Proofs of Existence
While in their new ship, the Imperial, Sora and Kairi were searching out the rest of the ship while Riku was looking through the tutorials and letting the auto-navigation drive the ship. It was indeed spacious, the size of the cockpit itself was enough to fill with five or ten people inside that room alone and possibly still have room for a party spread should the need arise. The control had three pilot stations plus monitor stations to operate the manual equipment such as the weapons and show sensors on all parts of the ship.
(A.N: If you have trouble picturing it, I guess you can think the Enterprise from Star Trek)
There was also a medical room complete with medical droids, a lounge with entertainment systems, maintenance shaft that lead throughout the ship, and a hanger for smaller fighter pods. This ship only has three people in it yet it seems it was designed for an entire crew, it even came with a kitchen and fully stocked fridge.
"RIKU!!! You have to check the lounge out, it has a huge TV screen and surround sound," Sora eagerly informed.
"Not right now Sora, I'm looking through this tutorial," Riku responded, "It seems that Chip and Dale only told us a fraction of what this ship can do."
"Like what?"
"Well, apparently this ship runs on quantum power cells that provide a sort of perpetual energy, the entire ship is powered by a combination of that and solar power."
"Whatever you say next, put it in English Einstein," Sora said, not getting a lick of what it all meant.
"It means that with this thing's solar generators we need to land somewhere with sunlight in order to recharge," Riku said as plainly as he could.
Kairi just walks in on this information, "But why is that necessary? I thought you said this ship runs on perpetual energy."
"The perpetual energy generators only produce so much energy and most of it is to the life support systems," Riku said
"You have got to be kidding me," Sora mumbles, "That seems like a pretty big design flaw there."
"Actually not so much when you consider this," Riku began, "The ship can last months, maybe even a full year, at a time before we need to recharge, depending on how we use it. It also has precautions to compensate for this like small back-up generators for each wing that can make enough power for that part of the ship."
Sora tries to take the wheel, "I wanna drive, move over Riku."
"Wait Sora, don't—"
Riku was cut off when Sora accidentally pressed a button resulting in the computer voice to say something.
"Manual override has been initiated. Warning. Steering capabilities have become unstable."
The entire ship began to rumble through turbulence. The ship was flying haphazardly through hyper space. Riku did his best to get the ship out of hyper space in an attempt to regain control of the ship. Kairi was having a panic attack while Sora tried to keep everything stabilized in another station.
After a few minutes, Riku finally shut down the warp drive and got them out of hyper space. "Ok guys, good news is we got out of hyper space. Bad news, we're still gonna crash into that world!!!"
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" all of them screamed.
Meanwhile…
At an unsuspecting dormitory for women, the current landlord, Keitaro, was walking through, past the baths, toward his room to study. The Hinata House was full of women and Keitaro was taking special care not to trip on anything.
"Things have been getting weird around here, weirder that usual anyway," Keitaro spoke to himself, "Better hurry on to my room before—"
He was cut off as he slipped on a banana peel that Kaolla Su neglected to throw away properly. He slipped on that and proceeded to slip backwards into the hot spring right through the paper doorway, falling into the hot spring.
"OH GOD! I didn't see anything, I swear!" Keitaro said readying for a violent outburst. When nothing happened, he opened his eyes to find nobody there. With a sigh of relief, he proceeded to gather himself up and walk out. "I think my luck is starting to change…"
He turned around to see Naru and the others walking into the hot spring as he began to go out. Naru and Motoko began to fume and turn red and ready the usual onslaught. Keitaro only thought one word at that second: Figures.
"Ok, I know what you're thinking—" Keitaro started but was cut short.
Naru began cracking her knuckles, "Really, than you'll know what comes next."
Unfortunately, neither of them would see what would come next as a giant space craft came out of nowhere and headed straight towards them. Luckily the reverse thrusters kicked in and prevented a destructive impact but everything was going to shambles as it just hovers menacingly while damaging the complex.
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING!!!" Kanako yelled as loud as she could.
Everything was just flying through the air until it finally landed and everyone just fell down to Earth. With Keitaro knocked unconscious on Naru's bare lap. After the usual punch in the face, Keitaro looked up to see the hatch open and strangers come out.
"Please tell me they come in peace." Keitaro thought out loud.
"Unbelievable, the Imperial's maiden voyage and we managed to royally screw it up somehow thanks to you Sora," yelled a teen with silver hair
"Well maybe if you didn't shove me into that button we wouldn't be in this situation," yelled the brown haired boy named Sora.
