AN: Hey so this chapter is a bit of a long one, so Buzz and I will try to keep this short.

Buzz: But that would also be because we are finally at the conclusion of the Galactic Alliance Arc, in which Sora and I finally get some action, and we see many other surprises as well. Not to mention some other things that many fans of my old show may remember seeing before.

AN: I know that you'll probably be telling me that some of the stuff in their had been done before, but that was kind of the point, in the sense that its the same adventure with a new twist that affects much more than just this world. Now then, this will be last time we see Buzz and the others in this much of a major role, so join us both in saying...

AN&Buzz: To Infinity, and Beyond!

AN: I do not own anything from the Kingdom Hearts franchise or any other franchise mentioned in this story.

Chapter IX

Somewhere off in the Gamma Quadrant of Sector Twelve, Buzz and Sora were cruising through to Planet Z, and their inevitable confrontation with Evil Emperor Zurg, completely unaware of the information that their friends and teammates had just recently discovered beyond what Terra had first reported to the others earlier during that first use of the D-Link. The reason for why they were taking so long to get there was due to the fact that Buzz wanted to make absolutely sure that Zurg did not detect them before they could even land on the evil emperor's planet, so they were flying in as slowly and as far under the radar as possible. As they flew on, Buzz had taken the time to tell Sora about some of his adventures with Team Lightyear, and Sora had been hanging onto every word like an excited child hearing his favorite story. The most recent story being about the time when Zurg had captured one of the LGMs and the small Star Command personnel had wanted to do whatever they could to get in on the mission to save their friend.

"So after they all practically tried to crowd aboard your ship all at once, what'd you do," Sora asked.

"Well I reminded them that first of all, it was a rescue operation, not a revenge mission, and secondly I was in charge and I said that they couldn't go," Buzz replied.

"So you basically put your foot down on the matter?"

"Affirmative, my friend. There was absolutely, positively no way I was letting any of those LGMs on that mission," Buzz replied. He then went silent for a minute before he added, "Except for three of them."

"Really," Sora chuckled in amusement at the idea that Buzz Lightyear was forced to let three little green aliens talk him into letting them come on a mission they should not have been on.

"Basic rule of engagement: compromise," Buzz immediately defended, defiantly before he dropped his voice a bit. "You have no idea what I was up against. Those little guys are tenacious!"

Sora had to nod his head at that as he said, "If they're anything like the Moogles that my friends and I go to see whenever we need more potions, new equipment, and other stuff like that, I think I can relate. I swear, you ask for some fresh potions, elixirs, or anything like that, they don't have a problem giving 'em to you for a reasonable price, but ask for even the simplest weapon upgrade and they start trying to haggle like a pro!"

Both heroes had to shiver a bit at the thought of that, and Buzz then prepared to continue his story when the shuttle's sensors started to sound indicating that they were approaching their destination at last. Buzz then activated a camouflage system that he believed would allow them to slip onto Zurg's planet without him ever knowing they were there until it was too late, and then quickly, but quietly guided the ship passed Zurg's defenses and down onto the planet close to a massive, red tower with a large, yellow letter "Z" at the top, and a pair of horns on the sides of the tower that swept back. "There it is," Buzz nodded as he indicated the building. "Zurg Tower, the evil emperor's fortress itself."

"Yep, that's Zurg's place alright," Sora nodded in reply as they quickly slipped out of the ship and up to the building. "So how do we get in?"

"There's a few different ways to sneak in, but Zurg knows that I know a number of them, so he'll likely be watching them. There is one secret entrance that I've never been able to get into though, but that is mostly due to the fact that Zurg always carries the only key to that door on him at all times," Buzz informed Sora as he indicated a control panel on the wall with one hand.

Sora smirked at this as he summoned his Keyblade and said, "I think I can open it, and without blasting it open as well."

Buzz looked at Sora in surprise as he asked, "You have intergalactic lock picking training?"

"Better," Sora replied, and he then aimed his Keyblade directly at the lock, causing a beam of blue light to shoot out from the mystical weapon's tip, and into the panel. When the light dissipated, a loud clang was heard as the control disappeared into the wall, and the ground began opening up beneath their feet. "If he were one to actually worry about someone falling in through this door since it opens up under their feet, then it would be no wonder that Zurg keeps the key to this entrance on him at all times."

"Agreed," Buzz nodded to his spiky-haired partner as they both jumped down through the entrance and began making their way through the semi-darkened corridors that led them further into Zurg's fortress. They did their best to make sure that they would not be seen, right to the point where they found it necessary to hide even from a passing Grub just to be certain they remained undetected, until they finally found an entrance into the main section of Zurg's fortress.

"This door's sealed as well," Buzz observed after running a hand over the door's insanely complicated looking lock. He then reached for his wrist laser as he smirked, "I can open this though."

"Whoa, maybe we should avoid firing anything to give away the fact we're here for as long as possible," Sora exclaimed as he stopped Buzz from firing. He then summoned the Kingdom Key once again as he stated, "Besides, these things aren't called Keyblades just because they look like giant keys, remember?"

Buzz could only scowl a little at the fact that he had forgotten about that little detail, and then offered a smile as he stepped aside and allowed Sora to use his Keyblade to open the door for them once again. A series of clicks and whirs greeted their ears as the door opened up for them, and they then found themselves admitted into a hallway that Buzz believed would lead them right into the center of Zurg's palace. Knowing that there was no time to lose before they were found out, Buzz and Sora immediately broke into a sprint down the hallway in an attempt to reach their destination before they were discovered, which led Sora to wonder aloud, "So how long do you think it will be before Zurg finds out we're here?"

He received his answer after they went through the doorway at the end of the hall and found a massive legion of Hornets waiting for them with their weapons charged and ready. "I'd say right about now," Buzz said in reply to Sora's question.

"Ah Kingdom Hearts," Sora cursed when he noticed the robots were also accompanied by Heartless and Unversed alike as well. The two legions then seemed to part a bit allowing the heroes to be able to gaze upon the one commanding their opponents, the evil emperor himself, and a man with pale blue skin, dark blue hair, and wearing a dark purple and red space suit that was similar to Buzz's and a robotic right arm.

"So we meet again, Buzz Lightyear. For the last time," Zurg snarled as he stood up from his throne.

"Not today, Zurg," Buzz retorted as he readied his laser while Sora assumed a ready stance with his Keyblade ready for action. "Especially not while my young friend here is by my side to ensure that your latest fiendish scheme will fail."

Zurg and the blue skinned man glanced at Sora for a minute before they both started to laugh as Zurg stated, "Oh no, Darkmatter! We'd better run for our lives! Lightyear has a little boy with a giant key backing him up!"

"What's the matter, Lightyear," the man that Zurg had identified as Darkmatter chuckled. "You taking in any random stray you can now, or is Star Command's recruiting level at an all-time low?"

