Chapter 52: Vim and Vigor

All flames will eventually flicker and die

Leaving darkness to encompass it's empty world


Neptune jumped back in time to avoid a slamming fist.

His opponent, Junior was a walking tank. Throwing out powerful blows with both his fist and his over-sized baseball bat. The boy was glad he was rather slow, else the moment he took a single one of his hits, something would've definitely broken.

Spinning his glaive around, he aimed a slash for the attacker's neck. Junior of course, dodged swiftly to the right before bringing his bat into an uppercut. Neptune leaned to the side to narrowly dodge the move, then used the end of his pole-arm as a pivot to push himself into the air.

Once high enough, he whipped the weapon around and brought it swinging downward to his enemy's head.

Sadly though, he attacked was easily blocked.

"Too slow kid." Junior chuckled, bashing Neptune right in his side with his large weapon.

The handsome blue-haired trainee hit the ground hard, tumbling across the floor until his skidded to a stop.

"Che…" The boy scoffed, holding his side in agony as he stood. "Not cool dude…"

"Friend Neptune!"

Junior dodged quickly as several string controlled swords shot at him from above, striking after their target one by one. After dodging the fifth one, he looked up to see Penny zipping right at him from the air. Strange booster flames ejected from her boots, giving her an incredibly speedy flight.

Instinctively he raised his bat to block the rotating blades that spun around the robotic girl. Despite the swords themselves being relatively small, they each packed a heavy hit, pushing Junior further and further back as the attack pressed on.

"That's enough girl!" Junior yelled angry, pushing his bat out violently in order to stop the attack. Penny quickly jumped a few steps backward, bringing her swords along with her.

Irritably, the bar owner mecha-shifted his bat to its trademark rocket launcher mode. His target locked, he fired over a dozen missiles at his enemy. Penny readied to send her blades to shear through each individual missile, but luckily for her she needn't waste the energy.

Streams of lighting came showering over the area, the blue bolts sparking wildly as they destroyed the missiles intent on killing the synthetic human.

"The hell!?" Junior growled angrily. Lucky for him he'd been able to sense a forthcoming attack, as Neptune was quickly upon him with his glaive swinging right at his neck. Junior ducked right away, saving his head from being dislodged. Neptune spun around and swung vertically, the blade of his polearm headed straight for the target.

In the next instant and crisp white barrier appeared in front of Junior, his none-existent life saved once again.

Then a whistling sound.

BOOM!

Neptune was glad he raised his aura just in time, for an explosive-like firework of some sort had hit him directly in his front. This both left him with a few burns and left him short of breath. He was sent skidding back, eventually coming to a stop a few feet away.

His gaze went up again, this time towards the lined balcony lining the walls of the room.

Torchwick.

The man leaned lazily against the balcony bar, his cane pointed right at Neptune and a cigar in his mouth. Torchwick hadn't done much since they began fighting, taking to instead summoning Heartless to dispatch of them and firing his weapon whenever the opportunity arose.

"Crap…" He grunted, hand on one knee as he stood back up again. His aura already started healing him, but if this fight dragged out then that wouldn't last.

"Are you injured?" Penny asked, running up to him to check for any physical deformities.

"A little bit, Neptune admitted, but I'm fine for now. Thanks babe."

Penny's eyebrow rose at him. "Babe? But I am no infant."

Neptune slapped his forehead. "Just...never mind Penny."

"Hey lovebirds!"

Their heads whipped quickly over to the room's far end, where Coco was busy bashing through hordes of Heartless with her handbag. Defenders, Darkballs, Morning Stars. All very thick and powerful Heartless to boot! She didn't look like she was struggling, as she still strut around the field like it was nobody's business, and that cocky smirk never left her face.

"How about getting your rears and gear and helping me out over here?" She spoke over her shoulder, a cheeky smirk for added effect.

"Can't you tell we're busy!?" Neptune held his hands out in front of him. If Coco responded, then Neptune didn't hear it. As Junior came barreling right after him and Penny, almost like a raging bull on steroids. He was too slow to dodge, but to his surprise, Penny was not.

"Hold on friend!" Penny forewarned the boy.

Before he could respond, she grabbed him by the arms and rocketed into the air. The steely blue energy projecting from her feet blazed to life, avoiding Junior's move all together.

