The Purest of Evil part 11

"Fight For the Future, From the Past,"

"Hopefully the others will have way for us to deal with Porky. Ya really think that robot will be able to get Porky out of that capsule. I mean it is supposed to be impossible to open," Claus questions as the two boys move toward Dr. Andonut's lab.

"Well who knows what knowledge that robot was programmed with. Our present has been altered so much as it is. Meeting my future self, my future kid, and a robot from the past sent from the future. This is getting all kinds of insane. As much as I would like to say he couldn't get out. Better safe than sorely sorry."

"I mean I'd figure that in the future you would obliterate Porky the second he stepped foot out that capsule."

"I'd hope so too, but as we both know. The lines the future version of myself is willing to cross is a lot."

"It feels weird. Seeing the future version of you and seeing the you now. It feels really different…"

"I know what you mean, I didn't think I would go that far…"

"No, I mean you guys both feel different. Like, I can sense something different about the two of you."

"Oh, so you don't mean this metaphorically?"

"Yeah that."

Lucas snorts at his brother. "Well I definitely didn't notice what you're talking about. Maybe we can look into that later."

The two brothers move together toward Dr. Andonuts stationed laboratory. Lucas had helped the doctor construct it. He was one of the people who survived the Armageddon. Lucas saw his knowledge had invaluable. So, he helped set the doctor up and allowed the man to do whatever he saw fit. He was a great ally to have, also with his knowledge of PSI and mechanical engineering he had helped tremendously. As he obviously regrets his part in Porky's chaos. Lucas is sure the man would like to return his own time as well. Most likely with all this time travel talk going around the man sees this as his chance to return home. Lucas would probably see if he could do that for him at some point in time. Right now though, he was needed here to understand what exactly is going on. The boys climb up a grass hill that overlooks the whole of Tazmilly toward a spherical building. Currently, they can see Alex on the roof doing something.

"Alex!" Claus calls up to the boy. The boy looks over seeing the two approach.

"Hey Uncle Claus! Hey Dad!" He exclaims back.

"Ugh, that's still weird…" Claus mutters.

"At least he still says your name…" Lucas adds as the two mo closer to actually talk normally.

"What are you doing?" Claus asks.

"Setting up this satellite dish for Dr. Andonuts."

"What for?" Lucas asks.

"Dr. Andonuts is going to launch a drone to see if he can lock in on where that robot is." Alex looks them both over. "I'm guessing the robot got away?"

"It did, also with Porky," Claus says.

"Who's Porky?" Alex asks.

"Huh, seems like you did atomize him in the future," Claus says.

"Well can't say I'm surprised," Lucas says. "Its the old fat jerk who ran the Pigmask."

"Ah, you mean the fat old bastard," Alex says.

"Geez language," Lucas admonishes.

Alex chuckles, "Well that's his name in all the historical text and how he was named in everything. I figured his true name was lost."

"Guess that was me being vindictive making sure he was remembered that way. Heh, that's kinda hilarious…"

"Great, your future dictator self has a sense of humor. You almost done up there Alex?"

"Just about," Alex says looking down at his work.

"Surprised you know how to do that, figured you had servants to do that stuff for you," Claus says as Alex jumps down joining them.

"Well it's not like it was complicated. Besides, I didn't like bothering anyone, besides not like future dad was a big fan of servants either. At least, in the beginning he didn't see them that way…"

"Is everything set up already?" asks Rob as he steps out the lab door.

"Just finished up," Alex says.

Rob looks at Lucas and Claus with raised eyebrows, "You guys look rough. Did the future dictator and his brother fail to stop a single robot?"

"Yes, we did," Lucas remarks simply as he walks pass Rob.

"Why do you antagonize him, you know he can beat you up right?" Alex asks was the walk in the lab.

"Well the future version of him would've killed me on the spot, gotta get these pot shots out while he's less inclined to murder me," he responds.

"That is a fair perspective to have," Alex remarks. "Still unwise though…"

"Hey guys," Kumatora says seeing Lucas and Claus. "No luck with chasing down the robot?"

"Unfortunately it got away, but I'm glad to see that the Doctor already started working on a back up plan," Lucas says.

"Foresight isn't my strong suit but sometimes I get lucky," the doctor responds. "Everything all set up Alex?"

"Yes sir," Alex responds.

"Great, now to launch the drone," he says tapping away on his keyboard. In the corner of the room a small orb like object with two dishes on the side begins floating before it shoots up into the air out of the open hatch out of the roof. "With this we should be able to locate the Starman within a few minutes."

"Where did you guys run off to anyway?" Kumatora asks.

