The Aegis's Keyblade

by Kitsune-Dama

The fight against Xemnas was tough, but in the end, Sora and Riku did it. Sadly, though, fate wasn't quite as done with Sora as they might have been lead to believe, and before they could enter the Realm of Darkness, Sora was transported to Alrest. Right smack dab inside the chamber the Aegis, Pyra, was held in. And did I mention Torna was on their mission to capture her, too?

1. Chapter 1

Finally, I have created a crossover with two of my favorite video games of all time: Kingdom Hearts 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles 2(On a side note, I finally beat Xenoblade this month, and I 100% the first Kingdom Hearts game and got the Platinum trophy on PS4- score.).

I absolutely LOVE both these franchises, and the idea for this story came to me when I was re-playing KH2(For around the twentieth time... This year.), and my power went out, so I went to my Switch to play that, and then I saw Xenoblade and I wanted to slap myself for not thinking of this sooner.

The last part of this was easily my favorite part to write, though, because I just love the KH abilities, and creating new ones for Sora to use made me feel like a fat kid in a candy store that was told he was the new owner of the joint. I also tried looking up Sora's height to see how tall he was so I could put that in there as well, but, uh, all I could find was a Reddit that translated a picture that had Sora's birthday and THEN his height... Which said he was 5'2 at nearly sixteen, SO fuck that, lets just say he's Rex's height, shall we?

In other news, as well, I am looking for an artist to make me some new story art(Or even just a profile picture, I have wanted one for ages but haven't been able to find anyone to do so.) for my new Fanfictions I am writing, so if any of you are interested or willing, please hit me up.

But besides that, enjoy, and love your Senpai.

World that Never Was… Organization XIII… Roxas… Maleficent, Pete… Kairi… The King… Donald, Goofy… Xemnas… Riku… Light…

"Riku!" Sora gasped and sat up, wincing in pain as the wounds he got from his last fight against Organization XIII's leader reared their ugly head. Where… "Hey Jin, is he supposed to be in here, too?" Hearing voices that certainly weren't familiar, Sora slowly glanced over to a pair of men(Wait, why was he in some type of chamber, and who was that red haired woman suspended in the glass?) who were once studying the woman, but now had their full attention on him. "I didn't hear anything about a boy inside here, too. Deal with him." The Sephiroth look-a-like(Okay, it was eery how similar they looked.) mumbled to the other imposing man in purple body armor, who then grinned as if he was just told Christmas had come early and started to make his way to the side where Sora himself laid, dazed.

"It's your unlucky day, kid." The man spoke to him(Well, he could always hope he was talking about some other teenager that was definitely not standing behind him instead, but Sora liked to believe he was more realistic than that.) as he pulled out a weird looking sword(Was that some kind of perverse lightsaber…?) that glowed ominously in the barely lit room. But, sadly for him, as he was taking his sweet, sweet time stalking towards him, Sora was getting more and more time to recover and readjust himself to what was happening in the here and now, and, no, he decided, he did not want to die like that today. So when the man had reached him and was about to stab a(To him-) stunned and confused teen through the heart, he was verily shocked when the kid kicked out, hitting him in the shin with enough force to make him grunt and fall to a knee while said kid leapt up and back pedaled some distance away into a ready stance, panting in exertion.

"Man, I already beat one crazy maniac with the intent to wipe me from existence, now I have to deal with two MORE?" Truthfully it was more around the number of five(Did Xemnas's various forms count as individual people as well?), but they didn't need to know that, now did they? "Grah! Annoying brat!" The black haired one spat out as he stood back up and looked ready to glare Sora to death. "You might have gotten a lucky shot in, but you won't be so fortunate this time!" Not liking the position he was in, the keyblade master glanced around the room to see if there was any way of escape(On a good day he would have been all too ready to accept a fight from these guys, but after forcing his way through The World that Never Was, fighting off numerous Heartless and Nobodies, defeating the Organization members, and having to beat the roided up leader of said organization, he wasn't really feeling up to the task at the moment.), but the only door way that seemed to lead out was blocked by the silver haired man with the mask and a young girl around his own age in a yellow jumpsuit with a-

Was that a tiger?!

Either way it seemed that he was stuck between a rock and a hard place(Plus, who knew what they were going to do to that girl in the case- flashbacks of Hollow Bastion and its keyhole told him nothing good.), so it was go quietly, or try to put up a fight while losing horribly, or somehow win and escape(Preferably with the red head, but he could come back for her later if the need arose.).

Not exactly the hardest of choices, in Sora's honest opinion.

"Jin, Malos! What are ya doin'?!" The girl(Strange accent she had…) spoke out as she ran to try and stop the man from murdering this boy who had appeared out of nowhere, but their leader stopped her before she could get anywhere. "Jin?!" "Enough, Nia. We need to capture the Aegis, and this one seems like he is going to get in the way of that." "You're damn right, I am!" Sora grit his teeth(What was an Aegis?) as he leapt away from a sudden strike from who he had to assume was Malos and landed in front of the suspended girl and some sword sticking out of the ground, making his intentions known as he stared down the person that he knew had sinister plans for the girl behind him. "What's wrong with you, wanting to capture some defenseless girl?!" His own experience with having people close to him taken away only fueled his anger at the group before him.

