Hey everybody, so…here we are, at the milestone of the story. This is the point where things in the story get nuts.
And forewarning, after this is where the story gets a bit dark, and this whole visit to Hollow Bastion is going to be one big roller coaster of emotions.
Sorry if this one came late, I was just trying to make sure I got every plot right, making sure the characterization is right, and all that good stuff, lol.
Anyways, here's what to expect from this chapter. The group will go back to Hollow Bastion. But they are going to go to the castle poster to the computer room, and as I said, Tron will not be featured at all…sorry.
To RonaldM40196867: Sandlot is a good location. Yep. Ruby wants answers. Tantalog language is cool. What I like most about Stitch is that while he is destructive at times, he is cute. Can't even answer the last two because there are many to choose from who I love and who I hate, sorry dude.
To triscythe59: Yea ... .not happening.
To Jacob9594: I often feel as if this should have been addressed in the show, as having Yang tell Blake how emotionally and mentally hurt she was after Blake left her, even after she lost an arm trying to rescue her from Adam.
To KnightSpark: Hopefully not too long, all we need to do is get through the second visit of the worlds (minus Disney Castle and possibly Atlantis) And finish up the 100 Acre Woods and we will be at the climax where the group is reunited in the World That Never Was!
To Gamelover41592: Thanks. For Yang, it's not looking good.
To Shadowwolf12305: I know…I just…I don't know about the Ever After.
To Yang34: Sounds cool.
To Robbeeyy: MMhmm
To ArguableReader: Right, thanks, dude. And I apologize for deleting your other review, I didn't do it on purpose, I was up late and half-asleep, so I must have deleted it by accident, again, I apologize for it.
To X: Well….yea, good point.
To Just a reader now a writer: Right.
Anyway, let's get right into what is going tob e one big roller coaster of emotions.
Oh, and one more thing. Happy 4th of July :D
Kingdom Hearts belongs to Tetsuya Nomura, Shinji Hashimoto, Square Enix, and Disney
RWBY belongs to Monty Oum and Rooster Teeth
World That Never Was
*THUD* Neo was thrown to the ground by Xigbar, right in front of the leader of the organization, whose hood was still on.
"What is the meaning of this?" He asked.
Xigbar scoffed. "Sorry, but I found this little diminutive woman disguised as Axel, she put up a good fight. But I won in a landslide." He said with a cocky smirk.
Neo then struggled to get her up, but she was held down by Xigbar. Neo struggled a bit as she tried to resist his grasp but then she heard a crackle and looked to see a red laser sword pointed right in front of her face, weirded by the leader. Neo looked at him and gulped nervously.
"Leave us," He said to Xigbar, who shrugged and took off, but not before being called again. "How are the prisoners?"
Xigbar smirked. "The yellow firecracker seems to be nearly this close to breaking. If you ask me, we should suppose that the others are useful enough."
The leader pondered the eyepatch-wearing man's words. "I will think it over." He said as Xigbar then looked at his leave. "You, stand." He said to Neo, who did so without hesitation, despite the pain she was still in.
The leader put his laser sword away and looked at her. "You are from the same world as Cinder Fall and Ruby Rose, right?" He asked. Neo was a tad bit confused by the question, but seeing as he mentioned both names…she nodded her head. "Then there is a reason for you being here…" He said as he then turned around to face the wall. "You seek revenge," He said. "On someone who hurt you…"
Neo then glared hard at remembering her old parte, Roman Torchwick, who was killed during the Fall of Beacon. And for a majority of her time, she blamed the person responsible…Cinder Fall. "I see, well, the one you hate so much happens to be here right now." He said as he turned his head. "You may come out now." He said to her,
Out of the darkness, Cinder Fall made her move as she walked in and stood alongside the man and Neo glared hard at her. This time Cinder took on a new appearance, with her hair now parted, the man that was on her left side was gone and her face was back to normal before Ruby first used her silver eyes on her. But this time, both of her eyes were a lighter shade of yellow and if one could look, her ears were shown to be pointy as well.
