KINGDOM HEARTS: SONIC VERSION
Note: Hello everyone. after planning the entire story out, I have seemed to have hit a dead end. I have planned a place for every world except 100 acre woods (Pooh's world). If any of you have an idea, please inform me right away.
Chapter Ten: Crash Course
Hours have passed since Sonic and his friends left the Orre Region, promising to bring Rui back to Wes. Silver's mind was still focused on the king's Gear and the other Gear they found on the previous world.
"It's strange, really." Silver suddenly said.
"What is?" Storm asked.
"When you think about it, the king's intensions don't make sense." Silver said. "The truth of the other worlds is supposed to be secret, yet the king was entrusted Wes with its secret."
"Maybe it just slipped." Storm suggested.
"That is possible." Silver nodded. "But the other thing that's bugging me is how the king knew that the heartless would take Rui. Do you think the King knows something we don't?"
"Aw, you're thinking too much." Sonic laughed. Sonic sped past Silver and stole the new Gear right from out of his hand. "So you said that this Gear is different?"
"Yeah, not even the queen makes that kind of Gear." Silver stated.
"Maybe we should ask Metal about it?" Storm suggested.
"Those were my thoughts exactly." Silver said as he pulled out his portable navigator. "According to this we should reach the next world very soon. After that, we should have a direct course to Traverse Town."
"Hey, is that it?" Storm asked.
The heroes looked down on the new world. The world was a peaceful little island that reminded Sonic of his old home.
"What is that place?" Storm asked.
"According to the navigator, that place is Wumpa Island." Silver explained. "It is said that ancient witch doctor spirits reside there and watch the island."
"Sounds like fun. Let's get moving!" Sonic cheered as he recklessly dived down onto the new world.
"Sonic!" Silver called out, but Sonic didn't listen. But then again, when did he ever? "I swear, he is going to be the death of us one of these days."
Silver sighed in exasperation and reluctantly followed Sonic down to the new world. Storm had no idea what had just happened and just followed after his friends.
---Wumpa Island---
Sonic, Silver, and Storm touched down on the ground and set their Gear next to a nearby palm tree. The island was a perfect paradise, with the exception of the annoying island music.
"Ok, we're here. Now what do we do?" Sonic asked.
"Let's take a moment to think before we react." Silver suggested.
The group grew silent and tried to concentrate on their next move, but became very difficult with the annoying music in the background.
"Will you shut up?!" Silver yelled. "We're trying to think!"
The tribal band in the background packed up their instruments and grumbled something about hedgehogs and music haters.
"There, that's better." Silver said. The tribal band then ran past them screaming. "Looks like I spoke too soon."
The trees started shaking wildly around the group with several howling screeches following. Black monkey heartless called power wilds jumped out and surrounded the heroes.
"Man, don't these guys ever give up?" Sonic complained as he summoned his new Keyblade called the Lugia Blade.
The power wilds swung their arms around and threw solid blows directly at the heroes. Sonic and Silver easily jumped over their heads while Storm's tremendous girth bounced their attacks back. Sonic touched down and rebounded to strike two power wilds in the back.
"Another one bites the dust!" Sonic smirked.
Silver used his telekinetic abilities to hover in the air above the power wild's heads. Silver clapped his hands together and focused his energy to his chest. He reeled back his head and threw it forward to breathe a jet of flame that destroyed three other power wilds.
"Is it just me, or are these heartless getting weaker everyday?" Silver questioned while levitating to the ground.
"Yeah, they're no fun anymore." Storm said. Storm set his eyes on the two remaining power wilds and jumped up to crush them with his behind. "I wish something exciting would happen."
Storm's prayers were answered when a whistling sound filled the air. The heroes looked around the area before looking up to an object falling from the sky. The object then landed in from of the heroes and created a human-like hole in the ground.
"There's something you don't see every day." Sonic said weirdly.
"Actually, we see that a lot." Storm stated.
