"The City of Townsville!" a Narrator exclaimed enthusiastically, referring to the seemingly peaceful urban sprawl. The off-screen voice continued, in perfect synchronisation with that was happening, "Where an unidentified, flying object--or UFO--is currently headed! To be more specific, Townsville Park!"
The UFO was, in fact, the gummi ship. The brightly-coloured space vessel set down on the soft grass of the town's local park, right next to a dormant volcano with an astronomy observatory tower built on top of it. The park was practically deserted, aside from a random passing-by hobo who stopped to gawk.
"And who could be in this mysterious vessel?!" the Narrator excitedly asked no one in particular.
Three figures exited the ship; they were none other than Sora, Ed, and Eddy, as usual. The only difference was that their bodies and wardrobe had gone through some major changes.
"Eddy! This is amazing!" Sora looked himself over.
Sora's Keyblade had increased in length and thickness. It was now almost as tall as Sora, and was thick enough to be stood on like a surfboard. The golden hilt remained, and the Blade's king's crown teeth were pointier.
His clothes had also changed, as well as his build. He was a little bit more muscular now, and stood taller. He wore a crimson, full-body jumpsuit that had two white Keyblades crossing one another like a Jolly Roger across its chest. His yellow shoes were replaced with golden boots that stretched up to his knees. Tight, grey gloves reached from his fingertips to the centre of his forearms. A black and grey cape hung from his neck at middle back length. His blue eyes were concealed by a red, Robin-esque eye mask. Chains encircled his arms simply for the sake of decoration. His belt was tied tight around his waist, and supported several dagger-sized mini-Keyblades.
Eddy proudly rubbed his fist against his chest with his eyes cockily closed, "Well, I did try to make us look like we belonged here."
His appearance had also changed, though not as much as Sora. His staff had disappeared. His cap was replaced with a wizard's hat, which was a larger version of the one on the tip of his staff. He wore a loose-fitting, azure robe that reached his ankles. The robe had random symbols of the spells he knew, like a fireball for Fire, and so on. He had also grown slightly taller.
"Ooh! Ooh!" Ed called. "Look at me!"
Eddy jumped in surprise at Ed's new appearance.
Sora's eye mask went circular.
A bulky monstrosity stood before them. It looked like someone ripped off the Hulk and decided to throw in some Ed-ness in it just for kicks. He was really buff now, standing at eight feet with his chest bare, adorned with ripped abs and pecs. Thankfully, his blue trousers (or shorts now) remained. His shoes were gone, and so was his traffic cone helmet. His head had widened to suit the body, but lacked a chin, appearing like some kind of squared worm built a mech. His eyebrow was three times thicker, possibly more intimidating than a giant centipede. Grey gauntlets with the 'CN' symbol covered his forearms; apparently, the replacements for his shield. His arms had grown long enough for them to touch the ground without him trying; in fact, he sort of looked like a giant, yellow gorilla.
"Ed?" Sora walked into the golem's shadow; he was still several feet away at the time. "Is that you?"
"What have I done?" Eddy ran a hand down his face, causing it to stretch like rubber for a moment or two.
"Oh, it's okay, guys," Ed spoke, gesturing with his gargantuan arms. "I'm still good ol' Ed. Hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-hu-hu!"
"Bet his pits smell twice as worse," Eddy muttered.
Sora sighed, lowering his broad shoulders. "Shall we start investigating?" he asked, leaning on his elongated Keyblade.
"Hello!" the Narrator suddenly chirped.
"Wah!" Sora let his Blade go, and jumped into Eddy's arms. "Wh-Who said that?!" he exclaimed, looked around. His eye mask was widened with shock.
Eddy silently glared at the boy in his arms before dropping him. "Ed?"
"It wasn't me, Eddy!" Ed said in defence. He had a trashcan in his hand, and was in the midst of tipping it over to allow the contents into his mouth.
"If it wasn't us," Sora stood up, and brushed himself off, "then who?"
"It's me!" the Narrator spoke animatedly.
"I'm hearing voices," Eddy said, looking around. "All this time I've been spending with Ed has made me gone mad!"
"You're not going mad; you're just hearing my voice, is all! I'm the Narrator of this world! Pleased to meat you, newcomers!"
"Whoa, a Narrator?!" Sora stood happily. "We get our own narrator, Eddy!"
"Just like the comics!" Ed added in the middle of gorging down more garbage.
"Yes, yes," the Narrator said proudly. "I'm surprised you're surprised to hear me. Everyone around here is used to me."
