Kingdom Hearts Keyblade Legion

by lyokoMARVELanime

Sequel to Dual Keys. Sora, Donald, Goofy return to the worlds after an event that caused them to have their memories modified, and they're off on a new adventure with Ven. But this time they've some new friends with them. Can Roxas and Xion help to save the worlds from this new evil group? Is there some deeper mystery surrounding the two siblings? Find out along with the new team.

14. Assembling With Marvels

AN: Hello everyone! And welcome back to another heart-pounding chapter in the adventures of the Keyblade Legion!

Sora: Um, I don't think we've officially been given that name yet.

AN: I wouldn't worry about that for much longer. Anyways, it's been a few months or so since we last updated this chapter, mainly because I've had a lot of Spider-Man stuff on my mind, and that forced me to focus more on the story behind Hearts of Avengers and A Spider's Focus, plus I also started up my first RWBY story, or rather, RWBY one-shot series, RWBY Meetings. If you haven't gone over to check that out yet, please do so when you get the chance. Either way, we're now back again with another update to the Keyblade Legion story, and just in time to see our favorite adventurers dive into all the marvels of the Marvel Universe!

Spidey: I can't wait to show you guys what my world's like in this story.

Roxas: Yeah, we've been waiting quite a while to see how similar or different it is in this story compared to the version in Hearts of Avengers.

AN: Admit it, Roxas. You're mainly excited for the fact that you get to finally appear in any kind of Marvel world since it won't be until the second story in the Kingdom Marvels series that you get to do so.

Xion: Actually, that would apply to me and a lot of the rest of us as well. Especially in the case of anyone in the Organization, loyal member or not, considering what you have planned for us in that series.

AN: [sighs] Fair enough. Well, before we run the risk of someone giving away a spoiler for this or any other story, let's answer some reviews and get into things.

Starting things off with a response to "CT7567Rules", I didn't forget about your review, it just didn't seem like there was anything I could say in response to it. That does happen sometimes, but I am glad to see that you're still enjoying the story so far.

Next up, to "DragonMack", I am still brainstorming on ideas for various Keyblade transformations that the other Guardians of Light could have, mainly because I don't want them all to be some variation of the ones we saw in canon, but don't worry, we will see plenty of those when we reach that point of the series.

Rolling it over to "theCesar09", well...we've seen one thing that Sora and Kairi do when they're not doing the script (look back to chapters when they were still raving mad about a certain event in KH3 if you need the example), but otherwise, there's a large variety of things that they do. A lot of it is pretty simple, harmless stuff, but there are some things that tend to be a little...crazy, and probably go overboard. I'll probably expand on that in the Keyblades Unleashed Series Extras short-story series that I'm doing on the side later on.

"rmarcano321", yes, Kairi will have a slight change to her KH2 outfit, but at the moment, the only change that Aqua's outfit will see in this story is that she ditches the Organization coat in favor of her usual canon attire. But if you mean changes later on in other stories, then yeah, I do intend to try and give a good number of characters a change to their appearances, be it ones that they got in the canon story line, or something a little more original, the latter being in cases like Xion, Aqua, and Ventus, since they're the ones who've had the same outfits since they were first introduced. Still, you'll have to wait for a specific story to see those changes, unless it involves Drive Forms being used.

"Dragon Rider 66", first off, I wouldn't say that there's something wrong with me. It was really more of a matter of being so deep in shock and awe at all the overall epicness that was put on display throughout the movie that by the time it reached points where you would be expecting someone to cry, I was just unable too. Shock-overload made me crash. As for which version of Marvel this will be, you'll have to find out from the chapter today, but I will give a little more explanation about it in the ending note, in case it's still unclear by then.

Sora: Oh, hey, "relena soulheart", to answer your question to all of us about which Avenger/Marvel hero is our favorites, mine is definitely either Spider-Man or Captain America.

AN: Same here. Spidey and mah boy Cap all the way!

Riku: Hmm...I would have to say Iron Man. He does his best to be a hero, but doesn't always make choices that his friends really agree with, or would fully understand at the time. Plus, he's got a cool super armor, is a mega genius, and ladies love him.

Kairi: I'd say my favorite's the Wasp, namely Janet Van Dyne, the one from Avengers EMH. She's really cool.

Xion: My favorite would have to be either Scarlet Witch or Black Widow. They're both awesome bad asses with checkered pasts, but they're doing their bests to make up for it by being heroes. Plus, did you see how Wanda was dominating Thanos is Endgame?! If the guy hadn't ordered his ship to start blasting everything on the ground, she totally would've beaten him all on her own.

Roxas: Thor's my favorite. He's got great hair, he's the prince of Asgard, and then there's the fact that he was wielding both Mjolnir and Stormbreaker in Endgame like how I often use both Oathkeeper and Oblivion. Plus, he's also really funny.

Axel: Mine's Human Torch. Need I really explain why?

Ventus: I'm with Sora and lyoko on Spider-Man being one of my favorites, but I would also have to add in Quicksilver, mainly because he uses speed to fight bad guys like I do.

Terra: My favorite would definitely be Hulk. I can relate to his struggles so much.

Aqua: Captain Marvel, or Ms. Marvel, whichever identity you prefer Carol Danvers to assume. I think she and I have a lot in common with one another, especially after seeing her movie earlier this year.

Namine: Hmm...I've never really thought about it, but if I had to pick...I would have to say...Maybe Jean Grey. You know, when she's not the Dark Phoenix. Or Shuri. Despite the fact that she isn't always front line with her brother Black Panther, she's always a big, important part of what keeps him alive when he's out there. Plus, she was Black Panther herself at one point.

AN: Okay, moving on from all of that. "Anonymaton", yes, Riku's taken that tumble, and managed to struggle back out again.

Next, "Monkey D. Conan", I'm afraid I can only answer one of your questions today, as the rest would just give away huge spoilers. San Fransokyo will actually be an entirely separate world here, mainly because I've never seen or heard of anything beyond fanfictions where Big Hero Six teams up with Spidey or any other Marvel hero. Maybe its another dimension thing or something, maybe it isn't, but for now, that is the plan that I'm going with.

"CG", your question to the KH cast about who they would like to play them in a live-action series has actually gotten them all really thinking hard, right to the point where they still haven't figured it out yet. They're going to have to get back to you on that later. As for the idea of attempting the "live-action" series idea, I may consider it, but it will be a very long time before it happens.

To the "Guest" who posted on 6/2/2019, asking about if Roxas and/or Sora ever asked Ven about helping them get physically stronger, I don't think they've ever really considered it, given that the Keyblade stuff is a lot more important at the time. They may be teenage boys, but given the situation that they're in, they have managed to outgrow that phase pretty quickly, assuming they had ever gotten into it in the first place.

Aqua: "Guest" of 6/4/2019, I'd say that our bond by this point, at least in this series, would be akin to that of sisters, in my opinion. We still maintain a very close student-teacher relationship, but beyond that, we're a lot like big sister and little sister.

Kairi: Yeah, you know, like Anna and Elsa in a way. Though how much talking we've done about Aqua's relationship with Ven is a matter that I can't really discuss right now. You'll have to wait and see about that.

"TheVoidHunter250", I'm afraid that Ventus won't be getting rid of the beard, at least not completely, but it will get trimmed down quite a bit later on. It'll be a while, but it will happen.

Riku: Hey, "Guest" of 6/10/2019, namely the one who inquired about why mine, Vanitas, and Xehanort's battle stances are so simliar...I'm not sure actually. I think it's probably just because we all just have a similar fighting style, at least in a basic sense. You don't have to be related to someone for them to use the same or similar fighting style after all.

AN: Yes, well, back on track, since at least one of you asked what the KH cast's thoughts are on the KH3: ReMIND DLC trailer, I made it a point to collect all their opinions and shorten it so that we could save time, in the event that this opening note dragged on for as long as it already has. Simply put, most of them think it could be interesting, given that it does look like there are going to be new features that allow you to play as some of them, along with a few new story details, plus the fact that we're finally gonna get Oathkeeper as a Keychain again, from the look of things, but beyond that, they all feel as though it's a little early to say anything for sure at this time.

To the "Guest"s who proposed different theories on why Kairi's still a Princess of Heart, I think both ideas are very likely, but the only way we'll ever know for certain is to see what happens later on. Me personally, I'm still on the fence about which of those two ideas is more likely. Then again, if the idea of Kairi inheriting the power because it's passed down through her family is true, then I guess that would explain why so many future fanfictions set things up so that Sora and Kairi have a daughter after they finally get together and tie the knot.

To the "Guest" of 7/19/2019, anything regarding the Absent Silhouette fights will be revealed when we finally reach one of them, and whether or not they talk will more than likely depend on the Silhouette. You'll just have to wait and see in regards to anything else about that.

Finally, the "Guest" of 8/6/2019, honestly, I kinda feel like Scar ending up with his scar because he tried to challenge Mufasa in the past is a much more sound theory than the snake bite thing. I mean, yeah, I can see a snake bite giving someone a scar, but the one Scar has just seems way too much like one that you would get from getting scratched by a lion's claw to me. Not to mention the whole "soul being poisoned thing" just seems a little too out there for me.

In a general response to everyone wondering about events that would take place in Aqua and Ven's reunion, I'm keeping all cards on that matter close to the chest as of this moment, because explaining anything more about that than I already have in previous chapters' notes would start leading into spoiler territory.

Okay, that's everything I wanted to address, so let's get back to the adventures of the Keyblades Unleashed Series! Banzai!

I do not own anything from Kingdom Hearts or any other franchise mentioned in this story.

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Chapter XIV

When the team had come up to the newest world in their travels, they had not really thought too much of the sprawling metropolis that seemed to extend outwards into various other different reaches, even after Jiminy had announced that it was named Marvel Universe. Sure, they had assumed that it was like multiple different worlds in one, a phenomenon that Ventus had described to them once a while back, but none of them really figured that the name of this world could possibly hold a great deal of significance. That mindset did not change even after they had landed in the city that seemed to be the center point for this world, even through all of the excitement regarding Donald and Goofy's form changes, the change in Donald's voice, and Sora's general, somewhat childish glee of being in a place like this massive city. After seeing an old friend who had just rescued Xion though, and thinking back to one of the conversations that he and Ven once had with said friend, Sora could admit that they probably should have realized where they had ended up a little bit sooner just from the world's name alone.

Speaking of said friend, Spidey was not really thinking too much about the black haired girl he had just saved, believing her to be just another civilian that had been in danger, and was about to return to the fight while advising her to get to safety, when Xion noticed some more Heartless had just formed behind him. "Look out," Xion shouted as she pushed the web-swinger aside, summoning her Keyblade as she did so that she could quickly dispense with the Heartless.

