When the Enterprise came out of the wormhole above Coruscant Commander William T. Ricker called Captain Jean Luc Picard to the bridge. When Captain Picard stepped off the turbolift he asked his second in command.
"What is number one?" Captain Picard asked.
"Sir," Ricker said, "we have arrived at Coruscant like you asked,"
"Thank you number one. I'll take over now. Mr. Worf hail the Jedi Temple,"
"Channel open," Lieutenant Worf said in an almost emotionless voice.
"This is Captain Jean Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise. I have arrived as I was instructed to by Grand Master Yoda." On the viewscreen came the live video of the Jedi Grand Master with a smile on his face.
"Welcome," Yoda told Jean Luc, "back to Coruscant Captain. Pleased I am to hear your voice. Glad to tell you your cave been found it has."
"My cave? Oh yes my cave. What you call the Cave of Picard where I found the blue crystal and those lightsabers. May I ask who found it?"
"Visitors from another universe like you. Communicating with us they are. Put into three way viewing should I?"
"Yes please, I would like to meet these people," What Picard saw didn't surprise him one bit. The group were humans. Different than on Earth but Jean Luc thought he recognized them, "Greetings, I am Jean Luc Picard captain of the USS Enterprise. Who are you?"
"Hello captain," one of the oldest said in an emotionless voice just like Mace Windu, "My name is Riku. This is Axel, Namine, Xion, Roxas, Sora, and Kairi," Jean Luc realized now. They were from an old Earth game series called Kingdom Hearts. His nephew René told him about it on his last trip to Earth. "Your cave is amazing. It is very strong in the Force," Riku told the Captain.
"I'm glad you think so. Where are you now?"
"On our way back to Coruscant sir," the one called Roxas said, "would it be alright if we meet up at 500 Republica? Meet us at the entrance. We'll be there in about ten minutes," and with that Roxas cut the transmission.
"Amazing they are," Yoda told Jean Luc, "strong in the Force they are also. Beaming down are you?"
"Yes. Commander Riker, Consular Troi, and myself will be beaming down to 500 Republica and will be in my personal apartment. Tell them where we are when they arrive."
"We'll be arriving at Coruscant in five minutes," Anakin said walking onto holodeck 3 where the group of Keyblade masters were standing waiting for Anakin, "Anyway I called you here so we can begin flight training for our Interceptors. Computer, begin training program Skywalker Six," the computer complied and the hanger of the Resolute appeared in the Holodeck. In the hanger were seven fighters. "O.K. Here's the plan. Since we have a few minutes before we arrive at Coruscant I thought that it would be good to get in some flight training. Get into the cockpit. And I will be giving you instructions on how to fly." The simulated cockpits were just like the real thing. Even the view screen simulated the Resolute's hanger.
"Alright," came Anakin's voice over the simulated comm-link, "the flight yolk will allow you to control your ship. Pushing forward will cause acceleration. Pulling back will slow you down. Pitching either left or right will turn your ship. I've given you a"
"So it's like flying a gummy ship?" Sora asked interrupting the general.
"I guess. Anyway just tell your R2 unit to begin liftoff sequence and I'll begin the programming the vulture droids,"
"Uhhh," Sora said with a little doubt, "R2 begin liftoff sequence," immediately the fighter took off and soon he was in space. The other six star fighters appeared beside him. Just then three ships came out of hyperspace. They were banking clan frigates and from their hanger came about seventy fighters.
"This is where the fun begins," Riku said with a crazy smile on his face.
"Sora bank left and fire!" Riku told Sora over the comm-link in his fighter.
"Riku spin!" Xion told Riku also using the comm. link as the vulture droid behind him had fired two rockets at Riku. She, Riku, Roxas, and Sora were keeping the droids busy while Axel, Kairi, and Namine were taking the frigates.
"Only ten left guys let's take them out quick and join the others." After taking the droids out the group flew to join their friends. Just the time froze for a minute and then resumed. Sora was the first to notice a new ship enter hyperspace. It was a starfighter. Grievous's starfighter.
"Go on without me. I'm going after Grievous." Sora said and flew off at top speed.
"Sora wait… It's no use come on guys let's take out the frigates."
