Hey all, my apologies for being away for a bit. Had a bad case of writers block for a very long time (As I do with combat scenes).
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Return of Negativity! The Power of Emotion!
Monstropolis - Monsters Inc. Lobby & Offices
Twelve smaller ones and one big one made for thirteen in total; thirteen that had to be defeated. Donald raised his staff into the air; deciding to start the fight with a Thundara spell in an effort to attack them all at once. The powerful surge of electricity struck the area and most of the creatures; most but five of the smaller ones that had dived into the floor and were moving as dark blue masses.
"Hey!" Donald whined. Sora covered Donald's blunder by casting Watera at the masses, making them pop out into the sky. Meanwhile, the ones that got hit by Donald's attack surged with electricity as they struggled to move. The big one tried to charge at the group, but colliding with the smaller creatures caused the surge of electricity to explode, not only stopping them but damaging them. Goofy took this opening to spin into the creatures, knocking them senseless. The big one then suddenly inhaled and inflated his underside belly before hopping into the air. Sora and his team looked above themselves at the inflated monster as it came down when multiple large seeds struck the toad-like monster, knocking it off course and deflating it as it came down onto the floor in a daze.
"Momo?" Sora looked in the direction the seeds were fired from to find several large flower cannons of hers had taken root at the edge of the room. He smiled, glad have her support. "Okay! Let's try this then!"
Kingdom Key flashed with light and was replaced with a new keyblade. The blade was black with a sunset orange shade and consisted of a series of thunderbolts topped by a sculpt of Zeus; Herc's father. His arm and the large thunderbolt held in his hand made up the teeth. The handle was light-blue and the guard consisted of Olympus-styled clouds and columns, topped with the symbol of the gods of Olympus. The Keychain was a thick black chain that ended with an Olympus Stone token. Sora's Keyblade had transformed thanks to the power of the Keychain given to him by Zeus as a gift. This Keyblade; Hero's Origin, was named by the King of The Greek Gods himself.
Ten of the smaller creatures had surrounded Mike and Sulley and tried to attack the duo, but after a pep up from Mike, Sulley let loose a ferocious roar; locking them in place with fright. Sora threw Hero's Origin like a boomerang, destroying all the little monsters before it reappeared in his hand. Then; all of a sudden, his keyblade started to glow with a yellow light...
"Woah!" Sora shouted as his new Keyblade grew larger and started to Transform! The lightning bolts enlarged and acted as a conductor arc for an instant before the pieces condensed themselves to the handle of the weapon. Raising itself into the air; It broke away from Sora's hand, twisting itself around while shooting out bolts of lightning, continuing to eventually transform into a hefty shield.
"What is this...?" Sora was awestruck at what had just occurred, taking the shield back from above him. The shield was surrounded by Olympus-styled clouds that flowed into a small statue of golden gates at the top. Also, right in the middle, was the symbol of the gods of Olympus.
"Sora!" Donald called out to him as he destroyed two of the smaller monsters with Aerora; alerting him back to the fight. He saw the big toad-like monster charging at him, whiskers thrashing in his direction! Sora ducked behind his new shield, intending on tanking the blow!
DING!
The sound echoed as the large monster reeled back from the recoil of colliding with Sora's shield when-
POW!
The front of the Shield opened and a large golden arm emerged, punching the creature with a mighty blow! The beast flew to the end of the room, hitting the wall with a great force that caused it to explode in a burst of darkness.
"Huh?" Sora looked over the shield and then himself, noticing that he had changed color. His fur had changed into a Yellow-Orange color palette and the red of his jacket had changed to yellow. "Must be the special powers that Yen Sid told me about..." mused Sora to himself right before he changed back to his normal palette.
Donald and Goofy celebrated among each other while Mike and Sulley exchanged high-fives. Loud giggling was heard from Boo as Momo's flower cannons disappeared and she; along with Momo, came out of hiding.
"Very well done!" Momo praised as she held Boo's hand and walked closer to the group.
"Heh. Same to you!" Sora put his hands behind his head "Thanks for the help!"
The Monster Deviluke shook her head "Oh no, that wasn't just me." she looked down to the toddler with a gentle smile.
"Kitty!" Boo cheerfully called out to Sulley, raising her free arm to be picked up by him.
"So, any idea who those guys were?" Mike asked Sora, Donald, and Goofy while Sulley brought Boo into his arms.
Momo walked closer to Sora and his team "Sora-san, I recall you saying those creatures were not Heartless?" her voice was a hushed whisper.