Another one came out and this one was a girl with shoulder length hair. After they finally noticed where they were, an awkward silence came over the area. The boys became red in the face after seeing the naked females but the girl with them looked at them sternly and the boys looked away.
After everyone got dressed and everyone gathered their senses, the Hinata House residents, Sora, Riku, and Kairi were in the living room to talk things out. Introductions were necessary as well as finding out how they were going to fix all the damage.
"So, why don't you all first tell us your names," Kitsune said
Sora started first, "My names Sora, and these are my friends Riku and Kairi."
After that Naru gave her introduction, "I'm Naru, from left to right its Kitsune, Kanako, Motoko, Su, Shinobu, Sarah, and our idiot of a landlord Keitaro."
"That was harsh Naru… anyway what are you guys doing here," Keitaro questioned.
"We are commanders of a task force that are now on a mission to search the universe." Sora explained.
"What is your mission here?" Motoko asked threateningly.
Riku responded sternly: "We weren't supposed to come here, we crashed here accidentally because somebody messed up our navigation and messed up our course."
"I said you knocked me into the controls, it's not my fault," Sora began.
"Will you guys stop for a while," Kairi interrupted, "I should really tell you all that before I got out of the ship the computers showed readings of heartless activity here."
At this Sora and Riku quieted down and had stern looks on their faces. Su was the one to break the silence, "What are "heartless"? Are they tasty when cooked?"
"Heartless aren't food," Sora began, "The heartless are creatures that are born from the darkness in a person's heart. When the heart becomes overrun with darkness, it separates from the person and the dark energy gives it a physical form, the heartless."
"We travel around the universe to stop these creatures from cause chaos," Riku said, "Lately, we've been seeing some troubling signs so we were sent to find out what is going on."
"These heartless, do they look like mass of shadows with yellow eyes and jagged teeth?" Shinobu asked.
"Yes, have you encountered them?" Riku asked
Naru looked straight at them, "Strange things have been happening here, weird shadows pop up here and there."
"So far, we've been able to stave them off, but they keep increasing their number and—" Kitsune was cut short by Sora.
"THERE'S ONE OVER THERE!!!"
Seeing one around the corner, the three keyblade wielders took out their keyblades andchased after it with the residents right behind them. Keitaro took the time to ask "So those keyblades, are they meant to destroy these things?"
Riku hesitated before answering, "Yes, they were created, specifically, to combat the heartless and keep the balance."
They arrived outside in the courtyard where all the heartless revealed themselves. They were surrounded and by Shadow and Soldier heartless.
Sora tried to calm everyone and said, "Listen, these are called Shadow and Soldier heartless. They the lowest of the heartless, but they can be annoying. Watch your backsides."
Motoko withdrew her sword while Su and Sarah took out Su's weapons. Sora started hacking away at heartless as did Riku and Kairi. Meanwhile, Keitaro and the others who aren't as prepared to fight these unfamiliar enemies did their best to evade any attacks while Naru and Keitaro got in a few good shots. Kairi was doing well for her first fight on the field and used spells with great accuracy and curing anyone who got injured. After a while, Sora defeated the final heartless without a single casualty.
"PHEW—some work out for a world that doesn't seem to have anything the heartless would want," Sora said.
"So those things you use, those are surely strange weapons," Motoko commented.
"They're called the keyblades, they are meant to release the heart from the heartless," Riku responded, "But their second purpose is closing the door to the heart of a world and locking it from the heartless as well as closing the door to Kingdom Hearts."
Sora cut in "As such, they have the power to lock or unlock any lock, door, or chest. Even something abstract such as the heart itself."
"What is 'Kingdom Hearts'?" Naru asked.
"It is a world where all hearts reside and where the heartless normally live," Riku said, "The Keyblades are the things they fear most and usually come after them in order to stop us."
"I see, that would mean the heartless are beings that wish to bring other worlds into their own in order to try and fill the darkness," Keitaro said, "From what I can tell, these heartless act on instinct rather like wild animals."
"I suppose so, it has been theorized," Riku responded.
Just then something just came out of nowhere and grabbed Keitaro. It was a huge being but not like the heartless, it wore white rather than being black. Most notably, it had the symbol of the Nobodies.
"What the hell?! What's a Nobody doing here!" shouted Sora.
It took Keitaro and proceeded to eating him. "HELP ME—" Keitaro tried to plea but was swallowed up before he could finish.
A.N: That's chpt 3 and hope for chpt 4 soon. I'll work on my other works soon
And on the off chance you don't recognize the characters I'll tell you what they're from at the end of the chapter
Tonight's anime is Love Hina