Of Keys and Hammers

by zcritic88

In a realm beyond, the Four Chaos has taken notice of a realm tied close to the heart. They squirmed into the darkness and sought to corrupt if to reach a prize beyond the light. Will the Light of Order, be able to repel this ancient evil?

27. Only War

In the lanes between, Ken felt Brynhildr's fury as she made a dive towards the main structure of the Planet Killer, the pilots heart and the Machine Spirit felt as if they were one. Light cruisers flew from the underbelly and toward the lone ship coming at them as four escorts covered from left to right. Ken yelled out. "Bring these guys to justice! Fire the Lascannon!" Brynhildr shot from the front and punched a hole in one of the escorts, the rest fired intense shots and Bynhildr dived downward. "Hit it with the torpedoes!"

PEW!

The ship fired its side torpedoes and damaged two of the escorts, the cruiser fired its own barrage of lance artillery, Bryn barrel rolled and gave light fire towards the damaged escorts, causing an explosion as it let loose its lascannon and missiles into the cruisers underbelly, creating a hole that was dropping its cargo into the void of space. The lone escort flew down to meet a missile to its face and one more lascannon shot caused the cruiser to implode from with in. Bryn continued her flight past wreckage and through a few escorts, flying to a fortress on top of the Planet Killer's guns. From behind, three metallic jet like dragons of warped energy took flight and pursued, Bryn turned around as Ken had flash backs of the daemon engines. "They have flying versions of those?! Blow em up!"

PEW! PEW! POW!

One of the dragons was blown to bits as another flew above Bryn and clawed her with its talons, another pounced on her and opened its maw at the cockpit. Shooting a balefire in an attempt to roast the pilot, the shield held, yet the boy pulled to the right, Bryn rolled hard and caused the dragons claws to skid across the glass, throwing it loose and exposing the other dragon to a barrage that quickly turned it into flying scrap. The last drake tried to pounce once more and was met with a bold thrust that punctured the drake in the stomach and sent it falling toward the eight pointed structure. Throwing Bryn off from her intended destination and sending her to the right side of the citadel. Ken felt a glow and made a bold dash for an advantage. PEW!

Light flashed and he was with in a dark, foreboding space station, flying down a hall way that lead to an open room with cat walks, sanity blasting symbols and an elevator.

He knocked several boxes loose and caused ten guardsmen with black uniforms to take notice. One of them, with a snarly scar under his chin growled. "How did a single intruder get in here?!"

Another with a shining, demonic looking mace shrugged and aimed a hand that looked like it was merged with a plasma pistol. "What ever, he is dead anyways! FIRE!"

Ken looked behind and jumped high to his left, he swung Firekeeper's Wish and caused a wave of fire to wash over five of the guards, burning them to cinders and screaming as he aimed Cadia's Light and felt more in sync, he rapid fired and shot two of the guards dead. Two of the remaining three screamed and ran, irritating the lone guard for him to fire his merged plasma in a super charge. "Come on, he is just one kid! Di-" BOOM!

The plasma pistol over heated and vaporized his hand, the guard screamed in agony as Ken dashed to him, sliced him into two with his burning blade and fired at the fleeing cowards. Stomp! Stomp! Ken felt a presence behind him from the cat walk to the elevator and jumped with his air magic. Dodging bolter fire and finding a five man squad of black uniformed Chaos Space Marines, they had golden trimmings and on their left shoulders was as symbol of a golden eight pointed star with an eye. Three of the marines had bolter rifles, one had an autocannon and another had a bolt pistol and a chain saw axe. BOOM! BOOM!

Ken aimed his hot shot gun at the marine with the scarier gun, shooting him in the chest to puncture a hole and causing him to gasp as he fell dead, the boy aimed at a bolter wielder marine to silence his gun and watched the marine shrugged it off. The marines fired their bolters where the boy was landing. Ken shot himself to the other direction and shot a marine in the head. Knocking him dead and forcing the leader to bark. "He has a hotshot lasgun! Take cover!" The marines went behind boxes as Ken did the same, he felt his heart true and jumped high above the boxes, he shot himself above the boxes guarding the marines and fired down at the left most marine, killing another and thrusting his melee blade to the marine on the left side, shooting a torrent of fire that knocked the marine on his back and earning the anger of the leader with the chains saw. "Clever for a whelpling! But it ends now!"

He took a grenade and pulled a pin, tossing it upward and prompting the boy to jump down to the prone marine and finishing him off. "You didn't open your mouth until after you had your guys fired, that was pretty smart!"

The Chaos Champion grabbed the stack of boxes and tossed them at the boy, knocking him out of his cover and nearly causing him to trip as he charged with his chain axe. "And why you have no hope! For Chaos!"

He swiped with his axe and was parried by the burning blade, Ken felt the push knocking him towards a rail, he grabbed the rail to hold on and aimed his gun like blade to the marines face. "For Traverse!"

PEW! The Marine took a shot through his heart and fell over dead. Ken heard more foot steps and ran to the elevator, pressing a button to go up and felt it rise up. Stomp! Stomp! He noticed a group of ten chaos space marines and twenty traitor guardsmen approaching from a hall on the other side of the room. They looked up to find the boy and the elevator reaching to the higher floor. An alarm blared and Ken looked up to find many doorways above, he felt Cadia's Light guiding him to the high most floor to his right. "Now they know we are here." He cooled himself down and heard something open. A warp rift, letting out eight blood letters. He tapped the ground with his fiery keyblade and summoned Stingy Bites and his spider. "These things again! Come on lets clear them out!"

The Goblin felt himself in an alien place and yelled. "Wha... that the ting that blew up a planet to-" Ken yelled. "Yes and we are in that ship! Let's teach these guys a lesson!" The Spiderfang Scuttleboss agreed and had his steed charge at the daemons charging back, the daemons howled in unison. "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!" Ken charged and trusted himself to a group of four, vaporizing three of them as the spider bit two of them into oblivion. The goblin stabbed a bloodletter in the forehead and laughed maniacally as the two demons swiped their blades, one struck the goblin good as Ken rolled to the left and fired his gun to blow the demons head off. Leaving the lone demon to feel four legs across his torso as he was sent back to Khorne. Ken looked up to his passage way and knew death is marching from the other halls, he gestured and thanked the goblin. "Thanks, I'll summon you again soon!" Stingy Bites blinked and refused. "I want to krump more of thes-" Pew! The goblin was gone and Ken jumped high in the air with his magic, seeing as predicted, a Chaos Space marine with a heavy bolter in each of the door ways, even the one he wanted to go through had a marine with a flamethrower, readying it and looking bored.

The marine gasped at the sudden flying child and readied his aim, Ken shot himself towards the marine with Cadia's Light trusted forward. Firing his hot shots and catching the marine off guard as they punched through his armor. The marine fired his flame, the burning keyblade glowed back and set the boy on fire. The boy felt a sting and kept torpedoing through the fire, striking the marine in the chest and sending him flying down the hall way, towards a two way corridor. Ken was in a panic as he see the corridor to the right. "Oh, no, please let no one see that!"

He aimed his gun and heard a deep shout from the right. "Our intruder did that to Jiram?!" Another one with a deep snarl answered. "Of course he did, he is either brave or stupid if he is going fo-" He gasped and laughed cruelly. "He thinks he can stand a chance against him?!"

Ken heard a whisper from with in. "Flicker the flame and stab the ground."

Key obeyed, spun his burning blade to bring a spark and made a dash to corridor, he stabbed the ground and found four Chaos Space Marines, three armed with bolters and a more decorated marine without his helmet, he wore a grill and had a red top knot, he aimed what looked like a bolter gun with a nozzle to a metal gun above the nozzle of a bolter. Ken stabbed the ground, burst into flames and appeared back from before he entered, seeing a heated beam shoot across the hall and hearing boasting. "Heh! Dead in a flash!"

Ken charged with his gun aimed and appeared in front of the confident marines that realized their leader completely missed, he looked at the oversized weapon and growled. "Shoot!" PEW!

He bull rushed the marines and ignited into a fire ball, shooting through the leader and knocking him against his squad mates, he rapid fired the marines while they were down and heard the death screams. He noticed to the front was an elevator leading up. He rushed in and pressed a button going up, watching the door close and feeling the elevator going up. He noticed a feminine voice from behind. "Wielder of the Flame, thou does not require a weapon like that."

He turned around to find the Fire Keeper offering assistance. "I seen that gun wreck vehicles and it can scorch me to kingdom come. Do you think I ca-" He gasped. "I can if I charge this blade-" he waddled his burning blade. "With this-" He glowed Cadia's Light. "With more power."

He approached the Fire Keeper, she held his hands and chanted. "Let the heart of the flame burn with the heart of justice! To vanquish the dark powers and let the people bask in the light of the flame!" Ken felt his knuckles burning and felt a mighty fire in his heart. The burning keyblade was consumed in fire and it flowed into Cadia's Light, driving it into an appearance scorching in fire, but very much similar. It's highlights became that of an orange, glowing in mist to the flame and the barrel of the gun resembled that of a melta. The Fire Keeper vanished in ashes and wished the boy luck. "This form will not last long, but it will be enough for the enemies of the light to fear it!"

Ken appreciated it and felt the elevator stop, he readied his blade and jumped above the door way, perching on top and watching bullets, laser beams and a shot of plasma flood the door. He popped from upside down and aimed his keyblade at the five guardsmen, the three chaos space marines and a champion with a plasma pistol and a glowing sword. "Did ya miss me?"

PEW!

A beam of fire incinerated the guardsmen and scorched through the chaos space marines like they were nothing. Startling the champion into a frenzy as the boy landed right side up. "URRGH! Would you just die!"

He charged the boy who side stepped to the right and thrust, letting loose a three swing combo that carved through the marine with bursting fire. Ken stabbed the marine through the stomach, realized something and kicked the kneeling marine over, hearing the death rattle and feeling himself holding the burnt blade by itself. "...This is like a light saber." He nearly squealed and felt Cadia's Light guiding him to the left. Leading to a hall way that was oddly empty save for a turn to the left, he noticed he was in a room with a window overlooking the outside cosmos, finding more ships flying to Radiant Garden. "I won't let you guys down, just... survive!"

At Radiant Garden.

Sora and the crew were half relieved to find Wanda and her men alive, if mentally scarred. Hofneil ordered Cid. "Activate the shield generators and pray! Expect the Black Legion to change their assault pattern."

The mechanic understood and pressed a button, causing the shield generators in the north and south corner of the town to glow and form a large, double shielded barrier. Squall felt a dread and looked up to find a large ship hovering over the town. "Like that?!"

