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Now we're about to find out who are mysterious Test Subject is. But first a word from our sponsors.
"Mr Turtle. How many licks does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?" Boy asked Turtle.
"I never make it without biting. Ask Mr Bear." Turtle suggested.
"Mr Bear. How many-" Boy asked then suddenly.
****ROOOOAR!***
"AAAAAH!" Boy screams and runs from the bear.
Remember kids. 'Don't Talk To Bears' They eat people and your box office money. Just ask the Jungle Book. Now back to are regularly sequel fanfiction.
Haxorus Knight: No sir, no you don't. I pity the poor sap...But he'll be fine as long as he doesn't piss the Test Subject off or make it to Hollow Bastion.
(Also warning, the following fight scene contains brutality and harshness that only a boy like the Maverick can handle.)
Anyway, now that we're all here.
LET'S GET DANGEROUS!
Incoming Storm.
In the cave of the dead passage….
As the team was walking through the caves, all was quiet, with nothing but small heartless that kept getting struck down by Victoria's thunder bolts and fallen rocks. Earlier they had to deal with some Helm Body heartless, which Kairi showed some fitness when dealing with them.
But soon it became too quiet. So Aiden decided to break the silence with his antics.
"Last time we left on Sora Shoe Z." Aiden narrated at Kyle Hebert.
"Not again." Sora moaned in annoyance.
"Aw nuts." Donald down casted.
"After the guardians took down China's second biggest threat until the live action 'Ghost in the Shell'." Aiden went on. " We find our heroes and Junior Heroes with a new recruit."
"How many times do we how to tell you! WE'RE NOT JUNIOR HEROES!" Donald exclaimed.
"They bring in Mini Me Goku's girlfriend. Red Dead Or Alive. But everyone calls her Kairi." Aiden narrated. "A girl who pulled off more combo moves in training than most boys have done in real life."
"If by 'most boys', you mean me?" Sora inquired sarcastically while Kairi was giggling.
"Who else?" Aiden said with the voice. "Now they are on their way to bargain with the Greek Devil himself. Louis Leterrier uh... i mean Hades. Now that i mentioned it. Their about the same."
"I am Groot." Groot said 'Don't remind me of that crappy movie.'
Once they made it to the end of the tunnels, right in the inner chamber. They saw a guy in a black coat running towards them. They all summon their keyblades to fight. But the guy ran past all of them. As if he was running from something else.
Or Demyx actually was running from someone else.
"RUN! RUN AWAY!" Demyx screamed while running in a dark portal.
Leaving the team confused and weirded out as to why that happened.
"Okay?" Sora could only say.
"Damn, if only political correctness could do that each time a film shows up." Aiden muttered.
"Hey guys, there's a way out." Kairi pointed at the entry to the Valley of the Dead.
"Alright, let's get ready to call ourselves TBN." Aiden gestured the team to move forward.
But once they made it to the valley walkway, nothing but green illuminated around the area. Which was a scary side along with moaning that could be heard down below. Which was the world's fallen dwellers. Kairi look a little intimidated seeing all of this, so Sora walked up to her and took her hand, his way of showing comfort with a smile. She of course smiled back. Donald and Goofy on the other hand were shaking and chattering teeth. Donald whimpered like a duck.
"I'm scared too Donald." Goofy quivered.
"I am Groot." Baby Groot whimpered while lashing on to Victoria, who held him close like a baby.
"Don't worry. I won't let anything happen to you." Victoria cooed to Groot.
Sora went up and glared up at Hades lair. "Hades! Come out!" He called, but no answer.
"Hmm no answer. Maybe the devil left a spare key under the mat." Aiden grinned at Sora who grinned back and nodded. As they and the team pressed on towards the lair.
Inside Hades' chamber…
Pete and Hades stood near the edge of whirling green pool that appeared to be a portal to the river of death. Pain and Panic were especially curious.
"By the by uh, what's down there?" Pete pondered.
"Just the Underworld's deepest dungeon." Hades chuckled excitedly. "This time I'm bringing out the mother of all bad guys!"
Though Pete wasn't entirely sure what he meant by that. The intimidating look on Hades' face made him back away a bit. "You don't say?...Well maybe i should go." Pete said nervously.
Hades then twirls his fingers, conjuring flames as he sends two blasts of fire down the green hole, thus to the deepest prison. A smoke of black clouds and electricity releases Hades prisoner. Which turns out to be a man with his arm in a sling name Auron.
Hades chuckles evilly "Let's cut to the chase. Here's the deal I'm gonna offer you. I let you out of the slammer, no strings, you be free as a bird."
Auron looked at the henchmen who were backed up in a wall shivering in fear.
