And I'm back. Sorry for the long update, a school exam, homework and tests, if you know what I mean. Anyway here are some things you should know before reading this chapter:

1. I'm using several characters and locations in this story from the Epic Mickey games such as the Gremlins, obviously Ortensia and the Bunny Children, the townspeople (except Horace Horsecollar and Clarabelle) and the Mad Doctor because I really like the games overall storyline and characters and I really like to use them (Disclaimer: Epic Mickey characters and game is owned by Junction Point)

2. In the game, the world is called Wasteland for those who don't know. There're a total of 5 amusement parks and several locations that represents the real ones from Disneyland, but I went and decided to add a additional location called Junction Town, one as a reference to Junction Point after it closed down and to serve as the home base for the χ-Knights.

Chapter 2

A Knights Meeting

Junction Town, Wasteland

1800 hours, afternoon

Sometime later, Lucifer returns back to the world the χ-Knights were located. While some don't know about the existence this world, only a few knows it as Wasteland, a world similar to a realm in between/hub world like Traverse Town and Twilight Town, however it was populated by toons instead of people with the exception of two human keyblade wielders. It acted like a haven for those who didn't evolve with the worlds. It served as a home world for the X-Knights to settle and conduct their observation of the worlds and continue their training. As the Knight landed his glider, he proceeded his way towards the main entrance of headquarters, but not while defeating a few heartless along the way. Personally he was glad they were just a bunch of Neoshadows, Soldiers, and Wizards (unless you count that random Guard Armor that appeared along with them). As he approaches the building's entrance, he did not open the door with his hand; instead he kicked the door open instead with his right foot out of laziness. The interiors of the building from the entrance was a small corridor that resembles Beacon Academy but smaller, with thinner arches over the ceiling with several windows built into each wall along with clear blue lines with sparks of energy flowing through them. Across the entrance, a doorway to Lucifer destination lays across from him in other words called the Hub which was the main quarters of the χ-Knights. As he approaches the door, he stopped a few inches apart from it. There was a short pause, then Lucifer slowly raised his leg which his shoes started glowing red, moved it slowly back and…

(Current Time: 30 seconds before Lucifer's entrance…)

The interior of the Hub was designed to a fusion of a large console room and some similarities of a clockwork tower including the giant clock itself and several gears were turning clockwise/counter clockwise on the walls. The large room had a simple like design, with windows and all, with arches that sprang upward from below at each corner of each wall, and 2 more doors that led to different areas. A large computer was installed on the middle wall; a stairway was built in the wall a few inches away right next to it leading to both an upper and lower level, and several bookcases and seats were placed besides the walls, a few inches away from the gears and the computer. In the center of the room was a console that had a small platform on top of it with a green orb with particles flying around it floating over a spike with two over lapping halos spinning around it. Sitting by the computer were the only two people present in the room which were Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, who SOMEHOW was able to arrive ahead of Lucifer without the need of a glider and a girl who had pink hair with three of her bangs swing to her right, and wore a short white jacket over a white shirt, with blue accents, a checkered-styled blue skirt with black shorts underneath, two gloves in each of her hands, black stockings on her legs that went up to her knees, and armored boots. The two were discussing about a serious topic, more or likely about training…apparently.

"OK Oswald, I'll admit that you're more skilled than me, but in all form of seriousness, most of those "skills" came from you lucky FEET!" the girl examined from the results from training.

"Oh come on Astra," the anthropomorphic rabbit explained. "Have you ever heard of lucky rabbit feet? Look all I'm saying kid, is that you just need practice, there's no need to complain because of my undenying luck."

"Whatever…" Astra pouted. Unknowing to them both they didn't realize that a certain armor wearing keyblade was about to kick the door – hard. However, they both felt a strange feeling that something was going to go wrong in the next few seconds.

"Oswald?"

"Yeah?"

"Duck and cover?"

"Yep."

