Sora: Welcome back to CC2!
Jake: Isn't FG supposed to say that?
Bernie: Where's Miss FG?
Sora: Oh, FG's in Grand Rapids, Michigan right now. So she told me to take over.
Robin: You? Why you?
Sora: Huh?
Robin: See, that's what I mean! He's always sayin' 'huh'! Or makin' lil' grunty noises!
Sora: Huh?
Emma: FG even came up for a condition name for people who say 'huh' too much!
Dia: Yeah, the Takahashi Complex!
Kairi: Named after Sora Takahashi!
Sora: ………
Robin: Ha! He's too stunned ta reply!
Sora: (sniffle)
Digiko: Aw, now he's all upset, nyo…
Sora: (sniffle) Oh, yeah. This chapter's guest is Digiko from the Di Gi Charat franchise.
Digiko: Nice to be here, nyo!
Jake: Why does she say 'nyo' after all her sentences?
Digiko: It's my accent, nyo! Residents of the planet Di Gi Charat say things like 'nyo', 'nyu', 'myu', or 'mya' after their sentences, nyo!
Jake: Wow, that sounds like fun, nyu!
Bernie: Hey, myu! I sound like I'm from Di Gi Charat, myu!
Emma: Might I guess this is fun, mya.
Digiko: Nyo!
Jake: Nyu!
Bernie: Myu!
Emma: Mya!
Digiko: Isn't this fun, nyo?
Sora: (sweatdrop) Can you say the disclaimer now, please?
Digiko: (nod) Of course, nyo! FG doesn't own anyone in CC2 except for Emma, Dia, Jake, Robin, Bernie, Coeur/Hart, Miaow, Eclipse, Taylor, Lyze, Silke, Kinzoku, Sadym, and Alissa, nyo.
Sora: Here's Chapter 11!
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"The Gyene Armlets?" Emma repeated, looking confused. She turned to the French girl beside her. "Does Gyene mean something in Al Bhed?"
Bernie nodded slowly. "Gyene means…Kairi."
"I know! These were made specially for me!" Kairi pranced around in a circle, then happily looked over her new weapons.
"KAIRI!" Sora's voice echoed from down the hall. "EMMA!" He and the rest of Juu Senshi came barreling through the door. "BERNIE! WE NEED YOU GUYS! WE…"
Sora's voice trailed off as he saw Lyze and Sadym with Bernie, Emma, and Kairi, allowing Riku to speak. "What's going on?"
Lyze smiled. "I gave Kairi some weapons, that's all."
Kairi resumed her prancing, then showed her armlets off once again. "Awesome…" Eclipse murmured. "How do they work?"
"Like this!" Kairi made a hand motion, indicating her wish for the rest of Juu Senshi and the two Rei no Aku members to scoot to the side. She pointed her arms out the door, but nothing happened. "Um…I need a refill, Lyze."
Lyze crossed her arms, then with a expression of mock anger, scolded, "You're out already?" Kairi nodded sheepishly. "I can't blame you, they're cool. They get used up easily." She pulled two white cards out of her pocket, then slipped them into a compartment in the armlets.
"How'd you get those?" Dia stared blankly at the cards. "You didn't…did you?"
"Did she what?" Donald asked impatiently.
"There's no way…"
"WHAAAAAT?"
Dia held out her hand. "Can I see one?" Lyze shrugged and handed her a card. "Whoa!" She passed it to Jake, who squealed and passed it to Emma, who passed it to Bernie, who passed it to Robin.
"WHAT IS IT?" Donald yelled again. Robin reared a fist back. The duck silenced immediately.
Robin moved the card back and forth. "This's a card from Castle Oblivion."
"Smart kid," Lyze replied. "Mr. Shogun found your Chain of Memories cartridge, Dia and Jake, and made me find a way to get into the game. I did, and I found this cute little blonde girl. She said she'd give me these cards if I promised to give them to Kairi. And if I gave her some information."
"Naminé!" Jake's eyes widened to their fullest extent. "Naminé gave you those?"
The real-world members turned to Kairi, who was looking nothing but creeped-out. "I don't get it. How does she know my name?"