"And all for one little job. Fight Hercules, in the coliseum. To the death!" Hades offered.
Auron's only response to the underworld leader was this.
"This is my story. And your not part of it." Auron stated plainly.
Refusing Hades' offer as he raised his sword and stood against Hades. This angered him.
"Did you forget who YOUR TAKING TO!? I AM THE LORD OF THE DEAD!" Hades roared.
Auron smirked. "No wonder no one wants to die." He scoffed.
"YOU ARE FIRED!" Hades blazed up in red flames.
Then Auron swings his sword only to get it caught in Hades' grip. As they were struggling, Sora ran in with the Guardians.
"YOU AGAIN!" Hades saw them.
While he was distracted. Auron slashed again pushing Hades back.
"FIGHT!" Auron yelled.
Auron struck again only for Hades to punch Auron down with a fist of flames. But before He could finish Auron off. Blaze flew in and blocked his fists with her palms.
"A little help here?!" Blaze called the team.
"Take this Hades!" Sora ran in and slashed.
"Take this? can you be more of a noob?" Maverick stuck lighting on Hades.
"Focus Aiden!" Donald yelled shooting gravity bubbles at Hades.
"We gotta take him down!" Kairi jump slashes at Hades.
"I am Groot!" Baby Groot was trying to shake Auron awake.
"Charges!" Goofy performed a spin attack on Hades.
Unfortunately all of their attacks had no effect as Hades just stood there smirking and yawning. While everyone's attacks kept flying through him.
Eventually the Guardians ceased their attacks feeling a dark aura over them.
"Something wrong!" Donald noticed.
"I feel kinda funny." Sora huffed in exhaustion.
"Me too." Kairi breathed holding her knees.
"Also is just me or are we just flying past this bastards?" Maverick pointed out.
"That's right. See, that's the thing. In the Underworld. Heroes are Zeros. Comes with the territory." Hades gloated and looked at Maverick. "Also, is it just me your do you look like a glorified can opener?"
"Your one to talk, given i don't dress like a trans bratz doll." Maverick quipped about Hades
"Eh, i heard better comebacks from a spicy pita pocket. Oh and by the way, you got a fan upstairs." Hades pointed up at the ceiling.
Before Maverick could say, he felt what looked like tentacles made of….Neon?! Black and red colored neons wrap around his arms and pulled him through the ceiling.
"Aiden!" The team cried.
Then Blaze was pulled out by another tentacle wrapped around her.
"Woah!" Blaze was pulled out the window.
"Tori!" Kairi reached her hand out to her new friend.
"Where were we again? Oh yes." Hades charged at the Guardians.
But Auron got up and stood between him and the team. Slashing his sword causing Hades to smoke away and pop back in front of him.
"Go now!" Auron told the team.
"But i've gotta talk to Hades!" Sora protested.
"What was that?" Hades covered his ears.
"Sora we gotta go!" Kairi pulled him away.
Sora didn't resist knowing she was right. So they and Auron ran out with Hades and a bunch of heartless following.
(Kid Rock - Bawitdaba)
Bawitdaba, da bang, da dang diggy diggy, diggy, said the boogie, said up jump the boogie
Above Hades skull lair. Blaze was left in the air by a large dark neon tentacle, while Maverick was thrown out onto the ground of a rocky platform. Along with the pain, he heard the sound of rock music playing in the background.
"Okay. Who's mimicking my shtick this time? And why Robert Richie of all people?" Maverick struggled and stood up. "Umph!"
My name is kid
Kid rock!
Only to be socked in the jaw by someone's keyblade. Falling on the ground. Standing over Maverick was none other, then the organization's the Test Subject. Wearing an armored suit form. Just like Maverick's. In fact, the Test Subject is wearing the same a Maverick suit. But the colors are black and dark red instead of his custom blue and green. And with red eyes on the helmet instead of blue.
A dark Maverick perhaps?
Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy
Shake the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy
Shake the boogie said up jump the boogie
"So. Your the Maverick. You don't look much." The Test Subject says looking at him struggle to get up and cough.
"Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black. Given that you've been in my closet." Maverick demanded while struggling to get up. "Care to comment?"
The Test Subject knocked Maverick back down, with his foot.
"The name, is Stormur. This suit was a gift, from names like ...Lash. Taskmaster. Deathbird all of them giving notes to some dude in a black coat. Ring any bells? Prey?" The Test Subject name Stormur sneered mockingly down at Maverick while walking around.
It seems this is what the Organization was making all this time. From Lash tell now. This is where all of their data collected from watching Maverick, went to.
Making a nobody Test Subject, called Stormur. The anti Maverick.
"We do look alike but there is one thing that makes me different...I can evolve, obverse in fear and awe!" Stormur says.
