Chapter 47: the heroes shall rise
I do not own kingdom hearts or the properties shown in this fanfic. They belong to the respective owners and the original story is based on the works of Darius Almighty. Kingdom hearts and trials of the keyblade is owned by square Enix, Disney, and Tetsuya Nomura. Please support the official release.
Right. Now for the final conclusion of metroville! You know the incredibles is done by brad bird who directed the iron giant which is a childhood watch of mine. The iron giant really sucked and I didn't like the film.
With that out of the way, here's the next chapter. Enjoy!
"We've looked everywhere for my family and there's no sign of them," Dash sighed dismally, his expression revealing his depressed mood. "You okay, Kairi?" Kairi had gotten off a little bit wobbly and was wiping herself clean of all the bugs that had splattered on her face during the super fast ride the boy had put her through.
"Just fine," she replied, spitting a fly out of her mouth. There had been no sign of anyone anywhere. A couple of times they'd nearly run into some patrolling soldiers but had managed to get away in a jiffy. Kairi was beginning to get discouraged. If there were super heroes here, you'd think they'd want to be found.
While Kairi went over this in her mind, she suddenly saw something on the ground that she could easily have missed. It was nestled among the roots of a tree, slightly hidden from view but still visible. She bent down for a closer look. It was a gun, one of the rifles she had seen Syndrome's men using. And it was splattered with blood.
"What are you looking at?" Dash asked, noticing her body tense up. He was about to walk over when he felt something wet fall on his cheek. He touched it and brought his hand before his face. His first thought was that is was raining, but the stuff on his fingers wasn't clear, it was red. Thick, red blood. Dash cringed at the sight of it, and then, very slowly, dared himself to look up. As he did, his eyes widened in horror.
"K-K-Kairi." She turned around at the boy's stammered call to see him pointing above them with a shaking hand. Kairi followed his arm to the tree tops, and her confusion was replaced with pure shock.
Three of Syndrome's soldiers were above them, cords tied around their ankles suspending them upside down, their arms limply hanging over their heads. One thing was for sure, they weren't alive.
Their heads were gone.
Dash, utterly horror stricken, couldn't even muster a scream as he stared at the bloody stumps that once nursed mens heads. Kairi took it a little better, but her eyes were just as wide as Dash's. Such brutality couldn't be taken lightly. It wasn't long before she heard Dash blowing chunks in the bushes. Super powers or not, he was still only a child. She made sure he was okay, then turned back to the brutality above her. They were just hanging there, blood dripping to the earth, like they wanted to be found. Almost like...like...
Bait.
A wave of fear washed over Kairi. "Dash," she called, as the boy wiped his mouth clean. "Let's get out of here. Now!"
"You don't have to tell me twice!" Dash exclaimed. He scooped Kairi up in his arms again and took off much faster than before, anything to get away from a sight that would surely haunt him forever.
But, he was heading right into a trap; he just didn't know it. Behind a tree was where it waited, cloaked and invisible to everything around it, making not a single sound. Its claw-like hands gripped a long nylon rope, the other end of which was tied tightly around the bottom trunk of a tree opposite the one he was crouching behind. It heard their fast approach long before they were near and tensed at the ready. Dash and Kairi came streaming through the jungle at top speed in its direction, and that's when it made its move. It pulled on the rope to tighten it.
"Look out!" Kairi shouted when a trip wire sprung out of nowhere, but it was too late. Dash's speedy feet tripped over the cord and, at the rate they were going, both went flying across the ground. Kairi skidded and tumbled a bit but Dash, being lighter, flew into a tree upside down, which knocked him out on the spot. Kairi, meanwhile, shook her head free of the daze and slowly got up on her hands and knees, albeit painfully.
"Dash," she called weakly. "Are you-" Her words caught when her eyes landed on the creature that appeared out of thin air, materializing like it had been there all along, and Kairi came face to face with the Yautja. She froze like a deer in the headlights as it stared at her silently through its frightening helmet. Kairi had never actually seen the hunter up close, only heard what Han Solo had to say about it. Now that she saw it, it was terrifying. It hands were like claws, its chest was bare and muscled, skulls hung from its waist; a few of which Kairi noticed were dripping with fresh blood.
"What do you want?" Kairi asked boldly. The Yautja didn't, or couldn't, respond properly. Instead, it tapped the computer on its wrist.
"Bring me the Keyblader's head."
Kairi tensed and realized that was a recording of Darth Vader giving the creature the deadly order. That answered that. The hunter reached for his belt and pulled out a cylinder that extended into a strange staff at the touch of a button, twirling twice before holding it at his side. Kairi cautiously rose to her feet but the Yautja didn't make a move. Only when Kairi was up and summoned her Keyblade did it position itself in an aggressive stance. Kairi's every instinct told her to run, but glancing at Dash's unconscious form told her she couldn't leave him.
She decided to make the first move, coming in with a hard swing with her Keyblade. The hunter blocked it effortlessly as it did her next strike, and her next. One attack after the other was blocked by the Yautja's staff, a weapon that it obviously knew how to use well. Kairi quickly found out how outmatched she was in melee combat as the hunter knocked aside any attempt she made to hit it. She attacked to the side and it dodged, she attacked its legs and it blocked, she made a swipe at it head and it ducked to sweep her legs out from under her and knock her on her back. She gasped when the Yautja rose its weapon as it stood over her and rolled away just as it jabbed its staff where she had been laying. She jumped to her feet, raised her Keyblade, and a bolt of lightning struck the hunter from the sky. The powerful spell coursed through its body, causing its dread-locked hair to flail all over the place but, beyond that, didn't seem to be very effective at all. When the attack finished, all it did was shake its head clear. Kairi gulped visibly.
Meanwhile, Dash was just beginning to rouse from his prone state, sitting up and shaking his head clear of the cobwebs. He briefly wondered what happened, then got his answer when he saw Kairi squaring off against some kind of monster. It wielded a staff which it used to knock Kairi's weapon out of her hands, then viscously backhanded her with enough force to send her sprawling.
"Hey! Leave her alone!" Dash shouted, already running. He knocked the staff out of the Yautja's hands in the blink of an eye and made another pass to knock its legs out from under it. While it was down, Dash came around again, but it quickly sat up, aimed its wrist, and a spring-loaded nylon net fired from its gauntlet. Dash yelped when the net instantly encased him, stopping his run and trapping him. The super fast child squirmed, struggled and even bit against the material he was cocooned in, but to no avail, it was too strong. The Yautja stood back and fixed its gaze on Dash, who suddenly remembered the state of the bodies the hunter left in its wake. That was enough to cause him to scream.
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"What was that?" po asked aloud, stopping his walk with Violet through the jungle. Unlike him, she was much more alarmed at the scream they had heard.
"That sounded like Dash!" she gasped worriedly. "He's in trouble! Come on!" She meant for po to follow but, in her haste, she accidently became invisible and went off in the direction of her brother's shout.
"Hey! Wait! Where'd you go?" po stammered, looking back and forth even though it was useless. When the girl wanted to disappear she did it very well. He pushed aside leaves and branches for some kind of trace. "Oh come on! Don't leave me hanging here! I'm sorry for what I said about your powers! Invisibility is useful! So just come on out and-"
"Howdy!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
po fell on his rump and crawled backwards till he up against a tree trunk as Jack Skellington emerged from the bushes. When searching through the plants, he never expected to find that freaky face!
