nightelf37: I wonder who'd make good voice actors for some of the characters I introduced at KHR2?

Onadi: Let's start with Xin.

nightelf37: Good idea. I'm thinking Justin Cause.

Onadi: You mean the VA of Dante from Devil May Cry?

nightelf37: Yeah. You got a problem with that?

Onadi: No. What about Autumnus?

nightelf37: Michael J. Hagerty.

Onadi: …Wait! I remember him as Sykes from that suck-tastic live-action Inspector Gadget movie.

nightelf37: It's not suck-tastic!

Onadi: Okay. What about—

nightelf37: You know what? I'm just gonna continue on to the opening theme. I'll put in the 'credits' of the other guys later.

Onadi: Oh, all right.

nightelf37: Remember, only the OCs belong to me. This story will follow with the flow of my Kingdom Hearts Remake Retcon version series.

Random Fact: Ellen DeGeneres voiced Dory on the Pixar film Finding Nemo.

Chapter 1: First Stop, Radiant Garden

Part I. The Opening Theme

A boy dressed in a Barong Tagalog (1) walked in with a sheet of paper and made his way to a pulpit and stood behind it.

"What am I doing here again? Oh right. Readers, this is nightelf37, writer of the Kingdom Hearts Remake series. If you've seen the 4th opening theme of Naruto, (not the dub), try to imagine the oncoming opening with that in mind as I'm 'using' the song as this story's opening. If you think this is crazy, I should let you know that Mrfipp (id no. 1177360) conceived the idea of voice actors for his original characters, which I'm also adapting just for fun. As I know I'm a rather little-known fanfic author, which two accusations of plagiarism already on my head, …There. Will. Be. No. Contests. Sit back and enjoy. I hope."

nightelf37 then left. Just before leaving, he says, "And by the way, as some of the story is in Rael's perspective, who is also me so to speak, his name will be censored by (-_-) so as to avoid pronoun confusions."

Now Playing: Go! - Flow (TV Size) -a.k.a. Fighting Dreamers!-

(short instrumental)

{flash panel of (-_-) with shield up like an umbrella, DirLuxGun aimed forward, fade to black; then flash two panels, one of Wizard aiming to the left with his GunDeLuna, the other of Kairi with her Destiny's Embrace, 'aiming' it to the right, fade to black; flash panel of Sora in classic Valor Form Stance; flash to Sora and zoom out to reveal the other three behind him, Jerry with them (2), and around them, (-_-)'s Neopets in battle stances}

(We are Fighting Dreamers!)

{transition of a column of crystalline rings crossing the screen from left to right, shift to panorama of scenes split like a comic, first panel consisting of Sora, (-_-), Wizard, Kairi, and Jerry looking to the left; as panorama scrolls to the right, at next (empty) panel, Sora jumps into it from 'outside', Ultima Weapon in hand}

Takami wo mezashite

{at the next panels, the top panel depicted Montecito and Babolino, the bottom Volgoth and Foltaggio}

(Fighting Dreamers!)

{at the next (empty) panel, (-_-) backflips into the panel and shoots forward before becoming 'part of the picture'}

Narifuri kamawazu

{at the next panels, the top panel depicted (-_-)'s four Neopets, the middle Wizard, Django, and a "Dark Boy" related to him, bottom panel showing Axel (3)}

(Fighting Dreamers!)

{at the next (empty) panel, Kairi twirls into it, Destiny's Embrace in her right hand}

Shinjiru ga mama ni

{at the next panels, the top one depicted King Mickey, Donald, Goofy, the lower left Riku and Jerry, the lower right Joe (4) and a white-haired woman}

Oli Oli Oli Oh-! Just go my way!

{last panel was of Fiorina aiming to the right, one of the crystal rings in the transition on hand}

Right here Right now (Bang!)

{in the regular fashion, the Kingdom Hearts title appears, with a sylized III in the middle, then in glitters of gold, starting from the left, the words The Heartless Syndicate appear, and then a yellow box slaps itself at the lower left reading Remake}

Buppanase Like a dangan LINER!

Right here Right now (Burn!)

{transition of flames to black; a shining Keyhole appears, then a transition of crystal rings}

Kewashii shura no michi no naka Hito no chizu wo hirogete doko e yuku?

{three groups gathered at Fountain Court of Radiant Garden, one group was of King Mickey, Django, Foltaggio, Babolino, Joe, and the white-haired woman, another group Riku, the "Dark Boy", Goofy, Donald, Volgoth, and Montecito, the third group Sora, Kairi, (-_-), Wizard, Axel, and Jerry}

Gokusaishoku no karasu ga Sore wo ubaitotte yaburisuteta

{diagonal comic line transition cuts to scene with one silhouette of a character, and twelve figures in white versions of the Black Coats, one was yellow-eyed and silver-haired, one had green orc-like skin, one a dark-skinned blonde, one short with a mask (5), one with green spiky hair, one who is a blue-eyed albino (6), one who is bald and dark-skinned, one who is grey-skinned with silver hair, one who is red-eyed and had cyan skin (7), one with robotic plating and purple hair, one redhead with grey eyes, and one with its hood down}

Saa kokoro no me Mihiraite Shika to ima wo mikiwamero!

{transition of crystal rings, show 'picture' panorama of the new Hellfire Club & Crescent Alliance, the following run from the left to right as the panorama scrolls from left to right (every two beats); the white-haired woman, G. I. Joe, King Mickey and Django, Donald and Goofy, the "Dark Boy" and Riku, Volgoth and Montecito, Foltaggio and Babolino}

(Yeah!)

{in front, at the same time, Tychophon pops in from the upper left corner of the 'screen', Aquanax from the upper right, Messerole from the lower right, and Euryflavia from the lower left, all of them raise their right hand up (or paw in Aquanax's case), then leave}

Ushinau mono nante nai sa Iza mairou!