"Valley Girl, Naminé's your Nobody!" An incredulous Robin tossed the card back to Lyze. "The dark side of your heart!"
Coeur meowed softly into Bernie's ear. "Yeah, like Haiiro and Miaow," Bernie answered.
"Apparently…" Lyze said loudly to stop the Juu Senshi from going on about Naminé and the cards. "…Castle Oblivion's in an uproar. They all want to know where Sora and Riku are. They don't know about the rest of you. Y'know, how you changed the game."
Emma nodded. "So Naminé wanted to know what was going on."
"Precisely. I told her about you guys, in exchange for the cards." Lyze's look faded. "Of course, Organization XIII will probably be on your tail now. I have no doubts that Marluxia's going to weasel the information out of that kid."
Screaming came from the lower floors. Sadym glanced at Lyze. "Dryd ryc du pa Silke," he murmured. "Oui lyh aqbmyeh drehkc du dra Dah Vekrdanc mydan. Nekrd huf, drao ryja du vekrd Silke."
"Veha, veha." Lyze grunted. "Tuh'd kad cu fungat ib. Silke syo pa cdnuhk, pid cra'c hud dryd csynd. E pad cra'mm nih cdnyekrd ehdu y fymm frema cra'c muugehk vun ic." She laughed a little.
Sadym shrugged. "Frydajan oui cyo."
"What're they saying?" Jake glanced briefly at Bernie, then switched his eyes back to Lyze and Sadym when they turned.
Bernie scratched her head. "Silke is downstairs, and the Al Bhed guy wants some people named the Ten Fighters to help."
Robin rolled her eyes and slapped Bernie's head. "WE'RE the Ten Fighters, Loony!"
Bernie was, for some reason, surprised. "Oh, is THAT what 'Juu Senshi' means?"
"It should really be Juu-ni Senshi, Twelve Fighters, if you count Hart and me," Eclipse added.
Riku glared at him. "You're not a JUU Senshi," Riku told him through gritted teeth, putting emphasis on the word 'Juu'. The Nekoshu raised his hands defensively.
Sadym and Lyze turned to the Juu Senshi. "Lyze tells me that you guys are tough. Prove it, and I'll give you all a little treat. Go fight Silke, okay?"
Sora held up the Reza Keyblade. "You can count on us!"
Sadym and Lyze bowed. "We have faith in you, Juu Senshi," Sadym assured them. "You'll be the ones to destroy Rei no Aku. We know it."
The Juu Senshi marched out the door. Sora was proudly singing, "I don't know, but it's been said!"
"I don't know, but it's been said!"
"We'll gonna smack Silke in the head!"
"We'll gonna smack Silke in the head!"
"We'll destroy Rei no Aku!"
"We'll destroy Rei no Aku!"
"I think Jake still watches Pooh!" Kairi interrupted with a grin.
"I think Jake still watches Pooh!"
Eclipse looked thoroughly grossed-out. "He watches poo?"
Sora laughed and patted the steaming nine-year-old next to him. "Here we go again."
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The water park was empty, except for a certain blonde swords expert. "Oh, Juu Senshi! I know you are here!" she called in a sweet, sing-song voice. "You can come out! It is only your old friend Silke Sakura!"
"My pet rock was a better friend than you!"
Silke looked around with a smirk. "I thought so. Come out, and we can play in the water," she offered patronizingly.
"So you want to play in the water? Fine by me!"
Several gallons of water appeared out of thin air and was dumped on Silke. Bernie ran in, her orange-gloved hands balled into fists. "Insolent seer!" the Daimyo spat, rubbing water out of her eyes.
"Oh, Silke, you look so wet and cold!" Sora and the others ran in. "Let's warm you up!" Sora held out the Reza Keyblade, with Donald, Emma, Dia, and Bernie following up with their corresponding weapons. "FIRAGA!" they chorused.
Silke's eyes widened, and she impulsively jumped into the water. "Trying to get away?" Emma touched the Blizzard Stone. A familiar blue mist seeped in, and pillars of ice surrounded Emma. "YUKI NAIFU!" She jumped onto the highest pillar and sat there. "Water is just melted ice," Emma mused. "I wonder…" She held out her hand, and the water Silke was in froze. Emma motioned for the others to come over.