"We should be asking you the same thing, BRAT!" Turning on his heel as the man from before tried to cut him in half from above, Sora dove out of the way and stumbled back to his feet. 'I can't fight them, as much as I want to! I'm outnumbered, injured, tired, Donald and Goofy aren't around so I can't use my Drive forms or Summons, and even if they were here, my Drive Gauge if empty from that last fight with Xemnas! My magic is still replenishing itself, I don't think I have time to get out any items before one of them strikes at me again, heck, I'm not even sure I can change keychains for my Keyblade! I gotta slip past the other two at the door, and hopefully they don't follow me, and if they don't, I can get some items, change my Keyblade, have my magic back, and be ready to kick their butts anyway!' His plan of action set, he made a show of jumping above the peeved purple armor guy(Thank you, High Jump!) and Dodge Rolled away from some kind of strange bipedal creature(Was that a Heartless?!), and ran his way towards the door and the other two members of their group.

'Al-most-there-AHA!' Reaching the two members, the girl looked stunned and was likely not going to try and stop him, but the Sephiroth clone, on the other hand, had narrowed his eyes and retracted his blade from his back(Oh come on, he even had a blade like Sephiroths!) to prevent him from escaping himself, but Sora jumped over his slash, and Aerial Dodged the retaliating attack that came after, clearing the last of his obstacles as he made his way out of the room. About to utilize Quick Run to its fullest extent, he was interrupted by the sudden appearance of the enraged black haired male once again in front of him and trying to bisect him like some sort of misfortunate anatomy dummy.

"Woah!" Dodging out of the way at the last second possible second, he still flinched when the blade cut through his outfit(Hey! This was his only pair!) and sliced into his stomach shallowly. Fumbling with his landing this time around, he was only able to watch in shock when the masked man sped at him and shoved his sword straight through his chest, hitting an organ in the process as Sora coughed up blood and slowly slid to the ground. "Bah, about time!" The purple outfitted man spat on the ground near the dying teen. "Most annoying bug I've ever had to displeasure of squashing." Sora could only cough up more blood as his vision once more started to fade. "Tch, I'll enjoy putting you out of your misery, you runt-"

"Malos." The other male stepped back and moved to leave the room. "We've wasted too much time as it is. We need to get the Aegis and move out." "But the brat-" "Is dying, anyway. Nia, call the Monoceros while Malos collects our prize." "But- you just…" "I need to go take care of the rest of our baggage in the meantime…" Blurrily, Sora saw the blob he knew to be this so-called 'Jin' leave the room as the other man audibly made a noise of disappointment and went over to procure the girl, and he cursed himself for being able to do nothing about it as he finally lost consciousness.

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A ringing bell was the sound Sora awoke to as he slowly sat up in a patch of grass(Wait, wasn't he inside that chamber before he- oh no, was he dead?!) and looked around warily at his surroundings.

But, for the life of him, he could see nothing but plain for as far as the eye could see. Luckily for him, however, there seemed to be an end to said plain, by a cliff face with a singular tree standing tall and a figure that had to be human. So, lifting himself up(Huh, he felt as if he hadn't fought a crazed nobody and gotten stabbed in the chest by a man he was starting to believe was Sephiroth's long-lost brother.), he made his way to the figure that he now realized was the same girl from the glass case. Finally getting within conversation range of the redhead(That shade reminded him of Kairi, in a way- oh god, KAIRI!), he decided to voice his concerns.

"Uh, are you alright? You seem kind of, sad, with the way you're staring out into space like that…" Sora awkwardly rubbed the back of his head with his hand as the girl continued to stare at nothing and the bell still rang out. "Heh… You got killed trying to help me, and you are worried about me?" The girl finally spoke up after a few moments of silence, and Sora couldn't help but be confused. "Well, I don't know about the killed part, but, I always try to help a person in need! It's who I am!" At that, he grinned brilliantly(Not that she could see that, with the way her back was turned to him, but still!) and closed an eye. "So if there's a problem you have an issue with, you can bet I'll be doing everything I can to fix it!"

Silence rang out once more, and after enough time passed to make Sora think he had said something he shouldn't have, the girl couldn't hold in her laughter anymore and she started giggling like mad. "I'm sorry, I couldn't help it. You just sounded… So sincere, that I couldn't help but feel elated that someone actually cared about my plight." "Oh, uh, no worries. So, what's on your mind?" The teen made his way over to the side of the female and looked out at the expanse on the other side of the cliff, and whistled. "Man, sure looks nice. This your home, or something?" "Yes, actually. This is Elysium. The place… 'We' were born."

While Sora didn't have a clue as to why she had added a 'we' part in there, he got the gist of what she was fretting about. "Your home is in danger, isn't it?" The shocked look she sent his way told him everything. "Yeah, you'd be surprised how many times I've helped with that kind of thing. So I take it this isn't really your home land, but some kind dream or illusion, or what have you if I'm dead?" "A-A memory of it, yes. The real land is out in the real world, waiting for someone to enter it again after 500 years." "Alright! Then all we have to do-" Sora froze. "F-Five hundred years?" "Uh-huh." "And… You say you were born there…?" "That's right." He couldn't stop his jaw from hitting the floor, even if he wanted to.

