*A Keyblade was raised into the air in front of Spider-Man's logo*
KKD: Well, here we are. The big crossover.
Pikatwig: Looks like we can't escape from crossing fate.
KKD: *is about to say something but then blinks* ...BBTag, really?
Pikatwig: It's fitting.
KKD: ...Eh, fair enough.
Pikatwig: Now, onto how we're gonna handle this crossover. There's going to be two halfs to this. One focusing more on the Marvel characters and one more on the Kingdom Hearts characters.
KKD: If it seems strange, we'll find a way to combine these chapters later.
Pikatwig: Maybe into some sort of 'Final Mix' version of the chapter.
KKD: Yea, exactly.
Pikatwig: So, let's give a quick summary of Kingdom Hearts: Namine's Tale for those of you who don't know what's going on there.
KKD: Basically, it's a retelling of Kingdom Hearts if Namine were a real person. We added our own twists here and there, but this is the biggest yet.
Pikatwig: This takes the place of Tarzan's world in the original Kingdom Hearts. It got banned from ever reappearing due to some legal complications.
KKD: Hard to shorten that, so we're just gonna say it's complicated.
Pikatwig: And this chapter will hold some ties to the larger Marvel-verse of Fantastic Spider-Man. Just some. This will still mainly focus on Peter and his pals, but we'll see something… unexpected.
KKD: We won't say what just yet, though.
Pikatwig: Well, let's get this going! Kingdom Hearts time! *changes a logo from KH to Spider-Man* Spider-Man time! It's on!
Disclaimers: Neither KKD nor Pikatwig own anything in this story as it is a fan-based project. Spider-Man and any associated properties within are owned by Marvel Comics, Walt Disney Studios, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, and their respective creators and owners. The only things the authors own are the original concepts and idea introduced within.
Expanded Disclaimers: Neither KKD nor Pikatwig own the rights to anything in this story as it is a fanmade project. Kingdom Hearts and the movies and games used within are the property of Walt Disney Studios, SquareEnix, and Tetsuya Nomura. The only things the authors own are the original concepts within.
"Well, we still had time off due to the damage caused to the school by Doc Ock and his mind control stuff. Thankfully, by this point, I had fully recovered and was hanging out with the crew at a cafe."
"Did you get a chance to open the 'get well soon' gift I got you?" MJ asked.
"Not yet," Peter responded, "It is kinda heavy…"
"Sorry, it's just that I wanted to get you it sooner, but well… hadn't had a chance."
"Go ahead and open it," Gwen stated with a shrug.
"You feelin' ok, Gwen?" Harry asked.
"I'm fine," Gwen assured.
"You sure? That guy seemed to make you his assistant…"
"I'm fine…" Gwen assured as she managed to pay for some drinks, "Well, go on Peter."
Peter simply shrugged as he opened up the gift. First there was a cute little teddy bear, making him feel a bit happy as he cuddled it a little. He then pulled out what looked to be some sort of radar or scanner.
"Thanks MJ," Peter smiled.
"There's more…" she said in a song-song tone.
Peter then reached in and pulled out a Nintendo Switch, "I got myself a Switch at last! Mary Jane, thank you so much!"
"And I got you a game," she smiled.
Peter then pulled out a copy of Puyo Puyo Tetris.
"Well, Ms. Queen of Puyo Puyo bought a game to kick our butts in," Gwen commented.
"Be glad I got you something with Tetris, a game you all know about, as well," MJ responded as she pulled out a Puyo Puyo skinned Joycon, "Wanna go a round or two?"
"I'm game," Harry smiled.
"Eh, why not?" Gwen shrugged.
"This could be fun. But we do need to set this up…"
"As we were having our fun… something big was happening elsewhere…"
An evil laugh echoed across the land as a massive black creature with a heart-shaped hole in its torso compared to elf-shoe feet, a super muscular body, and a head with yellow eyes covered by tendrils that seemed almost like hair. A man on fire flew forward as if to examine the creature while attacking it before he got knocked back.
"Gah!" a male voice yelled as he was sent flying back.
"The plan isn't working!" a gruff voice yelled.