Robin made a clucking noise as she jogged towards the blue girl. "Stupid Silke…she shoulda seen that coming." She then started laughing at the absurdly posed figure under the ice. "She looks like a frostbitten freak down there."
Emma stood up, then jumped into the ice. It rippled, but didn't crack, as if it was simply water. "Cool!" Jake squealed. He tried to jump in too.
Luckily, Dia picked him up, then tapped on the ice with her knuckles. "We can't go through."
"Myeh."
Emma's grabbed onto Silke's arm, then tried to pull her back up. However, Silke just stayed there. "Oh, yeah. She can't phase through ice." She climbed out of Silke's prison, then looked at the magic users of Juu Senshi. "Use Firaga on the ice!"
"FIRAGA!" they called again. Nothing happened.
Robin grunted. "Baecker, ya made the ice too hard. Get ridda it!"
"I can't," Emma whimpered.
"Why not?" Robin demanded. It was then that she noticed Emma had brown eyes. There was no more blue mist, either. "Oh. That's why."
Eclipse adjusted his headband. "Lemme try something…" His eyes started glowing lavender, and he raised his arms slowly. The ice cracked a bit, but nothing else happened. "Okay, let's try this the hard way." He extended his arms, then jerked them back immediately. It cracked a little more.
We both know how to solve this, Eclipse, a voice told him mentally. Well, I do, anyway. Do you?
Eclipse's left hand glowing a deep purple color. He hid it under his shirt, glad that the others were busy with their own plans. I…I know. But I won't do it!
Summon it, Eclipse, the voice, which Eclipse registered as Lyze's, insisted.
Leave me alone.
Rei no Aku needs you, Lyze explained.
Eclipse scowled. I thought you didn't care about them.
Oh, I don't. But I think you have the potential to be the Magic Daimyo.
The teenager froze. M-m-magic…Daimyo?
Yep.
What about you, huh?
I want to quit. But if I do, Mr. Shogun will destroy Ivalice. But if someone else replaces me, someone better, he'll welcome the switch.
So you're taking advantage of my powers to leave your job.
Lyze's pleading voice suddenly turned to an indignant one. It's more than that! I have to protect Ivalice! Plus…don't you want to save your sister?
I already told you, I don't need your help to make Hart a Nekoshu again.
Oh, come on. If Taylor and the rest of his goons can take a heart away, can't they put it back?
So now he's Taylor, huh? Not Mr. Shogun?
Think of this as my official resignation.
I'm not joining Rei no Aku.
At least get Silke out of the ice, okay?
Eclipse sighed and stalked back over to the ice. He held out his glowing hand, and the Yami Sword appeared in it. If you say so, he mumbled in his head. He plunged the sword in the ice, and a wave of darkness spread through it, prompting the ice to break completely. Eclipse heard the talking behind him stop, so he hurriedly made the sword disappear.
"What happened?" Emma asked.
"Um…nothing. I just, ah…used some good ol' psychic powers!" Eclipse laughed nervously, but the others ignored it. "Um…yeah." He resumed trying to levitate Silke out by jerking her. Finally, something flew out of the ice shard-filled pool, landing on the water park's tiled floor with a sickening thump.
Dia ran over and prodded the unconscious Silke with the Shihaii Wand. "Well, she's breathing…is that good or bad?"
"Eh." Lyze and Sadym appeared by Silke's body. "I'll take her back to Taylor," Lyze decided.
Jake scratched his head. "I thought you called Daddy 'Mr. Shogun'!"
Lyze just smiled oddly and disappeared, along with Silke. Sadym fidgeted with the pocket of the uniform that Taylor gave all of the machina workers. "Well, that was certainly a short battle…but either way, Silke's out of the picture, so you guys get your prizes."
"YAY!" Jake shrieked.
Twitching from Jake's explosion, Sadym pulled out a dark, pulsing sphere. It was all black, except for a white-and-purple light in the middle. "This for you, Riku. Catch!"
