AN: Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another chapter of my first Kingdom Hearts story, and I am pleased to announce that we will be having a special guest with us here in the authors notes for the next few chapters or so, but his identity will only be revealed in the ending authors note of this chapter, so let's hear it for our special, mystery guest!
[AN hits control that starts up an audience applause as a silhouetted figure appears on stage]
?: Greetings lyokoMARVELanime and fanfiction readers. It's great to be here. So are we going to give any clues as to who I am?
AN: You mean besides the fact that you're a character who will be making his debut appearance in this story in this chapter? Yes. So start us off my man.
?: Sure thing. Well, I made my first appearance in a Disney animated movie that was released in 1995, and shortly after the sequel to that movie, which premiered in 1999, I made my first appearance in my first ever solo, spin off movie that went further into the world that my character came from, which paved the way for my animated series, in which I starred alongside three other heroes, showing just how great a space hero I truly am.
AN: Well there you have it folks, our mystery space hero guest has just given you his history in the world of Disney, and we'll be seeing more of him later on in the story, and revealing his identity at the ending authors note, so enjoy the adventure for now. [Stops mystery guest when he looks like he's about to say something] As much as we would all love to hear your iconic catchphrase, I'd be a dead give away on your identity, so let's keep it a secret for as long as possible.
[mystery guest nods]
I do not own anything from the Kingdom Hearts franchise or any other franchise mentioned in this story.
Chapter V
Everything was calm in the Mysterious Tower as Mickey and Roxas worked to organize the defenders that had gathered together there, until Naminé suddenly gasped and cried out, "They did it! They've gotten the three previous masters back together again!"
Yen Sid allowed himself a small smile upon hearing this news, but deep down, he knew that it would not likely be that easy. While it was true that Sora and Kairi had likely brought Aqua, Terra, and Ventus back together as a group, it would be much more difficult for the three Keybearers of the past to truly come together once again as a true team, let alone as friends. Still, he was not that greatly worried, because like his former apprentice, Mickey, Yen Sid knew that if anyone had a chance of restoring the bond between the three students of Eraqus, it was Sora and Kairi. Yen Sid then brought himself out of his thoughts as he stated, "Now all that we need to do is find the last one."
"Gosh, I guess that means you fellas need me, right," Mickey's voice said, and the two magic wielders turned to see the mouse king of Disney Castle himself standing in the doorway with a smile on his face.
"How goes the organization of our forces, Mickey," Yen Sid asked.
"It's going swell, Master Yen Sid," Mickey replied with a smile. "Everyone's really eager to do what they can to help Sora and Kairi, and put a stop to both Xehanort and the darkness for good."
"That's wonderful," Naminé sighed. "But hopefully we'll have finished this mission before they arrive."
"Well, I wouldn't hold my breath on that, Naminé," Mickey said sadly before he regained his usual look of cheerful determination and added, "But that's all the more reason why we need to hurry and tell Sora and Kairi where they can find me."
Naminé nodded and then paused to make sure she was able to effectively communicate the information to the two Keyblade wielders, and once she had done so, she turned to Mickey and asked him to tell her the information. Right when Mickey was about to tell Naminé where Sora and Kairi needed to go, however, Roxas suddenly burst into the room and shouted, "Mickey, Master Yen Sid! They're here!"
"Oh no," Mickey exclaimed. "Not now! Tell everyone to do what they can against the Heartless, and we'll be there to join them as soon as…"
"That's part of the problem," Roxas interrupted. "The first wave of the attack force, they're not Heartless, Nobodies, or even Unversed!"
"Whaddya mean, Roxas," Mickey asked.
"Just take a look outside and see for yourself," Roxas exclaimed as he raced over to the window to show them. Mickey and Yen Sid both followed the blonde Nobody, and once they saw what was going on outside, they both gasped in shock at what they saw. Instead of Heartless, Nobodies, or Unversed, the tower seemed to be under attack by an army of strange, yellow robots with upside down triangles for heads. The robot army also included a number of larger red ones that had treads for moving around instead of feet, and leading them appeared to be, not Organization XIII, Riku, or even Xehanort's most trusted allies, but a strange array of villains, most of which seemed rather alien, like they came from the same world as their friend Stitch.