The creature crawled out of the hole to reveal itself. The creature was a large orange bandicoot with black tuft of hair and black tattoos on his hands (As seen in Crash of the Titans). It wore a pair of blue jeans and dark-red shoes. The creature scratched its head, apparently confused. The tribal band started to play again.
"Shut up!" Silver yelled.
The tribal band once again packed up their thing and complained.
"Uh...hi." Sonic said awkwardly. The creature made no response, it just kept scratching. "Can you hear me?"
"He won't talk. He's a mute." An unknown voice said.
The heroes looked to the sky to gaze upon a floating mask with five multi-colored feathers on its head and green hair growing on the sides.
"Ahh! Talking floating head!" Storm screamed. Storm ran and cowered behind Sonic. "Save me!"
"It's not a floating head." Silver explained. "It's obviously a voodoo mask spirit. Right?"
"That is correct." The mask spirit said. "You are quite intellectual for such a young age. My name is Aku-Aku." Aku-Aku motioned to the scratching bandicoot. "And that is Crash."
"What's wrong with him?" Sonic asked.
"He has flees." Aku-Aku answered.
Sonic and Silver quickly backed away from Crash, but Storm stayed the same since he had feathers, not fur.
"So, Aku-A...you know what, I'm just gonna call you Aku. Aku, do you know where we are?" Sonic asked.
"You are in the southern most point of Wumpa Island, in the ruin area." Aku said. The voodoo mask inspected the new arrivals to the island and then noticed Sonic. "It can't be. After all these years, you have finally returned."
"Returned?" Sonic repeated.
"Wow, I am truly impressed. It looks as if you haven't aged a day. Then again, you and your methods were always too unpredictable, Zoan." Aku said.
"Zoan?" Sonic questioned. "I think you're mistaking me for somebody else. My name is Sonic.
"Oh, my mistake." Aku apologized. "It's just that you remind me of him."
"Anyway..." Silver interrupted. "Why are you and Crash here anyway?"
"Crash and I are on our way to rescue Crash's sister, Coco." Aku explained. "She has been taken prisoner and now is put on trial by our arch-enemy, Neo Cortex."
"Then I suppose we should help." Sonic suggested.
"We can't Sonic." Silver stated. "We can't go mess in other worldly affairs."
"But we have to help them." Sonic pleaded. "If you were in their position, they would help."
"Fine." Silver sighed.
"Follow us. We shall lead the way." Aku said.
While the heroes followed after the mask and the bandicoot, they did not notice Black Doom high above them. With a wave of his hand, he summoned the octopus-alien from the sky.
"Find me the most evil being in this world and send him to destroy the Keyblade Master." Black Doom ordered.
With its mission given, the alien zoomed away into the darkest crevice of the island. Meanwhile, deep in the jungle, Sonic and his friends unfortunately came in contact with more power wild heartless.
"Geez, these guys just don't know how to give up." Sonic complained.
"These creatures have no logic." Silver stated. "So I doubt they even know what that means."
"Let's crush them!" Storm exclaimed.
"Wait." Aku interrupted. "Let us handle this." Aku floated next to Crash's head. "Look, Crash, evil monkeys. Go play."
"Play?" Silver questioned.
Crash was still scratching his fur when he noticed the power wilds. Crash gave a huge creepy smile and twisted his body around. He twirled his body the other way around and created an orange tornado. The bandicoot tornado charged at the power wilds and knocked them down like bowling pins. The heroes had maddening looks on their faces.
"The guy's insane." Sonic said.
"And it looks like he can't stop." Aku said when he noticed Crash twirling out of control through the jungle. "We'd best go after him."
And so the heroes after the brainless bandicoot. Crash, though he was in danger, seemed to be having the time of his life. The Crash twister eventually made it to the ruins of some old abandoned laboratory. Before he could run away any further, Crash smacked into the steel wall and pounded his face into it. The heroes eventually caught up with him.
"Man, this guy is more trouble then he's worth." Silver muttered.
"Believe me; you haven't even seen the half of it." Aku said. Aku inspected the area and gasped in shock. "This is it. This is the place where Cortex is keeping Coco."
"Oh good, I could use some. I'm hungry." Storm said, not realizing what it was he said.