Sora just rolled his eyes a bit, admittedly being a little annoyed by how the two villains were openly mocking him, but after being in a war between light and darkness for so long, he was able to keep himself calm and let the insults just roll over him, while Buzz stated, "Laugh now, Warp, but know this: while my friend, Sora would make a fine Space Ranger, he's already handling a greater responsibility. The responsibility of protecting all worlds in existence."

Sora then had to give a mental cheer at Buzz saying that he could be a Space Ranger before he glanced at Buzz and asked, "So I know that the robotic-like sissy up there is Zurg, but who's his friend that looks like he spent too much time in the freezer?"

Zurg and Darkmatter's laughing immediately ceased when they heard Sora's comments, but the two heroes ignored both villains' retorts as Buzz explained, "He goes by the name of Warp Darkmatter, and he used to be a Space Ranger for Star Command, as well as my partner and friend. At least, that's what we all thought until he faked his death, leading us all to believe that he had died in the line of duty, and then revealed himself to be a double agent that had been on Zurg's payroll ever since he and I were at the Space Ranger Academy."

"Aw Buzz, why leave out how I practically suckered some vital information out of you along with the fact that the next time we met, even if you didn't know it was me, I bested you move for move like you were just some rookie fresh out of training," Warp then quipped. "I mean, hearing you ignore such history is heartbreaking."

"Ya gonna cry," Sora retorted. "Cause I'll be more than happy to wait until after you finished before really giving you something to cry about."

"Please kid, like you could really be a threat to me or anyone in this room."

"Don't underestimate him, Darkmatter," a cool, even, yet still malicious voice suddenly rang out as a figure in a long black coat with white hair that was styled in a way similar to Terra's, and menacing, yellow eyes stepped into the light from a Corridor of Darkness. "Even if he is merely a false, inferior version, he is still the Keyblade Hero that had once bested many foes in the past."

Sora's eyes immediately widened in shock as he subconsciously lowered his Keyblade a bit before bringing it back up to point directly at the newcomer and snarling, "Xemnas! So you're the one who changed history!"

Xemnas chuckled a little before he replied, "Oh how little you understand, yet it is also amusing to think that even in that alternate future you come from, we have still encountered one and other. I can only assume from the fact that you're still here means that I had failed to end your existence in your timeline as well for some reason beyond my comprehension."

"What're you going on about now," Sora demanded.

"I am likely not the Xemnas you know, but rather, the one who remembers what it was like before my Heartless side and I came back to this time. One who was bested by the true Keyblade Hero."

Sora's eyes widened upon hearing this and he voiced his realization aloud, saying, "You're from the timeline that should've happened, and you're working with Ansem, Seeker of Darkness! Or should I say Xehanort's Heartless?"

"My, my; it seems that you are intelligent in the resulting future that we helped to bring about," Xemnas mocked, barely causing Sora to do anymore than let out a small growl in response. "But sadly, any plans you had to stop us will be in vain, as Zurg's grand plan is already about to bear its fruit."

"What do you mean by that, you fiend," Buzz demanded.

"I'm sure this looks a bit familiar, doesn't it Buzz," Warp asked as he indicated a monitor that was showing what looked like a massive laser cannon rising up from the roof of Zurg Tower.

"Well it should," Zurg chuckled. "After all, I used a similar apparatus to turn the LGMs' precious Uni-Mind into a terrifying weapon of evil that projected my own evil unto others, and which would've brought the entire Galactic Alliance under my control. Naturally you had completely ruined that plan, like the annoying, little goody-goodies you and your rookies all are and can't seem to stop being, but this time, you can't win, because I won't be taking over minds, but drowning the Galactic Alliance in darkness, all under my rule!"

"You mean that thing can cause Heartless and Unversed to appear anywhere in the Galactic Alliance until it's completely consumed by darkness," Sora exclaimed. "But if that happens, then your world will be destroyed to, and you along with it!"

"At this point, I really don't care," Zurg huffed as he crossed his arms. "I am sick and tired of always losing to Lightyear, and if I can't have the Galactic Alliance, then no one will! Well, no one except Xehanort, but that will only be because the galaxy will be enveloped in darkness and I'll have moved on to the greater galaxy of worlds beyond this one."

"How exactly is that supposed to work," Buzz then asked with strong skepticism in his voice, clearly trying to get as much information out of Zurg as he could before he and Sora went on the attack. "There's no way you can actually project darkness as a weapon like that."

"Why with this of course," Zurg stated as he indicated a massive chamber that seemed to be holding what looked like a large, dark orb that was pulsating with strange lightning and was giving off a feeling of despair, hopelessness, anger, and all other emotions that would be associated with darkness. "Concentrated pure dark energy, provided by one Master Xehanort, Ansem, and, of course, my compatriot here, Xemnas. With it powering my new Zurgatronic Dark Ray, no one will be safe from my wrath or the darkness!"

"We'll see about that," Sora shouted, and he then charged forward, swinging his Keyblade into every Hornet, Heartless, or Unversed that ended up in his path, making his way towards the concentrated dark energy that Zurg had indicated. Just as he was about to reach it though, something shot up from the ground and block his next swing with a dark silver weapon that Sora instantly recognized as the Void Gear Keyblade, and he knew of only one person to wield the weapon. Upon turning his gaze to the wielder, Sora found his suspicions confirmed as he saw the red and black body suit and masked figure of Vanitas himself standing before him.

"So you're supposed to be this big tough hero from the future that resulted from the old man's new friends showing up, huh," Vanitas asked in his usual voice that still gave Sora chills at how similar it sounded to his. "Man, when they said you weren't anything like the so-called 'real deal', I was kinda hoping you'd prove 'em wrong, but you seem like you're just as much an idiot as Ventus."

"Talk all you want," Sora retorted as he pushed Vanitas back with all his might before rushing the masked Keybearer with a powerful slash combo. "I've beaten you before in the future, and I can do it again just as easily!"

"Oh yeah? Prove it," Vanitas then challenged as he assumed his usual battle stance, daring Sora to do just as he had asked the Kingdom Key wielder to do. Sora then charged in and fired off a few rounds of Firaga at Vanitas, but the masked man was quick enough to teleport out of the way, leaving an afterimage in his wake, and then reappear behind Sora with a powerful slash that caught Sora off guard for a minute and caused him to stumble. Vanitas then took advantage of Sora's disoriented state, and immediately unleashed a few powerful strikes of his own before leaping into the air and launching a blast of dark lightning on the Keyblade Master of the future. Sora was extremely thankful that he was able to roll out of the way before the dark lightning had hit him, but he was quickly put on the defensive again when he had to cast Reflega in order to block and then repel the blast of dark energy orbs that Vanitas had fired from his Keyblade. He then prepared to charge once again, only to find his path impeded by Heartless and Unversed alike, giving Vanitas a clearly strong advantage over him, at least in terms of numbers.

