Chapter Twenty-Three: The Power to Save Atlantis
Later that day they watched as Kida was packed away in a metal container as Audrey stood on top of it tightening the screws as she looked away from Milo, Jason and Max glares as they watched the window turn to a crystal and they could no longer see Kida.
"So I guess this is how it ends huh? Fine you win your whipping out an entire civilization but hey you'll be rich, congratulations Audrey I guess you and your dad will be able to open up that second garage after all and Vinny you can start a whole chain of flower shops I'm sure your family will be very proud but that's what it's all about right? Money" Milo said bitterly.
"Get off your soapbox Thatch, you've read Darwin it's called natural selection were just helping it along" Rourke said.
"Commander! Were ready!" Helga yelled.
"Yeah give me a minute I know I'm forgetting something, I got the cargo, the crystal, crew oh yeah!" he said punching Milo as the Atlatians around them gasped as a picture fell from Milo bag and the glass broke on the ground.
"Milo!" Jason yelled.
"Look at it this way son, you're the man who discovered Atlantis and now your part of the exhibit!" Rourke said stepping on Milo picture.
"You just wait Rourke you'll get yours!" Jason growled as Milo pulled the picture from the glass and broken frame and Max and Jason looked at the picture of kid Milo with his grandfather.
"Let's move people" Rourke said.
"That was an order not a suggestion lets go!" Helga yelled.
Audrey then kicked open her door as she walked out and walked over to Milo and helped him up as she glared at her friends as Vinny stood by them and began to untie Jason as Cookie, Mole, Sweet and Packard joined.
"We're all going to die" Packard said.
"Oh you can't be serious" Rourke said.
"This is wrong and you know it!" Audrey yelled.
"Were this close to our biggest payday ever and you pick now of all times to grow a consciences" Rourke said.
"We've done a lot of things were not proud of, robbing graves, plundering a tomb, double parking but nobody got hurt well maybe somebody got hurt but nobody we knew" Vinny said.
"If that's that way you want it fine more for me" Rourke said as the two trucks drove off with men in the pack pointing gun and ready to fire if anyone followed as they moved across the bridge and the crystals on all the Atlantians began to die out.
"We can't let him do this!" Milo yelled running after them as Vinny stopped him.
"Wait a sec!" Vinny said as the trucks made it to the other side and they blew up the bridge behind them, "okay now you can go."
"With what!" Jason yelled.
"Milo! You better get up here!" Sweet yelled from the palace.
"The king!" Jason yelled as he Max and Milo ran up and made their way into the palace to see Sweet looking over the king.
"How's he doing?" Milo asked.
"Not good I'm afraid, internal bleeding there's nothing more I can do" Sweet said.
"What a nightmare and I brought it here" Milo said.
"Now don't go beating yourself up he's been after that crystal since Iceland" Sweet said.
"The crystal! Sweet that's it! These, these crystals they have some sort of healing energy I've seen it work" Milo said.
"No, where is my daughter?" King Kashekim Nedakh asked.
"She eh uh" Milo said.
"She has been chosen like her mother before her."
"What?"
"In times of danger the crystal would choose a host, one of royal blood to protect itself and it's people it will except no other."
"Wait a minute, choose? So this thing is alive?" Milo said.
"In a way, the crystal thrives on the collective emotions of all who came before us, in return it provides power one should ever need protection, as it grew it developed a consciousness of its own in my arrogance I sought to use it as a weapon of war but it power proved too great to control, it overwhelmed us and lead to our destruction."
"That's why you hid it beneath the city to keep history from repeating itself" Milo said.
"And to keep Kida from suffering the same fate as my beloved wife.
"What do you mean? What's going to happen to Kida?" Milo asked.
"If she remains bonded to the crystal she could be lost to it forever, the love of my daughter is all I have left my burden would have become hers when the time was right" he said removing his crystal, "but now it falls to you" he said holding it out to Milo.
"Me?" Milo said taking it.
"Return the crystal, save Atlantis, save my daughter" he said as his hand fell and died in front of them as Jason looked away.
"So what's it going to be?" Sweet asked.
"Excuse me?" Milo said.
"I'll follow you in and I'll follow you out it's your decision" Sweet said.