One of the leaders of the robot army appeared to be another robot that had a red head with mismatched eyes and a strangely built body, as it seemed to be made of random parts that came from different machines. Another was a man with yellow skin, five eyes, four arms, and a silver plate on his chest. The third person seemed to have blue skin, brown hair and a beard, and wore a strange yellow outfit with a monocle. The final two consisted of a man with pale blue skin, dark blue hair, who wore a dark purple and red space suit of some kind while having a robotic right arm, while the second of the final two seemed to be more of a machine with yellow teeth, red eyes, and grey horns, who wore a purple and grey outfit with a black cape that was red on the inside and was held in place by a red, circular clasp with a yellow letter "Z" inside the circle.
Needless to say, the sight of these beings making up the first wave of Xehanort's attack force had shocked everyone, but all the same, the defense teams were quick to respond, with Leon and Cloud leading the charge along with the rest of the Radiant Garden Liberation Force. From up in the tower, Mickey could only watch on with Roxas and Yen Sid in wonder before he finally asked, "Gosh, how could this have happened? I mean, has Xehanort always had these guys with him?"
"If he did, I think we would've known about them," Roxas told the mouse king. "I mean, I, myself, would've at least heard a small mention in passing about them during my time in Organization XIII, but I never heard or saw anything to indicate that they were there."
Yen Sid then gasped in what sounded like fear before he quickly summoned the book of Keyblade wielder history, and immediately began leafing through it until he finally found what he was looking for. "I believe the reason why we've never encountered them before, is because we were never originally meant to," Yen Sid then announced.
"Are you saying that history's been changed somehow," Roxas asked. "But I thought that yours and Naminé's spell would prevent anything from changing until Sora and Kairi finished doing what they needed to do in the past."
"We never said that it would be completely perfect, Roxas," Naminé explained. "It was still possible for history to have changed like this, but it would've taken something very drastic happening in the past, or…"
Neither of the two Keybearers in the room liked it when Naminé had suddenly stopped in her explanation, but all the same, Mickey felt that he had to ask, "Or what, Naminé?"
"Or if the one who changed history before found out what we were doing and changed something himself," Naminé finished.
"You mean that, whoever caused history to change originally is still able to cause trouble like this," Roxas asked.
"It would appear so," Yen Sid replied. "Thankfully, we do have a way to counter such actions. The book of Keybearer history changed to accommodate the changes that had taken place in history, and now, we may be able to stop any new alliance from forming or find allies that could assist us in this fight with the help of Sora and Kairi."
"Then I guess having them find me in the past will have to wait for now," Mickey reasoned. "If we don't have them do something soon, then we may not be able to keep Xehanort and his forces back long enough for it to matter." The brave mouse then turned to Naminé and ordered, "Naminé, let Sora and Kairi know that there's been a change in plans, and then tell them of the world that they need to go to in order to help with this situation."
"Okay," Naminé nodded as Mickey ran out of the room. As Roxas was passing her to follow Mickey, Naminé leaned over slightly to give him a small kiss on the cheek and said, "Be careful out there, Roxas."
Roxas smiled and nodded to her, assuring her that he would be fine, and then raced off to catch up with Mickey, just as Naminé had turned to ask Master Yen Sid for the information that they needed to pass along to Sora and Kairi so that they could help them.
Terra, Aqua, and Ventus had taken a slight lead ahead of Sora and Kairi after the group had left Radiant Garden and began traveling through the Lanes Between, and as they flew through the void between worlds, they were beginning to wonder what was taking the two so long to find out where to find Mickey from their friends in the future. "Are you sure that they know what they're doing," Terra asked, clearly still skeptical about their claims to be able to communicate effectively with the people of the future.
"Well they seemed to have so far," Ventus assured his friend.
"So what's taking so long? It can't be that hard to find out where Mickey is," Terra then pointed out.
"Maybe if you showed a little more patience, it wouldn't seem like it was taking a long time," Aqua half growled at him.
"Are you seriously going to say things like that in that kind of tone every time I say something," Terra then asked the lone female of their trio exasperatedly.
Aqua was about to respond when Kairi blasted to a point where she was right between them and cried out in a distressed voice, "Guys, we've got a problem!"
"What's wrong," Aqua asked, immediately slipping into her usual persona of a person that had a clear view of right and wrong.