"...this is bad…" another male voice muttered before he sighed, "Buy me a little time. I'm gonna get backup."
"You heard the man!"
"Alright… flame on!"
"It's clobberin' time!"
In response, a massive orange golem of sorts charged forward.
Over at a tower in New York, several costumed figures were in the middle of approaching another man that was in front of a computer monitor.
-What was it you wanted to show us?- a somewhat mechanical voice asked.
"Listen up, team. We got an unidentified flying object approaching the Atlantic Ocean. All we have is this somewhat blurred picture," a male voice informed.
"That seems like an oddly colorful blob…" a man with an African accent spoke.
"It appears to have a magical presence aboard and a very strong one at that…" another male noted.
"Alright, let's ge-"
-Mr. Fantastic to the Avengers, do you read me? Repeat, Mr. Fantastic to the Avengers. Do you read me?!- a voice from a com-link yelled.
-We read you. What's going on?-
-We have an unidentified lifeform attacking civilians as we speak. We can't get a reading on what it is and our attacks are hardly harming it. We need backup!- Mr. Fantastic told them before there was a loud explosion sound, a scream, and communications were cut off.
-Avengers, we need to get going!-
"Alright," the others nodded.
"...I guess SHIELD can investigate this ship on its own…"
"Whilst a powerful monster was attacking a nation and the greatest superhero team was on their way to stop it… I was playing a video game with my pals."
The four friends were playing the game. They were in the midst of a round of Swap Mode and the game was getting intense as the garbage blocks were quickly piling up on everybody's screen.
"Come on… come on…" Peter muttered as the game swapped from Puyo Puyo Mode to Tetris Mode, "Alright… time for a comeback."
"No, no… no…" Gwen muttered before she ended up topping out, "Dang it!"
"Come on," MJ whispered as she got the blocks into position just as the boards swapped back to Puyo Puyo Mode, "Alright. Time to clean house!"
"Shoot!" Harry yelled, "I topped out…"
"Now it's MJ vs. Peter," Gwen commented before she turned to Peter, "Come on Peter, kick butt!"
"Let's see what you got, Tiger," MJ smiled as they kept clearing lines of puyos as the boards swapped back to Tetris. It was neck and neck for quite a time as the boards switched again and again repeatedly until MJ just narrowly won, "Yes!"
"Shoot…" Peter sighed.
"You gave it your all, Tiger. Good game," MJ smiled.
"Yea… it sure was."
"Not for us…" Harry said as he scratched the back of his head.
"At least we all had fun," Gwen shrugged with a smile.
Peter relaxed a little before he felt his Spider Sense go nuts. He winced a bit as he looked outside for a moment.
"Pete? What's wrong?" Harry asked.
"Nothing… just… kind of a chill…" Peter responded, "But I gotta go check on something. I'll be back."
He then took off in a hurry to avoid suspicion, and soon found himself getting into his Spider-Man suit and swinging around. He landed on a building to begin looking around. He then looked up and saw two people falling through the air.
"What the-did they fall out of a plane?! Better hurry and save them," he thought as he began to spin a web net to catch the two. Soon, he managed to finish the webbing to catch the two. He looked over them and noticed their odd attire, the boy with spiky brown hair having a red shirt and 'pumpkin pants', a white jacket, and oversized yellow shoes while the blonde girl just had a white dress of sorts, blue sandals, and held a notebook.
Spider-Man was about to question them when his Spider-Sense went off, making him turn to see strange black creatures with yellow eyes.
"What in the world ARE these?!" he gasped as more of them began to show up. He shrugged a little bit as he began to shoot webbing at them to try and stop them before strong gust of wind knocked the creatures away. Spider-Man blinked in confusion before he saw the duo he caught in the webbing were going down the fire escape on the building to try and search for something, "Hey wait!"
Before Spider-Man could follow them, another mysterious creature popped up, this one appearing to resemble a knight. Spider-Man punched it, sending it tumbling down before something caused it to explode and what looked to be a pink heart floated away.
"...ok… this has certainly been a weird day. First two kids fell from the sky and then these things come out of nowhere. ...hoo boy…" Spider-Man sighed as he web-swung away.
