Nexus: Heroes Will Rise

by tmb1112

Universal borders have been erased and beings from thousands of universes now live on the same world: Nexus. In the first Saga of Nexus, Awul was saved, but the mysteries of Nexus remain. Now our heroes sail across the sea to Aebrith to search for lost loved ones and save the world. MCs from DBZ, KH, Soul Eater, FT, Blue Exorcist, Bleach, 7DS, OP, Ben 10, SAO, HxH, and many more!

9. Nexus HWR 2-1 Under The Sea

Nexus HWR 2.1 Under the Sea:

"Where are you going?" Natsu yelled after the black haired teen walking away from him.

"Let him go Natsu," Gray muttered at the pink haired Dragon Slayer. Natsu was making to chase after Kirito, but the ice wizard wasn't going to bother. "So he doesn't want to fight you. There's a dozen other people on this boat who will."

"But I want to fight him," Natsu replied with a glint in his eyes. He looked back at Gray with a grin, "Don't you? Or are you too scared?"

This got Gray's attention. A tick mark formed on the left side of his forehead and he growled at his friend. "You wanna go?" Gray already grabbed the bottom of his shirt and started lifting it up.

"Keep your shirt on!" Natsu yelled at him, "Weirdo!"

Gray's face flushed with anger and embarrassment. He let go of his shirt and slammed his forehead into Natsu's with a pissed off expression on his face. They started pulling their fists back with their heads pressed against each other. Neither of them noticed the looming shadow getting larger over their bodies, until it was too late.

CRASH! Both Gray and Natsu slammed down into the grassy deck face-first. Nami stood over their twitching bodies with both fists punched down in front of her. "No more fighting on the ship!" She yelled at the boys. "Sooner or later you're really going to break the ship! How many times do I have to say it to get it through your thick skulls?!" Her knuckles were red showing how hard she bashed the moaning Fairy Tail wizards under her.

Gray lifted his head from the new hole on the deck and growled up at the orange haired navigator, "You're the only one breaking the ship." Her eyes turned red and her teeth razor sharp as she shot another look his way. Gray scooted back on the ground with his hands up defensively in front of him, "Nevermind. Do whatever you want."

Natsu laughed as he lifted his own head from the deck, (with a noticeable red bump sticking out of his hair). "Ha! You're afraid of-" his voice caught in his throat as the shadow loomed over him again. He gulped and looked back, and he could've sworn for a second that it was Erza glaring down at him. "Uhh, yeah Gray's right. We're good!" The Dragon Slayer smiled wide and scooted back next to the ice wizard.

Nami glared at them for a few seconds longer, then her scary expression relaxed and she let out a deep breath. She turned and walked away without another word, but when she got inside the cabin, she turned to the amazed blue haired girl standing there who had been looking out the window. "And that's how you do it."

Juvia clapped her hands together many times showing how impressed she was. "That was amazing Nami! Juvia wishes she was able to make them stop fighting as well as Erza and Nami." The younger woman bowed her head a little with a depressed look on her face. As she did, a literal rain cloud formed over her head and started raining down on her.

Despite Nami having traveled with Juvia for a good part of a year, she could never get over her friend's strange water powers, especially when it came to her emotions. "Don't worry," Nami assured her friend, reaching a hand under the cloud and placing it on Juvia's shoulder, "I'm sure you'll get just as good at stopping them now."

The girl with wet blue hair looked up at Nami and the cloud cleared above her. "Nami!" Juvia yelled, diving forward and hugging her pirate friend. "Juvia has missed you!"

Nami didn't care that she was getting wet from Juvia's hug, she missed her friend too. She hugged the magician girl back, "Hopefully this time we can travel together for much longer."

"Juvia hopes so too," the teen whispered back into Nami's ear.

Back outside the cabin, Natsu was back to walking around the ship, bored out of his mind on the ship. At least I'm not seasick. Thank you Wendy. Anyway, if Kirito doesn't want to fight, then maybe… wait a second. Natsu stopped walking and looked around. From where he was out on the deck, he could see half of the Straw Hats, Goku, Ben, the kid with spiky white hair, Dash, but he didn't see any of the Keyblade wielders. Usopp was walking past him and he turned to the long nosed man, "Hey, you seen Sora and the others around?"

Usopp shook his head at the pink haired wizard. "They took off this morning, said they were going on an adventure."

"Ehh?" Natsu exclaimed.

The pirate sharpshooter shrugged, "Guess they got bored being on the ship all day."

"I get bored too!" Natsu shouted. "Why didn't they take me along?"

"Do you want to come?" A familiar voice called up to him.

A lot of people on the deck heard the voice, but it wasn't coming from on the ship. They ran over to the side and looked off down at the water. "No way," Ben shouted as he looked down at the surface of the water.

"What's going on?" Gray asked as he walked over too. The ice wizard stumbled backwards after peering off the edge. "Whoa, how-" he walked back forward and stared down at the three figures at the surface of the ocean.

"Awesome!" Natsu shouted.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Riku called to the deck of the ship from down below. He leapt out of the water and did a flip in front of the onlookers at the side of the deck. They all gawked at his lower body which no longer consisted of legs, but instead a long green slender tail with a dorsal fin sticking out of his back. Riku slapped his tail in the air and splashed water on them before falling back to the water. The pink and blue tailed mermaid teens down below started jumping around as well.

"Sora! Kairi! Riku!" Ben Tennyson shouted. He'd been wondering where his friends were all morning, but he didn't expect this. "You're mermaids!"

"Actually," Sora called up, the boy with spiky brown hair smirking at the younger kid, "me and Riku are 'mermen.' Kairi's a mermaid."

"Cool!" Dash shouted, leaning further off the deck. "How did you do that?!"

Sora chuckled and dove under for a second, before zipping out of the water again with his Keyblade in hand. As he soared up in the air, light shone from the tip of the weapon and his body engulfed with white light for a few seconds. When he came back down, his legs were back as well as all of his clothes which had disappeared upon his initial transformation.

"Magic," Sora finally answered the group of people he landed in front of. "It's pretty high-level stuff," he added boastfully.

"Yeah right," his best friend called up from the water. The silver haired nineteen year old ignored Kairi's giggle next to him. Just 'cause I can't do it doesn't make it "high-level" magic. "I would gladly show you how to transform if it would shut that boy up for a minute." Really? Alright, but later when no one's around. Riku was getting more and more used to having another person he shared his mind with, almost to the point that it didn't aggravate him every time the man spoke.

On the deck of the Thousand Sunny, Sora was explaining the magic he used. "...and then you can breathe underwater! I wish Donald was here, he would have explained it much better."

"Who's Donald?" Dash asked the older boy.

"Donald is, one of my very good friends," Sora replied, looking up in the sky. "I hope he came to this world. If he didn't, I bet he and Goofy are searching all over for us."

"The King too!" Riku called up from the ocean again.

"Yeah, and King Mickey!" Sora shouted. He looked around at the group in front of him, "Oh yeah, Donald is the best magician I know, but I'm pretty good too. Any of you want to try?"

"Try?" Usopp asked curiously, his eyes getting wider.

"Yeah, why not?" Sora replied. "We just came back because we were going to grab some lunch. There are actually some cool people living down at the bottom of the ocean. So when we go back down, if any of you want to come-"

"YES!" Ben, Dash, Usopp, and Natsu all exclaimed at the same time. All four of them were excited to try. Usopp was mainly thinking of how great a story it would be someday in the future.

Kairi and Riku finally climbed up on the ship as well, and almost as soon as they did, the whole group heard Sanji call for them from the kitchen. "Lunch is ready," the blond man shouted. Inside the ship, the chef prepared yet another feast and braced himself for the stampede of monsters about to come in to get it.

The crew went into the cabin and Sora went back over everything he just said on the side of the ship to the other crew members. Sanji's eyes went wide and turned into hearts as he started shouting about seeing some mermaids again.

"Undersea huh?" Luffy asked through a mouthful of fish. "I wonder if Jimbei is there."

"Who's Jimbei?" Dash asked the pirate sitting across the table from him.

Luffy smiled as did his other original crew members. Nami spoke up for the captain as he took another bite, "He's our friend from back on our world. He's a fishman, a very strong one."

"So do you guys want to go?" Sora asked, looking around at everyone.

"I think I'll stay on the ship," Franky announced. "I'm in the middle of a project."

"What type of project?" Ben asked, leaning in with an excited look towards the awesome robot.

The cyborg chuckled and lifted up a huge metal arm, putting one of his thick steel fingers up to his mouth. "It's a secret," he said, winking at the boys of the crew who all went starry-eyed imagining a new cool weapon the shipwright could have made.

