On a pleasantly calm Saturday afternoon, Ness had went out to hang out with Ninten, bringing along his loveable little sister along too. After entering through the establishment where the Valenzuela's worked, he was invited upstairs to the home and up a shorter flight that led to his relative's room, only to see the space themed boy sitting at a drumset.

"You've got the songs, right?" Ninten asked as he twirled one of the drumsticks in his hand.

"All in my phone,"Ness replied and scrolled through his phone and stopped at a familiar album they both know. "Warm up first?"

"What song?" Ness responded with a grin as he pressed play. Equipping his guitar, he began to play the chords to the song. Ninten immediately recognized the tune and played with him, returning the grin.

"Good old, Queen, huh? And it's the song I think it is?"

"Buddy, you're a boy makin' big noise playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day. You got mud on your face, you big disgrace," Ness sang, still playing the strings.

Ninten began to sing along. "Kickin' your can all over the place. Singin' We will, we will rock you."

They continued to play and sing, which had attracted the three younger siblings. Paula, Minnie and Mimmie all peeked their heads into the door, receiving glances and wide grins from their older brothers.

"You three need something?" Ness asked.

"Keep playing!" The twin sisters pleaded excitedly in unison. The elder brothers looked at each other, sharing a grin and returning their gaze back to the three sisters.

Can't deny an encore you know. Ninten stated mindfully to Ness, twirling one of his sticks between his fingers.

That's true. Besides, they like hearing us play every now and then. Makes it fun. Ness responded. "Alright, alright you three. Sit right and enjoy the show!"

Tracy and the twins did so as Ness Ninten played various songs of the genre of Ness' choice: good ol' Rock Roll. They played until near late evening as Ness and Tracy had to return to their family establishment, and rest up for the day ahead.

Onett Bakery: Home structure..

During the night, while the family of three and family pet was sound asleep, an intruder managed to sneak through the window which lead to the room of the youngest child, Tracy. The enlarged figure examined the area until his eyes locked on to the sleeping girl.

"It's funny how family means so much to these kids. I just dunno why Boss doesn't seem to care very much for his own." He reached to pick up the younger sibling whilst taking few glances at the door. Groggily, the blonde haired girl started to lift her heavy eyelids, waiting for her vision to clear up and view the figure.

"Huh..? Who are you? What are you doing here!?"

"Hey, hey, calm down Missy, I'm not gonna hurt you-"

"BIG BROTHERRRR!!" She shrieked in attempt to awaken her sleeping log of an elder sibling. Acting quickly, the intruder grabbed and held her as she squirmed and kicked.

"I ain't wanted to have to do this, but since you won't shut it." The intruder pulled a cloth which appeared to be chloroform and held it to her mouth, watching her struggling die down as she herself began to faint. "One down. Two more to deal with."

"Ness! Tracy! Time to get up you two!" The mother called out from kitchen. "We open a little earlier today!"

Ness groggily sat up from his bed, and soon enough dragged his own weight out of it to prepare himself for the day. Moments later he made his way down to the kitchen while King lied down in his usual spot in the living room, awaiting his daily head pats from his owner.

"Mornin' Ma." He said, giving her a hung and patted his faithful companion.

"Morning hijo, can you go see if your sister is ready? Don't need her sleeping in again."she asked, placing a motherly kiss on his cheek.

"Alright, alright." He left to do as told, walking to his younger sibling's room door. He knocked, only to get no response. "Tracy! Time to get up and get dressed!"

No response.

Growing curious,he opened the door stepped inside. Looking around the room, something was clearly wrong: bed sheets messier than usual, pillows scattered, opened window, and no sign of Tracy. Maybe she had a rough night. He walked back to his mother to give a summary of his report.

"Hey ma, she's not in her room." He said, fixing his hat and grabbing his bag.

"She's not?" she questioned.

"Messier bed, pillows on the floor, opened window. Has she been okay?"

"Yeah.. She hasn't acted strange or stressed recently. Maybe she had something to do for school early this morning."

"Yeah.. She'll come home and help out. Now I gotta get to class, I'll swing by this afternoon to help out, si?"

"Alright, have a good day, and don't break anyone's nose again." she smirked playfully at her eldest son as he went to leave out the front of the bakery below. He replied with a mischievous grin with a partially sarcastic "I'll try not to," before making his way out.

He arrived to the campus, finding his group of friends and acquaintances sitting at their recommended table by their lockers. They each greeted him as he made his wave over to his own locker. The twins both greeted him in unison, kumatora exchanged her usual salute, Jeff Tony simple wave and "hello," same as for Poo, Ana, and Paula.

"Ninten still isn't here yet?" Paula asked.

"He's probably overslept again. You know he's spending nights at a time researching aliens and junk." Kuma stated. "Always searching for something on that subject."

"He's on his was, that's for sure." Answered Ness before taking his seat.

"Speak of the devil." Spoke one of the twins, gesturing towards the galactic sweater-wearing boy running towards them. Few more greetings were exchanged as Ninten hunched over and panted, thankfully not enough to start a coughing fit.

"Sorry I'm late.." He managed to huff out. He sat down and began to rummage through his bag for a piece of food, finding the usual bag of chips. "Overslept.."

"Least you're here now."