"Come on Grievous," Sora said to himself, "bring it on." Sora fired his laser cannons at the modified starfighter but he might as well have been shooting at empty space the starfighter dodged the lasers easily and he returned fire. Sora likewise dodged the lasers and when the starfighters shoot past each other Sora chanced a look at the fighter and saw not the Cyborg General but Anakin Skywalker! At first Sora didn't understand but he didn't have time to as Skywalker was behind him firing his laser cannons at Sora's engines. Sora barrel rolled and locked missiles on Skywalker and launched. The homing missiles automatically followed the Starfighter and connected with the shield generator. Seeing his chance Sora charged and opened fire with the laser cannons on his fighter. Skywalker was no more. Sora raced off to join his friends only to see that they had already finished the job. Except for one frigate which had not one but THREE shield generators.
"I have an idea," Riku said announcing to the group, "if we can knock the shield generator defending the hanger we can swoop in, fire our weapons inside the cruiser and fly out the other way,"
"But Riku," Xion said, "The other entrance to the hanger is also guarded by a shield how can we get out?"
"The shield is a one way device Xion. It keeps ships and vacuum out but doesn't keep starfighters in. Got it memorized?" Axel asked her.
"Since when did you learn so much about these ships?"
"I read up on them while we were traveling to Ilum,"
"Cut the chatter guys and let's do this! Sora. Roxas. Arm your missiles." Riku said giving the orders for the attack.
"Done." Roxas replied
"Missiles armed and waiting," Sora also replied.
"Everyone we will need to punch it as soon as the shield generator goes down. The blast shield will close after a few seconds." Axel announced, "FIRE!" Roxas and Sora launched their missiles and they connected to the shield generators. The group gunned the fighters past safety and they all arrived in the hanger just before the blast doors closed. They slowed to hovering speed and used thrusters to maneuver themselves into a seven pointed star.
"Prepare to fire all laser cannons," Roxas announced, "FIRE AT WILL!" The seven starfighters fired their laser cannons as fast as they could. The unshielded inside of the frigate crumbled to the might of seven laser cannons soon an automatic computer voice rang out.
"Structural integrity failing. Destruction imminent. Shields down. Life support failing. Abandon ship. Abandon ship."
"That's our cue guys make way to the other hanger entrance," Riku said firing his engines everyone got out just in time as the second blast shield just closed.
"Everybody check in," Riku said making sure everybody got out.
"Axel here," Axel said.
"That was fun," Sora replied to Riku.
"I'm here Riku," Kairi said.
"Namine here," Namine replied. But, Roxas and Xion didn't check in.
"Roxas. Xion. Respond," Riku said through the comm link.
"Hold that thought Riku," Roxas replied, "Xion prepare to fire missiles."
"Armed and ready to fire,' Xion responded.
"What are you firing on?" Riku asked
"We were wrong Riku. The ship wasn't going to collapse. The ship's computer planned it. It wanted to make us think it was set for destruction. It was only just holding on. My sensors told me so. So Xion and I headed to the bridged and are firing. Xion fire," He and Xion's fighters let their missiles fly and when they connected with the bridge they self-destructed causing even more damage. "Let's get out of here." As they flew away the ship exploded launching energy all over the place.
"General Skywalker this is Sora were ready for pickup," Sora said with smile in his face. The fighters disappeared and the Holo-Deck returned to normal Anakin was standing in the middle of the room. He was clapping.
"Nice job Guys," He said as he walked toward Sora, "Nice Job shooting me down. Not many people can do that."
"Thanks General. Wait a minute why were you fighting in Grievous's starfighter?"
"A test. A test to see if you skilled enough to have a fighter."
"Wait. Are we getting fighters?" Axel asked smiling."
"Yes. In fact based on that performance your seven fighters will be a whole squad by themselves." Anakin replied.
"And it will be called… Key squadron. For we are the KEY to their defeat." Roxas said.
"Key squad it is. The fighters will be waiting at Coruscant. Feel free to personalize them." With that they all left and headed to the bridge.
AN Loyal readers. I apologize for the delay of updates. As soon as the school year starts back I will be able to work on my stories during free time. Also be on the lookout for a new fanfic based on Pirates of the Caribbean where kids from our world go to their world. I will update the new story when my reviser finishes work on it.