Spider-Man was a little upset by how the girl had just shoved him like that, until he noticed the remaining Heartless that she had just engaged, and the weapon that she was fighting them with. "What the heck," Spider-Man gasped. "That looks a lot like…"

"My friends and I can handle the Heartless if you can take care of that animal tearing up the city," Xion unknowingly interrupted as she stood at the ready.

"Uh…right. No problem. Thanks," Spider-Man nodded in agreement before he quickly started moving to engage Rhino. He did not really want to leave Xion to fight the Heartless alone, but he would be lying if he were to say that he was not happy to have someone else deal with those things after what happened the last time he faced them on his own.

Seeing Spider-Man swing past them while Xion commenced attacking more Heartless, Ventus took a moment to better study the area, and saw that Heartless were not slowing down by much. Realizing this, Ven felt that it was high time that they all got serious and shouted to his three apprentices, "Sora, Roxas, Xion! Armor up now!"

The three all nodded in response, and they quickly slammed their respective armor pieces at once along with Ven. In a flash of light, the four Keybearers were soon clad in their respective Keyblade armors, and while Ven's had not changed at all from what it was the last time that Sora had seen the suit, he did note that his armor did seem to have changed a little bit since he had last used it. No longer was his armor sporting the very basic appearance it once had, but now, it had seen the addition of some new, more pronounced padding, similar in style to the armor plating on Ven's armor. Unlike the plates on Ven's armor though, Sora's was more rounded and smooth with not a single sharp point or edge to be seen. Another difference was that Sora's helmet had the beginnings of brown prongs forming on either side of his helmet, though for the moment, they were much more flattened against the sides, and did not extend out beyond the helmet's edges. If anything, they looked almost like earpieces on Sora's head. The other big difference, of course, was the coloration of Sora's armor, which was still mostly black and red, but one could also see a silver crown symbol now adorned his chest plate, giving it a little more personalization to show who its wearer was.

Looking over to Roxas and Xion, the others all took notice of how the two were now sporting their own versions of the basic armor that Sora had worn before, only in the respective colors of their gauntlets, and they also included the symbols that could have been seen in the dials on said gauntlets. Roxas's full armor sported a silver and black coloration, while also showing off the pointed cross on his chest plate, while Xion's was mostly sea-green and light blue, and sported her pinkish-red version of the Nobody Sigil, and from what everyone else could tell, the two were very impressed with their new armors, even if they were not as fancy as Sora and Ven's. Before they got too lost in the admiration of their new looks, the group quickly turned their attention back to the Heartless that were still flying around the area and got back to work in dealing with said enemies, allowing Donald and Goofy a chance to breathe easy again, and turn their attention to keeping civilians clear of danger.

From that point onwards, the four Keybearers were tearing through the Heartless like there was no tomorrow, be it through basic slashing attacks of their Keyblades, blasting them with various different spells and magic, or even with special attacks like Sora's Reflect Raid and Ven's Wind Raid. The Heartless stood little chance against such an onslaught, but the dwellers of darkness were nothing if not persistent in their attempts to bring down the defenders of the light. They constantly tried to retaliate in whatever way that they could, be it through slashing at them with their claws or the energy wing-blades, or just ramming into one of the adventurers as hard as they could, but no matter what the Heartless tried, it was all for naught, as the Keybearers were soon hitting back, even when they did get knocked down for a moment.

Eventually, Ventus decided that it was high time to end things, and prepared to power up either one of his Unique Command Style or a Shotlock, but Sora quickly beat him to it by firing off a round of Typhoon Barrage, followed almost instantly by Radiant Blade. Between those two powerful attacks, Sora was able to shave the number of Heartless down from being a near army to just barely more than handful, making things all the more easier for the rest of their group to finish off their long-time foes. Roxas easily sliced up two Heartless on his own, one with each of his Keyblades, while Xion managed to blast a third one just as it attempted to pounce on her brother. She then spun around and cut down the fourth of the remaining Heartless with Two Become One before tossing it as hard as she could through the fifth. Ventus saw to the destruction of the last few through the use of his Salvation attack ability, and like that, all Heartless in the area were destroyed.

With the Heartless no longer a problem, the group prepared to go help Spider-Man deal with Rhino, but upon turning around, they saw that it was no longer necessary, as Spidey was just delivering the coup-de-grace to his long-time arch-foe. The web-head had easily blinded Rhino through the use of his trademarked webbing, and was now wearing the big guy down by ramming him into various tough structures while bashing Rhino in the head as hard as he could. Eventually, Rhino did manage to scrape the webbing off his eyes, but by that point, he had failed to realize that Spider-Man had forced him into a pit of wet cement, where he was now stuck. Rhino tried to force his way out by punching the ground, only to realize too late that the ground he was punching at was more of the wet cement, and just when he was about to try punching at something more solid with his free hand, he found tied to his body with a massive amount of thick webbing, courtesy of Spider-Man.

"You know, I've always thought that you needed to just stop and stick around in one place for a little while, Aleksei. Your always so angry that it really made me wonder if you ever just took a moment to breathe a little," Spider-Man quipped as he landed in a crouch on one of the support beams that was above Rhino.

"I hate you. So much, pauk," Rhino snarled in a Russian Accent.

"Yeah, yeah, I know," Spider-Man shrugged before shooting off a web-line and swinging away with several people cheering loudly for him as he swung past.

Not wanting to lose track of the only person that they knew on this world, Sora and the rest of his group all quickly took off after Spider-Man at a run. When they realized that they were not likely going to be able to catch up with him on foot, Sora and Ven both summoned their Keyblade Gliders, and took off after him on said vehicles once the others had all climbed aboard. Eventually, they came to realize that Spider-Man must have noticed them following him, as he soon came to land in a crouch on one of the rooftops that were much farther away from the scene of the fight, and then turned to face them as they landed on the same rooftop.

"You know, when I woke up this morning, the last thing I was expecting was to run into any of the Heartless again, but then again, it's not like the universe has ever wanted to be nice and give me what I want," Spider-Man quipped as the group approached him, dismissing their armors in a flash of light. "Although, I will admit that if there is a good side to all of this, it would definitely be the fact that you guys are here too."

"Great to see you again too, Spider-Man," Sora commented with a smile. "We really missed you."

"Missed you too, Sora. Up top," Spidey cheered, raising his hand up for a high-five that Sora happily granted. "By the way, I love your new outfit. Now that is definitely a way better look for a fellow hero than that jumpsuit you were wearing before, and the new insta-armor is making me so jealous."

"Thanks," Sora grinned in return, posing proudly with his hands on his hips as if to show off his outfit better.

"I hope you didn't forget about the rest of us," Ventus teased the web-head.

"How could I forget any of you? It's not like you made it hard to leave an impression after our first meeting alone," Spider-Man pointed out as he shook hands with the master. "Besides, it does help that you look like you haven't changed a bit, Ven. You know, aside from…"

"The beard? Yeah, I know," Ventus sighed.

"I mean, it's a good look for you. Got that Thor-beard style going, but maybe if you trimmed it down a little, go for something more like a goatee, then it would definitely be a great look," Spider-Man hurriedly reassured his friend, worried that he might have offended the blonde. When Ventus said nothing in response, Spider-Man quickly glanced around for a way to change the subject, and easily found just the thing for the job. "So who're the new guys? I don't think I remember any of them being with you all before, least of all your little brother, Ven."

"I'm not his brother, or related to him in any other way," Roxas corrected.

"Wait, what?" Spider-Man could not help but look between the two blondes in silence for a few seconds, before he finally spoke up again. "But you look so much alike."

"So everyone keeps telling us," Roxas grumbled a little. He put his frustrations on the matter aside though, not wanting to be impolite to another old friend of the team's, and gave the web-head a smile when he properly introduced himself and the other newest member of the group. "Anyways, I'm Roxas, and this is my twin sister, Xion."

"Nice to officially meet you," the girl waved in greeting.

"The pleasure's all mine," Spider-Man bowed in a jokingly proper accent that got a few giggles from Xion, Sora, and Roxas. He then looked to the final two members of the group and asked, "And you guys are…?"

"Ahyuck. Hiya Spidey," Goofy greeted jovially. He had a feeling that he and Donald would not be so easily recognized in their current forms, so he just had to go for a greeting that he knew would clue in the web-head.

"What the…?! Goofy?"

"That's me," Goofy confirmed with his signature laugh to emphasize the point.

"Wow. You know, part of me always wondered how you'd look if you were a little more human," Spider-Man admitted. "No offense."

"None taken for either of us," Donald reassured him.

That made Spider-Man pause again, because he was so sure that the man in a sailor suit was likely Donald, but he could not help but dismiss the idea when he heard him speak in a clear, normal-sounding voice. "Uh…And you would be?"

"Who do ya think? I'm Donald. Donald Duck," the wizard affirmed.

"Really? You don't sound like Donald," Spider-Man pointed out.

"Yeah, we noticed that too," Sora revealed. "Apparently his form change for this world included a change in his voice as well."

"Seriously? Wait, if you guys can change your appearance like this, how come whenever I saw you guys on other worlds, they almost always looked a lot like they normally did, save for one or two differences in some cases," Spider-Man asked as he recalled all of the times that Sora had used his summon charm in the last journey they shared.

"Well…uh…" Donald pondered aloud.

"I guess it just wasn't as necessary for us or somethin'. After all, when we first met, you mentioned that me, Donald, and all our pals were pretty famous here on your world, right," Goofy reasoned for his friend.

Spider-Man could only nod in return, since he was unable to come up with another explanation for the matter, and decided to just move along with the conversation. "So, after seeing the reinforcements that old horn-head had back there, I'm guessing this isn't just a social visit, is it?"

"Afraid not," Ventus confirmed. "But the Heartless aren't the only problem out there now, Spidey, and we could use an extra hand while we're here. Think you can help out."

"Please. Do you really think I'm going to say no," Spider-Man questioned, giving the blonde a look that could be felt even through his mask. "Helping out other people just because is what I do best, and that especially goes for friends like you guys."

Hearing that, Ventus could not help but laugh in response, having now realized how silly it was to laugh. After all, given all of their past interactions with the wall-crawler, it should have been no surprise that Spidey would want to help them out. The guy was just like Sora in that regard. "Guess I forgot who we're dealing with for a minute," Ventus shrugged.

"You mean like how Leon did when he asked us to help him and his friends out back on Hollow Bastion," Xion teased.

Roxas and the others could only smile at the faint blush of embarrassment that began seeping onto Ven's face, but eventually, the younger blonde did bring up another topic that he felt they should ask about. "Say Spider-Man? Is this the first time you've seen the Heartless since your days of helping out Sora and the others?"

