Disclaimer: Kingdom Hearts and everything else belongs to Walt Disney and Square-Enix.
The OCs and their alter-ego that appear in this story belong to their respective authors. More information about them are found in the "Original Characters' Intro" chapter.
::KINGDOM HEARTS III Online HD::
-Keyblade Riders-
Part 3
-Midlight City Police Bureau-
Short and messy brown-haired Noah Tsubasa was staring speechlessly at his boss, the Chief of Police, at Midlight City Police Bureau. An hour and a half it has been since news of the Keybearers reached the city.
"You want me to carry on the investigation?" Noah said to his boss.
"It's obvious, right?" the chief said, "With these hooligans' teenagers attending the same school as your daughter and son, I feel compel that you should see to it."
"But sir… my daughter and son aren't in that school anymore, since the incident…" Noah said, "…and to be honest, don't you think that's wise? I—!"
"Now what is the problem?" the chief of police asked.
"It's just that…" Noah hesitated, "I don't want this thing to be a problem with Kami." He said, "She's suffered enough in her life, with the divorce and her brother's condition…"
"She'll be fine." The chief of police said, "It's you I'm worried about, making up excuses. You should forget about all of that, and do this investigation. It'll get your mind off things."
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Moments later after meeting with the boss, Noah took the elevator up to the rooftop of the Bureau's building. From there he crossed the roof to reach a door. He opened the door, went down the stairs to an empty sub-basement.
"You're late."
Noah saw who it was in that sub-basement. It was Lightning, the female citizen from Cocoon and a senior at Midlight City High. Her arms were crossed, her eyes were closed, and she was leaning against the cold basement wall.
"Chief had me lectured about my life priorities." Noah said, "What's up with school?"
"You tell me!" Noah heard a cheerful voice. He saw that it was Tidus and Zidane from Midlight City High also.
"The school's going nuts!" Zidane announced, "They're thinking that Rian and the guys are up to something, helping out some criminal faces to put terror in Midlight City and the nation. Can you believe that?"
"I don't." Noah sternly said before facing the bland wall and placed his palm on it. The wall emitted a bright glow: Access Granted! A computerized voice said through the wall and the wall split apart, shifting open to reveal before them a secret International spy base with a hundreds of people at their computers, cramming in all kinds of computer programming, and at the center of all was a large screen shown in full HD glory, displaying many other screens. Each screen was recording almost all the settings in Midlight City, including the teens at the Skyscraper, and Terra, Donald and Goofy also.
"I don't believe Kami would join terrorists." Noah went on, "She's too smart to go down that lunatic spiral." He then faced the Final Fantasy Characters, "I have a feeling this has to do with the game's criminal players the PKers. Call me crazy, but it is true. I've been seeing things. First with my son and now this?"
"Is that why you joined the PKK Secret Service?" Tidus asked Noah.
"We preferred calling it the Security." Lightning corrected Tidus before heading toward the large HD screen.
"They are criminals out there, using the game to get teenagers to do such unspeakable things." Noah hypothesized, "Some will even kill innocent players. Technology is evolving everyday and I won't allow that power to get abused in any way." Noah said, clenching his fists, "And if I do find the criminal who put my son in this coma, I swear I'll make him pay so much, he'll end up using his life as payment to the next one!"
"Uh… yeah. Back to reality here." Lightning said to Noah, "I happen to have something… interesting to share to you."
Lightning handed over Noah a large envelope, "What's this?" Noah asked.
"Why don't you open it and find out."
Noah opened the envelope and saw pictures of the teens in their Keybearers' forms fighting monsters and the Dominion at the Homecoming Ball. They're the same pictures Milene took and gave to the US Secret Service.
"I caught Milene running out of the classroom when I stopped her." Lightning said, "She said she was the real reason behind all this fiasco, saying that she wanted to expose Sierra and only Sierra. Humiliating her for insulting her 'image'."
Tidus and Zidane scoffed and rolled their eyes, "That Milene is always up to no good."
Noah examined the pictures, "Impressive…" he gasped, "so this is… all real?"
"Orchestra, come take a look at this!" an executive of the Secret Service called out to Noah by his codename.
"Found anything, Rhapsody?" Noah rushed toward the exec, calling him out by his codename also.
