Chapter XXXVIX: The world of toys part VI

Rolling forwards with a hard push on her left and then her right upon her roller blades Nozomi had gained a huge speed of momentum as she yelled her battle cry. Scattering the small black heartless like bowling pins with a single rounded bladed kick, Nozomi then sliced into all of them fast and furiously with her keyblade as it flashed with white light. Their dark embers all vanished away in seconds; Nozomi satisfied then said aloud with a smile, "Well that's one cool new move!"

Riku in the meantime was dealing with another one of the toy soldier heartless, it was trying to keep his keybade away from its main thin and red body with the bayonet on the end of it's rifle. Though it put up a struggle against his power, Riku spoke to it, "well you're tough…but!" With that he bashed the bayonet and rifle away as he then took his chance moving quickly in, he smashed his keyblade into the heartless as it was quickly dispatched and faded away.

King Mickey had defeated a great many as well, also assisting Buzz Light year in battle who had quickly given up on his laser and was instead reluctantly using his karate chop as he had been advised to by Woody. As the king used his quick speed and strength to his advantage, and using Buzz's distractions he smashed another small black heartless away with his golden keyblade. He turned and looked at Pete who was still upon the giant spinning top heartless. He knew that he and his comrades had the advantage in their powers and it would only be a matter of time before Pete would have to submit to them in defeat.

Pete watching the continuing losing battle of his heartless against the gallant keybladers then spoke aloud, "well this ain't gonna do no good at all…" He complained to himself quietly.

He was sure that these new heartless that he'd been able to make would've done the trick… but since that wasn't the case. Looking down at Woody who was looking up at him with a mixture of dislike and worry within the centre of the spinning top heartless, he decided to make things a little more interesting.

Finally getting rid of all the small fry heartless Nozomi and the others all turned to look at Pete quietly with determination but instead of looking on at them with worry, he smiled at them all broadly.

Finding this strange all of them looked at him queerly, especially the king since this wasn't Pete's usual way of behaviour. He was about to say something when he made them all jump as he clapped and spoke, "well that's a mighty well done there! Now I gotta get the main games started then!"

Nozomi hearing this was confused more, "what do you mean, 'get the main games started?' You've already lost! You might as well give in to us now before we-"

However she was cut off as Pete suddenly clicked his fingers once more, the spinning top heartless he was standing on then started to rumble and pump furiously as a metamorphosis was occurring upon it.

Woody was panicked as he was feeling the worst of it within the heartlesss' centre, it rocked him back and forth, "Hey! Hey watch it! I'm still in here! I'm-"

The shaking then made him trip on his brown boots and onto the floor, he rolled on the floor back and forth as the rumbling was awful with flashes of light here and there, finally after a few moments it stopped all at once. Leaning forwards he then put his right hand to his hat as he spoke aloud again, "geez that was the worse experience of a bouncy castle I could ever get! I hope those guys get me outta here soon cause-" It was then he stopped as his other hand that had gone down on the floor felt something weird. It was moist and sticky, turning over he looked at it and saw it was covered in black sticky slime.

Puzzled he asked, "What's this?" as he felt it his eyes looked past his hand and then at a corner of the floor, he looked on with wide eyes in horror as he saw that slowly slime was beginning to leak into the centre of the heartless making a pool in the centre which he was within.

Looking back to where he could see the others he smacked the rim of the heartless as he shouted panicked, "guys! Help me! Get me outta here!"

The others were just as horrified as what had happened to the outside of the heartless, for it had now turned a horrible menacing colour of black and instead of being smooth all over like it was before. It had now had spikes on it that rotated around its centre in three rings of colour green red and blue, the base at it's neck and just above the pin where it still maintained it's balance.

It's flashing, blue, green, yellow and red lights were now angrily electrified as it gazed at them with now enraged red eyes. The others looked on with shock as Pete had relayed what was going to happen to Woody if they didn't win in the next fives minutes.

"So I suggest you all get yerselves movin, otherwise the old Sheriff here won't ever be patrollin again!" He then laughed out loud impressed by his own devilishness.

After the awful revelation had settled in a horrible ounce of rage had settled within everyone as Buzz then voiced out, "you insidious fiend!"

Pete finishing his evil laughter replied, "thanks fer the compliment there, Buzz last year!" With that he took off as he was carried off by a couple of bat heartless as they carried him off into the distance.