{Axel, Wizard, (-_-), and Jerry run from left to right as panorama ends at Maleficent, Xin, Autumnus, and The Three Truants; Kairi and Sora run likewise and stop upon seeing Xin and Maleficent, as Sora and Kairi glared and made fists at them, then Jerry pops up from the right and 'pulls' them away}

(We are Fighting Dreamers!) Takami wo mezashite

{cut to the three groups together in a red backdrop, Mickey's at the right, Riku's at the left, and Sora's at the center; cut to this scenario: intending to run a horde of Heartless, Mickey runs forward with the Kingdom Key D, Foltaggio follows close with a Keyblade, Django fires his GunDelSol, Joe uses two Peashooter-like guns, the white-haired woman fires a bolt from her rifle, Babolino flies overhead with a gun-arm on one hand, and a Gun of Light on the other}

(Fighting Dreamers!) Narifuri kamawazu

{cut to last scene again; cut to this scenario: running a barricade of Nobodies, Riku rushes with the Way to the Dawn, Donald and Goofy running behind him with their weapons, Volgoth rushes with a Keyblade, Montecito fires his two guns, one of them a Gun of Light, the "Dark Boy" running forward with his weapon}

(Fighting Dreamers!) Shinjiru ga mama ni

{cut to last scene again, this time with a closer zoom on Sora's; cut to this scenario: Unversed (8) surrounding Sora, Kairi, Wizard, and Axel, who fight them off with difficulty; shift to scene of Jerry flairing with the Force as he kicks Nobody butt}

Oli Oli Oli Oh-! Just go my way!

{shift to scene of (-_-) with his four Neopets, their weapons ready, they were surrounded by Heartless; scenes flash, one of (-_-) shooting down a Heartless, Euryflavia sinking her vibro-mace on one of their heads, Messerole tossing his wind-and-fire wheel at another, Aquanax firing her cannon, Tychophon releasing an arrow from his bow, (-_-) and his Neopets doing various victory poses}

Right here Right now (Bang!)

{Sora and Kairi were charging forward with their Keyblades, Wizard, (-_-), and his Neopets behind them; zoom forward}

Buppanase Like a dangan LINER!

{shift to two panels, the left with a cluster of crystal rings, the right with Fiorina 'using' one of them}

Right here Right now (Burn!)

{scene of Axel eating a sea-salt ice cream bar, standing around the shops in Twilight Town, Hayner, Pence, and Olette a distance behind him; zoom forward}

Buttakitteku ze Get the fire!

{shift to three panels, the left with David, the right with Hayden, and the center with Joel, all of them prime their Fusils of Shadows}

Right here Right now (Bang!)

{scene of Naminé looking crestfallen, a white-coated figure behind her, the silhouetted figure with the white-coated figures staring at Naminé; zoom forward}

Buppanase Like a dangan LINER!

{shift to two panels, the upper one with Maleficent and Xin (hands together) on the left, the two silver-haired white-coated members on the right}

Right here Right now (Burn!)

{scene of twelve individuals; Sora, Django, and the "Dark Boy" in front, Mickey, Wizard, and Hayden behind them, Riku, (-_-), and David to the right, Kairi, Fiorina, and Joel to the right, zoom forward}

Buttakitteku ze Get the fire! (Bang!)

{shift to two panels, the third being as big as the first two combined, the first showing (-_-) holding up a crystal ring, the second Kairi looking concerned, the third Sora performing a Strike Raid right at the 'camera'; fade to white, then show a number of logos among them that of, FanFiction . Net, Nickelodeon, Disney, Square-Enix, and "Story Crew" emblem}

A movie projector turns off, revealing to have played the opening theme.

"And that's it.", nightelf37 says from the stage exit. "On with the story!"

Part II. Reunions and Introductions

It was a slow cruise to Radiant Garden on board the Estrella, with Kairi on the controls, having been taught lessons on Gummi Ship flying during her 'stay' in Neopia, and Wizard flying the Falcon next to us. As the other Neopets, both mine and my companions, lounged about, I thought about the new stuff I was given.

Because of the battle against Black Ranger and his Anarchy Ultrazord, upon later inspection, it turns out that my Delta Device has broken down and cannot be used for a while. I left it behind to the Neopets Agency to have it fixed for another adventure. In return, their research team had investigated on the coins that helped me enter my Option Modes and given me a couple more coins like them for me to test out. There were also a couple of Summon Charms given to me as well, a few of them resembling red-and-white balls. As for the Summon Power Orbs with the Heartfuls, the research team took them for study as well.

Finally, we made it to the space above Radiant Garden and we made our way to the Transwarp Room (9), where we then teleported down to the place. Upon looking around, we saw that the place has changed almost completely. Last time Kairi and I were here, it was under reconstruction. Now, it was a thriving metropolis. My four Neopets looked in awe as they saw the technology level of the city.

"This place sure has changed. Right, Rael?.", said Kairi as a Chocobo-driven carriage bypassed us. (10)

"Sure has.", I agreed. "I wonder where's the city map?"

"This look like it."

We turned to Volgoth, who was pointing at a map on a bulletin board. We all walked to is

"We're supposed to head for the postern.", Babolino said as we all looked at the map, him and Tychophon hovering beside our heads.

"Here postern.", Volgoth said.

"And we're here.", Wizard as he pointed at the map.

"How do you know?", Tychophon asked.

"There's a circle that reads 'You Are Here'. It's a public map after all."

"Oh, right."

