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Secret Report
The Citadel is a legendary prison, said to have held the most dangerous criminals in the Multi-verse for eons. The Citadel resides within an unusually inaccessible realm. The only possible way to enter the realm is via a portal opened by a Citadel Guardian in the process of apprehending a cosmic criminal. It is nearly impossible to escape this realm due to the strange, spacial physics of the dimension.
Cosmic criminals are encased in crystal, their lives preserved, to be incarcerated in this manner for eternity.
Some examples of cosmic level crimes include:
Genocidal mass decapitation and head eating.
Planet dicing.
Being some kind of evil alien bureaucrat.
Killing a Wish Master.
The realm of the Citadel exists outside the conventional fields of space, making it nearly impossible to reach. However I have learned that a Cosmic Being is capable of at least opening the secret path that would lead to the Citadel. If one has the power to travel between worlds they would be able to reach the Citadel. I watched it the day that a Crystal Guardian came and took an accomplice of mine into the Citadel for the crime of the near death of a Cosmic Being that had been recently reincarnated.
Legends of Ooo speak of a warrior who appeared during the time of the Mushroom War, the name of the Keyblade War that happened on Ooo. A warrior did not wield a Keyblade but was so powerful that he defeated legions of Keyblade Masters and stopped the Darkness from destroying Ooo at great cost. The warrior did not survive the war but his power was sealed into his sword and taken by the Ancients to the Citadel, using it as a source of power for the Guardians who continued his world of protecting the universe. I once tried to reach the Citadel but my attempted was thwarted by the Guardians and the local hero named Billy but it was no great loss.
I had already conjured an alternative to reaching the Citadel and it has already begun. The dark entity known as the Lich has already slain the Wishmaster but it seems that the Heart of the Wishmaster has taken refuge in the Keyblade of young Michael, introducing a new form. Such an interesting development and one I look forward to observing. In the meantime I must set about ensuring the Reunion of the Trinity.
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"Last time on Total Drama Birth by Sleep, Gwen and Zoey entered the Void, a place where all the mistakes of the world it is connected are dumped. They are now on a journey by Dawn, who is somehow now a magical user to find a fellow contestant somewhere in the Void. In the meantime Mike is following Mal and the Lich to the Citadel, a prison where people who are guilty of committing cosmic crimes are sent to be imprisoned for all eternity. Just who will they find in the Citadel and what will happen?" Chris turned to the camera with a big smile. "Find out all of that and more now, on Total…Drama…Birth By Sleep!"
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"Look, Jake." Jake turned his head toward the Citadel. "More guardians. The Citadel, I presume."
The Citadel was composed of six massive crystal pillars, focused toward a crystal frame. Each pillar had its own gravitational field but is held in place by the gravity of the realm's absolute center.
"Likely so." Jake agreed.
"Wow." Mike whispered. "It looks so amazing."
"Hey. Do you think maybe one of them could be the guy who kidnapped me?" Finn asked, remembering what he had learned from Prismo.
"Eh, I don't think so. We'll probably know when we see him." Jake answered.
"Right, right that makes sense." Finn agreed.
"I just wish my friends were here." Mike said.
Little did Mike realize that the new form of his Keyblade, Wishing Lamp, flashed as soon as he said that.
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"So who could be left out here?" Zoey wondered as she and Gwen searched through the Void.
"Well, not counting the Dark Keybladers I think we've found almost everyone from the first generation at least. Have you seen anyone from season four?" Gwen asked.
Zoey shook her head. "I only saw Jo and Mal in Megaville before I ran into you and you found Katie, Sadie, Owen and Lindsay. Then Dawn found us."
"Well I know Mike found that Anne Marie girl in one world." Gwen mentioned which Zoey frowned at. "Not a friend?"
"Not really. So on my cast there's Big, Staci, Dakota, and Sam. What about you?" Zoey asked.
"Well, I haven't found Harold, Geoff or Ezekiel yet. Thought I honestly considered the chance that Ezekiel drowned with the island when Chef sank it." Gwen admitted.
"Yeah. Just what did Chris do to him?" Zoey asked.
"The more accurate question is what Chris didn't do to him and Zeke was a bit of a hothead during season three. Being stuck in the plane without food for weeks and being hunted like an animal really took their toll on him and Chris didn't help when he threw Zeke down a volcano or trapped him in that mine. I'm honestly worried what he might have done on some other world and what he could have become." Gwen shook her head. "I actually feel sorry for him even if I thought he was psycho crazy."
