Lord Eric turned to Rukgor and Agent Maine, and spoke, "It is time for us to depart," He placed two fingers to his right ear, "Command, we're leaving, please send a drop ship for pickup outside the palace,"
Before Lord Eric and the others could head back out and wait for pickup, Katara struck Lord Eric from behind with a water whip she had formed from the oxygen in the air before summoning more water to encase Maine and Rukgor, turning it into ice to trap them.
Lord Eric turned around to see Katara glaring at him, her stance showing herself ready for battle, her long hair flowing from the small wind that came through the doors.
Eric cocked his head to the side, his face looking blank, as if he wasn't at all intimidated by the Master Waterbender. Lord Eric then began unbuttoning his cape that was attached to his heavy armor so that it pooled to the floor.
"It seems I have no choice but to fight," Lord Eric laughed, "Maine; Rukgor, seems we may have a tad bit of a delay,"
Katara struck first, summoning a massive wave of water to flow towards him. Eric crouched a bit and let out a "COME ON!", pulling out his hilt and igniting a forest white blade which sliced through the wave of water, resulting in steam forming due to the intense plasma heat evaporating it.
Eric pulled out a hand pistol from his holster and aimed it at Katara, pulling the trigger and unleashing a bullet, Katara reacted, summoning a wall of ice to protect herself. The bullet struck the ice, piercing towards the center. Katara turned the ice back into water, but upon finishing, Eric was gone.
Suddenly, she heard the yelp of pain coming behind her, she turned to see Lord Eric pulling out the energy blade out of Earth King Kuei, due to the heat, it managed to cauterize the wound.
Lord Eric stared at the unconscious king, pulling out his pistol and, without anything to say, shot King Kuei in the head, killing him as Katara saw the now deceased king's blood pouring out.
Enraged, Katara used the water to form ice spikes and launched them towards Eric, who began slicing though them with the energy blade. Unknown to either of them, Zuko was channeling his fire bending to break out of his captivity, the rocks began to crack and fracture from the intense heat. Now free, Zuko launched a barrage of fire from his arms.
Lord Eric felt the heat coming from behind, he dropped his pistol and stretched out his now-free hand, to Zuko's shock, absorb the fire and redirecting it back to the fire lord.
Maine, growing impatient of this game Eric was playing, broke out of his icy prison, and unholstered his brute shot, jumping high into the air, the blade stretched out to strike, Katara turned and bended another wall of ice, only for it to shatter to the brute shot blade when it crashed into it, throwing Katara back towards Eric, who caught her and tossed the master waterbender to Zuko, crashing them a couple of more feet away from Maine and Eric.
Eric and Maine stood side by side as Katara and Zuko got back up, readying for another fight.
+(Kingdom Hearts Universe)+
In the Mysterious Tower, Aang, who had fell unconscious after alerting the strange people he encountered of the coming danger, was being tended to by Riku, who was using his Curaga to heal his injuries.
Riku's mind was racing with various thoughts, who was Eric? He did know one thing, it wasn't a intimidating name, it was pretty common. But he was curious about one thing, was this Eric working for Xehanort? Had the Thirteen Darkness found their final member?
After further healing, the scar by the side of the tattooed boy's head disappearing, Aang's eyes shot open as he let out a scream, "KATARA!"
Riku quickly reacted, grabbing the boy's shoulders in an effort to restrain him, since while his wounds had healed, he would be incredibly sore.
"Hey kid, calm down, you're in Master Yen Sid's tower," Riku spoke, "Take a deep breath, we need to know what's going on."
Aang breathed in through his nostrils, the events that had happened were still replaying in his head, this wasn't supposed to happen, he thought, why was happening? He and his friends just ended a war and now it seemed another was coming…
King Mickey came into the room, making Aang's eye widened slightly, an anthropomorphic mouse? Was this some sort of spirit world? He wasn't surprised by the fact there was a walking mouse, heck, it could be worse, he could've been encountering the face stealer.
Mickey smiled seeing the young boy awake, "Hello! We never got to introduce ourselves, I'm King Mickey!"
"Riku." The sliver-haired teen spoke.