The heroes and the Aku sweat dropped while Crash gave a hungry look as well.
"Two idiots together; bad combination." Silver thought.
"Come on. We better get inside and find your sister quick." Sonic said.
The heroes bravely entered into the abandoned lab to begin their search. Since Aku was the only one who knew his way around, he floated up front to lead the group. Everything seemed easy to them. A little too easy for their tastes.
"It's strange." Silver said. "Why haven't seen any heartless around?"
"Maybe they decided to take a vacation." Storm suggested.
"No, the heartless are relentless and do not give up as easily." Aku stated. "Their must be something of even greater power keeping them away."
"Hey, what's that?" Storm asked while pointing ahead.
Just up ahead was a room with a three large podiums. The first standing at the podiums was a dingo-crocodile hybrid wearing blue pant and a cylinder on its back. The next was large muscular tiger wearing military cloths. The last one was tiny man with a large head and barely any hair. He wore a simple lab coat and black gloves and boots.
"Who are those guys?" Storm asked.
"That is Dr. Cortex and his experiments: Dingodile and Tiny." Aku explained.
The heroes looked down to see a female bandicoot with long blond hair tied up on the ground. She wore blue jeans, a white t-shirt, and blue headscarf in her hair. Aku easily recognized the female bandicoot.
"That's Coco." Aky whispered, trying not to get caught.
"What are they doing?" Sonic asked.
"Quiet. Listen." Silver instructed.
"Well, it took a while, but we finally caught you, Coco Bandicoot."
"What going on? Why are you doing this?" Coco asked.
"Well, it all started when I was six years old." Cortex began to tell his life story. "My mother was planning to send me to summer camp..."
"I mean why have you captured me, idiot." Coco muttered the last part.
"You are to be put on trial for sending those black creatures to steal my heart." Cortex explained.
The heroes gasped at what they had heard. Apparently, the heartless were planning to take the short scientists heart and framed Coco in the process.
"That's insane!" Coco exclaimed. "I have nothing to do with those black creatures!"
"That's what they all say." Cortex ignored Coco's pleas. "Now as punishment, I will use the Evolvo-Ray that created you and use it to destroy you!"
"You wouldn't!" Coco cried.
"Of course he wouldn't!" Sonic exclaimed as he and the others jumped out into the open. "Not as long as we are around.
"Big brother!" Coco cheered.
"Grr! Crash Bandicoot!" Cortex growled. "How dare you show yourself around my base?" Cortex then noticed the other anthro's with Crash. "Do I know you? I don't think I created you."
"We're here to get Coco back!" Sonic shouted. "So hand here over.
"Uh, boss, can we talk for a moment." Dingodile asked. The three villains huddled together. "Boss, we couldn't beat Crash before. I don't think we can beat him with those guys around."
"Your right, we'll have to think of something else." Cortex contemplated.
Meanwhile, Sonic and Silver were waiting for the villains to finish up while storm and Crash were playing go fish.
"What's with these guys?" Sonic questioned. "They certainly don't act like villains. They're cowards."
"Whatever gets us out of here faster works for me." Silver said.
"Ok, we have decided." Cortex spoke. "We have decided to let Coco go free." The heroes cheered. "If you can bring back evidence that she is not the one responsible for those black creatures."
"How do we do that?" Storm asked.
"You'll think of something." Cortex said.
The heroes left the lab with a promise to rescue Coco and started their search in the deepest jungle of the island. Sonic and Crash climbed up and down the trees, Storm searched on the ground, and Silver used his telekinetic powers to look through the skies. Along the way, Sonic was able to find nine dragon eggs, making a total of thirty-three eggs collected.
"Hey, guys, I found something!" Storm yelled.
"You're not the only one!" Silver shouted as he floated down to the ground.
"We too have found something of importance." Aku said along side Crash.
Sonic jumped down from the tree and joined his friends, who were holding boxes shaped like presents.
"Uh...what's with the presents?" Sonic asked.
"Maybe we should check inside of them." Silver suggested.
