Chapter 28: Bentley's Slideshow

The newly elected Soul Princes gather at their home base, the Starship Phonix. Sly is polishing his cane, Rayman is working out his "arms", and Tails is making sure his communicator is functional with Ratchet and Clank's help. Sonic speaks to break the silence.

"So, where's your friend, Sly?" "He's treating this like he would a Cooper Gang heist, so he's getting a slideshow ready, to go over all the details, just like when I have work to do back home." Sora exclaims, "And here comes the turtle now!" The Soul Princes gather around a projector as Bentley pulls up a slide that says, "Operation: Universal Road Trip". The group oohs and ahhs as Bentley begins to speak.

"After spending the last few days doing an exhaustive search, I have several promising leads to follow on the 7 World Rings." Bentley pulls up a starmap with the insignia of a Luma on it.

"The Universe of Life. Up first, Mario's galaxy, the Mushroom Galaxy." Bentley moves to a slide showing the area around the Mushroom Planet. "Heartless activity seems to be up on Mario's home planet. They seem to be going after a town that has a portal to the Galaxy's Realm of Darkness equivalent..." Bentley zooms in on a certain beachside city. "Looks-a-like I'm-a going back to Rougeport!" Sonic comments, "Got some friends there, Mario?" "Haven't heard-anything in-a long-long-a-while. Peach hasn't talked about-ah-our adventure there in a while." "I take it things were tough there?" "That-area and-I-have-a-history." "Hopefully it doesn't come back to haunt you.

Up next, the Galaxy Cluster. Do these creatures look familiar, Ratchet?" Purple aliens show up on the monitor. "Don't tell me... some evil Terachnoids are doing... something?" Rayman comments, "What's going on there?" "Bentley responds with, Honestly no idea, but it can't be good. I haven't seen energy spikes this bad since Project Quantum Leap started up again." "Don't worry, we'll look into it. But what's Project Quantum Leap?" "Did you think me and Penelope were the only ones trying to figure out time travel? They couldn't figure out getting the test subject home..." Sly exclaims, "You and Penelope were in a race against another group to figure out time travel?! That's... new information." "And we barely won, too. Government funding is no joke."

Rayman comments, "Back on topic, please?" "Right. Where were we... the World Rings.

The Anthro Galaxy that Sly, Murray, Carmelita, and I call home. Jing King, daughter of our former ally the Panda King, is finally getting married. I have been contacted by the Panda King with a special request." Zelda comments, "And what would that be?" "He wouldn't say. Not until Sly comes down to meet with him, at least. I wish I could tell you more." "Sounds important." "Agreed. I wouldn't be surprised if helping him with... whatever he needs help with helps us find the World Ring."

"The Galaxy of Hearts. Keyblade users, help me out here. I was looking at the starmap and with Ventus's help, I found a world named "Scala Ad Calum."That name means nothing to me, and I feel like I'm missing something." Riku pipes up. "There's an ancient library at that world, the world where the First Keyblade War happened during the age of fairy tales. If the books there don't have the info we need, something's wrong."

"Information noted. We'll send you guys to check it out later. Up next, Rayman's home, the Dream Galaxy. It looks like the World Ring is somewhere in the Cave of Bad Dreams... we're going spelunking." Rayman comments, "It's been a long time since I've been down there. What's changed in the last little while is anyone's guess..."

"The Chaos Galaxy. I have located a big group of robots at the Ocean Purification Plant. I don't know what they are after, but I assume it could lead us to the World Ring." Sonic comments, "Let's go trash some Badniks."

Bentley continues, "The Triforce Galaxy has gone through a lot since we were last there." Ratchet asks, "What do you mean?" "What do you think about islands floating in the sky?" Sly responds with, "...wait, you're serious!? ...I'll get some recon photos."

"And I think that's all the information I have at the moment. I'd be OK with making any Galaxy our first stop…"

Galaxy selection menu screen pops up... (just like you can go to the galaxies in any order in the game, you can read the World Ring arcs in any order...)