Author's Note: First off, I am terribly sorry for the lateness of this story, as writer's block hit and focusing on my Sonic fanfics(which I want to get back to as well as another crossover I'm working on), plus the internet having gone all crazy and such prevented me from finishing this.
Secondly, realizing that the year is almost offically over with less than two months to go, I had to at least try and finish this once and for all. Or get in another chapter before the end of 2022, lol. *Sweat drops sheepishly*
But finally, a new chapter is posted as we which the climax! Let's go!
I don't own anything here except for my OCs. All rights belong to Toei/Naoko Takeuchi, Clamp, Pokemon Company, Dreamworks, Blue Sky Studios, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Square Enix, Sega, and Nickelodeon.
Chapter 8: Last Minute Hope.
After the failed attempt to convince Shangri Llama to use Geotopia's Crystals to try and divert the incoming Asteroid, it seemed now the Guardians of Light and all of their friends and allies have lost all hope in saving the worlds with no other way of destroying the giant rock of darkness. Feeling that their doom is upon them all and their future set to be erased in place for endless void, Serena and most of her family and friends retreated to one part of the peaceful beautiful land within the downed Asteroid, seated around all gloom and helpless.
The only ones not present were Buck who had gone off alone, very possibly to hide his guilt from his friends he felt he let down, but even with his near-insanity, nobody was fooled, nor did they blame him for trying his best, and Sid who had gone off to get the last minute romance of Brooke who even she felt Shangri Llama let her and everybody else down.
"I knew coming here was a waste of time." Jessie grumbled, her arms folded in annoyance and hopelessness.
"All this way for nothing and we'll be the first to go." James was slumped, sitting on a rock, as though he was just about ready to give up and accept their doom.
"So much for saving the Realm of Light from darkness if Xehanort got what he wanted even though he ain't around no more." Meowth sighed, shaking his head as he looked at the ceiling with the current and most deadliest asteroid coming straight towards them.
Most of them lowered their gazes, with some of the young women already in tears. Lita especially was one of the most upset, crying in Brock's arms as her fiancee, despite wanting to get married and that at least they would be together in their final moments, felt the same heartache.
All this time planning and now their wedding will never happen. It was as if darkness would prevail and light expire after all.
"Maybe it would've been better off if Xehanort did win and create a new world." Donkey sighed, his ears drooped. He didn't want to die, but the way things were now, it seemed the future of Crystal Tokyo and even the 40th Century were never meant to be. "He might've done something better to stop the asteroid than us."
"Donkey!" Shrek hissed, glaring at his annoying talking mule friend, even though as much as he hated to admit it, he had a point.
Ven grunted in frustration, kicking the dirt, furious over selfishness this place's ruler had. "Stupid Shangri Llama! He's about to die along with us and all he cares about is his...his stupid immortality!"
"I don't understand." Mickey muttered, shaking his head in dismay, the unbearable guilt for not having known this and even with Buck's knowledge of finding the tablet, it had already been far too late. "Did we really just end up driving back the darkness and lose everything in the end?"
"With no time and no method, we were too late to see this coming." Vincent, who leaned against a crystal with his arms folded, his expression grim, voiced the King's thoughts.
Ash sighed, his hands on his hips with Pikachu and the other Pokemon slumped, with one solution forming in his mind. "I guess there's no choice anymore but to change history again and have enough to time figure out how to stop the asteroid."
But the mouse Keyblade Master shook his head firmly, rejecting the idea. "No, if we do that, and if you, Serena, and Sakura use the Power of Waking one more time, you really might not come home to us again! And Sora doesn't have it anymore either!"
"Mickey, if we don't do this, then everybody will die. It's only our only hope left." The twelve year old Pokemon-Keyblade Master pointed out.
"How does the Power of Waking or whatever it is work, anyway?" Reno asked, shrugging cluelessly. Because as far as he could tell, time-travel and changing history, as scary as it sounded considering, may be the only option they really do have left.
"It has the power to awaken sleeping or lost hearts." Aqua spoke up, before shaking her head grimly. "But it's truly meant to awaken worlds through people's hearts, not the other way around."
At the confusion of the Turks, Rufus, Zack and even Genesis while Team Rocket shared uneasy glances, Serena, feeling the most fault of all of this, her heart filled with absolute sorrow and guilt, explained. "When Darkrai put all of us in the Nightmare Realm to prevent everything Ash saw in the Dimensional Scream, the two of us, Sora and Sakura had to save everyone's hearts and wake them up before they ended up losing them for real, but we abused that power and did it the wrong way."
She paused for moment, before continuing with tears in her eyes and throat. "The more we did that, the more we ended up taking the risk of losing our hearts forever. Kairi and Darien kept us alive while Ash and Pikachu's bond and Sakura's bond with a close friend kept them from fading away. That's why when Cosmos brought Kairi and Darien to the Final World from the Nightmare Realm that Xehanort put them in before confronting us, I gave up my Eternal Form, Sora gave up his Power of Waking, Sakura gave up the Barrier Spell that kept her powers in check, and Ash giving up his Dimensional Scream, so that we can rescue Kairi and Darien and saying alive ourselves."
Unable to hold onto the false hope and knowing she and her friends had only three months of peace before their ultimate doom, Serena placed a hand to her face even as Darien attempted to comfort her, and both Rini and Lusie, crying so hard that they would both disappear forever, this time permanently.
"But now I know it was a stupid mistake. If I had been faster, Xemnas wouldn't have taken Darien and Kairi. Maybe even Galaxia would still be alive and we all could've used my Eternal Form to stop the asteriod." Serena shook her head, silently weeping. "It's all my fault. I'm not strong enough."
"No..." Sora shook his head, memories of the War coming back as the guilt of failing to safe Kairi came back to him at full force. "It's my fault. I should've paid more attention. I'm sorry."
"That's not true!" Kairi tearfully protested, getting up from her seat as she raced over to her boyfriend. "None of you have anything to do with it! If anything, it's my fault for not being as strong I should have been. It's my fault that you had to risk your lives for me and Darien..." Sobbing by now, she hugged Sora and cried on his shoulder. "But even in the end of the world, I'm not leaving any of you behind."
"Kairi..." The Spiky-haired teen whispered, rendered to slow tears himself as he hugged his girlfriend back. "I wouldn't trade you for anything."
"Serena, it isn't your fault." Darien whispered as comforting as he could, embracing his wife who had once again misplaced guilt upon herself. "We will figure something out. We always do."
This only had the Moon Princess gaze at her husband, with a sad smile before she returned the much needed embrace, while everyone else shared sorrowful glances with Shrek and Fiona, Manny and Ellie, and even Diego and Shira sharing embracing of their own.
"Wait a second." Jessie held up a hand, as she realized something didn't add up with what happened. "Cosmos bringing the Heart Twerp and the Earthy-Prince Twerpy from the Nightmare Realm Xehanort put them in?"
"I thought Xehanort killed them both and the Sailor Twerp brought them back to life the same way the Silver Crystal brought the Herdy-Twerps did." Meowth blinked, just as confused as he and James came to the same conclusion.
"I guess we missed out on the truth, especially since Xehanort did blast us off to Midgar." James shrugged.
