Hey look, it's Chapter 15! Let's add on extra crap to the arcade and screw with the dynamics some more! :D

Also, I'm finally done brain storming for the sequels to this story, which means less obsessing over Flavor Spectrum and more obsessing over Action Replay. Rejoice.

Disclaimer: I don't own Sugar Rush (Disney), Sonic the Fighters (SEGA; did you know it was called Sonic Championship in the US? I've been using the version I grew up with which was the wrong one...oops), DJ Hero 2 (Activision), and neither Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time nor Kingdom Hearts (Nintendo and Square Enix with credit to Disney Inertactive).

Honey's POV

Honey relaxed into the bench, stretching aching legs into the air. The arcade had been filled with kids on summer break, all ready to fight over who got to pulverize Dr. Robotnik and bring business to her beloved console. And it felt so good to forget Codebuster drama for just a minute and actually hang out with her coworkers outside of questionable game environments.

Choko's hair was down from her immaculate bun, sheets of red-pink hair swishing as the excitable girl babbled about the latest gossip from Sugar Rush. Granted, it was gossip about kids too young for the really juicy stuff like crushes and murder plots, but Honey was surprised to find out that shy Bubblebetty kid pushed Taffyta into a taffy swamp for calling her chubby. She didn't know the girl had it in her.

And Skrillex was playing away on his laptop, looking too happy for a guy whose job was to make glorious music that could blow out speakers. He was still clued into Choko's tales, sagely advising the candy brat to send persipan to Marzipanne in apology for accidentally eating fruit from her hat. Honey idly wondered what fruit made of sugar tasted like—did it taste like orange candy or just candy?—before flipping his side cut for the principle of the action.

Avoiding a retaliation punch, she watched the crowds mill around GCS; Leia was arm in arm with Princess Peach from Mario Kart and giggling about girly things, M. Sonic and his Tails were running into Burger Time to probably eat their weight in chili dogs, and some weird kid in oversized shoes was looking pretty lost in the sea of game characters. Feeling bad for him, Honey motioned Choko to pause her tale about Rancis getting his head stuck in a dishwasher and walked over to the kid. "Looking for a certain game?"

"My friends and I are actually looking for people." He hefted the giant key he pulled out of hammerspace onto his shoulder, spiky brown hair bouncing with the sudden weight. "Do you know who the Codebsuters are?"

Honey pulled out her Action Replay, grinning as the kid's bright blue eyes went wide. "You're talking to one of them. Something wrong with your game?"

He nodded and pulled her into the crowd. Choko and Skrillex, probably wondering why some random stranger was stealing their friend, got their stuff together and followed Honey into the heart of GCS. There two blonde haired...elves of some sort, one a princess in pink and the other an incredibly hot warrior in green, stood nervously. Spiky haired kid ran up to them and grinned as Choko and Skrillex gasped. "I found the Codebsuters!"

"But they're—"

"How did—"

"Ah jeez, I'm sorry for being rude." Spiky haired kid grinned, pointing a thumb towards himself. "I'm Sora from Kingdom Hearts and these two are Princess Zelda and Link from Ocarina of Time. Our games have a slight problem, do you think you can help?"

Honey clapped her hands to change into her Codebuster uniform, smiling despite the sad knowledge that her down time was being taken over again. "The Codebsuters are here to help, no matter the game and game console."

After getting clearance from a very flustered Surge Protector, they left the power strip for the arcade games and headed into the electric wiring of Mr. Litwak's Family Fun Center. Reaching out to let strands of purple and gold twist around her fingers, Honey had to force her mind to stay focused on the task at hand. Noting how they turned away from the tunnels leading to the computer room, Sora led the Gummi Ship—and wasn't that a name begging to be used in Sugar Rush—further into electronic Narnia until they finally ended up in another game station.