Hofneil looked up and answered to a fully arrived committee. "More or less that! Sora, Donald, Goofy, you go with, me, Leon and Aerith to the south generator."

The trio stiffened in obedience as Riku guessed. "Me, Kairi and Mickey go with Yuffie and Tifa to the north?"

Tifa tightened her glove and asked. "So we are going up against a bunch of heavily armored psychos that want to shoot the generator down so their legion can fire their guns at us?" She gave a confident smirk. "Too easy!" Hofneil appreciated the moral as Ienzo had his duty. "I'll get... Wanda and the others to Tahm," He looked at the frantic Gyphon as well as the Demigryph knights having vengeance. "It will give them time to calm down."

Wanda heard and jolted. "These Chaos worshiping monsters blew up everything I worked for! By Sigmar's Storms, they need to be brought to justice!"

Yuffie heard and agreed. "Not just that, that world was there for all of us for a long time and they just murdered it in cold blood!" She broke from her cheerfulness into a deadly desire. "They can't get away with this!"

Wanda barked to her rank and file men. "Get to the castle and be there for the towns people! Demigryphs, you patrol the outer rim of the castle for ANY place they would try to assault!"

The knights saluted and went to their duty as Ienzo had a hand on her shoulder. "You are forgetting that these guys have dangerous guns among other things. That is what I want you to talk to Tahm about."

Wanda had her gryphon follow as she followed the man. Hofneil appreciated the moral boost and instructed. "The enemies that are going to come are an assault squad known as Chaos Raptors, avoid their guns and disrupt them before they fire at the generators! There is another variant that is far more deadly, fight as if you never fought before if you see them."

Kairi guessed. "We will know quickly what they are." She smiled to Sora and went with Riku and Mickey. "Good luck!"

Sora, Donald and Goofy went with Hofneil and the others to the generator. They looked above to find ten figures falling from the sky and splitting into two. Donald asked the space marine. "There are more of them coming?"

Hofneil nodded. "A first wave of a chaos warband! This could be a strike formation and if we defend these pylons long enough, they will go for desperate measures to cripple our defenses. These are only hope or we will just be bombarded from afar! Abaddon and his legion have plagued the Imperium for ten thousand years, far long before my time."

Goofy figured it out. "You battled one of his Black Crusades before?"

Hofneil appreciated an observant mind. "Not quite but after his Thirteenth Black Crusade, the Imperium was in so much disarray that if it wasn't for one of the Emperor's Primarchs, Chaos would have consumed the whole galaxy."

They arrived and Leon felt he heard enough. "So they got numbers, experience fighting places like this and we just scrounged up everything just to fight back for a couple hours?"

Hofneil nodded. "If the one who can banish the Black Legion from this Galaxy fails... we are doomed! We need to hold on and minimize the casualties long enough for his victory to matter. Sora!"

The spiky haired teenager was ready for what was coming and aimed his blade to the left most chaos raptor and fired a barrage of beams fitting for Ragnarok, they shot into the raptors of the raptor, caused one of the jet packs to become busted up and give way. Causing the raptor to fall off direction and into the vast canyon, towards his demise. The remaining four readied for a landing and were trying to crash into Sora. The boy and his two friends dashed out of the way and have a look at four space marines with spiked jet packs, taloned feet and a vox grill in various parts of their armor. One of the marines held a melta gun and aimed for the generator as the other two fired bolt pistols at Donald. Goofy stood in front of his buddy and blocked with his shield as the leader of the squad landed, readied a power sword and aimed a combi melta at the generator. "We will destroy these accursed things and make way for Haarkan's message! You're world is doomed!"

Donald raised his staff in the air and quacked. "Oh year? THUNDERAGA!" The marines fingers were at the trigger. BOOM!

Lightning struck from above and stunned the chaos raptors. Giving Sora the time he needed to go into battle with the two raptors with a bolt pistol and chain swords, Leon joined with quick slashes and Goofy shield bashed the melta marine off his mark. Hofneil rushed his sword through the raptor champion that dodged a swung from the keyblade, the raptor thrusted his sword as Aerith glowed and cast block spell on Hofneil, stopping the sword and leaving the marine in a panic. "N...No!" STAB! Hofneil thrust into the raptor, impaled him in the chest with his blades and tossed the dead body aside.

Hofneil rushed to the melta wielding marine that readied his gun and swung his blade, creating a glowing slash that carved the marine in two. Gun less and leaderless, the chaos raptor duo yelled. "Hit and run, Haarkan will have our heads if we fail!"

The two tried to jump away and were caught in a flow attack, Sora bashed the two upside the head and towards the ground. Leaving them to the non existent mercy of Hofneil, who finished the two off with quick stabs. Aerith noticed to the south, three chaos raptors being sent flying out of the town with out their backpacks and another punched through a wall with broken gear. Leaving slight hints of flashes in the distance. "The others are having about as much luck as we are."

Hofneil nodded and lectured. "Because they know not to hold back, if the Black Legion gets the upper hand, they would slaughter us all without mercy or worse!"

Sora looked down to the caverns. "If the fall doesn't do these guys in. They are not giving us enough room. Hmm."

Goofy and Donald cringed to an idea, the duck asked. "Sora, there is a reason we had you stop using that technique once we stopped-" Sora agreed with that. "You and Goofy give me that power, but it leaves you two knocked out for a while. But do we got a choice?"

Hofneil shook his head and notice in a corner, warp fire glowing. "If you don't, these are going to kill us!"

Aerith let Sora know. "Don't worry, I'll keep your friends safe! Leon, don't do anything reckless." The man promised he wouldn't and watched claws tear open into reality, letting out five figures that resemble the Chaos Raptors, except more mutated, with wings on their backpack and generally big scary claws. The fire flashed and blinded the party.

WOOSH! BLOCK! A line of thorns with flowers blocked the charge of the taloned monsters and gave the group valuable time. Sora glowed, Goofy and Donald went into a daze and the boy shined two keyblades, oathkeeper and oblivion, his clothes looked mostly white, the boy was hovering and his two keyblades hovered with him. He looked to the side to find a pink haired man aim his blade to his left, impaling two of the marines and giving a little bit of room to let loose. The two warp talons fell over dead as the remaining three flew at Sora, the boy twisted his wrists and sent the two keyblades flying at the three, pushing them back and unleashing a devastating combo of blades and light, the four bystanders looked on in astonishment as the warp talons were burning before the light and were disintegrated by the combo.

Sora hovered down and noticed the pink haired man with a rose like keyblade, the man noticed something from above. The boy glowed and reverted back to normal, Goofy and Donald regained consciousness as the teenager appreciated the effort. "Thanks for slowing those things down, what is-" He looked above to find twenty raptors descending from the sky, heading straight towards the center of the town, leading the formation was a figure with something glowing in his hand. The pink haired man questioned why and asked. "Is there a way for any of you to get back here in case they are using that as a distraction?" The group gave a no, leaving the man with little option. "Go and deal with it, I'll keep this guarded as long as I can. Savages."

Sora, Donald and Goofy had a faint feeling they shouldn't trust him as Hofneil guessed from above. "That must be the leader of this raptor force, we cut this head and we would earn a small respite before the next wave!"

He asked the pink haired man. "But should you be left here alone by yourself?"

The man took a deep breath and answered. "No, but leaving it unguarded is not the viable option."

That much Leon agreed with. "Then you know that these guys are not intending to take any prisoners. Lauriam, don't screw this up."

Lauriam agreed with that and looked to the castle. "No, I believe they are wanting something else, it is the only reason we haven't suffered the same fate as Traverse."

The castle was enough of a hint; Sora, Donald and Goofy disregarding any subconscious pretense and make way for the center of the town as Leon and Aerith followed, Hofneil nodded to Lauriam in agreement. "And I think I know why they are going to the town instead. If we survive, thank you!"

He ran to follow and left the man to ready his keyblade. "We lost enough already."

At the south Power Generator.

Riku impaled a swift clawing warp talon as Kairi obliterated another with a starry light. Tifa dodged two swipes of a claw, grabbed the third warp talon by the head and punched its skull to paste. Mickey let loose a flurry upon a fourth as Yuffie carved with throwing stars without mercy. A fifth warp talon was locked into an electrical cage and spasm as a blonde woman aimed her electrical keyblade and finished electrocuting the warp talon to death. Mickey caused a burst of light to erupt from the ground and consume the remaining warp talon, vaporizing it as the blonde woman looked up to find a raptor formation coming to the town. "Why are they going there?!"

Kairi shook her head and felt she was in an agreement. "The thing they are going after is right here... unless."

Riku sensed the intent of the lord with the glowing spear. "He is trying to scare us into giving up, as if!"

He rushed ahead, Mickey and Tifa followed and Yuffie calmly disappeared in smoke. Elrena growled at the thought. "Was that why they blew up that world?! To scare us?!"

Kairi didn't want to think about it. "There was nothing for them in that town, we thought Wanda and the others-" Elrena crackled in justified anger. "I know and you see how mad Wanda is over it?" She shook her head. "She has to be hurting inside."She knew Kairi wasn't trusting her and promised. "If another raptor or what ever comes here, I'll make sure to hurt them even more. Go teach them a lesson!"

Kairi felt a mental tug and a whisper. "She isn't lying but we shouldn't stick around to deal with those guys." Kairi nodded and gave Elrena a thumbs up. "Good luck, we are counting on you to keep this barrier up!" She left the blonde woman that was putting together a larger puzzle and reached to the center of the town.

A twenty man squad of raptors landed with in the town, a champion with a power fist and razor sharp claws laughed maniacally as he stood to the closest south. "Pillage and slaughter! Then charge the pylons!" Tifa growled and readied her fist, giving off a faint glow as the various raptors aimed their pistols and two marines with plasma guns over charged to fire at a charging Sora. PEW! The boy dodged flashing, near burning shots, Kairi gave a glow of her own as Tifa noticed the descending chaos lord. "Think you can knock some of these guys out of the way?"

Kairi nodded, spun in heavenly light and launched herself at three of the raptors like a missle, knocking them back and in the air as she back flipped and left the champion exposed, the champion wondered what that attack was about as Tifa launched herself at him like a missile, fist first. The champion charged his fist to aim and was punched in the chest, he felt an intense force from with in, realized he made a critical error and screamed. BOOM!