"Well I'm in!" Natsu shouted.

"Idiot," Gray muttered, making Natsu glare at him. "Wonder how good your fire powers will be underwater?" the ice mage asked, smirking over at Natsu who started sweating. "Better not piss me off down there, or I'll freeze you for good."

"Juvia will not let you," the girl stated firmly, surprising the two wizards next to her. They looked in and then cowered as the girl glared down at them with sharp teeth and red eyes. "You will be friendly and nice the whole time!"

The two of them started mumbling and turned away from each other. Juvia smiled wide and looked across the table to see Nami nodding at her with the proud look of a teacher.

"It sounds like fun!" the man at the end of the table said, and they all looked over to see Goku standing up and stretching his arms over his head. "I can't wait to try some Atlantian cuisine."

"Atlantian?" Kirito asked, a skeptical look on the teen's face.

"Yep," Goku replied. "I haven't been there, but Gohan said Atlantis has some great cooking."

"Wait, there's really an Atlantis?" Ben asked, also confused. "I thought that was a myth."

"Maybe on your world," Kairi told the younger boy. "But Nexus probably had a lot of worlds where there were underwater kingdoms."

"I just hope we see Ariel," Sora said, making everyone look over to him. "She helped me, Donald, and Goofy fight the Heartless when we visited her world of Atlantica."

The majority of the people at the table stared at Sora with blank, confused expressions. The boy with spiky brown hair was looking up at the ceiling with a nostalgic look, but he looked back down and saw everyone staring at him, making him start sweating. "Uhh, what?" Gray asked, wondering what the boy was talking about.

"Let's get going," Kirito said, standing up out of his seat and getting the attention off of Sora who told him all about different worlds the previous night. It didn't look like his friend wanted to go much into detail, and what he just said seemed to be a slip of the tongue. "I want to try out some gills," the black haired teen continued.

Everyone agreed with Kirito and started getting up excitedly. "Rin?" Timmy asked the boy sitting next to him, making the teen with a sword strapped on his back to look down at the small kid in a pink hat. "You going?" the twelve year old asked.

Rin gulped and shook his head. He thought about what Gray said to Natsu a minute ago. If anything were to happen, I wouldn't be able to use my flames. "Nah," the son of Satan replied. He gulped, "I don't really like the thought of turning into a fish."

Nami heard this and her mind instantly stopped thinking of her as a mermaid, and instead as a woman with the bottom half of a person and the top half of a fish, with long orange hair on top of her fish head. She shivered head to toe and stepped back from the main group, "On second thought, I think I'll stay behind."

"Noooooooooooooooooo!" Sanji yelled, falling to his knees as his hopes of seeing a mermaid Nami were crushed.

Robin smiled as well and stood next to her younger pirate friend. After an entire life of having a Devil Fruit's power, Robin had no wish to go back into the sea she feared so much. "I will stay behind with you Nami-san," she offered, making the navigator smile wide, and Sanji to moan loudly again.

"Don't worry Sanji," Ben told the blond haired chef on his knees. "Kairi and Juvia are still going." Sanji jumped up to his feet excitedly and spun around, to see Sora and Gray standing next to their respective fiancé/girlfriend, smiling and talking to them. His spirits dropped again and Ben rushed to get his spirits back up, "And all the other mermaids we'll see when we get down there!"

Sanji shook his head from his sadness and bucked up. "You're right!" he shouted. "Sora! Turn me into a fish!"

"Uhh, okay," Sora said, looking back at the chef only to see him jumping high off the side of the ship. Sora rose his arm as Sanji was passing over his head, and his Keyblade formed, already glowing white.

Sanji's body turned bright white, and he was still covered in the light as he hit the water. The chef smiled wide as he splashed below, and then swam up to the surface as fast as he could and leapt out of the sea. "Nami-san! Robin-chan! Look at what you are missing!" he yelled, arms up in the air happily.

"It's haha, okay ha, Sanji-san!" Nami called up to him.

The chef looked down and saw Nami cracking up, while Robin was giggling as well. The men on the ship were not as polite as Robin, all of them laughing as hard as they could. Sanji slowly looked down as he rose out of the water, and his face became distraught, his lips sticking out in horror, his eyes wide looking like he had just seen a ghost.

"Sanji's an octopus!" Luffy shouted, falling backwards and rolling around on his back.

Sanji's face turned red and the octopus in the air burst into flames. He pointed an arm down at Sora, while lifting three tentacles as well and pointing them all at the laughing brown haired Keybearer. "Turn me into a merman!" the chef yelled, falling back to the surface of the water and only keeping his head up this time.

"Sorry Sanji," Sora replied. "I didn't choose, I just made it so you were compatible with the water. When Donald did it, he turned into an octopus too. I think it has to do with your personalities," Sora started scratching his chin as he wondered why some of them turned into some creatures and others different ones.

The blond haired octopus looked down sadly, mumbling incoherent words to himself. None of the beautiful mermaids are going to like a stupid octopus. The only good thing out of this is that the stupid marimo isn't here. He would have a field day with this, Sanji thought about Zoro, but that only lasted a few seconds, until his mind returned to thoughts of mermaids and his eyes became heart-shaped. Not even his own botched transformation could make him upset for long.

"Alright everyone!" Sora called out, waving his arm towards the side of the ship. "Let's go!" He ran towards the edge with Kairi and Riku on either side of him. Goku jumped over everyone's head and pulled his legs in for a cannonball, while Luffy rocketed himself up in the air, closing his eyes and having faith in Sora who promised him that he would not sink as soon as he hit the water.

Dash and Ben smirked at each other, then the two of them ran over and jumped in the air. Dash did about a dozen front flips insanely fast, while Ben tried out a swan dive and smiled as his body engulfed in light right before the water's surface.

All three of the Fairy Tail wizards ran to the edge, and Natsu hesitated for a second, before Juvia and Gray each grabbed him by the arm and jumped into the sea. "Ahh!" the fire mage yelled, right before he became covered in light and hit the water.

Nami, Robin, Timmy, Franky, and Rin jogged over to the side and looked down at the whole crew who were covered in white light just beneath the surface. They all swam up at the same time and leapt out of the water, except for Sanji who stayed where he was, not wanting the ladies on the ship to see his ugly transformation again. The crew members on board ooed and ahhed at the sight of their friends' transformations.

"Hahahaha!" Luffy laughed as he puffed out with a bunch of spikes all over his body. "I'm a pufferfish!"

"Angler!" Killua yelled, as the long tendril sticking out over his forehead lit up and sparked electricity.

"Merman!" Ben exclaimed happily, then turned to his right where he gawked right before laughing as hard as he could.

"How does this make any sense?!" Dash exclaimed, his head sticking out of the top of a turtle shell. They all laughed at the fastest boy on the crew who ironically turned into the slowest creature... at least until they turned to Usopp.

"Snn, sniffle," Usopp tried jumping out of the water as high as the rest of them, but it was pretty hard with the lower half of his body stuck inside a snail shell. "This is just unfair," the sniper said, his slingshot sticking out of the shell along with his upper body.

"Have fun you guys!" Nami called off the ship at their friends. They all dropped down into the water and Nami sighed as they were gone. She panicked and jumped to the right as a giant black cat appeared next to her, lifting up a paw and waving down at the ocean.

"Where the Hell did this come from?!" Nami shouted.

Rin started laughing and turned to the others who were surprised to see the giant black cat. "This is Kuro," the boy explained. "He's my cat. I found him on the last island."

Timmy smiled, "Was that the monster-"

"Yep!" the teenager replied, and then got tackled to the ship's grassy floor by the massive black cat that started licking his face. Franky had a shocked look on his face as he had just seen a tiny cat turn into a monster, but he finally started laughing and wiped some sweat from his metal brow, remembering just what world they were sailing on again. Something like this should not have surprised him.

"Well," Robin said, looking over the railing of the ship and nowhere near as surprised as the others by the giant cat's appearance. "I do hope they do not drown slowly."

"Ahh! Enough with the scary comments!" all four of the others shouted at her and Robin started giggling.

Down below the surface, the rest of the crew were far from drowning. "So this is what swimming is like," Luffy said as he floundered around down after everyone else. Dash and Usopp were next to him, trying to swim as fast as they could but still adjusting to their shelled bodies.

"Must be strange for a Devil Fruit eater," Usopp said to his captain who was swinging his arms around randomly.

"Mm hmm, and I was never good at swimming to start with so..." Luffy turned upside-down for a few seconds and writhed around in panic trying to get himself back upright, making the turtle and snail next to him sweatdrop even under the water.

