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"Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me~" Sora sang as they were out in the middle of the ocean while he was steering the ship. "I don't know the rest of the lyrics because I haven't memorized it~ Something heartful yo ho~ I should've asked Jack Sparrow to write the lyrics down~ Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate's life for me~"

"That is the worst song I've ever heard!" Flavio said, as he was swabbing the deck.

"It's better than whatever song you were blabbing about earlier." Vivian said.

"Gah!"

"Isn't it… Me Hearties or something?" Noire asked.

"No no no, let him figure it out. It's honestly kind of charming." Aerith giggled.

"Agreed." Bea nodded while smiling.

"So, when do you think we'll get to the island?" Luigi wondered, watching some Wingull fly by as a Dragonair breached out of the water.

"Ah, there's a Dragonair in these waters. That means good luck." Bobbery said.

"It is?" Luigi asked.

"Indeed. If you see a Dragonair on your voyage, it spells good luck for the rest of the journey. It's smooth sailing from here on out!"

"Well, that's a relief." Luigi said, as he sat down on some barrels.

"I imagine we'll get there sometime later today." Mario said as he was lying on a box. "Might as well make ourselves comfortable." He said, his hat over his head.

"How is that even comfortable?" Koops wondered.

"Lucky, I wish I found lying on boxes comfortable…" Noire mumbled, watching Bea sit down by the mast and proceeded to meditate while Flavio was mumbling about "treason" on his ship.

Later into the night…

"Starry night…" Sora said, looking at the stars. "Calm waters… yeah, smooth sailing indeed." He chuckled as he let go of the wheel and took a step back, stretching as he let the wind take it from there.

"You could've done that a long time ago." Bea said, casually leaning on a railing.

"Yeah, I could have." Sora chuckled, as he saw Bea handing him something.

"Here, Chuckola Cola. You look a little parched."

"Oh… thanks." Sora smiled, taking off the lid and started drinking. "Aaah… refreshing."

"I'm gonna be honest, I was honestly taken by surprise that you, of all people, were able to commandeer a ship, let alone know how control one." Bea said.

"Heh, well… it takes practice."

"I have to ask… who's Jack Sparrow?"

Sora grinned. "Only the best pirate I've ever met. He's cool, he's… calm under pressure and nothing really gets to him."

"Ah, so he's pretty much a smart pirate?"

"Pretty much!"

Meanwhile, with Jack Sparrow…

Blackbeard set an unloaded gun down after aiming it Angelica. "Again."

Jack would grab a pistol. "Please, they're not even loaded." He said, turning around as Blackbeard's men ducked as he would look at Blackbeard while aiming the gun into the sky and pulled the trigger.

BANG!

Jack looked at the gun in surprise and dropped it, while Blackbeard gave him an annoyed look.

"Again."

"If you're so clean on killing her, why don't you just… let her jump?"

"What?!"

"If you jump and you die, then she will have her chance." Blackbeard said. "Again…"

Sora, mate… where the bloody devil are you? I could use your expertise here. Jack thought to himself.

Back with them…

"Achoo!" Sora sneezed. "Huh… weird."

"Can't wait to meet this guy. I bet he has some fantastic stories to tell." Bea said… and then suddenly, the ship stopped moving, making everyone stumble.

"Wah!" Sora yelped.

"Aye, we've stopped… why have we stopped?" Pa-Patch said.

"Ten pounds of Chuckola Cola, ten pounds of Chuckola cola~ Take one out, pass it around-"

"Oi, Flavio! Now's not the time for yer singin'! Yer ship stopped!" Pa-Patch said.

"…Eh? What do you mean my ship stopped?"

"Hey Sora, what's the hold… up…?" Luigi blinked, noticing the sudden abrupt stop had made Bea fall on top of Sora, both of them blushing as Bea had her hands firmly planted next to Sora's head while their eyes made contact. Of course, they were also in a compromising position. "…Oh, am I interrupting something?"

"It's not what it looks like!" They both said as they got up.

"Let's pretend that never happened." Bea said, dusting herself off.

"Yeah, agreed."

"What, were they playing Twister?" Noire raised an eyebrow.

"I… guess you can say that." Luigi said.

"Zzz…. Wha?" Mario woke up, rubbing his eyes. "Are we there already?" He asked, letting out a yawn.

