Chapter 48: Which world?
Sora groaned from the pain that he had received from the crash, noting that it would have been a lot worse if Donald didn't act quick. He tried to breath but only managed to choke from the thick smoke that was covering the atmosphere in the ship. Sora held his breathe as he got up and tried to find his way around blindly. Sora managed to feel the walls to lead him into the bridge. Sora began to cough from the lack of oxygen in the air and felt his eye sight getting blurry. Sora suddenly yelled in pain as his head received a sharp pain in his head. Sora dropped to his knees and held his head tightly.
Your heart is beginning to turn
You don't know what to think
But I can tell you this
The sense of betrayal will begin every soon.
Sora felt something grab him around the shoulder and lifted him up from the ground. Sora went to look at the figure and couldn't tell who it was due to the thick smoke. The figure helped Sora out of the bridge and through the gap in the metal wall that lead to the outside world. Sora saw that they had crashed on a wasteland of a world as the ground was just dry dirt but the sky was night blue as the stars shined. Sora noticed that some of the stars had a slight purple line around them. Sora looked away from the damaged view of the worlds and looked at the person who was dragging him everywhere. It was Riku.
"You alright, buddy?" Riku asked with concern as he set Sora carefully on the ground.
"Uh…yeah. I think so." Sora then faced Riku, "How did you managed to walk through the smoke without any problem?"
"If you remember correctly, I wore a blindfold for over a year and managed to fight and travel perfectly fine. I don't a little smoke will bother me." Riku answered before going to check on the others. Sora looked around to see the others were safety out of the smoky death-trap. Donald was healing Max's head injury, making Goofy faint from the sight of his son's blood. Hikari was trying to get Brian up, who was currently unconscious and Kairi was looking up at the stars with Riku joining her.
Sora closed his eyes as he though it would be a good time to talk to Roxas, Roxas, can you hear me? There was no answer. Roxas? Sora sighed, Where could Roxas be? It's not like my mind has a secret hotel he could sneak off too. Sora shook his head and opened his eye. He then got up and walked over to Kairi and Riku, who were currentlytalking about the situation on the stars.
Hikari started to run her hand through her light blue hair, trying to untangle her hair from the oil when she heard someone groan as if they were beginning to wake up. She looked to her side to see Brian yawning and stretching his biceps with his eyes closed. "About time you woke up." Hikari said to him before bringing her attention back to her oily struck hair.
"Man, the gummi feels like it has a draft." Brian yawned before opening his cerulean blue eyes to see his surroundings. Brian's smile faded when he saw that the gummi was destroyed and that they were stranded on basically a wasteland. Brian started to look for Sora as he clearly remembered Sora driving the gummi. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE GUMMI SHIP, BIGFOOT!! DANIEL GOING TO KILL ME FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE." Brian yelled at him as soon as he laid sights on him.
Sora, Kairi and Riku turned to look at Brian in disbelief, Did he just blame me?! "I didn't make us crash, you was the one who pushed me out of the driver seat, ranting on about pink elephants!" Sora defended.
"I have you know that I was unconscious the entire time due to Riku throwing ice cold water onto me!" Brian shot back before slightly glaring at Riku.
"Well who else with short red hair could have rampaged across the gummi, causing it to crash!!" Sora was starting to get annoyed with Brian and began to approach him when Riku grabbed his shoulders and shook his head at him.
"Now is not the time for this." Riku said, disapproving both Sora and Brian.
"Riku is right. We need to find out where we are." Kairi agreed. Brian took a deep breath to calm himself down but only started to cough. "Brian, are you alright?" Kairi asked. Brian didn't answer as his coughing got worse. Kairi quickly went over to him and started to rub his back to help his coughing calm down.
Brian suddenly dropped to his knees and coughed something out of his mouth. It was a small spider robot which started to crawl around the surface until Hikari stamped on it to bring it to its end. "No wonder you have been acting like a jerk lately." Hikari lifted her foot off of the bug and tried to get the remains of the bug off of her beloved boot. Hikari noticed that the ground sounded a bit off when she slammed her foot down but decided to note it aside as Kairi helped Brian.
"Thanks Kairi." Brian said warming to her before hugging her to show that he meant it. Kairi's eyes widened with surprise and shock from Brian's actions but decided to hug him back.
Riku was surprised to see this too and looked over to Sora, who was glaring jealously at Brian while clenching his fists.