Neo wanted to fight her…she wanted to kill her, but something in her was telling her that it was not a good idea. Cinder then sighed. "I understand you possibly hate me for what happened to Roman, but I did not kill him, it was that girl with the red cloak." Neo's grip on her umbrella tightened. "Listen, this man right here has granted me a power, a power that he claims will be the way to snuff her out. Together, she will not stand a chance, not her, or those freaks she is traveling with!" Cinder then walks closer to Neo, which was a bit weird since Neo was shorter. "You help me, and we can kill that girl together, as well as that knight…and the boy wielding that key weapon."
Neo looked at her and down, sure she missed Roman…and she wanted all of those who were responsible to pay. Of course, she didn't want to believe Cinder, but the man in black was intimidating…and she didn't want to end up on the wrong side…so, with some reluctance, she took Cinder's hand and they shook.
"Neo, come here." the man said as Neo raised an eyebrow and went up to him. "You help us, I'll help you…for now, I grant you power." He then extended his palm toward her. "The power to control the Heartless." He said as Neo's body then glowed a dark aura. Neo felt the experience to be sorta weird…but at the same time…she liked it!
After that, the man then looked at both females. "Now, both of you get ready, " he said as he snapped his fingers, and in an instant two black coats appeared before them. "We leave for Hollow Bastion soon." As he took his leave, he briefly turned to Cinder and Neo and chuckled. "Fools…" He thought.
Hollow Bastion
The group finally made it back to Hollow Bastion and when he stepped right out of the ship, Ruby had a look of determination on her face, something that made the group a bit nervous. "Ruby, are you sure you're ok?" Sun asked.
"I'm fine, Sun." Ruby said. "I need answers, and Merlin seems to be the best we can get right now." She said, "Especially since we don't have the Relic." She said as the group then began to make their way towards Merlin's house, but as they walked, Sora saw a familiar face. He was an older man with tan skin and yellow spiky hair. His attire consists of a black robe with a high collar sleeveless indigo shirt, black pants, and boots, with black cloth covering his left arm and leg. A black pauldron is shown to be on his left shoulder, and his chest was shown to be covered in straps as well as black gloves. This man is named Cloud Strife, a resident of Hollow Bastion.
Cloud was once a temporary adversary to Sora because Cloud was at the Olympus Coliseum looking for a man by the name of Sephiroth. But ever since, they had buried the hatchet and hadn't seen each other for a long time. Sora saw him and smiled. "Cloud!" He said, getting the man's attention. Cloud opened his eyes to see Sora and he gave a small smirk.
"Sora, long time no see." He said as the others went up to join them.
Sora grinned. "How have you been?" He asked.
Cloud sighed. "Still trying to fight the darkness." He said, he then took a glance at the others. "New companions?" He asked.
Sora nodded. "Cloud, this is Ruby, Jaune, Sun, Oswald, Ortenisa, Stitch, and Max." He said as they all introduced themselves. Cloud nodded and closed his eyes as backed up to a wall.
"This time, we are going to settle." He said, making the others confused as to what he meant. "Me and the one person who embodies the darkness within me." He said as he opened his eyes and looked up in the sky. "This time, I am taking him down." He said with determination.
The others looked at each other with questions, who was this person Cloud was describing? "Uh, Mr. Cloud, who are you talking about?" He asked,
Cloud looked at her and sighed. "A man by the name of Sephiroth; with long silver hair, carries a long sword." He simply said to her, "I have a feeling that he is here, somewhere." He said as he eyed teh group. "Hey…you guys going anywhere?" He asked them.
Sora nodded. "We were on our way to Merlin's house." He said.
"The old wizard huh?" He asked with a smirk. "Listen, you don't mind if I accompany you guys for a while, do you?" He asked, that brought a shock to Sora and the others, but mostly Sora.
"Wait, you want to accompany us?" Sora asked.
Cloud nodded his head. "I don't doubt your abilities, but Sephiroth is something else entirely. If you are to face him ... .you're going to need my help." Cloud said. "Plus, there is someone who I need to meet up with as well." He said to them,
Sora and the others looked at eachother and shrugged, I mean why not? Cloud was strong and durable, there was no way he would let some fodder Heartless take him down. Sora smiled and Cloud gave a small smile of his own as he filled them all.'
As they walked to Merlin's house, Cloud was talking with Ruby. "your world sounds very fascinating." He said. "Every weapon can also be turned into a gun."
"Yeppers!" Ruby said with a smile. "And my baby is not just a scythe, but also a high-caliber sniper rifle." She said, Of course, she did not take another weapon to show him now, she would let the action speak for her when they spot any Heartless.
