Funny, I realized that the review thing was set up so that only logged in authors could review. I fixed it so that anyone can review now. Well, here's Chapter Two. This should get the story started, but it will still be a chapter or two before I get to the Kingdom Hearts plot, but you do get to meet all the Tsviets this chapter. Oh, and I don't own any of this. I forgot to say that last chapter, but it should be obvious. None of the writers own any of the series featured here.

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After making several batches of cookies but only eating a few (Kimihiro, insisted saying Sora would get a stomachache and ruin his appetite.), the two went down the Weiss's 'weird throne room place,' as most Tsviets called it, for evening training. The majority of DEEPGROUND members are not able to train all the time. The ones who could were mostly new and had to get used to the training. Unfortunately for them, this meant dealing with Seren the Silver. If they weren't training, they could also be found in mako tubes. Only Tsviets did not require this on a regular basis. They're that much stronger. Still, Weiss does want them to train so they don't get rusty so every day they met in his room to spar. The only reason a Tsviet would not be present would be because they were either badly ill or badly injured. Because of the modifications they all had received, this was very rare.

"Right anyone got anything to say before we start evening training?" said Weiss.

Chris raised her hand. Seren gave her a glare. Seren was a training freak and was upset by anything that interrupted it. At Weiss's nod, Chris began to speak. "Kimihiro has come down with a degenerative disease. It is not degradation or any other known disease. Unless a way is found to treat it, he will die."

Weiss's brow furrowed. That sounded oddly similar to his previous situation, but it must be different if Sora's blood wouldn't work. "I see. How long?"

"It is very slow. The minimum he will be able to live with this should be 10 years unless an outside source interferes."

Weiss nodded. "Then I do not think this is an immediate problem. Is there anyone else?"

Nero spoke up. "Darkness is approaching."

That got everyone's attention. Usually Nero observed and made comments. If he had something to say, he would only say it to Weiss.

Zoro was the only one who seemed unimpressed. "Hmph, he talks."

Weiss rolled his eyes at the green-haired swordsman before focusing on Nero. "Could you elaborate?"

"I am able to harness the darkness for my own use, but I cannot control it. For some reason, it is starting to encroach on the planet."

Kyo raised an eyebrow. "You messed up?"

"No, I use only the darkness already present in this world. There is an abundance of it. For some reason, an outside source of darkness is encroaching onto the planet."

Kimihiro frowned. "It must be from some other world. Or worlds."

Nero turned towards the bespectacled Tsviet. "And you are the expert. It sounds familiar?"

Kimihiro nodded. It was well-known that he claimed to be from another world. It was much less well-known that evidence had been found that backed him up. "Something that Yuuko once told me about."

"What?" asked Nero.

"A Keyblade master tried to control the darkness. He introduced it to many worlds, and they were all destroyed. She never explained what a Keyblade is."

"So all life on the planet will be destroyed?" asked Rosso.

"Except for people with strong hearts. They just get flung to other worlds."

"Wonderful!" Most of the people there sweatdropped. They really didn't understand why Rosso would want to wipe out all life on Gaia.

"If it is possible to survive, I may be able to take us to a new world when this one is destroyed," mused Nero.

Ash grinned. "Cool. Sounds like it could be fun."

"Make sure you can do this before this happens," said Weiss, "And warn us before it's about to happen. Nero nodded. "If that is all, we shall start the training."

"Finally!" shouted Seren.

Training for the Tsviets was very simple. Fight whoever you come across, and Chris will fix you up later. Sora had been hanging around Kimihiro, but he was starting to fight on his own, although he was avoiding certain people, like Rosso. He had a couple of knives. They were small and easy for him to use. We won't go into detail about how training goes. Just know that multiple Curas were required afterwards.

A few weeks later:

Azul was walking down a hall on the way to the weaponry. He needed to clean his tank gun. Then Nero appeared in front of him. "Could you help me?"

"What with?"

"That darkness will arrive very soon. Seren is training the troops. Help me get her to the training room. Not even the end of the world will make her stop training."

