Chapter 55: Where's the Chocobo??
Max, Riku, Rinoa and Vivi were able to escape St DrangonKnight by Rinoa using some sort of teleporting spell as she came into her angel limit. It was annoying for Max, who was struggling with carrying the comatose Riku over his shoulder, to come back to Brian's gummi and to find Donald and his dad in the bridge asleep. Max quickly placed Riku on the sofa and rushed over to the cockpit. After a couple of minutes of stress with trying to remember Brian's stupid password for his gummi and the fact that St DrangonKnight was coming apart; Max was finally able to decode the ship and got it running. Donald and Goofy had woken up from the sudden departure from the elite ship and came into the cockpit to help Max out. While Rinoa and Vivi strapped themselves in as Rinoa held on to Angelo tightly; Max pulled the steering wheel back to avoid the asteroids that the elite ship had hidden itself in.
As the gummi began to flee away from the asteroid field, St DrangonKnight started to get crushed from the gravitational pull that was caused from a chain reaction of the engines overheating. The remains of the ship expanded like a supernova as the blast began to shoot the asteroids at the gummi. Donald and Goofy ran to the cannons at the side of the ship and began to shoot the asteroids as the asteroids shot pass at high speed. The explosion of the elite ship started to get closer and closer to the ship as the asteroids started to come faster at them.
Max was starting to panic at the situation that they had been caught in and tried to remember what Scott had taught him. He knew that he had to increase the thrusters of the ship so it would outbalance the pull of the gravitational pull from the blast and with the asteroids striking at the ship more and more; he knew he had to do it fast. He started to hear Donald call back at him to do something but the panic was getting to him.
The blast started to overtake the ship and was beginning to rip it apart the protective armour. The speed from the thrusters were suddenly shot and the gummi ship began to be pulled back to the centre of the blast as the supernova blast itself had turned into something similar of a black hole except that it was heading towards a huge explosive energy like a star instead of a small sucking hole of doom. The ship suddenly turned 180º, making the ship face the explosive star. The thrusters were suddenly activated again and the ship began to head towards the star. The gummi spinned multiple times as the ship ahead towards several asteroids and was immediately slashed in half as the gummi used it's blade system while some asteroids were still being blasted away. The gummi started to speed up towards the star, the ship still falling apart from getting closer to the star and the blast starting to crush the gummi. The gummi suddenly glowed white and flashed right through the star before the blast, asteroids in the blast and the star itself collapsed in itself. Near the medieval world where the group had passed a while back, a damaged red gummi warped out of nowhere with trails of the explosive following it. As soon as the gummi was close enough to hover near the world, the gummi glowed green as the auto-healing gummi block activated.
Max carried on looking at his shoes, knowing that he had disappointed everyone. Donald had to take over the gummi after Max made the thrusters cut out while his dad controlled both of the cannons. As Donald carried on controlling the auto-healing gummi, Max heard his dad come back into the room and rested his hand on his son's shoulder, which was shrugged off roughly. "Maxie, you can't blame yourself for this-"Goofy said to him gently.
"Save it!" Max spat nastily at him before riding from his seat and glared at his dad. "I screwed up. I don't need your sympathy." Max stormed into the bridge, ignoring his father's calls, and went to his room. When Max passed the chocobo egg, he failed to notice the movement of the egg and that it was closely near the edge of the shelf.
BOWBOWBOW
"Are you trying to make me pissed off because if you are then you are doing a great job at it." Colonel Devil yelled with frustration at Nikolai as Abroc and Skullo held him in place by each arm. Nikolai was currently in his endless armour but has had his helmet ripped off as his face was covered in cuts and bruises from Abroc and Skullo's attacks. "I am sick and tired of having Order members dragging you back here since you keep trying to help the enemy."
"What we do is wrong." Nikolai replied darkly. Devil growled angrily at the comment, giving the signal to Skullo that he can jab Nikolai in the mid-section with his boiling hot claw. Nikolai yelled in pain at the attack that was being afflicted to him.