"What's going on guys?" Max, Donald and Goofy, after spending all of the time trying to wake him back up, walked over to the group after Brian and Kairi had broke away from each other.
"Max, did you place a robotic spider in Brian drin-." Hikari suddenly stopped, "Wait, drink! The rum!"
"The bartender must have place something in the drinks back on Port Royal." Max catch on.
"Meaning that the bartender must have been an Order member in disguise ."
"And the only Order member that was there was Lt Skullo."
"Can we concrete the fact that the ship is destroyed and that we are strangled!! " Brian said ignoringly.
"Okay, we know that the main gummi is-" Riku started.
Brian's eyes widened. "WAIT! WHERE'S THE CHOCOBO EGG?!?!" Brian quickly changed into his element and ran into the gummi. Before any of the team could react, the smoke disappeared from the wrecked ship and Brian came running back out with the chocobo egg in his hands. Brian quickly handed the egg to Kairi and faced Riku, "You were saying?"
"As I was saying, we know that the main gummi is wrecked but looking at where the damage is, I think that Brian's gummi would have been protected." Riku said to them.
"It would take a while to remove it from the wrecked ship." Donald said, looking at the ship
"And we have to move all of our important equipment to Brian's gummi." Max added, joining Donald with the view. The ground suddenly rumbled, making the others balance themselves. "That can't be good."
"I think that we need to explore this world to see what's going on." Goofy suggested, "That way, we can search for that there item."
"Right, so we should separate in two teams." Sora said while placing his hands behind his head, "Question is, who is going where?"
"We should separate the teams equally like we have two unique mages so maybe one mage for each team." Kairi said to them, handing the chocobo egg to Goofy.
"I suggest that Riku, Donald, Max and Goofy should work on the gummi while me, Sora, Kairi and Brian will search for a town for us to rest in." Hikari listed out.
"What?" Riku and Sora gasped.
"Trust me on this, if we take all of our best fighters without knowing what on this world then we can kiss our chances of getting off this rock good bye." Hikari explained to the two islanders.
"Yeah!" Brian cheered, "Wait, I'm one of the best fighters." Hikari rolled her eyes at Brian's comment.
"Okay, we know the teams. Let us not waste anymore time." Sora said to them. "But before we go…" Sora then whistled. Every one looked at Sora weirdly apart from Donald and Goofy, who were looking at Goofy's hat.
Jiminy Cricket then appeared from Goofy's hat and quickly hopped over to Sora. "You whistled Sora?" Jiminy waited for Sora question.
"Yeah, we need you to be Brian's conscience." Sora asked him.
"That cricket is not a conscience." Brian said bluntly.
"Well young man, I have prove." Jiminy lifted his jacket to the side and showed them an 18 karat golden badge. "See.' Official Conscience' by the Blue fairy herself."
"You mean Merryweather?" Goofy asked.
"No, I mean the Blue Fairy from the world me and Pinocchio came from." Jiminy corrected.
"Okay. Explain to me why I need a conscience?" Brian crossed his arms.
"Actually, I do see Sora's point. You have been acting strangely." Riku told him.
"That was because of the bug." Brian with frustration before sighing, "Fine, I have the cricket as a conscience." Jiminy hopped over towards Brian and jumped on his shoulder.
"But Sora, what about the journals?" Donald asked.
"Well, Jiminy will still be able to do them." Sora faced Brian, where Jiminy was. "Won't you, Jiminy."
"You bet I will." Jiminy faced Brian, "I can assure you that I will be a good conscience like I have with Pinocchio and if you ever need me, give a little whistle." Jiminy explained to the red head. Brian nodded and Jiminy went to rest on top of Brian's brown bag which Brian placed all of the supplies their need before heading off the discover the world.
BOWBOWBOW
Skullo smirked as his device had worked on the red head as he watched the radar sense him. He had come back to Ultimate Castle to show the Colonel the device that he had placed in Brian's drink to get rid off the chip that one of the Devon brothers had placed in his arm and to change his behaviour to get them to the that location.
Nikolai looked over at Skullo's smug face as he continued to shine the armoured boots. He knew that they were planning something that involved with Brian; If only he could warn them. Devil and Abroc soon walked into the computer room with was previously the library after coming back from a meeting in Neo Mansion. Devil was surprised to see Skullo at Ultimate Castle. "Skullo, what do you want?!" The Colonel questioned.
