INTO A NECK OF BRIGHTLY COLOURED FLANNELS!
Ness’s energy flooded back into his body as the massive librarian flashed red, signaling she’d been “hurt.”
But the spirit wasn’t done yet, she opened another book, “Fairy tails of the World” and ruffled through the pages.
Library spirit: Chapter Nine: Little Red Riding Hood went skipping through the woods…
Ness was ready for her this time, he sorted through the books on the floor and found the fairy tales book. He threw back the cover and glanced at the contents to find out the page.
He quickly caught up with the spirit.
Library spirit: …and then she saw her…
Ness: GRANDMA!
Again the library spirit went psycho: BY JOVE! WHAT A BIG BOWL OF PORRIGE YOU HAVE, JACK!
Now Ness was shaking. His little eyes where dilated to the max, his heart was beating like a drum.
The librarian opened a history book this time, Ness quickly found it and was soon staring at the contents page.
Library spirit: …The Gyarados was shining a strange red colour…
“What? the spirit didn’t even read out the chapter name!” Thought Ness, as a wave of panic spread around his body.
Who was Gyarados?
He scanned the contents page. Nothing about a Gyarados.
The boringness was starting to eat at his health again, he wobbled unsteadily from weakness.
Library spirit: …a threat to humans and Pokemon alike…
Ness: AHA! something to do with Pokemon!
He opened the book up to page 2289: Pokemon legends and flipped through the pages untill he got to the very last page.
Ness: what? there’s nothing about Gyarados in here!
He was really frightened now.
Ness: I-I can’t give up! I have to try…
He flipped back to the middle of the book, it just so happened that his eye strayed across the word “Gyarados”, Hope seized him in it’s warm grip.
Library spirit: …Shot a Hyper Beam at the…
Ness: R-ROWBOAT!
The library spirit exploded with a blast of incredible light patterns. The force of the blast knocked Ness backwards onto his unconscious teammates.
A flying brain hovered briefly in the air before the room dissolved, sending the smashers back to the library.
Ness opened his eyes. He was lying with his head on Fox’s chest and in his hand he clutched the Smash spirit of knowlige. He could hear Fox’s rapid heartbeat and he gave a silent sigh of relief.
Jigglypuff came bouncing around the corner, covered in nasty bruises and cuts.
Jigglypuff: y-you got it?
Ness hoisted Fox onto his shoulders and smiled as Jigglypuff did the same to Mr. Game and Watch.
Jigglypuff: wow! that must have been one tough spirit! Mr. Game and Watch is out cold!
Ness: what happened to you?
Jigglypuff: I just had a little argument with Falco…So once we get these two over to the sick bay, what are we going to do?
Ness: I don’t know about you, but I’m going to read a book.
