Mother 2 - Giygas Strikes Back
Novel by Kumi Saori
Translation by Clyde "Tomato" M.


CHAPTER 1 - THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ADVENTURE

PAGES 7 - 11

Story starts in summer.

Can't sleep well for whatever reason.

Sees a streak of light, in his half-dream state he thinks he's playing baseball.

Tracy wakes him up, he's on the floor in their room.

Something huge landed in the nearby hill with a super loud sound while he was half asleep.

Couldn't be a plane, sine planes don't fly at certain times (a Japanese thing). It's glowing, so it must be a meteor.

Ness says the should look, but she thinks he's crazy - because of radiation or it might have a horrible virus or evil aliens.

Intense knocking began that seemed to shake the entire house.

Mom wakes up. Chibi is an old England Sheepdog and was lying under the old piano. Chibi's weight = 50 kg, 15 years old. Normally a dog would bark if someone knocked, but not him.

Tracy thinks it's the police or Martians who have come to attack.

Mom can't show herself without makeup on. Wishes Dad were home.

Dad was in the fast food industry, and was on a long-term business trip in a certain economically powerful country. Company's name was Ness Burger.

Ness has liked hamburgers since he was a baby for some reason. Mom was busy as a supermodel at the time, so it was always Dad's job to make meals - he worked at Minch's supermarket at the time as a high-level salesman. Ness's dad was greatly determined to make the best burgers in the world. His resulting burger got rave reviews at a bazaar. He used meat from Minch's store to set up Ness Burger. Shops started popping up everywhere, and plan were even made to open shops in other countries.

Back to the knocking... the person knocking didn't seem to have any intention of stopping.

Ness finally decides to answer it. It was Pokey, the fat son of the next door neighbors.

Threatens to kill ness if he doesn't open up.

Pokey is the most hated kid at school. He's violent, vulgar, and arrogant. Does stupid pranks; interrupts class nearly every day. There are classmates at school - Eddy who has asthma, Mike who seems a little too thin, and Bill, who talks strange when flustered. They always get bullied by Pokey. He gets a talking to from the principal, but no adults can make him regret anything he does. Because his dad, Mr. Minch, is the biggest name in town.