"Forgive me for my sudden appearance, sir." Skullo bowed respectfully, "I have come to Ultimate Castle to show you some new technology."
"Yeah right, you only came here to get away from Lizza who is currently at Caribbean Curse." Nikolai huffed as he finished a pair of shiny metal boots and started on a muddy pair. Nikolai was glad that ever since Lizza came out of her Neutral status, she grew an interest for the younger normal endless, meaning that both Link and Skullo will never hear the end of it. Lizza stills flirts with Nikolai but not as much.
Skullo swinged around on his chair and gave Nikolai an murderous glare, "Stay out of this, Neutral." He said venomously.
"Lieutenant, explain to me why I would be interested in the information that this ancient box would tell?" Devil asked with annoyance, never really caring about Skullo's respect towards him.
"Because this 'ancient box' just so happen to lead your son, the Keyblade Master and the others to Major Snake and Corporal Link's location." Skullo informed him.
This brought a satisfied smirk on the Colonel's face, "Really now. That does sound like interesting information." Devil then turned to his right hand man, making Abroc brace into attention, "Head to Snake and Link's position and collect the Princess of Heart, I have high hopes that she would stay with the Keyblade Master."
"Yes sir." Abroc bowed and summoned his portal, leaving the three endless in the computer room.
Skullo became confused by Devil's actions, "Why are we attempting to capture the princess now? The date isn't for another ten weeks."
"If we leave it ten weeks then we would have been defeated by the Chaos of Light." Devil said to Skullo while looking out the window to the view of the autumn trees. "Time is becoming quicker and so is its power." Nikolai listened to all of the Colonel's plans while he carried on polishing the armoured boots.
BOWBOWBOW
Sora, Kairi, Brian and Hikari were walking the night lit wasteland with Jiminy by their side. Everyone was surprised that Brian was listening to Jiminy's advice without any arguments. The reason that was because Jiminy was only giving his opinion on which way they should go. Jiminy then went back in Brian's bag when Sora, Kairi, Brian and Hikari came across a cliff that lead to a huge tower.
"Woah!" Sora gasped.
"That's one big tower." Kairi's wide eyes looked at the tower.
Hikari faced Brian, "What do you think it's for?" Hikari asked.
Brian shrugged, "Properly some sort of transmission device to send messages to other gummis.!" Brian then stepped forward to the edge of the cliff and started to skid down the cliff.
Kairi wasn't sure at first but decided to follow Brian, followed by Hikari and Sora. Sora was having a bit of trouble skidding down the cliff due to his gigantic boots, making him trip while skidding and ended up rolling down the hill instead. When the others landed safety on the ground, they all turned around to watch Sora roll all the way down the cliff and appear in the sitting position in front of Kairi. Sora was now covered in dirt and decided to grin goofily at her, making Kairi giggle at his clumsiness.
Brian approached the two and crossed his arms as he smirked down at Sora, "Nice and graceful, Keyblade fool." he laughed.
"Yeah. Yeah." Sora shrugged off, "Help me up, will you." Brian nodded and handed Sora his right hand for him to grab. Sora grabbed Brian's hand and Brian pulled him up. As Brian pulled Sora up, Sora suddenly saw a flash of images rush through his mind.
They is nothing I can do, we have lost.
Destiny Island is gone. Destroyed. All because of the Keyblade.
There's something about you that seems familiar.
You'll help save the worlds from this war, won't you?
Riku! Look out!
Sora blinked a couple of times, not sure what he had just seen, "Sora?" Kairi rested her hand on his arm, trying to see what is wrong. Sora sighed, knowing that he would not be able to figure it out for the time being. Sora faced his worried friends and the curious Brian and said that he was fine and that they should press on.
As Sora started to approach the huge tower, the girls looked worriedly at him before following while Brian remembered about the tests that he had run the night before and tried to remember what test he ran. I think that it was the HSD test, I know that I ran the Endless test again just in case. I think it was HDS that was positive. Brian then concentrated on the task ahead and joined the others.
As the group approached the tower, Kairi looked at her surroundings once again. Sora turned around to see Kairi's curious face, "You alright, Kai?" he asked. Brian and Hikari halted and turned to face Sora and Kairi.
Kairi looked at the others after realising something, "Hey guys, is it just me or have you noticed that this is the only thing that we have come across?" Kairi asked them.