Buzz was about to swoop over to help out his young friend, only to find himself intercepted by Warp, as the traitorous ex-Ranger transformed his robotic arm's hand into a blaster and immediately opened fire on him, scoring a few hits to Buzz's leg and arm before the Ranger was able to fly out of the way and return fire with his wrist laser. Buzz's attention was soon diverted from his former partner when Zurg's Hornets all opened fire on him, clearly leaving Sora to Vanitas, the Unversed, and the Heartless, but Buzz was not about to let that stop him, as he quickly unleashed a volley of laser fire upon Zurg's robotic henchmen, sparing a few shots to fire in Warp's direction, while jumping, rolling, and weaving around his enemies with precision and skill befitting that of a veteran Space Ranger with his experience.

Needless to say though, nothing either of the two heroes were doing would be enough for very long, and that proved to be quite true when a group of Hornets suddenly dog-piled on Buzz while some Heartless did the same to Sora, effectively capturing them both in each of their respective grasps, and holding the heroes at the mercy of their enemies. "An impressive attempt, Lightyear, on both your part and your little friend's," Zurg stated as he began mocking the two heroes once again. "But it would seem that even with the little Keyblade boy here, you're nothing without your mighty team with you."

"Buzz Lightyear and Keyblade Master Sora may end here today, but what we believe in will live on. Hope, freedom, justice, and the light that never goes out," Buzz growled defiantly.

"Yeah," Sora agreed. "Even if we do somehow go down, you'll never win, Zurg, because we'll still keep fighting for the light no matter what!"

Zurg just laughed in response before he said, "Oh please spare me your little speeches! I mean what a hoot! Tell me you got all that."

"Got it," a group of Grubs that were working a video camera replied to their evil emperor, showing that Zurg was clearly documenting his supposed victory.

"Excellent! Add it to my collection," Zurg then ordered happily before turning his attention back to his arch-nemesis and the time-traveling Keyblade Master. "Besides, Mister Melodrama and Lightyear Junior, I'm not going to kill either of you. No, I have a much more delicious idea in mind. I'm going to take the galaxy's greatest hero, and a mighty Keyblade Master, and turn them into…creatures of darkness."

Buzz and Sora could only widen their eyes in shock, as Zurg had effectively stated that he intended to use his Zurgatronic Dark Ray on them, and make them into powerful Heartless in the process that would only serve to follow Xehanort's forces. As they were both forced to their feet, Buzz struggled to reach his arm before activating his wrist communicator. "Buzz Lightyear Mission Log: Final entry," Buzz said into the device.

"Uh, what're you doing," Sora asked in disbelief at what he was seeing and hearing from his childhood hero.

"Pfft, mission log," Warp replied with a light scoff and roll of his eyes. "He's a procedure nut, but it's not like anyone will be left to read his report when this is over."

Sora threw a quick glare in Warp's direction before bringing his attention back to Buzz, hardly believing that Buzz Lightyear, the greatest space hero he had ever known growing up, was actually giving up this easily. He continued to look on until he noticed that Buzz had a small, hidden smirk, indicating that Buzz might not have been giving up as easily as it had seemed he was. Sora was not entirely sure what it was that Buzz could smile about right now, but a minute later, he began to sense a familiar feeling that he would recognize anywhere, and had to give a hidden smirk of his own in response, knowing exactly what Buzz was doing now.

"Oh man, oh man, oh man," Booster moaned from his seat on Star Cruiser Forty Two. "I really hope we're not too late."

"Don't worry, we'll make it, Booster," Kairi assured the Jo-Adian.

"Yeah, this is Buzz and Sora we're talking about, remember," Mira then reminded her larger teammate. "Even if it seems like they're beaten, they always find a way out. Well, I mean that's how it is with Buzz, but if anything that Kairi's said about her boyfriend is any indication then Sora's the same way."

"He's not my boyfriend, he's my best friend," Kairi snapped as her face began to offset the color of her hair.

"Right and I'm Master Yen Sid," Terra quipped, getting a small laugh out of everyone on the bridge other than Kairi, including Aqua.

Kairi was about to retort when one of the control panels suddenly activated and Buzz's voice suddenly rang out. "I don't know if anyone will read this final chapter, but I feel that I must give it all the same."

"What is he talking about," Ventus asked.

"Shh, he's done this before," Mira whispered. "He wants Zurg to think that he's making a final mission log entry when he's actually sending us information on his situation."

"As my young friend and I go to our doom, I feel that I must warn whoever I can of the impending danger that awaits the Galactic Alliance," Buzz's voice continued on. "The evil emperor has created a devastating weapon that when fired will cause the galaxy to drown in a dark force that is only escapable if some brave souls with a power unlike anything our galaxy has ever seen before can stop, for nothing can possibly spare any of us from this darkness that Zurg plans to cover the galaxy in. Perhaps if I had my team with me, or even my team and my friend's, then we would stand a chance, but for now…"

"Sweat mother of Venus," Booster exclaimed. "Buzz and Sora need us now, and so does the rest of the Galactic Alliance."

"We'll never make it at this rate though," XR pointed out as he motioned to the readouts that indicated the Star Cruiser was already at maximum thrust.

Aqua then glanced around at the people of the bridge for a minute before she finally said, "Maybe not this way, but maybe if we tried a different route."

"Are you thinking what I think you're thinking," Kairi asked with a small smirk.

"Yeah, good thinking," Aqua nodded.

Ven then looked at Terra and was about to ask something before Terra just said, "Don't try to figure it out. Girls speak a language that guys can't hope to understand without them explaining it to us."

Aqua just rolled her eyes at her taller friend before she began explaining what she had in mind to the others.

"Buzz Lightyear Mission Log, over and out," Buzz finally finished as he closed his wrist computer's cap and then gave one last defiant glare to Zurg before he and Sora were lifted up to where the ray gun was mounted. Sora could see the weapon angling down and zeroing in on them as it prepared to fire, but like Buzz, he did not lose his confident expression. A minute later, the ray began powering up, its energy building steadily, until both Space Ranger and Keyblade Master could see the beam racing down the barrel towards them. Just as it was beginning to reach them though, something blasted the Heartless of Sora before swooping him away while a pair of metal hands pulled Buzz out of the way as well.

Looking up, Buzz and Sora could see that a smiling XR, who was magnetized to the underside of the Alpha One, had managed to pull Buzz to safety, while Ventus had been the one to catch Sora with the aid of his Keyblade Glider, bringing grateful smiles to both of their faces as Sora said, "Nice timing you guys."

"Hot rockets," Booster cheered from the cockpit of the Alpha One, earning an amused chuckle of agreement from his current co-pilot, Terra.

The Hornets then suddenly sent an electric jolt through Buzz and into XR's arms, prompting Buzz to slam his fist onto the circular red button on his chest, activating his jet pack, and freeing him from the two robots' grasp. Sora then saw XR had been demagnetized from the Alpha One, and immediately leaped off Ven's Keyblade Glider so that he could summon his own and tell Ventus to go help XR, which Ven was more than happy to do as Sora raced off with Buzz towards Zurg and Xemnas.