Technically they both can.
"Ditto." Maverick winced getting back up.
"And. I never hold back." Stormur added confidently.
"Oh. Don't tell me. Your the 'Boys in the Hood's' Illegitimate son!" Maverick laughed which angered Stormur. " Alright so you got my likenesses but did they have to make you look and sound like Batman if he was an emo?"
"You May be a wise ass comedian, but that's hides weakness and fear I smell in you." Stormur growled
Darkness users have great sense of smell.
"Well smell again jackass. Everything you have is on me. And there's only room for one, TM." Maverick jabbed back. "But since i pissed you off enough, let's dance. And by dance, i mean let's try to kick each other's asses." Maverick summoned his keyblades and spun them as they ran to each other.
"BRING IT!" Stormur roared with summon of Keyblades and clashed with Maverick.
Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy
Shake the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy
Shake the boogie said up jump the boogie
Down below Sora and the others were fighting heartless while avoiding Hades' giant fireballs. Kairi slashed several down then looks up to see something very shocking.
"Guys look!" Kairi pointed up on the platform.
They all could see Maverick and Stormur fighting like Jedi knights in the final prequel on top of the platform.
"What?! Two Maverick?!" Sora gasped. "What's going on up there!?"
"Less talking more running!" Auron suggested.
"We got to help him!" Kairi pleaded.
"We can't! There's no way to reach him!" Donald dejected.
"We gotta get outta here guys!" Goofy yelled covering his head with a shield to watch out for falling rock and Hades' fireballs.
And this is for the questions that don't have an answer
The midnight glances
And the topless dancers
The can of freaks
Back up at the platform. Maverick kicked Stormur, causing him to roll back. Then Stormur constructed some dark neon scorpions claw arms and a electric tail appeared from his back.
"Eww! I hope that's been clean!" Maverick quipped at his intimidating looks.
Stormur tries to strike him with his dark neon scorpion tails but Maverick kept doing back flips as it kept striking at him. Dodging out of the way until he teleported behind Stormur and slices the tail off of Stormur.
"Gross!" Maverick sang.
"Better than being lame ass frost boy! Ice is so last century! For the storms are coming in!" Stormur cracked as he ran up to him with his scorpion clawed arms.
Cars packed with speakers
The g's with the forty's
And the chicks with beepers
The northern lights
Maverick constructed huge ice blade arms and flipped while dodging the claws, and blocking them with his ice blades. Then Maverick flipped kicked up, Knocking Stormur down and then Maverick slammed an ice wrecking ball down on Stormur, breaking his scorpion claws.
And the southern comfort
And it don't even matter if your veins are punctured
All the crackheads, the critics, the cities
And all my heroes at the methodone clinics
"Ice is what now Douchebag?! But I've never seen dry rain before!" Maverick mocked as he rolled back up.
Stormur shook off the pain and got up to constructed a dark neon Ankylosaurus tail covered in spikes, whacking Maverick away.
"You will now!" Stormur screeched as he summon rain of fiery dark neon beams and lighting at him."Extra hot!"
Now the Hot air did no good with lighting and flames as they grew making a tight ring.
Ground also glowed with dark neon colored flames and metal poles emerged from the ground, conduct lighting. Maverick moved at the speed of light avoiding the lightning and dark neon strikes. He even constructed a neon umbrella to block the neon rain drops. Then he runs up and wacks Stormur with the umbrella. Breaking it in half.
As Maverick got out of the ring, with the help of an ice force field bubble around himself to pass through the dark neon flames everywhere Maverick went back into normal speed and yelled humorously. "I'm fireproof Mav Wannabe!"
But then Stormur started getting vicious!
Back up on the roof of Hades' lair, Baby Groot climbed up to Blaze who was still tied up in Stormur's Dark neon tentacles.
"Groot?! Hey! A little help honey?!" Blaze called over.
Baby Groot hopped over to and climbed up on blaze, and landed on her back to cut the tentacles lose.
"I am Groot!" He chirped as he formed his hands into wooden scissors. Those should cut easily.
All you bastards at the i.r.s.
For the crooked cops and the cluttered desks
For the shots of jack and the caps of meth
Half pints of love and a fifth of stress
"But are you lighting proof, Frost eyes?" Stormur inquired.
Suddenly a summoned construct of lighting and neon appeared and charged at the shied, breaking it and shocking Maverick pretty good.
Something was wrong! Maverick should have repelled all of that! And he's usually impervious to lightning…..At least while wearing the suit. Maybe it's the Underworld curse down there.
Stormur then charged with great speed at the shocked and dazed armored keyblader and starts a fast punching, painful beat down with rage.