Tifa was at the other side as the marine exploded. Startling five of the other raptors as they tried to attack her with swords, they were tossed asunder from explosive punches and kicks as Kairi dived in, Riku disappeared and slashed away as Yuffie appeared and disrupted three more, with Mickey doing what he can to make the marines look like fools.

On the other side, Donald shot a barrage of fire balls at the marines that tried to shoot Sora as Goofy bashed three out of the way, Leon jumped into battle with three as Aerith let loose support spells. Hofneil quickly chopped apart four and bull rushed to confront the dropping down Chaos Lord. One with a jump pack, a lightning claw for a right hand and a burning spear in his left, the chest of his black armor looked like that of skulls, his left pauldron was that of skulls and he wore trophies of skulls, to compliment, he looked to be wearing a mask to compensate for his baldness. The chaos lord noticed the four approaching him and flung his spear at Hofneil. The Space Marine parried and watched the spear fly back to its master, the chaos lord jumped back from a swing and watched his raptors in an all out sprawl. He stabbed the ground and yelled something that could be heard from with in and out of their minds. "You're efforts are for nothing! The Warmaster comes to pillage and strip this world of its knowledge! Only when the earth is drenched with the blood of all, will your souls be devoured by the Chaos Gods!"

His jet pack ignited, he pulled his spear out of the ground and he went for the trio of Sora, Donald and Goofy. The boy rolled out of the way as Goofy and Donald were knocked back by the brutal force. The boy took the advantage and dashed in and let loose built up anger. "You're a wacko!"

POW! Haarkan was sent back by the surprising force as Hofneil grabbed him by his right arm and hurled him away, Haarkan caught himself and readied his spear as Hofneil stabbed him in the stomach with his keyblade and sent him flying. Haarkan kept his jet pack ignited and boasted. "Best me if you can, this changes nothing! Even now the legions of chaos descend upon your world!" He pointed to the sky over the canyon, revealing many ships that were preparing something, one of crimson shot down drop pods that looked like claws. Haarkan felt his point was made. "The greatest champions of Chaos are but one wave! Do you think you will survive this war?!"

Sora rolled his eyes and kept attacking, giving off a dark glow as he felt the marine needed to know why he wasn't welcome. Hofneil jumped at Haarkan and with a downward swing knocked him down. The Chaos Lord pounced on him and clawed at him to taunt. "Surely you had more forces with you?! Or were they lost during this long war?!" Hofneil kicked him back and answered. "My battle brothers died winning the day! No matter what, we will hold!" Sora agreed and glared at the Chaos Lord as he felt himself slipping out of control "Or you don't have a clue."

He gave a fierce snarl and let himself be cloaked in the power, looking all black and catching the Chaos Lord with his guard down. "Wha-" STAB!

He felt a keyblade trusted in his chest and was sent into the air, being left exposed to a dangerous, fierce combination of claws and a barrage of dark light. Goofy and Donald realized Sora went into that form on purpose and were content with letting it happen as the darkened boy grabbed Haarkan by the collar of his armor and hurled him to the ground. The Chaos Lord tried to crawl up and felt he was being lifted by the back of his collar, giving him a good look at yellow eyes and seeing the darkened boy revert back, showing a boy that looked mentally hurt, the boy took his keyblade and smacked him across the face, exhausted from the constant terror tactics. "Get out, just get out."

Haarkan was knocked to the ground and tried to pick himself up, refusing to give up and seeing from the sky, something flying towards him, large, with feathers and with talons. SWOOP! A gryphon picked the Chaos Lord up and flew high above the town, towards a canyon, on top of the gryphon was a vengeful Wanda that ordered something from her gryphon.

Stalwing tore at the chaos lords jump pack, Haarkan struggled to fight against the bird from his position and left Sora to watch the raptors, despite their efforts, fail to do much against the committee and his friends, being cut down and reduced to five that tried running away. A security system glowed and shot several disks to keep them from running, leaving them to Hofneil who simply executed them. Goofy and Donald approached the boy with a worried look. They understood what was going on in the boys mind and patted him on the back, calming him down as he watched the gryphon tear the jet pack away and sent Harkaan falling down into the canyon, screaming. The gryphon returned to the ground as Wanda saw a jet flying from a scrap yard, a Valkyrie taking its landing. The door opened with Elric waving and getting off. "This invasion is starting to look grim, the commissar got something for us to hear!"

Riku, Kairi and Mickey stepped forward and looked worried for Sora as they were eager to listen, Tahm stepped out of the Valkyrie and gave an order. "That Chaos Lord won't be troubling us anymore, but this isn't the end of this war. I believe Abaddon is sending down much more to follow."

Mickey looked at the clawed drop pods and looked up to find the ship flying out of the way. "And they won't be the first to try attacking the town directly. So what are we going to do?"

Tahm pointed towards the canyon, Wanda guessed. "Someone has to go meet this army from the rear and make sure by the time reinforcements get here, we can just shoot them off?" Tahm nodded. "More or less! With the guns of this Valkyrie, we should carve a suave through their heavy armored weapons. Lord Hofneil, how should we divide the forces?"

The space marine looked upon Sora, Donald and Goofy. "Four of our strongest fighters should come with me and strike into the heart of the enemy. The rest, should focus on protecting the town."

Riku and Mickey looked to each other and had to refuse, the mouse grimly explained. "If Abaddon is allowed get the knowledge in that castle, he won't need to keep doing this siege." That much Riku was afraid of. "He then fire his gun at this world."

Kairi stepped forward and volunteered. "Then I'll go with the others while the rest of you bunker here."

Sora and Riku wanted to refuse that offer as Mickey felt it made a bit of sense. "If he figures out what is needed for his plans, we would need all the time we can get." Kairi took a deep breath and jumped in. "Exactly, we just need to keep ourselves alive. Sora, Donald, Goofy, are you ready?" The trio nodded and jumped into the valkyrie, cramped, but enough room with Perkins and Thompson. Leon nodded and looked to find a generator covered in a thorny bush and was confident of something. "We just need to keep this up a little longer, don't get yourselves killed, this isn't a suicide mission."

Tahm promised him with a bold salute. "We will not waste anything in this war, I promise you that." He turned to Hofneil. "My lord, it is time." The marine nodded and climbed in. "May the light shine upon us this day! Survive well." Tahm nodded and had a compliment where it is due as he looked upon the active members of the committee and those making an active part in the battle, with a smile of pride. "Of all my carrier, I never seen a defense force like this so eager and competent." He cheered. "The Forces of Chaos will be sent screaming back into the hell they belong by the end of this day! To victory!" The many felt the moral boost and cheered back. "To victory!" Tahm jumped in and took the pilot seat. The door kept open and the ship took flight towards the canyon.

Sora rubbed his eyes as Kairi bit her lips and asked. "You were trying to make sure that... Haarkan, knew that what he was pulling wasn't going to work? That was why you went... there on purpose?"

The boy nodded and looked back to the town. "Magitinus, Pyriel, Nathanel and Dabriel... they gave everything just to help us get through that... place." Goofy and Donald remembered with a moment to mourn. The shield bearer asked. "And these guys just keep coming?" The duck looked upon a small ship in the sky and ask. "Is there anything out here that isn't going to get hit?"

Hofneil shook his head as the guardsmen kept a watch. "We will be lucky if a remedy arrives. But we must not give in, the Black Legion underestimates us and that is how we will survive." Kairi noticed a warp rifts in the distance, pouring out where several waves of soldiers, a defiler, several tanks and two maulerfiends. "We are dropping down into that instead?" Tahm answered and went in full speed. "That is our plan! Allow me to do the honors." WOOSH!

In the Planet Killer.

Ken fired against a heavy weapon squad of guardsmen, flew to their face and struck them down with his burning blade, the long hallways was split into three corners and he heard three things charging at him from the corners and kicked back. Seeing two armored berzerkers, in blood red armor and with chain saw axes taking a swing against each other by accident and cleaving themselves apart. They were pushed through in a splatter by a berzerker with a chain sword and chain axe, Ken felt the piercing green eyes, yelped and fired his gun. Shooting the berzerker and running back, the head was struck and the berzerker kept charging, the legs were struck limp and the warrior was limping towards him. Ken charged his shot and shot the maniac in the head, sending him tilting back and landing on his back. Cadia's Light shined to the front and was guiding him towards a hallway splitting from forward to the right. The keyblade shined to a door that lead to a vast open room, the sound of marching ahead let him know. "Bet I'm going to get shot at if I run in, so... I should ready my fl-"

WOOSH!

Crack!

A meteor struck through a window and caused many marines in the room to scream in peril, the vacuum of space was sucking marines, guardsmen and even a defiler into the void of space. A marine with a staff and a glow was among them, firing bolts of power from his eyes out of spite. Ken felt his keyblade forcing itself to go the other way, he felt the vacuum sucking at him and watched the door slide down. He took a deep breath and guessed. "That thing was someone... and that someone is maaaaaad!"

He rushed to the guided direction and heard heavy stomping. He shot himself into the room and found himself in a weapons station, he dodged a barrage of bullets being shot by two hulking figures of flesh, metal and guns. With three hulking figures of flesh, metal and bladed weapons tried to charge at him. The gun monsters growled. "Must OBLITERATE!" The weapon monsters hissed. "We should mutilate!"

The weapon monsters charged and shot from their pulsing flesh balls and chains, Ken dodged, felt the weight of the weapons crush a pile of heavy guns and flew at the monsters as the obliterators tried to aim and realized he was out of line of sight. Ken let loose a flurry of burning attacks and scorched the flesh of one of the multilators, exposing its head to a clear shot. BLAM! One of the multilators tilted back as the other two erupted chain saws and trusted, Ken jumped above them and leaped behind the obliterators. He trusted his burning keyblade into one of twos backs and sent them falling on top of the rampaging multilators, watching chains saws tear at the mutated flesh and for the obliterator to punch one in the face for a brutal kill.

The lone obliterator swung at the boy and missed, Ken felt the fire in his heart returned and caused his burning blade to merge with his shooting blade. He aimed at point blank and smiled.

PEW!

A heated beam scorched through the obliterator and caused it to collapse as the one of the two multilators had half its body burned off. It fell in a heap and drew attempting from the remaining duo, the multilator growled. "Weapon spirit...strong! Consume!" It rushed at the boy that tried flying to the other end of the room, the obliterator laughed and fired its shoulder gun. "So many weapons for us down there!"

BOOM!

