Chapter 20: Catastrophe!
Ashleigh and the gang bid farewell to Tanya as they depart for another adventure on another world. Since they saved their world from destruction first, they must up hold their promise to the Disney Castle Corps to rescue Queen Minnie and King Mickey. However inside the ship, a few members debate whether or not they should do that.
"Are we really going to save them?" Sidney asks over the intercom.
"We did shake on it," Matt says. "Well, he did."
"That doesn't mean we should do what he says," Jade says.
"Has Dorian ever told us what to do?" Ashleigh asks. "Besides, he's out like a light. He would have an idea where to go next."
"Back to Radiant Garden?" Nadine asks. "Maybe they'll help us find NegaDuck or Mortimer with their tracking machine."
"Their power went out," Lizzy suggests. "There's no way Cecil would've pick the signal back up. We've saved Charm City. Why not tell them we saved our world? Then we will uphold the promise we made."
"Hold on!" Matt interrupts. "We'll vote on where to go, okay?" Matt pulls out a folded notebook paper out and a pencil. "All in favor for Radiant Garden, say 'aye."
"Aye," says Nadine, Ashleigh, and Jade.
"All in favor for Disney Castle?" Matt asks.
"Aye," says Lizzy, Sidney, and Blue.
"What about you?" Blue asks.
"I'm split between the two," Matt says.
"WHAT?" Jade says. "It's one or the other?"
"I feel like we should do both," Matt says.
"That's wasting gas!" Sidney says as Romeo stretched and growls.
While the two argue economics, Ashleigh cuts her radio off as she turns back to see Dorian resting after his turmoil. She thinks back when the two fought the Super Shadow, risking his life to destroy the Heartless. He was almost eaten by it but more importantly she saved his life. After a few days, he saved her life.
"I don't need to know how he saved me," she says. "Just, why?"
She remembers one year before meeting Dorian for the first time. It was her night of patrol. This was around Dorian's junior year, a few days after he was discharged from St. Sinai. At the same time, this was around a few days after the incident at St. Sinai Hospital.
"How could he?" She asks herself before remembering further. "For a year."
Her manager, Detective Warren Smithfield, received a tip from an anonymous caller, about the Bloody Black Rain planning to break into 1st Old Line Bank. She flew over there to find running here perpetrators with sacks of Munny in their hands. The first guy to leave was unmasked at the time, and recognized him immediately.
"Brandon?" she asked him.
"It's not what it looks like," he curtly replies.
"How could you hide this from me for a year?" she asked as tears rolled down her face. "What is wrong with you?"
Brandon said nothing as his Bloody Black Rain crew ran out from the bank. The bank's alarm system rung loudly as the rest of the masked robbers ran out and looked up to find a young woman clad in superhero clothes.
"ITS ATMOSPHERE!" One of them dropped a bag of Munny and turned tail! She spun her hand, a ring of wind formed, and she flicks it at the robber. As it reached him, his gasps for air and then passed out! The two others dropped their bags and tried to attack Ashleigh. But her uppercuts backed by hurricane-like winds knocked them up and fell back down! Snipes' was the only one still standing.
"Now bae, listen!" he tried to calm her.
"DON'T call me bae anymore!" Ashleigh flew a haymaker at him but he pushed the punch aside and kneed her gut! Sirens rose from the streets! Brandon didn't have time for them and turned the opposite way and ran. While buckled, she gathered the winds in her hand and formed it into a ring once more. She tossed the wind ring to Brandon. As he huffed from running, a pocket of airlessness hit him and he collapsed in front of the patrol car. She looked on in anguish and tears rolled down her face. She flew away, never wanting to see Brandon again.
Ashleigh fast-forwards to when she first met Dorian after the Heartless ransacked her apartment. He appeared to be an average man in her eyes, but his abilities had changed her thinking. "Dorian and Brandon have a lot in common," she said. "Both of them are angry young men. And yet, both of them are angry for the opposite reasons."