Junior stopped on a dime, beginning to fire his missiles at them again.

Penny flew around rapidly to avoid the moves, looping to her right as a set of three came her way. She then dived down to avoid more, flying to the right again to let the missiles crash into the floor. Shrapnel was torn up, earth was shattered, and the sounds of consecutive explosions was almost deafening.

Holding Neptune tight, she zoomed away as a few heat seeking rockets came for her. She flew fast, but the rockets themselves were getting faster as well.

"It is gaining upon us!" Penny exclaimed.

"I know that already!" Neptune shouted back. If they didn't do something quick, they'd be splatter paint.

It was only then that he noticed they were flying relatively low to the ground. He guessed they'd been so busy dodging everything that he hadn't taken into account where they were actually flying…

And you know what else he noticed?

Junior, charging right at them from the front. His beat held out readily to crush them as they flew every closer to him.

He would've told Penny to turn around, but the missile following them would then meet their target. And flying up was also a no go, as Penny would not be able to shoot straight up. Meaning she would need a slow down a bit to make the ascent.

But by then, the rockets would hit them.

"Ah crap!" Neptune groaned, trying to think. What were their options? Junior or missiles? If they turned around they'd be charred. But if they went Junior's way…

His eyes lit up.

"Penny, can you fly faster? Let's head straight for Junior!"

"I'm on it!"

The rapid boost in speed almost made the handsome blue-haired boy hurl, now he knew how Jaune feels on airships. Their enemy got closer and closer, and they had to duck and weave occasionally to avoid the firecracker blasts from Roman.

"You're done you brats!" Junior barked, ready to swing as he got right upon them.

"Let go Penny!" Neptune ordered.

"Right!"

Penny released Neptune from her hold, allowing the velocity from her flight to carry him forward. Neptune quickly leaned backward, time slowing down as his nose narrowly brushed under the strike of Junior's bat. Once he was past it, he turned his body so he could slide under Junior's legs. This time purposefully skidding on his back.

Changing his glaive into a gun, he fired several shots of lightning dust hitting Junior's back dead on.

While he did yell a bit out of pain, it didn't look like it did that much. Junior already recovering and ready to turn around to charge him.

Forgetting completely about the missiles that were now just five seconds from him.

The man was sent flying as the rockets struck his body one by one. Each fiery explosion sending him further and inflicting more agony to this unfortunate nobody. "GWAAAH!" He yelled miserably he was shot back once again, seething at the pain from the growing amount of burns.

Then finally, they stopped and he crashed unto the ground in a pained heap.

"That should've stopped him…" crowed Neptune, hoping that this opponent was finally down for the count.

But in this, he was not so lucky at all.

Junior was now standing up, darkness permeating from him as rage filled eyes stared darkly back at him. This rage set Neptune on edge, making him get up and change his weapon to Trident mode. Junior's bat warped with dark energy, growing larger and larger as the moments passed. Finally in a deep booming voice, the man roared…

"You are going to pay for this!"

WHAM!

As if some deity above deemed it necessary, as single fist struck Junior with the force of a speeding truck. This fist belonged to the ever cheery Penny, whom came from above with a pummeling pound to his cranium that actually pushed him into the floor a bit.

Junior was left dazed, alcohol bottles spinning around his head as he tried to regain his senses...

Penny's face was turned into a look of pure anger, along with a powerful protective will. "You shall not harm my friends!"

Turning the other way, she boosted herself at him again and landed a decisive uppercut to his jaw. Tearing him out of the ground at the same time and sending him airborne. The robot girl didn't stop there though. She flew at him again, barraging him with a repeated left and right hook combination, giving him all the punishment he so badly needed.

At her greatest height, she grabbed his arm and hurled him back down to the ground.

"Grah! I've had enough! You're worse than blondie!"

The man fired a single large rocket at the girl, whom was speeding down at him again. He was not going to take any chances though, readying a portal of darkness in order to escape…

"You will not get away!"

Instead of dodging the missile, Penny instead flew right at it and grabbed full hold of it. Pushing her flight speed to its absolute limit, she got right up to Junior before he could completely open his portal.

Well, goodbye world.

Penny slammed the rocket launcher into his body just as he hit the ground…

KA-BOOOM!