"Now that you mention it, no, it's not," Spider-Man revealed. "The first time anyone around here saw more of those things was a few months back. Almost half a year ago now, actually. It was the weirdest thing though. One minute they were popping up again out of nowhere, and giving a lot of us heroes a hard time, and then the next thing we know, they all took off for somewhere else and became pretty scarce. After that, they only appeared every now and then, and by that point, we were able to handle them pretty well for the most part, or at least as best as we could without those fancy swords of yours. It was only just recently that they started showing up like that again."

Catching on to why Roxas was asking about that, Xion quickly asked, "Did you ever happen to see anyone wearing a black coat when the number of Heartless started to dwindle? Maybe someone who might have looked a little like me or Roxas?"

That made the web-head pause and cross his arms in thought for a few seconds, before he finally said, "Sorry, but I can't remember ever seeing anyone like that, or at least not anyone who stands out in that way. I mean, this is New York City. There are a lot people around here that would fit just about any type of description under the sun, right to the point where they would have to go to a pretty big extreme to really stand out. You know, like me, or any other superhero that lives here."

"Well what about Riku or the king? Or maybe even a woman with blue hair? Have you seen any of them," Sora then asked feeling that they needed to know about that as well. After all, a big reason why they were traveling to other worlds right now was also to find their friends that were still MIA.

"Sorry, but no dice there either," Spider-Man replied. "Plus, I'm pretty sure I would remember if I ever ran across the real Mickey Mouse as opposed to someone who was just dressed up to look like him. Although, in terms of people with blue hair…well, I have seen a few people who have dyed their hair in various different shades of that color."

"Yeah, the woman we're looking for has naturally blue hair," Ventus revealed.

"In that case, also a no-go. Sorry."

Sora just shrugged as he muttered, "Well, can't say we didn't at least try."

At that point, silence seemed to hang heavily among the group, and Spidey could not help but feel like he was letting down the friends he had just promised to help. Being the friendly neighborhood hero that he is, Spider-Man could not let that stand, and he felt obligated to at least try and explore every route possible to help out his friends. The only problem was that he could not really think of too many ways that he could help them out, at least not beyond the ones that would likely take forever to run with, and he knew that these guys could not stay here for very long before they would have to move on again. Thinking over the various ideas in his head a little more, Spider-Man was just about ready to give up until he finally thought of one option that they could try.

"You know, I may not have seen any of your friends, or have a lot info to help you guys out, but I do know some guys that might," Spider-Man informed them.

"Really," Sora asked, starting to get a little more excited at that prospect.

"Hey, we won't know until we try, right," Spider-Man pointed out. He then shot off a web-line and prepared to swing away as he called out, "Come on. Follow me and I'll take you to see them."

"Right behind you, Spidey," Sora cheered, summoning out his Keyblade Glider again. He then looked over to the others and said, "Hop aboard, Donald, Roxas."

"You've got it," Roxas agreed, jumping onto the back of Sora's flying motorbike with the wizard after he had spoken.

Seeing as they were likely going through with the idea, Ventus just shrugged and summoned out his own glider and hopped onto it as well, motioning for Xion and Goofy to climb aboard. With everyone situated, the group quickly took off after their web-swinging friend, each of them hoping to some extent that whoever Spider-Man was taking them to see would be able to help a little with their quest.

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Keeping up with Spider-Man was not too difficult thanks to the Keyblade Gliders, but the team did have to find alternative routes every now and then since they could not follow the exact same path as the web-swinger; namely the tight, narrow spaces between a few buildings and other similar locations that Spider-Man was only able to slip through due to his enhanced agility and slim size. Luckily any detours they took did not put them too far off course from Spidey's path, and soon enough, they had all arrived at their destination: a large tower that stood proudly over the rest of the city. Touching down on the landing pad at the top of said tower, the group all dismounted their respective rides, allowing Sora and Ven to dismiss their Keyblade Gliders, and prepared to head inside.

Just as they were approaching the door, Spider-Man stopped short and turned to face the group. "Okay, listen guys, I know I probably shouldn't have, but after our world was restored, I may have let it slip to these guys about what had happened, along with everything else I knew about all of you, and some of them…well, most of them…okay they were all more than a little skeptical, so you might want to brace yourselves for a fair bit of questioning," the crime fighter revealed to his friends. "It's nothing personal, really, but to them, a lot of stuff about you, namely the fact that two of you are just fictional characters on this world, makes it more than a little hard to believe your story. In fact, some of them are not entirely accepting of the existence of magic, but that's mainly because of the whole major scientist thing where they insist that magic is just a science that we don't understand yet, so don't take that too hard."

"Gotcha," Sora nodded, glad that Spidey had warned them about this ahead of time. None of them wanted Donald's temper to get their group into trouble because one of these people had said something that he took issue with.

"Okay, and a few other things," Spider-Man added on. "One, try not to touch anything if you don't know how it works. Or anything that looks really expensive, which is probably a vast majority of the stuff in there. And don't do anything to make the big guy angry. Trust me; you will not like it when he's angry, least of all when he's angry with you." There was a brief silence after that before the web-head added another detail. "Oh, and try not to stare at anyone too much. Some of them may take it the wrong way, and well…"

"Spidey, relax. If these guys are anything like you, I'm sure we'll be fine," Ventus reassured their old friend.

"Well, I wouldn't say that they're all that much like me. I mean, they are superheroes, and they fight for truth, justice, and all that, but these guys are like the big leagues, and I only just recently became a member of the team, so I don't want them to think I'm just letting any random person into the headquarters. Or that I'm doing anything that I shouldn't be doing or that would give them a bad impression," Spider-Man explained.

"Don't worry. We'll be on our best behavior," Roxas promised.

"Well, most of us will be. I don't think we can really say the same for Donald. Or Roxas for that matter," Xion joked in extension.

"Hey, what do you mean by that," Donald demanded with a growl that actually sounded intimidating with his altered voice.

"N-nothing! Nothing at all," Xion stuttered as she backed away out of nervousness. "Geez, that altered voice of his actually makes him seem a lot scarier when he says stuff like that," she then muttered to her brother, who could only nod in agreement, despite the slight she had just made against him.

"Right. Okay, here we go," Spider-Man breathed in response to the assurances. He then turned back towards the door, and held a card up to the scanning device that was on the wall next to it, and after a minute or so, he looked up and asked, "Hey JARVIS, are you there?"

"At your service, as always. Welcome back to Avengers Tower, Spider-Man," a very cultured, British-accented voice replied through the speakers, startling the six who were not familiar with this location or anything else on this world.

"Great. Tell me that the rest of the team's here too, please? I've got some friends here that could really use their help," Spidey continued, not even the least bit thrown off by the talking computer, or his friends' reactions.

"Sir, you do recall that unauthorized personnel are not allowed in…"

"Yeah, I know, but this is really important, and they've got vital information that the team needs to hear," interrupted Spider-Man.

"Very well then. I shall inform Mister Stark of your arrival and that of your guests so that he may register their biometric signatures in my database," JARVIS reported. There was a brief silence once again, and the team was about to ask what they were just listening to when the computer voice came back again. "Spider-Man, Mister Stark wishes to know the exact nature of information your guests have that he does not already possess."

"It's about those shadow monsters that attacked a year ago and have started popping up again recently, including their more recent appearance out in the city. I'm sure that if the Bugle was covering it, then he must have seen them on the newsfeed. They would be the guys with the fancy swords and armor," Spider-Man explained.

After another bout of silence, the doors slid open as JARVIS said, "Mister Stark is gathering the team in the conference room now. He wishes for you to lead your guests there as quickly as possible, with minimal detours and distractions."

"Thanks JARVIS," Spidey nodded in return before waving for his friends from other worlds to follow him. When he noticed that they were not doing so, he easily figured out what the problem was. "Relax, JARVIS is cool. He's just a cool AI that helps run a lot of the systems in the tower."

"In short, I am the supercomputer butler, as Mister Parker has put it," JARVIS added, earning him a rapid bit of hushing from the wall-crawler.

The others did not really pay the computer's apparent slip up or Spidey's concern towards it too much mind, as they were just more focused on following him inside this strange place. Not that you could blame them for taking a while to take in their surroundings, because the place was very impressive, to say the least. From where they were standing, it looked like the ultimate in fancy living, just from the one room that they had already stepped into, which they figured was most likely the lounge area, based on the layout of the room, and how there was a central, sitting area, plasma television hanging on one of the far walls, the massive windows that offered an incredible view of the city, and a bar with several different drinks in the room. Add in the fact that it seemed to have two different levels to it, along with how there seemed to be an observation room that was more walled off just a short distance over from the living space, and no one would be surprised if the team was already getting their imaginations running on what else could be in this tower. To them, the place looked like the ultimate setup in designs of penthouse suites.

"Man, our apartment in Twilight Town's got nothing on this place," Roxas muttered to Xion, who could only nod in silent agreement.

"Are you kidding? This place looks even cooler than any of the rooms on the ship," Sora grinned in awe.

Hearing that drew a slightly annoyed look from Ventus as he asked, "Are you saying that I didn't do a good job in designing your room on the Kingdom-A when I practically rebuilt our old ship from scratch?"

Sora froze a little at that question, and was soon starting to stutter out an excuse or two for what he had said, while Donald and Goofy both snickered at his predicament. Roxas and Xion probably would have done something to help him, but they were a little busy trying to keep themselves from laughing at Sora's misfortune like the other two were at the moment. Thankfully, Sora managed to find a way to distract everyone from the matter at hand when he finally looked to Spider-Man again and thought of something else. "So, Spidey, do you live here or something," Sora questioned, hoping that would divert Ven's ire for a little while.

Ventus could not help but smirk a little, having gotten more than a fair share of enjoyment out of making Sora squirm a little with that joke of his, but he would admit that he was just as curious about the topic his first apprentice brought up as Sora was. Apparently the others were also thinking the same thing, since they had all now turned their attention to Spidey, who was currently rubbing the back of his neck in a sheepish manner. "Well…Kinda, but not really," Spider-Man admitted. "I mean, I have a room here that I use every now and then, but I don't live here, live here like most of the team does. I have my own place in the city, and I really just come by here every so often when I feel too tired to get all the way back home or something, or when I need to use one of the labs here, like for making more web-fluid."

"And as I recall, you've been doing that quite a bit recently. It's starting to make some of us wonder if you still have that day job of yours anymore with how often you've been dropping in just for that lately," a new voice interrupted, and the group all turned to see a lanky-looking man with brown hair and glasses had come into the room right at that moment.

"Hey, Doc! On your way to the conference room," Spider-Man greeted.