"This is great!" Ben shouted as he swam around near Riku, Sora, and Kairi.

"You're getting the hang of it fast Ben," Riku told the kid swimming around them. "But can you keep up?" he asked, and then shot straight down as fast as he could. Ben panicked and kicked his tail hard to follow after Riku. His was a much lighter shade of green than Riku's dark green tail, and Sora and Kairi laughed as the two of them went racing off.

"Guys, wait up for me!" Sora and Kairi turned to their left and saw a turtle speeding up more and more as it raced past them.

"Haha," Sora chuckled as the turtle became a blur and sped up even more. "Looks like he's still fast underwater," the teen said with a grin.

"You want to go for a swim?" Kairi asked her boyfriend next to her. She had on a pink bikini top that matched her pink tail, while Sora and all of the boys were shirtless. She leaned in and whispered in his ear, "Just the two of us?"

Sora's face went a little red, but then he nodded at her and they raced off to the left. He looked back and shouted through the water, which somehow did not alter his voice at all, "Meet back at the ship by dinner! Oh! And if anyone sees an underwater city, let Goku know!"

Everyone looked over at Goku who looked a little confused himself. "Me?" the spiky haired Saiyan asked. He still had his legs, arms, his whole body, only now his arms and legs were green, and his torso was covered in orange scales.

"Yeah!" Sora yelled, still getting farther away. "Goku's got Atlantian powers, he can call to all of us telepathically."

"I can?" Goku asked, looking at his body that he thought looked strange considering he did not recognize it as any sea creature he'd ever seen before. The man turned to his right and looked at the boy with spiky white hair and an orb of light sticking out in front of his face. "HELLO?!"

Killua grabbed his ears as he heard Goku shout directly into his mind. "AH! What the Hell was that? No need to scream!"

"Oh, sorry," Goku replied, looking at the kid next to him as they spoke telepathically. The Saiyan smiled and called out loud, "Wow, this is great!" He turned and started swimming down. "I feel a lot of powers concentrated over here. I bet there's a city. Everyone follow me!" Goku's words echoed in the minds of all the excited people-sea-creatures around him, and they all looked in to see a blur of white where Goku was racing through the water incredible fast.

"Gotta keep up!" Luffy shouted, and started kicking his spiked legs behind him. He smiled and laughed as that actually sped him up a lot.

"Luffy!" Snail-Usopp shouted from behind his Captain, trying to hurry up as well, but not having Dash's natural speed powers to help him out.

The group descended down from the surface farther and farther into the depths of the Great Ocean. Ben, Riku, and Dash were a hundred yards to the left of Goku and some of the others. The three of them were racing in and out of schools of fish, laughing and having a great time.

They descended together for about five minutes before reaching the tops of some underwater mountains. These mountains came up really high, so they still couldn't see the bottom of the sea that Goku was leading them to. Ben turned his head to Riku to challenge him to try some flip-trick he just invented, but the words never made it out of his mouth. The thirteen year old lowered his jaw slowly.

"Ben?" Dash asked, looking to his left at his friend who was looking straight up above them. The kid with blond hair suddenly noticed it seemed a lot darker, and he lifted up his head a little too.

Riku followed where the two of them were looking and he stared up above him in awe. "Whoa," the teen with long silver hair whispered. He stared at it for a few seconds, the giant shadow over their heads. As it passed by however, Riku noticed something. "Wait a second," he whispered.

Dash saw it too and his eyes bugged out. "No way!"

Ben had seen it the whole time. He saw it as it approached, the deep blue color of the long giant monster. It flapped its two side fins down, and the three of them had to cross their arms to block the torrent of water streams that slammed down into them. "Aaooooo" the creature roared through the ocean, its voice sounding not just in their ears, but their very minds.

"Alright," Ben said, snapping his tail down and lifting up a little. "I'm getting you back for last time!" he yelled, pointing a hand forward at the massive blue creature that passed over them and then slowly turned back around so it was facing the boy pointing at it. "Do you remember me?!" the boy shouted.

"Hey Ben," Dash started nervously, "how about you not piss it off?"

Riku just smirked, "Ben's a lot stronger than last time, we all are." He turned to the short blond kid who looked back at him and then smirked. "That's Kyogre Ben," he told the boy, "one of the Legendaries. Sure you don't want to try catching something smaller as your first Pokemon?"

"I've got this," Ben assured, still looking forward into the giant Pokemon's eyes. "Don't forget, a merman isn't the only undersea creature I can turn into." Ben stuck his arms out to the sides and his watch started glowing green, covering his whole body in light.

The others who were still swimming down after Goku looked up in awe as a green light filled the ocean above them. Natsu recognized it and was going to call up to his friend and ask why he wasn't staying as this awesome mermaid form that he was also in, and then gawked at the sight of the giant blue creature Ben was facing off against.

"Kyogre," Gray whispered, staring at the beast in awe. "I recognize it," he said after receiving a strange glance from Juvia and Natsu. "I was at a coastal city on Aebrith and it got in a fight with Groudon. Me, Zoro, and Zabuza had faced Groudon before, but as angry as it was when it fought us, just the sight of Kyogre made it go on a rampage. Half the city got destroyed before we managed to break it off."

"Whoa," Natsu said, looking up at the looming shadow. "You think Ben has a chance of taking it on on his own?"

"No," Gray responded plainly. He looked over towards the green light, "We should go help-" he stopped talking as the sight of the creature that appeared inside the green light made him drop his jaw.

"Okay, what?!" Natsu shouted, dropping his jaw.

"Hahaha!" Luffy shouted, pointing up with starry eyes. "That's awesome!" The snail chasing after him did not look so thrilled at the sight of the monster three times the size of Kyogre.

It had a giant jaw full of sharp teeth, and looked like quite the horrifying monster... well, until it shouted, "SUPER FISH!"

"Come on Ben, you can get more creative than that!" Riku shouted up at the boy who named that monster of an alien fish terribly.

"What would you have called it then?" the giant fish shouted, turning back down to face Riku.

As Ben turned, Kyogre shot forward like a missile. The boy looked back forward just in time to get body slammed by the Kyogre so hard that it looked like Kyogre itself might have been hurt by the attack. Super Fish went flying backwards, and slammed into the top of an undersea mountain, breaking off the tip of the mountain and making everyone watching wince.

Kyogre raced forward again and Ben snapped his jaws towards it, but the less-giant Pokemon was also pretty agile and dove under his jaws. It slammed into Ben's massive stomach again, then kept swimming to dodge one of his humongous claws. Kyogre turned around after racing past, and the even bigger enormous undersea monster looked tired, panting loudly. "Alright wise guy," Ben muttered, watching as Kyogre faced him again. "Try it again," he dared.

The blue Legendary Pokemon looked like it was going to do just that, and it raced forward fast. The enormous monster alien Super Fish lifted up one of its arms, holding a claw out in front of its body. "It's not use Ben!" Dash called up. "You aren't fast enough!"

"I don't need to be!" Ben roared back in a low voice.

The area in front of his claw started to glow white, and the crowd stared in awe as a green hilt formed in Ben's massive hand. An enormous Keyblade proportionate to the size of his body appeared. "Whoa," Natsu whispered at the sight of it, "when did he get that?"

"THUNDER!" the Super Fish yelled, and the Pokemon racing forward was suddenly struck by one large lightning bolt.

Riku smiled, "That's amazing Ben," the teen stated. "I didn't expect you would be able to use magic so soon." "Though it is only first level magic." "Shut it Ansem, it's still good for a beginner."

"Uhh..."

Riku turned his head and noticed Dash saw him talking to himself, since the boy couldn't hear Ansem's voice that was only inside his head. Riku could swear he heard Ansem laughing at his expense and he mumbled in annoyance before looking back up at Ben. The giant monster smirked its super sharp teeth, and then dropped its lower lip as Kyogre raced out of the bubbles and opened its mouth, firing two huge condensed jets of water into Ben's face that sent him flying backwards over the top of the mountaintop he broke off earlier.

"Hydro Pump," Gray muttered, shaking his head. "I doubt he's getting up after that one. Even Zabuza's water dragons couldn't handle getting hit by that, pushed right through and knocked him out during our fight."

"Well, looks like Ben's more impressive than your friend," Natsu said, making Gray look over towards where the huge Super Fish was sent flying. Kyogre chased after it, but right before the blue Pokemon slammed into Ben's stomach, the giant monster was gone.

"Ripjaws!" Ben yelled as he appeared as a smaller alien with sharp jaws, one he was much more used to fighting with. He dodged easily as this smaller form and spun to Kyogre's side, biting it on the side and then dodging again and biting a few more times.