When she turns back, she sees a Gummi Ship "fleet!" She lets out a gasp.
Ashleigh switches on all intercoms.
"Dudes!" Matt commands. "Look sharp!"
"Heartless ships gathering in groups? Who could go as far as organizing them?" Lizzy asks.
"Mortimer!" Nadine warns.
"Nope!" yells a booming voice. "You lost the thousand dollar question. He doesn't even deserve to lead a fleet like this!"
"NegaDuck!" they recognize him all at once!
"That's right, kiddies," he announces. "I couldn't let you go as far as humiliating me back on Sherwood!"
"You were no match for us then!" Blue yells. "What makes you sure about this time?"
"So says the boy who lost the jewel," NegaDuck insults him. "Besides, I have Heartless. Mortimer should've had enough to wipe the floors with you!"
"We have allies, NegaDuck!" Jade shouts. "You can't win!"
"Think again, iguana!" NegaDuck says. "I'll blow you all into deep space! Fire Away!"
The squad resting on the bottom of his duck-billed shaped Gummi ship fires at the Elemental Force's ship!
"Evasive maneuvers!" Jade yells.
"How?" Blue squeals.
"SPLIT!" Matt barks.
Without realization, all members smash the button reading, "SPLIT!"
Their Gummi Ship split into seven pieces with each corresponding member piloting the Gummi pieces.
"The ship's torn apart!" Blue cries.
"No!" Lizzy relieves. "Its one of the features the Chip and Dale installed. It's in the manual. How nostalgic!"
"Oh?" NegaDuck squints his eyes. "Looks like they've got a plan, but we'll see… Dark Squadron 30, Offensive Maneuvers!"
"EEEEK!" Sidney panics. "They're coming at us all at once!"
"Fire at will!" Nadine shouts.
Jade, Ashleigh, Matt, and Nadine all fire their cannons and then the Heartless ships are obliterated!
"Good going, people!" Lizzy cheers.
"There's still more!" Jade warns, "Keep sharp!"
"You all can't take down my fleet of Heartless!" NegaDuck taunts.
"Hey! A little help," Sidney is chased by numerous Heartless that she can't shake off.
"Keep flying," Jade says. "I'm coming!"
NegaDuck laughs on, "This is some great entertainment you got there."
Matt hears what he had said and then shoots him! After a few rounds, NegaDuck fell out of his seat and smirks, "You wanna play rough, huh? Counter Strike!"
"That's what I have in plan," Matt grins. "Everyone, come back here!"
"Why, what's up?" Ashleigh asks.
"It's time we tried something different," he says. "Press down, Gestalt!"
Simply, the Elemental Force press that button, the ships released a thin wiring to attach to the bigger part of the mother ship (Dorian/Ashleigh's part).
"What's happening?" Blue asks as he looks out his window.
"We're," Sidney stops in her speech, "getting stringed together."
"Even so," Lizzy comments. "If we were to move the ship with stringy arms, we would lose a lot of control.
"Wait!" Matt says, "Its' not done yet!"
Then the string arms and legs crystallized into thicker Gummi cables! The cables were thick enough to support all cabins!
"What kind of trick you trying to pull?" NegaDuck asks.
"We're not playing any tricks!" Matt says as his "plan" was put into action.
"Oh, okay, now I know what it is," Lizzy realizes and then he announces, "Plated Docking Complete!"
"The Super Gummi Ship Robot Fighter!" Blue announces as Matt says with soul, "S.S. ALEXANDRIA!"
"S.S. Alexandria?" Nadine asks.
Matt asks, "What's wrong with it?"
"It has a nice ring to it," Nadine says with a smile.
"Just like that group of warriors in colors of the rainbow that jump into mechanical animals," Blue imitates a martial arts move.
As Ashleigh was about to answer Blue's reference, NegaDuck shouts over the airwaves, "That is the most ridiculous name I've ever heard!"