"Something just stopped our ship." Sora said. "Not sure what."

"Hmm… I've a feeling we're in those types of waters…" Bobbery mumbled to himself as Bea walked down the stairs, still having a faint blush on her cheeks.

"So much for maintaining balance~" Aerith teased, earning a glare from Bea that made Aerith giggle.

"Hang on, I'll go take a look." Noire said, going into her Black Heart form and flying up to the lookout post, going back to normal. "Hmm…" She grabbed a telescope and looked around. "Ugh, would it kill them to install night vision in these things?" She mumbled.

Suddenly, a blue flame appeared behind her and poked her in the back. "Yeah yeah, I'll get to you in a minute." She said as it then shoved her. "Mmph! Watch it, pal!" She said as she turned around and saw nothing. "…I could've sworn… okay, maybe I'm going crazy." She said as she looked back into the telescope… and saw the same blue flame from before.

"WAH!" Noire yelped as she dropped it in surprise. "…What are you?" She wondered, curiously looking at the Ember as she got closer to it, and then another one popped up from behind and shoved her off the crows nest. "AAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

THUD!

"Oooow…"

"You okay?! Anything hurt?" Aerith asked.

"Just my pride…" Noire groaned.

"What happened?" Koops asked.

"Some… ghost thing popped up… a blue… flame thing!" Noire said.

"Blue flame?" Bobbery perked up. "Lads… lasses… they're here."

"Who's here, kupo?" The Moogle wondered.

"Ghosts." Bobbery said as suddenly blue flames popped up everywhere.

"Yipe!" Flavio yelped.

Luigi folded his arms. "Uh-huh… these are ghosts? I'm not buying it. They're just fireballs."

"Ooooooo! Ooooooooooooh!"

BGM: Night of Fate (Kingdom Hearts)

Luigi paled. "Now THAT'S a ghost! AAAAAAAAAAAAH!" He yelled, quickly hiding behind boxes, which caused Mario to facepalm.

"EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!" Flavio yelled as he dove overboard.

"Screw that! We're fighting these things!" Aerith said, bringing out her staff.

"I haven't had a good scrap in a long while!" Bobbery said as everyone got ready to fight… while Luigi was cowering behind some boxes, only for Mario to drag him out of his hiding spot.

"Hey uh… is the sea rising or is it just me?" Nocturne asked.

"Oh dear, we're sinking!" Vivian exclaimed.

Sora summoned his Keyblade. "Then we might as well go out in style!" He said, quickly batting away a few Embers as he found himself back to back with "Storm Cloud".

"Keep focused." She said.

"Yeah, you got it… Thunderbolt." He said, hearing a light gasp of surprise from her before the two proceeded to slash away at the Embers as Bea would be knocked back from a tackling Ember.

"Mmph!" Bea grunted, as she felt cold water hit her feet, but she didn't pay much mind to it. "Liquidation!" She ordered as her Grapploct unleashed Liquidation on the Ember as everyone had fought the Embers… until they were all sunk.

End BGM

A few hours into the next morning later…

BGM: Keelhaul Key (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door)

"Mama mia… that was quite something…" Mario said, taking off his hat and wringing it out while also dumping the water out of his shoes.

"You said it." Luigi said, squeezing the water out of his hat as he then took off his shoes and dumped out water, Cheep Cheeps, Magikarp, Wishiwashi, Goldeen and even a few Rupees, one of them being silver.

"Karp!" The Magikarp cried, bouncing toward the water. "Karp Karp Karp!" It would jump into the water… unto a Pidgeotto swooped down and snagged it with its talons.

"Pidgeo! Pidgeoooo!"

"Poor guy." Mario said as Luigi pushed the other fish back into the water.

"Geez… glad you guys are in one piece." A voice said as they turned to see Noire wringing her hair out. "How you guys holding up?"

"Ah, we've been through worse." Luigi said. "Any luck on anyone else?"

"So far, on our team, we have Vivian, Nocturne, Koops, and Aerith… and a bunch of other crewmates. No word on Bea and Sora yet. And come to think of it, that Moogle, those two suspicious people and Bobbery aren't around either."

"Well… we might as well go take a look." Mario said as they walked off where Noire would eye the Silver Rupee and walked off, but then stopped.