"You're wearing it down!" Dash called up to his friend, rooting for him now.

Everyone started cheering for Ben as he transformed again, but right when it looked like he had Kyogre on the ropes, his body flashed red. The kid transformed back, right before he was going to dodge. In his surprise at being turned back into a mermaid, he stopped his dodge and got slammed again by the Legendary Pokemon. It was the same slam that sent his Super Fish flying.

"Ben!" they all shouted at him as he flew down and slammed into the side of a mountain, the entire thing shaking from the collision.

"Is he alright?" Juvia asked, holding her hands together nervously as she thought about the boy from her village who she'd known for over a year now. "Ben," she whispered.

"I'm sure he's fine," Natsu said, though the Fire Dragon Slayer also looked concerned as he looked over towards a hole in the mountain.

Gray sighed, shaking his head. The shark-mage muttered, "I told you. We should have stopped him before it was too... late..."

"KAME-" a voice echoed through the water.

Goku's eyes opened wide, and he remembered what his son told him on the night before the attack on Metropolis. "He really did learn it huh?" the spiky haired man looked over and the young kid with white hair on his side looked at him in confusion.

Killua looked from Goku back to the mountain where he thought that kid would be dead. Maybe he's stronger than I gave him credit for. Killua's eyes widened at the sight of the dark hole in the mountain lighting up blue.

"HAME-" the voice shouted again, definitely Ben's voice coming from the hole in the mountain.

"Dash come on," Riku shouted, grabbing his turtle-friend by the hand who had started swimming over towards the mountain with him.

"Aww," the blond haired kid moaned, looking back over his shoulder towards the mountain as Riku dragged him away. Dash's disappointed look that he would not get to watch Ben's attack went away as a blue light engulfed the entire top of the mountain.

Kyogre was charging towards the mountain again, and out of its mouth fired a huge beam of ice that seemed to freeze the water around it in a one hundred foot wide pillar. The ice was only yards from hitting the hole in the wall, when Ben's voice yelled, "HAAAAAA!" The mountain around him started to crumble, and a blue beam shot out of the hole and slammed into the end of the ice beam.

The two beams pushed against each other for the total of one second, before Ben's pushed through and shot all the way up the ice beam, sending shards of ice shattering in all directions as the blue energy beam pushed through the middle of it. The scattered crew in the water crossed their arms and shielded their eyes, but tried to keep watching as the blue beam slammed into Kyogre.

Goku was floating up a little, but he sighed and stopped himself. "Good thing he hasn't mastered it," the Saiyan stated out loud, making the gawking white haired kid on his left look even more surprised that this powerful attack had yet to be perfected. "If he had," the Saiyan warrior continued, "that poor Pokemon would have been killed."

Killua gulped, and then looked back over towards the crumbling top of the mountain, where a panting and beaten up Ben lowered his arms back down to his side. He grabbed an empty pokeball, the only one he had that he got from the nice lifeguard on the previous island, and gently held it up in front of him, gasping for air as the red light shot out towards a badly wounded Kyogre. "Come on," Ben whispered, holding the pokeball tight in his hand as the red light sucked back in after enveloping the Pokemon.

"Does he have it?" Gray whispered, looking shocked as he stared at the red and white ball in Ben's hand. The ball was shaking, shaking, Ben held it with his other hand as it shook again. Then all was still.

"YES!" Ben shouted, pumping his hands up in the air. He then winced in pain and lowered them back down, falling backwards and lying on his back in the water.

"That, was, awesome!" Dash shouted, swimming up and doing circles around his friend. The turtle was not the only one, as a lot of the group started cheering for Ben.

Goku smiled up as well, then looked down below him. No one else noticed it for a few more moments, but the Saiyan watched the water below them carefully.

"Everyone freeze!"

All of the people/fish creatures floating around snapped their heads down, to their lefts, rights, and even above them. Even Goku started looking around in light surprise, but then calmly nodded his head at the figures swimming towards them.

"Whoa, who are you guys?" Natsu yelled, lifting up his fists and looking around. Everyone swimming towards him looked pretty human, a lot of them even had legs, though there were some mermen and mermaids mixed in. They all had trident-shaped weapons, though the top prongs of them were glowing red and had holes at the end that made them look like barrels to guns. They looked pretty hostile and Natsu grinned, "Watching Ben fight has gotten me all fired up!" He rose up his fists, and steam came off of them, but nothing else.

Natsu looked stunned and Gray smacked a fist down on top of his head. "Dumbass. We're underwater remember. Can't use flames." The ice mage looked ahead of him at five muscular men with long tails instead of legs, all glaring at him threateningly. They were wearing helmets and had on identical uniforms with the letter 'A' in the middle of them.

The pirate crew eased backwards as dozens of enemies gathered around them, pushing them back. "Who are you?" Sanji asked the man directly in front of him, who had glowing blue orbs held above his palms. Sanji wished he had the ability to light a cigarette right now to calm his nerves, but instead he just wiggled his tentacles at the person in front of him. The light skinned man was wearing a blue uniform unlike the others' outfits, and he looked a little stronger than the others.

Garth glared right back at Sanji, and said, "Tell us who you are first."

"Garth sir," one of the soldiers gathered around started. He had his hands up to a headset on his head and lowered the earphones from his ears. "The Princes are on their way. They heard about what happened to Kyogre."

"Uhh," Ben muttered. The thirteen year old with the red Omnitrix on his wrist scratched his head nervously. "Was I not supposed to do that?"

Garth glared over at the young boy. "No you were not."

The group was surrounded on all sides by undersea guards. "Who are you people?" Usopp shouted, trying not to let his voice shake as he did.

"We are the Atlantian army," Garth stated while pointing his glowing trident at the snail who questioned him. He stared at the creature oddly for a few seconds before turning back to face Goku. "Who are you? You look like you are from my world."

Goku smiled over at the young man in a blue uniform. "I'm Son Goku."

Every one of the guards there froze and turned their heads towards the spiky haired man. "Is he serious?" one of them whispered, a three foot tall fish with gills but the arms and legs of a person.

Garth opened his mouth to question him further, when a voice shouted from below them. "What is going on?" Everyone looked down to see three mermen swimming up fast with a small army at their backs. "Who dared to assault Kyogre?!"

"Maybe we should leave?" Juvia whispered to the ice mage on her left side.

"Starting to sound like a good idea," Gray muttered back. "Hey guys, let's," he began but got cut off before he could finish.

"Hey!" Usopp shouted. The long-nosed pirate's eyes were huge and he pointed down at the figures swimming up to meet them. "It's the princes!"

The Atlantian guards looked strangely at this snail creature, wondering why it would know the princes. A strange-looking pufferfish next to the snail looked down in shock too as did the octopus with them. "No way," Sanji muttered. His heart started beating faster and faster and he whispered, "Does that mean, the mermaid princess, is here too?" His voice was barely a whisper and everything around him started to get hazy.

Usopp turned to his left seeing a darkness in the water and he shrieked at the amount of blood around Sanji's face. "Stop thinking about it Sanji!" He begged, "You'll bleed out again!"

"Hey!" Luffy waved down at the three mermen swimming up and all of them stopped short in the water.

"L-Luffy?" Ryuboshi and Manboshi shouted at the same time.

Fukaboshi, the oldest of the three brothers, swam up in front of all the guards and right up to Luffy. He moved much faster than the group of travelers did when they were swimming, and most of them were taken aback by how quickly he got up there. "Luffy," he said, positive now that this was the same man that he knew from his own world. He bowed his head a little, "I must thank you for saving Fishman Island on our world."

Luffy started laughing and greeted the man in the same friendly manner he would greet any of his friends. The Atlantians started lowering their weapons, but the guard known as Garth called out, "Prince Fukaboshi." The muscular merman with long blue hair turned around to see the guard frowning at him. "These people have captured Kyogre."

Fukaboshi turned back to Luffy and his smile faded a little. The other two prince brothers got over their shock and swam up to the group as well. "Brother, look at the mountain," Manboshi said, pointing at the mountain next to him.

Fukaboshi turned and his eyes turned huge at the sight of the crumbled top of the undersea mountain next to them. Ben saw the Prince's angered reaction and he backed up a little, getting closer to Goku. He was tired and his watch was still in the red, something he was mentally cursing himself about at the moment.

"Who destroyed the mountain?" The oldest prince asked, turning to face the group and looking around to find a guilty face.

"It was an accident," Gray started, swimming forwards a little by kicking his tail behind him. "What is the penalty?"

"We should bring them before the council of Neptunes," Garth suggested loudly from behind the princes.