"We just heard from Naminé that something about history had been changed and altered things in the future, and not for the better," Sora explained as he came up alongside Ventus. "Apparently, there are some new players for Team Xehanort that Mickey and the others had never seen before, and they're attacking Master Yen Sid's tower as the first wave of Xehanort's attack force right now!"
"Why tell us this though," Ventus then asked.
"Because we might be able to stop the alliance between Xehanort and these new guys from being formed or at least find some extra help that can fight back against these guys," Sora replied. "And not only that, but by going to the world that these new forces are from, we might even find the people who changed history to begin with."
"Well then we'd better hurry and get there quick," Terra immediately said as he prepared to accelerate his Keyblade Glider forward at its maximum speed. "Where do we need to go?"
"We should actually be pretty close to the world right now, if Master Yen Sid is right about where it is," Kairi said, and soon enough, they saw the world that they were likely supposed to be headed to coming up into their line of sight. Upon first glance, it seemed like all the other worlds in the basic sense, but upon closer inspection, they could all see that it seemed to be made up of many other smaller worlds with what seemed to be space ships like the one that Terra, Ventus, and Aqua had been on when they traveled to the world of Deep Space, yet the main difference between this world and that one was that it seemed to be divided between a peaceful side and a side that had an evil, red glow to it.
"Is that it," Aqua asked.
"Yep, that's the place," Sora confirmed. "Have you guys ever been to this world before?"
"Nope," Ventus replied as Aqua and Terra both shook their heads in the same negative response. "I mean, it looks kind of similar to a world that I know we've all been to before, but I can tell that it's not the same place. Have you guys been here in the future?"
"No, this place is new to us too," Kairi replied.
"Well, no time like the present to go and see what it's like so we can get on with our mission," Sora then piped in, happily, and with that, he immediately led the way towards the new world at his maximum speed with the others following shortly behind him. As soon as they landed, the sight they were greeted with was a rather overwhelming one to say the least, as the world they found themselves in seemed to be nothing like anything they'd ever seen before on any other world.
Everywhere they looked they saw a vast number of different looking creatures that were all clearly locals of the world, as well as many different types of robots, including a few that looked like vending machines, and the entire world seemed to be made up of towering buildings of all types, and yet it gave off the feeling of a dangerous town that a good, stand-up citizen would not want to be caught in unless they had no other choice, or wanted to end up dead. Even more peculiar was the fact that there seemed to be a number of flying cars and space ships soaring through the air like it was a normal routine. All in all, they all felt like they had just landed in a science fiction movie of some type.
Ventus was so overwhelmed by their surroundings that he ended up taking a few steps back in order to try and take it all in, only to accidentally bump into someone. "Oh sorry about that," Ventus immediately apologized.
"Hey watch it man," the person snapped in reply, drawing the attention of all the Keybearers on to him. Upon seeing this man, they found that the closest thing they could associate his appearance to was that of a rodent, as he had brown skin, a naked tail, pointed ears, and crooked, yellow teeth. He seemed to walk with a slight hunch, and his orange hair was slicked back, giving all of them the impression of someone that could likely be a shady character.
"Hey, he said he was sorry," Sora told the rodent like man.
"Yeah, well he'd better be," the rodent man snarled as he started walking away. "You don't mess with just anyone on Trade World without some kind of payback later on."
"Wait, is there any chance that you could tell us about where we are," Aqua then asked, getting the man to stop.
The rodent man seemed to smirk a little bit as he turned back to the five and replied, "Well, there might be a way that ol' Crumford Lorak can help you folks out, but it'll come at a small price."
"You want us to pay you for some basic information," Terra asked incredulously.
"Hey pal, we've all gotta make a living somehow, and if you want to get anywhere in this galaxy then you've gotta be ready to pay a price," Crumford told the large Keybearer.
"Or you could just give us any information out of the goodness of your heart," a female voice suddenly said, and Crumford seemed to nearly jump out of his skin when he heard it and the sound of jets coming towards them. The rat man tried to make a run for it, but before he could get very far, he slammed right into a large man with red skin and pointed ears, which immediately turned him around to face the woman who had spoken before.
