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"Sooo… Now what?" Mark asked. They had just witnessed Ald throw himself into the thing that was once half their school.
"WE GET OUT OF HERE!!!" Syowa yelled, obviously offended by his insensitivity.
"HOW!?!?!?!?!" Mark said, obviously offended by her sensitivity.
"Like this." Mr. Brown said, touching a black button on his cell phone. At the soft "poing!," a huge black helicopter appeared soundlessly over the horizon. It was moving unnaturally fast, and reached them in a few seconds. It landed with an almost inaudible "thud". The door slid open, revealing what looked like… an Ikea showroom. It was the flying equivalent of a Bentley limousine. That is, except for the armored soldiers that spilled out. "Get in." He said, gesturing to the now empty helicopter.
"Who are you?" Everyone asked, all at once.
"I'd tell you," He said, donning a pair of Vietnam-style glasses. "But I'd have to kill you…"
Far of, on a hill, a certain blue haired boy was screaming orders at Nobodies.
"So, Sorin, you seem pretty good at bossing these things around." Reiko commented as she kicked a Creeper (the little sword things).
"I guess." He only replied as a Dusk brought him a muffin.
"You guess?" Another girl said in the background. She stepped out of the shadows. She was wearing a black robe, and had pink hair. "Don't be modest. You're a natural. Second to… me." She said with a giggle.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Reiko asked, annoyed.
"Well, let's just say a certain little flower-boy turned out to have a higher purpose… but come." She opened a portal in mid-air. "You have doors to open"
Sorin liked the sound of that…
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"Wake up." Blue said to the mysterious boy (Aka: Me).
"Whoa… where am I? Who are you?" I asked Blue.
"In that order, some weird lab, and my name is Blue. Here, get up." Blue said.
"Thanks, but I can get out of a bed just fine." I replied. "No offense."
"Ah… Is the patient awake?" A weird voice asked. With a flourish, a strange man came into the room. He was wearing a lab coat, and he had a neatly trimmed beard. "Ah, excellent. Now we can interrogate him."
"Wait, interrogate me?!" I asked, feeling scared.
"Don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds…" Blue said.
I was led (pronounced "dragged") to a brightly lit room. There, one last person came in. She was about as tall as a 5' 8" tree and wore a bright green robe. What really got my attention was her green hair, which fell to her back. She walked up to a table and set up a computer. She pressed a button on the console and a circle appeared in the floor. The circle was followed by a hole, and a white chair rose out.
"Ok, I'm gonna ask you some questions. Answer correctly, and please, don't be a smart-ass."
"Why not?" I asked, being a smart-ass.
"I said so." She said with a smile. "By the way, my name is Rachael. Ok, first question: Where are you from?"
I thought about that one. "Toride City. Tiny little place few miles east of Tokyo."
"And that would be..." She wondered.
"In Japan… Well technically it's still America."
She sighed obviously exasperated. "What planet?"
"What? I mean, Earth."
"Next: Are you human?" She asked in a matter-a-fact tone
"Yeah. Why? Are you? What are you?!?!?!?" I asked, on the point of panicking.
"Next: What happened? How did you get here?"
"I- I- Threw myself into a black hole… you know- where they come out of…" I stated
"Good. Who are 'they'?"
"'They-'" I thought again. "-are Nobodies. The cloth things, right?"
"Yup…" She wrote something on her clipboard (which I hadn't noticed). I did notice the pen she had. It was normal enough, except that it was huge, 8 inches long, but thick, and had a quarter-sized button on it. Oh my God… I've truly lost it… I'm thinking about weird pens… I thought.
"Last thing: Are you OK?" She asked me.
"WHAT?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?" I exploded. "I just fought one of The Organization's head honchos, from a fictional video game- Yeah, FICTIONAL: NOT REAL!!!- And I jumped into a tear in time and space, landed in some freak land where people think it's a big deal to live on Earth and get out of bed!!!! AND YOU ASK ME IF I'M OK?!?!?!?!?!??!??!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?" I stopped, panting hard.
"Yeah, are you? I mean, are you hurt? Or anything emotional?" She said, with real, live concern in her eyes.
"Yeah. I'm- I'm fine. Sorry, I- I-"
"Don't worry. Blue was freaked out, too."
"Yeah, who is that guy, anyway?"
"Ask him yourself…" She remarked, mysteriously.
I walked down the hall into the kitchen. There, sitting at the coffee table, was the same guy who woke me up.
"So…" I said, casually making conversation. "How 'bout that Rachael?"
"Are you trying to make conversation?" He asked
… "You make this awkward." I informed him.
