One Wrong Turn Turned Right
Author's Note: Please note that the game, Kingdom Hearts, its characters and plot are the property of Disney and Squaresoft/Square Enix. In short, I do not own any part of the game, which includes characters, Items, and plotlines. I would like to inform the audience that I do own the following Characters: Blastbone (Blaster) Clarkson, Charlotte (Char) Amaturie, Wendy Ulrich, Cody Antaturk, and the Bellerophon's AI Computer.
Chapter 4: The Trial
Soon after landing, the group of five soon found themselves in a room in which there was a small door. So small, in fact, that there was no way for the group to get through it, yet the white rabbit that ran by them was miraculously shrunk to fit through the door. A bed hid a second door, and a table appeared with two bottles. The doorknob said something about drinking one of them, and it was deduced that the blue one would shrink the group.
Once shrunk, the crew ended up in a courtyard where cards were standing guard. The rabbit quickly ran to the top of a platform with a horn in his hand. Across from him was a sort of stand that seemed to be damaged by some sort of flying object, which had also imbedded itself in the wall separating them from the courtyard. The nose insignia was instantly recognized by Cody and Blaster, as it had made it completely through the wall, and there was a door underneath it. Blaster ran into the head of the small ship, which was unguarded, and found that the damage was extensive, but repairable. Looking through the back airlock, the rabbit had just called the court to order, in which two girls were in a defendant's stand across from the judge: the Queen of Hearts. One of the girls Blaster recognized as Char.
"These girls are the culprits," The queen accused. "And the reason is…because I say so."
"That is so unfair!" the other girl said. She was in a blue dress with blonde hair.
"Objection, your honor!" Char shouted. "You have no proof that we are the culprits you are looking for!"
"I find the defendants," the queen continued, "Guilty as charged!"
"On what charges?" Char demanded.
"Crimes of assault, destruction of royal land, and the attempted theft of my heart," the queen accused. "Off with their heads!"
Everyone moved at once. The cards moved to take out the two girls, Sora, Donald, and Goofy ran forward through a gate opposite the Queen's chair, and Blaster and Cody jumped out of the rear airlock, blades drawn.
"Stop right there!" Sora demanded.
"Who are you?!" the queen demanded.
"That doesn't matter!" Blaster said. "We are here for our friend, and our ship, and then we will be on our way, after repairing your court yard."
"As for, your heart thief," Char added, confident with her friends arrival, "those are heartless."
"What?" the queen said. "I need proof. You give it to me and I may set your friends free."
The other girl, who's name is Alice, was escorted to a cage to the left of the queen. When the guards found there was no cage for Char, Blaster stated that he would stay with her while the others were away, gathering evidence. He escorted her to an area within view of the queen, but out of earshot of the card guards.
"What happened?" Blaster said.
"Well, I woke up in some strange place really close to the darkness with Wendy," Char said. "We were captured by heartless, brought before some members of an evil group led by a witch named Maleficent. We were able to escape our cells, but I was forced to leave Wendy behind. I'm sorry!"
"It's okay," Blaster said, putting his arms around his friend. "I'm sure she will be just fine. What about the ship?"
"I was only able to take the nose of the Pegasus, as the other parts were too damaged to fly," Char replied. "I did everything I could in the short period of time I had to try to fix the ship short of actually stopping time"
"Well," Blaster said, "I have a program in the ship that can track down the other parts of the ship, and the Crux Stones." He motioned to one of the card guards. "You two keep an eye on her, while I try to fix my ship." Two card guards, namely the Ace of spades and the five of diamonds, stood right next to Char, their blades precariously close. "And don't get any ideas because we will have a royal smack-down if you do!" The guards quickly brought their blades back as Blaster climbed into the ship, climbing back out to weld some holes up, and to replace the rear landing gear.
With the help of Char, the 2 guards, and some other solders, Blaster was able to push the nose of the ship clean through to the other side. Using the decent thrusters, he also fixed the forward landing gear. He then made adjustments to fix the shield a bit, and made the weapons operational. He had the guards set up a target wall, and adjusted the beam weapon until Char was shooting straight ahead. Once everything was repaired on the ship, Blaster used some sort of warping technology and his mind to help close the gap, get rid of the "scar," and rebuild the stand, in which Char was now being held, with Blaster at her side, his keyblade still in the ship.
Sora, Donald, Goofy and Cody all returned about 5 minutes after Blaster finished his work. When they presented their four pieces of boxed evidence, the queen added a fifth, which was her evidence, and shuffled the boxes up and said that Sora could only choose one, and she would make her decision based on the evidence given. Sora opened up the middle box to reveal Goofy, Cody, Donald, and Blaster, who were all immediately inside another cell, which came up from the ground. Alice was raised towards the sky and had a curtain put around her cage.
In the center of the courtyard was a tower that raised Alice to the top of the little elevator. Sora began to attack it before Blaster took his keyblade, with his mind, and partially because it wanted to come to him, and attacked the cage, until it broke. The whole group attacked the tower and the surrounding guards, with the exception of Char, who had to go to the Ship in order to get a sword. She was back in a matter of seconds, but the tower was finally destroyed. However, Alice had disappeared during the battle because the cage was empty as it was brought back down to earth.
"So, how is our little escapee?" Maleficent said as Wendy woke up again. "I want to know where your friend is, unless you would rather become a heartless."
"As if," Wendy said, struggling against her bonds of darkness. "My people have a policy that I will not give up the location of my friends. To tell you the truth, I have no idea where she went."
"You are so determined to become a heartless, aren't you?" Maleficent began to expel green flames from her body, as she began to cast her spell. With as much strength as she could muster, Wendy broke free of her bonds on her leg to cause Maleficent to lose track of what she was doing.
"How's it coming?" Hades said, walking in.
"This one will not give up her friends," Maleficent said, very angrilly. "Looks like I will have to turn her into a heartless to get what I want."
"Sorry, but other things are beginning to come up," Hades said. "We may be having some problems with the little twerp and her friends." Wendy glared at Hades, as he turned away, adding to Maleficent, "We already have the others ready and waiting. This meeting is important."
Wendy soon found enough strength to release herself from her bonds, only to realize that she had no way off the rock of the world. Even if she could fix the rear section of the Pegasus, she couldn't fly it because the steering and navigation were in the forward section. Instead, se decided to try to sabotage the base, and disappeared into a ventilation shaft.
What is Wendy going to do? Why did Hades say there were problems? What could have happened to Alice? And why am I asking 20 questions? The last one is because I really want you to be interested in getting the answers to these and more in the next chapter.