The resulting explosion was so powerful it shattered the surrounding walls, kicking up the wind in this wide set room and causing nearly everyone else to shield their eyes. Flames brilliantly bloomed to life, blazing around the field as the entire makeup of the impact built a large crater. In fact, even the crater didn't last long, instead the floor completely crumbled and fell down into the floor below.

The giant bits of torn of wall and floor crashed violently, shaking the world around it. Neptune, to another stroke of luck, was quickly grabbed by Coco before the explosion occurred. Both of them instead riding the wave of the blasting wind out of the deathly radius of the explosion. The sexy fashionista carried the boy under her arm, a bold smile on her face.

Neptune looked up at the beauty, a gorgeous smile on as he brushed her out of his face. "Was I saved by an angel?"

"No today sugar." Coco abruptly dropped the boy, hopefully his head making out with the floor would bring some sense to him. But Coco didn't seem bothered, instead looking toward Penny, whom was leaping from falling debris to catch up with them.

"Well, that Penny sure knows how to kick some ass." She complimented, completely casual to the destruction around her.

"I'll say…Neptune nodded. Penny landed right in front of them, a practiced salute to them both. "One enemy has been eliminated Friend Coco!"

"Nice work." Coco nodded, slinging her bag over her shoulder before looking around. The rubble was now beginning to settle, only tiny slivers of rock falling from the destroyed floor above now. A thin layer of dust was in the air, but it thankfully it didn't obscure anything out of vision. The initial blast had rid the area of most of the Heartless, which was part of the reason why Coco couldn't help them fight against Junior. Coco was about to fight Roman until he summoned the cursed creatures, leaving Coco to battle against an entire horde of them herself.

Well, she wasn't one to complain. It's not like it was much of a fight anyway.

"But we've still got Torchwick to deal with. I'm pretty sure that attack wasn't nearly enough to kill him."

"Only where is he?" Neptune questioned, "Did he get caught up in the blast?"

"That would be a big fat no."

The teenagers were then graced with the clacking of a can against the floor, Roman Torchwick was alive. That very same cane continued to clack, Roman using it to walk in his trademark suave manner. An un-amused frown was on his face, and the cigar he'd previously been smoking was now gone. The glazed look in his eyes showed he was serious, the final nail had been hammered down straight into the coffin.

"Plans falling through the roof and all…" He mumbled. "Man, can't catch a break for anything. They keyblade wielder was supposed to be the only one coming here! No, instead I get a whole freakin' cavalry. Just my luck."

He pointed his cane at the trio.

"Well kids, I'm afraid that this is the end of the line for you." The man practically assured them. "Don't worry though, I'll be sure to send a nice apology note to your mommies, along with your body bags."

The man then snapped his fingers.

Another powerful rumble, nearly knocking the three Beacon fighters off their feet. It was so potent that even the remaining ceiling was beginning to fall down as well. Heartless began appearing from portals of darkness, creatures like Bookmasters, Air Battlers, Surveillance Robots, Hot Rods and even Luna Bandits!

Then an even larger life-form busted through the fallen rubble piles; it's large assorted purple body was menacing and powerful. Giving definition to its large muscles and grotesquely huge tusks on both sides of its bottom jaw. It's glowing yellow eyes could pierce the night, and its bellowing roar could deafen anyone too close.

A Behemoth.

"That...is a huge Heartless…" Neptune sweat-dropped nervously. Even Penny looked set on edge, already beginning to prepare her ultimate attack. Her hopes being that it would be enough to eradicate this new set of enemies.

"Pff."

The two looked at Coco, whom stepped up in front of them and mecha-shifted her handbag into her Nevermore shredding mini-gun. She held it firm and tight, aiming it directly at the group of Heartless sent after them.

She then cast as glance at her two party members, a tiny smirk to calm them. "You two newbies hit the deck, this one is all mine."

"Kill them." Roman dragged his voice out uncaringly. The Heartless did as commanded, charging at the girl in their palpable anticipation in stealing another heart.

Coco was unfazed, instead bit her other hand on the trigger of her gargantuan weapon and saying…

"Let's party."