"Yeah, I'm a little behind the others in that regard, but I had to get to a good stopping place in the experiment I was working on. Something tells me no one would've been too happy if the top three or five floors of the tower suddenly combusted," the man shrugged as he shook hands with Spidey. He then looked to the six visitors and asked, "So, these the friends that Tony mentioned you were bringing in?"

"Yep, this is them," Spider-Man confirmed. "I'll save their introductions for later though when everyone's gathered together. No point in repeating everything twice." He then looked to the team and said, "As for you guys, meet Doctor Bruce Banner, the foremost scientific expert in all things Gamma Rays."

"Nice to meet you Doctor Banner," Ventus nodded as he shook hands with the scientist.

"Pleasure's all mine. It's not every day that Spidey actually brings some of his friends here," Banner replied. He then studied the group for a minute before he finally asked, "Are you guys…not freaked out at all?"

"Freaked out by what," Xion asked, while the others just tilted their heads to show their confusion.

"You know…because of the fact that I'm…well, that I turn into the other guy when I'm angry," Bruce elaborated, but he was surprised to see that it was not clearing anything for the six. "You really don't recognize me at all?"

"We're not really from around here," Roxas admitted in response.

Bruce was about to ask about that when Spidey placed a hand on his shoulder and said, "We'll explain that in the meeting as well, which we should really be getting to since Mister Stark said to not take too many detours."

Bruce nodded in response before he took over leading them all into the conference room. Not that it took too long to reach said room, but from what the team could see, it looked like the setup of said room was the only thing in it that could be considered as normal for the most part. The people in the room, seated around the table in the center of it, on the other hand, were a completely different story. On one side of the room, was a man in a black and reddish-purple outfit, with a quiver full of arrows on his back, and a pair of sunglasses with red lenses covering his eyes, and next to him was a red haired woman in a very tight looking black suit that seemed to accentuate her very athletic body. Another thing to note about the redhead was that her suit seemed to have several blue lines running through like almost like circuits in a way, while a pair of gauntlets adorned her wrists. Next to her was a black man with a buzz cut and a slight goatee in a red and black flight suit with a large backpack on his back, and black and red flight goggles strapped around his face.

Sitting on the opposite end of the table to the first three, the team could only see one person who looked close to normal, and that was a black man who was dressed up in a military colonel's uniform. The other person on this man's side of the table was a much different story, given his admittedly impressive looking armor, and long flowing red cape, but when you added in his long, blonde hair and the hammer he held in one hand, the team could not help but think that he was just as otherworldly as they were, even as Bruce moved to sit down next to him. The final two people in the room were standing at the head of the table, and while one of them did look to be rather normal, save for his very expensive-looking suit and how his stance seemed to give off an impression of a man who had a lot going for him, the other was a different story. It was not just the red, white, and blue suit he wore, or the fact that he had a shield on his back that made them think he stood out, though. There was just a certain kind of air about him that radiated with confidence and bravery that would make people want to follow him into the gates of hell themselves. More than that, he seemed to give off a sense of being old fashioned, but in many more good ways than bad. If you were to ask Sora, the man actually made him think of how Ventus could be sometimes, but all in all, this final individual definitely appeared to be someone that should be considered as awesome, and the others seemed to share that opinion as well, given how they were all looking at him with various senses of awe.

The only thing that was more attention grabbing than the people in the room, was the video that they were all currently watching on a holo-screen, mainly because it was a news report about the fight that the Keybearers and their friends had just been in earlier that day. Of course, the things that this group was saying about the whole thing did seem to be rather important too once they started to really listen in. "I'm just saying, it seems stupid to worry about this when its already said and done," the archer insisted. "The kid and those weird rookies handled both Rhino and those shadow monsters, so what's there to worry about?"

"You mean aside from the fact that those creatures have caused problems for us before? Or the fact that they're now apparently working alongside of HYDRA," the redhead sarcastically questioned in a way that indicated she was very close or very used to dealing with the archer.

"More like they're working for HYDRA. From where I'm standing, those things aren't exactly smart enough to really form alliances with people like that. They seem a lot more like animals that need to be tamed or something," the colonel said.

"Either way, we're not exactly that much closer to being able to handle them on our own," the man in the flight suit stepped in before any pointless arguments could break out. "I mean, I'm not the only one who thinks it's a little sad that we need the youngest member of the team to bail us out every time we run into those things, am I?"

"Please. Those creatures are nothing against the might of the son of Odin, or the power of the Hulk," the blonde with the hammer boasted.

"Oh great. So only our biggest guns and the kid can get the better of these things, and let's not forget the fact that Spider-Boy is still insisting that he can only stop them because he teamed up with Mickey Mouse and a couple kids with magic, key-shaped swords," the archer grumbled.

"Actually he said that it was Donald Duck and Goofy, not Mickey Mouse, for one thing," the man in the expensive suit reminded said archer. "Secondly, he might not be too far off, considering that a few of our own magically-gifted allies/team members have shown to be able to better deal with those things than we have."

"So then why not call them in," the redhead asked.

"Doctor Strange is currently unreachable at the moment for reasons we can only guess, and when we reached out to the Fantastic Four, we learned that they were off on another expedition of some kind," the man with the shield revealed, his voice holding a commanding tone that would make you want to either stand at attention or just keep quiet and listen to him as he spoke. "At the moment, we're all that the world's got against these things."

"You know, I really do hate to argue with America's ultimate golden boy, but I do have to disagree with you, Cap, because we now have someone that might be better suited for that," Spider-Man revealed, finally stepping into the conversation so that he could announce the group's arrival to the people that had gathered in the conference room.

While Banner moved to take a seat next to Thor, the others all turned to face Spider-Man and the team, each quietly studying the group that had come in with the web-head for a few moments before the archer finally muttered, "Oh good, it's Spider-Boy and his amazing friends."

"It's Spider-Man, and you know it, Purple Arrow," Spidey almost growled in retort.

The archer looked like he was about to draw an arrow in retaliation for the web-head's comeback, when the redhead woman placed a hand on his shoulder to stop him, letting the nicely dressed man at the head of the table speak up and ask the question they were all wondering. "So just who are these guys that you've brought along with you, kid? They with those experts that you mentioned at the door?"

"Uh…they are the experts, Mister Stark," Spider-Man revealed.

Everyone was silent for a minute, with Xion just offering a small wave in an attempt to break the tension a little, until the colonel finally said, "You can't be serious. A bunch of kids are your experts?"

That got glares from Sora, Roxas, and Xion, while Ventus just rolled his eyes a bit, wondering how he got labeled as a kid when he looked more like his actual age now than he did a year ago. Goofy was even moving closer to Donald in preparation to hold his quick-tempered friend back, just in case, but he relaxed a little more when the group all saw Spider-Man patting his shoulder and wrist as he looked at them. Ventus immediately got the meaning behind the gesture and looked to his three apprentices with a nod as he tapped his shoulder guard. Following Ven's lead, the other three Keybearers all tapped their own armor pieces, and soon enough, the group was clad in their armors once more, bringing a look of recognition to the faces of all those gathered in the room.

"Recognize us now," Ventus playfully questioned.

The colonel could only nod in silent reply, before the man called Cap turned to Spidey and asked, "Who did you say these guys were again?"

"Well, most of them are the guys I told you about before. You know, a year ago, after those monsters first showed up and then suddenly disappeared," Spider-Man replied.

"Are you telling us that crazy story of yours was real," the man in the flight suit asked in disbelief.

"Dude, come on. Would I really tell you guys something that crazy unless it was true," Spider-Man asked.

"You probably don't want us to answer that," the redhead cautioned.

"Okay, that hurts. Really, Widow. How could you betray a fellow spider like that," Spider-Man joked as the Keybearers dismissed their armors. He then got serious again as he asked, "So, does anyone mind if I at least make the necessary introductions before we get much further?" Stark nodded for the web-head to go ahead, and Spidey then turned to the team of other worldly adventurers as he made the introductions, indicating each person in the room behind him as he went. "All right, guys, meet Earth's mightiest heroes. You've already met Doctor Banner, and this is Hawkeye, Black Widow, Falcon, Colonel Rhodes aka War Machine, Thor, Captain America, and Tony Stark, the Iron Man. Put 'em all together and you get the Avengers."

"Cool name," Roxas praised with a slight grin.

Spidey then turned to the Avengers and continued on, saying, "Avengers, this is Sora, Ventus, Roxas, Xion, Donald, and Goofy, the…The uh…" Everyone was a little confused by Spidey's sudden pause until he scooted a little closer to Sora and Ven, and whispered, "Okay, I know this is probably a bad time to ask this, but do you guys have a name for your group or something?"

At first, some of the team felt like shooting the web-head a few looks of disbelief, but that quickly passed when they realized that he was not entirely unjustified in asking them that. Up until now, they had never really thought of a clever name of any kind for their group. Most of the time, they would normally just refer to themselves as "the team" or a group of adventurers, and really, when you looked back over their past experiences, they had never really felt like they needed a name for their group. This was literally the first time that any of them could remember asking them if they had something to call their group. Realizing that needed to change, a good number of their members quickly began brainstorming in an attempt to think of something to call themselves, with Ven, Sora, Roxas, and Donald all crossing their arms in thought, while Xion held a hand to her chin, and Goofy scratched his head like he always would when he was thinking. It may have gotten them some odd looks from the Avengers, but they did not seem to really care about it that much.

They did not need to think too long though, as Sora soon came up with something, and then smiled as he struck what he figured would be a heroic pose as he announced his idea to all. "We're the Keyblade Legion!"

More silence followed Sora's declaration, but this time, it was probably more due to the fact that Sora had struck a rather cheesy pose when he made the announcement. Of course, only the Avengers had kept silent, as Sora's friends and teammates had a few things that they felt they had to say. "Hey, why'd you say that," Donald demanded.

"Sora, you know Donald and I don't have Keyblades," Goofy pointed out.

"Does it really matter that much? I mean, most of our group does," Roxas asked.

"I feel like that name would imply that we're likely to kick Donald and Goofy off the team at some point though, so…" Xion argued, sticking up for the two from Disney Town.

"But we're not. Besides, Master Yen Sid said that we're the beginnings of a legion that would save everyone from anyone threatening it, remember? And like Roxas said, most of our group does have a Keyblade, or two in his case. Why not call ourselves that," Sora asked.

"You have to admit, that name does have a certain ring to it," Ventus shrugged with a smile, casting his own vote of approval. "Besides, I was a little worried that he would try and suggest something like Keyblade Hero Six or something."

"Why would I suggest that? It sounds like a rip-off of someone else's name," Sora questioned.

"Great, so you're the Keyblade Legion. Now how about sharing with the rest of the class what you know about those monsters? Spidey said that you could, so…" Tony asked.

