A/N: Disney bought 21st Century Fox, you say? Time for me to bust out that Simpsons chapter. Here's me being half-serious though, I just want an Infinity War type thing where Thor meets the Guardians except here Sora, Donald and Goofy meet the Futurama gang. Didn't know how much I wanted that until now.
Chapter 47
Wanderer over the Bridge
Due to the unusual inconsistent elevation of San Fransokyo's roads, Namine could tell when they were travelling up and down. Occasionally the van would come to a stop and Namine was left to listen to the soft rumble of the engine before the vehicle began moving again.
She looked over to Xion who had the back of her head resting against the wall and looking off to the side absently. If what Xion had told her was true then she had every reason to be distant at the moment. Aside from the two of them, there were two members of Horus guarding them. Before they had started driving, they had reverted out of their armor, probably for comfort. If she were either of them, she wouldn't get too comfortable just yet.
The van soon veered to the right and began its long journey across the San Fransokyo Bridge with the rest of the convoy either ahead or behind it. Namine looked over at Xion before letting out a small cough to alert Xion. Xion let her head drift over and winked at her before looking back to the side.
A few minutes later, the van suddenly came to a complete stop. Their two guards looked at each other before the one closest to the front stood up to slide open the window to the driver's compartment.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"I don't know. Something's up," replied the driver. The sound of the car door opened and Namine heard the driver get out.
"I have a question," Xion suddenly spoke out, causing the guards to turn to her.
"And what's that?" asked the guard still sitting next to Namine.
"What if I need to pee?"
The guard frowned. "What?"
"What if I need to pee?" Xion repeated with an unreadable face. "Do I just… let it ou-"
"Do you need to? Right now?" asked the guard.
"Maybe. Wanna wait and see?" Xion retorted.
"Doesn't look like we're going anywhere any time soon. Take her to a bush or something," said the guard by the window.
"Does it look like this bridge has any bushes?" the guard replied in an annoyed tone. He sighed and stood up to walk over to Xion. As he reached for her arm, Xion reached for his and jumped on him, using his bent knee to climb onto his back. She wrapped her left leg around his neck and put weight on her right leg, using it to bring herself and the guard onto the ground. With them both on the ground, Xion let loose several quick jabs to the guard's face with her right hand.
The second guard ran in quickly and grabbed Xion by the waist, slamming her into the backdoor. Seeing an opportunity, Xion threw her head forward and slammed it into the guard's forehead. There was a visible hiss of pain from both sides as the guard dropped Xion and stumbled back a bit. As he came near her, Namine stuck out her leg causing him to trip over it and fall. As he tried to get back up, Xion threw her entire body into a punch that slammed his head against the compartment wall. Namine looked around and observed Xion's handiwork. One was unconscious while the other was rolling about in pain.
"You okay?" Namine asked as Xion walked over to her with a bobby pin held in her bloody hand.
"Me? Yeah, just great. Them? Nah, don't think so," Xion said. She knelt down and Namine brought her handcuffed hands forward. Within seconds there was a click and Namine was able to throw the handcuffs to the side. Xion looked back to the bodies and walked over to the guard who had attempted to put a hand on her first. She raised a foot and rested it on his face, turning his head to the side.
"Which one of you has the key to get out of here?" Xion asked.
"Screw you…hngh!" Xion pressed harder against the man's face with the heel of her shoe.
"I'm fine with you not telling me. It's not like I can't just search the both of you, but I can't guarantee that you'll come away from it with your head held high. Well. I doubt that'll happen even if you choose to help. At this point it just comes down to who chews you out. Your boss or me. Pick your poison."
The guard grunted and looked off towards his unconscious partner. Xion followed his gaze before raising her foot from his head.
"Thank you," Xion said sweetly. She walked over to check the unconscious man's pockets but Namine's eyes were on the other man and for good reason, it turned out, as she could see what looked like embers of light forming in his hand. Namine ran forward and drove her foot into his head as hard as she could, knocking him unconscious as well.
Xion looked back to see this and smiled. "We make a pretty good team. You sure you don't want to be a samurai too? Think about it. The Silver Samurai and her faithful companion the Samurai Seer."