All the hookers that are tricking out in hollywood
And for my hoods of the world misunderstood
I said it's all good and it's all in fun
Now get in the pit and try to love someone!
Maverick's suit starts cracking from the multi layered punches from his dark copy. Then Stormur uppercuts Maverick in the air and caught him by the leg. Stormur Then slams Maverick in to the ground like a cartoon Loki.
"THIRD! FLOOR! MEN'S! SOCKS!" Maverick kept repeating each time Stormur slams him into the ground. It was knocking the wind out of him alright.
Then Stormur drops him. And then he smirked evilly as he decides to go for an old classic.
"I could kill you now, but that would end the fun of fighting you, and toying with you." Stormur picked Maverick up holding him over his head. "Maybe even end a greater fight before it just got started… But first, i'll make you suffer... BREAK TIME!"
Stormur roared as he did the bane's back breaker on Maverick's back. Breaking it of course.
But it didn't faze Maverick despite the pain.
"Oh great! You broke me! What is this, 2012!?" Maverick rolled his eyes as he was dropped to the ground.
But Maverick's back quickly healed back in it's place as he sat back up on his knees. This gave Stormur another idea.
"I wonder if the rumors are true." Stormur said as he spun his keyblades in a lightening effect.
"No they are, Batman gets more reboots then America gets good opinions about their- shit." Maverick quickly quips as he sees Stormur blasting a dark neon beam through his stomach.
Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy
Shake the boogie said up jump the boogie
Bawitdaba da bang da bang diggy diggy diggy
Shake the boogie said up jump the boogie
Maverick fell on his knees coughing as Stormur dashes in to deliver several punches and kicks everywhere on him, before slicing Maverick's arms off with his dark keyblades.
*SLICE DICE* two arms fell off in sparking pieces.
"OH GOD! I'M UNARMED! Get it?" Maverick snickered until. "Woah wait!"
Because his magic ring fell off, he was immediately shifted back into Aiden. Who looked beaten beyond mercy and bleeding horribly from his arm stumps. But Aiden wasn't acting like he was hurt, instead he rolled it off.
"Don't feel bad, even i can't kill me." Aiden smirked up at Stormur.
Stormur was getting annoyed. He was hurting Aiden, but not making him suffer. He was getting bored already.
"You can't, but maybe i can now." Stormur roses his keyblade ready to strike.
"If i had a nickel for every time i heard that." Aiden deadpanned while coughing, he was feeling a lot of pain. But he could handle it.
But before Stormur could bring his keyblade down and kill Aiden. Blaze from the other said and blasted a really large mountain size beam of fire and sending Stormur through a wall.
"GAHHHHH!" Stormur yelled as he was sent kilometers through the brimstone wall.
"Aiden!" Blaze flew over and was horrified to see the state he was.
Cuts all over his face and body like he was a used cat's scratching post. He even had a right black eye. And his arms cut off like slice salami. But the arms were already slowly growing back. While some fragments of glowing red and hot like embers pieces were falling off his regrown skin. Those were elements from Stormur's dark powers. Blaze shook away her thoughts and picked Aiden up and flew him out of there.
"Hang on Baby." Blaze's voice cracked, she hated seeing him like this.
"Hear that Groot? She called me baby." Aiden sounded delirious.
" I am Groot." Baby Groot pointed out while hanging onto Blaze as well.
"Oh right, she always does." Aiden muttered in realization.
Meanwhile back with the other Guardians…...
The team ran to the inner chamber outside the valley of the dead. Sora, Kairi, Donald and Goofy had just escaped the heartless and Hades before they all could become an underworld flambe. Even Auron an ex prisoner escaped with the team. Once they made it to the exit of the inner chamber. the team fell to the ground exhausted having just escape from their doom.
Kairi sat up and looked up at their strange assistant Auron and the team felt grateful for his help..
"You were really good back here. Are you some kind of hero?" Kairi asked Auron who had his back to everyone.
"No. No hero I'm just an...Auron." He could only responded.
"Huh?" They all asked in confusion.
"My name." He clarified.
"I'm Sora." Sora came up.
"Donald." Donald hopped on top of Sora.
"Goofy." Goofy came on top of them, and they all fell to the ground.
"And I'm Kairi." Kairi said while trying not to giggle at her friends antics.
"Seems to me like your all in need of a guardian." Auron remarked.
"Thanks but no thanks, we're already guardians." Sora sat up and stated politely.
"GUYS!" They all heard Blaze.
The armored heroine came flying in from out of the dead valley entrance and landed in front of them with Aiden in her arms. Since Blaze is the size of a few grown woman, she was tall enough to carry Aiden, except for when she's Victoria in which Aiden is taller than her.