Fukaboshi frowned, but sighed and nodded his head. "He is right. We must bring you before our father and the other Neptunes."

"There's more than one King Neptune?" Usopp asked, getting confused.

"Watch your tongue snail," a soldier snapped over at the creature half-sticking out of a shell. "That is a prince of Atlantis you are talking to-"

"It is alright," Fukaboshi stated, turning and glancing at the soldier. The man quieted himself immediately and the prince turned to Garth next. "Let the council know we are coming."

"What if we don't want to come with you?" Killua said out of nowhere. Garth stopped turning around and spun back, and all of the guards tensed up. The anglerfish shot forward much faster than anglerfishes were known to move at. He stared straight into the oldest prince's eyes and his own looked like little vertical slits for a second.

"This is not a request," Garth stated in a harsh tone.

"I want to go," Luffy said, turning to look back at Killua for a second. "Don't you?"

The younger boy lost his scary look for a second. I do want to go, but if they decide to capture us- what am I thinking? I'm next to Son Goku, he looked at the Saiyan warrior on his right and then smiled. "Okay, I'll go," he relented.

"Am I in trouble?" Ben muttered, not really knowing what was going on. Luffy seemed to be on good terms with the prince guys, but they were still being brought before this council. "Maybe I should just release Kyogre," he said, his voice sounding pretty sad.

"Don't," Riku told him. Ben looked to his side and Riku smiled at the kid, "If you treat that Pokemon right I'm sure the two of you will be great friends." The younger boy thought about Sora's Pokemon and he nodded.

"Come with us," Fukaboshi said. The eldest Prince started swimming downwards and the rest of the guards stayed surrounding the group, waiting for them to follow him down. A few of them looked more nervous than others, but when Goku and Luffy started swimming down the rest of them followed.

As they swam down, one of the princes, the fattest one Manboshi, turned to Luffy and the other male pirates next to him. "Luffy, were you always a fishman?"

"Nope," Luffy replied. "Just turned into one."

"How?" Fukaboshi asked while continuing to lead them. It had been on his mind since spotting the pirates who he knew were humans and not creatures of the sea.

"Our comrade used some magic on us," Sanji started, then stopped with his mouth partially open. He fell back a little while Luffy kept talking to the princes, and he turned to Usopp. "Oi," he muttered to the snail, "have you seen Sora or Kairi around?"

Usopp's head sticking out of the shell snapped in both directions, and he looked back at Sanji with a nervous expression on his face. "They aren't here?" Usopp whispered. They were surrounded by guards on all sides, so they could see everyone in their group within the barrier of soldiers. Sora and Kairi were not with them any longer. "I didn't think they went too far," Usopp whispered.

Their whole group swam down in a scattered mass, but they were all relatively close together. When the Atlantians came they packed together in a smaller mass, but now that they thought about it, Sora and Kairi were not there. "Well, good for them I guess," Usopp mumbled. "They didn't get caught."

"We're not in trouble," Sanji said, noticing someone behind him that made him smirk a little. "Only Ben is."

Ben froze up and he started sweating which seemed tough underwater. He saw the side of Sanji's face and the chef was smirking. "That isn't funny," he muttered ahead, and Usopp started laughing as he realized why Sanji said it.

"Don't worry Ben, it'll be fine," Riku assured the kid swimming with him. "I'm sure they'll understand..."

---

"THEY DID WHAT?!" Neptune shouted. The Neptune in the middle of the council shot off his chair and glared down at the people in front of him. "Mount Vega and Kyogre! What do you have to say for yourselves?!"

"Neptune 1, your majesty," Riku began, swimming forward while his friend backed up next to him. Riku started sweating considering he told Ben this would go much differently. "The incident was an accident."

"You accidentally broke a mountain? I have received word from the Coral Ridges that debris has been falling from the sky. Much of it has landed on buildings. The damage is already in the millions!" Neptune 1 shouted.

Ben dropped his jaw and his face went pale. The King of the sea was shouting at him and it was pretty scary. To be precise, one of the Kings of the sea were shouting at him.

Neptune 1 floated in front of the center chair. He had on a pair of golden bracelets that wrapped around each of his wrists. His upper body looked like that of a man's, a tan-skinned, much larger than usual man, with enormous biceps and pecs. His face was stern, though it was hard to tell under his huge white beard and mustache that matched the color of his long flowing hair going back behind his head and back.

The first Neptune was at least ten feet tall, which still only made him the second largest of the three Neptunes. The shortest Neptune sat on his right side, Neptune 3. He was not much shorter than the first, but his entire body was the color green, just a lighter shade than his tail. He had on a crown that covered up the fact that he was actually bald. This Neptune held a trident just like the first Neptune, and just like the second.

Neptune 2 was by far the largest among them. Like the first Neptune, he had very long hair and a large beard and mustache, however his were curly and orange. His facial hair was so thick that it was impossible to see his mouth behind it all. He looked the least annoyed at the group in front of him, which was also partly due to the fact that he was indebted to one of them who smiled and waved his way as soon as he entered the room. The second Neptune was from the same world as the pirates in his council chamber, but although Luffy saved his kingdom once before, he could not let what happened slide and lose the respect of the other worlds' Neptunes.

"What should we do with them?" Neptune 3 muttered, putting his thumb and index finger up to his chin and rubbing it thoughtfully.

"You could let us go," Natsu suggested.

"Do you think this is a joke?!" Neptune 1 roared, shutting a smirking Natsu right up. "Your battle put the lives of many of our people at risk. Thankfully, no one was hurt," he continued, and Ben took a deep breath of relief upon hearing that. "The debris fell slow enough through the water for our people to evacuate, however, the fact remains that you have caused extensive damage. Not to mention the capture of our capital's guardian, Kyogre."

"I was just catching a Pokemon," Ben exclaimed, then shut his mouth immediately as all three Neptunes turned their gazes to the young boy. Dash subconsciously shifted away from his friend to make some distance while all the Neptunes glared their direction.

Neptune 3 scratched his chin some more. "While the capturing and training of Pokemon is a legal practice in this ocean, we have designated areas for such practices." He slammed the butt of his golden trident down on the ground, "The sea directly above Atlantis is not one such place."

Ben backed up even farther and found himself glancing backwards for help. Goku saw the boy's look and he stepped forward in front of him. "Hello," he waved his hand at the three figures in front of their thrones. "Ben is sorry for the property damage, I'll have a good talk with him to make sure he doesn't do it again." Goku looked back and smiled at the kid behind him showing he was not actually upset. He turned back forward with a stern expression, nodding his head a few more times towards the Neptunes to show he was serious.

"Hoh hoh hoh," Neptune 2 laughed. "Luffy! You have some very interesting friends with you, jamon!"

"Shishishi," Luffy laughed.

The other Neptunes glared over at their larger associate for a second and he leaned back on his throne. Neptune One stepped forward and lifted his trident, "We will discuss your punishment. Not just for the boy, but for your entire group for allowing his actions to go on."

"Just to let you know," Natsu called up to the thrones and the guy yelling at them. "This guy's name is Goku," he pointed at the Mayor of Pao Town behind him. All three of the Neptunes looked taken aback, and Natsu smirked as they recognized the name. "And I'm Natsu!"

"Shut up," Gray muttered, as all three of the Neptunes looked at each other as if asking, 'Have you ever heard of a Natsu? Yeah, me neither.'

"Son Goku," Neptune 3 began, looking down at the spiky haired figure who looked like a very strong Atlantian. "Trunks spoke very highly of you."

"Ah yes, the Super Saiyan," Neptune 1 said, his mouth dropping into a frown. "We received word from the Renewed Nexus Government that he fell during the Battle of Metropolis. We were sorry to hear that."

Goku's expression flashed dark for a second before returning to its previous laid-back look. "Thanks, he was a friend," Goku said, smiling at the Neptunes up in front of their thrones.

"If you are Son Goku, then there is not much we can do to punish you is there?" Neptune 3 asked, looking at his fellow Neptunes to see if they felt the same way.

"Wow," Natsu muttered. "I never knew the Mayor was so famous."

"Are you kidding me?" Gray muttered quietly back to his friend. Natsu and Juvia looked in while Gray gazed over at the Saiyan. "When you told me Son Goku was the Mayor of your town I thought you were kidding. Everyone knows who he is."

"Even in Aebrith?" Juvia whispered.

"He's, kind of a legend there," Gray whispered back. "Maybe not as much as in Awul after recent events, but he's definitely famous."

"Well Son Goku," Neptune 1 began with a deep frown. "What do you plan on doing to fix this?"

"Umm," Goku began.