He laughed. It was obvious he had rarely laughed before-hand, but I could tell he was being honest. "Sorry, I'm getting used to being human."
"Getting used to being HUMAN?"
"Yeah…" He- or Blue, as he was named- explained everything. Apparently he was once a Heartless, and "The screwed up magnetic lines of the planet turned him into a human." Except…
"Wait, magnetism can't do that! Like, maybe tear you apart, atom-by-horribly-painful-atom, but not just transform you!" I said, suddenly remembering my 5th Grade science. At that moment, The Professor entered the room, got a bright red apple from a cylinder-type holder, and walked out.
"Yeah, I don't buy that either, but it's the best explanation he's got…" Blue said. "But how 'bout you?"
"Yeah, my name's Ald, my world got annihilated by clo- Nobodies, and I thought I was dead. But, man… I-" I stopped, and choose my words carefully. "I didn't even know Heartless and Nobodies existed…"
"What do you mean!?" Blue exclaimed.
"It's just-" I was cut of by the Professor, who ran into the kitchen. He wazs wearing a huge, heart-shaped chain around his neck. For the first time I noticed his tan skin. He reminded me of someone, but I couldn't put my finger on it… "Ald, Blue. I have good news, bad news, and- well- come see." He wheezed as he ran back into the Interrogation Room.
Where the chair once stood was a huge computer instead. It was easily the size of a bed. The Professor typed on the normal looking keyboard, and a city appeared on the screen. A city I knew.
"Hey! That's Hollow Bastion!" I yelled, remembering what I read on the internet.
"Yes. Blue, we traced the signal of the warp point where we found you. You come from Hollow Bastion." The Professor said, averting Blue's eyes. "I couldn't find an available warp here, so you can't go back."
"Why would I want to?" Blue said calmly
The Professor sighed. "Never mind" He said and muttered something about "no point in telling you if you don't already know". I could hear, but Blue did.
"What? You- you know something?" Blue said, excited.
"Do you, Professor?" Rachael said, appearing at the doorway. She had a basket of weird golden berries under her arm.
"…No…" He said at last. Blue calmed down and looked disappointed.
"As for you, Ald…" The Prof. continued. "We found Earth."
My heart stopped beating.
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"So, where are we going?" Carlos asked as they rode in the super-copter.
There were ten people in all: Mark, Marisol, Kiyoye, Kiyoko, Sharon, Ernie Carlos, Lily, Syowa, and the mysterious Mr. Brown.
"I had a recording ready… gets tiring to talk so long at my age…" Mr. Brown said with a chuckle.
"You wouldn't know from sitting in his class." Syowa remarked.
"Here it is! I have to talk to the pilot, this tape will explain everything" He said as he went into the cockpit. A few seconds later, the lights dimmed and a voice began talking.
It went like this:
My name T. Townsend Brown. I was born in the year 1889, AD. You maybe wondering, 'If he's so old, what's he still doing?'. This is what.
I was living in New York when the United States government found me in 1946. It was the end of WWII, and the beginning of the Cold War. They wanted me to work on a project to create a force field around ships and planes. It was completely defensive. Or so I thought…
When the Project was complete, we launched. We hoped to usher in a new age, where there would be no fear of bombs… or of invasion… We would rule a world of peace. New York, London, Paris. All a few hours away at the time. We hoped we could even cut the fabric of the universe, and "go between", or teleport, as it became known. Instead, we "misplaced" the cruiser we were using, and "found" it miles away. What we found isn't important, however. What found us; that matters.
Creatures called "Endless", beings made of pure light, spilled out of the tear. They were innocent things. Or so we thought. It turns out that they were looking for a new home… by turning our universe into "Kingdom Hearts", their old one. So we shoved them back. We hoped they were gone. We hoped wrong.
30 years ago, we discovered that they were back. This time, we had help. A king came from his world to assist us. He told us to refer to him simply as "The King". We didn't ask why. That is, until 8 years ago. Our probe to Mars found new life forms. They were not Endless, but Heartless. The king explained that there was more. Nobodies; the dead husk left over when a person was turned into an Endless or Heartless. That's right, these things used to be people. All three were headed to Earth. Why? (The voice chuckled) "Humans are ripe" The King told us. He revealed the date of their invasion, 2012; he helped us make weapons to fight them when they came; we even came up with a plan of attack, The Redecker Plan, to "take back the planet" and "take the fight to them".
"Think this sounds like some video game, right?" The voice concluded. "Well, that's the cover-story…" The guys in the copter were a little more than stunned. A lot more.