Seeing that his arch-nemesis was freed, Zurg immediately spun to his best agent and shouted, "Darkmatter, kill Lightyear!"

As Warp activated his own jet pack and took off into the air, Xemnas looked to Vanitas and coolly ordered, "Deal with the Keybearers, but do not destroy them. We still need a few of them alive for the end game."

Vanitas nodded in reply, and then leaped into the air, jumping further and further up the walls with skills befitting of a ninja, until an orb of light suddenly came out of nowhere, struck him dead on, and sent him falling back to the ground. "What just…" Vanitas started to ask.

"Oh I'm sorry. Did that hurt," Kairi asked in a tone of false concern as she stepped forward and lowered Destiny's Embrace a bit, indicating that she had fired the light spell that had just hit Vanitas.

"Here, let me give you some ice for that," Aqua then called out as she too suddenly seemed to appear out of nowhere and fired a Blizzaga at Vanitas, which the masked man barely had enough time to dodge before it hit him.

"Where did those two," Warp started to ask, but he was immediately cut off when one of the Hornets suddenly slugged him in the face, and sent him crashing back down to the ground. "Hey have you blown a circuit?!"

A minute later, the Hornet seemed to jolt and rattle a little, indicating that actually did just that right at the moment Warp had asked, and it then fell towards Warp as Mira ghosted out from inside of it. Warp let out a small, girlish yelp in surprise before he failed to get away before the Hornet Mira had just disabled landed on top of him, knocking him out cold. Shortly after taking a moment to mock Warp, Mira had flown over to the rest of her teammates, and the five Keyblade Wielders were quick to group up as well a minute later.

A quick glance in Zurg's direction told Sora that Buzz had gone directly after the evil emperor on his own, and he did not even get the chance to glance around the rest of the battlefield that they were all now in before he saw Zurg fire a large, tri-barreled gun at Buzz that knocked him out of the air, through the wall, and into another room. Feeling concerned for the Space Ranger, Sora looked to the others and said, "I'm going after Buzz, you guys do what you can here to keep that thing from firing, or at least send Mask-Boy running to Xehanort."

The other four nodded in response as Sora leapt into the air and summoned his Keyblade Glider so he could fly after Buzz more quickly, not noticing that Zurg and Xemnas had both disappeared around the same time that he had, and thus, the three Space Ranger rookies and four Keybearers were left to deal with the entirety of Zurg's forces, Warp, Vanitas, and a massive amount of Heartless and Unversed. As soon as Vanitas was on his feet again, he snapped his fingers and three massive white, black, and red Unversed suddenly appeared above them before combining into one massive monster.

"The Trinity Armor," Aqua gasped in shock. "I thought that we beat that thing back in Radiant Garden!"

"Guess it's like the Guard Armor Heartless in the sense that you need to beat it twice before it gets the hint," Kairi commented as she assumed a battle stance alongside the other three.

Terra was about to say something in reply, but that was before he spotted Vanitas trying to slip away, and he knew that he could not let the boy just slip out that easily. "Guys, I'm going after Vanitas, can you handle this," Terra asked.

"Don't worry, we've beaten it before, and we can do it again," Ven nodded confidently.

"You're the one who should be careful though," Aqua warned, making Terra think that she was giving him a mild threat in reference to his dark powers again. At least, that was what he was thinking until the blue haired woman said, "Vanitas is a lot tougher than he looks and dangerous and unpredictable as well. Trust me, Ven and I have both fought him before, so we should know. Don't let your guard down for a minute."

Terra could only stare at Aqua in surprise, truly being astonished at how concerned she sounded in reference to him, so it was only natural that he could do nothing more than nod in response with a small smile before taking off after the masked boy. He did not have to go very far before he was standing directly in Vanitas's path with his Keyblade readied for battle, which only seemed to draw a small chuckle from Vanitas in response as he said, "The old man thinks you're supposed to be some big, tough warrior of darkness that will be able to help his grand plans somehow, ya know. But unlike you, I embrace the darkness proudly and without fear, so I think you can understand why you have no chance against me."

Terra merely snarled at Vanitas a little before he felt the energy of his new Dark Impulse Command Style build up and then release itself as it manifested around his body and Keyblade while he challenged Vanitas's claim saying, "Well why don't we test that to know for sure, brat."

Terra may not have been able to see it, but Vanitas was now smirking under his mask at the chance to fight against Terra, the one guy that Xehanort had flat out refused to let him fight, no matter what. Of course, that did not mean he was going to just run away from Terra's challenge, because if he was being honest with himself, he was not going to listen to Xehanort on that matter anyways like how he had not listened to the old Keyblade Master on many other matters in the past. With that decision made, Vanitas was quick to immediately charge in and meet Terra's dark energy empowered Keyblade with his own with a powerful clang of metal that released a mild shockwave when they collided, indicating that the battle Terra was about to face was sure to be a difficult one.

As she stared up at the massive opponent before her, Kairi was admittedly quite glad that Aqua and Ventus were with her in the battle against such a massive monster. It was not that she did not think she could fight it alone, but rather she was happy to have some form of backup all the same since she did not believe for a second that it would be an easy battle if she did fight it by herself. As she rolled away from the Trinity Armor's massive fist, she did find her gaze wandering towards where Sora and Buzz had disappeared mere minutes ago, and she found herself worrying a little for her fellow time-traveler. It was already taking everything she had to keep herself from going after him on her own while the others were left to deal with this mess, but as Sora and Buzz continued to not reappear, her worries had began to increase just as much, and she knew that she could not stand to wait for much longer.

With her resolve settled on that fact, Kairi looked to Ventus and Aqua and shouted, "You guys, we need to finish this now!"

"Agreed, and I know of one sure fire way to do it," Aqua stated before she turned to Ventus. "Ven, you take the arms while I deal with the main body and Kairi destroys the legs on this thing, and don't hold anything back!"

Ventus was able to catch Aqua's meaning with no problem, and then nodded as he began to build up energy inside of him before he finally unleashed it as the faint, white glow of his Fever Pitch Command Style. A quick glance in Aqua's direction told Ventus that the blue haired Keyblade Master was doing the same, as her body was soon enshrouded by the purple glow of her Spell Weaver Command Style, and after looking towards Kairi, Ven could see that the auburn haired girl had a shocked expression on her face at what she was seeing from the two, but he quickly disregarded this and went to work slashing at the arms at his speeds while Aqua floated up off the ground and struck the center of the Trinity Armor with a barrage of spells and magic blasts from her floating Keyblade.

Kairi eventually brought herself out of her shocked state as she charge in at the legs of the large Unversed, and began slashing away at it with all she had until she was eventually brutally kicked back by their opponent. Ven and Aqua both looked at Kairi with worry for a minute until they saw that Kairi's body seemed to be giving off a faint glow as she cried out a phrase neither of them had heard before. "Master Form, drive on!"