KHKHKHKHKH

Later…

The twelve of us made our way to the postern, where we saw a message. Kairi took it, seeing that it was for her, and read it. After a while, she closed it and said to us, "Sora and Riku say that we should meet at the Fountain Court. (11)"

"Then let's go!", Foltaggio said. "We can't keep them waiting."

Thankfully, it didn't take long for us to find the Fountain Court, which was a very beautiful place. The stone walls were lined with growing vegetation and the fountains were very beautiful, reflecting the pink-purple sky. Sora and Riku were waiting near the fountain's base.

"Hey there, guys!", Sora waved.

"Sora!", Kairi gasped as she quickly ran down the stairs and hugged the two of them.

"Hey, Wizard!", Riku greeted the Techo. "How're you?"

"Just fine, Riku."

"Nice to see you again, Rael.", Sora greeted me.

"You too, Sora."

"Who are these guys?", Riku asked, indicating the others.

KHKHKHKHKH

After half an hour, we introduced the two Kacheeks, the two Myncis, and my four Neopets to Sora and Riku. Of course, the two were introduced to them as well. We were also introduced to Data Sora, who was given to Mickey in a PDA after he debugged Jiminy's Journal. Also, Sora and Riku told us about the Mark of Mastery Exam and Sora's reconnect quest.

Every few minutes, Data Sora ranted, "Hey Sora! Listen! To yourself! HAHA!" For some reason, we were able to keep our temper despite how annoying he was.

I didn't bother remembering much of the details, but what I did remember is that Aqua was in the Realm of Darkness (this happened to be the girl Vitri and Pollonaire encountered while there). Ansem the Wise has ended up there as well, and this news surprised me, Wizard, and Kairi since we thought he died in the explosion of his Kingdom Hearts Encoder. I asked what happened to Chosen One, but neither of them could say anything. Ventus's body is somewhere in Castle Oblivion, which hasn't always been a base for Organization XIII. Ven's heart resided in Sora, as did Roxas and (memory refreshed by Data Naminé) Xion. Naminé, of course, resided in Kairi.

After that whole explanation, Foaltggio asked as he tapped his foot. "So how long do we have to wait for the king, you think?"

"I don't know." said Riku, "I could be a while but…"

"Anyway, have you two finished your schoolwork?", Kairi asked him and Sora.

Before either could answer, the thirteen of us were ambushed by Shadows, Dusks, and one other kind of creature we never faced before. They were sleek, humanoid creatures with blue skin, arms and legs ending in points without distinct digits, a triangular head with two long, jagged, lightning bolt-shaped antennae, and red eyes set in an angry expression. They all moved in a jerking, twitchy motion as they cornered us to the fountain.

"Okay.", Montecito said. "So the black ones are Heartless, the silver ones are Nobodies, but what are the blue ones?"

"I'm as clueless as you are, Montecito.", Sora answered.

"Same here.", added Riku.

"In any case, we should fight, right?", asked Messerole as he brought out his wind-and-fire wheel.

"You said it.", Wizard answered as everyone else brought their weapons out. We all battled. As usual, Sora rushed at them head-on. Riku did hit-and-run, which consisted of slashing forward, then jumping back to avoid an attack. Kairi followed Riku's example, but did it other way around; dodge, then strike. Wizard fired away with his GunDeLuna, dodge-rolling any attacks headed for him.

Euryflavia swung her vibro-mace around as she rushed the Shadows, Tychophon supporting her from above by shooting down anyone who tries to attack her from behind. Messerole swung his weapon about, taking out anyone who approached Aquanax, who was firing her cannon.

Volgoth rushed in like Sora, Keyblade in hand. Wait! What?, I thought to myself. He has a Keyblade?

This Keyblade had a motif of one particular spherical creature. The teeth of the Keyblade resembled two of those creatures with their mouths open, one small pointed upward at the tip, and a bigger one situated where the 'teeth' would be. The shaft consisted of four colored 'ghosts' stacked one on top of the other, the bottom one connected to the round guard, which had two medium white spheres on either side of it. The Keychain resembled that of one of the ghosts. I would later find out its name to be the Spirit Belcher.

As I shot down a couple of Dusks, I saw that Foltaggio had one too, and he was swinging it around like a pro. This Keyblade's shaft was like a katana, and would very well be one were it not for the teeth that looked like kunai. Its guard resembled a wind-blade shuriken, and the Keychain resembled another kunai. It's name is Sealed Weapon.

Babolino was using what looked like a pink version of Barret's old Gun-Arm. It turned out to be detachable as both his hands were perfectly fine. As he fired sparkling bullets, Montecito was using a blaster of sorts that fired goo. As the goo hit the Dusks he was aiming for, it seemed to corrode and destroy them, though it did not seem to continue to the ground.

This fight continued for several minutes. While the Heartless, Nobodies, and blue creatures were not very strong, they were numerous. For every one we took down, another one took its place.

"Just great.", Messerole complained as he got back his wind-and-fire wheel after he threw it at an oncoming Dusk. "They keep spawning like… like…"

"In any case, we can't fool around any longer.", Wizard said as he dodged another attack from one of the blue creatures.

"I got an idea!", Babolino said as he summoned orbs of light and shot them into the air. He then summoned…a Gun of Light, which appeared in his other hand, called PixieShot. It was colored pinkish-purple, and he fired little spheres of light (more like sparks) from it. These sparks hit the orbs and they exploded in light, dissolving the Heartless and Nobodies in light. Some of the blue creatures, however, stuck around.

"Nice work there.", Montecito said as he tackled one of the blue creatures who was coming at him from the side.

"Guys? Who are those?", Tychophon asked as he pointed somewhere in the distance. I turned to look and I saw that they wore strange metal helmets with three red lights on top, formed like a triangle. Their eyes were also somehow concealed in them. They had rifles slung over their shoulders and had kneecaps and shoulder plating on their dark blue uniforms. (12)

"Must be the local police force.", Babolino assumed. "We could use their help."