Devil raised his claw, making Skullo stop. "What we do is for the better of all the worlds. You know this." He said to Nikolai in a softer tone as he leaned down in front of Nikolai's face. Nikolai didn't reply, instead he panted heavily. Devil smirked at the boy's stubbornness before moving away from him and looked for a book in the stock of books. "You know better than most Endless about the stories that we've been told back home."
"Riiiggghhhttt." Nikolai coughed from the pain, causing more pain. "The home Major Snake always talks about. The one that Link, Lizza or the Dark Master would never understand about."
"Then you know how important it is to make sure that the stories become true." Devil told him.
"Making those stories become true would not only make the Keyblade Master fall to pieces but billions of lives would be wiped off many worlds and billions more would be control by this curse that hides our true hearts..." Nikolai warned him before quietly laughing to himself, "Like what you did to your wife and kids."
Abroc and Skullo lost grip of Nikolai as Devil slammed his emblem claw in Nikolai's face. Nikolai knew that he had stepped on Devil's nerve, every Endless doesn't want to hear about their past live. It was the only thing that he would admit he had in common with these monsters; only that Devil took it the most seriously. Devil quickly moved his claw to his throat as he began to choke Nikolai. Nikolai could see spikes coming out of his arms, shoulders and the upper part of his back, meaning that he was close to going outburst mode which WAS NOT a good thing for him.
Devil's eyes had turned completely emblem green as he watched Nikolai turning limp as he lost consciousness from the lack of air. Devil then shook his head to return his eyes back to normal and dropped Nikolai to the ground. Devil grunted before summoning two of his Endless soldiers which considered them wearing green marking armour like the colonel and had a huge bark like claw instead of the small regular claws that the other Endless have. "Whip him to remind him of our purpose before letting him rest in his quarters." Devil commanded them. The soldiers bowed before taking Nikolai away.
Devil was still as angry as the underworld as he turned to face Abroc with a murderous expression, "err...why are you looking at me like that, good buddy? Abroc showed off his nature by the sound of his voice.
"Oh I don't know." Devil said sarcastically, "Maybe because I asked for THE PRINCESS OF HEART!!!" The sudden raise of voice made Abroc back away from his friend into the desk, making him fall to the ground. Abroc hastily got to his feet, feeling the deathly glare that was being burned into his very corrupted soul. Abroc may be dumb around other members sometimes but he did know this; leave now or you'll be seeing the thousands of beings he had killed over the years. "Get out of my sight." He told him.
Abroc summoned his portal and left.
"Idiot!" Skullo muttered under his breath.
"And you!" Devil turned to Skullo, "Since you find this place sooo muuuccch better than Caribbean Waste. You wouldn't have a problem when you teach Nikolai some history and computer knowlegde."
"What the hell did I do!?" Skullo shouted angrily, "You should be the one that should prepare for disobeying the Dark Master. Traitors are supposed to be killed on sight. Why save the Neutral??"
"Skullo, you're a good comrade. Don't make me kill you." Devil threatened.
"You know what, Colonel. Snake would do sooo much better as leader." Skullo summoned his ninja swords. Devil summoned his two-wielder sword when a portal appeared in the middle of them. "Looks like the Dark Master heard of your doings." Skullo said smugly.
Devil sighed as he watched the Dark Master appear in front of the two with Corporal Link by his side. He knew he was going to hear news that he already knew that would involve him making the stories from back home come true.
BOWBOWBOW
A couple of hours after escaping the explosion, Max came out of Riku's room and began to head towards the bridge. Max had been informed by Rinoa that Riku had gone into a comatose state as he was trapped within one of his memories and said that they would need the help of a healer. No one on the ship had the magic to create the portal that would lead to Little Devon so their only choice was Radiant Garden. Everyone, who was conscious, agreed that they would search the world below to receive the world's item but wouldn't be able to balance since not of them had a keyblade.