The woman in question had light blue skin and dark blue eyes with orange hair, and was standing alongside a small robot that came up to her waist, had a yellow head and eyes inside of purple lenses, a silver body, arms, and legs, purple hands, and a pair of treads for feet. The one thing that all three had in common was that the man and woman were both wearing what appeared to be white and green space suits with a strangely shaped backpack on the back, and a circular red button on the right side of the suits' chests, while a blue symbol that looked like a planet with wings overlapped by a rocket stood out in the center of the chests, and the same symbol was also in the center of the robot's cylinder-shaped body.
"Hey, my favorite Space Rangers," Crumford stuttered in a fake, enthusiastic voice. "Look, I don't know what you want with me, but I'm telling you whatever it is, I don't know nothing."
"That's what you always say Crumford," the woman said, and the next thing she did shocked all five Keyblade wielders. She reached out and then sunk her head right into Crumford's head.
"AH! Hey, get out of there, will ya? That's my brain and stuff," Crumford cried out.
"Well I hope I don't accidentally get things all scrambled in here," the woman said in a voice of false concern.
"Alright, alright, whatever you want I'll talk! Now can you remove your hand from my brain," Crumford finally relented, leading the blue woman to do as he asked.
"Strange creatures that look like living shadows, terrorizing and attacking innocent people, who's controlling them, and why," the large man then asked.
"Well, I don't know anything specific about them," Crumford replied, his smooth tone returning to his voice until he saw the orange haired woman raise her hand to his head again. "I really don't know what they are! All I know is that a couple of guys are controlling them and made some kind of deal with a lot of the worst of the worst in the galaxy to help them take over the Galactic Alliance. That's all I know, that's it!"
"Well we'll just let you be on your way then," the robot then said, dismissing Crumford at last. "But don't think that we won't find out if you're lying to us or not, because if you are, we'll be back to have another word with you!"
When the five heard what the new arrivals were talking about with Crumford, they immediately huddled together and began whispering among themselves about what they just heard. "You think it's the Unversed," Terra asked.
"Well it couldn't be something else," Aqua pointed out in a knowing tone.
"But he mentioned that there were two people controlling these things, and last I checked only Vanitas could control the Unversed," Sora reminded everyone. "It could be that those two guys are the ones who changed history."
"Maybe, but the information is too vague to make any real conclusions," Kairi pointed out.
"Maybe if we actually saw the monsters they mentioned, we'd know for sure," Ven pointed out.
"So what, we just go looking for these things without knowing whether or not they belong here," Terra asked.
"No, because they've already found us," Ven said as he pointed in the direction of the three alien space beings. The other four immediately spun around and saw that the three were completely surrounded by the Unversed and, much to the surprise of Sora and Kairi, the Heartless, and they were already trying to fight back with what seemed to be laser beams that came from their wrists, or a pair of laser guns in the robot's case.
"Heartless?! Here in the past," Sora exclaimed. "But how?"
"Let's worry about that later," Kairi told her fellow time traveler as she summoned Destiny's Embrace. "Right now, they need our help!"
The other four immediately nodded in agreement and immediately summoned their own Keyblades as they raced forward into the battle. At first the three spacemen tried to convince the five to get away, thinking it was not safe for them, but when they saw the Keybearers destroy both the Heartless and the Unversed with a single strike of their Keyblades, they immediately dropped all arguments and resumed shooting, finding their attacks to be more effective than they were before. Soon enough, the three girls were all working together, while Ventus was fighting alongside the robot, and Terra was fighting with the large, red man, leaving Sora to fight on his own, not that he was complaining that much.
The Heartless and Unversed were quick to try and capitalize on the sudden division of the two teams, but when they made a lunge towards the blue woman, she merely phased through the floor, allowing her attackers to fly over her head and straight into Kairi and Aqua's Keyblades as they swung a pair of powerful swings at them. The blue woman then leapt back up from beneath the floor and fired a series of laser blasts at some of the Unversed, taking out each of the manifestations of negative emotions in a few shots each before any of them had the chance to try and attack Kairi or Aqua from behind. The girls each nodded in thanks to each other in thanks before returning their attention to the battle at hand.