Ben's right hand rubbed over the pokeball on his right side and he floated forward a little. "Excuse me, should I, release Kyogre?" He asked, keeping his voice steady but looking down while he spoke.

The others looked in at the young merman and the three Neptunes looked at each other before looking down at the boy as well. "We can not force you to do such a thing. In fact," Neptune 1 paused for a second, "many Atlantians have tried capturing Kyogre before, all have failed."

Ben lifted his gaze and was shocked to see that the three Neptunes looked, impressed? "Hoh hoh hoh, I was surprised that you were the one to defeat Kyogre and not Luffy, jamon." Neptune 2 laughed.

"So, I can keep it?" Ben asked, lifting up his eyebrows in surprise.

All three of the large merman kings nodded their heads down at him. "Still, Kyogre was protecting our city on its own accord. We do not know why it was doing such a thing, but Atlantis is now less protected than ever. Trunks promised to return if ever we called on him, but he is dead now. There are no longer any allies in the RNG powerful enough to come to our aid if we are to come under attack."

"That's fine," Goku said. "I'll come to help you now."

"You will?" All three of the Neptunes asked together.

"Sure," Goku said with a big smile on his face. "I can sense energies, so if you ever come under attack I'll try to get here as soon as I can. Though it may be tough with so many of your troops wearing the ki-maskers."

Goku's friends looked at him confusedly and the Neptunes began looking a little nervous. "Where did you get those?" Gray wondered aloud. He was looking to the side of the room and spotted one of the guards adorning himself in two metal bracelets that he recognized. "Those are PB-2's. An old model, but definitely a power blocker."

Neptune 3 frowned at the mage's knowledge. "It is none of your business where we got them from-"

"Are you part of the Cooperative?" Gray asked, turning back to the Kings in front of him. His face looked scarier than a second ago and his friends looked at him confusedly while he glared at the Neptunes.

Neptune 1 frowned deeply and stared right back at Gray. "No we are not. Young man, I would warn you to watch your tone while speaking to Kings." Gray lost his scary look and grimaced as he realized he was being rude himself. He apologized and Neptune 1 turned back to Son Goku, "Just a promise to come to our aid is not enough to make up for the damage done to our civilians' properties. There must be a stricter punishment for your-"

"Hey!" a voice shouted. Everyone in the room spun to face the doors where the voice originated from. They watched as a young man swam into the room kicking his blue tail behind him. Just behind him swam a girl with long red hair and a pink tail of her own. "I heard my friends were taken captive, what's going-" Sora stopped shouting and froze in his tracks.

"Sora!" a few of his friends called out.

The Atlantian guards all started moving towards him and raising their weapons, but a loud shout made everyone quiet. "Stand down!" All of the guards turned and saw Neptune 1 floating forward. He was staring straight across the council room and at the young merman looking back at him in surprise. "Everyone out!" He ordered in a booming voice. "Sora, stay here. I must have a talk with you."

All of Sora's friends looked back at the boy who had a very serious expression on his face while nodding back towards Neptune 1. "Do you know Sora?" Goku asked. A few of Sora's comrades remembered him mentioning something about visiting an Atlantis before, and they were starting to put two and two together.

"Yes, now please leave these chambers at once," Neptune 1 ordered again, looking at Goku sternly now.

"Sora," Kairi whispered behind him.

"It's alright guys," Sora stated calmly. He was staring at Neptune 1 with a semi-confused look but also with a smile on his face. "I'll meet up with you back outside."

"But-" Natsu started.

"Alright," Goku clapped his hands together. He was happy to find any reason to get out of this situation in a hurry. "Let's go get some food. Gohan said there was a place I had to try when he was talking about Atlantis," he turned and kicked his legs to swim towards the open door Sora just came in. "I think he called it Subter- Subma-" Goku couldn't put his finger on what he was thinking of and kept muttering words that sounded like what he was trying to remember.

Luffy looked over at Sora, then turned and followed after Goku. "Remember Luffy, I was not supposed to say anything about other worlds. Apparently it could mess with the world order, and I promised I would try to keep it a secret. Only a few people know..." I bet Sora met that Neptune guy on another world. The pirate captain glanced over his shoulder while he continued to swim. Usopp and Sanji were right behind him, with the others on their tails, but he looked straight back at Neptune 1.

"Damn, wish I could stay for that conversation," Killua mumbled as he swam next to Kirito back towards the entrance. The ninja looked next to him at the anglerfish kid who was frowning and looking back over his shoulder every few seconds. "That's going to be an important conversation."

"What do you mean?" Kirito questioned the kid next to him.

"Well, I know you already know," Killua began while looking at the teen next to him. "But Sora's been keeping secrets. I've heard him misspeak and mention other worlds before, then try to hide it."

Kirito spun his head around and stared back at the council chamber as the guards who exited behind them then closed the doors as well so they could not hear the conversation either. Inside the council room, Neptune 1 turned to the other two Neptunes who were asking why he sent their guards and guests out of there.

"This boy, is the Keybearer."

Neptune 3's eyes turned huge and he jumped off his throne. Neptune 2 started sweating and he got up off his seat slower than his fellow King. The largest of the three began, "I was once told a legend about the Keybearer passed down from my father, and his father before him. He arrived on our world in a terrible time of darkness. If he were ever to return however, I was to greet him with open arms."

"The Keybearer is known to bring ruin," Neptune 3 added. "Destruction follows the one who holds the key."

"This one in particular broke the most important rule. He meddled in the affairs of my world." Neptune 1 glared down at Sora, but his gaze softened and he started to smile. "However, he also saved my daughter's life, and my entire kingdom." The other Neptunes looked at the first, and then back to the boy who started smiling at him.

"Hey King Triton. Is Ariel here?" Sora asked.

"Triton?" the other two Neptunes asked simultaneously. They turned in towards Neptune 1 who sighed and started scratching his beard.

King Triton nodded his head, and he spoke in as confident a tone as always as he explained himself, "When I arrived in this ocean I came to understand that the rulers of the oceans of other worlds all had something in common, they had the same name. The name, of my grandfather." The other Neptunes looked surprised and Triton continued, "In order to convince the people of all the worlds' oceans that I was another version of their ruler, I took my grandfather's name for myself." The other Neptunes hummed to themselves and looked at each other but seemed appeased to leave this matter for later considering who was in their midst.

"And what about Ariel?" Sora asked, not really caring much since he did not even know Triton was going by Neptune 1 until now.

"Yes. I am sure you will have a great deal of time to catch up with my daughter later. There are important things we must discuss before that however. First, I have a message for you." Neptune One paused, then added, "From the King himself."

"King Mickey?!" Sora exclaimed.

Neptune 1 nodded his head. Sora smiled wide, thinking about how if Mickey was there, then maybe Donald and Goofy were somewhere on the planet as well. The first Neptune continued while Sora smiled, "He told me that if you were to ever show up in Atlantis, I would have to pass on a message to you, are you ready?" Sora nodded his head once and Neptune 1 took a deep breath before he began. "'Dear Sora, I wish you well. Sorry for not coming to find you since arriving here on Nexus. I bet you've been wondering what this is all about."

The other Neptunes looked at each other nervously. Sora tilted his head a little and thought, Does King Mickey know why we were all brought to the same world?

"'...I hope you have Riku and Kairi with you already, because all three of you are necessary for what is to come. The Seven Guardians of Light must come together in order to save the worlds. If we fail, everything will fall to darkness...'" Neptune 1 remembered every single word King Mickey told him. It was impossible for him to get the message out of his mind. He replayed it in his mind every day. "'Sora, I need your help,'" Neptune 1 continued.

Neptune 2 opened his eyes wide as he glanced over at Sora to see what he thought of all this. The teenager with brown hair was smiling, and he looked so carefree as Neptune 1 spoke to him. All of the ominous things coming out of the first Neptune's mouth had no effect on his cheerful disposition.

Triton finished up the message, but only after taking a long pause where his expression became a lot more nervous. "'The worlds were never supposed to come together like this. I am sorry Sora. Next time we meet we will need to start the battle to set the worlds back on their right paths. I am sure we will see each other soon. Until then, you need to find the Keyhole. I am going to keep searching for it myself, but before we can save the worlds, we need to save this one. Well Sora, see ya soon.' That was the end of what he had to say." The first Neptune had a bead of sweat on his face, looking easily the least freaked out of the three Atlantian leaders.

"Why have we never heard about this?!" Neptune 3 asked, swimming forward up to the first Neptune. "What other secrets are you keeping from us?"

"I was strictly ordered not to say that message unless in the presence of Sora." He turned his head slightly to the other Neptune next to him. "After receiving a message with those contents, I felt I was obligated to keep my mouth shut." He glared harder at Neptune 3, "I expect you to do the same thing."