Genesis, not willing to give it all up, began to suggest. "There may be a way. However that would require-"
But before the former 1st SOLDIER could even begin what he had in mind, all of the sudden the entire place around them began to crack and before they knew it, within seconds the entire already fallen Asteroid broke apart and was completely destroyed, all of the crystals scattered everywhere and the once beautiful Sanctuary was now in ruins and everyone was outside, including the Geotopians, who wondered how in the world it even happened.
"Huh!?" Zack exclaimed in shock and disbelief.
"What in the world...?" Rufus murmured as he, the Turks and Team Rocket couldn't believe what just happened.
Serena and everybody else of the Guardians of Light on the other hand, and the Pirates, shocked at first which had those stop crying and calm down due to this, all groaned before somed of them ended up facepalming themselves in exasperation and in embarrassment. They knew exactly what caused this to suddenly happen.
"Great. Shangri Llama is going to like us now." Cloud remarked sarcastically.
"What the hell...?" Rude muttered, his eyes widening behind his sunglasses.
"Okay, what the hell just happened?" Reno asked, dumbstruck.
"Sid happened." Serena, Isa, Diego, Pintel, Ragetti, Raye, Lita, and Ash all replied with deadpanned expressions.
The group who had not been there during the Moon and Bhunivelze War stared at the Guardians and even Team Rocket who nodded in agreement in shock, before Elena demanded in disbelief. "Sid? But how did he destroy Geotopia?"
"Uh..." Kero began awkwardly. "Let's just say, he's the biggest accident prone in the Realm of Light's history."
""Accident"? More like a disaster prone." Misty deadpanned with a sweat drop.
"Better go and find him before he gets himself killed sooner than the asteroid does." Manny sighed in exasperation, lowering his head a little.
"Okay...?" Zack murmured, not sure what to make of this. He has heard of an accident prone and disasters in separate occasions. But for someone to cause disastrous accidents?
Wow...
Once the Guardians of Light and the others hurried to where their Ultimate Klutz-Form was, right there they saw the male sloth who realized far too late as he had taken a crystal in hopes of giving it to Brooke who had just asked him to be her mate for life in their final hours together. Unfortunately despite her gentle warnings, he took the one that was holding Geotopia up and now he had just destroyed it in just a few minutes...or seconds depending on how you look at it.
"Whoopsies...!" Sid cringed nervously, realizing what he has done. 'Uh-oh. I'm in trouble now.'
"No, no, no!" Shangri Llama, who had seen it all and raced up to see what happened, gasped in horror as he realized what just happened. In desperation, he quickly attempted to rebuild the wall by putting the crystals back together, but it was futile as they kept falling and weren't sticking together.
Now furious, he turned to the male sloth and shouted loudly, his earlier calmness and relaxation all but gone, replaced by a sudden appearance of a cranky, selfish and short-tempered Llama. "Oaf! Simpleton! Nincompoop!"
"Are you talking to her, or me?" The Sloth Member of the Sailor Team asked, confused as he pointed at Brooke then at himself.
"That wall was the one thing...keeping us young, now we're all doomed! DOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!" Shangri Llama screamed so loudly his voice echoed throughout the valley, making almost all of the rest of the Geotopians gasp in sheer horror as they all gathered. "And now I think I have a fever. Thank you so much, doofus!" He added in extreme sarcasm.
"Hey, easy there, Llama!" Brooke cried out, and while she was a bit angry herself, she already could tell that Sid really didn't do this on purpose and gently held her one true love's arm to his defense. "This is the doofus of my dreams. He meant well."
"Oh, he meant well..." The Llama leader mocked in a high-pitched voice, before shouting at the top of his lungs. "WHO CARES!?"
The Sailor Team and their friends gasped in shock upon seeing the Llama's real personality. He really was that selfish that he didn't even regard in Sid's actions as an accident prone(even though it really was his fault the place was now destroyed), and Brooke's understanding.
"So much for serenity." Lita whispered to Brock who looked just as uneasy.
"300 years of peace and harmony..." As Shangri Llama ranted on, to the Guardians' and their allies pure shock, he, as well as the rest of the Geotopians began to quickly age yet somehow managing to still be alive, becoming all grey and winkled, some even growing beards like Teddy who returned with Granny. "Undone by one COLOSSALLY, INCREDIBLY... STUPENDOUSLY STUPID SLOTH!"
Right before the heroes' eyes, the true age of the animals that lived this long was shown before them and when Sid gazed at Brooke, she had aged by at least 30 years which meant that she was the youngest one to ever come to live in Geotopia, yet her beautiful colours turned grey with a hint of light yellow.
"Oh, Brooke..." Sid murmured, his heart aching in seeing his one true love age. Worst part is, he is the cause of it in not just making the female sloth age, but also everybody else as well. Yet despite all this, even now, he thought that she still looked beautiful.
To his surprise, Brooke didn't seem to mind in aging quickly and instead she smiled softly in forgiveness. The only thing that ached her own heart was that she couldn't be with him despite how he mentioned to her a short time ago that he was actually dead for 20,000 years and along with Manny, Diego, Ellie, Crash and Eddie, had been revived by the Silver Crystal a couple years earlier.
Granny, noticing how Teddy aged that make him look the same as her, grumbled in sudden disinterest. "Wow, you guys got old. Whatever we had, it's over." With that, much to the blue bunny's horror and devastation, she waddled off.
"That's what happens when you date a cougar." Teddy sniffled to himself, tearing up as he now felt heartbroken for the sudden break up.
"Somehow, I don't think this is going to end very well." May remarked softly, slumping in sheer dismay with a sweat drop along with her brother who shared her expression.
"Trust Sid to mess something like this up." Max muttered with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah, I'll say." Casey agreed awkwardly.
"I'm very sorry, Mr. Llama." Sid said sincerely.
"Sorry? Sorry!? Ha ha ha ha ha!" Shangri Llama laughed sarcastically, before shouting again right at the sloth's face. "Sorry doesn't fix the wall, now does it, you little...!?" He then screamed and continued to have a childish tantrum. "I need a bubble bath or a massage. Who knows acupuncture? I need to let my anger out! LET IT OUT! I've been pent up too long. AAAAHHHHH! I want to hit something. Someone give me their face!"
"And they say I'm a drama queen..." Serena muttered in disbelief.
"I was actually thinking about Team Rocket." Ash digressed, awkwardly.
"Now what do we do? How can we fix this up and stop the Asteroid at the same time?" Sakura asked, worriedly.
All this time while this was going on, Buck, who had arrived to see what just happened yet still guilt-ridden for the loss of hope, noticed something behind the ranting and super annoying Llama. His eye widened in curiosity when he caught sight of the volcano inactive, then mentally calculated the number of crystals now lingering around the ground from the destroyed Geotopia. It was then that an idea formed in his crazy mind, with renewed hope surging since this was now the perfect opportunity to save the Realm of Light.
Crystals, Volcano...
"That's it!" The one-eyed Weasel exclaimed happily, getting everyone else's attentions which even made the Llama finally settle down. "Pent up energy!" He turned to his friends and allies, explaining. "One of the Realm of Light's most powerful propulsion device is right in front of us!"