Eddy crossed his arms sceptically, "I doubt we can get used to your voice popping up everywhere."
"Don't mind him, sir," Sora frowned at Eddy, who struck his tongue out, "we're just not used to a narrator."
"That's quite alright," the disembodied voice said."What are your names, gentlemen?"
"Mmmfff Efddd! Fiifff iff Foorrrru fnnn Mfffy!" Ed spoke nonsense with his mouth full.
Eddy rolled his eyes. He adjusted his wizard hat, and opened his mouth to speak--
"I'm Keyblademan!" Sora cut him off, standing proudly with his hands on his hips. His eye mask took the shape of a happy arch.
"'KEYBLADEMAN'?!" Eddy exclaimed, his face turning red.
"It's my superhero name, Eddy," Sora crossed his arms. His eye mask looked like two semicircles now. "I thought it would be cool."
Eddy's eye twitched. "No……no, no, no, no, no, NO!!!!" He swayed his hands dismissively. "No way are we using superhero names!!! Not in a million years!!"
Sora's eye mask thinned in displeasure. He crossed his arms, and faced away, "You're such a spoiled sport…"
"We're on a mission to find Double D; not run around with superhero names!!"
"Pfft. Eddy, just once, have you ever had fun in life?"
"You bet your ass I've had fun; it's just that this is more important right now."
"Says the guy who wanted to go to the Tournament for the prize money that didn't even turn out to exist."
"WHAT?! Why, you little…!!!"
While Sora and Eddy were bickering, Ed had the vaguest feeling that they were being watched……or just he was being watched. The giant moved his big body around.
"……huh???" his eyebrow stood up in surprise.
A giant, iris-less eye with a pink cornea was staring at him through the observatory tower's large telescope. When Ed raised his finger to touch it, the scope retracted back into the observatory.
"Can we have a group name, at least?" Sora asked. "How about 'The Key Team'?"
Eddy shook his head, "No, Sora! We don't have time to make up names!!"
"Pffft. Why'd you even give us these powers if we can't make up aliases?"
"Don't make me set you on fire."
"Anyway," Sora started changed the subject, "what, exactly are my powers?"
Eddy clamed down, and allowed the colour to drain from his face. "Since I'm the one who cast the spell," the mage explained, pacing in front of the other 'superheroes', "I know all of our powers. Sora, you have the ability to fly, so long as you're touching the Keyblade. You've lost your magical spells, but now, you know basic martial arts and you have an endless arsenal of mini-Keyblades."
Sora grinned, "Awesome."
"Ed," Ed pointed at the giant, who had returned from his brief encounter with the telescope. "You basically have super strength and endurance. Nothing too original, really."
"As long as I can eat my bed in one bite, I'm happy, Eddy!"
"You can already do that, idiot…… Anyway, I have all the magic spells we learned so far, and can use the Gravity spell to…..sort of, fly."
Sora nodded. "Good. We can start now, since we can't fool around," he glowered at his mage friend.
"Hey, Narrator," Eddy called, "why is this place deserted?"
"Well, Eddy, ever since those dark creatures appeared, there haven't been many people around Townsville. It's almost become a ghost town!"
Eddy furrowed his brow, "Sounds like Heartless to me."
"Is there anyone around here who can help us?" Sora asked.
"Yes, there is! There are three of them, actually. Their group's name goes by the Powerpuff Girls."
Sora raised a doubtful eyebrow. "'Powerpuff Girls'?" he remarked, rolling the word with his tongue.
"As in….a group of girls?" Eddy inquired.
"Yessery! They are the heroes of this city. I cannot tell you how many times they've saved Townsville from the forces of evil!"
"Pffft!" Eddy shook his head in disbelief, and leaned against the side of the park's dormant volcano. "Like we need a bunch of girls prancing around us and cramping my style! Oh, what are their special powers?" his eyes grew ridiculously big and began to sparkle. He cupped his hands girlishly, and puckered his lips. "The power of Love? The power to blow bubbles?? A kiss that will turn the bad guys good??? HA!!!"
"Ponies, Eddy!" Ed exclaimed randomly.
Eddy fell over, laughing, "BWAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!! That's right, Ed! They come in on flying ponies with shiny, pink dresses!!! HAHAHAHA!!!!"
Sora rolled his masked eyes, "I'm sure they're not that girly. We should search for them, in any case. They could help us get rid of the Heartless, or use their powers to help us find Double D."
"I do not think we will have to search for long, Sora," Ed stated.
"Huh?" one eye in Sora's eye mask grew and the other shrank.
"Look," Ed pointed.