Just as they were about to reach the Fountain Court, the first officer bumped into a Beehive Barrier that surrounded the area.

"That's not good." said Riku as the other officers bumped into it as well.

"What's that?", Babolino asked as the others continued to fight the blue creatures.

"A Fighter Limit Barrier, but I call it the Beehive Barrier.", I explained. "It keeps anybody from entering or exiting it."

"Why call it Beehive Barrier?", Volgoth asked as he vanquished one of the creatures, which was consumed in a dark flame, compared to the Nobodies, which are enveloped in light, or the Heartless, which 'collapse' into mere darkness, sometimes releasing a Heart.

"Because it's designed with hexagons rather than merely part-spherical."

"Okay."

"Me sense someone.", Volgoth said. "Someone evil."

"You guess right.", a mysterious voice said.

All of a sudden just as we finished off the last of the blue creatures, a Dark Corridor appeared, on top of the fountain and somebody in what is basically the white version of the Black Coat emerged from it. The figure took off its hood and we saw that this person had long, flowing silver hair, purple skin, and yellow eyes.

"Well hello there." it said.

"A Nobody?", sneered Wizard.

"You guess right." I palmed my face for some reason.

"An unknown member of Organization XIII that we missed?", Sora guessed, anger on his face.

"You guess ri—I beg your pardon! Where is it said that the Organization is the only group with strong-willed Nobodies?"

"…"

"Didn't think so. I see you have managed to defeat the Unversed. Although I didn't expect to see so many of you here."

"Unversed?", Aquanax asked. "What are they?"

"Why should I tell someone who's about to be finished off? Before I do that, I'll be kind enough to give you my name for you to remember in the afterlife."

"What might this name be?", Foltaggio asked.

"…Shazed." Shazed then snapped his fingers and more Heartless appeared.

"Shazed?", I asked, not knowing why. "What is that an X-anagram of? There isn't even an X in it."

"Just because I'm a Nobody doesn't mean my new name should be an X-anagram of my original. That trend applies only to Organization XIII. Now, enough useless talk!"

Shazed then summoned a black polearm and rushed at us, starting with Riku. Even as the purple-skinned man attacked with breakneck speed, Riku was able to block them with little difficulty. Shazed then jammed his polearm to the floor and dark energy pulsated from it, sending shockwaves all around. As most of us were pushed about, as he fought the oncoming Heartless, Foltaggio made a stance. All of a sudden, as Shazed started to head for Riku again, he seemed to be stuck to the ground.

"What?", he gasped as he pulled his polearm from the ground and removed the darkness…revealing a shadow that seemed to bind his with Foltaggio's.

"Shadow binding, eh?", he sneered at the Mynci. "Clever of you to use my dark attack to pull that off." Against my intents, Euryflavia came down on him, but he blocked the attack with his weapon, and pushed her off, sending her right smack into a horde of Heartless. "But that won't stop this!"

Shazed launched a sphere of darkness at Foltaggio, but Riku blocked the blow with his Dark Shield.

"I sense darkness in you.", Shazed told him.

"How—"

"Why are you, a denizen of the dark, with these 'good guys'?"

"What does that have to do with anything?"

"Users of the dark are evil, yet you're not evil. Why is that so? Oh, don't answer. You were once evil, and then you turned to the good side, am I right?"

"And if I am?", Riku asked as he tightened his grip on the Way to the Dawn.

"Then you must die!" With sheer willpower, Shazed broke free of Foltaggio's Shadow Bind, knocking the Mynci off balance, and headed straight for Riku, who blocked his attacks. As the two exchanged blows, Shazed was then hit by a blob of goo from Montecito. It didn't corrode on him like it did with the Dusks, but it hurt him real good as he got himself involved with the rest of us.

During this mayhem, Sora found Shazed trying to attack Wizard. He performed Strike Raid at him, knocking him over. Kairi was about to bring her Keyblade down on him when he sunk into the floor using the darkness. Shazed then reappeared behind and was about to strike her when a poofy cloud appeared between them…and Shazed's polearm caught by a rod of sorts. It was wielded by a dark-skinned boy in a black shirt and a red cape with a hood up. On his other hand was another one of those 'rods'.

"I guess no one's told you it's impolite to hit girls, eh?" he said.

As I looked at him, I had an idea on who he was. He quickly used his other 'saber' to hit Shazed, who dodged the attack. The boy then hugged Kairi and they vanished in a poofy cloud.

"Kairi!", yelled Sora.

"Don't worry.", I assured him.

There was another cloud poof and Sora turned to his right. Sure enough, there was Kairi and the boy. As he let go of her, he turned to Sora and said, "I'm guessing you need help?"

"We sure do…Jerry, was it?", I answered.

"Yup. Told you we'd meet again."

"You know this guy?", Sora asked me.

"Uh-huh. Met him once before during the Battle of X000 Heartless, when I sent Goofy back to the HBRCHQ when the rest of you thought he was dead."

Shazed was really getting annoyed right now and yelled, "Who the hell to you think you are?"

Jerry took down his hood and introduced himself. "Jerry Estevez, member of the late Royal Guardians of Radiant Garden."

"One more won't stop me.", Shazed said as he charged for—

"I got it!" A giant fireball flew in front of him and exploded.

"Come on!" A shield spun through the air and he deflected it. It was then followed by a short beam of light which hit him in the head. Then one of darkness that barely hit Shazed's side. He was then pelted by a couple of little fireballs, which was followed by a bolt of energy. Finally, a pair of flaming chakrams struck him down. I turned to where the attack came from to see a Dark Corridor disappear behind seven figures. Those figures headed our way as they dealt with the last of the Heartless.