"Seems the Starman was looking to grab Porky's little prison," Lucas explains.

"What for?"

"No idea, but we'll know soon enough. After we locate it, I'll go in to secure Porky. Last thing we need is him running around and making trouble."

"How much trouble could fat bastard be?" Rob asks.

"Not gonna correct his language?" Claus asks nudging Lucas with a smirk.

"Shut up," Lucas responds.

"He's an old figure with knowledge of different time periods, equipped with a robot who can travel through time, so it's not hard to see him as a new threat," Duster explains.

"Hmmm, seems the drone is having trouble locking on the Starman," Dr. Andonuts says with a frown.

"Trying scanning for tacheon particles, it can't conceal something like that," Alex suggested.

"Ah, grand idea, it will take me a few moments to adjust for a scan of something like that. Luckily, you lot are covered in them, so it shouldn't be hard to match those signals and…got it!"

"Where is he?" Lucas asks.

"Seems like he's off the coast of Cerulean beach…" he says.

"That's not too far, alright I'll see to them then," Lucas says as walks away.

"Not alone," Claus says with Duster and Kumatora there.

"Hey they stole my phase twister I have to go!" Rob exclaims.

"Fair enough, lets go," Lucas says.

The group leave the lab to rush over to the beach. It wasn't far as Lucas had said, but with a large group they had to travel at a pace that Lucas deemed a bit slow. However, they arrived at the beach without much trouble. They don't see anyone there though. Without a means of going underwater it would be difficult to follow since both parties could survive in water pretty easily.

"What's off the coast anyway?" Claus asks.

"Hard to say, my best guess is it may be a Pigmask facility of some kind. When the disasters hit, those places were torn to pieces, what was left we used to help us rebuild the village and help create the Doctor's lab. Although New Pork City was torn to pieces but who really knows."

"How are we getting down there then?" Rob asks.

"I think making them come to us would be best," Lucas says stepping forward. Lucas shifts his position a few times as if mapping something out. Placing his hands out as if in some odd dance. It was strange to see until Lucas charges up an impressive amount of PSI energy.

"PK Love Gamma!" He exclaims charging up his PSI to levels that creates a blast of wind in the wake of his powers. He focuses an orb of concentrated PSI energy then throws it out into the water. The water splits as it moves deeper into the water. It was as if the water was splitting to get out of the way of the attack. The pure force of the attack actually parts the sea as it moves. It keeps going until it seemingly hits something creating an undersea explosion that rocks the ocean floor throwing the water into the air skyward. It was an incredible display of power that rocks the very ground they stood on. Before anyone can ask Lucas already prepared another launching it out to the sea again for another explosion of water to go skyward. "Claus."

"Uh yeah,"

"Can you fly me out to where that attack hit?"

"Uh sure," Claus says. Lucas throws an arm around Claus' neck as they both take to the air. They fly over to what Lucas was shooting at. "What are you looking for?"

"Evidence," Lucas says as they approach the zone. Lucas scans the water and he can see pieces of metal be thrown about the waves. This confirms his suspicions. He points a hand downward to shoot out another PK Love. This smashes into the water splitting the water as it smashes into what appeared to be a metallic structure underneath. "There!" Lucas points. Claus was slow to notice but he sees something moving rapidly beneath the waves. He follows it as Lucas peppers weaker PK Love attacks below driving it to the beach. Eventually the Absolute Safe Capsule is thrown out the water towards the group on the beach. They all scatter as it crashes down. Then the Starman appears along aside it after a moment unleashing psionic attacks upon the group. Claus was quick to join the fight diving down to kick the Starman as Lucas separates to move toward the capsule. The Starman shoots a laser blast from its visor nailing Lucas in the side. Alex is quick to dive in pelting the Starman with rapid fire PK Love Alphas. It kicks up explosions of sand around it obscuring its view. With the added cover Lucas moves back towards the capsule, but sand wasn't enough to distract the Starman. Its arm slinks over to grab the capsule and use it as a shield to block the incoming attacks.

"Porky is oddly silent," Lucas notes with narrowed eyes. As the fight continues he stands aside for a moment before his eyes quirk to the side. "A diversion!" Lucas exclaims rushing off suddenly. The battle with the Starman will be handled quick considering they could fight off a small group. After a quick dash back toward the village he can see many of the people were slightly panicked as a strange thing was happening in the town center. Lucas sees an aged Porky supported by four of his look alike robots. "Porky!"

"Heh, smell ya later!" Porky says activating the phase distorter. A small barrier activates knocking Lucas away before it seemingly crashes against nothing as if the 4th dimension was a wall. Lucas mashes his teeth as he quickly sprints after him creating a barrier around himself as he jumps in. It was a reckless move.

