I do not own Kingdom Hearts or any of the characters.
Games
Tyler looked around at the terminal, staring at the names of the games, and the characters walking or standing around. He knew them. Most, anyway. Sonic, Mario, Q-Bert, a door to Root Beer Tapper's, even the main character from Knock Out.
This place is awesome," Tyler said.
"Nerd Paradise," Sazh chuckled. "Dajh would love it."
"I love it," Tyler said.
"Let's go find the soldiers," Lightning said. "Maybe they're still here."
Tyler nodded, looking around. He could see Virtual Cop down the opposite wall, and while they weren't exactly soldiers, it might work, except that it was supposed to have the word Hero in it. Finally, his eyes spotted it. Hero's Duty.
"Found it," Tyler said, pointing. "Let's go and see what these soldiers can do, shall we?"
Sazh and Lightning nodded, all of them walking down the steps into the station, then across it, Tyler noticing when he passed Chun-Li, Cammy, Satine, and Zangief. He was about thirty seconds away from going full fangirl on all of the video game characters he could find and recognize until he heard Lightning snort in amusement. He glanced at her, seeing her watching him and grinning. He blushed, crossing his arms.
"Okay, so I like video games, big deal," Tyler said.
"I don't even know what these things are," Lightning snorted. "Clearly your world had more in common with other worlds than we thought."
Tyler blinked. She was right. A lot of these games were in his world. He smiled. He didn't feel quite so ashamed of being from his world anymore. He looked to the side, seeing a very attractive, and clearly antagonist, dark elf walking toward them wearing a red strapless dress that sat low on her chest and with a thigh-high slit on the left side. She had long blue hair, and grey skin. Tyler behind her, however, was Bowser.
"She's pretty," Lightning said, Tyler swearing her voice contained a bit of an edge.
"What?" Tyler asked. "Oh, right. Pretty. Yeah. I was actually paying more attention to the giant lizard behind her. I used to play his game for hours."
"What is he?" Lightning asked.
"A koopa," Tyler said. "It's like a cross between a turtle, a dinosaur, and for him exclusively, a dragon.
"That's...really really weird," Lightning said.
"Maybe," Tyler shrugged. "But he's still one of my favorites."
"Are you two coming?" Sazh asked.
"Yeah we're coming!" Tyler called out, he and Lightning jogging to catch up, all of them walking to the tunnel, finding a train waiting.
They climbed on and it took off, following a tunnel that Tyler could only assume was the inside of the power cord, finally pulling into the game's world about five minutes later. They all climbed out, walking to the edge of the access tunnel and watching as swarms of giant monstrous bugs flew around, fighting against soldiers running around in huge armored suits, firing futuristic, at least to Tyler, guns up into the swarm as a robot with a computer screen for a head was led toward the tower, the soldiers struggling to keep the bugs away from the robot. As the robot fired its own gun at the bugs, bugs swarmed it, destroying it before a light appeared above the tower, a huge beam shooting into the sky. The bugs flew toward the beam, exploding into ash as they hit it.
"Real safe," Tyler snorted.
"Yeah," Lightning said. "I don't think this is the right place."
"Who the hell are you?" a voice barked from off to the side.
They turned, finding a woman in formfitting armor, unlike the excessively bulky armor the rest of the soldiers were wearing, with short blonde hair glaring at them.
"Hi, we're...uh...well, we're from away," Tyler said. "We're looking for two people, a girl with pink hair like her," he gestured at Lightning, "and a five year old girl named Alice. I was wondering if you'd seen them."
"Oh, those two," the woman said. "Yeah they showed up. Didn't stay long. That Sarah girl with the pink hair took one look at the bugs and took off. I told her that if she was looking to be safe, the best place would probably be in Street Fighter."
"Alright," Tyler nodded.
Just then, an announcement began, warning that a quarter had ben inserted. The woman swore.
"Those three idiots," she snarled. "They're not back from their bathroom break yet."
"If you need three, we'll give it a shot," Tyler said.
She stared at them. "Can you shoot?"
Sazh held up his pistols, Lightning holding up her gunblade in its gun mode and Tyler shrugged.
"Alright," she shrugged. "There should be a few sets of small armor over there. Whatever happens, don't let yourselves die. You're from a different game, so if you die here, that'll be the end of it. And it's entirely not my problem."