"Well..." he began "They couldn't have been Heartless..." he continued to think. "They seem pretty similar though...a different type of darkness...maybe?"
"Hmm...It's on the tip of my tongue." Goofy thought out-loud "I remember King Mickey told me and Donald something about...nega-tive emotions..." he wistfully recalled. "Unbirths?"
"Un-versed!" Donald corrected, only remembering due to his companion's mis-naming.
"Oh yeah! That's right!"
Sora folded his arms, perplexed "Unversed...?"
"Uh-huh." the Goof nodded "A while back, King Mickey fought a whole bunch of battles against 'em with the three missing Keyblade Wielders." Meanwhile, Mike and Sulley couldn't be anymore lost; sharing glances of confusion as Goofy explained.
"The same three you just so happen to be looking for? Aqua, Terra, and Ventus?" Momo asked with large eyes and a hand over her bosom, thinking that was one heck of a coincidence.
"Yeah! We need much more dependable help than Sora!" The monster duck backhanded.
"Hey!" leaving Sora a bit miffed.
"Still, how come the Unversed are showin' up now?" Goofy continued wondering.
Donald however, gave an accusing glare at the two Monsters they've just met. "Maybe because they use scream power?"
"Hey! I told you we're through using that!" Mike was rather indignant at the accusing. "Besides, we have no idea who or what you're talking about."
Sora started to walk to them, a smile plastered on his face as he chose to trust them "Oh, you'd really like the King-Mhrrhp?!" his mouth was suddenly closed shut by Donald and Goofy.
"Order...!" they both whispered to the Keyblade Wielder in a scolding manner.
"Pehaps he's a little too carefree sometimes...ehehe..." Momo commented to herself with an uncomfortable smile.
"Umm...basically..." Sora re-adjusted himself after his friends let him go, gathering his thoughts before he continued "We've come from far away to get rid of those creatures causing trouble." he told them without getting specific "We're like...exterminators?"
"Just how far away?"
Momo stepped forward to aid him "As far as you can possibly imagine." The others behind her nodded.
"Hmm..." Mike thought it over; his hand scratching the top of his head before relenting "Okay, okay! Let's just say we buy all that. Are those creeps from before dangerous?"
"Yes! Very!"
"They sure gave Boo a scare." Sulley commented, tending to the toddler in his arms. Mike stared at Boo, thinking to himself before reaching a decision.
"Sulley, I know you've missed her, but it's time to postpone our playdate."
"You're right, Mikey. Let's get our girl home." Sulley's voice was low and expressed his disappointment, but he understood. Things were just getting a little too dangerous for her...
Sora grew curious. "What are you planning to do?"
"It's kind of a long story...but Boo's from another World..." Mike walked closer to Boo and Sulley "...and we gotta send her back there; to keep her safe."
"Okay, then. We're gonna help you." Sora decided, not missing a beat.
"What?!"
"Well, the Unversed might try to cause more trouble." the Keyblade Wielder explained. He stepped forward and brought a hand up to his chest, expressing his sincerity. "So, we wanna come along." and he then extended it for a handshake with the one-eyed monster.
"Great!" he accepted Sora's offer and shook his hand "We could use a couple of exterminators around here!"
"Yeah, thanks." Sulley thanked him and his team in a calm manner. Boo suddenly giggled, no longer in Sulley's arms and had somehow escaped into the hallway leading to the Laugh Floor. Mike and Sulley proceeded to playfully give chase to the runaway toddler, laughing along the way.
"You always gotta help." Donald's voice was as tired as his expression.
"Hey, they need us. Besides, we need to figure out how the Unversed got here."
"I know that but Sora, what about Momo and her missing friends?"
"Uh!" He flinched in place with a conflicted look.
"Oh don't worry about me!" Momo told them with haste, rapidly waving her hand. "It wouldn't be right to leave this World when it needs your help." She gave a somber smile "Although I am worri-"
"Guys!" Mike suddenly called out to them from down the corridor "The Laugh Floor is this way!"
"A-hyuck! We're on our way!" Goofy responded as he walked to where Mike and Sulley were; with the rest trailing behind him. "So what were you sayin', Ms. Momo?"
She shook her head "Never mind, it could wait until later." They walked down a long brown hallway, passed by cleaning equipment and a Water Cooler Dispenser, and made a right into another hallway that was more grey.
"So what kinda place is this anyway?" Sora decided to pass the time by asking Sulley about the factory.