The timestream is a destructive place, he's seen it. Without the phase distorter creating a barrier to protect against the harsh energies of the time energy and unpredictable nature it was possible that traveling through the timestream like this would tear his body apart before he could even get to his destination. Time travel wasn't meant for beings who were organic. As Porky speeds ahead out sight, he knows all he has to do is hold on to his barrier to follow Porky. However, the energies smashes against his barrier making him buckle and wince with each hit. He'd didn't think this through and it may kill him. He sees the cracks on his barrier like cracks on glass. His eyes go wide with fear as he sees pieces of it break apart and he yells out in anguish.

-000-

"Ness, hey Ness!" a boy exclaims rushing into a house that was not his own. After being let in by Tracy, Ness' younger sister. She had thought he came by to visit her but after this exclamation her hopes were thoroughly dashed. With his calls said boy comes walking down the stairs a bit annoyed and in gym shorts and a t-shirt.

"What's with the yelling?" Ness questioned.

"I'm sorry for just rushing in like this," Picky says slightly ashamed and a bit embarrassed. Ness can't help but think on how odd it is for a family to have two sons so starkly different from each other. It was the only reason he was okay with Tracy hanging out with Picky and harboring a little schoolyard crush on him. He walks forward to the panicked boy.

"What's up, last time you were this panicked was-,"

"Pokey," he responds presenting an opened letter. Ness raises an eyebrow seeing it. He takes it before reading it. His eyes go wide.

"When'd you get this?"

"Yesterday…"

"Surprised you didn't come in the middle of the night…"

"It was late, plus…he gave another message. Will you meet him?"

"What the hell," Ness shrugs. He moves back to his room to get dressed. He puts on a white shirt, blue denim shorts, his regular cap, and straps on his red shoes. He's out the door before more words could be shared. The letter was really specific, Pokey wanted to meet him on the top of the hill where the meteorite hit. Ness wasn't that inclined to hear what Pokey had to say if he was honest. But he was curious since it was a completely different type of letter compared to the last one he had sent before disappearing. Ness took his time getting there because ya know, screw Pokey, but when he arrived at the top he was a bit surprised to see a short old man holding himself up by a cane. The man turns to Ness with a withered smile.

"About time, Pigsbutt…"

"Pokey?" Ness questioned as he stepped forward confused. "You look like crap."

"Astute as ever Ness…"

"You did just call me a pig's butt."

"I felt it was helpful to confirm my identity," Pokey says with sigh. "Despite how long it has been for you, it has actually been a long time since I've seen you…"

"Ya look ancient so I assume it's been a while, still don't like ya though."

"Heh, that's fair, I actually understand that. I've had a lot of time to reflect…"

"So…why are you here?" Ness asks cutting to the chase.

"Yes, the reason is simple. I need your help Ness," Pokey says with a serious tone. Ness quirks an eyebrow at him. "I won't lie to you. I had hopes that a conversation like this would go vastly different. I journeyed into the future and gathered an army, so I would eventually come back to destroy you or turn you into my slave. I've had about 200 hundred years to dream about this moment. So many years wasted on hate and aggression."

"And how'd that work out?"

"Poorly," Pokey responds dryly. "It turns out you PSI hero types are ageless. As I was gaining power and gathering my army. Another came in to thwart me and destroy everything I'd worked towards."

"Huh, shame. Well I'm fifteen now, so it hasn't been long enough for me to feel pity for you. Try again in thirty years," Ness says as he turns his back on Pokey.

"I know my blight will not affect you in the slightest but I was hoping I could talk to you about said PSI hero," Pokey says quickly before Ness could walk away. Ness pauses half turning to Pokey. "He's not like you. He's fueled by something else. A Starman far removed from either of our time came to me to explain that he grows into a tyrannical monster. As evil as you think I may be, I guarantee you this person is worse. My current form is immortal, aging but unable to die from old age. This is may be due to Giygas and my time traveling. Whatever the case I cannot die by conventional means. So, he trapped me in a prison that I can't escape from. Impervious to damage from all fronts and then he trapped me in a place of darkness. No light, no food, no anything, only a place of pain. I later learn he does much worse to others. He was once a hero like yourself, so I was hoping that a conversation with you could set him on the right path."

"Are you serious?"

"I am, Ness. The path he walks will lead to the suffering of many, imagine a world where one is not even free to have their thoughts be their own. A world filled with pain and conformity. As cruel as you think I may be, even I wouldn't keep others from having their own thoughts. I could never create a world like that. Please, he was once a person of virtue, and the future asked me to help sort him out. Afterall I was the only person to ever challenge him. After learning what he does to me in the future…" Pokey shivers. "It is clear that cruelty is something that is a part of who he is."