"Yeah.. Finally.. So are we meeting at the Chaos Theater today after work or what?"

"I've gotta fill in for one of my relatives at the restaurant." Kumatora stated, a hint of disgust sprinkled in her voice.

"Tony volunteered to help me and my father at the hospital. More or less it's a bit of a Medical class trip so, my dearest apologies." Stated Jeff.

"What about you, Paula?" Ness inquired. "Are you still up for it?"

"I'd love to, but I can't.. I've got a test in economics in a few hours. I'm sorry." Stated the blonde, giving an apologetic smile.

"Huh.. Guess it's just the four for us."

"Ain't no problem with that. We just gotta be sure to take care of our dog before we head on out." Lucas spoke up. The four of them nodded in agreement and proceeded towards their classes to go on about their day.

When lunch rolled around as the end of their classes for the day, quartet made their way to the assigned hang out spot after everything was said and done. They've entered the remodeled building, paid for their concessions and headed towards the main row of seats, not too close to the stage of course. The lights dimmed down as the curtains slowly opened, revealing today's scheduled performance, the Runaway Five.

"Who're they?" one of the country boys whispered to the city dwellers.

"You've never heard of the Runaway Five? I would've thought you at least heard of them back where you're from." They replied in the same hushed tone, only to receive a shake of the head. "Well, just sit back and enjoy the show. I'm sure you'll like 'em."

"Five, six, five-six-seven-eight!" Called out the drummer before setting the jazzy tone to the first song.

Later within the performances, the songs progressed from the usual jazz to standard Rock Roll. Ninten smiled and listened to the music that was played, mostly to the beat which led to him drumming on his fingers upon his lap as Ness paid attention to the guitar chords that were played. The twins simply nodded their heads and tapping to the beats on the armrest to the genre, admitting that it wasn't bad.

Exiting the theatre, the two city boys walked out with the country boys trailing behind.

"So, what'd you two think?" Ninten chirped, looking at the twins with more life in his eyes than they've ever seen. "Pretty swinging, huh?"

"They're alright." Claus replied blatantly, stuffing his hands into his joggers. "DCMC is betta."

"Aw, what? Who's that?"

"You ain't heard of DCMC? C'mon, I could've sworn you city-goers would've heard of them!" he stared down at the alien clad boy who had a rather adorably confused expression.

"Cool your jets now, Claus. Let's not tie the hog to the 'que while it's still squirming." stated Lucas. "We haven't heard or grown accustomed to the city ways and rhythm yet, its fair they don't know about ours yet either."

"Yeah, all we need is another day to set up. That way we can just chill and vibe to music. Bring some records, cassettes, or vinyls over and I can get my old radio or record player working." Ness said, grinning at them. "Sound good?"

"I'm up for it."

"Hell yeah!"

"Eh, why not. Hope you two like western and country."

"Sounds like a plan. Send when you're available in the group chat and we'll set up for it."

They all agreed and separated to their own residence.

Little Eastern Mexico, Home structure

Dining Room..

Ninten sat on his laptop at the table, typing away at an essay while jamming to his usual selection of music while his grandmother was resting in her chair. With his mother finishing up dinner, she began to call for him and his sisters.

"Minnie! Mimmie! Dinner's ready!"

No response. She called for them again.

"Minnie, Mimmie!!"

Still not a word.

"Mm," she walked over to tap on Ninten's shoulder for his attention. "Hijo, can you go get your sisters?"

"Haaah, okay mama." he got up from his seat, making his way over to his sisters' shared room. "Oiii! M M, dinner's ready so come and eat!" He banged on the door like he usually did, which strangely they didn't yell back at. So he did so once more.

Nothing.

"Alright, I'm coming in you two." the mildly concerned brother peeked through the door until it was opened fully, only to see tattered and messy bed sheets, opened window and dirtied footprints on the carpet..?

Studying them closely, they seem to follow in and out of the room from the window.

"Mm.. Hey, Mama?" Ninten called out as he wandered back to the kitchen. "They're not in there."

"Surely they have to be. If they were in school they definitely would've called if they were being held up."

"Well, they're not in there."

"Let me go check.."

Nodding in reply, he walked back to his laptop seeing that he had received an "anonymous" message.

"Huh? Mm.."

Hello, Alien kid.

Your sisters and your cousin are with me now. For a small price of your restaurant's ownership that bakery ran by my old buddy Ness' family, I'll give them back. I'll give you until tomorrow morning to make your decision. Ciao~

-Minch

'Of. Fuckin'. Course.' Ninten thought, slamming his laptop shut and hurrying to his room. "Of course, of course, of fuckin' course!" he strapped up his boots and stuffed his knives in the pouch of his belt that was concealed underneath his sweater. Grabbing his phone and makimg sure he had equipped everything that was essential for this little mission, he stormed towards the front door whilst dialing a familiar number.

"Hijo, where are you going?" his mother called out. "What about your sisters-?"

"I have a hunch on where they could be. I'll be back as soon as I can." Ninten stated before shuttimg the door behind him.

A/N: Ahh, this chapter is taking forever.. I've decided to split it into two parts so that I'm able to have a small break for school and you guys have something to read in the meantime. My apologies for the long and inconsistencies. I really am doing my best.