Aang got up, feeling soreness throughout him, and bowed, "Avatar Aang."
Riku and King Mickey shared a look, "Avatar?" Riku asked after looking back at the boy.
Aang looked confused, they never heard the Avatar?
"Yeah, the bridge between the real world and the spiritual world," Aang quickly explained.
I'm afraid that they don't have such a thing in this universe. A voice spoke out of nowhere, startling Riku and King Mickey, before they could ask where the voice came from. Avatar Roku appeared in transparent blue besides Aang, "Greetings otherworlders, I am Avatar Roku, Aang's predecessor."
"I believed I had sensed a spiritual presence within the boy," Master Yen Sid said, standing at the doorway.
Aang looked at Roku confused, "What do you mean they don't have an avatar in this universe?"
Avatar Roku turned to Aang, and explained, "I'm afraid me and the other of your past lives had to transfer you out of our universe and find another."
Aang's eyes widened, and exclaimed, "Then we need to head back!"
Avatar Roku shook his head, "I'm afraid we cannot, if we head back now, we fear the end result will be disastrous," he reasoned.
Aang gritted his teeth, he was worried for Katara, his friends, and his entire world being in danger.
"But rest assured Avatar Aang, we may be able to get help from this universe," Roku turned to Master Yen Sid and bowed, "I believe an explanation is going to be required about our situation."
+(Avatar: The Last Airbender Universe)+
A standoff between Maine, Lord Eric, Katara, and Zuko. Before any one could make a movement, hulking figures arrived through the Royal Palace Entrance.
Physically imposing beings, typically standing more than a foot taller than an average human. They were vaguely reptilian in overall appearance, with leathery skin, reverse-jointed legs and sharp claws and teeth. Their large hands had two fingers and two thumbs. But their most distinguishing trait was their jaw structure, which is made up of four separate mandibles attached to their face.
Their armor were diverse, ranging from a variety of dark shaded coloring such a maroon, yellow, orange, and white.
They were Sangheili, a race from a universe where Humanity had fought them and a Religious Hegemony of multiple alien species known as The Covenant for twenty-seven years.
Some had drawn Energy Swords out upon seeing Katara and Zuko, while others held onto plasma based weaponry, ready to join in on the fight. But before they could receive an order from their leader, a wall of stone summoned from the ground, blocking the entryway that closed off any more reinforcements for Eric.
Some of the remaining Earth Kingdom Generals, and benders came to the aid of Katara and Zuko, ready for one final stand against the invaders.
Lord Eric, however, remained impassive, simply drawing out his white-bladed lightsaber, and stretched out his arm, holding out the blade to them.
The Junta charged, whilst The Earth Kingdom's defenders made their last stand.
Plasma bolts began coming out of their rifles, though the Earth Benders summoned walls of rock to protect themselves from the incoming fire. Lord Eric jumped to the top of the wall, landing perfectly in front of them before heading down to strike one of the Generals while an Elite threw a plasma grenade that suck onto the wall, destroying it when it ignited.
Zuko unleashed a volley of fire, but only performed minimal damage due to the shielding that protected them, Eric was battling Captain Yung, slicing through the boulders that the Earth Captain launched towards him.
Agent Maine was facing Katara, who was whipping Maine with several ice blades she had formed, the sharp edges pierced him, but it had no effect on him, his injuries kept regenerating, upon one of the ice heading towards him, Maine shattered it with a heavy punch, but Katara quickly took the shattered ice, and formed ice binding around his wrists. But Maine remained undeterred, resorting to using his feet for attacks.
The Benders and Elites were engaged in brutal combat. Plasma and boulders were being exchanged from both sides, Whenever Elites got close to them, they would unleash hidden plasma short blades from their armor.
In a matter of time, the already damaged Royal Palace was growing worse, plasma grenades had further caused structural damage, resulting in the benders having using their bending to keep the structure parts from crushing them, however getting them to protect themselves gave the Elites the opening they need, the became firing plasma bolts to the benders, causing their armor and flesh to burn away, and weakening their strength from holding the structure up. Eventually, their power waned, some having already died from the firing, and the structure had crushed the remaining benders.