"H-HOW OLD ARE YOU?!" "Oh, I'm over 500 years old!" The cheerful inflection she said that with had him reeling in shock. "But… how?" "I've been in a sort of stasis like state for the past few centuries- no one really wanted a being capable of destroying continents free to roam the lands, and my power wasn't really necessarily needed at the time…" C-CONTINENTS?! "... So I went to sleep for a while, waiting until I either was needed again, or a new Driver bonded with me." "R-Right." Still getting over this mind-shattering information, he shook his head as if that would clear it and continued on. "In, any case, sure, I'll help you get back to where you were born!" "You-You will?" The way her eyes lit up and her whole demeanor changed had him fighting back the urge to hug her in elation(Seriously, she was looking a little too much like Kairi here…) as a massive grin overtook his face.

"You better believe it! I always help a friend, and I'd like to think of you as one, so of course I'll get you back to Elysium! Now all we have to do is wake… Up… Crap." Aaaaaaand it was only just now that Sora realized his plight in the 'Outside' realm. "Yes, I'm afraid you are bleeding out and won't be alive for much longer." Well that sucked. Wait- "I'm not dead yet?" "No. I pulled you in here the moment you lost consciousness, but with your wounds, you won't be alive much longer than another 30 seconds or so… Or maybe a little longer, I had anticipated you being lost to the world when you first entered here, but you are surprisingly resilient." "Nah, that's what my other friends call 'Being too stubborn to die'." He joked as the girl giggled once again. "Normally I would give you some of my lifeforce to let you live, but, since we aren't bonded, I'm afraid I can't do so…" He didn't know why(Well, the similarities between her and Kairi notwithstanding.), but he hated seeing her so down, so he tried to reassure her.

"Relax, it's all good! I have a few ways to heal myself if I can wake up again, but I'm not sure if most of the ways are valid at this point in time…" "Oh, do you have a Blade that can heal your wounds for you?" Blade? That was a weird term, and, come to think of it, she also mentioned something about a 'Driver'(He liked to think he was a rather good one with how he got his Gummi Ship past all the Heartless and Nobodies that got in his way to get to the other worlds.). "Uh, not, no 'Blade', but I have some items and techniques that can heal my injuries. I'm just not sure if I have the energy to USE those techniques, or even grab the items on me with the way I'm off!" At the word 'Energy', the red haired girl perked up. "Well, if it's energy you're low on, I might be able to send some your way through this small bond I created with you when I pulled your conscious into here! Though, it won't be much, so I won't know if you'll be able to pull anything off..." Not entirely sure himself if he would be able to, he wanted to try nonetheless.

"Well, never know until you try! And if it does work out for the better, I'll come get you from those jerks, and before you know it, you'll be home in no time!" Sora grinned brightly at the beaming girl and outstretched his hand for a handshake, which the girl gladly took. "Oh, wait, I didn't even get your name." "It's Pyra." The girl smiled at him as where their hands met, a green light started glowing. "My names Sora. Nice to meet you, Pyra!" Soon the glow grew into a blaze as a green explosion expanded from where they were.

"Likewise, my Driver."

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Waking up, face first on the floor, drowning in a growing pool of your own blood was not a good way to regain consciousness, Sora decided as he raised himself up with his forearms.

Looking down to his chest, he saw the hole left by the asshole(Heh, get it?) with a Sephiroth theme when he stabbed him liberally spilling blood on the floor, and by the way his forearms barely held himself up, shaking like he had Parkinson's, he knew he had maybe a minute before he lost his life. Not wasting any more time at the thought, Sora reached deep within himself, only to find, to his dismay, that his magic, while replenished a tiny bit from a small surge of mana rushing into his body, was not enough to save himself by way of Curaga. Glancing at the pocket he knew held a Hi-Potion inside of, he was about to go on the painstaking adventure of reaching to the item holder and rummage around until he found it, he paused as he felt another surge of energy flowing into him.

Not knowing what that one was, he checked on his magic again, only to find no change in it, and considering he was still bleeding out, it wasn't a fix in his Health, either, and he wondered what in the name of the King it could be, before he had a realization that made him want to facepalm(Not that he could.) hard enough to leave an imprint for weeks to come. Feeling around for his Drive counter, he was flabbergasted to see that not only had it been fully replenished(He remembered leaving it at around 1 or so bars because of having to use Limit twice in the last battle against Xemnas.), but it had increased by an entire third, leaving it sitting at a whopping 12 gauges in total.

Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, however, he quickly summoned up the will to transform into his favorite(And easily most used-) form, and was overjoyed when his power exploded outward in an impressive show of force and his various cuts and bruises along with the damage to what he now knew was his left lung simply vanished like they were never there. "Alright! I feel like 100 bucks!" Sora's signature goofy smile made its way to his face as he gripped his hands tightly into fists, but as he did that, he noticed something strange with his outfit. "Wait, this isn't Limit form!" Indeed it wasn't, as his jacket had taken on a shade of red not unlike that of Valor form, but lighter in color, and the shoulders, which were usually black in coloration, were now a vibrant emerald green, while the lilies that are usually apparent as designs on the sleeves became a sort of cross that, if Sora remembers correctly, was the same symbol he had seen on Pyra's chest, in the same emerald green, and his undershirt had taken on a nylon like quality that clearly outlined his chest and stomach regions, even if you couldn't see them.