"Agreed," the second Neptune behind them began. He floated towards the smaller Neptunes who looked back and up at the huge merman. His usual jolly persona was gone and he said, "If we were to let word of this get out, it would start a panic, jamon!"

"Thank you," Sora spoke up, interrupting the leaders from their conversation. All of them looked forward to the smiling teen before them. "I'll do my best to find the King, and save the worlds. You have my word," he promised them.

Outside of the council tower, a few guards stood around protecting the door. None of them noticed the little boy with spiky white hair or the purple alien blob with him who were standing right next to the doors, only inches behind them. Ben had turned into Clear Body, and the alien was able to keep Killua invisible as well by keeping a gooey hand on his back.

The two boys could see each other though, and they were looking into each other's eyes with jaws dropped. Both of them were sweating profusely and they scurried off so fast that Ben bumped into one of the guards. The man spun around looking for whatever he thought just hit him, but frowned and shrugged as nothing was there.

They swam away farther and farther before getting behind a wall nearby. A flash of green turned Ben back into his merman self, and then he and Killua started panting over and over again. Killua was not even annoyed that he let himself get so flustered, he could not believe what he just heard. I thought it was going to be important, but, but getting the worlds back the way they should be?! That's insane!

"I, I don't think we should have listened to that," Ben gasped out as he tried taking deeper breaths. Sora's like, and Riku too, they're so, important! How could they be risking their lives for us in all those situations, when, when the fate of EVERYTHING rests on them?!

"Don't tell anyone what you heard," Killua whispered to his friend. The two of them made eye contact and Ben nodded after a few seconds. "Oh man," Killua finally got over the shock and stood back up fully, putting his hands behind his head, right over the glowing light dangling over his forehead. Ben stared strangely at the anglerfish boy until Killua continued, "I can't believe we're traveling with such important people. That's some crazy stuff right there."

Ben just stupidly nodded his head, but Killua spun to face him, suddenly having a realization. "Wait, you have one of those Keyblades too," Killua said, his eyes wide. Ben's jaw dropped and he stared down at his hands in shock. "Guess you're pretty important too," he said with a laugh.

The younger kid just gawked at his own hands, and watched as his Keyblade materialized in them. "I, guess I am," he whispered in response.

---

Most of Atlantis was not underwater like the room for the Council of Neptunes. The majority of it was half and half, using an enormous bubble to keep air down at the bottom of the sea. It was how visitors without gills were able to stay underwater for long periods of time. Most people who visited did not change their entire body composition to get down, they used advanced technology instead. Most of the roads in the city were just waterways and there were tunnels of water seemingly shooting out of nowhere up into the sky that allowed the sea creatures to swim around the inside of the bubble unhindered. Inside many of the buildings were floors partly made of water, and partly solid ground so that any of the city's inhabitants could enter.

The restaurant the crew went to was one of those half and half buildings. They swam up to the doors and pushed them open, but the bottom of the restaurant was not far beneath their tails. They swam up to their tables and were allowed to change the height of their seats so that they were either in the water, or above, but either way the tables were all just above the surface.

"Wow Goku, Gohan wasn't lying," Natsu exclaimed before picking up another chunk of green glob in front of him and shoving it into his mouth. "What is this stuff anyway?"

"No idea," Goku replied, then tilted another plate back and let it all slide off into his mouth. He reached over and grabbed a chunk of red chunky food on the plate next to the last one, before promptly throwing the thing in his mouth. He smiled and went, "Mmm!" after taking the bite, then reached back for the plate. As his hand was about to touch it, another hand flew out of nowhere and grabbed onto the other side of.

The Saiyan tugged at the plate and the hand on the other side pulled right back. Luffy sat eight seats down, but his arm extended over the entire table and was now shaking as he tried pulling the plate from Goku's hand. Natsu looked over and saw Luffy's struggling expression and started laughing, "You won't be able to take the plate Luffy," he said, then laughed more as Luffy got pulled slightly over the table.

Goku grinned and pulled the plate towards him without exerting much effort, but he smiled even wider at the next turn of events. Luffy snapped his head forward and his neck extended over the table just like his arm. "Gum Gum Chomp!" His jaw opened much wider than was humanly possible and he tried biting down on top of the plate he and Goku were fighting over.

The Saiyan hopped out of his seat and three feet to the right, pulling the plate and Luffy's hand with him. He got farther away too, but Luffy's arm just extended farther as well. Luffy's head flew right over where the plate just was, then turned in midair and he pushed his neck muscles farther on their own to start zipping around people's chairs as he chased Goku.

"Ahh!" Juvia shrieked as Luffy's head did a full spin around her before continued to follow the spiky haired Saiyan. His neck pulled tighter and made a full loop around the rain woman.

"Juvia!" Gray exclaimed. He got off his seat and started tugging at Luffy's neck to lift him up and over Juvia's torso.

Luffy got closer and closer to Goku who finally stopped hopping around as he got pushed into a corner, since Luffy's neck was touching most other parts of the room. Luffy's head was barely moving any closer to him now though, inching forward one second at a time. His muscles were tightening and he was extended about as far as he could go. His hand and his neck were both swirled around everyone and his goal was within biting distance.

Right as Luffy's tongue got less than a foot from the plate, Goku grinned victoriously. Gray threw Luffy's neck loop over Juvia's head and it snapped straight quickly, while also losing some of its length. When part of the neck snapped back like that, it released all the tension in the rest of the neck for a split second before returning it all at once. Luffy, in his shock, let go of the plate while his head started flying backwards. The pirate captain had to watch in horror as the Saiyan tilted the plate into his mouth.

As Luffy snapped back into his seat and flew across the room into the opposite wall, the others continued eating as usual. Killua and Kirito lifted up their plates as Luffy's arm whipped across the top of the table and just passed under them. Neither of them paused their meal and just continued chewing nonchalantly.

It was such an average meal for the group, however they seemed to forget they were not eating in the dining room of their ship but instead inside a fancy Atlantis restaurant. Ben was staring down at his food with a semi-embarrassed look on his face just being at the same table as these lunatics. Every time he turned around there were people glaring at them.

While he was sitting down, someone swam right up on his left side and popped a squat next to him. Sora bent himself at the tail and sat down next to Ben, "Man I'm hungry. That took way too long," he rubbed his hands together and looked around at all the confusing foods. "What's good?"

"Try the red stuff," Luffy called to his friend.

Luffy was one of the only people not staring over at Sora at the moment. He and Goku continued eating, then Sora did too, and finally Riku asked, "What was that all about?"

Sora looked up and saw all eyes were on him. "Oh, that?" He said, brushing it off by taking another bite of food. "It was nothing. I knew Neptune 1 back when he went by King Triton, in Atlantica."

"So, you had an Atlantis on your world?" Dash asked the teen across the table from him.

"Yep," Sora said, and continued eating like it was no big deal. The way he was treating it got most of the people there less interested, and disappointed that they got excited in the first place.

Ben and Killua shared knowing glances from across the table. "Hey Ben," Sora started, and Ben literally hopped off his seat. Everyone looked over where they heard the splash, and watched as Ben came up out of the water completely soaked again since he had dried off a little a minute ago.

Ben turned to Sora who was staring at him oddly, "What?" the kid asked.

"Umm, I was gonna ask if you could pass me the salt," Sora said slowly, and started laughing as he did. "But I got it," he leaned over Ben's empty seat and grabbed the salt shaker himself. "Little jumpy there," he joked as the boy swam back to his seat.

"Y-Yeah, haha," Ben laughed. He got back on his chair, and a second later he felt a zap and yelped. Some people looked over at him again confusedly, but Ben just got back to eating his food. He looked up from his plate after a few seconds and saw Killua staring at him with a look that said, 'Seriously? I'll zap you again if you don't get it together!' He mouthed back 'sorry' before continuing to eat in a nervous mood.

After what turned out to be one of the rowdiest meals the crew had had since their journey started on Awul, the restaurant owners had to not-so-politely ask them to leave. The place still took credits from the NEG considering the new RNG was using the same currency, so for some reason Riku picked up the check. Apparently he had a lot of money, somehow.

The one perk of that asshole running my body for two years, he was prepared, Riku thought while their group swam and walked down one of the streets of Atlantis. "Lest you not forget, I am always listening. You should watch what you think." Ansem's voice echoed in Riku's mind and he grumbled under his breath. Not being able to think freely would be bothersome on anyone, but having to share thoughts with someone he hated, that was a lot more difficult.