"Chris really was a monster as a host wasn't he?" Zoey asked, looking around the Void. "But he never thought he would go this far."
Gwen scowled. "Chris has got a lot to answer for, especially for whatever part he's playing in this whole mess. If he thinks he's getting off scott free this time he's got anothing thing coming. My Keyblade, across his face."
Zoey smirked. "Count me in."
"You got it." Gwen stopped and pointed down. "Hey, doesn't that look familiar?"
Zoey followed Gwen's finger and saw what she was pointed. It was a cabin but no ordinary cabin.
"That's the loser cabin from Total Drama Island!" Zoey gasped. "It ended up here in the Void!"
"And I bet our lost contestant is in there." Gwen nodded and the two jumped on the rock where the cabin.
Gwen opened the door and they both peeked inside. "Hello?"
Inside the cabin was a girl, a bald-headed girl dressed in pink and blue. "Oh hello!"
"Staci!" Zoey gasped. "So this is where you ended up!"
"Ended up? I just got here and was left alone. You know cabins were first invented by my great-great-great-great-gran-" Staci started but Gwen quickly tapped her on the shoulder and she vanished in a flash of light, becoming a summon gem.
"I think we could just avoid the stories." Gwen picked up the gem. "She's as chatty as you described her. Like a female Ezekiel without going crazy."
"Yeah, she just never wanted to stop talking. She was the first to be voted off and Chris got her infected by a radioactive marshmellow that caused her hair loss." Zoey shook her head. "And she didn't notice she was in this void the whole time?"
"Maybe she couldn't tell." Gwen shrugged. "It's hard to tell what kind of place likes this does to a person. For all we know what happened to our world was a second ago for her."
"So she has no idea?" Zoey asked with a saddened look. "That's horrible. Like everything else in this place. What kind of world decides something or someone is a mistake?"
"I don't know. Seems like a perfect idea for me." Gwen and Zoey spun around and saw Heather sitting on the bunk bed. "Bring back memories huh?"
"Heather!" Gwen and Zoey summoned their Keyblades. "What do you want?"
"Just to stop in say hi." Heather stood up, keeping her hands up. "So you found another loser huh? Good for you."
"Get lost, Heather. I'm through with you and the games you and the real losers have been playing. You can't take us both." Gwen said, pointing her Keyblade at Heather.
Heather smirked. "What makes you think I am alone?"
Something lashed out behind Zoey, grabbing her and pulling her out of the cabin.
"Zoey!" Gwen called out, watching as Zoey was pulled out and turned back to Heather, looking really angry now. "Heather, what have you done?!"
"We evened the playing field." Another voice said as a portal appeared and out stepped Courtney. "It's about time we put you in your place, Gwenny."
"Courtney." Gwen narrowed her eyes. "I should have figured you'd be here too. What have you done this time?"
"Just taken the steps to take down all our enemies, you, Mal, and Master Xehanort." Courtney answered, grinning darkly.
"So Xehanort is behind all this. You've been working for him this whole time. Why? What did he promise you to help him destroy everything?" Gwen questioned.
"You're asking the wrong question. It's not what he offered, it's that we didn't have a choice. And neither do you." Heather answered.
"But now with Bridgette and Justin along with the others we'll take down Xehanort, not you." Courtney finished.
"Bridgette and Justin?" Gwen stared at Courtney. "What do they-"
"GWEN!" Zoey screamed from outside the cabin.
Gwen rushed out to find her friend but gasped when she saw who Zoey was fighting. "Bridgette? Justin?"
They looked like Bridgette and Justin but at the same time they looked like horrible monsters. Their bodies were completely black, with octopus tentacles emerging from Bridgette's ankles, glowing yellow eyes and horns sprouting from their heads.
"Gwen…" Bridgette whispered, her voice demonic and evil.
"What happened to you?" Gwen asked.
"You…You did this!" Bridgette shouted, lashing out with her tentacles.
Gwen yelped but quickly used her Keyblade, combined with a Barrier spell to block and parry the tentacles but Bridgette's attacks were very strong, superhuman strong. Justin attacked Zoey, lunging at her with vicious looking clawed hands.
"Bridgette, what happened to you?" Gwen asked, still blocking Bridgette's tentacles.
"You did this! You did all of this! It was always you!" Bridgette screeched, lashing at Gwen's feet.
Gwen jumped over the tenctacle and somersaulted back. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"It all started with you! You use everyone around you, like Heather did! You break hearts and stomp them!" Bridgette roared.