From ground level, the group could see a path of smoke coming their way. Several explosions could be heard, and the tall buildings' sides were illuminated with red light. Black creatures could vaguely be seen being tossed around and evaporating after being struck with two identical laser beams. The explosions grew closer and louder.
Sora stood still. He kept on hand on his Keyblade, just encase. "What's going on…?"
"We're about to find out," Eddy's hands sparked, ready to inflict lighting spells.
Ed gulped, his eyebrow sagging from the sides.
An explosion was heard on the other side of the building in front of them.
And then…
BOOM!!!!!!
The face of the building in front of them exploded outward with a shower of glass and concrete. Three colourful streaks of pink, blue, and green flew outward. They were followed by dozens of black streak.
Three young effeminate voices were heard.
"Aw, c'mon! How many more of them are there?!"
"Enough to lead a whole army! We've got to protect the town at all costs!!"
"I'm scared!"
"You're always scared, you big baby!"
"Am not!"
"Girls! Enough finishing. Follow me behind Mojo's tower. I have a plan."
The colourful streaks disappeared behind the observatory, with some of the black streaks following them. However, other streaks were heading for Sora, Ed, and Eddy.
"Incoming!" Eddy jumped backwards, avoiding a dark projectile that was sent at him.
Sora held his Blade at the ready.
Ed's humungous eyebrow frowned, and his even more humungous muscles flexed.
The black streaks belonged to Heartless (obviously). Some of them landed on the parks' grass; others used their tiny wings to hover. They looked like the shadows, but with slightly elongated limbs, and lacked antennae. Their characteristic yellow eyes were concealed by goggles. They were attired with purple spandex jumpsuits with the emblem in the centre. They wore steel-tipped boots, and elastic, white gloves. They each carried a gun of some sort in one of their clawed hands. Tiny wings on their backs allowed them to fly. They were shadow villains.
And, for once, the group was ready to fight.
"Let's get 'em!" Eddy pointed. His finger ignited, and sent a fireball at the black enemies.
The projectile exploded, sending Heartless in every direction.
"Pick a prey, and slaughter them!" Eddy screeched.
"Let's see what these new heroes are made of, shall we?" the Narrator sounded ready to consume a bucket of popcorn.
Sora gripped the handle on his Keyblade, and rose above the ground by thought. With a smirk plastered across his boyish face, he flew into the horde of shadow villains with a battle cry.
Eddy concentrated, and lifted himself off the ground by using the Gravity spell to make him lighter than air.
Ed's eyebrow seemingly tripled in size (again). He charged, gorilla-like, into the fray of Heartless.
A group of shadows flew to Sora's position, unleashing dark energy from their guns.
Sora flew side-to-side, dodging the dark balls. When he got close enough, he held his Keyblade high, and slashed downwards. "HRAAAAAAGH!!!"
One Heartless was sliced down the middle.
One came at Sora from behind.
Sora spun like a tornado, his Keyblade slicing and dicing every enemy that got too close.
More came from both sides. They fired simultaneously.
Sora descended under the attacks. The dark balls flew over him, and injured the Heartless on both sides.
"HYAAAGH!!!" he then shot up, and impaled one of the few that had survived.
The Heartless, apparently having learned from their mistake, flew backwards in one group, and sent dozens of projectiles at the Keyblade Master.
Sora got an idea. He stood on his Keyblade like a surfboard. By thought, he commanded the Blade to take him into the distant swarm of Heartless.
Projectiles flew.
Sora stood like a surfer. He dodged left and right. Each projectile missed by a hair and exploded behind him. He reached into his utility belt, and pulled out a mini-Keyblade. With great precision, he threw the dagger.
SWIIIIIIISH-THUNK!!!
A Heartless was hit right between the eyes.
"RAAAAGH!!!" Sora flew in, hanging under his Keyblade. He swung his leg outward, and booted a Heartless in the chest, sending it careering into three other comrades.
"Hehehehe," Sora chuckled as more Heartless converged on him, "I've never had so much fun with Heartless."
Meanwhile, Eddy was having some fun of his own.
The mage stretched his hand out, and brought several bolts of lightning down on the Heartless that were about to pummel him.
Two shadows flew through the vapour of their defeated comrades, raising their guns.
"YAAAH!!!" Eddy's hands lit with fire. "YAH-YAH!!!"
His fireballs struck and melted the Heartless' guns. Regardless, they zipped towards him, deciding to use their sharp claws instead.