As that was going on, Terra was landing several powerful swings on both Heartless and Unversed alike, just as his large, red partner leapt up and landed on top of several of them, releasing a shockwave after he hit the ground which disoriented the ones that he did not land on top of and destroyed, long enough for Terra to finish them off with a few swings of his Keyblade. Terra then spun around and pointed his Keyblade at the enemies, and unleashed a powerful barrage of dark energy pulses at the remaining creatures of darkness, while the large man fired his wrist laser at the others, eliminating their group just at the same moment that Ventus had done the same along with the robot when Ven used a similar move to the one Terra had used, except with light energy instead of dark.
Things appeared to be going well for the group, until Sora suddenly found himself backed up against a railing, and upon looking over it, he saw that the street they were all standing on, was actually a walkway that appeared to be elevated several feet up in the air. Before he could recover from the shock of this sight, a group of Heartless suddenly jumped him and knocked him over the edge, earning a cry of fear from Kairi. Thinking quickly, Sora immediately tossed his Keyblade in front of him and summoned his Keyblade Glider so that he could land onboard it. As soon as he had, he immediately blasted back up to the others and used the guns mounted on the front of it to fire off a series of fire blasts that were similar to the ones he used whenever he used his fire spells. Sora was about to dismiss his Glider so that he could dive down with his Keyblade in hand and rejoin the fight, when a sudden green, white, and purple blur suddenly flew past him and into the fight in his place.
The blur turned out to be a man that was dressed in the same kind of green and white space suit as the man and woman that were fighting with the others, except for the fact that it seemed to have a strange purple cap over his head, a small set of red, yellow, and blue buttons on the left side of his suit's chest, and the collar seemed to be a bit larger. He appeared to be a well-built human with a large chin, and from where he was, Sora could see that the purple part of the blur came from the purple, red, and white wings that had extended from his suit's backpack, but the strangest thing was that Sora felt like he recognized this man from somewhere.
Sora shook himself out of it when he saw that the arrival of this mystery space man had allowed the others to finish off the last of the Unversed and Heartless, and he immediately flew his Keyblade Glider down so that he could land safely alongside his other friends before dismissing it. As soon as he had, Kairi immediately ran up and hugged him tightly, showing how glad she was that he was alright, and getting a small blush from Sora in response before he finally returned the hug. They did not release each other from their embrace until a small cough came from the direction of the four space people, and they turned to face them along with Aqua, Terra, and Ventus, just as the man who had been the last to arrive walked up and introduced himself. "Hello, citizens, and thank you for your assistance in eliminating these fiendish creatures," the man said as he shook hands with each of them. "I am Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger of Star Command, and leader of Team Lightyear."
"No way! Buzz Lightyear," Sora exclaimed excitedly.
"You know him, Sora," Ven asked.
"Are you kidding? Buzz was my all time favorite space hero as a kid," Sora told him and the others. "I used to play all the Buzz Lightyear video games all the time, and I had the coolest collection of Buzz Lightyear action figures, next to Riku's of course!"
"Oh right," Kairi then gasped in fond remembrance. "I remember when we were all stuck inside on some of our play dates, and you two always seemed to have your favorite Buzz Lightyear action figures every time, while I joined in with my favorite Barbie doll."
Sora immediately nodded in response to Kairi before he finally returned his attention to Buzz and shook the Space Ranger's hand eagerly as he declared, "It is a huge honor to meet you Ranger Lightyear! My name's Sora and can I just say that you were my biggest hero growing up back home!"
"Well I'm flattered to hear that my spiky haired friend," Buzz replied. "And who are your fellow Keyblade wielders, Sora?"
"You know about the Keyblade," Aqua exclaimed.
"Every Ranger learns about the Keyblade and its wielders upon graduating the Space Ranger Academy, ma'am," Buzz explained. "Until then, it's classified information."
The Keyblade wielders all nodded to each other in acceptance of that before they all introduced themselves to Buzz, leading him to introduce the other members of his team. "My name is Mira Nova," the woman said as she gave a small salute to the group.
"Booster Munchapper, at your service folks," the large, red fellow exclaimed in childlike excitement.
"And I'm XR, and let me just say, it is a great pleasure to meet you all, especially such lovely ladies like the two of you," the robot said as he seemed to start flirting with Aqua and Kairi.
"Uh…nice to meet you XR," Kairi said politely, as she and Aqua both started blushing a bit from the robot's flirting, which earned XR a mild glare from Sora.
"Any chance you can tell us what those things were," Buzz asked. "We've never seen anything like them in the entire galaxy."