"Donald! Goofy!", yelled Sora.

"Django!", yelled Wizard.

"Mickey!", yelled Riku.

"Joe!", yelled I (13).

The sixth figure had white skin, red eyes, purple hair, and clothes of black, black boots with spikes, and a periwinkle tattered scarf in comparison to Django's red.

The seventh figure had white hair in short bobs, silver futuristic armor, black gauntlets, shining knee and elbow caps, white combat boots, long silver socks, worker earmuffs (currently not worn), an a jetpack. She also held an futuristic rifle that looked like it fired energy bolts. Lining it were seven gems, one square ruby, one hexagonal garnet, one (smaller) square topaz, one octagonal emerald, one diamond-shaped sapphire, one triangular amethyst, and one spherical diamond.

"Wait.", Montecito said. "Who threw the flaming chakrams?"

"They're not chakrams!", Messerole countered.

The Kacheek's question was answered as a very familiar figure emerged from a Dark Corridor and came up from behind Sora.

"Yo, Sora.", he said. "It's been a while."

"A-A-Axel?", Sora managed to gasp. Kairi was speechless. I was moderately dumbstruck.

"Now this is way too much for one to handle.", Shazed complained. "I best be off." With that, he disappeared inside a Dark Corridor and the Beehive Barrier dissipated, allowing the cops to come in. And the first thing they did, since the enemy was dealt with, was—

"You're under arrest!", one of them declared to Jerry, who drew his sabers in a fighting stance.

"Huh?" I was confused. "What did you do, Jerry?" The dark-skinned boy just sighed.

"Stop!", yelled Mickey. "He is not to be arrested."

"What, Your Majesty?", replied one of the cops.

"He is to come with us."

"I see." These officers knew that if a king wanted a criminal, he would get him. They saluted the King, then went on their way.

"Thank you, Your Majesty.", said Jerry with a bow.

"Your Majesty!", Kairi greeted.

"Hey guys! How've you been!", said the small monarch.

"Who are these people?", Kairi pointed out Joe, the white-haired woman, and the purple-clothed boy. "And how did Axel come back?"

"We can get to the introductions and explanations later, but first we have to discuss important matters. We can talk about them on the way and after lunch. Are there any good places to eat around here?"

"I know of a good place.", Jerry stated. "You are King Mickey, am I correct?"

"Yes I am. And you must be Jerry, right?" The boy nodded. "Good, now we have everyone."

Suddenly, I experienced something I never thought I'd feel again; a vision.

-vision-

Somewhere far from Radiant Garden.

"I believe I discovered where she is.", said Shazed.

Ten of his eleven companions gasped in shock from what they heard. The one who didn't merely made a thoughtful face. Looks like the plans were to continue after all.

-end vision-

Like all the other times before, I didn't tell anybody about it.

Part III. The Plan

Many of us had numerous questions. What were the Unversed? Who is the pale-skinned boy? Who is the white-haired woman? And how is Axel alive?

Turns out there were also questions for us. Who are the four new companions accompanying us? And who are the four yellow 'Neopets' who were with me? How is it that two of the Neopets got Keyblades? Are they really Keyblades?

All of these were eventually answered, but not necessarily in order.

The pale-skinned boy in purple was Sabata, the Dark Boy, and a relative of Django.

"Our ancestral namesakes are brothers.", he reminded the Solar Boy. "We…are just cousins."

"Okay, Sabata. Don't need to keep reminding me."

The white-haired woman was Crystal White, an acquaintance of Joe's in his younger days who sailed across the stars as a mercenary. She was suggested to this quest by him, who also wanted to go on an adventure.

"My home?", he said as I asked him about that. "Don't worry. Crazy as he might be, Crazy Dave can maintain it while I'm gone."

"Okay."

Mickey explained the reason how Axel was able to return. Since he and his Original's Heartless have been vanquished, the latter sometime during our quest to stop Organization XIII and Anarchy Force, both halves have reconstructed the Original Lea, leading to his return. Even though he's not Axel any more than Sora is Roxas or Xehanort is Xemnas, he has somehow retained his Nobody's memories and powers and even believes and feels he was Axel.

After being introduced to the eight new Neopets, Mickey then asked how are two of them wielding Keyblades and one a Gun of Light, Wizard cut in and said that he will explain later.

Jerry then introduced himself to us and we did likewise, me included as I never gave my name when I first met him.

As we bypassed a shop (named Recettear, which I noted for some reason), he introduced us to a recently opened fast food restaurant called Kentucky Fried McBurger King. (14)

What a mashup of the stores from my world., I thought to myself as we looked at the store.

"Alright then.", said Mickey. "Let's eat. I'm paying for everybody."

We entered the fast food store and made our way to the counter. The cashier greeted us warmly, not thinking of most of us as weird. After all, what would you think if you saw an anthropomorphic mouse, duck, dog, gecko, monkey, and two other 'furries', not to mention a cat with two strange appendages next to its ears, a rabbit-squirrel hybrid, a small dragon, and an alien?

"Welcome to Kentucky Fried McBurger King, sir. May I take your order?"

"I'll have a roast beef sandwich!" Sora.

"I'l have a tuna melt." Riku.

"What he's having." Euryflavia.

"A fruit salad for me." Kairi.

"What she's having." Montecito.

"Two servings of lasagna." Me.

"A club sandwich.", Aquanax.

"Just a plain omelette." Tychophon.

"Fried fish." Volgoth.

"A bowl of ramen." Foltaggio. (15)

"I'll have a cheese sandwich." King Mickey.

"Two slices of apple pie." Donald.

"Same as him." Babolino.

"Chicken salad for me, a-hyuck." Goofy.

"Two chili dogs." Django.