"Hi there, po!" Jack exclaimed, cheerfully ignorant to the boy's current state. For some reason or another he was wearing a mask. "Fancy meeting you here! I've been looking everywhere for you guys!" Two more people, three counting the baby in one's arms, that po had never seen before, stepped into view. It was a man and a woman, all of them, including the baby, wearing black and red suits and masks over their eyes, like Jack's. po suddenly wished he had a mask as well.
"Mr. Incredible, Elastigirl, Jack-Jack, I'd like you to meet one of my friends. His name's po!"
"Hi!" Mr. Incredible greeted. po's response was fearful trembling. "Uh, nice to meet you?"
"What's with him?" Helen asked Jack.
"I haven't the slightest clue!" Jack answered with a grin. "By the way, why were you talking to the trees?"
"I wasn't talking to the trees!" po snapped, getting over his fear of the Skellington enough to get angry with him. "There was this girl! Her name was Violet! She turned invisible and ran off and-"
"Violet?" Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl repeated. "You were with Violet?" Helen asked.
"Where'd she go?" Bob asked urgently.
"I don't know! She was invisible! Keep up!"
"Isn't this great?" Jack asked, happily. "Friends getting along with friends. Speaking of which, where are the others? I want to introduce them as well."
"Where have you been, man?!" po shouted, angrily. "They were all captured by this psychopath named Syndrome! Kairi was the only one who managed to escape and now they're looking for her!"
"What?" Jack gasped in shock. "But, how? When? Oh never mind that! We have to help them! And Kairi! Come on!" po cringed and withdrew as Jack took a step towards him. Jack sighed. "po, I know you're afraid of me. It's nothing to be ashamed of. I'm downright terrifying!"
"It's true," Helen said.
"Gives me the willies," Mr. Incredible admitted.
"Bla!" Jack-Jack chirped.
"But now is the time to put aside our differences to help our friends. Kairi needs us to pull together for her!" po seemed to relax slightly, but Jack could still see the unsureness in his eyes.
"I'll let you wear my mask."
"Deal!" po instantly exclaimed.
Meanwhile, Dash struggled as hard as he could against the net he was trapped in, his efforts increasing the closer the Yautja got to him. It walked toward him slowly, the side of his helmet projecting a concentrated red laser focused on the middle of Dash's head. The cannon on its shoulder charged up when it stopped walking, preparing to blast the boy's face off with hot plasma. Kairi was too exhausted to even stand, struggling to do so to help Dash. The boy's eyes were wide with fear and he gulped loudly when the monster's cannon reached full power. With a low growl, the Yautja fired.
"NO!" Violet, coming from nowhere, dove between the blue plasma energy and her brother, encasing herself in a human-sized force field, the largest she'd ever created. The blast bounced harmlessly off the shield, much to the hunter's surprise. It fired another blast and several more; all of them deflected harmlessly off of the girl's barrier.
"Violet!" Dash gasped, so happy to see her. "How did you do that?"
"I don't know!" Violet replied. She was just as surprised that she had created a force field of such power.
"Look out!" she heard Dash cry, snapping her back into focus just in time to see the Yautja leap at her with two jagged knives extended from its wrist guard, shocking her enough for her to lose concentration of her shield. Violet jumped out of the way and avoided the blades in the nick of time, and the Yautja took after her. Dash struggled even harder now to get out of the net.
Violet was forced backwards while maintaining shields every time the creature made a strike, pounding with its weapon or its fists, putting a major strain on her mind. After many punishing attacks, Violet hopped back and used her powers to turn invisible. If it couldn't see her it couldn't attack her, right? She took advantage of her ability and tried to get around the predator to attack it from behind. Imagine her surprise when its arm shot out and grasped her tightly around the throat, despite her invisibility. Violet's hands shot up to the arm that was strangling her, at the same time wondering how it could have seen her.
Unfortunately for Violet, it could see her, very clearly. Even though she was invisible, its infrared vision could see her a mile away. It lifted her off the ground, the lack of air causing her to drop her invisibility. With her dangling helplessly off the ground, it brought its wrist blades to her face, close enough that she could see her strained expression reflected in their gleaming surfaces.
The Yautja paused in its attack, however. It quickly rounded and impaled its weapon into the panda that had jumped to attack it, nailing a precise kick to its chest. po winced when it felt like he'd kicked a brick wall, but had little time to think about it when the creature whipped Violet's limp body at him. He caught her, and skidded back at the force. The Yautja was prepared and threw his shuriken, a larger, alien version that cut clean through po. Fortunately Violet, still in po's arms, managed to raise a shield in time deflect the projectile.
"I take it back, your powers rock!" po exclaimed. Violet grinned embarrassedly.
The Yautja's shuriken boomeranged back to its grip, preparing for another toss. "Hey, lizard-breath!" It stopped and turned its head to the woman that now stood in the clearing with the rest of them. "Don't you even think about hurting my kids!" Helen shouted in a threatening tone. The hunter scanned her. She wasn't armed, therefore wasn't a threat. Just as it was about to turn back to its target something wrapped tightly around its arm; it looked back to see the woman's arm wound round its own, stretched out like rubber. Her other arm extended to punch it but it caught that arm in its other hand. Helen found herself being reeled in by the hunter using her own long stretchy arms as tow lines.
"Mind if I cut in?" Jack Skellington jumped off the Yautja's head forcing it to let go of Elastigirl. The Pumpkin King was all over the hunter, Keyblade dancing in his grip with each strike he made against it. He forced the Yautja back until it was up against a tree, then got clear out of the way for a punch from Mr. Incredible to take over. The hunter's head would have been crushed like the tree trunk behind it of it hadn't avoided the blow in the nick of time. Another punch came, but it jumped and pushed off Bob's shoulder, firing a blast of plasma that collided with Mr. Incredible's steel hard body and knocking him back. The Yautja landed, and jumped to battle again.
It parried po's strikes and leapt away, then dodged away from Helen's stretchy punches and kicks. But Jack dropped down with a kick of his own, countered when the Yautja grabbed his leg and threw him away. That gave Kairi the opening she needed to take a swing at its head which it narrowly avoided, recovering and firing a blast of blue energy from its cannon, only for Violet to raise a force field and protect Kairi from harm. Dash zipped in like a bullet and plowed into its legs, knocking it flat on its back. While it was down, Mr. Incredible reared back and drove a super powered punch where it lay. The Yautja back flipped off the ground to avoid it, picked up its dropped staff on the way and landed back on its feet, twirling his weapon to get a feel for it again. As it regained its bearings, it found itself surrounded on all sides, heroes at every angle. It didn't move an inch, kept its fighting stance, and eyed them all warily.
This plan had plummeted, the creature concluded. The original task was to lure Sora out if he thought his supposed 'mate' was being attacked. Instead, it had attracted the attention of some rather powerful life forms. This was a battle that was not necessary to the hunt and would only waste time. It would track Sora the old-fashioned way from now on. It quickly moved and fired its shoulder cannon into the ground at its feet, dirt and smoke engulfing it from everyone's view. When the air cleared, the Yautja was gone, without a trace. It was then that everyone finally relaxed.