"My heart can barely take this. I'm definitely not cut out for that," Namine said, though the exhilarating feeling of her beating heart at what she had just done seemed to enjoy at least some part of it.
Xion eventually found the key and opened the back of the van, exposing them both to a mix of orange and blue above the San Fransokyo skyline. If there was one time of day Namine could draw to and take inspiration from, it was the evening. Perhaps that had manifested as some sort of acclimatization to Twilight Town's perpetual evening. But as much as she wished the view the evening sky, there were more important matters to attend to.
"Hiro and the others are waiting for us on the other side of the bridge. And hopefully Sora too, if my vision was right," Namine said.
"Uh huh. Please tell me your vision also told you that a giant waterspout and a sea serpent were headed our way," Xion said.
"That's rather precise but no, I don't think so…" As Namine turned around to look at where Xion was looking, a sense of dread crept its way into her bones.
San Fransokyo Bridge, San Fransokyo
Sora emerged from the corridor behind Salome and Vyce, and his eyes were immediately glued to the glistening red tower in front of them, a mixture of art deco and Japanese architecture. Likewise, there was another tower about a thousand metres farther down, closer to the actual city.
Sora whistled. "This place is certainly different."
"No time to talk. Look ahead," Vyce told. Sora looked down and his lips parted in shock. Lying ahead were several bodies strewn across the bridge and vans, some overturned while others were on fire.
"What did this?" Salome asked.
"Good question. I wonder if this is the convoy. Only one way to find out," Vyce said. Salome nodded and the three of them started towards what seemed to be obvious danger awaiting them. Salome was first to say aloud what Sora found weird, that aside from these vans, the bridge was bereft of pedestrians. That was probably a good thing, though not so much for those in the vans.
As Sora walked past one of the vans, he heard a yell from nearby. "Glory to Horus!"
He was barely able to turn before the van exploded and he and Salome, who had cast Reflect in time, were knocked back by the explosion. Sora rolled on to his back just in time to see Vyce cut down someone nearby with his Keyblade.
"Thanks," Sora said to Salome as he got up.
"Of course. We're partners now after all, Sorbet!" Salome said with a grin.
"Err, sorbet? That's… yeah, anyway… guess we should keep an eye out from now on. I don't really want my last memories to be dying to a bunch of nutjobs," Sora said.
"Nutjobs? I don't think it's so simple as that. They're fighting for something. Just because their vision of the world and our vision differs doesn't mean we ought to dismiss them as lunatics," Vyce said.
"And when those perceptions cause other people to suffer? No, I think what I said before was perfectly fine," Sora replied.
"Believe whatever keeps you breathing. We can play the game of who's right and who's wrong another time but for now let's just do what you so rightfully suggested and move, okay?" With that, Vyce led the way forward and Salome threw a small smile Sora's way before skipping off too.
Sora pivoted on his right toe and twisted it back and forth as he looked at the ground. What Vyce had said was what was probably so frustrating about it in the first place. In the end, whether he was right or not, it didn't matter. Horus would be right if they won. Their despicable fiction would become reality.
He soon looked up at the sound of explosions and ran forward. Before he could catch up with Salome, several Thunder projectiles raced towards him. He rolled into cover provided by a turned over van and peeked around the corner. Salome, who was in front of him, deflected the magic attacks being hurled at her before running towards one of the men in armor. She kicked off his chest, backflipping and leaving him momentarily stunned. With graceful speed, she went back and struck him with her Keyblade. Stabbing her Keyblade into the ground, she lifted her feet and swung her entire body around it. Releasing her grip, she flew forward and kicked the remaining soldier in the face, sending them off the bridge.
Landing back on the ground, she summoned her Keyblade back to her before quickly throwing it like a boomerang, taking out one of the soldiers that were surrounding Vyce. Sora expected it to return to her hands but it never did.
"Thanks," Vyce said, catching it instead. He began to duel with the three soldiers in front of him using both his Keyblade and hers. Meanwhile, Salome looked Sora's way and gestured for him to follow before running off. Suddenly, the idea that he would have had to fight Moira's Crescent seemed completely outrageous to him. They knew how to work in a team, and Sora had barely managed to get out with his life intact just facing them one at a time.
