Chapter 9: Unity Hearts Meets The Dashing Rogues

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They say that without light there's no darkness and when there's no darkness there's no light. Like no hero there's no villains and no villains mean no heroes. Although villains don't rest until they have what they want and the heroes want peace and harmony. That's why Unity Hearts keeps All-Star safe from harm's way, but their peaceful ways will surely change, both their town and their lives. Trippz and her team seem to know that their enemy Alucard has found their town a few months and they don't know why he's there, but all they know is that he's looking for something...or someone.

Sonic encountered him in England while looking for the emerald, Alucard almost made him into a snack, but thanks to the Emerald it managed to save him and he got out before Alucard did anything to the hedgehog. Then the White Lucario that Trippz and Airwing encountered went into Trippz's shop while looking for something and they never had a chance to stop him. Tails and Fuego don't know anything of what's going on, but whatever it may be Unity Hearts WILL be ready for the worst...

~~~~~1 month later...~~~~~

The town was abuzzing in All-Star Town. The sky was clear with the sun shining down it's warmth down the peaceful town, the citizens coming and going their daily routines and errands, and hanging out around the theater, shops, and the arcade. Trippz was with her sister along with the Eds, Knuckles, Tina, Airwing, and a brown dog name Hank. Trippz was looking worried because she saw a bat one night and that bat was her enemy that her dad saved her from.

"I don't know what to do, you guys." Trippz said, looking down. "I think he's coming back to get his revenge on me. I've been enemies with him and now he knows where I live and he'll start seeking me out."

"Maybe we should just move to another town." Double D said.

"No way! We had ourselves settled here and we're not going to move at all too just to have him find us again! This is MY town and I'll fight him with everything I have! Plus I have to protect my sister from him as well."

"I know you will, Trippz." Tina said, smiling.

"She's right," Knuckles added. "With him around who knows what else could go wrong."

"Maybe Heartless running amock in town?" Eddy asked boredly.

"HEARTLESS! AAAAAAH!" Airwing squawked and rams her head through the ground like an ostritch.

Trippz shook her head and said "Guys, don't worry about those stupid black creatures. They won't come near this town without us around!"

"By the way, Trippz" Tina said. "How is Virginia, Sora, Riku, and the others that decided to travel for a while doing?"

"Oh they're doing all right, they've been calling me and sending me letters about their travel and how they're doing so far."

"Well that's good, at least they're okay."

"You and me both."

Just then , their music is interrupted by a breaking news broadcast. "We interrupt this program for the Breaking News report. Heartless has been spotted in All-Star Town wandering around. They don't seem to be attacking anyone for their hearts and seem to be minding their own business. They can only listen to an eyeball with a Mask and a White Lucario."

"HEARTLESS!" Airwing screamed once again, running right into the town. Everyone freaks out and chases after her, but apparently after a little while they lost her. Airwing freaks once in a while when something scares the living days out of her and that aggrevates the team a bit. They get to the park and looks around, but no Airwing.

"That Airwing, I swear!" Double D said. "She's almost afraid of everything; Heartless, Voltemort, Sephiroth, Micheal Jackson, sheesh!"

"Trippz, you need to put that girl on a leash!" Eddy commented.

"Hey, she ain't a dog Fish Face so quiet and shut your trap!" Trippz growled. "Anyway, Airwing could be ANYWHERE!" Tina felt like someone was around spying on them, just waiting to strike any moment now and she kept her eyes open just in case. Double D was too busy looking around behind bushes and other things in case Airwing was hiding somewhere undecent for him that he couldn't handle. But just then, a black and green blur zooms by and Double D felt his hat grabbed and someone laughed. Everyone turned to Double D and saw him without his beany and screamed because either their eyes are bleeding or freaking out. "OMG! DOUBLE D!"

"MY EYES!" Knuckles shouted, covering his eyes. "IT BUUUURRRNS!"

"GEEZ BOY, PAY ATTENTION!" Hank barked, not liking the site he's seeing. Double D ran into a wig store and got a powdered wig, hiding his horrible head.

"Okay, if I ever find that fiend that stole my hat will pay!" Double D growled.

"Don't worry there, Partner. I'll find that runt and teach him a lesson!" Hank then ran off to go find Double D's hat. Everyone else except Trippz and Tina started searching around the town looking for whoever is responsible for the Heartless roaming around town. Trippz and Tina sat down on a bench in the park resting for a while. Trippz was the only one laying back while Tina was looking around for any sign of danger. She felt like something was spying on them, apparently there was because an anaconda tail that was behind them was moving about. This Anaconda was as big as a subway train and it was very long, long to wrap a Dodonga fully. It saw Trippz and Tina all alone on the bench in the park, the anaconda hasn't eaten and was looking for something to eat and he was looking at two meals anyway.

