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// Cave of the Past 
// Story: Lost and Far From Home 
// by KyleAJ 
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Chapter 1 - In the Wake of the Battle




The Cave of the Past, Ness had traveled through time and space to get here, to stop Giygas. Pokey, he had been there too, fighting for Giygas. No, Giygas was fighting for Pokey. He controlled the Nightmare Machine that contained Giygas. When faced with failure, he decided to turn the machine off, revealing the terrible form of the evil that Giygas had become. Ness and his friends had no chance of ever defeating anything that powerful. They worn down bit by bit as Giygas attacked relentlessly. They had no hope left, drained of their psychic power from attack after attack, they started to give up. Jeff started to cry, Ness missed his home and the life he had before. Poo was numb all over, and Paula; she started to pray. She prayed to all of the people that they had helped and had helped them. Dr. Andonuts and the Saturn people, the Runaway Five, Frank Fly, the Polestar preschoolers, Ness' Family. Merely sticks and stones unto a tank. So Paula prayed into the darkness, across dimensions of time and space. At first nothing had happened, but then a force immeasurable by anything hit Giygas. It hit again and again and Giygas became weaker and weaker. Then, the other worldly power, gaining power all the while, destroyed Giygas and the cavern that contained the Nightmare Machine, nearly destroying Ness and his friends in the process. The war was over, the evil that plagued the minds of innocent plants, animals, and humans disappeared. "Time to go home Ness..."




Ness was on the edge of consciousness, he could not feel the pain that he would be after such a huge amount of energy nearly destroyed him because he was still in his robot body. He tried to remember but his mind was slipping. He had pushed the body Dr. Andonuts had made for him too far; soon he would leave it behind. The power of Giygas and the trans-dimensional being had taken its toll on the circuits and wires, no amount of healing could repair it, Ness knew because he had already tried that. So far he had recalled that he was in The Cave of the Past, ten years ago, when Giygas had first started attacking. It still confused him that the present day could exist if Giygas destroyed the world ten years ago. Perhaps it was a fixed point in time that Ness stopped the evil being.  It was not until now that Ness thought about his friends, the ones who had helped him out more times than he could count. 

Memories flashed through his mind; the meteor landing that kicked everything in motion, Buzz Buzz, the bee that had put itself on the line to help him, the time he rescued Paula from that insane cult, Jeff and the Sky Runner freeing him and Paula from the zombies of Threed, Poo, the monk-prince from Dalaam that used his amazing power to defeat Master Belch in Deep Darkness. He remembered using his special power, Poo called PsychoKinesis, or PK. There was one more too, He wasn’t sure who or what had helped him defeat Giygas, but he had felt the power that it had wielded. Without that being’s help, they would have never stood a chance.

"Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness Ness.
Ness, I feel g-o-o-d..."

The last evidence of the existance of a being made entirely of evil energy passed through Ness. He cringed as he heard the echo of the psychic energy of Giygas drilling into his mind and tearing apart his body. The cave was silent. Before the fight, the whole cave was whirring with the sound of Giygas' henchmen from the stars all trying to stop the quartet of friends from reaching the end.

Ness relaxed, It was finally over. He could go home now, back to his family, his body, his life. He started to hear a faint buzzing before his mind finally faded to black.




If one was observing the events of the cave, they would see four badly damaged robots thrown from a chamber as it collapsed. The cave, illuminated by the lights on the robots, became still and one by one the lights on the robots fade. But then they would see three sparks, the essence of life; rise up from three of four robot bodies. Minutes later the final spark, brighter than the previous three, rose from the final body. While the three smaller sparks left through the dimensional crack created by the Phase Distorter, but the final spark began to flicker rapidly, as if highly unstable in its current form. All of a sudden the light blinked out, shrouding the cave in darkness.




[Never thought I would write an MLP fic, this is my first fic, etc. No ponies yet because this is just a prologue, just to see if this goes anywhere or if people actually like it. If things go well I promise to make longer chapters with proper pacing. And just to make things clear, Twilight isn't going to mess up a spell, it will be all Ness' doing. Also, I will never make Ness a pony. Feel free to leave any type of criticism as long as you actually know where I went wrong and know how to fix it. Also if you find a suitable image that would be appreciated. Also, as you may know, you got to pick Ness and co.'s names, Ness' favourite food, and the name of his signature PK move. While I decided to use the "canon" names, I will let you decide Ness' favourite food/PK move, so tell me in the comments or message me. Thanks,

-Kyle]