AN: References used: Teen Titans, Marvel/X-Men, Kingdom Hearts (our focus), Bleach, Final Fantasy (I: Dawn of Souls, VII, X, XII, and XIII), Call of Duty, Naruto, Pokémon, Nintendo, 300, Dragonball Z, and Johnny Test. In this chapter: nothing new.

Chapter 4 — The Pact

Without warning, the New 12 literally crash land on the floor of a small cave. They find themselves in a pile.

"(muffled) Ow, my face!" exclaimed Bongo, who was indeed planted into the ground, while everyone else was on top of him.

"That sucked." Ears stated, as the group got out of their pile one by one.

"...My butt hurts." Hoppity openly mentioned.

Slowpoke squinted. "That's just wrong, knowing that you have some extra cushion back there."

"I'm serious." she replied.

Ears's eyebrows jumped. "Time to see Dr. Briggs, Hops. C'mon..." he jested, sitting down.

Hoppity played along, laying on his lap horizontally, on her stomach.

"They do know that we don't have time for this, right?" Felix questioned, wanting to stick to the mission.

"I like your dedication, Felix. But we can't exactly take a course of action without realizing where we are." Mooch said.

"What do you mean?"

"It's one thing to know where we are, but it's another thing to explain where we are. This... will have to take a LOT of explaining." Mooch finished, turning the team's eyes to what is outside of the cave. There appeared to be an endless lavender sea with only a few small floating rocks distantly scattered in view. The skies were of the same color as the sea, but there were a few dark "meteors" (much like the one that the New 12 entered) falling down constantly in random places. At the end of the horizon, there was a spiraling vortex that looked like another portal within the realm.

"I have no idea what to say about this place." Ewey murmured, sounding as if she could not fathom a place like this.

"I might have an idea." Bonnie began. "Those things that we fought before jumping in here... Sweet called them the Heartless, right? He said that they have no hearts within them, but yet, they exist. I think it's more like this... the Heartless have no trace of light in them, so they exist and manifest themselves through darkness. Since there is so many of them, they must've created this world so they could live unlimitedly. The reason why we're here is similar to this. We all have this strong light inside of our hearts, but at the same time, there is a small amount of darkness there as well. Without that darkness in us, we couldn't exist in this place... which would also explain the Heartless's mission. They attack us because they want to take the light in our hearts and leave the darkness, so our hearts would eventually be swamped in darkness. And then, once that last trace of light is gone, we'll be just what they want us to be: Heartless. To us, this has to be the End of the World."

"Felix and Bonnie do it again." Ears thought, absolutely amazed to see the youngest two New 12 members stepping up to the plate.

"I don't even know if the title of this place even makes sense... but how do you do that?" Christina exclaimed at Bonnie. "For one minute, you're this happy-go-lucky 12-year-old little canine girl, who occasionally plays with a feline boy as your playmate... then you turn into a fucking genius! How does that work? Are you smarter than your mom?"

"I'm just naturally smart. I don't just pick and choose the time when I want to be. That's my personality." Bonnie told her.

"And that's why I love her." Felix said.

"Including the reason where you told yourself that I was a sexy little b—"

"That too..." Felix said, stopping her mouth so she would not say the last word.

"Ha ha... dog pun." Bongo snickered, knowing what the last word was.

"All right. I think I have the plan now, so if everyone is through with—" Mooch halted when he saw what Ears was doing. "Ears, are you patting her ass?"

Ears stopped and lowered his jaw a bit. "That's how she likes it." he told the team.

"O—kay... Hoppity, can you see any clear path ahead of us?" Mooch asked.

Ears had already stopped using her hips as bongos, so she got up and looked ahead for any hidden paths via "psychic sight". "The path isn't really that hard to follow." she started off saying. "The rocks in the distance look a little like arrows, pointing in the direction the road is in. Everywhere else is a bottomless drop."

"So we need to be careful moving around here." Sly assumed.

"Right. Remember guys, we're here to find Wrinkle and bring him down." Mooch reminded his team, as they went off in the path that Hoppity described.

"I just don't get how Wrinkle could've figured this place out." Lucy uttered.

"He has the Acolytes at his side... that explains enough." Megan responded.

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The New 12 walked on the near invisible sea, traveling from rock to rock to lead them in the right direction. They were also avoiding the dark spheres that were falling down from the sky. Soon, they managed to make it to the vortex.

"It looks like a galaxy." Bonnie stated.

"It's probably just a portal to another part of this place." Ears replied.

"Yeah, but what's on the other side?" Ewey questioned.