He pushed those thoughts aside and shot forward, using Sonic Blade to take out one of the soldiers Vyce was fighting on his way to Salome. Arriving at Salome's side, Sora raised his Keyblade in front of him and deflected the magic projectiles being shot at them. He slowly advanced forward, and Salome kept behind him, waited until they were closer before speeding past him and performing several high jumps, spins and kicks to knock down her opponents.
Sora blinked in amazement. "How in the-"
"Five years of taekwondo. You should try it too, Sorbet!" Salome exclaimed with a grin.
"It's Sora, and I don't think I'm ready to dedicate five years of my life to getting my behind handed to me. I'll leave it to the pros, like you," Sora replied.
"Yeah, the time it takes to master it is different for everyone. I brought Dessie to a class one time and that was the last time she ever set foot there. But I think if she stuck it out, she could have done pretty well. I think perseverance is the most crucial thing. Everyone hates losing, but we should learn to take our losses as a way of building ourselves," Salome said.
"True. Maybe once this war is over, I'll give it a try. Just a try though. I'm not committing yet," Sora said. When this fight was over, he was just about ready to give anything thing a try. If it meant putting all of this behind him, then it was worth it.
"Hey, if you two are done, we still have a couple hundred metres to clear," Vyce said, re-joining them. He chucked Salome's Keyblade to her and took the lead once more.
As they continued to push forward, they soon came across heavier resistance than they were expecting. Vyce had raised a reflect shield in front of them big enough to absorb most of the magic, but their opponents merely countered this by attempting to move in closer. The trio tried to fire back magic of their own but these were deflected by their opponents.
"We're going to have to fall back," Vyce said after extending his Keyblade out to catch a spell that had nearly hit Salome.
"But we can't stop now-"
Vyce spun around to face Sora and grabbed him by the shoulder. "I won't allow your self-indulgent whims of heroism to endanger me or my teammate. If you want to go through dirt and hell, be my guest but you won't see much help from us."
Salome, on the other hand, was much calmer with her own words despite having to deflect the enemies' attacks. "We aren't retreating. We're just making them think they have the upper hand. Think of it like that."
Sora looked at her for a moment before slowly nodding. Vyce released him and began backing away.
"You'll get used to it. For now, let's get to a safe distance," Vyce advised.
"Yeah," Sora agreed with a small smile.
"They're falling back. Charge!" yelled one of the Horus members they were fighting. Abandoning their spell casting, their armored foes raced forwards in an attempt to cut off the trio's escape. One of them aimed their Keyblade and fired off a Fission Firaga at Sora, who managed to slide over the hood of a nearby van in time and ducked. The spell slammed into the van and unbalanced Sora. He managed to catch himself from falling completely with both hands and looked up, searching for Vyce and Salome. As magic of all shapes and sizes started flying back and forth however, he found it almost impossible to search for them.
Sora slowly rose from his crouched position and tried to peer through the van window only to duck again when the window shattered. He silently swore and shook his head, wondering how he had gotten himself into this situation again.
Before he could aim the Keyblade from behind cover, a mighty roar sounded underneath him that caused him to freeze in place. This too seemed to have an effect on those fighting, as the amount of magic being cast gradually resided. Sora's expression softened and he allowed him to breathe before looking towards the railing.
"The heck was that?" he huffed. There was an unsettling creaking coming from somewhere underneath him, slow and deliberate at first but increasing in occurrence by the second until, finally, something large burst out of the water. The scaly shimmering sea serpent soared over the bridge in a perfect arc, droplets of water raining down from its body onto the road, before landing back in the water on the other side.
It only took Sora a few seconds for him to gather his thoughts back from the edge of awe and realize what the graceful creature was. Leviathan, the pet of the Olympian god Poseidon, had caused some brief trouble for him and Luna in the past, at least until the unruly serpent had been reined in by its master. When it remerged from the water again, Sora managed to get a good look at the creature's head where someone was standing on top of it.
"No way… Tia Dalma?" Sora called out as Leviathan drooped over so that the sea goddess was closer to the bridge.
"It's that creature again! Fire!" Sora heard one of the Horus members yell from behind the van. Sora looked up to see a barrage of lights and gusts of wind heading towards Leviathan. Tia Dalma raised her hand and a pillar of water shot out from the sea, absorbing their magic.