"They're creatures called Unversed," Ven began to explain. "At least, the purple ones were. Their kind of a manifestation of negative emotions, and they were named as such because they're known as 'those who are not well-versed in their own existence'. Our Keyblades are the only things that stand a real chance of destroying them. As for the black creatures…"
"They're the Heartless," Sora explained. "Beings that are born from the darkness in people's hearts. They're a lot like animals, acting only on instinct to find and swallow the hearts of others and turning them into Heartless as well, and they're not supposed to be here."
"Yeah, yeah, we kinda gathered as much," Mira muttered in response. "But uh, small problem with the whole, Keyblade being the only thing that can destroy them bit. Our lasers were able to harm them just as much."
"Only after we joined the fight," Sora clarified. "The main reason why you're weapons were only effective at that point was because we were fighting alongside you, but now that you've had a bit of an encounter with a Keybearer or two, your weapons should be more effective against them no matter what."
"So…why are they here," Booster then asked.
"Someone brought them here," Aqua answered. "And we think that they might be the people that Crumford was talking about before when he said that two people had formed an alliance with some of your world's worst criminals."
"Of course, this can only mean one thing," Buzz then exclaimed.
"Here he goes," XR moaned.
"Such a diabolic plot could only be the work of the sworn enemy of the Galactic Alliance: Evil Emperor Zurg," Buzz snarled.
At this declaration, Terra leaned over to Sora and whispered, "Who's Zurg?"
"He's Buzz's archenemy," Sora replied. "They've been fighting against each other for years, and Zurg has always found some way to try and take over or destroy the galaxy or Buzz himself, but he's never won because Buzz was always there to stop him."
"Buzz," Booster suddenly exclaimed. "I just got word from Star Command saying that those Heartless and Unversed things have appeared all over the galaxy."
"What're their locations, Ranger," Buzz demanded.
"Some are still here on Trade World, and the others seem to be on my and Mira's homeworlds," Booster gasped. "And according to the LGMs, a lot of them seem to be coming from Planet Z!"
"Ah craters," Buzz cursed. "Zurg knows we can't stop them all at once, so he's trying to split us up and make us more vulnerable."
Upon hearing this, Sora immediately walked up to Buzz and stood at attention as he declared, "Space Ranger Cadets Sora, Kairi, Aqua, Terra, and Ventus reporting for duty Ranger Lightyear, sir!"
"Wait, what," the other four exclaimed in response to Sora's sudden declaration.
"Guys, how else are we going to get to the bottom of this and stop those things," Sora reasoned. He then glanced back to the Rangers and pointed out in a whisper, "Besides, if we help them, then they might be of some help to us in the future as well, and that'll give Mickey and the others the reinforcements they need."
The four looked between themselves for a minute before they finally nodded in agreement, showing that they were in, which lead Buzz to smirk with pride in thanks before he turned to his team and started giving out assignments. "Alright, XR, you stay here on Trade World and finish up with things here. Booster, take Star Cruiser Forty Two to Jo-Ad. Mira, take the Alpha One to Tangea; it's still aboard the ship, so it should be good to go. I'll take the shuttle to Planet Z," Buzz ordered, receiving a salute from each Ranger in response.
Upon hearing this, Aqua turned to her own team and began saying, "Alright, Ventus, you go to Jo-Ad with Booster while Terra and I stay here on Trade World with…"
"Hold on! Who said you were going to tell us where to go," Terra demanded. "And what makes you think that I'd want to stay anywhere near you, Miss I-Don't-Trust-Terra?"
"Oh I'm sorry, I thought you wanted someone to make sure you didn't succumb to darkness and go crazy again," Aqua retorted.
"Stop it, both of you," Sora interrupted. "Look, here's how it'll work: Terra and Ven will go to Jo-Ad with Booster, Aqua's with Mira, Kairi will stay here with XR, and I'll go with Buzz. Everyone happy with that?"
Everyone nodded in agreement with Sora's decision, some a bit begrudgingly and immediately moved to their assigned partners. Before she left Sora's side, Kairi leaned closer to him and whispered, "You just wanted to team-up with Buzz on your own, didn't you?"
"What? I have no idea what you're talking about, Kairi," Sora replied in an all-too-innocent tone. Just as he was passing XR though, he whispered to the robot, "Keep your eyes and hands to yourself, tin toy. She's my girl."