Max walked in the bridge to see his dad and Vivi watching the wide screen TV that Riku, Kairi and Hikari must have installed when they were on Ohana. Max could see that the TV was tuned into the Little Devon channels as he saw Goofy and Vivi were watching the L.D.A Warriors vs Devon's University Almighty Ducks. It seems that Goofy was cheering for the ducks as he had a duck's jersey on and was going 'quack quack quack' while Vivi was waving a little Almighty Ducks flag. Max sighed at this; that was his jersey and his dad properly thought that cheering for the team might make a connection between the two. Like that would work. Max huffed. Might as well watch the match though, it'll be funny to watch some ice hockey.
Max began walking towards Goofy and Vivi when he suddenly heard a 'CRUNCH' and 'SQUISH' from under his right foot. "Huh?" Max looked down to see that he had stepped on what appears to be half an egg shell and remains of the albumin in the egg shell. Max moved his foot and noticed the other half of the shell a few feet away as well as more albumins. Max looked around him to find any more traces of the egg when his eyes passed the protective case for the chocobo egg. Max gulped as he looked into the protective case...
No chocobo egg...
Max realised what he had just stepped on and came up with two conclusions.
One) He had just killed the chocobo but there would have been more parts and he would have heard his dad said 'Hey, where's the chocolate?'
Two) the crash that Brian had caused and the intense heat from St DragonKnight explosion must have caused the egg to pre-maturely hatch, leaving a pre-mature chocobo running around the ship.
Either way, Brian is going to kill him if he doesn't find the chocobo.
"Dad!" Max called over with a hint of panic in his voice, "We have a problem."
"What is it, Max?" Goofy asked concernedly, noticing the panic in his voice. Goofy turned off the TV, making Vivi completely confused on what was going on, and walked over to his son. That is when Goofy stepped on the other shell, "Gawsh, what's this?"
"The chocobo shell, dad." Max said firmly to him, "There's a chocobo running loose on the gummi." Goofy's eyes widened at this and now realised why his son was worried. With no time, Goofy and Max began to search for the tiny chocobo with haste. Vivi just stood there and watched Goofy and Max ripped the entire bridge and kitchen apart, thinking that they were playing hid n' seek with the chocobo.
While Max was searching through one of the cupboards, he found Brian's box and saw a small ripped hole in the corner, if the chocobo managed to get in the cupboard then it would properly go in the box for safe keeping. Max then started to search the box.
"What's with all the racket?" Donald raged as he came from the cockpit. Donald gasped at the mess that the goof's had made. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! WE HAVE A WORLD TO GO TO!!" Donald yelled at the both of them. Max didn't notice Donald's existence since he was too busy looking through Brian's stuff. Donald waddled over to Goofy, who was currently checking inside an oven. "Goofy, what are you doing?" Donald stomped his flat foot impatiently from the frustration of not being answered.
Goofy banged his head on the top of the oven as Donald spoke. Goofy brought his head out of the oven and looked down at Donald cheerfully. "Looking for the little birdie." He said before looking around the kitchen again. "Here birdie birdie birdie." Goofy called out while searching the cupboards and the fridge.
Max carried on searching through Brian's stuff, forgetting about the chocobo. As Vivi told Donald that they were searching for the lost chocobo, Max stopped searching through the box as he lifted a picture from the box.
Max saw that it was Brian at the age of thirteen with a guy the same age as Brian in the picture that has jet black hair, blue eyes and has his arms crossed as well as a girl in the middle of the two who had short black hair with a thunder blue fringe and looked similar to the guy with the black hair. Max saw that there was a guy behind them, obliviously chuckling at the others. The guy appeared to be in his late 20's, he had gravity defying pure white spiky hair with stone cold blue eyes. He strangely looked familiar to Max.....
"MAX!" Max quickly placed the picture and box back into the cupboard and locked the doors before turning around to see Goofy struck in the vent while Donald was hanging on the fanlight with dear life as it began to short circuit and spin faster. Vivi jumped up and down in panic. "MAX, SHUT THIS THING OFF!" Donald screamed as the fanlight went faster and faster.
