T: Hello everyone! I am back and armed with a new chapter for you, sorry for the wait but I needed to think of a good space battle and plan for future chapters as well. S helped made the space batte more space battle like so a thanks to him. Now sit back and enjoy.
"WHERE DID THEY COME FROM!?" Donald yelled trying to get the ship under control.
"Heartless...out here?" Mickey was somewhat shocked at the fact Heartless were in this part of space.
"Looks like they're after a fight!" Riku said holding onto one of the railings surrounding the bridge.
Several Heartless ships quickly flew past the bridge, firing at the Excalibur. They held a battle formation before splitting off and swooping around for another attack. The cannons of the Excalibur locked onto them and began to fire back at the incoming enemies. Unfortunately, the Heartless ships were small and nimble; they easily avoided the cannons and fired missiles at the ship, destroying a couple of cannons.
"We've lost some of the cannons!!" Donald yelled pressing buttons.
Sora and Kairi had finally arrived on the bridge to see everyone running around trying to get things under control. Mickey was trying his best to get the situation under control, and Donald was programming more of the turrets to fire at the Heartless ships. The only ones who weren't helping were the Turks who were all running around like headless chickens yelling at the top of their lungs.
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!! WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!!" All of them were doing this par Choco who was assembling a couple of homing missiles shaped like Chocobo's.
"We can't deal with them like this. Sora, Riku! Get to the hangar and fight them with the two gummi fighters down there!" Mickey yelled.
"Got it!" Riku managed to balance himself before running through the door Sora and Kairi just came from.
"Kairi wait here I'll be back." Sora looking at Kairi, he could see she was worried.
"Be careful..." She said before hugging him.
Sora smiled and returned the hug before running after Riku to the hangar. Kairi stood there worrying about them, even though she knew Sora had experience from the stories he would tell of fighting countless Heartless ships and he even took down a giant Nobody fortress once.
"Is there anything we can do?" Max said as he appeared on the bridge.
"Unless you can make these turrets more accurate!" Donald yelled.
"Sure, they can be manually controlled." Max said smiling.
"Well isn't that convenient, eh Rude?" Reno said lying on his head.
"Indeed..." Rude said slumped on one of the railings.
"Max, take the Turks and get to those turrets! Sora and Riku will need some help taking these things down." Mickey said.
"Well this ought to be fun!" Riku said to Sora still running down the corridor to the hangar.
"What is? We're being pounded by Heartless ships, and trust me; they can be at times quite lethal." Sora said recalling his encounter with Final Hunter.
"Ah these are just small fry, and there's only a few of them anyway." Riku said smiling.
Sora suspected that more would appear soon if they didn't take down these ones quickly, he recalled all the times on his past journeys thinking he had finally destroyed all of the ships but was startled when another wave would appear. He swore he wouldn't be like that again, for if there's one thing he learned about Heartless tactics was that they always came in numbers.
After running down the hall for another few minutes, they had finally reached the hangar and saw two impressively built gummi fighters. One was gold while the other was silver; they were similar size and shape except one had more laser cannons while the other had more lock-on lasers. They looked durable and fast at the same time, they were remarkable ships. Riku hopped into the silver gummi ship, which contained the lock-on lasers, while Sora hopped in the gold gummi ship, with the laser cannons.
After Sora and Riku were strapped in, the launch door in the hangar opened with a hiss. The two ships were launched into space at great speed, and they were immediately greeted by several shots from the enemy, which fortunately missed.
"That's a nice hello!" Sora said earning a chuckle from Riku.
"Sora, Riku, can you hear me?" Mickey said through the transmission device. During this Sora and Riku were avoiding the enemy's shots, ducking and rolling through space.
"Yes but we're a bit busy Mickey!" Riku said trying to lose four of the ships.
Sora noticed Riku in trouble and quickly flew behind the enemy ships and fired his laser cannons, taking care of two of them. Riku used the temporary opening in the chase to flip his gummi ship around, and as he weaved through the Heartless' retaliatory fire, launched 4 lasers at the remaining two attackers, destroying them.
"Thanks Sora!"
"No prob!" The two friends flew past each other before going after the remaining ships.
"Sora, Riku. Max and the Turks are going to the cannons to give you some fire support!" Mickey said through the communications.
"The Turks!?" Riku looked slightly worried before dodging an enemy fighter that tried to ram into him.