Brrratatatataata…

The sound of the rapidly rotating minigun was overshadowed by the roars of the monsters. Even so, it was the weapon's indestructible bullets that tore through the waves of Heartless like it was the easiest thing in the world. The Hot Rod Heartless were highly defensive creatures, but even they had no sanctuary from this storm of gunshots that tore them apart. The other weaker Heartless followed suit, succumbing to the brutal onslaught that they no doubt didn't expect.

Just as Roman had.

He'd already been shot a good handful of times before getting out of the way, now wearing a load of painful holes in his body. He bit down hard, cursing that unexpected attack to the deepest pits of the Underworld.

Even the Behemoth stood no real chance, the bullets ripped straight through its body. Engulfing it in a hail of thousands of attacks that were as about as easy to dodge as rain. It roared in agony and protest, feeling the pain of its horn being further and further pierced. But within a few minutes, it too gave in to the minigun. It fell to the floor, completely defeated before i could even fight. Already fading away as Coco finally released the trigger on her gun.

Silence.

And Neptune's jaw dropped hard enough to crack the floor.

What was left was what was exactly there before Roman showed up, along with a leading trail of fading darkness from the destroyed Heartless.

Coco noticed his look and chuckled. "Heh. Get on my level kiddos."

"Not in this lifetime." Neptune shook his head in disbelief. Sun was right about Beacon students, they were pretty powerful.

And insane.

"So Torchwick, Coco looked at the criminal further away. "Whatcha got now?"

Roman grit his teeth bitterly. He would probably just have to fight them, but that would only prolong the inevitable. Shouldn't Adam have killed the keyblade wielder by now? Once that was done they could all disappear and escape the Organization's clutches. But they were running out of time.

And options.

Melanie and Miltia were nowhere to be found. Junior was destroyed. And Cinder was currently fighting that Oobleck teacher. But he'd only known that because he'd been observing the Beacon warriors since they arrived, watching where they went to ensure everyone went where it was necessary.

And why he'd signaled Cinder to start raising hell when Sora's group first arrived.

But now it was pretty much down to the top dogs, him, Cinder and Adam.

And now that he thought about it…

Where the heck was Neo?

BOOM!

"You've got to be kidding me…" The odious criminal whined. What was with all the explosions? Did there really need to be so many? Why not just wake up the entirety of Remnant! Geez…

In any case, the newest explosion had caved a hole in the nearby wall. Not a second later did Cinder come flying through on a stream of flames, followed closely by…

"Professor Oobleck!" Penny announced readily.

The green-haired professor was firing explosive rounds of fire dust at the flame manipulating woman. She would dodge and weave when needed, shooting back other streams of flame at the students and the teacher.

"Evasive action children!" Oobleck commanded loudly.

Penny zoomed into the air, Coco and Neptune taking off into a run to escape the sizzling hot fire.

"Roman." Cinder flipped off her flame streams, landing next to the man with heated eyes. "Where is Adam?"

Rolling his eyes, the gentleman responded. "How on Remnant should I know? He was supposed to meet us here after he killed the keyblade wielder."

"I suppose that means he didn't." Cinder's eyes narrowed. She felt so much like grabbing someone and just burning the alive in her hands. Their plans were falling apart, and no doubt Xehanort is onto them right now. Unless this is cleared up soon, the Organization will arrive…

And then the true nightmare would begin.

"Well then Cindy, what do you propose we do?" Roman questioned without looking at her.

Cinder wasn't even hesitant, already summoning her glass blades. "We kill them of course."

"Hmph. I could've done that without you telling me."

The villains were on the attack, Cinder again creating large circles that erupted columns of fire. While Roman shot off blast after blast of whistling dust.

Neptune aimed and fired his gun readily, sending each shot at their mark. Penny and Coco had gone in for close combat, Coco heading off Roman while Penny danced in the airs against Cinder. Oobleck followed suit, using his bat transformed mug like a broomstick and riding it after Penny and Cinder. The fires kicked out of the end, propelling his high and fast.

Roman shot a plethora of blizzard magic, Coco dodged them with ease. He ran up to her and swung his cane down on her vertically, his enemy merely leaned to the side and countered with an upward swing. Roman stepped to the side smoothly, bringing his palm to her face and pushing her back. Coco lost her footing a bit, giving Roman the opportunity to blast an aero her way.