Gwen ducked under another tentacle. "I didn't use anyone, Bridgette and even if this is about what happened with Trent and Courtney I made peace with that long ago! Who are you to judge me on that?"
"You dare lie to me?!" Bridgette sprouted more tentacles from her back. "When you betrayed Courtney again?!"
"Lie? Ha! What about the time you abandoned me for Team Owen just because Owen want to throw a stupid party and actually helped Heather make me lose the final challenge? What about when you accused me of cheating on Trent with Duncan and using him when I never wanted him to do anything like that for me?" Gwen retorted, pointing at Bridgette. "What about when you actually cheated on Geoff with Alejandro? That actually made leaving you stuck to a pole a whole lot easier! What about when you bashed Geoff's face in for the stupidest reasons? How can you think to judge me and forget your own disloyalties?"
Bridgette roared, lashing out with more tentacles but Gwen blocked them all with a Barrier. "Don't tune me out, Bridgette. I gave you a break the last few times but if you're blaming me all your misfortunes when you're ignoring the monster you've somehow become because of Courtney, who betrayed me after everything I went through to make things right with her then you really are not the person I thought you were!"
Gwen jumped back and pointed her Keyblade up. "Thunder!"
A bolt of lightning hit Bridgette, stunning her and Gwen quickly cut through several tentacles before Bridgette recovered and created more.
"You are just another liar! Just like him!" Bridgette shouted.
"Another liar? What are you-Geoff?" Gwen stopped. "What about Geoff?"
"He left me! He was another liar!"
Gwen's eyes widened. "You two broke up before our world was lost, didn't you?"
"Liar! Traitor! He tore my heart to shreds! I will do the same to him!" Bridgette screeched, flailing about like she was on fire.
"Oh, Bridgette." Gwen could only stare at her former friend in sadness. "You two had another fight. No wonder I never heard back from you."
She had fallen out of contact with Bridgette shortly before All-Stars began but never did she think that she and Geoff had broken up.
'The worst thing is I should have seen something like this coming. Bridgette's sweet and all but first relationships are always the hardest, especially when your young.' Gwen sighed sadly. "Bridgette."
Bridgette stopped and looked at Gwen as she approached. "What happened between you and Geoff may hurt but I have been there and I know you don't need to be like this. This is not you, even when you are angry."
Bridgette stepped back. "Liar! You are a liar! You are just like all of them!"
"Bridgette, please. Let me help you." Gwen reached out with one hand, dismissing her Keyblade.
Bridgette stared at the hand, almost looking like she was considering it…But then vanished into a Corridor of Darkness.
"Bridgette!" Gwen shouted, watching as the portal vanished. "Bridgette…"
"Take that!" Gwen looked over and saw Zoey had already defeated Justin, who was sprawled out on the ground with Zoey standing over him, holding both her Keyblade and Sensei Jack's sword.
"Zoey, don't hurt him!" Gwen called out, earning Zoey's attention. "That's Justin! He's been turned into a monster like Bridgette!"
"Justin? Bridgette?" Zoey looked down at Justin, confusion and surprise on her face. "What happened?"
Gwen looked back at the cabin, glaring at Heather and Courtney. "What did you do to them?"
"Showed them the Darkness." Courtney answered, smirking. "Guess we still have some work to do."
"Courtney!" Gwen shouted and pointed her Keyblade at them, releasing a fire ball.
Courtney and Heather vanished into a Darkness Portal, leaving the cabin to be destroyed by Gwen's spell. Justin vanished through the chaos, leaving the two good Keybladers behind in the Void.
Gwen slammed her Keyblade down into the ground and let out a furious scream. "COURTNEY! HEATHER! DUNCAN! ALEJANDRO! YOU ALL ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS! YOU HEAR ME?! YOU WILL PAY!"
"Gwen!" Zoey rushed over and hugged Gwen, holding her tight as they fell down to the ground on their knees. "It's okay, Gwen. It's okay."
Gwen hugged back and let out a deep breath. "…I am losing it, Zoey. How many people are going to suffer before this is over?"
"I don't know. But I do know that I am here, Gwen and you're not going to be alone." Zoey answered honestly. "We'll find Mike and the others, stop Heather and Courtney and end this whole thing. I know we will."
Gwen sighed and leaned into Zoey's embrace, slowly hugging the red head back. "Thanks, Zoey. You are really good at making people feel better."