She laid him on the ground and shifted back into Victoria . The team is shocked to see him beaten, bruised, cut and armless.
"Hey Guardions...Gordons…..Gardens…..Guard Dogs…. What are we called again?" Aiden greeted the team sound dizzy before dropping his head and coughing up blood.
"Aiden!" Sora and the others ran over to him.
"Oh my gosh! What happen!?" Kairi gasped running over to check how bad were the boy's conditions.
Auron frowned at the state of the hero, while others stared in horror. Aiden was looking like he was in a match with Hulk Hogan if he was a demon.
"Looks like a brutal beatdown of the wild men if you ask me." Auron observed.
Victoria cupped Aiden's face. "Hey. Aiden? Can you hear me? Aiden?!" Her voice broke seeing her boyfriend in this state.
"I am Groot?" Baby Groot crawled up on Aiden's chest and looked up at him with worry in his eyes.
Aiden opened his eyes only to see them crossed.
"More chili fries for The Pope's table." Aiden muttered before shaking his own head and got his eyes back to focusing.
"I am Groot." gave the team a thumbs up. Translate: 'He'll live.'
Victoria shed tears of relieved as she hugged and kissed Aiden on the lips. "Are you sure you okay Aid?" She cued.
"Aw." Kairi beamed quietly at the young couple.
"I'm fine Vicky. Ugh.. now i am. And now i know how Superman felt when he met Bizarro. Alright Where's the phony emo twerp who looks like me?!" Aiden asked coming to himself while his arms were regrowing. and his cuts and bruises were disappearing.
"Huh?" Sora inquired.
"Some Maverick wannabe in dark colors Aiden was fighting. He's probably dead after getting barbecued by one of the biggest hits." Victoria said.
"No I don't think so. If he has my neon abilities and your storm abilities, he's probably still alive." Aiden said as his arms finally grew back and his magic ring appeared back on his finger.
"he did all of that to you?!" Sora said in shock.
"Yeah, but he shouldn't have. I should've repelled most of his lightning shots and his neon shouldn't have that much of an effect on my armor." Aiden stated trying to think.
'That is because your Nobody. Dianex AKA Stormur. Was using the advantage of the Underworld curse to weaken and kill you.' IRIS spoke up from his Mav ring.
"Wait hold on. Dianex?" Aiden inquired.
"His Nobody?!" Sora exclaimed.
"Stormur?" Victoria inquired.
"Underworld curse?!" Donald and Goofy gasped. "Oh wait, we knew that."
'Of course. I've scanned Stormur while you were fighting him. He has the same genetic and metaphysical signature as the Nobodies themselves. Decoding his identity was easy, due to him having a magic ring just like yours. With his name and image on file.' IRIS elaborated.
"Does his file have anything on his background or origins maybe?" Aiden inquired.
'Of course, but I'm only able to display fragments of the classified Nobody texts, it will take a short moment for the rest of the info to upload.' IRIS answered.
"Wait Aiden was never turned into a heartless! Were you?" Sora asked Aiden.
"No! There's no way i could have an empty shell clone…..Unless….." Aiden then immediately thought back.
Flashback To Maverick Final Fight With Lash…
Elsa and Maverick were watching as the heart of Lash was dying off. Explaining his role.
"I didn't do it on my own, and neither did Shay. It seemed that i was always meant to be... just a conduit. Even from the start. If not for Shay's, then maybe for the organization."
"What organization?" Elsa asked frowning.
"The ones that started all of this, the ones responsible for the absence of Wise Ansem. And the ones that shroud themselves in dark hoods." Lash answer breaking up. "System failure, system wipe out procedure engaged."
"Wait! What guys in dark hoods!?" Maverick caught that detail. Where they the same ones that killed his mom?
But the red Sphere that was once Lash, faded and shattered to pieces. Until the heart that was in the center, like all hearts. Ascended into nothing.
Lash was no more.
Returning to the present…..
"OH. MY GOD." Aiden zoned out as it was all coming back to him.
"What? What is it?" Sora tried talking as Aiden walked past him in his thoughts.
Aiden even thought back to Taskmaster and Deathbird. They had dark powers with the same data as Lash. Organization XIII weren't just helping them. They were helping the Organization. Each time they fought the Maverick or sent people out to fight him. The Organization was gathering data off of Maverick so they could finally create a weapon of equal if not greater power.
A weapon going by the name of Dianex AKA Stormur.
"YOU GOTTA BE SHITTING ME!" Aiden bellowed as it was all coming back to him now.
"What?!" Sora threw his arms in frustration but Aiden wasn't listening to him.
"I hate it when he does this." Victoria rolled her eyes.
"I hate to interrupt the exposition, but we're not out of Hades domain yet." Auron spoke up to the team.