"It's you." Hikari glared at Brian and jabbed him in the gut. "OW!!"
"Kairi's right." Sora piped up, "We haven't see any people either. If this tower is here then there should be people, right?" Hikari nodded in agreement while Brian thought about the situation.
Brian stepped forward when he noticed to sound of the ground, "That's weird." he muttered.
"What? What is it?"" Hikari raised an eyebrow.
"Listen." Brian slammed his foot on the ground multiple times, "What does that sound like?"
Sora, Kairi and Hikari pondered on the sound for a moment, "It sounds like…" Kairi began to answer, "metal."
"Why would you the ground sound like metal?" Hikari asked.
Sora pointed to the tower, "Maybe the metal flooring goes with the tower."
"Yeah but remember when I destroyed that robot bug with my foot." Hikari reminded them, "When I slammed my foot down, the ground sounded different. The tower's flooring couldn't have reached that far off."
"We also haven't seen any Unbirths, Heartless, Nobodies or Endless around." Kairi told them, "Something is defiantly wrong."
Brian's eyes widened from realisation as he gulped with fear as soon as he heard the words 'Unbirths' and 'Endless', "Uh oh." Brain breathed.
"What's wrong, Brian?" Sora asked.
"I just realised where we are." Brian said with fear.
"Where?" Kairi and Hikari stepped towards him.
"We didn't crash on another world." Brian explained the situation to the three, "We crash on an Endless Elite ship. We need to get out of here!" The others' eyes widened from the sudden discovery and nodded to Brian's suggestion.
"Don't move!"
Sora, Kairi, Brian and Hikari freezed their actions and slowly turned around to look at the top of the cliff. "Ah…you gonna be kidding me." Brian said as he looked regretfully on the top of the cliff.
On top of the cliff was Major Snake with an army of Unbirths and Endless. "Move away from that there talking tower. If you get any closer, I'll send my comrades on ya." Snake raised his scaly claw to signal the archers to take aim. As the archers took place, Snake chuckled as he watched the red headed boy run all over the place.
"Okay everybody, move like me. They can't hit a moving object. " Brian told the others but they decided to not to act like an idiot. "C'mon guys!" Brian looked up at Major Snake, "GO AWAY!" Brian looked back at the others to see that they were not doing anything. "Why am I the only one doing it? C'mon-"
Hikari approached Brian and slapped him around the head to stop his childish plan. She then kept her view on the enemy, "Are we going for it?"
"No, we are not gonna go for it…" Brian answered.
"We can take them!" Sora said positively as he summoned his Kingdom Key. Kairi agreed and summoned the Oathkeeper.
"No. There's a 'no' here." Brian complained.
"Stop whining and get ready to fight." Hikari then drew her Eternal Blade. Brian gulped as he looked back up at the huge gigantic army.
Snake smirked as the group's naive optimism, "Hah! Hope is such a useless thing." Snake then pointed down to the group. "Restrain them!" he ordered and the front line of Endless soldiers began to skid down the cliff.
"Um…Hello! What are we go- Let's run, I'm a fast runner…" Brian began to step backwards as the army approached.
Hikari grabbed Brian's shirt to stop him from running away, "Why have you suddenly become a wimp? We're going for it."
"We're in this together." Sora added.
"Yeah," Kairi agreed. "Let's do this." Hikari let go off Brian's shirt and the three charged into battle, leaving Brian dumbfounded.
"Oh god damn it." Brian summoned his Staff of Myths and charged into battle with his friends.
Brian came running in, changing into his element as he ran. He created an meteor shot from his flamed hands and started to fire at the soldiers that were still coming down the cliff. Kairi and Hikari ran together as they headed towards the mages who were healing the soldiers that Brian had just hit. Some mages managed to notice the approaching girls. The Soul mages began to strike thunder spells at the fighters, only for them to dug at the attack and continued to charge towards them. Kairi struck the first mage while blasting another one away with a blizzard spell a while Hikari charged her sword up until it glowed brightly and power hit the mage away. Sora began running towards a group of soldiers with his Keyblade ready. Sora then skidded to a halt and waved his Keyblade, creating a powerful air blade. The air blade then turned bright blue and took out all of the soldiers in front of Sora.
Brian then stopped his actions and watched Sora take out ten Endless soldiers in one shot, "SHOW OFF!!" he shouted before he created a fire based tornado to take out even more soldiers that Sora just took out.