Ken shot to another corner and circled around with a trial of fire. He rammed into the obliterator, stabbed it in the back and caused it to burn from the inside out. He kicked it straight into the multilator and watched the hulking monster burst into flames right into the other monsters face, leaving it's face revealing a skeleton and for Ken to gag. He fired at its face and finished it off, leaving him alone in the room and having a closer inspection, seeing a door to the rooms left and for the keyblade to guide him there. Towards a part of the ship that doesn't have an elevator, just a set of stairs leading up. He felt his burnt blade return to his left hand and climbed up towards a room with steaming vents and mechanical turrets.

He saw a tall figure with many mechanical tendrils and a mighty axe order a squad of marines with heavy weapons, following them to battle. "Our intruder is testing our patience and cost us Tumus of all things! We will make the elevator to the Warmasters quarters his final resting place!"

Ken kept quiet and watched the marines lead the way left, with the mechanical man following them along. The boy smiled at the convenience and with the marines gone, sneaked into the room to find a doorway next to the room we went to. Leading to an elevator descending down, six heavily armored marines with trophies, one with a large flamethrower and the others with a combi weapon attached to flamethrowers, four of them had a mighty fist. A squad leader stood by the side of a heavily armored sorcerer that had no helmet and a staff that had a slit eye at the tip, asked annoyed. "You're certain our intruder isn't coming here Deja? If it it even is a single intruder?"

The Sorcerer assured him with confidence. "Our intruder thinks himself like the assassins and he behaves much like them!" Ken saw the flamers, used his burning blade to cloak himself and charged as the sorcerer ordered. "Fire to our right!" The armored soldiers aimed their flamethrowers and scorched as one, Ken felt nothing and skid towards them, the soldiers readied their fists, Ken jumped above and landed behind them. Firing his gun at the marine with the big scary flamethrower, the bullet punched into the armor and did nothing more. Deja distorted reality and teleported himself and his men to the other side. The Sorcerer proudly smiled. "As I predicted, terminators-" Four of them aimed their bolters, Ken dashed to the right, the terminators aimed where he was dashing. The boy jumped and looked just as annoyed as his gun glowed in fire and he shot a fire ball at them. BOOM! The terminator with the heavy flamethrower yelled out in pain as Deja gave credit where it is due. "You know of how lethal our weapons are and focus mostly on avoiding that. Not that it will help!"

Ken shoot himself behind the terminators and watched the heavy flamethrower wielding terminator turn around to charge. "That flashlight won't save you! Die!" Ken aimed his gun like keyblade and shot the terminator in the head, watching a hole burn through the horned terminator and caused him to fall over. The squad leader gasped. "That's a hot shot! Kill him!"

The terminators turned toward the right as Ken tried to make that escape, realized they were trying to manage against his movement and slammed his right hand on the ground, causing a glow and summoning a furious, three headed monster that jumped out of the light and after the terminators. The fanged tentacles tore against armor that kept a hold as the claws sliced a terminator in two. The remaining fist wielding terminators punched against the monsters hide, the Kharibdyss used its tube like heads to snatch up the remains of the terminator and its tail to wack the champion back. Deja realized the beast was regenerating and felt a heat from behind.

Ken fused his blades once more and aimed at the Sorcerer. "Cool trick! Bye!"

BOOM!

Deja was given a face full of a shot on par with a melta and was reduced smoldering limbs. The boy dashed into the terminators doing battle and stabbed his blade through one of the two, slaying him in an instant and leaving the lone terminator to be crunched up by the Kharibdyss and for the champion to howl with his sword. "Y...You will go no further! The Warmaster will not tolerate this intrusion!"

He swiped against the boy that flew to the ceiling and shot himself down to the terminator like a burning meteor, crushing him to ashes and leaving behind a slaughter. The Kharibdyss disappeared and Ken waved goodbye. "That ought to make up for last time!" He heard screaming from the hall he came from and went to have a look, finding the mechanical man firing desperately and being rushed by a pheonix that back flipped into the unknown and burst like the sun. Vaporizing him and leaving Ken intimidated. "Eek! I'm not going in there." He walked to the elevator and pressed a button leading up. The elevator ascended and he expected the worst. "And I'm going to have to think of something for when this guys last line of defense figures out I can... do that to terminators."

Cadia's Light shined brightly and separated from the Firekeepers Wish as a figure of ashes appeared to cheer the boy on. "Wielder of the Flame, we are so close to the ships heart, but the Despoiler's sanctum would most certainly be guarded by those like them." That was something Ken was afraid of. "I had to move fast just to not get shot and it took finishers and crazy stuff just to take them down. Do you think they now know where we are?"

The Fire Keeper nodded. "Thou witnessed something so catastrophic that it did not go unnoticed. These people are arrogant madman that are not use to fighting something like a keyblade wielder. They are not so much of imbeciles that they won't learn of it."

Ken understood that. "It's the reason when ever we run into them, we can't let them go running and calling for help." The Fire Keeper agreed and warned him. "Surprise is the only advantage thou have. Do we still have that?" Ken heard a distant explosion and answered, looking up with a hint of fear. "Kind of, who ever came here is doing... a pretty good job in not holding back and is the bigger thing. But they will know someone is leaving behind the scorch marks. Is our guy spending so much of his guys rushing to the garden... or is there more coming?"

That the Fire Keeper didn't wish to know the answer. "A Warmaster that commands the blackest of souls and the daemons you and the others have been battling. He is but worming his way in, thou are best to stop this force at its weakest and soon." Ken agreed with the Fire Keeper as he felt his fear draining away. "And I'm the only one that can do it. So many people back at home... the people from the worlds we seen and the world's we haven't, they are counting on me." He smiled with confidence. "Once this is gone, we will finally be free from this war, we can finally get back to our lives."

The elevator risen up to a distortion that smelled like that of blood, the boy saw an odd red symbol and felt a glow of fire and darkness. Eight muscular, horned heartless flew out of the rift and towards Ken, the boy dodged and wasted no time hack, slash and shooting the eight. He was slashed back and flew above, he shot down at the eight and caused two of them to dissolve into black mist. The six vanished and appeared where the boy was flying towards, Ken looked above, saw them inhale and shot away to a wall. Avoiding a combined fire breath attack and snipping two more into oblivion, he charged up a fiery shot and fired at the middle of the four, vaporizing to a single one that dived after him. Ken simply landed and fired, taking the last of the heartless out.

Stomp!

Ken felt a rumble and turned to the rift, with his gun aimed, he felt a vision of home in his mind and heart, a familiar black daemon in crimson armor emerged with an axe and whip in hand. The daemon stared down at him and snarled to taunt. "What is the pup doing?! I remembered you trembling in fear along with the rest of the fleas!"

The blue eyes glared at Ken, who was keeping his fear contained and was ready to fire. "Trying to save my home. You won't stop me!" The Bloodthirster nearly laughed at him. "And what for? For the Stormcast you call a hero?" Ken wasn't answering as the Bloodthirster corrected himself. "No... for the ones you call heroes that down bellow, fighting a hopeless war." The Bloodthirster cracked his whip. "You think to become their hero? Foolish." He snarled and glowed in fire. "Allow me to teach you of what that word means."

At the canyon near Radiant Garden.

The Valkyrie shot against the tanks and caused various explosions, Tahm ordered. "Now! Jump while we have the chance!"

Sora and Kairi jumped off the flying vehicle towards the ground, hand in hand as Goofy jumped off with Donald following with a particular spell ready, Hofneil thanked the imperial guard and readied to jump. "We will handle it from here!" He jumped off and dived down three stories in the air toward astonished Chaos Space Marines with heavy guns that were lead from behind by a cybernetic Chaos Lord that was overseeing rifts opening up and spilling over dozens of reinforcements. The Chaos Lord looked up with his mace and felt he was challenged, the chaos space marines readied their guns and were caught off guard by a bellow from the distant settlement. "Waaaaagh!"

The Chaos Lord ordered his marines to aim at the coming army and waited for the descending group to arrive, Sora and Kairi descended upon the Chaos lord and performed a dive bomb attack, the Chaos Lord stepped back to dodge as Donald slowed Goofy's fall and Hofneil crashed down upon him. The Chaos Lord stepped to the left and barked as he watched a Valkyrie attack from the sky. "So this is your pathetic attempt for a counter attack? I seen Orks be more organized than this."

Sora growled and had his keyblade ready. "Won't you give it rest already?"

The Chaos Lord laughed cruelly. "I gave up on that centuries ago!" He looked to a defended town and gave credit where it was due. "You're allies took some heed of our imminent arrival and removed our shock force. It will take a little more than a drop to remove those defenses while we-" Boom! BLAM! He listened to the canons and was half impressed. "Break this siege." The group were caught off guard as the Chaos Lord growled in a shift in mood. "You dare hold on for that long?! It will only result in a delayed destruction, know that I, Heznath the City Breaker, will be its end."

He charged at the group with his mace, Donald and Goofy backed away as Sora and Kairi jumped from left to right. Hofneil rolled as Heznath swung and caused a shock wave that created a rumble. The space marine countered and felt some force field pushing him back, Donald and Goofy hid under a cliff, the duck yelled. "Sora, let him have it!"

The boy understood what he meant and let loose a barrage of attacks, Kairi followed with her own and together, they annoyed the Chaos Lord that raised his mace and slammed at the Space Marine, Hofneil dodged and felt the mountain crack. The Chaos Lord slammed again at Sora, the boy flew out of the way and took his chance to let loose his power, giving Kairi the chance to gaze upon the readying marines, jump high with angelic wings and fire down a barrage of light, carving through the marines to where an army of near naked, green skin barbarians caught them off guard.

Heznath was confused by the arrivals and saw a massive dragon with wings too small for flight, fly towards the Maulerfiends, on top was a well armored Greenskin warlord. "Wha... ho-" Sora burst into light and into a drive form of pure power, letting loose upon the Chaos Lord in a deadly combination of floating blades and magic, Sora aimed both blades in unison and fired a massive beam that the Chaos Lord had enough time to scream. "How?!"

PEW! BOOM!

The Chaos Lord took the beam and was disintegrated, the boy looked up to find a fiery meteor descending from the sky, near Villain's Vale. Kairi noticed wrecked drop pods and warp rifts opening, letting loose several bodies that gave off a sickly green hue. The meteor struck in the middle of the canyon and caused a rumble that made the group uneasy, something heavy emerged, a giant black mecha with golden highlights, a massive gun on its left limb and a large gauntlet in another. Sora switched out of his form and gasped. "If that gets to the town-" Kairi agreed with that. "Then it will be end for all of us! We can't let that happen."