The gust of wind pushed against her, but the girl was able to dig her heels into the ground to hold her firmly still. The moment the magic subsided, she threw a fast kick at Roman's side, grimacing as he managed to catch her ankle.

With but one arm, he swung her like a rag doll around him and threw her to the room's opposite end. Coco managed to keep from getting dazed and righted herself in the air, landing on both feet with only a slight stagger.

"Okay…" She said, her annoyance now showed. "Now I'm actually getting angry."

"I'm shaking in my boots." Roman responded with a chilling chuckle.

While Coco was far too calm to take such obvious bait, she decided it'd be best to just press on the attack. And she brought that in spades.

The exchanges of their unorthodox weapons was no different than a simple sword duel. Coco could use her little handbag offensively and defensively, even though it only had a small window for each. Roman's quick cane swings were a bit of a hassle, but it was nothing the talented second year couldn't handle.

She would add a quick to her stylish flair, sometimes catching Roman with them. She dropped a high kick toward Roman's head, clicking her teeth as it missed. Spinning around she brought him a roundhouse kick, Roman raised his arm and blocked it. In the next moment the girl kicked off her other foot and brought it to Roman's face…

Needless to say, the criminal didn't see it coming.

With a hard smack to his face, the criminal was sent hurtling, hitting the bare wall of an upturned piece of rubble.

He had no time to check his jaw, for Coco had leapt at him with her handbag high above her head. At such a descent and height, plus the weight of the tool itself...it would certainly cave his skull in.

He pushed off the wall, raining down several bolts of lighting on the fashionable woman. Gasping, Coco spun to the side in order to avoid most of the bolts. Unfortunately she wasn't able to avoid them all, several streaks of lightning energy struck her shapely body. Sending coursing streams of electricity through her.

She landed in a kneeling position, feeling her left arm going a bit numb. Gladly she could still move it, a permanently disabled arm would not do well for a girl like her. After all, it took a healthy body and mind to be completely fabulous.

"Nice tricks you got there." Coco complimented, forcing herself to stand up straight. "You aren't bad for a petty thief."

Roman merely scoffed. "You kids these days have no tact. Always so rude. Hell, even the clothes you wear are absolutely horrendous. Please do yourself a favor and find something more presentable to wear."

Coco smirked, but her anger was reaching a boiling point. "Perhaps. But not everyone can have magical fairies like that cute little keyboy."

"...what?" Roman's wondered, then he sighed. "Like I've said before, kids these days just keep getting weirder."

In the end, it didn't really matter. They may have had this brief pause, but the battle was back on again. Coco charged Roman, and Roman charged Coco.

The battle above them was just as heated, literally. Penny was moving rapidly from side to side, avoiding the exploding arrows that Cinder shot at her. Oobleck was at the same time trying to keep up with Cinder. Whenever he was upon her, he'd stop like he was pressing on a break and whip the dust-based flames at the woman.
Though Cinder did excel at using fire, she could not manipulate the flames that weren't her own. With no alternative; she dodged as smoothly as a snake's underbelly, none of the charring substance could touch her.

She created about five sigils that burned with intense heat; pressing her commanding hand forward to activate them.

What sprang to life was five long dragon shaped organisms of pure fiery energy that chased after their foes.

"Whoa! That looks really bad!" Penny cried out, waving her arms about wildly for flying away.

"Just do not touch them Penny my dear!" Oobleck offered to her, spinning under one of the approaching dragons. "We shall have to figure out a method to dispel them somehow."

Lightning blasts fired and hit the dragon's, which helped to delay their advance. Neptune was evading the few fire streams that shot at him, using the rubble for cover whenever he had nowhere to move to.

He rolled to the side to avoid a flame dragon that came his way, the best roaring with hunger as it chased him down. As he ran he shot at it, unfortunately not doing much more than temporarily denying its chase. He dodged as efficiently as he could, but the dragon had an unlimited amount of stamina.

Neptune did not.

The dragon opened its huge mouth up wide, taking a bite out of this air as its flaming teeth missed Neptune by inches. Unfortunately for Neptune some flames kicked off its mouth and ignited his jacket.

"Ah man! And this was new!"

"Watch yourself Mr. Vasilias!"

