Alright everyone, calm down. Yes. There will be a chapter where Sora finds out that Ven is his brother, but it won't be until near the end of this fic. After the previous chapter we are now one third of the way through Regroup and Rebuild.
Just a head's up, this chapter's going to be short.
Episode 12: Go The Distance:
Agrabah – Sand-swept Ruins
August 12, 2015
"Relax your shoulders, everyone!" Phil bellowed as he walked around the group of men and women doing stretches. After researchers discovered that Olympus was Tethered, he, Hercules, and Meg were in shock for a while. While Hercules would keep going around helping people like he always did, Phil was at a loss for what to do. Sure he'd keep helping Herc stay in shape, but without the Coliseum, what was he going to do for a living? Who would he train?
After a few days, that prince, Aladdin, approached the portly satyr with a job offer. The Coalition Council had decided to convert a cluster of abandoned ruins out in the Agrabah desert into a training complex for the combined army of the worlds. Someone had to help train all the recruits, and Phil jumped at the opportunity. The reconstruction of the old ruins was still ongoing, but Phil nevertheless took to the new job with the same enthusiasm.
Phil smiled as he walked around shouting pointers to everyone as they went through their morning workout routine as he instructed. He and Herc were making a great team, with the demigod taking charge of weapons training while he handled the physical fitness portions. With a few extra training regimens suggested by Captain Shang, the United Coalition Army would soon be a force to be reckoned with.
And while they could no longer go back home, they were still going to bring a little bit of their old world out here with them. Megara, being a bit of an artist, was off supervising the construction of the sleeping quarters for the trainees, which she'd designed to resemble the halls of the Coliseum as much as possible. The same Olympian architecture was being applied to their living quarters, and the trio would be a lot more at home.
Once the training had been completed, Hercules went to take a shower (thanks to the Coalition, the miracle invention of indoor plumbing quickly spread throughout the known worlds), before he and Megara flew over to Agrabah on Pegasus to do some grocery shopping. Meanwhile Phil went to go check the training equipment before showering himself, and then taking his turn to supervise the construction.
While at the moment they were rather restricted on where they could go without either Pegasus or a Gummi Ship, that would change in the next few weeks. Once the council decided to turn the old ruins into a training facility, they immediately began constructing a railway line running between the ruins, the Cave of Wonders, and Agrabah itself, with materials imported from Twilight Town. While everyone knew the reunification of the world would take several years, the Council figured it was best to start preparing for it now.
Hercules smiled as he and Meg walked past the countless market stalls of Agrabah a little under an hour later. Despite being cut off from his parents, both mortal and immortal, he, Meg, Pegasus and Phil had adapted pretty well. He still missed everyone back home, but there was nothing he could do to change that. At least he had the satisfaction of knowing that his old home was in good hands. He'd been training an apprentice for the last few years to take over all the hero work when he either got seriously injured or just needed some downtime. He could only hope the guy was up for taking over full-time.
On Meg being an artist, there's not a lot of supplementary info about the talents/hobbies of the characters from Hercules, so I decided to have Meg be an artist. Mainly because given her personality she's not going to be the type to just sit around while Hercules is off helping Phil with training.
Up next: Maleficent and Hades receive some unexpected and surprising news.