She looked down the cliff to find a passage bellow, leading towards the open canyon, Donald and Goofy were shaking off something as she asked. "We need to-" She felt something keeping her still and looked at the distant mecha that was looking directly at her and the group. It aimed its large gun Hofneil grabbed the two teenagers and jumped off the cliff with them as Goofy and Donald joined in the drop. PEW! A laser beam shot out from the gun and caused three massive explosions, they fell to the canyon bellow and watched a Valkyrie take flight towards the mecha. Thud! The group felt the landing and watched the mecha focus its attention at the flier.

The Valkyrie shot a missile at the monstrosity that formed an ion shield as Hofneil ordered the group. "The Orruks will finish up that siege, lets find what those drop pods let loose."

He lead the way as Donald followed to ask. "What is that thing?"

Hofneil wanted to keep the group's focus away from the Valkyrie and answered. "I think it is traitor Knight, large mechas of great fire power that can end sieges and halt armies by themselves. They are faster than they look, but Tahm and his guard have this battle. I assure you."

PEW! BOOM!

Sora listened and watched a massive laser beam shoot at the knights chest, creating a massive hole and angering it to where it fired at the Vakyrie, missing it. He realized what Hofneil was trying to do. "If that thing hits them-" Kairi held his hand and insisted. "They are trying to protect all of us, let's make sure they didn't put that work for nothing."

Sora chose to focus away from that as Hofneil gave the flying Valkyrie a salute. "Emperor keep you!" He lead to a passage towards a set of ruins, finding an group of Chaos Space marines snipping a group of Ogor's on their steeds, the Ogors were tearing apart a large group of black dressed cultists and renegades, lead by a priest like marine. The Chaos Space Marines were in armor not like the black legion, being dark blue with green high lights and having an insignia resembling a hydra. Hofneil gasped. "Alpha Legion!" The snipers noticed the space marine and chose to ignore him, focusing their massive lasguns on some of the Ogor marauders to kill them off, confusing the group as they went to battle.

In the skies.

Elric was breathing deeply as he held on to a melta bomb, Thompson hold his with a cold feeling as Perkins thought about what their commissar was doing. "We need to take this Knight down, but... Comissar, is this necessary?"

Tahm maneuvered the flier to dodge another laser barrage as the ship took scratch damage from a stubber. "Only if we are closing into this knights space and we have to do this suicidal method. The town cannot survive this thing."

Thompson looked at his bomb and asked. "This... was something you had planned all along? In case the Black Legion throws things like that?"

PEW! BOOM! The Chaos Knight looked limp in its shoulders from a missile strike and landed a shot on the Valkyrie, causing a red light to flash and for the plane to slow down, Tahm confessed. "If it came too it, being reintegrated back into the Imperial Guard would be a daunting task and things have been done to where I would get shot," He laughed bitterly. "You performed admirably, but if you brought any of the behavior you learned from these places, you would have that fate much sooner than I."

Elric was panicking. "You were going to shoot us when we got back?!"

Tahm answered boldly and dodged another shot from the knight, grazing it with a lascannon. "If we got back, you were going to be given the closest honor you could have among these people before I end my own career."

Perkins growled at him. "Yeah, you were going to make sure we keep thinking all is well before sending us to the Emperor. Guess this is what we signed up for. Ha! Ha!"

He laughed in defeat as the Commissar readied a melta bomb of his own. "That is our duty, to fight and die for the Emperor and all we hold dear. On the count of three, you jump and parachute to this knight. Then use the melta charges, there should be enough there to finish this thing off! One." Elric readied his bomb and his parachute. "Comissar, you're insane!" Tahm took it and counted down. "Two." Thompson smiled and rolled his eyes. "We all are, if this doesn't go in vain, we will still go down as heroes." Tahm yelled. "Three!"

The guardsmen jumped off and pulled the string, the chaos knight grabbed at the Valkyrie and felt a full explosive force wedged into its face. Elric leaped at the left arm attaching to the gun, Thompson landed at the crotch and Perkins landed on the lower chest. The knight was still moving and the trio rammed the melta bombs in, Perkins yelled out. "Go back to the Warp, you scrap bucket!"

At the short battle against the Alpha Legion.

The legionnaires were quickly cut down by Hofneil as Sora and Kairi focused on taking the priest from behind and quickly dispatching him. The cultist and renegades to kill the marauder sand severely cripple the many lead belchers that blasted them to kingdom come. Donald and Goofy blew the chaos worshiping group to oblivion and left two lead belchers that grumbled, one on the left whined. "Now that's unfair!" He asked his partner. "Come on Og, Norek needs us back to the town way, some big meats is carving blood!" Og agreed and was annoyed. "This is most of us Xog, he isn't going to be happy about this."

They turned and left their dead kin as the teenagers sighed, the Forces of Destruction are taking the blunt of the casualties and they had the feeling that this was part of the plan. BOOM!

The group were caught off guard by the sound of an explosion and watched the chaos knight take a Valkyrie to the face and had explosions from many corners of its body, causing it to fall over towards the vast horde of Chaos and letting loose an explosion. That caused the four to scream as one. "Tahm!" Sora and Kairi felt weak in the legs as Hofneil looked away with a moment of silence. The group looked upon the Space Marine, the last of the friends from that distant galaxy. They took it upon themselves to stay ever closer to him, the teenagers looked to each other to see their tears as Goofy broke the silence. "What those two talked about can't be a good sign."

Hofneil agreed with that. "Carving blood... that could mean heretics that cast their lot with Khorne. That could mean any renegade warband or those that came from the World Eaters. Much like how the forces marching are those from a Nurgle warband, you can tell by the smog that it's origins are tied to the Death Guard." Donald cringed at which force was worse. "One that doesn't like magic and are attack, attack, attack. The other... bleh." Kairi noticed more shining from the sky and gasped, bolts of lightning smack in the middle of the nurgle army. "There isn't a cloud in-" She felt something tense as the five entered what looked like an arena, a Frostlord on his mammoth stood boldly with dead Gore Gruntas, going against a five man squad of red berzerkers with chain axes. Hofneil found himself at the ledge and jumped down upon three that were pushing against the rank and file troops.

CRASH!

He crushed them into pulp and caused the group of four to follow, Kairi found a pathway leading to the canyon and felt someone was in a tight spot. "That lightning didn't come out of nowhere. Sora, Donald, Goofy, Captain?" Hofneil answered. "I felt it as well, that lightning was a sign of the light. If you think it is right to help, go do it, but beware the forces of Nurgle, their plagues are lethal in body, mind and soul." Kairi understood that. "So do what we been doing? Don't get hit." She smiled to Sora in confidence, the boy smiled back. "Good luck." Kairi appreciated it and took her chance. Smooch! She kissed him on the cheek, caused the boy to blush and made her way to an edge, jumping down with a radiant glow. A berzerker with an axe and sword in each hand and a skull shaped helm looked upon the remaining and yelled. "MAIM! KILL! BURN!"

The berzerkers noticed new blood and made a rush towards them, the irritated frost lord had his thunder tusk shoot down ice to impale four berzerkers and leaving the rider to burp out three bolts of darkness, knocking two of the maniacs out of commission and for the four to make contact, Hofneil took the blunt and felt the teeth tearing at him. Donald used a healing spell to slow the damage as Goofy knocked a berzerker away and Sora upper cut another with his keyblade, Hofneil decapitated a berzerker and knocked the skull champion back. The champion snarled and spasm as the two berzerkers tried to get up and collapsed into darkness.

The boy looked at the Ogor and yelled. "You can't be using darkness at a time like this?!" The Ogor shrugged. "From the darkness of me gut! It isn't no heart, ha! Har, har!" Donald sighed. "Touche." The skull champion yelled. "Coward! Fight me off of that thing!" He tried to swing at the Space Marine that parried him and struck him in the chest. Leaving a duo of lead belchers to aim their scrap guns, Hofneil kicked the berzerker aside and tossed the body, ready to thank his unexpected allies. "That made a dangerous force into something much more manageable. More assistance isn't needed."

The Ogor burped bored and counted. "Xog, Og... ah Gorkamorka. You'z saying you the only two left? Now Dragon Hackah is going to kick us out." The lead belchers hated to give bad news, unaware of a red figure from behind them, wielding a large chain axe. SWIPE! SPLATTER!"

A rain of blood showered the battle field and knocked over two bodies that were sliced in two. Leap! SMASH! A figure jumped down into the arena, a red Chaos Space Marine with his left arm bare and showing muscle, he had chains, many skulls for trophies and his helmet's head wear looked to be in the image of skulls. The marine's head wear was complimented by two strands of blue hair and he snorted at the Ogor. "That won't be an issue anymore, you fat bastard."

Norek took that as a compliment and readied his spear. "Not when I get this one under me belt! Har, har, har!"

The marine glared at the four and back to the the Ogor, he leaped at the mammoth and yelled. "Blood for the Blood god!" The axe roared and the mammoth inhaled to breath down ice and pelted with one icicle that was deflected back by a barrier, the marine readied the axe and swung down to the mammoth's cranium, forcing Sora, Donald and Goofy to look away as they heard a creature scream and various unpleasant sounds. Hofneil realized who that marine is. "...Kharn." Sora wasn't taking too kindly to that name. "You heard of him?"

Hofneil watched and focused on the Ogor trusting back with his spear and jumping to the center of the arena for an advantage. "A Champion of the World Eaters and infamous for his desire for slaughter." He readied his keyblade and yelled. "We won't let him continue his carnage any further!"

He charged, Sora and Goofy followed as Donald readied an ice spell that Kharn casually resisted and readied his axe against Nurak, who burped a dark haze into the warriors face and punched him square in the jaw. SWISH! SLASH!

The axe swung and sent the ogors head clean off his shoulders, the warrior turned around and parried against the various attacks. Kharn pushed them back and fixated on Sora. "A pup that needs to harness his anger! I'll deal with you soon!" Hofneil tackled Kharn and let loose a a taunt. "Not while I stand! For the Emperor!"

During the explosion of the Chaos Knight.

Riku, Mickey and the rest of the committee realized the valkyrie and its occupants made an ultimate sacrifice and watched a near crippled group of black legionnaires become overwhelmed by rampaging savage Orruks, a Mawcrusha made quick work of the Maulerfiends as iron jaws marched in. A large brute entered the central square and barked. "Oi! What you lot doing in there?!"

Leon asked back as he listened to cannons blowing up an approaching defiler. "Not out there. You... are wanting to help us?"

