BK1: Highway to Hell

Screeching tires suddenly burn rubber as the ragged, junky, clunking police car floored its grinding engine across the highway. Sora screamed as he was tossed side to side inside the police car, bouncing with an orange toon bob cat and an overweight police officer. Around the shaking car's rusty doors were hundreds of other cars, screeching, honking, and some bursting with cosmic explosions engulfing their metallic forms. A shadow loomed over.

Above the car was a shadowy cloaked stranger, the 3rd Lost Soul after Echo. "Give me back my stones you snot nosed little brat, or I'll vaporize this entire highway GRAH" the stranger blasted a laser from his right hand. A huge pulsating laser instantly destroyed a dark blue van into melted metal. The bobcat popped out of the side of the car with a badge in his right hand, he shouted to the stranger "Halt in the name of the law you, uh...bad guy.

Bonkers D. Bobcat is putting you under arrest you have the right to remain GRK" the toon officer Bonkers screeched as he ducked his head down. Bonkers just barely dodged it, saving the fur off his orange haired head from the powerful energy blast. Sora winced as he bounced around in the car "I am really, really, sorry about this you guys". The overweight cop simply grimaced as more powerful energy blasts shattered the road around him.

His skin was dripping with sweat, a dark brown mustache and head of air bopped right to left under the sharp turns, his name was Lucky Piquel. Another blast slammed into the trunk and Lucky gasped "No need to sweat it kid, were officers of the law, it's our job to bust creeps like him. Although I'd like for you to just run this story by me again for the sake of my sanity". Sora once again explained to Lucky about the search for the red gems.

The Order of the Lost Souls and of course the dreadful outcome of what might happen if all 5 gems are restored. Lucky blinked "Wait a minute if there's a gem here and you got 2 already, what's to stop these lost soul guys from getting the last 2?". Sora smiled replying "My friends Goofy and Donald decided to split up. There off in another dimension together trying to find the 4th gem, that way we can all be together when we get the final gem".

A roaring sea of flames exploded behind the clunky cop car, Sora and Bonkers screamed and held their ears as cars burst into flames behind them. "Bonkers you're a cop for god's sakes shoot the son of a bitch" Lucky shouted, Bonkers blinked and laughed "Oh yeah I almost forgot". The toon cat cop pulled out a silver gun and aimed at the dark rider in the sky.

But despite the endless amounts of car carnage, flaming wreckage, and mangled car parts, Bonkers had discovered the shadowy man was gone. "Wow talk about spooky Lucky, I don't see him anywhere" Bonkers said, Lucky sighed "Good finally we can get our heartbeats back and call in some back up. This highway is gonna be mess by the end of the day (to radio) come in chief this is Piquel, we got a serious not job on our hands and".

KIRSHINK! The shattering of glass and muffled cries distracted Lucky as he screamed from the windshield's sudden self destruction. The dark rider was now growling like a wild beast, punching his fists onto the windshield. Sora shielded his blue eyes as the glass shards flew across the inside of the car like razor rain drops. "I WANT THOSE STONES" the stranger screamed savagely. "Dammit I can't see with him there" Lucky shrieked.

Lucky panicked and swerved the wheel rapidly in his thick hands, unable to tell where he was driving or swerving off to. Cars screeched and honked as they slammed into other cars, crashing ballistically all over the highway. "That tears it, this is your stop buddy" Sora said aiming his keyblade at the busted shield. Charged energies flared as Sora blasted a mega sized fire ball at the stranger's face. A flash of brilliant silver energy blinded the young boy as the fire ball seemingly sliced through dead air. The man was gone.

Suddenly a dark gloved fist busted fiercely through the roof top of the car, Sora gargled in pain as the blindly strangling fist was choking his neck. Somehow the stranger was able to teleport himself to any place he desired, as if being some sort of specter. Bonkers growled and chomped his teeth angrily into the dark rider's arm; he screamed and recoiled his arm with Bonkers still biting it. "Get off you me worthless little rodent" the man said.

Massive jolts of raw electricity fried Bonker's orange fur into a sizzling frenzy, his whole body jerking wildly from the brutal electro shocks. SCREEEECH! The car's tires boiled their rubbery soles across the road before finally skidding to a sudden halt. The stranger cried out as he flew off the car hood from the tremendous force of the car's screaming brakes. A black and bunt Bonkers groaned as he collapsed onto the car's roof top.

Whilst in mid air the dark masked rider performed a magnificent flip that would make any trapeze artist green with envy. The shadowy man's black booted feet landed gracefully, perfectly, and harmlessly onto the ground. Lucky, Sora, and Bonkers were simply staring directly and silently at the icy cold blue digits of the hooded hoodlum. The cop car simply bubbled its engine while its speeds screamed higher, eager to squash this dark bug.

