InterLUDE: A Quest of Rings

By THE Xenomorph

Disclaimer: I own only Perfection and Wraith.

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Universe: Spliced-Verse

Harmony

"Well, well, well..." Dr. Blight stood before her crew of Eco-Villains with a smug smile, a strange robot that looked like Mal was next to her. "Looks like that tracer worked after all Nukem."

"Told ya." Duke smiled. "That Shredder guy may be a psycho but his junk works."

"Oh..." Gecko laughed as did Betsy. "You stole from Shred-head? You're a dead man."

"Gecko's right yo, you're a marked man." Toad laughed. "Yo, all clear away from the marked man!" He shouted back, almost all the Misfits and X-Men laughed. Donatello just shook his head.

"I think you'll be smiling less once we wipe this island off the face of the Earth." Looten Plunder chuckled.

"What're you gonna do, deforest it?" Wheeler mocked. "It grows right back."

"Actually I was thinking more around the plan of..." Plunder leveled his ring at the Nexus' outer rooms. "Destruction!"

The walls of the housing area blew out in shards and the Planeteers went to cover themselves, but a bright shield covered them as Kezqua held out his spear. "Looks like they've got some new tricks too kids."

"Let us show them ours then." Linka said. "Ariel!" The wind spirit shot out of the ring in the form a twisting tornado that immediately sought out Plunder and tossed him in the ocean.

"Looks like it's my turn next..." Hoggish Greedly snorted. He brandished his ring almost like a bowling ball. "Wastes!" A ball of smog went rolling towards Linka, but a flame ball intercepted it before it could reach her.

Wheeler had called upon Agni and it presented itself as a coiling eastern dragon that entwined itself around both Wheeler and Linka. "Fire must have air to buuuurn..." It spoke in a serpentine voice as it shot a fire ball and lit Greedly's pants on fire. He ran to the ocean to put them out.

"Oh, I remember you!" Nukem thrusted his ring forward and shouted. "Gamma Radiation!" The green beam formed.

"No you do not!" Kwame shouted. "Golem, protect my friends!" As the beam released itself and shot forward a solid wall of lead shot up from the earth and blocked it entirely.

"Oh that's not good." Nukem said as the wall shifted to a giant snake and used it's tail to toss him into the water head first.

"Oh please..." Verminous Skumm said dismissively. "You ain't seen nothing yet." He aimed his ring directly at Gi. "TOXINS!" A vile purple beam shot forward only to be blocked and spewed back at him by a large wall of swirling water.

"You stay out of this water girl!" Skumm shouted to Althea.

"I'm not doing anything rat-face!" She shouted back.

"Huh?" Skumm looked back at Gi to see that her ring was glowing. "Oh..."

"Skumm, I'd like you to meet Leviathan." Gi pointed above her head where the giant whale now hovered.

"Oh COME ON!" Skumm shouted. "How can I beat that? I'm going in the water!" He walked over and sat next to Plunder. "Not one word."

"Looks like it's down to me." Blight smiled. "Mal distract the others."

"Of course doctor." Mal leaped forward only to be thwacked down by the dull end of Kezqua's spear.

"I guess you could call me a modern day paladin, a wondering sould doing good by keeping a fair fight in the eyes of his god. A protector of the weak and helpless..." Kezqua smiled as he walked towards his fallen enemy. "But the truth is you went after the kid's friends." He walked closer. "That means I hurt you..." He pulled Mal to his face. "A lot."

"You're even more incompetent with a body!" Blight growled. "HATE!" Blight's ring vibrated with a dark pulse as the people on the island quickly began turning on each other. "Yes, tear each other apart..." Blight smiled psychotically, but did not notice that the Planeteers and Kezqua were unfazed.

"Dr. Blight..." Ma-ti said calmly.

"WHAT?" She snapped.

"Heart, let them see clearly." Ma-ti's ring flashed brightly and before he knew it their friends were now looking at Blight with angry glares. "Hatred will never have a place on this island."

"Hate!" She centered the ring on Ma-ti, but it never made it to him, a powerful and intense wall of light stopped it. Soon the dark tendrils shaped the light's finer details and everyone could see that the wall was made of hundreds of people fighting against hate at that very moment. Children helping each other, parents teaching their children to care and much to Wheeler's surprise his father tossing his FOH card in the trash.

"Heart." Ma-ti said softely and the wall extended and plowed into Blight knocking her to the ground.

"Ok..." Blight growled. "I don't care anymore..."

"Finally!" Plunder shouted. "DESTRUCTION!" He shouted and pointed the ring towards the sky.

"Gamma Radiation!" Nukem shouted and followed.

"WASTES!" Greedly shouted and joined in.

"Toxins!" Skumm shouted.

"No..." Blight groaned loudly. "Hate... not enough... need more power..." She laughed maniacally. "Must have it all... more..." Black tendrils crept up and along her body as several golden eyed creatures crawled over her. "Take it! Just leave me the power of..." She aimed her ring high as one of the creature plunged it's hand into her chest and pulled out a bright object.

"NO!" Ma-ti shouted, he knew what it was.