"I know." Zoey pulled away slightly. "Come on. Let's get out of here. We found Staci. There's no reason to stay here."
Gwen nodded as they stood up. "Right. Guess we better see if we can get out of…here?"
Noticing the confused look on Gwen's face Zoey turned around and saw a portal…Not a portal of Darkness, but a Portal of Light.
"Is that a Portal of Light?" Zoey asked, staring at the portal.
"I've read about Portals of Light and Darkness but this is the first time I have seen a Portal of Light." Gwen answered. "But the odds of a portal appearing here in the Void are…Non-existent."
"You think Dawn had something to do with it?" Zoey asked.
"Well, I think we'd have a better chance then trying to leave on our own." Gwen admitted in resignation. "Let's hope we end up somewhere nice."
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Mike, Finn and Jake arrived at the Citadel and Jake turned into stairs that Finn and Mike walked down. The Lich was teleported to the floating crystal pillar on the top in front of where the three could see him.
"Hey! The Lich again! This must be where the prison cells be at. See?" Finn said, glaring at the Lich. "Good riddance to you. I hope you rot forever, you awful jerk clapper! Some people just make the world a worse place to be in just by being around, Jake."
Little did the three know Lich started to breathe gray smoke through the pink crystal.
"Bad omen. That's right. Bad apples. Lock 'em all up, I say. At the bottom of the ocean where it's too dark to see 'em." Finn continued, not noticing what was happening.
The three then started looking at all the crystals.
"So all these guys committed a cosmic crime and were sent here for it." Mike said, seeing all the many monsters and demons that must have caused some of the worst crimes imaginable.
Jake stopped and looked at the crystal with a human outline. "Look at that weird ol' kid over there. Man, look at his clothes."
Finn and Mike looked up at the crystal, seeing the man inside.
"He looks…Human." Finn said slowly. "You think this is the guy who kidnapped me and took me to Ooo?"
"Maybe." Mike answered. "Hard to tell how long he's been here."
Jake turned into a slide and slid Finn and Mike into the crystal cage with the strange man inside and fell onto the floor of the pillar. The three looked up at the man silently.
"What could this guy have done that sent him here?" Finn asked.
Jake walked towards Finn. "Well, he must have done something pretty bad."
Finn groaned while slapping his head across his face, then got up from the floor. "Jeez, man! Now I wish I hadn't found out all that stuff before. Now my heart feels yellow and green." He made an angry sound while clenching his fists in the air, then he exhaled." Maybe we shouldn't even have come here—waah!?"
Jake was beside the man's crystal while blowing on it. Black fire was melting the crystal cells and pillars.
"Fires made of Darkness?! Only something of pure evil could create fires like that!" Mike summoned his Keyblade, still in its Genie's Lamp form.
"Jake, what did you do?"
"It wasn't me! It came from up there!" Jake answered, pointing up.
Finn and Mike looked up to see The Lich's crystal cell fully gray and spreading black fire to other cells with prisoners that were now gray and have escaped or were still in their cells. The prison was being destroyed by this plague.
Finn was shocked by this. "He's melting the crystal all up! Did he trick us again? I think he did."
"Hey, kid!" Finn turned around, seeing the man from before who was now partially free from his crystal. He started to blow on the crystal that was burning close to his hand. "Hey, do me a favor. Get me out of here, huh?" Finn, bearing his teeth, quickly went to help the man. "This fire smells crazy!"
Mike watched as one of the escaped prisoners was zapped by the crystal guardians. "Yikes!"
Finn went to Jake as Jake turned into a wrecking ball and twisted him around his body then twisted the other way to knock Jake into the crystal cell, saving the strange man.
"Thanks, kid. Now, where'd you guys park your Star Skipper?" As the man spoke, the guardians fired off their lasers to obliterate the criminals trying to escape.
One guardian had fallen in the line of duty and was falling into the depths of space. The Citadel was coming down quick.
"We... we don't have a Star Skipper." Finn said, not sure what to think of this man.
Jake turned back into his dog form. "Also, Finn is the kid you kidnapped."
The man didn't seem to hear him. "Whaaat? No Star Skipper?"
"Ahem! I said, Finn's the kid you stole. He came along way to meet you and aks why you kidnapped him." Jake said, trying to get his point across.
"Kid I kidnapped? Oh, hey, sorry about that, kid. In other news, I still gotta get out of here and the ground is melting. Huh?" He poked at a pink circle that has formed in the center of the Citadel. It was all pooling to the center.