The Orruk looked above to find a rather exotic looking battleship and smiled with all his teeth as a Warchanter entered with a rhythm. "Only if we gets to keep da eds." Swoop! Stomp! Darksmasher crashed to the ground and growled as the mighty Orruk, Dragon Hacker, barked. "I be making the deals! It's about damn time something good came knocking!" He growled. "Where the zog is Nurak and his boyz?! I lend them me Gore Gruntas an hour ago."

"Out there fighting the forces of Chaos like you all should." The Orruk looked to the north and found a certain pink haired man with a keyblade and the look like he seen too much. "We getting to that, all the fighting is appening out there and ere, me and the boys need to think of something cunnin." "ROAR!"

The sight of a Manticore of spectral energy clawed in what seemed to be the remains of the second wave. Mickey looked up at the ship and expected the worse. "And it might be a good thing you call came here. We don't have to tell you why this town is so important."

Dragon Hackah nodded as Lauriam explained politely. "I have already addressed him the details your majesty."

Riku wasn't too pleased by the fact. "And you... drew in one problem to fix another." Laurim agreed with him that it wasn't a savory deed. "But we can manage these forces in another time." The megaboss gasped and asked. "Eh, if the castle is that important... and if the Chaos tings can jump over... is... someone guarding it?" Aerith nodded. "Aeleus and Dilan are keeping the entrance secure while Ienzo and Even manage the canons com-" Riku felt his instincts kick in and wanted to search the castle. "It isn't that I don't trust them, but things seem too quiet and the Black Legion just needs the information before Abaddon decides to stop toying with us." The group felt the chill as Mickey asked. "If you feel you need to look, we can take care of things from here."

Riku smiled and flowed from post to post, skipping a large chunk of the town and to an entry way. Finding two men climbing up on a corridor, a man with short brown hair and a black, well made suit and a black haired man with braids, signs of a detail that was neglected. Riku disregarded any grudge he had and asked. "Aeleus, Dilan, what happened?!"

The brown haired man growled in shame as the braided man answered scared. "We were tossed aside like refuge when this... Sorcerer appeared out of thin air. If Aeleus didn't make a quick grip-" Aeleus bluntly answered to Riku. "This was a minute ago. We need to go after him and-" Riku brashly refused. "No thanks, but someone needs to get rid of that Sorcerer. Any tips?" Dilan had one. "His power is like from the mind and he might have laid something out in case someone followed." Riku got the blunt of it. "So watch out for traps," He took out Way to Dawn and pursued. "Thanks for the tip!"

He chased down the hallway towards the small maze and found nothing trap worthy. "...Is he waiting in the library or-" Click! Riku jumped to the ceiling and dodged a shot of plasma, he looked behind to find a Chaos Space marine in blue and green colors, wearing a brown cloak and warning him. "Do not interfere with the Masters plans. This knowledge could provide use for us." Riku scoffed and dashed to the wall towards the space marine with a plasma pistol and a glowing axe, he trusted into the marine and noticed another from the hall way he left, with a plasma pistol and a glowing axe.

The other warned the boy. "You are right to pursue, but this will only ensure his plans. Alpharius, must we?" Alpharius nodded and bled. "Of course Alpharius. It is as ordered." Riku pulled away, jumped up to the wall and remembered a warrior with a burning passion, he shot a stream of fire from his keyblade and scorched the marine from the rear in purple fire. Causing a yell of pain and exposing him to a quick stab through the heart, Alpharius charged after him and the boy jumped to the ceiling again to finish him off. Riku pursued and listened to someone boasting. "And that is why I seek the knowledge of hearts. If you will not share this, I w-" Boom!

Riku barged in to find a figure standing before a stubborn Ienzo and Even, a horned sorcerer in red robes, having matching blue armor. The robed sorcerer raised his staff and formed a barrier to keep the two men from interfering as they noticed Riku. The sorcerer turned around to show a helmet with three eyes and a horned staff with a glowing blue eye, he looked upon the boy condescending. "Well, well, well. It was about time someone thought to check on this corner of the settlement."

Riku readied for battle as the Sorcerer introduced himself. "Since it isn't the time for excuses or banter, I am Azhek Ahriman. You came here because you know the instant one of us acquires the knowledge with in this lab, hope will be extinguished along with this world?"

Riku was eager to fight as Even taunted Ahriman. "It also sounds like your master's plans wasn't as fool proof as he thinks it is."

The Sorcerer laughed in agreement. "Unless he can sort out the virus in his own ship, then this will be another Black Crusade where his victory is pyrrhic at best." He floated and summoned a disk to battle. "But this is an if. I cannot allow you to stop me from acquiring this knowledge. Riku is it? You and you're friends have been a thorn in our plans long enough." He crackled lighting. "It's about time you fully understand what you are going up against."

At the town.

Mickey and the town committee awaited for the coming wave, feeling at unease at something not happening, Yuffie felt something in the ground. "...They are not trying to charge the gates anymore. Watch out!"

Rumble!

The group did so and watched two drills burst from the ground, they had a vibrant pink that was encrusted with dirt, they poured out twelve pink chaos space marines that gave off an intoxicated aura. Leon could tell by looking at them. "These are going to be special customers!" One of the marines, with a face that looked partially melted, took in the many smells and sights, going into a crazed frenzy and attacking the leader of the committee with a giggling bull rush, Leon jumped to the right as the chaos space marines made their attack on the group. "WAAAAGH!"

BASH!

The ironjaws counter charged and got themselves stuck into the fight as Mickey and Lauriam attempt to pick off any stragglers, the marines struck down nearly broke down in an orgasm as more rumbling came. Tap! Tap! BZZZ ZAP!

Two of the marines were shocked dead as Elrena came rushing and figuring out from the vibrant pink and the ecstasy the marines were in thorough combat as she electrocuted what she can. "Nope!" Yuffie carved against another as the rank and file orruks were taking the damage the marines were giving. "This isn't the last of of these guys. Wha...what do they-"

Tifa gave a marine a round house kick and knocked a helmet off, seeing a demented smile answered the question. "Don't ask."

More brutes joined into the fray as the committee dedicated to fighting back the wave, a drill emerged and left Mickey and the two keyblade wielders with the next arrivals. The remaining drills tried to rush to the group and were smashed apart by the Mawcrusha and a way was cleared for Dragon Hackah to prey upon the arrivals, an eleven marine squad with base weaponry and a Chaos Lord that caught the three off guard in pure dementia, armor that look like screaming faces, a fleshy whip on his left hand, a sword on his right, a back pack with three cylinders of liquid drugs and a carved face that was to the point of being without lips, complemented by a wide smile that spoke in a high pitched voice that left Mickey disturbed. "Ohhh what have we here, have the play things resorted to working along side the Orks! MMHHHM!" The orgasm like moan didn't help as he readied his sword. "Well that's just fine. Now which one of you morsels will be the first to savor. EH HEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHEHE! Oh brothers!"

The bass wielding marines aimed their guns at the three as Dark Smasher roared at them and knocked them to walls, some of the marines were not getting up. "SQUAWK!"

A gryphon flew down from the sky after the marines as the Mawcrusha charged them. The marines focusing their bass weapons and letting loose high pitch noise that made the Mawcrusha more angry. The Chaos Lord didn't care as Mickey sensed a collective screaming with in, something the marine noticed. "HA! AH, HA, HA! You hear the fools that thought to kill me?! Oh this will be fun!" He shrieked and charged at him.

Down at the canyon.

Kairi landed and watched a vast army chocked in disease fight against a figure of thunder and lighting. She noticed something crawling from the settlement, spiders, charging after the forces of Nurgle. She rushed to battle and saw various diseased bodies swarm against the lightning, with bloated, rusted machinery having ruptured from with in and laying dead, save for a trio of fly like machines that kept themselves propelled with helicopter like jets. One of the machines had a rusted mower, the other two have bile guns, all have tube like feelers slurping the gravel, Kairi felt nauseous looking at the machines and knew going near them was ill advised, she glowed and flung mixtures of flower and stars at the fly with the mower. Causing the machine to burn from the power and irritating the others, they aimed their guns as Kairi jumped high with angelic wings, she fired a barrage of fire at the mowers rear to cause it to burst in ooze. She dived into the back with holy power, causing it to burst into green mist and make the girl's skin burn. The two flies aimed their spewers to try again, the girl flew out of the way, focused locked the next fly and shot down a barrage of light, damaging both of the flies to where their movement became sluggish, she launched fire balls to finish them off and watched them explode in putrid energy. "Groan!"

She listened to a collective groaning of the diseased ridden corpses that charged after her, by bodies of thirty. She flew out of their grasp and saw not one, but two figures of light in sight, fighting against the horde with a burst of a thunder cloud that cleared most of them away. Kairi flew down towards the two and caught one of them by surprise, a black wingless dragon the size of horse that roared. Alerting a figure in silver armor, wings and an overly large keyblade that resembled a warhammer, that was fighting against a sickly green bloated figure in thick armor. The figure had flies blowing out of his body, a white helmet and a two handed scythe. The armored angel looked partially wounded and Kairi raised her blade in the air to give the stranger with the warhammer a heal.

The diseased figure looked surprised and snickered. "Well, well Stormcast, looks like the ripe fruit we seek has arrived!" The Stormcast stood in front of Kairi as the dragon stood behind, the Stormcast barked with a feminine voice. "Like I will let a hive bag like you touch her, Typhus."

The diseased creature boasted and stepped back to the horde of corpses. "I won't need to, my delightful poxwalker children will be happy to add the three of you into their collection. Nurgles pestilent bounty is upon us, take them!"

The dragon inhaled and shot a stream of lighting upon a horde as the Stormcast felt herself cornered, she asked Kairi. "Lass, you shouldn't have came this far after me. Ya got any tricks that we can work with? My storm is not for mortals to endure."

The girl looked at the wings and asked as she and the Stormcast struck back at the horde that wouldn't die. "Can you fly with those?"

The Stormcast nodded. "I know what you are getting at."

The Stormcast and Kairi jumped high in the sky with wings of light, the girl raised her blade in the air to form a glowing heart of light as the Stormcast raised hers to shroud it in a storm of light. BOOM!

A barrage of thunder decimated the horde that was being caught from behind by a swarm of spiders lead by a massive spider. Typhus shot his flies at the two that spun together towards the ground. Like a holy lightning bolt, thirty of the poxwalkers were vaporized, yet more came. Kairi looked at some of the faces to see a demented, forced smile and tried to look away as Typhus stepped forward with his patience thin. "You are as meddlesome as a space marine, Anatesis, but no more. I will deliver the three of you to Grand Father Nurgle myself!"