The newly-named Legion got serious once more, with Ventus taking point in the conversation. "They're called the Heartless; creatures that are born from the darkness in people's hearts. Colonel Rhodes actually wasn't far off in his guess about them acting out of animalistic instinct, because that's exactly the case, and their base instinct above all else, is to drown others in darkness so that they can make more Heartless, and eventually, drown the entire world in darkness."

"And we all know what that's like," Spider-Man muttered.

"Our weapons, the Keyblades, as well as a special set of powers that Donald and Goofy possess are the only things that can stop them for good, but there are cases of people who can gain the ability to at least destroy the Heartless for a short time, or even become powerful enough to destroy them for good. Usually though, that's because they've been in contact with a Keyblade wielder or someone with similar powers, like Spider-Man was when he became a summon that Sora could use when we were last journeying to stop the Heartless a year ago," Ventus continued.

"So why did you stop? From what I can tell, they're still around, and from what you're saying, Spidey's the only one in this room that can actually stand up to them, despite the fact that we've got some guys with super armors, a super soldier, a couple master ex-assassins, the big guy, and a literal god of thunder, so why did you suddenly quit," Rhodes asked.

"It wasn't voluntary, but the reason is because…well, it's a really long story," Sora admitted with a sheepish shrug.

"Let me guess: Spiky there got into something he shouldn't have and it caused you to put everything on the backburner so that he and his other teammates that were dragged into it could get the help necessary to recover," Tony offered up.

"That is…surprisingly close to an accurate guess," Xion noted.

"We end up having to deal with similar situations in regards to Spider-Man almost all the time. Tony or Cap more often than the rest of us, any way," Black Widow shrugged.

"Of course we wouldn't, if he didn't try to take the weight of the world on his shoulders by himself all the time," Falcon added with a teasing grin.

"I'm right here, guys," Spider-Man reminded everyone. "Besides, it's not my fault that you prefer to handle the big stuff while leaving me to worry about the small, everyday problems that go on in the neighborhood."

"Anyways…It wasn't just Sora here that needed help. Roxas and Xion had actually been tricked into joining a dangerous group around the same time, and we needed time to figure out how to get them away and to safety, along with a few other things as well," Ventus finally concluded.

"Okay, so say we buy that you're really being up front with us about all of this Keyblades and Heartless stuff; I'll admit that it does prove a few things that Spidey was saying since that black out the whole world seemed to have about a year ago, but that still doesn't prove his ridiculous claim to working with a bunch of stupid cartoon characters when he met you guys," Hawkeye stated, and that proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back.

When he heard Hawkeye's remark, Donald's temper seemed to flare so much that it actually caused his form change to become undone, revealing his true self to everyone in the room as he hollered loudly in anger before tackling Hawkeye to the floor. "Who're you calling a stupid cartoon character, ya big palooka?! Does this feel like a cartoon to you," Donald hollered in his usual voice. Apparently, the change to his other voice was only in effect when his form change was active.

The Marvelites could only stare in disbelief, even as Sora and Goofy quickly scrambled to get Donald off and calmed down, and even after they had pulled him away from Hawkeye, they still had to really work at it to get Donald cooled off. It was not until Donald had finally relaxed and changed back into his human appearance that Tony finally said, "Well, I believe him on that now."

"So…where is Mickey Mouse, anyways? I mean, I know you guys are looking for him right now, but did you ever find him for even a brief moment," Spider-Man asked. After taking another look at the group, he finally noticed something he had missed before. "And come to think of it, wasn't there another girl on your team the last time we met? What happened to her?"

"Kairi went back to Destiny Islands after our last journey together, and last any of us heard, she was still there," Sora explained with a somewhat downcast look. He may not want Kairi mixed up in all of the danger that came with these adventures, but he did still miss her.

"Aw, don't worry Sora. You'll get to see your girlfriend again before you know it. And I'll bet she's just waiting for you to come home so she can give you a hero's welcome kiss," Roxas teased, earning a bright blush from Sora, and snickers from the rest of the team, save for one person, who knew just how to get even with Roxas on Sora's behalf.

"You mean like how you're hoping Naminé will for you, Bro," Xion questioned with her own tone of teasing.

That got Roxas to shut up, as his face turned crimson, while Sora gave Xion a thankful look for that intervention. Even though they did not really know the full story about what the Legion members were talking about, the Avengers were still able to figure out enough to realize the basic gist, and ended up laughing along with them as well, until Ventus got serious again and answered the rest of Spider-Man's question. "We did run into Mickey for a brief time, but he disappeared again shortly afterwards on a secret mission of his own. We need to find him now because he might have some important information regarding a new enemy of ours."

"I'm guessing this has to do with these guys in black coats that you mentioned before," Spider-Man reasoned.

"Good guess," Xion confirmed with a nod. "They're called Organization XIII, and they're made up of creatures known as Nobodies. Beings who had lost their hearts, but who are able to continue existing because they possessed a strong will. Unlike the Heartless, Nobodies are actually able to think and plan, especially in the case of the ones who retain their human forms, and those are the ones who make up the leaders of the Organization."

"So wait, the Heartless are creatures that devour hearts, but Nobodies are the guys who literally don't have hearts," Falcon asked. "Why not have it the other way around?"

The team all looked between themselves before they finally settled their gazes on Ventus, thinking he might know the answer. "Hey, don't look at me. I didn't come up with the names, and besides, as far as anyone knows, the Heartless were around long before the Nobodies were, so I guess…they just got first dibs or something," the blonde shrugged. "Either way, it doesn't detract from the point of the matter: the Heartless, the Nobodies, and the Organization are all dangerous."

"Well we can't just sit back and let them do whatever they want, so if you can give us any help or tips on how to deal with them, we're more than open to suggestions," Captain America stated.

The Keyblade Legion all merely smiled in response, and Jiminy took that as his cue to step in and start explaining details about the various Heartless they had encountered, referencing the notes in his journal for better explanations. It was a little jarring for the Avengers to be hearing all of this information from a cricket, but they seemed to roll with it pretty well, especially when the rest of the team stepped in to explain certain things to watch out for and various openings that they could take advantage of when fighting certain Heartless. Then again, the discussions about an enemy were always the easy parts. It was when you started trying putting the instructions into practice that really showed if you could handle yourself, as the Legion would soon learn.

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A short time after Jiminy and the team had finished giving the basic rundown on the Heartless to the Avengers, the superheroes led the Legion to their base's training room so that they could better prepare for the fights ahead of them. It was definitely an impressive installation from what the Legion could see, and with a little bit of computer work, Iron Man was able to have the thing generate an impressively accurate replica of some of the Heartless via the holo-emitters in the training room. Most of the science went over Sora, Donald, and Goofy's heads, and even Ven's to a certain extent, but they were able to get a basic understanding of it all. Besides, it was after all of that when things started to get a little more interesting, as the team decided to sit back and see what the Avengers could do on their own when fighting the Heartless.

The superhero team certainly showcased an impressive display of teamwork, proving that they had been working together for some time now, though it showed in some of the members more than others. Namely in cases such as Black Widow and Hawkeye, or Iron Man and War Machine, the latter of which had provided a better explanation for their hero names the minute that the Legion saw them suited up in their armors, but there was also other cases as well, like with Spider-Man and Falcon, or even Thor and Captain America. The latter pair made their display clear when they performed a very impressive and destructive combo move in which Thor slammed his hammer against Cap's shield, creating a powerful shockwave that sent their surrounding foes flying, while the former showed off by having Falcon fly around and lay down several rounds of gunfire while Spider-Man hung onto him via a web-line so that he could better web down some targets for Falcon to hit. They did not remain in these pairings for too long though, as they did switch it up at a moment's notice so that they could keep an opponent guessing, and from what they could see, the Legion knew that the Avengers would likely be able to handle the real Heartless in short order, assuming that they were able to follow the adventurers' advice.

Thankfully, it seemed like that was the case, as Spider-Man, Cap, Falcon, Widow, and War Machine all took the advice that the Legion had given on how to handle certain Heartless to heart when they made a point to target specific Heartless over the others, or set up some of them for their teammates to take down. Iron Man and Thor on the other hand mainly just blasted their way through most of them, but considering what the Legion had seen that the two were capable of, it was understandable as to why they would do that. From what they could see, Thor was definitely a heavy-hitter kind of fighter, and it showed when they saw him easily knocked down and blast through a replica of a Large Body with both his hammer and his bare hands. Of course, it was still too soon to know if he would be able to do the same thing with the actual Heartless, but the lightning blasts that he generated would definitely be just as effective in real life as they would in this simulation. Hawkeye was a little bit of a mix between the two groups, as he did seem to take the Keybearers' advice into account, but more often than not, it seemed like he was trying harder to make his own openings. Not that there was anything wrong with that, but it was a little worrying to see him doing that, if you were to ask Ventus or Sora.

The only Avenger who was not participating in this practice was Doctor Banner, which made a certain sense to some of the team, but it still seemed strange that someone who seemed as harmless as Bruce was on a team like this despite being unable to really help. When Xion finally asked him about it, Bruce just shrugged with a sigh as he informed her, "I'm sort of a last resort option. A Code Green as we call it. When that happens, the other guy comes out to play and that usually ends up leading to a very big mess."

Xion did not need to even look at the others to know that they were now even more curious about this other guy that Bruce kept talking about, but they would have to table the matter for later, as the simulation had ended right at that moment, allowing them to have a turn in the simulator. Part of this was so that Tony could get a few recordings of how the Keyblade Legion fought against the Heartless, but the other reason was because Ventus wanted to go into details about a specific topic he had been thinking about for a while now with his apprentices while they had the chance. So, once the Avengers had all gathered up in the control room and begun going over a few things that they could improve on with advice from Donald and Goofy, Ventus led the three kids into the training room in order to begin their next big lesson.

At least that was his plan, until Sora actually put forth a question of his own. "Hey Ven, do you have any idea what was up with my armor earlier? I know that it's different as it is right now, but I wasn't expecting the full suit to have been altered too."

"I was actually wondering about the same thing," Xion admitted, having remembered seeing the way Sora's armor looked after he first got it in some of the dreams she had.

Ventus was rendered completely silent by that question, and could only slap his forehead in disbelief in response. "How could I have forgotten about that? I mean, I said I was going to explain it forever ago, and yet I still haven't covered that topic even once," the bearded blonde muttered. Once he was finished scolding himself, Ven finally looked up again so that he could properly address the three, but not before glancing over to see if the Avengers were distracted enough by their other friends. "Okay, let me start off by asking you this, Sora: do you remember what I told you and Kairi about your armors when you first received them a year ago?"

Thinking back to the moment in question, Sora eventually replied, "You said that the armors would change as we advanced further in our training, or something like that."