"Hey, um... I... I wanted to ask you something. I... well..." The man jumped into the center. "Hey, wait up!" Jake brung himself, Mike and Finn into the center and they all swam upwards. "Hey, wait!"
At the top of the center, Finn, Mike, the man and Jake gasped for air. Limbs of the guardians were everywhere. A guardian fell and made a wave. "Listen, I need to ask you —- aah!"
The wave knocked them onto a rock of the Citadel that was standing as an island, leaving them all catch to their breathe. Jake coughed up water and gasped when he looked up. All the prisoners were loose and most of them were fighting one another. A Void Caster opened a void portal which hit a guardian with a meteor.
The guardian aimed a laser at the Void Caster, but missed. The Void Caster opened another portal to the head of the guardian. He tried to zap him but died due to a train—driven by Starchie—to the head. "Whoa!"
Void Caster laughed.
"I got to stop this." Mike summoned his Keyblade and leapt fired a Thunder spell at the Void Caster, stunning it.
"A Keyblade?!" The man suddenly gasped and stepped back. "You working with Xehanort?"
Mike turned around and looked at the man. "You know Master Xehanort?"
"Knqo him?! I'm Martin! The guy who offered to help him in exchange for him helping me! He wanted to me bring some kid, I think he was my kid for some reason to open up a path to the Citadel!" The man, now known as Martin answered.
"Your kid? But that means…" Finn trailed off, having listened to Martin's story.
"Master Xehanort wanted to come to the Citadel? Why?" Mike asked.
The answer never came as there was a loud roar from behind them. Mike spun around and watched as a large muscular man with a red lion like face, a red eyepatch over his right eye, wearing black and tight skinned body suit emerged from the water.
"I AM NOW FREE!" The lion-like man roared. "MONSTAR IS FREE!"
"Not for long!" Mike called out, ready to fight.
The creature known as Monstar glared at down at Mike. "A Keyblade Wielder, huh? How lucky me!"
A beam of purple of light shot from Monstar's at Mike who somersaulted back and threw his Keyblade at Monstar. It landed a strike but bounced off the criminal's muscular frame.
Monstar laughed. "Is that the best you can do?! It seems the Keyblader warriors have become weak in my absence!"
Mike summoned back his Keyblade. "We'll see about that."
Jake looked around. "Finn, I know we normally come out of these things okay, but I got a bad feeling about this. Just promise me that if both my eyes get fried off, you'll fry off your eyes too."
Jake stretched his armed and pulled Finn out of the water.
"What? No. He gets up from the floor Listen, you don't gotta worry about a thing, Jake ol' pal." Finn pointed upwards. "We just need to defeat those five space villains, hijack the shard they're hijacking and sail it home to safety." Jake looked upwards. "Easy peasy."
"Yeah, Jake, smarten up. Soon as the last guardian dies, the fighting stops. See? He's biting the dust right now." Martin agreed, pointing at the last crystal guardian.
The guardian was dying with black flames on its head. It shot a parting laser before it fully died and it burned off Martin's lower leg, exposing the bone underneath.
"Aahh! Uh oh!" Finn said the same thing 15 times.
While Finn was speaking, Martin fell over and Jake crouched over, holding his head and breathed.
"It's- It's okay. It's okay." Martin said as Finn continued then stopped. "You just gotta fetch me a gob of that guardian blood, son. It's got that good nooch that keeps us young in the crystal."
"Nooch?" Finn asked.
"Come on now, partner. breath No dawdling, your old man needs ya." Martin winked.
Finn sighed as Jake stretched to form a bridge between two islands which Finn walked across.
"Atta boy, Flynn! Do it for your old man! Yeah, yeah, just get right in there! Don't be shy. Yeah!"
Finn reached the other side. He plunged his hands into the gooey white substance. He manages to pull a large blob from the mass and fell over backwards into the water.
"Thanks for the help." A voice said above Finn.
Finn looked up and gasped as Mal appeared on the dead guardian's head. "You!"
Mal laughed as he used his Keyblade to create a Dark Portal and from it emerged Master Xehanort who gazed at the remains of the Citadel. "So, the fall of the greatest prison in the cosmos has begun. To think I almost missed it."
Xehanort looked down at Finn and saw the blob of guardian blood in his hands. "You might want to hurry and save your father, young man. He doesn't have a lot of time."
He stepped down into the dead guardian's head, surrounding himself in the healing ointment that the guardian's blood.