Kairi gasped at the Stormcast. "Anatesis?!" The Stormcast nodded in her answer. "Now isn't a good time to introduce ourselves! This one had been a tough one to take down and more are coming." The princess cringed and readied herself with a battle with a warrior that was much more than what she heard of. "I'm Kairi, we just need to stay alive."

In the Planet Killer.

Ken attempted to use his air magic to dodge the Bloodthirster's mighty axe, realized that wasn't working and slide underneath the daemon for a dodge. He rolled up, took several charged shots at the daemon that quickly turned around and cracked his whip at the boy that jumped to his left, flipped his burning blade and flung a fire ball at the daemons face. Irritating the daemon to where it burst into flames and charged after him, Ken squeaked, felt his burning blade giving off a veil of ashes and flung it at the demons face, blinding him and giving the boy the chance to jump far to the right.

SLAM!

Debris fell on the daemon and Ken guessed. "You had something to do with my usual flying not working? I heard of what you all hate," The daemon growled, took flight and answered. "You think yourself brave, yet you rely on magic like that to fight your battles?" Ken shrugged. "I don't know a thing about using them, but this is something I picked up."

The daemon roared and flew down at Ken like an infernal meteor, the boy ran to his right, glowed his burning blade in ashes and stabbed at the ground, cloaking the whole room in fog, ashes and cinder. The boy saw the glowing blue eyes, sparked his burning blade and fed its power to his gun blade. Shooting beams of heated energy at the daemon that flapped his wings to clear away the fog, Ken flickered an ember to his left and right as the daemon stared into his soul. "From your battle against a Dark Eldar?! That is one thing you never done even at your most pathetic."

The daemon charged with his wings and readied his shoulder, Ken burst into flames and appeared on the right, watching the demon crash into the wall and caused it to melt in intense heat. The boy focued more and caused his burning blade to merge with his gun. "Run away even when I don't really do much of anything?! Not then, not now, not ever!" He aimed and fired a stream of fire that caused the daemon to howl, the Bloodthirster looked a little limp and clenched his fists as he stood up and bellowed. "You will die if you don't! Do you think you have a speck of a chance against the Warmaster?"

Ken fired at the Bloodthirsters face, causing the form to grow unstable. "I'm not running when I know my home is in danger, but you knew that... right?" The Bloodthirster growled and watched the keyblade split into two, he charged at the boy that kept a firm aim charged his shot and fired, hitting the daemon in the skull and causing it to sink into a warp rift, he sank deep with in and tried to keep himself in, fading back into the hell he spawned from. Ken's brave face broke into one that was masking a fear that should have come when fighting a demon the size of a house and having a reputation of being a one man army. "Why did that thing show up?!"

He heard the Firekeeper answer. "Because it is a Chaos Daemon that is in league with-" Ken asked back. "Yeah I know, in cahoots with Abaddon." Cadia's Light shined to the right, brighter than ever, the boy followed the trail to a stairway leading to a throne of cables, the bright center of it all, yet no sign of anyone else. Ken heard gun fire and fighting to the hallway in his front and was suspicious. "He really expected me to be there and went all out?"

He journeyed up the stairs to a throne room that had figures of skulls, spikes and decorating the room, a symbol of Chaos Undivided. Ken readied his blade and felt twisting warped visions in his mind, the warped hell Abaddon and his minions came from. He raised Cadia's Light and readied to jump as the throne became surrounded by an eight pointed circle that erupted in a pillar of energy, a deep voice growled from the surrounding room. "What is a whelp like you trying to do to my throne?!"

Ken felt something flash to his left and jumped to his right to avoid a swipe from razor sharp talons, he faced the image and felt his soul pierced. A large man in thick, black armor that had brass highlights, resembling demonic faces, skulls and a belt with a symbol of chaos, stood before him with a gaze of hellish, orange eyes. Ken looked away from the eyes and found a metal talon for the mans right hand and in his left was a glowing blade. "St...stopping you!" His face tensed to foolish bravery as he aimed Cadia's Light at the man and yelled. "You blew up a whole world and is trying to pillage everything, I won't let you get away with that, Abaddon?"

The Despoiler wasn't even humored as he looked upon a puny weapon that resembled a hot shot lasgun and readied his blade. "That planet was in the way, as are you," The quote sent a chill down the boys spine, Abaddon charged after him with a blade giving an unnatural glow, the boy shot himself to his right with air magic, watch the blade slash through a thick wall and fired at Abaddon. Who wasn't even phased as he asked. "Was that planet important to you? A worthless rock in the void, that important to you?" Those words struck Ken's heart and caused a tear to drop, Abaddon noticed and looked upon a planet his ship was heading towards. "Is this planet also important to you?" The tense reaction of fear answered enough as Abaddon gave an arrogant smirk. "I'll remember that."

The man aimed his talon and fired three shots at the boy who dodged out of the way and flung a fire ball from his burning blade. Causing a grunt of pain and fire to glow, Abaddon charged at the boy with his talon. Ken jumped back and looked the throne protected by the barrier. He fired a beam from his gun at the barrier, causing it to distort from the light, he smiled and focused on keeping Abaddon chasing him, the man looked at the barrier and realized. "That blade can force its power through that?! What are you doing?"

Ken snickered. "I'm not telling!"

He fused his blades together and formed into a burning gun blade, aiming at Abaddon and pushed him back with fire, he focused on the barrier and fired, piercing a hole with burning light and causing it to break apart, on tethers as Abaddon realized with burning anger and shrugged off the damage. "You fool, if you destroy this ship, you will die as well."

Ken shrugged arrogantly, Abaddon felt it was pointless to charge and aimed his talon at the boy, or where he was flying to. The boy tried to dodge as Abaddon circled away from him, he fired again to where the boy jumped towards, Ken shot in the opposite direction and Abaddon followed quickly. BOOM! BOOM! SPLAT! Cringe!

Ken felt a sharp pain in his right shoulder, followed by nothing save for a coursing burn, he was off balance and watched his blade fall to his feet, with a wet red splatter of an arm. He felt weak and was going limp from shock, he looked up and reached for the blade with his left arm, he felt a heavy foot on him and Abaddon growling. "You still won't give up and scream?! Before you bleed, know that we will strip everything from these worlds and plunder the grandest treasure in this Galaxy, you and those you love, will be-" POW! Tink!

Something flew at Abaddon in a glow of light, knocking him off the boy and directing his attention toward another threat, Ken felt dizzy and reached for his burning blade, blacking out and seeing an elegant woman with blue hair.

The woman cast a healing spell to ease the boys bleeding and aimed her keyblade at the Despoiler. "Go back to the darkness you came I'll toss you there myself!" Abaddon shook off the damage and barked. "How about I send the both of you screaming into the abyss instead, for all the damage you brought upon my ship!" He raised his sword to the air and yelled. "LET THE GALAXY BURN!"

Ken felt a frigid light that struck at Abaddon with a deadly combination, crawled to his blade and held onto to the warmth. In the void, a spark of fire took the center of a heart. A voice in his mind chanted. "Heart of the World. tied to the Flame, give this vessel one more kindling to life and allow him to carry on the task for the fate of the worlds. So that the world's maybe mended... so that the world's may be mended. Let this soul radiate and banish this evil forever more." He chanted back and felt his vision glowing orange. "Banish this evil...forever more." Scorch!

His vision returned from where he laid still and he felt a firm grip on the burning gun blade, he watched the woman in blue fighting desperately against the Warmaster that was fighting with sword and talon. The boys body was on fire with the blade and he used his keyblade as a pole to step up on. Abaddon readied a brutal blow and was taken by surprise, he was sucker punched as the woman turned to the boy and looked both amazed and horrified, Ken focused on the barrier and swipped his blade unevenly, scorching the base of the barrier in bright fire. He gave off a fiery shriek at the sight of the barrier dying down and leaped at the throne with his blade, sinking it into the center all be sloppily. Causing a burning keyhole to form, Ken felt something unlock and pulled away to watch a pillar of light erupt from the throne.

Abaddon gasped and roared, he tossed the woman to a wall in a brutal manner and charged at the boy. "NOOOO! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!" Ken jumped back and watched the woman cringing in pain, he glared at Abaddon and gave a silent smile, he shot at the Despoiler and knocked him on the ground and jumped to the woman who was watching something and asked. "What did you do?"

The boy looked to the window and watched keyholes of energy open to drag the many ships back to where they came, the world bellow gave off similar shines, the woman looked and smiled in triumph. Abaddon got up and watched his work become undone, he bellowed in a fury and tried to attack the two. "RRRR. YOU WILL NOT LEAVE HERE ALIVE!" The light became brighter as the duo avoided his attack, Abaddon fired at the two and the woman formed a barrier to shield herself and the boy, in turn, the boy slammed his blade's hilt to the ground and let loose a wave of fire that infuriated the man more. Shake! Shake! Abaddon was holding onto something and felt like something was pulling him. "No. NOOOOOOOO!"

The woman fell on on her rear weakly and felt something was pushing her, Ken felt the feeling and landed on the ground in a thump, the fire gone out and he watched his burning blade split into two, Cadia's Light at his side and the Firekeeper's Wish burning brighter as the light blinded, the last thing he felt before the void came was familiar ground.

Simultaneously.

Hofneil parried against Kharn's super aggressive attacks as Sora attempted to assist and was sent flying from the sheer power of the berzerker. Goofy attempted to shield bash the berzerker and was kicked back, leaving Donald to focus on healing those injured. Hofneil struck the Chaos Lord back and jumped to a wall, he forced himself downward at the berzerker that was knocked back, felt the blunt and readied his axe. "All this time in this Galaxy and you managed to become stronger?"

Hofneil readied his blade and circled around the berzerker that did the same. "My battle brothers, the imperial guard and even one from the Adeptas Mechanicus have given everything to save this Galaxy. What have you given besides skulls and blood?"

Kharn snorted and confessed. "Nothing more than that, I think its time I finish the Imperiums business here." His axe roared as he yelled. "ONCE AND FOR ALL!"

He swiped and caused Hofneil's keyblade to fly loose, the Space marine watched the blade glow back into his hand and parried once more. Hofneil struck Kharn in the stomach and brought the berzerker to a confusion, the Space Marine answered the unspoken question. "This is what makes this weapon special, traitor. It and the wielder are like one."