Merlin's House
When they finally got there, they went inside to see if Merlin was in, unfortunately, he was not, but Yuffie, Aerith, and Cid were. Yuffie looked at them and waved.
"Hey guys, back so soon?" She asked.
Sora nodded. "Yep, have any of you seen Merlin? We need to ask him something. Well, Ruby more than me." Ruby nodded her head in agreement.
Cid scoffed. "You mean the loony old wizard?" He asked. "I think he went off to god knows where, so you might as well wait till he gets back." He said as the others sighed.
"Great…" Donald mumbled. As they all took their seats, Yuffie saw Cloud and smirked.
"So, I see you all met Cloud huh?" she asked. "Don't worry, he may seem big and tough, but he is a softie on the inside, especially around his lady friend." She teased, making Cloud glare at her for a bit and for Aerith to turn her head, looking a bit sad.
Goofy looked at the man with surprise. "Gwarsh, you got yourself a girlfriend, Cloud?" He asked, but the man did not respond. "Don't worry, it's nothing to be embarrassed about. My Maxie has a girlfriend too."
Mad then got red with embarrassment. "Dad!" He exclaimed as his face turned red with embarrassment, the sight of him made Ortensia, Yuffie, and Aerith giggle a bit.
"Awe right! What's her name, stud?" Yuffie cheekily asked Max, whose face turned redder.
"R-Roxane…" He said as he shrunk into his seat, wishing to disappear right here and now.
Cloud looked at them and smirked a bit. "Tifa." He said, getting everyone's attention. "Tifa Lockhart, that's her name." He said as he turned to see Yuffie. "Have you seen her?" He asked her.
Yuffie thought it over. "I can't remember...but don't worry I'm sure she is fine, you and I both know that her punches pack a huge wallop." She emphasized with a punch to her right palm.
Ruby perked up at hearing that. "Wait, she can fight using her fists?" She asked.
Yuffie nodded. "You should see her, her punches and kicks are strong enough to shatter rocks! And she took on a giant Heartless earlier without breaking a sweat." Ruby then thought about Yang and smiled at the thought of her and Yang duking it out. "*GAPS* I forgot!" Yuffie exclaimed, getting the attention. "Sora, Leon wanted me to tell you that when you came back, he wanted you and the others to meet him at the castle postern."
"Yea," Aerith said with a smile. "We were able to track down the computer that Ansem was using." She said,
Cid chomped on his toothpick. "We figured that it would give you a lot of the answers on the Heartless and that Organization you mentioned." He said to them,
Sora and the others grinned. "Great! We need some answers." His smile turned neutral. "We might be able to find out about the dark realm too because it might be where Riku and Kairi might be."
"As well as the king!" Donald said.
"Maybe we can figure out where the Organization's Headquarters are on there too," Jaune suggested, making Ruby and Sun nod their heads in agreement.
Cid shrugged his shoulders. "Go on and see for yourselves. It's right at the castle postern." He said.
Cloud then motioned to the group. "I was there before, I'll show you the way. Who knows, maybe Tifa might be there already." He said as he and the group got up and was about to leave.
"Wait!" Ruby said as she got out the ripped pages of Pooh's book, and went over to put them inside. "Hopefully we will find the other pages very soon." She said as Sora nodded his head in agreement. And with that, they began to take off. Yuffie, Aerith, and Cid said that they would stay behind, however.
Baily
As the group walked to the Baily, Cloud was beginning to open up more to the group and told them a bit about himself, apparently he was best friends with a man named Zach who had passed on some time ago. This Zach person was also in the Coliseum at one point as well. The group felt bad for Cloud, but we're happy that he was carrying on each's legacy of being a hero.
"Excuse me, are you all with the Restoration Committee?" A feminine voice asked, making the others stop to look around. Who made that noise? But then a group of three small pixies made their appearance to the group, surprising them a bit. The one in the middle with brown hair was named Yuna, the second one with the short spiky gray hair was named Paine, and the first and final one was named Rikku. Together these three are known as the Gullwings, a group of treasure-hunting fairies.
Cloud saw them and sighed. "Oh great, you three…" He said with annoyance. "Sora, everyone, these are the Gullwings; Yuna, Paine, and Rikku."