"Hey, you alright?" Ben asked his friend as they swam with the top halves of their bodies out of the water next to each other. Most of their friends were in the water, but Goku and a couple of others who had feet were taking a break and walking on the sidewalk next to the waterway.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Riku replied. Wanting to get off the topic he looked around and said, "This city's really amazing huh?" Ben looked around as well and they admired all the tall buildings and floating bubbles each with different stories inside them. "Look at all that we can accomplish in just two years. When everyone works together..." Riku got sidetracked and smiled as he spotted three kids running down the sidewalk on his left side. The kids swerved in and out of their friends' legs who were walking the other direction. Riku spotted two boys and a girl, all happy, playing.

"Riku?" Ben questioned again. Riku was slowing down and only when Ben spoke up did he notice the rest of their group had gotten farther ahead of them. Riku hurried to catch up and Ben swam by his side, asking, "Are you sure you're alright?"

Riku nodded, though this time he was less sure of himself. He looked over his shoulder to see those three kids again, but the sidewalk was empty. He turned to Ben and opened his mouth, then closed it and shook his head once. He could see their friends were discussing something up at the next intersection and he motioned towards it with his head. "Let's go check it out."

They kicked their merman tails and sped towards their friends all gathered in a bunch. "I'm telling you!" Luffy shouted. He sniffed a few times in the air and pointed to the left, "I'm sure of it, there's some delicious food that way!"

"We just got food baka!" Sanji snapped at his always-hungry captain.

"Well, I could eat," Goku said, smiling over at Luffy who grinned back and started laughing. He could smell what Luffy was talking about too and he wanted a taste.

"I told Nami-san I would get her some clothes from a shopping mall here," Juvia spoke up.

"I'll come with you," Gray offered, and Juvia's face lit up at the offer.

"Goku, you can call us all together later still," Sora reminded the spiky haired Atlantian on the sidewalk next to him. Everyone looked over at Sora who continued with a shrug, "How about we split up now, and meet back up at that restaurant when we're ready for dinner? Then we could all head up to the ship together since it will be hard to find on our own."

The others started nodding with Sora's suggestion, and then Sora turned to Kairi and gave her a huge smile. Kairi blushed, and then Sora turned back and said, "Well, um, see you guys later!" He turned, grabbed Kairi by the hand, and they swam off quickly down the waterway.

"Hehe, you're going a little fast Sora," Kairi told her fiancé.

"Well we got interrupted earlier with Ben's arrest," Sora mentioned which made both him and Kairi start laughing. He looked back into her bright blue eyes and whispered, "Let's finish that swim."

Over at the larger group that watched them leave, Sora was not the only impatient one. "Let's go Goku!" Luffy shouted and threw his hands up in the air. The pufferfish-man had two legs and started running down the sidewalk with Goku right next to him.

Gray motioned with his head to the right and Juvia smiled at him. He locked an arm in hers and they started swimming away. Natsu watched his fellow Fairy Tail wizards swim off and would have liked to go along, but he figured their outing was more of a date than anything and though he would like to mess that up for Gray, he'd rather not do that to Juvia. "Alright, Ben what do you want to do?" Natsu turned to his younger friend who he thought was right behind him.

When Natsu turned though, his lower lip dropped and he spotted Dash, Ben, and Riku halfway down the waterway they just came from. The three of them were in the middle of a conversation and did not hear a word he said. "Hey! Wait up!" The merman with pink hair chased the other three who looked back, smirked, and then raced off. Natsu became flustered and then his teeth sharpened and he sped up after them.

"Haha catch us if you can Natsu!" Dash called behind him.

"You're a turtle!" Natsu yelled. It was not as much an insult as it was just a straight up fact at this point. The others laughed as even as a turtle, Dash was too fast for Natsu to catch up with.

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A few miles away from Atlantis, and much farther below the ocean, a giant octopus with ten eyes was swimming down into a dark crevice. The seafloor was split and the crack looked like a pitch black fissure ripped open in the ground. The eighty foot tall octopus swam down into the crack and went down and down until a little amount of light shone through the bottom. It squeezed through the smallest part of the crack which happened to be at the bottom, and then swam lower beneath a few blinking red buoys around the crack.

Once it descended below the buoys, it became able to sense the other thousands of creatures below the fissure. The octopus swam past soldiers that saluted it as it swam by, and it descended lower to the fortress below. The fortress was made of coral and did not look very impressive compared to the palace in Atlantis. The octopus swam down and entered the fort before swimming into the main room of it. There were several intimidating figures around the room, but the octopus swam forward right up to the one in the middle who was wearing a crown. "Octavian," the muscular green sea creature wearing a crown greeted the red octopus.

"Important news my King," the octopus known as Octavian reported. He lifted his head and stared into the eyes of the Sea Clan King and continued, "Just earlier, the guardian of Atlantis, Kyogre, was defeated and captured by a non-Atlantian."

The others floating around the room looked over interestedly. One of them, a blue-and-white-striped fishman stepped forward and said, "Impressive. Now that it is gone, we should attack!"

"Quiet Zeo," Hordy Jones snapped at one of his commanders. The great white shark fishman growled loudly and turned to the Sea Clan King, "Even if Kyogre is gone, with Trunks protecting-"

"I have more news," Octavian interrupted Hordy. The leader of the New Fishman Pirates spun angrily to the larger sea creature, but his eyes widened at what it stated next.

The Sea Clan King opened up his eyes in surprise too, and then his mouth curled up into a vicious smirk. "That fool who murdered so many of our clan has been taken care of?" He stepped forward and his eyes narrowed, "Good. Then, it is time to show the Neptunes that they are not the rulers of this ocean." The green creature's arms, legs, and torso buffed out and his teeth sharpened. The others around the room started grinning and a tiny green figure with one eye rubbed his hands together menacingly.

Plankton grinned, And in the confusion of the battle, I'll steal the Krabby Patty secret formula for sure.

The Sea Clan King clenched his fists at his sides. I will tear the flesh off of all three Neptunes' bones. This ocean will be mine once more.

Hordy Jones looked around at the others and then glanced back at the three officers of his crew standing behind him. All three of them smirked and Hordy grinned his sharp teeth maliciously. Plan whatever you want, by the end of this battle I will rule the seas and the land. Fishmen will exterminate the humans. And all I need to do it, is just within my grasp.

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A/N Atlantis! Hope you enjoyed the chapter and are excited for the upcoming battles under the ocean! Ben captures Kyogre, Sora learns his role in Nexus's grand plan, and he's not the only one who hears it. Ben and Killua eavesdrop and find out they bit off more than they could chew, XD! What are those villains planning? Will their goal to take over the ocean (and the Krabby Patty formula) succeed? Find out next time on Nexus: Heroes Will Rise!

qwerty

Goku will probably die, he can't be around forever but Gohan can take his father's place. Also aren't Timmy, the Saiyans and Luthor moving at lightspeed and faster-than-light speeds, not just supersonic speeds?

No spoilers :p, but I like the prediction! And yes to that question, but they don't always need to move at those incredibly fast speeds. Most of the time Supersonic speed should be enough for the job! Thanks for the review!

Espada-001 chapter 8 . Jan 8

I like that Kirito's getting to open up with some of the crew, he needs more friends. Also I wonder if you plan on adding Yui to your story. Well till next time have a good day!

"Kirito needs more friends," yeah, I think so too XD. Who knows about Yui? (No spoilers :P). Haha thanks for another review, hope you enjoyed the chapter!

joebob323 chapter 8 . 5h ago

Good job! sorry for the short review, but midterms are tomorrow! can't talk, as much as I'd want too!

Thanks, and good luck on your midterms!

-Also, here's a quick list of the characters. (Haven't done this much lately since it's been the same cast mainly, but as a refresher and for those new characters in Atlantis, here we go):

DBZ: Goku, Gohan, Trunks, Vegeta

Spongebob Squarepants: Krabby Patty, Plankton, Neptune 3

Little Mermaid: Triton (Neptune 1), Ariel

One Piece: Neptune 2, Fukaboshi, Manboshi, Shirahoshi, Ryuboshi, Luffy, Thousand Sunny, Nami, Robin, Franky, Sanji, Usopp, Jimbei, Zeo, Hordy Jones, Zoro

Pokemon: Kyogre, Groudon

Naruto: Zabuza

Fairy Tail: Gray, Natsu, Juvia, Wendy

Blue Exorcist: Rin, Kuro

HxH: Killua

Ben 10: Ben

Incredibles: Dash

One Punch Man: Sea Clan King

Kingdom Hearts: Riku, Ansem, Sora, Kairi, Mickey, Donald, Goofy

SAO: Kirito

Young Justice: Garth

Fairly Oddparents: Timmy