The heroes agreed with Silver's suggestion. The three opened the presents and held up the items inside. The items were the following: an antenna, a bottle of a strange fragrance, and a rock with claw marks.
"Whoever bought these has strange taste in gifts." Storm said.
"I think they might be clues to Coco's innocents." Silver said.
"In that case we better get back to the lab before they change their mind." Sonic said.
The group turned to run they were stopped by another group of power wilds. But this time, they brought back up. The bushes started to rustle and a new breed of heartless jumped out. The new breed of heartless was a group of tigers made of purple ooze and were called dark tigers.
"Looks like things got a lot tougher." Sonic said.
The heartless assaulted the heroes. The power wilds were easily dealt with because of their great lack of strength, but the dark tigers were much more trouble. Storm wrapped his arms around their heads in an attempt to choke them, but the tigers oozed their way out and headbutted him to the ground.
"Physical attacks won't work on them." Silver stated. "Leave these to me."
Silver formed his energy into his hands and released it to push back the tigers and splatter them to the trees.
"And that's that." Silver smirked.
Unfortunately, Silver did not notice the remaining tiger that hid behind them tree behind him. The dark tiger jumped out from behind its hiding spot and slammed on Silver's back. Silver fell from the weight of tiger and looked over his shoulder to see the dark tiger raise its claw over his head. The dark tiger was prepared to strike when.
"Silver!" Sonic cried.
All of a sudden, Sonic's Lugia Blade appeared in Sonic hand. An unknown force brushed against the trees and suddenly swatted the dark tiger off of Silver's back. The dark tiger flew back ten feet before splattering against a palm tree.
"What...just happened?" Sonic asked shakily.
"I believe it's you're new Keyblade power." Silver said. Silver got back to his feet and walked over to Sonic. "The Lugia keychain gives you telekinetic abilities." He places his hand on Sonic's shoulder. "I am so proud of you."
"If you two are quite finished, we have other affairs to attend to." Aku said. "Don't forget, we must save Coco."
"He right." Silver smiled. "Sonic, once this is job is done; I want you to do something for me."
"What?" Sonic asked curiously.
"I want you..." Silver paused for dramatic effect until. "...To be my apprentice."
"Are you serious?!" Sonic exclaimed in surprise.
"Silver was taught by the greatest mystic in all worlds." Storm explained. "Being trained by him is not something that just anyone can do."
"All right, I accept." Sonic said proudly.
Silver and Sonic shook hands for the first time as master and apprentice. After a long trek through the jungle, the heroes returned to Cortex's laboratory and presented the evidence to the trio of villains. Cortex and his lackeys looked hesitant for a moment, wondering whether to let them go or not.
"Well?" Aku asked. "Is this evidence good or not?"
After taking a few seconds, Cortex dropped his head and sighed. He then started muttering about never winning or something.
"All right, she's free to go." Cortex waved at them.
The heroes cheered for their victory. Crash walked over to his sister and released the rope that binds her. Once free, Coco jumped to embrace her loving brother.
"Aww, I think I'm going to cry." Storm said.
But while all the heroes were busy gazing at the loving family reunion, the villians were devising an evil plan.
"Boss, this is the perfect chance." Dingodile advised.
"Yes!" Cortex cheered. "Now I can be rid of those meddlesome bandicoots once and for all!" Cortex jumped on top of the podium and pulled out a miniature ray gun from his lab coat. "And now. Crash Bandicoot, our rivalry ends here."
"You can't do that!" Storm exclaimed. "That's lying and cheating."
"I'm an evil villian, what'd you expect." Cortex said.
Cortex aimed his gun and pointed it towards Crash's head. He prepared to fire unti Just the room began to shake.
"What's happening!" Coco screamed.
The roof started to give way and began to fall on the evil billians. Cortex and his lackeys screamed like girls and ran out of the lab as the debris fell on the podiums they stood at. From the debris came a gigantic wooden monstrosity wearing a red mask shaped like a skull with razor sharp teeth and six bones hanging from its head.
"It can't be. Uka-Uka." Aku gasped.