"It's a worth a lot… I could easily pawn that off and get a lot of cash." Noire said before smirking. "Heh, can't wait to see the look on Blanc's face." She said as she turned around to reach for it, but a blur would snag it before her eyes. "WHAT?!" She yelled.

"Saaable Sable Sable!" A creature cackled before disappearing into the woods.

Noire's eye twitched. "Stupid… Pokemon and their stupid greedy… GAAAAAH!" She yelled as she stormed off, completely ignoring the red and blue Rupees, grumbling all the way back to camp.

"Hey, we got another shipmate here!" A Toad called out as he and another Toad went running toward the water and pulled Bea out, who was floating on a piece of driftwood.

"Uuungh…" Bea groaned, opened her eyes and seeing everyone looking at her after she was laid on her back in the grass.

"Hey, how you feeling?" Koops asked as Bea sat up, rubbing her head.

"Like my head is about to explode…" Bea groaned.

"Yeah, that's about right." Aerith said, warming up next to a campfire as they would see Flavio pulling in a box of Chuckola Cola.

"Eureka! The Chuckola Cola is safe!" Flavio exclaimed. "Oh, and you guys too… hahahaha… but look, the drinks!"

"Bah, only you would care about the drinks, you coward!" Pa-Patch said.

"Coward? I'll have you know that I-"

"Was the first to jump overboard."

"Hey! It's called a strategic getaway."

"Oh, is that what you call it! Hmph, well… not like you care about us and only worry about the drinks with those small bony airbags you call hands!"

Flavio dropped the rope and glared at Pa-Patch. "What did you say… punk?"

"Small. Bony. Airbags."

"Well, I'll have you know that these hands aren't just for polishing the red jewel!" He said, squaring up.

"Bring it on, coward!"

"Rrrrgh! You! Me! Pistols! At high noon! We will settle this like gentleman!"

"I couldn't agree more!" Pa-Patch said as the two of them walked off in a huff.

"…What just happened?" Nocturne asked.

"I'm not sure…" Aerith said.

"AIYEEEEEEEEEE!" A voice cried as they turned to see the two running away.

"Th-they're… they're here!" Flavio exclaimed. "And this buffoon tried to trip me!"

"You shoved me into them!" Pa-Patch growled as a few Embers approached them. "Gh-gh-ghosts!"

"…Alright, that's it." Luigi said as he approached the Embers before whipping out his Poltergust and sucked them in. "There we go."

"Our savior!" Pa-Patch and Flavio grinned.

"Alright so… where's Sora?" Bea wondered.

Meanwhile…

End BGM

"Berries… berries… I don't know if these things are poisonous…" He said as he kept looking, before hearing a waterfall nearby. "Ah, fresh water." He walked over with a hum, then noticed clothing on the ground near the stream. "Eh?" He wondered as he heard humming as he turned to see a certain pink haired woman bathing underneath the waterfall.

"Wait… that's the girl from the Glitz Pit." He said… and then realized that she was fully in the nude, causing him to blush a deep red and then he looked away.

Think about Kairi… think about Kairi… He thought as he found a large leaf as he picked it up and walked away, keeping it in front of his face. "I didn't see anything…" He said.

"Mmmhmmhmm~" She would walk out of the waterfall and proceed to get herself dressed. "How long were you staring?"

"Uh, one second… but that's plenty to look away!"

"I'm decent, you can take a look."

Sora would remove the leaf from his head to see her fully clothed. "Okay, Thunderbolt… would you mind telling me why you've been stalking us ever since the Boggly Woods?"

"Someone's got to make sure to keep the X-Nauts in line… not like I had a choice." She said. "You can thank Grodus for that."

"Wait… you're not…?"

"I'm only keeping up the facade. You can thank your princess friend for smacking me in the head with a frying pan. It managed to knock out the brainwashing."

Frying pan? Peach carries that around with her? Yikes… Sora grimaced. "So wait, you're just fooling everyone?"

"Yes. Believe it or not, the X-Nauts aren't very bright."

"I'd believe it… wait, but what about the Boggly Tree blowing up or…"

"There are exceptions."

"I see…"

"I can tell you're improving, but as I watched your fight with that martial artist in the tournament, I've noticed you were struggling because you fight with your friends. You're not used to being alone… and that may cost you."