Helping Choko and Skrillex out of the cramped ship, Honey's eyes grew wide as she saw a Sonic much like her own Sonic nap on one of the benches. Beyond him were Mario and Luigi racing Yoshis down the main way, Lara Croft and Samus entering a terminal called "Famicom", three different Star Foxes arguing in a corner...Honey leaned against the ship. "What room is this?"

"Mr. Litwak remodeled an old office to host console games for birthday parties." Zelda glided over to the arcade game characters, smiling kindly at their dumb expressions. "They were such a hit that now the room is open to everyone during business hours."

"It's a great idea if you ask me." Sora jumped out of the cockpit, waving his key around with his arm motions. "An arcade by itself with such awesome games is fine, an arcade with games and a computer room can keep it from going under, but an arcade with the whole spectrum of game consoles? That's perfect business."

Skrillex laughed, patting Sora on the back. "I like this kid. That's exactly what Toby Litwak said when he installed me into my own game." They walked down the power strip, Choko squealing and waving at racers from Sugar Rush 2000. "You can go swap stories with them after our job's done."

"And here we are." They stopped in front of two ports called "PS2" and "Nintendo 64". "Our home games are in those two; we managed to stop the problem from spilling out into the actual consoles, but we need your help." Zelda took Link's hand, easing his stern expression. "Rumors always spread down the power lines, even if we're so isolated from the rest of the rooms, and if the Codebusters could save an arcade game..."

Honey shared a glance with her friends, then nodded. "What exactly are we going up against?"

Skrillex's POV

"That."

That turned out to be heartless rampaging across the landscape of Hyrule, turning the normally lush landscape into a nightmare realm. Even Poes and Stalfos were running around screaming, trying not to get absorbed by the evil.

Honey started ranting about how enemy AI was the worst thing to have ever been created while Choko started interviewing the Poe Sisters about the carnage and spread of the heartless. Skrillex pulled out his headphones, noting how the soundtrack of the game was glitching and trying to access themes that didn't exist. "So how exactly did this happen?"

"We figure a curious heartless ran off and got lost in this game before multiplying." Zelda shuddered as Link saved them from being attacked by a giant glitching heartless, rubbing her arms. "We haven't heard from Young Link or Zelda since the infestation began, but hopefully if they're overwhelmed they won't be deleted."

"That makes sense." Choko pulled out a map from the pause screen and started marking the areas of devastation. "The Forest Temple and surrounding Lost Woods, Deku Tree and Kokiri Forest are covered in heartless; Beth-san says that she and her sisters barely got out in time, but their friend Saria-chan was dragged down into the darkness."

They all took a moment to mourn over a terrible death like that, and Choko swallowed, hands shaking slightly. "Because of the natural darkness from the Shadow Temple and the Kakariko Well, everything above this field has been taken over. Zelda-hime and Link-san were in Kingdom Hearts at the time of the great surge of heartless, but they're the only ones accounted."

Link held Zelda close as the Codebusters took in that detail, Sora sputtering about any other survivors. "The desert areas by Gerudo Valley were taken over but Beth-san says the Gerudo 泥棒女性 (dorobou josei) escaped into a Great Fairy's Fountain. We must assume that all dungeons and temples are compromised because of the natural darkness here..."

"Not entirely true." Beth floated forward, eyes narrow slits in the darkness. "From what I've been told, the heartless are repelled by a force within the Water Temple..."

Link and Skrillex groaned, the former dropping his head onto Zelda's shoulder. "That's great, the most evil place in all of Ocarina of Time is the safe zone." Sighing, Skrillex eyed the heartless swarms with pure hatred because how dare enemies from his favorite game make him go to such a notorious time-stealer? Nodding at Link, he pulled out his lightsaber, code flashing behind his eyes. "Choko, you're viciously protective; I need you and the Poes to keep Princess Zelda safe at a Fairy Fountain of some kind."

"Hai, Sonny-kun!" Choko turned her pocky chopsticks into pocky daggers, forming a protective moving barrier around the princess, who began to glow with power.

