Chapter 6: The Heartless Mothership
As Mickey and Rayne came out of Paper Mario's world, they transformed back into 3-D people.
Mickey said "Whew, being made of paper for so long was driving me insane!"
The Star Ship was back to the gateways between worlds.
Rayne sat down in the Ship, and thought about Sarah. Rayne really missed her, and was never this far apart from her. Rayne said "Mickey…when will we go back to your Castle?"
Complete silence filled the room.
Rayne said "Mickey…are you there?"
Again, more silence.
Rayne said "MICKEY! Hello?"
Rayne got off his seat, and saw they were on Autopilot. Apparently Mickey was somewhere else on the ship.
Rayne went to track Mickey down, and found Mickey in a room with a lot of machines and technology.
Rayne said "Mickey, I went looking all over for you!" Mickey said "I've been in this room the whole time. Rayne, would you mind giving me your Keyblade temporarily. I want to run a diagnostic report on it."
Rayne summoned his Keyblade and gave it to Mickey.
Mickey put his Keyblade on an operating table of sorts, and pulled out his mini computer. He then ran a scan over the Keyblade.
After pushing several buttons, a report was being printed from the printer.
Mickey looked over the report, at first perplexed, but then said "Aaaaaah, that's why!"
Mickey then gave the Keyblade back to Rayne and said "Rayne, I finally figured out at least one of the reasons why your Keyblade went back to the first Keyblade ever made. The reason why is, the Keyblade is somehow loosing power."
Rayne said "Loosing power? How can that be?"
Mickey said "I honestly don't know. I know it's not because your heart isn't strong, because the Keyblade would never choose a heart that isn't strong. But, the Keyblade is loosing power, and at a rapid rate. And it seems to gain back its power whenever we lock a keyhole and help someone in their world. Strange that it did that. How can a weapon so powerful loose power in such a short period of time?"
Then, over the intercom, the computer said "WARNING! WARNING! INCOMING ENEMY SHIPS! WARNING! WARNING! INCOMING ENEMY SHIPS!"
Mickey said "Computer, what are we up against?" As Mickey and Rayne were making their way towards the Gun Room.
The computer said "Analyzing enemy ships…Analysis complete! 24 Unversed Ships, followed by a Heartless Mothership!"
As Mickey and Rayne scrambled to get to the Gun Room, Mickey said "Oh boy…a Mothership! We're in trouble! Computer, change to Fight Mode, and start analyzing the Mothership! I want a full scan, and intel. Please print the results!"
The computer said "Intiating Fight Mode Controls…Fight Mode Controls engaged! Analyzing Heartless Mothership."
When Mickey and Rayne went to the Gun Room, Mickey said "Rayne, you're going to take the basic Gun Controls again. I want you to get rid of any and all Unversed Ships or any small ships that may come out of the Heartless Mothership. I have to go to a different place within this room!"
Rayne said "Mickey, what exactly is a Mothership capable of?"
Mickey said "Motherships are beasts! Their guns don't shoot plain bullets, their guns shoot lasers, and since it's a Heartless Mothership, all it would take would be one laser to take out not only the ship, but to take our hearts with it! Now, I have to go. You know what to do!"
Rayne turned the red switch on and waited till the ships came into view.
Mickey quickly went to a separate room within the Gun Room and entered an elevator. Mickey then said "Computer, initiate Star Gun Controls." "Star Gun Controls initiating…..password?" Mickey said "King Mickey Rocks!" "User Input received. Star Gun Controls Activated!"
The controls lit up, Mickey pressed a few buttons, and suddenly the ground in the room, lifted up.
Mickey was then lifted to the top of the Ship, where there was a window where Mickey could see the whole sky.
Then, a big pair of doors at the top of the ship opened up, and out came a huge gun.
Mickey then flipped a switch and out came crosshairs on his computer with the radar.
And, the Unversed Ships started to appear, and it started to attack the Star Ship.
Rayne started and was on a frenzy. Kept trying to kill off the ships, but it still took Rayne a while to kill off some of them.
Mickey just sat and waited till the Mothership came. So far, no sign of any Mothership…so Mickey just waited.
Bam! The Star Ship took some damage.