"Well if he's so evil what makes you think I can reason with him?"

"I want you to talk to him before he turns, obviously I have access to time travel. Talk to him when he was still the hero who fought for the virtuous. I know it is unfair to make such a problem yours when you are as removed as can be from the problem. I can't get into spoilers, but the world as you know has changed drastically. Who knows what he may do now that time travel is possible for organic beings…"

"Hmmm, well you've always had a habit to fish for sympathy Pokey even when you didn't deserve it. It's hard to just blindly take your word for all this."

"Understandable, even now it wasn't long that I wanted to destroy you!" Pokey growls. He then lets out a sigh. "But the bigger picture comes first. Will you help me?"

"Well, I don't know…I'll need to figure some things out before I do something like that…"

Suddenly, a portal open up above them. This startles both of them. Porky's robots begin flashing. "Warning, tacheon particles detected!"

"Impossible…" Porky mutters. Soon a person falls from the portal crashing into the ground scattering the dirt at their landing. Soon the figure raises up from the ground staggered and a little off center as he focuses on trying to stand up. "It's you…but how?"

"You almost got away," Lucas says standing back his feet. His form shaking as it looked like it took quite a bit of effort to stand. His body shimmered slightly and covered in bruises. However, Lucas pushes past the pain to focus on Porky.

"Awfully reckless to jump into a timestream with no means of navigating it."

"All I had to do…was follow your path. I just needed to fight off timestream."

"I see your barrier could only do so much, your body traveled here, but you're off kilter aren't you. You may have survived, but it'll have adverse affects on you for as long as you live…"

"I figured, but another trip through the time stream should mitigate the damage. Your options are simple Porky, surrender or fight and lose."

"Not likely!" his robot dopplegangers rush foroward at his words. Lucas simply points a hand forward creating a barrier around the robots, trapping them. He then crushes them within it until they explode in the barrier. Lucas moves them aside as he stalks forward toward Porky.

"I'm doing this for the future!"

"Sure you are Porky," Lucas hands alit with PSI energy the color of white coating his hands as he stalks forward. "Not that I'll let you have any part in any future!" Lucas pushes his hand forward for a psionic prism to appear before his hand as he unleashes a large charge of PSI rushing toward Porky. The attack explodes rocking the cliffside as the rocks began falling from the impact. It was almost strong enough to destroy the entire mountain.

"I don't know what's going on," Ness says standing in front of Porky, red sparks of PSI energy crackling around his hands. "But is killing Pokey really the right thing to do?"

Lucas blinks a few times confused since he never took notice of Ness. "It's you…"

"Have we met, oh right time travel, so I'm someone you will meet huh?"

"We've never met, nor will we ever meet."

"But you recognize me right?"

"Don't worry about that, stand aside."

"Well much as I don't mind seeing Pokey get his ass handed to him, I gotta know the context here."

"The context is that this is none of your business. Stand aside, last warning."

"Come on dude, we can just talk and-."

"I don't feel like wasting time on a corpse!" Lucas barks cutting Ness off as his hands charge up with PSI. "If you aren't going to move, I'll go through you!"

"Wait a sec!" Ness exclaims holding up his hands.

Lucas unleashed a focus PK Love as a beam attack. It slams into Ness knocking him over the edge of the small cliff. Lucas refocuses on Porky who seemed to be trying to figure out his next move. Lucas stalks over to Porky his eyes glaring at the old man-child. He uses telekinesis to force Porky to the ground hard. He drags his face through the dirt as he brings him closer to him.

"If you thought that capsule was rough, just you wait, I have plenty of ideas for you," Lucas growls.

Before Pokey could respond, Lucas is knocked off his feet by Ness tackling him to the ground. The two boys tumble along the ground in a mess of limps and arms. Ness eventually wins out pinning Lucas down. He interlocks his fingers with Lucas to prevent him from using any PSI. Lucas growls before his eyes glow with psionic energy. He lashes out with a telekinetic blast knocking Ness off. Ness recovers in midair to land feet first as he slides across the ground. Lucas sits up shooting out a crescent wave of PK Love. Ness side steps the attack before shooting out a PK Flash. Luckily the affects made tears come to Lucas' eyes. Ness moves forward to try restraining Lucas again, but Lucas turns throwing his shin into Ness' side. Ness balks at the blow, but is kick to block the hard kick. He grabs Lucas' ankle then yanks Lucas from the ground then slams him back down on the otherside.