"Who? Prince Whiner here?" Meowth asked, sarcastically, gesturing at Shangri Llama who just spat in annoyance.
'Move over.' Buck thought, shoving the useless Llama out of the way while the latter screamed. The Weasel gestured towards the mountain. "The Volcano! That's our magnet launcher." He quickly went up onto Shrek's shoulder and turned his head. "All we need to do is is seal the steam vents around it."
'Huh?' The Ogre thought, before seeing what the Dino-Hunter meant because at the base of the Volcano were multiple gysers spraying every few seconds. That made Shrek groan in disbelief. "Oh, come on. That's a crazy plan."
"You're a crazy plan!" Buck argued right at his face.
"That doesn't even make sense!"
"And what are you? The professor of logic? Professor of the University of Onion-Layered Skinned-Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak-" The Weasel questioned, poking at Shrek's skin which provoked the Ogre's temper.
Right to the point of Shrek giving out a big roar at Buck who stopped, before the latter then calmly explained once the former calmed down. "You see? Tremendous pressure leads to a tremendous explosion." He tapped the side of his head and scurried off.
Watching the insane weasel go off with a sigh, Shrek then noticed Jack who gave him a dry look, grumbling. "And you call yourself a professor." The Pirate then walked off.
'Great, I'm surrounded by a bunch of crazies.' Shrek thought to himself, then noticed both Reno and Rude stare at him rather nervously as neither of the men had seen the Ogre roar like that just by getting angry before.
"Whoa. Remind me to never get on your bad side, man." The red-haired Turk muttered, blankly.
Realizing this, the Ogre sighed and shrugged apologetically. "You're the second guy I accidentally scared this week." That only made the Turks share uneasy glances and decided not to question it.
"Right!" Buck announced, holding up a crystal as time was running out faster than a formula one race car driving on a race track. "We need all the crystals loaded into the volcano, pronto."
"What, no!" Shangri Llama objected, quickly gathering as many crystals as possible close to them greedily, crying out in despair. "I'm not giving you my crystals! We need them to rebuild our sanctuary."
This caused many of the Geotopians to began muttering in agreement and disagreements as they didn't know what else to do, making the Guardians of Light and their friends even more uneasy. Just when the group tried to figure out how to convince the peaceful community that it wouldn't matter either way, the unexpected voice of reason whistled loudly and it was none other than Brooke who had finally had enough of Shangri Llama's complete and utter nonsense, because unlike the rest of her people, she immediately knew and understood the importance of the heroes' reasons.
Not only that, she came to accept that with or without Geotopia, the Geotopians would die either way and she would rather die of old age than all of the worlds being destroyed. Losing immortality was a small price to pay and she was more than willing to give it up for those in need.
"May I remind you that Geotopia is not yours to keep?" The female sloth sternly spoke up.
"No, you may not!" Shangri Llama sternly said back, but he was ignored.
"It came from the sky, and now it's time to give it back."
"Is not!"
"Is too, you old coot!" Brooke argued, storming up to the selfish leader she no longer had any respect for, turning to everyone else. "Change isn't easy, but it's part of life. It's time for us to embrace it again, whether you like it...or not."
The more she spoke, the more the Guardians were amazed and very impressed and grateful for her strong words of wisdom, kindness, understanding, and willing to embrace in giving up Geotopia for the Realm of Light's sake. This renewed everybody else's hopes, especially the Sailor Team's as they and their friends and family shared relieved smiles. Things were suddenly looking up at last and their beckon of hope was not only Buck or the Silver Crystal, but now Brooke.
She spoke of a true leader, and possibly a Guardian of Light.
"Not!" Shangri Llama refused in a sing-song tone.
"Listen, Llama!" Brooke snapped, glaring at him. "I will go nuts and granola on your butt. So either get on board, or go twist yourself into a pretzel and na-ma-stay out of our way." She then took a crystal and announced. "Come on, everybody. Grab as many crystals as you can."
Now knowing that Buck's plan and Brooke's wisdom was their true last hope, the Guardians, their friends and the rest of the Geotopians, who all realized that the female sloth was right, nodded before they all hurried to collect the crystals and begin their final preparation in saving the Realm of Light, with Serena, Amy, Raye, Lita, Mina, Rini, Lusie, Tiffenie, Luna, Amelia, Megan, Emily, and Kristan all transforming into Sailor Scouts for the next phase, and both Serena, now as Sailor Moon, and Sakura summoning their Staffs and Keyblades.
"I really like her." Ragetti muttered happily to Pintel who nodded in agreement.
"S'e s'oud've been 'e real leader." The shorter pirate agreed, before he and his doofus friend and partner in crime hurried to help in collecting the crystals to put into the volcano...and maybe keep some of the spares to secretly sell off since these were very valueable.
Because hey, they're pirates and most pirates love things that are shiny and rare, right?
"And remember," Brooke added, glancing over her shoulder to Teddy. "Lift your legs."
Crack!
Unfortunately, due to not being used to his old body, Teddy ended up bending to pick up a heavy crystal and bent his back badly. He winced in agony. "...Too late...Owh..."
Few minutes later, the group of many sides began formating a plan as Buck, now acting as a general with a turtle's shell on his head worn like a military soldier's helmet, and holding a stick, explained. "Listen up, planetary defense team: Step 1: Build pressure inside the volcano by sealing the vents. No steam can escape. If there's a leak, the pressure is weak."
The Guardians of Light, the Shinra Inc., and the Geotopians did so, blocking the geysers with many rocks big and small as possible. Ellie, Sora, Kairi, Aqua, Mickey, Ash, and Sakura jumped, leaped, flew and swung rope and vines around a large boulder, pulling hard as it fell onto a trail of gysers, sealing them up. Once that was done, a plume of smoke broke out from the Volcano which shook the ground slightly.
"Step 2: Get the biggest magnetic crystals into the volcano. They've got to be launched sky high to pull the asteroid off course. Step 3: When it's launched and just about to escape the atsmosphere, Sailor Moon and everyone with magic will combine their powers and the Silver Crystal to oblierate it." Buck continued, explaining the plan.
With that, the group began carrying many large crystals as possible, walking up the mountain to throw into the Volcano itself. Zack, Terra, and some of the Geotopians tossed and tied ropes around a giant crystal that had to be pulled by teamwork, began dragging it across a stone bridge.
"Heave!" Zack chanted.
"Ho!" Terra and the Geotopians chanted.
"Heave!"
"Ho!"
The only ones not helping besides Shangri Llama who was still sulking over the loss of 300 years of immortality, were Crash and Eddie who were both on a small cliff, once again acting as cheerleaders, chanting. "~Rah, rah! Sis boom bah! Tell the asteriod "Uh-uh~"
"Hastag Asteroid of Dark!" Eddie chanted.
"Hastag-What does Hastag mean?" Crash asked as he cheered with his brother.
"Hastag, I don't know but it sounds cool!"
"Hastag totally!"
"Hastag-I'm getting sick of it." The brown-eyed Possum then walked off, making his blue-eyed brother slump over.