Peter eventually got back to the cafe, but he soon noticed Harry standing there.
"Hey," Peter smiled.
"Peter, come on! You gotta see this! Quick!"
Harry the dragged Peter over to a pier where a lot of people were taking pictures of a massive ship in the water.
"What is it?" Peter asked.
"It's some kind of spaceship!"
"What kind of spaceship is orange and yellow with a visible dome on top?" another person asked.
"Are you sure it's a spaceship and not a plane?" Peter asked.
"Pretty sure…" Harry nodded.
Peter looked curious about the ship in question before SHIELD Agents quickly started motioning for people to go away. He noticed their attempts to get the ship, but quietly walked away with the other people.
"There could be aliens… what if they're invading Earth? Are they a scouting force or-" Harry began to ponder.
"Harry, Harry, calm down, man," Peter told him as Harry soon began to calm down a little.
"Sorry… I just… just… you know…" Harry sighed.
"I know, man. Let's just go relax, alright?"
Meanwhile, Doctor Octopus sat in his jail cell, grinning as he managed to get the black creatures to pry at the cell bars and soon helped the doctor break free. He gave an evil laugh as the creatures dealt with the guards, seeing them pry out the guards' hearts and create more of their ranks.
"Now I will get back against that spider…"
He laughed as he marched out with his new soldiers.
"I must say… he's certainly doing a good job with the Heartless…" the woman who was obscured by shadows commented.
Another day soon rolled around as Peter tried to locate the two people that he had saved from the air the previous day. Though strangely, it was tougher than it seemed. He let out a sigh as he found himself at the cafe again and only saw Gwen there.
"Hey," she smiled.
"Hey," Peter waved.
"You doing ok?" she asked.
"Yea. Just a little exhausted…" he admitted.
"What've you been doing that's made you so tired?"
"Was just looking around for some… thing. Nothing too important, but it just took a lot out of me."
"Alright," Gwen nodded as she sat next to him, "I was just thinking… you wanna hang out?"
"Sure. I could use a breather after that search."
Gwen smiled as they headed out of the cafe, not seeing MJ walk by. The two continued to walk along, but Peter then noticed another blonde girl was going in the same direction as MJ.
'Is that the girl I saw yesterday? ...wait. Is she following MJ?' Peter thought, watching them, 'Wonder what's going on…'
Peter was about to stop walking, but simply kept walking alongside Gwen for a little bit.
"I noticed a couple odd looking kids earlier today. One with spiky hair that looked like it was out of an anime and some overly baggy clothes and the other was a curious blonde girl who had a sketchpad…" Gwen commented.
"...really?" Peter blinked.
"Yea. That is strange, but I did see them roaming around the city…"
"Weird…"
Gwen simply nodded a bit before she noticed something began to squirm from the nearby ally and then it quickly lunged out. She gasped as the creature leaping towards her, making her scream and hide in fear. More of the creatures popped in, forcing Peter to hide in an alleyway. He quickly changed into his costume before he came out of the alleyway to web up the creatures.
"Spider-Man!" Gwen gasped.
Suddenly, some of the creatures blew up thanks to being bashed by something. Confused, Spider-Man turned to see the spiky haired boy from the previous day swinging around a giant sword resembling a silver and gold skeleton key.
"What the…?" Spider-Man blinked.
"You alright?" the kid asked Gwen as she nervously backed away.
"I-I'm fine…" she assured.
"Good. You'd better get away," he told her.
Gwen nodded as she did that while Spidey saw the kid easily destroying the black creatures with his key-like weapon.
"Yeesh… These things seem pretty wimpy if I can beat them like that…" the kid noted.
"Hold up a moment…" Spider-Man said as he blasted the creatures with his web and turned to the kid, "What's that weapon? And how're you able to beat these things? For that matter, what are these things?!"
"Long story short, this weapon is called a Keyblade and these things are called the Heartless. They come from the darkness in people's hearts and they're really dangerous!" he explained.
"Wow. I've heard of a lot of things, but even THAT sounds farfetched to me," Spidey commented before he readied a web-shooter in the kid's direction, "I think you might be a troublemaker like these guys…"
"Really? Come on, I don't have time for this you bugman."