His shorts, as well, turned nylon like, while his extra leggings took on the same color of the jacket of his outfit with the very bottoms becoming neon green as well, and the same cross took over the swords places as add-ons to his legs, while his shoes looked about the same, but the black spots were, once again, changed to that same nylon material. "This… Looks like Valor form, but…" He held out a hand and summoned a small blaze into it. "I can use magic? Does that mean I can't use two Keyblades as well, or does this form sacrifice something else for that? Man, now I want to know what makes this form different!" As if to spite him for ignoring it, a strange handle of a weapon smacked him in the back of his head from it's cycle of spinning around the boy. "Ow… Wasn't that the sword that was stuck in the ground in front of Pyra before?" Rubbing his head as now aching head as the sword handle floated around him like it was a Keyblade and he was in his Final form, Sora only grew more confused. "It's certainly not a Keyblade, that's for sure. I wonder what it does-"

All of a sudden, the thing started acting up. It began spasming in the air as if it was having a seizure, before a great light stretched outward to form the missing blade part of the weapon, and, without any further prompting, an eruption of a major magnitude sprouted forth from its tip. It was no doubt extremely hot to the touch(The way it was currently burning through dozens of feet of metal told Sora that much.), but for whatever reason, he wasn't finding the heat uncomfortable(Heck, if anything, it soothed him in a way that had only been done when he was held by his mother on those nights he had nightmares about a strange man eclipsing his world in darkness!... Which, now that he said it, wasn't really so much a nightmare as it was a Saturday night for him-) as it drilled its way through the entire hull of the ship until there was a gaping hole that lead to the outside world, full of stars in the night sky.

"... Convenient." Jumping from foot to foot to get the blood flowing again in his body, Sora then crouched down, low to the ground, and without further ado, utilized High Jump to its fullest and flipped through the air as he made his ascent to the upper level. "Yeeeeeee-HAW!" Sora hollered as he span into sight above… Whatever it was he was stuck inside of in the first place(He didn't really get a name when he was liberally ran through with that guys sword- wait, that came out wrong!), and landed gracefully in front of the massive hole made inside the floor from before.

"Woah…" And when he landed, he couldn't stop himself from taking in the bizarre sights before him.

Weird ships that looked like the cousins of the pirate ships he had seen firsthand, using what looked like balloons to keep them afloat on a sea of clouds that went on for miles and miles. What was weird about that, though, was that he saw clouds in the sky as well, so if that was the case, would the things that seemed to replace oceans in this world be called, or were the two things still considered clouds, but just classified in a different way? And also, the inhabitants looked weirder than what he was used to(And coming from a guy who's seen talking lions, mermaids, and alive skeletons, that's saying something.).

"You!" Getting knocked out of his thoughts by a voice shouting at him, Sora looked over to the group standing beside the inferno that the sword floating near his back had caused. "And that sword- it can't BE!" Apparently it was, because he was standing right in front of the man. "You should get your eyes checked if you can't see what's right in front of your eyes, buddy." Reaching to his right side with his left hand, and his right hand to his left, he swiftly pulled his arms back as two Keyblades popped into existence in both hands(Winner's Proof in his left, the Ultima Keyblade in his right.). "And the other one should make sure that when you stab someone dead, they STAY DEAD!" Glancing behind him at where Pyra stood on a metal pole, he willed the sword to fly to its rightful owner so she could wield it herself. "Pyra, you want in on this?" "Sure, I wouldn't mind too terribly!"

"Jin! Take the girl. I've got a score to settle with the boy." "Well I hope you aren't going to be too sore about it going 0-2, then." Sora joked as the purple wearing man charged at him with the(Blade, was it?) weird creature not far behind him, while Pyra engaged the silver haired man in combat and the other girl with the tiger just stood to the side, looking more conflicted then she possibly ever had in her whole life. "You're going to be eating those words when you're six feet under, BRAT!" The man screamed out as his light blue glowing blade slammed into Sora's Ultima weapon, but to his surprise, didn't even budge the smaller males weapon or stance. "You wouldn't be the first to try; heck, I doubt you'd even place near ten thousand!" Sora seemed to contemplate that as he slammed his other Keyblade into the side of the man, hurtling him to the right of the deck as he raised his Ultima blade again to stop a retaliating slash by the strange bipedal beast that grabbed the same blade from the air when the other man let it fly after he was hit. "Wow, that is actually a depressing thought, looking back on it…"

"YOU'RE DONE, KID!" Bringing up his other blade, he swiped at charging man, making him veer off course to avoid it. That in turn, however, was enough to let the beast he was locking weapons with back up and start slashing energy streams at him(How come HE couldn't do that?!) that he had to consciously make an effort into destroying. "You know-" Sora started speaking to the people just gaping at the odd spectacle of him cutting green energy attacks in half while fending off an enraged man easily at least a foot and a half taller than him from slamming fist into his body. "-This is usually about the time where you run away screaming." And so they did, as they hurried to get off the ship(That Sora now knew actually was a ship of some kind.) and onto the other vessel to hopefully get away from this mess.

"Wait, if they leave, how the heck are we supposed to leave?" "IN A BODY BAG, TWERP!" Sora rolled his eyes as the man tried to throw a fist into the back of his head, but he flipped over his head and landed behind him, swinging out with his left blade and sending him rolling away face first(Much to his amusement.). Sadly, though, that bought his other opponent enough time(Or maybe he just finally decided to get serious, he didn't know.) to charge up a stronger attack, and soon Sora was on the receiving end of a green 'X' shaped blast. "You know, that thing reminds me of something, but for the life of me I can't remember what- JIMINIES CRICKET!" Panicking as the blast finally made it to his position(Although, what did happen to Jiminy after that last battle?), he crossed both Keyblades over each other and swung back at the attack, struggling for a second or two before he overcame it and dispersed the energy.