"SORA!"
He had no idea how he had heard it, but amidst all the chaos and shouting, he was able to pick up on Salome calling out his name. He turned around to see her jumping up and down, waving at him.
Giving her a nod, Sora began to move towards her and Vyce when it happened. The water barrier placed in front of Leviathan and Tia Dalma suddenly rose to even greater heights, with more water from below coming up to join it. Eventually the column of water became a giant wall, strangely beautiful to look at as it was deadly to be consumed by it.
"My beastie, wipe them all out!" Tia Dalma commanded with a twisted grin.
"Oh crap!" Sora yelled, trying to quicken his pace. His efforts proved to be in vain however as the tsunami moved in even faster than he could get away from it. The waves swept in and latched onto Sora, pulling him into its embrace. For a long time, Sora was unable to tell what was going on. He was being slapped about by water on all sides and some of it had even gotten into his mouth, forcing him to splutter and cough.
"GAH!" Sora let out a yell as he back hit against something metallic and then suddenly, he was falling, falling, falling, and then nothing but pitch blackness. Everything was disorientating. He would struggle to swim back to the surface only to be knocked back in by progressively larger waves. Water filled his mouth and nostrils and his mind was going blank. As darkness slowly came over him, he saw a light fly upwards. Though his mind was able to acknowledge that light, his body felt was unresponsive, failing to heed to his brain's need to move towards it. The light seemed to split into two and began to take shape but Sora was never able to see what they had turned into for his world went dark shortly before.
When Sora next gained consciousness, his lungs felt like they were on fire. He spontaneously flopped onto his stomach and began coughing up water. As he turned back to face the sky he instead came face to face with Yuna, Rikku and Paine. Also among them were Iceguin Ace and Juggle Pup huddled around him.
"Oh, it's you guys," he coughed out.
"'Oh, it's you guys', he says. Gee, how about a thank you instead? You almost drowned, you know." Rikku pointed out.
"To be fair, we kind of just slapped you silly until you woke up. The real MVPs are those funny animal friends of yours," Yuna said.
Sora looked at the two spirits on either side of him and smiled. "Thanks guys. All of you. Really."
As he attempted to stand up, there was suddenly a sharp pain in his chest that caused him to grunt out loud and fall back to the ground.
"Hey, are you okay? Take it easy," Paine advised.
"No, it's just… too many of you out at the same time... and the near death experience too probably. Sorry, I'm gonna have to call you guys back in for now. That okay?" Sora said weakly.
"Sure, I guess, but what are you gonna do? You're in no condition to fight," Paine said. Sora looked away from them and to Leviathan, who was flying around the bridge, causing havoc to the roads with its icy breath.
"Maybe so, but someone has to stop that thing," Sora replied. He looked back at them with a pained smile. "Don't worry. I don't intend to hold back anything."
"My only concern is that you'll go too far," Paine said. "Be careful."
"Oh, and here I was hoping to be reckless instead," Sora replied sarcastically. Paine acknowledged him with a barely visible smile and disappeared followed by Yuna and Rikku. Sora stood up and held out his hand, calling his Dream Eater spirits back to their place of rest. It seemed that they could actually come out by their own will if they sensed that he was in danger, though he supposed that only made sense. Their power came from the same place as the power he used to draw out his Keyblade.
He took a quick look around to ascertain where he had ended up. To his surprise, it looked like he had washed up on the other side of the bridge where he, Salome and Vyce had wanted to be. If they were still on the other side, then it would be hell just trying to get back to them. He just hoped something that he never thought he'd hope in a million years—that they, members of Moira's Crescent, were alright.
Sora pushed that thought aside for the time being and focused on his own safety. He looked towards the steep slope of rocks nearby that led to higher ground and began hopping, alternating from one foot to the other and back again, before running for the rocks. He leapt forwards and began climbing quickly, making sure not to keep his hands in one place for too long in order to keep his momentum going.
Once he reached the top, he took a quick breather and looked up towards the bridge again where smoke was starting to rise from burning vehicles in the area.
Gotta hurry up, Sora thought as he started running again. Up the hill onto the main road, he spotted a cable car heading down the road towards the bridge. He dodged in between traffic and hopped onto a small piece of footing by the tram's entrance, using the handrail pole to keep himself from falling.