This was not an understatement. She refused to stop a training session when there was a nasty accident that caused several soldier deaths. No one doubted she'd refuse to stop one now.

"Let me drop my gun off in the throne room."

One quick stop later, they found Seren angry and yelling at the troops. Seems they messed up her training exercise.

"That's not how you do it!" shouted Seren. "You pivot while swinging the sword upwards!"

It hadn't occurred to her that they were used to guns. Then she was grabbed from behind by Azul. This probably would not work most of the time, but Seren was actually a little less than 5 feet tall and small while Azul was over 9 feet tall and very large.

"Wha-Hey! Azul? ! Put me down!" Since she couldn't use her arms or sword, she tried kicking him. Too bad he barely felt it.

Azul turned towards Nero. "Got her."

Nero warped them to the training room where everyone else was. Weiss smiled. "Oh, good, you got Seren. I can do the roll call now." Weiss is very smart and strong, but sometimes he can be a little weird. Nero claims he was kind of like that before joining. "I'm here. Nero's here. Seren's here."

Seren had silver hair in a braid and silver eyes. She was dressed like a male foot soldier, but with no helmet and no sleeves, just gloves. She also had a broadsword about as tall as her slung over her back. "Put me down! I was in the middle of something!"

"Azul's here. Zoro's here."

Zoro had green hair, green eyes, and three gold earrings in his left ear. He wore a tight gray shirt and gray pants with a pattern of blue glowing lines over them, and he had a sash with glowing blue lines going vertically across it in equal increments. He had three katanas stuck in it.

"Elric's here."

Elric looked 10. Elric was actually his surname. His first name was Edward. He had yellow hair going to mid-back and yellow eyes, glowing green marks were on the right side of his face, his left shoulder and upper arm, and his right leg. His right arm and left leg were clawed prosthetics gilded with brass. He had shorts, a wife-beater, and a glove on his left arm, and a boot on his right foot, all with glowing blue lines.

"Rosso's here. Chris's here."

This was punctuated by an explosion. Chris looked more around the age of 13. Her eyes were blue-green, and her hair was in a very curly ponytail and couldn't decide whether it wanted to be brown or blonde. She was wearing a sleeveless tight shirt and fairly tight pants, both with the familiar glowing blue lines. She also had metal gloves up to her elbows. Thing is, she is one of the two women Rosso has an odd obsession with, and she's the preferred one. This results in nasty explosions due to Rosso getting far too close for Chris's comfort.

"Ash is here."

Ash was a smiling young man with messy black hair and amber eyes. He wore an open trench coat over a slightly modified DEEPGROUND soldier uniform.

"Kyo is here."

Kyo was a teenager with orange hair and brown eyes. His outfit consisted of baggy pants and a tight shirt with a zipper worked into one of the lines on it.

"Zakuro's here."

Zakuro had violet hair and eyes. She had hot pants with a length of purple cloth hanging off the left side (only to mid-thigh), a tube top with a purple cloth around her right shoulder, and knee high boots, all except the purple cloths having the glowing lines.

"Kimihiro's here."

Kimihiro had neat black hair, his right eye was green, his left eye was blue, he was pale even for DEEPGROUND, his uniform also looked like a regular DEEPGROUND soldier uniform, except more lines crossed over the torso and he had metal guards over his shins. He was also the only person in DEEPGROUND who wore glasses.

"And Sora's here."

Sora had spiky brown hair and bright blue eyes. You couldn't tell because of the mako glow, but his pupils were shaped like spirals. Nobody knows why. His clothing consisted of a tight gray shirt with two blue lines going up the front and across the sleeves, a sleeveless jacket with several long pockets on the front separated by blue lines and a blue spiral on the back, gray fingerless gloves with lines coming up from between the fingers, slightly baggy pants with pockets going down the outside of the legs with lines on either side of the pockets, and what looked like gray hiking boots with a line going down the back and one going horizontally over his toes.

"Right, we're all here," said Weiss.

"What about everyone else?" asked Sora.

"They are not strong enough to survive in my darkness for as long as required," replied Nero

"Oh..."