"Okay, no more Mr. Nice Sora." He muttered to himself before swinging both Keyblades to either side of him, each gaining a red tint to them as heat started to pool around each weapon as magic pooled into them. "Fira-" Sora started as each of his blades burst into a blaze of fire that continued to grow in both size and power, and didn't look anywhere near ready to stop. "-GUN!" Roaring out the last part, he shot both blades forward at a speed the naked eye couldn't catch as the fire surrounding each of his Keyblades burst to life further, sending forth a stunning amount of the stifling hot flames that easily spanned the width of the entire top of the ship, and almost burned through the floor in its intensity.

"Holy-" Not even Sora was expecting the amount of destruction that spewed forth from his own weapons that FAR exceeded anything any of his past spells could have made as the black haired man's eyes widened and were almost engulfed, had the creature that was fighting alongside him not gotten in front of him and formed a circular shield reminisce of his own Reflect magic around the both of them. "My lady!" The tiger(It spoke, too?!) that was near the only other girl here besides Pyra also jumped in front of her with that same shield.

"Woah…" While that was happening, Pyra had been staring down the opposite side of Jin behind where Sora was fighting, as he seemed content to just stand there and observe the Aegis over fighting her himself. And their attention was soon brought over to where Sora had just unleashed an amount of fire enough to burn down a small forest, and Pyra, for her part, was just watching in awe at the spectacle. While she could also dish out an exceedingly large amount of an element like that, she was the Aegis(Well, a 'Sort-of' Aegis, but still.), and he was just some(For a lack of a better term.) random teenage boy that had appeared out of nowhere(Literally.) a scant twenty or so minutes ago, and he had done THAT(WITHOUT her help, mind you!), with no sign of fatigue apparent on his face, like he could do that multiple more times before tiring out!

"My Driver, indeed…"

Sadly, while she was washing Sora in unobstructed praise(Inside her head, at least.), Jin had narrowed his eyes at the boy. Somebody with power like that, needed to be dealt with, or there was no doubt in his mind it would be HIS plans that would be dealt with later down the line. And it was with that thought that he sped past a stunned Aegis and went to stab the teen again- with the intent to finish the job he hadn't completed last time out of a complacency that he most definitely wouldn't be showing this time. As he did that, Pyra snapped out of her thoughts quick enough to curse herself for such an amateur move, and yelled out a warning for her newfound Driver. "Sora, look out!"

The warning had come a bit too late, however, as Sora only had enough time to turn around after his Keyblades finished their fiery assault on his enemies and see a blur with a suspiciously sharp object headed his way, and when he reached into himself to activate one of his ultimate defenses(Reflectaga.), he was greatly alarmed to find that find that it seemed to be locked away; just like how his magic was usually kept away from him in his Valor form. As he was panicking over his soon to be death(Again.), he started releasing a large amount of magic from his body to do something, anything, to stop his impending doom. And as luck would have it, his Ultima Keyblade answered that calling as it slowly morphed into a grey sword with a blue handle, with what appeared to be gold fishbones trailing up the length of the blade as a gold heart with three spikes stretching out of the top of it appeared at the top of the weapon near the edge that acted as the main damage dealer of the thing while the keychain had transformed into a gilded heart.

Once the Keyblade had sufficiently morphed, magic pooled into it quickly and was forced out as a veritable maelstrom of wind burst around Sora, acting as both a shield and sword when the blade that was on a direct path to his heart struck a current of wind and veered off course, while the man handling the weapon received numerous cuts along his arm from getting the limb too close to the winds coursing around the spiky haired brunette, which he swiftly corrected as he regrouped with his group of evildoers. "Wha-" Needing a second to get over his near-death experience, he looked at the weapon in his right hand in shock, which was only furthered when he saw the nigh invisible winds whipping around him in a protective cocoon.

"A-Aeroga?! But I haven't been able to use that since I woke up in that basement in Twilight Town, and-" He looked back at his Ultima weapon. "This isn't my Ultima weapon- I mean, it is, but this isn't the one I beat Xemnas with. No, this one's the one I had back when I fought Ansem." The Seeker of Darkness one, not the Ansem the Wise that Sora easily gets confused for one another. "So, did my Keyblade just, transform to fit my needs when I needed it most, and then I suddenly gained the ability to use past magic from it?" Trying to call forth his other spells of Gravity and Stop proved to be useless, though, so Sora supposed it was only Aeroga for now.

But still…

"Man, did I miss this particular spell!" Grinning like a kid who was told Christmas had just come early(Who was he kidding, he'd be grinning like this if he was told that, too!), he had to stifle the urge to do a little jig when Pyra came running up to him, making sure not to touch or go near the razor sharp tornado that danced around the form of her Driver. "Sora, I'm so sorry! I wasn't paying attention, and-" "Relax, Pyra. I'm not dead or injured, so it all worked out in the end. Speaking of, though…" He slowly lost his grin as he stared at the little group that he still knew nothing about(Seriously, they could have just wanted Pyra so that they could poison the world's ice cream supply to give everyone terrible stomach cramps for all he knew.) as they readied themselves once more to try and kill him and steal Pyra.

