Chapter 2: The Enemy
On the Gummi Ship
Sora, Kairi and Riku had travelled for about three hours, and still had a half hour to go. Sora was getting extremely restless, and was pacing the room he had slept in for an hour. Images flashed through his head, images of what might have happened. Maleficent and her heartless, Nobodies ravishing the Castle, or even aliens entered his mind. He stopped, and shook his head. Aliens. I doubt that,he thought, laughing inwardly. He sat on his bed, and began to think again. Why did Mickey need all of them? Was the 'trouble' that bad? He hoped, mostly for Kairi's sake, it wasn't something too difficult. She wasn't prepared.
Sora had tried to convince Kairi to let him train her a bit on the flight over, but she said she 'wasn't in the mood'. "I'm sorry, Sora," she had said, "But I really don't want to train right now. Too much on my mind, you know?"
Sora understood completely; having too much on his mind was part of the reason for wanting to train her. The other reasons were to teach her how to protect herself, and, more importantly, to spend time with her. He knew that he needed to spend a lot more time with her if he was going to win her heart, he just didn't know how. Maybe he'd talk to Riku about it.
As he thought this, a voice came into his room. "Yo, Sora? S-Dog? Mr. S? Sor-meister? You there?"
Sora felt the urge to laugh and punch Riku's face at the same time. He only hoped that Kairi hadn't heard. He pushed a button on the wall, and spoke into the receiver. "Yes, Rikky?"
He felt the ship jolt slightly, and laughed. Only Riku's mother was aloud to call him 'Rikky'. "Get down here, twerp," was the only response given, and Sora laughed his entire way to the cockpit.
"'Sup?" he said, sitting next to Riku.
Riku refused to look at him, only saying, "Incoming transmission," and pointed to a button. Sora pushed the flashing yellow light, and, on the screen in front of him, he saw a familiar face.
"Your Highness!" Sora exclaimed, and Riku snapped out of his reverie, listening intently.
The King, however, was far from his joyous self. "Sora, thank god your alright. I take it you got my letter?"
"Yeah. Are you okay down there?"
"For now," Mickey sighed, "Sora, you have to listen to me. We're under attack-"
"Who is it?" Sora interrupted.
"Sora, I-"
"No, Your Majes-"
"SHUT UP!" screamed someone, who wasn't Sora, Mickey or Riku. Sora was stunned for a moment.
"Who was-"
Suddenly, a new face blocked out Mickey's. A young boy, around Sora's age, was looking right at him. Hi nose was rather large, his brown hair short and his deep brown eyes were so narrow, Sora could picture his head exploding. "Listen to me, hero. We don't have the bloody time for this. We have to get you inside the barrier."
"Barrier? What barri-"
"What part," the boy growled, "of SHUT UP DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND?"
Sora fell silent, and the boy continued. "Is your pilot listening?" Sora nodded, "Good. There are two massive ships above us. One is black, it won't attack you. It's focusing on us. The purple one, however, will do its best to take you down. Be careful, it has about a thousand smaller ships stored inside it. Don't worry," he quickly said, seeing Sora's worried face, "it's better than before. I destroyed the first thousand on my way in here. Your ship is the only one keyed in to the barrier, we made sure of that. One of you, man the turret, preferably you, Key-man. You've only got one shot, so listen. Fly straight at the black ship, from the left. Then fly straight for us. You'll get here, I'm sure. Now hurry up, we need to get moving," and with that the transmission ended.
"You heard the guy, Sora," Riku said in his serious voice, "We're there in ten minutes. Man the turret."
"What about Kairi?" Sora asked.
Riku shook his head, and growled, "Doesn't matter right now, if she goes down, we're all going down. She's asleep. She'll be fine. Just man that god damned turret!"
Sora nodded, got up, and entered the small tube that took him up to the turret. If they were going to do this, they'd be ready.