"Honey, you're the heavy-hitter; can you and Sora try and reclaim some of the land here?"

Honey grinned, wings popping out of her back as she took a cheering Sora and flew into the fray.

Skrillex turned to Link, and held out a hand. "That leaves us to go and figure out why the Water Temple is so anti-heartless. Ready to save the day again?"

Link grabbed onto his hand. "Hya!"

"Ok guys, just keep your Action Replays at hand in case I need to call you bastards." Skrfillex fiddled with his glowing blue cartridge with his left hand as he punched a heartless with his right. "Let me just...ok, they now function as walkie talkies. Gotta love god mode."

"Roger that, hipster breath. Currently committing gross genocide with approval of Sora."

Skrillex turned to see Link picking off heartless with a slew of light arrows, face dead serious as he thinned the ranks with giant glowing arrows of doom. Deciding that wouldn't do, Skrillex pulled out a stereo set and /soundtrack select Town. The heartless looked at each other as the track began to play, the serious facade in Link's face cracking as he killed the enemy invasion to perky music.

The last of the swarm evaporated into black dust and the two guys giggled into their palms, before composing themselves as another swarm appeared. Pulling out his lightsaber, Skrillex wondered if his weapon of choice could also be super effective in the doom department. Poking a heartless with the tip of his sword, he watched as the wretched thing sizzled and imploded. "Awesome."

"Are you there, Sonny-kun?"

"Loud and clear, babychild." Skrillex watched Link's back, slicing down those ballsy enough to take on the Hero of Time.

"So we escorted Zelda-hime into a Great Fairy's Fountain—not one with the Gerudo women, but one filled with black fairies. Are there supposed to be black fairies in this game?"

"Kill as necessary, those are more in line with Majora's Mask than Ocarina of Time." Skrillex whistled as Link, out of arrows, pulled out the Master Sword and span like a top of glowing heroic death. If there was only a girl Link who liked short guys with big noses...

"Ooh, they're heartless transformed by the pure love and magic of the fairies! They've sworn loyalty to our cause and showed us how to teleport to other fountains with Zelda-hime's power! Can I keep them?"

Skrillex allowed himself to be thrown by Link into a pile of heartless, using his lightsaber like a glow stick dancer at a rave. "Only if you think Mr. Waddles won't mind."

"He'll love them! Roger that, Choko out."

Skrillex admired the carnage he dealt, kicking a crawling heartless in the face because screw that guy for invading and polluting a game. Nodding at Link, he saw Lake Hylia in the distance and /soundtrack select CUSTOM TRACK Legend of Zelda Theme Remix. They walked into the area to the most heroic song ever and Link finally grinned and swaggered like a true hero; mission accomplished.

Lake Hylia was indeed free of heartless, and enemies that would normally trip over themselves to kill the good guys were gratefully leading them to the Water Temple. One of them, a Skull Kid, trembled by the water. "You gotta save my friends, the ones who let me play ocarinas with them."

Link did an affirmative gesture—Skrillex really needed to get Honey to teach him how to speak non-speak—and Skrillex cocked his head. "Do you mean Young Link and Saria?"

Skull Kid nodded, bones rattling. "Them and the Kokiri are different now, all black with evil yellow eyes..."

Skrillex frowned. Now they had to deal with Antiforms of kids who knew combat in between culling the heartless and figuring out where the heck they were spawning from. Sighing, he followed Link into the water. "I'm assuming that I'm going to drown in this temple a lot, which is bad since I don't regenerate. Have an idea?"

Link tapped his chin, before pulling out his Zora tunic. Skrillex ran a hand over the cloth and /cloneobject Zora Tunic. Now they both stood proudly in blue, Skrillex upgrading their boots to sink but not take so foking long underwater. The Water temple loomed below the water, and Skrillex squeezed his Action Replay. "This is gonna suck."