"Understood," Tyler nodded.
She walked away and they turned to the armor racks, grabbing three normal-person-sized suit of armor.
"Why are we doing this?" Lightning asked.
"It looks like fun," Tyler shrugged.
"Yeah, aside from the dying bit," Lightning said.
"Just don't get hit," Tyler said. "You're the strongest person I know. You'll be fine."
"I hope you're right," Lightning sighed as she handed Tyler an assault rifle.
The speakers began to play the game's intro speech as Tyler and the others hopped on the end of the two lines. Then, a robot rolled through, getting to the front and stopping as the woman drew her rifle.
"We are humanity's last hope," the woman said, giving her practiced speech. "Our mission? Destroy all Cy-bugs. You ready rookie? Let's find out."
The doors behind her opened, lowering into a ramp to reveal a dark and storm-covered sky, and the glowing green robot bugs Tyler had seen earlier swarming around again. The woman and robot took off at a sprint, at least for the woman since the robot was on wheels, and the soldiers all went after them, Tyler and the others following, everyone opening fire. It was chaos instantly. Bugs began to swarm at them from all sides, and Tyler instantly lost track of what the actual characters were doing. He saw one being carried off and ripped apart, and another was knocked off of a bridge that they were on. He fired rapidly, reloading every time he needed to by pulling the mag out and slamming it back in, glad he knew how games worked. At his side, Lightning and Sazh shot anything that tried to get near them, both a better shot than Tyler. As they reached the end of the bridge, they came to a large flat area where the insects swarmed down at them all at once. Tyler swore, flipping the gun to full-auto and firing up into the swarm, Lightning and Sazh doing the same. The bugs exploded rapidly, pieces of them bouncing to the ground around them. Finally, the bugs peeled off their attack, Tyler glancing to the side to see that the robot and the woman, along with a couple of soldiers, were heading for a massive door, which, intuition told him, would release its own swarm when they did.
He turned as the door opened and dozens of insects exploded out, flying at them. Tyler opened fire over the character, both of them doing the same. However, after a minute, a bug flew down and grabbed Lighting. She shouted in surprise and Tyler summoned his keyblade, hurling it at the bug and splitting it in half before diving, catching Lightning before she could hit the ground. She rolled off of him instantly, firing and blasting several bugs that were trying to reach them, their glowing green blood splattering over the pair. Tyler pushed himself up, wiping the blood off, then picked up his gun, sighing.
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea," Tyler said.
"You think?" Lightning asked.
Just then, the robot's head was ripped off and the beam of light, which the game called a beacon, appeared, all of the thousands of bugs that remained flying up into it, dying. Tyler sighed and looked to Sazh, who bent forward, resting his hands on his knees for a moment before standing and giving him a thumbs up.
"That was pretty good target practice, if it wasn't able to kill us," Sazh said.
Tyler nodded and they headed back to the beginning as the rest of the surviving soldiers did the same, the three they had replaced arriving as they got there.
"Thank God," Tyler sighed. "I'm done with this game."
Lightning and Sazh both nodded in agreement and they all put their armor, and Tyler's gun, back where they had found it, heading back to Game Central Station. Once they had arrived, they took a trolley to Street Fighter and climbed out, arriving just as two of the characters, a blond guy with his hair reaching his shoulders and a reg martial arts outfit and a brunette guy with a high-and-tight and a white martial arts outfit, got there from where they were obviously supposed to fight.
"Hello," the brunette greeted them. "Who are you?"
"I'm Tyler," Tyler said. "This is Lightning, and Sazh. We're from away. We were told someone was sent here recently, a girl that looks a lot like Lightning and a five-year old?"
"Hm," the brunette said, thinking. "Yeah, I think I did see them. They were here yesterday, I think."
"Do you know where they went?" Lightning asked.
"I think...I heard something about...candy?" the blond said. "Yeah. Something about candy."
"You're sure?" Sazh asked.
"Yeah why?" the brunette asked.
"Because we just came from there," Tyler said.
"Maybe the king didn't know she went back," Sazh suggested.
"Maybe," Tyler said, clearly not trusting the king anymore. "Come on. We should get back. If she's been here for two days, there are probably going to be heartless here soon. If they aren't here already."
Lightning nodded in agreement and they all turned, leaving the game again, heading back to Game Central Station to go back to Sugar Rush.
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