Chapter 4
Z wakes up to the sound of chains. He is sitting in a sack of potatoes being lowered into a giant cannon by a hook and pulleys. "Where's Sora… and Rick?" Z mumbles. The zombie workers getting the cannon ready don't pay any mind to their hostage speaking nor him being awake.
Z looks down into the cannon. Sora is shoved in the bottom of it snoring away.
"Wake?" Z yells at him. Sora keeps snoring; he is more out of it than the zombies.
The hostage right above the cannon squirms as he tries to worm out of the bag. Z swings on the chain. The hook unlatches from the side of the bag and sends him plummeting into the cannon. Sora groans as he feels the weight land on him. Z kicks him in the head. Sora jerks awake. "What the-?"
"Keyblade?" Z asks.
"Who's there? Why does the darkness smell like potatoes?"
"Keyblade!" Z yells at Sora. He hates being jammed in the cannon.
"Ok, ok. Geez, chill." Sora calls the key and uses explosion. The attack makes the cannon burst into pieces and sends all the zombies around it into the surrounding area. Z, also being hit with the spectacular force, goes flying into a tree.
Sora looks at his surroundings. He spots the zombie guards and points his keyblade at them. "how did I get here?" He asks himself.
"Sora?" Z calls out from a high up branch.
"Who speaks? Show yourself!" Sora walks around in a circle with his keyblade ready to attack. The zombies inch closer.
"No, remember?" Z whimpers, his legs are the only things keeping him above the ground.
"Show yourself and I might spare your life."
Z loosens his grip on the tree. The uneven balance tips him off the branch and tumbling to the ground. He lands face first into a mud puddle. "Freckles…" Z mumbles, the sludge bubbles with his words.
Sora jumps at the sound and points his weapon at the fallen boy. "What do you want? And how do you know my name?"
All the zombies attack at once. They shuffle quickly to their prey, but not fast enough. Sora spots them easily and goes into high gear. He throws the first key at the closest leaping zombie and summons two more keys. He throws them with accuracy into two more zombies' heads. After each key hits the target it throws itself back to Sora. The skillful warrior keeps summoning keys until he has a large ring of one hundred keys encircling him.
Sora rises into the air. He calls out "Firaga!" Flames shoot out from each of the keys engulfing the area and everything in it in flames (thankfully Z is close enough to Sora to be within the circle and away from the blast.). The fire quickly burns out revealing the charcoaled landscape. All that is left of the forest for about a mile is ash.
"I guess I over did it." Sora laughs awkwardly and scratches his head. "Well, I better get out of here. Nice meeting you, what ever your name is."
Z lifts his head out of the dirt; his face is completely serious. "Wait." He tells Sora in a menacing tone. Sora stops in his tracks and turns around expecting Z to speak, but the boy says nothing. Before Sora can ask why he was stopped Z's eyes glow blue and a giant wind sweeps the both of them off their feet. Sora yells as he is dragged away to an unknown location.
Sora runs through the forest with Rick not far behind. "How much longer are we going to have to run?" Rick moans.
" Just until we get to where that explosion sounded. That must be where Z is."
"Or his body."
"Think positive!"
"Argh, why couldn't you just drag Roxas with you."
"He was exhausted and has work to do."
"I'm exhausted! I have work to do!"
"Oh, would you shut it!" Sora yells at Rick. Suddenly That Person appears in front of them with a sinister smile on his face. He aims his gun at the two travelers. That Person lets out a bellowing laugh as he unleashes the fury of his gun. The loud bang showers Sora and Rick in a bright light. Both of them yelp and trip over an unseen obstacle. Their vision returns to them a couple seconds later.
They are looking at a waterfall, which is under another waterfall. Rick and Sora sit tied up on a spit of land that floats between the roaring waters one footfall and one of their heads would be within range of the cold running pillars of death. A woman with orange hair and a grey dress smiles at them from a short distance away. Her dress barely shows off her heavenly ankles. The woman looks at her nails without a care in the world.
Sora recognizes her from the moment after he met Roxas. "Hey, you're-"
"Sem." Rick says bitterly. "You are banished, what are you doing here?"
"Who? How do you-?" Sora asked Rick.
"She is one of the dark wizards that created the Soul Consuming."
"How nice of you to have heard of me." Sem says in a sickly sweet voice. "No matter, you shall be dead soon enough and join your friend Z in the after life."
"How do you know about Z! You killed him didn't you." Sora yells
"Yes, I did. And for your first question, I know about everything thanks to my sneaky friend." Sem smiles.
That Person lets out a laugh from behind Sora and Rick. He lets out a gun shot before disappearing once again.
"The Bounty Hunters won't let you get away with this!" Rick yells at the witch.
Sem just laughs. "They already did. Not that they have a chance after I destroyed both Sora and Z."