"Mealssssss?" It hissed, staring hungrily over the Grissom Sisters. Saliva dripped from his maw, tongue flicking in and out from it's mouth to see how tasty the two were. Trippz's scent seemed a bit off and Tina's scent smelled sweet. It hisses again "MEEEEAAAALLLSSSSSS" It open it's jaw and readied itself to eat the two girls.

Trippz smelt the Anaconda's scent and looked at her young sister and asked "Do you smell that?"

"What?" Tina asked.

"It smells like an Anaconda is nearby..." The two looked at each other, then looked over their shoulders and saw the Anaconda ready to eat them for lunch. They both screamed "ANACONDA!" And moved out of the way before the giant snake got them into his mouth. Trippz looks at it and says "SHEESH THAT'S A BIG ANACONDA!"

"Wow, it's really big!" Tina gasped, studying the giant snake. The Anaconda got up and spits out the bench, it hisses and looks both at them.

"Are you two my mealssssss?" It hissed, looking at them as it moved it's head to them. They both backed away.

"Uhm...No, we are not..."

"Plus I don't think we would taste very good at all too." Trippz added. "Anyway, you kinda surprised us there too, big guy."

"Then we're...friendsssssss?" The Anaconda asked. The two sisters looked at each other, then shrugged.

"Yeah...I guess we are..."

The Anaconda hissed happily and goes over to the two and coiled around them. It gave them a light squeeze hug, then slithered off. The two sisters sighed in relief. "Trippz, let's not let that happen again..." Tina said.

"Got it..."

With Eddy and Ed, the two Eds are looking around for the fiends that are threatening All-Star Town. Ed sniffs around the ground while Eddy scans around thinking about capturing Heartless and selling them for cash. "When we bag those black fleabags, we can sell them to some freak show for cash, lumpy!"

"Aw, but I want to keep them as a pet, Eddy!" Ed whined.

"And a pet Heartless you will get! You can keep one of the Shamans while I keep the rest to myself!"

"Oh boy, oh boy!" Ed keeps sniffing around and then sees a Shadow Heartless crawling about. Ed points at it like a hunting dog. "THERE IT IS, EDDY!"

"LET'S GET IT!" The Heartless looks at them and shrieks in fear, running away from the two Ed-boys. "COME BACK HERE, I ONLY WANT TO SELL YOU!"

"KEEP AWAY FROM ME!" The Heartless shrieked.

While everyone was looking for the fiends, Honene helps out as well as she too is looking for them. Although she was looking for Double D's hat. Although she was very sweet and fragile, she still had some fight in her since she had a Keyblade to protect herself from harm's way. Plus she was being helpful of supporting her friends since they need the help they can get from the strangers that are running around town with the Heartless. Of course, if the Heartless dared to attack her, she'll just use her keyblade and defend herself. But the Heartless only sees her and go about their business, minding their own.

Honene gets to the middle town and sees Double D's hat laying on the ground. She looks around to see if anyone was around and sees no one. She sighs in relief and picks up the map, but as she picks it up she heard a voice.

"HEY! THAT'S MINE!" someone shouted, Honene shrieks and looks around. whoever shouted at her scared her out of her wits. Apparently that was the Masked Eyeball. He was glaring at her from the shadows. He only came for the hat, but of course her scent was overrealming him. It was her blood that made him want to bite her big time, but he was restraining himself from doing so. If he bit her, it would mean that she won't accept what he is and what he does to newbies he meets. He slaps himself and shook off the hunger he was having in his system. "Must'nt...bite...for...blood." He muttered to himself. Honene looked around and shrugs as she turns around to walk off. The Masked Eyeball came out from the shadows and got in front of her, snatching the hat from her. "Sorry, but this is my prized trophy!"

"Hey! Gimme that, that belongs to a friend of mine!" Honene commanded, wanting the hat back. "He can't be seen without his hat!"

"Well, he should've payed attention. Maybe next time he'll pay close to his surroundings."

Honene grump, glaring at him almost like a child. She sighs and asked "Well...Is there anyway I can have it back?"

The Masked Megapon only had one, but she had to have the guts to do it. He ran his tongue on his megapon-like fangs. "Well...There is one, but you'll faint."

Honene didn't know what he meant by that. "And what's that?"

The Masked Eyeball looks at her, baring fangs at her hungrily. "Because of blood lost."

Honene shrieked and backs away. It was best that she didn't go for it, she would do it but she was scared it was a trick so she didn't risk it. "Uhm...On second thought...Maybe not..." She backs away and turns around as she walked off.

"Yeah, you do that." The Masked Eyeball laughed. As she left he sighed, he felt sad because he met her once again and he had to show off his fangs. Plus if she knew his true power, she wouldn't like him. She seemed sweet, but he didn't know she was fully, never hurt a fly. He thought he may as well go after her and talk to her, telling her how much he feels about her, but he restrains from doing it and turns around as he walked off. Heart-brokened and not even saying a few words about his feelings to her.