"The ability to preserve one's life for eons, trapping their bodies in a seemingly timeless state. Regenerating every cell in the body, curing it of all ailments and yet cannot regenerate bones." Xehanort mused as he sank down into the blood. "But when combined with the healing powers of the Keyblade…"
A green glow surrounding him as he was completely submerged into the blood.
"And to burn away the old body."
There was burst of fire from the guardian's corpse, Mal remaining outside and watching. There was then a flash of green light that spread through the guardian's blood.
Finn wanted to say something but knew the old man was right so he hurried back over.
"Hey, good job, son! Rub some of that sap on my leg there. Make sure to get it into the chicken wing hole." Martin instructed.
Finn shuddered. "Dad..."
"Martin." Martin corrected.
"Okay, M-Martin. We need to talk."
"Yeah, okay, kid, but hurry it up. I'm trying to act cool here, but this thing really stings!"
Finn inhaled and opened his mouth. "Why'd you kidnap and abandon me in the forest when I was a little baby?"
Martin looked around awkwardly. "Oh... I mean... Heh. You know me. I'm a funny guy."
Finn groaned unhappily.
"I don't know. It was a long time ago." Martin brushed his hair back while he talked. "Who knows?" He pointed at Finn. "Maybe you left me!"
Holding the sap, Finn looked unhappy and Jake looked angry towards Martin.
Martin sighed. "But hey, daddy's back!" Grunting , Martin scooted over to Finn and put his arm around him. "You and me daddy and baby, or should I say...baby and daddy." He lightly slapped his face.
He then moved his leg closer to Finn. "Now slap that sap!"
Finn took some of the sap and spreads it on his leg bone. This renewed his veins, muscle, then his skin.
"Whoa! would you look at that!" Martin brought his leg near his face. "Smooth like new." He held his boot. "Pssh, couldn't fix the boot too, huh?"
"Dude!" Jake grabbed at Finn's shirt. "S'mores important junk happening! Look!"
Black fire was bubbling the melted sea-like crystal. The crystal that was holding the Lich had turned from pink to gray popped up from the melted crystal.
"It's time to peel bananas on this fool, as a family!" In unison, Jake and Finn flexed their muscles. "How about it, Martin?" When Finn turned around he saw Martin in the water, swimming towards the gathered criminals. "Mmmm!"
An explosion threw Finn off balance. "Wha?"
The Lich was standing and surrounded by black fire.
He took one glance at Finn and Jake and suddenly everything around them became a void of darkness. "Fall."
Finn and Jake were forced to the floor and the Lich walked toward Finn, laughing menacingly. Finn found the strength to get on his legs and knees. He looked towards Jake, who couldn't get up.
"You are alone, child."
Finn fell and lets out a groan. There was a light now in the dark coming from the small crystal island that Finn and Jake lie on.
"There is only darkness for you, and only death for your people." The Lich pointed to the shard with crystal and criminals on it. "These Ancients are just the beginning."
As the Lich talked, he walked over to Finn and Finn was trying to attack. Weakly, he got his sword out and fell over into guardian bloor while groaning.
"I will command a great and terrible army; and we will sail to a billion worlds. We will sail until every light has been extinguished. You are strong, child. But I am beyond strength. I am the end." He reached to touch Finn.
Finn rolled over to see the Lich. He balled his hand in a fist.
"And I have come for you, Finn."
Finn slapped the Lich with the blood on his hand and the Lich's skeletal hand started to grow veins and muscle. This caused the blackness to go away. The Lich started to spazz and make bizarre noises as he was tainted by what he was the opposite of: Life.
Everyone who was under his spell instantly broke free.
Finn sat up. "Oh, you don't like this stuff, huh?" He reached for more guardian blood and splashed it on the Lich. "Whoa!"
The transformation went faster as Jake woke up. The fell over, now made of flesh.
Finn looked toward his dad. "Dad." He ran after Martin. "Jake, finish off the Lich. I gotta go catch my dad."
"Finn, forget that loser!
Finn dove into the crystal-like sea and swam after his dad. Martin was humming to himself as he was climbing up the shard.
"Dad, wait!" Finn started coming up to the shard.
Martin glanced back to see him, then went back to climbing.
He got to the top. "Hey, cool guys. Looking for a new boss?"
The escaped Ancient criminals looked at him and then he winked at them. As Finn climbed up the shard, one of the criminals, a centipede, started to cut at the shard Finn was climbing up.
"Chew faster, that guy's really moving."