"Why don't you all just give up? You can't win this; not when I'm here with Pyra as my backup." While he wished to say it was true, he didn't honestly know if that was the case. So long as the third member of their little rag-tag team stayed out of it, and Jin kept underestimating them, he had no doubt they would get out of there. But Sora also didn't know for just how much longer this new Drive form of his would be lasting for(While he could use even his most energy consuming Drive form for up to an hour, that was because he had trained extensively with all of them beforehand- he only just got this form earlier today, and while he didn't know the exact time that had elapsed since he entered it, at least ten minutes had gone by, so this thing could go out at any second.), and if he was down to his base form, that would make this fight exceedingly harder with the purple man, strange beast, the Sephiroth fanboy, and if the girl and her pet joined the fray as well, he wasn't liking their odds.

"Forget it, brat! You signed your death warrant the minute you became the Aegis's DRIVER!" "Wait, weren't you all trying to kill me even before that happened?" "Regardless." The one known as Jin waved his hand, and Sora had the sudden need to get the hell out of there! "Pyra!" Grabbing the girl around her waist, Sora used his Quick Run to avoid the barrage of bullets that assailed them from the ship that definitely wasn't there a minute ago! "How come the bad guys get all the cool things?!" Sora complained to himself as he outran the assault of bullets, only to find himself caught between a rock and a hard place when he was cornered by Jin and Malos, with the ship ready to fire in an instant. "Well, this is gonna suck." As he prepared to summon up an Aeroga to give them some protection again, it was proven to not be needed as the girl appeared before him on her tiger, and she had it blast them away to give him some breathing room to put Pyra down and prepare for the worst they could do. "ENOUGH! Jin, Malos, what are ya doin'?! He's just some random kid!"

"Niaaaaaa." The tone of voice the black haired man used was far from amused. "What are you DOING? That kid-" "Hey, pssst, 'Kid' is standing right here, you all realize." "-Isn't some random person. He made himself the Aegis's DRIVER!" There was that 'Driver' word again. Pyra called himself her Driver, and they called her an 'Aegis', whatever that meant, but he had not a clue what either of those things mean for him. "The Aegis's… Driver?" Whatever the 'Aegis' part meant had to have been important, though, because the way they talked about it made it seem like it was held on some sort of pedestal that was higher than anything else this world had to offer, and the way the girl(Nia, he corrected himself.) stared at him in awe only cemented this fact to him. "And if you wouldn't mind too terribly, move out of the way and let him DIE!" Once more the cannons opened fire on him, but the girl quickly rode her tiger to his aide and used that same shield from before to block the hail of bullets.

Sadly though, they were too much for them to handle and the shield soon broke and sent the tiger reeling while the girl went soaring through the air.

"Damn!" Running backward, he High Jumped into the air to catch the unconscious girl before she could go overboard and fall in the sea of clouds and landed back on the ship next to Pyra, while Malos raised his hand, clear for all to see. "It's over…" Motioning his hand down to signal for another round of fire to be shot, Sora kept cursing and summoned more Aeroga on everyone near him while Pyra got in position to create a shield just like the other ones he'd seen before. "... Why aren't they firing?" Malos grit his teeth and kept flagging for the bullets to start firing, but to everyone's confusion, the rain of metal never came. "What's taking Arkhos so long to kill these little pests already?!"

'My lord…'

Suddenly, Sora felt a massive migraine coming on, and it was so bad Winner's Proof disappeared from his hand and he used the newly freed hand to grip his aching head. "What… Why does this feel so familiar…?" "What the hell are these things?!" Looking over to where the shout originated from, Sora was alarmed to see that four Samurai's were currently doing battle against the remaining members of the group trying to get the Aegis. "Nobodies- here?" He was quick to recompose himself and get ready for an even bigger battle, but before he could enter the fray(The two before him might be his enemies, but Nobodies and Heartless were the enemies to EVERYONE.), two more popped up in front of him…

Bowing?

'It is not prudent to stay here for any longer, your highness. Please take the portal with your new vassals and retreat from this skirmish.' Wait, was the Nobody talking to him? And what was this about a portal? He didn't get an answer(Or even just ask them in the first place.) to any of his questions as the two Higher-ranking Nobodies left to join their brethren in the fight against their common enemy. "Sora!" Glancing over to Pyra, he was surprised to find a Corridor of Darkness standing right next to her as she observed the portal in equal amounts of curiosity and caution. Looking back at the sight of the now only three Nobodies fighting a losing battle, he fought a clash inside his head on what to do, before ultimately deciding to leave to wherever the corridor was set to send him(I mean, it couldn't be anywhere bad, right? Xemnas was dead- at least he hoped he was, kind of hard to tell with the guy when he kept coming back after every time you offed him- and every type of High-ranked Nobody served under a specific member of the Organization, and with the way these ones appeared to distract Donald and Goofy back when he had his fight with Roxas, he was inclined to believe they served him, and he was complete with Roxas once again, so they wouldn't try anything, right?).

"Hey, uh, you there, with the fur-" "My name is Dromarch." "Yeah, right, you wanna come with us? I don't think your pals will much appreciate you after your owner tried to stab them in the back and help me." "That seems like the sensible choice, at this point in time." Letting the girl be carried on the back of the creature, he sent them through the darkness first while Pyra wasn't far behind. Taking one final look at the last standing Nobody, who coincidentally looked back to him as well, he could have sworn he saw it give a minute nod before charging back in to engage with its foes one last time as Sora escaped through the gateway into the unknown.