"Oh joy, this again…"

"I'm just saying, it could prove beneficial if you work on your own strengths." She said.

"Okay, but back to the X-Nauts… what are they planning aside from world domination? I know that Crump guy is here too."

"He's plotting something… and unfortunately, it's a big one." She said and then whispered in his ear.

"…Okay, but why are you telling me this? Why should I trust you, Thunderbolt?"

"I know you don't have it in you to trust me, but… I can at least give you a heads up." She said as she grabbed her cowl and robe. "Oh, and by the way… it's Lightning." She walked off.

"Ooookay…" Sora rubbed his head. "See you around, I guess."

"By the way… that's poison ivy you're holding."

"Yagh!" Sora yelped, dropping it. "Okay… time to find my way back around…" He said as he walked ahead, coming into contact with Flower Fuzzies and Putrid Piranha Plants as he would knock them all out as he continued on and found himself a bridge as he walked across it.

"Avast ye! You think you can take us on!" A voice cried as Sora would see Bobbery, "Four Eyes" and the Moogle.

"Kupo! I'm not just an average Moogle, kupo!" The Moogle cried.

"Guys!" Sora ran over to them.

"Ah, Sora… you're here, perfect." Bobbery said as more Embers showed up.

BGM: Tension Rising (Kingdom Hearts II)

"Take these two with you. I'm gonna take these guys out in style!"

"What? Are you kidding?!" Sora said.

"You heard the man, we gotta go!" Four Eyes said, grabbing Sora's arm as he yanked him away and took off running.

"Good luck, Kupo!" The Moogle said as he took off flying as Bobbery was surrounded by a lot of Embers.

"Hmph!" Bobbery lit his fuse. "Looks like I'm about to reunite with you, Scarlette." He said as he held his chin(?) up high as the Embers charged at him. "COME AT ME, YOU FLAMING MOTHER-"

BOOOOOOM!

End BGM

Sora let out a gasp as Four Eyes and the Moogle looked back. "No…" Sora whispered.

"Godspeed, Kupo!" Moogle said with a salute as they headed back into camp.

"Sora!" Noire exclaimed as they came in. "You're okay!" She grinned.

"That's a relief." Bea smiled.

"What was that explosion?" Mario asked.

"…Bobbery… he… he took his life just to save a few of us." Sora said.

"Oh…" Luigi said as they all looked down while closing their eyes.

"I will drink this Chuckola Cola in his honor!" Flavio said, opening up a bottle. "To Bobbery!" He said.

"….Aaaaah…"

"Yes, he will be missed. In fact, we can still hear his voice! Let it not be in vain!"

"AAAAAAAAAH!"

"In fact… his voice is getting louder." Flavio said. "Almost like-"

THUD!

"OOOOOF!" Flavio grunted as Bobbery landed on top of him.

"Mmph!" Bobbery said before hacking up a lung. "I forget that blowing up knocks the wind out of me…" He mumbled as he grabbed Flavio's Chuckola Cola and took a few swigs. "Aaaah…" He said and looked at everyone in surprise. "What? Never seen an old Bob-omb drink a soda before?"

"You're okay!" Sora grinned.

"Well of course I'm okay! I, for sure, thought that would be my final explosion but I've still got plenty of gunpowder in me!" He said, looking proud. "I'll make Scarlette proud!"

"Phew, that's a relief." Luigi smiled.

"By the way… there was something of interest on the other side of the bridge. Something about it intrigued me." He said. "Let's move out. We've no time to waste!"

"Yeah, let's-a go!" Mario exclaimed as his team nodded.

"Team Sky with a new member, woo!" Nocturne cheered as they started to take off.

"Aheheheh… uh… guys?" Sora spoke up as they turned to him, where he was scratching his hand. "Before we go, I need to ask something."

"What is it?" Bea asked.

"Gaaaah, does anyone have any aloe?! This poison ivy is driving me nuts!"

"I got some in my tent. Follow me, kupo!" The Moogle said as he guided Sora to the tent while everyone decided to wait for Sora to get his hand all patched up.

I thought the Playstation event was tomorrow so I unfortunately missed it... that said, Spider-Man 2, Wolverine and God of War: Ragnarok is looking pretty sweet.