"This is the police identify yourself and surrender or will we be forced to use uh......force" Bonkers said over the howling buzz of the megaphone. The dark man laughed aloud at the toon officer's supposed ultimatum. Sickening smiles painted the stranger's face as he chuckled "How pathetically blind you feeble minded fools are. Your pitiful police knowledge can't possibly compare with the powers that Lord Solego has bestowed upon our order.

You shall all die for your meddling attempts to stop the great and mighty chaos god. Now die, DIE against the 3rd rider of the Order of the Lost Souls, against your worst and final nightmare, me, Ghost". Lucky smirked "He'll be a ghost all right, a pancake ghost". The pudgy policeman jammed his heel into the gas pedal and floored the clunky car into full screaming gear. Hulking scraps of mangled metal on the cop car shutter as it drives forward.

Ghost laughed a hollowing roar of darkening laughter, the dark rider then leapt into the air as his body became silver and almost transparent like. The car sliced into Ghost's now spirit like body, passing the whole vehicle right through him. Sora's shocked blue eyes widen in horror as he saw the car driving away from Ghost, who was holding the bag of red chaos shards. "He's got the stones, I gotta stop him" Sora said as he leapt out the window.

Lucky and Bonkers eyeballs nearly leapt out of their sockets at sight of the young boy flying right off the ground and after the snickering Ghost. Flashing lights shine off the keyblade as Sora angrily sliced it at Ghost's grinning pale face. But the shifty stranger simply "spirited" himself away and was now flying away from Sora. "Oh no you don't, WINDAGA" Sora cried as he blasted Ghost with a powerful wind spell, it struck him hard.

Swirling winds locked around Ghost's coat long enough to hold him still. Yellow shoes and blue shorts rippled in the breezy skies as Sora air tackled Ghost down onto the long white roof of a massive big rig truck. The 2 clashing air titans landed a few feet from each other aboard the big rig. Ghost and Sora glared hateful eyes at each other, grinning a pride worthy smirk to each other as if mentally preparing for a barbaric grand battle.

Sora now frowned "Enough blood has been spilt today Ghost, if you continue this life of destruction it's only going to be worse for you in the end. All I want to do his go home. That's all I want, but all you want is destroy my home, mine and everyone else's with that cursed quest of yours. I don't want to kill anyone but I can't allow you or your master to harm anyone else. This madness has to stop even if it means I die in doing so".

Ghost smirked tossing the bag of stones in his right dark palm; he smiled coldly "Touching sentiments keyblade master, truly heroic words. But I'm afraid that is all there going to be my dear, dear, dim witted boy, just words. After centuries of waiting our time has finally come, Lord Solego will return to rule this and every other world, he will return to claim his true destiny. And there's not a thing you or any other worldly creature can do to stop it.

Even if you killed Mirage and Echo and even if by some miracle you kill me, you will NEVER be able stop us. It is Solego's time to shine; it is time for his moment of glory, and it's time I made that truth loud and clear to you". Sora growled and armed his keyblade forward; Ghost packed the stones away and lunged at the boy with eyes sparkling with thunder. Lighting bolt beams blasted the truck's metal roof as Sora dodged it.

The brave boy leapt forward and sliced down his blade, but Ghost faded from the blow and materialized right behind Sora. A swift blow from Ghost's dark fist bashed painfully across Sora's stunned cheek. The forceful figure in dark shoved Sora down and pinned him with his cloaked forearms. Ghost laughed as he grinded himself against Sora's raised keyblade, he was using it to block Ghost's grip from the boy's throat as he fiercely struggled.

"Ha, ha why struggle boy huh? Just to see your stick figure girlfriend? Well don't worry about her, soon as we take over existence I'll be sure to take GOOD care of Kairi for you" Ghost laughed. The simplest mentioning of his beloved Kairi sent a volcanic fire of gigantic proportions into Sora's boiling blood. The young boy growled and crashed his knee hard into Ghost's gut, Sora then head butted the dark figure before slamming his blade to his neck.

The combination of attacks stunned and shoved Ghost off Sora, leaving the stranger to choke and hold his throat for air. "You don't EVER SAY HER NAME" Sora screamed as he flew forward and tackled Ghost down. Flailing fists from the young boy angrily hammer Ghost harder, and harder. There was such fury, such hatred, such rage that screamed from Sora's heart. Ghost simply growled and faded away to hovering above Sora to blast him down.

The energy bomb toppled Sora to the front of the truck near the car. Ghost growled and empowered his left fist with a fiery energy glow, mixed with neon thunder and blue fire. Sora's blue eyes widened at sight of the awesome flaming fist as it came screaming at him. Ghost attacked Sora and bashed his fist as hard as he could into the metallic roof of the white truck. But the clever lad rolled out of the way and forced Ghost to strike nothing.