An instant later, a bright light engulfed the Princess of Heart, and when it finally faded, Ven and Aqua saw that Kairi's outfit had changed from its usual colors and become so that nearly her whole outfit was colored in a steel silver and violet pattern with three black crosses arranged in a fancy, overlapping pattern on the center of her dress, while pale violet sparkles seemed to radiate and create a small streak behind her as she rushed back into battle, but the most shocking thing about this new form that Kairi had taken on was that she was now wielding two Keyblades at once, and her second one was colored green and tan, with a set of wings above the guard, and teeth that looked like a pan flute, with a Keychain that looked like a red feather.

They were brought out of their musings when Kairi reached the massive Unversed with her second Keyblade seemingly being controlled telekinetically, and then suddenly seemed to be lifted into the air as she lashed out with both Keyblades, throwing everything she had at the Unversed's legs as she did, whether it be melee attacks or even a barrage of spells that Ven had only seen Aqua be able to execute so effectively. Eventually, the two brought their attention back to their respective targets, and with the combined efforts of the three powered-up Keybearers, the Trinity Armor quickly fell like a building block tower.

The group then turned to where Team Lightyear was fighting just in time to see Booster pancake a number of Hornets while XR unleashed a massive barrage of laser fire from his multiple guns, allowing Mira to use her ghosting powers to disable whichever ones were left, that is if she did not blast them with her wrist laser first. Seeing that they had now effectively stopped Zurg's army and that the three Keyblade Wielders had also finished dealing with their opponent, Mira said, "Okay, so I guess now we go help Terra finish with that Vanitas guy and then go after Buzz and Sora, right?"

"I wouldn't be so sure of that," Aqua replied as she noticed Heartless beginning to surround them. Thinking quickly, Aqua and Ventus immediately unleashed the power that they needed to unleash their respective Tier Two Command Styles, while Kairi simply raised both of her Keyblades up in readiness for battle. Aqua took a moment to spare Kairi and the red head's new attire a glance before she finally asked, "Kairi, what exactly did you do a minute ago? What is that form?"

"It's one of my Drive Forms. Sora has some too, but I don't really think now's the best time to explain the details of them," Kairi quickly replied as she reminded Aqua of the situation. "We'll exchange fighting ability notes after this is over, okay?"

Aqua nodded in agreement with this, and with that, the group was quick to get back into action as they rushed the Heartless that they were facing.

Terra had quickly learned that Aqua was not kidding when she said that Vanitas was a tough opponent, because if he were being honest with himself, the kid seemed like he was a master at combat given how random and seemingly impossible some of his abilities were. While many of Vanitas's attacks were similar to how he fought while utilizing his Dark Impulse Command Style, Terra was still not able to fully control the dark power of his newest Command Style all that well nor was he able to keep using it for very long, so that gave Vanitas an advantage over him when Terra had to let the energy fade after a while every now and then. Not to mention there was the fact that Vanitas was also more agile and faster than him, so Terra could easily see why the masked boy was a much more difficult opponent for him than said boy was for Aqua and Ventus, given how many of Terra's attacks were more about power than speed while his magic skills were normally only limited to healing, magnet, and what little he knew of dark magic.

Despite all this, Terra was not about to let Vanitas win, as he saw it as merely another version of the fight he had against a man by the name of Braig back in Radiant Garden. With that in mind, it was only a matter of time before Terra was able to match Vanitas to the point where it did not take long for him to be able to activate his Command Style again much more easily.

Terra was about to move in for a final blow, when the sudden sound of the Trinity Armor being defeated reached his ears along with the sounds of Heartless coming forth from the shadows. "Looks like your little friends might need some help," Vanitas smirked beneath his mask. "You gonna be a man and finish this, or are you gonna be a sissy and run off to help them?"

Terra only glared at Vanitas before he raced off towards the others as he shouted, "That's an easy choice. Especially since I'll never be a man like you or Xehanort."

Vanitas merely stood there watching Terra go to help the others for a minute before he finally scoffed and summoned a Corridor of Darkness to disappear into as he said, "We'll just see about that. After all, the future is always changing, even if some of it is set in stone."

Buzz let out a small groan as he finally regained consciousness after an unknown amount of time, and the first thing he noticed was that a very concerned Sora was standing over him with a worried look in his eyes. When the spiky haired boy noticed that Buzz was finally awake, he immediately asked, "Are you okay, Buzz?"

"Ship-shape my friend," Buzz replied with a small thumbs-up. "How long was I out?"

"Don't know," Sora shrugged. "But from the sound of things, I'd say that the others either really need our help or they're just finishing up with the last of their opponents."

"Well we've got other things to worry about at the moment," Buzz stated as he opened his wrist computer once again. "Mira, Booster, XR, can any of you read me? I don't think Sora and I can make it back in time. It's up to you, Aqua, Terra, Ven, and Kairi to stop Zurg's weapon now. Good luck."

Buzz had just closed his wrist computer when the sound of a weapon charging reached both his and Sora's ears. When they both turned around, they were immediately knocked back by a powerful laser blast that caused a lot of the ceiling to suddenly begin to collapse. The debris would have landed on top of them had Buzz not fired his laser at each of the larger, more threatening chunks while Sora shot off a few Blizzard spells at the ones that Buzz had missed or that were heading directly towards him.

Sora had just managed to get back to his feet when he suddenly had to raise his Keyblade up in a defensive position to block one of Xemnas's Ethereal Blades before it could slice him in half. "You have certainly proven that you are indeed strong, but you are still a pale imitation of the true Keyblade Hero. You cannot hope to beat us."

"You know he's right," Zurg's voice called out from the shadows as Buzz rose to his feet. "Give it up, Lightyear. We have won."

"Shows what you guys know," Sora retorted. "There's no way we're letting you destroy this world, and I'll show you exactly why I earned the Mark of Mastery!"

"Sora has the right spirit, but there is one more important reason why your plans will fail, Zurg," Buzz then added in a slightly menacing voice. "Evil. Never. Wins."

Zurg's response to this was to fire on Buzz with consecutive shots while the space hero evaded all of the blasts with ease, neither of them ever completely registering how Sora pushed Xemnas back and then began to race around the Superior of the In-Between as he threw out spell after spell and slash after slash. Eventually, Zurg's blast ceased when Sora shouted something that no one was able to clearly hear over the din of the battle that had erupted and caused the room to be lit up with a bright light that forced Zurg to command that the lights be turned on full so that he could see what happened, and when he and Xemnas did see, they were shocked to say the least.

"What's wrong? Afraid of a little light, Zurg," Buzz asked as he stepped forward with Sora by his side, only now, the Keyblade Wielder had taken on a sudden change. Instead of his usual black and red attire, his outfit had changed into one that had a yellow and black color scheme with three black crosses arranged in a fancy, overlapping pattern on his pants, but the most surprising thing was that he was not only wielding a second Keyblade, which was black and dark grey with anchor shaped teeth, a guard shaped like a sailing ship's helm, and possessed a Keychain that was gold with image of a skull in the center, but he was also controlling it telekinetically.

