Now! There's a key hole in the way you describe Ness's experience. You claim he has a sort of out-of-body experience, kind of like a Near-Death Experience (NDE), wherein he witnesses Poo doing stuff basically as an invisible third party. This is pretty obviously not the way it happened. The chief thing that proves it's not is the fact that Poo picks up the phone and immediately dials Ness's father, a man he has never met before and whose phone number he certainly does not have. Further, Ness's father assumes the call is from Ness disguising his voice for some reason, so we assume Ness's father does not receive calls from anyone BUT Ness, and thus, Poo does not know Ness's father's number because he knows Ness's father, as a stroke of coincidence.

But anyway, what this proves is that Ness did not have a third-party-perspective dream. Ness actually possessed Poo's body for the duration of the trial. It's a good thing Paula doesn't know that, since Ness got to live Poo's highly flirtatious life for a brief time before going off to get dismembered and have a generally Brave-Sir-Robin-esque experience. ("Or to have his eyes gauged out, and his elbows broken! To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away...")

OK, well, I haven't really contributed much in the way of a theory concerning magic cake. How it enables someone to possess the body of a foreign person he has never actually met and doesn't know exists beats the heck out of me. And, unfortunately, we no longer really care.

How could this kill Ness you ask? All this transports Ness inside Poo's body. That is why, rather than watching Poo you control him. Giygas had also created Thunder and Storm, so when Ness/Poo walked by, they would KILL HIM!!! But the Apple of Enlightenment predicted this and Buzz-Buzz from the future came and put rabbit statues in the way of the cave. A few days later Buz-Buz went into the past again and died there. So Buzz-Buzz saved Ness/Poo. Then the real captain's wife came while Ness was gone, destroyed the android and baked magic tarts.

The captain too was an android. There was more than one way to Scaraba. But HE took the kraken way. Since the Kraken was sent by Giygas it didn't attack the Captain. The captain pretended to fight (slipper) to gain Ness' trust.

Noooooooo! I'm rev...ealing tooo ma-cough choke-ny of Giyyyyyyyygas' -gag choke- spies! He's come for me! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

It was that Mu guy. Yeah, the big transparent face. See, he realized that ripping Ness apart wasn't the best way to help him, because Ness didn't go for that kind of thing. So he decided to intervene in the happenings of Ness and his party. He felt that it would be wise to give Ness visions of the fourth and final Chosen One, so he travelled to Summers, where Ness was. While the Magic Cake chick was in the Stoic Club drinking water, Mu hijacked the Magic Cake cart. He used his vast amounts of PSI power to morph the cake into solid PSI energy itself, and placed it on the top, hoping that Ness would be the only one to buy Magic Cake. Unfortunately, he was wrong, and somebody was horribly subjected to terrible visions after eating Mu's cake. That someone was Jimi Hendrix, and he went on to write Purple Haze after that vision. Now, I know what some of you are saying.. "This guy is stupid." But that's uncalled for. You could hurt my feelings. Now, some other people are saying "But Hendrix wrote Purple Haze decades before EB took place. Well, THAT was just how trippy the first cake that Mu made was. So trippy, that somebody ate it and wrote a song 30 years ago. It's just THAT weird. So when Ness came by, Mu made it a pinch less tweaked, and Ness' mind was basically in the hands... er... Pseudo-Appendages or whatever they'd be called... of Mu. So Mu directed his mind to the happenings of Prince Poo. His intention, of course, was to make Prince Poo leave Dalaam so that Mu could once again reign over teh hunneyz. Cuz we all saw how much teh hunneyz liked Prince Poo, right?

So, yeah. If you can make sense out of that... That's how it happened.

The drugs and his own psychic powers showed Ness his vivid dream of Poo's hard training because, deep inside, he knew he'd meet him soon. He recovered on the street while his comrades explained to the less-than-intelligent blondie of a wife of the captain's mafia boys that Ness was not black marketeer.

That's that. Thank you.

Anyway, through the use of Legimency (maybe through the Mu Master, maybe through the Cake Lady, maybe through the actual Cake), Ness had a vivid dream in which he WAS Poo. When Poo arrived, Ness wasn't surprised as the dream had been so real.

Thus, with the combination of a sleeping pill and Legimency, Ness actually was Poo for that brief period (and to anyone who says for any reason that he's not, but he just sees it, explain how Poo knows Ness's Dad's phone number)

2.) And a simple theory. The Magic Cake is actually a PSI Teleport Omicron spell. It lets you teleport to a place you've never visited, or lets a person choose your destination for you, which would be where the captain's wife comes in.

And that's your theory boat from me. Take care.

Mayhap it is not the cake that caused it, but it's ingrediants! Everyone in the world knows that leftovers are quite tasty. Throwing them all together into a cake, a similiarly tasty food, enhances the taste factor to super heights!

Tasty things + Tasty food = TASTY! In fact, there is no bounds for the tasty-ness that would abound in the Magic Cake, it would be like the Afro, only not as long-lasting. The sheer taste factor of the cake would deny the rules of quantum paradigm's! Thus, it would warp the eater into another reality, and if the proper amount of Fate was present, that reality would show the eater of the Cake of something partaining to that fate!

In the case of Ness, it was of Poo, completing his Muu training.... Freeing him up to meet with the esteemed trio!

Hence, the sheer taste factor is what caused the Magic Cake to have its effects on Ness.

There are several logical explanations for the magical effect of the appropriately named baked good:

1. The woman who sold us the cake was being possessed at the moment by You-know-who (giygas, not voldemort) and ykw wanted to make her put poison into the cake. However, the plan backfired because she is kind of stupid and accidently added sleeping powder instead of poison so Ness went to sleep. Then, Paula's subconcious realized the next friend to be found and called out to him in her sleep.

2. One of the ingredients of the magic cake is chopped apple of enlightenment. The Apple intended for Ness to find Poo, so it took matters into its own hands and created the vision. The mystery is how it allows itself to be bought, chopped up and put in a cake. Perhaps it knew that it would need to show Ness so it purposely allowed itself to be part of a cake, along with some flour of enlightenment and hopefully some chocolate frosting of enlightenment.

3. Everybody knows that the moon is made from cheese. Likewise, the Pink Cloud is made of cotton candy. The magic cake is processed cotton candy (redundant) and so it contains the very essence of Dalaam. Ness's PSI must have been acting up so it connects to the essence and temporarily transports his concious mind to Dalaam.

4. The woman who sold the cake is the star master in disguise...

Bye for now, i'm going to eat some cake and sleep.

When mixed with the ingredients of chocolate-white-yellow cake, the toxic properties of Nachobutt is nullified. So, one piece of this cake, which becomes magical because it neutralized the toxin and stole it's power, can transport the concious to any place in the universe, starting with what it needs to see, and if it needs to see nothing, then where it feels like dropping it. That is why it is called Magic Cake.

The Nachosbutt inside the cake is too weak to transport the concious of a person at it's will.

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