"Oh my decision! Oh I think we've seen how effective my decision have been! Let's recap, I lead a band of blundering vandals to the greatest archeological find in reported history just enabling the kidnap and murder of a royal family! Not to mention personally delivering the most powerful force known to man to the hands of a mercenary nut case who's probably going to sell it to the Kiers! HAVE I LEFT ANYTHING OUT!" Milo yelled.
"Well you did set the camp on fire and drop us in that big hole" Sweet said.
"Thank you! Thank you very much!"
"Sweet! You're not helping!" Jason growled.
"Well of course it's been my experience to hit bottom, the only place to go is up" Sweet said.
"Who told you that?"
"A fella by the name of Thaddeus Thatch" Sweet said as Milo looked at the crystal in his hand.
"Were behind you all the way Milo just tell us that needs to be done" Jason said as Milo walked out of the throne room as they followed.
"Where are you going?" Audrey asked.
"I'm going after Rourke" Milo said.
"Milo that's crazy!" Audrey said.
"I didn't say it was the smart thing but it is the right thing" Milo said heading down the stairs.
"Come on we better make sure he doesn't hurt himself" Audrey said as they saw Milo climbing onto one of the Atlantian vehicles, "Milo what do you think your doing?"
"Just follow my lead!" Milo said turning on the vehicle as it floated off the ground.
"Well I'm impressed" Packard said.
"It's simple all you got to do-" Milo said as Audrey climbed on.
"Yeah yeah shut up we get it" Audrey said touching the glowing pad as it backed up and crashed into a wall.
"Gently! Just gently" Milo said.
"Hey Milo you got something sporty like a tuna?" Vinny asked.
"How is this done?" a Atlantian guard asked.
"All you have to do is use the crystals, Kida showed me" Milo said running onto another vehicle and showing them how it is done, "corner turn right, corner turn back, keep your hand on the pad" Milo said.
"I already got my ride!" Jason said throwing both his keyblades as his keyblade glider flew in as he jumped on with Max as all their friends began to active all the nearby Atlatian vehicles.
"Alright this is it! We're going to rescue the princess! We're going to save Atlantis or were going to die trying! Now let's do it!" Milo yelled leading the way as all the vehicles followed.
In the cave where the volcano was Rourke men shot a rocket that hit the top of the seal to their exit and large rocks began to fall as a light shined down.
"I love it when I win!" Rourke said.
Outside Milo lead his friends past the water walls and over the sea of magma and into the cave while a hot air balloon was created and in the process of being inflated.
"Okay here's the plan! We're going to come in low and fast and take them by surprise!" Milo yelled.
"Well I got news for you Milo Rourke he's never surprised and he's got a lot of guns!" Audrey said.
"Great! Well do you have any suggestion!" Milo yelled.
"Yeah don't get shot!" Vinny yelled.
As Rourke was loading the box with Kida in it to the balloon he spotted the army of Atlatian vehicles coming their way.
"There they are!" Milo yelled.
"We got company!" Rourke yelled as guns began to get fired and the vehicles began to spin around as the Atlatian guards fired arrows as soon airplanes got into the air fight.
"Holy smokes! You told me he only had guns!" Milo yelled.
"I said that he was never surprised!" Audrey yelled.
Upon being shot at Vinny accidently hit a part of the vehicle that shot a blast of blue electricity and blew up two trucks.
"Okay now things are getting good!" Vinny said as the others who saw now knew how to work the blaster.
"Vinny heads up! We can't let them reach the top of that shaft!" Milo yelled.
"Were right behind you Milo!" Jason yelled.
"New plan! Vinny you and I will be decoys! Audrey Sweet! Fly underneath that thing and cut it lose!" Milo yelled.
"On it!" Sweet yelled.
"We got company!" Jason yelled as Unversed that looked like massive birds began to fly in as Jason used the attack option in his Keyblade glider to take them out.
By the box where Kida was held in Audrey was trying to cut the chain with a medical saw.
"I thought you said this thing could cut through a teamer in twenty eight seconds!" she yelled.
"Less talk more saw!" Sweet yelled.
Milo then flew in and took out one of the tree balloon as he held onto the large balloon as the balloon began to go down.
"Were losoing altitude! Lighten the load!" Rourke yelled as Helga tossed a large barrel.
"That's it! Unless someone wants to jump!" Helga said.
"Ladies first" Rourke said pushing her off as she grabbed onto a rail and swung back up kicking Rourke in the face.
"You said we were in this together!" she yelled kicking him in the face again, "you promised me a percentage!" she yelled a he caught her foot.