"Right….He's right." Aiden sighed and looked to the team. "I'll explain everything once we're all out of here. In the meantime."
Aiden then shifted back into Maverick. And Victoria shifted into Blaze.
"Were going to need all the protection we can use." Blaze said to everyone.
"Right." Sora and Kairi nodded.
As Sora touched his glove shifting into armored Sora, and Kairi touched her arm band and shifted into an armored Kairi. Her armored form looked just like Sora's but more feminine looking and pink with hints of silver colors.
"You guys are good?" Blaze asked Donald and Goofy.
"Yep." Donald nodded.
"We're A okay." Goofy gave an okay sign.
"And what about you? Looks like your arm could use some help." Maverick asked Auron.
Look who's talking, considering you were literally disarmed." Auron scoffed at him.
Maverick fake squeezed a laugh. "HA! Fake laugh, hiding real pain." He quipped before saying. "We're getting out of death valley, this place is draining us. So are you coming with us? Hacksaw Ridge?"
Auron raise his eyebrows at that name. "is that some kind of nickname?" he inquired.
Maverick guessed he's not from a modern world.
"Order." Donald warned him.
"I know Duck Dynasty." Maverick rolled his eyes, even though he's not bound by the world order. He has to respect it when teaming up with folks who follow those rules.
"I'll take that as a yes." Auron sighed.
"Come on, let's get outta here." Sora lead the team through the tunnels. They had to fight their way through a few heartless, but they made it at the end.
Back in Hades' lair…..
Pete was leaning back on a table table speaking condescendingly to Hades who was passing back in worth, thinking of what will be his next move.
"I got heartless all over the Underworld now. So you can leave those pip-squeak guardians to me." Pete chuckled lightly and walked up to Hades. "Look pal, you just keep working on turning Hercules into a heartless. Then he'll be all mine!"
But then Hades blaze red in anger at Pete. "THIS IS MY UNDERWORLD YOU IDIOT! I'LL HANDLE THIS MYSELF!" He bellowed making Pete fall backwards and scared out of his wits.
Then Hades turned to the window and snapped his finger summoning the giant three headed dog, Cerberus! Cerberus rose up and growled in acknowledgement to the lord of the dead.
"Cerberus. Go!" Hades ordered.
The monster dog nodded and ran off to carry out his duty. Kill the guardians.
At the Cave of the Dead entrance….
Sora who was still in his armored form. Along with Donald and Goofy ran ahead of the others to see that the two doors leading outside is closes.
"What?! It's close!" Donald yelled.
The three half pints tried pulling the big doors open by hand, all to no effect. "It's gonna budge..." Goofy grunted.
"Come on open…." Sora was trying too hard and ignoring the big lock right above them.
"Uh guys?" Blaze tried calling them.
"Sora?" Kairi who was still in her armored form tried getting their attention.
"Earth to spike?" Maverick finally tried, but Sora, Donald and Goofy were ignoring them. Aiden sighed and looked at Kairi. "Care to do the honors Rosebud?"
"Gladly." Kairi nodded and pointed her keyblades at the lock that was holding the doors together. A light beam shot out of Kairi's keyblade toward the lock, making it vanish and unlocking the gate to the outside.
Sora and his two buddies back away in realization and embarrassment.
"Oh uh, right i was. Gonna do that after…." Sora chuckled nervously.
"Sure you were. Lazy Bum." Kairi chirped her old nickname for Sora when they were younger.
"Okay can we get the hell out of hell now?" Maverick inquired.
*ROOOOAR!*
Suddenly Cerberus appeared right behind the team snapping his three headed jaws like sharks.
"GO NOW!" Auron jumped up and slashed at the monster, blocking the exit as it opened slightly while the others ran out.
But Sora, Kairi, Maverick and Blaze stopped and looked back at Auron and were all looking at each other with guilt.
"Ugh…. I'll do it. But i'll hate myself in the morning." Blaze sighed.
"But that's hours away babe." Maverick ran back inside with Sora.
"GUYS WAIT!" Donald called back as he and Goofy and even Baby Groot were blocked outside as the doors were shutting separating them.
"I am Groot!" Baby Groot called back to Maverick as the doors shut.
Maverick and Victoria flew around Cerberus getting his attention.
"Look at us Cujo! We're a distraction!" Maverick yelled making fun of the three head dog as he angrily tried biting at him and Blaze. All to no effect.
Kairi jumped and shot freeze blasts at it's butt making it whine like a three headed puppy. Cerberus turned to bite her, but then Auron slashed at it's jaw again blocking him from attacking her. Blaze struck fireballs getting it's attention back. Sora ran and hopped on two of it's heads before the two heads trapped Sora to try squeezing him in. Then the third head tried to eat him only for Sora to break out and slash his keyblade up, hit second head and jump off the first head. In the air Sora slammed back down on all three heads Knocking Cerberus down.