Ash shrugged. "They were gonna die eventually. Those guys are usually just cannon fodder anyway."

Sora gave him a gob-smacked look. Kimihiro palmed his forehead. Well, at least he hadn't had to find out on the battlefield.

"When will we know that it is here?" asked Zakuro.

"It will manifest in some way. Also, Kimihiro may be able to detect its presence," said Nero.

"If I do pick anything up, I'll say so."

"Does that mean that we just sit here and do nothing until then?" asked Elric.

Nero nodded.

"Then let me go! I wanna finish that training exercise!" shouted Seren.

Zoro snorted. "Why bother? They'll be dead in a couple of hours."

"Oh don't bother," said Rosso, "Everyone knows you can't reason with her when she's like this."

This was true, so Azul just kept restraining her. After a little while, something odd happened. A little black thing popped out of a shadow. It was vaguely human-shaped with little antennae and glowing eyes. Kimihiro looked at it. "That's definitely not normal."

"Hey, Nero, is this the manifestation you mentioned?" Kyo asked.

Nero narrowed his eyes. "Yes, I believe so."

Kyo grinned. "Looks like it's time for a fight then!"

Kimihiro suddenly whipped around towards some of the shadows in the corner of the room. "Hey! There's more!"

And with that, a whole lot of little shadows popped up. It was quickly discovered that they weren't that strong, but they had an advantage in numbers. Sora just started slashing and stabbing him with his knives. He couldn't help but notice that it seemed to be taking him more hits than the others.

"Don't worry about it," said Kimihiro, "You're smaller and not as experienced so it's only natural."

Sora wondered if he was ever gonna get used to Kimihiro's telepathy. He glanced over at said Tsviet. Kimihiro was avoiding attacks while lashing out with his telekinesis, spells, and the odd fox thing (kuda-something or other), dubbed Mugetsu he always carried around on his person. All the Tsviets had some pretty unique attack methods, and all the weapons were designed and made by Seren with a little help from Elric in making them. Off to the side Elric was impaling a couple of shadows on his lance, and Chris was beating them upside the head with her bo staff.

"Hey Kyo! Wanna see who can kill more of these?" shouted Zakura.

"Bring it on!" was his reply.

Zakuro used a whip with a base that somewhat resembled a cross. Kyo just used his claws and martial arts. They had a violent rivalry going on.

Zoro rolled his eyes. "You two...Always making everything a competition."

Zoro was obviously using his three swords. Why else would he carry them around?

A blue ball of energy hit a shadow sneaking up on Sora. It could be traced back to Ash, who had one hand outstretched and another holding an odd looking rifle. "Watch your back!" Then he turned intangible as one jumped at him. Then he turned invisible so as to confuse them. This worked very well against most opponents.

Kimihiro suddenly frowned. "Hm? Is something about to happen?" The room promptly started shaking.

"What is this? !" shouted Azul.

"It has started! We must leave now!" shouted Nero. He ripped his arms out of their bindings. This caught everyone by surprise. They hadn't even been aware that he could do that. He spread his arms out and a cloud of darkness surrounded them all. Several of the shadows were still there, but were quickly destroyed. A few seconds after that was taken care of, the cloud disappeared and they found themselves somewhere else. It was sunny. It was outside. They could hear waves somewhere nearby. The people were staring at them...Seems Nero made a small mistake when teleporting them.

Now for more notes.

And now the Tsviets are in Destiny Islands! This is why Shelke is not here. In DoC, Azul stated that Shelke needed mako treatments, unlike the other Tsviets. I assumed this meant she needed mako on a regular basis to survive, but the other Tsviets would be fine even if they never had mako again. Since they're gonna be in another world, they can't get mako so Shelke wouldn't last long. As for the other Tsviets, I haven't revealed all their abilities yet. I'm keeping some of them secret for later. Keep that in mind. Also, I apologize if anyone finds Rosso offensive. I got the idea from something Yuffie said in another fic I read once. Yuffie can plant some weird ideas in your head! One final note, Sora's jacket is based off a chuunin vest. That's all for now! Please leave a review for me!