"Get back here!" Nozomi demanded angrily, but it was too late as he disappeared and the heartless began its relentless attack upon the party as it pumped its head up and down it's electrifying echoed everywhere.

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Flying away a certain distance Pete was finally dropped off by the bat heartless with a thump upon the ground, he turned and stood next to his accomplice who continued to gaze at the battle scene with her ever still cold green eyes.

Smiling he spoke to her, "that was a mighty good idea you had there, to give that heartless some of yer power, certainly comes in handy eh?"

Hari on the other hand was still quiet as she watched the flashes of light as she saw the multi coloured lights of the heartless spark and collide with those of the keybladers.

Pete still awaiting Hari's answer gazed outwards at the battle, as he felt confident that it would win against them, Hari then spoke, "this will be interesting to see… if she has improved."

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"Aaaaagggghhhhh!!!!" Nozomi cried out as she was thrown back into the tyre of the truck that they were still underneath of.

Seeing this with widened eyes Riku looked at the heartless angrily as he shouted at it, "why you!!!" With that he charged on to perform his own assault on it.

Nozomi getting up uncomfortably from the tyre looked up as she watched her friends still battling the heartless as best they could. The monster's power had been increased tenfold including it's speed and even with her own roller blading skills Nozomi hadn't even been able to get close enough to it. It had then smashed right into her with those terrible spikes that had hurt beyond words of description with its electrical energy.

She watched as Riku as well as king Mickey and Buzz try to defeat the creature separately as they all chased after it as it made dodging movements back and forth before it went to intercept them back. It was looking really bad.

"What're we supposed to do!" She complained aloud, as she did she felt her pain come back once more that caused her to groan terribly.

"What ya can do lass!" It was then the straight to the point voice of Cait sith rung through as an easing cure spell was cast upon Nozomi's injury.

Opening her eyes and seeing her little black and white cat companion she smiled, "well I'm glad to see you finally arrived."

"Lass this ain't any time to be chitter chatterin, Woody needs rescue right urgent!" He complained to her.

Hearing him this then made her anxiety return as she remembered the horribleness he was trapped in, looking at the spinning top heartless she could see that the horrible black oozey ink had risen to his to his belly now and he continued to bang the surface of the horrible creature shouting to be released.

Turning away from the horrid sight and then looking back to Cait sith Nozomi spoke to him, "I know! But what can we do! At this rate we're never going to be able to-"

It was then Cait sith interrupted her as he spoke to her, "just call that rolly lot up together and make some kinda plan lass! I'll distract that there good fer nothing!" He told her as he pointed to the heartless.

Hearing this idea Nozomi first thought of objecting, but then she shook that thought away as she asked what was truly important, "are you gonna be okay dealing with that thing!?"

At this Cait sith smiled up at her as he replied, "Whom do ya think yer talkin to lass? I'm Cait sith the greatest of 'em all!" He finished energetically proving his resilience and confidence to her.

Nozomi silent for a moment looked again at the heartless and saw that her friends were still struggling, then turning to Cait sith she told him, "all right then, if you're sure, but if you get decked from whatever we do, you better not pull my hair at the end of it!"

Hearing he'd gotten her approval Cait sith replied positively, "Right ya are lass!"

With that getting on her feet and Cait sith landing on her head, Nozomi then pulled her energy forward as she launched herself on her roller blades.

The others in the meantime were still struggling badly as they knew of Woody's distress, they couldn't though get past the heartlesss' horrible strength and speed and it started to look hopeless.

"Dang it! Is there nothing that can get past that creature's horrible entourage!" Buzz complained aloud.

"Gang way!" Nozomi shouted aloud.

With that they were all distracted as they saw Nozomi skating towards them. As quickly as she could, she gained momentum as she went faster and faster, then as soon as she was in good enough distance rushing past everyone else she felt Cait sith jump off as he landed onto her right hand. Then taking this ounce of energy she spun ultra fast as she then hurled her arm outwards as Cait sith launched himself off forwards fast and furious like a rocket.

Rushing fast past the others Cait sith aimed high and hard as he kicked the heartlesss' head between the eyes. The monster was pushed back from the bash, Cait sith then flew over it as he landed on the ground behind it with an elegant landing.

