Bottom of the Barrel
Hey, the author here again. before I start this next chapter up I think I should warn you of a couple of things. The following chapter is following what happened to Riku after he attacked those masked men with the Heartless. What happened to Sora will be explained in the chapter after this one. Also in this chapter, there will be a lot of cameos from characters from other Disney and Square soft stuff in here. But don't be surprised if you see any Anime characters.
Why Anime you ask? Because they will involve a huge chunk from my next Kingdom Hearts story, Kingdom Hearts 3. Yes I know I still need a back title. But the Anime characters are gonna be a big part of my next story so that explains that. And finally don't worry if you don't completely recognize everyone. At the end of this story I will produce a cast call list telling you who was from what and etc. Other then that I hope you enjoy this chapter.
Rain, cold, wet, drenching, pouring, dripping, it never leaves anything but a cold icy sting to your soaked skin. Thus was the weather case for the tall dark town known as Cellar City. The city was known for the infamous battle of Riku dueling with the new Heartless, and those strange masked men. Cellar City though covered in rain and hounding bowels of pure darkness, it was littered with bright flashing neon lights. A very strange city indeed.
Like every 2 sides there is to a coin, every opposite there exists for another. Traverse Town was in fact very similar to Cellar City, both provided housing, entertainment, bars, and other facilities for beings of the multiple worlds of reality. And this just happens to be where Riku had fallen back to. The silver haired boy pushed open the wooden doors to a populated bar. Neon signs flashing above Riku read "The Dead Plug", Riku went inside.
Hundreds of voices began speaking at once. A jukebox flashed out a display of alternative music, flashing colors, all across the bar of endless forms of figures. Almost every being in here looked strange, bizarre, and twisted all at the same time. But the strangest thing that bothered the blue eyed boy as he approached the bar matting his wet cloak, was that he liked it here. "Welcome to the Plug bud anything I can get ya?" a bear like voice boomed.
Riku looked up and wiped the drops of rain from his drenched coat to see a rather large bartender. The man was large and bald on the top, but sides of his head sported black hair lines. A big black beard connected to those hair lines that spread over to his eyebrows and on the sides of his cheeks. Skin was a gray color, and Riku noticed his left eye was scarred sporting a piece of metal under the eyelid. Outfit was dark blue suspenders over a pink shirt.
Oddly enough despite the fact the man was large, bear like in voice and appearance and had a right mechanical arm, Riku sensed he seemed nice. "No thanks uh Mr." Riku started the man chuckled and replied "its Jett kid and don't sweat it, after all it's a bitch out there so take it easy for now". Jet moved across the mirror as other beings and shapes talked, drank, and ate. Riku smiled thinking of how happy and grand life was for these people.
But that only brought a cold slam of reality to make him remember why he had come back here. "I've got to find my way back to Destiny Islands, I'm tired of wandering from town to town asking for information from strangers. But it seems that if I am ever to find Kairi again that's all I can do. I just hope those masked freaks stay off my back long enough to trail their dumb rock, better start talking" Riku thought to himself and began to walk around.
The boy's icy blue eyes eyed everyone he could spot, pondering which man woman or whatever could give him information on how to get home. One table had a man and a woman discussing magical objects. The male was tale, had brown gloves with a strange brown tick, long blue hair, green shirt, and a brick red vest on. The woman beside him was wearing glasses over blue eyes, also having short red hair, a purple shirt, tan yellow cape, and a skirt.
The skirt had a tanned gold to it and stopped just above her ankles, where her feet were encased in light brown boots. "Louie I'm sorry your team mates dumped you, but maybe it wouldn't happen if you studied up some more on magic. That is what magicians do" the girl said to Louie, who groaned back "But Iyla studying is boring with a capital B it's no fun". Riku frowned, he would have been perfect but it seems he's a beginner magician.
Behind them stood a young girl with sparkling gold hair, she was young and had white tiger stripes painted on her soft cheeks. Outfit consisted of a red pirate like coat vest over a white T-shirt, above red shorts with a purple spiked belt around her hips. Bare legs drop down to a pair of brown boots. The girl's slender but muscular arms hurled darts at a dart board, her brown gloves flexed fingers as she tossed the darts. A dart struck the bull's eye.