"We've identified another presence in Midlight City." Rhapsody said, "And you won't believe it."
-Midlight City Highways-
A Keyblade Portal flashed in the middle of the city's busiest highways, and a large truck that was right near it swerved just to avoid it, only to get all other cars in panic state and colliding. The portal shot out Thunder, on his Keyblade Motorbike, riding as fast as he can to reach his destination.
But Thunder was riding on the wrong lane, the wrong way, and he was going faster than the speed limit, swerving lanes and dodging honking vehicles that were coming toward him.
Thunder entered the right way finally, but he kept on riding over the speed limit. Before he knew it, police cars were chasing him.
"Stop that motorbike! Now!" they started yelling, pulled out their guns and started firing at Thunder. Thunder swerved and dodged bullets.
-The Security, PKK Secret Service-
The Security team was watching the scene back at the base.
"Whoa…" Noah breathed in awe.
"No way! That's Rian!" Tidus called him, unaware of who he really was.
"So this is the famous Rian Rivers? The bad boy of the school?" Noah said, shaking his head in disbelief on what he was seeing, "Why am I not surprised? That he's in a high-speed chase with the police shooting at him."
"Grim Reaper sighting, Orchestra!!" another programming executive called out to Noah as a warning signal. And Noah knew what that means.
"Dangit. Kami's here already?" He said as he hurriedly slipped on a Bluetooth communication headset over his left ear and pressed a button. There was a low rumbling and the podium at the center of the large HD screen shifted away to reveal a set of stairs that led to a lower room.
"Head back to your office, Noah. We'll deal with her." Lightning said to Noah and Noah rushed to his secret location. The podium began shifting back to closing.
"You know, man! You might wanna tell her your secret sooner or later!" Tidus yelled to Noah, "Don't hide stuffs from her you know?"
Kami made her appearance "Stuff from what?" she spoke quietly, spooking Tidus, "AaAH!" he screamed, "Sheesh! Don't DO that!"
"We were trying to hide this from you." Lightning pointed the screen for Kami to see Thunder on the high speed chase. "…but since you're here and we can't hide it from you anymore."
"That's…" Kami gasped, "I thought he got…?"
"PKed?" Zidane finished, "Yeah, no. Apparently he's out for vengeance."
-Midlight City Highways-
Thunder kept looking back at the pursuing police cars who kept on shooting at him, and then looked forward the road. He kept sweeping and swerved all bullets, dodging them with ease.
"Sigh… I don't have time to play with you, guys." He muttered before revving up his motorbike, going up full-speed, and took off into the air. A portal opened up through the clouds and vanished into it at speed of light, literally stopping traffic and stunning the pursuing police officers. All drivers got out of their vehicles with their jaws hanging to watch the large portal closing.
"We have IDed the suspect! I repeat… we have IDed the suspect! He's working for those aliens!" shouted an officer to his radio after seeing Thunder disappear, "Get the FBI and put an APB on him! NOW!"
-Midlight City Skyscraper-
Both Terra and Hawk appeared exhausted and battered up following their intense battle. Terra's Earthy Twin US agent managed to stand on his feet and wipe the blood that was showing from his cut lips.
"There's something different about you, alien clone." Hawk called Terra, "Something weird… something…" he paused uncomfortably, "…evil in your heart. What are you exactly?"
"Whatever you just called me is what I am…" Terra was out of breath, but his fighting spirit was still raging. He raised his Keyblade and said, "…but keep going down that road and you'll be no more than a puppet of darkness." He dashed toward Hawk with a battle cry, ready to attack Hawk again. Hawk readied for the attack.
But Terra suddenly stopped. He looked around as if something had caught his attention. His Keyblade vanish to Hawk's surprise, and Donald and Goofy's.
"Something's coming." Terra informed.
The battle barrier finally vanished and Donald and Goofy ran to Terra, "Terra, what's wrong?" Goofy asked.
"What are you staring at, alien?" Hawk shouted, trying to get Terra's attention. But Terra was too distracted to listen. The look on his face could tell that a big surprise was coming this way.
"I don't believe this." Terra whispered, "He's… here?"
"Hey, what's going on?" said Agent Bird, Ventus' Earthy Twin, coming to the scene. But everyone was silent.