"Next time get it in writing!" he yelled flipping her over and to the ground below.
"ROURKE!" She yelled as she fell.
"Nothing personal!" Rourke said as Milo was directly above him as Jason and Max began to fly in as Milo swung down and kicked Rourke over as they fell down and hit the second level.
"Milo were coming!" Jason yelled.
"Well I got to hand it you, you're a bigger pain in the neck then I ever thought possible!" he yelled as Milo tried to punch him but Rourke punched him in the face and kicked him onto the rail as It broke and Milo hung for dear life, "I consider myself a well temper man and it takes a lot to get under my skin well congratulations you just won the solid gold cupidoll!"
"And you won the grand prize!" Jason yelled jumping down as he swung around a rail and kicked
Rourke in the face as Max jumped down as they climbed down to the chains holding the box where Kida was while down below Helga grunted as she pulled out a flare gun and pointed it to the balloon.
"Nothing personal!" she grunted firing the flare as it hit the balloon as it burst into flames as Rourke broke a glass box and pulled out an ax as he began to climb down with a wicked smile and darkness flowing of him.
"Milo look out!" Jason yelled as they dodged his ax swing.
"Tired Mr. Thatch? That's a darn shame!" Rourke yelled swinging the ax as it broke the crystal glass as Milo pulled out a glowing glass shared, "because I'm just getting warmed up!" he yelled grabbing Milo neck and pulling him up as Milo cut Rourke arm with the glass as Rourke yelled as Milo, Jason and Max began to climb back up to the walk pad above as Rourke growled then his eyes widen to see his arm getting covered in the blue crystal with rain glowing vains as his whole body got engulfed in it, his eyes turning yellow and his mouth left open with red bolts of electricity as Milo and the others watched from the pad above at the frozen Rourke as they let out a sigh of relief.
"Thank heaven!" Milo said.
"RARRR!" they heard the Rourke monster roar as it combed onto the pad.
"Milo you break the chain! We'll handle him!" Jason yelled.
(Battle theme song Vim and Vigor begins now!)
"RAAAER!" Rourke roared as Jason and Max summoned their weapons.
"Heya! Ha! Rar! Take this!" Jason yelled hitting Rourke with several strike.
"GR! AH! RAR!" Rourke hissed as he shot gem shards at them.
"Yeah! Ha! Ya! Like that!" Max yelled making an attack as Rourke backhanded them away.
"Together!" Jason yelled forming the Trinity Limit as hollow images of Terra, Aqua and Ven appeared around the circle of light.
"Light!" they all yelled touching their keyblades to the light as Rourke roared then wobbled a bit stunned from the attack.
"YA!" Jason yelled knocking Rourke over the rail and into the spinning fan below as the fast moving fan shattered Rourke into million pieces as the balloon exploded and sent the container rolling to the ground with Milo, Jason and Max crashing next to it as they saw the large fire ball coming at them.
"Oh great!" Milo yelled.
"Move!" Jason yelled as they all pushed on the box and rolled it down as they quickly jumped away as the fireball crash and explode as their friends flew in as they felt the ground shaking as the ground began to crack and magma began to rise.
"The volcano! She awakes!" Mole yelled.
"Hey I had nothing to do with it!" Vinny said.
"This is not a good place to be!" Cookie said.
"Wait we have to get her back or the whole city will die!" Milo yelled.
"And if we don't get out of here we'll die!" Audrey yelled as they took a chain attached it to Kida box and onto one of the vehicles.
"Just do it!" Milo yelled as they hopped on and flew off and the chain broke as they all looked back as Milo and Jason jumped down with the chain.
"Milo no!" Audrey yelled.
"Hot! Hot! Hot!" Jason yelled as they ran and tied the chain around the metal box.
"Go!" Milo yelled as they held onto the box and began to fly with a sea of lava chasing after them as they flew out of the cave and into the city as they set the box down as the volcano was about to explode.
"Milo! Mole said the wall going to blow!" Sweet yelled.
"I got this!" Jason yelled as he and Milo shoved a sphere into the box and pulled against it and broke it open as the box broke apart and spun around Kida as the ground symbols began to glow as the whole city began to glow as the ground began to crack as the stone faces of the kings flew out as Kida flew up with them spinning around her fact in the sky creating a fast moving blue spiral as it shot out a beam that hit a massive statue in the water as a giant guardian rose out of the water as move blue lights awoke more guardians as their shadows loomed over the city as they all moved to the end of the city and clapped their hands creating a massive shield around the city as the magma came flooding in and covered the shield as the blue light harden the magma into a solid hard black crust as blue lights began to emerge out of cracks the formed in the giant black crust ball before breaking off the shield and into the sea of magma around the city.