"Gotta send her home right now or so help meeee~ So help me! So help me!" Mike was passing the time in his own manner by singing a song.
"You don't know? This is Monster's Incorporated, an energy plant used to power all of Monstropolis." The big guy explained "We used to rely on Scream Power from human kids for energy."
Momo blinked "Scream Power?"
"Yeah, from scaring. But now, we collect their laughter instead. It turns out laughter's ten times more powerful."
"Kitty!" Boo called before making her way further down the hallway
"And we'd never have figured it out without Boo." Sulley followed the toddler, leaving Sora with his team.
"Cool!" he replied, feeling like he was on a tour.
"Our ship's powered by laughter too! Guess we've got that in common." Goofy happily made the connection to their Gummi Ship's Power. A connection Momo didn't know about.
"It is?" she asked quizzically.
"Yeah!" Donald eagerly confirmed "Good thing Sora's a laughter machine; or we'd run out of power!"
The boy gave a modest yet embarrassed chuckle "Come on, I am not."
"Gahh!"
Everyone snapped their attention to the direction of Mike's sudden scream to find a long room with many door stations, along with new Unversed going in and out of them; making the children inside scream! These Unversed in particular had small humanoid figures with dark blue skin and the Unversed Sigil emblazoned on their chest. Their hands were silver and ended in three-fingered claws. Their legs were thin and flowed into black ends that looked like sharp boots. Their heads were diamond-shaped and sported two short horns on each side, and they had the same red eyes as the rest of the Unversed Sora and his friends had just faced, but set in a more sorrowful looking expression.
The doors came in many different colors and had a metal door frame with a red circular signal light at the top each. They were continuously coming and going via a railway system on the ceiling, doors including-
"Boo's door!" Sulley pointed to a leaving white door with pink flower designs on the front. It continued to be guided by the railway into a corridor leading out of the room.
"Hey!" Sora roughly shouted at the Unversed. They paused and looked in the direction of the keybearer and his team, staring at them in silence before hastily disappearing in dark blue puffs of darkness.
Sora blinked as Mike ran in front of him "Huh...that was weird." The Laugh Floor was large and long room containing many office department desks on the left and many door stations on the right. Colorful balloons were tied to several of the desks and up to the right were party decors that spelled out 'THINK FUNNY' right in front of closed labeled shutters. Several large canisters were littered all over the Laugh Floor and the floor itself was being lit by powerful sunlights from above.
The one-eyed monster went to four office desks and gathered ID cards on each one before running to an empty door station (There was only one lone door left from the Unversed). He swiped an ID card on the controls before moving to do the same to three other stations. Four other doors arrived via the railway on the ceiling and locked themselves into place on the door stations.
"Ride's here!" Mike announced the arrivals with enthusiasm "Just grab on and we'll go after Boo's door."
"Thank you. But I won't be needing one." Momo told him.
"Huh?"
Black wings expanded outward from the back of her clothing. Mike and Sulley flinched back in surprise, but Boo seemed to be quite pleased, if her laughing was any indication. She slowly studied the doors with her eyes "I'll be fine, but you want them to ride on the doors? Isn't that unsafe?"
Sora stretched his arms up and out "No more unsafe than the stuff we usually do." and jumped onto the top of the yellow door's frame. "Ready!"
After hearing Sora's confirmation, Mike pressed a button on the control panel and the door unlocked itself from the station to rise up and lock onto the rail via a mechanism. The same happened to the other doors Mike called, with Donald and Goofy quickly grabbing onto theirs and Sulley getting on his with Mike grabbing onto his tail and Boo in his left arm.
"Boo? Hold on. Don't want you to get hurt" Sulley said this, but Boo remained ever the happy toddler. The doors went forward along the railway into the corridor leading out of the room with Momo flying close behind. Unbeknownst to them, they were being watched by an old foe of Mike and Sulley's. He remained camouflaged until they left via the door rail. Once they did, a purple lizard appeared.
"Oh I just got a great idea..."
I'm not gonna lie to you guys, Momo just going to be going with the motions for now, until a particular point in this World.
I know this chapter is on the short side, but I didn't want to keep you guys in the dark.
I hope I captured the Keyblade Transformation Correctly for that little preview. We've got another combat scenario coming up next chapter. That one has rail gauntlet grinding.
Until next time.
(7/27/2020 Update: I can't believe I forgot to mention the red signal lights on the frames of the doors. Fixed now.)
