Welcome! Time for the next chapter. Before I get to the chapter I'd like to clarify that some thing. As FF fans know, Cid is in every FF game. The one in KH is from FFVII. I that game he uses a spear as a weapon. Why is this reverent? Because Cid will be more than just the tech wizard he is in the KH games. He will fighting.
Disclaimer: I only own my ocs, nothing else.
Chapter 2: Hybrid Rainbow
Hollow Bastion market area
Cid, Leon and Scrooge McDuck surveyed the crash site critically with weapons ready. There was a long trench that started at the stairs to the housing area and ended at the far wall of the market area. Said wall was a smoking pile of rumble. Thankfully no one was hurt, the only causality was another one of Scrooge's failed attempts at Sea Salt Ice Cream. It had melted from the heat wave as the star passed by.
"Well this was quite a mess. A costly mess at that." Scrooge commented as he prodded the rumble with his cane. He did a quick calculation. "I'd say 500,000 Munny to fix it." He concluded as the rumble shifted. Leon and Cid get into battle stances as a gloved hand rises out of the pile.
"Don't just stand there! Remove the rumble so we can interrogate them!" Scrooge barks at them. It took five minutes to uncover Zane who looked unharmed but caked with dust. Next to him was his Vespa and guitar, which had a black cloak hanging off the neck.
"you have got to be kidding me. This pinhead was flying a Moped only to crash land here?" Cid asks incredulously. Scrooge whoops Cid upside the head with his cane. "I've seen weirder things in my 138 years of life." Leon and Cid look at him questioningly. "Yes that's my age. I age gracefully." Scrooge said.(He was born in 1867 so he is really old.)
"Did someone slip me magic mushrooms?" Zane say as he shook his head to clear the cobwebs from his brain. Scrooge walks up to him and leaning on his cane said. "No you are not hallucinating, maybe a concussion." Zane tills his head and asks. "Did you know you sound like David Tennant?"
"Really? Who is David Tennant?" Scrooge asked intrigued. "He's a famous actor. A globally known one too. Love his work." Zane answers. Cid cuts in "That great and all but where did you learn to fly? !" Zane shrinks back "I had no idea it'd do that! I was just testing how fast it'd go on on a road no used anymore. Next thing I know I'm in space being attacked and couldn't slow down fast enough on reentry." Zane explains quickly.
He knew how much damage the Gunblade and Cid's spear could dish out. Thankfully Scrooge defused the problem. "Just make him pay repair fee and teach him to fly better. Honestly, you youngster get into so much trouble far too easy." He say sighing. Right on que a compartment on the moped opens and a book drops out.
Leon picks it up reading the front cover. "The Stars and the Moped: an complete guide to using and repairing your ride By: Haruko Haruhara." He tosses it to Cid. "I didn't know that was there?" Zane said as Cid thumbed through the book. "Looks legit" Cid said snapping it shot and grab Zane's jacket dragging him off to teach him.
Scrooge picked up Zane's wallet and checked it's contents. "Perfect! He's got 36,000 munny to start paying off his debt." He says as he pockets the munny.(I set the munny to us dollar conversion rate at 1 us dollar is 18 munny.)
Sora, Donald, and Goofy come running. "Uncle Scrooge! Is anyone hurt?" Donald asked worried. "Not to worry. It was just a crash landing." They look around. "Where's the ship?" Sora asks. "The moped is the ship." Scrooge clarifies leaving them dumb struck.
Sora notices the black cloak. "Did the rider take that as he passed them?" "Passed who?" Sora explains. "The shooting star ran over a bunch of bad guys wearing cloaks like that." Scrooge laughs "This is priceless. I can't wait to tell him that."
"Sora! Don't we need to get to the next world?" Goofy reminds him. "Oh right! See you later!." The run off to their gummieship. Scrooge walks off still chuckling to himself. "This will be amusing to tell."
Restoration Committee HQ aka Merlin's house, Hollow Bastion
"...and that's when Cid dragged me here." Zane finished explaining to Yuffie and Aerith as Cid was reading the book from the Moped like it was life or death. "Sounds like you have interesting luck. How old are you?" Yuffie asks. Zane answered "17." In the background Cid comments "No wonder you are a crap driver." Zane took offense to that. "HEY! I was dodging lasers and rockets in space for the first time. You can't expect me to land perfectly on the first try."
Aerith played peace keeper and said "Calm down. We can work this out peacefully."Cid looks away grumbling. The door opened and Scrooge walked in. "Young man, despite the circumstances, you ripped up the market area. The total debt is 500000 munny." Zane drooped in his seat. "Luckily you had a decent amount of munny to pay off some the debt. 36000 to be exact."
Zane looked confused. "I had dollars in my wallet not munny?" He catches his wallet as Scrooge tosses it to him. "Not to worry it must be some magic who ever sold you the moped cast. In fact your clothing have protection magic on them." Looking owl eye Zane blinks. "so I payed.." he does the math. "72000 munny for a space moped, clothing that has magic in it and a guitar that might be magical too?"
It was Merlin who poofed in that answered. "The guitar has some interesting magics on it. Indestructible, a magic bullet shooter, a rip cord that enhances the impacts, a spell that lets you play it without an amp or power source, and a sound effect spell for flair."
Everyone was looking at Merlin. "that has to be the weirdest usable weapon I've ever seen." Cid pointed out. Merlin rolled his eyes and said to Zane. "Seeing as you have 464000 munny left to pay off, I have a job for you. An old friend of mine that can show you some things about combat. His students will be more than willing to help. Do this and you will have 20000 munny paid off."
Merlin looks stern "Be warned. Tell nothing of what happened in the last 10 years, not that you know much, but still I have to warn you. When you arrive ask for Master Eraques. Hand this to him and he will understand." Merlin hands Zane a letter.
"Ok? I'll get ready." Zane says.
20 minutes later
Zane was geared up ready to go. In front of him was a silver door in the middle of the room. "Make sure the letter gets to the right person. Good luck!" Merlin said as Zane opened the door and drove through on his moped. The door closed behind him.
Leon was in the shadows leaning on the door frame "He's traveling to the past, isn't he?" Merlin sighed and answered. "Yes he is. I can not stop the events that happened back then but at least we can forge a bond that may lead to their safe return in this time."
"I hope you're right." Leon said walking off to check on things in town. Cid was scanning the black cloak to see if he could find anything of interesting from it.
Author's Note: Yeah the first world is Land of Departure before BBS happened. Merlin's plan is for Zane to befriend the trio and gets a wayfinder. Then Merlin will use the wayfinder to track down the trio in the present. A risky plan but it might work. See you next time!
