"So Xion basically called it quits with you?" Sora asked his friend, who had just gone over what had happened before Xion left to go get Even's master. The spiky haired keyblader was finally able to get up and walk around not too long ago, but Mickey said it would probably be a good idea not to go fight heartless yet.
"Yeah, it looks that way," Riku sighed. His heart ached just at the thought of their fight, and he regretted not telling Xion what had happened on Stitch's world in the first place.
And as soon as Xion said she is reconsidering their relationship, he realized that she was the best thing that ever happened to him.
Sora didn't say anything about it, but it looked like there was a tear falling down Riku's face, which was strange because Riku never cried. The only two times Sora had seen his friend cry was when he was dying, and when Kairi died in the Keyblade War. It was weird to see Riku cry though, since he did seem to appear as this though guy, but really, deep down, he was a complete softy.
"Don't worry," Sora tried to comfort, "She doesn't want to say it now, but she loves you, you two are going to make up."
Riku looked into his friend's blue eyes. "Thanks Sora, but I don't think she is really in love with me right now."
Sora was about to try and help comfort Riku more, but the sound of a squeal cut him off. The two then looked over, seeing Oswald had finally showed up and was running towards the castle garden. "OH MY GOSH! IT'S HIM!" He exclaimed as he ran, with Ortensia right on his tail.
"Oswald, calm down!" She yelled, but Oswald did not play attention and instead jumped over the railing of the hallway so he could get to the garden faster while his girlfriend took the stairs.
With their curiosity getting the best of them, the two teenage boys followed Ortensia down into the garden. When they finally got there, standing in the center of the garden, was Xion and another man whom Oswald was shaking hands with rapidly. The two boys were confused by this and began to walk closer to observe the scene when Xion noticed them.
"Sora, it's good to see you're awake," Xion said before her eyes glazed onto the silver haired keyblade wielder, "Riku."
Xion said Riku's name with so much hatred that Riku could almost feel her words stabbing into him.
Instead of looking at his not so happy girlfriend right now, Riku looked over at Oswald, who was still shaking hands with the man. "Mr. Tony Stark, it is such an honor! I am a huge, huge, huge, HUGE fan of your work and I love all of your suits!"
The man, who was just reviled to be Tony, looked a little awkward right about now, looking at the rabbit with a worried grin on his face. "If you keep shaking my hand you are going to rip it off."
Almost immediately, Oswald let go of his hand, and right after, Ortensia gave him a smack on the head. "What was that for?!" He yelled.
"Look, I know what a big fan you are of Mr. Stark's work, but did you have to leave right in the middle of our date right when you saw the gummi ship park?!"
Oswald turned red at his girlfriend's words before grabbing him by the ear. "We are finishing our date whether you like it or not!" She yelled as she dragged Oswald out of the garden by the ear.
"Gezz that guy was worse than my Avengers fangirls…" The man said.
"The Avengers?" Sora questioned.
"Yeah, you know, me, green giant, star-spangled, thunder god—"
"Thunder god? You mean Zeus?" Sora asked, thinking he was talking about Hercules's father.
"No, I meant Thor," the man continued, "Seriously you guys have never heard of us?"
"Not me." "Nope." Riku and Sora said at the same time.
"Pff, where have you been? To think that we took down Loki to not get recognized—"
"Who's Loki?" Riku asked.
"You know, Thor's brother?" The man received no response. "Never mind."
"Well now that you three have gotten to know each other, guys, this is Tony Stark, Even's master." Xion introduced properly.
"Wait, you're Even's master?" Riku asked shocked.
Tony gripped onto his briefcase tightly. "So I need a lab coat and glasses to be a scientist? I just went over this..."
"Sorry about him Tony, he is really good at getting under peoples skin." Xion said, glaring at Riku.
The continuous comments from Xion made Riku's heart hurt.
"So you think you can help us find Kairi?" Sora asked the man.
"Sure, it shouldn't be that much of a problem." Tony said.
"Thank you sir, I don't know how to repay you—"
"There is no need to repay, just consider it a thank you to all of you since you guys did save the worlds." Tony smiled, for once being sincere and not cracking a joke at something. He then looked around the garden, "But do you guys have a better working place?"
"Sure, we'll head over to the King's Study, he should be waiting there." Xion said as the three of them began to follow her to the King's study.
When the four made it into the doors of the study, the King appeared to be waiting for them, and he looked right at Tony. "Anthony Stark, it is an honor," Mickey said.
"Tony," he said back as the two shook hands, "And it's nice to meet you too."
