Seventy-Two
My Heart for a Kingdom, part 1

"So, wait, you're telling me you space-traveled to Mother 3…" Zoroark stated dryly, counting off her claws, "Encountered a bunch of Yammonsters, created and sang a Mulan parody to rally them into your own personal army—"

"WHICH IS SO UNFAIR!" Fennekin interrupted at the top of her lungs.

"I thought you already had an army?" Swellow chirped.

"In case you don't remember, half of its dead," she growled.

Swellow slowly backed away from the snarling fox.

"—defeated an even larger hoard of GRATED Yammonster," Zoroark continued, "and traveled BACK HERE?"

"How did she count that off? Don't Zoroark only have three claws?" Lucario whispered.

"In case you didn't notice, logic died out a long time ago," Flygon muttered back.

"Yea! Like how did Renee deposit—one two three—seventeen Pokémon into a box at once?" Treeko asked.

"How was I able to steal something from real life?" Frogadier hummed, glancing at his headphones with uncertainty.

"What the heck happened to that Aipom?" Absol questioned, looking around and not seeing the monkey Pokémon in sight.

"…I DON'T KNOOOOOOOW!" everyone yelled.

"Don't feel bad," Shaymin whispered, hugging Fennekin. "I'm using PK Love."

"…PFFFFT—"Treeko snorted.

"What?" Quilava asked.

"It's a Mother 3 joke," Treeko chuckled.

"…OH, oh. I get it," Quilava said.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it!" Chestnaught declared, trotting over to the door.

He flung it open enthusiastically, only to frown as a gargantuan hoard of small, black creatures stared him back. Their beady, yellow eyes seemed hungry for something as they hunched, waiting.

"…KIRLIA?! YOU'RE HEARTLESS SPAWNED AT THE DOOR AGAIN!" Chestnaught yelled.

"Ugh, FINALLY!" she growled, snatching her ivory keyblade and jumping over Chestnaught—right into the crowd of Heartless. "Amazon takes SO LONG to get these orders here!"

"You can order Heartless off Amazon?" Quilava muttered to Flygon.

Flygon, on lack of coffee, grunted back before flopping over.

"OH MY ARCEUS! DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS?!" Serperior gasped.

"No, what DOES it mean?" Charizard asked, squinting off into space.

"It means Reevee21 FINALLY put Kingdom Hearts into this fic!" she continued with a fangirl shriek.

"YUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS," Frogadier hissed, crossing his fingers.

"Yay!" Rotom giggled.

"Finally," Quilava sighed, flopping over alongside Flygon.

"On the contrary, we should be very much afraid," Lucario spoke up.

"Why?" Shaymin asked.

"With Kingdom Hearts comes worlds disappearing, the troubles of Organization XIII and Heartless, Nobodies and the concept of 'hearts' in general, as well as the balance of light and dark and whatever issues Sora and company stir up," he summarized.

Everyone stared at the door (where Kirlia was commencing a Heartless mass murder) with wide, panicked eyes.

"…I'm scared," Shaymin whimpered.

"I'm not," Luxio stated.

"How are you NOT AFRAID?!" Absol yelled.

"I'm too busy having a panic attack in my head," he answered before falling to the ground with a "WHYYYYYYYYYY—"

THIS IS WHY I DON'T DO KINGDOM HEARTS, PEOPLE!

…oh right.

Hours later…

The Pokémon were setting up air mattresses and taking dibs on the couch when Kirlia came back, covered in inky black spots.

"OH, GROSS!" Quilava hissed. "Go wash that off NOW before we need to change the rating!"

"FINE," Kirlia shouted, throwing her keyblade into a wall-spawning portal.

…but it didn't close. And no loud clangs of the keyblade hitting a certain bed-headed wielder echoed from it.

No one noticed this, however, and continued about their business.

… (Childish voice) BEDTIME business!

"Not helping, narrator!" Fennekin spat. "Some old Blue's Clues episode isn't going to help the mood!"

Well excuuuuuse me, princess.

"Or Zelda references."

That was Zelda!

"Who are you talking to?" Frogadier asked, giving his frenemy an odd look.

"…has our status degraded to 'frenemies' now?" she asked.

"Actually, Reevee21 has been thinking on the subject of a pairing," he answered, flopping backwards onto the water bed.