'We're almost there. We nearly lost but finally we'll be able to save the Realm of Light again.' Sailor Moon thought as she carried a large crystal, heavy as it was, in her arms. She then sweat dropped awkwardly to herself. "Who would've thought that Sid's clumsiness would actually help in saving the worlds this time?"
"This is it, everyone. Down the hatch. Every crystal counts." Brooke informed once she and the first row of the carriers reached the summit, before they all dropped every single gem into the volcano, covering up the lava and filling it up.
As they did, the ground shook which began to react. While Buck watched, he then carefully calculated the Asteroid and found that they still had time, much to his relief. "Good news, everyone! We're six minutes ahead of schedule!"
The crowd then began to cheer in relief, meaning that they were almost there and by the time the Asteroid of Darkness reached them, they would have already finished.
"Somebody up there likes us." The Weasel grinned, his hands on his hips while posing heroically.
Unfortunately, things were about to change quickly because unbeknownst to them all, there was one unseen enemy who was determined to ensure their doom was valid. Because watching the whole thing was the mysterious Ascian who hissed angrily upon the heroes' progress.
"He is a dangerous threat. There is no more time left." The dark cloaked figure growled, knowing that Buck is indeed a new true Guardian of Light. Knowing what needs to be done, the Ascian used his powers to change the views to once again spy on Scrat who was preparing the UFO, after finally getting his Acorn back and figuring out how to fly it, to head back to the Fairytale World.
Even though the Ice Age squirrel has been with the new Warriors for the last year, the evil being ultimately decided to make a last desperate attempt to end the enemies who will no doubt be a new obstacle to the plans.
"You must be our hope to destroy the Warriors of Light."
With the squirrel unaware of what was about to happen, the Ascian waved his hand silently chanting a dark spell which covered the UFO under his brief command.
Seat belt? Check. Acorn in the...whatever the steering wheel thingy is called? Check. Mask glasses or whatever? Check.
Scrat had finally managed to get his Acorn back and adjusted the UFO somehow while avoiding in becoming dinner of the angry giant green Pokemon, and now had was straping himself in while putting own the glasses in front of his eyes. He had also learned how to pilot the thing even though he can't read, but the buttons were easy-ish enough.
Activating the boost controls, and...
As the squirrel pushed several buttons, he grasped his Acorn before pulling it towards him.
Here we GO!
Now at full speed to make a safe trip back to the Fairy-Tale World, the alien space ship was flying at full throttle, and he relaxed while steering it with one paw and if one could see him, you would think that he was like a cool gangster with a sleeky sports car.
But as he neared his second home planet for the first time in days, ready to breathe in the world's fresh air and touch the soil and snow and whatever else once again, Scrat's ship was, unbeknownst to him, covered in the Ascian's summoned darkness which gave out an aura and suddenly the craft began to speed out of control, swishing and swaying a little bit...and when he lifted the glasses up to see where he was going, to his horror he was about to head right into the Asteroid!
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Scrat screamed, panicking.
Oh no! Not that big rock again!
Clang!
The moment the alien ship hit the Asteroid, not only was it and Scrat spinning backwards and sent far away from the three planets once again, but the force of the impact pushed the rock of darkness a few inches closer towards the Fairy-Tale World, and making the impact countdown shorter.
Seeing the success of his work, the Ascian chuckled evilly as he know believed that soon everything related to light will expire forever and darkness will be dorment.
"There is no escape this time, Warriors of Light." He declared darkly with a wicked grin, using his powers to watch the upcoming doom to Sailor Moon and all of her friends and family.
Fully unaware of what really happened, as Buck made a double check on how things were going, suddenly the ball of fire light grew a couple inches bigger which meant, to his dismay, the Asteroid somehow got even closer.
Gasping in horror, the weasel frantically turned to the crow below, half-screaming. "Bad news! Somebody up there doesn't like us! We're six minutes behind schedule!"
"What!?" Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts, Ash, Sakura, Sora and Mickey exclaimed in horror while everybody else gasped in dismay, wondering how it happened so quickly and that time was really running out.
It has now become a race to beat the clock!
"Double time, everyone!" Manny instructed quickly, taking the lead to get the last of the crystals.
"Let's go! Hurry!" Sailor Moon ordered, as she, Cloud, Sailor Jupiter, Mickey, Sora, Sakura, Shrek and Manny hurried to help Zack's group to pull the giant crystal across the bridge.
"Heya, guys." The raven-spiky-haired swordsman greeted, pulling really hard, just as he and Terra saw Sailor Moon's small group take hold of the rope to help make the job go faster.
But as they did, they were forced to stop when shadows of something large and flying crossed over them, making the Guardians and the Geotopians look up. Their eyes widened in horror when they saw three giant red-feathered dinosaur birds, Gavin, Gertie and the reluctant Roger closing in on them. The former two leered at the heroes and took a dive.
"Look out!" Sakura screamed, before she and everybody else quickly ran to safety but were forced to abandon the crystal. To their dismay Gertie crushed into the stone bridge which crumbled into pieces and caused the final piece to fall into a small ditch below.
"Oh no!" Mickey cried out in horror, peering over the edge of the cliff with the others before looking up and saw their enemies finally make their full pressence. It was without the doubt the very same ones that Buck fought a few days ago and now were not only looking for revenge, but also were preventing them from saving the Realm of Light.
"The Dino Birds!" Sora exclaimed, narrowing his eyes and gritting his teeth. Of all the lousy times for those guys to show up, it had to be now!? What were they thinking!?
Without much choice even with the time limited, he, Sailor Moon and the rest of Keybearers quickly summoned their weapons to try and at least slow their enemies down while hoping to figure out a way to get the crystal into the volcano or else all worlds were doomed.
"Not good!" Jack gulped, nervously upon seeing the over-grown birds again.
"We've got company!" Lea hissed, shouldering his Keyblade and ready to fight with Roxas, Xion and Isa by his side.
"Ooh! I'll put out the sponge cake." Granny, as usual not realizing the dangers, waddled off much to the embarrassment of the Sea-Salt group who sweat dropped in sheer irritation.
"Mercury Splash!" Sailor Mercury quickly chanted her attack hoping to soak and distract the dinosaurs.
"Mega Mars Fire Flash!" Sailor Mars flared out her flames, aiming not to harm the creatures but to get them to leave as quickly as possible.
"Magic-Dust Mist!" Sailor Magic-Dust spin her hand to launch her attack.
But even with the attacks from them and even Sailor Jupiter, Sailor Ultra, Sailor Passionate, Sailor Mini Moon, Future-Mini Moon, Sailor Venus, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Aqua, Ven, and even the Pokemon with Future-Piplup using Hydro Pump, Chimchar using Flamethrower, Grovyle and Sceptile using Bullet Seed, and Dusknoir using Dark Pulse attack, to their and everyone else's shock the Dino Birds quickly proved to be fast and swift by avoiding the attacks, even as the heroes attempted to jump and attack with all of their skills that even Vincent and Tifa were unable to reach them or attack at all.
Gavin smirked before he and his daughter gave out their own Gust Attack despite not being Pokemon, and forced those who attempted to fight them back. They all screamed. Donald attempted to use his magic while Goofy was about to toss his shield, the Turks making to charge.
"Go, Serviper!" Jessie shouted, tossing her Pokeball while letting out her snake Pokemon.