Rayne said "Gosh dang! Why can't I figure this out better?"
Mickey then got out a walkie-talkie looking thing and said through the intercom in the Ship "Rayne! This ship can't take too much damage. It's a nice big ship, but we should avoid taking damage if we can."
Rayne just rolled his eyes and thought You try being in my position!
Mickey kept waiting…and realized something seemed off. The Mothership hasn't come into view at all. Mickey said "Computer, where is the Heartless Mothership?" The computer replied "The Heartless Mothership has gone." Mickey said "Are you sure? Run another scan please." The computer said "Running scan for: Heartless Mothership."
Rayne continued, and eventually all the Unversed Ships were gone.
After that came a period of silence…
Mickey spun his chair all the way around to see if he could spot it. He couldn't see anything.
Mickey looked at his computer, so far nothing was appearing on radar, and the scan was at 70%.
Mickey said "Computer, show me what you've gathered so far."
The computer said "Negative. Not enough information."
Mickey was wondering what was going on.
Mickey drove the Star Ship around, and kept looking around, so far nothing.
Rayne was looking around as well and didn't see anything.
The computer got done with the scan and said "No Heartless Mothership found."
Then, Mickey's ears perked up. He heard something very faint…a faint zooming sound.
Mickey then heard it get louder and faster.
Then the computer flashed red and said "WARNING! INCOMING LASERS! WARNING! INCOMING LASERS!"
Mickey quickly pressed on the accelerator of the ship and flew forward, just barely making it past the lasers, and the lasers were huge.
Mickey then said "Oh no! The Mothership must be in Stealth Mode. Computer, try tracing back the trajectory of the lasers." The computer said "Tracing…Tracing Complete."
The computer then showed the spot.
Mickey turned the Star Ship towards the Mothership, and fired the Star Lasers, which went straight for the Mothership, and hit it, revealing a huge ship, with little fighters coming out of it.
Mickey grabbed ahold of the walkie and said "Rayne, prepare for the worst!"
Rayne readied himself at the controls, and Mickey started to drive the Star Ship and then came the battle.
Rayne was firing like crazy, not even caring if he missed. Rayne was, for once, scared, and didn't feel like caring at this point. He just wanted to get to safety.
Meanwhile, Mickey shot Star Lasers at the Mother Ship, only scratching the surface of it.
Fighters came, and small lasers were shooting all over the Star Ship.
The Star Ship was shot again.
Mickey said "Computer, do a scan of the Mothership please, then verbally tell me the report back please."
Computer said "Scanning Heartless Mothership."
Star Ship was shot again.
Computer said "White Alert! White Alert! The Star Ship has received 41% of damage. White Alert! White Alert!"
It became a frenzy, the fighters kept coming, without mercy, and Rayne was having difficulty shooting down the fighters.
Bam! Another hit on the Star Ship.
Mickey went over the Heartless Mothership, and turned around to go back to it. Mickey noticed the biggest gun on the Mothership charging. Mickey picked up the walkie and said "Rayne I really need some back-up here!" Rayne said "I'm trying as hard as I can!" Mickey said "Well try harder! We're about to get creamed!"
Mickey sent 2 pairs of lasers at the Mothership, the Mothership taking more damage.
Rayne shot down 8 of the fighters, but more and more kept pouring out. Rayne said "This is crazy! I'm never going to catch up."
The Mothership shot the Star Ship, causing more damage.
The computer said "Yellow Alert! Yellow Alert! The Star Ship has received 70% of damage. Yellow Alert! Yellow Alert! The Star Ship has received 70% of damage."
Mickey said "Computer, give me a map of the ship and show me the affected areas." The Computer said "Accessing Ship Map... Ship Map Accessed!" The Computer showed a little square of the ship, and showed that most of the areas of the ship were damaged. The Gun Room, the Kitchen, and a small area in the Analysis room were unharmed." Mickey then said "Computer, how long would a self-repair take."
The computer said "Approximately 2 hours." Mickey said to the computer "We don't have 2 hours! Is there a better way?" The computer said "Negative." Mickey sighed, picked up the walkie and said "Rayne, abandon your station!"
Rayne said "Why? Mickey, we're being practically bombarded now."