"Nnnghh!!" Eddy waved his hand, and sent two Blizzara spells. The Heartless were frozen in two blocks of ice. "HYAA!!!" Eddy used Gravity to send the iced fiends into their comrades, knocking them out of the sky.
Shadow villains flew in from behind, sending volleys of projectiles at the airborne mage.
The side of Eddy's mouth touched his ear as he smirked, "Nice try--HAA!!!" he held his hand over his head, and cast Aero. A whirlwind shield formed around him. The projectiles bounced off the magical barrier, some of them hitting the shadows that fired them.
Eddy rubbed his suddenly sparking hands with glee, "This is even better than shooting spit-balls at Jimmy in math class!!! Hahahahaha!!!"
Down below, Ed was using his body as a weapon.
A squadron of shadow villains, were speeding towards Ed, unleashing dark-fire.
"Hrrrff!!!" Ed held his gauntlets up at the right angle to deflect the shots. "HRUAAAGH!!!" he spread his arms out, while his pectorals did a dance, "Your weak shots are no match for the mighty ED!!!!"
The shadows kept flying towards him at full speed.
Ed leapt his huge body forward, reaching his big hands outward in order to catch one of the fiends. The Heartless flew in separate directions, leaving Ed to grab nothing but air.
The brute turned around to see more enemies heading for him.
Ed noticed a tree some distance to his left. He reached out and grabbed the tree, finding little trouble in uprooting it from the soil, and hurling it like a javelin.
The tree flew, and collided with five Heartless, destroying them.
The others made a beeline for the colossal Ed.
Ed grabbed two of them in his meaty hands, and threw them aside. He then pulled out another tree from the soil, and held it under his armpit, swinging around madly. He formed a yellow (his skin) and brown (the tree) tornado--no--spinning top of destruction, decimating any shadow villain that came in contact with his 'weapon'.
Meanwhile, several feet above the battle, three tiny figures were floating and observing the events below.
"Impressive…"
"They're awesome, girls!!!"
"Eh, they're okay…."
Below, Sora and co. regrouped.
"Any left?" Sora asked, landing by Ed's side.
"Just one; over there," Eddy pointed, hovering above his friends.
Indeed, there was one shadow villain. Needless to say, the mindless being of darkness had no fear whatsoever. By whatever instinct it had, it flapped its tiny wings, and made for the group of meta-humans who had destroyed its comrades.
"Eddy, why don't you try and use that Stop spell we got in the swamp?" Sora suggested.
Eddy nodded with a cocky smirk "Good idea." He pointed a finger at the Heartless, "STOP!!!!!"
The second the mage said that, the Heartless stopped in its tracks. It remained suspended in midair, about to pull the trigger of its gun. It was frozen in time, its motion temporarily ceased.
Eddy raised an eyebrow, "Is that all it does???"
"In any case, let's get rid of him," Sora took to the air, readying his Keyblade for a powerful swing.
The amplified Keyblade truck the Heartless, but the dark fiend's body didn't react to the strike. The Stop spell kept its hold on the creature, though.
"Huh???" Sora's eye mask made an expression equivalent to that of a raised eyebrow. He tried hitting it again and again, to no avail. "Nothing works," he tiredly lowered his Keyblade.
"Let's attack it at once!" Eddy powered up a deadly fireball, and threw it at the Heartless.
"YEAH!!!" Ed crossed over to the frozen enemy, more than prepared to break it.
The next few seconds consisted of Sora smacking the Heartless with his large Keyblade, Eddy casting spell after spell on it, and Ed repeatedly pounding it.
Then, the spell wore off, and the Heartless immediately started twitching violently to and fro. All the punishment given to it by the three junior heroes decided to take affect all at once.
"Cool," Ed commented one second after the fiend evaporated.
"Guess that makes all of them," Sora uttered, touching down on the ground. "So," he held his Keyblade over his shoulder, "what should we do--?"
"THAT WAS BRILLIANT!!!!!" Eddy abruptly interrupted. He gestured with waving arms as he rambled, "We were all over the damn place, beating on Heartless after Heartless! I kicked their asses with mah spells! YEAH!!! We're awesome!!"
Sora threw Eddy a smirk.
Eddy suddenly noticed his OOC moment. Trying to conceal a blush, he regained his composure, "Ahem, that was cool."
"You're such a hypocrite, Eddy."
"Suddup, Sora."
"Touché."
"What now, guys?" inquired Ed.
Before the other two could answer, a girl's voice sounded from above.
"Are they Heartless……?"
"?????" Sora looked up. Question marks popped up out of nowhere on top of Ed's and Eddy's heads.
"I don't think so, Bubbles; they don't look like them."