"Hi there," Sora waved at a girl who was standing near him with a free hand. She looked surprised for the briefest of moments before seeming to lash out with a burst of energy.
"Oh, this is so cool. Can I take a selfie with you? I need to get this grammed."
"Grammed? I don't know what that is but sure!" Sora said. Whatever she meant, there couldn't have been any harm in it. The girl turned around and brought her phone up to hers and Sora's faces. There was a snap indicating that the picture had been taken and she turned around to thank him.
The car soon reached the toll booths leading to the bridge and Sora jumped out.
"Hey, you shouldn't go that way! There's something going-" the girl tried to warn Sora but he was too far off to hear her.
He ducked underneath the boom barrier and proceeded through the dozens of police cars to reach the bridge. A man with gray hair and horn-rimmed glasses was the first to notice him and tried to catch Sora's attention.
"Hey, kid! This place is on lockdown. You can't go in- AGH!" The man let out a sigh of frustration as Sora ignored him and kept running across the bridge. He was only able to take a few more steps when Wraith flew in from behind, forcing him to crouch low to the ground.
Looking up from the ground, Sora summoned his Keyblade and glared at the Wrath in front of him.
"Out of my way!" he yelled, charging for them. He brought the Kingdom Key over his shoulder and cut down, taking out one of the Wraith. Not stopping in one place, Sora evaded an attack from a lion-shaped creature and lunged forward, cutting his way through a group of ravens. While still mid-air, he transitioned into a Blizzard Edge and brought the attack to the ground, creating a trail of ice that cut through the Wraith in his way. He cut through the ice, and then cast Aeroga several times, sending the shards of ice into the remaining Wraith.
After landing back on his feet, Sora spared no time in setting off again. He slowed down as the first few corpses came into view. Bodies of people unknown to him lay strewn across the road. Some of them were Keyblade wielders but others had uniforms on that proved them to be police officers. People of this city who had suffered greatly at the hands of things beyond their understanding, and to top it off they were only doing their jobs. Tia Dalma, Horus… they would all pay for what they'd done to the world.
"That was… wow, kid. What the heck are you, some kinda fancy ninja?" the police captain said, having finally caught up to Sora. First a samurai and now a ninja… seriously, what is with this city these days?"
"A samurai?" But Sora promptly shook his head and the captain. "You're the guy in charge? You need to call your men off and order a retreat. That thing's too powerful. You're just putting innocent lives at risk."
"Yeah, I got that. But where do we draw the line? And if there's even a smidgen of a chance that we could stop that thing and protect the public, we'll take it."
"Yeah… something tells me it's not here for the city," Sora said. "I'll take care of it. Just call back anyone who's still standing."
"Wait, but what can you do-" Once again however, Sora was already off before the police captain could finish his sentence. "This is what I get for letting my wife convince me to take this job."
As Sora encountered more and more people across the bridge, most of them dead but those who were alive, police officers and even a few Horus members were tending to the wounded or dead. He supposed at the end of the day, even if they were on opposing sides, it was a mistake to think their enemy didn't understand tragedy or loss. They weren't simply machines fuelled by war. They could feel too. Sora begrudgingly looked away from the heartfelt scene. He wished he didn't have to force himself to think in black and white.
Then, an unsettling feeling started to swell in the pit of his stomach—that Vyce and Salome were possibly among these bodies. There was no time to check all the corpses, but it was clear that the majority of fighting had long since died down. He just had to hope that as long as Leviathan was still at the bridge, there was a chance that someone was resisting it.
Up ahead, he encountered more Wraith. Just like Desiree had told him, it seemed that they were attracted by the Keyblade's magic, so their presence made sense. What didn't make sense, or at least her being there was so surprising that it took Sora a few seconds to register her presence, was the girl in a white dress with her back turned to him. She slowly backed away as the Wraith approached her, but she seemed to hold no fear for the strange creatures.
"Namine?" Sora called. Namine turned around and laid eyes on him, a look of relief on her face.
"I knew… no, more like hoped, you'd come," she said.