The centipede cut the shard before Finn made it. He grabbed both shard pieces and tried to pull them back together but seemed to be losing his grip.
"Dad! Stop!"
Jake glanced over at the Lich, then he saw Finn in danger. "Finn!"
He took an arm and threw it to help Finn. Finn had almost lost his grip when Jake pulled him to help keep it together. Down below, in the remains of the dead crystal guardian Mal watched as a body emerged from the blood, shaking some of the remains off of his clothes.
He looked down at himself, standing up straight and marveling at the change. "The blood of the immortal guardian flows through me now. What was once thought to be impossible had been made possible."
"Martin! I won't let you escape!" Finn shouted.
The man below looked up and watched as Finn struggled to stop Martin and the Ancients from escaping. "And I am just in time."
Martin ran toward the Void Caster. "Hey, hey, you're a void caster, right? We gotta put some pats his leg gas in this buggy."
The Void Caster nodded his head. He opened a void and it pulled the crystal toward another dimension.
"Finn! Let go! It's not worth it!"
Finn was still struggling to keep hold, and his face got more red the more effort he put into keeping hold. The grass sword on Finn's arm formed into a large, grassy, spiny arm which grew bigger and burst his clothes off as he screamed. Jake gasped as the grass arm now intertwined with the shard.
"Oh, gross. Pedal to the metal!" Martin urged.
The Void Caster makes the void larger. The strength of the other void caused Finn's grass arm to snap off, thus taking his forearm along with it. Jake gasped as Finn fell into the ocean. The crystal and other half of the shard moved into the void.
"Hey, what about air—?" Just before Martin finished his question the portal suddenly closed before the shard entered it. "What?!"
"Hello Martin." A voice spoke from behind.
Martin jumped and spun, only for his face to turn pale and his heart to nearly stop beating in pure fight. "X-Xe-Xehanort?!"
It was indeed Master Xehanort.
Only now he did not resemble an old man in his eighties. He was now younger, restored to his late twenties or early thirties with long silver hair falling down his shoulders. His white shirt was unbuttoned, revealing black armor similar to the one Eraqus wore under his robe and yet showed a muscular body underneath.
"To think we would meet again, even after all these years." Xehanort greeted, not glancing as the escaped criminals gathered around him. "Even when you failed you provided me with what I had been searching for. A way to restore my body to its prime long enough for me to answer all my questions."
"W-Well, your welcome! So about letting me and my buddies go?" Martin asked, sweating heavily.
"Go?" Xehanort's smile widened slightly. "I suppose you can go…Your friends on the other hand…Their meeting with their destiny is long overdue."
He held up his hand and summoned his Keyblade.
"How long I have waited, to enjoy the thrill of a good fight."
Xxx
While Finn was in the ocean, a small bit of the guardians' blood touched his arm and made a flower. Jake pulled Finn in from the ocean and onto the small island.
Jake moved Finn's hair out of his face and sat him up. "It'll be okay, dude."
Shelby the worm came out of Jake's ear and teared up. He lied on Finn's arm, causing Finn to smile.
He grimaced at his arm and sighed. "I mean, at least you finished off the Lich, right?"
Jake perked up. " Oh, yeah, that's the good news: I didn't have to! One sec."
He ran behind the large piece of crystal. "Up you go! Check this out!"
Finn was surprised as Jake showed Finn the new Lich who resembled a giant baby with a small horn growing out of his head. "And so this is how the undead scourge ends. Brand new baby. The Lich is super cute now, and he smells real neat!"
The new Lich stuck out his tongue.
"That sap rebooted him or something."
The Lich made popping sounds with his mouth.
"I like him a lot."
Finn smiles and a train whistled.
"Over here, fellas! Next stop, the Candy Kingdom. Previous stop, this weird place."
"Wait, where's Mike?" Finn stopped and looked around.
Xxx
Monstar roared as he knocked another Thunder aside with his bare hand and stomped towards Mike. "You cannot stop me, Keyblader! Now that I am free I will wander the cosmos, taking the riches of every miserable world I find!"
"Not on my watch!" Mike retorted.
Monstar laughed and pulled out a red glowing gem. "Then allow me to show you something. This is a piece of Moon-Star of Limbo, the world I came from. I have learned how to tap into its power and feed off of it. And with is power no prison or Keyblade will stand in my way again!"
The gem released a bright red light that partially blinded Mike.
"Moon-Star of Limbo," Monstar uttered, his voice becoming deeper and his eye wide. "Give me the might."