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"Oh, my aching everything." The brunette protagonist groaned out(Note to self: Never go through a Corridor of Darkness, ever.) as he slowly slid his eyes open, only for his vision to be obscured by two perfectly sculpted moundtains(See what I did there? Eh, eh?) and a concerned red haired girls face. "Pyra…? Did you get the license plate number of the Gummi Ship that t-boned me?" "I'm sorry, what?" Shaking his head to rid the cobwebs in them, he leapt to his feet and laced his arms behind his head. "Ah, nothing. Just a little inside joke from where I'm from."

Speaking of that, though, he hoped everyone was okay. All he knew was that his Nobody(Was Naminé considered his Nobody? Hm.) had created a way for them all to escape(To where, he would likely never know.), but before he and Riku could enter, the final, final battle against Xemnas had begun and his last memories of after the battle were worrying about Riku(Who had taken quite a beating in the last leg of the event.), a flash of light, and then he had just kind of… Woke up in this entire mess.

Sighing to himself, he took a gander at his surroundings, trying to see if he could pinpoint where they had landed, but to his dismay, he couldn't, as they were apparently still on the same world(If that same body of water made of clouds was anything to go by, at any rate.), just on a different land mass filled with wildlife and trees for miles. "You wouldn't happen to know where we're at right now, would you, Pyra?" "I am afraid that I do not." Clicking his tongue as his partner in not-so-crime got up to stand next to him, he contemplated what to do next. "Well, somewhat expected that." He wasn't expecting the girl who was trapped inside a veritable coffin for apparently five hundred years to know where they had landed. "Still." He finally turned around and started making his way across the trail he had noticed in his earlier observation. "We should head onwards to get a clue, at least. Plus we should probably find the girl that we took with us, to at least make sure she arrived in one piece…" Nodding silently to his plan of action, the two headed out into the forest proper on a quest to find where they were.

"Hey, Sora…" "Yeah?" Said teen looked over to the girl walking besides him. "What was… That eery portal that transported us here?" Oh yeah, he guessed she would be as curious over things he's seen and used before just as much as he was with the same things she has viewed in this world as well. "Where I'm from, we call it a 'Corridor-to-Darkness', and it's essentially a means of transportation from one place to another…" He left out the obvious fact that the transportation was almost exclusively used to travel from world to world. "I, see. And, where are you from, Sora?" Uh-oh. Quick Sora, keep the balance of the worlds! No meddling(Wait, wasn't he already messing with it?)! "Oh, just some remote location that not a lot of people know about. And it was even one of those portals that teleported me to where you were being held! Heh heh, heh…"

Lying wasn't exactly his strongest suite.

"Oh, what was it called?" Luckily for him, the girl wasn't the best at catching onto fabricated stories. "It was called Destiny Island… A real peaceful place, really. So peaceful, even, that some people couldn't stand it and decided to leave to go on a journey to see what else was out there." He chuckled to himself as he thought about the events that lead up to all of this, events that seemed like ages ago not even taking place two years before. "Did… Something happen to it?" "Ah, you could say that. It was attacked, and it forced me to leave or be swallowed up in the chaos. Haven't seen it in a while; not even sure what it looks like, now." "And that's how we ended up meeting?" "Just about." Well, it wasn't really a lie, per-say, because if it wasn't for the Heartless attack back then, he wouldn't be here right now.

"Well, I don't want to seem insensitive, but… I'm kind of glad it worked out like that in the end." Looking over at her in unobstructed confusion mixed with shock, she saw and quickly gave her reason. "Don't get me wrong, it's horrible that it happened! But, if not for that, then you wouldn't have met me, and became my Driver, plus who knows what those two would have done with me had you not saved me. And for that, I am grateful…" Keeping his gaze on her for a while longer, he eventually looked back forward and grinned cheerfully. "Now that I can understand. Don't worry, Pyra, I'd rather have been here to save you than be back home right now anyday! It's like I said, I can't help but want to help people, ya know?" He laughed and started walking backwards, giving Pyra one of his patented closed eye grins. "Sora…" Her breath hitched and she placed a hand over her heart. "Thank you…"

"... But when did you get time to change clothes in between waking up and starting to fight Jin and Malos?" "Huh?" Sora, with his ever-intelligent responses, was confused about what she was talking about before she pointed at his outfit. "When we were talking in my… Memory, you had the almost the same outfit on, but now your attire closely resembles my own color scheme." Looking down to see that he was still in that new Drive form of his, he was shocked to see it hadn't disappeared by now. "What the- Pyra, how long was I out?" "Well." She placed a finger on her chin in thought. "I was out along with you, but then I woke up, so I don't know how long that was, but considering it's day I'd say we were out all night, and you woke up about ten minutes after I did."

A-A whole night?! He was out for the entire night and he STILL hadn't reverted to his base form?

That wasn't right. So with a frown Sora went to check on his Drive Gauge, and was thoroughly shocked to find that he wasn't even CLOSE to running out of juice yet- if anything, he had gained more Gauges as time went on, as before he was sure it was clocked at three just like every other time he entered a form for the first time, but now it was at nine, and was steadily GROWING?! Indeed, as unlike when time passed in his other forms and the Gauge slowly depleted, this one seemed to be slowly gaining in quantity, instead of the reverse position. What was more, was that he could have sworn he saw a strange golden glowing string that was attached to Pyra connect itself with his Drive bar, but he didn't know if he was seeing things or not.