Zurg was not about to take any chances on letting Sora's sudden change of forms take him and Xemnas down, and he quickly raised his weapon to fire, but before he could pull the trigger, a laser blast knocked it out of his hand, and a fair distance away from him, while a blast of ice forced Xemnas to reel his arm back before it was frozen solid. The two immediately looked to the source to see Mira, Kairi still in her Master Form, and Aqua still utilizing her Ghost Drive Command Style standing above them with the Tangean's hand on her wrist laser as she said, "Not today, Zurg."

"And that goes double for you as well, Xemnas," Kairi added with a determined look.

Zurg then spun around to try and run for his weapon, only to see Booster crush it in his bare hands and then toss it to a battle worn Terra, who immediately slashed it apart with his Keyblade. Both villains then spun around again to see Buzz slowly approaching them with his laser ready, and Sora doing the same with his Keyblades readied as well. Their attention was then brought back to the three girls as they jumped down onto the floor with the others, Keyblades and wrist laser ready as Mira started off by saying, "Evil Emperor Zurg…"

"Xemnas, Superior of the In-Between," Aqua then added.

"By the authority of Star Command and of the Keyblade," Kairi then continued.

"Section Five, Sub-Section Zeta! That's the one about the Evil Emperor," Booster informed Terra as he referenced the Space Ranger Manuel.

"Really, you don't say," Terra smirked in response.

"You are both…" XR started as he lowered himself and Ventus down onto the floor, completely encircling the two villains as Ventus jumped off the robot and spun his Keyblade around in his hand as his Wingblade Command Style glowed brightly.

"Under arrest," Ventus finally finished as he held Wayward Wind at the ready.

"Like I said before and will continue to say again and again; evil. Never. Wins," Buzz commented as all them continued silently daring either of the two villains to make a move that would give them reason to attack. It truly seemed the mission Sora and Kairi had set out on was likely going to come to a much quicker end now that they had captured Xemnas, but sudden flash from above the tower drew everyone's attention as a black beam of energy shot out into space, driving their attention away from Zurg and Xemnas long enough for them both to disappear into a Corridor of Darkness that had suddenly appeared next to them.

Everyone glanced around for a minute until a number of monitors suddenly displayed Zurg's face as the evil emperor shouted out, "You failed, Lightyear! With that one shot, the Zurgatronic Dark Ray has now doomed Capital Planet to fall into darkness, and with its fall, the Galactic Alliance will quickly follow! No matter what you do now, you cannot begin to hope to save this universe from my newfound power, or that of Xehanort's. Evil rules!"

Zurg's evil laugh rang throughout the room until all of Team Lightyear finally silenced it by blasting every single monitor in the room that Zurg was using to boast of his apparent victory, but even then, it seemed like it was still echoing throughout the tower. After glaring at the monitors for a minute, Ven eventually fell to his knees as he asked, "After all that work, after stopping all those guys, have we really failed to save this world from falling into darkness, and stopping Xehanort from getting an additional army?"

"No. We're not done yet," Buzz immediately replied. He then spun around to face his team as he ordered, "Booster and XR, get back into the control room and take Warp into custody along with any other known offender that Zurg has here. Mira, you're with me."

The Rangers immediately saluted their commanding officer in reply before blasting off to their assigned jobs, leaving the five Keyblade Wielders amazed at their determination to keep trying until they had nothing left to give. After a minute, Terra finally gained a determined look of his own as he said, "I don't know about you guys, but I'm not gonna just stand here while Booster and the others do everything they can to save their world from an evil that we should be stopping."

"I couldn't agree more," Aqua replied. "I'm not letting Mira and her friends lose their entire world."

"Same here. XR and the others have all done so much to protect their universe, so we can't let all their hard work go to waste," Kairi agreed. Ven immediately nodded in agreement as well, feeling that Terra and the others had already voiced the same sentiments he was feeling.

"And we won't," Sora suddenly said, gaining the team of Keybearers' attention as he turned to face them. "Aqua, Terra, go backup Booster and XR in case Xemnas, Ansem, or even Vanitas stuck around to give anyone of Zurg's thugs a get out of jail free card. Ven, Kairi, you guys are going after Buzz and Mira with me."

"Hey, you can't just go and give all of us orders like this forever you know," Terra suddenly pointed out to the younger Keyblade Wielder.

"The hell I can't. I'm a Master," Sora then stated as he led Ven and Kairi off after Mira and Buzz. Terra and Aqua just looked at one and other in slight shock for a minute before they finally shrugged and went to carry out Sora's orders.

Buzz and Mira were both standing just a short distance away from the orb of concentrated dark energy, but they were not able to get much closer because they could feel every drop of darkness within it bearing down on them in all its furry. "Buzz, what exactly are we supposed to do to this thing, especially if we can't even get close to it," Mira finally asked.

"If my scanners were accurate, then this thing is similar to the LGMs' Uni-Mind, in the sense that its energies are influenced by a simple touch, so maybe…just maybe, if we can get close enough…"

"It won't work," a voice suddenly shouted out, and the two Rangers both spun around to see Sora, Kairi, and Ventus racing towards them, all back in their normal states. When they finally came to a stop next to the two Space Rangers, Sora continued on from what he was saying before by adding, "Even if you were to try to alter this thing, Buzz, it wouldn't make much difference. This is a kind of darkness that is far too much for just anyone to overpower. Now in the case of two Keyblade Masters, one of which is also a Princess of Heart, and a Keyblade Wielder with a heart of pure light, there is a much more likely chance."

With that said the three of them quickly summoned their Keyblades and aimed directly at the dark orb before they fired off a beam of light energy from the tips of each of their Keyblades. The minute the beams hit the orb, a sudden flash of light suddenly lit up a small section of it and then began to slowly spread across the orb as it drowned out the darkness within it.

"You're doing it," Mira exclaimed as she saw that the orb was now nearly completely one of light.

"Power of good is a strong thing, Mira," Buzz told his co-pilot.

"Not only that, but no matter how dark things get, there's always a powerful light deep inside that will never go out," Sora added proudly. Unfortunately, the celebrations were all premature, as the light that was spreading through the orb of concentrated darkness suddenly retreated back down to where it had originated from until it blasted the three Keyblade Wielders that were putting it in away.

"You guys all felt that, right," Ven asked as he managed to get up onto his knees.

"Unfortunately," Kairi moaned in confirmation.

"Zurg wasn't kidding when he that this was concentrated pure darkness," Sora groaned as he stood up again. "This thing is nothing but darkness right to its core."

Buzz and Mira then exchanged a small look at hearing this before the latter of the two activated her jet pack and grabbed the three as she said, "Then let's get you three to the core."

"Wait, you're gonna ghost all three of us," Sora exclaimed in disbelief at what Mira was clearly about to do, but they did not have any time to protest as Mira had already started pushing them through the orb's surface and into its core as she said she was going to. When Mira finally managed to push them through, a sudden burst of energy blasted her back and into Buzz's arms before they both looked back at the orb in worry.