(Current time:)

In a flash of speed and strength, Lucifer launched his foot and kicked the door open so hard the pressure of the kick send a strong gust of wind upon the entire room blowing things around-especially Oswald and Astra, who both held onto the computer from behind. However, Astra failed to hold on tightly and was swept away by the strong gust and ended up slamming her body face-first against the wall…painfully. As soon as the chaos ended

"Huh, the Hub's looking fine as ever," he inspected in a dark manner. "Although…" He turned his head towards a surprisingly conscious Astra sitting on a chair with an ice pack on her head and Oswald who had his arms folded upon Lucifer's destructive appearance.

"Sometimes," Astra noted with a pouting look on her face. "I have no idea how your brain works apart from other people even works."

"What? I just kicked the door open-" then Lucifer spins around clockwise 360 degrees and analyzed the entire Hub before realizing it. "Oh, huh…"

"First of all, part of me suggests that "kick" is pretty much an understatement, and second of all, you seriously need to stop acting lazy and just open the door manually with your hands," said Oswald.

"Whatever. Oh and sorry Astra about your forehead," Lucifer apologized.

"Oh it's ok," said Astra as she drank a Hi potion. "just try to open the door with your hands next time." Oswald nodded his head in agreement.

There was a short pause between the three of them until Astra broke the silence.

"Sooooooooooo…now that we're all here, what was it you wanted to discuss with us?" she asked.

Few seconds later, Lucifer inserted a data chip into the computer showed the two knights the data he gathered briefly on the world's current situations, including Maleficent's ever growing army, which composed of Emblem Heartless, revived villains and other enemies from different worlds that joined her cause and the Dark Hunter's more recent activities who are 5 keyblade wielders that wanted to conquer the worlds to maintain order, in their own way. They were on a whole new level of power, in other words, even one of them is able to mope the floor with any of the Light Guardians, especially the 4 Keyblade Masters. Lucifer was able to get footage of each of the fights like the one with Sora and the DWMA students against Cornis and the other with Vulpe literally kicking at least 3 keyblade masters and 20 mages asses in Worth Woodsea back in Earth Land without breaking a sweat.

"Which is precisely why we must help them!" Astra yelled.

"Don't get ahead of yourself Astra," Oswald replied. "We may be strong, but this isn't the right moment to reveal ourselves to the Lights Guardians, especially the other worlds. All we can do right now is observe and get stronger. Besides we still need find Maleficent, since that which is trying to take over the worlds…again."

"I know, but I just feel so weak and cowardly if we stay in the shadows for so long, and let those guys beat the living crap out of those Guardians. Besides you saw those recordings. Vulpe easily wiped the floor with Sora, Aqua, Terra and those mages and Cornis fought against Sora and the DWMA students like they were only just newbies in training. We should help train them to become more powerful," said Astra.

"I couldn't agree with you more on that," said Lucifer who still had his armor on. "But Oswald's right, we're merely a shadow group, and we still don't know the full extent of each of their abilities, especially Cornis and Vulpe. Like Oswald said, all we can do is observe, train to get stronger and not to mention that we still need more members to join us. However, you are also right in that sense, we can help the Guardians become stronger, but today's not that day.

Then Lucifer turned his head around and checked the clock on the wall and sighed as it was already 9:00 pm.

'Huh, time flies…' he thought to himself. I think that's all I need to show with you today. I'll see you tomorrow in the morning,"

(Current time: 9:30 P.M)

After a few minutes, everyone, left the Hub, which was cleaned up, and went to their rooms to sleep for the night, but Lucifer remained by himself. He was researching on the computer on the Dark Hunters from the information that was discovered in Junction Town since it was once a world roamed by keyblade wielders a long time ago. To add up, he was also researching on the boy that he watched in the shadows who defeated Hercules at the Olympus Coliseum who he obviously knew wasn't a hunter because of the design of his keyblade and the way he dressed. For some reason, the clothing style and said keyblade used to remind him of someone he heard before a long time ago.

"Those Dark Hunters…" he muttered to himself, while mentioning the Dark Hunters. "Taking over the worlds just because they think their superior to every being across the worlds… Are they trying to repeat the past once more just because they wield a keyblade and say that their above all else like some sort of god complex?"