Sora mysteriously falls from the sky flattening Sem to the ground after. Rick and tied up Sora laugh their heads off. Sora gets up sorely from the fall, "Warn me before you drop me out of the sky, Idiot!"
"The Tomato Eating Champion doesn't look very dead to me." Rick grins.
"Hey, Sora! A little help over here?" The other world Sora asks.
Sora turns toward the two prisoners; "Sorry didn't see you there." He runs over to them and unties Rick and Sora. "Awesome hair," Sora tells the other world Sora. Z gracefully falls out of the sky and lands on a rock between the two waterfalls.
Sem gets up angrily from the ground, "How dare you!" Her face is covered in bruises and her hair is covered in sticks and dirt. Sem summons a giant fireball of dark energy. Sora and Sora call out their keyblades. Rick calls out his ladder. The fireball becomes larger than a house. All that the heroes could think of for a plan is, "This is going to hurt." The waterfalls give the team no where to run, not that they have the time. Sem throws the fireball at them all of the bounty hunters put up their guards. Z jumps in front of everyone with his back facing the dark witch.
"Move Z!" Sora from the outside world yells.
"Freckles?" Z speaks courageously. The dark fireball explodes as it hits Z's back. Small flames reveal an outline of giant wings. Z shakes out the flames and his wings become enriched with color. The owl wings gleam white with speckles of red covering them.
"No. I took your soul, your wings are gone!" Sem yells in dismay.
Z just smiles and folds his wings tightly behind him.
That Person reappears and goes mental. He starts firing shots everywhere. The three bounty hunters block every bullet with their weapons. Sora the leader of the bounty hunters yells, "Door's open!" Five warriors fizzle into existence. The first warrior swings their magical door into That Person. The second warrior trips the enemy with his magical lamp. The third warrior places her magical hoodie of razors onto That Person's face making the man in the stocking cap scream and teleport away(fleeing from absolute destruction). The fourth warrior teleports behind Sem, she takes out her toxic magical squeegee juice and twist her arm around spraying the evil witch in the eyes. Sem backs up as she puts her hands up toward her burning eyes. Sem falls off the spit of land into a waterfall. Warrior number five throws a magical table at her and leaps onto it. The warrior stands on the table as it catches the witch inbetween the rocks and the weapon. The pressure crushes Sem into a box.
The Soras, and Rick clap for the warriors' split-second performance. Number five leaps up the waterfall back toward the group. The Tomato Eating Champion goes off to congratulate his team. Sora from the other world turns to Rick, "We could have fought that witch."
"But not like that! Holy -! That was awesome! And it took what? 10 seconds?"
Sora smiles, "It was awesomely epic; especially that crazy squeegee chick. She is such a ninja. Sem didn't even see her coming."
"Not as beast as table man. That finishing move was beast! I could hear the squish from up here."
"Squeegee chick could so beat up table man."
"Wanna bet?"
Z face palms. "What about home?" Z cuts into the conversation.
"Oh, shoot I got to get back don't I!" Sora runs over to the other Sora. "Do you have a gummi ship or some way to go to other worlds?"
The leader of the bounty hunters thinks for a moment before answering. "I haven't heard of a gummi ship, but I do know someone that can travel to different worlds. Squeegee Master!"
She leaps into attention and gives her leader a salute. "Yes!"
"Were you eavesdropping!"
"…yes."
"Good, then take Sora to the person I was referring to before."
The Squeegee Master gives another salute, "Yes, sir." She takes a quick step toward the Sora of Destiny Islands. Sora flinches and takes a step back. She stretches out her hand to Sora like a handshake. He looks at it cautiously for a second. Sora of Destiny Islands waves goodbye to everyone, "Bye, nice meeting you!" Everyone waves back…well, besides Rick.
"Hope I never see you again!" Rick yells.
"You too!" Sora calls back to Rick. There is a long moment of silence. The Squeegee Master coughs, her hand is still outstretched.
"Sorry." Sora of Destiny Islands connects hands with the warrior and in that instant they teleport into a dark tunnel. The sides are a swirling vortex of black, but the lack of color make Sora and the Squeegee Master seem to glow.
"So… your name is Squeegee Master, right?" Sora asks, trying to be polite.
"Yeah."
"Awesome job, beating up Sem."
"Oh, back there? That was nothing, I beat Sephiroth blindfolded once." She says bluntly.
"Seriously!" Sora jumps in surprise.
The dark vortex fades into a plain white hallway with a door at the end of it. The sound of a doorbell echoes through the space. The Squeegee master reaches into her pocket and pulls out a cell phone, it is flashing red. She sighs, "Well, this is where I leave. Just talk to the people behind the door and they will be able to get you back to Destiny Islands."
"…How do you know I am from Destiny Islands?" Sora asks with great suspicion.