Terra sensed the power… it was closing in… it was near… too near… he looked out the window and shouted, "LOOK OUT!"
Terra turned away from the window and so did everyone. Terra raised his Keyblade, casting Vanishga on everyone and right on cue, Thunder crashed through the window on his Keyblade Motorbike, making a smashing entrance. He zoomed right past the gang at the speed of light, ripping off all walls structures and vanished again.
Terra's Vanishga spell faded.
"Was that…?" Donald gasped.
"…Rian?" Goofy gasped.
Donald fainted. That near-death experience has completely overpowered his mental state.
"Thunder." Terra clarified, "Come on!"
He dashed in pursuit. Goofy followed. Then the stunned Hawk and Bird followed behind after taking the time to relive their near-death experiences also. But then after a few seconds, they come back to pick up the unconscious Donald.
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1:08… 1:07… 1:06…
"You're all gonna die! Darkness will swallow you whole! And there's NOTHING you can do about it!" Blackheart Aros replied maniacally at his hostages.
The nine heroes—Sierra, Pierre, Taylor, Violet, Matt, Axel, Jean-Michel, Denzel, and Trayne—watched helplessly the Dark bomb ticking, with no way to break free from the dark magic bounding them to their chairs at their Fancy Executive Boardroom-like prison.
Aros stopped laughing. Something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong.
"Something's coming…" he muttered, sensing a presence coming from a distance, "I can sense it."
Aros watched the wall, as if anticipating some surprise coming from that wall. Then right on cue, the wall exploded, blasting Aros to another wall, causing a big crack, severely wounding him and overwhelming the entire board office with debris, smokes and revving sounds that sounded very much like a motorbike.
The smoke was clearing up as the Motorbike morphed back to Keyblade form to everyone's surprise, and the Keyblade suddenly vanished. Johnny Thunder has made his heroic entrance!
He stood there on the Executive table, appearing all heroic. The teens' stared at him in awe, like they were dreaming.
"Rian!" Sierra called him, having no idea who he really was.
"You… you're alive!" Axel exclaimed before facing the readers, "He's alive!"
"Dude, stop that. Creepy." Thunder said to Axel, shaking his head.
He then jumped off the table, turned his attention to Matt with a serious look on his face, pointing, "And you and I have some unfinished business." He said to him, but Matt appeared confused.
"YOU!" Aros's scream surprised Thunder. "What are you doing here? ALIIIVE?!! GRAWWL!!" Aros dashed toward Thunder, screaming bloody-murder with his Dark Keyblade at his grasp and took a swing across. Thunder ducked the attack and quickly jabbed Aros in the gut, then followed with an uppercut, and finished with a spin hook kick in the face, sending Aros flying to the wall again, causing a much bigger crack.
Thunder jumped onto the executive table and summoned his Keyblade. The teens quickly noticed the Keyblade. It looked like Rian's but it wasn't. It wasn't Rian's Keyblade! Thunder quickly noticed his mistake and vanish it, right on cue for Aros to recover from his fall.
"GRAAAWL!" Aros growled, took a leap toward Thunder, summoning dual Keyblades. He delivered his weapons on Thunder who blocked them with just his left arm. Thunder pushed away the Keyblades and grabbed Aros by the neck. He slammed him on the Executive table, literally shattering it to pieces.
Thunder then back-flipped and took a stance as a blue aura enveloped his hands, charging his Blast move. Aros quickly stood up and Thunder unleashed his fully-charged Blast attack at him in a mighty blow, but Aros just stood there, immobile, like the blast had breezed right through him!
"What?" Thunder was stunned.
"Cuckoo." Aros had teleported behind Thunder, startling him. Thunder quickly turned around to get surprised by two consecutive headbutts and low knee attacks on the stomach. Aros then twirled Thunder in place and threw a strong back fist, sending him to the cracked wall, completely demolishing it.
0:35… 0:34… 0:33…
Thunder slowly recovered and saw Aros dashing toward him, screaming bloodily again, "GRAAAAAAAAAAWWWWL!!!"
Thunder was only halfway on his feet when Aros tackled him, pushing Thunder through piles of walls until they vanished from the teens' eyes.
"Since when do Rian knows Martial Arts?!" Taylor asked.