"Rikku?" Sora said with surprise. "I have a friend named Riku!" He exclaimed with surprise.
Yuna then smiled at them. "So what are you all up to? Are you with the Leones gang?" She asked.
Sora nodded. "They got something to do over at the castle postern,'' Sora said to them, Cloud made an annoyed sigh.
The three pairs then turned to each other. "Good, now we can report."
The heroes looked at each other with confusion. "Wait, report to who?" Stitch asked, whitelisting his head.
"Our leader of course," Yuna said.
Rikku smiled and nodded. "Yea, Mal-" but then Paaine flew over to cover the girl's mouth, making the others suspicious.
"I assure you, we come in peace," Paine said.
Cloud rolled his eyes. "Yeah right…" He muttered.
Yuna then got nervous and sheepishly chuckled. "Well, sorry to bother you all, bye! And nice to see you too, Cloud." Yuna said as he and the other two disappeared in a flash of light. The entire encounter made the group look somewhat confused.
"Don't mind them." He said. "Let's just get to the castle." He said to them as they continued to make their way to the castle, even though they were still confused.
When he walked to the Baily they were surrounded by a group of new Heartless. These Heartless are shown to be very thin humanoids clad from head to toe in armor. A spherical, pitch-black head and glowing yellow eyes are shown to be visible from within the helmet, also there are two red spirals decorating the visors. In their left hands were swords with gold handles and the Heartless emblem was on their abdomens. These are called the Armored Knights, a type of Emblem Heartless.
Sora glared at them as he summoned his keyblade, and the others got out their perspective weapons too. Cloud's weapon is shown to be a large fused sword wrapped up in bandages. The sight of Clouds holding such a big ass word that size made some of them gawk in surprise. Ruby's eyes turned into stars and Jaune felt a bit jealous, but at the same time, he was wondering if Nora would be able to hold it.
"Save your strength, everyone, I got this." Cloud said to them all as he jumped into the fray.
10 Seconds Later….
The Heartless were defeated, with Cloud looking victorious. "Alright, let's get moving." He said as the group just looked at him with wide eyes. Did he just?
"Ok…super strong." Sun said with surprise.
"I bet he would make a great Huntsman." Ruby said, with Jaune and Sun nodding their heads in agreement.
Castle Postern
The group finally made it to the postern, and when they did, Sora took a glance. "I don't remember seeing that back when we fought Maleficent." He said.
Goofy then put his finger on his chin. "We must have been in another section of Hollow Bastion." He said in thought.
Cloud then got their attention. "If you are done reminiscing, we need to get into Ansem's study, it's right through a door nearby." He said as he began to lead the group there. As they continued to walk. Sora wanted to know something.
"So Cloud," He said. "Last time we saw you, you were at the Coliseum…so how did you get here?" He asked.
Cloud gave a deep sigh and looked up. "Well, remember Sephiroth? And how Hades promised to help me find him?" Sora nodded. "Well I finally tracked him down, and he was in fact at the Coliseum. We both fought, and I thought I eliminated him." He sighed again. "Anyway, Cid found me and brought me here…and I've been here ever since."
The others marveled at his story, but they were confused about one thing.
"Wait, if you say you got the Sephiroth guy, why are you still looking for him?" He asked.
Then the clouds looked up in the sky. "He is the embodiment of my darkness, to say the least…no matter how much I try, darkness keeps on beginning him back…" He said. He then sighed and looked down. "And the only way to get rid of him is to get rid of my darkness…but how?"
He then flew a comforting pat on the shoulder and he turned to see Ruby giving him a comforting look. "I'm sure you'll figure it out, and you have friends to help you through it." She said with a smile.
Cloud looked at her and could see the positive feeling in her and he smiled a bit. 'Thank you…" he said, feeling pretty grateful.
Ansem's Study
The group entered the castle and finally made their way towards the study. It looked like any other normal place where one could study or go for some quiet time, but it looked like someone was already there because it seemed to be ransacked. As they looked around, Sora took notice of a picture hanging on the wall. The figure in the picture was a young man with tan skin and long silver hair with two strands going down his head at the front.
"Ansem…." Sora said as the rest of the group saw what he saw and went over to the image.
"Wait…that guy is Ansem?" Max asked.
