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, Johnny Test, Fantasia, Hercules and Tales of the Abyss. In this chapter: nothing new.

Just to clarify or remind you, Danielle ages differently from the rest of the Bean Titans. For her, 1 year = 3 years.

Chapter 7 — Restoration

As Hoppity visualized, the Legendary 12 were indeed fightning the Heartless on one part of the Galveston beach. Fleece was constantly sustaining her Angel Mode to lure them in, while the rest of the team fought them off. But something did not feel right to them.

"Um, it's good that we're bringing them all to one spot and all... but where's the end in this madness? They just keep on coming!" Canyon stated.

"Good question... too bad I don't have an answer. I'm just surprised that Fleece can keep up her Angel Mode for so long." Mystic responded.

"I'm using Synergy—energy from the open air—to keep myself like this." Fleece told the group.

"Okay, that explains that. So what about the never-ending Heartless?" Hippity inquired.

Dotty was being conspicuously quiet, staring directly at the dark sphere that the New 12 entered.

"Um, Dotty? Now isn't the time to be missing your daughter..." Canyon advised her.

"That's not what I'm thinking about; I'm sure she'll be fine though. My guess is that it seems like that dark sphere is giving these Heartless unlimited power, and thus, they could be multiplying at every split-second as we speak." Dotty theorized.

"Whatever she says, she must be right about it." Mac acclaimed, while firing a barrage of his Fusion (light) Blasts.

Suddenly, there an audible sonic boom in the air, and strange enough, the Legendary 12 sensed multiple power sources heading their way during that short moment.

"Whoa... did anyone else feel that?" Spunky asked.

"Feel what?" Derby asked, appearing right under the Legendary 12's wits, with Danielle (age "3"— 9 in normal years of age).

"Derby... Danielle? How'd you get here—without us being able to sense you again?" Mac asked, remembering that he was shocked the last time he and Derby were teamed up, against Sceptilius. Mac couldn't detect Derby when he invited himself into the fight, and the young horse had a lot of spunk in his voice.

"Not important. Let's worry about taking these freaks down a peg." Derby responded.

"I suppose that'd be for the best at this point. Do you have something in mind?" Sweet asked.

"OOH! Derby, can I use that move I learned?" Danielle volunteered, with cheer and ambition in her voice.

"All right, but just remember when to stop waving your fingers."

"Yay!" Danielle exclaimed, floating into the air to prepare her technique.

The Legendary 12 were astonished to see Danielle's development; she just started training a couple of weeks ago, and now she's floating on air like a Soul Reaper. As they watched her, the next thing Danielle did was wave both of her index fingers from side to side repeatedly. It was called the Metronome. Strange enough, the Shadows paid attention to her and strayed away from Fleece.

"What is she doing, taunting them?" Floppity wondered.

"No... she's generating power into her hands." Aurora sensed, before gasping sharply. "And a heavy load of it!"

Derby knew what was coming, so he took precautions. "It would be best if we had a Psyshield around us..." he hinted the Legendary 12, who huddled in around Mystic, who set up the super-stable psychic shield around the group.

Danielle stopped waving her fingers and raised them up in the air, causing an unpredictable event to occur. An Ultima spell, ten times stronger than Floppity could ever muster, violently exploded in a city-wide area, eliminating any source of darkness within it (i.e., the Heartless). At the same time, the dark sphere above the Titans began to diminish at a very slow rate. When the chaotic spell seemed to have setted down, Mystic released the barrier, looking just as shocked as the rest of her fellow Titans.

"Derby... do you have any idea what Danielle's power level is?" Kuku wondered.

Derby turned back and bucked his head slightly with a smug look. "You don't wanna know." he stated.

"Yeah, we do." Fancy said.

Derby sighed. "Fine. It's not by a lot... but it's still over 9,000."

"WHAT? 9,000? You've gotta be kidding me! She's just a beginner!" Canyon freaked.

"Spunky, are you okay?" Dotty asked her husband, whose eyes were bulged.

"I'm just trying to figure out if it's a good or bad thing being a grandfather now."

Fleece powered off of Angel Mode. "That's right, you are Danielle's grandparents." she recalled.

"Ha ha. Y'all are old." Derby joked.

"Don't push it, short stuff." Spunky retorted.

"Something's still not right." Mystic claimed, a bit skeptical about something.

"What?" Sweet interrogated.

"For that short instant, before Derby and Danielle were here, I thought I sensed six other sources, but they moved too fast for me to identify them. It was almost as if they literally moved at the speed of light."

Derby smiled. "You could say that."

"What do you mean?"

"Those six "lights"... I live with them."

Sweet was startled. "Wait! Then that means—"

"Oh, yeah." Derby and Danielle simultaneously uttered.

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CLIFFHANGER! We'll get back to this shortly.