Matt looks intently out his window and says, "We'll show you! Let's get her moving!"
"But how?" Sidney asks. "Don't we have to act as a team to move the way we wanted this put-together robot to?"
"I think you're right," says Jade. "Allow me." As he controls the left leg, the S.S. Alexandria suddenly jets towards the fleet of Heartless ships like a Muay Thai fighter preparing a knee strike! And like a Muay Thai, Jade crashes out one-third of it!
"Are you trying to kill us all, BAKA?" Sidney screams.
"We need to keep doing that!" Lizzy says. "That was super effective!"
"Warn us next, asshole!" Ashleigh says.
"Teach me how to do that!" Blue says.
"You don't even have a leg part, Blue!" Nadine says to him.
"HOLA? I just took out some part of NegaDuck's fleet!" Jade says, "You should be thanking me!"
"Geez!" NegaDuck says, "Wreck my fleet, would ya?"
"Always rushing in to do something," Matt says to NegaDuck.
"What's the hurry?" Negaduck asks.
"Kicking your butt?" Blue joins the conversation.
"Way-way-wait!" NegaDuck stops the conversation. "You trying to butter me up or something, huh?"
"In time for this!" Matt yells. He operates the left arm of the Gummi Ship robot and then took a swing at the other side of the fleet!
"Let me get one good shot at you guys!" NegaDuck roars with impatience!
Nadine operates the right leg and swings a snap kick at the fleet, leaving at least a hundred or so left!
"Why you little! I ought to…" NegaDuck could not bear losing his fleet of Heartless ships!
"Oh!" Blue sighs, "Now I see! This thing works like that!" As he operates the right arm, he takes out another pocketful of the Heartless fleet, leaving a few Heartless ships and NegaDuck's, but his ship is missing!
"Where'd the ducky go?" Blue asks.
"THAT'LL BE THE FIRST AND LAST TIME YOU CALL ME 'DUCKY!" NegaDuck cruises behind the S.S. Alexandria!
"That tactic won't work like that," Jade says. He kicks again. Only seeing it was a hologram Gummi thrown out to distract them!
"Where is he?" Matt yells.
"Right behind ya!" NegaDuck's ship barges into S.S. Alexandria's arms!
"What's this?" Lizzy leaps out of Sidney's pocket and Romeo awakened from the chaos.
"A warp hole?" Lizzy observes. "And it's so close to that world over there! What's wrong now?" He views the screen to see the cables connecting Matt and Blue-Eggy breaking slowly. "They're breaking?"
"We'll hold on," Matt says.
"No you won't!" NegaDuck readies himself for another assault.
"Yes, they will!" Blue detaches his ship from the S.S. Alexandria and fires a homing torpedo at NegaDuck's ship.
"Nice try, kid!" Negaduck says. "But my Gummi Ship has been outfitted with my abilities! Big Dark Counter!"
A huge purple aura is released in front of the ship. Acting as a shield, it deflects the torpedo and then it homed in on Matt! The torpedo impacts and he loses control of his ship! He is flung into the warp hole Lizzy mentioned!
"MATT!" Nadine tries to disconnect from the S.S. Alexandria to save Matt, but another torpedo collides! Deflecting one and another, NegaDuck still heads for Blue. Blue ship bounces him off of Negaduck's ship with extreme pressure and then pinballs against S.S. Alexandria. Thus, sending him to the same warp hole Matt was transported to!
"Damn!" Jade curses as he swings one more kick with the S.S. Alexandria.
"This should shake things up!" NegaDuck flips an unknown switch. The contact between his ship and the kick caused an explosion from the gravity pulled on the gigantic leg! The impact forced the Elemental Force and NegaDuck in different directions at high speeds! Negaduck was shot into to a different colored warp hole!
The Elemental Force, separates from the robot into cabins, and crash-lands on a world with white beach sands. Nearly beaten, they've lost contact with Blue and Matt and Negaduck in the cosmos! Dorian is still resting from his mental struggle.