Meanwhile, Ed and Eddy were still chasing the Heartless. Hank was about to come around the corner, but the Heartless passes by him and so did the Eds. "What in tarnation?"

"HEARTLESS, HANK!" Ed shouted.

"WE GOT 'EM NOW!" Eddy giggled in glee. They were about to pounce on it, but the same White Lucario that Trippz and Airwing met uses Force Palm on them, sending Eddy to the wall first and then Ed. Hank manage to avoid it and stands there, growling at the Lucario.

"Sorry about that, Eddy" Ed apologized, still has Eddy stuck on the wall and pinned to it.

"GET OFF OF ME!" Eddy shouted angrily.

Hank growls at the Lucario. "HEY YOU! LEAVE THE BOYS ALONE!"

"When you leave MY boys alone!" Growled the White Lucario, glaring at the brown cowdog.

"Your boys? Oh I see...YOU'RE the one controlling these stupid, brainless no-good black farments!"

The White Lucario growls, an angry vein popping out from his head. "What. Did. You. Call. Them?"

"You heard me! So are we gonna do this the easy way or the hard way?"

"Oooh you're in for the beating of your life pal!" Then the Lucario bends himselfs with some metal spiked gloves as they flared with aura. Eddy, Ed, and Hank's jaws dropped to the ground. "And I ain't playing nice!"

"Uhhhh...Did I say those things about those Heartless? I meant the other creatures, eh heh heh..." Hank chuckles innocently. Apparently the Lucario jumps at all of them and attacks them. Few minutes the three were on one pile on each other, bruised and beaten.

"That's what you get for calling my boys stupid!" The White Lucario growled.

"HEY! LEAVE MY PALS ALONE!" Someone shouted, Trippz was the one that shouted and the Grissom Sisters come running in between them and points their keyblades at the white Lucario. "What? You again? Seriouslu dude, we need to stop bumping into each other, it's getting old!"

Tina looks nervously at the Heartless. "Whoa...Too many Heartless..."

The Lucario glared at them. "Your pals called my heartless stupid, no-good and evil; they had it coming!" The Heartless hides behind him. " You gonna try to do the same or can we leave without having to break more noses?"

Trippz looks at him. She didn't know why the heartless would be his. "Your Heartless?"

"That's...strange..." Tina added. Eddy and Ed gets behind them, freaked out. "DON'T LET HIM HURT ME! THAT LUCARIO'S A MONSTER!" Eddy shouted.

"AND HE BENDS METAL!" Ed shouted.

"That's right, MY Heartless! Now get out before I get you out!"

"THIS IS MY TOWN!" Trippz barked. "HOW ABOUT YOU GET OUT?"

"HEY WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO OUR BOYFRIENDS?" Everyone looks to see Lee, May, and Marie Kanker marching towards them. "Oh snap!"

Lee goes up to Trippz's face and growled "You aren't trying to do anything funny, are ya?"

Trippz shakes her head. "No I'm not," Then she points at the Lucario and Heartless. "But he beat them to the pulp a while back."

"WHAT?" The Kankers glares at the Lucario, no one messes with their men so the three sisters jumps on all of the Heartless and the Lucario as Trippz, the Eds, Tina, and Hank made a clean get-away. After finally getting away from the Lucario and the Heartless, they stopped and catched their breath.

"That...was a close one!" Trippz exclaimed. Normally her enemies weren't that threatening but when it comes to dealing with heart-stealing Heartless, it's tough to take them down. But what was strange to her was that Heartless strike fast and steal the heart to feed themselves but they didn't even attack the two Ed-boys nor the Cowdog. Something was up and she wanted to know why.

"Tell me about it!" Eddy agreed. "I mean did you see how much Heartless there was?"

"One is not the lonely number!" Ed explained randomly.

"Guys, it's cool it's gone! So let it be that way!" Trippz said. Tina looks over her shoulder and saw the Lucario and the Heartless once again, this time they were marching...to their direction.

"Uhhhhhh...Sis!" Tina whimpered. They look and saw then charged towards their way.

"OH MY GOD! RUN AWAY!" Trippz screamed. They took off yet again, but the Heartless were too fast and they took them down quickly and stamped something on their backs. Eddy gets up as the Black Creatures leave along with the Lucario.

"What did those things put on my back?" Eddy asked, trying to look at his own back. Trippz looks and it was some sort of symbol; A D and R with a snake on them was printed like a symbol. Another team, Trippz thought. Apparently Trippz was dealing with another group, but the group had a Lucario and Heartless, was it something Trippz was missing? Who are these guys with the letters D and R on it?

To Be Continued...