"Kairi, Ven, Sora," Buzz called out.

He received no response until the orb suddenly released a brilliant flash of light which then expanded outward in a manner not unlike an explosion as three familiar voices cried out in unison, "My friends are my power!"

Xemnas, Ansem, and Vanitas could only look on with slightly dissatisfied looks as the wave of light flew out across the Galactic Alliance, eliminating all forms of darkness that Zurg had unleashed with his weapon. Eventually though, Vanitas broke the silence between the three as he shrugged and said, "Oh well. Can't say that Horn-Head didn't try."

"True, but he promised to give us more Heartless for our forces along with the addition of his own," Ansem reminded them.

"Yes, and now he works for us and Xehanort until he does," Xemnas pointed out. "The Keyblade Wielders may have saved this world from falling into darkness, but they were not able to prevent us from achieving our primary goal of adding Zurg's forces to our own."

The three had to smirk with pride at that comment, and with the feeling of their work being finished in this world now settled firmly within them, they departed from the Galactic Alliance through a Corridor of Darkness without anyone noticing unless they were meant to.

Everyone was tense as they looked on at the orb, as Sora, Kairi, and Ventus had shown no signs of so much as being alright since the wave of light had been dispersed across the galaxy. Booster was holding XR so tightly in anxiety that the little robot thought for sure that he would be crushed in his friend's arms, while Terra and Aqua could only pray for their friends and wait with baited breath. Eventually, someone's patience came to an end, or rather two peoples patience did.

"We're going in," Buzz shouted as he and Mira flew towards and then into the orb that was now of concentrated pure light, much to the shock of Terra, Aqua, Booster, and XR.

"They're both goners," Warp smirked from where he was handcuffed.

"They'll make it," Terra whispered softly. "Ven…Sora…Kairi…I know they'll all be okay. I believe in them."

Aqua smiled a little upon hearing this, before her expression turned to worry once again as she moaned, "Come on Mira. Hurry!"

A few minutes passed, and everyone's nerves were now through the roof, until finally, a faint blue glow appeared on the orb, and Buzz and Mira blasted out of it with Ventus, Sora, and Kairi all held securely in their grasps. The sight of the five heroes emerging safely from the once dangerous orb elicited cheers of joy and excitement from their friends, right to the point where Terra and Aqua both grasped each other in a tight hug. As soon as they realized what they were doing though, the two former students of Eraqus immediately broke apart with light blushes on their faces, sputtering murmured apologies as they did.

Shortly after that, Team Lightyear was exchanging friendly handshakes with the five Keyblade Wielders in thanks as Buzz stated, "We owe you five a debt that I don't think that we will ever be able to repay, but know that if any of you ever need anything, you won't have to ask if you feel that you need our assistance."

"I think we'll hold you to that, Buzz," Sora quipped in reply as a wide grin reached his face, eliciting chuckles from both teams.

"What just happened," Zurg's voice demanded as the evil emperor suddenly reappeared before them all in person. "Please tell me that little explosion was a sign of evil and darkness destroying all that is good!"

"No actually it was a sign of victory. Freedom and the light's victory," Buzz corrected as he smirked up at Zurg.

Zurg growled in barely suppressed rage for a minute until he finally shouted, "CURSE YOU BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!"

"And…" Buzz asked as he cast a glance in the Keyblade Wielders' direction.

"Okay, I am not cursing all five of these people, so you'll just have to settle for one of them. Like whoever is the leader or their strongest member, or whatever!"

"What do you think guys," Ven asked as he looked amongst the others.

"I think it's pretty obvious who the leader and the best was today," Terra replied.

"No doubt about that," Aqua nodded in agreement as she and the others all turned to look at the spiky haired individual they were all thinking of.

Sora just looked at his fellow Keybearers in confusion for a minute before he raised an eyebrow and pointed to himself, eliciting nods of confirmation in response. He then gave a small grin before turning to face Zurg again as he proudly declared, "Hey Zurg! You got your guy right here! My name…is Master Sora of the Keyblade!"

"Yes, yes, good for you, pleasure to meet you and all, but still CURSE YOU TOO SORA!"

Everyone had to have a laugh at Zurg's misfortune, but all the same, Aqua still had to quietly ask Kairi, "Do you think we made any kind of difference in the future?"

Kairi glanced at the four new friends that they had made who made up Team Lightyear, and had to smile a little at the fact that while they more than likely could not stop Xehanort from gaining Zurg as an ally, they were still able to complete their mission with success by discovering new allies that could help in the good fight. With this in mind, Kairi had to smile as she confidently stated, "Unless Naminé tells us otherwise in the next few minutes, I'd say that we most certainly did."

The battle against Zurg's forces of evil and the villains that were acting as his generals was not going well for the defenders of Yen Sid's tower, as the Heartless were now joining the battle driving everyone to fight with everything they had, including Mickey and Roxas, who had already summoned out both his Oathkeeper and Oblivion Keyblades so that he could fight at his fullest. Unfortunately, even the former Key of Destiny and the king of Disney Castle were soon having trouble holding back their opponents as Zurg and Warp stepped up to them both, confident in their victory. "So any last words before we finish you and the rest of your forces off," Zurg asked.

"Perhaps his majesty here would like one last piece of cheese," Warp added, mockingly.

"Oh so just because I'm a mouse, that automatically means that I must like to have cheese with everything or something? I mean really, how prejudiced can you be to someone," Mickey retorted with a huff.

"Eh…so you don't like cheese," Zurg asked in slight confusion.

"Of course I like cheese, but that's not the point," Mickey replied. "The point is this isn't over yet, and we'll never let you win!"

"Hate to break it to ya, little mouse, but we've already won," Warp retorted. He then looked at Roxas and asked the blonde, "So, you got anything you want to say in addition to that, kid?"

"Give me a minute, I'm thinking," Roxas growled.

He did not have to think long, as someone else answered for him with a shout of, "Team Lightyear to the rescue!"

An instant later, Zurg's forces and the villains that he and Warp had brought with them were assaulted by a barrage of laser fire, and Buzz, Mira, and XR swooped down firing everything they had and more at their enemies while Booster flew higher above them before deactivating his jet pack and landing on top of some enemies while releasing a small shockwave that disoriented some others. After driving Zurg and Warp away from Mickey and Roxas, Buzz landed before the two Keybearers and saluted as he said, "Buzz Lightyear of Star Command; we come in peace, and we're here to help, your majesty."

Mickey smiled happily as he jumped up and said, "Glad to have you and your team with us, Buzz. Now let's get 'em!"

"Wow, and I thought Kairi was just joking when she said that King Mickey was a mouse," XR muttered to Mira.

"And yet strangely enough, that's not the most unusual thing we've seen since we got here," Mira replied as she continued firing on both Hornets and Heartless alike.