0:25… 0:24… 0:23…
"COME ON!" Axel shouted, before breaking off the dark magic binding him, freeing him once again.
"Since when do you know how to do that?!" Taylor then asked Axel.
"Do we have TIME for questions?" Axel screamed, before pointing at the Dark Bomb ticking on the ceiling,
0:16… 0:15…
"WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!"
"BUT HOW?" Violet shouted as the teens struggled on their chairs, trying to break free off the dark magic binding them, but nothing.
Axel summoned his Keyblade and raised it up, shattering the dark magicked bracelets like a spell, freeing the teens.
"Phew. Thanks!" Trayne said with a smile.
"NOW BEAT IT!" Axel exclaimed. The teens ran through the series of cracked walls that Aros caused when fighting Thunder.
Axel stopped Matt from proceeding, "Not you. You ain't coming with us."
"What?" Matt shouted, "You're willing to let me get killed by—?"
"Find another way out!" Axel shouted before taking off with the others. But Matt felt trapped. The exit door was blocked by the Blackheart's barrier and Agent Eagle was still out cold… one way out before the explosion was through the widescreen sky window.
0:02…
0:01…
0:00
-Midlight City-
The skyscraper took an explosion of darkness, catching city's onlookers' attention. They watched Aros and Thunder crashing out of the building on cue; Aros on top of his adversary. Aros summoned his Keyblades and readied to stab Thunder, but Thunder knocked him off him. Aros landed on his feet, breaking his fall. Thunder quickly got up.
Aros then powered-up an aura of darkness twice as large as Terra's, and changed to his Style Mode—Dark Impulse.
"What…" Thunder gasped.
He then dashed toward Thunder again, delivering a flurry of Keyblade blows and flashes of darkness. Thunder kept blocking each one of them, but to Thunder's surprise, Aros summoned thousand more dark Keyblades from out of the blue and swung at them telepathically at Thunder, delivering more flashes of darkness. Thunder with slim chance to counterattack, kept blocking Aros' Dual Keyblade swings and fending off the flying ones. The battle felt like a high-octane DBZ-match, and Thunder was losing.
The teens have reached outside the building, joining the city onlookers to watch the battle unfold. They have survived the darkness explosion; but Matt was not with them.
"He's not even fighting with his Keyblade!" Pierre pointed out.
"And he's losing!" Sierra said, before crying out to Thunder, "Rian! Use your Keyblade!"
"But he can't do that!" Axel shouted in reply, pointing out to the crowd, "They are people here! And worse, what if the Blackheart locks his Keyblade Powers with Keyblade Magic and he can't use them?!"
Aros who kept on attacking Thunder, shouted to Axel, "Thanks for the tip!" and with a thrust of his palm, grabbed Thunder tightly by the chest. A flash of light shot out in multiple beam forms from Thunder's heart. Thunder cried out loud in pain, losing his defense. Aros released the defenseless Thunder and seized his chance to deliver four consecutive slashes on Thunder and a final upward swipe that sent Thunder flying distance to the street ground in a massive crash. Thunder, severely wounded, tried to get up.
"Rian! No!" the teens screamed for their friend. Aros was right in front of Thunder, Keyblade gripped firmly in hand like a cold-blooded killer with a chainsaw ready to kill his cornered victim.
Aros held him at Keyblade point, "Phantamis didn't finish the job. I'll FINISH it for him!" Aros furiously said before raising his Keyblade up to stab the helpless Keyblade Rider. But then out of the blue, Kami's Kurasigama wrapped around Aros's Keyblade and pulled it off his grasp.
"HEY!" Aros yelled out before a small burst of air sent Aros flying, away from Thunder. Aros quickly recovered midair and saw who attacked him. All eyes turned on Kami and Matt. Kami's Kurasigama morphed back to her Keyblade and Matt made his Keyblade vanish. Matt was carrying with him the unconscious Eagle.
"We won't let you get away with this, Aros." Matt threatened. "Leave the Keybearer alone."
At that same moment, police cars, the FBI, more Secret Service agents, and even paparazzi and news crew came to invade the scene, surrounding the heroes and the villain.
"Paparazzi." Denzel noticed the crew before facing Jean-Michel, "Looks like they came for you." Jean-Michel shook his head.