"So, who was that guy?" Jack Skellington asked.
"Mom! Dad!" Violet and Dash cried joyfully, rushing to their parents Bob and Helen to embrace them both.
"Kids!" Mr Incredible cried. "Thank goodness! I thought I'd never see you again!"
"We were so worried about you!" Helen told them, tears in her own eyes.
"We were worried about you!" Violet said blissfully.
"Gah!" Jack-Jack put in.
"Aw, isn't this wonderful?" Jack Skellington gushed, pulling Kairi and po into their own little group hug. "Everyone is reunited with their loved ones! This has is put me into a wonderfully good mood!" Neither Kairi nor po bothered to tell him he was always in a good mood.
"Hey, guys," Kairi said, although with difficulty, since Jack's hug was pretty tight. "I didn't know you guys escaped Syndrome. Good job."
"Hey, we couldn't leave you hanging out to dry, could we?" po replied with a grin.
Kairi raised an eyebrow. "Why are you wearing a mask?" Jack and po looked to each other and sighed.
"Secret identity!" they both answered. Kairi couldn't help but smile. She went to look over at Dash's family reunion and her heart warmed at the sight. Although when her eyes landed on one member of his family, she was filled with shock.
"No way," she whispered, wiggling out of Jack's grasp and walking in a daze to the Incredible family. "You're Elastigirl," she gasped, looking at Helen in wonder. "You're really Elastigirl! I can't believe it, you're real! I used to love you!"
"Used to?" Helen asked, playfully.
"Dash, why didn't you tell me your mom was Elastigirl?" Kairi asked the boy.
"Uh, I forgot?" Dash answered.
"Wow, Mom, you're a star," Violet said with admiration.
Kairi eyes managed to tear away from her childhood hero to look at her husband. "You're Mr. Incredible! You were Sora's idol! I can't believe you're here too!" She looked between them then. "Are you two married?"
"Fifteen years and counting," Bob stated proudly puting an arm around Elastigirl and kissing her.
"Ew!" Dash gagged.
"Awwwwwww," Jack and Kairi gushed.
A blue beam fired from nowhere and struck the entire group at once, freezing them in place inside a forcefield of energy.
"Tell me I didn't just hear that!" Syndrome laughed as he flew down from above, his zero-point energy gauntlet keeping them all in their current state. "You married Elastigirl? You actually married Elastigirl?" His grin grew wider as he laid eyes on Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack. "And they got busy! I didn't think you had it in you!" Still maintaining the energy field, Syndrome walked over to Kairi.
"Hello Princess. Making friends, are we? Fighting off some monsters together? I won't deny that was the coolest super hero Keyblader team-up I've ever seen." Even as he said these things his soldiers were emerging from the jungle, along with Heartless and Omega Heartless. "But the game's over now. And I win."
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"Nobody knows the troubles I've seen," Jack Sparrow sang gloomily, he and the others still restrained in Syndrome's clutches. "Nobody knows my sorrow. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. No, no, no."
"If I could move my arms, I'd rip your tongue out," sonic growled threateningly.
"If I could move my arms, I'd drink my rum," Jack responded offhandedly. "Guess we're both in a rut."
The doors swished open at the end of the room which earned their attention, and when Mirage entered, their attentive stares turned to glares.
"What do you want?" sonic spat harshly, the others sharing this sentiment. Mirage ignored them and rushed up to the control panel hooked up to the restraint mechanism, pressed a single button, and the electrical bindings on their arms and legs shut down. The moment they did the Keybladers collapsed on their hands and knees.
"What are you doing?" Sora asked as he regained the feeling in his limbs.
"There's no time," she answered. "Syndrome's captured the others and is holding them captive. Not only that but he's about to launch the Omnidroid as well. Please, you have to stop him."
"Why are you doing this?" Beast asked, drawing up to his full height to look very imposing, so Mirage backed away a step.
"I want no part in his madness any longer. I don't want to contribute anymore to this plan."
"A little late for that," sonic growled.
"No, there's still time to stop him. The Omnidroid hasn't taken off yet. It's about to lift off in the volcano hanger. You can still stop it, but only if you hurry!" Sora kept his gaze on her. She seemed legit and she was looking at them all so pleadingly.
"Alight," he finally said. "Thank you. You guys stop the Omnidroid Heartless from taking off, I'll go help Kairi and the others."
"If we find Syndrome on the way can we hurt him?" Beast asked hopefully.
"I think that goes without saying," Jack answered.
"Leave it to us, Sora," Mulan said on their behalf. "You just make sure Kairi is okay. Let's go!" She, Beast, sonic and Jack quickly took off out the sliding doors and proceeded down the left-hand corridor.
"Other way!" Mirage called after them. The four of them turned direction and proceeded down the right-hand corridor.
"Thank you!" Jack called back.
It was in the hollowed out volcano where the robot Heartless would be launched, the entire mountain converted into one big launchpad. A huge black rocket was set up to blast off, in the middle of which was a large black sphere that could only be the Omnidroid. Everything was prepped and ready for take off. Personnel were leaving the area with all their jobs complete, getting to a safe place to witness the launch. The hanger was empty, save for the four Keybladers rushing up the steps to the rocket's cockpit and jumping inside.
"Alright," Beast said once all of them were inside, looking over the control panel hastily. "Where's the self-destruct button? There's always a self-destruct button."
"That's stupid," sonic scoffed.
"Look at the guy who made this thing," Mulan pointed out.
"Good point."
"Uh, mates?" Jack Sparrow said.
"Well, maybe there's an off switch," Mulan offered.
"It's a rocket, not a coffee maker!" Beast growled.
"Lads?" Jack tried again.
"This can't be that hard. It's not rocket science," sonic mumbled.
"Yes it is!"
"Excuse me?"
"What!" everyone barked at Jack. Now with their attention, the pirate captain pointed to the control panel. The Keybladers all turned eyes to what he was pointing at. A timer. A timer that was counting down to 3...2...1.
The booster engines ignited as soon as the timer hit zero and the rocket lifted off the ground with the power of five flames blasting from its rear. Unfortunately for the Keybladers inside, there was nothing to hold them down as they flew back into the opposite wall of the cockpit, the G-force threatening to flatten them like pancakes. The hatch above opened as it rose higher and higher and flew out. Anyone outside would have seen it fly out of the volcano crater in the middle of the island, rising high into the sky with its deadly payload.
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"Pretty cool, huh?" Syndrome boasted arrogantly, showing the take off of the Omnidroid to the captive Kairi, Jack Skellington, po and Incredible family, trapped in the restraints Syndrome seemed to favour. Even Jack-Jack was trapped, his entire body wrapped in metal and hanging upside down. He was giggling happily though, thinking the whole thing was a game. "Yes sir, I am a genius. The Omnidroid will fly from world to world, searching diligently for any Keyblades and their wielders to crush them like ants in its ant crushing grip until there are no more Keybladers in the universe."
"And how will it know how to find them?" Kairi asked angrily.
"Well, I guess it'll just have to destroy everything it sees until it does. After all, Keybladers are heroes, right? So how can they resist a giant robot randomly breaking things in front of them? I'll answer for you. They can't!"