At Disney Castle
As soon as he hit the button to end transmission, Davvyd turned and looked at the small King. "Sorry, Your Majesty, but you were both beating around the bush. What's happening, and who's doing it, isn't important right now. What is important is that they get here, and fast. I'm losing time."
Mickey nodded. "I understand, Davvyd. But don't yell at Sora next time, okay?"
Davvyd smirked, and shook his head. "Can't make that promise, Mickey. Listen," he said, changing into a more serious mood, "the Dark-boy, can we trust him?"
Mickey nodded, "Yes, we can. He changed, Davvyd. He's a better person now."
Davvyd nodded, and looked upwards, his eyes unfocused. "I know what it feels like, to fall to the darkness, Mickey. It's so powerful, so tempting. But you lose a lot. A part of yourself, mostly. But also, the ones you care about. I hope we can trust him, Mickey. 'Cause if we can't, we'll all get hurt, but, the Key-man and the Heart-girl will be hurt beyond repair. Just like Elizabeth."
Mickey nodded solemnly, and decided to change the subject. "Say, Davvyd, why do you call Sora, Kairi and Riku 'The Key-man, The Heart-girl, and the Dark-boy'?"
Davvyd, once again smirking, turned to his tiny liege, and said, "Do you believe in Prophecies, Your Majesty?"
On the Gummi Ship
Sora was ready. All guns were locked and loaded. Riku was on a direct link to the turret, and was speaking to him. "Sora, we're about a minute away. You sure you're ready for this?"
Sora responded by saying, "Yes, Riku, for the twentieth time, everything is ready. Let's do this."
Riku began to count down, "Three."
Sora took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
"Two."
He saw Kairi, asleep, looking so peaceful, so undisturbed.
"One."
He opened his eyes. He was ready.
Sora saw the giant black sphere straight away, and, as Riku tore towards it, he shuddered. The thing seemed to scream evil. He decided to concentrate in that direction, as that would be where the other ships would most likely be heading from. As soon as Riku turned left, he saw it.
Next to the giant black sphere of doom, was an equally intimidating ship. This metallic purple ship was a giant contrast next to the dullness of the bigger black ship, but also seemed to scream death. It reminded Sora of a bug.
He didn't like bugs.
Then the hull opened, and out poured little versions of the big bug. They were about the same size as the Gummi, and were about as fast. Sora started shooting.
"Sora! Hold them off!" Riku yelled through the communication link.
"I'm trying, Riku! There's always more of them!" he yelled back. The ships were more like bugs; kill one, ten take its place.
"Sora, we got about ten seconds! Keep it up!"
"Got it!" Sora was shooting like mad. He stopped counting at fifty that he shot down, and that was a lot of destroyed ships ago. Suddenly, he saw a blue field, and a lot of bugs get squished in a massive purple explosion.
"We're in!" Sora cheered.
"Thanks, Captain Obvious," was heard over the link.
"You're welcome, Captain Monotone," he responded, and exited the turret. He got out just in time to run into Kairi; literally.
"Oh, Sora! What was all that noise?" Kairi asked, after almost falling over, still drowsy from her slumber.
"We had a run in with some bugs," Sora responded, scratching the back of his head. Riku started laughing his head off, as Kairi looked confused.
Riku had begun to land the ship, when Sora looked deep into Kairi's eyes again. They were so beautiful, so bright, so-
"Uh, guys? We gotta go."
Damn Riku. Damn him and his horrible timing. But, he was right, so Sora broke the eye lock, and turned to get off the ship.
As he exited through the giant door and walked down the oversized ramp the luxury Gimmi provided, he saw the face of King Mickey, and the boy who yelled at him. "Sora!" Mickey exclaimed, happily, "thank goodness you're here! We're in so much trouble right now! We need to evacuate everybod off the world!"
"Are you serious?" Sora asked, "Everyone? Is it that bad?"
"That's right, Key-man. Don't get comfortable," the boy said, smirking, "we won't be here for long."