"Yessiree Maxie…" Goofy said with dread. "I'm glad you weren't with us for that. Because facing him was not easy at all." He said as they all looked at the image. Sora glared at the image, remembering that this was the man who was responsible for all the worlds nearly getting destroyed by the Heartless. The man who had corrupted Riku into giving into darkness!
"This must be his study then…" Cloud said as he looked around. "Huh, the computer should be here somewhere…." He said as he pressed the walls many times to find an opening. "Ah, here we go." He said as he put his left hand on the wall and it began to glow. Right in an instant is when the wall vanished and it led to a corridor, making the others shocked. "Alright, the computer is in the other room, just go down that hall. I'm going to wait right here." Cloud said as he then went to put his back to the wall.
The group went through a narrow hall and into another room that showed a computer,e and lucky for them, Leon was already there. "Hey!"
Leon turned around to see the group and smirked. "So, you all finally made it." He said to them, making them all nod their heads in agreement. '`As you can see, we fund Ansem's study.' He then showed them the computer. "With this, we might be able to find some answers." He said.
Sora then grinned. "Finally!" He said as he ran over and began to press keys. "Where's Kairi? Where's Riku?: He asked as he pressed the keys, and then he began to slam on the keyboard, making theaters flinch.
"Sora!" Ruby exclamation. "Computers aren't toys! Be careful!"
"Agreed," Leon said. "You want to break it?" He asked.
Sora then sighed and looked at them. "Sorry guys, I must've got carried away for a moment." He sheepishly rubbed the back of his head with his left hand.
Leon sighed. "Anyway, we won't be able to figure it out anyway…at least not yet." This prompted the group to look confused. "Because we need a password to get into it." He said as he went over to type. "I've been trying to figure out the password for an hour now, but I haven't had any luck so far." He said. "And I looked through the study…and nothing." He said as he then stopped typing. "Something about needing a password to the DTD…whatever that means."
Sora and the others looked at the computer and thought of something...there might be something missing, maybe back in the study of course. "Maybe we can go look again." Oswald said. "Maybe there was one stone that was left unturned."
The others thought of his speech and had the same idea. Leon shrugged his shoulders. "I guess you can go and look for yourselves because I'm out of ideas…" He said as he then rested on the wall. "I'll wait here." He said as the group went back to the study.
When the group got back, they stopped for a moment…because they got started by a rather...surprising scene. Why? Because Cloud was kissing another girl passionately. The girl kissing him has long, waist-length brown hair that was tucked behind her left ear, revealing a silver earring. A black leather tank top with a zipper on the front that was overtopped a slightly longer white tank top. She was shown to also wear a black, leather skort which was long on the back, with two black ribbons tied to either of her legs. Finally, she was shown to wear black leather gloves and black and white shoes with ribbons tied on them. This young woman is Tifa Lockhart, Cloud's special sweetheart.
When they saw the action, Sora, Jaune, Sun, and Max blushed out of embarrassment, Donald, Goofy, Stitch, and Oswald were snickering, and Ruby and Ortensia were giggling to themselves. But then Sora decided to make themselves known and quickly told them to position themselves with crossing arms."Well, well, well."
Cloud and Tia immediately stopped kissing to turn to see the Travelers of Light, in different positions and smirking at the couple in front of them. The two then began to blush while coughing awkwardly. "S-Sora, uh..this…"
Tifa smiled. "So, you're the famous Sora I heard about, huh?" She asked as she approached them all, her lush going away. "Cloud told me of a certain person with the keyblade…but I didn't expect him to be this young."
Sora gasped. "Hey, I happen to be 15 years old. Not that young!" He said.
Donald snickered. "Well," He said, with the others chuckling and for Sora to glare at him.
Tifa giggled. "Don't worry, I was just teasing. I'm Tifa Lockhart, you already know I'm Cloud's girlfriend." She said as she smiled and shook Sora's hand.
Sora was still a bit peeved at the young comment, but he still smiled a bit. "Names Sora, this is Donald, Goofy, Ruby, Jaune, Sun, Oswald, Ortensia, Stitch, and Max." all of them waved and smiled as they shook hands with her.
"So, Yufie said that you're good at fighting with her fists." Ruby said.