"Ready to talk yet?"

Lucas lashes out with a focused narrow beam clipping Ness' shoulder. This allows him to free his leg as moves into a backwards tumble then shoots out another PK Love. Ness, responds with lashing out with a PK Rocken. His multi colored attack lashing out from his form as he matches the intense PK Love to cancel it out. The resulting dust cloud obscured Lucas. Which Lucas uses to rush in to deliver a hard cross. Ness deflects the arm away getting on the outside of the attack. Lucas continues to swing, but he notes that none of his blows were making contact. Ness didn't even have to block to dodge them. Lucas realizes that Ness is much faster than him. So with his next swing that misses he drops a small ball of PK Flash. It lands on the ground like a landmine, that explodes in a flash of light. However, this does nothing but slightly disoreient Ness. Lucas takes this chance though to grab the scruff of Ness' shirt to drive his knee into his gut. He slides his foot to sweep Ness's feet from under him, then shoves him to the ground. Lucas raises his hand to bring it down to the ground creating another explosion.

Lucas eyes trail to the side just before a foot slams into the side of his head. He wasn't able to react fast enough as Ness had seemingly warped next to him. Lucas raises his hand for another psionic attack, but Ness is suddenly in front of him grabbing his wrist. Lucas is startled at the display of speed as Ness unleashes a PK Rocken from his body sending Lucas flying and knocked over the edge of the cliff. Lucas goes falling, but is quick to cushion his fall with a quick telekinetic blast. He rolls quickly just as Ness lands where he would have been.

Ness strikes first catching Lucas in the jaw, but Lucas rolls with the punch. He grabs the extended wrist hit Ness with psionic charge kick throwing him through the air. Lucas follows with a PK Love, but Ness suddenly vanishes in midair. Lucas prediticed this as he holds his arm up blocking another kick. Lucas sends a strong shock through Ness' ankle stratling the cap wearing boy. Lucas pushes hands forward to pushing Ness back. Ness rolls along the ground but as his lands on his ankle he feels a sharp pain through it making him wince, hesistating on his next move. Lucas places his palm in front of Ness' face with a charged attack.

"Last…last chance," Lucas breathes clearly struggling to keep his composure.

"You…kidding, this the best workout I've had in a while…"

Both boys charge up their PSI very the next move as PK Love and PK Rocken meet head on. Both forces working against each other. The result is the two of them being thrown back. The two of them lay prone on the ground as they both try to catch their breaths. It was a few quiet moments between the two before Ness slowly sits up. He looks over to Lucas who hasn't moved at all. Ness staggers back to his feet as walks over to Lucas prone form. He looks at the boy he had been fighting to see he's still conscious as his eyes move toward Ness standing over him.

"So, we done?"

"…Where's Porky?"

"Geez, are you seriously-,"

"No, seriously, where did he go while we were fighting?" Lucas cuts him off.

Ness shakes his head as he humors Lucas. He returns to where the battle started to see Porky was no longer there. In fact, he wasn't sure where Porky had gone. He was rather quick to escape, but that's nothing new to Ness. Obviously he would try to escape when he saw the chance to. Porky was predictable in that regard.

"He's gone," Ness said upon returning to Lucas who still lay prone on the ground.

"That makes sense…" Lucas sighed. He looks back to Ness. "Sorry about all this."

"Seriously?" Ness questioned.

"My mind was…scattered, and I wasn't thinking clearly. I could only focus on Porky within the moment until my mind could catch up. I'm sorry."

Ness stares down at Lucas, unsure if this was a trick or not. However, the blonde seemed much calmer and less…crazy than before. So maybe this wasn't a trick. "Well no real harm done I suppose."

"Thinking on it, I'm sure I didn't seem very…trustworthy. I'm sorry about that."

"You've already apologized three times man, its fine!" Ness says slightly exasperated.

"Sorry…" Lucas mutters.

Ness sighs. "So, what now future guy?"

"Porky has the only means for me to return home. I have to find him. I've caused you enough trouble. You can just leave me, again I'm sorry."

"That's five times now," Ness sighed as he takes a seat next to Lucas. "Don't say it," Ness spoke quickly just as Lucas' mouth opened. Lucas shuts his mouth. The two sit in silence of the moment. A surprinsingly peaceful momnet since the two of them engaged in such a big fight only moments earlier.

"…Lucas," the blonde spoke up suddenly. Ness turns to look at the other boy. "My name, its Lucas."

Ness reaches out a hand, "Well nice to meet you, name's Ness."

The two shake hands as before they return to a moment of silence.