Riku caught the ball, then squinted at it. Before he had a chance to ask what it was, it soaked into Riku's hand. "HEY!" he yelled. "WHAT DID YOU JUST DO TO ME?"
"I gave you a new ability," Sadym explained calmly. "It's called Dark Aura."
"Dark?" Riku complained angrily. "I don't do darkness anymore."
Sadym shrugged. "So? You can still use it. Lyze got this from Castle Oblivion. She was going to give it to…" He trailed off. "Well, it wasn't meant for you. But now it is," he added quickly.
"What do I get?" Jake asked, jumping up and down.
"Chill out." Sadym gave him a small pack of blue cards. "These are magic cards from-"
"From Castle Oblivion, we know," Robin interrupted emotionlessly.
Sadym glared at her. "Yeah, that's it." He turned back to Jake. "Anyway, these cards let you do magic now, like Blizzard and Aero, even though you have a shield, not a staff."
"Ohhhhh…neat!" Jake took the cards and stuffed them into the Ikiteiru Shield.
Robin stood on tiptoe and stuck her face in Sadym's. "Whaddaya got fer me, wimp?"
Sadym glared at her again. "E drehg oui'na secdygah; OUI'NA dra fesb. Ouin fruma yenraytat pegan lrelg kadib ec bnupypmo y nica."
Bernie cracked up. "What did he say?" Robin demanded.
In-between laughs, Bernie replied, "He said you're a wimp too."
"That's the best you could come up with?"
"No, but there's a nine-year-old in our presence," Sadym reminded her.
Robin snorted. "Like I said…wimp."
"THAT'S IT!" Sadym punched Robin in the jaw. The others stared blankly at him as Robin fell to the floor. "I'll get this over quickly." He set various cards on the ground. "The card with the Shadow Heartless on it, Incrementor, is for Sora. It raises your attack level. The pack of white cards is more ammo for Kairi's Gyene Armlets."
Kairi inserted them into the armlets. "Thanks!" she squealed.
"The Ether cards are for Donald," Sadym continued. "The other pack of magic cards is for Goofy. The other Incrementor cards are for Emma, Dia, and Bernie. Sorry, Coeur, but I couldn't get a gift for you."
Coeur meowed. "She says it's okay," Eclipse translated.
Robin sat up slowly. "What about MY gift?" she rasped.
"Oh, yeah, sorry." Sadym took out a metal bracelet. He slipped it onto Robin's wrist. "There you go." He sounded happier now, but he was smirking.
"Cool. It's a machina armlet, right?"
Sadym grinned evilly. "Something like that."
"Excuse me, Sadym, but do I get something?" Eclipse asked.
Sadym's grin softened into a normal one, devoid of all maniacal plans. "Come over here…your present has to be secret." He led Eclipse a few yards away. "Lyze told you she's quitting, right?"
"Yes," he replied flatly.
"Your gift is a recommendation," Sadym announced. "I was one of the Al Bhed who originally worked on Kinzoku's machina plates. If I tell Kinzoku about you, he'll tell the Shogun about you. And you can be the Magic Daimyo!"
Eclipse glanced at Coeur, who was perched on Bernie's shoulder. She glanced back at her brother, giving a happy meow. Eclipse sighed, then turned back to Sadym. "I'll consider it."
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Digiko: That was Chapter 11, nyo!
FG: Wow, Digiko! (hugs Digiko)
Digiko: Um…this is weird, nyo.
Jake: Yay, FG's back!
FG: So, Riku, how did you like introducing a chapter?
Riku: Um…I didn't.
FG: Why didn't you like it?
Riku: No, I mean I didn't do it.
FG: You didn't? Why? I told Sora to tell you!
Everyone else: (glares at Sora)
FG: Sora…did you take Riku's job?
Sora: ………
FG: Sora?
Sora: …maybe…
Riku: You took my job! (beats Sora up)
Digiko: Ooh, I can help, nyo! (blasts Sora with laser beams)
Sora: (cough) Ow…
FG: You deserve it.
Sora: (whimper) Sora out, yo.
Riku: (shoves Sora out of the way) Riku out, yo.
FG: (shoves Riku out of the way) FG out, yo. (glare)