"Don't worry, I'm sure they won't mess up!" Sora said crossing his fingers mentally.
Meanwhile...
"HOW DO YOU START THIS THING!?" Reno yelled looking at the controls.
"Push the green button Reno..." Max said slapping his forehead from the man's stupidity.
"Oh..." After pushing it, the turret came to life.
Max pressed a few buttons on the control pad and he managed to get in touch with the two gummi fighters.
"Sora, Riku. We are going to give you some fire support!" As he said this the turrets armed by him and the Turks started firing at the remaining enemy ships. Sora and Riku continued to bring down the heartless ships one by one. All was looking good until…
"What's that?" Riku said as he looked at the portal that seemed to open up.
"Brace yourselves!!" Sora yelled as hundreds of small Heartless ships appeared firing missiles, lasers and cannons at the small gummi ships and at the Excalibur.
"Sora, Riku get back here now!!" Mickey yelled worried for the two young ones as they were severely outnumbered.
The two of them quickly turned the ships around while the Excalibur fired at the now thousands of Heartless ships. Sora and Riku kept dodging the numerous attacks from the ships but got hit several times before flying back into the hangar. After they were gone the Heartless started to concentrate their fire on the Excalibur.
"Shields are down by 25 percent and falling!" Donald yelled, his face alight with the glow of the readout.
Mickey glared at the ships before one of the other pilots spoke.
"Your Majesty! The scanners are picking up a strong energy reading!"
Mickey went to ask but was quickly cut off by a blinding laser beam that was fired at the Heartless ships. Everyone looked away, the light of the laser was enough to blind anyone and the sound from the laser cannon was loud and it seemed to consume the entire fleet of enemy ships.
After a few seconds, everyone looked to see no sign of the Heartless ships, Donald and several other pilots checked the long range scanners but found nothing. No sign of the enemy or the source of the large laser blast.
"What just happened?" Kairi asked looking at the empty void where the ships once were.
"...they're gone." Goofy said staring in awe at the spectacle.
Sora and Riku appeared on the bridge before being they received a hug from Kairi and the others.
"What was that?" Sora asked, he and Riku saw the laser from one of the windows in the corridor.
"I don't know, but whoever they are, friend or foe, they saved us. But why?" Mickey said as he looked back at the empty space that was once filled with the enemy ships.
"I say we get out here before they decide to attack us." Tseng said as he and the rest of the Turks and Max appeared.
"I agree with them, let's go!" Riku said.
As everyone went to prep the ship for launch Kairi looked at the two of them.
"You two okay?" She asked with worry.
"Yeah, we're okay." Sora said flashing a friendly smirk at her, which she returned with another one.
"Although I had to save his butt from being destroyed!" Riku said as walked towards a spare seat.
"Hey! It was me who saved you!" Sora ran after Riku while Kairi giggled at the two, they never changed at all.
Mickey sat back in the captain's seat with a worried look, the laser beam sounded faintly familiar; he thought he remembered a similar sound 15 years ago. He shrugged it off for now and would think upon it later.
Meanwhile in a deeper part of space...
"All Heartless ships eliminated my lord!" Orion stood at the bridge of the Zodiark Mk2 with a grin, his helmet hiding it from sight.
Hmm, it certainly has been improved...
The entire Zodiark had been modified. It was always considered a nightmare, but now it had become so much worse. It had nearly doubled in size; it was longer and slightly wider as well. It had even more armour on so it was harder to penetrate; the shielding on it was now the latest in technology and could withstand several blasts from Alexander now. But the most notable feature now was the Banishing Ray, its original power levels had been tripled, resulting in it being the second most powerful weapon in the universe.
Enjoy the peace while you can Princess, for soon there will be nowhere for you to hide!
"What now sir?" One of the pilots asked Orion.
Orion thought briefly for a moment before coming to a decision, if the Princess could learn how to control her powers, it would make things rather difficult for Orion. He knew he would need help.
"...Inform the other members of the Mirzam!" The pilot's eyes widened before nodding and sending a signal out.
While I would prefer not to bother them, there is little option. Besides, they won't be able to refuse an order from the king himself!
Orion chuckled lightly at the thought of seeing the Princesses 'bodyguards' fall before him and the other members of the Mirzam. There was a reason why they were the most feared group of elite warriors in the universe.
T: There you are, and I am sure you're wondering, who are the Mirzam? Well I am not telling you. You'll just have to wait and see! Till next time!