"Veggie burger." Sabata.

"Jumbo hotdog sandwich." Joe.

"A serving of tempura. Fried shrimp." Crystal.

"Pepperoni pizza, two slices." Lea.

"I'll have two, too." Wizard.

"Me too." Messerole.

"Me? I'll have one 'Baconator' burger." Jerry. "And…"

KHKHKHKHKH

There wasn't enough room in the diner for the twenty-two of us, which was twice that of the Lumus Squad that fought against the Crescent Alliance and Organization XIII, and that consisted of Sora, Donald, Goofy, me, six of the seven members of Team Meridell, and Kairi, making eleven. Because of that, we had to take-out our order. As we walked the streets of Radiant Garden, carrying our food (and more ordered by Jerry), Jerry led us to an run-down orphanage, went up to the door, and knocked on it. It was answered by a blond girl with glasses in a maid's uniform.

"Jerry.", she greeted. "Who are these wonderful people with you?"

"Hello, Ms. Delaney. This is the King who sent the letter to me." Jerry indicated King Mickey.

Ms. Delaney curtsied in front of the monarch and said, "It's an honor to meet you, Your Majesty."

"Likewise. Is this where Jerry lives?"

"Most of the time."

"Most of the time?"

"I'll explain later. Please come in."

KHKHKHKHKH

Inside the orphanage, we sat around the big table in the dining room. Eating with us were about a dozen kids.

"So that's why Jerry ordered lots of food.", Django realized as we all dug in. As we had our meal, the kids were occasionally playing with my Neopets, Ms. Delaney was explaining to King Mickey what she knows about Jerry, the NA agents (including Wizard) were making small talk with the others, and Kairi was talking to Riku and Sora. As for me, as I didn't exactly have really good social skills, I ate my food slowly, savoring the taste. Although on occasion, somebody would talk to me, and I'd answer their questions accordingly. Other than that, I didn't talk much.

After we all finished our meal, Mickey asked to have the room for ourselves for a while, and Ms. Delaney accepted. After she and an elderly man named Mr. Dotson led the little kids out, Riku turned to the King.

"So, Your Majesty.", asked Riku. "Why are we here?"

"To be totally honest, I'm not completely sure myself.", replied the king.

"What?", gasped Jerry.

"Allow me to explain. After I returned to the castle, I had a dream."

"A dream?", asked Babolino.

"Yes. I was on a stain glass platform." Sora and I listened intently, having once had a dream like that before. "In the dream, I was confronted by three figures in monk's robes. One of them seemed to be of the same race as Pollonaire, who once traveled with Sora and company."

"Neopets?", Volgoth whispered to Foltaggio.

"One was in black robes, his head resembling that of a wolf, his fur was purple, he had black hair, and he called himself David.", the King continued. "The one who had a likeness to Pollonaire was colored orange, had yellow hair, and was named Hayden. The third reminded me of a toad…or frog, his skin seemed to be a perfect split between orange and purple, he had brown hair, and his name was Joel. They told me Wizard would deliver something very important."

"What?" asked Sora.

"These.", Wizard said as he pulled out the bag from his back and emptied it. Out came three shining boxes. They all had a tube-like protrusion on one side. The side to its left were two lights. On the top was what looked like a crystal ring.

"What are those?" asked Kairi.

"It's supposed to classified, but…they are dispensers for what are called Crystal Rings.", he explained.

"Crystal Rings?"

"If given to the right person, they can grant him/her/it the power to wield a Keyblade, a Gun of Light, or a Fusil of Shadows."

"You've heard of the Fusils of Shadows?", Mickey interrupted.

"Yes. I was told about them in a dream by one of such wielders as you've seen."

"What?", asked Sora. "Why do we have to do this?"

"From what I have been told, something horrible will happen and many of these wielders will be needed to combat it.", Mickey answered Sora.

"What is it?", asked Aquanax. "What's so horrible that will happen?"

"I don't know, but it was prophesied by the Goddess of Order Cosmos.", said the king.

"Might I ask how are these Crystal Rings made?", Crystal asked Wizard. "From what I see here in this contraption, it seems to be artificial. Are you sure there will be no entities or any such bringing down their divine wrath upon you or anything like that?"

"No. As a matter of fact, an entity came and actually approved of this. As for how these were made, it was when one of our agents, Sir Pollonaire, took interest in the Keyblades and the Guns of Light and gathered data."

"When was this?", I asked.

"During the conflict against Organization XIII and Anarchy Force. And when Kairi was training in Neopia while Sora and Riku took the Mark of Mastery Exam."

"What else is there about the Crystal Rings?", Crystal asked.

"After defeating Xemnas and coming home, the data was sent to our research team. After 9 months, the Crystal Rings were made. From what we found out, only Keyblade wielders, Gunners of Light, and presumably Fusiliers of Shadows can use these rings. We tested these on some of our agents and…well, that's how Foltaggio and Volgoth got Keyblades." Said two summoned theirs. "Babolino got a Gun of Light and so did Montecito." The former brought out his and so did the latter, which was black-and-white and was called SkunkFire.

There were also oohs and aahs from everyone as they took all of this in.

"So all we have to do is give the Crystal Rings to the right people and we're done.", Sora said joyfully as he stood up. "Let's go and find them. Where are they?"

"All over the worlds.", Mickey answered. Sora was a little shocked from this and he sat down again.

"Well, how are we going to find them all?", asked Riku. "And why are there three dispensers?"

"Sorry, but these were all that we managed to manufacture from the limited and rare resources required.", Wizard said. "We got plenty of rings though. Guess we'll have to split into three groups."

"We need three Gummi Ships, then.", Volgoth said.

"Let's see…", Messerole thought. "We got the Falcon. That makes one. Then we have the Estrella. That makes two."