"OH YEAH mate now that's how you play darts, give em a toss and boom you kiss em to the moon" the girl known as Kidd beamed happily to herself. "Excuse me can I get you anything sir?" a sweet sounding voice beamed. Riku turned and blushed at sight of a beautiful young girl in a waitress outfit, her hair was hot pink and tied in pig tail braids that went down to her back. The girl had bright blue eyes, lovely skin, a sweet smile, & a small name tag.
"Uh really no I'm all right Ms..uh Nuku, Nuku but could you tell me if there was anyone here who was an expert on traveling roads?" Riku asked. The girl was about to answer but a sudden slamming noise changed her cat like blue eyes. Jett stopped rubbing the bar down with a white rag wincing his cyber eye at sight of the new stranger, he stood soaked in rain by the doors. A tall man he was, light brown trench coat, hat was the same color.
A light thin blue strip went around the base of the brown hat. The man also wore light brown leather gloves across his hands, and the shirt underneath the coat was the same dark blue color on the hat's baseline. But probably the most noticeable and disturbing thing on the man was his pale white skin. His face was pure white, chalk with and had sinister yellow looking eyes. Around the rim of the man's eye was a black circle with little marks on em.
The man sported sinister smile with yellow teeth as he spoke, "Pardon my intrusion ladies and gentlemen but I'm looking for some help. My name is Multock and I'm a business man looking to help out a few of you fellows. I'm currently searching for someone, some of GREAT importance to my ahem.employer. If you can help me find this.boy, I assure you the financial compensation will most certainly be worth your wildest dreams.
The boy I'm looking for has a dark rain coat, blue eyes, silver hair, carries an odd key like weapon, and hails from a place called Destiny Islands". Suddenly the whole room stood still and everyone's talking voices just silenced into the dead air. Riku's gloved hand grasped the handle of his keyblade tightly, almost drawing blood from the nervous grip of his hand. Multock widened his yellow eyes as he spotted Riku at the front bar stool.
"THERE, he's right bloody there I'm offering anyone a bounty of their choice if they help me catch that brat, hey you 5 over there" Multock said. At the far end of the bar there was a table with 5 suspicious looking characters. One was a duck with a black mask over his eyes, yellow suit, black buttons, and a red cape. Beside him was another duck who wore what appeared to be a court jester suit. It was blue, red, with a white frill collar.
The far end of the duck's mask had dangling bells on the far tips, his shoes were huge and red with pointy tips. The duck looked more like a clown. Next to him was what appeared to be a dog like being who was composed entirely of water. After that there was a 3rd duck that looked like he was part plant. The plant duck was green, had purple puffy hair, leaves for hands, branches for arms, and roots for legs. Finally there was a grouchy mouse.
The mouse had a huge snout with a large olive shaped black nose, blue goggles, a red "plug" socket hat, blue gloves, a yellow jumpsuit, a blue plug socket belt, a red battery backpack, and blue boots. "HEY that's the Fearsome 5 DOLT" the black and yellow suited duck snapped. Multock growled "Whatever look grab that dork in the cloak and I'll pay you whatever the hell you want". The Fearsome 5 snickered and jolted upwards.
Suddenly Riku found himself surrounded by the laughing and darkly grinning super villains. The duck grinned "The name's Negaduck punk and while I admire your tailor looks like your ass is Fearsome 5's grass kid". Riku slowly stepped back from the bar and confronted the villains, his keyblade already shining its steely surfaces to the bar's bright lights. "All I'm looking for is a way home not a brawl boys" Riku stated rather coldly.
Megavolt the mouse laughed "Well too bad slick the only place you're going is in pieces, sizzling pieces that is". Immediately Jett protested "Hey creeps there's no fighting in this bar go outside and piss it out AH", Jet ducked. The mirror behind Jet suddenly shattered into glass shards from a thunder blast. Megavolt laughed and blew the smoke from his blue gloved fingers with a snicker. "Enough baby shit, Fearsome 5 KILL HIS ASS" Negaduck shouted.
In a flash Megavolt, Liquidator, Quacker Jack, Bushroot and Negaduck leapt into a furious battle with Riku. Blurs of grey cloaks, steel blades, flashing sparks, and water splashes erupted from the cyclone of the violent battle. Riku and his silvery keyblade were tackling the Fearsome 5 all at once in a vanishing fight of speed and strength. "HEY now that's unfair why does he get all the action?" Louie protested. The combatants quickly broke apart.