The heartless turned itself around as it looked at the little creature puzzled for a moment before the taunting began, "what ya waitin fer?! Ya big screw face!? Ya wanna eat my sithy dust!" With that he wagged his tail and butt back and forth before kicking up a little dust at the heartless.

This immediately aggravated the creature as it's spikes started to rotate faster upon it's big body, Cait sith seeing this then proceeded to runaway forwards, with that the massive heartless chased after the small creature leaving the others alone for a moment.

They were all silent as they were dumbfounded as to what had happened, but then suddenly Nozomi stopped in front of them as she spoke quick in simple words, "guys, talk, plan, now!" With that she ran back away from the heartless, silent for a moment as they all caught onto the information they chased after her to plan something that would succeed and save Woody from a messy black death oozey.

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Hari and Pete still watching the battle from where they were situated saw the party run back from the heartless. Seeing this Pete made an observation, "ha! Look at those chickens they've flown the coop already! That old sheriff will soon be bitin the dust!" Pete smiled at their obvious victory.

However Hari was silent as she continued to watch the battle further unfold.

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Cait sith still running away from the heartless was finding it difficult doing it with only his power.

"Holy Mike! I musta ticked him off more than I thought!" It was gaining on him quickly and he panicked as he ran faster as he saw those horrible electrical spikes coming forward faster and faster towards him.

Looking back behind him he saw that Woody though was at his last legs as he saw that the horrible black slimey ink was now dangerously near his mouth as he was trying to keep his face from being submerged within the stuff.

"Dang it! Ain't those lads and lass gonna do something!" He cried out loud.

Running in the centre of the truck toward its end it was suddenly that something happened as Buzz came running out from behind a tyre as he came between the heartless and Cait sith as he then quickly took aim with his laser and made it go into the creatures eyes.

Because it was spinning on blindly forwards and with the light suddenly coming from nowhere it blinded the creature momentarily as it came screeching to a halt.

As it stopped it was then the planned attack was launched –

"Blizzard!"

"Fira!"

"Thundera!"

With the three magic attacks launched all simultaneously, they all hit the creature at once, freezing, burning and electrifying the spikes making them all stop rotating. It was then that it's three weak points were exposed.

Woody inside the heartless barely able to keep himself out of the horrible ink looked out of the see through heartless and saw suddenly in front of him coming quickly was Nozomi on her roller blades, she skated on fast and furiously towards her target.

Now a good distance Buzz saw her coming as he then quickly then dodged out of the way as then Nozomi cast another ice spell, "Blizzard!" She cried.

As she did she then created a hill of ice as she created a launch point. Going over it she flew off and into the air, as she did this using the speed her wings came out as she aimed her legs forwards in a powerful double kick.

Riku and Mickey then too came out of their hiding places having cast hastera upon the both of themselves their increased speed matched hers. The three of them then together smashed into the heartless with their keyblades, Riku smashing away the needle of the heartless it's centre of balance as he ran past. Nozomi smashed through the centre of the heartless with legs with her powerful kick making it break like glass as then she passed through it quickly as she caught Woody in her arms landing on the other side of it. Then finally King Mickey at that precise moment as the other two had launched an aerial attack from above as he crushed the creature's head, the mind of the whole piece.

All at once after commencing their attack the three of them shouted out together,

"TRINITY SLASH!!!"

With that the heartless then vibrated violently as its electrical power flowed out and it's huge heart floated out and vanished as it's tremendous power was finally crushed by the groups joint effort.

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Pete and Hari having watched the spectacle were obviously mixed in their reactions. Pete on the one hand was flabber ghasted as he couldn't believe what had transpired. The heartless had been defeated! When it was so powerful and agile and also with increased power!

"That can't be, that is, it ain't….OH! Why if I had the right powers right now I'd show all of them chumps one fer!" He shouted clearly cross as he shook his fist angrily at them showing his intention.

Looking at Hari he was almost certain that she would be reflecting the same feelings he was, however he saw that once again she had remained unchanged, her expression nor her aura had wavered and she instead only commented quietly, "her power has increased… that is good to see, she will be worthy to be collected when the time comes."

Pete confused as ever by her mysterious nature blinked as he then scratched the back of one of his ears. But then feeling still cross he folded his arms as he continued to watch what would happen next.

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Nozomi having laid Woody now on the ground was worried as everyone else was as she asked urgently, "Woody! Woody! Come on wake up! Please come on!"