The berzerker knelt from the pain and head butted Hofneil back, readying his axe as Sora came through and watched a battle turn against the Captain. Kharn cling to his axe and asked. "Just like Gorechild?" Sora cheered for Hofneil. "Come on get him! You can do it." Donald agreed and used another healing spell, irritating Kharn as Hofneil swung at him, the berzerker dodged and charged at the marine with a leap, his axe was in hand and Hofneil trusted into the marine's chest. SWIPE! SLASH! SPLAT!

A head was sent flying, Hofneil's armor became drenched in blood from a missing head, the head landed on Sora's feet and Kharn watched the body fall, the blade faded away from his chest. The boy was let speechless, glared and charged at Kharn with a yell for blood, Kharn took out a chain with a brass claw that glowed in darkness and focused on the boy. The berzerker dodged a swing and hurled the claw at Sora's chest, causing a sharp burning pain and putting him in place, the berzerker pulled the keyblade off and tossed it back to the space marine as he barked. "That anger was precisely why I was sent here!" He yanked and watched something black tear out, a inky blob of shifting darkness that was trying to take form, he watched Sora fall limp and was holding onto his chest, as if it was bleeding, let not a drop was spilt. Kharn watched the shadow take a form resembling the boy and wasn't impressed as Goofy and Donald yelled and charged. "Sora!"

Goofy bashed Kharn back as Donald used a healing spell and aimed at the berzerker that watched the creature of shadows looking disoriented and be dragged into a forming dark rift, breaking into a form of shifting shadows. Gorechild roared and Kharn was ready to take more victims as a black figure with blonde hair and a massive sword flew down at the berzerker, pushed him away and slashed at him in brutal speeds. Goofy and Donald recognized the short spiky hair and black clothes as Sora looked up to realize who arrived. "C...Cloud?!"

Kharn attempted to swing with Gorechild and was knocked to a cliff edge to glare down at a warrior with a large sword, Cloud glared at him. "Haven't you had enough blood for one day?"

Kharn jumped back down in a yell with Gorechild in hand. PEW! A keyhole shined in the sky and sucked something in, Kharn felt his fall broken and struggled against the pull. He quickly realized what was happening and let himself be sucked up the keyhole, along with many chaos space marines fighting in the valley. With one threat gone, Cloud focused on a kneeling Sora, realizing he was hit badly as Goofy tried to help the boy up. Cloud helped the shield bearer as Sora kept his gaze upon the dead space marine and felt chest pains. He asked the sudden savior. "Wha...how did you-" Cloud answered calmly. "I was around and was put a corner by some green dumb asses when some psychos came after them, shouting about skulls." He noticed after math and encouraged. "Just hold on until we get to the town."

In the Town.

The scarred lunatic felt his noisey marines become crushed and slashed by the Megaboss and his steed as a gryphon and a human woman took their turn. The whip master licked his lips at the variety and went after Mickey with his sword, being parried back and flinging a whip that Lauriam and Elrena blocked and felt the sting. Mickey felt the screaming from the armor and realized. "They... use to be people?!"

He pushed the madman back as Elrena felt it made little sense. "The creepy look isn't just decor?! But ho-" She gasped. "They use to be those this looney killed?!"

The whip master giggled as a marine yelled out. "Lord Lucius, these green skins are-" BASH! SPLATTER! A brute grabbed the marine with his rocky claw and bashed his head in, giving Lauriam time to process the new knowledge as more drills came to pour in more chaos space marines. "No...that wou-" He swiped at Lucius and held him with in the thorny vines, far away from the group as he focused on the marines readying sonic weaponry. "That's his trick, its when someone kills this depraved monster that the armor becomes important."

Lucius's smile became worse as he let loose a sonic scream to shatererd the vines, he laughed at the man. "Oh so you know the game? Well that's just fiiiiiiiiiine!"

He echoed like he was in a high as the Orruks were becoming overrun and the committee fighting were being pushed back. Lucius hummed. "Mmmmh! Now the real fun begins, who will try to stop me now in this kill or be killed-" PEW!

A keyhole opened in the sky and caused the chaos space marines to float in the air, they were sucked into the keyhole along with their dreadful war machines, Lucius felt the grip and cling to a ledge with a whip, realizing his raid was ubruptly halted and hissed. "N...No, we are not going back, this isn-" Elrena looked at the living whip, crackled her keyblade and struck at it, causing it to recoil loose in pain and to smile sadistically at Lucius. "Yeah I don't think we invited you into this party. Too bad for you."

She waved goodbye and caused Lucius to shrill in that infernal high pitched voice as he was sucked away. Leaving behind three dead ard boys and two dead brutes, the committee tried to calm down from the near encounter and Aerith looked to the sky to find several ships being sucked through keyholes. The Black Legion and their forces were being repelled.

It was something assuring to see as Dragon Hackah cringed at his dwindling boys and had his Mawcrusha take flight. "Zog it, come on boys, lets get out of ere!"

The Orruks looked upon the humans and mouse, looked annoyed and turned to the gate to run off. Dragon Hackah promised the group. "Once I get done counting up da boys, we be back ere real good!"

Swoop!

Wanda kept her vision at the Megaboss and felt an evil force was leaving, she fell off Stalwing and was shaking, like one ordeal was gone for another, Tifa helped her up and asked. "Do you want to go lay down? These guys are finally gone."

Wanda spit out and felt herself broken. "I...I need to do that." PEW!

Yuffie noticed two glowing lights laying by the Inn, a knocked out woman with blue hair and a blonde child that had a keyblade laying near his right side, the right side was missing and arm and the wound looked to have been cauterized shut. "Wha...Aerith, we got a code red!"

Aerith turned and recognized the boy. "Ken?!"

She ran to the knocked out duo and checked on the boy first, he lost a lot of blood, Mickey followed the noise and recognized the woman, dashed to Aerith's side and asked. "Aqua?!"

The woman was out cold, like she pushed herself through a series of intense battles. The brown haired woman asked Leon. "Go get the... thing we were working on, this boy needs it and they both need to be checked on." The man was out of his usual calm and ran to a mech shop. "I'm on it, we got a lot of answers to hear."

At the vast field.

Anatesis bashed Typhus back with her warhammer as Kairi jumped on the dragon and worked with it to fire a mixture of lightning and fire balls at the vast zombie horde that seemed endless. Typhus's disgustingly resilient body oozed as he looked above to find a massive ship in orbit. "Ha! So the Warmaster is finally arriving."

He extended his hand towards the group. "You're planet's doom comes, but I can still save you! Come with me and embrace Nurgles gift."

Kairi looked upon the zombies and scoffed. "Like what you gave them?! I don't think so."

Anatesis agreed with her and called down the storm. "He may think they are gifts, but they are anything but."

Typhus looked hurt and crackled psychic energy, pushing back at the Stormcast that took the blow and dueled in a lock of blows, Typhus asked. "You fight much like a space marine, Ana and you know about Nurgle, what kind of universe are you even from?"

Ana wasn't answering as she looked above to find a keyhole opening and sucking the horde of zombies and scrap with in, the ships were being drawn in and the Stormcast smiled to him in spite. "Not yours." BASH!

Typhus was knocked into the air and felt his body being among the forces being dragged back from where he came from, he tried to scream and was so distant that only a buzzing was heard.

Leaving the trio alone and with the sight of dead spiders and dead goblins burning, as the vast swarm retreated to the vale. Kairi found it difficult to believe as she watched many rifts open up. "He... actually did it?"

Anatesis turned toward her. "He?"

She let her keyblade fade and took off her helmet to reveal tan skin, stormy blue eyes, a scar on her left cheek, a braided black mohawk, revealing a very human face that looked to be guessing. "There is four people that know of me here and I don't think the other three would be able to do that."

Kairi shook her head and closed her eyes for a moment of silence, Ana sighed and apologized. "The other three were lost in this war? Eek, I'm sorry to hear that." She asked her dragon. "Moonfang, lets get her home." The dragon nodded and dashed to the canyon as Ana followed with her glowing wings, Kairi worried. "I hope the others are okay."

In the lab.

Riku was in a one sided magical battle against Ahriman, who hurled bolts of blue energy and slowed the boy down and a fire storm. The boys attempts to be mobile were halted by a sorcerer who was completely bored and asked. "You call that fire ball magic? Hmm!" He turned off the barrier and felt something, holding his head and shaking it. "Uggh! Looks like Kharn had gotten what he came here for as well and Abaddon is preoccupied."

Ienzo took a book, remembered a spell and cast it on the wall, blocking it with light. "You're not going into Ansem's computer room. Too many people are hiding in those labs."

Ahriman focused on the spell and tightened his grip, causing the light to flicker in blue fire. "And would you know that Lucius is too focused on the few... toys, out there than he is raiding here. I had this planned long before I arrived so stop embarrassing yourselves."

WOOSH! A wall of ice formed and Ahriman glowed, turning towards Even and flowing in power as Riku tried to get up and watched a keyhole open by the door way, Ahriman noticed and felt the suction pulling him. The Sorcerer had his disk fly in fast speeds and with force of will, opened a corridor in the middle of the room, he focused his power in a distortion that caused him to flicker to the corridor as he warned them. "I won't let Abaddon's failure stop me. This war maybe over, but you just witness the seed of another!"

Pew! The corridor closed up and the keyhole sucked into nothing.

Leaving Ienzo and Even to look at the phenomenon as Riku glared at where the corridor was. The younger of the two scientists guessed. "This... is the power of a keyblade banishing these people from the realm of light?"

Even guessed so as Riku sighed. "Nothing there saying about any realm in between. Damn it."

Even caused the ice to break down and knew of an issue to be dealt with. "If he is the only one, then our issues are not yet over... although."

Riku agreed back with him. "Although Ahriman sounds like has his own plans from Abaddon, he doesn't belong here and he might cause another issue to turn up again. Tell the people hiding in there to wait a minute before coming out." He turned. "I got to go see this myself!"

He left without even a goodbye and rushed to the central square, finding that it was hit hard from beneath. He saw the committee survey the damage and saw Donald making way for Goofy and a blonde stranger carrying a limping boy, Sora. Riku gasped and went to his friends side without hesitation. "Sora?!" He asked Goofy and Donald. "What happened?!"

The duo had nothing to answer as Sora looked upon a town not bound by chaos and smiled it wasn't a worry, he cringed in pain as another voice yelled. "Sora?!"

Thump! Thump!

Riku turned to find Kairi on a black scaled wingless dragon and being followed by a silver armored angel, bringing more questions to bare as Yuffie appeared to blow a whistle and signaled. "Everyone in the Inn except for Cloud, the dragon and... eh-" The angel sighed. "Ana." She looked around to ask. "What in Sigmar's name was happening?!"