Then Kairi fall a big rock about to fall on Cerberus's butt. So while the monster dog tried standing. She ran grabbed it's tail with her keyblade and slid under, making Cerberus whine as he was flipped over, as the big rock fell on Cerberus's head.
Knocking Cerberus out.
"Nice one Kairi!" Sora cheered.
Blaze landed and fistbumped Kairi. "Cheers girlfriend."
"Thanks." Kairi smiled.
After the fight. The doors finally opened. "Come on!" Donald gestured them to hurry.
They all ran through before the doors started closing again. Cerberus rose it's heads up to see the team making fun of him on the other end. Goofy waved silly like while Donald shook his head at him with his tongue out making duck noises. Sora shifted out of his armor to hold his cheeks open while crossed eyed. Kairi shifted out of her armor to blow raspberries at the creature, while Blaze shifted back into Victoria, and shook her booty at demon mutt. And Maverick shifted back into Aiden and gave the giant dog two middle fingers.
Cerberus got angry seeing them and tried running after the team. Only to hit all three of it's heads at the doors when it closes. Knocking the underworld mutt out cold.
Back up at the Olympus Coliseum….
Meg was with Hercules in the lobby trying to convince the exhausted hero to stop fighting.
"Come on Wonderboy. Play hookie for a day." Meg cued leaning into his face. "For old times sake."
Hercules grind and kiss her lips before separating and refusing. "They came to see me. They came to see a hero. I can't let them down." He said looking down.
Meg sighed sadly looking at him with sympathy.
Herc saw the look on her face and smiled reassuringly as he stood up.
"Don't worry Meg. I'll be fine. What does a hero need rest for, huh?" Hercules flexed his big arms and waved before leaving. "See ya!
Meg smiled slightly at him as he left. But afterwards she looked worried while whispering to herself. "Sora, don't let me down."
Back down in the Underworld entrance…..
"Whew. I need a massage after all of that." Sora stressed his arms and sighed in relief that they were out of there
Kairi Blushed at the thought of her messaging him, but she shook it off when she noticed something. "Hey, where's Auron?"
They all looked back to see that he was gone.
"Where did he go?" Goofy asked.
"That guy can take care of himself." Victoria stated.
"Yeah, and i've had my fill of this literal hellhole." Aiden agreed.
"Let's go to the Coliseum and find Meg. Maybe we can try again after we take a breather." Sora suggested.
"Totally agree." Aiden nodded as did the other members agreed.
"Come on Groot." Kairi chirped picking Baby Groot up and holding him like a sugar bear pet.
As the team was walking toward the stairways to the Mortal world. Victoria smiled at Baby Groot and pretended to look jealous.
"Got a new favorite i see?" Victoria snickered while walking next to Kairi and stroking the little trees cheek.
"I am Groot." Baby Groot sighed and smiled at Victoria's touch. Translate: 'Nothing can ever replace you.'
While they were walking up the stairway, Sora started talking with Aiden.
"You still haven't told us, what did you find out about….Dianex?" Sora asked him, while the others were listening.
After Aiden had finished reading the file IRIS had on Stormur, he could finally conclude what he knew about this test subject.
"Apparently he's not born like other Nobodies." Aiden clarified. "He was a living test subject made in a lab, by the Organization."
"Woah. How is that possible?" Sora asked wildly shocked to here that.
"Do you remember me telling you about Lash, Taskmaster and Deathbird?" Aiden quizzed.
"All of your former enemies? Yeah why?" Sora wondered.
"Well according to what they said to me in different terms, and what IRIS's info states. They all got their dark powers from the same people." Aiden revealed.
"The Organization?" Kairi asked.
"Who else? I've been on their hit list since they killed my mother and tried to kill me when Hollow Bastion fell. All this time they were gathering a psychological and biological signature of my DNA and heart. And using all of it as data so that could make….. Stormur." Aiden confirmed.
"God that's a weird name, Stormur. And I'm guessing they borrowed those stormy elements from studying me." Victoria concluded that part sarcastically. "Which means we are looking at a wannabe hybrid. 99% you and 1% me."
"But mostly me. Dad always said I was my worst enemy." Aiden sighed.
"Don't worry Aiden, we'll all be ready for him next time." Sora said confidently.
"I love the optimism Spike, but. The hell we will be." Aiden said making him look confused. "No offense or anything, it's just. If he's anything like me. Dianex is unpredictable. Which means we'll all have to be if were going to try and break him next time."