Rukgor, finding this conflict reaching the end point, channeled the force to shatter the ice imprisonment, leaving a lone ice shard levitating in his palm, his target, Captain Yung.
Captain Yung, while still fighting a losing battle, had witnessed the death of his remaining comrades, his mind went blank as he realized the reality of situation, he needed to—
Before he could finish his train of thought and plan, the ice shard pierced the back of Yung's head, reaching deep into his brain, blood pooled out as he collapsed to the ground, dead.
Lord Eric, holding his lightsaber, turned to Rukgor and glared, "You took my kill."
Rukgor just shrugged, "This skirmish was already over before it began, I just want to move to the next universe already."
Zuko, having avoided suffering the same fate as the other benders, fired one last massive fire barrage towards Rukgor and Eric, but the force-wielding Quarren simply held out a hand to force absorb the fire.
Katara, reaching her stamina limit, collapsed to her knees just Maine launched a kick towards her, due to her kneeling, Maine missed his target.
Just as Maine turned and was prepared to kill her, Lord Eric placed a hand on his cuffed wrists, "They know when they are beaten."
Maine looked at Lord Eric and nodded his head, shattering his ice cuffs before walking off.
Lord Eric walked towards the kneeled master waterbender, and began to speak, "Master Katara, your comrades have fought admirably, but you've reached your end, however, I've decided not to kill your friends, so long as you come with us. You could be a way to get to Aang." He said.
Katara scowled, "I'll never be a—"
Lord Eric cut her off, "Then you and your friends will die." He retorted harshly. Pulling out a pistol and targeting her unconscious brother Sokka.
Katara's eyes widened, "Stop," Lord Eric turned to her as she continued, "Spare my friends and I'll come." She said defeatedly.
Lord Eric lowered his gun, "Fine, Rukgor!" he called out. Rukgor turned to him, holding Zuko up with the force.
Eric ordered, "Drop him, he gets to live this day," Rukgor complied, throwing Zuko into a pillar, the impact knocking him out.
Lord Eric could hear the humming noise of drop ship before a loud explosion destroyed the wall that kept everyone in the palace.
Agent Maine came back, his brute shot, having been cutoff from it during the skirmish, was holstered on the back of his armor again. Eric turned to Maine, "Friend, please escort our new prison to the ship, we're leaving for our next objective."
Maine nodded, walking towards Katara, and picking her up bridal style and began making his way to the ship, Rukgor placed his finned hands inside his robes, walking off to join with Maine.
Lord Eric took one last look at Sokka, who starting to come to as he slowly opened his eyes, only to see Eric, Maine holding Katara, and Rukgor walk off to their ship before falling back to the realm of unconsciousness.
+(Kingdom Hearts Universe)+
The atmosphere around Master Yen Sid's main chambers was tense after Roku and Aang had explained everything, for Yen Sid, Micky, and Riku, this cataclysm threat was on Xehanort's level, maybe even surpass it.
Riku was pacing back and forth, while Aang was frowning. Roku had long since left to return to the spiritual realm.
The silence was broken when Riku asked the question, "So, what do we do now?"
Master Yen Sid closed his eyes as he thought about the situation before opening them.
"Micky; Riku, we must prepare, you two will need to get Aqua from the Realm of Darkness." Master Yen Sid finally said.
Somewhere else in their universe, a world that was a barren wasteland with massive craters and scars within mountains from the legendary Keyblade War laid a lone figure sitting inside the opening the mountain's massive hole that was formed in the war, overlooking the hundreds of Keyblades that laid embedded in the ground upright.
The figure was wearing the heavy cloaks of the Organization XIII, seeing dust pass by blades before moving his head up to see a bluish glowing Heart-Shaped Moon in the sky.
The figure finally spoke, his voice laced with anticipation, "Now it begins…"
He stood up, conjuring a dark portal with just the raising his open-palmed hand before walking inside it, vanishing along with the portal to parts unknown, leaving the Keyblade Graveyard World with nothing but wind and dust…along with a Lingering Will kneeling as a small black aura glowed from its helmet.