Neptune exchanged his thanks to the eccentric Professor Oobleck, whom had swooped down to pick him up. Of course, the fire dragon still pursued them. But it least they had a fair distance on it.

The popular dream boy made haste patting down his jacket, groaning at the noticeable burn marks now decorating it. Still, no time to worry about that now.

"Professor, what are we going to do? We have to get rid of these things somehow."

"Reign in your concern you silly boy." Oobleck said, ascending to avoid another dragon. "For Penny is already enacting a plan."

"She is!?"

Sure enough, the two were zooming right for Penny whom was now levitating in the air while all her swords spun in a circle around her. They were rotating so rapidly that they were almost too blurry to believe real. The result was a powerful pick-up in air; causing a violently cyclone of sorts that pressed against the approaching dragons. The flames of the monsters were slowly dying out, pushed off by the high speeds winds that Penny's weapons generated. Oobleck guided them out of the wind's path, making sure to get behind Penny to avoid being blow away.

"Say your goodbyes…" Came a sultry, yet evil voice.

Oobleck was hit directly in the back by a kick from Cinder. The force would have sent him off his weapon, but luckily he'd been holding it was one hand and was now dangling from it. Cinder turned around and was ready to punch through Neptune's chest.

The boy had already gotten his gun out and was firing lighting rounds at her, forcing the woman to back up and evade them. Oobleck flipped back up onto his weapon, setting course straight for Cinder.

Penny looked toward them, now having finished disintegrating the fire dragons. "I shall assist!"

The epic sky battle was back on, Penny slashing out with her sword and throwing punches. Neptune firing his gun and lunging with his trident whenever he got close, Oobleck trailing his flames and being sure to dodge lethal moves. Cinder's glass blades clashed with Penny's steel swords, the glass being so strong it even cut some of them in half! Neptune jumped at Cinder with his trident, stabbing down once he was above her. Cinder blocked the move with relative ease and kicked him hard in his gut. The force sent him barreling toward the ground, though Penny was quickly able to catch him.

Neptune nodded at her appreciatively. "Penny throw me at her!"

"Okay!"

Penny whirled around several times before hurling Neptune at Cinder, Neptune moving so fast he thought his eyes would pop out. He held his trident tightly and pointed forward to strike through the evil witch-like villain.

Cinder had seen the attack coming, but the moment she turned her attention to it she was bashed in the jaw by Oobleck's bat. He followed this up by singing her with a swirl of hot flames. She used her glass swords to protect her face and most of her body, but her arms were not spared.

Then, the moment she lowered the blades…

Neptune was right upon her.

Thinking fast, she arched her back, his attack passed over her harmlessly. "Ha, is that the best you can do?"

"Nope, but this is!" cried another voice.

Unbeknownst to Cinder, after Penny had thrown Neptune, she flew over to help Coco overpower Roman. With a straight jb just like the one she delivered to Junior, Roman was stunned. Coco then flipped and grabbed the man by the head between both her legs, flipping forward to toss him into the air.

She mecha-shifted her handbag to its gatling gun form and aimed straight up.

Roman was flying straight at Cinder, and Oobleck was already zooming past Cinder's opposite side while Neptune was going to the other after missing his stabbing attack.

Penny flew up until she was above Cinder, now charging her powerful green energy beam attack.

From all four sides there was no escape.

"FIRE!" Oobleck ordered.

The Professor shot a stream of condensed flames.

Neptune fired a beam of ionized lightning dust.

Coco unleashed the hail of tearing bullets from her gatling gun.

And Penny fired her dust energy beam.

And even teleporting would not save Cinder and Roman in time.

A sound effect wasn't even needed. For this grand explosion was a mess of destructive beauty, all different colors of destructive fire, lighting and shell-less bullets rained down on the crumbled field. Anything caught in that explosion was utterly eviscerated!

Or at least, it was supposed to be.

"Dear or dear…"

The four warriors landed on the ground safely, injured a bit, but otherwise they were breathing. And that was certainly enough.

But it was what was now before them they truly caught them off guard.

"Before any of your can question my identity, please allow my introduction...I am Xehanort."

Master Xehanort stood with his ever intimidating hunch, arms held behind his back as two Invisible Heartless held the two captive Remnant nobodies in their hands. Cinder and Roman looked uninjured from the attack, but they squirmed to gain freedom like their lives depended on it.