Water then hit the magma creating the steam covering the city as Milo and the other looked up at the clouds above where a single light was coming out of it as Kida floated down in her normal state as Milo ran to her and caught her as the light died out.
"Princess!" Jason said approaching as Kida blinked her eyes and looked up at Milo.
"Milo?" she said as they smiled then she looked at her hand and in it was a bracelet she had as a child as she held it tight and hugged Milo as he returned the hug as Milo and the others all saw a wonderful sight as Milo had her look as Kida smiled to see the city emerging from the steam as she took Milo hand.
"Huh?" Kida said as her crystal glowed and shot out a small beam to the giant crystal above with the slowly spinning Kings faces as every crystal on every citizen in the kingdom light flew up and all hit the giant crystal as the giant crstyal glowed and shot down a beam of light hitting the symbol in the center of the city that was on the book as Jason and everyone around saw the keyhole form.
"Jason!" Max yelled.
"Yeah I know!" Jason said summing one of his keyblades and pointed it as it glowed and shot out the beam of light and hit the keyhole as it glowed and they were all engulfed by the beam of light.
"The very next day gold and treasure was back away into a giant Atlatian Norwell ship as everyone made their last goodbyes.
"Atlantis will honor your names forever I only wish there was more we can do for you" Kida said putting on the last crystal on Vinny as Jason and Max held the crystal in their hands.
"Eh thanks anyway but I think we're good" he said looking at the pile of treasure being loaded onto the ship.
"They'll take you as far as the surface" Milo said.
"Were really going to miss you Milo" Audrey said.
"You know, I am going to reopen the flower shop and I am going to think of you guys every single day Monday through Friday nine to five, Saturday till two Sunday I better take Sunday of probably and maybe I'll go in for a couple of hours but August I'm going to take August off" Vinny said.
"Goodbye Vinny" Jason smiled.
"I aint so good with speakafin but I want you to have this" Cooki said handing Milo, Jason and Max big cup of the yellow goo "it's tha bacon grease from the whole trip."
"Eh Cookie I..." Milo began as Cookie walked away as Audrey kissed Milo cheek.
"Ah ha two for fliching" she said playfully punching his arm, "see you Milo, Jason, Max."
"Eh boys!" Mole said appearing in front of them with flys all around him with his arms opened for a hug.
"Eh" Jason said.
"Oh! Mole wow! Well goodbye Mole" Milo said patting him on the head.
"Are you sure you want to stay? There's a boreal welcome for the man who discovered Atlantis" Sweet said.
"Nah I don't think the world needs another hero besides I here there is an opening down here for an expert in gibberish" Milo said.
"You take good care of yourself Milo Thatch, you too Jason and Max" Sweet said.
"Yeah you too Sweet" Milo said.
"Come here!" Sweet said pulling the three into a real strong bear hug as the three gasped and something cracked.
"Uh Sweet before you go?" Milo said.
"No problem!" Sweet said cracking his neck.
"Thanks."
"Oh you're getting a bill" Sweet said.
"Can we go home now?" Packard said.
"Come on yall! Lets get one last shot in front of the fish!" Sweet said as they all got together around the treasure for a group shot.
"Say Yack!"a man at the camera said.
"Yack!" they all yelled as the photo was taken only later to be discovered to be angled wrong and was cut off but that won't be discovered till they were developed.
Soon Jason and Max were back in the lane s between as Max sat in his Gummi ship looked at the crystal.
"These things are so cool! My dad will never believe this journey" Max said.
"Agreed, my friends will be so jealous!" Jason smiled.
"Where to now?" Max asked.
"Don't know, we got many more worlds to choose from!" Jason smiled.
"Let's go then! I am so ready!" Max smiled.
A.N. Please Review and tell me what Disney world they will see next! Your choices are Treasure Planet, Monsters Inc., A Bugs Life, The Incredibles, The Rescuers, Brave, Princess and the Frog, Pocahontas, Meet the Robinsons, Wall-E, Brother Bear, Rapunzel, the Jungle Book and Gargoyles so review for our next world!