Meanwhile at the Dungeon...
Kitty Softpaws was screaming in pain, by the many whiplash two guards, a giant lion and an even gigantic and strong rhino, have been hitting her through her entire body. She's been tortured for five hours, and she was feeling very weak, breathing heavily, and her heartbeat was slowly diminishing, as she was down to the ground. Like she could die from her hellish pain, wounds, and more.
"What's wrong, kitty cat? Can't call your friends?" the rhino disrespectfully says as he and his partner were laughing at Kitty's painful predicament.
"Yes! you are all alone, and we will make sure your death will be slow and painful! Hahaha! the lion guard says it so despicably rude, and he and his partner were stomping Kitty several times to her chest, back, and tail area She screamed in pain, gritting her teeth hard, her body trembling. She was also breathing slowly and her heartbeat slowing down. She was dying.
"Hey, let say we finish her for good?" One of the guard, the rhino, says. While the lion just snarls like a vicious predator as he agrees to the plan and slowly was removing his sword from his belt, and the other guard got a weak Kittu up, jerking her from her back of her head, and started wrapping his gigantic arms around her neck to choke her. Kitty was struggling to escape the hold and her body and neck were slowly getting snapped in half. Then, the lion guard with the sword puts his paws and squash her mouth and lips area, looking straight to her eyes, ready to end her life.
"Time to die!" says the lion as he lift his sword up, ready to slash her head off. But then, they heard some rumbling from afar.
"What is that?" the lion asks as he stopped his motion for a moment and looks around the outside window.
"Well, what is it?" the rhino says as he was watching the lion still looking. Then, in an instant, a gold beam came at the speed of sound and hits the rocks covering the window, breaking the lion.
"What the...!" the rhino shouts in fear and shock, while a mysterious figure came on top of the rocks that were burying the dead lion, and started delivering sidekicks the the rhino's legs, making him stumble on a knee. Then it delivers some fast punches to the chest of the rhino and followed it up with a jumping heel kick that makes the rhino get back up and gets dizzy and groaning in pain. Then, a weak but slowly recovered Kitty slowly got her tail up and uses it as a rope to trip the rhino hard on the floor, breaking his back, leaving the mysterious caped fighter to take out its sword, throws it a a superhuman speed, and pierce it through the heart of the defeated rhino, killing him in an instant. After the short fight, the caped fighter took off his sword from the rhino's chest, and later his hoodie, revealing to be Mickey Mouse, and offers a weary Kitty her paw.
"Who...who are you?" Kitty softly says, still weak and hurt, having doubts about the skilled warrior that saved her.
"I'm Mickey Mouse. I have been following you and your friends throughout your journey, even protecting you four from sneak attacks and more. You could say, I'mthe one that started this journey," Mickey says, smiling at Kitty, Kitty was surprised that Mickey was following them, and she didn't even sensed it. Kitty still had doubts about him, but she could sense she can trust him, so she grabs his hands and Mickey helped her get up.
"Thanks. But, since when did you followed us? And my uncle... is he?" Kitty says, worried for her uncle, while she was stretching her hurt body as she was putting her bones back together, and sees Mickey smiling and leaves a playful giggle.
"Haha, miss Softpaws, I was the one that sent that treasure map to Jose. And don't worry, I rescued your uncle before those soldiers came to attack him," Mickey reveals his secret, and Kitty was amazed by this, but also glad El Guante Blanco was okay. Then, Mickey uses his Keysword to make a magical spell. And then, the spell was completed, and Kitty's sword suddenly appears along with her belt and boots. Kitty widened her eyes in total shock and awe.
"Thank you, Mickey. Let's say we bust out of here and find where Johnny and his goons are, I'm sure that's where my friends are headed," Kitty says as she takes her sword out, while Mickey smiles and nods at her idea.
"Hot dog! Let's go!" Mickey shouts in an incredible adventurous tone as he and Kitty walked towards the door. Then, the knocked the door open, surprising a few soldiers, and they began fighting them off. One by one, enemies came, ap.ost as far as they would outnumber the heroes by a large margin. But no matter how many soldiers they brought, the combined skills, strengths, and abilities of Mickey Mouse and Kitty Softpaws were kicking their butts left and right over and over again.