Quacker Jack cackled his insane laugh as the court jester removed something from his blue pants. "How selfish of me by all means have your fun, cause heheheh HOO, HOO IT'S PLAY TIME" Quacker Jack laughed. Iyla screamed and hid her frightened glasses covered eyes behind Louie's back. Quacker Jack had dropped a bag's worth of murderous mechanized toys. Snapping teeth with razor blade jaws started to attack towards Louie & Iyla.
Louie laughed "OH YEAH just what I've been waiting for, hold my wand for me Iyla cause like the man said IT'S FUN TIME". Quacker Jack groaned "That's play time dumb ass". But the insult neither stalled or disturbed Louie's rampaging fist bawling action, the man attacked the toys instantly. Neither fear, death, nor the razor blade of the chomping teeth bothered Louie, the magician laughed as he bashed his brown gloved fists into battle.
Clanks of shattered metal and gears piled out as Louie hammered his way through the terror toys of titanium teeth. Meanwhile Riku was leaping and dodging through blast after blast of dangerously high voltage from Megavolt. "GRR darn you can't you hold still" Megavolt hissed as each blast he shot Riku easily dodged with grace and speed. "You want it you got it sparky" Riku said as he jammed his black boots to a halt and grinned.
"GRRR GOD DAMIT DON'T CALL ME SPARRRRKY" Megavolt screamed as he flared with a thunder storm's worth of electricity. With his keyblade raised up, Riku eagerly awaited the mega mouse's thunder charge. Megavolt jutted his blue gloved fingers forward and blasted a colossal concentration of thunder energy at Riku. "Batter UP" Riku chimed as he bashed his keyblade like a baseball bat at the thunder stream with 1 swing.
Megavolt gasped as the thunder stream was smacked up, watching it crash into a dangling/spinning fan. CRASH! The cruddy/crappy brown painted fan crashed down over Megavolt's plug head and sank down over his arms, locking him in place. With his opponent disarmed and stunned Riku charged forward on his opportunity with a high flying jump kick at Megavolt. A gush of water screamed from the bar's wood floorboards and trapped Riku's boot.
Riku gasped as he jerked and struggled his leg locked in solid water, growling as he saw the dastardly Liquidator forming into face. "Stuck in debt and can't get out? Tired of being water logged and attacked? Then for a one time daily offer you can surrender your worthless life or we can end it. Order now operators are standing by for your "final" answer" Liquidator said as he morphed his hand into a water blade aimed at Riku's bare throat.
"Gee that sure does sound like a great deal but you see I got this problem with being wet" Riku said as he jammed his keyblade into Liquidator. The water dog simply laughed "Ooh that tickles", Riku grinned "Then you'll love this WIND STRIKE". A gush of violent hurricane winds suddenly blasted right into Liquidator's water body like a miniature cyclone of air. The blast hurled Liquidator right of Riku's boot and right into Megavolt.
"WAHH GRAHHHHH EYAHHH" megavolt and Liquidator screamed as the electricity and sizzling suds shorted each other out into unconsciousness. "Like I tried to tell you water and I just don't mix, least not as well as water and electricity does" Riku smirked. "Goodie, goodie it's my turn to PLAY" Quacker Jack said as he pulled out a gun with a boxing glove on it. The glove had brass knuckles on it, Quacker Jack fired it directly at Riku's face.
"Ugh" Riku grunted as a squirt of blood escaped his lips as he was bashed back into the bar table by the glove. Quacker Jack laughed and started to bounce after Riku, leaping closer and closer on his high springy shoes. Louie frowned "Enough of your toys clown it's time to fight batteries with spells, Iyla my wand". Iyla handed Louie his wand and watched him quietly chant.
"Louie what spell are you gonna use on him?" the lovely young Iyla asked. The blue haired Louie smugly replied "I'm gonna freeze that joker right in his springy tracks, by blasting his candy ass with a super duper freezer spell". Massive sparks of magical energy surged and gathered on the base of Louie's twisted stick like scepter, focusing the power into a yellowish blast. Iyla gasped "Louie yellow isn't the color for an ice spell, it's the color for".