Woody in the deepest recesses of his unconsciousness heard someone calling his name, opening his eyes blearily he asked aloud, "Andy?"

But then looking and focusing his eyes he saw that it was Nozomi whose face of horrible anxiousness had been replaced with that of joy at seeing her friend alive.

"Oh Woody! Thank goodness! I'm glad you're awake now!" She said happily.

Everyone else was just as relieved as Nozomi, Cait sith now on Nozomi's head was smiling. Riku was satisfied as he stood next to king Mickey who nodded his head as well happy to see that the cowboy had made it out too.

Now fully conscious Woody was happy to see this too and felt glad himself that he had made it out of that nightmare, but unfortunately looking at Buzz it was obvious he didn't have the same feelings as he looked at him with annoyance.

Woody's smile vanished as he saw this himself but then before any words could be exchanged between the two toys it was then the mouse king spoke, "ya know you sure had a lucky escape there when we came up with the plan we had."

"Plan?" Woody asked still confused as he wasn't completely aware of what had happened while he was within the heartless.

Nozomi nodded, "Yeah, we had to come up with something quick to get you out, though it was tricky cause the thing wouldn't stop moving and also with those spikes… we just couldn't get that close with all that electricity."

Hearing this Woody digested this information before Cait sith went on to illiterate, "so cause of that these guys had the idea of using a distraction with old Buzz there and finally usin some magic they had, poof! We could get yah out!"

"Though of course it was a long shot at most, due to the time pressure as well at the time," Riku said as he also added his say.

Hearing this Woody took all this in and was glad to hear they came up with something so fast, but then looking at Nozomi who was whispering and laughing at something Cait sith had said, he thought back to the image he'd seen of her before he'd fallen unconscious. The wings on her feet… could that mean she was? But then she turned and looked at him curiously as she asked, "is something wrong?"

But then dismissing it, he shook his head as he answered, "Oh it's nothing…" With that Woody lifted himself up as he stood once more.

"Are you sure that you're okay by the way Woody, you're not-"

However Nozomi was cut off as suddenly Buzz then began to speak, "why've you all being so nice to this traitor?"

At this everyone turned and looked at Buzz surprised slightly at what he was saying. It was then that Cait sith spoke, "why're you sayin that now when this lad went through-"

"That defective law enforcement was the one who put us through all of this! He was the one who organised that attack on us!" He spoke angrily as he remembered the memory of how the lot of them had been thrown out the window.

Remembering this memory of the confession that Woody had made earlier on, everyone was deadly quiet as they remembered his treachery. Listening to all of this Woody decided to take responsibility for himself as he spoke, "you're right… I was the one who organised it… I might as well just be labelled a bad guy for I what I did to you guys… or what I had planned to do."

Hearing this everyone looked at Woody with mixed expressions, though it was mostly a sense of unease that was the most dominant within everyone, silent for a few moments Woody spoke again, "if you guys wanna let me have it… then do, I'm willing to take it."

With that he took a step forwards and turned to everyone as he opened his arms out wide as he stood ready for any punishment they would give to him.

"As you should be!" Buzz spoke still angry, though he was glad to see that the sheriff had some shred of honour within him.

Seeing Woody was prepared nobody did anything at first, but then Nozomi gazing at him for a few moments lowered her head as she put Cait sith down from her shoulder, getting up from where she was sitting she silently walked over towards Woody. Riku and Mickey as well as Cait sith moved to do something but Nozomi put her hand back telling them not to come forward as she stood before him the others watched silently what she would do.

Standing before him Woody couldn't see Nozomi's expression still as she suddenly called out the "Starseeker" once again as she then held it in her right arm.

Then quickly and furiously she pulled her blade out making Woody close his eyes quickly as he readied himself for the pain that was sure to follow.

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However he felt nothing, opening his eyes he saw surprised that Nozomi was holding the keyblade in front of his face the end of the blade inches away from his nose.

Nozomi stared at Woody fiercely her eyes annoyed, he didn't know what he should do, so he only stared back at her as he blinked a couple of times and gulped a little. Then suddenly she poked his nose with the blade quickly hard as she told him, "don't do that again!" She spoke to him crossly.

At this everyone was surprised at what she had done, especially Woody as he rubbed his nose. It was further proven as Buzz asked furiously, "what're you doing! He deserves corporal punishment for what he tried to do to all of us!"