"And we have the Monarch.", added Donald. "That makes three!"

"Okay. So we got the means to do the quest.", Jerry said. "But what will be the teams?"

"We'll have to discuss about that.", said Sabata.

"Oh yeah. Almost forgot.", the King said. "In the mural where I confronted the Fusiliers of Shadows, I saw you there alongside the three on the mural. Do you have any connection with the three?"

Sabata didn't answer.

KHKHKHKHKH

After a little more discussion on other topics (as well as unlocking a new power of some kind), we left the orphanage, our teams decided. The first one was led by King Mickey, and with him were Django, Babolino, Foltaggio, Joe, and Crystal. The second team was led by Riku, and with him were Donald, Goofy, Sabata, Montecito, and Volgoth. The third team was led by Sora, and with him were Kairi, Wizard, Lea, Jerry, and me (and by extension, my four Neopets). Everybody had agreed with this, but Jerry had a condition and a favor. The condition was that his crime record of him by the RGPD (Radiant Garden Police Department) be cleared, and the favor was that the orphanage be financially backed until it was of middle-class condition. Seeing the orphanage's and Jerry's situation and past, King Mickey decided to accept.

Each group took a dispenser, and left for their separate Gummi Ships. Riku took Data Sora with him for an undisclosed reason. Just before leaving, Crystal gave me a little something out of wood. I took it and my shield appeared on my right hand. It then changed into a shield out of what looked like wood (also feeling the shield trinket in my pocket change). It was slightly larger than my old one, and the 'front' seemed to be lined with cherry blossom petals, pointed in a way as if they were spikes.

"This shield is made out of wood from SCP-143."

"SCP-143?", I asked.

"It's from a company called the Special Containment Procedures (SCP) Foundation. They call it the Bladewood Grove. Their wood can withstand temperatures of 1800 degrees Celsius, tougher and lighter than titanium, and the petals are deadly sharp, believe me. Also, I'd like to give you this."

Crystal gave me a little trinket that looked like a cyan-colored blob-like creature with a black tail that has two eye-spots on it, flipper-like arms, four legs, and a crooked expression.

"Wait…doesn't this look like—", I thought.

"This trinket can be applied to anything, but it's for your shield. When applied, for around ten seconds, whatever it's attached to will turn into that thing and reflect any attacks right back at the attacker. After that, it has to charge for an hour."

"Why are you giving these stuff to me?", I asked. "Lately, I seem to be given lots of useful stuff."

"Well, if you don't want them, you could always give it to somebody else. Who said you had to keep them all to yourself?"

"Oh, right."

"Hey, Crystal!", Joe called, who was gathered with Mickey and the others. "Let's go already!"

"Coming!"

With that, Crystal joined her companions and they teleported to the Monarch. Riku and Co. did the same, but to the Estrella instead. It was now our turn to leave.

"Thank you.", Kairi said to Jerry.

"For what?"

"For saving me from Shazed."

"Oh, no problem."

"Oh yeah, Jerry.", I said to him. "I didn't get to see a lot from you. What else are you capable of?"

Jerry stepped forward and brought out his training sabers to show for all of us.

"You see, while these might not look like much, these can render any limb it strikes numb as if I cut it clean off.", Jerry explained. "I also harness the Force."

"Like Sir Pollonaire.", Kairi said to Sora.

"However, I also use some of the…darker aspects of it. In addition to powers akin to telekinesis, like moving stuff and such, mind tricks, and Force healing, the latter two being Light side powers, I can do Force Lightning." Jerry raised his hand up and shot a single blue lightning bolt into the sky.

"Force Choke, wehre I can…choke others from a distance with less difficulty than doing it by hand." We nodded upon understanding. "Force Destruction, which I can only use for a few times." He concentrated a moderate amount of energy and shot it at a group of trash cans, destroying one and pushing asunder the adjacent ones.

"Traumatize others with Force Fear, a dark version of the mind trick, which I will not demonstrate. I can also do Force Maelstrom, like this." He curled himself up, storing energy as loose dirt began to swirl around the 'bubble around him. He then 'unleashed' the energy he welled up inside, pushing back everything around him, strong enough to have us stumble.

"Force Slow, which work pretty much like Slow magic. Then there's the Spear of Midnight Black, which creates an invisible spear I can hurl at opponents."

"There's also his poofy-cloud teleportation, which I think is not a Force power.", I added.

"You're right.", Jerry said. "We should get going now. How do we get to the Gummi Ships?"

"Like this." said Wizard as he took out a remote device with one button. "Come here and everyone hold hands." We all did as told and once he pressed the button, we were now on the Falcon.

Gummi Ship Time: Random Stuff (15)

As Sora, Kairi, and I showed the rest the Gummi Ship to Lea and Jerry, I saw the latter ask a question.

"Excuse me, Kairi. But have we met?"

"I don't think so?", replied Kairi. "Why?"

"Nothing. I just feel like we've seen each other once before."

"Sorry, but this is the first time I met you."

"Okay then." He said nothing more of this. "Have me met?", he whispered to himself.

"Wait a second. What's that thing?", Lea asked.

I looked and saw a stand of sorts sitting on a shelf. It held a computer chip and three dishes with three different kinds of food.

"Oh, that?", I said. "I don't know how he got here, but he's an adoptable of mine. His name is Gallico, and he's a Varanius I."

"What does he do?", Wizard asked.

"Nothing so far as he's in his Beta stage. Please feed him once a day. All of you, okay?"

"Uhh, sure."

"Okay."

"Whatever."

"Got it memorized."

"Thank you.", I said.

