28

Good news: I have a lot of Gummi Blocks.

Bad news: I don't think I have enough to make a Gummi Ship.

Worse news: Even if I did, I have no idea how to make a Gummi Ship.

Better news: I'm sure I can work around that anyway.

I sat next to a pile of Gummi blocks, hundreds of Blocks of several shapes and configurations.

As a side note, Xehanort wasn't kidding in his reports when he said that they 'bonded easily'. Stick 2 flat surfaces together and it was like sticking together Lego Blocks. The ultra-thin kinds, too.

No, seriously, I had to resort to using my blade to get that stuff apart.

On the plus side, I learned that you could shape them in any way you want, to no apparent detriment. I have a pile of Gummi Blocks sitting next to this pile that I'd spent a while cutting into tiny pieces, combining, reshaping, combining and ripping apart again to test that.

I'm sure that there's a lot that I could do with that, but at the moment, figuring out how to use what I had to get past the Dimensional Barriers took priority.

I mean, the occupants of a Gummi Ship were completely enclosed in the ship, but was it necessary to be completely surrounded by Gummi Blocks, or was that just because they were travelling through the Sea in the Sky? Everybody else who travelled through the Sea in the Sky was either a Keyblade Wielder, had a Star Shard, or had Darkness on their side anyway.

Could I just build a sword or something out of Gummi Blocks and pass through that way, or would I have to build a box for me to sit in?

Hell, could I just hold a Gummi Block in my claws and pass through like that?

More importantly, why was I asking myself this when I could be going out and actually testing?

Well, aside from not being able to take my pile of Gummi Blocks with me, that is.

It'd be a shame to not put any of these Gummi Blocks to use, but without a place to store them-

No. I have a place to store them, this little bubble dimension out in the middle of nowhere, but would I be able to find it when I needed to?

It was a tiny, unnoticed thing out here. Countless Worlds grabbed attention, and if I lost track of it, I doubt that I'd be able to find it with everything else out there. I just needed to mark it, or something, some way to let me know wherever it was, so I could use the Corridors of Darkness to get here.

I paused for a moment, hesitating.

Why couldn't I do that?

I dragged my claws along the ground, thinking.

Then, I sank my claw into ground, pushing it through the ground.

A weird sensation. A part of myself merging with something else, the Darkness that was Me also becoming something else.

Possession; like Heartless were capable of, the Possessor and Shadow Stalker proof of that.

I saw -Felt- myself merge with the stone, a darkened spot spreading over the ground.

Not what I needed.

I pulled my claw out, leaving a tiny part of My Darkness behind, a tiny part of my existence.

Could I truly call it existence, when I did not truly exist?

I left a small black spot on the ground, an unnatural spot that was still a part of Me. I could feel it, in the back of my head, yet close to my awareness; just an inch away.

Weird.

I spent a few minutes watching it, just waiting for something to happen, but nothing did.

I picked up a Gummi Block, just examining it.

Alright, no more moping around.

Then, I stood up, and opened a Corridor of Darkness to the nearest World.

Time to get shit done.

I walked into the Corridor of Darkness, Gummi block in hand.