"But hundreds of innocent people will get hurt!" Helen gasped.
"Oh snap! I didn't think of that! Oh wait. Yes I did!"
"So where are you sending the Omnidroid first?" po asked.
"Now that was a hard decision. There were so many worlds to choose from. Which one would be graced with my robot's presence? Then I decided, why not this world? I don't want to leave anything unchecked on my own turf. The city of Metroville won't know what hit it!"
"That's our home!" Violet gasped.
"Buddy, you don't have to do this!" Mr. Incredible told him.
"My name's not Buddy!" Syndrome snapped loudly, hopping up in down in a rage. "And it's not your biggest fan either! That ship has sailed! I was just a little boy that wanted to help you fight crime, but no! Mr. Incredible shot me down. And it tore me apart. It did teach me one thing though. You can't count on anyone. Especially your heroes."
"Buddy, I was wrong back then. I'm sorry."
"See? Now you respect me. Because I'm a threat. That's how it works. You're pathetic. And I've outgrown you." He pressed a button on his wrist and a panel in the roof slid away to open up to the outside. "Well, it's been lovely catching up, but I've got a rampage to plan out. Later, losers!" He took to the sky with his rocket boots blazing, flying through the skylight, laughing insanely.
"He seemed like a happy fellow," Jack Skellington commented.
"This is all my fault," Mr. Incredible sighed gloomily. "I'm sorry I got you all involved in this. I'm a lousy father."
"Are you kidding?" Dash exclaimed. "This has been great! We got to kick so much butt while we were here!"
"I like this kid!" po grinned. Bob managed a smile.
"Regardless, I'm gonna find a way to get you guys out of here."
"That's the spirit, honey!" Helen reprimanded. "Now what's the plan to get us out of here?"
"Well, I never said I'd thought it up yet," Mr. Incredible said sheepishly.
"At this point, it'll take a miracle," Kairi sighed hopelessly.
There was a loud pounding on the door at the room entrance, a large dent appearing in the steel. Another pound and another dent. The doors were smashed in after the third strike, the metal crumpling to the floor like paper. Sora stood in the smashed open doorway, twirled his Keyblade/battering ram and rested it on his shoulder.
"Whoa," was all Violet could say.
"Sora!" Kairi exclaimed happily.
"Hi Sora!" Jack Skellington greeted cheerfully.
"Boy am I glad to see you!" po hollered. Sora quickly ran to the machine's control and pressed the button to deactivate the restraints. The heroes were free from their bonds.
"I'm glad to see you too, guys. You all okay?" Sora immediately asked.
"We're fine," Kairi answered to Sora's relief. "But where are the others?"
"Don't worry about them. They went to stop the Omnidroid."
"Well that'll be pretty difficult, since it already took off!" po informed loudly.
"What! Oh no!" Sora sighed. "Well, maybe we can still catch it. Syndrome's gotta have some kind of plane or something lying around here. Did he say where he was sending it?"
"He said he was sending it to Metroville," Elastigirl told him. Sora turned to her, seeming to notice her and her family for the first time.
"Oh, right!" Kairi said sheepishly. "Everyone, I'd like you to meet Sora."
"Nice to meet you, Sora," Bob said sincerely, extending his hand. "Thanks for getting us out of there. You're a hero if I've ever seen one."
Sora shook his hand and scrutinized the buff man in tights before him. "You look familiar. Have I seen you somewhere before...?" It took a moment for him to get it, but when he did his eyes widened. "You're Mr. Incredible," he gasped. "You're Mr. Incredible! I don't believe it! You're here! You're actually standing right here!"
"Oh great. Another one," Dash sighed.
"You used to be my hero!" Sora went on, smiling a big grin. "I spent my entire allowance buying your comic books! Will you sign my chest?" He lifted up his shirt to reveal his bare chest. Kairi blushed and covered her eyes.
Mr. Incredible rubbed the back of his neck and smiled awkwardly. "Uh gee, kid, I can't really-"
"Need I remind you what happened the last time you blew off a fan?" Jack Skellington put in innocently. Mr. Incredible gave Jack a betrayed look, then turned to his family but they only shrugged before he turned to the Sora, eyes sparkling with childish glee. He sighed.
"Do you have a pen?"
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The city of Metroville, with its high skyscrapers and long paved roads, was broken of its peaceful conformity as people in the streets crowded around the black rocket that had crash landed in the middle of downtown. Huge and of no design that any of them had ever seen, it plowed into the street but thankfully with no casualties. Already, rumours of war were spreading through the crowd, or an experiment gone wrong, even an alien invasion. No one could make head nor tail of it.
Suddenly, the large black sphere jutting out of the rocket's hull reacted. Six metal arms extended out from it and used them to stand up out of the crashed machine, towering over the shocked onlookers. A single red visor rose out of the sphere's top. For a while, everyone stared with morbid fascination at the giant robot. That is until a building was blown apart by the laser cannon attached to the side of its head; that sent them all running and screaming. The Omnidroid Heartless was bigger and badder than ever, at least ten times larger than before, standing at a vast fifty-feet off the ground. The laser cannon was a new feature as well and it was put to good use. Throngs of people rushed out of harms way in full blown panic. Cars crashed into each other in their hurry, children cried for their parents, all of them caught up in the Omnidroid's search for Keybladers.
The army was called in immediately. Already tanks were rolling down the streets as people rushed past them to safety, and the Omnidroid's rampage came their way. They opened fired as soon as it was in range. As valiant and brave as their efforts were, their armour piercing shells didn't even scratch the robot Heartless' plating. It blew the tanks apart with its cannon and tossed them around like toys until they, too, were forced to retreat.
"Yup, nothing like random, meaningless destruction to really make a guy feel alive." Watching the whole scene unfold from the top of skyscraper was its creator, Syndrome. He rubbed his hands together excitedly. "Things are looking up for me, I can tell you that!" He felt like he was on top of the world. The Omnidroid was working better than he had hoped, the Keybladers were locked up and Mr. Incredible wouldn't get in his way ever again.
Still, why did he get this creepy feeling that he was forgetting something?
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"Why couldn't that caped freak have made his place easier to find?" Gantu growled angrily, fiddling with the map that Syndrome had provided him and his partner, Pete, both of them now trudging through the jungle trying to get to his base.
"You should have parked the ship closer!" Pete scolded.
"Closer to where? We're in a jungle!" Gantu crumbled the map up and tossed it over his shoulder. "Syndrome better have Kairi ready to go when we get there. Maleficent practically blasted us out the door."
"No, that's exactly what she did," Pete said dismally.
The two of them kept walking in silence, so focused on their task that they didn't even notice when two more people joined them. Pete and Gantu found themselves walking with Azul and Nero, who were also marching through the jungle, neither party acknowledging the others' presence.
"How's it going?" Gantu asked.
"Not bad, you?" Azul answered nonchalantly.
"Can't complain," Pete shrugged. "You clock in, you clock out."
"I hear ya," Nero agreed. They kept strolling like this for a few more seconds. Then both teams stopped dead in their tracks when they realized just who they were talking to.
"What are YOU doing here!?" they all shouted at the same time, leaping away from each other. Gantu whipped out his blaster pistol and Nero's wings turned to machine guns.