"I'm a spider!"
The Keyblade wielder was forced to block a blast of webbing before an ice shot nearly hit Spider-Man.
"Namine!" the boy smiled as he ran over to her, "Did you find Kairi?"
"...wasn't her…"
"What do you mean it wasn't her?!"
"...it wasn't…" the girl, Namine, sighed, "...Sora… I'm really starting to worry. This is the fourth world we've been to without any sign of Riku or Kairi. Will we ever find them?"
"...we have to…" he responded.
Spider-Man looked at them for a moment, a bit confused before a magic shot destroyed another Heartless and a shield was tossed at another. Spider-Man then turned to see who threw those and saw a duck and a dog, both standing up like humans and dressed in silly looking clothing. Spider-Man slapped his face as he felt a great amount of confusion. Sora and Namine went over to the two animals and spoke with them as if it were normal for them to do so.
"...ok… I'm really confused now…" Spider-Man muttered as he webbed up some of the Heartless.
"Now come on, let's beat these Heartless while we're here!" Sora yelled.
"...ok… this has easily became the second weirdest day of my life…" Spider-Man noted.
"Do I wanna know what the first was?" Sora questioned.
Spider-Man simply blinked as he webbed up a Heartless and flung it around before Sora bashed it with the Keyblade. The two smiled as they prepared to beat up more of the Heartless.
Doctor Octopus arrived at his base alongside the Heartless, grinning as he got to work on modifying the Heartless with armor similar to his.
"Excellent. Let's see that web-head take me down with this army by my side!" he laughed, "Mind control is overrated anyway… now I will beat that web-head and learn more about my new helpers!"
"The last man who tried that died…" the woman who told him about the Heartless commented.
"Obviously he was reckless and oblivious to the capabilities of such creatures. I will succeed where that man failed! Now leave me!"
"You fool. You will only lead to your own demise. You will regret trying it!"
"You question the genius of Doctor Otto Octavius?! You'll regret it!" he yelled as he had a mechanical leg attack her. The woman just vanished in black smoke to avoid the attack.
"You DARE attack the Mistress of all Evil?!"
The Heartless then began to attack her as well, but then she glared at them and made them begin to attack Doctor Octopus. The Doctor was able to use his mechanical limbs to fend them off as the woman teleported away in a green fire.
Back with Spider-Man, they had finished off the Heartless that were attacking the area. He then quickly headed away to change back to Peter Parker. He was about to pull off his mask, when he heard police sirens wailing. He quickly turned back to see that it was SHIELD approaching him and Sora's group, aiming their guns at them out of defense. Spider-Man remained on the building for a moment as he waited to see what was next.
-You need to come with us for questioning. Come quietly or we will use deadly force!- somebody from SHIELD yelled via a megaphone.
"Shoot… ok you. Hang tight," Spider-Man told Sora and his friends before he webbed up the guns of the SHIELD agents. He jumped down to their level and knocked out the agents, "Follow me you guys."
Sora nodded as he and Namine followed.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Goofy asked.
"Better than sticking around with these guys trying to hurt us!" Donald yelled as they followed the others.
"Who are those guys?" Sora asked.
"They're usually really nice. But I guess with those Heartless things running around, they're more on edge than usual. And since you guys are the only ones capable of beating them with your Lockswords-"
"Keyblade," Sora corrected.
"Yea, that. They must want to use you guys for some answers," Spider-Man figured.
"...who are you? And why are you helping us?" Namine questioned, "I mean… I am happy for the help, but I'd like to know why you're giving it."
"What's more reason than to help somebody in need of help? It's just as important to help those in need as it is to help people you know. As for who I am… the name's Spider-Man. Take it you're not from these parts if you didn't know that…"
"Yea, that's kinda it…" Sora responded.
"So can you explain what's going on here?"
"The Heartless are trying to… well… their real goal is just to take whatever hearts they can to convert them into more Heartless. But it seems someone's controlling them to do… something to a world."
"What do you mean?"
