Xehanort-Sora stood on the top of the Castle That Never Was, looking over the city as he took in several deep breaths. He was ready; he was ready to finally release Chaos from his imprisonment. He thought nothing could stop him,

That was until the Riku Replica came through a corridor of darkness, and Xehanort knew something was wrong from the second he heard it.

"Master, the keyblade bearers and some of their allies are here, they are trying to stop us from accomplishing our mission." The replica said.

Xehanort let in a heavy sigh as he spoke in his and Sora's voice, "Send the heartless after them and protect the castle, do whatever you can to make sure they do not come in here."

"Anything else?" The replica asked.

Xehanort turned to look at him quickly and said, "Just make sure they get the message that they will die trying coming here."

The trip to the World That Never Was was too short in Riku's opinion, but that didn't matter right now, he just needed to get everything in order.

The army, the keybladers being decked out in their armor, stood in front of the sky tall buildings, staring at them with awe for a few moments. For most of the group, this was their first time being to this world, and it really surprised all of them. They knew however, that this was no time to admire the world's uniqueness; they had a battle to fight that they needed to win.

The group began to walk around the buildings until they made it to the building where Riku and Roxas had their huge clash all those years ago. "So where is this huge army we are expecting Xehanort to have?" Leon asked.

"Don't know," Riku answered, "I'm shocked he hasn't sent them after us yet."

"Eh, he might not even know we are here! We are surprising him aren't we?" Cid spoke up. But right after the Edge resident said that, the army looked up, seeing hundreds to thousands of heartless appear on top of the skyscraper and begin to scale the walls down towards them.

"Right, that army," Tony said as he prepared his Iron Man suit, the Mark 42, along with Xion who said to Riku,

"What do you want us to do, boss?"

"I know we are going to have to deal with these heartless eventually, but we can't focus on them right now, we need to get to the castle and stop Xehanort before he even summons the Door to Darkness." Riku replied.

"And how do you expect us to get around these things?" Cecil asked.

(Fight to the Death – Kingdom Hearts II) Riku only smirked. "Just blow the monsters up."

And at that very next instant, the heartless and warriors of light collided, weapons flying. Riku, being in the front of the group, was the first to collide with the massive group of heart, cutting through as many monsters as they could. Several of the warriors took flight in the air, mainly Xion, Tony, Chip and Dale, who were trying to get ahead of the group while clearing out the heartless at the same time. Everyone else on the ground just focused on cutting through the monsters as fast as they could.

Many of the warriors, even though having never met each other, were helping each other out in any way they could. One of the prime examples was Lightning, Yuffie, Oswald, and Wakka, who were throwing their weapons towards Noctis, who gained control of them quickly and made them float around him. As his eyes changed to the color red, he sliced through at least a dozen of the heartless at once before giving the others their weapons back, but he stopped when he made eye contact with Lightning. "What's someone as pretty as you fighting in this battle?" He asked, obviously having a liking towards her.

"I would love to give you a proper answer but we are in the middle of a war here!" Lightning replied before taking her weapon and slicing through more of the heartless. Noctis frowned at this, but shortly after went back to fighting the heartless with his magic. Noctis did not notice that Lightning was blushing a shade of pink darker than her hair when she replied.

As Lightning ran over to go and help Serah fight the battle, she ran past Merlin and the female Terra, who were simultaneously using magic attacks at the heartless as quickly as they could. As Merlin fired a huge round of thunder at the heartless, Terra had changed into her esper form and began running to slice through the heartless. As ran, she came across Bruce, in full out Hulk form, who only smiled at her. However, when they did this, heartless began to jump at them. The Hulk then looked to Terra and they both nodded, knowing what they had to do. Hulk then took Terra and threw her into the air, allowing her to get high enough to cut through the heartless jumping at them while Bruce dealt with the ones attacking them from below.

As Terra began to fall from the air, Xion passed them as she flew through the air. She continued to use her repulsor rays at the heartless from above when she noticed Lea, fighting alongside Reno and Rude, Lea slicing them with his keyblade, Reno hitting them with his rod, and Rude punching them. Lea however did not seem to notice the heartless that was coming up from behind him, which Xion only rolled her eyes at. Dashing through the air quickly, Xion grabbed Lea by the back of his armor and lifted him into the sky, him letting out a yelp of surprise as she brought him to safety.