Three figures touched down on the park's grass. They were small, reaching the height of Eddy's waist. They possessed chibi-styled bodies; short arms and short legs, big heads, unrealistic bodies, and no visible fingers, ears, noses, or toes. They all collectively wore black Mary Janes and white socks. Their eyes were huge, and their mouths were tiny. Their rectangular bodies were attired in some sort of cylindrical clothing, with a black horizontal stripe in the middle, and two other colours above; either pink, blue, or green (apparently dresses of some sort).
"…………………lollipops…….," Ed blurted.
"I dunno…," the one adorned in green scanned the three heroes suspiciously with her big, green eyes. Her hair was black, and both ends on the sides of her head seemed to rise like horns. She crossed her sausage-esque arms. She was frowning, "There's something weird about them."
Sora swallowed a lump in his throat.
Ed opened his mouth to speak, but Eddy jumped up, and grabbed a handful of the lump's lips to silence him.
"They do seem…a little different," the one in blue mused, hovering around them. Anyone would say the same thing about two cartoon characters who were animated differently from the world's locals, and a live action boy. This girl had plain yellow hair that was arranged in two pigtails. She examined Sora more closely with her big, blue eyes.
Sora leaned back from her, and chuckled nervously, "Eh-hehehehehehe." He shyly rubbed the back of his head, possibly ruining his heroic appearance, "Wh-What do you mean….?"
"Where are you from?" the one in pink inquired. Her long, orange hair had a pretty red bow keeping it together. She assumed Sora was the leader, and so decided to ask him.
"Uhhh…..," Sora was at a loss for words. He didn't want to let the strange girls know that he was from another world, knowing that Eddy had repeatedly labelled that as 'meddling'.
Luckily, Eddy stepped forward, brushed Sora aside, and spoke for him, "We're from far away."
"Oh," the orange-haired girl seemed satisfied with that answer. She put on a pleasant smile (or a crescent line), "Well, welcome to Townsville. It's so nice to see human faces here, other than Heartless, no?"
"Whew, tell me about it," Eddy replied, "after your Narrator greeted us, we were ambushed by them."
"So I noticed. Those were some impressive fighting skills," she turned to the other two, "don't you agree, girls?"
"Absolutely!" the blue one explained cheerfully.
"Not half bad at all," the green one commented nonchalantly.
"What are your names?" the pink one asked the junior heroes.
"Ahem," Sora nervously cleared his throat, "I go by the name of 'Sora'. These two are Ed and Eddy."
"Nice to meet you guys," she gave them another smile, "I'm Blossom."
"I'm Bubbles," the blue one waved.
"And I'm Buttercup," the green one would have pointed a thumb at herself if she could.
Blossom continued, "And we're--"
The three girls suddenly struck a dynamic pose.
"The Powerpuff Girls!" they exclaimedin unison.
Some random theme played in the background.
"Skktkt!" Eddy desperately tried to hold in his laughter. "How cute," he sniggered to Ed.
"Since you know how to fight, you can help us defend our precious city from the Heartless!!!" Bubbles flew up to Sora's face, and practically burned a hole in his head with her beaming blue eyes (of course, she didn't). "Will you?! Will you?! Will you?! Pretty please?!?!?!?" she practically assaulted him.
"Uhh--I--we….," Sora was speechless again, leaning back limbo-style.
"How about it?" Blossom crossed her arms proudly. "Would you like to help us?"
"We don't need help, Blossom," Buttercup stated bluntly.
Blossom glared at her sister, "Of course, we do, Buttercup. And, even if we don't, they will make protecting the city much, much, easier for us." She faced the newcomers again, "Well…?"
Sora looked at Ed and Eddy for an answer. Ed was nodding his head with a crescent smile. Eddy was shaking his head with a frown.
"Uhhh…..okay…," the masked boy said.
Eddy slapped his face.
Blossom smirked, "Excellent." She looked at the other two with a serious face, "Let's go, girls; the Professor will get worried if we stay out too long."
Sora and Eddy collectively raised an eyebrow, "Who?"
"The Professor," Blossom repeated.
"Our creator and father, hehehe," Bubbles added with a giggle.
"Sounds cliché to me," Eddy remarked.
"We can introduce him to you," Blossom answered sharply. She took to the air, and gave the group one more glance, "C'mon."
The group left the park.
"What's this?!" the Narrator shouted above the action. "Sora, Ed, and Eddy have teamed up with the Powerpuff Girls in order to defeat the Heartless horde! Oh, I can't wait to see how this will turn out!"