"We don't know…"
Spider-Man simply nodded before his Spider Sense went off and he saw somebody quickly fleeing from the Heartless. To his surprise, it was his enemy that he had just helped put behind bars not that long ago.
"Doc Ock?!" he gawked.
"Spider-Man? Perfect! Now I can be able to kill you! Heartless, get him!" Doc Ock shouted.
The Heartless turned towards Spider-Man and began to march towards him, Sora slashed at the Heartless with his Keyblade and then sent out a wind gust at Doctor Octopus.
"Welp! You dare attack me?! You are foolish for this action!" the mad scientist shouted in anger.
"Nice blast there," Spider-Man smiled, "If you can, can you two help me get this convict back in jail?"
"No problem," Sora nodded.
Thus, the five took on a battle stance and prepared themselves as Heartless began to rush over and attack them. Donald quickly casted a lightning spell at the Heartless, making it explode. Goofy quickly tossed his shield against Doctor Octopus' legs, which the doc used to block the shield a bit until Goofy did a spiral attack of sorts to knock him off balance.
"I'm being beaten… by a bipedal dog?! ...never thought I'd say that. Oh, the humiliation!"
"Hey, Ock, why don't I lend you a hand, or a foot?" Spider-Man punned as he kicked the villain in the face.
"Ugh…" Doc Ock groaned.
"Was that supposed to be a joke?" Sora asked.
"Uh…" Namine blinked as she aimed her Keyblade at Doctor Octopus and sent out an ice blast, "...freeze?"
"Eh, could've used more oomph," Spider-Man commented as he webbed up Doc Ock's right foreleg and then yanked it to send him to send him into the air. Sora quickly casted a wind spell to knock him further into the air before Spider-Man knelt down and jumped up. Spider-Man then hit Doctor Octopus down to the ground.
"Go ahead and take him out!"
Sora and Namine then attacked the legs on Doc Ock's suit to weaken them. Spider-Man gave a smirk as he began kicking the doctor from multiple angles. He then kicked him from the air and caused him to get knocked out.
"Having fun? You're done!" Spider-Man yelled as he landed a last attack on Doc Ock.
Suddenly, near the Oscorp building, Sora and Namine spotted something glowing. They both looked to see it was another Keyhole shape before they both held up their Keyblades and light shot from them. Spider-Man noticed the lights collide with the hole and after a bit heard the sound of a lock locking before the keyhole and lights vanished.
"What was that?" Spider-Man asked.
"We're… not sure…" Sora admitted.
"We're still trying to figure that out," Namine admitted, unaware of Donald and Goofy finding something and picking it up.
"HEY!" a small voice yelled as something jumped up onto Namine's shoulder, "I finally found you guys!"
"What was that?" Spider-Man asked before spotting what appeared to be a cartoon cricket in a suit and top hat, "...ok…"
"We finally got the Gummi Ship back up and running. We can get out of here."
Spider-Man blinked a little in confusion as the group headed off.
"Hopefully we'll see you again!" Sora called out.
Spider-Man just waved in response as Sora and the gang reached their ship and took their leave.
Peter sat down in his room with a tired look on his face as he was set to fall on his bed.
"Peter? What's the matter?" Aunt May asked.
"Would you believe me if I told you I dealt with things not of this world?" Peter asked, collapsing on his bed.
"Well that would explain why you're so tired…" Aunt May responded as she heard a knock at the door, "I'll get it."
She opened the door to reveal MJ smiling as she walked on in.
"Hi Mrs. Parker. I just came to bring something that Peter forgot."
"Alright," Aunt May smiled, "But would you like anything while you're here? I could always bake you something."
"No. My aunt's got something she's working on," MJ informed, "Oh. She said hi."
"Thank you, dear. Peter's up in his room."
MJ nodded before going up to see Peter, "Hi."
"Hey. Long day…"
"I figured seeing what we saw today. Seriously, spaceship crashing in the ocean… who knows what could be hiding here on Earth now…" MJ smiled, "At the very least, I hope they were nice…"
Peter simply gave a soft smile, but she clearly didn't see it.
"Anyway…" MJ spoke up as she put his Switch on a table, along with the copy of Puyo Puyo Tetris, "You never came back to get these…"
"Sorry…" he apologized.