"Who?" Storm asked.
"Uka-Uka is my evil twin brother." Aku explained. "I thought I sealed him away, but somehow he got free."
"Yes I did, brother." Uka said. "And now, with this new body, I will crush you and those meddlesome animals!"
"Here he comes!" Sonic exclaimed.
Uka-Uka waved back his arm and threw it forward to create a mighty hurricane of winds that threw the heroes back to the wall.
"Ok, so this is going to be a little tougher then we thought." Sonic said in a daze.
"You don't even know the half of it." Uka boasted.
Uka-Uka's eyes started to glow red and shoot out several deadly lasers. Crash grabbed Coco and the heroes quickly jumped away before they were hit. Storm charged head first, but Uka-Uka merely kicked the bird back with his large foot. Silver and Sonic, using his Keyblade power, attempted to force back the evil mask with their telekinetic powers. But because of Sonic's in experience with these powers, Uka-Uka broke the psychic binds and used his eye laser to blast the heroes back with Storm.
"Man, he's unstoppable." Sonic said.
"Looks like this is it." Silver gave up. "Look's like we won't get to those lessons after all."
Uka-Uka chuckled manically as he made his approach to the heroes. The bandicoot could only watch as their friends were close to death.
"We have to do something!" Coco exclaimed.
"But what can we do?" Aku asked.
The two looked to the side to find Crash scratching his flees. Then Coco was struck with an Idea.
"Oh, big brother." Coco sang to get her brothers attention. "If you beat the bad guy, I'll make you pancakes."
Crash jumped up with a cheer at the word and started spinning like a tornado. Uka-Uka made a grab for the heroes when the Crash tornado came out of nowhere and buzzed off his hand. The tornado turned its direction back at Uka-Uka's body and started buzzing around his entire body. When the tornado was gone, Crash was standing next to a totem pole with Uka-Uka's mask at the top.
"Let...me...out!" Uka screamed from inside the totem.
"You did it, Crash!" Storm cheered.
"I guess that's one way to win." Silver chuckled.
"Congratulations, you three have done it." Aku said. "Without your help, we never would have found Coco and now Uka-Uka is forever trapped, peace can once again prosper. At least until Cortex tries to come up with another failed scheme."
The heroes smiled proudly until Uka-Uka's forehead started glowing and formed the shape of a keyhole. Sonic's Keyblade reacted and fired abeam at the keyhole to lock it. the keyhole disappeared, leaving behind a Gear.
"Well, there's something you don't see everyday." Silver said while picking up the Gear.
Later, the heroes met up at the shore of the island to say their goodbyes.
"Have a good trip. We'll miss you." Coco said.
"Same here." Storm smiled.
Crash walked up to the heroes and gave them a high-five since he couldn't talk. Now all that was left was Aku-Aku, who had remained silent the entire time and stared at Sonic.
"I just can't shake it." Aku said. "You remind me so much of Zoan, it's eerie."
"Well, if we see this Zoan guy, we'll tell him you said hi." Sonic said with his signature thumbs-up.
"May you be safe in your travels and let your hearts guide you home." Aku said wisely.
With that said and done, the heroes jumped on their Gear and shot up to the sky. The three looked back and waved goodbye to their new friends. They also laughed as Crash started spinning all the way back home for pancakes.
"You know, he might not be bright, but he is a good friend." Storm said.
"Yeah. He's so good; he even left us a going away present." Silver said in distress.
Storm looked back at his finds and found them scratching all over their bodies. Apparently, some of Crash's flees decided to move to a better location. Storm sniggered silently at the comedic scene his friends were making.
"Someone get a flea color!" Sonic yelled at the top of his lungs.
Meanwhile, the same black coat figure from Sonic's island was watching as Sonic and his friends left the world. In his hands was the mask of Uka-Uka. After one simple glance, the mask was shattered to pieces and a heart flew into the figures hands.
"So, they now know of Zoan, eh?" The figure said without feeling. He took the heart and consumed it within the shadows. "Looks like things are finally starting to get interesting."
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