"Carnivine, use Bullet Seed!" James ordered while tossing his Pokeball as well.
"Corsula, Spike Cannon!" Misty ordered, already having called out her Pokemon.
"Charizard, Dragon Claw!" Alain commanded, releasing his old time friend and partner from it's Pokeball.
But even with the said Pokemon released, they too were forced back when Gertie knocked them, their trainers, the white mage, the knight, and the rest of the Turks back, screaming before landing hard on the ground. They all grunted in pain while Team Rocket were comically hit and rolled down the hill and hit the wall of the mountain face-first, leaving an imprint of their bodies as they slid off and seeing stars and miniature Torchics circle their heads in their vision.
Genesis was about to summon his wing to give out a battle, and unleash his powers, but not even the Crimson Swordsman was fast enough shockingly, and with a cry of agony when Gertie attacked him, he hit the ground hard, wincing as he was, unfortunately, not in good shape after the last battle and being asleep for a little over a year.
"Guys, no!" Sailor Moon screamed out in dismay, seeing her friends and former enemies hurt.
Ash, horrified by how they were already losing the battle against Dino Birds that were catching them off-guard, narrowed his eyes before telling Pikachu. "Pikachu, try a Thunderbolt!"
Nodding, Pikachu unleashed his attack, but Gertie dodged with an evil grin on her face, making the small Pokemon and his human best friend to glare back angrily before dodging her attack as well. While the panicking Geotopians ran for their lives in fear of getting eaten, the best friend duo hurried over to Buck who decided to try his luck to join the battle. He, the Pokemon Master and Pikachu quickly went up on another rock with the Weasel using a sling-shot, taking aim at the female Dinobird, while Ash held out his Keyblade to launch his and Pikachu's Double-Thunder Spell.
"Steady...Steady..." Buck counted down.
Rena, recovering from the attack while painfully pushing herself up, gasped in horror when she saw Roger about to attack the concentrating trio before screaming out. "Ash!"
"Huh!?" The twelve year old boy gaped, turning and saw who was coming. He gasped in shock and made to move both Pikachu and Buck out of the way. "Look out!"
But it was too late, as all three of them were hit and captured by the youngest Dino Bird who grasped them tightly in his claws before pinning them on a higher rock format and preventing their escape.
"H-hey! Let us go!" Ash grunted, struggling along side his two friends to try and free themselves but it was no use.
"Sorry about this, human-kid." Roger, feeling his chest grow heavy in guilt, responded as he rubbed the back of his neck, looking away in shame while his three captives looked on in shock and dismay. "I'm really conflicted right now."
Down below, Sailor Moon and the rest of the group gasped in horror to see three of their friends captured. But as she narrowed her eyes and was about to bring out her Moon-Fly Card to rescue them, without warning Gavin, who recognizing her as the girl who revived Zack and thus was just as a potential threat, flew in and bashed her from the side.
"AGH!" The Moon Princess screamed in pain, flown straight towards Mickey, Sora, Manny, Shrek, Cloud, Zack, Riku and Sakura who, gasping in horror, were about to help but were knocked over and hit the ground hard.
With all of their enemies unable to help in time, Gavin, satisfied along side Gertie, landed behind his son and praised. "That's more like it, Roger. Now finish him, and the human kid and his Pikachu!"
"Wait, wait! You don't understand!" Buck cried out, panicking as he held up his hands, before pointing at the Asteroid urgently. "You see that? If that asteroid hits, we all die."
"And so will everybody else in the Realm of Light!" Ash added, glaring angrily at the Dino-Birds, while admittedly shocked that there were actually dinosaurs that could communicate in the same language as almost everybody else.
""If it hits, we all die and all worlds are destroyed."" Gavin mocked back however, pretending to cry before laughing manically at the captured prey. "That's where you and the weasel are wrong, human! There are no other worlds outside this one! See, while you run for your mammal, human, Fairy-Tale and Pokemon lives, we'll be high in the sky, cruising above it all."
This horrified Ash and his friends, as the young trainer snapped shocked. "You've gotta be kidding me!"
"Pika!" Pikachu added.
Buck stared back in horrified dismay, while inside his brain, watching the whole thing through his remaining eye and hearing through his ears, Neil DeBuck Weasel and the other two versions of Buck were dumbfounded over this.
"The kid's right. That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard!" Neil DeBuck Weasel agreed incredulously.
Back in the real world, Gavin continued while gesturing at the flock of birds flying to escape the dangers. "We'll be as safe as those little birdies."
Yet the Dino-Bird spoke too soon, because flaming meteorites hit one and burning it up while it let out a pained and terrified squawk.
"Lucky." Gavin lamented.
Several more hit the other birds who squawked away like chickens.
"Very lucky shot...?" He added, now getting extremely nervous at just how easy it was to get hit even in the sky, thinking to himself. 'Oookay, maybe there's a few set backs in all of this...I hope.'
Then more meteors coming from the Asteroid hit the ground dangerously close to the mountain and rocked the ground, making everyone almost lose their balance and suddenly Gavin and even an increasingly worried Gertie's confidence for survival were growing slimmer and slimmer by the second, wondering if maybe there is no survival after all.
In fact, the only one out of the trio who had known all along was Roger who, seeing this made him realize how true his fears were.
"I knew it! I was right! There's no paradise!" The youngest Dino-Bird half-yelled angrily at his family.
"What!?" Gertie screamed, terrified that her fears were confirmed. "I'm too young to go extinct! WAAAAHHHH!" She then ran around screaming in panic.
"She gets it!" Buck shrugged, panicking as his heart raced. While he knew that the Dino-Birds were all out to kill him and he blamed himself for having led them unknowingly to stop saving the Realm of Light, he was more than willing to beg for their help and stop their rivarly. "Now please! We haven't got much time!"
The more Roger listened Buck's pleads, and that the reason he interfered those days ago was more than just showing off: The Weasel had taken upon himself to be the defender of all vegetarian dinosaurs, and given his intelligence and his strong friendship with the humans, surface creatures and even the worlds, the more the young Dino-Bird realized that they all understood what he knew all this time.
It was the love for friends and family, and seeing the Guardians work together as a team out of Love, and willing to help others, that had them made it this far...now it was his turn to convince his father and older sister to do the same, for the sake of not just the future of their enemies, but for their own survival as well. He has had enough of being the villain, and this time he was going to do what his heart was telling him to do.
"What are you waiting for? Kill them!" Gavin shouted impatiently despite the upcoming doom.
"No, Dad!" Roger declared, letting go of Buck, Ash and Pikachu who slumped, panting at the close call and leaned back a little worriedly, watching as the youngest Dino-Bird finally found the courage to stand up to his father, spreading his wings out to protect the trio. "I won't let you!"
'What?' Gavin thought to himself, shocked at his son's disobedience.
Then his son confessed and pleaded sincerely. "Do you want to know what I love about our family? That we're alive. There are more important things than your pride right now. If you care about us, you should not kill him or his friends. You should help them, Dad!"