Xehanort gave a tiny smile, as if trying to come off nicely. "You've all done very well to push my subordinates this far, and may I say you've certainly done me a huge favor by wearing them out."

"Xehanort...what is the meaning of this?" Cinder wanted to growl at him, simply taking to keeping calm instead. Or well, trying to. Roman was about the same; though he remained quiet and anticipation for the answer.

"Ah yes, that." Xehanort stated simply. "Well, let's kick things off by bringing up your betrayal."

'What? He knew?' Cinder's thoughts began to move rapidly. There had to be a way out of this. She could deny what he was accusing them of. No, that wouldn't work. Xehanort was far too smart for that. It was much too late to play innocent now.

"I'll spare you the details, as I'm not much but an old man and long stories will put me to sleep." The Organization leader admit. "But well, I knew your intentions all along. That is the only reason you've survived as long as you have. It's commendable really, to try to use Sora to destroy me. A well thought out plan."

Xehanort's brought one hand out from behind his back, flexing it dangerously.

"But…"

He shoved his hand right through Roman's chest, if the criminal was lucky then he died instantly. If not, then he would die a few second after. It didn't particularly matter, for in the next instant, the once notorious criminal named Roman Torchwick…

Had faded away.

Cinder's eyes were wide with horror, never before did this woman feel such potent fear from another person. She was so used to inspiring fear herself, but looking at this frail old man sent chills down her spine like nothing else had.

What did it take...to hold such immense power?
She figured she would never know.

This was probably her final moment.

She looked at the Beacon warriors standing farther away, they looked at the scene in shock. But they were likely just waiting to see if Xehanort would attack them as well. Which he probably wouldn't. Xehanort was far too fond of psychotic games to do that. He would allow them to be destroyed by someone else, so they could suffer in the fact that they would never stand up to his power no matter how much they tried. No, Xehanort wouldn't even touch them.

Not yet anyway.

"So Cinder Fall…" Xehanort had the cruelest smirk imaginable, only made worse by his eyes that were glowing full yellow like a Heartless. If anything, this man was much worse than any Heartless, Grimm or Nobody. He was evil defined and masterfully incarnated. "Any last words?"

Cinder would not give him the pleasure of her pain, she would go down defiant no matter the cost. She cast her glance at the party of four.

"Tell that keybrat…" She said to them adamantly, though with her usual calm and calculated tone. "To bury Organization XIII for good."

Xehanort's hand tore through her chest, and just like Roman, she faded away in an instant.

Xehanort then turned his attention to the one's who invaded his headquarters. Relishing their high tension, worry and fear for they had no idea what would happen to them.

Then he turned away. "Well, I have one more stop before I can finally retire to me quarters. Make haste and leave this place, it would be quite a shame that you all die here before the real fun begins."

And as fast as he had appeared…

He disappeared.


Yes!

This chapter was longer than I thought, but hey whatevs!

So this was basically the Roman vs. Neptune, Penny and Coco and the Cinder vs. Oobleck fights combined since I didn't want to make it two individual chapters. Besides I think the fight is much cooler together.

So yeah Cinder, Roman and Junior are ALL gone now. Which leaves only very few of the Remnant warriors left. What will happen to them!? You'll find out. I hope I portrayed Coco and Neptune right, they don't get that many lines in battle so I have no real idea how they work. I imagine since Neptune is an intellectual, he is very smart and can come up with good plans in battle. So I ran with that. And Coco...

She's Coco.

Nuff Said.

Oh yeah and...

OH MY GOD THE KINGDOM HEARTS III 2015 TRAILER! I WAS FANBOYING ALL OVER MY KEYBOARD WHEN I SAW IT! All those new cool things that Sora could do! It's so freakin AWESOME SAUCE! I WANTS! I NEEDS!

Also I was skeptical of the new outfit for Sor because I liked his KH2 one a lot, but that new one is actually pretty good! It is a very awesome outfit for Sora because it kinda shows his growth as his person, he's getting more mature you know?

And is it just me or did his shoes get slightly closer to normal size?

Anyway, I think that's all for this time.

Again any ideas or qualms you have, PM me or leave it in a review.

Until next time all!

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