They entered the Water Temple, and Skrillex compared the soundtrack's strings to the screams of frustration imprinted in his character bio. "I don't need you to be on the look out for suspicious things that are repellent to heartless, right?"

Link smirked and led him to the right, sinking to the bottom of the temple so they could drain the water, find the map, yadda yadda yadda. Fingers itching to just auto-complete the temple, he forced himself to follow the blonde hero, noting that Ruto was missing from her designated spot. "Maybe she got eaten?" They shared a shrug and floated to the top, getting the map and playing the ocarina to drain the water.

"Hey Skrill, you got a second?"

"Yeah, what's the problem?" Skrillex lit a set of torches with his lightsaber as Link searched for pots to kill for more arrows.

"We met a bunch of freaky dudes with glowing eyes by the castle. Sora says that they're actually NPCs and whatnot, and we need to exorcise them of the heartless before we can reset the game code."

"I heard that Young Link and the kids from Kokiri Forest also got infected." The temple was devoid of monsters, small keys and chests just appearing in rooms. Link looked very unnerved, and the wide, empty spaces of the Water Temple made Skrillex's skin itch.

"Sora, can you—thanks. Did you find the source of the Heartless-Be-Gone? Sora says—nice key swing, dude!—that he can equip that power to his keyblade and finish off the spawn point for the heartless."

"We're working on it." A whirlpool added interference to Skrillex's cartridge, and he needed to stab something. Stupid lifeless temple.

"Well keep us posted. Honey out. Sora, have you ever dive bombed a giga heartless before?"

Skrillex held onto Link as they swung up to a platform bearing a triforce symbol; between this and Dragon's Quest he was considering taking lessons from Pitfall. Link made sure not to drop him, which Skrillex was very grateful for because he was a big baby and bruised easily, and watched the water rise to their level. "Going down."

Skrillex blew bubbles as they descended and screw the Water Temple for making him have to pee in a world where nobody had that function. Link absconded to go get the compass and Skrillex wondered if his lightsaber worked underwater. After burning the crap out of his hands and hair, he decided to never be so stupid ever again.

Yet despite the annoying platforming and the heartless apocalypse raging outside, Skrillex missed the enemy life in the temple. There was just too little noise, Link's non-speech not helping, and Skrillex was a creature of sound—there couldn't not be things making a ruckus! Staring at a tense and twitchy Link out of the corner of his eye, the Codebuster pulled out his iPod. "What do you know about cheesy Euro-pop?"

Evidently not enough, because if "Mr. Wonderful" was enough to make Link fall to the floor laughing, Skrillex was going to have to stage a concert for the entire home console room. But he laughed with his friend and filled the empty slots in the Water Temple with life, and that was good enough. "Hey, isn't this the sub-boss room?"

They opened the door to the murky room filled with fog and the creepy tree, but they jumped when Dark Link appeared from the ground. "Hey, I thought everyone was gone!"

"That's because I threw everyone out after the heartless ate my fiancee." Dark Link crossed his arms, before snorting. "And nice choice of music, Prince Zelda. But may I ask how you're able to do that...and who's the short guy?"

"Long story short, I'm from another room in the arcade and I'm here to figure out what's repelling the heartless from this area." Skrillex ignored the dig at his height because it was pointless asking a bad guy with that much attitude to respect the vertically challenged.

"Hmm, Ruto was talking about rumors of a team of code masters." Dark Link stretched, unsheathing his sword in the process. "But back to the bigger problem. Turns out I'm a higher level of evil than those heartless, and once I made my displeasure at Ruto being turned into a demon known they ran off." He paused, then grinned with bright white teeth in a blank gray face. "But I'll be glad to help get rid of these bastards."

Skrillex and Link gulped and felt bad for the reign of terror they were about to unleash.

