Hundreds of troops were running through the tunnel to the jail, led by Jones and Hiroshima.
"Jones, is everything okay?" Spikes voice came out of Jones' walkie talkie.
"Everything's fine here." Jones said through the walkie talkie "Everything okay there"
"As okay as it can be, it's a huge prison. There must be over five hundred girls in cages." Spike answered, "Which is why we need your help. There's probably a trap around somewhere, and some of us are gonna have to make it out of here to get these girls out"
Jones replied "Right, I'll let you know if I see anything un"
There was a slight pause, Spike became full of worry quickly.
"Unusual?" Spike asked.
"Very." Jones said as he looked ahead of him and his troops. A huge amount of Heartless had appeared, there were all kinds of them from Shadows to Behemoths. "We can handle it though"
Jones turned around and looked behind his troops, he saw an equally large number of Heartless as he had seen in front of him.
"Troops… ATTACK"
Hiroshima began to cast a spell, "Hold them off, I can get rid of most of them. It will take a while, though"
Jones shouted to the back of his group of troops "Pedro, you're in charge of the troops at the back"
"Yes sir." Pedro shouted back.
"Troops at the front, follow me." Jones shouted as he ran at the Heartless, swinging his sword at any he could get close enough to without being taken by them as Pedro led the other group against the Heartless that came from behind them. Jones and Pedro each led their troops valiantly, many were taken by the Heartless before they could get a strike in but many more were able to eliminate some of the Heartless, difficulty but nevertheless they got the job done.
"Smith, Niles and Frederick, help me take out this Behemoth." Jones shouted as he ran at the huge Behemoth in front of him. Smith, Niles and Frederick all ran with him. Niles jumped at the Behemoth as Jones slid under it, swiping his sword through it as he went. Smith and Frederick stood further back and shot the Behemoth with their anti-Heartless missile launchers. As the Behemoth went down from Jones' attack, Niles got onto the Behemoth's back and sliced its horn, removing some of its strength.
Pedro and his troops were also fighting the Behemoth on their side, some of them were shooting it with whatever gun they had, some of which were bazookas and some were missile launchers whilst the rest of them were attacking with their swords. The Behemoth got one of the troops who then became a Heartless, Pedro destroyed it straight away before jumping on to the Behemoth's back and beginning to attack its horn. One of the missile launcher troops shot a missile at the horn, which combined with Pedro's attacks tore the horn from the Behemoth's head. The Behemoth got angry and rampaged through the troops, taking hearts every where.
"Hey Behemoth, ese." Pedro shouted.
The Behemoth turned to Pedro.
"How about you come after me, eh?" Pedro said cockily.
The Behemoth threw its claw at Pedro to take his heart but Pedro lifted his sword and slid to his right and sliced the Behemoth's claw clean off. He turned around and lifted his sword through the Behemoth's head, releasing the heart and eliminating it.
"Job done, I believe"
Jones, Niles, Smith and Frederick were still fighting the Behemoth on their end though. The Behemoth lunged at Frederick, who then became a Heartless and when Niles tried to kill it, he was also turned into one of them. Jones killed both and then went back to the Behemoth and unexpectedly got the Behemoths claw through him, taking his Heart and turning him in to a heartless before Smith fired a missile at the Behemoth's head, destroying it.
"Jones!" Smith yelled.
"It's not him now, Smith." Came a voice from behind, Smith turned around and saw Pedro approaching. "And he wouldn't want this thing to exist in his place"
Pedro span around and cut the heartless Jones' head off and slicing its body down, releasing it's heart.
"He'd never forgive us if we had let his Heartless carry on to exist." Pedro said, "Maybe now he'll be with his wife and daughter." he said as they watched Jones' heart go up.
They continued to fight the Heartless, waiting for Hiroshima's spell to be ready. After what felt like forever but was in fact little more than five minutes, Hiroshima called out "It's ready. Everyone start running forward so we don't get caught by more"
The troops began to run through the tunnel as Hiroshima began to chant some words, which was followed by an enormous amount of light energy come from Hiroshima's body, the light tore through every Heartless in the tunnel and created a defence against any Heartless that tried to go to the area in the next 3 or 4 minutes.
Back in Jirak's throne room, he and the hooded man were watching the events through a ball of liquid floating in the centre of the room. Jirak stroked his pitch black beard, almost as if he was tearing the hairs from it.
"It would appear that the first trap has not worked, Emperor." The hooded man said.
"Yes, thank you for pointing out what I see right in front of me." Jirak replied with a hint of sarcasm, "Don't worry though, the next two traps will stop them for sure"
"Oh. What are these two traps then?" The hooded man asked without any sign of enthusiasm.
Jirak replied "Wait and watch, hood boy. Wait and watch"
The troops had made it to the prison room where they met up with Spike and Hikari.
"Where's Jones?" Spike asked the troops.
"He was taken, sir. He put me in charge." Pedro stepped forward, "I hope I can do his job as well as he did"
There was a short moment of silence, Spike and Hikari remembered the times they had shared with Jones. Hikari was upset, now he would never be able to see if Jones could ever accept him.
Spike looked at the large amount of troops that had made it and said. "We've got a job to do now"
"If any of you don't wanna end up as Heartless at the end of this, turn around, go back through that tunnel and get on the airship, 'cause chances are that's the only way you'll be leaving as you are now and not as a Heartless. Chances are also that you won't make it back through that tunnel though, so make your choice and make it wisely. Me, I'm getting these girls out of here. Anybody else"
All of the troops raised their hands in support.
"That's what I was hoping for. Now, everybody unlock any of the prison cells that you can"
Spike turned to Hikari and said "You know what to do"
Hikari nodded.
The troops ran to the prison cells, busting the doors open and freeing the girls in them. There were far more girls than troops though, so they had to bust open several doors each. Hikari went to the north wall of the prison, he took a device from his bag and hooked it in to the wall and waited.
"Are all the girls freed?" Spike asked, looking at the prison cells.
"Yeah. Unless there's another room of them somewhere." Pedro answered.
"Hikari, turn it on" Spike called out to Hikari at the north wall who turned around to the device and pushed a hand shaped button.
"Everybody, stand back." Spike said.
"You better hope this works." Hiroshima spoke quietly in to Spike's ear.
Spike replied, "It will"
Hikari ran back to the area Spike and the troops were in, when he got there the device he had used blew up, taking a huge chunk out of the wall."
"I thought you said there were two more traps?" The hooded man said to Jirak, "But it looks like they're already escaping. Need me to go and… interfere"
"No." Jirak replied, "Everything is going to plan."
The smoke cleared and the dust settled, Spike, Hikari and Hiroshima walked over to the wall that had been blew up.
"Damn…" Spike said, "Should have known"
The hole in the wall was filled with darkness in the form of a liquid, there was no way out.
"Just go through it" One of the troops said, "It won't hurt you"
The troop walked to the pool of darkness and put his hand in.
"NO! Wait!" Spike shouted, but it was too late. The troop was sucked in to the darkness and spat back out as a heartless.
"Dammit." Hikari said, watching Spike cut the heartless in half with his Keyblade. "I guess we'll have to go back through the tunnel"
"Or not." Hiroshima's voice could be heard, everyone turned around and saw the tunnel, full of the same darkness liquid that was in the hole in the wall.
A look of worry appeared on Spike's face.
"Damn…"