"It's pretty cosy in here, ah-yuck!" Goofy's voice echoed as he relaxed inside the vent.
How did they get in that situation??? "Don't worry guys. I'll-" Max forgot about the egg shell on the floor when he began running towards the kitchen and ended up skidding uncontrollably into the kitchen. "..Noooooo!" Max waved his arms to keep his balance and yelped when he saw that he was heading right into the pantry. Max's entire body crashed into the pantry door and fell on his butt. As Max rubbed his nose, the pantry door slowly opened and an ironing board fell out and hit Max's head, making Max lightheaded and let the rest of his body fall to the ground.
Max groaned as he saw a number of little chocobo chicks circle his head and make him fell even more dizzy then before. They soon disappeared as Max felt something licking his face; Max tilted his head to see Angelo sitting happily next to him.
"What happened in here?" Rinoa questioned as she turned the fanlight off, making Donald dropped to the kitchen floor from the dizziness. Rinoa looked over to Goofy with a thoughtful look before leaving the room. As Max got to his two feet and helped Donald up, Rinoa came back into the kitchen with a bottle of baby oil and a rope. She walked over to the vent that Goofy was still currently stuck in, undone the baby oil and placed it all around Goofy's sides. Rinoa then tied the rope to the end of Goofy's legs told everyone to pull the rope. After three pulls, Goofy flew out of the vent and crashed onto the wooden floor.
"We were looking for the chocobo." Vivi answered Rinoa's question as Max and Donald went to help Goofy up.
"You mean you guys looking for a small chocobo chick cause you to do this?" She asked as she pointed to the sofa that was for some reason on fire, stuffing from the other sofa everywhere, ripped magazines, broken potions ect.
"errr...." Goofy and Max replied.
Rinoa shook her head and smiled, "You guys are just entertaining." Rinoa giggled, making Donald, Goofy and Max sigh in relief. "Did you guys check under your hats?"
"Hats?" The Disney crew questioned and looked in the direction of Vivi as he lifted his huge yellow wizard hat up. As soon as Vivi removed the hat, the group saw a small tiny chocobo chick sleeping on Vivi's head. The chocobo was only white at the moment as it was just hatched. What confused most of the group was the fact that they expected the chocobo to be bigger since it came out of a shell the size of a shield, just it didn't grow as much since it hatched pre-maturely. Rinoa walked over to Vivi and placed the sleeping chocobo chick in her hands, letting Vivi placed his hat back on. "Vivi, how could you not notice the chocobo in your hat?" Max asked.
"I was routeing for the ducks." He honestly said. Max just anime dropped to the ground.
"With a chocobo that would need special care and watching over Riku, we would need the mages to stay here." Rinoa announced. Vivi, Donald and Goofy seemed to agree with Rinoa but Max was shocked by the known conclusion.
"Wait, you don't mean-"Max said
"This will be great, son." Goofy said as he pulled his son into a love-warming hug, "We can have some quality time together." Max only had one comment to this as his dad hugged him...
"I think I'm gonna be sick."
Mad: How will the chocobo be? What's going on with Riku? Will Max be driven into blinks of madness? What are Sora and co going to do on African Depths?? Tune in next time for KINGDOM HEARTS: BALANCE OF WORLDS...... Now for messages...
Starlight: PS3 is for the hardcore gamer, Xbox is for causal and multiplayer gamers and Wii is aimed at family. Wii is good and I'm a Nintendo fan to the end but when you got no one to play the games that they have with you then its kinda boring. Sora and Kairi have the cuffs that the Endless normally place on them so they can't use their keyblades. Also, I had a compact F500 with windows vista, i think it was vista that caused the problem. Thanks for reviewing.
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Next chap will stay with Sora and others till they leave African Depths and there's a hidden surprise in the chapter...
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