Tifa smirked at her, "Mmhmm, that's true." She said,
"My sister Yang fights as well with her fists. Maybe once we get her back, you two can spar or something, it would be pretty cool to watch."
Tifa smirked. "Well, if she is as good as you say she is, then why should I not refuse." She said as the two girls smirked with challenging eyes.
(A.N.: I know some of you might be divided, if they are to spar in the future, it will be friendly. So let's not bring Death Battle into this.)
Cloud then went to the group. "So did you guys get into the computer?" He asked.
This made the group look down. "Well, we can't." Max said. "We need some sort of password to get in. Leon said he tried, but we think there might be someplace in here that he left unturned." He said. "So we came back here to see if we might be able to find something."
"Mmm, a secret computer password huh? Interesting." Tifa said as she then looked around. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's find it then." she said with a smile, making the others look confused.
"Wait, you're going to find it too?" Jaune asked.
Tifa raised an eyebrow. "Yea, Cloud trusts you, and you all seem nice, so I'm going to help you out." She said with a smile as she then began to look around, the others looked at Cloud and he smirked.
"Trust me, once Tifa makes up her mind, there is no changing it." He said as he and the others began to look around.
20 minutes later….
The entire group was now a bit tired. After looking around the study for a good 20 minutes, they were exhausted and still didn't find anything. Now they were either on the floor or hanging on the wall.
"Well, this sucks..." Stitch said with his arms crossed.
"100% agree with you, little guy." Sun said with annoyance. "We looked all over the place, and not once did we find the password." He said.
Sora then looked at them. "C'mon guys, I'm sure we-"
"Where else is there to look at Sora?" Donald asked him. "What should we just kick the walls and see if there's a secret passage or something?"
Sora glared at him. "Hey, I'm just-"
BAM
Suddenly, the room shook a bit as the others turned to look at Tifa, who kicked part of the wall with her left foot. She then turned back to them. "Just seeing if there might be something in the walls." she simply said as she then went to kick the walls again. Making some of them sweatdrop.
"Ok then…." They (sans Cloud) muttered. As Tifa kicked the wall some more, the late portrait of Ansem shook and fell right off. Ruby then saw this and was going to go over to pick it up, but then she saw something on the wall.
"Guys, come look at this!" She said, getting everyone's attention. Tifa stopped kicking and went to join the others as they all looked at what Ruby was showing them, behind the portrait, it was shown that there was some sort of weird-looking pentagram with a heart and weird-looking writing.
"Huh, what's this?" Sora asked as the others all looked with confusion.
"Hmm, Hollow Main Security." Donald began to read off, but he can only read the first words but the rest were hard to make out. Door..to….darkness?" He asked.
Sora gasped. "Guys! Remember what Leon said? About needing a password to DTD? Look!" He said as he read the words 'Door To Darkness' "DTD!" He exclaimed as the others gasped as well.
"Well then," Cloud said with a smirk. "But we still need some sort of code though." He said.
KNOCK KNOCK
They all turned to see Leon knocking on the wall and entered. "So, did you all find anything?" He asked, he then saw Tifa and waved, with her waving back.
Oswald shrugged. "Well, we did find something." He said as Leon came to see the diagram. "Some sort of diagram..but we think we might have found the DTD, see that? The Door To Darkness." He said.
Leon took a glance and raised an eyebrow. "Huh, well what do you know?" He asked. "But we still need the password to get into the computer though." He said.
Ruby looked up and thought of something. "DTD…" she thought with confusion. "I wonder…"
"Say fellas, did someone mention the Door to Darkness?" Askes a high-pitched voice as they all immediately turned around to see a figure wearing a black coat with big round ears, part of his face was shown and it looked as if he had a long black nose and a black tail.
Everybody recognized this figure with a clear view of his face. "YOUR MAJESTY!" Sora and everyone else (sans Cloud, Leon, and Tifa) shouted with joy.
Hey everyone, so we are going to stop here. I wanted to do more but as I said, Hollow Bastion will be pretty big.
The next chapter will be the group catching up, then finding the password to the computer and the revelations between Ansem. To many of us, you know what I'm talking about, and to those who don't know…well, no spoilers ;)
Anyways, please don't forget to read and review, I'm happy to hear from you guys and happy to answer any questions you might have for me :)
Anyways stay tuned for next time and Happy 4th of July!