Nozomi hearing him turned and answered, "cause first of all he's been through enough punishment as it is with that heartless… and also…"she then paused as she then put her right hand over her left breast as she finished, "because my heart is telling me not to… he's our friend, truly I know this… and what my heart is feeling and saying can't be changed."

Everyone was awestruck by this speech and was quiet for many moments until the ever so ignorant Buzz complained once more, " honestly because of all you, you… toys! The security of this universe is in jeopardy!"

At this everyone was weirded out as he said this as Nozomi revealed as she asked, "what on earth are you talking about?"

With that Buzz went into a huge explanation as he walked to where he could see the moon gallantly telling them, " right now poised at the edge of the galaxy emperor Zurg, has been secretly building a weapon that has a destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet!" He spoke as he clenched his fist looking up to the moon wishing to smote down his archenemy Zurg.

Then removing his hand from it's clenched form he moved it to his chest as he continued his heroic speech, " I alone, have information that reveals his weapons only weakness."

Finishing his speech he then pointed to all of them convicting, " and you my friends! Are responsible for delaying my rendezvous with star command!"

Everyone looked at him queerly and with an air of annoyance at his stupidity as Cait sith revealed as he whispered to Nozomi, "he's off his trolley!"

Then at once back in full pelt was Woody's anger as he shouted infuriated, "YOU! ARE! A! TOY!!!! You're not the real Buzz light year! You're an, you're an action figure! You are a child's play thing!" He finished as he held his closed fingers to his eyes showing Buzz just how miniature he truly was.

"Yeah exactly, wake up to reality will you!" Nozomi said just as annoyed as Woody.

Cait sith then continued, "yeah mate! You are mighty rude givin us the blame for some dumb cliché lines!"
Finally Riku then voiced his annoyance, "exactly, besides you have to accept who you are eventually, no matter how good the dream you're having right now."

King Mickey was just silent as he shook his head to and throw.

Though Buzz had still not got the message as he then said to them all, "you are all sad strange little people, you have my pity, farewell to you all." He spoke as he made a strange shape with his fingers and started to walk away.

Nozomi herself now really peaked with her own rage then shouted to him, "Oh! Stuff you! You! Stupid space toy!!!" With that she faced away from Buzz really not liking him there and then.

Suddenly though as she did this suddenly a sound was heard as a new vehicle had arrived, everyone turned and stared as they saw that it was a yellow delivery van with the words written in red, 'Pizza planet, Delivery shuttle, serving your local star cluster."

As everyone stared at this new arrival Woody spoke aloud, "Pizza Planet? Andy!" As he realised his beloved owner would be in that same place, he then started to run towards it.

"Woody wait a minute!" With that the others went to catch him up, but then suddenly as they did Woody halted.

He'd realised something, "What's the hold up? Woody?" King Mickey asked curious.

He turned and looked at everyone as he told them, "We can't go back to the room without Buzz! The others thing I killed you all, if he's not with us they'll never believe me!"

Hearing this everyone realised the seriousness of the situation as Riku also added, "and your owner will be missing his Buzz."

Realising this everyone quickly ran back to where Buzz was leaving, seeing him they all started to call out to him,

"Buzz! Buzz come back!"
"Mr Light year get back here!"
"Oy Buzz lad return 'ere now!"

"Buzz Light year come on!

"Hey Buzz!"

However the still ignorant astronaut replied, "go away!" To all of them.

Annoyed once more Nozomi looked at him angrily and was ready to run straight over and give him a piece of her mind when suddenly Woody called out, "No Buzz you gotta come back I… I found a space ship!"

Nozomi was startled as well as the others at what he was saying and was about to ask what he meant when Cait sith silently pointed out to the delivery van and showed what Woody was talking about as they all saw the rocket on the top of the van.

They all looked back to Buzz and saw that he had paused as he looked back at them, "It's a space ship Buzz!" Woody cried again as he indicated with his arms.

Everyone then following his lead then indicated as well as they pointed to it showing it to be the truth.

Buzz stared on, not quite believing his luck.

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Hari and Pete then continued to watch as they saw that the group of toys had departed and had gotten aboard the van and were quickly on their way to Pizza planet.

"Well now what do we do?" Pete asked unsure of what should happen next.

"We continue our pursuit," Hari spoke as she opened a dark portal and walked on through, Pete following closely behind.