Sora was about to smile when he saw the Wraith advance in quickly behind her. He darted forward and grabbed Namine's shoulders, throwing out his left leg to kick away one of the Wraith, before spinning her around and out of harm's way. Letting her go, Sora summoned his second Keyblade into his hand and began ducking and dodging the swings of heavy rusted keys, moving in to attack only when he found an opportunity to strike back. Soon he had managed to effectively quash the Wraith in the area and spun around to face Namine.
"You know, I think I'm getting the hang of this Wraith thing," he told her with a grin.
"Well at least I know you're reliable," Namine responded with a chuckle. "It's so good to see you again."
"Likewise. Where've you been all this time?" Sora asked.
"Trying to understand my powers. I think Yeul passed on her seer powers to me for a reason other than to continue the lineage. Maybe these powers can even save the world. That's why I've been trying to follow in her footsteps. I was at her old home, in Eden, and I saw the devastation that Maleficent left behind in her wake. That pain is what awaits us if we don't end this war. This…" Namine pointed her finger around them at the burning wreckage and corpses. "…is what awaits us. I won't sit by and let it happen, not if I can do something about it."
"I know. I could tell there was something different about you the moment I saw you," Sora said. "Oh, we're going to have to put our reunion on a hold for a moment. There's kind of a giant serpent thing attacking right now-"
"Yes, Xion's off facing it with my other friends right now," Namine said.
"Xion's here too? And your other friends?" a baffled Sora asked.
"I've also been trying to bring together the pieces I've seen in my visions. One of my visions saw you coming here and us meeting. It's the same for my friends. There's a group of heroes here who would be a great asset to you in your battles to come. I've even seen you fight together with them in my vision," Namine said.
"Feels kind of weird for you to be telling me about something that hasn't happened yet, but I'll trust you. Alright, head back to the other side of the bridge and wait for us there, okay?" Sora asked.
"Good luck," Namine said. With those parting words, Namine took off in the direction he had come from. Her leaving his side almost as soon as he had found her was a harrowing thought in his mind that he tried to push back for the moment. He would definitely see her again. He just had to keep believing in that.
He continued down the long bridge all the while keeping an eye on the sea serpent. As he closed in he could make out a small figure in the distance whizzing around Leviathan's head. He was saw absorbed in the majesty of his future opponent that if he had failed to notice two Horus members who had somehow survived the chaos firing at him. The first Fire attack sailed just over his head and he momentarily paused before diving to the ground to avoid the next attack.
"Don't you guys know when to call it quits?" Sora said breathily. He rolled to his left to take cover behind a van though the amount of magic that was hitting the van told him that it wasn't a safe place to stay for long. Sora took a deep breath before exiting cover and running for the Keyblade wielders. Each spell that came his way, he deflected with his Keyblade. Once he reached them both, he performed Zantetsuken, cutting through both of them and landing on the other side. He made sure they had both fallen before continuing on.
Soon enough he was able to make out the small flying figure with ease. It was a strange robot in bright red armor, and accompanying him was a boy flying on his back also in armor. On the ground, there were likewise five similarly garish characters in costumes, like something out of a comic book. Sora cut away from them as he heard the impact of Leviathan slamming its body into the robot hero, sending both it and the boy on his back to the ground. Unable to recover in time, the two crashed into the person in the samurai armor, taking them down as well.
"Hey!" Sora yelled, racing over towards them. He began to slow down when he saw the samurai take off their helmet to reveal long black hair, messy and creeping in all the wrong angles for someone who probably cared. Sora was pretty sure that Xion didn't care though if their last meeting was any indication. "Xion?"
Xion looked up and swept a lock of hair from her eyes. "Sora… told you we'd meet sooner than you think. Like what you see?"
Sora didn't have time to compliment her impressive armor let alone ask about the story behind it. The Leviathan let out a raucous and terrifying shriek. Sora would have been surprised if there was anyone in the city itself who hadn't heard it.
"Looks like we'll have to talk later," Sora said to Xion as he helped the boy who had fallen with the robot back up on his feet. "Hey there. You alright?"
"Well I think I'm about to feel a lot better now that you're here. The name's Hiro," the young teen said. He seemed about Luna's height and his suit was primarily purple with red streaks and black para-aramid clothing covering the rest of his body, serving as armor.