Snake watched as his soldiers slowly decrease from the young fighters. Normally, he wouldn't' mind this because the Colonel would be right around the corner to revive his soldiers but this time was different. "Why are y'all losing to four people. We are all suppose to mean death so act like it." Snake shouted down to his soldiers below before raising his scaly hand, "Archers! Fire!"
"But Major, Endless troops are still down there." An Endless Private told him.
Snake growled like an dinosaur at the private and quickly clawed its heart out, making it fade. "It's the bad side of life that I'm willingly to look aside." Snake then turned towards the fight and raised his claw again. "FIRE!" he commanded.
Arrows began to fall upon the group as well as the other Endless soldiers. As some endless got shot and faded, mages that were still alive cast protect on the remaining soldiers to protect them. The others was not so luckily as arrow began to rapidly fall at them as well as worrying about the fighters. Brian tried to dodge the soldiers attack went a couple of arrows pieced through his right arm. Brian gritted his teeth together as the rushing pain came through his body and froze his actions completely.
Sora saw that Brian was completely paralyzed and couldn't defend himself from the Endless soldier. Sora perform quick dash and slashed the Endless in half, saving Brian's life. Sora quickly ran over to Brian and dragged him closer to the communication tower while Kairi and Hikari defended them. Sora quickly pulled the arrows out of Brian's arm, making Brian yell in pain, and quickly cured him from his injuries. Sora then handed Brian an hand, helping him up. "Thanks Sora, looks like we're even now." Brian then took his defence position as he and Sora watched the enemy surround them.
"There're too many." Sora noticed his surroundings.
"It's no use." Hikari then noticed a pipe leaking near the side of the tower. "Brian, aim for the pipe." Hikari told him.
"Sora, Hikari and I will draw them off." Kairi said, catching on to the plan and referred to the soldiers in front of them.
"Ignite any energy leaking out." Hikari carried on instructing.
"Right!" Brian then relied what Hikari was suggesting, "What? No, that's not gonna work."
"There's no other way." Sora struck a thunder spell to prevent the soldiers approaching them.
"If they come through then we'll be captured." Kairi told him.
There is no way I'm letting that Colonel get his hands on Kairi. Three soldiers ran towards the group to try and attack them but Sora cut them down within one shot. He then looked at Brian, "Brian, do it!" he shouted to him.
"Okay. Okay. I'll do it. " Brian aimed his staff similar to when you aim an gun and fired a spell towards the energy leak.
"What th-" Snake gasped as he watched the bottom of the cliff completely exploded and moved upwards towards the other soldiers. The explosion blew Snake away from the side of the cliff, preventing him to see what was happening below.
The others looked at the tower and saw that it was about to collapse, "Okay, time to go." Brian gulped once more, disposing of his weapon.
"For once, I agree with Brian. Let's go." Hikari disposed of her weapon too and began to run.
Kairi began to run as well but then noticed that Sora wasn't following. She quickly halted, catching Hikari and Brian's attention, and saw that Sora was just staring up at the communication tower which was beginning to fall apart. "Sora!"
Hikari and Brian ran to Kairi's side and saw that Sora was just standing there, "Sora! Let's get out of here before it's too late." Hikari shouted to him. Sora didn't listen though and they watched him drop the Kingdom Key and continued watching the falling tower. Brian took a deep breathe and ran straight towards Sora. "Brian?"
Brian ran straight in front of Sora, "Sora, snap out of it!" Brian palm hit Sora at the side of his head, bringing him out of his deep though. Sora looked confusly at Brian, "We need to get out of he-" Both of the boys gasped as the tower collapsed right on top of them with the dust taking Kairi and Hikari.
A/N: Wow! Wonder what happening to Sora and the others? Kay, on with the messages.
Future Keybearer: You will find out when I go to those worlds but I will say that the highschool one is high school musical.
Kisdota-The Freak Gamer: I will only say that one of your guesses are REALLY close but I will say no more and for some reason, finding a bit about a character in a game can't ruin a game for me, that and I kinda came across the information from facebook which was quite annoying. Also, I have a very special plan for the high school world which I think that you as well as others would enjoy.
Soragirl4ever: No no no! It can't be green elephants, it has to be pink elephants but the chapter was just one of the random one.
See ya next time
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