Meanwhile, General Argentica was watching on her room throught some monitors how her soldiers were getting their butts kicked. But she puts her head down, as if she was reflecting. Reflecting on her life, her choices, and her position with Johnny. She owes everything to him ever since he saved her from the wreckage of her past. But she was also reflecting about what Jose told her about
the path she's taking, and what she saw from him and his group of friends, how they take care of each other. She was having a crisis for a choice.
Then, she saw the soliders starting to outnumber the two heroes and pinned them. Both of them were brave enough to take them on, but they were gonna lose nonetheless. This was a choice for Nina. Either stay put and segment her place as Johnny's perfect general, or finally come to her senses and rebel agaisnt him.
Meanwhile, Mickey and Kitty snarled like two figther not intimated by the odds, as they hold their swords ver tight, ready for battle. But then, just as the soldiers were about to attack them, a black arrow struck one of the soldiers right throught its chest, and the arrow kept flying and hitting the rest of them through their heads, hearts, and body. Then, the arrow flew right into the hands of a red haired female with black archer clothing, smiling in the direction of Kitty and Mickey, who were stunned and shock by the person who saved them.
"What are you doing here?" an unamused Kitty said as the person who saved them was Nina Argentica, the same person that brought nothing but misery to her friends.
"I...I know you're upset and angry. But I'm done with this path of injustice. Please, give me a chance. I know where Hohnny is going, and I wouldn't be surprised if your friends followed them. Please, just let me prove to you that I've changed," Nina says as she throws a map. Mickey grabs it and he and Kitty see that San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico has a red dot on it, meaning the location of the Chaos Emeralds. Mickey then looked at General Rival, and he could see her face expression that she's telling the truth.
"Okay, Nina. Let's go," he says with an open smile, while Nina's face was so full of hope and smile as she started walking towards them, heading into the gates so they can ride and leave this fortress. Kitty was still not convinced by this as she tries to forget about it and focus on rescuing her friends.
Once they left the building, all three unlike teammates hopped onto their horses.
"Ready?" Mickey says as he got his stuff ready, while Nina gives him a nod.
"Almost there," Kitty says as she was getting everything set on the saddle. But then, a growling noise got Nina's attention, as if she could hear something from afar. And then, just as the growl volume increased, she realized she was followed. Johnny somehow knows about her betrayal.
"Kitty!" she yells as Kitty looked at her. Then, a gunfire bullet came super fast, and Nina jumps on top of her brown horse, pushes Kitty out of her own horse and saves her, but the bullet hit Nina's chest, with both ladies falling into the sand ground.
"Nina, Kittty!" Mickey Mouse worriedly yells out as he then fires a gold beam on his sword and it hit something on the far side. The rocks were falling down, revealing the sniper. It was Weapon X24, he was following Nina the whole time. He was snarling happily, seeing blood coming out of Nina, who was groaning and feeling very week.
"Nina," he only said one word, but his death glare showed a whole lot, and it was the look of a cold blooded killer. He enjoyed every bit of that shot. And before Mickey tried to confront him, the beast used a portal teleportation to leave the place, presumably heading towards Johnny's position.
"Nina, hang on!" Kitty cries out as she was trying to hold Nina's wounded chest. She was losing a lot of blood.
"It...is...okay...my...only regret...is that...I didn't...turned on...him...sooner.." Mina softly, but weakly, said as she was happy she did this. It gave her purpose in life again, but she closes her eyes as she was breathing heavily and weakly, she was dying. Mickey bends his knees and sees her conditions. Then, he looked at Kitty, as he gave Nina a small potion so she could survive a journey back to the shack.
"Kitty, take Nina to the shack. I'll help your friends," he says. Kitty Softpaws was in a world of confusion and disorder. She wanted to help her friends, but she didn't trusted the mouse enough. But, she didn't trusted in Nina at first, and she saved her from getting killed by this uncontrollable monster. She owed it to her. Kitty took a deep breathe, and spoke to Mickey.
"Okay. Just help them get back to me. They mean the world to me," she says as she put Nina carefully to her black horse. She later hops in, and rides her horse to take them to the shack so she can try and help Nina. Mickey then hops on his horse, and put out a determined look in his eyes.
"I will," he says determinedly, promising to help Jose, Puss in Boots, and Dulcinea. Then, he yells at his horse, and his horse rides his friend towards San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico, ready to battle the forces of evil once again for the good of the world.