"Hiro? Sora," the spiky brown-haired teen replied, shaking Hiro's outstretched hand. He soon turned away from him and Xion and walked to where the other heroes were standing. He looked straight up into Leviathan's eyes and yelled as loud as he was able, "LEVIATHAN, COME DOWN HERE SO I CAN TALK TO YOU."
"Err, not sure that thing's listening," said a tall and lightly tanned girl with honey blonde hair flowing out from behind her purple helmet.
"We know each other. It'll be okay," Sora assured her, and himself though he wasn't ignorant to the odds being heavily stacked against him. Leviathan, after some careful deliberation, slowly lowered itself towards the ground and Sora smiled. "Hey, didn't think I'd see you here. Where's your master?"
As if on cue, something suddenly burst out of the sea, spurting upwards like a water fountain. Landing on Leviathan's head, the water dripped, revealing Tia Dalma's form.
"Tia Dalma… why are you here?" Sora asked.
"That was my human name. Now, I know only one and you know what it is. Say it. Say my name," the sea goddess commanded.
Sora gulped and looked around at the others before looking back to her. "Calypso."
The straightened lines of Calypso's mouth creeped up into a smile and she held out her hand to him. "Oh, how I have waited for this for so long. For my revenge. Now you shall all feel nature's wrath, as she takes back what is rightfully hers."
"Is this really all because of the pirate kings trapping you? No matter how you might feel, this isn't the solution!" Sora yelled angrily.
"You think this is just because of that? I have been constantly betrayed throughout the years—by the gods up on Olympus, cast out I was, and by your kind, bound in their own grotesque image. And now I see my clear waters threatened by the filth you mortals love so much—war. Conflict. You don't deserve the ground you walk on, the ingenuity you've mastered. The sea shall swallow your kind whole and what better a way to start with than you. Xanatos will be pleased to see a thorn in his side disposed of at last."
"You're working with him?" Sora asked.
"I believe you would call it more of a quid pro quo affair. We simply benefit from each other's actions," Calypso said. "But enough talk. Leviathan, wash away the sins of humanity!"
Leviathan opened its mouth, forming a small sphere of blue light within. Its head leaned backwards for a moment before rocking its head forward, shooting the sphere out of its mouth. Sora raced towards the group and transformed his Kingdom Key into a shield, raising it in time to obstruct the attack.
"Please tell me you can get one of those at the nearest 7-Eleven," said the dark complexioned hero with dreadlocks. Sora was about to tell him he had no idea what that meant when the blast managed to overpower him, throwing him and the group back. Sora managed to land with both feet and his left hand on the ground and looked back at the others.
"You guys okay?" he asked.
"My butt hurts, but at least it's not broken. I think," the honey blonde girl replied. Sora slowly stood up, bringing his shield up with him. He was sure that Leviathan was being manipulated somehow by Calypso. If he could at least neutralize it or calm it, there was a good chance he could convince it to turn on the goddess.
As Leviathan shot more balls of blue light at him, Sora pushed back each one with his shield before driving into Wisdom Form. Sora aimed Oathkeeper at Leviathan and fired continuous shots at the creature, moving from left to right to dodge its blasts. Calypso soon joined, raising her hands and bringing in waterspouts that twisted and danced as though they were instruments moving to a conductor's fanciful design.
"Come on guys, we gotta help too. Let's go, Baymax!" Hiro joined. He jumped onto the robot's back and took off into the air again. Baymax dislocated one of its hands and rocket propelled it forward, slamming into Calypso's shoulder. Losing her focus, the waterspouts formed began to lose shape at first, although she quickly managed to recover and maintain them. As she shot one of them forward, the honey blonde girl retrieved a palm-sized ball from her purse.
"Oh no you don't!" she yelled, throwing the ball at the water. Upon contact, the water suddenly froze, creating an arch that led straight to Calypso. "Go Go, you're up!"
"On it," said a girl of similar height to Sora wearing a yellow and black suit with discs attached to her wrists and boots. Go Go kicked forward, her discs fighting against the resistance put up by the upward sloping ice. Eventually, she managed to reach the end and spun, throwing the discs on her wrists at Calypso. Leviathan, however, lifted its wing up to block the attack. As it leaned back in doing this, its exposed stomach came closer to Sora and the others on the ground.