"But… uh… I did get you another game. Saw it in a discount bin earlier today," MJ smiled as she placed the game on a desk, "Dragon Quest Heroes I + II. Compilation."
"Cool…" Peter responded.
"Well, I gotta get going. Have a good time, and… good luck with whatever you need to deal with going forward," she smiled as she headed off.
Peter simply gave a thumbs up and then simply continued to relax.
Pikatwig: Half one of the crossover is completed. What did you think?
KKD: That was a blast.
Pikatwig: So… about the Puyo Puyo Tetris nod… I recently learned that game existed. Seemed like something Peter and co would play.
KKD: I guess.
Pikatwig: Though, if this was an actual crossover in like a cartoon or a comic… they'd more than likely be playing some Square Enix game.
KKD: True.
Pikatwig: Then I discovered that Dragon Quest Heroes I + II is currently one of the only Square Enix Switch games.
KKD: Huh… funny how you can find that, yet can't seem to locate how someone knows the release date of Spyro Treasure Trilogy is September 9th.
Pikatwig: A comment on the video for that said it came from Twitter.
KKD: And I can't validate that. Seeing there's no link to it in the video description or the comment. No other source even made light of a confirmed announcement yet; last one turned out to be just a rumor.
Hinata: *sighs and groans* Ok… gonna go find something to do. *picks up a soda bottle* "Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, sodium benzoate. Filed under the authority of Dr. Pepper-" wait… Dr. Pepper's a real guy? *sighs and tosses the soda bottle away*
Pikatwig: Uh…
Hinata: With how he's been acting about Treasure Trilogy, I need to keep myself occupied… and today, that's reading ingredient labels.
KKD: Seriously, so hyped for Treasure Trilogy, and yet they can't give us a solid release from Activision or Sony themselves?! Come on, guys! If Vicarious Visions and/or Toys for Bob is on this, then you can at least let us in on when you might be done! *continues to rant*
Hinata: …*grabs something else* Let's see…
Pikatwig: How often has he been like this?
Hinata: Ever since you confirmed the name for the Spyro HD compilation is 'Treasure Trilogy'.
Pikatwig: ...k.
Hinata: Trust me, once anyone, including himself, even slightly brings it up, he won't shut up. He actually bought two custom Spyro T-shirts in anticipation for the release.
Pikatwig: Alright.
Hinata: …*sighs* I'm getting tired of this…
KKD: And furthermore-*gets bonked on the back of the head with a copy of N. Sane Trilogy* Ow!
Off-Screen Guy: Thank me later. *walks away in a hurry*
Hinata: Anyway… thank you all for joining us on this end of this crossover.
Pikatwig: So, favorite part, KKD?
KKD: *rubs head* Uh… w-well… that's tough to say.
Pikatwig: I… kinda have to agree there. Also… we get our first real hint of the rest of what else is known as the Fantastic-Verse.
KKD: AKA, Earth… number to be determined, though it will invole the numbers 19 and 87 somehow.
Pikatwig: We see that Doctor Doom, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers are all here. We're not locking the Fantastic Four and the X-Men away like Marvel has been doing.
KKD: Yea. Hinting at a much larger world out there for our story.
Pikatwig: Though, the other Fox Movie based character is forever locked behind the paywall.
-Meanwhile-
Deadpool: Ugh… why can't we leave?
Mephisto: I have no idea.
*Deadpool sighed as he looked at Silk for a moment*
Silk: ...what?
Deadpool: You're lucky that you're pretty enough for me to not try and kill to get them to open up that door. *begins to think…*
Silk: …*nervously walks over to another end of the room*
-With Authors-
Pikatwig: I just felt a chill down my spin. Like… somebody from within the paywall is making plans to get out.
KKD: I think I know who you mean, and seeing how much you hate the guy, I wouldn't be surprised if he tries to gun it for you first.
Pikatwig: ...k. Uh… anything else to say?
KKD: Not much really.
Hinata: I won't even bother bringing up the game again.
Pikatwig: Ok then. Just Live More.
KKD: Jaa ne.