These words and the sincere tone in Roger's voice caught the elder Dino-Bird off-guard, never having heard his youngest child be so serious yet realistic with compassion and love before. And as much as he hated to admit it, but...he really did love his children, especially from the day they hatched and with the passing of their mother, he took it upon himself to be the responsible parent and trained them. Yet his pride did, much as he hated to admit it, but his pride did get the better of him more times than he could count.
"Pop, I hate to say this, but my freaky little brother may be right." Gertie agreed pleadingly, struggling hard not to cry as she too realized the terrible mistake they all made.
"We're all different on the outside, but deep inside we all have hearts and souls, and everybody cares for one another." Ash spoke up, as he and his two friends stood up, having been surprisingly touched by Roger's courage, compassion and determination. When the Dino-Birds turned to him, the twelve year old continued with his own determination and deep courage. "Another disaster almost destroyed that five months ago, and most wouldn't even know it. The Sailor Team and the Guardians of Light protect the Realm of Light and everybody in it, even everyone we never met but are still worth in saving. Even all three of you!"
"Pikachu, Pikachu, Pika Pi! Pikachu!" Pikachu added in agreement.
Finally, Buck agreed boldly, while gesturing at his 'adopted daughter'. "As a father, I would work with my worst enemy, to ensure a brighter future for my little one."
Despite the grudge he had against the Weasel, Gavin felt deep inside his chest that his children and enemies were right. He made the mistake to try and stop them under the false belief the flyers would survive when in reality no one will. And now the Guardians and his own kids were willing to put aside their differences to work together to save the Realm of Light itself.
It was then he made the decision.
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go get that crystal thing!" Gavin declared, much to the surprise of the group, before turning to his son with, for the first time Roger had seen in his life, a warm and encouraging smile. "You take the lead, son."
Roger's eyes widened in shock, before he turned to Ash when the latter, sensing the good in him, placed a hand onto his back and the young master gave him an encouraging smile and thumbs up. "You got that whole hero and leadership in you already. You can do it!"
"Pika, Pikachu!" Pikachu added, his right hand in the air in agreement.
Stunned by the praise by strangers who already forgiven him, and knowing that deep inside they were right, Roger felt more courage surge inside him for the first time in his life. So he nodded.
Recovering from their injuries, Sailor Moon's group climbed up the rocks to try and save their three friends, but as they neared the top, to their surprise the three Dino-Birds flew over them. Startled, they looked behind and their widened when they saw not only Buck being carefully carried in one of Roger's claws instead of being held captive, but both Ash and Pikachu were now riding on Gavin's back.
"Genesis's not the only working on atonement!" Ash reassured confidently, as he and Buck both gave their friends a reassuring salute.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu added, with the three Dino-Birds now not longer hostile. This made the heroes smile in relief and surprise, realizing that things are turning out alright and the dinosaurs now understand the concept of their mission.
Once the flying group reached the crystal, Gavin, Gertie and Roger grabbed hold of the vines and began carrying the giant crystal from the ditch, with the father of the trio encouraging his son. "All right, Roger. Lead the way."
Nodding, the youngest of the trio took the lead as he and his family, and rivals lifted the crystal to the summit, with Buck mimicking helicopter and crane noises pretending to be a pilot, and soon everyone down below began cheering for the dinosaurs' redemption, relieved that they still had enough time to set things right. Jack, Barbossa, Gibbs, and their crew were speechless and dumbfounded with the younger Captain and his First Mate sharing bewildered glances.
Genesis on the other hand, understood and smiled softly. "Excellent work." He ultimately knew without a doubt that Sailor Moon's heart can touch anybody's and theirs in turn can touch others.
The great power of light, love and friendship is unstoppable.
"Oh! So that's what approval sounds like." Roger remarked, amazed as nobody has praised or cheered on to him before.
"Keep it up, dinos! Use that jurassic super strength!" Buck encouraged, as they got closer and closer.
Sailor Moon, Shrek, Cloud, Sailor Jupiter, Sora, Zack and Manny are now on the edge of the volcano waiting, and as Buck made beeping noises with the Dino-Birds carefully maneuvering the giant crystal, the group below grabbed hold of the vines to help lower it. However, Pikachu sensed movement from above and looked up in alarm, crying out.
"Pika!?" Pikachu screamed.
"Huh?" Ash, noticing his best friend's alarm, looked over his shoulder and gasped in horror when he saw that another meteorite was coming straight towards them before screaming out. "Gavin!"
Hearing the human boy's cries, Gavin looked to see what was wrong and gasped with his eyes widening, before quickly flying in front of his family shouting. "Watch out, kids!"
But even as he did while Ash quickly summoned his Keyblade again to summon a Barrier Spell, the force of the smaller but still dangerous rock shoved all of them back and lost altitude, as well as their grip on the giant crystal which made Sailor Moon's group to lose their grip and it landed just inches too far from the edge of the volcano's summit, much to their horror. Ash's group fell rapidly screaming, which everyone else noticed and gasped.
"They're falling!" Donkey screamed out frantically.
"Oh no! Look out!" Madison shouted, horrified.
"Team Rocket-Turks to the rescue!" Jessie, James and Meowth chorused, quickly speeding down leaving a trail of dust and snow towards where their former enemies would crash, pulling out a large sheet out of nowhere and held it out, moving about frantically hoping to save Ash and the others.
"This way, this way!" Jessie screamed out.
"Over here, twerps! Over here, over here!" James shouted, praying for a miracle.
"Land in the blanke-OW!" Meowth was cut off when while Ash, Pikachu, Buck, Gavin, Gertie and Roger did land...
Crash!
They landed right on top of Team Rocket and ended up all tangled and piled on top of one another with vines making it awkward to get out. The heroes and former villains all groaned painfully with Buck having tied up, and poor Meowth being the very bottom as usual, he, his two human friends, Ash and Pikachu having swirls in their eyes.
"The Guardians have landed..." Buck groaned half-sarcastically.
"...On top of the Turks." Ash added, as he half-realized what just happened.
Horrified as the Crystal was now beginning to slowly slide away, Sailor Moon and her group now had to race against time once again. She narrowed her eyes when Shrek, Manny, Genesis who, seeing this, flew in, Cloud and Sailor Jupiter hurried to try and push it back up.
"We'll push the Crystal in! You guys head to Aerith and Kairi!" The Moon Princess instructed Sora, and Zack before quickly hurrying to help the others. But the two spiky-haired warriors could only watch in horror before sharing a glance and shared a determined nod, running after her. By this time she joined the rest of the group to try and push the heavy giant crystal yet knowing she needed her strength so she couldn't use the Power Card to help her.
"No! We're not leaving you!" Sora protested, his eyes narrowed as well.
"We'll do this together!" Zack added, refusing to leave his friends behind, both his best friend and the rest of the group who, startled that he and the sixteen year old decided to stay, quickly accepted their compassion and courage, before all eight of them pushed and shoved as hard as they could.
Lower down, the rest of the Guardians, their allies and the Geotopians were unable to see where their friends were and began to hurry, the sky turning darker with night falling, the Asteroid of Darkness falling closer, the quakes becoming more violent at every second and they were all getting anxious and terrified that they may not be able to survive after all.
"Where are they!?" Kairi cried out, worriedly. She hoped that her boyfriend and the others were alright.