"My turn," Xion said from behind him, startling him slightly. Passing him, Xion appeared to float, her graceful movements contradicting the power of her attacks as she went from left to right and back again, striking its stomach twice with her katana.
"Aw, I see you guys are doing just fine by yourselves. Were you just playing around before because you were waiting for me?" Sora teased as Xion rejoined his side.
"Of course. Can't show you up if you're not there to see it," Xion replied.
"We'll see about that," Sora said. He watched as Leviathan descended down on them with Calypso who was struggling to maintain her balance on top before turning to the others. "I think an all-out assault should do the trick. You guys ready?"
"I've got your back, man. Err, Wasabi's the name," the dark skinned teen introduced.
"And I'm Honey Lemon. I can blind anyone with science," added the honey blonde girl.
"Go Go. Shouldn't be too hard to forget, right?" said the girl with purple streaks in her otherwise jet black hair.
"And I'm Fred. And yes, this is a costume," said the most unique of the group, a strange creature heavily resembling something Sora had seen when he been in Monstropolis. If his words were anything to go by though, then there was someone else underneath the suit, but Sora was taken aback by how amazingly detailed it was if that was the case.
"Good to know. I'm Sora."
"Uh, guys? Less conversing, more figh-WOAAH!" Hiro yelled as he Baymax dodged and swerved several waterspouts emerging from the sea.
"Honey, I think she just gave me my way up," Fred hinted.
"I agree," Honey Lemon replied. She threw several more chemi-balls, freezing the waterspouts in place. Fred ran forward and jumped incredibly high, moving from one ice platform to the next. As he reached Leviathan, Fred let loose a spray of flames from his mouth. Sora reached out with his hand and entrapped the fire, Leviathan and Calypso within a wind sphere. He could feel sweat dripping from his eyebrows but he ignored it and concentrated with all his might on keeping the sphere up. His vision however was starting to fade and he could feel numbness in his fingertips.
As he began to feel slightly tipsy, he found another hand placed on his own. Sora's eyes landed on Xion, who gave him a confident nod.
"Don't give up on me. If you need to, take some of my mana as well," she said, staring directly into his eyes.
"Ooh! I don't know what's going on but I want to join in!" Honey Lemon exclaimed, placing her hand above Xion's. Go Go was next with body language which was suggestive of "Eh, why not?" followed by Wasabi.
"Guess we're sharing the load, huh?" Wasabi said.
"Thanks, guys," Sora said before looking back at the gigantic ball of flame surrounding Leviathan's head. It was just as Wasabi had said. Like a heavy load being taken off his back, Sora suddenly felt lighter to the point where he could even feel the air rushing in between his fingers.
Eventually the ball of fire dropped its form, sending little balls of fire falling from the sky until none were left around Leviathan's head. Calypso was leaking. Water poured from her body as she fell from Leviathan's head onto the bridge near them.
"Hehe, I kind of feel like I just gave blood," Honey Lemon managed to giggle out.
"Did we do it?" Hiro asked, coming down with Baymax to join them. Calypso, slowly and rather shakily, stood up. As she made her way over to them, Sora could see a trail of water being left in her wake.
"You tried. I give you that, but in the end you're no match for me and the power of Leviathan. Now, it's time we put an end to this. Wipe them out!" Calypso yelled to Leviathan. The serpent opened its mouth, forming a beam of light once again.
"Damn, I thought we had it! Then again, she's a goddess. I guess it couldn't be too easy," Sora said.
"I don't care what she is. I'll kill her no matter how long it takes," Xion replied bitterly. She readied her katana, sharply inhaling. Sora tried to stop her, but Leviathan acted first. The blue light struck Calypso, who screamed as she was absorbed by the light. When it disappeared, Calypso was gone and all that was left was a large pool of water where she had been standing.
"Ciao! Don't hold your breath!" Honey Lemon waved at the puddle before jumping up and down. "We did it!"
"But how?" Sora asked. He turned around to see Leviathan already diving back into the sea. Walking towards the railing, he and Xion peered down to see Poseidon smiling up at them. With that final acknowledgment, he disappeared into the sea along with Leviathan. Peace, however ephemeral it may have been, had returned to San Fransokyo.