"Sora?" Startled out of his thoughts by a concerned Pyra, Sora quickly adjusted himself accordingly and answered her question. "Oh, it's a power of my outfit. Whenever I have a close bond with someone, I can take on a 'Form', so to speak, where I generally take on an appearance similar to the bonded person, and gain abilities based on what that person's greatest strengths are, as well." "Really?" The girl beside him breathed out as she, without hesitation, reached out and gripped the material of his jacket with one hand, and started rubbing the nylon part of his undershirt to see if it was exactly like her own. "Um, Pyra? That's kind of my stomach you're rubbing, there." Of course, her prodding hadn't gone unnoticed and Sora, for his part, was feeling rather uncomfortable because of it. "Oh, sorry!" Finally realizing what she was doing, she retracted her hands and blushed a bit(It was hard to tell, though, because her face had seemed to be have a permanent pink attached to them.).

"It's cool, no harm done." Sora waved it off. "I would be curious too, if I was in your shoes." "Sorry, again. I just had this sudden compulsion to feel the material for myself, and I couldn't help it. But besides that, you also said you gained abilities revolving around the person, as well?" "Yep!" He popped the 'P' as they continued to stroll through the forest. "Comes in handy in sticky situations! Though… This one seems to be lasting longer than most of the other ones I've used." A lot longer. "Interesting… Was that how you were able to unleash that huge blast of fire from before?" "I'm not sure, actually. I've shot fire before, but never of something on THAT magnitude! You must be really powerful if I was able to do something like that with your help!" Pyra couldn't stop the blush from coming up on her face at the praise even if she wanted to. "Oh, I'm not that strong. Plus you did that all on your own, I had little or nothing to do with it." "Nonsense! You gave me the boost in power to be able to do that! Without you, none of that would have been possible." "Then, am I also responsible for that?"

Turning to see what she was pointing to, Sora was amused to see Pyra's sword lazily floating behind him.

"I, do not know."

Sora's New Drive Form:

Drive: Integrity

Action:

Key Bash(Powerful stabbing attack that utilizes both Keyblades to smash into an enemy. Does double damage when used in the back of an enemy.)

Dual Spinning Edge(Using both Keyblades, spin 360 degrees to slash the enemy twice with each weapon. Does double damage when used at the side of an enemy.)

Rolling Slash(Covering both Keyblades in unbearably hot fire, the user flips through the air and comes directly down on top of an enemy, slashing them and sending the flames flying in every direction, attacking nearby enemies as well. Reduces enemy aggression by 30% when successfully landed.)

Flaming Implosion(Takes in the mana around the Aegis sword floating around Sora, collecting it into a small point that is then unleashed against nearby foes.)

Subtle Revolution(The Aegis sword slams into the ground, causing pillars of fire to erupt beneath all enemies. Followed up with Sora throwing his Keyblades into the foes, damaging them further.)

Annihilating Inferno(Concentrating magic into all three of his weapons, Sora locks onto a specific target that is then blasted with an intense fire, incinerating them and leaving naught but dust.)

Triple Combusting Avatar(With the help of Pyra, Sora conjures three large constructs of fire in the shape of his Kingdom Key that then slam into a foe before bursting into white hot flames that destroy anything unlucky enough to get in its way.)

Retaliating Slash

Magic Spice

Slapshot

Guard

Hurricane Period

Strike Raid

Ragnarok

Aerial Finish

Counterguard

Explosion

Magic Haste

Master Magic

Master Magician(Allows the use of spells that were once available to the user, plus new ones that were gained through extensive experience and exposure to Magic.)

Growth:

High Jump MAX

Quick Run MAX

Dodge Roll MAX

Aerial Dodge MAX

Glide MAX

Fire Mastery MAX(Take no fire damage and absorb any elemental attacks of the name that would normally be taken as damage and instead add it to your health.)

Support:

Purifying Flames(When using a Limit, spell, Art, or finishing combo, there is a 20% chance to heal any status ailments the user has.)

Resplendence(Increases damage dealt by Limits, spells, arts, or finishing combos by 75% when used to interrupt an art or spell.)

Flaming Edge(Increases critical damage by 50%.)

Synch Blade

Aegis Assault(Wield the Aegis blade with telepathy, leaving the hands free to use other weapons as well.)

Scan

Aerial Recovery

Combo Plus

Combo Plus

Combo Plus

Air Combo Plus

Air Combo Plus

Air Combo Plus

Combo Boost

Air Combo Boost

Critical Plus

Critical Plus

Damage Drive

Leaf Bracer

Magic Lock-On

Draw

Treasure Magnet

Lucky Lucky

Lucky Strike

Item Boost

Fire Boost

Fira Boost(Increase damage done with fire-based attacks by 30%.)

Firaga Boost(Increase damage done with fire based attacks by 50%.)

Fira-Gun Boost(Automatically increases any fire based magic to the maximum tier; Fira-Gun.)

MP Haste(Note, that I am making MP Haste like what it was in the first game, so attacking replenishes MP again.)

MP Hastera

MP Hastega

MP Hasteja(Increase MP restoration speed by 100%.)

Second Chance

Once More

Defender

Form Boost

Blade Boost(When connected with a Blade through Drive form, increases Affinity gained and lowers the drain on it when hit.)

Weapons(These will change with the current Keyblade Sora wields.)

No Experience(Winner's Proof)

Magic Consul(Increases Sora's magic pool by 30%; Ultima Weapon(KH1).)

Flip-the-Switch(Allows Pyra to use the Aegis sword while Sora is in Integrity form, and when near each other, damage done with the blade increases by 50%; Aegis Sword.)