"DARKNESS!" The beam of blackness left Blight's ring and as soon as it did she disappeared into nothingness, leaving the warped black ring behind.

"What the hell?" Kezqua looked up, momentarily distracted and Mal pushed him off and ran to grab the ring.

"Dr. Blight?" Mal shouted as the darkness quickly faded. "Dr. Blight..." Mal bent down and picked up the ring.

Up in the sky however the familiar form of Captain Pollution was taking shape, but everyone knew this would be different.

"Quickly, let our power combine!" Kwame shouted. "EARTH"

"Fire!" Wheeler joined in.

"Wind!" Linka shouted.

"Water!" Gi said confidently.

"HEART!" Ma-ti said.

In the sky the two forms were becoming solid. Captain Planet was literaly melding into existence by the elments forming into the different parts of his body. Fire became the red of his clothes, his crystaline body formed from air and water and his green hair and brown eyes from earth. His untainted heart and soul formed from the power of Ma-ti and those of the Earth that still had hope.

"By your powers combined, I am the elements in harmony, I am CAPTAIN PLANET!" Captain Planet burst forth from cocoon like melding form. "What the heck is that?" He immediately noticed the noxious looking mass before him.

The form was twisting and becoming something else entirely that what it had been intended to be. Captain Planet could hear the tortured screams of his evil counterpart and even saw the golden eyes from within the cocoon rip out the slightly glowing heart.

"No..." Captain Planet gasped.

The dark cocoon began to crack and a deep ominous laughter echoed. "Heart..." It was Captain Pollutions voice. "I always did despise that power..." As the cocoon fell away it was clear that this new being was not Captain Pollution, but something else entirely. His body was a sickly gray and where it was once purple coloring to warp the red of Captain Planet's it was pure black. His hair was literally a black flame that gave off a deadly looking smog and his eyes were cold and lizard like. "Once you called me Captain Pollution dear 'brother', but now I think I am something entirely different..."

"Pollution..." Captain Planet was still shocked and floated down near the Planeteers.

"I... am... CAPTAIN DARKNESS!" Captain Darkness laughed manically as he formed to solid beams of darkness and fired them at the good Captain.

"We need Sora..." Ma-ti said with a distant twinge to his voice.

"Well whoever he is, he should get here." Wheeler gulped. "Agni, give us cover!" Agni returned to the ring and came back out as a flaming wall. The darkness however knocked him apart and he returned to the ring defeated.

Ma-ti then looked at his friends and made a decision. He then stepped past Captain Planet and put his arms in front of his friend.

"Well..." Darkness spoke. "Heart boy wants to sacrifice himself. Okay by me..." Darkness shot out another beam.

"Sora..." Ma-ti thought to himself. "Please help my friends..."

"Ma-ti get back here you don't have a spirit!" Wheeler tried to jump forward but several hands held him back including Kezqua's "What are you doing, HELP HIM!"

"Something big is coming..." Kezqua looked towards the sun and saw a shining dot on the horizon approaching much faster than should ever be possible. "Someone... is coming..."

"It's some kids!" Toad shouted as he looked through his binoculars. "WITH KEYBLADES!"

"What?" Kezqua turned in shock.

Everyone watched as the beam of light that held the three kids suddenly blew up onto the beach and stopped in front of Darkness' attack.

"You know, I may have only met you Ma-ti, but I'd much rather save you then let die." The smiling face of Sora said as the light that had surrounded he and his friends was shattered by the attack. A young brown haired girl fell to the ground from the force.

"He... he came..." Ma-ti blinked in shock.

"Of course he did..." Perfection floated by his side. "He couldn't let you just die."

"This guys' gonna be tough." The silver haired Riku grunted while Captain Darkness through a fit about them "interfering" .

"Yeah, well he's getting on my nerves." Sora smiled. "Should we show him?"

"Show me WHAT?" Captain Darkness shouted.

"Show you..." Riku started.

"These." Sora finished as he and Riku summoned their keyblades.

"Oh I'm in so much trouble..." Captain Darkness was obviously not impressed. "Why don't you kids go play key bearer somewhere else before I vaporize you."

"He thinks we're playing Sora..." Riku chuckled.

"That is kinda funny isn't it?" Sora laughed.

"Just who are you?" Darkness shouted, his irritation was finally gorwing.

"Hold on to that thought for a second." Sora said with a smile as he turned to Captain Planet. "We're gonna need your help here."

"Hu..." Planet quickly came back to his sense and remembered what he had seen and what had happened. A look of determination crossed his face. "You got it!" Captain Planet stood up again and his element reverberated in harmony. "YOU!" He pointed to Darkness. "You are not my brother and neither was Pollution, but at least he had the heart enough to keep those weaker than him from OUR fights. I will defeat you, with Sora and Riku's help and then we're taking back Pollution's heart."

"Brave words for a weakling." Darkness said, "Even if you do have two key bearers, you're no match for me."

"Maybe not alone..." Ma-ti said. "HEART!" Everyone expected nothing to happen, but all at once three form materialized on the island. King Mickey, Goofy and Donald.

"Ok, now I might be in trouble..." Darkness gulped.

Ma-ti collapsed in a weakened state. "That makes it even."