"And it has, at least in your case," Ventus stated. "The form your armor has taken on is now typical of a mid-level Keyblade warrior, or one that's on the verge of becoming a high-level warrior, hence the reason why it's now changed into the arm guard and shoulder armor you now have while its inactive, and the fact that it's gotten a little more padding and plating, along with your helmet having gained a pair of small prongs. When you've reached a level that is typical of a high-level warrior, or a Keyblade wielder that's on the verge of becoming a master, then your armor would change to be similar to how mine typically is, when I'm not wearing the cape."

"And would that mean that I'm ready to become a full-fledged master," Sora asked.

"Well…that would depend on who your teacher is. Some masters actually have their students wait until their Keyblade has achieved a new, more evolved form, but that's not important right now," Ventus dismissed.

"Hang on. If the armor only starts to get customized to the wearer once they've reached a certain rank in their training, how come mine and Xion's armors seemed to include a bit of customization on them," Roxas questioned. When everyone looked to him in confusion, he elaborated by stating, "I don't remember Sora ever having his emblem on the original version of his armor, but both of ours do."

"Well, the emblems are not actually a typical thing with most armors, as far as I know, but sometimes, if a small difference like that does appear on the full suit, it usually signifies that the armor's change could be on the verge of happening very soon," Ventus explained.

"So does that mean Roxas and I should expect an early promotion," Xion eagerly asked.

"No. While the armor's inactive states do tend to signify a Keyblade wielder's rank in their training, most of the time, it's more of a reflection of their current level of power and skill. Take my friend Terra for example. Technically speaking, he's not a Keyblade Master, but he does have the power and skill level of one, so his armor had reached its final evolution even before he first took the Mark of Mastery Exam," Ventus revealed.

"But the armor's can still act as a badge to show a wielder's ranking, right," Sora reasoned.

"Yes they can, but the actual promotion does still need to be finalized by a master, or another wielder of higher ranking," Ventus explained. "Any other questions about that?"

"…Nope. I think we're good," Sora said for the group after an exchange of glances with the other two.

"All right, then I think it's high time I taught you three about another ability that Keyblade wielders possess, and this is one that at least two of you have already tapped into, in a manner of speaking," Ventus declared. "The D-Link abilities."

"D-Link," Roxas echoed in question.

"It's short for Dimension Link, and it's an ability that almost every Keyblade wielder in history has learned to at least a small extent. I still remember how hard Aqua, Terra, and I all worked at it to get it just right, at least between the three of us," Ventus explained, chuckling a little at the nostalgia he felt at that last statement. "Anyways, at its most basic level, a D-Link is one of the most useful tools in a Keyblade wielder's arsenal, because it allows you to do so many things. The most common and basic of those being the ability to communicate with another Keyblade wielder, telepathically."

"We can do that," Xion asked in awe, with Sora and Roxas mirroring her astonishment with the looks on their faces.

"To a certain extent," Ventus clarified. "There are a few limitations to the ability. For starters, you need to at least have a basic idea of where the other wielder is, and even then, the other wielder you're trying to reach has to be a specific distance away. Yes, it can extend to another world, but the distance between two different worlds is always varying, so there's no guarantee that you would be able to reach the other wielder if the world they're on is too far from whatever world you're on. The other trick to it is that you have to have formed a connection with the other wielder. It doesn't have to be anything too special, and can be as simple as being a friend you just recently made, or a new student that you've just taken on a short time ago. Of course, the other person does need to have at least learned a little bit about how to harness the powers of D-Links in order for it to really work, so I wouldn't expect you guys to get a response from one another just yet unless you all master it at the exact same moment. More often than not though, it can be a huge help if you each have a special keepsake that's shared between the two of you."

"Is that why you haven't tried to get into contact with Aqua using that ability? Because you're not entirely sure where she is," Sora asked.

"Well, it would be more accurate to say that I don't have a clue where she is beyond the fact she is in the Realm of Light, but, yeah, that is the biggest reason," Ventus replied. "Just trying to reach them by searching for their link in the connection wouldn't work unless you have at least an idea of what world they may or may not be close to at that moment, and even then, there's always a chance that the world in question is outside of your range."

Xion and Sora both nodded in understanding, but Roxas was still thinking of something else that Ventus had mentioned. "You said that a special keepsake would help in making the connection. What kind of keepsake are we talking about?"

"Anything, so long as it represents the bond between you and the other person," Ventus replied. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a familiar star-shaped charm so he could show it off as he continued, "In the case of me and Aqua, we've each got this."

"Your Wayfinders," Sora identified. He then rummaged around in his various pockets before he finally pulled out his own, dark red charm with his crown emblem in the place of the badge Ven wore. "So does that mean that I could use mine to help me with creating a D-Link?"

"Technically, the D-Link is already created because of the connections you share with others in your heart, but yes, it would help you to establish the link in regards to specific individuals. At the moment though, I'm pretty sure that you'll only be able to use it to connect to me, Sora. I highly doubt that Kairi's been able to learn anything about this in the time that you've been apart from one another," Ventus clarified.

That got a mildly frustrated scowl from Sora, but at the same time, it also seemed to bring down Roxas and Xion's moods a little. "I guess that means we're going to have a harder time making our D-Links to you and Sora work, won't we," the girl of the two figured.

"Maybe, but like I said, it doesn't necessarily need to be one of these Wayfinders. It just needs to be something that one of you considers a strong representation of your bond," Ventus reassured them. "Besides, I don't think it should be too hard for you three to get this working right, considering that at least two of you have already managed to use a more advanced form of D-Links without even realizing it."

"We have," the three repeated in question.

Ventus just quietly nodded in return, making the three think back over their experiences so far in an attempt to figure out when any of them had done something like that. Not that they had to try for too long, as Sora quickly figured it out. "You're talking about what Xion and Mulan did when they fought Shan-Yu in the Land of Dragons, and that ability that Roxas used with Beast at his castle, aren't you?"

"Exactly," Ventus confirmed with a smile. "Those powers are the more advanced version of D-Links, known as Command Links."

"Judging by the name, I'm guessing that they've got a few similarities with Command Styles as well," Xion figured.

"Good guess. Unlike the D-Links, a Command Link can be formed with just about anyone that a Keyblade wielder forms a strong connection with, whether the other person has a Keyblade or not. It doesn't stop with just one person either; there have been Command Links that are formed between a single wielder and at least two other people. The most basic requirement is that the other individual, or individuals, must have a strong heart and spirit, one that matches that of the Keyblade wielder in some way. Once activated, the Command Link grants both subjects an incredible new set of powers for a short period of time that they wouldn't normally have, which is what makes it similar to Command Styles. Each Command Link can only be performed by those specific two people, meaning that Xion is the only one who can perform her Command Link with Mulan, while only Roxas can use the Command Link he created with Beast. Unlike Command Styles though, there's no general variety of Command Links, because no two links are exactly the same, just like how no two people or bonds between people are ever exactly the same, so the only way to really know what your Command Link can do is to activate it for the first time."

"How do you create a Command Link with someone then, because there's no way that it's as simple as making friends with someone," Roxas asked.

"You're right. Yes, a strong bond is necessary, but whether or not a Command Link can be established between you and the other person, or in some cases, persons, all depends on the people in question. You can't force it out anymore than you could force someone to be your friend, and there's no set pattern to determine when it actually happens. Sometimes it'll happen when you and the other person are fighting a particular enemy, other times it may be when you're just in a really hard battle. There have even been cases where it just happens while your training with the person or simply talking with them."

"Did you ever form a Command Link with Aqua or Terra, Ven," Sora asked.

Ventus paused at that question before he hung his head a little in slight sorrow and replied, "No, we never got the chance to really try. We spent more time mastering all the abilities of standard D-Links that by the time we were ready to try and form a Command Link between each other, we had already started getting swept up into…well, into quite a few events that led to my first real adventure through the worlds."

It was a little saddening to hear that Ventus missed out on his chance to form a Command Link with either his best friend or the woman he loved, and the three all felt like they may need to leave the room to give Ventus a minute after that, but the Keyblade master soon perked up again to ask if there were any other questions that they wanted to ask before they started working on the powers of D-Links. Sora was much more hesitant to ask any questions after seeing the effect his last one had on his master, and Xion could not really think of anything else to ask, but Roxas did catch one thing that Ven said a minute ago that he was curious about. "You mentioned that a D-Link can allow Keyblade wielders to do things besides just communicate with each other. What else is there?"

That seemed to really brighten up Ven's spirits, and it showed when he answered. "Well, even though the communication aspect isn't always able to be used when its active, the one feature about a D-Link that can always be used is the ability to increase your strength and allow you to perform special abilities based on the person the link is formed with. For example, when I'm using the link between me and Aqua in battle, all of my magic abilities are greatly strengthened, and grants me a finishing ability known as Magic Volley, while the link between me and Terra boosts my regular strength just as much and gives me a finisher called Landbreaker. Some D-Links even have other special powers that you can't use at any other time, like the one I share with Mickey."

"So using a D-Link wouldn't just allow us to better communicate with each other in the midst of a fight, but it would also make us stronger based on who were linked with at the time," Xion reasoned out.

"In a manner of speaking. That particular part of the D-Link is a lot harder to master, and you can only ever use that bit of the D-Link's power with one person at a time. You can use the communication function of a D-Link with multiple people, but in terms of the battle bonuses, it has to be one specific person," Ventus informed them. "I wouldn't worry too much about that for now though. All you three need to worry about is learning how to form the D-Link between each other, and using it as a method of communication."

The three nodded in reply, and were just about to set to work when the sound of someone tapping on a microphone reverberated through the room, making them look up to the control room that Donald, Goofy, and the Avengers were in. "Hey, have you guys still not started yet? We're not going to be able to learn more about how we fight these Heartless and Nobodies if you take your time getting ready," Tony called out over the mike.

"Don't worry, Tony. I just needed to give my students a quick lesson or two before we officially got to work. I figured it might come in handy later on," Ventus reassured them. He then looked to said apprentices and said, "All right. Ready to show these guys how we do things Keyblade wielder style?"

"You mean Keyblade Legion style," Sora playfully corrected.

While Roxas playfully rolled his eyes at his original other, Xion just smiled and admitted, "You know, that name's actually starting to grow on me a little."

The four Keybearers all then turned to face the simulated enemies that Iron Man just activated, Keyblades in hand, and set to work, with the younger of the three all mentally starting to work on how to begin using the power that Ven just told them about.