"We're here to retrieve the Princess of Heart!" Nero hissed, keeping his guns at the ready.
"Forget it!" Pete shouted shaking his large fist. "Kairi's coming with us!"
"In your dreams," Azul stated, smirking slightly. "Syndrome already promised her to us."
"What?" Gantu growled, fingers not straying from his trigger. "That's a lie and you know it! Syndrome promised her to us!"
"That's impossible," Nero said. Without even knowing it they were lowering their weapons as the truth started to dawn.
"Syndrome informed the Horned King he could take her," Azul stated.
"Syndrome said Maleficent could have her!" Pete said. And then both teams brought it all together.
"Syndrome."
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"Ah, it's probably nothing!" Syndrome laughed, brushing off the chill he suddenly got down his spine, gleefully turning back to the destruction his robot was causing. He was going to until something else down below caught his eye.
The door to the rocket the Omnidroid had arrived in was kicked off its hinges and in the doorway stood Jack Sparrow, more dazed and wobbly than usual. "Land ho," he whimpered, before he fell forward flat on his face out of the rocket. Mulan, Beast and sonic also staggered out of the rocket, although in a slightly more dignified matter. Crash landing was something they never really got used to.
"Is it just me or did that thing get bigger?" sonic asked.
"I don't know, my head's still spinning," Beast groaned.
"We need to get it away from the people," Mulan said, watching the Omnidroid crash one of its arms through a building while citizens ran for cover. "But how?"
"I've got an idea," Jack announced, popping himself back out of the ground. "Quick, Beasty! Draw your Keyblade!" The Beast eyed him skeptically. "Come on, man! Lives are at stake here!" Beast frowned but gave in eventually, his furry hand filling with light as his weapon appeared. The Omnidroid froze, its head swishing around for its eye to rest on the hairy Keyblader. "Over here, metal mate! Look! He has a Keyblade! Go on and crush em'!"
"I am so gonna kill you!" Beast snarled hatefully. Backstabbing as it was, Jack's plan had worked. The Omnidroid left the innocents alone and charged towards them, locked onto the energy signature of Beast's Keyblade to do what it was made to do. The others summoned theirs as well. sonic immediately swung a devastating blow; to counter, the Omnidroid retracted it arms and head to become a sphere form and rolled clear through the attack with little or no damage done at all. They jumped out of the way when it went past them and onward through another building, leaving a huge gaping hole in its wake.
"You dudes don't give up easily, do ya?" Their eyes turned skyward when Syndrome flew down to the top of a building overlooking their position, smiling that overconfident smile of his. "Do you really think you can beat it? Something that I built? It was made to crush you! It's powered by both Heartless and Omega Heartless, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood villains. Doesn't put the odds in your favour. Don't you get it? It is the ultimate...Keyblade...hunter!" He laughed so hard he had to hold his sides. He would have kept on going, if he hadn't noticed that the fear in their eyes wasn't directed at him. "What?" He turned around, eyes meeting what looked like an armoured chest. Slowly, nervously, he looked up, and the Chaser looked back. "Eep." Syndrome was knocked down when the Chaser backhanded with his gauntlet , slumping against the building's roof and out cold.
"Actually," Aradan drawled, resting his massive Keyblade on his shoulder. "That would be me."
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Meanwhile, back on Syndrome's island complex, time was of the essence for the Keybladers and Incredibles. They rushed through the steel halls and corridors which were now completely empty of Syndrome's men. Once the Omnidroid was launched they had cleared out before this world's authorities caught wind of them. They managed to reach the hanger quickly where a large jet was already waiting for them.
"Come on!" Mirage called from the hatchway of the jet. "The Omnidroid is already attacking the city! Your friends are trying to stop it but they need help!"
"But, I thought-?" Kairi started.
"Long story short, she's on our side now," Sora explained hurriedly. "Now come on!" They didn't need to be told twice and rushed onward for the waiting aircraft. A glint on the floor captured Sora's eyes on the way. He stopped but the others didn't notice, and he went to inspect whatever was there. It wasn't hard to find, just lying there like he was meant to find it. A necklace, supporting a charm with the picture of a pair of great golden wings. A summoning charm.
"Cool," Sora grinned. For it to be just laying here like this. How lucky was he? He pocketed the charm and started for the jet again. He stopped again, though, when a terrible feeling washed over him. The Keyblade appeared in his hand when he rounded, and he batted a ball of blue plasma that came at him into the far wall, glaring into the spot it had come from. That's where it appeared, melting out of the background, blades extended from its wrist, the Yautja hunter back for its prey.
"Sora!" Kairi cried from the black jet's door.
"Start the jet!" Sora called over his shoulder. That proved to be a fatal mistake as the Yautja jumped and knocked him to the floor, pinning him down beneath it. Its blades were inches from his neck, kept back only by the Keyblade as the Yautja poured its full strength against Sora. Its helmet was so close Sora could hear its alien growls underneath. Somehow he managed to get his feet underneath the hunter and pushed it off him, getting back up and fending off its assault. Thrusts and parries went all around these two in a ferocious duel. The Yautja was an opponent unlike any other Sora had faced, not the strongest, but still a threat. The hunter jabbed for Sora, who dodged it and brought his Keyblade down across its back. That only angered it; he grasped Sora by his shirt and tossed him effortlessly across the room.
The creature came again before Sora could recover. It could sense victory, and that carelessness confidence would cost it. It walked straight into the force field that suddenly appeared, and soon enough discovered that it was trapped inside a bubble of energy. Sora was outside and it was inside. That was all the incentive it needed to start pounding away at the barrier.
From the jet, Violet kept the shield up but was showing signs of strain already. She couldn't keep it up for long. "Sora, come on!" Kairi shouted. The jet was already starting off down the hanger on its wheels to the wide open doors leading to outside. Sora made a break for it, and the Yautja, seeing this, redoubled its efforts to break free. It sliced, punched and kicked against the force field until the strain was too much for Violet; she collapsed on the floor, the force field with her.
Sora ran as fast as he could to catch up with the moving jet, reaching out to Kairi who was holding out her hand as well. "Come on! You can do it!" she yelled. The Yautja was already hot behind him, easily overtaking his speed. One final sprint and Sora grabbed Kairi's hand, and she, with the others help, pulled him safely inside.
"Punch it!" Mr. Incredible shouted. Mirage activated the thrusters right away and the jet instantly increased in speed. Blasts of energy pounded on the craft's exterior from the Yautja's cannon but it was futile. It shot out of the hanger into the wild blue yonder for the city of Metroville, to put a stop to Syndrome once and for all.
Hunters were calm. Hunters were composed. Despite all that, the Yautja let loose an enraged and powerful roar into the air.
This was beginning to get annoying.
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sonic flew backward into a parked car, crunching it beneath him and coming to a painful stop. He barely had time to dodge the crushing claw that came down on him soon after. The Omnidroid swung another metal arm and again he dodged by jumping back, enough distance for the robot to start firing its laser. sonic deflected each blast but they kept coming in rapid succession one after the other, keeping him pinned down under the barrage. The Omnidroid was forced to stop when a large ball of fire plowed its side and turned its glowing eye to Mulan. She flung her Keyblade engulfed in flame trying to strike its head, but it batted it away and snuffed out its fire, then stomped its way toward her. Meanwhile, a bigger threat, smaller in size, was on the loose as well.