"Missed me, and it also looks like your missing THIS" Sora smirked as he grabbed the bag of stones off Ghost and flew away from the truck. Furiously strangling with his jammed fist, Ghost couldn't pry his hand loose. Soon as Sora gracefully landed onto the clunky police car, Lucky grinned "Now Bonkers HIT EM". The pudgy police man floored the car's raggedy engines into full speed to pull up next to the white truck, Bonkers watched its sides.

Bonkers then grinned and whipped out a gigantic toon sized hammer before bashing it HARD into the side of the white truck. The truck driving driver screamed as he lost control of the truck, the bearded man shouted "GAH CUT LOOSE, CUT LOOSE". The driver yanked on a chain that separated the truck car from connecting to the load carrying cart car behind it. "Come on, come on, MOVE YOU SHIT HEAP" Lucky screamed as pressed down.

The man's foot drove into the gas pedal as if it were apart of his own body. The cop car screaming and for all it's faulty body parts, for all it's smoky tail pipes, and all it's rusty break downs, the car floored just enough speed to pass through the center. Lucky's quick driving skills allowed the car to slip between the truck car and its cargo car, just as the 2 were separated. A most angry Ghost hissed hatefully as his enemies car drove safely away from him.

Ghost's fist was still jammed deep into the truck's roof, he griped and snarled "GRR come on you stinking, lousy, wait......what's that sound?". Widening silver cold blue eyes jerked open as Ghost realized the car was lying all across the highway. Tires screeched as at least 3 or 4 cars were trying to avoid the laid out derailed truck car. Ghost screamed as the cars suddenly slammed right into the white truck car and immediately exploded.

Huge bomb sized balls of tremendous fire literally burnt the sky to a sizzling black. The cars were totally destroyed and vaporized by the colossal heat, and forceful flames that engulfed their melting metal structures. Meanwhile Bonkers, Lucky, and Sora let loose a mighty cheer of victory as they slowly stopped the car. The gang exited the vehicle with relief on their faces, thankful the dark crisis with Ghost was dead and done, just like Ghost was.

"Man oh man what a wild ride, you all right there kid?" Lucky asked, Sora nodded "I'm fine sir just a little shaken up from all the fireworks and such". Lucky sighed and agreed as he saw the endless dawn of flaming explosions rain sky high above the mangled highway. Bonkers blinked "Wow all this mess over one dinky little stone, even toons don't get THAT crazy". Sora slowly wiped his brown hair free of sweat replying, "Yeah sure is nutso.

Luckily I got the stones back before Ghost became barbecued bad guy, now all I gotta do is fine the stone that's here and I can split. Hey Lucky sir? You have any idea where" but Sora soon realized Lucky wasn't listening. The man was staring his worry filled eyes out at the roasting sea of singing car parts. Suddenly odd rumblings started to shift and shake the pavement, Bonker's furry toes and tail twitched nervously at sight of shaking rocks.

"Oh that was a nice one, 9.2 I think huh Lucky?" Bonkers asked, Lucky gulped "Get back in the car Bonkers right now, you too Sora". Both Bonkers and Sora blinked as they saw Lucky becoming pale and turning away from the fires. The fat cop gasped as he started to fumble his fingers across the keys back into the car's ignition. Lucky screamed almost out loud as he opened the door and slammed it shut, shouting for the others to get in.

"Lucky what's going on? What's the matter with you?" Bonkers asked, Sora blinked "What, what is it? What's gotten you so jumpy all of the sudden?". Just as the engine finally roared its rust bucket engine back to life, Sora and Bonkers looked out the filthy fractured back window. Out of the cold dark, billowy clouds of the sulfuric, suffocating smoke, arose a mammoth sized figure. Eyes started to widen as our heroes felt their hearts grow cold fast.

The flaming smashed shreds of the vaporized cars were plowed away by what appeared to be a monstrously gargantuan armored stone worm beast. The creature was at least 50 foot. Tall and was lying on its pavement shredding stone belly, rocky scales and form were made of solid grey rock. Monstrous bulging white eyes shift disturbingly from the sides of the monstrous rock worm's fractured face. The stone beast screamed a dark cry.

Jagged jaws made entirely of silver stone were carved in 2 rows of barbarically razor sharp rock fangs. The monster's fat stone sides were lined with white rocky spider like legs, enabling the rock beast to crawl faster. The final puzzle piece to add to this creature's dark and disturbingly, destructive form was a singular, incredibly long, jagged, silver beetle like horn. The horn curved perfectly at the top for optimum sharpness, just like a dagger.

The monstrous worm creature roared, drilling through the crumbling pounds of pavement shuddering beneath his mammoth megaton muscle. Upon the stone worm's back and just near the silver horn, was a familiar figure. He was draped in a dark silver cloak, blocking his strands of white hair, pale features, and ice cold blue eyes. Ghost has indeed come back from the dead. The dark rider rode his wicked creation laughing a murderous maniacal cry.

"READY OR NOT HERE I COME"!

To be continued......