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"This is what we've got." The Prof. said as he touched a button on the computer. The screen zoomed to a map of Earth, then to the Americas, resting over a star labeled "New York"
Suddenly, a voice yelled out. I jumped, startled by the yelling.
"COME ON!!!" The voice yelled. It had a distinct, New Yorker accent. It continued "You've gotta help us out, chief! Were runnin' the works, but nothin's hitting these guys!" The link broke, and the map moved over to Paris. This one had a French accent.
"This is Foxtrot-Uncle-Chris-Kelly! Our position is… Screw our position!!! Get us out!!! Oh no… Not the fat things!!!" The link went dead, like my spirits. The Prof. glared at Blue, who seemed painfully conscious of this. The map moved at last, to Toride City. My home.
"Sh-! Come on, frag 'em!" This one yelled
"Sikes!" Another broke through.
"I know! Listen…" The first voice said "I don't know who's out there. Government, aliens, I don't care if you're Superman! HELP US!!!" The link seared. I winced as men and women screamed in the background.
The link was terminated. I was stunned. Rachael and Blue looked at me with concern.
"I- I-… I gotta step outside…" I said.
Outside, I was surprised to find two things. 1) It wasn't cold. Even though it was the dead of night, it was not freezing, like Earth nights. 2) The stars. I glanced up, and saw millions and millions of stars. They were closer than anywhere else. It was… Cool.
"You know, I like you better" A voice said.
"Huh? Oh, hi Blue. What do you mean you like me better?" I said in confusion.
"Wow. You didn't even notice." He looked up. "I am a Heartless, remember?"
"Oh, yeah. But, you're cool." I said.
"The Professor doesn't think so…"
"So? Screw him. It doesn't matter." I said "I mean…" I looked up again.
"What? What is it?"
"We should go out there…" I said, letting my imagination run wild. "I mean, we have Keyblades! We can go out there and fix this mess!"
"I don't know…"
"What do you mean? You gotta believe!" I crossed my arms. "We can have an adventure!"
"Hey- Whoa!!!" Rachael fell through as I yanked on the door.
"Hey, are you alright?" Blue asked, helping her up.
"I'm fine! But, you can't leave! There's nothing out there!" She said, distress streaming from her eyes in the form of tears.
"Isn't there?..." The Prof. suggested mysteriously.
"I have a friend," He continued. "In Hollow Bastion. He can help you, Blue. As for you, Ald, he has been working on a crystallized refractor matrix."
"Which will do… What exactly?" I asked with anticipation.
"It might take you home, and might help you 'fix this mess'." He explained. "Come inside. Quickly."
Inside, I saw a table. Laid on it were two new pairs of jeans, both dark blue. They looked uncomfortably tight. Two shirts, one white, one blue were also laid out.. Guess which one was mine? (white)
"Sweet! I'm gonna look like L, from Deathnote!" I said in excitement.
"Who?" Blue asked
"Never mind." I said. "Wait, will I go barefoot, too?" I asked, concerned for my foot safety.
"No, in fact, here are your shoes now." He said, taking notes on a pad.
Rachael came in, holding two cardboard boxes. The looked perfectly normal. What they contained was not normal. Although they looked kind of like my normal shoes, they hade a metallic olive sheen to them. The soles were guarded by metal, and instead of laces, they had buckles. The bottom looked more like concrete than rubber.
"Whoa… these are cool!" Blue exclaimed, having already donned his new clothes.
"Uh… Can I change in the bathroom?" I asked Rachael.
"Uhhhh… Yeah, um, go ahead" she said.
After I returned, everyone was in the kitchen. They were sitting at the table.
"All right. Now you have newer, durable clothes. These are not regular clothes. They will heal you as you travel. This is for two reasons. One, you will run out of items. Two, you won't be able to use magic." The Professor told us.
"What? Why? That makes no sense!" Blue practically yelled.
"Because…" The Professor, obviously offended by his sensitivity, began. "Our S2 Engines have been turned off. That is why I can't let you use any Gummi ships. You will travel using The Corridors of Light. They are safer to travel, but you must repair the Engines if you are to get to Hollow Bastion."
"How do we fix them? Where are they? Are we like, powerless?" I asked, worried
"You don't need much. Wire. A metal pipe. A power source. They are located in Twilight Town. And no, you are not powerless. You have Drives. You both get one. Ald, you're familiar with Valor form, right?"
"Yeah." I said
"Good. You will use a similar form. It is called Basic Form." He said.