Beast and Jack Sparrow had the unfortunate choice of facing the mighty Aradan the Chaser, Jack blasting a continuous blast of air as he walked towards them. The attack didn't slow down his stride in the least, merely blew his cape all over the place.
"I would gladly trade for the robot right now," Jack whimpered when his wind stopped.
"You and me both," Beast growled. Both of them were backing away without even noticing.
"Where is Sora?" Aradan asked, slowly advancing for the two Keybladers. "I am very much looking forward to meeting him again. Our last encounter left something to be desired." He shrugged. "Oh well. I guess I'll settle for your Keyblades for now."
"Got any ideas?" Beast asked. Jack racked every amount of his cunning mind to come up with a solution to this dire circumstance. His eyes wandered past Aradan to the battle taking place between Mulan, sonic and the Omnidroid and he wondered if he really did want to trade opponents as he watched it nearly tear the city apart trying to take the two down. He looked back to Aradan, then to Aradan's Keyblade, then back to the Omnidroid. The lightbulb in Jack's head switched on.
"Follow my lead," he whispered to Beast before turning back to Aradan. "Look! A distraction!" he yelled. Aradan blindly looked to where he was wildly pointing. "Run!" Then he and Beast ran like the wind past the Chaser.
"This is your plan!?" Beast shouted, though he had to admit he hadn't expected any more. They had managed to get a few more feet ahead when Aradan covered the distance with a flip and landed before them.
"You could at least die with honor," the Chaser growled, bringing his Armageddon's Key at the ready. He was confused when the pirate captain grinned at him.
"And you could have a taste of your own Keyblade hunting medicine." A metal claw suddenly crashed down where the Chaser stood. The Omnidroid retracted its arm leaving Aradan lying in a crater. He slowly rose out of the ground and met gazes with the robot Heartless before it. The Omnidroid was a thinking robot, therefore it analyzed the situation. Its scanners saw a subject of unknown origin or class, magic and power levels off the charts, armed with a Keyblade making him an immediate target.
Aradan saw an annoyance.
"Not fond of Keyblades, are you?" Aradan mused, gripping his weapon in anticipation. "That's a shame. And here I though we could be friends!" He jumped the claw when it came for him again and brought his Keyblade down chopping through the unbreakable steel of its arm completely. The appendage dropped to the pavement, unmoving, leaving the Omnidroid with one less arm. With two of its remaining arms, the Omnidroid latched onto both of Aradan's shoulders in an unbreakable grip, attempting to rip him in two. Aradan growled and made his Keyblade vanish, latching onto the robot's arms with his own steel clad fingers. With the strength of a million men and a roar to match, the Chaser actually lifted the Omnidroid off the ground by its arms, flipping its massive form over his shoulder. sonic and Mulan ran for immediate cover when it came down where they were standing and were knocked off their feet when its resounding impact broke apart the street they stood on. The Omnidroid was down, but not out. Still maintaining a grip on Aradan's shoulders, it lifted him off the ground while at the same time getting back up and slamming him to the ground, following up by throwing him into an office building. Once that was done, it turned to its other targets.
"Well, that worked for about five seconds," Jack stammered. The robot Heartless aimed its laser cannon on the four of them, charging up for its most powerful blast yet, one that would take them all out at once. Kingdom Key came flying out of nowhere and cut the laser clean off the side of its head and destroying it in an explosion.
"Sorry we're late, guys!" The Keyblade spiraled back to the hands of its owner and was caught in his grip.
"Gee, glad you could make it," sonic growled.
"Oh," Jack Sparrow interrupted. "And before you think this will be easy..." The wall of the office building blew outward and Aradan strode out from the dust and debris, deadly Keyblade resting on his shoulder.
"Gang's all here," he quipped humourlessly.
"Hey, he ruined our dramatic entrance!" Dash pouted.
"Uh, is he on our side?" Mr. Incredible asked Sora.
"Hell no," Sora growled. The Omnidroid was behind them, clicking its claws in anticipation, and Aradan was before them. Both wanted nothing more than to take them out. Oh yes, the fun was about to start. "Split!" The group of heroes split in two, one half going for the Chaser, the other the robot Heartless.
Being the fastest, Dash reached Aradan first and zipped to dodge his crushing blow. He ran all around him at top speed, never stopping, Aradan unable to get a hold of him. He didn't have too. He pointed his Keyblade at the pavement and cast blizzaga to create an instant ice rink. Dash slipped and fell as soon as his speedy feet set foot on it. Sora came in next, backed up by sonic, Keyblades swinging together to connect with the Chaser's. The dark warrior was able to fend off their combined assault with parries and dodges up until the point Aradan delivered a flat-handed palm strike to the center of sonic's chest so hard the hedgehog flew backwards. The Chaser then felt something land on his shoulders.
"Hi! I don't believe we've met!" Jack Skellington grinned. "I'm Jack Skellington." A second later Jack was thrown by the scruff of his clothes into a shop display window.
"Pleased to meet you," Aradan said.
po and Violet both went in for the attack but the Omnidroid beat them too it and crashed an arm down upon them, only to meet one of Violet's barriers. It didn't stop there, though, and hammered away at the barrier like a drum, placing a major strain on Violet as she struggled to keep it over her and po. A double arm smash destroyed her shield completely and left her exhausted and on her knees. Before po could help her, the Omnidroid positioned itself standing over them to crush them under its weight. po braced himself when it came down but, to his confusion, it didn't. He opened his eyes. Mr. Incredible held the Omnidroid up with all his superhuman might to stop it from flattening the two young heroes. While he kept it up, po and the recovered Violet got out of the way. Unfortunately for Mr. Incredible, the Omnidroid reached under itself and scooped him out, tossing him into an office building afterward.
Something gripped one of the Omnidroid's arms and it looked to see Beast with his arms wrapped around it. But the Omnidroid was much more powerful than the last time; it lifted Beast off the ground, trying to shake him off, but the former prince held on tight. While it did, Elastigirl pulled a manhole cover from the broken pavement and, with a long arm and the skill of a discus thrower, whipped it at the robot Heartless's head. It hit it head on, with no effect at all, but she did gain its attention. Luckily, Mulan stepped up and fired several fireballs, only for its claws to spin rapidly to dispel them, all the while trying to shake Beast off its other arm. Just as Jack Sparrow was about to spring into action, for once, Beast finally lost his grip on the robot and was sent sailing straight for the pirate.
"Oh bugger." SPLAT
Aradan was giving Sora and Kairi the workout of a lifetime. Just when they thought they couldn't take anymore, Mr. Incredible came charging to the unprepared Chaser and knocked the Keyblade out of his hands. Though unarmed, Aradan didn't back down. In fact, he gestured for the super hero to bring it on. Mr Incredible abided with a powerful right hook, to which Aradan blocked. Then with a left with the same result. Blocking, countering and throwing a few hits of his own, Aradan was just as good with his fists as he was his Keyblade. The two juggernauts of power locked hands with each other, working against one another in a test of strength. Mr. Incredible was the strongest human alive, but Aradan had given up his humanity long ago, and was slowly overpowering the hero. Then, unexpectedly, Aradan lifted Bob by their interlocked hands and threw him of to the side with relative ease.