"Long story. Could you sign my shoe?" The Squeegee Master takes out a black sharpie and slips off her left shoe.
"Umm, sure." Sora takes the shoe and the marker.
"Write on the back, by the heel. People tend to puke on the front of my shoes."
Sora shuffles the shoe in his hand and signs it with his name. Some of the marker ink rubs off on his fingers. He hands it back to the bounty hunter. "Thanks, and say hi to Katie for me!" she shouts and flips on her shoe. Then the Squeegee Master disappears. Sora waves, although he is a little late. "Who is Katie? Is she in the room the door leads to?" Sora wonders. He shrugs and turns toward the door with a sigh. Sora puts his hand on the doorknob. The door swings open when he touches it. The speed of the swing flings Sora to the floor. The doorknob makes a loud crack as it hits the wall and sticks in the hole it made.
"Haha, checkmate." A man's voice sings. Sora looks up from the floor. The room is completely covered in splatter paint. Even the chairs and table, where a black and a white figure sit, are covered in the multicolored splotches. The two figures are playing chess.
One figure wears the Organization XIII cloak with the hood up. She drags her arm across the table scattering the chessboard and its pieces. "Why do you have to be so good at this game." She mumbles and crosses her arms.
"It is your fault, Larry, for saying you were bored." The man states; he wears a white lab coat with goggles around his neck.
"Organization XIII." Sora hisses and calls his key. He points the keyblade in a threatening manner at the one called Larry. She doesn't even notice and neither does the man in the lab coat.
"Sorry, I speak my mind. Oh, hi Sora." Sora flinches as Larry mentions his name.
"How do you-?"
"Don't change the subject! Larry, clean up your mess." The man in the lab coat cuts Sora off mid question.
"Ok, what ever you say, gramps." Larry rolls her eyes. Suddenly she disappears and a bunch of dark shadows flash across the room one at a time. Larry teleports back to the table with the chessboard in hand and a sleeve full of pieces. She opens a drawer in the table and dumps all of the junk into it.
"How do you know my name!" Sora yells at Larry. He refuses to be ignored in all this.
"I've met you before, thrice actually. But you know how nobodies are; easily destroyed and easily forgotten." Larry kicks her feet sadly.
"Pull yourself together, Larry." The man pats her back.
"Yeah, yeah." Her voice cracks a little. "Enough about me. Is there a reason you are here, Sora?"
"Um, yeah." Sora puts down his key without making it disappear. "I need to get back to Destiny Islands."
"Well, you came to the right place. Traveling is her forte. Well, along with fleeing but that is a different story."
Larry stabs the man in the ribs with her elbow. "Destiny Islands, right? I know where that is." She straightens her arm and opens up a dark portal.
Sora takes a step back, "How do I know I can trust you?" He puts up his offense.
"What is the worse that could happen? I can't fight. The rest of the organization is obliterated. Anger is needed for revenge. So that is out. Did I miss something?"
Sora just glares as Larry. She groans, "How about this, you walk behind me the whole time. If I do anything threatening you can run me through. Deal?"
Sora doesn't move.
Larry face palms. "Do you want a way to get back to Destiny Islands or not?"
"Ok, deal. No funny business or you are dead, and take off your hood."
"Fine." Larry takes off her hood revealing her lavender colored hair, which shoots out of three short ponytails in the back of her head. "Let's go then." She waves to the man in the lab coat and walks into the great beyond of darkness through the portal. Sora cautiously follows behind her.
"YOU, TRAITOR!" Sora jolts up to a sitting position.
"Wow, you ok, Sora?" Kairi asks, she sits on a chair next to his bed.
"Where am I?" Sora questions looking around nervously.
"In the nurse's office. You got hit in the head with a doorknob. It must have been loose and someone slammed the door or something." Kairi explains.
"Oh…" Sora awkwardly laugh, "Well that explains a lot."
"Have a weird dream?"
"Yeah, there was a lot of random crap in it." A dark mark on his hand catches his eye. He looks at it closer and realizes it is black sharpie.
More Crap about "Box":
Sexy ankles, or heavenly perfect ankles (mentioned in chaps 1 and 4) are a reference to Darker Than Black. The only anime that speaks of beautiful ankles and sexy collar bones. Also the ankle line spoken by Maoi is one of the only good parts of season 2.
Man in the white lab coat with goggles(end of chap 4): Character in Ben 10(kids cartoon) he is called TimeWalker I believe, and appears randomly when needed.
That Person (whole story): A creepy character thought up at work study with a friend while we were inhaling paint fumes (accidentally of course). The clothes he is wearing (suit and stocking cap) is from 4 kids I baby sat who saw That Person shoot and disappear (they said become invisable, same diff.)
What do you think? Hate the story? Love the story? utterly confused? Please comment and tell me what you thought of this Crap.