---

Around the same time that the Keyblade Legion was giving the Avengers a quick review on all things Heartless and Organization XIII, the dark forces of Marvel Universe were in the midst of finding some new friends of their own. At least one of these forces was, as one Baron Strucker was currently in his main base just on the outskirts of Sokovia, standing before an old foe of the Keyblade Legion's in order to work out a deal of their own. Not that Strucker was too fond of having to deal with this matter, as he would have much preferred to oversee more of the work on the scepter that HYDRA had liberated from SHIELD lockup during their more recent infiltration operations, as well as the results of their experiments using the scepter, namely the only two successes that some of those experiments had. However, Strucker was not a fool, since he knew that in this new age of miracles, as he had once called it, HYDRA would need every advantage they could get, so here he was, speaking with the large man in blue, red, and purple armor-like attire who sounded and acted so much like a certain cartoon character from famous children's cartoons.

"So lemme get this straight," Pete requested. "You and your pals here are all up against a bunch of do-gooders in snazzy, flashy costumes, and yet despite the fact that you've got an army that's equipped with all this fancy tech, you're still losing?"

"Despite what others may think, the Avengers are a formidable force, but only the most common and simple of minds truly fear them. Of course, I am not one of these simple fools, hence the reason why they have yet to find this facility, and why I have been able to continue the work that was not exposed by Nick Fury and Black Widow when they purged HYDRA from SHIELD," Strucker explained as though it were obvious, though somehow, he still kept his tone impressively neutral. It then turned dangerous as he questioned, "Do you find a reason to doubt us from that?"

"No, no. If anything I can relate to it," Pete quickly reassured. "Me, I got to deal with a couple of doofuses, and a bunch of brats that use Keyblades gettin' in the way of my plans too, and that's part of the reason why I'm here talkin' to you. See, if they happen to come here, I'm bettin' that we could team-up and take 'em all down easy, especially if you were to have the help of my Heartless with you."

"We are well aware of the shadow creatures' powers and have already learned how to control them. What could we learn from a buffoon like you," Strucker questioned.

"You know, since you seem like such a downright, nasty guy, I'm gonna let that one slide, and tell ya that whatever you're doin' to control the Heartless ain't gonna last. I've got the real deal instructions on how to take the reins, and can get you a lot more than just a handful of Shadows and whatever else you're lucky enough to collar. Plus, if you stick with me, you'll get a lot more than just a few loser heroes croakin'. In point of fact, you'll get more than anything that this world could offer for you or anyone else."

That seemed to catch Strucker's attention, and he leaned in closer to ask for more details until he noticed that they were no longer alone. Letting out a tired sigh, he looked to the intruders and said, "I had thought that you two were supposed to be kept in your rooms."

"Then you should find better security," a young, Sokovian boy with silver hair quipped as he stepped out from the shadows along with a woman that looked a lot like him, except for the fact that she had dark hair. The boy's attire was mostly varying shades of blue, and seemed consistent with that of a professional runner, while the girl wore a black dress with a red leather jacket over it, black leather wrist bands and boots, and torn stockings.

"And just who're you two," Pete asked, marching over to get into the boy's face as a way of trying to intimidate him.

Pete's tactic did not work, as the boy just smirked in return when he replied. "Strucker's people call us Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch. Reason being that I'm fast, and my sister has powers that almost seem like magic to some."

"Oh yeah? Magic how," Pete challenged. He was then suddenly lifted up into the air by several tendrils of red energy, most of which were clearly coming from the girl's hands while her eyes glowed in the same shade of red. A moment later, Pete felt as though he were being crushed, right to the point where he was starting to have trouble breathing, until he was roughly dropped on the ground.

"That's how," Scarlet Witch replied in a soft tone of voice that certainly sounded frightening. If Pete did not know better, he would even say that this girl was probably related to Maleficent somehow.

"Okay, I'll admit, that's nice, but just how fast is silver here," Pete asked.

Quicksilver cracked his neck with a simple motion of his head and then became a blur of blue and silver as he raced around the room, and eventually even out of the room. Seconds later, Pete found that an old burger had been thrown into his face once the blur had returned, and afterwards, Quicksilver reemerged once more with a napkin at the ready, and a smirk on his face. "You didn't see that coming?"

"Cute, kid. Real cute," Pete grumbled as he accepted the napkin, though secretly he did like these kids' style. He then turned to Strucker and asked, "So what do you plan on havin' these two do in takin' down these Avengers?"

"They are not ready yet," Strucker dismissed.

"Coulda fooled me. In fact, I think that they might even have the potential to be a big help with a little something that'll make sure that those zeroes never find you," Pete offered.

Strucker seemed to consider this for a moment, looking at the twins as he thought, until he finally asked, "What do you have in mind?"

Pete just grinned widely as he snapped his fingers to summon several different Heartless, while a shadowy aura seemed to surround the twins. As it did, Strucker's grin seemed to grow a little more, but both he and Pete had failed to notice that for the first time in a while Scarlet Witch seemed a little frightened by whatever the large man was doing to her and her brother.

---

Back at the tower, a few hours had gone by since Sora, Roxas, Xion, and Ven had started showing what they were capable of to the Avengers, while the kids were trying to get a handle on how to use the basic skill of the D-Link abilities. It was slow going, but after a while, Sora was able to successfully tap into the link between himself and Ventus, while Roxas and Xion did the same with their link. Unfortunately, those were the only D-Links that any of them were able to completely forge and communicate through, but Ven had said that there was a chance that they would not all be able to forge a D-Link between the whole group, and quickly reassured the three kids that it would happen for all of them in time. That did not keep Sora from asking Roxas and Xion what keepsakes that they were using to help them with their D-Link communication abilities.

The twins just shared a smile between each other before they pulled out a certain pair of drawing utensils that they had recovered from the virtual copy of the Twilight Town Old Mansion. "A pair of crayons," Sora asked, completely perplexed.

"These were Naminé's," Xion explained. "We figured that she might like to have these back, so we each decided to hold onto at least one to give her when we see her again."

"Plus, they are a good way to remember her by, considering how much she loved to draw," Roxas added on.

"They're not wrong. Besides, no one said that the keepsake had to be something fancy," Ventus informed both Sora and the twins with a smile. "Either way, you all did well to forge and access the D-Links that you did in such a short amount of time. It took me, Aqua, and Terra a few months before we had managed to do the same between all three of us."

"How long did it take for you to do it with just one or the other," Xion asked.

"Well…in Terra's case, I'd say it was about a month, but Aqua…probably a few weeks, give or take a day."

"Why am I not surprised," Sora teasingly laughed as he rested both hands behind his head, while Xion and Roxas both gained similarly teasing smiles.

"Do you three want to run nothing but basic drills for a week after we get back to the ship," Ventus questioned threateningly. The three kids probably would have said that he was bluffing, but given the smile on his face and how serious he sounded when he asked, they were a little unsure about that, so they wisely kept quiet.

At least they did until Roxas thought of another matter that they were feeling a little down about. "I just wish we were able to perform at least one Command Link with each other just as easily as we had managed everything with our D-Links," the blonde sighed.

"Hey, it's like I said earlier. Command Links may be similar to them, but they are still very different from Command Styles. It's not a simple matter of training with a specific type or types of magic; it's something that's forged from within your heart and that of the person your combining your powers with. Whether or not it even happens at all is really just something that would be left up to chance, but the chances do get better if your bond with the person gets stronger. Just be patient, and let it happen when it happens," Ventus advised.

The three could only nod in reply, as they had just entered the Avengers' living room again to see that the team was all gathered around for more discussion on everything that they had now learned. From what they could overhear, Tony had already made some adjustments to both his and Rhodey's armors' systems and weapons so that they would be more capable of destroying the Heartless on their own, and Hawkeye and Widow were making similar adjustments to their own weapons. Captain America and Falcon were in the midst of talking with Spider-Man about various strategies that they would be able to implement against the Heartless, while the web-head himself was mixing up a fresh batch of web-fluid so that he would not run out while in the middle of a fight. Donald and Goofy were more than happy to give a few of their own ideas to the superheroes, and all the ideas seemed to be eagerly welcomed.

The only ones not doing anything were Thor and Banner. The latter was obvious, as far as the Legion could tell, but Thor was a different story. When they finally asked after announcing their presence to everyone in the room, the blonde merely said, "While these are formidable foes, they are still little more than a mild challenge to an Asgardian warrior, be it myself or any other brave soul from home."

"Whatever you say, Point-Break," Tony muttered under his breath, earning him a scowl from Thor and a few chuckles from everyone else that was close enough to hear him and able to understand the reference.

"Are you sure about that, Thor," Xion asked, a little worried for her new friend.

"Of course, dear lady. No matter what the beast may be, they cannot hope to withstand the wrath of Mjolnir," Thor promised.

"The wrath of who," Roxas asked.

"Mjolnir, and it's not a who; it's a what," Spider-Man filled in for the dual Keyblade wielder and his friends. "That's the name of his hammer, which lets him fly around and shoot lightning, along with a lot of other cool stuff."

"Whoa! That sounds awesome," Sora grinned in excitement. Sure, he may have the Keyblade, but hearing about a hammer that could do stuff like that was still impressive.

"It also sounds really dangerous," Ventus said, clearly concerned. "If the hammer lets him do that, what's to stop one of the bad guys from using it against him?"

"You need not worry, Master Ventus. Only those who are worthy can wield Mjolnir," Thor revealed.

"Kind of like how it is with our Keyblades," Xion noted to her friends. "But how do you know if someone is worthy or not?"

Thor chuckled in response to that question before retrieving the hammer from where he was carrying it on his belt and held it out to Sora. "Here my young friend. Why don't you give it a try?"

Sora looked around to his other friends, who could only shrug in response, and while he was a little concerned at the knowing grins on the Avengers' faces, he still figured that there was no harm in seeing what would happen, so he reached out and grasped the hammer's handle. The minute Thor let go, the hammer dropped to the floor so fast it was almost like you would have missed it if you blinked, and Sora was pulled along with it. Not that he let that bother him for too long, as proven when Sora tried to stand up again, only to find himself unable to bring the hammer up with him. No matter how hard he pulled, the thing just simply refused to budge an inch, and while his teammates tried to suppress their chuckles at his efforts, all the Marvelites did not hold back their laughter at all.

"Give it up, kid. I can guarantee that thing will not be moving an inch," Banner advised after getting control of his laughter for a minute.

Sora paused in his attempts to move the hammer only to shoot everyone a dirty look for laughing at him, but once he had done so, he went right back to trying to lift the hammer, or at the very least move it. It was a little silly to see Sora trying so hard to move Thor's hammer like this, but while everyone else was busy laughing at Sora's continued attempts, Thor actually found his smile being wiped away when he saw the hammer move just a little bit before going still again. Eventually, Sora did finally give up, and took the laughter of the others with a smile as he simply shrugged, no one ever noticing how Thor was glancing between the boy and his hammer in curiosity.