Helen jumped for him next and unloaded a flurry of rubber punches and kick, all of which were dodged, until he caught her fist in his grasp. She threw another ounch but he caught that one two. With both hands restrained she did the only thing she could, knee him in the unholy spot.
"Ow! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow..." Helen whimpered, hopping any and nursing her sore knee.
Momentarily distracted, Aradan didn't notice Mr. Incredible sneak up and grasp him by the cape. He yanked the Chaser off his feet and started swinging, his great strength getting him going already at a fast pace. With a might cry he let go and sent Aradan sailing, right for the Omnidroid. Flying through the air towards a killer robot would have put some people off, but not Aradan. He recovered in mid-air and summoned his Keyblade back to him, and as he came close to the Omnidroid, twisted and drove his weapon across its side, ripping through it armour and leaving a noticeable gash. He landed gracefully, and turned to his next foe. Beast swung po around and around before launching him for Aradan, a skadoosh powered Keyblade already charged up to drive into the Chaser's chest. A huge light enveloped them upon impact, and the others that they may have won, but when the light settled down, Aradan was still standing without a scratch on him, a very shocked po standing before him. Luckily he was able to dodge a potentially killing blow that followed, flipped in the air.
One point in the battle Sora and Mr. Incredible were able to meet up, both near exhaustion. "So how are you doing?" Mr. Incredible asked with a hint of humour.
"I've been better," Sora replied half-heartedly.
"We need a plan." Sora agreed with him. They were getting creamed here.
"Go after the Omnidroid first," he said. It's the biggest threat to the civilians."
"But how? We've thrown everything we've got at that thing!" Mr. Incredible said, exasperated. "We can't break through its armour." But then an idea formed. He looked at the gash on the side of the Omnidroid, then he looked at Aradan. "But he can..." He turned to Sora who shared the same grin as himself.
"You thinking what I'm thinking?" the boy asked.
"Let's do it!"
Aradan just finished off the last clone and held the original ninja up by his throat to stop him from making anymore. "Hey! Aradan! Over here, jerk!" The Chaser held off the finishing blow for po when he saw Sora shouting at him from several feet away. "I thought you wanted me, right? Well here I am! Come and get me!" Aradan abruptly dropped po and made his way for a new target.
"Sora, what are you doing!?" Kairi yelled.
"Hey, over here, tin can!" Mr. Incredible stood back to back with Sora, while he just gained the Omnidroid's attention. "What's the matter? Short circuited? Your mother was a can opener! Yeah, that's right! I said it!" Now the Omnidroid stomped its way for him. The mother comment wouldn't go unpunished.
"Bob, are you crazy?!" Helen shouted. The Omnidroid walked towards Bob on one end while Aradan stalked towards Sora on the other, both in the worst possible position but not letting up their jeers. It came to the point where Sora was actually mooning Aradan.
"Perfect," Aradan growled holding up his Keyblade. "Now I have a place I can stick this!" He reared back and with all his inhuman strength, threw his Keyblade. It might as well have been a ballistic missile at the rate it was going. At that moment the Omnidroid broke into a charge for Mr. Incredible.
"DUCK!" Sora hollered. Both he and the super hero dropped to the pavement, just as Armageddon's Key blasted over their heads, leaving it to go free for the robot Heartless. With the sound of crunching and grinding metal, the Keyblade went straight through the centre of the Heartless emblem on the Omnidroid's unbreakable shell. It came through on the other side, impaled on the heart-shaped central engine, black blood oozing from broken valves. The impact was instantaneous. The Omnidroid stopped in its tracks, its red visor dimmed to black with nothing to power it, its five arms going limp. The Keyblade hunting machine collapsed where it stood with a resounding crash and, just like that, Syndrome's threat was over.
But the Chaser threat was still there, apparent as Aradan approached Sora and re-summoned his Keyblade. "I didn't think I could hate you more," he growled. "But, low and behold, you surprised me. But now it's over."
"Ahem." Someone tapped Aradan on the shoulder. He turned and came to face Mr. Incredible, right before he socked him hard in the face. So hard that he flew backwards where Elastigirl was waiting, stretched out and wrapped between two telephone poles to make a living slingshot. Aradan flew straight into her and the force gave him all the propulsion he needed to be slung right into the sky, streaking through the air like a jet until he was all but out of sight.
Once all was over, there was nothing for Sora and Mr. Incredible to do besides high five, Sora wincing at the man's strength. "Oh, sorry." The rest of the heroes gathered together in the street, what was left of it anyway, and took in the silence that was once filled with chaos.
"Now," Mr. Incredible growled. "Where's Syndrome?"
"You rang?" All of their eyes turned upward where Syndrome stood on a building's edge, smirking at the small bundle cradled in his arms.
"Jack-Jack!" Helen cried in horror.
"Shh! The baby is sleeping," Syndrome whispered smugly. The small masked baby was indeed sleeping peacefully in his arms, oblivious to goings on around him. "You ruined my plans. I'm simply returning the favour."
"Syndrome, let him go!" Sora shouted from below.
"'Syndrome, let him go,'" the villain mimicked snidely. "Don't worry, I'll be a good mentor. I'll raise him to be an evil tool. He doesn't have any powers, right? I like him already. He'll make a fine sidekick!" A few inputs into his wrist device remotely summoned one of Syndrome's black jets that hovered high above them. With a laugh the villain's rocket boots took him to the sky, bringing Jack-Jack with him.
"Somebody stop him!" Violet cried.
"Mulan, shoot him down!" Sora shouted.
"No! You might hit Jack-Jack!" Mr. Incredible exclaimed.
As they rose higher to reach the black jet, Jack-Jack was roused from his sleep, blinking tiredly. Once he established he was awake he looked down, seeing his family and friends below growing smaller and smaller the higher he went, and he didn't like this one bit, crying while reaching out as if to try and bring them back to him.
"Oh, shut up you little brat!" Syndrome snapped, and Jack-Jack realized just who was doing this, swiveling to meet him with a baby death glare. Syndrome didn't know why, but it made him really uneasy, especially when the infant started vibrating uncontrollably in his grasp. "Hey, what the?!"
"Something's happening! What's happening?" Helen gasped in panic.
Jack-Jack, the baby with assumably no powers, suddenly turned to solid steel. "Whoa!" Syndrome cried when his flight lurched under the much added weight of the little metal boy he now held, straining his boots to keep them both afloat.
"Does that happen often?" Jack Sparrow asked as he watched.
Syndrome worked every muscle in his body to hold on to Jack-Jack, until the steel baby wasn't the problem anymore, when Jack-Jack unexpectedly turned into a bouncing baby engulfed in flames. "OW! Hot! Hot! Hot!"
"Whoa..." said po.
A flaming baby was bad enough for Syndrome but, thankfully for him, Jack-Jack turned back to his normal form, except it was just for him to change into something worse. Jack-Jack's skin turned red and his ears sharpened, transforming into a child-like version of the devil. "AAAAAHHHHH!" Syndrome screamed as the snarling demon child wrestled out of his grip and started punching and clawing at his face. He pulled at Syndrome's wild hair, choked him with his own cape and poked his eyes. "Get him off me! Get him off me!"