After finding him an area with less heartless, Xion placed him down, only to fly away again quickly. "Hey, warn me next time you do—" But Lea stopped himself, seeing that Xion had placed him down in an area not far from where Elena was fighting. "On second thought, I could get used to it."

As Lea ran over to go help Elena fight her battle, he ran past Cloud, Leon, and Tidus, who were back to back surrounded by heartless. "Remember the last time we fought a battle and this same exact thing happened?" Leon asked Cloud.

Cloud only snickered. "Yeah but now we have someone else to help if that one more heartless shows up." He replied, holding his keyblade firmly as Tidus took notice of this.

"One more? I know I am not as emotionless and emo as you two but I can kick ass just as good!" Tidus answered, which made Cloud and Leon both laugh.

"Then let's split the burden in half, shall we?" Cloud said. After a few more seconds of silence between the three, they all jumped at the heartless, slicing through them swiftly but dangerously. As the trio continued to work together, Tifa, Riona, and Yuna ran past them, laughing to themselves briefly, before slicing through some of the heartless together themselves.

When those three girls ran faster to destroy more heartless, they passed Ventus and Zack, who were fighting off some of the heartless back to back. As more heartless began to surround them, Zack bent down on one knee, giving thumbs up to Ven, who nodded slowly. Ven then ran full speed at Zack, jumping onto his back and into the air where he was able to cut through more heartless. Only problem was Ven jumped up higher than expected, and was expecting to hit the ground hard. But thankfully, Red XIII, with Cait Sith on his back, jumped into the air and grabbed onto Ven by the collar of his armor, bringing the keyblader down to safety.

Ven was so into the battle that he didn't even notice he and Red landed right next to Rikku and Vincent, who were fighting the heartless off together. No one expected those two to fight together, since they were exact opposites, but here they were. As Vincent continued to shoot the heartless as rapidly as he could, Rikku watched his back and sliced through the heartless with her weapons if they got to close to him. When the heartless began to get a little bit more out of hand, Barrett came with his gun-arm and began to shoot the heartless faster than anyone could count. Vincent only smirked at this before both of them were firing bullets together, taking out many heartless.

Feeling that those two were set to go, Rikku ran away from them running past Mickey, Donald, and Goofy attacking the darkness with the perfect amount of attack, magic, and defense. As the heartless began to grown in size however, the three put their heads together and finally came up with a good idea to bring the numbers down. Quickly but effectively, Goofy allowed Donald onto his shoulders, and Donald allowed Mickey onto his, making the three nearly taller than anyone in the battlefield. This way, Goofy kicked the heartless away with his shield on the bottom level, Donald blasted the ones away with his magic that Goofy couldn't get to, and Mickey attacked the ones jumping at them.

Roxas was one of the only people in the battle field to notice the trio's idea, but quickly turned away from it when the heartless kept coming at him. Right when the former nobody thought he was going to be in the middle of a dog pile, Sora's lingering will came from out of nowhere and attacked the heartless quickly with his keyblade. "Sora!" Roxas called out as he threw Oathkeeper at the will, who caught it easily. Roxas then continued to cut through the heartless with Oblivion, while Sora stayed airborne and attacked the ones that tried to attack the two from above. When Sora finally came back down to the ground, he placed his hand on Roxas's shoulder and gave him Oathkeeper back, now that the blonde had the situation under control.

Riku managed to multitask and watch the battles while fighting off heartless from a distance, pleased with the outcome of the battles so far. But as he turned his head to look towards the castle, he knew this was only the beginning.


And so the final battles have begun! I hope you enjoyed the way I wrote it, I kind of tried something different and I think it turned out successful!

Oh, but just so you guys know, they really final battles with the lingering wills will not begin just yet. Why you ask? Well let's just say there are some Final Fantasy characters that have some unfinished business with certain enemies... hint hint.

Oh so guys I made a mistake on my poll and if you can I would love if you guys could go check it out again but this time pick 2 of the choices.

So since this chapter was my first real action scene in a while, can you guys review? And please look out for the next chapter!