As he continued his research, a call icon popped up on the aide of the screen. As he clicked on the icon, a screen popped up and two figures appeared. One was a small green creature wearing a helmet with goggles, horns coming through them with a bowler hat on top, a red jumpsuit with accents on his body and brown shoes which fluttered in the air like wings and the other was an anthropomorphic cat wearing a pink dress and a matching pink hat with a flower on top.

"Gremlin Gus, Ortensia, I didn't expect you to be calling this late," he greeted.

"Likewise young chap, I was too busy with some projects back at Wasteland with some of my fellow gremlins that I just didn't have the time to have a conservation with you. But I guess today's right now is a good time anyway," Gus explained.

"Me too, I was too busy taking care of my bunny children to call you," explained Ortensia as well.

"Whatever guys, so what did you two want to discuss with me about?" Lucifer asked.

"Ah yes!" Gus remembered as he took out a book out of nowhere. "While we were building the new library, I discovered this old book right next to the construction site. It seems to be written during a very long time ago, judging from the condition of the book. This may give you some insight of the identity of those keyblade wielders your facing." Using some magic, Gus teleported the book into Lucifer's hand instantly without any delay.

'Why thank you Gus. Let's see the contents," he opened the book and found several entrees to him seems like important information of the past. After skipping through a few pages he discovered a verse coupled with a few other blank pages after that seems to disturb him a lot.

"The war in that place will lead to the defeat and destruction of the Light. The World will be enveloped in eternal Darkness," he read out loud. This left a worried face on all three figures.

"How mysterious, what kind of world is the verse taking about?" Ortensia asked.

"More importantly what this "Light" being covered by eternal darkness it speaks of?" Gus with his index finger and thumb on his chin in a thinking manner. "Can't be the entirety of light itself, can it? It could be something else..."

Lucifer pondered for a second. "It also mentioned a war. Then it must be the Keyblade War itself! But what "place" did it mentioned?

Gus looked at a random watch that magically appeared on his wrist. "Oh it's getting late young chap, you better get some sleep. You've been working tremendously hard today and I think you should get some rest."

"Ooh that reminds me, Lucifer, shouldn't you have taken off your armor by now?" asked Ortensia.

It took a few minutes to process what Ortensia just said before he started chuckling slowly in embarrassment.

"Oh goodness! Sorry, I remembered how forgetful you are when you wear your armor" apologized Ortensia.

"No its fine, just caught off guard…"

"Well if you insist…," she said. "Well it's getting late, good night Lucifer, also tell Oswald I said hi!"

"Yeah…"

As the call ended, Lucifer simply slumped his body in the chair and sighed. He then closed his eyes and focused to unequipped his armor. As it disappeared, Lucifer clothing was revealed, which was a white shirt with a tie underneath a checkerboard styled jacket with the right lower sleeve folded, two belt fasten around one of sleeves with a single one on his exposed lower right arm, gloves and a scarf around his neck. His left sleeve however had the small pauldron strapped to his shoulder, with segments of armor connected by two more belts and a gauntlet that was a part of the segmented armor pieces. He wore two colored pants which one was black with a belt around it with the word "LOST" inscribed into the buckle and the other resembles leggings that was dark white with two belts, one wrapped around each leg, the bottom pants were folded and wore partially armored shoes with black soles. His hair was green blue with three of his bangs covering the right side of his face and a pair of headphones over his head.

"Rest...Ha...we all deserve it..." He smiled as he turned his head over to a picture frame containing him, Astra, Oswald, Gus and Ortensia.

And that's it! Also like I mentioned before in my previous chapter, I was going to upload the characters from this story although I'm not done since some of them will be the keyblade armor the knights wear and the outfits they wear (I will upload a picture of Oswald's outfit on a different website since I already found one that suits him). There will be drive forms, although I'm giving Lucifer several new original ones.

I will also probably use other worlds from other games and animes such as God Eater Burst, Black Bullet, Strike The Blood (maybe), etc

Before ending this, I just want to know that Lucifer and Astra are somewhat based off of the male and female avatars/players from Kingdom Hearts X (Chi), so in a way their both canon and non-canon.

Well that's all I have for you today. See you later in the next chapter!