But the girl's voice was cut off by the colossal sounding crashing force of the massive blast erupted from Louie's wand. Louie and Iyla yelped as they were violently shoved back by the mere magnitude of the magician's spell. Quacker Jack stopped springing and gasped at the size of the spell, it was a huge sonic blast. The energy was like a thousand sonic booms, collaborated into one enormous weapon of mass destruction and high pitched vibrations.
"That doesn't look like fun to me" Quacker Jack said as he immediately leapt up REALLY high, going to the very top of the bar's ceiling in fact. The crowd gasped and screamed as the sonic blast went under and past Quacker Jack, ripping apart tables, chairs, and chunks of floor in its path. Multock screamed a cry of despair as the blast catapulted him right out of his boots. The white faced agent screamed as he was hurled high into the rainy sky.
Multock grunted as he crashed into a collection of soggy garbage cans, soaked filth, and other rain drenched junk items strewn across his coat. "What kind of crack was I smoking when I took this job ugh" Multock groaned as he passed out. Quacker Jack was quickly heading down, in a flash a brown boot came up to greet Quacker Jack right in the. "BAAAALLLS OWIE" Quacker Jack shrieked in a high pitched girly voice.
The prankster pulling jester turned his bulging eyes to see the girl Kidd, raising her bare leg higher into the crushing kick that smashed his nuts. "The ride's not over yet ya bloody freak show" Kidd said as she grabbed his hat. Using her position and momentum, Kidd shoved her other leg into Quacker Jack's back, fell back, pushed up, and back flipped Quacker Jack right into the bull's eye board. The quacking clown was out cold with stars in his eyes.
"Now that's a bloody bull's eye mate" Kidd said with a giggle on her tiger white painted cheeks. "GR little plant bastards I'm gonna mow you into horse shit and plant your head up your ass ARGH" Riku snarled at Bushroot. The older boy was having a hard time slicing through Bushroot's plant monsters, walking fly traps, and other garden goons. Clunks and chunks of grass, weeds, & dirt clods exploded from the weed whacking steel keyblade.
Bushroot pouted "I hate getting my leaves dirty but you leave me no choice". Riku raised his keyblade high to finish the plant duck off for good, but while Riku went high Bushroot went low and shot out his plant arms. The vine like limbs of Bushroot stretched out like tentacles, wrapping around Riku's black boot feet and jerking them from below. The beautiful pink haired waitress, Nuku, Nuku gasped watching Riku collapse down.
The young girl approached Bushroot from behind tapping his purple fuzzy hair, "Uh excuse me sir I'm gonna have to ask you to stop that" she said. Bushroot growled "Look babe we already went over this, I'm the bad guy you're the helpless little girl now shut up and be helpless already". Nuku pleaded again "But sir if you trash this place I won't be able to make money for Ryunosuke, and Nuku, Nuku wants to help buy Ryunosuke a new bike".
Bushroot growled and grind his teeth under his beak, getting further irradiated and aggravated by the prattle of this girl. Finally Bushroot hatefully snapped back "SHUT UP! I don't give a shit about you, your boss, or your Ryunosuke, your Ryunosuke can get hit by a freight train for all I care lady". Anger, rage, red, steam, all of these appeared on Nuku, Nuku's face. As the girl's fiery anger took control of her, white things popped out.
Her pink hair now had white mechanical looking cat ears sticking out of her beautiful hair, Nuku, Nuku then crushed her hands over Bushroot's neck. "GRR No one says that about Ryunosuke Nuku, Nuku loves Ryunosuke and no one talks bad about Nuku Nuku's Ryunosuke" Nuku, Nuku hissed out. Bushroot squeaked like a strangled turkey, his eyes bulging out of his sockets as he wheezed and choked. Nuku, Nuku had a powerful grip on him.
"She's got the AWK strength GACK of a freaking ACK semi truck" Bushroot garbled out as Nuku, Nuku yanked him away from Riku. Suddenly a green twirling blur was being hovered over Nuku Nuku's head; the cat girl android was spinning Bushroot around like a top. "Thank you and DON'T come again" Nuku, Nuku said as she hurled Bushroot like a bullet. A man still sitting at his table screamed as Bushroot slammed into his soul bowl.
