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// The Big Announcement 
// Story: The Earthbound Crossover 
// by The_Patriarch 
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    CHAPTER 1-THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT

As a crimson sun descended below the recesses of the town of Onett, a boy and his three friends were sitting in a upstairs bedroom in a lonely house on the outskirts of the town.

"Friends," the boy, Ness, proclaimed with a rather dorky expression. He was smiling so wide it seemed his face would fall off. He was clearly excited.

"I have an announcement to make," he continued. He thought could feel the anticipation in his friends hearts as the moment was drawing closer to reveal his announcement.

"We're going on vacation!" The anticipation turned to monotonous sigh, as he was met with a very unenthusiastic "yay".

"Yay," moaned his three other friends, Jeff, Poo, and Paula as they recalled their last vacation with Ness. It was a long, arduous trek across a barren, bleak hellhole called Ikana Canyon.

"But where?" Poo interjected, who, despite his initial rejection of the idea, was growing quite interested.

Ness, with the look of a great philosopher, said, "Da real question is, where?"

As Ness expected, the group was confused by the "intelligent" question to a question, that also happened to be the same question. Soon they would find out.