The ground shock violently again which made them almost lose their balance, almost crying out in fear and alarm.
"Sakura! Your Majesty! We have to get everybody off the volcano!" Brock instructed as he knew that it was getting far too dangerous now.
"Okay!" Sakura nodded.
"Hurry!" Mickey added as he and the young Cardcaptor quickly began leading everybody else to safety with the aid of the Sailor Scouts, and the Turks, Diego and Shira.
All except Granny who stood cluelessly on another ledge while everyone on the lower path began to evacuate to the safer grounds. "Folks, I'm outta cake, but I got salami!"
"Faster everyone! FASTER!" Elena shouted an order to everyone, but sadly her words ended up making the old sloth misunderstand.
"I'mouttacakebutIgotsalami!" Sid's Grandma said faster, much to the rest of the heroes' irritation.
"Come on, Grandma!" Reno grunted in annoyance as he noticed the sloth, before picking her up and hurried to catch up to his friends, superiors and former enemies.
Back up on the volcano with snow turning into a mini-blizzard, Sailor Moon and her group continue to struggle to push the giant crystal, and despite their best efforts, not even Manny or Shrek's strengths were enough to even push the gem forward as it kept on sliding down with them.
"Harder...!" Genesis grunted, straining at even using his strength that wasn't helping much at all.
"We're trying...!" Sailor Moon strained and struggled, her arms shaking and sweat forming on her face along with the others.
"Move, you stupid piece of rock! Move FORWARD!" Sailor Jupiter grunted, pushing as hard as she could.
"This isn't working!" Manny grunted, unable to use anymore of his strength despite being one of the larger members of the Sailor Team and Guardians of Light.
"Don't give up, guys!" Sora encouraged, despite that their chances were getting more and more slim by the second.
While Zack struggled as well, trying to figure out another way to get the crystal into the Volcano, he noticed something at the corner of eye and saw a rock formed slope leading down into a curve heading up into the sky, before an idea formed in his mind. Remembering the similar thing in the now destroyed Geotopia, that's when for the first time in his two lives, he used his mind to think carefully.
"The angle...that's it!" The former 1st Class SOLDIER exclaimed, before informing the group. "Guys! I have an idea! We have to let the crystal go!"
"Huh!?" Sailor Moon and most of the others gaped in shock. What was Zack thinking?
"You know we're trying to get it in the volcano, right?" Shrek questioned, not realizing what the younger man had in mind.
"Look, I might not be a hero and it's been my dream to be one, but right now I wanna help all of you guys! Friends of Cloud and Aerith are my friends too! You really think I'd waste the only third chance I have left?" The raven-haired swordsman explained almost pleadingly, with the look in his sky-blue eyes silently telling them to trust him.
"Zack..." Cloud softly murmured, realizing what his best friend had in mind. For years he blamed himself for Zack's death and slumber but learned to move on. Now he understood that despite his own heart-ache, Zack was indeed the hero, his hero.
Many times before, Zack had risked his life and even sacrificed himself out of deep friendship to save the blond-spiky-haired man's, having encouraged him to keep moving forward and live out both their lives. It hadn't been easy, and now with the older man back, the one who had secretly been like an older brother he never had, but in the end thanks to the rest of his friends he did. Plus Zack knew what he was going and never once he failed them.
Sailor Moon, Sora, Sailor Jupiter, Genesis, Shrek and Manny lowered their gazes, realizing that Zack was right and that this may be their only shot left. They had to trust him, no matter what. Sharing a glance, they and Cloud nodded.
"Let do it!" Sailor Moon agreed firmly.
"On my count!" Zack nodded. "One...two...THREE!"
Hesitating a little, the group then quickly moved away from the crystal and letting it slide. But then Sailor Moon and her friends, following Zack's lead, pushed and rolled it towards the slope to their right as everyone else saw what was going on and their eyes widened in shock.
"What are they doing!?" Shira demanded, thinking the others were crazy.
Lea, noticing the slope, realized the answer and his eyes widened in surprise. "I think they found another way to put the crystal into the volcano!"
Just as the sixteen year old girl and the others managed to maneuver the crystal, it rolled down in rapid speed that was more than enough to make it go flying high in the loop into the air, soaring above them and straight back up to the ledge of the volcano. Everyone gasped in anticipation.
"Come on, work...!" Zack pleaded, gritting his teeth.
To their relief, the giant crystal lost it's balance and rather than sliding backwards as they feared, it fell straight into the volcano's it and landed in a crush, covering up the last of the lava and smoke.
"It worked!" Sailor Moon cheered happily, jumping up and down before sharing a high-five with Sailor Jupiter who cheered on.
"All right!" Sora celebrated.
"Yes!" Manny shouted happily.
"Zack, your idea worked." Cloud remarked in sheer relief.
"Nice thinking." Sailor Jupiter praised with a wink.
Genesis sighed, turning to the younger former SOLIDER and teasingly praised. "For once, you managed to think before you acted."
At first Zack laughed happily, before realizing what the crimson swordsman mention and asked, dumbfounded. "Wait, what?"
Before he could get an answer, Zack and the others looked up to find that the Asteroid was now getting closer and closer which made the tremors even worse and the volcano, now completely sealed up, began to erupt.
"Let's get outta here!" Shrek shouted, taking the lead.
"Sailor Moon, get ready!" Sora instructed.
"Right!" The aforementioned Princess nodded, hurrying to find a good spot where she would launch her attack at the Asteroid of Darkness, already mentally calling forth for the Silver Crystal to allow her use it's power once more, and to share her bond with everyone she cherished to combine their inner strengths for the great power of love and friendship to drive away the darkness once more.
But while she got into position and the Silver Crystal began to glow with Tuxedo Mask hurrying to join up with her, and everyone else now gathered together, they all could only watch in fear and praying for a miracle to survive this crisis, and the Guardians of Light focusing on lending their powers and strength to Sailor Moon. But as the volcano glowed purple to launch...the light then dimmed and the shaking stopped, much to their confusion.
"Why'd it stop?" Roxas asked, blankly.
"I have no idea." Isa blinked, dumbfounded.
"What happened?" Xion asked, worriedly.
"Maybe it's the quiet before the crazy?" Lea shrugged, cluelessly.
It wasn't until Wobbuffect, who came out of Jessie's Pokeball as usual, noticed a small steam next to it's right. Having an idea for a slightly dumb Pokemon, it grabbed Reno's EMR from it's hook which the red-haired Turk noticed.
"Hey! Whaddya doin'?" He protested.
"Wobbuffect!" Wobbuffect said, plugging the tiny gyser hole with the EMR.
BOOM!
This resulted in the volcano now erupting a powerful cloud of magnetic crystal and electrical force field, rising up into the sky, and then, as Buck had predicted, began to draw the Asteroid of Darkness away from it's destined crash landing site and towards the heroes who stood back fearfully, hoping that it would fly away and not kill them instantly. On the ground with the left over tiny pieces of crystal, they began to levitate, and Eddie yelped when he was unknowingly standing on two.
"Eddie!" Crash screamed out noticing, before jumping and grabbed hold of his brother, falling to the ground.