"SAYS WHO?!" Aros barked at Matt, "The guy who betrayed his friends?"
"If I had truly betrayed my friends, would I be here right now?" Matt asked.
"Way to go, friends, for leaving Matt behind while you escaped." Kami coldly said to the teens, locking eye especially on Axel.
"Girl, can't you see he betrayed us all?" Axel said, trying to reason.
"I did not betray you!" Matt exclaimed, "That was a long time ago! And I never thought the Blackhearts were evil before I knew their intention! Seriously, if I were evil, would I be fighting for justice with you guys?"
"So you are claiming to fight for justice?" a reporter said and all the reporters and paparazzi started clamoring, demanding more questions.
"BEEE-GONNNE!!" Aros unleashed more darkness from his Dark Impulse and slammed a fist on the ground, releasing a shield of darkness that blew away everyone down, knocking them out cold. Aros faced the knocked down Keybearers and approached them.
"Doesn't matter which side you thought you were on, Cross." Aros said, facing Matt, "All I know, is that the Dominion has no more uses of you." He then faced the rest of the Keybearers, "You may all have escaped the Dark Bomb, but…"
Aros powered up his Dark Impulse some more. He then transformed his Keyblade into a massive cannon. Dark energy started to build into the cannon, as he leapt into the sky and aimed directly at the block where everyone was.
"…let's see if you can ALL escape the Dark Mass Destruction!" he roared. The cannon build more and more energy and the heroes watched helplessly with nowhere to run.
Aros fired his cannon. A dark massive energy ball was heading straight for the ground.
"REFLECT BLITZ!" Terra shouted as he came in front of everyone, Keyblade on hand. He raised it up to summon a massive shield, sending the Dark ball right back to Aros. A powerful explosion took out Aros, rendering the air.
Donald, Goofy, and Agents Hawk and Bird came to the scene at the same time to watch the explosion unfolding. Everyone in the square looked on as well. Aros who got hit by the impact, crashed to the ground, no longer in his Dark Impulse Mode.
"Are you all okay?" Terra asked the Keybearers.
"Terra, you saved us." Taylor said to the Keyblade Knight.
"Yeah, when we were supposed to save you, guys." Axel remarked.
"We are heroes." Donald said haughtily.
"And we bought help with us too." Goofy said, pointing to the sky. Everyone looked up, even Aros who was recovering. They saw a group of black helicopters surrounding the area, with the symbol PKK on their sides. Inside one of those copters were Lightning, Zidane, Tidus, and Noah, watching from the sky. They saw everyone, but everyone didn't see them.
"What madness is this?!" Aros shouted, "More of those repugnant mortals?!"
"Blackheart Aros of the Twilight!" Noah shouted through the PA system, "You are hereby under arrest by order of The Security for your criminal actions against the city, its people, and those involved in Kingdom Hearts III Online HD game! Including the Player Murder of Tenshu Tsubasa!!! There is no way to run!"
Everyone looked on in shock. They couldn't believe all of this stuff they were hearing. The heroes looked on as well.
"Father…" Kami whispered, almost surprised to hear Noah's voice in the PA system. All the teens turned to her attention when she said that.
"Father?" Axel said.
"Your dad works for the Security?" Denzel asked.
Kami didn't respond. She looked on to the sky, fists clenched and in an angry state.
Yo, guys! It's Axel! Guess what's gonna happen next time on KHIII Online HD - Keyblade Riders
Aros has been surrounded, and he's done for now! But what's the deal with Kami and the Security? Does her father actually work for them? Bah, who cares? Just turn on the heat when she's angry, cuz that's hot!
And Lightning, Tidus, and Zidane will join us for this ultimate battle! This is it, man! No way to escape for the Blackheart, cuz he's going down!
On the Next upcoming Chapters of KH3 Online HD
(scenes subject to change in the episodes)
"We're gonna have fun with these dimwits." Aros smiled before shooting from his hands multiple dark balls at surrounding helicopters. The helicopters retaliated by shooting out multiple missiles.
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"Anyone has a problem with my plan now?" Alistare asked his comrades, who all obediently shook their heads, "Good."
Next Chapter:: Keyblade Riders (pt.4)-