From where they were watching the battle Yen Sid and Naminé both had to smile at the sight that proved once and for all that Sora and Kairi had in fact succeeded and even the battle once again for the moment, and they could now only hope that they were able to complete the rest of their mission.

Sometime after a quick meal at one of the Galactic Alliance's most popular restaurants, at Team Lightyear's insistence, the five Keybearers were once again armored up and flying on to wherever their next destination may be. As soon as they had made it through the world barrier, Aqua looked to Sora and Kairi as she stated, "Before we do anything else, I think we should probably teach you guys how to use the Command Styles, as well as compare any combat skills and abilities that we all have so that we won't be caught by surprise after seeing something any of us can do in the near future."

Sora and Kairi both nodded in agreement at this, which led Sora to state, "That would definitely be a good idea. I mean, you guys probably know how to do a lot of things that Kairi and I have never learned about or even heard of before, so adding some new abilities to our arsenal would be a big help alone."

"Well the only thing is, we don't exactly have a good place to really train them for real," Terra suddenly cut in. "The Land of Departure is in no shape to serve as a training ground, and Mirage Arena is a little too far out of the way for us."

Everyone went silent for a minute before Ventus finally exclaimed, "Maybe there is someplace that we could train them, and it's really close by too! Not only that, but from what I've heard, it's a place where a lot of heroes have gone to get the best of training."

At hearing Ventus mention the word heroes, all four of the other Keyblade Wielders knew exactly where he was talking about, and had to let small grins reach their faces in excitement as Sora declared, "Then what're we waiting for? Let's get going!"

The group immediately accelerated towards their next destination, with Aqua, Ventus, and Terra taking the lead since Sora and Kairi were not entirely sure how much different the route to their destination was in comparison to the route in the future. As they were flying though, Kairi had to lean over to Sora and say, "You know, even if we're not going where you and I think we're going, I know you just want to see that world again just for the sake of seeing it."

"Well can you blame me, especially after how it was one of the most recent worlds to have fallen to darkness in the future, and the fact that it's also where…" Sora let the end of that sentence hang for a minute, knowing that Kairi would be able to know what he meant, and Kairi found that she could only nod in response as she felt the same way that Sora felt on that particular matter.

They were both stirred from their thoughts when Ventus shouted out, "Hey you guys; hurry it up! If you slow us down anymore it'll be your present day by the time we finally get there!"

Sora and Kairi both smirked in response to Ven's impatience, and immediately accelerated forward to catch up. When they had, Sora suddenly thought of something and said, "Hey you guys, there's something that I want to say real quick before we can really consider our last mission finished, if you don't mind."

"Not at all," Terra nodded.

"What is it, Sora," Aqua asked, wondering what Sora could possibly need to say that would allow them to consider their job in the Galactic Alliance finished.

Sora had to grin excitedly while Kairi rolled her eyes in amusement, already knowing what her long-time best friend was thinking, and yet still more than happy to let him do it anyway. With all the confirmation to go ahead he needed given, Sora turned to look straight ahead as he accelerated to top speed and shouted out, "To Kingdom Hearts…and beyond!"

Yen Sid Report 9:

While I was admittedly a bit hesitant to allow Sora and Kairi to retain the power of their Drive Forms after they had both achieved the Mark of Mastery, I quickly found that it was the right decision, given how often they had both made it through many situations because of those powers. When the Drive Forms were first bestowed upon the two, it was meant as a small boost in power that they would require since there was no time for them to learn anything new before they had to embark on their journey to defeat Organization XIII's plans at the time, and also to help Kairi in her training so that she would be close to the same level as Sora, given that she had not quite reached that point just yet.

I still remember the looks on their faces when they first activated their original Drive Forms, Sora's being that of Valor, and Kairi's being of Wisdom. While each of the two forms granted them spectacular abilities in one field of battle while forcing them to give up another field completely, they were both able to overcome those limitations with every use of the forms, and were soon able to unleash powers that allowed them to combine the powers of both. It is a slight shame that Kairi was not able to obtain the power of the Limit Form as Sora did, but given how they each have all of the other forms at their disposal, I would not consider it a great loss.

That being said, it would seem that the new powers that they now possess after completing their Mark of Mastery Exam has actually strengthened their abilities to utilize these spectacular forms, as they are now able to unleash any of their Drive Forms' powers on their own without the aid of another ally. This is truly a power that I am certain will be of great aid to them in the days that are to come, for the war between Light and Darkness is not showing any signs of ending soon, and I fear that there may be even more dangerous powers at work than any of us realize.

AN: Well there you have it. Xehanort may still have Zurg as an ally, but our heroes have now evened things out with the addition of Team Lightyear to the forces of the light.

Buzz: That little bit there at the end where Sora said a modified version of my line was an impressive touch, but I gotta say, this reminds me an awful lot of the pilot movie to my series.

AN: Well like I said, it was intended to be that way, because the movie was just so great, in my opinion, so how can one really say that I wouldn't try to incorporate some of it into this part of the story?

Zurg: What I'd like to know is why I barely got to do anything even in the chapter where I was the main focus villain!

AN: What's he doing here? And he does know that Warp was in the chapter as well, right?

Buzz: Well he is Zurg, so this kind of thing is a bit expected of him.

Zurg: Why you! Don't talk about me like I'm not even in the room, or I'll blast you all into...

Buzz: May I? [AN gestures to go ahead] DAH! WHINING EVIL EMPEROR! [Buzz hits control]

Zurg: [Gets catapulted from the studio] CURSE YOU BUZZ LIGHTYEAR AND LYOKOMARVELANIME!

AN: Haha, you just can't ever get tired of hearing that, huh?

Buzz: Nope. Well I suppose that this is it for my special guest appearances, at least here in the author's notes. It's been an honor and a pleasure my friend.

AN: The honor was all mine, Buzz [shakes hands with Buzz before Buzz blasts off to his next adventure] Well, now that the Galactic Alliance arc is finished, we'll be heading out to another world next time, but before we get into that or the preview, I want to address one thing real quick. Kairi having Drive Forms. In case you missed it from the Yen Sid Report, Kairi has all the same Drive Forms that Sora did in Kingdom Hearts II except for the Limit Form, but information beyond that you will have to go back and read in the Yen Sid report.

Also, the Keyblades that Kairi and Sora used with their respective Master Forms are Fairy Harp for Kairi and Follow the Wind for Sora. So if there's nothing else to address, Onto the Preview!...

The five Keyblade Heroes travel to the world of Olympus Coliseum, bringing about encounters with more people that Sora and Kairi have met before and another individual that they have not. After a quick meeting with the old friends, the group begins to exchange information regarding their respective combat skills, ranging from the various Command Styles and Shot Locks, to the powers of the Drive Forms, but when Hades rears his ugly, flaming head, trouble quickly begins to stir for both this world and among the group as well. Is Hades really after what he says that he is, or is he here with a much more devious goal that could spell trouble for the future? Find out the answers next time.

Please read and review, and see ya real soon!

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