Mickey said "Don't question me. Our ship is about to be Star Dust, now I want you to power down your station and go to the main controls."
Rayne thought this plan was ridiculous, but he wasn't going to fight. Rayne powered down his station, and tried to make his way to the Control Room.
Mickey swerved and swerved, avoiding everything he could, but, there was too much coming towards him, and Mickey got hit by the Mothership again.
The computer said "WARNING, WARNING! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! 89% DAMAGE HAS BEEN TAKEN! WARNING, WARNING! RED ALERT! RED ALERT! 89% DAMAGE HAS BEEN TAKEN! 11% POWER REMAINING! 11% POWER REMAINING!"
Mickey saw the controls going in and out of power. The Ship was slowly starting to get destroyed.
Mickey noticed the big gun on the Heartless Mothership almost completely charged.
Rayne ran and ran, noticing the lights going in and out, while hearing the warning. Rayne finally got to the control room, with some controls being completely blown, but some of them were barely on.
Mickey picked up the walkie and said "Rayne, are you at the Control Room?" Rayne said "Yes, what do I do?"
Mickey, still dodging constant fire, said "Listen to me well, because I'm only going to say this once."
Another hit on the Star Ship, causing 95% damage on the ship.
Mickey said "Look near the drivers controls. There should be a small glass door that says "Emergency" on it. Here's what's going to happen, when you open that door, there'll be a big purple button. Press that, and the ship will go into hyperdrive. This doesn't mean, we're going to escape the battle, it just means we're going to be going faster than usual. This is where you'll come in. You have to guide our ship and make sure we don't take damage or run into something. I am going to perform a spell that, if successful, will restore our ship completely, and we can possibly have an upper hand in this battle. I'm counting on you Rayne! Now go, NOW!"
Rayne hopped onto the drivers seat, lifted the emergency door, and pressed the purple button. The ship then changed into a huge star and started going extremely fast. Rayne got ahold of the controls and tried to avoid all the different ships coming at it and the Mothership.
Mickey went down back into the Gun Room, and started to charge up his magic.
Rayne dodged and dodged but scraped a little against the Heartless Mothership and had 97% damage to the ship.
The computer said "RED ALERT! RED ALERT! 97% DAMAGE TAKEN! 97% DAMAGE TAKEN! RUNNING OFF OF 3% POWER! HYPERDRIVE IN CRITICAL CONDITION! HYPERDRIVE IN CRITICAL CONDITION!"
Mickey continued charging and said "C'mon Rayne!"
Rayne swooped over, under, around and through. Eventually the skies were full of Heartless Ships just trying desperately to take out the Star Ship.
The Mothership started to aim the big guns toward the Star Ship.
Mickey charged and charged, going as fast as he could!
"HYPERDRIVE UNSTABLE! HYPERDRIVE UNSTABLE! RUNNING OFF OF 2% POWER!"
Mickey was almost there.
The Mothership then shot it's big lasers.
Rayne quickly moved as fast as he could to dodge the big lasers.
Mickey then was done and twirled fast in the air and hollered "HEALING LIGHT!"
Surrounding the Star Ship was 4 balls of light and they all went around the ship, and the ship itself was starting to restore itself with a light reaching all over the ship.
The controls started to light up again, the lights came on again and the computer spoke "Ship running at 100% full power! All systems go!"
Rayne said "YES!" And the Star Ship managed to barely brush past the huge lasers.
Mickey then wiped his brow, and said "Ok, back to the big gun."
Mickey then went back up and to the big gun again. Mickey said "Computer, Access Level 2 Lasers!" The computer said "Accessing Level 2 Lasers…Level 2 Lasers Accessed!"
Mickey then went to the back end of the Mothership, and aimed the lasers down at it, and fired the lasers at it, but instead of just firing one laser after the other, the lasers just continued to fire and Mickey went across the whole Mothership. The Mothership was fried and went down, and the skies that were full of Heartless Ships all went down with it.
Mickey then went back to the gun room, went to the control room and saw Rayne. Mickey then pat Rayne on the back and said "I knew there was a reason the Keyblade chose you!" Rayne laughed.
Rayne and Mickey then went to the next world that awaited them.