His body pulsed and started to grow as his eyepatch glowed.
"The muscle…"
Red armor began covering his body.
"The menace…"
Red metallic spikes spouted from the top of Monstar's head.
"OF MONSTAR!"
Mike watched in horrified awe as Monstar transformed into a massive metallic giant that towered over him.
"Now Keyblade Wielder…DIE!"
Xxx
Gwen and Zoey had no idea what to expect when they stepped through the Corridor of Light but they certainly did not expect to see some sort of crystal fortress in space that was being wrecked.
"Wow. What kind of place is this?" Zoey asked, looking around.
"I don't-" Gwen stopped in mid-sentence upon hearing a familiar voice shouting below them. "Mike!"
"We're coming!" Zoey jumped over the edge, falling down to where Mike was.
Monstar looked up and spotted Zoey as she slashed across his face with her Keyblade. "GAH?! More of them!?"
Zoey landed in front of Mike and spun around, seeing her boyfriend whom she had not seen for nearly two years. "…Mike."
Mike stared at Zoey, knowing he had seen her somewhere before. "You…You look familiar."
"I am Zoey. Remember me?" Zoey stepped towards Mike.
Monstar moved to attack but another voice shouted from above. "STAR BURST!"
A barrage of star shaped energy bolts slammed into Monstar, forcing him back as Gwen landed next to Zoey.
"Gwen?!" Mike gasped.
"Hey, Mike. Glad to see you're okay." Gwen said, keeping her eye on Monstar. "Can we save the reunion for later? When we're not dealing with a massive monster in front of us?"
"I am no monster. I am MONSTAR!" Monstar bellowed, smashing his fist down on Gwen who cart wheeled to dodge.
Zoey looked at Mike and they both nodded to each other. Zoey unsheathed Sensei Jack's sword and leapt into battle with Mike, slashing at Monstar's body. The space pirate growled and tried to swat them but they were too fast. Monstar started firing his eye-beams but Gwen quickly used a Reflega spell, reflecting his own attack back at him, injuring him greatly.
"We got him on the run!" Mike called out, slashing at Monstar's leg.
Monstar bellowed as he stepped back. "You will not cage me again!"
Monstar fired a blast behind him with his hands, creating a black and red portal that he stepped into, vanishing from the remains of the Citadel. With him gone Mike and Zoey looked at each other, staring at each other for a few moments. Gwen stepped back, knowing these two needed a few moments alone with each other.
"Mike…" Zoey stepped towards Mike. "Do you…Remember me?"
Mike looked at Zoey and was about to answer…
BOOM!
The three Keybladers looked up and saw an explosion on the small crystal floating above them.
"What was that?" Zoey asked.
"Just my master having a little fun." A familiar voice said behind them.
A portal of Darkness opened up behind Mike just as he turned around and was greeted with the sight of Mal's foot slamming into him and knocking him into the portal.
"Mike!" Zoey screamed as the portal vanished.
Mal laughed as he landed on the ground. "Sorry girls. The reunion will have to wait a little longer."
He laughed again as he vanished just as Gwen and Zoey slashed at him.
Xxx
Martin stepped back, trembling as he watched the centipede criminal screech as its body was cut in half by Xehanort's Keyblade. The Void Caster fired another beam to send Xehanort to another dimension but Xehanort teleported behind the Void Caster and cut him down.
"How sad. These Ancients were so powerful in their own right but against my power they fall so easily." Xehanort mused as he looked at the bodies of all the ancient crminals he had slain. "Coming from a time before the Keyblade War their crimes attracted the attention of the Cosmic Guard who brought them here to here to be imprisoned for all eternity. And yet before me the difference in power was worlds apart."
Xehanort turned around, glancing at Martin who yelped and stepped back. "And then there is you, Martin."
"Come on man! I tried to hold my end of the deal! I never meant to be caught by the Crystal Guardians and rip you off!" Martin stepped back, now mere inches from the edge.
"Please don't beg, Martin. It's unbecoming of a man who has helped me greatly." Xehanort dismissed his Keyblade. "I am now here to fulfill my end of the deal."
"You are?" Martin asked, taking a step back away from the edge.
"Yes. You seek escape from your world and I will now grant it to you." Xehanort held up a hand and created a portal of Darkness behind Martin. "Here is your escape."
Xehanort clenched a fist and then opened it, releasing a blast of wind that slammed into Martin, knocking him into the portal that vanished.
"…And then there were two."