Shangri Llama ended up with the similar problem as he yelped in fright, before being knocked out when he hit his face into one. Sailor Moon by then powered up the Silver Crystal enough to fuse her bond with everyone and surprisingly enough, due to how strong her heart is, not only the Sailor Team, the Way-Finder Team, Team Pokepals, the Dark Moon Team and even the Pirates' bodies glowed in warm light, but the friendship and alliances from Rufus, the other Turks including Team Rocket, and even Brooke who held hands with Sid, Buck and the Dino-Birds, who all wondered what was going on, glowed as well, surging their bonds and unselfish hearts surged into hers.
As Sailor Moon glowed, she crouched down with her husband shielding her as much as possible, with everyone else doing the same when the Asteroid got dangerously close. Thankfully it didn't even touch the ground as the manentic field launched the rock of darkness back into the sky and towards space once again.
Seeing this made Mickey shout out urgently. "Now, Sailor Moon!"
Nodding as it was time to end this nightmare once and for all to save the rest of the Realm of Light, Sailor Moon stood up and summoned the Silver Crystal into her hands, calling forth of it's power. Despite that it was draining away her life energy, she didn't care as long as everyone she loved so much and the rest of the Realm of Light were saved, her mind flashed to her life and her future, and she was determined to still make happiness and peace happen.
"SILVER, CRYSTAL, POWER!" She shouted loudly with pure love and determination.
Fueled with positive thoughts and love and friendship and everyone glowing even more, the Imperium Silver Crystal glowed so brightly that it shot out a huge beam of light, straight through the Asteroid from behind through to the other side, and the sheer power of light was far too much for it. The aura of darkness was no much for Love and Friendship, the giant rock shattering into pieces and becoming engulfed in the beam, vaporizing the dark power until it vanished completely.
The Asteroid of Darkness was no more.
Panting while feeling exhausted as she, her family and friends and the Crystal stopped glowing, Sailor Moon nearly collapsed, but Tuxedo Mask quickly caught her in his arms and gently lowered the weakened but successful Moon Princess, just as Mickey hurried over and used his Healing Light Spell to restore his friend's strength, which in turn managed to prevent the Silver Crystal from losing it's power completely. It would take time for it to renew it's strength again, and it's wielder would need a day or two to recover. But it was a small price to pay and at the moment, nobody cared.
"We did it..." Sailor Moon weakly smiled, tired but extremely relieved. They were still alive, they saved the Realm of Light once again.
This realization dawned onto everybody as they all felt the same feeling as their Princess friend.
"We did it!" Sakura celebrated happily, jumping up and down, clasping hands with Madison who laughed.
"All right!" Ash cheered, pumping his fist into the air.
The rest of the Guardians of Light, all of their allies and former enemies, and the Geotopians all celebrated with most yelling out in victory, while Jack, Barbossa, Rufus, Vincent, and even the very relieved and atoned Dino-Birds smiled proudly. Darien and Mickey joined them while the former gently held Sailor Moon who leaned against him, beginning to recover but knew that she had to take it easy for a while.
"It's gone!" Ven exclaimed excitedly.
"In your face, rock of darkness!" Shira taunted the now destroyed Asteroid.
"Yeah, baby!" Diego exclaimed happily.
"Yeah, all right!" Sora cheered, but was stunned by surprise when a very happy and relieved Kairi, unable to help herself, carefully but firmly grasped his face and pulled him into a passionate kiss, which he then returned with a loving embrace, enjoying this moment.
"Woo-hoo!" Sid happily cheered, before he was grabbed by a happy Brooke who, now loving him even more as he was also the main reason of their survival, dipped him and kissed him deeply. The male sloth moaned happily once it was done, now even more in love.
Best part is, it was his first kiss. At long last after waiting for 20,000 years both life, death and re-life, he finally had gotten his first kiss. It was at that moment that Sid knew Brooke was the girl of his dreams.
While Elena, unable to help herself but didn't care, happily hugged Tseng who chuckled and returned their embrace, Teddy, seeing the three couples deeply in love, and also witnessing Manny and Ellie do the same with deep warmth in their hearts, pluckered up his lips to kiss Granny.
"Not on the lips, geezer." She warned him, pushing him back with her cane.
The rest of the Sailor Team cheered on happily, while Crash and Eddie chanted as cheerleaders once again. "~Hit the road, you stupid rock! We just stopped the doomsday clock!~ YEAH! WHOO!" The twins then hugged each other, laughing in relief.
Zack and Aerith happily embraced with the former twirling around and for the first time since their rebirth, shared a compassionate kiss of their own just before Cloud and Tifa, smiling happily at the reunited couple and now they were all here to live much longer, approached their old friends. Once the older couple stopped kissing, the younger spiky-haired man happily placed an arm around his older friend.
"Thanks, Zack. Because of you we saved the Realm of Light on time." Cloud muttered with a soft, warm smile, knowing that without his best friend, none of this would have been possible.
"Hey, don't mention it, buddy." Zack chuckled, only for him and his younger friend to be pulled into a tight hug by Shrek who laughed cheering. "Hey, whoa!"
"Put it there, Mr. Hero! Welcome to the Sailor Team." The Ogre praised, now accepting the younger man as part of the group and playfully ruffled him on the head.
"H-hey!" The younger man laughed, feeling quite happy to not only reunite with his close friends and true love again, but now had already become part of a new group of friends and team, and that he has finally achieved his dream of becoming a hero.
Sailor Moon and the rest of the Sailor Team smiled happily, forming into a group hug that made their friendship and bond stronger than ever before. They then turned to Buck who smiled emotionally, just as the Moon Princess then approached him and the two friends embraced.
"Thank you, Buck. Without you, we'd never would've figured out how to stop the asteriod." Sailor Moon said sincerely, tearfully before gently giving the weasel a kiss on the head which made the one-eyed hunter blush a little.
"And we had help from our new three friends too!" Ash added, turning with a forgiving and grateful smile at the Dino-Birds who, stunned at first of being called friends after everything they had tried to do for revenge, shared a surprised glance before smiling and shrugged.
Maybe helping out the good wasn't so bad after all.
"Thanks, kid." Roger replied, softly as he felt embarrassed.
"You know, they're right." Manny happily agreed, carefully picking up Buck with his trunk and placed him onto his back, now with full respect with the weasel who was the sole reason for saving the Realm of Light once more. "We'll never doubt you again."
Buck smiled at the praise, before turning to his...erm, Pumpkin 'Daughter' and said happily. "See? Daddy's always right. Remember that when you're older."
Everyone all smiled and continued to celebrate, thanking and congratulating the weasel who against all odds helped them to make it all possible. Because as far as Serena and her family and friends were concerned, despite his craziness and near-insanity, his heart was in the right place just as it always had been because not only he was the Guardian of the Lost World.
But he was also, as of this moment, a new Guardian of Light.
A/N: Whoo! That was a long chapter, but at last Sailor Moon and the Guardians, with unexpected allies have saved the Realm of Light once again! Next up is the final chapter which will conclude the story, and then after that is an added bonus alternate-ending chapter, but don't worry, both endings are good!
With any luck, I might be able to finish this before the end of the year. But we'll see what happens(if the internet and fanfiction survive).
See you in the next chapter!