Kingdom Hearts Neo
Act I
Chapter 13
"Battle at Hollow Bastion"
In Hollow Bastion's council room….
"Well, what the hell are we going to do? There has got to be 8 thousand Heartless out there. We don't have anywhere near enough troops to deal with this." Cloud, as head of Hollow Bastion's Defense Corp, said. "Why don't we just use Gummi ships lasers to blast the crap out of the Heartless?" Everyone turned to look at Riku. "What do you mean?" Cid asked Zach "Use the Gummi ships like helicopters to strafe the Heartless with laser fire. Plus we could use them to see who is controlling the Heartless. Then one of the Gummi ships can carry a small task force, composed of me, Sora, Zach, Cloud, Violet, and Dash, to take care of the leader or leaders while Leon and all the troops can stay and guard the castle." Riku replied "That's a great idea." Leon said "I don't remember volunteering to fight armies of Heartless." Zach said "Well, you gotta do it." Sora said. "Ah dammit."
And so Riku's plan was implemented….
"There are a couple of guys in robes out there. They are probably the masterminds of this attack. We'll be over them in about 90 seconds." Cid said as he flew the Gummi ship that contained the aforementioned task force. "Everybody get ready!" Cloud yelled "Let's get this over with." Zach said as he ran and jumped out of the Gummi ship. "He's impulsive as hell." Riku said, laughing a little. "Yeah. Wait a minute; he didn't grab a parachute, did he?" Sora said "No. No, he didn't" Cloud said as he pulled on his parachute and jumped.
Meanwhile 100 feet below….
"Oh shit! I'm really going to die this time. Of all the things to forget, I had to forget the frickin' parachute. Well maybe if I fall holding the Keyblade in front of me and plunge it into the ground at the last second…. I'll only break both my arms. Crap, I'm screwed." Zach said as he closed his eyes and prepared for the imminently fatal impact. It never came. "What da hell?" Zach said as he opened his eyes and saw that he was being held about 5 feet above the ground by a purple force field. "Well I owe Violet for this one. Oww." Zach said as the force field disappeared and he fell. Zach jumped to his feet and started attacking the Heartless who stood between him and the two robed figures.
(Author's note: For the flash animated version of Kingdom Heart Neo, this battle will mark the first use of music that's not from KH or an original composition. Instead, the Gackt song "Lu-Na" will be playing. E-mail me if you want the mp3.)
A huge battle ensues and then Zach runs toward the robed figures and the tall one then creates one of those barriers that conveniently keep other people from entering. You know the ones I'm talking about. The ones that made it so you had to fight with Sora alone a couple of times in Kingdom Hearts. Only this one also keeps anyone outside the barrier from seeing or hearing anything going on inside….
"You're finally here." Masne said as he and Joachim pulled back their hoods. "You're idiots for using the Darkness. You know that, right?" Zach said as he rushed Masne. Masne knocked Zach aside with the wave of a hand. Joachim then proceeded to Sync his heart up with Zach's, disabling him. "Shut up and listen. Those who tried to control the darkness before were fools to think that any natural heart could stand up to the darkness. I spent years, combining magic and science, to create an artificial Heart capable of withstanding and controlling the true Darkness and the perfect body for the Heart to reside in. Then, almost 16 years ago, my prototype artificial Heart and host body were completed. The Heart was a total failure. So I destroyed the faulty Heart, jettisoned the failure-tainted body into the void of space, and started over. A couple of months later, I was successful and my son Joachim here is the result. A perfect heart in a perfect body. He looks a lot like you. You know why? You were the prototype body. I don't know how or where you got a new heart from and I don't care. You obviously fell onto some other world and were found. Whoever found you must have adopted you." Masne noted the look of horror in Zach's eyes and decided to deliver the hard final blow. "You're not human. You're a golem, a homunculus, an artificial human. The Heartless that you fight belong in the universe more than you do." "SHUT UP!" Zach screamed with his last ounce of strength. "Joachim, you can kill him now." Masne said. Joachim slowly stepped toward Zach's recumbent body….
Zach's body suddenly lifted off of the ground. Light poured from his eye sockets and the corners of his mouth. A primal scream roared from Zach's mouth. A huge wave of power surged forth from his heart, destroying the barrier and the thousands of Heartless surrounding Hollow Bastion and knocking Masne, Joachim, Sora, and the others off their feet. Zach's body then fell back to the ground.
"Well, that was VERY unexpected." Masne said rising to his feet. "Come on Joachim. Let's go before the other 'heroes' get here." Masne then created a portal and he and Joachim entered.
Sora and the others stood around Zach as he slowly rose to his feet. "What the hell just happened?" Zach said, his fingers massaging his aching temples. "I was about to ask you the same thing. Where did that surge of Light come from?" Sora asked "What surge of Light? The last thing I remember, the spiky red-haired kid with the freaky purple eyes was about to kill me. Next thing I know, I'm face down in the dirt with you guys all around me." Zach replied "How are you doing now?" Cloud asked "Well, my entire body aches and I've got an immense headache, but other than that, I'm fine." Zach said. Zach then tried to take a step forward and fell to the ground face first. "Ow. Apparently, I've forgotten how to walk." Zach said "That's just exhaustion." Riku said as he picked Zach up and put him on his back.
Coming up is the next and Final Chapter of Act I
Where Zach visits Hollow Bastion's Library,
Alexa stows away in Gummi Ship,
And the new generation of heroes sets off into the unknown
In "On Their Own"
(Author's Note: Come on people. Acts III and IV are going to be pretty short if you guys don't start telling me worlds you would like to see. E-mail World and story ideas to me. Check my profile for the address.)