Fennekin let this sink in before shooting a Flamethrow—

"AUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGHHHHHHHHHHH SWEET NAGA MY REAR END! IT BUUUUUUURRRRRRNS!" Reevee21 shouted from the Narrating Platform after receiving the Flamethrower.

"Consider that you're first flame, Reevee! NO FROGADIER PARINGS!" Fennekin warned.

"*sob* point taken!"

"Hey, guys?" Absol asked. "Do we hear her narrating whenever, even if the platform isn't in sight? And how's that different from her actually speaking?"

"Well, Serperior and I heard her in the Mother 3 game, so…yes," Treeko answered.

"What about the second part?" he asked again.

Everyone paused a few moments before doing a collective shrug.

"I get showers next!" Swellow chirped, flying in as Kirlia walked out.

His speed spun Kirlia on the spot in a white and green whirlwind, completely drying her to the last drip.

"…huh…" she hummed, looking her dress over before picking up a freshly-sharpened keyblade and strolling to the beds.

Later still, in the middle of the night…

Rotom, for the first time in eternity, was afraid.

He was snuggling the pillow in his arms tightly, eyes darting at every shadow and cranny in the box. The term of Heartless had put him on such an edge, those freaky beings of darkness with dark little bodies that jumped ya and stole your heart—literally—

"AIEEEEEIA!" he shrieked as the door flung open from a sudden wind. The wind, in turn, blew open a cabinet door. The door knocked over a bucket, which landed on something, a plate from the cabinet sliding out and breaking on the head of someone.

The part-ghost type stayed still and quiet for long, gusty moments before floating to the door and closing it gently.

As he turned around, however, he encountered a shadow.

Its arms were stretched out like long, ribbon extensions. Its face loomed forward, reflecting the darkness around. Two jagged pikes were perched atop its head like horns—perhaps they were?

"OH MY GGGGGOSHHHH!" Rotom squealed.

"WHATACHA!?" the thing squawked back.

"PK THUNDAAAR!" the plasma Pokémon yelled, shocking the weird thing with a Thunder.

The electricity lit up the room and sparked on every metal object: the walls, coat zippers, laptops, TVs, the fridge, Frogadier's headset, ninja stars, keyblades and funky-shaped chains…

…wait a minute…

"WHERE'S THE FIRE!?" Charizard roared from his bed, jumping up in a flurry of scales and fire tails.

"AEIHARAMOGEN!" Zoroark exclaimed, shaking Serperior awake.

Everyone else woke up to the electricity with similar exclamations ("GREAT SCOTT!" "MY KEYBLADE!" "HOY MA BOY!") And looked over to the still-shooting Rotom.

The electricity stopped and the lights flicked on, typical of a power outage response. Three fainted figures were lying next to the stunned Rotom, still smoking from electricity.

"HOLY MILTANK!"

"IT CAN'T BE!"

"It is!" Buizel gaped, taking off his sunglasses with stunned eyes.

"Its…this…what…who…" Serperior whimpered.

Luxio's jaw hit the floor with a 'CLANG!' He shrieked in response and rubbed it. "Moy juaw!"

Quilava snuck to the three cautiously. He brushed away the arm of one, revealing a gripped keyblade.

"It's…its Sora, Donald, and Goofy."

TO BE CONTINUED.

(Holding forehead) What genius thought told me to do this…?

Percy: We did need a special chapter thing, you know.

Zelda: Yea, but…Kingdom Hearts?! Does our rating ALLOW such a feat?!

Agumon: (Reading guidelines) what about such a scare there? That was a plate away from a—

Pit: (clamps mouth shut) NO. WE AREN'T TO SPEAK OF SUCH A HORROR.

Agumon: … (Gently pries off Pit) understood. Never to speak of.

(Shivers). Be sure to review, follow and favorite, readers, I'll have the next chapter up soon…

Percy: Wow, I've never seen her so terrified.

Zelda: I can fix that! (Hands Reevee21 a Remlit)

… (Snuggles Remlit) OUI MY GOISH IT'S SO CUTE! Be sure to hug your Eevee and snuggle your Remlits, everybody, I'll see you next chapter!

Pit: (GASP) IT'S NIGHTFALL!

Everyone: (Stares at Remlit) OH SHOOT—

*BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*

This part has been removed from the fic for rating purposes. Please understand.