"But he did take advantage of that underworld curse during your fight with him. Maybe he won't be so lucky without it." Sora pointed out. "And besides you've got us now. He won't stand a chance against all of us at once."
Sora has become a friend to Aiden so quickly. He always had that effect on every world he visited. Including Aiden.
"I hope your right Spike. For now. I'm going to try a little cheat trick of my own." Aiden thought of an idea for the next fight, as he started working with IRIS to get ready for Stormur's next surprise attack.
What that might be, we'll see soon enough.
Back in the Valley of the dead….
Demyx ran up the walkway looking nervously at the crater in the wall that Stormur was thrown through. He gasped seeing Stormur hover out like he was never hit…..If you don't count the dents and scrapes on his suit.
He landed hard in front of Demyx, frightening him. Stormur then shifted out of his armored form, revealing himself as Dianex.
Dianex was wearing an outfit that looked just like Aiden's keyblader outfit. Only instead of green and blue. His was black and red. Dianex's even had the same face, height, size and hair style as Aiden. Only his hair was black with fringes of red instead of white with fringes of blue. And his eye color was red instead of blue.
This boy looks like an anti Aiden.
"Are you...Oka-" Demyx asked nervously but was cut off.
"I'm fine." Dianex growled scowling at him.
"Okay just checking." Demyx trembled a little.
"SIXIR. Status." Dianex said to his magic ring, that looked like Maverick's ring only with a red S Symbol instead of blue M symbol.
In fact, SIXIR is the Nobody's version of IRIS.
'The Guardians of the Multiverse have left the underworld. But they still seem to be present in this world.' SIXIR stated.
Then Dianex overheard a meeting going on up in Hades' Lair.
Hades' sat on his throne listening to Pete explain the guardians.
"Let me see if i've got this right? That brat and his co-workers keyblades works on any lock?" Hades inquired.
"That's right." Pete confirmed.
Hades chuckled as he thought of something. "Have i ever told you about the killer coliseum we have right here in the Underworld?" He said to Pete. "It makes the one upstairs look like an Olympic kiddie pool."
"Than that's the place we're gonna put an end to Herc The Jerk's winnin streak!" Pete slammed his fist down on the table.
"Problem. Zeus locked it tight." Hades pointed out.
Pete moaned in annoyance, until he saw Hades chuckle at the thought he was having. Pete then realized what he was thinking. The Guardian's keyblades!
"Bingo… All we gotta do is swipe one of their keys. And then reopen the Underdrome!" Hades suggested.
"Hate to tell ya, but their keys are kinda particular. All of em won't work for just anybody. And that kid they have with them, especially the Maverick ain't no pushover." Pete dejected.
Hades scoffed and said. "I think this calls for a woman's touch." He showed a smoky image of Meg in his hand.
Dianex was listening outside and thought of an idea. He hovered back down to Demyx who opened a dark portal for both of them to take their leave.
"So, what are you thinking?" Demyx asked him.
"I'll wait. Right after you have your turn." Dianex said simply in a low tone.
"Huh? A-Are you sure? I mean the Maverick and his girlfriend may not get so lucky next time." Demyx stated nervously.
Dianex scoffed. "That wasn't sheer luck i saw earlier. That was love. I should know." He stated his correction. "Let's go."
Dianex and Demyx then went through the portal and disappeared. But how would Dianex know what love is if Nobodies don't feel anything? Who was he referring to about love? And what is his next move to try to kill Maverick?
Time will tell. We can only hope that Aiden can win the next battle.
That's all for now folks!
So now you all know, the Test Subject that Organization XII created in the last chapter. Was the Nobody of Aiden AKA the Maverick. This Nobody is named Dianex (It's pronounce DNA with an X at the end). AKA Stormur.
Dianex Is an OC inspired by Shadow the hedgehog and he is an OC created by Haxorus Knight. Thank you for letting me get creative with this psycho you gave me.
"*Cough* Just please no more bane reverences alright?! Oh my back!" Maverick moaned in pain.
I make no promises.
Anyway, just like Aiden. Dianex is voiced by Aaron Dismuke. Only is sound's more dark and emotionless then Aiden. A little more grunty.
And just like Maverick. Stormur is voiced by Troy Baker. Only he uses the same dark robot voice Batman had in the Telltale series.
"So he's me if i was directed by Zack Snyder." Maverick quipped.
"Watch it Prey!" Stormur spat.
"Who are you calling Prey you Emo Transformer?!" Maverick snapped back at Stormur.
Okay i better get going before the fight starts again! Please add comments and let me know what you thought about this chapter. And as- WOAH!
*Gunfire*
And as always Disney/Square Enix fans!
FISTBUMP!