"The mighty wielder of the Kingdom Key, and hero of Kingdom Hearts, everyone; defeated by a magic hammer," Roxas teased.

"Oh yeah? Well let's see you do better," Sora challenged.

Roxas merely smirked while the Avengers all "oooo-ed" in response to that. They were soon cheering as Roxas marched forward with a confident smirk, and Tony declared, "Ladies and gentlemen, the gauntlet has been thrown down: the Lifting of Thor's Hammer Challenge, Keyblade Legion addition is on!"

While some cheered and others rolled their eyes at Tony's rather childish proclamation, Roxas merely wrapped the leather strap on the handle around his wrist while asking, "So if I can lift this, that means I'm worthy, right?"

"Oh yes. As the enchantment my father placed on it states, 'whosoever lifts this hammer, should he be worthy, will possess the power of Thor.' So, anything I can do, you'll be able to do, assuming you can lift the hammer," Thor replied.

That just made Roxas smirk a little more, and he soon began to try and lift up the hammer. He ended up having just about as much luck as Sora, and at one point, everyone could even hear him grumbling about it should be no problem for him to lift the hammer since he was able to naturally use two Keyblades at the same time. Xion found it a little funny that her brother seemed to think that, and soon pushed him away, citing that it probably required a woman's touch, and was soon making her own attempt at moving the hammer. Needless to say, she also did not manage to make the hammer move, though one would have to make note that it seemed like Widow was cheering her on a little more so than she had been for Sora and Roxas.

"All right, kid, you had your shot. Now step aside, and let me show you how it's done," Donald declared, his altered voice making it sound like he was delivering an epic movie line that sent chills up everyone's spines.

The new flare that his changed voice gave him did not seem to do all that much for Donald's attempts at lifting the hammer, and some of them were even starting to think that he was going to get frustrated enough to break the magic that altered his appearance for this world again. Thankfully, it did not get to that point, but Goofy did eventually step up to try and help his friend lift the hammer, and everyone was soon treated to the sight of both Donald and Goofy working together in an attempt to make Thor's hammer move. Needless to say, it ended in failure.

"You getting a feeling of déjà vu just now, too," Rhodey asked Tony.

"Yep," Stark confirmed with a simple nod.

Ventus spared a small glance in the two armored heroes' direction for a second while Donald and Goofy continued trying to move the hammer, before he whispered to Sora, "Hey, have you noticed that Donald's new voice actually sounds a lot like Rhodey's?"

"Now that you mention it," Sora started to say, only to stop short when they realized Donald and Goofy had finally given up, and that everyone was now looking at Ventus to see if he would take up the challenge.

The bearded blonde would have to let everyone down, as he waved his hands in refusal while saying, "No thanks. I'm good with what I've already got."

"Well, don't take it too hard, you guys. HYDRA's going to have enough to worry about with just one person that has all of Thor's powers," Spider-Man reassured them.

After hearing that name brought up once again, the Keyblade Legion could barely keep their curiosity in check for much longer, and Sora finally asked the question they were all wondering. "What's this HYDRA you guys all keep talking about?"

The Avengers could not help but look at the kid for a minute in disbelief, but it seemed like they were able to remember the reason why neither he or the rest of the Keyblade Legion would know that quickly enough and soon launched into as short of an explanation as they could. "HYDRA's an old terrorist organization that's been around for decades," Black Widow informed them. "Originally, it was a weapons development group for the Nazis back in World War II, but their original leader, Red Skull eventually cut ties so that he could further his own goals. Even though that objective failed, HYDRA still carried on, even after the war. Just recently, we found out that they even had sleeper agents inside of SHIELD, the best world peace-keeping organization on the planet, and the only way we were able to get them out was to expose all the dirty laundry that SHIELD had, effectively destroying the agency from the inside along with everything HYDRA had inside of it."

"I'm guessing that did not end very well for more than a few people," Roxas figured. He may not remember much about his time in the Organization, but he did still retain enough knowledge from those days to know that such a move would have very serious consequences.

"Good guess. SHIELD was pretty much destroyed and needing to be rebuilt from the ground up afterwards, while any remaining HYDRA elements that were inside did their best to slip away through whatever cracks were still left," Falcon revealed. "Cap, Widow, and I were able to round up most of them with the help of Nick Fury, the former director of SHIELD, and one of his most trusted agents, Maria Hill, but there were still more than a few that got away, and with some very dangerous items as well."

"Among those being Loki's scepter," Thor added. "In the wrong hands it is dangerous enough, but in the hands HYDRA, there's no telling what may happen."

"That's why finding whatever HYDRA base it was sent to has been a high priority for us until your shadowy friends began popping up," Tony finished for the group.

While it raised a few more questions for the Keybearers, it did at least cover all the necessary basics for them, so they were willing to take that for now. At least until an alarm suddenly began blaring throughout the room. "Pardon me, everyone, but it seems that the Heartless are on the move again," JARIVS reported. "The news has already begun streaming various reports."

A minute later, a news channel was brought up on a holo-screen with the reporter's voice coming through loud and clear as he practically ranted about what was happening. "For those of you just joining us, this is J. Jonah Jameson of Daily Bugle Communications, reporting on yet another attack of the vile shadow monsters, only this time, with the known terrorist force, HYDRA backing them up. Just today, these creatures were seen wreaking havoc alongside Rhino and that masked menace, Spider-Man, which can only mean one thing: the web-head was acting as a vanguard for this bigger attack! And believe me, this is a bigger attack, because they are practically crawling all over the city as we speak, and there's absolutely no sign of the wall-crawler attempting perform any of his so-called 'heroics' in an attempt to stop them!"

"Sheesh, what's his problem," Roxas asked, directing the question mostly towards Spider-Man.

"Believe me, dude, I've been asking that same question for a long, long time now," Spidey grumbled in return.

"He is right about one thing. Those Heartless are all over the city. There's no way we'll be able to get to them all in time," Banner informed everyone as he checked the read-outs on the tower's scanners.

"Maybe not if we just go at them one group at a time, but what if we tried to hit each major area all at once," Ventus offered.

"We split up," Captain America cottoned on. "One Keyblade wielder per group. Start from the outer-most points of the city and work our way into the middle, or better yet, wherever they're coming from."

"JARVIS, see if you can find a pattern to their movements. That may help us locate that source a little faster, and if we can do that, we may finally find a clue on where they're keeping Reindeer Games' favorite toy," Tony ordered his AI while his armor flew over and formed around him.

"Very well, sir," JARVIS replied.

The rest of the Avengers all quickly geared up and began dividing up into group, with each group making sure to have one of the Keyblade wielders in it, until finally, they were ready to move out. When they all flew out of the tower to begin their mission, Iron Man could be heard shouting, "Avengers, Keyblade Legion…shine some lights on the subject."

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AN: Yeah, gotta be honest, I was kinda hoping to make this all one chapter, but I guess that was just a little unrealistic of me. But hey, on the bright side, we got all the meet-&-greets done, plus a little backstory on this world for the Legion, and said team finally getting their name. And yeah, that little tidbit between Sora and Ven about the former probably going with something like Keyblade Hero Six, is me making fun of how Sora named his group Keyblade Hero Three in KH3 when they teamed up with Big Hero 6. I just had to do it.

Now then, to clarify on a few points regarding this world. Unlike in the Kingdom Marvels Series, everything Marvel is referred to as Marvel Universe, namely because this follows the more traditional route of how worlds are set up in Kingdom Hearts as opposed to how they work in Kingdom Marvels, in which other worlds are just different planets in our galaxy, or however you want to put it, hence the reason why I named it Marvel Universe and not Marvel-topia like in Hearts of Avengers. As for the Avengers themselves, well they've all got their designs and set-up that they had by the time of Avengers: Age of Ultron, which is in fact a huge inspiration for the plot line of this world in this series. In short, this version of Marvel Universe draws most of its design from the MCU, while also including elements of other Marvel franchises, hence the reason why Spider-Man is currently an Avenger, and why he's obviously been stated to have battled the Rhino in the past, and why said villain is Russian like he was in the PS4 Spider-Man video game.

Roxas: Not to mention you found a way to work in Jameson and one of his rants for this chapter.

AN: Well, what can I say? Seeing J.K. Simmons return to the role for Spider-Man: Far From Home certainly provided the inspiration and motivation to do so. And as some of you predicted, Pete's working with HYDRA, and it looks like they're already gearing up for something big with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver on their side, but the former does not seem to have a very good feeling about how things will go down.

Moving on to other matters, Ven's finally explained the basics of D-Links and Command Links to the kids, and as of now, Roxas and Xion can only D-Link with each other, while Sora and Ven can only use it between them, but don't worry, the four will all be using the D-Link to at least communicate with one another soon enough. As far as other D-Link abilities go though, it won't be expanding beyond that. I didn't really use the D-Links very much in Birth By Sleep beyond just making sure that they were fully powered up, so I'm not going to bother with them having the Legion use them all that much beyond a method of communication. As for Command Links, I know a lot of you are now thinking about how the group's going to forge one between one another, and you're all probably getting your imaginations working on what one between Roxas and Sora, or Xion and Sora, or Roxas and Xion is going to be like. Well let me tell you right now that it's going to be a while before that happens, so please try to refrain from begging to see it happen sooner. I promise that it will happen when it happens. And don't worry, Ven and Aqua will eventually forge a Command Link between one another as well. Fair warning though, it'll likely be a very original ability, unless I see anything to indicates that they already have an existing Command Link between them, like how Mickey and Aqua did with the Wayfinder Command Link. And no, Sky Climber doesn't count. I already explained why that could not be the case when Ven explained Tier Two Command Styles earlier on in the story/series.

Oh, and just to be clear, that whole thing where Ven commented on Donald's normal voice sounding like Rhodey's is actually a reference to the fact that Don Cheadle was the voice of Donald Duck for that episode in which Donald's voice was normal. And yeah, I had to have a scene where everyone in the Keyblade Legion was trying to lift Thor's hammer. Guess a lot of you are now thinking that Sora making the hammer move a little bit is probably alluding to something big happening later on, right?

Now, with all of that said and done, let's move it along to the most important part of these ending notes: the part where all of you guys move Onto the Preview!...

A battle spanning across all of New York has both the Keyblade Legion and Avengers fighting at nothing less than their best, but in some cases, they may have to fight a little harder. Sora and Spider-Man's group is actually one such case as they come face-to-face with Scarlet Witch, while Roxas's team end up fighting Quicksilver, but once all the battles are over, they do end up figuring out a few clues on where they need to go to really put a stop to the Heartless problem on Marvel Universe, and maybe even the HYDRA problem as well. Prepare to cut off one head, and then hunt down the two more that take it's place, next time.

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