Tony moved his eyes around the room as soon as they finished shaking hands before he dug into his pocket and pulled out what looked like a cellphone but it was made out of glass. "This should be enough technology to find her," he said.
"Wait, you think you can find her with a cellphone?" Sora asked.
"Not the cellphone itself, my butler should be able to help out with the work."
"Well where is he?" Riku asked.
"Right here," Tony then placed his phone on the desk in the room and took a few steps back, "Jarvis, wake up."
Good morning sir.
Sora, Riku, Xion and Mickey were all startled by the voice that appeared to come out of nowhere. But what startled them even more was when huge projections that could have covered the whole desk if they weren't floating appeared, seeming to show the local weather, news, and other stuff.
"Lady, gentlemen, this is Jarvis, my butler," Tony introduced.
"Ah… hi." Riku said, but the butler did not respond.
"So this guy just travels with you anywhere?" Sora asked in awe.
"Nah, normally he just runs the house and helps me control a few of my Iron Man suits," Tony explained.
"Wait, Iron Man suits?" Xion asked.
"Yeah, like the one you have now," Tony pointed to her shoulder guard, "Made it myself."
"But Merlin told me he made this…" Xion was confused.
"That old coot? Please, I'd be surprised if he could even see clearly let alone create a state of the art Iron Man suit," Tony explained, "It doesn't matter though, people steal my ideas all the time."
"And you're cool with that?" Riku asked.
"Hell no, I never need to worry about it since everyone who ever tried to copy my suits has failed miserably." Tony explained, with Riku and Sora nodding knowingly.
What is it that you need, sir?
Tony turned to the four keyblade bearers first instead of talking to Jarvis. "Question, any of you have any idea of where Kairi might be?"
"Well I would figure it would be on one of the worlds the will's original beans stayed on, there's the Keyblade Graveyard, The World That Never Was, maybe even Radiant Garden in secret." Mickey explained.
"Alright, Jarvis only show worlds that have had any darkness related criminal activity within the past five years." Tony asked.
Of course, sir.
And almost immediately, the projections of the weather and all that other stuff disappeared and instead showed projections of about a dozen worlds. Most of them Sora recognized as the three Mickey mentioned, as well as Midgar, The Land of Departure (Sora figured it was trying to say Castle Oblivion), even the End of the World. The other worlds were ones Sora did not recognize, but most of them did look creepy enough to have darkness in them.
"Now do any of you have anything that belongs to Kairi?" Tony asked.
Riku, Xion and Mickey looked directly at Sora, who knew what Tony needed. Digging into his pocket, Sora pulled out the lucky charm Kairi gave to him all those years ago, and observed it before handing it to Tony.
The Iron Avenger then took the charm and placed it above the projection Jarvis was creating, and a scan like projection traveled over the charm.
Scan successful.
"What did that just do?" Sora asked.
"Well you see Jarvis just scanned Kairi's deoxyribonucleic acid which should allow him to access her current condition—"
"In English please." Xion asked politely.
Tony rolled his eyes, clearly he got asked that a lot. "Basically Jarvis cannot find out which world Kairi is on just yet, but he can give us an update on her current condition. Normally he will only contact us if Kairi is in a critical state, but we should not have to worry about that."
"What do you mean he cannot find out where she is yet?" Sora asked.
"I mean he should be able to find her soon, but even he can't be in two places at once, that and he can't get around on his own, which is why I need one of you to travel to these worlds, allow Jarvis to do a scan of the area, and move on to the next if he does not find her." Tony explained.
Riku knew it was coming. "I'll go, better than staying here." Xion said.
"Excellent," Tony then waked up to Xion and gave her something similar to his phone, but was smaller and in the shape of a square. "All you need to do is when you land on the world, press on the screen and Jarvis will scan the world. If Kairi isn't on that world, he will tell you and you will have to keep traveling to the others until he finds her."
"Sounds easy enough." Xion said.
"Easy for you to say, I'm confused as it is!" Sora exclaimed.
"Which explains why you got the MCP so mad they sucked you into the computer, because apparently you suck with technology," Tony said. Sora, shocked that Stark knew about his visit to Tron's world a few years back, was about to question him, but he answered, "Leon told me."
Sora put his hands behind his back at this before Tony turned to Xion again. "I'll be back as soon as I can Mr. Stark," she said before she left the room,
Along with Riku's chance of trying to apologize to her.
Ug, this chapter was such a filler, but it had to happen. That might be why I didn't like this chapter that much...
Which is why I am going to give you guys another chapter right after this!
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