XR just raised his hands in surrender, being a robot who knew better than to try and flirt with someone else's love interest, and rolled over to Kairi just as the other Keybearers were summoning their armor and Keyblade Gliders, while the other three Space Rangers activated their jetpacks and helmets before blasting off into space, and directly onto a large, white space ship with a green line around the sides of the ship, and four purple wings. A minute later, the rocket's engines fired, and it blasted away to its destination just as a small, red and yellow ship blasted out of it in another direction, and another small shuttle with wings like those of the Space Rangers' jetpacks blasted off the top of the Star Cruiser in a third direction.
As the three ships all headed off towards their destinations, one cry could be heard from the shuttle from two voices. "To Infinity…" Sora began, excitedly, earning a smirk in response from Buzz as he finished.
"…And Beyond!"
Yen Sid Report 5:
In their recent visit to Hollow Bastion, which has now regained its old name as Radiant Garden, Sora, Kairi, and Roxas discovered a young man by the name of Lea, who was able wield a Keyblade of his own. This has led me to believe that there are others out there who are capable of wielding the Keyblade as well, or at the very least, are capable of wielding a similar weapon of equal power. Upon realizing that this belief was true, I asked for Sora and Kairi to quickly find all the others who likely are able to wield these powerful weapons while Roxas assists me in training Lea in how to use the Keyblade. While none of them are able to utilize the same abilities that were used by Earqus's apprentices, such as the Shot Locks and Command Styles, they are each more than capable of these tasks, and that is a fact that I am most grateful for.
However, we are not the only ones who have made this discovery, as our enemies have discovered this as well, and are already moving to intercept us before we reach them. So far, Organization XIII has eliminated two others who would have proven to be powerful allies to us, but it seems that the fall of these two served to strengthen the Organization, as the two had turned out to be the originals of two artificial Nobodies, namely the originals of Larxene and Luxord. It really brings me to wonder just how many of the originals of these artificial Nobodies are like that, but only time will tell, as will the efforts of Sora and Kairi, assuming that they are not too late to save these other potential allies from falling to darkness.
AN: And there you have it! If you seriously thought I was going to send Sora and the others straight off to find Mickey, then you don't know Kingdom Hearts that well. There's always a few other worlds to visit first along the way, and there wouldn't be much of story otherwise if I didn't do this, and speaking of such, for those of you who haven't figured it out yet, our mystery guest is none other than, the hero of the Galactic Alliance, the Space Ranger extraordinaire, give it up for...BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!
[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command theme music plays as the silhouette disappears to reveal Buzz himself to the applauding audience]
Buzz: Now that's how you make an entrance, and let me just say it's great to be here lyokoMARVEL.
AN: Glad to have you, Buzz, and can I just say, huge fan growing up. Seriously, your show was like the first superhero cartoon I ever watched as a kid.
Buzz: Well thanks, I'm glad to hear it. Now about that little bit at the beginning in the future?
AN: Yes, well I needed to give Sora and the others a good reason to stop off at your world before finding Mickey, so naturally having Zurg's forces suddenly appear alongside Xehanort's was the best way, and in case you hadn't noticed, I also gave a vague description that should give you all an idea on who Sora and the others will face in their travels across the Galactic Alliance in the past, in terms of villains from that world.
Buzz: Speaking of my world...
AN: Right, well, the way I see it, to really incorporate the world of your show into this story, I needed for all the planets in that galaxy to be a part of it, so the world in general will be referred to as the Galactic Alliance, not Deep Space, because that's where Stitch is originally from. Any other questions?
Buzz: I'd say that covers it.
AN: Alrighty then, Onto the preview!...
Terra, Ventus, and Booster arrive on the farmer planet of Jo-Ad, and the three are quick to get to work when they discover Heartless and Unversed attacking Booster's family, and their farm. Upon further inspection, they find that the four-armed criminal Torque is the one in command of the Heartless and Unversed on Jo-Ad, leading to a major shoot out between the two sides. Can these three brave heroes defeat the four armed, duplicator, or will Torque's abilities as a one man army overwhelm them completely? Find out next time!
Please read and review, and see ya real soon! Or as my man, Buzz here would say...
AN&Buzz: To Infinity...and Beyond!