"What are you feeding that kid?" Beast incredulously asked.
After giving Syndrome the beating he needed, the little monster known as Jack-Jack crawled down the villain's leg and bit it with sharp teeth, or specifically, his rocket boot. That one act short-circuited the contraption and Syndrome spiraled out of control, barely able to stay airborne. Jack-Jack had done the job but unfortunately lost his grip at the same time he changed back to his human body, and down he fell at least a hundred feet toward the ground.
"NO! JACK-JACK!" Helen screamed for her falling child. Then, all of a sudden, he wasn't falling anymore. Jack-Jack giggled happily when a whirlwind swept him up and held him aloft in the air, feeling the sensation of the wind sweeping through him. Slowly, Jack Sparrow lowered the boy using the power of Follow the Wind and straight into the loving arms of his mother.
"Moma!" Jack-Jack chirped. As the Keybladers took in this heartwarming scene, their eyes turned to one Jack Sparrow.
"What can I say?" he shrugged. "I like kids."
"You think this is over?!" Syndrome, despite his damaged boots, had managed to reach his hovering jet and stood in the doorway shouting down at them. "This isn't over! I'll be back! I'll build a bigger robot! One that'll beat you without fail! And I will get your son! You hear me, heroes!? You're going down!"
"Oh Syndrome," a familiar voice called.
Syndrome stopped in mid-rant. He looked out the left side of the doorway. There, standing on the roof of a building, level with his jet, were Pete and Gantu. Gantu had his plasma pistol pointed directly at what Syndrome thought was a less than ideal spot, himself.
"Over here," called another voice. Syndrome looked to the right side of the jet, and his blood ran cold when he saw Azul carrying his large cannon, with Nero beside him looking displeased. Syndrome couldn't help gulping. He knew he had forgotten something.
"Oh, h-hey guys!" Syndrome stammered with a nervous smile, looking between the two guns that he was in the middle of. "How are ya doing! W-What are you doing here?"
"We're here for Kairi," Nero said coldly, his dark eyes narrowing.
"And so are we," Pete growled. Syndrome was sweating bullets now.
"S-S-So you've met? I c-can explain. You see, both of your bosses are old friends of mine and I-I-I just couldn't decide between them-" Azul cocked his massive firearm on one end and Pete charged his pistol on the other. "G-Guys! Let's be reasonable here!"
"On behalf of the Horned King," Azul growled. "Your current employment is as of this moment terminated." Syndrome gulped again.
"Meaning?"
"You're fired," Gantu restated, and pulled the trigger, as did Azul. Both projectiles whizzed through the air, plasma and rocket heading for the singular target between them.
"Ah crap," Syndrome sighed.
KAAAABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
In a deadly explosion the jet was destroyed and the burning debris had nowhere to go but down, where the heroes happened to be. It rained from the sky and they had nowhere to go at the rate it was falling. It crashed down upon them in another explosion.
Azul smirked up above. Nero coated them both in darkness and they vanished with their master's task now complete. Pete and Gantu chuckled at their work from the building opposite before jumping off it, heading off for parts unknown.
The smoke and flames from wreckage of Syndrome's mechanization dissipated around the barrier that protected all the heroes, one that Violet had raised just in the nick of time. Everyone dared to open their eyes when they found they weren't dead, including Violet.
"That's my girl," Helen smiled when Violet lowered the shield.
"I think I wet myself," po whimpered.
"I know I wet myself," Dash admitted.
The faint sound of cheering reached all of them, but soon it grew louder and more defined. The citizens of Metroville came flooding out of their hiding places now that the danger had passed, enthusiastically clapping and cheering their loudest for the heroes who saved the day. The heroes in question waved back a little shyly.
"I could get used to this," Beast smiled.
"Just like the good old days," Mr. Incredible sighed blissfully.
"Thank you! Thank you!" Jack Skellington exclaimed waving to the crowd. "Now for my next trick, I shall juggle!" The next thing they knew he was juggling for the crowd. No one could think of a better finale.
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Maleficent had to resist smashing the magic mirror to pieces when she saw what had transpired.
"That wretched, underhanded scum. How dare he try and use me!" she hissed. clenching her staff tightly in anger.
"Syndrome was a case from day one," Merlock stated indignantly behind her. "We should have seen this coming. Such a waste of brain power, though."
"He was a fool to think he could pull the wool over our eyes," Queen Grimhilde sneered from beside Merlock. "Good riddance to such an idiot."
"Idiot or not he was still a valuable ally," Maleficent replied, a little more calmly now. "They're defeating us one by one, just like last time. It's down to only us now. I will not allow myself to be defeated by that boy again! There must be something that we can do." She raised her head when she sensed that something was a bit off. Snarling, she rounded to the portal of darkness that had just appeared in the room and glared hatefully at the one who stepped out.
"Maleficent. A pleasure as always," Horned King smirked suavely.
"You!" Maleficent snarled, her anger back in full force, thrusting her staff in his direction. "How dare you come here!" Merlock and Grimhilde also tensed at the ready when the Horned King's ever present apprentice arrived. Miss Heartily stepped out of the portal silently, eyes glued to the floor. Maleficent's eyes strayed briefly to her. Why did she look so familiar? She pushed those thoughts aside and turned back to her much hated rival.
"Hold, Maleficent," Horned King commanded holding up his hand in a gesture of peace. "I merely wish to talk." Maleficent was caught off guard at this.
"Talk?" she sneered. "And what in the worlds do you think I'd ever wish to talk about with you?"
"Because I come to you with a proposition." Maleficent raised an eyebrow, a sign that she was finally interested.
"Speak quickly or I shall gouge out your eyes with your own horns." Horned King smiled at the sweet talk.
"We have both been deceived this day, Maleficent. As much as a fool as Syndrome was, he did show us something." His deep red eyes glinted. "We are at our most powerful when we are working together." Maleficent's eyes narrowed dangerously. "The Omnidroid was a prime example of what can be accomplished when our powers are combined, one that nearly defeated the Keybladers. Don't you see Maleficent? We have a common foe. It is time for us to put aside our differences, especially now that the Chasers have returned."
"The Chasers?" Maleficent gasped. "You lie."
"I don't. They have returned, more powerful than ever. We have seen it." The last part he said while glancing momentarily at Miss Heartily, but she didn't react. "Divided, we have been defeated time and time again. But united, none would be able to stop us! Not the Chasers, not Sora, not anyone." He held his hand out before her, a malicious smile along with it. "I am the Horned King, Maleficent. But only you can be my Queen."
Maleficent was silent, but her eyes were firmly focused on the withered hand presented to her. "Milady, surely you do not trust him?" Grimhilde asked, desperately. "We do not need his help. We'll be better off without-" Maleficent fixed her with a glare and she actually flinched. Merlock wisely stayed silent, as did Miss Heartily.
"Horned King." The demon eyes gleamed when Maleficent placed her green hand in his, smiling an evil smile. "We have an agreement." The Horned King matched her deadly smile with his own. Taking her hand, he gently kissed it with his old, dry lips. That singular act made Maleficent throw her head back and laugh, laugh like there was no tomorrow. And with these two villains working as one, tomorrow might never come again.
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