Honey's POV

Honey cheered as Sora brought fire down upon the heartless outside Hyrule Castle. Maybe she was getting high off of the black plumes of evaporated evil, but she was really enjoying having an all out brawl with a guy who could bring down lightning from nowhere as easily as bashing a heartless in the face with his keyblade.

Dodging an attack, she plowed through a group of blobs into a bunch of pots, earning health and monies for her troubles. Admiring the rupees—she bet she could get them turned into jewelry—she turned to see Sora being blasted into a wall. "You feeling ok?"

"I'm feeling great! This is awesome!" And it was, ignoring the horror story of a kingdom being turned evil by an lifeless sea of darkness. The Antiforms of a few NPCs came lumbering forward and Sora cut them down, freeing the NPCs from the darkness inside their hearts. "Darn, I should've invited Riku and the other guys here, but they were at their knitting club tonight..."

Honey was about to tease Sora for having such lame friends, but considered her own cast members; no one who was associated with Nack "I cried for three days over my zine subscription being delayed" the Weasel and Bark "Has a shrine to Rainbow Dash in my closet" the Polar Bear has to room to tease over something so productive as knitting.

Eventually they fought their way to the castle grounds, heartless and Anti-guards swarming the places like ants on a picnic lunch. And like ants on a picnic lunch, they deserved to be destroyed, so Honey tore a heartless a new mouth across its belly. Sora pulled out another keyblade and dove in like a god of war, and Honey shook her head; there was something about heroes from a home console game that was just so attractive.

Taking a move from her much-more attractive boyfriend, she span into a group of heartless and ripped them to shreds, punching and kicking without end. The darkness evaporated over her fists to choke at her throat, and she was getting serious void-vibes from the heartless swarm. Pushing those dark thoughts of out her mind, she yelped when her Action Replay went off. "Skrillex to psycho battle girl, are you with me?"

"Honey to annoying dupstep hipster, you got my attention Sonny." She drop kicked a heartless before he could sneak up on Sora.

"We found the source of the heartless repellant, and we're warping to a Fairy Fountain to meet with Choko and the other girls. Where are you?"

"At the castle. It looks like all the heartless are coming from this point." She gazed up at the very evil clouds spinning around the castle, globs of darkness rising from the walls. "Oh yeah, we found the spawn point."

Static crackled over her Action Replay. "We're teleporting to your location now. Skrillex out."

With a flash of light the other members of their party showed up, Zelda equipping Link with light arrows so he could genocide some of the heartless. Choko and the Poe Sisters smiled and waved, surrounded by both light and dark fairies, and a group of Gerudo pirates ran into the chaos and struck down a huge swath of heartless before they could think to run away.

Sora looked into the far distance, where a large group of Antiforms were silently approaching. "Did you guys bring the source? We're going to need my keyblade to take out all those Antiforms and stop the darkness from spreading."

"I'm right here." Dark Link stepped forward, and all the enemies in his immediate area scurried off to be killed by Link and the Gerudo. "Let's get this done, brats."

"Right then. Dark Link, sir, I need you and the princesses to hold your hands over my keyblades."

"Wait, princesses?" Honey cocked her head; unless Skrillex counted as a princess, there was someone missing.

"Yeah, Zelda and Choko." Sora watched the assorted team blink, Choko tugging on her uniform. "You two are Princesses of Heart, right? I mean, I guess not technically since you're not from my game, but neither of you two have darkness in your hearts, so the same rules apply for what I need."

Honey nodded. "Princess Zelda, who uses light powers and is super holy across her franchise, and Choko, the girl took on death and came back as pure as ever, would definitely be Princesses of Heart or whatever. Keyblade of power now?"

A blushing Choko and Zelda flanked Dark Link, their hands interlinking over the offered keyblades. They began to glow, light mixing with dark, and the keyblades morphed into one. It was a double edged steel keyblade etched with glowing strands of blue light, the teeth composed of pure gold. A tiny triforce made of dango was the keychain, and when Sora gently grasped it, it mirrored into two. Honey breathed, "What kind of keyblade is that?"