-Yellow Travelers Chronicler- (Sora and me)

-Data Sora's PDA- (Riku)

-Jiminy's Journal- (Mickey)

G. I. Joe

OC for Plants vs Zombies (2009)

A gardener who owns a variety of strange attack plants in his garden. He decided to come so he can see the various worlds outside Radiant Garden.

Crystal White

OC for Bejeweled (2001)

A galactic mercenary who is an acquaintance of Joe. She came under Joe's advice and got interested. She wields a rifle that shoots energy bolts.

Sabata Elacsyerg

Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand (2003)

Django's older relative. Mickey stated that upon meeting the Fusiliers of Shadows, he saw him among them on the mural they were on, hinting some connection. What could it be?

Lea Hergeiz

A Resident of Radiant Garden who was turned into a Heartless in the first invasion of Radiant Garden, resulting in the manifestation of his Nobody Axel. Lea was brought back after his Heartless and Axel ceasd to exist. For some reason, he has his Nobody's memories.

Jerry Estevez

An acquaintance of mine during the Battle of X000 Heartless. Like one familiar friend, he uses 'the Force', although he also uses what he claims to be the darker aspects of it. He also seems to have encountered Kairi before, a sense of déjà vu, but what significant relationship do they have?

Gallico

Valenth (adopted in 2009)

A Varanius I with a calm personality in his beta stage (a computer chip). I own him, but I don't know how he got into our Gummi Ship, or who brought him there.

(1) I live in the Philippines, and this is its national clothing.

(2) As with all openings, spoilers are abound.

(3) Yes, Axel returns from the 'dead'. Not as a zombie, of course.

(4) Yup. That one-shot character in Chapter 53 of Kingdom Hearts Remake, where Jerry was also given an early bird cameo, will be in this story as a side character.

(5) This mask is like that worn by a familiar character who leaves after it's broken, presumably because he is, despite his seriousness, just as cute as the one he's a mentor of.

(6) Despite the impossibility, it's because she (yes, she) is not an albino. I just said that to show how pale she is.

(7) Think Mr. Freeze from Batman.

(8) Yes, I'm featuring Unversed, which are supposedly extinct after Vanitas' demise. The source will be shown later on in the story. If it gets that far before somebody accuses me for plagiarizing. Again.

(9) I theorize that every Gummi Ship has a Transwarp Room for teleporting people down to worlds as the Gummi Ship shuts down and renders itself immune to hijacking.

(10) Radiant Garden is Final Fantasy-based, so I have these Chocobos take the place of horses.

(11) Check the Kingdom Hearts Wiki on Radiant Garden to see what it exactly looks like. It's an area in KH:BBS. Also, if examined closely, it can be noted that Radiant Garden Shops present in Kingdom Hearts II were actually built on the site of the former Fountain Courtyard. In this fic, I'm going through it as if that isn't the case. Or you could think of the 'new' Fountain Court as not the one from BBS.

(12) Imagine the Shinra infantrymen in Final Fantasy VII.

(13) Running gag much?

(14) Yes. I'm inserting places from other games just for the heck of it. One of them will be returned to later in the story.

(15) What? I can't think of a better one. And I know I'm making too many of these notes. Wow. A new record. At least for me.

nightelf37: And here are the credits.

Prologue

Hayden Panettiere as Kairi

Sasha Williams as Fiorina (Kelsie from Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue)

nightelf37 as Rael (as he is me, I won't put any other voice actor for him *wink*)

Barry Gordon as Messerole (Donatello from the 1987 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Cree Summer as Aquanax (Penny from Inspector Gadget)

Annette Toutonghi as Euryflavia (the titular character of the Freddi Fish series)

Jake T. Austin as Tychophon (Diego from Go Diego Go)

James Napier as Wizard (Conner from Power Rangers Dino Thunder)

Kelson Henderson as Montecito (recurring VA in the Power Rangers series)

Bill Duncan as Babolino (another recurring VA in the Power Rangers series)

Dee Bradley Baker as Volgoth (known for many voices)

Selwyn Ward as Foltaggio (TJ from Power Rangers Turbo)

Bret Iwan as Mickey (rest in peace, Wayne Allwine)

Carlos Alazraqui as Joel (the titular character of Spyro the Dragon)

Marc Thompson as David (Casey Jones from the 2003 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

Rachael Lillis as Hayden (Misty from the Pokémon series)

Susanne Blakeslee as Maleficent

Jim Cummings as Pete

Justin Cause as Xin (Dante from Devil May Cry)

Michael J. Hagerty as Autumnus (Sykes from the Inspector Gadget movie)

Dom Deluise as Biggs (Tiger in An American Tail)

Terri Hawkes as Jessie (Serena in the English dub of Sailor Moon)

Cam Clarke as Wedge (Leonardo from the 1987 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

-Well, Leon has a VA. Might as well put in VAs for the other FF8 characters, the cutscenes of which were voiceless-

Matt Hill as Zell (the titular character of Martin Mystery)

Bill Hader as Irvine (Gen. Custer as Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian)

America Ferrera as Rinoa (Astrid in How to Train Your Dragon)

Chapter 1

Haley Joel Osment as Sora

David Gallagher as Riku

Latham Gaines as Shazed (Mesogog from Power Rangers Dino Thunder)

Chris Brown as Jerry (Come on, can't I use a song artist for a VA? Jesse McCartney voiced Roxas)

Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck

Bill Farmer as Goofy

Amy Kudo as Django (got this from the TaiyouWiki)

Kimberly Forsythe as Sabata (got this from the TaiyouWiki, too)

David Hayter as G.I. Joe (Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid)

Priscilla Everett as Crystal (Alexis Rhodes from the English dub of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX)

Quinton Flynn as Lea

nightelf37: Hope you like them.

Onadi: I sure do.

nightelf37: I didn't ask you. Stay tuned!