"What?!? That's a terrible name!" I retorted
"That doesn't matter. You can attack, and you will use magic later on. Blue, you were once a Heartless, so your drive form will mimic common Heartless attacks." The Professor continued.
"Hmph. Blue's is cooler." I continued.
"Heh, sometimes it's good to be a Heartless." Blue chided me.
"Be careful. Both of you could Drive into a type of Anti-Form… and, no, Ald. Don't do it on purpose. Now, I've opened up a random portal outside. From there, you'll take it on your own. Now… Am I forgetting something?" He asked Rachael.
"The contacts." She reminded him.
"Ah, yes." He reached in to his pockets and pulled out two silvery cases. In each was a pair of normal-looking contacts. "Ald, you've used a Keyblade, am I right?"
"Yeah. We both have." I said.
"They have a system called Reaction Commands. To you they will seem only as reflexes. But these will allow you to "see" other's health, Drive, and later, magic." He went on.
"Ok. So we got these new clothes. We got Keyblades, powers, and some goals." I reviewed.
"Yes. Your goals are: 1) Fix the S2 magic Engines; 2) Get to Hollow Bastion; 3) Find the leaders of the Endless." The Professor told us.
"The Endless. Those are the light guys, right?" I asked.
"Yes. Very mysterious. Very powerful." His words made us tremble. "Once you finish those things, you can go home."
"Yeah? Just like that?" I asked, astounded.
"Yes." He said. "Now, Rachael packed you some food and munny." He handed us a blue back pack. "Both of your things are in there."
He seemed to take a breath. His next words were heavy and sounded recited by memory. "You are about to embark on a long hard journey. You may panic at some points, but even so, never give up."
Next, Rachael appeared. "Well, it's been fun to have you here guys. If you ever need to come back, just remember: You always have a home here." She said. Personally, I was touched, but Blue and the Professor looked at each other. I could tell that they would have gladly killed each other at that point.
"Yeah, thanks." I returned to the heartfelt moment. "AND I'M SURE BLUE FEELS THE SAME." I said loudly.
The Professor broke the stare. "There is a path into another world outside. Be careful." He bid us farewell as he opened the door…
"Well, this is it! Our big adventure! We're out to save the world, and nobody can stop us!!!" I yelled into the dawn…
"Come one, there's the path." Blue pointed to a shining point at the end of the road.
Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and three of those Blurs appeared. This time, they had company. There was a hooded thing about 4 feet tall with, of all things, an arm cannon. We brought out our Keyblades, and suddenly, the arm cannon thing slid far away and opened fire. I raised up the Keyblade to try and block the fire, but I twisted around instead and hit one Blur. I looked back toward the cannon guy. The shots felt kinda like a massage on those chairs in the malls, you know, the ones that hurt a lot after a few seconds and then the old lady comes and tells you to get of 'cause "she's a senior citizen" and your just a kid and she's embarrassing you in front of your girlfriend, but in short, it was not pleasant.
Come on Reaction, kick in… I thought. However, what did "kick in" was a Blur. Blue came around and killed it.
"I have an idea. You distract it, I kill it!" He yelled over the deafening roar of the cannon.
"NO! I'll kill it!" I yelled back as ran up to it. Then the Reaction activated. The Professor may have creeped me out, but he was right. It was like a reflex. I noticed its hood, so I pulled it down on its invisible face. It shot wildly, until Blue came back and pounded it into submission.
"Show off." He complained.
"Look whose talking- Whoa!!!" I screamed as something, not sure what, pushed us in to the portal-thing-of-light…
"Are they gone?" Rachael said.
"Yes." The Professor said as he came back inside.
"Did you give them the map of where they are going…?" She inquired.
"Of course…" He said mysteriously
Hmm… what's going on? Rachael wondered as the white haired man went into the interrogation room.
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Riku walked down the brand new service road in Twilight Town. The real Twilight Town had no such road, and Riku wondered where he was exactly.
"Do you like it? Namine worked so hard to please you…" A dark voice in the background said.
"SHOW YOURSELF!!!" Riku screamed.
At last, the thing stepped out. He had armor, head to toe, which cackled with lightning. It was blacker than the darkest of all nightmares except for the edges, which were highlighted a terrible, uncomfortable white, that made you feel as if you were being made fun of, and the whole world laughed at your misfortune at having met such a being. It was so horrible that the last fool who tried to recount its power died instantly, so I can only give you a heavily censored version of what Riku saw.
"JUBRAEON!!!" Riku lifted his Keyblade. Jubraeon simply walked. Riku was unconscious before he hit the ground.
"I have plans for you… old friend." He said.
Two words: OH. CRAP.