"It's made of one part pure darkness and two parts pure light, and I think it can defeat anything." Sora swung them through the air, and the splitting wind created lightning that sounded like music. "I'll call it the Majestic Thunder."

"That key's about to get some action!" Honey pushed a heartless out of attacking range as the Antiforms rushed forward, lifeless yellow eyes glowing into theirs. Two small forms led the attack, and Honey could only watch as Link yelled in outrage and led the defensive attack.

It turns out that angry people made the best melee fighters. The Gerudo women were angry for being ousted from their homes, the Poe Sisters were furious about their friend Saria being possessed, Dark Link was outraged about the loss of his fiancee Ruto, and whoever thought it was a good idea to take over Young Link and Zelda, who were like little siblings to big Link, was going to die a very painful death. Between them and random field enemies joining in the fight for their home's liberation, the Antiforms didn't stand a chance against Sora and his volunteer army.

Honey ducked as a slayed Antiform's darkness soared over her head, the electric glow of the Majestic Thunder making its way towards the castle. Zelda cheered as Young Link and Zelda were saved from the darkness, petite Kokiri warriors avenging their brief stint as enemies. Choko pointed at a figure high up in a tower. "That's the source off all the darkness in this game!"

Zelda and Link looked at each other, before the princess remarked dryly, "We shoud've known the heartless would have been hijacked by Ganon."

"What?" Honey didn't understand why Zelda and Link were laughing, but as long as he kept slicing up enemies with his Master Sword and she kept overriding her code and shooting light beams into the madness, it was fine.

Sora broke through into the castle and began to climb up the sides. Choko looked up from where she was directing dark fairies to siphon off darkness from the Antiforms, "Sora-kun! Can you even access levels that way?"

"With this keyblade I can! Look!" And Honey had to sit down and laugh because somehow, the Majestic Thunder was also a functioning Action Replay that allowed him to bypass the castle dungeon and drag a large mass of darkness directly down to their level. "This is definitely our guy!"

"FEAR ME, FOR I AM THE TRUE GANON, LORD AND MASTER OF—"

A green haired girl threw a glass bottle at his head. "GET HIM!"

The foreigners to Hyrule stood back and watched as every able-bodied man, woman, child of all sizes and racers beat the crap out of Anti-Ganon into a green splattered pulp. Once they were done blowing off revenge steam Sora skipped over and bashed him over the head with the Majestic Thunder. A large crackle of blue energy shot into the sky and transformed the entire landscape, darkness evaporating from the game as everyone cheered.

Honey looked at Skrillex and Choko. "The kid knows his way around an Action Replay."

Choko hugged her fairies close. "Can we keep him too?"

Vanellope's POV

"...and then I broke the lock on our memories that I put when I got rid of Virus-Van, and it's just been smooth sailing since."

The amazing technicolor population of Sugar Rush began talking all at once, demanding more details on how their fellow franchise game was faring. Vanellope was quietly freaking out because there was another version of her sitting at the tea table, and Choko needed to apologize for discovering all these extra arcade rooms.

Vanellope was hosting a complete arcade wide party in her castle, people from all known games—and she meant all this time, darn it!—milling around and getting acquainted across the gaming spectrum. Some arcade characters by the door to the home console room had known there was an extra room, but they had assumed it was the computer room. Well, now Vanellope knew what King Candy always said about assumptions.

Said King Candy was organizing transportation between the three rooms, various people relaying information to their local Surge Protectors and swapping tips on how to keep rowdy kids from game jumping across the electricity mainframe.

She spotted people she knew in the sea of new faces. The M. and C. Sonics were talking excitedly with a group of Sonics that span the ranges between their models, too hyper and blue for their own good. Felix was having a serious discussion with an old man in a quieter corner, before hugging his companion and crying into his shoulder. The incredibly scary Dark Link and his fiancee Ruto were laughing with Donkey Kong and Pauline, instead of watching the youngest game characters like they were supposed to. All these faces, Vanellope was getting kinda dizzy trying to name them all for Nilla Beanson's notepad, but then she saw her favorite pink-head and smiled.