Slowpoke looked up in worry. "Um, let's worry about that after we do something about that!" he exclaimed, pointing at the giant dark sphere above them—it was within collision distance.

When it fell on the team, not a soul was harmed. However, the worst was yet to come, as they found themselves in an even darker void than the lavender sea they were originally in.

"What the hell?" uttered Christina, laying on the floor of darkness below her.

"Christina, behind you!" Megan called.

A huge, dark beast was in the sights of the skunk, when she turned around. It had two horns protruding from the sides of its mouth, which extended and curved over its head, where its third supercharged horn was. It also had a black and red emblem on the core of its torso that looked a little like a heart. It was known simply as a Behemoth. It tried to pounce on Christina.

"AAH!" Christina yelled, seeing it jump toward her. She did not want to watch.

Slowpoke quickly stepped in and stopped the downward drop of the Behemoth instantly by catching it with his super-strength. "Jeez... you're heavy. Ewey, hit it!" he said.

"Gotcha covered." the lamb responded, firing a Force Arrow from her Heavenbow to push the Behemoth back a good distance.

"It doesn't seem to be hurt at all from that." Lucy sensed.

"It's charging at us again..." Christina warned the group.

"New 12, evasive action!" Mooch commanded.

The team split up in different directions. The Behemoth chased Ewey down.

"Why is it coming for me?" Ewey wanted to know, continuously firing light arrows at its face.

Bonnie was processing the thoughts in her head. "It's after her... light! Ewey, put your Heavenbow away!" Bonnie told her.

"What?" she exclaimed.

"That's a Heartless! It's drawn to light!"

"I thought these things were weak to light!"

"Yeah, light attacks. I'm talking about hidden light—you know, within your weapon, which has more light in it than in your heart alone. Plus, I don't think you'd want every Heartless in this place to be after you any more than they are now. So send the Heavenbow back."

Ewey winced. "Fine..." she whispered, tossing her weapon upward, which transformed into a bolt of light and disappeared. She understood Bonnie's point, though.

The Behemoth still ran after the lamb.

"Lead him to me, Ewey." Mooch said, in his Kamehameha charging stance.

"Okay."

"Lucy, do you still have any more Byakugan sight in you? If you do, try and find a weak point on that thing."

"Let's see..." she spoke, using enough energy needed to utilize her heightened perception. "Wow... there's a heap load of power stored in the horn on its head."

"Bros, did you hear that? Let's do this." Mooch said.

Slowpoke and Bongo stood beside him and assumed the same stance.

"Ka... me... ha... me... HA!" all three of them shouted, using their Kamehameha Trio attack to wipe out the Behemoth once Ewey was out of the way.

"That'll work." Sly claimed, smiling in victory.

Suddenly, about 25 small Heartless showed up.

"Those guys again..." Ears said.

"No, they're different. They're a bit taller than the other ones, and they have more shape to their bodies than the round ones do." Megan analyzed, seeing that their foes were clearly augmented than the Shadows were. They were Neoshadows.

"What happened to the other ones then?" asked Bongo.

Hoppity scouted the whole area with her psychic ability. "None of them are here... and they're jumping out into our world at we speak!"

Mooch looked back to the spiral, which had now disappeared. "Damn... that means more trouble for the Legendary 12. Then that means these Heartless must have some secret way of getting into our world." he thought.

Four wormholes appeared behind the Neoshadows, each appearing to go to different areas of the realm they were in.

"Aw, what now?" Ewey whined.

"We prove ourselves." Sly responded, after Hoppity and Lucy disposed of the Neoshadows with their light attacks.

"What do you mean?" Felix asked.

"Before I explain, you'll have to trust me—I know where I'm going with this. Now, if everyone expects us to be so good and united as a team, we should start a pact right here and now: to accomplish what no one else in the Titans can accomplish."

"What are you saying, Sly?" Mooch inquired.

"We do the impossible: go into those portals in our trios, which we haven't really got to fine-tune yet. It's going to be intense, as our enemies, except Wrinkle, are weak to light only. Our goal right now is to survive and solve this problem the way we Titans should. If everyone wants to test us, we'll pass... with flying colors."

Hearing his words, everyone else in the New 12 knew that it was official—Sly was back.

"Raise 'em high, New 12." Mooch said, telling everyone to raise one of their fists to the sky.

After a couple of seconds, the unit's traditional "oath" was set.

"For everyone back home, and for the unity of our team... let's divide and conquer, guys. New 12 Titans, go!" Mooch announced.

Immediately after, the twelve of them formed their four trios and entered the wormholes in them.

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With their new pact set in stone, will the New 12 really accomplish their effort to make the impossible possible?

We will soon find out.