The man was tall, had black hair, bony face, a purple robe with odd markings and designs on it, he appeared to be a sort of magician. Drips of tomato soup were dripping from Bushroot's purple hairlines in front of the man. The wizard man growled and shouted "Hey Rosario over here, waitress there's a Bushroot in my soup". Finally it was now down to the last rouge of the Fearsome 5, Negaduck. Riku had cornered Negaduck to a stare down.
"Give it up duck your boys are beaten and your financier is finished, so I suggest you leave while you still can" Riku said. Negaduck laughed "HA, HA you sure crack me up kid, not much in the looks department. But don't worry about that, old Negaduck can give you a real sharp look". Negaduck reached into his pocket and whipped out a razor edged chainsaw, he revved the smoking engine up & laughed "Sharp enough to turn you into sawdust".
Both Riku and Negaduck screamed as they charged wildly swinging their razor weapons into battle. Clangs and sparks of steel against metal flashed as Negaduck sliced at Riku, causing cuts to slice into his dark trench coat. Riku smashed dent after hair splitting cut against the mad duck's chainsaw, the 2 were off in a furious sea of sweat and hatred for one another. "You're dead meat asshole whether or not I get paid" Negaduck growled as he pushed on.
The more grinding sparks of the jagged chainsaw screeched closer to Riku's face, the boy laughed "I'm too good of a swordsman to be touched duck". A cry of pain escaped Riku's lips as he felt Negaduck stomp on his foot, then slash across his arm with the chainsaw. "HA maybe but you're a loser when it comes to cheating pipsqueak, too bad you won't live long enough to get the point GRAH" Negaduck screamed. The mad duck charged Riku head on.
Blades flying right at his face and his arm too hacked up to fight back; Riku winced and leapt out of the way. Negaduck slammed the chainsaw right into the bar and watched the woodchips and sparks fly in a sea of cutting steel. Before Negaduck could even remove the weapon to finish Riku off, a hand of solid steel grabbed the chainsaw's blades and crushed them tightly. "What the?" Negaduck gasped seeing his chainsaw crushed into a pile of scrap.
"Looks like someone never learned another important rule" a voice said as the robotic fist bashed its steel knuckles right into Negaduck's skull. Mumbled grunts of pain gurgled from Negaduck's beak before he dropped down to the ground cold, Jett chuckled "Always expect the unexpected". Riku smiled and nodded a thank you towards Jett as he stepped over Negaduck, "Sorry about the mess but I've got a home I've got to find".
Jett nodded and called for Nuku, Nuku to clean up the trash, including the fallen villains. As Riku once again walked in the shadows that drenched Cellar City with darkness and ice cold rain, Riku felt the chills of death. How he hated that rain, constantly seeping in his skin as it plagued his darkened soul. Multock groaned and slowly lifted his weary yellow eyes to the approaching Riku. "Oh bloody shit it's you" Multock groaned loudly.
"Why the hell were you sent to come after me? Tell me before I play soccer with your skull" Riku coldly stated. Multock gulped feeling the cold metal of Riku's keyblade pressed against his neck. "She didn't say I swear I didn't get to look at her, she called from a phone and hired me. She told me to look for someone fitting your description and came from Destiny Islands. Didn't say why she wanted you or if you had any riches on you" Multock said.
Riku frowned "It was a female huh? The only one I can think of is dead, but just to be sure I'd like to have her address if you don't mind". Shaking his head no Multock laughed nervously and stuffed his hands into his trench coat. Eventually Multock removed the address on a tiny ink smeared piece of paper and handed it to Riku, he took it and turned to leave. Multock was left sighing in the soaking rainfall, as Riku stared at the address frowning.
"Maleficent if you're back from the dead I'll be gladly to send you back there screaming all the way to the gates of hell. And at the same time, I'll get these goons from jumping on my back and stopping my journey home. That big shot Sora probably already in Kairi's arms right now.GRR. I'll walk a billion roads to the ends of the Earth and back to show Kairi I've changed. I'm coming back Kairi and no one can stop me now" Riku boldly stated.
(Casting Call)
Jett Black-Cowboy Bebop Louie and Iyla-Rune Soldier Kidd-Chrono Cross Multock-Quack Pack Nuku, Nuku-All Purpose Cultural cat girl Nuku, Nuku Rosario-Dragon Half Fearsome 5 (Negaduck, Bushroot, Liquidator, Quacker Jack, Megavolt)- Darkwing Duck
To be continued..