After spending a good deal of time talking with Choko 2000, Choko had returned to talk in a huddle with the Codebusters, Sora, Princess Leia and Bob. They all came to an agreement and approached Vanellope's throne once the Sugar Rush 2000 racers ran off to mingle and be annoying somewhere else. "You licorice losers have something to tell me?"

Skrillex came forward, motioning towards Sora's giant keyblade. "Sora helped us reset Ocarina of Time with his Majestic Thunder keyblade, which is a functioning Action Replay. Between him, Leia's knowledge of dummied out content and Bob's indestructability...we think there should be another set of Codebusters. I mean," he threw his arms out wide, "look at how many games are in this arcade. What if two go down at the same time? What if we get disconnected during a black out and need to fend for ourselves? They're willing, we're willing, but we need you to sign off on us."

Vanellope considered the proposition. It wouldn't do to ignore the facts he presented, and the Codebusters had done more for uniting the entire arcade than anyone else had since the place opened. She smiled; what kind of queen would willingly let her people and the people of other games suffer for nothing? "I'll talk to the Surges after the party. Are you guys willing to share the glory?"

Skrillex smirked, Honey snorted, and Choko flat out giggled. "Oh Vanellope-heika, if we were in it just for the glory, we would've bailed back in Super Monkey Ball."

"Here are your Action Replay cartridges. Sora, you have one in your Majestic Thunder—speaking of which, did that eliminate your other keyblades?"

"Nah, I just regenerated them and integrated this one as its own weapon. The directions in this thing are super helpful."

"Does this jumpsuit look right to you?"

"Hmm, we need to get you a larger size Leia-hime, you've grown some since I last saw you. Have you been working out?"

"And you're sure this won't disappear if I explode?"

"I'm pretty sure, I had Bean try and blow it up all night and the fabric stayed stable."

"...are we all ready?"

"...I think we are."

The two Codebuster teams stood facing each other, decked in gray and red and smiles too big to contain on their faces. Linking arms, they walked into GCS, ready to keep all of the arcade running and maybe have some fun on the way.

泥棒女性 (dorobou josei): literally thief women. As one of the enemies in OoT are the "Gerodu thieves", it made sense for Choko to take that literally.

And we are at the halfway point of Action Replay! There's a second squad of Codebusters (Sora, Leia and Bob) present, but this story is about our favorite trio, so don't fear for a sudden perspective shift.

As explained, the heartless from Kingdom Hearts got itself lost in Ocarina of Time and managed to sneak attack Ganon. As the source (I officially have overused this phrase) of evil in this game—although not necessarily evil himself—he became Anti-Ganon and started spawning infinite heartless into Hyrule. Once they got to the Shadow Temple and the Bottom of the Well, the creepeiest and darkest places ever, they exploded and got everywhere. But once Anti-Ganon was destroyed, the heartless were eliminated.

It may seem like a stretch to include a home console game room in an arcade, but this is Litwak's Family Fun Center, which entails more than the average James Games for game selection. Not to mention Toby Litwak/Sora's logic: now that Mr. Litwak has all the game bases covered, even allowing outside games for the game and home console rooms, he has ensured that his business will never dry up.

Also, I once went to an arcade with a home console room and spent too much of my life playing Mario Kart Double Dash. Effing love that game.

If anything confused you here (heartless, Princess of Heart, Water Temple, etc.) GO AND PLAY THOSE TWO GAMES. At the very least look them up, because those games are BIG DEAL games.

The "custom track" that Skrillex plays can be found here: you tube dot com slash watch ?v= UOa4t XG4EQo

Anyway, I hope you liked this chapter and all the little jokes and lampshade hanging I threw in there!